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

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chairman' address Text of the address given at the annual Prizegiving and Closing Exercises, June 17, 1978, by the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Mrs. Ralphine Locke. Honored guests, ladies, gentlemen and students, welcome to the seventh annual prize-giving day and closing exercises for Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School. For our graduating class, this is a very special day, and it is to our graduates that I would like to address my opening remarks. In our society, the end of Grade Twelve represents a landmark. You have suddenly gained the status of young adults - and as young adults, society expects you to begin to take control of your own lives. And that involves choices - lots of them. One of the important choices you will be making in the next few weeks will be the selection of a university and the programme you are going to follow. Or, your choice may be to postpone university and spend a year or two developing a new perspective - in work experience or travel. When you are pondering your choice - setting your goal for the im ediate future - take a moment to think of the choices that were made by your parents in bringing you to this moment when the future lies so bright before you. Your parents made a choice when they selected this school for you. It wasn't the easy route that they took. They committed themselves to not only a significant financial outlay, but they also made a commitment to a philosophy - the philosophy on which this school was built. This might be a good time to take a moment to think of how our school came to be, and of what is really happening here. The great traditions of Western Canada are founded in courage, vision, and personal initiative, and these factors are what led a group of Calgary citizens, a few years ago, to look for something better for their children, and then get to work to make it happen. They had two choices. One was to take the easy route, letting someone else, that elusive Htheyn we hear so much about, make the decisions for their children's education. Or, they could choose to develop a school in which they could bring into focus the philosophy of personal commitment, self-motivation and responsibility. Somehow, after making their choice, they found a way to make it happen, and our School, as we know it today has developed. And it is still evolving. We, your parents and their representatives on the Board, are still making choices, and accepting the responsibility for those choices. Whether consciously or not, you have been influenced by the philosophy that created our School. It is a philosophy which I believe can help you to carve a future for yourselves - a future that will bring you a large measure of satisfaction as you find the value in personal commitment, self-motivation and responsibility for your own lives. Good luck with those choices! 5

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board of governors J.C. ANDERSON JOHN S. BURNS KAREN CHASE NORMAN CLAUSON ROBERT B. COLBORNE SHAN CROSS E.DAVID DOVER CHAIRMAN - MRS. RALPHINE LOCKE DR. J. BROCK DUNDAS WALTER O'DONOGHUE JOHN D. FRANCIS JOHN M. PIERCE H.GRAHAM GAMMELL LUCILLE PIPELLA DR. MICHAEL M. KOMLODI PATRICIA PRYDE DAVID H. MCDERMID NORMAN L. REID WARD G. MCLEAN ERNEST THIESSEN BRUCE A. MACDONALD HARVEY TRIMBLE ,f ' '-N 4

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