Leduc High School - Review Yearbook (Leduc, Alberta Canada)

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Students 1952 N J«nAN KUN SIEL t»R 64 i evr Council 1953 DORIS SCHMIXIT VICE-PRESIDENT DONNA KROOft SECmiTm WmsM.tR, RONALD KNOPP MOM REP. FOR RM. I ZH IS WtLUAMs room rep. for rr, a. CECIL FALKENBFRG- 00 REP, fOR RH, 3 Page Seven

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The President Speaks Being the president of our Student’s Union, I have had conferred upon me the honor of representing you, the students of Leduc High School, in this “L. H. S. Review”. I do so with keen appreciation of our relations with each other and of the teaching staff of this school. When we were in the junior grades, we looked forward with joyful antici¬ pation to high school. Then after we had written our Grade IX Departmental Examinations and had found to our delight that we had passed them, a feeling of superiority came over us. For many of us that next year was our first ait Leduc High. When we entered the doors for the first time we were completely lost. We found that we were not superior there, in fact we were mere freshmen, looking up once more with envy but with respect to the seniors and sophomores. We decided then that some day we would be those proud senior students. We became sophomores, with but one rung left to the top of the ladder. Finally we grasp that rung and pull, only to be once more overcome by that feeling of frustration as we realize we are conquering only one, the first, hurdle in life. Those of you who are now freshmen and sophomores no doubt have experienced and will experience these same emotional agitations. We hope that you will keep your goal in mind and find in it the success of which you have dreamed. Our teaching staff deserves much of the credit for making our brief stay here one to remember. They teach us the arts and sciences, yes, but they also help us to develop mentally and physically, along right lines, when that develop¬ ment is so rapid and so important. The teachers put up with our queer antics patiently, knowing that they are but characteristic stages in our growth. At times they may raise their voices and we might become disguested with school, but after short while we realize the benefits to us of their admonitions. So to the deserving teachers, a special “thank you”. No one can foretell the future but we can help make ours conform to our own design. We are approaching a point beyond which lies the most important part of our lives. If we put our sincere efforts into it, moulding our future to our own design, we are sure to in enjoy it, for, “How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will, Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill.” As president, once again I wish to thank all the members of the Students’ Union and teaching staff for their co-operation in making this past year one to remember always. NORMAN KLINGBEIL. Page Six

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Opportunity One frequently hears older people express regret that when they were young they did not have the opportunity to secure a good education. They realize that this handicap pre¬ vented them from following certain careers which appealed to them very strongly. As a result they were unable to render the service to their fellow-men which they would have liked to have given and as a consequence life had not been as full and happy for them as it might have been. Living today is far more complex and competitive than it was thirty years ago. At that time a Grade VIII or Grade IX education was considered an acceptable minimum for entering the business world. Today business and industry demands at least Grade XII standing from anyone seeking employment other than unskilled or semi-skilled work. Unfortunately in the Leduc area high wages are being paid for unskilled labor and students are leaving school to take such employment before completing high school training. Careful weighing of the long- range benefits to be derived from securing a good education against the temporary gain offered during good times by work that has nothing to offer for the future will prevent students from failing to seize, while they are young, the golden oppor¬ tunity that is theirs to get a good education. The students in the Leduc community are particularly for¬ tunate in having a good school, well-staffed by highly trained, capable teachers, offering a wide diversity of subjects. In the years to come no student presently in the Leduc High School can truthfully say that when he was young he had not the opportun¬ ity to secure a good education. He owes it to himself, his parents and his country to take full advantage of that opportunity. My wish for each and every student in the Leduc High School is that he should complete successfully either the Matric¬ ulation or High School Diploma Course. He would then have a good foundation for continuing his post-school education, a pro¬ cess that will continue for the rest of his life. May he when he has attained old age be able to look back on a life of rich service to his fellow-men, one free from regrets for unwise decisions because as John Geenleaf Whittier has expressed it: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been’.” J. C. JONASON, Superintendent, Clover Bar School Division No. 13. Page Eight