Eastwood High School - Gazette Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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46 E. H. S. YEAR BOOK ALUMNI—AT VARSITY Henry Ward: Pharmacy—Likes loafing, British Consols, and Peggy Benson. Dave Adams: Honors History—No definite likes except Velma Miller. Harry Mayer: Law—Fond of argument in Lower Common Room. John Kelly: Med—An expert at anything but medicine. Jack Singer: Med—A lab. every afternoon and a longing for a movie. Bill Anderson: Commerce—Going to Varsity in a big way. Fred Bainbridge: Engineering—You wouldn’t know Mrs. Bainbridge’s little boy. Don Cameron : Arts—Sits in street cars to prove the equality of sexes. Howard Barker: Engineering—President of the Alumni Association. Doug. Blackie: Engineering—Maybe, but he “sort of looks like a Theolog.” Gay Brink: Engineering—A lad who has developed a vocabulary. Ralph Collins: Arts—Of French and Prodigal Son fame. Garnet Badger—Particulars concerning this young man would be appreciated. Cliff Jones: Science—He knows his stuff but keeps it a secret. Bob Byron: Science—Specializing in German at Eastwood. Horace Jacobs: Science—A bear for punishment in an argument. George Ross: Arts—Still collecting books for his library. Johnny Sorochan: Theology—Still an expert on a mouth-organ. Peggy Benson: House Ec.—Wears a red hat and drinks coffee. Olive Grant: House Ec.—Tries out her cooking on Brother Norman. Eileen Greenlees: Arts—Noted for sheaves and sheaves of notes. Velma Miller: Honors Math—Just as shy, and sweet a smile as ever. NORMALITES Some Normalite of last year possessing more knowledge of her sub¬ ject than poetic ability to express it, wrote a nine-verse jingle on “Normal Life,” the gist of the piece being: “All we know is work, work, work, But we like it just the same.” This is not a hint that the Eastwood teachers should be more cruel but we Normalites are convinced, that in the good old days when we used to browse around the halls of our beloved high school, we did not know what real work meant. There are thirty-eight in our Eastwood “family” over here. Some have spent five years in Eastwood but then there is the more cosmopoli¬ tan element of those who have only spent one year or so within her walls. Eastwood has been well represented on the student’s council both in first and second terms. Margaret Grierson was social convener for the

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E. H. S. YEAR BOOK 45 The Graduates, 1933 Now Charlotte’s a star in a blue firmament, She moves among gases that have a sweet scent; A chemist she’ll be, but what we do fear, She’ll shine all alone in her own atmosphere. Just look at our Jean, she’s known to us all, For her there’s no nickname, but just plain Jean Gall: We’ve known her for two years, or is it but three, She spins in church circles, in C.G.I.T. And Murray’s the King with no sceptre to hold, An eye for the battle where heroes are bold; There’s fire in his purpose, defiance he’ll show, We’d give him the rein, if he’s anxious to go. And Douglas MacKay makes one think of the burns, Where mills are in motion, power coming by turns; And the bluff Highland raider, rides home o’er the braes, Now Doug, goes to pasture, there’s homework to graze. k Then Helen called Molofee, not a bit loud, A sweet misty something, not unlike a cloud; You wonder when teaching, what pleases the eye, ’Tis Helen who’s smiling when all others sigh. Hobert Perley has the notion he would like to fly a plane, Just a pilot of the sunset, with a passenger or twain; If he rise to higher levels, piercing through the central blue By his chemistry he’ll do it, making laughing gas for two. Why John should delay the business of study Till the snow is all gone and the roads are all muddy; Hibernal he seems in winter he sleeps, Yet the crop is not green, in June when he reaps. And James Ross is canny, he came late to school, And brought a good note according to rule; His Pepsodent tube, it squeezed out too slack, It took him till nine to get it all back. Joe: I love you; I love you. Won’t you be my wife? Jess: You’ll have to see mamma first. Joe: I have seen her several times, but I love you just the same.

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E. H. S. YEAR BOOK 47 first term, William Moisey was treasurer for both terms, Hedley Abbott, second term president, and Fred Parker, susceptor of debating for the second term. In sports, music, and scholarship, Eastwood students have nobly upheld the traditions of their high school home. We might mention the names of the actual graduates: ’28, W. Moisey, S. Horyn; ’30, S. Zaharichuk; ’31, A. Barchyn, H. Abbott, F. Parker, M. Mazurek, B. Nye, W. Rourke, R. Lakusta, R. Evans; ’32, E. Westlund, P. Hutton, M. Onyschuk, M. Leslie, Z. Ferby, D. Elliott, T. Hughes, M. Grierson, T. Madsen, W. Ewachniuk, E. Waitti, W. Melnyk, E. Seller, R. Bandura, I. Sillars and M. Kully. In spite of the strenuous nature of the course, we will have many happy memories of the enjoyable year we spent at Normal school. —Fred Parker. GRADUATES This year’s class makes the seventh to graduate from Eastwood High School. Each year the attendance at the graduating class dance has increased until now the number is getting so large as to be some¬ what difficult to accommodate. Last year’s class set aside the sum of ten dollars to serve as a neucleus for a fund to take care of a gradu¬ ate’s dance or some other alumni function. This year the hard times have prevented such an undertaking, but it is to be hoped that pros¬ perity and another new year will see an association formed to provide for the occasional reassembling of old school friends from Eastwood. HONOR STUDENTS Each year the Students’ Union honors students in all grades who secure an average of seventy-five per cent on their Christmas examina¬ tions and on their Easter tests, by conferring upon them “Academic” pins. This year the list qualifying for this distinction is as follows: In Grade XII, Graydon Arksey and Jack Bailey of Room 23. In Grade XI, Allan Bell, Tommy Morimoto and Peggy Shaw of Room 22. In Grade X, David Larmour, Ruth Lyons and Phyllis Storie of Room 17, and Shirley Neher of Room 24. In Grade IX, Mona Watson and Arthur Knutson of Room 13; Andrew Laine of Room 11, and Irene Earner, Jean Murray, Isobel Williamson, Doris Young and Morris Zaslow of Room 14. The number awarded in the upper grades is rather smaller than usual while the number earned by Grade IX students is above the average. OUR MAINTENANCE DEPT. Two faithful and well-liked mem¬ bers of our staff are the Messrs. Billingsley and Colville, our caretakers. Unfailing good humor, combined with an efficiency seldom surpassed, have made our two friends popular with all of the students of the school. We take this opportunity on behalf of the school, as a whole, of expressing our sincere appreciation.