IT WAS A GOOD SCHOOL YEAR chapter 67
For the life of me I cannot
remember what class officers did. I think we lead prayer meeting? Maybe! I was
one and I remember planning something with Betty, but 50 years is a long way to
stretch back. I remember more about Student Council. Mel was Student Body
president and in those meetings I learned that I like red licorice. It seems
like we ate those red sticks at almost every meeting.
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“This
has been the year of the Suggestion Box. What has made the difference? Id the
Suggest Box new? Is it larger? Is it painted bright orange? Is ours a
revolutionary student body? No, the reason for the year of the Suggest Box is a
Student Council, which acted on the suggestions. As each Council member chewed
his stick of licorice, notes placed in the Suggestion Box were read and
actively considered. The Suggestion Box is not new; it has been in the hall
beside the girls’ mailboxes for years, but this year suggestions submitted
received action.
“Suggestions
were not the only matters the Council acted on. It had been several years since
CBC h ad a sweater it could call its own. This year, our Student Council placed
orders for a white sweater with gold and blue arm stripes and designed a new
CBC crest especially for them.
“We
will not forget the morning a sign was placed before the Chapel door: ‘If you
must talk, whisper a prayer.’ The Calendar listed it as a Student Council
Chapel. Little did we know that this would be a Chapel period, which drew us
very close to the One who was hanged on a cross for us.
“Our
officers have made a permanent impression on the student life of Canadian Bible
College. We recognize the benefits we have received because our representatives
formed a Council, which was not afraid to work.” Marg, yearbook editor
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I posted a photo of me painting a
banner for Youth Conference the previous year. I stand corrected. That banner
was for YC this school year. I get so confused. I know I got quit involved in
art projects: posters, banners, and signs. I even enjoyed having the high
school kids in the room. I knew what was going on this year and I didn’t have a
clue last year.
Only upperclassmen served on the
Youth Conference planning committee. I couldn’t be there but got as involved as
possible. I loved the way the committee functioned. The committee planned with
Miss A and they lead subcommittees. We were learning by doing. I don’t remember
the committee where I worked, but I dug deep to do all I could. It is my
understanding that the Youth Conference concept was Miss A’s idea. It wasn’t
many years before the CBC Youth Conference was attracting future students so the
Youth Conference idea spread to most colleges in Western Canada and some in the
USA. I don’t know how it was at
other schools, but at CBC the students ran the program.
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“The
Youth Conference Master Planning Committee will meet January 12 at 9:00 p.m.
“We
would like the student body to help us brainstorm. We are finding it difficult
to get team names, which will tie in with the Youth Conference theme.
“There4
will be a meeting of all Youth Conference Group leaders in Classroom A at 4:00
p.m. today.
“Will
all those assisting wit visual aids please meet in classroom B right after
dinner.
“The
North American Prayer Band will be praying for Youth Conference today.
“All
banners and name tags must be into the Registrati0on Committee by noon
Saturday,
“
Mr. Johnstone needs help hauling mattresses from the RCMP barracks for Youth
Conference.
“If
anyone has suggestions for mixers for the initiation party for Youth
Conference, please hand them to Miss A.
“A
list of gratis responsibilities for the week f Youth Conference will be posted
on the bulletin board today. Please check it to see what you are to do.
“Skit
rehearsals will be held all evening in the dining hall.”
“For
weeks before Youth Conference, dinner announcements are almost entirely taken
up with Youth Conference. Everything takes second place to Youth Conference.
Assignments pile up. Rooms become untidy. Halls are hectic. Banners must be
designed. Names take must be made. Bible Studies are planned. Tours are
arranged. Sports are scheduled. The school is cleaned. Extra mattresses are
moved into each dormitory room. Classrooms are converted into dormitories. Collapsible
tables and folding benches replace dining room tables. Group meeting places are
determined. General chaos prevails.
“All
this is part of preparation for the annual Youth Conference held on the campus
of Canadian Bible College during Easter Vacation. Young people of High School
age come from all over Western Canada. For many delegates, it is their first
visit to the college. For others, it is their most important visit for; here
many young people have a contact with the Lord Jesus Christ, which leads them
to look at the cross before deciding what they will do after High School.
“Youth
Conference is hand work and at times we wonder if it is worth the effort, but
these doubts are short lived when we see young people meet out Saviour, the Christ
of the cross.” Marg. Yearbook editor
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I think it was this year that some
guys soaked Roy’s mattress with a lavender perfume. My room was half a dorm
away and you could smell the scent of his room from the end of the dorm to the
middle. He couldn’t go anywhere for the rest of his time at CBC without everyone
knowing he was coming before you ever saw him. The smell would not go away. Maybe
that’s why he didn’t finish the school year. I missed him. He was a lot of fun.
The closer we got to the end of
the school year, the more passionate my roommate became for ministry. He wanted
to quit school and get out there and start preaching. Two more years of school
didn’t make sense to him. He did finish school and returned to his home area. I
lost track of him but heard he did start a church. I hope it went well. I never
heard. I think I heard that he ultimately went back to farming. He taught me
much about passion. I wanted him to return to school. He was a terrific guy..
Garth was also a very good friend.
We hung out a lot. I got to know his parents very well and his sister Karen.
Great family. Made me feel like I belonged. His mom was a nurse at the big Sears distribution center in
Regina. I asked about the most unusual situation she had ever encountered. She
had been called to a women’s restroom to see if she could help a woman who was
in a stall screaming. Virginia was over weight and slightly slow. When the
nurse finally got her to open the stall door, she found Virginia pointing in
the toilet and screaming. There was a baby in the toilet. She rescued the baby
and got him stabilized and then took care of Virginia. Virginia didn’t know she
was pregnant. I guess it is more common that I thought, at least today, but I
didn’t know how any woman could not know she was pregnant.
Garth and I were on the same wavelength;
He kept me from taking the law of the school too seriously. We laughed about
almost every thing. You could not tell it by this picture, but life was good. I
saw Garth after graduation in Vancouver a few times. We write and then it
drifted off. When I returned to CBC to teach, I looked up the family. His mother
told me had passed away. I was very sad.
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