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

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Cc ope man JJ ouse An increase in membership to 18 boys brought added variety to the life of the Junior House this year. Our two Prefects, Big Bill Money and John Roaf had a few rough times and occasionally were overwhelmed. However, work divisions gave them ample opportunity to wear down their foes and much work was accomplished. The dell was completely cleared, several small flower beds started and much junk disposed of, the House and its surrounds looking considerably tidier. The Copeman House play in the March concert was a success and being an original production, was particularly enjoyed by the boys. Several picnics to Cherry Point and Pig ' s Pool were held during the year and Hallowe ' en was celebrated in the traditional manner with firecrackers, bonfire, pumpkin, wiener roast and the presence of the Witch. The Junior Soccer Team won its one match against Glenlyon School by one goal in a very exciting and hard fought game in Victoria. Among the boys in the House much talent was shown during the year in academics, sports and music. ik ti ft Uaiete — une, 1956 B. N. McGAVIN (1952) — Head Prefect (1955-56); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56. 1st XI Cricket (1956). Winner Efficiency Cup 1955-56; Track Team 1955-56. C. F. G. CRISP (1949) — School Prefect (1955-56); Cricket Colours 1955; Captain Cricket XI 1956; Chief P.O. R.C.S.C.C. Cougar 1956; Squash Team; Winner Effi- ciency Cup 1956. M. M. KAYE (1950)— School Prefect (1955-56); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56; Track Team. P.O. Cadet Band (1956). J. ARMSTRONG (1952) — School Prefect (1956); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56; Academic Colours (1956); Gym Team (1956). C. J. KYLES (1950)— School Prefect (1956); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56. P.O. Main- top Division R.C.S.C.C. Cougar (1956). F. M. BOYCE (1952)— House Prefect (1955- 56 1 ) Head Student and Academic Colours 1956. R. E. M. McKECHNIE (1953)— House Prefect 1955-56; Academic Colours 1956. J. L. B. ROAF (1952)— House Prefect (1955- 56); 1st XV Rugby (1956). S. J. B. PERRY (1952)— House Prefect (1955- 56); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56; Basket- Bail Team (1956). P.O. Foretop Division R.C.S.C.C. Cougar (1956). E. D. G. SMITH (1952) — House Prefect (1955-56); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56; 1st XI Cricket Colours 1956; Squash Team; Basketball Team 1956; Gym Team (1956). W. MONEY (1952)— House Prefect (1955-56). X I Cricket Colours Colours (1955-56); Track Team B. CUPPAGE (1952)— 1st 1956; 1st XV Rugby Basketball Team 1956 1955-56. K. A. GREENWOOD (1952)— House Prefect (1955-56); 1st XV Rugby Colours 1955-56; 1st XI Cricket (1956); Basketball Team (1956 ); Heavyweight Boxing Winner (1956). R. M. BROWN (1954)— Gym Team (1956). V. B. CLARKE (1952)— 1st XI Cricket Team 1956. P. M. BROWN (1954). E. E. LARSEN (1954— Squash Team (1956). C. LOCKE (1954). E. WILSON (1955). D. F. HEBB (1954)— Gym Team (1956). w. Mcdonald (1955). R. TOWNSEND (1954). R. HETHEY (1955). }. J. HOLLAND (1955). C. MacGOWAN (1955). B. McKENZIE (1955). P. MEAD ROBINS (1954). W. MORRISON (1955). B. K. PINKERTON (1955). D. GILLIES (1956). C. J. GREENWOOD (1955)— Died September, 1956. W. PHILLIPS (1954)— Gym Team (1956). R. L. CLARKE (1953). M. NICOLS (1955). B. OSTROM 1956). M. WAEHLTI (1955). D. STEWART (1955). R. TAYLOR (1954). G. OSTERMAN (1954). Page Twenty-One

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Ljroue 5 rroude I loted The hardest fight of school year was to catch up to Ripley ' s in the competition for the Academic Trophy. Our rivals established a considerable lead by Christmas and extended it during the frozen months when Grove ' s were showing their prowess in ice hockey by winning every match. During the summer the tide turned — Malkin started private coaching sessions in Dormitory II — and by the end of the year we were only two points down in a total of over one thousand. Malkin, Burrows and Lundell deserve congratulations for their efforts in securing a quarter of our points. Our rivals deride the semi-academic semi-monastic spirit of Groves, but we are proud to record the highest average mark in Scripture and the lowest number of defaulters — both A, double B, and B throughout the year. After all, we live nearer to the heavens. These Grove ' s monks are not without muscle, though we have largely had to be content with second place in sport. In rugby we had Smith, Robertson and Greenwood in the school first XV; though they were well supported by younger and lighter fellows in the house match, they lost to Ripley ' s in the first round. House rugby colours were awarded to Money, Neal, Robertson I, and Crisp. The House cricket match was a different story, and under Colin Crisp ' s able leadership the tables were turned on Ripley ' s, who had beaten us by a narrow margin in 1955. Lake ' s were put out of the running early in an eight-wicket victory, but against Ripley ' s batting, Crisp, Larsen and Money found greater difficulty in splitting the stumps. At last Ripley ' s were out for 109, smiling confidently over their impressive score, and forgetting that Grove ' s had done even better the previous year and had still been beaten. In ironic revenge the Grove ' s bats hit out and passed 110 with five wickets still in hand. So the cup was ours. Crisp and Smith contributed most of the runs in a sparkling display. In athletics, the House was particularly strong in middle distance runners, but finished second in the competition behind Ripley ' s. Smith delighted us by winning both the open mile and trail from Cooper, Greenwood I by taking the open half-mile and Vincent by his impressively determined under 16 mile. Later in the year he ran some races against senior milers from other schools and showed the same resolute, pounding style. Robertson I provided the school ' s first hurdler, and Greenwood I, Lecky, Larsen I, and Hebb also represented the school. Ross in the junior competition won all six of the events and was easily victor ludorum. The newly-instituted cross-country races showed up the weakness of the Grove ' s middle school section. We won both the senior and junior races narrowly, but the old dodderers in the fifth and fourth forms set us well back and we had to be content with another second. Groves has always been associated with squash as well as with godliness, and again all but one of the school team were from the House. Smith, Crisp, Larsen I and II and Hebb lost only one match in the Inter-House Competition. Smith, Crisp and E. Larsen reached the finals of the B.C. tournament in their classes, and Smith went on to win the C Class Cup. In basketball, we were unlucky not to win the shield after a gallant fight against Lake ' s. Smith, Greenwood and Lecky played extremely well for their respective teams, and the juniors also worked hard. Only two pugilists made the grade in the House Boxing, Greenwood I, who took the heavy- weight cup, and Neal, a fresh arrival from Edmonton, who outfought his opponent for the lightweight award. Cromie, Mackenzie and Keith reached the finals and took plucky defeats. The last competition of the school year was the rowing, another innovation. McKechnie I stroked the Grove ' s coxless four with Lecky, Brown and Neal behind him. A master of trigo- nometry, he arranged a novel course and pulled away to the far shore while Ripley ' s did the more conventional thing and rowed for the finishing post. The Headmaster, acting as judge, was just able to make out the Grove ' s shell in the distance and gave the race to Ripley ' s by five lengths, leaving them to fight Lake ' s in the final. The supreme command of the House this year was in capable naval hands. C. Crisp made a live Head of House and takes with him to Venture our best nautical wishes. He was backed by G. Smith, R. McKechnie, K. Greenwood, and W. Money, whose keenness won us the Efficiency Cup two terms out of three. There were minor aberrations of course, to keep our new House Master, Mr. D. R. Knibb, on his toes, the most delightful of which was the late night broadcast by McKechnie on a tape recorded from a mysterious station, the Bebe C. The tape has now been demagnetized so the sponsors are safe from reprisal. We are grateful to Miss Boyd for her continued kindly supe rvision of our health and our dormitories. She has seen many changes and has remained the staunchest Grovite of us all. I. Robertson was made a House Prefect in the summer term and takes over as head of Grove ' s for the year 1956-57. Page Twenty

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Naivete — September, 1956 LAKE ' S HOUSE C. B. Culter R. W. Murdoch W.J.Locke P.D.Ryall H. T. Mould GROVE ' S HOUSE M. J. M. Beddall G. T. Hogarth A. W. Riddle A. G. Best B. M. F. Housser C. A. Russ M.Burke T.A.Lyons L.F.Shaw G. G. Foster G. K. Macrae RIPLEY ' S HOUSE C. J. Gould J. E. G. Taylor G. P. J. Haddon A. G. S. Archbold M. McAvity J.F.Angus I. H. Munro E. Cotter COPEMAN HOUSE M. C. Beardsell J.C.Long J. P. Carmichael D. A. Powell Williams J. M. Creighton D. J. Russell L. W. Devane B. T. Sharp R. H. Johnson R. R. Waters ti ft ti Jld d oui J rioted We were chewing the cud of a ten-cent cigar, moodily trying to find a resounding phrase to open the annual edition of Old Boys ' Notes, when manna fell from Heaven in the shape of a bulky package sent by Ramsay Milne (1932-39), now a partner in a Vancouver firm of CA. ' s. In it was an old S.L.S. exercise book marked Old Boys ' Club and containing more or less of a cash record of Old Boys ' subscriptions and Club expenditures from 1929 to 1944. At once we were fishing in a lake of reminiscence and may perhaps devote a paragraph to some of the catch. Inflation, of course, struck the eye at once — the $25.00 Old Boys ' chair for Big School was $10.00 in 1929, and in that halcyon time magazines could be mailed to subscribers for two, repetition two, cents apiece. In the face of strong protests by the present Treasurer of the Old Boys ' Society, who said it would give a totally misleading impression, we may not disclose the 1929 annual subscription rate; but in revenge we extract from November 1930 a debit entry Interest — shown in error on credit side — 25c and can safely say, that ' s not the last of that tribe. In May, 1932, a Kiplingesque air is imported to the record by Tryon I (1917-23) paying his subscription in Rupees; in February, 1933, there is the solemn entry of a cash shortage — $2.00. In November, 1938, we find Adhesive plaster (Old Boys ' Rugger Match) — $1.00, a caption which conjures up a lurid picture of a moaning defeated rabble of Old Boy casualties. However, it so happens that we witnessed that game, in which a remarkably active team of Old Boys (several of whose names are, alas, on the War Memorial plaque) not only beat the school 8-6 but were all on their feet at the end of the second half. We suspect that the buck for the band-aids was a deadpan jest by the late C. W. Lonsdale, swallowed by a new and junior Treasurer in awe of the great man. Well, back to current news of Old Boys. The Rev. M. C. W. Piddington (1945-47) is Anglican priest at Split Lake Mission in northern Alberta, whither he has taken his bride of this summer. He writes, We are very happy up here at this Indian village. I spent four months here last year, but it still seems very new work. Having quite a time with the language. I preached my first Cree sermon a week ago. Michael Bellm (1948-50), who has been working pretty damned hard took three months in England and France this summer; brother David Bellm (1948-52) went travelling in Mexico and is now on a cattle ranch at Milk River, Alberta. Another Old Boy recently moved to Alberta is Marco Gandossi (1936-42), Comptroller for Woodward Stores in Edmonton. Our President, Ken Hanson (1943-47), is with T.C.A. in Vancouver, and took his holidays this year in Trinidad, where he reports the cost of living is 85c a bottle. Ian McPherson (1935-39), Law Dept., C.N.R., Montreal, sent along a contribution for the plaque for dear old Skrimmy who taught me at an early age that there was no money in poetry. Page Twenty-Two