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

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spots. On this occasion, each, from the youngest to the oldest, stood or failed on his own merits. THE PROGRAMME God Save the King 1. Fairest Jenny ) The Sheep under the Snow Traditional The fits come on me now J Arranged by Williams The Orchestra 2. Songs : The March of the Cameron Men Arranged by Bantock This is the Weather Sumsion Windy Nights Stanford Juniors 3. Trio: Chansonette Id French Ballo Dussek J. Thielen, R. Ely, C. Mainguy, D. Waterman 4. Songs : Afield Over the Hills The Sheep Speedwell from the Echoing Green he Fleming Juniors 5. Andante from Quartet in D minor Mozart H. Macdonald, E. Toshach, R. Chapman, J. Ling 0. Song: Sir Eglamore Folk Song The Choir 7. Violin: Sarabande and Tamboii rin Leclair E. Toshach. Tiano : J. Thielen 8. Songs : The Lark in the Morn Folk Song Where ' er yon walk Handel Up the Airy Mountain Rathbone Juniors 9. March ) Two Minuets )■ Bach Musette J The Orchestra 10. Overture and Rigaudon for Wind Handel M. Stainsby, F. Collen, K. Bowman, B. Bowman 11. Songs: Ho the trumpets Handel Let us now praise Famous Men Vaughan-Williams The School Accompanists : B. Everest, E. Toshach, J. Bourke, S. Milbrad. SCHOOL MAGAZINE Page 15

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sic re MUSIC still plays a dominant part in the life of the School. Miss Lonsdale instils much of her own enthusiasm and some of her great ability in everyone she teaches. But this love of music goes deeper than this at Shawnigan — for even in those who are not in the choir or the orchestra, there exist a love and appreciation of music that become apparent to even the most casual observer at such times as on the occasion of a school concert or at a recital given by some visitor. Lack of space precludes a complete account of all our musical activities during the past three years but we should like to mention the following. On November 23rd, 1944, Gordon Staples, the fifteen-year-old violinist from Vancouver, played to a delighted audience of Shawni- gan Lake School boys and girls from Strathcona Lodge School. We were invited to Strathcona Lodge School to hear the famous English singer, Mr. John Goss. We should like to thank Mr. Holloway and his pupil, David Oldham, Baritone, for the recital they gave. The 1945 orchestra, which included some Strathcona Lodge girls, consisted entirely of Strings, as the W T ind were busy with the Cadet Corps. Macdonald and Toshach proved a tower of strength. The school concerts for the past three years have been rich and varied but lack of space prevents us from printing the programmes in full. However, Ave cannot refrain from giving an account and the programme of the 1945 concert: It is always a pleasure to attend a Concert at Shawnigan Lake School and the Concert of the 17th of March with its interesting and varied programme was no exception. The music is demonstrated in groups and little attention is paid to showing off a star pupil. The idea in making these concerts of a classical nature is to give the boys something worth while in Music to remain with them when school days are over. The junior boys sang with interest and enjoyment songs by Bantock, Sumsion, Stanford, Le Fleming and, most charmingly, Handel ' s Where ' er you walk and Up the Airy Mountain by Rathbone. There was only one solo, Sarabande and Tambourin by Leclair, for violin, in which soloist and accompanist excelled. Delightful Trios for two violins and piano, Chansonette (Old French) and Ballo (Dussek) were much enjoyed. The final Let us now praise Famous Men (Vaughan- Williams) sung by the whole School was very impressive. All accompaniments were played by boys of the school and not by a member of the staff, whose greater experience covers weak Page 14 SHAWNIGAN LAKE

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SE NOTES RIPLEY ' S Dear Mr. Ripley: The time has come to write the Ripley ' s House Report. All the members of Ripley ' s House were considerably shaken when it was announced that two boys, one from Groves ' , one from Lake ' s, were to be their house prefects. However, when we became accustomed to each other ' s faces, we settled down to do our utmost to preserve the tradition of Ripley ' s House as the best house in the school. When we took stock of ourselves, we found that we had obtained by various ways and means five new boys and a new housemaster in the person of Mr. Duxbury. Ripley ' s House produced a tremendous drama for the Rag Con- cert, Little Abner and all that. Luckily we had any amount of acting talent in the House and were able to put it over quite well. We also contributed two members to the quartette. In Rugby, we have maintained a fair standard. We have con- tributed six members to the First Rugby Team, including the Cap- tain, Tom Naden. In Inter-House Rugby we beat Lake ' s House 16-3, but unfortunately lost Hanson with a dislocated finger at the beginning of the game. However, when we played Groves ' we had a full team but, through the weakness of our forwards, we only tied them 3-3. We were glad to hear that the head of the house for the past two years, Macdonald, who was offered the District Scholarship to the University of B. C, passed his Senior Matriculation with a high average and is now at Trinity College, Toronto. We are also happy to record that Peter Belither, after successfully passing his Junior Matriculation, has gone to England, where he entered the Royal Navy. Early in the term we had a pleasant surprise when we learned that Hickey, who had left the school in 1942 to join the Marines, was returning to study for his entrance to the California Institute of Technology. We should like to welcome the following five new boys who en- tered our house at the beginning of the year: William Pope, Grant Butt, John Kueckelhan, Gar Gilmore and John Mauk. LAKE ' S In order to improve the distribution of boys throughout the School a number of exchanges have been made between the Houses. We have both gained and lost by this ; but, while we part with old Page 16 SHAWNIGAN LAKE