Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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make a detailed study of the school and its operation. He also expanded the hobbies and outdoors programme, abolished sea cadets and introduced art and music into the teaching curriculum. Over a three year period he substantially raised staff salaries to a much more respectable level. He instituted student exchanges with Appleby, Ashbury and Trinity College School and also the Centennial Scholarships which brought us a number of excellent boys. These are just some of his achievements, indicating a conscientious and forward looking educator. It is no surprise to any who know her that throughout these years his staunchest supporter was his wife Jocelyn. It is easy to forget how efficiently she looked after, and frequently made, the costumes for all our plays and musicals, often assisting with make-up and even props. She also ran the Art Club for one year when there was no one else to do it. But most of all, possibly her Friday evening Bridge Club will be remembered by those boys fortunate enough to enjoy her hospitality while learning the rudiments, as well as the finer ooints, of the game. We are glad to know therefore that Pat and Jocelyn will continue to live near the school and that although Pat will be away for part of each year in Hong Kong as the representative of the Canadian Independent Schools in the Far East, both he and Jocelyn will be able to maintain their close association with Shawnigan. We wish you success in your new venture Pat and au revior but not good-bye Mr. Chips . HUGH C. WILKINSON B.Com., M.B.A., M.Sc, P.Eng. Old Boy 1937-1940 Headmaster 1972 - After a long search which involved the screening of over 50 applicants, the Board of Governors was pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Hugh C. Wilkinson as Headmaster of the School with effect from 1 July, 1972. It was particularly appropriate that this announcement should have been first made public at the Old Boys ' Dinner as Mr. Wilkinson is himself an Old Boy of the School ( 1 937-1 940). Needless to say the announcement was received with enthusiasm. After service with the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War, he attended UBC where he received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in 1946. He spent the next 5 years in private employment and then joined the UBC Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration in 1951 as an Associate Professor to develop courses and programmes in production management. The result of this work was the formation of the Division of Industrial Administration of which he was Chairman until 1962 when he went overseas for 4 years on leave of absence. On his return to UBC in 1966, Mr. Wilkinson concentrated on teaching and research in the fields of labour relations and marine transportation, and was active as a management consultant in industry and government. Other academic qualifications held by Mr. Wilkinson include: Master of Business Administration, University of Washington(1955) and Master of Science from the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England (1970) and he is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C. Although not taking over officially until 1 July, at the invitation of the Acting Headmaster, Mr. Wilkinson took up residence in the School on 1 May and spent the rest of the term talking to groups and individuals, both staff and boys, but for the most part, listening and thereby learning a great deal about the kind of problems that a Headmaster has to face in the 1970 ' s.

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Dedication The editors dedicate this bi-annual to the outgoing headmaster, in grateful acknowledgement of his contribution to Shawnigan Lake School; and to the incoming headmaster, that he know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory. L.P. MACLACHLAN, B. Arch., M.A. Joined the Staff Assistant Headmaster Acting Headmaster 5th. Headmaster September, 1961 September, 1964 -April, 1967 April, 1967 -June, 1968 October, 1968 -June, 1972 4 w A ' ' : ■ » ' - 0» 1972 has been a year of change for Shawnigan. At the end of the previous academic year Mr. MacLachlan had indicated to the Board that he wished to resign from his post as Headmaster. It was then too late for an appointment to be made for the year 1971 - 72 and so Mr. MacLachlan remained in the chair while the Board of Governors began their search for a new Headmaster. Then in March 1972 Mr. MacLachlan was given leave by the Board and the Rev. VV.H.H. McClelland was appointed Acting Headmaster. This position lie filled until Mr. MacLachlan returned at the end of June in time for Speech Day. In 1961 Pat MacLachlan was asked by Ned Larsen, Headmaster at the time, to leave his architectural job in Rhodesia and join the staff of Shawnigan Lake School. He accepted, and thus renewed the friendship begun nearly ten years earlier when both were graduate students at Oxford, Pat as a Rhodes Scholar and Ned on an I.O.D.E. Scholarship. It was soon clear by the way Pat plunged deeply into the life at the school that Ned Larsen knew his man. Many will now have forgotten that he taught geography in addition to mathematics in the first year; he also started a most successful italic script writing class lor those boys whose writing was completely illegible. In addition he became the Librarian for two years. Outside the Common Room he took part in all the musicals, either in a minor role or in the chorus, played in the band as well as being most active coaching rugby, cricket, hockey, tennis or soccer as the season demanded, perhaps not too surprising for an Oxford ' blue ' , and Scottish Rugby International. Furthermore his architectural background and training frequently was put to the test, nowhere more successfully than in the conversion of the Big School into what we now know as a most attractive Library; while numerous time-tables, notices and Headmaster ' s Honours Lists attest to his skill as a draughtsman. It was these traits of dedication, hard work, versatility and cheerful willingness that prompted his appointment as Assistant Headmaster in 1964 and this proved a happy and productive partnership until Ned Larsen ' s resignation in April 1967. Pat then became Acting Headmaster, a position he held until the end of the following academic year when in October 1968, he was appointed Headmaster. There is no doubt that his time as headmaster coincided with what has been perhaps the most difficult five years experienced by secondary schools in the history of education. A period of rapid change affecting the moral fibre of our youth with the drug scene, student rebellions, educational innovations (many born of panic), changes in dress, deportment, manners and morals, not to mention the rising cost oi education itself. No school in North America was unaffected by this. Many were forced to close their doors. Pat soon realised that Shawnigan must modify its position if it were to keep on attracting the kind of boys we needed, and to this end he invited an educational group to

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Shawnigan Lake School Staff 1971-72 L.P. MacLachlan, B.Arch., M.A. 1971-73 Headmaster 1972-73 H.C. Wilkinson, B.Com., M.B.A., M.Sc,P.Eng. Chaplain and Assistant Headmaster The Rev. W.H.H. McClelland, M.B.E., M.A . Registrar G.L. Anderson B.A. Director of Admissons D.W.Hyde-Lay, P.T.I. , E.T.C. HOUSEMASTERS Copeman ' s D.W. Hyde-Lay, P.T.I., E.T.C. Groves ' K.J. Hickling R.A. Hudspith, B.Sc, B.Ed. PJ.Kearns, M.A. Lake ' s G.L. Anderson, B.A. Lonsdale ' s The Rev. W.H.H. McClelland, M.B.E., M.A. R. Benton, M.A. W.J. Dowd, M.A. , B.Ed. R.A. Hudspith, B.Sc, B.Ed. E.W.Nolan, M.A. R.C. Smith, B.A. Mr. J. Hilton Ripley ' s J.S. Grey, Cert, of Ed., Teachers Cert. Assistant Masters T.L. Brierley I.C. Borrowman, M.A., Cert. Ed. R.G.Cooper, L.L.C.M. J.H. Dixon, B.Sc, Cert. Ed. J. Gotthardt, M.A., M.S. R.I. McLean, M.A. W.R.Salmon, B.A. ADMINISTRATION Bursar Mr. D.M. Ferguson Headmaster ' s Secretary Miss M. Clunas Secretary Mrs. J. Hopton Nurse Mrs. H. Pearson Gardener Mr. B. Dinter Caterer Mr. N. McGe e Maintenance Mr. S. Wallington M.W.Mitchell, B.Sc, Ph.D. J. Navey, Hons. B.A., M.A. Cert, de Phonetique Practique C.W. Noble, B.A. K. Sartini, Hons. B.A. R.St.J. Stuart, B.S. Prof. Cert, of Ed. Mr. N. Middleton 8