Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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

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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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THE CLASS OF '79 PLANTS TWO MAPLE TREES Selwyn House lost two old maple trees in the Spring of l9T9. At dinner one evening I mentioned to my wife that a number of the grade eleven boys had told me that they were upset to see the trees cut down. Anne proposed that they go out and buy a tree to replace the two old trees. I presented this proposal to the two classes the next day and it was very quickly accepted. Ashvini Gursahaney, Andrew Nemec and I drove to Jack Vincelli's in Montreal West and chose two Norway Maples for sixty dollars. Thirty eight of the students each contributed a dollar and the remainder was shared by the school, my wife and myself. Both trees were planted on May IT by a group of the grade eleven students. I believe it is fitting that Norway Maples were chosen. These trees are very hardy, adaptable and quick growing - just like Selwyn House students! Barry Williams ffiill ln? J. -',' ,X ,'?L.E?,?'3.5.i':-,PAA . ,Q-'ut' ' Q -fA.'9'5Qer- 3!9g.f7g'5 W. 'g. 1',. ' '1 . -qbgizf' Q11 di, uf' .g H ,:A.5 ,Ii ,Lv If .' . :Q ...Q 'rl .Q-,N . 'sql ,Ax fu muy, . JV - - 1 - f i-. 'ii:'l5f:3:f iff I V - - W-,mags xt- ' ' ' 1 . ., -1 ef?-.341 f' . 1 li.v5'f iffV. ' ,z f Aa. V J:'f'i L'fif.--.. 27