Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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18 THE YEAR BOOK Miss Auta Powell, Instructor in Art. Miss N. A. Ewing, Instructor in Household Science.

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 17 BIOGRAPHICAL In the midst of picturesque scenery of Huron County Jean Arm strong first drew the breath of life. She received her initiation into the mysteries of learning at Brussel s Public School, and later supplemented this course by more advanced work at the local High School from which she obtained her Normal Entrance. After a training course in Clinton Model she taught near the town of Listowel. To-day she is in the Queen City increasing her store of pedagogical knowledge. Harrowsmith, Ontario, was the scene of Ethel Baker s nativity. The Sydenham High School and Kingston Model School are responsible for her academic and professional training. After three and a half years experience as a teacher she decided to increase her pedagogical training and knowledge at Toronto Normal School. Violet I. Baldock, a bright mathematician, hails from the hamlet of Grahamsville, Peel County. Before entering the Toronto Normal School Violet spent a successful teaching career at Mt. Lebanon, Ontario, where she won the affection of many a juvenile heart, and we believe she is continuing her good work at Normal. She is a most unselfish girl. Yith her cherry voice and her winsome smile she soon wins friends for miles and miles. The sunny maid from Pickering, Who wears that pleasant smile, Has passed thro Oshawa Public School A-studying all the while. At Jarvis Street Collegiate She again did win some fame And now has entered the Toronto Normal School, Eva Blandin is her name. Ethel A. Broughton is a fair-haired, blue-eyed maiden whose pina fore and High School days were spent at Sarnia. Not satisfied with this education she emigrated to Toronto to attend the Normal School. Ethel always had two mottoes before her: quot;Early to bed and late to rise makes a Normalite healthy, wealthy, and wise, quot; and quot;Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. quot; Ye wish her every success in leading the young Canadians along the flowery path of knowledge. Before being mixed with difficulties of the Toronto Normal School, Miss May Cameron taught successfully all classes from the primary to fifth book work, first in Yellington County and finally at Highland

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 19 Creek Public School. We are sure that the pupils in her charge will not lack concentrating powers. We know that she will be a most influential teacher, both in Ontario and in a foreign field, to which we learn she is going as a missionary. May she meet with happiness. The Campbells are coming Oh yes, they re the best. And this is Jessie Edith From good old Milton West. In the same old Milton School And Continuation Class She received her education Did this bonnie Scottish lass. Can you turn her from her purpose Which is always good and true? Well, I think not, so you may Just let her have her way. But sure there s none dislike her Though I ve heard her mother say: quot;Do it as you like, For you ll do it anyway. quot; May Casserly comes from Tottenham. She assimilated her lessons with an ease and thoroughness which always astonished her compan ions. At St. Joseph s College, Toronto, she acquired numerous friends, extensive lore, the art of being at the same time gentle and firm, a gold medal for science, the art of always succeeding and sundry other accomplishments. She attended Lindsay Model and then taught the little folks for a year. Realizing the necessity of being fully manned and armed for such a fray, she entered the Toronto Normal School. Marjorie Chambers earliest memories of childhood centre about Haliburton County. At the Carnarvon School she received her Public School and High School education. At Jarvis Street Collegiate she completed her academic training. After four and a half years experi ence as a pedagogue in the rural schools of her native county she joined the Grade A Class at the Toronto Normal School. Miss Bessie Clark, the subject of this sketch, soon reached the head of the Senior IV class in the School Section 16, Peel, near Drayton, Out., and came on down to Fergus High School. It was more than the oatmeal of this Scotch town that enabled her, in record time, to pass the Junior Teachers examination, and it was not her mischievous eyes alone that gave her a ready passport into the affections of teachers and students. Next scene Elora Model School in 1905. The curtain falls and she goes forth with her parchment to teach in rural schools near her home. After four years or more of teaching and the serious con sideration of another calling, she turned her face to the Mecca of her dreams the Toronto Normal School.