Grantham High School - Olympian Yearbook (St Catharines, Ontario Canada)

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The Director ' s Address To the Students of Grantham High School. Dear Friends: May 1, through the pages of The Olympian, bring greetings to the pupils and teachers of Grantham High School. Our lives are in the making. What we are, what we become, what we accompjish in life, depends, in some measure, upon the inspiration and influence of others, but to on even greater degree, upon our own desires and efforts. The story is told of the little girl who, when questioned as to what she hod for Christmas, replied, I have myself and that ' s enough for anybody. Each of you has ' yourself to moke of as you will. Few of you will amass great riches, fame or acquire power and influence over your fellows, but all of you can, if you will, cultivate and develop worthy qualities and characteristics, sincerity, strength of purpose, resourcefulness, dependability, friendliness, unselfishness, integrity, joy in living, grociousness and nobility. How? First evaluate yourself. Assess your own strength and weakness. Determine what you wont to be: whot worthy qualities you wish to develop. Then, day by day in everything you do, under all circumstances, strive for personal improvement. To each of you may I extend very best wishes for a successful year. Yours very sincerely. Director of Education. If - ' ' -X y - -111 li 0mK V i HI The Superintendent ' s Address Now is the Time I should like to build my message this year to the students of Grantham High School around the theme Now is the Time . The message should be applicable in 1964 or 2064, for ' now ' is ' to-day ' , any day! It is your personal possession. In the ocquisition of an education the beginning is at birth, and the end is not yet. The task is never finished. It should be arduous, sincere, eager, but never be burdensome. Whether the learning process at the moment is listening to a teacher, reading a book, preparing tomorrow ' s lesson, plugging for on examination, learning the intricacies of a new job, it should and con be marked by a conscious striving, a curi- osity to know, to improve skills which may already be near per fection. What o dismal situation it would be if one ever reached the point where he could say, Now I am educated. I have learned it all. There is nothing more, nothing new. Like Alexander we would then only weep because there would be ' no more worlds to conquer. ' If only we could all hove or acquire the attitude suggested above what o joyous thing it would be for both stu- dent and teacher! And I happen to believe that such an attitude con be acquired. In running a race, the runner has his greatest thrill while he is running, not when the race is over. The joy of battle, of striving, of anticipation of o goal to be reached, is an innate characteristic. Along with the striving grows self-respect, self-confidence, and a will to strive harder. Thus we ore living now, not merely preparing to live. The thrill of the struggle is a thing of the present. NOW is the time. Fred W. Horvie, Superintendent of Secondary Schools.