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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine the best-spirited House, and is successfully carrying on the traditions set by you Old Boys. During the Easter term, in spite of being the smallest House, Groves ' upheld itself well. Although we did not win the Inter- House Soccer league, we did win the admiration of all the School for our superior display of spirit. In the boxing, Fisher won his weight and we had several run- ners-up. We did quite well in the land sports also. We carried first place in the Senior and Junior hundred-yard dash, and second in the Senior two hundred and twenty yards, and eight hundred and eighty yards, broad jump, high jump, and Junior broad jump. Also, we came second in the tug-o ' -war. This was truly won by spirit. Spirit is unquestionably the most important factor in a House. Good spirit makes a good House! We Old Boys are proud to re- member Groves ' always had the best spirit. Now what about the Summer Term? We returned to find Mrs. Valentine had replaced our forme i House Matron, Mrs. Coope. Later in the term, Brockhurst was appointed a House Prefect to aid Larsen and Macdonald in run- ning the House. Larsen and Anderson i played on the 1st XI, and Larsen won his School colours. In the water sports, we took second place in two events. Our Speech Day awards are most noteworthy. Brockhurst won the Sportsmanship Cup. This Cup has been held for three out of five years by a member of our House. Larsen was first in Form VI B, Ling i first in the Lower Fifth, Oostermeyer headed the Remove A, and Bice took the honours in the Second Form. Ours was the only House from which no member failed his Matriculation examinations ! Well done ! That is indeed a record. Please go on. The biggest misfortune to befall the House in years came with the new term. We had to leave our dormitories on the top floor and move down to the common level of the second floor, where we have one dormitory in each wing. This was heartbreaking, but we resolved to maintain Groves ' as the best House in the School. We were sorry to lose our House Master, Mr. Cedric Lonsdale, who left for England last summer. The Groves ' prefects in thei Michaelmas Term are as follows : Larsen, Head Prefect ; Macdonald, School Prefect ; Smith, Koerner, and Deveson, House Prefects. At the Rag Concert, our House put on the most dramatic play of the evening. Also, we have several members in the Dramatic Society, some of whom starred in ' The Monkey ' s Paw ' and ' Box and Cox, ' the first two plays put on by this newly-formed society. [ 12 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine We held our own in the boxing with Lake, Gandossi and Freeth winning their respective weights. Several other members of the House were finalists. Six members of the House played on the 1st XI. Of these Mit- ten, Ewing and Milligan received their School Colours and Ballen- tine and Stokes their House Colours. Barton, Lake and Layard also received their House Colours. At the beginning of the Summer Term Mitten and Milligan were made House Prefects. At the end of the term, Johnson, whom we wish to congratulate on winning a scholarship at the California Institute of Technology, was made a School Prefect. The prize-giving saw us retain the Sports Cup. Roberts and Love won their Form prizes. Ewing won the Efficiency Cup for the Michaelmas and Easter Terms, and Gandossi won the Grogan Tennis Cup. The Head of the House this year is Mitten. He is ably assisted by Stokes, who is a School Prefect, and Barton, Hughes i and Bal- lentine, who are House Prefects. We are not quite so well represented on the 1st XV this year as we have been in former years, having only six regular members on the team. However, already this term Ballentine and Hughes i have received their School Rugby Colours and Barton has received his House Colours. As we draw this note to a close we hope that in the future we will be able to keep up the fine standard set us in the past success- ful vear. GROVES ' One afternoon during the Christmas Holidays, while walking through Stanley Park, rounding a bend, I suddenly noticed a man wearing a Groves ' House blazer. Increasing my pace, I pursued the retreating figure. I soon overtook him and tapped him on the shoulder. When he turned, I found he was a middle-aged gentleman with pleasant, well formed features. Pardon me, sir, but you wear a Groves ' House blazer. Were you a member of Groves ' ? I asked. Yes, I am proud to say I was, was the prompt reply. Ah ! I guessed it ! I am a member of Groves ' House, so you will understand why I stopped you. Great! When you are an Old Boy you will find yourself rather cut off from the House. I have been yearning for someone who can bring me up to the minute. Well, I began, first, let me assure you that Groves ' is still [ 11 1

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Groves ' is not unrepresented on the Rugby teams. Larsen, Deveson and Torland played on the 1st XV, and almost half of the 2nd XV are from Groves ' . Larsen won his School Colours. Congratulations! You have had a very successful year, and T wish you the best for the coming one. Live up to our House motto, ' Labor Ipse Voluptas, ' and remember it is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts. — D. B. S. « The School Concert » THE critic who would judge our school concert by the standard of experienced musicians will make a wrong judgment. And the reason for his error will lie somewhere within that sea of dif- ference which separates adults to whom music is a chosen occupa tion or hobby, an d boys to whom it is but one of many, many Avays? of spending time which they find already, all too short. Let him but come some afternoon to an orchestra practice or some evening to hear the choir, and he will feel a measure of that difference. It is all in the space of but one hour a week, in time wrested from such important counter-attractions as Defaulters, Football, Cricket or Detention, that musically minded boys or members of the staff learn from Miss Lonsdale some of the fundamentals of choral and orches- tral work, as well as the great art of finding a rapidly changing place on a sheet of music with sufficient agility to avoid a most scathing comment. Every year, and, alas, sometimes even every term, finds a gap in the ranks of our musical enthusiasts, and so the pro- cess of awakening music interest and appreciation can never, at school, be completed. But adults who once have felt the deep pleasure of music will agree on the importance of lighting the latent spark of musical ability which will, in later life, so richly repay the work of youth. The concert programme was chosen and prepared with skill. Each portion proved a most pleasing combination of quality and interest, and the programme moved onwards towards a climax which did not drop. It was executed with a keennness that was, perhaps, natural to youth, but also with a quality and an apprecia- tion of light and shade which is, by no means always found in schools. The orchestra, in spite of its small size, gave a good account of itself in Bach ' s Anna Magdalena Suite. Later, it provided a dis creetly quiet background for Stainsby ' s trumpet in Purcell ' s Trum- pet Tune. In the closing part of the programme, it accompanied the spirited group sing ing of Wi ' a Hundred Pipers and Jeru- salem. [ 13 ]