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

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The Rev. Oswald Rigby, IVLA., LL.D Headmaster 1903-1913.

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Trinity College School Record EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor ............,.... ........ W . B. Reid Assistant Editor ...... ,...... P. J. Ambrose Junior School Record .,.......,,........, Mr. W. Ogle Adviser and Business Manager ....... Mr. D. Kermode Parr CONTENTS. The Rev. Dr. Oswald Rigby, M.A., LL.D. .... . The Chapel ...........................................,....,.. Editorial ........................................... The Science and Arts Society ...... The School Calendar ................... Sonnet for Archdeacon Scott ...... Visit of Archdeacon Scott ......... First Impressions ................ The Staif ..........................,........................... The Andes ....... To Europe and Jonah and the Back in a Cattle Boat . Whale ......,....................,... The Library .............................................. Football ............. School School School School vs. Pickering College vs. the Grove ................ vs. Trinity College ...... vs. Upper Canada ..... Third Team Game .....,..... The McGee Cup Race ........... Matriculation Results .......... Valete ................................ Salvete ........................... The Junior School ......,............. Old Boys' Notes ........................... Births, Marriages and Deaths ....... Exchanges .....,,...........,..................... Page 1 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 11 12 18 18 21 21 22 23 24 26 26 27 29 30 31 35 39 40

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Trinity College School Record VOL. 37 ' TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, PORT HOPE,OCT.,l933. No.1 The Rev. Dr. Oswald Rigby, lVI.A., LI...D. We deeply regret to have to record the death of the Rev. Dr. Oswald Rigby on July 26th. last. Dr. Rigby, it will be recalled, celebrated his fiftieth year in Holy Orders only a few months before his death. He was Headmaster of the School from 1903 to 1913. With his passing, the School loses a faithful and loyal friend. The article which we print now in tribute to his memory has been written for us by Professor Bridger, who was a. master at T.C.S. in Dr. Rigby's time. A FEW REIVIINISCENCES My first remembrances of Dr. Rigby go back to the early part of the year 1907, before I had left the Old Country for Canada, when I received from him a very cordial letter of welcome to Trinity College School. My welcome on arrival at Port Hope was no less cordial than the terms of the letter, and during the six years in which I was privileged to work under him as an assistant-master, I found him always the same, cordial, genial and affable to all who worked for him or with him. He had been appointed Headmaster in 1903 when the number of boys at the School was well under 1003 before he left in 1913 the number had increased to an average of 135, reaching one year 147, a large number for those days. The reputation in which the School was held at that time may be evidenced by a sentence from a letter written in 1907 by the first Lord Strathcona: Trinity College School is an admirable institution which has turned out many and useful men. Dr. Rigby took over the School when it was burdened with a large debtg this debt by skilful management he greatly reduced, yet he was by no means sparing in the matter of improvements which he considered vital to the successful running of a school. Under his watchful care the inherent beauty of the Chapel, now alas no more, was enhanced by many additions, the hospital was complete-