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

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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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principal’s Jldcssagc The first half of this century was characterized by two wars and a depression—all on a world-wide scale. Since the end of World War II, there has been a cold war between Democracy as practised by the countries of the West and Communism as practised by Russia and Red China. The world enters the last part of the century in a very troubled condition. Most of the staff of our School know something from first-hand experience of living under conditions created by depression and war. Many of our students have experienced living only in a rather favorable economy and with a rather remote cold war. In the next few years many changes will be forced upon staff and students alike. Teachers to a degree, and students, in a large measure, will be required to pre¬ pare to live in a different world: great technological advances must be carried forward and world-wide social, political and religious problems must be faced. This would indicate that each student will be required, in the future, to work hard—to the limits of his capabilities—to be pre¬ pared to contribute his share to the solution of problems in the fields of the humanities and the sciences. It is a prospect requiring hard work, self-denial, and the best in each of us to affect the solution of the world ' s problems. The rewards of this effort, however, will be great—satisfaction that comes from a job well done and realization of the hope that our way of life can be passed on to those who come after us. May you, the students of Crescent Heights High School, continue to take from this school the elements of education and training that will make possible a significant contribution to our Canadian society. W. H. COOPER, Principal 6

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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