Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE not be very marked, nevertheless, the practical effect of re- organization should be far reaching. There has been an en- deavour to establish the feeling that the School has an indivu- ality to which the Boys are connected by an insoluble tie. While the School remains under private ownership that tie is necessarily precarious. Constituted as an incorporated body it is feasible for the School to continue in perpetuity. A per- manent individuality is thereby established and its relation- ship with the boys will be perpetual. The compilers of the Constitution of the School as it will be established have searched the ancient Chapters of the great English Schools for guidance in laying down a principle of conduct based upon the pious intentions which moved their Founders, with the feeling that by utilising the materials from which inestimable value has been obtained the School may be constructed upon a solid foundation. Certain phrases from those Chapters have been moulded into the new Con- stitution, and it may be that those phrases may bring with them the spirit of great traditions to assist us in making the influence of the School worthy and enduring. 0 ?NSKJ£

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE The New School Bell IT IS many years since a love of the Profession was first instilled into the mind of the present Headmaster by Mr. G. S. Smart and the late Mr. J. G. Black of Corchester, a North Country school in very beautiful surroundings, where efficiency was demanded and where genuine sportsmen were developed ; where long rambles were looked forward to with zest because they involved either a more intimate knowledge of the wild life of the district or the unfolding of geological mysteries exposed by Father Tyne, or took one up to Heaven- field or Chesters or the Roman Wall, where wondrous bat- tles were fought between the Picts and Scots and the myrmi- dons of Rome, or between the red-bearded Northumbrians of Oswald and Cadwalader. Shawnigan Lake School is in many ways the fruit of that zeal, implanted by Corchester, so that we are all the more grateful to Corchester for the gift of our new School Bell. Mr. Black died last year. Mr. Smart retires next Easter, but the vSchool will carry on under a new and younger regime, and we wish it every success in its efforts to keep up and further the traditions and good work done for so many years. C. W. L. Reorganization of the School THIS article is in the nature of a Preface to a new Volume in the History of the School. Hitherto the School has been privately owned. Hereafter the School will own itself. Preparations are being made to transfer the School to an Incorporated Body, vested with powers of administration in accordance with the principles already instituted. A Governing Body to act primarily in an advisory capacity will be appointed. The present Headmaster will continue in office. In the actual administration of the School the changre will

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE THE Football Season, from the match point of view, was almost non-existent. Owing to isolation precautions we were able to play only one 1st XI match before the fire. Although football was played at Cadboro Bay, the field was very small and the difficulties of bringing down the seniors to practise with the rest of the school were too great to merit our arranging any fixtures for the 1st XI. The XI was much handicapped by the absence of Haddon, the captain, who had to have an operation early in the season. The only really strong point in the team was Rochfort I in goal, but as he had to play out in place of Haddon in the only match, we did not derive much benefit from this. The age of the Cup Team was altered this year from under 15 to under 13, in compliance with the suggestions of other schools. Robertson is to be congratulated on the suc- cess of his team in winning the Wilson Cup for us again. The earlier two matches in the Christmas Term were won without much difficulty, but against St. Aidan ' s in March we felt the lack of a full sized ground for practice, and were only able to draw. Two A Team matches were arranged with Cranleigh House for the Cadboro Bay end of the School and both re- sulted in wins for the School. This season we are fortunate in having the majority of last year ' s XI with us. Only one match has been played so far, against the Old Boys, and though we lost rather heavily,