Provincial Institute of Technology and Art - Record Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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TECH-ART RECORD The Students’ Association During the past terms the Students’ Association has set up a record for efficiency in controlling the multifarious activities of its? members that will be hard to surpass. Organization, financing and carrying on a wide range of student interests has formed the chief part of the Association’s work during the year, and in every case the business has been done in a manner that is above criticism. Since the organization virtually dies each spring and rises anew in the fall, it was but natural that the first executive should be composed almost entirely of second year students who had had the opportunity of seeing the previous year’s work conducted. Valuable groundwork in preparing for a successful term was done by Bob Rae, president, and his assistants, who were responsible for most of the organization work in connection with student activities. They gave school life a fine start, and when their terms of office expired they continued to give their support and counsel to the first year students who, to a large extent, filled their positions. The depressed financial condition of the Association during the 1930-31 term gave rise to an urgent need for a program of economy. Both executives worked hard in their efforts to keep down expenses, and the results of their efforts may be judged from the fact that the third term will probably see the Association in a much better financial condition than it was at the same time last year. In the matter of conducting general and executive meetings, the Association’s officers have excelled themselves. Executive meet¬ ings, especially, have been carried on with efficiency and dispatch. The pros and cons of many questions have been fully debated, but only rarely were the meetings permitted to drag on this account. General meetings have usually been brief. The work of the executive and the various committees has tended to eliminate long discussions at the weekly gatherings, and there has been noticed a growing feel¬ ing that the executive should look after all business, leaving the general meetings almost entirely for entertainment purposes. Taken all round, the Students’ Association has made a very creditable showing this year. Its biggest triumphs have been in handling its financial problems, but in looking after athletics, dances, the annual banquet, literary programs and school publications, the Association has met with great success. Page Eight

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TECH-ART RECORD The Provincial Institute of Technology and Art is developing a prestige and securing its place of usefulness in the Province of Alberta. An efficient tool has been given it by the government of the Province in the splendid buildings and the excellent equipment provided. A staff of highly qualified instructors is engaged. A wide program of studies has been provided. But all these are of no avail without students. The student is the centre about which the whole organization revolves. Instruction is of no avail without re¬ ceptive, capable and willing students. The reputation of the institution in the final analysis depends upon the contribution the students make to their generation after leaving the Institute. A student leaves the Institute to try his learning and his powers upon the waiting world. Great things are anticipated. More problems than ever await solution. Never were such premiums placed upon personality, dependability, tact, skill and knowledge as at the present time. Given natural endowments with application and technical training, the world will yield rich rewards. The richest, juciest and most delicious plums grow at the top of the tree. With you, when you leave the Institute, go the best wishes of every member of the staff. Your failures will be regretted, and our sympathy will follow you. Your success will be our joy and every facility will be proffered. May you suffer not from an in¬ feriority complex. May you not be unduly puffed up. May your life be full of human sympathy. May your desire to serve be high. May you have your proper share of this world’s goods and the rewards that may be your due. May your joy and happiness be com¬ plete in the consciousness that you have chosen to serve in a worthwhile vocation, giving a necessary service for which the world will be brighter, better and happier. Page Seven

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