Stratford Central Secondary School - Collegian Yearbook (Stratford, Ontario Canada)

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COLLEGIAN, l930 The first meeting of the Senior Literary Society was held on Fri- day afternoon, November 22, in the Assembly lHall. The new president, Joe Cawthorpe, was in the chair, and after a few remarks, he announced that a few' selections wpuld be played by the school orchestra. Following this, Arthur Schmidt, 4A's violinist played Leibesfreud by Fritz Kreisler, and, as an encore, Intermezzo, from -Clavalleria Rusticana. For an encore after Sylvia, Christine Copus sang Carrie Jacobs-Bond's Just A-Wearyin' For You. Phyl- lis Patterson followed this, giving an unusually good interpretation of The Highwaymann by Alfred Noyes. Our prima donna, Lorna Lupton, sang The Carnival in her customary charming manner. The last feature of the program was a comedy skit, Box and Fox, put on by Catherine Kepkay, Law- rence Scobbie and Brock Monteith. It was well done and the student body literally rolled around their chairs with laughter all the time. The complications set in when one gentleman-roomer who slept all night and worked all day, Cusuallyb decided to take a day off and re- turned to his room to find another gentleman wlho slept all day and worked all night occupying it. A heated argument followed as to the legitimate owner and the land- lady was called. In tears, that worthy lady explained that she 'had hit upon this idea to keep both her roomers while her back-up- stairs room was being done over. She let both men occupy the same room, one at night, the other dur- ing the day. All would have gone well had not the night gentleman returned during the day. After due consideration, the two -gentle- men hit upon a plan of sharing the room till the back-upstairs room was finished, shook hands on it, became friends and sent the land- lady away happy. It was cleverly done and the actors deserve a lot of credit. Much, howrever, depends upon the direction. Perhaps when we men- tion that Miss McQueen super- vised, everything is explained. May all our Literary Meetings be as good! ADDITIONS TO STAFF Miss E.. K. West, a graduate of Victoria College, University of To- ronto, hails from Almonte, Ontario. Besides her duties as Physical Train- ing lnstructress, she teaches Lower School English and History. Miss B. Stewart comes to us from Norwich, Ontario. She is a graduate of University College, University of Toronto and has charge of the Latin in the Lower School and in part of the Middle School. MI. W. l-l. Turner graduated from Victoria College, University of To- ronto. He controls the boys' Ath- letics as well as teaching English and Algebra to the Lower School. Mr. R. N. Bissonnette comes to us from the Seaforth Collegiate insti- tute. l-le is a graduate of Queen's University and O. A. C. l-lis duty is to pound biology into the heads of Upper and Lower School students. Miss M. Simpson got her de- gree from McMaster University. She teaches the Commercial Forms book- keeping and arithmetic. Miss M. L. Edwards also of Mc- Master, teaches shorthand. She is a native of Winchester, Ontario. Miss P. Cameron, in charge of the Domestic Science and the Cafe- teria, is from O. A. C. A hunter was showing off his collection of trophies to a group of visitors. l-le was rapturously explain- ing how he acquired the various exhibits. See that elephant? he said, I shot it in my pajamas. Gracious, murmured the flap- per, how did he get there? -35-

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COLLEGIAN, 1930 SENIOR LITERARY EXECUTIVE J. Anderson, H. Galloway, H. Leonard. J. Cawthorpe, V. Holmes. THE SENIOR LITERARY ELECTIONS It has been the custom during the last few years, for the nominees for the Senior Literary Society to band themselves together into parties. This term there were two parties and some independents. All the black- boards in the school were decorated with cartoons bringing the two op- pcsing parties to our attention. The two parties were, The Wee Colleg- iansn and, The Flaming Youths and although both parties worked strenuously, neither party was elected as a whole. The candidates gave their platforms in the assembly hall and the following day the elec- tions were held, and the successful candidates were as follows: President-Joe Cawthorpe fin- dependentl. lst Vice-President-John Ander- son CFlaming Youthl. 2nd Vice-President - Howard Galloway fWee Collegianl. Secretary-Helen Leonard fWee Collegian. Treasurer-Vivian Holmes fin- dependentl. Each form elected two represent- atives, a bcy and a girl, and these are the results of the form-elections: 5A-Isobel Sim-Brock Mon- keith. 5B-Elspie Halnan-Jack Neil- son. 4A-Phyllis Patterson - Harry Bowra. 4B-Catherine Fisher - Fred Loomis. 3A-Helen Dufton-David East- wood. 3B-Helen Dorland - Hugh Kennedy. 3C-Margaret Raymore 1 Lin- coln Gruhn. Spec. Com.-Callista Heinbuck -Lionel Beale. 3rd, Com.--Lorraine Till-Leo- nard Bannon. -34-

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COLLEGIAN, l930 Wi. at AT HOME, 1929 Although the snow lay in should- er-high drifts and the thermometer kept falling alarmingly, the annual At-Home, held on December I9, was a bigger success than ever be- fore, in the students' minds, at least. At the entrance to the Assembly Hall, amid red and green draperies, Mi. and Mrs. Sprung, Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, Miss McQueen, Miss Stuart, Miss Ross, Joe Cawthorpe, Helen Leonard, Morris Hay and Doris Myers, the re- ception committee, waited to wel- come the arriving guests. Lively music was furnished both in the Au- ditorium and in the gymnasium by two competent orchestras, and games and even moving-pictures supplied in the classrooms for those who didn't dance. ln the intermission, a very attract- ive Dutch dance was put on by some students under the direction of Miss Vvest. For the benefit of those in the gymnasium, it was repeated there. Miss West should be congrat- ulated on her ability. Her dance went over big. Towards the close of the evening, much to the delight of the students and staff, Margaret Waugh arrived. Immediately, dancing was stopped and Miss Waugh received the recog- nition she so richly deserves. In Winning the first Mary Mulock Scholarship in Classics she merited praise, but when to that triumph she added the Flavelle Scholarship in Classics and the first Carter Scholar- ship-well! Margaret knows how proud Stratford and the Collegiate are of her. These were presented to her before the assembled guests by Mayor Andrew. John DeMille, an- other distinguished Stratfordite who won the third Carter Scholarship re- ceived his honours from lVlr. Easson. Miss McQueen presented Helen Dor- land with the Muriel Bothwell Medal for the highest efficiency in House- hold Science. Shortly after midnight, the dance came to a smashing close, and the guests left, assured that they had never attended such an At Home. Editor's Note Special mention should be made of and thanks offered to the Kroeh- ler Manufacturing Company for their great kindness and considera- tion in lending us lamps and chester- fields and in their treatment of our representatives at their factory. May we express our thanks to Mr. Trebell and his able assistants. Thanks should also be etended to Mr. Fleming for lending us rugs. -T55 . 1 v gums. 'Q!!!!i!i puny wi .. D U lb - , Q .-361