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

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jLowa School Richard Kernahan, Richard Bowden, James Hutchison, Head Boy; C.B. Kiddell, Chip McGill, Asst. Head Boy, Patrick Truelove. tfwi otj ' i ' Report The year had been very busy for some people. Apart from the usual academic pursuits, the various extracurricular activities have been very well supported. So popular are the Rifle and Judo Clubs that it is necessary to have three of four sessions each week to accommodate all the members. Our thanks go to Mr. Beare and Mr. Tug Wilson for these two clubs. Hamber House is facing more competition this year in the sporting world and my congratulations go to Young House for winning the soccer tournament. Richardson House are leading in the Honours and Stripes race. Mr. Kiddell, Mr. Cowie and Mr. Beare are regular hockey coaches while Mr. Mackenzie gives a helping hand. The music program this year includes the popular instrument, the guitar, which is taught by Mrs. Ainley. The choir, under Mr. Shepherd, has had a good year so far, singing at both Father and Sons’ Weekend and at the Carol Service. This is again voluntary and the Lower School had a good response of over forty boys. Rehearsals for the play, King Arthur and the Magic Sword” are under way. This play is under the direction of Mr. Shepherd with Mr. Bevis designing the sets and Mrs. Stewart making the costumes, and it is hoped the guiding hands of this trio will repeat the success of previous productions. Although this report is being written after the first term only has passed, I think the school will have another good year in 1968. It is probable that other clubs will be formed. On behalf of the Lower School, I would like to thank all the people who have helped to make this a happy and prosperous year. I would also like to thank my fellow monitors for all the support they have given me during this term. 67

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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

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BACK ROW, Left to Right: David Alvi, David McCracken, Todd Pfefferle, Michael Edwards, Mark Van Allen, Michael Rosborough. MIDDLE ROW: Richard Cole, Peter Fattal, Billy Aird, Christopher Parkhouse, Darrell urt, Jimmy Sutton. FRONT ROW: Billy Brummer, Donald McDonald, David Shore. Billy Rennie, Andrew Glassco, Mrs. Murray, Richard May, Jom Jom FRONT ROW, Left to Right: Johnston, Federovich, Speers, Mrs. Barrett, Cruickshank, Osier. Burrows. MIDDLE ROW: Prall, Lawler, Truelove, Barrett, Filbert, Loudfoot, Breer. BACK ROW: Mitchell, Wallace, Hassett, Smith, Mullis, Finkel. MISSING: Bevis, Cottick, Kell, Kelly. 68