Bowmanville High School - Screech Owl Yearbook (Bowmanville, Ontario Canada)

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Kilpatrick traded winning the championships and shooting the most baskets in the early fif- ties, followed by P. Conway and B. Bathgate. T. Dadson, J. Fowler, D. Woodlock, G. McCullough and Dr. Cattran were outstanding in the boys' events. The Rugby team was slow in starting in the '50's and only began to show their winning ways in 1957-'58. The next year the team won the Lake Ontario District Finals and began the sflsow climb to the great teams we had in the 7 07S The boys on the football team will recall challenging Jack Ross. We had decided that if we won a game, Coach Ross would go into the showers fully clothed. We won a game, but Mr. Ross led us a merry chase through the woods behind the Goodyear Plant. It was quite a sight to see a fully dressed football team chasing their coach through the underbrush knowing very well that we could never catch him because he could run like a deer and jump like a gazellef' Ivan Woolley. Badminton was another feature in the B.H.S. sport scene. In 1951 the Bowmanville team won the Central Ontario Tournament which could not be held as only Bowmanville players ap- peared in the finals. In 1953-'54, Don Laird put our school on the Badminton map by going all the way to the Ontario finals in Toronto. In 1953 a new school award was introduced, the Big HB . To win this the boy or girl must be in Grade Twelve or Senior Commercial. He or she must have given evidence of athletic and scholastic ability as well as qualities of co- operation, and must have obtained four thousand points in athletics. Some of the first to receive this award were Dorothy Hockin, Gerda Craig, Beverley Frank, Ken Kelly, Ted Colwell, Ivan Woolley and Jim Hooper. Volleyball was a very popular sport in the '50's, but the school did not have a team to com- pete with other schools. Almost everyone in the school belonged to a team and there were many inter-form competitions. And So Into the 1960's 'I n , J - 'R nf 3 J L.. S J CLARKE' If--

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Each graduating class made a presentation to the school in appreciation. Usually the gift to the school was a painting to be hung in the halls for posterity. In this particular year, as depicted by the photograph, the Grade XIII graduating class arranged to have a professional wood craftsman recreate the new school symbol into a large hand-carved plaque as the class gift to the school. The photograph was taken on the day of the class presentation with DONALD CRAMP for the class and with MR. DIPPELL, our most respected prin- cipal, receiving the valuable gift on behalf of the school. Donald Cramp

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The success of this year's Screech Owl can only be judged by the pleasant memories and happy reminiscences we hope it will bring to all of you. I don't care what you say, Mary, I'm not doing the book again. I don't care what you say, Mr. Clarke, I'm not doing the book again. Thank you must be said to all those who helped to hatch this final Screech Owl: Mr. Clarke, Mr. Colville, Mrs. Jeffery and the History Committee, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Thompson, Mrs. McMaster, Mrs. Sheridan, Caroline Howard, John Lathangue, Heidi Higgon, Chris Terhune, Barb Crapper, Brenda Moffatt, Cathy Porter, Dave Preston, Steve Billett, Marilyn Symons and her Advertising Committee and Typing Assistants. Special thanks to Rod for opening the bottles. I don't care what they say, they will, they will.