Western Canada High School - Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Page twenty-eight YEAR NORA GWLADYS AMELIA WILLIAMS—Black hair, brown eyes, a turned-up nose, and an hysterical giggle bubbling forth at the most inopportune moments and you have before you Nora Gwladys Amelia Williams. But don’t let on to her that you know her full name! She got her first detention in Hanna, but was let out in time to put in a couple at Haultain and Elbow Park schools before coming to Western to try for our basketball team. She is now noted for her basketball ability and for her persistency in trying to chew gum in Mrs. Bagnall’s periods, not to speak of her gift for skipping detentions. “A happy girl with sorrows few Beloved by friends, both old and new.” Class 2 DAISY GRETREX AMBL ' RY—Everyone breathlessly hang- on every word which comes from the precise lips of this dignified ex-school teacher. Daisy always knows just what to say and how to say it. She is a real asset to Western as a steadying influence in Class 2. “Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.” ALBERTA BROWN—Alberta is the proud possessor of a high, crooning voice. In strict confidence this startling young lady disclosed to her cronies that “razzberries” is her favorite expression and her soaring ambition is to become a star—in Hollywood. “Better to aim for a star, than shoot for the mud.” PASSIE BERCUSON—Just let your memory gallop back to the Girls’ Initiation, everybody! Did you see the little girl, dark hair done up in bright colored rags, rouged nose, patched dress not quite reaching her knees—and parading the corridors with the rest of the freshettes while enthusiastically licking an “all-day” sucker? Well that was Miss Passie Bercuson, ex-teacher. She has a never-ending stock of original ideas, and her most apparent ambition is to out-point Mr. Stevenson in their regular debates during Literature period. “She has wit and will and humor inextinguishable.” WILLIAM BARRON—“I was born in Calgary in 1915 and have attended Elbow Park and Western. When I get my Senior Matriculation, I am going to Varsity to study Radio Engineering. I collect stamps and play golf; my life¬ long ambition is to make a hole-in-one, ‘And all my days are trances.’ ” ELIZABETH MACFARLANE CANNING—This happy person, otherwise known as Bessie, was born in Glasgow and started her basketball career by jumping the Atlantic. She has since continued to shine in that sport. Bessie is one of the few students remaining who used to climb the hill to old South Calgary. She is a member of the Zeta Si Upsiton Sorority. When asked her ambition, she replies: “I ain’t got none,” but we believe she intends to go to Varsity next year to study journalism. “If you get simple beauty and naught else You get about the best thing God invents.” ROBERT T. COOK—Once upon a time in the market-place of a little Alberta town, there was much rejoicing. The townspeople turned out in great num¬ bers and they rang the fire-bell and cried aloud: “Hola! Hola! for amongst us has been born a man-child.” Well, to cut a long story short—the place was Taber; the year was 1914; the noise was quite unjustified; the man- child (pronounced “boy” in Calgary) was Cook. Unsatisfied with Taber, Bob sought the big city. As a member of the “Four Aces,” an orchestra of no mean standing, Bob displays excellent talent on the banjo. He hopes to attend Varsity next year. “List his discourse of war and you shall hear, A fearful battle rendered you in music.” WARD BRAINERD CLARK—Brainerd is popularly called Class 2’s playboy and causes Mr. Harding many a sleepless night??? His range of abilities is limitless. Why, in sport, he is a star in the games of Hop Scotch and Tap the Ice Box. He is also an expert at throwing chalk. Be it well said of Brainerd “And a little child shall lead them,” for as well as being one of the youngest member of Class 2 he is also one of the cleverest.