St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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J Ceadniaster’s foreword The forecast for tomorrow is twenty below zero. The snow lies deep on the playing fields. It has been a long, tough term. Once again your Editor asks me to write a foreword for this book which will appear when the grass is green, the sun warm, the year near its end and the summer holidays looming large on the horizon. This has been an unusual year — unusually busy, unusually complicated and unusually cold. It has been busy for the teachers because there haven’t been enough of them, and for both boys and teachers because we have taken on so many projects — games, plays, concerts, a winter carnival, science projects, cadets, out-scouts, choir, dances, to say nothing of classroom labours. It has been compli¬ cated by the big building project which has necessitated moving from Hamber Hall to Thompson House and the Gymnasium out-of-doors. The almost continuous cold has made these journeys exhilarating for all concerned. This has also been a good year. It has been a year in which many boys have taken on many responsibilities, and discharged them conscientiously and cheerfully. We have not yet reached our goal of a school responsibility shared by all boys and respected by all boys, but we have taken another step towards it. The boys who have seen and appreciated what we are trying to, and who have put forward their best efforts have not only contributed to this year, but to the success of years ahead. One of the responsible jobs is to record the year’s happenings and to catch in words and pictures something of its spirit. Michael Fox and his staff have worked hard to do this. They deserve our congratulations and our thanks. To those of you here whose time has now run out, I say: “Best wishes for the future and thank you for your efforts.” I hope you will come back from time to time to check up on us, and see, I hope, something of the fruits of your labours. R. L. Gordon Headmaster. 6

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Setting the forms As for Hamber Hall, the old boiler room will become a two-level workshop; changes will have to be made in the kitchen, and sometime in the not-so-far-distant future, the Dining Hall may have to be lengthened. Like Hamber Hall, the new building is a modern design, with fireproof concrete floors, concrete block partitions, and a very functional layout. It will be up to Thompson House still to provide the rustic atmosphere that was characteristic of the school in the dim days if its youth. In conclusion, we would like to express special thanks to Mr. George N. Andison who last May, agreed to act as Chairman of the Fund-Raising Committee. It is mainly through his endeavors that the new building will become a financial reality. The campaign objective is $500,000; at present, slightly over $350,000 has been raised. Contribu¬ tions have come from all over Canada, from U.S.A., and from as far away as Venezuela. These contributions are not necessarily all from Old Boys, but wherever there are Old Boys, and they are scattered far and wide over the continent, contributions are coming in. Hamber Hall — 1956

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