Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1966-I967 29 f it iaiii i ii Debating The Twentieth Selwyn Oratorical Society, under the direction of Mr. Hill, held its first meeting in October 1966. The following appointments were made: President, Barry Lazar, Vice-President, Cary Miller, Secretary, James Benson, Treasurer, Gray Buchanan, Time-keeper, De Wolf Shaw. The house debating competition was very fierce this year. Following the three rounds, an additional round was necessary because of a tie between Lucas and Speirs. Mr. Moodey and Mr. Becker iudged the house debates, and improved the calibre of debating with their helpful criticisms and comments. House Debating First Round 1 That money is the root of all evil. Affirmative - Wanstall House - De Wolf Shaw and Brandon Ayre. Negative - Speirs House - Barry Lazar and John Lovell. That the United Nations should intervene in Vietnam. Affirmative - Macaulay House - James Benson and Alan Byrne. Negative - Lucas House - Martin Tratt and Robert Seely. Mr. Moodey judged Speirs and Lucas to be the winners, and Alan Byrne and James Benson to be the best losing speakers. Second Round: That Scripture is necessary in school. Affirmative - Speirs House - Per Amundsen and Peter Hadekel. Negative - Lucas House - Martin Tratt and Robert Seely. That it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Affirmative - Macaulay House - Gray Buchanan and Alan Byrne. Negative - Wanstall House - De Wolf Shaw and Brandon Ayre. Mr. Moodey judged Lucas and Macaulay to be the winners. Third Round: That the drinking age in Quebec should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen.

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28 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE A report on the Christmas Choirs which sang at the School Entertainment on Dec. 9th appears elsewhere in this issue. On the following morning the Special Choir went for a second time to the CBC Studios in St. Laurent, this time to be taped for an appearance on T.V. in the Tween Set show for Tuesday Dec. 20th. This proved to be c most successful undertaking. The Christmas numbers sung were The Twelve Days of Christmas with the following soloists: lan Beardmore, Bruce Oliver, Nicolas Spillane, Norman Tobias, John Wooler, David McCallum, Michael Parker, Reginald Groome, Peeter Kivestu, Kim Vaughan, Jay Rankin and Christopher Noble. The Snow Lay on the Ground and We wish you a merry Christmas. ln the first number the soloists were shown individually and this made a most effective presentation. At the coming Prizegivings a Junior School Choir and a Choir drawn from forms 2 and l will sing in the afternoon. ln the evening the Choir will be comprised of boys from forms 3. The songs to be sung will have as their theme the celebration of our Centennial Year and we look forward to some stirring renditions. F.G.P. C gtk fl xv VVO k K! x l R 5 m y f T A Wi. V is

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30 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Affirmative - Macaulay House - Alan Byrne and James Benson. Negative - Speirs House - Barry Lazar and Peter Hadekel. That corporal punishment should be retained. Affirmative - Wanstall House - Hugh Markey and Brandon Ayre. Negative - Lucas House - Martin Tratt and Robert Seely. Mr. Becker judged Speirs and Wanstall to be the winners, and James Benson to be the best losing speaker. Deciding Round: That Capitalism should be abolished. Affirmative - Speirs House - John Lovell and Barry Lazar. Negative - Lucas House - Martin Tratt and Robert Seely. Mr. Becker judged Speirs to be the winner, and Martin Tratt to be the best losing speaker. Having won the deciding round, Speirs House carried off the LeMoine Trophy. The Society has functioned under the guidance of Mr. Hill, to whom we owe a vote of thanks for his coaching and advice. The Junior Debating Club This year's junior debating was presided over by Duncan Campbell and his committee. Credit is due to Mr. Becker who gave his time in order to help and organize our debates. Through his instruction, a few very prominent deba- ters have been discovered, two of which, O'Hearn and Campbell had the oppor- tunity to take part in a senior debate. The committee consisted of O'Hearn, Wit- kov and Tobias, with the regular attenders - Barer, Warren, Brown, McCallum, Ford, Onions, Roden, Kaplan and Khazzam. As a club, we have improved in co- operation and talent since our last year's meetings. B. W. Public Speaking On March lst, the public speaking contest was held. Mr. W. R. Noble kindly came to judge the speeches. He was impressed with, what he called, the high quality of the speaking. After Mr. Noble had commented on the individual speakers, he awarded first place to Barry Lazar, followed closely by Eric Hamovitch in second. The finalists and their topics were: Barry Lazar 'Plagiarism' Eric Hamovitch 'On Being Left-Handed' Brandon Ayre 'On Substitutes for War' Peter Hadekel 'ln Defence ofthe American Image' Mark Lazar 'Draft-dodging' Robert Seely 'The Rising and Falling of the Human Empire' De Wolf Shaw was chairman and Cary Miller time-keeper. J. B. Career Talks Guest SPEAKERS Selwyn House, this past school year, was privileged to have many inter- esting and informative guest speakers. Chief among them were those who spoke about their various professions in the series of career talks which were once again aptly managed by Mr. lversen.