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

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE level best to imitate the high standard of efficiency set by our late Head Boy. Our thanks are due to other schools for their sympa- thetic help, but we must particularly mention the exception- ally kind offers of Cranleig ' h House and the University School in Victoria. Had we been unable to find suitable quarters all together, we should have accepted the very kind offers of these schools and gone to live with them temporarily in smaller sections. While not availing ourselves of their gener- osity we are none the less grateful for it. Others to whom our thanks are due are Brentwood College, St. Michael ' s, St. George ' s, Vancouver Grammar School, Vernon Preparatory School, the Collegiate, David Spencer Co., and the Hud- son ' s Bay Co. A new department in the School is the Drawing School, a long felt want. This has been brought into being and is being most enthusiastically carried on by Mr. Rose. Mr. Rose is giving up two days a week to this work, and has furnished the Art School himself most artistically. Our grateful thanks to Miss Gildea, Headmistress of Strathcona School, for her generosity in presenting us with a very fine Burroughes and Watts Billiard Table. The Squash Courts are now in daily use and are proving to be a wonderful boon.

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SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL MAGAZINE and helped us in many small ways. Also Fred Woods, that Prince of Plumbers, who never seemed to mind how much leg-pulling he received, and whose work was so efficiently and, incidentally, reasonably done. Surely he must have lost money on painting the pipes, as gold and silver paint has been found most valuable for bicycles, tobacco tins and many other com- modities not strictly connected with the plumber ' s trade ! The Pancake Greeze was held on Shrove Tuesday in the gymnasium, the delegates from Cadboro Bay coming up by car. It was won by Ripley. The new prefects are Lake (Head of the School), Roch- fort, Piddington, Green, Larsen and Best. The scheme of furnishing the Big School Room with chairs given by old boys is proving a great success. Prefects ' chairs are being given by various schools. At the moment those actually given are by Glenalmond, Malvern, Mill Hill, The Leys, Cambridge and Trinity College, Port Hope. These are Glastonbury chairs of English oak, bearing the Coat of Arms of the School which has given them. A very fine solid oak desk and chair were made and presented to the Head- master by ten of the carpenters engaged on construction. A very nice picture of the Entrance to Westminster was pre- sented to the School by Some Old Westminsters. We have made two additions to our staff this year. Mr. Knight, who is rilled with the ideas of Sanderson of Oundle, tempered by the influence of Cambridge. Also Mr. M. H. Ellis, who played soccer for Shrewsbury, and stroked the Oxford boat. He has been teaching for the last three years at Westminster and therefore the more welcome. A great deal of interest has been taken in the new build- ing by boys, parents and friends. The School, however, re- mains the same, and we sincerely hope that the tone of the School and the good work of the School will in no way suffer on account of our change of coat. Our numbers keep up. We have started this year with twenty more boys than we have ever had before, and it will keep us all very busy doing our

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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