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

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FIRST PRIZE—“Lonely Isle’ by Thelma Fonager SECOND PRIZE- Fantasy of the Underworld by Anne Sommer THIRD PRIZE- Duck Season 1 by Lillian Janik 24

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All who have meditated on the art of governing man- hind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth . . . ‘Aristotle E. H. PRICE LIMITED Winnipeg ■— Edmonton —■ Vancouver HEATING - VENTILATING AIR CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT WINNIPEC PUBLIC LIBRARY Main Library . William Avenue Cornish Branch Library .West Gate St. John’s Branch Library Machray Salter Osborne Branch Library . 719 Osborne Street BOOKS FOR REFERENCE BOOKS FOR RECREATION RECORDS—FILMS (at Main Library only) St. John’s College The Anglican College affiliated with the University of Manitoba. Located on the corner of Broadway and Hargrave Streets. UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT Four year course in Arts. 1st 2nd Year Science Pre-Professional courses for Medicine, Dentistry. Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, Law, Com¬ merce, Education. THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (3 year course in Theology) Testamur, Licentiate in Theology, Bachelor of Divinity. Scholarships Bursaries available Manitoba Brewers Hotelkeepers, Manitoba Scholarships, Isbister, and others tenable at St. John’s College. Residences for Men and Women Write to the Registrar, St. John’s College, 347 Broadway, Winnipeg 1. or telephone 92-7893 Norris Grain Company Limited and Norris Securities Limited USE YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY WINNIPEG 23

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Jjbihahi UJ atksih ift Tloi J ' biAi (phi%£. “Hi there, nice weather we’re having isn’t it?” Aside from the poor sentence structure, that is a sentence which the average soul will repeat two or three times every day. In fact, the state of the weather is possibly the most bandied about topic in our vocabulary. Whether you have a b oy and a girl in a car on a moonlit night on Passion Peak, or a Russian and an American snarling at each other across a conference table in Siberia, there is one thing that they all have in common to talk about. That topic, my friends, is the weather. It seems that weather as a whole has been going to pot- ever since some corn-ball discovered how to seed clouds with silver iodide to make rain. Now, I have nothing against a farmer brewing up a little moisture to sprinkle his lower forty, but when he succeeds in flooding half the adjoining country-side, then I feel that someone must take action. Every so often one of these young clouds will get loaded and stagger across the landscape, aimlessly shooting off bolts of lightning, dousing picnic parties, or raining out the weather dis¬ cussion on Passion Peak and that, my friends is some¬ thing worse than high treason. The most obvious solution, I suppose, would be to abolish the weather entirely. That is impossible because the population of the world would find nothing to talk about. The next best solution then must be to control the weather. In order to do this a committee would have to tour the country to find out what kind of weather the people would want. I took a poll at our house last night. My mother wanted a cold snap so the car wouldn’t start and she could get Dad started on the basement. My uncle wanted a quick thaw so he could get out of taking his scout troop tobogganing. A farmer friend wanted more snow, to bring on a spring flood, to enable him to collect his flood insurance, which would allow him to loaf all summer. My aunt just wanted the weather to make up its mind because her corns were hurting. A small discussion followed, and after the cops had come and gone no one was speaking. Any committee formed by the government to control the weather would have a great deal of pressure put on it to change the weather in one direction or another. The raincoat and umbrella manufacturers would be asking for rain. The ski makers, skate manufacturers and sled people would be after snow. They would be backed up by the makers of bandaids, splints, plaster casts, and the Medical Association. The manufacturers of bathing suits, straw hats, and excursion companies would want sunlight and warm weather. The Passion Peak Playboys’ Society would want plenty of moonlight and the Man With the Axe would want a tip off on the decision, to enable him to stock up with the appropriate merchan¬ dise. One can readily see that if anyone did try changing the weather he would likely start another war over how it should be changed. My advice is, “Leave it alone.” Without weather our favorite topic of conversation would be gone. Aunt Bessie couldn’t complain about her corns, grandfather would not be able to test his arthritis against the weather forecast. Besides that, without the weather as a topic of conversation what would the young people do to amuse themselves on the top of Passion Peak? BY BILL GLASS Ouh (BocUidinq dimiM S c njd In the small town of Lachute, situated in the foot-hills of Quebec, is our boarding house. The house is off from the main highways and traffic noises. In front of the house is the peaceful North River. In the back are the Laurentian Foot-hills. We are located in French Settlement, which is a suburb of Lachute. In our boarding house we call ourselves a family. We eat our breakfast and supper together. Everyone is different but we all have some things in common. One thing we have in common is the “house,” and also the monthly rent. Another is the dog “Wiggins.” We remain together as a family through troubles and joys. Each morning one is awakened from a peaceful sleep by the surfeit voice of our landlady. Her voice is husky to that fascinating point just short of asthma. When she calls, all are awakened from their sleep whether they wished to be or not. Well, so much for the solitary bliss of our home. The food, although fine in quality, is short in quantity. The landlady believes in the old proverb, “that a penny saved is a penny earned.” She buys a roast for Sunday; we have cold roast and mashed potatoes Monday, hash and beans on Tuesday, stew and dumplings on Wednes¬ day, and if anything remains of the waste, it is given to the dog on Thursday. For Friday and Saturday we have hamburger served in four different ways, for four different meals and for the sake of saving. But along with the roast and hamburger there are also many different desserts such as bread and jam, jam and bread, jam, butter, and bread and bread and molasses. When 25