Westdale Secondary School - Le Raconteur Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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I MCMASTER Nivsnsirv Hamilton, Ontario 0 IOO acres ot beautiful campus 0 Valuable scholarships annually 0 Broad athletic programme 0 Individual attention in small classes. Courses offered in Arts, Sciene, Nursing and Theology leading to the degrees: B.A., B.Sc., B.Sc.N., lVI.A., M.Sc., B.D . For Information write The Registrar, McMaster University WELLS PHARMACY KING AND STERLING WESTDALE Specializing in Cameras - Photo Supplies Developing and Printing Cosmetics Waterman Pens and Pencils Prescriptions First Aid Supplies Vitamin Preparations Dental Supplies Baby Needs Soda Fountain Service Coute's Greeting Cards S22 Wt? YOUR NEIGHBOURHDOD DRUGGIST IN WESTDALE TELEPHONE 7-2081 WE DELIVER .I,. --er M. -it

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THE GOLDEN AGE .-,,,- - ..- EDITORIALS lt is the duty and the hard-won privilege of the press to represent the people and their demands. Hs the sole editorializing publication of the stu- dents of Westdale Secondary Schools, le Racon- teur must express the reasonable demands of the student body. The most sincere and reasonable request to reach our ears has been for improve- ment of the assemblies. First of all, let us speak of length. ln the grasp -of the memories of many of us lies a time when assemblies were held every two days-these were, however, only about twenty minutes long: and when the subject came up, the student body expressed its willingness to have a long assembly one day in six in preference to the short ones every other day. Everyone agreed that such an arrangement would be superior to the old one, and the system was adopted. By a simple operation of arithmetic, we find that assemblies would then be one hour long. This is a reasonable length of time: one gets tired of sitting soon after that: and a shorter period does not allow sufficiently for a worthwhile programme. The length of assemblies tseniori' during the first term of this school year was nearly perfect. In our opinion, this ought not to have been cut short. Plssemblies during the fall term featured excel- lent speakers and fine talent from within the school: but most of the guests of the winter term were less capable at public speaking, and partici- pation of school talent was cut down terribly. If the value of assemblies is to raise the cultural level of the students, why are they no longer presented with such fine opportunities to absorb this culture? Of course it would be rude to be specific, but many of our winter term speakers devoted their addresses to the neat indexing of a series of facts easily accessible to those interested. What a con- trast to the words of the earlier term! Indeed, even rocky Mr. Inman remarked to us that one of our fall speakers was the best we had ever heard. Hlthough we are waging a mild verbal attack against the authorities, we would be foolish not to thank them for the improvements they have made so far. It was a fine idea to limit the dura- tion of announcements-some of them were most unduly long. CRaconteur announcements, however, did not share in that vice to any great degree.l Hnd although jokers circulated the rumour that even one's blood count had to be stated if one were to make an announcement, the information required on the forms for announcements was neither too detailed nor valueless. Certainly this reform is one that should be upheld. To return to the original line of thought, may we add that we are not asking for any radical changes in the observance of assembly. We only want what we consider the due of people who have tried not to overstep their privileges-a re- turn to the primary conditions of the fall of 1948, truly the Golden Qge of Westdale's assemblies. -G. C. RETRGSPECTION In Iune many of you will be leaving the halls of Westdale for good, never to return unless to visit the haunts of your teens. Many of you can- not imagine why anyone would wish to return to school even to visit with the teachers that en- dured you for so many years. Find yet, as many of the students who have already left-only a year ago-would tell you, you will often, in the years to come, look back to the days of your high-school career with longing. ' Every season of the year will bring back fond memories of school. The football games at the packed stadiums, and the cheering fans clapping each other on the back as if they themselves had won the game. If you were one of the many staunch supporters of the team you will once again wish to be out there yelling when a hot September day brings' back pictures of a hot and dirty team plodding their way to the goal posts. 1 Basketball games and the dances, the class parties, the canteen, all will return to your mem- ory, along with the not so pleasant thought of exams. But, believe it or not, it will not be the un- pleasant things that you will remember but only the things that are really important, and the things that will always give you happy memories. You who joined in the club activities and played the inter-form games, you will have something that will never leave you and will stand you in good stead the rest of your lives. That is the ability to co-operate with other people in order to achieve a goal. Perhaps it was only some personal thing that you wished to achieve or perhaps it was to win something for the glory of the whole school. Nevertheless it started you doing things in co- operation with others-one of the hardest but most profitable achievements of all. -S. C. ll t-- t 'Z:5'3..h .-- .- ., , ., . . 'ali-1-1-i .'Sf,am use