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Opportunities Spring 2003 Back row [l-r] Mr. Rick Humphreys, Meghann Dyck, Tara Reszitnyk, Mr. Ian Hyde-Lay, Logan Smythe, Ben Strocel, Mark Quinlan, Takaya Brunner, Chris Ufford, David Crapo. Front row [l-r] Tyler Willms, Jeff Downs, Craig Cavin, Ryan Willms, David Spicer, Adrian Cochrane. Missing: Adam McLean Senior Boys Capture Western Tournament

HE SENIOR BOYS BASKETBALL SQUAD continued its fine season with an front of a raucous, partisan crowd of over 2500, the team never let the T outstanding victory at the recent Western Canada Tournament in hosts get untracked, jumping to an early 10-0 lead en route to a Kelowna. The event, now in its thirtieth year, is recognized convincing 99-78 victory. across BC and the Prairies for outstanding Okanagan hospitality and In an outstanding team triumph, Logan Smythe was named excellent teams. This year was certainly no exception, as Harry Ainlay, Tournament MVP, while Ryan Willms and Jeff Downs made the All-Star the #2 team in Alberta, Sheldon Williams, #3 ranked in Saskatchewan, team. Of equal importance were the many and varied contributions from and Kelvin, #2 in Manitoba joined five elite BC schools. others such as David Spicer, Craig Cavin and Chris Ufford. On Day One, SMUS played Harry Ainlay, and, after a slow start, came Coach Ian Hyde-Lay commented “never in my wildest dreams did I through in fine style to win 83-64. This produced a semi-final encounter think we could win three straight games by 19 points. Full credit to the with provincial #5 ranked Seaquam from the Fraser Valley. Again, some players who did everything asked of them, and more. Now we have to do superb defence keyed a dominating second half in a 77-56 triumph. it all again, come playoff time”. The two wins put SMUS into the final against host Kelowna, which, SMUS finished second in the Islands Tournament on February 27- thanks to unconscious outside shooting, had stunned BC’s second March 1, with Ballenas finishing first by 2 points. ranked Enver Creek of Surrey 109-102 in the other semi-final. Playing in school ties — spring 2003 1

Published by: The Development Office at St. Michaels University School 3400 Richmond Road, Victoria , Canada V8P 4P5 On the Cover Telephone: (250) 592-2411 Admissions: 1-800-661-5199 Junior School students, Benji Schann and e-mail: [email protected] Marc Vanderwahl re-enact Cézanne’s Website: http://www.smus.bc.ca painting in part of an exposé called “The Bad Apple,” a dramatic, costumed recreation of post-impressionist masterworks, Editors: produced and performed in tandem with an Jenus Friesen, Christopher Spicer exhibit at the Art Gallery. Teachers Heidi Davis and Anna Forbes Contributors: (in no particular order) combined their expertise in art, French and Robert Snowden, Peter Bousfield, drama to create this unique, interdisciplinary Craig Farish, Robert Wilson, project that propelled the grade 5s through Ian Hyde-Lay, Brenda Waksel, Stephen Martin, this powerful learning experience.

Archie Ives, John Reid, Sandra Moore, See page 8 for more details. photo Friesen Jenus Tom Matthews, Rev. June Maffin, Rosemary Mansel, Donna Johnson, Donna Ray, Henry Frew, Heidi Davis, Anna Forbes, Magdy Ghobriel, Opportunities Donna Williams, Bill Buckingham, Cynthia Mitchell, Sean Hayden, Colin Skinner, S I READ THROUGH the daily school announcements, I am drawn to the number of Lindsay Thierry, Don Mackay, Sally Blythe, A opportunities offered to the young men and women at our school – these are integral to Henry Frew, Toshie Thumm, Paul Zakus, the education we offer here at SMUS. Invitations to try out for a musical, including set Tammy Fowler, Hedda Thatcher, Jim Crawford, design, theatrical makeup, costumes, and stage management; field trips to Bamfield Marine Station Jim De Goede, Miriam Stanford, Louise Winter, Diana Nason, Peter Gardiner, Laura Cavin for research and exploration, involvement in community programmes such as stream and shore keeping, career options and presentations by consultants from leading world universities (our very own UVic included), surfing, skiing, scuba, and clubs, rugby and field hockey tours that take Photography: Jenus Friesen, Christopher Spicer, young men and women overseas, sports events, introductions to noteworthy visiting scholars and school family members & friends experts who inspire, inform, and mentor; public speaking events, debating contests, chess club, the list goes on! Exchange trips, weekend adventures, peer counselling…students here have the Production & Printing: opportunity to develop to their fullest potential. They are encouraged to build on every aspect of Reber Creative their being…to create an achievable balance within themselves, between their body, mind and spirit, Hillside Printing Ltd. and in doing so, develop the components they will need to live fulfilling lives. Victoria, BC Little kindies in pinafores and short grey flannels, seniors in special ‘grad-this-year’ attire, and Lithographed in Canada everything in between – each and every student is given many opportunities to address and fulfill their personal potential. The fellowship and communicative style between students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff set the tone and pace for an atmosphere that is conducive to nurturing, inspiring If you are interested and growing. Everyone within the SMUS community benefits – everyone is enriched by this in attending school events, experience. call (250) 592-2411 Don’t forget the opportunity just around the corner – it’s offered to every alumnus as well as for further details, or visit every member of the SMUS community, far and wide, old and young, anyone who would like a the school’s website chance to relink with friends from their past. School days are cool days – not days to be forgotten. Calendar of Events: Plan to drop by the school over the May 2, 3, and 4 weekend and see if you can spot any of your old www.smus.bc.ca buddies here. Nip into the archives and take a walk through memory lane. Opportunities are here for one and all – for everyone who takes the time and effort to recognize them, seize them, and make them part of their life. Be sure to check the Calendar of Events on the school’s website! www.smus.bc.ca SCHOOL TIES is distributed to more than 6,500 Ð J.F. members of the St. Michaels University School community, including current families, friends, and current and past staff and students. The Don’t miss the goal of the publication is to communicate current activities and initiatives, along with Middle School Spring Concert articles and reports on the alumni community. If you have any comments or suggestions May 7, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. regarding this publication, please contact UVic Centre Auditorium Jenus Friesen at (250) 370-6169 or e-mail: This amazing free concert features every child [email protected] in the Middle School – performing in concert choir, band and strings ensembles. 2 headmaster’s article

Moments in Schools by Robert Snowden, Headmaster, SMUS

OMENTS IN SCHOOLS, the ones that are best The ninth tee at the Victoria Club is right M remembered at least, are often transformed out on the southeast point of Vancouver Island, into images. The diorama of life at school is completely exposed. Even without the elements, this built this way, for all of us. Parents remember the par three is a test, but with any weather at all it is moment of very private and moving triumph when a perversely character building, a reminder that in more son or daughter graduates, or scores a goal, or primitive days, all sport was derived from exercises expresses an opinion about foreign policy at the that were clearly linked to the tribe’s need to survive. dinner table, or does something entirely original that Young people’s games were in some way about indicates that he or she is an individual, more a seed hunting, gathering, challenging and surviving. Robert Snowden, Headmaster that has sprouted on its own than a branch growing Fortunately, it is a rather benign Friday that I want out of mother and father. Students will talk of dances, to resurrect. For an afternoon, there was remarkably friends, and a particular bruise from a field hockey little wind – there are golfers who simply won’t play stick. Teachers talk about the look on a student’s face later afternoons out there because of the predictable when he or she emerges into the light of gale that blows, day after day. It was sunny, and for “ They drive the ball rhythmically, understanding. Any one of us could go on, and on, the purposes of this story, worth noting that the tide with a beautiful arc that looks and on. Sometimes, especially as the grads look back was running out the Juan de Fuca Strait, creating a bit like a graph from their physics on their careers at the school, we do. of a chop and unruliness in the water as it swirled books.” The image associated with my Wednesday close to the rocks. The strands of kelp in the beds near mornings is of Junior School students crossing Victoria the tee were like streamers in a wind tunnel as the tide Avenue, most of them with their parents, some of them poured out to the ocean. The fine afternoon had with younger brothers and sisters in tow. On brought too many golfers out, and our threesome, Wednesdays, it just happens that I am at the Junior who consisted of me and two students in grade 11 at School, sometimes even holding up the stop sign at the the school, had a long wait on the tee. There was a crosswalk. Afterward, I talk to the students in assembly. foursome on the green, another foursome on the tee, In winter during assembly, I divide the school’s Mission and us. into its five elements, and dwell on one element for My two partners were, and are, keen and talented each of five weeks. It’s an opportunity I treasure. golfers, with a combined handicap of two. The two of Whether or not it is such a keen opportunity for them, in their respective age groups, were first on the “Teenagers are not naturally the students could be in question, but it is worth Western Canada Order of Merit for junior golfers. doing. The students’ days are brimming with so many Sixteen and fifteen year olds with such unlikely patient; they are exuberant other meaningful opportunities that the Head’s talks handicaps are very serious beings. They drive the ball creatures....” about the Mission don’t really stand a lot of chance. rhythmically, with a beautiful arc that looks like a It’s a school, after all. Opportunities abound. Not just graph from their physics books. They putt with at our school, but everywhere. What makes some intensity. Between shots, they talk pleasantly to be students seize those opportunities, and others not? To sure, but it is with the part of their brain that is begin with, it’s an eager and positive individual nature usually reserved for conversation with adults; their real in the students themselves. We do have to begin there, brain is focusing on the next shot. They are a delight with the individual students, because we must always to observe, excruciating to compete with. emphasize their responsibility in seizing their own Teenagers are not naturally patient; they are opportunities. Good parents are vital. I have never exuberant creatures, for whom golf is almost a Mr. Snowden visits the Junior met parents who didn’t want their sons or daughters contradiction. I turned my back for a few seconds to School on Wednesday mornings. to have more and better opportunities than they enjoy the view. To pass the time, they began to drop had. Finally, we have their golf balls in the rough near the tee, in grass to have a good which could accurately be described as Carnoustie school, that expects rough, although no one ever hits a ball in there the most and the because it is so close to the tee. The high vegetation is best from everyone – purely for show. They proceeded to hack their balls students, teachers, back and forth at each other, taking mighty swipes parents, alumni and through the thick grass and lofting their balls with friends. Without a amazing grace through the air. Not a single dangerous good school, rich shot, nevertheless, I stayed at a safe distance. with opportunities Just as the foursome ahead of us left the tee, both and bristling with boys suddenly bounded away. Two lanky, well- expectations, oppor- coordinated figures, both of them six feet tall, started tunities simply sink hopping up and over the rocks, then down through into the sand. some of the pools left by crashing waves until they headmaster’s article 3

were quite close to the water. Up and down the rocks growth that will take place after the student leaves the they scrambled, pointing and laughing, shouting and school. Field hockey, basketball, rugby, volleyball, gesturing to each other, pushing each other off rocks tennis, soccer, rowing and all the other sports are and chasing each other through the shore grass. They opportunities for finding things inside us that might picked up small sticks and threw them into the water, otherwise never flourish, seeds that are never planted, then ran further along the shore. I finally figured it never watered. out. There was a family of otters playing in the tide, I began this article by mentioning my visits to the coming ashore and scampering back into the water. As Junior School, how I talk about the Mission from the two boys approached, the otters kept their week to week. Residing in the Mission, I tell the distance, and basically ignored the small twigs the students, are two sets of twins. Passion and boys threw into the moving water. They threw them compassion make up one set, and for some reason ahead of the otters so they might retrieve the sticks, passion and compassion are not difficult topics for our like dogs. Apparently otters do this, in their own way. youngest students. Truth and goodness, the other set The boys’ seriousness and intensity was so quickly and of twins, are a tougher issue. I really have to work at utterly abandoned, caught up in the spirit of being it. It is a great help to me that all the elements of our “I secretly enjoy how their youth, themselves – not unlike otters themselves. mission are so intertwined, that the pursuit of truth too, rubs off on me and anyone The entire episode lasted two or three minutes, and goodness, for instance, is so important for seeking else near them.” and didn’t slow us down at all, although you could the excellence in all of us, for building community. read worry and even irritation in the faces of the The point I strive to make with truth and goodness – foursome behind us. Juniors get a rough ride and any success I have in conveying the point – has sometimes. Their golf remained either impeccable or more to do with how often I repeat it rather than with ingenious. any particularly effective story or metaphor. The point The opportunity here, of course, was not for them I strive to make is that truth and goodness, which but for me. How fortunate to share, not just this have been at the core of Western education since the moment, but also the entire round. Spending four Greeks (even older than I am, older than the school, I hours with your headmaster is not a teenager’s first tell them!), are virtues that must be lived. One can’t choice on a Friday afternoon, especially when you pursue truth and goodness by sitting still and doing know he is scrutinizing your every move. Like most nothing. In more concrete terms, pursuing truth is teenagers, they, in their friendly way, try to resist adult not just the avoidance of telling lies. Pursuing “Pursuing truth is not just the pressure, subtle or obvious. But for my part, I secretly goodness is not just the avoidance of breaking rules. enjoy how their youth, too, rubs off on me and Tr uth is a positive virtue, requiring the practice of avoidance of telling lies.” anyone else near them. rigour and accuracy in thinking, and the discovery of A former Board Chair at the school told me basic principles, things that you know are going to repeatedly that his simple purpose, while on the help you assess words and deeds as you grow older. Board, was to leave it a better place than he found it. Goodness is a positive virtue also, requiring the Leaving a place better off means leaving those who are practice of compassion, generosity, sacrifice, respect coming behind you with greater opportunities. We and tolerance. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, deliberate seriously about changes – improvements, for instance, whom they all know because it is a story we believe – at the school, wanting any change we we act out in another of our assemblies, didn’t do such introduce or any feature we add, to make the largest good things because they sat still and avoided difference possible. Next year, the most obvious misbehaving; they had to act. We can’t be good only difference will be the Crothall Centre at the Senior by thinking noble thoughts. School. With the construction of the Crothall Centre, Our school seeks the excellence in all of us. we add more opportunity to our SMUS education, Excellence – doing all we can to achieve the inner better conditions for learning, and a stronger sense of potential that belongs to each of us – has to be built permanence to the school that many students – on opportunities, has to have a fertile ground in boarding students especially – call home. Some new which to grow. This fertile ground is the classroom, initiatives at the school are slight, focused on specific the sports field, the orchestra pit, the kayak trip, the areas such as university counselling, or recreational chapel, the dining hall, the library, and the quad. It is athletics or community service, but together, they add the rocky shore where the otters play, and the up to a sum that is much greater than the total of crosswalk where we all say good morning and engage individual parts. We create opportunities: an in the civility that allows us to meet deeper challenges opportunity for better light in the art studio, an and address deeper problems. Creating opportunities opportunity for drama classes to spread out and do a and building an environment where students will seek scene without running into a wall. Filling out a them is the work and play of education. Vivat! university application creates opportunities for the 4 school news School News

For higher learning and for life! SMUS graduates attend the best universities – with scholarships!

HE 125 STUDENTS comprising the graduating class of 2002 T excelled on their Advanced Placement and provincial examinations. In 11 out of 14 subject areas, the SMUS average was at least 5% higher than the average for all independent schools. The high percentage in the A and B range further illustrates the outstanding performance of SMUS students on provincial examinations. Ten SMUS students secured perfect examination scores of 800, in comparison to eight the previous year. Each member of the graduating class was accepted to an institution of higher learning, most to their first choice. In addition to the 38 offers from American post-secondary institutions, including Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Stanford, members of the 2002 graduating class have gone on to attend leading colleges and universities in Canada and Great Britain. More than 34% of graduates received prestigious entrance scholarships or awards, including three Millennium Scholarships, one Reserve Officer Training Corp scholarship, five full-ride scholarships to Canadian universities, three rugby scholarships, one “Young Women in Public Affairs” scholarship, and one “Women of Distinction” scholarship.

The following list will give you some idea as to where our 2002 grade In 11 out of 14 subject areas, the SMUS grade average was at least 5% higher than the average for all independent schools. 12 graduates went!

Graduation Class 2002

Art Institute of Seattle (US) Stanford University (US) Bishop’s University (PQ) University of Alberta (AB) Boston University (US) University of British Columbia (BC) (BC) University of Calgary (AB) (ON) University of California, Berkeley (US) Colgate University (US) University of Edinburgh (UK) Colston’s Collegiate School (Bristol, England, UK) University of Glasgow (UK) Cornell University (US) University of Northern British Columbia (BC) ESU (Kent, England, UK) University of Ottawa (ON) GAP (Hampshire, England, UK) University of St. Thomas (US) GAP (Ireland) University of Toronto (ON) GAP Surrey, England (UK) (BC) Grant McEwan College (AB) University of Washington (US) Johns Hopkins University (US) University of Waterloo (ON) Le Cordon Bleu, Academie d’Art Culinaire de Paris (Australia Campus) University of Western Ontario (ON) Malaspina College (BC) Western Washington University (US) McGill University (ON) Wilfred Laurier University (ON) McGill University (London Campus, England, UK) York University (ON) Ohio University (US) Princeton University (US) For more information on SMUS curricula and course outlines, Queen’s University (ON) Advanced Placement courses, and academic results, visit the school Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan) website at: www.smus.bc.ca school news 5

The Wiz – this year’s musical

HE WIZ,produced in New York, opened January 5, 1975. T There was an atmosphere of curiosity as it was very distant in style and nature from its seeming parent The Wizard of Oz. No rainbow, no ‘follow the yellow brick road’; there was, in fact, a real yellow brick road. What was wrong with the original? In effect…nothing. This play was Junior School boys and girls have a pyjama party with residence students. just different – it was, of course, bred and born in the black community Young and Old, Near and Far: in the US. This bends a different light on the production – a different spin. There’s nothing wrong with adapting material to make it work for a Making In-School Connections culture, and certainly the original did not work in the black community. NARECENT TUESDAY EVENING, throngs of little people in pj’s We are fortunate that black music crossed the cultural curtain – it’s O and nighties met their buddies from Symons and Harvey perfectly fine for any group to do the show as their own. As a matter of Houses for a pyjama party. The excitement was palpable from fact, there are at least three productions of this show being produced on the children in kindergarten and grade 1 as they took hold of the hands the Lower Mainland this spring. of the older students and made their way to Brown Hall for supper. At SMUS, we give our students a wide and varied musical and There, closely attended by “big kids” from grades 9 and 10, a delicious theatrical experience. This is a stunning, vibrant musical. The tunes are meal of chicken dinosaurs and macaroni and cheese was served. The hum excellent and recreate the feel of the jazz and blues introduced into the of conversation, the fascinated faces of the boarders and the delight in the mainstream North American market years ago. eyes of the little ones were a treat to hear and see! The musical begins with despair and longing – a helpless scarecrow, Meal over, hands grabbed again, young and old moved over to the tied impotently to a pole, tormented by the crows. A little lost girl finds common room below Symons House for activities. The buddies gathered him and helps him discover the thoughts within himself. These two help in their small groups; young faces peered up at older ones as stories were the Tin Man find the heart within his own chest. The three of them, read and chatting began. The senior students captured the total attention together, have the strength to encourage the most encourage-less of all, of their young partners. Comments such as “he’s cool” came from junior the Lion. The music becomes joyous, filled with hope and love. children, while a senior comment was “I didn’t know what it was like to Most good musicals have an optimistic ending, and the despair at the hold a small child’s hand.” beginning is buried by the overwhelming and moving conclusion. What A brown face bent over a blonde head; an accented voice reading a better way to find the truth within us? much-loved storybook; a large, lumbering senior lad sitting cutting It is what our students find in themselves, as they struggle with the valentine hearts for a small, admiring boy; these are the pictures that commitments of everyday life and the musical. come to mind of the pyjama party of 2003. These are connections that The friendships and memories will last forever. Often, they, like fish pull us together as a community. Teacher/house parents Anna and Iain stories, grow. That’s the way it should be. In years to come, as classmates Forbes, and Kathleen and Kevin Cook, Kindergarten teacher, Doreen meet in the far corners of the world, the production will be discussed and Metcalfe, Grade 1 teacher, Nina Duffus, and wonderful house assistants, enjoyed once again. Musical theatre creates memories. Nancy (alias Daisy) Ford and Jennifer Parker all contributed to the delightful, collaborative evening. Quietly, the group gathered together for a final bedtime story, It’s Debatable… goodbyes, and “see you again’s.” Parents came and collected their sleepy HE SMUS DEBATE TEAM had great success this year – they ones beside the flagpole in the quad. A moment for our small ones T attended a colourful assortment of tournaments. In the Juniors meeting our large ones will be put into the portfolio of memories that section, held at the Dover Bay tournament in Nanaimo earlier each student surely will take with them when they graduate from SMUS. in the year, Evan Hesketh placed second and Justin McElroy placed fourth. Justin and Evan both qualified for the Provincials at a tournament Dinner in Brown Hall And a fun party it was! at Oak Bay in February, and Evan won the top individual scores at that event. In the Seniors section, Kevin Burkett placed fifth overall at Dover Bay. He also qualified for the Provincial tournament at Oak Bay. One of this year’s highlights, a trip to the prestigious Hart House tournament in Toronto in late January, included four SMUS students: Amanda Quan, Evan Willms, Justin McElroy and Evan Hesketh. They found it to be an amazing learning experience. 6 school news

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Musical Recognition T. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL was represented by five S singers in this year’s BC Music Educators Association conference Honour Choir. Brandon Choi and Jin Hoo Kwon (grade 12), Francis Dunn and Yeji Park (grade 11), and Stelna Rossouw (grade 10) were among the 70 singers auditioned from around the province for this event. Under the direction of Gerald vanWyck, our students sang an eclectic mix of music ending with a beautiful, modern rendition of Loch Lomond arranged by Jonathan Quick. Brandon Choi sang a solo in one of the pieces and Frances Dunn introduced another. The SMUS community is very proud of the fine contribution these ambassadors have made to this excellent ensemble. Christmas songs resounded through Ocean Pointe Resort. Music in the Air! O THE DELIGHT OF AN AUDIENCE of over 200 people, the T SMUS Middle School Concert Choir, comprising 140 students from grades 6, 7 and 8, and under its director John S. Reid, presented a Christmas performance on December 11, 2002, at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa. Thirty-five members of the choir performed solo or in small ensembles during the one-hour concert, featuring 20 Christmas songs and carols. One of the highlights was Christmas in Killarney, featuring Grade 7 chorister and dancer Heather Buckingham, accompanied by faculty member Robert Common on the penny whistle. Tony Cordle led the choir in favourites including When a Child is Born and Mary’s Boy Child. This is the 11th year the SMUS Middle School Concert Choir has been invited to perform at the Delta. You can hear selections from the choir’s performance by visiting the SMUS web page at www.smus.bc.ca/midsch/. Then click on the dancing Santa! The SMUS Middle School Concert choir also participated in the

annual Carol Service in the SMUS Chapel on December 9. In addition BCMEA Honour Orchestra (l-r) Ms. Williams, Marisa Brook, Samantha Kwok, to the readings and carols, solos by Louis Hayes (Once In Royal David’s Jennifer Yoon (front), Tisah Tucknott (back), Min Gee Han, Fraser Hayes, City), Aaron Brooks, Kevin O’Riordan, Ellis Gray, Sean Godwin (We Evan Hesketh, and Andrew van der Westhuizen. Three Kings), and Michaela Onasick accompanied by cellist Rosanna Harris (Sleep My Baby) were given. BCMEA Honour Orchestra 2003 NCE AGAIN, St. Michaels University School was well O represented in the British Columbia Music Educators Association’s (BCMEA) conference held in Surrey, BC. Resulting from a province-wide audition, 65 musicians were chosen from throughout BC to participate in this year’s Honour Orchestra. Proudly, eight string players were chosen from SMUS. Led by the internationally recognized conductor, Giorgio Magnanensi, the orchestra performed for a capacity audience of conference delegates and music lovers in the beautiful, new 1000-seat Surrey Concert Hall. They performed a challenging programme of Smetana, Stravinsky and Verdi, and were enthusiastically received by this knowledgeable audience. Evan Hesketh, Samantha Kwok, Jennifer Yoon, Fraser Hayes, Tisah Tucknott, Min Gee Han, Andrew van der Westhuizen, and Marisa Brook are to be congratulated on a truly memorable performance.

The SMUS Middle School Spring Concert, featuring all the Middle School bands and string ensembles will perform at the University of Victoria on May 7, 2003 at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend this memorable concert. school news 7

Alum Nominated for Prestigious Journey Prize ORMER STUDENT, Nick Melling (SMUS 2001) is currently F nominated for Canada’s most prestigious short story award, The Journey Prize. His story, “Philemon,” was written in Writing 12 when he was 16 and later published in Issue #19 of the Claremont Review. The Journey Prize Anthology, published in the fall of 2002, contains Nick’s story as well as those of all the other nominees. The award, worth $10,000, will be announced in June this year.

Princely awards ... His Royal Highness Prince Philip presents the prestigious Recitation “Rocks” Duke of Edinburgh Award to Eric Findlay, Dominic Loiacono and Paul Zakus. Duke of Edinburgh Awards ric Findlay, Dominic Loiacono and Paul Zakus (from centre to E right) received the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award from the Duke of Edinburgh himself, His Royal Highness Prince Philip. The ceremony took place October 7, 2002 at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver, BC. The Duke of Edinburgh Award Programme is an international youth programme in which over 2.5 million young people from 60 countries have participated. Participants earn awards in recognition of having met the challenge of the programme’s four sections through persistent individual effort and having acquired a noticeable improvement in overall development. Participants, in order to earn an Award, must complete requirements in Service, Skills, Expeditions and Fitness. The Duke of Edinburgh Programme continues to be popular among SMUS students. Currently there are more than 100 students actively working toward a bronze, silver or gold award. Please see Winners of the 2002/2003 SMUS Recitations Ð Feb. 19, 2003, held in the Mr. McLeod if you wish to become involved in this most worthwhile School Chapel. endeavour. Junior Poetry 1st Natalia Esling 2nd David Heffernan Tradition and Opportunity Senior Poetry ADET ACTIVITIES were once an important part of the school’s 1st Emily Lyall culture, and some students still continue in this tradition. 2nd Shannon Waters C Grade 8 student Kyrle Symons, the great-grandson of Junior Monologue St. Michael’s School Headmaster and founder, Kyrle C. Symons (1910-46), 1st Susan Davis attended the Cadet Provincial Biathlon Championships in Vernon in 2nd Amirah Malik January 2003. He placed third out of approximately 100 cadets in the Senior Monologue Junior Division (14 and under). The boys competed in cross-country 1st Patrick McCulloch skiing and target shooting, among other things. 2nd Frances Dunn International 1st Bonita Lam 2nd Diane Harrison Patrick McCulloch received the Between the Red Walls… Best Overall Patrick McCulloch award for Best Overall at the People’s Choice Patrick McCulloch February Recitations. for the 4th time! The fourth issue of Between the Red Walls will be in print in April 2003. Be SMUS Grad 2003 Fashion Show the first to read new poetry by students of Writing 12. At only $5.00 a copy, this See this year’s grads walk the runway in the latest Industrial Paris book is a real deal. To obtain a copy, call style fashions. This show is guaranteed to be an eye-opener. (250) 592-2411 and speak to the English Bring your friends! April 16, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. in the gym. Department. Tickets $10, available at the door. 8 school news

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Annual Festival of Trees HE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES was held at the Fairmont T Empress Hotel and Conference Centre in December 2002. This was the third year running that St. Michaels University School participated in this fund-raising event to benefit the BC Children’s Hospital. A group of dedicated staff and students planned the theme, “The Children’s Christmas Angel,” constructed decorations, plotted “bribery” strategies and collected donations of money and craft supplies for this very worthwhile occasion. Senior Strings instructor, Donna Williams, organized and led a strings ensemble. Their performance filled the Empress Conservatory with Christmas carols and entertained the crowds as the trees were decorated. SMUS instructors Anna Forbes and Heidi Davis bring art and languages Many Victorians and visitors passed through the Fairmont Empress together in a student performance, held at the Greater Victoria Art Gallery. Hotel during December, admiring the over-100 beautifully and creatively decorated Christmas trees. With a $2 donation, they cast their votes to Junior School “Post-Impressionists” determine the “People’s Choice” winner of the festival. The Greater Perform at the Art Gallery! Victoria Police Victim Services tree, sponsored by Columbia Fuels, won the People’s Choice Award. The race was tight, however, and St. Michaels RT AND FRENCH have “come to life” once again for the Grade 5 University School was awarded a close second (1st runner-up). The BC A students of the Junior School, this time at the Art Gallery of Hydro Power Pioneers received the 2nd runner-up award. Greater Victoria. In their most recent cross-curricular initiative, Although The BC Children’s Hospital Society are still in the process Anna Forbes and Heidi Davis, or “Double Exposure,” created a Post- of finalizing the amount of monies collected over the course of the Impressionist unit, which culminated in a student performance entitled, Festival, preliminary results reveal they raised over $35,000 this year! “The Bad Apple.” The philosophy behind this dramatic concept is the Well done, Victoria and SMUS! integration of Art and French. In conjunction with the visiting Post- Impressionist exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, these educators were invited to present a workshop in January to teachers on this experiential concept, and subsequently, to demonstrate its effectiveness by presenting the play on February 16 and 20 at the Gallery. Parents and the general public attended the play: it was met with great excitement and enthusiasm. Two sold-out performances were presented. “The Bad Apple,” a French play written by Madame Davis, intertwined factual information about the Post-Impressionist artists and their lives with a fictional storyline, created from selecting and juxtaposing six of the fifteen paintings from the exhibit. Maurice Denis’ “Hooded Man” provided the element of mystery and evil, ultimately revealing him in the end as “the bad apple.” Visual highlights of the play were three “tableaux vivants,” by Cezanne, Matisse and Prendergast, in which the students, under the artistic direction of Mrs. Forbes, were costumed authentically to replicate the famous paintings, while most of the background scenery was painted by SMUS graduates Whitney Davis and Rachel Boult. When a grade 1 student saw a photograph of the “tableau vivant” beside a photo of Prendergast’s painting, he asked, “Which is the real painting?” Students and staff planned and decorated this special angel-theme The net gain for every student in a major project like this is Christmas tree for the Annual Festival of Trees. In the photo, back row [l-r] immeasurable. The learning process seems “disguised” through the vehicle Tammy Fowler, Leslie Snarr, Calvin Ng, Robyn Plasterer, and Michelle of drama, rendering the children receptive to many complex artistic Vecqueray. Front [l-r] Frances Dunn, Massey Poon, and Chelsea Phipps. concepts, an in-depth background knowledge of a given period of Art History, and the acquisition of sophisticated syntax, idioms and vocabulary in French. This double exposure in the primary years to art and language is an example of the unique learning opportunities afforded Missing to the students at SMUS for “lifelong learning.” In summary, no one could express it more succinctly than a Grade 5 “actor” when he wrote Baritone - Last seen June 1987, SMUS Rifle Range, what the project meant to him: “Mrs. Forbes and Madame Davis, I loved REWARD. Please call (604) 222-0001. the play because my part has a line that I can use in real life!” school news 9

Travel Opportunities

Quebec Exchange SMUS is currently involved in an exchange programme with College- Saint-Charles-Garnier in Quebec City. Students sign up for participation in the programme in grade 10. French students come to Victoria in October, stay with SMUS families and attend classes at SMUS – they stay for 4-6 weeks. Our students then go to Quebec in February and are in turn hosted by College-Saint-Charles-Garnier and the families of the students they hosted in October. It is an excellent linguistic, cultural and educational experience.

Germany Exchange 1992 photo of Head Boy Jason Winters overlooking the Grand Canyon vista. Eleven SMUS students left March 10 for a three-week stay with host A trip to remember. families in Bad Godesberg, Germany, near Bonn. There, they participated in school life, travel, and got to know more about the culture in Pack your bags…travelling with Mr. Jackson Germany. In the fall of 2003, the German students will visit SMUS. In 1992, Michael Jackson ran a SMUS trip The SMUS language programme offers a number of exchange trips to the Grand Canyon area, together with his during the course of the year, including trips that take in two-week wife, Monica, and Senior School English to one-year stays in Japan. The benefits of a programme such as this are teacher, Rick Johnson. They took 11 students far-reaching. on a road and camping tour that covered many of the best geological sites (and about 6000 km!) in the region. They also hiked down into the Grand Canyon itself. In 1997, Michael, together with Peter Leggatt, led a tour to the Galapagos Islands. They took 20 students and four parents – it was a wonderful two-week journey across mainland By land, by sea, by air, Ecuador and throughout the Galapagos Michael Jackson leads Islands. the way. In 2000, he led another successful tour of mainland Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Eleven students and four parents and staff went on this trip. This year, he leads an exciting and educational tour of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. There, participants will whale watch, sea kayak and hike. Alumni, faculty, staff, parents and students who might be interested in participating in future explorations with Mr. Jackson are encouraged to contact him at: [email protected]

Senior School students studying Japanese experience the delights of the cuisine at a local restaurant. [lÐr] Robyn Plasterer, Huf McIntyre, Alex Harper, Jory Mckay, Luke Cameron. This group is watching dolphins off the bow of the tour boat in the Galapagos Islands. Japan Senior School Japanese instructor, Toshie Thumm took her grades 11 and 12 students on a field trip to Yoshi Sushi to get a taste of Japan, February 5. Toshie says she usually introduces her students to the delights of Japanese food at least once a year. Japanese studies begin in kindergarten and are included in the curriculum right through to graduation. The Middle School offers exchange trips to Japan each year, and the Senior School offers exchange This spring, the tour trips every second year. Currently, there are six schools in Japan accepting heads south to the exchange students from SMUS, some on scholarships. After grade 12 Baja Peninsula in graduation, SMUS students are qualified to study at Japanese universities. Mexico. In the last two years, several SMUS students have attended Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. 10 school news

School News

Math Rangers What do , pendulums and the game of tag all have in common? They provide opportunities for students to extend their understanding of quadratic functions through experiential, hands-on learning – provided they have a CBR, of course! The Math Department was the recent recipient of a class set of Calculator Based Rangers (CBR) from the Parents’ Auxiliary. These hand- held devices connect to a graphing calculator and allow students to collect real-life data through experiments. Miriam Stanford’s Math 11T class recently put their understanding of quadratic functions, or parabolas, to the test as they inaugurated the new technology with a three-day unit. On the first day, students learned how to construct data plots on their calculators, and how to link the calculators to share the data. The CBR was introduced on the second day, and students competed in the “CBR Olympics,” during which they had to replicate one of the distance-time graphs they were given by walking toward and away from a CBR. On the third day, they took their CBRs, graphing calculators, and a basketball to Students explore how mathematics can be used in the “real world.” the Quad where they collected data showing the height of the basketball as it bounced. Students then analyzed one of the bounces by modelling Where do pendulums come in? Students can also collect data relating the data with a quadratic function. to the period and length of a pendulum, and model it with a quadratic “It’s a challenge to find hands-on, learner-centred activities with function. And the collection of distance-time data as a student runs to genuine educational value to use in a math classroom,” Ms. Stanford says. “tag” a wall and returns again results in a very nice parabola! “The CBRs allow students to deepen their understanding of the many What’s next for the Math Department and technology? Stay tuned – families of functions they study in secondary school, and at the same you could soon see math students all over the campus, holding light time, see how these functions can be used to model phenomena they see meters up to fluorescent fixtures to collect data for modelling with a sine around them. And it gives students a taste of how mathematics is curve, or dropping temperature probes into coffee cups in the staff lounge commonly used in the ‘real world.’” to test Newton’s Law of Cooling.

Robot Designers

SMUS Video Club Senior band director and music composition teacher, Don MacKay, started the Video Club in 1989. The club acts as a vehicle for students to study video production and the creation of documentary footage, and at the same time, facilitates recording of theatre and musical events for archival purposes. Don has been involved with multi-media presentations for over 30 years, including a stint in film school. He generously shares his time and expertise with interested students. After an initial donation of funds from the Parents’ Auxiliary, the club began filming everything from solo performances to yearly musical productions. The Video Club’s first big production was Grease. Since then, it has filmed every musical, concert, grad day, and other special events for the school. Members of the club dedicate many hours of their time, preparing for shoots, setting up, filming, tearing down, and Mr. Buckingham’s grade 9 Computer Programming classes designed and then editing the final results. It’s lots of work, but also a lot of fun. created Lego robots as part of their term assignment. The hands-on project was a fun and dynamic learning opportunity. school news 11

Scholars in Residence The Dynamic Trio! Severn Cullis-Suzuki environmental and social justice activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki, who in 1992, at the age of twelve, closed the plenary session of the UN’s Earth Summit in Rio de Janerio with the following declaration: “You grown-ups say you love us, but we challenge you to make your Mike Pyke and Dave Jawl (grad 2002) and David Spicer (grad 2003) shown actions reflect your words.” here with Senior School director and referee, Peter Tongue, at the Rugby During the day she spent at SMUS, Severn Cullis-Suzuki met Canada Under 19 camp, March 5, 2003. These three young men were students involved in the Streamkeeper, Shorekeeper and Outdoor named to the Canada Under 19 Rugby Team which will compete against the best rugby nations in the world at the Junior World Cup in Paris, April 9- Leadership programmes. She worked with science and geography classes April 22, 2003. Congratulations, lads. at the Senior School and discussed issues such as global warming and the Kyoto Accord. At the Junior School, she showed her slides of the Amazon to grades 4 and 5 students. In her evening address, she provided an Grade Six Personal Planning Curriculum overview of her career and challenged all those in attendance to do their “Sir, you mean that if I fall asleep during this class, it is OK and you part to make a difference. will wake me up and I will feel better and even be able to work harder? Are you sure?” This convoluted statement was uttered by several grade 6 students as Robert Bateman they prepared for a guided meditation session. The class was part of their Canada’s foremost wildlife Personal Planning curriculum for the second term. In the first term, artist, environmentalist, students study the importance of staying relaxed and balanced in our busy school environment. In the second term, they experiment with teacher and philosopher actual strategies to achieve this balance. Students are given the During his visit to the school, opportunity to experience a guided meditation, Qi Gong exercise, and Robert Bateman met with the school’s vigorous yoga workout. art teachers and the students on the Eager students literally ran from the Middle School to the Wenman Senior School Arts Council. He addressed the Middle School’s grade 7 Pavilion for the second meditation session. Two students really did fall and 8s, using slides to provide an overview of his career and his asleep, but awoke refreshed and relaxed. The opportunity to experiment philosophy. He worked with senior art students and spoke to them about with relaxation strategies has been very successful and provides students his approach to painting and the various techniques he has developed with another option to avoid dis-ease. SMUS continues to offer a well- over the course of his career as a wildlife artist. In the evening, he rounded education, but don’t worry parents – we don’t actually encourage addressed an enthusiastic audience consisting of students, parents and sleeping in class!! (See photo on back cover of School Ties.) teachers. Urging those in attendance to resist the allure of popular culture and mass consumerism, he used slides to provide an inspiring account of his development as an artist, environmentalist and social critic.

Maude Barlow Keeping equipment in good order is a daunting task. Repairs, maintenance and upgrading into digital video are an expensive crusader for Canadian venture. The club has been served well by its current equipment, sovereignty and citizens’ rights but it is aging. Members look forward to upgrading to a modern Maude Barlow, volunteer chairperson of digital system some time in the near future. the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest Recognition and thanks must go out to the Parents’ Auxiliary public advocacy group, director of the and everyone else who supported the club’s efforts over the past 12 International Forum on Globalization and years. Many of the tapes are available for viewing through the author of thirteen books, including her most SMUS Library. If you’re interested in viewing any of the archived recent releases, Blue Gold: The Battle to Stop the copies, contact Brenda Waksel in the Barker Library. Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and Profit Is If you’d like to try your hand at some aspect of filmmaking, or Not the Cure: A Citizen’s Guide to Saving Medicare. care to join or contribute to the Video Club, contact Don MacKay During her visit to SMUS in April of 2003, Maude Barlow will meet at the Senior School. with a variety of students in social studies, history, geography and economics classes. She will also present a keynote address in the evening This summer, Don will be offering two programmes for students. focusing on the challenges facing Canada. For more information, contact [email protected] 12 from the chaplain

Opportunity … Wind of Grace “911? HELP! I’ve got a big problem!” by Reverend June Maffin

AN’TYOU JUST SEE THE SCENE?Panic in the actor’s voice – When we consider crises as opportunities rather than impenetrable C dramatic music beginning to rise – camera getting closer and blocks in our lives, positive outcomes can result…resources within us that closer to the actors whose faces reflect a state of panic! That’s we never knew we had: courage, faith in God, strength of will, Hollywood for you. But, is it only Hollywood? unconditional love of family and friends, steadfastness, determination, We think, “I have a big problem!” Translation: “panic situation … tenacity, inner resolve…are often revealed. danger … crisis!” We may discover that our priorities in life change. While the day Each of us has experienced difficult situations in life in one form or before a crisis, we may think our priority in life is to be a millionaire by a another, be they financial set-back, school grades that don’t meet our certain age, the day after a crisis (such as the diagnosis of a life- expectations, health issues, relational difficulties, employment concerns, threatening illness, unemployment, bankruptcy, divorce etc.), we often or people who disappoint / betray / enrage / frustrate us, etc. The can find a new perspective emerging and we choose to spend more time question is – how do we approach these crises? Do we panic – raise our with our family and friends and less time at the office. Clarity about anxiety even further by thinking of the very possible worst outcome of priorities in life often emerges when a crisis is perceived from the the situation? perspective of opportunity. Living on the beautiful west coast of Canada, I often watch eagles flying high among the treetops. They swoop and soar. Their lithe bodies A turning point … glide effortlessly through the sky. I’ve often wondered what the baby The Taoist sage Chuang-Tzu recounted the tale of Ch-ing, the chief eaglet thinks of on the day when it is taken by its mother to the edge of carpenter who was carving wood into a stand for musical instruments. the nest and dropped into the air. There’s no instruction manual to read When finished, the work appeared to those who saw it as though of ahead of time. No pep talk “Now, dear, this is what will happen.” No supernatural execution; and the Prince of Lu asked him, “What mystery sibling advice “I’ve been there – here’s what to do….” is there in your art?” “No mystery, Your Highness,” replied Ch-ing. “And All of a sudden, without warning, before the eaglet knows it, whoosh, yet there is something. When I am about to make such a stand, I guard it’s dropped through space and immediately finds itself on a swift against any diminution of my vital power. I first reduce my mind to downward plunge to the ground below. Crisis – big time! “911. Help!!!” absolute quiescence. Three days in this condition, and I become oblivious But, before the little eaglet crashes to the ground, mama eagle swoops of any reward to be gained. Five days, and I become oblivious of any fame down, catches the little one in her beak, and flies him back to the nest. A to be acquired. Seven days, and I become unconscious of my four limbs while later, she picks him up, takes him to the edge of the nest, and tosses and my physical frame. Then, with no thought of any Court present in him out…again…and again...and again – until he figures out how to use my mind, my skill becomes concentrated, and all disturbing elements the things called wings that are attached to his back. The eaglet’s journey from without are gone. I enter some mountain forest, I search for a out of the nest begins as ‘danger.’ Soon, it becomes ‘opportunity’…an suitable tree. It contains the form required, which is afterwards opportunity to fly…to see the world from new heights and perspectives! elaborated. I see the stand in my mind’s eye, and then set to work. The Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna wrote, “the winds of grace are Beyond that, there is nothing. I bring my own native capacity into always blowing, but to catch them, we have to raise our sails.” relation with that of the wood. What was suspected to be of supernatural The prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament wrote that God “gives power execution in my work was due solely to this.”2 to the faint and strengthens the powerless. Those who wait for the Lord SMUS is a place of great opportunity – a wonderful opportunity to shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; learn...mature...discover one’s strengths in the face of high expectations, they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”1 What a deadlines, busy and hectic schedules. powerful promise! Why, then, do we succumb to the negative voices…to the disquiet 1 Isaiah 40: 29, 31-32 within? Life is filled with difficult moments and each one can be approached 2 Chuang-Tzu. “The Way of Chuang-Tzu.” Translated and edited by from a position of danger or opportunity. It’s up to us to choose. Did you Thomas Merton. New Directions, 1965. Cited in God and the Evolving know that the word crisis in Chinese is composed of two characters? One Universe, 145f. represents danger and the other represents opportunity. r eports 13

From the Board of Governors Opportunities

HE BOARD’SWORK for the year 2003 has started on a positive gymnasium, a music teaching centre and a full renovation of School T note. It is with great pleasure that I can report on the progress House. These are some of the opportunities for the school over the next of construction on the Crothall Centre for Humanities and the several years. Arts, which is on time, and on budget as of the end of February, with I invite you all to watch the final stages of construction and to see the four months of construction left. We are nearing completion of the first positive changes to the school campus in the weeks and months ahead. phase of a significant Facilities Plan that will see buildings renewed and The Alumni weekend is a perfect opportunity to see these developments redeveloped at the Richmond Road campus. As the Board looks ahead at and to view the plans for the future of the Richmond Road campus. On the next phases in the Plan, we are very pleased at the progress we are other fronts, the Board is working on preparing a five-year plan for making in our planning. These are wonderful opportunities for the entire implementing the Strategic Priorities of the school. This information will school. be available for feedback and discussion during the spring, and will The Crothall Centre for Humanities and the Arts will be open for present further information on the ways in which the school can better returning students in September 2003. With the support of great friends serve its students. of the school, such as Graeme Crothall, we are able to continue to deliver In closing, the Board thanks all those who have helped the school over the Strategic Plan. The replacement and expansion of facilities is one of the past year, for their contributions to the Annual Fund, Facilities the key strategic priorities of the school, necessitated partly by the decline Development, and discussions and decisions about the direction of the in old facilities, and by our goal of providing the appropriate facilities for school. The Board feels fortunate to be serving a strong community and fulfilling the school’s Mission. The classroom environment is key to the an outstanding institution. learning experience for our children. The Crothall Centre for Humanities and the Arts will be the first phase completed. The school’s plan is to Ð Stephen R. Martin move forward with expanded recreation facilities, including another Chair of the Board of Governors

From the Parents’ Auxiliary A Piece of Home Maintaining Connections NDERSTANDING. . . CONNECTIONS . . . RELATIONSHIPS. All of U these things are important to our school community. This year, TWAS LIKE WALKING into the Faculty Lounge at recess! the SMUS Parents’ Auxiliary is sponsoring, in addition to its I On Wednesday morning, January 22, 2003, there was a traditional activities, two specific projects designed to encourage social gathering in Oak Bay at the home of Bill and connections and understanding, hopefully resulting in newly forged and Sylvia Greenwell. Invitations were extended to teachers who had strengthened relationships. retired in recent years. The Parents’ Auxiliary recently initiated a project called A Piece of Those present were Sylvia Greenwell, Chris and Sunny Home. This idea was created in support of the boarding community – Pollard, Keith Murdoch, Ron Dyson, David Peach, Colin connecting students with their families at home. Parents of boarding Skinner, Mary Humphreys, Lynford Smith and myself, Rob students order monthly gift packages – then the Parents’ Auxiliary Wilson. Bill Greenwell appeared toward the end of the party, compile and deliver the packages filled with imaginative things to the after finishing his morning’s teaching at the school, where he was students. Boarding students have been receiving packages with themes substituting for Peggy Murphy. such as Happy Halloween, Welcome to Winter, Finals Survival, and With Apologies for absence were received from Stewart Dunlop, Hugs and Kisses. who was also teaching at the school as a stand-in for Kirsten The latest Auxiliary programme development is called “Boarders Davel. Gary and Lynne Laidlaw were away on holiday, Sa’ad without Borders.” It’s an activity designed to encourage understanding Kayal had a previous appointment, while Peter Bousfield was and interaction between boarding students and local school families. On rumoured to have had an important bridge commitment – and it two Sundays in February, day student families invited interested boarding is sacrilege to break up a bridge four! students to their homes for a Sunday dinner and activity. Over 80 Sylvia provided sumptuous fare, which blended in beautifully boarding students have been the recipients of gracious hosting from day with the scintillating conversation. It was a great occasion, and school families in the inauguration of what we hope will become an indeed, these gatherings have grown in scope and are now annual event. planned on a regular basis. The next date is booked for March 12, So there you have it . . . two activities designed to build at the home of Mary and Sydney Humphreys. understanding, connections and relationships – two activities that reflect the Parents’ Auxiliary’s motto: “Parents working together to support Ð Rob Wilson excellence in education.” SMUS Development Office Ð Cynthia Mitchell President of the Parents’ Auxiliary 14 heritage

A Boarding Life Ð by Rob Wilson

HE PORTRAITS AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES of the gentlemen T for whom the six boarding houses are named are displayed on plaques in the entrance area of each residence. At the request of the residence staff, the plaques were created so that students could gain some insight into the people who go to the very root of the school’s history and development. Of these six men, four can be classified as founders, four of them, at some time, were headmasters, while Mr. Winslow, who was neither a founder nor a headmaster, played a vital role in keeping the school afloat during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the difficult years of World War II, Archives photo, circa 1920, of St. Michael’s School and residences on 1939-1945. Windsor Road.

We have included the portraits and brief biographies on pages 16-18 of this issue of School Ties for those of you who cannot visit the plaques. This life did not suit everyone, and in the light of today’s society, the old boarding life comes across as a harsh environment. But in those days, In addition to the school history represented by these distinguished this style of school life was considered an important part of a boy’s gentlemen, it is appropriate to put some focus on residences and education and development. residential life. This has been an important part of the school since inception and particularly with the completion of School House in 1908. St. Michael’s School University School was originally modelled on the British Public School The growth of St. Michael’s School was much different from that of system. It catered specifically to boarders, with day students University School. After its founding in 1910, the school was developed supplementing the numbers. What is generally not known is that in Oak Bay on Windsor Road (then called Saratoga), between Roslyn and St. Michael’s School, which was essentially a boy’s preparatory day school, Hampshire. A bungalow was built in 1912 and a schoolroom, 20 x 20 x also had a boarding population through almost all its history. 12 feet, built at the back. By 1918 the bungalow and the schoolroom K.C. Symons, in his book, That Amazing Institution, noted that in 1925, were linked together by four rooms: “two up and two down.” In 1918, there were 22 boarders out of a total enrolment of 76 boys. the school enrolment grew from 24 in January to 42 in September, and Boarding life is such that the school becomes a home as well as a this included a number of boarders who occupied the upper two rooms of school, and the campus remains open and in use all day and every day, the four-room extension. K.C. Symons and his wife Edith were the including weekends, during term time. Kitchen staff, nurses (matrons) caregivers to the boarders, but not long afterwards, Edith’s health and residential supervisors (house masters) took over the care of the deteriorated, probably from looking after her own family of 5 in addition boarders after regular school days, and until recently, the residential to 12 boarders. From K.C. Symons, That Amazing Institution: supervisors were also teachers who lived in the school. Non-resident “There were seventeen to breakfast and extra boys to lunch (how we teachers were expected to assist, and were assigned weeknight and ever squeezed them in, I do not know as we had only my little den) and weekend duty times. seventeen to supper – and she did it all, to say nothing of washing and mending.” University School This situation was alleviated in 1922 when Mr. Bates, a teacher at Dormitories at University School had a Spartan look to them. The the school, and his wife secured 1231 Victoria Avenue and took over dorms, each housing eight boys, contained a large, common closet space the 16 boarders in September of that year. Mr. Bates extended his home for hanging clothes, and then an individual bed, a small chest of drawers and later took as many as 22 boarders. In 1927, K.C. Symons bought and a little shelf space for each boy. Every dorm had a senior dorm 1231 Victoria Avenue from Mr. and Mrs. Bates and resumed direct prefect, and the fairly strict routine included reveille and room inspection charge of the boarders, albeit in larger premises. In later years, Kyrle W. in the morning and a set “ lights out” time at night. The housemaster or Symons and his wife, Joan, took care of the boarders, with Mr. and Mrs. assistant lived in a small room between dorms, and nearby were K.C. Symons moving back to the bungalow. Later still, Ned Symons and bathroom, shower and toilet facilities. It was not deluxe accommodation, his wife, Tiny, did their stint as house parents. and this lifestyle changed little from 1908 until the early 1970s. The St. Michael’s School philosophy for boarders was to give them a The routine of the early years was regimented – very much so in the feeling of being part of an extended family, but there was obviously a years 1920-1923 when the school was University Military School. There routine set out for them. One of the interesting routine features was were also times of good-hearted fellowship, and not a few late night dorm trying to set a timetable for bath nights. Weekends included organised raids organized and later fantasized into memorable and even historic visits to various attractions in the local area, with sports and playtime occasions but for the timely, or untimely, intervention of a housemaster! activities in the school neighbourhood. It should be noted here that the Benton Mackid (US 1926-32) remembers his dorm life warmly and is school boarders were generally younger than those at University School, able to name all the boys from photographs in his well-organized photo for Grade 9 was the senior grade at the school. albums. He felt that dorms had a good morale and a real sense of belonging, and that from this environment, lifelong friendships emerged. heritage 15

unloved building, and when it was demolished in 1990, there were few mourners at the graveside. Meanwhile, in 1978, a major event took place with the introduction of girls to the school. Girls were admitted as boarders, and were assigned to Harvey House. In 1988, a fine new residence, New House, was built. In August 1990, it was burned down at the hands of an arsonist. School year 1990-1991 was an interesting year for boarders as they were housed in temporary buildings constructed by ATCO, a Canadian company that specializes in such accommodation, but usually at mine sites! By 1992 all boarders lived in the six houses that we have today: Bolton, Barnacle and Harvey, for boys, and Timmis, Symons and Winslow, for girls. Today, boarding life at SMUS has seen some significant changes from yesteryear. Each residence has about 35 students with ensuite rooms for 1988 Archive photo of the Opening Ceremony of New House Residences. In two people as well as additional storage space. The rooms are used as the background is International House, which was demolished in 1990. Today, studies, too, and security is given a high priority. House parents and the school residences are named after six men who made significant contributions to the growth and development of this school community. support staff, of whom some are non-teachers, are there to supervise and counsel as surrogate parents. Senior students, in turn, assist them. Routine, dress codes, leave and meal times are more flexible, so boarders St. Michaels University School live a different life from those of pre-1970 vintage. With amalgamation in 1971, boarders were accommodated at the old Despite these changes, there are still many timeless common threads University School, now known as the Richmond Road or the Senior found in this boarding life away from home. It is likely that lifelong Campus. While the old regime was in evidence at first, with senior boys friendships and warm memories continue to develop as always. in School House and juniors in Harvey House, there was another residence built in 1974 called International House. International House accommodated about 90 seniors, with four boys to each room. It was an

Archive photo Ð Detail of K.C. Symons from a 1943 photo of the members of the school.

Acknowledgements For information about boarding in the 1920s and 1930s, I am indebted to two gentlemen who have maintained their sharp memories. Benton Mackid was a boarder at University School from1926 until 1932. Percy Wilkinson taught at St. Michael’s School in 1924-26, and for the next year, assisted with the supervision of boarders. Percy is looking forward to his 100th birthday on July 1 this year. Thanks also to Michael Symons, grandson of K.C. and a grad of both SMS ’59 and US ’63, and who was a boarder at St. Michael’s School. Ð R.W. Residences today. 16 house names

BARNACLE HOUSE BOLTON HOUSE

JAMES CLARK BARNACLE THE REV. WILLIAM WASHINGTON BOLTON, M.A. (US 1906-1923) (1858-1946) Co-Founder of University School Co-Founder of University School F THE THREE FOUNDERS OF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, ILLIAM WASHINGTON BOLTON was born in 1858 in it was J.C. Barnacle who took the position of Headmaster. He the county of Staffordshire, England. He went to Caius O was the man responsible for the day-to-day running and well W College, Cambridge in 1876 and after an outstanding being of the school. From 1906 until 1923, he was a dominant presence athletic career there, attained his degree in 1880. In 1881, he was as a teacher, games master and administrator. ordained by the Bishop of Lichfield. For the next three years, he held a Affectionately known as ‘Barney,’ James Clark Barnacle was educated curacy in England, before moving to Canada to become a missionary in at London University. After coming to Victoria in 1900, he taught briefly Saskatchewan. In 1887, he was appointed Rector of St. Paul’s Church, in the public school system before moving to the Collegiate School. In Esquimalt. 1906 he joined forces with the Rev. W.W. Bolton, and later with It was at this time that he was induced to take over St. Paul’s School in Capt. R.V. Harvey, to found University School. Esquimalt, which he operated until 1890. He became rector of St. Mary Aside from being an outstanding rugby and cricket player, The Virgin in San Francisco until 1898. In 1894, he secured a leave of Mr. Barnacle was an excellent mathematics teacher and a fair, strict, and absence from that diocese to undertake an exploration expedition on consistent disciplinarian. He carried the school through the 1914-1918 Vancouver Island, under the auspices of the Daily Colonist. World War, in spite of low enrolment and dwindling finances, and in In 1898, he opened a small school on Belcher Avenue in Victoria and 1920 was President during the school’s three years as University Military remained there until 1906, when he joined Mr. J.C. Barnacle in founding School. University School. He was Warden of University School until 1920, when Fulfilling the position of Headmaster (and President) for 17 years, he left for the South Pacific to be Inspector of Schools for the New Mr. Barnacle was a rugged man who was devoted to the school. He Zealand Government. inspired loyalty and trust from those around him. He retired in 1923 due In 1925, he returned to University School as Headmaster, a position to failing health, and died in Barbados in March 1939. he held until 1928, when he returned to the South Pacific to work for the French Government. He died in Tahiti on July 28, 1946, aged 88. Mr. Bolton was loved and respected by all who knew him. The things he stood for: scholarship, gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, athletic ability, and good physical condition, will always remain a part of our school tradition. house names 17

HARVEY HOUSE SYMONS HOUSE

RUPERT VALENTINE HARVEY KYRLE C. SYMONS (1872-1915) (1881-1966) Co-Founder of University School Founder and Headmaster of St. Michael’s School V. HARVEY WAS BORN August 29, 1872 in Liverpool, C. SYMONS, the founder of St. Michael’s School, was born in England. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge. After India in 1881. With his father’s death in 1885, he returned to R teaching in England for several years, he moved in 1899 to K England with his mother. He was educated at Dulwich College Canada, to teach at Queen’s School in Vancouver. In 1901, he took over and went on to graduate from Keble College, Oxford. as Headmaster, and in 1908, joined his school with University School of In August 1908, he arrived in Victoria with his wife, Edith, and Victoria, founded two years earlier. At University School, he assumed the accepted a teaching post at a public school on Salt Spring Island. His title of ‘Warden.’ sons, Kyrle W. and Ned, were born on the island. His other son, Michael, Capt. Harvey was an ardent outdoorsman who regularly camped out was born in Victoria. during school holiday time. He very much believed in the value of the In the summer of 1910, Mr. Symons moved to Victoria, and with the Cadet Corps. He also introduced Scouting to the school. generous help of, among others, the Bridgman family, established St. In 1914, with the onset of World War I, Capt. Harvey left with Michael’s School. In 1912, Mr. Symons adopted the Dulwich crest and his regiment for overseas duty. In the second battle of Ypres, he wrote three Latin verses to accompany his old school song. He also chose was wounded, taken prisoner, and died in a prisoner-of-war hospital on the school motto, “Nihil Magnum Nisi Bonum” – “Nothing is great May 8, 1915. He is buried in a military cemetery in Niederswehrh, unless it is good.” Germany. By 1932, both Kyrle W. and Ned were teaching at the school with Although Capt. Harvey’s stay at University School was brief, his Kyrle W. taking over the position of Headmaster upon his father’s contribution was immense. Old Boys, some of whom went to war with retirement around 1946. During his retirement years, K.C. Symons wrote him, held him in the highest esteem. Fittingly, he and others who fell in a history of the school, entitled That Amazing Institution, and continued to battle are remembered with pride at the school’s Remembrance Day do some part-time teaching until 1953. He died in 1966, at the age of 85. services, when Capt. Harvey’s last letter to the school is read. It is a Kyrle W. continued on as Headmaster until 1969 and finally retired in moving letter, written by a dedicated and patriotic gentleman. 1973. Between father and son, Kyrle C. and Kyrle W. had run the school for an astounding 59 years, which explains why the Symons family name and that of St. Michael’s School became synonymous. In 1971, the Symons family continued its involvement with the newly amalgamated St. Michaels University School – Kyrle W. until 1973, and Ned until 1982. 18 house names

TIMMIS HOUSE WINSLOW HOUSE

JOHN J. TIMMIS FRANCIS EDWARD WINSLOW, O.B.E. (1906-1970) (1883-1962) Headmaster of University School Governor of University School OHN J. TIMMIS was born in Shropshire, England in 1906 and was INSLOW HOUSE is dedicated to Mr. F.E. Winslow. He is educated at Ludlow School and Balliol College, Oxford. He taught the only person of the named residences who was not a Jat Canford School between 1930 and 1939, and was appointed head W Headmaster or a Founder. Mr. Winslow was a well-known of the mathematics department. He then served with the Royal Artillery and public-spirited person who, until 1949, was Manager of the Royal in World War II from 1939 until 1945. Immediately following the War, Tr ust Company. He was awarded the O.B.E. (Order of the British he emigrated to Canada to join the staff of Shawnigan Lake School. His Empire) for his work in selling war bonds in World War II. In 1953, he wife, Mary, and first child, Sally, joined him in September 1946. In June was presented with the Good Citizenship Medal for his prodigious 1947, he acquired St. Christopher’s Preparatory School in Victoria and services to the Victoria community. He was a direct descendent of one of taught part-time at Glenlyon School. Following the death of Rev. G.H. the Mayflower passengers who landed in America, and his family later Scarrett, Headmaster of University School in July 1948, Mr. Timmis was came to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. Mr. Winslow, born in New invited to assume the position of Headmaster. He accepted with some Brunswick, came to Victoria in 1912. misgivings, and ended up staying on for the next 22 years. During the great Depression of the 1930s, University School was in During his tenure at the school, Mr. Timmis pulled enrolment figures dire financial straits. Mr. Winslow, in his dual role of Chairman of the from a low of 54 in 1948 to a high of 254 in 1963. He encouraged the Board of Governors and Manager of the Royal Trust, together with a loyalty and devotion of the Old Boys, started a drama section in 1956, small group of Alumni, played a strong and vital role in steering the reintroduced Scouting to the school, and in 1958, initiated the first rugby school back to financial stability by the early 1960s. His son, Frederick tour to Great Britain. With the backing of the Board of Governors, he was a student here from 1938 until 1940. Frederick was killed in the extended the Classroom Building and orchestrated the building of Brown 1944 Normandy Invasion. Hall, the Barker Library, and a new Gymnasium. Also completed during Mr. Winslow was Chairman of the Board until 1958 and remained a his tenure as Headmaster was the building of the Chapel, which opened Board member until his death in 1962. During his long association with on Sunday, May 20, 1962. University School, he regularly and faithfully attended major school Mr. Timmis brought an enormous amount of energy and spirit to the functions. school and was a very fine mathematics teacher. He retired in 1970. Unfortunately, he passed away in October of that year as well. In 1980, a beautiful Chapel hanging by well-known Victoria artist Carole Sabiston was dedicated to his memory. heritage 19

The Head: K.C. Symons Undemocratic or Just Undiplomatic? Compiled by P.K. Bousfield

UCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about the founder of St. Michael’s The school began on a M School, K.C. Symons. Only recently, two new articles came shoestring, and kept going by a into my possession that further add to the legend of this series of financial miracles. At dynamic character. Based on his own book, That Amazing Institution, the every crisis, an “angel” seemed to most enthralling part of his story deals with the early struggles of his appear in the form of a parent or family. This, plus his own personal style of being able to run a school as a friend who offered money. “The benevolent dictator, without worrying about being politically correct, Hand of God,” said Mr. Symons makes an interesting read. with bland sincerity. In fact, Kyrle C. Symons, the craggy-faced and beloved old tyrant, “a man,” as “K.C.” himself supplied some of K.C. Symons served as the Head of Kipling said of his sailor, “of infinite resource and sagacity.” He used to the motivating force – prayer and St. Michael’s School between 1910 have a standard reply to parents who complained about the way their sons also hints dropped in mortal ears. and 1946. were treated during the almost 40 years that he was the Head. The school was a maze of annexes and additions, at different levels, “My dear chap,” he would say, “I didn’t ask you to send your boy to joined by curious passages and stairways – usable, but drafty and my school, and if you feel he would do better elsewhere, I shan’t stand in inconvenient, with desks of antique design, and floorboards pitted by your way.” years of scrubbing and sweeping. Although K.C. is no longer here to scold mothers publicly for failing Some time ago, the parents of a boy were wavering between two to mark the clothes of their sons with nametags, his influence and ideals schools: St. Michael’s and a glossier private school with less atmosphere. remain with the school, and some of his deeds have become legend. Their son perched on a desk while they inspected St. Michael’s and A rich Winnipeg couple telegraphed asking whether they could send spoke to the Headmaster. The aged desk gave way beneath his weight and their boy to St. Michael’s. They obviously looked on the request as a mere collapsed in splinters. The parents gazed down at their son, sitting in the formality. But Mr. Symons took a different view. wreckage. They surveyed the rest of the furnishings and exchanged “When I’ve seen the boy, I’ll tell you,” he wired back. The boy’s gloomy looks. mother telegraphed an angry chronicle of the boy’s virtues and They had an earnest conversation when they reached home. But in background. spite of the run-down look of the school, they decided to “Let me see the boy,” Mr. Symons wired again. So the send their boy to St. Michael’s after all. boy’s parents flew him to Victoria to be inspected. There was an atmosphere about St. Michael’s, The boy passed the inspection, but the headmaster had compounded by many things: the well-mannered boys in maintained his rule. During all his years as headmaster, he their grey jackets and shorts, black and blue striped ties, and never once accepted a boy sight-unseen. He seldom turned a caps; the names of 29 St. Michael’s war dead on a plaque in boy down – and even then, by the polite fiction that the NIHIL MAGNUM the gym (mothers have put up a bursary in memory of school was full. NISI BONUM them); the names of team captains, prefects and distinguished One fond mother went away in a huff when “K.C.” inspected her son old boys inscribed on wooden wall-plates, and Victor Ludorum and merit and asked: “Is he normal?” He had meant to enquire whether his shield winners on brass plates; the library-museum to which old boys eyesight, lungs, heart and other machinery were in working order, but the have contributed books and such exotic things as a tropical snake in a mother took it to mean that he suspected the lad of being feeble-minded. bottle, a swordfish’s beak, and a 1914 German helmet; the worn He never stated precisely what qualifications he demanded of a new furniture, and the personality of the old Headmaster. pupil. Snobbery had nothing to do with it. The sons of labourers and K.C. Symons believed in the Spartan life. He flung windows wide in millionaires received an equal welcome. The school carried a number of winter and stripped “needless” blankets from boarders’ beds; he also boys whose parents could not afford to pay the fees. chided the boys when they shrank from opening the red-hot old stoves. “The only thing that matters is whether we can make something of His large horny hands seemed impervious to heat. the boy,” retorted Mr. Symons when questioned. At the end of term, boys were paraded before Mr. Symons and the K.C. Symons himself used to handle drill. To smarten the step, he’d other masters to hear candid appraisals of their work and character, bark out, “March as if you owned the world and had the receipt in your delivered in front of all the other boys. “You’ll end up selling shoelaces on pocket.” “Some people say our caps are ‘cheap advertising,’ I have always the street,” said “K.C.” to one unfortunate. With grudging respect, he thought that if you put kids in uniform, you have a far better chance of told one chubby youth that his mathematics skill might take him a long controlling them than if they are togged up in red sweaters with yellow way – if he behaved himself. To another boy he said: “You have had a very stars and tight-fitting jeans. poor term, have been lazy, untidy, not always quite honest. However, I A black rubber strap used to live in the top right-hand drawer of “The wish you a good holiday and I hope you will come back next term more Head’s” study. “On the first transgression,” recalls a St. Michael’s Old worth having.” The boy replied: “Thank you, sir, and the same to you.” Boy, “he would take the fingers of the right hand, bend them back, and The boys looked on him with awe. They goggled at his blackboard without administering any blow, he would lay the strap on the boy’s hand drawings of “hobnailed livers,” which he said were the inevitable result of in warning of what was to happen if the boy found himself on the Head’s drinking too much liquor, and they sometimes accepted his ironic jokes report again. as literal truth. 20 heritage

Once a soccer player handed him 50 cents for safekeeping. He thanked the boy and said he would take it as the first contribution to a Make a holiday of it! fund to send him around the world. Later another boy, thinking he meant it, solemnly offered 50 cents toward the fund. Join your fellow alumni and school friends, teachers, K.C., one year, built his sons a boat. It was, he wrote, like no boat and staff at the old stomping grounds May 2, 3, and 4 ever seen before or since, but was finally converted into a storage for a memorable reunion weekend. Make a holiday of cupboard. It certainly must have been, to say the least, somewhat it! Bring your family and join in the fun. We have a unconventional in shape. In the early years of the First World War, number of accommodation alternatives set up and a Symons acquired an ancient Overland car, one of those elevated jobs of great line-up of weekend events, too. Give us a call for the era that was rather higher than it was long! The family named it more information, or e-mail or fax us and let us know Leviathan, and there is no disguising the fact that at its wheel, the owner if you’re planning to come. must have constituted something of a menace. Entries in his diary record: After all, this weekend is for YOU! “A bit of a smash on the Malahat yesterday,” and “Thoroughly rammed a E-mail: [email protected] car outside City Hall which had the impudence to dispute our passage!” Fax: (250) 592-2812 On one occasion, remembers his son, he backed into a wrought- iron gate, and all unknowing, carried it off down the street, innocently wondering what was causing all the clanking and trusting it would soon stop! K.C. Symons managed, over the years, to attract a large and loyal Admissions Connections band of supporters from the parents and Old Boys. The respect was based Whether you and your family are third generation members of on the recognition of a very hard-working teacher, who had a genuine the SMUS community or have just begun your association with interest in education. There were no phony pretensions about the ‘Old us, each of you has already experienced a personal connection with Head.’ He pressured famous men into addressing the school; induced our school. Many families consider joining our school as a direct people to lend large gardens for prize giving – but he never thought of result of a recommendation from a member of our SMUS himself for personal gain. community. From our Admissions Office, we see many examples It is, perhaps, this last quality of selflessness that led his supporters to every day of how well these connections support the strength of give an expenses-paid travelling vacation to him and his hard-working the school and maintain the spirit and integrity of SMUS. wife, who had been ill. Someone else paid the bills for K.C.’s surgical We are grateful to our alumni, parents and current families operation, and yet another bought him a car. In addition, much of St. who make a commitment to continue their involvement. Many of Michael’s School itself was a result of loyal benefactors who gave or lent you continue to recommend us to colleagues, neighbours, friends money to aid this dedicated man. and associates. When we travel to your community hosting No matter what the company in which he found himself, his Information Receptions, your presence at our events is invaluable personality was outstanding. One parent recalls the numerous occasions to us, as it helps to build those connections we know are so that K.C. dined at the Pacific Club and kept his guests completely important. Our prospective families are always grateful when they fascinated during the entire meal. have had an opportunity to discuss, understand and appreciate In his time at St. Michael’s, he never sought to make his boys into what it means to be a full member of the SMUS community. climbers or grabbers. He only wanted to give them an academic Together, with your help, we will continue to meet, interview education, physical strength and character. and accept some of the finest students in the world – those who “Some people may think the word is old-fashioned,” he said, “but we desire a world-class education, in a student-focused learning want them to behave like gentleman.” environment, taught by outstanding faculty in state-of-the-art Was K.C. undemocratic or just undiplomatic? By today’s standards, he facilities. The success and composition of our student population is clearly was both. I have long thought the most efficient form of directly related to the experience and support of countless members government is a benevolent dictatorship. So it is by this measure I will of the community. As we move through our agenda of events over judge him. ‘K.C.,’ or ‘The Head,’ was born, raised and educated in the the course of the year, we may ask for your assistance. We always era that reminds one of these famous words: welcome your input and suggestions. If you wish to be more “Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do or die. Into the Valley of involved or would like to further discuss how you can support the Death rode the six hundred.” Admissions Office, please do not hesitate to contact us. Ð Excerpts from articles by G.E. Mortimore/Vivienne Chadwick based on K.C. Symons, That Amazing Institution. Susan Saunders, Director of Admissions Phone: (250) 370-6174 E-mail: [email protected]

Admissions Office Calendar of Events March 23 – 29 Receptions in the Cariboo and Okanagan communities April 7 – 10 Receptions in North and Central Vancouver Island homecoming schedule 21

ALUMNI HOMECOMING - 2003 Schedule of Events

Friday, May 2, 2003 Saturday, May 3, 2003 8:15 am School Chapel Assembly 9:00 am Alumni Association Executive host breakfast Alumni invited to attend a school chapel for the Graduation Class of 2003 assembly 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Alumni Homecoming Weekend 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Academic classes Registration – Quad Alumni welcome to sit in on a senior school 10:00 am Alumni Chapel Service academic class 11:00 – 12:30 pm Events and Activities For either of the above, Chris Spicer MUST BE NOTIFIED in SPORTS EVENTS: advance: [email protected] or (250) 370-6197. - School Field Hockey XI vs. Alumni -Billy G. Alumni Basketball Classic at FRIDAY NIGHT RECEPTIONS Mt. Douglas School Alumni from 1920-1963, and their significant others, are invited to -Alumni Rugby Touch VIIs attend a reception hosted by the Headmaster, Bob Snowden, and (a burst followed by a brew!) his wife, Joan. OTHER ACTIVITIES: 6:00 pm Cocktails at Reynolds House - Campus Tours 6:30 pm Dinner at Reynolds House - Children’s Activities -Archives display, second floor, Class of 1953 School House Contact Pat Crofton at (250) 361-0975 -New Facilities display, or Hamish Simpson at (250) 537-9372; School House foyer e-mail: [email protected] Class of 1958 11:45 and 12:30 pm Crothall Centre tours Contact Burke Cuppage at (250) 744-7000 1:00 – 1:30 pm SMUS Today and Tomorrow, Crothall or Robin Dalziel at (250) 920-6467 Centre Auditorium Class of 1963 12:00 – 3:00 pm Alumni and Friends Barbeque Contact Jim Crumpacker at [email protected] No host bar at Wenman Pavilion deck. or Chris Collins at (425) 455-0899; BBQ tickets available at registration table. e-mail: [email protected] 2:00 – 3:30 pm SMUS First XV Rugby vs. Oak Bay High Class of 1968 3:30 pm Alumni Association Annual General Contact Gary Wilson at [email protected] Meeting at Wenman Pavilion or (206) 463-2818 6:00 pm – 12:30 pm Outstanding Dinner Buffet Class of 1973 Dance and Silent Auction Contact Eric Heffernan at [email protected] Music and entertainment provided by or (250) 862-1800 That Seventies Band Class of 1978 Cost is $40 per person. Book your table Contact Henry Frew at [email protected] (seats 8) or purchase individual tickets or (250) 655-9331 right away. Call Donna at (250) 370-6175 Class of 1983 or [email protected] Contact Nicky Parkinson at [email protected] Sunday, May 4, 2003 or (250) 658-0285 Class of 1988 11:00 am – 4:00 pm School XI vs. Alumni XI Cricket Match Contact David Margison at [email protected] Call John Wenman at (250) 598-5477 or (250) 658-0575 if you wish to play a few overs. Class of 1993 Contact Renton Leversedge at [email protected] or (206) 956-9041 22 alumni news

Alumni Report - Winter 2003

HIS IS A BUSY TIME, both for the school and the Alumni Association. We are, of course, gearing up for what we hope will T ince the launch of the SMUS Alumni E-mail Directory in be another hugely successful alumni weekend in May. There are S 2000, we now have over 1,300 of our mailable alumni many more details elsewhere in School Ties. registered online. We are pleased with this progress, and We have initiated, under the able scrutiny of David Margison, an hope our users have found this service useful and informative. For online survey of the alumni on a number of issues that will assist us in those of you who still haven’t registered, we encourage you to do so planning for the future. We ask that each of you take the time to fill this – we will be offering an incentive prize from the Campus Shop – an out. Many thanks go to David for initiating and carrying through this attractive brass letter opener. New users will have their names great project. entered into a draw, which will take place on May 15, 2003. The newest physical addition to the Senior School campus, the Please visit our website (www.smus.bc.ca) and click on Crothall Centre, will be nearly finished at the time of the alumni Development/Alumni, and from there click on ‘Alumni E-mail weekend and tours have been organized over Homecoming Weekend. We Directory.’ Once your registration is activated, you can search for are due to take possession of this building early this summer and it will be your contemporaries by year, name or geographical branch. You can an integral part of the school starting in the fall of this year. also choose to add your own biographical information and even The Association is looking ahead and planning for the centenary in upload a photo of yourself or family. In addition, there is a “class 2006. You’ll hear more about these plans in the upcoming months. notes” option where you can post interesting tidbits of information I would like to strongly encourage all of you to return at the Alumni regarding you, your family or other alumni you have seen in your Homecoming in May and reacquaint yourself with us – come and see the travels. many great things happening at your old school. We’ve tried to plan the weekend so that there is something for everyone. Please let us know what you think. As usual, there are the regular reunion Stay connected! years, but the weekend is for all, and all are welcome! Look forward to meeting or getting reacquainted with many of you in May. Vivat!

Ð Henry Frew, Alumni Association President

The SMUS Alumni Association presents The SMUS Alumni Weekend Bed and Breakfast Service Local Alumni and SMUS parents are asked to donate a bedroom in their home for the weekend of May 2-4, 2003 so out-of-town Alumni can spend the weekend with another member of the SMUS community. Hosts will be asked to provide a bedroom, access to a bathroom and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Guests will be charged $50 per night for a single person and $60 per night for 2 people sharing a room, with funds going to the SMUS Alumni Association. To host fellow Alumni or request accommodation, please contact Zoë Broom (SMUS ’87) with the following information:

ACCOMMODATION REQUEST VOLUNTEER HOST Name(s): ______Name(s): ______Address: ______Address: ______Phone number: ______Phone number: ______E-mail: ______E-mail: ______School and graduation year: ______School and graduation year: ______Number of people needing Bed and Breakfast: ______Distance of house from Senior School: ______# Beds required: Single ______Double ______Number of Beds Available: Do you require a smoking room? Room #1: Single ______Double ______Y ❏ N ❏ outside is fine ❏ non-smoking house preferred ❏ Room #2: Single ______Double ______Allergies / Dietary / Accessibility needs: Do you have pets? Y ❏ N ❏ Please specify ______Are there smokers in the house? Y ❏ N ❏ Other: ______Are guests allowed to smoke? Inside ❏ Outside ❏ No ❏ Is the house wheelchair accessible? Y ❏ N ❏

Send to: Zoë Broom, 2821 Heath Drive, Victoria, BC, V9A 2J6; [email protected]; 250-370-4506; fax 250-370-4525 alumni news 23

The Michael Walsh Scholar Award

ALLING ALL ALUMS who knew this C man – calling all alums who were guided by this man!! This named endowment has been initiated by a small group of alumni who were very clear that Michael Walsh was a key to their positive experience at the Ian Hyde-Lay was in attendance at UVic on Nov. 4, 2002 to see one of his school. His kindness and quiet dignity past students, Gareth Rees, inducted into the University of Victoria Sports were inspirations to many boarders, Hall of Fame. students and athletes. To date, 26 members of the SMUS community have contributed $45,000 Rees Appointed to to this fund. There is an initial target of $100,000 that will be achieved – with participation from more of us who knew this man and whose lives the UVic Hall of Fame have been profoundly impacted through this association. Please join us in building this fund. Send your support today.

ONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2002 was a red-letter day for SMUS, M with the news that Gareth Rees (SMUS ’85) had been named to the University of Victoria Sports Hall of Fame. Rees, who upon graduating from SMUS and doing one further year at Harrow, returned to attend the University of Victoria to earn his degree in History. He starred for the Rugby Vikes for four seasons before moving back to Europe to play professionally in England, Wales and France. Along the way, beginning as a precocious 19 year old, he played in all four World Cups, earning over 60 caps for Canada and becoming the country’s all time leading scorer. He also represented the famous Barbarians club on numerous occasions, and earned countless other major rugby awards. Just this year, he has returned from a lucrative rugby media position in Britain to take over as ’s CEO. We wish him well in this new position. In speaking at the UVic induction, Rees was quick to praise SMUS for developing his sporting talents. “Many people assumed I learned my rugby in the UK…but I am quick to tell them that this was not the case. My grounding came on wet and windy fall afternoons on the old Hill pitch at SMUS…watched over by several outstanding coaches.”

Michael Walsh stands proudly beside his team in this 1983 photo of the More Alumni Sports Champs BC Independent School Rugby Championships.

Jen Blumberg (SMUS ’03) and Kristi Tyrell (SMUS ’02) were members of the BC Squash Team competing in the 2003 Canada Winter Heritage Club Focus Games. They played well and their team captured the Gold medal! RAWING UP A WILL is something that we should all do at some D point in our lives. That said, less than 50% of North American Beckie MacDonald (SMUS ’02) and Krystal O’Byrne (SMUS ’99) adults have taken this step to set out their estate plans. A are members of the University of Victoria Vikes Basketball team which growing number of the SMUS family, seeing the course that the school is competed in the national university tournament in early March 2003. setting, are naming the school as an estate beneficiary. This is wonderful Their team was ranked 6th as they entered the tournament, and they news. Of course, we wish a long and productive life to all members of our emerged with the gold medal. Beckie and Krystal played key roles in the Heritage Club. This is clearly a carefully considered long-term future gift. championship games. We are aware of 25 alumni, former school parents and friends who have made this commitment. The school is so grateful for these significant gifts. If you would like to discuss an estate contribution to SMUS, please contact Christopher Spicer at (250) 370-6197 or [email protected] 24 alumni updates

Alumni Updates opportunity to speak with FROM THE ’60s We receive e-mail, snail mail, telephone calls, visits even Ð and Mr.Walsh, please tell him I sent we love to hear from you! This is what gives us the stories to COURT MACKID (US ’63) our greetings and love, and that his build this important section of School Ties. Please take a is a Professional Engineer and has presence will be sorely missed at moment and tell us what you are doing, keep in touch, let us worked in the Alberta oil and gas the school. I will talk to you soon. know if you are looking for a contact number for a fellow business for over 28 years. He Jim” alumnus, or if you have a question about something at your old currently heads up Canadian school. The more we hear, the more we can pass on in this exploration and production for ALEX WONG (SMUS ’73) section. Ziff Energy, a large multinational visited the school recently with his We want your e-mail address, so why not send us an e-mail resource company with head wife, Rubi, and two of his sons, update right now!! [[email protected]] or [[email protected]] offices in Houston and Calgary. Daryl and Justin. Alex was delighted to be back at the school BEFORE THE ’60s BILL HUBBARD (US ’56) MUNROE ARCHIBALD after a thirty-year absence and was QUINTIN ROBERTSON After 24 years working as a (US ’64) recently retired from a primarily here to register his (US ’42) wrote a nostalgic article biologist for the Provincial lifetime in the mining field – children with SMUS. Alex is a in the January 24, 2003 Vancouver Government, Bill took an early although he’s still willing and ready businessman in Hong Kong with a Sun Driving Section. The brief retirement toward the end of last to get into any projects which passion for skiing at Whistler. article (with pictures) spoke of a year. He formally retired as of might appear. ’Ro loved working as golden age of automobiling in a March 31, 2002. Since that time, an assayer – he set up many onsite DAVID FINNIS (SMUS ’75) 1929 Model A Ford Coupe and he’s been doing a bit of consulting lab operations in far-flung locales. works as Community Librarian at the wonderful summer holiday work. Prior to joining Government the Oliver Branch of the Okanagan trips with four days of driving to in 1978, and after receiving a JON DEISHER (US ’65) Regional Library, which gives him Lompoc, California – quite the Master of Science degree at UBC, received his BA in Sociology in a 50-60 minute commute from his excursion with three young he spent several years with an 1973, and then his MA in home in Summerland to the Town children. environmental consulting firm. Bill Communications in 1976 – both of Oliver. Of special interest to says he spends as much time as from the University of Nevada- David is the pre-school story time JOHN EDWARDS (US ’50) possible in Italy (both Venice and Reno. Jon now lives with his wife, sessions he directs when he and his is a retired accountant who is Tuscany) and is considering the Laura, and three children, in Eagle young charges have complete rein doing anything but sitting down possibility of relocating there. Time River (Anchorage), Alaska. Jon is a over the library – before it opens to and taking it easy. John has been will tell on that one. Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant. the public. involved with the Hallmark Society in Victoria for decades and PETER LUND (US ’59) FROM THE ’70s JONATHAN GERAGHTY been the spearhead on a number writes from Beijing, China, where (SMUS ’79) completed his of projects over the years. John sits he teaches English, Social Studies JIM TUNNICLIFFE (US Business Administration and on the Victoria Heritage Advisory and History at the Beijing ’70) Jim, his wife Debra, and two Finance schooling at Seattle Committee, and for his significant International School. Peter calls sons, have accepted a posting to University. He now works in a commitment to preserve the China home now after more than the Dominican Republic to work support role in the University of heritage of Victoria, he received five years of residence there. He as a missionary family out of a Washington Engineering Faculty the CGA Community Service loves being in a place where the school run by New Missions, an where he is the secretary for a Award at the President’s Gala in pace of change is truly astronomic. Orlando based organization. Jim number of professors and assistant Whistler, September 21, 2002. Peter looks forward to returning to writes: “The students, for the most professors. SMUS for the 2006 centenary. part, are wonderful. The students are from all over the world. We HUGH HENRY (SMUS ’79) have German, French, Canadian, recently accepted a position as an English, Dominican. I wish that Intelligence Analyst with the we had spent more time listening Intelligence Assessment Secretariat, and speaking French when we Privy Council Office, in Ottawa. were in school. I find that I have a The Secretariat provides policy very poor ear for picking up relevant intelligence assessments sounds. However, if I see it for the Prime Minister, Cabinet, written, I am better able to and senior government officials. understand. There are about 100 He is enjoying his new career as a students in the Dominican school, public servant and finds the work Colegio Nueva Vida, and 20 in the extremely interesting and fulfilling. School of Tomorrow. I look Previously, he spent two years in forward to more pictures of the a full-time posting as a military Jim Tunnicliffe (US ’70) his wife Debra, and two sons in the Dominican Republic mission field building project. If you have the staff officer and historian with the alumni updates 25

Directorate of History and now works in the role of Business BRYAN PULLMAN (SMUS Virginia State Legislature. She has Heritage, Department of National Unit Controller for Asia Pacific. ’86) recently received a copy of just completed an exhausting Defence. He also taught foreign Ken was married in 1997 to School Ties via his parents’ address. democratic congressional campaign and defense policy, masters-level Barbara, whom he met while at He responded by saying he felt he in Dallas and now seems to have courses for the Royal Military UBC. They have one son who was should finally provide his old discovered a new career path in US College of Canada Distance born in September 2002. school an update on his politics. Shaula would love to get Education Program. In 1997, he whereabouts and activities. It has in touch with any SMUS alumni received his doctorate in History MICHAEL BISSETT (SMUS been only 16 years after all. in the DC area. Her e-mail address from St. John’s College, University ’82) Since 1985, Michael has been “I recently graduated from is: [email protected] of Cambridge. employed at HMCS dockyard, Queen’s University in Kingston starting out as an apprentice with a B.Sc. (Eng.) in Mining BRUCE WEST (SMUS ’87) FROM THE ’80s engineer. Today he is the chief Engineering. I do believe this recently moved to a new position engineer on the floating crane that makes me about the fifth engineer as a personal investment advisor NICK ASKEW (SMUS ’80) is services the Pacific Fleet of the from my graduating class and with BMO Nesbitt Burns in married with three children. He Canadian Navy. He was happily certainly the only Mining Vancouver. He is delighted to be operates Pacesetter Marketing in married in 1991 to Michele, and Engineer in recent history at back in touch with his school and Vancouver. Nick’s company is has two great kids – Caitlyn and SMUS! I am now the mine invites any members of the SMUS involved with major residential Natasha. Says Michael, “It was a planner for Foxpoint Resources, family to contact him at: and commercial projects, the most shame that I could not attend the Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. in [email protected] recent being “The Time Project” twenty-year reunion in 2002, due Kirkland Lake, Ontario. There are on Lower Lonsdale in North to the passing away of my father. I five past-producing mines in our DAN DUKE (SMUS ’88) and Vancouver – this development has am sure Lex Bayley and Susan land position, including the world- his wife Sheila have moved to both residential and commercial Morris did a great job in class Lake Shore Mine. Seattle where Dan is a district components. Nick reports that 90 organizing the bash.” When I finished at SMUS, I manager with Merrill Lynch and of the 270 residential units went to Queen’s and completed a Sheila is an attorney, now working available were sold on the opening BASSIM NAHHAS (SMUS B.A. (Hons.) in History. After in the non-profit sector. sales day! ’82) is working in West Vancouver graduation, I spent a few months as a private client investment in Australia backpacking. Then I JULIE KO (SMUS ’88) JIM STONE (SMUS ’80) advisor with BMO Nesbitt Burns. returned to Canada and worked as completed her BA at the moved to Cambridge, England, a surveyor in the Victoria area for a University of Western Ontario and where he has taken up a ERIK KIDD (SMUS ’83) is few years, before completing a later completed certification in professorship in the Department living on Mayne Island. He works two-year Diploma in Mining Public Sector Management at of Applied Mathematics and as a Planning Officer with the Technology at BCIT. It was when UVic. She currently works as a Theoretical Physics at Cambridge Department of Fisheries and the gold price fell to below $USD federal/provincial policy analyst University. Oceans out of the Richmond 280/oz in the spring of 1999 that I with the provincial government. office. felt compelled to return to school TED CUNLIFFE (SMUS once again and further my KARI-LYNN MURPHY ’81) has completed his Ph.D. in FRANK VAN STAALDUINEN credentials. Until the metals (SMUS ’88) is working out of Clinical Psychology and is now a (SMUS ’84) is married and has markets collapse again, I think I'll Vancouver as an Investor Relations Senior Psychologist at a women’s an energetic family of four be free of the academia bug. Since Executive Assistant with a mining maximum-security prison in daughters – all less than ten years finishing at BCIT in 1996, I have development company. Ocala, Florida. of age! Frank completed his BSc at worked at/for five different gold UVic and then trained as a mines! I got married in 1997 to ADRIAN WATKINS (SMUS KEN IP (SMUS ’81) is living Cardiovascular Perfusionist. This is Amber McDermott and I am now ’88) Adrian spent 1988-89 in in Hong Kong with his wife, the work he is currently engaged in the proud father of Bronwyn London at Dulwich College Barbara, and son, Kevin. Over the at University Hospital in Pullman, who will be two years old (where St. Michael’s School past 20 years, he has moved several Edmonton. at the end of November 2002. The founder Kyrle Symons went to times. After leaving SMUS, he family is settling in to snowbound school and where retired SMUS went to UBC and completed a BA TIM CASHION (SMUS ’86) Northern Ontario living. I invite chaplain Lynford Smith taught), in Psychology. Ken then went to U is the Director of Development, friends and acquaintances to on an ESU exchange. From 1989- of Manchester in England to Planned and Major Gifts for contact me by my e-mail: 1994, Adrian attended UBC, pursue graduate studies in Network Chicago (WTTW-11 [email protected]” finishing with a Bachelor of Management. After that, he went and 98.7 WFMT), Chicago’s Commerce specializing in Urban to work for HSBC Bank in Public TV Station and Classical SHAULA EVANS (SMUS Land Economics (Real Estate). Vancouver until 1992. Radio Station. ’87) is moving to Fairfax, Virginia Adrian played rugby for the UBC In 1993, Ken left Vancouver to work on a campaign for a Thunderbirds throughout university. and moved to Hong Kong. He friend who is running for the From September 1994 to present, 26 alumni updates

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he worked in commercial real Bank of America for four years and “Gianni Schicchi,” Rossini’s SIMMI GREWAL (SMUS estate as a broker for a company is currently working as an associate “Cenerentola,” and Humperdink’s ’92) completed her medical called Avison Young. His work with their New York based “Hänsel und Gretel” in both New training at UBC and is in the focus was investment property investment banking group. York and Italy. Ayelet performs last of four years of a Pediatrics sales (i.e. office buildings, regularly with orchestras in the specialty at the University of shopping centres). Adrian received MICHAEL FORD (SMUS city, including the New York Alberta Hospital. She loves the his Master of Real Estate from ’90) is Guest Services Manager at Philharmonic, under the direction work and is looking forward to her MIT (2001). He is now working Big White Ski resort in the winter. of Kurt Masur. She has recorded one-year University of Alberta as Vice President of Archon He runs a river rafting company in on the soundtrack for “Mission to fellowship, following the completion Capital, in Dallas, a real estate the summertime. Mars,” a Disney motion picture of her specialist training. Long investment company. with music by Enrico Moricone. term, a return to BC to practice is GILES BODLEY-SCOTT Jerome Hines, the famous operatic under strong consideration. DAVID WEEDEN (SMUS (SMUS ’91) is happily married to bass, who holds the record for the ’88) is living in Vancouver and Jacqui. They have two sons, Max longest career at the Metropolitan JIM HUANG (SMUS ’92) is running his own computer and Dominic. Giles works at Opera, is currently sponsoring her. at school in Colorado, studying consulting business. After completing Three Point Motors. Ayelet’s husband, Misha, performs metallurgical engineering, and is an his BSc with a major in Physiology all over America and Europe, and interested supporter of the school. at the University of Toronto, AYELET (PORZECANSKI) coincidentally, taught workshops David continued his education at PIATIGORSKY (SMUS ’91) at the Royal Conservatory in JEN INNES (SMUS ’92) Uvic. He then went on to UBC, After graduation from SMUS, Victoria this summer while they received her BSc in Physical where he completed his Computer Ayelet obtained a Bachelor of were visiting her parents. Their Therapy from the University of Science degree. He is busy Music Degree from the University daughter, Anatalya, was born this Alberta in 1999. She works in the developing an active Vancouver of Toronto in Voice Performance, year on March 1, and has already Pain Management Program at lifestyle – working hard while and a Master of Music Degree in landed her first modeling gig (the Millard House, a WCB rehabilitation making time to ski, climb, dive, Voice Performance from the little go-getter)! facility. Jen is excited by the and pursue other hobbies. Manhattan School of Music in possibility of taking a job in Manhattan (grad ’98). There she ELIZABETH WALTON Greenwich, England, working in FROM THE ’90s met her husband, Misha (SMUS ’91) is a safety professional schools in the area of Piatigorsky, a jazz pianist and the in the petro-chemical industry neuropediatrics. This change will JASON DEARBORN (SMUS great nephew of the world famous based in Medicine Hat, Alberta. take place, likely sometime in May. ’90) writes: “Just wanted to let you cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. She completed her most recent know I won the by-election on They were married in June of degree at the University of Alberta DAN KLINKA and CHRIS October 4th with 61.5% of the 1999, and took up residence in in Occupational Health and DARIMONT (SMUS ’92) are popular vote. I am officially the Manhattan. They are both Safety. both working toward their MSc member of the Legislative professional musicians, making a degrees at UVic. Dan is Assembly elect for the Kindersley living purely through their LEO CAFFARO (SMUS ’92) researching the foraging behaviour Constituency. performances. They have performed is living in Edmonton with his of the coastal bear population I’m very excited about the new leading roles in Mozart’s “le nozze wife Tamara and is articling with while Chris is studying the job and can’t help but think that a di Figaro” and “Cosí fantutte,” the law firm of McLennan Ross. foraging behaviour of wolves on great deal of the direction to get Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” and BC’s central coast. here was fostered at our beloved Chris and Dan’s publications school on the coast. If there is are part of their current MSc anything I can do to aid the research programme at UVic. school, please contact me. (I’m Chris writes: “The paper I looking forward to our fund published was part of my MSc raising campaign). Sincerely, Jed.” research at UBC (’97-’99). I forwarded these links on to BRENT BUNDON (SMUS Michael Jackson, SMUS Science ’90) completed his undergraduate teacher, because I felt he was an degree at the University of early inspiration for me to get Victoria. Brent followed up with a more involved in the biological Masters in Economics and sciences. After SMUS, I went to International Politics at the the University of Western Ontario London School of Economics, and and was further inspired by some then an MBA from the University exceptional science faculty. The Giles Bodley-Scott (SMUS ’91) Jen Innes (SMUS ’92) of Chicago. He worked with the Max, Dominic and wife Jacqui at Edmonton Alumni Reception field of freshwater ecology really alumni updates 27

left a strong impression on me. CLIVE SOUTHCOMBE yachts that spanned the history of grants of $5,000-$30,000 to Later, I did a field course in (SMUS ’92) completed his the America’s Cupwere all in grassroots organizations working Algonquin Park, where we studied training in Kamloops as a attendance and she could not have on issues that are at the root of ‘everything from soup to nuts.’ respiratory technologist and now been more in her element. social inequity, such as affordable After completing my BSc in works at the University of Alberta She was intrigued to expand her housing, livable wage, gay/lesbian Ecology and Evolution, I wanted Hospital in Edmonton. sports event PR exposure. The rights, civil rights, immigrant to learn more about nutrient prospect of working in one of the rights, welfare rights, native land cycling in coastal streams. I pitched HAYLEY PATTISON (SMUS most competitive and global sports rights, and environmental justice. a research proposal to a professor at ’93) Post-SMUS, Hayley reluctantly of Formula One, lured her away Emily went to Minnesota after UBC with the hopes that he would returned to London, after the from fashion, handbags and yachts college at Lewis and Clark in take me on as a graduate student. only profession that Canadian to gearboxes, tires and noisy Portland to get into publishing, He liked the idea, so I enrolled in immigration was encouraging was engines. She is now Press Officer but discovered that everyone was an MSc programme at their Pastry Chef. She realized that, even for BMW Williams F1 Team. looking for someone to raise funds Department of Forest Sciences. with her perfected Canadian After Formula One? Well, maybe for them, so she was led into this While at UBC, I completed a accent, she would have to return to she will think about picking up field. thesis project that looked at the the UK. She embarked on a five- some pastry chef skills after sailing link between changes in forest year fashion degree at Central St. around the world! BEN SKELTON (SMUS ’94) cover (such as those incurred Martins. She specialized in graduated in 1999 with a BA in through logging) and the biological journalism, photography and JEFFREY BLUMBERG (SMUS Communications. He now lives in productivity of the streams in these illustration. During her degree, she ’94) had a very successful squash Vancouver and works for a web forests. gained work experience at Vogue career while attending Harvard design company. Since UBC, I’ve worked as a magazine and Chanel. University. He played for habitat biologist for Fisheries and Once finished, she was very Harvard, was team captain in his KATHERINE TWEEDIE Oceans Canada and currently I am fortunate to gain a place on a last year, and played a number (SMUS ’94) is living in Toronto working ‘on the front lines’ of beautiful classic Fife yacht 1914 of tournaments at the very and working in Merchant Banking engineering and land development and found herself sailing across the highest levels – nationally and for CIBC World Markets. at the City of Surrey. Atlantic. This inspired her to internationally. Jeffrey now lives “The faculty at SMUS were celebrate the millennium down in in New York where he works for ALEX LISMAN (SMUS ’95) definitely invaluable to my finding Auckland - City of Sails. As the Goldman Sachs and Co. in the completed a BA in Sociology at this career path. It’s great to see the first city to welcome the first dawn, asset management group. UVic in 1999 and then completed new science facility and labs available it was also the host for the Louis a further degree – a BFA in Film to the current students, and I have Vuitton and America’s Cup. Her NEIL DE HAAN (SMUS ’94) Production at Ryerson Polytechnic no doubt that we’ll see more SMUS first love has always been sailing, is currently working for the – in 2003. Alex now works as a alumni contributing to science and having grown up on boats and Pharmasave Drugs Pacific office freelance cinematographer. research in the future.” having raced dinghies nationally as a Practice Consultant. He has It’s interesting that both Dan and at a European level throughout the Lower Mainland Region and is ALISTAIR WILMOTT (SMUS and Chris have been studying her childhood. She combined this responsible for coordinating the ’95) has returned from a terrific coastal stream ecology. Dan looks love with fashion – it was the most clinical activities of six stores. He year of playing professional at bears and their habits for ideal blend. Louis Vuitton offered also manages the corporate basketball in Europe. He is feeding on salmon, while Chris her the privilege to co-ordinate the outreach for the company. Now currently working in Victoria with has been following wolves and lifestyle PR for the Louis Vuitton that he has a full-time job (“real Carmanah Technologies in their reliance on salmon. See: Cup, alongside working with one job”!) and a real address, too, he is business development. http://web.uvic.ca/~reimlab/Thelab. of the Cup teams – AmericaOne. working from home, so both work html for more info on their A fantastic job for an amazing and home numbers are consistent. BEN YOUNG (SMUS ’96) projects. historic competition – New dropped in to the Development Zealand was an inspiration. She EMILY HEYNEN (SMUS Office say ‘hello.’ He was in PETER ROWAND (SMUS was promoted back to the London ’94) writes that she is a Victoria visiting his parents, and ’92) completed his BCom at UVic office to become the PR Manager development associate with he wanted to see some of his ‘old’ in 1997. He now works in for LV in the UK market. This was Headwaters Fund, one of sixteen maths teachers. Ben is currently Toronto with Quest Software in a a challenging role, especially as the member funds united around the US studying math at UBC, and has Marketing capacity. America’s Cup returned to through the Funding Exchange. now started working toward his England for the 150th Jubilee They are dedicated to a progressive PhD. He’s interested in pursuing a JOANNA (KISS) SNOW celebration. She was very involved method of philanthropy, where university teaching career. He (SMUS ’92) has completed her in co-ordination and generation of activists in the community make shares accommodation with James elementary teaching practicum and interest in this very romantic and the granting decisions. It is a Townley, former SMUS classmate. is now on the job trail in Victoria. prestigious event. Classic Cup community Foundation that gives 28 alumni updates

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ANDREW DOONER (SMUS Chris now works with a firm of One, a credit card company in SUSAN HAYES (SMUS ’99) has ’96) lives in Toronto where Plymouth solicitors. Richmond, Virginia. He is a data been appointed Project Manager he works with international analyst, and is learning new of the Queens University Solar management consulting firm A.T. PAMELA BEDESKI (SMUS things about analyzing data and Vehicle Team. Queens has had the Kearney. ’98) celebrated her 21st birthday the real world. “Richmond is preeminent solar car team in in California at her final internship definitely different from Montreal Canada for many years. In 2000 MEGGAN HUNT (SMUS at NASA in Moffett Field. While and Victoria and I am now they earned a place in the ’96) dropped an e-mail from there, she worked on Air Control appreciating Canada much more. I Guinness Book of Records by Australia where she’s been with the software, discovering ways to make am certainly enjoying the completing the longest distance Canadian Women’s Field Hockey flying safer. Her previous work challenge of starting somewhere, traveled by a solar-powered vehicle Team. She’ll return to Vancouver terms were at ACD Systems, not knowing anyone and have met by driving from Vancouver to in March and then face a very busy Nortel Networks, IBM and many very interesting people from Halifax. In 2001, Queens placed training and game schedule for the Seagate Software (now Crystal all over the globe. Not to mention 4th in the American Solar duration of the spring and Decisions). After finishing her I get paid every two weeks! Challenge and, in the World Solar summer. Of major note is between required two years of work I was sad to see the pictures of Challenge in Australia, were 5th June 30 and July 9, the Vancouver experience, she will receive her what was the old gym in School overall and 1st in the production 8 Nations Tournament will be Bachelor of Computer Engineering Ties but am eager to see the new class amongst a field of over 40 played at UBC on their new turf. (systems specialization) at the buildings!” cars. This year the team is Meggan encourages and invites all University of Victoria this spring. designing and building a two- SMUS alums and other hockey Her plans are either to work or STEVEN WONG (SMUS person car to compete in both the enthusiasts to come and cheer on continue for an advanced degree. ’98) will finish his (Honours Co- American and Australian races in Canada. The Pan American Games op) Bachelors degree in Electrical 2003. Susan, who completed two follow in the Dominican Republic JONATHAN FRASER (SMUS Engineering in April 2003 at the years in the Faculty of Commerce, in early August with a top two ’98) is in his final year of University of Waterloo. Currently, is now a student in the Faculty of finish as the target for a berth in Commerce at University of he is finishing his last co-op job with Engineering (Mechanical). She has the Olympics. Go for it Meggan! Alberta. He has already tracked a power software firm in Orange also been appointed student down some interesting summer County, California. Other stints representative to the selection CHELSEA JONES (SMUS jobs, working for NASDAQ in have included terms at General committee for a new head of the ’96) is working as a computer London, England in 2001, and for Motors and Hydro One. Upon mechanical engineering faculty. programmer and is planning a the Information and Privacy graduation, Steve hopes to pursue a Their new car, currently under move to Parksville to work with a Commissioner in 2002. career in either BC or Ontario. construction, will be entered in the game production company. Chicago to LA race this July and MICHELLE LEE (SMUS REID CHAMBERS (SMUS the World Solar Challenge from AMYROSE (SMUS ’96) and ’98) has completed her Business ’99) is in his fourth year at McGill. Darwin to Adelaide, Australia in PATRICK (SMUS ’97) GILL Administration Degree at the He has recently written and done November 2003. were in Victoria over the University of Washington. She well in his MCat exam. Reid has a Christmas holidays. Amyrose now works in Seoul, Korea in roommate from Kenya and may VANESSA LEE (SMUS ’99) is performed a solo Evening of Marketing with Samsung. well take a year out to volunteer in studying for a Bachelor of French Song during this time. She Kenya before returning to Canada Education in English at the and Patrick are attending UCal STEVEN ROMANCHUK to pursue his medical training. University of Hong Kong. She will Berkely and working on their (SMUS ’98) is working for Capital graduate in June 2004. She has PhDs – Amyrose in Italian Studies and Patrick in Biophysics.

BLAIR NELSON (SMUS ’97) received his diploma in Nautical Science at Warsash Maritime Centre in England. He is a marine deck officer, based in Victoria.

CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS (SMUS ’97) has completed his BA in Geography at Liverpool Susan Hayes (SMUS ’99) in Arizona at the American Solar University and also a Law Practice Race from Chicago to Los Angeles The solar car, Mirage, as it winds its way through the streets of Toronto in programme at Exeter University. in July 2001. June 2002 during an “environmental” day. alumni updates 29

been hired as a part-time research now, I still miss SMUS so much Daniela was the SMUS student JEREMY HARRIS (SMUS assistant for a professor at the and hold so many great memories scholar in grade twelve, and the ’92) married Melissa Johnson on university and will work with her of the campus and the people that courses and seminars she talks August 17, 2002 at St. Michael until graduation. In the meantime, I don’t know what to do when I about at Princeton are truly and All Angels’ Church in she is keeping herself busy by pile on the four years on this whetting her appetite – Astronomy Kelowna, BC. participating in a number of campus and ship myself around 205 “Theories of the Universe: theatre productions. She was the world – I wonder if I’ll get From Babylon to the Big Bang”; JOHNNY TSAI (SMUS ’92) recently the co-producer of the crushed by all the memories I’m Latin 101; Philosophy 200, an married Jennifer Du in November HK Singers’ La Cage Aux Folles, trying to pack along with me.” introduction to philosophy 2001. He obtained his Business which was performed in October focusing on Descartes, Hume and Administration degree from Simon 2002. She will be stage managing a LOUISE REID (SMUS ’02) Kant; and more. Daniela’s Fraser University in 1996 and is professional production of David received the Victoria YM-YWCA descriptions of the learning now a realtor in Vancouver. Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Woman of Distinction Scholarship ambience at Princeton make it which opens in March 2003 while as the high school graduate clear why our alums love this SAMANTHA (STONE) also helping out with HK Singers’ nominee. This scholarship will school. (SMUS ’87) NELSON married Fiddler on the Roof. She has been assist Louise in her music studies at Dr. Charles Nelson, in Vancouver, asked by the Singers to produce a UVic. ...there were bells! on July 27, 2002. Guests included show sometime next year, most SMUS alums: Richard Stone (’91), possibly in June. She would like to DANIELA SMOLOV (SMUS JOHN LOCKE (SMUS ’85) James Stone (’89), Jane Rees (’86), keep in touch with her friends ’02) Daniela loves Princeton! Her was married March 8, 2003 in Alix (Stewart) Cameron (’86), from SMUS. Please e-mail three roommates are from Seattle. Jill is in grad school, so the Joanne Muir (’87) and Peter [email protected]. Washington DC, New York and active-minded couple are thinking Hamilton (’87). Samantha and Korea. They all play a musical of an Alaskan honeymoon in the Charles reside in Victoria. MIKE WIGHTON (SMUS instrument and the four ladies are summer – bikes, kayaks, etc. ’99) writes: “Already university has contemplating performing some ...new on the scene! snuck up on me and is nearing chamber music as time allows. towards a close – my final two JON GRIFFIN (SMUS ’82) semesters at Yale. It comes so and Yolanda were pleased to quickly. Thankfully, I’ve already welcome Noah Frederic on July answered the grad school question 26, 2002. He is their third child so there’s no stress hanging over and joins Andrea, 4, and Joanna, 2. my head this year…Next year, I’ll be off to Russia to do a three-year STEPHEN and CHRISTINA MFA at the Moscow Art Theater – O’CONNOR (both SMUS ’83) it’s my favourite city in the world are delighted to announce the and I’m just so happy that I have birth of Oscar Finlay, in 2002. that opportunity available. The group I’m joining is going to be very exciting: 12 Russian students Daniela Smolov (SMUS ’02) and 12 Estonians. Other than a is enjoying Princeton. girl from England and one from Poland, I'll be one of the only distant internationals, and one of the only Canadians since the mid- 80s, from what I’ve heard. John Locke (SMUS ’85) and Jill I’m even teaching theater classes amongst the tulips. They were and find myself surrounded by married March, 2003. students who have the silly preconception that I know something. And it makes me realise that perhaps, in comparison to someone four years my junior, I actually do have some knowledge Samantha (Stone) Nelson (SMUS to share. If only you could take the ’87) with her mother, Gaye Stone people with you after your time Louise Reid (SMUS ’02) (Director of SMUS Junior School Jeremy Harris (SMUS ’92) with the experience is up. Even A woman of distinction. from 1989 to 1996). and Melissa Johnson. 30 alumni updates

Alumni Updates - continued

MICHAEL (SMUS ’85) and SIMON (SMUS ’88) and MELANIE (DOVEY)(SMUS NIGEL STOODLEY (SMUS Yvonne KING are pleased to Enas MUZIO announce the ’87) and MICHAEL (SMUS ’85) ’84) and wife, Gayle, brought welcome Peter into the world. He arrival of number two son – HADFIELD are pleased to home their “li’l digger,” Jack was born May 24, 2002, a brother Zacchary, born January 15, 2002. announce their newest addition to Spencer Stoodley on March 17, for Robert. their family, a baby girl. Her name 2003. Jack was born on March 11 COLIN CAMERON (SMUS is Amelia, born Nov. 8, 2002. at 10:50 am at St. Paul’s Hospital GORDON MOREWOOD ’89) and his wife, Cheryl, Amelia is a sister to Madison, in in Vancouver. He weighed in at (SMUS ’86) and his wife Natalie announce the arrival of their son, grade 4 this year at the Junior 3.05 kg or 6.7 lbs (for those of you are delighted to announce the Timothy George, born March 23, School. in the US) and was 54 cm or 21 birth of their second child, a 2002. inches tall. daughter, Elle, sister to Drake. JENNIFER (DANIEL) Jack, like his mother is a little IAN (SMUS ’89) and TANIS BISHOP (SMUS ’92) and her HM (high maintenance) and spent DAINE (SMUS ’86) and FARISH are delighted to announce husband Jeff, are pleased to a little extra time getting ready to YOUNG-MI MURPHY are the birth of their new daughter, announce their new son, Gordon, come home. It may have been delighted to announce the arrival Kenji Jean, born October 29, born August 8, 2002. possible that he is gregarious like of their first child, Aiden, born 2002. his father and decided he needed October 19, 2002. TANIS (LAIDLAW) (SMUS to meet more than the mere 12 NAOMI (SAVILLE) MELO ’88) and Brian Masson are pleased doctors and nurses who were ALIX (STEWART) (SMUS (SMUS ’92) and her husband to welcome their new baby girl, directly involved in his delivery. ’86) CAMERON and her Michael are pleased to announce Lauren Michelle, born September Regardless of his motivations, Jack husband Simon and son, Max are the birth of Mark, born 2002. 4, 2002. ended up spending a few extra pleased to announce their newest days at the British Columbia addition, Sophie Stewart Cameron, GRANT HODGINS (SMUS JEREMY CORDLE (SMUS Children’s Hospital, undergoing a born October 21, 2002. ’93) and his wife, Julia, are ’91) and Alana are the proud series of tests that demonstrated delighted to announce the arrival parents of a little boy, Jaxson, born that he was perfectly healthy but a of Liam, born October, 2002, September 5, 2002. fussy eater. Now, Gayle and Jack brother to Emily. are both doing well.

Alix (Stewart) (SMUS ’86) Cameron and her husband, Simon, and son, Max, are pleased to Melanie (SMUS ’87) and Amelia Grandpa Tony Cordle with his son, Jeremy (SMUS ’91) announce their newest addition, Hadfield and new grandson, Jaxson. Sophie Stewart.

Nigel (SMUS ’84) and Gayle Stoodley welcome Jack Spencer Tanis (Laidlaw) (SMUS ’88) to their family. (Note he doesn’t and Brian Masson’s daughter, Jennifer (Daniel) Bishop (SMUS ’92) have the tubes anymore.) Lauren Michelle. with her and husband Jeff’s new son, Gordon. alumni updates 31

Jack has been introduced and BRUCE BROWN (US ’31) working on a broken arm. I eminent – morally, intellectually accepted by his siblings ‘the dogs,’ died December 10, 2002 at the quickly turned green at the sight and physically, i.e. the most highly Bailey and Java and ‘the cats,’ Ben age of 88. He is survived by and was escorted from the room prized award at the college. and Joseph. Bailey and Java are Dorothy, his wife of sixty years, his by nurses to the sound of After attending the University simply delighted at the prospect of two children, Anthony and hysterical laughter. I will miss my of Toronto, where he obtained a having their very own future food Elizabeth, and five grandchildren. friend.” degree in Chemical Engineering in dropping toddler visiting their Bruce had a keen interest in art 1937, he went to work in kitchen from time to time. So far and antiques. He served on the BASIL JOHN MONCKMAN Shawinigan, Quebec. the dogs seem to be content boards of the YMCA, Victoria GRIFFIN (US ’42) passed away in In World War II, Jack joined standing guard outside his pet Symphony Society, Maritime the Cerwydden Care Center in the Army and had a distinguished proof playpen. Ben and Joseph, Museum, Friends of the Royal BC Duncan, BC, November 8, 2002. career, rising to the rank of having lost their room and one of Museum and the Art Gallery of He is survived by Brian, David and Lieutenant Colonel in the RCA. them even losing his name, are a Greater Victoria. In addition, Jonathan and their families. His post-war career took him to little less enthused about the little Bruce was a major supporter of Montreal. fellow but they seem interested UVic, the Maritime Museum and PETER BUTLER (SM ’49) The 1994 School Alumni and are generally concerned when Royal Roads Military College. died November 25, 2002 from Directory lists him as a Retired he cries. complications from pneumonia. Chemical Engineer: Dupont Nigel will be returning to work HUGH FORD (SM ’36) died Former partner Keith Mitchell Montreal Headquarters. Jack spent on March 24, while Gayle intends January 29, 2003 in Victoria’s shared the following: “He was his retirement years living in to stay at home with the li’l digger Memorial Pavilion. Hugh was 83 unique, outstanding, outrageous, Kingston, Ontario, where he for a year – eating Bon Bons and years old and is survived by his and hilarious, but more than received annual visits from watching Dr Phil. Actually, Gayle wife Anne, their four children and anything else, he understood that University School and RMC close commented that after the first seven grandchildren. Hugh was a behind every legal issue was a friend and colleague Ian Drum, night, she may return to work respected surgeon in Victoria, human problem.” Jack Giles, and his wife, Molly. Ian died in earlier because it is a little more where he practised from 1952 another friend and colleague who 1993, but Molly continued to see relaxing at work. until his retirement in 1982. knew Peter as a child in Victoria, Jack on her annual pilgrimage to Following are a few words from said the following: “The truth is, Kingston, and speaks highly of a long time friend and fellow St. he was a very great lawyer, a PASSAGES warm, talented and dedicated Michael’s alumnus, John Nation: natural advocate, a marvellous family man and a dear friend. Jack JACK PARKER (US ’29) died “Hugh was my oldest friend. partner, and perhaps more was predeceased by his wife, in Victoria, BC on November 19, He started his professional career important, a friend to everyone Helen, in 1999; he leaves two 2002 at the age of 92. Jack was an when we were together at St. who knew him. Peter is survived children and their families in active school rugby player and very Christopher’s School – he cut a by his wife Lucia, five children, Ontario. involved in school social affairs. splinter out of my finger with a and three granddaughters. Born in New York, his family penknife! During our five years relocated to Victoria from Carmel, together at St. Michael’s School, J.A. (JACK) HORNIBROOK California in 1926. His brother, we played together a great deal (US ’27-31) died recently in George, killed during the war, also after school and on weekends. His Ontario at the age of 88. He attended University School. house held great interest for me attended University School as a Through the 1930s Jack taught at because he had rabbits to feed and boarder from Calgary. He was a the Duncan Boys Grammar his father set up a rifle range in steady and well-respected all- School. On returning from their basement (well chaperoned, rounder who played rugby, did overseas duty with the Nova Scotia of course), where we could fire well in cadets and shooting, Highlanders, he worked in away with 22s. In the kitchen, I participated in debating and won accounting with the Liquor could find a dog’s biscuit to eat – more than one form prize for Control Board until his long lasting and very good for the science. In his final year, he was a retirement. Jack was an avid teeth. school prefect. badminton and tennis player and a In the summer holidays, I From 1931 to 1935, he strong supporter of the Victoria would enjoy being invited to join attended RMC Kingston where his Lawn Tennis Club. Jack was proud him at his family cottage in Sooke, University School background of his association with his school or he would stay with me with my held him in good stead. He ranked and kept in touch with several of relatives on Lake Washington in 6th in his class and won the Victor his classmates. He leaves his wife Seattle. Once he introduced me in van der Smissen Award, which is Brenda, son Robin, and grand- an operating room in the Toronto given annually on the vote of the children. General Hospital as Dr. Nation cadets to the one among them from Victoria to watch him who they considered to be pre- 32 alumni updates

Alumni Receptions Your School Visits You

N THE FIRST TWO AND A HALF MONTHS of 2003, I representatives of your school have made visits and held receptions in eight cities across North America. These receptions represent terrific opportunities to bring together members of the SMUS community, and to find out about changes in their lives while sharing the excitement of developments at SMUS. We hold these receptions often in conjunction with other roles that bring us to these cities. Members of our school family are delighted to hear of former teachers, school friends and the positive wave of development currently transforming their school. These are important opportunities to reconnect, and also to encourage members of the school family to Portland Reception Ð January 24, 2003 advocate for their school to prospective families looking for the best in [l-r] John and Nancy Herpers, Rob Wilson, Mark Drum, Jeremy Davis, and independent school education. At the same time, the picture of SMUS Chris and Anne Dunlop, at the Herpers’ home. developments is clearly presented and discussed, leading many to make commitments to support these developments through their participation in the Annual Fund. Friendships, admissions, fundraising, curiosity, connection, queries – there are a number of triggers which bring members of the school family out to these events. These are precious opportunities for school representatives to engage and connect with our wider family. Thank you to the over 150 alums, current and prospective parents for joining us and staying linked to your school.

This year, we have visited: Hong Kong, Taiwan & Korea, January 16 – 25 (with thanks to Tony Souza, Michael Ling, Mrs. Ban) Portland, January 24 (with thanks to John and Nancy Herpers for making their home Edmonton Reception Ð February 11, 2003 [l-r] Yori Hagi, Geoff Martin, Colin Dykes, David Angus, Chris Spicer, Robert available) Chapman, Randy Schafer, Jen Innes, and Leo Caffaro. Vancouver, January 30 (with thanks to Russ Benson for making the spectacular guest facilities at his law firm available) Kelowna, February 7 Calgary, February 10 (with thanks to Craig Elder, Rob Oswald, Bryce Dearborn) Edmonton, February 11 (with thanks to David Angus and Bob Chapman) Toronto, February 25 (with thanks to Marianne Anderson) New York, February 26 (with special thanks to Megan Jessiman for hosting the event in her home) Seattle, March 6 (with thanks to Tom Rigos, Phil McCune; special thanks to Jim Rigos for his sponsorship of this Washington Athletic Club event) Toronto Reception Ð February 25, 2003 [seated] Hester Dunlap, Stephanie Lewis, Marianne Anderson, Chris Spicer, Trips yet to come: Andrew and Oliver Sabiston, Michelle Phipps. [standing] Elizabeth Middleton- Jones, Jenny Reed, Susan Green, Katherine Tweedie, David Goorevitch, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, March 13 – 22, 2003 Gillian Donald, David Butters, Keir Wilmut, Peter Beatty, Joan and Bob London, England, April 14, 2003 Snowden, and John Davies. Edmonton, May 2003 Student life carries on business as usual at the Senior School campus. A crane lowers metal girders

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