Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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fig. a xg l . s c , . ,,, p g C A , s, 5 SPEGUP-A v C'A T,ON' 3 Matriculation Valedictory E, the graduates of the Galt Col- legiate Institute for 1930, stand before you to-night with mingled emotions. We are experiencing a feeling of sadness that is not akin to pain at leaving our kindly mother, but with it comes an excitement at stepping forth into another world. Hitherto we have enjoyed only privileges but now we shall begin to attend the school of experience. The five years spent in this Collegiate Institute have changed our entire outlook on life. When first we entered these halls of learning we were filled with awe at something altogether foreign to public school. We were cowed by the grandilo- quent manners of those older t'han WG, and for a time, were overjoyed when they consented to bestow passing glances upon us. But our timidity vanished presently and we too began to join in the Jest and youthful jollity, A Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smilesf' Throughout the years we have taken increasingly great interest in the life of our school, and we have grown to love her and to revere her records of the past. We hark back to the days when she had her beginning in 1852, under the leader- ship of Michael Howe. Co-education was not yet established and then and through the long principalship of Dr. Tassie only the hum of boys' voices sounded in the corridors and classrooms. Tassie's Apes led a school life very different to ours of to-day. They learned their lessons in the shadow of the ferrule, and grew up as sons to the noble master who taught them. Their leisure hours were times to spend in joyous abandon on the playing-field, showing their skill in cricket, football and baseball--sports which have givem place to our more glamorous rugby and basketball and gymnastics. They shamed not to battle with bullets of snow in the army of king winter, and when colds gripped them Mrs. Tassie was at hand with potent remedies to minister to their needs. 82 Mr. John Bryant, the next headmaster, was an advocate of modern methods. He closed up the girls' school down town and henceforth boys and girls were instructed under one roof. Competitive sport was emphasized and our rugby teams' first ofiicial ancestors was made in the form of cracking football teams. Another school activity begun in this regime was the Literary and Musical society, which re- tains its original vigor and freshness for our benefit to-day. In 1899 Colonel A. J. Oliver organized the 21st Cadet Corps, and boys were trained to take part in the defence of their country should their servioeqs be needed. The Cadet Corps fills an import- ant place among our curricular activities. In the years of the Great War the boys and girls of this school played their part in the struggle and we pause here to re- vere the memory of forty-eight of ,them who died for freedom. We have passed during our high school days from childhood to young manhood and womanhood. The sheer joy of living still permeates our beings and we realize that our childish ideas and illusions have been changed and that now we are learn- ing to think. Mathematics has taught us to combine facts and produce new truthg Languages have taught us precision and History has inspired us, to reach up to the stars and grasp them to ourselves. Friendships have been formed in this half decade, which shall never fall away into ruin. We have here found compan- ions who are ever sympathetic, and lov- ing and kind to us both on the faculty and in the bodv of schoolfellows, whose friendship has helped and inspired us to greater heights of ambition. We have come now to the parting of the ways. We have clung together as schoolmates for five happy years, b'ut at last each must seek his own task in the business of life, and carry on his en- deavours away from his fellow students, under the guidance of the hand of God. JACK DAWSON.

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