Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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20 THEYEARBOOK . Miss Irene Coyle received her early education on the quot;Queen of 1000 Isles quot; in the broad St. Lawrence. Her High School education was received at Notre Dame Convent, Kingston, and Loretto Abbey, Toronto ; her Normal Entrance and Model training were obtained in Kingston, the historical limestone city, which is now her home. After doing creditable work in the teaching field in the county of Frontenac, she decided to obtain her life certificate at Toronto Normal School. Charlotte Crewson quot;The Girl From Glengarry, quot; was born in the town of Cornwall. She received part of her Public School education in Toronto, but Cornwall is responsible for her academic training. There she attended Model School. Now she revers Alexandria as her home town. After two years teaching she decided to follow the footsteps of her father and mother who walked our Normal corridors in days of old. Mabel Denison was born in Selby in the year . Although receiving all the knowledge which the village pedagogue could impart to her, Mabel s soul was not satisfied. Sweeping the difficulties from her path she came forth from Napanee Collegiate and Model School to enter the teaching profession. After laboring successfully near Selby to Toronto Normal School she came, where she is an honour to our Grade A in Mathematics, Art, Constructive Work, she shines as a star. Jessie H. Embersori spent her early days in the township of Monaghan. After graduating from the elementary school, she entered Peterboro Collegiate for one year. Like the Arab she had no abiding place, so off she flitted to Port Hope, where in two years and a half she came forth from High School to enter the Model. Three years and a half satisfied her appetite for teaching for a time. After having a business position in Toronto for two years, Jessie s fingers ached to be grasping once more, some little unfortunate s coat collar. So to Toronto Normal School she made way, where she is noted for her industry, and zeal in her work. Through the influence of Warkworth Collegiate, Kingston Model, one and a half years teaching, and the Toronto Neural Development Institution, Clara L. Ewing has decided to follow the noble profession for a few years more. Her work here both during lectures and teach ing indicates that she will be a very successful exponent of present-day educational theories and methods. But Betts and Bates absorb only part of her time for beneath that quiet and demure exterior lurks a wealth of wit and good humor and something akin to mischief that must have play.