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

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WITH M R A IN MICHICAN Greetings from Mackinac Island of renaissance JI hope that S. A. S. is running as smoothly as ever. B efore I go further I suppose I should justify my presence south of the 49th. With Bill home this winter, the opportunity arose for me to take a little holiday. Such opportunities should not be allowed to slip by. ' I became interested in M. R. A. at the time of the showing of the All-African film Freedom in Edmonton last spring, so I decided to come down to Mackinac for a couple of months and then go home via Toronto and Guelph to visit my Uncle and some old classmates at the Ont¬ ario Agricultural College. I am having a wonderful time, a blend of education and enjoyment, you might say. The educational part brings to mind the good old school days when we studied ;he problems of the w orld in Social Studies. This is a fascinating place to study his subject, since there are people here from every corner of the globe and every :onceivable background. I am sending some literature in separate cover to give you in idea of what is going on down here. I shall be interested to know what you ihink of it. Would you please show it to Mr. Raboud also? I remember his deep loncern for South Africa, and I believe he would be interested to read about the [orce which is working behind the scenes to bring an answer to the situation. I wish you could see the scene before me. ' My window looks out over the Strait if Mackinac, which are frozen at present. The ice periodically breaks up and floats it into Lake Huron So the scenery is ever changing. We have a lot of snow and the temperature ranges between -10 degrees and 30 degrees. The fly in the ointment is nt it tends to be windy and that humid air coming off the Lakes tends to be, shall it say, chilly? Nevertheless, I would say that there is no place like home and I am looking irward to returning some time in March. WindrJ SI ow On February 27, a Minstrel Show sponsored by the Women ' s Institute was held in the high school auditorium, tfe had an enjoyable evening watching our elders perform. Some of our parents and friends and a number of the teachers of the three school districts were among the actors.