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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Shuckburgh, who became Mrs. Twite in the Summer Holidays. In honour of their engagement the House held a formal dance on 31st January in the Big School. We entered two teams in the inter-house Soccer League. Our A team was second and the B team third. In an informal match our combined team was unable to beat the Ripley ' s team. Having played as two units for the whole term we found we did not have enough time to mould ourselves into one truly combined force. Throughout the term our Fencers were usually found in the gym practising parries and ripostes. Their perseverance was rewarded by their striking victory in the Inter-house Fencing Tournament. However Ave were not so successful in the Boxing Competition, probably because of our lack of heavyweights and flyweights. We had many entrants in the middleweights who put up a very good showing. The land sports were held towards the end of the term. We were the only team to try to adhere to a training plan. On the field we were often ridiculed for our apparent lack of effort, but we h ad the last laugh when it was seen that our wind, on the crucial day, was so much more superior to that of our opponents. We won every senior event except the 100 yards, in which we were second. The intermediates and juniors were not quite as successful as the Seniors but won quite a number of events. We gained such a lead in the land sports that we could not have lost the Sports Cup even if we had been last in every Swimming Event. In the Summer Term we entered two teams in the Cricket League. The A team was second and the B team fourth. In the House Matches we reached the finals but lost by a few runs. We were fairly successful in the Swimming, Avinning the Senior 220 and the diving. The Intermediates and Juniors Avon many valuable points. At the prize-giving, Johnson received the Efficiency Cup for the Michaelmas Term and Layard for the Easter Term. ' We retained the Sports and Rugger Cups. Love and McBride Avon the prizes for Remove A and RemoA e B. This year will be noted for the many improvements made on the Common Room. Thanks to the generosity of manv parents, Avhose kindness is greatly appreciated, we noAV have added to the comfort of the Common Room with— a carpet, sofa, radio, small couch and table and numerous accessories. We doubt if the old boys Avho return to the school will be able to believe that such a great improve- ment could be possible in such a short time. [ 13 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine played for the First Fifteen, Reid and Hickey being awarded their School Colours. Wilson I, Ely I, Ramus and Frank won their House Colours for fine play on the Second Fifteen. Our success in sports was due mainly to the magnificent con- quer or die spirit of the House, while our successes in the class- room go to show that we combine brawn with brain. We now come to the scholastic successes, of which there were a considerable number. The following headed their respective Forms : Ward (Upper Fifth), Hickey (Lower Fifth), Macdonald I (Fourth), Collison (Third), Hopkins (Second). Ward won the Bishop ' s Read- ing Prize and Hickey the Efficiency Cup for the Summer Term. Frank and Wheeler passed their McGill Junior Matriculation Exam- ination. Of those boys who left during the past year, Nixon is in the R.C.A.F., Baker is at Victoria College, and Ley is at Dartmouth after having passed his Navy Examination. Due to your kindness in helping the financial status of the House, we have been able to make many improvements in the Senior Common Room, such as light-shades, tables, chairs, a notice board and a large and comfortable couch. The House is directed by Wheeler and Duke, the two School Prefects, the former also being Head Boy. They are well backed up by Hickey and Huntington I as House Prefects. We think you will agree with us when we say that we have up- held the great traditions of Ripley ' s House and will continue to do so. The House joins me in wishing you the very best for the coming year. — Your Ripley ' s House Correspondent. LAKE ' S Faced with the command that we had to write the House Notes we immediately fled to the Reference Library to find out the various techniques of overcoming the difficulty. We read notes from all houses over a number of years. At first we met straight-forward remarks, but lately we have noticed a trend in other quarters to write letters, plays and other fantastic effusions that are passed off as House Notes. We have decided to state our facts without trying to embellish them with flowery effects. Early in the Easter term the Headmaster announced the engage- ment of our Housemaster Mr. Twite to our House Matron Miss [ 12 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine D. M. Anderson and D. Vaughan left ns to join the R.C.A.F. and A. M. Wood left to go to Trinity College, Toronto. This year we have three School Prefects: Lake, Layard and Ewing. They are ably assisted by Gandossi and Johnson, house prefects. We have eight members of the House playing regularly on the 1st XV of these Layard, Mitten and Johnson have been awarded School Colours and K. P. Hughes, House Colours. With so much talent in the House we hope to be able to enjoy a very successful year. GROVES ' We returned this year to find that our former Housemaster, Mr. Piddington, had left to join the R.C.A.F. Our present Housemaster is Mr. Cedric Lonsdale. Last year our house matron was Miss Milne, but she has been ably followed by Mrs. Coope. We were sorry to see that four of our Senior members had left, but the vacancy of second house prefect has been filled by Macdonald to aid Larsen in running the house. Groves ' House boys gave their full support to the new Cadet Corps formed this year by their Housemaster, Mr. Cedric Lonsdale. We are proud to mention that both the buglers came from our House and that a few of our members have shown distinction at signalling. In the Rag Concert, although ours was a last minute effort, we seemed to draw more laughs than any other skit in the show. On Speech Day, Brockhurst won the sixth form prize and Larsen Avon the Sportsmanship Cup. Larsen, Charleson and Anderson I played on the first cricket eleven last year and Charleson and Anderson I won their house cricket colours. With the aid of the above members we managed to win the inter-house cricket league. In the Sports last Spring, although our seniors and juniors both came second, our intermediates managed to come out on top. These same intermediates, namely, Deveson, Balme, Ling I and Stainsby brought honour to the House by good play on both the Colts ' soccer and cricket teams. Since the House had a good stock of enthusiastic boys it is to be hoped that Groves 1 will gain many further successes in the future. [ 14 ]