Western Canada High School - Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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BOOK Page thirteen Best Standing - Departmental Examinations 19 3 1 Fourth Year (Grade XII): Philip Collier, Helen Plunkett, James Kilroe, Emma Ancion, Arthur Davidson, Dorothy McKee, Enid Clarke, Hilda Clark, Allen Knoepfli, Paula Mayhood, Julius Bulshin, Vernon Stott, Gordon King. Third Year (Grade XI): Wallace Joyce, Joseph Walker, John Chaston, Eric Wales, Samuel Kaplan, Robin Hind, Walter Johns, Gertrude Webber, Robert Brews, Charles Sherring, Leonard Bercuson, Robert Hood, Madeline Austin. Second Year (Grade X): Lucy Vanderhoorn, Rothnie Bell, Maxine Fox, Ella Noble, Margaret Wallis, Elizabeth Fee, Harcourt Smith, Jack Irvine, Maurice Groberman, David Collier, Toby Katzin, Geraldine Mavor, George Bass. First Year (Grade IX): Doreen Clapperton, Audrey Brown, Joe Simonton, Dorothy Hutton, Aileen Macfarlane, William Russell, Duncan Campbell, James de Wolfe, Donald Irving, Maclean Jones, Arthur Burns, Muriel Valk, Margaret Rhodes. (In a (Snlfn (With Apologies to Virgil) That golfer am I who once drove his golf-ball From the slender yellow tee—and then issuing Forth from a bunker constrained the pill, Contrary though it might be, to seek the neighboring green, A feat deserving the praise of the gods. But now Of golf’s sterner side I sing, and that martyr Who first from the doctor’s office Came, driven by fat to golf; and the professional’s guiding hand. Much buffeted he by water-trap and fairway, By the violence of his language, and by the Wrath and memory of his cruel slice. Much Suffering too in pride, until he should reduce his handicap; And bear his score-card in triumph to the Club-house. From him arises much argument; cries of “liar!” And proud boastings behind the lofty walls of home. Oh Muse, recall to me the reasons why the incensed gods, Cause this poor fool, noted at home for his piety To undergo so great a transformation. Can the wrath of the gods be so great? —Philip Hadfield.

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Page twelve YEAR 10. JOHN CHASTON—Golf: In Calgary—Junior championship. In Province—Junior championship. 11. RUTH MURRAY—Swimming: In Banff—1st for 50 yards; 2nd for 25 yards. 12. EDITH WISE—Winner of the Intermediate Piano in the Calgary and in the Provincial Festivals for 1931. 13. RUSSELL DINGLE—Member of the 13th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps team which captured the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association cup for efficiency in marksmanship at Sarcee Camp. The cup was competed for by units all over Canada. 14. JACK MOORE—Ex-student. At Winnipeg: Senior individual championship— 1st in the 100 yards; 1st in high jump; 1st in standing broad jump; 1st in shot put; 1st in running broad jump. llrar IBank (Comprtitioua BEST ESSAY: (1) Eva McTavish, Class 4; (2) Donald McLaws, Class 3; (3) Gordon Munro, Class 4. BEST SHORT STORY (Serious): (1) Leonard Bercuson, Class 1. BEST SHORT STORY (Humorous): (1) Joseph Walker, Class 2; (2) Philip Hadfield, Class ' 1. BEST SERIOUS VERSE: (1) Isabelle Baldwin, Class 4. BEST HUMOROUS VERSE: (1) Philip Hadfield, Class 1. PROPHECY: Philip Hadfield, Class 1. APOLOGY: Wallace Joyce, Class 2. ART: Cover Design—Dorothy Bennett. Cartoons—(1) Graham Sexsmith; (2) Ruth Lukutsky. Best Standing - School Examinations FOR THE YEAR 1930 - 31 Fourth Year (Grade XII): Philip Collier, Arthur Davidson, James Kilroe, Vernon Stott, Allen Knoepfii, Emma Ancion, Yee Wing, Dorothy McKee, Paul Macleod. Third Year (Grade XI): Staave Kruse, Eric Wales, Walter Johns, John Stevenson, Samuel Kaplan, Robert Brews, Joseph Walker, John Chaston, Robert Hood, Charles Sherring, Wallace Joyce, Richard Sharpies. Second Year (Grade X) : Howard Patton, Hiroshi Kuwahara, Lucy Vanderhoom, Rothine Bell, Ella Noble, Harcourt Smith, Elizabeth Fee, Geraldine Mavor, George Bass, Phyllis Plastow, Toby Katzin, Mary Picken, Edgar Stewart, Maxine Fox, Margaret Wallis, David Collier, Grace Webber, Jack Irvine, Frank Johnson, Lily Water¬ man, Frances Cadzow, Frank Iwama. First Year (Grade IX): Audrey Brown, Dorothy Hutton, Duncan Campbell, Doreen Clapperton, Joe Simonton, William Russell, Aileen Macfarlane, Donald Irving, Maclean Jones.

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Page fourteen YEAR Site $;ifrtt uf By DONALD P. McLAWS - Class 3 This spring marks the end of Western Canada’s third year in its new home. Into those three years have been crowded so many events, so many successes and reverses, that already the school has passed far beyond the infant stage. The school has met and conquered more difficulties than is commonly realized; far too many to enumerate. In all, it has touched as high a pinnacle and experienced as low an ebb of spirit as a school ten times its age. From the very beginning, the school has had to face great disadvantages. At first it was but a collection of students from different schools, who met at a stone building without a name, a building which was to be a school, but a school which, as yet, had not even a set of colors. Perhaps most discouraging of all, was the almost complete lack of acquaintance between teachers and students; and the greatest handicap to overcome was the fact that groups of students, formerly of different schools, instead of working together for the benefit of their now common institute, entered into rivalry with each other for command of the school athletics. Yet out of this maze of unsettled conditions has arisen, in the last three years, this pillar of learning and good fellowship, already an honor graduate from the school of experience. However, we have not always been on the crest of the wave, nor indeed, on the ascent. Reverses have not been infrequent, but they have served merely as breathing spells for greater ascents to follow. In our first “Year Book” the topic chosen for the editorial was the then common cry of a lack of school spirit in the school. The editorial denied this lack, but this choice of topic showed that the spirit of good fellowship, which is the foundation of true school spirit in any school, had not yet made itself evident. This, in a school a year old, is not surpris¬ ing, and as the editorial pointed out concrete examples of evidence of school spirit, we are safe in saying that even this early in the school’s life, steps had been taken to overcome its difficulties. During the next year, judging from outward appearances, it seemed that the school had miraculously acquired abundantly a genuine school spirit. While not wishing to decry our own school, it does seem to me that this spirit would not stand up very well under close examination, as many at present believe that our school spirit has fallen off in the past year. It is my aim to point out that we are really in a much sounder position than we have ever been before. To those who doubt this, a moment’s thought will plainly show that in no line, other than in athletics, has there previously been more than a glimmer of school spirit. The victories of our athletic teams gave opportunities to express this spirit. But this year, instead of such a shallow type of spirit, we have begun to build a sounder, deeper type, which will eventually be the foundation of that school spirit which will continue to flourish for all time, and which will laugh at hard luck and de¬ pression. And for those who are still unconvinced, who believe that this year opened in a burst of glory which has since faded away, let us go back to May, 1931. The enthusiasm aroused by the victories of the rugby and basketball teams had not yet died down. As the field day approached, this enthusiasm mounted till, on the day of the sports, it was at a feverish height. But after our smashing victory— we walked in the clouds, we pitied students of other schools, we were Westerners! Then the Year Book came out, so far ahead of that of any other school, with the result that our conceit had not in the least diminished by the end of the year. But this year, when the rugby teams did not warrant the student body’s continuing such an uppish attitude, it fell off like a cloak. No, this year did not open in a burst of glory, but rather did it open, bathed in the rays of the sunset of an over¬ whelming ' but fickle enthusiasm of another year. The school’s athletic endeavors do no longer claim the whole attention of the school. This attention is now turn¬ ing to other lines just as solid, but less spectacular.