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

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GRADUATION, 1952 GRADUATING CLASS OF 1952 18

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VALEDICTORY 1952 Mr. Chairman, Honoured Quests, Teachers, and Fellow Students: Before getting into the main body of the address, I must express my thanks for having been asked to deliver the valedictory of the graduating classes of 1952, on this day which marks the termination of our work at Lord Selkirk School, No other single event throughout our school career exceeds for us the meaning and importance of this momentous occasion—graduation. Let us, the graduates of 1952, pause for a few moments this morning to look with pleasant retrospection at our high school years. It is with deep regret we realize that our school days at Lord Selkirk are quickly drawing to a close. With a wave of nostalgia, we recall the most important occurrences during the year. Who will ever forget the mental effort involved in solving those diabolical maths questions, or in wracking our brains for Year Book material? Who will ever forget the year ' s big project, the operetta, or who will ever forget our own frigid field day? Through such activities as these, we have developed our characters and broadened our interests earning, thereby, the pleasure of privileges. Perhaps some of us fail to realize that the characteristics which we develop in school are those which we will carry forward with us into the world outside of school. If we have been co-operative, enthusiastic, and hard working in school, so shall we follow these qualities outside of school. The studies were the serious business of our training; the exams, necessary evils for determining the exdent of our progress, were the occupational hazard; and extra-curricular activities were the sidelines. In all these activities, we were urged to think for ourselves— which some of us actually succeeded in doing. To all these many activities in which we have participated, members of the teaching staff have contributed immeasurably by their hours of work on our behalf. Furthermore, we are indebted to our principal, Mr. Cochrane, whose understanding and work behind the scenes helped to make this year the success it has been. As we pause to look back, we also attempt to evaluate the qualities which we have attained through our school activities. I have already spoken of the highly desirable quality of independent thought. Our small facsimile of democracy has ticked” only because we have been encouraged along these lines, and also because of two other factors—understanding of the next fellow, and a willingness to work hard. These two qualities have enabled some thirteen hundred of us to live together happily as a single unit. And what of the future which we now must face? What qualities distinguish our so-called civilized world today? Speed, rather than thought, man ' s desire for the tangible, rather than his search for the intangible, and man ' s fear of man, rather than his understanding of his fellow man are three characteristics of the present atomic age—one which is causing confusion and unrest with the constant threat of imminent war. Man ' s existence has never been threatened as acutely as it is today. This is the foreboding future which challenges us. Fellow graduates, we must accept that challenge and show our willingness to defend it. Man stands on the brink of destruction because he has failed to realize that the foundations of civilization are tolerance and co-operation between all men for a better world. Tennyson was right when he said: Come my friends, it is not too late to seek a newer world. For only by believing in the principles we have learned at school and by living up to those principles to the best of our ability can we, the graduates of 1952, make this world a better place in which to live. Farewell Stan Hasiuk 12-18 19