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VOLUME 7 JUNE, 1957 COLLfGli Grammar School Classes Starting out on the long road to the ever important education are these lofty neophytes reluctant yet ready to learn. Grammar School Graduation Grammar School Graduations have the same sense of elation as the Seniors counterparts. High School Courses The V.C. High School Division con- sists of Grade nine to twelve. Within these confines new and more courses are entered upon. Activities Activities. The last period that makes the day go faster. Some simple, some hard. All add to balanced education. Sports This was the year! Six for seven in football. Provincial Championship in Basketball. Emerald Gloves in Boxing. 57 Seniors Here it is. The culmination is at hand. Twelve years. A galaxy of memories. Some were pleasant, some were not. And now it ' s here. SCHOOL WISE AND WORLD WISE Here is your 1957 COLLEGIAN. In it we have tried to recreate with words and pictures the school. But not only school shapes the course of our future. World events and local happenings play a big part as well. So here are some of the headlines among other things. The uprising in Poland. In Hungary the ruthless extermination of the Freedom Fighters. The Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone. Revolt in Jordan against King Hussein. The re-election ot Eisenhower and the introduction o f his Middle East Policy “The Eisenhower Doctrine. Eden resigned and MacMillan took over as Britain’s Prime Minister. Lester Pearson’s plan concerning the Suez Crisis. Ghana became an Automonous Dominion of the Commonwealth. The 1956 Olympics held in Australia. In Canada work was begun on the Trans-Canada pipe line. The worst airplane crash in Canadian history when T.C.A. s cross- country flight disappeared in the mountains near Chilliwack and and was not found till nearly six months later. Wenner Rocky Mountain Trench” project hit front pages. In medicine polio vaccine shots were made available to all school children. And Dr. Charles Bailey in the U.S. performed the first successful heart operation wherein a pump took over the work of the heart while it was being operated upon. Some notable North American figures died, viz., Percy Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, who committed suicide, to be followed by international repercussions. Cannon, Canadian rep- resentative in the U.N. Truce Commission. Senator Joe McCarthy in the U.S. John Hart, former P.M. of B.C. Tommy Dorsey, band- leader. Ezio Pinza, singer. Motion picture Academy Awards went to Ingrid Bergman and Ynl Brynner. And to Around the World in Eighty Days. Other outstanding pictures were The Ten Commandments , Tea House of August Moon, Spirit of St. Louis, Friendly Persuasion, and Heaven Knows Mr. Allison. Television Emmy Awards went to Robert Young for Father Knows Best; Loretta Young, Jane Wyman, and Perry Como. The music trend started light in September with Doris Day’s Quc Sera Sera, then heavied up with Elvis Presley’s rock-and-roll. Tunes were Hound Dog, Don’t Be Cruel, Long Tall Sally, Rip it Up, l Got a Woman. But, as year wore on Presley gave way to Pat Boone; Calypso music came with Harry Belafonte and his Day-O, Banana Boat Song, and Marianne. Then, Round a n d Round, Threads of Love, and Magic Touch. Field of sports saw the Edmonton Eskimos defeat Montreal Al- ouettes for the third successive Grey Cup. Yankees took the Dodgers and the pennant. Lions under new coach Clem Crowe failed to roar. Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champ, retired. Sugar Ray Robinson lost the title and then regained it from Gene Fulmer. And around the College Campus construction began on Mackin Hall, first major building addition since the gym in 1951. Enrol- ment at V.C. was biggest in history, over 700. Football team had seven wins and one loss for the best season since 1946. And for the first time since 1949 the College Basketball team won out over all other B.C. teams to take the Provincial Basketball Title That was 1957. May it live long in yonr memory. COLLEGIAN STAFF TYRONE G. COLGUR BR. EDWIN H, HICKEY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MODERATOR ASSISTANT EDITOR Robert McGinnis LAYOUT EDITOR Michael McLean FACULTY EDITOR Harvie Eddy PHOTO EDITOR Wilson Markle ASSIST. PHOTO EDITOR Donald McConachie AD. EDITOR Marvin Lamoureux SENIORS Terrence Brennan CURRICULUM Mickey Sanders, Editor Terrence Brennan, Gerald Ehman, Alastair Labere, Leo Petty. GRAMMAR SCHOOL Bruce Chalmers GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADS Rob ' t Skarzynski RELIGION Gerald Ehman ACTIVITIES Peter Guidi Bill Biggin, Wayne Philips, Denis Mc- Namee, Bill Compton. BOARDERS Gerry Hepworth SPORTS Mike Fox, Editor Peter Browne, Peter Miller, John Mc- Sweyn, Peter Durkin. TYPING Raymond Contoli, Editor Robert Denny, Gary Taylor, Robert Arnold, Richard Walsh. DARKROOM MANAGER Don Foran Henry Meixner BUSINESS Barry Patmore John Steele, James Paterson, David Nichols, Peter Nichols. All pictures in this book, except the formal shots, were taken by Wilson Markle and Don Foran. The formal pictures were taken by the Hudson ' s Bay Co. All darkroom work was done by Don Foran, Don McConachie, Henry Meixner and J. Abernathey. The book was printed by Ward and Phillips Ltd. Vancouver, B C. Technical odvice on printing by Hermonn Myers of the same firm. 3
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r ABOVE IS AN UNUSUAL ANGLE SHOT OF THE McCORMACK HALL, RESIDENCE OF THE SENIOR AND INTERMEDIATE BOARDERS. ON THE PRECEDING PAGES, THE END SHEETS, IS A FINAL VIEW OF THE SCHOOL BEFORE THE ADDITION OF THE NEW WING, MACKIN HALL
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