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

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Christ ' s love can be properly prepared for the battle. We have to return to the faith of our fathers to ' reap once again the harvest of God ' s blessings . Remember Kipling :- No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. SCHOOL NOTES The Rag Concert was the highlight of the Michaelmas Term but the intellectual and social inertia caused by the usual School routine was offset slightly by either a dance or a movie on Saturdays and Grass Hockey on Sunday afternoons. The Lent Term produced the coldest weather and heaviest snowfall for over thirty years. We had good skating and then toboggans and skis appeared but games were confined to the Squash Courts and Gymnasium. In March sundry short plays were successfully produced by Mr. Larsen. At the funeral of Sir Richard Lake on April 25th, the School was represented by the Head Master, the Staff by Mr. Duxbury, the boys by the Prefects and the Old Boys by — many of them. The Cadet Corps Inspection was on May 27th. The inspecting officer was Major-General H. F. H. Hertzberg who was old-fashioned enough to notice small faults and other such things as do not appear to matter nowadays. On May 17th Strathcona Lodge School put on three excellent short plays produced and written by the girls. Thee and Patrick went to Vancouver for the B. C. Squash Tourna- ment. The former did well and in the finals, Ned Larsen was defeated by his brother Jack — weight must help! On June 5th the Head Master attended the always impressive Commencement at the Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma. On June 16th he gave away the Prizes at the Athlone School Sports, the most efficiently organized affair he has seen for a very long time. We said good-bye to Messrs. Larsen and Bullen who proceeded to rest up after a strenuous year by playing Cricket whenever possible (very successfully). Mr. Bullen accompanied the B. C. Cricket Team as far as Winnipeg. They both crossed the Atlantic in a Greek passenger ship as stewards, the only two who could speak English! and now Mr. Larsen is at Exeter College, Oxford, and Mr. Bullen at New College, Oxford. We now have one more Old Boy on the staff, Mr. W. T. S. Pearce. To finish a good year we had a delightful visit during the holidays from Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Twite.

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EDITORIAL THREES OR ONES? It ' s a mad world, my masters! becomes more obvious daily. Some parents and, possibly, some students see it. What are we going to do about it? As it is we who make the world, can there be something wrong with us? Whence came we, what are we, whither do we go? This three-fold question recalls the trinity of body, mind and spirit which is each of us. How is modern life educating this trinity? Growing frequency of failure by church, school and home is all too evident. J. Edgar Hoover places most blame on the last. Thus: Parents are forgetting their God-given and patriotic obligations to the little ones. . . . Selfishness is the keynote of the day and materialism the inspiration for living. God in many instances is not accepted in the home and concepts of morality have been relegated to the junk heap. . . . The key to life itself is God. He is man ' s first need — his main goal. Destroy religion and chaos will result. Is he right? Were Shakespeare, Livingstone, Washington, Lincoln, countless millions of Christians mere misguided people? Is there any truth in the Bible? As we must worship something, is it God or go ld? Duty or dollars? In these days, is there any value to us of tradition? Surely, we must recognize that life on this planet is a battle — a proving ground for our material, moral and spiritual development. It can be nothing else — apart from the menace of extinction by poison or bomb — until each of us has done his utmost to bring his moral and spiritual development abreast of his purely worldly interests. Material development has resulted in atomic discovery. What unimaginable wonders lie ahead of the scientists of the mind and spirit? Their work alone can control peace and war. Each of us can share in this work. Sir Alexander Cadogan, at this year ' s McGill convocation, said that the struggle between Communism and anti-Communism could be won only by capturing men ' s minds . Foch has told us that wars are won by the things of the spirit . If they are right, what chance has a collection of divided nations, merely professing democracy and belief in God, against a forcibly united dictatorship, inspired by a godless doctrine which has much of the force of religion and has its producing missionaries everywhere? We should have seen long ago that one cannot have real democracy without real Christianity. Chasing dollars is needful but, unless kept in right rela- tionship to the things of the spirit , it is stark paganism. Exodus 32 tells what happens. There has been a shooting war. We are learning what a cold war may mean. We of the democracies do not yet widely recognize that we are being out-fought in the spiritual war. The task of parent, pedagogue and parson must be realized anew before the little ones of

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Stye Sfott. ir Sirlfarfc Sake, 2C,C.£H.ai. Sir Richard Lake, Chairman of our Board of Governors, died on April 23rd, 1950. He was born in England in 1860, the son of Lt.-Col. Percy G. B. Lake. He was in the British Civil Service from 1878 to 1883 and then joined his family near Grenfell, Saskatchewan. He was a member of the North West Territories Legislature from 1898 to 1904, then Member of Parliament for Qu ' Appelle until 1911, and Lieutenant- Governor of Saskatchewan from 1915 to 1921. Twice were he and Lady Lake torpedoed, once in the First World War and then in the Athenia, the first ship to be torpedoed in the second war. He left his wife who is still as enthusiastic a lover of the School as he was himself, one daughter and four sons who were at the School continuously from 1921 to 1942. His brother, Lt.-General Sir Percy Lake, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., who was also a member of our Board of Governors from the time of its incorpora- tion, predeceased him after a long life in which he also made a great and unselfish contribution to the Christian advancement of this country. Canada needs such men and we look to Sir Richard ' s four sons to provide the same kind of leadership and service given by these two very great gentlemen. Sir Richard will be sorely missed by all who knew him and have benefited by his unselfish help and kindly wisdom. Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat Mis OMlftra In the early hours of August 11th, 1950, Miss Gildea died at the Onward Ranch, Cariboo, after a short holiday during which her health had been better than during last term, staying in a country she loved and with friends she loved. Many of our Old Boys will remember her with affection and for the tremendous interest she always took in every boy she knew. We shall all miss her here and our sincere sympathy is with her relations in England and her Old Girls . Funeral Services were held in the School Chapel by the Bishop, Father Whitehead and the Rev. E. M. Willis, and her grave is in Cobble Hill beside Miss Pead ' s. There were several Old Boys present, a few of the present School and, amongst the profusion of flowers, a beautiful spray from the Old Boys ' Association.