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we arrived Mr. Hatfield said I should get a driving licence, eight decades ago as is today. Much to his surprise and delight, even though I was only 14-years-old. Somehow he managed Scott won the Junior Cross-Country race in Lower School to get me a licence from the postmaster who gave them out, “after a bit of coaching from last year’s winner.” He was also intentionally leaving the age blank on my application form.” introduced to new sports such as boxing, cricket, and football, Life-long friendships were forged with roommates Jim which he enjoyed and played through his high school years.

Shapley ’33 and Peter Parker ’33. Jim Hamilton ’33 (who He vividly recalls heading to a cricket match at Appleby went on to become Executive Director, SAC Foundation from College when the driver of the rented bus fell asleep just two 1965-1986) was in the next room and became a good friend miles from the school, veering straight into oncoming traffic. too, as did John Green ’32, Allen Graham ’33, E. Stuart Tragedy was averted by a quick-acting teacher who grabbed Macdonald ’33, Frank (Bud) Cox ’33, and Tony Corson ’33. the wheel and steered the bus to a halt at the side of the road.

The names of old friends and teachers are easily rhymed “Everybody laughed, but the teacher didn’t think it was very off, but sadly, 82 years after graduation, funny. We never heard if it had been he is the only one who remains. reported or not.”

The memories, however, come One of the greatest capers occurred flooding back as he thinks back to his during senior year, when Scott had formative years at SAC, “where boys overnight loan of his mother’s car to learn to feel good about any success, and drive to TCS for a game the next day. find ways to do their best with failure.”

“We thought we might as well take It was also a time for testing advantage of having it so we decided boundaries. Like the time his to take the car out for a ride after lights roommate had the great idea to throw out.” First they headed toward Newa trash can from the third floor of market but decided it would be “all Surrounded by grandchildren in 2011 Flavelle just to see if it would roll closed down” so instead headed south (l-r) Thomas, Christopher, Sophia, and standing down the stairs to the first floor. “When in back, Justine and her now husband, Jesse. to Richmond Hill then decided to go the masters asked who did it, Peter all the way to Toronto. After stopping readily admitted to it. His punishment to eat pancakes at a restaurant on King was to write lines on a Saturday Street, and driving by each of their afternoon for four hours. I was given houses, the boys headed back to SAC, two hours although I had had no more “arriving there in good time—about to do with it then the other guys.” five o’clock in the morning!”

When a fire destroyed part of the Scott graduated from SAC not third floor in Flavelle, his cousin, long after, just shy of his eighteenth Hugh Thomson ’33, and future music birthday. He was lucky to get a critic for the Toronto Star, had to sleep summer job ‘marking the board’ in a Scott has never forgotten the thrill of winning on the floor by Scott’s bed for a time. stock broker’s office. In September Hughie taught his temporary roommate the Junior Cross-Country race in 1928.

1932, he registered in arts at the the handy trick of spreading sugar on the hall floor so masUniversity of Western Ontario. At first he missed SAC, but ters could be heard as they approached in the hallway. around the third day of classes, almost accidentally, he School plays were a source of entertainment and hilarity. met Molly Dorland, his future wife for 63 wonderful years.

Once Hughie played the role of a doctor forced to amputate a They both graduated in 1936 and Scott joined his father’s patient’s injured leg. “As he delivered the line asking me, the insurance brokerage business, taking it over when his father nurse, to ‘bring an aspirin and a big saw,’ Hughie whispered, retired in 1958. ‘and remember to make that sawing noise like we practiced.’

In 1969, the company merged with an international “I did and it was loud and awful,” Scott chuckles at the firm in Montreal and Scott happily carried on as a Toronto memory. “When the ‘leg’ finally fell off with a huge bang, director. He retired in 1979, having enjoyed the challenges, Hughie improvised, ‘Hurry nurse, one more aspirin and the friendships and, most importantly, the clients, both a big cloth ... this is messy.’” The audience erupted in large and small. laughter and above it all could be heard the “big wheezing After retirement he and his late wife, Molly (1999) split laugh” of the Upper School Housemaster. their time between homes in Cape Cod and Peterborough, Sport was apparently just as important to the School culture where he still resides. CINDY VEITCH 30 Spring 2014