Lakehead University - Yearbook (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)

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CONTENTS Editorial --------- 10 Principal ' s Message - - -13 Student President -----15 Faculty Pictures - -- -- -- -- -- - 16 Student ' s Council - -- -- -- -- -- - 20 Convocation ' 59 - 23 Year Book Staff - - 24 B.A.S. President - - - 26 Sports Reporter ------------ 29 Sports Candids 30 Debating Team - -- -- -- -- -- -35 Camera Club - -- -- -- -- -- --36 New Library - - - 38 Arts Faculty ------------- 40 Applied Science - 50 Engineering Technology -II --58 Engineering Technology - I - -- -- -- -- 62 Forestry Technology - II ---66 Forestry Technology - I --70 Medical Technology - I- -- -- 72 Ryerson Technology - 74 Student Nurses - - 75 Letters to the Editor - -- -- -- -- --76 Social Candids ------ - 78 Literary Section - -- -- -- -- -- -88 Student Directory - -- -- -- -- -- -119

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EDITORIAL It appears this year that we have a great number of students who cannot find themselves. However, this situation is counterbalanced quite adequately by the staff who have realized this problem early in the year and have gone out of their way to reach out to the lost ones. They have delivered dynamic speeches — Goof-off lectures, Changez la vie lectures, which have, at least, led some of us to take account of our- selves. Most of us are being brought to realize that it is our moral obligation to do our best, and in this realization, we have had to repent our past. But, do we all know what repentance is? It is often the easiest way to see a thing if we can clear from our minds the misappre- hensions which accompany it. First of all, though repentance may con- tain remorse, repentance is not remorse. Remorse, as such, has no power in it to set us on the right road. It is a mental torture often contain- ing elements of self-loathing, but leading rather to utter despair than a new way of looking at life. People in remorse tend to excess, or even to suicide. They do not feel it to be essentially a healthy state of mind. In repentance, however searching it is, however upsetting, and however distress- ing, the soul feels good when we have repented. Repentance is not fear of consequences. Often our spirit is stabbed by thoughts of what might happen if we were found out. The mind during some sleepless night, makes terrifying phantasies of the results of exposure of what we should feel if our friends knew what we were really like. Such fears may make a temporary difference to our way of living, but they have no power to change the direction of our lives. Thus, with this fear alone as our motive for repentance, we are soon back in our old way, perhaps however, taking greater pains to prevent exposure. Repentance is not the mere sense of wrong. Our conscience is well able to tell us, This is right, That is wrong, but it too, has little power to change the current of our lives. As Butler said: Had the conscience the power as it has the authority, it would absolutely govern the world. Repentance is not to be measured by feeling. This is a common misconception. Quite often, deep feeling plays a part in true repentance, but you can have a true repentance without deep emotion, and you can have deep emotion, without ever having repentance. Again and again we have responded emotionally to this influence or that. We were moved, but we did not repent. We did not change our way of life. Here we have the answer, repentance is a change of our way of life, a complete METAMOR- PHOSIS. It is changing our way of looking at life. It is steering under a new star. It is bringing our whole life into subjection. It is not only giving up this vice or that, it is a new, positive change of direc- tion, affecting the whole of our lives, the use of our time, our money, our leisure, our talents, the manner in which we do trivial things, and the way we react to our neighbours. The happy soul has found a new star to steer by, which will bring it to where it has longed most to be in its best moments. This is repentance. W. T. Melnyk, Editor. 10