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

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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

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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 RIPLEY ' S The dormitory was silent. It had been a hard day, so all were fast asleep. But I could not sleep. My mind was too worried about the house notes. How was I to do them? But no matter how hard I thought, I only became more agitated and restless ; and finally, in disgust, I gave it up. But just as I was settling to sleep, I saw, to my amazement, a strange white light advancing towards my bed, and I could dimly see the figure of a man. As he drew near my bed, I could see his features to be that of a young man in his late twenties. My amazement increased ; but before I could say anything, he spoke in a grave voice : Are you Ripley ' s house correspondent for this year? Yes, I am. Good ! he replied, and I expect you are wondering who I am. I was wondering, but a strange suspicion came over me. Are you — Ripley ? Yes, I am, he replied, I came over as I saw you were in diffi- culties with the house notes. I, too, know that experience, and I feel my duty is to help you. With that he looked around at the sleeping dormitory and left me in a daze of thoughts that could find no outlet save that of wonder and curiosity. But his voice again interrupted my thoughts. I see that they sleep soundly, pointing around at the dormitory. Have they had a long work day? he said with a smile. No, I replied, they have been having a hard game of rugby, getting in shape for the house matches. Rugby! Has the house done well this year? At the end of last Christmas term, we were unable to have the house matches, but there are good hopes for them this year and we have a strong chance of winning. Make sure you do. Are there many Firsts to back them up? There are five of us, and Newton is the School Captain. The other houses must be stepping in now. Do we hold them off in boxing? We managed to tie in two weights, and Hicks took the light- heavies, Burns the lightweight, and Rattray the bantamweight. We are able to hold our own. We were also lucky in the fencing, having Bell, who won the B. C. Championship, but we were unable to win the house fencing. Fencing must be new to you. We were not as lucky then. But, even after that busy term you must have welcomed the summer term with the cricket and sports. Do we hold the cup still for cricket ? We have the cup once again after giving the others a sound beat- ing. This win was mainly due to Newton, Taylor, Stiell and Forrest, who are all on the First. Excellent ! but were we as lucky in the sports ? We did not get the cup this time, but we gave Lake ' s a hard battle for it. This year we had a new system whereby each house had its team of four and no one could be on more than three teams. LTnder this system we took three events and came second and third in the 16