Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOUSE sCHooL --MAGAZIN -? Vol. 13. FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 19404 1941 SCHOOL NOTES There were two changes on the Stall' at the beginning of the School Year 1940 19-ll. Mr. Eric YYiseman, who had been with us for live years, left us for Upper Canada College, Toronto. :Ys Sports Master he always took a very keen interest in the School's games. We wish him the best of luck in his new post. Mr. fiordon Phillips now has charge of the games in his place. Mr. Patrick Redgrave left to join the Navy, and is now Lieutenant, R.C.N.Y.R., serving overseas. We wish him all success, and good shooting. We welcome Mr. P. J. :Xnderson and Mr. Al. S. lirskine. Mr. Anderson lSherborne and Worcester Coll., Oxford? took his B..-X. at Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Cnion and Editor of the Oxford Democrat , and in N33 was awarded a Common- wealth Fund Fellowship to Columbia l'nivei'sity, New York, of which he is an MA. He is a History prizeman, and much travelled llriurope, l'.S..-X., and Mexicol. Mr. J. S. Erskine has taken over Mr. Redgrave's French classes. He is a BA. of Acadia University, and is now preparing a thesis for a McGill M..-X. He is a languages specialist CSpanish, French, and Italian 5, and has travelled widely in liurope and Central and South .-Xmerica. We congratulate P. T. Molson H928-f35l, who has recently left McGill to join the R.C.N.Y.R. as Sub-Lieut., on his recent election to a Rhodes Scholarship. He follows in the footsteps of C. Eberts and H. G. l.aHeur. lt will be remembered that P.T. won a McGill Cniversity Entrance Scholarship, and was first in McGill Senior Matri- Culation. The boys of the School contributed the sum of 5 22.37 to the Canadian Red Cross in the Christmas term. In addition a group of boys, consisting of S. Morgan, .-X. Kingman, E. YYhitehead, C. YYinter, J. Powell, C. Hampson, and R. Molson, held a fireworks display last autumn, the proceeds of which - S 19.-lilf were also handed to the Red Cross. The Angus Murray Prize for English Composition was very keenly contested by the boys of last year's oth Form. The subjects were, :X great Canadian, or, the Peace Treatylof 19-l... P. Two interesting papers were written on Sir YYilfred Laurier and Joseph Howeg the prize, however, was won by John Elder Know at XYestmount High 5, who wrote a well-balanced and thoughtful essay on the Treaty of Honolulu, I94... F. lll