Lord Selkirk School - Maroon and Grey Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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VA LEDICTDHY Mr. Chairman, Honoured Guests, Teachers and Fellow Students: To many of you here assembled, this- day is just another Graduation Day, but to the Graduates of 1947, my class¬ mates here before me, this is our big day. It is the momen¬ tous day to which we have looked forward eagerly for eleven years. It is the time for our last session together, the session at which we extend our farewell as we complete with finality the last page of the record of our school days. What school days they have been! Until today, our whole existence has been centred about our school life. Yes, from the day when we started school we have spent our lives at readin’, writin’, and ’rithmetic. Latterly, of course, we have snatches of Algebra, Geometry, Physics and Chemistry thrown in for good measure. But while we will not list the long line of other subjects we have studied, we want you to know that as we have worked and played at school, we think we have learned something of the give and take of life. Furthermore, while we have worked and played, we have gathered a great store of memories which will long remain with us; school dances, the Tea and Fair; Field Days, and the Music Festival. And speaking of the Music Festival, we trust that you will forgive the girls of this graduating class if they carry with them forever a little of the glow of happiness which they felt this year when they joined the ranks of the many fortunate contestants from Lord Selkirk School. The graduating class knows full well that music at Lord Selkirk will go forward successfully but we wish to express the hope that the classes of next year will use to advantage the volleyball facilities now provided in the Auditorium. We hope you will begin early in the fall to practise and that by practising with spirit and enthusiasm you will win A GAME. When you do, my friends, the ghosts of many former gameless graduates will applaud you from afar. Furthermore, this graduating class extends a word of encouragement to the boys. It is our hope, that next year, many male voices will be heard in the Lord Selkirk Choirs and that great good news of the Lord Selkirk boys may be read from time to time on the Soccer page. Thus today as we reach the goal, which for us marks a stepping stone to the univer¬ sity, the business world or to some chosen vocation, I wish to tender thanks and appre¬ ciation to the many who have helped us on our way: first, may I say thanks to our parents, who with no little sacrifice have done so much for each of us; to our teachers at Lord Selkirk, who have shown a kindly and unfailing interest in each one of us and in the problems of our daily achievements; to our Principal, Mr. Snyder, for his continued efforts on our behalf. Now with only the student’s point of view to call our own, we go forward into the larger realm of life. No doubt, our great-great grandfathers hoped, or feared perhaps, that by the time it came our turn to face manhood and womanhood, life would have resolved itself into a thing of ease and simplicity. And truly, life is much easier and simpler through the efforts of those dauntless pioneers. Did they not conquer wilderness and desert alike, subduing them and transforming them into a land of plenty, a land of thriving cities and villages, a land of comfortable, sheltered homes? How we revel in that plenty! How proudly we think of our modern achievements in communication and