Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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The Headmaster ' s Message-1978 On the face of it we have just completed another very successful year at Appleby. An emphasis on rigorous academic standards has produced gratifying results at the top level; of 39 boys in Grade 13, 38 have been accepted at University, 1 1 have Ontario Scholarships, and 2 have highly coveted Freshman Scholarships - one to Harvard and one to Western. Further to this, in our athletic encounters our teams as a whole have good results: indeed, without hsting statistics, if one were to give points on the basis of standings in I.S.A.A. Leagues in all sports, Appleby will have a larger overall total than any other I.S.A.A. School. These results alone, without going into all the other activities we do - Drama, Art, Music, Debating, etc. - would seem to be very encouraging. While I congratulate those among the Masters and the Boys who have worked so hard to achieve them, I would urge us all not to get their importance out of perspective. No one will deny that it is pleasant to get scholarships, and good examination results, and a series of athletic successes; but really they are no criterion by themselves as to whether a School is in fact a good one. hideed I think that a top flight School should always be wary of short term results; probably results which can be seen and estimated are for the most part of httle lasting value - and those in fact which are worth anything are unassessable until long afterwards. Examination results are fine, but more important than these is whether, each year, students are graduating who have a burning desire to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and who have developed the intellectual courage required to pursue truth doggedly and then, having found it, to stand by it; and whether we have given the great majority an awareness of and an appreciation for the creative disciplines - art, music, drama, etc. - which wall grow within them and will provide a civilizing influence upon them throughout their lives. Athletic results are fine, but more important than these is whether we have extended all our boys to the degree which will enable them to endure physical hardship; and whether we have instilled in the great majority a genuine respect for the body, and a desire - so sincere that it wall last all their lives - to keep it as healthy and as fit as possible. hi the hectic merry-go-round of Appleby hfe do we as a School spend sufficient time and energy on the nurturing of the most important quaUties in character - those which, if well planted, will last all our Uves and will make the difference between a great Ufe and an average life; such as honesty - developing that resolve in one to do what is honest simply because it is right, and not because someone is looking; equanimity - training the ability to keep an even temper regardless of the provocation; charity - instUling the desire to defend the weak and to be kind to all; and unselfishness - developing an innate desire to serve others less fortunate than ourselves. These are the results which are unassessable for a long time - but these, I think, are the important ones. Wherever an Old Boy, great or humble, rich or poor, is patiently doing his duty, Uving according to his principles, and trying in whatever way he can to serve his Conununity, there - and only there - will be found the true evidence as to whether or not the School is a great one. For a school then to achieve this greatness it must do several things; it must cultivate awareness and sensitivity in the appreciation of all that is good; it must encourage in- dependence of mind, and develop confidence and courage to reject the tawdry and the vulgar and the obscene; and it must introduce boys, even while at School, to the problems which face the society of the day, and convince them of their obhgation to do something about solving them. In conclusion I must add the point which makes it all possible - 1 do not beUeve that such far reaching and truly important results can be achieved without the background of a rehgious beUef : for God is the one eternal Truth, and His judgements are the only judgements which transcend the fashions of the day. Hence the importcince of the Chapel and what happens in it. Here, if nothing else, boys can withdraw for a moment and pause to think; here we can learn to listen and to pray, to keep our consciences ahve and growing, and to receive into ourselves the strength of the Spirit which will train our judgement, enlarge our vision, and strengthen our will. For as we are told in the Book of Proverbs; a reverence for God is the beginning of wisdom .

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; Board of Governors A.W. Baillie, Esq.. Honorary Chairman F.W. Baillie. Esq., Chairman W.S. Robertson. Esq.. Q.C.. Secretary EX OFFICIO MEMBERS G. Brooke Ferris. Esq.. President. Old Boys Association Richard A. Harcourt, Esq., First Vice-President. Old Boys Association A.D.Turner, Esq.. Second Vice-President Old Boys Association LIFE MEMBERS The Rev. Canon John A.M. Bell. D.D. W.H. Edwards. Esq. S.G. Fearman. Esq. W.A.T. Gilmour. Esq. D.L. Gordon. Esq.. F.C.A. D.G. Guest, Esq., Q.C. C.L. Gundy. Esq. Dr. N.B. Keevil H.J. Lang, Esq, J.W. Little. Esq. C. MacArthur. Esq., M.D. R.R. Manbert, Esq. J.P. Northey, Esq. D.G. Ross. Esq. RhysM. Sale. Esq. J.T. Scarlett. Esq. E.P. Soanes, Esq.,M.D. I.H.Thomson. Esq., Q.C. R.G. Wace.Esq. D.S.Watson, Esq. MEMBERS Allan D. Baker. Esq. A.W. Baillie. Esq.. Jr. Warren Beasley, Esq. J.P. Bunting, Esq. P.A.G. Cameron, Esq. W.A.Cook, Esq. J. Douglas Crashley, Esq. A.H.Crosbie, Esq. Rear-Admiral E.W. FLnch-Noyes, CD. RCN (Ret.) J.S. Gairdner. Esq. J.R. Gairdner Esq. W.T. Grant, Esq, B.B. Green, Esq. D.B. Green. Esq. J.D. Harrison, Esq. Q.C. J.D. Leitch, Esq. A.J. Little, Esq. F.C.A. J.D. MacFarlane, Esq. J.P. McCarter, Esq. J.K. McCausland, Esq. J.R. McKenzie, Esq. S.B. McLaughlin, Esq. C.Z. Mann, Esq. W.J. Mann. Esq. T.R. Merritt.Esq. R.J. New. Esq. D.W. Newlands. Esq. R.A. Randall, Esq. A.V. Robbins, Esq. E.L. Samuel, Esq. H.E.C. Stoneham, Esq. W.R.Taprell.Esq. F.R. Weis.Esq.

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liil m FRONT ROW: Messers. Manbert. Richardson, Washington. Smith, Dickens, Larson, Nightingale. Large, Robbtns, Berriman. Stuart. MIDDLE ROW; Messers. Rudgard. Josselyn, Day. Singer, Snowden. Mrs. Howard. Mr. Winter. Ms. Gibb, Mr. O ' Leary, Humphrey, DesRoches, Bridgewater. Abbot. BACK ROW: Messers. Bailey. Workman, Landry, Denison, Boyd McLean. Royse. Revill, Francis. Crabb, Shorney, McConnell. • c. y Dizzy N orm The Faculty £. R. Larson. B.A.. M.A Headmaster J. E. Dickens. B.Ed.. M.Ed Assistant Headmaster F. S. Large. B.A., M.A Registrar M. A. Nightingale. B.A.. M.A Director of the Junior School HOUSEMASTERS IN RESIDENCE W. D. R. Smith Powell ' s House. Dean of Residence F. J. Richardson Walker House J. Washington CoUey House J. E. Berriman Junior School House MASTERS D. L. Abbot. B.Sc. P.E Dir. of Physical Education N. H. Bailey. Ontario and P.Q. Cert Form Master. Grade 5 D. K. R. Boyd. B.A Form Master, Grade 6A A. Bridgewater Music Department M. F. Crabb. B.A.. M.A Head of History Department P. H. Day. B.A Head of Modern Languages M. W. DesRoches. B.A.. B Ed English J. E. Dickens. B. Ed., M. Ed Mathematics R. Francis. B. Sc. B. Ed Chemistry W. H. Humphreys. B. Comm Economics. Business. Spanish P. Josselyn. B.A Head of English Department N. R. Landry. B.A.. M.A Head of Classics F. S. Large. B.A.. M.A Mathematics