Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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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

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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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summer of 1916, and are now working at high pressure. In August and September of 1916 numbers of fever stricken soldiers were sent to the Riviera from Salonika, and our voluntary helpers found themselves called upon to undertake even more strenuous work than in 1915, as these poor wrecks of humanity need the most constant and watchful care, and the task of nursing them is a far greater tax on the strength than the nursing of the wounded. Our surgical masseuse in Cannes writes: — I do not know what the hospitals here would do without the cases of things that are sent from Canada, as it is almost impossible to get things from the administration and everything is so expensive, and they are cutting things down all the time. The men only have a bath once in about three weeks now, as coal and fuel are so scarce, we are allo wed only a little laundry, one sheet a week. The other day one of the men ' s shirts got wet during his dressing, and as there was no other (they are only allowed one a week for day and night) he had to go to bed till it dried. One has to make the best of things, but so far as I can see, all the comforts here come from Canada. All I can say is that from the bottom of our hearts we thank you, the kind thoughtful senders; I wish I ' Could tell you all that I feel, forCanada s generous gifts will ever be remembered. Old Trafalgar girls who are doing V. A. D. work are: — Agnes Hastings, Ruth Stevenson, Ina McNab, Dorothea Mackeen, University War Hospital, Southampton Francis Mackeen, a R.U.H. graduate has been in France for two and a half yfears with the McGill No. 3 Hospital. She is now Mrs. Dr. Henderson. Ruth Armstrong has been in France fof thirteen months for the South of France Relief Association. Katharine Cotton is teaching in a Hospital for the blind in England. Beatrice Caverhill has worked with Lady Drummond ia the Canadian Office for two years. Isabella Strathy, a M.G.H. graduate has nursed in France for three years. She is now the wife of Lieut. McMurry. Helen Kendall, a R.V.H. graduate is nursing in France. Marguerite Strathy has been doing canteen work in Paris gince 1916. Allison Strathy was a masseuse in AJdershot Hospital for one year and is now driving a motor ambi iance in London. Elvira Strathy is working with Lady Drummond in the Red Cross, Prisoners of War Department. Marjorie Cook has been doing canteen work in France for two years. Jane Yuile Strathy (Mrs. W. W. Lawrence) and Gaile Yuile (Mrs. Lucas) are both doing Y.M.C.A. Canteen work in France. Irene Cains, graduate of St. Lukes Hospital ,New York, has been, since the beginning of the war, nursing in France, and Salonika. She is now second in command at London Head- quarters, having gained her captaincy. 21