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

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MR. J. W. BELL, B.A., Principal

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CANADA PRIME MINISTER- PREMIER MINISTRE I am very pleased to extend my warm greetings to the students and staff of Westdale Secondary School, and to all readers of this year ' s Le Raconteur . The years you are spending togetner in high school are primarily preparation for the challenges and responsibilities that come with the end of school, but I sincerely hope that they will be gloriously happy and interesting years as well, borne of you may go directly from high school into jobs; many will continue building in education beyond the secondary , level. No matter which roaci you take into your future, I sincerely hope that all of you will look back with pleasure and satisfaction on the years you have spent at Yvestdale Secondary School. For the present, however, you are all learning the essentials of good citizensiiip: responsibility toward your families, friends, community, country and mankind; the ability and willingness to work together; social and political awareness. I hope that each of you has set a goal and that - n o matter how remote it may seem now - you will achieve it. I especially hope that in achieving it, you will have truly deserved success. Good luck I Lester B. Pearson. Ottawa 19 6 5-

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Principal ' s Message I have been asked to write this message at a time ivhen we have just gone through a period of mourning for one who has been called the greatest leader of our time, Sir Winston Churchill. Although tve mourn his loss, there is a certain consolation in the fact that he lived so long and so successfully and that he has left us so much by ivay of his own example. He leaves a monument in the form of inspiration and encourage- ment for future generations. During the war, by his ability to unite people and make them live above themselves and by his personal cour- age in others he lifted his people from despair to determination and inspired them to set their sights on nothing short of victory. Follow- ing the war his humanitarian efforts in the pursuit of peace have done much toivards world effort dedicated to the purpose of avoiding war and suffering. His great example in all these fields of endeavour remind us of the following ivords by Henry Wadsivorth Longfellow. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. I ivould commend the president and members of the Triune Stu- dent Council for their efficient management of student activities and I congratulate all teachers and students who co-operated in the pro- duction of Le Raconteur for 1965.