Central Collegiate Institute - Analecta Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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JTOR the past twenty years it has been my privilege to serve as vice-principal of Central High School. During that time probably thirty-five hundred students have come and gone. We revere the memory of seventy-one of that number who gave their Wm y° un 9 lives in the Second World War that ■ freedom might not be driven from the earth. ■ The others we find the world over, many I B mKm occupying prominent positions in the pro- M fessions, in business and in industry. We W.m -wk IB ,WV?|- are thrilled each time we hear of another and feel thankful that we have had some small share in his or her training. Twenty years is a long time, approximately half of one’s working years. It has meant for me probably twenty thousand math, periods, five hundred Hi-Y meetings, a hundred rugby games and a like number of basketball games, twenty track meets, numerous council meetings, Home and School meetings, graduation exercises, graduation dinners and other social functions. It has been a real satisfaction to share with the students in their wins and their losses, their joys and their sorrows; and to remember that there have been more joys than sorrows and more wins than losses. In 1935 the problem confronting the high schools was the rapidly increas¬ ing high school population and to make provision for it. Since the turn of the century the numbers have continually increased until they included a very high percentage of the teen-age group. The great majority were in the academic high schools, attempting the matriculation program for which many students were not suited. Since that time the attention of the educational authorities has been centered on the provision of courses suited to the needs of the masses; the number of such is almost unlimited. Unfortunately many courses have been made compulsory for matriculation students at the expense of generally accepted matriculation courses. This procedure has continued until in 1954, for the first time in the history of Central High School we found our senior matriculation graduates, even with honour standing being refused admission to many courses at universities outside Alberta and it is necessary for students who want them to expend time and money to make up the deficiencies in their matriculation program. Surely this condition cannot be allowed to continue. Surely provision will be made for at least a group of schools in the province to offer a matriculation program acceptable to universities across Canada including Royal Military College and Royal Roads. May Central High School be in that group so that our graduates will, as before, be not only accepted but welcomed. May they also have fun doing it by maintaining a prominent place in sports and in worth- (Continued on Page 28)

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Analecta ' 55 Vol. 40 JUNE, 1955 No. 1 Published by the Students of Central Collegiate Institute CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

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Gante it± VALEDICTORIES . 12-13 GRADUATES . 15 UNDERGRADUATES . 31 ALUMNI . 55 ACTIVITIES . 59 ATHLETICS . 77 AWARDS . 103 ADVERTISING 111