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

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TOM SAWYER After last year’s great success of The Ghost Train”, the Lower School decided to tackle another interesting play — Tom Sawyer”, rewritten from Mark Twain’s book by Sara Spencer. This play relates the adventures of a typical American boy at the time of the paddlewheel steamboat. The casting took place in October and soon after re¬ hearsals began to take form. The difficult scenes were practised over and over again at lunch times and after school. Before the Christmas season rolled in it was decided that the performance would take place immedi¬ ately after the holidays. This gave somebreathing space for extra rehearsals dining the holiday and more time for the making of costumes and sets. It was not long however before the dress rehearsal and the public per¬ formance on Jan. 13 th. In a yearbook write-up, it is difficult to truthfully estimate the performance of the actors. For those who expressed their opinions, Tom Sawyer, played by Ivan McMorris and Huck Finn played by Douglas Longstaffe, both excelled in their performance. As Aunt Polly, Mark Milne gave a convincing interpretation of shrewd char¬ acter. Christopher Wallace acted well as Becky Thatcher, Tom’s little girl friend. A special recognition should go to Patrick Truelove as Joe Harper, Bill Annett as the schoolmaster, Jim Shore as Muff Potter and Chip McGill as Injun Joe. Congratulations to the rest of the cast for their fine job. Because of the many different scenes, the sets had to be skilfully arranged so that time would not be wast¬ ed in changing the scenery. Many special thanks go to Mr. Shepherd for his tire¬ less efforts to make the play a great success. Much cre¬ dit is due to Mrs. Stewart who devoted much of her time to make the beautiful costumes and to Mr. Bevis who spent much time and energy in making the sets, many of which were painted by boys in the school. Further acknowledgement is extended to Mr. Beare, who handled the lighting and sound effects with skill, as prompter, to Mrs. Maurer and Mr. Hammond who worked wonders with the grease-paint and to Mrs. Brown, the secretary. All deserve credit for a job well done. Stephen Krueger. 75

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THE CAST Tom Sawyer Sid Sawyer Aunt Polly Alfred Temple Joe Harper . Huck Finn Schoolmaster Amy Lawrence Susan Harper Grade Miller Becky Thatcher Jane Hardin Jim Hollis Ben Rogers Jeff Thatcher Dr. Robinson Muff Potter Injun Joe Sherriff Raggedy ■ Ivan McMorris - Boyd Beaton - Mark Milne ■ Simon Clews ■ Patrick Truclove ■ Douglas Longstaffe ■ Bill Annett - Harold Waddell • James Burns - David Ferguson - Chris Wallace - Michael Wheelan - Michael Purdy - Richard Best - Gary Weare - Laurence Mardon -Jim Shore - Chip McGill - Peter Forsythe - Laurence Marden Preacher — Derek Riley Mrs. Harper — David Searle Mrs. Thatcher — Jamie Hutchison Judge Thatcher — Barry Dickson ' : .. DefenseCounsel - Richard Lawrence Make-up — Sheila Maurer and Hammond l Scenery — Desmond Bevis a: Chris Boggs Costumes — Judy Stewart I Lighting and 1 sound effects — Bernard Beare Props and prompter — Nancy Barrett Director — Harry Shepherd Secretar y — Ramona Brown • •, : . ■

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% Juml Scmw CM This is one of the newer organizations of the Lower School. Formed this school year, this club is for all Lower School stu¬ dents with an interest in any aspect of Natural Science. The mem¬ bers of our club prepare talks on their particular interests, and de¬ liver them at meetings. Talks have been given on such varied sub¬ jects as Paleontology, Astronomy, and Archaeology to mention a few. We also hope to have outside guest speakers at future meetings. We have gone on one field trip (in conjunction with the Rock and Mineral Club) to Souris in southwestern Manitoba, where we collected rock samples and some archaeological arte¬ facts. Several boys from the club are preparing exhibits for the coming Science Fair, including Bennet (Astronomy), Mardon (Paleontology), and myself (Archaeology). We feel the club has operated very well so far, and hope to see it continued next year. BILL ANNETT. ACROSS: Khosla, Bredin, Annett, Burns, Bennett, Labella, Kreuger, Lawrence, Annett B. BACK: Tucker, Cruikshank, Strauchan, Milne, Smith A., Riley, McMorris, Kerualiou, Mr. Beare. MIDDLE: Nuttall, Bowden, Bennett, Haworth, Guest, Golding, Truelove, Fergusson J. FRONT: Burns, D’Agincourt, Johnson D., Johnson S., Wallace, Longstaffe. ' Hock mi %uwd CluJ ScuJwj Juft The Club has acquired many new pieces of equipment this year. However, due to so many other clubs and having to leave our old quarters, not too many meetings have taken place. The Club has still continued with members using the equipment on their own and few have taken finished pieces from the tumbler. We have been to Souris and gathered many fine specimens of Agate and a local rock called Scenic Denbrite. We then explored the desert and some did a little archaeology. We hope to have an entry in the Science Fair and continue our hobby in the Hobbies Room. With this equipment we should be able to have more people working at one time. Mr. Cowie has taken over management of the club and we have had a good year so far with the prospect of an even better one in 1967. DOUGLAS LONGSTAFFE. On September 17th, a weekend of sailing was arranged for the boarders. The Canoe Club gave us permission to use their dock and the Manitoba Sailing Association lent their four Cadets”. Angus Campbell who is an M.S.A. instructor came and told the Lower School boarders the basic parts of a sailboat and their uses. We started racing at about 10:30. Some of the boarders were quiet good skippers, while others were better at crewing. We stopped at 12:20 so that they could lunch at the school. We were all eager to get back sailing after lunch. We had another three races which were quite different from the others. It all wound up at about 4 p.m. The boarders helped put back the boats on to the trailer. Slowly, but happily, they went back to the school. On behalf of the school I would like to thank the Manitoba Sailing Association and the Winnipeg Canoe Club. SIMON JOHNSON. 76