Saint Laurent High School - Milestone Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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ALLEN COUNTy PUBLIC L 3 1833 01853 9475 GC 971.402 M76SLH. 1969 i©e9 St. La.uz ent

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Mr. John R. LeRoy 1r. Ross M. Mercer liss Lydia Davison PRINCIPALS MESSAGE THE YEAR THAT IS PAST Even the most confirmed wearer of rose-tinted glasses scarcely would claim ' 68- ' 69 as the best year of his life In the teaching profession — nor, I suspect, would it rate highly with the students either. It has been a year of dis- asters realized or threatened, of catastrophe all but Incurred and still Impending, of demonstrations, rioting and vio- lence, of negotiations, strikes and public attitudes, of wickedness and sloppy thinking in high places, of naked, hateful racialism, of Power practised for its own sweet sake, negative and vapid, fatuous, destructive and entirely Immoral. At this School we have escaped most of these Ills, but I have the feeling that, instead of counting this a virtue In ourselves, we should simply thank the accident of our few numbers and our intimacy in this building for the respite. Even so, the whole atmosphere we breathed was vitiated by the chaos all about us. I want you to think how fortunate we are and have been at this School in our avoidance of excess and happy preservation of a past on which to build a future. Of the practitioners of this pollution let It be repeated: Better that a mill stone should be hanged about their necks and that they be drowned in the morass of their own making than that they should bring our world to final ruin.