Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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MISS LUCY F. M. BOX Teacher at Trafalgar School for Girls from 1939-1959 Died in London, England, January 10, 1960 A Memorial Service was held on January 13, 1960, at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, when past and present members of the School gathered with many of Miss Box ' s other friends to pay a tribute to a loved and respected teacher and friend. [12]

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MAGAZINE STAFF Editor GlLUAN MlCHELL Assistant Editor RoNiNE Heming First Sub-Editor Lee Henderson Second Sub-Editor Catherine Irwin Secretary-Treasurer Anne Paterson Sports Editor Barbara Rowat Art Editor Margaret Ann Adams Photojiraphv Editor Barbara Schwartz Honorary Adviser Miss Stansfield MAGAZINE COMMITTEE Senior 11 DiANE SCHNEZLER Arts IT Dorothy Boddy Science f I Sharon McMichael Form Fa Janet Downie Form I B Wendy Davies Form IV A Carole Irvine Form I I s Elizabeth Kent Form III Mary Anna McRae Form IIIb Joan Clarkin Upper II Victoria Knox Form II Wendy Tomlinson CONTENTS Tributes to Miss Box 12 Editorial 15 Activities 17 Sixth Forms 25 Senior Literary- 38 Foreign Section 50 Junior Literary 55 Sports 61 Old Girls ' Notes .68 School Directory 72 [11]

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Part of tlw address gii en h Dr. lu rlis at tliv Mvii} ri(d Service: Some twenty years ago, a younji Gym Mistn-ss. luinied T ucy Box. oame out from Englaml to Alontieal. ami began her work at Tratalgar School. hen she Hrst arriveil, ami saw [ v reil-brick Schot)! on Simpson Street, she could never have foreseen tliat she would stay so long, nor that she would induence so many generations of Trafalgar students ... As it was said of a young Teacher who taught in Galilee long ago, we could say of Lucy Box: She began to teach . . . many things ... She taught the meaning of maturity. She guided skilfully and sympathetic- ally yoimg girls on the pathway to womanhood. Beautiful in her own person, she helped others over the awkward years, and showed them how they could be beautifid too. Charming, humorous, gracious, yet firm when firmness was called for, she taught her girls to build these qualities into the fabric of per- sonality . . . She taught the richness of friendship. To remember Lucy Box is to remember a friend . . . She was unfailingly kind. It seemed she knew every- body, and was always doing things — generous things, wonderful things — in the name of friendship, outh can be selfish, adulthood, too, can be selfish. But when we looked upon Luc Box we felt our selfishness rebuked . . . She taught us the meaning of steadfast loyalty. She was loyal to her friends; she was loyal to her convictions about life: she was loyal to Trafalgar. She lived for Trafalgar. To her, Trafalgar was home, family, kinfolk, even a Church. And because of her loyalty she made others loyal, too. It was such a spirit as hers which helped to make Trafalgar the happy, confident, united School in which we rejoice today . . . It was a cruel blow when illness separated Lucy Box from her beloved Trafalgar. But now, for her. all sickness is ended, and she has gone where there shall be no more separation. A tribute from the Principal : As Principal of Trafalgar School 1 should like to pay tribute to Miss Box ' s outstanding contribution to the School during her twenty years of service. Miss Box had all the qualities which Dr. Berlis has attribvited to her — grace, humour, kindness — and she show ed them to us in the day to day life of the School. She was an inspired and understanding teacher and a gifted organizer. Among many other occasions, her great triumph was the success of the arrangements for the opening of our new building by the Governor-General, the Right Honourable Vincent Massey. Miss Box ' s care, her sense of timing, her meticulous attention to detail made that day the great one that it was. As everyone has said, 3Iiss Box ' s outstanding characteristic was her devotion to Trafalgar. She gave me, too, for almost twenty years, a personal devotion which I shall always remember with gratitude and love. J. M. V. F. [13]