Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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vox COLLEGIl 2 toast aud Hazel Taylor answered it. Other toasts wei-e to the Faculty by Catherine Burwash, replied to by Miss Maxwell, to the Graduating Class, proposed by Jean Leish- man, to which Miss Dorothy Morden re- sponded. Cora Olmstead then pro- posed a toast to other Classes answer- ed by Misses Reta Kerslake, Irene Carse, Shirley Leislunan, and Iva Worden. Frances Sevens next proposed one to the Student Organizations, Lau- reen Terryberry, Cort. Reynolds and Adelaide Stenning replied. The last toast was to our worthy ' ' College Pa- per, proposed by Lilian Mulhol- land, responded to by its editor, Doro- thea Snider. All the speeches were worthy of their subjects and gave ns a greater under- standing of how the graduating girls ap- preciate the years they have spent at O.L.C. They are leaving it with love, loyalty, and gratitude. The time spent Avithin the College has been a gi eat factor in broadening out their lives, ed- ucating them, not only in their chosen course, but fitting them in eveiy possible way for their after life. A fitting climax to the evening was when the entire Faculty and student body formed a large circle around the room, then joining hands, sang Auki Lang Syne. E. H. The Senior Party Each girl gazed admiringly around the gymnasium that Friday night of May the twenty-first, when she went to Senior Party. There Avere plenty of soft cushions and easy chairs for everybody. Coral and black, the Senior colours, de- corated the apparatus and lights, and eveiybody felt that the room could not possibly have looked more cozy. It Avas rumoured that there was to be dancing so all the girls Avere busy get- ting their dances taken when the Seniors appeared. It was then that the children of O.L.C. stood back amazed when the strange paper dolls marched in. No Avonder, because the costumes were all sorts of coloui-s, and even the faces Avere covered. This, however, was for the purpose, as we soon learned, of finding out who was the best guesser in the school. EA eryone thought and thought, but before many of our Senior friends Avere recognized Ave were asked to hand in our results. The best guess- er proved to be Helene Alhvorth, Avho roceiA-ed a dear little KcAvpie dressed in coral and black. Then our Seniors took off their paper faces and sang for the first time in Pub- lic their song, Avhich Avas vei-y cleverly sot to the tune of Burmah Moon. The A ords Avere as f oIIoavs .- — When Ave say (just as a confidential) That Ave ' d like to talk about ourselves For just a moment, this is what We ' ll tell you And it ' s AA ' ell you KnoAV that Ave ' re quite modest and re- tiring ( really ! ) May Ave say (just as a confidential) That we think Ave ' re rather up-to-date quite jazzy. Animated, educated. All to brilliant futures fated. True to Alma Mater, and to 1920 Senior Class! One encore did not really satisfy us but bright music then took our attention from it and everyone entered into the enjoyment of that. There were moon- light dances, tag dances and every kind of dance, Avhich were all enjoyed im- mensely. The corner in Avhich the punch Avas situated Avas certainly avcU patroniz- ed. By and by refreshments came. De- licious sandAviches and coffee and then ice cream and little cakes. By the time all this Avas enjoyed it was pretty late and so all the O.L. Cites Avent happily to bed. We take this opportunity of telling