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

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SENIOR HOUSE The house this year was subjected to many novel situations, one of the most unusual being that it contained some students who had already experienced one year in Senior House in their Grade XI year. This group became so popular that all their friends from other houses made every effort to join them in the happy environs of our compound. This led to a great number 01 house changes and altogether some 52 boys were members of the house at one time or another. Another novelty was the commissioning of a fully equipped kitchen and a spacious common room in Senior House West. The common room was equipped with a television set and there the more intellectual elements of the house spent what spare time they had. We were still very disorganized when we received our crowning compliment, that of being host to the school ' s first Royal Student. The direct descendant of the Imperial House of Ethiopia, alas, spent but one night under our leaking roof and departed with great haste for the cosmopolitan atmosphere of downtown Toronto. On the social side, the house sponsored a dance in the winter term and an outing to Victoria in the spring. For 22

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THE REVEREND P. G. HARRIS It was with great sorrow that the school learned of the sudden death of the Reverend P. G. Harris, our Chaplain, during January. Reverend Harris took a very great interest in the School and all its activities, and was indeed a good friend to the boys to whom he ministered. His presence in Chapel did much towards the development of this most vital aspect of school life. His cheerful manner and his keen interest in the boys will be greatly missed, and we extend to Mrs. Harris our very deepest sympathy in her and our loss.

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some perverse reason the members of the house lost interest in such social activities and refused the offer of a second dance. I trust their interest in the opposite sex has revived in the summer vacation. The house was very well served, with an exceptionally gifted Head boy, Sasha Angus, and three industrious prefects, Glen Hughes, Bill Winterton, and Larry Bakos, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them all for their devoted service throughout the year. In the summer term monitors were appointed by me to assist the prefects in their evening duties and again the choice was very fortunate. Paul Watson, Phil Arnoldi, Gordon Southam, Robert Hindson and John Maclnnes performed a very difficult job and even- tually took over the supervision of house duties entirely. I would like to thank these monitors for their interest and re- sponsibility in a time when the prefects and housemaster are deeply involved in academic pursuits. Overheard or Seen in Passing . . . Richard Swanson fell asleep standing on his head. Robert Hindson eats two pounds of spaghetti every night. It ' s been a pleasure knowing you, Sir. Al McCrindle. I ' m sure we ' re excellent candidates for Senior House next year: we don ' t smoke. We don ' t drink Gordon Southam walking barefoot in the rain Musk sleeps outside the kitchen to get some fresh air Ex-prefects still go looking for smokers. Moodie and Milroy really are building an airstrip. Richard Forbes is always throwing stones in the water at the boiler-house. -A. C. 23