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

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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

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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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FORBI Nisws, P.C.V.S., 19-1-O 9 X CS LITTLE X B BOY WRITES MAN WHO WASN'T THERE il..- We now have the pleasure of bringing to you a variety feature, tidings of X C. Tops of the form in the Christmas exams were Evelyn Martin and Harold llather, both of whom obtained Grade IX scholarships last year. D. Blil- burn. Ruth Sage. and A. Sc-holes merit commendation too. This paragraph is reserved for B. hIcBride. hIcB1'ide is again this year the main punching bag of the form. He is now recovering, as we are glad to learn, from an ap- pendicitis operation. X C is proud to boast that cur form has a representative of every club in the school. B. Cuppy battered his way into the junior rugby team. C. iNIcVVilliams manages this or- ganization of young rough- necks. J. Patterson and Eva Parr play their part in the orchestra fwonder what they do play?l. Ruth Sage and Betty Stewart strain their vocal cords in the Glee Club. R. Blackwell represents the form on the Literary execu- tive, and our athletic repre- sentatives are Jane Strick- land and J. Sackville. BI. Metcalfe is again this year the little man who wasn't there. If you want a laugh just take a look at A. John- ston's comic strips. Since'B. Scott was deposit- ed ahead of the girls by Bliss Howson. we boys can very well understand why he canit resist the temptation to re- verse directions once in a while ClVIargery lIcGee sits behind himl. How is it pos- sible for J. Newton and B. Farrow to take in any mathe- matics when hlary Hatchet and Judy Clark sit in the near vicinity? Putting in a word for all the girls. we must say that they are outstanding in beauty and brains Knot too much stress on the brainsl. Three parts of the girls don't seem to grasp the fact that we take science at all. while we boys, when our pens wear HIS WILL Let me introduce you to the members of our intellectual form X B. Rosina Fanning. Dorothy Franks. Dorothy Frost, Pa- tricia Hardie. Norma Gray, Dorell HeH'ernan. iNIarian Helson. Anna Hubel. Doreen Hutchinson. Katherine Jolm- ston. Ailwen Jones. Eleanor Kent, Therese de la Plante. Dorothy Larmer. Jean Leach. Laura Lee, Helen BIoncrief. Nancy 3Ioore. Joyce Pearson. Gerald Ackford. llax Flor- ence. Donald Goheen, Ralph Green, Leslie Groombridge, Clifford Hall. Donald Hamb- lin. Jack Hardill. Jim Hooper. Jim Harris. Leonard Hayes. Douglas Hill, Jack Hill. Ken- neth Hotston. Chris Huffman, Jim Kay, Ray Kidd. Jim Laing. Bill Loomis. Harold Louden, George Mackey, Jack Moore. After three hours of frantic search I found some paper without gum on it. Another hour of hair pulling disclosed a bottle, with only an in- finitesimal amount of ink: so I wrote with the charcoal from burnt matches. Before start- ing I set down my last will and testament and made the editor promise this article would be anonymous. I am not going to mention anything a b o u t skipping school because there is a truant officer's son in our form. Bill Loomis, who might tell daddy. The late hh. hlac- key achieved his secret ambi- toin by arriving on time, February thirtieth. Harold Louden who does his best thinking when asleep. is usual- ly awakened by strains of music from the four members of the Glee Club: Dorothy Frost. Patricia Hardie, Helen hfoncrief. and Anna Hubel and also by the inharmonious crooning of Leslie Groom- bridge and Dorell Heffernan. Jim Hooper and Nancy Nfoore. our scholarship win- out, can easily find enough interrogations to keep Mr. Richardson busy till old faithful rings. I I I I I Drawing by VIOLA BREADMAN, IX J ners. are establishing a home- work bureau which does one's homework for a nominal fee. Max Florence and Jack Hill of the signalling corps, protect our school from sabotage - they would! Norma Gray doesnit know whether to ac- cept Paramount's or Colum- biays offer. Probably after her debut in the school play she won't have either choice. I see I've used up my three hundred words. If you don't believe me, count them. So long. You can tell a second former By the way she swells her chest. You can tell a third former By the way she's neatly dressed. You can tell a fourth former By her conscious pride and such. You can tell a fifth former But you can't tell her much. Page Sixty-seven