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

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Academically, the house was supported by a very diligent bottom floor (well, maybe not all the bottom floor) who, aided by the Grade Nines adjacent to the Junior Dorm, almost managed to negate the dorm of Smith, Tucker and Philip who enjoyed taking turns on satis. Culturally, Copemans felt that they had cornered the school ' s Musicianship with the pianist Nick Fairbank and Jackie Parker. One might assume that this led to the at- tempt for further civilization when we started wearing ties to dinner, but in fact, this idea originated from our local moustachioed etiquette expert. Unfortunately, upon seeing Tom Trafford and Matt Evans with their five-second reef-knot specials around their necks, the other houses were left quite unimpressed. As usual there was hardly a dull moment in the house. The row started at 7:05 A.M. when Mike Philip regularly got the sheets ripped off his bed until 11:00 P.M. when Nick could be found pondering over the log book dreaming up witty alliterations, some of which may have astounded the master himself. In conclusion I would like to extend the thanks of the whole house to Mr. Hyde-Lay (master of puns) and especially the thanks of the prefects in regard to his House Philosophy . We would also like to thank Mrs. Hyde-Lay who has patched us up so of- ten in the wee hours of the night, and Mr. Zinkan and Mr. Stuart both of whom always showed enthusiasm and interest in the house. The American Eagle Mark Spitz 27

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Copeman s House FOURTH ROW, Left to Right: A. Evans, T. Clayton, A. Balshaw, M. De Coutere, B. Anderson, T. Dixon, D. Medland, T. Trafford. THIRD ROW: T. Boyle, E. So, P. Poon. S. Larsen, E. Topolewski, S. Robertson, M. Choquette, G. Facca, T. Sterling, J. Parker, M. Fairbank, L. Oslar. SECOND ROW: M. Thiessen, S. Smith, S. Bryan, B, Ellis, R. Komm, L Tucker, M. Philip, C. Ritchie, W, Pascher, M. Pinder, R. Eggler, R. Hearn. SEATED: M. Reekie, R. Tait, N. Fairbank, Mr. Zinkan, Mrs, Hyde-Lay. Mr Hyde-Lay, Mr. Stuart, G. Campbell, A. Sawers, S. Walker. The House on Top of the Hill started the year still feeling the excitement of our dramatic winning of the Challenge Shield at the end of the previous year. But nevertheless we unselfishly did not let this stand in the way of maintaining the tradition of losing Inter-House Swimming - a feat we ac- complished with flying colours. Unfortunately the other houses were not so unselfish when it came to letting us maintain our flawless winning streak in the Around-the-Lake Relay which began two years ago Here we had to be satisfied with third place. Another surprising and disappointing defeat came in the Senior Seven-a-Side Rugby where the talent which was obvious on paper was not so obvious on the field. A rather young and small Junior team however, put up a great show but only managed to repeat the seniors ' fifth place finish. The term ended on a note of victory though, when Copeman ' s once again displayed its legendary roadwork and took the Senior Cross-Country trophy for the seventeenth time in the last eighteen years. The Juniors also put on a fine display and only narrowly missed first place to Ripley ' s House. Since this report is being written in the Winter Term, and there have not been any Inter-House sports as yet, I can only say that our expectations of victory are as high as usual. And perhaps higher than our achievements warrant, but that is what happens when you live on top of the hill and look down on the other houses. In particular we will hopefully bring the Trackshoe Trophy back home with some help from Al Sawers, Rob Hearn and the rest of the roadrunner crew. 26

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Grove ' s House FOURTH ROW, Left To Right: R. Murray, C. Wright, D. Marjoribanks, T. Lee, J. Caraza, M. Lougheed, I. Taylor, T. Clare, K. Stenmark, J. Redding. THIRD ROW: A. James, A. Hulbert, V. Chui, N. Holland, J. Bristowe, G. Simpson, D. Cheng, D. Cleugh, G. Saroka, P. Clarke, T. Donogh. SECOND ROW: B. Lindner-Messerschmidt, M. Arrott, M. Perry, J. Sinclair, G. Stenmark, A. Varma, B. Crane, D. Duncan, W. Stainton, D. Crawford, M. Lane. SEATED: R. Lynch, S. Roskell, Mr. McKinnon, Mrs. Hudspith, Mr. Hudspith, Mr. McDiarmid, R. Wilson, D. Sze, D. West. Internally Groves ' was probably the most content house of all this year though our performance in Inter-House Competitions was only average. Through the combined efforts of everyone in the house we placed second in the ' Round the Lake Run ' and not to be satisfied with that we then knocked off both our neighbours up the hill to win the Inter-House Senior Sevens Trophy. However, mediocre placings in swimming, basketball, and cross- country proved that even Groves had its failings. The problem lies largely in the fact that we are somewhat short of exceptionally good senior athletes. However, mention must be made of Clarke who excelled in both gymnastics and sailing, and of Lynch and West who were our stars in both badminton and squash. Though we were fortunate enough to keep nearly everyone off the Warning and Satis lists we did not quite excel in academics this year. This was due to our somewhat infrequent appearances on the Diligence and Honours lists. However, Bruno Lindner-Messerschmidt, Bristowe, Marjoribanks, and Varma gave consistently good performances in academics and deserve credit for their diligence throughout the year. For the first time in about five years Groves ' got a really decent lot of new boys which subdued the somewhat bizarre reputation that the Junior Dorm has been famous for in years past. Of course Clarke kept things from getting boring and if Duncan ' s neat junk did not warp your mind, Ian Murray ' s cute smile would. Matt Arrott rushed in and out of his room all year long professing to be busy but most of us knew he was actually afraid of Cleugh ' s mental terror tactics. The bottom floor was our Academic Hothouse, if it could be said we had one with Bristowe, Bruno, and Varma, not to mention Caraza. The top housed the Grade 10 groovers ' pad which was dominated by big Bill Stainton. Saroka ' s room was the center of Groves ' Literary Magazine Collection again this year providing many hours of mature entertainment for the Grade Twelves. 28