University of Toronto - Torontonensis Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE WOMEN'S UNDERGRADUATE EXECUTIVE BACK ROW: C. Carew, Secretaryg C. Weir, First Year Presiclentg R. Margeson, Third Year Presidentg E. Swartz, Publicity Directorg P. Flyn, P. Ra. H. E. Representativeg R. McCubbin, Glee Club Directorsg J. Cleak, Household Science Representativeg Marg Strahl, Treasurer: C. MacQueen, Debatesg R. McDougal, First Year Representative. FRONT ROW: J. Ebbels, Social Director: E. Anderson, Fourth Year Representative: Miss. M. B. F erguson, Dean of Worneng Rose Rabkin, President: Mrs. C. N. Cochrane, Honorary Presidentg E. Kennedy, Athletic Directorg M. Ferguson, Social Service Director. University College Women's Undergraduate Association ELEBRATINC this year a shotgun wedding with the harassed but far from reluctant Lit , the University Col- lege W.U.A. emerged from undeserved obscurity. staked a claim with chintz curtains to the southern half of the his- toric 4iLit offices hack of the common room. .A self-governing body to which every U.C. woman belongs hy right of enrol- ment, the W.U.A. holds executive meet- ings every week of the school year. unites decorously in joint session with the men's organization once a fortnight. Follies, Arts Ball. Red and White Nights. and similar stirring activities enjoy their joint paternal henediction. The year's first job for tl1e W.U.A. comes with the Senior-Freshie House- party, held at the opening of term to orient the shy freshies, acquaint them with the college and its activities. soothe 9 with tummy-tickling special supper their ruflied reaction to initiation proceed- ings. Other activities sponsored hy the W.U.A. during the year include the S.C.M.. the WOlll6H,S Clee Club which appears at the Dean's Christmas Party. and the Undergraduate Magazine. A 1945 inauguration was a VV.U.A.- sponsored all-undergraduate art exhibit and musicale. which received profes- sional. uncondescending treatment in The Varsity's A.M. S D. colunms. nemesis of many a professional. Nominations held at separate meetings preceded the joint Lit and W.U.A. elec- tions at the end of the year: announce- ment of election results and the sponsor- ship of the Graduation Banquet tad- dressed hy Social Work's Dr. Cassidy? hrought the governing hodies' joint activities to a close.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LITERARY AND ATHLETIC SOCIETY BACK ROW: T. M. Stitt, Secretary-Treasurerg R. C. Marjoribanks, Treasurerg G. G. McCaffrey, Third Year Presiderztg D. L. Goldberg, Fourth Year Presidentg E. J. Michasiw, Second Year Presidentg A. J. Foster, First Year Presidentg F. G. Garner, Secretary. FRONT ROW: A. Siegel, Social Directorg R. G. Shepherd, Publicity Directorg R. W. Bell, Presidentg A. T. Van Every B.A., Honorary Presidentg B. Orenstein, Literary Director: V. E. Purcell. Athletic Director. University College Literary and Athletic Society OUND the panelled walls of the historic U.C. Junior Common Room march year after year the gilded names of successive MLit', Executives. Its slate of officers periodically shuffled from decade to decade, the uLit'i this year made another organizational change. per- petuated on the walls for posterity the title of another brand-new office: that of Publicity Director. Press-agent for a bewildering multi- plicity of College events, Publicist Ralph Shepherd had a hectic year. Leading off the parade was the Soph-Frosh Banquet. traditional climax of freshman initiation. which was staged in the Crystal Ballroom of the King Edward Hotel. Here Prin- cipal Smith addressed the incoming frosh, made his memorable division of students into three classes: low and lazy. broad and hazy. high and crazy. 8 Mopping his brow. Shepherd next plunged into Follies Pressagentry, spread campus-wide the germs of Follies Fever. Two old events rechristened were additional publicity headaches: the Joint Meetings. which took on new glamour. sported a more highbrow pro- gram. as WRed and White Nightswg and the spring Arts Ball, revitalized this year with a Latin motif. an auxiliary rhumba orchestra. and a castanet-clattering solo- ist. under the name of G'Fiesta . Spurred by a Shepherd-sponsored P. A. System. hordes of Royal Collegians thronged the stadium to see the Red and Wliite team carry off the Mulock Cup from a heavily-favoured School Team. Exuberant. they snitched the famed School cannon. later declared War when School snitched it back. As the spring leaves budded. Shepherd took a deep breath. turned to his books. It had been a successful year.

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V 1 E . ICTURED above and opposite are the Year Executives of the Lit and W.U.A., ready at the drop of the hat to scream in chorus that, while parent ex- ecutives cop the glory, it is they who do the Work. Careful survey of more glori- fied office-holders discloses guarded agreement, eagerness to give the year executives credit for putting into action the increasingly heavy U.C. programmes. Responsible specifically for all func- tions or problems pertaining to their respective years, the Year Executives have specific additional duties in con- nection withqthe doings of the college as a whole. Year Presidents attend the Lit and W.U.A. executive meetings, accept jobs in the name of their executives for such large projects as the Follies and the Arts Ball. Roughly, Fourth Year executives are responsible for graduation pictures, Torontonensis material, and the spring Graduation Banquet. The men's Third Year executive keeps its multiple fingers in the Literary Director's multi- farious pies, the WOIIICHQS is responsible for the formal initiation of freshies in the fall. Second Year Executives see to the success of the Soph-Frosh banquet, First Year Dance, take out in such construc- YEAR EXECUTIVES UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MENS' YEAR PRESIDENTS STANDING: Gord McCaffrey, Mickey Michasiw, Allan Foster. SITTING: Dave Goldberg. tive projects their inevitable paternal feeling towards all frosh. Assisting the Social Director with the Follies and kin- dred activities is another of their speci- fic headaches. The First Year Executive, elected in the first few weeks of the term, is responsible for keeping all its classmates informed and satisfied, fre- quently serves as a seed-plot for future politicians. Through the year executives the Lit and W.U.A. receive raucous and often valuable criticism which aids in planning each year's program. Their fingers in- timately on the student pulse, the class officers check the main body's inevitable tendency toward oligarchy, help keep U.C. democratic. satisfied. ,..-. YES 'K ' 5 'X ke. :x x 1 Q 1' , 1 -.A 0 QU f . 'z S I y 1 74 .L Q W 1 1 L Y , iff' if rc 'ff 1 3 A 4 I fi X E My 'fe-E - ' E fe E