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

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A A - Ebe 'Echoes i Z EDIT 2 A DRIA . L' M' l' HE wheel of fortune goes around. and we are nearing the close ot' one of the most successful years in the history of our school. .Xt present you are reading the Uliiul-ial Ui of the twentyfseeond edition of 'l'in-1 Ecnoi:s and we of the staH hope you will he satisfied with our efforts to produce a year-hook which measures up to the customary high stand- ards. Yve also wish to remind you of the imllortant part which our advertisers play in the linaneing: ol' our hook and we ask you to patronize thcni whenever possible. School spirit tthe favorite theine of editorsl reached a. new height this year. This was evident in the support given to our splendid rughy teani. The hoys missed, hy only a few points. the champ- ionship of Untario. Our haskethall tealus were also well supported and were very successful. Another indication ol' school spirit was the whtule-heartedness with which the students undertook the pro- duction of Uh Doctor! .-Xlthough only an experiment. it turned out to he a howling success. and this type ol' enter- tainment will likely. in the future. take the place of our annual school play. An- other phase ot' school lite which is not often mentioned is the roiuautic side-A but here we must stop! lf the editor were to become sentimental the editorial would never be finished. For invaluahle help in the puhlication of Tin-1 EFIIOESH the stati' wish to thank ltr. Henry, who took charge of the photography and husiness: ltr. itlorris, whose judgment directed the literary side of the workg Miss Montgomery, who was art supervisor: Bliss llurphy and Bliss Lees. of the fonunercial Department: Mr. Shearer. who took charge of the typing: Mr. C. S. Browne. of the Aca- demic. and itlr. Yvesley Brown. of the Vocational. ive are also grateful for the co-operation ol' the student hotly. You have noticed that this year's Reno:-is is dedicated to lliss Norma Hughes. who has. in spite of her handicap. heen outstanding: in school activities dur- ing: the past five years. Yve wish to con- gratulate Miss Hughes and wish her every success in the future. And now. U friends. on with the show- thc editor retires. I'I.'XROI.D V. A. Rooms. + + + PVR PLE PATCHES IIE students' contrihutions this year to Purple Patches contained so many pieces of prose and verse that niany well worth printing had-regretfully-to he set aside. Practically none but prize winners have heen included in the articles ol' the Aeadeniic and ol' the Commercial pupils. and only the very hest pieces from the Household and Industrial Arts. lVe should like more eoutrihutions to choose from in the Lower School Academic. hut have the consolation of knowing that op- portunity will knock at the door for-these students when they reach the lliddle and Upper School. lleantinie we are very glad to find a good proportion of the articles finally approved come from first and second year students in the Vocational School. FBI.

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'Ghz 'Echoes Q1 Ghz 'Ecl7oes 'fbitorial Staff Editor-Harold Rogers .1.s.si.stant Editors: Academic - Helen Steer. Hugh Davidson Connnercial - - - Reta Butler VOCiltl0ll2ll - Arthur Jones Household Arts Dorothy Blade E.l'C'l1UlIgl' Aflzlefics .lean Platt Art Marion Harvey Olga lvestlmye John Hughes George Sedgewick Social Form News' llargaret Lytle B,,,Si,u,,,,, Peter Demos Typing Goralon Johnston .4rz'z'e'rfisi1zg Kay Tllael-:eray i Ross Allen A r11'i.su1'y Te'f1c'flcr.y: Academic llr. l . J. A. Morris. llr. C. S. Browne Connncrcial -4--- Bliss llurpliy Typing - llr. A. Shearer Vocational - lllr. YV. Brown Art - - - Kliss BI. llontgolnsry TYPING AND ADVERJTISING STAFF BACK ROW-F. Peel. G. Hunt. C. Stabler. A. Parker. C. Smeclmor, L. Lewis, K. Hunt, F. Maycock. G. Iiusaw. THIRD HOW-D. Grant, Adele Armstrong. Mary Sisson. Phyllis B1-aund, R. Allen Theresa Corbett, Margaret Pitchford. Margaret Sproat, Gladys Cowan. v SECOND ROYV-Lillian Hardy. Marguerite Munden, Alice Belfry, Joyce XViIls Marguerite Marshall, Phyllis Starr. Helen Delahaye. Marion Beatty. Jean Nichols. FIRST ROXV-Helen Rowland. Lorraine Vass. Mabel Clarke. Rita. Butler, Helena Gough. Kay Thackeray, Jean King, Dorothy French, Doris Hanwell. Shirley Grant.

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Gbe 'Echoes ly 93 Y Y Y Y T Y T tr T me ee ue V i no Amit L s. L Inceptis gravibua plerumque et magna professia, Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter. Adsuifur pannus. Often to weighty enterprises, and such as profess great objects, one or two purple patches are sewed on to make a fine display in the distance. s- HORACE Tflrinteb Talaces FIRST PRIZE H YYENT into a house and it wasn't a house It has big steps and a great big hall But it hasn't got. a bookshelf - a bookshelf. a bookshelf It isn't like a house at all. VVe are quite sure Christopher Robin will let us add our bookshelf to the garden. the may-tree and the black-bird as constituents of a real home. For in- deed to many of us a house without books would be a friendless place. The joy of the companionship of books is one of ever-increasing delight. It is a boundless friendship. for in it we may travel all the way from the delightful nonsense of Alice in Wonderland to the profound seriousness of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. We may live in the rich fancies of Barrie: we may drink tea with the ladies of Cranford: we may chuckle over the lmmours of the Vicar's family. VVe may visit the courts of the kings in Granny's tvonderful Cl'liiil'uZ we may walk sedately with Jane Austen. We may sympathize with the weeping Brontes: we may stop for a chat with some of Dickens' shabby folk. VVe may go a-gypsying with Borrow or answer the call of high adventure with Stevenson. tVith Scott the pageantry of history will pass by. In short the world of books opens up to us a long vista of delights. Like explorers of old it is our privilege to sail on uncharted seas. The ports of call a1'e many-history. travel. biography, romance. and poetry. . tYliy do T like to read? I have often asked myself this question and yet have not satisfactorily answered it. Every time I ask myself this age-old question I an- swer differently. that group of twenty-six letters known as the tYe usually begin by learning alphabet aml oh! how pleased we were when we could recognize three-letter words. There was nobody just as clever as 1lother's Willie or Aunt Emma's Bfary Jane on that proud day. It was the start- ing point in our literary education. After graduating from the big: print primer we began, probably. the fairy tales. Succeeding the fairy tale era. would likely come Thornton Burgess' Animal Stories. Passing from fantasy to fiction we likely began with the Campfire Stories for girls or the Boy Scout Series for boys. The wealthy may learn of far-off countries first hand. But most of us must borrow another's eyes-the author's. As for meeting world dignitaries. that is highly improbable. and yet through the medium of reading we may get quite intimate with them. The history and legends of a country are often in print for us to see if only we so desire. For those of us who have to get our informa- tion second-hand I think Emily Dickin-