Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Vox Collegfii Published Throughout the Collegiate Year by the Editorial Staff. For san et Jiaec elim meminisse juvabit. VOL. XXXII WHITBY, JUNE. 1928 No. 1 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Lois Laffoley Advertising .. ..|Hope Breckenridge Assistant Editor Anne Shaver SIanagers ... .|Lilliam Sparling Business Manager. ... Nellie Edwards (Nora Halden Athletics Evelyn Carse i iteeary .. • |Rosamond McCullough Music Marjorie Spears Who ' s Who and . J Winifred Hambly Expression Beatrice Carruthers Where (Marjorie Kisbey S.C.M Marjorie Reynolds qdds and Ends Household Science Wilma Gale , rir -d ° i Artists (Reva Richardson Commercial Avis Stacey Gladys Jones Subscription Price — To the Students and Trafalgar Daughters, 50 cents per year; to all others, 75 cents. Please address editorial correspondence to the editor-in-chief and business correspond- ence to the Business Manager. EDITORIAL TO-MORROW Perhaps the one word that causes more failures, that prevents more suc- cesses, is that one little word to-mor- row. It is so very easy to say, ' ' Well, I ' 11 do that to-morrow. ' ' And each time one says it more easily. If there is a hard lesson to study, one invariably thinks he could do it better to-morrow. If a disagreeable task has to be done, surely it will be less disa- greeable to-morrow, one decides. And •so we go on, spending to-morrows and wasting to-days. In the end accomplish- ing nothing, for remember, there is no to-morrow. To-morrov never comes, there is only one day. So if you have something difficult to do, if you have a problem to solve, do it now. For how often we find that to- morrow is too late; that the job we in- tended to do has been filled by someone else, that the opportunity offered to us to-day has no value the following day. We are given, our chance and we must lake it or waste it. Do to-dav ' s work to-day — start out on the I ' ight road by remembering the still truthful adage of Cervantes, By the street of By and By, one arrives at the house of Never. ' ' — Kinkie ATHLETES DO NOT LIVE ON THEIR REPUTATION. In one way or another each of us is seeking or striving to achieve that excel- lence of accomplishment which shall mark us with distinction. The emphasis is laid forcibly upon achievement. Once come home a winner and your position is made. ' ' That is what was told to me hy a bas- ket-ball manager, when I was strug- gling for a position on a basket-ball team. It was repeated in various ways. Make good in your game and you will be sure of a steady position. You will be kept on the team and you will be made. The tij-st thousand dollars is the hardest to attain. Get that and a for- tune Avill follow with little effort.

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CONTENTS Editorial 1 The Graduating Class of 1923 3 Things We Eemember 10 Who ' s Who and AVhere 11 Valedictory 12 Class Prophecies 13 Commencement Day 31 Mr. Farewell ' s Message 34 Senior Dinner 36 May Day Exercises 37 Literary 39 Y. W. C. A 63 Expression 64 Tr vfalgar Daughters 65 Music 66 Commercial 69 Household Science 70 Art 71 Athletics Odds and Ends 4:

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2 VOX C O L L E G 1 1 Vin your first fight. Build your first house. Make good in your first game. Do .something well and you will cease to worry. It was the old familiar belief wherever the future was being discussed. Get a reputation. And I struggled to get one, believing that when it came, there will be an vna to work and trial. How many had f.a d it out and out that you could settle back and live on your reputation, but the in- ferenc? was there, and I am sure that was the idea lurking in the back of my brain. One real success and I could loaf. But it isn ' t so. Reputation has been falsely advertised or grossly misrepre- sented. Jt is not an endowment but an obligation. It is the most valuable as- set one can possess, but it is not a lounge to lie b ack upon. A week-old reputation will get you nowheie. Uncarcd for and unnursed, it will die a speedy death and leave you sick at heart. The fir.st success has been fatal to many a promising athlete. Every city is peopled with wrecks who once believ- ed they had safely come to port. There is only one insurance for a reputation, and that is hard, ceaseless practice. Napoleon said that the British never won anything except the last battle. Germany to-day is a pitiful illustra- tion of the ia t that reputations win no battles. The last failure wiped out a hundred victories. What was once a powerful nation is nothing but a coun- try of despair. One should try not to have any illus- ions about himself. An athlete should be in the game to play his little part, and he should play to the best of his ability. Remember that yesterday ' s a- chievcmerits will net do to-day ' s work. It may bring to you the job to do, but the performance of it must also come from you. Always remem):)er, whenever you are inclined to grow too proud and chesty over some past accomplishment, that what you are to be, does not depend on what you have done, but wliat you still have to do. I heard of a young fellow who had a little experience aliout two years ago. Although a very young reporter to re- ceive a l)ig assignment, a chance meet- ing with a friendly police inspector, gave him an exclusive story. It was the first big scoop he ever turned in. It tickled him and it pleased his city editor. That was a great story you gave us yesterday, he said, when he reported for duty the next day. Fine work, young man. keep it up. That little p]ira:-e ' ' keep it up, ' ' didn ' t moan much to him then, Init he Avas later to learn that it was the first and most important rule of the game. He thought he had arrived. He was; a recognized reporter of ability. He had beaten old men in his position. He had been praised by his editor and he was entitled to his little spice of conceit; Unconsciously he settled back to enjoy a few days of living on his reputation. Then life handed him a jolt. He missed one of the big stories of the year. He knev why he missed it, but had Jiever confesf. ' ed it to any one but himself. He neglected to visit one of the outlying police stations, accord- ing to the custom and rule. He didn ' t go because he was sure that if an ' thing worth while happened the officer would telephone him, as he had done many times in the past. He knev him and the little reputation he had. Say, said the editor that noon,, ' ' where were you last night 1 ' ' On the job, he replied. It doesn ' t look like it, he replied. You fell down hopelessly on that big l)urglaTy story. What burglary s ' cory? He showed him one of the papers of their rival, containing a front page ar- ticle, of which he had not heard the slightest hint. His reputation had let him down. Three days l)efoi ' e he had been filled with pride ; to-day he was. humbled and temporarily in disgrace. But he had learned his lesson. No more sprees of conceit for him! He ' d