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

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Page 4 EMERY WEAL Message from the Minister of Education £ URING the school term you have undergone a period of training in the science and art of making a living as applied to your particular choice of vocation. At the same time your instructors have endeavored to provide you with the means to develop a true sense of values by which to judge and use these gifts of material civilization. To get worthwhile enjoyment out of any occupation we must know something of the art of living itself. This requires what is termed, “the knowledge of good and evil”. The material world is meaningless, fully devoid of purpose, unless we develop a philosophy of life high in moral and spiritual values. It was John Ruskin who wrote, “When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece”. Our Department is greatly pleased that the Provincial Insti tute of Technology and Art is able to play an important role in the re-habili- tation programmes of so many ex-service personnel. I hereby wish the students of 1945-1946 every success and happiness in the years to come. —HON. R. E. ANSLEY.

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Page 3 The Coste House. Grand Stand Building.

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EMERY WEAL Page 5 Message from the Principal TN this year of 1945-46 it is particularly a pleasure to write a brief message for the Emery Weal Annual. After six long years of exile in the cramped, noisy, and rather unsatisfactory quarters in the Grand Stand Building at Victoria Park, the pros¬ pect of an early return to our own buildings on the North Hill is a very joyous one. To the members of our present student body who have never known anything better than the mole-like existence in our present Machine Shop, Welding Shop, and other quarters, the change to the North Hill Buildings may not mean very much—but in the hearts of our instructors who recall years of effective work ' and pleasant fellowship in the spacious and well-appointed facilities of the permanent Institute Buildings there will arise feelings akin to those experienced by the Jews of long ago when they returned to Canaan from their captivity in Babylon. At this time and for the next ten years the Dominion Government has made avail¬ able many millions of dollars to aid vocational education in the various provinces. These Federal grants are provided if the Province will spend an equal amount for buildings, equipment, and operating expenses connected with an approved programme of vocational education. This means that in addition to returning to premises that were designed for its special use and that have been thoroughly renovated since their occupancy by the R.C.A.F., the Institute may look forward to a complete moderniza¬ tion of its shop equipment within the next year or two. In other words, the Institute is at the beginning of a new and great era in its service to the young men and women of the Province of Alberta. To those of our students who will be graduating this year, may I say Good Luck and Godspeed. The very best wishes of the staff go with you as you enter upon your careers in the great workaday world’’. Those who will be returning to continue their training at the Institute next Fall will be thrilled with the equipment and facilities that will then be available in the real home of the Institute. —J. FOWLER.