Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1942-1943 Bull of ibonour. In the last issue of the S.I-I.S. Magazine we announced the following list of casualties :-4 KILLED IN ACTION Flt. Lieut. T. B. Little, R.C..-LF. Pilot Ofhcer .-X. D. Angus, R.C..-LIT. Pilot OHicer C. F. Hart, R.C..-Ll . Pilot Officer G. H. Armstrong, R.C..-X.I+'. Pilot OfIicer T. T. B. Stoker, R.C..-XJ . Sergent .-Xir G iiii ner F. Hart, R.C.A.F. MISSING Pilot Officer DI. If. Chevalier, R.C..-LF. Lieut. D. Ll. Davies, R.C.N.V.R. freported missing last year after the St. Nazaire raid, now happily reported prisoner of war in Germanyl. Since then we regret to have to add the following names to the above list :- Lieut. M. G. Mather Cmissingl Lieut. T. M. Barott fprisoner of warj Lieut. Daniel Doheny lmissingj Lieut. H. D. S. Russel, R.C.N.Y.R. llnissingl Surgeon Lieut. Ralph Powell, R.C.N. Cmissing, presumed deadj Pilot Officer Patrick C. Little, R.C.:X.I+'. lmissingj Sergeant W, AG R. P. Burke, R.C..-LF. lmissingj Flt. Sergeant Philip XV. Davis, R..-LF. fniissingl Flt. Sergeant W. S. QBillyj Piers, R.C..-LF. Cniissing, presumed deadj Flying Oficer Arthur Piers, R..-LF. lmissingj Sgt. Pilot G. P. Cushing, R.C.A.F. fliilled in actionj. This list is probably incomplete, and we would welcome any corrections from parents and others. We apologize for any inaccuracies, and express our deepest sympathy to the relatives and friends of these Old Boys of ours. T31

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE the value of his service cannot be measured in terms ol' words 3 it lies rather in the hearts ot' those he taught, and in their realiyation and recognition of what he did for them in their formative years. The teaching profession has greater need now than ever of such men as Charles T. .-Xnstey. Ullontrml Dailv Slar, 9f.5'f4.?.P 5F PF Hs 'Ii was during the last three years of his life that I knew Charles T. Anstey. He was already a patriarch, magnificently bearded, and there hung about him that air of le- gend, of unpredictability and eccentricity, which is so often the last and most becoming mantle of a considerable figure. His long experience had added something ofthe uncanny to his knowledge ot' boys. His judgements possessed the force of intuitions and even his prejudices had style. Study-steeped and taxi-borne he was popularly supposed to subsist on a diet of raw eggs and beer... I see him now standing on the steps of the School in racoon coat and fur cap, or teaching in the Sixth, the walls loaded with form photographs, and with a string of innumerable medals, one for each year, dangling on his waistcoat. He could he depended upon for a story or poem at the conclusion of the masters' Christmas dinner and for a peculiar-looking hat on Sports Day. He was capable of infusing school life with those expressions of loyalty, patriotism and school-spirit which, in lesser hands, so easily become sentimental and diffuse. I shall not forget his love for English literature. :Xs a small boy he had been taken to visit Tennyson g he told me how the poet had lain full-length on the hearth-rug, meets-V chaum in hand, heard in air, and chanted his verses. This Victorian memory no doubt re-inforced his impatience with some of the modern verse I showed him. He could not resist pencilling ll faint but determined bosh or piffle in the margin of books by twentieth century poets. Yet he once showed me how anxious he was to understand. 'I'here's a new language here, he said, and I want to learn it. Such unusual tolerance could be expected of an admirer of Blake. On one occasion he asked my opinion on a lyric he had copied out. I missed the twinkle in his eye and judged it to be of the Seventeenth Century. I was wrong. He had written it himself. Patriarchal in appearance, he remained young in spirit. He never spoke about his health. Only last summer, in the sweltering heat of the first day of the holidays, he in- sisted on taking the Sixth Form to Belmont Park -7 this was an annual affair for him. I can think of no better memorial than this picture, preserved indelibly in the minds of his pupils, of the old scholar and schoolmaster leading the revels against a background of Giant Racers and Ferris Wheels. 'l'o give up teaching was an impossibility for him. When he could no longer work, he died. I.et the last tribute come from one of his recent ex-pupils : I was very sorry to hear of.Ioe's death, but there is one great thing about his life - he left a terrific amount of good work behind him. P. A. Ill

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