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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine We have lost him; and may God raise others like him to our need in these grim and difficult days. God give us men. A time like this demands Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing hands. As we thank the Great Father for bestowing on us the riches of this man ' s devotion and service, let ours be an earnest, loyal, whole- hearted resolve to live worthily, to bring our will into conformity with the Divine Will, never forgetting that The best portion of a good man s life Are his little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love As we bid an affectionate and respectful Farewell to a gallant gentleman, our hearts go out to her, who has been the recipient as well as the giver of a tender devotion in a long and happy home life, and with full hearts we say of our departed friend and brother : God rest his soul. [ 6 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « A Tribute » Address by the Rt. Rev. H. E. Sexton, Bishop of Columbia, School Visitor, at the funeral service for Sir Percy Lake, i n Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, November 19th, 1940. THE words of Holy Scripture (Wisdom 111:1-9) to which we have just listened, and the hymn which will presently follow, are particularly appropriate to-day as we mourn the passing of an illustrious and dearly loved citizen, who has left in our hearts and in this place a memory which cannot be dimmed — a blank and a void which can hardly be filled up. As we all know, he was one of the Empire ' s most distinguished soldiers, and, like many of our great British military leaders, he was a devoted son of the Church ; a man who possessed great qualities of character, and exhibited the highest aims of life. So, to-day, we thank God for, and do honour to, the memory of a great and good man, whose funeral is signalized by a rare out- burst of profound respect and genuine affection. Our tribute is a recognition of the worth of character — the character which is moulded and influenced by strong religious convictions. Let us remind ourselves that out of a material world, it is something hit material which a man takes away when death comes — the char- acter which has been formed by the habits of a lifetime. It is right, then, that we should recognize the true worth of that habitual integrity of life which has left to us the heritage of a stain- loss example. So, calm in the consciousness of integrity; happy in a tender and never-ceasing devotion in a sweet home life; profoundly modest ; really unselfish ; exquisitely genial ; one of God ' s own gen- tlemen ; Sir Percy Lake passes from our earthly sight, but not from our living fellowship. Such men are the salt of the earth. His modesty was an out- standing characteristic — that modesty, or humility, which is a mark of all men really strong, really learned, and really good — that humility which was perfectly exhibited in Him, Who humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. [ 5 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « School Notes » THE School has lost a great friend and the world has lost a great man in the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. We offer no comments other than the address by the Bishop and the photograph which was taken on the last Speech Day which he attended in 1940. On March 3rd the Lord Bishop of Columbia held the Confirma- tion Service in the School Chapel, when twelve boys and twelve girls were confirmed. Again we have to thank Mrs. P. A. Woodward for the very beautiful floAvers which she sent. A succession of dances have been held throughout the year, but this year the Seniors of Strathcona and the Seniors of Shawnigan met more frequently for shorter dances. The usual Armistice Service was held on November 11th and took the form of an Intercession Service with the Litany. Weekly motion picture shows have been discontinued at the present owing to the war. Many of our new boys are unable to afford the expensive shows produced from Hollywood and many other boys felt that it was an expense and a luxury which should be dispensed with during the war. Excellent shows, however, have been put on by Dr. Stephen Pan on China, by Mr. Ashton of Dun- can, Mr. Stokes of Cowichan and Dr. Barrow from Saanich. In the Lent term Ripley ' s and Groves ' put on House concerts which were most successful and much enjoyed. The Hobby Shop is the richer for the generous gift of a machine lathe by Mr. C. B. Archibald of Vancouver, who, with his brother, presented this lathe in memory of John Archibald Littlewood of Calgary, who was killed whilst serving his country on January 16th, 1940. Our grateful thanks once more to Mrs. Stimson for her con- tinued interest in the School and for her generous Scholarship for an evacuee boy. We must also thank our very good friends in Cal- gary for their gifts of necessary bedding which had to be provided for some of the evacuee boys. Our congratulations to W. G. H. Roaf on having been promoted to Major; at the moment he is taking a staff course at Camberley. Our list of benefactors this year is so long that we hesitate to present all the names concerned, but particularly we must mention Mrs. Ripley and Alex, Mrs. Stimson, Mr. Grogan, Mr. and Mrs. [ 7 ]