crescent heights high school - a history in pictures
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A history of Crescent Heights - produced by the Crescent Heights Parent Advisory Council.TRANSCRIPT
. . . IN PICTURES
1915 – 2010 . . .
BROUGHT TO YOU BYThe Crescent Heights Parent Advisory Council
PURPOSE• To provide every student at Crescent Heights the programs
and supports necessary to succeed;• To give students the right kinds of academic and extra-
curricular opportunities that will encourage them to strive for excellence and experience success;
• To support, encourage and assist staff at Crescent Heights in order to make their time at Crescent as positive and fulfilling as possible.
1915
Calgary Population: 43,000Crescent Heights: 147 students, 10 teachersPrincipal: Hon. William Aberhart (“Bible Bill”)
Sterling-gold character manifests itself in three ways
An absolute punctuality and faultless regularity;
Sound thoroughness and deep earnestness;
A splendid capability and genial sympathy.
William Aberhart, 1924
2010
Calgary Population: 1,065,455Crescent Heights: 1470 students, 81 teachersPrincipal: Arvin Rajan
You represent our school and we do not accept mediocrity.
Arvin Rajan, 2010
$178,000: 2008 – 2009 Scholarships175: Subject awards for top students44: Gd 9 Honors113: Gd 10 Honors55: Gd 11 Honors69: Gd 12 Honors
Editor: Chatelaine MagazineCompanion: Order of CanadaPresident: National Action Committee
on the Status of Women
“She was obviously propelled by an unshakeable faith in the dignity and competence of women, grounded in her own sense of self-esteem, but she ran as well on just the right level of piss and vinegar to wake up some of the boys in the backrooms and to give heart to a lot of women who hadn’t yet found the kind of courage she had.”
DORIS ANDERSON
Member: The Alberta Order of Excellence
“The ‘Friendship for Peace Project’ encouraged teachers and students across Canada to learn more about developing nations. The project promoted an exchange of friendship, ideas and experiences between classrooms around the world. ”
JUNE LOUISE LORE
Canadian Country Music Awards: 13Juno Awards: 7Allan Waters Humanitarian Award: 1
"I have not been selfless. Like all of us I strive to do better. I often forget about the children I've met and sometimes I wish my life could go back to the way it was before I knew about them.
"But with that knowledge comes responsibility. I have sometimes taken credit for good things and acted like it was my idea."
PAUL BRANDT
Western Canadian Music Awards: 1Juno Nominations: 3YTV Achievement Award: 1
Sara: The only time I've ever seen a musical was actually when i was in Grade 12-Tegan: That was Grade 9. Sara: No, no. That was Grade 12.Tegan: Are you talking about Joseph and the? Sara: I don't know.
TEGAN & SARAH
Alban WinspearJohn M. CasselsVictor E. GrahamGary VernonHenry Koschitzky
RHODES SCHOLARS
Member: Order of CanadaAward: U.S. Congressional Gold MedalMember: CIA
“He participated in developing and executing the plan by which these Americans, who were under his care, made their escape on 28 January 1980, as well as organizing the withdrawal of the remaining Canadian Embassy staff. The performance of these tasks with initiative, calm and judgement has brought much credit to Canada and earned him widespread gratitude.”
KEN TAYLOR
Premier: Alberta, 1935 - 1943Founder: Social Credit Party
“Even the strongest hearted must fail, not once but again and again. But what of that? Life is a campaign not a single day’s battle …. There is no real defeat for one who holds on courageously to the right cause. The only permanent and hopeless failure comes through an indifference, or an abject surrender.”
WILLIAM ABERHART
Mayor: City of CalgaryPremier: Alberta, 1992 - 2006
"You would have to eat 10 billion meals of brains, spinal cords, ganglia, eyeballs and tonsils.“ (on getting mad cow disease)
"Dinosaur farts.“ (what brought on the ice age that killed off the dinosaurs)
"I would offer $5 billion to have a Japanese person to come over here and eat nothing but Alberta beef for a year and if he gets mad cow disease I would be glad to give him $5 billion -- make it $10 billion Canadian,"
RALPH KLEIN
Member: Order of CanadaMember: Order of the British EmpireFounder: Spruce Meadows
“Spruce Meadows is Calgary's first-class, world-famous equestrian facility that is defined by the sheer beauty of their grounds, the high quality of their facilities and staff, and by the sheer number of international competitions they hold every year.”
RON SOUTHERN
Minister: AgricultureMinister: Northern AffairsMinister: National Defense
“Mr. Harkness received one of the the highest military honours, the George Medal for ‘courage, gallantry and devotion to duty of a higher order’ while officer commanding troops during the Sicilian campaign.”
DOUG HARKNESS
Actor
“Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.”
“That's why people that have an education, you know, that's why they spend time in art museums, or reading good literature or listening to good music. Because it affects the body's chemistry in such a way that it produces a very mellow high that you can never reproduce with any kind of drugs.”
TOMMY CHONG
& NOW
Then…
Howie Levant (‘53) – Broad Jump Record
THEN & NOW
Akeem Haynes - #1 Canadian Sprinter
(under 18)10.83 seconds
THEN & NOW1924 CHCI Orchestra
2010 Christmas Concert
THEN & NOW
Sr. Boys Basketball
THEN & NOW
Sex Education, 1964
THEN & NOW
Gun Club
THEN & NOW
As You Like It - 1922
The Brick & The Rose - 1980
THEN & NOW
2010: Pat Jarvis
1988: Betty Likness