Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Spotlite 1962

The annual publication of the students of Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Lethbridge, Alberta.(1961-62)pdfThis Book Is respectfully Dedicated To MR. D. S. A. KYLE eWs ANNUAL PUBLICATION □ F THE STUDENTS' UNION □ F THE LETHBRIDGE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE 1962 eWs ENROLMENT 950Thirty years have passed since I joined the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute teaching staff. Twenty- six years ago on March 12th, 1936, I was appointed principal and since then I have carried on to the best of my ability, and now though I have one more year to go until official retirement age, I feel the time has come to turn this work over to someone else. Resigning from this association of so many years is not a sad occasion for me. Certainly there is a great deal of nostalgia, but looking back over the years I have tried always to improve the services offered and to inaugurate new ideas to make the Collegiate more attractive and more effective for all. Students have been treated with honesty and fairness. My aim has been to direct and inspire with­out fear, without favor and without prejudice with the full support of a very loyal and able staff. The Collegiate has established a reputation as one of the most progessivc schools in Alberta, having con­tinually excellent results. Were this my only reward I would consider my years generously blest. But I have known and worked with the students who really have written the history of our school; the strong and the weak, the workers and the laggards. I have known them as perhaps no one else has and some have made a great contribution not only to this community, but across the nation. It is easy to recall dozens of our graduates highly successful in business and industry and professional life, now scattered across the Dominion. With such fond memories around me I am looking forward to home, to hobbies, and to a time of relaxation. Today, educational literature is alive with new terms: accreditation, panels, seminars, stanines, streaming, homogenous grouping, enrichment, acceleration. The concept that these (some very old) will bring a new heaven into our schools is only a deceptive illusion. Unless and until every student can by some means be inspired to do the very best job possible our schools will change very little. Nothing is more frustrating to a dedicated teacher than to see a capable mind rusting away through disuse. Teachers are continually trying to stimulate and occasionally some student catches fire. This is an encouragement to try harder with others. The results are often amazing. A final few words to all the students is that education is not merely the accumulation of facts. It is a time of preparation for a happy useful life. Without it one can never hope to understand people or to appreciate fully the finer things of life. Such training helps to understand the needs and capacities of the community and the need to walk erect yet in humility, compassion and co-operation. Education never ends and as the years go on it is the basis of reason, judgment and optimism. Every­one should lead a life based on and practising high ideals and the only road to travel is the one that at the end leaves no regrets. Life has its own peculiar problems and to meet them no one can be too broad or too prepared. May all the best go with the 1962 graduands and to all good luck and goodbye.FACULTY W. L. NEVILLE. n.A. ASSISTANT-PRINCIPAL K. V. ROBIN. n.KO. ASSIST ANT-PRINCIPAL C. SLGS WORTH O. A. MRS. K. SUTHERLAND B. A. D. A. ROSE IS. HO. MISS C. MACEACHERN n. A. T. T. AOKI II. COMM.. n. CO. J. G. STEAD n. A.. IS. CD. MISS M. SHORTREED O. SC., n. CD. VV. N. THOMAS is. CO. MISS M. CLARK D. CO. F. A. RUDD D. A.. LL. O.. M. A. MRS. M. WILSON W. R. ERICKSON n. co. M.CO. A. KUETBACH O. SC.y0* FACULTY E. L. LONGAIR IS. SC., a. to. B. JORDAN ts. CO. F. SIMON t>. CO. R. W. DUNN D. SC.. D. CD. MRS. M. HEINITZ N. A.. D. A. W. A. REA U. A. J. P. LIC1IE PH. D.. n A. T. MITSUNAGA D. SC. MRS. H. BENNETT n. a. IRS. M. SKELTON O. A.. O. CO. M. W. HOGENSON Q. CD. F. D. SAINT is. A., is. CO. J. WHITELAW 0. CO.. M. SC. B. D. STEED IS. CO.. M. SC. DR. I. WILKINS U. A.. M. A.. PH. O. C. E. CONNORS B. A.. O. CO. MISS C. CHRISTOU O. SC.. O. CD. A. A. RUTHERFORD IS. SC.. M. SC. MISS A KUNST B. CO. H. W. DEWAR O. A.. D. CO.FACULTY MISS E. UNDERDAHL n. no. MRS. O. MACPHCRSON n. CD. Prime Minister Visits L C. /. One of the highlights of this school year was the visit of the Right Honourable and Mrs. John G. Diefcnbaker. On May 1 1, the students of Winston Churchill, St. Francis, St. Joseph's and the L.C.I. jammed the auditorium to hear him speak. His address, brief but inspiring, contained many thought- provoking statements. He dealt with his hopes for an integrated Canada in the future. He said, "I look to the day ... to a Canada that brings together all the races, brings them together as you are brought together . . . Whatever the race, whatever the color . . . equality in this nation." He went on to say that the young people through their zeal and enthusiasm will make a great country of Canada — "the Canada that is strong as a result of all the races combined." Another ideal that he stressed was the fundamentals of freedom which we Canadians enjoy. He declared "Freedom means this: the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. . . Each of us has a contribution to make for freedom; each of us can carry out the God-given opportunity that is ours; each devotes himself . . . to the maturing ... of freedom." The Lethbridge Collegiate Institute should be proud that it, of all schools in Alberta, was chosen for the visit of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Diefcnbaker. MISS A. MICHCLSON SECRETARY MRS. P. KYLLO LIBRARIAN MISS M. BOLOKOSKI SECRETARY Page Five TEACHERS RETIRE Mr. F. A. Rudd Mr. Rudd's entire life has been dedicated to the field of education. He, himself, has received three degrees—B.A., LL.B. and M.A. His teaching record began in the year 1926. He has spent the last thirty-three years in the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute helping students prepare for the adult life ahead. Although Mr. Rudd is leaving our school, he is not retiring as he hopes to continue to teach at the Junior College. Even though Mr. Rudd has devoted so much of his time to education, he has still found time to pursue his interests in world affairs. He is a member of the United Nations Branch and a past president of the Lethbridge branch. Here in school he has promoted interest in the United Nations by sponsoring a Junior United Nations Club and counselling students selected to go to Winnipeg to the annual model United Nations Assembly. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Rudd is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Collegiate will certainly miss this fine man who has come to be admired by everyone concerned with this institution. Dr. J. P. Liebe Dr. Liebe received his Ph.D. in philosophy in Leipzig, Germany, before com­ing to Alberta where he received his B.A. Dr. Liebe joined the teaching staff of the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute the same year that Mr. Kyle became principal, and now has decided to leave the L.C.I. the year of Mr. Kyle's retirement. How­ever, Dr. Liebe is looking forward to teaching in the coming school years, Junior High School students who enter the school shop for the first time with expectation and eagerness. In his spare time. Dr. Liebe appreciates nature. He greatly enjoys skiing and mountain climbing. One of his most interesting experiences was climbing Mt. Ranier in Washington. Besides the outdoors. Dr. Liebe studies foreign af­fairs. At present, he is the President of the World Federalists of Canada in the Lethbridge district. In his affiliation with the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Dr. Liebe has met many fine students and has enjoyed his association with them all. He hopes that he has been able to help the students along one small part of the road to fuller education. Mrs. M. Heinitz The L.C.I. is about to lose another of its veteran teachers. Mrs. Heinitz, the former Mrs. Mary Waters, has announced her retirement. Mrs. Heinitz was born in Rossland, British Columbia, where she took her elementary and high school education. She received her B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia and her M.A. in drama from the University of Washington in Seattle. Mrs. Heinitz taught in B.C. for three years and has spent the last twenty- seven teaching in Alberta. Fifteen of these years have been in the L.C.I. When she first came to this school, Mrs. Heinitz taught English, later music, drama, and commercial subjects. She is well known for her work with the Drama Club. After her retirement, Mrs. Heinitz intends to catch up on her reading, be more active in the Playgoers and travel. Last year on their wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Heinitz travelled to Australia and the Orient. Next year they would like to visit Europe—particularly the British Isles. On behalf of the staff and the student, Mrs. Heinitz, may we extend our best wishes for the future. Pago Six Mr. O. 8. Eritsland Mr. Eritsland was born on May 6, 1896, in the state of Iowa. From here he travelled to Oregon where he attended high school. Later Mr. Eritsland worked for twenty-five years as a mechanic in Canada. From 1941 - 43 he taught aero-engines for the R. C. A. F. at the Canadian Vocational Training School in Calgary, and in 1944 Mr. Eritsland was asked to become the service manager for Imperial Motors. When he began teaching automotives in the L. C. I., sixteen years ago, the shop, situated on 13th Street North, was poorly equipped, but at the present time the automotives shop, which is now located in an addition of the school, is the best planned and equipped in Alberta. Mr. Eritsland has had much to do with the Fish and Game Association in Lethbridge. When he joined, there were only four hundred members, but he has helped build up the membership until it now stands at eighteen hundred. In 1957 he organized a paper for the Fish and Game Association called "The Sportsman", of which he is still the editor. In its early form, most of the paper was done by hand, but now it is greatly improved. Because of the devoted service of Mr. Eritsland for the past sixteen years, a great many of his students have gone on to successful automotive vocations in all forms, including the R. C. A. F. As a result of his knowledge, experience, and organizing abilities, we all owe a debt of gratitude to this man for his achievements. if tt Mrmortam Horry George Lehman Harry George Lehman, a popular student of the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, passed away on May 16th, 1962, as a result of a shooting accident. Harry received all his formal education in Lethbridge schools. Ho attended Galbraith, Senator Buchanan and Central Public Schools. His secondary schooling was taken at Hamilton Junior High and the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute. At the time of the tragic accident he was taking grade ten in this school. An avid sports participant, Harry was a member of the Bowling Club, and the winning House League basketball team. Outside of school, Harry enjoyed playing soccer, swimming and skating. He was a member of the Young Soldiers Training Plan. One of the most popular boys in grade ten, Harry was always seen smiling. He was very easy to get along with and as a result he had many friends in the L. C. I. All those who knew him had only good to say of him. His passing is a great loss. The staff and students of the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute offer their deepest sympathy to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Lehman. Page Sovcn EDITORIAL These are dark days. Never has civilization walked closer to the brink of catastrophe. The grim possibility of a fiery death stares each one of us in the face. The stern clouds of war threaten to envelop us in a third and final conflict. What can man do to confront this frightful force? This state of affairs cannot be conquered by furious and continuing resentment. In these bleak days we must learn to use our inherent virtues — faith, courage, love, and our desire to improve ourselves. Education, the greatest hope of mankind, cultivates these innate qualities. This is the period of our lives when we must take advantage of the experience of our edu­cators. Let us make the best of this by taking these lessons, so generously shared by our elders, and build our hopes for the future. It is not by regretting what we have done that true pro­gress will be made, but rather by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have that we can look our adver­saries in the face. Let us learn how to accept ourselves so that we take advantage of our opportunities joyfully and courageously. This time, like all other times, is a good one if we know what to do with it. P a g * Eight SPOTLITE STAFF MRS. MACPHCRSON AOVISOIt SHARON WHYTE EDITORIAL fiTAFr RICHARD DAVIDSON UOYS* SPORTS LAIJRANCE JONES PHOTOGRAPHY NINA HUGHES LAYOUTS DIANE SH REEVE ADVERTISING CHERYL JONES GIRLS* SPORTS TIM JOHNSTON PHOTOGRAPHY BRIAN THOMPSON EDITOR SALLY SCOTT ACTIVITIES KEITH REDDING FEATURES JOYCE SCHAFFER ART EDITOR JANE FINDLAY CLASS PICTURES BRIAN MANSON UOYS* BIOGRAPHIES MARY LOU NIVEN GIRLS' BIOGRAPHIES Page Nine PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Every year when the school term ends, we can look back on a full year of fun, fellowshop, and hard work in varying proportions. If has been the job of your Students' Council to try to supply you with some social activities which will interest you. The dances, football games, basketball games, and other functions have been yours to enjoy. The most successful of these events have had the support of almost every student in the school. This is a prime requisite of any school affair — the support of the students. The members of your Students' Council, the executive and room representatives, have been proud and honored to serve you during the past term. We would like to thank all the students for their support of their Students' Union. This year our basketball and football teams have again brought us honor in league and playoff competition. The other social functions have provided many evenings of enjoyment for all. We should like to thank every­one concerned, teachers and students, for their assistance with decorations and plans during the past year. And a special thanks, of course, to our advisor, Mr. Neville, who is always a great help. The L.C.I. is a large school and will become larger, but each member of the student body is still an individual and an integral part of the school and its activities. May we urge your continued active interest in your school. School spirit, that intangible but necessary element in every high school, grows only with the support of the students. My sincere thanks for the privilege of serving you this year. Pago Ten MR. NEVILLE ADVISOR JIM WAUGH VICE-PRESIDENT MARY LOU NIVEN SECRETARY STUDENTS' COUNCIL JIM TENNANT PRESIDENT JANET CLARK TREASURER KENDALL RUSSELL VICE-PRESIDENT JANICE KIMDER SECRETARY GERALDINE JENSEN TREASURER Pogc ElevenMr. D. S. A. Kyle In the past twenty-six years over eight thousand students have come and gone from the L.C.I. All of these students have been under the guiding hand of the same principal, Mr. D. S. A. Kyle. On June 30, of this year, he will leave this building, no longer the principal of the L.C.I. Mr. Kyle was born David Samuel Acheson Kyle August 30, 1898, in Kippen, Ontario. He was the seventh son of nine children. In 1903 the Kyles came by train to Wetaskiwin from Ontario. In 1904 they moved to a home­stead. Mr. Kyle went to high school in Camrose from 1912 to 1916. For the next five months he taught on a permit. On July 4 he travelled twenty- five miles from Czar by horse and buggy with twenty-four panes of glass on his knee, making a fine start for his teaching career. Mr. Kyle met his wife in Normal and married her on July 8, 1918. They have two children, Donald, an anaesthetist at the University Hospital, and Doris, Mrs. G. R. Castles. He taught in Laugheed and Wainwright for a total of eleven years, and after teaching at various schools, came to the L.C.I. in September, 1932, at which time he received his B.A. from the University of Alberta. The L.C.I. was then situated in what is now Hamilton Junior High. Mr. Kyle taught Math and Science for twenty-three years. On March 12, 1936, he became principal, and in 1950 the L.C.I. was moved into the pres­ent building. He received his B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia in the same year. Mr. Kyle is an active member of the community. He was Secretary Treasurer of Air Cadets for ten years, belonged to the Kiwanis Club for fifteen years, and was a member of the Board of Stewards of Southminster Church for twenty years. Hanging in Mr. Kyle's office is a "Dedication to Canadian Youth", a framed picture and inscription, which has been his guidepost during his edu­cational career. He has done his best for every one of us, and it can only be hoped that we shall do our best for him. Page Twelve •BRIGHT WITH PROMISE. TOMORROWS WORLD LIES JUST OVER THE HORIZON" ifin-uconfloLAST YEAR'S GRADUATES UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Roymond Allan Joyce Anderson • Jr. College Lynne Benjamin Connie Blackburn - Calgary Walter Blais • Jr. College Henry Bosmon Ann Brcckcnridge • Calgary Marilyn Burnham Mac Campbell - Jr. College Dave Carlson Linda Chapman Mavis Cornock • Jr. College Cheryl Dow - Jr. College Pat Downs Bob Dunn Lynne Easton • Jr. College Kent Elliott - Jr. College Neil Everndcn • Jr. College Lawrence Ford Michel Forster Dwight Ganske • Jr. College Doug Groves - Jr. College Joanne Hedenstrom • Jr. College Dianne Helwig . Jr. College Harry Herman - Calgary Warren Hill - Jr. College Gary Hodgson Lowell Holland • Jr. College Gordon Holt Joe Hopp - Jr. College Karen Jelfs • Jr. College Waldemar Jet* - Jr. College Larry Johnson Paulette Katan - Jr. College Louise Kishimoto Betty Koran . Jr. College Oresfa Koxak Valerie Long - Calgary Norma Lyckman • Jr. College Maurine Maslcn - Jr. College Betty Mcllroy • Jr. College Larry McKill Aileen Mccch Judy Michael • Jr. College Bill Mokoski Jim Moscovich Shirley Murray • Jr. College Barbara Nuttall Marjorie Phoff Russ Purdy • Jr. College Jeanette Riehl Doug Salt Jim Sanford Wilma Santa • Jr. College Reid Schindler Pat Sillito - Jr. College Gail Smith • Jr. College Tell Stephen • Jr. College Carol Strong Florence St. Louis Mike Sutherland • Jr. College Marian Tonomura - Jr. College Elearnor Urch Mrs. Vander8eek - Calgary Tony Walker Bill Watt - Jr. College Gary Whcatcroft Louise Whitehead - Jr. College Dave Wilkins • Jr. College Jack Williamson Kit Willoughby Gary Wirxba OTHER SCHOOLS Kristine Asplund • B.Y.U. Judy Atkinson - Mount Royal Arthur Baalim • Mount Royal Gary Bikman - B.Y.U. Ronald Bool • Accountancy, Calgary Doug Bowie • Missoula Dari Brown • Accounting Tel Clark . U.B.C. Karen Clemis • Mount Royal Joanne Ehlert - Idaho College Lynne Ellison • B.Y.U. Bernard Ertis - U. of Toronto Jim Freol • Missoula Marvin Fritzler, Church School, Med. Hof Tom Hamblin • McGill Diane Hatch • B.Y.U. Don Higgins - Queens Tom Louis • Army Neil Little - Geo. Williams College, Chi. Miles Maughan • Missoula Bill McCann - Army Linda Millar - U. of Toronto Sandra Puzey • Mount Royal Brian Quitfenbaum • Missoula Wilma Rcedyk • Calvin College Dennis Roemmele • Calgary Tech. Donna Rossitcr • Mount Royal Jim Simmonds • Missoula Kathy Stringam - Logan Ken Tanaka • Calgary Tech. Hielkc Visser • Calgary Tech. George Walker • Royal Roads, B.C. Jane Watkinson • Naramata United Ch. Neil Wittmann . U. of Manitoba Ken Worboys • Missoula l. C. I. Rick Anderson Margaret Bailey Jack Burt George Capton Dianne Cook Allan Dickieson Allen Dow Sharon Georgeson Ron Hardie Don Hector Jim Hill Toni McBlane Ernie Lawson Ross McKenxie Tom McNabb Brian Medhurst Dave Morihira Janice Phillips Bill Ponech Heli Randmo Mott Siry Jack Wesselmon Pat Wilks JoAnn Williams WINSTON CHURCHILL Kon Butler Pat Johnson Maynard Roclofs Bob Shippobotham NURSING Gail Arthur • Univorsity Hospital Donna Benningfield • Leth. Municipal Sharon Birrel * Leth. Municipal Myra Blais • Galt School Urania Dong • Physiotherapy (U. of A.) Lois Domier - Leth. Municipal Ingrid Ertis • Toronto Diane Gibson • Leth. Municipal Joyce Gillespie • Red Deer Haxel Holberton • Oliver Sharon Fisher - Leth. Municipal Shirley House • Leth. Municipal Lorraine Jarvis - Leth. Municipal Barbara Keys • Leth. Municipal Violet Okamura - Leth. Municipal Vongy Peters • Leth. Municipal Bawne Rout • Medicine Hat Irene Sakamoto • Nurses Aide Jean Wellman - Leth. Municipal Lorelie Woodward • U. of A. LABORATORY TECHNICIAN Sandra Manning - Lethbridge Herman Visser • Lethbridge WORKING Alan Beattie - C.M.S. in Calgary Garth Christianson • Marquis Hotel Avril Coutts • Ridley Photo Bev Cranstoun • Sec., Cranstoun Accts. Edward Dickie - l.D.S. Mission, Japan Wayne Doolittle • Sofeways Bill Dunbcck • Post Office Karen Dunn - Sharon Ewing • Royal Bank Bob Falconer - Bank of N.S. Sandra Grey • Horne Motors Betty Halvorson • CJOC Ross Hannan • Imperial Bank Carol Hubbard . Bank of N.S. Joan Ingoldsby • Kresges Gary Hermann • Post Office Judy Kandel • McGovins David Kaun - Bank of Montreal Tony Kovac • Bank of N.S. Brigitte Lemke • Oland Const. Lynn Leong - City Hall Charlie MacLeon Bruno Marchi • Telephones Lyllian Martin • Library Mona Matchett - Candy Cone Drug Wendy Murray • Credit Bureau Sue Nakagama • Leth. Sash & Door Verl Ott Bob Plant, - Glen Little Const. Brad Rowe • Logging, Alto. Sharon Sabo - Calgary, Alta. Doug Sandburg • Herald Fred Schudart - Carpenter Lucy Skikiewich • Consumers, Sec. Doreen Sorensen - Eatons Ken Smith • Beneficial Finance, Cal. Ralph Snow • Dept, of Agriculture Marcia Stevens • Stokes Drugs Marilyn Stewart - Alberta Poultry, Ed. Gail Teruya - Gree