Port Hope High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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VALADICTORY ADDRESS To-night is the night to look back - and we ' ve got a lot to look back on: - tak¬ ing science notes in Grade Nine, sitting on nail kegs in the Library , and dodging long rows of lockers spread out all through the halls, the year-end form parties: and when we finally got to Grade Thirteen, there were those wonderful contribu¬ tions we made to school life: socially, we demonstrated an inspiring spirit of to¬ getherness by walking down the halls five or six abreast; culturally, we created a new and different style of Can-Can; scientifically, we developed a remarkable quick cleaner for laboratory drains. We had our irons firmly in every fire in the school - The Students 1 Council, The Cadet Corps, The Blue N White and all the rest. What s more, we made history as the largest Grade Thirteen ever to graduate in the history of P. H. H. S. . To-night we have a special distinction. Ours is the first graduating class to have started Grade 9 in this school. To me this represents another aspect of the meaning of this night — an important one to those of us who are graduating. As well as marking the end of one period of our lives, this occasion signifies the be¬ ginning of a new and exciting era for us. To-night is, after all, Commencement Night, not ending night. From now on we will be faced with new challenges that we have never met to such a degree before, challenges that will be presented not only by the problems of adulthood, that have beset men and women ever since time be¬ gan, but by new problems that are unique in the world in which we are going to be living. Even now our traditional beliefs are constantly being challenged by new discoveries; our nation and our way of life seem to be under attack from opposing idealogies; indeed, the very existence of humanity often looks to be seriously en¬ dangered. As we study the course of contemporary events and try to predict the direct¬ ion it will take in later years., it becomes increasingly obvious that anyone who hopes to play a role of any importance in this new world must face up to the chall¬ enges, the dangers, and the opportunities inherent in this new world will present him. What s more, it is only a dedicated few who will meet these conditions, be¬ cause in varying degrees, every single person who will have reached adulthood in the next ten years will be affected by the great changes that are only now beginn¬ ing. We, who are graduating to-night will meet these challenges in teaching, in science, in military life, in business and the extent to which we progress in our vocations will depend in a very great degree on our success in meeting these new challenges and so, keeping abreast of this new life. Faced with this proposition it becomes apparent that extensive preparations will have to be made to meet new situations, and we might well ask, how well are we prepared to meet them. While by no stretch of the imagination can we ever say that our last five years at high school have provided the preparation, yet, I believe that they have laid a firm basis on which we can build, to equip ourselves for what lies ahead. Their great contributions were not just the rules, the vocabularies and the forms, (indeed, these in themselves have small value for the purpose we are considering now,) but those ‘by-products of the process of education that can t be looked up in mathematics tables or vocabularies, those great values of our education that could not be formally tested last June. It is the retentions of these values that will mea¬ sure the success of our education, even if we forget everything else: if we never remember the chemical reaction when magnesium meets sulphuric acid, may we remember something of the concept of critical testing and analysis; if in ten years we have forgotten how to conjugate Faire - heaven forbid - let us hope we have retained the appreciation of another people f s language and thinking, and that we will realize that our culture is not the only one that exists; even if we never use Pythagoras Theorem of a right-angled triangle, may we always remember how to think logically and apply that invaluable advice, One step at a time is sufficient progress. These, I suggest, are the sort of really 1 a s t i n g lessons of our high 15

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LEA ALCHIN Woods Real Estate ELIZABETH BANISTER Queen ' s University CARL BAPTIST Ryer son WILLIAM BARROW CLOUGH Queen ' s University KERRY BASKEY Ryerson JEAN BEST Nicholson File WILLA BIGELOW University Of New Brunswick YVONNE BLOW Royal Bank SALLY BONNEVILLE Dalhousie University LAURENCE BOYKO Construction Firm, Toronto PHILIP BOYKO N.P.C. School CAROL BRICKMAN Ontario Hospital, Whitby CALVIN BROWN Queen ' s University KAREN BULKOWSKI St. Michael ' s Hospital MALCOLM BURNESS McGill University MARGARET CANCILLA Canada Permanent MARGARET CHESTNUT Peterborough Civic Hospital GWEN DARLING Peterborough Teachers ' College ft ' w t a f-i 1959-60 SHIRLEY DELANEY New Service Cleaners DAVID DUCHESNE Peterborough Teachers ' College PATRICIA FROST Queen ' s University FRED GIBSON Maher ' s Shoe Store JEAN GOODERHAM Western Hospital JOHN HANCOCK Queen ' s University PATRICIA HOPE Florence Nightingale School of Nursing ANITA HORNER Children ' s Aid CAROLE INCH Royal Bank GERALD KELLY McGill University FRANK KUTROWSKI Toronto-Dominion Bank ARTHUR LAWSON U. of T. HUDSON LEAVENS Queen ' s University ZOSIA LESNICK Simpson Sears, Toronto CHARLES MAIDMENT Mathews Conveyor BARBARA MARTIN Royal Bank KATHLEEN McELROY Victoria College GWEN MERCER Thistletown General Hospital PRESTON MERRIL R.M.C. Kingston ANNE MOORE Bell Telephone PATRICIA NICHOLSON Technician ' s Course Peterborough DONNA OUGHTRED Toronto General Hospital SUZANNE PERRY Victoria College HARRY PLUMMER Page Higgins Firm, Toronto BEVERLEY REYNOLDS Royal Bank ROSALEE RICE Married DONNA ROSE General Wire Cable FAYE ROWDEN Queen ' s University GAY ROWDEN Royal Bank ANDREA SHEPPARD Mathews Conveyor BURNEY SKITCH Queen ' s University TIMOTHY TAYLOR Queen ' s University JEAN TROTTER Peterborough Civic Hospital JOAN WALKEY Peterborough Teachers ' College JAMES WEBSTER Queen ' s University 14

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school education, for when we have properly made these lessons a part of oursel¬ ves, these become the kind of bricks of which we build the foundation for ever-in- creasing tower of strength with which to face the world. But to-night is a time to look back. These valuable lessons that we have ac¬ quired will become a part of us and our attitudes, and as such they will remain without our thinking too much about them. So to-night it is not these that will be called to special notice. But to-night we will remember with deep gratitude those who caused these truths to be instilled in us - our teachers who, while instructing us, in rules and formulas revealed beneath them the deeper and more lasting as¬ pects; and our parents whose encouragement, support and f r e qu e n t assistance made any success we had possible. But above all, to-night we look back on the good times we ' ve had in the last five years and the people who made them good. For to-night, anyway, we ' ll forget about new lives and new challenges that lie ahead and for a few hours just think about what we are leaving behind. ARTHUR LAWSON THANKS MERCI GRACIAS THANKS MERCI GRACIAS TO: Our Eng. teachers for rounding up essays and choosing the finalists. Miss Hammond and Miss Pochon for their aid in the French contest, and Miss Quilin of C. D. C. I. for judging it. Miss Foy for her help in the directing of the Spanish contest and art work. Rev. Nainby, McFarland, and Woodhouse for many man hours they put into the judging of the short Stories, Essays and Poems respectively - Mr. Peter Schultz for judging the Spanish efforts. Mrs. Anderson for her oft ' needed, always sound advice. Mr. Bigelow and Miss Cookson without whose guiding hand in the office the wires would have tangled many times. Members of our staff and others who gave most of their Easter Holidays and that last frantic Saturday to complete layout. Messrs. Haynes, our publishers for their patience and co-operation through the various stages of production. Special thanks to the Refiner published by the Eldorado, for its article on several of our students in the January issue. Compliments Of Compliments EXOTIC BIRDS AND FISH Of HIGHFIELD’S DAIRY 111 Walton Street Dial 5-5128 Port Hope r 16