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

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The Group of Girls 1921-'22 BACK ROW: Annie Laird, Hilda Foley, Vera Power, Susie Laird, Ruth Armstrong. FRONT ROW: Edna Swallow, Marie Rundle, Connie Stevens, Edythe Samis, Florence Aldsworth. Girls' Hockey Teams 1921- '22 STANDING: Lenore Quick, Grace Caverley, lone Quinn, Helen McGregor. THIRD ROW: Mary Found, Mildred Pinch, Agnes Vanstone, Dorothy Bellman, Marg. McGregor. SECOND ROW: Marion Pickard, Capt., Aileen Parker, Capt., Marguerite Joness. FIRST ROW: Hazel Rundle, Dorothy Kirkton, Joyce Muirhead, Janey Mason, Dorothy Bonnycastle. The Basketball Team 1921- '22 BACK ROW: Grace Caverly, Margaret Grant, Audrey Lamb, Marion Bellman, Edna CTeddyJ Jewell. FRONT ROW: Helen McGregor, Agnes Vanstone, Miss I.K. Smith, Dorothy Bellman, Capt., Marion Pickard,

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The Staff 1921- '22 BACK ROW: Mr. A.R. Scott, Mathematicsg Mr. W.J. Morrison, Principal. FRONT ROW: Miss M.M. Franklin, English, Lower School Subjectsg Miss I.K. Smith, English, Moderns, Art, Miss E.S. Tighe, Classics and History. Literary Society Executive 1921-'22 BACK ROW: Stuart James, Marion Pickard, Kenneth Fraser, Aileen Howard Melville Dale, Ross Tilley, Helen McGregor, Charley White, Joyce Muirhead, Er nest Goddard. FRONT ROW: Marion Bellman, Gwen Williams, Deac Goddard, Past President Miss Elsie Tighe, Honorary Presidentg John McMurtry, Presidentg Grace Caverly Elizabeth Best. 3

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The whole Cadet Corps would march up through the town then back to the school - and so disband for another year. The girls did not participate in cadets until later, so when the boys were drilling they had spares and, of course, enjoyed the half holiday announced by Mr. Couch. Both the Boys' and Girls' Athletic Societies played an important part in school life. They drew up the schedules for the inter-form games in various sports, planned the school skating parties at Tay1or's Arena, also the lunches af- ter the skating and red all the visiting teams af- ter the games that were played at B.H.S. Katie Pinch CMrs. Kenneth Switzerl says She will always remember the bean feeds after the games. For a small school, Bowmanville produced some fine athletes who made their mark at the various school meets and games. Cedric Needham remarks in his recollections that In sports, most of the equipment was supplied by the students. We built our own football goalposts and spent a few afternoons wheeling cinders in wheelbarrows from the Goodyear. In 1922, we raised money by popular sub- scription to buy lumber to build a skating rink on the playgrounds. We were allowed to flood the rink nights during Christmas vacation, staying in the school while one hero stayed out- side with the hose. The rink was ready for use when school opened after the holidays. Our soc- cer team was allowed to play a teacher - both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Scott played at different times. The school year of 1921-'22 was an ex- ceptionally successful time. As stated in the Screech Owl of the year - the school carried off every bit of silverware that was up for com- petition - namely - At the Inter-School Track and Field Meet between Whitby, Oshawa and Bowmanville, B.H.S. won the McLaughlin Cup for highest number of points, the Senior Cham- pionship tPercival Muirheadl and Junior Championship CAlex McGregor? Medals, the Junior Shield, and the Seniors tied with Oshawa for Senior Shield. In Inter-School Soccer - Bowmanville vs Whitby - in a series of home and home games, B.H.S. was never once scored u on. pThen in the Central Inter-Colliegate Hockey League fthe first year of its organization? Bowmanville played nine games and won eight, thus winning the Silver Cup donated by the Oshawa Rotary Club. The schools competing in this league were Whitby, Oshawa, Cobourg, Belleville and Bowmanville. Seven years later, Bowmanville once again won the cup. Morgan Lunney describes this competition - We had trouble winning our group in High School Hockey - the trouble was spelled OSHAWA. Oshawa Jrs. had a smart forward line, Rowden, Black and Little and the same trio played in their High School Squad. They must have graduated and we won one group and ad- vanced to play Tweed in the Eastern Finals. The team travelled in two or three cars and I went in the one driven by Frank Williams. It was quite a trip in those days, but everything went well. We tied in Tweed and won in Bowmanville Cat Norm Taylor's Ice Palace! and the trophy was deposited in the B.H.S. Trophy Case. Porky Osborne and Hal Dr. Slemon were our marksmen as I remember. W.J. Morrison was principal, A.R. Scott, who had left B.H.S. to teach at Arnprior, sent us a congratulatory letter, and Sully Moise was firing the boiler in those days. The next series which likely would have been the final for Southern Ontario should have been against a Toronto team, but it was never set up and I don't know why. Perhaps we were taking too much time off our studies? In the year 1927-'28 rugby was played for the first time in the history of B.H.S. In Stuart Can- dler's memories of B.H.S. he gives a full ac- count of THE BIRTH OF FOOTBALL AT BOWMANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - The first organized game of rugby was played at B.H.S. in the fall of 1928. The English game of rugby was the father of football as we know it today. The Americans adopted the game, changed its name and rules, and ex- ported it back to us as football.