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

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. i || • i A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE Altona Collegiate altona collegiate Students come and go; so do teachers, prin¬ cipals, and board members; inspectors change; even the buildings, in which the generations of students experience secondary education, do not remain the same. Our last year’s senior was the silver anniversary class; next year’s, the twenty- seventh, will spend the major portion of their term in a new division collegiate second to very few in the province. The first sixteen senior classes studied in the “east unit” — 109 students fill those rolls. Then in the fall of 1955 came the move to the “west unit” — Altona Collegiate it was called — and in the ten years we have been in this building, there have been another 223 seniors on the rolls. Since Grade XII was first taught in Altona, there have thus been 332 seniors in our school. Now seems a good time for a little reminis¬ cing — now, when changes are in the wind: a large, new school building; revamped matricula¬ tion courses; new courses; an enrolment boom to over 400; a larger staff. Approximately thirty teachers have worked in 2