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

Page 5 text:

SI.Umii.V LAKE SCHOOL Killed o MuUn f WklU an Active, S iaice, rr Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat 1939 - 1945 A. It. Playfair 1925-30 P. J. A. Littlewood 1933-36 S. D. E. Bradford 1925-33 G. C. P. Davidson 1927-31 J. J. F. Mackie 1932-34 T. G. Lockhart 1925-26 R. R. P. Mainguy 1931-34 R. J. A. Lefurgey 1928-30 S. R. F. Wollaston 1921-23 D. D. A. Dawson 1931-35 T. R. W. Harcourt 1924-30 J. J. H. Bndd 1929-36 J. C. R. Day 1930-38 J. M. A. Cotton 1925-30 J. K. S. Osier 1919-23 W M. R. F. Oliver 1928-35 W C. Allen 1928-32 C. P. T. Reid 1940-42 F. P. G. F. Bourdillon 1929-33 G. R. M. Bell-Irving 1928-34 1). G. Piddington 1932-33 G. Rose 1928-31 F. Mackie 1933-36 O. Mair 1918-20 N. K. Beard 1937-39 D. S. Ross 1930-33 P. Shannon 1929-33 C. Lane 1927-31 D. L. deBretigny 1928-31 M. W. Golby 1917-21 A. Piddington 1925-32 P. Bishop 1920-26 L. McKean 1928-30 S. V. Martin 1918-21 , S. Ferguson 1922-26 L. Stewart-MacLeod .. 1918-20 W. L. Hnlke 1920-21 B. P. Gregory 1933-36 D. Fix 1936-38 A. Matthews 1930-36 SCHOOL MAGAZINE Page 3

Page 7 text:

ZdUobUd - — ■— FIRST of all we must say how happy we are to resume publica- tion of our magazine after an enforced lapse of three years. This particular issue will look both backwards and forwards, backwards with thankful pride towards the achievements of our Old Boys during the past five years and forward with a reasoned confidence and courageous heart to the changing and challenging future. We feel that private schools have made a very definite contri- bution towards the winning of the war, that this type of school which has been described as outmoded and anachronistic in this country has been justified of her children. Elsewhere in this issue you will find a detailed account of this contribution and of the loss that such a contribution has of necessity entailed. But important as the past is and however necessary it may be to praise famous men, it is to the future we must point our eyes. Our country, along with all others, has passed through many stresses and strains. There have been many losses — of life, of natural resources, of abilities that should have been devoted to the knitting together, firstly of the various elements in our country and secondly to making this national unity international, for the greater unity cannot exist without the lesser. It falls to the lot of our generation, then, to do the building after others have ensured that we shall have a country in which to build. In this building Private Schools have a unique role to play, a role that cannot be played by the state-controlled system. Since we believe this whole-heartedly, we feel that there is no need for undue diffidence in stating our case. Too often in the past have Private Schools endured criticism in silence, thus giving the impres- sion that they had no means of defence and that the charges levelled against them must in the main be true. What then is the task of such schools as ours? First and fore- most Private Schools should give a class-room education at least as good as that which is offered in the best High Schools. Secondly they should concern themselves with extra-curricular activities in a way that no High School can be expected to do since the latter has the boy for only seven or eight hours while the former has him for twenty-four hours a day. But these two tasks do not comprise the whole duty of a Private School. Their third task— and Private Schools fail completely if they fail in this— is to provide a sheet- anchor founded on faith, not merely the narrow dogma of any par- ticular religious faith but a deep and abiding reliance on certain fundamental truths, a reliance that no mockery can diminish, no cleverness dissipate. The period between the two World Wars was SCHOOL MAGAZINE Page 5