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

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J. A. KITSON A. G. BECKTON THE KER CUP The award of the Ker Cup marks the highest honour the School can bestow. lt indicates in those who receive it a degree of promise which it is hoped will be an incentive to higher accom' plishments in manhood. Perhaps more than anything else it is a token of confidence that those to whom it is given will prove them' selves in every respect worthy representatives of the boys of the School and what the School stands for. The winning of the Ker Cup is a great achievement in itself, but, the fulfilment of the responsibility which is undertaken by its acceptance calls for still greater. ln making a joint award this year we believe that both recipients are capable of great achievement The Cup was awarded jointly to Kitson and Beckton. Both boys since coming to the School have shown promising indication of strength of character and leadership, and in their capacity as Prefects have wielded a wholesome influence throughout the School. Kitson entered the School in 1937. His academic achievements have been well above average. He has finished his school career at 17

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In the Great War, at the age of eighteen, he went overseas with the 196th Western University Battalion, served in France with the 46th Battalion, GEF., and later transferred to the Royal Air Force. The family, which is of Norman extraction, is one of the most ancient in the British Isles. From a pedigree prepared and certified by the Garter King'offArms in 1632, it appears to be derived from one jordan de' Cave, who received from his brother, Wyamarus de Cave, the estates of North Cave and South Cave, in the County of York, which had been granted to the latter by William the Conqueror in 1080. The first baronet, Sir Thomas Cave, was so created in 1641, for distinguished service in the Civil Wars. He married Penelope, second daughter and cofheir of Thomas, Viscount Wenman, of the kingdom of Ireland. The name of Browne came into the family in 1675 through th: marriage of the second baronet with the daughter of John Browne, of Eydon, Northamptonshire, Clerk of the Parliaments. John CavefBrowne who inherited the Stretton estate from his grand' father, William Browne of Stretton, County Derby, took the name of Browne by Act of Parliament in 1752. The ninth baronet, Sir William CavefBrownefCave, born in 1765, assumed the additional surname of Cave. A COLOURS AWARDED 1943-44 PREFECTS-Beckton, Collett I, Stephenson RUGBY-Carle, Anderson, Kitson, Dalziel II, Bissett GYMNASIUM-Collett I, Collett II, Stamer, Dalziel II SHOOTING--Collett I, Watt, Dalziel I, Beckton BOXING - Carle SPORTS CHTIWIPION-R. M. Dalziel 16

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the age of seventeen and a half, having completed his Junior and Senior Matriculation. He is a candidate for the Royal Canadian Naval College and hopes to be in attendance there next September. During the past year he has been O.C. Cadet Corps, a member of the First Cricket XI, a sturdy forward on the 'First Rugby XV, and a long distance runner on the Track Team. Beckton entered the School in 1940. His academic ability is well up to the average for he is sixteen and is completing his Junior Matriculation this June. This year he was quite outstanding as Sgt. Major of the Cadet Corps, a valuable forward of the First Rugby XV, Captain of the Cricket XI, and a member of the Shooting VIII. We are looking forward to having him back with us next year to complete his Senior Matriculation. IN LIGHTER VEIN QSome remarkable fielding has evidently crept into the classrooms, for the following extracts were found in discarded note'books.j From the VIth- Our fielding is a sleep and a forgetting: The catch that rises to us, our great chance, Hath elsewhere had its batting, And cometh from the bat: Not in entire unconsciousness And not in utter hopelessness, But spreading hands of valor do we try To send the batsman home. From the Vth, who have been doing a course of Modern? Poetry- the modern poet writes his verse and even Form V couldn't do worse fbut, if I were really modern, badder I'd say: for worse rhymes and it is madder or realistic not to rhmej. grand he drops his fingers 18