ASSOCIATION WEEKEND To our special reunion classes and to all members of the Association an invitation is extended to join us on campus to revisit Ridley, remember its past and glimpse its future. To facilitate arrangements, early reservations are required. Please use the reservation form to secure tickets to the weekend events and return it to the school by September 27, 1991. FRIDAY, October 4 DOU 7-00 pum. Governors’ Reception at the School - by invitation only to Reunion Classes. R.S.V.P. your attendance. 7:00 p.m. Reunion class parties. Contact your class agents or the Development Office for details re: location, etc. SATURDAY, October 5 O00 11:00 aim. Registration & Campus Tours 4:30 p.m. Post-game Reception Front Circle 2nd Century Building [1-00'a.m: Mandeville Theatre 6S-pan, Cocktail Reception ¢ What’s Up Ridley? P.A.C. in School House e Ridley College Association Annual General Meeting ¢ Complimentary Beer/Wine 12:30 p.m Complimentary Buffet Lunch 7:00 p.m. Dinner in The Great Hall The Great Hall Early Reservations Assist Us [30430 pom. School games Football, soccer, field hockey, etc. In Planning For Your Weekend SUNDAY, October 6 Make Your Reservation Today!!! MWOR SIC eines Chapel LIESO avin: Reception following Chapel Deadline - September 27 1991 gs ag aen e aA plane, Re aera ay cy aia fr pm a ety Association Weekend Reservation Form Name Class/Ridley Affiliation Number in Party [] = Will attend the Governors’ Reception, Friday, October 4th, 5:30 - 7:00 pm |] = Will attend the complimentary lunch, Saturday, October 5th a Will attend the Dinner, Saturday, October 5th - Tickets are $25.00/person Number of tickets required Total $ Cheque L] Visa LI Mastercard L] American Express L] Number Expiry Date Signature « Ridley Tiger SPRING 9 XXXXI e | Ridley Tiger Published by Ridley in the Spring The Development Office Ridley College Trinity Term is full of activities, all of them worthy. PO, Box sue: St. Catharines, Ontario By DOUGLAS J. CAMPBELL PR (C3 @anada Solely for Alumni, 4 Parents, Friends, Staff and others interested in the School. The information contained here-in may not Advanced Placement Courses be published without permission. A special course offered by the school gains popularity. Editorial Board Derek D. Fraser ‘79 By LOWELL G. SCOTT Brian A. Iggulden ‘67 Gerald S. Shantz Robert E. Stanley ‘47 Contributors 5 ) Colin G. Brezicki Douglas J. Campbell W. Wayne Fraser Ridley College Memorial Chapel Organ Donald P. Hunt G. Rhys Jenkins The organ needs to be refurbished and you can help to make it happen! Lowell G. Scott Michael S. Tansley John S. Walton ‘49 ByMiC HAR s LANSEEY Photography George L. Briggs - Derek D. Fraser ‘79 Brian A. Iggulden ‘67 Rod Scapillati Donald S. Rickers Robert E. Stanley ‘47 Ridley Profiles - John R. Walton ‘18 & Harold A. Wilson ‘30 Copy Assistant Interesting profiles of two eclectic Ridleians. Diana Taylor Cover Photo by By JOHN S. WALTON ‘49 &© GERALD 8S. SHANTZ Bob Stanley ‘47 of John R. Walton ‘18, Ridley’s oldest alumni with the Headmaster in Victoria, BC. Imagesetting by 10 The Moyer Imaging Service Co., Inc., Niagara Falls, Ontario The 2nd Century Campaign Hits $15 Million! Printed by Peninsula Press Ltd. St. Catharines, Ontario The R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation donates a gift. Py ROBERT Ey oTANEBYS4( Tiger/Spring 1 11 Planned Giving # 3 - Charitable Giving With Life Insurance Life Insurance is another way to help Ridley. By INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED LIFE UNDERWRITERS OF CANADA. ye Ridley Drama - Of Exits and Entrances An entertaining look at this busy department. Two crews travelled to Brentwood College School in mid-April for the Brentwood Regatta. Here the Senior By COmin CeBREZICK! Heavy Girls practice on the ocean! 14 Adam Griffith - Alumus, Master, Friend of the School Adam, a long-serving member of the Ridley Family, passed away in March. By DONALD P. HUNT 16 Chaplain Leaves Ridley For Deep South The Cadet Band, 62 strong, march Gerry Shantz-Headmaster Designate to The Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge, LA. on to the parade square on Inspection Day, May 11th. By W. WAYNE FRASER 17 Kenyon Lett House Opens The Headmaster’s new residence was officially opened on May 11th. By ROBERT ES PANDEY 47 20 Alumni Notes & Milestones Duke of Edinburgh Expeditions are back in vogue at Ridley. 2 Tiger/Spring Ridley In The Spring Is Always Busy bY DOWELA S Se AViIPBEDE Headmaster can’t quite believe that another year is just Edinburgh Programme is proving, once again, to be a about over, but the furious preparations of very attractive activity for many students and prom- Cadet Corps # 162 cannot be denied. The ises to grow in popularity in the future. But it is the industriousness of the Spring Term is unmis- areas of music and drama which have caught the takable and the pace seems to quicken daily as so imagination of today’s students in a remarkable way. many events reach their culmination. The staff responsible for these areas have shared Spirits are high, the weather continues to their enthusiasm and unquestionable talent with the improve and the tone of the School is perceptibly students in such a way that the Arts at Ridley are different than in February. thriving. Exhibits, workshops, productions and per- In retrospect, it has been a remarkably calm formances abound -- the facilities of the Mandeville year. Perhaps part of the reason for that has been my Theatre and the 2nd Century Building are truly being own approach. A school as complex as Ridley used in the intended fashion. BD ccuires some time to adjust to as well as time to These extracurricular programmes serve our begin to understand its inner rhythms. As I have students well in producing the well-rounded graduate. become more at ease, | think those around me may But it must be remembered that they are the feel more comfortable as well. At any rate, the 1990/ supporting players in the overall scheme. It is 91 session seems to have been one of evenness with academic instruction and the pursuit of knowledge fewer emotional peaks and valleys. and thinking skills which remain out first principles. It has also been a year of significant triumphs At times, complaints are heard from various quarters for Ridley. The athletic laurels shifted from hockey that we spend too much time on extra-curriculars at and football to volleyball, field hockey, swimming the expense of academics. It is an area which merits and basketball this year. (While it is early to make continuing discussion and monitoring, and as I look accurate forecasts, the crews are optimistic about forward to next year, | hope to turn more of my preserving and enhancing our reputation on the attention to the pedagogical side of Ridley. With an water.) The successes of our teams this year carried internal administrative reorganization now complete, them past local competitions and on to Provincial | hope to have more time to devote to this critical as- levels where they have excelled -- not only in the pect of the School. As I’ve said before, it is essential sense of winning, but also by their determination and that we constantly analyze what we are doing on a sportsmanship. As ambassadors of the School, they daily basis in the classroom in order to ensure that have been beyond reproach. our students are the beneficiaries of the highest I am also delighted to report on the level of quality teaching and learning environment. participation and enthusiasm exhibited in the As we continue to grow and develop as a Activities programme. Under George Briggs’ capable School, we will search for excellence in all we do and direction, this aspect of Ridley life is blooming. strive for the delicate balance amongst the various Wey Ample evidence of the desire of Ridley students to components of Ridley life. With your continuing help others has been seen in the record numbers of help and support, the prospects of attaining our goals students involved in Community Service programmes remain bright indeed. @D -- a cause for celebration in my mind. The Duke of Tiger/Spring 3 Have You Heard About Advanced Placement Courses? eM LIGs SOON If Assistant Headmaster - Academics } he Advanced Placement Progamme is a tutoring from a teacher. Biology was Ridley's first cooperative educational endeavor between OAC course to have supplementary curriculum secondary schools and universities designed specifically for the AP course and to have extra M@ administered by the College Board, a non- teaching time devoted to it. profit organization with over 2700 members. In the Beginning in September of 1991, the offering of progamme, able high school students are offered AP credits will be more formalized. The Languages and enrichment in challenging courses recognized by many History departments will continue to provide tutoring North American universities. Some universties will for students who wish to write the AP exams and are accept an AP course as a required course for an enrolled in the associated OAC course. Math will undergraduate degree. Others will not award credit for introduce one section of OAC calculus in which able an AP course, but will allow a student who has math students will study the AP material and will also completed an AP credit to proceed to the second year receive their OAC credit. In the sciences, where level in the discipline. Many we : additional teaching time is required in students who have completed J order to complete the AP labs, Advance Placement courses still f students who enroll in AP courses will choose to study at the first year have two extra periods a week in their university level with the hope that timetables over and above the regular their strong background in the classes of the OAC course. A side course will allow them to excel. This benefit of AP is that students who is particularly important for students | have completed an OAC science in who may wish to apply for profes- their grade 12 year, can do the AP sional schools and therefore will labs in their grade 13 year and qualify need very high first year grades. f to write the AP exam in May. This Advanced Placement courses will allow them to maintain their are widely accepted at universities | skills in the course and will reduce the throughout the United States and in effect of having a long period of time most of Canada with the exception B) between having completed the course of Ontario. York University is the in grade 12 and doing it again in the first Ontario institution to accept AP Tony ae man will be teaching AP Chemistry first year of university. credits and is keen to foster the in the 1991-92 school year. Advanced Placement courses progamme amongst high schools in the province. provide stimulating and exciting enrichment to our Ridley has offered AP courses informally for students. Whether or not a student receives several years. Individual students work with a tutor university credit for an AP course, there is no doubt and sit the exam in May. In some courses such as that the learning which takes place in an AP French, Spanish, History and English a student is well progamme will stand our students in good stead as prepared to write the exam by taking the OAC credit they enter their university careers. in the course and receiving some supplementary 4 Tiger/Spring Memorial Chapel Time lo ‘Organ-ize’ BY MICHAEL S. TANSLEY Head of Music here comes a time when parts wear out! | taxes, will be $48,600 and I am delighted to announce refer to the grand organ in the Ridley that we have just received an anonymous donation of Chapel. Any church or school possessing a $10,000 to help us on our way! Pipe Organ knows all too well that the cost We are appealing to all Ridleians who care for of general maintenance and tuning is both necessary the music in the Chapel to assist us in realizing our and essential. However, every 15-20 years there is the goal in order that we might have the least disruption likelihood that a more major operation is required. to services at Ridley by attempting to have this Over the years, the mechanism that is inside rebuild completed by Alumni Weekend next Fall. the console (now 30 years old) has deteriorated and Contributions, however small, will be gratefully re- we face the task of basically renewing the console and ceived by the Development Office and a tax receipt updating the methods by which the organ can pro- will be issued. Please mark your contributions specif- duce the splendid variety of sounds that generations ically for the ‘Organ Fund’. @. Ridleians have enjoyed. At the present time, or- I have deliberately avoided confusing readers ganists are unable to change the pistons to give va- with specific details of the rebuild process and its riety since this facet has ceased to operate. components, but we can happily supply those details In consultation with Casavant Fréres who to those of you who have a particular interest in re- maintains our organ, we have considered various cent developments in the electronics/computer fields. alternatives and cost factors, and have decided that we will restore a used console and create a ‘state of P.S. We are still looking for pre-1960 Choir photos. the art’ instrument. Our overall cost, exclusive of Copies of “61, “62, ‘66, ‘67 and ‘68 would be appreciated. The organ chamber is quite magnificent! George Dunkley is the organist for the Choir, but many others play the organ on a day-to-day basis. We are very fortunate to have such a beautiful instrument at Ridley. Tiger/Spring 5 OBITUARY Charles Ross (Sandy) Somerville 1903 - 1991 Charles Ross (Sandy) Somerville ‘21 was born in London, Ontario in 1903 and died on Friday, 17 May 1991 in the same city. During the intervening 88 years, Sandy lived life to its fullest as a family man, business man and a reknowned sportsman. Sandy spent eight years at Ridley College. His roommate was Terry Cronyn. At Ridley he built a reputation in cricket, football and hockey that has Women’s Guild Mementos never been surpassed in the annals of Ridley athletics. After graduation in 1921, he went on to the University of Toronto where he continued to excel From the Niagara Branch in these sports, becoming captain of the senior football and hockey teams. After college, Sandy Ridley Jewelry - the ideal gift for all members of the Ridley College Association - current students, started selling insurance for the Northern Life parents, alumni. Insurance Company but switched to London Life in 1932. In 1945 he married the late Eleanor Lyle and Items include three ring styles, pendants, tie their two boys, Kenneth ‘65 and Philip ‘67, followed tacks, tie bars, stick pins, lapel pins and cuff links their father to Ridley. At the time of his retirement all classically styled with the Ridley School crest in 1968, Sandy was the regional manager of group and available in silver or white and yellow gold. insurance benefits for London Life. Sandy started playing golf when he was 6 Coming soon...all items with the Alumni Crest! years of age and after college he started to concentrate on the sport that was to bring him so For pricing information and to order contact: much fame. He was the first Canadian to win the Mrs. Judy Repple at 416-356-6572. United States Amateur Golf Championship. He won the title at the Baltimore Country Club’s Five Farms Course in 1932. Besides the US victory, he won 4 From theToronto Branch Ontario amateur championships, 6 Canadian amateur titles and 2 Canadian Senior Crowns. Sandy As an on going fund raising project, the Guild was a member of the Canadian Amateur Athletic carries the following items for sale. Hall of Fame; he was voted the Canadian Golfer of the half century in 1950. Cookbooks $5.00 Besides his athleticism Sandy Somerville’s Crested Teaspoons $13.00 outstanding qualities were modesty and integrity. As Print of Ridley Gates $25.00 (limited number) Lorne Rubenstein wrote in his 20 May 1991 golf Cummerbund & Bow Tie set $35.00 column in The Globe and Mail — “Sandy Somerville (black/orange diagonal stripe) will remain an ideal model for anybody who seeks the Postage Extra highest levels of the game.” We all extend our deepest sympathies to If you would like to purchase any of these items, Sandy’s sons Philip and Kenneth and to his grand- please call Angela Gransden 416-922-3228 or children, Hunter, Jonathan and Colter. @D Eleanor Osler 416-231-0787. 6 Tiger/Spring oe RIDLEY PROFILES BY JOHN S. WALTON ‘49 John R. Walton, O.R. ‘18 Brock. ohn Ruskin Walton was born 31 October 1898, in Fort George, District of Ungava (now Quebec), to Rev. William Gladstone Walton, and his wife Daisy Spencer Walton, the second of six children. Rev. Walton was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, London, England, and came to Fort George (on James Bay) from Birmingham in 1892. There he met his wife who was the daughter of Miles Spencer, the Hudson Bay Company Factor. Until their retirement to Toronto in 1924, he and his wife offered spiritual, medical and Qc! support to Eskimos and Swampy Cree had come north with the treaty money from the Indians, who were two very different races of Canadian government for the native peoples. This Canadian aboriginal peoples living within his time the trip was down the Abitibi River from Moose responsibility. Rev. Walton became well known Factory, to the railway at Cochrane, and then to through his successful efforts to have herds of reindeer Toronto and Ridley. driven from Alaska to Ungava, where the native Jack spent three years at Ridley, with summers peoples were starving. They were instrumental in at relatives in Toronto, and considered himself more of interpreting hymns, God Save the Queen, and O an athlete than a student. His English school Canada into Eskimo and Cree languages, and Rev. background allowed him to make the first cricket team Walton was the editor of the “Eskimo-English in all three years (one of the two main bowlers), excel Dictionary” published in 1925 by the Church of the in soccer, and in his last year he made first football Ascension Thanks-Offering Mission Fund, Hamilton, which was a new sport to him. Three months before and printed by The Ontario Press Ltd., Toronto. graduating in 1918, he and his friend Aubrey When ‘Jack’ was 8 years old, in the summer of Breithaupt joined the RAF against the wishes of Harry 1906, his father took him by Indian canoe brigade Griffith. He thought they should join the artillery, down the Missinaibi River to Missinaibi, Ontario, “where they can use their mathematical education”. then by rail to Toronto and New York, and on to Later in 1918 he was discharged from the RAF and Liverpool by ship. He was enrolled in the C.M.S. entered the University of Toronto School of Forestry. school for missionaries’ children in Limpsfield, He won his “T” in fencing, and graduated to pursue a Surrey, spending vacations with relatives, until his career as a forestry engineer with Price Bros. & Co. return to Fort George in 1913, with plans to go on to Ltd. In 1929 he married Doris Armstrong Sheppard of Ridley College. It took two years to obtain a passage Aurora, Ontario. They had two children, John S. ‘49 outh, and during this time he hunted with the native and Frances. Both his son and his grandsons, Ross ‘77 peoples providing food to augment the annual supply and Stuart ’78 attended Ridley College. by ship. In 1915, he came out to civilization, again by Jack retired in 1963 and he and his wife now Indian canoe brigade, with Archdeacon Renison who live in Victoria, BC. Tiger/Spring RIDLEY’ PROFIEES BY GERAIS roll Nae Chaplain Harold AW Wilson; OR 30 BASc 1990 n 1975 Harold Wilson was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his world champion- ship speedboat racing back in the 1930's. It was splendid recognition for Mr. Wilson's life- long achievements in motorboat racing in Canada, an PBUTBMPCoroniohfoheal luosestlritt ssstmo,o ei n st ye d, interest that began very early in his life. In his re- In the summer of 1926, while vacationing in © cently published biography, Boats Unlimited (1990), Muskoka, the Wilson family acquired a “Seabird”. Mr. Wilson recounts that in 1919 his family spent a Mr. Wilson described the boat as ‘smooth-skill hull, winter vacation in St. Petersburg, Florida. “There | with brilliant mahogany decks and windshield and a rode in my first real motorboat. This experience real- _ full twenty-five horsepower engine’. He promptly ly whetted my appetite for boats and engines - I was named the new boat “Ridley”! hooked!” It was during the 30’s that Mr. Wilson won his Mr. Wilson was born in St. Catharines in greatest achievements in racing. In both 1934 and ’35 1911. From his father, a self-taught, self-made me- he won the Canadian National Exhibition 225-Cubic chanical engineer, he inherited his great interest in Inch Class hydroplane race. Also in 1935, he and his all the mechanical marvels ae were being brought crew won the Presidents Gold Cup racing on the into being so rapidly dur- * Potomac. We should let Mr. ing the early days of the “ATI of the “ilo Racing Team Wilson recount the exciting twentieth century. At. conclusion to this historic Ridley, where he at- were invited to the White House event: “All of the Wilson tended from 1925 to to meet President Roosevelt ” Racing Team were invited to 1930, his interest in- ne » the White House to meet creased. Upon graduation from Ridley he entered the President Roosevelt and to be presented with the Pres- University of Toronto from which he graduated in ident's Cup. The President was seated at his desk in the 1936 with a BASc in mechanical engineering. Oval Office. Our team was arranged behind him, and all Mr. Wilson’s debut at Ridley must be unique of us faced a battery of reporters and photographers. Mr. in the School's annals. He arrived as a boarder in Roosevelt asked several questions about our boat, and 1925 and spent the first two weeks of his Ridley ca- then formally presented the $13,000 gold trophy to me. reer in the ‘pest house’ recovering from sunstroke, “T suppose you will now take this home to Canada, Mr. having absorbed a tremendous amount of sunshine Wilson” he said. Before | could reply, one of the young out on the water that summer. reporters said, “I'm sorry, Mr. President, but he can't do 8 Tiger/Spring