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

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I have spoken in this Chapel on previous occasions of the three parts of the education offered at this School and of the three parts of us, as individuals: body, mind and spirit. During the time you have been at Shawnigan, whether it be just this one year or several, there have been a variety of activities in which you have engaged which have as their aim the development of your body. Activities designed to make you physically fit and alert. These have had other objects as well, for example, in teaching you to play as a team, and to accept defeat with cheerfulness, and success with humility. It is only when you are physically fit that you can achieve your full potential in the other aspects of life, whether at school or elsewhere. In this phase, or part, of school life, many of you have played a prominent part and have earned recognition for yourselves and for the School or your House which will live on after you have left here. There are others who have achieved success in the academic sphere and who will be honoured shortly at the Prize Distribution. They have achieved that success by using the talents with which they have been endowed, by hard work and by acceptance of the instruction and advice they have been given; they also have made a name for themselves in the School. When we come to consider the third part of our nature we are dealing with something more difficult to measure, yet something infinitely greater and the basis or foundation on which all else rests. No one thinks much of the athlete who is a poor sport, or a good Rugger player who thinks only of himself and not of his team. The best brain or the hardest worker is not going to achieve lasting success if his word cannot be trusted, or if he uses his knowledge for a dishonest purpose. These things come in the realm of character. They are things of the spirit. Throughout your term at Shawnigan you have been taught that this Chapel and all for which it stands is in the centre of the School. We believe that our religion is the basis and cornerstone of all education, and in the Chapel and in the religious teaching of the School you have had an opportunity to learn of things of the spirit, of God, and of His teaching: to worship Him and to turn to Him for help. Just as you wish, no doubt, to continue to develop your body and keep fit through sport in the days and years which lie ahead, and just as you wish to further your academic education and the development of the mind at university and elsewhere, so you must resolve to grow in your knowledge and understanding of God by continuing the practices you have started here. The practices of worship, of prayer and of reading the Word of God through the Bible. The boys who leave here, be they best athletes or footballers or the best scholars, who have not come to a realization of God ' s will and God ' s purpose, and are not prepared to pursue and enlarge on that knowledge and that worship, will find that success is illusory and life empty of meaningfulness. Therefore, in this, my last word, I refer to Paul ' s Epistle to the Philippians: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest; whatsoever things are just; whatsoever things are pure; whatsoever things are lovely; whatsoever things are of good report — think on these things. And these things, which ye have both learned and received, and heard — do: and the God of Peace shall be with you. it ft ea L aaefo When R.C.S.C.C. COUGAR was commissioned in September, 1952, enrolment was com- pulsory. Two years later, as an experiment, participation was placed on a voluntary basis. There is little doubt that as far as the morale of the Corps was concerned, this was an excellent move. For three years, enrolment was voluntary, and the Corps reached a high standard of efficiency. It was noted, however, that several boys, to whom the Cadet training would have been a benefit, were staying out of the Corps. The question then arose as to whether the School was supplying, particularly to these people, the complete and rounded education it undertakes to provide. Consequently, it was decided that, effective September, 1957, a draft system would be instituted and all boys over the age of 15 at the date of the Annual Inspection would be liable for service in the Cadets. Under certain circumstances, boys who were in the draft category could be, and in fact, were, exempted. When the idea of the draft system was first made public, there were many misgivings, not only by the boys most likely to be affected by the new ruling, but also by Old Boys, parents and friends of the School, who feared that the high standard of the Corps might be impaired. This latter fear should have been completely dispelled at the Annual Inspection, which was Page Twenty-two

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