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

Text from Pages 1 - 232 of the 1979 volume:

THE STAFF Headmaster W.T. Ross, B.A. Assistant Headmaster T.G. Bunch, B.A. IN CHARGE OF HOUSES: A. C. Carr, M.A Rogers House, Head of Science Department R.V. Lironi, B.A Privett House, Geography, English J.L. Queen, B.Sc Whittall House, Physics Miss A. L. Holden, B.A Alexandra House, Biology R.S. Wynne, B.A Ellis House, English, Geography Mrs. M. Wichlinski, B.A Hilton House, French Miss. S. Sainas, B.Ed Mackenzie House, Assistant Librarian D.R. Piechotta, B.Ed Patterson House, Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics ACADEMIC STAFF: W.J. Burrows, B.Sc Director of Studies, Mathematics, Science I.R. Ford, M.A English Department Head, Latin H. Brackenbury, B.A Admissions Officer, Mathematics N.R.B. Prowse, M.A History Department Head, English H.J. Martin, B.A Head of Geography, General Business, Mathematics R.G. Pitt, CD ' . . Physical Education J.B. Garvey, B.Sc Mathematics Department Head, Admissions Officer, Science Mrs. D. Pitt Swimming Mrs. N.P. Arthurs, B.A Language Department Head, French, Spanish, Latin Mrs. J. Brackenbury, B.A English, French R. Cameron, M.A French, Spanish, German, History R.G. Cooper, L.L. CM Fine Arts Department Head, Music (Instrumental Choral) P.J. Simmons, Dip. Ed Physical Education Department Head, Mathematics, Science S.M. Cowie, M.A History, Law B. Grafton, Ph.D English, Creative Writing, Journalism R. MacLean, B.A History, English R. Wingate, M.A Science, French, Outdoor Education, Civilisation G. Malby, M.B.A Mathematics, Physics PART-TIME STAFF: J.L. Johnson, M.Ed Choral Music J.Boel Junior Band Mrs. Helen Smith, Dip. Ed Ceramics Mrs. A. McKerrow Assistant, Alexandra House Mrs. S. Garvey, B.A Girls Rowing J. Getgood, B.A Stagecraft Mrs. D. Jackson Art D. Keevil Photography Mrs. J. MacLean, Adv. Art Sc Library, Creative Dance, Gymnastics Mrs. Ann Taylor Weaving REGISTRAR BURSAR Mrs. J. D. Mather L.M. Crookston MEDICAL STAFF R.F. Stanley, M.D. Miss M. Rainey, R.N. Mrs. E. Cocker, R.N. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Headmaster ' s Secretary Mrs. J. Leister Accountant Miss A.B. Erkelens Bursar ' s Secretary Mrs. L. Dann Travel Arrangements Mrs. B. Little Stores Mrs. P. Smith Catering Mrs. E. Hallet Laundry Mrs. J. Windsor CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE: Maintenance Superintendent K. McAlpine Grounds 0. Finnegan 2 VALETE GEORGE MALBY This year we bid farewell to Mr. George Malby who has been with us but one year teaching mathematics and physics. He began and gave great impetus to a wrestling programme as well as stimulating interest in the Stock Market. He leaves us to continue his career in the world of business and we wish him all success in the future. MAISIE RAINEY It is with great regret that we say goodbye this year to Miss Rainey. She has given great service to the school, initially as librarian and assistant housemistress in Hilton House, and latterly as Senior Matron. She has brought a degree of cheerfulness and compassion to her role which will be missed greatly. We all wish her good luck and good future in her visit to New Zealand. BETTY COCKER Mrs. Betty Cocker joined our nursing staff some three years ago after having held senior nursing positions in Edmonton hospitals. Her good humour and firm friendly approach ministering to the halt and lame will be sadly missed in the Health Care Office. She joins her husband in returning to the Alberta capital and our sincere thanks and best wishes for a happy and successful future go with her. BRIAN GRAFTON Dr. Grafton leaves us after two years during which he has taught English and been responsible for the Bren- tonian, both with considerable success. A keen photographer himself, he has brought his experience to the Brentonian publication and the Photography Club as well as coordinating the entries for the U. Vic. Sym- posium. He has given considerable impetus also in the area of journalism and creative writing. We all wish him every success in his future endeavours. 3 SPEAKER ' S ADDRESS [AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE ADDRESS OF MICHAEL BUTLER TO THE GRADUATES OF 1979] I have the feeling that Mr. Ross got his phone numbers mixed up when he called me about this address. As a matter of fact, I was certain of it the day after his phone call. I live across the inlet so I can see the school from my home. And there was this great pall of murky smoke wafting across from Mill Bay, obliterating all vision. Knowing Brentwood ' s propensity for fires I thought, My God, the headmaster is burning down the school rather than have me for prize day. But then I listened to the CBC and heard that it was just the Mounties at the Cowichan Dump burning up 35 tons of Columbian marijuana. A most wasteful extravagance — I feel sure that if Bill Bennett had had any say, he would have given away 5 free ounces to every resident of British Columbia. Anyway, I understand that the wind was from the north- west that day and that some of the masters have not got their heads together since. Speaking of masters and fires — I hear that the master of The Boy on the Burning Deck and other such sagas was seen coolly watering down his petunias while Whittall House burned. There is some one with his priorities straight. And what about Mr. Queen? The cat — the Jensen — and lastly Whittall House. As a matter of fact, I was previously taken by surprise some years ago when asked to become a governor. But that choice was soon explained — the former headmaster was packing the board in order to get a favourable vote to enrol girls in the school. Not that I am alone on that. The present chairman of the board of governors advanced his election on the strength of his well-researched and witty report to the board on this same subject. However, I do have one additional personal credential. I come from that still very small group of families in which there are three generations of old Brentonians. First there was my uncle — among other accomplishments he helped build the chapel. Next came myself and my brother. While my brother was in the old school, it mysteriously burned down, sparing only the chapel, in deference no doubt to our uncle. But my brother turned adversity to advantage — he parleyed all his school contacts into a successful practice as a social divorce lawyer. He has not sent any of his kids here — he tells me he likes the fees at Prince of Wales High School better. I do not want you to get the idea however that my brother is cheap — because you will find out otherwise if you ever get a bill from him. But as I was saying there has been a third generation — four sons of mine — all very dissimilar — all of them great talkers however. In fact the last one would have been here with you today if a couple of years ago he had not got into a shouting match with an assistant housemaster and talked himself right out of the school. Advice number one then from my speech — learn when to talk and when to shut up. And if you think that ' s a hint that I am nearly finished, you are dead wrong. Advice number two next. This is an address directed to you, the graduates. However, I cannot ignore that here today are many of the crowned heads of Vancouver, Edmonton and points east and west. Because, but for them, you graduates would have all gone to Westside High and been gorging constantly on MacDonald ' s french fries instead of on Mrs. Hallet ' s. Those french fries cost your parents a lot of money and they deserve at least a passing thought. Your parents, that is, not the french fries. Fathers and mothers, then, for a moment only. A friend who was advising me on what to talk about today said, Tell the young graduates not to embarrass their fathers. Well, I would like to turn that thought around just a bit. Parents, do not ever be embarrassed by your kids. Today they are being unleashed upon a very un- certain and rapidly changing world. From now on they have to find their own way. And they are going to make mistakes. They will do outrageous things, but also I am sure some generous and unselfish ones you may never hear about. Be supportive of the good, but do not turn your backs on them for the bad. Don ' t follow them across that line which your own principles do not let you cross — but always be there to welcome them back if they have regretted crossing it. And if the worst comes to the worst, move into a one-bedroom house. So now I have ninety-two eager and shining faces to whom I must direct my wordly wisdom. A mixed lot I suspect. At the extreme there are those few of you who will get 4 all the praise today. You are the ones that today seems really to be all about. I do not want to take anything away from you — it is your day. I got a few prizes on just such a day as this some thirty-five years ago. But then they had no one else to give them to as I was the only boy to pass senior matric in five years. Those prizes did not make me any better than all the others. They reflected what I had already done — not what I was going to do. So, Valedic- torians and the like, listen to me as I talk to the others. Tomorrow — that is if you survive tonight at the Village Green or wherever, even you Jim Baird with your champagne tastes — all of you, you are basically on your own. Brentwood has done what it can for you — and we thank you for what you have done for the school. I might say the school is a very different one from my day. The war years were bad ones — and there was little leadership, so little response from the students, com- pared with today. If you had removed classroom doors at that time, you would have probably left them all at the septic tank. I tell you this to show you that things have changed a lot. You have had a school that has given you a great deal of knowledge — practical as well as academic — and you are expected now to put that to use — to your own advantage and to the benefit of others. And your first and most important task now is making a decision for yourself, about your future. One more personal interjection from the past — the last one, I promise you. A while after I left school, I went to live with my father in England. After a few months, he got tired of my sitting around the house, drinking his gin. He did not mind me drinking it, he just resented my watering it down for him — so he let me know one evening that I had a choice of either working with his accountant or with his lawyer. He said that I could choose between them after a luncheon with each. The lawyer drank three gin and tonics, a bottle of wine and a couple of brandies with his lunch and talked about nothing but mountain climbing and winters in Switzerland — so here I am today, a lawyer, not an accountant. Thus, while I did not have the school life you had, I was not expected to make my own decisions either, the way you are. I do not know whether I envy you your freedom and your uncertainties. Because one thing is for sure. The world is not going to beat a path to your door. Nowadays nothing is going to happen to you if you just sit around dreaming great dreams, planning great plans and bemoaning the lack of money and help and opportunity. You are ahead right now: it is in your control to stay that way or to lose your edge very quickly. There will be lots of company in that quicksand of self-pity, despair and disarray. But most of that company did not have the background or the breaks you have had. By all means, you have got some time now, so do not hesitate to waste it, if you want — but waste it con- structively for yourself. Get out, see things, do things, experience that there is a whole other side of Canada and the world that you know very little about, a lot of which you have been lucky to miss. Go ahead, be a little selfish too if you want — this is not advice you would usually hear in an address like this because that is a tricky course to follow. However, I have faith that you will not let your selfishness hurt others — and that you will only be selfish long enough to solve your own uncertainties and then will be generous enough to help solve those of other people behind you. I guess that what I am trying to say to you all, is, whatever you do, participate. I think our part of the world at last is finally getting over those rather puritan stock criteria of what success really means. But therein lies a trap. Because while now you can do and be anything without too much criticism, this leaves it more up to each one of you than ever before to find your own place. So you have to take charge of your life. For goodness sake, take charge. And let ' s see you — each one of you — back here at Brentwood soon. Success or apparent failure. Let us participate with you as you with us in your continuing life. Not all the old Brentonians at the annual weekend are or should be jocks . Not all the governors of the school are or should be successful businessmen or parents. This school is moving with the times — that is probably its greatest strength. And we can go on learning from each other. So that ' s it, budding Beethovens, Einsteins, and Roth- childs. One of you may make it that far — but the rest of you, of us all, must be content with our smaller successes. It is a personal, a subjective world in which you will take part — just measure up to it, in your own light. And once you have, you will have the equivalent not of a one- bedroom house but of a fifty-bedroom palace at your disposal — and you might just even want to invite your parents over for the weekend sometime. June23, 1979 5 HEADMASTER ' S REPORT I am honoured and delighted by this opportunity to welcome so large a group of parents, friends and students to our annual presentation of awards. It is a particular pleasure to warmly greet and introduce our very special guests. To my right is Mrs. Marjorie Crookston, a dear friend (and the mother of a Brentonian,) a lady who is degreed in a most unusual manner: she holds the rank of Life Master in the American Contract Bridge League. Mrs. Crookston has kindly agreed to present our major awards. She joins her son, Sir Michael Butler, Baronet, Osgoode Hall Law School (Honours), Q.C., a member of the Bar of British Columbia, a 1945 graduate of this school, and now an industrious figure on the Brentwood College Govern- ing Board. Earlier today, at the luncheon held to honour our seniors, Sir Michael delivered a most thought-provoking and, if I may say so, inspiring address to the graduating class. Brentwood, in having Mrs. Crookston and Sir Michael with us today, wishes to recognize the huge contribution made to this school by this wonderful family during the past 35 years. Mr. Bunch who, of course, needs no introduction, sits to my extreme right and, finally, may I introduce Mr. Hugh Stephen, the Chairman of your Board of Governors, whose commitment to the goals of Brentwood knows no bounds. This past week the worried looks on some faces, the happy countenances of others who felt that their exams had gone well, the haggard, heavily smoking Mr. Martin, who at 2:00 a.m. last Monday morning struggled to complete the first term grass hockey report — due last December - rather abruptly reminded me that the wheel of academic, artistic and athletic activity would soon reduce its speed as the year, which officially began 12 months ago, began to approach its close. What meanings, what values, what purposes, underlie the action of forces, the highly energized human effort that constitutes our school? To answer that question, let me first identify some of those forces, review what your sons and daughters have accomplished, and thereby tell this year ' s story. 6 Although I dearly hope that the education offered here is much more than what we do in the classroom, I want to deal, appropriately I believe, with academics first. A summary of university enrolment undertaken last July revealed that 70 of last year ' s 84 graduates planned to continue their formal education by applying for university or college places. Among that group, I should point out, were eleven provincial scholarship winners. In this competition, 20 scholarships were allotted to our local school district, which includes two major public and three independent schools. Our students, in taking eleven awards of twenty, dominated the competition and thoroughly deserve our congratulations. In addition, our government, in wishing to recognize scholarship, citizenship, leadership and athletics, gives a very small number of prestigious awards called the Nancy Green Scholarships. Faced with province wide competition, three Brentwood graduates, Kyle Marsh, Dale Ban- nerman and Tom Pankratz, were declared winners. This past week, fourteen of our present seniors wrote government examinations in pursuit of this year ' s provincial scholarships. I have a great admiration for the dedication shown by this group and its teachers. Our very best wishes for success in this provincial competition go to Michael Burian, Tab Cuthill, Brian Dillon, Christopher Foy, Catherine Hagen, Stephen Hayne, Peter Holmes, Sandra Kouritzin, Shelley Milner, David Nelles, Laurie Mook, Kelly Salloum, Brian Williams and David Williams. Within the academic section of this address I would be remiss if I did not refer to our Public Speaking Debating Club under the able leadership of Mr. MacLean. We finished a close second to Lester Pearson College in provincial competition, with Miss Shelley Milner and Miss Ruth Buchanan representing our school and our Debating Society. Furthermore, Miss Buchanan was judged the third best debater overall, was awarded a $300 scholarship, and was named to participate in the National Debating Seminar which this year was held in New Brunswick. Finally, I must mention Catherine Hagen and Lindsay Dutton, whose submissions to the University of Victoria Humanities and Science Symposium led to their selection as Presenters to the fine group of talented students from across this province who were chosen to participate. Although our subject prizes awarded later in this ceremony are intended to recognize academic excellence at all grade levels, I must point out that many industrious, if not talented students, ones who have either ranked near the top of their class, or have shown marked im- provement, will regrettably not be mentioned. Without naming the scores who deserve recognition, I want them to know that they, too, have our admiration for respond- ing to our academic expectations and, more importantly, to their own high personal standards. It is appropriate then, to say that we have set high academic standards; that our students, by and large, have responded well; and that in many, many cases, the degree of excellence achieved fully justifies the fine reputation for scholarship this school has achieved in Western Canada and, indeed, across this nation and in many other countries throughout the world. The foregoing reference to the international scene provides me with an opportunity to direct the attention of this report to the athletic side of the school. I am sure many of you know that last summer our lightweight and heavyweight rowing crews enjoyed a most successful tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The heavy eights won the Irish Junior Championship and reached the final at the Royal Henley Regatta in England, finishing second to an excellent crew from Eton. This past rowing season our Rowing Club, which has a membership of 96 students, virtually outclassed every other school in the Pacific Northwest that engages in this challenging sport. The heavy eight were once again provincial champions and represented the province in the national championships held in St. Catherine ' s, Ontario. Although we have won this championship on two previous occasions, this year we were disappointed as our crew rowed well in an ex- tremely competitive race and finished with a third-place bronze medal. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to our rowing coaches, Messrs. Carr and Queen, and to the Captain of the Rowing Club, Blair Horn, for their tremendously successful year. I also want to point out that 26 girls were enrolled in rowing this past year and the standard of these crews has increased considerably. Their coach, Mrs. Garvey, and the young ladies involved, are to be congratulated for the huge improvement that has taken place over the season. I cannot begin to give you a complete summary of our accomplishments in athletics, as we have at least 18 different sports. I must say a few words, however, about some of the more major areas of involvement. In Rugby, in a year in which we expected to be rebuilding, I must congratulate Brian Sharpe for giving such excellent leadership to the 1st XV which by the end of the season showed surprising strength both in terms of deter- mination to do well and in skill. For example, in the final game of the season we were beaten by a score of 3-0 in the last minute of play by the school which eventually went on to win the Independent Schools Championship. 7 The prospects for next year, because of the talent coming through the school, are excellent. Because of this we are planning to send 40 boys on a rugby tour to southern France at Easter 1980. Mr. Cowie, who joined us a couple of years ago and who was asked to build a basketball program, has done a tremendous job. Our seniors did well in Independent Schools competition, so much so that next year we feel they will be a threat to the larger public schools who will form our main opposition. Once again, we seem to have fair strength coming through the school in the junior ranks, so Brentwood ' s future in this sport is bright. If I may continue for just a moment, the Swimming Club won all divisions at the Independent Schools meet, and our seniors were zone champions. Swimmers such as the McNeill brothers, Holley Kushniryk, Tricia Havens and Catherine Hagen made this a gala year. The senior team followed this victory with a fine performance in provincial competition. In Cross Country Running, a team of simply outstanding long distance runners led by Blair Crawford, Brian Carr, Brian Williams and Peter Holmes, and coached by Mr. Wynne, won the Independent Schools Championship, the Island championship, and the junior and senior divisions of the major cross country event in the metropolitan area of Victoria. Our Outdoor Education program continues to thrive under the guidance of Mr. Richard Wingate: we have 30 students pursuing various levels of proficiency in connection with the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme. This group, by the way, quietly and happily devotes a tremendous amount of energy to their sport and from it the school benefits because their number provides us with many of the leaders in our community. In tennis, I was impressed by our junior boys and senior girls ' accomplishments, as both teams won Independent Schools Championships. Furthermore, I know you will join me in wishing every success to Michael Mills and Tom Dalton as later this summer they will attempt to qualify to represent Canada in the World Youth Sailing Regatta scheduled to be held in Italy this summer. Winning championships and finishing near the top is, of course, not the goal. Our objective here is to offer a mixture of team and individual sports with a view to in- volving every student in an athletic program that: — stimulates the competitive urge that I believe is present in us all; — promotes good sportsmanship and a life-long interest in games; — encourages excellence; — and emphasizes the value of maintaining one ' s body in a healthy state. I think we have reached our objectives in these regards this year and, whilst doing so, several individual students have offered noteworthy personal performances. In the performing and visual arts this school devotes thousands of student and instructional hours to development of talent. We have these programs to develop the creative potential that we believe forms part of the makeup of every person. In addition, through our fine arts programs, we are attempting to demonstrate the degree of hard work necessary to achieve excellence and also to acquaint our students with what is fine, with what is good, in painting, drawing, pottery, drama, music, creative writing and dance, weaving, and photography. Our performance season began with Mr. Queen ' s production of Gilbert Sullivan ' s H.M.S. Pinafore, a most successful event in which we were delightfully en- tertained by a cast of over 70 students. In addition, I must mention the work done by our Stagecraft group and their director, Mr. Getgood, who aJways give us fine technical strength whenever we perform. In addition to the Pinafore production, we presented an evening of drama, dance, music, and graphic arts in mid-May. This performance, involving over 250 students, turned out to be far too long, but at least it served, both in scope and quality, to let this community know that the fine arts, on behalf of nearly every student in the school, are alive and well at Brentwood College. In my reference to academics and sports earlier in this address, I was able to point to some exceptional individual performances. This thread of excellence, I must em- phasize, finds its presence not only in these two sections of our curriculum, but in fine arts as well. For example, our entries dominated the winners list in local Arts Crafts competition. Provincially, the works of Douglas Jung and Nikhil Patel were amongst the 182 selected from 7 ,000 entries to be shown as part of the Emily Carr Art Exhibit now touring this province, and which later in the year is to be shown in Ottawa. May I congratulate Douglas and Nikhil and their instructor, Mrs. Jackson. I began by asking what meanings, what values, what purposes are served by the story which I have just related about our academics, athletics and fine arts activities. Before answering that question I want to pay tribute to the many people who have made the year such a tremendous success. Last fall I addressed the senior class and requested that they provide us not only with their full co-operation but with all the leadership they could muster. To me they represent a Grade 12 class that has given leadership, has cared for each other and, more than that, has cared for their school. It has been a tremendous privilege having the opportunity to serve them and to provide them with the opportunity to work with us. Amongst their number, over fifty served as prefects and many of them did simply outstanding work. I want to pay special tribute to the house captains who were such tremendous sources of strength to those who worked with them in the running of their houses. Here I refer to Ellis 8 House Prefects under Peter Holmes and his assistant, Brian Williams, the Privett House Prefects under Jens Goldgrabe and Mike Maxwell-Smith, Blair Horn and Scotty Matheson of Whittall House, Randy Ross John Fitzpatrick of Rogers House, Tammie Morrison of Alex, Kelly Salloum and Elizabeth Bittorf of Hilton, and Didi McKillop of Mackenzie Of these, I must pay special thanks to Tammie Morrison, our Head Prefect and Blair Horn, her assistant. They worked extremely hard on behalf of the school for the entire year. To Miss Morrison, who ' became the school ' s first female head prefect, I pay an extra tribute, not because of her gender but because of the outstanding way in which she assisted me, helped my staff and led her school this past year. To my entire staff, that is, the 35 who are directly connected with teaching roles, and the 65 others who support the running of the school on the domestic side under Mr. Crookston, go my sincere thanks. I can assure you that successfully operating this type of school is not an easy task. Many people, including the parents and students of course, must be credited with being an in- strumental part of our success, but without huge con- tributions by house masters, heads of departments, teachers, secretaries, business manager, clerks, cooks, and all the others, this whole enterprise would not be the institution that I have so many reasons to admire. It saddens me to say that we must bid ' goodbye ' to our two nurses, Miss Maisie Rainey and Mrs. Betty Cocker. Miss Rainey is taking a well-deserved rest for at least a portion of next year and Mrs. Cocker is joining her family in a move to Edmonton, Alberta. I am sure that fine replacements for these ladies will be found, but I want to tell you that they have gone well beyond the call of duty in providing nursing care on behalf of our students. We will miss them dearly but, of course, wish them well and hope that they will keep in touch with us in the future. From my teaching staff of 35, two are leaving. We say a sincere ' thank you ' to Dr. Grafton, who has been with us for two years, and to Mr. Malby who joined us last September, and extend warm wishes to them for personal happiness and continued professional success. We also extend a warm ' farewell and thanks ' to Mrs. McKerrow, assistant housemistress to Miss Holden for the past seven years, and to Celia Courchene and Marion Saunders, our telephone girls who have worked so hard on our switch- board for the past two years. We wish them all well. This past term we were delighted to have two exchange students as our special guests. The happy faces of Brent Barootes from Trinity College School and Chris Wilson from Ridley College will be missed next year. I trust, in- deed I insist, that they recount a positive story about their Brentwood experience — we have enjoyed you both and wish you success next year. I have an optimistic and confident view of the school ' s long term and immediate future. The Board of Governors is attending to our capital needs by engaging in a planning process for the replacement and upgrading of older facilities. You should be aware that interest in this school has never been greater and that the inquiry and ap- plication rates have exceeded all expectations. In respect to enrolment, I want to acknowledge and congratulate the 13 young ladies who joined us in our Grade Ten class last September. With ease, poise, and success they have fully participated in all of our programs. Indeed, there is no doubt in my mind that they added to the strength of the educational and social fabric which holds our school together. Demand for places for both girls and boys at all grade levels, as I mentioned, is great, but we will not be increasing the size of the school. As suggested last year, I want our numbers to slowly settle back towards a 325 mark. This year we had 340 enrolled, and next year I am anticipating that we will accept 335 students. As your Headmaster, I would hope that the interest that is being expressed in this school primarily reflects the respect we enjoy from our parent community, but it would be folly if I did not recognize that the success of our school is, to a certain extent, a consequence of the failure of many others in this country to satisfy those parents who want their school to emphasize discipline, dedication, mutual respect, and consideration for others. The foregoing positions, of course, represent the fun- damental planks of the Brentwood College philosophy. Indeed, they answer the questions which I posed to begin this address. What values do we espouse? What ends do we seek? What purposes do we serve? Ladies and Gentlemen, all those connected with Brentwood College — the Board of Governors, the staff, your Headmaster — are doing their very best to demonstrate that genuine achievement and the full development of the potential of each individual in the school is based upon self-discipline and dedication. We know that our students, from time to time, do not meet their personal goals; we know that from time to time we, as a staff, fall short of success — however, we recognize and try to teach our students that failures and disap- pointments can also be overcome through the application of a self-disciplined and a dedicated approach. Above all, in guiding this community and giving it leadership, my staff and I, in everything we do, try to respond to a very apparent truth. We know that any school which intends to promote excellence of any kind and has the strength to survive adverse times, must stand for mutual respect and consideration for others. With those goals in mind, we hope that we have served you and your families well this past year. For my part, I must say that it has been a tremendous privilege to work on your behalf . W.T. Ross Junel979 9 VALEDICTORIAN ADDRESS I feel great honour and much pleasure in speaking on behalf of the graduating class on this the final day of the academic year 1978 79. Furthermore, I thank my class mates for electing me to ' speak as their representative. The year has gone by like a bird on the wing. Although one or two of us have dropped out along the way, most of us have made it to the end. We ' ve had a good year. We worked hard in the classrooms, as a unit on the playing field, and indeed within all aspects of school life. Almost every event ran smoothly, even the burning down of Whittall House, which was made possible by the operations of an excitable Chemistry student. I know we have benefitted a great deal from the school, more than we possibly could have from any other. Not only have we received closer attention in the academic field, but also we have experienced the kind of social and athletic involvement that so many young people abandon for the security of the twentieth century television. The house staff and faculty must be thanked for all the time and effort they have given our class in solving personal problems, in winning athletic competitions, and in passing examinations both internal and at the provincial scholarship level. I know my class mates realize the value of this type of training and I hope that someday we will give our children the same opportunities. We are all glad to go I ' m sure, some more than others, but when we stop and think for a while, an element of sadness creeps in for this is the last time we shall ever gather again as a whole. We have learned to live together in the sometimes tense boarding school atmosphere and many close friends have been made of teachers and students. Now we must part. It may be for years, it may be forever. The school though, shall live on and the torch will be carried, as the school ' s motto says De manu in manum, from hand to hand. So, from all the Graduating class of 1979, I wish the best of happiness and good luck to the college and those who follow after us. I would like to close with a most touching quotation from the English poet, Lord Byron, one which expresses my feelings and those of my classmates fully: Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever, fare thee well. Blair F. Crawford. June23, 1979 10 14 Mrs. S. Garvey, B.A. J. Getgood, B.A. B.L. Grafton, Ph.D. Miss A.L. Holder), B.A. Mrs. D. Jackson J.L. Johnson, M.Ed. R.V. Lironi, B.A. Mrs. J. MacLean, Adv. Arts Sc. R. MacLean, B.A. G. Malby, M.B.A. H. J. Martin, B.A. D.R. Piechotta, B.Ed. Photo Not Available 17 R. N.R.B. Pi J.L. C Miss M. ( MissS. S P.J. Simmons, Dip. Ed. Mrs. H. Smith, Dip. Ed. Mrs. M. Wichlinski, B.A. R. Wingate, M.A. R.S.Wynne, B.A. 19 TRIVIA PAEDOGOGICA These notes come as a response to a comment by some of the students that they don ' t know what the Staff do. Let me immediately make it clear that I don ' t know what some of the Staff do! (We hear that W.T.R., when asked by a parent how many teachers worked at Brentwood, replied about half of them. ) Here, at any rate, is an attempt to show how in- teresting and diverse are the activities of my colleagues. Any resemblance to any living person will be amazing; the dead, will, of course, be instantly recognisable. Some beach bully kicking sand into the face of sun bathers will soon be in for a rude shock: ... Charles Atlas ' After ' is in the making. T.G.B. is making regular visits to the Health Centre, and is handling enormous weights on his personalised weight programme. (Jeannie, however, is still packing in the groceries from the car.) These ventures into athletic pursuits do not mean that T.G.B. is neglecting the calls of Thespis. He has recently been involved in producing ' Fragments ' , a play which proved yet again that T.G.B. ' s comedies are no laughing matter. J.Q. has had a busy year as director of ' HMS Pinafore ' and coach of the First Eight. As the cast of both en- deavours was almost identical, it was not at all unusual to hear such remarks as Bow, you must hit that top C more cleanly, and Dick Deadeye, you ' re not squaring properly. J.Q. ' s next production is to be The Gon- doliers with 8 to a gondola (9 if coxed). I.R.F. continues to play in the Malahat Stompers Jazz Band. The report that he occasionally sits in with a Rock Group is correct. That he has dyed his hair green and stuck a knitting needle through his nose is a blatant and scurrilous lie. A.H., we regret, has been sick, and absent from school for most of the summer term. We wish her speedy and complete recovery from her jaundice , which was not, incidentally, a response to Winnie Wong ' s comment that ' all Caucasians look alike. ' Pat Simmons was recently honoured by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce as the One millionth visitor to that fair city. He is now travelling to Seattle several times a week in hopes of being similarly received as the two millionth. We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Charlotte MacLean, born on May 12th and weighing in at 9 lbs. 13 oz. As befits such a mammoth production, she was 10 months in the making. The staff soccer XI retained their unbeaten record when they beat the Duncan Doctors 4 to 2 . The star of the game was undoubtedly N.R.B.P., who not only made several daring saves in goal, but also resisted the temptation to gather around the opposition and show off his operation scars. There is mammoth talk of a match against the Duncan lawyers. This has unfortunately been delayed because we have so far been unable to come up with the 15 officials — referee, prosecuting defending counsels, and 12 men good and true to adjudicate each offense. One of my colleagues, who shall remain nameless, had the singular misfortune to flip his car. Luckily his seat-belt saved him from injury at the time of the accident. Unluckily he chose to release his seat-belt when the car ground to a halt, thus sustaining a nasty blow to the head and injury to the neck. (Clue ... for those seeking his identity. The ignorance of the Law of Gravity clearly in- dicates his Ph.D. is NOT in Physics.) When he read these notes, a senior member of staff considered them obscure, irrelevant, esoteric, coruscated with illusory analogies and inundated with innuendoes; completely unintelligible to the uninitiated; indubitable emanating from a m entality perverted and irremediably diseased. Well, at least that ' s clear. Norm. D. Plume 20 KIMBERLY ANGEL Calgary, Alberta Alexandra House (Rogers) Sports: Badminton Basketball Track Activities: Creative Writing Choir Swimming H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight Champagne Best Memory: The sunshine, A.R.S. watching late night tennis Favourite saying: No goal is too high if we climb with care confidence. JIM BAIRD Abbotsford, B.C. Ellis House House prefect Sports: Rugby 3rd XV captain Rowing 1st VIII: colours Curling captain Activities: Ceramics Nickname: Stabach Best memory: St. Catharines signs DAVID BANNERMAN Campbell River, B.C. Whittall House House prefect Sports: Rugby 3rd XV Soccer 2nd XV captain Golf Activities: Ceramics Rowing Creative Dance Daylight and Champagne Nickname: Gland Favourite saying: Later bud, prime whip 26 Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI Activities: Sailing Typing Nickname: Shrew Best Memory: Grad weekend ' 7 9 BRENT BAROOTES Regina, Sask. Whittall House Sports: Wrestling Swimming: bronze medallion Curling Activities: Senior Band Daylight and Champagne Nickname: E.J. Best Memory: Honky Chateau 71 KEN BELL Radium HotSprings, B.C. Privett House House prefect Sports: Rugby Rowing Rambling Swimming Activities: Stagecraft Debating H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne ' Nickname: Bert KEVIN BERTLES Victoria, B.C. Rogers House House prefect 27 ELIZABETH BITTORF Edmonton, Alberta Hilton House School prefect (Privett) Sports: Rowinglst VIII Field Hockey Soccer Activities Ceramics Painting and Drawing H.M.S. Pinafore S.A.C. (dance committee) Nickname: Biz Favourite saying: Keep smiling ... it makes people wonder what you ' ve been up to. CLAUDIA BROWN Vancouver, B.C. Hilton House (Rogers) Sports: Field Hockey 3rd XI Activities: Photography Ceramics Rambling Nickname: Clods Favourite saying: The time has come the walrus said To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings. MICHAEL BURIAN Sports: West Vancouver BC Curling: School Trophy winner Rugby 5th XV Whittall House Rambling House prefect Activities: Rowing Pottery Debating Nickname: Buckles Best memory: Being Trailer Cap- tain over 18 loud boys after the Whittall House fire. 28 Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI Soccer Tennis captain Activities: Drawings Painting Typing Choir H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Nickname: Dynabee Sands Favourite saying: What you think of yourself matters more than what others think of you. SANDRA CAMERON Victoria, B.C. Hilton House House prefect (Privett) Sports: Tennis Soccer 1st XI Field Hockey Activities: Drawingand Painting Ceramics Photography Nickname: Carebear Favourite saying: As you look around you, don ' t you like what you see? Though it sometimes makes you lonely do you like being free? And are you sure you ' ll be okay with out my company? I just want you to be happy even if it ' s not with me. CARONCAPOZZI Kelowna, B.C. Hilton House (Ellis) Sports: Field hockey 1st XI: U.K. Tour 78 Rowing Tennis team Activities: Applied Design Trampolining Creative Dance Brentonian Favourite saying: I ' ll get you yet, my little pretty! Best memory: on the rocks, dinner leaves to Duncan, playing with Dee Dee. SANDY CAPOZZI West Vancouver, B.C. Hilton, Mackenzie House prefect (Whittall) 29 LAWRENCE CHAN Stanley, Hong Kong Rogers House Sports: Soccer Sailing Tennis Badminton Field Hockey Activities: Choir Typing Nickname: Lorenz Favourite saying: Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues - Johnson. KENNETH CHOW Hong Kong Privett House Sports: Curling Badminton Activities: Drawingand Painting Typing Band TOM CHRISTIE Calgary, Alberta Rogers House House prefect Sports: Rowing Novice VIII: B.C. Youth Champions Tennis: senior Curling Swimming Activities: H.M.S. Pinafore Nickname: Chister Mistie Best Memories: Seemore Aunt Dibs . 30 Sports: Rugby 3rd XV Field Hockey 2nd XI Activities: STEVE COBBIN Vancouver, B.C. Ellis House Crazy VIII rowing Arts and Crafts Nickname: Burl Best Memory: 1:30 usuals: Mrs. Dub (even though I didn ' t live there). Sports: CHRIS CONWAY Sailing: Bronze level IV Sitka, Alaska Activities: Choir H.M.S. Pinafore Projectionist Favourite saying: If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Sports: BLAIR CRAWFORD Rambling: Skoki Valley, Rocky West Vancouver, B. Mountain Expedition 77 . Rugby 2nd XV: Cowichan U 15 vs. Rogers House France Rowing Cross Country: colours Track team Activities: Drama: Julius Caesar Photography Stagecraft S.A.C. President Valedictorian Nickname: Bilbo Baggins Favourite saying: The smiles and laughter of the close friends I made. Curling Rambling Wrestling Ellis House House prefect 31 GARRICKTAB CUTHILL Edmonton, Alberta Ellis House House prefect Sports: Rugby 3rd XV Rambling Scuba Activities: Community Recreation Nickname: Diet Pepsi, Grasshopper Best Memory: A mountain morning. BRUCE DALE Grand Forks, B.C. Whittall House Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Soccer 1st XI Field Hockey 1st XI: U.K. Tour 78 Activities: Applied Design Nickname: Ugly Best memory: cleaning pavement for Wheezy ' s stunt car corporation. JOHN GRAHAM D AVIDSON Vancouver, B.C. Ellis House House prefect Sports: Rugby 5th XV Track and Field Curling Activities: Ceramics Intermediate Tennis Nickname: Charlie Best memory: Eric ' s Toga 32 Sports: Soccer 1st XI Swimming Softball Activities: Creative Dance Arts and Crafts Daylight and Champagne Nickname: Natface Best known for knitting sweaters while watchingT.V. NATHALIE DELESALLE Canmore, Alberta Alexandra House (Ellis) Hi Sports: Rugby Curling Rambling Swimming Activities: Choir H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Nickname: Pickle Best memory: D.D. ' s for Grad 79. Favourite saying: There is no such time as the past or future, there is only now. BEN DILL Coombs, B.C. Privett House 33 BRYAN DUKE Sports: West Vancouver, B.C. Rugby 2 rd XV Field Hockey 1st XI Privett House Rowing Activities: Stagecraft Band H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Nickname: Bimos Favourite saying: Later Bud LINDSAY DUTTON Victoria, B.C. Alexandra House House prefect (Privett) Sports: Soccer Baseball Activities: Creative Dance Drama: Daylight and Cham- pagne Symposium presenter at U-Vic Choir Nickname: Linny Favourite saying: To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield! SARAH EBELL Victoria, B.C. Hilton House (Ellis) Sports: Scuba Swimming: bronze medallion Leadership Rambling Activities: Community Recreation Arts and Crafts Sailing Favourite saying: Some people suffer from insanity, but I enjoy mine. 34 i Sports: Rugby 3rd and 4th XV Hockey Track and Field Cross Country Lightweight VIII captain Activities: Ceramics Nickname: Fitz Best memory: the day the doors walked. JOHN FITZPATRICK Calgary, Alberta Rogers House Assistant House captain School prefect Sports: Rugby 5 th XV Rowing Curling Swimming Activities: Stagecraft Nickname: skin Best memory: the day the doors walked. CHRIS FOY Edmonton, Alberta Rogers House House prefect Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI: colours Basketball: captain Scuba P. A. D.I. certificate Water Polo Volleyball Activities: Drawingand Painting Swimming (Bronze medallion) Tennis S.A.C. Concert Outings Best memory: great weather, J.M., and Good Tunes over Grad. weekend. Favourite saying: If you live for tomorrow, there will never be a today. DAYNAGEDDES Kelowna, B.C. Alexandra House (Rogers) 35 ALISON GILMOUR Merritt, B.C. Alex andra House House prefect (Privett) Sports: Field Hockey 2nd XI: captain Soccer 1st XI: captain Tennis Track and Field Crosscountry Activities: Brentonian Applied Design Nickname: Alabag Best memory: Dinner leaves to Duncan. Favourite saying: I ' m having 17 babies. RONI GLAISHER Calgary, Alberta Alexandra House (Privett) Sports: Basketball Swimming Badminton Activities: Choir Art Dance Daylight and Champagne Favourite saying: Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day. JENS GOLDGRABE Edmonton, Alberta Privett House House prefect Head of House School prefect Sports: Rugby 2nd XV Basketball: senior colours Wrestling Track and Field Rowing J. V. ' s Ice Hockey Volleyball Activities: Applied Design Choir Nickname: Jensbrau Best memory: May 18th weekend, Honky Chateau 78. HI 36 i Sports: CATHERINE HAGEN Field Hockey 1st XI Nelson, B.C. Rambling Scuba Patterson House Swimming team 79: colours (Ellis) Activities: Press Club Best memory: Sleeping in the trees, MLS! Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Rowing 1st XVIII: colours, U.K. Tour 78 Soccer 1st XI Activities: Choir Drama H.M.S. Pinafore : Dick Deadeye Daylight and Champagne Creative Dance Nickname: Walter Mitty Best memory: Earning the Night Sneaker award. STEPHEN HAYNE Edmonton, Alberta Whittall House House prefect SPORTS: DAN HINDLE Rugby 3rd XV Kelowna, B.C. Basketball Senior team Field Hockey 2nd XI Privett House Activities: House prefect Arts and Crafts H.M.S. Pinafore Nickname: Hondual Favourite saying: Everybody needs to believe in something. I believe we will have another beer. 37 PETER HOLMES Metchosin, B.C. Ellis House School prefect Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Soccer 1st XI Cross country: colours Track Club: B.C. Championships Activities: Rambling Community Recreation Favourite saying: Even I Regained freedom with a sigh . my BLAIR HORN Kelowna, B.C. Whittall House House captain Assistant Head prefect Sports: Rowing: Captain of Rowing Club Canadian Lightweight champions U.K. Tour 78 Soccer 1st XI: captain Rugby 1st XV: colours Activities: Senior Band H.M.S. Pinafore Nickname: Horny Favourite saying: Who ME? Best memory: Rory and Jim Baird last night in St. Catharines 79; Chico falling into the Millstream. ANDREW JENNINGS West Vancouver, B.C. Rogers House House prefect Sports: Rugby Cross-Country Curling Track and Field Activities: Stagecraft Arts and Crafts H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight Champagne Nickname: Shaven Best memory: Watching Mike and John hoist Room One ' s door up Mr. Lironi ' s boat mast at 4 a.m. 38 Sports: Field Hockey Swimming: Bronze cross Tennis ELIZABETH KENNEDY Edmonton, Alberta Activities: Hilton House (Rogers) Senior dance Drama H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Best memory: picnics, Whistler. Favourite saying: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you — then yours is the Earth and everything that ' s in it. Sports: KAREN KING Basketball Coquitlam, B.C. Daylight and Champagne Choir Nickname: Kinky Best memory: Sunday talks down by the Millstream. Favourite saying: Who am I to wonder who I am? Isn ' t it enough just to be? Sports: EMI KOETSIER Swimming: bronze medallion Calgary, Alberta Bronze cross leadership Alexandra House Activities: (Ellis) Drama Choir Best memories: Too many to list - mostly in the middle of nowhere! Softball Activities: H.M.S. Pinafore Hilton House (Rogers) 39 SANDIE KOURITZIN Prince George, B.C. Alexandra House (Rogers) Sports: Badminton Soccer Softball Activities: Senior Band Debatingand Public Speaking Daylight and Champagne H.M.S. Pinafore First annual Brentwood speaking competition Favourite saying: Unity, Coherence, Emphasis -T.G. Bunch Best memory: learning by the Bunchian method. ERIC KRYSA Edmonton, Alberta Privett House House prefect Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Field Hockey 1st XI; U.K. tour 78 Captain 1979 Activities: Arts and Crafts Crazy eight rowing Sailingteam Nickname: Hoss Favourite saying: Beach Colony 1 was fun. AKIFTLIN Sports: Hong Kong Rambling Badminton Ellis House Field Hockey Sailing Activities: Stagecraft Drawingand Painting Swimming Nickname: Ricky-Dicky Favourite saying: Study and change are hard but tasteful. 40 Sports: Rowing Lightweight 2X: B.C. JAMES LOK Malaysia Champions Soccer 2nd XI Rugby Roger House House prefect Rambling Swimming Activities: Painting and Drawing Senior band Sailing Nickname: Nic Nac Best memory: the day the doors walked. Sports: JOCK MCDONALD Rugby 3rd XV Napa, California Soccer 1st XI Field Hockey 1 st XI Privett House Activities: Photography Ceramics Favourite saying: There you go man. Sports: SARAH MACKINTOSH Field hockey 2nd XI Calgary, Alberta Baseball Activities: Drawingand Painting Appl ied Design Drama: H.M.S. Pinafore Favourite saying: The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. Rambling Rowing Soccer 1st XI Hilton House (Ellis) 41 LORRAINE MCKILLOP Sports: Parksville, B.C. Field hockey 2nd XI Soccer 1st XI Hilton House Mackenzie Softball Mackenzie House captain Activities: School prefect Drama (Whittall) Ceramics Nickname: Deeds Best memory: On the rocks; Dinner leave, Playing with Sandy. Favourite saying: You can ' t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes you ' ll find you can get what you need - Rolling Stones. marcia Mcmullen Edmonton, Alberta Hilton House House prefect (Whittall) Sports: Field hockey 1st XI Rowing 1st VII I Activities: Senior band Drawingand Painting Grad Secretary Nickname: Pokey Best memory: H.M.S. Pinafore Favourite saying: I wish you good spaces in the far away places you go... MARK McNEILL Calgary, Alberta Whittall House House prefect Sports: Swimming: colours Bronze medallion water polo Rugby Rowing Track and Field Activities: Tennis Rowing Scuba - teacher ' s assistant Best memory: Room 529 at Harbour Towers 42 Sports: LORI MASSEY Baseball Sitka, Alaska Soccer Gymnastics Alexandra House Badminton House prefect Activities: (Whittall) Applied Design Drawingand Painting Choir Daylight and Champagne Favourite saying: Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. Sports: HEATHER MATH IESON Field Hockey 2nd XI Calgary, Alberta Soccer 1st XI Softball Hilton House Activities: (Privett) Drawingand Painting Applied Design Nickname: Gumby Best memory: broken fan belts Favourite saying: In the middle of nowhere Time is a matter of mind; If you don ' t mind, it doesn ' t matter. Sports: Rowing: Lightweight 1977 1 97 7 C.S.S.R.A. Lightweight Champions Rowing colours Varsity Lightweights: U.K. tour ' 7 8 Bow 1st VIII Heavyweights C.S.S.R.A. ' 79 Rugby 4th XV: captain - colours Waterpolo Activities: Senior band H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Choir Best memory: Gold in St. Catharines in ' 7 7; Girls crying at closing of Pinafore. SCOTT MATHESON Edmonton, Alberta Whittall House House captain School prefect 43 MIKE MAXWELL-SMITH Sports: Vancouver, B.C. RugbylstXV Rowing: varsity single Privett House St. Catharines 79 Assistant House captain Cross country School prefect Field Hockey Activities: Applied Design Nickname: Maxi Favourite saying: The little wed wabbit went wunning down the woad. Best memory: Honky Chateau 79 MICHAEL MILLS Sports: Vancouver, B.C. Sailing: colours; captain Swimming Rogers House Water Polo Activities: Ceramics Best memory: The day the doors walked. SHELLEY MILNER Edmonton, Alberta Alexandra House (Privett) Sports: Badminton Soccer Field Hockey Baseball Activities: Brentwood College Debating Tournament 79 Gilbert and Sullivan Hammarskjold 79 Drama 7879 DebatingClub 79 Creative Writing 78 Favourite saying: To strive, to seek to find, but not to yield - Tennyson Best memory: Lit 79 44 Sports: ROBERT MONTGOMERY Rugby 6th XV Dublin, Eire Curling Golf Privett House Activities: Senior Band Daylight and Champagne Ceramics Nickname: Radar Best memory: after grad 7 9 Favourite saying: Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate; And though I oft have passed them by, A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the moon, east of the sun. Sports: Badminton Swimming Activities: Drawingand Painting Choir Academic colors Biology lab assistant Favourite thought: K.L.B. LAURIE MOOK Thetis Island, B.C. Alexandra House House prefect (Ellis) Sports: TAMMIE MORRISON RowinglstVIII Parksville, B.C. Swimming: Instructor ' s Award of merit -bar Alexandra House Service Colours House captain Volleyball: captain Head prefect Activities: (Whittall) Band Brentonian Nickname: Mother Goose Favourite saying: If I make it through today, it will be a miracle. 45 MARY MURKOWSKI Sports: Fairbanks, Alaska Field Hockey 3rd XI Basketball Alexandra House Baseball Library prefect Tennis (Whittall) Activities: Creative Dance Daylight and Champagne Typing Arts and Crafts Sailing Nickname: Fred Dexter Murkowski Best memory: going swimming, having picnics and hanging up washclothes in the middle of nowhere. DAVID NELLES Victoria, B.C. Whittall House Sports: Rugby 5th XV Rambling (Leader) Activities: Community Recreation Typing Best memory: snow caving in sub- zero weather above Strathcona Lodge. ALIX NESBITT Brooks, Alberta Alexandra House House prefect (Privett) Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI: U.K. tour 78 Rowing Rugby Baseball Track and field Activities: Creative Dance H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Choir Nickname: Nellie Best memory: thanks Andrew Favourite saying: The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. 46 Sports: Rugby 4th XV Field Hockey 2nd XI Activities: Brentonian Grad 79 council Crazy 8 rowing Favourite saying: If you see Liz can you tell her I ' m looking for her? CHICO NEWELL Qualicum Beach, B.C. Whittall House Sports: Rugby 5th XV: captain Soccer Cross Country Activities: Rambling - leader RICHARD NUNAN Victoria, B.C. Whittall House Sports: Rugby Field Hockey: U.K. Tour 78 Activities Drama Favourite saying: He went like one that hath been stunned And is of sense forlorn; A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ANDREW O ' BRIEN- BELL Surrey, B.C. Rogers House 47 MARGARET OLIVER Norfolk Island, Australia Hilton House (Whittall) Sports: Field Hockey Basketball Baseball Tennis Activities: Drawingand Painting Photography Nickname: Prudy Best memories: Foot on the Roof, Carebear and Prudy; Prudence and Agnes Comedy hours. Favourite saying: All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. BART PEIRCE West Vancouver, B.C. Whittall House Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Field hockey 2nd XI: U.K. tour 78 Rowing crazy eight Activities: Stagecraft Grad. Committee treasurer Best memory: Wheezy ' s stunt team: camera man. Favourite saying: Let ' s get heved . GEORGE PENG Hong Kong Rogers House Sports: Badminton Field Hockey Basketball Soccer Activities: Choir Ceramics H.M.S. Pinafore Favourite saying: To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem: To be born a gentleman is an accident, to die one, an achievement. 48 Sports: TRACY PETTI NGER Tofino, B.C. Field Hockey 1st XI: captain; colours U.K. Tour 78 Rowing 1st VIII Track and Field Hilton House House prefect (Privett) Badminton Activities: Creative Dance Choir Typing H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Favourite saying: I don ' t know where I ' m going but I ' m on my way. Sports: MARTIN PHILP Rugby 2nd XV Cherry Point, B.C. Soccer 1st XI Field Hockey 1st XI Privett House Activities: Photography Best memory: grass hockey, usuals Activities: Choir Drawingand Painting Typing Nickname: Shrub Best memory: Qualicum, March 28. Sports: Rugby 2nd XV Rowing: Lightweight VIII Field hockey 1st XI ANTHONY PITT Duncan, B.C. Privett House 49 ERICK GRAHAM RAMAGE Vancouver, B.C. Privett House House prefect Sports: Rugby 4th XV Field Hockey 2nd XI Swimming: Bronze cross Activities: Drawingand Painting Nickname: Hoover Best memory: passing inspection for the first time. Favourite saying: Life is very short and there ' s no time my friend for fussingand fighting. Senior band Nickname: popsicle Pete Best memory: Going on leave Favourite saying: We are all just junk on a human sea tossed at the whim of our fate. TODDREVILL Vancouver, B.C. Sports: Rugby 5th XV Curling Rambling Ellis House House prefect Activities: RANDY ROSS Edmonton, Alberta Sports: Rambling Rowing: Lightweight VIII Rugby Rogers House House captain School prefect Activities: Community Recreation Nickname: Frank 50 Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI: Assistant captain Colours U.K.tour ' 78 Rowing Activities: Choir H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Favourite saying: The world is a body, each liberal art a needful member; Music, the heart and soul . - anonymous. KELLY SALLOUM Kelowna, B.C. Hilton House captain School prefect (Whittall) Sports: Rugby 1st XV: captain Soccer 1st XI Field Hockey 1st XI Activities: Senior Band H.M.S. Pinafore Nickname: Beaky Best memory: In the snowy covered meadow at 3:00 a.m. Was it cold!! BRIAN SHARPE Campbell River, B.C. Ellis House House prefect Sports: ROBBIE SINCLAIR Rugby Vancouver, B.C. Field Hockey Crosscountry Whittall House Ice Hockey Track and Field Activities: Rowing: colours Ceramics Nickname: Caveman Best memory: St. Kitt ' s ' 78 and ' 79 51 SUSAN SMITH Medicine Hat, Alberta Hilton House House prefect (Ellis) Sports: Riding Grass Hockey Cross Country Rowing Basketball Track and Field Activities: Riding Choir Creative Dance H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne ' MARY LOU STANLEY Sports: Edmonton, Alberta Swimming Rambling Patterson House Activities: House prefect H.M.S. Pinafore Daylight and Champagne Drama Dance Choir Nickname: Lou RUSSELL STEVENSON White Rock, B.C. Rogers House House prefect Sports: Rowing 1st VIII: Silver Medal Canadian Championships 77 U.K. Tour 78 Bronze medal, Canadian Cham pionship 79 Colours Rugby Cross Country Activities: Senior Band H.M.S. Pinafore Nickname: Starsky Best memory: the day the doors walked. The crew in St. Catharines 1979. 52 Sports: ROSS TOCHER Field Hockey 1st XI: U.K. Tour 78 West Vancouver, B.C. Colours Rowing: crazy eight Whittall House Activities: Photography Senior Band Nickname: Wheezy Best memory: Wheezy goes to Whistler, roll ' em, action. Sports: HULDA TOWNS Swimming: bronze medallion Victoria, B.C. Basketball Volleyball Hilton House Track and Field (Whittall) Tennis Activities: Drawingand Painting S.A.C. Committee secretary Grad Committee Gymnastics assistant Nickname: Poge Best memories: my friends, my teachers, and expecially Mrs. Dub. These two years have been an experience that I am glad I did not miss! Sports: Field Hockey 1st XI Soccer 1st XI Badminton Rowing Softball Activities: Daylight and Champagne Applied Design Drama Best memory: all the people at Brentwood. Favorite saying: Age is a matter of the mind, and it doesn ' t matter if you don ' t mind. SONIA TRESCHER Shawnigan Lake, B.C. Alexandra House (Privett) 53 CHRIS WARDLE West Vancouver, B.C. Rogers House Sports: Swimming Field Hockey Activities: Creative Writing Drama Debating and Public speaking First annual Brentwood speaking competition Nickname: Lord Warble Best memory: Grad in a top hat and tails; the Bunchian method of learning. Favorite saying: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. ANDREW WEILMEIER Prince George, B.C. Rogers House Sports: Rowing lightweight Rugby Wrestling Curling Activities: Drawing and Painting Senior band Nickname: Willy; Ludwig von semeat Hor- DEAN WIDNEY Ardrossan, Alberta Rogers House Sports: Ice Hockey (senior) Rowing novice Rugby 4th XV Track and Field Swimming Activities: Drawingand Painting Best memory: New Year ' s in Hawaii 1979 54 Sports: DARRELLWIDNEY Rugby 4th XV Ardrossan, Alberta Soccer 2nd XI Wrestling Rogers House Activities: Drawingand Painting Favorite memory: New Year ' s 79 in Hawaii Sports: Rugby 1st XV: colours Track Club Cross Country: colours Tennis Rambling Activities: Drama Photography Art Nickname: Bungy Favourite saying: Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hillside; and now ' tis buried deep. Was ita vision, ora wakingdream? Fled is that music: Do I wake or sleep? BRIAN WILLIAMS Victoria, B.C. Ellis House House prefect School prefect Sports: DAVID WILLIAMS Rugby 4th XV Vancouver, B.C. Cross country running Activities: Whittall House H.M.S. Pinafore House prefect Daylight and Champagne Choir Creative Dance Rowing Favourite saying: When we were boys on the cracked and broken streets... 55 DAVID WILLIAMSON Sports: Vancouver, B.C. Rugby 4th XV Rambling: group leader Privett House Swim team House prefect Junior cross country team Rowing Sailing Activities: Rambling leadership Ceramics Nickname: Egghead STEPHEN WONG Kowloon Rogers House Sports: Rowing Bantam 8: captain; B.C. Youth Champions ' 7 9 Rugby 5th XV Soccer 1st XI Swimming school team Badminton school team Water polo Scuba diving Activities: Drawing and Painting: award of merit Senior band Academic colours Best memory: Cool your burners, Mrs. Dub; The impossible is often the untried. WINNIE WONG Sports: Hong Kong Swimming Badminton Patterson House Gymnastics (Whittall) Rowing Activities: Typing Choir Art 56 TotheGrad Class 79 How c an I walk away from here And leave it all behind? The laughs, The fun, The love we shared, The stupid things we did. Oh, there were times I ran away confused and full of hate. But looking back I have to smile. The bad times seem so small And now it ' s hard to turn And leave Forthis final time. Karen King SCHOOL PREFECTS 1978 - 79 Standing (L-R): Brian Williams, Scott Matheson, Peter Holmes, Jens Goldgrabe, John Fitzpatrick, Randy Ross. Sitting (L-R): Lorraine McKillop, Blair Horn, Tammie Morrison (Head Prefect); W.T. Ross, Kelly Salloum, Michael Maxwell-Smith; Elizabeth Bittorf . ACADEMIC AWARDS GRADE VIII GEOGRAPHY For Outstanding Academic Achievement Robert DeLange Grade 9 Douglas Jung For Greatest Academic Imp rovement Peter Dobell Grade 10 Bonnie Robinson Geography 1 1 Alastair Foreman MATHEMATICS Geography 12 David Nelles Grade 9 E. Nash Grade 10 A. Fung CIVILISATION 12 Barton Peirce Grade 11 C. Rolfe Grade 12 A. Lin GENERAL BUSINESS 11 Peter Anglin Statistics and Probabilities 12 A. Lin SCIENCE Science 9 Michael Cottam COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Science 10 Robert Pauls Grade 9 Herman Schenck Biology 11 Andrea Cox Grade 10 Dennis Lo Biology 12 Laurie Mook Grade 11 Alastair Foreman Chemistry 11 Eric Sorensen Chemistry 12 Catherine Hagen GEOMETRY 12 Tab Cuthill Physics 11 Julian Craddock Physics 12 Michael Burian HISTORY Grade 9 Herman Schenck ACADEMIC MUSIC Grade 10 Ruth Buchanan Grade 9 Danny Cheng Grade 11 AngieGerst Grade 10 Peter Ling Grade 12 Sandra Kouritzin Grade 11 Timothy Christian Grade 12 Kelly Salloum AMERICAN HISTORY 12 Andrew O ' Brien-Bell ENGLISH LAW 11 Patricia Loder Grade 9 Michael Cottam Grade 10 Ruth Buchanan ECONOMICS 11 Margaret Kitson and Mark Annable Grade 11 Angela Gerst Grade 12 Catherine Hagen FOREIGN LANGUAGES (Arthur C. Privett Memorial Award) French 9 Douglas Jung French 10 Yma Nash ENGLISH LITERATURE 12 Sandra Kouritzin and French 11 Michele Dafoe and EricSorensen Shelly Milner French 12 Laurie Mook Ruth Bull Award Spanish 10 Nicki MacLaren Spanish 11 Grace Cheng CREATIVE ENGLISH Not Awarded GRADUATES WITH ACADEMIC HONOURS (In alphabetical order) Michael Burian Tabbot Cuthill Brian Dillon Catherine Hagen Sandra Kouritzin Akift Lin Laurie Mook David Nelles David Williams Stephen Wong 59 SPECIAL AWARDS DAVIS AWARD - The most impressive academic improvement in the Junior School Winner Allen Engelman Runners-Up Robbie Liden - Mark McMillan MACKENZIE AWARD - The superior academic student of the Junior School Winner Ruth Buchanan Runners-Up Bonnie Robinson - Yma Nash BUTCHART TROPHY - The Dux of the school - the superior academic student of the graduating class. Winner Catherine Hagen BRENTWOOD TROPHY - For Junior Citizenship. A student in Grades 8, 9 or 10 with an outstanding degree of selflessness indicated by a strong desire to serve the community and the school as a whole. Winner Ruth Buchanan Runners-Up Simon Monckton - Bonnie Robinson - Norman Hill POWELL CUP - For Senior Citizenship. A student in Grade 11 or 12 with an outstanding degree of selflessness indicated by a strong desire to serve the community and the school as a whole. Joint Winners Elizabeth Bittorf - Jim Baird Runners-Up Scott Matheson - Chris Foy - Tab Cuthill Michael Maxwell-Smith - Blair Horn HOGAN MEMORIAL SHIELD - A grade 8 student whose citizenship is unquestionable and whose leadership potential is couched within a lively per- sonality. Winner Christopher McLernon MARY BROOKS LAW AWARD - The student from any grade in the school who shows promise and strength of character and persona lity . Winner Scott Matheson Runners-Up Tab Cuthill, Jim Baird, Brian Dillon, EricSorensen, John Fitzpatrickand Randy Ross THE PEYTON TROPHY - An outstanding citizen, in recognition of a strong contribution to both Athletics and Fine Arts. Joint Winners Brian Williams - Blair Horn THE APPLETON TROPHY - An award for senior leadership, recognizing out- standing strength in leadership and ability to organize intelligently, together with a personal charisma which attracts others to follow his or her good example. Winner Tammie Morrison HEADMASTER ' S SPECIAL AWARDS - To members of the graduating class who are considered by the Headmaster to be outstanding. Winners Russell Stevenson - Kelly Salloum - Michael Maxwell-Smith THE YARROW SHIELD - The student who most closely holds the qualities nor- mally associated with Rhodes Scholarship winners - scholastic and athletic ability, strength of character and willingness to serve. Winner Brian Dillon Runner s-Up Blair Horn - Catherine Hagen - Brian Williams 60 GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 1978 Cathy Mills David Ullstrom 61 Ian Wallace PATTERSON HOUSE September of 1978 was the beginning of the new Patterson House. With only five girls living here, we soon became acquainted rather well! After all, at the year ' s start, a few finishing touches were still needed in Pat- terson House, so it was a matter of sharing such necessities as bath, shower, and telephone. Our girls — Winnie Wong and Grace Cheng from Hong Kong, Mary Lou Stanley from Edmonton, Faye Mah from Sidney (recently an Edmontonian also), and Catherine Hagen from Prince George — made life at Patterson House very interesting ! They were noted for such worthwhile contributions as winning a house cake for the most interesting crib notes on a bathroom door, disco lessons for interested young men, and their split-second timing during formal Saturday house inspections. Faye took on the extra role of Patterson House to ' A ' Field Messenger during Track and Field term. Grace and Winnie helped by frequently making delicious-smelling concoctions in their hot pot. During the year, a couple of our girls were extra busy. Mary Lou, our prefect, worked overtime on H.M.S. Pinafore and proved to be a lovely Buttercup! Catherine once again won honours at the Symposium at the University of Victoria. She also deserves congratulations for receiving the award for top scholar of the graduating class. The house outing to the Empress at Christmas was enjoyable, but even more treasured was the intimate dinner outing of just we seven to the Medieval Inn, where it was ' pate all ' round! Diets were also often interrupted during the several popcorn or ice-cream gatherings downstairs during Social Hour. To the girls of Patterson House, our thanks for making our year as House Parents so memorable. Good luck to our three graduates — we ' ll all miss you. Once again, special thanks to special girls. R. M. Piechotta MACKENZIE HOUSE In this 1978 79 school year Mackenzie House enjoyed its first year of full operation since it was vacated by Mr. W. Ross ' predecessor, the now retired Mr. D.D. Mackenzie. During the summer of 1978 his house was renovated to accommodate eleven girls. Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie agreed to preside at the opening, and early in October 1978 officially christened the residence with their name. That simple ceremony, attended by the Mackenzies, Mr. and Mrs. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Bunch, Miss Sainas, and all members of the house, was the highlight of the year. The house, perhaps because of its size, quickly began to reflect the characteristics and personalities of its members. When they were good they were very, very good but when they were bad they were horrid. The Gibson Girl named Sweeping Margaret was our best cleaner. Quiet Jane with her infectious giggle belied her basically reticent nature and gave credence to what all suspected was a party-type Prince George past. Any noise not made by Jane was more than adequately made up for by the ever talking Julie from the ranchland region of Alberta. The studious twosome just up the spiral stairs, one from Atlin and the other from Duncan, quickly lost their meek and mild qualities. Linda was never in- timidated by the big city girls and likely will be one of the bosses next year. Angie, if she can stay off her horse for more than a minute or two, will likely do much better academically next year. After all she only averaged 90% in Grade 11. The four man dorm across the hall — supervised, cleaned, and controlled by the meticulous Kate — housed another three: Bannermouth from Mackenzie, Porky from blue-eyed Arab Country, and Racey Tracy from Whitecourt. The four-man dorm was perfect prefect training ground as it presented the utmost challenge in sound and litter control. These nine proved to be too much for Liz and Marcy to handle, as the original prefectorial group made a quick exit to the hallowed halls of Hilton House at the end of the first term. The entire school was searched to find adequate replacements. The tone of the house changed from Disco to Rock and Roll with the appointments of Dee Dee and Sandy. They lasted the year but often sought protection from the terrible four by seeking refuge in the House Mistress ' suite below. The writer, the housemistress, acknowledges that she enjoyed the year. Indeed there was never a quiet moment: the perpetual excitement kept her from going completely mad in the social capital of Vancouver Island known as Mill Bay. Seriously, I do wish to thank all the members of the house for a wonderful first year, with special thanks to Mrs. Thornton and the prefects who were always there to help, to add to the fun, and to brighten the outlook in adverse times. S. Sainas 65 ALEX HOUSE The dorms in Alex House were once again filled to capacity in September of 1978. The old Alex house girls were joined by 18 new girls. This year, Maya Loser, Corinna ' s younger sister, joined us from Germany for a year ' s study of English. Jeannie Vink joined us from Washington, and Lori Massey and Mary Murkowski returned from Alaska for another year at Brentwood. 197 8 was the first year in the entire history of Bren- twood College where a girl was made head prefect. Everybody in Alex House was very proud of Tammie Morrison, and congratulate her for doing such a fine job this year as head girl and house captain. 1978 was also the first year for grade 10 girls. Bonnie Robinson, Simonetta Berretti, Nicki MacLaren and Karen Middleton joined Alex House, occupying the four man dorm and adding some spice and spirit to the house. The activity around Alex House never ceased. The girls were always involved in one thing or another. One activity which consumed a fair amount of time was fund raising. Last year ' s girls raised money for a washer, which we received in September along with a new dryer. This year we had bake sales, donut sales and caramel apple sales, trying to raise enough money to buy a vacuum cleaner. This year also proved to be a fattening one for many of the Alex House girls. It ' s no wonder, after eating all the delicious birthday cakes Mary and Emi made for us. Each girl in the house had something to offer: Dayna, for instance, always had exercise ideas — including jumping rope and doing bum walks down the hall. Alixand Michele offered us songs and music. Kim Angel soon became known as the house mom . Shelly became the public speaker for the house. There were also many memories: The party the grade 12 ' s gave the grade 10 ' s and ll ' s. Kim and Pat playing grass hockey in the hall. Nat and Lindsay knitting in the common room. Power failures and firedrills in the middle of the night. Karen ' s baby powder practical joke. Peggy and Katz as some of the bathing beauties. Alabag and John cluttering up the stairs. Laurie awaiting Kevin ' s daily call. Cathy ' s late night lost and found. Roni ' s early lights out. The homesickness. Sandy cracking up while studying for schols. Yma writing her lines. Sonia, Eric ' s here! Fiona, phone (again). Murkowski, hurry up! Coming Koetsier. And, of course, the battle for the most defaulters between Kim Burgess and Nicki MacLaren! A very close match. Miss Holden became ill in the April of this year, leaving the house in the hands of Mrs. McKerrow. Mrs. McKerrow did an excellent job of looking after the girls for three straight weeks without any assistance. Shiela Serup, an 66 Old Girl, began to help Mrs. McKerrow out. It was difficult at first maintaining the proper house order, but everyone co-operated and the house was running smoothly once again. The mess, the mouth and the Mother Share dorm 13 with each other And if you should dare To trespass through there Then you had better beware Of the prefects in Alex House! Alix, Lindsayand Laurie remain Trying their best to keep themselves sane They are always fair But if you don ' t do your share Then you had better beware Of the prefects in Alex House! Many thanks to the prefects, grade 12 ' s, Miss Holden, Miss McKerrow and Sheila for your many understanding ways. Mrs. McKerrow, Grads, you ' ll be missed deeply next year. HILTON HOUSE The breakfast bell is groaning, We sprint on tired legs, To reach the cafeteria And partake of rubber eggs. Returning to the house We have grounds for our distress, With the most unwieldly prospect Of the Apres-weekend mess. There ' s an uproar in the kitchen; Whose filthy pans are those? Don ' t let Mrs. Dub see, Or for sure it will be closed. The toilets are rebelling, Could someone please call Gord? Mrs. Dub ' s misplaced her sherry, (Oh Lord, will she be sore!) Mrs. Dub is certain That we ' ll have another disco, And did you see that Grad dress Someone got in San Francisco? Who ' s that tossing clothes Out the window of dorm 8 ? NEITHER HERE NOR THERE [or ' all at sixes and sevens ' ] Dorm 12 ' s got a scale, For those concerned about their weight. Look at Sue and Mouse ' s dorm With the mess those boys have made: Where are Sue and Mouse right now? Gaining vengeance with a raid! We girls were not amused the day Great black ants came to visit. We bashed them with our books and shoes (Which isn ' t dainty is it?) One thing that ne ' er will be erased (Twill always be the same) Is all the girls for prep at night Glued to the Dating Game . From upstairs, float soprano strains Which alleviate all gloom; The voice and artful playing Are those of K. Salloum. So goes our life in Hilton House We think it quite delightful: I cannot understand why Mrs. Dubthinks us so frightful!!! What needs our bedroom, for its clutter ' d floors, The hordes of filthy clothes, stuffed into drawers Or that our hallow ' d messes should be hid Under a shabby laundry hamper lid? Dear Mrs. Dub. and Messrs. Ross and Bunch What carest thou that things on our floor crunch, When treadest thou upon them, in great strides, On enteringthedorm where weabide? For, whilst to the shame of our fair-tempered marm, The odour from our room has caused great harm, To the fine repute of our house, Hilton. (The stench was almost cheese-like, Bree or Stilton?) Then thou, our manners of themselves bereaving, Dost send us to the office, both conceiving How truly grim our youthful lives would be, Should ' hols ' be lost for being untidy. For those without blazers, and those who wear sandals, Asonnet (By Shelley) of the number ones scandal. I met a student from a boarding school Who said: Two vast and sober men (renowned) Stand in the staff room ... near them, on a stool Half-shrunk, a shattered teacher sits, whose frown And wrinkled brow portray her great unrest. Her anguish stems from accusations bestowed Of her house, Hilton, not being suit ' bly dressed According to the ' number one ' dress code. Angrily, these words she fiercely blared: My name is Mimi Wichlinski, marm of marms, I ' ll make amends, ye mighty, don ' t despair Nothing more was said. From the decay of that archaic staff room old and bare, She turned her Scottish back and stalked away. So with lots of ups, not many downs And hardly any tears, Nineteen seventy eight and nine Was quite a super year. Rebecca Day. Regrets and apologies to: Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Milton ELLIS HOUSE In retrospect it always seems amazing that so much could happen in such a short period of time, but then you realize that you are dealing with sixty juvenile (delinquents) and by year ' s end you have forgotten most of what took place anyway. This year was notable as a rather robust and rowdy group of boys made their presence felt. The Arab Israeli conflict took second place to the daily shennanigans in dorm 10. Fortunately much of this ' steam ' in the House was channelled profitably into the sport program and we had a very successful year. For the first time in many years Ellis won the rugby cup, largely because of the inspiring feats of Messrs. Holmes, Williams, Sharpe, Dillon and Iwaschuk. The cross-country trophy fell into our hands again but only by a small margin because we lost the services of O ' Connor, Fricker and Iwaschuk. We led the track and field competition until the relays and then found we did not have the depth to finish the job. We lost the grass-hockey to Rogers after a replay in the final and this game went into overtime! We were also strong contenders in most of the other sports. But what of these sixty youths who made the year so memorable? I think if we categorize them they may go down in history as: — The body builders — Boe and Engelman The frogmen — Brundin, Scott and Creighton The bushrangers — Petherbridge, Shipley and Heeren The romantics — Wright and Tompkins The cookie monsters — Davidson and Hogan The jocks — Baird, Carlson and Thrall The bookworms — Craddock, Hammond and Jung The gamesters — Frioud, Ross and Lo The cops — Conway and Revill The teetotallers — Campbell and Lyal The broom-pushers — McMyn, Maxwell and Anderson The peacemaker — Dillon The nighthawks — Holmes, Williams, Sharpe and Cuthill The musicians— Ullstrom and Cheng Thank you, one and all, for an interesting year. There was never a dull moment. Who would have it any other way? R.S.Wynne 70 PRIVETT HOUSE It has been a great year. At long last the one prize that has eluded our grasp for ten years since I became housemaster has fallen into our hands. I refer, of course, to the Track and Field Trophy which Ellis House had apparently come to look upon as a permanent fixture. Important though sports have been in keeping the house active and morale high, there have been many other factors at work that have helped to make this a successful year. The opening of Privett House Tuck Shop has been a notable event. Adam Wensley ' s en- trepreneurial talents, coupled with the many, many hours of hard work that he, Sydney Wood, Harry Worsley, Ted Olynyk and Ted Reeve put in, have made the operation of this enterprise an outstanding success. Money from our profits has been put to good use. A new fridge ensures that customers for pop receive an ice-cold drink, and our new telephone answering machine ensures that parents can leave messages for students and house staff at any hour of the day or night. Our prefect body has worked with a greater degree of harmony among themselves than any other group I have known, and to this fact can be attributed much of the good-humoured tolerance which I feel has been the hallmark of the house this year. Jens, Mike, Graham, David, Eric, Ken and Dan gave a lot of themselves to the house, and for this we are in their debt. Jens, an extra special thanks to you for a job well done. We have made the odd mistake, however, the oc- casional error in judgment: Mr. Wingate leaping out of his window onto a 2 :00 a.m. intruder who turned out to be the night watchman; Mike Maxwell-Smith letting it drop that it was his birthday; Mr. Cameron being distracted by Wonder-woman ; Mike Maxwell-Smith (again) demanding that Graham Ramage honour a $22 debt, which he did, in very small change; Candy mistaking Mr. Simmons for an intruder and nipping him in the ankle (applause); Mr. Lironi assuming that Graham would keep a neat and tidy dorm; Bryan Duke assuming that Mr. Wynne would share his taste in music; Ted Reeve feeding a prefect (guess who) and thinking it would be an isolated event; Jock McDonald thinking that meditation in the prone position constituted legitimate prep ; Mr. Garvey commenting to Eric (Jonah) Krysa ' s new dorm partner, Ben Dill, you won ' t survive ; Crossley and Durling thinking that entering the bush area in a crouching position would make them invisible. These memories and many others come crowding in as I sit penning these notes, but the summer beckons like some cool oasis telling me it is time to rest. September and a new crop of garrulous grommets, nonco-operative nines and terrible tens will be here only too soon. R.V. Lironi 72 WHITTALL HOUSE Gutted, scorched, stinking of smoke and saturated, the house was a sad sight in those mad October days. Memories return of sixty mattresses covering the auditorium floor, nightly games of Buck-Buck prior to lights-out and then the increasing volume of grunts, snores and other functional noises as this diverse group that was Whittall House settled down for sleep. The odd curse cut the darkness as some-one got a thrashing foot in his ear; a shoe would fly across the hall as a particularly antisocial snorer offended the duty prefect trying to study for tomorrow ' s test. Many nights I would sit reading and enjoying a final cigar on the stage and marvel at the adaptability of us all under adverse conditions. Certainly the house came together in those days in a way which housemasters can usually only dream about. Everyone ' s personal problems slipped into insignificance and those qualities of loyalty and selflessness, which so often lie dormant, came to the fore when needed most. As I closed my book and went backstage to my bedroom , I thought, I ' d take that bunch anywhere — well, almost anywhere . Then came a welcome weekend in Victoria. The novelty of our cramped conditions was wearing thin and the break to relative luxury came just at the right time. The trailers came in during the next few days and over the ensuing weeks each unit established its own par- ticular individuality. Meanwhile the reconstruction of the house continued at an incredible pace. Christmas came and with it a party 74 at Romeo ' s. Somehow we managed to make THE CAKE as usual — 80 lbs. of calorific excellence, manufactured by grommets of doubtful cleanliness but great enthusiasm, immersed to the elbows (and sometimes beyond) in dough. Generosity abounded over those months: the girls baked cakes and cookies and thoroughly spoiled us — they loved it and so did we; the ladies of the laundry department coped with literally hundreds of items with great calm and deserve our very sincere thanks; resident families periodically rescued me. The whole school, staff and students alike, have our gratitude for their concern and kindness. To Mr. Ross, Mr. Bunch, Mr. Crookston and Mr. Stephen go our thanks for the many hours of organisational time spent on our behalf without which chaos would undoubtedly have ensued and without whose kindly encouragement, I for one, might well have floun- dered. Returning in January, the house was ready. Lighter decor, sensibly designed furnishings, and a fine set of Canadian art prints, generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Nelles, more than compensated for all those weeks of inconvenience. The library filled steadily as many other parents assisted with its restocking. The official re- opening, so appropriately performed by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Whittall, finally re-established us, and we are most grateful to them for the very kind donation which enabled us to purchase a much-needed set of encyclopaedias for the library. The rest of the year went well. In competition we came out strongly as ever and as the cold days gave way to summer the humdrum of routine, constantly interspersed with humourous interludes, continued. The Night Sneaker sneaked once too often; E.B. on duty, clubbed the grommets into grinning submission — he thought; Jeff, pushing his luck once too often, found himself tied to the flagpole. Tim, you lost your bet! Andrew, brush your hair Bruce, GOTO BED Excuse me Sir, but NO, Darcy Dirty grommets, ' gourmet ' popcorn, 10,000 watt stereos, early morning rowing, plugged toilets, 10:30 prefect meetings, house auction, shoe fines, Sunday morning sleep-in and sixty unique individuals — this is Whittall House. and then the end of term was upon us. On the last night we went on a Gulf Island cruise in two chartered boats. A romp on shore and some fishing, followed by dinner at MacDonald ' s , brought us together as a house for the last time. An eventful but very purposeful year. To Mr. Rob MacLean go my very warm thanks and appreciation for his assistance and concerned interest — I can only hope that the experiences of this year have not frightened him away. Finally, to Scottie and Blair — House Captains par excellence — and the prefects, go our best wishes in their future endeavours. Their maturity, concern, and high quality of leadership have set a standard which others will strive to match. They can be justly proud of the house this year and of what they have made it. Yes, I would take them anywhere. J.L.Q ROGERS HOUSE HOUSE CAPTAIN - Randy Ross Assistant - John Fitzpatrick House prefects - Chris Foy, James Lok, Russell Stevenson, Andy Jennings, Tom Christie, Kevin Bertles. The first year of Rogers House as a competitive house was a very satisfactory one for all concerned. We began our year well by winning the initiation programme inter- house party games and finished the final term with success in both sailing and field hockey. In between we strained on oars, fought in scrums, shot penalty goals, ran roads and trails, and swam in pools always to take less than first place. Yet we never faltered and were always ready to compete with the established houses. I was impressed by their spirit and would like to compliment the pioneers of Rogers competitive house for their efforts. It was rather odd to have small people running around the house. The first time I listened to the soprano voices talking at night, I rushed into the room, finding not girls but rather overactive and too-wide awake grommets. After some time we got used to the change in voice and soon I will have accustomed myself to the increase in need that juniors inevitably bring. I would like to thank Randy Ross, our house captain, who had to produce a house spirit and develop discipline among a junior house entirely comprised of new boys. Russell Stevenson, as games captain, organised and encouraged all those teams so necessary to develop a house identity. I thank him and the rest of our prefect body for a happy and stimulating year. A.C. Carr RUGBY FIRST XV - A REVIEW OF THE 78 SEASON Those who look merely at the playing record of the First XV would consider the season a disaster. The coaches, however, consider it one of the best they have had. The reasons for this paradox are two-fold. First: never has a side so consistently played up to, and beyond, its potential. Secondly: never has there been a group of players who have been so eager to learn. When the coaches started the season, they were an- ticipating heavy defeats in most games. Only two mem- bers of the previous year ' s XV had returned — Brian Sharpe and Bruce Dale. Most of the 3rds and 4ths, our usual source of players, had also departed, and our other hope, the Colts, had not had a particularly successful season. With no obvious candidates for several positions, experimentation of the wildest type had to be im- plemented. Particularly worrying was the absence of any tight forwards. We very much feared we would see little ball, as, apart from inexperience, we were also woefully small. Comes the hour, comes the man — in fact, two men. Tony Arthurs, a wing forward converted to prop, and Bill Hanna, a wing-three-quarter converted to lock, proved to have what it takes to be in the thick of it for seventy minutes. In the early games, they were the only two tight forwards who were consistently there. If they had not been, the floodgates might have opened. As the season progressed, other forwards started to make their presence felt. Bart Peirce, converted from wing forward to hooker, learned his trade. By the end of the season he was winning some vital heads. Stephen Hayne, after a slow start, became a most valuable lock. As the only tall forward, he was called on to take the brunt of the action in the lineout. This he did admirably so that, aided by some intelligent calls from Peter Holmes, we managed to share possession against sides who were much taller than we were. Our other tight forward, Kent Haywood, lacked mobility, but so powerful was his set-scrumming that usually his opponent was also unable to get around the field . In the back row, we had two players of contrasting styles, Eric Krysa and Peter Holmes. Eric sewed up the blind side, and was the most remarkable burrower-in for balls that we have seen. Time after time, when the ball seemed stuck in a maul, Eric would appear with it. Peter had real flair. His covering was tireless, his tackling devastating, and with the ball in his hands he proved an elusive runner. In addition, he led the forwards 80 intelligently, always getting the best out of them. Several wing forwards fought it out for the other spot. Eventually, although rather small, Michael Maxwell- Smith made it his own through terrier-like play. This pack worked tremendously hard. Most had to learn the techniques of new positions. We were small, and young. By the end of the season, this was a formidable unit, outscrummingfar larger sides, and certainly getting more than a fair share of ball from all phases of the game. In the backs also, inexperience was much in evidence. We had little speed, and in many cases no skills. We were, however, courageous in defence, and opposition teams had the greatest difficulty in scoring against us. In fact, this was the greatest attribute of the 1978 XV — we never gave up, and thus upset the rhythm of teams who were, on paper, far superior to ourselves. After hours of passing we learned to move the ball to the wings. The try drought (we did not score in an Independent match until November 18th) ended, and we managed to put away Iwaschuk and Dale on some exciting dashes. Here was a fascinating contrast in styles. Iwaschuk was the rapier, tall and long-striding as befits a quarter miler. Dale was the bludgeon, low to the ground, and a great scrambler. Our improvement was most obvious, however, in that Brian Williams turned himself into a most competent scrum half. His courage was never in doubt and his cover tackling from the start was far beyond the call of duty. But he developed, as the season progressed, an attacking flair on the blind side and some skilled tactical kicking that added other dimensions to our attack. At fly half Brian Carr initially was tried, but he had not quite the strength to kick as deep and as high as we desired. He should, however, be a force next year, as he proved to be surprisingly quick over ten yards. Finally, Brian Dillon showed he could kick high and accurately, as well as getting his line moving. Our eventual centre combination was Blair Horn and Jamie Norris. Blair, a trifle slow, was one of the steadiest centres the school has ever had. He is to be complimented for his fine leadership of back lines whose inexperience was horrific. Bimbo, converted from the back row, was, we knew, a hard tackier. To our delight he also showed he was one of the best passers of the ball in the school. At full back, Brian Sharpe found himself having to play at the start of the season, a largely defensive game, a role to which he was not accustomed. His defence was never in doubt, but some of his line drives were rather exciting. As we started to get more of the ball, and were able to attack, Brian was able to enter the line and show what an exciting runner he is. He proved a fine captain, and much of the team ' s determination stemmed from him. So, in spite of the results, the coaches consider this season far from a disappointment. We only wish we were stalling the season now with the team that finally established itself. We have come a long way since Sep- tember. The coaches consider this group the one which has learned most, and which has been the most pleasant todeal with. First XV: B Sharpe: B. Dale; B. Horn; J. Norris; B. Iwaschuk; B. Dillon, B. Williams; T. Arthurs; B. Peirce; K. Haywood; B. Hanna; S. Hayne; M. Maxwell-Smith; P. Holmes; E. Krysa. COLOURS FOR RUGBY WERE AWARDED TO : B Sharpe; B. Dale; B. Horn; B. Williams; B. Peirce; S. Hayne; P. Holmes; and E. Krysa. Ford. 81 FIRST XV RESULTS 1978 DATE OPPONENTS RESULT SCORERS Sat., Sept. 23 Van. Tech. College Won 42-0 Peirce 2T Hanna IT Sharpe 1C 2T Holmes IT Aubrey 2T Williams IT Crawford IT IVI dgcc LOST o -ZD d. Williams ru Sun., Oct. 1 Castaways Won 14-b r. Holmes z i d bnarpe lu b reirce 1 1 bat., Uct. 7 i nierna nonai LOST lb-oZ b. iwascnuK 1 1 d . reirce 1 1 b. Dale 1 1 b. Horn 1 1 Sat., Oct. 14 C h A II S.M.U. Lost 0-6 Tues., Oct. 17 Parkland S.S.S. Cancelled Sat., Oct. 21 C 1 c b.L.b. lost o -y Larr ru bat., NOV. 4 St. George s Lost 3-16 Carr PG Thurs., Oct. 26 Cowichan S.S.S. Won 20-6 Drost IT Carr 1C 1 PG Sharpe 2T 1 DG r ri. , Nov. 10 Cowichan R.F.C. U. 19 Won 11-0 Dale 1 1 Williams 1 1 bharpe DG Sat., Nov. 11 Old Boys Lost 3 -4 Dillon 1PEN bat., Nov. lo O 1 O b.L.S. won iu-y uaie 1 1 union it vviinams 1 1 I nurs., Nov. zo O (V A II S.M.U. Lost 0-3 Sat., Dec. 2 St. George ' s Lost 4 -6 Dale IT Tues., Dec. 5 Oak Bay S.S.S. Won 19-9 Iwaschuk IT Norris IT Holmes IT Dillon IPG 2 C LEGEND: T=Try C=Convert PG=Penalty Goal DG = DropGoal SECOND XV PLAYED WON LOST POINTS FOR POINTS AGAINST As the record indicates, this was the finest 2nd XV in the history of the school. Not only did they win games, but they won them with style. As with all good sides, the success was built on sound scrumming. Chris Rolfe, though a little small, was a technically sound prop who gave his all. On the other side, Doug Hogan, although new to the game, proved a for- midable competitor. By the Old Boys ' game, he was earning praise from Dwayne Van Eeuwen, who only a few weeks before had played for Canada against France. Between them, Jeff O ' Connor could always be relied on for his good strike, and mobility around the paddock. Tim Christian, Jens Goldgrabe, and sometimes John Roach provided the powerhouse in the 2nd. row, and won most of the lineouts. In the back row Kim Mclnnes, Colin Thomson and Dennis Carlson were remarkably lively both in attack and defence. Carlson, converted from centre, was particularly effective at 8 and performed most creditably on two occasions for the First XV. At scrum half Martin Philp, although rather slow, proved a tough competitor and a handful to opposition back rows. At flyhalf, Brian Carr kicked well, although one footed, and developed a dangerous break. The centres, Blair Crawford and John Drost, moved the ball well, while Wayne Boe, Tom Aubrey and Mark 9 8 1 164 56 Annable showed lots of dash on the wings. Anthony Pitt was a good attacking full back, but must overcome a tendency to tackle high. For the first time, the 2nd XV went unbeaten through the Independent Schools season. In addition, they added the scalp of the Old Boys 2nd XV— another first. The highlight of the season was undoubtedly the win over St. Georges in Vancouver. By this time we had made j sure of the 2nd. XV cup, and we feared a psychological let- ! down against the Saints on their own ground. At half time ! we were losing 0 - 4. In the second half, however, we showed the stuff champions are made of. We played fine j fifteen man rugby and the two trys by the forwards and two by the backs reflect this team effort. The backs ' trys | were particularly fine. One came after the forwards had won good loose ball and the backs moved it quickly to spring Mark Annable on the right wing. From a similar situation, Blair Crawford at inside centre saw the Saints ' ; defence flooding across, sold a magnificent dummy that ! deceived all, and scooted in under the posts. Like the 1st XV, this was a most pleasant group to | coach, always willing to learn, and playing disciplined rugby. What has warmed the hearts of the coaches in particular is that seven of the forwards and four of the backs should be with us next year. I. Ford. 86 THIRD XV V - v ft (9 PLAYED WON LOST FOR AGAINST 8 8 0 188 0 From the record listed above, the season proved to be an eminently successful one. However the success is better measured not by numbers of games won or points scored but rather by the improvement in skills and performance achieved over the season on an individual and team basis. Given the large number of good grade 12 players in the top four teams last season, this year was to be regarded as a rebuilding one. However from the outset the team was given firm leadership by Jim Baird in the forwards and Brian Dillon at stand-off and the inex- perienced and new members responded well. Brian ' s subsequent promotion to 1st XV was both an honour and a loss for us, but Ted King took over and performed in- creasingly well for the balance of the season. Players from lower teams last year had mastered basics well, and despite a continual movement of players between A and B group a fine competitive edge was achieved and maintained. The back-row was slight but mobile, the backs ran and tackled hard, and the forwards were seldom bested in the set. Mauling and rucking required constant attention but showed steady improvement. Scoring was spread throughout the team. Games were played in all manner of conditions from the hard surface of B field in October to the 3 inches of snow at Shawnigan in late November. The best per- formance was undoubtedly the second S.M.U. game, played away due to cold weather. After failing to cash in on three early chances, we were involved in a seesaw battle undecided until the final minutes, when Steve Cobbin crashed over from a maul. Finally I should like to thank Jim Baird, Dan Hindleand Brian Dillon for the leadership and guidance that they gave the team in both trainingand game situations. It was an exciting and worthwhile season which, hopefully, has helped contribute towards a successful A group next Fall. 87 FOURTH XV PLAYED WON LOST FOR AGAINST 7 6 1 150 20 The season opened with an assembly of rather inex- perienced and varied athletes. The attitude in fitness and skill training was positive from the start, however, and improvement soon began. The need for fitness and decisive action on the rugby field was really brought home by a 9-14 loss to Lake Cowichan. After that, the work rate was increased and fitness proved the greatest faction in a 34-0 win against S.M.U. in Victoria. This win gave the team momentum which they never really lost. As a team the fourth XV was cohesive if not greatly talented physically. The forwards worked hard, James Lok providing a lot of ball from the set scrums and Mark McNeill and David Williams usually controlling the lineouts. The back row showed steadily improving ef- fectiveness, whilst the backs moved the balls quickly and effectively. Robbie Sinclair and Scott Matheson provided solidarity and thrust in the centre whilst the wings provided a combination of speed and exciting defence. Overall, this was a varied but satisfying season. I would like to thank the group for its hard work and dedication to self-improvement. Finally I feel I must thank Scott for the leadership he gave the team both in trainingand in games — without it our overall success would have been much less. W.J.B. 88 THE FIGHTING FIFTHS Rugby Report 1978- 79 PLAYED 8 WON 6 LOST 1 TIED 1 POINTS FOR 109 POINTS AGAINST 54 Once again we were able to put together a very com- petent group of senior boys who showed equal en- thusiasm on the practice field and in competitive games. There was considerable improvement in technique and game sense as the season progressed and some of these boys will undoubtedly play at a much higher level next year. I hope they will retain their love for the game for many years to come. Richard Nunan, playing from the wing-forward position, was an excellent captain and was able to develop the talents of his team mates by demonstrating them himself and generating enthusiasm in practice situations. John Creighton became a skillful hooker and can ply his trade again next year. Michael Mills picked up several trys from the number eight position and was always con- spicuous in open field situations. Reg Shipley joined the team in mid-season but took over the goal kicking chores and quickly amassed over twenty points. David Nelles, a strong scrum half, used the standing pass in both directions and provided the back line with a lot of quick, useful ball. Wade Bradley, though handicapped by painful knees, was a fine centre and ran straight at the op- position. With a few changes of pace and direction he would have scored more often. Stephen Wong, because of his fearless tackling, was always just missing some injury or other, but it did not alter his playing style one iota. Patrick Weilmeier began the season shakily but when he stirred himself he was an impressive wing three quarter both in attack and defence. Of the newcomers. John McClure and Chris Mackintosh showed the greatest promise and should reveal their true potential next year. All in all, this was a very interesting and pleasant group with which to work and I thank them for another noteworthy season. R.S. Wynne 89 THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE SIXTHS PLAYED WON LOST POINTS FOR POINTS AGAINST This sixth team in the senior school is a good training ground for boys who are playing rugby football for the first time, and again this year several good prospects have emerged from the flock. Ian Anderson and Brian Pether- bridge only played together in the back line on two or three occasions, but both boys showed they had speed and aggression which can be channelled more effectively next year. Roco Chiu was one of the most elusive runners I have ever seen, and whether motivated by sheer fear or a desire to score trys he always looked very dangerous when he had the ball. Tony Diaz was a courageous tackier, improving his offensive capabilities as he learned the game. Ken Harris 4 0 4 27 59 captained the side very sensibly from the scrum half posi- tion and Andrew Jennings was an enthusiastic pack leader. Steven Read, Kevin Bertles, John Ebell, Wayne Wikkerink, David Gray and Todd Revill were the key members of a large but not very mobile pack. Robert Montgomery grew in stature with every game at the fullback slot and Richard Mills operated erratically from the stand-off position. Altogether a very pleasant and enthusiastic group, they were unfor- tunately starved for good local opposition and would have benefitted from more competition. R.S. Wynne COLTS RUGBY A TEAM B TEAM PLAYED 9 4 WON 3 3 LOST 6 1 As the record suggests, this was not one of the most successful Colts teams of recent years. It was a frustrating season for all concerned, but morale remained good throughout and the amount of improvement by individual players and the teams in general was most satisfying. A group of forty-three boys turned out at the beginning of September keen and enthusiastic to start the season but with very little experience of the game. The first match against Magee in Vancouver was a very physical one in which we were not quite able to handle the bigger, stronger opposition forwards. We lost 6 - 14 but were not disgraced. With nine boys in the A team in their first year of rugby, we were faced with a great challenge when it came to meeting the other independent schools, who had ex- perienced players in the right positions. However, the Colts ' forwards started to work together more effectively as the season progressed, and by the end were a for- midable pack. Manfred Guhr and captain David Ross were outstanding throughout and were ably supported by Kevin McDonough, Mike Trumper, David Beckman and the rest of the scrum. In the backs Cody Cuthill played at scrum-half for the first time and proved a tough player whose skill improved dramatically. Rory Carr added a touch of flair and poise at 90 fly-half, with Ken Butt, Scott Lervik and Fred Khosravi giving some penetration in the three-quarter line. The last match of the season against St. Georges was a rather emotional one. The team had improved a great deal and were determined to win their last match. They played hard, courageous rugby from the start and spent the last 15 minutes of the match no more than 10 metres from the St. George ' s line. Despite this effort, Brentwood never crossed the line and lost by two points. The B team had terrific team spirit and were worth their three victories. Kevin Wright, Adam Wensley, David Young and the McMyns were stalwarts, but the whole group played a part in their success. For me, this season was probably the most enjoyable I ' ve had coaching the Colts, not only because of the whole group ' s attitude in the face of poor results, but also because of their willingness to learn and help each other. I wish them the best of luck in their future rugby careers and know that the senior school will find these players a great asset in their teams next year. P.J. Simmons 91 a 3 JUNIOR COLTS RUGBY PLAYED WON LOST TIED POINTS FOR POINTS AGAINST Our Under 15 ' s were the best Junior Colts rugby team Brentwood has had for many years. They were a well balanced team, having great strength in the forwards and good speed and skill in the backs, with no weak links anywhere. Whilst there were many excellent individual performances, it was the fine teamwork that caught the eye. They succeeded in playing some exciting attacking rugby. It was unfortunate that our best team in years should meet similar counterparts from St. Michael ' s and St. Georges. Coaches from both schools rated their teams very highly and so all our Independent Schools games were close, exciting encounters. With seven of our A team new to the game, it was inevitable that our lack of experience would tell against the most experienced teams. However we had an excellent nucleus of players from last year ' s Junior-Junior Colts coached by Steve Cowie. We began the season by beating Vancouver Tech. 14-8 and then tied the ever-strong Magee 14-14 in Vancouver. 11 5 5 1 156 151 The next game was a tough bruising one which we lost 0- 10 to St. Michael ' s. Following a defeat to a mis-matched Parklands team, we won two close games, both by the same score of 16-14, over Hamilton (Vancouver) and Shawnigan (In the Shawnigan game we recovered from being 14-0 down in the first half). St. Georges then beat us easily 16-0, largely through superior kicking. But we came back from that to play our best game of the season, beating Shawnigan 32-0. The match was notable for two reasons: it was the first time in memory that a back (Ralph Thrall) had scored 5 trys in an Independent Schools game; and our 32 points consisted of 8 trys (4 points each) which was the story of our place-kicking ability. Non- existent. The term closed with a good 30-7 win against the Glenlyon Under-16s, another loss to St. Michael ' s and an exciting final game at St. Georges. The match was out- standingand both teamsshowed a high calibre of skill and sportsmanship. St. Georges won and they deserved to, but Brentwood too deserve credit for having played so 94 well. with his boundless energy and tremendous tackling. Our B team did not play as many games, and they did not win too many either. However all of them will probably remember forever their game up at Shawnigan in the snow. We had already played 3 games and lost them all by basketball-type scores, conceding well over 100 points in doing so. But thrashing around in the snow, slush, and frozen puddles of Shawnigan, the team came up with a magnificent effort and squeezed out a 26-22 win. But it proved to be their only win of the season, as the last two matches followed the course of the first three. Individually for the A team, the two big props Her- man Schenck and Michael Bruce were the main driving force and led the team admirably. As captain, Herman was outstanding. For the excellent service they have given to the Rugby Club in the past two years, they were both awarded Junior Pins. In the backs the main story was Ralph Thrall, the outside centre, who in scoring 12 trys in only 8 games showed himself to be the fastest and most exciting back in Brentwood Junior Colt history. His record of 5 trys in one game reflects well on the rest of the backs, who gave him the ball and the opportunity so often. Jamie Meihuizen and Scott Gray shared the role of scrum half, and both provided a good service to the backs. John Nunan, at fly- half, showed sound ability and fine potential. David Chaperon was a hard-running, hard-tackling player who made some excellent penetrating breaks in the centre. Great progress was made by the wingers, John Kitson and David Browett, who both improved vastly and ran with flair and gusto. David Duke was a courageous and imaginative full back. He was an elusive runner and a very good tactical kicker, and would tackle anybody, no matter how big he was. Of the other forwards, Ted Olynyk, Doug Carlson, and Bruce Elder, all in their 2nd year of rugby, played ex- tremely well. David Crawford and David Battagin, in their 1st year, proved to be valuable assets to the team. Danny Cheng was the spark-plug and inspiration of the team The team record does not reflect the true ability and potential of this team. As they continue through the school they should form the nucleus of an excellent 1st fifteen. It was my pleasure to coach such an enthusiastic and amusmggroupof boys. A team leading point scorers: J. Garvey R. Thrall M. Bruce J. Nunan and D. Cheng 12 trys. 4 trys. 3 trys each. ■HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDHHH 95 JUNIOR JUNIOR COLTS This year ' s edition of lively rodents was limited by the school ' s light enrolment in Grade 8 . Nevertheless, we had a couple of large mice — Wallace Charman and John Schmidt — who got the job done holding up our chunky striker, Spanky Dobell. Tireless Chris McLernon and Norman Waddell (a sparse collection of bone and gristle) shoved away in the sets and ranged around the park sniffing out loose ball, while the pack was struggling to provide possession against our bigger opponents. In the back row Malcolm Smith shone at number 8, with South African born David Attwell protecting one flank and gritty John Fraser the other. Our scrum half was a late find, but Tim Horsley showed strength behind the sets and got the ball out enough times to allow Tim Baird to scurry over for eleven trys. Baird was the most versatile athlete on the squad, making a large contribution offensively and defensively at fly-half. Centers Rohan Lyal and David Martine had the unenviable task of knocking down the other teams ' backs, who seemed to have the ball all too often. Rohan was always willing to put his body on the line, while David, though inconsistent on defence, helped the cause by kicking conversions. Our wings, Andrew Clarke and Pip Hutton, though not blessed with size or speed, had something else ... unpredictability. No one knew what these two mice might do in a maze of players. Rounding out the A fifteen was the diminutive Paul Campbell, who did justice to his country ' s football tradition by fielding the ball well and taking it down the mine from his fullback position. Our amazed opponents had some difficulty dealing with his bowling ball tactics. Backing up this lineup was a supporting cast of B players who had no team but worked hard at learning the skills and threatened to earn their mouse ears next year. These illustrious men (or were they mice) included Rand Signorello, Michael Dale, Christon Abbott, Doug Gray, Jason McGaw and Jeff Cox. Watch out for them next year. This was a year of mixed success, with 4 wins to 5 losses, but one where, once again, the youngest of our school took to rugby with a passion, and promise to contribute in the sport throughout their years with us. They came, they saw, they did not conquer always, but they learned how to enjoy the game along with the cheese at half time. S.M. Cowie. 98 RoaMog ROWING 1978 79 The Rowing Club tried a new approach of expansion and development in the Fall, with our experienced crews starting up after Christmas. The school purchased a set of fixed rowing machines which were attached to our dock, and we embarked on a programme of teaching novices the art and science of rowing. The programme was a great success and after one term we had a 75% sign-up for competitive crews in the racing season. The coaching of the 1st crew was given to Mr. John Queen, the ladies to Mrs. Susan Garvey and I took the novices, colts and J.V. crew. It is a tribute to our club that all these divisions were so highly successful and I would like to thank those coaches for a job so superbly done. A.C.C. 100 101 VARSITY VIII It was clear early on, that any decision to paddle light, so to speak, was not going to rest lightly on the shoulders of these competitive and experienced oarsmen, used as they had been to some very high-level competition. The group contained returnees from last year ' s heavyweight and lightweight eights, both extremely successful crews, together with Jim Baird and Graham Horn. The heavy commitment of last year ' s programme persuaded us to postpone any rowing for experienced people until after Christmas, when we quickly saw a potentially good crew. The decision to go all out was made before Easter and an intensive crash programme was set up for the few weeks at our disposal. Often cruel in its demands, it was largely experimental. We had no idea of the eventual outcome and as things turned out, probably still do not. If it worked it was ideal for the Canadian Schoolboy Championships, this competition being, we thought, a one-race affair. Throughout the short time at our disposal we followed rigidly the recommended training procedures: weights, running, hill sprints and interval and long distance work on the water. The crew was light, lighter than any before, but with great depth of experience. We opted, therefore, to use the 4-18, the lightweight boat - a decision which probably cost us dearly. Through the regattas the eight dominated the Varsity event, winning all. Then came the long peaking period prior to St. Catharine ' s. Short duration, highly intensive speed work followed, strictly anaerobic. The boat began to move very fast as the ultimate goal of the Calder Cleland Trophy dominated everyone ' s mind. Finally we were there, training twice a day on the course and getting faster every day. But there was a huge snag ... the large entry this year called for heats in the Championship Eights. The prospect had never entered our minds. Would it affect our performance, geared as we were to a one-race explosion? In the heat, Blair called for a fast start and a settle. No attempt was made deliberately to go for maximal speed and then came the word that we had covered the first 500 m. in 1 min. 18 sec. Even with a following wind, this was a crushingly fast time and Ridley, in the other heat and going for time in the first half, were unable to match it. Things looked good for the morrow. On the day of the Finals the wind blew, the water came up, and my heart and stomach both sank. Our boat sat very low in the water and was ideal for smooth conditions but this was going to hurt. Water was sloshing over the gunwales before we had even left the dock. We led for the first half of the race but the conditions proved too much. We finished third in a good race won by Ridley. We had shipped much water but that was all part of the game and we lost to the better crew of the day. It 102 had been an utterly frustrating experience and the word IF took on new dimensions for us all. The middle four from the eight are currently training on Burnaby Lake to qualify for the World Youth Cham- pionships in Moscow and we wish them every success. Much credit must also go to Michael Maxwell-Smith, who has trained with the eight throughout the season and been very successful as a sculler. Strictly a lightweight, he has sculled at the Varsity level throughout the season and finished sixth in the Canadian Schoolboy Championships. For me it has all been a very stimulating experience. Gratifying, too, to hear the compliments paid to these young men and the increasing recognition of their hard work and dedication. Their individual personalities and that of the crew as a whole have endeared them to most, and the relations with the rest of the boat club and the school in general have been excellent. This is a productive atmosphere which we, as a boat club, will be well-advised to foster. The scoffers have been a marked minority this year and have gone unheeded. Their opinions were unimportant unless backed by superior knowledge and superior effort. They did not qualify. Blair has been a fine stroke and demanding crew captain, and as a much-respected Captain of Rowing has exercised a continuing and involved interest in the whole club, as indeed have the rest of the crew. CREW: Scott Matheson — Bow (Colours 197 7) Graham Horn —2 Jim Baird — 3 (Colours 1979) Dennis Carlson — 4 Russell Stevenson — 5 (Colours 1977) Robbie Sinclair — 6 (Colours 1979) Stephen Hayne — 7 (Colours 1977) Blair Horn — Stroke (Colours 197 7) Rory Carr — Cox (Jnr. Pin 1979) J.L.Q. SCULLERS 103 LIGHTWEIGHT and BANTAMWEIGHT EIGHTS Both divisions contained a mixture of experienc ed and novice oarsmen when I joined them at Christmas. Our aims were simply to achieve success within the local regatta circuit and to look for potential in this building year. Both eights trained hard and made encouraging progress during the cold days of winter. There was some obvious talent in both boats but not enough consistency to make either invincible. The lightweight eight, training often alongside the Varsity boat, gained much from the experience, whilst the bantams, much younger, were as enthusiastic and talkative as ever. Both crews gained their successes during the racing season. The lightweight eight regained the coveted Haig Trophy at the Brentwood Regatta and the bantams proved too much for their arch-rivals, Shawnigan. John Fitzpatrick has led the lightweight crew well and they have followed his leadership unfalteringly. Doug Carlson showed great promise as stroke of the bantam eight and was promoted to No. 2 seat in the lightweight boat. An encouraging and successful season for both crews, with enough potential for me to think in terms of a championship lightweight eight for next season. CREWS: Lightweight: John Fitzpatrick, Brian Ross, Randy Ross, Bill Macdonald, Juergen Von Buttlar, Andrew Weilmeier, Chris Chapman, Doug Carlson and Mike McLennan (Stroke). Cox. Daryl Oakley. Bantamweight: Stephen Pettyfer, Danny Cheng, Ted Olynyk, Mike Maxwell, Jeff Cox, Stephen Wong, Eric Bramble, John Creighton and Doug Carlson (Stroke). Cox. Robert DeLange. Lightweight Pair: Bruce Abel, Ridley Wikkerink. J.L.Q. JUNIOR VARSITY CREW The J.V. crew was developed from a squad of mostly novice oarsmen with a small number of experienced men to help us along. From the beginning our goal was to develop good habits in rowing technique and build a base of racing experience, aerobic capacity and skill. The crew set the goal of winning the B.C. series A Championship at the end of the regatta season and all other events would be used to achieve that end. Their first race was a disaster. One man came off his seat and the crew thrashed around on a slalom course down Elk Lake in Victoria. Undaunted by such adversity, we trained for the summer races and entered Brentwood Regatta on a reasonably confident note. Success! We powered through our opposition in both the eight, which we had trained for, and the four, which our crew had sat in twice. We were clearly on our way and the next two regattas confirmed our superiority. At Shawnigan Lake Regatta we had to represent the school as the First Crew as well as defend our own division, and in rough water we steered into our opposition and faltered badly. Shawnigan went on to win by a narrow margin. On Quamichan Lake on a sunny day in June our crew went out to row in a six boat race for the Senior A Championship of British Columbia. With a moderate tail wind producing a small chop only near the finish of the course, conditions were ideal for our kind of race. As usual we were slow off the line but only a half length down after 500 m. We kept a very even, controlled pace while both Shawnigan and Vancouver Rowing Club were sprinting. At 1500 m. we made our move and the op- position fell back. We finished a length up in a staggering time of 5 min. 59.9 sec. for the 2000 m. course; only the second crew in the history of this school to break six minutes. Clearly these novices and their crew-mates had come a long way and will be bright prospects for our future. CREW: Rob Parker, Colin Thomson, Jarl Whist, Dan Henniger, Tim Christian, John Roach, Harold Backer and Eric Sorenson (Stroke). Scott Gray - Coxswain. A.C.C. COLT CREW The Colts were formed mostly from last year ' s ban- tams, novices and lightweights with a small sprinkling of new people who had gained the basic technique in the Fall. The turnout was just enough to make one crew; there were no spares in the event of illness or injury. The racing season produced only two other Colt eights but there were seven coxed fours in their category. The crew never lost an eight race, but had to be content with second place in the coxed four, the races being won on every occasion by a strong Shawnigan crew. In the Shawnigan Lake Regatta we braved huge waves and strong winds to come through by several lengths over our rivals, Shawnigan. I will always recall a small coxswain, hugging a huge trophy which I believe he took to bed with him that night. A highly prized but very angular Teddy Bear. CREW: John McNeill, David Harrison, Herman Schenck, Michael Bruce, David Ross, Manfred Guhr, David Young, Kevin McDonough (Stroke), Rohan Lyal - Coxswain. A.C.C. 106 NOVICE SQUAD The novice crew was selected from those novice oars- men who did not make the Junior Varsity crew. Again our emphasis was on development of the individuals in the crew rather than the early success of any one boat. This policy obviously paid off, because after one loss to the Seattle Junior crew the eight never lost another race. The coxed four, drawn from the stern four of the eight, were never seriously challenged in any regatta and soon qualified themselves out of their division and were forced to race in the J .V. division for the last two regattas. CREW: Ian Anderson, Dean Widney, Tom Christie, Bill Hanna, Doug Hogan, John McClure, Tim Burley, Kim Mclnnes (Stroke), Paul Campbell - Coxswain. A.C.C. 107 GIRLS ' ROWING It becomes more difficult each year to pay tribute in print to the qualities that each group of rowers brings with them. The crew of 79 cared very much about their sport and were perhaps the most dedicated and skilled crew of girls we have had. Certainly there were in- dividuals within the group who were completely devoted to rowing, and they were invaluable as they established the enthusiasm that was so evident this year. The crew of 79 had the largest number of participants since the inception of the girls ' program in 1973. There were 15 in the Spring session and 22 in the Summer term, with only 3 of these being experienced crew members from 1978. This fact has led me to be very optimistic about the future of the girls ' program, especially as in- terest is very high among grade 10 and 11 students. Not only were there more members of the crew, but there were more regattas for them to compete in. Regattas entered by the girls were: Elk Lake Spring Regatta, Victoria Brentwood Regatta, Mill Bay Maple Bay Annual Regatta, Quamichan Lake Seattle High School Invitational Regatta, Green Lake B.C. Youth Championships, Burnaby Lake Shawnigan Regatta, Shawnigan Lake B.C. Open Championships, Quamichan Lake. The girls also participated in an exchange program with the University of Victoria in February, when we travelled to Elk Lake to train with their crew and be their guests for a tour on campus. The U-Vic crew came to Brentwood at a later date and trained with us on the rowing machines, as it was unsuitable weather for actual rowing. Our racing results this year have quite a range, from ' character builders ' to championships. Everyone in the crew rowed a race of the former category, while the prestigious wins were experienced by fewer members. We gained our first clear victories of the season at the Maple Bay Regatta in the 8+ and 4+ events, winning by open water in each. At our own Brentwood Regatta, the 1st 8+ finished a close second to Green Lake, with Lakeside and West Vancouver following. In another tough race, the 1st 4+ placed second to Lakeside, with Green Lake third. We enjoyed our trip to the Green Lake Regatta in Seattle but our results were not good, the one exception being the 1st 4+ ' s second place finish to Lakeside again. The following week, at the B.C. Youth Championships at Burnaby Lake, we all raced very successfully, winning both the 8+ and 4+ events by several boat lengths. After the mid-term break and many days off training, the Shawnigan Regatta afforded us another chance to challenge our American counterparts. The 1st 4+ came through in first place, the 1st 8 + captured second in their event and the 2nd 8+ fought a very tough race for their third place standing. Three foot waves and gale force winds are not conducive to perfect rowing, but at least we stayed afloat! Our final regatta of the year, the B.C. Open Championships, was attended by elite and senior A crews. Although we were competing against the best oarswomen in the province and perhaps the country, we rowed admirably with them. We rowed to a very satisfying third place in the 8+ event behind V.C.R.C. and U-Vic. In the 4+ event, our 1st 4+ rowed superbly to come second to V.C.R.C, with another V.C.R.C. boat in third. I must mention that some of the more courageous crew members ventured forth in singles, pairs and the quad, 108 often in the spirit of competition, to provide a race for another crew. These people probably wish to remain anonymous, especially those in the ' wandering quad ' , but their sportsmanship is much appeciated. Looking forward to next year, we have the makings of a very strong crew and the potential to retain our title as B.C. Champions. Offering rowing to girls over three terms, rather than two, we may be able to reach even more interested people and provide better training for them. Although this year was a very satisfying year for me as a coach, I look forward to the next with much optimism. The members of the crew of 79 were Karen Middleton, Simonetta Berretti, Tracy Pettinger, Julia Schenck, Marcy McMullen, Eliza Massey, Kim Burgess, Liz Bittorf, Kathy Pokorski, Tammie Morrison, Katharina von Buttlar, Maya Loser, Rebecca Day, Leslie Stockwell, Tracy Wadlow, Bonnie Robinson, Andrea Cox, Nicki MacLaren, Susan Mills, Susan Gibson, Julie von Buttlar, Holley Kushniryk, Susan Smith. The 1st 8+ was Karen, Tracy, Eliza, Marcy, Julia, Kim, Liz, Kathy and Tammie. The 1st 4+ was Karen, Tracy, Julia, Marcy and Liza. The 2nd 8+ was comprised of various combinations of the other club members. Thank you to everyone — it was a great year. S. Garvey 109 INTER-HOUSE ROWING For the first time we were able to hold the competition on a multi-level basis: A and B Eights, girls Pairs and grommet Singles. Heats were necessary in all events except the A Eights due to limited equipment, and the races were spread over two afternoons. Whittall House, traditionally strong in this competition, emerged clear winners overall, winning both eights, the girls pair and coming second in the grommet single. However it was good to see Ellis House showing a far stronger front this year and Rogers House is obviously going to be a power to contend with in future, finishing second overall in this their first year of competition as a house. J.L.Q. Field Hockey BOYS ' FIELD HOCKEY 1st. XI Played Won Lost Tied Goals for Goals Against The 1st XI did much to eradicate the memories of last year ' s rather mediocre record. The team lost only one game, and that to a very good Shawnigan Lake team. However, we beat Shawnigan 1-0 and tied 2-2 on the other occasions we met. Against St. Geo rges we tied 2-2, and in the return match in Vancouver we played our best hockey of the season to record a 2-0 victory. Our most outstanding forward, Andrew O ' Brien-Bell, Brian Sharpe and Bruce Dale scored most of the 34 goals, but time and again the skill and hard work of Martin Philp (centre-half) and Mike McLennan (left wing) were responsible for the team ' s successes. Eric Krysa captained the team and played the position of centre full-back with great dependability. The big find of the year was Brent Barootes who was on exchange to Brentwood for the summer term. By mid-term he was playing like a veteran at right full-back. The suicidal defence of Jamie Norris, the speed of Anthony Pitt, the accuracy of Bryan Duke ' s hitting, and the dogged tackling of Jock McDonald were all valuable contributions to the success of the team ' s playing record . I would like to make special mention of the old man of the team, Ross Tocher, who has played goalkeeper at Brentwood for the last five years. He first 2nd. XI 13 10 1 2 34 11 Under-15XI 5 2 3 0 10 15 1 12 played for the 1st XI in his grade 9 year. His ability between the posts will long be remembered, particularly on thetourto England in 1978. The 2nd XI had a rather indifferent season, but did well to beat St. Georges 2-1 at home and then tie 2-2 in Vancouver. The personnel in the team was constantly changing, which did not help the task of building a team . Nevertheless, it provided a useful means of giving many inexperienced players a taste of the game in competition. One of the most satisfying aspects of the season was the performance of the younger members of the group. We were able to field an Unfter-15 XI composed largely of Grade 8 and Grade 9 boys. This has never been possible in the past. Not only was it pleasing to see the increased number of younger boys learning and enjoying the game, but it was most encouraging that their performance on the field improved so rapidly. After losing twice to Shawnigan Lake School at the beginning of the season, the Under-15 XI beat our local rivals with ease five weeks later by a score of three goals to nil. Likewise, a 4-2 defeat by St. Georges was avenged with a 1-0 victory in the second half of the season. Allen Engelman ' s goalkeeping gave the defence con- fidence, and the forwards soon began to show some flair and skill that produced goals. Richard Nunan, Rohan Lyal and Davi d Duke were especially dangerous in the forward line. Tim Horsley and Michael Shelbourn were both useful on the wings. Jeff Pardee played centre-half, where his reliable tackling and passing made up partially for his lack of speed. Others such as Paul Mathieson, Ted Reeve and Ridley Wikkerink revealed unsuspected talent as the season continued. With almost the entire senior team leaving this year it seems likely that more than one of this year ' s Under-15 XI will be called upon to play in the IstXI next season. The house tournament was a story of upsets . The underdogs, Rogers House, dragged people away from the tennis courts and the track to show that house spirit is as important as talent. H.J. Martin GIRLS ' FIELD HOCKEY Played Won 1st. XI 16 3 2nd. XI 3 1 3rd. XI 3 0 Under 16 XI 3 1 Goals Goals Lost Tied For Against 12 1 15 35 2 0 2 5 3 0 0 4 2 1 2 4 In 1978 the enrolment of girls to Brentwood increased and the number of participants in the field hockey programme rose. Unfortunately, the number of ex- perienced players did not increase proportionally: this was reflected in a somewhat disappointing season for the 1st. XI. The 1st. XI needed constant adjustment to find the right personnel for the correct positions. Forwards were converted to full backs and half backs, and vice versa, with the result that the defence appeared stronger by the end of the season. However, we did not solve the basic need to score goals. Individually the forwards had their moments, but rarely blended as a unit dangerous to the opposition. The responsibility for the half back line fell heavily on the shoulders of the captain, Tracy Pettinger. Along with Kelly Salloum and Dayna Geddes, Tracy was a consistent player whose hitting was almost ferocious. Her ability to score from short corners constituted a major strength of the team. It was inevitable that our general inexperience would handicap us against the strong opponents we play. To run with the ball close to the stick, to move around an op- 115 ponent on the left hand side, to flick the ball, and to stop and hit the ball consistently are essential skills that have to be mastered. A few of our 1st XI had some of these skills, but the team had some weaknesses too. We showed enthusiasm, but not the speed or ability to cover up our weaker points. Nevertheless, the 1st XI had its moments of glory when we beat Cowichan High School (3-0) for the first time ever and when we came close to a major upset, losing only 2-1 to Mount Douglas High School in the Vancouver Island tournament. An encouraging aspect of the field hockey season was the potential shown by the grade 10 girls. They give us good reason to look to the future with optimism. The house tournament was highlighted by the final match between Privett and Whittall. Privett had more than their fair share of 1st XI players, but it turned out to be Whittall ' s day when they scored the only goal of the match two minutes before the end. Colours were awarded to Tracy Pettinger, Kelly Salloum and Dayna Geddes. Other 1st XI players were Marcy McMullen, Sonia Trescher, Catherine Hagen, Susan Smith, Sandy Cameron, Holley Kushniryk, Marianne Collins, Jill Hutchinson, Sandy Capozzi, Caron Capozzi, Alix Nesbitt and Bonnie Robinson. H.J. Martin I 16 TrzacW and Field CROSS COUNTRY REPORT This has been one of the most successful cross-country seasons in the history of Brentwood College and some of the credit must go to the weatherman who rendered our soccer pitches unplayable for most of the term and raised tempests on the ocean to keep our rowers grounded. The result was that all the outdoor athletes did a lot more running than usual and we were able to put out for- midable teams at both senior and junior level. In addition to the competitive side of cross-country there was a group of fourteen students who ran three times a week with Mr. Wynne purely for the social en- joyment and the exercise. They covered varied terrain from the notorious jeep path which follows the Hydro power line over the Malahat to the pleasant undulating trails of Beaver and Elk Lakes. Ruth Buchanan faced all the rigours with the boys, among whom John Fitzpatrick, Michael Maxwell-Smith and Russell Stevenson were the best seniors and Norman Hill, Rob Pauls, and Dennis Lo the most promising juniors. Beacon Hill Park in Victoria was the venue for our first competition. The Royal Canadian Legion hosted several hundred athletes and our Junior team emerged victorious with an excellent score of 38 points: Blair Crawford scored 7, John Fitzpatrick 8, Brian Williams 11, and Mike Maxwell-Smith 12. Not be be outdone, Mr. Wynne scampered round the flat and dry 2.8 mile course in 15 m. 40 s. to finish second in the Masters (over 40) event. The Independent Schools ' meet was held at Shawnigan Lake School on March 1 , and resulted in an overwhelming victory for Brentwood athletes in both the Senior and Junior Divisions. Peter Holmes was first, Brian Carr second, Wayne Boe third, and Blair Crawford fourth to complete the sweep with the minimum possible 10 points. Sean Costello of St. Michael ' s alone split the group with Brian Williams finishing sixth and Robbie Sinclair an excellent seventh. In the Junior race, Rory Carr had to be content with second place behind Ian Baird of Glenlyon, but the Brentwood team was closely packed in behind Rory with Andrew Leighton fourth, John Nunan sixth, and John Kitson seventh, for a remarkable team total of 18 points and first place in the competition. The under fourteens were less successful as they packed well but lacked the pace over the very swift two-mile course: Chris McLernon, David Attwell, Michael Bruce, and Andrew Clark combined for a total of 84 points and fifth place. Undoubtedly, the highlight of any season is the Basil Parker Memorial Race in Central Saanich. This extremely rugged 6 mile course is reputed to be world standard and challenges even the best conditioned athlete. On an overcast March afternoon two Brentwood teams and three teachers joined a field of over 400 runners of every age and description. The course included stubble fields, heavy plough and meadow, steep rocky forest trails, and four crossings of inhospitable Hagen ' s Creek. Brian Carr led home a team of Juveniles from second place, with Rory Carr fifth, Michael Wynne twelfth and John Nunan sixteenth. Their total was good enough to push Central Junior High into second place and Belmont Junior High to third. Brian ' s time was 37 m. 46 s. — a remarkable achievement. In the junior race, for ages 18, 19 and 20, Peter Holmes was the first Brentwood runner home in third place behind well known Doug Moffitt and Norm Gabriel of Victoria. In close pursuit were Brian Williams fourth, Wayne Boe fifth, and Blair Crawford sixth. The 18 point total was considerably better than that of Spartex Club and Central High. Peter ' s time was 37 m. 23 s. The veterans were still on the course at this stage, but Mr. Wynne came in 23rd., Mr. Burrows 119th, and Mr. Carr 149th. With a time of 39 m. 16 s. Mr. Wynne ' s place was good enough for first in the Masters ' Competition. The Juniors had little difficulty taking the Mid Island Championships at McAdam Park in Duncan. Rory Carr (1) Andrew Leighton (4) John Nunan (8) and Daryl Oakley (9) gave Brentwood the team victory over Mount Prevost and qualified them for the All-Island championships at Crofton on St. Patrick ' s Day. However the fairy tale ending was not to be, as Central High from Victoria swept to Victory over the forest trails with 23 points. Brentwood was second with 40 points and our arch-rivals, Claremont, third with 49 points. Rory Carr ran himself to exhaustion to finish in third place behind two much larger boys from Central, Andrew Leighton flew back to Banff with a seventh place ribbon, Daryl Oakley took home fourteenth, and John Nunan sixteenth. These boys deserve special thanks for giving up two days of their holiday to compete in this event. THE ANNUAL INTER-HOUSE CROSS-COUNTRY COMPETITIONS This year, enthusiasm ran very high for these com- petitions and from the very first day of term, students in every colour from orange to green could be found running a fine new four mile course made up entirely of forest trail, brook, and .... ravine. When the dust had settled on February 27 the results were as follows:- JUNIORBOYS 1. Rory Carr 17 m. 17 s. (3.1 miles) 2. Andrew Leighton 3. John Nunan First team: Ellis 399 points Second team: Rogers 371 points Third team: Whittall 320 points Fourthteam: Privett 255 points GIRLS COMPETITION 1. Alison Gilmour22 m. 37 s. (3.1 miles) 2. Catherine Hagen 3. AngieGerst Firstteam: Privett 494 points Second team: Ellis 354 points Third team: Whittall 238 points Fourthteam: Rogers 201 points SENIOR BOYS 1. BrianCarr21 m. 02 s. (4.0 miles) 2. Brian Williams 3. Blair Crawford Firstteam: Whittall 468 points Second team: Ellis 407 points Third team: Rogers 265 points Fourthteam: Privett 201 points THE OVERALL RESULT First: Ellis 806 points Second: Whittall 788 points Third: Rogers 636 points Fourth: Privett 465 points I 19 INTER-SCHOOL TRACK FIELD The senior boys team could easily be summarized by the one-two-three finish of Blair Crawford, Peter Holmes and Brian Williams in the 5,000 m. race at the Mid-Island Track Meet. These three runners combined to give Brentwood top place finishes at all track and field meets in the 1500 and 5000 m. races. At the Independent Schools Meet, Crawford and Holmes pulled away from ' the pack on the tenth lap and never looked back. Later, in one of the most exciting finishes of the year, Blair Crawford came from 30 metres back on the final lap of the 1500 m. to nip a SMU runner at the tape. Brian Williams finished a strong third. All three of these runners competed at the Island finals in the 5000 m. Only Claremont Secondary placed two runners in the top ten. Holmes, Crawford and Williams finished 4th, 5th and 7th respectively as Brentwood was the only school to place three runners in the top ten. The only other victories of the year came from Peter Holmes in the 400 m. Hurdles. Peter won the local meets and then went on to place third at both the Independent Schools and the Island Finals. His time at the Island Finals qualified him for the B.C. Finals. The senior Girls team was very well balanced and very competitive in all events. Hulda Towns and Tracy Pet- tinger were consistent in the field events, while Holley Kushniryk showed a lot of potential for next year. A big surprise was the progress of Fiona Webster in the Javelin. Despite her small size, she has recorded some excellent throws and should provide us with strength in this event in the future. On the track, the girls team will miss our top female sprinter, Kim Angel. Howeve r, Tricia Havens is returning and will provide us with experience in the spring events. The only clear victories of the term came from a newcomer to track and field, Angie Gerst. Although she was eligible as a junior, Angie swept the 800 m. and 1500 m. in races at the Senior Mid-Island. She then went on to place fourth in the 1500 m. and sixth in the 800 m. at the Island Finals. This competition at the Senior level has provided Angie with very valuable experience for her grade 12 year. We are now at a point in this report where we make the transition from senior to junior track and field. This would therefore be a most appropriate place to bring in the name of Tim Christian, as it was in this junior-senior void that Tim became trapped for the entire term. Red tape, an archaic rule and poor timing, left Tim unable to qualify for the Senior B.C. Finals and ineligible for the Junior Island Meet. Tim did compete in the Junior Mid-Island Meet in an unofficial capacity, and easily outdistanced his peers in the javelin, discus and shot. Next year Tim will definitely move to the senior team, alongwitn some of our other fine juniors. These other very promising juniors, and there were many, worked, pulled, and cheered each other on to one of Brentwood ' s best years ever in track. The girls were led by the four runners in our4 x400 m. relay team: Berretti, Bannerman, Buchanan and Schenck. Various problems kept them off the track right up to the Mid-Island Meet where they placed second. This qualified the team for the Island Meet and the girls ran their best race of the year and finished fourth, after easily winning their heat. Individually, none of the girls qualified for the Island Meet, but Julia Schenck was close with a third place in the 400 m. and the high jump at the Mid-Island. Simonetta 122 Berretti showed that she has middle distance potential with a third in the 800 m. Based on her runs in the4 x400 m. relay, Ruth Buchanan will also be looking to middle distance races in the future. The Junior Boys team captured most of the honours on the track and in the process set a number of records at various meets. The team boasted a solid core of sprinters and middle distance runners who were responsible for all of the record setting. At the Independent Schools Meet the new records were: Tim Christian - Discus Mark Williamson -200 m. 4 x 100 m. relay 4 x400 relay New Record 39.84 m 23.7 sees. 46.6 sees. 3:46.9 Scott Lervik, Mar k Williamson, Ralph Thrall and John Turner showed their style by completely shattering the old mark of 47 .4 sees, for the 4 x 100 m. set in 1968. The team went on to post another record at the Mid-Island Meet with a time of 47.4 sees, on a much slower track. The one victory the team worked towards ended in disappointment at the Island Finals. In a very tight race we were nipped at the tape by both Wellington and SMU. Our other relay team, the 4 x400 m. team, has two new faces in Kevin Wright and Mark Tompkins. Kevin had distinguished himself with a third at the Mid-Island Meet in the 800 m., while Mark posted many victories on his way to the Island Finals where he placed fourth in the high jump and third in the 400 m. Our other two runners came from our 4 x 100 m. team. Scott Lervik ran on both teams all term, as well as placing in the ribbons at all meets in the 200 m. Mark Williamson started the term on the team but hisdouble victories in the 100 m. and 200 m. qualified him for quite a load in the Island Finals. Ralph Thrall stepped in and was more than capable over 400 m. Earlier in the year he proved his sprinting ability with a third in the 100 m. at the Independent Schools Meet. The key to the year came at the Mid-Island Meet. Mark Tompkins ran a super leg and took second place in a real photo finish of three teams. That lunge qualified us for the Island Finals. At these finals Mark Williamson ' s second and first, in the 100 and 200 m. respectively, combined with other performances to put us well in the pack of about thirty schools in the junior boys division. Only three teams had qualified for both relays. The results of the 4 x 100 m. relay you know. The biggest surprise came with a disqualification of another team and our boys taking four seconds off their previous best time to win the 4 x 400 m. relay and vault the team into a second place overall finish on the Island. This was a tremendous showing by our juniors and makes it easy to see why the coaches can say the future of track and field looks bright at Brentwood College . Part of that bright future includes a most promising thrower in our midget division. Michael Bruce was the midget team. In every throwing event, in every meet, Michael placed in the points. His most notable achievements were a first in the shot and second in javelin at the Independent Schools Meet and a second and a fourth in javelin at the Mid-Island Meet and Island Finals. There remains only one story to be told in order to close out the 1979 track and field term. It happened on the final day before awards and the story contains the essence of track and field: self-motivation. Between the exciting moments at the meets and the seemingly too few in- dividual sessions with the coach are longer periods when the athlete must push himself to achieve standards of conditioning and strength which will enable him to excel in an event. There was more evidence of this kind of self- motivation at all levels this year and the coaches thank those students who provided this kind of example to other potential athletes. For one of our senior distance runners the rewards were most gratifying. The 1500 m. school 123 record had eluded Blair Crawford for two years. Graduation was tomorrow and this was his final shot at a new record. There were no other competitors on the track, only an abstract pairing of distances and times which would dictate the pace. The statistics of the race are history now as Blair set a new record of 4:14:1 and etched in his memory, as well as mine, a most fitting conclusion to Track and Field 1979 at Brentwood College. INTER HOUSE TRACK AND FIELD MEET Final Standings Grommet Girls Privett 48 92 Whittall 99 Vz 62 Rogers 75V 2 89 Ellis 48 33 B A Total 75 142 357 61 104 326 ' 2 52 102 318 ' 2 83 154 318 Although the skies were overcast and the air cool on the afternoon of May 17 th, no-one seemed to notice. This was a direct result of the competitive climate that was dominating the geographic area known as A field. The relays, the last event of the day, were about to begin. Rogers was furthest off the pace with 241 points, but the other three houses — Ellis, Whittall and Privett — had scores of 263, 260 and 259 respectively. How was this virtual tie possible? Well, a quick glance at the Pitt-o- matic score sheet showed that each of the four houses was strong in different areas. The Whittall House grommets dominated their division with strong throwing from Michael Bruce and Tim Baird. The running of David Martine and Scott Gray kept Rogers ahead of the other two, but still a distant second. In the girls ' division it was all Privett and Rogers. Privett enjoyed a sweep of the distance races with Angie Gerst leading the way, but the combination of Kim Angel and Ruth Buchanan from Rogers kept things close with a strong showing in the sprints. The Privett margin of victory was due to Tracy Pettinger ' s double win in the shot and discus. In the senior divisions Ellis House proved to have too much depth for the other houses. The only double winner in the very competitive B division was Kevin Wright, with victories in the 400 m and 400 m hurdles. All other victories were well spread over the four houses, Ellis winning the division eight points ahead of Privett. In A Division, Ellis House again prevailed. Peter Holmes was the dominating force for Ellis, winning four events: 110 hurdles, 400 hurdles, 1500 m., and triple jump. For Privett House, Mark Williamson was a triple winner in the 100., 200 m., and high jump, while Tim Christian won the discus and shot. Blair Crawford was the Rogers House leader, with victories in the 800 m, 3000 m, and a very close2nd. inthe 1500 m. So the stage was set for the final 8 race, the relays. Thanks to the masterful up-to-the-minute score from Mr. Malby, Mr. Queen, and Reg Shipley in the control tower, everyone on A field was fully informed of the standings. In the Grommet and the Girls ' divisions, all went as ex- pected. Whittall swept both grommet relays, as did the Rogers House girls. In the Boys B division, Ellis and Privett split the two races. This result was duplicated in the Boys A Division. The final relay totals were: Privett 98, Rogers 7 7, Whittall 66 and Ellis 55 . So who won? ask Mr. Lironi! Never has the thrill of victory lifted one so high as it did the Privett Housemaster that afternoon. However when the game is that close, I think it is fair to say that everyone feels a little of the victory just from being involved. BOYS ' SOCCER On paper this was a rebuilding year for the 1st XI soccer. We had only three players remaining from last year, dozens of midfield players, and no defence at all. We compromised, played 4-4-2 to accommodate the midfield strength, and moved three other midfield players into the defence. The team looked very shaky in their first game against Shawnigan but they quickly improved, establishing a good short passing game; and in early warm-up games against Ladysmith and Duncan Mer- chants senior team they played some of their best soccer. Our defence was beginning to settle down, but there were still holes for the opposition to exploit. We moved into the Independent Schools League, no longer a one-day cup competition. At St. Michael ' s University School we came up with a very disappointing performance on a windy day. We never took charge of the game and tied it 1 - 1 after conceding an early penalty. Next we relaxed and allowed them to come back and tie the game 3-3 . That left Shawnigan and the match for first place in the league. At last we played a stronger game overall and we had the territorial advantage. But yet again all we could manage was a 1-1 tie. Shawnigan won the title and we were left with a very strange league record. Even though we were unbeaten, we did not win a game! The season ended with some exhibition matches, in- cluding the usual loss to the staff. We also played Ladysmith for a third time. They had just returned from a Hawaiian tour and had their whole school out in support. In the first half we were a little bemused by the large crowd and were easily out-played 2-0. But in the second half we came back to dominate the game. Bruce Dale scored a great goal to make it 2-1, but we couldnot score the equaliser. This was our last game and it reflected our inconsistent performances throughout the season. Individually we did not show good ball control or skill, but we were as fit as any team we played. At the start of the season Richard Nunan was our only recognized defender and so we moved Peter Holmes, Martin Philp and Kim Mclnnes from midfield into the ' back four ' to join Richard. Colin Thomson was the substitute defender. Initially, all looked shaky, but they soon settled down and defended competently. They were all quick to join in at- tacks and in many games they were our most consistent performers. Martin Philp, in particular, was outstanding in ' reading the game ' in his role of ' Sweeper ' . Behind them, T.K. Lim had the majority of time in goalkeeping, Stephen Hayne playing as his back-up. Both worked hard to improve their technique and timing, but concentration is the biggest requirement for a goalkeeper and in that department both had occasional lapses. In midfield we had a coach ' s dilemma, 3 Brians and 1 Blair! On paper our midfield unit was our strongest asset and in the early games it played well. But strangely 126 enough they all seemed to have bad patches thereafter and not once did all four play well together. Blair Horn, our captain, and Brian Dillon were in the central link positions and they were all legs and lungs, doing a good job in defence and supporting every attack. They were flanked by our two wingers. Brian Sharpe on the right, was our fastest and most penetrating forward, but we did not get the ball to him often enough. Brian Carr, on the left wing, was our most skillful player and made a good contribution at all times. In the forward line John Drost, Stephen Wong, Jock Macdonald, and Bruce Dale shared the two ' striker ' positions. John and Stephen used their skill and fitness to work for them, Jock provided much effective ' hustle ' and Bruce, perhaps the most dangerous of all, used his speed, determination and a very direct eye for goal. It is a pity that Bruce ' s knee injury kept him out of the vital Independent Schools matches. The second team unfortunately got very few games under their belt and so we were not able to see them in match situations. However they trained hard and always worked well on their ball skills. Hopefully next season will see an expanded fixture list for the seconds. J.B. Garvey 128 JUNIOR SOCCER The Winter term is not always the best time to play outdoor sport, and once again thirty-five enthusiastic soccer players from grades 8, 9, and 10 were introduced to rain, snow and the cross-country course. The group were split into under-sixteen and under fifteen teams, with the latter team playing in the in- dependent schools league. There were a number of players with experience and a reasonable amount of skill, enabling us to form above average teams. The junior team was one of the best we have produced over the last few years, combining good individual skills with smooth teamwork. Captain Rory Carr worked hard in midfield, going back to help the defence and then setting up attacks down the wing. John Nunan was like a rock in defence, with the speed of David Martine and flair of Salvador Trevino adding punch to the attack. The two games that stand out were the ones against St. Michael ' s and St. Georges. After beating Shawnigan we travelled to Victoria to play a strong St. Michael ' s team on a very large pitch. The team played a strong game defensively with Lee Croden outstanding in goal. We looked dangerous with our sporadic offensive movements. We eventually scored a fine goal by Salvador Trevino after an hour of play, with everyone very tired from continually running around the large pitch. The forced cross-country running must have helped. We now needed to beat St. Georges to win the junior cup. The game was played on B field in atrocious conditions, but both teams played extremely skillful soccer and produced a most exciting match. We scored first, but they scored to tie it up 1 - 1 at the end of the first half. St. Georges scored two quick goals in the second half and it seemed as though the game was over. But Bren- twood came back strongly and scored twice in a short space of time, making it 3 - 3. The score stayed like this until a few minutes from the final whistle when St. George ' s outstanding player scored a good individual goal to give them the victory. It was an enjoyable season for me, spent with a keen and ever improving group of young soccer players. Senior soccer should have few worries with this group coming through. P. Simmons 129 GIRLS ' SOCCER Soccer in its earliest English form was called the Dane ' s Head and was played in the 10th and 11th centuries as a contest in kicking a ball between towns. The legend holds that the first ball was a skull and only later a cow ' s bladder. In 1287 the Synod of Exeter banned from its chur- chyards wrestling, dancing and other unseemly sports including soccer. In 1349 Edward III, who was presumably addressing his constituency at large and not simply his court nobility, threatened to imprison those who substituted for archery (with its obvious military applicability) skittles, quoits, fives and soccer . . . or other foolish games like those which are of no use. In 1979, we are happy to say that after centuries of play and world- wide renown the game has achieved a high degree of sporting respectability and sophistication. But — naturally enough — there are some teams whom history and tradition has by-passed. For example, the Brentwood girls team. Their first adversity was the weather. Alison Gilmour, who was put in charge of weather, gave us endless days of snow, torrential rain and howling gales. We know why she did it. On such days we would substitute a cross-country run for a soccer practice. And we know who used to win every cross-country race, don ' t we? Actually by the end of the term the group had run the cross-country more than the track club, and when it came time for the Inter-House cross-country some of the girls thought that it was a soccer competition! Their second problem is finding other teams to play. The season produced only two matches and the Brent- wood girls extended their unbeaten streak to 3 years. They tied St. Michaels 2 -2 in a very exciting game and they beat a Duncan ladies team 4 - 1 . Individually Alison Gilmour and Dee Dee McKillop provided excellent leadership, skill, and enthusiasm; and strong performances were given by Caron Capozzi, Pat Loder, Sheryl Bannerman, Sonia Trescher, Peggy Lloyd, Sarah Mackintosh, Nathalie Delesalle and many others. Heather Mathieson did well in goal, keeping our unbeaten record intact. There was always the lighter side and as King Edward III so rightly said ...other foolish games. Perhaps the highlight of this side of the game was when Faye Mah was dribbling at full speed towards goal when she was met head-on by one of Alison ' s bone-crunching tackles. Faye flew through the air following the collision and fell to the ground in a heap. Fearing the worst, everybody ran to her aid. She looked up at all the inquiringfacesand said Just thought I ' d drop in. P.J. Simmons and J.B. Garvey. 130 WRESTLING Freestyle Wrestling came to Brentwood for the first time in the spring of 1979 with the arrival of top quality wrestling mats and coaching instruction by Mr. Malby. The first full term of instruction got under way in April, with an enthusiastic group of 23 potentials taking to the mats. Each session involved calisthenics, the introduction and practice of a new technique, review of previously learned techniques, situational drills, and summary drills designed to push combatants to their limit physically and mentally. On June 7th, an intra-team tournament consisting of 21 bouts was held, members of each of the five teams being selected by a draw. Individual weight class winners were: S. McMyn (Wt. Class I) C. Cuthill (Wt. Class II) Darrell Widney (Wt. Class III) J. Goldgrabe(Wt. Class IV) Consolation round winners were: I.Durling(Wt.Classl) L. Phillip (Wt. Class II) L.Croden(Wt. Class III) D.Hogan(Wt. Class IV) Competitors and spectators alike enjoyed a great af- ternoon of action with this fast growing Olympic Sport. Mr. Malby was pleased with the skill, determination, and good sportsmanship that his wrestlers exhibited. Wrestling has arrived! We look forward to Brentwood becoming a force to be reckoned with in British Columbia wrestling circles within three to five years. G. Malby 133 SENIOR BOYS ' BASKETBALL With no one back from last year ' s squad, the senior team had to be built from scratch. Fortunately the nucleus of a good junior team graduated to the first team and matured very quickly. Ted King and Tim Christian were immediate starters and Jens Goldgrabe, one of only two grade l2 ' s, became awesome as the season progressed. Mike McLennan was a late arrival but turned in some outstanding games, usually in a defensive role guarding the best player on the opposition. Thanks to Mr. Ross, we recruited some talent from other basketball schools, including our captain John Roach from Calgary and Jarl Whist, a smooth ball-handler from Kamloops. This year ' s team also had depth, with 6 ' 6 Dan Hindle backing up the centre, John McClure and Rob Stewart at forward, and Brad Sparrow at guard. Another strong rebounder, Harold Backer, sat out most of the season as a result of injuries. Our schedule worked against us in the early going as we had to play Shawnigan twice right at the beginning of term. The fact that Shawnigan, who eventually won the league, had played exhibition games before Christmas gave them the edge in our first encounter, but we rallied to throw a shock into them in the return match, which went down to the last twenty seconds before they pulled out the win. Through the rest of the league games we only lost one more contest and finished tied for second place with Chemainus. In most of our wins the players worked extremely well as a unit, playing unselfishly so that the scoring was evenly shared. Christian was always a threat under the basket and he tied clutch outside shooter John Roach for the team scoring title with 144 points. Jens Goldgrabe dominated the boards and led the team in rebounding, while Ted King served as the catalyst, leading in steals, assists and shooting percentage. In tournament play, we acquitted ourselves admirably, finishing a close second to St. George ' s in the Indepen- dent Schools tournament. Brentwood ' s return to the Island tournament was a memorable one as we came close to upsetting the number one seeded Stelly ' s X road in our first game and then went from there to defeat third seeded Reynold ' s to make the consolation final. In these games Ted King was electric, shooting an incredible 82% from the floor against Reynolds and wreaking havoc with steals on defence. Jens Goldgrabe was also impressive in this tournament, dominating the rebounds at both ends and scoring many important baskets. In the consolation final against our nemesis, Chemainus, we dominated the first half but lost momentum in the second, losing by a single point on the last play of the game. It was an exciting season from start to finish and a great learning experience for a very young team. 134 Everyone will be returning next year except Jens Goldgrabe and Dan Hindle, so we can expect that with a year ' s seasoning they will be a force to be reckoned with. As coach I was impressed with the tremendous com- petitive nature of this team. They developed a very strong cameraderie and this showed up in their unselfishness on the floor. I was also pleased with their willingness to learn and to work hard at practice to improve. For a young team they demonstrated remarkable poise and a high level of skill which held up well under pressure in difficult situations. I attribute this good attitude to the example of John Roach as Captain and to Ted King, last year ' s junior captain, who both came through when they were needed most. Without their efforts my job would have been a very difficult one and the season a very long one. 135 UNDER 17 BASKETBALL During the fall term Mr. Cowie conducted a series of skill and game workouts to set the stage for the spring. Many students at all grade levels attended so when the under 17 group signed up in December, they were a large and enthusiastic set of people. Ages ranged from 13-16, and experience far beyond those limits. Training began at once, as the league schedule opened only 10 days after the start of the term. From the start it was clear that the team contained strengths and weaknesses. There was no shortage of height or strength so rebounding and inside play went well, but lack of experience at guard was a handicap. At centre Mark Tompkins was a tower of physical and emotional strength, especially during the confidence- building first few weeks. At forward David Ross and Paul Mathieson rebounded and defended superbly, whilst Manfred Guhr and Kevin McDonough provided mobility and scoring variety. During these early games the young inexperienced guards responded very positively to the pressure exerted on them and their skill and confidence levels rose. The most remarkable feature of this team was its ability to learn from errors game by game, and so improve the way they played. In games 2 weeks apart, for example, they played Gulf Islands and lost by 38 points the first - time and only 11 points in the second one. The season ended with a tournament at Quamichan J.H.S.,, where after the loss to Gulf Islands we lost a most exciting game to Lake Cowichan in overtime by a single field goal. The Independent Schools ' under 17 tournament was held at Brentwood on February 14th. The opening game saw Shawnigan beat S.M.U. quite handily, whilst in the second game Brentwood fell to St. Georges by a score of 39-47 . The consolation final saw us defeat S.M.U. whilst the overall final was a most engaging contest. The game was a contrast of styles, Shawnigan being patient and deliberate whilst St. George ' s relied on flair and in- dividual talent. The lead changed hands continually, but in the final two minutes the Shawnigan cohesion proved a little stronger and they eked out a deserved 5 point win. The exceptional improvement in both team play and individual skills and the tight league schedule underline a need to begin training early. Next Fall we shall begin preparation in October, and with the number of ex- perienced players next season we should be much more competitive. W.J. Burrows 136 SENIOR GIRL ' S BASKETBALL This year the Senior Girls ' Basketball team was unable to participate in the local Duncan Basketball League. Withdrawn from the league, the girls did not have the opportunity to play many games. But on February 23 and 24 Brentwood College hosted the Senior Girls ' Independent Schools Basketball Tournament. There were five teams which participated in this two day event. They were Crofton House and York House from Vancouver, Norfolk House and St. Margaret ' s School from Victoria, and Brentwood. Considering their lack of pre-tournament play, the Brentwood team placed a very respectable 3rd place and their performance is to be congratulated. After the final game there was a small awards gathering held in the school cafeteria, at which all the teams gathered to enjoy refreshments and to witness the giving out of awards. Mr. Ross presided over the small group and gave awards to two deserving Brentwood girls, Holley Kushniryk and Dayna Geddes. Holley was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament and along with Dayna Geddes was named to the All Star Team chosen by tournament officials and the coaching staff. Mr. Ross presented York House School the Girls ' Independent School Basketball trophy as they proclaimed themselves the 1979 champions with a decisive win over Crofton House in the final game. Though our season was very short, I would like to thank all the girls who participated in Basketball and those who assisted in the running of the tournament to make it the successful event that it was. S. Sainas SENIOR BOYS TENNIS The 1979 season was not a particularly successful one mainly due to lack of experience in match play of the team. There was no grade 12 students in the team, and two grade 10 players were at number one and number six. Kevin McDonough, playing at number 1 , had played in many junior tournaments and showed a great deal of skill, but was not powerful or consistent enough to beat his opposition from other schools. He is one of the most promising young players Brentwood has seen and will be a real force in grade 12. Tony Arthurs at number two was our most successful player. He is learning to handle the pressure game situation and won some crucial games with his ' big hitting ' style. Chris Wilson at number three had some very close matches, but unfortunately usually came off on the wrong side. These top players were supported by Jamie Norris, Kim Mclnnes, Kevin Wright and Doug Copithorne, all of whom had their moments but had a less than 50% season. Next year could be one of Brentwood ' s best on the tennis courts with all these players returning, but we will not reach success unless we practice harder than ever. N.R. Prowse GIRLS TENNIS For the second consecutive year the girls won the senior independent schools cup. It was a clean sweep, with Sandy Cameron winning the singles tournament and the doubles pair of Caron and Sandy Capozzi winning their tournament. All ten girls in the group worked hard in practice and improved their skills and fitness. Sandy Cameron was outstanding (and I hope will remain so) and clearly the top girls player in Brentwood. The two Capozzis represented the school but were always challenged by Hulda Towns and Jeanie Vink, who improved tremendously through the term. Unfortunately the top players are in grade 12 and so next year will be a rebuilding year. But with the likes of Jeannie Vink, Catherine Clarke, Jill Hutchinson and Marianne Collins coming back, the girls team should be in good hands. It was a most enjoyable year spent with a charming collection of girls and I would like to wish the graduates the best of luck in their future tennis enjoyment. N.R.B. Prowse JUNIOR BOYS TENNIS This year there was some confusion about the age limit for this group. Indeed, the Independent Schools never completely sorted out whether the age limit was under 15 or under 16 on January 1st, 1979. Based on the report of the Sports Directors Meeting held in July 1978 we decided that our juniors would be under 15. Accor- dingly we followed this rule in our school matches. When the opposition followed it also and we competed on equal terms we emerged triumphant. Victories were recorded against Shawnigan, S.M.U. and St. Georges, making this the most successful year for the school ' s junior tennis team since competition started at this level. This was also the first year for an Island Independent Schools Junior knockout tournament, which in spite of a few ad- ministrative difficulties, was most successful. Glenlyon emerged the winner of the two individual competitions. Our own success this summer was built around Steve Diamond and Jamie Meihuizen, two skilled performers in their second year in the team. Whether playing singles or doubles they were almost always victorious and gave us the solid foundation we needed to win our matches. At various times invaluable support was provided by the other less experienced members of the team, Herman Schenck, Andrew Gibson, Chris McLernon and Scott Gray. The future looks equally promising with three of the team eligible again next year, together with promising newcomers Ed. Nash, David Browett and Peter Chan. The coach had a thoroughly enjoyable season helping and advising this group of enthusiastic young players who were always prepared to work hard to improve their skills. Well doneand thankyou oneand all. The R. Angus Cup for Junior Singles competition was won by Steve Diamond 5-7 , 6-4, 7-5 over Jamie Meihuizen after two hours of very exciting play. Both boys are to be commended for their skill, stamina and sportsmanship. It was a fitting climax to a great season. N.R.B. Prowse 139 SWIMMING B.C. PROVINCIAL SWIM FINALS The Vancouver Island Secondary School Zone Championships were held at the Crystal Pool in Victoria in early November. Brentwood College e ntered a team of 10 swimmers, and by their dedicated efforts won a berth in the B.C. Championships. Eight swimmers travelled to the Canada Games pool in New Westminster on Friday, December 8, to compete in the B.C. High Schools swimming championships. Of the eight competitors, four made it to the finals held on Saturday, December 9. Laura Crawford placed sixth in the girls 50 m. backstroke, Mark McNeill placed 7th in the 100 m. A division freestyle, and John McNeill finished 8th in the boys 50 m. freestyle. Our boys 200 m. freesytle relay team were disqualified on a turn technicality, or they would have finished with a bronze medal in third place. The girls 200 m. freestyle relay also demonstrated fine swimming, but did not place. In the 200 m. mixed medley relay, our team showed a lot of desire, but it was not enough to give us a final berth. Congratulations to our school team. Thank you all for a great effort. TEAM M. McNeill J. McNeill J.Zutter E. Bramble R. Pitt Laura Crawford Tricia Havens Holley Kushniryk Jill Hutchinson 140 VANCOUVER ISLAND NOVICE SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS This meet was held in the Crystal Pool in Victoria on Friday, December 1, 1978. Sixteen schools participated. It was a well-run meet, with a great deal of enthusiasm displayed by all competitors. Mr. Fred Packford, who was responsible for the meet, was very impressed with the potential of the swimmers. Congratulations must be given to the 23 swimmers from Brentwood, who won this meet by a comfortable margin. Their team spirit did much to generate the drive needed to accomplish th is pleasing win . Meet Standings: Brentwood 217 C.P.Vanier 125 Parklands 103 Claremont 87 Victoria High 83 Oak Bay 25 Mount Douglas 23 Norfolk House 23 St. Margaret ' s 15 Cameron 14 Lambrick 9 Stelly ' s 4 Well done, team! And thank you! R.G.Pitt Artificial Respiration and Basic First Aid Senior Level: 61 students qualified for their Senior Artificial Respiration and First Aid Awards. Junior Level: 33 students qualified for their Junior Artificial Respiration and First Aid Awards. Bronze Medallion Award Twenty students enrolled for the Bronze Medallion Life Saving Award, spending 20 hours at practical water in- struction and 20 hours learning theory. Leader, Red Cross Six students enrolled in a Leader, Red Cross course, which spread over a full term. These students worked very hard to reach this level, a pre-requisitefor Instructor status. The group travelled to the Duncan Pool on several afternoons to work with elementary school children to improve their teaching and handling skills. Much was gained from these out-of-school sessions. Their development as leaders was demonstrated on the final examination. Their examiner congratulated the entire class on their performance. Congratulations should also be given to Mrs. Pitt, who worked so hard preparing these candidates. R.G. Pitt. INTERHOUSE SWIM MEET The annual Brentwood Inter-House swim meet was held September 21 in the Brentwood pool. Judging from the enthusiasm generated by the competitors, this event could be the fore-runner of some keen house com- petitions. Approximately 80 students competed, representing the newly introduced four house competitive system of Whittall, Ellis, Privett and Rogers. From the very outset the 80 spectators supported their house teams and en- couraged their athletes to give their very best. The starter ' s gun sounded at 7:30 p.m. opening the meet, which continued with a very keen and sportsman- like atmosphere until the final gun at 9:30 p.m. Previous house swimming galas have only utilized three lanes, leaving the fourth unoccupied. With Rogers House filling the empty lane, a wealth of new competitors swam into the aquatic scene. Welcome, Rogers House, and good luck in future encounters. Early season competitions such as this have done much to help the newly enrolled students become involved, make new friends, settle in and see the Brentwood Spirit shine. Some fine new talent surfaced from our new students. Their abilities will certainly bolster our school rep team. Many thanks to the house sports captains for their fine co- operation in selecting their teams and a very special thanks to our most capable staff officials, who kept the meet flowing smoothly. In the final analysis, Whittall placed first with 180 points, closely followed by Privett with 172 points, Ellis with 170 points, and Rogers with 169 points. A great evening, with some splendid displays of fine swimming, was concluded by the Headmaster presenting the Whittall team captains with the house cake, and offering congratulations to all contestants. STAFF MEMBER RECEIVES HONOURS We are proud to announce a member of the Brentwood staff, Mrs. Doris Pitt, received her third citation from the Governor General at Government House on Saturday November 4 , 1978. Mrs. Pitt received a bar to her recognition medal (previously awarded) and was sworn in as a member of the Royal Life Saving Societies Branch Council. Congratulations Doris, for a well deserved recognition. 143 GOLF Bear-like I must fight the course. Macbeth Golf continued to be one of Brentwood ' s traditional summer sports. A dozen boys spent their afternoons chasing a little white ball around the Cowichan Golf course. They went round with varying degrees of success. Some would play from tee to green without ever touching the highway. They would be spread all over the coun- tryside like a platoon on manoeuvres. They would dash in and out of the bushes, brandishing steel and uttering vile oaths. Some would dig 8 lbs. of earth up with every at- tempted shot, leaving a tell-tale trail of divots, 30 yards apart, to the green. Some took double figures to get out of a bunker. Even on the green some strange shots would be seen. Some had to shout Fore when putting whilst others were known to have taken air-shots on the green! For others their only consistent stroke was the snap-hook that sent their ball to the bottom of the pond on the third hole. Meanwhile a few were hammering their drives 280 yards and sinking birdie putts with their eyes closed. In the main competition of the year, the Rob Soukop Memorial Tournament, Wade Bradley deservedly won with a 36 hole total of 165. Ted King was 2nd and John Hammond third. Wade and Ted, who both have han- 144 dicaps, were our most consistent golfers. Of the others, David Bannerman was certainly the longest hitter, sending many of his drives over 300 yards. Now if only he could learn to hit it straight Robbie Liden and Michael Splatt were two of the younger boys with promising swings. But they, along with most of the group, rarely played to their potential. Few of the boys practised regularly and so they would continue playing through a bad spell, fired on by that eternal golfing optimism that the next drive will be better than the last. In order for them to improve their swings and lower their handicaps, far more time has to be spent on the practice tee. Oh the dirty little pill Went rolling down the hill And rolled right into a bunker. From there to the green I took thirteen And then by God I sunk her. (Silly old ballad) 145 SENIOR GIRL ' S SOFTBALL This year softball for the Grade 12 girls was introduced to the sports programme. The experiment was very successful, with fourteen enthusiastic girls running the bases clad in bathing-suit tops and lathered in suntan oil. As some of the girls rounded second base there were minor dress adjustments to be made, as Emi will recall. The girls fielded a very strong team with a large sup- portive coaching staff behind them, Mrs. Dub scoring, Miss Sainas reffing and Mr. Thornton filling in the gaps. This well skilled team, the Brentwood Bullettes, suffered only two defeats over the season and both to hard hitting men ' s teams. This was a very good opening season even if the Bullettes played only four games. A good time was had by all, even the large contingent of spectators who trudged up the hill to B Field to cheer the girls on. Special thanks should be extended to our imported coach from the wilds of Winnipeg, Mr. Lou Thornton, for the time that he gave to mould the beginning team into an almost real Softball Team. 146 ICE HOCKEY PLAYED WON TIED LOST SENIORS 5 2 1 2 JUNIORS 3 1 A quick glance at the records of our two teams in- dicates that the ice hockey season was one of mixed success. One of the major downfalls of the season was the small number of formal games played. An informal week to week scheduling procedure tended to allow for last minute cancellation, always with hopes of rescheduling. The games were delayed right to the end of term, when all schools involved found their commitments in other athletic and academic areas heavy. As a result, some of the rescheduled games were just never played. Next season, scheduling will take place well before the com- mencement of Winter Term. A more positive note was the scheduling of additional practices. This meant that all players received a minimum of three hours ' instructional ice time per week, in addition to other types of training. The number of regular players on the senior team, though relatively small, provided the core of a potentially explosive scoring team. The only loss, through graduation, will be Dean Widney. He centered our top- scoring line which featured hard-shooting Rob Parker on left wing. Rob was the team ' s captain and the top scorer. Speedy Wayne Boe completed the core of our forwards, while back on the blue-line the team was fortunate to have stalwarts like Doug Hogan and Chris Chapman. The remainder of the team was comprised of players on loan from other sports. Two multi-talented right-wingers in Brad Sparrow and Tony Arthurs provided hustle in the corners, while Brian Sharpe led our second line with some excellent play at center. John Fitzpatrick and versatile Mike McLennan were two other assets. Mike played in every position but goal. For the purpose of future development, a number of juniors filled in the last positions on the senior team. Of note was the play of David Young and David Battagin. These two proved that they had more than adequate skills to play with the older boys. Mike Manson and Rob Liden also saw action with the senior team. Rob was also the captain and a mainstay on defence for the junior team. Honourable mention on the Junior team goes to top- scorer Mike Wynne, his line-mate Ridley Wikkerink, and the team ' s most improved player, Allen Engelman. The year started with a bang as Rob Parker hit for four goals and Tony Arthurs added the hat trick in a 9-0 romp over St. Michaels University School. Our second win came in the Independent Schools Tournament played at U. B.C., where a much improved St. Michaels team held Brent- wood to a 5-2 score. Tony Arthurs scored twice for Brentwood. Brentwood advanced to the final against Shawnigan Lake and managed a 4-4-tie in a real thriller to share the honours at the tournament. The final highlight of the year was a fast, high-scoring affair at the Mill Bay Arena. Vancouver district league champions Gladstone travelled over for an exhibition game. The Brentwood team, bolstered by six players f rom Shawnigan Lake School, stayed close to the small but very talented Gladstone team until the final minutes of play. A couple of picture-play goals pulled Gladstone away to a 10-8 victory. Despite the competitive nature of both teams involved, their conduct on the ice demonstrated that hockey is not different from other sports. With a strictly enforced set of standards, players will play hockey as it should be played. The Gladstone game was an ex- cellent contest and I am sure that all schools involved eagerly look forward to a return match next year. A dozen dedicated girls managed to find some spare time, in a very full schedule, to meet in the gym with the objective of preventing an 8 leather sphere from making contact with an 81 meter area of floor. At the same time they would attempt to drive that same sphere into another identical area immediately adjacent to their own. Through their efforts early in the morning, at supper time, or during their 9-10 social hour, many of the young ladies became quite skillful. This fact became evident as the season progressed. The senior girls, of which there were only three — Tammie Morrison, Dee Dee McKillop and Dayna Geddes — provided the core of the team, which was filled out with the more promising junior players. Tammie was our No. 1 setter with most of the sets laid in the direction of Dayna Geddes, an attacker who improved her spiking skills every day. Dee Dee was our defensive specialist who could also spike a few when called upon. The season consisted of a number of exhibition mini- GIRLS VOLLEYBALL tournaments, followed by a mid-Island Championship tournament. Our first outing to the Gulf Islands was saved by a couple of wins against a weak Chemainus team. A strong attacking Gulf Islands team, however, literally swept us off the court in our first two games. A week later on our home court, we stole another two from Chamainus and also two from a weak team from Queen Margaret ' s. The Mid-Island Championships in Lake Cowichan were attended in order to qualify for the Island Championships. The girls played very well, but lost a couple of close games to the tournament winners, Ladysmith. The two next matches saw us split with Lake Cowichan and Queen Margaret ' s. This left us in a tie for fourth place, but on points we lost to Lake Cowichan by one, leaving us in 5th place. A disappointing finish, but one that has us looking forward to next year and a group of well-seasoned juniors. The Junior squad was a well balanced team. Strengths 148 in spiking and serving were demonstrated by Julia Schenck and by our big hitter, Holley Kushniryk. Catherine Clarke was another capable spiker, but her primary role was a defensive one. Along with Jill Hut- chinson, Holley was called upon to put up that important first pass. On the receiving end were our two capable setters, Tricia Havens and Ruth Buchanan. Filling out the remainder of the team were Michele Dafoe, Kim Burgess and Katharina Von Buttlar. Mich and Kim were both defensive specialists, while Katharina possessed a hard serve which proved valuable in a few tight spots. Our first mini-tournament was at George Bonner Junior Secondary, where we split with the host school and swept from Chemainus to end up at 3-1 for the day. A week later we played at home. Our 4-1 record on the day included a two game sweep against Bonner and a single game from Ladysmith. Our single loss came in a thriller with Mount Prevost which we lost, but we then came back to win the last game and the tournament. The girls found themselves double-dated for the Gulf Islands Tournament. Because of this, some of the team were not available. A quick tour of the cafeteria provided a couple of willing participants and we were off. Despite the adversities, the girls pulled off the surprise of the year. A sweep of two games from Bonner, a split with Lake Cowichan, and two of three from host Gulf Islands left us at 5-2, tops for the day. The junior team was really showing its depth. A repeat of the schedule produced very few surprises, with our girls fast becoming favourites in the mid-Island. However, because some of the girls played on the Senior team, our Junior team was not able to qualify for the Island tournament. We did participate, however, and finished with a 6-2 record, good for second in our division. R. Piechotta BADMINTON As in previous years, badminton proved to be a very popular sport and was offered throughout the year. In the first term, 2 groups of badminton were held, while in the second term, pressure for gym space resulted in the badminton programme being transferred to the Fine Arts afternoons! One session of badminton was offered during the summer term. We were delighted that T.K. Lim, a Grade 11 student from Malaysia, became the Independent Schools Singles Badminton champion, as a result of the Boys Independent Schools Badminton tournament, in which he won all his games. As a team, our senior group placed fourth at this tournament, while our junior team placed third. We did not enter a team for the Girls Independent Schools tournament this year, because of a ski weekend clash. The Interhouse Badminton competition was played in the first term, and there were 3 levels of competition — Girls, Junior Boys and Senior Boys. The overall result was Privett — first, Whittall — second, Rogers — third and Ellis — fourth. Thanks go to Laurie Mook and T.K. Lim who very capably took care of the badminton group for much of the summer term, due to the absence of Miss Holden through sickness. A.L. Holden 149 VeotaRes, AdoeotaRes BRENTWOOD TEACHER EXCHANGE TO AUSTRALIA July -September 1978 Following the visit of Mr. B.H. Travers, Headmaster of Sydney Church of England Grammar School, to Brent- wood in May 1977, a teacher exchange programme was set up between the two schools. I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in the first of these. Accordingly I left Vancouver for Sydney on July 2nd, 1978 to spend the winter term at ' Shore, ' as S.E.G.S. is popularly known. ' Shore ' is an inner city, independent boys grammar school situated on the North Shore of Syndey harbour overlooking the famous Harbour Bridge and Opera House. The school has approximately one thousand pupils, of whom two-thirds are day students. The remainder are mostly graziers ' sons from the outback of New South Wales. Obviously they have to board, and are accommodated in four residences on campus. There is also a junior school sharing the same facility, which makes the age range a large one (six to eighteen). The size and location were not the only differences from Brentwood that required a certain re-adjustment on my part. It was strange to be back at a single sex school again, and the visual effect of so large a number of boys all wearing the same school uniform (including school boaters!) was impressive and not a little overpowering after the casualness of Brentwood dress. Above all, the sudden and rapid change from summer to winter promptly put me in bed with the flu! Although in all fairness it should be stressed that Sydney in July is more reminiscent of Mill Bay in April than Winnipeg in January. It was just that) Australians do not believe in central heating and my thin North American blood left me shivering in the classroom in spite of a sweater and an overcoat! Sydney, one of the world ' s truly great cities, was a wonderful place to be located. The view from the school campus over the harbour to Circular Quay and the downtown area were memorable enough by day, but absolutely awe-inspiring by night. Only a newcomer seeing it for the first time can really appreciate how truly lovely it is. Indeed, the campus location high on a hill with commanding views on all sides but only five minutes by subway from the centre of the city must be one of the finest and most unique in the world. The contrast with Brentwood ' s campus was further enhanced by the solid four-storeyed brick buildings, gnarled old Eucaplyptus trees, alive with possums by night and laughing kookaburras by day, and immaculate rose gardens squeezed in amongst the skyscrapers of busy, noisy North ; Sydney. My timetable was fairly light and flexible. This enabled me to talk about Canada with a large number of the student body, as well as give a series of lectures to a couple of sixth form history classes (grade 12) on U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. The interest in Canada was surprising, particularly the issue of Quebec separation, and it was very noticeable how much more cosmopolitan in outlook Australian students are than their North American counterparts, j They are also expected to work much harder: all the I Senior students were on a very rigorous academic programme leading up to their New South Wales school certificate Examinations in November. Although classes lasted through until 3 p.m. each week day afternoon, a two hour sports programme followed at the school playing fields some fifteen minutes away by car. All students were expected to participate, which meant a long day for the day students, especially those who lived some distance away. Much to my surprise, I found myself at a school that was even more fanatical about rugby than Brentwood ! Within hours of my arrival I was on the field coaching the 16 Bs, a delightful group who played the kind of open, exciting rugby Australia is famous for. On Saturdays I travelle d with them to their fixtures and thereby participated in the remarkable ex- perience of forty Shore teams playing continuously from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.! The climax of the day was always the 1st XV match, played before stands filled with eight thousand screaming supporters! 54 Shore is, of course, primarily a day school. Even so it has more boarders than Brentwood. I lived in residence in School House and became very much a part of the House, thanks to the warm welcome given me by the boys and their housemaster. The residences are very similar to our own with the prefects playing a very important ad- ministrative role, though I wonder whether any of the Brentwood boys could have survived living in the large, spartan dormitories!! The friendliness shown me in School House was typical of the way I was welcomed by the whole school and indeed by all with whom I came in contact during my stay in Australia. In addition to my five weeks of teaching at Shore, I managed to get in quite a bit of travelling. This included a most enjoyable and educationally stimulating few days as the guest of the Headmaster and staff of Canberra Grammar School, a visit to the cotton growing region of N.E. New South Wales, and a journey to Alice Springs at the Red Centre of the continent. After my return we received reciprocal visits from John Jenkins of S.C.E.G.S. and Geoff Clarke of Canberra Grammar. Geoff was just with us for the last few hectic days before the Christmas holidays, but John, my counterpart from Shore, joined us in November for five weeks during which time he became a truly integral part of the Brentwood community. I hope that both these visits will be the beginningof a regular exchange programme. The Independent school system in Australia, with its close church affiliations and strong British traditions, is very different from Western Canada where the American influence is so strong. This, together with the absolute uniqueness of Australia itself, makes this exchange a wonderfully worthwhile project. I recommend it to all the Brentwood staff. It certainly stimulated me. Maybe in the future we will be able to include students as well. N.R.B. Prowse A CANUCK ' S TEN MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS IN AUSSIE Struggling to understand ' Strine ' in the classroom. Example: Aorta mica laura genst all these prairlers and sleshers an pervs. Aorta puttem in jile an shootem. Climbing Ayers Rock. Beer and steaks at the ' Old Commadore ' pub. Aussie Rules on the tele. A drive to Canberra in an ancient Hillman. The bus ride from The Alice to Adelaide (500 miles of pot holes). The Indian-Pacific and the Ghan (famous Aussie trains). Sheep shearing on a ' station ' . Digging for opals at Lightning Ridge. Coming face to face with a ' roo in the outback. My thanks to both Brentwood and Shore for making my trip possible. It was a once in a lifetime experience. I hope that in the future other teachers may also benefit from it. N.R.B. Prowse THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE 1978-79 This year ' s committee has run quite smoothly. We were not as dynamic as some have been, but we managed to complete a number of functions which kept the natives calm. The committee ' s members worked well together and the staff must be thanked for their participation in taking cultural outings and chaperoning dances. In particular, Mr. Prowse, the staff co-ordinator, was always willing and able to see us through any problems. Although we did not get Cedar Lodge, the school for disabled children, going, through Brian Williams there was formed a magic club which hopefully will continue next year. Hulda Towns was a good secretary who could always be counted on. The Senior Dances were, perhaps, the best aspect of the committee. Mark Annable, Sandra Cameron and Caron Capozzi did good work in this area helping Liz Bittorf, who not only headed the dance committee but also took much time in the wee hours of the morning to bake food for the bake sales. Jamie Norris and Sarah Mackintosh helped many times with their fingers in the dough. Although there were not many junior dances, they were well organized by Tom Dalton and John McNeill. Dayna Geddes arranged interesting cultural outings and Tim Christian worked well with Mr. MacLean to get our movies. Our new Indonesian child, Farid Abdulah, who replaced last year ' s Korean child, was kept in touch with through Bonnie Robinson, who organized those fund-raising biscuit and cheese lunches. The week- end activities were handled by Brian Ross and Adam Wensley, who arranged bowling, roller skating, go-carting and the beginnings of a skate board club, which next year should flourish. I thank all these people for their efforts and hope they may continue next year with new com- mittee members to produce original ideas which will help the well-being of student social life. Blair Crawford. S.A.C. President. P.S. My own personal thanks to Blair for the outstanding job he did as President. His calm but energetic en- thusiasm and direction ensured a successful year for the S.A.C. N.R.B. Prowse S.A.C. Staff Co-ordinator After eight years, the Brentwood Debating Club re- established one tradition and established a tradition of its own this year. The re-established tradition was one of excellence in participation. Back in September, very few of us visualized just what debating competition in British Columbia entailed. However with the enthusiastic ex- perience of Catherine Sloan, Sandra Kouritzin and Rebecca Day, we were well on our way. For a speech competition in Saanich, Rebecca portrayed a memorable Richard III. The debating trail next took us to Nanaimo and the Ravenhurst Debates. Labelled as a school ' new ' to debating, we were officially encouraged simply for ap- pearing. Imagine the organizer ' s surprise (and ours) when Brian Kirkhope and Simon Monckton (the dynamic duo) emerged as the top junior team arguing the negative side. After the easy informality of Ravenhurst, competition became serious in February when we entered a 16 person team in the B.C. Independent Schools Championship for the Newman Cup. On a snowy Saturday in Vancouver, the sisters and students of the Convent of the Sacred Heart hosted us for the last time before the school closed in June. The competition was intense, but Brentwood qualified four debaters for the provincial championships: Ruth Buchanan and Shelley Milner as a senior team, and the forementioned dynamic duo as the junior edition. The Brentwood Debating Championships (The Ham- marskjold Trophy) held at U-Vic this year provided a focus for our fledgling club. Aside from the four competitors, every one of the members was involved as either a timekeeper or a chair person. Our preparation was hectic, especially for the four participants who became dedicated researchers at the U-Vic library. The championships loomed up and were soon upon us. We met and heard many of the 200 debaters who had also qualified from regional competitions. The climax of the year occurred at the awards banquet when the senior team of Shelley and Ruth finished third in the province. Ruth, who was awarded her fourth place individual finish by the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, was chosen to represent the province at the National Debating Seminar in St. John, New Brunswick. This was a moment to be savoured, but the conclusion of the Debating year saw the establishment of a new tradition. As a summer term project, the club organized a speech tournament which attracted 80 speakers from the Island. Sparked by Sandie Kouritzin ' s administrative competence, we wrote letters, made lists, bought trophies and organized a dance. This left the club too busy to compete; therefore public speaking was opened up to the rest of the Brentwood student body. It has been a very successful, qualifying first year. To organize a tournament and place a debater in the National Seminar is a signal accomplishment, but the last word should go to Ruth Buchanan, who spoke so well for us all year. Flying home to Brentwood from St. John, she has been widely quoted as remarking: I thought the National was the end of debating; why, it ' s just the beginning. R. MacLean 156 C 0 a H.M.S. PINAFORE I suppose there are people in the world who, having never heard of Gilbert and Sullivan, could greet an old chestnut such as HMS with the unbridled enthusiasm that it probably deserves. Your cynic, Diogenes, however, has seen it all before; not once but many times. Com- parisons are odious is the old phrase trotted out by every second rater who cannot stand the competition. Rubbish! Comparisons are the very stuff by which the critic lives. What should be more fitting than to measure the success of this year ' s effort against that of another Brentwood Cast, under the same director and producer, some seven years ago. As I recall, we had to borrow girls from Q.M.S. for that performance, including a prima donna sufficiently tem- peramental to make Maria Callas seem like a neutered tabby-cat. Her insistence upon keeping the cast waiting while she practised her scales before deigning to sing used to reduce Mr. Queen to something bordering on twitching hysteria. Half of him said Kill! while the other half said No! There ' s no-one else who can do the part. Funnily enough, she got laryngitis on the third night and a replacement managed just fine. I seem to remember that it was a much barer stage, perhaps because we were financially a poorer school. The rigging for the mast had to be returned to the sailing club after each performance as it was in actual use during the afternoons. The orchestra was smaller too, and the lighting simply had two controls: on, and off. Yet we all laughed and enjoyed ourselves a great deal not only because for each generation the Operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan are new, but because plays and concerts were far from being commonplace events in the school at that time. So what had changed in 1979? Not very much, really. At one time all the makeup was put on by one person, but now we had two. I could tell because all the boys had pale faces while the girls had bright red, with white necks. The usual nervousness among the principals was present; tenors with squeaks that were once voices: girls with lines thrown away so rapidly you would think they were red hot; a group singing Oh Joy, oh rapture... with expressions of such exquisite pain one might think that their shoes were packed with dry ice; and a singer who raced the orchestra, successfully alas, to the end of every line. First night jitters, however, are excusable in any group of amateurs, especially those going on stage for the first time. In succeeding performances things definitely im- proved. Kelly Salloum ' s lovely strong voice gave con- fidence to others and helped to carry them along. Brian Dillon as the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., really gained control of the part and played the comedy routines to great effect. Scott Matheson as Captain Corcoran was nicely balanced against the verminous and repulsive Dick Deadeye, played with ominous enjoyment by Stephen Hayne. Mary Lou Stanley ' s sweetness as Little Buttercup was likewise well played against that monstrous virago Hebe, a part in which Tricia Havens appeared all too comfortable. For laughs, Per Frohn-Nielsen and Jeff Cox did some excellent fooling around and double takes, while the Marines juxtaposed tall and skinny (Hindle) with short and round (Haywood) to produce a remarkable visual effect. I now appreciate rather more what the Iron Duke meant when he said ...but by God, Sir, they scare me! The chorus gave good support, always competent, in the right place, coming in with the music nicely on time. They were active too, keeping up the flow of chatter, bringing the stage to life. The direction, as always under John Queen, was thorough and professional, with no details left to chance. Praise is due to all who took part in the production, both on the stage and behind it. Enough of being nice now. That ' s all the bouquets for this performance, except to say that you gave us four evenings of excellent entertainment by any standards Back to my barrel, Diogenes. 159 161 BRENTWOOD COLLEGE VISIT TO THE TUTANKHAMUN EXHIBITION IN SEATTLE On Thursday, November 2nd, a group of 84 students from grades 8 to 12, accompanied by 5 members of staff, travelled by bus and ferry to see the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. The group stayed overnight on the 2nd in Everett, and then travelled to Seattle on the following morning. The exhibition had become notorious for the length of the queues for tickets, so that meant a very early start on the Friday morning to get to the exhibition as soon as possible. A very wet day did not seem to daunt the spirits of the party, even when faced with the possibility of standing in line for several hours. Fortunately, the problem of tickets was resolved quite easily and the school group got into the exhibition at 8:30 a.m. and spent a couple of hours there. After going round the displays and buying post cards and souvenirs, everyone rushed to the International Food Hall and consumed a much-needed breakfast, since they had been up since 5:30 a.m. (that morning) to obtain tickets. After break- fast, several students visited the Science Centre and Art displays prior to boarding the bus to return to the school. It was a long day, but one which seemed to be much appreciated by all. THE SYMPOSIUM Each year in early May the University of Victoria hosts a Symposium of the Sciences and Humanities. Students from every high school in British Columbia are en- couraged to submit essays or projects to the University for consideration. This year, over 300 students responded. From these submissions, the faculty of the University chose what they felt were the 126 most exciting efforts, and invited those students to Victoria for three days of discussion and debate. Most of these students are Observers: they listen to the best papers of all. Of the 126 students, only 24 are asked to be Presenters — to present and defend their paper or project. Two Brentwood students — Catherine Hagen and Lindsay Dutton — were so honoured. Catherine ' s paper, The Politics of Superpower, an evaluation of the strategic arms race and the role of the S.A.L.T. discussions, was particularly exciting in that the proposed S.A.L.T. II agreement was announced only two days before her paper was to be delivered. This development not only changed the focus of her discussion in a most dramatic fashion, but also gave her a chance to show her skills as an extemporaneous speaker. In facing these challenges, Catherine underlined most concisely the political nature of arms limitation strategies. Lindsay, on the other hand, presented Stages , a most stunning interpretive dance, to the full assembly. This work, developed with the assistance and en- couragement of Mrs. MacLean, followed the stages of life from birth to death, and was accompanied by a spirited plea by Lindsay for the introduction of Creative Dance to the school curriculum. Her argument that movement can open avenues of creative expression for students without a literary gift was well received, a point underlined most exquisitely by a second presentation of Stages. The audience was overwhelmed. Opportunities to participate in such symposia occur rarely for High School students. This is unfortunate, since the experience of meeting and sharing with other students is always rewarding. The intellectual challenge, and the sheer joy of exchanging ideas with like-minded people, makes a week-end such as this rewarding for everyone involved. B. Grafton. SKI WEEKENDS EMERGENT DOOR r If r [ I 4 Once more, the school arranged three ski weekends for students during second term. This year, two went to Whistler and one to Baker. On the first weekend, spent at Whistler, some 40 students braved a cold week-end for what turned out to be a sunny, chilly three great days on the slopes. Accommodation at the lodge proved exceptional and convenient as students were able to ski from there to the base of the mountain each morning. Records were broken by Jean Claude McAlpine not only on the slopes but also in the L ' Apres. All returned tired, happy, and none the worse for wear. On the second ski weekend, who could have guessed when we drove out of Brentwood College and crossed the Malahat in pouring rain, that we would shortly be fighting snow drifts and stalled vehicles a mere eighty miles away? The trip to Bellingham was innocent enough and the customs selected Katerina von Buttlar as their ' victim of the month. ' An Irish accent is not a great asset when you are trying to talk across a German fraulein with an out-of- date passport, but we made it. Saturday morning, full of bacon, eggs, hash browns, toast, honey, marmalade and coffee, we hit the road for Mount Baker in overcast chilly weather. Miss Sainas chattered away and Ken McAlpine counted the hours to the start of ' Hockey Nite in Canada. ' Suddenly we slowed around a corner in the snow-covered road and met a scene from Close Encounters. There were vehicles lined in disarray along each side of the road with oc- cupants scrambling and slithering to attach regulatory snow chains to icy, slush-covered wheels. It took an hour to equip the bus and two more hours to negotiate the thirty miles to the mountain car park. There was thirty feet of snow at the base level and it was accumulating at three inches an hour. Somehow we skied the mountain — in a white out — all except Patrick Pickles, who decided to explore the ' Hairy Scary ' and gave the Ski Patrol a bit of excitement when he had to be brought off a vertical slope, heavily concussed and half frozen to death. On the way down the mountain the State Patrol picked us up, fined us heavily for being on a restricted road with an overweight vehicle, and when we arrived at the Motel we discovered we had left Scott Gray at the lodge. Toronto lost the hockey game and the film projector was broken at Shakey ' s Pizza Joint. Sunday we went through the same pantomime only it took four hours to ascend the mountain and some of us lost our bacon and eggs! The third weekend, and the second of the year to Whistler, was one of mixed success, though the students did seem to enjoy it. The lodge, the White Gold Inn, was some distance from the Gondola and was lacking in any acceptable recreational facilities, which caused some initial consternation Friday night. Yet by early Saturday morning there was activity enough when it was found that one of the students ' rooms had been broken into, and 2 sets of skis and a pair of boots stolen. Rentals solved this problem, and for the rest of Saturday students enjoyed themselves thoroughly on the slopes. Some found the Green Chair perfect, while others found the runs above the Round House more to their liking. Some spent their day trying to find out where Mr. Malby was skiing. By Saturday evening, most students were exhausted and quite ready for a 10:00 p.m. room check — though once again some life was added, when at 11:00 p.m. the missing equipment anonymously was returned. Sunday dawned bleak and rainy, but the students set off hoping conditions would be fine at the top. By noon, however, it was raining at 6,000 feet and groups of wet, unhappy students began gathering at the base of the Gondola. Scott Gray, deciding Sunday had been too dull, fell high on the hill and rode down under tow by the Ski Patrol. The break we feared did not materialize, however, and he was able to return with the rest of us, and, like the rest of us, soaked. The trip home was quiet and uneventful, and — ex- cept for the Suburban not being allowed on the ferry with the bus — the students dozed and sprawled in the bus as we returned down-Island. Yet the rain, the thefts, and the various sprains and bruises aside, all seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly. B. Grafton R.S. Wynne G. Malby B.C. GOVERNMENT SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM Last summer, thanks to the government Summer Language Program, I travelled by train to Quebec City to study French at the University of Laval. The six week term began with an aural and written placement exam — results and class placement came several days later. I began in the superior one level — similar to our 2 nd. year university — but dropped to intermediate two where a simpler, less interesting course was followed. Even so, I was able to enter second year French at UVic after challenging ' the first year course. The University of Laval is on a large scale — 10 storey residences — but it had nearly everything near or on- campus. A lively team of animateurs — organizers — arranged soirees, ralley-bottines, — even a Calgary Kegger — as well as folk dancing, activities rangingfrom choir to contact sports each afternoon, and excursions. The excursions were generally half price to students with bursaries, although the half-day ones to historic sights in Quebec City were free. The longer trips were for a full day, visiting areas like the beautiful island of Orleans (which I later cycled around on a rented bike) and once travelling to Montreal to see the Expo ' 67 site, now Man and His World. Quebec City has a lot to offer. A summer festival was in progress when I arrived, and in addition to being steeped in history the city has many famous and inexpensive restaurants. Movies are often the same as those showing in Vancouver, although in French. Probably the greatest problems were those of adapting to the almost total immersion in the French language, to an environment where the house office and cafeteria spoke only French, and to the realization at the end that six weeks was not nearly long enough. David Angus THE INTER-SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP In an attempt to meet the spiritual needs of some of the students, a group began to meet in the home of Mr. Wynne for Bible study, discussion and fellowship. Over the past four years the club has grown from the original group of seven to over two dozen regular attenders from all grades and representing both sexes. The format has changed little as the main aim is to study the Bible, discuss the Christian life and enjoy fellowship over hot chocolate and cookies. There are talented musicians and much singing. By affiliating with the world-wide parent organization we have gained access to excellent per- sonnel in Victoria and to Pioneer Pacific Camp on Thetis Island and Pioneer Chehalis in the Hemlock Valley. Mike Pountney is Western Canada Co-ordinator and Ethelwyn Johnstone a B.C. staff counsellor. We owe a great deal to these two fine Christian workers. During the winter we enjoyed regular meetings on alternate Friday evenings; a highlight was the slide presentation by Dr. Del Haig, a Canadian Missionary Doctor working in Nepal in the foothills of the Himalayas. The spring will bring two camping opportunities on Thetis Island and a rally with some of the clubs from Victoria and Nanaimo. R.S. Wynne 166 SAILING Each year the new crop of hopefuls comes down to the water-front to learn how to sail. Visions of island- studded, wine-dark seas, palm-fringed coral lagoons, John Paul Getty type yachts, and races such as the Trans- Pac, the Sydney-Hobart, even the Swiftsure, fill their heads. What they get is a sabot and a wet bottom. I am not saying that this turns them off, that they wish they had stayed on land, that choir, band and typing suddenly look attractive. No, I am not saying that at all. It ' s just that suddenly they want to give up sailing. However, once they get out on the water and actually start sailing, all is changed. The lukewarm attitudes disappear, all uncertainties are now resolved. Now they are desperate to give it up! Not only have their illusions been shattered, but something new has come into their lives: a task-master who is deaf to excuses, who does not give second chances, who can be outwitted only by perseverance and skill. Patience, attention to detail, foresight, prudence, self-reliance, all the attributes of a good sailor are qualities notably absent in those just entering their ' teens. It is because we think that so much of value is to be gained from acquiring these qualities, that requests for transfers generally fall on deaf ears. At the end of each term, as each successful candidate comes forward to receive the CYA badge and certificate, we can be sure that he has learned more than just the technical skills of boat handling. For those who stay past the beginner ' s course, the next skill to master is spinnaker handling: so easy, so simple to do on land; so infernally difficult to handle on the water. Like a magnet, the spinnaker is attracted to the feet, the forestay, the jib, the very top of the mast, the very tip of the keel. It will willingly take to the air upside down, inside out, twisted into an hourglass, or tied into a knot. What it will not do is what it should do; for a spinnaker is tem- peramental, a spinnaker has feelings. Once this fact has been grasped, it is literally plain sailing . Once you have stopped cursing your spinnaker and have called it fond names, packed it with tenderness rather than ramming it into a bag, looked after its needs rather than leaving it abandoned in a corner, it will become your friend and willing servant. Those whose spinnakers hate them have only themselves to blame. Having acquired the basic and intermediate skills, the next step is racing. Actually, we plunged into competition very early in the year by entering an open regatta in Seattle in October. It was, euphemistically, an interesting learning experience . Yes, we got hammered; we also lost our billets and got a warning ticket from the Highway Patrol. 168 Many months of training intervened: drills, racing, drills, calisthenics, drills, lectures, drills and more drills. The Kitten Cup in Vancouver showed that we were much improved but lacked depth in our team. The Roger ' s Cup vs. Shawnigan Lake School showed us at our best. Despite high winds which placed our lightweights, Duke and Dalton, at a disadvantage, the superior sailing skills of the Brentwood team earned them a clear victory over some very game and tenacious opponents. Unhappily, the price of fame now had to be paid. Our Captain, Michael Mills, and his crew, Tom Dalton, were invited to the Canadian Youth Elimination Trials, to be held in Van- couver on the same weekend as the I ndependent Schools ' Regatta. Without them the team was going to have a problem. Very intensive training now took place, as our two reserves, Rob Pauls and Peter Cornish, were put into full time training. However, the fates decreed that we were not to be successful. Very strong winds produced two serious gear failures after the start. In the third race, Peter Clark, who had finished first a whole lap ahead of the next boat, was disqualified. Reluctantly, we parted with the shield we have held these seven years. Inter-house racing finished off the term. Again, strong winds were in evidence. Races were keenly contested and the standard of sailing was certainly the highest that has been seen in house matches for years. A protracted battle between Rogers and Privett resulted in a win for Rogers by a slim margin. Of course, Rogers had . . . who else? . . . Michael Mills! Michael, who graduates this week, has been Brent- wood ' s outstanding sailor. Under-sixteen Provincial Champion, contender in the world two-man semi-finals in Hawaii last year, finalist in the Canadian Youth Regatta in Vancouver next week, and possible Canadian representative in the World Youth Championships in Italy this summer, he has a great future in sailingahead of him. Good luck to you, Michael; may calm seas and fair winds accompanyyou in sailingand in life. R.V. Lironi mm Rambling W Jef 4 13 7 ft Preachin ' de Gospel Man What, why, where, who? — She awakens suddenly. Something cold had pressed upon her face. Slowly memory stirs and a realisation that camp is 5,000 feet up in the snow, and from the sagging shape of her tent more snow has been falling. It deadens sound and seems to be trying to bury evidence of man ' s unwelcome trespass there. Why do we wander in the wilderness? Why do we go there when it is cold and wet, and waist-deep in snow? Well, the mountains sometimes do that to you; it adds to the survival challenge. Then, when you get blue sky, bright sun on crystal crisp snow, and a fabulous tan, and you can kick and glide forever over the meadows and frozen lakes, you know. It is like a human relationship: you have to take the good with the bad and make the best of both. Why do we climb up mountains the hardest way, clinging like flies to tiny fissures in the rock, when there is a perfectly good trail not far off? Do good teamwork, good technique, overcoming fear, succeeding, add up to a worthwhile pursuit? Are there deeper satisfactions in thus challenging oneself? Why do we race suicidally over waterfalls in kayaks or canoes, when gentle pools beckon? There again, ad- venture, excitement, a test of skill, strength, stamina, courage and teamwork fill a vital gap in human ex- perience. If you fail you laugh and try again; if you succeed 171 ! you laugh and help someone else to know what it is to face danger and come through. You are wet and your heart is pounding, but you made it! So off again to try it a different way — challenge your imagination and your skill. For the same reasons, we train on calm water — personal skills, safety procedures. As we improve we tackle with delight the waves pushed up by winter gales. Some may wear down their fillings more rapidly than usual, but it is an adventure. Fun. One of the surest and most lasting relationships in your life is one you can build with Nature. The world around you, which has changed little since Man first was — ex- cept where man the overpopulator has been. A sound base for real human life — a stabilizer in this age of high- speed travel, mass communication, push-button en- tertainment. Exercise, vigorous exercise, removes all stress and tension problems from the human body and mind. Do it! But make it fun! Enjoy it, get satisfaction from it. Get to know the powers within you. Challenge yourself and have adventures. Our sincere and most grateful thanks must go to our back up crew, transport and food being vital to successful missions. Our ' elastic ' schedule has tried the patience of many, but they have never let us down. Mrs. Hallett and her ladies — thanks; Mrs. Little — thanks. Ken McAlpine — thanks; and to our pilot navigators — Hub, Gordy, Dave — thanks a million. R. Wingate A WORDY A beautiful summer ' s day, The brown and white river rushes past, Sunlight dapples the rocks Through the canopy above the gorge. A dipper plunges recklessly into the spray And pops back to its ambush - Trout fry for breakfast. A blue and crimson flash - A kingfisher goes around the next bend To cover the fact that it is shy. On a tiny beach a mass of butterflies Gold and black, open and close, And flick their swallowtails - Sipping salt and showing off their finery -Morning ladies at their coffee - Except that half are gents! Another sun-filled scene up in the snows By winter-lake, a marten trots and Climbs a tree to peer in friendly Curiosity at our camp. Some days you can ' t tell clouds From mountains - swirling mists Or whirlingsnowflurries - And the wind snatching the tops Off waves and hurling them through the air. Then the trees sway like Nelson ' s masts, And pepper the ground with cones and branches, And landlubber squirrels get seasick. So now an anecdote, a short tale Of hazards overcome - By courage and determination planningand skill. Some rapids in the Cowichan Gorge are not for kayakers, even superior ones, at some seasons of the year. Less skilled performers can try the uncontrollable inner-tube let the river take So two ladies and two men, intrepid, steel-nerved, well clad in helmets, life-vests and holding tight to their tubes, set off. An easy rapid to warm-up - a gentle stretch - an exciting chute next, testing skill and luck - but safely through and another gentle stretch - on to the third drop - scouted the day before and dismissed as lovely but harmless as you do the for hope best! wi you where it ill and from the bank The instructor on the bank raises an eyebrow - the leader in the water yells encouragement -the battle cry - and in they go. Actually, in is not quite correct: Down might be closer. The instructor knows that waterfall well and he knows his students, so he waits with a smile ready to leap in to help. The four adventurers vanish in a roaring mass of foam down a steep drop of some 16 feet in as many yards. Frothy water is not as buoyant as ordinary water when something denser hits it. Expecially when more water is pouring down on top. Nothing disturbs the external fall and the churning rush downstream. They are gone. But wait - there a ring, a helmet, there a hand, a head, a foot? After a minute coming up from 30 feet, there they are. They struggle on to their own bit of rocky bank. They look into each other ' s eyes - who the hell had that idea - but we ' re safe - relief floods and a feeling of achievement. They collect their kit and recount their experiences and look at their instructor for confirmation. - Yes that was an adventure! THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ' S AWARD IN CANADA Prince Philip ' s scheme is used throughout the Com- monwealth and in many other countries besides. It en- courages youth to accept challenge: to work towards achieving excellence in their own field of interest; to develop a sense of responsibility through service to the community; to become physically fit through sports; and to undertake ' adventures ' , training for and completing expeditions. Our Ramblers and our Community Recreation leaders have been working on the award scheme all this year (78- 79). The Bronze group should qualify by October — some silver medallists then too — and the gold winners by Christmas ' 79 . Hobbies range from conjuring to climbing; service from hospital work to conservation; expeditions, by canoe, kayak, on foot, skis and horseback. We have some excellent students from many parts of Canada and a handful from the Orient. The girls in the group have put in a particularly fine performance. The ultimate objective of the scheme is to allow youth to develop what is within them, to give them a framework within which to discover who and what they are, and can be; to help them learn, to stimulate creativity and imagination, to develop responsibility and a sense of purpose; to encourage the ' adventure ' approach to life; to help them become resourceful, able to overcome physical and mental hardships; to develop the social aspects of co- operation, tolerance, leadership: ultimately to produce healthy, happy, mature individuals who, directly because of their fuller maturity, can guide their generation towards a better future. Along with this process the actual awards give something to aim for, and a pat on the back, a sense of achievement, a reward as the student completes the programme he or she chooses to do. You compete only against yourself and the standards expected at each level are a minimum: students are encouraged to do more, to be prepared always to go that extra mile. From a purely mercenary point of view, a Gold Award winner will have the edge over competitors for places in Universities and Colleges; many firms recognize it as a measure of character. Further, each Province ' s Director ' s Office helps choose a team of old winners each year to represent Canada at International rallies. The honour of collecting your ' gong ' from the Lieutenant Governor, or Prince Philip himself, is enough in itself. Brentwood is running the first Leadership training school for the Duke of Edinburgh ' s Award scheme this summer. Gold medalists and teachers are comingfrom all over B.C. to Strathcona Park where our college leaders will be helping them enjoy an ' adventure ' in the moun- tains. A beginning for us to pass on some our our ad- vantages to others. We hope to round off the year with 1 1 golds, 1 1 silvers and 9 bronzes. Our thanks, of course, go to our in- defatigable Provincial Director, Peter Chance, for his guidance and encouragement, and to his able crew — David Bird at U-Vic and Captain Ellis (whose name is concrete here at Brentwood) — for their sound advice and help. R. Wingate. 174 MARTIAL ARTS A small and flourishing group of students are in- creasing their mental discipline and body control. While becoming more supple, more skilful, faster, and stronger, they are learning respect for each other, for self- discipline, and for ancient philosophies and ways of life. We have acquired a six-section wrestling mat, which has enabled us to safely cover many aspects of judo — throws, falls, and groundwork — and has helped us get determined competition under way. A small group of students have also been learning fencing — foil, epee, sabre. There is a great potential here and we are determined somehow to make this sport grow. Equipment is expensive, but this is our only obstacle. R. Wingate. 175 HORSE-AHOLICS of 1978-79 Such a great turn-out of riders this year! The massive club membership consisted of Sue Smith and Angie Gerst, who devoted their afternoons to the adventurous and exciting sport of horse-back riding. Rain or shine, they made their way to Wychbury Stables, where their steeds, alias Hambone and Getaway, anxiously awaited their arrival, Whether schooling in the ring or dressage or jumping, or merely cruising along roads and trails, a productive year was had by all. Wychbury stables is a large complex consisting of an indoor arena, barn and lounge, a jumping paddock, a dressage ring, one quarter-mile track, a cross-country course, and many spacious fields. The owner and general handyman, Fran Joyce, was always willing to offer a warm fire-side and ' refreshments ' on cold winter days (and hot ones at that!) A special thanks must go to the ever-reliable bus drivers; Hub, Gord, and Norm, under the excellent organization of Ken McAlpine, without whom such an enjoyable year at the stable would not have been possible: not to mention the golfer of the year, Mr. Garvey, who still can ' t quite figure out how Sue gets back to school without the bus! Cheers! Hopefully, the riding tradition at Brentwood will continue for years to come. It ' s a highly recommended and worthwhile experience for anyone interested. Good luck, future riders of Brentwood College! Tally -Ho Sue Smith and Angie Gerst S V PHOTOGRAPHY During the year, the members of the Photography Club were kept busy completing the many projects devised by Mr. Keevil. Talk of f-stops and development times, ex- periments with the new enlarger, long, hard looks at contact sheets, and the weird effects of sepia toning surrounded and sometimes overpowered the Staff Room three afternoons each week. New members of the Club were introduced to the magic that occurs after the shutter has been released, while veterans indulged themselves with experiments in light, composition, development techniques, and striking visual effects. In addition to the plates which follow, many of the photos found in the Brentonian have been supplied by members of the Club. A complete list of photo credits is impossible; Martin Philp, for example, is responsible for at least 20% of the pictures. At least some of these plates deserve special recognition: Jock McDonald Harry Worsley Ross Tocher Greg Chapman Martin Philp Frontispiece Barney, under Ellis House Cross-Country photos H.M.S. Pinafore ' Lamp, opposite Valedictorian ' s Address Ventures, Adventures i Arts, Activities Horses, Baseball, Wrestling The assistance I received, both from these students and from the many others whose names I have not listed, was much appreciated. Brian Grafton. Jock McDonald 178 Claudia Brown 179 Jock McDonald Jock McDonald 181 I. Martin Philp 183 Jock McDonald 184 Jock McDonald 185 CREATIVE WRITING When I first outlined the Creative Writing course two years ago, I described it as a rudimentary course. Little did I realize how accurately this would describe the work of the past year. Plot and character and setting, iambs and tetrameters and ballads — what a terrible series of traps are these! Despite the snares which caused Andrea to tear her hair, and Kim and Pierre to lapse into stupefied inactivity — and who would have believed that a trochaic sub- stitution, however inadvertent, could have had such effects — the year wasn ' t without its small triumphs. Karen explored, however tentatively, some very difficult psychological phenomena; Pierre turned his attention to detail with some success in Blowout, a work more of promise than fulfilment. Andrea did write a very good iambic line, and actually got a trochee to behave itself. John and Chris pressed on with their studies of blood and execution; as always, murder most foul is most fascinating. Kim tried hard to write something — anything — with limited success, and Laura finally slowed down her output and gave some thought to reality. Small steps, perhaps almost intangible, but oh so rewarding. I wish my intrepid band of explorers good luck with any future journeys that prose or verse may tempt them to undertake. I also hope that Brentwood College continues to offer a Creative Writing course. The tyranny of the imagination is total, and must be appeased. Brian Grafton. SNOW FLAKE A crystaline figure, fragile, Dressed in white, Falling, Silently, Yet you can sense its presence by Ear. Adam Wensley 187 BLOWOUT As meteoroids go, it was not a small one. Unfor- tunately, it was of an extraordinary size, being five metres in length. Elliptical in shape, it was jagged like a magnified blade. The rock was of a carbonaceous composition, formed millions of years earlier from the remnants of a dying comet. Since that time, the meteoroid had orbited the sun, watching Venus evolve into a planet of tropical forests before dying in a cloud of sulphuric acid. From its orbit, the rock had seen Earth form from only a million miles or less. Regularly it had passed this near and it was coming closer with every revolution. Orbiting on the same plane as our planet, the rock would eventually hit the moon or the earth, unless it collided with something else sooner. The chances of this, however, were extremely small — a million to one. Gradually, the meteoroid approached Earth, feeling the latter ' s gravity more intensely than ever before. As it came nearer, the rock appeared to be taking a route between the earth and the moon. It could not be detected from earth, but it was noticed by one of the many ore carriers plying the routes between Earth ' s colonies as a flash across a passive detection screen. The captain of the craft duly reported the occurrence, as was required by law, to the Starguard network, which would calculate the orbit of the rock and give it an alpha-numeric designation. The meteoroid was to be VCJ 288. Colony number 7 , Ventura , orbited Lagrangian point four, keeping station with both the earth and the moon. It was shaped so mewhat like a bicycle wheel. A mirror above it reflected sunlight into the torus, which turned at one r.p.m. — enough to give an earth-type gravity, but produce little sense of motion. The outside of the wheel was covered on one half by moonrock and on the other, facing towards the center, by glass chevions which deflected the light. These were to prevent cosmic rays from entering the colony. The center hub was connected to the wheel by six spokes. The hub itself was surmounted by a series of antennas and a heat dissipator. Deep in the interior of the hub was the most disused room in the colony. The navigation room was small, meant to contain but three people, and packed with electronic equipment. It was little used, except during correction manoeuvres, simply because there was no need for it. All craft that would ever approach the colony would be guided by computer and there was no reason to provide a control room for these routine operations. Unfortunately for the taxpayers, the added expense of a navigation room was required on all spacecraft. This law had been passed by the U.N. Committee on Space Standards in 1993, and a ruling by the same committee in 1995 decreed that a space colony was considered a spacecraft. The navigation room was almost always deserted, and when the officer actually bothered to put in a jig at the ' wheel ' he invariably slept. Bristol sank into the soft chair and placed his feet rather urgently on the console. His mind wandered back to the party. He still felt slightly woozy and very tired. Damn, he thought, why did I make that blasted bet! I gotta stay here all day now. I must have been totally smashed. Bristol had planned to spend the morning in the video center, before taking a shuttle to Monterey . He grunted a few times more, then fell asleep. 188 Unknowingly, he had switched off the automatic course changer with his shoe. The ship was now on manual. VCJ 288 came into range of the colony ' s sensors 44 seconds before impact. At that moment, it was 4463 kilometres from the colony. A computer immediately calculated the course. After discovering a collision possibility exceeding 3 percent, it caused an alarm to ring at 41.5 seconds before impact. Bristol continued sleeping, stifling a snore. The alarm continued to ring. The computer would have automatically avoided the meteoroid, but the ship was on manual. At 22 seconds before impact, Bristol opened his eyes. Glancing stupidly at the screen, he fumbled a few switches. By this time the colony had ten seconds of life remaining. Around the wheel, startled people heard the manoeuvre rockets fire. Some, not having been started for so long, refused to ignite. Despite this, the craft moved slowly. Seven seconds left. The radar screen showed the meteoroid moving minutely to the side, slipping away. Three seconds left. There was not enough power behind those few rockets. The rock, hurtling at 1000 kilometers per second, entered the colony through the inner rim. leaving a jagged hole. Bits of glass and plastic swirled into the vacuum. On impact, the rock split into eight pieces. These fanned out like buckshot as they punctured the torus. The pieces slowed perceptibly as they moved through the thin at- mosphere of the colony. The fragments still retained enough velocity, however, to smash easily through the terraced housing, the shopping district, the underground transit system and the recycling plants. Within a second from impact, the eight fragments had been shattered time and again. Over a hectare of urban area had been destroyed before the last pieces of VCJ 288 broke back into space through the radiation shield. A vast, gaping series of holes extended for fifty metres on either side of the impact point. For an instant nothing seemed to happen. Bits of aluminum and silicon fragments then began to be pulled toward the openings. A slight breeze turned to a wind. Trees were torn down and buildings wrenched over into the abyss. A grating sound enveloped the colony as tons of aluminum dragged through the holes. The wind grew stronger and drowned out the grating. And then it all stopped. The air was gone. On the opposite side from the impact, there was little of the violent winds, but the air was gone in barely a minute. Hundreds lay in the streets moaning soundlessly as their lungs exploded. Blood dribbled, boiling, down their cheeks, as the pressure dropped to zero. Doors which had remained closed burst when the pressure became too great for the flimsy hinges, killing hundreds more. Darkness descended on the colony as it moved on its axis, losing the sunshine reflected from the mirror. Around the zero-gee swimming pool in the hub, a couple of hundred people frolicked and swam, oblivious to the destruction of their homes and their life. Bristol stared weakly at the air pressure guage as it flicked to zero. He slid back in his seat slowly, and then stumbled out of the room. The pharmacist found him lying on the floor of the sick- bay, a jar of cyanide in his hand. Pierre Frioud 189 CREATIVE DANCE The dance group, which this year comprised 22 young ladies and six young men, have worked well together and produced some excellent work. The first term of work proved to be a little haphazard as many of the group were rehearsing for H.M.S. Pinafore: four of the girls, Tracy Pettinger, Mix Nesbitt, Susan Smith and Liz Kennedy aired their talents in a short dance during the production. Many of the boys taking part in the production proved themselves to be very versatile and in a small space did marvellous things with their feet — it appears that rowers make excellent dancers! ! The second term got off to a very good start — Lindsay Dutton worked very hard on a dance before term started called Stages (a dance solo relating to the different stages of life — birth, childhood, youth and old age). We spent time over at Shawnigan Lake School video taping — my thanks here go to Mr. Joe Gray for his help in this matter. Lindsay ' s symposium was submitted to the University of Victoria and was accepted. She presented it on May 10th toanaudience of 150. The Grade 12 ' s set upon choreographing their assessment work — looking for music — thinking about their ideas and experimenting with different forms of dance. The ultimate goal of the term was to start working towards a Fine Arts Display to be held on May 9, 10 and 11. Hours of extra work were put in on dances to be hard on technique throughout the year and they produced some very good Assessment Work — I look forward to working with them next year. The quality of work this year has been very good and the standard high — I look forward to working with such a group again and hopefully will have as many good strong athletic young men who can cope with throwing the girls about . I am thrilled with the success Dance has had at Brentwood and hope that the interest grows and that we can as a group provide a good standard of an Art Form which is becoming more popular in Canada and, from our enjoyment, provide other people with enjoyment. Joyce MacLean shown; my thanks and heartiest congratulations go to Lindsay Dutton, Sonia Trescher, Mary Lou Stanley, Lori Massey, Nathalie Delesalle, David Bannerman, Steven Hayne, David Williams, Tracy Pettinger, Susan Smith, Alix Nesbitt, Mary Murkowski and Liz Kennedy. All worked hard and conquered many difficult movements. They showed great patience and endurance. The two per- formances at school went very well, and the group pulled out all stops and showed their maturity and self-discipline when they performed at the Cowichan Theatre — they were on their own and from what I ' ve heard put on a splendid performance. So, a big thank you to my Grade 12 ' s for their excellent performance and for keepingtheir wits about them at such a time. May I take this op- portunity of wishing them all well in the future — I will certainly miss them next year. The Grade 10 ' s and 11 ' s in the group have worked very 191 DRAMA CLUB Theatrical puritanism remains the fashion, if not the conviction, at Brentwood. Free hearts must expect to meet with a scoff: Free foreheads with a lecture, often in the somewhat smug Tennysonian manner. Occasionally, by a great act of charity, yet with ill- concealed strain, some kind person will register disap- proval through the rebuke of silence. Despite such a stifling aesthetic climate, I am pleased to report that, to the jaundiced eye of this observer, the stage and its addicts appear reasonably healthy at Brentwood, well contented to please some, whilst risking offence to others. We will confess our manifold sins of omission (never comission!), and make solemn promise to repair them in the very near future by choosing for public presentation some vehicles whose only claim to fame will be its total respectability and comprehensibility — what George Bernard Shaw called a piece of Sardoudledum , I believe. This year, in addition to regular training sessions in movement, voice improvisation and workshop scenes for our 42 club members, we chose to mount for the public a contemporary little piece by Murray Schisgal called Fragments. I felt great fondness for this play when we first went into rehearsal and my affection has increased considerably since we closed, even though in the interim the play was unquestionably exposed to the inevitable amateurism of my actors, the even more inept and un- forgivable direction of this writer, and most un- fortunately, the i nsensitive comments of a largely unresponsive audience. Mr. Schisgall ' s script is a virtuoso piece of crafts- manship. It has broken with the old formula of the well- made play and walks with brilliance a dangerous tightrope between vicious, comic brutality on the one hand and delicate, poetic nostalgia on the other. There is nothing startlingly remarkable about its imaginative form, however, for it is neither self-conscious nor eccentric: it is the logical way to express the specific material of this play. Unfortunately, never did our playing quite hit the right key for this material: we seemed always to be capable of the vicious and the brutal, frequently touched upon the nostalgic, but more often than not missed en- tirely the element of black comedy, so necessary if this particular play is to charm and entertain its audience. John Getgood ' s skeletal set was both appropriate and attractive; his lighting never quite as atmospheric as I had hoped. Amongst my players I admired the industry and vigour of Brian Williams ' Bax, even though he always found the comic line difficult to find and sustain. Brian was backed by three very welcome new faces: Marianne Collins, David Williams and Chris Wardle, and one old timer, Per Frohn-Nielsen. All tried very hard, perhaps at times too hard, to give life and dimension to Mr. Schisgall ' s characters and to show our audiences the abrasions and beauties of Mr. Schisgall ' s world. In the final analysis, I must confess, we would have been more secure, both in our skills and with our audiences, had we tackled Jennifer ' s First Date. But more of that in the future. I know that our graduating club members will not take offense if, as I bid them farewell and good will to them, I do so with a special mention of Brian Williams, who in his five years at school, has won both of our major drama awards — the Earnshaw Trophy for club contributions in 1976 and now in 1979 the E.V. Young Memorial Award for his performance as Bax. T.G. Bunch 192 iwii i ' S«un is fHUCU BAND REPORT Following the auditioning of new students in the first week of the school year, it was clearly evident that the band program would involve more students than in previous years. Usually the Senior group begins with around thirty member players, but this year we started out with forty-five instrumentalists, sound in wind and most limbs! ! ! The Intermediate group was intact from the previous year and the number of ' rookies ' in Mr. Boel ' s junior group was most encouraging for the future. The settling-in process during the first few weeks is always an interesting one, with the old hands from last year making their predictions for the forth-coming one. Happily these sages were quite excited by some of our initial noises, and readily agreed that our brass section was going to be the best in a number of years. You can ' t beat experience quoth Radar, as he issued one of many squeaks from the position of third clarinet. He has since assumed the awesome responsibility of 2nd clarinet and hopes to go further. (Unfortunately, Radar will be graduatingthis year — pity!! !) Blair Horn took over the Sousaphone this year and it seems that this ponderous but delightful instrument gains more prestige every year — remember those worthies — Moose, The Root and the Losenge!!! It will be a dull year when this ridiculous piece of plumbing has to remain in the moth-balls. Some of our concerts this year took place in Nanaimo and Vancouver, Victoria where we entered the Music festival, and Duncan where we played in the new Com- munity Theatre. An exchange concert with Esquimalt High School was probably our best performance of the year. Garry Ullstrom and Tim Christian are to be congratulated for their fine performances in solo classes in the Victoria Music Festival. Other happenings which took place in Brentwood Music circles: Kim Burgess wrote the Grade II Theory examination of the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto; and Fourteen piano and three violin students enrolled in private instrumental study — Peter Ling proving himself an especially gifted pianist. Students in the Music 11 and 12 Elective, following a course in the study of opera, attended a performance of Verdi ' s La Traviata given by the Vancouver Opera Association. This was a thoroughly enjoyable weekend even if it was slightly marred by having to catch the 7 :00 a.m. ferry back to Mill Bay. Memories of Dave Horsley sleep-walking from a taxi at 6:00 a.m. still bringa shudder to the writer. Many thanks to everyone, especially Tammie, Blair, Scottie, Marcy, James and Tim, for your dedicated leadership — it has made it a year worth remembering. 193 THE BRENTONIAN Message from the Editor This year I was joined by a group of students who wished to help with the monumental task of putting together the Brentonian. Keen and energetic, their first bit of assistance doubled the amount of work that had to be done. Wishing — understandably — for more coverage of the less formal activities of the school year, they gained the support of Mr. Ross for a second, informal, student- oriented supplement to the Brentonian. Thus, in all in- nocence, was born the idea of Circa. Those well-meaning students are now on holiday. As I sit here — it is August 15 — surrounded by hundreds of photos, quires of paper, and bottles of glue, I remember wryly their enthusiasm and energy. The Brentonian is a very important part of the school. The main public official record of the events of the year, it touches on all the accomplishments of the busy and varied world that is Brentwood. Balanced by Circa, it should offer something to every member of the Brent- wood community. Regrettably, this year ' s publication won ' t meet that criterion. As I write this, I have done the layout for more than 160 pages, and I have scores of photos that will not appear. But I have not covered all the facets of school life: no good art shots; no ice hockey; nothing for I.S.C.F.; no coverage of many events and sports. It is impossible for one person, even with a dedicated group of assistants, to cover all the activities of such a dynamic school. At least some members of staff have recognized this, and have done what they could to help me over the past two years. Mr. Garvey submitted photos of soccer, golf, and rowing, ensuring good pictorial coverage; Mr. Pitt was prompt with information from the swimming pool; Mr. Cameron helped me during the summer. Mr. Keevil gave invaluable support through the Photography Club. Many students have also assisted. Most obvious were my happy band: Sandy Capozzi, Alison Gilmour, Tammie Morrison, Chico Newell, John Hammond, David Gray, Brian Carr, and — later — Jarl Whist and Chris Rolfe. To these may be added all the students who helped photographically: Jock McDonald, Martin Philp, Ross Tocher, Greg Chapman, Harry Worsley, and Michael Cottam come immediately to mind. To them could be added Shelbourn and Hagen and Geddes and Schenck and the host of others who offered their own photographs or who developed and printed my rolls of film. Inadequate recognition though it is, I offer my sincere thanks and appreciation. But more must be done if the Brentonian — and its cheeky off-spring Circa — are to reflect the school fully and accurately. Photos and write-ups are needed from every event — this year, for example, the Ski Weekend photos come from just one weekend. Words are needed, words describing Grad Breakfasts and Slave Auctions and rowing parties and rugby tours. Everyone must make the Brentonian his concern. Even if they are not used, the editor must have the choice if he is to offer a full yearbook. This is my last Brentonian. I trust I leave it richer than I found it. I hope the next editor improves it even m ore. Most of all, however, I wish that every person at Brent- wood will do his best to make this publication a fuller and more exciting reflection of the unique school of which he is a part. 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Marlin Jean Thompson MILLSTREAM SPORTS 2834 TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY MILL BAY, B.C. 743-4211 •Fresh and salt water fishing gear •Suppliers of Team Canada Sweaters •CPGA pro golf lessons by appointment rCilK •Bauer, Adidas, Wv y CCM, Jofa •Open 7 days a week • Personalized Service • Premium on U.S. funds COMPLIMENTS OF WRIGHT ' S T-SHIRT TROPHY HOUSE OF DUNCAN J R PIPES BUSINESS SYSTEMS LTD VICTORIA, NANAIMO ABDICK Duplicating Products 3M COPIERS SUPPLIES GBC PLASTIC BINDING AND COLLATING PRODUCTS Supplies Vor Most Makes 386-7728 1121 Fort- - 386-7728 TOTEM TflflffEL Sincere Wishes to The Students of Brentwood College for Success in all Their Endeavours FOR RESERVATIONS AND HELPFUL ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS PLEASE CALL YOUR CLOSEST TOTEM TRAVEL OFFICE Hillside 595-1181 Hillside Shopping Centre — Victoria Mayfair 386-3277 Mayfair Shopping Centre — Victoria Duncan Mall 748-2594 Port Alberni 723-8138 GRAD m, mm, It will be a pleasure for us to serve you Compliments of Sten mark ' s Ltd 63 Station St. Duncan, B.C. V9L 1AA2 A complete Gas service for Vancouver Island ft -? Distributor VANCOUVER ISLAND GAS COMPANY LTD. OFFICE PHONES 1007 Canada Ave.. Bus. 746-6633 Duncan. B.C. Bus. 748-5818 • Branches: Nanaimo. Victoria. Duncan. Courtney. Port McNeill ALBRITE LIGHTING LTD. WHOLESALE LIGHT SUPPLIERS 2016 Douglas St. Victoria, B.C. V8T4L1 Phone: 385-6526 7224 Curragh Ave. Burnaby, B.C. V5J 4V9 Phone: 483-8286 Congratulations to the 1979 Graduates Amberine Products Ltd., Victoria, B.C. 386-3471 Compliments of: ANCHOR TRANSIT LTD. 5843 DUNCAN P.O. BOX 548 DUNCAN, B.C. 746-6331 Compliments of Bucky ' s sport s shop Where Sportsmen Meet 171 Craig Street DUNCAN, B.C. Phone 746-4923 RON E. HUTTER PRESIDENT Central Glass (Duncan) Ltd. GLASS FOR EVERY PURPOSE 5195 MEARNS RD. BOX 872 DUNCAN, B.C. V9L 3Y2 TELEPHONE 748-2575 BEST WISHES GRADS 1979 BEST WISHES TO 1979 GRADUATES Claremont Poultry from: BAYVIEW GENERAL STORE 801 Deloume Rd. Mill Bay B.C. V0R2P0 Ph. 743-5180 Claremont Poultry Ltd. 783 Claremont Avenue Victoria, B.C. Phone 658-5512 Best wishes and Success to all 1979 Graduates from the management and staff of the Cowichan School of Motoring Inc. 378 Boundary Rd. Duncan, B.C. Your professional Driver Training Centre in the Cowichan Valley — Don ' t be just another driver— — be a safe Driver— 748-1241 ERNIE ' S CAMERAS 261 CANADA AVE. DUNCAN, B.C. 746-5332 Your Photographic Headquarters Fast Quality Photo Finishing DICKSON ' S Gordon House School Uniforms FOOD SERVICES COFFEE 2019 OAK BAY AVE. VICTORIA, B.C. TEA 592-2721 3311 OAK ST. VICTORIA FARMER BEST WISHES TO STAFF STUDENTS RENOVATION DIVISION FARMER CONSTRUCTION 2925 DOUGLAS ST. VICTORIA PARKSVILLE 388-5121 A COMPLETE CERAMIC SUPPLY SERVICE GREENBARN POTTERY SUPPLY LTD. 2982 - 164th ST. SURREY, B.C., CANADA V4B 4Z5 PHONE: (604) 536-9198 CATALOGUE AVAILABLE IRON HORSE EQUIPMENT LTD. Massey Ferguson Kubota Ariens Farm, Garden Industrial Equipment Homelite Chainsaws Parts Service Financing Available 4650 Trans Canada Highway 4 miles south of Duncan Open 6 days — 8 to 6 748-2809 Best Wishes KASCHPER RACING SHELLS LTD. P.O. Box 40, Lucan, Ontario NOM 2J0 Ladysmith Launderers and Dry Cleaners Industrial Garment and Linen Supply P.O. Box 131 Ladysmith, B.C. VOR 2E0 Telephone 245-3033 Proprietor: R. Lawson CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS GOOD LUCK IN YOUR FUTURE STUDIES from A.R. MANN PHARMACY LTD. 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOUR PHARMACEUTICAL NEEDS 325 Jubilee St. 165 Craig St. (opposite Post Office) 748-81 31 746-7168 DUNCAN, B.C. Good Luck to the Grads from MILLER SUPPLY LTD. MILL BAY RENTALS Building Cleaning Products REASONABLE RATES Chain Saws— Mowers— Tillers Compressors— Concrete Drills P.O. Box 210 Engine Hoist— Automotives 6687MIRAH RD. Power Vac Steam Cleaner SAANICHTON, B.C. VOS 1M0 SMALL ENGINE REPAIRS phone 652-281 3 743-9112 2490 Trans-Canada Highway, Cob Hill— Next to Good Shepherd Shelter OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL GRADUATES THE BEST TO YOU FROM EVERY DAY GOODNESS FRESH DAIRY PRODUCTS FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND DAIRY FARMERS VICTORIA DUNCAN NANAIMO COURTENAY PORTALBERNI 385-3461 746-6621 754-2341 339-5822 723-5011 BEST WISHES to the GRADS Roto-Rooter Sewer Service (Victoria) Ltd. 1920 Oak Bay Ave. 382-4900 GOOD LUCK TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1979 THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA SERVING VANCOUVER ISLAND UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT MILLSTREAM TAXI LTD. IF YOU NEED A TAXI AND YOU ' RE ON THE RUN CALL: 743-2433 WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS WHITE ' S DIVING CONGRATULATIONS EQUIPMENT LTD. to the Graduating Class 832 Fisgard Street Victoria, B.C. V8W1S1 SLADE STEWART, LTD. Phone: 385-4713 95 Esquimalt Ave. THE OLDEST MANUFACTURER Victoria, B.C. OF DIVING SUITS IN CANADA 382-3181 FOOD WHOLESALERS SOLD FROM COAST TO COAST STANDARD LIFE Canada ' s First— Since 1833 Salutes today ' s students— —the leaders of tomorrow. Grant S. Little, CLU, Br. Mgr., Vancouver Is!. Victoria 386-6147 Nanaimo 753-5431 Duncan 746-6741 Congratulations to the Graduates On Behalf Of Brentwood College School Best Wishes For A Super 1980 J.C. SWITZER COMPANY LTD 3323 Whittier Avenue Victoria B.C. V8Z3R1 Telephone 388-7804 J Printed In Canada by I I riesenNfearbooks AHona, Manitoba J. H. WHITTOME CO. LTD VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA • REAL ESTATE — Your full service Realtor • INSURANCE AGENTS — Your one Stop Insurance Shop • MORTGAGE LOANS • PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Since 1898 7 Offices Serving You DUNCAN 68 Station St. 746-6161 254 Trans-Can. Hwy. 748-0381 VICTORIA 1111 Blanshard 388-4271 4520 W. Saanich Rd. 479-1667 CHEMAINUS 9806 Willow St. 246-3231 SHAWNIGAN 1170 Shawnigan Mill Bay Rd. 743-5311 MILL BAY 855 Shawnigan Mill Bay Rd 743-5573 FIND. . . .WHITTOME ' S TRAVEL AGENCY Your International Travel Experts 126 Station St., Duncan 748-8128 CONGRATULATIONS to this Years Grads from WILLIAMS BICYCLE SHOP 161 Jubilee St., Duncan, B.C. 746-4041 RALEIGH GRAND PRIX