St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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$ofai JMa Waudbtj Mr. Waudby was born in London, England in 1902. He attended Fairwater East House of Taunton School in Somerset from the a ge of eight until matriculation. Following that, he read for the Diploma in Education at London University. He taught at Eastman’s Naval Academy in Portsmouth and at St. George’s School at Quilmes outside Buenos Aires. In 1928, anxious to live under the British Flag, he arrived at St. John’s College School as a Master in the Lower School. Mr. Waudby was Master of the fourth form and Housemaster of Hamber House from 1937 until 1946. Upon the retire¬ ment of Walter Burman in that year Mr. Waudby was appointed Headmaster of St. John’s College School, a position he filled until the amalgamation in 1950 when St. John’s united with Ravenscourt. From September 1950 until his death on Sep¬ tember 30, 1967, John Waudby served St. John’s-Ravenscourt School as Senior Master in charge of Mathematics and Latin as well as being Housemaster of Hamber House. In recognition of his efforts as a teacher and Headmaster, St. John’s College appointed him an Honorary Fellow in 1966. In presenting Mr. Waudby for this honour Dean Brodersen said: John Waudby has retained this spirit of high academic adventure. Edu¬ cation has always been for him a profession and calling not merely job. . . John Waudby has an additional claim to recognition by the College: the present form of our Commemoration Service owes its origin to his talents, and for many years he organised the choir for this service.” John Waudby will be remembered at St.John ’s-Ravenscourt School in countless ways but nowhere more than at the Annual Carol Service and the Athletic Dinner, both functions having been inaugurated by him. In an editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press Mr. Waudby was remembered: His subjects were Latin, French and Mathematics and he taughts all three with the same blunt and uncompromising determination that learning must come first and guidance counselling must be an offshoot of the learning process. His first love was Mathematics, and generations of schoolboys can testily to his lucidity and to his devotion to this subjects. Many students, learn¬ ing of his death, must have said to themselves: I would never have got through Grade 12 without him.” Such a remakr would have touched his teacher’s heart. He never forgot those he had taught, good scholars and bad, and he al¬ ways welcomed them back to the school. When death came it came at the end of a long and happy day during which many people, including the Premier of the Province, had spoken warmly of what his efforts had meant to them. ” A very old friend of John Waudby’s wrote after reading of the funeral that when he saw that the prefects for the school had acted as pallbearers his mind turned immediately to the lines from Browning’s Grammarian’s Funeral: This is our master, famous calm and dead Borne on our shoulders.”