Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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PHOTOGRAPHERS: Jane Ogilvy, Patty Heintzman-Head Photographer, Brigid McKenna. BACK ROW: Caroline Cohen, Sports; Rebecca Bird, Art and Lit.; Dawn Wiseman, Activities; Sueann Blauer, Sports; Mary Sweeny, Advertising; Christine Gilsenan, Activities; Nicola Philpott, Art and Lit. FRONT ROW: Emily Feldman, Sports Editor; Jane Bachynski, Sports Editor; Sanda Sassarman, Advertising Editor; Anna Maclachlan, Activities Editor; Valerie Jakubovic, Activities Editor.

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Editors ' Message Dear Trafites, Ar?other year, another yearbook! This book is for ali of you, especially for the .■ grads of ' 83. We hope that in ten or twenty years you will all look back at these pictures and .; remember the good times you had at Traf. Many thanks go to all the people who helped us put this together. Enjoy it! Editors

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Trafalgar School for Girls 3495 SIMPSON STREET • Tel.: 935-2644 MONTREAL, Quebec h3g 2J7 Trafalgar was founded upon the ideas of Donald Ross, a successful Canadian businessman of the nineteenth century. He believed in the full academic education of women, not just in the womanly arts, but in languages, literature, mathematics, history and science. He and hke-minded members of the community, working together in the 1880 ' s, opened the School in 1887 to eight students. The constitution of the School and its Board were formalized in Mr. Ross ' will, detailing the future governors and operation of the School. Through the years since then the School has grown in size, but the original academic thrust has remained constant. In the 1960 ' s the governors of Trafalgar instituted an advisory board as an ad- junct to the Board of Governors, bringing interested parents to assist in governing the School. The ideas and expertise of this addition to the board blended with the formally-designated members to give new force and direction to the School on the base of rapidly-developing modern ideas and values. This ideal of Donald Ross, that women should be educated, forms a goal toward which all students at Trafalgar are expected and challenged to strive and we urge that upon all of you. Acquiring know- ledge and intellectual skills are important elements of becoming thinkers and doers in the real world. It is our belief that women should participate actively in the shaping of our world. You who are graduating are going into a more uncertain world than that of recent decades. The economy is weak, jobs are scarce. But it is just in times such as these that independent thinkers and fresh ideas can make a profound difference. As you continue your education at CEGEP, university and beyond, I hope you will live up to Donald Ross ' dream, that you will use your education to design and build a better world. Women have much to offer and I am confident that Trafalgar graduates will be at the forefront in our future world.