United College Collegiate - Tric Tics Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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George Mitchell Miller has had a very eventful career for a boy so young in years. He was born in Ningkeuh Hu, China, in the fall of ’91 and at a very tender age entered a boarding school at Chefu, where he received his primary education. In 1905 George went to Kilsyth, Scotland, where, at Lenzie Academy, he added to his already large store of knowledge. It was during this period that George acquired the marked accent peculiar to the men of the Highlands. After receiving his collegiate education at Toronto, like all enterprising young men, unable to withstand the call of the west, he came to Manitoba in 1909 and entered college with a determination to ‘ ‘ drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.’ ’ George has realized his dreams, first, by making a name for himself on the athletic field, and also by carrying off the Rubelle Telford scholarship, in his first year. Socially, George has shown a marked development during his college course and has mounted high in the esteem of his classmates and all who know him. As “Rep” of the class in his third year he piloted the notorious Pourteens through a very successful term, while as manager of the college rink, he has demonstrated his ability as a “shrewd” and alert business man. On entering college it was thought by many that George was Theologically bent, and although he has never wavered from his Puritanical principles, he has finally decided to enter on a business career. Whatever calling George may finally choose, his fellow class-mates wish him success. “Where a blue sky and glowing clime extends, He had the passion and the power to roam.” J. O. M. MINNIE NASON. Winnipeg is the birthplace of the heroine of this tale. Here she attended public school and collegiate. It is interesting to note that she was in attendance at six different schools, and she claims that she was not expelled from any, either. In the fall of 1910, Minnie began her Arts course in Wesley, where she was received with open arms. She, like the majority of college girls, chose the moderns course. Although until this year the girls have not taken a very prominent part in athletics, thej r have always been enthusiastic supporters, and Minnie has a hundred per cent, record in attendance at football and hockey matches. In her third year, besides being Sports’ Convener, she was the efficient captain of the Ladies’ Hockey Team. Minnie proved that physical greatness is not essential to courage, when in the spring of 1913 she overcame her natural timidity and went 600 miles west to teach. She made an ideal school ma’am. Always willing to help, Minnie’s bright smile has captured all comers. She has formed many lasting friendships and all predict for her success in her life vocation, be it teaching, domestic science, or healing the sick, for— ‘ ‘ To know her is to love her. ’ ’ Page 86

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GLENNIE McNEILL. In the fall of 1893 Manitoba was blessed with a bumper crop. The same fall saw the advent of Mr. McNeill. Although Glennie was even smaller then than he is now, he has since that time been a prominent member of society. Glennie spent the first few years of his life roaming the pastoral haunts of the Boisse- vain country. Later his mind was turned to things higher and, accordingly, he suffered himself to be urged along the flowery path of knowledge by the various teachers in the town school. On obtaining his second-class certificate, Glennie, like Caesar, sought new worlds to conquer. Thus, at a tender age he found himself in Brandon, puzzling out the intricacies of languages long deceased. Glennie added his mental and physical capacities to the already swollen talents of the ’14 class, in the fall of TO. He has figured on our Senior football and hockey teams, and has always played the game. As captain of our class hockey team he led us to victory last year. Like his fellow classmen, Glennie is now considering his life work, vascillating between the ministry, the legal profession, and a career in the Major League. It is useless to wish him the success which must inevitably be his. ‘ ‘ Lives of great men all remind us. ’ ’ OSCAR MECKLING. “1 was ever a fighter, so—one fight more.” That little town of Plum Coulee, always on the lookout for fame, played one of its trump cards when it sent Oscar Meekling to Manitoba College. As you see by the picture, Oscar is one of our rugged Germans. He came from the Western part of Austria when six years old, and has lived in M ' anitoba ever since. So he is almost an old-timer. He did not come to college expecting or desiring to bedazzle the world. He came in¬ tending to make himself fit for the best work he knew of. However, there are times when he is literally dazzling, for example, when rushing the pigskin into the enemy’s territories, or when, by way of recreation, running up a 6-0 score in a game of singles. If all Germans can fight the way Oscar Meekling plays football and tennis, then let England tremble! Oscar has the distinction of bringing to the Fourth Year their only victory in debating this past term. In exams he has always managed to satisfy the most exacting examiners. Of course he got a supp. in Second Year Latin Grammar, but that was just because of his sociable nature. Oscar is going into the Presbyterian ministry, and we predict that his Satanic Majesty will find a pretty big score piled up against him before our sturdy little German is through with him. H. R. C. Page 85

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ANNA ROSALIND NICHOLS. ‘•’Sweet thoughts of her refresh my labors.” Anna Rosalind Nichols first began to set her busy little mind to work in a little German Ontario town, known as Baden, and continued the process in Markham. But her youthful soul longed for new worlds to conquer and Winnipeg real estate began to soar when she came west. At Central Collegiate, students and teachers alike were won by her dancing eyes and ready wit. Then came a year spent in deciding the weighty question— Music or Arts. Wesley has not regretted that Arts won out and the fall of i910 first re¬ corded Anna’s name upon its pages—and desks. During her four years at college she has endeared herself to all by her fun-loving mis¬ chievous nature, her attractive grace and continual cheerfulness . Anna’s tender heart has never allowed her to see any of her sister students in distress. When the righteous wrath of any of our esteemed professors was about to descend upon our heads, she averted the thunder-bolt. Anna’s winning smiles would melt a heart of stone. As secretary of the college Y. W. in her second year, on the class executive, and else¬ where, she has always brought a lively personal contribution. Indeed she has ever proved herself a worthy student and a jolly member of the Arts ’14. Anna hopes now to resume the postponed studies in music, and we feel that with her high ideals and independent mind, success will be her companion along whatever path she may follow. ‘ ‘ Age cannot wither nor custom stale Her infinite variety.” F. p. NINA J. ORR Manitoba claims Nina J. Orr as another of its daughters, and this spring the quiet streets of Holmfield will bask proudly in the sun, for they guided her footsteps to the school-house, until she had reached the fourth grade. Then until the entrance examinations cast their shadow across her pathway, the historic Mulvey’s four brick walls shut out the glad outdoors and “pressed” the learning in. Next, the “grand old masters” of Central Collegiate shed for three years their influence about her. ’Twas there I first met Nina, and seated two desks behind her I marvelled that one small head could carry all the Mod¬ erns she even then knew. Since Nina entered ’Toba in ’09 ample returns have been given. Committees swooped down upon her. The Y. W. is grateful and the Literary Society, not to be outdone, claimed Nina as a Councillor in 1912 and in the pages of the Journal for 1913 we see the beginnings of the literary work which culminated this year in the position of U. W. A. press reporter. Her activities were not confined to Winnipeg alone, neighboring villages have listened with delight to the Glee Club of which our h eroine was a member and “amazed the gazing rustics rang’d around,” whilst sweet duet music echoed through the halls, touched to life by this United ’14 girl graduate’s nimble fingers. Lord Byron must have shut his eyes and seen the picture of United’s busy halls and followed the course of this one of its maidens as he penned these lines—to Nina:— ‘ ‘ The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below.” G. H. Page 87