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Times-Advocate, 1978-11-23, Page 17Top scholars honored at SHDHS // “Tonight we are ap­ proaching the next major step in our lives (tomorrow) and no one knows what tomorrow will bring except that it will bury the past, both good and bad alike.” “When tomorrow comes let us accept it, taking the best of the future and bind it to the past.” Those were the words of Paul Van Esbroeck, the valedictorian at Friday’s Commencement exercises at South Huron District High School. Van Esbroeck, was one of eight South Huron students receiving Ontario c Scholarships for achieving an average of 80 percent or more in grade 13. The others were Wes Abbott, Susan Feaver, Rene Kirmse, Carolyn Perry, Eleanor Salmon, Mary Warburton, Catherine Weido and Heather Little. The latter was absent as she is attending classes in Texas. Some of the valedic­ torian’s comments follow: “When I started here, I came with the impression that upon graduation I would have acquired all the wisdom and knowledge necessary for a perfect and happy life. very close together and one does not appreciate the ef­ fort required in climbing them. In the same way those next few steps seem in­ surmountable because of their proximity. If only we' could get off the ladder of time and see things as they are instead of as how they appear to be. But the clock that kept us in these classrooms on Friday afternoons now, too, holds us fast. The learning process, however is not ____ _ . w time’s only fool. Time also back, the first rungs having plays the same tricks with faded from view now look °ur lives. But, last year near the end of June when I began to grasp that my high school days were over, I had none of those feelings. I felt instead that after five years I still knew ever so little and perhaps that is how I will always feel, and yet in looking back through some grade nine texts I wonder how I could have struggled so over the material in them. Another trick of time I suppose comes as each new fact is added to one’s memory, it builds up like a rung in a ladder. In looking TOP SCHOLASTIC AWARDS — At Friday's annual Commencement exercises at South Huron District High School, Exeter Lions club president Don Mousseau presented awards to the top students in each grade. Above, Mousseau makes the presen- ' _ _xx - * -x"“ r' ■ >' ■ _ T-A phototations to Doug Scott, Deb Webster, Paul McAuley'Arndt Vermaeten, and Kevin Glasgow. Kester and Doug Scott and technical staff Ken Ottewell and director Walter Fydenchuk. TECHNICAL PRIZE WINNERS — The top technical students at South Huron District High School received awards at Friday's Commencement. From the left are teacher Ted Davies, Gerry Kading of Dashwood Industries, winners Dennis Preszcator, Tony Kester and Doug Scott and technical staff Ken Ottewell and director Walter Fydenchuk. T-A photo th '**■■■ ■ Looking out over my former class mates I see them mostly as I saw them during the last weeks of school. My impression of them in the four years before that is misty or stuck together like the pages of a book. In looking back I can’t imagine that some of my friends ever looked like their picture in my grade nine yearbook. The incidents which made our years here so enjoyable also seem pasted together like pages. For an instantwe can pry these pages apart and get a glimpse of people with the same names as ours, but we can’t hold these pages apart indefinitely. This is good in that it forces us to go on, to keep on living. It forces us to live for each day making new decisions and doing new things with both old and new friends. Each of these new decisions will take us along new paths that will cross now and again. Those decisions we make now and have made in the past may not and probably will not be completely reversible but they can be altered and they can only be altered in the present. For. the same decisions and opportunities will not hang around while we wait un­ decided.” The Moncur Scholarship which includes a con­ siderable monetary award goes each year to the top male and female in grade 13. This year’s awards go to Heather Little and Paul VanEsbroeck. Exeter Lions president Don Mousseau presented prizes to the top students in each grade. They were Doug Scott, Deb Webster, Arndt Vermaeten, club Paul McAuley and Kevin Glasgow. Student council president Pam O’Brien presented pins to graduating students who have made outstanding contributions to the life of the school. They were Wendy Beaver, Carol Dougall, Brian Pym, Maureen Muller, Cheryl Chapman, Paul VanEsbroeck, Jo-Anne Van Raay, Donna Riddell, Michelle Robinson and Martin Van Raay. The student council scholarship went to Mary Warburton and teaching staff scholarships were won by Wes Abbott, Lynne Mercer and Scott Elder. The Mary Farrow award for the top student in English went to Eleanor Salmon, Catherine Weido won the Beta Sigma Phi award, Susan Feaver was the Exeter Kinette club winner and Lynne Mercer was a double winner taking the Exeter Kinsmen club and Hopper-Hockey awards. Receiving commercial subject shields were Lynne Mercer, Catherine Abbott, Carol Rader and Heather Meikle. Mary Warburton and Susan Feaver shared the Exeter Legion Auxiliary prizes. Awards in the technical department went to Scott Elder, Dennis Preszcator, Tony Kester and Doug Scott. Principal J.L. Wooden was chairman for the com­ mencement exercises. He told the graduates, “Take pride in what you do, do it well and like it. What Thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.” Also taking part in the program were Rev. Henry Van Essen, Huron- Middlesex MPP Jack Rid­ dell, Huron County Board of Education trustee Harry Hay ter and superintendent J.W. Coulter. A DOUBLE WINNER — Lynne Mercer was the winner of the Exeter Kinsmen and the Hopper- Hockey awards at Friday's Commencement at South Huron District High School. From the left imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex vocate & North U mb ton Since 1873 Pag© 1 5 are Pat Fletcher of Hopper-Hotkey, Lynne Mercer and Kinsmen president Ken Snedden. KINETTE WINNER — At Friday's Commencement at South Huron District High School, the Exeter Kinette award was presented by president Sally Snedden to Susan Feaver. At the right is Beta Sigma Phi Sorority winner Catherine Weido. 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