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

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popular magazines as well as in books, in parliament as well as in poets (though much more rarely). Never accept it in a vacuum. Relate it to whatever else you know and release for yourselves the fullest meaning it can have for you. That is a way to sharper pleasure than you will find in most things life offers you. This can be a dull and empty world if you don ' t have some idea of the forces that make it work, and the reasons why you are what you are. It can also be a very dangerous world when the people who are supposed to lead don ' t know the score. It is your business, and it should be your pleasure, to know the score so well that false values never fool you. It is your greater affair, and your greater pleasure, to make sure that the long light of western wisdom is not lessened or obscured or wiped out during your lifetime. Speech. esLJau The Annual Speech Day and School Prize Distribution was held on Friday, June 25th. The Speech Day Address was given by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, LL.D., who, with Mrs. Haig-Brown, was welcomed by the Headmaster. Also on the platform were Captain J. Douglas Groves, Chairman of the Governors; Mr. J. Y. Copeman, Mr. Hew Paterson, Governors; and Rev. E. M. Willis, School Chaplain. Before introducing our guest speaker and asking him to distribute the prizes and awards, the Headmaster reviewed the activities of the school year which he referred to as one in which a good spirit had prevailed and much sound progress had been made in many phases of school life. He spoke of the raising of academic standards, the increased interest in club activities, and the numerous improvements and additions to the physical amenities of the School. Tribute was also paid to the staff and School Prefects, with special reference to the retirement of the Rev. E M. Willis. After giving a most interesting address to an attentive audience, and distributing the prizes, our guest speaker was thanked by Captain Groves. Tea was served in the School dining-room to a large number of visitors who then assembled in the School Chapel for the final Service of Evensong, at which the Rev. E. M. Willis gave a short farewell address. PRIZE LIST — JUNE, 19?4 Form Upper VI J. W. Gardner Form Lower IV—. R. W. Svendsen Form Lower VI J. C. W. Madden Form Remove A ... M. J. Kemble Form Upper V ... J. V. Stewart Form Remove B R. A. Mcintosh Form Lower V F. A. De Coteau Form III Peter George Form Upper IV .... P. K. Janke Form II Philip George Senior Mathematics Prize G. A. McGavin SAVAGE FOUNDATION ENGLISH PRIZES Upper School J. C. W. Madden Middle School R E. McKechnie Lower School R. C. R. Malkin Senior Science Prize J. C. W. Madden History Essay Prizes J. K. Schaeffer F. M. Boyce Senior French Prize J. C. W. Madden Scripture Prize P. R. Janke EFFICIENCY PRIZES Presented by the Old Boys ' Society Christmas Term Lent Term Summer Term 1. C. D. Brooks 1. CD. Brooks 1. P. A. Nash 2. R. L. Obermarck 2. P. A. Nash 2. C. D. Brooks 3. H. D. Read 3. J. K. Schaeffer 3. J. A. Kaye Junior: Christmas Term Lent Term Summer Term 1: R. A. Mcintosh 1. D. Jackson 1. Philip George HOUSE TROPHIES, 1953-54 Rugger Cup Lakes House Cricket Cup Groves House Basketball Cup Lakes House Soccer Sevens Cup ... Lakes House Swimming Groves House House Efficiency Ripley ' s House House Academic Shield Ripley ' s House Page Twelve Senior:

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where it fits. If you would read well and with lively pleasure, you must let your curiosity arouse easily and stride out mightily, and you must follow it to its limits — or your limits. There are many frames within the framework, and in each is a broad highway for the strides of curiosity. You may want to follow philosophy from Plato to Whitehead, or medicine from Hippocrates to Banting, or the novel from Bocaccio to Hemingway, or even the gentle art of angling from Dame Juliana to Halford and Hewitt. When you feel that kind of curiosity stirring ahead of you and take steps, however hesitant, to follow it, then you will begin to know some of the sharpest pleasures of reading, and of life. Those are vertical associations, down through the ages. There are others, equally important and equally satisfying, across the ages — who lived when and with whom. The two together yield a sense of period. And a sence of period strengthens the framework of knowledge and understanding as almost nothing else does. It brings evervthing alive and gives a depth to the past that will delight you as keenly as anything you will ever find. Perhaps you will think I am being unnecessarily difficult about all this. Why not just read a book, get something out of it and let it go at that? Simply because you won ' t, and can ' t do it. Without reference to the rest of your knowledge, no book could have any meaning whatsoever for you. You are going to refer it and understand it and judge it by whatever standards you have. The better your standards, the more solid your framework; the better you know your way around it, the greater your pleasure will surely be. Nor is the pursuit of relationships in any way difficult. True, it can become difficult if you follow it far enough. But for a start you need hardly go beyond a good encyclopaedia. Read in it the brief life of a writer who has interested you, note the names of famous men whose lives touched his, and almost inevitably your curiosity will start vou turning the pages to find their lives, perhaps hunting the libraries for their books. At once your first man and his book take on a new dimension. You see them in relationship to their times, to their friends and contemporaries, to the living, active thought that was going on about them. You will feel immensely richer, and you will be exactly that. Suppose you are a bird enthusiast, interested in Audubon. You will learn very easily that there was another North American birdman of about the same time, Alexander Wilson, a Scot who had hoped to be a poet to rival Burns. Through him you will find another early American naturalist, William Bartram. And you will find that Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States, took an interest in all of them and even made the mistake of refusing to send Alexander Wilson with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Out of that the whole picture of the opening continent should come to you with a freshness and keenness of perception that wipes out a hundred and fifty years. Or perhaps you are a fisherman, reading old Izaac Walton for the first time. If you check on his friends you will find they were all royalists, sc holars and divines and poets for the most part. Yet Walton lived quietly and safely through the turbulence of the protectorate and the restoration, and his gentle, kindly Christianity was a living force in the hearts of many men while Judge Jeffries was practising his horrors. I have spoken so far of the past, not because I value it more than the present, but because it is essential to the present. You cannot, even in your daily lives, escape the language and influence of the King James ' Bible, of Shakespeare and of Milton. No one can, least of all any practicing writer. So the past is with you and you need it to place yourselves and anyone you read in the present. But read boldly and abundantly in the present. Don ' t let anyone tell you the advanced writers, the experimentalists, are faddists and insignificant. Some of them are, but find out for yourselves which are phonies and which have meaning for you. Watch the little magazines of your day, where the newest writing of the youngest writers is most likely to appear. Try their pleasant modern substitutes, the pocket books you can buy for fifty cents, like New World Writing and Discovery and Stories in the Modern Manner. Don ' t be afraid to try James Joyce; go at him easily at first, with The Dubliners or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, so that you are sure he can write sense before you try to unravel what looks like nonsense. And don ' t disregard the poets of your day. They have something for you or they would not be of your day. Read Spencer, Auden, Eliot, Thomas, Frost, Millay, Birney, Pratt and all their successors. Compare them with the advanced prose-writers, the composers and artists of your time, and you will come near understanding the temper of your day. I have spoken to you of a long past, of a framework of knowledge, of a sense of period, and now I have said Compare. Perhaps this last word is the whole message I have for you. You will find good literature in many places — in newspapers and Page Eleven

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TROPHY AWARDS Sportsmanship Cup Ian Robertson Swimming Cup R. Cooper Field and Track Sports Events held over until year 1954-55 Squash Racquets T. R. Robertson Music Cup M. McAlpine Cricket: Batting Averages J. A. Kaye Bowling Averages J. A. Kaye Fielding E. D. G. Smith Tennis: Senior Singles . R. C. Simson Junior Singles I. Robertson Senior Doubles J. V. Stewart I. Beardmore Junior Doubles R. W. Svendsen I. Robertson Boxing: Heavyweight Class J. V. Stewart Middle Weight Class E. Kenny Bantam Weight Class J. Reid Featherweight Class J. Mercer Cadet Prizes: Groves Prize for Leading Cadet J. A. Kaye New Entry Cadet — Commanding Officer ' s Prize J. Roaf Leading Cadet Division — Foretop P.O. Simson in charge J une. -fr J934 Examinations Senior Matriculation: There were no candidates in the School for Senior Matriculation this year, although Battle and Madden wrote the Greek 90 examination with very satisfactory results, as follows: — Battle 93% Madden 80% Junior Matriculation: Out of 8 candidates from the Upper 6th (Grade 12). Gardner, Obermarck, Kaye 1, Schaeffer and Mowat 1, were successful, all gaining the required credits for University Entrance, with majors, as follows: — Gardner History, Mathematics, Science, French and Latin Obermarck Mathematics, Science and French Kaye 1 English, History, Mathematics, Science Schaeffer History, Mathematics, Science Mowat 1 English, History, Mathematics, Science In the Lower 6th (Grade II), the following also obtained a language major: — French: — Battle, Madden, Robertson 1, Jones, Hebb, McBean, Knight 1, and Douglas 1. And in — German — Stewart 1. In the Department of Education Examinations in terminal courses at the Grade II level, all 13 members of the Lower 6th were successful, as follows: — In Mathematics 30, Chemistry 91, Social Studies 30 — Battle, Madden, Knight 1, McGavin 1, Hebb, Read 1, Simson, Williams, McBean, Jones, Douglas 1, Moffatt, Robertson 1. In Biology 91 — Read 1, Simson, McGavin 1, Williams, Hebb, McBean and Knight 1. Out of 48 papers written in terminal course examinations set by the Department, 47 were passed. Page Thirteen