Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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28 VOX COLLEGII At the last regular meeting? of the Art Club, the following minutes for the year were read by the .Secretary, Miss Olive Lampman : Late in the fall of 1916, the first meet- ing of this year ' s Art Clnb was called by the honorary president. Miss Wright, The officers. Misses Scoie, Gilverson and Lampman, were appointed, and plans laid for the weekly meetings, held every Wednesday from 9.30 to 10.30 o ' clock. ' Our first care was the bazaar. SteU ' ciling was taken up and those who re- member the club booth wdll know tha result of our efforts. Since the Christmas vacation we have been studying the lives and works of the Master Painters throughout the ages. These were found more than interesting, although the Italian names sometimes seemed insurmountable difficulties. We have practiced memory drawing, illustrations, and drawing from the fig- ure — illustrated by a strange black mass to be seen in one of the students ' sketch books labeled ' ' Miss AVright ' s foot. L nfortunately our time of meeting has made it impossible for former mem- bers to attend, but we hope this little sketch of our doings may meet with their approval and that they may feel that we have carried on the club suc- cessfully and proved ourselves worthy of the club pin. Owing to the extra work preceding examinations, the Art Club meetings gave place to extra outdoor sketching. However, the Club will be re-organized at the beginning of the fall term, and we hope a lot of this year ' s members may be here to help it along next year. The students enjoyed having Miss Marjory Moore back again, not only her presence but the enjoyable Sunday even- ing in the drawing room, when she read a number of extremely pleasing selec- tions for us. Mrs. Merkley read ' ' The Lost Word, by Henry Van Dyke, at the Sunday evening service on April 1st. This was very much enjoyed by all present. Miss Ball read at the concert given by the Faculty at the Convalescent Hos- pital. The boys enjoyed the evening very much. The Junior Class are very busy as they are looking forward to As You Like It with great expectations. Miss Mabel McKinnon read The House Cleaning Scene from The Spinner in the Sun, bv Myrtle Reed, and The Fool, by Robert Service, at The Minister ' s Bride, presented by the Ep worth Le ague of Whitby. These readings were much appreciated by the large audience present. Miss Ida Dodge told a very interesting story ' ' The Melt- ing Pot, ' ' by Zangwill. Miss Frances Fraser read A Pair of Lunatics, by A. S. Walks, at the At Home for the convalescent soldiers given by the Presbyteriails of Whitby. The Seniors are glad to be able to say that their Normal teaching of the Evolution of Expression is a thing of the past. Each member of the Dramatic Art Club left at the close of the year feeling that they had spent a very pleasant and profitable year. At the final meeting of the Dramatic Club Vida Luno was elected presi-

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t vox c In swimming the irls have done ex- ceptionally well. Four classes have been pnt through in life-saving. Kath- leen Smith. Jeanette Higginbotham and Gladys Field each put a class through and will receive teachers ' certificates from the Royal Life-Saving Society. The girls to receive the Royal Life-Sav- ing Society medallions are : Hazel Tay- lor. Muriel Maw, Vida Luno, Marjorie Taber, Edith Abercrombie, Helen Mil- lay, Eva Hutcheson, Freida Harrison, Eileen Harrison, Lucy Robertson, Mor- den Busby, Vera Baker, Joy Mar r it, Leslie Hunter, Lois Dixon and Vivian Alcock. Eileen Harrison and Helen Mil- lay will receive the Award of Merit also. Edith Abercrombie and Eva Hut- cheson are ready to try their Award of Merit as soon . ' as the opportunity is of- fered for examination. ILLEGII 27 A sports day was held in the tank on Monday of Commencement week with an examiner from the Royal Life Saving Society as judge. Helen Millay won the gold medal for general proficiency, and Lucy Robertson won the silver medal. Sixteen girls entered the tennis tourn- ament, and the finals drew an interested lot of spectators. Jessie Love won the finals, playing with a handicap - from May Smith. May proved to be some- what a ' ' dark horse, ' ' and she and Mur- iel Hare were winners in the final doubles. There is nothing in our school life that develops us morally as well as phy- sically as much as our team games and sports generally, and with George El- iot can we not say of athletics, What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other. Household Science The last class in the Domestic Science Department will soon be over, and al- though some of the girls, especially the seniors and those who are not returning next year, feel regretful when they be- gin to realize that never again will they be rushing down to the rooms where so many happy and useful hours were spent, yet it is with relief that we think of the work as being nearly finished. The Senior girls have had their day ' s meals and formal dinners, and each one was very successful in carrying out her ideas. The demonstrations in the Jun- ior class were also a success, and the girls did not seem to find it as hard as they had anticipated. The members of the Home-makers ' course, instead of demonstrating as in former years, gave luncheons on a dollar each. This seems a much more practical plan for those not taking a Normal course. Basketry has taken the place of Jun- ior Sewing and it has been found much more interesting than patching. Tea- pot stands were first made so that the method of weaving could be learned, but now if one visits the class, all sorts of articles in the making may be seen. Fern, flower and sewing baskets are the most popular articles, and some of the girls are making lamp shades. The senior sewing class is busier than ever, finishing up garments. The work all looks especially nice this year and shows that the Friday mornings spent in the sewing room have not been wast- ed. The final examinations are now the immediate fear and dread of most of the girls, but they will all eome through the ordeal splendidly if they do as well as they have done during the past terms.

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vox COLLEGII 29 dent for the coming year. We feel that the members next year will greatly ap- preciate our choice. The Senior Expression girls were very glad when their exam, with Dr. Kirkpatrick was over. While the marks were very close, Winnifred Symington was given first place in this test, but when the year ' s work Avas taken into con- sideration, it Avas found that Mrs. Merk- ley was successful in obtaining the medal. Congratulations, Mrs. Merkley. Class and Other Entertainments THE SENIOR CONCERT. The annual entertainment given by the Senior Class took the form this year of a play, ' ' The District Attorney. The following was the cast: Wm. Seabury, President of Sea- bury Packing Co. — Mabel McKinnon. Ml ' . Herbert BroAvnell, reporter of Tlie Tribune — Dorothy McLaughlin. Richard Seabury, Senior at College — Winnifred Symington. Bol) Kendrich, a fixture at College — Frances Eraser. Billy Reynolds, Freshman at College — Dorothy Whitteker. P. Homer Sullivan, politician — Ida Dodge. John J. Crosby, District Attorney, winning re-election — jMrs. Merkley. Aunt Hattie, Wm. Seabury ' s sister — Josephine Greenway. Dorothy Seabury, Wm. Seabury ' s daughtci ' — Gertrude Hull. Dorothy ' s Chums — Beverly Calvert, Marion Phelps; Peggy Marshall, Leslie Hunter; Polly Whitney, Reba Rice. Margai ' et, servant — Leslie Huntei ' . We expected good things, of course, of the Seniors in Expression, Mabel Mc- Kiniion, Ida Dodge, Winnif ' ' e(l Sxiiiiiig- ton, Frances Eraser and Mvh. McT ' kley, but the histrionic ability displayed by the graduates., in Music and Domestic Science, and the candidates for Honor Mati-iculation w as truly a surprise. Win- nifred Symington in a masculine role was f|uite a novelty, and the composure of Dorothy Whitteker in passing off the downfall of tlu! electric lamp as a piece of stage business was so complete that if it had not been for her own admission later, we shnuld have been taken in en- tirely. After the play the cast and sev- eral members of the faculty enjoyed a social half hour in the reception room, and the evening was voted by all a great success. THE JUNIOR CONCERT. That long anticipated event, the Jun- ior concert, was held in the College As- sembly Hall on the evening of Friday, May 11th. The enthusiastic outbursts of applause, Avhich followed every num- ber, were most certainly Avell-merited, and proved that the Juniors had not labored in vain to make the evening a success. The opening chorus deserves special mention, as does also the second number on the program, an arrangement of four popular selections, which Avere rendered in a verv pleasing manner. Then fol- loAved A Wee Bit 0 ' Scotch, the Highland Fling, exceptionally Avell done by Sandy McGraAv and Andy McGregor, otherAvise knoAvn at O.L.C. as Gladys Field and Florence Horn. Mary Score and Eva Hutcheson, Avho styled them- selves the Think We ' re .Smarts and Avho bore the ' ' romantic ' ' names of Law- rence Lollypop and Lancelot Slipalot, then made their appearance and pi ' o- ceeded to convulse the audience with their AA ' itty remarks. The act Avhich succeeded this one was of a very novel order, and created much mcrriiiK iil among the spectators. It AA as Muriel Maw (but Avho Avould have known it!) and Elizabeth KnoAvles, who ap- peared in the characters of Silas Hay- dasher and Elmer Lemon, and the clever little song entitled ' ' In Other Words, which they sang in their own inimitable