Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Junior School House In September we welcomed seven new boys: Tom Benson, brother to Bill and Geoff: Chris King, cousin to Bill; Evan Wood, brother to Nick and Chris. Lawrence McNally from Oakville, Robby Schneider from Acton, Kurt Mull from Burlington and Jamie Mairs from the tropical Cayman Islands. This brought our numbers to 24 of whom 14 were in grade 8. Of these, Chris Chapman and Peter Wendling were the two longest serving members in the house in recent years, and Jim Vernon, Andrew Crawford- Brown, John New and Peter Senst had travelled right through the Junior School from grade 4. The presence of so many senior boys naturally gave a predominantly grade 8 flavour to the year which was certainly different and distinctive. I respect however that the younger members are looking forward to next year when the balance should swing right their way again. The prospect of having to abandon ship to the renovators after the March break gradually faded during the year, and both the dormitory and the four bedder took on a bright and colourful aspect as posters and models decorated the end walls and shelves. Many activities helped to fill our leisure time with the Zoo continuing to play a prominent part in the lives of many boys. Saturday night expeditions to the Movies or MacDonalds were organized by many staff members and Mr. Boyd. Winter tobogganning and cross-country skiing were part of an afternoon at Bronte Park with Mr. Berriman. The Spring brought two highly successful trips, one to see the 4

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6B FRONT ROW: Hendry. Harding, Mull 3, Edgecombe, Petersen, Orr-McAuley. MIDDLE ROW: Dawood, Gardner 2, Hayes, Sorokolit 2, Henderson, Merry. BACK ROW: Mr. Shorney, Schuring, Seferian, Batty, Cooper, Bascombe. FRONT ROW; Aitken, Jaworski. Pamenter. Schneider, P. Mann. Archer 2. MIDDLE ROW: Stacey. G. Mann. McDougall, Follows 3, Matthews. Hunter. Skinner. L. An- derson. BACK ROW: Mairs. Becker. McKenna. Kendall. Shaw. Anderson 3. . FRONT ROW: Bharr. H. Mann. Jelinek. MacLennan. Jones. BACK ROW: Davidson, Bullen. Garrod. Manning. Lee 2, Farlinger, Mr. Workman.

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Blue Jays beat Boston, and the other a farewell night out for all grade 8 ' s to Burlington Bowl. Quote of the year has to go to Chris King who, wishing to avoid an inspection of the chest of drawers in the cubicle asked Mr. Berriman if he would please drop the drawers . An attempt to start an aero- modelling club was not successful due to the lack of time late in the year, and the complicated structure of the planes bought by the boys. This activity wrill start early next year with a totally new kind of model as standard to begin with. In complete contrast with the Rocket Club which had nimierous highly successful launches throughout the year and in which the boarders were prominent. Mr. Boyd however must take last word as the builder of the incredible Mean Machine. He tells me he plans a three tier three D powered machine of his own design for next season. My wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed this year vdth all its ups and downs, and in saying goodbye to two-thirds of the house at one go, we look forward to an exciting new start in the fall. Mr. Berriman