Museum / Archive

Elgin County Archives

Part Of

Stollery Studio fonds

Description Level

Item

Item Number

50-2065 (1_646)

50-2066 (1_647)

50-2067 (1_648)

Accession Number

2018-57

Storage Room

Archives 4th Floor Storage Room

Storage Location

M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_646

M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_647

M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_648

GMD

graphic material

Date Range

September 11, 1950

Publication

1_646 was published in St. Thomas Times-Journal on September 12, 1950, page one.

1_647 was published in St. Thomas Times-Journal on September 12, 1950, page ten.

647 was posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: September 7, 2021.

Physical Description

3 negatives: plastic

Scope and Content

Photographs of staff and students of Alma College getting ready to go back to school. Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal on September 12, 1950, page one: “New Teacher on Staff at Alma College.” 1_646: “Grouped around the piano in the attractive drawing room of Alma College are the four new teachers joining the college staff this year. Seated at the piano is Miss Mary Elizabeth Bell, of Amherst, N.S., who has been appointed assistance head of the department of music, with Dr. Lillian M. Hunter, center who is to teach science; Miss Joanne Nichol, B.A., Of Blenheim, left , a 1950 graduate of the University of Western Ontario, who is to teach French and Spanish; and Miss Muriel Georgina Berner, formerly of the Isle of Wight, right, who will teach the pre-Collegiate classes. A graduate of Salisbury Training College for Teachers, the latter taught in England before coming to Canada two years ago. Dr. Hunter, who is a graduate of University Collage, University of Toronto, received her degree of Ph.D. from Radcliffe College which is in affiliation with Harvard University. She comes to St. Thomas from Whitby, where she has been on the staff of the Ontario Ladies’ College. Miss Bell took postgraduate work at Mount Allison Conservatory of Music and also studied wit Ernest Hutcheson, in New York, with Leonid Kreutzer in Berlin, Germany, and with Reginald Stewart and Alberto Guerrero in Toronto. She taught at St. Mary’s Junior College at Raleigh, North Carolina, and recently has been on the staff of her alma mater, the Mount Allison Conservatory of Music.” Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal on September 12, 1950, page ten: “Students Return to Alma College.” 1_647: “Students from many distant points as well as from throughout this province come by car and train and many by plane for the opening of the new term at Alma College, this week. Classes opened today and the above picture shows three of the students who arrived on Monday. From left to right, they are: Lorna McGough, a third year student retuning after vacation at her home in Havana, Cuba; Barbara Scott, coming from her home in Peru for her second year at the college; and Thelma Farris, of Sarnia, a new student. Social function for getting acquainted with staff, fellow students, the school, and its lovely campus are surroundings are part of the events of the opening week at the college, and the Student Council, clubs, and special interest groups will also be organized shortly.”

Name Access

Alma College

Related Material

Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B9 9_134

Website / Street View Notes

Link directs to a Facebook post featuring the image 1_647.

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