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

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fact, that they have won the I.O.D.E. provincial prize for the best school paper in Alberta for two consecutive years. This year the Imps won the city basketball championshipg so Chuck, Dick and Ray will be immortalized on the halls of the A.H.S. as basketball champs. We, the Class of '47, have had' the advantages of many clubs. E.R.O., Gym, Drama and Forum are only a few of the many which have helped make our high school life an un- forgettable experience. The annual spring Red Cross Tea, con- vened by the T.A.M.S. under the capable guidance of Miss Cobb, continues to be the outstanding social event of the school. This year several improvements have been added to the school. A milk-vending machine has been installed in the base- ment-now you know why there's always a crowd around the Chem. Lab. The most important and most revolutionary event to take place since our initiation was Joyce's election as the first girl president of our Students' Union. Even though the boys have complained all year no doubt they'll do it again next year. And now we are graduates with many memories of A.H.S. The impressive ceremony last night and the fun and hilarity of tonight have been a fitting climax to our four unforgettable years at the A.H.S. -Sibyl Louise Niblock. Qllass Hrnpheng Dust is thick on the portrait in the dimly-lit hall. Vague is the printing below the faded faces. As we approach the picture we wonder what has become of these bright looking students that made the class of '47. Downton, next to Cliff Adams' taxi stand Cwhose motto is We drive Plymouths, while pedestrians Dodge l stands the business firm of Kundert and Odland. They began their fabu- lous careers as Contractors Extraordinary but, after their first building assignment, they changed the name by popular request to Wreckers Incorporated. On the corner of the block we find Fred Big Business Schneider selling the even- ing issue of Labor Union lpublished by Liberal M.P. for Oliver West, Norrine Lutesj. In every field the class of '47 has prominent members. Rennie Dederer is following Roosevelt's footsteps. Every time he sits down with a group of men he demands a New Deal, then like Premier King, shuffles his cabinet. 12

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gilisiurg - - - Qllass nf '47 It has been said we read history through our prejudices: so, in reviewing the history of the Class of 1947, I may be prejudiced as to the relative importance of our class in the history of the A.H.S. Allowing my mind to drift back over the last four years I find many ways our class has contributed to school life. On a bright October day four years ago we came to the A.H.S., bewildered by the huge building and perplexed by the corridors, staircases, classrooms and timetables. We gazed with awe at the former grads frowning down at us from the walls. Then we were initiated. For two days the girls, with aprons on backwards, scurried along the halls with straight hair and no make-up and the boys, with shirts, sweaters and ties on backwards, wore one pant-leg rolled above the knee. Now we know why boys wear long pants! By the beginning of Grade X we felt quite superior and found ourselves running up stairs three at a time and blocking traffic in the halls gossiping. Maybe that is why some of our teachers are losing their hair. Sports Day has always been a great day, either because we liked sports or because we liked a holiday. Whatever it was Betty and Dick managed to emerge bedecked with as many ribbons as General Montgomery. Since the school choir was reorganized three years ago, our Singing Stars of Tomorrow, Margaret and Rose Marie, have delighted us at school functions. Although the war didn't directly affect our class it did the personnel of the teaching staff. After serving in the forces they came back to the A.H.S. last year-no doubt to hear Itzy's jokes again! We hear Mr. Grant taught math in the airforce and he must have learned something, too, for in algebra just when we are flying high he gives us a test and we're grounded again. Also, a few of our teachers have left, like Mr. Elder- gone but not forgotten! The best plays ever staged at A.H.S. have been produced during our stay here-but maybe we're prejudiced because Jacquie and Dick have starred in our favorites, Junior Miss and Rebecca. Last year the first drama festival was held so successfully that it was repeated this year. The En Avant has recorded our follies and misfortunes faithfully while we have been at the A.H.S. So faithfully, in 11

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Prominent in the rural World is farmer Irvin Shore, owner of the largest chick hatcheries in Western Canada. It's about time he cashed in on those eggs he's been laying. In industry, Sibyl Loume Niblock, following a Students' Council recommendation, is working for the Gruen Watch Com- pany-still keeping minutes. Art Rayner is a wealthy lumber- camp foreman-still looking after Woods. In the literary field We see the best seller, Why I Am No Longer a Secretary, by Ida Kathleen Johnson and Lottie Windsor Zeitner, and Eddie Bach has made millions from his photographic club Look of the Month. Don Mackenzie has just edited Algebra in rrr2 log 3,451 Easy Lessons for Ray Burns. Showing at all the best theatres is that famous couple, Margaret and Richard Taylor, in the exciting Rebecca Returnsj' written, produced and directed by Richard Taylor-Taylor-made! On the same program is the thrilling, spine-tingling, Butcher Arms Around Me, starring Sissy Oh, You Kid! Sangster. Before the show begins there will be the Try, Try Again Amateur Show, with the following contestants: Bubbles Reesor Sweety Stephens Cuddles Lacey and Kutie Kraemer doing your favorite numbers. But, alas, not all the graduates of that class became famous -some were married, and, worse still, some became school teachers. Do you remember Wilma Daniel? Well, now she's prin- cipal of the latest correspondence school, her motto: My way is the Weiss way. Two of our colleagues have established the Morrison and Marcellus School for Girls- We only take nice girls, but the McQueen girls, Rose, Petunia, Lily and Dan- delion, go here, too. Kay Grenache is tutoring Algebra and Sociology to the Grant and Cuyler kids, and Don Hullock is a Social Studies teacher, with emphasis on the Social! Eileen Krauss took off and married a T.C.A. pilot, and Annabel found that being a dress-maker wasn't much alone, so she found herself a suitor, collared him, and after he pleated with her to marry him, she hemmed and hawed, then accepted and married the janitor. Ruth Collier decided she wasn't going to be a bridesmaid again, so became a bride instead. Norma Vesso and Marguerite Broughton took the fatal step and now each one has a bawl and change. Joyce Turner says she might as well be a Librarian because Don's always booking off, or leaving her on the shelf. Remember Betty Williams? Well, she heard the call of the open road and became a Varga-bound. 13