Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 65 MR. B. M. OSLER, CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNING BODY, SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY OF THE OPENING OF THE GATES AT THE OPENING CEREMONY: THE GATES ARE OPENED FOR THE FIRST TIME

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G4 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD concerned at a time when tension was mounting for exams, which were getting all too close. This sort of dinner is a very pleasant addition to School life. and it is hoped that they will become more numerous. GIFTS TO THE SCHOOL As a memorial to the late Irving Lawson, his family have given two debating lecterns, a speaker's desk, and a mace, for use in School debates. These have been designed by Mr. Wyburn Lawson, brother of Mr. Thomas Lawson, to fit in with the furniture of Osler Hall, where the debates are held. Of particular interest is the mace, which is in the form of a club: it is studded with silver hexagonal medallions, on which the speakers' names will be recorded. A bequest of 335,000.00 from the estate of the late Rose Maclnnes, wife of the late Col. C. S. Maclnnes, will be used for scholarships and bursaries. The family of the late E. W. Bickle has given an additional 320,000.00 to the School. This most generous donation will pay off the final loan on Bickle House. The Library has been given some fifty recently published books - the generous gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jackson. THE CENTENNIAL GATES The wrought-iron entrance gates of the School originally marked the Queen Street entrance to Trinity College. They were erected in 1904 and were dedicated on St. Peter's Day, June the 29th. They were the gift of four members of the Board of Endowment of Trinity University, Mr. flater Sirl Edmund B. Osler, Colonel flater Sirl Henry M. Pellatt, Mr. 1 later Sirl William Mackenzie, and Mr. Frederick Nicholls. In 1925, Trinity College moved to its present site on Hoskin Avenue. But it was not until 1941 that the iron work of the two side gates was removed to the Henderson Tower on the east side of the quadrangle of the new buildings of Trinity College. The iron work of the central gates was placed in storage in expectation that, at some later date, it could be used. Consideration was given to a suggestion that the iron work be used for an entrance gate to Philosopher's Walk to the east of the Trinity buil- dings, but this idea was abandoned. At a meeting of the T.C.S. Centennial Committee in November, 1963, the Committee recommended, as part of the centennial programme, that centennial gates be erected to mark the main entrance to the School grounds. Mr. Peter G. St. G. O'Brian and Mr. Patrick C. Osler, two mem- bers of the Committee, were requested to explore the possibility of acquir- ing the Trinity College gates and in March, 1964, they reported to the Committee that Trinity College had kindly offered to present the iron work to the School. The family of Norman Seagram agreed to pay the cost of erecting the gates in his memory. Norman Seagram was a pupil at T.C.S. in the years 1890 to 1893. As a boy at School, he developed a fondness for cricket and for many years he was. an outstanding left-handed medium paced bowler. He toured Eng- land with the Canadian Zingari Team before the First World War, and in 10222, took his own team to England. He frequently visited the School as I aptam of the Toronto Cricket Club as well as Captain of the Old Boys'

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66 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Team. He was a member of the Governing Body of T.C.S. for many years and, at the time of his death in October, 1963, was a life governor. His three sons attended the School as well as five grandsons. T.C.S. was very dear to Mr. Seagram's heart and his interest in the School continued up to the time of his death. As a former president of the T.C.S. Old Boys' Association, and as a governor, he served on many corn- mittees and gave unstintingly of himself to the School. The gates are a memorial to a man who did much for his old School, and they symbolize too the connection between T.C.S. and Trinity College, Toronto. The gates were officially opened on Inspection Day by the Governor- General and they now provide a very beautiful entrance to the School at the Boulden House end of the field. T I sniff-5 ff' T 1 X -'ti sl it ' X x I ,Q ' .4 W 'W Q X A X . I if' I ' Q? gill X , 2 '4 S 1 ' 'l V I I , I 0 ' e1' a Q n as a ' ' 1. Al I 1 A I ' .:v Q -.,,, I I '-Wi' 1 .I ,.t .... i .. ' f ' - - f.WZ?5i3 'f , ,, '.,L' I: X - ,Q E, -.- H A ' Al:.,.:, --,., , : -, f' ' , 7 . -