United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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(Seated) Ramsay Cook, Bud Harper, Roger Maybank, Glen MacKenzie, Ken McVey, Don Denison, Rev. Hugh McLeod, Merlyn MacLean, Essie McCreery, Bill Zaporzan, Jim Morgan, Pat Cameron. (Standing) Joe Fry, John Klassen, Kay Sigurjonsson, Melba Verge, Des McCalmont, Mr. Gerald Bedford, Joan Christie, Donalda Finlay, Joan Kergan, Janet Scott, Jim Smith, John Wright, Bill Paterson, Barbara Melnick, Marilyn Starr, Josephine Morgan. Student Council, 1952-1953 Honorary President . Dr. Hugh McLeod Senior Stick . Don Denison Lady Stick . Joan Christie Secretary ... Merlyn MacLean Treasurer . Ken McVey Assistant Treasurer . Sam Braker Athletics . Thom Murray Building Fund . John Klassen Current Affairs . Al Mackling Debating . Roger Maybank Handbook . Glen Mackenzie Publicity . Melba Verge Social . Donalda Finlay, Vic Mearon Theatre . Des McCalmont Vox . Ray Tulloch, Glen Mackenzie Senior U.C.S .C. Rep .. Janet Scott Junior U.C.S.C. Rep . Essie McCreery Collegiate Coed Rep . Pat Cameron Senior U.M.S.U. Rep . Jim Smith Junior U.M.S.U. Rep .Jo Morgan Brown and Gold Rep . Helen Scurfield Faculty Rep . Gerald Bedford Theology President . Joe Fry Theology Veep . Bud Harper 4th Year President . Ramsay Cook 4th Year Veep . Kay Sigurjonsson 3rd Year President . Ray Tulloch 3rd Year Veep . Joan Kergan 2nd Year President . Bill Paterson 2nd Year Veep . Marilyn Starr 1st Year President . John Wright 1st Year Veep . Barbara Melnick Collegiate President . Bill Zaporzan Collegiate Veep . Jim Morgan Page Ten

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DR. W. C. GRAHAM M.A., S.T.M., Ph.D., D.D., F.R.S.C Principal of United College A S I write this I hare not been privileged to examine the contents of this number and must, perforce, confine myself to generalities. In years gone by this College has had not a little success in the encouragement of creative writing in the undergraduate body and this is still one of the aims we of the faculty cherish. We are hearing a good deal these days about the way Canada is forging ahead in the more material aspects of its life and we are unfeigned- ly glad that there is substantial ground for this optimism about our future. But a nation is like a person in this respect that what IS is always, in the long view, more important than what it DOES. The long road of history is strewn with the wreckage of nations and peoples who failed to perceive this, nor are we without contemporary evidence of what such failure means. This being so, the function of literature may be seen to be of first rate and very practical importance to any society, and particularly to one so recently to appear on the stage of history as our own. For literature, along with the other creative arts, is a very important means by which we may be confronted with and made more critically aware of the intangibles of our life, of the values we really pursue and the spirit in which we pursue them. The truth about our relative maturity, as a people, will be most clear¬ ly revealed through these media. Without boasting it may, I think, be said that our capacity for authentic self expression through literature is definitely increasing. Certainly this is so in poetry, in fiction and in biography and history. But it will never be adequate for the material promise of this great country of ours until youth takes more seriously than it does today the literary responsibility which must be met by them if it is to be met at all. The road to literary achievement is long and hard. I covet for this college the achievement of setting a goodly number of its student members, in real earnest, upon that road. W. C. GRAHAM Principal Page Nine

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REV. JOHN H. RIDDELL B.A., B.D., D.D., LL.D. Principal of United College, 1917-1938 The Funeral Address for Dr. J. H. Riddell delivered by the Reverend Donald C. Munro, Minister of Memorial Park United Church, Carleton Place, Ontario. Romans 1:16— I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of love unto salvation to everyone that believeth. T ' lHOSE of you who knew the late Dr. J. H. Riddell with any degree of intimacy will note the appropriateness of this text, for it is in itself a declaration of a great conviction, thor¬ oughly experienced, constantly proved and held forth as the supreme incentive to life and action. In this letter to the church at Rome these words are Paul’s “Apologia Pro Vita Sua,” the defence he made for himself as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, because it was indeed the gospel of Christ that had enabled him to carry on so triumphantly to the very end. It was this gospel of Christ that had arrested him with such compelling power when he was a young man. It was this gospel that had sus¬ tained him and upheld him through imprison¬ ments and ship wrecks — and cruel scourgings — perils by land and sea, and from ruthless adversaries everywhere. It was this gospel that had kept him steadfast when he was scorned and rebuffed and rebuked as a misguided fanatic and a fool. It was this gospel that had been his strength and his stay when he was obliged to pass through the deep waters of personal suf¬ fering and sorrow. But it was this very same gospel and its power to save that Paul believed would some day conquer the Roman empire and thence lay claim to the whole world for Christ, simply because it was of God and of God’s purpose to bring salvation to everyone that believeth. So, far from being ashamed of or apologetic for it, Paul gloried in it, rejoiced in it and lived by it. This is the way Dr. Moffatt translates our text: “I am proud of the gospel. It is God’s saving power to everyone who has faith.” At any rate, it was the power of God to St. Paul, because it had so completely laid hold of him and had transferred his character. It had penetrated his whole being. It had soaked and saturated his every thought and word and deed. “To me to live is Christ,” he said. “I determined Page Eleven