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

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8 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD I- I S. Geldard, Esq. f-s. G. It was in September, 1913, that S. G. first came to the School, and for the intervening twenty-one years he has been so much a part of T.C.S. that it is hard to think of the place without him. It is impossible to say exactly what it is that makes a man a good schoolmaster. Teaching ability-interest and skill in games-kindly affection for the boys-a sense of humour-and willingness to devote self wholeheartedly to the School and its best objects-these are certainly

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 7 November 4th.: The Rev. D. B. Rogers, G.B.R.E. November 18th.: The Right Rev. L. W. B. Broughall, Bishop of Niagara. The collections from September 16th. to October 21st. inclusive have amounted to .EE46.09. -J .V. THE SCHOOL ARCHITECTS We deeply regret to record that during the summer, both architects of the present T.C.S. buildings died. C. Barry Cleveland, who designed the new Senior School buildings, died very suddenly while on a visit to Camp Mazinaw at Bon Echo. He had lived in Canada since 1912, and was associated with the construction of many fine buildings in Toronto. He was frequently to be seen at the School, advising on the care and improvement of his work, and only a few weeks before his death had presented three fine silver poplars to adorn the corner be- low the Chapel doors. These cloisters will in future be known as the Cleveland cloisters. Mr. Henry Sproatt was also a distinguished Toronto architect, whose name is permanently associated with Trinity College School by the erection of the new stone Junior School buildings to the north of the fields. He died at the beginning of this term. C . To both these men, we at T.C.S. may gladly apply the epitaph of Wren, the greatest of British architects ..... Si monumentum requiris ....

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 9 great assets: anti Geldard has these qualities in generous measure. Yct others have had them and failed to be- come anything more than ordinary schoolmastersg Geldard is much more than that. A man of marked individuality and strength of char- acter, with an abundance of sound common sense and good judgment, he has been a wise counsellor to his colleagues, a kindly guide and firm friend to the prefect body, and a housemaster with a keen and helpful interest in the boys of his house. With the firmness of the disciplinarian who knows what is good for those under his care and means them to have it, he combines a personality which has won the respect and affection of a host of friends, both young and old. Popularity he never sought, and yet popularity and affection came to him in a larger measure than is the lot of most. As the writer thinks of the last score of years at T.C.S., there are many memories of Geldard which come to his mind. Not in order of time, nor yet of importance, he puts them down on paper, all too conscious of the fact that they give only a poor picture of their subject. There was the Lower Flat of the old building, and there, as preparation was made for bed, and the usual sky- larking, mild or otherwise, went on, wandered S. G.-a stern word here, a smiling remark there, and sometimes the short deep laugh, and finally, the familiar La . . . st Lights . His bookshelves were full of good things and many of them were freely lent to boys who appreciated them. Then, too, the hospital knew him-slipping in quietly in the evenings with kindly chaff and news of the day. How well, too, we knew that long figure bent attentively over the lawn mower on his beloved tennis- courts-reclined easily, as he knew how, in a deck-chair at the side of the cricket field-clad in a brown raincoat, shivering uncomfortably in the autumn cold, yet keenly