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

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Class History School days, School days, Dear old golden rule days ! September 8, 1941 we started school. Tears were streaming down Lois McMahon’s face, Alex McKenzie was hanging on to his mother for dear life, but Wilma Dripps wasn’t afraid: Go on home, Mom, I’m all right. That first year of school—the days we learned to line up, walk around the room, make animals from plasticine. At Poison, everyone liked Miss Gelley. She used to pass out candy at least twice a month — jelly beans. We learned to print the alphabet, to read—a little trouble, but we made it; and found ourselves in grade two. Remember our valedictorian actually getting the strap. 0 Eleanor! In Grade III we used ink. We were Mama’s little black children. In Grade IV we started painting; leaves, flowers, and cards for Mother. Grade V brought exemptions and work on the year book: Ted Barnes’ drawing of a horse, and Bob Moffat’s Louis Pasteur. At Salisbury our pride and joy was the aquarium, inhabited by four live fish, and visited by tadpoles, frogs and toads. Grade VI - top of the elementary school-no more chocolate milk! Grade VII - Junior High!!’, Miss Dunbar chasing Barrie Kirkhope into the knee hole of her desk! French! Grade VIII - Tally-ho’s, class parties, Home Ec., shops and Latin!! At Poison Miss Taylor got her share of snow at the winter hike. Prince Edward girls proved themselves singing stars , winning the Earl Grey trophy for Miss McIntyre. In Grade IX, we met. From Salisbury, Prince Edward k Poison, we were united into one group - our present class. Remember Valerie Michaluk speeding home from a toboggan party, lying in the ambulance, her chum Bernice Jakubic fervently praying at her side. In sports we copped the softball, volleyball, and soccer championships. Stars: Doug Ingram, Mel Finlay son, Eric Tideiman, David Tibbs. Remember how hard our mothers worked so that we could model our home-made skirts at the tea! Idella Adams ate too many nuts and got expelled. Gosh, why didn’t I think of that— an extra holiday! At shops: leather work and woodcraft, and a tremendous snow fight on Poison grounds, won by the North-of-Sydney army under Andy Wangen. Health periods helped us catch up on sleep, except when Helen Michalek fell into a pail of water. How we liked History when John Campbell took over Miss Dunbar’s class. The flood cut our activities short, the holidays flew by, and we found ourselves in Grade X. Remember Walter Melnyk modelling a sun suit and sun bonnet at the election dance. Remember our plays: Little Father of the Wilderness and The Price of Coal. Kathleen Anderson as an old woman and Alex Harris our best actor! Hugh Krentz, Pat Francis and Ron Dickson won the school debating trophy, and Hugh and Wally Melnyk excelled in the,Optimist’s oratorial contest - and we had scholarship winners too.

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS CONT’D. With the threat of war like an ominous thundercloud on our horizon there is a ringing challenge to the youth of today. It lies in our hands what will happen to the wo rid of tomorrow. Will man eventually destroy life with his great scientific advances or will he discover some means by .which to live in peace? The Bible states that there will be wars and rumors of wars. What good would we do if we ran and hid our heads under our pillows as we did when we were children, saying, I’m afraid? No. The only way we can be unafraid is to face the storm and have faith in God. tfe have been looking forward. In contrast, let us glance back and see what has been accomplished. How much praise goes to our teachers for helping to mould our characters. Their example has often been an inspiration to us to go on to bigger and better things. Their conversations have often cleared away a fog of misunderstanding and presented our troubles in such a different light that we found it comparatively easy to overcome them. They have taught us to steer in a right course and warned us of rocks ahead. For our cargoes are important, whether they be sandalwood peacocks and ivory, or road-rails, pig-lead, and cheap tin trays all are necessary, and no one want s a wreck. On life’s broad sea, we won’t likely meet our old school chums unless when we pull into port at Greenland, we find one of them selling hotdogs to the Eskimos, or run across an old friend whaling off Madagascar. But it saddens us as we feel that we are now leaving behind us the friendships formed in school, that meant so much to us through the past years. We have associated closely with students of different races, different up-bringings, and with different ways of living. In work and play together, we have enjoyed each others’ society, and learned much of the value of friends. Nov; as we are finishing our training at sohool, we would like to give a grateful thank you ’ to our parents, who have sac¬ rificed much that we might have the education denied to some of them. May we bring honour to them that their pride in us mav be justified. - - In closing, Masefield, I would like to quote our poet laureate, John A Valediction. We’re bound for blue water, where the great winds blow. It’s time to get the tacks aboard, time for us to go. The crod ' s at the capstan, the tune’s in the shout A long pull, a strong pull, and warp the hooker out. Yonder round and ruddy is the mellow old moon. The red-funnelled tug is gone, and now, sonny, soon We’ll be clear of the channel, so watch how you steer Ease her when she pitches, and so-long, my dear. Eleanor Harris.

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Bn ok to E.K.C. for Grade XI - still no elevatorsi School elections, Chemistry experiments, explosions by Ann Neaves - pennies changed to dimes with Mr Curry’s precious mercury. Six girls in the Home Ec, class cooked a dinner for Mr.Scarrow, and then wondered why he couldn’t attend the Christmas dance that night! Grade XIA received a shock one day. Bashfull Romeo proposed Will you marry me to Steffie Novadile. We never heard her answer. . Gloria Braybrook and Sally Watterworth were carnival Queen s, Dorothy Edginton a Princess. Kathleen Anderson, Hugh Krentz and Bruce Rea won the debating shield! Brains and beauty, both in our class’. Campbell of Kilmohr our dramatic epic earned the best actor award for Hugh Krentz, while Mel Einlayson, Pat Davies, Walter Melnyk starred in the operetta. Windmills of Holland supported by plenty of elevens in the chorus. French was our favorite subject and Shirley Penner our favorite fellow student. Gwen O’Shea kept XIC’s especially Jim Smith supplied with chocolates. Our boys helped win the S,C,a.A.S occer championship oneu more, but muffed the basketball. Maureen Kalkhoven and Lily Paslawski tried hard to keep the girls up to last year’s championship level. Ina Erlendson, Joan Taylor, Muriel Brydges starred when we won the badcetball series. Field day showed off our Garnet Knox, Dianne Le Page and Eric Tiderman. We even came third in the suburban meet. Tops in everything from Drama to Music, sports, brains! We’ve worked hard to get this far. We’ve been given the tools, Let’s go on ' with the job). Lily Paslawski