Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR T957-1958 29 FORM I Three weeks from tomorrow, a rocket ship leaves, With a crew-full of space bucconeer. Each man has a duty to help sail the ship, As it hurtles through space by light years. The complements young, but it seems well informed About matters celestial, too, And though small in stature, each member has seen, By T,V., clear advice what to do. Both Sedgewick and Grosvenor had thought of it first: To escape so much Tuesday night prep , And Sanford's concluded the road to the Town Makes Mars only appear iust a step. The technical details were left to Diez lWho takes pens apart by the scorel, While Vodstrcil, Brunton and Scott used their Man- Ual Training to make the craft soar. They made Michael Boulton their expert on food, And brought Anguss fine Chinese cook. McMaster and Leiter they put hard to work Mixing paint for the Jupiter look . Whenever they land lat wherever they dol, They've put Cobbett in charge of a plan. So Doheny, Dench and John Esdaile can try A sports tournament with a space man. As Riley speaks English and Peper's from France, Other spacemen they'll greet with words wise. Caird Il will swop Hamsters and Laing will trade stamps, While MacNaughton distributes bow ties. To write all the journals, they've hired Stephen Price, And a Hspacementu store Eaton has planned, While Pete Fialkowskis piano will play With a Rocket-and-Rollet dance band. But left on the earth, there are two who must watch, While the rocket shots on to'rds a star. Ones Shemilt, who moved down to Knowlton this Spring, While the other ones known as T.R. FORM A The astonishing thing is that a year can pass so quickly, and that, in this short time, the boys who were such chubby infants in September should blossom into long-legged, robust school-boys: leaders of the Junior School, and preparing to go forward into the strenuous life of the Senior department after June. An interesting problem in Arithmetic would be to know the tons of food consumed per year by, let us say, Bourne, Case, McLeod i and Feifer, then find the fraction turned into flesh and bone, the fraction producing their incredible energy, and the remaining traction allotted to, shall we say, the filling of exercise books. The resulting equation would be some- thing like this: physical growth plus energy plus exercise books equals about five times

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SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE FORM IIB Lulled by quiet hum of Latin, By small children throwing spit balls, Seeing not the wide eyes creeping To the desks of other pupils, There the Latin master, sits he, Thinking of his eager students, Of their strength, and of their weakness, Tennant working hard at Latin But reploying Monday's hockey, Zinman pausing in his labour Thinks how he can stop a break-a-way. There the pensive master wonders From what lands these people travel. Gord McNeil rides in each morning O'er the bridge, 'bove pike and dare, And Malone treks through the country From Terrebonne, through miles of forest Douse arrives from distant places Near the lake by garbage filled. How behave these fourteen pupils? Let us watch them in their labours. Webster sat before the master, Dreamed up questions sage and clever. Stikeman too sat in his corner Giving answers, always rightly. Wiser grew young Lawrence Gainsbury, He grew brighter every fortnight. Peter Stein supplied much humour To his class, was always pleasant. And Ross Brydon from the centre Smiled benignly 'cross the classroom. Right before the master's glasses Sat John Galt, at work, lndustrious. Taylor sat and passed his moments Doomed to be his last at Selwyn. Hibbert sometimes rose to greatness, Put to shame the leading students. Hoffman languished in his corner Doing his work with ease and quickness. Thus the master muses gladly, Till at length a dripping spit ball Lands against his weary forehead Rouses him from his quiet torpor, Rouses him to heights of fury, Doubles homework for the evening. But the boys ignore the summons, For it is the end of term.

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30 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE the tonnage of food consumed. Alice in Wonderland is one of the books digested this year, and suggests a kind of logical nonsense. However, the growth of a nine-year old boy in one short year, is quite illogical, and is a phenomenon which can only be contemplated with o feeling of wonder and awe. This year, everything is important, everything is serious, and all activities are explored with unabated fervour. By now, games can be played with a certain proficiency, and the boys of Form A expect to be the stars of the Junior teams. Birks iii, Dobell i, Coristine ii, Case, Cooke, McMartin ii, Vickers i and Porteous shine in hockey and football. ln the gym squad we are represented by MacDermot, and are proud of his magnificent work on the team. Cubs this yeor are as keen as ever, the sixes vying with each other to gain badges, and marks for their various Houses. Sixers this yeor are Birks iii, Bourne, Case, Dobell i, McConnell and Morgan. Their able seconders are Cooke, MacPhail, Pitt i, Porteous, Robson and Vickers i. Other Cubs are Chenoweth i, Feifer, LeNormand, McLeod i, McMartin ii, Monteith i and Thom ii. Some of these same boys are .lunior House Captains and we wonder how Wanstall House would fare without Dobell i, Speirs House without Coristine ii, Macaulay without McMartin ii, or Lucas without Birks iii. Their keenness makes the competition between the Houses all the sharper but no less friendly. For some boys the snowy season brings the joy of skiing lessons. Cooke, MacPhail, Pitt i, Porteous, Robson and Thom ii improved their techniques under the skillful tutoring of M. Kirschgessner. Then there is the craftsmanship acquired by Case, Chenoweth i, Cooke, Coristine ii, Dobell i, Feifer, Harwood, Hutchinson, LeNormand, MacDermot, Mcl.eod i, McMartin ii, Morgan, Pitt i, Porteous, Smith and Vickers i. Down in the depths, in the wood-working room, those efficient-looking saws carve marvellous trophies without shaving off any small fingers, thanks to Mr. Rutley's vigilance. ln September we welcomed several new boys into the Form: Cooke, MacDermot, Harwood, Hutchinson, LeNormand and Smith. They have become well-integrated members of the group and have earned the friendship of us all. C.I.M. FORM Bl Last year's large Form C was, this year, divided into Forms Bl and Bll. Certain pupils from other schools, realizing the error of their ways, joined the two groups. Bl has been enriched by the addition of Hailstone, Maase, Peper ll, Stewart and Weil. Of this number Maase has, so far, proved the greatest menace to those holding the top positions in the Form, namely Joseph, Grosvenor II, Sise, Kingston etc. Into this lofty group has quietly crept Molson, while Weil has done a remarkable iob of learn'ng to read English in a few short months, after having previously read nothing but French. This Form would seem to represent a perfect cross-section of any school. Certain boys are clever and ambitions, and can almost always be depended on to do their best. At the other end of the scale are the ones who find it d'Hicult to put farth the effort, while there is the large middle section, who, being exceedingly human, have times of ambition and moments of sloth. The inevitable bouts of illness, accidents and operations have taken their toll, but all have lived to fight another day. From the athletic standpoint, although there appear to be no potential Bannisters or Landys among them, there have been good reports of some individual efforts.