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

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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

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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 RETURNED From the Armed Forces MR. !. A. ALLISON ()n April 25. 1941, Ian Allison enlisted in the Canadian Army. He spent about a month at the O.T.C., Hrockville, whence he emerged a one-pip wonder, and after a ft v days’ “visit” at Camp Borden he left for England. By the end of June he had joined the Calgary Regiment of the First Canadian Army Tank Brigade and after training and manoeuvres in England he received his second pip (February 1942). In August, 1942. Lieutenant Allison was fighting with the Calgary Tanks and the Essex Scottish at Dieppe, and the Cal¬ gary losses and casualties were terrific. From Dieppe Lieutenant Allison re¬ turned to England to train new Canadian reinforcements, and at this time received his captaincy. Before he joined his unit in Italy he had received his crown, and with them fought through Cassino. the Liri Valley, the Hitler and Gustav lines and North of Florence where he was wounded. He was again with his regi¬ ment when they landed in Marseilles. They fought up through Belgium, had a three-week rest, then pushed through Germany and back—this time into Hol¬ land. After the last two battles, Arnhem and Ede, a truce was called, lasting two weeks, for the purpose of transporting food to the starving Dutch by the Cal¬ gary Tanks. On July 29, 1945 Major Allison left for England and on October 15. 1945 he be¬ came “Mister” Allison once more. MR. F. BECKLEY Mr. Beckley. a member of the Essex Tank Regiment, was once a cadet at . C. I. In 1942, he joined the army tak¬ ing his training at O.T.S. in Brockvillc, then at A 27 Training Centre at Dundurn, Sask. In 1943, he went overseas, serving in the front lines in France. Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Captain Beck’ey had many harrowing experiences. W hile across the German lines, his armoured car blew up. He was in the same house with a 500 lb. bomb during the German bombing of Falais. At one time, he was trapped for 36 hours about 25 miles be¬ hind the Gentian lines. MR. A. FLETCHER In 1941, Mr. Fletcher joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was trained at Rivers, Man., and then served as an in¬ structor until 1945. Ft. Lieut. Fletcher, as a navigator, had the misfortune to make a mistake in his calculations and found himself flying over the then neu¬ tral United States. When asked to relate some of his thrilling experiences over¬ seas. Mr. Fletcher said that the only thing that he did in England was to fly around in the fog. MR. C. M. FORMAN Mr. Forman joined the air-force in March 1942 and left for Manning Pool where he received his basic training for the air-crew. After leaving Manning Pool, he entered about eight other schools in Canada and finally arrived at Regina A.O.S. where he completed his training. As flying officer (navigator), he spent two years overseas and partici¬ pated in bombing missions on the conti¬ nent in the famous Lancaster bombers. While he was on one of his missions, his plane was shot down near Paris and only he and two others out of seven escaped alive. The skipper was captured by the Germans. Mr. Forman and the rear gun¬ ner. both behind enemy lines, managed to outwit the Germans and obtain help from a French family who were part of a well-organized underground. About three weeks later they were rescued by the Third American Army who had broken through the enemy lines. In Octo¬ ber 1944, Mr. Forman came back to Can¬ ada and his discharge was complete in February 1945. Page Thirty