University of Western Ontario - Occidentalia Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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4 - - 4- .- .K 1, ' f ,. . ,. sf' 1, 1 . i ' f E 2 : i 3 'il' fail? i -MEAE' il X, ,4., ,xi .,., 22 .I cs . LG , 'E uNivi:Rsirv OFQY'-f WESTERN oummo s . 111 .f-Rum 1 ARTS REGINALD GEORGE ARMSTRONG Baseball, Tennis, Intermed- iate Rugby and Basketball. Glee Club, Business Admin- istration training, and Pi Tau Kappa member. These are his hobbies, these his works. In four years he has won friends by his genial nature, in the next fourteen, he shall win recognition by his abil- ities. VVe bid you Adieu. LORNA ALBERTA ASHPLANT One of the Three Musketeers, the reasons why men come to college - appealingly small, loyal, sympathetic, interested, kind, many loyal friends, a devotee of tennis and riding, the quiet supporter of all campus activities. Aim: to be some big man's Privale Sec- relary. MARGARET BAINES Margaret came to us from Toronto Varsity in her Soph- omore year, and registered in the English and French course. She has been out- standing on her year execu- tive and in Upsilon Iota Sigma Sorority. Next year will see her at O.C.E. MARGARET BALDWIN Marg. came to VVestern from Lambeth in her Sophomore Year and registered in Eng- lish and French after one year at Alma College. Her winning personality and cheerful disposition have earned for her many friends at Western. 1 9 RUTH ELLEN BALL Clinton, Ontario. Secretarial Science. You knew her by Ihe glowing hair, - A 'Lqznnzng smile, and modes! air, And no impalienl 'word she'd Say. Unless I'zfe History 25 today. You knew she played al Basketball, Tennis, skaling, and every Fall A vow- I shall allend mos! faithfully All lectures save in CEnglishJ poetry. ERNEST W. BARBOUR Didsl perceive yon serious han'-cutter? -Robespear. Ernie came up from London Central to seek the Golden Mean - by the Harvard method. He has played Inter- mediate and Senior Inter- collegiate Basketball. Junior and Intermediate Rugby and last year was Manager of Senior Rugby Team, member of the S.A.A.- The Blazer Committee. Sigma Kappa Sigma. JAMES LOVVRY BLAIR Graduated from L.S.C.I. and registered in Theology, 1927. Prime interest, chapel service, now going strong. President of United Church Theologs, '30-'3l. Sublimest ambition to get Latin 10.4 Good luck, Jiml STANLEY R. BLAIR So said the silver tongued orator of ancient Rome. And now in 1931, since the old, old saying still holds true, his devotee here is looking at the world through rose-colored glasses because his own true worth colors his estimations of the rest of us. Stan. studied classics at Western and for this, we do commend him. 31

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With our junior year came the breathing spell between the frivolous freshman and sedate senior stages. Freshman days were long past and with the realization came a surge of real dignity. Graduation had not begun to loom on the horizon and jar our consciousness with wonderings as to what the world might hold in store for us. Athletics, debating, dramatics and student organizations in all their varied and wonderful forms began to claim us more and more. Our president in this blissful period was George Munro. With his capable and enthusiastic hand at the helm Arts '31 capped a splendid year with the holding of a smart Graduation Dance. Thus the last lap was begun. Graduation was no longer the Freshman mirage but the imminent Senior reality. As this goes to press it is no longer years but days that remain for the class of '31. Looking back over the four-year vista we realize only too poignantly that life has been good at Western. In all modesty we claim that the Mustangs of '31 have not been found wanting. Yet, we realize Cthough it may hurt our vanity? that our loss will not be irreparable. Those that follow us will fill the place we leave and do it just as well. But we are taking, in our number, some that cannot be replaced, because they are individuals who may be copied but never duplicated. In every held of college life we can bring forward a worthy name. Athletics? Why, there is Jessie VValker, Mary Davidson, Doris Paddon, Mary Connolly, Mary Robertson, Lillian Uren, Ed. Horton, Gord. Ford, Armand Manness, Dalt. Dean, Ernie Barbour, Ralph Heard. Madaline Roddick and John Morris are our writers. Ross Willis and joe Ryan hold the purse strings with peerless hands. Though we do not emphasize dramatics, debating clubs, committees, do not think we have not our Illuminati. Then there are those other people, you know, Mike and Ruth, the Cald- ers, Crackie McCracken, and Gord Purdie that you see around. This final year discovers Cam, Isabel and Gord on the bridge and our good ship of state bounding from rock to rock seems to be water-tight still. This is called constructive leadership. Yet in spite of all, we do not lay claim to incomparability as a year. Others will carry on where we leave off. Too soon we'll dance the last My Buddy, go through the Graduation Exercises in a sort of beautiful haze, then we go down-to what? Long habit will make us turn at the bridge for a parting look at the river, the pines, the lawns and the beloved silhouette high on the hill, the School! The school whose clubs we joined, whose classes we took, whose games we played, whose life we lived. Beyond pledging our loyalty to her we just cannot say much more than that now we feel how thoroughly worth while it all has been. QSM

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U N ivan srftv ett orb - WESTERN CNTAiRlGiiiMir ARTS JOHN ELFORD BRENT An athlete of rugby track 'md hockey fame a student of Business Administration and of great ability and of divers interests and activ- ities. A member of Pi Tau Kappa. A man of many and fine words and many and Fine arguments. DONALD C. BLDGE Course: Honor Ijronmnirv. Activities: Rugby manager of lrack for luo years lnler- gear Baxkelball Huron College Counril. f,,g -L l M , 7 5 - 4 - ,i 3 i, 9 S oi, i .:t G - f . . f, .:'1 X i ' Zi - ' ,' T .. . g , 1, ' fi . i i -9-,fi ,Q a 'uf 5 1 N if' fii iw ff iiiii giiiziigli Q ' i . , ' ' l , g i ' Y ii f i 1 ARTHUR ESPINER BROWN Honor Mathematics. a min- ister's son and yet a lad of laughter. Apparently hapDY' go-lucky but really an earnest and productive worker. Proof: Youngest in Arts '31, Lord Beaverbraok Scholarship, and Honor Mathematics Scholar- ship in Junior Year. GORDON HA RO LD BROWN Gordon was horn in Lansing, Michigan. In 1927, lie regis- tered at Western in Classics. His outstanding musical abil- ity has been an asset as mem- ber of the Orchestra and Leader of the Chapel Choir. Year '31 extends best wishes to a friend, scholar, and gentleman. MARY BUCHNER A follower in Clarence Dar- row's footsteps. A lawyer to be after a sojourn at Osgoode. An active Worker in Univer- sity College. Vice-President of the Lit. '30-'3l. Player's Club, The Gazette, Polycon glub, Hesperian Club, S.C. I. CAIXIPBELL CARLYLE CALDER The last of a line of scholars, something of a writer, a speaker and a Hautist. Pi Tau Kappa, Polyconner, politic- ian, prefect. DOUGLAS SEYMOUR CALDER Chemist extraordinary, ana- lyst unimpeachable. Editor of Ye Filter Paper, four scholarships, a marksman, mark you, he, he! A student Court Judge. Actor unusual, author unsurpassable and an original science cluhber, chauffeur and sailor, wart doctor and literary genius and he who owns the dirtiest lab coat. DOROTHY J. CAMPBELL Having completed her studies at the Ridgetown High and Vocational School, Dorothy registered in General Arts. Alpha House claims her as one of its hrst residents. In Group 2 she has held the ofhces of secretary-treasurer '29-'30, and President '30-'31. 1931 .,,..................-.--. . 1 1 ri :Bl ! , . 3 T :,,. 23 2 ' i 2 I