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

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Shortly after lunch on Friday, January 26th, one hun¬ dred and sixteen boys piled into three buses bound for the Loch Lomand ski slopes four hundred and fifty miles away. Nine hours later everyone was pleased to ar¬ rive at the Prince Arthur Hotel, where the party was stay¬ ing as guests of Mr. Weare. Skiers are well known for their enthusiasm and our group was no exception., Bright and early next morning the bus departed for the slopes. Upon arrival, the ex¬ perts lost no time in showing their prowess, while Mr. Wellard, Mr. Hammond, and Mr. Campanelli put the be¬ ginners through their paces. During these training ses¬ sions, several boys were seen in rather undignified pos¬ tures, but they soon regained their balance and were as keen as ever to repeat the whole operation. Lunch was eaten in the chalet where even the most avid skiers could be seen with hot chocolate to warm up and to taste the social life. Fol lowing this, several mem¬ bers of the ski team entered a local downhill event, but unfortunately they found that the road to the top is long and arduous. After a full day of skiing we returned to the hotel where everyone enjoyed a hot bath, a good dinner, and an evening’s relaxation. A light snowfall during the night provided excellent conditions for Sunday’s skiing. A good day’s skiing was enjoyed by all, and even some of the beginners ventured from the nursery slopes, and could be seen tackling some of the more difficult runs. We returned to the hotel by bus in the late afternoon stopping only for time to pack our bags, have a good meal, and thank our gracious hosts for their generous hospitality. The day’s exercise and the fresh air ensured that the return trip would be quieter than the first, and the buses arrived back at the school early Monday morn¬ ing, to be met by Mr. Kiddell, who had the foresight to phone for cabs for the dayboys. Truly a memorable weekend, and our thanks are chiefly due to Mr. Wellard who organized the trip, to Mr. Weare, our host, and to the other members of the staff who came along to give a helping hand.

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Jiowa School Heodnmta ' i JorncvuL The whole connotation of the word schoolmaster, summons up to many of us the picture of a man who is far more than a subject teacher, a man whose vista is not limited to the shallow horizon of his academic specialty, whose vocabulary is not restricted to the mechanical jargon of the self-styled educator, and whose interest in school is not confined within the short span of school working hours. The schoolmaster is a man who is inevitably associated with a school’s ethos, whose life is bound up inextricably with the school in which he serves, and whose influence stretches out far beyond the boundaries of time and space, through successive generations of schoolboys, to the world at large. Such men are rare, but it is in the nature of the independent school that it attracts, amongst others, men of this quality. John Waudby was such a schoolmaster. He was the cultured product of a cultured age; his value could not be measured within the limitations of qualifications of cash, and by those of us who came to know him in his latter years at Saint John’s-Ravenscourt School he became recognized as a sheet anchor, holding the common-room steady, but not unmoving, in the storms of educational change. As a foreward to the Lower School section of the Yearbook, I can think of no more fervent wish for the future of the school than that, through the years, we should continue to be peopled with such schoolmasters. C.B. Kiddell, Head of Lower School. Jom (JH BACK ROW: Ashok Khosla, David Quinton, Rick Bond, David Hogg, Cam Harvey, Stephen Goldring, Brent Bottom- lev Graeme Barrit, Peter Haworth, Robert Kiddell, Paul d’Agincourt, David Ferguson. CENTER ROW: Alan Bennett, John Sprague, Richard Bowden, Douglas Reimer, Geoffrey Ross, Stuart Quest, ior on Grossman, Randy Anduson, Richard Carter, Michael Purdy. . , . n D FRONT ROW: James Hutchison, Richard Kernahan, Iain Cruickshank, Eric Nuttall, Alan Smith, r. . . 1 Chip McGill, Jeffrey Ferguson, Patrick Truelove, Gordon Finlay. 66