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

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BLUE AND WHITE Miss McGrath in Latin speaks; To learn this it takes many weeks. Mr. Malania, with you we’re content, To parliamentary debates you gave your consent. We have many tachers and we’re pleased with them all, Even when they report us to Mr. Ball. Miss Post (in the geography class) :— “What are the tributaries of the Nile called?” Howard Easterbrook: “Juveniles.” Old Lady—How did those rocks get there ? Guide—They were brought by the glaciers. Old Lady—Well, where are the glaci¬ ers? Guide—They have gone to fetch some more. Morrison—I hear you got thrown out of school for calling Mr. Ball a fish. Kilpatrick—I didn’t call him a fish. I just said, “That’s our dean”, real fast. When Delbert was at the theatre he became annoyed by the conversation in the row behind. “Excuse me,” he said, “but I can’t hear a word.” “Oh,” replied the talkative one, “and what business is it of your what I ' m telling my wife?” Did they take an X-ray photo of Dor¬ othy’s jaw at the hospital? They tried to. but they could only get a moving picture. Why is your neck like a typewriter? Answer—Because it’s Underwood. CLASS NEWS 10A 1. Alias. 2. Ambition. 3. Whom I admire the most. 4. Weakness. 5. Occupation. —DOROTHY WILSON: (1) Dot; (2) To play hockey; (3) Mr. Forman; (4) Arguments; (5) Getting her own way in English. —MARIE LA VIS: (1) Old maid; (2) To be a social butter¬ fly; (3) Don Kilpatrick; (4) Boys; (5) Making eyes. —DON KILPATRICK: (1) Flapears; (2) To out-talk Dorothy Wilson; (3) Gordon Shaw; (4) Girls; (5) Making puns. —EDITH METCALFE: (1) Tubby; (2) To be thin; (3) Mr. Young; (4) Talking and eating; (5) See No. 4. —ALVA (EDISON) SWANSON: (1) Nero and light-bulb; (2) To enter¬ tain Gloria Verway; (3) Gloria; (4) Gloria; (5) Gloria. —PHYLLIS MARTIN: (1) Felix; (2) Learn how to swim; (3) Gillie; (4) Quoting Gillie; (5) Laugh¬ ing. —JACK GILLILAND: (1) Gillie; (2) To get on a hockey team; (3) Ruth Gooby; (4) Rushing as the bell rings; (5) Forgetting English books. —GORDON SHAW: (1) Pshaw; (2) To be popular with the girls; (3) Jane Adams; (4) Wearing a helmet: (5) Being charming. —YVONNE WESTON: (1) Eve; (2) To be on time; (3) Yvon¬ ne Weston; (4) Big words; (5) Being late. —DELBERT TAYLOR: (1) Del; (2) To be an actor; (3) Diane; (4) Wearing R.C.A.F. badges; (5)— Whistling. —KEN SMALLWOOD: (1) Kenwood; (2) Hard to tell; (3) Lois; (4) Dropping nails in the waste basket; (5) Making inappropriate re¬ marks. Page Fifty nine

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BLUE AND WHITE Jfarra (Leu Sad, But True 10A is the craziest class this school has ever known; We giggle, talk, chew peppermints, till out of the door we’re thrown. Jack thinks he has his English book— behold! it is not there, So out of the door he goes once more. Our teacher says “Beware”! When Miss McGrath says “Allistair, tell me the kinds of nouns,” Poor Mr. Leslie tries to guess, and meets her sternest frowns. In Science class we break the glass and hold a festival— If Mr. Young spies us, we don’t like the rest at all! We listen with enraptured looks while Mr. Klinck proceeds To tell us how to thresh the wheat, or mow, or cut the weeds. In Latin book reviews, it seems, dear Edith is so coy— She always manages to get a glance from “that one boy”. Miss Ryder does her level best to teach us charts and maps; It may be we’re not int’rested—n’est-ce- pas, perhaps? A question’s asked—no one replies, the strain begins to tell, Then just as lines are going ’round— we’re “saved by the bell”! Dorothy Woods, 10A. A DAY IN 10A LIFE Math: This class isn’t taking its math seriously. Why this is an “A” class and you should all get 90% - - I smell pep¬ permints ! Delbert: Why, Mr. Fletcher! ENGLISH: Gillie, 500 lines for tomor¬ row. Marilyn, you too. Dorothy, if you have anything to say, please put up your hand. Yvonne: Mr. Forman, you forgot the memory work. LATIN: Now there are only five kinds of nouns to learn. Take out your ex¬ ercise books and see if you can re¬ member what we have already taken. Lois: Miss McGrath, when do I give my Latin report? SCIENCE: How many of you aren’t quite clear about this yet? I thought so. It’s really as easy as falling off a log. George: Mr. Young, how do you know that the first weight will balance the other one? FRENCH: What this school needs is more co-operation. Why, only the oth¬ er day one of the graduates said to me - - etc. Don: Mr. Klinck, who won the last hoc¬ key game? HISTORY: Alva, give all the events con¬ nected with the War of 1812. Alva: - - - - silence. Syd: May I go to my locker? There will be an assembly last period this afternoon. Such absolute peace and quiet in 10A! 10-A’S TEACHERS Little Miss Ryder, our home room teacher Accepts our projects as a second feature. Mr. Forman our new literary light Makes us study that stuffy “Twelfth Night”. Mr. Klinck, so bright and airy, Raises dogs and a pet canary. Mr. Young, so tall and sleepy, Does experiments that make us creepy. Mr. Fletcher never hints That he smells our peppermints. Miss 0. E. Saunders, our peppy dancer, Lectures on Mondays about harmful cancer. Page Fifty-eight

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BLUE AND WHITE Doctor: There goes the only woman I ever loved. Nurse: Why don’t you marry her? Doctor: I can’t afford to - she’s my best patient. “Look here”, said the angry travel¬ ling man to the small-town hotel-keep¬ er, “don’t you know that roller-towels in hotels have been prohibited in this State for three years?” “Sure”, replied the hotel man, “but that there towel was put up before the law was passed.” — 10B — 10B, so I am told, is the noisiest of classes, The kids are quite bright, but as slow as molasses; When the teacher goes out we just let out a roar— So back we come trooping at five after four. Our general occupation is the chewing of gum, So that accounts for us being so dumb! Paul Luxford. 3fnrm Nine The Teachers and 9A There is a teacher named Miss Rider, Whose favourite drink is apple cider; “Bend your arms” and “Bend your knees”, Some of her slogans are such as these. When we get excused from gym each day, “Where is your note?” Miss Rider will say; And when we say “I don’t know”, Down to Mr. Ball we go. Page Sixty When the swimming pool opens we all dive in, And you cannot hear above the din. Miss Rider yells and jumps about, And one by one we get kicked out. In Science class we all are sad Because the teacher gets so mad, And if the boys shoot elastics here, They get pulled out quickly by their ear. If we do an experiment in this class, Someon succeeds in breaking some glass. Top” goes a florence flask, ‘Bing” goes a beaker, And someone’s allowance grows weaker and weaker. Another class of which I’d like to tell. Is one that the students don’t like very well; This is the French room on the first floor, Where someone is always kept in after four. Miss Evans, our teacher, comes in every day And says “Bonjour” in a very nice way; But after 9A has been in there a while, She changes her looks to a frown from a smile. Miss Auld just frets and fumes at us When we leave her room in such a muss. We use the white powder and she gets cross, And says to 9A “Just who is boss?” We run to the front to get the red powder, We hear Miss Auld’s voice getting louder and louder; She comes up behmd and makes us sit down, And everyone w ' alks to their seat with o frown. But Walkerville High is a very nice school; The teachers are swell and they don’t let you fool; You learn something there and when you get out, You’ll find work quickly without a doubt. Ann Wilson, 9A.