St Johns High School - Torch Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

 - Class of 1946

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GRADUATION EXERCISE June 12th, 1946, 1:45 p.m. ST. JOHN’S UNITED CHURCH 1. March of the Graduates: Marche Heroique ... Schubert (Will the audience please stand) O Canada 2. Choir: Lift Thine Eyes.. Mendelssohn The Sky is Full of Clouds......W. Davies 3. The Passing Year—The Principal. 4. Orchestra: Gavotte and Musette .J. S. Bach Humouresque and Kamarinskaya. Tchaikowsky Russian Dance. 5. Address to the Graduates: David A. Golden, Esq., 1935. 6. In Memoriam: I Vow to Thee, My Country—Omnes. 7. Presentations: School Letters, by the Assistant Principal. Staff Prizes, to Ernie Magee by Mr. Beer; to Arlene Mogul by Miss Macdougall. Governor-General’s Medal, to Norman Hill by the Principal. 8. Choir: Music, When Soft Voices Die.. Chas. Wood Swift as Bird ... Rossini 9. Valedictory—David Sokolov. 10. Passing of the Torch: Norman Hill to Estelle Greenberg. J erusalem —O mnes. The King Page Thirty-seven

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NORM HILL ARLINE MOGUL Winner of the Governor-General ' s Medal Norm is a jack-of-all-trades. That is the one requirement of the winner of this award. The most important part of his contributions to life at Tech rests in his community spirit. This prompted him to undertake many jobs. He was class president for three years; editor of the ’45 Torch, the largest; editor of the Hi Fresh man!, principal part in the opera for two years, president of the school council, 1945-46, captain of the rugby team, 1945, etc., etc. His academic achievements have been worth a couple of bars every year during his attend¬ ance at Tech. Meaningful editorials, witty es¬ says and satires on prevalent abuses tumble from his versatile pen. This year’s class will remember him saying, “I have a poem here,” every time he made a speech. He would give Einstein competition also, given time. A big lanky fellow needs some exercise and Norm found it on the rugby team for three years, all-star end in 1944, and basketball team for two years. He makes a good hockey player and curler in the winter and always wins a few points at inter-class field day in the summer. What a power-house! Won twelve bars in two years and deserves twenty-four for his three years attendance. Despite his crowded time table he always has a happy grin and plenty of time for girls, fun, and girls. ★ Winner of the Teacher ' s Award The old school flame really burins in this little red-head (it even colors her hair). Dur¬ ing her two years at Tech, Arline was into more things than a cook’s finger. She was a debater in the Public Speaking Club, an officer on her class council, and a member of the opera during her two years. Arline’s limitless energy also extended to the realm of sport where she excelled in basket¬ ball, volleyball and track. In 1945, Arline was literary editor of the Torch and did a tremen¬ dous job in that position. As copy manager of the “Hi-Freshman!” Arline’s efforts were a main factor in the publication of the then un¬ tried and infant activity. Besides gaining recognition in athletics and citizenship, Arline also earned a name as scholar. Her standing while at Tech was never less than an “A.” In 1945 this little ball of fire was one of the three students to receive the full quota for six bars. Arline’s terrific energy, coupled with an en¬ gaging personality (amazingly amiable, con¬ sidering the color of her hair), won her many friends among students and teachers alike. All these qualities make her richly deserving of the honors awarded her. ★ J WINNERS “J’s” are the mark of outstanding ability and all-round achievements at St. John’s. They are awarded to students meriting four bars or more. Second year St. John’s students with four bars or more for the second year receive the “J” orange and brown pin. Old “Alma Mater,’’ this year has been blessed with a bumper crop of “J” winners. CLASS XII CLASS XI CLASS X Room 17 Stan Smith Ernie Magee Lily Karlinsky Room 26 Kay Chamberlain ‘Ken Cormack Don Sandiford Jack Waterworth ‘Jacqueline Rice Room 29 Joe Berman ‘Shirley Cohen Ross Henderson ‘Norman Hill Arnice Kozack Room 38 ‘Maria Seminuk Room 37 ‘Enid Calof ‘Debby Slobinsky ‘Aubrey Yarmar Sylvia Roberts Ruth Zloten Room 39 Bruce Hill ‘Naomi Shubin Alvin Zipursky Room 12 Elsie Kulbaba Room 23 Josephine Piasecki Room 36 Julia Pawluk Room 31 Meyer Shore ‘Second year “J” Room 13 Shirley Spegal Harold Untershultz Morris Loffman Room 33 Walter Lampe Dolores Robinson Leo Schicker



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VALEDICTORY Mr. Reeve, Honored Guests, Fellow Students, Parents, and Friends: Graduation means a great deal to all of us. To those of us who regret the leaving of the shel¬ ter which the school has provided, as well as to those of us who look for¬ ward with zest to the new life which stretches ahead, graduation is the all important milestone. For years we have been preparing ourselves for this day. And now the day has finally arrived! We leave this school not only with a feeling of joy in our achievements, but also with genu¬ ine regret. We leave behind the school itself: the tower with its view of the whole city, the science laboratories, the study room and the library, the late room, the gym and the audi¬ torium, the machine shops, cooking room, and the office. We also leave behind the people who make up this school. We have known some of them longer than others, but we respect and admire them all. We bid farewell to a man who has been more than our principal, a true friend and advisor, Mr. Reeve. His glowing ideals of democracy have been a shining light to all who have met him. His philosophy and wisdom will be an inspiration to us in the years to come. We shall move on, also, without the teachers who have been with us for the past few years, who have done so much to guide us in these difficult years in our extra¬ curricular activities no less than in our school work. We leave behind the friends of the office and caretaking staffs, whose kindness and patience we shall always remember. Above all, we regret to leave behind that indefinable influence, the atmosphere of this school which distinguishes it from all others. I use the term “indefinable” because it is diffi¬ cult to express in exact language the spirit of St. John’s Tech, which is a diffusion of the freedoms, the democratic practices, the sense of responsibility and self-respect and the all- around friendly feeling between adults and adolescents so characteristic of this school. We feel fortunate to have been enveloped in this spirit and to have obtained such an education. It is a splendid preparation for the future. Our thoughts also go out to the graduates of the past few years who have continued their education on the field of battle. Man’s inhu¬ manity to man has denied to them the right to take their place in normal society. For war is not a normal state of affairs. They left school, as their fathers left, and as we leave, young and inexperienced. Through the span of six war years they changed into men and women. They fought so that we might sit here today without the fear of a bomb dropping through the roof. They fought so that we might have the right to determine our way of life; they fought to abol¬ ish tyranny. Most have come back, but some graduates, who only a few years ago were play¬ ing football outside, will never return, “Requi- escat in pace.” May they rest in peace. We must not disregard the lesson of their tremendous sacrifices. We must remember that in the years following World War I there was a change of heart in many countries about the principles of government. There were many who preferred an efficient fascism to an easy¬ going democracy. And although we in this country clung to democracy, elsewhere, totali¬ tarian regimes were allowed to emerge and were permitted to enforce their ideologies on weaker peoples. For that we had to pay the price of a second world war. But is this lesson understood by all? We can all quote President Roosevelt’s four freedoms. It can hardly be said that these freedoms are universally practised today although they have been universally hailed as a great re-affirmation of the principles of democracy. But we have the real enemies of democracy, the fascists and extremists, utilizing the methods of democracy in order to undermine it. It is hard sometimes to distinguish between what is freedom and what is licence, what we ought to tolerate and what we ought to condemn, what we must fight for and what we must fight against. Now that the war is over, too often we disregard the continued existence of fascists and extremists. Yet can we honestly say that they have dis¬ appeared? Can we honestly say that the danger is all over? During the war we heard so much about the enemies of freedom that we became tired of the very terms. Now there is a danger that we will sink back into our comfortable in¬ difference toward these serious foes of our Page Thirty-eight

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