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

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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

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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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The general air of business and industry to be found in all parts of our school. A Schoolmaster follows the changing seasons of the year through the eyes and spirits of the boys around him: The small boys collecting conckers or horse-chestnuts in the warm Fall evenings. The tremendous sense of excite- ment as the School vans drive off with boys flying far away to their homes to be with their families in the happy season of Christmas. The muddy faces and boots tracking in the precious top-soil of the School grounds after a hard-fought game of Rugby in the Spring. The anguish of the non- long-distance runners when Mr. jones's voice may be heard in the land exhort- ing them to those pre-Easter cross-country runs. The Summer Term concent- ration on athletic endeavour, the field events, the running, the sound of the tennis ball on racquet and the lazy afternoon's click of ball against bat as the Clayton Cup is once more up for competition. These are our methods of gauging the changing year. We as Schoolmasters are the most fortunate of men, for we live in a world where no one ever grows old. It comes as a surprise then to all of us that life which we have enjoyed and loved as a Schoolmaster must inevitably come to an end. Retirement will beckon, and this year we have seen the retirements of five great Schoolmasters. It would be most inappropriate of me to write these School Notes without mentioning five gentlemen - and I use this word most advisedly - who have between them served for 155 years in our School. Mr. William Cochrane joined the Prep staff in 1960. He is a great teacher of Mathematics to small boys, smoothing their path and explaining the most intricate problem with clarity and success. Mr. Leslie Hinton, a shy, retiring, brilliant Scientistg an Old Boy of the Prep School himself, hejoined the Senior School in 1952, after having been Science Master at Eton College in England. His explanations to the Matxiculation classes over the years have been so simply effective that it is not until those boys become men that they realize that they have sat at the feet of a master. Mr. Cyril Genge, who has since 1950 been the Editor of this School Magazine and the teacher of Classics in this School, always ready with a witty comment and an apt quotation. Mr. Eric Quainton, associated with one or other of the old Schools since 1923. His Latin grounding has stood many a boy in good stead on hisjourney to a professional career. Finally, Mr. K.W. Symons, on the staff of the Prep since 1927 when he joined his father, the founder of that School. In 1952 he became Headmaster himself and remained in this position until his retirement in 1969, since which time he has been Head- master Emeritus of the School. We have said our farewells to these gentlemen. We refuse to say goodbye. The Honourable Walter Owen, Lieutenant- Governor of British Columbia, and Mrs. Owen honoured us with their pre- sence at a Retirement Dinner for our colleagues on the llth ofjune. Since that time tributes have been paid by the boys and the staff to five men who have truly dedicated their lives to the service of youth. Since they are going to be living in our fair city, we expect to see them very often, for there will always be a place for them in our School as there is in our hearts. 1 look forward with confidence to the coming school year. The enrolment cannot go much higher. We have no more space in the Boarding House than we had last year. The Governors of the School have done a great deal of work in producing an overall plan of what is needed at the Senior School and it is hoped that we may raise the necessary funds to round out the School facilities as they had been envisioned many years ago. H.M. 8