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

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'HT THE COLLEGIATE -: fl Q, l REORGANIZATION In appointing the mafvazine staff for the year 1931 Collegiate , the Liter- ary Society Executive showed its initi- ative by making a number of innovat- ions in the distribution and allocation of the various sections. It is to be hoped that this action, to some extent an experiment, will result in some measure of success. On account of the large increase in late years of the number of student activities, it was considered advisable in producing this issue of the Colleg- iatei' to apportion the writing up of student activities among a larger num- ber of students than in former years. Those best fitted by their reportorial ability and familiarity with the sphere of activities concerned, were chosen to write them up under separate head- ings. It is believed that this distri- bution of the worlc will yield better results than have been possible in other years. i Another feature of our reorganizat- ion plan is the creation of a new office on the magazine staff, that of Junior Representative. It is the duty of this member of the staff to stimulate an interest in the magazine in the forms Of the Lower School, which has hither- to been greatly lacking. The results this year have been only fairly satis- factory, but it is hoped that another year will find the junior students alive to their responsibilities in regard to the magazine. If they are to be favoured with definite representation on the staff, they must show their appreciation by standing behind their representative and contributing material in greater quantities than has been the case up to this time. The final part of the reorganization is the recognition of the work done by the girls of the typing class in com- piling the magazine. In previous is- sues, no credit was given for their very valuable help in typing out all material for the magazine. This year, however, five students have been selected to do all the typing, the names of these five have been included in the business staff personnel. W.D.T. THE EDITORS' CONVENTION On the morning of Friday, October the twenty-fourth, 1930, the Fifth An- nual Convention of High School Ed- itors opened at Convocation Hall, Tor- onto University. The Convention was conducted by the Department of Uni- versity Extension, and Sigma Phi Wo- men's journalistic Fraternity. The sponsors may well be justified in considering the convention a suc- cess, for the interest of editors in it becomes annually more evident. The advice offered by the speakers and by leaders of the discussion groups, was a source of great and invaluable help to the delegates of every magazine rep- resented, but in even greater a degree was it a source of the enthusiasm which is so necessary to the preparation of a school year-book. The publications represented at the convention will un- doubtedly be improved enormously this year by the suggestions offered. Registration began on Friday morn- ing at nine oicloclc, the Sarnia rep- resentatives incidentally being the first

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23 M55 THE COLLEGIATE -.Y .-A -ff! lg v. I .Y ..,. ,,..,,,,7,,,,,,, W W, ,,,.,.,,,, . ., . , , W ' Q11 -li Standing-Ken VanHornc, Lois Shaw, Jack Grimth, Mary Molyneux, George Allainson Margaret Mead, Bill Craig. Scatccl-Douglas Ishistcr, Alice Hutchinson, Paul james, Rhoda Middleton, Leroy Smith. 4l5ltISlNIiSS S'l'.Xl l ADVERTISING and CIRCULATION MANAGER PAUL JAMES ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS GEORGE ALBINSON BILL CRAIG JACK GRIFFITH ALEX HAYES DOUGLAS ISBISTER KEN VANHORNE ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGER LEROY SMITH TYPISTS ' ALICE HUTCHINSON MARGARET MEAD RHODA MIDDLETON MARY MOLYNEUX LOIS SHAW

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.,, . fu so to register. There followed a busy hour for the delegates, at the end of which they found themselves provided with badges and programmes and reg- istered in that discussion group which most appealed to each one. At ten o'clock Principal Malcom Wallace of University College formally opened the convention, and a welcome was ex- tended to the delegates by Miss Evan- geline Powell, convention convenor. Helpful and instructive speeches fol- lowed by Miss Jean I-Iunnisett, past secretary, Mr. W. Dunlop, director of University Extension and Mr. Ver- non Knowles, city editor of the Mail and Empire. After the election of a president and secretary from the ranks of the representatives, an address was heard on staff organization and allo- cation by Mr. Andrew Allen, editor of the flatej Varsity,', one of whose re- cent editorials stirred the whole pro- vince, followed by a discourse on hum- our by Mr. Gregory Clarke of the Toronto Star. After adjournment at noon, the delegates gathered for a panoramic picture on the steps of Con- vocation Hall. The afternoon session opened with a talk on The problem of lay-out by Mr. Frank Sperry of MacLean,s Maga- zine. The delegates then divided into groups for discussions on varied prob- lems. Ar the close of the session they were shown through the publishing houses of MacLean,s and the Toronto Star. In the evening the spacious and beautiful banquet-hall of the Arts and Letters Club made an artistic setting for the annual banquet. At its con- clusion the Staris shield for the best school magazine was presented to the London Central Collegiate, and the evening closed with a delightful, but all too short half-hour of readings and reminiscences by Dr. Charles G. D. Roberts. Saturday morning opened with a particularly interesting address on arf by Mr. Arthur Lismerg there followed speeches by Professor D. Robbins, Dr. E. A. Hardy, and Mr. Clarke Locke. The session closed with the THE COLLEGIATE presentation of a set of works of G. B. Shaw to the writer of the best short story in any of the magazines. The convention closed at noon on Saturday, and in the afternoon the delegates brought their activities to a conclusion by attending a rugby game at Varsity Stadium, where they re- newed their acquaintances with former schoolmates attending the University. N.G.N. ACADEMIC STUDIES VERSUS STUDENT ACTIVITIES Have you ever heard parents or outsiders comment on the so-called student activities of our school? Have you ever heard them speak with much concern, not unmingled with doubt and certain misgivings, of the increas- ingly important place that these act- ivities take in the lives of the students? Some, even outwardly condemn all the institutions of our school other than the fundamental subjects outlined in the curriculum. To these we would address the following remarks, in which we will attempt to allay at least a few of these misunderstandings. 'For those who criticise the non-academical side of our school life have been either most grossly misinformed or have not taken time to investigate their true purpose and value and are censuring us with but a very superficial know- ledge of these things. The fundamental purpose of a sec- ondary education is not to drill into our heads Latin, History, or algebra, nor to cram our brains with facts about electrons, or the action of sulphuric acid on sodium bicarbonate. True, these are all necessary but only in so far as they develop gray matter in our brain. Of what practical use are the majority of subjects that we take in the lower forms? Each of us will probably specialize in two or three of these later, and these will likely be the only ones of any real consequence in our future occupation. If our high school training were nothing more than learning by memory a few theor-