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their teams in victor y or 1efeat, tryi ng to take each with equal grace. To another it may bring a picture of the un-
con r ol l able t '..lrbulance of' youth that i s det onated each day
by t.he final belL The raucous blatant mob that charge dai:y from all corners of the building eager to escape to various groups and compl ai n of -4-he slavery to which th~v arP. sur 4 '"'"'t.ed can even revel in an ar.swer which they a.ttribute to sheer gte:nius, but which was in reality just a lucky guess. To another it may portray t he beauty and gai et y of' our annual cadet=at~home when the girl whom you have so reluctantly
asked has been suddenly transformed into such an inexplic:~ ably beautiful creature that you feel almost afraid to touch her, and you have b~come vaguely aware of the infinite powers of Mother Nature. But to all of us it means five years of working as a team with our teachers, with our principal, and most of all wi t h ourselves. For of all thir~s to be learned at school, none i s more fundamental than l earning to work wit h and for yourself.
If advice were t o be given to the students still at school~ I would r emind t hem of the small boy who, on being asked how
he learned to skate so well, replied, "By getting up every time
I fell down". No greater lesson for all walks of life could
be stated more simply. So in your ascent toward graduation tru~t 8.'1d confide in your teacherso Do not give up at the
f~r~t obst acle because more often than not it is only as big
as you make it. When you finally graduate you realize as we
do that it was well worth the effort.
There are so many people to whom w·e owe a great deal of thanks, especial l y t o our teacherse To express, our feelings towards these faithful inst ruct ors who have contributed im= measurably to the mol di ng of our minds and characters, I must borrow the words of Sir Winston Churchill when he stated in
a slightly diff erent cont.e.xt. g t'Never was so much owed by so many to so few." Really when vou stop to think you realize ~.-,,.,,, very true this i~o The number of teachers today compared to t.he world ' s popul ation is so small as to be almost neglig- ible, but the effect produced by these few is so profound that it can only be measured in the economic, political and social !llta+-n<~~ ,...f' the country~ I need not say tr.a.t Canada i5 a world l eadero
Now we must look to the future. We have not the audacity to ~ay· that we will be great or famousa Such optimism must be left to thc~e who cannot face realityo But we can say we
have been well prenared for any adverse situations we may meet. As we think of the future a song enters our hearts, a clean healthy song wt t h words of hope that make us tl:.ink not of the past, not of the future, but of dayt"l to come, and we know we will cherish our experi ences here f or t he rest of our lives.