North Bay Teachers College - Polaris Yearbook (North Bay, Ontario Canada)

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Editor's essage Polaris '68 was compiled as a record of a very important year in our lives. This record attempts to portray activities that have ranged from long hours and hard work, to rewarding experiences and wonderful memories. l hope that this book will help you recall some of those wonderful people you met and things you did during your year at North Bay Teachers' College. l would like to express special thanks to our staff advisors, Mr. Pasko and Mr. Schmidt, without whose wealth of experience Polaris '68 just would not exist. Special thanks also goes to the Yearbook Executive and Pam Lowe, Betty Dwyer, Linda Hubley, Sherry Fennessey, Ann Kirk, Judy Niemi, Linda Tilley, Judy Kerr and anyone else who helped us in anyway to assemble this collection of memories. Linda Fleming

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essage to the Graduating Class One year is a mercilessly short time to change from a high school student, with all the ideas and attitudes of a high school senior, into a well-prepared, poised, and confident young teacher about to plunge into a new and exciting career. We who are on the staff of North Bay Teachers' College have each year marvelled anew at the transformation wrought upon the students during their brief stay with us. We observe your growing sense of responsibility as you change from high school pupil mentality to the more positive and organized personality type characteristic of a good teacher. We watch you become conscious of a new way to act and a new relationship with other people. In brief, we see you grow up. The great progress you make in these things is the result of adapting to all sorts of stresses and emergencies during the college year as you expand your mind to grasp new concepts, practise your hand and voice to master new skills, and by sheer force of will-power make yourself face new situations. Nevertheless, in spite of all the development you have achieved this year, you are still only partly prepared. Ahead still lie hard decisions, midnight oil, bitter choices, enforced self-discipline, all the adult things of the real world. Successfully handled, they make you into a far greater person than you ever were before. At a time in history when people are looking for the easy way out, the fast buck, and the chance for self- gratification, you are entering upon a profession where there is only a hard way, the well-earned salary, and the chance to deny yourselves for the sake of those whose lives you influence. The former is the rnisnamed good life of our centuryg the latter is the better life, both in your own ultimate satisfaction and in the amount of benefit you are to the people around you. You have chosen well. Determine now to keep it up. M. J. Curtis. Vice-Principal

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The Yearbook Executive XX 1' 'W SEATED, Left to Right: Gilbert Seguin, Linda Fleming, Albert McMillan. STANDING: Mr. Schmidt, Kenna Johns, Wayne Hopkins, Sharon Whitford, Mr. Pasko. THE YEARBOOK EXECUTIVE Now we have some idea of what organizing a yearbook actually entails, and yet, at this moment, we have no idea of how everything will actually turn out! We have been very fortunate in being able to follow in the footsteps of last year's staff, who provided an excellent model for us. This Yearbook would not be complete without our thanks to all who have contributed in time and effort. We have enjoyed putting this book together. It has been a great experience! We hope that you will enjoy it for many years to come as a memento of the years 1967- 68 at the North Bay Teachers' College