Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Academic-Prizegiving Guest of Honour MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN M. ROCKINGHAM, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., E.D

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X SELNNWYN I1CHJSE X f SCHOOL MAGAZINE 31 FOR THE OOL YEAR 1958-59 YXUUS5 S 5 fa, Ljl O 11 :13 1958 1959

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Foreword It was a very great pleasure to be your academic guest of honour at the June prizegiving, and I enioyed very much Hadiusting my sights to the mixed age groups who were present that day. Of course, a soldier is supposed to be flexible in thought and action, so it should not have been an unusual situation for me. I believe that you too would find it beneficial to be flexible in thought and action whether you serve in the Armed Forces or not in the future. Many of our bigoted attitudes are caused by inflexibility and much time is lost in the precious few years of our lives because we refuse to meet changing conditions. International tensions increase because the human race is inclined to believe that their own countries' views are the only correct ones, and that people who have different points of view are auto- matically wrong. ln business, inflexibility leads to failure to keep up with changing times resulting in loss of business and prestige. In professional life inflexibility can spell ruin. lt is from schools such as yours that the leaders of the future come. You enioy special privileges in education, and, therefore, must accept special responsibilities. You have the destiny of our country in your hands and l urge you to tackle it with enthusiasm, energy and flexibility. And, do remember that you will get personal satisfaction from service to your country, other people or your community which will never be matched by satisfaction attained through material gains. J. M. ROCKINGHAM Maior-General