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

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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

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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 Museum of Natural History THE most outstanding work done in the Club this year was the mounting of the skeleton of a White-Tail deer (young doe) by Day II. The skeleton was found under the tennis courts and was cleaned and set up with painstaking care. The work lasted over a month. A bat was caught in one of the Senior Dormitories in the fall. It turned out to be a Lump-nosed (C orynorihmus raflnesque) . These bats are very rare as far north as British Columbia, so we mounted it on plate glass. At present we are working on mounting the head of a mule deer, given to the club by Mr. E. J. Ketcham. Amongst the mounted specimens done this year are to be found : a Mallard, green-winged Teal, short-eared Owl, Brewer ' s Blackbird, and the head of a Raven. Several study skins have also been done, amongst them a Horned Owl, Cormorant, two Pacific Loons, and a red-breasted Woodpecker. We wish to thank Mr. Ashby for his interest in the Museum and for several specimens which he kindly presented. We also thank Mr. Hayes (Game- Warden) of Duncan for the two Pacific Loons. We also wish to thank Mr. T. G. Stokes for several excellent ornitho- logical reference books. We wish to thank Mr. Grote Stirling for his interest in obtaining a buffalo scalp and horns through the Department of Natural Re- sources. 14