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

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K. R. Jasper Inspector 9 s Message I am honored to be asked to write a message for the 1965 yearbook. It affords me an opportunity to offer congratulations and best wishes to the graduating class — congratulations on your having reached this stage of your high school career, and best wishes for its successful completion. It also affords me an opportunity to express the hope that besides having guided you towards academic achievement, home, school, and church may have devel¬ oped in you a certain quality which is badly needed in today’s world. This quality has to do with purpose in life, not selfish purpose, but God-given purpose. I am frankly pessimistic about the direction in which society is leading us today. With Wordsworth, we can truly say, “. . . getting and spending we lay waste our powers.” Too often the criterion of choice in life is “How much will I make in this particular job, what will it get me? What are the chances of advancement for me? Too seldom does the criterion of choice involve the questions: “What are my capacities for service in this work? What can I give?” I do not suggest that financial considerations should have no part in your thinking about your future. I do say, however, that personal gain, personal advance¬ ment, and their attendant satisfaction do not meet the needs either of the individual, his community or his country. It is in giving, not in getting, that we grow. It is through our being responsible, active citizens that our community and our country thrives, and it is through a truly Christian concern in every aspect of our living that we give to our lives the dignity and worth that reflect God’s purpose. Standing - L. to R.: John J. Peters, Abe G. Penner, Albert Loewen, chairman, John J. Hildebrand Sitting from L. to R.: John K. Schellenberg, secretary-treasurer, Ben Fast, George T. Penner, J. A. Martens PAGE 5

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A Challenge Yours has been the privilege of a high school edu¬ cation. The value of this experience will largely depend on your choice in further education. It is tragic if we consider ourselves educated when all of life challenges us to reach for the yet unknown. Nor is education complete without exper¬ iencing the educating power of the Bible. “All scripture is inspired of God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” (II Tim. 3:16, 17 R.S.V.). Paul here explains both the nature of the Bible — inspired of God, and its function — the formation of Christian maturity effective in good works. There is no greater knowledge than to know the way of God, and no greater experience in life than to know that we have eternal life abiding in us through Christ. Graduates and students, may the words of the prophet Hosea challenge you. “The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.” Rev. Henry Kornelsen PAGE 4

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Principal ' s Message Various sources today tell us that the attitude of youth throughout the world is characterized by “so what” and “I don’t care”. We are told that the resulting anxiety, tension, and even loneliness reflects boredom — boredom in an age when society offers youth unprecedented oppor¬ tunities everywhere they turn. If the above is true, would you not agree with me that our affluent society has failed to satisfy some basic human need? Could it be that the goals of life presented to young people have been misleading or non-existent; that the meaning of life has been lost? Why, may we ask, produce a constructive life if we came from no where and return to nothing? If nothing matters in the end, then nothing mat¬ ters now. We cannot define proper objectives until we know why we are here. To this I offer only one solution. A lowly Gali¬ lean, and yet One who promised to “be with you” till the end is the answer. As we identify ourselves with Him, as His purpose and mission become ours, we are given true purpose. He has called us to be ambassadors. We are asked to abandon self and to serve mankind. In this way everyone, including youth, can live for a future meeting of the Re¬ deemer while at the same time His personal Commission gives intense meaning and purpose to life NOW. G. Doerksen PAGE 6