Kelvin High School - Kelvin Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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EDITORIAL hKs THE PLACE OF SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS T HERE are several functions of a school paper, as exemplified by the different publications here in Winnipeg. Some of the Junior High Schools have their weekly newspapers, the High Schools have their Year Books, and the University has its newspaper, its Year Book, and magazines published by each faculty. Each if these serves its own purpose. The newspaper of the Junior High co¬ ordinates the activities and thought of the young people just starting to find themselves, and also give them a means of literary expression, where such means are all too few. The Year Books of the High Schools serve both these purposes, and add the worthy one of supplying a detailed and authentic record of the personalities and activities of the different classes. In addition to this, they call forth a good deal of organizing ability on the part of their staffs, so they develop the executive ability which can be of so much use in future years. Our primary consideration at this point is naturally the Year Book, and we shall deal with our own, the Kelvin Journal. It is the aim of each Editorial Staff to make the current edition the best that has yet been published. To do this not only must the old sections be retained, but there must also be originality in their treatment. Also new sections must be added. The present Editorial Staff has endeavored to keep this in mind while compiling the material for this edition. As a new feature, we present the language section. It is our aim, in including this section, to have each part of the school course represented in the Year Book. It also provides the students with practice in expressing them¬ selves in the language they have been studying. It has been noticed in some of our exchange magazines that Kelvin is thought to be a technical school only. In reality a large proportion of the classes are studying modern languages and the classics. In the art section, several new contests have been included. Leaving the beaten track of the illustrated poem, a contest in designing has been introduced, besides a landscape drawing. The 1936 edition of the Kelvin Year Book comes to you with these ideals in mind. We hope that each student will find in its pages some expression of the intangible atmosphere which has made our years at Kelvin a memory to be treasured, a source of inspiration, and a challenge to us to do our best. We take this opportunity of expressing our deep appreciation of the way in which our teaching staff, and the principal, Mr. Little, have guided our activities during these years. R.D.G. RUDYARD KIPLING “The Bard of the Empire is dead.” These words screamed at us from the newspapers, came over the radio, and passed from person to person. A nation, an empire, the world in fact, mourned the passing of the greatest poet of the time. Kipling, the most original and interesting writer in modern times, was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. His father was an eminent art professor and museum curator under the Government of India. Kipling by birth was endowed with English, Irish, and Scottish blood, and in his wanderings all over the world he learned to speak about ten languages. His first literary work was done while he was assistant editor of “The Pioneer,” a newspaper in Allahabad. These stories were later put into book form, and called the “Rupee Books,” wh ich, 6

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HIS man was king in England’s direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone His courage was a flag, men rallied on; His steadfast spirit showed him king indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered (or charmed) its ministers to naught. No king, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings: Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful for the meanest in his state; The best, the gentlest and the most beloved.” In Ubmory uf Uvutx} tin ' IfaUturJi —Masefield. 5

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hKs along with his later stories, “The Incarnation of Krishna Malvany” and “The Head of the District,” helped to blaze Kipling’s trail to the hearts of his English readers. Then he began his rapid and amazing rise to fame and imperial importance. He wrote continuously from 1886, when he published “Departmental Ditties” to 1913-1918, when his works on the Great War came out. Some of his most famous books are “The Jungle Book,” “The Second Jungle Book,” “The Light That Failed,” and “Kim.” The world suffered a great loss when Rudyard Kipling died this year, but we have one consolation, a very great one; in his works we have a lasting memorial to his memory, for Kipling really put himself into his writings. Rudyard Kipling is dead, but his works will live forever. Kirke Smith, Room 38. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS Your editors wish to acknowledge gratefully several very fine contribu¬ tions to our Year Book: 1. Drawing entitled “School Spirit,” by Ruth Moncrieff, Room 37. Very beautiful idea and execution. 2. Drawings of Hockey Team by Bar¬ bara Kemp, Room 30. Also the Hockey Poem by Barbara. A very interesting feature. 3. Picture of “George, the Beloved,” drawn by Maurice Macdonald, Room 18. A very acceptable contribution repre¬ senting much skill and time. 4. Drawing, “A Century of Progress,” by Bob Young, Room 23. Bold, clean- cut drawing, with vision. 5. Drawing, “The Bells of Beaujo- lais,” by John Payne, Room 16. A very artistic corner for our operetta page. These were not eligible for any com¬ petition in Art, but add greatly to the beauty and interest of our book. We offer sincere congratulations to Mr. Sellors, our Art teacher, who has been chosen from a number to receive a Carnegie Scholarship, entitling him to a summer course in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. “ ’Twas how you talked and looked at things which made us like you so.” It is with the greatest regret that we have to a n- nounce the retire¬ ment of Miss Ethel M. Hall from the teaching staff of Kelvin, where she served so well and effciently since the opening of the school in 1912. We miss her not only in the class-room, but also in every activity of the school in which she always took the keenest interest. We shall treasure in our memories, her loyalty, her sympathy, her cheerfulness, her delightful wit and humor. Long may she enjoy her well- earned leisure. “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.”—S.C.M. At the end of the fall term, our school sustained a great loss in the resigna¬ tion of one of our most beloved and respected teachers, Miss Helen E. Ross. During the many years Miss Ross has taught at Kelvin, she has endeared her¬ self to all by her quiet helpfulness, her thorough scholarship, and her re¬ markable ability to see only the best 7