Victoria High School - Victorian Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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Year Book 2 The past year marks a very successful conquest which Vic has made in the line of sport. An abundance of material enabled her to send forth winners, both individual and in teams, who worked hard, not for them¬ selves, but for the school.

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20 Victoria High School GLEN SHORTLIFFE BETTY INGRAM DEBATING AND ORATORY (TTIj HE initial meeting of the V.H.S. debating club on October 23 began II! a year of real success. Inspired by the coaches, Miss Crawford and Mr. Smith, all the members took an active interest in the club. Scenes resembling fiery parliamentary debates were not uncommon, with every member burning with a desire to say something on the subject in question. The activity of the club increased by the joining up of long-loosed connections with other schools. On February 19, a joint meeting of East- wood and Victoria was arranged. The exciting informal debate which followed disclosed the enthusiasm of the members of both clubs. After eliminations within the club, Marjorie Riddell and Stanley Cummings were chosen as the Grade IX debaters to compete with Helen MacMillan and Pauline Johnston of Grade X, as the first step of settling the inter-grade contest for the Henry Shield. The final debate in the con¬ test was the latter team against Betty Ingram and Glen Shortliffe. The Shield was won by Grade XII in an exciting debate. In the past two years, Miss Crawford has selected and coached two students, Margaret Kinney and Dorothy Barnhouse, in such a way as to make them champion orators. This year Margaret MacMillan, speaking on “Disarmament,” and Glen Shortliffe on “The Way to Peace,” entered the oratorical field. After much preparation and coaching, an elimination contest was held, in which Glen won the honor of representing Vic in the Hugh A. Sharon contest. Lady Luck, however, was against us this time. Westmount won first place and Glen was forced to be content with third.

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22 Victoria High School TRACK TEAMS A FTER having been postponed from day to day on account of in¬ clement weather, the high school sports finally got under way on September 28 at the V.H.S. grounds. The day’s events were slightly hindered, due to the antics of a large number of non-competitors who crowded so close to the competing athletes that, in some cases at least, the latter did not have a chance to perform as well as they might have otherwise done. The winners of the Girls’ High Jump were Peggy Gee, first in Class 1, Division 1; Ethel Adams, second in Class 2, Division 1; Barbara Groat, first in Class 1, Division 3; Doris Johnson, first in Class 2, Division 3. Barbara Croat also made a record running broad jump of 15 feet 8 V 2 inches. The running events were held on October 3 at the South Side Athletic Grounds. The girls winning the most credits for Vic at this meet were Barbara Groat, Bonnie Philips, and Clara Hildreth, the first two being “letter winners.” In the boys’ events we had three champions: Bob Bolander, Ernest Falkenberg, and Frank Richard. Bob captured the championship in Class 2, Division 2; Ernie in Class 1, Division 2; and Frank in Class 1, Division 3. Clifford Willetts, also a star, was runner-up to Falkenberg, securing about fifteen points for the school. The other three each got more than this, and together their total approached one hundred points. In inspecting the scores, it may be seen that the winners of the girls’ events were of a greater number than in the boys’. The girls drew a first here, a second from somewhere else, and so on. On the other hand, the boys had a few athletes each of whom brought in a large number of points. Thus the girls’ total is the sum of many small scores, while that of the boys is made up of four or five large individual scores. The success of Victoria High School at this competition is in a large measure due to the hard work and encouragement of the coaches. Miss Hegler and Miss Maguire were in charge of the girls, while Mr. Colter and Captain Towerton ably directed the boys in their training. The Rooters Club held up its end of the struggle by successfully out-yelling all the other schools put together. As in the sports proper, our greatest rivals in the cheering was Garneau. Competition between the noise-makers of the two schools caused several battles which threatened to become serious, especially among the girls. Victoria’s biggest victory in the rooting game occurred when a plane, piloted by “Vic” Horner, a former student of our school, flew over the grounds carrying a Vic pennant. All the shouting from rival schools promptly ceased.