University of Toronto Engineering Society - Skule Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Just one small one On Thursday, March 2nd the Engineering Society presented its annual Graduation Ball. This fitting climax to four years’ social life for the graduating class will long be remembered by all who attended. Art Hallman’s big band sound filled the Canadian Room until three A.M. with Cy McLean, Bob Cringam and Rae Todd perform- ing in the smaller adjoining rooms for those who lil:e cheir sounds cool. Recollections after three A.M. are slightly hazy, for this re- porter, but serious consideration was given to dropping into a 9:00 A.M. lab with tails and date after a morning coffee party. The entire evening was an unqualified success and much credit is owing to the entire Grad Ball Committee and the L.C.B.O. who helped make this evening truly memorable. . . Joe whispered 23

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George White receiving the Sedgewick Trophy from Dean Moffat Woodside of U.C. Front Row — V, Riley, R. Jones, D. Jones. Back Row — I. Middleton, H. Aronovitch, D. Carlisle, D. Rutenberg. The major innovation in the Engineering Debates Club this year has been the reinstatement of the Sedgewick Trophy Competition. This fine piece of argentiforous hardware has been sitting on a shelf in the Engineering Stores back-room for fifteen years without anything to do. it appears to have been offered as a prize for public speaking, first in 1922. After that, names of winners are engraved on its shiny surface up to 1945, when its use seems to have been discontinued. Last year, the Debates Club Vice- President decided to do something about this unhappy state of affairs, with the end result that Frank Collins, the then President of the Engineers, awarded it to George White in an informal competition. On Thursday, February 15th, of this year a full-scale competition was held in the Mechanical Building, Room T-102 at 1:00 o ' clock. Dr. Moffat St. Andrew Woodside, Principal of University College, Peter Dembski, President of the Students ' Administrative Council, and Ed Roberts, Editor, The Varsity, were adjudicators. After high-calibre speeches from Phil Brown, Vic Riley, Don Carlisle, Dick Jones and George White on a resolution that Man Should Stay on Earth , Dr. Woodside awarded the Cup to Mr. White. In its bread and butter traditional fashion, the Club has debated on home ground against Medicine, University College, Victoria College, St. Michael ' s College and St. Hilda ' s College, invariably being defeated. The debate against St. Hilda ' s, in which the ladies supported and won a motion that Women Should Lose the Vote , saw some of the best debating of the year. Other motions debated have been There Is No Place for the White Man In Africa , Labour Unions Are a Menace to a Free Enterprise Economy , A Liberal Education Is Obsolete , Charity Begins at Home (SHARE Campaign debate), and Through Medicine, We Are Breeding Ourselves Into Extinction . Largely through the publicity efforts of Dave Ruten- berg for the Club last year, the Club this year has been able to achieve its objective of a large uniform attend- ance at both serious and light debates. On the Campus, the Engineers have continued as leaders in University Debating. Dick Jones, Dave Higgins and Gord Bragg are to be congratulated for their fine efforts at the U.T.D.U. while Jack Abella, George White, and Roger Jones on the Hart House Debates Committee have helped maintain the high standards of formal debating. Now that the Sedgewick Cup has been firmly re-entrenched the Club plans to reintroduce its other trophy, the Sedgeworth (cousin of Sedgewick) Debating Shield, perhaps in a freshman Debating Competition next year. 22

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We love our B.F.C. The mem- bers of this stalwart band set an examjpile of virility and good sportsmanship for every male undergrad in the University. I once happened to follow a B.F.C. man around the campus. How proudly he walked, sideburns covering his ears, cigarette drooping at just the correct angle, and leather jacket, ob- viously a Brooks Brother’s cut, gleaming in the sunlight. At his side was slung his submachine gun, converted for sport hi use. With respect to the shelled-out J.C.R., we offer the condolences that the U.N. forces will soon be intervening in the Gaza strip ; we also hope that Vic is not hav- ing too much trouble with the Hydro over the loss of its tele- phone pole. All these unfortun- ates must accept the fact that the B.F.C.’s motivating purpose is to provide law and order on campus. We still, however, have nightmares of being chased by a posse of Hydro men, all armed with 10,000 volt transformers. Perhaps the best example of Skule supremacy is provided by cur Chariot Race, run annually under the Marquis of Queens- bury rules. Every year this race beccmes better and better or- gan ' zed. Trained squads of guer- rilla fighters fertilize the south campus for spring planting with bodies of unsuspecting freshmen. There will in future be some legislation regarding this race ; the fellow v ho wears the golf shoes every year has got to go. The snow fences are up, the coffee-and-cigarettes routine has begun, and the freshmen are quaking in their boots. But SKULE activities have provided a load of fun, possible only through the efforts of participat- ing Skulemen. Let’s do it again next year, gang! We have a record to maintain. (Ed: Besides, who the hell wants to miss those parties anyway.) 24