Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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©ebtcation The students of 1938 join with those of many years past in affection and remembrance for Miss Wallace, and in sorrow for the loss to the College and her friends through her death. We dedicate our Year Book to her memory. No phase of our work was indifferent to her, and the record of the events of College life this year is the poorer because our good companion bade us farewell so early in its course. In offering this tribute to her memory we cannot do better than to recall the words of the Rev. Denzil Ridout, spoken to old friends and students on the occasion of her funeral : — We mourn the passing of one whose services to the College can never be ade- quately measured. Her loyalty remained unchanged through the passing years, and there are hundreds of graduates all across this continent who will be saddened by the thought that the voice of Miss Wallace will no longer be heard in the College halls.

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2Bt Carscallen ' g Jttrstfage JT SEEMS impossible to realize that this is my tenth foreword to the Tear Boo . I have watched ten graduating classes leave these halls and ta e their places in the wider community. The world into which you go to-day is not that of ten years ago. Then money was abundant, prosperity general, and the world was full of confi- dence. 7-{ow those who pin their hopes on material success have become disillusioned, and, in many cases, resentful. Nevertheless, though the world has changed, the meaning of life has not changed, the things of permanent value in life still remain, and the same qualities of mind and heart are needed to-day as they were then. If education has helped you to understand the meaning of life and to appreciate the things of permanent value, it has done the best thing that it can do for you, though there are also other ends which it may serve. If it has not helped you in this respect, then it has failed of its supreme achievement, no matter what else it may have done for you. Education has helped you to put a disciplined mind, a quic ened imagination and a wider sympathy behind the tas of living. Ton will be called to perform many duties in life, to set many things right, to redress many wrongs, and to fight many evils. Tou will need courage, insight, patience, sympathy, and that greatest of Chris- tian virtues, Love. It may help you to recall the words of a very ancient sage, Confucius, who said, If doing what is to be done is made the first business and not success, is not this to exalt virtue? To attac ones own wic edness and not attac that of others, is not this the way to correct cherished evil? If one cannot rectify himself, how can he rectify others? Another old Chinese proverb says, Tou can reflect what is in others, you can only radiate that which is your own. I wish to extend congratulations to the Editor and her Staff on the successful completion of this the fiftieth issue of the Tear Boo and affectionate greetings to the Alumnae into whose hands a copy of this volume may come. Principal.