Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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THE ' ECHAES -f -I' 1. V 1, 1, 1. The editor wishes to thank the student staff of The Echoes whose help was invaluable in the preparation for our magazine. To all others who helped in any way with The Echoes we tender our thanks. The year 1935 seems to be very unfortunate for our teachers. We regret to say that quite a few have been unable to stand the strain of hammering knowledge into wooden heads. Bliss Faint was compelled to leave school before Christmas on account of ill-health, Miss ltfurphy had to leave for a while, and also Miss Howson, who is away at present. YVe sincerely hope that these respected teachers will be back in our midst in a very short while. VVe also mention. with regret, the passing last fall of Florence Snowden. a student of this school. It is always with sorrow that we see the passing of a student. a young person, just like ourselves. And so colnes to an end the discourse from the editor of this year's Echoes F6TgtlSO'llf Barr. l.+..b,,. 'literary Contest t N the Prose and Verse Competition open to Forms V and IV of the Academic School, prizes have been awarded as follows: Va.-Jean Howson, lst prize: Arthur Stinson. Qnd prize. Vb.-Bill Ford. lst prizeg Bill Patterson. Qnd prize. IVb.-Gladys Yvatson, lst prize: Hilda Thompson. Qnd prize. To all these we offer our hearty congratulations. Jean Howson and Gladys VVatson won their place with both prose and verse. Owing to obvious limits of space assigned to the various Forms throughout the School in Purple Patches we are unable to print more than one article entered by each of the prize winners. The competition in the Upper School was very keen, and no fewer than eight other students were close runners-up. The best of these turned in some delightful pieces of description and character sketches suggested by the year's reading and study. We were specially pleased with the work of Helen Steer. Kathleen Foster. llary Walker, Barbara Dawson, Alice Darling. Jack Borland, VValter Howell and Clarence Stabler: also with that of Beverley Rogers in Form IV. YVe are glad to be able to publish two of these contributions in addition to those of the prize-winners- Helen Steer's Legend of Glendalough and Beverley Rogers' Only a Daub of Paintf' F, AI, -Ql-

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NYOMHL 3 Q NOTHER year of the life of our magazine is consummated and you have in your hands the twenty-first edition of The Echoesf, The staff hope that their labours to make this edition the best. have not been in vain. It is also hoped that you will support it i11 the matter of subscription and patronize the advertisers, without whom it would be impossible to print The Echoes. Now let us shift our thoughts to other spheres. A word might be said about school spirit. P.C.V.S. should certainly be proud of its school spirit this year. The enthusiasm of the students this year has bee11 evinced in many ways. We might mention the attendance and cheering at the rugby and basketball games this year. The attendance helps the athletic teams of P.C.V.S. both financially and in keeping up their morale. We also might speak of the School Concert and the At-Home and tl1e School Party, to which the students turned out loyally to back the Students, Council. We hope that this school spirit will continue in tl1e future. If collegiates were ranked in school spirit ours would rank highly, and as the cavalcade of students continues, may we say to them: Try to carry on in the steps of the students of nineteen hundred and thirty-five. Now, our Students' Council should be complimented for the excellent work they have done this year. llost assuredly we have an able council to look after our affairs. Everything they have undertaken this year has been brought to a successful conclusion. An innovation was introduced this year-the School Party-and it proved a decided success. But although they have been capable in every task undertaken. yet tl1ey have not undertaken one thing-the provision of a school song all our own. We sing as our school song at present f'We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall, a very fine song, and it shows a great deal of spirit, but it is not our own. Could we not have a song about P.C.V.S., one which is the pride, property and part of P.C.V.S.? Surely there is someone who could compose a song for us. Then having this song we could sing it in place of A'We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall. And now having finished our editorial outburst. we shall put forward tokens of thanks for aid received in the publishing of The Echoes. The staff wish to thank hlr. lN1orris whose valuable time was spent on the literary side of The Echoesf- llr. C. S. Browne. who put the wheels in motion.-hir. VVesley Brown and ltliss Lees, who looked after the Industrial and Connnercial and Household Arts section of the school,-Bliss Montgomery the Art supervisor, and Mr. Henry who looked after the Business end of the magazine, a most important part. Bliss hlurphy who is also on the Advisory Staff, was ill and therefore not able to carry on at the first of the work on The Echoes.

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