Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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54 THEYEARBOOK I met Llewella Mann in quaint Belhaven And after looking on her blushing cheeks She flitted away to Orchard Beach, Where mischievous maid, she grew fleet and strong, And on the sands would leap along like a young raven. She loved her fire, her cottage home, But to the school she oft did roam, vSo when her Entrance questions came, In the hoir.e paper she saw her name. When once engaged in High School trials Oft would she walk for many miles In order to escape some master s look As he would gaze on her homework book. But now her childish fun is o er Her head grows old, she plays no more. Next year perhaps some rural Dan May see in her his ideal Mann. Ruby E. Mathewson comes from Meaford. After completing her elementary education she entered High School. Every morning at two minutes to nine quot;Toots quot; could be seen doing the Marathon up the street, never stopping till she reached her place in the Assembly Hall in time to answer quot;present quot; to the roll-call. She was always ready to take a lively part in all games and pranks among the members of her class. She left her happy ho ne to attend Toronto Normal School in 1912-13. It is surprising how sedate she has become in this institution. Miss Edith L. Moore taught at Macville for a year, and then entered Normal where. her ever cheerful smile has won for her a host of friends. She is a graduate of Georgetown Collegiate, and of the basket-ball team. She combines about as much common sense and common fun as could well be found in a young lady of her size. A bonnie bairn of urban birth and childhood, and rural girlhood is Mabel B. Morrison. All that she does is done in conscientious serious ness, even to the threading of a needle. Mabel has so far been success ful in the big things of life which have strewn her rosebud path, and with her firm resolve and cheerful kindliness nothing could ever fail to produce any other than noble ends. So strong a hold has the country secured on her since her sojourn there that she intends after graduating from Normal to instil with knowledge the minds of the children of glorious rural Ontario. Rose Morrisey s budding clays were passed within the precincts of Simcoe County. That mysterious age, known as youth, was not marred by any wild commotions of city life. The neural pathways worked out their courses admirably under the influence of nature s environment.