Mount Royal College - Varshicom Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL - - - DR. J. H. GARDEN FOREWORD I am glad to have this opportunity of exte nding appreciation and good wishes to the Varshicom staff and the entire student body. I hope the staff may find satisfaction with this yearbook and gain some recompense for the large amount of time they have spent in producing such a good publication. We owe the editor and all this staff a debt of gratitude for the work they have so freely given in making possible this souvenir of our life in the College during 1957-58. It is one that in later years will recall many happy memories and remind us of our pleasant associations at the College. Graduation from Mount Royal College is one step in the process of your formal education. We hope that many of the graduates will go on to higher graduations in the universities of our country. There is a great need today for university-trained people to give leadership in this epoch-making period. Some of you will leave the College halls to take your places in the world of business and industry. I hope you will be successful in finding fields of endeavor in which you may make a good contribution to society and develop your own personalities. There are still others who will probably return to the College in the fall to continue with still further training. To one and all, I express my deep appreciation for your friendship and co-operation, and trust that you will make a good contribution towards the better world that is so greatly needed and for which the heart of mankind is yearning. You who are young, it is you, it is you Who must make the dreams of the world come true. You who are young have a world to build. The future will be what you have willed. Learn and practice, plan and do; Hold to a vision and shape it true, And you will find in time that a dream or two Because of you, because of you, Shall out of the mist and the dark come true. Heed what you build with hand and tongue, You who are young, you who are young. John H. Garden Principal

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DEAN ' S MESSAGE.. Last December the complacency of the Western World was rudely disturbed with the announcement that Soviet Russia had been successful in launching the first man made sattelite into outer-space. This event was a severe blow to Western pride which had never before doubted the superiority of its science and scientists over those of other countries. Immediately a search was started to find out where the blame for this incredible loss of face could be placed. It was to be expected that the present system of education would bear the brunt of the criticism. Since that time educational systems have been, and are being investigated and examined by panels, committees and commissions of all shapes, sizes and complexions. Out of all the discussions has come a decision that there must be a general raising of standards and tightening of requirements. With this movement no one would wish to disagree. At the same time it is very necessary that the present hysteria should not overwhelm us and cause us to imagine quite erroneously that a raising of standards will solve the problems that caused all the furore. A conference of scientists and educators was held recently at Yale University, and Senator William Benton of the United States made this statem ent: “No matter what investment we allocate to schooling we cannot guarantee to deliver Einsteins nor Fermis nor Van Neumanns. But if we make the opportunity for learning as freely available to talent and ability as the water we drink, we return to an historic American assumption that our natural resources reside in the capacity and the aspirations of the coming generations.” In other words out of all the talk and controversy comes the fundamental fact that the future of Canada, and of any country, depends on the quality, character and the ability of her young people. This, too, is the basic philosophy of Mount Royal College. The task of the College is so to develop the personalities, characters and abilities of her students that they may be able to take their places as citizens who will make valuable contri¬ butions to all areas of our common life. This is a huge job and beset with many difficulties and pitfalls. Yet we believe that our graduates of 1958 have a sound basis on which to build many years of service to this day and generation. W. J. COLLETT. Dean.