TEMCIKA RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUTH

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23387, 19 December 1945, Page 3

TEMCIKA RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUTH

Future New World Order Prize-giving At High School "A new world order is coming whether we like it or not and great responsibilities as well as great privileges will rest upon the youth of today,” said Mr A. E. Lawrence, a member of the Education Board and its representative on the Training College Candidates Selection Committee, in paying a warm tribute to the work of the Temuka District High School as exemplified in the high standard shown by the entrants put forward by the school for the Training College, when speaking at the annual breakup ceremony of the secondary department held in the Parish Hall on Monday evening. “There are still new worlds for youth to explore and there is still a call for courageous young men and women to go forth and bring back the new order,” said Mr Lawrence. “If we could fill 60 seconds of every minute with clear thinking, we could revolutionise the world. This sorry old world needs the guidance of right thinking men and women, a leadership inspired by an adventurous spirit, clean hands, pure hearts and some staying power. The new world is not to be found on any map. It is to be found in the minds of men, and the call is for the young people of to-day to go courageously forward and possess the promised land of to-morrow. Those of you who are passing out from this fine school must see to it that you dedicate yourselves to this worthy mission in life and do your part in forming a better world. Right Thinking Missionary “The future of our world depends on people thinking along the right lines,” continued Mr Law’rence. “Education can produce evil as well as a fine, wholesome, freedom-loving people, as is shown by the terrible harvest reaped by the Nazi and Fascist system of education as well as by the Japanese educational system based on the cult of Shintoism. For years the nations thought in terms of trickery and commercial rivalry and the world reaped the harvest.

“I sometimes think we are becoming a little careless in the foundations we are providing in education,” continued Mr Lawrence. “Are we equipping boys and girls with the essentials of education . . . the ability to calculate accurately, to read fluently and to communicate their ideas clearly to others? It is not only necessary to send from this fine school each year into the larger school of life young people who can think, but to teach them to think along the right lines. “During the four years I have been privileged to be a member of the Education Board Selection Committee for the Training College,” Mr Lawrence continued, “I have been able to appreciate something of the good work being done by the Temuka District High School. The group of boys and girls from the Temuka school have not been excelled in quality and qualification by groups from any other school in the Canterbury Education Board district. This is certainly not because you have fine buildings, adequate equipment and generous staffing, because I know you have none of these, but in spite of difficulties this school has turned out pupils equal to the best in the province. You have an excellent staff under the headmaster (Mr J. L. Menzies) and his first assistant (Mr G. H. Bowie), you have the material in your children and you have the backing parents. This district needs a much larger and betterequipped school worthy of the teaching it gives, and I would like to see the school with a large assembly hall for gatherings such as this.” Interest by Parents The chairman of the school committee (Mr A. E. Smith) welcomed those present and expressed gratification at the interest taken by parents and friends in the welfare of the school. The school, he said, was increasing in numbers, which went to show that the tuition was good and the pupils had the will and ability to learn and progress. In presenting the dux medal to Ross Swap and the special award for the runner-up to Norma Shave, the Mayor (Mr G. A. Harris) said that the success achieved by the school showed parents that their children got the best teaching at the Temuka school to equip them to achieve any position they aspired to in later years. He had noticed the date 1883 on the present school buildings, and he hoped to see it replaced by 1946 or 1947 on a new building. Higher leaving certificates and the academic awards for the year were then presented by the Mayoress (Mrs G. A. Harris). Cups for sporting events were presented by the Mayor as follows: Senior girls’ swimming (A. E. Smith Challenge Cup) Dorothy Pitt; girls’ swimming handicap (Herbert Smith Challenge Cup) Gwenyth Longson; senior girls’ athletic championship (J. L. Menzies Cup) Noeline Joe; senior boys’ swimming championship (W. H. McMillan Challenge Cup) M. Pentecost and R. Swap (equal); School challenge Cup for field events, Rob Lyall; Distance Championship (I. H. Pentecost Challenge Cup) J. Mitchell; boys’ sprint handicap (J. M. A. Ritchie Cup) Ray Washington; boys’ swimming handicap (Herbert Smith Challenge Cup) B. Willetts. The W. L. Harrison Rose Bowl for the senior speech contest was handed to Dorothy Pitt by Mr A. E. Smith, and the J. T. Smart Rose Bowl for the junior speech contest to Elizabeth Bowie by Mr J. T. Smart. Mr A. E. Lawrence presented the Basil Metson special award for the most wholesome influence in the school to Dorothy Pitt. Tasman House prefects received the House Cup for the best aggregate in school activities from Mr J. L. Menzies, and Miss E. Rutherford’s picture for the Inter-house art contest from the donor. After the ceremony, the audience was entertained by items by the school choir and the two prize-winners in the speech contest.

Prize List Academic awards were presented as follows: Dux, Ross Swap; Proxime accessit, Norma Shave. Higher leaving certificates were presented to Shirley Birdling. Audrey Cone, Eileen Fitzgerald, Dorothy Pitt, John Chester, Ronald Green, Robert Hatton, Maurice Pentecost and Ross Swap. Form V: Malcolm Cargo, Ist geography, arithmetic, algebra, 2nd geometry'; Elza Reid, Ist geometry, home science, 2nd geography; Roger Allan. Ist English and French; Noeline Joe, Ist crafts, 2nd home science; James Mitchell, Ist agriculture, 2nd French; Doreen Cartwright, Ist history; Keith Dippie. Ist woolclassing; Terence Comer, 2nd English, 2nd agriculture; Haywood, 2nd arithmetic; Leonard I Robert Lyall, 2nd algebra; Maxwell Mcßride; special excellence in art. Grace Symes, Ist shorthand, Ist typing, Ist bookkeeping. Form IV: Patricia Hewit, Ist history. Ist bookkeeping; Ist shorthand, Ist typing. Ist crafts, Ist general science, , Ist home science, 2nd geography; Margaret Fisher, Ist French, 2nd 'equal) domestic science, Ist (equal) geography, 2nd home science, 2nd algebra, 2nd geometry; Isobel Botting; Ist English, Ist algebra, 2nd arith- | metic, 2nd (equal) history, 2nd (equal) domestic science; lan Smith, Ist agriculture, Ist woodwork; Gwenyth Longi son, Ist geography, Ist (equal) geo--1 metry; Daphne Hopkinson, Ist arith- : metic, 2nd bookkeeping, 2nd shortj hand; Ray Mattingly, Ist woolclassing, 2nd woodwork; Rona Pitt, Ist art; Raywyn McCallum; 2nd English, 2nd French, 2nd (equal) history, 2nd (e'L'ial) domestic science; John Cartwright, 2nd agriculture, 2nd woolclassing; Helen Coskerie, 2nd typing, excellence in crafts; Grace Martin, Ist I domestic science, 2nd art; Margaret Henderson, 2nd craft, 2nd (equal) i domestic science); Natalie Vemall, 2nd general science. Form 111 ac: Elizabeth Bowie, Ist English. French, Latin, arithmetic, general science, home science, domestic science, 2nd history, 2nd (equal) geography; Naomi Gourley. Ist history I 2nd English. French T

domestic science, home science, 2nd (equal) geography; Stephen Comer, Ist geometry, Ist geography, 2nd arithmetic, 2nd agriculture; Donald Evans, 2nd general science, 2nd art; David Talbot, Ist algebra, 2nd geometry; Margaret Greenlow; Ist shorthand; Noeline South, Ist (equal) typing, 2nd crafts; Robert Ineson, Ist woolclassing; Marion Botting, 2nd (equal) domestic science; Lena Fisher, Ist art; Trixie Sharpe, Ist crafts; Owen Ward, 2nd (equal) woodwork. Form 111 eg: Daphne Jones, Ist general science, home science, crafts; George Hawker, Ist English, geography, bookkeeping; James Pierce, Ist agriculture, art, 2nd (equal) woodwork; Vai Templeton, Ist (equal) typing. 2nd shorthand, home science, crafts; Liela Palmer, Ist domestic science. , 2nd history; Hazel Allen, Ist history, 2nd geography; Joyce Beck, Ist arithmetic; Jean 'Dilbot, 2nd English, domestic science, general science; Keith Mattingly, Ist woodwork. 2nd arithmetic, art; Betty Shanks, 2nd typing; Glenis Bill, 2nd bookkeeping. Awards for tennis championships were:—Senior girls, Dorothy Pitt; senior boys, Malcolm Cargo; junior girls. Glenis Bill; junior boys Owen Ward. Other sports awards were presented to Louise Shepherd, Sally Middleton, Jean Talbot, Enid Smith (swimming), Grace Martin, Alma Smith and Phyllis Popplewell (athletics), and to Eric Robins (swimming and athletics), lan Douglas, James Pierce and Maurice Traves < athletics). Athletics Results of an amateur athletic meeting held on Monday evening are as follows: Men’s events—loo yards: J. Connell 1 R Washington 2, L. Palmer 3. Time, 11 sec Mile: H. Trumper 1. P. Farrell 2 R. Morland 3. Time 4min. 40sec. 440 yards- P. Scott 1, L. Palmer 2. J. Connell 3. Long jump: J. Connell 1. J. Scott 2, K Dippie 3. Hop, step and jump: J. Connell 1, P. Scott 2, M. Murphy 3. Discus: J. Scott 1. A. Martin 2 L Palmer 3. Boys under 12: T. Fitzgerald 1, B. Chapman 2, J. Teap 3. I Women's events: 75 yards: P. Popplewell 1, G. Martin and A. Smith 2 (equal). 100 yards: G. Martin 1, A. Smith 2. Discus: N. Cain 1, G. Martin 2, A. Smith 3. High Jump: P. Popplewell 1. A. Smith 2.