Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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IOR S C H O O L

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THE CLASS 0F 1982 It all started with an impressive weekend at Camp Oolahwan in the Laurentides where boys and masters mel to challenge and exchange ideas, interests and perhaps, even do a little soul searching. ln general, we got to know each other better. This I feel, established the basics for a positive year athletically, socially and academically. The year took off with an active sports program, ending up in the fall season with a dramatic football game at Molson Stadium. With three seconds to go, a touchdown was scored, resulting in the Midget Cham- pionship of Montreal. ln other sports, individuals and teams did well during the year and ended up with win- ning, for the first time, the seven-a-side Rugby cham- pionship. Socially, there were also highlights: the Orange Drive, the S.H.S. Ball, the Grad Dance, and the various parties throughout the year. All occasions to remember. Academically, we remember prizegiving, the academic procession and the first Valedictorian address, by David Skinner. You were a fine group of young people who stuck together. Go and do great things with your lives and return to us from time to time, proud of what you have done. All the best in whatever you do. David P. Williams

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JU IOR SCHOOL REPORT - 1982 Our last year as a Junior School . As a staff we look forward, with enthusiasm, to becoming part of Selwyn House Elementary School. So often, in the past, we have felt a passing sadness, that, boys who were an integral part of our lives for four years, barely acknowledged our presence when September arrived and they became men in grade 5. Gradually, petticoat pedagogues have infiltrated the halls of more advanced learningg and will, in the future, prove that the female brain is capable of knowledge beyond the grade 4 level. Many of our boys have never quite believed this. If the gentler sex can manage to soothe the savage beast with the music of their presence, perhaps manners, and the courtesy of old, will again become the vogue. lt is an objective greatly to be desired. Certainly our music will be the food of love and most assuredly we will play on . Today the passage of time is so swift that our youngest children remark upon it. The metamorphosis of our six year olds from baby to boy is completed by the end of October. It used to take all year! They exclaim, like grey beards, at how quickly their Grade l life is over. ls the gap between infancy and senility becoming smaller? It is a fact that the atmosphere in our Junior classrooms is more charged than heretofore. Constantly we remind ourselves that the boys have no memory of more leisurely times. Now is their day. their youthg but guidelines are needed both at home and at school if the stress of growing up today is to be reduced, the belligerence and antagonism towards each other lessened in our classrooms. Today and here your life's begun. Of the great fellowship you're freeg I-lenceforth the SCHOOL and YOU are one, And what you are, the race shall be. Sir Henry Newbolt. Good luck to the Phoenix. Patricia Marsh