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

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Our Year Book Editorial Staff each year en¬ deavours to make a Year Book that is better than the books of previous years. Their success depends very largely upon the co-operation they receive from the Class Reporters and others who write news, .articles, poems and other contributions of many kinds. Similarly in the whole school we try to make each year’s work better than the work of the year before. In this, too, we depend for our success upon the co-operation of every member of the school. What a difference it makes to a class if all are helping instead of nearly all helping and one or two hindering. When we look back over our School Honor Roll, we see the names of former students who in other years earned top places in their Junior High School Classes. Many of these have gone on and have earned top places after leaving school. Some are Doctors, some Lawyers, some Teach¬ ers, or Business Executives. Many are capable Home-Makers who are bringing up their own child¬ ren to be good citizens and perhaps leaders. Our honor students are examples of our best graduates of former years. Many of the classmates are equally successful and are leaders in the communities in which they live. Our School is specially proud of its Graduate George Sharpe, who, last fall was elected Mayor of Win¬ nipeg. Earl Grey Graduates may be found as successful citizens in every part of Canada and in many other countries. We have some fine students coming along this year as in other years. A few will be chosen as the Honor Students of 1955. Many others will be successful with them as they go on to higher grades. Our Grade IX Graduates will leave us soon to adventure into Senior High School and some later will go to Normal School and to University. We look to our Graduates of 1955 to take part, as former Earl Grey Students have taken part, in the Scholastic, Athletic, Musical, Dra¬ matic and other activities in the Senior Schools. We hope that the start that they have been given in Earl Grey will enable them to lead their classes and to go on to top places at each stage in their careers. To be successful is not easy. To be a successful leader is even more difficult, but not all are needed to be leaders. That person is most truly successful who is most useful and most happy in being useful. This success is possible to any person who is willing to work for it. To our Graduates of 1955 we wish the best of success. Be leaders if that is your future but whether you lead the group or follow a leader, every one aim to be useful and to be happy in being useful in whatever part of the world you may live and whatever the work you may do. Let us hear of your success in future years. Mr. C.A.E. HENSLEY Continued from Page 1 Mayor Sharpe entered politics as a Winnipeg alderman in 1947. He held this office until he became mayor in 1955. He is now occu¬ pying the chair which was presented to his father. Mayor Thomas Sharpe fifty-one years ago. Mayor Sharpe is happily married and has two daughters, aged eleven and sixteen. He is very fond of shooting and sailing. However, now that he is mayor he has little time for either of these activities. We are proud of the fact that Mayor Sharpe, a former Earl Grey student is today Winnipeg’s first citizen. From an interview with Mayor Sharpe by: Carol Irvine, Lottie Schubert, 2 Wayne Rudko, Grant Saunders.

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MAYOR SHARPE - A FORMER GRADUATE On January 1st, 1955, a former Earl Grey Graduate, Mr. George Sharpe, became mayor of Winnipeg. His Worship Mayor George Sharpe attended Earl Grey from Grades 1 to IX with such well-known personalities as Mr. J. Coyne, Governor and Mr. A. Beattie, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada. Mayor Sharpe recalls being class president in Grade VI. During each of his three Junior High years he was one of the class room executives. He undertook a two language course as he planned to attend University. At Earl Grey he especially enjoyed manual training. Being interested in music he sang in a choir in the Musical Festival which obtained the exceptionally high marks of 98 and 99. The choir was instructed by Miss Ethel Kinley who was then Earl Grey’s music teacher and who after¬ wards became the Music Supervisor of Schools. Later Earl Grey produced the operetta, “The Mikado” in which he played the major role of Pish Tush, a noble lord. The principal at that time was Mr. J.S. Little who came from England for the express purpose of converting Earl Grey into the first Junior High School in Canada. Mr. Little introduced the English sport of cricket to the Earl Grey boys. When Mayor Sharpe graduated from Earl Grey, he con¬ tinued his education at Kelvin High School. There he attained the positi¬ on of school president. It was also there that he was taught science by our present principal, Mr. Hensley. At Kelvin he was active in track and field and was a most capable referee for the inter-high hockey games. As he had always done well in mathematics Mayor Sharpe chose the five year course in Electrical Engineering at the University of Manitoba. When he graduated in 1933, he was offered an electrical engineering job in Peterborough, Ontario. He declined as the pay was not adequate and he did not wish to leave Winnipeg. During the depression years he sold shoes in Eatons Department Store. When World War II began, Mayor Sharpe served in the re¬ serve army with the Winnipeg Grenadiers for four and one-half years. As a transport officer he taught the recruits how to drive army trucks and motorcycles. When he left the reserves, he had risen to the rank of a lieutenant. Continued Page 2 1

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BACK ROW (Left to Right)—Dave Mills, Don Peters, Allan Carlson. Walter Grenkow, Bob Hoogerbrug, Richard Hovey, Ron. Craig. Jim McEwen, Dave Molstad, Ken. Kusmack. THIRD ROW—Jean Reimer, Pat Mormul, Luain Eastham, Sera Loschiavo, Arlene Davis, Dolores Kisiw. Pat Smith. Elaine Sims, Irene Jeffrey, Rosalee Austman. SECOND ROW—Mr. Lysecki. Barbara Roberts, Carole Smith, Elaine Dawson, Allah Joe Verner. Lillian Richardson, Norah Speight. Carole Irvine, Andrea Mackay. Mr. Lawson. FRONT ROW — Miss Dickson, Grant Saunders, Pat Thorvaldson, Lottie Schubert, Wayne Rudko, Phyllis Winchell, Elaine Guillemin, Mr. Stark. YEAR BOOK STAFF 1955 EDITOR.Wayne Rudko ASSISTANT EDITOR.Lottie Schubert SPECIAL EVENTS...Carole Smith, Carole Irvine LITERARY.Phyllis Winchell, Nancy Sloker, Elaine Guillemen, Grant Saunders ART.Pat Thorvaldson, Dave Molstad MUSIC...Patricia Pats, Lillian Richardson HUMOUR.Jim McEwen, Norah Speight PHOTOGRAPHY...Elaine Dawson, Allah Joe Verner, Don Peters; SPORTS - GIRLS.Andrea Mackay, Barbara Roberts SPORTS - BOYS.Ron Craig, Ken Kusmack ADVERTISING.Luain Eastham, Sera Loschiavo, Irene Jeffrey, Pat Mormul, .Dolores Kisiw, Jean Reimer, Arlene Davis, Elaine Simms .Pat Smith, Rosalie Austman, Allan Carlson, Walter Grenkow, .David Mills, Bob Hoogerbrug, Richard Hovey STAFF ADVISORS.Miss I. Dickson, Miss L. Hodgson, Mr. J.E. Lysecki, ...Mr. A.H. Lawson, Mr. P.J. Stark The students of the 1955 Year Book Staff wish to express their sincere gratitude to the members of the teaching staff and the student body for the fine co-operation received this year. We especially wish to thank Miss Dickson for her many hours spent in the preparation of our book. Miss Hodgson helped greatly with the selection of our Art Competition winners and the art work. Miss Clement aided us in the judging of the Literary Contest contributions. Mr. Lysecki, who was in charge of the advertising and financial interests, merits well earned praise. Mr. Stark assiat- Continued Page 4 3