Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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THE YEARBOOK STAFF EDITORIAL FRONT ROW: Cathy Ferguson, Second Sub-Editor ; Winnie Tse, Secretary; Ann Lambert, Sports; Maila Shanks, Art; Eva Ruta, Photo- graphy. BACK ROW: Mrs. Akin; Betty Hutchins, First Sub-Editor; Louisa Crooks, Editor. ADVERTISING FRONT ROW: Nancy Eraser, Margaret Coyle, Miss Armbruster, Alka Gursahaney, Stephanie Leutticken. BACK ROW: Carolyn North, Nicola Spotton, Sandra Burchell, Mary Archontakis, Sunita Chopra.

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DEDICATION TO TRAP WITH LOVE The future seems very bright for Trafalgar. At last we have what, for years, we have all dreamed of: a beautifully modern school. A spacious carpeted library, three well-equip- ped science labs, several new classrooms, a dining hall and a full-sized gym are now part of the New Traf. No longer do we combine biology, chemistry and physics labs; no longer do we need two lunch hours; no longer are home games played at the YWCA on Dor- chester. As well, we have a language lab, a sixth form common room, book lockers, new desks and a trampoline. We have been very fortunate, for we have been thus endowed with even greater opportunities for learning and living. Although, physically, little remains of the original school, the good old Traf spirit still thrives, despite its new environment. For this reason, we would like to dedicate this edition of Echoes to the future of Trafalgar-to the New School and the Old Spirit. To Traf with Love!

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EDITORIAL Are you a Trafite ? I don ' t mean, do you or did you go to Traf algar School for Girls, but, do you think of yourself as a Trafite , as a member of an un- official organization linking a great variety of people who have, at one time, shared an experience-that of being a student at Trafalgar? There is a Principal and Head Girl, but there is no Head Trafite. Trafitity is neither compulsory, nor regulated, for it is some- thing inside of us, something often demonstrated, rare- ly pondered, occasionally voiced. Trafitity finds expression in all phases of school hfe. It is revealed in the stubborn sticking up for the small gym and then the boasting about the new one; the perennial mumbling, I liked the lunches better last year; the boos for oxfords; the beaming faces resulting from Traf ' s being second in basketball instead of fourth; and prayers. Yes, one mustn ' t for- get Prayers. The lines of half -awake faces clambering into the gym, the methodical sitting and rising (timed to precision, cued by well-knovm words) are as much a part of Trafalgar as books and binders are. What would we do without them? Each of you will read something different in the simple word, Trafite. You may not fully realize its meaning to you until you near the end of your stay at Traf, as I did. And although you have probably never mentioned your Trafitity outside of Traf (actually Trafites tend to be rather modest, preferring not to flaunt their tunics in public), have you ever thought of yourself as a Trafite without a feeling of pride? I know I never have.