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

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JLowa School 0 jjmk LEFT TO RIGHT. Annett, Riley, Milne, Krueger, Bowes, Johnson. The Lower School has been extremely busy this year. In addition to normal classes, six Lower School clubs have been in operation, four cf which are new — the Natural Science Club under Bill Annett (who is also head of all cultural activities), the Model Railway and Stamp Clubs under the supervision of Mr. Bevis,the Rifle Club runby Mr. Beare and the Rock and Mineral Club run by Mr. Cowie. The choir, under Mr. Shepherd, has been rim on a voluntary basis for the first time and yet has forty members from the Lower School. Combined with boys from the Upper School they performed well at the Carol Service and helped to entertain the fathers at the Father and Sons’ Weekend. The Lower School play, Tom Sawyer was presented on Jan. 13th and was considered a great success, and a more detailed report of this has been done by one of the cast. So far in sports, Hamber House has dominated the house competition with Young in second place, while Young has led in honours and stripes. Mr. Cowie, Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Beare and Mr. Mckenzie have coached the hockey teams this year. On behalf of the students of the Lower School I would like to thank all the people who have worked so hard to make the choir, the play, the sports teams and the clubs so successful. The whole Lower School is looking forward to a prosperous second and third terms. Mark Milne, HEADBOY.

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JLowa School tfmdmsiM i Jomuod My last foreword was written under threat from the surly Red River, and in fairness to such read¬ ers who may have beenleftinsuspenseby the serial nature of that description, may I assure them that we remained and continue to remain high and dry. Since the subsidence of the unruly Red, the Lower School has gone from strength to strength and has reached the record enrolment of 166 boys. The new stage, Art room, Music room, Hobbies room, Judo room, Locker room, Playroom, and Biology laboratory, as well as the classrooms have therefore provided space for the deployment of our forces. However, if iron bars do not a prison make then neither do bricks and mortar make a school. Our facilities are there to serve our purpose, which in the proved tradition of independent schools is the education of the wholeman. Towhat extent that purpose has been served is best left to the infor¬ mation in this section of the yearbook, compiled in part by the boys of the Lower School. One memorable event that will not be covered in the pages of the book was the meeting at St. John’s-Ravenscourt School of the Preparatory School committee of Headmasters for the first time. Coming from East and West on January 5th, 1967 they made, by exchanging ideas, a valuable contri¬ bution to the start of our Centennial Year and stayed to cheer the National Team to victory against the Russians in the Centennial Tournament. At this meeting Dr. Hodson and Dr. Bowden, both of the University of Manitoba, gave us prac¬ tical insight into the programming of computers for educational purposes and, in spite of assurances to the contrary, we all felt as teachers a little inadequate, not to say, unnecessary. As human beings however, we still feel that such nicknames as have been devised for us by the smaller fry would look uncommonly out of place if tagged to computers instead. C.B. Kiddell. HEAD OF LOWER SCHOOL. Jem OH BACK ROW: Dickson, Lawrence, Johnson D., Strachen, Shore, Annett, Smith, Turchen, Riley, Milne, Dickson. MIDDLE ROW: Richardson, Truelove, Weare, Paterson, Krueger, Longstaffe, Tucker, McMorris, Barrington, Clews, Bowes, Forsythe. FRONT ROW: Templeton, Beaton, Ferguson, Wallace, Harrison, Waddell, Daunt, Johnson, Burns. MISSING: Mardon.

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Horn TtyoiiA H(wJa Horn TUuo Horn ' Ktjduidwii Horn (jowiui tfouM HAMBER HOUSE REPORT. Hamber has started off well this year, as we are lead¬ ing in sports and honours. Both seniors and juniors did well in soccer and volleyball, proving to be a chal¬ lenge to the other houses. In the crosscountry, the seniors topped the list with the juniors coming third. Winter has now settled in, and we hope to do well in hockey and athletics. The House thanks Mde. Perrault and Mr. Cowie for their great help and encouragement in Hamber’s success. Derek Riley, House Captain NEW HOUSE REPORT. New House has had a good year after a rather slow start. The House was strongest in the cross-country events both in seniors and juniors. We came third in soccer which is not a bad result considering the talent in the house. New House has always been active in sports and enthusiastic in their school work. I would like to thank Mrs. Barrett, Mr. Broderick and Mr. Shepherd for their assistance throughout the year. Chris Bowes, House Captain RICHARDSON HOUSE REPORT. Thinking of honourprizes, Richardson Househasn’t done as well as it did last year and I hope that we will catch up during the rest oftheyear. Despite the efforts, Richardson House Seniors are still around second or third place in sports. We are doing well in hockey and did quite well in cross-country and volleyball. The juniors are gaining a high reputation in hockey and are striving for first place in sports. In the next few months we will try to reach a higher standard. All the boys in the house extend hearty thanks to Mrs. Murray and Mr. Mckenzie for their helpful guidance through another successful year. Stephen Krueger, House Captain. YOUNG HOUSE REPORT. Young House has beendoingvery wellthisyear. We won the soccer cup in the seniors. We are doing very well with honours and stripes, but there are a few boys who still receive too many stripes. Although the school year is not finished, I think Young House will have a prosperous one. On behalf of the boys I would like to thank Mrs. Macmillan, Mr. Bevis and Mr. Beare. Simon Johnson, House Captain. 71