St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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, Academic Results, June 1939 The results of the Matriculation Examinations last year were very creditable. . Sixteen Candidates sat the examinations and, of these, fourteen secured complete passes. This constitutes the highest number of passes of any year in the history of the School except one when the School Enrolment was considerably higher than it is at present Apostoli, who headed the list, had the excellent average of 84.8. The following candidates secured complete passes: P. A. Apostoli A. St. G. Soulsby A. W. Everett W. J. Sproule W. L. Gillespie J. D. Taylor W. P. Harland A. Thomson M. G. Hudec J. O. Thorne L. Musgrave W. D. Usher , C. J. Norman F. T. Winslow In addition to the successes of the Matriculation List, it must be recorded that D. C. Craig passed into the Royal Marines after a hard examination for which he worked with great courage and dilif gence, being the only candidate from Canada to secure admission. Craig has since been gazetted Second Lieutenant. A. W. Everett passed into the Royal Military College, Kingston, where he has subsequently distinguished himself at football and ice' hockey in addition to doing excellent work in the classfrooms. Since matriculating, J. O. Thorne has passed into the Royal Air Force and is now with his Squadron in Eastern Canada. Salvette J. E. Allin R. W. Jones J. H. Blyth G. D. Corry E. A. Burge J. E. Cupples J. W. Carr A. E. Hodgkinson A. M. Cockeram D. P. MacBean J. G. Cook J. D. MacNaughton R. C. B. Cave D. G. McGimpsey J. Macdonnell J. N. Mclllree J. D. Jones J. M. Powell B. F. Talbot J. P. Powell J. A. Twiss F. E. Smith R. K. Price J. H. Smith W. F. Day G. T. Smith ..9-

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one arm and one leg were badly lacerated and his journey to the spot where he was found had been one of agony and excruciating thirst. Morant was in hospital for more than a month and still walks with some difficulty. Haasler, too, is on the road to recovery. The local Press, at the time of the incident, was full of praise of Morant's bravery. Black and Red takes this opportunity of pay' ing its tribute. Cross Country Rim The Annual Cross Country Run took place on March 19th, and was won by T. D. Mercer in 31' SO . Mercer, who was second in 1939, ran a good race, but was extended by Young who has al' ways been a warm contender though never a winner. Timberlake ran third and also made a good showing. The first Junior home this year was Smith ii who was sixth and he becomes the first winner of the Robertson Challenge Cup which is awarded to the first Jun' ior to finish. Seventyfone boys participated and the race was run under ideal conditions. Speech Day Cn June 24th, before about sixty parents and friends, prizes for Academic Work were distributed by the Rev. F. Pike, Rector of St. Luke's Church, Cedar Hill. The School Prayer and the appointed Lesson were read and the Headmaster presented his Report, the thirtyffourth Headmaster's Report since the foundation of the School. Mr. Scarrett touched on all the activities of the School during the past year, paid a tribute to the assistance rendered to him by his Colleagues and addressed words of advice to the boys who were leaving and going out into a world so difficult as that of tofday. Mr. Pike spoke to the boys, pointing out to them the advantages which they had enjoyed here and warning them of their consequent responsibilities in the world at large. He then distributed the prizes as follows: SHELLhC. jones ii, B. Creery ii, A. Thomson ii. FCRM IV--A. Carle i, B. Scoby. FORM Vb-Cupples ii, Griffin, Graves. FORMVa-Black, Wade, Corry, Duke. FCRM VI-Cupplesi, Vernon, Batten. DRAWING-Harvey. SCRIPT URE-Graves. , The School Hymn, The School Song and the National Anthem were sung and tea was served in the School Dining Hall. D ag..

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Mr. W. R. G. Wenman The School goes ong people come and people go: some leave their mark and others are as though they had never been. For the moment, for the months that must go by until the Might which is Right and the Right which has Might have refestablished themselves, the school has to carry on with a gap in its ranks which will leave us both the weaker and the stronger: weaker because he has gone and stronger because we must carry on the work which he has wrought among us. Mr. Weiiniaii came as a Master in 1925, he was very young and very inexperienced, but he fell into our ways and became, for the second time, one of us. It is not as a Master in the classfroom that we shall remember him primarily, though his academic work has pulled many a Grade Niner over the inequalities of equations and round the rugged corners of many a wierd triangle, it is of his work on the Cricket field and the Rugby field that we shall think of so.often in the terms to come. It does not fall to the lot of many schools to have on the Staff the finest Cricketer in the Dominion and one who is at the same time one of the best Halves that ever played the game: the man who has made over thirty centuries in League and InterfCity Cricket and who has captained for years the Rep. Teams both at Cricket and Rugby. Wheii we look back at the consistent record of University School Rugby, when we remember such finished Batsmen as Hamber and Weaver, we shall remember that if the material was good, the Masterfcraftsman was not wanting to fashion it. And so he has handed on to us, for the moment, to us who are older than he and not so fit, a torch which we shall strive to hold high till he comes back to us. Mr. Lionel Cox We have sustained another loss this term in the person of Mr. L. Cox, who has left us to pursue further studies at the University of British Columbia. He has been with us for four years and during that time has proved himself to be a congenial colleague and an excellent teacher. His work with the gym classes has been outstanding, being a good gymnast himself, he has provided inspiration for many boys to acquire a degree of excellence hitherto unknown in the School. We hope that Mr. Cox will be able to rejoin us next year. In the meantime we shall follow his efforts at the University with interf est.