Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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- 8 - L.7 GLASS IlEPOaT After the Christmas holidays, L. 7 returned, fresh and full of vim and vigor looking forward to the long sprint home. Hockey was still being played and the majority of the class were taking part in this, our national sport. In another field in January, many of the boys helped by directing the parents when the school had its parent-teacher interviev s, and did an outstand- ing oh. In April, the main event of importance was the Concert and although L.7 did not have any single production of its own, a number of the boys participated in other performances, such as the choir, the recorder group and ' Murder in the Cathedral, ' Also, in April, under the supervision of Mrs. Strand, L.7 visited Saint Mary ' s University to observe their telescopes and other Astrono- mical equipment, w ' e had a wonderful visit and I am sure that the whole class is very grateful to Father Burke-Gaf f ney for lending us his valuable time, and also for his very informative talk. On the third of May, the school held its Open House and in my opinion, L. 7 bad a very good display in their room. It consisted mainly of paintings, a display on whaling, and some projects that we had been doing for Mrs. Strand. Now with exams just around the corner, L. 7 will be studying hard since to some, it may mean the difference between passing and failing the year Chris Rice, L. 7 In the last issue of the Grammarian there was an article on our new staff. Due entirely to the fault of the author, the name and profile of Hollis ' Ji hitehead , Chemistry Teacher, was omitted from the article. Therefore, we now i±sh to offer our most sincere apologies to Mr. V hitehead, and to present the missing profile. Howard Epstein, Author Graeme Bethune , Editor Mr. Hollis ' jl[hitehe ad - Mr. V hitehead was born in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad. In 1958 he came to Canada and to Halifax ' s Dalhousie University, lie received his B. Sc. - honors in Chemistry from Dalhousie, and is now doing research there on hydrogenation of organic compounds. Mr. V hitehead intends to continue his experimental v ork this summer and will have his thesis ready for September l th. In March, the National Research Council gave Mr. ViJhitehead a grant of i 2, -00. per year for two to five years, to get his doctorate degree. He will do the v 7ork for his degree at Dalhousie. VENI, VIDI, VICI - NEW YQPJC At Easter about two hundred and fifty high-school students went on a Y.M.C.A. sponsored trip to New York and on the Saturday before Easter, we boarded the Italian Lines ship, ' Vulcania ' , However, just as we were preparing to sai , the ship ' s crew, along with the crev s of Italian Lines ships in other ports, wnnt on a twenty-four hour strike; we therefore spent the next