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

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COLLECIAN, I9 30 Vaferfzrfory of Gftlflllldfllllg Cfzzys 0 f I 930 NCE more the school year draws to a close as again the spring days lengthen and life and nature return. We see about'us the familiar sights and hear the sounds of the returning season-babbling brooks and singing birds and budding woods - as we look back over the year just past and forward to the year shortly to follow. But behold, a year follows which is not associated with the familiar class-room. in the old school on the hill, and we realize with a sudden pang of sorrow, as also of vague expectation and excitement, that we have reached the parting of the ways, and our years of Colleg- iate life are gone forever. Parting is such sweet sorrow. We can hardly believe that it is so. But yesterday, it seems, we were ushered into the great mysterious corridors, already men and women in our own estimation, at the beginning of a high school career But yesterday we had viewed before us five long, interminable years of assiduous labour, and now today we find ourselves about to step out into the world. 1No! it is not with that boundless joy and freedom which we had then thought to experience, but rather with a feeling of sadness. Memory recalls to us the smiles, the tears, of boyhood's years, as we see again in the mind's eye our old companions, departed, so many of them, forever. Again we are in that little old first form far down in the base- ment or in some outside school. The theme cf all our poems, our stories, our talk - the new school which will never come. Second year dawns, and lo! it is here. All our dreams and hopes are realized, as again we sit in bright and airy rooms and feel awaken- ing within us an unexpected love for our surroundings. And now as we return in our third year there is a vacant chair. Our principal, our venerable white-haired principal of some forty years has left us. With deepest regret we see him depart, with most sincere happiness we welcome his successor, another honored friend and re- spected teacher - Mr. Sprung. And so in our brief five years of school life, we the graduating class of 1930 tif we do graduatej have witnessed some very sweeping changes in the old school. lt is now-in third, fourth and fifth formls, that we are thorougly imbued with school spirit. We know now the meaning of the red and green, its associations throughout the years - and we are proud to realize that under that banner many a famous man and woman has gone out into the world. We begin to wonder about our own future and realize that we shall soon be away from the kindly shelter-out braving the storms of life, and with no armour but that which we have forged in these school days. Olnly when we are about to leave it do we realize what Collegiate has meant to us. The actual information gleaned from our study books constitutes but one small pait of the many-sided training and exper- ience that we have received. Here in school we have formed ties and habits never to be broken, habits to grow on us and model our lives and guide our feet in the years to come. We see now that there has been a purpose, and a worthy one. We must have learned reliability, we must have learned discipline of self and these lessons we must carry with us into the world that we may up-hold the faith of the Union Jack even in upholding the faith of the red and green. And we must be worthy of these colours and that name. Tradi- ...4 8...

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COI..L.E.C-IAN, l930 Marjorie Dunseith-Registry Ol- lice. Marion Hannam-Metropolitan Stores. Edna Solomon-Stillman's new plant. Archie Cumming-O. A. C. John Ballantyne-At home. Jean Caldwell-Ballantyne's Of- fice. john McGuire-C. N. R. Shops. Grace MacMillan-At Patterson's Book Store. Nita Thane--McLagan's Office. Grace Tuer -- Teaching near Shakespeare. George Burton-At the Bell Te- lephone Co. Elsie Kincaide 1 Working at Lloyd's Wholesale. Daisy Hollefreund-Helping her father at the Maitland Studio. Mary Abraham-Working at the Dominion Stores. Bud Kearney 1 Sutherland's Store. Bob Upton-Working on the farm. Mac Duff--Preston-Noelting Co. Helen Humber--At home study- ing music. Edwin Schenk-City Engineefs Qffice. Edgar Goettler - Sfutherland's Store. Irene Croxall - Bradshaw's Store. Lily Shaw-Northway's Store. Leonard Baird-Swift Canadian Plant. Ethel Baker--Canadian Depart- ment Stores. Glen Cuourlay-McLagan's. Phyllis Wietersen--Ballantyne's. Esther' Ellam-Canadian De- partment Store. Marjorie Levi--At Home. John Forest-Well's Academy, St. Mary's. John Baxter-Canadian Depart- ment Stores. Martha Mitchell 1 Working in Rankin's. , Dorothy Wallis-ln office of The -47 Somerville Box Co., London. Orval Thompson - Stratford Chair Factory. Mary Forrest-At Home. Dorothy Barthel-Bank of Mon- treal, Granton. Georgie Killer-ln C. N. R. Sta- tion Office. Lionel Beale--At home. Velma Armstrong-Our office girl. Harry Dallner--Bank of Com- merce, Sebringville. lrene Garrod-Bank of Com- merce. lan Hamilton-Kroehler's. John Kerr--Chair Factory. Brock Nichols-Cut west. Roy Aitcheson-At home. Rita Vint-At home. Eileen Hodgkin - Dominion Stores. The following students who at- tended the S. C. V. l. last year are attending the Normal School here: Edith Dawe, Mabel Dadswell, Ed- na Fussee, Alice Gibbs, Helen Oman, lrene Plummer, Ilene Seigner, Mar- garet Smith, Agnes Waddell, Con- stance Munroe, Caro Harrison, Mary Doherty, Margaret Neilson, Violet Chowen, Clarice Davey, M.urray Campbell, John Tyler, Bernard La- verty, Strang Neilson, Arnold Smith. Attending the University of Toronto Margaret Waugh-Classics. John De Mille-Commerce and Finance. Wilfred Gregory-Law. Fred Hotson-Ministry. William Rutherford-Medicine. John Orr-Medicine. Donald Dove-Commerce and Finance. Helen Sanderson--Second Year Classics. Nellie MacBeth-Second Year History and English. Clarence Cooper-Second Year Forestry. Nlel Angus-Second Year Com- merce ancl Finance. CContinued on page 493

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COLLEGIAN, l930 tion is oursg honour is ours at its very mention. Your life and mine, in our many and varied occupations, in every land and clime on the face of the earth, is the best and the only tribute to our teachers and our school. It' is through us that people will see them-we are mirrors reflecting to the World the irnlage of the Stratford Collegiate Inst-tute. The torch has been 'flung to us - it is ours to ever hold high. ALUMNI CContinued from page 479 Lawrence Anderson 1 Second Year Classics. Fred Eidt-Second Year Forestr- y. Merv. Spencer, George Scrim- geour, and Johnston 'Langan--Se- cond Year Mechanical Engineering. Fred Snider-Second Year Arts. Dorothy Mcrliavish and Ethel Clarke-Second Year Occupation- al Therapy. At Western University Mary Strudley-Second Year Secretarial Science. Mary Hills-Second Year History and English. John Wilker-Second Year Ma- thematics. Harry Yeandle-Second Year Commerce and Finance. Donald Trebell and Jim Cole- ridge are at Upper Canada College. Betty Ney is attending Wester- velt School, London. The following are going to busi- ness College: Gladys Eickmeier, Cecilia Dun- can, Sacla Moffatt, Winnifred Ben- nington, Alex. Stevenson and Made- line Lightfoot. Dorothy Farquharson - Attend- ing Toronto Normal, taking the Kin- dergarten Course. Margaret lVlcl-lattie - Attending I-larbord Collegiate, Toronto. Orline Fulton-Shaw's Business School, Toronto. - Attending the Loretto Academy in the City are: Helen Cosens, Mary Spencer, Pauline Byrick. Gwendolyn and Arthur Snell are living in Brantford. Annie Abey-Living in Toronto. Marie Keeswater-Attending the liitchener-Waterloo Collegiate. Nlargaret l-lern-Living in Toron- tO. Desmond P'urcell-Working in St. Thomas. Buck Dempsey-Working in Toronto. Rae Lambert-General Motors. Clifton Leith and Warren Brown -Messengers at the Royal Bank. John MacCallum-Bank of Mon- treal. Bruce Nichols-Working at the Bank of Commerce. Ken Cook-Messenger at the Bank of Toronto. l-larolcl Clarke - Working at Whyte's Butcher S-hop. Leroy Zurbrigg-T. V. B. Bak- ery. Rae Mann-Junior at Gregory and ,Iury's. Jack Macaulay, Stewart Moore and David Merklinger, are working at Ballantyne's. Reynolds Moffatt-Reporter at the Beacon-Herald. Doris Chowen-Working at the Perth Mutual. Agnes Delarnere-Office girl at the Metropolitan Stores. Jack Anthony 1 Agnew-Surpass Shoe Store. Anderson: nl met a fellow the other day, who thought a football coach had four wheels. Fraser Hay: I-la! Ha! Ha! And how many wheels has the darn thing? +49-