Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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like a lacrosse stick than a tennis racquet and proceeded to demolish his opponent. To leave this article with merely a few references to his athletic career would be to give a very incomplete picture of Mr. Lewis, for his outstanding feature is his teaching. When Bill Baldwin returned to the School last February to speak to boys entering careers in science, he attributed his own interest in science to the teaching of Mr. Lewis. As a chemistry teacher he was without equal. The Headmaster said in his report on Speech Day that when he was listing the qualities of a great teacher, I had Peter Lewis in mind . His wit is perhaps the hardest thing to define about Mr. Lewis, although it is probably his most famous aspect. His comments do not write well , for it is impossible to capture on paper the sly smile, the clipped enunciation and the absent-minded glance away that always leaves his listeners in doubt as to whether or not he was serious. The anec- dotes about him are legion, dealing with the fire of 1928, the return of the School from Woodstock in 1930 to Port Hope Cand a new chemistry labll and all the other events which have taken place during his forty- three years at the School. On one occasion he was asked to present a trophy to someone at the Football Dinner, but when the time came the cup was nowhere to be found. Catching sight of the fruit bowl on the table, Mr. Lewis presented the winner with an apple! This year, typically, he didn't let it become known that he was retiring. Thus the boys were caught un- prepared on Speech Day and when the Head Prefect presented Mr. Lewis with an apple, the tables were turned. Mr. Lewis, despite urg- ings to make a speech, merely replied Thank you. I hope it is a good apple. The boys of the future will be missing a real experience in not having Senior Stinks with Skook , an expression that is almost a cliche amongst T.C.S. boys. The School, however, has no intention of saying goodbye to Mr. Lewis. As he and his wife retire in Port Hope to tend their beautiful garden, the boys and staff echo the Headmaster's hope expressed on Speech Day that T.C.S. will be seeing much of them in the years to come. '

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PETER H. LEWIS, ESQ. A Master at T.C.S. since 1922 retiring this year What can be said about a man who is a legend while he is still teaching at the School? When Mr. Lewis retired this year he was pre- sented with the traditional mug given to masters when they leave. But when it came to listing on the mug his achievements at the School in his forty-three years here, the fact emerged that there literally wasn't enough room on the mug to preserve them all! And it would be typical of Mr. Lewis not to have even noticed this fact, for despite his talents and accomplishments, he has remained one of the most unassuming of men. The Record noted briefly in January of 1923 that Mr, Lewis, an old Malburian and a graduate of Cambridge had come to the Senior School that fall. It made, however, no mention of the fact that Mr. Lewis had gone to the placement agency at Cambridge which recom- mended to him T.C.S. Cnaturallyl and also thorror of horrors! Ridley! When Dr. Orchard accepted him, Mr. Lewis appears to have seen the light, for he came to T.C.S. What happened in his negotiations with Ridley is not recorded! Upon his arrival at the School, Mr. Lewis was promptly nicknamed The Kid , ostensibly after a boxer known as Kid Lewis, but probably because he was only about four years older than the exalted members of the Sixth Form. For several years Mr. Lewis remained a very with- drawn member of the staff, and it is said that for his first two years at the School he never said a word outside the classroom. When he married Miss Gertrude Petry in 1931, the service was performed by the Headmaster, Dr. Orchard, in the Chapel while the School was eating dinner! None of his colleagues knew he had been courting Miss Petry, the daughter of the Senior Master at that time, and none of them knew he was married until the following day! This seems a far cry from the man whose staff colleagues in 1965 banded together to buy him a portable television set for the many years of friendship, encouragement and humour he had given them. This shyness of Mr. Lewis during his early years at the School seems all the more peculiar since he was an exceptional actor. Taking the lead in all the Gilbert and Sullivan efforts and the other plays of the period, Mr. Lewis used his remarkably pure tenor voice to good advantage. His athletc abilities, too, were exceptional. A recent T.C.S. News article referred to him as Mr. Squash at T.C.S. stating that he has done more to popularize the game than any other person. The squash coach for many years, he continually outplayed the best players at the School. His athletic ability extended to cricket as well, for he coached the first team for thirty years. In fact his 1925 cricket team had as mem- bers Charles Burns and Norman Seagram, both of whom later became Governors of the School. As for tennis, Mr. Humble, who has been at the school for thirty years, can never remember Mr. Lewis losing a doubles match. One anecdote, vigorously denied by Mr. Lewis and as vigorously put for- ward by a former master at the School, had Mr. Lewis playing a widely- publicized singles game in Cobourg against the Yale champion. It seems that the Yale man appeared in gleaming whites, with three new tennis racquets, whereas Mr. Lewis appeared with a racquet that looked more

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Trinity College School Record t , s Vol. 68, No. 3 August, 1965 CONTENTS Dedication 1 Peter H. Lewis, Esq. 3 Editorials lfi The Church at T.C.S. The Gilding of the Chapel Ceiling' 15 The Memorial Organ 16 Speech Day 18 Address by the Hon. Mr. Justice Ritchie 19 Headmaster's Report 20 Senior School Prizes 26 Athletic Prizes and Trophies .54 Honours 40 School Life: School News Editorial 45 H1865 and All That 46 The School Dance 49 The Athletic Dinner 49 Centennial Celebrations 50 Inspection Day 54 The Cadet Dance , 63 The Cricket Dinner 63 Gifts to the School 64 The Centennial Gates 64 The Grapevine: Extracts from a New Boy's Diary 67 Remember When 5 68 Theme Songs 69 Happiness 5 5 69 Could You Imagine? 70 Prefects 1964-65 71 Bethune House Notes 72 Brent House Notes 5 .. 74 Contributions , , , it ,, 76 Features: Beresford Miller, the T.C.S. Ward 81 Cadets at T.C.S. 1 82 The Senior Political Science Club 84 Sports: Bigside Cricket , 85 Middleside Cricket . 91 Littleside Cricket 5 93 Cricket Colours 95 The Magee Cup 96 Boulden House Record 1 98 Tales and Thoughts . 100 Boulden House Art 105 Rhymes of Our Times 110 Boulden House Athletics 1 113 Boulden House Prizes 121 Old Boys' Notes . , ., 1 , 123