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

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The Peyton Trophy is awarded to an outstanding citizen in recognition of a strong contribution in both Athletics and Fine Arts. A lengthy list of seniors qualified strongly for this award. Given very serious consideration, for example, were the immediate runners up. As runners up we had a singer, an actor, a very fine athlete, member of our provincial championship field hockey team and strong player on our tennis team. In the runners up position Kerry Hsu. A second runner up, a good athlete, but more an extremely exceptional dancer, one whose performances we will greatly miss, Jill Bodie. The winner has done some absolutely superb work in Applied Design and Dance. The athletic side includes Soccer, and when not injured, Rugby and Golf. Full of integrity, a fine citizen, a prefect, from Lethbridge, please congratulate Chris Thrall. Our next award is the Mary Brooks Law Trophy, given to a student from any grade in the school who shows promise and strength of character and personality. For this award, particularly in Grade 11 and Grade 12 there were candidates far too numerous to mention. In the immediate runners up position there were three. In each case these candidates carry 75% or better averages. They a re mannerly, generous in their spirit towards the needs of others and strong minded in the defence of their own standards and their views. They have exceptional promise because they combine fine personality traits with a great deal of determination and intelligence. The runners up were Samantha Gray, Gerald Risk and Hew Crooks. The winner of this award is also a scholarship candidate, she holds her Academic Colours, she has been a member of two of our representative athletic teams, namely Tennis and Basketball, she has been the assistant head prefect of the School. Please congratulate the captain of Alexandra House from Calgary, Cori Ghitter. At this point, before getting to the final three awards, may I say something about the Nancy Green Scholarship. The Nancy Green Scholarship is an award given by the Province of British Columbia to a student who intends to pursue his or her education in British Columbia and who has excelled not only in academics, but also in athletics. The athletic achievement must at least be at a provincial if not at an international standard of excellence. In this year ' s Grade Twelve class there were several who would have qualified. A number of these, however, have chosen not to attend a British Columbia university and therefore did not apply. In this group of candidates, however, one has chosen to apply and we have just learned is in the final selection group. He is vying for a place on the Canadian Coxed Four which will represent this country in Yugoslavia at the World Youth Games. He carries a strong academic average, has been a member of this school for five years. We do not know how he will do, but since he has gained the final selection category we place our spirit behind him by offering him our congratulations. He need not come to the platform but may we recognise Greg Carlos. Earlier I spoke of citizenship. We have a senior award in this category called the Powell Cup. For this we seek a student in Grade 11 or Grade 12 who has demonstrated an outstanding degree of selflessness indicated by a strong desire to serve the community and the school as a whole. Pure high quality citizenship is consistently required from every member of our school community. When we don ' t have it we suffer greatly and we have had instances of that this year. When consideration for others, when generosity of spirit, when highly principled conduct characterises a person ' s attitude and their behaviour they immediately to an organization such as this, and indeed to any other, make an outstanding contribution. There are several in the Grade 11 class and several in the Grade 12 class who qualify highly for this award. The immediate runner up is a person who has been on our Student Activities Council for three years, she has served her house extremely well, she is a member of our provincial Field Hockey Championship team and an extremely hard working academician. The runner up for this award was Samantha Gray. The winner is a member of the prefectorial group, has been with us for five years, during which time his record of citizenship has been absolutely free of any criticism, he is selfless to an outstanding degree, a fine athlete as a member of our First XV, and our senior Lightweight crew. We congratulate the captain of the Lightweight crew, the president of the Grad class, five year man from Vancouver, to Queens, Mark Hunter. The next award is the Appleton Trophy. This trophy is awarded for senior leadership, recognising outstanding strength in leadership and ability to organize intelligently, together with a personal charisma which attracts others to follow his or her example. In this category I must speak of each of the house captains. Nick Willcox of Ellis, Clayton Davis of Whittall, Nick Spicer of Privett, Samantha Gray of Mackenzie. The

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Brentwood graduate in provincial scholarship examination competition scored 100% on his Mathematics paper and 100% in Chemistry, results which placed him first in the province. Another student finished in the top 20. There was only one other school in the province that had two of its graduates so ranked in provincial competition. A further review of results published last August revealed that there were 17 provincial scholarships won by students from five competing schools in this district. 13 of those were taken by Brentwood students, amongst them 10 boys and three girls. Although statistical, I think you should know something about our Provincial examination performance from an overall point of view. May I mention the following comparisons citing provincial averages as compared to Brentwood School results. Algebra: Provincial Average 67% Brentwood Average 73% By the way our participation rate in Mathematics 12 is exceptionally high, as we nearly make the course compulsory for all students in the school. There is no other school to my knowledge in the province that does so. Biology: Provincial Average 63% Brentwood Average 74% Chemistry 12: Provincial Average 67% Brentwood Average 77% English 12: Provincial Average 66% Brentwood Average 74% English Literature 12: Provincial Average 63% Brentwood Average 73% Geography 12: Provincial Average 63% Brentwood Average 71% History: Provincial Average 64% Brentwood Average 80% Physics: Provincial Average 68% Brentwood Average 72% The increasing standard of our academic work has allowed us to advance the rigor of our academic programme. Our Calculus course, a first year university programme, is now popular and very well established. Next year we will add an advanced placement course for French language studies. It will be offered to those from this year ' s Grade Eleven class who have already completed the senior French programme. At this time 1 am pleased to announce that the English department is developing a new Literature and Composition course, one which we hope to offer no later than the school year beginning September 1987. Those from next year ' s Grade Eleven class who are able to complete English 12 in their Grade 1 1 year, will be offered enrollment in this programme. The English department is convinced, that at least 80% of our Grade Elevens each year are competent enough to do well on the English 12 programme. The new Brentwood course, we think will provide an attractive option for them and better prepare them for university studies which in most cases seem certain to follow. In connection with university plans I should report that with only two or three exceptions our 1986 senior class intends to pursue further study next year For your information 40% of them have been accepted to eastern Canadian schools, another 17% we believe will be attending the Uni verity of Victoria, 14% will go to American schools including Harvard and Amherst, 8% to the University of British Columbia, and 9% to Alberta to the Calgary and Edmonton campuses. To deal more specifically with academic accomplishment, I will now ask the department heads to present the academic book prizes. Through these awards we recognise the top student in each subject area at each grade level. By the way, when a single student dominates, as is sometimes the case, we occasionally will make the award to the student who stands next in line. To award the Hogan Memorial Shield we seek to find a Grade Eight student whose citizenship is unquestionable and whose leadership potential is couched within a lively, attractive personality. A lengthy list of candidates were considered including Wade Pitts, Jeffrey Gostlin and the runner up, Angus Stewart. The winner of this award is an excellent student, he is from Vancouver, he is a fine Field Hockey player and has tremendous potential to play the game of rugby well. From Vancouver, British Columbia, we congratulate Hamish Mitchell. Our next major award is the Brentwood Trophy, one given for Mr. and Mrs. T.G. Bunch junior citizenship. For this we seek a student in Grade 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. A number of Grade 8s were considered, amongst them Greg Ipatowicz, Michael Pettit, Angus Stewart, again Wade Pitts. Nines in the running were Aaron Watson, Troy Mackenzie, Troy Soenen, Martin Duffy, but we went to the Ten level for our award winner. There were four outstanding candidates. The runners up were Adam Pekarsky, Stuart Hunter and Andrea Decore. The winner is a three-year man, during his time here as far as we know his conduct has been unquestionable, he is a member of the Rambling Society and participant in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards programme. Whenever he can, without waiting to be asked, he seeks to serve our community. Please congratulate this year ' s winner of the Brentwood Trophy, from our Grade Ten class, from Vancouver, Colin Bannon.

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runner up for this award is someone who has already won another, but we name her again, the runner up for the Appleton Trophy, Cori Ghitter. The winner covers ever attribute called for by this award, he carries his Academic Colours, he is a representative of the school in two major areas of sport, namely rugby in his Grade 1 1 year and rowing in Grade 12, his loyalty to his house and to the members of it has been an outstanding feature of his approach, he is a fine musician, and his overall programme commitment this year may have at times exceeded 60 hours a week before study could begin. A good organiser, a man of fantastic energy, please congratulate from Vancouver, to Harvard next year, the Head Prefect Doug MacLaren. Headmaster ' s Special Awards. Representing exceptional talent such as that possessed by Rachael Jones, Shauna Hardy, Joanna McKenzie, a Headmaster ' s Special Award goes to Jill Bodie. To a near winner in several other categories, a house captain, prefect, person greatly admired by us all, Samantha Gray. An exceptionally energetic person, extremely fine athlete, captain of our Field Hockey team, one who has worked tirelessly on behalf of the school, Eryn Paterson. Representing quiet confidence, unsurpassable loyalty and citizenship, Miss Stacey Reynhoudt. Representing scholastic excellence, an almost fierce level of determination couched within an attractive personality, Andrea Wilson. Representing the maturity necessary to always maintain a balanced view, the possession of individuality and uniqueness without seeking it, the quietly conducted search for all round personal development, the application of reason when others might allow emotion to spoil a decision, Ian Bullen. For personalizing the qualities of humility, modesty, generosity of spirit whilst possessing rare levels of talent in athletics, fine arts and academics, the young man who perhaps to the fullest extent has taken advantage of our programme. Hew Crooks. Representing all those in the school who must work extremely hard for their academic rewards, whose personal growth pattern is somewhat irregular but always upward in trend, who in a Grade 12 year provided us with surprising leadership strength, Patrick Melvin. Representing five years at Brentwood, who formed the understanding inner core of the school, we think of several such as Chris Robertson, Michael McLernon, Guy Thorburn, Sean Croft, a diverse group. To represent it. Headmaster ' s Special Awards to two people, Clayton Davis and Bill Groh. For the Yarrow Shield we seek a student in the graduating class who displays in addition to scholastic and athletic excellence stability and strength of character together with a willingness to serve. The Yarrow Shield had more worthy applicants this year than in any other one that I can remember. From the foregoing awards you would have detected amongst them candidates who would truly qualify for consideration for the Yarrow. Since I have already spoken about them I will not do so again but given very strong consideration were Hew Crooks, Mark Hunter, Cori Ghitter, Doug MacLaren, the name of Paul Whidden surfaces here as does that of Andrea Wilson. However the staff after a great deal of deliberation has made a decision to award the Yarrow this year to a student who has represented the school in three areas of sport and gained her Colours in each, they are rowing, field hockey and basketball. This person carries academic colours, has been a prefect this past year, a gold medalist in the Canadian Rowing Championships, an honours graduate and scholarship candidate accepted at both Queens and McGill University, from Kamloops, B.C., Miss Susan Gillespie. Grad 1986, an education of this kind has true meaning if it causes you to realise how little you know, it has true value if it causes you to help those less fortunate than yourselves. Many of you have already demonstrated an understanding of these truths — on the basis of them I hope that each and every one of you enjoy fulfilling futures. Parents, in us you place great trust and confidence. We, the staff, have tried hard to justify it. Thank you for offering us the opportunity to carry out our work. Standing — to r: D. MacLa ren M. Hunter, C. Thrall, G. Risk, H. Cheung. Seated: H. Mitchell, S. Smillie, W. Pitts, S. Gillespie, C. Ghitter, C. Bannon.