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

 - Class of 1941

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smoke. I remember thinking 'the next will be on top of me and that will be the end'. One more came that I thought was just the other side of the hedge, but I found later the crater was behind a house a good SOO yards away. I felt as if someone had hit me with a feather bed. I can recall no feeling of terror or even apprehension-just a sort of tenseness as I stood waiting for the next. Then I heard jerry right above me, flying low, but unseen in the fog. He dropped no more and the drone faded away. The roadfmen got out of the ditch, laughed and joked a bit, and went on with their work. Those three girls were still going down the road-I don't think the little devils were even running. Cars came by and everything seemed pzrfectly normal. The whole thing took not more than thirty seconds. It was like a page from H. G. Wells. I noticed that my pipe was still alight, and was childishly pleased thereby. Up by the shops there seemed no excitement, a few people in groups talking but shopping going on just as usual. - When I had posted your letter I returned by another road near where the first bombs had fallen. Outside one house were police cars, A. R. P. men, and an ambulance with 'United States of America' on it. Two old ladies and a girl were being taken to hospital, cut by flying glass. I heard later that they were seriously but not dangerously hurt. About a dozen houses lost windows and roofs, but houses are few and scattered just about here. This is the first time we have been bombed in daylight in Amersham, although we have had several night bombings. It has made me feel more reconciled to being here. DRAMATICS For the first time since 1913, Dramatics have, this year, been a part of our School life. Cn April 25, the School, in conjunction with St. Margaret's, put on two plays on the St. Margaret's stage. Four boys, Vernon, Bailey, Morgaii and Cockeram, had parts in the more serious play, Michaelg while Kitson, Collet i and Braide were in the second, a comedy, Five Birds in a Cage. While dis' tinctions are invidious, a word of praise must be given to Vernon for his interpretation of the difhcult part of the Angel, and to Kitson, a very realistic bricklayer with a true Cockney accent. The plays were in the nature of an experiment, being the outcome of suggestions from Major Bullock Webster, Director of the Dramatics Department of the Department of Education. The Boys were under the tutelage of Mr. Howden, who was noises off during the Plays, but the untiring efforts and skillful direction of Mrs. Turpin, of St. Margaret's, were what made the venture so thoroughly successful. 12

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HERE AND THERE Anne Boleyn was a French nobleman. The Laiety means a place where hens do their laying. Authority-The Shell Form. Don'ts for New Boys Don't offer to treat the whole School when you get a dollar from home-it's too risky. Don't boast of the number of Indians you have slain unless you can produce all the corpses. Don't-if totally ignorant of Cricket-make sneering remarks about the slowness of the game. Wait until you have fielded for a couple of good batsmen, when they're in the humour. Don't believe without hesitation everything your school fel- lows tell you-it is just possible they may be pulling your leg, at the same time, if they say that the Head wants you in his Cflice, you had not better take any chances. Offences For Which Detention Have Been Given Distributing pepper in hall-One hour. Alarm clock on parade-Onefhalf hour. Ill chosen Literature in Prep-Two hours, and see Head. Meddling with visitor's car-Two hours. Groaning after being warned-Two hours. LETTER FROM ENGLAND DESCRIBES AIR ATTACK An interesting account of warftirne life in England is conf tained in the following letter: This is a postscript to my letter of the other day-you may get both together. It will interest you to know that when I went to post it, Jerry nearly got me with a bomb! I needed stamps and so went out to the post oihce, about threefquarters of a mile away. This was about noon, a vile morning, with very low clouds and white fog, visibility only 100 yards. I-Ialffway up the hill, without warning, no 'Alert', there came a heavy explosion not far away. I stopped: Bomb or gunfire? In quick succession there came others, getting nearer. In the fog I could see nothing. Near me two roadfmen painting white lines jumped into the ditch and lay down, shouting at me to do the same. Three small girls were coming down the road quite unconcernedly, and I felt reluctant to dive in the ditch in front of them. Besides it was wet and muddy. Then came two tremendous crashes on the hillside about 500 yards away, and I saw through the fog a flash and then black 11



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I ' ' ' K Y 'MJ,'.. I QEU K N ,,,.?1.Q THE KER CUP This year for the first time in history the Cup was awarded jointly to Alexander Moncrieff Cupples and Maurice Arthur Vernon. All the Masters agreed that both boys were of Ker Cup calibre and equal merit. Both boys came to the School in September 1936. Both have enviable records for scholarship, character, athletics, and leadership. They matriculated with high marks in June 1940, and this year they have taken their Senior Matriculatiozi as well as the Entrance Examinations for the R. C. N. Their work as prefects in the School has been of the best, and their influence in the School during an 13

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