Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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10 vox COLLEGII iality of demeanor toAvards those seeking tuition at their college, and by many ser- vices they can render socially and other- wise to make their town a place of frag- rant memories. MONDAY. CLASS DAY. Monday was Class Day. As usual we had a most delightful afternoon pro- gram. It was bright, crisp and ' ' funny. ' ' As the daisy chain was clipped each fair graduate took her place on the platform to the reading of the following fates : Before the seniors went their ways Into the happy future days, Doing their life work, we must see What each of them is going to be. Ve draw the misty vale aside And cut the knot in which fate ' s tied. FLORENCE GRAHAM. Florence is the youngest member of the graduating class, and has a veiy bright future before her when she leaves the halls of our Alma Mater. She re- turns each year to attend summer school, but not in vain. After the third year she decides to do settlement work in Whitby and afterwards is busy laundering white coats. MARGERY MOORE. Behind a counter where displayed Are hot, quick lunches all arrayed, Bowing, smiling to all who know her, Stands our dear friend Margery Moore. MYRTLE FAWT1ETT. Brooklin, Ont., January 26, 1927. Dear Friend : — You will no doubt be surprised to know I came as a delegate to a Sunday School Convention here. I am very fortunate in being billeted at the Rev. and Mrs. John Zacharius Nehemiah Nathaniel Ebenezer. Mrs. Ebenezer is a veiy de- lightful person, having qualities that be- come a young woman. She is a graduate of O.L.C. Maybe you have heard me speak of her as Miss Myrtle Ermina Weselena Faweett, her maiden name. She takes a veiy active part in the par- ish duties and is very instrumental in the carrying on of plays and churcn socials. She is also a leader in fashion here, besides having charge of the choir, being organist and sometimes supplying for the Rev. Ebenezer. I was so fortunate in being placed with these fine people, and I ' m sure their kindly deeds will live long after them. Very lovingly, A Sister Grad. MELVA IIETHERINGTON. All day long through the city street Soundeth the tread of many feet ; The militant suffragettes on the run, Led by IMiss Melva Hetherington. GRACE FISHER. On a New York stage under brilliant light, Grace Fisher ' s performing every night; She will whistle to all for a nickle or dime, And be ballet-dancing all the time. ADA SNIDER. On an outdoor platform Miss Snider stands ; She appeals to a mob with outstretched hands ; The persuasive eloquence she has dis- played Would put poor Cicero in the shade. FREDA PENNAL. Freda ' s school days are over, but she is no longer ' ' Freda. ' ' One now address- es her as Miss Pennal, the noted suffra- gette and man-hater. Frequently one sees her studying along with her inde- pendent air apparelled in her tweed suit, manish collar, sensible heeled shoes, car- rying a stick in her right hand and a bomb in the other. We noticed last week in the Toronto paper where she had an

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vox COLLEGII 9 preme in our lives, tools, in Abraham ' s day, a cruel, idolatrous form. Abraham was led through an experience that in- duced him in sacrifice to offer up Isaac, his only begotten son, to Jehovah, with the result that he learned what genuine fatherhood meant. By making God our pattern in life we become our true selves. This is involved in the fact that we wei ' e made in the image of God. Thus when we make His presence in our lives a habit are Ave not thereby becoming transformed into His, likeness ? We see in this that religion does not cramp our natural powers of thought or feeling, or conscience, but rather intro- duces them into the path that shines more and more unto the perfect day. The sphere of religious action is not found in ascetic performances or merely ceremonial activities. Wherever a soul is striving to be genuine there is holy groiind, and there the living God com- municates His love, and joy, and peace. A great river, in Oriental phrase, was called a river of God ; a great mountain , a mountain of God; a genuine man, a man of God. Such was Abraham, and such are all true builders of a nation, Avhether they be high or low, masters or servants. The only secure nation is one whose people do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly Avith God. ' ' What we need as a people is to wake up. The natural man is dead in tres- passes and sins. AAvake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee life. ' ' These words are addressed to individuals and especially at this time to nations. Clearer than ever before can we now see both by this war and the work of mis- sions at home and abroad the necessity of public education being in life and pre- cept Christian. Thus are we thoroughly furnished unto all good works. As it Avas in the beginning Avith Abraham, in- itiating religion into national life, may it be so now and forever. We are called upon, as Abraham, to become perfect, Avalking as in God ' s sight. To become perfect is to become thoroughly made, spherical in development, vitalized in all our faculties, and thus in ourselves and in our relations to church and home and college like a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. And now a word to the graduating class. Every ending implies a begin- ning; every reaping implies a sowing. This college is to-day an end in your lire, but an end beckoning you on to begin another career Avith efficiency and dis- tinction in proportion to the success with which you close your course here. Youth is a rare time of advantages, be- cause of the features which characterize it. It is a formative time. With facil- ity you can give bent to your character now for untold good which Avould be beyond your power to accomp- lish if postponed too long. They that seek early in life its best eon- tents can find them. No such promise is made to one Avho, through indolence or cramping conditions, alloAvs herself to become a field where only weeds or nox- ious plants grow. Arrange after you leave here to pursue such studies with- out delay as will maintain and develop the advantages you have reaped here. Do it while memory is at its best; Avhile the heart is hopeful ; while intellect is quick; Avhen everything comes to you like the morning, and its voice is like the morning songs. This will give you a true optimism based upon a real and vital personality that hopeth all things and believeth all things. ' ' Thus jou Avill spread the influence of your Alma Mater in the best Avay Avhen you are living epistles, Avitnessing to its high and enduring educative realizations. I need not tell you, Avhat is not knoAvn as widely as it should be, of the salubrity and beau- ty and comforts of this College. It has so far begun its Avork so Avell and in such quarters as to Avarrant the hope that a great future in influence and develop- ment aAvaits it. Let all those Avho have experience of its worth, pass it on to oth- ers — its graduates, by giving it a high place in their hearts and memories through all their years by word and deed ; and the citizens of this toAAm, by furnishing accessibility to the institution among them by good roads to it ; by cord-

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vox COLLEGII 11 engagement to speak to the soldiers at Petawawa. We are wondering what the effect will be on the soldiers. MABEL SHARPS. 0. L. C, WHITBY. January 14, 1926 My dear old 0. L. C. Room-mate : — I say ' ' old, ' ' but dear me, when I see what few changes can take place in a space of ten years, I begin to think we are all as young as we were in the dear College days of 1916. 1 am sure you will be surprised to re- ceive a letter addressed at the Castle, but I ' m down here for a week-end and knew you would like to know about the changes and improvements. My first trip down town was a great surprise. You no doubt remember Tod ' s! Well, I was taking my niece in for after- noon tea, when behold ! I saw a familiar face. It was standing outside in an at- titude of careful watchfulness. I nearly caved-in (as we girls used to say) when I recognized Mabel Sharpe. She does not look a day older. She is the resident piano teacher in Miss Col- lins ' place, and co-operates with the pu- pils in every way. She rooms in 15 L. Frances, (Miss Gott ' s old room) but I hear from the students her one fault is being very strict. Woe to midnight feeds! She smells an electric iron burning, if it ' s at the other end of the hall. After ten o ' - clock the by- word is, ' ' Here comes Mabel Sharpe. Excuse me, I mean Miss Sharpe. But she is very happy. I was so sur- prised, for she used to say never would she teach in this College. However, we may all come to an untimely end some day. Yours with love, Onk of The Ryeksonites. PEARL SHEPPARD. My dear Old Room-mate : What a surprise I have for you. Do you remember our old College days at O. L. C. when we used to prophesy Pearl Sheppard ' s future, in a little cottage by the sea, with cats galore, and where no man would dare aspire to her hand ? Well, my dear, we were wrong in thinking Pearl an old maid, for at a reception given in the Government House, Ottawa, who should I see on entering but Pearl, Pearl Sheppard, of O.L.C., and leaning on the arm of His Lordship, General Kit- ten. Every eye longingly sought the happy couple. I overheard one conver- sation to Lord Whoknows telling her ex- perience while teaching history at Cor- nell. They were all deeply interested, inso- much that other fair damsels were en- tirely neglected, but what a shock the company received on seeing Pearl, with the usual quick movement, taking one leap out of the window to rescue a play- ful kitten. GRACE REAZIN. I am sure Miss Grace Reazin ' s friends will be glad to hear that she has accepted a position as chief cook in Child ' s Res- taurant, Toronto, Ont. We wish to aiuiounce that Miss Reazin will be demonstrating in the window every afternoon from 2 until 4 o ' clock. Come early and avoid the rush. GEORGIAN (BOBBIE) SMITH. When long years since I go to see A famous opera in a lift, I see to my astonishment The ever-famous Bobby Smith. I whispered to my next-seat friend Who is this at the last, ' ' My dear, my next-seat friend replies,, Director of the Cast ! HELEN CLARK. Her tongue is the law of kindness! A more kind-hearted, good-natured Su- pervisor ' twould be hard to find for the Orphans ' Home at Gait. The kiddies look forward with delight to the favorite des- sert-ice-cream and chocolate sauce, which soon found a place in the week ' s menus, when our Helen became matron of this institution.