Indian Head Collegiate - Whisper Yearbook (Indian Head, Saskatchewan Canada)

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THE WHISPER Get Your TOILETRIES TEXT BOOKS PRESCRIPTIONS SCHOOL SUPPLIES MOIR ' S CHOCOLATES VICTOR RECORDS KODAKS FILMS At Davies ' Drug Stationery Store Indian Head s Leading General Store Compliments the Collegiate Students on their initiative in publishing this splendid Year Book. WESTERN FAIR LIMITED Grand Avenue Phone 342 Indian Head

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J5he WHISPER VOL. 1 INDIAN HEAD COLLEGIATE, JUNE, 1929 NO. I EDITORIAL The first appearance of a collegiate Year Book for a number of years, re¬ quires some explanation of the charac¬ ter which it is intended to bear and of the purpose which it is designed to serve. We do not intend that it shall be a technical, learned journal in which will be found the views of experts on themes and in language quite unintelligible to the general reader. This is a magazine for the students and by the students. It gives the budding literary geniuses an opportunity to open their leaves, and is intended to bind the students into a closer fellowship. Within the last few years, education¬ alists have been stressing the import¬ ance of a diversity of school activities, altho you will find many who are not in agreement with this idea. It is quite as important that a student know how to conduct a business meeting in an efficient manner as to be able to give the future perfect of moneo or solve some theoretical geometrical problem. I firmly believe in disciplinary education; the mind needs discipline as well as the body, but is it not foolish for persons to criticize our educational institutions for not holding rigidly to the three R’s, when we realize that education in the true sense is the fitting of a student for his life in society ? A collegiate is not a correspondence school, it is not even a mere font of knowledge; but is a place which adjusts and develops a conception qf Life; and while part of its purpose is to impart knowledge, a greater part is to develop character. Honorable character and sportsmanship are formed as much on the football field as in the classroom. When a student leaves the collegiate institute, the foundation stones of his personality have been laid and the fu¬ ture structure will be built on that foundation. Knowing this could we just¬ ify our conduct if we stopped instruction, supervision and help at the classroom doors ? In order to be of any assistance must we not try to understand those we seek to advise, and to do this we must meet them informally and try to develop in them all characteristics which may help their development in body, mind and soul, and hope that as they pass from this collegiate they go out fitted to be up-right and true men and women. MR. HARRIS Principal Forward In introducing this Year Book to the students, and to those who are inter¬ ested in their activities—we wish to make no apology for its existence. This, we believe, is the first real Year Book published by the Indian Head Col¬ legiate. It is, we might say, an endeav¬ our to bring into the lime-light an esprit-de-corps, which up to this time has not been much in evidence. We, the editorial staff, wish to thank those who gave us their co-operation when our representatives solicited their assistance. We endeavoured to give them full value for every advertisement they contributed- We fully realize that our book is not perfect, but we hope that it will be such a success that it will become the per¬ manent institution that it really should be. D. MACKAY Grade XII

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THE WHISPER 5 Our Appreciation of the Staff We, as students, cannot fully appre¬ ciate the work and comradeship of our teachers. Certainly we understand it takes experience and the more mature sympathy, which we do not yet possess, which has thus to be developed, to do this. Nevertheless we, in our first real Annual, dedicate this small space to those teachers, who are day by day car- lying out their duty in regard to our ed¬ ucation. Who can say what knowledge, what splendid code of honor, what in¬ spirations our fellowship with them has brought us ? In calling them “teachers” we impart new meanings to that old familiar word. Instructors, yes, but in¬ structors in all of life’s finest things— in Honor, Friendship and Idealism. And yet, if they feel reward in this, we will gladly tell them that we have appreciated their interest and, may we say, their love ? And that, as we leave school, even as we set aside this space for them, so in our hearts will we set aside a corner for them full of gratitude and the deepest feeling of friendship. DOROTHY JOHNSON Valedictory My title is misleading since we, as a smaller school, have no established grad¬ uation exercises. However, bearing in mind that we. as learned and venerable, nay wordly-wise, students of the Col¬ legiate in Grade Twelve, surely have the right at least to say our farewell and bestow all manner of advice on those who follow, this one article was set aside for that purpose. Wisdom has it that those who have had experience must surely be wiser than those who have not. Therefore, it is to be concluded that we, having had four years of chiefly homework, must be able to give advice to unwilling listen¬ ers. Whether that experience has rend¬ ered us sympathetic or not we only know that advice we have not. But we would like to say that we have found the teachers the best of companions and good sports and that if we must give advice let it be this—that you search for that same companionship we have found. Who can say what regrets we have when we realize that this is “the last.” How our emotions are aroused when we realize that never again will the exotic odor of H-2-S strike our nostrils during the double Physics spares, interrupting our concentrative energy. Never again will we hear the delighted chuckles rise from the blackboard when Mr. Trecarton, too, has enjoyed our youthful attempts at hilarity. Never again hear Miss Argue’s final benedic¬ tion “that will be all.” Never again join in the delightful rush for rubbers, to the intense pity of Mr. Harris. Never again, indeed, hear Miss Nelson’s wistful wish “if only you knew enough history to ask questions.” Nevertheless we leave our parting re¬ mark to the go-getters of the other grades, that the school is, next year and the years after that, in their hands and we’re sure they’ll carry it on nobly. DOROTHY JOHNSON Grade XII