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

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JOHN HUTCHINGS Beastly, our friendly dancing bear, exhibited his mean streak this year, keeping the boys in line as school captain. Moreover, as fullback on the Senior Soccer Team, he mercilessly mauled the attacking forwards. But hockey is his true love, aside from wenching. The school finally built a cage strong enought to hold him, and Beast was able to become a border for the first time. Which leads us to the greatest problem: how will we get him out at the end of the year, and past the Fort Garry Police. LAUREN JACKLIN Nipawin’s number one son found himself a permanent niche as a Senior Prefect. Although he had reservations about playing football, play he did. Lauren really likes being in grade twelve since he is no longer low man on the totem pole. Nicknamed Red Power, because of his ability to collect goals in hockey like scapls, and scalps of grade nines like goals. Lauren pins his hopes for a better world on Canada’s number one politician — Eagle Keys. WALLACE FINLAYSON The Eskimo’s representative from the ‘Frozen Vegetable Department’ to S.J.R. this year, Whalefat was notorious for his discovery along with Al, of the great thrive of poker enthusiasts in the school. The pair transformed this dormant source of wealth into prosperity. Wally went on at great lengths describing the departure and arrival ceremonies of the dogsleds to his igloo in Yellowknife. When our side-burn champ was half serious, he could be seen in basketball, where he was a great asset. MORGAN THOMAS Morg continues to amaze all and sundry with his remarkable ability for self-injury. Although he appears to be accident-prone, Morg valiantly repulsed attacking forwards for the Senior Soccer Team. Dai Postie also served in the important capacity of the official policeman for the Basketball Team, and as guinea pig for the strange experiments carried out in the Prefect’s Common Room on moonless nights. This explains something about him; you decide what. GREG THOMAS Greg found this year that things were getting too monotonous around the place, so he decided to take a little holiday. He returned to the foothills from whence he came. In the cream of his career he could be seen as a black streak racing down the soccer field. Although he was invisible against a black background, Benny was a real standout on the ice. Despite the fact that Ben was not a chemist, he spent much of his time developing a black cotton for whites to pick. MICHAEL BOOKBINDER Booky’s favourite hang-up was himself. His ape attitude makes him a ‘Topper’ as far as dog chasing and football are concerned. In entertaining the smoking room boys it was inevitable and deliberate that he reached — 999 points in attempted cut-downs. His lack of success in this field can probably best be attributed to the saying, “You can fool some people sometime, but you can’t fool everybody all the time”. Mike’s ability was found on the football field, both last year, and for as long as football lasted this year. JIM ROWED Razzle’s hockey playing, countrary to popular belief, is not too offensive. The rink gave him wide scope for venting his frustrations. Razzale was espoused the cause of the disaffected in History class, much to the chagrin of the disaffected. One of those masochists who insisted on flagellating themselves by running cross-country, Razzle at least had the excuse of some success. Nevertheless, Jim remains melancholy since the untimely demise of his pet, Howard the Turtle. 14

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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

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NEXT YEAR’S SENIORS FORM Y McLEOD BACK ROW, Top to Bottom: L. Thompson, C. Smith, D. Percifield, D. Wood, Mr. McLeod, B. Spooner, H. Thomas, B. Thornton, C. Olafson. FRONT ROW: D. Spaith, R. Rolf, M. Tamblyn, D. Nicolson, A. Wai-Kit, K. Stewart. 15