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

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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

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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 « House Notes » GROVES ' ON RETURNING to school in September we found that Mr. L. E. Jones, our resident Housemaster last year, had left us. We were very glad, however, to welcome Mr. T. A. Piddington as his successor. Mr. Piddington is an Old Boy of Shawnigan, having attended the School from 1921 to 1928, and is the first Old Boy to become a member of the staff. We also learned that R. M. Day, Head of the House and of the School last year, is at Cambridge, Allan Gardner is at U.B.C., and W. B. McCreery is at Stanford University. In the boxing last Easter Term, Groves ' supplied all the heavy- Aveights, the championship of which was subsequently won by Gard- ner. The Good Loser ' s Cup was awarded to R. M. Day. During this term R. Derby was appointed a House Prefect. Groves ' , as usual, won the rowing fixtures, both in the shells and the cutters. In the shells we beat Ripley ' s in the final round, despite the fact that Day ' s stretcher broke and that he had to stop and fix it. In the cutter races we beat both our rival houses by several lengths. While on the subject of rowing, we must offer congratulations to D. W. Burchard, our stroke oar, on being number two oar on Yale ' s freshman crew this year. Despite these thrilling nautical victories, we unfortunately failed to secure enough points in the boxing, fenc- ing and land sports to enable us to beat either Ripley ' s or Lake ' s in the final total for the sports cup. In the Cricket matches Groves ' lost of Ripley ' s after an exciting game which ended in the score of 38-23. Congratulations are due to D. M. Hartnell for Avinning his School Cricket Colours during the season. We also congratulate W. B. McCreery for being awarded the Sportsmanship Cup, and winning his School Colours for displaying general good qualities. This term we have a larger house than last year, having in all twenty-eight members, compared with two years ago, when we could only just raise a rugby team. Owing to the small size of many of the boys, though, we are not contributing our usual large proportion to the 1 st XV ; however, in addition to our two existing Colours, Hart- nell and Derby, Ave are very pleased to hear that M. H. Livingston has just been given his House Colours for his good efforts in tAvo recent matches. D. M. Hartnell is Head of the House this year, assisted in House affairs by R. Derby and E. A. Wheeler as House Prefects. In conclusion, but by no means of least importance, Ave Avish to acknoAvledge hoAV extremely grateful Ave are for tAvo gifts to our senior common room, in the form of four Windsor chairs from Mrs. Blanken- horn, and four leather chairs from the Headmaster. These tAvo addi- tions to the furniture of the room make a very great difference in its appearance and comfort, and are much appreciated by all Avho use it. 15