Toronto Teachers College - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Audio Visual Club FRONT ROW: Vera Dash, Jeannine De Steur, Beverly Steingold, Wendy Smith. BACK ROW: Bruce Beveridge, Lynn Berry, Lenard Barber, David B-ill. This small but cohesive group, under the direction of Mr. Bradshaw has had the pleasure of working with a variety of materials which will be of great assistance to them in presenting more interesting lessons. The mem- bers were shown how to construct teaching aid boards, make transparencies for the overhead p-roiectors, and operate the various machines that can be used in the classroom. While touring the Teaching Aids Department of the Toronto Board of Education, the members had the op- portunity of seeing the facilities available for the use by teachers of this board. The Audio-Visual Club, although a co-curricular activity, has a great potential for the enlightment of the teacher. A Science Club FRONT ROW: Sandra Clarke ISecretary-treasurerl Arlene Bailly., Susan Aliman KSocial Convenorj, Nancy Wilson, Lorna Prentice. BACK ROW: Mr. Rogers ISfalf2 Alex Mulligan, Ernie Kowalchuk, Don Bowles, Dave George, Mr. G. Penrose IStafH. The Science Club was one of the most active organi- We also iourneyed to The David Dunlop Observatory, zations of Toronto Teachers' College, thanks to the guid- ance of its staff advisors Mr. Penrose and Mr. Rogers. The members participated in rock tumbling, rock study and the manufacture of classroom science equipment. 56 The Royal Ontario Museum, The Meterological Office and many others. This has been a most interesting and informative year for which we are all very grateful.

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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.

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llrt Appreciation Club FRONT ROW: Pat Griffen KV.P.l, Stan Leschinsky fPresidenU, BACK ROW: Donna Libby, Carolyn Soper, Alice Sokolyk, Doro- Vicky Hasilo, Tony Stewart. fhea Denn, Dorothy Miller, Heather Bloney, Marry Gay Brooks, Jim Hunter. It would be visionary to report on the Art Appreciation Club without mentioning Mr. McKay and Miss Horne who gave so much invaluable help in the form of useful ma- terials and suggestions. The purposes of the Club are first, to aquaint the novice with the world of art so that he may teach more effectively and second, to enrich the knowledge of those who have had experience with art. Among this years activities were talks by professionals, sketching periods, field trips to The Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Toronto Art Gallery, group in- volvement in the Christmas Card Contest and authoritative films on art. Music Club The Music Club has been an inovation in the life of The content of our program has been patterned after Toronto Teachers' College. As the only student oper- the school music course. ated club in the school we owe our great success to Mr' Bob Bell' retaries The Music Room , will remain a memory of an Evidence of our club's significant role has been em- important part in our student life. phatically displayed in the results of our music exams. 57 Room 207, or in the terminology of the Form Sec-