The Citizen, 1991-07-03, Page 15^2
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3,1991. PAGE 15.
_ East ‘Wazuanosh ‘Public Sc boob______________
Valedictorian speech says life’s just beginning
East Wawanosh Class of '91
Graduation ceremonies were held for East Wawanosh
Public School Monday, June 24. Members of the
graduating class are: (front row, left to right) Sabrena
Black, Nancy Darlow, Marilyn MacLean, Margie Gordon,
Jennifer Cucksey, Julie Elston, April Kroetsch, Grace
Carmichael; (second row) Jayne Vincent, Aaron Barnes;
Greg Young, Steven Wray, Jason Evans, Wayne Baxter,
Rowan Kerr, Kevin Martin, Dixie Embling; (back) Jason
Stein, Jim Piluke, Aaron Coultes, Andrew Cull, Kris
Kreiger, Shawn Walker, Ray Martin, Collin Campbell and
Darryl Marks, -photo by Harvey McDowell.
BY JAYNE VINCENT
On behalf of the 1990/91 grade 8
graduating class I would like to
welcome the teachers, parents and
other guests.
This is a very important evening
for everyone here tonight, whether
we are teachers, parents or gradu
ates. We students have just finished
our grade 8 year, yet our lives have
barely begun. We do not know
what the future will hold for us, but
our past experiences at East
Wawanosh have given us many
fond memories to look back upon.
We began our first year of educa
tion in Kindergarten with Mrs. Hes-
sels and Mrs. Readman as our
teachers. Being a very large class,
we were split in January of that
year. This did not give us much of
a chance to get to know all of our
classmates, but we all teamed up
again in grade 1 with Mrs. Brydges.
Grade 1 was a great learning expe
rience for us all - learning our math
facts and how to read and print.
Mrs. Bosman also gave us a good
footing in Grade 2 for the rest of
our school years.
Entering grade 3 was very excit
ing as we prepared ourselves for
lots of learning and hard work.
Although the work was hard, Mr.
Medd often made it fun by having
contests and games to encourage
us.
Going into grade 4, we wel
comed our new principal Mr. Scott
who also had the privilege of hav
ing us as his first class at East
Wawanosh to leach along with
Madame Turcotte.
Mr. Scott taught us again in
grade 5 with the high spirited and
very peppy Mrs. Simpson!
In grade 6 we greeted a new
teacher, Mrs. Thorpe. With her
being new and all we thought we
could get away with anything, but
we quickly found out that misbe
having caused long, strenuous
hours of dictionary work, and
incorrect usage of words resulted in
our being "canned" at the end of
the year.
Our grade 7 year brought with it
some disappointment as we were
split up for the entire year. It also
opened the door to a new area of
education where we had the oppor
tunity of going into the high school
every Thursday morning to Design
and Technology as well as Family
Studies.
As grade 8 approached, high
school started to become more and
more of a reality. Our grade 8 year
has passed by so fast! I think most
of the graduates will agree that this
has been our most memorable year
at East Wawanosh. Some examples
of memorable moments were when
Mr. Bartlett's worst nightmare
came true in the middle of a lesson.
If that was his worst nightmare,
then I don't know what taking us on
an overnight camping trip was.
During the night we had a few
unexpected visitors that got into
our food and a couple of students
found out that raccoons lake
revenge on those who chase them
up trees.
Throughout these nine years, we
have had friends that have come
Jane Vincent
and friends that have left, but
somehow we have all managed to
stick together.
Every graduate has made a spe
cial achievement here tonight, for
we have graduated. This is due not
only to our own effort, time and
hard work but that of our parents
and teachers. Il was greatly appre
ciated when you made us strive for
our best when we would have
rather quit and when you showed
tolerance and a good sense of
humor on those days that you
thought we were hopeless and
would rather have given up on us!
What I think wc have learned
throughout our years at East
Wawanosh is a lol more than wc
could have ever learned from any
text book. We, the graduates did
not only learn the alphabet, our
math facts and how to spell, but wc
learned how to accept people for
what they are and not what wc
want them to be.
Now as we receive our diploma
that stales we have successfully
graduated, I'd just like to say that I
hope every graduate's wishes,
hopes and goals arc fulfilled in the
near future.
Sec you in high school!
Congratulations &
Best Wishes
From
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