Tillsonburg District High School - Tatler Yearbook (Tillsonburg, Ontario Canada)

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IN APPRECIATION We would like to express our deepest thanks to everyone who helped in any way in the composition and completion of our Tatler. Anything to lighten the task for us is greatly appreciated by the Tatler staff. :If VIC Pk Sk SIC A special word of thanks goes to the teachers for their help and guidance. Pk :IC PIC Pk PIC We also say merci to our new addition, the Commercial Department, for typing our material. We have discovered that Spec, Comm. is both fast and eflicient. Pk PI' rk PI! ,lf To everyone who took pictures for the Tatler we extend our sincerest apprecia- tion. Thanks to Jerry Mansfield, Ronald Prickett, Russell Mannell, and those precious few who contributed snapshots. FK YI! PIC DIG DIC After much coaxing and scolding we had ample material to choose from. All efforts were certainly appreciated. We regret that all contributions could not be printed but that is impossible. If your bit didn't make it, better luck next time. wk PIC PIC Pk Pk A few weeks ago a certain high school teacher in Australia wished to secure pen pals for his pupils in other parts of the British Empire. He composed a letter, added a list of names and addresses and addressed it thus: To the Headmaster, Secondary Schools, Washington, D.C., Canada The postmaster at Washington ob- viously concluded that the letter was meant for Canada. After some contempla- tion he naturally concluded that Tillson- burg had the most important high school in Canada, so here it came. We consider ourselves flattered. Thank you, Washington! TO OUR ADVERTISERS We wish to thank our advertisers, whose faithful financial support provides a most necessary spoke in the wheel that makes up an all-round successful Tatler. With this edition we hope to justify their support. Advertising Department: Jack Culp, William Eichenberg, Noel Rokeby, Lois Law, Jane McQueen. 20 SCHOLARSHIPS The academic record of the graduating class of 1948 was embellished by the attainments of Donald Eckel. Don carried off a Dominion-Provincial Scholarship for Grade XIII, valued at four hundred dol- lars, and brought further honour to him- self and the school by winning the Third Carter Scholarship. Congratulations, Don, and best wishes for continuing success at McMaster. Another Dominion-Provincial Scholar- ship of one hundred dollars was won by Donald Sykes, of last year's Grade XII class, who is using his scholarship to con- tinue his studies in Grade XIII. Here's hoping for more laurel crowns, Don: last year's sits gracefully on your brow. IN MEMORIAM EVERETT NORMAN BARTLETT Last June the students and staff of Tillsonburg District High School were saddened by the news that a well-known student, Everett Bartlett, had drowned on June 13, while swimming in an unused reservoir. He was swimming with other boys at about four o'clock in the afternoon. One of his companions, seeing him in distress, tried unsuccessfully to save his life at the risk of his own. Surviving Everett besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bartlett, is one sister, Bernice, who lives in London. Seventeen years of age, a member of First Baptist Church, Everett was a mem- ber of Grade 10A in the High School. At the school he was well known for his cheerful disposition, ready smile, and conscientious, industrious application to his work. His untimely and tragic death was felt profoundly by all his friends at Tillsonburg District High School. THE TATI.ER

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THE TATLER EDITORIAL STAFF STANDING: R. Jones, R. Prickett, R. Rokeby, D. Murr, D. Lee, J. Denys, D. Currie. SEATED: M. Warren, M. MacEwnn, L. Turner, M. McGuire, M. L. Grass. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor. .. , ..,.. . ,.,.., ....,.....A......,,,. , . A... .rr. Amelia Gerhardt Assistant Editor... Advisor to Editors .....,. ' Sports Editors .,., or School Activities ....,.i..i Alumni and Humour .,.,... . . . Russell Mannell Miss Grieve ., Jennie Denys, Donald Lee i........,......,..Jean Scrimgeour .iMary Lou Grass ,i...iLeone Turner Poetry. .............,.,...... . Prose and Fiction .r,.,, .,.... . .I . ,Richard Jones Languages ,....i....,.... I ..i..,..... ,.,. R iehard Rokeby Music .....,......,.........i...................... ......i M ary Claire MacEwan Business Manager ,.......,,...,...,.,......i,.,.,.... ...... ,..,....,.,... ..,....., . , N oel Rokeby Advisor to Business Manager ...i.i.,.,........,. ..,..,.i....i......,..,.....,.,......,i M r. Moore Advertising ,,., ,...i J ack Culp, William Eichenberg, Lois Law, Jane McQueen Photography ..,,,,i,...,,.,,..........,....,...,.,.......o.......i...,.r..oi.,....... ....i, R onald Prickett Secretaries ...i. , ,... Madelyn McGuire, Marjorie Warren Publicity ,, .I .,.....,..... Donald Currie, Dalton Murr TATLER

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THE TATLER - IN ALIENO LOCO The original Tatler was one of the first successful one-page pamphlet-newspapers in England. Richard Steele, an Irish ex- playwright-cavalry officer, started it in 1709, devoting sections to criticism of society, poetry, prose and theatre, and some space to news and his own sage sayings. He headed each item with the title of a particular coffee house-the material in each item being on the subject that was usually discusesd at the particu- lar coffee house. He came to concentrate his efforts on notes of wit and criticism and to desert the theatre and literature fields. At first, Steele offered little but des- tructive criticism, satirizing swindlers, rogues and other social delinquents of the day. He later turned to a more constructive criticism and gave advice designed to brighten-up various groups in society. To effect this, he brought back classical characterics and philosophers and wrote in their particular style about their pet subjects. He invented Pacolet, a spirit that took him on visits to gather news about the private business and lives of anyone. Steele portrayed himself as an elderly batchelor with a pipe, a cat and a liking for astrology and, more important, the ability to listen to other people's opinions while keeping his own to himself. After publishing his paper three times a week for two years, he closed up his business for financial reasons and assisted Joseph Addison in the Spectator. Another Tatlcr, a society paper, was being published in England at the begin- ning of the twentieth century. At about the same time the publication of the Ta.tler as you know it today was begun in Tillson- burg. The earliest edition available now is that of the year 1907. Since then the Tatler has weathered financial and men- tal droughts, causing its production to fall off' badly and some years to fail entirely, but each year the attempt has been to make it The Best Yet. Noel Rokeby, XIII. .. FIFTY YEARS AGO Long before our school paper The Tatler was born, a small booklet about nine inches by four inches was put out by the teachers. THE TATLER This booklet of about eight pages con- tained only the bare facts of the school around nineteen hundred. It mentions that the tuition fee was six dollars a year payable to the principal in instalments of two dollars each on the fifteenth of Octo- ber, January and April. The Athletic Association also had a fifth-of-a-mile track for running and cycling, a good baseball diamond, and on the girls' side a first-class tennis court was constructed. Mention was also made in the booklet of scientific apparatus, valued at five hundred and thirty dollars. There was accommodation for sixteen pupils working simultaneously. The Herbarium contained over six hundred species of Wild Plants of Canada and was very valuable for reference and comparison. This was the form that the school paper, called the Annual Announcement, took when Tillsonburg was spelled with one I , Vivian Thompson, XII. ' TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THE TATLER The Trailer of '28 and '29 was a small book with black and white cover. The two outside pages were printed and held the advertisements of the town merchants. The actual body of the book was litho- graphed. The '28-'29 Editorial Staff was as follows: Consulting Editor, Miss Mitchell, Editor, Vera Kennedy, Associate Editor, Donald Tutt, Business Manager, Harry Shearing, Literary Editor, Margaret But- ler. The Editor comments that: Every school must have a medium for making its reputation known and this medium does not lie in the building or equipment, but in the students whose ability is discovered within its walls. Therefore every school is seeking for the genius who will bring fame and honour to its name. The Teaching Staff consisted of the following: Mr. S. Wightman, B.A., Prin- cipal-Mathematics, Miss H. Hindson-- French, Art, Miss B. Mitchell, B.A.,- History and English, Miss D. Janes, B.A. -Junior English, Mathematics, P.T., Miss W. Cuddy, B.A.-Junior Science, Geog- raphy, Mr. R. Sinclair, B.A.-Science, 21