Walkerville Collegiate Institute - Blue and White Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE Clnrit Jurat XID GOSSIP What is more interesting than to ac¬ company the XID class around for one day and ' see the many interesting things that we see? One never fails to see Jane M. talking to two young men in front of Mr. Fletcher’s room every morning. It is a thrill to sit and listen to Nellie S. and Mr. Fletcher in a debate about some geometry question or to see Alan Wea- therhead jump when Miss Robbins ex¬ claims “Levez-vous”! Where does War¬ ren S. get those preposterous answers that he gives to Mr. Swanson in the chemistry class? We all wonder how Margaret H. can get fifty out of fifty in her chemistry test. Mary B. seems to be enjoying the Latin class much more since she has been moved into her pres¬ ent position. It is a sight for sore eyes when Stan B. walks into the classroom with one of his dazzling, yellow striped ties. What other class in the school can bring forth such a miscellaneous crowd as XID? MAC HAWKINS. Eleven D We, the pupils of eleven D, Are just as good as we can be; Although we always have lots of fun, We usually have our homework done. The teachers never yell at us, Because we never make a fuss, That we are clever we’ll have to admit, But we don’t like to boast of it. Mr. Malania reads us Socrates, A play that tells us about Ancient Greece; And he is very anxious that we Use the English language properly. From Miss McLaren we learn Ancient History Which, to most of us, is all a mystery. We learn what the republic of Rome used to be Way back in 509 B.C. We take extra Latin from Miss McGrath, And Mr. Allison teaches extra Math. From Mr. Swanson we learn Chemistry, And Mr. Fletcher teaches Geometry. We don’t know if school does us any good, But the way we study it certainly should. We try our best to be good students, But sometimes school is just a nuisance. And all of us think that it is cruel To make us do homework after school But we notice the teachers never try To omit our homework ... we wonder why? MARIE PARTRIDGE, IID SCHOOL LIFE Dashing footsteps here and there, Books so jumbled: do you care? Classes start at nine you know, Don’t delay, must hurry so Tidy up and answer call, Then dash straight across the hall. Noon has already come to pass. Time for dashing out of class! Bits of bread and bits of cake Gobbled down with quick intake. Hear the footsteps outside the door, Ah, it is time for classes more! Tic, tic, tock; the time goes fast, Four o’clock has come at last. Stumbling, tripping, gathering books, Taking coats from off their hooks. Oh yes, school life is what we need— For knowledge is a friend indeed! SYLVIA SCHERBANK, 11F — « An Ode to XID I hope that I shall never see A class as smart as XID. We study hard and work all day, And for this job receive no pay. Our homework you’ll find is always done, But this can’t prevent us from having fun. There never is a pupil late, Our work is always up-to-date. All our pupils are clean and neat, To meet these students is sure a treat They’re the smartest class in Walker- ville High, Pity the one who dares deny! RUTH RAWLING. Page Fifty-two

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Can You Imagine Rosie Renaud not chewing gum ? Walter Podolsky doing any work? Vernal German with straight hair? George Patillo talking to a girl? Margaret Mears as an “Oomph” girl? Doug Shields causing a commotion? George Slobadanuck not talking? Forbes Thompson answering English questions ? Ernest Musgrave as a soprano? Barbara Kelly not talking? Dorothy Chandler winking? John Kerr without his camera? Ross Walton on a diet? Mr. Swanson with a new joke? Fraser Houston without gaudy socks? Robert (Slapsy) Maxwell as Robert Taylor ? Jeannette Jackson without Philip Mor¬ ris? Emerson Williams without Claribelle? Ronnie Doidge commended for punctu¬ ality ? Jo-Anne Carr as a red-head? Milton Featherstone as a ballet dancer ? Method Janick as a jitter-bug? FROM A PUPIL Mr. Hugill dear, please stay and hear What I am going to tell. What my opinion is this year Of your electric bell. The circuit’s closed, the current flows, The coil it magnetizes. The bell, it rings—no whistle blows; What! No end to earth’s surprises? Just now Miss Tunks is concentrating On a creature called index; Perhaps a thorough fumigating Woud cure that lousy X! Around the World in Eighty Days, It should be heavenly. But after forty minutes, No, I can’t agree. Now teachers, please don’t punish me. Just laugh, don’t take off marks. But then you wouldn’t punish me, For your bites aren’t as bad as your barks, I hope. MARGARET VAIL, 12A. 12A FORM NEWS Claire Bennett— She’s tall and kinda thin; She can giggle and make you grin. Jim McCubbrey— Here comes Jim with his wobbly gait; He never hurries - but he’s never late. Dorothy Vanstone— She wouldn’t be good if she could, And she couldn’t be good if she would. Virginia Langlois— Her life is like a story-book with a new hero in every chapter. Mary Jane Harvey— The only way she can keep a secret is in circulation. Betty Gray— Good goods in a small package. Ruth Font— When she has nothing else in the even¬ ings, she studies. Marian Seaton— Marian, we are here to say, Will really be someone, some day. Doug. McGrath— He’s always feeling at his best When he can be the constant pest. Herbert Todgham— Has both hands on the wheel, His eye on the road to success. Joyce Whipple— She keeps early hours . . . The wee, small ones. Russel Kinghorn— God bless the man who invented sleep. Mr. Bunt told Betty Gray that a faint heart never won a man, but it did in Betty’s case. Mr. Robb, one of the in¬ spectors, thought Betty a very shy—but delightful and clever—blushing maiden, when he questioned her in the Physics class. All the girls now want to know her technique. Miss McLaren: “The world belongs to the energetic.” Jack Woodrow: “Who wants the world anyway?” Page Fifty-one

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BLUE AND WHITE Sminit If amt Grade 10 Minute Interviews 1 Hobby 2 Whom I admire most 3 Ambition 4 Favourite food. Lucy Cavanaugh: (1) Collecting jokes; (2) Jack Carol; (3) Waitress; (4) Gar¬ lic. Betty Lanspeary: (1) Eavesdropping; (2) Mr. Ball; (3) Public speaker; (4) Ice cream. Joyce Bullen: (1) Shows; (2) Mr. White; (3) Actress; (4) Spinach. Pat Long: (1) Criticising; (2) Muriel Binkly; (3) Get married; (4) Lipstick. Margaret Wiseman: (1) Swimming; (2) Miss Brown; (3) Boxer; (4) Peas. Eunice Storey: (1) Latin; (2) Mr. Hartford; (3) To pass; (4) Sugar. Murray Findlay: (1) Jitterbugging; (2) Won’t tell; (3) Marry; (4) Soap. Bob Keith: (1) Trouble; (2) Mr. All¬ ison; (3) Loafing; (4) Beans. F e, if it G. La Classe Francaise Miss Evans - Teacher When there are four periods in the morning we can hardly escape the third period. “Let words be unconfined.” We enter “La Classe Francaise” for a hectic forty minutes. There we see hat! ? Dick Carr is sitting in the cor¬ ner facing the wall already and Carole Glasby has started talking, too. As the class continues Hon Johnson lets out with a long session of nose-blowing sounding like the Queen Mary’s fog¬ horns in action. There’s George Bake editing the “Daily Drool”, the paper which advertises those notable little novelty name-plates and school shields sold by Ken Rutherford for only five tents. All models are properly shellack¬ ed. Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! 1 wonder if “Goose” Goslin knows this »a French class ? There’s George Moor ick for about the fifteenth time. Some¬ times I wonder why Betty Woodruff seems to always forget her French book. Maybe it’s because she can look on with Bob Langlois. We can’t forget that little lady who walks around the room writ¬ ing the names of the lazy and those who talk too much. There is Charley Priest¬ ley’s Basic French hidden in his desk and he’s looking on with Godfrey Green- how. Look closely and you will see chalk drawings on the desk or smell burning rubber during sunny days, but the mag¬ nifying glass suddenly disappears as our teacher appears in the aisle writing down more names. There’s Dot Smith chewing gum a- gain ... or is it tobacco? No, it’s gum; and she’s been seen. Oh, Oh! Five marks off. As we read a French sentence to¬ gether out loud w r e always find Allan Roach at least two words behind. There are Dave Biggar and George Bake fight¬ ing over Helda Leuchter and Barbara Nix is writing down her name on Anna- belle Waymouth’s autograph blouse as Mile. Evans goes to the door. A tre¬ mendous shout fills the room and echoes through the hall as our honourable teacher announces an assembly for all grades nine and ten, and George Moor is sent to the office for drowming out the rest of us. We all w’ait for Stan Allison’s fitting wise-crack but all remains silent. This was Georgie’s last chance. Look at Bob Langlois making eyes at June Laidlaw r . They’ve recently discovered that they’re cousins. There are only two minutes left to the French period and we can’t leave Jim Jenkins’ pants unheard of. I’ve nev¬ er seen a wilder set of coloured checker boards throwm together to make one pair of pants! Ah! There’s the bell! All of us walk out of the room leaving many a famous game of “X’s” and “O’s” behind, and wondering whether our names are down on that little pad; but Eric Potter ling¬ ers behind to pile thirty-five dictionaries in one wobbling pile or to write hastily “foo” on the blackboard, better known as the tableau-noire. Godfrey Greenhow, 10B. Page Fiftythree