Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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38 THEYEARBOOK gentle reader, we know which way fate directs, the veil is drawn. The next important scene in this girl s life is laid in a rural school. Our heroine is being chastised for wrongdoing by a school lady, majestic, lithe and strong. There and then our youthful personage decided to pass on the punishment in an official capacity. Dorothea Margaret Galley first saw the light of day in Toronto several years ago. The scene of her youthful activities was Oakwood Collegiate Institute where she matriculated in 1911. In 1912 she entered Normal and has already gained a reputation for frequently escaping lateness at classes. Dorothea is very fond of the artistic, and is quite clever with her pencil and brush. She also shows her keen apprecia tion of that rare thing, a joke i n lectures. This is Marguerite Gardiner Who was born in Dundalk town, But her High School education She got in Owen Sound. For Art, Psychology and Literature She has a wond rous fame, But in Arithmetic and Grammar She s yet to make her name. Will she succeed at the Normal ? That question you need not ask, For if effort counts for anything This lass will surely pass. F. Mable Glover was born in Ravenshoe, but the family soon moved to the little village of Holland Landing, where Mable conned her lessons to the tune of the hickory stick, when she did not run after flowers and gaudy butterflies. After obtaining her High School Entrance she attended the Newmarket High School, and there carried off one of the prizes for English. She obtained her Normal Entrance in 1911 but she did not enter the Normal till the following year. Mary Margaret Gould, originally so named but later known as Mamie, opened her eye? to the light of day some few years ago in the fair city of Toronto. Early in life her steps were directed to the road of knowledge, and by quiet perseverance and an open mind and heart, she soon had passed with flying colours the mile stone of Bolton Avenue Public School and Riverdale High School The next few leagues on the way may have been a bit rough and steep climbing but by arduous toil the Normal hill has been reached and now from that crest we see her down in the vale of the future, guiding with kindly and knowing care the faltering footsteps of timid youth in the way that she herself was guided.

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40 THE YEARBOOK Emma Greenway was born in Maidstone but received her early education in Windsor. It was during the latter period that she adopted the maxim, quot;work when you work and play when you play.! quot; Co ubining cheerfulness with a dignified demeanour she has no small asset with which to begin her pedagogical career. Marjorie Guinan, a native of Mt. Carmel, Out, passed her school days of serious study and quiet joys under the shadow of the quot;Pines, quot; Chatham s famous school. Like the matinal fragrance of the evergreen s odours, her thoughts are keen, pregnant and ever fresh. The children confided to her care will no doubt partake of her love for Nature and of her generous and optimistic disposition. Gertrude Harrison, Humber, Ont. To Ebenezer School she early went, Where none but very pleasant days were spent ; The primary sounds she caught and conned by rote, And had to think wise things before she spoke. In High School work in Brampton she advanced ; Here, too, with other things she learned to dance ; Because she loved to skate and play at ball Success was hers though she d many a fall. Toronto Normal School was her last find ; She learns to teach all grades except the blind ; How fares her A. M. work I cannot tell, But in the afternoons she is a belle. Irenaeus Hayes, Phelpston, Ont. Near Simcoe Lake there is a hallowed spot, Which in our hearts shall never be forgot, Since from this burgh, deserving of all fame, Our treasure, smiling Irenaeus, came. Tween home and school her early days were spent, But, as on Pedagogy she was bent, She same to our Queen City ; by the way, Twas to St. Joseph s College, one September day. And thence unto the Normal School she came Wherein she won her ever growing fame. Marjorie Hedges was born in the city of Buffalo but did not long reside under the Stars and Stripes. Moving to Toronto, she received her early education in the Public Schools there. Later she attended the Harbord Collegiate from which she graduated last summer. Marjorie s kindly disposition combined with her splendid musical talent, which was so thoroughly appreciated by her fellow-students at Normal, will win friends wherever she goes.