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

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jC ower School Offi icers 1 ., M . r ' -t ! Jr wttk A } % J. . t £ i Hi a I f i | 1 tk k m jfl } 1) || | : (l L r p • 1 1 ™ ■ ' ■ 1 11 £ | J?1 ii mk f a l ' . % X MB tM ¥ W 9 v mm m Back: Bredin, Gardiner, Hutchings, Donahue, Tucker, David, Livingston, Kobrinsky, Frith, Everett. Front: Jacques, Bracken, Spooner, Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Stewart, McPherson, Heffelfinger, McDonald, Campbell. This year has been a good year, with the Playground teams winning at least one game each. A Junior Basketball team has been formed by Mr. Stewart; the judo club has been restarted. There have been many new clubs forming this year, such as the Rifle Club and the Sailing Club. A choir has been formed by Mr. Shepherd, and a French choir by Madame Perrault. As far as games are concerned, the tides have been turned in favour of Hamber instead of Richardson. The new wing is being built and should be finished by next school year. It will become an almost entirely Lower School-inhabited building, providing the Lower School with many new and better facilities. A new way of cleaning classrooms has been adopted, the boys of each classroom cleaning their own. There has been a competition for the grade with the best-cleaned classroom, and as this is being written. Grade Four is winning. The number of boarders has increased from 21 to 31. Two weeks ago the rinks were nearly ruined by warm weather, but not before we finished our House Hockey. The Lower School boarders have intruded on the Upper School on the third floor of Hamber Hall by taking over some of the Grade Eight dormitories. 76

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J Ccadmaster ’s % orewor It has been, to say the least of it, a noisy year. A whole series of cacophonous instruments provided an unwelcome accompaniment to the usual classroom sounds. At one time a pile-driver would punctuate the school teacher’s words, and at an¬ other the din of children released from the bondage of the classroom would compete with the incessant chatter of the pneumatic drill. Such has been the effect of the construction of a fine new edifice which will house amongst other things the whole of the Lower School. This building, rising like a phoenix from the site of the old Lower School wing will enable our fledglings to fly with less restriction. With the old spirit in a new body, the Lower School phoenix will spread its wings once more in the arrogant assurance of its new-found youth, and those who are used to the dusty scribbles of bvgone generations etched deep in the walls of older buildings will gaze, possibly bemused, but far from disinterestedly, at the concrete masterpiece which will then surround us. ‘jo™ ay Back: Hutchings, Fraser, Kobrinsky, Smith, Gardiner, Wright, Bruce, McKnight, Kilgour, Vonvegesack, Lawrence, Squire. Middle: Everett, Bracken, Richardson, Donahue, Tucker, Jacques, David, Wood, Living¬ ston, Large, Frith, McConnell. Front: Black, Cires, Spooner, Bredin, Shepherd, Gill, Heffelfinger, McDonald, McPherson, Campbell. 75

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JVlr. Shepherd Mr. Shepherd graduated from Dane’s Hill College, Nottingham, England, majoring in Literature and Music. Before coming to S.J.R., he taught at a mixed English State School in Bradford, Yorkshire. He teaches English to Forms 5, 6, 7, and 7 EW, and is in charge of two choirs, a Junior, Lower School one, and an Upper School one. He also finds time to help out a small guitar folk-singing group. Mr. Shepherd’s favorite sports are badminton, squash, tennis, and swimming; he likes all kinds of good music from jazz to grand opera, and is a meticu¬ lous dresser. We wish him a long and eventful future at S.J.R. All the boys who last year were members of the Potters’ Club returned to the Club this year. Although we are at present still short of space, we get along quite well. The two wheels which we have are in constant use. We are planning to make enough attractive pots to sell at the Guild Tea. With the money from the sale we hope to purchase a third wheel which will allow us to expand the Club. We meet every Saturday afternoon from two-thirty to five-thirty or until such time as Mrs. Nagy manages to get rid of us. We have a fifteen minute break for tea. All the glazes which we use are made in the School and we are constantly adding to our repertoire of glazes by doing extensive glaze research. We do not use com¬ mercial glazes. We are all looking forward to our larger and improved facilities as well as an extended Art Program. —Stewart Searle 77