College of Emmanuel and St Chad - Rotunda Yearbook (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada)

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EMMANUEL ST. CHAD Bonnie Wylie and Manwaring Award President Elect, Michael Farr SOCIAL HAPPENINGS AT EMMA The year comes to a close and socially it was a fabulous one. Our social calen¬ dar started November 6 with our annual Coronation Ball. We had three charming candidates nominated for College Queen this year. Miss Karen Knight, a first year arts student, was crowned as Col lege Queen for Emmanuel and St. Chad. COLOR NIGHT ’68 AWARDS AND PRESENTATIONS Emmanuel Col lege Guild Cup for Debating: John Mash, Cam MacKay Richardson Cup for Impromtu Speaking: Fred Gowing Ath letic Awards - Major: William F. Reid Minor: Rick Wakeman, Terry Brooker Social Awards - Major: Ron G. Lambert Minor: Doug Barmby Canon Roy Manwaring Award (for spectator su pport): Miss Bonnie Carmen Wyllie After Christmas our n ow-f a m o u s Ground Hog Gambol was held with music by ' The Ultimates 1 . The dance was the best yet with a record turn out.

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The Sanfords of Westmoreland (Cont ' d.) Charles and his brother. Old Uncle Edward, helped to bury the bodies of both Yankee and Confederate soldiers who covered the fields for a mile or more around Cold Harbor. So frightful was the loss of life that Grant shifted his plans, and moved to Petersburg to attack Richmond from the South. There followed a grim siege of nine months. It was on Sunday, April 2, 1865 — President Daviswas worshipping in St. Paul ' s Church on Capitol Square — that a messen¬ ger brought word from General Lee that his lines around Petersburg had broken and he no longer cou Id defend Richmond. Great-grand daddy and Old Miss (Granny) left with the others from the church, after President Davis gave the news that it would be only a matter of hours until the fall of Richmond. Great- granddaddy was determined to save the Giraffe piano and the flat silver, so the prized possession was loaded on a mule cart and taken to the edge of the Chickahominy Swamp. Here Great-granddaddy, Uncle Edward and some other men carried the piano to high ground in the swamp. They rubbed the piano with beeswax, covered it with tarpaulin, and made a lean-to of sorts out of small bushes and swamp grass to pro¬ tect the Giraffe from the elements. The grey frame house on Grace Street was de¬ stroyed by fire that next day, April 3, 1865. Some months after, the piano was re¬ moved from the swamp and placed in the house of friends whose home in Richmond was only partial ly damaged and who shelter¬ ed Great-granddaddy and Old Miss during the trying years of Reconstruction — those terrible dark years, far worse than the War, that brought everything but utter despair. In Prohibition times, to scurry over history once again, the Giraffe piano was in the home of an Aunt, Miss Emma. Miss Emma ran a boarding house in Staunton, in the Valley of Virginia. Miss Emma served (as she cal led them) ' her paying guests ' with flat silver and candle light even the most humble of meals such as grits and gravy, or soup-beans and cornbread. The Giraffe was rightfully willed to her daughter Charlotte, who eloped with a trapeze artist who was part of a carnival visiting Staunton, and went with him North, or somewhere, return¬ ing only in death in a pine box with an undertaker ' s seal from Williamton, Dela¬ ware; an envelope was affixed to the box, containing a crudely drawn map of the Northern Neck, and showing the road from Fredericksburg to the turn at Templeman ' s Crossroads for Old Yeocomico Church. The Giraffe then went to Uncle Edward who was next of kin. Uncle Edward didn ' t really care about the piano; however, hegraci— ously willed it to an Aunt, Miss Edythe, in Kentucky — which was indeed frotunate as Uncle Edward took dope diluted in poke- berry juice and wouldn ' t quit. He had been using it for thirty years. Uncle Edward married a Yankee tourist at age forty-one and went off bag and baggage to her home in Chicago. He only wrote one letter back to Virginia in the next twenty years, but by the looks of the mahogany casket that came by train to Fredericksburg he had fared right well. His wife never put in her appearance at the funeral; but flowers were brought fifteen miles from Montross for the graveside service at Old Yeocomico, where Uncle Edward was laid to rest amid the fine old trees and moss-covered crosses. The Giraffe piano is now in Char¬ lottesville. Unfortunately, it had to be placed in a storage company owned by Yankees, after finding a happy home on the Bluegrass for many years. Miss Edythe will¬ ed it to me at her death . I am the last of the line; my inheritance is the beloved pos¬ session, the Giraffe piano, circa 1830. INVITATION TO . . . PLADSEN ' S BARBER SHOP 1402 COLLEGE DRIVE Saskatoon Open 8:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Wednesday

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The University of Saskatchewan Winter Carnival, with a fairyland theme, was next on Emma ' s calendar of social ac¬ tivities. Emma entered the snow scu Ipturing contest placing third in the col lege compe¬ tition and second in the interresidence cate¬ gory with a gilded replica of Aladdin ' s lamp executed by the artistic and frost-bitten hands of Terry Brooker, Bruce Baugh, Hugh Oliver, Dave Tickner, Rick Wakeman, Bob Price, Jim Bowden, Bruce Perlson, Monty Williamson, and Doug Barmby. 4 , ,- M February also brought Emma ' s annual Jimmy ' s Night program under the able di¬ rection of our Radio-Music-Drama chairman, Ron Lambert. In some peoples ' view it was a big success while to others it was a big headache. The first floor performed a mutilated version of ' The Shooting of Dan Magrew ' which won the competition. Chip Sanford and Vivian Frett competed in ' Shell ' s Wonderful World of Chess ' . They did find it a bit difficult to complete even one move because of the interruptions by the members of the second floor as they produced television commercials that were not quite as the sponsors would have wished them.