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

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Jlowa School O mk LOWER SCHOOL MONITORS BACK ROW: Malcolmson, Menzies, Morris, Heffelfinger, MacMurray, Edwards, Mr. Kiddell, Henderson, Beech, Webster, Barnes, Saunders. FRONT ROW: Boyd, Stein, Boult, Gallagher, Newman, Briggs, Richardson, Hammond, Kiddell. The same clubs this year have operated and have been running smoothly, as most parents witnessed on parents day. The playground hockey teams have won at least three games which is a big improvement on previous years. The choir has been re-formed and now includes boys from the upper school. The new wing has been built and is a marvellous asset to the school. The classrooms are larger and there are new additions such as a large playroom, a music room, an audio-visual room and a plant-room. The spacious locker room and art room have also been great assets. Young and Hamber Houses have been domi¬ nating this year in sports, except for the cross-country where New House led the field. Four lower school boys have joined the upper school junior basketball team and three of these are going on a tour to compete against other teams in Western Canada. Boarding has been excellent this year and there are nineteen permanent boarders although some temporary boarders have come and gone frequently. Our Mexican friend, Victor Cires, left at Christmas to return to his own country and we missed his cheerful countenance. Before we know it, the end of the year will be upon us, because it has been such a pleasure working in the new wing. - MARK HENDERSON HEAD BOY

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H dm tm Jomuod The tumult and the shouting died, the Phoenix arose in all its splendor, and that intrepid band of young men who comprise the Lower School trooped into the beautiful new building which was to be their modern house of learning. It is a fine building, a convenient building, a spacious building, a well-planned building, a thoroughly utterly likeable building — the Lower School’s pride and joy. Gone are the pile drivers, gone the jack drills, gone the wild dashes to the gym through the frigid winter, and gone the challenge of physical hardship. From September onwards we have gazed in comfortable contemplation at our new surroundings and carried on the day to day routine of school with wondrous ease. But ' as flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods’ and they have grown jealous of our pride and our com¬ placency. They have grown angry and assailed us repeatedly. Their first attack was arrogantly straightforward — a series of — 40° temperatures creating new records even for Winnipeg. Their second was more insidious — an indiscriminate sowing of influenza seeds. Their third was vitriolic — a snowstorm of unparallelled fury: and all these were withstood manfully, and in the last case even gleefully by the day-boys who were unable to attend classes. And now with pure malevolence they are launching an ever more sinister assault; for they have inveigled the old man of the Red River to rise; and rise he has done; inch by inch and foot by foot up the sloping shores of the school: a surly, lurking, watchful, cold-hearted creature who cares little for mere entreaty, but who is to be met with a wall of mud and a massive wall of sandbags filled by the school at the rate of 9000 bags per day to deter his envious attempt to inundate our fine new building. Whatever befalls, the Eagle will be printed and you will be reading this in retrospect and inevitably one thing or another will or will not have happened. The water will have swept the dykes or it will have been fought back or the water will have slunk away unimpressively: but whatever the case those who rose to the occasion and laboured to fight the threat of a flood will have the lasting and memorable satisfaction of knowing that they did all they could to help. Jom on BACK ROW: Malcolmson, MacMurray, Barnes, Edwards, Webster, Menzies, Beech, Kiddell. CENTRE ROW: Hammond, Gallagher, Mr. Beare, Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Shepherd, Heffelflnger, Stein. FRONT ROW: Boult, Saunders, Newman, Briggs, Morris, Boyd. MISSING: Henderson.

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%u. Mrs. Barrett, who teaches the grade two class, graduated from the University of Manitoba where she received a B.A. and an A.M.M. This is Mrs. Barrett’s first year of teaching. Her interest in music takes up much of her time. She ac¬ companies both the Upper School and Lower School boys. Travel and skating are also enjoyed by Mrs. Barrett. Good luck at S.J.R. Mrs. Barrett. Mr. MacKenzie hails from Toronto and holds a B.P.E. Degree from the University of British Columbia. For the last two years, Mr. MacKenzie has played on Canada’s National Hockey Team. He has travelled extensively with the Nats” and was in the 1964 Olympics in Innusbruck. Mr. Mac¬ Kenzie, who enjoys all sports, teaches P.T. to most of Lower School, science to forms 4, 5, and 6 lower, and coaches the Playground B Hockey Team.