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

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BARBARA KUEHL Editor and Biography Editor and Activities Editor BERNIE CHMIELASH Advertising Editor TING LESSER Literary Editor MILESTONE EDITORS For many of the young, especially those under twenty-one, dialogue has broken down in a society which they consider worthless. It is obvious that adults have failed to communicate their most impor- tant ideals to the young. The contradic- tions of society are often felt but can also be as subtle as a line marking the differen- ces between generations. Hypocrisy rules in society when it tells youth to discipline itself while adults do as fhey like. The same adults who tell their sons and daughters to avoid drugs, gam- bling and sex will in their own age group, condone and participate in d rinking, gam- bling, tax evasion, and so on. Something has changed: the young are not falling into the pattern adults wish them to. A rebellion against such hypocrisy is now possible; youth challenges and ques- tions its elders. This does not necessarily mean chaos. It can, rather, mean the open- ing of a new dialogue. Young people who have turned away from their puritanical background become open-minded and, when among their elders, are able to speak freely. It is up to us now to aid in the rebirth of communication in our society. We should remember that new leaders and new generations will rise and replace us. Their ideas could be as radically different from ours as ours are from those of our elders. The insight and understanding which will come as we strive for an exchange of ideas with our elders will enable us, the students of the sixties, to communicate with those who will follow. Barbara Kuehl, Editor DAWN GILPIN Assistant Editor and Photography Editor SABINA WOLFE Assistant Advertising Editor MAUREEN ELLIS Art Editor CHARLENE PARKER GWENNETH MARSHALL ROBERT HECKLER CAROLINE ALLAN CHERYL LUTTERMAN Assistant Literary Editor Assistant Art Editor Assistant Photography Editor 2 Assistant Photography Editor Assistant Biography Editor

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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.

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TEACHING STAFF MR. ABRAMOVITCH MISSARDOUIN MISS AUGUST MR. CLARK MRS. CLEEVELY MISS DRURY MRS. FOX MISS GERYCH MRS. GOTTESMAN l«ISS HEMEON MR. ISENBERG MRS. JACKSON MR. JAISLI MR. KNOLL MISS LAOW MR. LIVINGSTON MR. LOUGH MR MINSKY MR. MIRMAN MRS. PASS MR PAUL MR. SHERMAN MISS SMITH MISS STARKEY MRS. STEHOUWER MISS WAGERMAN MRS. WEINGARTEN MRS CUMMINGS MR FIELDS MISS HUTLEY MR. CHAPMAN Head of English Head of French Head of History Head of Mafhemati and Science