Churchill High School - Victory Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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It has been a pleasure for me to return to Churchill High School and to find the grade eight class I had known a few years ago to be the senior group of young men and women in the school. It is my purpose to wish this graduating group every success in lives that will present many challenges and rewards. Most of you will continue your general education or take training to prepare yourself further for an occupation; some will seek employment immediately. Whatever you choose to do I hope that you take with you a sincere desire to learn. At all times the desire to learn has been important but never more so than today. You live in an era of change and great progress so you face a challenge to be successful in an ever-changing world. If you are prepared to learn and to undergo retraining often in this kind of world you are much more likely to live a worthwhile and satisfying life than are those young people who feel that they have finished with studies when their formal schooling ends. Opportunities will present themselves daily for young men and women of imagination, initiative and responsibility to initiate and to become part of many changes that will shape the destiny of our nation and the world. You might feel that there is little chance that you will be involved in this but time will likely find the Class of ' 66 providing just such people. Our society has a great need for responsible leaders and will be looking to you in the very near future. May you meet the challenge! W. J. MADDER «!- MR. MARTIN MR. DACK PAGE 4

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MIKE TREVILLION PRESIDENT’S MESSAGc By the time you assimilate these words, most of you will be celebrating the end of another term. Looking back at the messages of other presidents, I have concluded that I ' m supposed to tell you how much you have e njoyed the year. Though I doubt if anyone will become ecstatic recalling this term ' s memories, I think it ' s safe to say the good times outnumbered the bad. Starting from the beginning, you ' ll remember Churchill enjoyed its first successful football season. And what a season! Picked by the newspapers to ' end up in last spot, Puchniak ' s raiders finished the season with only one loss. With the nucleus of the team returning next year plus the addition of valuable prospects I have nothing but optimism at the Bulldog ' s chances of winning the city championship next season. With the same enthusiasm I congratulate our varsity soccer team who captured their second city championship. The Churchill players have completely overwhelmed all their opponents. Nor can we forget our freshmen basketball team. Though they went through an undefeated season, they lost to Gordon Bell in orve of the most exciting city champion¬ ships ever held. Through their close play however the players gained the respect of their opponents and the pride of all Churchill. Track was another bright spot this year. Most promirtent were our girls ' cross country team, boys’ 4x440 yard relay team, and individuals such as Dick Zeeuwen, Janie Pearson, Keith Wasylik, and Walter Grafton. Though this is being written before the Inter High Track meet, I ' m sure that the depth of Churchill talent this year will assure us of a top position at the meet. Churchill students were active in other areas also. The variety show 66 ' A was both successful and highly en¬ joyable. The Churchill choirs and orchestra enjoyed great success at the Music Festival, and the Drama Club has been very active at the Manitoba Theatre Centre. So much for the happy moments. There was one noticeable black mark in the year worth mentioning. I ' m sure most of you realize that student apathy is growing in Churchill as it is in all other schools. This is most noticeable in our pep rallies and student activities. There are a few students who form the core of our school spirit. The majority of us however are too sophisticated to be embarrassed by cheer¬ ing a team on. It seems as if school spirit is outdated. I am not criticizing this attitude for I too share the same feelings. Take pep rallies for instance. This year, it appeared that when we cheered a team on w e had to force ourselves to do so. It is my opinion that cheering should be spontaneous and done almost unconsciously. Enthusiastically urging a team on should simply be an outlet to our emotions. Organized pep rallies are useless if such enthusiasm is not already present in a student. For a school such as Churchill, which is not old enough to produce pride and enthusiasm through tradition and sentimentalism, we must have a team we are truly interested in and proud of. Then and only then shall we see school spirit at Churchill. To try to induce it in any other way is useless, for few of us have the desire or will to do so — it is not that important to us. Before finishing, I would like to extend my appreciation to those students who formed the nucleus of our school activities. They are too numerous to list, however I would like to pay special recognition to Carol Quarnstrom, our vice-president, Susan Nosworthy, secretary-treasurer, Gerda Weber, frolic committee head. Laurel Blacker, pep club com¬ mittee head, and Peter Stringham and Cathy Riggall, editors of this fine year-book. Finally I thank Miss Rorke and Mr. Cook, my staff advisors, and Mr. Madder for aiding me in my responsibilities. In closing may I say that this year has been very ful¬ filling as president. I shall look forward to visiting Churchill in later years. Honoured and proud, I shall often recall that for one year I had the opportunity of serving this fine school. STUDENT COUNCIL PAGE 5