Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School - Collegiate Yearbook (Sarnia, Ontario Canada)

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ll6 THE COLLEGIATE ' Wulf 1 iWl'll llllw Wllll J llll i my :gf by y nfl t' , X - yvlivl, M, y lilly' lfijlfiiliilm lxrxx M.. 'li at i lf ll? llll :'g,l ll fffd mi ,fl W ,lg lilly X, iliyflll mlll ul fl il y lllll H, lil lfwlll ,gift frlll, fl if ' l V ' tw ll 'W'-A 'l1..l1lrlllllLllll.ll tlllh ig gg-' M.. Every year a section of this magazine is devoted to the names of teach- ers and pupils who have left this school from the classes of the preceding year. The columns of this section include the names of pupils who have graduated from the school and have received dip-lomas and also the names of students who for various reasons have been compelled to leave the school before they have finished their course and consequently have received no diplomas. In the past we have called this section the Alumni section of our magazine and the questwivon frequently arises as to what an alumnus really is and what good the alumni are to a Collegiate Institute. In the first place, an alumnus is a graduate, not a student who never received a diploma. -I-le or she is one who has gone through the same trials of school life which the present students are passing through. He or she is one who has toiled at the same mathematics, the same old Caesar, the same mechanics and book-keeping, and above all has survived and conquered them, a fact which makes us lo-ok to them as models. An alumnus knows just what the S.C.I. and T.S. is like. He perhaps has played for the colours on the foot- ball field, the basketball court or on the ice. She sometimes upheld the honour of the school in Girls' Athletics and all have lost at least some breath in cheer- ing and encouraging our teams to victory. The happy moments they spenit under this roof, 'to them, are things of the past and they have gone from the halls of the S.C.I. and T.S. to re-enter as students no more. They are now men and women of the world, and to-day, on the Pacific or on the Atlantic, in distant Asia or South America there are ones, perhaps, who are thinking of bygone days at the Sarnia Collegiate. How many faces would we know if a group picture of the graduates of the Sarnia Collegiate was placed before us? Very few. VVhy should we as students of the school be so distant towards those that have been here before us, and vxthy should they be so distant to us when there is every reason for our friendly and brotherly relationships? VVould it not be for our own beneii-t to form a plan to bring the Alumni and the present stud-ents more closely together? The fact that so many years have gone by since the S.C.I. Alumni Association was a reality is a stumbling block in the effort to enlist the suppfort of the many graduates. The only way that offers any possibi'lities is- to unite the Alumni again through the columns of this magazine. In an eifort to start a movement which, it is hoped, will be continued in years to come, we have asked two former members of our school to write letters for our Alumn-i section this year. B-oth of these contributors were leading students in their respective years and the success which has followed both of

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THE. COLLEGIATE ll7 them since their graduation from the .Collegiate is a source of pride to the school. It is hoped that these letters will reach many members of the Alumni and serve as an impetus for bringing about a closer relationship between the present students and theAlumni. IO Trowbridge St., Cambridge, Mass., 'Feb. 27, 1929. Dear S. C. I. Students: 'Ilhe request for a message for the schfool magazine finds me stranded with a positive desire to say some- thing but with no indication as to what to say or how- to say it. To use a foot-ball metaphor, I am in the embarrasing position of having to buck the line without having re- ceived any signals. Accordingly, if I tend to run amuck, head the wrong directi-on, and make litltle yardage, you muslt make allowances for-my dilemma. In the days when as a struggling edit-or of your publication, I timidly solicited c-ontributions from distant graduates to fill the gaping columns of the Alumni section. it seemed to be an understood thing that a letter from an alumnus sh-ould have several stock ingredients. Primarily, such a letfter was expected to report the whereabouts and the glorious a- chievements Cthey seemed rarely to be commonplacej of those graduates who had gone confidently fortlh to the trifling task of whipping the world of commerce to its knees or who were wrestling with academic bfogies in whatever greatest uni- versity in the worldn they had hap- pened to choose. ' My sole contribution to alumni personals musft be the mention of Mrs. Fred Sparrow, formerly known as Nan Gabler, who is married to a prominent Instructor in Chemistry here at Harvard. As far as I know she iS the only other recent graduate of the 'S.C.I. in New England. Of my present fashion in uni- versities I need say little. I was de- lighted to find that here at Harvard, where academic standards are prob- ably more rigid than at any other place on the continent, Canadians and degrees from Canadian uni- versities are held in high repute. The Chairman of Harvard's renown- ed Englislh Department is an En- glishman who lived in Canada for many years, and the staff list of the 'English Department is typical of the whole university in numbering several Canadians amongstrits noted professors. Boston seems almost half-full of Canadians and the regard in which one is held, on the state- ment of such citizenship increases the natural pride one has in being a Canadian. H Another age-old device of the Collegiate alumnus letter was the fhark backu device which, commenc- ign with Now when I was at the S.C.I. -,would not only exalt the customs of other days but also loud- ly lament the sorry pass to which school alifairs had come at the time of writing. I can easily fulfil the requirements of the formerifor as I sit here in an educational centre on the Atlantic seaboard with a New England snowstorm whirling out- side my window, my memory spans both distance and time to return to Ontario football lields. Literary Society platforms, all-night sessions editing The Collegiate , the pomp of Cadet Inspection, championship, receptions, D.M. , Davy Corcoran, Miss Storey, and a number of be- loved figures who have slipped into the impenetrable shadows- But I must check the rush of im- ages and force myself to a reali- zation that what 'means the joy of re-living those days to me can mean nothing more than the mental vag- aries of another old-timer to you. And I fear that I am to be denied even the denuciatory roleg for the only data concerning the old school which a prolonged ab-sence from my home town has allowled me-tihe news of another football champion- ship and evidence of real zeal by your magazine officials in ferrett-ing me out and in eloquently demanding