Elmwood High School - Inscripta Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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GOVERNOR-GENERAL ' S MEDALIST The task of choosing from among the candidates for the Governor General ' s Award is not an easy one. Each person must have shown in the past year an outstanding scholas¬ tic record coupled with a dynamic personality and an unfailing interest in school develop¬ ment. Ian Thomson has shown all these qualities and more. His untiring efforts have led him well along the road to success in all of these fields and have made him a brilliant highlight in school records. He received the highest marks in two of the subjects on the course prescribed for matriculation in grade twelve, and proved himself to be of extreme¬ ly high intelligence as a member of the Elmwood High Reach For The Top television team. He, together with Richard Luddick, Thompson Owens, and Noreen Marshall set an example for all future students by defeating their competitors from throughout the Province by a substantial margin. He was also one of the two students chosen to repre¬ sent Elmwood at the Model United Nations Assembly in April of 1964. For the two years that I have known Ian Thomson as a friend and cohort in the Year book editing business I have found him to be an outstanding person and an excellent busi¬ ness man in crucial periods. An illustration of this would be the 1963 Inscripta of which our man lan was editor. We are proud of his achievements and wish him the best of luck in the future. - JIM EMLER

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Mr. S. G. Black Mr. H. J. Chernov Mrs. R. Deacove Mr. W. N. Gilchrist Mr. E. Hendricks Mrs. E. L. Holden Mr. F. Issak Mr. H. D. Kemp Mr. J. M. Kozoriz Mr. C. Leaven Mr. J. A. MacDonald Mr. L. A. Miller Miss F. Ryback Mr. M. September Miss E. L. Siemens Miss N. Skremetka Mr. R. A. Storch Mr. K. Tinsley Mr. V. D. Toews Miss F. Baskerville Mrs. S. Wilson Mr. G. Scott Mr. F. Pauls Mrs. M. Wardell

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V VALEDICTORY Miss MacDonald, honoured guests, members of the staff, fellow graduates, ladies and gentlemen: As we gather tonight for the last time, let us depart from the usual sadness which accompanies farewells, and be happy in the thought that now we are high school grad¬ uates, a challenging new future lies before us. To some of us, this represents the chance to begin immediately to earn a living, while others have gone a further step, and set out to study at the University, or become es¬ tablished in a professional career. As we think back on our years of school, however, we cannot help but realize that the eligibility to earn a living, or proceed to further studies, is only one of the many benefits we have gained from our high school education. We will always cherish the memory of the experiences we have shared, and although we may be widely separated over the coming years, the mutual aims that we have developed here will continue to bind us together. During our years at Elmwood High, we devoted our extra time to many activities; among them the newspaper, the yearbook, the Red Cross committee, and the various athletic competitions. Not ail of us, it is true, could be members of the inter-high school athletic teams, or the quiz team, but the thrill of cheering for our competitors made us all participants in spirit. The various activities that we undertook, over the years, taught us sportsmanship as well as scholarship, and have established within us a feeling of fellowship and goodwill. The guidance of our teachers and parents has been a very important influence on us throughout our years of school: With their help we have learned to be independent - to make decisions for ourselves. We have been given a sound attitude and a responsible approach to life ' s problems; an understanding of people; the world; and a respect for the rights of others. It is to our teachers and our parents that we owe special thanks, for they have given us the tools with which to build our lives. Now, as we step out into our chosen fields of endeavour, we find a modern world in which each year brings new advances in a great many, fields: Science, technology, medicine, transportation, communication and space travel - to name just a few. But while we enjoy the benefits of this wonderful, and plentiful age, we must always be con¬ scious that elsewhere in our world there is conflict - between nations and within them; there is racial and religious prejudice, and there is widespread hunger. Perhaps our generation can make some small contribution towards correcting these ills, but whatever we do, let us determine to accept the challenge of life with courage, resolution and fortitude, as we now bid one another farewell. - Robert Pawlik