Sir George Williams University - Annual Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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EDITORIAL... . So we are now considered educated. At least in the formal sense we may suppose this to be true if we are to consider the acquisition ofa Bachelor's degree as the final achievement of the educational process. And for all purposes society,or popular opinion, may consider that such an accomplishment merits recognition of the individual as an educated person. But we cannot be satisfied with any such narrow definition of education. The educational philo- sophy to which we have been recently exposed will not permit us to accept such a concept. We know that education is a continuing process that does not stop at the end of a particular period. Convocation '50 is not a stop, then, but merely a pause. A time for reflection and assessment before progressing further. Despite whether some of us may go on to higher degrees, or abandon for- mal education at this point, we must of necessity continue with our own individual educational process. To stop now would be to deny the value of the past years. Apart from any vocational skill we may have acquired during undergraduate years, our college training has provided us with some tools to aid in understanding the social, economic, political, physical, and spiritual basis of the modern world. It should also have made us aware of some of the basic problems that confront our materialistic society. And wary of, attempts of evasion or dismissal, and skeptical of some of the widely held popular opin- ions regarding them.

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President Vice-President CDayJ Vice-President CEveJ ANNUAL '50 Graduating Class Faculty of Arts, Science, and Commerce Sir George Williams College Montreal, Que. Class Executive C olin N. Mackie Edgar J. Fee Eric Charles Cowan Treasurer Nicholas J. Grycan Secretary Ethel E. Schwisberg Valedictorian Murray B. Spiegal Chairman, Social Committee Ed. MacDonald. B.Sc. 1Com Chairman, Baccalaureate Service Committee Morley E. Pinkney Chairman, Annual Committee Thomas Plunkett Annual '50 C ornmittee Wm. Marconi Shirley E. Pope Dan. Rosenbloom Keith J. Mosher Rae Raesnick Warren Reid David Brown Cecil Kirton Commerce Arts Commerce Commerce Arts Arts Science Science Science Arts Arts Commerce Arts Arts Arts Arts Arts

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K. E. Norris, M.A., Ph. D. Principal Sir George Williams College Another Graduating Class!! It seems impossible!! But it serves to emphasize the inevitable fact that the College is growing older, that it is no longer a new phenomenon in the Canadian Educational scene, and that the body of its Alumni is increasing in size and importance. Like all its predecessors, this yearls graduating class is the largest in the history of the College. It is a far cry from the present class of more than 200 people to the two men who were first to receive the College's degrees in the fall of 1936. One approaches the idea of the graduation of a new class with mixed feelings of pleasure and regret - pleasure that this group of fine young people are about to have their efforts re- warded and are reaching, not the end of the trail, but another milestone along the wayg regret that the College, which has learned to depend upon them for undergraduate leadership and tone, must now get along without them. The list of this year's graduates includes an imposing array of those who have meant a great deal to Sir George Williams College in recent years, and who have contributed much to the life of the student body during their terms as undergraduates. To them, and to all members of the class, I offer congratulations and best wishes on behalf of the Board of Governors and the Faculty. fp was K. E. Norris Principal.