Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 51 I see her upon nearer view A worker and a teacher true, Her school manner bright and free, With lessons full of energy, A smiling- girl in neat array From morning till the end of day. Miss Clementine McGwan spent the pleasant days of her child hood and adolescence in the beautiful town of Cobourg. She was influenced by her congenial environment and unconsciously but irre- pressibly became imbued with the beauty, the cheer and the graces of her surroundings. Under the watchful eyes of the teachers in Cobourg s Schools she accumulated sufficient erudition to pass Junior Leaving Examination with honours in 1911. Becoming inoculated with the ambitious desire to iirpart knowledge to others, she entered our Nor.ral, where her light beams brighter day by day. Born at Cobourg, where the morning sun sweeps across Lake Jntario in a splash of gold, Miss Nora McGwan must have absorbed some of its beams, for she holds that cheerfulness is the best lubricator of the mental machine. The sunny radiance of her smile brightens up darkest nooks of dark books, dispels the mists of foggy theories, and has even helped to bloom such a flower as her sister Clementine. At St. Joseph s School of her native town, she somehow contracted the habit of always succeeding. This idiosyncrasy, according to pitying observ ers, threatens finally to place her in the foremost ranks of teachers. Annabel McLay born in Bruce County, near Lake Huron stole from the sparkling waters and merry breezes a spirit that has won for her the name quot;Happy Annie. quot; She graduated from Ripley Collegiate, -taught for a short term. She is a croquet and basket-ball enthusiast, and a great lover of nature and the free, invigorating out-door life. In her race are bound together Plants of Shamrock and of Heather True, you Irish may complain That her name is Flo MacLean. l amp;gt;ut she had an Irish Mother And she went to Dublin School So she s Irish by the rule. Here we find her calm and pleasant With a twinkle in her eye And a sense of humour proving, Irish traits are slow to die.

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50 THEYEARBOOK Ella I. Moore and Jeaiiette McLeod were congenial spirits at Normal. An unco bonnie lassie And shure a colleen true Met for the first time at Toronto Normal School As many maidens do. Here the}- strove with lectures And tilts of every kind And learned how various subjects Improve the youthful mind. Jean s home town is Collingwood In the shade of the Mountains quot;Blue quot; While Rene hails from Alliston That the river Boyne runs through. Amiie Lethbridge first displayed her smiling countenance near Glencoe. Her youthful days were spent at Glencoe High School where she obtained her Normal School Entrance Certificate. After giving her neurones a year s rest she decided to wend her way to the Toronto Normal School in order that she might learn the ups and downs of a teacher s life. That year at home gave her a preference for the Household Science work. May it long abide. Gladys McBride is a young lady of very marked characteristics. Temperamentally she bubbles over with energy, in fact, a state of rest is almost unknown to her. Eager both to obtain and impart informa tion, she was in High School days the despair of her teachers. Wheti once she mastered a subject she knew no rest until she had imparted her knowledge to all her associates. She is a young woman who will not be overlooked; and as she develops with the passing years she will more and more come to speak as quot;one having authority, quot; and, not as mere students. King claims Margaret McCallum as one of her daughters. Marg aret received her early education in her home village. Her neurones developed quickly, and she graduated from High School at Aurora in 1909, and later came to the Toronto Normal School to continue her studies. Her cheerfulness and willingness to play the good Samaritan attracted everybody. That she may meet with success in all her efforts is the true wish of all her classmates. Inez McCulloch comes from Lindsay. She was a phantom of delight When first she came across our sight, And still we look upon her so, As on through Normal she doth go.

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52 THEYEARBOOK Elva McPhaden, the subject of these few lines, was born near Sunderland, Ontario County. The remembrance of her days at Lindsay Collegiate, where she received her High School education, is a bright spot in her memory ; but still dearer to her in days to come will be the recollections of her year at Toronto Normal. Although of a naturally retiring disposition, those who knew her well, found in her along with many other estimable qualities a never exhausting fund of wit and humor. Maud McPhail was born, and received her Public School education in Milton. She then went to Model at Guelph, all principles and pre cepts there learned were put into practice at Tansley. Finding teach ing very attractive, she decided to take a more extensive course at Toronto Normal School. Thus we find her here, difficulties disappear ing before her smile, as the mists disappear before the sun. Isabell McVean was born near Kansas city, but at an early age she moved to Canada where she attended a rural school at Colerain. From here she went to Weston where she finished her elementary education, and in due time graduated from Weston High School with honours in Matriculation and Junior Leaving. She entered Toronto Normal in September, 1912, with a cheerful heart and great determination, both of which are sure to survive the strenuous but enjoyable year. Lois I. Macklin spent her early years beneath the parental roof, in her native township, Scarboro. In the neighboring Public School she speedily developed, and in due time was qualified to enter Mark ham s High School and make the daily trip via G. T. R. to that centre of learning. Ever careful to avoid the danger of letting pleasure inter fere with her education, she maintained her youthful integrity through four short years at the end of which Normal Entrance was the reward of her industry. The prize which for so long had seemed a far away possibility was now her very own. Since that time life has been a period of unalloyed happiness as avenues of future possibilities opened about her. Grace Fraser Malkin is a Canadian Highland lassie, having been born in Edgington, Parry Sound District. She received her Pubh School education in Kearney, and her secondary in the lively Western cities of Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur, where she absorbed noi only learning but some of the breeziness of her environment. Looking around for other worlds to conquer, she spied out Toronto the Good and turned her feet thither, entering the Normal School in the autumn of 1912. Next year we hope to see her give the young idea artillery practice.