R S McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute - Haggis Yearbook (Oshawa, Ontario Canada)

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J- nncipal A m eddaai We are growing in size. Are we growing in quality? In these days of mass education at vast cost, that is a question that many people ask; and it is a fair question, if we understand our terms. Does quality mean scholarships, high marks, large numbers graduating from Grade 13, the majority of the students taking Arts and Science courses? These may signify educational excellence, but they may also indicate spoon feeding, drilling, coaching, force-feeding, and the depriving of students of the opportunities to develop their natural talents and in- terests. The modern refinement of the Ontario composite school, as typified by the McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute, is the most highly developed secondary school in English-speaking society. Its programme takes into account the interests, needs, and capabilities of the whole educable population, within the one institution. Boys and girls, men and women, of all types and environ- ments, meet as they do in the world of affairs, for many of their activities, and separate into homo- geneous groupings for activities in which segregation produces more effective results. Apparently M. C.V.I, is fulfilling its purpose, because now in its third school year it is full in the daytime, and almost full at night. Classes are in session for fifteen hours a day. And we are building an addition! Not only have we both quantity and quality in our curricular endeavours, but also have our staff and students developed an elaborate and rich programme of extra-curricular activities--all, we believe, under reasonable and necessary restraint. The result is a wealth of opportunity for hundreds of boys and girls to explore in a less formal manner the fields of art and science, music and debate, athletics and chess, in an environment that is both harmonious and creative. And with it all has developed a heartening esprit. The staff and I hope above all that you will depart from here well prepared for your future and inspired to make a positive contribution to your fellow man. G.L. Roberts iffr Ip 8 F F F F

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1964-65 Jhe %. 3. V Ic Lauahiin 9 i olleaiate Cjf vocational JsnAiituti ' 9 OA vV n t a r i o (— a n a d t €d Mark Henkelman itorS Doug Simpkins Robert Aldworth } , Kobert Aiawor J- notour apnu Warren Magill .A Doug Dobney Siistants Ed Kroll Mary Henkelman Ted Syperik -Art -Advisor Mr. Hoffstete -J t af-f Jm on So r Mr. Jocelyn

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JnWI, emonam JCouU W unroe You may have watched him act in Murder in the Cathedral. You may have exchanged repartee with him. You may have worshipped beside him in church. You may have discussed politics or a new novel with him. If you were one of his students, you enjoyed the benefits of his width of experience and depth of knowledge. Louis Munroe was above all a committed man. Whatever he did was done wholeheartedly; it was done sincerely; it was done well. His uncompromising integrity drew from his students an honest, warm response like his own. You may not always have agreed with him - he enjoyed that - but you always respected him. Students, colleagues, friends, all recognized in him the essence which Hamlet described in these words: He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.