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

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FORIXI NENVS, P.CV.S., 1940 7 XI C AC. GIRLS MAKE OXYGEN 'K Afternoon, everybody! The bell rings and the door of lNIiss Howson's room bursts open to admit Helen Miller and Muriel hliles who dash in. followed closely by Betty Puffer and Lenore Skitch. These fun-makers always cause a great sensation at least. Form XI C is proud of its actors and actresses for stag- ing scenes from Disraeli. Behold our future stars truck- ing off to Hollywood: Jack Ridyard, Jack Thompson. Hlorley Geraghty, Joan Rah- niel. Bill Purdy. and Eleanor Staples. Have you heard about Olll' outstanding poetesses - Ber- nice Newman. Barbara IVhite. and Joan Pitchford? No, our boys didn't fail us in poetry. Ask Frank Stuart how he knows Hitler so well. Nliss McIntosh. our jolly form teacher. may wonder why pupils like Jean Wooll. Jean Moncrief. John Stuart, Barbara Nichols, Hlld Hannah Wlright are so fond of Latin?? The Chemistry Lab, is an interesting place for certain students at tables B and E. ln the making of oxygen. hlisses Pettersone and lilac- Brien stand idly by while IvIlSS VVade works herself into a dilemma for somp'in.j XI C is happy to name its hockey players: George Richardson fwhose favourite subject is Frenchl, Stuart Saunders four Latin seholarl and Lloyd Routly, four fut- ure orchestra leader. we hope.l IVe welcome new students into our form this year. fVVe'll gauge them when we get our reportsj Here they are: Misses Nelson, Neils, Scott, and Ken Murray. Miss Howson can thank the boys, R. Reed fform repre- sentativel, BI. Thompson, and H. Amys, for co-opera- tion in English. We have those students who find Physics beyond them: Norma Smedmor, Vera Miller, Stuart Wright, Maur- een Brown for does she?l Dot Cathcart, and Mary Nesbitt-but then, don't we all?- B.M. IX C GIRL DECIDES VVell, here we are. We stand before you as the potential brilliants of days to come- the executives and bankers of tomorrow fperhapsl. Here we have banker-tosbefi Dalton. It seems obvious from the fact that all loose change in his possession is soon disposed of, that he desires to deal only with larger amounts of cur- rency. Yvhat is that rasping, scrap- ing sound? Of course. the fourth desk down. it is Mme. Fifi Edwards grinding her way to a manicurist's fame. TO BECOME PHYSIOGNOMIST And over there is Professor Betty Craig, the f u t u r e physiognomist. even IIOXY ob- serving the weird effect upon others when she gaily chews her nails before their horrified eyes. VI'hat other form can boast such unique and outstanding characters? IVhere will you find such brilliance. or shall I say, such evident brain-power better disguised. than in Form IX C? For confirmation of the above we suggest any teacher for reference. Field and track artists abound - perhaps b o und would be better. This bound- ing effect is most apparent when these athletes race into the class room. just after the Iicll has rung. A wild scramble it is, of a type that would I-ut a typhoon to shame. Do you blame us for feelinv E3 so distinguished? From be- gnnung to end we are destined lor something. As Ling Poo once said, lt requires a wise man to pretend ignorance. Yvith that, I leave all in the Izands of the gods and the judges Il-:nown elsewhere as exainination-paper inarkers.J -G.D. Postgraduate Class: Inclustrial Arts IV Front Row: Jack Bestard. Edward Freeman. Harold Morrow. Willard KVestman, 'William Anderson, Clifton XVestman. Back Row: Harry Allen, John Courneya. Donald Rennie, James Northam. George Baker. Absent: Roy Abbott. James Baird, Donald Douglas, Roy Hiscox, Robert Jackson. Arthur Northcott, Donald Rose, Leonard Vass. 1These boys secured posi- tions in industry before this picture was takenj. ROUND SHE GOES AND HERE SHE STOPS AT XI IND. ARTS NAME NICIC-NARIE WEAKNEss N. Dickson Curly brains S. McDermott Romeo girls G. DeCarlo Pantywaist size C. Curtis Muscle skating F. Mattucci Pin Boy everything T. Fife Chick vocabulary I. Crerar Flash skiing N. Brown Ruben day dreaming E. Gregson Oinkv school K. King Sparky radio B. Hallihan Hooley skinny ALIBITION travelling salesman ladies' man to grow up he hasn't any join the Navy first class farmer to become champion to wake up to see the world another Marconi hiaple Leafs.-G. 8: C. Page Sixty-five

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It FORRI Nnws, P.C.V.S.. 194-0 FORM NEWS EDITOR- BEVERLY WH ITE Asst Editors-J. Wallis, A. Connell, R. Rose, F. Alcoclc, B. Garner APRIL, 71940 g vgot. 26 The Form News this year is ha1'dly recognizable. Gone are the space-wasting theme songs and the valiant attempts tor are we being too kindi at writing poetry. All this is replaced by the more legible newspaper style. which makes our magazine an improved Hllfl 1noder11 school book. It is only with the able assistance of June IYallis. Arlie Connell. Bob Garner, Rex Rose. and F1'ank Alcock. that this section has bee11 compiled: so 11ow they take a well-earned rest while your form news editor endeavours to fill this space with reading matter. The form reporters set an astounding record this year-about one third of the desired number of reports were turned in on the date set. It is very disheartening to realize that the majority of these were from the first forms. Scattered through the form news section this year will be noticed a number of sketches. which have been done by a most industrious Art Department. There are more than there were last year and they are drawn with an eye to being humorous. We agree that they are not necessarily Hattering, but vanity must be for- saken in editing a magazine. Reading through this section. you will notice the almost complete absence of the old perennials Hash', and illustrious -a great obstacle overcome by a daunt- less Echoes staff. CHIVALRY DISAPPEARS VVe are led to understand by a certain incident that occured in the ninth grades. that chivalry in the school is almost an unheard-of grace. A boy was assigned to write his forn1's news. He was in the form reporters' picture-but when the time came for him to turn in his report, he handed the job over to a girl. Is this the chivalry of our school? VVe hope it is only an exception. The advertisers of The Echoes have been very loyal this year. Even though there is a war going on. the firms, companies. stores and private practices have advertised. The Echoes is very appreciative of this co- operation. We didnit know that Hrst formers knew such big words. One used parsimonious. and another nphysiog- nomyf' VVe had to look these up in the dictionary Cfor shamell Upon searching furtively through other magazines for other Form News editors' editorials. we made the heart-rending discovery that there are not many. Those other editors do not realize how lucky they are. After struggling for four nights we obtained enough space on the table in The Echoes office to get this editorial written. The office is the busiest place in the school- after school hours. Someone is typing. someone is run- ning around with a sheaf of papers. someone pasting- everybody doing something. It is with this picture that we would leave you. so that when you see us resting later in the year, you'll know that we deserve it. Page Sirvty-four XI A KNOWN AS GUIDING STAR Form XI A Academic is as a guiding star whose bright light illuminates the path of duty for those Of lesser clay who follow its lead. You. our readers, will perhaps think this a rash statement, so let me present the follow- ing facts to substantiate it. Margaret Langley an d Norma Elcombe were scholar- ship winners last year. Dorothy Parkhill, B ob Carley, Arthur Bunnell. Lloyd Williamson and Davis Gra- ham are all working for The Echoes. Christine Carlisle and Bob Carley represented the form in a lively debate with XI C. Although the decision was in favour of XI C. we are in- deed proud of their valiant stand. Bill Harle. Captain of the Senior Rugby Team. and Les Graham and Tom Craig of the Junior. battled it out on the old gridiron for the honour of the School last fall. Bill also plays basketball. The form hockey team, in which most of the lads of the form starred. is still leading in the series of games with XI B. It would never do to forget the girls. especially in a room where they outnumber the boys two to one. Many like Jean Castle. are interested in baseball. Not a few pitch a fast ball and pack a mean wallop, with a batf' Among the foremost of the musically inclined of the School. are the talented Elsie Chambers, heard at the piano at each morning assembly. Davis Graham, who plays in the orchestra, and June Bur- rows, our singing star. VVith the budding drama- tists are found Connie Nichol- son, Ruth Telford, hlarie Casey, June Burrows, and Bob Carley, busily engaged learning their lines for the School Plav, Quality Street. We regret that limited space precludes the enumera- tion of various interests in which other members of the form are engaged. We hope, UNUSUAL ARTIS- TIC ENDEAVOURS IN IX I I shall try and put down on paper a clear description of our brilliant form as it goes 011 its daily round through the Collegiate. Ivhen the morning bell rings we are in our form room, but a few stragglers always seem to saunter in several minutes later. Ilsually they are curly-headed Robertson and Sills, who wakens the class with his thump of heels. First period is English, where Miss Brown tries to teach us our proper language, but it appears to be no use. How- ever, by June we hope the more talented students, Lois VVright, .Ioan Smedmor, and Dorothy Thorpe, will know thc difference between a noun and a verb. Next comes Geography where Ralph says the capital of Australia is London, and Sisson, Steward, and the Samis Sisters catch up on some sleep. Then We go to Mathematics. Here Sullivan and Sheppard try to get their homework done be- fore Mr. David takes it up. After ltlathematics has ended we go to History. Sanderson suddenly gets thirsty on that dry subject and remembers the attendance board which he left in the Mathematics room. In the afternoon We have French. Here Slaughter, San- tomero and Sutcliffe .sit and watch the snow slide off the Armouries roof. VVhen French is over we take Science. Here- Amelda Traviss and Marjorie Schaus try to make us more unconscious by turning on the gas jet. After Science We go- up the stairs for two periods of Art, where we spend our time drawing pictures of The Little ltlan Who Wasn't There. The four o'clock bell rings and we start home, after a happy school day.-B.S. I however, that this brief out-- line will give you an insight into some of the activities of' our class, past, present and X future.-A.B.

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S FORM News, P.C'.V.S.. 194-0 XI BCD BOY GIVES BED TO BEAR .lust before nine every morning there is a general drifting of the XI B. C. D. boys to the Electrical Lab. There we find out what home- work should have been done the preceding night, discuss the latest war news, and com- ment, on hockey games, our leader being the energetic ticket-collector at Rye's-Jack Ainslie. One of the most popular topics was Don West- lake's account of how he slept in the barn five nights to let the bear get out of the attic. C olin Jack, gasping for breath. usually charges in with thirty seconds to spare. lNIr. VVeames Hnally gets the attendance cards distributed and we go to the Assembly Hall, where we are led in song by Jim Hawthorne, Eric llc- Bain, the wavy-haired bass, Ainslie, Tivy, and Sage. X. -ff I. a.- Q K ff! .1 ' 7 W Ii 1-I I ' . . ii , . I I 'll I, x X'ftlJ,1f' f iii, X il XX? if N ll. I f TD el :ffm rt-it 1173 SKII CHAMPION In English class, Jim Brown, six foot one of bone and muscle, obligingly writes along the top of the board so that the shorter teacher cannot reach it. At Auto iilechanics Hart- shorn continues his lecture on the merits of a motorcycle and Mitchell plies his trade of chief battery terminal taker-offer. Jack Cupoli, the New York play-boy with the evasive smile, and Jackson labour vainly trying to start. broken-down cars. At the beginning of the afternoon session Todd mur- murs in that Southern lazy drawl, I don't know what you have. deary, but we have TYood TVorking. Poast usually joins the group here. He explains that the roads were blocked. At the end of the day Cupoli can be heard bitterly complaining about Duncan using all the locker, and as a grand finale. like the flag being lowered at sunset, Elmliirstfs hat bobs away down the hall.-R.R. X B GIRL IS FUTURE MODEL X B Commercial is that snappy businesslike form in Room 39. Miss Park is the form teacher and the pupils are her secret delight. Now to outline some of its celebrities. lloorhead is our basketball hero and Armstrong is that fellow who made those flashy touchdowns this fall with the P. C. I. Seniors - or were they sitdowns? Paul Mfeeks, Peter the Hermit, will be pensioned off if he remains at school much longer. Reg. Leether is our acrobatic goal minder. VVallace Parnell. great horn blower, is now starring in Gone YVith the Wind. Bill Jordan at last has his main ambition as his hair is like Dagwood's. Douglas VVilson represents the telephone directory for such names as ltlisses Storey. Pue. Primeau, Sloan, Wil- liams. Simmons and Preston. Gerald ltlonkman is a. ski X A ACADEMIC CONSIDERS AMPLIFYING SYSTEM Meet good old X A, where talent is as plentiful as fail- ure in the History examina- tion. Let me introduce also Miss Moore. our form teacher, and Fred Garner, the form representative. Medals are plentiful. Camp- bell and Hanbidge hold marksmanship medals, and others are held by Misses Abbott and Blaiklock for life- saving. Boyer and Ford ought to receive medals for gum- chewing. Lynn Head holds a canoeing trophy. llisses Turner and Abbott are on the Badminton com- mittee while the Basketball captains are Alcock and Campbell. Examination results show six students with results over 75W. All of them are boys, too! tShame girlsll In order of standing. they are: Brown. Allen. Crowe. Boyd, Dinsdale, Garner. Bliss Blaiklock and Gordon Diplock are the G.A.A. a11d B.A.A. representa- tives. The members of the Glee Club are hlisses Chase, Fisk, Flett and Zavitz. The camera club members include Bliss Zavitz, Boyd, Brown, Crowe and Walter Hanbidge, who won an Echoes' photography prize last year. Ford and Chambers represent the or- chestra, and Sellon and Dins- dale are in the signal corps. Events have led us to wonder if Bliss Blclntosh would faint if Boyer ever had his Latin homework done, and if Fanning could ever stop wiggling to oblige lVIiss Howson. Fern Agnew must love arguments, judging from what we hear in English class. There is at least one mem- ber of the class who wishes that lNIr. C1'aig would omit some of the gruesome details during health lectures. He is William Allen. Rumor has it that amplify- ing systems will shortly be rented for Eleanor Brown and Jim English, to save the teachers ear-straing and that someone will be hired to polish Miss hIoore's glasses during first period. The time-well, time to go to bed: and so ladies and gentlemen, good evening and thank you.-S.B. champion and VVebster a writer of a famous dictionary. Ralph Braund is a prominent young musician. Dean Cut- more leads the way to higher learning. Of the girls there is much to say. Helen Thompson with her brilliant mind heads the class. B. lVIoore takes her regular walk down the hall to obtain a drink-or is it to see some familiar face? June Patterson in a few years will be a model in one of the big stores in Peterborough. Nellie Smith is going to be the TVorld's Champion Athlete Girl. if lNIiss Bailey continues to be her teacher. Mildred Rusaw's ambition is to quit school. Stewart is very Keene and Blade is the boy with the Roman nose. Shaughnessy is a professor and Mills a fox farmer. Shea will some day replace Turk Broda. Hess is a pocket edition of Tarzan. Patterson and hlaloney are future Joe Louis'g Travis is tall, dark, and handsome. Last of all is Wall.-T.B. COMPLIMEN TS OF H LIMITED Page Sixty-six T E Peterborough Loclc Manufacturing Company