St Albert School - Aurora Yearbook (St Albert, Alberta Canada)

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Another term, anotner graduation, another yearbook, another thought l The Yearbook is dedicated to your parents. How they deserve it l We begin tc understand our parents when we are grown up; then it is too late to avoid our sorrow for years of thoughtlessness. This you don ' t understand. You will in thirty or forty years when you r own burning tears, your destroying worries your flaming pride in your children will have taught you the cost of bringing a child to adulthood with little co-operation, little gratitude, and little love from him. It will be too late then for your parents to enjoy the fruit of their devotion and too early for you to reap in total joy the result of the efforts given to make oj your children the honest citizens, the strong Christians you wanted them to be; not always will the success be all that was hoped for. Good parents are the greatest gift of God. Not understanding them is a weak¬ ness of the intelligence, not co-operating with them a softness of the will, not loving them a paralysis of the heart, not profiting by their advice, their care, their sane ambition for your betterment is a waste of the grace of God. How many, even amongst the best are deeply grieved for not having made the most of the treasure of wisdom, the wealth of attention showered upon them by their parents l Now that age has taught them to know better, they would like to make up for their neglect, their rebellions, their indifference, hut it is too late: the father whose hand they wish to press, the mother they would love to hold in their arms, is gone forever. All that remains is the wound in the heart of the thought¬ less childrenj they themselves are the cause of their own sorrow. Don ' t sow regrets for the futurejlove your parents and tell them that you love them and prove it by greater attention to their wishes, by a steady exertion in your work, by trying to live up to their dreams for you. i It takes so little to fill the parents ' begging hearts with joy l Do not refuse it. Pay them, in part, your immense debt .of gratitude.

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5ar Friends: With the passing of another school year you must, no doubt, find your- jjves pondering reminiscently upon things past; memories pleasant, others embarras- Lng, challenges faced, and challenges evaded; achievements won, and disappointments idured. It is not unhealthy to look backwards. Sometimes it is in so doing that 5 are able to see ourselves more clearly, recognizing both our capabilities and our Imitations. Observing yourselves in retrospect you may all reach the common con- Lusion that you are better equipped to meet the coming year than you were to meet e past one. This is the hope and prayer of your senior partners in this community. An even greater legacy resulting from thoughts directed to the pest is se motivation—ever coercive—to look ahead. Those cf you vhc are graduating pert- cularly must experience this inspiration. Is it presumptuous to feel that until 3w you have, for the most part, been on the receiving end of the gifts of know- sdge, lessons of experience, concern, consideration, and love? I do not think so. ad these gifts, as all of life, are not to be stored away and treasured. They are o be nurtured, multiplied and propagated amongst your fellow men. To whom much-is iven of him will much be required 11 . (Luke XII: 4?) May I echo the hopes of your Valedictorian cf last year. May you meet tils challenge of sharing all the talents you possess as responsible citizens and sdicated Chri stians • , Student Minister, St. Albert United Church n a letter to the Editor, Mr. Mayberry makes the following comment: ear Edward: I am enclosing a brief message for your Yearbook. Thank you for the op- ortunity of addressing a few words to the students of St. Albert. I am sorry that I do not have a suitable photograph to enclose. I ac une the students will not feel seriously deprived l