Brentwood College School - Brentonian Yearbook (Mill Bay, British Columbia Canada)

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Note: The ' Activities ' section of this magazine has dealt with only those school enterprises which involved a definite number of boys, and which were carried on for most of the school year. However, there was a vast number of other activities which will never be fully recorded. Swimming off the school dock involved almost all of the boys, both during the early part of the first term, and during the summer term. An Art Club flourished; the quality of some of the paintings hung in exhibition at the end of the year must have surprised even their creators. A Science Club was born. Stray notes from piano lessons trickled down the main hall most afternoons, and two of the youngest boys once set a regular pattern of cooking a T-bone steak on an open fire, down the shore from the school. The picture above shows one of the enthusiastic water skiers, a group which suffered many an unscheduled and sudden dip in the waters of Mill Bay. The picture below shows another school activity — tenting amid some of the wilder portions of British Columbia. The group shown began this particular activity one fine weekend in the summer term. They had a bus, a fire,hot dogs, magnificent rain forest specimens, some of them many centuries old, and, beginning about two o ' clock in the morning, rain. This particular school activity ended the following day, and we understand its initiators wish to remain anonymous. To any groups who contemplate similar outings in 1964-65, we strongly recommend a battery- less,plug-less, automatic, invisible bus-opener; one which will open a bus door at two o ' clock in the morning. — Ed 24

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Rowing Club Brentwood College Rowing Club is now two years old, and as yet has met with little success. This year we entered two coned fours in the Schoolboy Championships, on Shawnigan Lake. Our B crew, consisting of Paul Aikins (stroke), Charles Thompson, Sid Tupper, Gregory Hicks and Bruce Lovelace (cox), were eliminated in their first race, while the A crew of Keith Lapp (stroke), Laurence Lamoureux, Rory Morahan, Grey Merrell and Rick Graham (cox) finished a good second in their heat and qualified to row in the final. This final produced very fine rowing and we finished last of four crews. The general picture, nevertheless, is far from depressing. Our boys witnessed some rowing which was of a very high standard, and they are fired with determination to succeed in the coming year. Only two members of this year ' s crews are graduating, so with a nucleus of experienced members and the prospects of some new equipment, the future looks fairly rosy for the Rowing Club. T. Browne 23

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Rugby 1st xv The 1963-64 season was one of mixed fortunes. Up to Christmas the School did quite well, after losing somewhat ingloriously to St. George ' s in the first game of the season. The highlight was undoubtedly holding the Shawnigan Lake School to a 6-6 draw immediately prior to Christmas. With a little more poise this game could have been won. After Christmas the combination of poor weather, leading to the cancellation of a number of games, plus injuries showed the weaknesses of the team. In our first Season of competition against the 1st XV ' s of the other Private Schools our lack of experience, particularly in the forwards, showed itself all too plainly. The inability of the pack, apart from in the Set Scrums, to give the ball clearly and quickly to the Scrum- half prevented a sound three-quarter line from being exploited to the full. With more experience and the maturing of younger players, this weakness should be much less evident in coming seasons. 25