Arvida High School - Yearbook (Arvida, Quebec Canada)

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36 TOBY - AN INTERESTING CHARACTER I have a peculiar friend named Toby. He can make a lot of noise in spite of being only a year and half old. His ears are three times the size of mine, his legs are a little over a foot long, but he can jump three feet high without any trouble, and you should see his collar! It's as black as coal He cut his leg once and we had to have Dr. Richter in or else he would have bled to death. The doctor had to take him up to the hospital so my mother gave the doctor a sheet to wrap him up in. She gave him a white sheet but he brought baek a red one although there was a tight tourniquet on his leg. When they got him up there they took him to the operation room. He bit Dr. Richter and also got ether in his eyes. When they brought him home again he had a big bandage on his leg. He had to leave it on for four days but it began to swell so we had to take it off. When the swelling went down he took out all the six clips he had in his cut, and in a month he could run and jump as he used to but there is still a scar a quarter of an inch deep. Who's Toby? Why, that's my dog! BILLY GILLIS, Grade VI SCULPTURING To sculpture you have two razor-sharp chisels and four sculpturing knives, some mo- deling clay, or some plaster of Paris if you can't get modeling clay. When I sculpture I take the first and second chisels and shape the clay roughly resembling what I am going to make. Then I take the biggest knife and shape the clay more like what I am making. Next I take the second knife and make the forehead, etc. Then I take the third knife and make details such as the I eyes, nose, mouth, hair and ears. The last knife I use to smooth the neck and anything with not much details, or else I would smooth them away. I have practised a lot, yet I am not perfect. It will take me many more years of study and practice. . BILLY STARR, Grade VI AN INTERESTING CHARACTER I am about to tell you a little about a very interesting character. I have chosen as my subject Terry Sawchuck, goaler of the Detroit Red Wings. I have always liked hockey and I admire T. S. because he is one of the greatest goalies ever to play hockey. T. S. is only twenty-two years old. He is the big reason why the Red Wings are running away with the National Hockey League Race. He has big hands and fast reflexes and a real gorilla-like crouch. In fifty games this season he has scored ten shutouts and allowed a miserly average of 1.86 goals scored against him per game. Goalie Terry Sawchuck does not believe in guess- workg he has forty stitches in his face to prove it Although I have never had the privilege of seeing Terry Sawchuck play, I look forward to the day and never stop hoping. JOHN EBERTS Grade VI

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35 A SAILOR My brother has always wanted to be a sailor and he is one now. The first company he worked for was the Saguenay Terminals. When he worked for that company he didn't go on very long voyages. He only went to ports in the United States and around Africa. He worked for that company for about a year and then quit because they worked in bauxite and he didn't like that. It wasn't a very clean job but it wasnit bad. When he went to Africa he brought home a stuffed alligator and a big sea shell. He said that the water was full of alligators of about fifteen feet or more all around the boat. After he quit working for that company he started to work for the Atlan- tic Shipping Company in Montreal. The name of the second boat is S. S. Cliffside. On that boat he started in Montreal and went to Hali- fax. From Halifax he went to France, from France he went to about five ports in Spain. When he left Spain two stowaways got on the boat and hid in it. At the end of three days they showed themselves. When the captain saw them he asked them if they had robbed any banks in Spain and other things. They said that they hadn't. He also asked them if they had killed any people, if they had ever been in prison, and many other questions. They always said that they hadn't done any- thing but the captain did not trust them so he talked on radio to the place in Spain where they had come from and asked if they had done any harm there. The police in Spain and other people said that they hadn't done any harm. The boat was in the Mediterranean Sea now and the captain didn't think it was worth while to take them back to Spain. When- ever they came into a port the captain always put handcuffs on their hands so that they wouldn't run away. Later they didn't handcuff them any more but let them work on the boat just like any other of the men. My brother is on a different boat now but he still writes letters to the stowaways because he was their friendg they always talked together. My bro- ther can write and talk in Spanish so he writes letters to them in Spanish. He can talk fifteen languages or maybe sixteen now so almost every country he goes to he can talk the lan- guage used there. From Spain he went through the Strait of Gibralter through the Mediterranean Sea and to Port Said in Egyptg from Port Said in Egypt he went through the Suez Canal through the Red Sea and to Bomby, India. Before they got off they had to get about fifteen different kinds of vaccination because there are many kinds of diseases in India. And also on the boat they have to eat certain kinds of food all the time. For travelling around in India there would be a man with a little buggy and you would get in it and he'd pull to the place you wanted to go. You'd give the man fifty cents and he would really be glad. My brother went to almost every country and he's got all kinds of money. Most of the people are very poor in India. Some men have fifteen wives if they're rich. If they aren't very rich they have five to ten. In some places you have to walk quite a long way and the people who are poor follow you about two miles if you go that far because they see that you come from Canada or the United States and they know that you must have some money. My brother was walking along a street in India and there was a whole crowd of people following him because they wanted him to give them something. He gave one person his pen, another some pencils, and the rest a few cents just so that tney'd go away. Later another person wanted some- thing and he gave him a button which he had and the person went away really glad. At the end he only had his shoes, pants, and shirt left on him. From India he went to the Philippine Islandsg from the Philippines he went to the Hawaiian Islands. When he was there it was around the month of January here and while it was so cold that we could hardly go outside, he wrote a letter and said that he was going swimming. From the Hawaiian Islands he went to Cartagena and Colombia in South America. He said that they sold fifty pounds of bananas for a quarter there. tTo be continued on page 627

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37 TOM AND THE PAINKILLER Tom was feeling unhappy because Becky Thatcher, his fiancee had given him back his andiron knob which Tom had given her as an engagement ring. Aunt Polly had decided to cure Tom with Painkiller. Tom made on he liked it and after bothering Aunt Polly so much for it she said, If you want it so much, take it yourself. So Tom mended the health of a crack in the sitting room floor with it. One day while Tom was in the act of do- sing a crack, Peter the cat came purring up. Tom said, Don't ask for it if you don't want it? Peter signified that he did want it. So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Painkiller. Peter did a couple of side flips, a double somersault, gave a war whoop and tore around the room spreading havoc in his wake. Aunt Polly arrived just in time to see him sail through the open window carrying the remaining flower pots with him. Now would you like to read Mark Twain's Tom Sawyerw? My apologies to Mark Twain. BOBBY HORWOOD, Grade Seven. GOOD CITIZENSHIP I have divided my speech into four main topics. First, Good Citizenship at school, second. Good Citizenship in the street, third, Good Citizenship in sports, and last of all Good Citizenship at parties. GOOD CITIZENSHIP AT SCHOOL: It's a beautiful summer day. The boys and girls are just waiting for the recess bell to ring. It rings. Out go the boys and girls, each few to their own destination either skipping, softball, or tag. On the way out down go Johnny's orange peels and Jane's chocolate bar wrappers. They don't worry about the appearance of their school ground or any- body's slipping on the rubbish. The recess bell then rings and the fifteen minutes are over. Jack throws down the bat and ball with 'Tm not a sucker expression on his face. Some class will be minus a softball game at recess in the future. Is that the way boys and girls should carry on at school? GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN THE STREETS: Don't walk four or five abreast on a side- walk. It may be fun for you but how about the other people? Are they going to squeeze in bet- ween you, or jump over you? Use some com- mon sense. They aren't Super Man you know. If there is an old lady having trouble to carry her parcels or to cross a busy street, ask her if she would like some help. That won't kill you, will it? GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN SPORTS: In sports you can really determine if a boy or girl is a good citizen. If there is an out- standing player on the opposite team who is different race or creed do not ridicule him. Welcome players from out of town as you would want to be welcomed. In sports you should be a fair loser and a good sport . GOOD CITIZENSHIP AT PARTIES: You may not think there is such a thing as Good Citizenship at parties, but there is. When you are at a party and most likely en- joying yourself as you should, do you ever think about the hostess and her mother? Are they having a good time? Well they aren't but if you would give them a hand they would. Why donit you help pass the cookies around, or bring your glass and some one elses out to the kitchen for a refill, or help by choosing a game or two? Jane will surely run out of games sometime. These kindnesses will also help you overcome shyness. Are you a good citizen? Am I a good citi- zen? Are all the pupils of Arvida High School good citizens? May I quote a little poem which made me think seriously about good citizen- ship? I know a friendly city, a happy place indeed, Where there are friendly neighbours of every race and creed, And when a lonely stranger walks down its friendly streets, He gets a friendly greeting from every one he meets. Each friendly house of worship has doors that open wide, ..That seem to say, Please enter, you'll find your friend inside. So isn't it a pity and don't you think it wrong, If such a friendly city lives only in my song. JUNE SAN TONI Grade VIII