Miles Macdonell Collegiate - Macadonian Yearbook (East Kildonan, Manitoba Canada)

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BACK ROW: Bob Tait, Dave Walker, Frank Woods, Richard Taggart, Barry Stutsky, Henry Riffell, Lorence Yaciuk, Robert Stalker, Dennis Singbeil, Allan Thoren, Paul Thomas, MIDDLE ROW: Janet Smith, Daryle Zoles, Philip Velpel, Ed Shewaga, Cliff Weber, Dennis Schmidt, Paul Toonstra, Ed Smith, Ethel Simpson, Joan Tanchuk. FRONT ROW: Bonnie Zelmer, Alida Zaal, Marilyn Wice, Linda Wishart, Linda Railian, Betty Soluk, Drinda McCaffery, Donna Whitley, Kathy Willis, Miss Newton. MISSING: Leslie Vincent. CLASS XE-ROOM 15 The year of 1959-60 was a happy and eventful term for X-E’s students. Our home teacher contrib¬ uted greatly to the class enjoyment of grade ten. Several weeks after school began we held our class elections. Paul Thomas was unanimously voted presi¬ dent and Linda Wishart was elected secretary-treas¬ urer. Richard Taggart was named our social rep., Dave Walker our boys sports rep., and Janet Smith our girls sports rep., Sandra Webster was elected Teen-Age Book Club rep. Both Janet and Sandra be¬ came secretaries of their respective organizations. Last of all, Kathy Willis was elected Year Book rep. Our president, Paul Thomas, participated even fur¬ ther in school politics when he became Betty Shimoz- awa’s campaign manager during the main school elections. Early in the school term bowling and curling reg¬ istrations became the main topic of conversation. X-E entered thirteen bowlers and one curler. Our curler, Bob Stalker, made a wonderful showing of himself. He was a member of Gary Milne’s champion¬ ship team. Next came the Variety Concert. Drinda McCaffrey, Kathy Willis and Linda Wishart went on stage as members of Miles Mac’s Girls’ Tumbling Club. Lawrence Yaciuk made an excellent clown in the Boys’ Tumbling Club display. Sandra Webster was the only student of X-E in the Glee Club. Behind the scenes Sandra Webster, Kathy Willis and Drinda McCaffrey worked hard on props. Linda Wishart and Kathy Willis learned to put make-up on performers in the concert. Linda did an excellent job on John “Honey Bun” Parker. Two participants in the Shmolly Ball Game came from room fifteen. Lawrence Yaciuk was clad in a skin coloured bathing suit covered with a towel, a straw hat, sunglasses and sandals. Ed Smith wore a skirt and sweater, high heels and a lady’s hat. X-E is very proud of its basketball team. The boys came first in the grade ten competitions by beating the boys of room twelve by a score of 20-13 but were badly beaten in playing against XII-C for the school championship. The boys deserve mention. They were Lawrence Yaciuk, Dave Walker, Ed Shewaga, Paul Toonstra, Paul Thomas, Dennis Schmidt, Ed Smith (coach) and Janet Smith acted as mascot. Ed Smith was a member of the boys’ varsity basketball team. Special tributes go to Linda Wishart for being first in class with an Easter average of 83.5%, to Ed Smith for being the most talkative member of X-E, to the boys’ basketball team. We all wish to say good-bye and good luck to the cutest girl in the class. Donna Whitley is moving to St. James. We’ll miss you, Donna. Our class teacher is taking a year’s leave of absence and travelling to Europe. We all wish we could be going with her and we wish her an enjoyable trip. —Kathy Willis 40

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BACK ROW: Barbara Sheppard. Lynn Ridley. Jerry Procillo, Bruce Rosner. Brian Murray, Errol Robinson, Ray Ryan, Stan Moroz. Roy Payne. Sandra Ratner, Judy Sharhan. MIDDLE ROW: Brian Nemish. Wade Rowland, Kathryn Rosie, Bonnie Ross. Sharon Patek, Gordon Barnes, Wayne Rekus, Frank Chalmers, Arvid Peterson. FRONT ROW: June Pearn, Susan Relkie, Diane Relkie, Peggy Reimer, Doreen Restowanik, John Hutton, Ken Mussel, Miss Sparling, Terry Piggott. CLASS XD-ROOM 17 Class X-D started the new high school season with the usual dazed look, as they observed many new faces around them. As friendly relations increased, class elections took place and the following were elected to office: President —• Stan Moroz; Vice-President — Peggy Reimer; Secretary-Treasurer — June Pearn; Social Committee — Wade Roland; Sports Representative — Sandra Ratner and Jerry Procillo; Teen-Age Book Club — Kathran Rosie. Different clubs were formed during the year with members from X-D taking part. They were: Drama —John Parker. Glee Club—Bryan Nemish, Lynn Rid¬ ley, Errol Robinson, John Parker. When the basketball season came around X-D formed its best teams. The boys team won every game but 2 in league competition and when it came to the semi-finals, they dropped out. The girls team... Sharon Patek was one of the high scorers in the bowling league and now has a chance to bowl in the inter-high school tournament. Wade Roland was on the team that placed second in the curling competition. Now the class is anxiously waiting for field day. Good luck X-D. This year Miles Macdonell put on a Variety Con¬ cert in which X-D took part in all fields. The Variety Concert was a big success. Some of the participants were: John Parker—who was a great success as the Hawaiian girl honeybun: Margaret, better known as Peggy Reimer, played the part of a cleaning woman who carried the slop pail across the stage. She had the bad habit of throwing the pails contents on the audience. By the way, Peggy was X-D’s romance for the Miles Macdonell Sweetheart Queen. Class X-D had a terrific time during the year and was also able to stand up quite well scholastically. Some of the high averages were Stan Moroz 92%; Lynn Ridley and Peggy Reimer both with 87%. Stan Moroz’s high average was made possible by his 100% in mathematics and 99% in science. Unlike other classes X-D had a non comformist named Kenneth Richard Mussel esq. He always had a different opinion on anything anybody said. —Bruce Rosner 39

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BACK ROW: Brian Haines, John Rozall, Reg Carson, Wayne Zurba, Bill Haywood. Alvin Crawford, Cliff Beall, John Parker. MIDDLE ROW: Ken Dare, Wayne Gibson, Ricky Macphail, Dave Christiansen, Reymond Rondeau, Terry Cunningham, John Chelle, Allan Turzak, Mr. Wilson. FRONT ROW: Dave Kemp, Les Martinson, Stan Halipchuk. Dave Eggleton, Ron Staats, Lawrence Morris, John Glowa, Hugh Jones. MISSING: Ron Allardyce, Doug McKenzie. CLASS XF-ROOM 5 May I ask you, what can be said about X-F that has not been already said? We have made our pres¬ ence felt. Truly, this is a cosmopolitan room, rang¬ ing the full breadth of the alphabet from A (Allar¬ dyce) to Z (Zurba). Naturally, such a range of human material would make for a great room. This year of ’59 and ’60 was a complete room of boys, to be exact 23. This year saw our boys taking part in many events. At the beginning of the year, when class voting was taking place, Room 5 elected the following executives: John Rozall: President Reg Carson: Vice-President Cliff Beall: Secretary-Treas. Ken Dere: Sports Rep. Stan Halipchuk: Year Book Rep. and Paper Rep. Terry Cunningham: Social Rep. Our class president did a tremendous job in keep¬ ing the boys conversant with school council’s decis¬ ions. In curling our contribution was Douglas Mc¬ Kenzie. We had several avid bowlers from our room, Lawrence Morris, Les Mortinson, Cliff Beall, Rick Macphail, Ron Allardyce, Brian Haines and Dave Kemp. Not only is Dave an interested bowler but ranks highly as an agile, alert pin-setter at “Kam- rath’s Lanes.” The basketball fiends from our room are Allan Turczak, Les Martinson, John Cheele, Douglas McKenzie, Lawrence Morris, Reg Carson, and Wayne Zurba who was coach. These made up the core of our team. Some terrific playing was exhibited by these boys. Wayne Zurba was a member of the school’s Varsity Basketball Team. He is also the proud owner of one of the team’s white sweaters with the big M’s. When it was time for our boys to pick a girl for the Sweetheart Swirl, we chose Bev McCall of Room 13. Although she didn’t win all of us still think she is a sweetheart anyhow. The man with the high average is Lawrence Morris. Although we are not bright in French, our discussions on some topics, particularly with Geography, can rival those of the City Council. City Hall, here we come! We almost had a tenor from our room in the Glee Club which was featured in the Variety Concert. Much to our chagrin he dropped out because sing¬ ing practice interfered with basketball practice. Wayne Gibson is a member of the “Guardians.” Through the “Guardians” we are informed as to the condition of the local roads and other automotive in¬ formation. Culturally, Miles Mac’s journal, the “Echo” was helped along the way by Stan Halipchuk, our class reporter. Truly, he was versatile, stapling, distributing papers, collecting money and pressuring students to purchase the various editions. Tumbling was successfully attempted by all. Mod¬ estly speaking, perhaps our strength lay in the field of Physical Education. The basics were perfected along with some “nip ups” hand springs, neck springs and head stands. During dancing instruction the boys attempted to dance and although some were successful, the majority still danced as if they had two left feet. It was fun and tremendously enjoyed. These sessions were a success because after the danc¬ ing classes, boys would be humming the tunes and executing the dance steps that they had just learned. Vaudeville, look out! Not to be outshone by anyone extra-curricularly, X-F demonstrated its abilities at the track and field meets. —Sian Halipchuk 41