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

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Valete J. K. Greenwood Mr. Greenwood, a Shawnigan old boy, re- turned as a Master mid- way through 1968 to fill successive vacancies in the Music and Science Departments, a very timely arrival. Mr. Green- wood has displayed an exceptional versatility through teaching Music, Mathematics and Physics, coaching tennis and squash and par- ticipating in the choir and musical productions, all in less than two years. He is now leaving to undertake studies in Arctic Water Pollution with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He hopes to return to teaching in due course to introduce environmental considerations into school science courses. We wish him success in his new endeavour. J. H. Buckley Mr. Buckley joined the staff at Shawnigan in 1968 and unfortunately we have not been able to convince him to stay longer than his projected two year term. Shortly after arriving at Shawnigan, Mr. Buckley took over as Grove ' s Housemaster and this year finally led Grove ' s into their promised, new dwellings. While teach- ing English and Art and building a significant Art Club, Mr. Buckley injected a more liberal trend of thought into the Shawnigan thinking and was one of the prime backers and organi- zers of the Self-Directed Learning Program. Mr. Buckley will be teaching at St. George ' s School next year while attending U.B.C. to get his Bachelor of Education. P. M. L. Bingley Mr. Bingley came to Shawnigan in 1967 and since has played an active role in School life. Through his teaching of French and English he has displayed energy, patience and dedication towards the students and his work. For the past two years Mr. Bingley has been Grove ' s Assistant Housemaster and will be remembered for the interest and care he showed towards the boys. A coach of rugby and rowing, he was always will- ing to lend a hand. In order to broaden his teaching experience Mr. Bingley will be leaving to teach French at Royal Roads in Victoria. J. T. Armstrong Dr. Armstrong, an old boy of the School, returned to Shawnigan in 1966 to take over as Head of Mathematics. In 1968 he became Head of Physics and for the past year he has filled in competently as Registrar in the absence of Mr. Anderson. He has not only shown great versa- tility in the field of teaching but has displayed a unique administrational ability. While at Shawnigan, Dr. Armstrong has devoted much of his time to the Photo Club, which, through his hard work and interest, is now a thriving club with a well equipped laboratory. His energies have also found an outlet in the Outdoor Club, an activity which he helped to conceive and sup- ported. Dr. Armstrong will be teaching Mathe- matics at the Atlantic College in South Wales. 13

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B. S. Gorman Mr. Gorman, a native of Australia, was born and raised in Melbourne, where he graduated from Melbourne University with an Education Degree. Since then he has been teaching and travelling through Australia and England, until he was lured to Shawnigan by his urge to con- tinue travelling and see North America. While teaching English and Geography Mr. Gorman has found time to coach cricket and basketball as well as instruct in weight training and per- form the duties of Grove ' s House Assistant Housemaster. We ' re happy that Mr. Gorman has chosen to remain with us before he returns to Australia and possibly to the challenging environment of rapidly emerging Western Aus- tralia. ral part of education, Mr. Sanderson is deter- mined that it should play a more important role in the life at Shawnigan. Mr. Sanderson Mr. Sanderson was born in England and re- ceived his early musical training at York Min- ster under the late Sir Edward Bairstow. War- time service in the Royal. Navy included a stint in Fleet minesweepers, during which time he was severely wounded. Transferred to Naval In- telligence, he spent the rest of World War II in the Aegean, working with guerillas to free Greece from the German occupation, and was in Athens throughout the bitter civil war which broke out after this had been accomplished. Mr. Sanderson continued his interrupted educa- tion at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1947, after which he did post-graduate work in Paris under the great French musician, Maurice Durufle Mr. Sanderson came to Shawnigan to take charge of Music after a distinguished recital career in Europe, where his broadcasts of organ music for the B.B.C., Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise, Radio Geneva, Radio Munich and other European networks included many first performances. Believing that music is an integ- M. V. R. Nuth Mr. Nuth was born near Swansea, South Wales and was raised in Gloucester in the West Country of England. He attended Crypt Gram- mer School in Gloucester and went on to Oxford University from which he graduated with an Honours Degree in Modern Languages. After in- advertently shooting a Turkish cow on the island of Cyprus (having mistaken it for a terrorist), selling tires in France and England and teaching at Cheltenham Grammer School and in Ipswich, Suffolk, Mr. Nuth decided to come to Shawnigan to take over the Modern Languages Department. In this short time at Shawnigan he has shown his desire to raise the standards of French through his hard work and has developed Field Hockey into a major sport. His drive and humour will always be appreciated at Shawnigan. 12

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The Chapel Although there were no major changes in the Chapel programme during the past year the most noticeable difference has been in the standard of singing by the Choir which, under the direction of our new Organist and Choir- master Mr. John Sanderson, has shown great improvement in recent years. Consequently music — that is Worship through music — has played a more important part, eg.: We had as the Sunday Act of Worship on a Sunday before Christmas, Scarlatti ' s Christmas Cantata with Madeleine Groos as the guest Soloist and on another Sunday A recital of Music for Easter- tide with Evelyn Westinghouse as the guest Soloist. But perhaps the highlight was An Easter Cantata — music by David Williams, sung by our own Choir with the Choir of Strath- cona. (A more detailed account of the Chapel music appears in the report on Music). The same balance between corporate and individual worship has been preserved with Morning Prayers for the whole school every Wednesday and Evening Prayers on Tuesdays and Thursdays on a voluntary basis but we pre- fer to use the word ' individual ' rather than ' voluntary ' when describing these Services so as to emphasize the freedom of choice of the in- dividual. Now, although they have not been attended in vast numbers, it is not at all dis- couraging to find that throughout the whole year, winter and summer, bad weather and good weather and in spite of clashes on many oc- casions of other activities (there is no one time of the day that would not clash with something) the average attendance has been 19, with as few as 5 on one occasion and as many as 43 on another. We are very grateful to our guest preachers, the Reverend C. E. Lonsdale, nephew of the Founder, who most appropriately gave the address on Founder ' s Day, the Reverend D. Stannard, father of David, a grade 8 boy, the Reverend H. I. Hare, a Naval Chaplain and the Reverend J. G. Titus, a former Naval Chaplain. .» ' • 5 a j8Br C Standing: Mr. L. P. MacLachlan (Headmaster), P. Stremic, N. Fairbank, P. Shahan, D. Stannard, H. Angus, M. Woodside, S. Dickey, D. MacKinnon, K. Ferguson, The Rev. H. McClelland. Seated: M. MacLachlan, D. McColl, D. Trebett, The Right Reverend H. E. Hives, A. Almerling, P. Kritzinger, H. Sewid. We are also most grateful to Bis ' hop H. E. Hives who confirmed 14 boys on Sunday, April 25 (for names of those confirmed, see photo- graph) . The late Bishop J. O. Anderson has been succeeded as Bishop of British Columbia by the Right Reverend R. E. Gartrell and a group of boys from the School were privileged to attend the new Bishop ' s Consecration and Installation in Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, on Ascen- sion Day. The day to day running of the Chapel has been very largely in the hands of Bob Bullock, the Senior Sacristan and Paul Stremic, the Senior Server with help from their assistants: Blair Fairweather, Mike Reynolds, Robbie Bourne, Rob Carere, Eugene Kilgore, Jeff Win- slow, Des Bazett, Peter MacDonald, Matthew Straight, Graeme Percival, Mike Robinson, Stephen Baker, David Ross and Alex Binz. Our thanks to them all and also to those wives of the staff who have kindly arranged the flowers. Just a word to parents — prompted by a question put to me one Sunday morning outside the Chapel before Service began by a parent who had come to collect her son, Is it alright to come in? The answer of course was, Yes, you are most welcome . And I would like to say this to all parents who have the opportunity to come and take their sons out on a Sunday. If you could come a little earlier and join in the Service, you would be most welcome. — w. h. h. McClelland. 14