Peterborough Teachers College - PTC Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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Staff Messages Our fate and our destiny as free societies are now bound up with what we are able to do in education more completely and more decisively than they have ever been. Everything is going to depend now upon the kind of citizen we can produce. - Sir Fred Clarke. Blessed-which is to say, happy-is the person who has won the confidence of a boy or girl, and, with the Wisdom of maturity, has helped the youngster feel his or her way along to become a worthy citizen. May each of you find happiness thus. -F. B. SMITHERAM. Education should be as gradual as the moonrise: perceptible not in progress but in result. - George Whyte-Melville. -G. L. WOODRUFF. Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love, where is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, and Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to consoleg to be understood, as to understand, to be loved, as to love, for it is in giving that We receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. -St. Francis of Assisi. -OLGA I. JOHNSTON. Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. - Henry Ward Beecher. -Q. MCKINNEY. As a race we produce a considerable percentage of persons in each generation who have the intellectual and moral qualities for the moral and intellectual inspiration of others, for the organization and administration of our gigantic economic and intellectual machinery, and for invention and creation. I believe that We lose a large portion of those who could join these ranks because we fail to find them, to train them rightly, to create character in them and to inspire them to effort. Our teachers are necessarily the army of inspectors in our Nation who must find these individuals and who must stimulate them forward. Wishing you every success. -GEORGE E. MUNRO. Page Six

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f i' NORMAL SCHOOL STAFF Back Row fleft to righth: Q. McKinney, G. E. Munro, F. B. Smitheram. ' ht Mi SO Johnston G L Woodruff, Miss B. Latimer. Centre Row fleft to rig J: - . ., , . . Front Row Cleft to rightl: Miss O. Cleland, L. W. Copp, Miss C. E. Wagar. Normal School Staff L. W. COPP, B.A., B.Paed., Principal Master: Science and Agriculture. School Management, Sr. Mathematics F. B. SMITHERAM, B.A.. B.Paed. Master: Science of Education, Social Studies, Jr. Mathematics G. L. WOODRUFF, B.A. Master: Speech. Reading, and Literature. Grammar and Composition MISS OLGA JOHNSTON Dean of Women: Instructress in Home Economics and Health MISS CONSTANCE WAGAR. B.A. Instructress in Art G. E. MUNRO Instructor in Manual Training Q MCKINNEY Instructor in Music, Physical Education, Writing and Spelling MISS M. OLIVE CLELAND, BA., Librarian and Instructress in Library Science MISS B. LATIMER Secretary . Page Five

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To this year's Normalites: As you, in days to come, look into the faces of the pupils in your classroom, may you find abundantly the same sort of inspiration and satisfaction as the teacher pictured in the following lines by an anonymous poet: Iwrite no poem men's hearts to thrill, No song I sing to lift men's souls- To battle front no soldiers lead, In halls of state I boast no skillg I just teach school. I just teach school. But poet's thrill And singer's joy and soldier's fire And statesmen's power - All, all are mine: For in this little group where still I just teach school. Are poets, soldiers, statesmen - all I see them in the sparkling eye, In face aglow with purpose strong, In straightened bodies, tense and tall, When I teach school. And they, uplifted gaze intent On cherished heights they soon shall reach, And mine the hands that led them on! - And I inspired! Therefore, content, I still teach school. V Sincerely, M. OLIVE CLELAND. Greetings to the students of '47-'48! My best wishes follow you as you go out to enter your chosen profession. Your career will have its difficulties, but I hope you may make it a happy, useful and satisfying one, for, as John Ruskin puts it: Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. It is painful, con- tinual and difficult Work to be done by kindness, by watching, by Warning, by precept and by praise, but, above all, by example. May you carry away with you many happy memories of our art classes. Sincerely, CONSTANCE E. WAGAR. 'fNo lesson is so important to learn, and no habit is so important to acquire, as a right judgment and a delight in fine characters and noble actions. - Aristotle. -B. LATIMER. Page Seven