SATURDAY NIGHTS chapter 65

Every Saturday night in the last hour (maybe half hour) before curfew there was a school wide social. A variety of things happened. At times it seemed to be a talent show. There was music, skits, and a lot of sitting around talking while eating cinnamon toast and drinking hot chocolate. The event was usually held in the student lounge located just outside the chapel.

Glen, Al, Murray, Roy, Don (my roommate), Harold, Eugene

There were times we met for hot chocolate after hockey games. Personally, I had never heard of hockey or seen a hockey game until I got to CBC. I went to my first game this year, I felt obligated as my roommate played. The team was good. I admit I was surprised that these nice, kind and sometimes sweet Christian boys could turn into such nasty, ruthless, killing machines when they put on a uniform and took a stick onto the ice. They knew how to use that weapon. And I thought football could be violent. It looked like ballet in comparison. In time I really got into the game. Della’s mother was an avid fan and she was sweet and gentle Christian lady sitting in front of her TV asking them to kill their opponent. Makes me laugh now.

The social committee sponsored some banquets through the years. I don’t remember them all, but there was definitely a Christmas banquet. I think this year it was held in a church fellowship hall, but at times restaurants were rented. There was also a banquet the juniors put on for the seniors. I didn’t qualify this year.

Somewhere along the way, Franklin and I became somewhat regular entertainers. We did a lot of Saturday night skits, and seemed to do them for plenty of other events. We promoted things, advertized things and said farewell through skits. For some reason, the ideas rolled out and we easily wrote together. Admittedly we stole a lot of material from the Three Stooges. This was a big part of the year for me, so that will be the next chapter.

1.     Norm getting something to eat. The normal Saturday night snack was cinnamon toast and hot chocolate.

2.     Ken and a skit about jumping off a building.

3.     Ron S. Don, Ron G. Nelson and I think the same skit about jumping off a building.

4.     Most likely a social night with a group sitting and eating.

5.     Shopping at Tuck Shop. Don’t know if Della is working this shift. She worked afternoons and we met and ate red licorice at the night session.

6.     Looks like more hot chocolate.

7.     A banquet. I worked on the backdrop (sorry, it is was artistic, I seemed to have had my hand in it that year). Don’t know the first guy in the left, but next is Mel (Student Body President), Dr. Martin, Mrs. Bartel, Mr. Morden, Mrs. Rose, Rev. Orthner.

8.     Mike looks like he was inspecting the dishes. Someone needed to. Dishes were cleaned with bleach and coffee tasted like bleach. The horrors of plastic.

9.     Nelson and Brandon washing dishes.

10.  Rev. Willoughby and Rev. Downey washing dishes.