Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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jfnretnnth It is a real pleasure, and also a privilege, to be asked as High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to contribute the Foreword to this year's issue of Selwyn House School Magazine. I am a comparative newcomer to this country. I have been here rather less than three years but I have been fortunate enough to visit each of the Prov- inces. Indeed during 1955 I shall be visiting most for the second or third time. Everywhere I have travelled I have been deeply impressed by the great potential of this country and by the richness of the opportunity that awaits you. Canada is blessed by nature with vast natural resources and great diversity of country- side. You have important and valuable mineral deposits: you have the great granaries of the Prairies: and you have the water power to develop your industry. Great things have been done in recent years. yet the treasure house of the North has barely been glimpsed. But all these gifts of nature would be of small avail if men with character and ability were not there to develop them. I was deeply impressed by my visit to Selwyn House. I sensed a good atmosphere. I felt the difference between education and mere erudition had been clearly understood, and that the boys who go to Selwyn House should feel themselves fortunate indeed. I wish you all the best of luck. ARCHIBALD NYE. Earnsclilfe. Ottawa.

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etruspect anh Prospect lt is now ten years since the death of Mr. Georfrey XYanstall, the then Headmaster and owner of Selwyn House, and the formation of the Selwyn House Association as a non-profit educational organisation by a group of enthusiastic Old Boys and Parents of the School. The School has been most fortunate in its Board of Governors over the past decade. Vnder the outstanding leadership of the Hon. Mr. justice G. Miller Hyde, itsitirst Chairman, and his successors, Mr. A. R. Gillespie and Mr. Gordon MacDougall, the Boards policy throughout has been to maintain the line tradi- tions built up over the years by Captain Lucas, Mr. Macaulay and Mr. XYanstall. and to improve and expand the facilities of the School. ln this they have been loyally supported by Parents, other Old Boys and friends of Selwyn House. ln 1947 the gymnasium was added, and in 19-19 the 1Yanstall Memorial Library and the Science Laboratory, whilst numerous other improvements in class-rooms and locl-:er-rooms have added considerably to the value of the School and the etiiciency of its operation. And now, as we are about to enter the second decade, the Board have taken important steps to improve our facilities and end the inevitable construc- tion of a small building, by drafting plans for the construction of a combination dining-hall-anditorium, the provision of extra class-room space and of a manual training room, as well as of a Staff Room for the ladies and an apartment for the janitor. These projected additions and alterations to the School plant will help the Statf and students immeasurably in their work, and streamline operations in day by day administration of the School. The keenness and generosity of Parents, Old Boys and other friends of Selwyn House in supporting this important development. are eloquent testimony of their active interest in the continuing welfare ot the School. But the physical advantages of a school are only means to an end-the end of better education of our future citizens-and any school must stand or fall by the quality of its output. It has been a proud tradition of Selwyn House that its academic stanclards are high and its scholarship results outstanding. lt has been our constant care jealously to guaicl these standards dining the past decade, and some twenty-two major scholarships have been won by our senior boys since 1045. lt is true that we have lost several Staff members who rendered long and meritorious service to the School-Mr. G R. -lacltson, Assistant Headmaster. retired in 1040, Miss Afra Snead, Headmistress ot the junior School, retired in 1050, and Mr. B. K. T. Howis, Senior Master, retired in 1051+and no account of the past ten years would be complete without a tribute to their worlc. But our present Staff goes forward imbued with the same academic aspirations as were so notable a possession of the past. And now, as the Selwyn House Association begins its second decade of service, it has alongside of it the new-fledged Old Boys' Association, which will, we are sure. play an increasingly vital role in the best interests of the School. All in all. we can look back to the past with a deep sense of gratitude and forward to the future with a quiet confidence and assurance. l5l