Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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W.J- Sutnmerby, Secretary E. Todd, ArT W.Sondersort , Machine Shop COUNCIL SPRING TERM J. R. Taylor, Motor A. F. Wright, Telegraphy W- Jones, Electrical cl. Alexander, Dressmaking W- Sexsmith. Steam Page Eighteen

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The Emery W eal “The Emery staff, through woe and Weal, Scouts ’round from day to day To gather fit material From what we do and say; Through Weal and woe, the Emery Gives polish to the facts. And furnishes our memory With records of our acts.” Newspaper reading has become such a universal habit that it has created an appetite for mental food dished up in this particu¬ lar form. The newspaper habit has invaded the educational field, and the school or college paper has now become a necessary adjunct of institutional life. Through the medium of his school paper the individual student is kept in touch with the multitudinous activities of the modem educational institution; he becomes acquainted with the doings of the various groups formed for study or recreation; he has the pleas¬ ure of seeing the contribution of his own group’s interests displayed among the rest; he is made aware of current opinion that may affect his own action; he absorbs, unconsciously, a school spirit which reacts beneficially for his own and the common good. In The Emery Weal, the monthly paper of this Institute, we have an ideal newspaper for the constituency that it serves. The busy, lazy, or otherwise occupied student, by reading the news items of this paper can find out what has happened, what ought to have hap¬ pened, what is going to happen, what may happen, what is not likely to happen, or what must not happen in connection with the Stu¬ dents’ Association, the athletic and sports clubs, the Argonauts or the Skookum Tillicums. In addition to the words of wisdom given in the editorials, he is supplied with readable, original articles on social, scientific and industrial questions that tend to enlarge his outlook in connection with the world’s work. A sprinkling of topical jokes with local applications, provides an outlet for that good-natured banter, without which a school paper would be incomplete. Three features of the past year deserve special mention. In the first place, the adoption of a new headline cut has given more style to the lay-out. In the next place, the publication of a double-size paper at Christmas was a happy idea, well carried out. Last, but by no means least, is the fact that the editor this year has been drawn from the ladies—and she “delivered the goods” as an editress. The Emery Weal is now in its sixth year of publication, and appears to have established itself as an integral part of the student life and activity. In spite of the fact that it has to enlist almost an entirely new staff each year, it soon gets down to the business of gathering and disseminating the school news. Like all good newspapers, it appears on time, and is eagerly bought. For keeping up the good record of a high standard of production and a good business management, the 1930-31 staff is warmly congratulated by the V ear Book on behalf of the students and teachers of the Institute, —lTh. b. Page Seventeen

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At no other time in the history of the Technical Institute have athletes wearing the Green and Gold colors attracted so much at¬ tention from the student body and the sporting public of Calgary. In the two major winter sports, hockey and basketball, the Institute teams made enviable reputations, and while the early ending of the school term prohibited the students catering teams in other athletic leagues, they developed within the school a remarkable interest in sporting endeavor. Athletics during the Fall term were controlled by the capable hands of Tom Gibson, and in the second term by j. R. Anderson. Both of these students were well suited for the office of athletic manager and they did their work in admirable fashion, with the assist¬ ance of C. A. Choate, of the staff athletic committee. At the beginning of the term the school athletes were unfortunate in not having a coach for either the basketball team or the hockey team. The situation was soon remedied, however, through the generous assistance of Mr. Choate, who undertook to guide the basketball team through the league, and by J. H. Logan, a former student, who revived the hockey team from a slump and piloted it to its second Alberta Collegiate title. Throughout the schedule in both leagues the Institute players earned a well deserved reputation for clean playing and good sports¬ manship. Disagreeable incidents that all too frequently mar hockey games were noticeably absent, when Tech was on the ice. In basketball the Institute players, while sometimes credited with employing rough tactics, were received by Calgary sportsmen as one of the gamest and most sporting teams in the intermediate league. Page Nineteen