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

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WHITTALL HOUSE i-f ti M ♦. f If At the first house meeting of the year it was decided that Whittall House would give up being third. It was also decided that Whittall House would be first! From that time each sports team under its appointed captain, organised its campaign with the help of various members of the staff and the result at the end of the year has been a decisive and most encouraging victory. Perhaps more important than the wins them- selves have been the binding effect of them and the tremendous house spirit that have resulted. The leaders of the house have been able to pull and have not found it necessary to push. It is good to note that the house has recorded success elsewhere than in sport. In the Grade 10 Drama Festival in June, six out of the seven awards went to Whittall boys. Some incidents and personalities spring to mind; A garbage man, persecuted beyond en- durance and hot on the trail of his tormentors, being invited to remove his shoes by a smiling duty prefect as he entered the door at speed; Andy being dragged from bed at 6 a.m. on his birthday and dumped unceremoniously (and probably still asleep) into the ocean; Harry and his guitar; Stuart ' s inimitable voice likened by one irate duty prefect to that of a female rook in an advanced stage of imminent motherhood; Dorm 17 ' s inex- haustible supply of chatter; Dorm 6 ' s inexhaust- ible supply of tea and cookies; Doug and Barry on their morning ' constitutional ' before breakfast and so on and so on. Everyone has made his contri- : . ' m bution to the whole and it has been a most happy unit. I cannot overemphasise the valuable influence that Jeff Allester as House-Captain and Andy Raphael as his assistant have had on the success of this year. Together with the house prefects they have given strong leadership and set the sort of happy tone that I hope will continue. My thanks to them all and to my assistant Mr. Hudson, whose enthusiasm and support have been appreciated by us all. J-L.Q. 17

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ROWING Success at last. The long drought is over and the Brentwood first crew finally showed its true potential in winning the coveted Canadian schools championship in a record time of 4 minutes 25.6 seconds for the 1500 m course. An account of the race appeared in the St. Catharines STANDARD which we reproduce below. The big eight, which climaxed an exciting afternoon of real battles, was a fight from start to finish. All six starters rowed stroke for stroke through the first 300 metres until Holy Spirit and J.E.B. Stuart High School of Fairfax County, Va., forged into a slight lead. Then Brentwood and Ridley moved, only to be immediately challenged by West Park and Liverpool (N.Y.) High School. It was this way, with first one and then another of the crews grabbing the lead, through the first 800 metres. Then the west coast boat moved. Stroke Jeff Allester, who had hardly dropped below 38 from the start, climbed to 40 passing Henley Island and Brentwood had the lead. Holy Spirit came with the British Columbia crew, only to give way to West Park as Ridley 19