Selwyn House School

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Selwyn House School
"Veritas", literally translating to 'Truth'
Location
Westmount, Quebec, Canada
Information
Principal	William Mitchell
School type	Boys
Grades	Kindergarten - Grade 11
Language	English and French
Mascot	Gryphon
Team name	Gryphons
Colours	Black and Gold
Founded	1908
Enrollment	570 (06-07)
Homepage	http://www.selwyn.ca

Selwyn House School (SHS) is a private independent boys' school located in Westmount, Quebec. Boys can attend from Kindergarten through to Grade 11. The school was founded in 1908 by Englishman Captain Algernon Lucas. It is named after Selwyn College, Cambridge University, which Lucas attended.

The annual fees for attending Selwyn range from $13,390 up to $17,280.

The School has recently gone under renovations, including a new building (Speirs), a program ensuring that every student in Grades 7 through 11 has a Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad laptop for use in school and at home (ACCESS), as well renovations to the dining hall and an underground gymnasium.

Pupils are divided into four houses. Lucas House (yellow), Macaulay House (red), Speirs House (blue) and the Wanstall House (green).

The Selwyn House Gryphons have always fielded strong athletic teams and their traditional rivals in sports and other matters is Lower Canada College.

1 Headmaster
2 Controversies
3 Popular culture
4 Sports & championships
5 Notable alumni
6 Notable Faculty
7 External links
8 Footnotes

[edit] Headmaster

William Mitchell is due to be replaced by Mr. Hal Hannaford as Headmaster with effect from January 1, 2009.

[edit] Controversies

[edit] 2005

In September 2005 an alumnus of the school launched a lawsuit claiming that he had been molested by a former teacher, Leigh Seville, during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Allegations regarding misconduct were made in 1991, and the school administration confronted Seville. Soon after, he committed suicide and killed his father and no further action on the issue was taken by the school administration.

[edit] 2006

A similar scandal became public on February 3rd 2006.^[1]

[edit] 2008

On May 10, 2008 one of the school teachers, Richard Doucet, was arrested by John Chapman of the Dumfries Police in Virginia under the charges of soliciting under-age sex from a 13-year old boy and possessing child pornography.^[2]

[edit] Popular culture

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The movie, Prom Wars, is based on Selwyn House. In the movie, Selby House(Selwyn) battle Lancaster College (Lower Canada College)(Selwyn's arch-rivals) over the right to take ACS(ECS) girls to prom.

The school has been mentioned in Mordecai Richler's novel, Barney's Version.

The school is part of the basis for Richler's Jacob Two-Two adventure series. Richler's son Jacob was a student at Selwyn House.

[edit] Sports & championships

Bantam Football - 2002, 2006, 2007 G.M.A.A. champions. (Undefeated 2006 and 2007 campaign)
Senior Football - 2003 FQSA "AA" champions.
Curling - 2006 G.M.A.A. champions.
Bantam Hockey - 2007 G.M.A.A. champions (First Bantam championship since 1981.)
Wrestling - 2007 G.M.A.A. champions (Dethroning Kahnawake Survival School who held the Championship for the last 17 years.)
Rugby (GMAA) champions various years, including: Bantam Division (1986 & 1987 - undefeated in league play), Midget Division (1988 - undefeated in league play), Senior Division (1990 - undefeated in league play)
Basketball (GMAA) champions: Midget "B" Division (1988)