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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Va I e t e » RIPLEY ' S— Bourdillon, P. G. F.; 1929. Bradford, D. E.; 1925. F. S. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Henniker, C. J. C; 1928. House Prefect. Kennedy, W. D.; 1930. 1st XL Kumler, R. L.; 1930. Kumler, C. F.; 1930. Lile, C. E.; 1930. Nixon, C. P.; 1926. Savage, D. B.; 1929. House Prefect. Sharland, T. H. A.; 1929. Sumner, R. M.; 1931. LAKE ' S- Lake, J. F.; 1923. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Maxwell, D. E.; 1927. Pearce, R. F.; 1928. F. S. House Prefect, 1st XL Piddington, P.; 1932. Pownall, G. A.; 1927. School Prefect, 1st XV. Robertson, D. F.; 1927. House Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL GROVES ' — Adams, M. C.; 1930. House Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Aikins, A. F. C.; 1931. Charlton, G. K.; 1932. Henry, P.M.; 1931. Hyde, R. H.; 1929. Lawson, D. J.; 1931. House Prefect, 1st XV. Macleay, R. L.; 1931. Plummer, A. B.; 1927. House Prefect. Torland, T.; 1928. House Prefect. Torland, J. P.; 1931. COPEMAN ' S— Bell, J. W.; 1930. Davis, G. E.; 1929. Dyson, G. F.; 1929. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Macdonald, I. D.; 1930. Paul, A. B.; 1929. Shannon, R. P.; 1929. School Prefect, 1st XV. Skrimshire, P.; 1929. House Prefect, 1st XV. Stirling, M. G.; 1929. House Prefect, 1st XV. Ross, R. D. S.; 1930. 31

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine unfold what plaited cunning hides. The mention of time here was obviously important, so we next turned our attention to dates. We then found that he was supposed to have been born in 1564, while further investigation con- clusively proved that this date had been used as a cryptogram in the play. The one in the date obviously refers to act one, while the five is the scene. Six and four add together to make ten, and the first letter in line ten of act one scene five is N. By similar simple mathematical processes we arrive at the letters N, A, O, B and C, which are an obvious anagram of Bacon. Sir, we sincerely trust that this brief but irrefutable proof of the fact that it was really Bacon who wrote under the name of Shakespeare will once and for all put a stop to further arguments on the subject. Thanking you, sir, for thus permitting us to bring the results of our dili- gent research to light through the medium of your enlightened organ, We remain, Yours truly, D. W. Celde, Anagram Club. COACH AND REFEREE It is laid down in the rules that the referee may not coach the players. This is an attempt to look into the mind of a referee who is also the coach of one of the contending teams. This, needless to say, is a modified version of what we find there: Break, break, break! You ' re all asleep in that scrum! And oh! that my tongue could utter My thoughts just as they come. Bad luck to that lazy forward, Who won ' t keep up with the play! Devil take that clumsy three-quarter, Who has dropped every pass today! And the heedless scrum goes on Always dribbling ahead with the ball, But oh! for the grip of a supple stick, And to speak just once, — that ' s all. Break, break, break With the ball at your feet, you scrum! But who would think that seven boys Could be so infernally dumb! —P. H. 30

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « Old Boys News » A letter has been received from Mrs. Mair in Kenya Colony containing a vivid description of a very gallant rescue by Maurice Rochfort of a girl who fell into a whirlpool at the Atki Falls in Kenya. Rochfort, who was one of a party of some twenty people, jumped in and endeavoured to rescue the girl before she was swept over the falls. This, however, he was unable to do but he managed to hold on to the girl, who was unable to swim, and in some miracu- lous fashion was able to avoid what seemed a certainty to all who saw it, namely, that of being battered to death on the rocks, and after successfully negotiating the rapids he had to face the even more trying task of getting the girl and himself ashore through water infested by crocodiles. This also he accomplished safely. Congratulations Maurice. Kenagami River, Ontario. Dear Mr. Lonsdale: July 8th, 1933. First you must excuse the paper, dirt, pencil and the unknown date of mailing. Around last Easter I decided to do what I have always recommended that you should do — to take a long holiday. It was essential that my holiday should at least pay for itself so I went to the museum and wangled a contract to collect small mammals for them in Northern Ontario; mice, moles, shrews and all rodents; also to collect data on anything interesting I found out. All of these other than Micratus and peromyscus which are worth 2 5c a skin are worth 5 0c a skin. The skins are cleaned, cased and a tail wire inserted: the skull and measurements being also saved and tagged to the skin. This offered a means of income but insufficient, so I wrote to a few maga- zines and got a tentative contract for stories if they had good pictures to illus- trate them. This involved some knowledge of photography and a good camera so I called in a Dr. Gunne to assist me. After some qualms I invested in a Zeiss camera with a 4.5 lens, a Compure shutter and taking film pack. With Dr. Gunne ' s assistance I learned the rudiments of photography. The problem of composition was solved by keeping full accurate notes and sending them to a writer I know in Toronto, to work up into stories and sell. She is to get a one- third cut. The next problem was a suitable partner. I chose a fraternity brother who has just completed his third year and thought he would like to come along. Our destination and route we left to chance. We heard of the one cent a mile fare so we got a return ticket to Armstrong, Ontario, and got off at Nakima. We had a letter of introduction to the chief forester at Nakima and the forestry department had very kindly lent us a canoe, so we bunked with the foresters for a couple of days, moved on to Twin Lakes on their gas car and camped there for four days trapping and waiting for our canoe, which had not arrived on schedule. As soon as our canoe arrived we started out. A half gale was blowing but our canoe is a 2 2 -ft. Lake model and would ride anything. We hadn ' t gone far when we met two trappers, had lunch with them and decided to join them as 32