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

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Ediioud.. HEROES ARE BORN, NOT MADE” As editor of the yearbook one of my responsibilities is to write the editorial for the Eagle. I have been trying to write one for weeks; today is the deadline and dead¬ lines must be met even by editors. The Eagle room is in the basement of the gymnasi¬ um; as a matter of fact my desk is many feet below the predicted crest of the Red River this year, and at the moment there does not seem to be much chance of the Red River not coming into this very room in a short time. A few weeks ago Mr. Gordon, in his Sunday Chapel talk, spoke about the flood emergency. In so doing he developed his thesis that in times of emergency some people shine forth as heroes and others do not. He spoke of the fact that when heroes do emerge it is not by accident but because they have had within them that potential all their lives. It takes an emergency to bring that potential out. I think that I would not shine forth; at the moment if the Red River did come in here, I would not have to finish putting together the Eagle. However, I hear rumours that Euclids are to be brought in and that our dykes are to be raised to thirty feet. Instead of a massive sandbagging operation by the dayboys and weekly boarders through the holidays, we will have to build a dyke of sandbags only where the machines cannot operate. To many of us has come the realization that this action may save our school. But this has not been the only time when SJR has needed to be saved and it will not be the last. When the emergencies arise in the life of St. John’s-Ravenscourt will we be heroes or cowards? About a month ago we had a blizzard on a Friday. It soon became apparent that the weekly boarders could not go home on Friday afternoon as usual. Those who stamped their feet and bullied their parents over the telephone about not being able to get to the Winter Club, were not made of the stuff of heroes. But fortu¬ nately heroes did emerge and school went on as usual — or as usual as it could with no dayboys and half a staff. During the recent production of Murder in the Cathedral heroes emerged; despite a major flu epidemic, a blizzard and a threatened flood, the members of the cast were determined to add to the list of successful SJR dramatic productions, and they did. In my time at the school I have seen many emer¬ gencies arise — I have seen major problems in the life of the school, discipline problems with the boys, staff problems, problems in raising money for new build¬ ings, problems in the kitchen, health problems and so on — but in the face of each emergency for those who have stamped their feet there have been at least an equal number who have grasped the nettle firmly” and got on with the job. Paul Wilson, Editor t ifc 8qk Sta{{ Editor-in-chief . . . Assistant Editors . Photography . . . . Sports . Art Work. Head of Advertising Proofing. Staff Advisor . . . . .Wilson Leatherdale, Mcgaughey . . . . Nanson, Sprague . Kiddell .Kirby .Cottic .Pilbrow . . Gordon D. McLeod BACK ROW: Fraser, Nanson, Cottic, Sprague. FRONT ROW: Naiman, Leatherdale, Wilson, Mcgaughey, Pilbrow.

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BACK ROW: Mr. Stewart, Mr. Leonard, Mr. MacKenzie, Mr. Shepard, Mr. Geith, Mr. Glegg, Mr. Girard, Mr. Beare. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. McLeod, Mr. Wellard, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Maurer, Mrs. Perreault, Mrs. Nagy, Mr. Gorrie, Mr. Olsen. FRONT ROW: Miss House, Mr. Ainley, Mr. Waudby, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Bredin, Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Petrencik. MISSING: Mrs. Murray, Mrs. MacNamara, Mrs. Barrett, Mr. MacKenzie.

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tT te School Captain Block, our 16 th School Captain, who came to SJR in grade eight has distinguished himself in both Academics and Athletics. He won various scholastic prizes in grade eight and nine and in grade eleven he became a Junior Prefect and co-editor of the Eagle. In his senior year he became our School Captain and Advertising Editor for the Eagle. The Physics scholar also made the Bisley Rifle Team, as well as playing a leading role of a priest in the School’s production of Murder in the Cathedral.” Our Great VolkswaGONE driver was one of the Greater brains in the class but unfortunately met his match in math class with John Nanson.