Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SFLWYN HOUSE SCHOOL IN1.-MSAZINE America's Call to Arms. Flowers at TVork. Ski Revels. Raising Air lfighters. Britain's Commandos in Action. .laps Bomb U.S.A. XYild Elephant Round-up. Italy Surrenders. Glacier National Park. Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills. l.a Gare, Ca French educational filmj Sport Spellbinders. How Nature protects. Volcanoes in Action. British-Greek Victories. Native Africa. Axis Smashed in Africa. The French U . QAnother film in French, with sound, illustrating the proper pronunciation of the French U J Track Meet Thrills. Aida hy the Boston Symphony Orchestra Selections. A frica Pigmy Thrills. Rome. How Nature Protects Animals. News Parade of I9-ll. How Movies Move and Talk. String Choir. Fight for Fgypt. Here comes the Circus. PF Ili Pk The Headmaster has received the following letter from Blaikie Purvis in England. Dear Sir, I am at Pre-O.C.T.U., now, and hope to be at Sandhurst in a couple of weeksg from there in a matter of 6 or 7 months I might get my commission in the Scots Guards. This is the Royal Armoured Corps Pre-O.C.T.U. where spit and polish and attention to detail reign supreme. Reveille is at 6.00 A.lN1. and there is no hot water! The training here is : CEENERAI. TXTIIVFARY 'I'RAiNiNo-Map Reading, Drill, P. T., Weapon Training flnliantry YYeapons.l Diuvmo AND TXTAINTENANCE. - Driving trucks and motorcycles Cacross countryl and theory. GVNNERY. American and British Tank Guns. l6l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1943-1944 Amongst recent marriages we note those of Flt. Lieut. Hugh Norsworthy, R.C.A.F., Happy Day, Sub. Lieut. R.C.N.V.R., and L. McDougall, now a Lieut. in the R.C.A.S.C. Flying Officer Antony D. Chapman, who was a Lecturer at McGill before the war, was married in Birmingham, England, in December. Lieut. John Hampson, 7th Recce. Regi- ment, 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, Canadian Army Overseas, was mar- ried at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal on February llth. Second Lieut. YY. T. Stewart was also married in February. Congratulations to Tim Burgess who came second in third year Medicine at McGill. He will join the R.C.A.M.C. The Headmaster has received a very appreciative letter from the Earl of Bessborough, formerly Governor General of Canada. George Ponsonby is now preparing for Eton. James Prest, after leaving us last year, went to Winchester School, Fngland, whilst his brother Michael is head boy at his Prep. School, and hopes to enter the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, N.S. Charles XYinter and Hugh Sassoon left us recently for Eton, and Billy YYinter has now sailed for England also. P? if PF Roger XYalker is now at Streete Court School, Somerset, after travelling to England via the United States and Lisbon. Congratulations to J. Tetrault on winning a scholarship at l..C.C. l,Free tuition for two years.l PK PF ii The sum of 5371.91 has been subscribed in War Savings Stamps by 67 boys of the Senior School. This figure represents the sum contributed up to the beginning of February. Forty boys wrote the examination on Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Huckle- berry Finn , the two books which were set for holiday reading. The prize was won by Magor who chose Huckleberrv Finn. 5 7 . 54 wk X Parents will be interested to see a sample of the more than 60 films which have been shown to the boys during the month from the middle of November to the Christmas holi- days. Life Cycle of a Plant. Camera Thrills in YYildest Africa. l5l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1043-1944 XYIRELESS. Morse, theory and procedure. We are all mixed up here : Canadian, Guards and all the British Line Regiments seem to be represented. R. S. M.s with 10 years service, are mixed with people like myself with five months. I was lucky enough to get ll days leave over Christmas which was very pleasant. London gets boring, but I am never there long enough to get bored I I miss ski-ing, naturally, but I hope you are having a good winter. How is Selwyn House getting on F I have met one or two people that I met at B.C.S. over here g I saw Ted Hugessen last summer, just of to Malta in a Spitfire. Please excuse this incoherent and scribbled note, but a crowded barrack room Csitting on one's bedl does not aid one's thought or writing. Well Lights out is iust going 7 c, . - ,Y Yours ever, B. P. Pk if if Bill May is a Lieutenant in the Army at Petawawa. PF if if Mike Little is a Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. Pk Y PK Peter Grier is a Flight Lieutenant instructing in the R.C.A.F. and was recently married. BF PK PF Dickie Birks is a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.Y.R. and won second prize in his class at H.M.C.S. Kings, Halifax. .F ft ,F Arthur Billy Bishop is a Pilot Officer in the R,C.A.F. overseas Hying lighters. at ik at Dick Grier is a Lieutenant in the 27th Can. Arm. Regt. C.A.O. is ak Pk Gerry Hampson is with the 5th C.I.R.V. .2 as wk Andy Hersey, recently married, was at Camp Borden, Ont. wk at 4: John Hodge is a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.C.N.V.R. l7l