Leamington District Secondary School - Phoebus Yearbook (Leamington, Ontario Canada)

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Nineteen Fifty C s9- dZclitoxiat PHOEBUS — (T 0 Cj-oiin dxumfi E, the students of the Leamington High School, take pleasure in publishing this our year book. In one sense, The Phoebus serves as a method of conveying to our parents and friends, illustrations of the many and varied activities we have at the Leamington High School, of which we are justly proud. Also, through The Phoebus we salute our school and above all the members of the staff who are responsible for our many achievements and successes. As many of the activities illustrated throughout our book cue extra-curricular, this means that the teachers have given up a great deal of their own private time. In one way or another each of the 580 students at the High School has contributed to this publication, which we hope will serve as a pleasant reminder of school life for many years to come. It is our fond hope that the Year Book will serve, not only as a source of pride to us, the students, but to our parents also, who give us the opportunity of obtaining the fine training, not only in theory, but in practice, which is offered at the Leamington High School. The members of The Phoebus staff, with myself, wish to take this opportunity of thanking sincerely our advertisers, without whose assistance our publication could not be realized. We wish to thank also, Mr. Gordon Widmeyer who published our book and Mr. Henry Fisher for his very fine photographs. The co-operation of these various groups was responsible for the success of The Phoebus. — 5 —

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Nineteen Fifty c s £±±tl(j£ PHOEBUS r o VERY second year the students of the Leaming¬ ton District High School publish a large issue of the school magazine The Phoe¬ bus. This 1950 book contains in picture and story a complete account of our activities during the past school year. Since the 1948 publication, our school size has once again increased. The Leamington High School District now is com¬ posed of the town of Leaming¬ ton, the Village of Wheatley, the Township of Mersea, and portions of the Townships of Gosfield South and Romney. Our High School area contains over 15,000 people and this has caused an increase in our peak enrolment to 630 pupils. With this edition we welcome our Wheatley-Romney students. The Wheatley High School section of the Phoebus covers the one Grade 9 and one Grade 10 being taught at the Wheatley High School. All grade 11, 12 and 13 students of our area are in attendance at the Leamington school. With the completion of a new school all our pupils will be able to receive instruction in one building with proper facilities for secondary school work. We are naturally proud of our academic record of 92% of all University Entrance Examinations passed in 1949 but we are also pleased to be offering excellent instruction in the practical subjects, commercial work, general shop, home economics, agriculture, art, and music. Our activity programme provides for all students, rural or urban, the most important training for citizenship and community life that can only be obtained by participation in the glee clubs, the drama groups, the bands, the majorettes, the cadet corps, the athletic games, and the necessary executive work. This three-fold plan is the present day progressive programme of an Ontario High School with the aim of providing the best secondary school education to the greatest number of our young people. J. iV. HUME — 4 —

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I PHOEBUS Nineteen Fifty