Sir Adam Beck Secondary School - Lacedaemon Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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Paul Davidson, Assist. Head; Mr. Walker, Jerry Dust, Head Service Prefect; Carol Boyer, Assist. Head. PREFECTS Beck ' s prefects are all Senior students (this year, for the first time, they are in Grade 11, as well as Grade 12) who are chosen by their peers to be prefects on the basis of their maturity and sense of responsibility. These qualities are vital to the success of the prefect system, and the organization itself is instrumental in encouraging them. A prefect ' s main function is to enable the school to proceed smoothly at lunch hour by maintaining some order in the cafeteria and in the halls of the school. The prefects also are in charge of the school ' s lost and found department, and volunteer to perform special duties in special or extraordinary situations. Jerry Dust, Head Service Prefect PREFECTS 1967-68 Nancy Aitken Linda Armer Ann Barons Drew Brazier Jim Burnard Lynda Campbell Lynn Corby Linda Corbett Lenke Csudor Caroline DeHaan Stan Diavolitsis Susan Doerr Rosemarie Falle Sharon Fukushima Carol Getsinger Marg Gordon Klaus Guder Pat Harkness Dani Heinen Wanda Henderson Liz Holm an Janice James Linda Kett Gord Kipfer Marion Lampman Elaine Lenehan Karen Link Sandra Macher Marg Magee Carol Anne Marcin Heather McArthur Linda McLure Nancy McLure Cathy Oliver Carol- Lynn Parsons Linda Paton Ingrid Radler Keith Rose Sharon Russell Jim Sennema Bill Shadwick D ' Anne Shorten Hazel Smith Doug Sthruthers Pat Taylor Jane Thompson Wayne Thornton Sandra Treitz Stephanie Walker Terry Ward Karen Williams Brian Woodley Ellen Woods Pat York

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ESSAY ON NO By Peter N. Vandenbosch o is a beautiful word. Consider it. Savour it until you see the delicacy of its lines and the lacy intricacy of its meaning. It stands on a page like a balanced thing, not entirely without beauty. The sharpness of the N; the roundness of the O. It means so much, but it MEANS ' Nothing ' . You use it each day, throwing it about the room as if it were your own personal property and as though no-one cared what happened to it. No hurts. It hurts children, dogs, employees, wives. But you dare use it as your private domain without savouring its beauty or feeling its It is the root for so many words of negation that I can ' t even name them all. But if you wish to be awed by the negation of it all, read that part of your dictionary dedicated to the suffix ' No- ' . Noplace, Noplace, Notime, Nobody, Nowise, None. You can almost feel the rhythm of No. A mystical anti- rhythm. The personal annihilation of Hindu- Nirvana. The primeval tribal dance rhythm that speaks No, No, No, No. The words are like a poem, forming, unforming, flowing together to mean anything. Nothing No- one Nowhere No is not a negative word that opposes Yes in meaning. It is negative in the undoing of Yes. The annihilation of Yes. It does not negate, it destroys. When you say yes, or connected words, you mean that you are giving permission to do SOMETHING. But no and connected words do not say to do the opposite of that something (a sort of anti-yes), they say NOT to do something. Sit still, do not move unless you can do something else. The French understand the feeling that must go with no. They give it a symmetry that the English word does not have. Nothingness IS symmetric. They also give it the dignity of being as negative as it wants to be. Forever do English teachers warn us not to use the double (and heaven forbid the triple!) negative. But the French let the negatives roll out. Personne ne fait jamais rien. That translates as, Nobody doesn ' t never do nothing. Ah, how that lightens the heart of the true no-lover.