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

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SCHOOL OFFICERS HEAD PREFECT R.N. Macaulay CHAPEL STAFF Verger: EG. Heffernan Chaplains Warden: M. MCCarten Headmaster's Warden: R.B. Gaither BARNACLE HOUSE CAPTAIN R.B. Gaither HOUSE PREFECTS R.M. Britten D. Ho M. Marino WINSLOW HOUSE CAPTAIN P.L.J. Finamore HOUSE PREFECTS L. Bissett G.A. Howard R.N. Macaulay P. Olynyk G. Stewart D. Venables BOLTON HOUSE CAPTAIN EG. Heffernan HOUSE PREFECTS C. Cottrell T.I. Norris E. Scharrer WENMAN HOUSE CAPTAIN M. Destrube HOUSE PREFECTS H. Fowler N. Penn L. Ross P. Schulze R. Wright HARVEY HOUSE PREFECTS .C. Dunbar JD.L. Banks E. Lai M. MCCarten 9

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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

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