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

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Headmaster ' s Message To the Graduates: This year ' s graduates leave the relatively quiet and protected confines of the Halifax Grammar School to face a world that presents them with a rather perplexing picture. On the one hand Canada, and with it most of the developed world, is locked into an inflationary spiral; while on the other hand, unemployment and recession grow. Some do no work because they strike for the higher wages that will result in still high prices, others because there is not enough work to involve everyone who is available for work. Will real growth become the norm again? Will a high rate of unemployment become customary? Will society shift the great value it places on the consumption of the earth ' s resources for the convenience and pleasure of relatively few people to the utilization of the earth ' s resources to preserve the quality of our environment for the benefit of all people? In the face of these ponderables, how can a new graduate plan for the future with any degree of certainty? The answer is, of course, that plans for the future cannot be made with the same high degree of certainty to which we have been accustomed. But Graduates! You can enjoy security in the future — the security that you have now a highly developed imagination and thought process. When you grapple with the problems that inevitably you will face, your imagination will raise a variety of solutions for your thinking to explore. Your thought processes will show you how to implement those solutions which satisfy your common sense, ethics, and morals best. You have met the very stiff academic challenge that the Halifax Grammar School offers and you have met it well. The sound minds you have developed in response to this challenge should permit you to meet any future challenge, I am certain, with confidence and poise — if you believe in yourselves. I beli eve in you and am proud of each and everyone of you. 4

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Dedication We the students of the Halifax Grammar School respectfully dedicate the 1975 Grammarian to the memory of the late Dr. Samuel Morris. Although Dr. Morris had not been well for some time his death came with great shock and sadness to all those who had known him. He was born in Glasgow Scotland in 1905 and in 1928 he graduated with his B.Sc. with honors in pure and agricultural Chemistry from the University of Glasgow. He later earned his doctorate from the same University in 1935 in animal nutrition. From 1929-1952 he was a research biochemist and then later taught at the Heath Clarke Grammar School in Croyden England until 1961 at which time he went to Australia to teach first at Scots College and finally at the Trinity Grammar School before joining the staff at the Halifax Grammar School in September of 1967. Dr. Morris contributed to many aspects of school life. His high standard of physics teaching led to many top awards received in the physics congress examination by Grammar School Students. His enthusiasm at soccer matches and as Unicorn house advisor will never be forgotten. He brought chess to the school in the form of the chess club and his abiding interest in and eagerness for chess matches encouraged and main- tained the students ' interest in chess for the past several years. Sammy , as he was affectionately known among his students had a great sense of humour and he has been sorely missed this past year. Ken Gordon Editor-in-chief

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Staff Front Row: M. Masse, Mrs. MacPherson, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Grimson, Mr. Fyfe, Miss Seems, Mrs. von Maltzahn. Second Row: Mrs. Scobbie, Mrs. Wright, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Fry, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Steele, Mrs. Hirtle. 5