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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 his Upper School, and unfortunately has this record on his first attempt. Scott obtained the highest mark any boy has achieved for many years, and certainly one of the highest in the Province: he obtained 97 C 2 in Algebra and it was generally concluded to be a pretty tough paper. Of fifteen boys writing nine papers or more, three failed to pass all papers. The best results were obtained by ten Broek, five nrsts, three seconds, one third, Scott obtained iive firsts, two seconds, two credits, Saegert three firsts, five seconds, one third. The analysis of the results follows: 1955 1954 No. of candidates 25 31 Papers attempted 203 271 Papers passed ....,. ..... 1 75-86.296 87.896 Papers failed ............. ...... 2 7-13.396 12.2'Z- lst class honours 23-11.34721 25.572- 2nd class honours 50-24.696 20.7921 3rd class honours 37-18.2942 16.255 Credits ...........,..... 65-3292 25.596 Total honours .......................... 110-54.296 62.454, . -. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Scott was awarded a Dominion-Provincial Scholarship of the value of 95500. He was also awarded an Atkinson Foundation Bursary of the value of 5400. Saegert won an Imperial Oil Company Scholarship of the value of 35700. The Company also gives S500 to the University. ten Brock won the Richardson Memorial Scholarship at Queen's. Maclnnes, who left us last year, has been awarded the Beatty Scholarship in Mathematics at Bishop's University- a highly coveted award. One hundred and iifty-four University Scholarships have been won by T.C.S. boys in twenty-one years

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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Messages of congratulations were received from many Air Force and Air Cadet Officers and Old Boys, among them The Minister of National Defence, Air Vice Marshal K. M. Guthrie, National President of the Air Force Associa- tion, who said Personally and on behalf of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association it is a pleasure to offer our warmest congratulations to the Officers, Instructors, Cadets and member of the Civilian Committee of No. 398, Trinity College School Squadron, R.C.A.C., on winning our Association Trophy for 1954-55. We salute the most pro- ficient Air Cadet Squadron in Canada , George Ross, Chair- man of the Air Cadet League for Ontario, .lim Smith, Act- ing Chairman, W. P. Ferguson, Secretary of the Air Cadet League, Ontario, C. H. Jenkin, Area Chairman of the Air Cadet League, Major Eric Cochran C28-'35l, Air Com- modore W. W. Brown, Air Vice Marshal J . G. Bryans, Air Oflicer Commanding Training Command, R.C.A.F., Squadron Leader Wilfred Curtis U41-'47J , Colonel H. E. C. Price C293 , Captain Bill Beeman C41-'43J , the Rev. T. F. Surnmerhayes. Before the Corps became an Air Cadet Corps we had won three times the Imperial Challenge Shield for shooting and the Strathcona Shield once. .. L-.11-li UPPER SCHOOL RESULTS - 195 There were few surprises this year: VI A boys did reasonably well, some of them very well. All except one gained admission to the Colleges of their choice. Three papers were failed by the one boy who did not complete his Upper Schoolg one paper was missed by the others in VI A. Only nineteen first class honours were obtained by the twelve boys, ten of them by Scott and ten Broek. VI B did not fare so well, as was expected. Five boys passed all their papers out of nine attempting eight or nine papers. There were four first class honours. One boy who had been urged to take his Upper School in two years failed every paper except two. He still has to take two years over

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16 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECDRD ENTRANCE TO UNIVERSITIES Although we could not claim that last yea.r's Sixth Form was one of the best scholastically, they had surprising success in being admitted to Colleges. Entering the University of Toronto: Giffen, Hardy, Lash, Massey, Gsler. Entering Queen's University: Christie, J. F., Newland, Saegert, Scott, ten Broek, Trowsdale. Entering McGill: Angus, Carsley, Kilburn. Entering Bishop's University: Bedford-Jones, Cape, Ketchum. J. W. Christie has entered Western, Yorath has entered U.B.C., Young the University of Florida, Audain, Victoria College, B.C., Spicer, Boston College. Cowan, Davies, Goodman and Martin are taking an- other year, Donald may enter McMaster. Of last year's Fifth Form, Fairbairn and Scott gained admission to McGill, Price to Bishop's, Melville to Victoria College, B.C. All other Fifth Form boys are continuing their schooling. 21.1-......1 1.1. VALETE: Angus, B. R. C509--Form VIB: Extra Middleside Soccer Colour, House Oiicerg Head Librarian. Audain, M. J. C521--Form VIB, Record Stan, Dramatic Society. Bedford-Jones, P. E. CJan. '54J-Form VIB, Middleside XII, House Officer, Sacristan. Blaikie, J. R. V491-Form VBI, Middleside Soccer, First Squash, Crucifer. Boake, J. VV. C523-Form VIB, Middleside XII. Borden, J. P. C493-Form VBI, Middleside XII Colour, Choir. Boughner, P. R. C483-Form IIIB, Extra Littleside Soccer Colour, Littleside XI Colour, Record Staff.