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

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ACADEMIC AWARDS 1973 Twelfth Annual Presentation of Awards and Prizes June 22nd, 1973 Back row, 1. to r.: P. Trelawny, J. Turner, J. Morgan, T. Burley, G. Hick, D. Winchel, D. Ng. Front row, 1. to r.: D. Langer, D. Trottier, N. Gregson, S. MacEwig, G. Young, J. Shipley. Academic Awards 1973 Special Awards Grade VIII Grade IX Grade X Grade XI Grade XII Form Prize Samuel Jackson Band: Musicianship James Shipley English Michael Biscoe Service Award Thomas Burley Mathematics Stanley Worsley Choir: Grant Hick, James Turner, Science Patrick Trelawney David Stanley and Shannon MacEwing History Patrick Hogan Art: Senior Art Kenton Crawford Geography Jerome Klima Junior Art Kenneth Stockdale French Patrick Hogan Drama: Young Trophy — German Allan Wood Best performance Keith Hutton and Spanish Fred Lee Shane Muldrew English Kirk Wirsig Earnshaw Trophy — Mathematics Bruce Lo Best contribution David Stephen Science Timothy Harvie to Drama Club John Richards History Ralph Backer Earnshaw Trophy — Geography Norman Root Outstanding French Ralph Backer contribution Bruce Halliday German Douglas Langer Computer Pro. Mayland McKimm Kenning Science Award Douglas Langer English Michele Vink Florence Scott Award for Mathematics Bill Li Creative English David Trottier Chemistry Kenneth Ng Davis Award for Junior Biology Michele Vink Scholastic Progress Ramsey Milne Physics David Aisenstat runner-up James Whittome History David Aisenstat Junior Citizenship Award Mayland McKimm Geography Michael Lax Senior Citizenship Award Grant Hick French Penny Killas Eric Bapty Economics Michael Lax Mary Brooks Law Award John Morgan German Patricia Tscheslog James Turner Spanish Sarah Scott Leadership Award Graham Young English Literature David Trottier Headmaster ' s Special Award Shannon MacEwing Mathematics David Ng Thomas Burley French Nola Gregson Hogan Memorial Shield Patrick Trelawney History Shannon MacEwing Butchart Trophy Nola Gregson Geography James Henniger and Yarrow Shield David Trottier Lome Wensel runner- ■up Shannon MacEwing Senior Biology Katherine Pontifex Senior Chemistry Dennis Winchel Senior Physics Dennis Winchel

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HEADMASTER ' S ADDRESS From an academic point of view, the only change of major import is that, from now on, we have no more Government examinations. As no other authority has felt moved to fill the vacuum created by this departmental decision, we — and I don ' t mean just Brentwood — I mean all schools in British Columbia — therefore face the grave risk of having no standards to meet. We are the only country in the western world to go standardles s, and I believe the results may be disastrous. We here must give thought to this problem. We must seek co-operation from some institution or institutions of higher learning. We must sit down with them and establish some sort of in- dependent examining authority which can check what we here are doing, and how we are doing it. We are, as you know, already inspected regularly by a competent authori- ty, and I think that, if a check also is made of our graduating standards, it will be easier for you to continue to have confidence in what we are doing. Our Fine Arts Department continues to thrive. Most of you will have seen and heard the offerings of our Band and Choir. You might be intrigued to know that, in addition — and let me emphasize in addition — to our present staff, we are next year adding a full-time piano and instrumental instructor who is certain to improve on what I hope most of you will feel is already an acceptable standard of perfor- mance. Our Theatre Department put on a very successful production of The Gondoliers in February, and something in a different vein is proposed for next year. I was invited one day recently into Mr. Bunch ' s office where he, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Ford were listening to a record — I may say a not untypical activity in that area of the school! I accepted the proferred seat and began listening to what I immediately concluded was a series of bawdy songs. Answering my quizzical gaze, Mr. Bunch explained That is what the Theatre Department are putting on as a public performance next year. As my stupefaction still in- terrupted my powers of speech my objections remained un- uttered. Yes, he continued, That is DAMN YANKEES, and that is what we are going to do. So despite all of the objections stemming from puritanical in- hibition and my Chauvinistic background, arrangements for Damn Yankees have gone forward. Lola has been selected, (I am not sure if this is type casting) and the remainder of the cast almost completed. We hope to sur- prise and possibly shock you next February. Last, but by no means least in the realm of Fine Arts may I point out to you the extraordinarily fine work that is going on in the Art Department under the direction of Mr. Kempster who joined us this year. One look at his display will impress you more than a thousand of my words. In Sports our year has been relatively quiet. Our oarsmen returned from the Canadian Championships with a Silver Medal, but their performance was actually better than that of the team which won the Gold last year. In Provincial competition they won not only against all schools but also all senior teams they rowed against, in- cluding the top Heavyweight VIIFs of the University of British Columbia and Victoria. Four of these young men have been invited to represent the Province in the Canada Games next month. Our sailing team has been equally successful, sweeping — if that is what one does with a boat — all before them. Our Tennis Team won the Independent Schools Championship. For the rest, I think it fair to say that the year was vastly enjoyable. Mr. Bramall has already alluded to the tremendous success of our co-educational venture. I can only add two things. Firstly, it has been a great joy to have these young ladies with us and, secondly, the publicity which accom- panied their arrival has been absolutely incredible. It seems that every week at least one media representative will arrive with a camera and start snapping pictures. They have greatly added to the life of the school in all respects.