Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School - Grumbler Yearbook (Kitchener, Ontario Canada)

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I4 THE GRUMBLER Va fecf1'ct0r1'an Spec: S John Augustine Tonight we are assembled to commence the graduating Com- mercial, Industrial, and Academic classes of 1946. I do feel honoured in representing them, in the tradi- tional tribute to our alma mater- valedictorian. Our age at High School has been an atomic one! The atom has been split and dispersed, energy has been created. Similarly are we commencing and in the process are adjusting ourselves in the cosmos of life. Industry, commerce, busi- ness and higher education have now engulfed us in their respective wakes, but before we push on to ascribe still further chapters to our names, let us look back on our most recent, most eventful chapter, the age of the atom. How similar we are in many re- spects to this small unique uni- verse! As the planets revolve about the sun, as the electrons range about the nucleus, so did we like- wise in our period at school centre ourselves about this central nuclear structure-our collegiate. Lying in our respective orbits, we were pre- pared for dispersion with the con- trolling hands of those delicate scientists of the mind, the teaching staff. Theirs was the task of inculcating into our sometimes questionable minds the facts, figures, and knowledge that are so necessary to commence and so vital for successful continuance in any field. To them particularly do we. as graduates from all three sides of the school, owe our deepest ap- preciation, for they have not only given us mere functional knowl- edge but they have added the es- sence of their character for the development of our own. No greater gift can be contributed. As this preparation of our minds was being undertaken, standing at the controls of this great team of educating scientists was our prin- cipal. In our short time of pre- paration within the walls of this Collegiate and Vocational Institute, this master pilotage has passed from Mr. Merritt's distinguished hands into the capable palm of Mr. Ziegler. We have experienced in this Deriod the transitions of a change, and we have participated in another era of the school. To both of these men, we give our praise and gratitude for their splendid leadership and guidance. Behind this array of scientists stood the consultant board of en- gineers-the trustees. who have nervously watched our preparation and provided every means possible for the enriching of our formal and extra-curricular education. They have studied the dials, the indicators, and the reports. to watch our progress as we with- stood the electrical shocks of knowledge. To them we owe tri- bute for their planning. prospective thinking and delicate management. We must also remember with gratitude the citizens of our com- munity. our parents, our friends and neighbours, who have perhaps without realizing it likewise lent their weight to the cause of human science, in the form of public funds. By their financial efforts this school is undergoing an expansion for still larger facilities: but to us who are now leaving it, we will not think back on it in terms of its size but llfontinued on page 160i

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16 THE GRUMBLER The Dweliers Manley Schultz, A X D HE MARMOT peered anxious- ly from beneath a protecting ledge of rock. The heavy spring rains pelted down unendingly, and splashed on the grey limestone round about her. The wind blew cold and hard, driving the rain in gusts against her smooth buff-and- grey fur. For eight days it had been thus. The grey clouds loosed their burden on grey rocks and water. In front of the marmot, and a few inches below, the waters of the turbulent Kashaweogama swirled and eddied along the rocky river bed. Behind her, four young ones whimpered hungrily. It had been many days since they had visited the grassy clearings in the forest. The steady rains had poured into the river until the rising 7?-,, fl torrent threatened to flood the marmot's den. The cunning little siffleur , as the French voyagers called her, had made her nest in a snug rocky hollow, completely in- accessible to bears, wolves, eagles or other common enemies. But with the river she had not reckoned, looking to it more as a protection than as a menace. The marmot whistled shrilly, as was her wont when disturbed. She wheeled swiftly and entered her den. Seizing the first of her young ones by the scruff of the neck, she carried him out onto the cliff-ledge. She paused a moment, as if medi- tating, and then, half-carrying, half-dragging her luckless off- spring, she made her way to the top of the cliff. Here, amid the I I g ., ff!s'.vf1,,Q rgsgftrf 1 ' r' H f - ': 'f. ' , i. ' M - 5' Q- . -V.. -jf TN 'I J' -7-ix, Y. Q , Q k M we . S- ff if T ' ts-Riff of fig , - t if t N',-Nyilfy 1 .ll M 'ff Ayr .ij-' Q , .. 0 ' . ':'f1'.' 9 'lid rf rj we T 6 ft 1' M My 'L as , ,,, . 'XXV' .Avi ll QF- ,--L R4 x r Q' I' 'gig' i--V.-:T I -I, ,J 'i-Zxs qi-'L ' f' - - 'zifiz s s it ff iwffiffssk' - 1' f ps + iblvi 7 1fggg 'i!E,g-V. '-2' . ,. .J ,aslv-L' N- f i, -'Q 'c .4-Bef, ' arg ,--, f'-92 . - 4, ,. ' LN K T sf? . ielf' 'ffl ' AC' fl fiiwt pff i s be-r ' 5. 14' X - ,Fix ,fxxk E, A' m ir s -a+s,-,a-gzswef .I ' 'zqx gg' 7 .fgle-lil Q'L,,..,,,,., N f