St Johns High School - Torch Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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THE FAIR Peanuts! Popcorn! Try your luck. Chance wasn’t the deciding factor the way the boys ran the games, but that doesn’t mat¬ ter: the school made money ($1,800, to be approximate). Cash was flowing like water. We made millions, but we aren’t telling, just to fool the income tax tribe. Seriously, though (if that is possible for us), everybody combined to make a great success of the Fair. This continuous suc¬ cess story may be getting rather boring to our patient readers, but it didn’t just hap¬ pen. Students spent days of “skipped” periods preparing articles to sell, and fig¬ uring out the games which would yield the best profit. Teachers organized these will¬ ing workers during noon hours and legal spares. Most important of all, the residents of the Tech district saved up their pennies all year just to squander on all the various booths. The places the money could be spent were numerous. You could be “rooked” easily by the booths in the gym; get about 150% of your money’s worth by buying in the auditorium; indulge in your gour¬ met tendencies in Room 18 and the nurse’s room, and be awed by the wonders of sci¬ ence in Room 40. If we haven’t stressed the fact sufficiently already, the Fair was a big success. 1. The Fair is opened. 2. Some old schoolmates? (Class of 1909). 3. Hello, Mrs. Magee. What would you like? 4. Followers of Isaac Walton. 5. George, Garnet, William Penn. 6. Intelligentsia, playing with electrons. 7. Where did the sugar come from? 8. Hi, gang! 9. “We were hungry.” Page One Hundred and Two

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ROOMS X-31 and X-13 GIRLS’ CHOIR Back Row —Joan Sharpe, Bernice Block, Ruby Rosenheck, Shirley Spegal, Fay Simpkin, Pauline Burka, Ruth Golden, Phyllis Geller. Ida Badkis. Third Row —Gayle Taciuk, Joan Kanchier, Joanne Manson. Peril Tenembaum, Sima Zaelig, Joan Triller, Jenny Moser, Evelyn Cantor, Sheila Sigesmund, Estelle Greenberg. Second Row —Gladys Waldman, Beverly Soloway, Hope Oetsky, Eleanor Simpkin, Shiffy Weinberg, Shirley Piggott, Rose Lavitt, Sybil Jacob, Gloria Swartz, Rose Spivak. Front Row —Mae Olynik, Irene Bruce, Nancy Dolgoy, Shirley Rombom, Joan Mike, Rhona Ostrow, Helen Taylor, Verna Krayeski, Elsie Perlman, Selma Levine, Noma Jacobson. SMALL ENSEMBLE Back Roic —Maxine Carter, Shirley Cohen, Adeline Wdoviak, Belva Boroditsky, Marion Holliday, Shirley Spegal. Front Row —Rita Pleskow, Sheila Rittberg, Ester Ludwig, Joyce Bowen. ENSEMBLE Back Row —Greta-Lois Freeman. Frances Lucow, Mae Olynik, Maria Semeniuk, Roberta Silverman, Lorraine Brethaw, Joyce Bawden. Second Row— Shirley Spegal, Maxine Carter, Marjorie Lees, ShifFy Weinberg, Rowena Rubenfeld, Shirley Cohen, Adeline Wdoviak, Malke Lerner. Front Row— Marguerite Mason, Belva Boroditsky, Sheila Rittberg, Ester Ludwig. Rita Pleskow, Selma Levine.

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The final exams are about a month away and I’ve got lots of time to study, so I think I’ll look through that box on the bureau where I keep all my miscellaneous articles. Here’s a ticket from the “Rugby Ball’ held at the school in the middle of October. They had Jimmy Carson’s orchestra and there were about 500 which included some returned men. Was it ever hot in the gym! The next ticket in my collection brings back memories. It’s from the ’’Tiger Prom” and I remember how long it took me to get enough courage to ask that girl in our room. Before the dance I thought of how embarrassed I’d be because I’m not a very good dancer, but there wasn’t a large crowd so I had no trouble. Wally Hutchi¬ son’s orchestra was better than usual and everyone enjoyed himself. The next thing I find is a coat check. I wonder . . . Oh! I remember, it’s from the dance held just before the Christmas holidays. Although there wasn’t a large crowd, there was a good selection of records. Here’s half a ticket from the “Snow Ball.” This year’s tramp was a great suc¬ cess. Although there was a cold wind everyone kept warm after we left the school. Do you remember how deep the snow was and the big circle we made on the river? Those hot dogs tasted good and everyone will remember the happenings of that night. Here’s my place card for the Opera ban¬ quet. That brings to my mind the pretty girls that were sitting beside Zipursky, and the box of DDT I won in one of the dance contests. Everyone enjoyed singing all the songs from the opera and they were all sorry when they had to leave. Although I wasn’t able to get any souvenirs from the Grade XI party, I think it might have been called a Grade X party, because there certainly were more Grade X’s present than Grade XI’s. Graduation promises to be a great suc¬ cess and everyone is anxiously looking forward to this big event. A banquet at the Bay is being planned with everyone coming back to school to dance to Charlie Cruickshank’s Orchestra. Later in the evening a bonfire on the school grounds has been suggested and this idea is being considered. I hope gradudation is what I expect it to be. Page One Hundred and Three