Vaughan Road Academy - Acta Studentium Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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mg.-s .xc'i'A s'rt'D1cNT1UM 4DllIllR llE3llRlllllNll4l3llllIlDAlll99S MESSAGE . . . by Principal G. E. Evaazx, fltlael., B.Paed. HE school year is drawing rapidly to a close and once more we come to the time when Acta Studentium goes to press. It is in one way especially oppor- tune that our magazine should be published in May as only then can anything like a complete picture of the year's activities be given. During 1954-5 our program has been, as usual, many-sided and extensive, and the achievements in all depart- ments have been many. ln the tirst place, our enrolment is the highest in our history. Several years ago it seemed that the building was holding all the students it could accommodate but with the addition of a certain measure of staggering to our organization we have managed to crowd another hundred or two into the already crowded classrooms. This has meant an increased load per teacher so that today we are asking each member of the Staff to handle from twenty or thirty percent more students than three or four years ago. School is running continuously from 8.40 a.m. till 4.10 p.m. each day. The adjustments of time-table have involved both teachers and students in a certain measure of inconvenience but all have realized the need of these adjustmnts and have co-operated in a splendid fashion to maintain the smooth operation of our organization. As for the future, I can foresee even more drastic requirements if we are to be able to provide instruction for the students of this district within the limits of our present accommodation. I am sure, however, that the necessary co-operation will be forthcoming to make it possible to maintain our school on the high level of scholarship and achievement to which it has attained. In the second place, in spite of the handicap of a longer school day the usual routine of extra-curricular activities has been carried through with pre-eminent success. Our operetta this year was up to the high standard of other years and met with wide approval from those privileged to see it. In athletics wheth-er in Rugby, gymnastics, basketball or track and held our students have shown pre-eminence. The outstanding event, of course, was the selection of jim Homer as Captain of the Canadian Track team visiting Australia. This has carried the name of Vaughan Road clear across Canada to the antipodes nd beyond. Then I must mention the fact that Mac Keith has won provincial honours in the field of gym- nastics. For the second year in succession our rugby teams have won a double championship. Our programme of interform games and competitions has included all the major sports and has given opportunities of no mean order to every boy and

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ACTA STUDENTIIIM Page9 girl in this school to participate in organized games. The Girls' Club have also been active having achieved especial success in the social service program at Christ- mas time. Our debating schedules have been more extensive than ever and this year our team has won first place among the Collegiate Institutes and High Schools of York County. In all these departments and many others of which space forbids the mention outstanding merit has been won for the school. It remains to be seen whether our pupils will. win scholastic success as well. But, if the record of other years is any gage, I am confident that that high record will be maintained and that the vast majority of the students will win good stand- ing in the june examinations. Further, I must refer to the very harmonious rela- tions which on the whole have prevailed among the students and their teachers. That so much concentrated and prolonged effort could be made on the part of so many with such smoothness and harmony is deserving of a high tribute indeed. It is my hope that all our students may have learned by their stay in Vaughan Road only that which will contribute most to the upbuilding of character and usefulness. In conclusion I should like to refer to the fact that all loyal citizens of the British Empire are vieing with one another to do honour to His Majesty King George Y. The youth of our country recognize in him a lofty nobility of character and a high standard of usefulness which our patriotic zeal teaches us to emulate. I am sure I speak for all in the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute in pledging on behalf of us all a d-eep abiding loyalty to those principles of manhood, service, and freedom and to those forces of peace. and goodwill for which His Majesty has ever stood and in which he is so perfectly our example. .....g.3Qj,g,.... TO-MORROW To-day may be gloomy and leaden. VVith clouds that go sullenly by. Like convicts whose memories deaden, Or outcasts whose memories die. The present may bring some gray sorrow. Some swampland through which we must grope. But ever the hand of to-morrow Is painting a landscape of hope. The past may arise in our slumber- The past with its pitiful scroll. Its human mistakes without number, Its slips and their merciless toll- The past with its revels, its whirling Of day and delirious night: To-morrow is ever unfurling A page that is spotless and white. The past? It is gone with its sorrow. The present? It flits like a wraith. And ever we bow to-morrow, The shrine of our hope and our faith. The past cannot loan if we borrow. The present is dancing away, But dreams of a spotless to-morrow Will whiten the page of to-day. N, Wifzter, II'-B