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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 11 those who knew him less well than we did, but also seemed to show him other than he Was. ' It is not easy in a few words, or even in many, to picture a thing so complex asaliving, working, personal- ity, and the writer of this short sketch is aware that much more could be said, and said much better. However, that may be, those who have known Sam and what he has done for the School and its members know that the con- tribution he has made to the life of T.C.S., and to the boys of T.C.S., is one of its many really good things. Wherever he goes and whatever he does, he will have the sincerest good wishes of all who have known and appreciated him here. -C. H. Boulden HS.G.!l

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD interested in School or house match-thoroughly himself on tennis or squash courts-a keen spectator at an Oxford Cup race. Few were the events of School interest at which S. G. was not to be found. No one can look back over those years in the life of the School without remembering the winter of 1920, when S. G. lay in the hospital so ill that little hope was held out for his recovery. The illness was the result of his anxiety to get the rink into shapeg he had flooded it three times late one night and in the early morning, and the weather was bitter. The expressions of anxiety during the time he was laid up and the sincere rejoicing on his recovery were a marvellous testimony to the high regard in which he was held. To many of us who have been members of the Com- mon Room during S. G.'s time, the force of his personality and the extent of his influence have always been remark- able. Quick, often impatient with those from whom he differed,-incisive, at times caustic, in the expression of his opinions,-without intending to do so, he became the standard by which members of the staff patterned their acts and even their thought. It would have been hard to convince him that this was the case, and he would have laughed at the hint that a Geldard cult existed. Yet it seemed to others a fact needing no proof. There are those of us to Whom it has been given to know him intimately and to share a measure of his con- fidence and contidences. To us, the generosity, the kind- liness and the thoughtfulness of his nature have always been the main features of his personality, together with that bedrock of sound judgment and well-balanced common sense. That he has sometimes allowed these things, which were his real self, to be covered over with a brusqueness of manner, and at times of word, has given us cause for regret, because they have not only hid the real man from

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12 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD SCHOOL NOTES Following the appeal to Old Boys last year, the Record is now in possession of a complete bound file of its back numbers. It is hoped before long, when one or two still missing duplicates have been found, to place a second bound set in the Library for general reference. A number of the framed photographs of first teams were saved from the fire, though with some damage to frames and glass, and in some instances to the pictures themselves. These are now being put in order and affixed to the walls of the ground-floor corridors of the two houses. It is hoped that in time missing photographs will be re- placed by gifts of copies to the School. Elsewhere the gift of the picture of our earliest Hockey team is acknowl- edged. The wardrobes and bureaus are now fitted in all the boys' rooms. Everyone is enthusiastically agreed that the improvement to the comfort and convenience of the rooms is a great boon. Mirrors have been inserted on the inside of the door panels, midway between the bureaus which serve as dress- ing tables. The bathrooms have been painted in two tones of green to make the early hours brighter, and the dormitory walls have been coloured. The arrival of three talented new-boys made it pos- sible to start a School orchestra, The Trinity Trouba-