1961 Magnet Yearbook

Farewell to Mr. William Noble, B.A., B.Paed.
If an the ships I have at sea
Should come a-sa,iling 'home to me,
Ah, weB! the harbor would not hold
So many ,ships a,s there wou:ldbe
If all my ships came home from sea.
EHa Wheeler WHcox, "My Ships"
This year. we were dis'appointed to genuine interest in trhe students did much
learn that lVIr. Nobile, Ithe Hea,d 'of the to make this newly-fmmed governing
English DepartI?ent, .wa.s ~eaving Jarvis body a success.
to become the VIce-PrmcIpa.1 at Lawrence . _ ,
Park CoUegiate.
As an Enghslh teacher, lVIr. NOble has
lVIr. Noble':s teaching career has in- a contagious zes.t fo~ his :subjoct, exceeded,
eluded. Earl Haig CoHeg;iateand Harbord perhaps, Qo~lly by fins wId~ kn~wledge 'Of
OoMegIate, where ihe taught for thirteen It: By vanous means h.e has l!1t ro.(;l:uced
years. Here at Jarvis, Mr. Noble was the hIS students to the best m Enghsh IItem-
Head of tlhe English Depa,rtment for four ture and has encouraged them to try to
years. produce work of the rh~gihest possible
During his stay at Jarvis, lVIr. Noble c.al,ibre..Who sh~I ever forget th.ose Enghas
not only taught EngLish, but he ihas IIsh pernods enlIvened by ,a Teadll~g f~om
taken 'an active part in the various other tihe works o! Jam~ Thurb~ .01' msplred
aspects ofsrtudent life as well. Realizing by an €SJPocIally fme descnptIOn passage
the need of students to have some repre- from Conrad? And who shrul1 forget the
sentation through which they could ex- fun we had :and the Slhakespe~re we
presstJheir views, lVIr. Noble with lVIir. learned b:;:- actmg lOut theplaj"~ wIth lVIr.
Strachan worked to brinO' about the for- Noble takmg the part of the kmg or tJhe
mation of the J arvis Central Council. viLlain?
Lag,t year, he was staff .adviser to ,its Thus it is with regret and a touch of
Formation Committee .and in i:lhis c.apa- nostalgia that we hid farewell to lVIr.
city looked after the oountless details ,in- Noble. Goodbye, sir, and tihank you for
volved in the new venture. This year lVIr. doing so much to enrioh our lives here at
Noble was the "Guilding-light" of the Jalrvis.
Central Council; his wide experience and
Inese Akmens, 13A
Farewell to Mrs. Cameron
This year, we bid fareweH to lVII'S. Jean
Cameron, B.A., a truly great comme~ci-al
teacheJr. We wi'sh her well on her wppointmentas
head of the Secretar,ia~ Depwrtment
at Western Te~hnical Commercia'l
Sohool.
In tflIe :seven years lVII'S. Gameron has
been at J'arvisas iheadof tJhe GommerC'ial
Department, she has helped many of her
students achieve a deeper interest and a
more 'comprehensive understanding whout
the surrounding's in the business world.
'Ehrouglhout the years, :she ha;s always been
ready when any typing or stenciHing had
to be done. The Central Council, which
has just been fo,rmed this j"ear, have come
to her many times and are greatly indebted
to her £.01' help.
lVIrs. Cameron was born in Dresden,
Ontario, and later attended schools in
Port Perry and Collingwood. She then
came to Toronto and obtained her Bachelor
of Arts degree at Victoria CoHegeand
after graduating, worked in i:lhe College
office for a year. From tJheir she went to
O.C.E. and then taught ,in DunnViille,
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where she met her husband. Unfortunately,
he pa;ssed away three years after
they were married. Then she went hack
to teaching at East,ern High Sclhoo[ of
Commerce for two years on tille temporary
staff. From there she went to Malvern
when the Commercia,l Department was
started and she taught there unti:l 1953.
From tlhere she came to U'S as head of the
Commercia:1 Department here.
lVII'S. Cameron isa highly qualified
teaciher as glhe is a specialist in English
and History, Physicrul Culture,and Com~
mercial. She is particularly interested in
working with young people and she also
enjo)'ls listening to operatic music. She is
extremely proud of her son, John, who is
majoring in Physics at lVIclVIa;ster Universityand
ihopes to obtain his Ph.D. this
year. She was also proud this year, to
be00me tJhe grandmother of a charming
little boy.
We wish lVII'S. Cameron continued success
and happiness in all her endeavours.
Karol Matsui, 12E