1950 Magnet Yearbook

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T HE MA CNET
The ioso ." " o n e t
This issue of the " .\I ag-net" is diff erent from previous ones for a nurnhe r
of re asons. In the first place, the load is hei nl! carried this year by fou rth
year studen ts in orde r to re lieve the fiith form ers as much as poss ible . In
order to give due re cognition to the fifth yea r stu dents, howeve r. we planned
to have the edit orial!' written by them. and we appreciate th e contribution s
which th ey made.
T he 19:;0 ~ l a gn e t also J,. ';\ "CS more prominence to the academic ac hie ve ­
ments o f our school. J an"is ',; real excellence has always been academic, and
we believe that our honour ..tudents de serve more than a list of names. \Ye
hope ~· o u like the change.
.Another in novation is the placing of pictures of the Form Representatives
among the Form Xews . \\'e believe that the se people deserve this re cognition.
.-\ real effort was made to introd uce individual picture" o f the ,graduating
students. hut we ran in to :"'0 many :-on aJ.:'~ tha t we decided to leave this change
ti ll some future date .
Another year,
An other ).Ial!nct,
T heft' ha ve been times, however, when it -eemed that we would never get the
.\Iagnt·t to press, and it is quite possible that we would not have done :'0 without
.\Ir, Coombs' capable a""islant't· and .\Ir, .\lc Kerrache r '~ helpful ~ idan c e _
A ~ most editorial staffs :'0 o ften do, we found ourselves literally swamped with
mate ria l cont ributed by the student bod)" Xaturalj y. we could not publish everythinii:'.
As a result. we had to choose the 1Il0S[ suita ble articles,
\\ 'e OWl' many thanks to .\I r_Jenkins, .\I r. Staples. :'Il r. Hagen . .\ Ii ~ s Griffith
and the man)- other teachers who helped us so much before we pu t the 1950 edition
to bed.
Fnrtunatelv. we had no mouvv worrit,s. O ur excellent business staff, .\Ir,
Johnston and J,:.:J Yielding, handled 'e,·er),thin,l.;' with exceptiona l efficiency. \\'e arc
ever grateful to them,
To )'Ir_ Carscalh-n. Gt'orl!t· Ma rcus and their assistants gee s special prai se for
their willin,l.;' co-operation in the photogra phic departme nt. Were it not for their
effo rts , the Magnet would 1)1' '-t'ry no ndescript.
Our wonderful typing' ~taff, Barbara Gro,;~ and he r assistants. was kep t contin
ually hu~y deciphering various forms o f handwriting and reprodu cing the piles
of man uscripts.
S pecial thanks arc -ent to Iht, artists , photographer s and wr iters who helped to
make the .\Iagu et possible.
\\ 't. exte nd our thanks al:« to .\Ir. Ge rrv Allen and .\Ii s ~ Irwin for the use of
their offices and typewriter s.
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And so..- dcspitc our doubts and it·ars-ht.·n· is your .\lag'lIl't, 1950 edition .