Winkler Collegiate Institute - Collegian Yearbook (Winkler, Manitoba Canada)

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JH, essacji ronr Ole 35 ivision Ol airman I would like to congratulate the Grade XII students who will be graduating from our Collegiate this year. It has been a pleasure having you attend our school and the members of the Garden Valley School Division board join me in wishing you God’s blessing as you pursue further studies or choose your life’s work. A special word of appreciation goes to all students this year for the co-operation and understanding you have extended to the staff and board. The crowded and inadequate facilities you had to contend with certainly tested your devotion and dedication to the cause of education. As I write this brief message, information has just come to the Garden Valley School Division that an approval by the Department of Education has been granted to build a 56-classroom-count Collegiate. We are looking forward to supplying the young people of this division with adequate and modern school fa¬ cilities. This new school plant will allow for a greater diversification of courses and will thus give a much wider choice to the individual student. We believe that the young people of our division should have the best education opportunities to pre¬ pare them for life. May we all be found faithful stewards of our time, talent and opportunities as we enter this new era of High School education in our community. H. F. WIEBE 3

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It gives me great pleasure to have the privilege of contributing a brief message for your Yearbook. Every individual, irrespective of social position, age, sex, race, creed, or religion, seeks after happiness — each finding it in different measure in different things. Often this quest is long and tedious; requiring a great deal of preparation, groping, experimenting, participating in various activities — some of which result in feelings of having achieved success and others in failures and frustration. But such is life — it can’t be, shall we say, all strawberries and cream, a joy ever-present. We have to take the bad with the good. If there was no bad how would we recognize that which is good and desirable? Regularly, and frequently, it is wise to pause in retrospect and introspect in order to evaluate one’s many ideas, ideals, and activities. Some of your activities have been primarily for recreational purposes, some for educational, and some for both. Your Yearbook, which is a tribute to the student body, required much planning and work but it was also a source of enjoyment and satisfaction. The pleasures that each will derive will increase as the years pass. As you enter fields of occupations, vocations, and professions for which you are preparing and will continue to improve your qualifications you will realize more and more the value of the things you were required to do — things which then were a drudgery. You may even remark — I wish I had done those things which I ought to have done and left undone, those things which I was ad¬ vised not to do. I have great faith in the Youth of our Great Country. You have inimitable opportunity for SUCCESS. Successful in terms of Henry Ford who said, “Success is a matter of adjusting one’s efforts to obstacles and one’s abilities to a service needed by others. Most people think of it in terms of getting. Success Begins in Terms of Giving.” May God bless you with illimitable opportunities to give generously of the best that is in you to make your Alma Mater and your Community one of the best in the country. Sincerely, JOHN CHALATURNYK 5