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

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TOM KNIGHT T.K., the Terrace Bay Kid, was easily recognizable by his unique laugh and his stable appearance after a wild Saturday night. T.K. spent most of his weekends visiting Linda. . ,uh, Darlene. . .uh, Donna, but when he was back at the school, he sat making plans for the next weekend. Tom was one of our ‘strong man prefects’ and he was charged with the duty of having to defend the rest of the prefects in the event that the grade eights became too powerful. MICHAEL PAYNE It was not until this year that the school had an opportunity to witness Mike’s humour in all its full and subtle forms. As well as lowering the grade 12’s to the realms of raucous laughter with the choicest offerings of Children’s Digest, T.V. Head was a standout on the soccer field. Mike’s diligence and reputation as a constant bookworm gave him the markings of success and we see for him a great future writer or successor to Rogatien Vachon. JOHN GOLLWITZER Golly escaped from Cuba with a barrel of Cuban cigars, and has been living on his laurels ever since. In addition to his escaping Cuba, Golly Evades all superflous, time-consuming work, and traffic police in his Jaguar. A vegetable gardener of some repute, John’s philosophy has taken root in the smoking room, where his loyalty to nurturing it has led the other boys to call him Fidel. In fact, fidelity is John’s prime virtue; he has yet to leave the school later than 3:05. LLOYD SIMMONS Lloyd’s remarkable ability to stampede around on the football field with his cleats making a strange “lelele” noise as he ran over thousands of poor defenceless microbes, cowed the opposition. Lloyd is a real individualist and champion of individual rights, because he is not afraid to ride with the herd. Although at home now, on this range (should be by now because he has been on it since he was six) Lloyd is seeking greener pastures next year. Good Luck! RICHARD WOODHEAD ‘Youth will have its way’ and the old lags in grade twelve are forced constantly to bend to Richard’s will. A forceful personality like Wayne Harris, the Thumper made his presence felt on the rink and on the football field. A sensitive lad, Rickie refused to bother Mr. Gorrie, saying it was unkind, or to torture frogs. A true Canadienne fan, can have nothing too serious wrong with him; unfortunately Woodie does not fill this qualification. JIM ROW AND In the full bloom of his youth, Lotus keeps opposing forwards feeling insecure by his brilliant saves on the soccer field and hockey ring, Lotus keeps the smoking room a hotbed of discussion another of his budding projects. Jimi, who can quote Chairman Mao by heart, maintains a deep rooted hatred of weeds, arising every morning from the Lotus position, arranging his hair like a floral arrangment of Zinnias and Chrysanthimums, Lotus waters his window box and he faces the day with gusto. KIM SHERMAN Tank, the best potato picker of them all, was back again his year to join Ox and Rocket with their usual antics. Kim spazzed through soccer, helping the Senior Team to make the finals. But this true talent shone through in basketball. Kim spent most of his time during lunch giving excuses for Air Canada’s failure to have a daily flight into Penticton. Although Kim himself has not decided about his future, we all know that he will end up as a pilot for Irish Air Lines. 12

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ONE BOARDING VICE-CAPTAIN DON DENMARK Strap majored in telephone usage this year, which is shown by the cracked and splintered wood at the top of the doorway into the Prefect’s Common Room, and with his record-setting sequence of headaches. A R.R.S., Don was our basketball star, although some games found him and Cal bouncing basketballs off referee’s heads. Don also had a go at football this year. Unfortunately he found out that there was not enough room in one backfield for both him and Searle. A knee injury and crutches side lined Don, after a somewhat confused football career. A new recruit from Hinton last year, we are glad to see him as one of our Vice-Captains this year. Although his future is still undecided, a person with his resourcefulness, conscientiousness, and sincerety is guaranteed success. ONE DAYBOY VICE-CAPTAIN GERALD SCHWARTZ A dayboy senior prefect, Gerry finally managed to organize noon waiters as bus drivers and bus drivers as waiters. Aside such obvious difficulties, Ger did manage to have everyone fed at lunch, and taken home at night. Gerry filled the post of President Student Activist with convincing sincerity. Gerry continues to prove “love is a many splendered thing”; his romance is so long lived, it seems to date back to B.C. in addition to loving mankind, particularly womenkind. Gerry acted as the Prefect’s Common Room Guru, his lofty thoughts transcended the bounds of brilliance, his meditation took the form of eating as much food as possible in the shortest time, and then expounding his brilliance with his mouth full. Who can say mumbles are idiotic? Gerry’s incomprehensibility resulted in the fact that in a recent poll, he was voted the best known non-entity running for the presidency of Senegal. However, we hope he is successful in this, his most recent project, even if we are not sure it is the same Gerry Schwartz. 11

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RANDY BOWMAN A sometimes football-soccer player, Randy, in a moment of mental lapse, revealed his true identity in leaping high into the air (200 feet) and changing into his star-spangled boiler suit, and singing ‘America the Beautiful’ Captain America had his own show every evening on Radio Free Thompson House on which he impersonated a mere mortal. Ski Buff knows a hart from a head, and thus is hard to catch on the ski slopes. The American Government would also like to catch him. His favourite saying is, “Don’t SWEAT MAN”. TOM BARROLL S.J.R.’s crack prefect could often be seen blinking in the smoking room haze. A basketball star, who revealed a remarkable talent for scoring baskets after tripping on a breakaway. Any joke, particularly his own, would send him off into muscular spasms of mirth. Tom’s wit in French class continues to amuse the assembled masses. Besides being a student of the French way of life, Cracker is doing an in-depth study of the relationship between pro basketball playing and the ability to fix ‘blinkies’ for Physics Labs. PHILLIP WYATT Ox can make any college football team in Canada, but his baseball predictions were strictly busch. Phillip keeps committing the cardinal sin of excessive hometown pride. A real patriot, Phil wears Betsy Ross Hand-Sewn Old Glory Jeans. Although his promising basketball career was dislocated last year, his spirits are set on stardom this year. Phil’s heart swells with pride everytime he hears “Meet Me in St. Louis” until he hears that it is Denny McLain playing. PETER McCREATH Like Rocket Richard, Rocket McCreath has all the moves on the ice, and a blistering slapshot. In fact if you ask him nicely he will tell you just how fast it is. A born physicist, Pete can be seen in the physics lab altering his brain waves with massive doses of physics experimentation in an attempt to put some feeling in the way he says, “If I have only one life, let my live it as a blond”. At any rate, Pete chased a football or soccer ball around the respective fields all fall. DREW LAUDER Prunie La Fronde, another super-hero, is in real life a meek mild-mannered, ace car stunt man — Prune Wrinkle. Drew liked playing hockey and soccer until he discovered that both had a crease and since then nothing will amuse him, not even jokes in math class. Prune duels constantly with evil wrong-doers in his secret identity, having evolved several new wrinkles in crime prevention. However, he has never served a warrant on himself for his nefarious deeds in his car, or the traffic violations in his glove-compartment. GREG LAWRENCE Captain Crunch of the Senior Soccer Team, this year stumped the opposition with his moves on right wing. Stumping up and down the rink with a hockey stick in his hands is his idea of winter fun, it is too bad the big boys will not let him play. No amount of valiant effort can set him to school quite on time but we hear it serves the purpose on weekends. The Hawk can always be counted on to laugh when laughter is in order, and remain serious when that is required. Ambition — to sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo Probable Destiny — 30 2 4 boards. STEWART SEARLE Although Sloopy isn’t back in boarding this year we’re glad to see him here most of the time, tearing his hair out over the yearbook. Stew’s quarterback career in football was shortlived, and it took him quite a while to adjust to soccer. Stookie was kept busy in Maths, teaching the class and Mr. Laidlaw. Also a physicist at heart, so far his experiments are working, but we are expecting an explosion any time now. Stew hopes to attend Queen’s and we wish him luck in his teaching career there too. 13