Walkerville Collegiate Institute - Blue and White Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE BACK ROW: Mr. Louden, K. Davies, X. Morrison, W. Ord. E. Crispin, G. Neely. FRONT ROW: I. Wilkie. M. Moray, A. Thistlethwaite. (Editor), D. Harwood, G. Croft. BLUE AND WHITE EXECUTIVE Editor .....—... .....Anne Thistlethwaite Assistant Editors — .. . Ed. Crispin, Dorothea Harwood. Bill Ord. Ian Wilkie Treasurer Mr. Lowden Business Manager a Neil Morrison Society Editor Margaret Moral Sports Editors Dorothea Harwood. Gerald Ned) Art Editor Don Richard Photographers -.......... Gordon Croft. Keith Davies Form Reporters Earl Keyes, Herb Schofield, Andy Reid. Vicky Lavis, Fred Clarke, Ollie Camille. Shirley Knox. John James. Margaret Loggan, Xoreen Blair. Page Twelve

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BLUE AND WHITE OUR PRINCIPALS MESSAGE Fur the past six years our country has been at war. Fifteen of our teachers and twelve hundred and eighty-three of our former students have served in the Active Service Forces. We regret that 70 paid the supreme sacrifice. These have been very difficult times for our students because the future was so uncertain for them. Most of our teachers have returned and we are pleased to welcome many of our ex-students back. Most of them call at the school to thank us for the Christmas parcels and cigarettes we sent them. They are anxious to continue their education or return to their former positions. It is encouraging to note the enthusiasm they show in their return to civilian life. It is n ot only our duty to welcome these returned veterans, but we should also prepare ourselves to serve our country. The youth of to-day needs a good education, stability of character, a desire to work and co-operate, and a pride in his school, church, home and country. I am proud of the students of Walkerville Collegiate because I feel that they are doing their best to prepare themselves to serve Canada and to uphold the traditions of their school. (p. 7. p.t- ah .id W. X. BALL Page F.leven

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The senseless waste of war has ceased. We who are young are preparing to take our places in a new world where co-operation and tolerance must be the guiding principles. In the years to come we shall be the workers and the leaders of Canada. It will he our job to try to make our community, our country, and our world a safe and pleasant place in which to live. This is the first peacetime issue of the Blue and White, and it is fitting that we make it a memorial to our late principal. Mr. McNaughton. He was an example of the very qualities which we are convinced we must cultivate and practise. Those of us who have the privilege o writing our senior matriculation this June are looking hack over our five years at Walkervi’le. Four of those years were spent under the unusual circumstances of war. Many of the teachers enlisted: the staff seemed always to he changing. One of our new teachers said that after she had b en here a year she felt like a veteran. Our courses too were affected by the war. Defence Training was taken rather light- heartedly at least by the girls, who wondered whether knowing how to use a stirrup- pump would really add to their usefulness in an emergency. The biggest .week of the grade nine year was that of our salvage drive. Tons and tons of waste paper were hauled on little brother’s wagon. Old water heaters were dragged out of basements to adorn the corridors of Walkerville C. I. The inter¬ class rivalry was hitter and oh. the outrage of seeing an alien second-former carting away our next door neighbour’s salvage! In grade ten our mental wizards were Ksther Green and Sylvia Fedoruk. hut hard-working Norm. Marshall came first in the end. Never will we forget Barbara Bees’ speech on her summer’s experiences as a nurse’s aid. She was the W.S.S.A. champion that year. In the fall of our grade twelve year the students of Windsor took a lesson from their fathers and called a strike. W. C. I. seniors (Miss McLaren was proud of us) set the example by coming to school. Now our last year is nearly over: how we wish it were just beginning! But we know we leave the school’s reputation in capable hands; next year’s fifth form prom¬ ises to he as bright as we are! Page Thirteen