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

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Yearbook Comm it tee YEARBOOK COMMITTEE Left to right: Ruth Toews, photography; Waldon Doerksen, Assistant Editor; Nettie Brandt, Editor; Arnold Doerksen, Advertising; Peter Penner, Circulation; Eleanor Plett, Typing. Editorial Why have a yearbook? Is it only to advertise our school and to make a profit on the yearbook sales? Well, no — we hope that the pictures and articles in it will help parents and school friends to get to know our students and to learn more about our school activities. Besides this, I know that to many students the yearbook will be a real treasure and a souvenir of their high school days. But to the students of our high school having a yearbook has meant more than this. All of us — the teachers, the student body, and yearbook committee — have united for a common cause — to make a yearbook that will truly picture our school and its students, and that will be a treasure to the students. Each one was asked to contribute in some small way. We, as the yearbook committee, have learned to work together and to know each other better. Being able and willing to work with others, to take responsibility, and to do our part are valuable character traits. Learning these things is, perhaps, the greatest challenge in making a yearbook. Nettie Brandt PAGE 6

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The Challenge from the “Field” “Behold. I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields: for they are white already to harvest.” What greater challenge could I give you than that which is already given by Him who was obedient unto death, as He says, “as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” This charge goes to both graduate and undergraduate. You cannot evade it. It stares you in the face. It star¬ ted to challenge you the moment you surrendered your life to Christ, and if that time has not come in your life, you have no worthwhile purpose. This charge is challenging you every day. It is a chal¬ lenge which never ends until at last you will leave the field through a higher call. This is a mighty challenge — not one for the mouse but for the man — for it is not merely “against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked¬ ness . . .” Let us realize, however, that the challenge to each one does not remain the same. The charge Christ gave never changes but the challenge does. As your knowledge increases, as through studying the Word you are further enlightened, the intensity of the challenge increases and you become more responsible to take up the challenge. To you, un¬ dergraduates, the challenge may not change radical¬ ly as you contemplate continued studies at Blumen- hof. But do not miss it — it is there! To you, graduates, comes the challenge of decision, which is all important. You have spent eleven or twelve years now at your secular studies. Will you tithe now, and give the Lord His time with you, let’s say a few years, at studying truths in the Text of Texts? Or will you continue your materialistic trend? Your hundred and twenty months of study in textbooks put up by humans v ho, for the most part, have little or no regard for the great chal¬ lenge, have had their effect on you, whether you know it or not. Now what will you do? Will you take the course of Martha, or the better one of Mary? “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” The Father sent Christ into the sinful world only for one purpose. “For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost.” Why are you in this sinful world? Are you letting Christ send you or are you going your way? Seekest thou great things for thyself; seek them not.” I would like to repeat, What greater chal¬ lenge is there than the challenge of Christ’s charge? Take up the challenge in fuller measure, and the success, of which you can rejoice through all eter¬ nity ( will follow you. Mr. John Komelsen PAGE 5

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As I share with you a few thoughts in this edition of the Blue and Gold, may I first of all congratulate our graduates and wish you every success in the future. It has given me much pleas¬ ure to work together with you. I am confident that the mutual understanding established in the past, time will not easily sever. Our life is determined to a very great extent by the choices we make. You, students, have atten¬ ded this school because it was your choice. The length of time you will continue in institutions of learning will be left largely up to you. Various vocations extend a beckoning hand and so you are faced with a decision. The company you keep will be yours by choice. Even the scriptures point out that there are two ways leading to the beyond while we, the individual, must choose which one our feet will tread. Be careful as you make each decision — so much depends on it. I hope that the things learned at this school will serve as indicators pointing to that which is noblest and best. Remember that an Unfailing Guide is ever willing to assist us; to Him the out¬ come of each choice is as clear as the decisions that we face. Mr. G. B. Doerksen Testing The consensus of opinion among students is that examination are superfluous, outdated and nothing but an excrutiating torture. How unfortu¬ nate that no one has come up with a suitable substitute! They say, “Just wait until school days are over, and examinations will be a thing of the past,” But will they be forgotten, never to haunt us again? When our school days are over, we will go out to face life. Will life have examinations which we must write? I am afraid it will. How privi- ledged Solomon was to be given a blank check by which he could draw on God’s boundless store¬ house! Was that a blank, or was it the supreme examination of his life? Solomon’s motives were tested. That Solomon passed his examination is confirmed by the fact that in addition to what he asked for, God gave him everything that he might have requested. How sad that in subsequent tests, Solomon did not choose as wisely as we would have expected. He ended his life serving other gods instead of the Lord his God. We too shall be called upon to choose. It will not be a written examination, but the choices we shall make will effectively test our motives and desires. If our written tests will have prepared us to make wiser choices, then our school experience will have been well worth the effort. Mr. T. C. Martens PAGE