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

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VALEDICTION It is probable that every school can point to a particular period in its history which can be defined as an 'cepoch,', dominated by some monumental figure who has left his mark for future generations - and it is extremely probable that the last few decades of University School will be known, henceforth, as the VVenman', epoch. For 'W.R.G.W.' returned to us in 1925, and has just concluded a long and honourable spell of duty. He was known as The Bird Qthere have been worse nicknames for Assistant Mastersj, and it is true that he brooded over the student body, but it was as the eagle rather than the buzzard - as the watchful mother-hen rather than the vulture. He was always a disciplinarian who loved the thing that he disciplined, and many an Old Boy who prides himself on standing a little higher on his hind legs than his colleagues will never realize that he does so because he once came under the influence of one whom he felt, occasionally, to be oppressive, and whose regime, at times, he hated. It is a scholastic truism that, given a little knowledge, any fool can teach the Sixth Form, but that it takes pure genius to guide the Junior Grades along the lines that they should follow. Reg. Wenman excelled in the Junior and Middle School spheres, and we shall never know how much, a few years ago, a long and unbroken series of sixth-form successes in Mathematics had been due to the sound grounding for which he had been responsible in the younger days. As an indication of his versatility - he possessed, also, an ability to write concise, fault- less and witty English which has been the envy of us prosier performers. In the Field of Sport he excelled at most ball games, particularly Cricket, of course. Where this game was concerned, he would have made', any English County Team, and, as an all-rounder, most Test Teams 5 but he has always been afflicted by an innate modesty, and would undoubtedly be unable to remember how many centuries he has scored, were you to ask him. Moreover, we have heard that he was a formidable opponent on the Rugby Pitch, and that a far more com- fortable afternoon could be enjoyed in the pack, were he playing in the opposing three-quarters. Certain authorities have ruled that no first-class Player can make a first-class Coach: he was the exception to that rule. He has been honoured, of late, on several formal and informal occasions, and in the Press, but we must repeat, here, our Best Wishes to him fand, of course, to his delightful and co-operative Wifej for a long, healthy and happy retirement. Time passes, new generations arise and school memories may be short, but if, at some future gathering of Old Boys, talk arises of some more recent figure of note, the like of which the School has never seen -some paragon of a pedagogue- some Agamemnon of the Class Room Qwhich is always a battle- fieldl, then the oldest Old Boy of them all will rise to his feet and say, 'Vixere forties ante Agamemnona . . .' - there was once a 'W.R.G.Wf.', Diogemo 19

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THE THIRD GENERATION Congratulations must go to M. D. Thomson, through no particular fault of his own son-of-the-son-of-an-Old-Boy, who, nevertheless, by weathering the toils and tribulations of School Cand giving every indication that he will graduate extremely welll, will, we are sure, be the first third-generation Sixth-Former to figure on our Honour Boards. Sons of Old Boys appear in red. An additional colour will now have to be chosen C probably greenl. - Ed. 5 .' I I 21 lien., H 'P rx' Rl' f' 2 . v Why dont we paint the common room? fs' 2 ' - - l'- V- I 1 ., f'P?' - . ' , i Ah .AVL Y x A r 15 4' -, V in . 1 ' ',' V . 1'-Dl l -' I --, , H X V All Q Y 1 V 1. f-' . x ' ' , .