Arvida High School - Yearbook (Arvida, Quebec Canada)

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Q2 HIS MAJESTY, THE RIVER High in the vast unknown called the water- shed, little brooks form and start the long journey to the ocean. These brooks gradually unite until the once small rivulets become a raging torrent defying all. Rushing and ra- cing it journeys on, until suddenly it is in the midst of a great quiet body of water, a lake. Slowly journeying through the lake His Majesty becomes impatient to be on his way again. Suddenly he is free and bigger and his pent up fury is released as he dashes off the falls, showering and springing, turning and twisting, pouring and roaring, moaning and foaming, dividing and gliding and sliding, clattering and battering and shattering, re- coiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling, until with a rise and a leap it is on its way again. More subjects join His Majesty in the form of brooks, and he rushes along increasing in size until salt water and level country slow him down until he empties into the ocean and enjoys a well-earned rest. His Majesty has ended his reign, but his successors are fol- lowing. For men may come, and men may go, but I go on forever. GEORGE GORDON Grade 11 EARLY AMBITIONS Many, if not all, children born and brought up in Canada or the United States of America have, at one time or another, wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl, whichever was the most convenient. I am not an exception to this, as for a period of almost five years I wanted to be a cowboy. I used to eat, drink, think, dream and act as a cowboy. Riding the wide open spaces of the front yard on my mythical black stallion, I would kill outlaws at a rate of ap- proximately ten per minute. Being a cowboy was great fun until I dis- covered the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in various books and comics. I discarded my imaginary cowboy suit and donned my none- the-less imaginary R.C.M.P. uniform. I always got my man, which is nothing strange among the Mounties. When I was old enough to understand that dreaded noun WAR I became a soldier and would lie by the corner of the house and shoot at the trees in the forest at the back of my house, as if they were the charging enemy. I was alone. My buddies were all dead. I was wounded in at least twenty-five places. But did I give in? No sir. I kept fighting until supper time. Meals were often interrupted when sud- denly I would leap from my chair, grab my trusty wooden Htommy gun and shoot an Henemy who had come too close. One day my career as a soldier came to a sad end. I had run out of ammunition and had gradually sneaked up on a group of 'tGer- mans who were standing around with loaded guns. You must not forget that these Ger- mansi' were really trees, I forgot, I was so carried away by my imagination that I leapt into the group and started to swing my tom- my gun.'QCrack I I That was the last of my weapon. I was so broken-hearted I could hard- ly eat for a day or two. I would not tell my fa- ther I had broken my gun because he would have laughed at the way I had broken it. One day I went for a bus ride with my father. Then my ambition was to be a bus dri- ver. This ambition was quickly abandoned when I was told of several accidents in which buses come out second-best. I went through a phase of wanting to be everything from a street-cleaner to a king in the course of less than a year. My next ambition was to be a cartoonist but that idea was abandoned, but not com- pletely, two or three years ago. I was off to a good start, if I must say so myself, but had no time to continue. At the present I am thinking of making the Royal Canadian Navy my career. GEORGE GORDON Grade 11

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41 IMPRESSIONS Since the motion picture industry has im- proved movies so greatly with sound and colour, going to the show has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment. To keep up with this modern trend, most schools now have up-to-date projectors and show films in school hours. An interesting store of films, mostly on subjects dealing with school work, can be ob- tained from the Department of Education li- brary. This novel way of learning is an excel- lcnt supplement to learning from the old, tra- ditional text book. And what school child isn't pleased when he is allowed to miss the old routine of the classroom and teacher to spend the period watching movies? Is the time well spent? Are we educated as well as amused? Arvida High School has film day about once each month, when most of Friday after- noon is spent seeing films, ranging on a wide variety of topics from the National Film Board or Crawley Films. The following is a short account of the movies seen by the pupils on one of these film days. The first, entitled Newfoundlanders , was a grim story of the sturdy Newfound- landers who live with the ocean at their door, From the time when the sun rises until it sets, men with unconquerable wills toil on the cruel sea for their very existence. When the season comes for the inshore codfishing, it is usually made a family affair with father, sons, and brothers. Before too long, these resolute men have mastered the art of being jack-of-all- trades, including farmer, mechanic, carpenter, and fisherman. Even though these Newfound- landers get along amazingly well, there is a definite need for contact with the outside world. So each year from the time when spring clears the harbour until the freezeup in the fall, steamers visiting the few ports along the coast occasion interest and excitement. Du- ring the winter when most fishing has stop- ped, one of the most interesting and profitable pastimes is hunting for young seals. To the place where birthblood has left a scar of dazzling stain on the white snow, the men head to strip these seals of their valuable fur. After a hard day's work on the bountiful but cruel sea, the misty shores faithfully lit by lighthouses are a symbol of safe return. This old tradition of those who keep the lights along the shores will remain as long as the seas and the centuries roll on. The next film was one of the favourites, Eye Witnessn, a type of newsreel with five or six subtitles. This one included: Still Gold on Them Thar Hills , showing new methods of obtaining gold on a large scale, Canada's New State Residence , in which we were shown through the home at 24 Sussex Street, Sister Pelagie , which witnessed the swear- ing-in ceremony of the first Eskimo in history to become a member of the Order of the Grey Nuns, Trapping the Sea Lamprey which showed an ingenious method of catching the killer who is such a threat to commercial fishing, and Chic Chicks in Air Force Bluet' in which a few R.C.A.F. models displayed the fashionable new uniform for W. D.'s, proving that women are women wherever they go. The last film, 'Screaming Jets , kept every body watching closely since jets cruising in the air are no novelty over Arvida. Within the last few years, the whole world has begun to listen to the high-pitched siren of jet pro- pulsion, whose birthplace was Switzerland. In order to keep up with the Russian MIG'S, Canadair of Montreal has started to build jets. along with other members of the U.N. This film showed close-ups of many different types of jets, including the F-86 Sabre and very powerful Strato-Jets, which take off like a homesick angel . Their top engineers who design the plane from the ground up strive for nothing less than supremacy. One of the top-priority orders now, the CF-100, calls for the closest collaboration of everyone involved. The engine presents the biggest problem as it has to be able to stand terrific heat and still maintain precision action. Every essential ins- trument has to be placed perfectly, since no pilot will have time to fumble for an out-of- reach lever while hurtling through the air in peace or war. When most of the headaches of building are over, the aluminum skin is riveted around the fuselage and the plane is ready for jet propulsion to thrust it through the sky. Has this film day been educational? Has it been worthwhile to allow classes to stop for the afternoon to see movies? These questions can be answered by listening to the pupil's comments on them afterwards, proving that they must have learned something from the films. Very seldom would pupils spend their own free time to talk about some chapter in a history book, but discussions showed that they learned more from the films on Newfoundland and jet planes than most pupils would learn in a week from a text book. Arguments arise which can only be settled by further reading on the subjets. Films naturally hold the inte- rest of most children under sixteen as they are not allowed to go to the theatre in the Province of Ouebecg and since Arvida is so far from most large centers, this means of contact broadens their horizons and deepens their interest in many fields. Generally, every- one has profited in some way from these movies, and they look forward eagerly to next month when film dav comes again. JEAN WOODWARK Grade 11

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Ilaunnur Bull The following list of names of those men and women who served in the armed forces during World War ll appears on the Honour Roll of the Arvida High School. lMissl -2 Q Daniel Aspinall fJames Beresford John Beresford William Beresford iiGordon Black iiGrant Campbell Roy Campbell Gordon Cooper Ethel Dearasaugh Christin Enslev Roy Enslev Jack Exvensen Lindsay Finney Ray Finney James Greene Thomas Heard Nesbitt Hurley Geoffrey Hutchin Eugene Jousse 1TeacherJ John Juras Chester Lambert Leo Lehtonen Mikey Marinacci Emmett McCartin Percy McLellan i' Have made the supreme sacrifice. 1MissJ 1MissJ James McLeod Melvin McLeod Stanley McLeod Albert McNutt Lloyd McNutt Robert Morrison Cecile Riddell Ernest Rodgers Gordon Saunders Peter Schoch Arnold Schoch Grace Smith tTeacherJ William Sproule Douglas Stronghill Frank VanDame Joe VanDame Keith Wake Robert Wake Richard Whitaker William Whitaker Richard Willows Robert Wyber Hughie Young Walter Zawadsky