SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL Alumni News

Matthew,
Thanks for sending these updates. Much appreciated.
I attach a photo of Dave Motter and I in our double scull, on Glenmore Reservoir. We
refurbished the shell and now row it on as many occasions as we can.
Joe Grey’s force lives on!
Hands -body - slide.
Ben

Mike Little’s music career continues on the fast track. This past September, Mike was named Keyboard Player of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. The previous year Mike had a gold record and Juno Award for his work with the Road Hammers. This month Mike is touring the Persian Gulf with George Canyon, a multi-award winning Canadian country musician. They will be playing for troops in Dubai and at a couple of secret bases. Mike is always ‘giving back’ and each year he donates to Shawnigan to make possible the Mike Little Music Award for a talented student to pursue his or her music. - Steve Housser ‘67 Director of Advancement

- Nathalie was married on December 22, 2007 in South Africa to Colin Sadler. She met Colin in London where she had been working for the Gala Coral Group. The couple plans to work for a few more months -Colin is in computers, and then they will travel for a bit before ending up inVancouver or Victoria early next year where Nathalie plans further studies. She is writing LSATs in April.

Returning for her ten-year reunion, Abbie Bagley-Young kindly volunteered to share her passion for the visual arts with Shawnigan students. Graduating from Princeton with an Art History and Studio Art degree, she found a perfect match for her interest in science and art in the field of art conservation and restoration. From Princeton, she enrolled for three years in the Courtauld Institute in London, England to study the Conservation of Easel Paintings. She currently lives in Amsterdam, where she specializes in restoring 15th and 16th-century Dutch paintings. She works as a freelance restorer at the Frans Hals Museum and for the Dutch government art collection. She has recently begun a PhD program at the Rijksmuseum.
While at Shawnigan, she was able to share some of the techniques and skills needed to restore paintings. As well, she demonstrated traditional egg tempera painting, from the grinding of the raw pigments to the cracking of the egg. It is always a pleasure to have Shawnigan alumni return to share their passions and skills with current students.
– Don Rolston, Director of Fine Arts

Congratulations to Faizel Sunderji ‘91 (Lake’s) for completing the Subaru Ironman Canada in Penticton, BC. Faizel completed the 3.8 km swim, 180 km bike and 42.2 km marathon in a time of 12:12:33.
We would love to hear from anyone who has been up to something exciting. To share your interesting experience with Shawnigan, please email alumni@sls.bc.ca.