Central Collegiate Institute - Ye Flame Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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m UTCDPIA In these days of stress and prodigious effort for the salvation of all that makes life dignified and noble, the step from school life into the outside world is fraught with greater significancdftlian ever before. You who are leaving us today have, I hope, the mind, the heart and the spirit sufficiently alive and courageous to enable you to use your newly-born freedom for the attainment of the highest ends. From now on, for most of you, your only teachers will be books, those perfect tutors who are never too busy to give you advice, nor ever impatient of your shortcomings. They will rejoice with you when you are glad and comfort you when you are sorrowful. Through their friendship you can enter a world which never grows old, which you can travel at will without fear or expense, through their friend- ship you can enrich your own meagre experience, and is not eagerness for experience the eternal Spirit of Youth? Christopher Marlowe expressed this Spirit of Youth over three hundred years ago: Our souls whose faculties can comprehend ',' The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest. To help satisfy this restless quest there is no truer guide than literature, the literature of the past and present. If you say, Deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. then the vision you have gained at school will surely and quickly fade 5 instead may you say with Prospero that you have furnished your- selves with volumes that you prize about your dukedom, whatever that dukedom may be. So having started you, we trust, with your faces turned in the right direction, we leave you to the tutelage of the greatest spirits the world has known. i . That these are serious words is evidence of my confidence in your intelligence and your moral sinew. I offer each of you my sincerest congratulations. I wish you the best of health, serenity of spirit in this troubled world, and God-speed on the paths of Wis- dom and Happiness. V. K. MACMILLAN. If 4A is Utopia, cried we all unanimously, Hgive us More!H . . . In Utopia every child is educated, and ignorance banished. . . . Preface to More's Utopia 4A'S AGE OF PLENTY: We have within our folds scholars bright, writers, poets, orators with boundless sway Cwhen intoxicated with the exuberance of their verbosityi, dramatists, singers, wits superb, sportsmen and musicians and 5015111515135 1231019-7, -From the pages of Aaron's Diary. 37

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As duly befits an Utopia we shall be all-inclusive and give priority to none, 4A being crammed with notables: Abram, Allan: Being somewhat restless sitting in solitary splendor at the head of the class, seeing as it didn't coincide with his standing, he sat behind B. Collier-inow she's restless. Blame her? He's making a study of Rust! Auld, Frank: OUR PRESIDENT, he's our man. Led us through many a social enterprise. His part in the Easter Concert is reputed to have been the brightest-he controlled the lighting. Barber, Hazel: She is small in proportion to the space within her cranium. So small, I almost missed her-that would have been a close shave, eh Barber? Bell, Delta: Auld acquaintance should never be forgotten. We don't blame her for staying on a while longer in 4A: after all, Frank couldn't skip a grade. Beston, Hilda: I have the Bestonfej on her- But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue. She was on the make-up squad at the Easter Concert. Blackall, CliE: Cliffs me monnicker, drop over some time. Together with the rest of the cast and Miss Macmillan, he made a pretty good Director. He had to pinch-hit for Jack Kay as Heather- field. Cameron, Ellen: Our amiable chatterbox- A goddess to be placed on a pedestal and admired . . . in the words of one of our faculty.-She made up at the Concert-should know how. Chard, Mildred: Just call her Swiss, She may be Charfrejd but as far as we know, she's lily-white. Church, Lorne: Who says 4A's a bad form? I'm just beginning to like it, -so there, Mr. Campbell! Collier, Bernice: The colliers were coal-diggers-but I'll bet it's not coal she's after. She swears by Geometry and Trig. and Chemistry. Cowan, Phyllis: 4A's Shirley Temple-the Child prodigy- but they who know say she's not as childish! Dolan, Eleanor: Songbird, dramatist, comedienne and perfect hostess all blended into one. President of famous Elgar Club. Starred as Mrs. Penelope J ones-.I ones-J ones in Easter Concert. Fullerton, Margaret: Buster Keatonls got nothing on me! Gitterman, Sydney: A gay fiddle-scratcher is he. It took an epidemic to keep him from writing his Easter examinations. Green, John: His Quest for the Hereafterw in the Xmas Issue of the Perroquet brought Miss Macmillan's Trophy for the best short-story to 4A. Gunn, Ken: Mr. Clark's right-hand man in the Physics Lab. but: he so studied with words and sayings brought so out of time and place to make sport and move laughter, that he himself was oftener laughed at than his jests were . . Y'-More. Hazen, Isabel: Saskatoon recruit Cthe Hub City must be a fine place, hmmml-she played a Stellafrj role in Fantastic Flight. 38