Westmount School - Review Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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(1) High Jump Hougan. (2) Lois Looking Lovely. (3) Pulman Pioneering. (4) Pretty Palefaces. (5) Good Christians. (6) Dapper Duff. (7) Rooney’s Rather Proud. (8) Before the Election. (9) Beauteous Betty Beams. (10) W.H.S. Sleeping Beauty. (11) —and after. (12) Their Jumping Jalopy. (13) Anytime is dreamtime. (14) Blonde Babes. (15) Mopy Merril. (16) Robby and Keefy. (17) Budding Biology Class. Page forty-tw

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The Westmount Camera Club f OR the year 1939-40 Westmount students formed a club for the furtherance of the present day’s most popular hobby—photography. The pur¬ pose of the club was to increase general interest in photography and at the same time to teach its mem¬ bers the essential points of picture-making; both the rules governing the clicking of the shutter, and the control of film-processing and finishing. The Club consisted of approximately thirty boys and girls who were will¬ ing to co-operate in club activities and to obtain an appreciative understanding of elementary photography. At the first meetings held in November, officers were elected and the Club constitution drawn up. The various official positions were filled as follows: President, Bob Rooney; Vice-president, Jean Ball; Secretary, Margaret Brown; Treasurer, Don Cameron. Executive committee, Mary Travers, Edgar Guest, Shauna Little, Meldrum Little, Alastair Mackay, Keith Siaettzer, Bob Robb. Weekly meetings were held on Wednesday noon in the School library. On several occasions arrangements were made for guest speakers to talk to the club on subjects of photographic significance. Various short films secured from the University by Margaret Brown were shown to the Club by means of the school’s new sound projector, operated by Don Cameron. The Club treasury was built up by charging members a small monthly fee. and also by sale of refreshments at the school literaries and dances. Much of the Club ’s finances was used in outfitting a darkroom in the school basement. This darkroom was for the use of Club members during noon hour or after four. It is felt that the Club was successful, to a certain extent, in forwarding the interests and knowledge of Westmount students in connection with pho¬ tography. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Photography as a hobby is unsurpassed. It is a subject of universal in¬ terest. No matter what the individual’s occupation or inclination, he can find an outlet for his emotions, a means of self-expression, in adopting photography as a hobby. Aside from merely providing the camera enthusiast with some¬ thing to do in his leisure time, the art of correctly registering a desired image on film develops the artistic talents of the individual and ensures a keener understanding and a deeper appreciation of his natural surroundings. The satisfaction experienced by the camera fan on producing a fine photograph can be compared to that of an artist on completion of a work of art, for a photograph is a work of art produced by the natural talents of the man behind the camera. It is sincerely hoped that Westmount’s students of next year will continue, in the interests of photography, to develop the second Westmount Camera Club. BOB ROONEY. Page forty-one

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(1) Persevering Patterson. (2) Prize Portrait. (3) In the bath. (1) Hedy de la Haddow. (5) —and out. (6) Silhouette. (7) My Margorie. (8) Korn Kob Keith. (9) Shauna Shows Off. (10) Alibaba Connell. (11) Our genial Sub”. (12) Skov Skorns Scona Scullduggery. (13) Slaphappy Song Bird. (14) Three Smart Girls. (15) Camera Man Cameron. (16) Li’l Audrey at the pie sale. (17) Chuck Chuckles. (18) Nasty Nightingale. (19) What again? (20) Deer Doug. (21) Maestro Fitz. (22) Kink Rats. (23) Rooney in the spirit. (24) Hideous Haddow. (25) Garbage Glances. (26) Butch and Mac. (27) Conquest the Chemist. (28) Holiday Homework. (29) Wily William. (30) Ole Over. (31) Conference. (32) Bdtiors Editing. Page forty-three