Sir George Williams University - Annual Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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With all these things happening in the J-GROUP it was inevitable that Owen Rowe and Tom Dolan would edit the Little Georgian' to record it all. Upon its yellow pages the Little Georgian also exhibited the creative outpourings of the group's high-brows. It was a marvel - the way compliments never went to the heads of these literary luminaries. For instance, when the Editor once used the words Yawn and turn the Page to indicate to the reader his ap- praisal ofthe masterpiece above, the author swallowed down this compliment without in the least letting it go to his head. This modest nonchalance showed-up again in the smooth reactions of the J-GROUP's Suitors of the Muse when they saw their timeless gems lumped together and emblazoned on the sacred territory of the PEWTRID POETRY PAGE. Not all the Little Georgiansu bared their empty bellies as rough-notes paper for scribbling J-GROUP pensg there was a special something about the yellow Little Georgian of September 8th which prevented this. You could sense it in the eager, ex- pectant eyes ofthe J-GROUPERS and in their cautious, almost nervous handling of the pages. For this final Little Georgianw was heralding the approach of the September exams, and with their completion, the dis.- bandment of the I-GROUP - the regrettable breaking- up of that unique setting in which this Society was coaxed to thrive. But the qualities of grit, cheeriness, altruism and leadership, so overflowingly evidenced in intra- J-GROUP relationships did not atrophy through re- moval from the promptings of a hitherto unique set- tingg those qualities continued to radiate from every J-GROUPER, stream in every scattered fold of the College. ED FEE has been 2nd Year Representative in 1947-48 and President of the S.U.S. in 1949-503 PHIL MCLEOD has been Day Editor of the Georgian in 1948-49 and also Reader for the Eng- lish 101 Departmentg PENNY KONDAKS has been Nathan Lande Scholarship winner for her outstanding scholastic achievement in 1948-491 . .-.am ,, ELSTON ROBERT has been front page art de- corator of more than one Georgian special issue and Reader in the English 101 Department as wellg CECIL KIRTON has been twice Treasurer of the Veterans' Societyg JULIUS STRACINA has been Delegate to the National Conference of Veterans in Toronto in 1948 and President of the Political Problems Club in 1949-505 OWEN ROWE has been President of the Table Tennis Club in 1949-50 and subscriber to the Georgian and the Drama Guildg TOM PLUNKETT has been the peerless Editor of the Georgian in 1948-49, Reader in the English Department and Editor of this year's Graduation An- nualg COLIN MACKIE has been founder of the Vet- erans' Scholarship Fund and this year's recipient of the S.U.S.'s MAJOR AWARD. Still other J-GROUPERS have shown their fine mettle, but they have been content to do so outside the range of publicity's spotlight. And still others might have done Herculean service to the College, but they had migrated to other institutions of higher learning or had branched off into the business world or had boomed themselves into marriage and found this insti- tution for personality grafting so happily rewarding, so all embracing, that College could wait indefinitely. Out of the 78 members of the now scattered J-GROUP fold, 32 are graduating this year. Their hearts are swelling with the hallowed memories of all that transpired within the span of their eager invasion and their reluctant evacuation. As they depart, they carry with them into the far flung, diverse arenas of life the crystallized habits of optimism, altruism and leadership, fostered and rewarded in the unique environment of Sir George . They came as Veterans with a legacy of train- ing in the art of obliterating life. They leave with a legacy of grooming in the art of promoting life, of making it vegetate and blossom to its fullest stature. OWEN ROWE , Arts '50

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THE J-GROUP The invasion was on. Armed with glistening brief-cases and bristling pens, the Veteran Brigade moved-up from all sides. As it neared the Y.M.C.A. building, it deployed for the attack . One column took the Stanley pass, the other the Drummond pass, and forged ahead into Y territory. Jealous, Georgian stares bombarded them and inviting Georgette smiles popped their eyes out, but they were a hard-bitten Veteran Brigade and they moved on unflinchingly. There at the foot of Hill Metropolitan the two columns merged again, yelled their frenzied Hurrahs, then quieted down to take bearings. Now it was a sure thing that objective Willingdon Barracks lay right ahead at the top of the hill. The little Brigade of eighty clambered cautious- ly up the foreign slopes of Hill Metropolitan, but cau- tion was unnecessary, the enemy was not firing at all. Onthe crest of the hill lay the Willingdon Barracks behind the camouflage of a mahogany door. The patrol tapped gently at the camouflage and it eased itself inward to reveal the gapingly empty Willingdon Bar- racks. All Clear ! waved the Patrol, and the Brigade moved in and occupied the barracks, and waited. One by one the Uenemy' ' Chiefs of Staff trickled into view - Field Marshall, Henry Hall, Major General, Douglas Burns Clarke, Brigadier, Robert Fraser and Lieutenant, Tom Sterling. Field Marshall Hall bent over so that his white flag of surrender would show and breathed soft words whose candour was to disarm to the core the steel- girt hearts of this battle seasoned brigade. f'Gentle- men, gentlemen , his voice wafted on the hushed air, Welcome to Sir George Williams College. And the host of gentlemen rose and with one accord intoned: Shepherd, we are the ones who sur- render this day, we are thy willing sheep . And they sawahalo of blessedness wreathe the head of Shepherd Hall as he rejoined: Ye are my chosen, among my many folds, ye shall be known as the 'J-GROUP' . And from that day in January 1947, the J-GROUP, sensing the sacredness of its self-charged mission, began to blaze its glorious trail across the jewelled annals of Sir George. This D.V.A. dollared group battled with re- orientation to study , forced down its diet of biscuits and pea-soup and guinea-pigged itself into showing that on this completely devitamized hash that sixty bucks a month permitted, it was still possible to survive Mathematics 101, Physics 101, History 103, English 124 and English 101, and with bleary eyes and puttied brain nevertheless go on to find actual enjoyment in Shepherd Hal1's Natural Science 101. Orientation to study and the acquisition of D.V.A. size stomachs were not the only battles the .T-GROUP had to fight, there was the blistering heat of that summer to be endured. Baked brains could not cope with a full eight hour program of lectures and study, so extra-curricular activities became the order of the day. Julias Stracina - Group Chairman and Stan Yaffe - Treasurer got together with Keith Mosher, Penny Kondaks fthe only ewe in the foldl, Cecil Kirton and Roy Horner and arranged swim and dance socials, bus trips, golf and tennis tournaments, basketball and volleyball bouts and floor hockey Mayhems . But there were times when the sweltering heat bogged down all organized sports and recreational programs and then the thing to do was to drift down to the trough or the Common Room for the day's treat. There in the trough a Paul Ryan andDuncan Stevens would be furrowing their foreheads in earnest philosophical theorization over the thing in the cup of coffee - whether it was a piece of straw or a fly, a he fly or a she fly , or not a fly but a bug, or not a fly nor a bug, but just hallucinations - just a mass hysteria. In turn too, there would rise up a Stan Yaffe and take his precarious perch on the jerky table. There, hastening wit with frantic gesture, he would laboriously contrive to hatch successful skin-teeth getters but evoke laughter only through the sheer unlaughability of his lame fabrications.

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