Edmund Partridge Junior High School - Banner Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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yr K ' v MM v . ' jW The school year of 1964-65 is drawing to a close and my hope is that the hours you have spent Partridge School have been rewarding ones. The years .spent in Junior High School are difficult ones. This is the great adjustment period where students become physically and mentally mature — where they are sorted according to inclination and ability — where they formulate some plan, be it very hazy for the future. If you can look back upon this year and say that you have contributed to your progress according to your ability, then you have had a successful year. In addition to achieving satisfactory academic results it is very necessary to develop other characteristics of a good citizen, some of which are reliability, honesty, a sense of right and wrong and respect for the rights of others. Are you satisfied with the results you have achieved? To those who are leaving, I hope your years here have been profitable and rewarding and that you will carry with you many fond memories of your days at this school. May I express a word of appreciation for you loyalty and support in the various school activities. May I express, also, my appreciation to the teaching staff, who have, during my short time here, spared neither time nor effort to supply the students with the best possible learning situation. To those of you who have made this yearbook possible, my congratulations on a job well done. Principal

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EDMUND PARTRIDGE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL presents

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Every stage ty human development brings with it certain tasks, new hurdles to surmount, rtew privileges to enjoy. Your junior high school yea- are perhaps the most significant years of ) ur life. This is a time of transition from the dependence of childhood to the responsibility of adulthood. It is a time of exploring new endeavours, a time when you are confronted with many new opportunities for experiences thawtvill help you discover your own interests and potentialities, your ability to measure up to new challenges and new freedoms with their accompany¬ ing responsibilities and obligations. V w The extent to which you can discover your true self and measure up to these new responsibilities during junior high years determines in large measure the success, with which you will meet Life’s challenges hereafter. Do not, therefore, be tempted, to seek only personal pleasure and enjoyment; seek rather in ea h new task the deeper satisfaction to be gained from achievement, from the knowledge that through each challenge you as a person can rise to new heights. Whatever difficulties you may encounter, whatever temptations may arise, lose not sight of your sense of the real values in life. I like the thought expressed in these oft-quoted lines from an anonymous writer: “I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able, as days go by, Always to look myself straight in the eye. I don’t want to stand at setting of sun And hate myself for the things I’ve done. I never can hide myself from me; I see what others may never see; I know what others may never know; I never can fool myself, and so Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free.” Vice Principal