Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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THE REVEREND Dr. GEORGE DONALD Chairman of the Board of Governors

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Trafalgar lErV s MAGAZINE STAFF Editor Janet Slack Sub-Editor . Wilma Howard Art Representative . Anne Dodd Sports Representative Elizabeth Anne Kendall Secretary-Treasurer . . Marjorie Robinson CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Form Va. Helen Greenfield Form IHa. Joyce Ault Form Vb. Peggy Orr Form IIIb. Ann Murray Form IVa. Betty Curran Form Upper Ha. Ann Hadrill Form IVb. Helen Leavitt Form Upper Hb. Dorothy Turville FORM OFFICERS Form Officers President Vice-President Matriculation I Anne Dodd Anne O ' Halloran Matriculation II Wilma Howard Elizabeth Anne Kendall Form Vb. Marilyn Mechin Marie Oliver Form Va. Jane Elliot Betty Grimley Form IVb. Grace Wurtele Isabella Wurtele Form IVa. Lyn Berens Jean Donnelly Form IIIb. Marguerite Packard Peggy Muir Form IIIa. June Fair weather Marjorie Byatt Form Upper IIb. Dorothy Turville Charlotte Scrimger Form Upper IIa. Margaret Burden Mary Cuttle Form II. Ann Lindsay Diana Davison Form Upper I. Geraldine MacKinnon Helen Fawcett Form Lower 1. Marion Fox Elizabeth Atkinson [11]

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THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCHOOL THE twenty-first of October — Trafalgar Day — has always been a marked day for the School, but this year it was greeted with a sense of gratitude and a sense of reverence. It was the fiftieth anniversary of Trafalgar School, and teachers and girls and Old Girls were all uniting to make it a memorable one. The present girls had no classes, and at eleven o ' clock they went in a body to the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul to a Commemoration Service. It was a wonderful sight, and it showed the spirit of loyalty and good will that exists, to see the church almost filled with girls, and teachers, and Old Girls and friends. The School Choir led the singing with Mr. Blair at the organ. Dr. Donald and Archdeacon Almond took the service. Dr. Donald gave an inspiring address on the things that were really worth while, and that we should value most. He said he was sure that we already valued Health, Time, Education, Truth, Honour, Loyalty, Friendship and Love, and that we knew why we valued each of these. To these he wanted to add first. Traditions. He said, Everything has a background of Tradition, and so you must add to your list the Traditions of Education, and the Traditions of your School, and make it your business, whether in school or out of it, to be loyal to these traditions and to carry forward all that is true and great in them, and release them into the formation of the new future. Then he said we must value most of all the Christian Religion, which could never be old-fashioned, but is as young and strong as the dawn. It has the fresh wind of the mountains about it, and the power of our undying spirit within it. His Jubilee message to us was: Value all great and high things, value your traditions and your heritage, and value your Christian faith, for in these values lie the very issues of the best and happiest and most useful life. After the service the Sixth Form attended a most delightful luncheon given by the Old Girls in the Assembly Hall. It was very amusing to the present Sixth Form as they moved about to catch little bits of conversation such as, Why, my dea r it was not like this in our time, or Oh there is my classroom! How well I remember it! There were there those who had taught, and those who had been taught, there were mothers and daughters and even grandmothers, and everyone seemed to be enjoying herself. At the end of the luncheon the Honorable Cairine Wilson made a happy and witty speech and said she was proud of being a Trafalgar girl. Anne Dodd, Matriculation I. THE OLD GIRLS ' LUNCHEON THURSDAY, October 21st, 1937 was a day of great activity. An early morning visitor would have been surprised at the silence that pervaded the school-house, and would have been still more amazed, when at nine o ' clock, instead of orderly lines of tunic-clad girls mounting the stairs to the Assembly Hall, for Morning Prayers, men arrived, carrying tea urns, and large parcels of all kinds. What could it all mean! The Assembly Hall, too, presented a strange picture. A number of Old Girls were [13]