Elmira District Secondary School - Oracle Yearbook (Elmira, Ontario Canada)

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rousing cheers of a group of students in the balcony during a basketball game,-never will these be forgotten. Now, it is my personal wish that each one of the graduating class may come to fulfill the hopes and aspira- tions which are ever present in his or her mind. I speak for all when I say we shall do all in our power to reflect credit on the Elmira High School and on the teach- ers who laboured so faithfully to give us the material from which we may shape our future lives. In closing, I think my fellow gradu- ates would like me to leave with you some final thought which will convey to you the aims and ideals that we shall try to foster in the coming years. Longfellowis poem A Psalm of Life would perhaps best express that thought. X U. In the worldls broad field of battle In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act--act in the living-Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. Lives of great men all remind us We can make, our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps in the sands of time. Footsteps that perhaps, another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. -ARTHUR WEICHEL, '43 QC-Jntinued from page 201 still iigure. MA dog, no! lt's. a young boy! V T ,lust then the shriek of a locomotive whistle was heard. Both men, without another word scrambled down the steep embankment and ran up the tracks to the young lad who was lying with his chest on the iron rail. The men. fran- tically pulled the lad's body off the tracks, as the train thundered past the spotg then came the screech of brakes as the train shuddered to a halt. The train men came running back to where the two men were bending over the boy, who was now regaining consciousness. Wfhen the young lad was able to talk, he said that he had been running down the very steep embankment, had stum- bled and had hit his head on the rail and had apparently collapsed on it. The engineer now came forward and excitedly told the two men that they had saved the boyls life as he would not have been able to bring the train to a stop in time. Quite a crowd of passengers had joined the gathering by this time, and one of them who was bending over the boy exclaimed, HI know who this young boy isl It is young Adolf. His father is the customs officer at Braunau, and the boy wants to be an artist. You two men saved the life of a boy who some day may be a great painter. Herr Schickelgruber will be eternally grate- ful to you. -ELEANOR KERRIGAN, XI L. R. DETENBECKA The Menfs Wear Store PHONE 4-4232 WATERLOO HMODERN TOOLS OF SCIENCEH CANADIAN LABDRATURY SUPPLIES LIMITED 'R TORONTO MONTREAL 22

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Vuledictory Address lt is indeed an honour to be chosen as valedictorian of the class of 1943 and to be able to express to you on our be- half the feeling of profound sorrow that we all feel as we bid good-bye to our beloved school. Mingled with this feel- ing of sorrow is the feeling of hope as we look anxiously toward the future. Now we are all faced with the realiza- tion that we have passed the first and perhaps the most important milestone in our lives. lt is as though we have come to the crossroad where each must choose the particular field of endeavour for which he or she feels most suited. This decision is perhaps the most mo- mentous that we have yet had to make because we realize that when it has once been made, the die is cast and each of us must face a perplexing world which has been turned from its normal course through the mortal conflict now being waged by the Allies against our ruthless enemies. lt would be fitting on an occasion such as this that we recall our first impres- us and our achievement Do you re- we used to sions of the life around mental development and throughout our early life. member how as children stand in awe of the distant blue sky, how we were unable to comprehend the cloudy and disconnected facts of the world, and how we so simply and unquestionably obeyed our parents' will? As we passed through boyhood and girlhood days, a few facts became clear but many more uncertainties and doubts caused deep speculation. Such vague things as infinite space and in- finite time entangled our minds. ' These perplexities, however, were soon lost and drowned in the rapid movement of all things about us. The great power of huge locomotives and their delicate mechanisms aroused the interest of many. The sight of a fire engine racing madly around corners was no less of a thrill to others. The L, - , v s . . ...W --M LV T.. Yi ,V -4' heroic deeds of soldiers, the saving of lives by doctors, the gentle care of nurses, the headline fame of baseball players-these all altered our thoughts and desires and directed our minds to new fields. ln High School we no longer believed what we were told without iirst weigh- ing and considering the matter. World problems, scientific achievements and political developements became the fa- vourite subjects of discussions with friends. Five years of High School passed all too quickly and only then did we realize that we had been tossed out on our own into the midst of a war- torn and war-minded world. Each student thus looks back on by- gone days, not with the feeling of re- gret, but of joy, not with the notion that much time has been aimlessly spent, but with the conviction that great things have been accomplished. -Distance and occupations now separ- ate the graduating students from each other. Some have taken summer courses at University and now have good posi- tions, some at present are taking their first year at University, some have re- lurned to work on their farms at home, and a large percentage have oined the Armed Forces. Now we all must bid farewell to our beloved school, to our fellow students, and to the teachers who so patiently helped us to understand the many whys and wherefores of the various subjects. Many years from now our thoughts will still drift back to the happy days spent at E.H.S. Students racing madly down the corridor to beat the final bell, the would-be chemists of fifth form mix- ing the wrong chemicals and uneasily waiting fon the results, the worried ex- pression on everybody,s face before exams, the gaiety and goodwill of all at parties and hikes, the blank stare of the Algebra class as the Binomial Theorem was being explained and the 21

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