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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine as high citizens in every sense of the word. You will have done some- thing to be proud of and something for your school to be proud of. Now, to those of you who are leaving, I wish to offer every pos- sible good wish and success to your future careers. FORM PRIZES Form VII— F. H. Davis Form IV— C. P. Layard Form VI— A. E. Bell Remove A— J. W. Milligan Form VU — A. B. Hammond Remove B — P. B. Ballentine Form VL — E. A. Wheeler French Prize — R. M. Day. Mathematics Prizes — 1. A. E. Bell. 2. F. H. Davis. 3. J. P. Ogilvie. Bishop of Columbia ' s Prize for Reading — R. M. Day. Efficiency Prize — Michaelmas Term — R. M. Day. Lent Term — R. M. Day. Summer Term — J. B. Hicks. House Cups — Sports — Lake ' s. Cricket — Ripley ' s. Rowing — Groves ' . Junior Sports Cup — Gr. A. Prentice. Sportsmanship Cup — W. B. McCreery. « Examinations » IN MAY, examinations for the two vacant Foundation Scholarships were held, and these were awarded to E. D. Baker from Glenlyon School and E. R. Larsen from Shawnigan. O. J. A. Cavenagh was a close third, but unfortunately the vacancies did not permit him being awarded a Scholarship. The only vacancy for an Exhibition was awarded to K. P. Hughes on the nomination of Mr. J. Y. Copeman. G W. Reed won the Trinity College Law Scholarship and the Langford-Rowell Scholarship for Law. A. E. Bell won a Scholarship to the California Institute of Technology. Thirteen boys wrote for Junior Matriculation and all passed, the average for the form being 67.6%. Of these boys, five have remained in the School to take Senior Matriculation, one has entered Cam- bridge University, one the University of British Columbia, one Stan- ford University, one Yale University, one Alberta University and one the California Institute of Technology. One boy has entered a Chartered Accountant ' s office and one is doing Senior Matriculation in Edmonton. F. H. Davis passed his Senior Matriculation and is at Toronto University. 12

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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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Milestones BOTH in the Senior and Middle groups, there has been a wide choice of subjects during the year. Among the seniors, topics dealing with some form of applied science have been th e most common, with personal experiences taking the next place. Bell and McCreery gave excellent talks on colour-photography, Derby told his audience about the Spark-Gap and early forms of transmitters and receivers, Aitkens demonstrated the reasons why radio reception fades , and Nixon explained the theory of stream- lining. All these speeches were interesting and as a rule well organized ; in each case the speaker made his meaning clearer by the use of dia- grams sketched on the blackboard. Newton, Beard and Oxholm chose travel-subjects — a visit to the British Fleet, a trip to the Forbidden Plateau, and the Olympic Mountains. The last was a particularly good effort. Cooper set out to inform the group how food is digested, but as the time-limit cut him off at the oesophagus, Wilkinson completed the description at a later date. Ogilvie ' s talk on salmon-fishing was very good, and Nicholls gave a good exposition of the present situation as far as Government fish-hatcheries are concerned. In the middle group the emphasis was on scientific and political topics, but here again the range was very varied. After the summer holidays, travel-talks Avere predominant. The two outstanding speeches were made by Forrest, on The Trek of the Chinese Red Army, and by Fraser, whose topic was his trip with the British Navy. 13