Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
Ken Thomas is seated in the centre of this 1942 photo, holding the HI-Y Club plaque. The Orillia club received this award from the HI-Y Fellowship of the Dominion of Canada having fulfilled the mandate to “create, maintain throughout the school and community high standards of Christian character.”
The students and Y’s Men members of the Orillia Fellowship of High School Clubs are pictured. Front row, from left: Len McNeice, Don Fournier, Aldersey Gibson, Don Anderson, Jack Thomson.
Second row: Lloyd Dobson, Carl Stone, Skid Watson, Dr. Horne, Ken Thomas, Russ Jerome, Hubie Goodfellow, Al Perryman and Andy Anderson.
Third row: Mac Buchanan, Pete Noy, Jas Cooke, Jack Dougan, Burt McIssac, George McNee, Bob Hipwell, John McMurray, Don McCaskell, Doug Muir and Don Hopkins.
Back row: Max Russell, Charlie Thomas, Charlie Davison, Jim Perryman, John Lee, Les Mould and Bill Delagram.
