Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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United Nations Club E FRONT ROW: Pal Lightwood, Diana Lee, Carol James, Mr. Lewis, Miss Hamidi, Lorna Lowey, Mrs. N. Stanley. BACK ROW: William Nevels, Olga Horvafh, Phyllis Wilson, David Baird, Daphne Johnston, Sue Moxon, William 'Swarlz, .loe Ouf- schoorm. Montreal Trip ln February, the University of Montreal United Na- tions Club plays host to 200' students from 40 universi- ties and colleges in Canada and the United States. Toronto Teachers' College was represented by a very active and internationally-minded delegation, Mrs. M. Stanley, Miss Carol James, Mr. J. Outschodin and Mr. David C. Baird. Speakers at the conference included such notables as the Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of External Affairs, and His Excellency, Lord Caradon, presently British Minister of State for foreign affairs. The conference covered the many aspects of the United Nations through panel discussions and the ac- tive participation of our delegation in the General As- 54 sembly and Security Council, More important however, our delegation was given the opportunity to become familiar with the mentalities, interests and hopes of people with varied backgrounds. Toronto Teachers' College may feel proud that their delegation devoted much time and energy to making this conference a success. As we are faced with a world of ever-increasing ten- sions we must take on our responsibility as human be- ings to help make it a more secure world, peaceful and unharried by poverty and disease. Through the efforts of our delegates we have taken the first step ahead toward that goal.

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Student's Council Executive Vice Presidenf, Bernie Maguire, Secretary, Olwen Roberfs, President, Ernie LeBrefon, Treasurer, Bill Collier Staff Advisors TOP: Mr. Mergl, Mr. C. Percival, Mr. Boden. BOTTOM: Mrs. While, Miss Belfry, Mrs. Lee, Miss Maclnfyre.

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U. N. Club Report This year the United Nations Club has been, and at the moment is, continuing to play a vital and effective role at the Toronto Teachers' College. The year, we feel, has been one of utmost satisfaction to all U.N. members inasmuch as we are operating at the university level. We have established, and still are establishing a much needed dialogue between us and other universities and through an ex- change via newsletters and conferences are having other institutions of learning, both in Canada and the U.S.A., feel our presence. This point, we feel, is a much needed and important task to be carried out at the College, namely, the task of winning recognition on the outside and informing others of our receptivity to participate in such matters. ln the past few weeks, our club has been active in a Student United Nations Association on campus. We attended a regional meeting held for a week-end at Hart House. We have won acclaim and gained the respect of other universities throughout Ontario and Quebec. At this writing, we feel we are head and should- ers over competing U.N. Clubs, in fact, we are certain, as was attested by the president of the S.U.N.A.C. organization. This acknowledgement in itself is further proof that we have something of importance to say at the university level. This past week of February 9th to l3th, 1966, we accepted an invitation on behalf of the U.M.U.N. Universite de Montreal United Nations Club to participate in a model assembly along with forty other top universities in Ontario, Quebec and U.S.A. This was a bilingual conference at the University in Montreal and was a milestone for the College. During those five days, our four delegates through their efforts helped make the conference a success not only in human relations, but in taking an active part in both the Security Council and the General Assembly as representatives of Japan. One of our delegates was bilingual and thus we felt this made Toronto Teachers' College gain some recognition on this point. Two of our delegates were Canadian and the remaining two were from Jamaica and Ceylon, thus giving some ethnic colour to it. The reaction to the College being present was very favourable as it was the first time a Teachers' College in Ontario has become vitally involved in U.N. matters at this level. We feel certain that the active presence of Teachers' College in any further conferences of this type will help to achieve recognition from outside circles. No longer can we afford to be on the periphery if we plan on going ahead to operate in the university sphere. The presence, too, of our College at these sessions helped to prepare each delegate much more adequately for his ultimate role as teacher. We are going out into classrooms as of September and how much better prepared we will be when we take with us the aim of the United Nations, nam-ely, preparation for peace and brotherhood through education. We will have a better understanding and clearer concept of the problems presently besetting us today, and with these positive forces behind them, will go out into the classroom and instill them into children through setting up Junior U.N. Clubs in classrooms which will help to form at- titudes in the children that will stand them in good stead all their lives. We feel that the foundation has been laid at the Toronto Teachers' College by these able men and women and it is with our sincerest hope that the rest will be built in future years by the incoming students taking an active part in U.N. conferences and delegations. In our case, especially as future teachers, the need must be felt for this very important dialogue between universities and colleges and Toronto Teachers' College. We hope that this work will be continued in future years and, if so, the College will reap large benefits.