Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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58 THEYEARBOOK Cheerful and ever ready for any frolic, Miss Margaret Phillips has by her application and splendid talents already achieved gratifying results. She was born in Merritton within reach of the iridescent spray of the Great Falls, where she has imbibed a sympathetic appre ciation of Nature. Her refined and winning manner mark her out as a graduate of St. Joseph s College. Already at the Normal we read in her brow firm resolve, high aims, and love of duty which spell quot;Suc cess. quot; Where did you come from, Porter dear? Out of Appleby into here. Where did you spend your childhood hours? Mid orchards of apples and bloom of flowers. Where did you grow your merry ways? At Oakville in my High School days. How did you like the Toronto Normal School, With all its exams and tilts and tests? How can you make those laughing eyes While there before you a blue slip lies? How can you teach with pluck and vim? While others are sinking, on you swim. Stick to it, Bertha, you re doing fine, In the June Exams may you lead the line ! We know her by her merry air, Her dancing eyes, her bright brown hair, Tis Ina Porter, a fair young maid, Who from the Orangeville High School strayed. One day when work at school was lax She neath the master s chair did wax ; The penalty well that is gone, In memory only does belong. And when September s days were o er To further knowledge did quot; she soar, With joyful heart and laughter i ay ! To Toronto Normal made her way. Near the little village of Trafalgar Miss Emma Post first viewed the light of day, and spent the fleeting hours of early childhood at the Public School hard by where she first sipped from the cup of learning. In a few years the doors of a greater Institution stood open to receive her the Oakville High School. Here she pursued the even tenor of her way, and in three short years she held the key to that final fount of knowledge the Normal School. Final, once she thought it, but alas ! now she learns there is no such fount for mortals.