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

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lEditorial Ever and anon an Editor may. perhaps. be readily shriven For not giving what he has previously given. Tradition dies hard. Which is particularly pestiferous for the Editor who has set himself up as an Amateur Bard. And. instead of producing the Editorial prosaic and terse, Has perpetually burst into Verse. Comes the day when his Kluse will frown upon him And his inspiration run down upon him. Poesy will take to her wing And what will the would-be Poet do then, poor thing? This may explain our flight from a medium more rounded and rational Into the seductive arms of the merely Ogden Nashional. Yes. our own private Pegasus was beginning to cough And wanted this year off. Nevertheless, this format. though somewhat skittish, Affords a compromise which is almost British. Seeing that one need not be symmetrical and sublime. But one does have to rhyme: And, even if one's results may be a little too bright and breezy, Well, rhyming is easv. ' l ' C.F.G

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SCHOOL NOTES These notes have been delayed for the printers through the sports results being mislaid and the late return of the Headmaster and his family from their holiday in England. During his absence Nlr. Genge was kept extremely busy ensuring the smooth running of the holiday courses. filling breaches in the staff and finally interviewing a large number of new boys and their parents, so that. despite some last-minute crises, the school year got away to a good start with an enrolment of 90 Boarders and 90 Dayboys, the largest for some forty years. The long recess is always a busy time for only then is it possible to carry out major maintenance jobs, of which the chief this year were the new roof on the Memorial Hall and the New Look on the Cricket pavilion. Readers please note that the War Memorial Fund for the improvement of the Memorial Hall is still open and that the original design-for which we have the blue prints-to include a stage. dressing rooms, cloak rooms, etc., is still unfulfilled. This addition to the Memorial Hall and the building of a School Chapel are the most immediate major requirements for the betterment of the school. Rlr. Cupple's cypress hedge has progressed well along three- quarters of its length but lack of water and the rapid menace of undergrowth has spoilt one section. The gaps are being filled, however, and it is confidently expected that in two or three years time we shall have a fine thick hedge. This. together with an entrance gateway to replace the present derelict fence. will make a vast improvement to the school's appearance. There is of course no end to the improvements planned, hoped for and in part achieved. not all of them very obvious: such as the Qreat improvement in the cricket square thanks to the generosity both in time and money of Major lN'ise. whose benefactions during this past year have included also the construction and erection of concrete wickets so that our cricket may be improved. VVith scores of recent years in mind the Major's gift comes in good time indeed! In a year in which there were many highlights perhaps the most memorable were as under:- The visit by the Lt.-Governor. Col. The Hon. Clarence Wallace. C.B.E. and Mrs. NVallace on May Sth. This was the first time on which a Lt.-Governor inspected the school Cadet Corps and even the weather rose to the occasion. The production of The Prefects' Pressv-a brief journal of topical interest. The performance of Christopher Huntley in Senior Matric. It will be recalled that brother David passed Senior Mat1'ic thc 6