Collegian Summer 2019
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"Perhaps my dreams tell something<br />
about my relationship to<br />
NCC. I’m a prolific dreamer.<br />
Many of my dreams are about<br />
NCC, including discontinuing<br />
college teaching and returning<br />
to NCC to teach high school<br />
there."<br />
Dr. E. Morris and Leone Sider<br />
MEMORIES and DREAMS<br />
by Dr. E. Morris Sider<br />
E. Morris Sider<br />
My first day as a student at NCC was<br />
life-changing. I had come for grade 13,<br />
which was not offered in our local Selkirk<br />
high school. When I entered Belmont<br />
through the side door, I saw a pleasant-looking<br />
young woman (Leone Dearing)<br />
standing by the stairway in the otherwise<br />
vacant vestibule. Our eyes met. She<br />
gave me a lovely smile. Immediately and<br />
instinctively I sensed that something more<br />
than a smile lay in my future.<br />
In time, we became engaged. After living<br />
for two years in California as students at<br />
Upland College, we returned to Ontario<br />
for the summer and were married in the<br />
chapel of NCC. After obtaining my M.A.<br />
degree at Western University, I joined the<br />
NCC faculty. Our two daughters, Karen<br />
and Donna, spent, respectively, their first<br />
seven and six years on the school’s campus<br />
where we lived. Understandably, NCC<br />
has been a significant part of our lives!<br />
Leone Dearing<br />
My experiences as a student at NCC (then<br />
known as Ontario Bible School) in many ways were different from<br />
my experiences in the Selkirk high school. At NCC, a strong spiritual<br />
atmosphere prevailed over much of student life. Class periods<br />
began with prayer, everyone (students and faculty) attended<br />
daily chapel, revival meetings occurred twice a year, students took<br />
required Bible courses, and from time to time the Gospel Team<br />
gave programmes off campus. Not least important, we could relate<br />
in meaningful ways with faculty because they were professing<br />
and vocal Christians. The spiritual nourishment and life-directing<br />
influence of such features were, of course, the major reason for<br />
the existence of the school.<br />
Dorothy Sherk was principal and a common favorite of students.<br />
An excellent administrator, teacher and<br />
counsellor, she was also sufficiently young<br />
and forward-looking to gain our youthful<br />
friendship and respect. Among her many<br />
useful observations on life was her claim<br />
that one could obtain a sufficient education<br />
apart from formal schooling simply by<br />
consistently reading a daily newspaper.<br />
Pauline Herr from Pennsylvania was also<br />
much admired, both for her intelligence<br />
and her attractive appearance, the latter<br />
feature being the subject of some conversation<br />
among the boys. One day she came<br />
to our history class in obvious elation. The<br />
Republicans, she happily informed us, in<br />
the election of the previous day had won<br />
both houses of Congress.<br />
cont'd on pg. 4<br />
Dorothy Sherk<br />
Pauline Herr<br />
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