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

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1ST PRIZE—“Abandoned” by—Lillian Twerdochlib 12-12 2ND PRIZE—“The Peaceful Stream” by—Lillian Landrega

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the career opportunity ofthe year for high school students High School Students may now get a free college education while qualifying for the Queen’s Commis¬ sion in the Navy, Army or Air Force, under the Regular Officer Training Plan. Successful candidates will attend Royal Military College. Royal Roads, College Militaire Royal de Saint- Jean. or designated Canadian universities, as cadets in the Regular Forces. They will receive service pay plus board and lodging, plus tuition costs at college, will take paid training with their chosen service in summer months and on completion of academic courses, serve Canada as Regular Force officers with the option of release after three years. Applicants must ha e Senior Matriculation or equivalent, except for College Militaire Royal de Saint- Jean. where requirement is Junior Matriculation. Age limits for College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean are 16 to 20 on 1st January of the year of entrance, for all others 16 to 21 on 1st January of the year of entrance. Applicants must be single, physically fit, and meet officer selection standards. For full information ivrite to the Regular Officer Training Plan Selection Board, National Defence Head¬ quarters, Ottawa, or to any of the following: — The Registrar, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont. The Registrar, Royal Roads, Victoria, B.C. The Registrar, College Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean, St. Jean, P.Q. 25

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LITERARY SECTID1V DN WDLF FIRST PRIZE HISTLES in various sizes, shapes and colors have all made their priceless contribution to mankind. The practice of whistling while working can boast some enthusiastic advocates, including all seven dwarfs. There are the utilitarian type whistles chiefly employed for calling dogs who are blissfully engrossed in minding their own business. This type of whistle gradually achieves a climax of great volume and pene¬ trating energy which contrasts with its finale — a sudden pianissimo, a few well-chosen words, and a slammed door. There is the whistle at its piercing best from the whistler ensconced on a bicycle seat. There is the offhand whistle which attempts nonchalance, and of course there are the dazzling, inevitable talent-show- whistlers whose specialty is “The Flight-of the Bumble Bee.” However, there is one whistle which, although it can’t be said to contribute much to mankind, for womankind its record isn’t quite so bleak. It could be none other than the provocative wolf whistle. No other sound can convey so much, so conspicuously, and yet with so varied a degree of nuancing and shading. After all, whether one agrees with the general principle be¬ hind the wolf whistle or not, when a man whistles at you, you must at least congratulate him on his impec¬ cable taste. It is the spring, when a young man’s fancy is sup¬ posed to turn from thoughts of the Body by Fisher to the contemplation of the symmetry and design of a somewhat different type construction, that the wolf whistle achieves its greatest piquancy. The invigorat¬ ing spring air seems to lend liveliness and flamboyance to tired whistles. Intimacy is not a quality of the wolf whistle. Rather, the object of the whistle is publicity. Of what use is SPRINGTIME AT SECOND PRIZE SAT UP in bed and hugged my pillow in sheer joy and delight. It was Spring and I was at Grand¬ mother’s — in the pretty green and white bedroom I loved so well! Just outside the fluffy curtains and on through the window pane was an old maple tree. It was WHISTLES beauty if no one notices it? The discriminating woman is well aware, of course, that for the finest in wolf whistles one must go to the French. The fullness of phrasing, the sheer delight in delicacy of tone can be found nowhere else but in the Gallic whistle. The wolf whistle evokes most strikingly the feline elements of a woman’s character. It provokes curiosity. There is the disarmingly naive young thing who knows perfectly well Aunt Hetty’s Law: “Thou shalt not look in the direction from which the whistle comes”, but she turns and smiles sweetly anyhow. There are the coquettes who do not consider themselves well dressed unless they collect a set of wolf whistles on the way to work. And then, of course, there is the strikingly attractive mature woman who hastily assures her in¬ dulgent friends every time she tells the story, “Of course I’m past the age for whistles, but . . .” It is with these thoughts in mind that I leap to the defence of the wolf whistle in the face of the following jibe: “A wolf-whistle in Manchester, England, was found to have come from a gas meter with a mechanical defect. Over here those wolf sounds generally come from gas bags with mental defects.” Obviously, the writer of this cynical, pessimistic comment must have been a frustrated whistler. Un¬ doubtedly his wife has recently enlightened him on the dangers of indiscreet whistles and he is merely taking out his ill temper on those persons still free to appre¬ ciate the symmetry of the feminine form. Let us hope so anyway. After all, in this age when the art of conversation, and above all, the art of the compliment, have been signed over to radio and television, the wolf whistle is one of the few devices remaining for the average man to communicate his appreciation of feminine pulchri- tude - —SHEILA OSTRANDER, XII-12. GRANDMOTHER S as grand and fresh looking as ever, even though it had been there when Grandpa was a small boy. Through the dazzling sunbeams I spied a robin, perched on a green twig. He looked at me as if to say, “Get up sleepy head.” Just for a while I wished I could “grow” tiny and go out and talk to him and let him show me around his little house. I’m sure it would be fun to hop along 27