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EDMONTON NORMAL SCHOOL to you For the first and only time it is my privilege to address the entire student body—the students who are now teaching in the field, those who have been teaching, and those who have yet to face a class of their own. At a recent culmination it was my privilege to observe, a little girl made a report on “Our Day of Troubles”. Our instructors and students might well write a volume on “Our Year of Adverse Conditions in the Normal School”. We think of the hardships occasioned by the transfer of our school from the previous plant. Yet there is not one instructor or student who would be¬ grudge the Air Force the use of our building, in spite of the Physical Education periods we had to spend in the snow. We think of the constant shifting of students from class to class, and in and out of school. This was necessary in order that children in the outlying districts of the province might not be denied the right to an education. It meant, however, that we could not come to know each other as we should have liked to do. Yet there is not one of us who is not proud that we were able to contribute to the war effort in this way. Again, there is an old proverb which warns us against changing horses in the middle of a stream. We did not change horses, but we changed instructors so frequently we became dizzy. When we review the difficulties under which our school has operated, our strongest reaction is a hearty desire to kick Hitler. There is a considerable measure of satisfaction in the thought that, in a sense, that is just what we have been doing. The highest compliment that has been paid to us is the expressed opinion of some of the staff that, under difficult circumstances, we “have been the most co-operative class in the history of the school”. The quality of students in our Normal Schools is steadily improving. It is our duty as fledgelings in the teaching profession to foster this improvement. Talents are found everywhere in children, and we must endeavor to develop these talents so that in future years Normal School instructors may keep on repeating to every new class they meet that they are better than the last. It is the desire for improvement, not over others, but over his own accomplish¬ ments, that inspires man to those greater efforts through which he reaches new heights and sets new standards. It is towards these new standards that we must strive, and in our work their foundations will be laid. Good luck to all—I know you will succeed. BARBARA SHERWIN, Editor. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Year Book Staff wishes to express its appreciation of the help given us by Mr. Hedley. He gave us the benefit of his many years’ experience, freely, whenever asked, and his timely suggestions made our task much lighter than it might otherwise have been.
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