Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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sq, S' JAMES THACKRAY By the time I've finished my life as a student, I'll be used to saying that my internment in Selwyn would likely be my best years of schooling. I've not only enjoyed learning of the highest quality, but also the experience of a close knit system in which every student participates. No other school helps so much to the development and character of the student in so many ways. After my graduation, the movement towards achievement will increase as the experience decreases. This is rote Sarkasticul. -Charles Farrar Browne MARK WALFORD Mark is one of the quiet ones. Like an iceberg, we see only the tip. Everything else is underneath. Who knows what thoughts lurk beneath that exterior? It would be nice to have a picture of the whole thing, and failing even that, we have left a space that may one day be filled. JOHN WARNER Activities: Football, basketball, rugby, wrestling, debating. Alias: Bone, Double Zero, Johnny Smoke, Johnny-O. Favourite saying: Come on, guys, let me win now. John is one of those people who can endure just about anythingg if 11 years at Selwyn House can 't prove it, what can? lJohn's favourite song: Still Crazy After All These Years .l Of all this year's seniors, John holds the record for greatest number of caningsg we all have our distinctions, don 't we? -His friends.

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ALAN ROSSY After six successful years at Selwyn House School, Al lalias Big Al i has left his mark. In sports, Big Al has proven to be a basketball pro and a tennis ace as well as an excellent sportsman. Academically, Al has never let school interfere with his education. Even though he has been consistently inconsistent, his grades always end up being good. Everyone knows that females are Al's number one extra-curricular activity. Being the Beast of T.M.R. , Al can be spotted jogging up and down familiar streets in any weather. including hail storms lseriously, he is sanel. Besides being an all-round super guy and friend, what more can I say except that he's ready for Wheaties - the breakfast of champions. -Dave DAVID SHANNON After eleven years at Selwyn House, David is finally breaking away from the old social milieu. From the early days of puppy love for Miss Wood, David has emerged a mature and sensitive young man. He has pursued a wide range of activities at the School. In Grade Four, David won the Miss Wood Skiing Trophy, which he earned by labouriously practising at King George Park. He has been on the Yearbook staff, has rim the Candy Shop almost single-handedly, and has, most recently, been one of the stars of the Jazz Ballet Group. David has also contributed greatly to school life. This year, his initiative brought about the first Annual House Chestnut Competition in the junior school. Also, His Ron Barrett column has helped several with their adolescent problems. As David leaves Selwyn House, he looks forward to a literary career, as writing is a talent which he has developed since First Grade. He also plans to visit Ireland. where he can visit the tomb of Parnell, his dead King. We all wish David well and, who knows, one day, David may be seen walking the runway at the Ritz with cameras flashing and Thomas taking notes. - His Friends BENJAMIN SHAER ANIBITION: Dusty pedant, complete with frayed gown and patched tweed jacket. PROBABLE DESTINATION: Outstanding in his field. IDIOSYN- CRACIES: Tearing down halls, and zigzagging down staircases: wearing a handkerchief in his pocketg fits of laughter, carrying a strapg telling unhumourous jokes which he prefers to brand as subtle : pacing and walking in circlesg joining the cross-country skiing team without owning a pair of skisg reading Joyce on the bus to Smugglers Notch: constantly carrying books with him: wearing a different stickpin every day: carrying a glove in his pocket las well as a horseshoe! to slap across the face of anyone who happens to insult him lbarring somelg saving used bus transfers and other assorted rubbish, taking Lating remembering absurd and useless factsg holding FOWLER'S in reverence, etc. FAVORITE PASTIME: Annoying English teachers, writing old sayings on the board, and shattering illusions in general. SAIVIPLINGS OF HIS PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY: lll The most futile endeavour is attempting to repeat a coincidence. l2l Never beginning and never ending something amounts to almost the same thing. 13i There are few incurable romantics left, since they invented penicillin. 141 Verba perfida quam vera celerius volant. 15? Semper ubi sub ubi. 16I Caesar adsum jam forte. And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is yotmg once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means Dylan Thomas, Fern Hillu

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PATRICK WEBSTER We measure ou.r gains out in luck and coincidence Lanterns to turn back the night And put our defeats down to chance or experience And try once again for the light Some wait for the waters of fortune to cover them Some just see the tides of ill chance rushing over them Some call on Jehovah Some cry out to Allah Some wait for the boats that still row to Valhalla Well. you try to accept what the fates are unfolding While some say they 're sure where the blame should be falling You look 'round for maybe a chance of forestalling But too soon it 's over and done And the man for all seasons ls lost behind the sun. - Al Stewart RICHARD WHITEHEAD This is a grad note which will represent my thoughts and feelings at SHS forever. I have chosen neither to shower myself with praise nor to bathe verbally in misery. Nor will I dwell on the perfonistic aspects of assessing grade eleven students on what they wrote one blustery February morning when they perhaps were tired or depressed .... An English teacher might slash this grad note with a red pen and the scribbled message, cliche . On the other hand, one could say that in transposing the overworked and the previously tmexplored, I have created an imperliguous effect. But enough of this. Back to sentimentality. I cameg I sawg I shall remember .... GEORGE ZARIFI How can I go forward when I don 't know Which way I'm facing? How can I go forward when I don 't know which way to turn? How can I go forward into something I'm not s1u'e of? oh no, oh no. You know life can be long And you got to be strong And the world is so tough Sometimes I feel I've had enough. - John Lennon