Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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boarders to know that baths can be taken at any hour of the day or night, and that conversation of any character can take place over the partition. Eleven o ' clock, lights out! All is in darkness! Many are the muttered exclamations, as we return to our rooms to find the bed piled high with various articles, or the mattress and bedclothes carefully dumped in the middle of the floor. This is only a small part of our life at Macdonald. There are sports of many kinds, such as swimming, baseball, basket-ball, tennis, and hockey, all of which are gone into with great enthusiasm. Social events are also a great feature in college life, and all these things make us sing with all our hearts. All Hail! Macdonald We sing to thee. Fairest of Colleges Give her three times three. Rah! Rah! Rah! Long may we cherish her Faithful we ' ll be, Macdonald ' s the College For you and me. THREE OLD GIRLS The following Trafalgar girls are taking a course at Macdonald College : — Margaret Taylor, Jean Anderson, Frances Thomson, Cristall Dawson is also taking a short course. The following girls are teaching in Montreal under the Pro- testant Board: — Isabel Brooks at Lansdowne School, Westmount, Gertrude Macfarlane at Point St. Charles, Mary Matthewson at Montreal West. Eight grandchildren of Trafalgar form a happy link between the school of yesterday and today, their mothers having been at Trafalgar before them. Agnes Hill daughter of Isabel Johnson Naomi Smith daughter of Winnifred Dawes Marguerite Barry daughter of Jessie Leach Marguerite, Phyllis and Jean Jamiesons daughter of Ellie McPherson Helen Ogilvie daughter of Caro Brainerd Margaret Young daughter of Amy Crawford Jean Gumming daughter of Euphemia Dunlop 19

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LIFE AT MACDONALD Among students at Macdonald College this year are three who tired of Latin, French, Maths, and the other trials of the 6th form, have come out here to learn the gentle art of house- keeping. Here a word of warning to any of those wishing to follow in our steps! Many people consider Household Science as mere child ' s play after the arduous duties of school , but on arriving here, they will learn that such is not the case. At six forty-five a.m., a gong, which rivals the old Trafalgar firebell, clangs through the corridors, announcing that dawn has broken, and that once more we must resume our daily duties, likewise don our green and white stripes (our uniforms). A few moments later (or so it seems to us), another bell rings, summoning us to breakfast, and in order to insure a seat in the rather crowded dining-hall, many last rites of dressing are performed on the stairs. Breakfast over, there is a hurried rush to the janitor ' s cup- board to get a broom, other than ' ' Toothless Johnny , one posses- sing only two or three hairs, and we proceed to dust, sweep and otherwise tidy our rooms for the inspection which takes place while we are at lectures. Eight-thirty finds us all ready for the first lecture, which is only a one hour period. Such subjects as Nutrition, Household Administration, Physiology, and Household Accounts are taught us, and the mysteries of which are gradually made clear. A period of practical work then follows for the rest of the morning, and we either took, sew, do laundry-work, or house clean. Although our first efforts in these departments seemed some- what futile, we feel sure that in the end, we shall be experts. Twelve- thirty finds us once more in the dining-room, where fish days are as much appreciated as any others. In the afternoon we have another lecture period of two hours, in which Chemistry, Bacteriology, Physics, Poultry, and Home Gardening are instilled into our minds. For the rest of the after- noon we are free to frequent the many shops of Ste. Annes, including ■ ' Tommy ' s and Mrs. Wrights . If you want any further knowledge of these haunts, come out to see us. After tea in the winter, comes skating, or on bad nights, dancing; and in summer we wander over our lovely camps until the whistle on the Power House calls us to two hours of study. During this time the halls are silent as the tomb and nothing is heard save the stealthy tread of the night watchman. Study hour ends at ten and till lights go out at eleven, we amuse our- selves in various wayfe, such as attending feeds, gossipping, and last but not least, taking baths. It might be of interest to the 18

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OLD GIRLS WORKING AT THE RED CROSS Mrs. Hawkins (Gladys Wilson) Mrs Notman (Alice Pyke) Mrs. Serly (Ruth Bosworth) Dora Bishop Elizabeth Cairns Muriel Davis Edyth Findlay Geraldine Hodgson Madaline Lefleur Dorothy Macphail Helen Merreth Geraldine Patterson Louise Robertson Norah Turner Muriel Weldon Mrs. Hartland Macdougall (Edith Reford) Mrs. Frank Pratt Mary Bacon Dora Braid wood Isabelle Cleghorn Audrey Findlay Kathleen Gear Madge Law Sheila MacFarlane Helen McLachlan Mabel Molson Katherine Robertson Jean Rutherford Gladys Wainwright Louise Williams OLD GIRLS WORKING AT THE PATRIOTIC FUND Mabel Alexander (Mrs. R. Adair) Agnes Allan Isabel Baillie Alice Brainerd Winifred Dawes (Mrs. G. C. Smith) Alice Fisher Isabel Greenshields (Mrs. H. Mackay) Adrienne Hart Isobella Hart Majorie Henry Ethel Hodgson Elise Kingman Beryl Leger Ruth Laing (Mrs. Ross McMaster Ellie Macpherson (Mrs. Jamieson) Myrtle McLain Evelyn Merideth (Mrs. J. Williams) Helen Read Olive Read Marjorie Skelton Dava Stuart Vera Stuart Mary Look Helen Yuile Mrs. Keenan (Winnifred Hagar) is the Vice-President of the South of France Relief Association which is doing invaluable work in caring for wounded soldiers, refugee women and children, and in numberless other ways proving the reality of our sympathy for our brave ally France. Trafalgar girls, Ruth Armstrong, Charlotte Major, Olive Baillie, Frances Caverhill, Marion Buckly are taking part in this work. We quote two extracts from the reports of the work. To speak first of the work of our helpers, the hospitals all along the Riviera were filled to capacity during the spring and 20