Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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vox COLLEGII 19 some difficulty in finding the place but was made very comfortable upon my ar- rival. When the hostess made her appear- aiiee I noticed that she was a very moth- erly sort of person, quite stout, weighing probably 200 lbs. She had a great head- ful of blonde hair and a round full face wreathed in smiles and dimples. When I had registered she recognized my name and then made herself known to me as Dorothy Sorby, late of O.L.C. I must say, the only strangely familiar feature that I would have recognized was a peculiar little twinkle of the eye. I learned while talking to her that she had a Costumer department in connection with her Hostess House and she did most of the designing. I was surprised to hear that she didn ' t do all the sewing herself. Dorotliij cthraijs did love seiv- ing. Her establishment was very up-to-date and very well patronized by Canadian tourists and she seemed to enjoy her woi ' k. I enjoyed my brief stay there so much and promised to recommend the place to any friends who would be visit- ing in Paris. Adelaide Stenning. I happened one day in 1930 to be at a horse-race. The horses were making the final home-stretch. All eyes were upon the winner, and the rider of that winner to me looked strangely familiar, so after the race I went down in order to get nearer to this strange jockey. I noticed that she was very tall and thin; so tall, in fact, that her legs almost dragged on the ground when she rode It was flien that I recognized my old friend Adelaide Stenning. I asked her how they ever happened to take one of her size as jockey. She replied that as she was such a. wonderful horsewoman that they had overlooked that fault. . She could only give me a very ievr minutes, because after each race she had to rush straight to the hairdresser ' s as she felt that she could never win unless her hair were perfectly marcelled. Just before I left her she informed me that she spent her evenings ballet-dancing in a down-town Cabaret, and gave me ' a pass to go every evening, for which I was very grateful. Frances Stevens. In 1935 I was touring through the States, and wishing to see the San Fran- cisco exposition, I went there first. Pas- sing through the midway, I chanced to see the advertisement of a verj stout per- son now on exhibition to the piiblic. Af- ter paying my ten cents, I proceeded further, and found an extremely short, fat lady sitting on a large chair. Some- thing about her seemed strangely fam- iliar. I had just turned to go, when suddenly, she smiled, that engaging smile, and I knew instantly, it was Frances Stevens. I talked to her for a while, and learned that after lea ang 0. L. C. she had kept house, but the work had been so strenuous that it made her very ill. It was as a result of this ill- ness that she had grown so short, but yet so fat, and was now travelling witli a company in the midway. Really, her face was so fat that I would never have recognized her, had it not been for that smile. At the time, she was wearing a sweet, simple, and girlish white dress. Laureen Terryberry. After Terry left O.L.C. she never rest- ed until the achievement of her great am- bition. At University she entered Hon- our Classics. After graduating she took the course in Dental Nursing, and later her A.T.C.M. in piano. Then she mas- tered the arts of miUinery and dress- making. But all these were merely in- cidents in her career. All the while she was training and toiling towards the realization of a great dream. In the Marathon race at Antwerp in 1932, Teriy was listed as one of the con- testants. A great pavilion at the end of the course, decorated in light and dark blue, was thronged with excited O.L.C. friends. At last a slender, swiftly-run- ning figure appeared in the distance — far ahead of the others. It was Teriy !

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18 VOX COLLEGII ed within and learned that a tall, cap- able woman dth hair parted in the cen- tre and dra vn tightly back as Presi- dent of this eonceni. Desserts were man- ufactured under the most scientific man- agement. This person had been so en- thusiastic and interested in her investi- gation that she rested neither day or night, until she had unearthed the bril- liant discoveiy that a delicious dessert could be concocted from a combination of sago, eggs, milk, and sugar, which re- sembled sti-ougly the well-known fish- eyes peculiar to O. C. L. This brought back pleasant memories of 1920, and. thinking of this, 1 recognized in the President my old class-mate, Lillian Mul- holland. Lill ' an, having in this way amassed a great foi-tune, devoted the ro- maiiider of her life to church work. Cora Olmstead. One hot summer day in the year 1930, I happened to be in Welland and, pa-s- sing by the school there, I noticed a group of students going through some familiar exercises. The teacher had her back turned toward me but as I drove near I heard 1, 2, 3, push; (swing left 2, 3, 4) — what else could it be but Em- erson exercises? And. approaching, I saw that unmistakable white bone haii-- pin which could belong to no other than my .school mate of 1920, Cora Olmstead. At O.L.C. she had learned Push (as it was always known to us) ; she had taken such a fancy to it and realized so greatly its remarkable qualities that she had de- cided to teach it to the poor unfortunate children in Welland who were not able to attend either O.L.C. or Emerson Col- lege. Cora was looking well and said she was enjoying her work very much, but she was in a tremendous huriy for one of her boy friends had .just driven up in a Stutz ; and after dismissing her class she said good-bye to me and drove hap- pily away. Dorothy Sarjkant. AVe prepare our future in the present, so we fully expect Miss Dorothy Sar- jeant, our Gold Medallist in piano, in a short time to have her A.T.C.M. ; A.O.- C.M., and L.T.C.M., in not only piano, but vocal, organ, violin, banjo, theory, accordeon, mouth organ, and Jew ' s liarp. In 1930 she will receive the coveted po- sition of teacher in tlio Tonmto Conser- vatory Branch newly established by Mr. G. D. Atkinson, on Mars. She will also assist Mr. Atkinson in his study of native music. We confidently expect the result of their labours to revolutionize popular music. Dorothy says aerial service is so swift — no tiresome Avaits at little spots like Pickei ' ing — and so handy to Toronto, too. Dorothy Snider. In 1927 I visited a friend in Vancouv- er city. While driving through the park we passed some ladies who were also siglitseeing. One face looked familiar and just then one of our group remarked that a steamer had just come in fi ' om China. I was immediately interested and had the driver take us back. Upon a secojid look ' I recognized none other than Dorothea Snider who had gradua- ted in 1920. I made myself known and found upon inquiry that she had spent four- very successful years in C ' hina but owing to too constant application of her kindness had overtaxed hei ' strength and was home on furlough. We chatted a- bout 1920, our class officer ' s, members and students of the school. Dorothea contemplated spending a week end at school and conducting a conference. However there AVPr-e other things to tell of gr-eat importance too! The sun was shining and a something very bright on the thii-d finger of her left hand caught my eye. She ' blushed a deep pink! I wished her many, many years of happin- ess. Dorothy Sorby. I was travelling on the continent in 1930 and happened to be spending a day or two in Paris. I was alone at the time, waiting to rejoin our party and did not car-e to stay at a large hotel so Avas recommended to look up a Hostess HoiTse on La Rue de Vogue. I had

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20 VOX COLLEGII The crowd went Anld. Cheers rent the air. But just then a terrible thing happen- ed. Nearing the goal, her face flushed with A-ictory, she suddenly swei ' ved to one side and fell, at the same time shriek- ing out, Italian Balm! Italian Balm! quick, quick, the Italian Balm ! It was the old. old ston — the horror ' Avhich had haunted her day and night at O.L.C. — the inevitable fate of the underfed min- isters daughter. After this tragedy, Terry, to use her own expression never Avas the same again, but lived quite quietly and peaceably, spending the rest of her days in an ujiceasing. fruitless effort to cul- tivate the curl in the middle of her fore- head. jVIay Webster. While touring through Africa in my I -Land-There ' Plane. I determined to visit my old college friend jNIay Web- ster. True to my resolve I landed in the intei ' ior and ti ' ied to calm myself, as I saw her coming towards me. breathless, but the same as ever. May ' s old difficulty of not knowing which of her talents would lead to success had been her great- est failing and she had been rouglily hurled from one vocation to another in a fruitless endeavour to achieve woi ' ld fame. A gi-aduate of Symonds, Sargent and Emerson, the insatiable May still sought knowledge. In 1933-34, while travelling through the Orient, she had been deprived of all American magaz- ines ; but on reaching the c oast she en- tered a bookstore where, among a dusty pile of English papei ' s, she saw the be- loved reddish brown cover of the At- lantic Monthly. Snatching it up rever- ently, she eagerly devoured the most pro- found articlcK. She Avas inspired ; a vis- ion of her life ' s Avork came before her — a vision of May as dietitian to the Hot- tentots, and here I am, she said smil- ingly. Although modest May did not tell me so herself, I have heard that ;she has completely reformed household con- ditions in Africa. As I soared aloft I had a vision of May looking almost regal ; the centre of a grinning, devoted band of little Hottentots. The Senior Dinner The true es.sentials of a feast ai ' e fun and feed. ' ' At the Senior Dinner on April six- teenth, Ave not only had ' ' fun and feed ' ' but realized to a greater extent than eA er before a feeling of friendliness and loyalty to each other and towards our Alma Mater. Our bright, cheery dining-room looked quite festive. The senior table in the centre of the room, A nth a large gold basket filled Avith Orphelia roses; and streamers in the class colours, coral and black, extending from its handle to the corners of the table, was quite effective in its beauty and dignity. The Faculty table at the upper end of the dining- room, the other classes along the side and the loAver end, each table decorated in its class colours, all looked as if they were about to boAv to that exclusive table holding the central position in our din- ing-i ' oom. The students of the various classes had assembled and Avere standing when the Graduating Seniors entered, preceded by Miss Ball, their class teacher. We real- ized as they came in, that it would be their last formal dinner together, only a few more social gatherings, then they Avould be separating; divided by distance and different goals of sucess. After a delicious dinner, a number of toasts followed. Mr. Farewell acted as toast-master. When the toast to the King had been proposed and replied to, Lily Austin, in a few Avell chosen phases proposed a toast to Our Countiy, to which Isabel Fisher royally re- sponded. The next was to our Alma Ma- ter, and love for our school filled our hearts as May Webster proposed the