Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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L2 VOX COLLEGII and that brother of mine is sound asleep and the lilacs are asleep, and the bridal wreath bushes are asleep, and the tulips won ' t wake up for weeks yet. Say, won ' t it be a joke when they open their eyes and I tell them the old girls have been here and they missed all the fun. I know where I can get lots of informa- tion, too. That young brownie who lives behind the dinner-gong has only been here since last June. He ' s never seen anything like this before and he won ' t miss much that goes on. Sonny! he called gently. Wafted along in some unknown way the sound travelled inside, along the hall to the foot of the main stairs ; and the same mysterious force sent the little brownie sliding swiftly down the wall and silent- ly and invisibly to the side of his friend the lion. He burst out, I can ' t stay a minute. You should see the pretty decorations in the dining room and concert hall. There is going to be a reception tonight. I ' ll tell you about it afterwards. Say, you should hear all those girls running around and laughing. It ' s great to see people so glad to get back. I want to go and watch them now, Goodbye. The little chimes brownie made many visits to the front steps during the next two days. Several times during the re- ception he came to report his impres- sions. Mr. and Mrs. Farewell, Miss Max- well, Miss Wright and Hazel Taylor are welcoming. The concert hall is just like a beautiful big drawing room, and people are talking so happily! It ' s a lovely picture. At bedtime he said, Mr. Farewell read the regrets of those who couldn ' t come. They made me feel so sorry, even though I didn ' t know all of them. Then there was a delightful program, and the Seniors served refreshments. Say, it seems quiet now, but there ' ll be more fun in the morning. G-ood night. ' ' Next day he hurried to his friend with frequent bulletins from the basketball game between the past and the pres- ent; finally bringing word that the present girls had won — and the wise old lion knew from the shouts and cheers he had heard in the distance, that the battle had been well fought. In the afternoon he heard news of a swimming meet, and the silence all over the building told him that it did not lack interested spectators. It was at night that the little brownie waxed most enthusiastic. They ' re having a class dinner-par- ty, he announced breathlessly. The tables look just beautiful. There were toasts to the King, to the Alma Mater, and the guests, and now the classes are singing their songs. Last year ' s Seniors sang theirs first and they had their own table in their own colors, too. Wasn ' t that a lovely idea? The songs are fine. I must hurry back because I don ' t want to miss the Elementaries ' yell. I heard them practising, and its great. On Sunday the sun shone, the church divisions set out, and after dinner the girls walked back and forth together un- til quiet hour. After tea there was a charming concert in the drawing room, and then the usual chapel sexwice. In the evening quiet, the old lion almost forgot that ' ' the old girls ' ' had ever been away; and strangely enough, the old girls themselves had that same feeling, too. Perhaps it came in answer to the little prayer whose words headed the printed programme for the week-end — Our gathered flock Thine arms enfold As in the peaceful days of old. ' ' But on Monday morning, the strains of ' ' Auld Lang Syne ' ' sounded from the dining-room when breakfast was over, and soon the watcher on the steps was himself listening to the songs and yells the brownie had described, and watch- ing the farewells being said all around him. This will make a fine story for the bridal wreath, he murmured, and those other bushes and trees and things that spend the winter sleeping. All the nice things do not happen in the summer time. ' ' So the wide-awake lion watched the bus disappear in the distance, and

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VOX COLL Ei Gil 11 position next year. Every success, Mil- dred. Hilda Dawson is just completing her two year commercial course. Hilda ex- pects to take a position in the summer. Viola Glenn came to 0. L. C. three years ago and is graduating in Domestic Science. Viola is now in Wellesly Hos- pital taking a Dietitian ' s course. Elva Haskett has spent two years at O.L.C. She is now graduating in Ex- pression. Elva expects to be at home for a time. Gwen Klombies is one of our Western girls. She has spent three years at 0. L. C, and has now graduated in vocal. Gwen expects to teach vocal next year. Every success, Gwen. Grace Lander came to 0. L. C. three years ago, and is now graduating in Do- mestic Science. Grace expects to con- tinue her music next year. Helen Luke has spent three years at O.L.C. She has just completed her com- mercial course and expects to take a pos- ition next year. Maude McQuillan has been at O.L.C. for two years and is now graduating in Domestic Science. Kathleen McDonald has spent three years at O.L.C. and is graduating in Domestic Science. We wish K suc- cess in any work she may pursue. Aileen Marshall has just completed her two year Domestic Science Course. Aileen expects to be at home next year. Betty Martin has spent two years at 0. L. C. and is now graduating in Domestic Science. We wish Betty success in any work she may pursue. Old Girls ' It was a cool afternoon in, March ' ' Wake up ! said the lion at the south side of the steps to the sleepy one guard- ing the north, Here comes the bus. Well, what about it? I ' ve seen the bus before — often. Leave me alone. Oh, you make me wild! You never Ethel Morden came to us in September and was in the M.E.L. course. Ethel expects to go to University next year. Every success, Ethel. Norma Moore came to O. L. C. three- years ago. Norma has graduated in Piano. She expects to teach next year. Every success. Olive Payne has spent two years at 0. L. C. She is now graduating from the Art Department. Cort Reynolds came to O.L.C. three years ago. She is now graduating from the M.E.L. course. Cort expects to go to University in the Fall. We all wish her every success possible in her work. Elizabeth Reynolds is graduating in the M.E.L. course. Elizabeth also ex- pects to go to University next year. Every success ' ' Bessie. ' ' Alice Savage came to O.L.C. last Sept- ember and was enrolled in the commer- cial course. Alice expects to take a pos- ition next year. We all wish her suc- cess. Laura Smith is one of our Western girls. She is graduating in Domestic Science. Laura expects to be home next year. Hazel Taylor came to O.L.C. seven years ago. She is now graduating from the M.E.L. course. Bones, as she is better known expects to continue her studies next year at University. We all join in wishing her every success. Margaret Webster is another Western girl. Margaret came to O.L.C. last year and is now completing the Senior Dom- estic Course. Margaret expects to be at home next year. Reunion get thrilled about anything. This is St.- Patrick ' s week end — the Old Girls ' Re- union. Here comes everybody out to meet the! Here they are! Just look at the welcome they are getting ! Listen to that hubbub. There ' they ' ve all gone inside. Not one of them noticed me.

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VOX COLLEGII 13 though by this time he must understand girls very well, neither he nor any one else can ever appreciate wholly the Vale. As we are all assembled here this af- ternoon and as we, the graduating class of 1921, are seated before you in this, one of the most important days of the year, and perhaps of our whole lives, with the past happy terms behind us and our farewells too near at hand, We are filed with mingled emotions of gladness and sorrow, gladness to feel that our year has been all that we had hoped it to be, that we have realized all those expecta- tions that come to a girl in her college life, and that in each one of us there is a deep tenderness, a lasting respect and a true loyalty for this our Alma Mater, sorrow, to know that our ways are soon to be separated, that all our happy times can only return to us in memory and that we must leave here to return only as guests at some future time. What a great year it has been and just what it has meant to us, you, who will follow in our steps next year and in the coming years, will be able to feel and to understand. And it is our wish that you may enjoy the ever willing co-opera- tion and thoughtfulness that you your- selves have so cheerfully shown us all through the year and in every way. To you girls and more especially, per- haps to the Juniors, is due much of our happiness, and although we have not shown our gratitude as fully as we might, we realize and appreciate just how much you have done for lis. What we have gained in this year has revealed itself to us in part in the past f ew weeks and will go on revealing itself in the years to come as we confront prob- lems yet unseen and live our lives, aided by memories of our school and by those grateful happy feeling carried away in the heart of each St. Patrick ' s week-end guest. Kctory fine inspirations and high ideals which we have learned mean so much in life. And in the prompting of these inspira- tions and ideals we have felt the guid- ance of our highly esteemed principal, Mr. Farewell, and the wise helpfulness of our beloved lady principal, Miss Max- well. It is impossible to express to them our gratitude for their unfailing good judgment in all our little weaknesses, and we feel also that we can never repay the members of our faculty for the way in which they have encouraged and help- ed us throughout the year. It has meant much to us as seniors to know that in all that we have attempted, we have had a staunch support in our teachers and a ready help at all times. And so, although I am aware that any- things that I may say can only poorly ex- press the feelings of the seniors, I know that we will all remember this eventful day, this glorious Commencement week, and above all this year, with the pleas- antest of memories and the tenderest of feelings for our dear Alma Mater. And as we leave behind these old college por- tals through which we have passed so often and so carelessly, we have a new feeling — an indescribable feeling of re- gret, mingled however with hope and future prospects. But we leave with a knowledge that these portals will ever be open in loving welcome to us when we return and that comradeship, which is the key to happiness in our college life will be restored once more at our Golden Jubilee, which happily is not far hence, when we will all meet in a happy re- union of hearts and minds.