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

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0 U55 'zacfuafai S you set forth from her halls, your Alma Mater says sadly to you Au Refvoir, and wishes fondly for you, Bon Voyage. Perhaps the sentiments of your Alma Mater are best expressed in these familiar words of parting and of concern for your future. It is, however, traditional that year-books should contain homilies from oldsters to youth. Those sermonic behests, it is believed, are annually received with a show of respect prompted, it may be, by the patience of long-suffering or the politeness of good breeding. Many figures of speech are invoked for these exhortations. During the past fifteen years, I have launched graduates as ships, I have raced them down runways until they were air- borne, I have set them forth on dusty roads as pilgrims, I have fired for them the starting gun in life's race, and I have compared them to saplings. For 1950, my theme is mountain climbing. Before I set your feet on the higher foot-hills, I express, on behalf of my colleagues and for myself, my gratitude to you for all that you have brought to us, not the least of which has been the contagious spirit of youthfulness. We have been privileged to grow younger with you as you have grown older with us. In that happy partnership, the University and all of us have been benefited. 6 y 4

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GARY CIGLEN BARBARA SMITH BEN SMILLIE ADELE PALMER ART CLEVERLEY NANCY LEFROY JIM WILEY ELAINE MALONEY JULIA MCCOOL AL Ross CHES BUGDEN AVONNE AVERY MARY HOWARD Editorial Board Torontonensis 1950 WILLIAM RAYMOND Etlitor-in-Cloief MARGARET COLE MURIEL MELVILLE DIANA COOK JOAN WILKINSON Auociate Editorx JAMES COBBAN AUDREY DICKIE BETTY-JEAN FREEL JOAN JOHNSTON FRANCES LIGHTBOURNE JOAN MORRISON AUDREY PARRETT THOMAS PEZZACK PATRICIA QUINN LORETTA STEWART ELIZABETH MACKAY Aniftantf INA CIGLEN Cartoonift PETER WADE Photo Editor A. MACDONA LD Bufinen Manager COLLEGE AND FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES Unioerfity College Uni very ity College Victoria College Victoria College Trinity College Trinigf College St. MlCl9d6l,J College St. focreplfs College Loretto College S .P.S . S Denriftgf Dental Nursing Occupational Therapy LORNA LETT ROBERT STROM JOHN HAZELL SID FAIBISH GEORGE MANN ELSIE BABIAK MARG COLLIE MARJENE CLARKE A MALCOLM MCLEAN A ELWOOD MORDEN ALAN WIGBY KEN BUTLER DAVE FRIESEN Phyfical Tloerapy P. H. E. Foremgf Ploarinacy Architecture Miific Inftitzitional Management N zirfin g Knox Einf nann el Wycl i je Medicine Social Work

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You have set for yourselves summits of attainment. You will now continue your climb. You will find the footing difficult. That will not discourage you as you realize that you must gain from difficulty experience for the higher reaches. You will be undecided on occasion about the path to follow. Yet you will not be daunted as you pause and seek the counsel of the master guides of all ages and climes whose acquaintance you made in the University. The light will sometimes be poor, yet you will be unafraid as you use the lamp of truth. You will often be alone but you will not be lonesome as you recall the abiding fellowship of those from whom you have learned. You will not suffer for long from the cold as you call on the warm friendship of class-mates. May you keep your balance as gusts of prejudice, bigotry and superstition beat upon you. May you find shelter under the Rock of Ages as avalanches of fear crash down the mountain side. The higher you climb the harder you must strive. You will not turn back. May you never be so successful that you will stop trying. As you attain one peak you will see new ranges of achievement beckoning to you. As I write this message on New Year's Eve at the mid-century mark, I would pray that graduates of the University of Toronto should scale during the next fifty years the mountain tops which, at a Yuletide over a century ago, Tennyson saw. Those peaks are still unoccupied- Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite, Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, b Ring out the narrowing lust of gold, Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. 7