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

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y. Club membership remained high and two litters from the sow gave ample livestock. The fall in the price of pork in the autumn caused a loss to the club from which, at the time of writing, it has not recovered. It is hoped to remedy this by the sale of the latest litter in September. A number of rabbits were kept in the school and great interest in these animals was shown by their owners. ft ft OL fL CU This club, one of the most popular in the school, had a total of fifty-eight active members who managed to use up several kegs of gunpowder during the year in trying to hit the bull ' s-eye. Some of the club became quite proficient for altogether twenty-seven won Dominion marksman- ship awards. Twenty-two earned their Bronze Maple Leaf Buttons; three received Silver Buttons, and two, Wade and Shaneman, collected Gold Buttons. The keen interest in the House competition resulted in fine scores. The senior trophy was won by the Grove ' s House team, McKechnie I, Millar, Money and Neal, who had an average of 97.25. Ripley ' s team of Andrews, Douglas, Shaneman and Wade was victorious in the junior competition with an average of 90.75. The members of the Rifle Club extend their thanks to the masters who undertook the supervision of the range and who with the poet echo this belief — Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. ix ft ti Jhe rrobbu S kop For the Hobby Shop and the many boys who spend busy, constructive hours there, the high- light of a most successful year was the Hobby Show at Duncan when the school won a total of six ribbons and a trophy for having the best school entry. Individuals who distinguished them- selves for their entries in this show were Scott-Moncrieff, who won first prize for his sailing dinghy, and Clarke I, who took third place for his exhibit of furniture that was judged with all entries in the Hobby Show. It was not only the boys who profited from Mr. Can ' s skilful guidance and instruction, for one evening each week members of the staff used the Hobby Shop and Mrs. Whitney, Miss Clunas and Miss Marie all made furniture, of which they and the Hobby Shop are proud. Jne f notoarapnu L lub The Photo Club, under Mr. Robinson ' s direction, did not have the same number of devotees as in previous years. Three or four former members and Mr. Robinson were the only ones to enter the little room, lighted dimly by means of dark red bulbs and smelling evilly of chemicals. The club, however, became busier than a city department store the week before Christmas, when early in June Larry Bortles mass-produced five-by-seven prints of the pictures of school teams and of the Cadet Corps. It is rumored that this energetic member of the Photo Club is planning to buy the Hobby Shop building as he cleared more than one hundred dollars. v Boah CU As usual, the Boats Club did not really begin to hum with activity until early in the summer term when, for two weeks, members of the club became frenzied in their efforts to ensure that their boats be seaworthy and trim for the sail-past on Inspection Day. On that day the breeze was fitful — light at first and then squally. Slowly all the boats and dinghies moved into formation to sail past the float where the Inspecting Officer was to take the salute, when suddenly, about halfway through the manoeuvres, a squall blew up. One boat tipped over and Page Seventeen

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f- ancaKe Cy reaze The Annual Pancake Greaze took place in the gymnasium as usual on Shrove Tuesday, February 14th. As soon as Tom had thrown the pancake after the blowing of the whistle, the struggle was on. It lasted the traditional three minutes, long enough for Vandersluys and Cromie, repre- senting the Upper Fourth, to seize the lion ' s share and to emerge victorious. Those who represented their forms are listed below: Upper Vlth — Smith and Money. Remove A — Armstrong II and Phillips. Lower Vlth — Stainer and Vincent. Remove B — Appleton and Ross. Upper Vth — Benson and Brown. Form III — Fox and La Sette. Upper I Vth — Cromie and Vandersluys. Form II — Curtis I, Robson and Taylor. Lower IVth — Mead-Robins and Pratt. ik ti ft SJhe cJLibrary During the year the Library saw many changes and improvements as new books and magazines were added to the shelves and furniture, another table and eight chairs, was placed in the Library. This made it possible for more boys to read a wider range of books or to work there with the reference works that are now available. For these improvements the school is most grateful to those parents in Vancouver who contributed to the fund which paid for a large number of the books and the periodicals and who sent the table and the chairs to make the Library more comfortable. Over two hundred new books, fiction and non -fiction, and reference works, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, have been bought to bring the books on the shelves more up-to-date. The Illustrated London News, The Spectator, The National Geographic, the week-end edition of The New York Times, Life, Time, Maclean ' s, Punch and Sports Illustrated are among the most popular papers and magazines which now arrive regularly. As a result of increasing the number of books that boys enjoy reading it has become possible to encourage many more boys to take an interest in reading for pleasure and to use the Library for research. Without a doubt the wide use of the Library by the majority in the school will result in general improvement in the reading and the writing of English at all levels. The intangible benefits, moreover, accruing from the habit of reading, which defy measurement in material terms, are undoubtedly of first importance in the development of a philosophy of living. Mr. Archbold, the Librarian, had as his assistant during the year Bortles I, Lundell, Ryland, Scott-Moncrieff, Stainer, Stewart and Vincent, all of whom helped in keeping the Library neat and presentable. Page Sixteen

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a whaler had to go to its rescue. Millar fell into the water when his boat went over but almost immediately he had righted his craft and continued on his way in quiet dignity. Although this sudden gust of wind spoiled the line-abreast formation of the boats, it did serve to demonstrate to the Inspecting Officer and to excited parents that members of the Boats Club had become quite profici ent in handling their craft under stormy conditions. As the weather both before and after Inspection Day was generally fine and warm, there were many opportunities for club members to get out on the lake. Summer Term, 1956, in regard to sailing, was one of the best. ti ft ti Jke f aturai rridtoru L lub This club, more active than it has been for several years, increased its membership not only in boys but also in insects. During the year students in captivity numbered ten and by the end of the year insects in the collection had risen to over ten thousand. A report of the club ' s activities, arranged in chronological order, should state that the butterfly and moth hunting in the Michaelmas Term was better than usual until it was suddenly brought to an end by the cold snap in November. During the winter months the club sent boxes of insects to the Provincial Museum for the identification and the re-arranging of the collection. In April the club received a bird-banding permit from the Canadian Wildlife Service and a request from the Department of Zoology at U.B.C. to help in its Bird Nest Recording Scheme. Members of the club did engage in a certain amount of bird-banding but were unable to help in nest-recording as the Easter holidays came in the middle of the nesting season. At the end of Lent Term a new section, dealing with snakes and amphibia, was begun. For the developing of this new department members caught snakes, frogs and lizards which had to be tended and cared for. By and large, insect collecting during the last term was not so good as usual, probably because of the severity of the winter which had preceded. To one of the more enthusiastic naturalists in the school, R. C. Malkin, the club is indebted for his donation of one hundred Mexican insects. In brief, it has been a good year, mortifying for a large number of insects but profitable for the club members. r £ £ ZJIte 1 9 laaazine lub Under the editorship of Boyce it was possible to carry on with the publication of The Stag, the monthly paper, for a second year, and some five copies were printed, each averaging about twenty pages. The format remained unchanged from that of the previous year and included general news, an editorial, a literary section, reports of games, reviews of movies, and a page or two about music. The editor was assisted by McKechnie I, chief typist; Vincent, editor of the literary section; Janke, sports reporter; Lecky, writer of the features, and McKechnie II, film critic. Mr. Galliford kindly contributed a series of articles on music which balanced Platter Pops, written by McAlpine and Vandersluys. Once again the pages of The Stag were enlivened by the fine and often amusing cartoons done by Roaf, who could quickly and deftly draw anything from a dog ' s paw to a P.O. being thrown into the lake. Without question, the most exciting moments for the staff members of The Stag occurred in the bursary when they were running copies off the ditto machine which grew increasingly temperamental as the year passed. Despite this difficulty in keep the press rolling, everyone seemed to enjoy himself, the club did not go into the red, and the various editions soon were sold out to a news- hungry public. it it i? IKlpteu J htouse I lotes Counting one ' s chickens before they are hatched is notoriously an unwise performance, but as soon as we get back to school in September we realized that, at all events on paper, Ripley ' s were due for a good year. We certainly hoped so, and fortunately our hopes were not dis- appointed. 1954-5 was undoubtedly Lake ' s year, and we think we can claim that 1955-6 was Ripley ' s. We were proud to have a Ripley ' s boy, Brian McGavin, as Head Prefect, and to have in the House another School Prefect in the person of Michael Kaye. We started the year with John Armstrong, Sam Perry, Farrel Boyce and John Roaf as House Prefects. At Easter Armstrong was made a School Prefect, and Ian Beardmore a House Prefect. Much of our success during the year was undoubtedly due to their enthusiasm and efficiency. Page Eighteen