Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 43 Mae E. Hutchison first made her appearance in this vale of tears somewhere near the end of the last century, not far from the town of Dundalk. Twas here in a little country school house that this fair- haired, blue-eyed lassie first placed her feet on the ancient road to learning. Her elementary education was carried on at Bolton Con tinuation School, and then one year at Huinberside Collegiate fitted her for the Toronto Normal School. Here, as elsewhere, her bright and merry disposition has won for her many warm friends. Erma Lenore Irwin was born in Weston. There, amid the ideal surroundings of home and community, she received her primary and intermediate education at the Public and High Schools. In 1911 she graduated from the High School with honours in Matriculation and Normal Entrance. September, 1912, finds her among the happy throng of Normalites. Endowed with an instinctive fondness for music, she has spent much time and study in that art in which her true soul finds expression. Fond of Nature and all out-door sports, she finds her favourite recreation in the tennis court. Aileen Kennedy first gazed with those gentle blue eyes in the town of Sarnia. Her kind, free spirit has won in Sarnia and elsewhere friendships of the truest kind. After home discipline and Public School training in the home town she entered the Collegiate where she won some games in basket-ball. Upon graduating Aileen decided to enter the noble profession of teaching. With this high resolve she joined the Toronto Normal Class of 1913. Ethel Kennedy first inflated her lungs in the village of Paisley, and attended the Public and Continuation Schools there. After her graduation in 1911 she remained a year out of school, but the call to the profession was insistent and she joined the 1912-13 class. We always knew her as a genial companion, a clever student and a warm hearted friend. Her success in her chosen profession is assured. Miss Helen Kearns was born in the Queen City. At St. Joseph s College she continued the quot;laurel gathering, quot; she began at St. Helen s Separate School. During her term at Normal she has managed to maintain her good standing, besides having a good time. She has taken an active interest in the soci al life of the Normal, while her unselfish disposition, sympathetic nature and quiet humour have won many warm friends whose best wishes will go with her through life. From Orangeville, Ont., and Acadia came Our lass, Mildred King, for that is her name. Her cheerful look and winning smile. Won her favor all the while. Her High School days, in Orangeville spent,

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 45 Were bright, while she to learning bent. And then her thirst for knowledge grew And to the Normal School she flew. (?) Here to spend a strenuous year, Midst all its tilts and all its cheer. The village of Bradford was greeted one morn, When fair-haired, blue-eyed, Lulu Kneeshaw was Its Public and High Schools did their best, And now Toronto Normal s attempting the rest. Lillian Lackner comes from Berlin.- Oh, have 3011 heard of Lillian Who comes from our latest city? 1 know enough about her, But tis hard to write a ditty; She s a dark-eyed, merry lassie, true, With a touch of German wit, And when our inner light burns blue, She says : quot; Tis time to quit. quot; Ida Lankin first saw the light of day in Chatham. There she spent her youthful days acquiring knowledge. She received her School education in the Central School, after which she attended Collegiate and passed her Normal Entrance in 1912. Here she was warmly received, and the professors soon found her neurones capable of great development. Her two weeks quarantine in her boarding- house will help to keep fresh in her memory the pleasant days spent in Toronto. Ettie E. Latimer first opened those hazel eyes of hers in the little village of Eugenia, somewhere near the close of the last century, in the little red brick school house she first started on the uphill climb to quot;learning. quot; Always looking higher, she went to Meaford to continue her education. Failure is unknown to Ettie, and ere long she obtained the desired certificate. At the first opportunity she entered the Toronto Normal School where her quiet, patient way has endeared her to many friends. She is as modest as a violet, and her friendship is an invaluable treasure to those who know her best. There was a forbear whose name was Lee, Who lived in fair England, in a place called B- And in course of time Along that line There came Miss Margaret Henrietta Lee.