Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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14 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Speakers As in former years, Selwyn House has been favoured by visits from a number of distinguished speakers. Among those who have thus honoured us since our last magazine went to print are the following:- Senator the Hon. A. Knotchbull-Hugessen, QC., Mr. Harry E. Griffiths, Sports Director, McGill University, and Mr. W. J. C. Stikeman , who spoke at the Academic Prizegiving, the Sports Prizegiving and the School Gymnastic Display respectively, Mr. James Lotz, McGill School of Geography, and Mr. B. Cosgrove, Bell Telephone Company, who showed slides and a film respectively, Members of the Board of Governors-Mr. H. Stirling Maxwell', who presided at an investiture of prefects, and Mr. J, Bartlett Morgan' who presented Junior School Skiing Awards, Rt. Rev. the Hon. P. W. Gibson, Bishop of Jamaica, Rt. Rev. Donald B. Marsh, Bishop of the Arctic, Rt. Rev. C. R. H. Wilkinson, Bishop of Amritsar, lndia, Rt. Rev. A. Henry O'Neil, Bishop of Fredericton, Rev. Anthony C. Capon, M.A., of the North American Scripture Union, and Rev. Canon Sydenham B. Lindsay, Church of the Advent, Westmount, who addressed special assemblies, Mr. Philip A. C. Ketchum, M.A., LL.D., Headmaster of Trinity College School, Port Hope, who addressed the boys after a luncheon visit, Lieutenant-Commandor Leonard Picard, R.C.N., formerly on the Staff, who told us something of his experiences with the navy in the near east, Mr. Adam Robson of Dollar Academy and Mr. James Greenwood of Glenal- mond College in Scotland fmembers of the Barbarian Rugby Teaml, who explained the game to the senior boys, and Mr. Thomas Glover, of the English Department of Lower Canada College, who adiudicated our Public Speaking Contest-finalists being Michael Berrill, Epaminondas Embiricos, Bill Hesler, Nicolas Kairis, Alec Miller and Gordon Peters, Mr. Vernon C. McAdom, Executive Director of Weredale House, who made an appeal on behalf of the Welfare Federation Campaign, and Mr. Charles Houston, who gave a career talk on the Social Services, Colonel G. Ross Robertson', commanding officer of the Victoria Rifles who gave the address at the Remembrance Day Service, .and Provincial Executive Commissioner C. J. Dendy, who spoke at the Annual Scout and Cub Assembly, Mr. Lucien Moise, of the Bell Telephone Company, who outlined recent developments in telephony, Eeleo and Renee Wiebenga, who gave a recital of Folk Songs and Dances, and Madame llonka Nevay Sterk, formerly professor at the Budapest Music Conservatory, who delighted the school with a piano recital, Mr. Jim Laker, fabulous M.C.C. cricketer, rated the greatest of modern spin-bowlers in professional cricket, who thrilled the boys with an account of his test match experiences, Mr. Brian Markland', who addressed the graduates at the closing luncheon of the year, and Christopher Hyde', Head Prefect of T956-57, who delivered the valedictory address last June. 'Indicates Old Boy of School.

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I6 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Remembrance Day 1957 Address, by Colonel Ross Robertson As on Old Boy of Selwyn House School and as Commanding Officer of my Regiment I am very honoured and privileged indeed to have been invited to attend this Remembrance Day Assembly and to have the opportunity of saying a few words to you and would like to express my thanks to your Headmaster for inviting me. The llth November- Remembrance Day - is the one day set apart each year when we pause and honour the memories of those many thousands who lost their lives in two Great World Wars and those lesser conflicts which have taken place since. We honour then' because when their services were needed they did not hesitate to answer the call to duty and we remember with humble gratitude the sacrifices they made for us. Our commemoration of Remembrance Day centres on a two minutes' silence. There are parades and bands and gun salutes but the very heart or remembrance is that brief silence. This silence will be observed in every sort of place-in the forests, on the sea, in humble cottage and in the central parts of the great cities. Due to differences in time it is like a succession of silences moving as a noiseless stream around the globe. We honour bravery no matter what prompts it. lf men make sacrifices in fire or other disasters our honouring them does not mean we approve of these calamities. Horrible as we hold war to be, it is a great test of manhood and we admire those who bravely meet the test. Our gallant dead need no words of praise. Nothing we can say will add to their fame and we can only stand in silent admiration. At the same time I think we should also give some thought to the future and our responsibilities in preserving the precious heritage which so many gallant men and women have fought and died to defend. We are fortunate in living in this wonderful country of Canada where we take freedom as a matter of course. You boys are fortunate in attending a school such as this and obtaining all the many advantages available here. Many thousands throughout the world are in no such happy position and no one can clearly foresee what the future holds in store for us. One thing is certain and that is that we must all be prepared in body, mind and spirit to meet whatever challenge may come our way and to meet it with a clear under- standing of the tremendous advantages and opportunities offered by our Canadian way of life. You as the students of to-day are the leaders of tomorrow. Tomorrow is not so far off and the responsibilities that await you cannot be avoided. In either a state of peace or war you must be prepared to play your parts as those gallant men did whom we remember to-day and particularly those who went from this school, In these uncertain times with new types of armaments being developed and the existing animosities between nations we are at times apt to grow discouraged, but in our more serious moments we are sure that at last war must be forever abolished and peace prevail. The men we remember to-day died to end war and we must all resolve to complete their sacrifice by doing all we can to preserve and maintain the happiness and freedom which we enjoy today. So, as we pause to remember on this llth day of November, we must also look to the future with a spirit of courage and resolution. This can be the final note of our silence fulfilling the poet's words: Over the broken dead Woe to the nations of men Over the trenches and wire Who in their heat or desire Bugles of God rang out- Break that stern order of God - 'Cease Fire' 'Cease Fire'