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

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oude It was generally expected that Ripley’s would have a good year, and we did, though there were a number of disappointments. We had hoped to retain the academic trophy but we were beaten by both Groves’ and Lake’s, and we lost the junior cricket cup. On the other hand there were a number of pleasant surprises and we supplied the school with an unusually large number of its leaders. A considerable factor in every successful year is the lead given by the senior boys, though this year they would be the first to acknowledge that they received enthusiastic support from the rest of the House including those members of the Junior House who were attached to Ripley’s. We staned the year with three school prefects: Peter Arm- strong was both head of the House and head of the School, Gerald Haddon ranked sec- ond to him in both capacities, and Sandy Foster was the third School prefect. Before the year was over Robin Douglas and Bill Hibbard had also been appointed School prefects. The House prefeas at the end of the year were Forie Angus, Charles Pent- land, Karl Anderson, David Phillips and Geoffrey Archbold. Angus, Pentland, Phillips and Archbold are due back next year, so the House should not suffer from inexperienced leadership. It might here be stated that Armstrong was also the captain of rugger, Fos- ter the captain of basketball, Hibbard the captain of cricket and chief petty officer in the corps, and that Haddon won the senior efficiency prize each term and was open champion in the Mid-Island track meet. The first of the inter-house events was the swimming. Last year we were a re- spectable second; this year we managed to win for the first time since 1952. The track and field sports were very closely contested and it was only after some use of an adding machine and Mr. Bullen’s slide-rule that Ripley’s were declared the winners by the very small margin of four points. Ripley’s seniors did well, but it was in the under sixteen events that we really excelled; Geoffrey Archbold was the champion in the under six- teen class in our sports and Christopher Ross was the champion under sixteen performer in the Mid-Island Track Meet. At rugger Ripley’s boys were prominent. In addition to Armstrong, the captain, the following played regularly for the 1st XV : Foster, Angus, Haddon, Hibbard and Pentland. Armstrong, Foster and Haddon played for the school’s successful seven-a-side team. We were also well represented on most of the other teams. In the house matches we won the finals against Groves’ by an unconvened try to nothing. At basketball five of the eleven members of the school’s first team were in Ripley ' s and we managed to retain the inter-house cup. Sandy Foster was a fine leader for our senior team while our other teams were captained by Bob O’Callaghan and Richard Anderson. At cross-country we did not shine as a House but Tommy Coldi- cutt and Mark Osburn performed very creditably for the school. Our other obvious weakness in the athletic line was rowing and Karl Anderson was our only representative in the school’s first two fours. We were prominent in cricket however, and Hibbard, Angus, Archbold, Pentland and Osburn played regularly for the 1st XL Ripley’s beat Copeman’s in the final of the inter-house cricket in a game which showed up to per- fection the xmcertainly of cricket and the wisdom of batting first. Ripley’s opened quite confidently and, thanks to Hibbard (39) and Angus (12), had reached 58 before the second wicket fell, but after that were all out for 84. John Brierley and Creighton gave Copeman’s an even better start and when Brierley was eventually bowled having scored 42, Copeman’s with five wickets to fall needed only seven runs to win, but they were all out for a total of 81. This account of how Ripley’s fared in athletic events has taken up a good deal of space, but even so it is far from complete. It is profoundly to be hoped that we shall not be accused of attaching undue importance to athletics; they obviously should not be the most important part of our lives at school — but they are certainly the easiest to write about. In the choir, in plays, and in practically every other department of school life Rip- ley’s boys made their contribution. In the academic field we had a rather disappoint- ing year but we were cheered up on Speech Day by learning that both the foundation scholarships had been won by members of the House, Glen Seeds and Richard Ander- son. The chief contributors to our points in the inter-house academic comj etition were — 17 —

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RIPLEY’S HOUSE