Sir Adam Beck Secondary School - Lacedaemon Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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ME AND SHAKESPEARE Me and Shakespeare, or is it Shakespeare and me, or Shakespeare and I? Anyway, we don 1 t see quire eye to eye no matter which way it is said. I mean , take this Willy guy. He lived in jolly old England about four hundred years ago . Why should little ol 1 me, whom he didn ' t even know, have to sit and suffer through some war, or some crazy, mushy love scene? Take, for example, Julius Caesar. After his assassination Mark Anthony speaks to the masses. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Then he spends several hours eulogizing Caesar, and inciting the masses to murder the conspirators. Caesar was stupid anyway. 1 mean if lions were having little lions in the streets, and the skies blazed blood red, and dissected chickens had no hearts, all that just before you left for a hard day at the forum, would you go? Well , I guess not . Everyone thinks the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is so touching. If such things happened today, Romeo would be accused of robbing the cradle. Imagine saying goodnight, goodnight, parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow to a fourteen year old girl ! At that age I had to be in bed at ten o ' c lock . In Hamlet there is so much action that it almost slays me. It might as well, everyone else is slain - his mother, uncle - father, girlfriend, her father and brother, and most of Hamlet ' s other acquaintances . In Henry IV we have more bloody battle fields. Af least here we have a more human element . Prince Hal and Fa I staff are do-badders, who enjoy ordinary pleasure, I ike the I ife of the tavern . But then they like highway robbings too . Then in Henry V Prince Hal as king is a good guy. How dull . Maybe Shakespeare could be more enjoyable for me if I could rearrange the characters. I think the grave digger in Hamlet would be a great companion for Richard II ' s Queen. The grave digger is such a jolly guy, and the poor queen cries much too much . The Duchess of York in Richard II and Falstaff from Henry IV would be just fine. Shakespeare insists on murders and deaths, and these two could talk one another into the grave. Then I could call on my friend the grave-digger again . Glendower from Henry IV and the ghost of Hamlet ' s father would get along well . Glendower loved the supernatural, and King Hamlet was rather a nice ghost. But Shakespeare has departed this world so he will never know of my fine suggestions for improving his work. Then too, I could tell him that I think a few of his phrases are a little worn out, and that he shouldn ' t use them. Like there ' s something rotten in the state of Den- mark , and woe is me and so on. How unoriginal can you get? Author Anonymous

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i r B ■ ' ■ ' . ? B. • B BB - IBa - . R Ba BIB ' J ' 1 ■ ' 79 7 5 • tf ' « fl 31 14 ' « M. f}4f i ■ A? r- ® 1 - — ft TEAM CAPTAINS L-R: Mike Roney, Keith Kinaree. FIRST ROW L-R: Brian Felker (Manager), Graham Hayhoe, Steve Schomberg, Jeff Bradford, Larry McArthur, Gary Footwinkler, Al Phillips, Bob Goss, Ramsey Travers, Bob Ramsden, Wayne Stokley (Manager ), SECOND ROW L-R: Coach Sharratt, Doug Blackwell, Gord Bagley, Don Morrow, Dave Parkinson, Dave Vowles, Rick Lackey, Wayne Thorton, Casey Bruyn, Fred Humphries, Jimm Barr, Jim Lap- thorne, Coach Dunlop. THIRD ROW L-R: Ted Hallev, Jerry Lazar, Mike Flynn, Paul Hart, Glyn Rosser, Mike Essex, Stu Bell, Bob Smith, Dennis May, Randy Heimpel, Frank Sworik. ABSENT: Bill Lewis. Senior rootbail UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS inches made them champions, and they made their own luck. A Colonel Earl Blaik, head football coach of the West Point cadets used this statement to summarize his undefeated team of 1946. Another great football coach, perhaps not quite as well known as Colonel Blaik, also has an outstanding record unequalled by a London coach in quite some time. With a record of 20 wins and 3 loses in the last 3 years, there remains little doubt in his player ' s minds that Coach Dunlop is truly a leader and a fine gentleman. Will Rice once said Champions are just people who try harder, Although this statement is very true, I feel various other factor ' s brought that battered old trophy back to London ' s best. Surely teamwork and devotion to our coaches were major ingred- ients. Throughout the season we tried to maintain a feeling of unity, with no one indiv- idual being more important to the team. Everyone gave 100? and although some players received more acclaim for their efforts, they were only an unit. When a team plays a game, it must have many assets to the most important ingredient is devotion to its coaches Mr. 20 defensive setups to combat various offensive formations, unit with supreme trust in its coach. With a play-book with fine formations and nearly one hundred plays, Mr. Dunlop instilled a similar emotion in his offensive team! The repetition of the word units rather than individual I feel, spells the success of this year ' s team. Beck won qames before but not like this year. A love for the game, confidence, solidarity and above all trust and devotion to a coach brought Beck its long-deserved title. If football is the game most like war it is also the game most like life, for it teaches young men that work, sacrifice, selflessness, competitive drive, perserverence, and respect for author i ty ' are the prices one pays to achieve worthwhile goals. Thanks, Coach Dunlop and Coach Sharratt, from all of us. Keith Kindree intricate part of a team, e insure victory. Possibly Sharratt devised about The result — a confident 72