Alexandra High School - Old Acquaintance Yearbook (Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada)

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Alexandra High School, June 28, 1947. Dusty River Junction, Arkansas. Dere Maw, Wall, I have finished my first year at school and now that I am ready to graduate I have learned enough to send you this letter. I have done very good because the teachers said that I should not be in high school. I don't really think I am good enough to go to college yet, tho. The first thing I did when I got to the big city fMedicine Hat, that isJ I went and looked up uncle Zeke. Heis in the hotel business. He cleans out the spittoons. Uncle Zeke said that since there were so many teachers at the school I would not be able to take them all an apple, so he gave me some apple seeds and I gave each of them one so they could plant a tree. The subject that I liked best was Social Studies. I find that there has been a war going on with some feller called Addie Hitler. QBy the way, how is our feud with Batfields coming along ?J I wouldn't listen to them when they tried to teach me history, tho. How could they tell me all about Napoleon Boneyparts and Bill Shakedown when they didn't even know the guys. I am also taking Geometry so I will be able to move in the best circles. I take Sikology, which is supposed to tell you what everybody knows ina language that nobody understands. I would like to live in Paris, though. It seems that everybody there is so educated that they can all speak French. But there are' a lot of rules around here. You are not allowed to spit on the floor. They must leak or something. Five days of school make one weak. I don't really mind school, tho. It's just the principal of the thing. If I had my way all of the teachers would be paid so well they would be able to retire right away. We have a system of progressive edification. In it we spend a small part l7!10J of our time playing games and other sports than that there. There is football. This is a type of legal mayhem. As long as football is played on muddy fields it will never be a clean sport, even though they do have scrub teams. There is also tennis. This is mostly a racket. You have to be satisfied with net profits. There are also baseball, table tennis, bowling and an odd game of craps. Every now and then they put on a dance at the school. To look at all the people there you would think that the wall was going to fall down. They are all leaning on it. I am not 87

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so good at dancing but I held the girls while they danced. Some- times the floor got so crowded I couldn't tell who my partner Was. When I come back to Dirty River Junction this summer I will go first by train. That is one of those things that smokes a lot and also choos. Then I will rent a streamlined car. That is one of those noo types of cars made so you can't tell if you were run over or backed into. When I reach the mountain country I will buy a mule. If it isn't too backward about going forward I should be back home by mid-August. Offectionately, BOB SHIELS. Scholarship Winners Just before Easter an assembly was held for the present- ation of scholarships to various students. They included: Rotary scholarship for General Proficiency in Grade XII 1550.005 was won by Eleanor Johnson, with an average of 80.867-. Kiwanis scholarship for General Proficiency in.Grade XI 1550.003 was won by Sibyl Louise Niblock, with an average of 85.3'Z-. Rotary scholarship for General Proficiency in Grade X 1850.003 was won by Hattie Hogg, with an average of 86.7 'Zn Students' Union scholarship for General Proficiency in Grade IX 1825.001 was Won by Phyllis Sadler. School Board scholarship for General Proficiency in Com- mercial subjects 1S50.00J was won by Hattie Hogg. Judge Green Memorial Medal for the highest mark in Social Studies was won by Eleanor Johnson with a mark of 100. I.O.D.E. scholarship for the highest mark in two foreign languages was won by Sibyl Louise Niblock with an average of 89. 1iB25.00.J - Business and Professional Women's Club prize of 525.00 for the highest mark in English obtained by a Grade XII graduat- ing student going into the nursing or teaching profession and the Wo1nen's Literary Club prize of a book to the student get- ting the highest mark in English won by Eleanor Johnson and Noreen Cuyler, both of whom have a mark of 78, with Eleanor having the choice of the prize due to her higher average. I.0.0.F. prizes for the highest standing in technical sub- jects. Boys-won by Herbert Weiss 1S15.00J, and girls-Won by Millicent Salway 1S15.00J. 89