Lindsay Thurber Composite High School - Annona Yearbook (Red Deer, Alberta Canada)

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Valebtctorp What is a valedictory? We find that it is a good-bye. It is not a mere “Au revoir” but a real parting. But just as in physics we learn that every action has equal and opposite reaction, so every parting is also a greetina. We must now say good-bye to the routine which has made it easier for us to achieve our goal of finishing high school. We have all gone to school together at 9:00 A.M., five days a week, ten months a year, for twelve years. During this time we have gained a great amount of what we hope will be useful knowledge. Our parents are mainly responsible for keeping us to our routine. They have stood behind us and have encouraged us to keep working hard. We are also leaving most of the friends that we started school with and that we have kept up with through the grades. Among these friends are such types as the boy who brought a garter snake to class to help the girls and boys break the monotony of the routine. But now that we are leaving these familiar things, we can say hello to a life where we will have to assert our individualism. We will now have to choose our own field of work and to choose our friends from a wide range of people. We We must say good-bye to the place where we did homework only because we were told to do so. Even then I’ll admit we were prone not to do it sometimes. Our pattern of school life has been laid out for us. The Department of Education has set our courses, established required standards for passing, and in this last year has set all our exams. These courses have been capably administered by our teachers, even though at times they must have become impatient with our lack of attention and interest. We have been used to being guided by other people but now we must prepare to say hello to a world where we decide the assignments we are going to do and we decide the goal which we will work for. From now on we do not have to read Shelly’s poems or use quadratic equations unless we want to. We will be leaving a highly organzied way of learning and be entering a way of life where learning is not forced upon us but where learning is still imperative if we wish to succeed. Who knows? We may even have the pleasure of saying a new “hello” to some old comrades of L.T.C.H.S. when we meet in faraway places under new circumstances. Whatever be our adventures in the future, I hope everyone will remember and follow our motto, “Nothing Without Labour.” Michael Nelson

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Class JjMstorp Our turn has finally come. We are the Graduating Class of ' 62 for Lindsay Thurber Composite High School. These ceremonies mark the end of twelve years of toil towards an often times dim and distant goal. But now we have arrived! Our Grade Ten....and we are the last class to have taken Grade Ten at the Comp....has left us many memories such as that first-day confusion and our in¬ dignation at the tedious homework assignments. Rare is the student who was not embarrassed at one time or another to find himself in the wrong class. And durinq that first year many of us even wondered whether the teachers might have had experience as slave drivers in the past. Grade Eleven saw a general relaxation of principles in the homework and studying fields and enabled our increased participation in extracurricular activities. Then, last fall, we began our final year of high school. The familiar class¬ room sometimes seemed more conducive to sleep than to learning, but we were all determined to pass our courses. However, this determination often failed to take effect until that sudden burst of studying shortly before the departmentals. Any¬ way, who could do every assignment every night, especially in the face of such welcome distractions as the monthly dances and the sports activities like the newly-innovated Alumni Night? But, as our presence here tonight indicates, we have not entirely neglected our work, though I am sure every one of us has enjoyed himself. After graduating, we will be entering a new and diffdent world - a world of adults - as each one of us goes his separate way. But let us even then retain the active friendships and fond memories of our days at this school. Dick Heikkinen