Earl Grey School - Triangle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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A FEW WORDS TO THE GRADUATES FROM OUR PRINCIPAL Working through a three year course in school, sometimes seems like travelling in a thick forest. You cannot see far ahead until you come to a place where a clearing has been made. When you reach a clearing you have room to look around and choose a new road. For three years now you have been travell¬ ing along winding trails through a forest of facts and now, at the end of Grade IX you are coming to a clearing. From this clearing you have an opportunity to look ahead. Already you have heard of the new roads that lead out through Senior High School to greater opport¬ unities beyond. In our free country you are not told which road you must take. You are al¬ lowed to choose the one in which you believe that you can work most successfully. One of the roads leading from the clearing is a short-cut to the world outside the forest of schooling. This is an easy and down-hill road for the short distance but it leads out to a long, rather rough road along which the opportunities for advancement are few and far between. No one should follow this road who can possibly go on to the better opportunities to be found along the higher grade roads. The higher grade road lead on into the forest ahead and to make progress on these roads you must learn to help yourself more and more. On some roads you use your hands and become skill ed craftsmen. On others you use your head more than your hands for a long time. It is uphill going but you finally come out on a clearing high up on the hill where you can look out over the surrounding forest and see many op¬ portunities that cannot be seen from the lower roads. From here you can best choose the kind of work in which you want to make a successful career. Having reached the first clearing at the end of the Junior High School Course most of you will go on into Senior High School. The climb there will be a little harder but after you get to the Senior High Clearing at the end of Grade XI or XII the road becomes much smoother and the opportunities along the way are many and good. Go on if you can to the University clearing. Good roads lead from there and many opportunities await all who have learned how to work and how to think for themselves. Your teachers and your school mates wish you good travelling and fine suc¬ cess as you now leave us to go into Senior High School. You are leaving behind you a good record as a Senior Class and a new class is following closely in your path at a very satisfactory pace. You will of course keep well in the lead. Success to every one.