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

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Page fourteen YEAR Ait Steumr The first class who have taken their entire four years in Western Canada is about to graduate. For four years the pen of the recording angel has traced your doings at Western. Since your arrival in ’29 you have been making history for us and yourselves. We have enjoyed your presence, your individual gifts and your achievements. You have worked and. played with us these few years. In the exchange of opinions and ideas, in the contact of personalities, you have experienced intellectual combat, latent abilities have been developed and important lessons have been learned which will be of great value in future years. In the faithful discharge of common-place tasks, and in more adventurous undertakings you have displayed a willingness and a capacity for shouldering responsibility, and a desire to attempt that which is difficult. These few years of training have equipped you with a general knowledge and a preparation for what lies before you, be it University, Normal or Business. Confidently expecting that you will some day, somewhere, make good, we see you go forth into a larger sphere of opportunity. Your happiest days are not done, they are only beginning. Your own special niche in life awaits each one of you. Go forward, and occupy it. In your new duties, your further study, you will find something grip¬ ping, and something more vital than you have known here. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. —Shakespeare. pjntuQrapij By K.C. Hast ever had thy picture (portrait, pardon me) taken? No! Well hearken unto the words of a veteran. It is the custom at our school for the graduating class to have their photo¬ graphs printed in the Year Book for the edification and amusement (mostly the latter) of the other students. This being the case, one afternoon I found myself in the studio of a certain photographer. This man took one look at me and pushed me into a small cubby-hole, equipped with a comb, brush, tooth-brush and mirror. On emerging, looking very much like Clark Gable, as I thought, I heard the arch¬ fiend in charge mutter, “Hmm! He’s gotta flat nose, I’ll have to shoot him from the front.” I hurriedly assured him that my mother knew where I was and if I failed to come home she would know where to find the body. This seemed to frighten him for he dived behind a camera and covered his head with a blanket. After a time, apparently reassured, he emerged from his wigwam. “You’ve got a slight squint,” he informed me in much the same tone of voice as that which was no doubt adopted by the g’entleman who Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. With this thrust he disappeared again, this time I hoped for good, as his conversation was beginning to sicken me. 1 was doomed to disap¬ pointment as he bobbed up again. “Your complexion is too pale,” he told me, at the same time turning on enough high-powered lamps to correct Nature’s little slip by providing me with a sun-bum. Having done this, he appeared to be sure that science could do nothing more toward the improvement of my appearance, and without more ado he took two exposures of me. As I rose to leave, he approached me and said, “I’ll have to touch up that negative a bit as one of your ears is larger than the other, and ...” With a scream I rushed from the studio, and fleeing down the first dark lane hid myself until friendly darkness enabled me to slink home unseen.

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BOOK Page thirteen Third Year (Grade XI): Rothnie Bell, Howard Patton, Ella Noble, Elizabeth Fee, Daisy Robb, David Collier, Toby Katzin, Hiroshi Kuwahara, Geraldine Mavor, Margaret Wallis, Maxinne Fox, Mary Agnes Picken, Harcourt Smith, George Bass, Vivian Clarke, Maurice Groberman, Lily Waterman, Betty Colley, Gordon Buchanan, John Irvine, Mary Davidson, Frank Johnson. Second Year (Grade X): Margaret McFarlane, Alma Bercov, Audrey Baxter, Lloyd Smith, Muriel Valk, Doreen Clapperton, Jean Anderson, Charlotte Hoyt, Muriel Harvey, Duncan Campbell, Basil Godfrey, Rhoda Porter, Aileen Macfarlane, Templeton Hugill, Arthur Burns, Dorothy Hutton, Stanley James, William Russell, Stanley Hart- croft, Winifred Chalmers, Tom Pinder, Ian Dyke. BEST STANDING - DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATIONS 1932 Fourth Year (Grade XII): Arthur P. Davis, Walter Johns, John Stevenson, Wallace Joyce, Staave Kruse, Leonard Bercuson, Robert Hood, Isabelle McRoberts, Sam Kaplan, Richard Sharpies, Joseph Walker. Third Year .Grade XI): Rothnie Bell, Ella Noble, Toby Katzin, Hiroshi Kuwahara, Elizabeth Fee, Gordon Buchanan, Maxinne Fox, Geraldine Mavor, Harcourt Smith, David Collier, Margaret Wallis, Howard Patton, Lily Waterman, Frank Johnson, Mary Agnes Picken, Laurence Strick, Marjorie Bagnall, Mary Davidson, Maurice Groberman, John Irvine. Second Year (Grade X): Alma Bercov, Ian Dyke, Dorothy McCaig, Margaret McFarlane, Audrey Baxter, Stanley Hartroft, Basil Godfrey, Muriel Valk, Lloyd Smith, Margaret Humphries, Doreen Clapperton, Aileen Macfarlane, Muriel .Harvey, Duncan Campbell, Jean Anderson, William Russell, Jack Simmons, Winnifred Chalm¬ ers, Maclean Jones. Winter auii Spring By BETTY COLLEY (4) Wind-swept ice, ermine and silver, Silent lay the shining river, Dark the pines against the sky, Feathery snow-clouds up on high. Silence lays her pall o’er all, Save for intermittent fall Of breaking ice and crackling frost; All in wintry death is lost. Rippling tide and roaring fall, Surging current runs through all; Whirling eddy, singing rill, Serenaded by skylark’s trill. Growing grass and daisies white, Murmuring breeze and sunshine bright, Pines light green against the blue, All earth sings of life anew.

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BOOK Page fifteen ROOM REPRESENTATIVES - YEAR BOOK COMMITTEE Front Row—Audrey Bliss, Jean Dickson, Madge Cardell, Daphne Lilly, Dorothy Hutton, Mary Dillon, Dorothy Crockett. Middle Row—Ernie Sales, John Davidson, Roly Richardson, Norton Wait. Geoige Garbutt. Back Row—Rayworth McKay, Bill Russell, Nesbitt Plotke.