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

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To the teachers! A wonderful idea for the dedication of your yearbook! eachers are considered the most important group of men and women. Through their fforts they make the world progress by developing the intelligence of students, ;hus adding to the treasure of ideas that will push humanity farther towards value ind power. Yet few are so neglected, suffer so much ingratitude, are forgotten so asily except when resented. They are often the butt of a joke or they cut a laive figure in the eyes of some merciless pupil. A few teachers, of course, are venerated for their imposing personality, for their discipline, or for their tolerance. Not only those deserve a lasting souvenir. All teachers doing their best are admirable and may be considered in some measure martyrs to the cause of education. Think of the long monotonous days of repetition of what they know well jut cannot implant in the distracted minds of their charges; think of the long lours of class preparation, the tests and their correction, the worry about the :haracter-formation or de-formation of many little un-angels, the private talks v th a view to helping students, the diplomacy to tame, the endless repetitious remarks necessitated by the inattention or devil-may-dare attitude of pupils who think that fun is an end, amusement a worthwhile occupation, school an institution to put in time until one gains his freedom, and the teachers a necessary trial to be ignored. If you think enough of your teachers to dedicate your yearbook to them, t ink enough of them to be model students, all of you, not only 5056 of the gang, 30 of the time!. THIS PAGE sponsored (Eompung. BY INCORPORATED 2?? MAV 1670. WHERE THE ACCENT IS ON YOU

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A IfUar From Wr. ParU Thank you for your letter of January 8 inviting me to give you a message for your yearbook. I was somewhat at a loss to know to whom I should address my message as I am unfamiliar with your publication. I trust, however, that what I have written is satisfactory to you. I regret that I do not have a recent photograph of myself to send to you. En st ma ch The primary concern of the Board of Administrators, the Town Planners,and gineers is the physical change now taking place in our town: new houses, ,new reets, new developments areas.and it may be felt that in the multi-million dollar chine which is slowly grinding into action to effect this physical change, school ildren are of no consequence. Nothing could be farther from the truth, for with the physical change .here comes a social change: new people, new patterns of behavior, new clubs, and i|ch like; in fact, a new community. By looking at plans and sketches in the Town Manager ' s office,we can form a|fairly accurate impression of what the toVn will look like in a few years ' time icause developer and contractors must adhere to the plans already formulated, it there are no plans or sketches which can tell us what the social change will be ke, for example: Will there be more or less crime? Will people be happy or sad? ndly or antagonistic towards one another? This we don ' t know, but we do kno lat there are plans and sketches of what the social change could be like, and, if wje discipline ourselves to adhere to those plans we should find that not only should we have a clean, healthy, properly-developed town, but also a happy, friend¬ ly community. Where are those plans and sketches? Answer: The plans and sketches for the very be3t conmunity are to be found in the Holy Scriptures. Of course, you sus ected that I would bring in religion somewhere didn ' t you. ' You ' re right, because ill talking about social change, it would be impossible to talk about people without referring to the code or standard by which those people live. You know, of course, Aat some people don ' t have a code of behaviour, while some have a somewhat diluted oiie which has been handed down in a slipshod manner from their parents, and others, not willing to take second or third best, have taken the code given us by God ..nd e iplied that to their lives. Fine homes, paved streets, and public utilities do not make a community ril iither are people of themselves a community. A community is a group of people act iig together for the achievement of common interests and ideals, and the-very best Q immunity is a group of people intelligently following the plan OfjGnd as revealed us in the fiible. THIS PAGE IS SPONSORED BY C. fi. Ihrices Student Minister, United Church, St. Albert. P. 0. Box 490