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

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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 .

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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 ISSk M BOAT RACES, JUNE, 193 6 THE Inter-House rowing races were held at the end of the term in better weather conditions than have prevailed in previous years. Ripley ' s drew the bye in the cutter races, Lake ' s in the fours. CUTTER RACES In the semi-final of the cutters, Lake ' s beat Groves ' , covering the course in 4 mins. 20 sees. In the final they beat Ripley ' s in 3 mins. 40 sees. On both occa- sions they won by a good margin. SHELL RACES In the semi-final of the shells, Groves ' beat Ripley ' s by one length in 3 mins. 7 sees. Groves ' proved their superiority over the whole course, settling down to a steady row at the start, which they maintained to the end. In the final Groves ' beat Lake ' s after an exciting race which the latter looked like winning in the initial stages. Wilson stroked 10, 20 and }S l 2 for the first quarter, half and full minute respectively to Burchard ' s 11, 20 and 39, and gave his; crew a lead of half a length. In, this he was well backed up by Smith. But the effort was not maintained, and Groves ' gradually drew ahead with a succession of spurts. They repeated their success of last year in winning by three-quarters of a length in 2 mins. and 5 1 sees. The Crews Groves ' — Stroke: D. Burchard; 3, J. Whittle; 2, R. Day; bow, J. Budd. Lake ' s — Stroke: T. Wilson; 3, J. Smith; 2, F. Gregory; bow, I. Davis. Ripley ' s — Stroke: G. Mackie; 3, G. Tupper; 2, J. Reynolds; bow, J. Niven. SAILING RACES An experiment was made this summer of holding sail-boat races. The two flat-bottomed boats, Dynamite and Flattie V were equipped as nearly alike as possible, and a triangular course was set. The course ran from the School wharf to the head of a sunken log just off the mouth of the Mill Stream, thence to one of the piles at the Mill, and returning by way of the Forest Inn float. — 26 —