Strathcona Tweedsmuir School - Paidia Yearbook (Okotoks, Alberta Canada)

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He makes fools We love someone, PROTEST I PROTEST he said and then sat and never did anything else for the rest of his fat, contented life. Nic Seaton, Grade 12 LIFE Someone dies. Someone cries, But life goes on. Sadness, joys, Newfound toys, Regardless, life goes on. We sing in tune, We sing too flat, She's too thin, Or he's too fat, Eternal, life goes on. We lose old friends, We gain some more, We fail a test, But we pass four, Life still goes on. Sometimes happy, Sometimes sad, ln comes a new moral, Out goes an old fad, Non-ending, life goes on. We hate another, Our mother's nuts But so's our brother, Descending, life goes on. lt's here, it's there, It's everywhere, A child, a bear, Mon pere, ma mere, Prevailing, life goes on. A neverending process, How? I do not know. To-day I see another born, And then another goes, Enduring, life goes on. Molly Lawson, Grade 11 FEAR? Fear is just another word For not knowing what to do. Harvey Locke, Grade 12 THEY Down, down, down, lgo then, in odd moments, up again, bobbing inthe clouds, like a kite in afair wind, smiling at the sun. Then, they take the wind away, unknowingly perhaps - but it's gone, like now, and my heart is shattered over and over as I relive the crash Kelly Kerr, Grade 12 TO HIM He's in every crowd, He degrades another, To make him feel big. Of those indifferent To his loud and brash ways It makes him feel big. He ridicules, the different, Those not fitting his idealsg It makes him feel big. Hne's the one that always stands out First to make the cutting comment This makes him feel big. But, we all know who he is, He's the small one, He never grew up, He never learned, That people have feelings. Kathie Paget, Grade 12 THE SILENT EXTERMINATOR He walked along, stealthily as a snake making no more noise than a glider. Then, downth 9 stairshe . jumped, Nimbly as a mountain lion, bursting through the Pumpkin pink polish On nails Carefully cultivated, door, Shattering life inside And cracking the still night air Like a thunderstorm. Colin Lamb, Grade 10 SIGNS Finely filed to the perfect shape To reveal a realistic reflection of her character. Janice Heard, Grade 12

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DAD Dad very tall He finds oil l love him alot Geologist Grade 2 Spaghetti Long, thin Slithers on plates Hunger hits the stomach ME Noodles Eric Millice I like me because l'm me Grade 6 And it's fun to be me And there is just me and No other me. So l'm just mel Christina Thomson, G d 3 ra e HALLS Halls noisy, squishy decorated, long and clean places to hang coats Long Johns PENNS- woolies . I fuzzy, furry Christopher Somerville Grade2 go in drawers pretty nice, cozy, QFOOVY warmies Curtis Darmohray, Grade 2 OLLY FINALLY SLEEPS Olly Orange Leaf was playing happily all summer with his brothers and sisters. But soon Mr. Frost came. Father Orange Tree said, Quick, everyone, off! Mr. Frost is coming. So everyone went off to sleep except Olly lof coursei. Then Father Orange Tree called Mr. Wind to throw Olly off. Mr. Wind blew, blew and gasped. Olly started to wiggle, got sleepy and fell off. And he fell off just in time because along came Mr. Frost. Good night, said Father Orange Tree. Michael Thakkar, Grade 4

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AN ooE .T0 BIQLOGY 1 O' ' 9 L, SC. . V' 6 ou H93 ' u 67 JG, box , . ' 5 3' 41,7 A , K? 7 15' Q 0 C' CD P ' A' 5, SQ 9 AN ESSAY ON ' TEENAG ERS T , g TEENAGERS - PEoPi.E? 'I-' ' The modern day teenager .. . criminally insane, socially maladjusted, psychologically disturbed, morally unbalanced yes, that's us. But we, the teenagers are used to this. Ever since the beginning of time there has always been a modern day teen- ager. The teenager was mentioned in the Bible way back with Adam and Eve. To the adult we are the problem generation. We are aggressive, dirty, sex perverts, and we corrupt younger people not yet classified as teenagers. Making out, drinking, toking up, and being generally rude and objectionable are all part of our image. Can we help it if we were born in the appropriate year to become eligible for adolescence ? We, the modern day teenagers certainly have not started the sexual revolution. After all, the famous orgies of the Roman era included anybody from twelve to seventy, if they lived that long. lf adults lanybody over nineteeni did not participate in sex we wouldn't be here today. A menace to society? Or is society a menace to us? We are labelled as psychological misfits be- cause our taste in music is slightly different from the grown-ups 5 outcasts because our clothes are not dainty and tailored. We are criminals because our hair is long and our beliefs are modern and new compared to the old fashioned ways of thinking. Criminals they call us! Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler and Adolf Hitler all had short hair! Teenagers dangerous? No, we teenagers have an identity of our own - just like you adults. You can't run away from us. No matter how hard you try, we'll always be here. So... Lock up your doors, Turn on the lights, Look out, because. . . A teenager is in sight. Alison Martin, Grade 10A Qt Qi X103 W hi S- QW QJ N G 3 BN A iv fi' me D- f0 Sxrb N' mio S C7 If YK . A 'Z I: -4 I5 e , if .1- 2 O P ci .5 ,9 Q 03,9 assi -LS OLD