Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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I8 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE sheep is really a mock Nativity, a promise of what is to come, and the obvious anachronism of the entire play only serves to enhance the genuine piety of the adoration. The play is presented in a contemporary metrical translation by SYLVAN BARNET, MORTON BERMAN and WILLIAM BERTO, and permission to use this translation has been given by Mr. Morton Berman, Chairman of the English Department of Boston University. CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Narrator GARRY GENTLES First Shepherd CCollJ JODY ALLISON Second Shepherd fGlb, PETER SCRIVENER Third Shepherd CDawJ BRUCE BARKER Mak, a sheep-stealer SIDNEY SEGALOWITZ Gill, his wife ROBERT TENNANT Angel STUART CONNOLLY Mary, Queen of Heaven JAMES JOHNSTON The action takes place on a typically English heath, and in a poor cottage, quite a long time ago. The curtain will close during the action, to show the passing of time. F.... -,, ,, . vs.- 'H ' t ,MN 1, X .ff-f -' V .1 N . '. i '-if Vv':'Y, - ' , ,V 1, Af 5 I lx K RX -, sm, ' XM L Al V V' In x , E14 ,, QUO VADIS?

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1963-1964 'I7 LE PROFESSEUR EST EN RETARD Saynete par W. PERCIVAL Personnages Jean MICHAEL HOFFMANN Henri TIMOTHY AINLEY Marcel PIERRE VIGER Louis JAMES BENSON Georges . DEREK MORTON Denis JOHN CARSLEY Pierre CHARLES GURD Jacques PHILIP MILLER Robert JOHN LOVELL Le Monsieur PHILLIPPE DORLAND Le Professeur , PETER MAASE La scene est une salle de classe FORNI ll CHOIR Carol of the Drum Czech Carol, arr. Davis Drummer: Ian Dobell If ye would hear the angels sing Dutch Soloists v. I Grahame Hodgson v. 2 Freddie Cowans v. 3 David Craig v. 4 Michael Warwick Come, all you worthy gentlemen . Traditional, arr. Casner INTERMISSION FORM III CHOIR The Door of Heaven opens . . Tyrolean Christmas Song This endris night , , Traditional, XV Century Soloists v. I Stephen Leopold v. 2 Gregory Weil v. 3 Jeremy Clark v. 4 Tony Schroeter v. 5 Robert Seely v. 6 Billy Boggs v. 7 Barrie Wexler v. 8 Brandon Ayre v. 9 David Fuller v. 10 Sven Hurum On this day earth shall ring . . . ,.,. . .. ,,.. .... . . . Stewart THE SECOND SHEPHERDS' PLAY The Second Shepherds' Play from the Wakefield mystery cycle dates from about 1450: the author is unknown. The play is a curious combination of simlpe piety and robust humour and represents the attitude of a time when humour and religion were not necessarily opposed. The play begins in winter, traditionally a time of barrenness and death, and proceeds to a promise of hope and fruition rep- resented by the bird and the bunch of cherries. The horseplay about the stolen

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.ag-'sz 'Q ACADEMIC PRIZE GIVING Annual Academic Prizegiving, June 1963. The annual academic prizegiving was held on the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, Tlth June in the school gymnasium. The guest of honour at the Junior School prizegiving was Doctor Gordon Copping, who gave an address of great interest to the audience both young and old. Whetting the appetite of his young listeners by hinting that schools could be abolished, Doctor Capping then showed how lack of education would result in there being no people of knowledge enough to produce the very things that make life pleasant. ln the evening the school was honoured by the presence of The Honourable C. M. Drury, Minister of Defence Production, an old boy of Selwyn House, who distributed the prizes and gave an interesting address drawing the attention of his audience to the social, economic and political changes taking place in the Province of Quebec. Again the school choir sang in the afternoon and evening maintaining the high standard which has come to be expected of them. The following were the afternoon and evening programmes:-