Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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66 THEYEARBOOK One bright morning in October, not many years ago, one of the angel children failed to answer to the roll call, she had flown to earth in the person of Ethel J. Wright, and picked out Grey, one of the beautiful counties of Ontario, for her home. For several years she picked blackberries and played along the river near the red school house at Wareham. Even at the immature age of eleven years, Ethel s good taste directed her towards Toronto, and since then it is to Toronto that she has turned for all the important events of her career. Jessie Ketchum and Wellesley Public Schools in turn sheltered her, and in the fall of 1910 she entered High School. She said good-bye to the jolly days at Jarvis, and with her usual good taste entered Toronto Normal. One dreary September morning With many a fear and doubt, To attend Toronto Normal Mavourneen started out. To organize a Y.W.C.A. A meeting was called one night ; The President all said must be Our falcon-eyed Miss Wright. In earnestness she fills her chair, And never a day goes by, But someone turns to another and says : quot;For Kathleen s sake I ll try. quot; In the village of Thornton so clean and bright Was born our wee lass, Miss Mabelle Wright. Through childhood years she soared as on clouds, Then Fortune placed her in striving young Stroud. Each morning at Craigvale she boarded the train For the Bradford High School where she won some fame. Her trill of a laugh abroad did she fling Until even the Masters smiled at its ring. Now Miss Mabelle, when a school you take Keep its walls and its gardens right up-to-date For you must impart the knowledge impressed During your year s sojourn at the T. N. S. Fern Young was born in Brock, Ont. Before she was twelve months old the family moved and settled near Uxbridge, where she received her Public and High School training. At a very early age she developed a decided love for cats, and through all the years of increasing in knowledge and stature, this cat love has never abated. She is very fond of music, her favorite airs being Three little Kittens in a basket of Sawdust, quot; and quot;God Save the King. quot; These she ren-

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TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL, 1913 67 ders with much feeling. For literature she has a real mania and has several times attempted short stories of her own. Since the subject of these, however, has almost invariably been quot;Tabby s quot;Adventure quot; or quot;Fluffy s Tricks, quot; they have never been given to the reading public. Robert Coulson. With eyes free from the slightest mark of care, He travelled up and down the States, until He reached the fairest land of all the earth. Toronto, fairest city of that land, He chose for his abode, and settled down. His Normal Entrance, Parkdale Institute Bestowed upon him, a guerdon of reward For skill and prowess in athletic fields. The sportsman s spirit ne er was fagged in him; And now he holds a Normal Captaincy. Popular is he among his fellows ; Well can he joust in tournament, and tile In quigs and quibbles, puns, jokes, anything. The passer-by may say quot;He does not study. quot; Don t you believe it, for next year you ll find That in scholastic methods he was ne er A whit behind. From Mono Road .he hails, Right through Toronto Normal School he sails. High School knowledge from Georgetown obtained, Model experience from Milton gained. In Mathematics he is the best ; In little tilts he stands the test. An Editor of the quot;Normal Light, quot; For which he worked with all his might. He s not the Harrigan of fame ; But he s a Haragan just the same, With W. J. before his name. Charles Tackaberry received his initiation in a little red school- house in the county of Leeds. After attending High School and graduating from the Model School in 1907 he proceeded to instruct the young in the way they ought to go. Here prodigal-like, it came to him that he had been but a boy and decided to put away childish things. So lie came to Toronto Normal School where all things he hopes are possible, even to the making of himself into a source of inspiration to juvenile humanity.