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IVWFAAWUSTHEW School Days of Yesteryear are Recalled at BDCI Reunion of school days were my vivid in the minds of all it who attended the Barrie Cotiegi ate Old Home Week reunion on Fri day afternoon To be met at the door by smiling teachers who had often thought less kindly of us dur ing our school days was one of the big moments of the Centennial for us oldylrls and old boys Soma of the former students we chatted with had attended the old collegiate on Blake 511ch and others shared memories of the school as it had been five ten and twenty year ago The new wing was not too familiar for many graduates but the faces of teachers and pupils with whom they had shared their school days carried them back over the years lot of past mommies of the town are tied up With school days and own those of us who still Ilvc in town and have live acquaint ance with the school felt real link with the past on Friday The stven thousand cups of tea that Ccntennial visitors drank at the Community House Headquart crs during Old Home Week were served by representative group of Barrie women drawn from various organizations in the town Yester day and the previous Sunday in dividuals were called on to tact as hostesses to tho homecomcrs but on the seven weekdays of the Con tennial celebrations club women extended warm welcome to those who dropped in to register or vis it thc Centennial Museum Bayvicw Chapter No 105 of the Order of the Eastern Star provided hostesses on the opening day Sat urday August On Monday morn ing and afternoon Barrie Womens Institute members took over and in the evening Soroptimlst Club of Barrie was hostess organiz ation IIostcsses on Tuesday were the members of the Womens Auin iary to the Kiwanis Club WIIIIC in the evening the Business and Professional Womens Club served tea to visitors The Womens Hospital Auxiliary to the Royal Victoria Hospital was at Community House on Wednesda morning and in the afternoon ani evening Golden Star Lodge and the Business and Professional Wo mens Club welcomed the old boys and old girls The Ladies Aux cumin cram IS ran sac 105001100 if Quoot of Toronto St Barrie iraona 4091 ilisry to the Lions Club looked after visitors throughout Thursday morning afternoon and evening and or Friday the Loyal True Blue Lodge the Beaver Rebekah Lodge and the Soroptimist Club officiated Saturday morning hostesses were members of Blue Haten Lodge and the Womens Canadian Club was the afternoon group The local Womens Instltute branch provided hostesses for an other event during Old Ionic Week The members welcomtd visitors and offered help to IlaVeIItrs at tending the Ccntcnniul Basket Iio ntc at St Vincent Park on Fri day when Prime Minstcr St Laurent paid his Centennial call to Barrie Among those in attendance was Robert Campbell from Calgary Alberta Born at Mincszng Mr Campbell taught school in Simcoe County Two years ago he donated antiques to the Barrie Womens Institute for thc WI Museum Several of Mr Campbells old friends were having supper at the park in honor of his 84th birth day The Institute Indies presented him with centennial plate and card Mrs Jacobs schoolmate having the honor of giving the souvenir to the former resident The LIberal candidate in the Tor onto Greenwood ridiug in todays election is native of the Barrie district Miss Inez Somcrs said b0 forc the election that she was Liberal by descent as well as by choice In Beeton where she was born her father publishcd the weekly newspaper that was really Grit late starter in the campaign she was nominath less month before the election date but worked hard to make up for lost time Inez Somers attended school in Toronto graduated in house hold science from the University of Toronto and for 13 years worked in the United States in food re search Dubllc relations advertising and radio In 1940 Miss Somcrs returned to Canada to become home service director for the Consumers Gas Company in Toronto post she rc signed four years ago During the war she worked withgovemment experts on food and nutrition sup ervised the Cooking School of the Air and gave food lectures Active in Girl Guide work she wasonce elected to the national board of directors she couldnt accept the honor because of business com mitments She has also been active in food and nutrition societies At one time shewas chairman of the New York Diabolic Association Explain Staff Training The background and objectives of the unique venture in manage ment training now being pursued by officers of the Canadian National Railways at Bishops University Lennoxville were outlined recently by Dingle system vicepresid ent operation to the Rotary Club of Sherbrooke llhe fundameilgalwaims of the rail way staff training course said Mr Dingle wgrjggto develop the officers abllityto thinkrlogically and quick ly and express himself clearly to broaden his knowledge of business affairs in generalpand widen his views of lihe functions of depart ments other than his own andvto sprepare himself for great respon slbilities Mr Dingle said that this years training plan might be considered pilot model by which we can be guided In the future If hopes are borneout there is in the offing est ablishment of qulltime Canadian National Staff Training College formcr Former Students Ilml Teachers Recall School Buys 01 The Past than mi SEVERAL MEN AND WOMEN who were students at the Barrie Collegiate Institute before the turn of the century were among muse who visited the collegiate at the Old Home Week reunion on Friday afternoon to renew acquaintance and Kenzle chat to see the Collegiate Centennial On Friday afternoon of Centen nial Week below the beautiful roek garden lawn umbrellas and chairs beckoned guests to the Bar ric District Collegiate Institute when the school opened its doors to welcome back the teachers and hundreds of students of former years At each door local graduates were stationcdt0 provide name slips and answer the inevitable question Will Mr GlldWOOd Ald It Girdwood former principal be here And he certainly was He managed to get about 10 feet inside the door before he was sur rounded and for the next hOur he held court in that one spot Later he moved into the cafeteria where he hoped to meet everyone Throughout the afternoon the halls resoundcd with laughter and exclamatibns of delight as old friends unexpectedly met WTIIP boys and girls of yesteryear came from Vancouver and Man treal from Hornepayne and Hous ton Texas and from dozens of points in between student of 1888 chatted with graduate of 1953 and almost every intervening year was represented There were many compliments showered on the new wing of the school and the redecoration of the old section Remarks such as How everything has changed were followed by But we thought it was ne in our day too number of former students brought along small replicas of themselves to point out proudly to the seats they had occupied or to the scince room gas taps they had accidentally left open One small girl shyly asked Wat Dad dy really the teacherspet and Daddy laughineg announced that that must have been why he spent so much time in the detention room Baskets of owers lent festive air to the bright new cafeteria where the guests gathered for tea convened by Mrs Cockburn Among the earliest students whose names appeared in the Cen tennial Register at the close of the reunion were Robert Camp belll Calgary Alta 18881890 Charles Love Toronto 1898 1902 Mrs Charles Love Toronto Mrs James Scott 189498 Sheriff Drury 1890796 Fred Gran07188285 George Brown 18961900 Matt Robertson 189298 Dr EdwardGallie Toronto 1895 oightg vb tho amusements that peoples to the bi W761 gourd undoing ever IWISII to ARiindtlrlp Fares Niiw $2515 poem $2570 30me $945 onrnorr Sim 99 Moore CalgaryAlla Sharp of Montreal and Harold Sharp of Montreal Walter Tou chettc of Montreal Laurene Mo Kibbon of Windsor Ernest Baldwin of Goldwater Mich Ma bel Hounsome Earley of Wyan dotte Mich Margaret McMartin Holroydc of Winnipeg Man Don Reid of Calgary Alta Mrs Brown Cook of Houston Texas Ila Newton Calgary Alta Neil McKenzie Oberon Mam Bob Mat son of Vancouver BC Robert Campbell of Calgary Alta and Moore of Calgary Alta Former teachers who were seen among the Old Home Week gath ering were Girdwood who had been principal for many years Mrs William Flannery nee Mer tis Donnelly Miss Elizabeth Wal len Major Douglas Adams Mrs James Ford nee Mary Adams and Mario Giacomelli now of Ham itton The staff committee to cnargr of the Barrie District Collegiate Institute reunion was headed by Synnott as converter Bowman principal Morrow Cockburn Miss Jes sie Hunter Miss Anastasia Hughes and Miss Laura Young The tea committee was headed by Mrs Cockburn as con vener and consisted of Mrs John school as it is today Principal Bow man the Hon Drury George John ston MLA chairman of the Barrie District Collegiate Institute Board and Thomas Mc formal cup of tea Dr CaIIie Tolls Student training Medical Luncheon Continued from page age limit of what the student must meet This year 800 will apply for admission to the University of Tom onto Medical SCHOOL and only 125 can be admitted The record of about old times over an in Do Mrs Neil McBride Mrs Synnott Mgs Jack Clem mcns Mrs Fisher and Mrs Bigelow Tea assistants were Mrs Walls Miss Nell Channcn Miss Nora DcIIart Mrs Steven Hines Mrs Jack Webb Mrs Cain eron Mrs Victor Wildman Mrs Harold Webb Mrs Charles Spcarn Mrs Dorothy Tompkins Mrs George Cameron Mrs Joan Crooks Mrs Wilfred WardlcMis Lougheed Mrs JackiftIlcm mens Mrs Monkman Mrs Allan Bell Mrs Rodgers Miss Margaret Sinclair Mrs McKenzie Miss Helen Culross Mrs Royal Bradley Mrs Harry Armstrong Mrs Arthur McKen zie Mrs Charles McMartin Mrs Edwin Ineson Ruby Bell Mrs Hugh Wallace Mrs Jack Coleman and Mrs Ivan Clemmcns In charge ofregistration Werc Miss Anastasia Hughes Miss Jean Goodfellow Mrs Ross Stephens Mrs Striling Grant Harry Milne Mrs Ncll MacDonald Mrs Robertson Mrs Nellie Hall Miss Dorothy Loih and Miss Marl gucrite McKinley Pulpand paper loads ten per cent of revenue freight cars loaded Centennial Flashback rst Cemetery located Close County Buildings on Worsleiyi St Barries finst cemetery was locate ed in the churchyard of the ori ginal Anglican Church which stood in the sloping gore immed lately to the east of the County Building Thechuxch was aban doned for the new one on Collier Street in 1864 and when the Bar rie Union Cemetery was organ ized in 1877 the oldone 3311 into Families or friends of most of those buried there transferred complete graves to the new ceme tery but others remained until some six years ago in state of complete neglect Then thL pro perty was sold for construcion of residepcesand the cemetery pass 139093 Laidman 189395 ed cut or existence taking with it Mrs William Crossland 1892 and tudents from distant points who had come to attend the Centennial reunion included Hazel Irish Koch of Nawaven Conn ean Tucket number of interesting links with wminicramanrravofwNW thepastMi In this centennial year it seems timely to point out that one of the oldest monuments in the old ceme tery was the subject of no little Scene at Centennial Parade controversy inscription VIo the Memory of James Wickens Esquire Died 20th May 1847 native of Berkshire England Served biscountry many years as Lieut in the Royal Waggon Train in the Peninsular War under Wel lington and in the Commissariat He was also memiber of the Can adian Parliament in 1837 The Memory of the Just is Blessed Prov 10 vs Hunters History of Simcoe County states that Wickens set tled on Lot 13 1st Concession of Vespra was candidate for Par liament in 1836 and was elected again in 1841 In 1923 Nellie Rankin Sissons frequent coriesipondeilt to The Ex aminerranda keenlocal histofiana wrote letter to the pziper con cernintgthis stone Which said in part One headstone after 76 years of service is standing upright like Sentinel in that lonely place This stOne marks the grave of man whose memory we should cherish for the association it bears to the history ofour county and country It bore the following It was probably surprising that such amhoncsi sentiment should be questioned but very promptly there came reply from another local historian Sinith who SM wt grmagic fairstinny Si BN If l3 ii ent fairly regular contributions to Siiltcoe County and Toronto papers His viewson Mr Wickens turned optic beisomowhat vitriolic as he iatgued that this was one man who dascrved to be forgotten Sdme of is Ietterf reads gt Why should this particular tabv all these applicants will be examin ed and naturally the best selected Having served on this selection board Dr Gallic pointed out that the first hundred selection are easy the remaining twentyfive very difficult In recent years in weighing the cases of this latter gmup consideration has been giv en to those candidates who are shown to have matriculated from rural area school Gourmet Hines canadianlood and Manners Duncan Etna hm cannot tent good food and author at William hunt and luncheon today at see when graduch of good is the num one nae 0ma A1 rtmiturai go With his wife the amiable vetler mm Bowling Green Km lucky was the nest of the Cub Turning to the actual Content ofI the medical courses Dr Gallic exv plalned that neither the arts course nor the honor science course have proven completely satisfactory for the purpose of the promedical years Consequently it has been ar ranged that the students in these years now spend some time on both English and science subjects More over modern trends in both medic inc and surgery are creating need for the inclusion of some mathea matics especially calculusln the work of these preparatory year Dr Gallic was emphatic In stating that the grade of student entering the medical course is steadily im proving He was equally forceful in refuting any statement to the effect that training is not as good as it used to be There is five times as much experience with patients in the wards today as there was in his day and the course offered in any first class medical school in America is now much better than it was In former days At least three Canadian schools he stated those of the Universities of McGill Montreal and Toropto or let be Selected for exceptional hon or The inscription on it which reads not unlike neWSpaper obit uary of the present day records that Wickens served in the wagon train and Commlsmriat service in Lhe Peninsular War Since Wel lington once said his army in Spain inarchcd on its belly it is prob able thata junior oftficer in charge of grub carts contributed in some measure towards driving Napol eons French Marshal beyond the Pyrenees but services such as Wickcns was in position to rend er arc not exactly of the kind us ually mentioned indespatchas If there is no reason why this transport officer should receive special posthumous honor there is one verystrong reason why he should not The reason is gIVen in brief form in William Lyon Mac kenzietMorangs Makers of Can ada and more fully in Hunters History of Simcoe County In both books the fact is recalled that Wickens and Samuel Lount con tested this county in the election immediately premdinythe Rebel lion of 1837 That election was the most rotten one ever held in Canada Smith goes on to point out that bribery intimidation and active participation by the Lieut Gov Francis Bond Head won them the election but goaded the Reformers into the abortive rebellion He further suggests that Wickens In fluence was factor in the subse quent trial and execution of Iount and Matthews as rebels at Holland Landing Unquestionably Mr Smiths viewpoint is strongly partisan whereas the Sissons letter was in terested only in thepreservation of local historicalirtreasures In any eVentvthese two letters in thefiles of The Examiner are the only record of the old stone since it had the misfortune to be broken during reznovalifrom the cemetery Another stone from the same era also unfortunately brokenand the dates lost contained an in scription that might be of fuller significance for posterity than any thing to be found on the Wiekens stone It tread Sacred to the Memory oI CholmleyWoodward freeman by birth of the borough of Liverpool Mommas voebmd in position to compete with the best medical schools of either the United States or Britain PostGraduate Inlnlng Changing policies with regard to interning of young doctors the types and duration of internship were reviewed and the speaker added that much attention is being Wen to the devolpment of post graduate training significant trend in the schools of today is the decline in what Dr Gallie termed the craze for specialization sur prising percentage of todays stud ents are pointed toward the field of general practice He predicted that the standards of training in the field of surgery would place higher and higher demands upon the stud ent and that within twentyfive years all surgeons would be speci ally licensed lege acting president Prof Covers and Mrs Cavern Currently on min through Quebec and Ontario to the coal ity of Canadian restaurants Mr Hines arrived in Guelph last night and will leave tomorrow after ad dream Kiwanis Club luncheon at the ountrv Club Canadian food isnt much dif ferent from our own 33 the noted gourmets tlmgh we dent have the wonderful maple yrun in our omntry that vou have Another thing we have enjoyed is vour wan derful Canadian cheese What most impressed the tireless traveller from Kentucky twith Mrs Hines be averages 31000 miles year by cart has not been the ex cellent food Canadians eat out their good manners People in this country seem to have time for courtesy Mr Hines sa In his soft Kentucky accen etimes think in our countri we tend to forget that courtes ys Canadians never seem to orget this In their latest tour through Can ada Mr and Mrs Hines have cat enin Montreal Kingston and T0 rpdto checking restaurants already listed in their famous guidebook and looking for other to list And how do they like the food InCueIpb We think the food here 13 good says Mrs Hines Mr Hines and look for food that wholesome properly nrcmredand attractiver served and we ve found lots of it wherever we ve travelled in Canada forth Dr Orok Midhurst Dr Smith Boyd Wise and the following all of TorontozDr Angus Campbell Dr Bob Delaney Dr Frank McInnis Dr Ed Gallic Dr Gordon Gallic Dr Leo Hall Dr Quentin Hardy and Dr Hughes Also present were Dr Ross Lobb Toronto radiologist for RVH the Rev James Ferguson Chairman of the Board and all Barrie medical doctors except Dr Bigclow and Dr Smith who were on call It was noteworthy coincidence that this interesting event took place on the first anniversary of the opening of the Royal Victor Huspital Wing In his opening remarks Dr 331 lie engaged in some pleasant re miniscing recalling that in Ihe basement of the house in which he was born he had made the im Eprint of his hand In the cunent Iwhcu hewas about six years of age He and his brother Dr Gor don Gallic were planning to visit the old family home at 57 Mary Street latei that afternoon He also insisted that in spite of some doubters he could recall beating drum in the old rink nearby on the occasibn of the hanging of Louis Riel He would have been about three years old Dr Gallic was introduced by Dr TumbullChief of the Barrie Hospital Medical Staff and was thanked by Dr Bill Lii tle both of whom referred in terms Iof admiration and affection to Galliesvparents As special tri bute Dr Little read to the gather ing the brief address that was given by Sir Max Page in London in 1947 when Dr Gallle waspresented with the Honorary Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons The luncheon was presided over by Dr Laurie President of the Medical Staff of the RoyaIVic toria HospitaL Dr Doidge was chairman of the committee in charge while the luncheon was pre pared and served by the hospital staff under the direction ofMiSs Molly smith the RVJI Dietitian Only two ladies were 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