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

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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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5 TRINITY t'Ol.l.EGE SCHOOL RECORD Eriuitg Qlullritr Srlinul lirwrh NO. 5 February 15th. l929 , , g Wm. OGLE A541 Edimr c. F. HARRINGTON Jolm Ednors Q Pt. T. GRAHAM .iumsf Sami Ediror Miss GERTRUDE PETRY Sports , T. E. NICHOL. o. H. JOHNSON and D. W. McLAREN Published on the first and Hfteemh of each month Price 52-00 per Academic Year. The Editors welcome contributions for publication from all sources. Ehillifiill It is nice to get letters to the paper and to be able to start a Correspondence column. especially when the letters take the form of criticism and replies to remarks which we have made in our pages. yVe have felt for some time that this paper was getting its own way too much and not getting as much contradiction as was good for it. It was high time someone sat up and called its a liar and we hope the example will be followed. VVe ought to have a correspondence column in every issue with at least two controversies, raging with attacks and counter-attacks. Anyone who writes things in papers is a fair mark for criticism. He needn't do it. He isn't forced to. He just does it because he thinks he knows what he's talking about and wants people to believe that he does. He can't complain if people criticize what he is so eager to tell them. So why not think out some- thing nasty to say to him and let him have it. Try to persuade everyone that, as a matter of fact, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Then he'll write in the next issue and say that he takes exception to what you wrote about him and is willing to p1'ove that what you said is untrue. All you've got to do then is to write to the next issue after that and say that he has misunder- stood you, that you didn't say he was an absolute fool: all you said was that he had very little sense. And so it goes on and everybody wants to know what X is go- ing to reply to the very scathing remarks which A. N. Other made about him in the last Reco1'd. In course of t'me. when no trace of the original subject of the ar- gument can be found, the Editor politely thrusts the two antagonists from the stage to make room for a bout be- tween Fair Play and Worried over a passage in the fcimer's article in your last issue which struck the latter as a grave overstatement of the truth . Be- sides the pleasure of seeing your very cutting remarks in print, you will have the additional triumph of know- ing that your victim can't reply to you and clear up the smirch on his good name for a fortnight. and that meanwhile your letter is daily holding him up to the iidicule of his fellows and rankling like a thorn in the flesh which he can't pull out until the next copy of the Record appears. The natives of Central Africa play a game in which each player is allowed three or four good cracks at his opponent with a big stick but is not allowed to strike again until he has received as many cracks himself. The leading players assure us that the pain of receiving is nothing to the pleasure of having just received and feeling that for the time being you have things all your own way and can just start in, in a leisurely way and give of your best. We offer you the same pleasure. heightened by the feeling that you will be affording great excitement to your fellow readers. Qfliaiprl Xutrs The Offertory in Chapel at Woodstock on Sunday, February 3rd, was devoted to the fund being raised in Canada for the Relief of the Distress among the Miners in South Wales, and a cheque for sixty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents was sent to the Globe, who are taking charge of this fund. 05121 liugs' Safes The Annual General Meeting of The Trinity Col- lege School Old Boys' Association was held in the Alex- andra Room, the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, after the Annual Dinner. The President, Mr. P. E. Henderson, was in the chair. There were about 80 Old Boys pres- ent. The President read his report for 1928 as follows: During the year notices of School Matches and other activities were sent to the members of the As- sociation. The Record is now published fortnightly during the School terms, and copies will be sent to all mepnbers of the Association in good standing. Now that the Record is to appear at these frequent intervals, notices of School activities will not be sent out by he Association but will appear in the Record . Old Boys will be much interested in noting the marked improvements in the School paper, and I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating those Masters who are editing and financing the new Rec- ord , and feel quite sure that their efforts will be sup- ported by communications from Old Boys with any news of interest. The publication of the Old Boys' Directory, which was approved at the last Annual Meeting of the Assoc- iation, has been unavoidably delayed, but the work is noir in hand and it will be published as soon as pos- sib e. The prizes for the Athletic Events at the School were again presented by different Old Boys, and the Association followed its previous custom of presenting six School prizes on Speech Day. The Life of Sir Wm. gsllerg was again presented by the Head Prefect of the c ioo .

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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