Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Sl-ILXYYX HOl'SI-I SCHOOL MAGAZINE work in Selwyn House. During Mr. Phillips' absence in 19-15-46 he took charge of the school sports programme. His special forte in teaching was the social studies, and his wide knowledge of history and geography was utilized to the profit of all when he took over that important department of the school last year. lYe shall miss his erudition and experience and his fine influence upon all the boys whom he instructed either in classroom, scout or cub meeting, or on the playing field. He leaves us to start a private boarding-school of his own, and we would wish him every success and happiness in his new venture. THE CHOIR .Xt the Christmas I-Intertainment the following boys sang in the Senior School Choir:- Form YI. Carlin, Darling. Form Y. Beattie, Choquelle, Duffield, Seely, Short. Form IY. Bain, Clarke, Hyde l. lYinton. Form III. Chaffey, Maxwell, Nesbitt, Pedoe, Peters 1, Quinlan, Yintcent. Form II. Bogert, Cumyn 2, Gillespie 1, Hallett, Hambly, Hart, Levinson, Louson, McLean, McNeill 1, Moseley, Reilley, Robertson. Form I. Barry, Day, Colby, Gordon, Gray, LeMoine Z, McCrea, McIntosh, McRobie, Parker, Phillips 1, Rutley, Stewart, lYindsor. Zeller. Rankin, Meakins, McNeill 2, and Aikman 1 have since become members of the Choir. Soloists have been Carlin, Darling, Seely, Duffield, Hamhly and Moseley. The junior Choir consisted of:- Form Al. Belton, Brainerd 2, Eakin, Howard, Hyde 2, Prentice, Stanger, lYakefield. Form AZ. Baillie, Coristine 1, Doyle, Ferrier, Hope, Saunderson, Yates. Form B. Baxter, Fieldhouse, Gillespie 2, Henwood 2, Iiairis 1, Mills, Peters 2, Stikeman, Stollmeyer. The Senior Choir was once again invited to sing at the Christmas Party given by the MA..-X..'X. and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Earlier in the term the Choir had sung at the Remembrance Day Service at the school which was broadcast in the Yoice of Youth Series over Station CFCF. The singing made such a favourable impression on that occasion that we were asked to sing again for the Memorial Service to the late King George YI in February. As the Senior Choir has now reached such large proportions, it was divided into two parts for the Easter I-Intertainment-an Intermediate Choir comprising boys in Forms I and II. and a Senior Choir of boys from Form III up. F.G.P. l 20l

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE THE LIBRARY The activities in the Library opened this year with an exhibition of coins and currency made interesting by the following contributors:-Peter Hyde, Peter Dufheld, john and Richard Ldd, lYinthrop Brainerd, Peter Terroux, Stewart Bain, Ross I-Ieward. Timothy Yates, Peter Cumyn, Christopher Coristine, Michael Stanger, and Donald Steven. Peter Hyde's collection was the largest contributed, amongst those examples of special interest were a japanese bill for 10 sen, and Arab coin of 1916 for 5 milliemes, a Vvest African French franc, 1948. a Czechoslovakian half crown, 1921, a coin from Egypt, and others from Cuba, Brazil, and Greece. In john Udd's collection were somewhat rare coins from the Banks of Upper and Lower Canada. 1837-1854. Richard Udd exhibited a German million mark bill, and a scarce L'.S.A. 25c. piece with a 'Liberty' standing, in his group of coins. Among many unusual specimens in VX'inthrop Brainerd's exhibit were a Chinese 'Yen' and a Netherlands 'Guilder', also an Indian rupee. 1913. Stewart Bain's collection showed a Moroccan 5 franc bill which caused great interest. Ross Heward exhibited a German coin of the Nazi Regime, a 10 pfennig of 1941, showing the deterioration in the same coin of 1930. Peter Terroux showed a Russian 5 'koneek' which was unique in the exhibi- tion. Peter Nobbs, with other interesting coins, lent one of the Napoleon III period, and a Lower Canada penny of 1937. Donald Steven lent a varied collection of French bills and coins all of which were of interest, specially the gilt 20 fr. piece. Charles ChaH'ey's group of coins contained examples from England, Newfoundland, Czechoslovakia, VK'est Africa and Portugal, a very comprehen- sive arrangement. T. R. Carsley lent five bills of the Netherlands. all of interest. Peter Davidson lent some unusual bills from the Argentine. one for 'Un mil reis'. In the latter part of October the attention of the members of the Library was given to aviation. DuHield's model of a Skyl-might jet plane and a B47 Strato-jet were much admired, as was Toby Rankin's model of an 8-1 Thunder- jet. Richard Stewart exhibited several models of planes which he had made himself. and which were very successful. Ian Belton made one also. Davidson lent a book on Transport Aircraft from which much was learnt of the wonderful present day air-carrying power. DuHield's collection of plane illustrations has taught usagreat deal about Jets. An exhibit of specimens of ore was shown by Donald Doyle. and XYinthrop and Dwight Brainerd. during October. and was found very interesting. In November an exhibition of 'Weapons' took place. both ancient and modern examples were shown. The various contributors to this exhibit brought some remarkable trophies. such as two beautifully engraved Turkish steel knives with bone handles: one a scimitar, the other a bayonet. on loan by Peter Dufiield. Another dread weapon was a Nazi dagger. taken in a tight with a 'Storm' Trooper of the Hitler bodyguard, and shown by Harry Bloomfield. Colin Dobell exhib- ited a Gurka knife, with its sheath and its little sharpener. also in a sheath. These were both from India. Dobell also exhibited a steel battle-axe said to have been made in India -100 years ago. Michael Stanger lent a finely engraved Chinese dagger. and an opium pipe. l22l