Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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14 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Board and Staff We would like to express the gratitude of all at Selwyn House for the wonderful service to the school of the members of the Board who retired during the past year - Mr. Peter M. Laing, Mr. A. V. Lennox Mills and Mr. Robert W. Wakefield. Mr. Laing has been on the Board since 1955 and his wise counsel, particularly in all matters concerned with the Law, has been invaluable to us over the years. Mr. Mills joined the Board in 1954 and almost from the beginning has acted as Honorary Secretary, and we have been most grateful to him for all the extra time which this position entailed, and for his unremitting efforts on our behalf. Mr. Wakefield has been a member since 1956 and for a number of years acted as Honorary Treasurer, in which capacity he rendered very vital service, especially during the years of expansion prior to our coming to Westmount. We are most sorry to lose these distinguished members, but pleased with the thought that their enthusiasm and experience are always available to us in the years ahead. We are very pleased to welcome to the Board Mr. Holbrook R. Davies, Mr. David Y. Hodgson and Mr. William M. Molson, all of whom bring keenness and competence to the direction of all school policies. New members of the staff last September were Colonel E. G. Brine, formerly Headmaster of the Prep School at Bishop's College School, Mrs. Winnifred M. Haug- land, who ioined our Junior School department after years of teaching in the City of Westmount, and Mr. A. A. Vintcent, an Old Boy of Selwyn House, who taught for several years at Sedbergh School, Montebello. We were grateful to the following substitute teachers in the course of the past session - Mr. Alan Aitken, who helped out during the illness of Mr. Moodey, Mr. Timothy Rutley, just home from Japan, who took over Mr. Hill's duties during his sickness, and Mr. J. B. Speirs, who helped out when Mr. Phillips was ill. We will be very sorry to lose three members of the staff in June. Mrs. Judith Clark and Miss Sheila Tedd came to Selwyn House in September 1961 as we opened our doors in Westmount, and have contributed very greatly to the academic life and happy family spirit of Selwyn House. We shall be very sorry indeed to see them go. We would like to pass on our heartiest congratulations to Miss Tedd on her forthcoming marriage, with every good wish for a long life of the utmost happiness. Mr. Tim Blaiklock, who came back to his old school to teach in January 1961, has decided to take a position at St. Paul's School in England and all of us will miss his competent handling of academic matters and his friendly spirit and willingness to help very greatly indeed. We are very hopeful that after his spell in England he will consider returning to Selwyn House. We are always happy to hear from former members of the staff. ln spite of a very bad winter in England, Miss Afra Snead, Mrs. Dorothy Tester and Mr. Howis have kept well and send their best wishes to all their former students and colleagues. Miss Bruce, Madame Gyger, Mrs. Farquhar, Miss Locke and Mr. Davies all drop in from time to time to see us. Our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Fred Tees and Miss Eunice Templeton on their marriage which took place on 23rd March 1963. The best wishes of Selwyn House School is extended to them.

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1- .4 D 4 O I ul Miss URNE BO Mrs. J. G. AN VICTOR AL A ' a x -.QR T ER Mr, W. VERR T. VOWINCKER THE HEADMASTER

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1962-1963 15 . .fs -fl .-Q. ,Qi-QV N2g3:,.g51imid'1 41- 3, As., Mrs. B. K. T. Howis Her many friends and admirers learned recently with great regret that Mrs. Howis had decided because of poor health to relinquish her responsible position in charge of the School Office. Although her close association with Selwyn House goes back to the mid-thirties when her husband ioined the teaching Staff, and although on numerous occasions she was invited to do supply teaching in the Junior School, it was in the summer of 1945 that she was asked to start the onerous task of building up a school office when Selwyn House became a chartered non-profit-making independent school. As the school grew steadily in numbers and activities, her responsibilities increased, and with the transfer to Westmount her duties became still more arduous and exacting. But the wonder of her service to Selwyn House has been not only the high quality of professional competence that has marked her outstanding contribution, but also the warmth of her friendship, the loyalty of her devotion to all that Selwyn House stands for, and her readiness at all times to give spontaneous assistance in innumerable ways both to countless indi- viduals and to group projects, whose success owes her a debt of gratitude it would indeed be impossible to repay. As she goes from our midst to undertake responsibilities of a less demanding nature, she leaves behind a rich and vital contribution to the school which she has loved and served so well. She goes with the sincere thanks of Governors, Staff and Students - past and present - and their best wishes for the future.