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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « Speech Day » THE School Speech Day was held on June 25th and was preceded on the Friday evening by a Service in the Chapel at 8 p.m., with a most inspiring address by the Very Reverend the Dean of Columbia. The School buildings were all outlined with coloured lights, and a large number of parents and visitors at the lakeside watched a half hour ' s excellent fireworks display and a procession of over twenty boats decorated with Chinese lanterns. After this, refreshments were served at the School. On Saturday morning the Finals of the Water Sports were held and at 1 : 15 p.m. a Physical Training Exhibition on the Cricket Field. This was an exceptionally good show, including squads of Physical Training, Box Horse Squad, Tumbling Squad and Fencing Display. After this the prizes were given away after speeches by the Head Master, who spoke of the doings of the School during the past year, mentioning the successes of various Old Boys ; to wit, S. Lane, who has passed first in the Law School at Dalhousie ; H. Housser, fifth in the same class ; F. Taylor, who has won a scholarship at University of British Columbia ; and of this year ' s successes, a scholarship to the California Institute of Technology, won by A. E. Bell ; and after a very excellent speech on citizenship by Mr. E. W. Neel. At the con- clusion of the prize giving, the Lord Bisho p of Columbia, on behalf of the School, thanked Mr. Neel for his very excellent address. The prize list follows, and also Mr. Neel ' s address. After the prize giving, tea Avas served on the lawn to over four hundred people. Mr. Neel spoke as follows : Mr. Lonsdale has given us a list of the achievements of the School during the past year, and I should like to congratulate him on the School, particularly on his perfect score of 100% in examinations. I also wish to congratulate the boys who are responsible for these results, and I hope that in every succeeding venture they will be able to make an equally perfect score. I have not been here for many years, and it is a great pleasure to those of us who are parents who were associated with the School in its very earliest days and who have seen it grow to the spacious, stately structure that it is now. When Mr. Lonsdale honoured me with an invitation to speak here today, he asked me to say a few words on the subject of citizen- ship, a subject you hear a lot about these days. I do not suppose that boys have altered much since I was a boy, and I have exceedingly painful recollections of having to pay attention to Speech Dav speeches when my mind was full of thoughts of going home and holi- days. Now, what constitutes good citizenship? There is no mystery about it ; there are no rules ; there is no grammar, no verbs, no adjec- tives which usually make your lives very unpleasant at times. There are none of these things. You here occupy, so to speak, a country of your own. You are citizens of Shawnigan Lake School. Unconsciously you are every day absorbing the principles of good citizenship. I should define those principles as honesty, clean living, clean thinking 10

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « CnajizL z fotz± » DURING the year School Services have been as usual, with the addition of an evening service once a month. We were all sorry to say good-bye to Mr. Bury, who has given us some very outstanding addresses. The Bishop of Columbia held a Confirmation Service here on March 25th, at which fourteen boys and eight girls from Strathcona were confirmed. The beautiful flowers at that Service were given by Mrs. P. A. Woodward. The parish church was rebuilt during May, and for that time we invited the parish to use our Chapel. Some beautiful gifts were given to the Chapel, including Alms Bags from Mrs. Stanton and Miss Gildea, and a Veil and Burse, belonging to the late Rev. J. S. A. Bastin, by Mrs. Bastin. On Speech Day the final Service was held at 8: 00 p.m., and the Dean of Columbia preached an inspiring sermon in an overcrowded Chapel. On Armistice Sunday the Bishop preached. The Rev. E. M. Willis kindly ca me up for All Saints Day. The old Barless Psalter has been superseded by the New Cathedral Psalter, and its use is expected to give a more interesting and appre- ciative rendering of the Psalms. At Christmas there was a concert in the Big School, with a pro- gramme of Carols by the Choir.

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine and good sportsmanship. You have your houses, the houses which make up the School. Every boy thinks his house is the best house, or he ought to, and to do his best to make his house the best house, to be first in conduct, games and in scholarship. You are proud of your house because your house is part of the School, and you want your School to be the best school, and so, as you know, the tone of the house makes the tone of the School. The better the house the better the School and the better citizen you are to the School. It also includes teamwork. The School may be playing a cricket match against another school. You are playing for the School. There are lots of reasons why you want to make a lot of runs. However, it is anybody ' s game. Most of the School wickets are down, but there is just a chance that the School may put it off. It is your turn to bat. All you have to do is to hold your wicket up. So in you go. You hold your wicket up long enough to enable your partner to make good. Result : you carry your bat out and the School wins the game. You showed good citizenship, good teamwork, you played for the School and not for yourself. Now, some of you are leaving here this term. Those of you who are leaving will find your lots cast in a great many different places. But wherever you are, whatever you may be doing, you hold fast to the principles you have been taught here, principles of honesty, decency and sportsmanship, and you will be qualified as good citizens. You may not have success, but you have to remember this, ' that it is not by success that a man is judged, but he is judged by the conduct of his life, by the kind of life he lives, and by how much he works with his fellow men to promote the welfare of the country to which he belongs. ' Some of you may go into public life, you may take an interest in public affairs, either in your own community, in the provincial field or the national field ; some of you may become leaders, but the principles which I have laid down as the principles of good citizenship will apply just as much in the United States as to Canada. The majority of you, however, will spend your lives in Canada, and to those of you who are going to spend your lives in public affairs, on you will be placed a very heavy responsibility in a country like this with a great future. I am going to make a comparison between Shawnigan Lake School and the houses which go to make it up and the Dominion of Canada and the component parts of the Provinces. When you go out into the Avorld outside the School, if you will always remember that you are Canadians and that your country is Canada in the same way that no matter what house you were in here you belong to Shawnigan Lake School, and if you never forget that the good name of the Dominion of Canada rests on those qualities of citizenship displayed by its people, in the same way the good name of Shawnigan Lake School depends on the conduct of the members of its houses ; if you remember these things, and if, by your example, you can help to strengthen that spirit of unity which is so lacking today in this country and without which no future national greatness is possible, if you will do this and can add in any way to the welfare of Canada and to the happiness of Canadian people, then you will have qualified 11