Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 55 Within the walls of Colgan s Public School was supplied the necessary stimuli, and in a few fleeting years Rose was ready for High School work. Coming to Toronto the blossoming days were passed at St. Joseph s College where a Junior Leaving Certificate was easily pro cured. Rose s characteristic is a pleasant smile which she never for gets to wear. Nellie G. Mutton comes from the good old farm near the village of Colborne. Her Public School education was received in the old stone schoolhouse which is situated on one corner of her father s farm. From here she graduated into Colborne High School, and as the reward of hard study and close attention to work gained her Normal Entrance Certificate with honors in the summer of 1912. In the fall of the same year she entered Toronto Normal School where she takes life very ser iously. We extend to her our best wishes for success. Sarah M. Milliken was born in Port Colborne. Her childhood passed in quiet and obscurity so helpful to the full development of character. Association with eleven brothers and sisters fortified her for life s trials and vexations. Environment played an important part in her life. Living near the harbour she found it easy sailing through the Entrance into Welland High School where she became famous in water-colour sketching and storiettes. Of an optimistic and laughter- loving nature she was noted as a dispeller of gloom. On reaching Normal she devoted herself exclusively to study. Her favourite subject is sewing. If we had all had as many brothers as she we might have liked it better than we do for quot;practice makes perfect quot; and quot;power creates interest. quot; Hazel Neelands. Morning, evening, noon and night, We turned to you when in a plight ; Eyes of brown with golden light Never failed us, to delight. Though Minnesota claims your birth. In Canada you ve proved your worth. From Craigvale nearly every morn To Bradford High School you were borne. Then when you were a quot;grad quot; from there Our Normal badge you thought to vear. At midnight lunches you figured, too, I guess it was you who carried them through. The lessons you taught were always fine ; And may your light on many shine !

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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.

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56 THEYEARBOOK In the beautiful village of Tullamore, within the memory of man, Margaret Neeley entered her first protest. Here she received her early education. Her next step forward in the world was her entrance into Brampton High School, from which place she graduated with honours. Such a strong hold on her had her pretty home village that she is next heard of teaching in her home school. She, however, decided to aban don her rustic life for one of greater possibilit ies. Destiny led her to Toronto, and the Normal School marked her for its own. Her quiet grace and sterling worth promise for her a place worth while in life. Josephine Lavina Nelson was born in the town of Aurora on the agth of February. Here she played and worked at home and at the schools both Public and High. Her ready helpfulness and warm Irish heart will always keep for her close friends. Wholesome and sensible, she is one who energetically works while she works, and most enthusi astically plays while she plays. Beneath country skies, Matilda Oestreicher spent her childhood days, where near to Nature, she learned its ways. She left Crediton to continue the strenuous quest for knowledge at the Toronto Normal School. We feel sure that success will crown her efforts as she goes forth to lead the young hopefuls of Ontario along the flowery path of knowledge. Annie C. Osborne was born in Dobbington, Ont. She receivec l her primary education in Owen Sound, and the remainder of her Public and Collegiate education in Gait, where she excelled in Manual Train ing. She made a table which surpassed anything made by any of the other pupils. She came to the Normal School in the autumn of 1912, and has here formed many fond friendships. On a cold January day in 189 Pearl E. Paterson first made her appearance into this busy world. She received her early education in a little country school from which she graduated in her early teens. She then entered her home High School at Meaford where she was a general favorite with pupil and teacher alike. While there she became auite famous not as a Latin student, but as a basket-ball enthusiast. With her characteristic desire to always have the best she is now attending the Toronto Normal. Miss Evelyn Peck first saw the light in Salford, and to the Public School there she hastened off to learn her A B C s. Here she found that learning has no royal road, but gathered a few facts about frac tions and predicative adjectives, and went to Tngersoll Collegiate to collect bugs, have a few quiet jokes and fill an important place on the basket ball team. Of course she worked occasionally and passed her Normal Entrance in 1912. She then went to Toronto Normal.