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to ask our teachers,
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR NAME?,
and we were provided with a multitude of responses. (Y'Je can't help but feel that perhaps a couple of them were pull- ing our legs!)
Mr. Davidson: "I was named after my grandfather and it has just never bothered me that my first and last names are very similar."
Mr. Pearson: "I got my first name t om my mother's brother. People re I y look when I tell them my middle me. It's certainly not one that you hear often. It's a good Swedish name and it was my father's middle nam . '
Miss Baxter: "I g t my name when my mom said 'I like tile name Carol n' and my father said, 'Fine !'
Mr. Sproule: "My first name was after an uncle killed in WWII and my second name is from a cousin who died in that
same war."
fro my infant eyes."
~rs. Stoutenberg: "My mother hated
her name so she chose one that was not
related to anyone in the family."
Miss Swanson: My father had 8 sisters
and 1 brother and I was named after the
oldest sister. Thank goodness it was the
oldest one, because some of the other
sisters were named Myrtle, Mildred,
Olive, Florence, Toots and Wilda!"
Mr. Cook: "I was named after my father
and grandfather. My mother, however,
couldn't see an one calling a baby
TOP ACROSS: Miss Baxter, Mrs. Christine Leone Weston- Business + Co~op, Mr. Clifford McLean Martin- Special Services + Technical, Mr. David Arthur Shepherd - Math, Mr. David Gardner Chandler ~
Science + Phy. Ed.
LEFT: Mr. Brian James Traynor - English + Special Services
"WHAT'S IN A NAME?"
Mr. R sell: "I am the fourth in line after my real-grandfather!"
Mr. Wilkins n: "I was not only named after my grana~ther, but it was also a beautiful name far a beautiful baby!" Mr. R. Sneyd: "It i ost interesting to note that there has been a Ralph Sneyd in the family since the 13 century."
Mr. Knox: "I received m first name because of my father and great- grandfather. As for 'James", I ihiQ_k that my mother just liked it and felt that i one had a Presbyterian last name, he sho d have an Old Testament first name. Mrs. Sharp: "I was given my first name in honour of Barbara Anne Scott, the Canadian world figure-skating champ at the time and 'Mar aret' was my grand-
'Whitney', so she nicknamed me 'Ted'!'--'-m
Mr. Benbow:"
y second name came from my father and my mother felt my first na e captured the earthy, yet enlightened qualities she saw radiating
Mrs. Russell: "My dad wanted 'Marilyn' and my mom didn't like it so they pick- ed 'Marian'!"
name!"
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