United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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22 VOX result of the year’s effort she was able to afford a six-months’ course at Saskatoon Normal Summer School at Tugaske, becoming learned in the lore of Seventh Day Adventists. Then followed a year at the University of Saskatchewan and another year spent in teaching near her home town. She sang a solo in the village church and left. The following summer was passed at Piapot on a diet of canned salmon. The results were not notice¬ ably beneficial. Her first venture in high finance was buying a pony for ten dollars and holding an illegal raffle of the same. She gained fifty-two dollars and a nervous dread of policemen. For her third year Mary came to Wesley and immediately helped put the college on the map by her efforts in dramatics in the fall and in the spring term in “Captain Applejack.” In her final year she was indespensible both to the Dramatic Executive and to the Vox staff. Between lectures in the common-room and library (in spite of the silence sign) she made a host of friends and between midnight seances and cake-eating excursions she found the odd moments to write. Wesley will seem a rather lonely place without Mary and her never-failing store of “funny ones,” but we wish her the best of good things, both at Oxford and even afterwards.” —K.J.L. ENID FRANK Port Arthur’s done well, it sent Enid Clare To join the fine ranks of Wesley so fair. As a freshie soph, at once she enrolled. The first Honor Degree we now see her hold. She had a great worry, and that was her thesis, Another was “dip” and other diseases. A real true worker; and talents galore. With Music and English, the chief of their store, As well as to work she learned to have fun, So off for a game of tennis she’d run; Dancing and Skating, a car ride as well, Camping, canoeing, there’s lots I could tell. A bright laughing girl, a smile that can’t fade, Account the many friends she has made. —I.P., ' 29.

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vox 21 NORAH PEARL CROOK A peculiar preference for green and her name seem to belie the fact that Norah was born in Win¬ nipeg, and that she has since that auspicious hour, continued to live here. Variety, however, entered her life at college where she has divided her time equally between Classes ’26 and ’’28, and between social affairs and studies. Although the “U” has claimed most of Norah’s time, she. could not resist mingling in the friendliness of Wesley for a few lectures at least. Here she will be remembered for her spirit of gay comradeship, her smiling eyes, and her distinctive faculty for being gracefully late—or should we say “disgracefully?” We predict that these qualities will continue to have their unique charm; but as to the details of her future existence, “qui saib?” One of her many friends has penned for her this “epitaph”: Norah, a true and loyal friend, Oft seen at hockey games, Revels in the microscope And long botanical names. Humor lurks in her brown eyes; Can she study, we’ll say so ,— Really she is very wise, O she’ll live happy, that we know. Orpheus alone knows her mate, Ken ye this as Norah’s fate. —QUI SAIT? MARY EMMA JEAN DAVIDSON Time hath not withered her—nor has any other perceptible effect. Born in Neepawa, Man., in childhood cute but irrepressible. The efforts of God-fearing par¬ ents only gave her a supreme contempt for author¬ ity. At sixteen, when submitted to the discipline of a boarding-school, she was still cute, but de¬ plorably bold, naive, unsophisticated and awfully funny. The net result of a year’s effort by various people was a star in Latin. The next year found her a teacher in train¬ ing at the Regina normal. An affair of the heart as spasmatic as it was tragic resulted in the first poetic effort of her adolescent talent. For a year thereafter she taught out of Abernethy and as a

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vox 23 JEAN FORSYTHE “She was the smallest lady alive, Made in a piece of Nature’s madness.” A winsome smile ever ready to brighten life’s way, a cheery word,—reflects the sunny spirit that has power to draw to Jean’s side friends that abide and are loyal. One is aware of her presence anywhere, because of the sense of some pleasant, cheerful influence nearby. One is constantly cher¬ ishing the hope of meeting her, of catching the friendly smile. Life is a little game to Jean. It is a fasci¬ nating place, when one can use big words, and be ‘‘grown up.” An infinite number of things can be crammed into one day; so many lectures attended, and so many books read, French phrases conned—and a goodly share of amusement, too. Jean has been a very active little person. In her College career she has pursued her unpretentious way, making her contribution to general activities, such as Social and Literary and House Committee. The Vice-Presidency of the class in her third year, and also perma¬ nent Vice-President, is the tribute of her classmates to her ability and the expression of their regard for her. We believe there will ever be a spot in this world made brighter because of Jean’s presence there. —D.M., ’28. EILEEN GAMEY From the time of her entrance as a Freshman, Eileen has given freely of her time and energy for class and College activities. As one of the track team, in basketball and curling, she was ever ready to gi ve of her strength. As a proof of her wide interests, we need only add that she was a mem¬ ber of an S.C.M. group, in the Glee Club, on the Vox staff, and interested in debating. We wonder where the refreshment committees would have been without Eileen’s organization and atten¬ tion to those innumerable details which are so necessary to make any function a success. In aca¬ demic work Eileen has always been a conscientious, dependable stu¬ dent, with a record for having work done, and on time. It has been a privilege to know Eileen, to have enjoyed her vivacity, her spar¬ kling wit, and to know that one true friend has been made from Newdale. —B.L.C.