Balfour Technical School - Beacon Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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To the Graduating Class of 1948 Balfour Technical School This Edition of the BALFOUR BEACON is proudly and affectionately dedicated. Tho’ joyfully you lay your tools away For younger hands to stern the gath’rmg rust, And relegate your textbooks to the dust, Then lift your eyes to the approaching Day; Erstwhile with aimless feet you once more stray Along familiar halls because you must Delay the coming severance with just A faint nostalgic heart-pang of delay. Live now in moments these fast-treasured years, Then with taut shoulders, leaving all behind, Seeing in dreams the Future yet unf urled, Too young to foster dark, defeating fears, Bastioned with Skill, the keen inquiring Mind, Take up the sterner challenge of the World!

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Content . Dedication. 2 Principal’s Message. 3 Editorial. 4 Beacon Staff. 5 Students’ Representative Council. . . 6 Staff. 8 1947 Prize Winners. 9 Kenneth Spencer. 10 In Memoriam. 11 Aud. Periods. 12 Qladuatzi 4A 4B 4C 3 14 15 17 Stud.c4i.ti. . i9 Undergrads. 20 Special Classes. 23 Junior Classes. 28 JtcteAaUf 43 Actiuitiei . 5 Clubs. 51 Athletics. 65 tf-eatwiei 79 Bottom Beacon Vol. 4 1948 Balfour Beacon ’48 Published by the Students of Balfour Technical School, Regina, Saskatchewan Page 1

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Vo the Gn duatel ms This issue of The Balfour Beacon is dedicated to you in recognition of your contributions to our school life and in appreciation of your fine school spirit. Many of you have given freely of your time and talents to make Balfour a school to be remembered with pride. You have played your parts well on the athletic field, in the classroom, and in the many activities which are associated with a modern high school. Balfour will remember you with gratitude. Balfour, in its turn, has given a great deal to you. It has afforded opportunities to obtain a sound and liberal high school education. It has enabled you to explore many fields of study in art, industry and commerce. It has allowed you to become acquainted in a real sense with the industrial and commercial world about you. Some of you will enter a university to pursue courses in arts, commerce and the applied sciences. Others will seek positions in commercial and industrial spheres. As you leave Balfour you will take with you a diploma as evidence of your achievements. This diploma will be your passport to opportunities which lie ahead. What does this passport signify? Of course it certifies that you have accu¬ mulated a fund of knowledge from the great fields of literature, history, mathematics, science, the commercial and industrial arts. It indicates that you have developed specific abilities and skills in the use of this knowledge. It may signify that you have developed the most important and abiding by-products of learning—good habits, worthwhile interests, wholesome attitudes, high and noble ideals. Such is our hope. Today, as never before, all nations of the world need men and women of good¬ will and noble character. With atomic power within our reach, the important thing is to apply science to man’s welfare and not, as in the past, to his destruction. Of this we must be sure. World leaders, in these difficult times, carry heavy responsibilities. They are the custodians of things spiritual and material which make up our present civilization. Our future way of life and all it means to generations yet unborn is in their hands. Graduates of Balfour! Give worth} ' leaders your unqualified moral support. Assist in every way you can those agencies which are trying to achieve a lasting peace. As loyal citizens of the world, may you play a worthy part in accom¬ plishing the overthrow of hatred, bitter¬ ness and distrust, and the triumph of understanding, love and faith. Our congratulations and sincere good wishes go with you. T. H. COWBURN. Balfour Beacon ’48 Page 8