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

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The Stag 1973-74 Editor M. L. MacLachlan Assistant Editors S. Bryan I. Hyde-Lay B. Crane S. Larsen D. Crawford C. MacLachlan S. Ferguson S. Roskell The Literary Magazine Photography I. Leitch, with much help from and many thanks to: Mr. J. Gotthardt Staff Advisor Mr. R. St. J. Stuart Editorial The STAG is the only record of a year besides the great reams of bills and circulars that must be filed away somewhere in the Bursary. The STAG is the only record that contains pictures, reports written by the boys, witty and topical captions and references that will recapture for anyone twenty years hence the true spirit of their schoolboy days, in short, nostalgia in the making. Yet the advantages of having a wonderful record still seem to be outweighed, at least for the majority of the school, by the disadvantages of a little old-fashioned hard work and civic or scholastic responsibility. Even though the STAG this year is being printed by a company in Winnipeg which specializes in yearbooks, and even though the STAG has a small dedicated, staff there is still very little cooperation from most sectors of the school. Ad- vertising revenue was low this year because the Bursary failed to come through with promised help. Many reports from both boys and masters were short and rushed, written, no doubt, with very little thought for posterity. The many boys who can be seen every day with their cameras around the cam- pus failed with few exceptions to produce the pictures which are so essential to a good annual. All this not only means that the STAG staff is overworked to the extreme collecting photographs, expanding reports or simply finding material to fill up space, and taking sole responsibility for what belongs to the whole school, but also that there is a waste of the nearly three thousand dollars it takes to produce the STAG because not all the school are involved in some way in the best possible production. The STAGS of both 1971-72 and 1972-73 almost failed to materialize because they were confronted by these problems and there is a fear that these problems will create the absence of a published STAG in the near future. Steps must be taken to prevent this. Some suggestions: the STAG and its sister publication the LITERARY MAGAZINE must be included in the hobbies programme and might well be included in the school ' s academic curriculum if not under Journalism at least under the auspices of the English Department. The Art Department must take some of the responsibility for layout and all of the responsibility for the art work. The Photo Club must do the same thing in the area of photography and photographic layout. But most importantly all boys must learn to take the initiative and produce work of any kind of their own free will and for the good of the community and not on the prompting of a staff member. With just a few improvements, the STAG can become the record of one of t he best schools in Canada, and I am confident the administration has the foresight to make them. M.L.M. Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat 13

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