Niverville High School - High Lights Yearbook (Niverville, Manitoba Canada)

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Inspector’s Message I would like to thank those responsible for editing this yearbook for the invitation to contribute a message. Also, because this is always a matter of great importance at this time of year, I want to wish all of the students of Niverville High School success in meeting the tests which determine the extent of achievement during the year. Right now you will be receiving much good advice about applying your energies towards passing your grades. Before you also there may be a considerable amount of guidance material that will help you in choosing a vocation suitable to your talents, and capable of providing you with a good living in the future. All of this is important. Ours is a complex world, with a confusing maze of paths along which we may suggest that you move. Those of us who are most concerned with preparing you for life have a responsibility, along with you, of seeing that the direction in which education leads you is a right one. We are prone, I think, because of our concern for your material success, to stress things material. We are prone, because ours tends to be a materialistic age, to stress things material— wealth, prestige, superficial pleasures. What we may not stress enough, I believe, is the solid fact that life’s real return to us is a measure, not of what we may get from it, but of what we give to it. Any superiority that our way of life has over ways of life that threaten it lies no longer in material things, if it ever did. It lies, rather, in moral nationhood, the product of Christian people. There is a great cry today for scientists who can help compete in the race for space, for engineers who can match the might of Soviet missiles, for every variety of educated person who can match or better the achievements made elsewhere in the world. True, we need these people; we need their contributions. But, above all, we need men and women, real men and women, with minds dedicated to right and justice and morality. Upon this depends our preservation. Will you be among them? K. R. Jasper Page 4

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1959 -1960 Enrollment Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 24 Grade 7 . 20 20 Grade 8 . 12 19 Grade 9 . 13 12 Grade 10 . 11 10 Grade 11 . 13 13 Grade 12 . 6 Total enrollment . 173 Page 3 LL

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J. J. PETERS School Board’s Message Time is rapidly approaching ' where we will pass another milestone for the Niverville School. How good says the younger pupil, how long says the Graduate, too short says the grey-haired. A mere vapor in the life of a people. Buit long or short, what have we done with the time ? A traveller asked a group of construction workers what they were doing. “I am cutting stone,” grumbled the first. “I am making $5.00 a day,” said the other one. “I am building a cathedral,” smiled a third. The aim of all child training, whether it be in the home, school or church is to produce worthwhile citizens, who are eager to improve the conditions in their homes, communities and in the world at large. Parents maintain schools. Youth attends school and the school board has been behind the wheel to steer our school affairs in the right direction. This obligation is partly handed over to our new Divisional Board. We wish them the same pleasant experience we have had and a smooth riding. In looking back at the years filled with duty and work, we stop a moment and ask ourselves if it has been worthwhile? We say yes and not without reason. The influence of a school is much greater than we realize. It is the ever-widening circle made by a pebble thrown into the water: If we think of teachers, doctors, nurses, businessmen, housewives and many other useful citizens have gone forth from it, the sphere of influence spreads out incalculably far. We thank our teachers for their great part in emphasizing both the spiritual and the intellectual aspects and wish that ' our school may continue to be a bulwork of Christian living through the years to come. The School Board by Wm. W. Dyck MESSAGE FROM DIVISION BOARD Once again a school year draws to a close. Our aim was to give our students a thorough prepara¬ tion for service to God and fellow man. Service leaves no room for selfishness, but rather calls for self-consumption in serving others. True service will not permit us to be pre-occupied with our own self, but rather to be spent in striving to do the will of Him, who gave His all. On behalf of the Division board, I would like to congratulate the graduates on their accomplishments. My sincere wish is that students, teachers, parents and the board may continue to work together successfully. —I. J. Braun Page 5 I. J. BRAUN