Vancouver College - Collegian Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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CHESTS SWELL as G. Smallenberg and T. Shapcotte point with pride to their rank on the chart. SLAGHT, PARIS, MACKIN and BOUR- NONNAIS recite their prayers before the Blessed Mother. CONTEMPLATING a few of the books they will have to study before graduating from school are Mike Paris, Dennis McGuire Roger Bournonnais. CHER’S CHAIR provides a boost for tiny Robert Bazin. RAPT ATTENTION is registered by Richard Duggan during story time. MIKE PARIS displays youthful ex- uberance answering queries.

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Grade One — L. to R., First Row: R. Bourbonnais, W. Gaylie, S. Miller, G. Mager, R. Bazin, D. Galligan, J. Slaght, M. Paris, P. Purdy, K. Rae, M. Patton, M. Murison, G. Ewonus. Second Row: W. Snaith, T. Wallman, L. Gunn, T. Shapcotte, R. Peppin, G. Driedger, E. Coester, R. Duggan, M. Kenny, D. Corcoran, D. McGuire. Third Row: W. Dumont, L. Sharp, M. Bergerman, H. Mackin, S. McColm, L. DeTemple, R. Calles, P. Perches on, R. Angus, D. Gans, M. LeFroy, G. Smallenberg. GRADE 1 BR, O’GRADY assists David Corcoran with a problem in his “Think and Do” Book. The Grade One class serves a double purpose around the school. They fulfill their duties as young students and make the rest of the student body feel very sophisticated. In their initial year of schooling, they begin to master the written word (some 400 in their five readers), study mathematical combinations up to 18 and acquire the fine art of printing. Religiously, their most important training takes place. Under the watchful eye of Brother O’Grady, they prepare themselves for Confession, Confirmation and First Communion. Just as in the secular subjects, the all-important foundation is made. And it is while listening to their earnest prayers that our imagined sophistication vanishes. Here, among Christ’s little ones, we may find a sobering object lesson. m

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BR. CLARKSON instructs D. Murison about devotion to the Blessed Mother. THREE STUDENTS cogitate on some Math. Combinations They can do harder ones! GRADE 2 Bi .Clarkson and Br. O’Keeffe shared the teach- ing duties of Grade Two this year. When Br. O’Keeffe was transferred to Victoria at Christmas, Br. Clarkson, then fully recovered from a lengthy illness, resumed teaching with some forty seasoned veterans of one year’s schooling. A visit to Grade Two revealed that, basically, the students enlarge on the three “R’s” they initiated the previous year. Grade Two — L. to R. — First Row: A. Dohm, P. Sheffield, J. Jamieson, M. Monahan, A. Rader, John Rader. Second I Burke, E. Hartney, D. Murison, G. Dalton, B. Gauvieau, D. Here, too, the indispensable fourth “R” — Religion — is not neglected. The knowledge of God and their repertoire of prayers to Him and the Blessed Mother is greatly expanded. At recess, when not careening madly about the campus “bang-banging” one another, Br. Clarkson has them occupied with well-organized gamps. They even boast of a victory over Grade Three! Fennings, P. Lane, W. Bakk, W. Cotter, B. Bitz, B. Low: D. Wallbaum, R. Swarbrick, P. Corcoran, B. Smyth, G. Rooney. Third Row: J. Branch, R. Knox, T. Pearse, J. Tonsi, M. Driskill, W. McIntyre, P. Harrison, B. Henry, D. Emanuel, G. Powers