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

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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!

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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 F. Hull. E. Lepa. L Laakso, Mr. Ball, W. Young. G, Turnbull ship of $60, and the Irwin Hilliard Schol¬ arship in English and History at Victoria College, University of Toronto which is worth $625, Charmaine Humphries won a $100 Dominion - Provincial Scholarship f or Grade 13. We are proud of these students, and hope that this year ' s graduating class can live up to their fine example. SCHOLARSHIPS In 1945 Walkerville students earned seven scholarships. The j. U McNaughton Memorial Scholarship was awarded for the first time last year. Lillian Laakso received it, and is now studying Honor Science at Toronto. Eugene Lepa won the third Carter Scholarship worth $40. Three Carter Scholarships are given in each county of Southern Ontario for the highest standing in ten papers which must in¬ clude English Composition, English Lit¬ erature, Geometry and Algebra, George Turnbull is studying Business Administration at Western with a Do¬ minion-Provincial Scholarship worth $400 a year for four years. Bill Young won three scholarships, the Edith Bowlby Chapter LOT ML Scholar¬ ship of $100 for the highest English mark in W indsor, the second Carter Scholar¬ (Continued from Page 25) glee ted, in spite of such arduous rehears¬ ing. In December the Bovs’ and Girls’ Choirs combined to give a Christmas party in the school library where danc¬ ing, games and box lunches were enjoyed, and small surprise packages distributed by Santa himself! The pleasure of our guests proved the party ' s success, and we are all eagerly anticipating another such event in the future, as well as our future musical programs, DOROTHY WOODS Page Twenty-Xine