Altona Collegiate - Green and Gold Yearbook (Altona, Manitoba Canada)

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Valedictory . . . When we leave the classrooms where we have labored through the last restless year of our high school education we will frequently remember our teachers. There will be the memories of Mr. Penner ' s Maths periods with ellipses and parabolas. There will be recollections of Mr. Siemens ' Physics periods with the studies of Wheatstone bridges and Newton ' s Laws. There will also be memories of Mr. McCullough ' s Composition assignments and research papers. And then, of course, we shall always remember our German periods with Mr. Kroeker in which we learned all about dies, der and das and all the declination and conjugation that go with them. We will, of course, never forget Della ' s joviality, Arlene ' s long research papers or Norman ' s love for German. Then there are Douglas witty remarks, Johnny ' s many pencils, Willie ' s singing, Elmer ' s hockey interests and Irma ' s marks in German. In fall we had a magazine selling campaign to earn money for our extra-curricular activities. We would like to congratulate the top sales¬ men who were Donald Fehr and Victor Schulz. Other important events in the school year were: a Hallowe ' en social, a Christmas social and a skating party. These, needless to say, were enjoyed by all. Although we are the graduating class of 1954 it doesn ' t matter too much which year it is. Like all graduates of all years we suffer from a lack of peripheral vision. Our attention is focused on the end of the present school year and on very little else. Graduation seems so final. It almost seems as if June 30 will be the day when we will line up and be issued the tools with which to build our future. We will venture forth to the lumber, proceed to build a beautiful life with built-in television sets, new, long, low cars, and all the other luxuries of our scientific age. How¬ ever, when our peripheral vision begins to improve we will probably find that the tools feel rather awkward in our hands, that they are only as good as we made them; we may find the lumber yard rather difficult to find. The television sets may prove slightly elusive. However, as we bruise our shins on the obstacles in our paths and bang our head against brick walls, we will find that the outlines of our tools will become more positively defined. We may even find that we were in the lumber yard all the time and didn ' t realize it. At present, however, our vision of the future is about as my analogy. Edward Dueck. 16