Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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22 ? The Hu.fh John Macdonald Gr- 1 ' ' ■’ ' ion By Sbarorg Ashman The grade nine classes of Hugh John Ms cdOns ]. d were privileged have a graduation service and dance held in their honor, on Thurs- ?y June 11,1953. The service was held in Old St. Andrews Church end immenced at 2 o ' clock. o sd As the grade nines entered, all of the guests and purils were sending. After the graduates assembled, o Canada was sung. The inv- sation was given by Rev. Fred Douglas. Following this the School rchestra, conducted by Miss Howard, played two of their Pieces for us. Mr. Patterson called on Mr. McWilliams to introduce the valedict¬ orian and. to tell us nn what basis she was chosen. Lo 1 © Cuddy deliv- red her valedictory which is recorded elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Patterson spoke about the school emblem. He explained the radition of emblems and. told us that ou s represented the wo-rid into hich we shall soon have to go to earn our livings. After this, Lloyd Betker, carrying the school emblem, s oke to snia Zyla, the grade eight representative, telling her that s the rade nines left Hugh John Macdonald thev wanted those remaining to arrv on and to uphold the school ' s honor. He exo 1 aired to her, the ecessity of scholarship, leadership, dependability co-o e rti n, and a illingness. Sonia said that thev accented the challenge and that thev ould carry on as best thev could, trving to keen up the standard o f he school. V Next on the programme was the iving out of ava do. These ve- e 1 resented to grades 7,3, and 9 by M v . Shewfelt, Kahena and Miss rookshanks, to the members of the school who had averages over ei btv ercent and also to those who had perfect attendance. Mr. McWilliams resented the Sir William Van Horne Shield, which w s won in t’ e mus- cal festival by the Girl ' s Glee Club, to Sbiela Tenkal o 9C. Our guest, Rev. Douglas, snolce to the graduating classes. He told hem that thev should set an example for the lower classes for, because .lev were older, they would v e looked up to just as thev themselves s ii ht look up to and admire some certain teacher, recent, or elder. To close the programme the grade nine choir sen? Linden Lea, irimond, and Ave Maria. This was the first graduation service that Hu h John Me odorpld had iver held, and the graduating classes were very c.—eteful for it. The dance followed in the evening in the school ' s gailv coMurrd | uditorium. There we r e wa.It?es , schottisches, polkas, square dances 5nd other entertainments. At 10:30 refreshments we r e served. On behalf of the graduates I would like to extend g word of tier 1 r jO Mr. Patterson and the teachers who helped to make this wonderful jvent possible. We surely appreciated it.

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THE SBAROHtlQHT The Meaning of the Coronation Service By Miss Doris A. Crooksh.anks If we were in London now instead of Winnipeg it would be about nine o’clock at night, and all about us there would be excitement, f ' -r tomorrow Queen Elizabeth II is to be crowned in Westminster Abbey, The streets would be crowded an:; many would be taking up places on the curbs to wait all night for a glimpse of the Queen as she goes to the ..bbey, or returns after the crowning. The crowds °long the streets will see not one procession but nine separate processions, beginning about eight o’clock in the morning. First will be the Lore’. Mayor of London, then the Speaker of the House of Commons; next members of the Royal Family; then visiting Royalty; following them will be the Prime ministers of the Commonwealth; then will come the other members of the Royal Family; then Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother with Princess Margaret; and last of all in the State Coach, which was built in 1762, and drawn by eight grey horses will come the Queen in a. crimson velvet robe, accompanied by her husban , the Duke of Edinburgh, in an udrairal’s uniform of blue and gold. Westminster Abbey will be silent to-night, but n t empty for not Iona ago the regalia, for the Coronation - the Crowns (St. Edward ' s and the Imperial State Crown) the sceptres, spurs, swords of State, the Orb, the .’mpul 0 containing the nnointing oil, the spoon, the ring, and the robe of State - have all been delivered from the Tower of London. These will be carefully guarded until after the ceremony when they will be once more returned to the Tower. Queen Elizabeth will be the 38th sovereign to be crowned in the Abbey. The first crowning there took place almost 900 years ago, when William the Conquerer was crowned on Christmas Day 1066. That day the Norman soldiers, misunderstandin the Saxon shouts of acknowledgement, rushed into the Abbey and set fire to some -uilaings near by. Smoke drove the people out of the Church and William, trembling for perhaps the only time in his life, was crowned in an almost empty Church. The Coronation tomorrow will be very different from that first one, for vary detail has been carefully rehearsed by the principal figures to make it s nearly perfect as possible. The service will last about 2 hours instead of che 5 hours which were required for the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Cfter that ceremony the archbishop said: We ought to have had a rehearsal for almost everything went wrong - from the Archbishop ' s placing the ring on the wrong finger to the Bishop ' s turning over two pages of the book containing the ceremnny- an error not noticed until afterward. There have been changes made in the form of the Coronation service from time to time but one thing remains unchanged through the years: the old grey stone Abbey. But tomorrow it will bo a blaze of colour, the walls will be hung with specially designed and woven drapery; the cold st ne floors will be covered with soft carpet; there will be the sc.arlet and purple robes of the peers and peeresses mingled with the more sombre black and white of the costumes of the 7500 people who are privileged to be in the Abbey; all this will be high-lighted with splashes of colour from, the beautiful stained glass windows. The central figure in this ceremony is a young woman whom nrst of you saw ’. ' hen she came to Winnipeg as the Princess Elizabeth. For her it will be a day of :reat solemnity, for it is the day on which she dedicates herself, in a religious service, to the service of her people. To-night the Queen will spend some time in the Abbey in solitary prayer as a preparation for the service to¬ morrow.