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

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS LINDA QUARNSTROM I wondered for days and days about what I would really say to you, the graduating class, today. At the time it seemed a puzzling problem. Firstly, it had to be about you — it had to mean something to you personally. Merely say¬ ing what the past twelve years of education has done for me would not be sufficient. I had to concentrate on the graduates as a group. The question “What has Churchill High made us? came to mind. Can you answer that? I truthfully didn ' t know where to begin looking for ,an answer. But it came unexpectedly one day. I went for a walk alone one Saturday morning — not to think or accomplish anything really important — but merely to enjoy the beauty of that spring day and breathe the fresh air. But as I walked and as I looked, I felt something really stir within me — I almost jumped. How perfect and beautiful nature was! And, I realized, it was a miracle! That realization led me to my talk today — about miracles. God cares so much more for people than He does for flowers and trees. Then how much greater are the miracles He works in our every¬ day lives compared to those He works in nature! So I’m going to talk about the miracle that made you — from the little boy or girl of five to what you are now — presumably young adults. One of the first factors involved in your mir¬ aculous change is found in the simple word sharing . We have had some good times to¬ gether, haven ' t we? And a few disagreements, I suppose. There have been romances here and there and, I would imagine, more than one broken heart. We have had our serious moments but just as often we have laughed, enjoyed ourselves or acted childish. But the key word is “together . We have learned how to get along together in our little society here at Churchill High. And now the society is going but not the knowledge we have gained from it. Another part of this miracle was experience. We experienced learning — some of us learned more than others, of course, but you cannot deny that in all of us there is more now than there was before it got in there — the knowledge, that is. We experienced an important part of our “growing up process as well as experiencing shades of discipline here and there. And now it is almost over! Perhaps you won ' t remember most of it. The pictures of school dances, foot¬ ball, homework, teachers will all fade. But please don ' t forget the miracle they worked — the formation of the real you with your own individual personality and character. You are unique and different and special apart from any¬ one else. And each of you here today, no matter how insignificant you may feel, can add some¬ thing real and lasting to life if you only try. I know that no one can foretell the future but I also know that what you will be in the next ten years, you are already becoming — there is, at least, a hint of the future there. So let’s work for it now, okay? Let’s build and grow while we are young. I know that someday I shall hear with a smile of new and greater miracles working in many of your lives. That is the future but what of the present? You have just completed a very important part of your educational experience and the thought now is that you are supposedly “educated people. I don ' t know if you you would consider me qualified to give you advice so ! shall rather call this my personal opinion about edu¬ cation. In all your learning— through all the vast stores of knowledge you may acquire — don ' t ever become so blinded by your education that you fail to see the great truths that can be learned about life from the little, simple things around you — the beauty of a summer storm or the cry of a new-born baby. Listen to people speak — not just from the tongue but, from the heart as well and look beyond a person ' s body to his soul. For then you shall learn how to love man. Knowledge without love is nothing. And now I must say good bye — but some¬ how I cannot say that I am sad to leave for excitement and fascination have gotten hold of me. We never really know what will happen to us even within the next minute but somehow whatever happens keeps on happening until suddenly it is a part of the past. And we don’t want to be left behind! But I know we won’t for I believe in miracles. Do you? PAGE 28

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GRADE 11 — ROOM 8 Row 1 — Phil Backman, Ken Ball, Ron Bothe, Bob Boyce Keith Buckingham Row 2 — Fred Burrows, Pat Campbell, Garth Colpitts, Robert Curtis, Pat Daniels. Row 3 — Nila Dennis, Liliane Domagalski, Craig Emby, Elizabeth Foley, Frank Friesen, Barbara Gerrie, Lucille Horkoff, Laurie Hunt, Richard Jakubowski. Row 4 — Bev Knight, Louise Lane, Jim Lawton, William MacDonald, Georgina Mintenko, Terry Mor¬ rison, Dennis Murphy, David Olsen, Fred Riggall. Row 5 — Pam Robinson, Roz Russell, Richard Ryland, Gary Shevy, Karen Webb, Ann Yauniskis. GRADE 11 — ROOM 15 Row 6 — David Batchelor, Zoltan Bodnar, Bill Brown, Tony Buus, Cam Cook, Brian Drury, Rebbie Duncan. Row 7 — Henry Elias, John Graham, Gregg Humphreys, Larry Isford, Henry Kuza, Andy Landego, Ken Lenton, Jim McCausland, Dave McCaw. Row 8 — Don McDonald, Bruce McNeice, Allan Men- zies, Kirk Merlevede, Glenn Merritt, Lyle Parnell, Tom Paukovic, Bob Potter, Garry Rawn. Row 9 — Grant Rodgers, Terry Scott, Don Shiach, Rick Slezak, Paul Sutherland. Row 10 — Jack Tate, John Urkevich, Randy Vokey, Ian White, Rick Wilson. k k I . © rr r , A ' tfciih PAGE 30