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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine School Notes WE MUCH regret to record the death of Mr. Horace T. Raven- hill, an old friend of the School and the original donor of the Efficiency Cup. Our most grateful thanks to Mrs. Heme for her gift to the School of the Toddington Vase which was won by the Royal Chester Rowing Club with Mr. T. W. Heme, Stroke, at the Tewkesbury Regatta in 1893. This Cup will be an Inter-House Challenge Cup for Rowing. For many years now Dr. B. E. Mckells has generously given his time and interest to the School, making a weekly visit as School Dentist and devoting part of the day to lectures and help to the Photographic Club. We very much regret that circumstances make it impossible for Dr. Mckells to continue. It is always sad when we lose touch with a man whose interest in the School is idealistic. Mr. T. A. Piddington left at the end of the Summer Term driving through to Montreal where he joined the R.C.A.F. We also regret the loss of another real friend of the School in the death of George Wright, who commenced his career by running awa} r from Malvern to tight in the Matabele War at the age of fifteen and ended as a columnist and editorial writer. His wide knowledge and reading enabled him to write pithy comments and editorials which made the Vancouver News-Herald worth reading. We have had visits and extremely interesting talks from Sir Lawrence Bragg, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, Captain Douglas Fisher, R.N. We congratulate Jim Mcintosh on obtaining his B.Sc. (Engin- eering) at the California Institute of Technology. We congratulate W. G. H. Roaf on being promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel. Chapel Notes DURING the year Chapel services have been held as usual with an excellent attendance at the early Communion Services. Mitten and Hughes major have been appointed Servers. The Bishop of Columbia was with us for Confirmation on March 23rd, when ten boys and twenty-three girls from Strathcona [ 6 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine EDITORIAL FROM the beginning of the War we have been consoling ourselves with the comfortable reflection that it cannot happen here, and even since the entry of Japan into th e War we have been buoyed up with the hope, amounting to conviction, that it will not do so. Nevertheless the blackout was taken seriously and strictly ob- served. In our town the garish signs of our commercial prosperity disappeared from the darkened streets : in the country we shut our- selves in with diminished lights and reflected on the baffling prob- lem of a mad world intent on its own destruction. Two nights of semi-darkness, of lighted rooms with darkened corridors, and ink- black dormitories were sufficient to convince us of the need of light in the material side of life; but now that the blackout is lifted, and the unconsidered trifles of black cloth or old blinds have been returned to attic or basement, and the wayfarer on the country roads is once more guided by the friendly illumination of his neigh- bour ' s house, the unsolved problem returns. It is not the question whether it can or cannot happen here, but why it has happened at all. Why, after two thousand years of pain- ful struggle upward, has the whole of human progress to be cast into the melting-pot of this terrible war? Neither time nor space here serves for an anlysis of the causes of mankind ' s failure and tragedy: nor indeed do Ave claim that spiritual light, which no blackout can hide, and by which the seer can make plain the answer to these dark riddles. Yet something can be said on the subject of personal responsibility and individual duty. In the School every selfish act, every unsocial misdemeanour countenanced by others is a hindrance to the upward progress of the whole community, whereas on the other hand, every duty, how- ever small, unselfishly performed, is a contributory cause of better- ment for all of its members. So it is, also, in the world outside the School bounds. [ R 1

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine were confirmed. The Dean, the Very Rev. S. H. Elliott, delivered the address. The beautiful flowers at that service were given by Mrs. P. A. Woodward in memory of her son. Services have been held in the Chapel on Saints ' Day and Remembrance Day and on several occasions the Rev. E. M. Willis has found it possible to be with us. At Christmas a very beautiful Carol service was held in the Chapel and throughout the year, under Miss Lonsdale ' s guidance, the choir has given us some very fine music. A number of new choir surplices were purchased this summer. On Speech Day, a service was held in the Chapel at 5.00 p.m., at which the Bishop was the preacher. It has been possible to send substantial donations from the Chapel collections this year to the Missionary Society, the Legion War Services, the Poppy Fund and to St. Barnabas. Speech Day SPEECH DAY was held on June 27th and, this year, only parents were invited. After the Water Sports and tea, prizes were given aAvay by Captain R. H. Ley. The Leaving Service was held at five o ' clock in the Chapel, the Address being given by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Columbia. PRIZE LIST, JUNE, 1941 Form VI — D. N. Brockhurst Form Remove A— G. D. Love Form VU— P. A. Ward Form Remove B— J. C. McBride Form VL— M. V. C. Hickey Form III— N. Collison Form IV— H. G. Macdonald Form II— R. C. Hopkins Bishop ' s Prize for Reading— P. A. Ward. Michaelmas Term — C. D. Johnson. Efficiency Prize — ] Lent Term — C. P. Layard. [Summer Term — M. V. C. Hickey. House Cups-| . ts - S % r (Cricket — Ripley ' s. The Grogan Tennis Cup— R. A. Mitten. Sportsmanship Cup — E. R, Larsen. [ 7 ]