Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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30 VOX COLLEGII way, proved to be a decided feature of the evening. Following this, we enjoyed the privilege of witnessing a pseudo Faculty meeting where the ' ' teachers assembled in ' ' Miss Maxwell ' s sitting- room for the purpose of discussing the merits and faults of the Seniors, prepar- atory to marking them for the term. It was really marvelous what a striking re- semblance most of the girls bore to the members of the Faculty, whom they wished to imitate, and some of the appli- cations made to the Seniors, while decid- edly ludicrous, were not so far mis- placed after all. Special mention must be made of Leona Merkley as Miss Max- well while Kathleen Smith made a typi- cal Miss Scott, and Mabel Common was equally good as Miss Chantler. In ad- dition to these, all of the other girls did wonderfully well in their respective parts. The program was brought to a close by a clever imitation of the cinemato- graph in a sketch entileed Love Will Find a Way. ' ' The members of the cast displayed a talent for acting which was a great surprise to all. Dorothy Gilver- son was charming as the daughter of the house. Emily Simpson, -as the irate par- ent, was most effective, while Vida Luno did splendidly in the role of the thwart- ed lover, who, after having his suit re- jected, deT)arted for the front, and was reported killed. Needless to say he re- turned at the opportune moment, and prevented his fickle sweetheart from being wedded to a most realistic villain, in the person of Florence Horn. Dur- ing the unfolding of the plot, suitable music was artistically rendered by Jessie Love. Much credit is dne to Muriel Maw, president of the Junior Class, and to Jessie Love, for their untiring efforts to make the concert the unparalleled suc- cess it proved to be, and it seems almost unnecessary to add that we shall ever remember it as one of the most humor- ous and delightful events of the year. THE FACULTY PLAY. An important event of the year was the dramatized version of Dickens ' story The Chuzzlewits by the members of the Faculty. This presentation was the outgrowth of the systematic reading of the story in the Dickens Club, and a wish to study more closely the charac- ters, so vividly portrayed by the author. The cast was as follows: Pecksniff— -Miss Scott. Tom Pinch — Miss Chantler. Old Martin Chuzzlewit — Miss Sh-aw. Young Martin Chuzzlewit — Miss Wright. Old Anthony Chuzzlewit — Miss Fol- lick. Lewsome Jonas Chuzzlewit — Miss Lewis. Tigg— Miss Gott. Nadgett — Miss Emsley. Old Chuff ey — Miss Brush. Bailey — Miss Rose. Mr. Mould — Mr. Moddle— Mrs. Farewell. Mary Graham — Miss Maxwell. Charity Pecksniff — Miss Thompson. Mercy Pecksniff — Miss Granger . Sarah Gamp — Miss Wallace. Betsy Prigg — Miss Thompson. The presentation of these unique char- acters was a matter of interest, not only to those who had made a study of the play, but to all those who listened to the production. The enthusiasm with which Miss Scott entered into the study of the complicated Mr. Pecksniff, with his men- tal hypocrisy and external benevolence, gave us a vision of this character that will long live in our minds. His two daughters, the silly Mercy and the shrewish Charity, were portrayed with so much spirit and abandon that the audience was moved to laughter and ap- plause. ' The villain parts fell to Miss Lewis and Miss Gott, and so well did they play their role that those not versed in the theory of Dramatic Art wonder where they kept this villainy when they were not Dlaying. The character of Tom Pinch was very convincingly interpreted by Miss Chan- tler. Tom ' s benevolent forehead — an in- dex to his noble soul gentle manner, and kindly disposition — stood out in strong contrast to the hypocrisy and cant with which he was surrounded, while Bailey, as played by Miss Rose,