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

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Kent Hein Kent was the friendliest of guys; he seemed to get along with everyone perfectly. It was likely his very good humour (not joke telling but laughing when others would grumble) that appealed to everyone. It was impossible to rib him because he would just grin and there was never a reason to criticize him because he was never a bother to anyone. For a good rower and a good rugby forward, and a pretty good student he lacked a bit of the confidence one would expect though. Actually maintaining his own self-discipline the way he did was quite a feat with an environment like the one the rest of the Copeman ' s twelve ' s created about him. Of course there were many little memories of Kent which indirectly remind one of what he was like. There was the thunderous drumming on desks before biology class, and the kidding about his muscles, and there was the image of him wearing a rice hat, and his cheer for Rocky Mountain House. Kent was always efficient; he was one of the best prefects, he was always neat taking much rib- bing about being so clean and he was a very reliable forward on the 2nd XV. There is little more to say about him; he was nice. Pratt Hetherington Pratt was a remarkable person. Coming from the wilds of Copemans one would have expected that he would be far less sober than he so often appeared to be. (Perhaps this had something to do with the Plague). Indisputably the athlete of the year at Shawnigan, and winner of the Sportsman Trophy, he ' broke records for the number of tries scored by a forward in 1st XV rugby and records in numerous throwing events of track and field, scoring half the points for the SLS team in the mid-island track meet. He also got a silver medallion in the B.C. Festival of Sports shotput event. For these and being a good captain of the basketball team, he had been awarded triple school colours. Often people who are successful in sports are reluctant to achieve the same standards academically, but Pratt was by no means one-sided in his efforts. He was one of the first on the dili- gence list. He was often called Prattle-dattle with an accompanying howl that mimicked his voice, but this never seemed to anger him. It appeared as if he fully comprehended his strengths and weak- nesses but was discriminating with the directions he worked in nonetheless. Yet another successful Shawnigan graduate. 30

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Kirk Hamilton Kirk — If slow and steady wins the race then Kirk will probably win in the end. Sometimes called Stub for his rowing physique, he would walk down the hall as if it were full of jello. He wasn ' t stupid so his thought process musn ' t have been slow, but ask Mr. Bingley about how often Kirk got his prep in on time, or ask Mr. Grey how long it was before house dues were in. There was nothing wrong with what he had accomplished in the end, but the question was always when? There were of course other things that were memorable about Kirk. His rousing cheer for Montreal or Quebec whenever either word was so much as whispered. And of course there was skiing. He would come back from the Christmas holidays looking as if he had changed his race and for months there would be the rousing cheer — this time for skiing. Come to think of it maybe it was his love for skiing that made his marks behave like a downhill course until spring. Kirk was not lazy though. He had initiative and always con- tributed to things. I don ' t know how many hours he spent through- out the year in Mr. Grey ' s study discussing the affairs of the house. With his intelligence Kirk will do well in subsequent years at Mc- Gill. Yeah . . . McGill. Dave Hancock Dave, the true president of the non-existent (as yet) apathy club, always had a certain mystery about him. He always appeared as if he were laughing at you or something very amusing which he could not tell you about. Undoubtedly he reigns as the most sophi- sticated comedian in the grad class; he would never guffaw at his jokes like the rest of us do to get others to laugh. Indeed, he kept a straight face only smiling at the success he would almost always have at making people laugh. Even when he was running all out dodging tacklers as fullback on the 1st XV, his face often wore an expression which gave the impression that he was thinking of something different from what was going on about him. He was very alert; he must have been to come up with what was among his better timed comments: Discussing the importance of visual aids with the class, a visitor asked How can I show on the flat black- board that a tetrahedron is a three dimensional figure — a three sided pyramid? . Dave said, Draw some camels around it . Noel Hay Noel had one and only one characteristic that really struck you. Because of it all other sides of his personality became almost unobservable. What was it? His silence; his unending soft spoken manner. Coupled with the fact that grade twelve was his first year at Shawnigan, or rather, Shawnigan ' s first year with him, his quiet nature left him for much of the time unnoticed. How many people knew that Noel held the record throughout the year for the number of classes skipped? Many thought that Ron Anderson did, and indeed, his was an admirable attempt. But who could have hoped against such stiff competition as Noel ' s. Taking a different Math course for the first half year, only after Christmas did Noel join the regular math class. But unaccustomed as he was to his presence, Mr. MacLachlan never seemed to notice when Noel was absent. Mr. Bingley didn ' t even realize Noel existed let alone that he was in his class until March, when he discovered both. He was on the third XV yes, and on the school swim team, too, and he played golf in the summer term. Anything else? Can ' t remember. 29

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Mark Hobson Mark was another one of those guys who for many different reasons are classified as being shy. He came to Shawnigan in grade eleven and went through a pretty drab year, participating of course, but not revealing what real talent he had. What strange past Mark had buried in the bogs of Ireland was never evident, but from it he had developed a love for animals and an artistic talent, which combined to make his exercise books appear like menageries, not to mention a heavy accent when he wanted it. Unlike what the Irish are believed to be, Mark had a very controlled temper and a great deal of patience (remember how he used to admit with a smile that Truck was a descriptive name) but he was true to the Irish image in his taste for raucous singing which he often displaved at the back of the school bus returning from rugby games. His unabashed singing contributed much to Grove ' s show in inter-house singing, as well as to Julio Cesar. His dedication was above everyone elses in the grad class, and it was this quality of his, displayed in everything he did, notably the graduating dance, that made him a deserving member of the Stag Club and winner of the Citizenship Cup in the summer term. Last but not least by any means is the thanks that should be given to him for remembering every aspect of the school. His car- toons were superb; whether of blunt nosed rugby players, masters or prefects, thev usually captured the personality clearly. The car- toon book which he produced himself, recalls some of the funniest little aspects of school life that we would tend to forget normally, but which are the most nostalgia producing ones. John Hungerford John ' s nickname was Buns and he always found it as amusing as everyone else. Perhaps he knew that by answering to that, he could be safe from 6T eyeballs or Stick . John was a laugh when things were funny and serious when one needed to be. Whether he had just been challenging Mr. Bingley to a round of fisticuffs in French, or scuffing up at Copeman ' s, or joking around in the Library or up on the fields before a practice, he could always settle down to work afterwards. Most teachers thought of him as a conscientious student, and for a while at least Mr. Hyde-Lay was satisfied with his performance on the 1st XV. He certainly was a diligent student exemplified by his personal chair in the library at which, for hundreds of hours, he sat reading and taking notes in History. If his rugby was not perfect all season, his basketball has come near, and his tennis and squash were probably so close as they could get without his becoming professional. The sum of his efforts in both academics and athletics caused few of his classmates to predict his getting the Grove ' s All-round Award he did however get a substantial number of school colours; basketball, tennis and squash (he got the latter by representing B.C. in a Canada wide tournament). If those weren ' t a justifiable number of awards for all his diligence he certainly must have had more than enough in personal rewards. 31