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David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute (sporadically known as David and Mary Thomson , DMT, or Thomson) is a semestered English-language high school located in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada originally sanctioned by the Scarborough Board of Education until its merger with its successor board, the Toronto District School Board in 1998. Its motto is ''Nil Sine Magno Labore'' (Nothing without great effort).〔http://www.tdsb.on.ca/schools/details.asp?FeatureID=S&schno=4130&schoolId=1140&Status=L〕 ==History== The David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute school building was built in 1958 and opened on September 8, 1959 by the Scarborough Board of Education splitting off the population of Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute and R. H. King Collegiate Institute located in the heart of historical Scarborough.〔 The building was designed by the architects, Peter L. Allward and George Roper Gouinlock. Being opened as the sixth secondary school in the borough. W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute, the fifth secondary school, had been opened the year before. These two years marked the beginning of the fantastically accelerating growth period in the Scarborough school system necessitated by the equally fantastic growth in business and industry and in the general population. At the time Thomson was in the planning stage, the potential for television in education was a popular topic for discussion but not much had been done about it. Here again King provided the incentive for experimentation and Thomson became the first secondary school in Scarborough, if not in Canada, to have cable television incorporated in the structure of the building. Some of the earliest experiments in this system involved transmitting a display or experiment produced in one classroom simultaneously to several other classrooms. For example, a teaching model of the Shakespearian Globe Theatre was telecast in this way, as was the dissection of a frog from a science lab. Since that time the invention and perfection of video tape machines have entirely changed the original concept of educational television. Thomson attracted a wealth of applications from both experienced and inexperienced personnel for both Faculty and Secretarial positions. Staff connections with Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto were so numerous that it was jokingly suggested that the school should be called David and Malvern instead of David and Mary. Despite the handicap of occupying a building still under construction, the school opened on time. the cafeteria was the only large area available for the first few weeks. Hence in addition to its primary purpose, it became a temporary assembly hall. The gymnasium and the auditorium were far from being finished. This confused situation was compounded by weekly and sometimes daily visits from groups of educators near and far who wished to see the television experiment in action. With the school officially opened on February 17, 1960, the "1958" cornerstone of the David and Mary Thomson C.I. was erected in 1961. The school underwent additions in the 1960s and 1970s such as extra classrooms, new double gymnasium, science labs, enlarged library, and vocational shops. In 1989, it served as a third campus for Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies until moving to Centennial College in 1994 following the loss of Tabor Park Vocational School to the Metropolitan Separate School Board in 1989. Since Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute was closed in June 2000, its students in the former catchment area attending are now served by Thomson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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