Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 195141952 Nov. 9th Nov. 20th: Nov. 26th: Nov. 27th: Dec. 3rd Dec. 18th Dec. 19th jan. 9th jan. 23rd Feb. 5th Feb. 8th Feb. 8th Feb. 11th Feb. 12th Feb. 20th Mar. 4th Mar. 10th Mar. 17th Mar. 24th April 8th April 9th General Sir Neil M. Ritchie, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., former Allied Commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa. 'r Olaf XYoolf, Esq., Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada. Sir Frank XYillis, C.B.E., General Secretary of the National Council of Y.M.C.A's. in Great Britain. The I-Ion. Mr. Justice G. Miller Hyde? Q.C., Chairman of the School's Board of Governors. Dougall Cushing, Esq., B.A., B.C.L., N.P., speaking on an air trip round the world. Rev. Guy Marston. B.A., Warden of Diocesan Theological College, Montreal. A. Deane Nesbitt, Esq., O.B.E., D.F.C., Croix de Guerre, Member of the School's Board of Governors. EASTER TERM, 1952 Orrin B. Rexford, Esq., B.A., Principal of Commercial High School, Montreal. F. XY. Price, Esq., Manager, Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, and Lucien Moise, Esq., demonstrator. Charles M. Taylor, Esq., B.A.,' Head Prefect of the School, 1946, and Quebec Rhodes Scholar of 1952. Very Rev. F. Scott Mackenzie, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., immediate past-moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada. Memorial Assembly on death of King George VI t. Lieutenant Ian Ruthven, R.X., war-time Commander of the Midget Submarine Flotilla. Rev. Canon R. Kenneth Naylor, B.D., Rector of Trinity Memorial Church, Montreal. Ernest Stabler, Esq., M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Sir George XYilliams College, Montreal. Mr. john McGregor, Field Commissioner of the Boy Scouts-Annual Scout and Cub Assembly. Thomas C. Brainerd, Esq.,' Canadian Industries, Ltd., former Member of the School's Board of Governors. John M. Humphrey, Esq., Canadian Travelogist. Lecture: From Wlatershed to VVatermark. Mr. Leo Velleman and Miss Dora Towers-Puppet Show illustrative of Indian Legends. Rev. E. Clifford Knowles, B.A., B.D., Chaplain of McGill Univer- sitygand public-speaking finalists-Timothy Carsley, Michael Dennis, Peter Krohn, Kenneth Matson, john Seely, Harold Short. Colonel Arthur C. Evans, -School Gymnastic Display. Rev. Gerald R. Cragg, M.A., Ph.D., D.D., Minister of Erskine American United Church, Montreal. ' Indicates Old Boy of Srhool. Y Indicatzs broadcast over radio stalion CFCF. llll

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SELWYX HOLSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Svpeakzrs As in past years, the school is indebted to a number of distinguished guests who have spoken to the boys, sometimes more formally at Morning Assemblies or other school functions. sometimes less formally after lunch. To one and all we would express our thanks. Amongst our visiting speakers, since the last magazine went to press, have been the following: April April April April May May May ll une June june june bl une Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 4th 13th: 18th 23rd Zncl 9th 15th lst oth 8th 12th 13th 13th 24th 26th 4th 15th 17th 26th SCMMI-IR TERM, 1951 Very Venerable Archdeacon A. P. Gower-Rees, M.C., M.A., D.C.L., St. Georges Anglican Church. Montreal. Lieut.-Commander R. L. M. Picard, Royal Canadian Navy, and formerly a member of Selwyn House School Staff. Rev. Denis F. Mildon, M.A.. Graduate Student of Lnited Theol- ogical College, Montreal. john M. Humphrey, I-Isq., Canadian Travelogist, Subject: The Prairie Provinces. X Very Rev. XYiIliam Barclay. M.A., D.D.. President of the Canadian Council of Churches. R. H. Perry, I-Isq., M.A.. Headmaster of Ashbury College, Ottawa. Romuald Bourque, lisq.. Mayor of the City of Outremont. Colonel the Rev. Ross Flemington, O.B.E., M.A., D.D., F.R.S.A., President of Mount Allison Lniversity, New Brunswick. Theodore R. Meighen, lisq., L.L.L., Q.C.-Sports Prizegiving. The Hon. Thomas C. A. Hislop, C.M.G., High Commissioner of New Zealand to Canada. Cecil M. P. Cross, Esq.. M.A., Ph.D.. LL.D.. Lnited States Consul- General in Montreal. Arthur R. -lewitt, l-Isq., M.A.. Ph.D.. D.C.L.. Principal and Vice- Chancellor of Bishops l'niversity-Academic Prizegiving. CHRISTMAS Tl-IRM, 1051 Dr. E. K. Scott, member of Marylebone Cricket Club Team on Canadian tour. - G. B. Clarke. I-Isq., General Secretary of the Family NYelfare Associa- tion-XYelfare Federation Speaker. D. D. McGoun. lisqf Assistant-Commissioner of Police. Kenya, Africa. Rev. H. XY. Outerbridge. D.lJ., S.T.D.. president of Kwansei Cak- uin Lniversity, japan. Dr. G. Christopher Willis, formerly missionary and Christian Pub- lications Editor in China. Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, Q.C.. P.C.. one-time Leader of the Conservative Party and twice Prime Minister of Canada. Dr. Theodore Schultz. Consul-General of Denmark in Montreal. ' Indimffs Old Boy of Srlmul. 1101

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SICLWYN HOVSI-I SCHOOL MAGAZINE liX'I'RAF'I'S FROM ASSEMBLY SPI-IECNHES We have pleasure in quoting some excerpts from several notable addresses delivered before the school since the last issue of the school magazine went to press. your anaha By Romuald Bourque, Mayor of the t'ity of Outremont I want to talk to you about something that is very important to every boy in this room-not about your studies, your detentions. or your athletics, but about the job that is waiting for you to do when you leave Selwyn House and enter the grown-up world. That day may seem very far off to you now-but it is really very close. And a great many of us are waiting very impatiently for the day when you will join us in carrying on the task of building a great nation here in Canada. Among you there are men of tomorrow who will do all the hundreds of jobs that fanadians have to do. Some of you will be writers. or bank clerks or lawyers, or doctors. Some of you will travel far from Montreal into the new fanada up north. Some of you will go west to the oil fields of Alberta and the mountain mines of British Volumbia. Some of you will be businessmen and some ol you will perhaps be farmers or fruit growers. XYhatever you do, you will be helping create a better fanada, if you do your job while you are here at school. fanada today is just beginning to grow into one of the world's great nations. The future of fanada is more promising than that of any other land -and that future is yours. XYe, who have done our job before you, are turning that job over to you only partly done. We are confident that you will do even better at it than we did. I would like you to think just for a minute of the new Vanada that you are going to inherit. It is no longer a vast open country of untilled fields. It is one of the most important industrial countries in the world: it has the second highest standard of living in the world: it is the third largest trading country in the world. And in natural resources, which means those things like oil, and gold, and iron ore, it is the richest country in the world. That makes quite a nice package for you to inherit, doesn't it? And yet it is short of one thingfstrong, keen, ambitious men. And without those strong. keen. ambitious men, it won't be worth any more tomorrow than it was worth yesterday. Oh, yes, we have more men in Canada today than we had a few years ago- But sometimes we think our men have become soft-they like the easy life of the city better than the rough. tough life of the frontiers. The people who founded lianada were not like that. They went into the backwoods without any money -or any place to spend it if they had anyefwith a few primitive tools-without any scientihc aids or government help-and they cleared the forest, tilled the land and built the towns and cities which we have in Canada today. There was nothing soft about them. Champlain and Maisonneuve and LaYerandrye were no softies. They made their way in a strange land where they were surrounded by enemies. People like Fraser and Mackenzie and David Thomson-they were no softies, either. when they went into the far west and crossed the mountains on foot. or shot down raging mountain rivers in canoes or on rafts. That was adventure. It was exciting. But it was tough. too. .-Xnd we need some of that toughness today. Perhaps some of you listened to a talk on the radio just a few days ago. The speaker was talking about the Niagara Falls llll