Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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HDEBF-T TING Debating The Eighteenth Selwyn Oratorical Society met for its first meeting on Sep- tember 2lst 1964 when the following appointments were made: President, Bruce Gill, Vice-President, J. Allison, Secretary, Robert Tennant. A membership was given to those wishing it and to date there are fourteen members. However, no more than four members per House have presently been admitted. House Debating FIRST ROUND: Resolved that - religion has a place in Modern Society. Affirmative - Wanstall House - Robert Tennant and Tom Stewart. Negative - Speirs House - Jody Allison and Dan Roden. Resolved that- A Welfare State fosters apathy. Affirmative - Macaulay House - Gary Gentles and Andrew Schindler. Negative - Lucas House - Bruce Gill and Bruce Barker. Mr. E. O. Phillips iuclged Speirs and Lucas to be the winners. SECOND ROUND: Resolved that - Latin should be abolished in High Schools. Affirmative - Macaulay House - Preston Gurd and Robin Pitblado. Negative - Wanstall House - DeWolf Shaw and Tom Stewart. Resolved that - Capital Punishment should be abolished. Affirmative - Lucas House - Bruce Barker and Bruce Gill. Negative - Speirs House - Jody Allison and Henry Joseph. Again Mr. E. O. Phillips judged Macaulay and Lucas to be the winners. However, the Lucas vs. Speirs was a very close battle. THIRD ROUND: Resolved that - Sweepstakes should be legalized in Canada. Affirmative - Wanstall House - Robert Tennant and DeWolf Shaw. Negative - Lucas House - Bruce Barker and Bruce Gill. Resolved that - The United States should remain in South Viet Nam. Affirmative - Macaulay House - Preston Gurd and Robin Pitblado. Negative - Speirs House - Dan Roden and Henry Joseph. Mr. Moodey iudged Lucas and Speirs to be the winners. This ended the formal round of House Debating. Lucas received the Le Moine Trophy for House Debating, having scored three wins and no defeats.

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SENIOR CHOIR The Choir The prizewinners last June were as follows: Senior Prize ---- Gregory Weil Form 2 Prize - - David Craig Form l Prize - - Campbell Hendery Form A Prize - - Michael Parker Form B Prize ---' Jay Rankin All these boys are to be heartily congratulated, as are those who gave them very keen competition. This year the singing of 2A and 2B and the keen interest displayed have been quite outstanding. An encouraging feature too has been the work of 'IA and TB. These boys show every promise of being as effective next year as their predecessors. ln the Junior School, the Form A's, in spite of frequent and frustrating interruptions in their Friday afternoon schedule, have made excellent progress, and with regular lessons would have achieved still more. The B's, who started with a maiority of devils , now boast far more in the angel class. lt should be explained that these categories apply only to vocal ability and not to behav- iour! Competition for places in the Senior and Junior Choirs to sing at the Prize- giving will be very keen, and a number of new songs will be introduced on this occasion. Finally, a word of appreciation is due those boys in Forms 5 and 4, who no longer have singing periods, but who have formed a vital part of the Assem- bly Choir which leads the singing of the hymns every morning. F.G.P.

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I8 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Public Speaking On the morning of March lst. the finalists of the public speakers spoke in front of the school during a special assembly. Mr. Claude Richardson judged the finalists with, what he called, considerable difficulty. He was impressed by all the speakers. He judged Jody Allison the winner, with Bruce Gill and Barry Lazar very close behind. Consequently, with such close competition Mr. Richard- son decided to also donate a book to Bruce Gill and Barry Lazar at the Academic Prizegiving. The finalists and their topics were: ROBERT TENNANT - - 'Tomorrow's Giant' DAN RODEN ---- 'The Yellow Peril' DOUG COUSINS - - 'The United Nations' BARRY LAZAR - - 'The Negro in America' DE WOLFE SHAW - - 'Adolf Hitler' BRUCE GILL - - v 'Television' JODY ALLISON - - - 'An Evaluation to date of the twenty-sixth parliament' Sidney Segalowitz was made chairman of the meeting and Tom Stewart time-keeper. R.T. A SPEECH TO Tl-IE ROTARY CLUB by J. ALLISON Canada should make an Economic Union with the U.S. To most people the Tariff Wall along the 49th parallel is the sole protector of Canadian economic independence. But is it really the protector? As a matter of fact are we economically independent? Today, 6090 of our economy is con- trolled by U.S. investors. By T980 this figure is predicted to increase to 80 or 9000. Canadians may find it comforting to fool themselves and say even in the face of this evidence that Canada has economic autonomy - but the truth is that it has economic autonomy only in name. Unquestionably the Tariff Wall, since it reduced foreign competition, served a useful purpose by protecting young blossoming Canadian industries. lt is also true that the demands exercised by the small consumer market in Canada were sufficient to maintain the economy when it was ripening. But now our economy has matured, and small domestic markets impede its growth generally, and the growth of industrial giants which can compete successfully on the world market. Clearly our economy must look to bigger markets to expend, and the tariff is but a hindrance to this expansion. By restricting and limiting, this once useful tariff barrier has brought our economy to a relative standstill. This stagnancy is evident when we consider that the G.N.P. has hardly increased per capita of population since l956, that unemployment has increased, that national confid- ence has weakened and that hope for a prosperous economic future is shaky and uncertain. After nine years of having a 'lf'l0th population of the U.S. and only l l5th of its G.N.P. it is about time that our economy realized its full potential - and that, gentlemen, lies beyond the confines of our border - in the wealthy consumer market of T90 million Americans. On the other hand by res- tricting the economy to a market in Canada under the pretext that we are maintaining its identity and independence, we deny it the opportunity to pro- gress, to compete with American industries and to reap the rewards of a market which is ten times larger than its own.