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

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For the past several years, a report of the School Convocation has not been included in the Record. In keeping with our theme of change, however, we feel that it should be included this year. Many changes have taken place in the Convocation and we hope that the report will help encourage new members to get involved. As Latin scholars will know, convocation means, a calling together . In our case it is a calling to- gether of people with an interest in the school. Convocation is made up of all old boys, parents, masters and friends of the school. All of these people are automatically members. The function of the T.C.S. Convocation is to en- sure that T.C.S. is able to operate properly in matters, not concerning so much the students themselves, but with the business side of the run- ning of the school. For example, the Board of Gov- ernors are the legal owners of the school, and they handle any problems concerning its properties. Since T.C.S. is a private school, it receives no funds from the government. The Convocation, therefore, organizes the raising of money to assist in the running of the school. The fees paid by parents alone would not nearly cover the expenses the school incurs. This year ' s Annual General Meeting of Convo- c ation was held on Saturday, October 18th. The attendance was below normal, but the reasons for this were put to poor weather conditions and the fact that there are many new parents who may not have realized their role in Convocation. The meeting was opened by Mr. J.W. Kerr, the Execu tive Secretary, who made some general on this year ' s meeting. The Chairman of the erning Body, Mr. E.J.M. Huycke, then said a words on what the school Convocation is re sponsible for. At this point, thirteen new governors elected to the Governing Body. This was where major change occurred, the election of two men, Mrs. E.B.M. (Nancy) Pinnington of To and Mrs. E.F. (Louise) Willis of Winnipeg, Governors. This was the first time that womer had held this position in T.C.S. history. Mr. E. Howard, Chairman of the T.C.S. Fund made a financial report of the school f or the 1974 1975 year. The Headmaster gave his report on hew the school itself is shaping up this year. Things generally looked favourable. The Ladies Guild report, put forth by the Pres] dent of the Toronto Branch of Ladies Guild, M J.B.S. (Wendy) Southey, outlined the purpose ai importance of all branches of the Ladies Guilj She also commented on the increasing success the Clothing Exchange, formed several years age The meeting was adjourned by Mr. Kerr. The importance of the School Convocatior cannot be stressed enough, even though its worl goes uncredited by the boys. We hope its mem bers are able to continue its good work in the future and that more of its members may beconw actively involved in the T.C.S. Community. 16 -School Life

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GUESS WHAT WE’VE FOUND OUT? Guess what we’ve found out? Our “Guess What We’ve Found Out” reporters searched around Alice Cooper’s attic and came up with some astonishing facts from Alice’s old yearbooks. Alice is from Canada! He is also from Port Hope! Guess what school he went to? You guessed it: he came from T.C.S., a private school in the picturesque rural town of Port Hope. Alice was reported to be a nice, normal, popular, sweet, innocent boy who used to be in the choir. He had a spat with the school authori- ties when he dropped a hymn book during prayer and got kicked out for a term. His interest in singing intensified when the Port Hope Dolls made it big. He then moved to bigger and better times in Cobourg where he played at the Plaza. He then went to Warner Brother’s Recording Studios in the U.S.A. When the “Guess What We’ve Found Out” reporters talked to Alice ’s old classmates and asked them what Alice was like as a “school chum” they said he was a normal guy except there were two weird thingB about him: he was in the choir, and he got good marks from Mr. Lawson. Mr. Lawson inspired some of his famous stage routines, such as hanging himself, cutting off his head, and hacking up Barbie dolls with an axe. That’s entertainment! ! Alice Conducting T.C.S. Choir Wow! Exciting news in the fashion world this month. A new dynamite outfit has completely changed the whole youth scene. Everywhere from Inuvik to Hong Kong teenage boys are going wild trying to secure the new threads. The new outfit includes a spotless white shirt, blue blazer, daring grey flannel pants, black lace-up shoes and to complete the latest pant suit look, a piece of cloth tied in a knot around the wearer’s neck (under shirt collar) ingeniously enough called a tie (I guess because the wearer must tie it.) Pil just dropped by my office to show off his new outfit and he looked flippo!! He laid the story of the clothes on me. It’s about how boys in a school in some hick village up in Canada called Hope Port have been wearing them for years. All hell broke loose yesterday in Hamburg, Germany, when fifty boys started fighting over the remaining stock of the official Trinity College ties. The fight spread into a riot and police were called in. The death toll at last count was twenty -six. Apparent- ly, some crazy dude was so upset that he couldn’t get his hands on a T.C.S. tie that he blew up the building. Workers are still pulling bodies from the wreckage. I guess you could say the new hip clothes are a real blast in Hamburg. (chuckle-chuckle) For the last five years the whereabouts of Monkee writer — guitarist Mike Nesmith has been unknown. NoJ in an exclusive Trini-Teen scoop we will give you all the fc details of the handsome Monkee who went into self-exile. Mike was inducted into the United States army February 17, 1970; the next day he disappeared. His wilt children, and none of his close friends knew where he until a few days ago when Trini-Teen discovered Mike in F Hope, Ont., Canada. Mike had changed his name to John Black, enrolled in private school in this picturesque rural Ontario town, carried on like any normal student. The only thing diffe about Mike was that he was the only boy in his class t wore his good old wool hat most everywhere he went 0 even in the shower! ) The whole world is happy again now that we all know t dreamy Mike is safe and healthy. When we asked M ' classmates what they thought of Mike being in their cl they said he smelled and everyone hated him. John at a ' Bash” in Port Hope. Mike in 1970