Blumenhof High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Blumenort, Manitoba Canada)

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THE SCHOOL BOARD

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sAAAAA M DEDICATION AAAAAAA , We gratefully dedicate this 1957 volume cf The BLUE and GOLD to cur principal and teacher, Mr. Ben B. Dueck. His patient, helpful, humble, and devoted service in teaching will be a lasting impression upon us. KNwvwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwv ssss

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BEN B. DUECK Teaches Grades 9-11 Received his high school education in Steinbach and later attended Provincial Normal School. Teaching experience, 11 years. Dear Students, Colleagues, Parents and Friends: With amazing rapidity the major portion of this school year has slipped by, and here we are, almost ready to flash past the finish-line. What a race these ten months have been! In August we started. The school “mile¬ stones” bobbed up, then receded into the distance; registration, initiation, Thanks¬ giving, first-term tests, Christmas—and a fresh term, more intensive studies, Easter tests, Easter, review, and the finals loom¬ ing in the near future. For most of the high school students (and I dare say, for many of the pupils in the primary and elementary rooms as well), the race-track was, to say the least, rugged in many places. Science and Mathematics (not to mention Social Studies) were either stony places where knees might be skinned or miry swamps in which it was all too easy to get bogged down. If it hadn’t been for the occasional “refresher” tossed to the runners in the form of a rugby match, hockey game, or field-trip, the pace might have been crippling. However, with the Principals particular form of stamina and endurance typical of our rural-Manitoba young people, every obstacle was overcome and left be¬ hind. Such persevering candidates surely deserve the laurel wreath! Just as a race needs more than merely the racers, so this school race required the combined efforts of the students, parents, school board, and teaching staff to make it a success. Perhaps no one individual in the school feels this co-operation more keenly than the principal, and for this, I want to say with all earnestness, “Thank you, students, colleagues, parents, and school board, for making this 1956-57 year a pleas¬ ant and profitable one. The yearbook committee and our grow¬ ing circle of advertising friends have con¬ tributed in no small measure to our bigger, better yearbook. Thank you, one and all. Though the graduating class is small, we rest assured that they will be diligent and useful workers, keeping the Golden Rule always as their motto and Christ as their example. Remember, students in Grades 1 to 11— the Race of Life, as well as the school race, offers rewards only to those who persevere. We’ll see you next year! Ben B. Dueck 6