Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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16 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE GROUP THREE That corporal punishment should be abolished at Selwyn House. Affirmatice - Lucas House N Bruce Barker, Jack Oliver Negative - Speirs House - Jody Allison, Dan Roden That childhood is the happiest time of our life. Affirmative - Macaulay House - James Benson, Alan Byrne Negative - Wanstall House - De Wolf Shaw, Tom Stewart Lucas and Macaulay were the winners. We should like to thank Mr. Becker and Mr. Moodey for judging and for their helpful criticisms and commendations. We would especially thank Mr. Hill under whose direction and coaching the Society has functioned. Junior Debating Club The start of this school year marked the beginning of the first Junior Debat- ing Club in Selwyn House. lt was organized by Mr. Becker for Forms 3 and 4 and it followed on the lines of the Senior Debating Club. We met every Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Art Room and we usually had two debates per meeting. They were usually two man teams with 5 minutes for the first speaker and 3 minutes for the other. As the year progressed our debates became more formal and more interesting with the affirmative usually holding the upper edge in points. Also the students took over the roles of chairman and time-keeper. The boys who attended regularly were: Michael OHearn, Brian Witkov Tony Warren John Mappin Andrew Phillips Nicholas Bala David Craig Duncan McCallum and Stuart Patch Duncan Campbell, as president. The boys of the Debating Club heartily thank Mr. Becker for the time he spent and the help he gave to us and we hope next year to have another Junior Debating Club. D C Public Speaking The finals of the annual Public Speaking contest were held on March 'l. There were six speakers each of whom was to give a five minute speech on the topic of his choice. De Wolf Shaw chaired the meeting. The speakers and their topics were: BARRY LAZAR - DANNY RODEN - BRUCE BARKER - ROBERT TENNANT JODY ALLISON - PETER HADEKEL - Private Schools versus the Parent Report' 'The State of Democracy Today' Substitutes for Violence Fashion' 'The Leadership of Our Two Major Political Parties' ls Man Really Civilized?

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Hasan nits Debating Officers President : Jody Allison Vice-President : Robert Tennant Secretary : Bruce Barker Assistant Secretary: Henry Joseph Time-keeper : De Wolf Shaw Treasurer : Tom Stewart Despite a slow start because of heavy football commitments in the fall, the debating programme was completed. In a series of often closely contested de' bates, and only after an additional encounter caused by a tie with Lucas, Speirs House carried of? the LeMoine Trophy. The individual groups of the house competition were as follows: GROUP ONE That the trade unions of today are detrimental to our society. Affirmative -Lucas House - Bruce Barker, Jack Oliver Negative - Macaulay House - James Benson, Alan Byrne That Communists should be reiected from Canada. Affirmative - Speirs House - Jody Allison, Henry Joseph Negative - Wanstall House - Robert Tennant, Tom Stewart Lucas and Speirs were the winners. GROUP TWO That capital punishment should be abolished. Affirmative -Lucas House - Jack Oliver, Martin Tratt Negative - Wanstall House - Robert Tennant, De Wolf Shaw That sex education should be taught in school. Affirmative - Macaulay House - Alan Byrne, James Benson Negative - Speirs House - Henry Joseph, Dan Roden Speirs and Wanstall were the winners.

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1965-1966 I7 Mr. J. K. Hugessen kindly consented to judge the competition, and after hearing all the speeches, complimented the speakers on the fine quality of their material and planning. He offered some well received suggestions and an- nounced the winner, although he emphasized that the marks were very close. He also said he could only tell us who he thought were the three best. Jody Allison was declared the winner followed closely by Robert Tennant in second place and Bruce Barker in third. T.W.S. Hobbies Figure Skating One of the most interesting and impressive winter sports is figure skating. Although relatively few people undertake the sport especially as skiing domin- ates most winter activities in Canada, here in Montreal, there are four or five very active figure skating clubs in operation during the winter months. In the summer too, skating is practised in many areas. Summer figure skating schools are very popular and they give the young skaters a chance to become more advanced in the summer. There are two main divisions in figure skating: figures and free skating. Free skating is probably the most well known facet of the sport. This free skating is made up of complicated manoeuvres and high jumps. Normally champions can accomplish jumps such as the double axle or even the triple lutz which require the skater to take off on one foot, make two and one-half and three revolutions in the air respectively and then land on one foot backwards. All free skating is done to music which adds to both the beauty and the difficulty in figure skating. In competition a skater must show that he can both jump well and he must also have a change in speed in his music. The slow and graceful part of a skater's programme, which is always five minutes long, may be just as difficult as the high jumps and fast spins. Thus skaters who enter competition are judged on figures which count for 6090 of the total and also their free skating performance which is worth only AOQQ. The scoring by judges in figure competition is extremely complicated, it is based on the least amount of ordinals or penalty points that a skater can get. ln free skating competitions there are usually five judges who will give a mark out of 6. A six is extremely rare and a performance of such high marks would be rated as perfection. Five or more is very good, 4.0 or more is good, 3.0 or more is fair, 2.0 plus is poor and l.O or more is disgraceful. However, before you go into National or International competition, you must have passed the Canadian Figure Skating Association CC.F.S.A.J figure tests. All figures in figure skating are based on the figure eight. In all there are over sixty different figures some of which are nearly impossible to execute well. All these sixty or so figures make up a series of nine tests that a figure skater may take. The Preliminary test is the first test that a figure skater will attempt. The test itself is relatively simple, and in marked accordingly. However, the next eight tests are all a struggle and these tests are marked in a more difficult manner. Five or six judges will be standing around a skater as he executes his various figures. The tests are labelled as follows: the first test is called the bronze test and a bronze medal is awarded upon passing. The next three tests are simply the se- cond, third and fourth tests. A silver and gold medal are awarded when the skater has passed the fifth and eighth tests. When a judge marks, again his score is out of 6.0. In the first test the pass mark is 3.2, a skater must be passed in each