Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE VALETE- 1953 Baillie, David Bain, Stewart Carsley, Peter Christensen, Allen Church, Xylllllllll Clarke, john Creery, Philip Cumyn, Peter Davidson, Peter Dawes, Peter Dobell, Colin Esdaile, Barry Gregory, Peter Hart, Charles Herron, Alex Heward, Ross Howard, Thomas Hyde, Peter S A L Y Bochler, lYilfried Buckell, john Burgen, Andrew Campbell, Andrew Cleghorn, john Cobbett, Kip de Rege, Carlo Diez, Robert Eaton, XYilliam Forbes, Duncan Graham, Ronald Hallett, Robert Hebert, Georges Hotlmann, Christopher Hunt, Giles Hunter, Andrew Johnstone, David linudsen, Trygve l 19 Joseph, joel Kyrtsis, Alexander LeMoine, Anthony Levinson, Michael Louson, john Lynes, Peter Meakins, jonathan Meighen, Michael Mejia, Carlos NlcHale, Bruce McLean, XYilson McNeill, Duncan Raginsky, Ronnie Rankin, Toby XYait, Anthony XYindsor, George lYinton, Stanley 3-54 La Fontaine, Gary Laing, Murdoch Lalonde. .-Xchille Leiter, Murray Mulholland, john McMaster, David Paquet, Stephan Pearce, jeremy Rothschild, Leslie Roulson, Christoph Sanford, john Schaal, Peter Shemilt, Brian Smith, Rodney Vl'ebster, Philip Zimand, Rodney Zinman, Allan Cl'

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1053-105-1 ivtbnnl jaotes THE LIBRARY The coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Il coloured the year of 1953 in the Library. During the month of May the new stamps, commemorating her crowning, began to appear. Charles Chaffey exhibited hve of the Canadian design, and two of the English, all of the first day of issue. Colin Moseley and Robert Aikman showed stamped envelopes also of the lirst day of issue. The new coins of Coronation Year were displayed by Peter Hyde and Charles Chaliey, providing examples of England and Canada. Much interest was shown in Richard Udd's replica of the gold spoon used in the anointing of Her Majesty in the Coronation ceremony. These exhibits were followed by the formation of a Coronation procession on the long library table. The centre of attraction was the Royal golden coach, generously lent by Tim Peters. with the bodyguard, and the beef eaters from the Tower. Maxi Ferro and Peter Terroux provided the major part of the Royal Cavalcade, with their very smart regiments, but jonathan Meakins supplied the 'Mounties', and Peter Hyde some distinguished Cavalry regiments, while the 'Princess Pats' were contributed by Michael Dunn with an eliective-looking infantry band. Peter Terroux's and Maxi Ferro's forts took the place of Buck- ingham Palace which it was found diflicult to reproduce. A separate military exhibit was arranged by Peter Terroux, showing Her Majesty on horseback, taking the salute from a regiment of Scot's Greys, a Marine Corps, with other troops of artillery and cavalry. The glories of the Coronation closed our activ- ities in the library for the Summer Term 1953. September brings us the spoils of the sea, as most of us have opportunities of exploring beaches through the summer months, therefore our first interest in the Christmas Term is given to a Shell Exhibition. Michael Berrill brought a systematically arranged collection with explanatory notes from which we learned much. The key-hole sand collars, the spiral cockles, and the sword of the Sword Fish, with a drawing of the fish in action, claimed most attention. These specimens were from Maine. Maxi Ferro had been to Cape Cod and his very fine group of shells ranged from a tiny whelk to the long tail of a large Horseshoe Crab. Maxi had also a collection of the claws of crabs, very entertaining in their variety and size. Dwight Brainerd's beautiful collection from Florida called forth a great deal of admiration, the colouring and exquisite markings were unusually line. He had a large Horshoe Crab which. titted with Maxi's crab tail, might have made a good warning to bathers on the Atlantic coast. Todd La Fontaine con- tributed a group of shells from Cape Cod which were not only good specimens in colour and size, but represented almost every shell to be found on the Atlantic coast in that area. He had a large piece of red coral with them, unequalled in the exhibit. Charles Chaffey showed shells from the shores of the Mediterranean which were extremely interesting in comparison with those of the Atlantic coast, the former showing much more clearly defined and deeply incised lines than shells of the same type from the Atlantic. The difference was very marked. Other contributors to the shell exhibit were Richard Hunt, Nicholas liairis, Kerry Martin, Stephen Parker, Christopher and Timothy Coristine. David Stollmeyer brought a large conch shell from the South Pacific which having one end cut off made a hideous noise when blown. It is used by the natives as a horn, and was used by the natives of the library all too often. David's collection of shells from Trinidad was much admired. The months of October and November were notable for us in a display of autographs of authors and other famous people. Michael Berrill was fortunate in the distinction of having books written by his father and mother. Their sig- llll