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

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Being human means to remain your own person. When it ' s all over - and believe me it comes much faster than you think - the one person who has to respect you is yourself. You have to be able to look yourself in the eye and say honestly - I did my best, and in the words of the song, I did it my way. By all means, set ambitious goals for yourself. Keep your standards high. A measure of idealism is part of the process of developing personal values. And if at times we are disappointed, discouraged and frustrated at not accomplishing these goals, recall Robert Browning ' s beautiful lines from his poem about the Italian painter Andrea del Sarto, Ah, but a man ' s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what ' s a heaven for? With much love. Dad. Brentwood College speech made by D.S.R. Leighton June, 1980 8

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In these days of multi-million contracts for mediocre hockey, foot- ball or baseball players, it may seem old-fashioned to talk about working for a living. I must say, I find myself agreeing with Scottish theologian William Barclay when he says: No man can reach greatness without toil . The truth is that toil is the coin which pays for everything. It is a lesson we need to learn. We need to learn it in the social and the economic sphere. It is impossible to build up a stable society and a stable system without some kind of sacrifice. We are today living in a society where most people claim the right to be cushioned and insulated against all effort and all sacrifice. The aim is for more pay for shorter hours. Whenever the cost of living goes up, the cry is that wages, pay and salary should go up with it. The odd thing today is that people claim a right not so much to a living as a luxury. But the fact remains that no stable system of life or society can ever be built in any civilization where the element of sacrifice has been completely eliminated. To aim at luxury as a right is to end in disaster as a result. Your schools and we your parents, if we have done our job, will have prepared you to make these choices. We will have helped you to grow as an autonomous, free individual, capable of standing on your own, of making your own decisions, and of living with the consequences. We will not have helped you by making your decisions for you, by protecting you and sheltering you from the choices you must make in life, by leaving you unprepared to make your own value judgments and moral choices. Many of your group will leave school to become members of large organ- izations - universities, businesses, governments. Beware of falling into the trap of becoming an organization man. Organizations become all too easily a substitute for parents or for school - they make de cisions for you and protect you against mistakes. Never allow them to think for you; always question their goals, their motives, their values - think for your- self. Do not automatically accept the party line, and always exercise your gift to think, to question, to decide, and to learn. 7

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HEADMASTER ' S REPORT Honoured Guests, Parents, Friends, The year upon which it is my pleasure to report has been characterized by vigour and a strong sense of commitment from all members of the Brentwood com- munity. These characteristics have been evinced in many and varied ways, not least by the industry and imagination involved in the production of this copy of the Brentonian. May I, at the outset, extend my sincere thanks to all staff members and students, editors, writers and photographers, who have given enthusiastically of their time and energy to produce this outstanding record of our lives at Brentwood from Steptember 1979 to the present day. In structuring the report that follows, one could choose to cater to the smiles that would come from some should I make it brief. To do so, however, would not be wise, as I believe our successes, our problems, our strengths and our weaknesses, must be given coverage if you are to understand and support what is, of course, your school. Since our emphasis is and must continue to be an academic one, it is appropriate for me to turn my at- tention to that dimension now. A glance at the past reveals that five schools competed for eleven provincial scholarships last June. Brentwood students, namely Michael Burian, Tab Cuthill, Brian Dillon, Catherine Hagen, Laurie Mook, and David Williams, won six of them. Th e remaining five awards were shared by the four other competing schools. This year, 28 of our graduates have qualified for the provincial scholarship competition — a number of these have exercised their option to write this past week,. Naturally, we wish them well. Four graduates have applied for Nancy Greene Scholarships which are awarded on the basis of strength in academics, athletics, and community service. In the more general sense, 81 of our graduating class of 91 have made application to at- tend post secondary institutions in September 1980. It is interesting to note that 37 of these have already been accepted at a time prior to the issuing of our official transcript. This, I believe, reflects the rather strong and exceptional record which the school seems to be developing with universities across the country. To give you some idea of where our graduates go, ten have already been accepted at Queens, six at the University of Washington, five at the University of Western Ontario, two at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, one at Berkley, one at Princeton, and another has been waitlisted for Harvard. To add further to this academic review, I would like to highlight the five students who we know, as of this date, have won scholarship awards at the university level. Here I refer to scholarship winners to Queens University: Julian Craddock and Per Frohn-Neilsen, who won 9