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

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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

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TRIUNE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE This has been the first year that the students have been given a student council with control over all student activities. Being the first year for the new system, the council has had a difficult task but a great many troubles have been ironed out. The council has been a great success. The Dance and Entertainment committee under the di- rection of Terry Skene, then later under Caroline Souter has produced two highlights, the New Year's Eve Dance and the Prom. Music and Drama under Howard Fairclough and then Rudy Marth has produced some fine shows, culminating in the great success of Charley's Hunt. The Sports and Games Committee under Gor- don Kitchen has produced a fine basketball pro- gram and has handled the basketball games with such success that it has largely overcome a great, unforeseen football deficit. Publication and Publicity under Bill Haycroft produced the first Westdale directory, and through the work of the very industrious school magazine staff, Westdale will have another successful publi- cation. The finances of the various committees have been capably handled by Stan Wootton. High- lighted by the Prom, the school directory and the magazine, Charley's Hunt and the winning of three of four possible city championships, this year has been highly successful. Q president once said that Westdale had little school spiritg l think that that has changed. My association with the fellows and girls in our school activities has proven to me that Westdale has an abundant supply of school spirit and willing hands for any task. This fact may be obscured by the immense size of our school, but one has only to join in our activities to see the reality of our spirit. l take this opportunity to wish all of you suc- cess in your examinations and a happy and well- earned holiday. Yours, until next year, -IOHN MUNRO EDITORIALS confanueay MERCI BEAUCOUP No one who has not worked on le Raconteur can realize how much work there is in putting this magazine together. Fortunately, it was not neces- sary for any one man to do it all. The labours were divided among a number of people, capable and experienced. Perhaps the hardest jobs were sell- ing advertisements and producing a photography section. Students and advisors alike pitched in valiantly to win their objectives, and they achieved success. To our mind a person who has gained a place in the montage opposite has made himself worthy of respect. He has done his job with a minimum of prompting, often with none at all. He has strug- gled against the terrible inertia of eighteen hun- dred souls. This person has tried to get essays from people who never passed in composition and 5, . ,N Xl N pictures of people who never felt fit to be photo- grahed. He has pictured commonlace happenings as stirring adventures or riotous laughs, or trans- lated well-blotted scrawlings into neat double- spaced typing. Due to a few mixups left over from last year, we were not given the go-ahead signal until lanuary. Still, all departments have managed to come through with fine work. Our sincere thanks to everyone responsible for making le Raconteur of '49 a success: to our staff, our advisors, the publi- cations committee of the Triune, Mr. Waddell and several girls handy with a typewriter, the adver- tising staff Cwhose picture appears farther on in the magazinet, and to every one of you who reads this article for buying your yearbook, le Racontgurcg-19. 13