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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE. B.C.

Thursday, December 18, 1952.

Party Honours
Newlyweds at Hope

About 100 people gathered at the
War Memorial Hall at Hope recently
to extend their good wishes to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hudson. Mrs. Hud-
s the former Inez MacKay, while
. Hudson is the son of Mr. and
- Alaric of Hope. The couple
were married in Williams Lake No-
vember 14th.

Mrs. Alarie was hostess tor the
evening, and introduced the bride
who was attired in a blue satin for-
mal gown for the occasion.

A table for the wedding cake was
beautifully decorated, covered with
a lace cloth and flanked with candles
and flowe:

enjoyable evening was
spent in dancing and songs, and the
young couple received many lovely
gifts.

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Dormitory ‘Family’ Happy

In Home Away

From Home

By IRENE

Two weeks ago, as I sat in a smart
sitting-room and listened to two hish
school students banter light-hearted-
ly with their matron, I knew that
was well at the Williams Lake dor-
mitory. :

The sitting-room, with its brigit
red chesterfield and floral drapes
blending with the two-tone green
walls, is the “home” of Mrs. 1.
Boyce, matron grandmother who is
also “mother” to 32 students.

I was chatting with Mrs. Boyce
while we waited for supper to be
served, when two students came in
to say “goodbye; they were going
home for the weekend. Both girls
were full of the previous day’s school
opening ceremonies and of the hun-
dreds of curious people who had

trekked through the dorm. The first
girl said “One woman said it was a
wonderful

building and must be a

ve, and I said
. With
k she smiled at Mrs. Boyce. |
This was not malarkey put on for!

|my benefit. Neither of the girls knew |

who I was, or my purpose there. |

It is quite evident that M Boyce, |
who rules her brood with kindly dis-;
cipline and strict adherence to the
rules, is nevertheless “tops” with |
the students.

All the wholesome camaraderie of
a big family was evident through the
open door to the kitchen and dia-
ing-room. Two boys wrestled on tie
fioor good-naturedly for a moment,
while one or two girls hovered near

cook Mrs. Dan. Rottacker, chatting
with her while she prepared the
supper.

I was warned that supper was just
a light meal, that the main meal was
at noon. But I found no fault with
the menu of soup, fried potatves,
sausage, lettuce and tomatoes, bread,
jello and cake or pie. A typical diu-
ner at noon consists of roast beef,

potatoes and a vegetable, pickles,
bread, and pudding. The huge 15-Ib.
roast that I spied being prepared
for the next day would be consumed
in one meal, Mrs. Boyce told me. At
breakfast, fruit juice 1s served every
other morning with the rest of the
menu being made up of porridge or
a dry cereal, toast with jam or mar-
malade, and of course milk. Six g
lons of milk are consumed each day.
In addition to the regulation three
meals a day, the students prepare
their own bed-time snack when they
romp through two or three loaves of
bread in making sandwiches.

I asked two girls how they liked
living at the dormitory. “Swell,”
said one. “It’s lots of fun,” echoed
the other, But a look at the list of
duties and hours led me to believe
it was not all play-time and fun.

Arising at 7 o'clock breakfast is
scheduled for 7:30. But before leav-

ing for school, beds must he made,
yooms made neat and tidy (I wonder
how many have to do it at home)
other

chores which are
signed students each
week. Vi are prepared for
the noon meal, floors swept, wood
and coal provided for the kitchen
range (a huge black monster, the
only incongruous note in this med-
ern building). 5
Most of the day, of course, is giv-
em over to school work but wash-
yooms have to be cleaned, the halls
kept tidy, the tables set and dishes
washed. Every Thursday the green-
tiled floors are washed and waxed,
but sometimes this turns out to be
a pleasurable job. Every few weeks,
the furniture is moved out and after
tlie wax is applied, the students hold
a “sock” dance and proceed to polish
the floor. Music is supplied by Mrs.
Boyce from her piano which sits in
one corner of the dining-room.
Study periods are from 4-5. p.m.,

and many,

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and from 7-9 p.m., and during those
hours absolute quiet reigns over the
building. ‘The students must put in
two hours of study during those
times.

“Lights out’ is 10:15, except on
weekends, when students may at-
tend the local theatre or other

amusements. Deadline to be home is
0

11:30 p.m. They are allowed to
skating or indulge in similar acti
ties during the week, but they must
sign a book as to their destination
and of course must keep the 10:15
curfew.

Any infraction of the rules brings
‘a stiff penalty of “confined to bar-
racks” for a week, but Mrs. Boyce
says that she has rarely had to use
it.

I was taken on a tour of the build-
ing and even though the student
rooms were similar with their peach
walls and two-tiered bunks, the in-
dividual personalities were apparent
in the appearance of the rooms. In
one, the books were stacked neatly
on the study table, clothes were hung
neatly in the huge space provided,
and on top of the chest of drawers a
group of china ornaments ‘were et-
fectively arranged. Still another
showed that its occupants had prob-
ably departed im haste; clothes were
strewn around, books piled helter-
skelter and on the floor the forlorn
leg from a teddy-bear lay. A grue-
some sight was the huge black rub-
ber spider attached to the door near
the names of the occupants.

Besides the big furnace and water-
heatifig system in the basement,
there was a laundry room complete
with washing machine where the
students do their own washing, even
the boys. Some male lingerie of a de-
cided grayish hue on the line led
me to believe that some socks musi
have got in someone’s wash, perhaps
by mistake . . . but live and learn!
Also. in the basement is the rec-
reation room with ping-pong table
and boxing gloves. Mrs. Boyce wauts
more equipment for her family but
doesn’t quite know how she is going
to manage it.

Evidence of hobbies are two mode!
airplanes which swing from the
ceiling in the dinmg-room. On the
walls are oil paintings, the work of
Mrs. Boyce, who took up art at the
tender age of sixty. Mrs. Boyce, who
coached the choir from Bridge Lake
which won awards at the Yale-
Cariboo Musical Festival at Kam-
loops, is hoping to take a choir of
@ormitory girls from Williams Lake
to the festival next year and is busy
teaching them now.

Girls and boys from ranches and
country homes all across the sout
Cariboo are participating in this
first important year of dormitory
life in Williams Lake. Represented
are Lone Butte, Forest Grove, Soda
Creek, Alexis Creek,
Miocene, Lac La Hache,
Lake, Big Lake, and 100 Mile.

As to the question “Are they hoid-
ing their own with town students?”

the answer can be found in the fact

Likely Teacher
In B.C. Three Years

Several] weeks ago a report eman-
‘ating from the School Board oilice
stated that T. Kinloch-Taylor, a
comparatively recent arrival to Can-
ada from England had been appoint-
ed teacher at Likely. Mr. Kinloch-
‘Taylor writes to us that this report
was partially in error. He has been
a resident of Canada for six yea
three of which have been

spent

teaching in British Columbia and i:
a Scot, not an Englishman as the re-
port would indicate.

that twelve dorm students are listed
en the high school merit roll of 50,

a fact of which Mrs. Boyce is very)
proud.

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