Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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30 THEYEARBOOK There s where old Paisley stands. There many happy days she squandered In the old High School Until to T. N. S. she wandered Far from the old folks at home. Catherine Agnes Beamish. quot;Now where are you going with your armful of books? quot; The question was asked of Catherine. quot;Why, I ve started to Normal, can t you tell by my looks And I wish to be daily on time. In the Township of Yaughan I opened my eyes, Lot Nine and Concession Nine, too, At S.S. 13 I became very wise And passed Entrance with only a few. In the year Nineteen six full equipped for High School I started to one, Humberside, Having finished my course, as is often the rule, The teaching profession I tried. Did I like it? Why yes who could help doing so. The Children, I love them so dear ; So to Normal at last I decided to go, And now that is why I am here. quot; It was in the picturesque village of Paisley that Zeta Ella Black first saw the light. There also she first learned that two and two make four and at the Paisley Continuation School she obtained her Entrance to Normal. The year following w r as profitably spent in the study of Domestic Science in her mother s kitchen as a preliminary to the study of School Management, while incidentally she was becoming old enough to enter Normal. I wonder what were her father s ambitions for her when he gave her the name of the fifth letter of the Greek Alphabet? Born in ancient Newark, old capital of Upper Canada, somewhere between 1890 and 1900, May Burns early imbibed the idea that she was quot;natus ad rcgendum. quot; Captained the Entrance Regiment which stormed Niagara High School in 1905 ; quot;honored quot; the Normal Entrance in 1909 at sweet sixteen. Waited patiently till years of discretion and maturity permitted attendance at the Toronto Normal School. In her academic career at Niagara High School excelled in Latin, football, quot;pawing the ivories, quot; was also first at English Composition, heckling the teacher and whistling. Etta L. Cale is more alive than one might expect from the fact that she was born next to a cemetery. As a result of her inherent good nature -which may or may not have worn off since her infancy and

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 29 Into a little school over the way Cheerily, cheerily singing- a lay. Obtained education so very quick. Passed entrance to Normal and also Matric. Always active, blithesome and cheery, Still climbing upward, never too weary. Into the Normal School amidst the throng Hailing from Flesherton Laura Armstrong. Annie D. Atkinson was born in Pictou, N.S. She lived there for only two ironths when she was taken to Berlin, Ontario, to live. Here six years later she started to kindergarten. A year after she left Berlin and came to Toronto to live. Here she attended public school for six years. After that she left for Chesley, Ontario, where she finished her public school course, and also attended High School. Last year she passed her Entrance to Normal School, and in the fall came to Toronto to attend Normal. Florence Rosalind Avery was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake and moved to Muskoka about five years later where she completed her Public School work and one year of High School. Then she moved to Toronto and became a student of Oakwood and Parkdale Collegiates, graduating from the latter. Beulah Baldwin.- - I reached the land of toil and strife, Among Erin s hills I started life, To Orangeville School I did incline And worked this little brain of mine. There knowledge and sport did not agree And were the means of plucking me; To Fergus then I wended my way And won the honours of the clay. The zephyrs then did waft me free, To the T. N. S. they carried me, And here among the busy throng I study and Sew till early dawn. Marion Dorothy Barlow was born within sight of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, and remained there about a year after which she was taken to Valleyfield, Quebec. Her next move three years later was to Toronto where she has been ever since. She is a product of Lans- downe School and Harbord Collegiate. Way up upon the Saugeen River Ethel Barnett lived, There s where her heart is turning ever,

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