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If you get a good start in life it can set you up for life. So, not surprisingly, Tom Beynon is now a successful Toronto lawyer with memories of four Grey Cup games and, farther back than that, days as in Waterloo collegiate Viking. A strong athletic and academic background at WCI led the way to a university education and all else has followed from there. Beynon was on the original makeshift senior Vikings football team that reached the high point of its season by beating previously undefeated Eastwood Rebels. Beynon remembers the ettetfidenee that Bill Koski, now an assistant coach with University of Waterloo football Warriors, gave the players. "The tadt that he)niade us EMF“ £1 ‘hpg AA” "" m”!- mung-m M‘WW The position of school principal can be a thankless one. Many hard hours are put in behind the big desk with few acknowledgments in return. Folliott. the head of the history department from 1960 to 62, vice-principal from 63-65 and principal since 1968 when he returned to WCI after a three-year absence, took a few minutes to sit back last week and talk about his times at the school from which he will retire next year. Waterloo" collegiate principal Larry Folliott realizes his position is different from that of a teacher in his dealings with students. but wouldn't have it any other way. “There are always some heavy times tit this is where the action is. My goal isn't that much different from any teacher on staff. We're all here to see the student succeed and are willing!» stretch them " far " they can to achieve it," said Folliott. One pat on the back that came F'o1iiott's way lately was WCI gave Tom his good start MN. ‘lt's great to - TOGETHEI’ Happy Anniversary '9frettflte""' EMWW lama-.- My' 9" 21'.“ - F“ at“ by In confident) gave us many a victory we had no right to have," said Beynon. Beynon went on to play football at queen's, where he was on two intercollegiate championship teams. In the Canadian Football League, he played in two Grey Cup games with Saskatchewan Roughriders and the team won one of them. "WCI gave me a stepping stone to go on to university and I applied the principles I learned at WCI to mechanical engineering and law." Beynon then was on two Grey Cup winning editions of the Ottawa Rough Riders, one in 1968 and the other the following year. _ Now a lawyer. Beynon first graduated in mechanical engineering. [EjEiET[ijriD JOIN NOW.' qrl (a 25 YEARS WE’RE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS no cm W“. The legislative part of the job is often an area where a principal may put himself in the student's bad books. Folliott realizes this fact but always approaches each situation in the same manner. “I see my job as one where I must support the teachers. . In any situation I always put myself in the position of the teacher," said Folliott. While admittedly, from time to time, there are some problems with students, he says the good moments far outweigh the bad ones. Folliott cites the Student‘s willingness to get involved in fundraisers for various charities in the community as just one example of the strong camaraderie amongst students " WCI. "wPve been blessed with good students over the years. That's Important because the kids are our whole life here," said Foiiiott. Fran Allard's been a pioneer twice in her lite. One of the original good athletes from Waterloo collegiate, she came to the school in new and she remembers the tiedgiing athletic program of that year.' Football coach Bill Koski had the moat successful team of that year. The junior girls teams on whieh Allard played were always in the middle of the pack but senior girls teams didn't do so well. Recruited athletes right out of class “Senior women's team literally had to recruit people out of phys-ed classes." said Allard. “They said, 'Here's the uniforms,' and people said, 'Oh, what sport are we playing?' " "There were some blowouts because there were people who had no idea what they were doing thrashing around out there," said Allard, who is now a kinesiology professor at University of Waterloo. WCI had an original student body of 400, but junior girls teams started off well with about five good athletes including Allard who transferred to WCI. Allard remembers Koski's original senior boys football team which had a successful season highlighted by a win over previously undefeated Eastwood Rebels. WCI Sports Stories by Richard O’Brien That team Included Tom Beynon. who tent on to play on three Grey Cup winners in the Canadian Football League and George Hunsberger, now a teacher at Bluevale. "He (Koski) took some guys who'd never played before and put them together into something that was quite 1 awesome," said Allard. Top senior women's athletes included Marion Raiser. who suffered an unfortunate knee injury that caused her to miss the basketball season. and Hazel Rawls. In her first year there were no female varsity teams. In her second year she and other prospective baskeball players were told they had to play field hockey also if they wanted to play basketball. "We had to sew the numbers on our uniforms on the way to the first game," said Allard, who went on to get her doctorate at UW. Good Juniors included Marg Sprung and Nancy Smith, all-round athletes who out of necessity played every sport. If athletes had to play every sport at WCI because there weren't enough to go around, things didn't change much for Allard when she enrolled at University of Waterloo, which in those days had a small female student population. NAM om. WV.“ 6. "tttb-Pad. 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