Westglen High School - Review Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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Reuieu; Staff THANKS! I should like to take this opportunity to thank the advertisers who so willingly did their part to make this book a success. As a result of in¬ creased printing and photography costs, advertising rates went up a little this year, but our advertisers realized this fact and came through. The advertising staff deserve special mention too for all their hard work. They had to work a bit harder this year, but one couldn’t wish for a better or more industrious staff. —SANDY WELBOURN, Advertising Manager. My thanks to all those who were so helpful in preparing the year book for press, especially during the last week. Special mention should go to Miss Harvey, Wylo Swingle, and Marg. Weir, all of whom spent hours at the typewriter. Congratulations are due the hard-working room reps who collected subscriptions for the year book. Room 9, the only room with 100 per cent subscription, deserves special credit. —clare McDermott, ' Assistant Editor. Page Twelve

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Ualedictory Mr. President, Teachers, Fellow Students, Ladies and Gentlemen: This is truly one of the most momentous days in the lives of us graduates; and it becomes all the more obvious when we realize that as yet we have lived a school life only. Now this particular phase is coming to an end, and we are closing one volume and opening another. As usually happens when one finishes a book, we are left with mingled emotions. May I suggest the emotions that one hundred of us are now ex¬ periencing. I call them the three “R’s” on leaving school. First “Regret”, second “Remorse”, and third “Relief”. For those who loved school and prospered there, “Regret”; for those who loved school and did not prosper, “Remorse”; and for those who un¬ fortunately neither loved nor prospered, “Relief”. But thinking more seriously of school and education, we must say that we are grate¬ ful that we are members of a school in a country such as this. We are a free people in a free land. May I go even further and remind you that we at Westglen have al¬ ways enjoyed a goodly measure of student government. Our Students’ Council is really a corporate body and acts as a little republic, with a fairly free hand to legis¬ late for the extra-curricular activities of the student body. We shall ever be grate¬ ful to Westglen for this. There are two factors which make a school great, the teachers and the students; and we, the graduands of Westglen High, can proudly say that the teachers have done their part well. So, to Mr. Niddrie and the members of the staff we extend our ap¬ preciation and our thanks for their tolerance, anxiety, and patience concerning us. As pupils we hope that we too have acquitted ourselves acceptably and that we shall prove of some credit to Westglen in the none too certain future; for though we are not going out into a world of “sunshine and roses”, we most certainly are going out into a world brighter and more hopeful than it was only a year ago. During these years of war many of our Westglen boys have gone into the service; these, our former classmates have on many occasions, proved themselves to be dauntless and determined to win as soon as they can. We have been told that youth forms the main line in this fight for democracy. So, when the war is over, and victory is ours, we, with sound learning in our heads and the democratic ideal in our hearts, shall not, I trust, falter, but shall still be in the front line striving for social betterment. We cannot and will not fail to do our best. Now we say, Vale Westglen ! We are loath to go, yet ever anxious to be on our way. “Press on ! surmount the reck steeps, Climb boldly o’er the torrent’s arch; He fails alone who feebly creeps; He wins who dares the hero’s march.” NANCY BURROWS. Page Fourteen