Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Junior Schoo House In September we welcomed no less than twelve new boys to the house; they came from places as far apart as Jamaica and Nigeria and ranged from Grade 4 to Grade 8. From the very start these boys fitted into the house and they and the ten old boys formed one of the happiest groups we have had in recent years. The year has passed uneventually and is remarkable in that there is little to relate in terms of crises or unusual happenings. Recreational activities have been varied as always with early morning skating and evening baseball being among the most popular. The new cross-country skis survived their first winter and were particularly

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6B FRONT ROW: Mahoney, Schutz, Skinner, MacDougal. MIDDLE ROW: Thompson, Kendall, Sandford, McKenna, Federchuk, Hunter, DuToit. BACK ROW: Milburn, Bain, Mann, Wong, Jaworski, Mr. Shorney. Ttlttt FRONT ROW: MacLennan, Wong, McCleary, Eckert, Bhar, Davidson, Koenders. MIDDLE ROW: Mann, Grant, Jones, Nicholson, Manning, Neumann. BACK ROW: Gross, Mr. Bailey, Jehnek, Garrod, Spidle. FRONT ROW: Meek, Bell, Banks, Washington, Strachan, Berriman. MIDDLE ROW: Neal, MacMurray, Hays, Sorokolit, Baillie, Ochrym, MacAulay, Batty, Leeming, Mr. Workman.

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favoured by the boys from overseas. Once again the Grade 8 ' s, num- bering seven this year, enjoyed a final evening out at the Hamihon Mountain Bowl followed by Pizza at Mr. Berriman ' s apartment. We say goodbye to John Durdan, Sylvester Pih, Andrew Dobell and Peter McConnell, who have been with us for one year, Lawrence McNally who has been with us for two years and Richard Wackernagel and Greg Williams who are three year veterans. We wish them well in their new beginnings in the Senior School and hope they will return to visit JSH from time to time. As the year passed and the time to leave the old house for the last time came nearer many thoughts turned to the prospect of spending the fall term in huts on the lawn outside and even further to the new facilities that will be created inside the old walls. Plans of the layout and drawings of the new furniture caused much interest and generally favourable comment. Of all the changes, the situation of the common room in our own area of the building is most welcome and should go a long way to completing the concept of a Junior School House as a separate and complete entity within the School. This evening, June 26th, I went into the old house to see how the work was progressing. After climbing over mountains of rubble in what had been the stairwell, I finally got up into the dorm - there was literally nothing left from the windows of Mr. Boyd ' s apartment to the windows of my living room. Not a trace of the warmth colour or comradship that had been so much a part of that place, was left. Those of us who return there in the depths of winter next year will have a very special responsibility to make a new and successful beginning. I know we all look forward to that day. J.B.