ZeOseseeese erate atatata’

FATAL LEAP

I. know. how it will be next.
Sunday.

There’ ll be a small, gentle
slope referred to (but not by me)
as “the beginner’s hill.” I will
stand upon the summit of this
modest mound, my skis together
very professionally, one slightyly
ahead of the other. I will be
leaning easily. on my poles,

flexing the steel tendons in my
legs, absorbing the fresh winter

’ beauty of the landscape.

Looking down the slope | will
plot my run and, indeed, will see
the whole lovely performance i in
my imagination.

Having worked all this out I
will shove off from.the top of the
slope. Almost instantly my legs
will begin to part. A look of utter
terror will come upon my face

. and I will emit.a wild cry. of
despair: Then, once more, they
will be digging my remains out of
the snow.

It-has been this way for more.
than 30.years or ever since I
jumped 39 feet on skis. That was
when the illusions of grandeur
caught me in their death grip.

Nowadays people won't believe
that I once. leaped 39° feet,”
especially’ if they have seen me
clawing. at the air and screaming
girlishly on. the beginner’s hill. I
“did, though, and it. was. all
because of a man named “‘Nip’’”
Stone, ‘my. first and. most ‘en-

: during hero.

-“=.Oh,; whata god that man was on-
_ skis! When he'd soar off the big

~ jump, * silhouetted against ‘the
~-cold sky, leaning far out over the
points .of his heavy jumping
planks, his arms. ‘outstretched
and behind him like an eagle in:

“flight, 1° wanted nothing more in.

ife than:to be in his ski boots.

Each ‘week-end, over.and over, :

‘ practice leaping from ski

Well, they . measured

forget it.

matter in this. most joyful
sports.

begins.

instant it-scents ski wax.

. broken: ‘body:

* pies of: that: preparation. sti
“reminds me of him. And I would:

like a childish affair, not: much
bigger than my home- -made hills.
It did at any rate, until the day I
found myself at the top of it,
waiting for a signal flag from the
chasm below to launch me into
glory. The spectators down there,
sadists all, were tiny figures. The
take-off trestle was a glassy
chute to nowhere. I looked down
with my heart beating a samba in
my throat and then, for a glorious
moment, I was ‘‘Nip’’ Stone...

carefully, from the take-off to the
great, yawning pit where they
found my body. It was the last
time I jumped, but 1 never forgot
it and I never let anybody else

- This has been my approach to
skiing ‘every year since that
distant day. Here is the death
struggle between dream and
reality, living proof that there is
no such. thing as. mind over

Year after year, standing there
on that first day. of the season at
the head of some baby slope, I
feel the surging of idiot . con-
fidence, the deep belief that what
churns through my imagination
will happen in fact when the slide

- Gone, : for ‘the moment, is the
knowledge that I frequently. lose:
my ‘balance on escalators, that
‘my. co-ordination’ runs amok the

-Year after year I become more.
inept, one. moment - ‘the: poised
‘athelete, the next’ moment. (and
‘for the remainder of the winter) a

flailing; floundering: figure gazed
“upon: with open scorn: by. small:
children and little old ladies who: .
plide serenely: by. my ‘horizontal,

An ‘exhibition. ‘of: ‘watercolours

| THE REVIEW

GLEN MEADOWS LADIES

ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER
Sixth Club Championship For Dale Shaw

events. The rest of the outgoing
“executive was warmly thanked
for their assistance throughout
the year. As the popular captain
stepped down from her term of
service, she was presented with a
pst-captain’s pin and é a standing
ovation.

Andy Drew, nominations
chairman, then took the floor for
the election of officers for 1975.

The new executive is: Shirley
Boivin, captain; Marg Jamieson,
vice-captain; Peggy Patterson,
treasurer: Ted Soles, secretary:
Hilda McKeever, 9-hole
representative, Ann Gillespie,
business ladies ‘captain; Dorie
Camsusa, handicaps. Jean
Adams, Marg. Buffam, E...Bar- ||
clay, Fran Batt, sports com-
mittee; Irene Homes, social
convener.

The Ladies’ division of Glen
. | Meadows Golf and Country Club
held their annual meeting Nov.
12,, preceeded by dinner and
presentation of cups and prizes.
Eighty-three ladies attended;
Mrs. Kathleen Criddle and Mrs.
George Paulin being special
guest.

The awarding of cups and
prizes was shared by vice-
captain, Shirley DeBellefeuille
and Hilda McKeever, the 9-hole
representative.

Major winners for 1974 were:
Club champion (Criddle Trophy)
- forthe 6th successive: year -
Dale Shaw, runner-up -: Marg
Robertson. George Paulin
Trophy (Spring handicap -tour-
nament) - Gladys Green, runner-
up - Edna Hay. George Paulin
Trophy, 9-hole division - Hilda
McKeever,. runner-up - . Doris
Lewis. Taylor Bowl (9-hole
division) -. Barb Crawford,
runner-up - Vera. Clunk. Nash
Trophy (business ladies) - Peggy
Jacobsen, runner-up: -. Joanne
Morrison: .

Captain Peggy Wilson reported
a very busy and successful year,
and thought that the section could
be especially proud of two of its
players, Peggy Jacobsen and
‘Ruby ‘Niemeyer, who had been
chosen to play on the Huntting
Cup team. There’s: been rivalry
between: the best mainland
‘players and the Island for. this
cup, and the: yearly games
alternate between: Victoria and
‘the mainland, so itsa match of
great prestige. .__ |

-The- ‘captain thanked’ Rae
“Criddle. and her ‘staff’ for : the
‘delightful ‘dinner,and expressed
appreciation to’ thesocial © con-
vener, ‘Irene Holmes, and - her
helpers, for their: ‘arrangements
for this and other seasonal social

it

place.

‘SIDNEY P. T. A.

On Nov. 13, officers were
elected for 1974-75 at the second
meeting of Sidney Elementary
Parents’ Auxiliary. The following
were elected: president - Sharon
Hilton, vice-president - Camille
Martin, secretary -- Mrs.
"MacKay, treasurer - Franca’
Thompson, historian. -: Mrs. .
Grant, : publicity - Linda Lutt-. J
mann, social - Phyllis Lindsay, |
community . school committee - 4
Mr. Jones. of

It was proposed that a ‘com:
“mittee be formed to begin an
investigation of. a community ;
school’ concept . for Sidney |
Elementary School, to provide —j
‘the following: (1) informational...
_or developmental thinking, (2)°°.f ->
vitally needed parental support,” ©.
(3) inter-school involvement,.(4) "|
a French program to bea part of
“the community school concept, §-
commencing at kindergarten i Gee
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