Woodstock Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Woodstock, Ontario Canada)

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Pi-iuNe4so , Limrren V P 5 HUDlllfSTUll. fw!BHHllE'l 6 . .12 if cnanvlve llyPFun'rEFx5 4 LUDDDSTDCK 41-43 FINKLE STREET C Special Consists Of Tlte Following People A Bawker but no coffee A Lynch but no noose A Ropp but no rope get the connection? A Tennant but no boarders A Free A Tune but no melody A Yeo but no ram A Phillips but no milk of magnesia A Retz but no rice A Turner but no Bar-B-Q A Cole but no Nat-King A La Marche but no La Swamp A Sutherland but no China A Sandham but no Gravelbeef A Chambers but no maids A Chattington but no Laughington Any names not mentioned above impossible. are purely i 3 Y Our l2A Class of '53 ls quite as good as good can be. They work so hard to copy o'er What other kids have done before, You'd really think an arm they'd sprain: But which can stand it, arm or brain? Most people think they are quite dumb. Gadzooks! They're nearly right, by gum! They study Latin while they are lunching And on forbidden candies munching. When teachers, all, do leave the room The quietness with noise does boom. Then Mr. Runnals, sage, doth say Come Exam-time you'll rue this day! They all do vow, with firm resolve This reputation must dissolve. But by end of period next but one These resolutions are all gone Perhaps one day angels they'll be But this l've really got to see! O K One Hundred and Two Xa What Would Happen lf Darlene Allin ever quit seeking for a familiar face in CSp. Wanda Bass ever got in wrong with any of the teachers. Lois Bell ever spoke out. Jane Burnett ever stopped reading Westerns. Joyce Carnegie ever cracked a joke. Freda Hilderly ever didn't do her homework. Lorraine lngold ever failed Algebra. Libby Innes ever quit fooling her time away. Marg. Monro ever quit doing her faggoting. Alice Pullin ever was deprived of the car. Helen Sage ever got French. Grace Salmon ever made a hit with the boys. Virginnia Shearer ever stood lower than second in her class. Phylis Shipp ever stopped receiving letters from Stratford Normal School. Kay Swance ever stopped asking Miss Dunlop about llB. Jean Vance ever quit making eyes at the boys. Keith Barber ever brightened up. Gordon Batsford ever got to be an engineer. Ken Gregory ever stopped talking in English. Gordon Latford ever stopped being stupid. Ron Ludington's car broke down. Kenneth MacArther ever stopped chewing gum. Lloyd McDonald Toni Ogden ever stopped being funny. Jim Riesbury every quit being corny. Lloyd Robertson couldn't play Rugby. Jerry Robinson stopped laughing at Jim Riesbury. Edwin Schell was at school for a whole week in a row. Clayton Stere couldn't answer History questions. 101 i Ill Bill: I want to tell you, sir, that l am en- gaged to your daughter. Father: Don't tell me your troubles. What else did you expect after hanging around the house every night for months? THE ORACLE

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7 rincayoa A 815561.98 It is with considerable humility that I pen this, my first Foreword for the Oracle. It does not seem possible, despite many hours of searching, to find out just when or by whom the first Oracle was published. Copies are on file back to the 'l89O's. This means that men of the calibre of George Strauchon, D. H. Hunter, I. M. Levan, W. J. Salter and E. P. Hodgins have been entrusted of the Woodstock Collegiate These Forewords were they were written. However, philosophy. This philosophy with the responsibility of giving a yearly message to the students Institute through this page of the Oracle. as different as the men who wrote them and the times in which as you read, you cannot but notice the expression of a common was ably expressed by Principal I. M. Levan in his Foreword in the Oracle of forty years ago. He wrote in part, And while the Oracle hopes that the pupils will enter into all school activities with heart and soul, he trusts that they will remember that these are but minor issues, intended to brighten the social life of the school, and will not forget that the main purpose of their presence here is to give due attention to their daily tasks and to reap the benefit in the form of ever-increasing knowledge, higher perception of truth and a greater nobility of character. Every Principal before and after Mr. Levan said the same thing year after year in a differ- ent way and I wish to pass these same high ideals along to you. It has been the strict ob- servance of these truths down through the years that has made the Woodstock Collegiate ln- stitute an outstanding school. It is my hope that ever-increasing knowledge, a higher perception of truth and a greater nobility of character may be the fruit of your labors from your association with this school. THE ORACLE E. FERGUSON, Principal Five