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

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this school: H. H. Goertzen (7 years); A. G. Braun and J. I. Warkentin (6); A. C. Kroeker (5); A. P. Hildebrand and A. Heide (4); H. Pauls, A. Schmidt, J. Friesen, and D. R. Dyck (3); H. Dick, L. Siemens, and D. J. Penner (2); C. P. Zacharias, E. Enns, J. Penner, P. Hildebrand, L. Giesbrecht, B. Smith, R. Loewen, and H. T. Thiessen (1); R. J. W. Lyons, Pat Mueller, D. Epp, D. Winter, J. Neufeld, C. Sigurdson, J. Krieger, H. Engbrecht, and O. Graham (partial terms). There have been three principals: A. C. Kroek¬ er (1956-1960), A. Heide (1961), and A. P. Hildebrand (1962-1965). Two inspectors have served: J. W. Butcher (1956-1959) and J. C. Callendar (1960-1965). The students who have achieved the highest standings during the past nine years (this year’s race is still wide open) are: 1956 — Irmgard Wieler, average of 86; 1957 — Evelyn Sawatzky, average of 67; 1958 — Sara Bergen, average of 75; 1959 — Dora Toews, average of 80; 1960 — Brian Topnik, average of 79; 1961 — Ken Schmidt, average of 67; 1962 — Dolores Braun, average of 69; 1963 — Gloria Friesen, average of 71; 1964 — Gerald Gerbrandt, average of 76. The presidents of the student councils of the past ten years have been: Audrey Friesen (1956), Donald Braun (1957), Jim Pearson (1958), David Hoeppner (1959), Robert Wieler (I960), Vernon Hoeppner (1961), Rita Kehler (1962), Raymond Hoeppner (1963), Eric Friesen (1964), and Dorothy Howe (1965). Among the graduates of these ten years can be found medical personnel, teachers (at all levels of the educational system), farmers, phar¬ macy and hospital personnel, businessmen, mu¬ sicians, radio people, social workers, and students in institutions of higher learning. Most of them are adding glory to the name of their co llegiate alma mater. Memories include winning teams of Aces and Acettes; exciting intramural competitions of all kinds; rewarding carol services and Festival par¬ ticipation; publications of books, of poems, of short stories; classroom sessions when learning visibly occurred; academic records set that any school could be proud of. A school is many things. Those of us who have been a part of the Altona Collegiate’s period in this — the “west unit” — are proud of its record, sorry for its shortcomings, and optimistic about the future of our school when it moves into the new division collegiate next fall.