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

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BY YOUR EDITOR Tho Argus staff hopes that you, tho students, will enjoy reading the »£9 year book as much as we enjoyed writing and preparing it; that it will serve as a happy roninder of the class-room antics, the achievements of you and your fellow students and perhaps of the few embarrassing incidents which, though now you view with horror, may be recalled with a smile in years to come. However, as the year draws to a close, the importance of approaching final exams arises to overshadow these pleasant activities. We realize that though the fun provides an enjoy¬ able dessert which at times makes the rost of the meal bearable, it must romain in its proper, secondary place. If you are tempted to fold up and abandon this nine to four routine with homework in favour of a nine to five one with pay, compare your friends who have left school in search of more promising ways to spend their time and are now worse off than you because they have no money, no job, nor tho education to g.t work to thoso who are proparing to gradu¬ ate, and can look forward to enjoyment of university and the prospect of their choson career. As oditor I should like to take this opportunity to thank those who made this year ' s Argus possible. Special thanks to you, Mr. Montoith, our faculty adviser, who managed to keep your sanity intact while waiting for tardy reporters to submit classroom news as deadlines came and went and who had the courage to make us rewrite our assignments; to the classroom reps who had the patience to rewrite them; to Miss Brown and her students who helped with the typing; to Mr. Soteros and th6 photography club for the enthusiasm with which they attacked the Candid Camera contest which adds a sparkling touch to our year book; finally to Mr. Crane who gave us his full support and was always ready to assist us. — Margaret Butcher

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This yearbook was scanned by the Essex County Branch of The Ontario Genealogical Society in conjunction with the Leddy Library on the campus of the University of Windsor for the owners of the book. The EssexOGS yearbook scanning project is for preservation and family history research purposes by the Essex County Branch membership. This document is made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder and cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. This material is for personal research use only, and can not be sold or distributed. Book provided by the Essex Community Historical Research Society (ECHRS) scanned 2019

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MESSAGE PROM THE PRINCIPAL May I, through this edition of the Argus, congratulate all of you who made possible this annual publication. To the staff and students who planned the first edition, we of our day are grateful. To the staff and students who planned the 19 9 edition, we are grateful indeed. This publication repre¬ sents the democratic way, with co-operation of members of the student body and members of the High School staff. May it continue its democratic Ideals. Democracy is founded on the principle that nobody—no one person--knows boat what is best for everybody. Those of us within our school, who aro o;-ployed as leaders, many times give way to the opinion of those of you within our school who are in attendance as pupils. We are not the all-wise entity. We hope that we are still pliable by the voice of progress, of liberalism, and of that mighty freedom of expression. The democratic freedoms are yours and mine. They are our roads in our pursuit of happiness . To attain that Nervanna or Valhalla there i3 the necessity of compromise, you with me and I with you, whether it be in home, in school, in business, or in government. To those of you who are undergraduates - in our school and to those of you who this year will graduate and pass on into the world of activity, we wish you well. May pleasant success be yours. --J. L. Crane