Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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ORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 47

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46 THE YEAR BOOK Now Margaret is a maiden fair, With bright blue eyes and light brown hair; Orillia s the name From whence she came Unto this place of work and care. This maiden in temper is very cool In Dewing she hates to use a rule, She shows some audacity And great pertinacity In daring to think that she can teach school. Alma Leggott. One eve mid roaring Brooklyn s ceaseless din, Phis child was born into our world of sin; Three years she grew and learned to talk- Then conference made her father walk And in another field the wayward win. Since then she s travelled wide and far, Wand rmg about like a shipwrecked tar; A wise young thing she ought to be Eight schools attended sure has she, Till finally landed in the old Queen City To learn the little ones woes to pity. Pearl A. Cameron was born in the small town of East Toronto, and attended town school, later the local secondary school to be quot; tutored in the rudiments of many desperate studies. quot; After a brilliant and exciting career her happy and frivolous mirth came to a sad end when in 1912 she was successful in securing her Normal Entrance. Alas her happy youth was over, sad indeed! Now she was to choose a career. quot;Far from the madding crowds ignoble strife her sober wishes never learned to stray, quot; so when a voice within whispered quot;off to Normal you must go my fair lady, quot; off to Normal she went. Katie Reid Smith is one of the few bearing that surname at Tor- more about 5 and 20 miles to the north of Toronto. She was a Parry Sound baby, and West Normal Entrance young lady. She is so retir ing that she wants no more said. Myrtle A. Down comes down from Markham up in York, though for all she knows she has never lived anywhere else but in Toronto., Her memory, likewise, is quite a blank in regard to examples of any thing like severe discipline on herself. Speaking positively her mem ories of school days are full of things pleasant to the eye, the ear and the hand. May she make the same impression on others.

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48 THE YEAR BOOK Edna W. Curry conies from Trenton, Hastings County. Educa tionally she is a part of Northumberland also. It was Trenton High School which prepared her for this school. She thinks this is all she wants said about herself, so we let her off at that. Huntsville claims the honour of giving to Toronto Normal School Mildred Lawson. Although born in this burgh she was educated in Midland, and now resides in Toronto. She is one of those blest with the power of making friends, and as a light set high she illumines her surroundings. The teachers can always rely on her for the right answer, the girls can always rely on her as a friend, and the boys, nay, one boy may rely on her for anything. Helen Leith is a Toronto girl who came here from Jarvis Col legiate. She is winning and gentle, with an air of appeal which finds its way to all hearts and makes us hope that the winds of adversity may not blow too keenly upon her. quot;Her looks do argue her replete with modesty. quot; Jessie Limage was born in Toronto, and attended the Public School of which Alex. Muir was the Principal. She also attended school in Hamilton, and Kingston, but came back to Toronto for her igh School course, which was taken in Jarvis Street Collegiate. In Normal we find her gentle and tractable, but quot;not too bright or good, quot; to be a loveable schoolmate. Her voice has that quality so much to be desired in a woman s sweet and low. quot;To friends a friend, how kind to all. quot; Jessie May Mabbott was born and bred in Toronto. From Cole- man Avenue Public School she passed to Malvern High School, pre serving a good school record in spite of her fondness for a good time. She has carried her habit of success to Normal where her enthusiasm favorably impressed even the senders of the ominous blue slips. Though popular and sociably inclined she still moves quot;in maiden medita tion fancy free. quot; Florence MacDonald was born in the little mountain village of Princeton, Montana, and her ancestors were mountaineers. While still young she came to Ontario to spend her Public School days on a farm in South Bruce. Chatham Collegiate can tell of her deeds and misdeeds in the four years she spent there. Now she is in the Toronto Normal School, and we find her not an uninteresting companion, being gifted with a sense of humour and a desire to laugh and hear others do the same.