Colonel Irvine Junior High School - Golden Memories Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE This yearbook, the first in the short history of our school, is another milestone in the development of the abilities of our pupils. This book is not only of interest to you now because it deals with the pupils and their activities but it will be a very valuable keepsake in the future and a reminder of your school days at Colonel Irvine, Ten, twenty or even fifty years from now you will pick up this took. As you turn the pages you will recall the name and faces of your present classmates. What have they done with their lives? What will you have done with yours? This might be a good time to ask yourself What do I want out of life? The first answer that will come to your mind is -that you want fun. There is no-tiling wrong with this answer providing that it doesn ' t harm others, and that you can pay for it. Experience has proven however, that those whose main aim in life is pleasure, find that it becomes very boring and unsatisfactory. The people who are the happiest are those who are working at a job they enjoy, who have trained themselves so that the work they produce is of high calibre. As a result they are valued and appreciated members of the community. No matter what type of work you may choose, if you do it well, you will be needed. I should like to give you the following advice to guide you in your search for the answer to this question. Good health is of prime value. A healthy body is of great importance to a healthy mind. Let the vigor and cleanliness of your body be as precious to you as the integrity of your character. Get plenty of exercise , eat proper food and get to bed at a reasonable hour. Character is second only to health. One of our aims in this school is to transform egos into ladies and gentlemen. Kind words cost so little and are worth so much. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. If you can ' t say good things, say nothing. In fact, nothing is often a clever thing to say. Do not be afraid of criticism from others. One of the objects of schooling is to receive criticism in order to improve. Have a religious faith and live by it. Know what is right and what is wrong. Civilization has built up rules that have stood the test of time. If you think you can break these and be happy, you are very wrong. The more man learns through science, the greater is his realization that only an omnipotent power could create and regulate our universe. Build an economic basis under your life. But don ' t get caught in the rat trap of money making as a profession. Many of you are learning how to save now. Others unfortunately cannot discipline themselves to curb thoir immediate desires. You have been born into a wonderful, exciting world. It has been and is peopled with those who have accomplished a great deal to make it better. You must payfbr the privilege of living in this world. I once heard a great man say For my plaoe on earth, I must pay a daily rent. I know that you are willing to do this, that you will be able to add to the accomplishments already made. Let us thank God and nature for life ' s bracing trials and challenges, its educative punishments and rewards, its priceless gifts of beauty, wisdom, labor and love. May I hope that a few years from now you will be able to repeat the following lines truthfully. Let me but do my work from day to day. In field or forest at the desk or loom; In roaring market place or tranquil room. Let me but find it in my heart to say, Wien vagrant wishes beckon me astray. This is my work, my blessing, not my doom. Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.