East Kildonan Collegiate - Yearbook (East Kildonan, Manitoba Canada)

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Chick’s Choice Dance On the night of February £9, all the Collegiate Students put on their best bib and tucker and over to the Elmwood Building to take part in the fun ' of the last dance of t he season. The hall was decorated with yellow chicks and a streamer with the words Chick’s Choice on it was hung from one side of the room to the other. There were special dances as usual. The Spot Dance was won by Cecile Husak and Jerry Lash, Hesitation Dance was won by Don Stahr and Marlene Tinling, Illumination Dance was won by Bill Wiggy” Wyborn and Barbara Babs” Baker, The Potato Dance was won by Sally Sal” Watterworth and Lawrence Nip Tidquist. The master of ceremonies was the one and only Mel Finlayson who did a very good job. No wonder we always ask him. For the second time we had a square dance. This was a bigger success than the previous one. The dance was a great success which only makes us look forward to the following dances next year. - Audrey Schultz Teacher: Where do we find mangoes? Boy: Please, sir, where woman goes. Master: Name six animals found in India. Smith: Five lions and a tiger, sir. Teacher: What tense is ’I am beautiful’? Boy (hesitatingly). Past tense, miss.” A TRIANGLE is a three-cornered square. GORILLA warfare means up to their monkey tricks. PERSIAN cats is the chief industry of Persia, hence the word purr Whoever told that guy he was a prof? He just doesn’t know how to teach the stuff. Everybody hates him, Everytime he tries to explain something, he digresses so much that no one can under¬ stand what he’s talking about. I think he ought to quit teach¬ ing and go back to the farm. Yeah, I flunked too. In 1620 the pilgrims crossed the ocean, which is now known as the Pilgrim’s Progress.

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EAST KILDONAN COLLEGIATE election Dance --au.---- ' . Well here we are at the end of the school ' term after a season of fun and frolic. The first dance was a combination and election, get acquainted dance on September 28,1951. The Grades X and XI got to know each other and all the candidates made a final campaign before elections. The evening commenced with dancing, with the green and gold parties sponsoring the dances. About 10:30 the green party put on their share of of entertainment. They sang their election song, which was to the tune of Tea For Two, and then put on a very amusing skit called The Three Russians; This met with great applause from the audience. But the gold party, not to be outdone, opened their program with a recitation called Little Albert by Larry Robinson, followed by a bubble blowing contest. This was won by our professional bubble blower Mr.Currie, After this they brought out The Arkansas Hillbillies who came from way down yonder just to sing for us. I After the skits were over the dancing recommenced until 12:00. The dance was ended by the breaking of the balloons filled with confetti. The dance was a grand beginning for the school socials and activities throughout the year. v - Audrey Schultz To draw a circle, take your centre, and take your distance and draw a straight curved line. This is a circle and all lines drawn to it are equal. Prof: - I believe you missed my class yesterday. Student: Why, no I didn’t, not in the least. Prof.(after final exam) - Well, what did you think of the course? Student: It was very all-inclusive. Everything that wasn’t covered during the year was covered on the final esl Teacher: Now, Herbert, spell me the word ’ham.’ Herbert: Please, teacher, do you mean the ’am you eat, or 1 am you is?

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EAST KILDONAN COLLEGIATE CHRISTMAS D.,NCS Dancers of East Kildonan Collegiate thoroughly enjoyed the Christmas Dance. The hall was decorated with many balloons and streamers which were ' ’nicely” removed at the end of the dance. The evenirg commenced with dancing with the lights low, but about 10:00 p.m. the lights were turned up (with many groans and groans from the dancers) and the square dance was started. This dance was very successful even though there was a lot of confusion. There were special dances such as ’’Hesitation Dance’’ which was won by Maureen Kalkhoven and Jim Bradley ’’Mr.and Mrs.X Dance” won by John Campbell and Gloria Braybrook, Elimination Dance” won by Carol Gibson and Olafur Bjornson. The two main and outstanding features of our dance was The Mistletoe which was used extensively by some couples. Miss Thompson and Miss Taylor in their b-e-a-u- t-i-f-u-1 gowns attracted many of the hoys wolf whistles”. All in all the Christmas Dance was a nice way to end the year of 1951 and make way for 1952. ■ Audrey Schultz- XB Inspector. I feel tempted to give this class a history tes Cheeky voice. Yield not to temptation.” Teacher. Now, Smith, what do you know about Homer?” Smith. P-please, sir, I’ve got some of his pigeons. IT NEARLY WORKED An elderly man walked into a central school one day and ask to see the headmaster. He was conducted by a prefect to tt Head’s room, and when there asked, with profuse apologies for the intrusion, if he could see his grandchild. The gentleman was asked to take a seat, and the head-master himself went to bring the child in question. After the lay of a few minutes the head returned, but without the child. I am sorry,” said he, ’’but I’m afraid I must disappoint yc They told me in his class that he had gone to your funeral.