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

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SONS’ WEEKEND year in the Fall term, took place this year on the weekend of which all the fathers have a chance to meet each other over availed themselves of this opportunity to see the school, and corned the fathers to the school over coffee in the dining room activities. soccer games. Immediately after these games the Junior and Intermediates struggling to a 1 - 0 victory. Now the sporting Football team met the St. Vital Hornets in what became the were victorious, managing to hold on to a 13 - 8 decision, entertaining football was being played by the Six-men teams scrambled to victory over Rowand’s to take the championship, place between Fathers and Sons in both Upper and Lower managed to finish on top! advantage of a lull in the activities to try to learn something Physics and Chemistry labs. The sons usually had to explain the against PortUge Collegiate. After a fast moving game the school signified the start of the banquet. After the fathers had enjoyed Queen, and the President of the United States, for the last time captain, made a short speech, and proposed a toast to the a short entertainment. The entertainment was different this and produced by Mr. Gordon D. McLeod. This play was now, after being Headmaster of the school for seventeen years, in 1820 to the present. All the parts were played by the boys selections to the enjoyment of all. After the universally hour’s skate in the Dutton Memorial Arena. Church conducted a short chapel service for all the boys and was observed as the annual Inter-provincial tug-o’-war took won, although Alberta claims otherwise, and thus the Fathers’

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FATHERS’ AND Fathers’ and Sons’ Weekend, a traditional event held every October 26 and 27. This is one of the few events of the year in coffee or a soccer ball, and this year more fathers than ever meet other fathers. Donald Denmark, one of the school Vice-Captains, wel- at 9:30, giving them a brief run-down of the day’s planned The sports events began at 9:30 with three Lower School Intermediate Upper School soccer teams played, with the activities were in full swing, and at 10:00 the Intermediate highlight of the morning. After a tight, nailbiting finish, we At the same time as the Intermediate game, some very in their final and consolation final games. Wallace’s team while Milne beat McMorris for the consolation prize. Later in the morning the annual shooting competition took Schools. Once again, by a mistake in addition, the Fathers After a lunch of hot dogs and ice cream many Fathers took from many extremely interesting displays in the Biology, displays to their baffled fathers. At 2:30 the Senior Soccer team showed its power in a game had its second victory of the day, by a 4 - 0 count. At 6:30 the sounds of the piper played by David Allison, a “typical” school meal, Mr. Gordon proposed toasts to the as Headmaster of the school. John Hutchings, the school Fathers, after which everyone adjourned to the gymnasium for year, as it was actually a play, “The Years of Change”, written dedicated to Mr. R.L. Gordon who had been a student and was leaving us. It traced the story of the school from its beginnings and staff of the school, and the choir added several excellent acclaimed success of the play, the braver fathers went for an On Sunday morning Dr. Ray of the Fort Garry United their fathers. After coffee had been served, another tradition place with all the boys and many fathers taking part. Manitoba and Son’s Weekend, 1968, came to a very successful ending.

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THE YEARS OF CHANGE... A dramatic mosaic of this School from 1820 - 1968 written and produced by Gordon D. McLeod dedicated to Richard L. Gordon—Headmaster September 1952 to December 1968. On this night, October twenty-sixth, of the Fathers’and Sons’ Banquet we will try to remember that St. John’s Ravenscourt School is at one time three schools—St. John’s College School 1 820-1950 —Ravenscourt School 1929-1950—St. John’s Ravenscourt School 1950—and that in the words of an old boy of the school, Charles Camsell: “My school is the boys and the men I lived with and came to know almost as I knew my family. The boys and the men are still here and they are still my family.” JOHN WEST: With the aid of an Interpreter I spoke to an Indian, called, Withaweecapo, about taking two of his boys to the Red River Colony with me to edu¬ cate and maintain. —He yielded to my request; and I shall never forget the affectionate manner in which he brought the eldest boy in his arms, and placed him in the canoe on the morning of my departure. “Everything else in our life here on earth sinks into unimportance compared with this one thing: how we feel and act toward those around us. To have a close and affectionate relationship with those around you is to have conquered every problem of life, and to have won its greatest prize. This prize is yours, if you will take with you down the years the spirit which you have created in this your school, Ravenscourt.” 36