Viscount Bennett Junior High School - Terminal Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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LITERARY CONTEST The following selections were judged the best of many entries received in the Terminal s Annual Contest. Prizes were awarded: 1. •POETRY $ 5 2. ESSAY $ 5 SHORT ARTICLE- $ 2 3. POEM $ 2 SHORT STORY $ 2 David Tompkins (11-26) Philip Eadie (12-31) Susan Kent (9-1) Lesley Withecomb (9-1) Dorothy Watts (9-4) POEM by David Tompkins (11-26) No title, written in a mood of despondency, very late at ni$it when tired. Darkness descends A quiet bliss Displaces the harsh realities of the day Men turn to one another for understanding and sympathy, comfort But the scum of the earth rise with eagerness To meet the night. Parasites and leeches, Blood-suckers, Their name is legion. They leave their squalid haunts and strike out with slinking footsteps . . a nd guilty eyes • Vj to rob on lonely streets, to kill in shaded doorways, to rape in obscure alleys To exploit the darkness which hides them and the society which harbours them. Here and there a light goes out; • - Soft caresses r Ecstatic delight • - erase problems in l one affectionate spasm. ’ Outside • the same perverted stream of humanity • flows on. -- Day breaks. •. A FEW by David Tompkins (11-26) The people were pushing . : . (! . ... . • „grasping .i; rushing grabbing - fighting clawing falling ’ climbing. ,;;n ;

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SENIOR HIGH GENERAL PROFICIENCY ACADEMIC TROPHY GIRLS ' ATHLETIC TROPHY BOYS ' ATHLETIC TROPHY Ron Stewart Stan Black Peggy Smith SCHOOL SERVICE FOOTBALL TROPHIES Chuck Ross lorne Scott JUNIOR HIGH QI-RLS ' ATHLETIC TROPHY BOYS ' ATHLETIC TROPHY 1 Marion Roger . lion Moynihan

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I stopped and asked him Why ? He drew back Startled Bewildered -i ' Utterly confounded. • ' ■ ■ - ■I: He had never before thought about it. :I left him there, -f ■■ Still shaking his. head --As If he tried to see ■ ;- Throught the fog of habit Which clouded his mind. Others supplied an answer: Security Wife and--children ,. r; - a Leisure Success . ...... r f j ' Money 1 ! ; . ; ■ ■■ ■ ' ■ Pleasure • But I noticed amid this chaos - r A few - f ■ ' ..... who calmly wound their way . throu i the crowd. Relaxed and content, Their faces devoid of anxiety. To my question They answered all ESSAY To help others I pondered over this and returned to my home refreshed. I ' M CANADIAN by Philip Eadie (12-31) Canada and some Canadians have worked hard for sovereignty and unity f»r their country. Their success in the former has been noted and will receive its loudest ovation in seven years when Confederation has its centennial birthday. But the latter has failed miserably and is only now beginning to show any signs of noticeable birth at all. The purpose of this essay is to explain why Canadian unity is a feature of our future and not of our past. One of the main blocks to Canadian nationalism is the language barrier between French and Ehglish speaking Canada. This has led to the near segregation f the hyphenated race— The French-Canadian. These people, instead of contributing their culture to that of Canada have retired to themselves, building an invisible wall i the form of the Union Nationale Government. Instead of integrating themselves with other Canadians they have remained in Quebec making Canada ' s largest province a stronghold against her. The English speaking section of Canada, however, is not as strongly a united [ body as the French speaking sector. The Manitoba-Qntario border is the thin line drawn between two rival camps. West of it, as reads the popular Eastern belief, civilization ends and barbarianism begins. East of it, say Westerners, friendship terminates and the formality of seventeenth century Ehglarxi takes its place. These two false beliefs, thqn, further divide the country.