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

Page 33 text:

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

Page 32 text:

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

Page 34 text:

• •-«■• Anton Kritzinger Anton will be remembered by his tantalizing Doc A., his un- buttoned jacket and hand in pocket, his flipping coins and chains, and his game of rummy at Forrester ' s party. Though he may have lost much of his top notch diligence that gave him the reputation for being a smart little ?3-:x; , in his final year at S.L.S. he was likely the most involved of all. He was a member of the V.T.R. He was a member of the Ritz, he was a member of the choir, he was a member of the Spades, he was an actor, he was an editor of the newspaper. These were perhaps the most demanding clubs to be involved in, yet he managed them all as well as maintaining a high academic standard. Being quick on his feet, Anton put a great deal of effort into rugby on the 2nd game, and track and field. He was undoubtedly a top contributor to the school but having diluted himself across the spectrum of activities, he was not officially recognized for it all. It is doubtful that he really cared about recognition though. He was more concerned about what he himself thought he should be like; or so it seemed by the way he would silently, .and without expression go about doing all his responsibilities. Bill Kuo Bill came in grade eleven and it was a year before he was fitting in easily. At first the only lauguage he could speak well was Mathematics and because other people did not exactly appreciate it at all hours of the day he received a good deal of static. After some comment had been made about his pronouncing his first name as Beer, and after the idea of calling him Snowmobile had worn thin, Bill began to take interest in improving his English pronounciation. Thanks to long efforts of G.S.D. he eventually stopped saying rut reefer wally ' when he meant red river valley and in return used to try occassionally to explain how Cantonese was spoken. Perhaps the biggest help to Bill in becoming Westernized came with his summer at Outward Bounds, though he did continue to keep a library of Math books in his room, and he did adore delv- ing into arguments; he became a very pleasant person to know. Love of logic, mathematics and physics will be how everyone remembers him though. He received the Physics prize. Mark Lydster A good many people in mainschool will surely remember the times when the guy with the curly dark hair would amble in to borrow some prep or something. Perhaps they will be more inclined to remember the times they stormed down to his room to get him to pay up on whatever he borrowed and lingered there as they surveyed the thousands of magazine cut-outs that he had completely wall- papered his room with. One thing Mark didn ' t need to borrow was the talent of using a racquet. If he was slow at returning things borrowed, he sure wasn ' t slow about returning serves. Mark was a really good tennis player and squash player, and he had long been valuable to the school teams, especially on their escapades to Europe. It was very unfortunate for the school that he broke his wrist and was unable to play much at all in grade twelve. It was probably more of a tragedy to him to have to miss all the afternoons in Victoria and weekends in Vancouver that the rest of the team enjoyed. Rugby was also a favourite sport of his. He played a good scrum half for victorious 2nd XV. 32