University of Alberta Calgary - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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Faculty of Education TEMPORARY LICENSE CLASS A TRUDIE AASERUDE Carvel ROSEMAREE ADAMS Duchess BEVERLY AUSTIN Magrath MATILDA BAERG Acme MERTON BAPTIST Calgary RUSSELL BATEMAN Blackie LOIS BLOCK Bluffton KATHERINE BRAUER Coaldale

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VALEDICTORY STAN OVERBY (Part of the Valedictory given at the Closing Exercises, April 10th, 1953) As a member of the graduating class of 1953, I feel that it is both an honor and a duty to address this gathering today. It is always an honor to be selected for such a responsibility, and I feel it is a duty because a valedictorian is expected to deliver some careful words of wisdom to the graduating class. Paul A. Samuelson, in his familiar three-pound six-ounce textbook on Economics, tells of a college administrator who used to remark to his new University classes each year, Take a good look at the person on your right, and the person on your left, because next year one of you won ' t be here! Samuelson used this quotation as an introduction to the dire impor¬ tance of economics to people in this everyday world, but I think we could use his quotation in a lighter and more pleasant vein today. Those of you who will not be here next year have the thrill and pleasure of experiencing your university ' s graduation exercises. Undoubtedly each of you has his or her own particular and valued memories, but let ' s leave for the moment our reminiscing into the past (which I have been told is a sign of old age) and instead consider the future. What will you be doing a year hence, or five years in the future? If you are an Arts and Science student, next year will probably mean a year of furthering your education. You most certainly have our sympathy— for this will mean that you will no longer be attending our Calgary Branch of the university but will be forced to depart to Edmonton. If you are an Education student, next year will probably mean taking your place in society as a teacher. To consider the changes that five years may bring seems overwhelming, but let us hope that it will hold among other things, the successful completion of a university degree. Although to many of us today may seem a day of farewell yet I rather doubt if this is entirely true. Perhaps it may be my lot in life to some day pay a call to Dr. Pete Crockford, in order to exchange my present dental equipment for the popular removeable type often seen immersed nightly in a glass of water. Perhaps too, I may find it necessary in the future to engage the services of Mr. Harold Greer, in order to prevent my detention in a solitary Lethbridge cell. Possibly too, while attending the School of Graduate Studies I may have my History essay corrected by that thin, spec¬ tacled professor of History, Dr. Nick Wickenden. Now should these days arrive at some time in the future, I hope that they will be able to recognize this stout bald-headed school-teacher as their classmate of the year 1953. In closing, I would like to wish success to each and every one of you, and to express the hope that we may look forward to other pleasant assoc¬ iations in the future similar to the ones we have enjoyed during this past university year. 22

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CLASS A LORNA BREWSTER Bowden CECIL BROOK Mound RUTH BURGEMEISTER Hanna AUDREY BURNS Carmangay KATHERINE BYRNE MARIE CHRISTENSEN BEVERLEY CLARK CAROL CONLEY Blairmore Dickson Cluny Scandia VERA CYR Pincher Creek STELLA DANYSCHUK Drumheller CARMEL DESPINS Calgary DAVID DICK Coaldale