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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine of the Schubert Quartette in E Flat, Op. 125, and short pieces by de Ridder, Mendelssohn, Borodin and McEwen. After the interval Mrs. Huntly Green joined the quartette in the Schumann Piano Quintette in E Flat. The Scherzo was repeated in response to the enthusiastic applause of the audience. The members of the Quar- tette were James Levey, 1st Violin, Adolf Koldovski, 2nd violin, Allard de Ridder, viola, and Boris Hambourg, ' cello. « Exchanges » We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the following contem- poraries : Black and Red (University School). Genalmond Chronicle. The Ashburian. The College Times (Upper Canada College). The Grove Chronicle (Lakefield). « Milestones » THIS year the speeches have been equal to the high standard set in former years. In choice of subject matter and organization of material there has been an improvement, for all speeches showed a serious and discriminating attitude. However, poor posture and halting delivery often marred a carefully prepared talk. Koerner showed skill in composition in his oral essay, Logging, while Huntington, Wallis and Hughes showed skill in delivery. All speak- ers displayed clear thought and all made an effort to interest their listeners. Steiwer ' s talk on Fossil was a venture into the realm of homespun humour which proved very entertaining. A list of the varied topics includes : Medieval Gas Attack — Smith. Food Ratioining in Britain — Payne. Q-Ships — Selous. The Japanese Jungle Fighter — McMcoll. Death and Glory Boys — Ramus. Confucius — Graham. The Discovery of an Anaesthetic — Forrest. Brewing — Gale. War Gases — Coldwell. Watch out for Watchmakers — Roberts. Get Rommel Dead or Alive — Huntington. The Titanic Disaster — Hughes. The Mediterranean 1940-41 — Agar. Fossil — Steiwer. Gustavus Adolphus — Wallis. Logging — Koerner. [ 8 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine « Hobby Shop Notes » PERHAPS in no department of School life has the war been felt more than in the Hobby Shop. The inroads on time made by Cadet Corps and A. R. P. activities, the scarcity of materials, and the reduced number of boys in the Middle School have all played a part in curtailing Hobby Shop activities. The loss of Mr. C. J. G. Lonsdale has been felt in the Machine Shop and lack of lumber, nails, and metal has resulted in it being used as little more than a work shop for odd jobs this term. Since our Art enthusiasts left us last year the Art Club has not been used. Photography continues to be popular but even there the luxury tax lias made itself felt and less has been done than in former years. We are very grateful to Dean Johnson for; the enlarger which he donated to the lub when he left last term. The Model Club and Printing Club continue to be popular with certain boys. The former makes its chief appeal to the Juniors, the latter, as usual, devotes much of its energy to printing School programmes. The Natural History Club has added a certain number of mineral specimens to its collection. The greatest thrill it has had this year has been the donation of a very tine collection of Lepidoptera, num- bering about twenty thousand specimens, to the School by Mr. Athelstan Day of Duncan. For this gift we are indeed grateful. « Music Notes » THE Orchestra, though small, is doing good work under the the guidance of Miss Lonsdale. The Concert was held on May 9th and an account of this will be found elsewhere in these pages. This term the Orchestra is working hard at the Mozart Overture to Figaro and part of the Haydn Oxford Symphony. The Choir, also, has done its share of work and Blessed Are They That Mourn from the Brahms Requiem was sung again on All Saints ' Day, and Jesu, Joy of Man ' s Desiring,- ' Bach, was sung on the last Sunday of the School Year. On January 27th, the School went to Strathcona to attend a Concert given by Dr. and Miss Raven in aid of Coventry Cathedral Organ. On Sunday evening, March 1st, the Hart House Quartette and Gertrude Huntly Green played to a delighted audience at the School composed of the boys, the girls from Strathcona Lodge, the staff of both Schools and friends. The first part of the programme consisted [ 7 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine ouse RIPLEY ' S oies Dear Mr. Ripley: Once more I have been called upon to represent the house in rendering you an account of our activities during the past year. Our members have considerably diminished but I assure you that what we lack in numbers we make up for in spirit. The house, this year, is run by two School prefects, Huntington and Hickey, abl assisted by Forrest, Gale and Wallis as House prefects. But let me commence by telling you of our successes and failures in the field of sports. This year, for two reasons, we won again the inter-house soccer match. First, Wheeler, as well as being a fine player, was an excel- lent captain, and second, house spirit, the conquer or die attitude blossomed forth as is usual during a crisis. Our first opponent, Groves ' house, being composed of rather younger members than ourselves, we beat fairly easily. We were then confronted by a truly redoubtable foe in the nature of Lake ' s house. On paper, we wer beaten from the start, for our adversaries were better and more experienced players than we were. However, summoning all our house spirit to the fore and being granted a little luck, we emerged victorious with a score of 2-1 in our favour. During this same term the schools sports and boxing were held. In the latter we did fairly creditably, winning only two weights, Hickey (middle-weight) and Horn ii (fly-weight), but we had such a surplus of runners-up that we beat our opponents in points. In the former we won scarcely anything, simply because the other houses were better than we were at track events. The cricket team yielded continued success to the house. Although no actual house matches were held, we have good reason to believe that, had it come to a showdown with either of the other two houses, we would have ended up as the winners. Five members of Ripley ' s house played for the School Eleven ; Wheeler, Hickey, Huntington, Forrest and Macdonald. During the course of the term Huntington and Forrest were awarded their School colours. The water sports were also held this term. We won not a single event, chiefly because Hickey, our best man, was away. This winter term, for the first time in four years, we have a chance of meeting Lake ' s house on even terms on the rugby field. Seven of Ripley ' s house are constant members of the First XV. They are: Hickey, Roenisch, Wallis, Forrest, Ramus, Huntington and Gale; Tomlin has also played in one game. Hickey, our cap- tain, also captained the First XV. Roenisch and Wallis have been [ 9 ]