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

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VALEDICTORIAN Mr.Chairman, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow Students. We are assembled here to n i g h t--toae t he r for the last time—because we are graduating from this aged Annamary Williams and honored institution. Most of us were herded into Central ' s sandstone walls three years ago as a group of se m i -1 i t e ra te savages. We had, for the year before our arrival, been the Big Shots, the Grade Nines,the graduating class of our junior highs. Then we came here to Central to be awed by our collective insignificance and lack of knowledge. Luckily, though, we all made this titanic psycholog¬ ical adjustment and produced very few mental cases. You see, we are now in almost the same position. We are the Big Shots, the Grade Twelves, the graduating class of our senior high. Next year we will separate to become insignificant fledglings in this great adult world . But we will enter this new worl d prepared: prepared through our social classes to shoulder the political responsibilities of adults; prepared through our lang¬ uages to communicate as adults; prepared through our math and science class¬ es to think and comprehend as adults; prepared, also, through human contacts to be friendly and understanding adults. Indeed, we emerge as completely different and infinitely better individuals. In this process of changing and maturing, our teachers have guided and instructed us. They have pushed, prodded, threatened-and encouraged-when lesser beings would have collapsed. As we shall realize in the coming years, we owe them a debt we can never repay. In closing, we wish our teachers continued patience, our school contin¬ ued glory, and each other new su ccess--be g i n n i n g with the finals. Perhans some of us will become famous.But whether or not, we will remember Cen tral and the light — in Lux sit --she stands for.

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DEDICATION The Analecta of 1962 is as fine a publication as has ever been pro¬ duced by the students of C.C.I. Physically, the book is far superior to those of the past, largely because of the introduction as publisher and printer a firm specializing in yearbooks-the I n te r-Co I I e g i a te Press.How¬ ever the Analecta is more than this. It IS Central High School of the 1961 -1962 term. Its two purple and gold covers bind a chapter of our lives ; not the last chapter nor even the first, but rather the prologue. The re¬ maining chapters are yet to be written. We cannot write thefuture but we can preserve the past. And a fruit¬ ful past it has been thanks to the knowledge and forebea ance of Central ' s teaching and admi nistrati ve staff. To them, and e spe c i a 11 y Me ss rs. G i s I aso n, Foste r Chu rch i 11 who-along with the office staff-have made this a n nual possible, we express our deepest gratitude. The personal thanks of the Editor are extended to those members of the Analecta staff who have done far more than their share ofthe work and to Mr.Cringan, the local representative of I n te r-Co 11 e g i a te Press, for service rendered above and beyond that called for by his position. This book belongs to the students of Central High and is especially dedicated to the Graduating Class of 1962.

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VALEDICTORIAN Tonight, the curtain fclis on a part of our life. This is the formal closing of our high school career. It is in some ways difficult to realize that we are actually at the end of high school. Suddenly, that grand pot - pourri of studies and activities that make up a high school student ' s life is drawing to a close. Somehow it seems not really so long ago that we were all sitting here in this s a m e au d i to r i u m for the first time--some of us eager, some of us apprehensive. But now, our various pathways have brought us together on this road; we are leaving Ce n tra I . Where do we go from here? We are going, each in a different way, into a world of much wider horizons that we haveever known. Whether it be to un¬ iversity or into the business world, we are leaving the c o m p a ra t i ve se c u ri ty of Central, and are entering a h i g h I y - c o m pe t i t i ve , fast-moving society. During our stay at Central, we have gained much that will enable us to take our place in this society. In our studies we have acquired knowledge up¬ on which to base future decisions. In our clubs, we have learned how to be good leaders--or, equally important, good followers --and how to accept responsi¬ bilities. In our sports we have learned how to play the game fairly. And in ad¬ dition, we have learned here at Central, f rom ou r te ac he rs a n d f ro m e a c h o t he r, something which is perhaps more important than any other single quality pos¬ sessed by an i ndi vi du al--how to get along with others. We are leaving Central, yes. In this there is a certain sadness. But we are not leaving behind the things we have learned here. These we will take with us wherever we go. And whereverwe go ,we will re member thisschool, and these years. He re at Central we have had instruction without par--this school ' s past record speaks for itself--and for this, we are grateful to our teachers. In athletics, our Rams have held theirown w he re ve r p u rp I e-a n d-go I d has competed. We will remem¬ ber, too, other things--the assemblies, cheer-rallies, dances, clubs, old halls, creaking stairs, detentions. We will remember beating Western on Western Day, and losing the football championship toViscount in the last minute of play. Some of us will remember missing the honor roll with a 79.999% average.And we will forever remember Bike Day. But more than these things, we will re- our friends--for we have made many. And so it is that we leave Central. With regret, but with pride; with sadness, but with g ra ti tu de ; w i th hesitation, but with c onf i den c e - - co nf i de n c e that our years here have orepared us well for the future. Russel I Me Ki nnon