Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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3 TRINITY Coi.i.EoaMgLricmo1igant',ogRn V On ai motion duly seconded, it was decided that the surplus revenue of the Association be paul over to the Building Committee to be applied towards the reduc- tion of their office expense account. n lt was announced that subscriptions to the Build- ing Fund to date amounted to S20-1,000.00. insurance nnmit-s 1-et-Civ-mi. S210.000.0U. 101:11 S504-000-00- GSU- nmtml Qngt gf lguildiug-S ST50,000.00, and that tenders were under consideration by the Committee. The following were elected by acclamation: President-Dr. J. C. Maynard. Vice-Pres.-J XV. Langmuir. Dudley Dawson, E. J. Ketchum. To be members of the Committee till Dec. 31, 1931: H. I.. Plummer. E. A. Hethrington, Charles Burns. David Thompson. - Representatives of the Old Boys on the Governing Body of the School: D. XV. Saunders,K.C., D'Arcy Martill, K-C-i R- C- H. Cassels, K. C. OLD BOYS AT R. M. C. Graduation List Diploma of Graduation with Honours: Gentleman- Cadet H. M. Jaquays, t'24l. Diplomas: L-Sgt. G. R. Blaikie, C2-13. Prize List The XY. M. Carleton Monk Memorial Scholarship- H. M. Jaquays. First Class Prizes Physics. Civil Engineering and Surveying tPracti- call-H. M. Jaquays. Drills and Exercises-G. R. Blaikie. Second Class Prizes Military Organization and Law: English and His- tory-G.-C. R. T. Dumoulin. t'25i. Third Class Prizes General Proficiency, General Proficiency tMilitary Subjectsl, Mathematics and Mechanics, Artillery. Drills and Exercises-G. de S. XVotherspoon. t'26l. Fourth Class Prizes General Proficiency, Mathematics and Mechanics,- C. R. Archibald, CQTJ. Other Prizes Large Bexhill Cup-G. R. Blaikie. The following Gentlemen Cadets were recommended for Commissions in the Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada: G. R. Blaikie-3rd Field Bde., C. A.: H. M. Jaquays-Royal Highlanders of Canada. Athletics The Gordon Cup, given for the highest aggregate in the 50 and 440-yard swims, diving contest, canoe doubles and singles, was won by L. S. Apedaile t'25J. VVotherspoon partnered Apedaile to win the canoe doubles, and the same two helped the first boat home in the fours. VVotherspoon also won the Hurry-Scurry in the Aqu- atic events. VVinner of Strong Shield, 1928-G. R. Blaikie. Most Distinguished in Athletics-1st Class, G. R. Blaikie: 2nd Class, N. Kingsmill, t'25J. Boxing, Novice Intermediate-J. H. Burns, t'27J. The school was represented on R. M. C. Football First Team by: F. Vokes, E. Rogers, N. Kingsmill and G. VVother.spoo.n. THE NEW SENIOR SCHOOL AT PORT HOPE All friends of the School will be very glad to hear that the contract for the new building at Port Hope has been let and work is beginning immediately so that the Senior School may be able to retu1'n to Port Hope for the Trinity Term of 1930. This is the culmination of months of continuous and intensive work on the part of the Architects, Messrs. Darling 8: Pearson, of Toronto, and our Build- ing Committee. The change of site involved negotia- tions with the Municipal Authorities of the town of Port Hope and the Township of Hope, and before we could consider beginning the actual building the neces- sary legal arrangements had to be finally settled and signed. The success of these arrangements is due to the good will of the Authorities and the great personal in- terest taken by Mr. Britton Osler who conducted the negotiations for the School. The following principles have guided us in re- building: 1. The full use of a wonderful situation. 2. A separate Chapel between Senior and Junior Schools large enough to hold both, with visitors. 3. The buildings for each activity to be distinct yet grouped in relation to each other and placed to take every advantage of light and heat and to avoid over- crowding at any one point:-Chapel: Classrooms and Science Laboratories and Museum: Dormitories and Studies with changing rooms belowg Business Offices and Reception Room: Dining Hall and Kitchensg Serv- ants' Quarters: Hospital and Sick Rooms: Gymnasium and Rifle Range and Swimming Tank and Squash Courts with changing rooms: Assembly Hall: Library and Reading Roozng Music Rooms. 4. All buildings to be joined by cloisters, allowing transit between them to be under cover. The house system with 60-70 boys in each house, providing little, middle and big sides of equal size. 6. Adequate Common Rooms and Reading Rooms for Masters and Boys with Studies for Senior boys. 7. Last. but not least, really suitable accommoda- tion forthe Ladies and Servants of the Staff. These principles have had to be applied to existing conditions: 1. The central heating plant and building above it, was saved intact from the fire. was operated during the fire as long as safety permitted, in order to heat the Junior School Building, and is in first-class condition todav. 2. All other buildings, except the Chapel, are un- safe. and must be demolished. The hospital was untouched by the fire and has served the Junior School ever since, and also has pro- vided an Office for the general administration of both Senior and Junior Schools. 4. A Public Highway through the school property. The following important decisions and arrange- ments had to be made almost immediately: 1. To gain consent of the Town to allow the High- way to be diverted south of the Cross-site, through a small unused section of the Town Park, and continued through School Property to meet the Highway half- way down the Hill toward the Tuck Road. 2. To acquire by exchange a Lot for the new site of the Hospital, south-west of its present position. We shall be forever grateful to Mr. Cleveland, our Architect, and to Mr. Fryer who has made the designs in detail, for their readiness to fall in with all our sug- gestions. The skill which they have shown will be evi- dent to all when the new buildings are finished. The plans were completed in December last and

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TRINITY t'Ol.I.E The Association has been able to prove its useful- ness during the past year in sending out information in Connection with the fire which destroyed the School on the third of March, as well as advising the Old Boys about the re-establishment ofthe School at Woodstock. The records ot' the Association were placed at the dis- posal ofthe Building Committee to enable them to reach the Old Boys. The Building Committee which was formed short- ly after the fire, is, like the Governing Body of the School, composed largely of Old Boys: and I would like to take this opportunity of expressing the keen apprec- iation of this Association for the invaluable work of those gentlemen who are not Old Boys and who have come forward so generously with their support during GE SCIIOOI. RECORD 7 the last year. The membership of the Association is steadily in- ciezisingz the annual nicniln-rs now nuinber 242. an-l life-members 1352. In this connection I would like if point out that life members' fees are invested in Sgliuui llonds, and the increase in this class of nn-nibersliip rn:- terially helps the School. lt has been suggested that the surplus reventit- of Old Boys' Association might be applied towards the re- duction of certain office expense iiecessarily incurred bv the Building Committee, so that supporters nf the Bnilding Fund would feel that even the present small anount incuired in these office expenditures would be reduced through the assistance of this Association. This might prove an incentive to increase membership in the Association. and expressions of opinion in this regard will be welcomed this evening. The Se:retary-Treasurer presented the following financial statement for 1928. FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR 1928 Capital Account RECEIPTS Disbursements By Balance Brought Forward from 1927 To General a c Bank Interest 12.00 C2511 ill Bank S 368.95 To Balance Carried Forward to 1929 T. BOIICIS Cash in Bank 325.00 - T. . S. BConds 3200-000 1 83068.95 -1' By 17 Life Membership Fees 425,00 33525.00 By General a c tResolution Jan. 19, 33537.00 19287 . 31.05 By Bank Interest 12.00 83537.00 GENERAL ACCOUNT --i- To Subscriptions to T.C.S. Record 5369.00 By Balance Brought Forward from 1927 S 133.78 To Advertisement in T. C.S. Record 12.00 By 17 Annual Fees 1927 51.00 To Notices calling for Annual Fees 39.4-1 By 265 Animal Fees 1928 795.00 To Advance Notices of Matches, etc. 188.76 By 16 Annual Fees 1929 48.00 To Advertising 16-00 By on afc Annual Fees 1929 2.00 To Dinner, 1928 131-45 By Dinner Tickets 192 8 162.00 To Dinner. 1929 4.00 By Dinner Tickets 1929 5.00 To Athletic Prizes, 1928 84.942 By Athletic Prizes 1928 tDonationsJ 60.00 To Building Fund 36.75 By Building Fund Subscriptions 36.75 To Speech Day Prizes 30.00 BY B0I1d IHt9I'eSt ' 169.50 To Presentation to Head Prefect 1927-8-9 36.00 By Bank Interest General a ic 16.34 To Capital a c tResolution Jan. 19, 1928l 31.05 By Capital a 'c, Bank Interest 12,00 To Stenographer 22.27 LL To Stationery 125.15 3149137 To Postage. Telegrams, and Taxi 50.67 To Exchange on Cheques 13.38 S12-10.87 To Balance Carried Forward to 1929 250.50 S1-191.37 PETRY MEMORIAL FUND By Subscriptions to Petry Memorial To Petry Prizes 25.00 Fund 55 530.50 To Balance Carried Forward to 1929 By Bond Interest . 7.50 T, C, S, Bondg 3 300,00 lm- Cash in Bank 122.00 S 538.00 ---- --.r S fy1Ij,0l'l S 538.00 tSigned1 P. E. Henderson, President. tSignedJ A. A. Harcourt Vernon. Secy.-Treas.

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TRlNITpY q co1.1.1-3 GE we called for tenders specifying that the buildings should be all in natural stone. When the tenders came in we found that the cost of this was more than we could bear and so without changing the outlay of the buildings or the internal arrangements in any respect we called for tenders in red brick with stone entrances to all buildings and stone mullions to the dining hall windows. When these were submitted to the Building Committee on Tuesday last we accepted the tender of the Dickie Construction Company of Toronto who have accepted our condition that the Building should be ready on April lst, 1930, giving us time to move from Woodstock to Port Hope, and begin the summer term on May 1st, which is the sixty-fifth birthday of the open- ing of the School in Weston, 1865. Our heartiest thanks are due to the Building Com- mittee who from the early days after the fire have giv- en very liberally of their time to meet and discuss and organize the campaign for funds and also to consider details of the plans and general arrangements. This committee was composed of members of the Governing Body, Old Boys of the School and parents of boys now in the School. VVithout their help it would have been im- possible to do what has been done. Mr. Dudley Dawson an Old Boy of the School, and parent of a boy now in the School, has very kindly acter as Chairman. All the many details connected with the working of this Com- mittee have been carried out with wonderful efficiency by Mr. Harcourt-Vernon, senior, who has given of his leisure to act as Secretary and it is due to him that the Committee has been able to do such very useful work. This is a free-will offering on his part and we very deeply appreciate all that he has done. It may help those who have not been in close touch with the negotiations to hear something of the build- ings we propose to put up. The old Chapel building re- mains and will be lengthened and converted into a din- ing hall of noble proportions with a kitchen wing add- ed to the North, which will be equipped in the very latest way. Underneath this where the old dining hall used to be we shall have our temporary Chapel to be converted later into a large library and reading room when the new Chapel is built somewhere near the site of the covered rink. Passing North by cloisters from the entrance to the dining hall we come to the class room building facing West and overlooking the playing fields. This contains ten class rooms for twenty boys each, a chemical laboratory with individual equipment for twenty-four boys, a similar physical laboratory, a museum, and workshop and a photographic dark room. In this building is a large common room for Masters and another for boys, adjoining the library. At the North end of this building continuing East we come to the new gymnasium, rifle range, swimming tank and squash courts. Returning to the entrance of the dining hall we pass from there to the East dormitory building which runs South across the old road and will contain dormitories, rooms, studies, and changing rooms for seventy-five boys. Near the Southern extremity of this we pass through more cloisters into the South building which will be erected on the old Cross-site facing South and parallel to the old road on its Southern edge. This will have similar accommodation to the East house. At the VVestern extremity of this building we pass through more cloisters and come to the central building, here on the ground floor will be a large visitors' reception room overlooking the lake, and business offices of the School. On the first floor will be accommodation for ten boys under the charge of a master and on the floor above that will be a small hospital ward for eight boys and accommodation for the ladies of the staff. This 'Juilding will be somewhere near the site of the present hospital Just to the North of it and so it has been neces- sary to move the hospital across the new road to the SCHOOI. RECORD f Southwest on a site beneath the hill ol the town park. This is as much as we are able lu do at l'I'4'S1'lil1tllll we shall have to find more money to do :Welt this: but as these buildings will only provide :o-coninnnlation tor the boYs alreatly in the School, it is cleat' that we must now consider the possibility ot' putting up a third dor- mitory house which will be t'ollllt'ctetl with the eentral building by a cloister and will also liztee South turning North at its Western extremity over the road lu Him-1 the new Assembly llall which will be built liast and West ot' the Southern edge of the playing fields. 'llliere will be one new feature in this building, namely, a Tower. with an archway entrance underneath it, forming the main entrance to the School buildings. It is becoming clear that this building will be an urgent necessity in the very near future and so we must look forward to the hope of erecting it very shortly. . We cannot conclude this little sketch of the New Buildings without expressing our very sincere thanks to those who have given so liberally towards the fund now being raised. Together with the Insurance motley received after the fire we have in the neighborhood of S520,000 dollars: so we have a heavy task ahead of us but we have no doubt that the money will be raised be- fore the buildings are complete so that we may then begin the third house. This notice is almost certain to be read by one or another who has not been definitely approached by the Committee. If this is the case we are very sorry but we hope that it will not deter such a one from subscribing to the fund and sending his con- tribution to Mr. R. C. H. Cassels, the Treasurer of thc fund, Dominion Bank Building, Toronto. OLD BOYS IN MONTREAL R. L. Archibald- Archie is working with the Northern Electric Co., but still aspires to a college life. Let's hope he doesn't suffer any shocks before then. J. H. Brewin-We believe that John is working very hard in a paper mill at Cornwall. He goes into Montreal occasionally to relax, we think. C. M. Butlin- Claude is still using his outstand- ing mathematical powers and is working hard in his 3rd year of a physical Engineering course. A. K. Doull- Alex is in his senior year of com- merce. He seems to be enjoying life as much as ever R. H. Cundill- Jerry has a job with Sherwin- Williams. W'e trust he has not given himself over en- tirely to paint. J. P. Cundill- Jick hasjust got over the Christ- mas rush in the Royal trust, but, fortunately he is none the worse, and is still the same old Jick . T. G. Fyshe- Tam has not only starred in foot- ball onthe Juniors, but, showing the experience gained in the school production, took part in H, M. S. Pina- fore at McGill. He is also heading well towards a place on the McGill Intercollegiate boxing team. H. M. Jaquays-Did fine work as a sub on the line on McGill's Championship team this last autumn. He is taking up applied science at McGill. J. G. King-In second year science at McGill. Played for his faculty in football where he starred. S. Lazier- Steve is living a busy life in Montreal and is still just as enthusiastic as ever in the gym. In six months Steve expects to be living in Toronto. where his business calls him. C. M. Russel-- Weary is making headway in 2nd year arts at McGill. He is also making a name for him- self in football and played so well this year that he was with McGill's team in one or two of their senior intercollegiate tilts. BIRTH SPRAGGE-At the Private Patients' Pavilion. on Fri- day, January 4th, 1929, to Mr. and Mrs. George VV. Spragge, a son.