Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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LAKEHEAD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE YEAR BOOK OF STUDIES: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, in the judgment and disposition of business .... Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give ■ forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. FRANCIS BACON 2 2

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Students of the Lakehead Technical Institute present their YEAR BOOK Volume II 1951 1

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LAKEHEAD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE YEAR BOOK DR. M. W. BARTLEY, Principal TO THE GRADUATES: I am privileged to extend to the graduating class good wishes and high hopes lor all. You are now going out into the wider circle of society and we look to you to bring to an unsettled world same of those qualities of vigour and enthusiasm which have marked your days here. Honest scholarship should have trained you to faring to bear on all situations in life impartiality, integrity, moral courage and perspective. Your many interests and activities should have given to you an appreciation of values and a desire for gracious living. The world sorely needs these qualities and gifts. As you leave the Institute, you assume a twofold responsibility — to your parents and to the Institute. The years will tell whether you are worthy of the sacrifices that have been made for you by your parents and those interested in your career. You are a representative of the Lakehead Technical Institute; the reputation which you establish may well determine the reception given future graduates by potential employers, or other centres otf learning. Some of you are graduating into the world of industry; others are hesitating before continuing up the steps leading to a university degree. For the first, the preparation is over and there now comes the test otf its adequacy. For the second group, the initial hurdle has been surmounted, but further obstacles lie ahead. The public is little impressed with anyone because he is a graduate of a particular institution, or a member of this or that association. It rates him according to his own merits and ambitions. In very truth the future rests in his own hands. We of the staff shall watch your progress and development With keen interest, hoping always that you will remember that a formal education is comparable to a bunch of keys, of value only as it is used to unlock the doors to opportunities and satisfaction in life. M. W. BARTLEY, Principal. 3