Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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20 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE My hobby is rock collecting. I have over a hundred rocks - some quartz, granite, coal and many others. They are all nicely cleaned and polished. But I think none of them are valuable. A few have fossils, of shells and ferns. Others have the shell in them. Their colours range from white to black. Ned Porter, A-2 My hobby is collecting tropical fish. Some are live breeders. These are the most fun to have. The mothers eat their babies, so you have to move the babies into another tank before they get eaten. The fish I have are called Swordtails, Mollies and Guppies. All of them are live breeders. Another of my hobbies is col- lecting pennies. I have some from the U.S.A. and some from Canada. These are also interesting. I have an old one from I899. I also collect stamps. I have so many from all over the world and one is IOO years old. Jamie Buchanan My hobby is model building. I have a Corvette, a Jaguar XL, 5'A Seaplane, a Thunderbird, a Studebaker. I also have six American bombers and one Japan- ese and one German bomber. I have a cruiser and a Torpedo boat. I have the ship of Hendric Hudson which is the Half Moon. I have a helicopter. I like A.M.T. Models because they are really realistic. I like Lindbergh models too. Eric Foch, A2 My hobby is collecting stamps. I have about five thousand stamps. I have some China, Japan, Canada, England and lots of other places like Italy. I have some very valuable stamps because they come from places that don't exist. I have been given stamps from all my brothers and my father gives me some too. Then I walk up the street and get some from the Tomlinsons and a few from the Com- mons maid. My father and mother gave me a nice stamp album for my birth- day and a map so I could tell where the places are. Christmas always brings me special stamps because mummy and daddy have friends in lots of countries. This Christmas I made an interesting discovery when daddy asked me to throw some envelopes with stamps on them Cwhich I did not wantl into the fire I saw that the stamps were the last to burn. Patrick Kent ,-nfl I n l 'T 3 I A R 'E 3 ' lx- CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT - 1965 The Christmas entertainment took place Friday, December 3, with afternoon and evening performances, during both of which the Senior School presenta- tions and a Junior School CA-II play were held, the other Junior School perform- ances being given only in the afternoon.

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1965-1966 19 My Hobbies I have a few hobbies. One is wood-working, two collecting stamps and three making plastic models. Collecting stamps is my favourite hobby. I have almost 10,000 stamps from each of the three different countries that I collect. Another good hobby that I have is collecting Dinky and Gorgi toys. I have c beautiful shelf covered with wood to keep them on. Just four hobbies aren't much. I also do metal work with my mecano set. Whoever doesn't have at least one hobby must be bored stiff. Robert Miller, A2 My Hobby is collecting stamps, making airplanes and boats and camping, and also playing soldiers. My favourite hobby is collecting soldiers. I have lots of old-fashioned soldiers and when I play against my brother I greatly outnumber his soldiers. Another of my favourite hobbies is going camping. Nearly every year we go to Maine camping. We ride rented bicycles and we swim, fish, sail and go for walks along the countryside around us. Fishing is fun. Last summer we caught clogfish, which are baby sharks and we cut the females open and we found baby eggs and some of them had little baby fish already. We put the baby fish in the water and they swam away. One year we went to Maine and my brother and sister and I made a raft. Father got on it and when he was in not very deep wa- ter he fell off. When he came up again he still had the cigarette in his mouth. So my favourite hobbies are going camping and playing soldiers. Ian McKenzie, Form A2 My hobby is collecting stamps and I have 200 stamps. I have stamps from China and Canada and lots of other places. I did lots of them during the summer holidays. My dad is a collector also. He has lots of stamps also. My favourite stamps are from China because they have nice colors. My grandmother's aunt gave me about I5 stamps from Scotland. Taylor Gray, A2 There are many types of hobbies. My hobby is collecting old and new stamps. Another of my hobbies is collecting fancy rocks and old pieces of metal and little pieces of old wood. In my stamp collection I have a stamp that looked like a triangle. I have a 1932 stamp that is worth at least 51.00. Some of the writing was so small that I had to take my magnifying glass to look at it. When my father came home he gave me some stamps and I put the stamps in an enve- Iope that has the name of the country from which the stamp come from. Allan Schouela My hobby is the study of rocks. When I go to the country I take a walk and look for rocks on the road. Sometimes I am playing on the way home from the lake and I see some nicely shaped rocks. Once when I was climbing the cliff mountain behind our house, I saw a stairway design on the rock in the cliff. I have a piece of sand stone at home. Jimmy Stein, A2

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1965-1966 21 The acoustics improved considerably over the previous year as the choirs sang from the balcony, accompanied and directed by Mr. Phillips. The Form l choir sang the following carols: Still, still, still Sans Day Carol - German, arr. Wetzler - Cornish Soloists: Clifford Pearson, Ian Donald, Rory Byrne, Dean Bremner, Jay Rankin. Shepherds of Belen Soloist: Geoffrey Hale. Form B-l Choir: Noel Form B-2 Choir: Chant des Bergers Form 2 Choir: Gesu Bambino Song of the Crib - Spanish - Poesie par Theophile Gauthier - Air de Ste-Genevieve - Pietro Yon - German, arr. Vaughan Williams Soloists: Bruce Oliver, David Claxton, John Leopold, Reginald Groome, Kim The Yodlers' Carol Form A-2 Drama: Vaughan, David Nonnenman. - Austrian The Poetry Appreciation lesson was directed by Mrs. Marsh. The teacher The class - David Cronin - Boys of A-2. After that two carols, Shepherds in the Fields Abiding and Good King Wenceslas , were sung with much enthusiasm and talent by the audience. Form A-l gave a really professional performance of their interpretation of A Midsummer Night's Dream , also directed by Mrs. Marsh. The cast was as follows: Bottom Quince Flute Starveling Snug Snout Puck Chorus Form 3 Choir: O Holy Night The Holly and the lvy Soloists: Campbell Hender John Light and George Stinnes. Star of Bethlehem FORREST PALMER CAMPBELL GORDON JEREMY HENDERSON HENRY MORSE BILL TURNER MARK SALZBORN ANTHONY SEHON BOYS OF A-'I - Adam - Traditional John MacDougall, Tony Warren, Norman Tobias, - Rozsa arr. Wilson