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

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PRIVETT HOUSE From the purely selfish point of view of a Housemaster, I am happy to report that this has not been a particularly eventful year. In keeping with the general tenor of down-town Mill Bay, there have been a great many things not happening. However, in its own quiet way, Privett House has become the acme and envy of the rest of the school, having nurtured both Head Boy and Deputy Head, Wade Davis and Ted Dunfee, and provided three out of the four Brentwood Ambassadors to the East - Keiron Gray, Corey Heerensperger and John Willings. In fact only modesty prevents us from proudly proclaiming our victories at sea, in the inter- house sailing, and our innumerable other tri- umphs on land, past and soon to come. Only modesty, as I said before. Of course it would be hypocritical for us to say that we have no criminal element in our midst to upset the even tenor of our ways. On February 5th 1971, at 2:10 p.m., Tony Camp- bell was observed using the centre stairs; Rob- ert M ' cCarvill has actually broken down and confessed to an insane urge to wear shoes in the house, a temptation to which he has, alas, been known to give away. Yes, it has been an uphill fight against crime this year, but against the organised mob, there is only so much a house can do. The wave of popularity of the Beatles has lowered the number of decibels in the house this year to the point where the house library has become its social and intellectual centre. The resulting increase in the already high aes- thetic calibre of our senior members led, un- fortunately, to some raiding of the worst sort by Senior House. To those of our members still in exile we send our greetings and assurances that they are not forgotten. There have been achievements this year by house members on an individual basis, for 20

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and consideration was the key, unspoken word. I loved being a part of it, and really enjoyed the time I spent in the boys section of the House. Credit for a marvelous feeling of togeth- erness that existed this year must go not only to the prefects for doing such a responsible, low key job, but also to all the members of the House for putting others before self and work- ing to make community living a happy reality within these four walls. All this is the more remarkable when we stop to consider that the House was made up of sixty totally different human beings having but one thing in common - they were all male! But strange though it may seem, whether we were thirty-four years old, (guess who?), or fourteen, (take your choice) from Umatilla, Oregon, (Rob E.) or Lethbridge, Alberta, (Bill B.), city dwellers, (Montreal), or remote Is- landers, (Alert Bay, B.C.), white, (ethnic orig- ins various), or Indian, ((Iloastal Salish - Cow- ichan Band), rich, (those who played the pin- ball machine), or poor, (those who washed the Housemaster ' s car for $1,) capitalist, (ask the Housemaster), or socialist, (ask the House), big, (Greg H.), or small, (Val McC), track star, (Brian H.), or stroke of the 1st VIII, (Jeff A.), painter, (Jamie W.), or singer, (David S.), sick, (Housemaster), or healthy, (the House- master ' s temporary acting, unpaid, overworked substitute), noisy, (Randy B.), or quiet, (Alex S.), flyer, (Wayne S.), or scuba diver, (Stewart C), tidy, (Robbie F.), or untidy, (Steve C), talkative, (Geof B.), or silent, (Bob McF.), smo- ker, (?), or non smoker, (??), in trouble, (Rod W.), or out of it, (Kevin H.), played rugby, (Doug L.), or badminton, (Bruce C), enjoy the rain, (Tom B.), or the sun, (everyone else), run a lot, (David H.), or remain sedentary, (Todd H.), work all night, (Gary W.), or enjoy sleeping, (Randy F.), on a brief visit, (John S.), or due for a long service medal, (Roly W.), etc. . . . etc., . . . , we all got on well together, and it was a great feeling. The highlights of the year included win- ning interhouse rugby, track and field and soc- cer and I am sure many more not yet decided, having a house council that worked, a much used ping pong table, an evening pizza parlour, Brian and Gregg ' s record of thirty-four free games on the pinball machine, fuses blowing periodically because of the large collection of capitalistic, energy hungry noisemakers, the plague of flies, Rod Washburn falling asleep in the bathtub at 11 p.m. and then keeping the House awake with his terrible snoring, the ' endless clutter ' in Dorm 16, the Housemaster ' s extended four month vacation, ( How can I get ' IT ' , sir? ), 58 successive ' needles ' in the Common Room, Dorm 10 scrubbing the eve- ning away, Dorm 13 becoming proud fathers . Randy Fennings coming ' standby ' from Prince George whilst his housemaster waited up all night for him, Pat Durban proving that he was stronger than his Housemaster, Mike Pad wick agreeing to run in the 400m at a track meet, Dave Levell returning from Nanaimo with a most unmentionable wall poster, the bevy of beautiful girls that sprung up all over the House then were as suddenly gone ... oh well, such is life - in Ellis House at any rate! Finally my apologies to the House for my long absence and my thanks to them for their consideration and helpfulness in those difficult months, and also to my assistant Mr. Keble and my substitute Mr. Queen for doing such a marvellous job in by absence. Maybe I was not missed after all! Above all my thanks to all my prefects for doing such a fine job and especially to Brian - a truly outstanding Head of House. N.R.B.P. 19

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which we can take no credit, but which we wish to mention nevertheless. The outstanding item has to be the money raising efforts of Jim Rob- son and George Leroux on behalf of the young Korean orphan Ohong Silt Yu. Their sale of can- dy apples has raised enough money to look af- ter this boy for a whole year. This is a most worthwhile endeavour and to Jim and George we would like to say well done! Other individual efforts we would like to mention include Jim Robson for cross country running, Paul McKay for shotputting, John Bradford for the long jump, Kevin Lees for gymnastics, David Scott for sailing, Stephen Trottier for tennis and badminton, Robert Reid for tennis and soccer, Mickey Moran, Ted Dun- fee and George Leroux for swimming, Doug Bulteel for breaking all sorts of records around the school and Stephen Jones, our visitor from Lakefield who has been a good swimmer and an excellent contributor to house morale. Finally, and sadly we must bid farewell to four graduating residents Wade Davis, Ted Dunfee, David Scott and John Beaddie. We wish them the very best of luck and thank them for all they have done for the house. R.V.L. 21