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School Ties: 2009, Spring Issue SPRING 2009 • ST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL School To Learn, to Lead, to Serve Capturing the spirit of SMUS in our new vision “This is Air Force One” Marvin Nicholson ’89 phones home David Anderson ’44-’47 remembers Fenwick Lansdowne ’48-’52 VICTORIA, BC, CANADA BRAIN STORM At St. Michaels University School, we believe many Admissions travels of the most important lessons — both intellectual throughout the year and and personal — challenge students to go beyond Welcomes Alumni their comfort zone. We enable students to discover at our events. not only who they are as individuals but who they Check our website at www.smus.bc.ca have the potential to become. for information on our travel schedule or our webinars. Contact Admissions at [email protected] or at Boarding Students Grade 8 to 12 1-800-661-5199 if you would like Scholarships & Financial Assistance Available to be notifi ed when we visit your area. School Ties is distributed to more than 5,700 members of the St. Michaels University School community, including current families, friends, and current and past staff and students. The goal of the publication is to communicate current activities and initiatives and provide articles and reports on the Contents2 Certainty and Uncertainty 20 Feature: From There alumni community. If you have any Head of School Bob Snowden contemplates to Here comments or suggestions regarding optimism in uncertain times. A short history of our evolving vision this publication, please contact Louise Winter at (250) 370-6176 or email: 22 To Learn, to Lead, to Serve [email protected] 3 The SMUS Review News stories from all three campuses Bob Snowden on the journey to put our Published by the Advancement Office published on our web forum, vision into words. St. Michaels University School The SMUS 3400 Richmond Road Review. 24 Book Exerpt Victoria, British Columbia Canada V8P 4P5 A preview of the much-anticipated history Telephone: (250) 592-2411 of St. Michaels University School. Admissions: 1-800-661-5199 Email: [email protected] 26 Tribute: Fenwick Lansdowne ’48-’52 School Ties magazine and archive copies can be found in the publications section David Anderson ’44-’47 of the school website: www.smus.bc.ca writes about the life and work of the If you are interested in attending school events, call (250) 592-2411 for famous and further details, or visit the school’s exacting artist. website Calendar of Events: www.smus.bc.ca Editors: Erin Anderson, Laura Authier, Peter Gardiner, Louise Winter Contributors (in no particular order): 9 Athletics Highlights Robert Snowden, Robert Wilson, Peter 28 Q&A with Alumni Gardiner, Laura Authier, Kent Leahy-Trill, Sports highlights from September 2008 to Erin Anderson, Brenda Waksel, Louise January 2009. Interviews with Marvin Nicholson ’89, Winter, Nick Grant ’84, Ian Mugridge, Marianne Anderson ’80 and Collin David Anderson ’44-’47, Jake Humphries, 14 Arts Highlights Yong ’76. Also, Manoj Sood ’81 and Gillian Donald ’85, Evan Effa and SMUS Arts highlights and news featuring our James Ellis ’79. community members. We apologize for students and alumni. any omissions. 34 Golf Invitational Photos: Evan Effa, Kent Leahy-Trill, Erin 18 Leaving an Artistic Legacy Emcee Nick Grant recaps this year’s event. Anderson, Peter Gardiner, Gordon Chan, Student artist Shun Kinoshita talks about Diana Nason, Lindsay Brooke, Jake Humphries, Lindsay Ross his fundraising achievements; parent Evan Effa shares his favourite SMUS photographic moments. Design and Layout: Reber Creative Printed in Canada W by Hillside Printing Ltd., Victoria, BC 35 Alumni Receptions SchoolTies - Spring 2009 • New York, Kelowna, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Edinburgh 37 Alumni Weekend Preview Your planning guide for this year’s Alumni Weekend and Community Celebration. 38 Alumni Updates News from our alumni around the world. Certainty and uncertainty As the school launches its new vision statement, Bob Snowden considers the power of youth and hope, and the difference between fate and destiny. eath and taxes. are temporary. In a school, optimism is an article of faith. And HEAD of SCHOOL DThus, with ominous brevity, Benjamin Franklin asserted that if any reader needs some, come by the school for a dose. these were the only two certainties. These days, if we personally Sitting on an airplane, one sometimes can’t avoid an are not buffeted by uncertainty, we probably know people who extroverted conversationalist, a garrulous friend-maker. I met are. Therefore, the detached intellect, sobered by dismal news such a person on a flight this week, while I was re-reading and its repercussions, acknowledges the truth of this reflection. Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook. My new-found friend hadn’t Caution, frugality and prudence construct our futures. heard of Turgenev. When I told him the book was a description – Nevertheless, humans do seem to expend a lot of effort true, no less – of the author’s wanderings from district to trying to put off death and taxes. Nor is the contemplation district in rural Russia with his dog and his rifle, shooting fowl of life’s end necessarily pessimistic: a philosophical tendency of different types, my new friend wondered why I would be would encourage one to resort to the existential paradox that it reading – let alone re-reading – such a book. His poor opinion is this very awareness of mortality that compels us to consider deepened when I told him how for the most part the author more thoughtfully what to do with our lives. Moreover, this sketched encounters with people who barely scraped together a living, peasants and serfs, rather than the landowners and nobility who “owned” them. What was the point of escaping The presiding spirits of a school like this to the middle of the 800s? I hardly knew where to begin. To try to convey the pleasure of Turgenev’s pastoral are optimism and promise. renderings, his sympathy for the poor people among whom he moved with affection and respect – to convey these qualities at philosophy would wander into considerations of fate and that moment, holed up in the fuselage of a 767, seemed futile. I destiny, and the nuances that differentiate these two ideas. On simply said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat the one hand, fate is something that happens to us, imposed by it, and took out my computer with a smile, to begin writing unseen forces: thus, the blind furies of Greek mythology spin this article. I had been getting myself into a frame of mind, you their thread and at arbitrary moments choose to “slit the thin- see, thinking that in a school, which is all about the future, the spun life.” Destiny, on the other hand, is something we fulfill: past exists in order to build on it. it is the result of our being in a certain place at a certain point Elsewhere in this issue of School Ties readers will learn about in history, and we adjust the sails of our lives to arrive at it. In the process we undertook in the past year to formulate the Biblical history, for instance, the crucifixion of Jesus is not his School’s vision. Those of us who were involved in the process fate, but his destiny, a moment of fulfillment rather than loss. loved it. It unfolded a lot like my thoughts about the students Thus, from the brink of despair, comes not just hope, but a in the quad: we observed the school’s infinite variety, and tried, plan for the future directed by authentic principles. after the fact, to find words that reflect the future our current When I look out my office window at the students on reality points to. Therefore the vision doesn’t reflect a new the quad (or in the gym, or on stage, or at the crosswalk, or direction, but an evolution. Again they weren’t “our” words; anywhere else around the school) I see they don’t fit within they are “the” words, which sprung from the many, many this frame. I see these boys and girls, young men and women people who contributed. Especially in these unsettled times, darting, laughing, huddling and dividing irrepressibly. The clarity about what our School plans to be in the future provides detached intellectualizing of death and taxes blows by like a us with purpose, and with the possibility of fulfilling the ragged scrap of paper unworthy of the energy and promise that School’s potential and by extension the potential of everyone animate these adolescent faces. who chooses to be a part of it. It is a certainty that we want to The presiding spirits of a school are optimism and promise. build a place, and that we are building a place, where we will The behaviour of everyone in a school – students, parents, have the opportunity to fulfill our destiny – to learn, to lead, to teachers, alumni, visitors – is shaped by hope and the belief serve, discovering the promise in our selves and the world. that the future will be better. In fact, at SMUS we explicitly Vivat. believe in trying to make the world a better place. Any setbacks • SchoolTies - Spring 2009 2 Visit http://blogs.smus.bc.ca/head/ S Highlights from the SMUS Review CHOOL NEWS he SMUS Review publishes weekly on our website (www.smus.bc.ca) and covers school news from all three campuses. The following Thighlights were taken from stories published from September, 2008 to February, 2009. You can read more about these stories by going to our home page and selecting “SMUS Review” from the News and Calendar menu. September ■ Junior School students who students also visited a remote village to participated in the summer reading drop off supplies and went on cultural programme were recognized in a special adventures, including riding elephants assembly.
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