Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1967-1968 ll Board and Staff We were sorry to lose the valuable services of Mr. H. R. Davis and Mr. J. M. McDougall from the Board of Governors. Mr. Davis had acted as Honorary-Secretary of the Board for many years and Mr. J. M. McDougall had headed the Building Committee. We shall miss their worthy contributions very greatly and would like to record our gratitude to them for all the extra efforts they have made on the school's behalf. To replace them we are happy to welcome Mrs. Harvey Wolford and Mr. Lorne Webster and look forward to a long and happy association with them in the direction of the school. As staff replacements in September we welcomed Mrs. Lorna Grundy, who is a graduate of Havergal College and the Lakeshore Teachers' College, Toronto, Dr. Ferenc Andai, who holds a doctorate in History from the University of Budapest, Mr. Neufville Shaw, who was head of the Science Department at Pierrefonds, Mr. Larry Eldridge, a graduate of Bishop's University and specialist in physical education, Mr. Barry Stevens, who had been teaching in Connaught School for the past three years and Mr. Jeremy Riley, an Old Boy of Selwyn House and a graduate of Sir George Williams University. We have been very grateful to them all for their outstanding services to the school throughout this year and regret that Dr. Andai will not be with us in September. ln addition to his schoolroom duties he has been most active in fostering a History Club which has been a most successful addition to our school activities. Also leaving at this time is Mr. Hugh Spencer who has been teaching in the Middle School for the past three years. We are most grateful to both these gentlemen for all they have done at Selwyn House and extend to them our very best wishes for every success and happiness in the future.

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Editorial The very fact that we are the graduating class of the school has caused the boys of the Senior Form to pause and reflect over their years at Selwyn House. For many of us, this June will mark the culmination of eleven years at the school. We have placed our complete trust and faith in the values that have been given to us and now these values will begin to be severely tested. lt will soon be very clear to us all what Selwyn House has achieved for us and what it has not, but the influence, good or bad, that it has had conspicuous. will always remain from the time that school, situated on The transformation that the school has undergone we first entered it is astounding. Eleven years ago, the Redpath Street, had a third of the number of pupils that it has today, and had only nine grades. The activities at that time, though basically the same as those carried on to-day, had a much different atmosphere to them. Cricket and soccer were then played, the former no longer in today's programme, and the latter largely replaced by football. We spent four years in the old building before the turning point in the history of the school, the move to new premises in Westmount. Larger and far superior facilities were now available, enabling Selwyn House to expand its size and its programme to keep pace with the demands of modern education. The next step was completed in T963 with the graduation of the first Junior Matriculation class. Thus the pattern has been one of sweeping change, and the future appears to be bright with additional facilities promised. Like the Canadian nation whose birthday it helped celebrate, Selwyn House is at a critical moment in its history. On the occasion of its own anni- versary, its sixtieth, the school can take pride in its progress, much, however, remains to be done. We feel that the school must persist in continually adapting to the changes and needs of modern education. Methods in use eleven years ago may to-day be obsolete. Greater student involvement and participation in the decision making processes of the school would be a step in the right direction, as would greater communication between educator and educated. The pupils' must be confident that the faith they place in the school will be rewarded by a programme best suited to their needs. P.H. Arthur Meighen Essay Results Form VII 'lst Peter Hadekel 2nd Brandon Ayre Michael Darling Form VI 'lst Michael Goldbloom 2nd John Mappin Howard Winfield

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and preserve characteristics of the Anglo-Canadian way of life in the province's 12 SELWYN HOUSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Zh- Annual Academic Prizegiving June 1967 On the 9th June, once more, the annual prizegiving was held in the school gymnasium in afternoon and evening sessions with our accommodation being taxed to capacity on both occasions. In the afternoon our guest of honour was Doctor Alan G. Thompson, Senior Surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital, again we were impressed with the great ability of the medical profession to speak to a youthful audience and, at the same time, deliver a valuable mes- sage which all could understand and appreciate. After his address Dr. Thompson presented the prizes to the Junior school and to forms I and ll. ln the evening we were honoured to have as our guest Dean Stanley B. Frost, of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at McGill University. Dean Frost warned his audience to be extremely vigilant so as to safe-guard education system. We have a system of education well-suited he said and it has preserved for us those values of honesty sonal responsibility and intellectual freedom which we, as Canadians have learned to prize very highly. Dean Frost schoolmastering has been and will continue to be one of the and the essential thing in school life, he added, is the personal teachers and taught, of master and student, the communicati The following are the afternoon's and evening's awards:- to our purposes, and service, per- English-Speaking emphasised that great professions relations between on of minds. programmes and