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

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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

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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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WHITTALL HOUSE After four years as Housemaster in Whit- tall House, it is with mixed feelings of regret and relief that I write my final report before stepping down once again to dwell among mere mortals. There will no doubt be many occasions when I look back nostalgically to the sound of taps being played in the evening (a tradition which I hope will be carried on). It will feel strange to sit down to breakfast or dinner and actually complete the meal without having to get up three or four times to answer the door. I am convinced that the boys have an early warning system, which lets them know when the Housemaster lifts his knife and fork. I will miss the characters who make ' house life so much fuller and interesting - Satchmo Mike who brought blessed pease with the sound of his trumpet; Yrrah and Bor who ran the Doof Doog, till it collapsed because the profits were eaten up; Charlie, whose English failed him at opportune moments; dorm 7 and their sneak attack on the garbage men; the boy who asked for extra pocket money so that he could buy a wench for his bicycle, and many others whose exploits I daren ' t even mention! No longer will I participate in such im- promptu gatherings as the highly successful ' eat-in ' , which offered such high calibre of food that it attracted some of the underprivileged from other houses - such as the Privett House- master and the Head Prefect, No report would be complete without rec- ognition of those boys who helped so efficiently to run the house. Thanks to Bick Rook and Vincent Kwan for their work in the library, to Rob McLean and Harry Williams for their cul- inary efforts, to Doug Loder and Steve Bramall for their help throughout the year, and to Bill Vetleson and Mike Thompson for taking over so ably the duties of House Prefects in the summer term. Graham Vink and Benny Sung are due particular congratulations for the fine example they set. The award of the Citizenship Cup to Benny Sung came as no surprise to any- one in Whittall House. Mr. Queen takes over Whittall House next year and to him go our best wishes for the fut- ure. R.O. 22