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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Elverson, Oldham and Milne were awarded their House Rugby Colours after the match, and Cooper his while playing on the first fifteen earlier in the year. In the rowing we were more successful. Our shell crew drew a bye and lost to Groves ' in the finals by less than quarter of a length, and the cutter crew was completely victorious by defeating Groves ' in the first round and Ripley ' s in the finals. Our Cricket eleven fell rather easy prey to Groves ' House in the first round of the Inter-House Cricket matches. During the season Fleck and Cooper were awarded their House Cricket Colours. Both the land and water sports results showed a very favourable increase in points from the previous years and placed us second in the running. Fleck did very well for us by winning both the junior badminton and tennis tournaments. If we did not shine in brawn we did at least in brain, for we had five prize- winners on Speech Day, and Davis I and Kerr distinguished themselves by their marks in the Senior Matriculation exams. Also, all five of our Junior Matricu- lation candidates passed with excellent averages, and Day II won a scholarship at the University of British Columbia which he refused, to return to the school for another year. As we will be losing but few members at the end of this summer term and we gained a lot of useful new boys this year we are looking forward to having all of the cups on our table by the end of next year. GROVES ' — We were very sorry to hear that Mr. D. C. Ellis had left the School; he is now at the University of British Columbia taking a Post-Graduate Course there. Mr. H. J. Manson is takng his place as House Master of Groves ' . Miss J. Frend has left us too, and the last we have heard is that she is back in Ireland again. Consequently we have a new matron, Miss Shuckburgh, from the prairies, who has been doing a very excellent job as House Matron all term. Arriving back this term after the summer holidays, we regretted to find that Whittle and Budd had forsaken us for elsewhere, Day I being appointed Head of the House, ably assisted by three House Prefects, Torland, Gardner and Burchard I. Groves ' is a still smaller house this year having, counting all members, one complete rugby team. In the House Rugby matches at the end of last Christmas term, Groves ' overcame Lake ' s in the first round but succumbed to Ripley ' s in the finals, after a mighty effort. Due to their excellent playing in the matches, Budd, Burchard I and Hartnell were awarded the House Rugby Colours. We would also like to congratulate Budd, Burchard I and Gardner on winning their 1st XV Colours that term, and Day I, Torland and Hayward on gaining them this term. Gardner and Whittle deserve an honourable mention for winning their respective weights in the boxing tournaments; and again Whittle for winning the Senior Fencing Pool, Senior Tennis and Senior Badminton tournaments . In the land sports Day I and Whittle scored most of our points. Again in the House Cricket matches we beat Lake ' s in the first round — 24 —

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine HOUSE NOTES RIPLEY ' S— During the past year we have excelled ourselves and, incidentally, the other Houses, the House Table groaning audibly under the weight of the result of our prowess. At the end of last Christmas Term our House XV battled its way to victory against Groves ' , due largely to the superhuman efforts of the forwards, Taylor, Paterson and Murphy winning their House Colours. Smith is to be congratulated on being awarded his 1st XV Colours this year. In the Easter Term we showed the good old English bulldog ' s spirit by winning five of the seven weights and the Good Loser ' s Cup in the Boxing Tournament. It seems also that the Spirit of Chivalry is not altogether latent in us, as Murphy, after several goodly cut and thrust encounters, won the Junior Fencing Tournament. We also made a killing in the Sports, Mackie winning the Senior Sports Cup, Murphy the Middle and Spencer the Junior. The total points for the House were considerably higher than the other Houses, thus winning the Sports Cup. We were not, however, so successful in the sculling department, losing the Cutter race to Lake ' s and the Shell race to Groves ' . In the House cricket we won a decisive victory over Groves ' , winning the cup for the fourth year in succession. We congratulate Taylor and Paterson on being awarded their House Cricket Colours and Moore on his 1st XI Colours. Newton won the Sportsmanship Cup and Mackie the Efficiency Cup. We arrived at the School at the end of the summer holidays to find that Tupper I and Mackie had forsaken us in favour of U.B.C., and that we should have to behave this year as, in addition to Niven I, who had succeeded Mackie as Head of the House and of the School, those stern pillars of law and order, Oakes, Reynolds, Newton and Taylor, had been appointed prefects. Paterson, Moore and Smith, being house prefects, completed our P.D. Nowadays, it seems that one can hardly stir a foot without treading on a Prefect somewhere. It is with great regret that we hear that Mr. Trotman, our assistant House Master, is leaving us at the end of this term. It will indeed seem strange to have, after three years of Mr. Trotman, some one else initiate us into the mysteries of fr Vcni, Vidi, Vici, Acta non Verba, etc. We wish him all success in his future life and sincerely hope that we shall hear from him often. LAKE ' S— This year we returned to find our prefectorial staff reduced almost to nil by the departure of Davis I, Wilson I, Gregory and Smith. This year our six House Prefects, Crofton, Holland, Day II, Davis, Oldham and Cooper, are running the house as we have no School Prefect. Our Rugby results were not as good as we had hoped for, since our fifteen was beaten by Groves ' in the first round of the House matches by a score of 11-0. Disappointing as the result was, our team played very well and Day II, — 23 —

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine without much effort, but bowed down to Ripley ' s in the finals as before. Due to their good steady playing in the matches, Gardner, Hayward and Hartnell were awarded their House Cricket Colours. We beat Ripley ' s in the first round of the shell races, after a close race, and finished comfortably ahead of Lake ' s in the finals, thus making the second straight year that Groves ' has won the shell race. However, we were beaten in the first round of the cutter races by Lake ' s. Summing up, we had accumulated a total of sixty-nine points, placing us third in the Inter-House sports competition; and again as last year we were quite sorry to find that we still had no Groves ' representative in the Junior Division. We want to congratulate C. T. Corse on his excellent work in the Junior Matriculation last June. He was offered a scholarship by the University of British Columbia but declined as he intended to go to Hotchkiss School in the United States. We had five prizewinners last Speech Day, which made up the intellectual honours of the House. Day I and Torland are active members of the newly-formed play-reading club, which intends to produce a play next term. The House put on a very original and amusing turn at the Rag Concert, under Mr. Manson ' s direction; and Day I distinguished himself as an author and an actor by appearing in no less than five skits. We were all very surprised to hear, near the end of this term, that Mr. Manson, our House Master, was married. We all hope sincerely that he will be very, very happy in the future. °3€?° r .