Regina Normal School - Beacon Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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HON. J. W. ESTEY, B.A., LL.B., K.C. Minister of Education MR. GEO. D. RALSTON, B.A. Principal, Regina Normal School

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Published by the Students of the Provincial Normal School Nanttal leacott Staff Representative, Mr. Scarrow Editor, Jim Findlay VOLUME XIV. REGINA, SASK. MAY, 1936. Executive of the Literary Society FALL TERM Staff Representative. President. Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer. Athletic Convener. Program Convener. Property Convener. Journal Editor. Room Representatives. .Mr. Scarrow . Fred Johnson Brooke Smith-Windsor .Marion Mackay .William Darnell .Tom Kajewski .Reginald Harper .Mrs. Stevenson .Kathleen Meade SPRING TERM Staff Representative. President. Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer. Athletic Convener. Program Convener. Property Convener. Journal Editor. Room Representatives. .Mr. Scarrow .Jim Findlay .Henry Baker Kathleen Kafferky .Lloyd East .Tom Kajewski .Helen Hughes .Mrs. Stevenson .William Darnell oc: :do oc: IDO

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VALEDICTORY - - Yesterday, it seems, you and I, the teachers-in-training of Regina Normal School, first met as we came here apprentices to the master-workmen of this institution. To-day we are graduating. It is not the ending but a glorious beginning for we are but “taking ship” and embarking on the great voyage of life. No poet has painted as beautifully as Tennyson the color and the spirit of the sea. No poet has given us a better compass for our journey than he when he says: “Oh Young Mariner The Great Magician You from the haven With eyes of wonder, Under the sea-cliff, I am Merlin You that are watching Who follow the gleam.” Our year has been rich in opportunities which will help us upward and onward if we have the courage and perseverance to follow the gleam. With this gleam ever before them, teachers of the past have done much for the teaching profession. We have enjoyed greater advantages than they and therefore must, in the acceptance of their legacy, assume greater respon¬ sibility and try to render fuller, richer service. By helping the boys and girls, citizens of the Canada of the future, to discover the ways and means by which they will be able to live at their best, we may accomplish our task as true teachers. Teaching is, in the words of Ruskin, “a painful and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept and by praise, but above all—by example.” To be a worthy example is our foremost desire. Perhaps we covet honor, but let us remember we shall never get it by serving ourselves. We may covet distinction, but we shall get it only as the servants of mankind. Let us not forget, then, why we have been here. We have not been here merely to prepare to make a living but in order to enable others to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. Our purpose is to enrich the world and we impoverish ourselves if we forget our errand. Every phase of our year’s activities has given us valuable equipment. Of inestimable worth are the advice, the training and the guidance which we have received from our instructors. Our debt to them is great and is best paid by revealing in our lives the spirit of co-operation and of sacrifice for the common good which has been exhibited by them. At present, with eager steps, we board the ship that is to carry us toward that harbor, where we hope to meet with success and happiness. We think much of the future and we realize that every journey brings a parting tinging our hopes with sadness. Our friendships here have been happy ones and we are enriched because of them. In the severing of our ties of friend¬ ship, which is inevitable, let us be consoled by the knowledge that we are better prepared for forming new ones. Separated we shall be united in spirit and purpose by a common desire to build a greater Canadian nation. To the staff we express our deepest gratitude. They have proved not only inspiring leaders but true friends and we pledge loyalty to the ideals they have placed before us as we bid them good-bye. Fellow students we must be on our way. “Bon Voyage” and “Au Revoir.” Let us all heed Tennyson’s call: “Oh Young Mariner, And, ere it vanishes Down from the haven, Over the margin, Call your companions, After it, follow it, And crowd your canvas, Follow the gleam.” EVELYN TANNER.