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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Society, with a membership of eight (limited by Rule Two of the Society, 1940), all ardent painters, artists and sculptors. Our headquarters are in the Art Room of the Hobby Shop, where frequent meetings are held; but the flame of art cannot be contained in a single room alone, and in future our members will often be seen prowling round the school with paintbox, canvas and easel. The fruits of our labours Ave hope to exhibit publicly on Speech Day. Till then, au revoir. « House Notes » RIPLEY ' S Dear Mr. Ripley: — We wish to let you know of the House ' s progress in the past year, so we take this opportunity to tell you of our improvements and achievements, and to thank you and Mrs. Ripley for your gen- erous donations. To begin with, the Head Master is our House Master, taking the place of Mr. Cedric Lonsdale, who, we are sorry to say, has left us to join the army, where he has earned the rank of Lieutenant. We returned this year to find that, although several of our seniors had left, we had many new boys, making Ripley ' s the largest House in the School. Among those leaving were Hickey and Rat- tray, who entered the California Institute of Technology, the latter on a scholarship; Wilkie, who passed Senior Matriculation and is now at the University of Toronto ; and Forrest, who is in Eastern Canada training as an anti-aircraft gunner. Rattray and Macdonald came top of their forms, the Sixth and Remove A respectively, and Nixon passed McGill Matriculation with a good average. We were not so successful on the sports field, however, although we managed to beat Groves ' House in the cricket and sports com- petitions. In the opinion of many, the concert staged by Ripley ' s last Lent term was quite the best of the three House entertainments, largely due to the performance of Wilkie on his guitar. The Hickey brothers and Rattray won their House Colours for cricket, and Wheeler got his School Blazer for cricket. [ 14 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « Machine Shop Notes » THE committee in charge of the club wish to report a successful start under the guidance of Mr. Benson, our new instructor. Metal working projects have not as yet passed the elementary stages, but the installation of a new lathe this term should provide an impetus toward more advanced work. We should like to attempt something on the scale of Hickey ' s project of last term. The lathe was presented to us in memory of John Archibald Littlewood, who died in England while serving with the R.A.F. The wood working section has provided for a wide variety of work. Construction and use of proper scale drawings is here a pre- requisite to good craftsmanship. Walnut and mahogany tables have been made by R. C. and D. M. Anderson, and Vaughan ii is working on a similar article which he hopes to complete by the end of term. Lake ' s House have finished installing their pine bookshelves, Avhile Groves ' are the proud owners of a new table top. Ewing and Ander- son have drafted plans for a flattie to be built next term, while others have kept the lathes busy turning out a wide variety of smaller objects. « Rifle Club Notes » AN ENTHUSIASTIC group of would-be first class marksmen . enrolled this year under the care of Capt. D. V. Palin. The results bear testimony to the skill and untiring patience of our instructor. McCleary is to be congratulated on winning his bronze, silver and gold Dominion Marksmanship Medals. Out of a possible 100 points, the bronze requires 75, silver 88 and gold 93, on the ten targets shot in each group. The following boys have obtained their silver medals : C. D. Johnson, A. B. Fleck, R. A. Mitten and M. Rattray, in addition to 25 others who have successfully competed for the bronze. « Ars Artis Causa » IN THESE times of stress it is important that our minds should be taken off the gloomy thoughts of war; so, with this in view, and after a lapse of two years, the old Art Club has been resurrected from the state of temporary stagnation into which it had fallen. It has now been incorporated into the more highly organized Art [ 13 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine This year Ripley ' s supplied three School Prefects : Wheeler, Ley and Baker, who is acting head of the School in Ashby ' s place. The House prefects are Nixon, Duke and Hickey. The House contributed five boys to the School rugby team, including Ley, who was captain of football. He and Wheeler were given their School Colours, and House Colours were awarded to Hickey, Forrest, Roenisch, Duke and Baker. As the House is made up largely of new boys, we expect to have an interesting report on our cricket and soccer activities to give you in the future. With our best wishes for the New Year, I remain sincerely — Your Ripley ' s House Correspondent. LAKE ' S In former years it seems to have been the custom to fill up the first paragraph of our House notes with excuses for the author ' s attempt to write them. The present writer shall not be accused of any such display of false modesty. Beginning with the Lent term, we were able to enter two teams, Lake ' s A and B, to the other Houses ' one, in the Inter-House Soccer League. Our two teams, after playing • every opponent (including one another) twice, emerged first and third respectively in the standings. The team captains were Fleck and Pearce. With the beginning of the Summer term came the land sports, in which we triumphed generally. The Inter-House Cricket was run along the same lines as the soccer, and we were again able to enter two teams, and again took first and third places. Speech Day revealed that we had come out on top for the second successive year, winning the Sports Cup, the House Fencing and, for the first time in history, the Cricket Cup. In addition, Lake ' s supplied three members of the School fencing team. In the matter of School Colours, Ave wish to congratulate Steiwer, Leir, Nicholls and Lake, who won them at rugby last season, and this year Vaughan i, Gandossi and Ewing. After the University match, the whole First were awarded their House Colours, and the successful members of Lake ' s were Layard, John- son, Mitten, Milligan and Ballentine. Anderson was also given his House Colours for fine play on the Second Fifteen. We must also congratulate Oxholm on winning the Sportsman- ship Cup ; Wilkinson and Pearce for carrying off the Efficiency Cup in the Michaelmas and Summer terms. Lake is head of the House this year, ably assisted by Layard and Vaughan i, House prefects. [ 15 ]