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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Vol. 63 Trinity College School, Port Hope, December, 1959 No. 1 Editor-in-Chief C. D. Hyde. School News Editor- S. R. Wilson. Assistants: M. H. H. Bedford-Jones, A. D. Heron, M. C. Hudson, E. L. Pidgeon, P. S. Phillips, P. B. Starnes, N. P. L. Stocken, R. W. E. Stone, M. B. Sullivan, J. A. H. Vanstone, J. M. Worral. Features Editor-A-P. G. Mc.E. Chubb. Assistants: C. J. Adair, M. J. Blincow, W. R. Eakin, J. G. Frazer, P. G. Horcica, W. A. Pearce. Literary Editor ............................................................................................................ T. M. Eadie Sports Editor-J. L. G. Richards. Assistants: L. D. Bowman, D. H. Brainerd, N. Camp- bell, N. L. Leach, J. K. Martin, G. H. VV. Muir, J. J. Nickson, I. P. Saunders, J. F. C. Scrivin, J. C. Stikeman, J. B. Stratton, P. A. West, J. R. Yates. G. L. Booth. Photography Editor-M. L. Ferro. Assistants: J. A. Campbell, M. A. H. Evans, J. F. James, D. S. Litteljohn, M. B. Malley, A. J. Pateman. Business Manager-G. K. Cooper. Assistants: S. C. Biggs, D. R. Cooper, J. J. Kime, H. K. A. MacKenzie, J. W. Mitchell, P. J. Paterson, J. R. Woodcock. Head Typist-N. F. J. Ketchum. Assistants: W. L. Cowen, R. B. L. Henderson. R. L. Satterwhite, D. T. Smith, C. J. Tottenham. Art Staff ........................ E. W. Colby, D. P. Day, L. C. N. Laybourne, D. G. Shewell Staff Liaison ...... ....... ...................... ............................................................. A . G . Shorto. Photography ..... ....... . .. . ....... P. R. Bishop, Esq Treasurer ........ ........ D . W. VVing, Esq Old Boys ............ ........... J . W. Kerr, Esq Staff Adviser ...... ................................................................................... . ..A. H. Humble, Esq The Record is published three times a year in the months of December, April, and August. Printed by The Weekly, Port Credit, Ont. EDITORIAL To follow imperfect, uncertain or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgement, is but to exchange one danger for another. In this changing world, we must stop once in a while and size up conditions as they exist. When we do this we find that binding traditions must fall, or at any rate alter, to fit the current circumstances. Now there are two sorts of traditions. There are those which are comparatively harmless but do good, and then there are those which are outmoded and no longer bear value. These latter are often very dangerous. Traditional foreign policies change. Since 1945 man has developed war- fare to such a degree that a country may no longer go to war every time a crisis arises in its sphere of iniiuence. If the powers had acted with customary pre-World WarII aggressiveness in such flare-ups as the Middle East, Laos and Tibet, the consequences would have been disastrous. Thus men who were heads of pre-war foreign affairs are no longer able to use traditional behaviour. This was tried by certain statesmen, and was decisively proved unsuccessful.

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0 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD In Britain, after centuries of building, tradition has found its place. One strength of the Crown lies in the fact that it has no power: it merely represents Britain's noble history. The other lies in its aloofness from politics. These traditions form a strong core around which the people of Britain can take their stand in times of stress. In such times as the Second World War, royalty represented the indomitable will of the British people and helped to sustain the spirit of the nation. Man has always looked to his ancestors in moments of indecision, to find a line of traditional behaviour. However, in this present day his father's methods are generally so outmoded that he must think out the matter himself. This in itself creates seemingly insurmountable problems as far as, for example, parent and child relationships are concerned. The teen-age boy cannot act as his father would have acted in his youth, for with his wider use of the automobile, his greater alcoholic consumption at an earlier age, and his reading material no longer excluding the mention of sex, they have lived in different worlds. The youth is torn between his desire to imitate what his father might have done, and what he reads about and sees on television, or in the movies. He must think for him- self and not just accept as right what other people do and say. Teen-agers of today are forever seeking an idol, someone to imitate whether it be in clothing, appearance or behaviour. So often the example he chooses to ape is nothing but a victim of Hollywood's mushroom-like publicity, created to fill the needs of one motion picture studio or another. When his idol is exposed, which very frequently happens, the youth's belief in what he thought was right is crushed. He must develop the habit of examining and questioning everything that is put before him, and thus learn how to discriminate, and scrape the surface to reveal the cheap metal beneath. This general situation has been the cause of the springing up of non-conformists and rebels against society. These existentialists and beatniks are not doing anything in a positive sense for the world, for in effect, they are retreating into their conforming non-conformative shell. This brings up the subject of Them. You know the frame of mind. We're all guilty of it. Why don't they ban atomic weapons, or, Why don't they do this or that. We are leaving our fate in Their hands without taking an active enough part in what is going to become of the world. We must become better informed, and help those around us to think about what we should do to prevent enmity, war and annihilation. -C.D.H.