Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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Also our thanks are due to those who have contributed to our daily needs — the Matrons, the Cooks, Mr. Morgan, Miss Chinas, the Engineers and others. To them all I express my sincere thanks not only for their contribution this year, but throughout my six years at Shawnigan Lake School. I am confident that those who are carrying on in the future, and that applies to all but a very few, will give the same measure of support to Mr. Larsen and I wish him and them every success. It is indeed a pleasure and a crowning achievement of the School year to have Dr. A. E. Grauer, the Chancellor of the University of British Columbia, with us today to give the address to the graduating students and to present the prizes. Dr. Grauer is an outstanding citizen of this province and nation. He is a scholar, a teacher, an authority on economic affairs, the leader of one of the great industries of this province, and a public-spirited man in many phases of our society. These wide interests and accomplishments make him not only well known to you, but an extremely busy and hard- working man. That he should find time to come to this gathering today is a great honour to us all, and I now ask him to address you. DOCTOR GRAUER ' S ADDRESS Mr. Headmaster, members of the faculty, parents and guests; and young men of the graduating class of Shawnigan Lake School. My remarks today will be directed primarily to the members of the g raduating class, although I hope that they will be of some interest to everyone who is here. But first, I know you will all join with me in expressing our deep appreciation of the splendid work that Mr. Peter Kaye has done for the School as Headmaster during the last six years. We all regret his leaving but we respect his reasons for it. We know that he has the great personal satisfaction of turning the School over to his successor in first- class shape. One of the trials of graduation time is that advice is poured into you. You are almost in the position of the two hobos in conversation on Skid Row. One asked, How did you get here, chum? The second said, I wouldn ' t take anybody ' s advice. What was your trouble? Replied the first hobo, I took everybody ' s. However, as you grow older, you will begin to understand how tempting it is when you are ASKED to give advice, to GIVE it. And you even get to the point where you think your advice is good! My advice will take the form of some stock-taking for you. Those of you who will be going into business will learn that any successful business must periodically take stock in order to establish what it has sold, what it has on hand, what it needs; in short, to find out where it stands. The concluding of your preparatory education is a good time to take personal stock. This is quite a major transition point in your lives. Many of you will go on to University where you will be much more on your own responsibility. Others will go directly into work of one sort or another. But from here on, whatever you do, you will be entering into the grown-up world. You are going to have to behave awfully well, ALL THE TIME, and never, never make a mistake — because of course grown-ups never do! Seriously, though, by this point in your lives, you should have developed certain valuable habits which have become second nature to you and which will form the basis of constructive achievement throughout your adult lives. For purposes of our personal stock-taking, you must ask yourselves, Have I formed or am I forming such habits? If the answer is not Yes, my first piece of advice to you is that you should bend every effort to do so as soon as possible, because without these habits a successful and happy life is hard to achieve. Perhaps the basic good habit is the habit of work. We humans like kidding ourselves, but the fact is that we are all born lazy. It is only by constant effort during our school days and later that we finally establish — if we are lucky — the habit of work. What do I mean by the habit of work? I mean the ability to use your time to do those things that should be done; the doing of first things first. This doesn ' t mean that you simply make a work-horse of yourself. It is true that people with some time to spare, usually spend it with somebody who hasn ' t. Thus, by Page Ten

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