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Page 2 Wynnum High and Intermediate School
FOREWORD

I believe that the contributions made by our students to the
magazine have again been up to a high standard, both in quantity and
quality. This is very pleasing and we may now look forward to a
magazine in keeping with the fine effort you have made and your
splendid co-operation.
I wonder if we all give sufficient thought to this idea of co-operation.
Do we sometimes pause to consider the tremendous power in this, the
‘oil vital to the machinery of human existence’ ? Do we realise the
extent to which it enters our lives both as individuals and groups—even
as nations ? And are we employing it as fully as we might for the
good of all mankind ?
You do not need to be reminded just how essential team work is to
success during school days. The very essence of success in study is the
co-operation in the classroom of teacher and student. And whema Cull
measure of help is forthcoming from the home, really pleasing progress
in studies may be expected.
Wynnum students know as well as any that worthwhile successes on
the sporting fields, too, may be gained only by co-operative effort.
Indeed, this is equally true in the case of all school activities.
In the realm of employment we find today an increasing tendency
towards co-operation between employer and employee—a marked feature
of highly successful modern industry. Its essential quality here is
realised when we consider the deplorable results caused by the absence
of co-operation—during periods of strikes—the direct results of absence
of co-operation between employer and employee.
We have only to think of the volume of international trade that is
now carried on to realise that life as we know it today depends to a
very great extent on co-operation between nations; and History is replete
with instances of the tragic consequences of failure of nations so to
work in harmony.
It is clear that successful living today is not at all possible without
co-operation in many shapes and forms and at various levels. I suggest
that you give more serious thought to this. The practice of working
together is not something that happens by chance; to some extent it
must be carefully developed.
You should therefore lose no opportunity to employ it fully when
ever possible. With us it must become a habit helping to ensure
happier, richer and more successful lives. Further, a nation can employ
the idea most fully if its people have first acquired the habit as in
dividuals. Most of the great victories of peace and of war have been
due largely to this approach but mankind’s greatest problem still awaits
solution. How it is possible for nations to live for ever at peace with
each other. Would not the solution be mankind’s greatest victory ? And
does not the answer lie again in co-operation—the willingness of man
to co-operate fully with God in the fulfilment of His plan for our
earthly lives ?

THE PRINCIPAL