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

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Music Notes This year, for three days each week, Mr. Jenkins, the Choir Master and Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, has come from Victoria to teach Music and to train the Choir. The Choir, although it shows gradual improve- ment, could use more support from the boys. It is hoped that more of them will realize the pleasure which can be obtained from singing and will offer to join us for we urgently need more strength in the boxes. Musical Appreciation classes are held in the Big School each Sunday even- ing for the Junior School. It is gratifying to find a number of Seniors also attend these Concerts voluntarily. From time to time we have been fortunate to have the musical life of the School enriched by visits to musical recitals in Victoria or by the appearance at the School of well-known artists. This year a number of boys attended the performance of Handel ' s Messiah at Christ Church Cathedral on December 14th. For the second year in succession Harry Adaskin has come to the School to give us a violin recital. The first part of this year ' s Programme consisted of a short lecture on the construction of a Sonata which was illustrated by various passages from Beethoven ' s Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 30. The complete Programme is shown below: VIOLIN RECITAL Harry Adaskin, Violin Frances Marr, Piano Held at Shawnigan Lake School on Thursday afternoon, November 20th, 1947. Sonata in A, Op. 30, No. 1 Beethoven Romanza Andaluza •- Sarasate La Chasse Kr eider Sea Murmurs Castelwuovo-T edesco Danse Champetre u Sibelius Christmas Cradle Song Reger Obertass Mazurka Wieniowski Ca plus que lente Debussy RAG CONCERT Page 10 ShawniganLake

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if It Cadet Corps 1946 We had a keen Corps last year and, at the annual Inspection, we were rated 95% efficient. The Corps ranked first in our area and third in the Prov- ince. Spurred by these results, we hope to do even better this year. Interest in Shooting was maintained by the introduction of Recreational Shooting. Badges won during the year were: First Class Badge 27 Marksman Badge 7 Expert Badge 1 Eight boys gained certificates for Morse Signalling and four for Advanced Morse. This year, with an increased enrollment, we have a company of three Platoons. Freeth is Cadet Captain. Cadet Lieutenants, appointed on the results of a Promotion Examination, are: Milbrad, Piddington and Forrest. Burrows is Company Sergeant and Naden again Quarter Master Sergeant. 1947 Throughout this year our Cadet Corps has functioned exceedingly well. In marksmanship our Corps was top in British Columbia and the signalling was outstanding. During the year the Cadets and the Officers trained well together and at our annual Inspection the Corps did its best to execute the results of the year ' s training. There was a Cadet hike which was an inter-house competition and which had as its object the reaching of certain territorial positions with the aid of maps. The badge for the best marksman in the Corps was won by Cadet Gordon Parke. This Marksman Badge is given annually to produce competition. The new recruits of this year have advanced rapidly and are becoming well- trained under our Officers. School Magazine Page 9

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The Rag Concert There was an air of greater excitement than usual as November ' s second week-end drew near. To all of us it means a pleasant break in school rou- tine, while most of us have additional reasons for the welcome we so gladly give it. As usual, the holiday atmosphere first made itself felt on Friday afternoon when the absence of school combined with the happy hammering of amateur stage-hands, under the expert guidance of Mr. Twite, added the magic touch of unreality to the dying moments of another week. On Friday night final re- hearsals were held after which we went happily to bed in eager anticipation of the morrow. On Saturday morning we were kept busy until eleven o ' clock when parents and Old Boys began to arrive. At last it was seven-thirty, zero hour for the concert. The scene in the dining-room — which seemed to be fulfilling every function except that for which it was built — was one of indescribable, but apparently controlled, chaos. Mrs. Morres and her cohorts were busy adding the last touches of make-up. There was the usual panic and the usual last-minute search for garments that would fit and for spears that had been mislaid. However, an air of magnificent and all-pervasive optimism made it quite apparent that nothing could go really wrong. The Rag Concert of 1947 will long be remembered for the excellence of the entertainment provided. There was considerable variety, the jokes were intelligible, and the actors, by and large, were obviously enjoying themselves instead of suffering heroically, and therefore making the audience suf- fer too. While it would be invidious to make detailed comparisons of the fare pro- vided, special mention should perhaps be made of three items. The Upper Fifth play struck just the right note. The scene was laid in a milieu that must have been faintly familiar to both boys and parents, the humour was topical, and the sight of Mainguy furtively issuing by a rope from the Trojan Horse is one that will long be remembered. Mr. Twite laid about him with evident zest playing no favourites and making us all in turn cry, Touche, at the shrewdness of his barbed thrusts. Even the Old Boys were not spared, but the Old Boys had their revenge the next day. Mr. Holms, too, went to the Classics for his inspira- tion, but, while Mr. Twite had used them merely as a convenient peg on which to hang some Shawnigan clothing, the Lower Fifth proceeded to burlesque them. Johnson excelled as did Tuttle, the latter showing a side of himself that we had long suspected but never actually seen. The third item was the closing number on the programme. It was a ballet produced by the Matrons in which Mr. Brown played the role of ballerina with a delicate grace and wistful old- worldliness. The manner in which he maintained his seventeenth-|Century ex- pression, thus not dislodging a carefully-planted dimple, would have made any poker player envious. Kingscote, who presented the traditional bouquet at the end of the performance, was gratefully thanked by the ballerina, also in the tra- ditional way, an unrehearsed item which the audience was quick to appreciate. School Magazine Page 1 1