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

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F .A. c tj l t REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS MANAGER PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT TO PRINCIPAL Mr. W. G. Rae Mr. W. J. Collett Mr. L. E. Wilmott SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES FRENCH AND LATIN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ENGLISH ENGLISH Mr. H. H. Allan Mr. A. A. Ariano Mr. J. P. Borger Mr. J. A. Brown Mrs. B. Clayton MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS CHEMISTRY AND BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY AND AND SCIENCE AND SCIENCE PHYSICS ADMINISTRATION SOCIOLOGY Miss V. A. Clark Mr. J. T. Cuyler Mr. O. H. Deutsch Mr. M. S. Feader Mr. N. G. Gamble MATHEMATICS HEAD OF DIRECTOR OF HIGH SOCIAL STUDIES AND PHYSICS COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, ENGLISH DEAN OF WOMEN AND FRENCH Mr. A. U. Hassan Mr. J. W. Hepburn Mr. O. A. Kelly Mrs. Paulson Mrs. E. I. Layton 9

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principal’s message - year book 1959 In Ancient Greece every Athenian Youth on reaching the age of manhood and being formally enrolled as a citizen on the rolls of the Athenian city took the following oath: “My fatherland, I will transmit in no worse state but greater and better than 1 found it. I will obey those in authority, and I will ob¬ serve wholeheartedly the laws now in force and whatever others the people may pass. And if anyone seeks to annul the laws or refuses to obey them, I will not heed him; but alone or with many others I will defend them.” The Athenian youth, in other words, promised that he would work hard at becoming a good citizen. This meant that he would refuse to do anything that would destroy the beauty or sully the reputation of his city. In addition to that he undertook to accept the responsibility of co-operating with others to keep his city beautiful and strong. Also he promised to defend his city against any¬ one who would attempt to break its laws or lower its standards. Some people might say that in taking an oath like this the young Athenian was throwing away his freedom because he was limiting his activities. Actually he was enhancing his freedom by creating a situation whereby people might live together in peace and safety. Intelligent obedience to law produces the greatest freedom that the human race has known. Oftentimes when in our College life we have been forced to “reprove” certain students who insist on smoking in the corridors, littering the lunch room, missing classes and committing other misdemeanours, the muttered, underbreath response is “This is a free country, isn’t it.” Countries are not made free by anarchy and license but by a consideration of the rights and privileges of others. In our life together at Mount Royal College we have sought to demonstrate that true freedom comes by the exercise of privilege within the framework of law and order. Not only is this prin¬ ciple applied to the conduct of students in the halls and in extra-curricular activities, but it is an underlying philosophy of all our teaching. We hope that our students have learned the lessons of freedom well and that they are able enthusiastically to endorse in their own lives the idea behind the Athenian Oath. If so we have every confidence that the graduates of Mount Royal College will be the good citizens that Canada needs. W. J. COLLETT

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THE FACULTY SOCIAL STUDIES AND FRENCH GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY DIRECTOR OF JUNIOR COLLEGE, CHEMISTRY SOCIAL STUDIES LATIN Mrs. Q. M. Linton Mr. R. W. McCready Mr. J. McLeod Mr. R. L McPherson Mrs. E. Nicol MATHEMATICS AND HISTORY BIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION ENGLISH COMMERCIAL Mrs. W. Oldfield Mr. Paulson Mrs. M. E. Powell Mrs. J. E. Sorokan MATHEMATICS AND FRENCH CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Mr. S. G. Sorokan Mr. Bishop Mrs. E. Sudre Mr. S. R. Vincent ENGLISH CHEF CANTEEN Mrs. M. K. Wilmott Mr. Pringle Mr. Knott 10