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

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TORCH STAFF Back Row (left to right)—Archie Sinclair, Walter Lampe, Zenon Pohorecky. Fourth Row —Alvin Zippursky, Morley Gorsky, Hoy Lev, Zenon Skyba. Third Row —Shirley Speigel, Frances Lucow, Maxine Medoff, Noma Jacobson, Dot Diamond, Debby Slobinsky, Rozzie Radinovsky. Second Row —Maroin Holliday, Naomi Shubin, Bella Litvak, Sally Stern, Ruby Freedman, Anne Nurgitz. Front Row —Joe Breitman, Morris Loffman, Norm Hill (co-Editor), Ross Henderson (co-Editor), Enid Calof, Maria Semeniuk. THE TORCH STAFF ★ Co-Editors —ROSS HENDERSON, NORM HILL Assistant Editors .Morris Loffman, Meyer Shore, Marion Holliday Faculty Advisers .Mr. Silverberg, Mr. Reeve, Mr. Newfield, Mr. Bailey Business Manager .Enid Calof Advertising Managers .{ Staff: Shirley Speigel, Noma Jacobson, Arnold Rubin, Maxine Medoff. Circulation Manager .Sally Stern Art Editor .Zenon Pohorecky Staff: Fanny Kleiman, Walter Lampe, George Neickarz, Rozzie Radinovsky, Wil¬ lie Shulman, Archie Sinclair, Zenon Skyba. Sports Editors ( Naomi Shubin Alvin Zipursky Staff: Dorothy Diamond, Mattie Kowalyk,. Bruce Hill. Graduates Photos .Debby Slobinsky Literary Editor .Maria Semeniuk Staff: Joe Breitman, Frances Lucow, Ruby Freedman. Humor Editor .Morley Gorsky Photography .Stan Offrich Staff: Norm Shore, Irvin Slusky, Harold Goldstein. Music Editor .. ...Shirley Cohen Page Seven

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EDITORIAL T IME has strange qualities. To the members of the teaching staff, and possibly to our worn old buildings, this year seems much the same as last year, or as next year will seem. But to us, the class of 1946-1947, this year is individual and will stand out in our memory as our first, second, or last year at Tech. In after life, we shall seat ourselves once more in the stands of Osborne chanting, “Hold that line,” or return to the gym on a day when a game was won or lost by a basket. Some insignificant letters placed together to form a name will unite us again with friends, well loved in their time, forgotten in separation. For awhile, we shall again be in a classroom, laughing at someone’s poor joke, or we shall walk across the stage, horribly nervous, seemingly indifferent but inwardly proud, to receive a bar. The bustling fair; the opera with its sweet notes and pleasant smelling grease-paint; “duked-up” boys and girls swaying to dreamy music at eve¬ ning socials; an athlete exerting his last dribble of energy to cross the finish line after a gruelling half-mile: all these and more will flood our mind. How sweet seem high school days, and how pleasant they will be to recall. The marks which seem so precious now will in those days lose their charm, and we’ll wonder why we bothered to pass. We’ll yearn to recap¬ ture just one day of this lost existence. A little thought on the cause of that relative happiness at Tech is well worth while, and an hour spent lovingly with a “Torch” need not be con¬ sidered wasted. Half the pain and trouble in the world is caused by preju¬ dice and ignorance, and a great deal of this springs from nationality. At school, we took for granted the harmony existing between Cohen, McPher¬ son, Karlinsky, O’Brien and Wong, and no Tech graduate should think of permitting prejudice or persecution be cause of nationality. This har¬ mony has been written about before, but while discord on account of these relationships goes on, such an outstanding example of success as ours should be stressed. At Tech the question is not, “Who are you?” but “What can you do?” We know it’s easier to preach by the mile than practice by the inch, so we take this opportunity of presenting a reminder. We hope that recollections such as these, brought by musing over this book, will help us da our share in making a better world. Society, in its broader sense, has produced an expensive, uneconomical book so that we may more easily become broad-minded thinkers and throw our weight into the fight for a world which is working as a whole towards a common goal, not destroying itself by petty jealousies. We are given a model com¬ munity working harmoniously under judicious leaders, as an example. Let this book show what our school is trying to do, outside of giving a super¬ ficial education which could be learned more quickly and efficiently in other ways. If we are shown the objectives of our education, surely we can achieve those objectives. We have tried to produce a book with pictures to flatter your vanities, write-ups to prompt your memories, art to please yo-ur cultural tastes, and jokes to make you laugh. We hope we have succeeded. Yet the more abstract purpose of the “Torch” is to capture in its pages that indefinable something which makes St. John’s a great school. Call that something spirit, or pride, or what you will, it still escapes definition. In years to come, as we leaf through the “Torch,” we shall gratefully find that spirit drawing us back into the amazing and wonderful life of high school days. By H. Page Six

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