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

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VALEDICTORY Tonight, Cental High School, we are say¬ ing good-bye to you. During the past three years you have been a second home to us. We have worked harder, played better, and learned more than at any other time in our lives. We have worked with you and for you. We have studied the courses you offered us. We have joined your clubs and entered your sports activities. We have cheered when you won and cried when you lost. And in return for this you have given us something invaluable. You have given us a solid grounding in academic education. You have given us confidence in ourselves. You have taught us to get along with the ELAINE LUTHY people around us. But more than that you have helped us to grow up, so that tonight we feel that we are well-prepared to step into the adult world. This training of yours took on a greater significance this year than ever before. For we, more than any preceding class, are facing a tense and strained world. While at Central we have seen the advent of the sputniks and the space age; we have watched Hungary and Iraq erupt in fiery revolution. The students who graduated during the bleakest periods of two great wars saw their fathers brothers and friends fighting and dying that they might live and that they might have freedom. Now we face a world where one can no longer fight for freedom, for to fight would be to annihilate the human race. We must maintain freedom not with power but with patience, not with emnity but with understanding, not with armies but with ideas. We must not only use the mathematics and the physics we have learned at Central but we must also demonstrate the spirit of goodwill and friendliness you have shown us. To Central High School we must give thanks - the familiar old building, the teachers who have in every way earned our love and respect. We thank you for all that you have taught us: to think before we act, to aim high, and to do every job well. And we, the Class of ‘59, feel that it is our duty, and our privilege, to pledge to you that we will set the highest of goals, and with honesty and courage strive to reach them. 12 —ELAINE LUTHY.

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IN APPRECIATION An American sportsman of some note, Knute Rockne, once said: When you leave something good, you can never come back. All you will find are the memories! To a great many of us, this Analecta is the remnant of our final year at Central, all we will have to which to turn when, in the future, we want “to come back”. And so it is, that we dedicate this Analecta yearbook to the Grade XII s who, with it, go out into manhood. As you read this now, and when you come back to it in the future, remember these few who did so much that you might have a memorable yearbook: —Messrs. Foster and Churchill for their smiling assistance throughout the year. —Mr. Gislason, to whom goes an editor’s personal thanks for an advisory and inspirational job well done. —The teaching staff as a whole for making this year one long to be remembered and its events so worthy of permanent record. —One more teacher particularly rises to the fore — Miss Todd who, having penned her poetical words of advice to us, now retires from teaching. Thank you, Miss Todd for a very nice (and true) forward, and especially, for wonderful years of teaching. —And finally, the Analecta staff, for working long, hard and cheerfully at the slightest instigation, in their hope of giving an Analecta deserving of the Central colors it carries, and the banner year for which it stands. In closing, I would just add a note to all yearbook editors of the future: may you only be blessed with as cooperative, exacting and capable a staff; as obliging a body of instructors; and, perhaps most important of all, as wonderful a year and a school for which to write, as I have had. That is all you will need. MAURICE YACOWAR, (Editor). 11

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VALEDICTORY DAVID PENNER This is the class of ‘59’s farewell to Central. More than that, it is a thank-you for all that Central has given us. For the past three years, more for some of us, we have been accepting all that our teachers have given us with very few words of thanks. Tonight is, more than anything else, our chance to show that, deep-down, we really have appreciated the “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” that these teachers have so selflessly put into our education. The attitudes and ideals which we have gained in our years at Central are expressed, much better than in any words of mine, in a short poem entitled “Take Time”. Take time to Work Take time to Think Take time to Play - - Take time to Read - - Take time to be Friendly Take time to Laugh Take time to Dream - it is the price of Success, - it is the source of Power, - it is the secret of Perpetual Youth, - it is the Fountain of Wisdom, - it is the Road to Happiness, - it is the Music of the Soul, - it is Hitching Your Wagon to a Star. Each line of this short verse will bring back scores of memories to anyone who has passed through the classrooms of Central High. Take time to Work - academic work has always been the primary func¬ tion of Central High School. At times it has been a very unpopular one, but success has always come in mid-August to those who have learned this lesson. Take time to Think -one of the biggest problems of our math and science teachers has been to try to get us to think clearly and rationally. If we have shown any improvement in this since entering Central, it is entirely due to the perseverance and the devotion to their work of these teachers. Take time to Play - despite her small size, Central has always carried her purple and gold banners with distinction in interscholastic sports. During our brief stay here, our Rams have won once and t ied once for the Provincial Football Championship climaxing two unbeaten seasons. And anyone who has participated in houseleague sports will no doubt have vivid memories of games played in this gym. Take time to Read - For three years our English teachers and our (Continued on Page 28). 13