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

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BLUE AND WHITE DRAMATIC SOCIETY BACK ROW: Mr. Burr, D. Haley, P. Barnby, W. Hull, C. Croft, H. Schofield, S. Johnson, Mrs. Alexander. FRONT ROW: J. Little, M. Werte, Miss Robbins, Miss Auld, E. Lee, B. Lees. ABSENT: B. Mapes. DRAMATIC CLUB The Walkerville Collegiate Dramatic Club elected the following officers for the year 1945-46: Hon. President.Miss Auld President . Ed Lee Vice President . Margaret Werte Secretary.Jean Little Treasurer .Miss Robbins Property Mistress .Barbara Lees Stage Manager..Boh Mapes Our only public offering this year was the short comedy, “Courage, Mr. Greene,” which was presented at the Graduation Exercises December 20. The play was directed by Mrs. Alexander and Mr. Burr, and the cast included Herbert Schofield, Stuart lohnson, Donna Haley, Pat Barnbv and Gordon Croft. During the past two years the Dra¬ matic Society has produced two of its most successful plays. “She Stoops To Conquer”, a costume play which was rated highly by all who saw it. Mary Gregory. Jack Creed, Tom Beckett and Bill Grundy, won the awards for their performances. Our play of last year “The Whole Town’s Talking”, delighted our audiences with its rollicking humour. The annual awards were presented to Mary Gregory ' , Anne Thistlethwaite and Tom Beckett. Both these plays were directed by the “Guiding Light” of the club, our own Miss Robbins, Because of the lack of directors we did not present our annual three-act play this year, but we have hopes for such a play next year. Secretary, JEAN LITTLE Pa e Twenty-Seven Windsor x 1

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BLUE AND WHITE ORCHESTRA Mr. Brown, Instructor VV. Peterson, D. Kilgour, F. Weir, O Murray, B« Fenton M. McKinnon, X. Seiler, J. Dar- rock, P. Murphy, J, Mann, B. Gulak. Absent: M. Parsons ORCHESTRA For the past two years the orchestra, which had been dormant for some time, has been under the direction of Mr, Brown, and has been playing strictly as a dance band. The band holds regular practices and a large library of dance orchestrations has been accumulated The practices have proved very worth while, for the band has done some exceptionally fine work ' at the Tea Dances and at the Graduation Dance, A number of students with outstanding musical ability who have given their help to the orchestra have added greatly to the success of this organization. The band now features ensemble effects and also vocal and instrumental solos. A second group of instrumentalists is now practising the same music and it is hoped that in another year the orchestra can he expanded along the lines of a sym¬ phonic aggregation, as has been the prac¬ tice in past years, A vote of thanks should be given Mr. Brown and the various student members of the band for so willingly giving their time and talents to after school practices in order to reach the high standard of efficiency now enjoyed by the band. The mastery of the music has not only given great pleasure to the members i»f the band but has been a source of entertain¬ ment to everyone connected with the school IAN WILKIE Pa e Twenty-Six

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BLUE AND WHITE ORATORS Janet Utigill. James Zeron, Barbara Tail Absent Donald Ryan PUBLIC SPEAKING Our oratorical efforts have been ex¬ tremely noteworthy, although none of the W.S.S.A. championships came to Walk- erville this year. Many of the participants were new to the game, and their speeches deserved a great deal of credit: several had entered the contest before ami show¬ ed marked improvement in material and delivery over their previous efforts. From the four Senior boy contestants, fim Zeron carried off the honours with his excellent speech on Local History , and an equally noteworthy impromptu on The Life of Tomorrow Second place was awarded to Howard Thompson who gave as his main address, “The Ca¬ det Camp, and also spoke in an interest¬ ing manner on The Best Book I Have Read.” The remarkable number of Senior girls speaking this year was certainly inspir¬ ing, and the quality of their speeches made that contest an interesting event. Janet Hugilh the winner, showed splen¬ did oratorical ability both in her main speech on Winston Churchill and her laugh-provoking impromptu on My Fav¬ ourite Subject—Mathematics, Runners- up were Donna Haley, with Canadian Parliament ’ and Progress in the Virl Guide Movement , and 1 oroihy Woods with Careers for Young People and The Life of Tomorrow , the latter two tying for second place The Junior orators were surprisingly good this year, with Don Ryan taking rirst place laurels for his address on Atomic Power and Dogs , Jamies Muir was a close competitor, speaking on Puppets and “Places I Would Like To Visit, The Junior girls also showed great promise of future ability. The winner, Barbara Tail, gave an excellent speech oil Customs of India and a successful impromptu, Airlines, Second p ! ace went to Margaret Martin who spoke on Alaska and gave ns her impromptu, Why I Like Music. All these speakers, both winners and competitors, have gained valuable ex¬ perience in this year ' s contest, and we are certain that future oratory will keep up WalkerviHe ' s fine record, or even sur¬ pass it. DOROTHY WOODS ASSEMBLIES Assemblies this year have showed a marked improvement over those of last year. This year the students have been much more interested in assemblies than they have in the past. Credit for the improvement must go to Mr, Ball who has worked hard picking out talent and to the Agora Assembly Com mi t tee. Assemblies thi year have provided a great deal of enjoyment to students and teachers alike. It is to be hoped that the fine work done on them now will be con¬ tinued in the years to come. With performers such as Marilyn Mil¬ ler. Margo MacKinnon, Bob Fenton, and Her!) Scofield, assemblies are sure to be a success. Other star performers were found among the teachers with Miss Saunders, Miss MacIntyre, Mr. O ' Brien and Mr. Allison taking a place on the stage several times throughout the year. If this co-operation between students and teachers continues, our assemblies will a 1 wavs be enjovable, I AX WILKIE Page Twenty-high!