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

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from the second dorm. — Housser, Martland, Ardagh, Best, Halse, McKechnie, and Ross. During the year also, the J.C.R. was successfully renovated and redecorated, and the art of corner- making brought to perfection by a magnificent spider-web, mahogany-lined creation of Burrows and Arnt. In the summer term, Hicks was awarded the Junior Citizenship Cup for his out- standing efficiency and good spirit. Mr. Bullen returned in September as our Housemaster, and had to assist him in the House, Dewar Miller, Head of the House, and George Keith as School Prefect; Michael Beddall, Kit Malkin, Robin Cromie, and Harold Robertson as House Prefects; and, of course, our good and faithful Matron and friend, Miss Boyd. it it it cJLake ' d rroude I fotes In September, Lake ' s House received a great deal of new blood, more than half the House being new boys. Mr. G. L. Anderson was the new Housemaster and Mrs. Roberts, the House- matron. The House was fortunate in having a strong group of Prefects headed by Peter Mcintosh (Head Boy). Tony Benson and Malcolm McLean were House Prefects. In November, Colin Yorath became a House Prefect and at Christmas Roy Mcintosh replaced Benson, who had been promoted to School Prefect. Incidentally, Benson won the Senior Efficiency Cup during the Michaelmas Term. The House came second in the Swimming. McLean was our most outstanding performer. In the Inter-House Track and Field we slipped to fourth place, most of the points being accumulated by the Under 14 class. Ian Reid was the Under 14 Champion and Patrick Boyd won both the Broad and High Jumps. In the Dramatic side of things, Lake ' s was represented in the Gondoliers by Peter Martin and Peter Culter. The latter was also in the Choir. In the production of the Miser, during the Lent Term, the House was well represented and Reid and Murdoch were outstanding in their parts. M. McLean, P. Pratt, A. Benson and P. Mcintosh played on the 1st XV this year and all were awarded their School Colours during the season. McLean and Pratt brought credit to the House by being chosen to represent the School on the B.C. Centennial Rugby Team. Murdoch captained the 2nd XV and Reid, the Colts XV for most of the season. The latter won the Junior Efficiency Cup during the Lent Term. In the Inter-House Rugby Lake ' s proved that if you don ' t have three-quarters most teams will beat you and thus we suffered defeat at the hands of Copeman ' s House. Robert Murdoch was awarded his House Colours after the game. The School Senior and Under 14 Basketball teams were well supplied with boys from this House and Peter Mcintosh captained the Seniors. Colin Yorath was awarded his School Colours in Basketball. In the Inter-House Basketball, Lake ' s retained the shield. The Open Team won all their games, while the Under 14 ' s lost to Copeman ' s House by the narrow margin of 10-9. The entire Senior Team (P. Mcintosh, R. Mcintosh, M. McLean, C. Yorath and P. Martin) were awarded their House Colours. This year the whole House participated in the Inter-House Cross Country but a few dawdlers spoiled the efforts made by Abramson, who placed second in the Senior, and Reid, who won the Under 14. W. Hansell was our only Boxing weight winner, but we still came second. In the Inter- House Squash Lake ' s was third and in the shooting both teams placed third, with R. Mcintosh shooting a very creditable 99. Lake ' s was decidedly low man on the Academic Totem Pole this year. The only outstanding performers were P. Mcintosh, who won his Academic School Colours in September, and R. Mcintosh and Ian Reid. The former was awarded his House Academic Colours. This was an innovation this year. The summer term was exciting for us in that we either retained or won back some of the silverware which we feel properly belongs to us. The House Efficiency Cup which we lost to Copeman ' s House at the end of the Michaelmas term was returned to our shelf. This is something of which we can all feel proud since every boy in the House contributed to our success. P. Mcintosh won the Sportsmanship Cup again this year and this would be a good place to congratulate him on this and, at the same time, thank him for the admirable job he has done as head of the House this year. Perhaps our greatest joy during this term came on Speech Day. Our rowing crew, which consisted of P. Pratt, R. Mcintosh, R. Murdoch an D. Abramson, came home to win several lengths ahead of the Ripley ' s House boat. There is little credit to be derived from winning Page Twenty-eight

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Gin Kim as our new cook, especially when we discovered he had been a cook at the School twenty-five years ago. In spite of the predominance of junior members in the House, a good spirit existed throughout the year and keen competition was given to other Houses in all phases of School life. We led in the Academic Shield competition until the Christmas exams, when we had to concede the shield to Groves ' House. The Efficiency Cup came to the House for two terms. In athletics the House was outstanding in cross-country runs, mainly through the per- formances of Waters, ma., Longridge, Whittaker and Waters, mi. We reached the finals of the Rugby Cup and lost a very exciting game to Ripley ' s House, but managed to share the Boxing Cup with the same House. We won the Cricket Cup — for the first time since 1931! Our under 14 and under 16 Basketball Teams played excellent games in that competition, but the Seniors did not do very well at all. In spite of many difficulties encountered in their new House, the House Prefects, Vander- sluys, Waters, ma., Wallace and Camp, did an excellent job. Vandersluys and Wallace both leave us this year and have the best wishes of the whole House for the future. Ljroved rwouse i lotei Perhaps the outstanding achievement during the year was the winning of the area scholar- ship to U.B.C. by Christopher Malkin, who thus suitably climaxed his varied and interesting career at this School. It was a career marked by struggle to maintain and develop his own individuality against the pressures of conformity, and the degree of success he attained in academics, dramatics, and natural history is to his great credit. The House honours him for his achievement. He has gone on to Neuchatel for a year, after which he will take up his scholarship at U.B.C. In the House Academic Competition, Groves ' overtook Copeman ' s at Christmas, and main- tained a good lead for the remainder of the year, thus winning the Academic Shield for the second year in a row. In sports, the House had a fair year. We began in fine style by winning the Swimming by a wide margin, gaining 87 points against 39 by Lake ' s, who came second. The three divisional champions were all Groves ' boys, David Ross winning the Open, Rodney Pelling the Under-16, and Brent Smith the Under-14. And close behind Ross for the Open points was Donald Mowat. In Track we had to be content with third place, behind Ripley ' s and Cope- man ' s. However, we took some consolation in the fine performances of Malcolm Burke and David Ross, who came second and third respectively in total points scored in the Under-16 division. The Inter-House Rugby Competition produced a thrilling and very close struggle between Groves ' and Ripley ' s, the defending champions. It was anybody ' s game until well into the second half, when McAlpine broke through powerfully in his own half and produced the winning try, which was converted. We thus lost 8-3. Our team had played well, however, and we were proud of all members of the team for their spirited effort. In Basketball we were forced by the superiority of Lake ' s to share second place with Ripley ' s and Copeman ' s. Our best performance was in the Under-16 division, in which we won all our games, including the final against Ripley ' s by a score of 18-10. In Boxing, with the departure the previous June of many of our star boxers, we did not fare so well as in recent years, and dropped from first to last place. However, some of our team fought very creditably, notably Mackenzie and Arnt, giving us hope for a comeback next year. In Cross-Country we kept out of last place by virtue chiefly of a superb effort by our Under-14 ' s, both in training and in the race itself. Several other individuals, too, did well, however, and we ended third behind Copeman ' s and Ripley ' s. In Squash we were runners-up to Ripley ' s, with Larsen and Macrae both winning two of their matches. In individual competition, Larsen, in keeping with his family tradition, won the Senior Cup. In Shooting we won both the Senior and the Junior Cup, setting new records in the process, thanks to our dead-eye marksmen Millar, McKechnie, Housser, Ardagh, Martland, Halse, Best, and Hicks. In Cricket, we lost to Copeman ' s 38-25 in the first round, a surprisingly close match, in view of the fact that we had only two boys generally recognized as having very much Cricket talent — Mackenzie and Larsen. In Rowing our four — Read, Keith, Beddall, and Cromie — defeated Copeman ' s but lost out to Lake ' s. In a wide variety of other activities, we were again this year very well represented. In the Operetta and Play Malkin, Mowat, Mackenzie, Pelling, Burrows and Russ all took leading parts, and in the Choir and Cadet Band, about half the members were from Groves ' . The tradition of enterprise and initiative was strengthened further during the year by the building and opening of the Ritz Tuck Shop at the beginning of the summer term, by an energetic group Page Twenty-seven

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Under 16 Basketball Under 14 Basketball