Crescent Heights High School - Bugle Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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satisfaction, will be great for those who succeed, the competition from millions of hard-working, determined and dedicated young people in Russia, in Asia and in Africa, is going to make the race strenuous and exhilarating. The key to success in this international and interplanetary competition is Education. Success will go inevitably to those people who have the strength of character, the determination and the imagin¬ ation to discipline themselves, to strive for a mastery of subject matter in greater depth and over a longer period of time than any generation in previous history. If you accept this challenge and this discipline and use the deeper knowl edge and understanding that comes with it, your generation of pioneers—the pioneers of the space age, can also be the pioneers of a new and more important dimension, pioneers in the art of living together in a world of peace and friendship where the great talents of man are harnessed for the enrichment of the mind and the banishment of hunger and poverty, injustice and despair. If you can succeed as pioneers in this monumental task you will be the most important pioneers and trail blazers of all times. May you have all success. DONALD CAMERON, The Senate, Ottawa 8

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(Iiu ' st ttnrtal It is always a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk to or write to young people and for this reason I welcome the opportunity and honor of writing the guest editorial for the Bugle. Young people of high school age today are living in the most exciting of ail times, even though we must recognize that the world to which each new generation comes is always exciting and full of rich, challenging opportunities for that generation. The first generation to be born and raised on the western plains had the exhilarating adventure of helping to convert a new and virgin land into hundreds of homesteads and to build cities and towns, to operate ranches and mines and timber limits, and to have all the thrill of blazing new trails into the unknown. This is always an adventurous time and while the pioneer had to put up with many hardships and privations he also had the compensations of the wiry pioneer, a sense of creating and building, and the warm sense of comradeship that comes when people are pretty much on one economic level and do things together. Then the generation that came on the scene at the end of the 1940 ' s shared in a new type of pioneering—that of converting our country from an agricultural to an industrial economy. The coming of the oil wells and the development of the vast petro-chemical industries, which are still in their infancy, provided new opportunities for the people of Western Canada to think, to plan, and to build a new kind of life with a far different tempo to that of the rangelands and wheat- fields. This era too provided its compensations in rich rewards for many and increased opportunities for all. But we are entering a still newer and vastly more complicated world with the coming of the 1960 ' s—the beginning of the age of space and interplanetary travel. An age where the miracle of new sources of energy, combined with the wizardry of electronics, is opening up new vistas of opportunity for young people in the exploration of the physical universe and its wealth of new materials which will make the 1970 ' s and 1980 ' s as different from the 1950 ' s as night is from day. There¬ fore, for the young person, who is to make this new and exciting world his own, there are new and difficult obstacles to be met and mastered. Success in the new age of space and technology will not go to the shallow and frivolous, the undisciplined and selfish. While the rewards in a material sense, and more importantly in terms of spiritual 7

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3n Remembrance MR. GERALD CLAIR WHITE Mr. White ' s many friends, amongst teachers and students, will mourn his untimely death in Scotland, 3rd May, 1960. Mr. White was born in Campbellford, Ontario. He came to Calgary at an early age and has lived here since that time. He graduated from the Calgary Normal School and from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After joining the staff of the Calgary School Board in September, 1929, Mr. White taught in many schools in Calgary. He was appointed to the staff of Crescent Heights High School in Septem¬ ber, 1951, to be in charge of the Arts and Crafts courses. He was studying and vacationing in Great Britain with his family this school year, en¬ joying a well-earned sabbatical leave. Mr. White was a good man and a good teacher. His ingenuity, his enthusiasm, his talents and his industry will be long remembered by those with whom he worked and by those for whom he gave so much of himself. 9