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

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tUfd Swim In the spring of the last school year, a chapel service was held at the end of the Grade eight’s, nine’s, and Ten’s school year. Another chapel service was held during the Red River Scholarship weekend. This term, as in previous years, chapel was held at the school on some Sundays. Due to the intense winter cold, it was sometimes held at the school for as long as four weeks in a row. Sunday service was an ideal opportunity for closing the gap between the boarders and dayboys. With more than half of the year left to go, it is hoped that more dayboys will be coming to chapel. Sometimes, the staff invited the Grade Twelves to have coffee with them after the service, and everybody hopes it will become a tradi¬ tion. Sermons were given by Mr. Gordon, Mr. McLeod and Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Gordon gave the major part of them. They had to do with the virtues in oneself, and how one should cultivate them to bring more happiness to himself and others. On the Father and Son weekend, a service was held with the boys reading the prayers and the lessons. As usual, there was a minister from anearby church, the Reverend Ray, of the Fort Garry United Church, who gave the sermon. During the week, chapel was also held, but it was different from last year in that it was only held on Mon¬ day’s, Wednesday’s, and Friday’s. The reason for this was that the form master could have twenty minutes to talk to his class, and to help them in anything they wanted answered. On Fridays, Lower and Upper School came together for the service in Hamber Hall, with an Upper School boy reading the lesson one week, and a Lower School boy reading on the following week. SlcctiofU Let me tell you a story CUcdtmi ' 7 ' itmU At Christmas this year, it was decided that the school would send old clothes and toys to the Indian reserva¬ tions in Northern Manitoba and in the Northwest Territories. A group was formed to take charge of the project, and boys in the Upper and Lower School were asked to bring as much as they could. One Saturday morning, the group under John Kiddell met to pack the clothes and toys and send them to Pelican Rapids. So great was the success from the Lower School that the Upper School sent off another load early in December. This time the organization was taken care of by Bill Gray. We have since then received a warm letter of thanks from Mrs. R. Philipp, Fort Providence, to whom the packages were sent. It is hoped that similar projects will be undertaken in the future. This year the school, as the rest of Canada, experi¬ enced a federal election campaign. We had candidates representing the four political parties: Bill Gray, Social Credit; Muir Meredith, Liberal; Errol Naiman, Con¬ servative; and Richard Woodhead, N.D.P. The campaigning was somewhat exciting and for the most part, serious. The Liberals had signs M.M. (pussy cat) for P.M. while the Conservatives retorted with E.N. for P.M. In the final stages of the campaign, the four supporters of the candidates nominated their man and extolled his virtues. These speaches were most throughly prepared by Peter Fahlgren, Conservative; Peter Hammond, Liberal; Kerry Magnus, Social Credit; and Douglas Kiddell, N.D.P. At last the campaigning was finished and Monday, November first, was the day the winner would be de¬ clared. Mr. B redin was the official returning officer and after the speeches were given by the candidates, he su¬ pervised the balloting and made sure, along with the party scrutineers that everything was done fairly. As the various polls came in, the tension built up be¬ cause a close fight was developing between the Con¬ servatives and the Liberals which was not decided until the final poll. I am sure that all those who participated had fun, but I also think they received an insight into the national political scene. The results were: Conserva¬ tive — 82, Liberal — 79, N.D.P. — 21, and Social Credit — 7. VINfOls L 1 J The Great Care Package Heist

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Jwtka S Soft i iJak U The annual Father and Son Weekend proved to be a great success, well honoured by the many fathers who turned out despite the frigid temperatures. Saturday, the twenty-third of October, was opened by coffee and a welcoming speech by Muir Meredith. Then the brave spectators viewed the soccer games until white with frostbite. The senior team trounced the old boys while the Junior Upper School Team and also the Lower School Junior House Teams bruised their shin bones. While the Bantam Footballers were playing, the fathers whipped their sons in the shooting match. The Saints were proven the champions of the six-man field while the Lower School Senior House Soccer teams played until the Fathers drummed up the courage and warm clothes to take up the challange of the Lower School boys. Mr. Shepherd then directed the Lower School Play, The Emperor Who Could Not Sleep” which was followed by an informal lunch and their many displays of art and science. The Senior Football team ended the day by beating Daniel McIntyre, 25-7. At the annual banquet Bill Cottick, School Captain, toasted the fathers. Mark Henderson, head boy of the Lower School, then opened the entertainment which consisted of the usual magician’s act greatly enjoyed by all. Mr. McLeod directed a series of Front Page Chal¬ lenge” followed by our own Spectres.” A great weekend came to a fitting end on Sunday with a Chapel Service conducted by Reverend Donald Ray of Fort Garry United Church followed by an Alberta victory at the usual tug-of-war.

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tml Sw ' tM The choir put in many hours of work practising for the choral concert at Christmas, and their work was well rewarded. Under the direction of Mr. Shepherd, the choir produced a very good performance and the members of the audience expressed the point of view that the performance was one of the best put on by the school choir. There were many personal congratula¬ tions on the performance by members of the audience, and Mr. Shepherd himself seemed quite pleased at the outcome. Over the years that I have been here, I have noticed a distinct improvement in the quality of the music of the school choir each succeeding year. If this continues, and there is no reason why it should not, we will soon have one of the best choirs in the city. Chow Last year, S.J.R. added a choir to its many other activities. This year, it continued under the careful guidance of Mr. Shepherd. A new member was added to the choir in the form of Mrs. Barret who plays the piano and thus complicated the situation with irrevelant matters such as the meter of certain hymns. However, with big booming basses such as Peter Fahlgren and famous tenors such as Angus Campbell, the choir made great progress, making their first appearance in the Carol Service which proved to be quite successful. Mr. Shepherd introduced many new songs to the choir, among which were This Land is My Land” and Chim-Chim- Cheree.” Both were readily accepted by almost all the members of the choir. The only disapproval came from the tenors who complained of the high notes in This Land is My Land.” A trip was planned to Breck School in Minneapolis this year, as a return trip from last year’s appearance of the Breck Choir. However, this was soon called off because of the lack of attendance of certain Upper School members of the choir. Hardly a week went by when somebody did not come. Because of this, Mr. Shepherd had to teach the parts of various songs over again. Due to this slackness on the choir’s part, the choir never did make it to Breck. However, there is always next year and let’s hope that the boys are a little more enthusiastic about it then. The members of the choir would like to express their thanks to Mr. Shepherd and Mrs. Barret who give so much of their time and effort into the making of the choir.