St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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STAFF 1 972 HEADMASTER Peter A. Caleb, LL.B. fLondonl DEPUTY HEADMASTER Douglasj. Williams, M.A. fOxon.l, Dip. Ed. IOx0n.l HEADMASTER EMERITUS, St. Michael's Kyrle W. Symons MASTER IN CHARGE OF PREPARATORY SCHOOL Charles Birch, Dip. Ed. lChesterl SENIOR ASSISTANT Cyril F. Genge, B.A. fCan1ab.l Qlsate Open Exhibitioner in Classics 8: Choral Exhibitioner at Peterhouse, Cambridgel Edward Symons, B.A. KU.B.C.l Eric H. Quainton, B.A. fU.B.C.l, M.A. fCantab.l J. Leslie Hinton, M.A. fCantab.l William B. Cochrane, Dip. Ed. fMcGilll Ted C. Piete, Standard Cert. KU. Vial Sa'ad Y. Kayal, ILondon U niversityl Michael A. Walsh, B.Sc. fDurhaml Chris L. Pollard, B.A. CU. Vial Peter K.B. Gallagher, fDelasaIle, Mamhesterl, B.Ed. KU. Vial Charles MC. Brookman fCamberwelll john R. Harris, Dip. Ed. fLond0n Universityl Peter G. Gardiner, Dip. Ed. fBristol Universityl Brian Rudgard, M.A. ICanta,b.l Nigel GQ. Barber, Dip. Ed. fCantab.l, M.A. fWilliam CS' Maryl Daniel V. Harlow, P.E. Dip. Peter Bousfield CU. Vial B. Laurie Edwards, M.A., B.Sc. fCalga1yl Anthonyj.V. Keble, M.A. fU.B,C.l fMadridl Madam C. Roberts, Quebec Cert. Rev. C.D. Blencoe, B.A. fLondonl Beal Thomas, B. Mus. IS.M.M.l Richard Parsons, M.A. fOxon.l Melville jones, B.Sc. fWal0sl Murray McAlpine, KU. Vial .Iohn Lankester, ISI. Ma1jv's, Londonl H. Eric F. Makovski BURSAR Geoffrey Rooper PHYSICIAN Nlithaelxl.W. Penn. M.A., M.B., B.Ch. NURSE Miss E. Birchman, R.N. 6

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SWAN SONG or Editorial a la Genge It was hardly the role, you may hold, of the Dignified Master To toy with outmoded, outworn and ridiculous rhymes, But we've played, with panache on occasion, the proud poetaster QAnd without it at timesj. For the Genus that's Boy --- every year we receive and enroll them, And here we record them --- the Scholar, the Clown and the Clotg And many's the time we've had reason and rhyme to extol them QAnd sometimes we've notl. And the Poets, whose pitiful parodies gave us such pleasure? --- Their forgiveness a Bard academic, incontinent, craves: For, perhaps, they will grant of their pardon a merciful measure fHave they turned in their gI'3VCS?l. And the School? --- in the trough, you may think, it has faltered and floun Yet, risen again, it is poised on the peak of the flow. Nor yet has it finally fallen and finally foundered CNor will it --- we knowlj. 5 dered, C.F.G

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SCHOOL OTES Looking back over the school year which has just drawn to its close, I really can't believe how busy and successful it was. The School opened with 426 boys on the roll. This was an increase of 106 over the previous year and, to take care of it, we had altered the structure at the Senior School so that we now had three classes of each grade, making a total of fifteen classes altogether. I have been particularly fortunate this year because the work which has been put in at what is now the Preparatory School over the past few years bore fruit. I was able to concentrate my energies on the continuing organiza- tion of the Senior half of the School while the Preparatory School ran smoothly. I am indebted to the staff for the work which has been put in this year. Mr. Birch, the Master in charge of the junior School, is to be congratulated on performing a difficult job with tact and enthusiasm. We are one School on two sites separated by a distance of some two miles, yet I feel I know precisely what is happening at each of the two parts of our institution. In September we welcomed some new members of staff. Mr. Mel jones, B. Sc., came to teach Chemistry in the Senior School. Mr. Richard Parsons. MA., returned to us from his position as Housemaster at the Nautical College at Pangbourne to look after our Senior Mathematics. Also, at the Senior School Mr. Douglas Williams, M.A.,joined us in the dual capacity of Deputy Headmaster and Senior French Master. At the Prep School Mr. Murray McAl- pine took over responsibility for the Games Program, Mr. Eric Makovski joined us to take general subjects and, finally, Mr. john Lankester, the Head- master of Vernon Preparatory School,joined us, bringing with him the board- ing boys from that School. The trend across North America during the last ten years has been toward the consolidation of Independent Schools into larger economic units. The complexity of the educational scene is such that, tragically, there is seemingly little place for the small Independent School. It was decided on the 20th of August last, by the Governors of Vernon Prep, that it would be no longer in the interests of the boys or the School to reopen for the school year 1972-73. We were most happy to keep the group of Vernon boys together and welcomed them and Mr. Lankester into our midst. The great value of this School Magazine is that it is in fact a record of the happenings and doings within the School during the school year. There is much, of course, which never finds its way into the pages of any magazine or periodical: The sense of spirit around the touch line when the lst XV is playing. The sense of fun in the Brown Hall when the members of the Colts XV are serving dinner to happy guests who have come to support the fund-raising efforts of the boys in sending their Rugby group to England. The sense of deep solenmity at Christmas in the Chapel, when once again is told the age-old story of Christmas and the Christmas spirit. The sense of adventure of boys clad in wet suits diving deep into the ocean under the expert guidance of Mr. Cardiner, exploring one of man's newest frontiers. 7