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

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Prize List General Proficiency Prizes 8-1 Paul Linden 8-2 Mark Roenicke 9-1 , Malcolm Swann 9-2 Rudi Munzel 10-1 Peter Olesen 10-2 Dennie Chan 10-3 Lars Reese-Hansen 11A Aaron Doyle 11B ,. Ross Gilmour 1 1 C Brian Sinclair General Progress Prizes Peter Piddington Memorial Prize Mark Kornel Jamie Piddington Memorial Prize Dale Steelman Subject Prizes Art Patrick Halls Paul Leighton Biology Bruce Brown Brett Ferguson Chemistry Dan Johnston Martin Lane Classics Marc Prioleau Draughting Ross Gilmour English Greg Dane Aaron Doyle Sandy Wright French Ralph Lorens Mark Olesen Mark Dube Geography Dan Johnston History Sandy Wright Mathematics Martin Lane Music Bruce Pitt-Payne Physics Dan Johnston Social Studies Gavin Last Donald Hayes Owen Clarke Binkley Biology Prize Owen Clarke Mark Dube Bousch and Lomb Senior Science Medal .... Dan Johnston Peter V. Gordon Prize Rudi Munzel (most improved debater) Public Speaking Prize Stephen Bryan Academic Shield Junior (Grades 8 and 9) Norman Stevenson Senior (Grades 10 and 11) Owen Clarke Overall Winner Owen Clarke Inter-House Competition Lonsdale ' s Head Student Sandy Wright Citizenship Cup Junior Fall Spring Summer Senior Fall Spring Summer Patrick MacLachlan Patrick MacLachlan David Majoribanks Kevin White Kevin White Stephen Bryan Stag Award Ian Leitch Stephen Bryan Tim Donogh Jordan Fruchtman Bill Stainton Kevin White Sportsmanship Cup Greg Saroka Grove ' s All Rounder Ian Leitch Lonsdale ' s Trophy Copeman ' s (Inter-House Championship) 11

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The Staff and the School Prefects Front row: Mr. R.A. Hudspith, Mrs. L. Brown, Mr. J.S. Grey, Mr. D. Hyde-Lay, Mr. W.H.H. McClelland, Mr. D. Ferguson, Mr. J. Gotthardt, Dr. T.W.S. Seeger, Mr. L.D. Bean. Back row: Mr. S.A.S. Lane, Mr. C. Winslow, Dr. S.D. Bulman- Fleming, Mr. R. Grass, Mr. M.A. Hobson, Mr. G.L. Anderson, Mr. J.S. Findlay, Mr. G. Zinkan, Dr. M.W. Mitchell, Mr. P. Dollan. Front row: S. Larsen, I. Leitch, The Headmaster, D. Johnston, M. Prioleau. Back row: J. Laviolette, N. Ware, G. Saroka, M. Lane. 10

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The Headmaster ' s Address ...I should say something about the year, not a detailed and comprehensive report, but picking out perhaps a few highlights. Last year on this occasion I described the year that had just finished as a year of further growth which saw the school, under the direction and guidance of Mr. Wilkinson, return to its former, state of health and also to what we at present consider to be about its optimum size. A school of this size allows me as Headmaster to know each boy and that is very important. This has been a year of consolidation: We have finally yielded to pressure from Messrs. Anderson and Grey, who have been envious of the houses on the hill and have brought Lake ' s and Ripley ' s up to acceptable standards. The woodwork and draughting facilities are at present being upgraded. I am sure that you read about the alarming results indicating lack of English comprehension on the part of undergraduates in the universities of British Columbia. It would be very easy to sit back and say How dread- ful these public schools are, forgetting that we also produce some of the boys who have written these tests. So we have been very aware of the need to consolidate in what must be the most important subject of all — English, the medium by which we communicate. So far this year, instead of asking the slower streams to do French we have given them extra English. We still, of course, require the first streams to do two languages because we feel that they are capable and should be challenged. The question is, of course, how successful have we been? It is hard to answer that at this stage, but perhaps the following answer given in one of the examinations might prove a clue. The question: Write a sentence to illustrate the meaning of the word ' unprec- edented. ' The answer: Precedent Nixon was unprec- edented in 1974. I got the impression that the teacher concerned was classifying this as the usual schoolboy howler. I prefer to think not. Knowing this boy and the fact that he had come under the influence of Mr. Hyde-Lay, I prefer to think that this is a good example of the pupil out-punning the great punster himself. In athletics, it has not been an outstanding year. Indeed, not even quite as successful overall as the previous year, but it has been a very busy year, and that word busy sums up our attitude towards games — to see that all boys are involved, rather than an elite few who are trained to win at all costs. In all, there were sixteen games offered and thirteen of the staff involved. In the junior school we were weaker than usual. It seems that while we have some excellent boys in the junior school, in the last year or two they have been coming in smaller packages. Lack of size at the junior levels is, of course. Photo by A. James a serious handicap, but they will grow. In the senior school we were strong in rugby. The 1st XV was powerful, losing only two out of fourteen games — one a key game against St. Michael ' s University School, which was for the Independent Schools ' Championship. In basketball, we were Independent Schools ' Champions for the sixth time in a row and Island Champions for the fifth con- secutive time, but we were d isappointing in the B.C. Championships. In track and field we won the Independent Schools ' Championship for the fourteenth time in twenty- one years, and we also won the Independent Schools ' Skiing. In rowing we were a perennial second to Brentwood, but won over most other schoolboy crews, but perhaps the game in which we improved the most of all, because of far greater depth, is tennis, and with only one of our leading players leaving and with four new courts ready for next year, the prospects are excellent. In our activities programme some twenty activities were offered and, as a prospective parent said, having 12