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

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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.

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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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48 E. H. S. YEAR BOOK OUR “LITS” Our year indeed was one which flourished with high-class Lits de luxe. Ah! will we ever forget those days when we sat spellbound in our crowded assembly hall, spellbound before the unparalleled talent of our school. You could almost hear a railroad spike drop when-stood up to sing—and remember how so and so perspired and how someone else’s fingers shook when he got up to play his first public piano solo. Nor will we forget the surprise we got when Ray Lambertson and his highly-educated poodle made it very hard for the audience to stay “sat down,” and Walter Howard, our reincarnated Houdini, caused our eyes to pop out and our gum to slip down when he said “presto” and lo he produced a piano from a top hat. And then—that immortal play with a magnificent cast: Joan Millar, in the heart-throbbing role as nurse; Art Southworth, the lucky patient; Jack White, the absent-minded doctor, who forgot where he left his saw, and Ada Cheedle, the villanous gold- miner. Those with loftier tastes will never forget the beautiful strains from Mr. Leaver’s chorus, and the strings of our little Paganini, Frank Skinner. In looking back from the years to come we will always remember the excellent performance of all in our Lits. STRIKE THREE--E! BATTER’S OUT! Since the day when Casey dashed the hopes of the Mudville rooters by his tremendous air-shattering third strike, there have been a few intrepid youngsters with swollen knuckles and calloused palms who have disdained the degenerating influences of soft-ball and insisted on playing a man’s game. It is to be expected that Eastwood, located, as it is, among the wide open spaces of Edmonton, should foster many who aspire to the crowns of Babe Ruth and Roger Hornsby. They can be seen on the campus while the younger boys are still shooting marbles, magnificent in their indiffer¬ ence to mud and snow, while they hurl a ball enveloped by a nebula of flying particles of mud. With Easter examinations over and reports engaging the attention of the staff, the clamor for a house league began to grow from a few disorganized croaks to a concerted howl. As a result, notices were posted, a meeting of the above-mentioned, horny-handed youths convened and after much friendly banter, three teams were chosen, piloted by Crassick, Ferrier and Elaschuk. It is too early as yet to judge the relative strengths of the three teams, but good sport is assured. The Inter-School Baseball schedule has not been posted at the time that this article goes to press. Eastwood fans and players are confident that a strong team will be put in the field to represent our school in com¬ petition with other city high schools. Dave McKill (reading Virgil) : “Three times I strove to cast my arms about her neck and—that’s as far as I got, Miss Cato.” Miss Cato: “Well David, I think that was quite far enough.”