Kelvin High School - Kelvin Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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our former teachers and congenial classmates. The graduates of ’28 wish Kelvin every success and an ever widening in¬ fluence on the life of the community. George Sharpe, 1928. A message? In fifty words. To Kel- vinites from an ex-Kelvinite. Without a subject? Just a message? How to do it? Surrounded by books. Books and bones and a microscope. After all; hu¬ manity. Get the message over. Get back to the books. But we have never regretted the books: when tempered with life. The message is done. W. DonaId Ross, 1931, Medical College, Un. of Manitoba. Hello Kelvin—just a few words of greeting from back in the dark ages when men were men, and women beau¬ tiful, talented and virtuous, etc. With all those attributes we discovered the difficulty of adding anything new to a school which seems to have had every¬ thing in the past. All we can wish is good luck, and keep it up. Cuth. Hopper, 1933, University of Manitoba. GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S MEDAL This medal is given on the principle of the Rhodes’ Scholarship. The student must excel in Leadership, Scholarship, and Sports. 1916..... 1917.... . M. Lovell 1918. 1919... 1920 1921 E. Batho 1922. M. Goodwin 1923.... p. Crook 1924 D Fnsfpr 1925 G. Ridden 1926 M. Potruff 1927... .E. Green 1928 G. Hiebert 1929 ..No award 1930 G. Weightman 1931 . H. Moore 1932 .....G. Smith 1933 ..C. Hopper 1934 ...D. Ferguson 1935 .J. McCu llough 1936. A. McKinney HONOR ROLL Citizenship: 1932- 1933—E. Collins G. McLintock 1933- 1934—M. Brown E. Huber G. Snell 1934- 1935—E. McKibbin R. Culley Scholarship: 1932- 1933—R. Osborn C. Hopper 1933- 1934—M. Herriot M. Barbour N. Sloan 1934- 1935—B. Ralph W. Jackson 1935- 1936—D. Lee K. Smith. 13

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EDITORIALS hKs THE FIRST KELVIN YEAR BOOK I N 1912 and 1915 Kelvin students published the “Kelvin Kalends.” In 1925 the Kelvin Year Book came into existence. It has appeared every year since. The following is an extract from a letter written by the first Editor, Dr. Gerald Riddell, of the Department of History, Victoria College, University of Toronto: “The first edition was, I think, much better in its promise than its achieve¬ ment. You will remember how we had it printed by a man who had just gradu¬ ated from the school, the year previous to our effort. He had a small press in the kitchen of his home, and I think that most of the type was set by hand. We had contracted to have the paper out on, I think, the first of May, and as the last weeks of April came around, it became more and more apparent that the zealous goocL intentions of our printer could not offset the inadequacies of his equimaent J ever, we had said the first of May, and our public was waiting.W «d up production, partly by making all-too-evident sacrifices in the reading. On the last day of April the paper was all printed, but theTH H WEd not yet been assembled. That night in the dining room of his (the printer’s) house a solemn ritual was performed. The piles of pages were placed about the dining room table. The printer’s mother, two sisters and a small brother and myself walked around and around the table, taking a sheet off each pile, and thus assem¬ bling the paper in our circumambulations. One member of the family, a nipper too small to reach the table, was pressed into service carrying the assembled pages to the kitchen, where the printer was stapling on the covers. Thus, such as it was, the magazine appeared on the morning of the first of May.” SOME RECOLLECTIONS FROM “AN ORIGINAL” GLORY OF TODAY For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision, But Today, well lived, makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. —Poem from the Sanscrit. I T WAS all very exciting. For about three years the high school students of South Winnipeg had been temporarily housed in the LaVerendrye School, out on the prairies of Fort Rouge, after a year or two in the Alexandra School. During all that time we had anticipated expectantly the wonderful new school to be opened in Crescentwood, and latterly had watched it rise. At last at the New Year’s term opening in 1912 we packed all our possessions and moved across to the Kelvin Technical High School—the first Kelvinites. Well I recall our first sight-seeing tour. Three of us remained at four o’clock (this time voluntarily) and explored. We were like little Red Riding Hood, I suppose. What spacious halls it had!—and an auditorium with a real stage!—and the science room with gas and electricity!—and a gymnasium!—and the household arts room!—and what a variety of shops!—and what machinery for us! To us who had been educated on books alone (with some simple woodworking for manual training), it all seemed most extraordinary and impossible. Twenty-five years later do we still wonder or do we just take these things for granted? 15