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

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transportation, in science and in medicine! We have come to accept as part of our lives, the news of globe-circling planes and health-giving medicines like penicillin. Yet, the dream world of the pioneer is still a dream world, “whose margin fades for¬ ever as we move,” because today in the midst of plenty there are millions who stand in want. Millions there are whose want is as great, perhaps, as any want that civilization has ever known because they lack, and lack desperately, the barest necessities of life: food, warmth, medicine, and the greatest need of all, the want of some glimmer of hope, some suggestion of security. Truly, our generation has enjoyed the benefits of medical science. And yet, there is today a rising need for research and education to assist in combating the ravaging in¬ roads on life that are being made by tuberculosis, cancer and paralysis. And while the world today breathes in thankfulness that a second class is graduating into a world of possible peace, we know that today the world is waiting and watching fit¬ fully, because the world can only watch fitfully as long as there looms on the horizon the shadow of war. Therefore, there lies before the graduates of 1947, much work to be done in the world. As we go forward to life’s work we will do well to remember that work which is consecrated to the ennobling and the preserving of mankind is the only work worth while. To this end we make our pledge: “Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain iqe build the world, unless The builder also grows. —Doreen Andrychuk WITHDRAWALS BETH COLDWELL— B :-own-eyed brunette who left us to work in Eaton’s. ALLAN GRAY— A student of XI-10 who left us in Feb¬ ruary to work in Stovel ' s. ROY KENICK— The frequent visitor of XI-10 who left ut in November. He now works at the Kelvin Motors. MURIEL McCOLL— Short, blue-eyed blonde of XI-10 who left us in October to work in an office. DIANE SNEESBY— This blonde of XI-13 early in the year found new interest, so she “up and left JOAN WEBSTER— We were sorry to lose Joan early in the year when she went to work at Eaton’s. TOM WILSON— Classmates regret that Tom did not stay longer with us last fall, but he decided to go to work. He is also a member of the Reserve Army. We miss you in the or¬ chestra, too, Tom. • 17

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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

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• 18 GRADE XI CHOIR