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Community Fall 2001 We inviteparents, staff, studentsandalumnitocomeonboard is very encouraging,howeveris very manyvolunteers are stillneeded. and support thistremendousand support fair. If you are abletohelporif community. The interest we have andsupport received sofar you wishtomakeafinancial contribution, pleasegive anyof Spring Fair 2002 Those ofyou whoattendedSpring Fair 2000willremember the conveners listedbelow acall. With we your are support, the tremendous senseofschoolspiritandcommunitypride is Happening!!!! confident thatSpring Fair 2002willbeanevent that the April 20,200210:00am-4:00pm lsnMbe-4766 Darlene Bailey -389-0699 Debbie Couvelier -595-6540 Alison Mabee -477-6463 Kathy Jawl -592-9377 that developed. It isourhopetore-capture thatspirit be successfulrequires oftheentire thesupport school Midway -andmuch,muchMore -Entertainment Children’s Corner–International Foods –Plants A Day Full ofEnjoyment forallAges Silent Auction -Used andCrafts Goods -Arts An event such as this is a huge undertaking andto An event suchasthisisahugeundertaking SMUS community canagainbeproud of. and channelitintoSpring Fair 2002. Mark YourCalendars! Fair Conveners:

Photo: Jenus Friesen school ties — fall 2001 1 Calendar 2001/2002 For the updated sports calendar, check the school web site. OCTOBER Tuesday, October 16 Parents Auxiliary regular monthly meeting Boarding students congregate at 7:30 p.m., Wenman Pavillion on the steps of Symons and Thursday, October 25 Annual General Meeting of the SMUS Society Harvey House. Top row: at 7:30 p.m., Old Gym Owen Parrot (Tokyo) and Friday, October 26 Junior School Open House – 820 Victoria Ave. Akinori Kokubun (Japan). NOVEMBER Middle row: Morgan Price Thursday, November 8 Remembrance Day Service, 11:00 a.m., New Gym (Saudi Arabia), Yori Hagi (Edmonton, Alberta), Wendy Friday, November 30 Parents Auxiliary Christmas Bazaar Yang (Taiwan) and Chelsea (details posted on web site calendar) Combest-Friedman (Camano DECEMBER Island, Washington). Front: Thursday, December 6 Senior School Musical Night at UVic Centre Sumeet Leekha (Burnaby, BC), Auditorium Chantal Leonard (Ontario), Friday, December 14 & Parents Auxiliary Christmas Dinners in evening, Marcia Davidson (Whitehorse, Saturday, December 15 Brown Hall Yukon Territory), and Whitney Sunday, December 16 Senior School Carol Service Dorin (Edmonton, Alberta). The 210 students who comprise the Monday, December 17 Middle School Carol Service boarding community at SMUS Tuesday, December 18 Junior School Carol Service, 5:30 p.m., Chapel hail from 20 countries from

Wednesday, December 19 Christmas Final Assembly around the world. Photo: Friesen Jenus School closed for Christmas Break. Classes resume January 8, 2002 JANUARY 2002 Tuesday, January 22 Vancouver Alumni Reception Wednesday, January 23 Seattle Alumni Reception Community... Thursday, January 24 Portland Alumni Reception MARCH 2002 ...it’s what makes us special. Each of us: teachers, students, families, staff, UBC Alumni Reception alumni and friends of the school, form part of this remarkable nurturing, Calgary, Edmonton Alumni Receptions growing place. It is the people within who inspire, create and build this Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan meaningful world. Alumni Receptions The school is alive! Life enters the circulatory system of the school If you are interested in attending these or any other school with resounding results through the ideas, inspiration and energy of events, call (250) 592-2411 for further details, or visit the community members. Vital links and connections build a society akin to school’s website Calendar of Events for further details. www.smus.bc.ca family. The Parents Auxiliary introduces new families to the school. These SCHOOL TIES is distributed to more than 6,000 members of the newcomers, in turn, build on and contribute to our existing community. SMUS community, including current families, friends, alumni, and current and This resilient group does so many things to nurture and support the past staff. The goal of the publication is to communicate current school activities school, inspiring events that bring us all closer together. and initiatives along with articles and reports on the alumni community. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this publication, please contact All segments of the school: Junior, Middle and Senior, form pockets, Jenus Friesen at (250) 370-6169 or e-mail: [email protected] but in the greater scheme of things, kinetically, they are integrally linked. A child growing up in the SMUS community has the opportunity to Published by: develop lifelong friendships – their immediate families also have the The Development Office at St. Michaels University School 3400 Richmond Road, Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8P 4P5 opportunity to become part of this vibrant community. Telephone: (250) 592-2411 Admissions: 1-800-661-5199 Our internet community is growing by leaps and bounds. Hundreds e-mail: [email protected] web site: http://www.smus.bc.ca of alumni are connecting with school classmates and teachers. Everyday, Editors: visitors log onto our site to explore. (Visit our web site at: Jenus Friesen, Christopher Spicer www.smus.bc.ca) Information about the school is being viewed virtually Contributors: (in no particular order) all over the world! Robert Snowden, Larry Devlin, Peter Bousfield, Melanie Hadfield, Boarding students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds Robert Wilson, Donna Ray, Anna Forbes, Iain Forbes, Ian Hyde-Lay, integrate and form our international living community. Associations with Brenda Waksel, Louise Winter, Kathy Roth, Jake Humphries, alumni who live in all four corners of the world cultivate the synergy that Donna Johnson, Archie Ives, John Reid, Sandra Moore, Liz Falco, Tom Matthews, Sally Blyth, June Maffin, Bob Richards, Tom Rigos, is integral to the life of the school. Hugh Young, Chris Collins, Keith Walker, Derek Todd, Henry Frew. Teachers, staff, and students, with the support of their families, form Photography: the backbone. Each individual brings their love of learning, skills, values, Jenus Friesen, Craig White, Jeff Banks, Chris Spicer, Alumni insights, talents and creativity, and together they create this special sense Production & Printing: of family that is so evident. Reber Creative Hillside Printing Ltd., Victoria, BC Vivat! J.F. Lithographed in Canada 2 myrrh

Myrrh by Robert Snowden, Headmaster, SMUS

VERY CHRISTMAS, I am myrrh. The tradition the public face of some schools I read about is, I find, E is not yet so established that it is taken for a strange badge, especially when I see what they are granted. Every year, Mary Humphreys, the so completely intolerant of. A family does not choir director, does come and make sure I can sing practice zero-tolerance with children, and neither my verse of We Three Kings in the Carol Service, and should a school, unless the school is desperately I, for my part, put the event in my calendar before struggling against violence. she asks. We are fortunate in the size of our school. Many If there were a choice, one would probably choose schools are so big that the traditions of the gold or frankincense – happier images. In the community, and the adults in the community that try Robert Snowden, Headmaster symbolism of the occasion – the coming of Magi to to sustain those traditions and values, have no chance bring gifts to Jesus – gold acknowledged the royal against the numbers of students who ride wave after nature of Jesus, that he was King; frankincense wave of their own culture. The inclusion of families – “ Where we have students from 20 signified the prayers of the faithful rising to heaven diverse families – and teachers, and coaches, and different countries, and at least as and thus the divine nature of Jesus; myrrh alumni in the culture of the school provides so much many faiths, we understand that symbolized his mortality and suffering, his humanity reinforcement for the values our mission, for this richness makes us stronger. and ultimate crucifixion. Myrrh was used at funerals; instance, identifies: excellence, passion, compassion, It isn’t at all that the presence of it had embalming qualities. In the Christmas carol, community, truth and goodness. In a school of a its associations are of bitterness, gloom, sorrow and thousand or two thousand, the momentum of international or diverse students death. student culture is overwhelming. When you have dilutes our traditional school Certainly, at a school, one doesn’t choose to dwell large numbers of students together who are trying to culture; rather we realize that our on such themes long. Our life is full of energy, the learn values, the odds are that they are going to learn school culture is transformed, promise of the future, the brightness of the present, the values of their peers, often without adult and made stronger, more the warmth of the past. Inescapably, there are sad influence or support. The many families who work international, more thoughtful.” occasions, but our purpose is so wrapped up in the hard and do a good job in spite of this tide, worry world of the future and the way our students will legitimately that they can stem it. We see some of influence it that sadness doesn’t stand much of a them in our Admissions Office. chance. Nor does it in the lives of many people who This year is the 40th anniversary of the building lead a healthy existence. of the Chapel by the boys and teachers of the school. A wish one sometimes hears from students, or It is one of the important stories of the school’s parents, or teachers – and a criticism that is history. We are far from invasive in chapel: there is no sometimes made of a school like ours – is that it is attempt to unsettle the foundations of other faiths. sheltered from the hurly-burly, and the unpleasant Underlying the place of chapel in the school is the realities of the outside world. Certainly on the one notion that there is a power larger than us, and that hand, we do shelter our students as far as possible the life of the spirit is important enough to devote from things unsafe and threatening; but this effort time to. doesn’t extend to protecting them from bad events, or To imagine that the gifts of the three kings are evil acts. That is impossible. If we did try to protect purely gifts of joy, pretty baubles to welcome the new them, they would wonder at the discrepancy between born baby, is to sugar-coat the story. The death of the school and the world outside, and the school Jesus and his humanity are present at his birth in the would soon come to be seen as a very artificial place. Christmas story. In fact, as our chaplain put it, If we try to make a world here that was as sheltered as without Easter and its associated suffering, there some people would like, then the first people we would be no Christmas and its associated celebration. would lose would be the students. They would start In return for the gift of myrrh, it is said that the wise to see the school as a fairy tale, divorced from the real men received the gifts of truth and humility. In world they are hungry to enter – on weekends, or return for the myrrh in our community, I hope we trips, or after they leave the school. too learn truth and humility. I hope I learn it. The Human nature does not take off its mantle at the risks of not learning truth and humility, and learning gates of the school, and our community has to be instead arrogance, pompousness and self- strong enough and complex enough and profound righteousness are too great, and dangerous. enough to recognise this. And forgiving enough. One In the early days of our sensitivity to other of the things we learn – especially if we listen to some cultures and faiths, in trying to accommodate them, of the lessons of the Bible, but also the stories of we who had grown up in the North America of the other faiths – is that good and evil grow up together, 50s, 60s and 70s often found them impenetrable. in the same community, in the same family, and in Exotic, colourful, quaint – but impenetrable. They the same heart. The “zero-tolerance” badge worn as added colour to our lives. myrrh 3

Now at the school our attitude is different; we and dreams of our students, boys and girls, young have partly grown up. No doubt we have more men and young women. growing up to do, which is why the phrase “partly” grown up is appropriate. We no longer “make time” for other cultures and other religions, we have come “...the icons of the school have to be symbols profound to see them as part of our daily fabric. Where we have enough to live inside students – and the rest of us – students from 20 different countries, and at least as after the words of the story have finished...” many faiths, we understand that this richness makes us stronger. It isn’t at all that the presence of international or diverse students dilutes our traditional school culture; rather we realize that our school culture is transformed, and made stronger, more international, more thoughtful. We are more SMUS Library Club aware that what a person does here does affect what happens elsewhere. The icons of an event such as the coming of the Magi reflect something profound about life and its complexity. Likewise, the icons of the school have to be symbols profound enough to live inside students – and the rest of us – after the words of the story have finished, so to speak, and all that are left are echoes. For instance, amid all the icons of the school, we discover that we need more for girls. There is no denying that the iconography of the school, its history, the images on the walls, is largely male. This is understandable in that the school has a male history. One of the observations of the CESI evaluation of the school a year and a half ago was that while in many of its essential areas – academics, student leadership, the arts – the school served both genders very well, there was still a maleness evident in the life of the school, surfacing in particular in the things that were celebrated on the walls, and in recollections of the school’s history. This is an example of a way in which the school’s icons – and its underlying reality – has to evolve. In this way, girls will feel the school gave them them myths and symbols profound enough by which to live out their lives and dreams. One of the more fascinating parts of my job is conveying to alumni, in some cases alumni that graduated 30 or 40 or 50 years ago, how the school that they attended may have changed, but that it still serves the same purpose: to pursue academic success in an environment where the character and the self also grow. “The art of change is preserving the things that don’t change.” I am grateful that we still use the terms, frankincense and myrrh, that we haven’t demystified them with more prosaic terms such as “perfume,” “embalming oil” or “anointing oil.” I am grateful that many of the values and icons of the school are profound enough to sustain themselves, and to sustain us who live and work and go to school here. And I am also grateful that we still search for icons, and symbols that will give vitality to the lives 4 school news School News Student Excellence

NATIONAL TRAVELS TO GERMANY SCIENCE CONTESTS Mike Wood was the 2001 recipient SMUS STUDENTS fared well in of a bursary programme called National Science contests and “German Unity.” This award is examinations, typically involving given to the top student of language 5,000 students from across the who has a good knowledge of country. Here is a sampling of the German History. results: Mike spent one month in In the University of Waterloo Germany during the summer. Avogadro Chemistry competition The Pedagogic Service in Cologne for grade 11 students: Aaron sponsors the annual bursary Bogutz, Vicky Alfred, Elliot “German Travel Contest” and Holtham and Yun-Young Lee all offers a four-week, all expenses placed within the top 10 per cent. paid trip to Germany for the top Nurrachman Liu placed in the student in the province. top five per cent. In the Sir Isaac Newton ESSAY WINNER Physics competition, Scott McBride Congratulations to Graham Day Senior School Awards Ceremony 2001 was held at the UVic Centre Auditorium. placed 23rd in the country. for winning the Thrifty Food This year’s top award winners were (back row, l-r): Doris Yip, Hilary Flanagan, In the Chemical Institute of Club “Grad 2001” essay scholarship. Anne-Marie Pohorecky, Carla Wollach, Kendra Tombu, Graham Day, Corrina Canada National High School Mick, Christina Kim, Meredith Lewis, Andrea Thompson, Caitlin Smith, Sascha Braunig, Kerry Morin, and Sarah MacDonald. (Front row, l-r): Pete Panasupon, Exam, Sally Chang, Jenny Li and IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL Andrew Murgatroyd, Evan Willms, Christopher Couvlier and John Payne. Susan Green received special THE GRADE 6 math team finished merit awards. The same three third in BC and ninth in Canada students finished in the top five in the Canadian National Superb Results per cent of the University of Mathematics League, competing for the 2000-2001 Academic Year Waterloo Chemistry 13 News against over 600 schools in Examination, while Paul Zakus Canada. Stephen Dong and PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS, PROVINCIAL EXAMINATIONS AND ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS finished sixth and Michael Tso Taisuke Nakano Scott finished finished 20th in the country in well up in the national rankings. OUR SENIOR STUDENTS are to be congratulated for their outstanding performance on their provincial and Advanced Placement examinations. the same competition. These are The grade 8 team competing A summary of some key accomplishments follows. exceptional results! in the grade 9 Pascal Math • A total of 50 individuals, representing more than 42% of the eligible In the University of Toronto Contest finished first on Southern students in the graduating class, received provincial scholarships of National Biology Competition, Vancouver Island. David Bae, $1,000. the grade 12 school team of Eli James Shin and Marisa Brook • One SMUS student, Drew Robson, received a special $2,000 Gibson (first place), Jenny Li excelled. The same grade 8 provincial scholarship for being among the top 20 graduating students (fourth), Michael Tso (24th), students performed very well and in the province. Paul Zakus (29th) and Susan finished in second place in Victoria • Over the course of the year, eight students received perfect scores of Green (38th) finished second out in the Gauss Mathematics Contest. 800 on their provincial examinations: Susan Green (French), Inga of a total of 327 teams. A very Nader Ahmed represented Jensen (German), Erica Kim (Math), Yun-Young Lee (Math), Jenny special congratulation to Eli for the school at the provincial Li (Math), Clarence Lo (Math), Drew Robson (Spanish) and Paul finishing first in the entire championship of the Great Zakus (Math). Three of these students were in grade 11 when they competition! Canadian Geography Challenge in secured these perfect scores. March. His cousin, Kasim Husain • While the number of SMUS students writing Advanced Placement won three consecutive BC titles, so examinations continues to increase, our students manage to secure Nader had big shoes to fill. increasingly strong results. • In 2000-2001, 88% of our students received grades of three or higher on a five point scale on their AP examinations. In half of the AP courses taught at the school, 100% of our students secured grades of 3 or higher. These statistics compare favourably to previous years. school news 5

School News

dispatching teams from Coquitlam, Kitsilano and Shawnigan Lake before falling 13-15 in the gold medal game to perennial rival, Oak Bay High School. Stephanie Pollard, was an impressive competitor at the BC Open Swim Championships, where she garnered three ‘firsts,’ four ‘seconds’ and two ‘thirds’ SMUS Alumnus and NBA star Steve Nash (SMUS ’92) attended this year’s while setting new island records Athletic Awards Banquet. Pictured here with this year’s major athletic award in two events. winners (l-r): David Spicer, Geoff Homer, Michael Spicer, Caitlin McKenzie, Logan Smythe was selected to Stephen Nash, Corinna Mick, Caitlin Smith and Rory Connolly. Kristie Tyrrell won the Canadian the BC Under 16 Basketball squad. U-17 Girls Squash Championships Michael Pyke was the hero of the August 26th, 2001 Gold Athletic Awards Evening STUDENTS Medal Rugby Match at the THIS GALA EVENING to celebrate the athletic accomplishments of SMUS N HE OVE Canada Games. He kicked three O T M : athletes was a very happy occasion, as one of our own came back as the SMUS TENNIS won the City Title long penalty goals, and then guest of honour and awards presenter. Steve Nash (SMUS ’92) was met and went on to finish third in the scored the winning try in BC’s by an enthusiastic standing ovation from the moment he was introduced. BC Championships, with the 19-14 win over Ontario. He was His courage, tenacity, sportsmanship, humility and genuine warmth have Girls Doubles team of Liberty selected to the Canada Under 19 made him a role model for thousands of young Canadians. Captain of Williams and Noelle Quinn Rugby squad for the Junior Rugby Team Canada, leader of the NBA Dallas Mavericks, Steve has always winning every match they played World Cup. Mike returns this fall made time to stay linked to his school. in the championships. for grade 12. Joining him on the SMUS Colts Rugby team Gold Medal BC Team for the There is nothing noble about being greater capped an undefeated season by Canada Games was Matt Lemay. than your fellow man/woman. winning the Island Championships True nobility is to be greater than your former self. at Shawnigan Lake School. Steven Nash, SMUS ’92, Guest Speaker SMUS Senior Rugby XV played four games at the BC Championships, SMUS Society Membership

arents of students currently enrolled in the school pay P Society dues annually and are voting members of the Society. Alumni who have reached the age of 16 years, and parents or guardians of an alumnus are eligible for membership in the Society which is the school’s governing body. The annual Society membership fee is $10 per person and it expires annually on the day of the October AGM. Send queries to: [email protected] Parents and other Society members wishing a copy of the SMUS Society Bylaws can request this booklet be mailed to them by phoning the SMUS Board Assistant at (250) 658-1188. If you wish to join the Society for the period October 200l to October 2002, please mail your name, address and payment to St. Michaels University School, 3400 Richmond Road, Victoria, B.C. V8P 4P5, Attention: Accounting Office.

The grade 8 Brass Ensemble was invited to perform at a surprise 80th AGM birthday party for Mr. Tom Bartie at his home. This group also performed at the Middle School Closing Ceremony at the Royal Theatre in June. Pictured: The Society Annual General Meeting for the period October 2000 Chris Copes, Mark Bazett, Michael Loomer (trumpets), Nader Ahmed to October 2001 will be held on Thursday, October 25, 200l, at (baritone), Janel Willms (French horn) and John Reid (Music Director). 7:30 p.m. in the Old Gym on the Senior School campus. 6 school news

Up, up and away! Boarding students take flying lessons at Victoria International Airport. (l-r) Eric Cheung (Hong Kong), Danny Chiang Learning to Fly (Taiwan), Kenny Cheng (Hong Kong), Cleare Shields (Washington State).

SPARTOFthe boarder programmes at SMUS, a weekend further training to licencing standards for private or professional A introduction to flying was organised by resident physician, Dr. purposes. Iain Forbes. The object was to have fun and experience a new Those students taking part were Akinori Kokubun, Kenneth Cheng, environment and to introduce students to the world of aviation, an Cleare Shields, Eric Cheung, Danny Chiang, Tanner Mitchell, Olga industry with many exciting career prospects. Bezroukova and Caitlin Charles. The Victoria Flight Training School, under the direction of chief SMUS has a wonderful support staff for students who live in flying instructor Omar Ilsley, managed the programme. It comprised two residence; these people custom-create many varied and interesting ground school lessons of one and a half hours each, introducing the programmes designed for the 210 international boarding students on students to the principles of flight, meteorology, radio procedures and a campus. Young people can be found high up in the Rocky Mountains, briefing of the two actual flights, which were on a one-to-one basis with camping in the winter snow, white-water rafting, learning to drive a car, an instructor in a two seat Katana aircraft, a state-of-the-art trainer. taking short, out-of town excursions to shop or attend performances, The flights were of one and a half hours each, during which take-offs, participating in intramural sports, cooking up a storm for one of the landings, turns, stalls, spins and elementary navigation were many theme nights held in the dining hall, in addition to a whole host of demonstrated. Each student had the opportunity to perform these tasks diverse and exciting youth-related activities. and even land their aircraft while closely monitored by their instructor. If you are interested in finding out more about the programmes The project was well received by the students. Their enthusiasm was offered to students living in residence, contact the director, Mr. Kevin such that most of them are actively considering or already taking part in Cook at (250) 370-6161.

Juniors Join Partnership Walk

GROUP OF JUNIOR SCHOOL students joined A over 600 other walkers on a sunny May 27th in support of international cooperation and the 12th Annual Aga Khan Partnership Walk. In the weeks prior to the walk, students were encouraged to seek pledges, which are used to fund programmes in low-income countries of Africa and Asia. Over $80,000 was raised in the Victoria walk. The contribution of these students and their families will have a profound effect within distant global communities. school news 7

Staff Recognition Cyberspace Odyssey:

N JUNE 2001, the Integrated Curriculum SMUS Board of I ARLY THIS YEAR, Governors hosted E three SMUS teachers, a gala dinner in Brown Hall Mary Humphreys, dining room to recognize Anna Forbes and Joan Tweedie, the excellence of school sent a proposal to the National staff and faculty. This year, Gallery of Art in Washington, Alan Scott, Board Chairman, DC, outlining their ideas for recognized Cliff Yorath, creating a website on art and Director of the Middle (l-r): Cliff Yorath, Director of the Middle School, music in the twentieth century. School, and Ken Smith, Alan Scott, Chairman of the Board, and Ken As part of the Summer Institute Smith, Math instructor at the Senior School. Senior School math instructor, for Teachers, entitled Cyberspace for their twenty-five years of service. Odyssey, the gallery had been Various Professional Development Awards were given to the following eliciting proposals for online teachers for the 2000-01 year: Mike Jackson, Don Mackay, Diana Nason, curriculum projects that would Lindsay Ross and Heather Sandquist. utilize the gallery’s collection in Anna Forbes, Joan Tweedie and Mary Humphreys an innovative manner. Seventy- are on a Cyberspace Odyssey. Peter Gardiner wins National two proposals were received, and from these, a final selection of 12 projects was made, including the one Award for Teaching Excellence submitted by the SMUS teachers. In August, the teachers travelled to Washington for an eight-day OR MORE THAN intensive training course in the gallery and in a computer training facility F three decades, called Knowlogy. They met with members of other teams and explored Peter Gardiner ideas and designs – a very valuable experience for all. At the end of the has helped SMUS students eight days, presentations were made detailing the team’s utilization of unravel the mysteries of gallery resources and what students would learn from being online. biology. He has recently The gallery allotted mentors to each team to work with the teachers been saluted with a Prime until the project is completed in April of 2002. Our SMUS team consists Minister’s Award for teaching of a music specialist and two technical mentors to help refine the web excellence. Mr. Gardiner design. traveled to Ottawa in April Work continues on development of the website over the next several to personally receive the Senior School science instructor Peter months and the teachers will be piloting the curriculum ideas on a group award from Prime Minister Gardiner accepts his award from Prime of grade 10 students who have enrolled in the class as a special project. Minister Jean Chretien in Ottawa. Jean Chretien. The areas of study will cover art, art history, music, particularly jazz, Peter teaches an advanced placement biology course which is geared for music history, literature, and of course, the social changes that took place first-year university level credit. There is a great demand to get into in the countries and time periods being studied. Peter’s courses. Says Headmaster Bob Snowden, “This is not a man who just teaches the best and the brightest – all levels of students thrive under his guidance.” Colin Skinner (l) and Bill Buckingham (r) perform a bagpipe duet in Chapel. Amazing Grace

EACHERS TEACHING TEACHERS is a wonderfully reccurring T phenomenon at SMUS. Science and technology instructor Bill Buckingham has rightly earned the title of official bagpipe player at the school. He dons full Scottish regalia, consisting of an elaborate display of kilt and vest plus the many other accoutrements of piper finery. His bagpiping has earned him a significant position of importance at school ceremonies, including Robbie Burns Day – piping in the haggis, Remembrance Day Ceremonies, and Christmastime – the procession for piping in the boar’s head. Bill’s playing is inspirational. Retiring theatre instructor Colin Skinner fulfilled his long-held passion for this Scottish instrument and learned to play from his long-time colleague. In June, both Buckingham and Skinner performed together in the school chapel. Their tunes, including “Skye Boat Song,” “Amazing Grace” played in solo by Colin Skinner, and “Mairi’s Wedding” were met by friendly cheers from the many students and teachers who listened. 8 news at SMUS

News at SMUS New Staff Retiring Staff ◗ Rev. Lynford Smith, Chaplain for ten years ◗ Ron Dyson, Mathematics and Physics tutor for15 years ◗ Keith Murdoch, teacher of Geography for 20 years ◗ Colin Skinner, teacher of English and Drama for 26 years ◗ David Peach, teacher of French for 27 years ◗ Sa’ad Kayal, teacher of Mathematics for 36 years

Rev. June Maffin Miriam Stanford David Gauthier Jennifer Skelding Leaving Staff ◗ Nancy Pekter, who taught a variety of subjects at the Senior School for three years, including English, Economics and Modern Studies, is leaving. ◗ Keith McLean, who was Head of Mathematics for one year, is returning to Ontario.

Leave of Absence Trevor Jones Steven Kerrwill Robert Common Peggy Baudon ◗ Fraser Hannah was married during Spring Break. He taught English in both the Middle and Senior Schools and is taking a one year leave of ◗ Rev. Dr. June Maffin is our new chaplain. She absence to teach at Mulgrave School in Vancouver. comes to SMUS from St. John’s Church in ◗ Mary Smith, Junior and Middle School Strings teacher is taking a one- Vancouver, where she was Rector. year leave of absence in Malaysia to be with husband Stephen, who has ◗ Miriam Stanford is our new Head of taken up a post as General Manager of the Malaysian Symphony Mathematics. She served as Department Head Orchestra. for two schools with the Peel School Board in ◗ Terence Young, English Department Head, is taking a one-year leave Ontario. Becky Davis of absence to fulfill his obligation to the Canada Council (he received a ◗ David Gauthier is our new Director of Drama. major grant) and write his next book. He comes from Vancouver where he was Drama Director at Steveston High School. ◗ Jennifer Skelding is replacing Keith Murdoch in Geography. She has a one year appointment as teacher and prestigious “Hinton Chair in Teaching Excellence” holder. Jennifer was Head of Geography at a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, and at Upper Canada College. ◗ Trevor Jones will teach strings at the Junior and Middle Schools. He taught strings for the Greater Victoria School Board. ◗ Steven Kerrwill replaces Regan Sibbald as a Senior School Physics teacher. One Year and Part-Time Appointments ◗ Robert Common, who is taking a year away from his role as Director of Senior School at Collingwood School, will teach Terence Young’s English classes. ◗ Becky Davis will teach Senior School History, Geography and ESL. ◗ Peggy Baudon, replacing Mr. Hannah, will teach Middle School English for the year. ◗ Lisa Hyde-Lay will return part-time to teach Science in the Middle School. Members of the school community are already gearing ◗ Krista Tracy will continue to teach Senior School Art for Alan Jones, up for the big Spring Fair planned for April 20th, 2002. who is on an extended leave. The last fair was a phenomenal success, largely because of the tremendous support from volunteers. We hope to …and we welcome back… recapture that spirit in Spring Fair 2002. ◗ Don McKay will return to teach Senior School Band after a year’s leave Many more volunteers are still needed. If you are interested of absence for professional development. in participating in this fun community event, please ◗ Nancy Mollenhauer will return to her teaching post as Phys Ed teacher contact Kathy Jawl at (250) 592-9377 at the Middle School. She has been on maternity leave. or Debbie Couvelier at (250) 595-6540. community 9

Au revoir et merci, David! Community:

DURING HIS MORE THAN twenty- A Soul Connection seven years service at our school, by The Reverend Dr. June Maffin, Chaplain David Peach has witnessed many changes, seen many colleagues come I heard the words in a small northern Alaskan village. The tiny, elderly, and go, and made many friends. native woman spoke them slowly and carefully, all the while looking directly Since his arrival here, the school has in my eyes. “How deeply you’re connected to my soul, June.” seen five different headmasters, Not your common ordinary everyday conversation with a relative stranger, changed from a boys’ school into a I thought. And yet, at that moment, I could feel it … feel the connectedness co-educational institution, and we shared and knew, even though we were cultures apart, this at-one-ness expanded its population enormously. with one another was real. Our souls had connected. Against this background of flux and Though I was the stranger in her remote village, and our customs, change, David has never wavered in language, traditions and life experiences were alien to one another, his infectious enthusiasm for all that something (Some One) linked us indelibly together. That week, I came to is French, and has brought to the a deeper understanding of ‘community,’ and that new awareness classroom and to his colleagues a influenced my decision to come to SMUS. great appreciation for the epicurean While interviewing for the position of Chaplain, meeting students, delights of France. Whether it be the faculty, staff and Board members, I discovered a holistic approach to Retiring instructor David Peach beauty of the cathedral in Chartres or learning – academic, athletic, artistic, social and spiritual – and was with long-time Modern Language the perfect balance of French cuisine, impressed. SMUS is a school that not only says in its Mission Statement colleague, Hedda Thatcher. David has shown himself to be a “we are a community,” it conscientiously seeks to live it. connoisseur, and an inspiration to his students who wished to go beyond Here, students, faculty, staff, parents and alumnae find others who are the shackles of irregular verbs. He has given much to our school, and we committed to being people who live their lives with “passion and compassion.” shall remember his career here with us with much fondness. Here, there is a sense of caring for one another and those beyond the Having grown up in London, Ontario, David graduated with an M.A. school. from the University of Western Ontario where he studied French Language Here, there is assurance that while none has ‘arrived,’ each is on a and Literature, and received his diploma in education from Althouse ‘journey’ of self-learning, discovery and personal growth. College in London. He arrived at SMUS in 1974 to take on the challenges One of the songs I learned in the tiny wooden building in the Alaskan of being a housemaster and a senior French teacher. At the same time, bush reinforced Sara’s words: David transmitted to his charges his passion for ice hockey, becoming the “How could anyone ever tell you that you’re anything less than beautiful? very popular (and early rising) coach of both the Senior and the Junior How could anyone ever tell you that you’re less than whole? School teams. He later went on to coach both the cross-country and the How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle? squash teams. How deeply you’re connected to my soul.” SMUS Chapel Songbook David’s sense of curiosity and appetite for all that is Canadian and Words and Music Source: Unknown French inspired him to take an exchange year in 1983-84. He braved the Soul-connection. Each day at SMUS brings a new glimpse of our climate, isolation and the dialect for that year with so much enthusiasm interrelatedness as individuals and a deeper awareness of the strength that comes that, the following year, he organised an exchange visit between our when we work, learn, struggle, celebrate, worship, play, create … together. students and those of St. Georges de Beauce where he had spent the Chapel services seek to nurture the sense of community already in this special previous year. My admiration for David took a great leap, when, in his place, through Addresses, singing, prayer and expression of artistic gifts. company, I tried to decipher the local Quebecois patois… As the year unfolds, may each of us – students, faculty, parents, staff, Undoubtedly, this trip had whetted David’s appetite for further travels, alumnae and Board members – be aware of the soul-connection which for in the ensuing years at the school he undertook two sabbatical leaves of transcends differences in geography, language, religion and politics, and absence. The first (1986-1987) was a grand world tour taking him from binds us together in this SMUS community. And, may God’s blessing be Eastern Europe, France (where he picked grapes in the Fall), through Spain, upon SMUS and all who live, work, volunteer and visit here. then on a memorable drive across the Sahara Desert to West Africa. Web: http://maffin.net/june E-mail: [email protected] Thereafter, he successfully conquered Mount Kilimanjaro (some 21,000 ft in altitude), before visiting Egypt, England and the Far East. On a subsequent sabbatical year, he spent time on professional improvement during trips to France, Germany, and then to South America where he honed his skills in speaking Spanish in Chile and Argentina. We have been grateful to David for his enthusiasm to share with us all those rich memories. Armed with a projector and innumerable slides, he has, in his classes, brought a more immediate awareness of the importance of culture to his students. Whatever your future plans may hold for you, David, we feel sure that you will be setting off to fresh fields afar, and we await impatiently the opportunity to relive those experiences with you. Not farewell, but rather, fare you well and au revoir à la prochaine! –Bob Richards, Head of Modern Languages 10 chapel genesis

Chapel Genesis Speech to the School, May 4, 2001 Delivered at the Alumni Reunion Service by Tom Rigos (US ’61)

HAT A BEAUTIFUL CHAPEL! Its early genesis began 40 years ago. On that very Sunday W Prior to then, there was no chapel, so Sunday morning church night, which was letter- services consisted of hordes of grubby boys oiling off in all writing night at the school, directions. The Catholics walked southeast about two miles; the Anglicans out went 200 letters saying: down Shelbourne to St. Lukes; and the rest down Richmond Road to a non- “Dad, I need a cheque for denominational church, which is now, appropriately, an orthotic laboratory. $100.” The approach selected From a student’s perspective, it was great fun on a sunny day to get was to ask each student to raise away and perhaps meet a local girl, but not so in the rain, when we $100, but in $10 increments – returned to the school drenched. In the late 50s, the Head decided a more reasonable amount. A enough was enough, and we began a common Sunday Chapel Service in chapel brochure was printed Challoner Hall. But an assembly hall is not a chapel. describing the project and So in the Fall Term of 1960, a student-built chapel was proposed. The asking specifically for $10. A student-teacher environment for such a project was optimal because of massive letter-writing campaign the arrival of some younger Masters from Britain who brought with them was organized. Each student a spirit of cooperation, trust and mutual respect. We formed a School was strongly ‘encouraged’ to Chapel Committee of about four such masters (Peter Caleb, Nick Prowse, write at least 10 personal Cary Creek and Ian Mugridge), and about ten students to explore the letters and send them with a feasibility of this project. There were really two key issues: ‘were the brochure to family, friends students capable of such a project?’ and ‘could we raise the money?’ Fall and relatives. As I recall, the Term was spent discussing student involvement questions such as: ‘Did youngest of the Barker boys, I any of the students know which end of a hammer to use?,’ ‘Could you think it was Richard, of the work off detention hours on the Chapel project?’ (the answer was “NO”), family who donated the ‘How many students would get injured falling off the roof?’ and more Barker Library, wrote to the importantly, ‘What we would then tell their parents?’ and ‘Would we get Queen who did respond – not This stained glass window, located at St. enough needed volunteers or have to employ the old slackers roundup with money but with strong Lukes Church on Cedar Hill X Road, approach?’ And on and on it went all term. In the end, it was felt words of encouragement! commemorates the attendance of University necessary to hire Mr. Ed Logan as carpenter/foreman to augment the In the spring of 1961, as School boys. obvious skill deficiency. the money began to dribble In the interim, Adrian in, we began construction. Our goal was to complete the foundation, Greenbank, the art teacher, had which is the underground concrete ring around the building perimeter developed preliminary Chapel that supports the walls and roof. A school assembly was held on site. The sketches to help determine Chaplain offered prayers for the success of this noble endeavour, and JJ appearance, size and cost. Timmis, the Headmaster, dug the first ceremonial shovel of dirt. After When we returned from the that, it was turned over to the volunteer group known as the “pick, shovel Christmas break, the Chapel and wheelbarrow brigade.” In about one month, the trench was committee tackled the second completed, the foundation forms were placed, and on a sunny day in major issue: ‘Where would we May, ‘all hands were on deck’ as the cement trucks arrived to pour the find the estimated cost of $25k?’ I foundation. know that you could not add a My class graduated in June, but during the summer and the following garage to your home in Victoria year, students cleaned used bricks, prefabricated the walls and roof trusses, today for that amount, but back and completed the exterior and interior. The chapel was officially dedicated then it was quite a sum of money. on May 20, 1962. In closing, I must express both amazement and pride at We rejected approaching a major how our efforts so long ago resulted in such a beautiful building that has donor because the chapel would served the school so well, and for so long. not then be student funded. Since we needed $25K and there were almost 250 students, the project was feasible if each student was able to raise $100.

The St. Michaels University School chapel commemorates a 40-year anniversary this year padre charles blencoe 11

A Chapel Memento from Charles Blencoe and Cyril Genge

HARLES BLENCOE Charles were at the school. Personally I C died 30 May 2001 find it heart-warming that Charles in Maple Bay, BC Blencoe would ask for Cyril Genge to where he had lived in put the stamp of his scholarship in the retirement for 20 years. He School Chapel for posterity. was Chaplain of University Here is the letter, followed by the School 1961-1964 and St. verses. The original is handwritten by Michaels University School Cyril and will find a permanent home 1971-1979. Charles came to in the Archives. University School from England –R. Wilson after a 20-year career as a Chaplain in the Royal Air Cyril Genge, Teacher at US/SMUS Force. In World War II he 1948-1973 Ð an affable, eccentric and brilliant classicist who was also a poet. served in Burma and his later postings took him to India, Pakistan, Germany and the 8/4/77 South Pacific, as well as duties in the UK. Dear Padre, As an RAF Chaplain, My reiterated and grovelling apologies for a criminally tardy Charles was addressed as reply to your letter. PECCAVI - MEA CULPA, MEA ‘Padre,’ and this was continued MAXIMA CULPA! My excuses? – I have been virtually at University School, though bedridden of late, with a recalcitrant belly (I am now out of the his younger colleagues on the wood), and at the same time, have had to deal with a deluge of faculty affectionately called “correspondence” work. (Pardon the mixed metaphors). I have him ‘Pard.’ He was the first been unable to put pen to paper for quite a period. Chaplain of the University Frankly, I should be only too gratified to find any meagre School Chapel and participated doggerel of mine given public recognition (at least one poor Charles Blencoe was Chaplain at the pearl at which the local swami might occasionally snuffle?) in its construction. He took school for 11 years. Attached is the revised version. I have corrected one misprint part in the inaugural Service and toyed, a little, with the punctuation. The Latin need not of Dedication on 20 May 1962, assisting The Most Rev. Harold Sexton, carry initial capitals (Ovid doesn’t), but should appear with Archbishop of British Columbia, who conducted the service. During his elegiac spacing. Chaplaincy, Charles carefully maintained the dignity and sanctity of the So here it is –“an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.” Chapel, for he was a man of tradition and integrity and an Anglican The “plaque” should ultimately be unveiled, of course, by the minister in the true sense: dedicated to Church, Queen and Country. He Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury (hand-in-hand). stood by his principles and at times could preach a rousing sermon on Best wishes, contemporary ills. Indeed, he prided himself on his original and carefully C.F.G. prepared sermons. P.S. PAX TECUM. Just before Charles died, an interesting letter came to light. It is dated P.P.S. NIL CARBORUNDUM (“Don’t let the bastards grind you 8 April 1977 and written to Charles by Cyril Genge, teacher at down.”) US/SMUS 1948-1973. Many alumni will remember Cyril Genge; indeed, who could forget this affable, eccentric and brilliant classicist who ‘AUDITUR FORSAN STREPITUS, LUDIQUE TUMULTUS, was probably the last teacher in the Province to teach Latin and Greek? HOS EXTRA MUROS, TURBAQUE PARVA SONAT; Cyril was also a poet with an amazing mastery of English: language and HIC TAMEN ILLA TACENT, ANIMUS CORPUSQUE QUIESCUNT literature. Each year, as the Editor of the University School magazine The INTUS, PAX REGNAT SANCTAQUE NOSTRA QUIES. Black and Red, he wrote an editorial poem on school matters in the style ET VOS QUI INTRATIS NOSTRUM VENERATE SACELLUM; of a famous poet. And he wrote at least one of these in Latin! STRUXERE HOC JUVENES – JAMQUE DEDERE DEO.’ The 1977 letter is in reply to a request by Charles for Cyril to write a short verse for some sort of display in the Chapel. The letter, written in ‘THE TUMULT AND THE CLAMOUR OF THE SCHOOL Cyril’s inimitable style and humour, both scholarly and earthy, contains two ARE HEARD WITHOUT – YOUTH HOLDS ITS LIVELY RULE; short verses, or one verse in two languages: English and Latin. As one who WITHIN IS SILENCE, BODY AND SOUL ARE STILL, knew Cyril well, I reckon that he wrote in Latin first, and then in English! PEACE REIGNS, AND HOLY QUIET HAS ITS WILL. While it is a pity that it has taken over 24 years for this letter to reach YOU, TOO, WHO ENTER, TREAD WITH REVERENCE SHOD; the school, it is fitting that it can now be published in School Ties THE BOYS WHO BUILT IT GAVE THE GIFT TO GOD.’ preparatory to the short verses being displayed in the Chapel. It is also an interesting moment in which to remember the times when Cyril and 12 archie ives EXCERPTS from the Black and Red

IN THIS EDITION, Archie Ives has chosen excerpts from back issues of the University School Annual, the Black and Red. The object is to highlight events or interesting happenings from the past. Each excerpt characterizes a certain era from the school’s rich and varied history.

Young men from University School wave their hats outside of School House as Lord Strathcona arrives for an inaugural visit in September 1909.

Black and Red – December 1908 Black and Red – December 1909 FOUNDATION DAY LORD STRATHCONA’S VISIT October 7th, 1908, will be regarded for many years to come as the most Everyone came out to greet Lord Strathcona when he arrived at memorable day in the history of the School, for on that day was laid the University School. corner stone of the new building at Mount Tolmie. The second of September, 1909, is a date which will be long In brilliant sunshine the ceremony was performed by the Hon. remembered by those of us who were fortunate enough to be present, as Richard McBride, Premier of British Columbia. In spite of the fact that the occasion of the visit to this school of the “Grand Old Man” of no cars were available on that line, a large number of the invited guests Canada, Lord Strathcona. assembled on the grounds. The Cadet Corps, forty-five strong, marched Few men have done more for Canada than Lord Strathcona, or Sir out in clouds of dust, and, forming up in line, received the Premier on his Donald Smith, as he was called when he drove the last spike which arrival, who complimented the boys on their appearance and steadiness. completed the CP Railway from sea to sea in 1886, and the School feels highly honoured by his visit. Black and Red – March 1909 The Warden addressed the boys, and said that he hoped they had all Black and Red – 1909 made progress this term in three respects—Matter, Manliness, and The number of boys who came back to school late this term was Manners. By Matter he meant ordinary school studies; Manliness was unusually large. Mr. Barnacle and Mr. Harvey think that two or three gained in their games and drill; lastly he reminded them that Manners weeks’ extra shooting and fishing are a poor substitute for French maketh Man, and no amount of learning or riches could ever compensate Grammar and the Pons Asinorum. for the lack of manners. When they returned home, they should be proud to wear their caps through the holidays, and show by their manners what Black and Red – March 1911 it meant to be a University School boy. Mr. WJ Pearse was selected as Rhodes Scholar from Quebec. Mr. Pearse matriculated from the University School in Victoria, BC. But there is one honour that will not be readily repeated. The selection of WJ Pearse as Rhodes Scholar from McGill University is the most gratifying success that any of our old boys has yet obtained, and the whole School is proud of his achievement. A Montreal paper speaks of him in the following terms: “It was never intended that students should become Rhodes Scholars on account of their attainments in the class-list alone. The idea is that they shall be all- round men. Walter J. Pearse brings credit to McGill in all the required Rhodes qualifications, but in the enthusiasm of the moment, and amid the showers of congratulations, his thoughts go back to the School where his final preparation was made for the University, and he is anxious that the University School of Victoria, BC, should have credit for the signal Boys from University Military School (1920) partake in fresh air and exercise on school grounds. This image was found on a postcard in the SMUS honour done him…with the $1,500 a year which the Rhodes Scholarship archives. provides for each student sent to Oxford….” archie ives 13

Black and Red – 1954 School Life from an Officer’s Point of View Speech Day Speaker: Stuart Keate – Publisher: Victoria Daily Times Algebra, French, Geometry, Latin, A contemporary writer not long ago sent this message to a college Buttons to shine and boots to blacken, celebration: Hair to brush, and faces to wash, “Don’t ever take your school as a matter of course – because, like And the “Harvey House” is the deuce to squash. Democracy and Freedom, many people you’ll never know anything about They are cheeky and fresh from morn till night; have broken their hearts to get it for you. Their buttons won’t shine, nor yet stay bright; “Those are very wise words – many people we’ve never known anything Plenty to do, and plenty undone, about have broken their hearts to get it for us. Time for work, not much for fun. “Your school began as an idea. The fact that it survives and flourishes proves that it was a sound idea. You who are here today are the inheritors of There is football, hockey, and drill outside, the early struggles of many men and women – not only the master, but And debating on subjects far and wide: fathers and mothers as well – who have passed along. These take up time, give trouble, too, “Your fine playing fields have been trod by some of the finest scholars And then there’s the studies we ought to do. and soldiers in this country. Your debt to them is great. By this you will see our lot is hard, “So, boys, as you go forth, remember your school’s traditions, its But I want to tell you this, old pard, distinguished alumni, and the masters who gave you your preparation for Are we ever downhearted? No or Yes? life. Give thanks, also, for your citizenship – for every day is, or should be, Not on your life at the U.M.S. Thanksgiving Day in Canada. –W.H.P. “People like to talk about the great resources of Canada. But our greatest (written between 1920-23, when the school resource is our people. was called University Military School) “The future of Canada does not rest with our mines, or wheat fields, or forests, but with the character of its people. In short, it rests with you.”

Excerpts from Reg Wenman’s Letters to Chris Collins Compiled by Rob Wilson

Chris Collins, US Grad 1963, was a boarder November 13, 1974: (After the Old Boys’ from Seattle and a great supporter of the school. Association party) “All in all, it was a good show, He was also quite an entertainer, and one of his I think. Levity was not undue, and the School specialities was an excellent mimicry of Reg authorities seem happy about it, but I heard the Wenman (alumnus and teacher, 1912 - 1973). cook reported the loss of 48 glasses. I denied guilt To the amazement of everyone, Reg much of Old Boys unless the glasses had been full. This enjoyed Chris’ performances! Chris and other was not the case, so we are in the clear I fancy.” contemporaries from the Seattle area used to March 13, 1975: “Eve and I have just returned invade the school every alumni weekend in the from Hawaii where we have been scrimshanking late 60s to early 80s and put a lot of life, spirit within sight of High Society – so-called. The and hilarity into these occasions. Reg Wenman (l) and Chris Collins (US ’63) exchanged Executive meeting is the 26th, and if you plan to In the 1970s Chris was President of the some interesting correspondence over the years. come, you are welcome to stay the night with us Alumni Association and as such, served on the Photo circa 1969. and we will see that you have transport to the Board. This gave him a more direct involvement with the school and with airport or to the airport bus in Victoria…well, that is all, Chris, come if Reg Wenman, by this time retired, but still Secretary of the Alumni you want on the 26th, but in any case, when you do come, don’t forget to Association. So, Reg and Chris were in regular communication, as the bring your corrections,” (Reg was a stickler about students completing following excerpts show, and the implied humour of Chris was likely more and showing him their math corrections.) than matched by these gems that flowed from Reg. September 27, 1976: “Very many thanks for your letter and for the Here is a random sampling from Reg’s letters to Chris with thanks to Chris corrections. In re: the latter, they are, I am afraid, not without blemish. for providing them. The originals are handwritten in Reg’s distinctive style. Had you not solicited the aid of that knave Murdoch, I might have granted you leave to see ‘Carry On Nurse’…as it is, I can only authorize November 17,1973: “George Abel promised to let me have addresses for your seeing ‘The Return of Snow White’ showing at ‘The Pansy Palace.’ Fairbourn, Harris, Rigos bros, McCormick and others. He may yet do so, Glad to hear you liked the cider – it’s great stuff, steadies the nerves and but as no word has yet been received, perhaps you could jog his so-called restores sanity… memory.” February 23, 1977: “Sometime ago, I wrote the mighty Lenfesty for help December 2, 1973: “Thanks for alerting Abel – no word from him yet, in uncovering most wanted men such as Abel, Meyer, Wilde, and others. so perhaps we should inject dynamite.” A crashing silence has greeted my request.” 14 co-education

Norfolk House School Graduates of 1959, taken on the steps of the Boarding House at 620 St. Charles Street. If you look carefully at the photograph, you’ll spot a number of young ladies who are mentioned in this article by Larry Devlin. The maiden names of these NHS graduates, in descending order, are: Aletta Bartelink, Eleanor Shaw, Ann Cheetham, Alix Henderson, (note different spelling to Larry's in the article), Sheila Greenhill, Sylvia Meade, Barbara Emery, Wendy Gerry, Susan Arnold. Absent: Rosemary Nicholson. [This was the first year that the Grads wore white dresses. Special thanks to Keith Walker, archivist and past-headmaster at Glenlyon Norfolk House for his assistance in locating and furnishing this photo from the past. -ed.] Co-education with St. Margaret’s and Norfolk House: 1959 Style by Laurence E. Devlin (US ’59) Associate Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Graduate Studies, UVic

N 1959, University School was all boys. to the Mt. Tolmie Grocery Store – still there – must have seemed like the I Our most immediate female role models were: the School Great Escape.) Nurse (an object of terror and definitely not your “mother My first impression was one of a solid red “blob.” This turned out to be figure” type); a lady who worked in the Accounting Office (very short and the grade 12 girls all huddled in the farthest corner – in uniform, of course. very portly); and the Headmaster’s daughter (gorgeous, but older than us What was worse, they wore long blue stockings and between the loose red and anyway, the Headmaster’s daughter). blazers and full coverage of the uniform, it was impossible to give Harry the We were a school of 200 boarders and 30 day-boys. Day-boys were the kind of data I knew he was looking for. lowest of the low and were hooted at with derision (and envy) each morning I tried to hang back rather than continue a frontal assault but as there as they straggled down the drive. The only day-boys excepted from this were only nine of us from University School, it was hard to melt into the treatment were John and Jim Wenman who arrived with “The Bird” (Reg). crowd. The question was, “Who would make the first move, the red blob One definitely did not hoot around “The Bird.” or us? Co-education consisted of the normal fantasies about “girls”– prompted Fortunately, there was a “no-nonsense” mistress present with an English by raging hormones and pictures of movie stars like Sophia Loren, Jayne accent and a set of fingers that nearly crushed your elbow as she paired us Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. (We preferred older women.) Since Boarders off without the niceties of an introduction. It was probably the first time we were only allowed downtown on Saturday afternoons (provided you weren’t had ever tried to hold a girl “properly” – and it showed. The English “gated”), our raging hormones and opportunities for co-education of any mistress put on a scratchy record of “The Blue Danube” and two hours kind were quite contained – to the school’s complete satisfaction. later, we had mastered the minimum essentials of a Viennese waltz. There was, however, official relief from this situation – dances at St. Two hours was also all it took for us to fall in love, en masse, with Margaret’s and Norfolk House – both all-girl schools at the time. Louise Roberts – one of the St. Margaret’s girls. (What’s a (love) story without Our first dance was not a real dance at all – it was a practice session. I names?) Among other things, Louise was a talented ballet dancer. The think that John Timmis, a stern Headmaster but wonderful math teacher, group attention and our lack of skill must have been a trial to her but such wanted to know whether any of us could waltz (we couldn’t) and whether thoughts never crossed our chauvinistic minds. Fortunately, her family had there was likely to be an “incident” if we were exposed to girls (there long and strong connections with University School which helped avoid wasn’t). (The bravado of an all-boy’s school and its raging hormones was no the “incident” that John Timmis clearly feared. (It was great to see Denny match for the reality of meeting girls that you had to hold.) Roberts, Louise’s mother, at Rob Wilson’s retirement party last year.) Late in our final term, our grade 12 class – all nine of us – was bussed We must have done something right at the practice session though, down to the old St. Margaret’s on Fort Street. St. Margaret’s was because several weeks later, we were invited back for a “real” dance where surrounded by a high, wooden fence, no doubt to keep out prying eyes – or the girls had emerged from a red blob into lovely young ladies, each with a worse. It had a small gymnasium on the second floor and we were herded party dress as distinct as their personalities – much like a SMUS Grad up a maze of unfamiliar stairs to the gym entrance. today, I’m sure. Just as we got to the entrance, some lout (I think it was Harry “The We danced the night away to the same scratchy “Blue Danube” that we Horse” Johnston), gave me a push from behind with the admonition, “See had practiced on and a good time was had by all – fully chaperoned of what they look like.” (Harry had been gated so many times that even a trip course. co-education 15

Somehow our reputation as suitable dancing partners for private school Girls like Alex Henderson, Lee Husband and Sue Arnold were great girls reached Norfolk House and our whole grade 12 class was invited to company. The atmosphere was somewhat less restrictive than we had the 1959 Grad Dance as escorts. (I think JJ Timmis offered us up as a kind encountered at St. Margaret’s. For one thing, we were not chaperoned. The of “package deal.”) dance music even included Elvis, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis – The Head Girl of Norfolk House at the time was Barbara Emery. wicked at the time. Barbara was shorter than me (an endearing quality to an adolescent boy), I recall our class arriving back at school very late that night. School was had a sparkling personality, excelled at sports, and was popular with her out and as there were only nine of us doing Junior Matrics, no Duty peers – need I say more? (Louise and the St. Margaret’s girls were quickly Masters were about. Jim Smith and John Schrieber went up the fire escape forgotten.) over the Quad anyway, just to be on the safe side (probably force of habit). Several days before the Grad Dance at Norfolk House, Barbara’s father The absence of Duty Masters and the late night convinced us that this was loaned us his large, green, four-door Cadillac (with fins) to go to an elegant, what life was all about – one big party and no supervision. Since the school pre-grad supper at a country estate in Metchosin overlooking the old didn’t seem to care any more, there was also the gnawing realization that we Quarantine Station, now William Head Prison. were soon to be “on our own” (but this didn’t spoil the party). That night I committed one of the few illegal acts of my life. We Was co-education 1959-style a success? Absolutely. stopped at the old Johnson St. Liquor Store downtown and I wandered in, For one thing, Barbara Emery and I are still talking to each other. well dressed but terrified. Liquor stores in 1959 were dark and foreboding. Although we meet infrequently, when we do, there is a special warmth A single list of products in alphabetical order was posted on the wall and which must have something to do with Apricot Brandy, Baked Alaska and a you wrote down your choice by number and gave it to a clerk behind a wire green Cadillac. What’s more, several alumni I know married private school cage. Barely able to focus (or breathe), I picked the first thing on the list, girls – St. Margaret’s girls no less! Finally, Jim Smith, my friend from paid, and left quickly – still terrified. It turned out to be a bottle of Apricot California, is still convinced that all the music in the world is written in Brandy. Fortunately, Barbara was as inexperienced as me in these matters waltz-time. and never questioned the choice – didn’t have much either. These outcomes alone are enough to evaluate our co-education as a We had a lovely time at the pre-grad supper. The only puzzle for me was roaring success. why “Baked Alaska” appeared on the dinner menu after the entrees. I Readers will know that the writing of history today (or even fiction) is thought it was some type of cod until dessert arrived. one of the most perilous of all academic crafts. One must address questions The Cadillac was great but it had one disconcerting feature. On the of gender, perception, “voice” and point of view – among other things. So dashboard was a bullet shaped, electric eye facing on-coming traffic. It in the interest of scholarship, I invite the Editor of School Ties to find some automatically dimmed the Caddie’s headlights but I didn’t figure this out of the 1959 “girls” and see how they saw our co-education. until several days later. Instead, I got the horrible idea that it was recording all Having served as President of the Alumni Association and Governor for the sounds in the car. (This anxiety made for the most direct route home the past three years, I am immensely proud of SMUS today and am sure it from Metchosin to Barbara’s house on Ferndale Avenue in Gordon Head.) is a far stronger institution for being co-ed. A great school should mirror The 1959 Grad Dance at Norfolk was a great success – at least from the the best of society. The last time I looked around, I saw as many women as point of view of our grade 12 class. The educational philosophy of Norfolk men out there and I am sure that talent and ability are as randomly House seemed to comprehend the fact that girls had hormones too. Several distributed by gender as are all other human characteristics. of our initial contacts had developed into the more predictable (girl) friendships so by the time the Grad Dance arrived, we did not need our elbows crushed to pair off. An Old Time Escapade by Derek Todd (SM ’38)

IN THE 40S, a public health nurse knowledgeable about SEX. He had So I snuck away from ‘games’ I was just as excited as the phoned the Headmaster of St. shown me several ‘centrefolds’ of Wednesday afternoon and rode my leads in the movie were when an Michael’s School, Kyrle Symons, PETTY in Esquire magazines and bicycle downtown to the Capitol usherette came up the stairs and one day and the person said: “We had even read out passages from Theatre. I’ve never in my life told shined her small torch on me. have a nurse circulating the Mae West’s book, “Goodness Had this story to anyone except now “Excuse me, how old are you, schools of Victoria giving a talk Nothing To Do With It.” At an …certainly, at the time, not even to Sir!” she said. I looked up in on ‘Sex’ and we wondered if you early age I became fascinated with my closest school friend! I managed fright and said “TEN!” Then the might like to have her call at your the subject. Although old man to sneak into the movie when no- next thing I heard was the lady’s school?” Symons brain-washed us into one was looking and made my way word “OUT!!” Symons thought for a while believing that we should never go up to the uppermost seat in the I ran down the stairs went to and made the historic remark: “It to a movie on a school day, I saw balcony out of sight of any usher. I the nearest exit and was out on would be a waste of time as St. an ad in the newspaper that an was now ready to educate myself on the street! So no-one can tell me Michael’s boys aren’t at all ADULT movie was in town and sex from the Restricted Movie. I that St. Michael’s boys weren’t or interested in Sex!” was only being shown from was so young I couldn’t read the aren’t interested in sex! Kyrle was wrong. I was very Tuesday to Thursday. I was titles of the French Movie but I got young and had been educated by determined to go and see it, to find interested in a bedroom scene that my older cousin that I should be out what sex was really about! hardly needed dialogue. 16 donor recognition

Thank you to all the members of the St. Michaels University School Donor Recognition community who donated funds to the school over the past year. This July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001 vital support makes a significant difference – thank you! FRIENDS Recognizes Donors whose Annual Gift * Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn Ms. Lindsey Larsen Mr. Michael Rayner Mr. Colin Dykes Mr. & Mrs. Larry & Carol Lau Mr. William Redpath is up to $499 Mr. & Mrs. John & Heidi Edgar Ms. Nancy Laursen Mr. & Mrs. John Reid Mr. & Mrs. Raymond & Fiona Ahrens Mr. & Mrs. John & Linda Edgell Mr. & Mrs. Paramjit Leekha Mr. & Mrs. Donald Roberts * Prof. & Mrs. James Anglin Dr. & Mrs. Evan & Jane Effa Mr. Peter Leggatt Mr. & Mrs. Kelvin Roberts Mr. & Mrs. John & Carol Armstrong Mr. Kevin Ellis Mr. J. Lemay & Ms. J. Dunning Mr. Quintin Robertson Mr. David Avren Mr. John Emmel Mr. Paul Lennox & Ms. Diana Glennie Mr. Warren Robertson Dr. David Ballantyne Ms. Liz Falco Mr. & Mrs. Frank & Peggy Leversedge Mr. Hartland Ross D. or M.T. Bamford Dr. & Mrs. Myron & Betty Faryna * Ms. Marilyn Levitt * Mr. & Mrs. James & Jean Ross Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Gretchen Barber Mr. & Mrs. Kurt & Allison Fellner * Mr. & Mrs. Charles & Mary Liu Mr. Peter Rowand Ms. Alexandra Bayley Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas & Ann Fenje Mr. Mark Longridge Ms. Caroline Rueckert Mr. Douglas Bayley * Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Susan Findlay Deborah K. Lovett Law Corp. Mr. Djonny Saksono & Mrs. Ratna Gwie Dr. & Mrs. Donald & Norma Bays Mr. Gerald Finger & Ms. Anne Hanson-Finger Mr. Rolf Lueck & Ms. Sandra Bitz Dr. & Mrs. Walter Salmaniw Mrs. Deborah Beban First Victoria Investments–Ms. Donna Thomas * Mr. Ian Mackay Ms. Barbara Samson Dr. David Bell & Ms. Michele Trottier Mr. & Mrs. David & Nuala Fisher Mr. Robin MacLeod Ms. Catherine A. Sas Law Corp. Dr. & Mrs. Erik & Mary Ann Bentzon Mr. & Mrs. John & Reta Flanagan Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Lane MacLean * Ms. Sharon Schaan * Ms. Elizabeth Best Mr. George Floyd * Capt. & Mrs. Wilfred Lund * Mr. & Mrs. Frank & Dianne Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. Neville Bishop Ms. Phyllis Foley Dr. & Mrs. P. Maher Mrs. Shauna Schwarz Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Michele Blumberg * Mr. Henry Frew Mr. & Mrs. Cory & Ocdt Marchand * Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Susan Sharp * Ms. Sally Blyth Ms. Jenus Friesen Ms. Julianna Marshall Mr. & Mrs. David & Evelyn Shaw Mrs. Ann Bodley-Scott Mr. Frederick Fulton Mr. Robert Mason-Hurley Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Shich Mr. Danford Bodrug & Ms. Maureen O’Neill * Mr. Real Gamache & Ms. Terese Michon * Mr. B. McCulloch & Ms. A. Thalheimer Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Shields Mr. Steve Bokor Dr. & Mrs. John & Carrie Gayfer Mr. J. McHale & Ms. K. 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Cooley Mr. Marshall Hatton * Mr. Frederick Murray * Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Takoski Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Cordle Mr. & Mrs. Eric Heffernan Mr. Patrick Nagle Ms. Barbara Tarbet Mr. & Mrs. Frank Costin * Dr. Alfred F. Hocker Inc. * Mr. & Mrs. John Nash * Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Teagle Mr. Howard Cotterell Mr. & Mrs. Garry & Sandra Hoffman Ms. Ethel Nevin Mr. Jordan Thome Mr. & Mrs. Geoff & Penni Courtnall Mr. & Mrs. Keith Homer Mrs. Beatrice Ngai Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Thompson Ms. Barbara Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Warren & Xuan Hong Mr. & Mrs. David & Leslie Nicholson CIBC Woody Gundy – Mr. W. Thompson * Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Christine Crawford Mr. Horne – The Canadian Club * Mr. Robert Nixon Mr. W. Giles Thorp * Mr. & Mrs. Carey & Kixi Creek Dr. & Mrs. Peter & Valerie Houghton Mr. & Mrs. Marke & Debbie Noble * Mr. David & Toshie Thumm * Mr. Hamish Creek Mr. & Mrs. Gordon & Melanie Houston * Mr. & Mrs. James Norris Mr. Gordon Tomlin Mr. Raymond Creery Ms. Jocelyn Howden Mr. Byron Nutting Mr. Peter Tongue Ms. Marie Culleton Dr. C-W Hsu & Mrs. H-M Lin Mr. Tony Osachoff & Ms. Allison Brooks Mr. John Travis Dr. Erik Cunningham Mr. Yen-Jung Huang Otsuji & Associates Consulting Inc. * Mr. Iain Trevena Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Dale Dr. & Mrs. Stephen & Penny Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Scott & June Owen Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Tso Mr. & Mrs. Peter Daniel Mr. & Mrs. Sydney & Mary Humphreys Mr. Doug Park Ms. Christine Tyson Mr. & Mrs. Danny & Beth Danskin Mr. & Mrs. John & Joan Humphries Mr. & Dr. John & Nicky Parkinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tyson Mrs. & Mr. Kirsten & Keith Davel * Mr. & Mrs. Christopher & Elsa Huntley Mr. & Mrs. Sam Paterson Mr. John Underhill Mr. Martin Davidson & Ms. Junko Morita Dr. & Mrs. Robin & Patricia Hutchinson Mr. & Mrs. Kevin & Karin Paul Mr. William (Dave) Usher Mrs. Rhona Davies Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Edwina Ingle Mr. & Mrs. John Payne * Ms. Lindy Van Alstine Mr. & Mrs. Douglas & Christine Davison Mr. & Mrs. Norman Isherwood Mr. & Mrs. Allan & Irene Peden * Dr. Nicholas Van Der Westhuizen Ms. Diana Day * Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Janet Peiffer Mr. & Mrs. John Vernon Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Shari de Goede Ms. Eileen Jensen People’s Drug Mart Dr. Tamara Walker * Mr. Pieter De Groot & Dr. Sheila Wynn Mr. & Mrs. Jona Johnson Mr. Andrew Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Gordin Warner * Mr. Bryce Dearborn * Mr. & Mrs. F. B. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pohorecky Dr. & Mrs. Ian & Beverly Lee Waters * Mr. & Mrs. Jason & April Dearborn Mr. A. Kassam & Ms. N. Sharriff-Kassa Ms. Kim Poland Ms. Ludmilla Weaver Petro Canada–Mr. G. Dhanani Mr. & Mrs. David & April Katz Mr. & Mrs. Chris & Sunny Pollard Dr. & Mrs. Rene & Allison Weir Mr. Terry Dial Ms. Nancy Keen Mr. Donald Pollock Mr. Gordon Whiting Ms. Karen Dicks Ms. Amanda Kerr * Dr. P. Pommerville & Dr. M. Murray Ms. Helen Wilinksi * Mrs. Gisele Diiorio Mr. George Kidd Ms. Ilana Porzecanski Ms. Donna Williams Mr. & Mrs. Robert Doell * Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Norma Kingham Mr. David Price * Mr. Jim Williams Prof. Z. Dong & Ms. Y-D Wang Mr. Mark Kudryk Dr. & Mrs. Roger Price Mr. & Mrs. Tom & Joanne Williams Mr. Thomas Doughty Mr. & Mrs. Paul & Lita Kwari Mr. Karl Pringle Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Kelly Wilson Mr. Mark Drum Ms. May Ling Kwok Provincial Employees Community Services Winnipeg Humane Society Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Nina Duffus Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L’Heureux Mr. Rob & Damaris Przybylski * Mr. & Mrs. Ralph & Louise Winter * Dr. & Mrs. Gordon Duke Ms. Tanis Laidlaw Dr. & Mrs. Michael & Teresa Quinlan Mr. Darryl Wohlgeschaffen * Mr. & Mrs. Daniel & Carin Dunlop Dr. Tracey Laidley The Hon. & Mrs. Anthony & Susan Quainton Mr. Robert Wong * Mr. & Mrs. Stewart Dunlop Mr. Erik Larsen Mr. Eric Randall Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Cecilia Wong donor recognition 17

Mr. Jack Wong Mr. & Mrs. Harold & Denise Hayes Mr. Ian Kingham US ’51 Barbara Samson SMUS ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Ross & Jane Woodland * Ms. Jean Ives Mr. Cecil Branson US ’52 Hamish Creek SMUS ’81 Mrs. Shirley Wylie * Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Kathy Jawl Mr. Christopher Huntley US ’54 Kurt Fellner SMUS ’81 Ms. Kathryn Wynn * Mr. & Mrs. Mohan & Cathy Jawl Mr. David Mulder US ’55 John Underhill SMUS ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Tim & Mary Yaryan Mr. & Mrs. William & Lesley Kennes Mr. Chris Pollard US ’56 Alexandra Bayley SMUS ’82 Mr. Jim Yeates Mr. & Mrs. Richard & Diana Kuo Dr. A. Hutchinson US ’57 Allison Fellner SMUS ’83 * Mr. & Mrs. Cliff & Pamela Yorath * Mr. Thomas Lee Dr. Laurence Devlin US ’59 John Parkinson SMUS ’83 * Mr. Derek Yule Leotta Gordon Foundation Mr. Terry Dial US ’59 Nicky Parkinson SMUS ’83 * Mr. & Mrs. Stephen & Penny Martin Capt. Wilfred Lund US ’59 Donelda Straker SMUS ’83 Mr. Barry McPeake & Ms. Jane Beach Mr. Robert Nixon US ’60 Gregory Southgate SMUS ’84 PATRONS Ms. Annemarie Middleton Mr. Michael Rayner US ’60 Kyman Chan SMUS ’85 Recognizes Donors whose Annual Gift Mr. & Mrs. Keith Middleton Mr. Richard Hawkesworth US ’61 Michael Hadfield SMUS ’85 is $500 - $999 Mr. & Mrs. Edward & Insook Molnar Mr. Douglas Bayley US ’63 Shannon Hill SMUS ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Mike & Simone Mrdjenovich Mr. Robin MacLeod US ’63 Lynne Hart SMUS ’86 Mr. James Angus Mr. & Mrs. Tadao & Akie Murakami Mr. W. Giles Thorp US ’63 Annemarie Middleton SMUS ’86 Mr. & Mrs. Len Barnes Mrs. Dawn Nicolson Mr. James Angus US ’64 Jocelyn Snih SMUS ’86 Mr. Allan Bogutz Ms. Jennifer Nicolson Mr. Mark Drum US ’64 Carol Armstrong SMUS ’87 * Mr. & Mrs. Brian & Ann Cameron Mr. Eric Onasick & Ms. Kellie Wyllie Mr. Ian Izard US ’65 Elizabeth Best SMUS ’87 Ms. Maureen Chan * Mr. & Mrs. Alan & Hiromi Scott Mr. John Payne US ’65 Melanie Hadfield SMUS ’87 Mr. & Mrs. David & Jennifer Coulter Mr. Harvey Shapiro Mr. Colin Dykes US ’66 Brendan O’Connor SMUS ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Rod & Debbie Couvelier Mr. Victor Sheng & Mrs. Karen Chen Mr. Charles Willis IV US ’66 Tony Osachoff SMUS ’87 * Dr. & Mrs. Laurence Devlin Mr. & Mrs. Stan Sipos Mr. Byron Nutting US ’67 Diana Day SMUS ’88 Dr. & Mrs. Peter & Barbara Duncan * Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Joan Snowden Mr. Neville Bishop US ’68 Kevin Ellis SMUS ’88 * Mr. & Mrs. Brian Dyer * Mr. Anthony Souza Mr. Robert Mason-Hurley US ’68 Mark Kudryk SMUS ’88 Mr. John Fitzgeorge-Parker Dr. Robert Strang Mr. Gary Wilson US ’68 Tanis Laidlaw SMUS ’88 Mr. & Mrs. W. Greenwell Tri-Eagle Development Corporation Mr. Brian Lo US ’70 Karl Pringle SMUS ’88 Heritage Office Furnishings Vict. Ltd. Dr. H-C Tseng & Ms. S-Y Hsiang Mr. David McPhee US ’70 Shauna Schwarz SMUS ’88 Mr. & Mrs. David & Julia Hsu Ms. Mary Wilinski Mr. Christopher Spicer US ’70 Elizabeth Middleton SMUS ’89 Mr. Rick Humphreys Mr. John Williams Jennifer Nicolson SMUS ’89 * Ms. Jean Inglis * Mr. Robert Wilson Ilana Porzecanski SMUS ’89 * Mr. & Mrs. Ian & Daphne Izard Mr. Dirk Yzenbrandt T ICHAEL S Tamara Walker SMUS ’89 Mr. & Mrs. Sohan & Cathy Jawl S . M ’ Jason Dearborn SMUS ’90 Mr. & Mrs. Sims & Grace Kho LUMNI ONORS A D Mark Longridge SMUS ’90 Mr. & Mrs. Ross & Joanne Kipp Cedric Walker SM ’20 OUNDER S IRCLE Christine Tyson SMUS ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Stanley & Winnie Ko F ’ C John Buck SM ’28 Recognizes Donors whose Annual Gift Bryce Dearborn SMUS ’92 Ms. Annabel Lapp Frederick Fulton SM ’28 Yen-Jung Huang SMUS ’92 * Mr. & Mrs. Christopher & Barbara Lawrence is $5,000 - $14,999 George Kidd SM ’32 Hartland Ross SMUS ’92 Mr. & Mrs. C-W & Y-H Lee * Considine & Company Colin Rutherford SM ’35 Peter Rowand SMUS ’92 Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Lee Ms. Deborah Acheson Alastair Gillespie SM ’38 Robert Wong SMUS ’92 Ms. Diana MacGregor Mr. & Mrs. David & Susan Ainsworth Derek Yule SM ’42 Thomas Doughty SMUS ’93 Mr. Rod Mahrt & Mr. & Mrs. Ralph & Linda Bodine Brian Cameron SM ’66 Barret Hatton SMUS ’93 Dr. Jo-Anne Nishimura-Mahrt Fort Realty Ltd. Rod Couvelier SM ’68 Jason Sturgis SMUS ’93 Mr. & Mrs. Garry & Darlene McCue Mr. & Mrs. Newton Cameron David Avren SM ’69 Marshall Hatton SMUS ’95 Ms. Elizabeth Middleton * Mr. Brian Graves Amyrose Gill SMUS ’96 * Mrs. Suzanne Mir Mr. Brian Lo Caroline Rueckert SMUS ’96 * Dr. Ian Mugridge Mr. & Mrs. Phil & Joey McCune SMUS DONORS Bradley Stevenson SMUS ’96 Mr. Brendan O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Tom & Sue Rigos Anthony Souza SMUS ’72 Jack Wong SMUS ’96 Mr. & Mrs. Patrick & Katherine O’Connor * Mr. & Mrs. John & Anne Schaffter Cliff Sun SMUS ’72 Patrick Gill SMUS ’97 Capt. G. Paulson & Dr. B. Vadeboncoeur Mr. Cliff Sun Eric Heffernan SMUS ’73 Kathryn Wynn SMUS ’97 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pollard Mr. Charles Willis IV Michael Jawl SMUS ’76 Jordan Thome SMUS ’98 * Mr. & Mrs. Peter Pollen Dirk Yzenbrandt SMUS ’77 Erik Larsen SMUS ’99 Mr. & Mrs. Bradley & Karen Prager Henry Frew SMUS ’78 Lindsey Larsen SMUS ’01 * Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Doreen Rigos VIVAT SOCIETY Steve Bokor SMUS ’79 * Mr. Colin Rutherford Recognizes Donors whose Annual Gift Warren Robertson SMUS ’79 Drs. Kenneth & Gail Smith is $15,000+ Darryl Wohlgeschaffen SMUS ’79 * Indicates donors who have given Marianne Anderson SMUS ’80 consecutively for at least five years. * Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Spicer * Friends of Independent Schools Mrs. Kumiko Suga Peter Chan SMUS ’80 * Quail Rock Foundation Erik Cunningham SMUS ’80 Dr. R. Thompson & Ms. R. Hetherington Stephen Nash * Drs. Linda & Alan Thomson Mr. Cedric Walker Mr. & Mrs. Jack & Lydia Tsai * Mr. Michael Walsh UNIVERSITY HEADMASTER’S SCHOOL DONORS CIRCLE Mr. Milton Sturgis US ’26 Recognizes Donors whose Annual Gift Mr. Gordon Whiting US ’27 Development Office Mr. Howard Cotterell US ’28 is $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. Richard George US ’29 * Ms. Marianne Anderson Mr. Jack Buchanan US ’33 Fundraising Results 2000-2001 * Mrs. Kathleen Angus Mr. F.B. Jones US ’34 Mr. & Mrs. Jeong Baek Mr. John Challoner US ’35 Total Funds Donated: $373,000 * Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bateman Mr. Cyril Sworder US ’35 * Dr. John Buck Mr. Gordon Tomlin US ’35 Number of Donors: 458 Mr. Arthur Celuszak & Ms. Monica Cotton Mr. Ernie Teagle US ’36 Donated funds supported 61 student bursaries, purchased computers for CFB/Area Support Unit Kingston Mr. William (Dave) Usher US ’39 two computer labs (one in Junior School, one in Middle School), added Mr. Peter Chan Mr. Raymond Creery US ’40 Mr. Alfred Chao & Ms. Irene Kopel Mr. Brian Graves US ’41 significant funds to the school endowment, and contributed funds (as per Mr. & Mrs. Wen-Lung Chen Mr. Frank Schroeder US ’41 donor wishes) to the alumni bursary endowment. This year saw a solid * Cmdr. Ron Dyson Mr. Quintin Robertson US ’42 Dr. & Mrs. Desmond & Holly Erwin Mr. William Redpath US ’43 increase in the number of SMUS constituents supporting the school. This Mr. & Dr. John & Karen Finlay Mr. David Price US ’45 is an important indicator. It is vital that more members of the school Mr. & Mrs. Michael & Melanie Hadfield Mr. Potter Morrow US ’47 * Mr. & Mrs. David & Rosalie Hargrove Mr. Rafael Melendez-Duke US ’48 community add their support for the Annual Fund if the school is to Mr. & Mrs. William & Terry Harper Dr. David Ballantyne US ’49 respond to the needs identified in the Strategic Plan. Harry’s Grocery - Mr. Harry Chung Dr. Robert Strang US ’49 Dr. & Mrs. Anthony & Jayne Hawe Mr. Hugh Burnett US ’50 Thank you to all the members of our school community who supported * Mr. Richard Hawkesworth Mr. Leslie Gilbert US ’50 the school through the Annual Fund. You do make a difference. 18 heritage club

Heritage Club Spotlight Bursaries Perpetuate the Memory of Two Fine Young Men

or St. Michaels University School, the summer of 2000 was F marred by the tragic deaths of two wonderful young men. Liam Hassett (SMUS ’96) and Andrew Middleton (SMUS ’95) were fine men of talent and promise. In memory of their sons, the Hassett and Middleton families have undertaken the building of memorial bursaries at SMUS. Family and friends have given these special endowments a good start, but more support is needed to achieve the minimum endowing principal. If you would like to help, or if you have questions about these two named awards, please contact Chris Spicer, (250) 370-6197 or [email protected]

This photograph of Ken “Muscles” Rosewell, Cecil Branson, Roscoe SMUS Alumni Tanner and a tennis friend was taken at a charity Pro-Am in Vancouver, BC

N JUNE OF THIS YEAR, Cecil Branson (US ’52) came in to E-mail I the Development Office with a package under his arm and a gleam in his eye. This was not the first time that Cec had Directory brought in valuable items for the school archives, but something was INCE THE LAUNCH of the different today – Cec had something on his mind. SMUS Alumni E-mail As a schoolboy, Cecil excelled at tennis. In fact, he won the school S Directory in August 2000, we tennis championships four years in a row – grade 9 to grade 12, an have over 30% of our mailable alumni amazing feat! His involvement in and love of tennis continues. He has registered online. We are pleased with been a spectator at Wimbledon on four occasions; he built a tennis this progress, and hope all registered court at his Saltspring Island home and still plays regularly wherever users have found it useful and the his law practice travels take him. broadcasts informative. We would love to Tennis was on Cecil’s mind when he came to visit that day. In see even more of you join! redrafting his will, Cecil has made a generous planned gift to SMUS. It On that note…we hope to bribe you Win this snazzy is his wish that this gift be used to enhance the tennis programme at with an incentive! Every person who joins SMUS fleece vest! his old school. The facility development plans for SMUS call for tennis the Directory from now until November 15, 2001 will have his or her courts to be rebuilt on the campus at a future date. This terrific gift name entered into a draw to win a great SMUS Alumni fleece vest. will help to make this a reality. In the interest of fairness, those of you already listed were also entered In arriving at the decision to make this gift, Cec heard a couple of into a draw. And the winner is… phrases echo in his mind: “How do I wish to be remembered; your Paul Selina (SMUS ’83) example is more important than your advice.” If you were to make a planned gift/estate gift to your school, how Congratulations, Paul! We will contact you regarding your new would you like to see it used? Would you develop a student bursary, SMUS vest. build a classroom, endow a teaching chair? Or? Please contact To register on the Directory, simply go to the Development/Alumni Chris Spicer to discuss the difference your planned gift can make. page of the SMUS website: (250) 370-6197 or [email protected] www.smus.bc.ca and click on the link: “SMUS Alumni E-mail Directory.” From here you can easily add yourself to this secure password driven site. Once your registration is activated you can search for your contemporaries by year, www.smus.bc.ca name or geographical branch. You can also choose to add your own biographical information and even upload a photo of yourself or family. Check out the ever-evolving SMUS web site. In addition, there is a “class notes” option where you can post interesting tidbits of information regarding you, your family, or other alumni whom We have posted photographs from the May 2001 reunion, you have seen in your travels. as well as last years Golf Tournament and Spring Fair 2000! Questions? Please contact Melanie Hadfield (SMUS ’87) at Please let us know what you think. mhadfi[email protected]. Vivat! Melanie community 19

Something to belong to... the SMUS Community!

E ARE A COMMUNITY, it says in the SMUS mission statement. • the two alums who returned for their class reunion in May, 2001 and W What is community? Something to belong to; a place to make a were so impressed by the many developments at the school, they have contribution; a gathering of individuals who make efforts to both made career changes to enable their children to attend SMUS this work for a common good; a place to call home; a part of every constituent; fall; a survival system; a nurturing place to grow – and much more. • the alum who came by the school to see if a staff member would go The St. Michaels University School community is much enriched by kayaking with him during his few weeks in Victoria; the lifetime affiliation of school alumni. This connection ebbs and flows • the alums who live and work in the residences while they attend but never disappears. Some recent illustrations of this strong alumni university; network include: • the many alums who showed their real love for their former drama • the four alum weddings which took place in the school chapel this past teacher in May 2001, by putting together an extremely memorable two summer, bringing many alum friends back to share this special hour performance drawn from productions which spanned two moment; decades; • the young man who came back to his school to coach two sports teams • the proud grandfather/alum who is delighted to be paying the fees for as his way to say thank you for the bursary support his family received his granddaughter to start at the Junior School this fall. so that he could stay at SMUS; • alums who travel from thousands of miles away to attend board We are community! We always have been. This is our strength. meetings and special school retreats – because they care about the SMUS of tomorrow; As it happens... Five Fine Geographers Rookie of the Year Geography Grads at UVic tell a story of SMUS influence: five alums Jessalyn Jennings (SMUS ’00) received Rookie of the Year Award for the from the class of 1995, Ali Wilmott, Ole Schmidt, David Crothall, CIAU Quebec/Ontario Conference, plus Waterloo University’s Female Gethin Jones and Pip Bazzard, graduated from UVic this year with Rookie Athlete of the Year Award for her stellar year with the University degrees in Geography. Could this be a credit to the SMUS Geography of Waterloo Women’s Field Hockey Programme. Department?

Rugby Coup for SMUS June 29, 2001 the Canadian Rugby Squad left for Japan Ð along with six members of the SMUS family. Mel Jones, school faculty, went as an Feisty Fairhurst - February 2001 assessor of referees, Bruce Kuklinski as an International Rugby Board Ed Fairhurst (SMUS ’97) pulls down world-renowned rugby star Jonah referee, Bob Ross (SMUS ’87), Jeremy Cordle (SMUS ’92), Ed Fairhurst Lomu from behind as Canada Sevens Squad plays Canada vs New Zealand, (SMUS ’97) and Mike Danskin (SMUS ’98), all went as players. in Wellington, NZ. 20 community

What Can You Do With (Helping) Make SMUS a Degree in ‘X’? More Accessible…

HAT DO accountants, stockbrokers, entrepreneurs, and financial E CAN ALL THINK of wonderful young people who would W comptrollers have in common? They are all involved in some W benefit from and thrive in the SMUS community but whose aspect of that wonderful, all-pervasive concept we know as families are not in a position to fund the tuition fees. Wouldn’t business. What’s more, they all have information and ideas to offer to the it be wonderful to make SMUS more accessible to more families? Not senior classes at SMUS. only would this give bright and talented young people the opportunity of On Tuesday, May 15, Kyman Chan (SMUS ’85), Steve Bokor a lifetime but it would also enhance the school community itself – by (SMUS ’79), Michael Adam (SMUS ’99) and Rick Humphreys (SMUS providing a more socio-economically diverse student body and thus a Director of Finance) met with a group of twenty-five students and more enriched and well-rounded experience for all of us at the school. parents to open up the general topic, “What Can You Do With a Degree One of the strategic priorities at SMUS is to enhance the school’s in Business?” In panel format, each participant told his individual “story,” endowment and thus its ability to offer financial assistance. relating his experiences in business and his view of the part that business Since 1998, SMUS has increased its total annual funds dedicated to can play in the lives of SMUS students as they plan their post-secondary need-based financial assistance from $175,000 to $285,000. This helps programmes and career goals. Students and parents came away from the approximately 60 to 70 (about 10%) day and boarding families at varying session with new perspectives on Business Education and a clear sense of levels, depending on the specific financial need of the individual family. how business works in the lives of four people who are very much a part With these limited funds, the financial assistance committee aims to help of the school family. as many students as possible. Through the course of the session, presenters identified several key As a comparison, it is important to note that many schools in North characteristics of people who are sought out by progressive, successful America help closer to 20-30% of their student enrolment and have businesses. Such people are creative, critical thinkers who have a strong funds well over $1,000,000 per year to distribute. We strongly encourage ability to communicate (especially in inspired, efficient writing). They are school families, alumni and friends to consider contributing to the SMUS adaptable, empathetic and entrepreneurial, and they often have extra- endowment fund so that we can reach our goal of $1,000,000 in annual curricular interests. Sounds like a good description of an SMUS graduate. financial assistance. Presented by the SMUS University Counselling Centre, “What Can We certainly encourage interested families to apply for financial You Do With a Degree in ‘X’?” is a series of informal presentations assistance and we hope that our current school families and friends will designed to give our senior students a wider understanding of the let others know that financial assistance is indeed available. In order to applicability of the various post-secondary paths open to them. Kathy receive a financial assistance application form, please contact Louise Roth and Jake Humphries, who work in the centre, have enlisted the help Winter, Headmaster’s Assistant at [email protected]. If you have any of the alumni association and the full school community to supply this further questions about the financial assistance programme or how to wider understanding through the evening presentation series. If you donate to the endowment fund, please contact Liz Falco, Director of would be interested in presenting your “story” and your views, please Admissions at [email protected] or Chris Spicer, Director of contact Kathy or Jake at the school at (250) 592-2411. For the 2001- Development at [email protected] 2002 school year, presentations are planned on the following topics: Financial Assistance…Making SMUS More Accessible “What Can You Do With a Degree in Humanities?” –Liz Falco, Director of Admissions “What Can You Do With a Degree in Fine Arts?” “What Can You Do With a Degree in Sciences?” “What Can You Do With a Degree in Information Technology?” –Jake Humphries, SMUS Counselling New Facilities EOPLE ARE CURIOUS about construction of new facilities at the P school. We are currently in the process of seeking approvals and permits from the Municipality of Saanich in order to proceed Ice Cream Day with erecting the Crothall Centre for Humanities and the Arts. We expect to start demolition of the Old Gym either March 2002 ANY THANKS to the St. Michael’s Old Boys who once again break, or next June, with construction starting the minute school finishes came out to help reinstate the tradition of handing out dixie M in June 2002. The building will be situated right behind School House, cups to the students on what was St. Michael’s School’s and is expected to be open for September 2003. founder, KC Symons,’ birthday. Despite inclement weather, students Please visit the Senior School Reception area to view Paul Merrick’s from all three campuses enjoyed their treats. architectural models and to read the full overview of the Facilities Plan if Again, a very special thank you to St. Michael’s Old Boys: Peter you are interested. Some material is also available for viewing on our Bousfield (SM ’48), Brian Cameron (SM ’70), Bruce Holmes (SM ’71), school website at: www.smus.bc.ca Mervin Lougher-Goodey (SM ’56), John Nation (SM ’33), Michael Oliver (SM ’67), Philip Sherwin (SM ’69), Kane Straith (SM ’70), Michael Symons (SM & US ’63) and Philip Symons (SM ’55), who so very kindly helped us on this day. alumni 21

Archives Progress Update Alumni Report OUR SCHOOL ARCHIVES continues to develop under the Y inspired and methodical leadership of Brenda Waksel. The work of accessioning, cataloguing, storing, recovering, HIS HAS BEEN ANOTHER VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR for the researching, data entering, identifying and all the activities of a fully alive T Association, as well as one of transition. After a very archive continue year round. Brenda and a small core of highly dedicated productive three years as President, Dr. Larry Devlin now volunteers have accomplished much – but much is yet to be done. sits as Past President on our board. As an organization, we have The increase of visits and enquiries indicates that our archive is come far in the last number of years, much due to Larry’s gaining increased visibility. Do you have a few hours each week or a block leadership. Now we plan to build on existing initiatives, as well as of time in the summer when you could lend a hand? We need you to help embark on new ones. with oral history tape transcription, data entry, item storage, and much Work will continue on our scholarship/award programme and more. If you are interested and can help, please contact Brenda at expand as our money increases. Expansion of the historical sign 370-6159 or [email protected]. programme, already in evidence around the school, is part of the on-going support for historical and archival work. We will begin planning for the 2006 centenary and look into establishing SMUS alumni ‘chapters’ in different cities around the world. There has been some interest shown in this concept already. It will increase Alumni Admissions awareness and involvement of alumni both in their local area and Hans Cunningham and Bill Hope, both class of 1976, returned to school community as well. SMUS for their 25th Reunion and shortly after made decisions to alter As a result of our recent Annual General Meeting in May here is a their lives totally to move to Victoria and give their sons and daughters a list of current officers and directors of the Association for 2001-02: SMUS opportunity. Hans and Bill were so pleased by the steps taken at President - Henry Frew (SMUS ’78) SMUS to broaden and enhance the total school curriculum, that Vice-President - Graeme Cunningham (SMUS ’75) immediately after the May 2001 Reunion, they started making plans to Secretary - Dr. Nicky Parkinson (SMUS ’83) have their children admitted to the school for the coming year. Treasurer - Steve Bokor (SMUS ’79) Directors - Elizabeth Best (SMUS ’87) Allanna Kliman (SMUS ’83) Ian Farish (SMUS ’89) Out There! Dirk Yzenbrandt (SMUS ’77) Matthieu Boyd (SMUS ’99) has written some extremely colourful, Kyman Chan (SMUS ’85) enthralling, comic and revealing pieces about his life at Princeton Gina Delimari (SMUS ’85) University. It is a wonderful match, the brilliant mind and deep talent of Michael Symons (SM & US ’62) Matthieu and the limitless opportunity afforded students at Princeton. Tanis Laidlaw (SMUS ’88) “In his first two years, Matthieu – who will write his eventual thesis in Robin Baird (SMUS ’81) French and medieval studies, with a likely certificate in creative writing Alex Wardle (SMUS ’91) and a possible certificate in drama – has studied translation with well- Past President - Dr. Larry Devlin (US ’59) known Irish poet Paul Muldoon, and poetry with Pulitzer Prize winner Ex-officio - Chris Spicer (US ’70) Yusef Komunyakaa. He has listened to the likes of Nobel Laureates Lech At this point, I would like to briefly introduce four of our team. Walesa of Poland and Toni Morrison, President Muhammad Ibrahim I will introduce others in the next School Ties. Our Treasurer, Steve Egal of Somaliland, the exiled king of Greece, and White House hopeful Bokor, is a portfolio manager with Pacific International Securities. Michael Dukakis; he has acted a wide variety of theatrical roles. “A man He has overseen growth and changes in our finance policy and he should have an adventure every day,” he says. shepherds our money. He is laying great groundwork for the future. “If I don’t have an adventure every day, at least I will learn Allanna Kliman does stalwart service with the annual reunion something.” weekend every year. Two of our new members, Ian Farish and “This summer of 2001, he researched and translated for the Tanis Laidlaw, teach at the school. Ian teaches band and chemistry international relations service of the French Senate, surrounded by gold at the Senior Campus and is also a houseparent. Tanis teaches math leaf and paintings by Delacroix, and translated further for the at the Senior Campus. They are both welcome additions. International Rights/Education division of the publisher Hachette. He The alumni association is a fundamental part of the school also participated in the Grande Troménie of Locronan, Brittany, and community. We have an open door policy and encourage any starred in a short film shot in Paris. Returning to New Jersey, he has been alumni who have ideas, time or energy to contact us. I look nominated research assistant to one of his professors; a Wilderness First forward to serving as President of the Association at this eventful Responder, he will lead backcountry trips for the Princeton Outdoor time in our history. Action programme.” Vivat! Henry L. Frew, Alumni President 22 alumni news

Alumni News Alumni Reunion Weekend May 4-5, 2001 Class Notes – US ’66 Well, that was over far too quickly. My guess is that the more of these events you attended, the more you enjoyed the weekend. From Friday golf through to cricket on Sunday, our class was delighted that Rob Wilson attended all the events. He expressed to me his great pleasure in being a part of everything, and in particular meeting everyone – including those who were at the school for grade 12. Rob moved to the east, but returned to the school in the 70s, and twice served as Headmaster under difficult circumstances. Each time the school emerged Robert Young (US ’37), his brother John Young (US ’41) and Robert’s son- in a stronger and more harmonious position. From a personal perspective, in-law, John Payne (US ’65), together at the senior alumni reception given it was very satisfying that we had a good turnout. As you probably found, by the Headmaster and his wife at Reynolds House. there was not enough time to really connect with everyone and maybe that can be addressed in the future. In the meantime, I will continue to keep in touch with you in the hope that you will do likewise and return next May in even greater numbers. Time marches on so don’t wait too long. Vivat! - Jim Wenman, Class Representative, University School Class of 1966

SM Class of 1971 A small but impressive group from the St. Michael’s Class of 1971 gathered during the recent alumni weekend – 30 years on! Mark Bell kept us honest with class photos and an excellent memory for who had done James Angus (US ’64) and Bill Olafson (US ’66) at the Friday night Alumni what to whom; Kane Straith showed up fashionably late. He is Reunion Weekend reception. playing/coaching rugby, making sure that we all dress well and drink good coffee. Peter Hertzberg represented the out-of-towners; he is a criminal lawyer practicing in Nanaimo. We were all delighted that he has yet to represent any classmates! Nigel Penn has moved on from driving Jaguars to piloting planes for West Jet. I guess the wind in his hair is a thing of the past. I was just amazed that all these old geezers were still alive and able to attend an evening function well past their bedtimes. - Bruce Holmes, Class Representative, St. Michaels Class of 1971

University School - Class of 1961: (l-r) Mike Kennaugh, Tom Rigos, Bill Monkman and Bryan Tassin. Missing: Barry Phillips.

Class of ’71: (l-r) Kane Straith, Mark Bell, Peter Hertzberg, Bruce Holmes and Nigel Penn met at the Snug on May 4, 2001 to reconnect.

University School - Class of 1966: In this photo: David Helm, Bill Olafson, John Watt, John McIntyre, Charlie Hughes, Costa Penn, Colin Dykes, John MacLeod, Gordon Stubbs, Stephen Bett, Chris Wolfe, Jim Wenman, Martin Seeger, Bill Davis, Mike Scott and Don Harris. alumni news 23

Class of 1976 Saturday was filled with activities throughout the day at the Senior School campus concluding with a sumptuous Dinner/Dance with the Surprise and delight, the key emotions as classmates from 25 years back ever-popular Timebenders. Over 20 couples enjoyed dancing until the met once again at the Snug in Victoria. Our group included Anthony wee hours of the night. The crowd relaxed on Sunday with a family Cheng, Monty Locke, Bill Ransford, Mike Jawl, Rob Oswald, Collin barbeque in the incredible gardens of Andrew and Irene Bekes’ lovely Yong and Bill Hope – and some hardy spouses! The festivities moved home. It was nice to meet alumni’s spouses and partners. The many along nicely but really kicked into gear with the arrival of Mel Jones and children enjoyed swimming in the outdoor pool. his endless stories about Bob Adams, Marcus Endean, Michael Cottrell, A heartfelt thank you goes to Selwyn Wan for his digital photography. et al. Our next guest was Mike Walsh who looked healthier than all his We look forward to seeing the results of our wonderful weekend on a former students at that table. Mike shared his personal recollections of reunion CD. our era, which included some very funny incidents from our 1975 UK - Laurel Laturnus, Class Representative, Class of 1981 tour. He still remembers the play that led up to every tour try! Truly, time melted away during this terrific evening. The rest of the weekend was wonderful – excellent rugby, meeting more old friends, touring the school – if you have not been back for a few years, get a tour because I guarantee that you will not recognize the place. Hans Cunningham and his wife joined all of us at the dinner dance, which was memorable for the tribute Rob Oswald delivered to Doug Williams, the food and the dancing. This was a wonderful weekend, and for those of you who could not make it, just remember that I have most of your e-mail addresses now and the next five years to work on getting you back for our 30th. - Bill Hope, Class Representative, St. Michaels University School Class of 1976 Class of ’81

Class of ’76 (l-r): Collin Yong, Mike Jawl, Bill Ransford, Rob Oswald, Anthony Cheng, Monty Locke and Bill Hope at the Snug.

Class of ’81 - 20 Year Reunion. Grad committee Laurel Laturus, Andrew Class of 1981 – 20 Year Reunion Bekes, Peta Tibbetts, Jane Cassady and George Spentzos (in front). Oxford Dictionary defines a reunion as a social gathering, especially of Missing: Mike Lambe . intimates or persons with a common interest. The Class of 1981 celebrated twenty years since graduation from St. Michaels University Class of 1986 School on the Alumni Reunion May 4, 5, and 6, 2001. Over 60 of the The Class of 1986 had a fabulous get-together for our 15th Reunion at 81 alumni returned and enjoyed activities over the weekend. Many were Michelle (Greene) Jones’ home in Victoria. The evening was somewhat returning to Victoria for the first time in over twenty years! quieter than some of those we have been known for in the past – perhaps Special recognition for distances traveled go to Mark Robinson from due to the number of parents and parents-to-be at the party! A great time Japan, Sam Malin and George Spentzos from Britain, Trevor Moat and Kurt was had by all. Over 20 alums and a few daring spouses attended, mostly Fellner from Ontario, John Underhill from Nova Scotia and Mehrdad travelling from Seattle and Vancouver. The hilarity continued until the Mohtadi from Hong Kong. Many others also traveled great distances to wee hours of the morning. The only reason for packing it up was to renew acquaintances, visit the school and enjoy good times together. ensure we could make it through the rest of the weekend festivities. Ten alumni started bright and early Friday morning with a round of Jen (Lowan) McCallum and I had the difficult but rewarding task of golf organized by Steve Selina on the stunning course at the Victoria Golf tracking down our former classmates, many of whom we found overseas. Club. Another group visited academic classes at the Senior School, It was wonderful to connect with those who were not able to attend via dropping in on Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Peach, Mr. Richards, Mr. Keble and phone and e-mail. I really encourage everyone to register with the SMUS Mrs. Murphy. How times have changed with computers and other hi-tech Alumni Directory, it is a terrific way to maintain contact with each other: equipment in the classroom. The excellence of teaching, however, remains [www.smus.bc.ca; go to alumni directory]. Many thanks to Melanie unchanged. Today’s students are as fortunate to attend SMUS as we were. (Dovey) Hadfield and Chris Spicer in the SMUS Development Office for Friday evening saw a group of the “first girls” gather for dinner at a all their support in organizing this event. Plan now to attend our 20th in downtown restaurant. The reception at the beautiful Ocean Pointe Hotel May 2006, the 100th anniversary year of the school. was attended by over 55 alumni and 10 faculty. The music and - Michelle Jones, Class Representative, Class of 1986 friendships rekindled were hot. 24 alumni news

Class of ’86 - The hilarity continued until the wee hours of the morning! (l-r): Chris Devlin, Bryn McLean, Jen (Lowan) McCallum, Jane Rees, Alix (Stewart) Cameron, Meris Williams and Susan (Leech) Ko. (See write-up on page 23.) Alumni Donors Reception Class of 1991 This tremendous weekend is full of planned and serendipitous get- togethers. The campus is so full of activity that it becomes a real challenge For many of us, it was the first time we had been back to the campus in to assemble different alums for occasions throughout the day. The second 10 years. As I parked my car on the Friday night and walked up to the annual Alumni Donor Reception was a brief and focused opportunity for Wenman Pavilion, I was nervous and yet excited at the same time. I had school representatives to express their thanks to alumni who donate to their some serious questions racing through my head: would I recognize school. SMUS is so much stronger because of these vital investments. anyone there; would anybody recognize or remember me? Well, much like the campus, the Grads of ’91 had aged and matured gracefully. Tracking down our group was challenging, to say the least, as many of us had taken jobs internationally or were finishing off school in distant reaches of the globe which made travel and budgeting tough. Special thanks go to David Chmiel, who came from London, England and Jennifer Thoss, who travelled all the way from Japan for the event. Overall, the Friday night was a great success – with sixty or more grads attending the evening. Just looking around the room it seemed as if we had all just left yesterday, as old friendships were rekindled and everyone caught up on the last ten years. Major thanks go to Cathy Lambe and Max Humphreys who helped coordinate the event and catering for the evening. As the evening continued into the wee hours, Cricket Match on Sunday the stories were getting taller, and our past school days were becoming Sunday, May 6 was a fine day for the annual Alumni vs School cricket more golden. One thing for sure was that ten years went way too fast and match. The School XI were no match for a powerful alumni squad, that most us were still just the same as in high school, except we now had bolstered with the likes of “Hong Kong Sixer” Tony Souza, who jobs, partners and responsibilities! demonstrated that years of work in the nets under the practiced eye of The Saturday night dinner dance drew about 20 grads and their “The Bird” were not in vain. partners. Again, this was like old times as we danced to the Timebenders and remembered the days of school dances while we took in the New Gym facilities. As the weekend drew to a close, most of us were tired from a weekend of socializing, relaxing and recapping with our old friends and making new ones. To all of you who attended, good luck with your current endeavours and it was great to see you. To those who could not make it I look forward to seeing you in nine and a half years at our 20-year reunion. - Alexander Wardle, Class Representative, Class of 1991

...they still run! Alumni touch rugby players try but cannot keep up to Mr. K.! Players in Alumni Reunion 2001 attendees (l-r) Robert Connoly (SMUS ’96), the photo are (l-r): Rob Connolly, Mike Danskin, John Andrachuk, Ali Wilmott (SMUS ’95) and Cam Loveless (SMUS ’96) meet at the Coach Bruce Kuklinski, Andrew Dewar, Milan Mrdjenovich, Colin Wenman Pavillion during the Annual Rugby Challenge. Dyer, Chris Noel and Stephen Lobb. alumni news 25

What a Night it Was! And Now, for May 3-5, 2002, Three hundred alumni and guests from near and far, terrific buffet, appealing silent auction, celebratory spirit, fabulous entertainment and the next BIG THING!! music – ingredients for a memorable night in the gym at SMUS. Master of Ceremonies Graeme Cunningham did a superb job of directing the ut this down in your daytimer right now…the 2002 Alumni evening. From set-up to Sunday break-down, the alumni association P Reunion is set. Plan to be here for a really memorable worked extremely hard to mount this wonderfully successful event. Chef weekend. All alumni and their families are warmly welcomed Wes Haines and his staff were brilliant. Timebenders lead and 1980 for this weekend celebration. A few classes will be celebrating special alumnus Tom Watson charged the crowd with energy and sizzle – it was a reunions and these are as follows: great night. Graduation Year: Class Representative:

University Mindi Mayo (604) 552-8000 School 1952 Cec Branson (250) 537-8937 [email protected]

University Tony Keble (250) 385-3448 School 1962 [email protected]

University Rod Filtness (250) 653-4601 School 1967 [email protected] Doug Maclean (604) 946-5042

SMUS 1972 Tony Souza Anthony.souza@ hk.standardchartered.com Gary Copeland (250) 743-9457 Michael Throne [email protected] Pam Yorath receives singing Sandra Selina listens intently for lessons from Chubby Checker. dancing tips from The King. SMUS 1977 Dirk Yzenbrandt (250) 658-3458 [email protected]

SMUS 1982 Susan Ben-Oliel (604) 251-2453 [email protected] Lex Bayley (604) 922-0732 [email protected] Jenny (Norman) Fitzpatrick (817) 424-4045

SMUS 1987 Melanie Hadfield (250) 370-6176 mhadfi[email protected] Jen (Forth) Hancock (250) 477-3818

Sa’ad Kayal auditions for a new career position. SMUS 1992 Erica Kjekstad [email protected] & Joanna (Kiss) Snow

Contact your class rep and let them know you’re coming!

The first and only time all night that the class of 1981 paused for breath! 26 alumni updates

Alumni Updates

E RECEIVE E-MAIL, SNAIL MAIL, TELEPHONE CALLS, visits even IAN GRAEME (SMUS ’77) strategist. He is now the director W – and we love to hear from you! This is what gives us the stories was presented with the Saanich of online content and creative to build this important section of School Ties. Please take a Individual Citizen Environmental development for Compaq Computer moment and tell us what you are doing, keep in touch, let us know if you Achievement Award, June 4, Corporation in Toronto. are looking for a contact number for a fellow alumnus, or if you have a 2001. Ian is president of the question about something at your old school. The more we hear, the Camosun Community Association, ERIC RANDALL (SMUS ’86) more we can pass on in this section. and continues to play an instrumental currently works for Booz-Allen & We want your e-mail address, so why not send us an e-mail update role in the restoration and Hamilton, an international firm right now!! [[email protected]] or [[email protected]] preservation of a viable Bowker specializing in public transportation Creek. and transit management consulting. Eric lives in Old Town Alexandria, JAMES COLQUHOUN (US ’50) 42-degree heat. David’s other KHALID NAHHAS (SMUS ’81) Virginia and maintains an active recently reconnected with his old assignment saw him working at a dropped in with his family for a interest in canoeing, swing dance, school. Jim retired in 1991 and lead-zinc mine on the Tibetan visit this summer. He is an hiking, reading and weekends lives in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Plateau and into Qinghai province. architect and a businessman in with the naval reserves. where he continues to exercise his He advised the company on Jordan and plans to relocate to lifelong passion for sailing. He drilling and precious metals MANUEL GARCIA (SMUS ’87) recovery. There was some time for BC in the next year or so. has also taken up watercolour writes that this summer he will painting, walking and travelling tours and David was impressed by OWEN PEER (SMUS ’83) complete his MBA at the since retirement. The majority of the beauty of Kunming City just writes to say that he is now living Marshall School of Business at the James’ working life saw him based north of Laos. in Nanaimo and working at University of Southern California, in Pembrokeshire working as an MONTY BROWN (US ’57) has Malaspina College as the lab “and then I am done with agricultural advisor in a technical reconnected with the school via technologist for the Geology academic life for good.” area dealing with cows and cereals the alumni directory. He lives in Department. Owen is responsible and, increasingly, more oriented ASHLEY HIGHTON (SMUS Elm Grove, Louisiana. for getting the Geology labs set toward the financial implications up, and to teach, develop and ’89) and his wife Gemma, are of farming. JEFFREY BOWLES (SM ’65) produce lab manuals and living in Ottawa with their son, writes that he still plays cricket associated field trips, and conduct Aiden, born June 8, 2000. Ashley ERIC METCALFE (SM ’55) works with Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals with Victoria’s Alcos (captained research! Looks like a full order. recently sent a note about a and Gemma is Chief Resident at by fellow St. Michael’s alumnus, Canada Council Award that he MICHAEL BELL (SMUS ’85) the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Michael Nation). Jeff thanked Ned received June 28, 2001 in Ottawa. registered with the Alumni Ontario. This significant financial award Symons for showing him the right Directory and sent along a very recognizes a lifetime of artistic side of the bat to hit the ball with. colourful history of his ROBB HARKER (SMUS ’90) creation and participation in the wanderings, post-graduation from After earning a BA from UVic, art world of Greater Vancouver. PHILIP SHERWIN (US ’69) SMUS. These included three Robb went to South Korea to completed his term as Commanding years of Commerce at UBC; teach almost five years ago. He is DAVID MULDER (US ’55) Officer of the 5th (British Columbia) travels through Europe, the still there. He is now a promoter writes about his first CESO Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Middle East and North Africa; of large musical events involving experience in the Gobi Desert of Canadian Artillery, at the official back to UBC to complete a BFA, the importation of big name DJ’s eastern Xinjiang province, where Change of Command Ceremony, followed by a diploma in and, in addition, is the manager he investigated an underground Professional Photography; Japan- of a nightclub. iron ore mine while coping with September 9, 2001. to teach English and work for CBS at the Nagano Olympics; KERSTIN GUSTAFSON (SMUS ending up in Phuket, Thailand ’91) continues to build an where he now works as manager impressive academic profile. She of a dive boat – The Excalibur completed her medical school (www.sea-bees.com). He is training at UBC in 2000, and is looking to develop other interests now in second year residency in in Phuket. Edmonton, in surgery and gynaecology. During her third JAMES CURTIS (SMUS ’85) residency year, Kerstin plans to writes that he completed his BA complete her PhD in Genetics. at Trinity College, University of Full plate? Perhaps, but she still Toronto, and then spent some had time to be wed in Victoria to years working as an editor, a Vancouver doctor – Sebastian speechwriter and communications Howie. (l-r): Costa Penn (US ’66), John Wenman (US ’59) and James Colquhoun (US ’50) alumni updates 27

JO NORMAN (SMUS ’91), ISABELLE NOWAK (SMUS ’94) CURRAN CRAWFORD (SMUS fall in the UK at Lester Warwick writes that she is living in is currently based in Toronto, ’96) received his BSc from the Medical School. She and Curran Berkeley, California, and works in flying for Air Canada Regional University of Victoria in 2001; he Crawford are still together. the Bay area as an IVR Systems Airlines as First Officer on the received the top Gold Medal from MICHAEL BLUMBERG (SMUS Analyst for a financial company. DeHavilland (DHC-8). Her flying the Canadian Society for ’01) received the Alex Doucas career began when she decided to Mechanical Engineering as a Memorial Award at the Canadian KRISTIAN GUSTAVSON (SMUS take flying lessons in grade 11 and result of his earning the top GPA Junior Squash Championships ’92) has followed his Honours BA soon after, received her private in his faculty – a whopping 8.98! this year. The award recognizes in History by working toward his pilot licence. Fascinated with Curran also won the APEG the junior athlete who best MA in History at the University aviation, Isabelle enrolled in an Award for top engineering exemplifies the spirit of fair play, of Alberta. Present plans have aviation technology programme at student at UVic. For the next 18 enjoyment of life and commitment Kristian attending Cambridge to University College of the Fraser months, Curran plans to study to excellence. complete his PhD. Valley and Coastal Pacific aerospace engineering at MIT as Aviation. Her flight experience he works toward his Master of MORGAN BLACK (SMUS ’93) CHANTAL NOWAK (SMUS includes flight instructor at the Science degree. Then he will has had a terrific time combining ’97) pursued music performance Victoria Flying Club and Coastal study for a doctorate at either education and travel since her at the Eastman School of Music, Pacific Aviation, Trans Canada MIT or Stanford. He would like graduation from SMUS. Morgan Rochester, NY after graduation Ferry Flights, and charter flights to work in the industry. Curran graduated from SFU in 1998 with from SMUS. She soon realized for AvWest Charters. Isabelle’s says he and Rina Chadha have a degree in Marine Biology. It was that she yearned for a completely most exciting job, however, was at continued to be best friends. her love of diving and warm different future life. In 1999, she Perimeter Airlines in Winnipeg – climates that helped focus her switched her career path by 180 a scheduled air service into RINA CHADHA (SMUS ’96) interest. Every summer, Morgan degrees and began a commerce northern Manitoba and Ontario graduated from the University travelled to the Caribbean – degree in International Business at using short gravel strips and, at of Victoria on 2001 with a British Virgin Islands, St. Martin, the University of Victoria. Since times, dealing with severe weather biochemistry major and psychology St. Barts, Nevis – and to Egypt, then, Chantal has been extremely conditions. Now at Air Canada minor. Rina was involved with the working for a youth adventure happy and very determined to Regional, her routes are into the Red Cross and the Land Mines company called Broadreach. She have a successful career in the eastern United States and Awareness Campaign in Victoria. also worked with the education financial services. In the past Ontario. Even though Isabelle She’s off to study medicine this department of the Vancouver couple of years, she won a likes to discover new territory, she Aquarium Marine Science Centre, is hoping for a transfer to teaching young schoolchildren. Vancouver in order to soon be For the past two summers working closer to her family. with Broadreach, Morgan directed a university accredited marine BETH MIDDLETON (SMUS science programme in Eleuthera, ’96) has been teaching at Bahamas. For 2002, she is setting Toronto’s Branksome Hall, and in up a similar programme back on September 2001 she will take up the BC west coast. a teaching position at Upper Canada College.

Curran Crawford (SMUS ’96) Rina Chadha (SMUS ’96)

Ashley Highton (SMUS ’89) with wife Gemma and son Aiden Robb Harker (SMUS ’90) and fiance Michael Blumberg (SMUS ’01) 28 alumni updates

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Mandarin speech competition at FRANK SCHINDLER (SMUS ’88) is working on her PhD at AARON CLARK (SMUS ’93) UVic, and was one of 40 married Mary Watts on Saturday, Cambridge and hopes to married Lauren Holm (daughter Canadian business students July 14, 2001 at Ceperley House complete it in September 2001 of 1965 school alum Chuck invited by the Chinese History and in Burnaby. and then perhaps return to the Holm), August 3, 2001. Best man Culture Educational Foundation west coast. was Aaron’s brother and alumnus for Youth to participate in an JEFF MARIN (SMUS ’90) Cam Clark, ushers were alums CHRIS ISHERWOOD (SMUS educational trip to Beijing and married CHRISTINE REILLY Stuart Kerr and Ryan Green. ’92) and Corrine Donaldson were Tianjin, organized for future (SMUS ’90) September 9, 2000. Aaron is starting in the School of wed in the SMUS Chapel on international managers. Chantal They had a brief “romance” at Medicine this September. recently completed an internship SMUS and met up again after April 8, 2001. It was a real SMUS at CIBC Wood Gundy World returning from university and family reunion, with Mary ...new on the scene!! Markets Inc. If all goes well, she coming to Jeff’s sister’s graduation Humphreys presiding over the will have finished her BCom from SMUS in 1994. Jeff and music, Tony Cordle singing, and CHRIS CONSIDINE (SMUS degree in December 2002 and Christine now live in Vancouver. Simon Ibell as Best Man. ’70) and his wife Susan are delighted to announce the arrival then move on to do a MBA Standing in with her brother was of child #4 – a daughter, Anna degree abroad. KERSTIN GUSTAFSON (SMUS Stephanie Isherwood (SMUS ’91) married Sebastian Howie of ’91). Also attending were: Brent Genevieve, born April 8, 2001. ...there were bells! Vancouver in an outdoor ceremony McLay, Steve Nash, Pete Robb, PETER FINAMORE (SMUS ’75) in the Abkhazi Gardens of Victoria, Jeremy Cordle, Milan Uzelac, and his wife Wen are delighted to CHRIS BLACK (SMUS ’82) August 19, 2001. Thomas and Jeremy Petzing, and announce the arrival of their married Debbie Ashfield, July 22, James Millar. second son, Mark Anthony KRISTIN SEMMENS (SMUS 2000 in Fredericton, NB. They Finamore, on August 8, 2001, in ’92) married Derek Little in CLIVE SOUTHCOMBE (SMUS lived in Whistler for a short time Chicago…a brother for Sean. before moving back to New Victoria on September 9, 2000. ’92) married Jennifer Cooper in Brunswick to raise their new This wonderful day was attended Cochrane, Alberta on May 26, ROBIN BAIRD (SMUS ’81) and family. by a number of SMUS alums 2001. Clive is completing his his wife Leslie are proud to including Sarah Hentschel, Lisa practicum in respiratory therapy announce the arrival of son, Alastair Cohen, Gill Robertson, Jean at Vancouver’s Children’s Hospital Finlay McIntosh Baird, born Feb 5, McPherson, Craig Forth, and and Jennifer is a high school 2001, the day after Robin’s birthday! Jamie and Ryan McRae. Kristin science teacher in Clinton, BC. Robin and his family are back in Victoria from London where he completed his Masters degree in Law at the School of Economics. Robin is now practicing law locally.

BARBARA CADE-MENUN (SMUS ’82) welcomed her second son, Alexander, into the world March 30, 2001, brother to Jacob, now six years old. Barbara is a postdoctoral fellow in Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University Aaron Clark (SMUS ’93) married Lauren Holm in August 2001. where her husband is a professor.

Isherwood wedding on April 8, 2001 in the SMUS chapel, including Simon Ibell (SMUS ’96), Chris Isherwood, Shawna Pengelly, Thomas Petzing, Milan Uzelac, Steve Nash, Pete Robb, Jaime Miller, Sara Card, Susie Wahl, Don Sutton, Brent McLay, Jeremy Petzing, Tony Cordle, Jeremy Cordle, Stephanie Isherwood and Pam Lewis. All grads in photo are SMUS 1991/1992 and 1996. Clive Southcombe (SMUS ’92) married Jennifer Cooper in May 2001. alumni updates 29

CHRIS BLACK (SMUS ’82) SHAUNA (CARRINGTON) JAMES DUNCAN KERFOOT Company. In 1975 he donated and his wife Debbie are proud to SCHWARZ (SMUS ’88) and (US ’33) died in Calgary, Tuesday, almost 1,700 acres to the Alberta announce the birth of Lucy husband Karl, visited the school April 17, 2001 at eighty-five years government where now stands the Victoria, born September 6, 2001. recently with young Max, born in of age. From University School, world famous Tyrrell Museum. November 2000, in tow. Shauna James attended RMC Kingston, ERNIE E. TEAGLE (US ’32-36) ANN GLAZIER (SMUS ’85) continues work as a pharmaceutical completing a Bachelor of Military Ernie died 25 June 2001 in and husband Alex are pleased to rep while Karl is studying general Science. Thence followed an active Victoria, BC. He was 82 years old announce the arrival of son Jack, surgery in Detroit. career with the Royal Garwhal and had been confined to a born May 6, 2001. Rifles, after which he changed his wheelchair for several years. He ANN PATRICK (GORDON) career from a professional soldier to KIM HOPE (SMUS ’86) and enjoyed a highly successful school (SMUS ’89) and husband Greg a rancher in Cochrane, Alberta. He husband Peter Kremer are career and won the 1936 Ker Cup announce the birth of their raised purebred Herefords for 25 delighted to announce the birth as the outstanding student of his daughter, Samantha Eva, born years, and loved and supported his of Kayla Marie Hope Kremer, year. He attended UBC, then, in March 19, 2001. five children in all of their pursuits. August 29, 2000. World War II, served with the JULIE (MCLAY) RUST (SMUS RAYMOND JONES (US ’40) Calgary Highlanders in Western BRYN McLEAN (SMUS ’86) ’90) and her husband Christopher died on September 30, 2000 in Europe. After working for and wife Lisa, are proud to are pleased to announce the birth Seattle. Ray moved to Seattle after Imperial Oil in Saskatchewan, he announce the arrival of Madeline of Carson Bruce Rust, Tuesday, attending Glenlyon School and then opted for a career in teaching Adamina McLean, born July 25, May 8, 2001. University School. In 1943, he and moved to Victoria in 1959. 2001. enlisted in the US Army and Ernie was a well-known CAROLYN (GREY) LINDEN served with the 102nd infantry starter at Victoria schools’ track CAROL (FISHER) ARMSTRONG (SMUS ’95) and husband, Andy, meets for 26 years, officiated at (SMUS ’87) and her husband, division in Europe from 1944 – welcomed Westley Elliot into the the 1978 Commonwealth Games Jack, announce the arrival of 1946. He returned to graduate world in the spring of 2001. in Edmonton, and was named to Thomas Scott, born May 14, 2001. from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1949. Then the National Officials Committee’s PASSAGES TREVOR BROWNE (SMUS followed his marriage to Anne and Roll of Honour for his services to ’87) and his wife Julie welcomed HERBERT DUDLEY BURBIDGE a career with General Motors, Track and Field. child number 4, Justine, into the (US ’21) died March 13, 2001 in which took him to Boston, New He loved the school, and for world on May 14, 2001. Vancouver. A boarding student York, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, two periods, in the 1960s and from Winnipeg, Herbert graduated Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Seattle then the 1970s, served on the ALAN CALDER (SMUS ’87) in 1921 as head boy. After became home upon retirement. Board as President of the Alumni and Kursti Dale announce the graduation, he went to work for Association. Ernie regularly birth of their daughter, Ella Jolie his family in Harrods Department SYDNEY MCMULLEN (US ’33) attended the Remembrance Day Dale Calder, April 6, 2001. Store – first in London and then died October 28, 2000 in Calgary Ceremony and was present at the in Paris. The major portion of his at eighty-six years of age. Syd was November 2000 service. TONY OSACHOFF (SMUS ’87) working life was the 39 years he interested in, and supportive of, Note: A full article was written and his wife Allison Brooks are spent with Silverwood Industries his old school. His family owned about Ernie in the Spring 2000 delighted to announce the birth as merchandising manager. He mine operations near Drumheller, edition of School Ties. of Laura Jane Osachoff, born June retired in 1970. Alberta and after graduation, Syd 20, 2001 at Royal Columbian spent almost 50 years working WILLIAM DYKE GORDON (US Hospital. with the Midland Mining ’34) died August 27, 2001. Born in Whitehorse in 1918, he attended the school and then went on to work for the White Pass and Yukon Route, and then for Canadian Pacific Airlines as Vice President of Sales until his retirement.

TONY MOILLIET (US ’41) died July 2001. The following reflections were penned by Tony’s brother, David Moilliet (US ’47). Bryn McLean (SMUS ’86) and Tony Osachoff (SMUS ’87) and Julie (McLay) Rust (SMUS ’90) and Tony was born in Parksville, wife Lisa announce the arrival of wife Allison Brooks announce the husband Christopher announce the BC, the eldest of three boys, and Madeline Adamina McLean. birth of Laura Lane Osachoff. birth of Carson Bruce Rust. 30 alumni updates

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is survived by his younger brothers more enthusiastic over everything to contract out any additional life and a great sense of humour, John (Crofton), and David (Ottawa). you do, no matter how uninteresting activities to industry. Thus, Dr. because everything was just the My earliest recollections were it is. You should definitely be on Jim Flynn, the current Lab Chief way it was!” of he and John cutting the limb the Rugby team this year, no ifs or of what was now called the His combined, loving family off a huge tree that housed their buts. You have everything to your Defence Research Establishment he leaves behind include: Melrose “fort,” and substituting them with advantage and the more you Pacific (DREP) decided to create a Ann Moilliet and daughters railroad spikes so that I couldn’t practice, the better you will be. I Contracts Office with Tony as its Valerie Lightman, Susan Fraser, invade their privacy. Later, they don’t say you are not doing well first incumbent. This decision Dana Moilliet, and Mada Johnson, electrified their workshop’s metal because you are probably making turned out to be brilliant as Tony, along with stepsons Tavi Kristjan, door handle again to dissuade more use of your time than I did, given a chance to combine his Harreson Kristjan, stepdaughter Junior! but even then you can still do interests in technology and Liann Hartley, and eighteen I remember Tony’s world being better. If I could only have known commerce, was in his element. grandchildren. full of tools – a drill press, a lathe, (when I was your age), how From a standing start he quickly * He hid his light well under a rotary saws, etc. – perhaps he was important every little thing was organized contracts worth $3 bushel – he was awarded a honing himself for his future then. Don’t waste time dreaming million annually, thereby providing Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) career – but the War came first. during prep or in school. If you seed money for the development of in recognition of “distinguished He joined the Royal Canadian are weak in any subject and dislike several companies that now grace and meritorious service” by his Navy in 1941 and went off it, make that the subject that you Victoria’s thriving technology commanding officer for his eventually to Ste. Hyacinthe, QC, do the most work on. Really, I industry.” exemplary skills and later received qualifying as a Radio Artificer. think the only real reason I didn’t To have lived such an a special Public Service Award for Recalling his wartime career, Bob like a subject was that I didn’t adventurous life, amidst a host of his work as a Contracts Officer at Chapman, an old friend, noted in know very much about it. Now is friends and relatives, in a graceful DREP. a passage about his life, that: “from the time for action and boy, does setting the likes of which have quite early on, Tony developed an it ever count later on! I hope this been disappearing for decades, and CHARLES BLENCOE, School interest and capability in doesn’t bore you and that you can to have enriched the lives of all Chaplain and Teacher, 1961-1964, technology that he demonstrated see what I mean. Right now you those who have known him is no 1971-1979, died May 30, 2001. while serving in the Far East as the have a golden opportunity so take small achievement. It was singularly Ordained in Southwell Minster in technician responsible for the advantage of it now! (nota bene, appropriate that his beautiful 1941, he served in Nottinghamshire radar installation in the cruiser SMUS!) garden, chosen by his wife Melrose before joining the Royal Air Force HMCS Uganda. His modifications Bob continues: “The war over, as his final resting place, should as a young chaplain. Wartime to the search radar* made it he adapted to civilian life by also serve as the location for his duties took him to India and possible to detect incoming enrolling in a science course many friends to pay their last Burma and at war’s end, he aircraft at ranges considerably at UBC and by becoming the respects at a memorial held on 8 remained in the Far East. A greater than those normally owner and operator of a box July 2001. number of other postings preceded expected. That this capability was factory, thus setting the pattern for As my youngest daughter, his move to Canada where Charles underutilized on at least one science and commercial activity Wendy, recalled: “Unique, that’s served first at University School occasion caused him considerable that was to become his hallmark. how I would describe Uncle Tony. and then at St. Mary’s, Oak Bay, pain and a nearby aircraft carrier When Dr. Fred Sanders, the Chief All my memories keep coming and a brief period in Fort Vermilion, considerable damage. Over the Superintendent of the Pacific Naval back to the same word…‘unique.’ Alberta before returning to SMUS years, this, and others of Tony’s Laboratory (PNL), went on a He had such a great outlook on in 1971 until retirement in 1979. anecdotes, such as the one recruiting trip to the University, he involving a rocket-propelled selected Tony. All the candidates SIMON TIMMIS (US ’68) died Kamikaze bomber that his radar had similar backgrounds but only April 27, 2001 of Lou Gehrigs had clocked coming in at 700 he had displayed the initiative to Disease. mph, and the vote taken by the operate a small business. Simon Marcus Timmis (1950 - 2001) ship’s company to vacate the war “Initially he worked on problems Written by long-time friend and zone and return to Victoria, have concerning fluid dynamics, including classmate, Ed Tait (US ’68) been written about in various making measurements of turbulence What more can one say than a histories and memoirs. It must be both at sea and in the lab’s water fine man has passed on to his just noted that none of the authors tell tunnels. Later he developed an reward. the stories as well as he did. Tony optical analogue that simulated the One could say that Simon was was there and, for the most part, acoustic fields generated by sonars in more than just a fine man; Simon they weren’t.” realistic ocean environments. By the was a great and fast friend. Writing to me during the war mid-1970s, the Government had I first met Simon in 1961; I was Tony notes: “I sure hope you will decided to restrict the growth of a little boy, barely twelve years old, CPO Antony Moilliet, MID, BA, from Happy Valley, out on my own, make a special effort to become its in-house research facilities and RCN (Ret’d) (US ’41) alumni updates 31

in the big city as it were, for the first Simon was always a businessman the fire escape and a night to KEVIN EWART (SMUS ’88-91) time and scared to death. It was my and he had a knack for knowing remember was just beginning! Or died May 17, 2001, in Bolivia. first day in a new school and Simon ‘the ropes.’ He could always smell the time where, with Simon at the His sister, Elizabeth (SMUS ’89), was the Headmaster’s son. He ‘knew a profit and he was always willing wheel, Andrew’s ’40 Ford Coupe sent the school the following the ropes’ and more than that, he to be a partner. From buying and crashed through the wall of the old information about her much was one of the ‘cool guys.’ re-selling firecrackers in grade 7, Swimming Pool building, almost loved brother: Simon was an institution at on to the import/export and retail ending up in the Pool! Kevin did his grade 12 year in a University School. After all, The business with Chula’s, the best He was an incredible guy, a programme called “class afloat.” ‘Head’ and Mrs. Timmis had rattan furniture and Central friend from that first day we met This is when the travel bug hit brought him home as a newborn American accessory store in and for every day thereafter, even him, as this programme took him baby to the school, directly from Victoria for many years. It was in the later years after his move to from Northern Europe to South the hospital. The school was the during this period he taught us all Vancouver. Although we saw each Africa with many stops along the only home Simon knew as a boy you really could wear a Hawaiian other less often in recent years, I way. With a degree in Outdoor and as a young man. He knew shirt in Victoria in December! always knew he was my friend. I Education and an Honours teaching how everything worked and he was Simon’s greatest and most always knew he would be there for degree, Kevin started working for skilled at ‘working’ everything. wonderful quality was his me, regardless. All of Simon’s Outward Bound – to which he had He befriended me that very ‘realness.’ If he was angry, you friends will understand when I say been introduced during some time first day and protected me from all knew it, because he’d tell you. And a particular vacancy now exists that off to travel during his university the terrors of that first year. He was when he was happy, what a time can never be filled by another. years. He worked in Ontario and a friend for life. He was always he and everyone around him had! Simon alone holds the key. Costa Rica, and also worked for there to cheer me up when I He was an individualist, a man All we who knew him have lost Youth Challenge International in needed cheering up; he was always who loved nothing better than a great friend. For Simon, there are Costa Rica and DARE in Ontario. there whenever and for whatever pushing the envelope, seeing just the rewards of being in a better In January 2001, Kevin was asked needed to be done. My experience how far over the edge he could get place, as my ‘old Mom’ would have to return to Outward Bound in of Simon was not unique; Simon before he would be reeled in by an said. For us who remain, there are Costa Rica to help with some was just that kind of guy. authority figure from somewhere. our memories of who Simon was filming for the Discovery Channel. Simon was a great role model He was that way when I first met to each of us. The memories are When this was over, he went with for me at school. He was the lead him and he was that way all the each unique, all special, and those Outward Bound to Peru and it was bugle in the School’s Cadet Corps years I knew him. we remember now will, I am sure, while there that he heard of Band. He was a fine athlete, Simon’s brother, Andrew, and I all be positive. EcoBolivia, a company which was playing on both the rugby and were recently reminding each other Simon was a great piece of the to help the local Bolivian people cricket teams – who in those days of some of the shenanigans Simon history of University School; he benefit from ecotourism. Kevin was beat all comers. He had the first used to get up to at the school. will be missed by all who knew thrilled with this idea. It was while car of any of my friends, a tiny The time he took his father’s prize him. And as I recently learned, a waiting to begin work with this Anglia, as I remember. What fun Buick convertible, drove through piece of him will always remain at company that he went on a rafting we all had racing with him up and the night to Qualicum Beach, the school. The fir tree opposite expedition on a local river. While on down the school’s driveway until it visited one of his many girlfriends, what used to be, in the ‘olden days’ this trip, one of the travellers who rolled over in front of the Head’s drove back, put everything back the Headmaster’s House, was one went in a kayak got into difficulties. house! There was probably hell to exactly as it was, the seat, the of Simon’s boyhood Christmas Kevin jumped into the water in an pay, but he shielded me from that, mirrors, even parked it in exactly trees, a present from an older boy attempt to save her. They were both too. Later as a young man, he the same spot, to the inch, all at the school – a small tree for a pulled into the river by the again had the nicest car of any of while the ‘Head’ slept peacefully small boy. It had come, roots and undercurrent and drowned. my friends, his prized Jaguar XKE. and unknowingly, not twenty feet all, from up-island; Simon had Kevin was such a positive Was that car him or what?! away. Or the times he helped a planted it in a pot in his room and person and so full of life. He was Simon was a skilled private boarder friend, whose name shall rather than throw it out at the end a true free spirit; I’ve never met pilot, having achieved a multi- forever be known to a very few, of the season, he planted it across anyone like him. He had such a engine endorsement by the time sneak out for a few hours ‘on the the driveway – and there it grows great ability to make friends and he was twenty-one years of age. He town.’ to this day, as a reminder that to make everyone he knew feel was always there for others. His Simon would have his walkie- Simon was there. good about themselves. And as his mother, who had always been talkie on the window sill of his Until we meet again, my last act on this earth reflects, he supportive, and his sister Jane were bedroom’s dormer window while friend... was a very, very generous person. I his first passengers. Thereafter, he surveyed the grounds and when give a quote from a favourite Simon was always available if one all was quiet, he would give the “all book of Kevin’s (by William needed to get somewhere quickly; clear” to the other walkie-talkie Shedd): “A ship in the harbour is his pilot’s logbook is a record of his under his friend’s pillow in the safe, but that is not what ships are legendary generosity. dorm. Out the window and down made for.” 32 alumni updates

MAIA (SHROUT) HANSEN how blessed we were to experience straight downhill when she skied, life, not only after she learned that (SMUS ’94) died June 2001 after ourselves so. How fortunate I was no turning. life would be unjustly short. She a courageous two-year battle with to have her as my dearest friend. Or the story about her close never wasted time on the chaff, cancer. Her friends and family The Seattle Foundation is encounters with whales. As her and she achieved everything most submit the following in her where donations can be sent in Honolulu host observed moments worth striving for, and what we all honour and her memory: Maia’s name, to be directed to a ago: “Maia didn’t just have hope to find. number of organizations she loved adventures – she had the coolest Maia’s legacy, it seems to me, is To Maia and believed in, including SMUS. adventures.” Even the stories about an exhortation to approach every Words from Taun B. Miller her brilliance as a travel editor day with a little less “do I (SMUS ’84) Life According to Maia highlighted her instant recognition dare?”and a little more “damn the Maia’s will to live and her Words from Lauren Dobell of what passages were worth torpedoes!” Taun perhaps put it readiness to take in every last one of (SMUS ’84) keeping and which could be best when she said earlier tonight: life’s moments of joy and laughter It’s a testament to how Maia consigned to the flames without “Maia wasn’t fearless. She was grew as her body weakened. And preserved friendships over time regret. She applied the same brave.” her generosity was without bound and distance that there are five of brilliant, unhesitating judgment as she shared her spirit with us here tonight who first met her to life. everyone around her. twenty years ago this September, Is the lesson then, as simple as Her greatest lesson to me was when we were all fifteen [and “Life is short. Carpe diem”? Maia that we always have a choice of what entering St. Michaels University did. She lived a life fully realized in to do with our life’s energy – what School in Victoria]. every way: she found her dream to take in, what to spend time on, There hasn’t been a speaker job, traveled everywhere, climbed what to let go of, shun, or ignore. today who hasn’t spoken of Maia’s mountains, ran rapids, kayaked This goes for fear and worry, smiles wit, and her incomparably around icebergs, dived among and twinkling eyes for adventure – contagious laugh. Maia was the whales, met and married her and most especially, love. funniest person I’ve ever known. soulmate. The love between Maia and her My abysmal memory for jokes One has only to look around at husband Clark was beyond strength, makes an exception only for hers, the hundreds of people gathered beyond generosity, beyond which I still remember two here tonight to see the evidence of acceptance – it was the most decades after the telling. her immense gift for friendship – beautiful thing I have ever seen. But it’s easy to laugh when life how many people’s lives she And both of them generously is good and the horizons unlimited. touched with her alchemist’s shared of themselves during the The measure of her sense of humour touch, how much she was loved. most difficult time humanly is that she also made us laugh when Many others here tonight have possible in their lives. All present most might have thought her talked what they learned from the and around were infinitely lucky to world had irreparably fallen apart. example Maia set – her generosity, have had the great fortune of their It is impossible not to wonder her openness to every adventure, friendship during this time. what the lessons are for the rest of most of all her capacity for joy. Much of Maia’s zest for life was us when loved ones, and perhaps, I’ve also been thinking about seeded or at least fueled during our especially when contemporaries Maia and life-lessons a lot. SMUS days. The vision of her are suddenly confronted with It seems to me that if the donning a wetsuit to go crabbing devastating news. Certainly it general lesson is that life is simply at Sidney Island was one repeated forces us to recognize that life is too short to persevere with a joyless many times over the course of her precarious. But it is also a relationship, to work without life. And those infamous Amazon- reminder, in the midst of a life in passion, to drink bad coffee, to give woman calves continued to take progress, of just how precious it is in to fear, to embrace the ordinary, her running all over the globe. Just – if not notably just. to finish a dull book, to keep love as we analyzed problems for Mr. Before her diagnosis, Maia had under wraps, to ignore opportunity, Greenwell or dissected some the world by the tail. Afterwards to bear a grudge and to accumulate biological heap for Mr. Gardiner, she continued to live a life that regrets, then what Maia taught us Maia’s intellect was on fire as she embodied her determination to by example was how to get our searched for cures for cancer. She treasure each day. It is striking to lives in perspective and our tried everything possible, evaluating realize – as the stories told tonight priorities straight. and sharing results each step of the have illuminated – that Maia lived Maia always had her priorities way. She educated her doctors, and her whole life as though she knew straight. nurses vied to have her as their from the very beginning that each As everyone here can testify, patient. minute counted. Every speaker and many have, she had always Always the best, always tonight has touched on this – known what was important – love, outstanding, our Maia. She perhaps epitomized in the laughter, adventure, learning, brought out the best in others – description of Maia’s bombing celebrating – she lived it all her hats off to the class of 2001 Hopkins University, Haverford College, NYU, excellence:well-known Johns for post-secondary placement in schools and programmes that are eight Ivy League acceptances, they boast them all over the world. In addition to their T accomplishments have by now taken 134 students, was a stellar group. Their EGAUTN LS OF CLASS GRADUATING HE 2001, with scholarships, and well over fifty entrance awards. Queen’s Chancellor’s scholarship, two millennium been outstanding; the highlights include a to universities overseas. Student achievement has and the ESU exchange, and seven were accepted in ‘year abroad’ volunteer programmes like GAP and many more. Six graduates were awarded spots Cooper-Union Brandeis School of Art, University, available in PDF format. copy of the “University Acceptances” document, please visit our school website and download a For a detailed look at student achievements, congratulate this class on such a successful year! destinations in Canada for SMUS graduates. We Toronto, and UVic top the list as most popular As ever, Queen’s, McGill, UBC, the University of Oceanside Photography #40063624 Publications Publications Mail Agreement

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