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already there, arranging tables, and evidently making preparations for a luncheon. The Committee in charge consisted of Mrs. Gorrie (Catherine Vickers) Chairman, Mrs. Seely (Ruth Bosworth), whose three daughters were trained in the school, Mrs. Suther- land (Harriet Birks) and Jean Scrimger, and they certainly worked wonders with the Assembly Hall in a very short time. A long table, just below the platform, had a large basket of fruit, as a centre-piece, and hollowed-out pumpkins, filled with various shades of chrysanthemums, were placed here and there, giving a very festive appearance to the room. Immediately after the largely-attended, and impressive Commemoration Service, conducted, at noon, in the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, by Rev. Dr. George Donald, the Old Girls and the members of Form VI proceeded up Simpson St . to the School. Miss Gumming and Mrs. Colin Russel, President of the Old Girls ' Association, received the guests at the door of the Assembly Hall, where a very delicious buffet luncheon was served to more than three hundred people. It would be impossible to name all Old Girls present, or even to mention those who have sent their daughters to their old School. There was one present, however, Mrs. Hartland MacDougall, (Edith Reford) a member of the first class when the school opened in 1887, who had not only sent her two daughters to the school, but her two grand-daughters, as well, one of whom, Sally Pitfield, is still a pupil. Three sisters, who were also members of the first classes, were present: Mrs. Stocking, whose two daughters attended the school, and Mrs. Henwood and Mrs. Townsend, who were so enthusiastic about the gathering, that they came all the way from Toronto for the occasion. After luncheon, the President, Mrs. Colin Russel, (Marjorie Lynch) whose mother (Gertrude Stevens) has also been an old girl, gave a friendly greeting to all present. Then Senator Cairine Wilson, of Ottawa, said a few words about the happy memories of her early school days. Every one enjoyed Miss Cumming ' s closing words. She spoke of the progress of the school during the fifty years, just completed, and paid a tribute to the work of the first Principal, the late Miss Grace Fairley, M.A., Edinburgh, who, she said, would have been proud of the school, with which she had been so long and so closely connected. We were glad to see Miss L. M. Hendrie and Miss C. L. Field, former members of the Teaching Staff, among the guests, but were sorry that three other old friends. Dr. Carrie Derick, Miss Lewis, and Miss Jean Samuel were not able to be with us. The departing guests were loud in their praises of the wonderful work done by the Committee in charge, and the ease with which every arrangement was carried out, and all agreed that we had had a very happy re-union. M. L. Brown. [14]
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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]
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