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

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22 BLUE AN D W H 1 T F. 194 9 THE WINNERS! A. Alexander, Jr. Girls; L. Piazza, Sr. Girls; C. Burge, Sr. Boys; K. Culmage, Jr. Boys. PUBLIC SPEAKING Our heartiest congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the public speaking contests! These students gave up much of their valuable time to enter this worth while competition and bring honour to the school. Anne Alexander was the winner of the Junior Girls’ speaking contest. She gave a very interest¬ ing prepared speech entitled “Travelling Th rough Space” and chose as her impromptu “Our Neighbours.” We hope Anne will continue her public speaking and enter senior competition. Ken Du Image was the winner of the Junior Hoys’ contest. Ken deserves special mention, lie won the speaking first in Walkerville, then for the city, and went to Sarnia where he won again. Later in London, Ken placed second in the W.O.S.S.A. We are very proud of Ken and he shows great promise. His prepared speech was “The Greatest Invention in the Last Hundred Years” (and he spoke on radio). Lola Piazza chose “I am Your Paperboy” as her interesting impromptu and for her prepared speech, gave a verv fine talk on “Things I Hate in Radio.” Charlie Burge was the Senior Hoys’ champion in the school. He chose an unusual topic. Swed¬ en’s Part in World War Two” and handled it very well. His impromptu was “Travelling Around the World.” Many thanks to you winners for showing such fine talent. Walkerville is proud of you. KATHERINE PIERCE. DEBATING CLUB This year under the capable leadership of Mr. Bull, debating was revived again among the senior boys. Every second Monday, the boys met in Mr. Hull’s room and spoke with enthusiasm on various interesting subjects. Following each debate a discussion was held with the audience on the same subject. This venture being fairly successful, it is planned to enter a team in com¬ petition next year. Some of those taking part in the debates were: I). Klrix. ]. Snedden. J. Hatters. A. Torrigan. H. Taylor. K. Dresser. A. Mate, D. Forsyth, I). Enkin, I). Hunnisett. R. Steven¬ son. C. Anderson and R. Haines. CHESS CLUB Chess in W.C.I. is finally getting a foothold as an ideal hobby for the students. Mr. Burr, the secretary-treasurer of the club, has been a great help in arranging and drawing up the schedules. At present there are two tournaments being played in the school. Bob Morris leads the senior tournament and John Hutchinson is winning in the junior division. There are approximately twenty boys participating in these ' contests. Hob Morris, president of the club, was pleased to have so many players from Grade nine this year and he feels sure that from now on, Walker¬ ville will have a strong chess club. VISITORS’ NIGHT On February 8. Walkerville held its annual Visitors’ Night. Mr. Brown and his ever-popular orchestra entertained the parents and students before the address of welcome was given by Mr. Ball. Mr. Rrown, as Guidance Instructor, then spoke to the audience concerning the factors necessary in choosing a suitable career. After the programme in the auditorium, the pupils showed their parents to the various classrooms and intro¬ duced them to the teachers. It was felt by all that it was a very successful evening, so. don’t forget to visit the school on Visitors’ Night next year. DANCE ORCHESTRA The dance orchestra was composed of fine musicians who developed into a single smooth¬ functioning group. Mr. Brown gave much of his time and energy to manage and direct both orchestras. A great deal of credit should go to the students who faithfully attended the long practices. Music was provided at a tea dance to raise funds for buying musical instruments for the concert orchestra. The orchestra also played at the Graduation Dance. Second Prize Art Mary C. Young 10A

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GIRLS’ CHOIR that Walkerville will have a larger and even better orchestra. GIRLS’ CHOIR The 1948-49 season for the Girls’ Choir was a great success. At the Commencement in Decem¬ ber they presented the stirring “Prayer For To¬ day (Largo)” by Handel, and “My Heart is a Garden by Kurtz. To add to the spirit of Christ¬ mas, a lovely arrangement of “Silent Night” was sung. Under the capable direction of Miss Saunders, the choir was fortunate in being able to enter the Windsor Music Festival for Secondary Schools, on March 11. They sang the lilting Scotch folk¬ song. “Flowers O’ the Forest” by Jean Elliot: Beautiful Dreamer” by Stephen Foster: and gay “Blue Tail Fly,” an American folk song. CONCERT ORCHESTRA Under the direction of Mr. Brown, the concert orchestra has become one of the most active organizations in the school. A new idea was in¬ corporated in having the orchestra play a number as the pupils took their seats for our assemblies. It also opened every assembly by playing O Canada, Blue and White, and closed with the National Anthem. The members of the orchestra distinguished themselves with their selections at the special Armistice Day assembly and at Parents’ Night. At the Secondary School Music Festival on March 11, Marche Militaire by Schubert, Old South, and Tschaikowski’s Waltz of the Flowers, were performed exceptionally well. Plans are being made to provide for teaching various instruments during school periods, so

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BLUE AND WHITE 1949 23 PRESIDENTS Blue . 4 Vv hi I • ' 4 P-TA oris. rt fl J IBAHtlBy IHp-t« 1 Mom t© C ifl ER .- 014 fl v l Club ill Rkown T? n f 5T?ID£ Bov f, MONITOR SYSTEM This year a new monitor system was installed to improve the conduct at noon, in the halls and at our dances and games. Sally Davits and Cam Anderson were chosen as Head Girl and Head Boy. with Kathryn Brick and Ron Eden as assistants. The monitors were all the students of Grade 13. Three boys, three girls and one teacher had charge each week and a monitor’s court was set up to judge “the noon criminal cases.” Don’t be alarmed if you see a fifth- former lurking in the halls with a wicked gleam in his eye and a club behind his back. He’s just a monitor! ASSEMBLIES The general opinion is that the school assem¬ blies this year have been better than before, be¬ cause the students themselves have arranged the programmes. Under Mr. Bull’s guidance, each class has put on one assembly to be judged for originality, number taking part and interest; but as yet the winning class has not been announced. Most of these assemblies have been good enter¬ tainment and a credit to the imagination of our students. How can we ever forget that minstrel show, the Shakespeare scene or the square dance —and say, just who was the Santa Claus in the Christmas programme? This year the assemblies have been run on a regular pattern: syncopating music by our or- chestra-to-beat-al 1-orchestras, National Anthem. School Song, Announcements, two well-known songs, class entertainment and O Canada. Lets keep our assemblies at this high standard and next year we will look forward even more eagerly to “ninth period every other Friday.” THE ART CLUB Our collegiate’s newest organization, the Art Club, this year finishes its second year with a feeling of having justified its existence and of being firmly established as a necessary part of school life. During the year, posters were made for nearly every other school organization under the supervision of the Honorary President. Miss Auld. the President, Jerry Brown, the Vice- President, Jim Snedden, the Secretary, Lotini Richardson, and the Advisor, Don Richard. We wish the Art Club continued success, and hope it will enlarge its scope as the years go by. for it gives opportunity and valuable training in a very fascinating and important field of education to anyone at all interested in art work. WELCOME BACK MR. BULL! We missed him during his year’s absence from W.C.I. and we are glad to have him with us again. May we express our thanks and appreci¬ ation to Mr. Bull who so freely gave his time and effort for the betterment of the school and enjoyment of the students. He led cheers (re¬ member that football game?), he called for square dances, he led singing for the assemblies, gave rousing pep talks before games, and generally raised the school spirit with his enthusiasm. How much time has Mr. Bull donated for the develop¬ ment of public speakers and debaters in this school? Last but not least, he has raised the standard of the assemblies, which now assume an important part in the life of the school. It is unfortunate that there is onlv one Mr. Bull!