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

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THE CHAPEL THE CONFIRMATION CLASS Standing: (L. to R.) R. Hope, Rev. Canon McClelland, D. Coalman, S. Kaye, G. Harry, D. Watt (Crucifer), F. Pong, M. Angus, E. Meyer, Rt. Rev. F.R. Gartrell, R. Carruthers. Seated: (L. to R.) R. McMullan, D. Penley, G. McLean, M. Strongman, J. Naples, T. Stenmark, A. McLean, P. Jerry, S. Heffelfinger. For the Fall Term, the Reverend Canon W.H.H. McClelland was absent on a term ' s sabbatical leave. In his stead, the Reverends M.E. Cooper and R.H. Howson conducted the services. At the term ' s beginning, Mr. Cooper celebrated Holy Communion on Sunday mornings and took the Saturday morning service. Later Mr. Howson took on the Saturday service, leaving Mr. Cooper to continue with the faithful few on Sundays. The Headmaster, Mr. Farrant, took Compline after prep on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a time, at the beginning of the term. However, this was discontinued due to the small number of boys in attendance. The Choir, under the skilful direction of our Choirmistress and Organist, Mrs. Sartini, has improved greatly over the past two years and is now providing a good lead for congregational singing. A merger with Queen Margaret ' s School Choir has taken place at least for practices and the Founder ' s Day service. With the return of Canon McClelland in January, Tuesday and Thursday voluntary prayers were reinstated. Attendance at both Communion and Evening Prayers was greatly improved, now that the Chaplain was back to do a wee bit of reminding. Confirmation classes were also begun. A Chapel Committee drawing a good cross-section from the Houses and the Forms, as well as having representatives from the Chapel Guild, was formed. Its main purpose was to decide on the distribution of collection monies to charity. Prayers at the Saturday service were read by a group of boys on a rotational basis, giving greater involvement in the actual service by the boys themselves. The Sacristans ' and Servers ' Guild was again under the direction of Senior Sacristan, David Nimmo and Senior Server, Brad McClain. The Guild increased to seventeen from last year ' s nine and duties were carried out more efficiently. Dylan Watt was given a Stag Award by the Headmaster for five years of outstanding service and devotion to the Chapel. Fifteen boys were confirmed on May 12th., by the Right Reverend F.R. Gartrell, Bishop of British Columbia. To the Reverends M.E. Cooper and R.H. Howson for taking services, to Mrs. Farrant (in the Fall Term) and Mrs. McClelland thereafter for looking after the linen and the decoration of the chapel; to Mr. Anderson for keeping the Chapel organ in such fine shape; to Nicholas Fairbank for revisiting Shawnigan as a S.L.O.B. to give an organ recital; to Mr. Co rnelius Burke, author of Danube Caper and an Old Boy, for speaking on Founder ' s Day; to the Reverend J.C. Ware for delivering a sermon and most of all to Mrs. Sartini, who is leaving us in order to further her work in music, we would like to extend our most heartfelt thanks. R.B. Carruthers 12-

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THE RUGBY THE 1st XV Standing - L. to R. — R. Lorens, B. Ostrom, P. Martin, J. Mead, A. Sartori, Christopher Crossfield, A. Cunningham, D. Shore, Mr. D. W. Hyde-Lay. Seated - L. to R. — Doug Harkness, J. Bird, M. Olesen (Capt.), A. Kelman, L. Wild. On the Ground — P. Postuk, P. McCulloch This year ' s 1st XV will be remembered by some as a side which was very unlucky, by others for its inability to win close matches and yet by others for its penchant for making crucial mistakes late in the game. While each of these points of view were, to a certain extent, valid, the truth of the matter was that the team was a very hard working one, lacking only in flair and experience. The seven wins - seven losses record could so easily have been ten and four or even eleven and three with better finishing and sounder tactical sense. The seven losses were by a combined total of only 21 points. In no game were we outplayed. Undoubtedly our finest achievement of the season was in our victory over the S.L.O.B.S. — 15-10 — a rare feat which many stronger and more successful 1st XV ' s of the past have failed to do. Nevertheless we must feel disappointed with our record, especially in the Independent Schools fixtures where we only succe eded in winning one match, our opening fixture versus Brentwood. All our games were very close and seldom can the four Independent Schools have been so evenly matched; even St. Michael ' s University School who won all six of their matches had to struggle hard to eke out narrow victories in four of these games. Our pack, although not large were very sound scrummagers and were also quite mobile in the loose, better however in defensive than offensive situations. In the lineout we tended to rely too much on the jumping skill of Jim Mead and when he was closely marked we suffered accordingly, although Andy Sartori jumped well on a few occasions. Undoubtedly the liveliest forward in both attack and defence was the hooker, Ralph Lorens. Peter Martin and Ansel Kelman were an excellent pair of props providing a solid basis in the set scrummaging for the other forwards to concentrate their shove. Jim Mead and Andy Sartori in the second row not only pushed hard in the set, but also timed their shoving well, as did Doug Harkness at number 8. The flankers, Paul McCulloch and Peter Postuk were a mobile pair and very quick to the point of breakdown. Unfortunately the rest of the pack were not nearly as swift so that many of the possible advantages 14-