Glued to the same piece of graph paper as the photograph is a typed copy of Jill Cooke's Valedictorian speech: "Jill Cooke - Valedictorian Good evening Mr. Chairman, teachers, parents, the graduates of 1942 and all friends. About 3 months ago, Ms. Blakely approached me in the hallway to inform me that I was the valedictorian and I was to make a speech. For several weeks I thought about what to say and nothing came to me. Then one evening I pulled out the old dictionary and looked up the word "valedictory". It said "saying farewell." In this school the valedictory speech is given by the person with the highest average. But really, that has nothing to do with it. It just decides who is lucky enough to say farewell. On behalf of the class of 1991, I would like to thank the parents, whose love and encouragement gave us strength throughout the years. Our parents loved us no matter what we did. Every so often a unique child is born. These unusual children grow up to be teachers. Since my father is a teacher, I understand the patience it takes to spend long hours in the class room. Everyone has a particular teacher or class that they will always remember and those they will gladly forget. There were some memorable and inspiring classes. Can you believe only two teachers on the staff are Canadiens fans? There are also teachers who have memory problems. There was one teacher in particular who could not remember what class he was teaching. Hey, Grads, does this sound familiar? "is this algebra or trig?" Graduation is a time that makes us stop and think about past school days. Like the very first day of school. Ever since that very first day of school we have grown up together, cried together, laughed together and unfortunately, fought with each other. Remember the grade nine camping trip in Cypress? We did a lot of things on that trip including collapsing the tent of Navajo Joe, also known as Mr. Schmeiser. A good friend is a very rare thing. These people are always there for us they accept everything about us. As we all go our separate ways we will lose touch so I ask the grads to stay in touch with each other. So on this golden anniversary, I would like to wish the grads the best of luck in the future. Let's knock 'em dead!!!!!!!!!!"