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

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John Eppel Shirley Holland D onald Sykes Sally McQueen Ronald Prickett Vivian Thompson Wallace Fletcher Charles Ketchabaw GRADE XIII GRADUATES, 1950 V? grand' I 4' ' 1 I D onald Currie Jean Scrimgeour J acl: Culp Ruth Monk Kenneth Webster Ann Pauls Wi i I' vm' 3 Nick More Jennie Denys George Teall Anita Hall William Eichenberg Margaret Mekker Richard Gibson Amelia Gerharrlt Russell Mannell Marilyn S tilwell dba

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Editor-In-Chief 1907 For some forty or more years, your humble servant has had a yen to write an article for The High School Tatler, but not until this last winter have 1 found a worthy subject to which to devote my untried journalism. 1 have in my possession several issues of the Tatler, including the original edited in October, 1907. In relating a story, either written or oral, if the narrator can say he was there when the event happened, he immediately can command the attention of his audience. Thus I trust this article will be of some in- terest to the readers of your valued paper, as it contains the meeting, after over forty years, of principal Minns, and the writ- er, a student in the old four-roomed school. Memory serves one well in recalling the turmoil of the editorial staff attendant upon the birth of the first Tatler. Mr. Minns had come to Tillsonburg two years previously, and left a year later. Dur- ing his sojourn as head of our school, he had as assistants, Mr. W. L. Kidd, Miss H. Hind- son, now Mrs. VV. L. Lindsay, and Mrs. M. Tate. ln 1909 he accepted the principalship at Newmarket, later winding up a11 illustri- ous teaching career with a successful in- spectorship of Secondary Schools in the Eastern part of Ontario. Retired some thirteen years ago, he now makes his home in Florida, where he is an active member in the Canadian Society of the Shuffle Board Club. lt was in the City of St. Petersburg in the month of March this year, through the kindness of our mutual friends, Mr. and Mrs. NV. L.. Kidd, that the former prin'cipal and the former student sat down for an afternoon chat. After introducing ourselves, a goodly amount of conversation had to be executed to bring the intervening years up to date. Naturally, as we chatted, former Tillsonburg students and events were high- lighted. Seventeen enquiries were made and successfully answered. The profession- al status of those former students enquired about were as follows: three doctors, two high school teachers including a principal, one dentist, one banker, one farmer, one United Church minister, two merchants, one captain of Mounties, on high school in- spector, one matron, and three housewives. 26 Our interview ended with an oral picture of the new area school which is fast becom- mg a reality. , Concluding, 1 would admonish students in after years to seek out their former in- structors. The pleasure of such a meeting will be mutual. To our teaching staff, may your years of retirement be as full of plea- sure and gracious living as this writer finds those of yesterday. To the Editor, as a recipe for longevity, urge classmates to join the editorial staff, or become members of the teaching profession. For an early demise, become a board member. Proof Volume 1, No. 1, 1907, Tattler, spelled orig- inally with two Tis. H. A. Ostrander. J' T 5 , 'C 9 2 impossiblgf I ' X S e 9 - x .1 r i a . p .gig ,dk is ex p.wEEkS C Cadets Again this year the Cadet Corps is work- ing under Captain G. C. Hay and its capable officers, hoping to bring back the shield to decorate the empty spot on the wall. The Band, mat-squad, signallers, and other demonstration groups are also prac- tising faithfully to help Tillsonburg make a good showing. THE TATLER