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

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Track Team wmnm Cross Country Team

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Under 16 Basketball Under 14 Basketball

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against a weak crew or side, but their crew was far from weak and consequently gave us many anxious moments before the race. In the House itself this year we were not idle. The Junior common room was entirely redecorated by the boys and the Senior common room received one coat of paint on the walls to brighten it up. Three of our Prefects are leaving this year. P. Mcintosh, J. Benson and M. McLean are in the graduating class, and we wish them success and happiness. Our thanks go to them and also to Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Hewitt, who have acted as our matrons since Mrs. Roberts ' departure earlier in the year. In many ways we have had a successful year and we look forward to an even brighter one next year. ft ti ft f lpleu 6 NrouSe Holes No House can hope to be permanently top of the tree, and the year 1957-58 will not go down as a really vintage year for Ripley ' s, though it would be difficult to prove that any other House did better than we. We were weakened by the transference of Ralph Vandersluys, Patrick Wallace, Christopher Longridge, and Malcolm McAvity to Copeman ' s House to help to turn it into a Senior House, and research through the pages of this number of the magazine will readily show what a useful quartette they are. We were very sorry to lose them, and continue to take a vicarious pleasure in their successes. We started the year with Murray McAlpine as our School Prefect, John Brighton, Michael Kemble and Brian Witt as House Prefects. Before the year ended Brighton had been made a School Prefect, and David Wilson, Peter Armstrong, and Simon Wade House Prefects. The last two will be here next year. In the Swimming Sports we once more failed to gain many points in open events, though two of our younger boys did very well in the Point Race: Charles Pentland came in second, and Ian Martin — one of the largest twelve-year-olds we have met — came in fifth, and our Under 14 Team won their Relay Race by a whole length. On the Track Ripley ' s had an outstandingly good year, and won the cup for the third time running. The House as a whole tried really hard, and gave valuable and wholehearted support to our star athletes — stars of considerable magnitude. It will probably be many years before we can hope to have again such a trio as McAlpine, Brighton and Gerald Haddon. Details of their success, and the trophies they won, and the times they did, are they not written in the book — No, not of the chronicles of the Kings of Judah, but in Mr. Hyde-Lay ' s report of the Track and Field season ? The Rugger Cup we also won for the third time in a row to our great delight. In the first round we beat Groves, and in the finals we beat Copeman ' s by 10-5. Five Ripley ' s boys — McAlpine, Brighton, Armstrong, Witt and Haddon — gained places in the 1st XV, three in the 2nd XV, four in the Colts and five in the Junior Colts. At Basketball, Kemble was our sole representative on the School ' s first team, but in the Under 16 team we had six of the ten players, and three Ripley ' s boys played for the Under 14 team. In the House Matches we came equal second. We won the Inter-House Squash Cup, and were joint winners with Copeman ' s of the Boxing. Five of the nine finals were won by Ripley ' s boys, and there was further confirmation of the belief that Peter is not inappropriately named Armstrong. We were sorry to have to hand over the Cross Country Cup to Copeman ' s, who certainly seem to specialize these days in long distance runners, but we gave them a good run for their money and were well ahead of Lake ' s and Groves. It was rather a year of running up for Ripley ' s, as in addition to previously mentioned events we were runners-up for the Shooting, Rowing and Cricket. At shooting Karl Anderson can now plaster his jacket with badges of most of the better known metals. At Rowing, Witt gained a place in the School 1st Four, and Kemble in the 2nd Four. At Cricket the finals of the House Matches were virtually a case of Ripley ' s Old Boys being too good for Ripley ' s House, as Wallace, Longridge and Vandersluys made all the runs and took all the wickets for Copeman ' s. So much for athletic events — the easiest part of School life to write about, but not the most important. Ripley ' s had its share of boys in the Choir and in The Gondoliers and The Miser. The Miser was one of the most polished productions we have seen at Shawnigan for a number of years, and we like to think that this was due in part to the excellent performances Page Thirty -one