Battle Royale
Each Fall, the creek on the school property rang with the sounds of the “Battle Royale”. Students were eager to challenge each other to see who would be left standing on the log.
Battle Royale Resuts!
Many other contests were held; the dreadful chug-a-lug contest and the obstacle course (created some great hilarity).
What is your memory of the Fall celebration? Send us your stories.
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March 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
ahh….the 105 tin. If it weren’t for the chug-a-lug, I would never know what a 105 tin was, even though I spent many a day working in the kitchen!
March 25, 2011 at 4:43 pm
I can`t decide when to write, but I sure am enjoying these ‘scenes`,I can picture them all now. cheers, Pete
July 4, 2011 at 8:20 pm
When I started with the school the boys were only allowed to communicate by letter for the first 6 weeks. We did Honey Sales in that time, but talk to their parents? No way. So on Saturday you sold honey with a staff member riding your butt, and Sunday you returned to the school for an ‘event’.
Not even the dedicated staff of those days would consider 42 days of continuous classes, so we had a bunch of events to break it up. Octoberfest was one of them. (Septemberfest was a later perversion)
Potato day was another break.
So was Wargames.
My first fall there we had the Edmonton Race. Genesee to Ft. Edmonton. In retrospect, scary. Half the kids had never been in a canoe. A third of the staff had never steered a canoe. That year we had a bumper crop of newboys, and a shortage of canoes. I had a boat that had no keel. THAT was an eye opening experience for a steersman who had never run a flat bottomed boat before. (It turns with every puff of wind, every slightly incorrect steering stroke.) It took me to Calmar to get my boat to go in a straight line.
One day was ‘sports day’ where we did a variety of sports. Grade 12’s drifted through the day sizing up which boys they wanted to draft to their house.
One day was an all day study. Staff were required to be on deck. This ‘event’ was the last one before the first exams.