Isaac Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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7 , . QUESTIONS ANSWERED by MRS. EMILY MOORE Speak to Everyone You Know Dear Mrs. Moore,—I would like to have your advice on how to act in this case. I am a country girl. 15 years ot age. I neither smoke nor drink and lead a clean life. Up until three years ago. when we moved into a hamlet, I lived on a farm. I am used to speaking to anyone and everyone. I take people as I find them and not as people represent them to me. 1 like to be friends with everyone and am very outspoken. When I was staying in town a while ago. my associates were sur¬ prised and disgusted to hear that I would stop and talk to an ordinary veterinary, blacksmith, section man ar someone not very well thought of in town. This is lust a little town and they recognize a stranger. Is this wrong? I try to act as a ladv should. When I speak to these people, it ' s merely a “How do you do? or “Hello, how have you been? I’d be quite put out if the socially prominent people whom I know

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I remember the way she laughed. She was just a girl when I (first heard it. It never changed. I remember how she always found the first buttercup and the (first ripe strawberry. She always knew where the oriole swung his basket of babies. I remember the stories she was never too tired to repeat and (the way she always sang when she worked. I remember all the things she could do. She wrote poetry and she drove a binder; she made cunning gingerbread boys and she was a crack shot. I remember she was always called when death came. She held anguished hands while broken bones were set, and once when a storm raged and the stork arrived at our neighbors’, .she was the only one there to welcome their twin daughters. She was never president of a society. She was too busy tying pink ribbons around other people ' s troubles and facing hers alone. I remember she could buy more happiness with a dollar than anyone I knew. She was entirely unselfish. She saw good in everyone and beauty in everything. She neyer forgot a kindness and all people counted with her. I remember how lightly she walked. When she was happy, •she almost skipped along. I I remember when the threads she wove into our pattern of life were suddenly severed, she stopped awhile, set her eyes on a new design, and wove another pattern as rich, as beautiful as the one before. Perhaps she was beaten many times in the game of life, but she ' ' never knew it! She was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. —INA BURNS, Lacombe, Alta.

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Qun, Valiant School £uent i AUDITORIUM PERIODS Our students’ councils have been successful in breaking the monotony of school life by providing the student body with educational entertainment in the form of auditorium periods. The first of these was a typing exhibition given by Miss Ruth Treen, director of the educational division of Underwood Ltd. A lecture by Professor Clark Hopper to the matriculation classes on the importance of being able to speak well followed. Towards the end of the first term, the students were enter¬ tained by films on the importance of our forests and methods of preventing forest fires. Upon returning to school after the Christmas vacation, the students were shown a film on temperance. Following the film, Mr. C. M. Neaves gave a short lecture on the values and vices of alcohol. Dr. C. Harris, from the Mani¬ toba Red Cross was the speaker at the next assembly. He emphasized with the aid of films, the importance of blood donations and the work of the Red Cross. The last two auditorium periods dealt with safety. Inspector Robert Still of the Winnipeg police spoke at the first and the films were shown by the Winnipeg Junior Cham¬ ber of Commerce at the second. This was followed by a short test on driving safety. The prize to the highest scorer was a driving course. This was the last of many successful auditorium periods which were eagerly awaited by all students. The trend to more and better assemblies has cer¬ tainly been followed this term. Compliments of BANNERMAN DRUG STORE R. O. BORTHISTLE, Chemist Phone 55 540 545 Bannerman Avenue Corner McGregor St. INTER-SCHOOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP The I.S.C.F. has been doing some fine work at Newton for years. They take the “Sunday’s only” out of religion and bring it into daily life. Their motto is “To Know Christ and to Make Him Known.” The members meet weekly, have speakers, study the Bible and have free discussion. During the past year the group had capable aid from Archie Titcomb, the sponsor and Betty Dickinson the repre¬ sentative of the provincial group. Helen Stark was president. All of the meetings are held at pri¬ vate homes and the Y.M.C.A. Branch. On the social side the group has held a “squash,” a tally-ho and a tea during the year. Irrespective of faith, anyone may attend these meetings. It’s a great organization doing a grand job. HI-Y CLUB Under the capable supervision of Bill Kalyta the Newton Hi-Y meets weekly in the school auditorium. The boys’ main interests lie in sociability and sportsmanship. However, they are keen sports enthusiasts and they play basketball regularly. During the Christmas holidays the boys entered and won a basketball tourname nt. The club is designed to help boys’ work for the community and to aid in dev¬ eloping their sense of citizenship. COKE DANCES The dancing classes held in the audi¬ torium proved successful to the student body. In the first lessons, students mastered the modern (?) steps of their fancy — mostly dips, jives, etc. When ole’ fashioned square dancing became a fad, arrangements were made to hold barn dancing lessons in the upper hall. Ably directed by “Nimble-feet” Arm¬ strong and Miss “Murray” Griffiths, the enthusiastic students learned the technique easily. Teachers, students, “thanks-a-lot” for your co-operation and support in making these lessons successful. Newtonian 51