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

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'Z' ' HCM! A. Mcl.M!l'Y Honourary President of Class Arts' '47 gi

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LEOLA E. NEAL Deon of Women - Xl

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CLASS OF '47 IT's FALL FAIR TIME again at Birr, and above the shouts of the happy children resounds the intonations of Avron Fink. This budding merchant is selling popcorn to all the young boys and girls under 12. The little chap with the lollypop is young Merton Cichocki, joe's eldest. What a day, what a day! It looks as if most of the class of '47 is at thisiFair, the biggest Birr has ever had. The giant midway is our first attraction and who do we see but Norm Sansburn in charge of amusements, selling ribbons. The ferris wheel is stopped now, with two people swinging in the top seat. Looks like one is Russ Romeo Nightingale. Bong! Some mighty Birrite has done it again! Gazing upward, we find that it is not the mighty muscles of Birr's first citizen, Mayor Bill Chesty Haight which have rung the dinger, but a golden slipper which had zoomed through the air. It appears that Ferne VVilson still is too enthusiastic in the kick-line. Ferne is with the Coulter-Brooker-Wilson trio, on tour of the larger VVestern Ontario fall fairs. And there's Manager Hal VVillis, former Professor of 18th Century French Folk-Dancing at Strathroy Academy. He disappears into the tent to open another case of size sixes. Ferne's kicking certainly uses up a lot of shoes. This turns our attention to the adjoining attraction, the wheel of fortune where we find Frank E. C. Bessent still trying to make up the deficit on the 1946 Oxy, with the help of the new Beechie-VVheel-of-Fortune Brake, a product of the Eightball Corporation Cpoolrooms in Arva, Komoka and Lucanj and invented by its president, xl. A. Beechie. Right next door we find the Reverend Alvin Mclntosh droning solici- tous barkings for his target-practice game. Those successful on the first try are rewarded with an illuminated pamphlet, In the Steps of Cranmer by Bruce Palmer, General Propagandist of the World Committee of the Canterbury Club, those who come close to hitting the target receive a tract, f'The Spiritual Life of the Praying Mantis, Annotated with Photographs of the Missions in the Belgian Congo , by the Reverend Harold Colvin. On our way to the track we meet John M. Evans, smiling as he carried off the blue ribbon for Thunder Bay scantlings, and shouting congratula- tions to his old pal, Alhe Mitton, who was top man in the A 8t P Pepper Sorting Contest in the Graham Building Qnamed in honour of the 4th secretary of the Canadian legation at Punaj. Proceeding to the grand- stand to avoid the blistering sun which had been ordered by VVeatherman Joe Kallio, we see great numbers of Bank of Canada notes Csigned by VV, Robert Beacom, former president of the Investment Dealers' Association of Canada, who states in a footnote on all bills of denominations over 99 cents, I owe my success to three things, no wine, no women, and the practical Business Administration course at VVestern .l These are being rapidly thrust into the hungry mitts of Dusty Selections Rhodes, a fast-talking race-track entrepreneur. Peering up into the dizzy heights of the Birr Memorial Coliseum we at last locate a seat, which offers the bene- lice of a discarded Birr Evening Recorder . Trouble Brews in St. Thomas , says the headline, and we read on to find that that poverty-stricken city in the year 1967 Q19 years after VVindy Dollar came backj is torn with internal strife. Cameron Casket Co's. sales have been upped 300927. It appears that a young Erastus Borbridge, a sax player, his father a local dentist of questionable talents, famed as the discoverer and only user of the Anaesthesia Conmusica Downsa Technique, is leading the Elmvale Street gang against the ruthless Dollar tyranny. Assisting him is athletic Duff Cunningham and young 17 RSOX- 033,222.9 .... cp 4 T . ,KK I 'li T.l ' 5 . . X :I . ' ilu ' . 5 xx G K - 5 Ili -qfgigeiy 4+ N lrlr'tev'e , t if - wrt ll fa, x, 5 7 QQ Y- ,li WI SS I J 5 X 1 5,1 SJ ' 9 :1W0fo.9lQo2 ' -Q55 ooFQOfQ Q Gwen Q? W is .. S Kgs, 10.63 all jf vi TrfTKlix