Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute - Acta Nostra Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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To our new principal, MIT P. G. Reict, YVl'1O has atreacty provect ttiat tie uptiolcis ttie tiigtiest icieats ot teacterstiip anct training in G.C.V.I ttie wortti ot tile individual-- ttie ciignity ot wortQ-- ttie value ot ciemocratic mettiorisu we respecttutly ciecticate ttiis eciition 0 Arial Nustra

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A, ,XACTA NOSTRA 63 Students' Council When they became members of the Stu- dent Council the following students under- took to benefit the students of this school in every way possible: President - Mike Hamilton: Vice President-Jack Morgan: SecretaryAIsabel McDonald: Treasurer-Art Birk. GRADE IX REPRESENTATIVES: Year President-George Drewry: IXA Patricia Dunlop: IXB Madeline Pfaff: IXC Garth Graham: IXD Jim Steinman: IXE Mary Pos: IXF May Seim: IXG Kathy Cunningham: IXH No representative. GRADE X REPRESENTATIVES: Year President4Ann Maplesden: XA Nancy Wag- ner: XB Kay Hussey: XC Elaine Cowley: XD John Macdonald: XE Ann Bellamy: XF Don Ross. GRADE XI REPRESENTATIVES: Year President - Donna McGee: XIA Ralph Klinck: XIB Sue Hamill: XIC Dick Elliot: XID Mike McMillan: XIE Dolores McNally. GRADE XII REPRESENTATIVES: Year President-Pat Girdwood: XIIA Merle Mc- Donald: XIIB Kathy Hamilton: XIIC Mary Comfort: XIID Judy Goble. GRADE XIII REPRESENTATIVES: Year President-Bob Wallace: XIIIA John Walk- er: XIIIB Jim Cullen: XIIIC Bette Owen. Club Representatives: Boys' Athletic Ass. -Paul Booth: Girls' Athletic Ass.4Bev Mc- Rae: Orchestra-Joan Nodwell: Glee Club - Mary Ord: Drama - June Macdonald: Cheerleaders-Tink Steep: I.S.C.F.-Donna Wilson: Poster-Gloria Symes. After old business was cleared up, Mike organized the committees listed in the con- stitution and we were ready to ro1l at the first meeting. During the year, we have been congratulated by the principal and others for achievements such as managing assemblies, handling formals, and other dances, raising money for UNICEF and Red Feather, selling photographs to the students, purchasing new flags for assemblies, a turn- table for records at school dances, and get- ting buses for play-off games. We are proud that we met with such success and we all know that little if anything would have been achieved this year without the help and advice we received from certain mein- bers of the staff. Mr. Harding most certainly comes to mind first. He attended our meetings faithfully and was responsible for many of the ideas council worked on this year. Few people realize how hard Mr. Harding works, but the executive certainly does and takes this opportunity to thank him. We are also indebted to Mr. Hough for a great many suggestions and help with dances and other activities we have planned. Mr. Tobey's part in keeping our finances straight and Mr. Gellatly's help with Assem- blies are also appreciated. Other members of the staff offered and gave assistance through the year without which, we know, many of our projects would have failed. The year wasn't quite long enough for this council to realize all its ambitious plans, a few of which are: a trip out of town. a driving school. and an inter-school executive meeting. Next year's council should have a good year. especially if they get the fine co-operation that we received from Mr. Reid and his staff. So elect a good council next year and support the successful candidates all year. -Isabel McDonald XIID tSecretary, Student Councilb REORGANIZATION In the year 1955-56 a new concept of use- fulness of the S.C. revealed itself to the members. Feelers were spread out through the school and when it was discerned that the new idea would be beneficial to all, it was drawn up in a constitution, which is now the adopted one. This idea is the theory that United We stand, Divided we fall . In other words if all the clubs join together under the Stu- dents' Council, the clubs. the S.C., the school and the student body will be far better off. The reason for this is that one club. instead of asking all the clubs in the school, asks just the Students' Council for help or support. Instead of one club having a public relations committee, ways and means committee and all the other commit- tees, it just hands the public relations, ways and means, finances. etc., over to the S.C. The S.C. in turn gives these tasks over to committees who handle this work for the whole year, and therefore know what to do. These are just a few of the advantages of this year's SC. This year started off, literally, with a bang as far as the S.C. is concerned. I re- member coming to school and hearing the big bass drum and the trumpets' blare. The electioneering was fun, but the hard thing was to choose a candidate to support. I think we all were quite pleased to see the parades as it livens the spirit of the school. All candidates for office gave exceptionally fine speeches and all had solid planks for their platform. When the elections were over, the execu- tive got down to work to phrase the legal conditions and to discern exactly in what

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64 ACTA NOSTRAMW. -. -. , .- ,.. ? 4.71- ..,f4......-4....... position the council was. A programme was adopted in which all the clubs and student activities would be consolidated in the Stu- dents' Council. This programme has taken most of our time, as We had to get a con- tract drawn up in which the terms of each club could be best suited. Socially, the council has done rather well. Our first major project was the serving of refreshments at the Commencement. It is our feeling that more dances and other activities held in the supervised auditorium, will help to combat juvenile delinquency and to enrich the S.C. treasury. For the future We are planning a dance to be held every second week. At the dances we think that it would be possible to have sing-songs, movies and other activi- ties. We are also planning to set up a little store where textbooks, school rings, pins, bracelets, sweaters, colours, and pennants could be sold. As well as these, pens, pen- cils, other school supplies and crests could be bought. At the present moment we are working on a series of awards to be given to top-notch students in the school. We feel that these ideas and plans will bring a higher spirit of pride, enthusiasm and respect for our school. 1,-i-?O V ,m INTERVIEW: POLITICS by Jack Morgan To obtain an inside picture into some as- pects of political life, I interviewed Mr. Henry Hosking, M.P. for South Wellington. He was asked what special preparation along an educational line was necessary for a young person starting into politics. Mr. Hosking replied by saying that politics is one profession in which men and women with all different degrees of education and in all walks of life take part. The leaders of the two major parties in parliament are both lawyers, and the various members range from farmers to storekeepers to en- gineers. With this varied assortment of occupations it would be hard for any person to select one field for study before entering upon a political life. Although Mr. Hosking advised law as a fundamental background, he said the main attribute any politician requires to become successful is a genuine interest in people and the ability to get along with them. Mr. Hosking himself attributes his start in politics to an avid interest in it while a boy and young man, and attendance at politi- cal meetings with his father. He went on to say that an insight into human nature was to be obtained by participation in sports of all kinds, as well as in high school and college activities such as debates. school magazine positions, administrative positions and all the varied curriculum education provides. When asked what possibilities lay in the future for young men and women of Can- ada, Mr. Hosking was frank in saying that, although- countless positions were available in lesser duties such as municipal councils, school boards. etc., it is possible for relatively few to make the grade as members of parlia- ment and of the legislative assembly. For example in the House of Commons there are 265 members for a population of 15,- 000,000 people. In reply to a question on what prepara- tion could be carried out in this stage of our lives for politics in general, Mr. Hosking said that this should entail study and learn- ing how to vote, why we have this privilege and what it means. More information, he said, could be obtained by attending politi- cal meetings that are held in the city, as well as by hearing informed speakers on topics such as politics and foreign affairs. He said the member of parliament does. by no means, do all the work of represent- ing his constituency but is advised by people in all walks of life, thus widening his own scope on all the different problems to which he must attend. Finally, Mr. Hosking said that an M.P. is just a voice of the peo- ple, and the best way these citizens can show their interest in politics and the problems of their country is to understand these problems and exercise their hard-won right to vote. Science Display -- Open Night