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

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GRADE XIII, 1948-1949 BACK: J. Eppel, G. Teall, R. McCurcly, D. Sykes, R. Mason, D. Ashman, A. Slama, J. Nichols J. Longstaff, K. Webster, E. Steele, W. Fletcher, N. Rokeby. CENTRE: M. Heibert, M. Howey, E. Tait, L. Turner, E. Tillson, M. Milmine, J. Solcak, D. Wickham E. Collings, H. Brown. FRONT: M. Sandham, F. Scott, M. L. Gross, D. Neale, H. Sponics, M. Scanlan, N. More, D. Dean Q ',, I :-:- -IQV ... V ' f Q , .,.. ...gf -V-2 - . EI: ,. Qw 3. . ,. ,: ,. . -Q: -I H , -.:,,:E:,-E., is K Q . .,:Er.' TI' m y E Y V, .. i s lam? R H 1 :.,.. A y W . . D F I I :1.,... A- -V TOP: P. Grocey, D. Eckel, A. Garnham, J. House, G. Hollier, D. M. Dean. CENTRE: M. Howey, H. Wilkinson, J. Strobel, B. Sinden, N. Jones. BOTTOM: M. Naylor, J. Gurklys, A. More, J. Scrimgeour, G. Holmes, J. Weelxes. THE TATLER zzn

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P.T.g Miss R. Field, B.A.-Junior Science, Geography. Editors' Convention, Toronto: Delegates representing schools all over Western Ontario were present, those from our school being Miss Mitchell, Vera Ken- nedy, Harry Shearing, Donald Tutt. Field Day The annual Field Day was held Oct. 8, 1928, and unusually keen interest was displayed by all. This interest was largely aroused by the shield donated by the High School Board to the form winning the highest number of points. A total of 242 points gave Second Form the honour of winning the shield. Con- gratulations ! I Literary Notes Those nominated for office were divided into two parties. Max Van Loon with his party, consisting of Vice-President Doris Somers, Secretary Margaret Butler, and Treasurer Gerald Elder, in their addresses, introduced his policy. This was to pur- chase a moving picture machine for the school which we would find very useful in connection with class work in literature. A second suggestion was to improve the platform in the Assembly so that plays may be produced. The opposing party, composed of Helen Strout, Jean Williams and William Ho- garth, with Howard, Conn as leader, had as its platform, the encouraging of debat- ing and literary work. The election was by ballot and Max Van Loon and his party were elected for the coming year. The book also contains a play called A Tragedy in Flydom, by W. France, A True Story from Second Form Com- position Classg T.H.S. Chit Chats , and a page of humour entitled Laugh 'em off. On the whole, for the size of the book, it represented quite an achievement in trying to represent the whole school and containing a variety of literary and local interest material. 1-. VIENNA HIGH SCHOOL In October, 1944, I walked up the side- walk towards an old, grey, brick school- Vienna High School. That day for the first time I met Miss Margaret E. Bonis, 22 who was destined to be this school's last principal. On that day I was enrolled as a student of the school. Thus began my high school career. Little did I realize the tremendous influence that my stay at this chool would have, nor did I realize that this school had a colourful history. This was the second Secondary School established in Upper Canada. In 1842 Dr. T. Bolton Reade, then rector of St. Luke's Church, saw the need for a Grammar School, as High Schools were then called. A private house served as the first school, with Mr. Newcombe as its first master. Thirty young men attended this school. A few women also attended but they were not classed as scholars. Latin, Greek, French and English were the subjects in which the scholars were instructed. In 1850, when the Grammar School was built, a dream was fulfilled. The youth of the district could now receive instruction in the higher learning. In the same year young women were recognized and ad- mitted as students. A succession of teachers taught at this school. Among them were Mr. Bigg, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Bonis ffather of the last principall, Mr. Baker, who later became a professor in the University of Toronto, Miss D. Vin- ing, Mr. C. E. Powell, Miss D. MacDonald, and Miss Bigg. Miss D. Steele, Miss M. McKenzie, and Miss M. Bonis, its principal, were among the last school. The year 1948 was this school as it was situated in Vienna or teachers in this the last year of no longer to be to be called the Vienna High School but was to be annexed to a much larger school-Tillsonburg Dis- trict High School. The year 1948, however, was not the last year of the school because it would live on in T.D.H.S. Even as Vienna is proud to join so fine a school as this with her interesting history, so I am sure T.D.H.S. is glad to have Vienna Join in. From the very beginning of the year the other new students and I have not been regarded as strangers by the students of T.D.H.S., but as fellow students. Mr. Kirkwood's attitude and that of the staff has done a great deal to make us feel at home and as part of this great school. No one can realize better than the for- mer students of V.H.S., the fine facilities fCmztinued on Page 732 T H E T A T l E R

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS by Donald M. Dean Cmrunem-cmcvvf, December 3, 1948 My purpose here tonight is to say good- bye to T.H.S. on behalf of my classmates, the graduating class of 1948. We who received our diplomas here tonight look back-and we shall look back more and more as we go farther and farther from T.H.S.--on achievenments of the past five years, academic achieve- ments. I remember when I was the only one in the class with the correct answer, that was in first form. And we remember extra-curricular achievements, the rugby and basketball games, 'field day and the cadet inspection, assemblies and, of course, commencement. In a comparatively short time you too will be looking back when you think of T.H.S. But while we shall all remember the old school, many of you will remember a new school. Many will remember the commercial class and the joys of translat- ing shorthand. And there will be other memories that we who leave you now shall not be able to remember. We remember T.H.S. because it was there that we received the most valuable part of our education. Professor John Stuart Blackie tells us that only One thing is needful. It is not money or power or even cleverness, but character alone, a thoroughly culti- vated will, is the one thing that is need- ful. And it is in high school that most of our character develops. This is the most valuable part of our education. If we haven't developed much character be- fore we leave high school, the chances are we never shall develop much. Some of us ask, Is it really necessary to go through high school? Can't we get along without our Senior Graduation diploma? And the answer is, of course you can. You can get along without going all the way through high school. You can even get an education outside of high school by working in a store or on a farm. However, the high school graduate has this advantage: he can always get an unskilled job if he wants one. But the person who leaves before graduation can- not get a graduate's job. The unsatisfied person will be the one who finds that there 24 is one job he would rather do than any other, and cannot do that because he lacks the education. This reminds me of a story. Once there were two little boys, Bobbie and Joe, who lived with their grandmother in a little stone cottage near the coast. Every day they would ask their grandmother if they could go out and play, and every day their grandmother would say, You may play around the house and you may play in the garden, but don't go down to the sea- shore, because the tide might come in. So every day they would play around the house and they would play in the garden, but they never went down to the seashore because the tide might come in. Then one day Bobbie said to Joe, Let's go down to the seashore. And Joe replied, Oh, no, we mustn't do that, because the tide might come in. But if we watch really closely, we can get out of the way before the tide reaches us, said the other. So the two little boys went down to the seashore and started to play on a little mound way out on the beach. And while they were playing, the tide crept in .and surrounded the little mound on which they wer playing. When they were ready to come home they found that their way was blocked, and all the time the water was creeping closer and closer, and by the time the water was trickling around their toes, they had become very frightened. Then they looked up, and there, way up on the bank far above them, there was their grandmother, and they both cried out, Grannie! And Grannie looked down, and there were her two little grandsons way out on the seashore with the water rising higher and higher all the time. And they cried. Grannie, help us. And she replied Well I can't do very much, boys. I can't swim very well and I haven't any rope with me. Then she said, But what are you doing out there? Didn't I tell you not to go down to the seashore ? Yes, Grannie. Well didn't you know that the tide would come in? Yes, Grannie. Well what was the matter then, didn't you know what the tide would be like ? THE TATLER