Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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EDITORIAL Variety may be the spice of life; it may take all kinds of people to make a world. But do we not overdo these platitudes? Most of us can concede that life is in- teresting because it has variety; that excite- ment comes from repulsion and attraction to variations in individuality. Personality traits, national and racial characteristics, regional customs, and religious traditions are part of the sum of individuality that gives us our manner of living. Revert to the individual, however, and it is essentially the opinions and outlooks expressed that make him distinctive and separate. Such distinctiveness is precious. Are we protecting it? Are we not in danger of shap- ing ourselves from the common and com- monplace mold? Do we not force ourselves into the path of mediocrity through fear of being different; through fear of rising above, or falling below, the level of the average? The development of personality is sel- dom consciously regulated; this is a dem- ocratic country; we are free to express our opinions; to be different! Why, then, do we impose artificial restrictions upon ourselves? Why do we hesitate to commit ourselves on even the most trivial points of controversy? We, as students, should be eager to con- tribute our fresh, if not new, ideas, to a society which — we should have the naivete to believe — is eager to hear them! The fear of criticism and bold analysis will be evident in this very book. It should be a showcase for tale:it and a medium for more than laudatory words and encomiums. There is so much to criticize in ourselves; there is much that we could say construc- tively and analytically about our school and its professors. Our building may be little more than a dump. But we may hesitate to say so. Some of our lecturers may be brilliant; others we know reflect an ordi- nariness like our own. Do we minimize appalling physical conditions or personal mediocrity by ignoring or glossing them over? Perhaps we think we do. We tend to make feeble excuses in an attempt to soften the sharpness of unflattering detail. We plod along under the weight of an affable reticence; we make no effort to rise above our situation. We cannot expect to grow and mature under such conditions if we close our minds to them, refusing to ac- knowlege their existence, except in the gos- sipy intimacy of the smallest group. The truly sad fact is that there is no need for this shyness, this diffidence. We need only to realize that we should be assertive, vigorous, demanding. Certainly we shall be knocked down. Of course, we may sound shrill. But we will develop individuality. To draw the best from our environment; to re- ject the worst — only thus can we stand out as individuals and begin to achieve truly interesting lives. X (i

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THE Table ofQontents Editorial 6 Chairman ' s Message - -- -- -- 7 Principal ' s Message ------ 7 Student ' s Administrative Council - 8 Faculty --------- 9-10 The Student Body ----- 15-22 Extension Class — French and History 23 Convocation — 1954 ----- 24 Social Pictures ------ - 27 Social Events - -- -- -- --28 Sport Section - -- -- -- --29 L.T.I.— L.C.A.S.T. Diagrams -------39 L.C.A.S.T.— Sketch by M. W. Bartley - - - - 40 Ring in the New by Ian Kingston ----- 41 Poems D. Moziar, K. Craig - - - 42 Sechs Jahre in Canada by Sadie Miller - - - - 43-45 You Figure it Out, by Roy Hartviksen - - - 51 Charlie by Duane Howes - - - - 51 On Education by Gordon Murray - - - - 53 On the Art of Writing by M. Krenta ------ 57 The Dog by Carl Anderson - - - - 63 And Fve Met the President by G. Reguly ------ 65 An Overwork Trauma by ]. L. Beedell ----- 67 The Turning Point by R. Exell ------ 69 The Case of the 64 Bees, by G. Reguly ------ 75 Injuns, by E. Geiger ------ 79 L.T.I, in Pictures ------- 81 More Pictures -------- 83 Index of Advertisers (back Fly-Leaf)

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THE lanman s ESSAGE Since 1948 when the Lakehead Techni- cal Institute was opened, the need for this school has been amply proven. The con- tinued growth of the area warrants the ex- tensions planned over the past few years by your Advisory Board. Last year prelimi- nary plans for a new building were drawn and submitted for approval and further work on these plans is now going forward. The financial objective is well within our reach, thanks to the generous support which the project has received from Lake- head citizens and from industrial and com- mercial concerns interested in this area. Splendid co-operation has also been achieved with the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William in making arrangements for adequate maintenance. The Department of Education has continued its support and we are now engaged in making final ar- rangements for the Department ' s participa- tion in actual construction. The Advisory Board feels that excellent progress has been made during the past year and it is our hope that these plans and fi- nancial arrangements may be completed at an early date so that the new building may soon become a reality. To that end we are bending all our efforts. We bespeak your support in this task and we trust that the excellent record of our students and the growing interest en- gendered in the community will more than justify the plans now underway for the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology. % CHAIRMAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE THE r Principah s ESSAGE To the Graduates: I am privileged to extend to the graduat- ing class sincere congratulations and good wishes for the future. You are our seventh graduating class; if all our plans materialize for the coming year you may be the last one to graduate from the Lakehead Technical Institute. During the course of the next few months the Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology should become a reality. A new building on a spacious campus should replace our converted army barracks. You, more than others, will appreciate the eager way we anticipate this move. But I am sure that in the years to come we shall often reminisce on how the student body rose above the limitations of the phys- ical surroundings. During your brief period here you made the most of our limited facilities. Your Students ' Council and Athletic Society or- ganized and carried through an extensive programme which evoked your whole- hearted participation and approval. This Yearbook is witness of your interests, abil- ities and willingness to work. I have every confidence in your scholastic attainments; you should measure up to the high stan- dards set by those who have preceded you. It is my hope that as our school grows and expands in permanent quarters we shall be able to retain as fine a spirit of friendly interests and co-operation as that demonstrated by the Class of ' 55. We of the staff shall continue to take a keen interest in your progress and attain- ments. We wish you Godspeed. J C avoid S. rami PRINCIPAL 7