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

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carry the sense of happiness and fulfillment of a tremendous school year. This can only be felt by student and the staff who actually work and live and study in the institution. At the beginning of the year, the new administrative scheme went into smooth operation with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Pollard at the Senior School being in charge of academics and internal administration and Mr. Gallagher taking over the post of l-lead of Middle School with great success. The Prep School continued to produce excellent material under the leadership of Mr. Creek. We were joined this year by Mr. John Boberts, who came to us under the title of Business Administrator. l-le is, however, far more than that. l-le quickly established himself as a universal uncle with his willingness to help in any way he could to make life for the students and the staff run smoothly, His organizational abilities found full reign in the re-organization of the kitchens and the other auxiliary services to the school, and as I write, the school has never looked better and we all owe a great debt of gratitude to John Boberts who undertook this difficult task on our behalf. This year we set off on the great adventure in the academic field of the International Baccalaureate. To test our wings, we were allowed to enter three candidates, each doing two subjects in the external examinations of 1976. These were three Grade Xll Students and we felt that we would receive a good reflection of our own efforts and overall teaching with the results from these examinations. You can imagine the joy at the school when the external examiners report was received and the three candidates had obtained first class standing in each of the examinations. The candidates were David Pickles, Wake McAlpine and l-lansi Cunningham. I felt confident in suggesting to the Board of Governors that this was the way to go, that the school could enter the international field with confidence. The academic staff here do a job second to none in any school and l am proud to be the l-leadmaster of this institution at this time in its history. As is usual, there are some staff changes and in a staff of over forty, this is to be expected. Dr. Bompkey goes to the University of Alberta to lecture and his replacement is the Bev. Terence Davies, lately l-leadmaster of Bothsay in New Brunswick. Mr. Bichard Parsons is returning to University, this time the University of Washington to do a further degree, and his place is being taken by Mr. Trevor Blake, who was one of those instrumental at the International School in Geneva in setting up the International Baccalaureate Programs. Mr. Lankester goes to join Doug Williams at Halifax Grammar School and we wish him and the other gentlemen the very best of good fortune. We have had an excellent Graduating Class and the prospects for 1976-77 in the academic field are such that we should set new records. The hard slogging of the last five years has placed the school in an exciting position to move forward successfully towards its 75th Anniversary in five years' time. This goal, we hope, will be reached with the completion of all the schools requirements as envisaged by our early founders. Speaking of our founders, this year saw, appropriately enough, Memorial Boards being unveiled in the School Chapel to the Founders of both the old schools, also a Memorial to Tom and l-lelen Keble, great teachers. With the new red carpet in the Sanctuary, the generous gift of the Parents' Auxiliary, the Chapel continues to be a place of quiet dignity. I can say with a clear conscience a strong well done to every one who has helped makethis past year a success. lt would be indeed remiss of me if I did not at the end, remind every one that the quiet work of the Board of Governors of this school makes everything that we do here possible and the debt of the whole Society to these Trustees who give unstintingly of their time freely in its service, should always be acknowledged' 7

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L? 4 ,J-41 THE HEADMASTER WRITES 1975-76 vvlll go dovvn rn the school hrstory, l am sure. as a watershed year. Worlr cr: was put ln traln at the tame ofthe amalgamatlon flve short years' ago. oegan to pear trult rn the most oovrous of ways. The tinal renovations of the entlre school oulldlngs were completed during the school year. Frst, l-lame, Houseand then the School House vvere totally renovated and prought up to efcellent standards rn everv respect lncludlng the most demandrng flre-proof and alarm svstems expected from the authorrtres. Gone are the outslde ture escapes vvhrch used to drstlgure our peautlful ourldrngs and novv vve have lnterlor trre-proofed towers of the most modern destgn, The uogradlng of our tacllltles. vvhlch vvas so sorely needed fave years' ago. has been a contrnulng one Now It lS completed, Throughout thrs Magazlne. there IS a record ofthe dorngs and happenrngs ot the last school year, and you Wall frnd success measured rn terms of academrc. sports and cultural actrvrtles There rs. however, no wav that a magazrne can 6

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ACADEMIC PRIZES ENGLISH GEOGRAPHY HISTORY GRADE III IV V-1 V-2 VI-1 VI-2 VII-I VII-2 VIII IX X XI XII III IV V-I V-2 VI-1 VI-2 VII-1 VII-2 VIII IX X XI XII III IV Richard Lankester Kenneth Roberts 8 Christopher Wyman Matthew Pollard Jamie Crombie Ted Balderson Todd Thomas David Wingrove Don Park S. Neely L. Murray, J, Marsden J. Kuster C. Gareau W. Hope Joey Sheldrake David Blair Adam Dewey Malcolm Penn Mark Smith Neil Antolin D. Wohlgeschatfen J. Ellis C. Van Ham J. Cunningham M. Jawl Todd Hartlen Richie Peterson 8 Todd Hartlen J. Cunningham M. Jawl Todd Hartlen Kenneth Roberts Matthew Pollard John Wilson Stephen Wright David Wingrove D. Copeland, M. Dempsey Kenneth Roberts