Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute - Breezes Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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D. M. C. I. BREEZES 21 CORRESPONDENCE To t’he Editor of “Breezes.” A copy of the December edition of the “Breezes” was wafted to me through the kindness of the very able editor of the present year, and I have just been perusing it again for the “umpteenth” time as it were. You know, the influence and associations of one’s collegiate days are not easily erased, and to the ex-student, any items of interest con¬ nected with the Alma Mater are always very welcome. Perhaps some of the students now in attendance at the Daniel McIntyre are not aware of the fact that just four years ago an attempt was made at getting out a paper which would be strictly a Daniel McIntyre publication. During the first two years it was edited under the name of the “Mercury,” but last year, after much discussion, it was decided that the name be changed to the one used in the old Central Collegiate days—“Breezes.” The editorial staff of this year’s paper is certainly to be con¬ gratulated ! Surely much time and thought must have been devoted to the assembling and arranging of the many excellent contributions from the various rooms. These contributions bespeak the fact that a keen interest and desire for the progress of the paper is being shown by the entire school. Judging by the standard which the paper has reached, I agree with,the editor that the “Breezes” is as yet a sufficient medium of expression for the school. Not only to the staff is praise due, but throughout the pages of the paper the several articles contributed by the students, both in prose and verse, give ample evidence that the literary lights of Canada will soon have to look to their laurels. Shirely Hehn, Editor-in-Chief, 1926-27. c o F. D. Brooks, R.R. No. 5, Brandon, Man., May 14th, 1928. Dear Editor of the Breezes: How rather strange that your “Breezes” should reach me away out here. But they did, last week, whispering such an unexpected request that I was quite at a loss for a time. In glancing over your December issue of last year, I can see several changes. You have so many more “Buddin’ Poets” than we had; or, perhaps you have the greater knack of being able to get them to con¬ tribute. One especially, “Out of School Life into Life’s School,” in¬ terested me, though I wondered if the boys had already found outrthose truths or were just imagining. You have, too, a number of quite orig¬ inal room write-ups; which add, oh so much, to the paper. I wonder, now, if you know or would care to know the very humble origin of your present, flourishing school paper; would you? Really, it was more by good luck than good management that I was

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20 D. M. C. I. BREEZES OUT OF SCHOOL LIFE INTO LIFE’S SCHOOL “ LL the World’s a stage, and all men and women merely players.” So said Shakespeare, for he was a dramatist. It is a tendency of the human being to measure Life through the medium of his own occu¬ pation. “We human beings ride on a train of moods through glass houses, and, as we pass through these many colored caverns and caves, we look out upon the world and view the works and worths of others, and everything seems to take on the hue of our own glass houses.” The student as he steps forth from the school, thinks of life, into which he emerges as only another school. In the years of his minority he has learned how to amass knowledge. This is the occupation of school life. As the school door closses behind him for the last time, he passes into Life’s school, where experience is the head teacher, Opportunity the bell-ringer, Public Opinion the merit-giver, and Service to Cur¬ riculum ; and here he learns to apply knowledge. In Life’s school, enterprise and loyalty will discover Opportunity, where inability and indifference see but a chance for the other fellow. If you would find real Opportunity, look into your own head and heart. Most people have been taught to watch and wait for the time at which they might apply their knowledge, and this watching and waiting has proven to be the abuse of ambition and curse of courage. To recognize Opportunity and know what to do is wisdom. To know how to do it is skill, but to do the thing as it should be done, is service. So let us one and all take a firm stand on the solid rock of ser¬ vice and build a foundation of usefulness, so that when we enter life’s school, every day will offer some opportunity to attract our ability and ambition. Thus the voyage from the tides of school life to the rough waters of Life’s school shall be tranquil and successful. —Roy Caven, Room 8. ■—Charles Mann, Room 13. NEW YEAR’S MORN One morn the list’ning angels heard The bells of New Year true, And smiling sent the snowflakes down To make this old world new. Each little snowflake—oh, so small! One little spot made bright; And smil’d until the earth smiled, too, In silence pure and white. -—Margaret Chappie, Room 24. ML BNO MV 3HH00W

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22 D. M. C. I. BREEZES the editor of the first school paper at Daniel McIntyre. When three of us were elected staff for a paper, it was simply a grade twelve class paper we were to produce. This we did in November, mimeographed copies for the room under the title of “The 58 Howl.” To our surprise, but delight, other parts of the school showed an unusual interest, many coming to us wishing to procure copies. This is probably what encouraged us to try something bigger. We constituted a self-appointed staff for a school paper and got busy, with the result that in February we produced a larger paper, a first school paper, with the name “Mercury,” which it held for a year or two. We had no diffi¬ culty in getting rid of all the copies we had—they were still mimeo¬ graphed. It was early in the year yet, and we aspired to higher things. Con¬ sequently we added several to our staff from various rooms, to produce a “Souvenir Number” for the last of the term. We were getting along by leaps and bounds, for this time we had a cover with scroll title and original drawing, besides a page of pen sketches and another of illus¬ trated jokes; more news, too. It doesn’t seem so much now, but at the time we were well pleased with the success of the first year of the Daniel McIntyre school paper. I still have copies of those first three papers, all of which are like Souvenir Numbers to me now as I look back to them. You editors since the years 1924-25 have done exactly what we hoped you would do. You have carried on—you have held the Torch high—you have produced better papers as time went on. Mdy your sec¬ ond edition this year be the best yet. Sincerely yours, Luella Sprung, Editor-in-Chief, 1924-25 Dear Fellow Students: On behalf of the Senior Council and myself, I wish to thank you for the splendid support you have given us in the last year. Through¬ out the year we had tried our utmost to carry out the desires of you all. I am very much pleased to say that in all undertakings we have had the firm and sympathetic support of Mr. Campbell and the rest of the staff. Students, those who are going out into the world and others who are extending their education in colleges and universities, I hope that you will all succeed in your respective lines and I wish you all the very best success. Thanking you all again for the splendid support you have given us, T remain, Yours sincerely, Robert Alexander, President of Senior Council.