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

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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

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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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jLowa School JLiM imf OLD HUNDRED” All of the veteran hunters and trappers of the Yukon had heard of Old Hundred.” This famous moose, who stood seven feet high at the shoulders, was said to be over one hundred years old. With huge antlers, head held high, and many scars from previous battles, he was a majestic overlord of the forest. Named Old Hundred” because of the story of the trappers, many famous big-game hunters had tried to secure his head for a spot above their mantelpieces, but they had all tried in vain. The year Old Hundred” finally died had beena cold one. For months the winter lasted, blizzard after bliz¬ zard, until all the food sources of the deer, elk and moose over a wideareawereexhausted. Because of this, these animals were dying by the hundreds. The wolves felt the scarcity of their main food supply, the deer, and so banded together into large packs to obtain better hunting. It was such a pack that killed Old Hundred”. One cold February night he had heard the terrifying hunting calls of a large pack of timber wolves. From their sound he knew they had caught his scent. He be¬ gan to run. For the next few hours he tried every trick that he knew of escaping a pursuer, but to no avail, for the wolves were too many to fool. Old Hundred” finally slowed his pace, realizing thathe was surrounded. In the dim twilight he almost didn’t see the grey shadow of a wolf preparing to leap. He quickly side¬ stepped the jumping form, picked it up with his huge antlers and dashed it to the ground, killing it. Other wolves rushed on to the battlefield, but they took no notice of the moose, for they smelt blood, and stopped to eat their late comrade before resuming the chase. But there were others who had been cheated of a piece of their brother’s flesh, for there was not enough to go round. They still chased Old Hundred” so he contin¬ ued running, not trying to escape now, but merely look¬ ing for a good spot to make his last stand. He was exhausted and bleeding, for he had been bit¬ ten by the unfortunate wolf in the last wild lurching. Finally the old moose reached the perfect spot, an in¬ dentation in a rock wall about three times his size, so that rock would be protecting him on three sides. He turned to face his hunters. The leading wolves turned a corner in the trail, and sighting him, howled for the others to come. A young wolf, with little experience, attacked the moose alone, and had his back broken by being stepped on. Soon several attacked at once, followed by stillalarger group, but all were wounded, killed or fled from the raging moose. The pile of bleeding carcasses under the moose’s feet grew, until perhaps there were twenty lying there. But Old Hundred” was weakening from many wounds now. A large wolf, whohadbeen watching for his chance, leapt onto Old Hundred’s” back and bit into his neck. The old moose began to run again, un¬ able to shake the killer from his back. The wolf bit deeper and deeper until he tore open the jugular vein, Blood spurted from the wound; the moose ran several steps, faltered, fell, shuddered and died. There were no howls of victory from the pack, no sounds were heard from the surrounding forest, and even the wind had died down, as if it knew that Old Hun¬ dred”, the overlord of the forest, would rule no more. Bill Annett. 7 EW. BILLY AND JOEY Billy and Joey were always fighting, Billy is kicking and Joey is biting. 11 doesn’t matter who they are fighting And this is why I sit here writing, About Billy and Joey (Who are always fighting). Billy is a quarrelsome chap. He is always ready for a scrap; When along comes Joey, a tiresome brat Who is constantly looking for a spat. They fight about this and they fight about that. One wants a dog, the other a cat. And finally one day they saw the right, And vowed they never more would fight. It’s good to see their arguing cease. Now they live in constant peace. Mark Bredin. Grade 5 77