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THE HEADMASTER S ADDRESS Mr. Chairman, members of the Board of Governors, members of the graduating class, boys of St. George's College, ladies and gentlemen: Welcome to our 20th Prize-giving! We come together today to honour not only our l6th graduating class, but also all those boys who have attained high standards of academic excellence during the year. I want especially to express my great admiration for those who, though they have won no prizes, have clearly seen their goals and have struggled steadily toward them. Their rewards, though not the material ones of public recognition, can be nonetheless every bit as satisfying, even if anonymous. To every Georgian who has done his best I say 'Congratulations, and God speed you on your wayl' The end of our 20th year! Here I must struggle earn- estly against the urge to reminisce. Suffice it to say that this is the first year in which no boy presently in the school had yet been born when, as someone in another school was once overheard to describe us, this 'funny little place down in the slums' first opened its doors. To our graduating class, that is more than a lifetime ago. -- To some of us, however, it is but yesterday. Mr. Love may correct me if he wishes, but I think this is known as gaining 'historical perspective'. tHere I am sorely tempted to describe to you in some detail my first en- counter, as a master at SAC, 28 years ago, with a shy, gentle, and poetic young boy in Grade 9, who is now our principal staff softball pitcher and ball hockey forward, great film chronicler of the Second World War, chief resident representative of the Chicago White Sox, and general 'egger-on'.l It is truly amazing what a good education and time can do! But I digress. I draw your attention once again to the graduating class: There are amongst their number five boys who entered this school in Grade 4, and have been with us ever since. As l call their names, would they please rise and be recognized? Bill Henry, Stewart lstvan, Alexei Marcilio, Andrew Pace, and Jeff Ruscica. In recent conversation with one of these young gentlemenel ventured to say, 'Well there - despite ten years in this crazy place, you are perfectly normall' His response to this facile summation of his career at St. George's was immediate and vehement: 'What do you mean 'After ten years in this place I'm perfectly normal? How could l be?' lt is with regret that l announce the departure from our Staff of Gary Haslett, Head of the French department, who has taken a position with Peel County Board of Education: of George Rutherford, Old Boy of this school and former Head Prefect, who is to become head of the English department at Holy Trinity School: and of Steven Harper, an Old Boy of the school and former Prefect who has been on an exchange from Crescent School during this year. Thank you, gentlemen, for all you have given to St. George's. I am pleased to announce the following appointments: From within the present staff, Mr. Gilles Masse as Head of the Foreign Languages Department. QI know he deeply resents my considering French to be a 'foreign language', but in a place like Toronto I can see no other way around ity: Dr. Michael Webb, formerly Head of the Science Department at the Halifax Grammar School, and more recently Professor of Chemistry at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He will be Head of the Science Department: Mr. Richard Holdsworth, presently teaching at Havergal College, will join the English Department: Mr. Eric Timm and Ms. Anne Jensen, presently on the staff of Appleby College, will join us to teach French: And Ms. Suzanne Tevlin, an honours graduate of OCA, will teach art. At this time I should also like to announce the school prefects for the coming year. Would they please stand as I call their names? John Cimba, Head Prefect: Paul Clark, Gregor Gilbert, Tony Hanley, Ian Hardacre, Graham Hunt, George Kerr, Scott Merrick, Jamie Moore, George Skarbek-Borowski, and Keith Stinson. It is not my intent to recount in this report all the widely varying activities of our school year. Suffice it to say that I am always truly amazed at the number of things we are able to accomplish outside the classroom in drama, debating, in the yearbook staff, in the camera club, the pub club, and on the playing fields. The list is almost endless. But my sincere thanks go to all those who organized and directed these myriad events, and to all those who took part in them. My sincere thanks too to Brenda White and her great ladies of the Guild, to David McClatchy and the men of the SGCA, to the Board of Governors for their con- tinuing support, and to the Staff, who have laboured unstintingly throughout the year to make St. George's the great school that it is. I address my final words to the graduating class: you have completed one stage of the battle. As you 'graduate' to higher education, take with you the blessings and good wishes of all of us. Do not forget your old school.
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