West Elgin High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (West Lorne, Ontario Canada)

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Special Twardd r Donald Duncan Memorial Shield for English and History Ingrid Kremer Student Council President Shield Joel Kennedy Valedictorian Shield Dalia Andrulionis Ellis Sifton Memorial Medal for Proficiency in Grade IX Carol Black General Proficiency in Grade X shield Carol Stalker General Proficiency in Grade XI shield Anne Carruthers General Proficiency in Grade XII shield Bartlett Hewings General Proficiency in Grade XII C shield Catherine Johnston General Proficiency in Grade XIII shield Dalie Andrulionis Jsn 1 II lemoru of MR. HOWARD TIMSON long time caretaker in this school. Our sympathy goes out to his bereaved family. THE CHALLENGE OF INDIVIDUALITY Give a preacher, a teacher or a politician half a chance and he will get on a soap-box: so having been asked to write a guest editorial for the yearbook, I naturally jumped at the chance. That ' s just so you know how you got saddled with it. Now there is no point in overdoing a good thing, so I shall not tell you the things which one could rea- sonably expect to hear from a teacher. After all, therej is a limit! Rather I wanted to share with you my ideas on the value of being an individual, and I - different from all other Ps which surround you and me - and not being afraid of being different. Psychologists tell us that a person in his teens is subject to great pressure to conform, to be one of the crowd; to act, think, look and talk like all -his friends. It is supposed to give the teenager a sense of belonging and security. What the psychologists do not say, is that the same applies to adults and to children-literally from the cradle to the grave. No matter what age or what clime, the individual is always under pressure to conform to the standards set by society, to the ways of his surroundings, his friends and associates. This is the easy way - to Continued on Page 48

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c ommencement 1963 riday, October 25, was the night chosen (or the lation exercises at West Elgin District High School. he evening commenced with a banquet, enjoyed by .e graduates and their parents. The commencement amme was headed by the processional of the grad- to the music played by Jane Miller. Diplomas then presented to the honour graduates and to the al commercial. Bursaries were awarded to Ingrid ler, David McDougall, Karen Griffin, Ted Varga, rley Lamb and Diane Matchett. ilia Andrulionis, an honour graduate and valedic- 1 excepted the valedictorian shield. Special a- wards were also received by-Carol Black, Carol Stalker, Anne Carruthers, Bartlett Hewings, Catherine Johnson, Dalla Andrulionis, Ingrid Kremer and Joel Kennedy. The commencement address was delivered by John Meyers, a member of the Rehabilitation Foundation. Mr. Meyers told of various instances when this organ- ization had helped other handicapped people as well as himself. Mr. Lancaster spoke a few appropriate words to close the commencement for another year. TheEditorsregret that the photographs of Com- encement were irregretably spoiled by an Accident. L-R: Joel Kennedy, Carol Black, Catherine Johnson, Ingrid Kremer. Dalia Andrulionis, Bart Hewings Carol Stalker, Anne Carruthers. i ;

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QracL 12 C jut s MARY BROWN 1. To catch a ma 2. Organ grinder 3. Oh shuckins 4. Brownie £ SHIRLEY CAMERON 1. Marry a banker 2. Living in the Yukon 3. Quit it 4. Squirrley ROBERT HEIL 1. Wrecking typewriters 2. Fixing them 3. Go fix it yourself 4. Leroy LARRY CAMPBELL 1. To lose weight 2. To gain weight TEtj MARILYN CAMPBELL 1. To run an elevator 2. Get stuck between floor 3. Never again 4. Squirt WAYNE PINTER 1. To learn the twist 2. To wrench my back 3. I ' ll never dance again 4. Wayne HELEN JANOSKA 1. To grow an inch 2. To shrink two 3. Get lost 4. Wenchie DONALD QUINTON 1. To pass spelling 2. To fail it 3. Sun of agun 4. Dick SALLY LEMON 1. Secretary 2. Get married 3. Gosh 4. Sally BILL SAUNDERS 1. To marry Liz 2. To stay a bachelor 3. Come on you guys 4. Slaunders CATHERINE McCALLUM 1. To become an ST. D. 2. Raising Saints 3. He ' s mad 4. Frussie l ELAINE TIMSON 1. No ambition 2. Doing nothing 3. Whatcha say? 4. Elaine