Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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:-

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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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20 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE P R O G R A NI IVI E O CANADA INVOCATION PRAYER CHAlRMAN'S REMARKS HEADMASTER'S REPORT Songs by the Junior Choir: O no John! Somerset Folk Song. Arr. Cecil Sharp A la claire fontcine French-Canadian Folk Song. Arr. O'Hara The traction engine Stanley Marchant ADDRESS BY Gordon A. Copping, M.D., M.R.C.P.ILJ.,F.R.C.P.ICJ. Songs by the Senior Choir: Greensleeves , Tune tempo Henry VIII. Arr. Gerrard Williams The Ash Grove Welsh tune. Arr. Gordon Phillips Wanderthirst Music by Arthur Baynon PRESENTATION OF AWARDS P R I Z E L I S T Form D Ist Hugh Mappin 2nd Christopher Stewart-Patterson Form C Ist Jay Rankin 2nd Geoffrey Hole Form Bi Ist David Clarke 2nd John Wooler Form B2 Ist David Knight 2nd Christopher Purvis Form AI Ist Stewart Beck 2nd Campbell Hendery Form A2 'Ist Michael Isaacs 2nd Michael Pollak Form IA Ist William Mcllvaine 2nd Duncan Campbell Form 'IB 'Ist Andrew Phillips 2nd Brian Witkov SPECIAL PRIZES Distinction in Junior French Cpresented by Mrs. G. Miller Hydel George Stinnes Distinction in Junior Choir Andrew Culver Magazine Contest Award Alan Victor Distinction in Form I Choir David Craig Prize for Application and Personality IDonated by Montreal City and District Savings Bankj Andrew Culver Medal for Outstanding Achievement in House Competition Ipresented by Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Kairisl David Clarke The Lieutenant'Governor's Bronze Medal Qfor Academic Distinction in the Junior Schooll Michael Isaacs