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

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- 9 - twenty-four hours tied up at Pier 21. On Monday night, after a beautiful daj at sea, we approached Kew York Harbour. It was quite a thrill as we steamed nearer and nearer to the lights of New York and excitement grew as we passed a lightship anchored near the harbour entrance and finally sailed under the new Verrazano Narrows bridge, still under construction. We docked on Tuesday morning at about eight o ' clock, and after v e had left the ship, we wnnt to the King Edv ard Hotel, where we were to stay in New York. The day Y e arrived we went to have lunch at the Delegates ' Dining Room at the U.Ii. building and from there we went to a lecture on the U.N. at the World Affairs Centx ' e. That night, we sa ' w New York from the top of the seventy-story R.C.A, building and from there went to Radio City Music Hall. On Wednesday the :;,roup, having had about thirteen hours ' sleep in the List two days, rolled out of bed and assembled at the U.N. building at nine-thirty. However, a very interesting speech given by the U.N. representative from oierra Leone, com- pensated for the early hour. The speaker made it clear where the newly independent African nations stand on colonialism and South Africa ' s racial policy. On the same afternoon, most of the group went on an interesting tour of Manhatten Island, during which we saw many famous sights from Columbia University to Battery Park. During the free time on Thursday morning I saw the Guggenheim Museum, and also the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a huge place which would take two weeks of exploring if one were to look at every major piece of art on display. That afternoon, the group went to the U.N. to hear speeches from a Civil Servant employed at the U.N., and from a member of the Canadian Mission to the U.N. That night we went to see a play. In free tim.e on Friday morning, two of my friends and 1 went to the Museum of Natural History, probably one of the best in its field. Vife were fortunate to have as our companion our chaperone, who is a naturalist with the Nova Scotia Museum of Science. In the afternoon, the group toured the U.N. building and that night many of us went to Coney Island. Because we had been delayed one day by the strike, the trip leader tried his best to arrange for us to stay another day. However, this plan fell through, and we left on Saturday as had been originally scheduled. V hen we left Idlewild Airport it was sunny and warm (79 degrees) , but v fhen we landed at Halifax International Airport