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

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STAFF OF THE ECHOES The Student Executive EDITOR-RONALD DICK Managing Editor- Bob l'lamilton News Editor- Ruth Robinson Form News Editor-Catharine White Art Editor- Edna Borland Humour Editor-George Easton Advertising Manager- Warren Trotter Circulation Manager-Wilda Saunders Typing Manager- Freda McMahon Business Manager- Don Corrin 6 as me Departments LITERARY Editor: Ronald Dick Barrie Jack Albert Pilley Doug Moore FORMAT AND EXCHANGE Editor: Bob Hamilton Assistant Editor: Franklin Smoke Pauline Story Frances Neary Janet Prophet Bob Garner Bill Hamilton ADVERTISING Manager: Warren Trotter Assistant Manager: Warren Gamble Verne Whutley Don Corrin Eileen Sellon Ruth McNeely Ted Clarke Elfie Saunders Jim Lillico George Northcott FORM NEWS Editor: Catharine White Margaret Hooper lris Whalon Alec Gallagher The Form Reporters HUMOUR Editor: George Easton Rae Borland Torn McMillan CIRCULATION Manager: Wilda Saunders Hugh Davidson Margaret Westbye Moira Whalen 606 Advisory Board SCHOOL NEWS Editor: Ruth Robinson Assistant Editor: Barbara Scott Margaret Henry Thomas Stanley ART Editor: Edna Borland Doris Glover Don Duncan Mary Pierce Ralph Johnston John Hooper TYPING Manager: Freda McMahon Helen Liddell Eileen Batterson Marguerite Welch Jean Thomas Eleanor Phillips Marguerite Dummitt Jeanne DeMaio Arnold O'Heron Audrey Baker Carlyle Jacquith Jack Seymour Literary: Misses S. Muir, L. Park, M. Bailey, l. McBride Photography and Engraving: Mr. V. R. Henry Typing and Advertising: Mr. A. Shearer, Miss M. Lees Circulation: Mr. H. Graham Printing: Miss H. McGregor Business Supervisor: Mr. H. Toole Pa ge Twelire

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JOTTINGS BY THE PRINCIPAI: The recent alumni may be interested in the following news items. A TTENDANCE: The enrolment this year is 1000 pupils with a staff of 39 teachers. STAFF CHANGES: Mr. E. Davies, BSC., who for nine years was director of draughting in the Vocational School, resigned in june last to accept the position of Director of Vocational Training in the Cornwall Colletiate Institute and Vocational School. The staff were sorry to see him leave as he was a most valued colleague, an excellent teacher and a cultured gentleman. We wish him and his wife and family continued success and happiness in their new home. We welcome to our staff as successor to Mr. Davies, Mr, ll'z'!Iz'anz E. -facksaiz, an alumnus of the P.C.I. Mr. jackson left school to volunteer his services in the Great War. He served in the Air Force and was shot down and taken prisoner. In 1930 he joined the staff of the Brantford Collegiate Institute and Voca- tion School and was appointed director of draughting. Last june he resigned that position to accept the position held formerly by Mr. Davies. Mr. Jacksons chief extra-curricular activity is sport. Last Fall he was coach of our Junior Football team. Miss Shirley M. Muir B.A., a graduate of Toronto University, and a specialist in English and History, has been engaged by the Board to act as substitute teacher for Miss Murphy for one year. Miss Muir is an experienced teacher and we were fortunate in securing her services. We welcome to our staff as an assistant in the Household Arts department of the Vocational School Miss Christine Copus B.A. Miss Copus is an honour graduate in Household Economics, Toronto Univer- sity, and a specialist in Household Science. PETER DEMOS: Peter Demos brought honour to himself and to his Alma Mater by winning a 5900 Scholarship at Queens University. This was a provincial wide Scholarship awarded to the pupil with the best class record in the live years' Academic course in his own School. At the annual Commencement Exercises Peter was the Valedictorian. FOOTBALL: All honour to the Senior Rugby Football Team, the interscholastic champions of the O.R.F.U. The boys played clever and clean football, took their victory modestly, and both on and off the field con- ducted themselves as gentlemen. Coach Bamforth has every reason to be proud of his boys. CIVIC BANQUET: Thanks are due and are hereby tendered to Ex-Mayor Macdonald and to the alder- men of 1937 for tendering the champions a banquet and for presenting them with serviceable souvenirs of the great victory. ESPRIT DE CORPS: Who said that the P.C.V.S. students lack school spirit? The wildly enthusiastic crowd at the final game against Runnymede Collegiate Institute gave strong proof that school spirit was never so strong in the history of the School. COMMENCEMENT: The annual Commencement Exercises held December 3rd were even more success- ful than usual. Dr. G. R. Scott was an able chairman in that he kept things moving. Ronald Dick, Peter Demos, Wilda Saunders and Haig Kelly were on the Spot. The guest speaker, Mr. Adrian Macdonald M.A. of the Normal School Staff was at his best. THE AT HOME: The annual At Home sponsored by the Students' Council was a decided success. Miss Edna Borland and her hard working committee under the supervision of Miss Amelia R. Thompson B.A. are to be congratulated on the appearance of the gymnasium. The decorations were decidely artistic and pleasing to the eye, and were the subject of much favorable comment. Stroudis orchestra from Toronto supplied the music for the event and gave general satisfaction. The dancers put the O.K. on the Big Apple and there was no lack of spirited action. The arrangements for the needs of the guests were very complete. The Students' Council are to be congratulated. Mr. Wesley Brown of the Vocational Staff set a high standard for his successors to attain. CORONA TI ON MEDAL: The school has been honoured by the presentation of a Coronation Medal to the Principal. Thedocument sent with the medal reads as follows: G.R.I. Buckingham Palace By Command of His Majesty The King the accompanying medal is forwarded to H. R. H. Kenner Esq. B.A., LL.D. To be worn in commemoration of Their Majesties' Coronation 12th May 1937 Deus F ac Salfvum Regem Page Eleven

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EDITORIALS Education in the There is probably no more frequent topic found in school editorial columns than that of the merits and values of education. The majority of these articles are highly idealistic in nature and usually regard education as something which has a high intrinsic value In view of the frequent attacks made upon higher education these days it is worth while for any one, and particularly for us students, who are probably not Vely often credited with any deep thought on the matter, to consider this vital problem carefully. It does not require any great deal of investigation to realize the need and justification of higher educa- tion for the young people of today. The world we are soon to enter is a world full of the most dis- tressing and acute problems. Difficult and complex questions of international relationships, social justice, capital and labour for example await us. So familiar have many of them become to us that in many cases we have ceased to search for causes and solutions, and have accepted them as ebullitions of a highly complex and chauvinistic civilization. Yet even a disinterested glance will show that their dissolution awaits only the unhampered and concerted effort of men armed with the weapons which education offers. This amazing and enigmatic difference which separates what may often seem the obvious solution from the sordid reality of the present day world with its blundering statesmanship and ap- palling lack of the finer sentiments of mankind, is something which frequently baffles and discourages the ardour of young people into silent acceptance. The question of how to get the most out of our education and how best to fit ourselves to be of some use other than mere personal existence is one which faces us all. Few generations may claim to have been brought up in a more turbulent and threaten- ing era than the present one. It is equally true, however, that if few have been called upon to face more difficult and discouraging problems, few have been offered such tremendous opportunities to make their age one which will be remembered as one of reconstruction and achievement. ' Surely any honest student of to-day should re- alize the responsibility which lies on the shoulders of himself and his fellows. Unfortunately far too many realize the fact too late or fail to grasp it at all. It should be the cherished desire of every alert and intelligent youth of to-day that he may possess some ability or talent which may enable him to par- ticipate in that great war on the black side of human existence which men from the time of Aristotle, through a series of giants such as Spinoza, Goethe, and Voltaire, to name but a few, have been waging. Not that he may aspire to the heights reached by these stars in the firmament of man's triumphs, but World of Today that he may be one of the thousands of spirits, who' guided by these Titans in every age, have striven to carry out their ideals with sincerity and unselfish- ness and spread again and again a redeeming light over the shady tale of man. It is largely upon the education of the youth of to-day that the success of tomorrow depends. Many of our present day problems are largely the result of ignorance-and its two evil children, bigotry and credulity. Ability varies in individuals, but one thing we can all do. We can at least be determined that when we leave our schools and enter the world, we will do so with minds that are open and trained to thinking for themselves. We can leave with the avowed intention of refusing to fall a prey to the children of ignorance and thus adding ourselves as inarticulate flotsam and jetsam to the burdens ac- tively intelligent men are striving to throw off. If education does this, then it is not in vain. Students! Don't waste your abilities. The world has grim need of them. Remember, the great prob- lems of to-day will not be solved by blunderers. Your brief period in school when the need of your life are still provided for you, is the time of your great opportunity and once its all-too-brief space has slipped away, it never returns. The last generation lies buried throughout the fields of France through no particular fault of its own. It is largely because of their generous effort that we still have the means of education at our dis- posal. Whether we use them or not is up to us. Is the day soon to come when the world will repeat the words of Alfred de Vigny, perhaps best left un- translated: Heureux celui qui ne survit pas a sa jeunesse mais qui emporte dans la tombe son tresor et ses illus- . ., ions. Not if the youth of to-day realizes its duty. R. Dick Fascism: A Question and Answer Probably no word is so frequently on our tongues and in our minds at the present time as the word 'Qfascismf' Almost daily, from our radios, from every newspapers, from the books and articles we read, it is flung at us, and the activities of its leaders form a large portion of the daily news. Two of the world's leading European powers have adopted it as their form of government, a third on the other side of the world is, to all practical purposes, a fascist state, a desperate war is being waged in a fourth in its interest, and a fifth is at the present time being forcefully turned into a fascist nation, Page Thirteen