Essex District High School - Argus Yearbook (Essex, Ontario Canada)

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THE ARGUS ANNUAL CHOOSING A CAREER Boys and girls of Essex High, you have now reached the age when you are to decide your future course of life. Many of your school careers will end with high school: others will go on to college and become great doc¬ tors. lawyers, financiers, etc. What are YOU going to become? When you have obtained your sen¬ ior matric”, you have attained life’s second great success. For you who will not have the opportunity of going on to college, the question arises. Now that I have my matriculation, what good is it going to do me. if I can ' t go on to college? True! Your mathematics, your languages, and your sciences will be of little practical value to you in later life, but in learn¬ ing them, the ability to think, and to make your own decisions has been taught you. You should be mentally above the average boy or girl who has not attended high school. Hence, if you cannot make a success of life, with this ability to think, the fault must lie in yourself. There are many courses open to those unable to attend college. Tf you have excelled on the sports field dur¬ ing your high school days, you might make a success of an athletic career. Professional jobs are waiting to be filled in baseball, hockey, tennis, and scores of other sports. If you are not athletically inclined, the business field has a wide scope of position to be fil¬ led. Perhaps you have the silver tongue of the salesman, the originality o! thought of the newspaper editor, or the practical mind of the office hand. If so you might well succeed in the business field. If there is some trade which appeals to you. you can qualify yourself for that trade by attending Technical school or by serving an ap¬ prenticeship. Lastly, but by no means least, is the good, old-fashioned farm¬ ing. Farming offers the same oppor¬ tunities for success as any other field. You must remember that it is not so much your opportunities, as what von make of your opportunities, that leads to success. Now, let us discuss the case.of those who are going to attend college. You must first choose your career, and in so doing, be sure to choose something which appeals to you. You cannot make a success of something which you do not like. Moreover, you must not be discouraged if you have not been particularly clever in high school. Cleverness, while being a great help, is not essential to success. Some philo¬ sophers say that if we desire a thing hard enough, and if we are willing to work hard enough, we can attain any¬ thing we wish. Louis Pasteur, the great French physician, is an example of this. At school, he was considered dull and slow-witted, vet he became one of the world’s most famous re¬ search men in medicine. And so. pupils of Essex High, you might consider yourself as so many Louis Pasteurs, who can make a suc¬ cess if you are willing to put forth the effort. You all have a place to fill in this world. Find yours! Work hard, and success lies just around the corner. —Norman Heath. Form V OUR CONQUERING HEROS Ludos manumque cano, Essico qua prima ab schola Venit, omniaque celeriter superavit. Multa sustinerunt, illi gravihusque iac- tatus Rebus propter invidiam Lemintonum autiquam. Acriter bella Amerstburgo multa longe lateque gesserunt. Hum inferrentque tropaea; genus unde victores, Heroesque inter tnoenia alti gymnasii scholae. —Donald Richardson Getting out a paper is no picnic. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly. Tf we don ' t they say we are too ser¬ ious. If we publish original matter they say we lack variety. If we publish things from other papers we are too lazy to write. If we are rustling news, we are not attending to news in our own depart¬ ment. If we don’t print contributions, we don’t show proper appreciation. If we do print them the paper is filled with junk.

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THE ARGUS ANNUAL FOREWORD The time has come for the publish¬ ing of another of our annual year hooks. We have a high standard to maintain. Last year our magazine was outstanding because it was the very first and contained a great deal of ori¬ ginality. We all have done our best to make this year’s magazine as suc¬ cessful as that begun last year. The members of the staff of the Argus Annual have worked hard and faithfully to put out this book and we want to take this opportunity of thank¬ ing the school in general for their co¬ operation. A great deal of credit is due the teachers who have given so amply of their time and knowledge in order that we may have our magazine. Lastly, hut not least, we want to express our thanks to all those who advertised in our book, for they have made this edition of the Argus Annual possible. The future success of this magazine lies in the hands of the advertisers. Therefore, readers, we urge you to read the advertisements carefully: do business with those who have patron¬ ized us. and tell them of seeing their advertisement in our year book. This will show them that their outlay was not in vain, and they will advertise in future books. To future editors let me say that we receive more benefit than the hon¬ our of editing the Argus Annual in the gratification and satisfaction of having- tried to accomplish something worth while. HAROLD E. NEWMAN. Managing Editor. CITIZENSHIP A citizen is a member of a city or a country who is free to go about as he wishes. He is a man who takes an interest in all his country’s affairs, who is. familiar with her political and fin- icial position, who realizes her needs and her faults and who may even have an opinion concerning a remedy for her ills. He willingly does his share in running his country, not necessarily by becoming a member of parliament, but at least by casting his vote care- full} in ever}- election whether fed¬ eral. provincial, or municipal. Though the men who control our industries, our government, our trade, and other national enterprises, may exert the greatest influence on Can¬ ada’s development, yet every citizen has his responsibility, vital though seemingly trifling. The boy or girl in High School should understand his or her country ' s problems and acquire a knowledge of all current topics. He is building a foundation for citizenship in taking an active interest in all his school activities, if he strive to make of himself a student of whom his school may be proud, and to develop a char¬ acter which will command the respect and emulation of his fellows, he will some clay become a citizen who is a credit to his country as well as his school. He will have laid a solid foun- da ' ion for a greater life and his exper¬ ience in school citizenship will have fitted him for the greater duties of being a citizen of his country. He may never become even a mem¬ ber of the council of his municipality but if he takes an active interest in everything that concerns his country, knows what she is doing and why. does his share to rule his community, and lives at peace with his neighbour, he will be a good citizen. On the other hand he may become a great states¬ man. Some day, one of our own school mates may become a leader in parlia¬ ment or even Prime Minister —Elsie Dawson. Form III

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THE ARGUS ANNUAL GODDESS VESTA O. Mother Vesta, who dost guard The sacred hearth.—our fireplace. Your praise from every single hard Math flowed with love from all our race. Your bright re d flames come leaping up 1963—MAYBE! Bright May sunshine flooded the darkest corners of the earth as once more I found myself in Essex. Thirty years had passed, and I had returned to visit the scene of my happiest days —those spent at the Essex High School. To comfort us in time of dread. To heat the meal o’er which we sup. And guide us in the paths we tread. Walking down Talbot Street with its magnificent boulevards, statues, fountains and sunken gardens. I tried to imagine that street, where on rainy Your spirit lives in every blaze. days years ago. one had to wade Your image in the life-like flame. through the puddles and mud to reach Whose steady glow to us portrays his little house of learning . Well The love that binds us in thy name. did I remember how Guernseys roamed where that statue stood of—what! Not Your altar, which our gifts have graced. Where solemn vows of love are giv ' n. Where every child is blest and placed. Is the hearth for which brave men have striv ' n. ' Tis here that all our family prayers Are offered up in thanks to thee. Who dost receive our humble cares. And watchest o ' er the family. The younger daughters of the race Replenish thy bright glowing coals. While every boy with cheerful face. Brings thee wood from o ' er the knolls. At night our final task is done. When from the hearth the ash we dust, For cleanliness is scorned by none. Who in great Vesta put their trust. 0. Mother Vesta, who dost guard The sacred hearth—our fireplace. Your praise from every single bard Will ever flow to all our race. —Mae McGuire. TV-A our old friend Roger Purvis. The nameplate read The Model Husband by Michael Angelo Simpson. It was truly a masterpiece—a great work by a great sculptor. He had skilfully carved those arms of iron and that chest of hair. Yes. the resemblance was striking. But now the school came to view. Behind a grove of trees stood that mighty mansion of humming industry and wasted time. Before me stretched a dazzling view. Beautiful buildings reared against the sky and there among them was what I had known as the Essex High School, but worn and bedraggled it looked among those mighty edifices. Indeed it was dwarf¬ ed among them. I entered the most imposing of the structures, and quickly stepped to the door of the principal ' s office. What a sight met my eyes! Marshall McClelland, bald and rotund, was chuckling over a glass of soda water. On recognition, he jumped to meet me. his double chin completely covering his tie. his paunch straining at the buttons of his vest, and his bald pate shining from the reflection of a huge chandelier above .