Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Our graduating year of 1931-32 has drawn to a close, and we as a class, pause to view this great step that is before us. Behind us lies the smooth path of happy school- girl life, before us lies the broadening road of greater things. Although these roads diverge in every direction, each one of us will cherish some of the same memories. We will remember the stately old castle surrounded by spa- cious lawns and great trees. In memory we shall see here and there a patch of bright flowers, smell the perfume of lilacs, hear the song of birds and from some window will seem to float the sound of happy laughter. Perhaps even dearer than these memories of beauty are those of friendship. Some of these will be saddened by separation, and it is comforting to remember the words of the Persian prophet, When you part from a friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. Whether separated or together, the wealth of the companionship and friendship we have shared within these walls will never be lost. To Dr. Carscallen, to our honorary president, Miss Maxwell, and to our class teacher, Miss Beer, we are very grateful for their inspiration and help at all times. To the other members of the Faculty and to the Staff we are also grateful for the interest they have shown in each of us. We have felt the co-operation and under- standing of the younger classes in everything we have undertaken. The Junior Class, who will be the graduating class of next year, will take our places, and we hope that our work of this year will form a foundation on which they may build. From the sheltered walls of O.L.C. we go into the world just as Seniors for years have gone, wondering what life will hold, how vast it will be, how unfriendly. This year, more than the preceding years, holds doubt for the fulfilment of our dreams. At the present time the economic situation which the world is enduring will naturally affect us and it will be harder for us to attain those heights which we have set for ourselves and you expect us to take. Yet, within these halls we have learned to fortify ourselves against failure and surely the strength our Alma Mater has taught us will enable us to open the doors of opportunity and go forth to become builders of roads that lead out, rather than builders of walls that close in. When we consider that we are leaving our Alma Mater, perhaps never to return, a wistfulness fills our hearts. Though duty calls us, we feel we would postpone this parting. Then the words of Ulysses come to us: I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro , Gleams that untravell ' d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish ' d, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. ' 1 ' ' We come from sea to sea and are returning north, south, east and west. To see our class thus broken and scattered is enough to sadden the bravest of us. Still there is one thought that comforts us and shall always link us together, and that is, that no matter where we go, or what we do, each one of us will still be a Senior of thirty-two. Muriel Wilford. Page Twenty-Eight

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(Eammettrement Hag iExerriara WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th, at 2 p.m. Chairman — Mr. William Ross, President of the Board of Directors Invocation — Rev. A. L. Richards, B.D. GRANTING OF DIPLOMAS Collegiate — Ruth Allgeier, Copper Cliff, Ontario; Evelyn Elizabeth Bridges, Wind- sor, Ontario; Velva May Brooks, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, (Algebra and Geometry) ; Alice Patricia Carscallen, Whitby, Ontario; Margaret Elizabeth Day, Edmonton, Alberta, (Algebra); Mary E. Macbeth, Edmonton, Alberta; Grace Anna Mallinson, Toronto, Ontario, (Latin Authors and Trigonometry) ; I. Joy Spencer, Havelock, Ontario; Norma Ena Thompson, Chengtu, West China, (Geometry) ; Muriel Elizabeth Wilford, Chengtu, West China. Household Science — Helen Lenore Bowden, Oshawa, Ontario; Eleanore Jane Ritten- house, Toronto, Ontario. Commercial — Mary A. Beckman, Rainy River, Ontario; Dorothy Friedman, Mon- treal, Quebec; Marjorie Hyslop, Burlington, Ontario; Helen Cabot Pickings, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Marjorie Georgina Ruddy, Whitby, Ontario, (Shorthand and Rapid Calculation) . Art — Marian F. Crow, Toronto, Ontario. General — Vesta Margaret Foster, Alliston, Ontario. Valedictory Muriel Wilford Bach ' ' ' Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Miss Lulu Golden Announcements ' ' Dr. C. R. Carscallen WINNERS OF CERTIFICATES Musical — Piano — Intermediate School — Mary Macbeth. Junior — Myrtle Smith. Elementary — Ruth Roberts (1st Class Honours), Ann Armstrong (Honours). Introductory — Betty Cody (Honours), Verna Kinman. Singing — Junior — Hana Fukuda, (1st Class Honours). Junior Sight Singing — Hana Fukuda, (Honours). Art — Design — Bessie Leitch. Household Science — Homema ers Course — Kay Mehlenbacher. Commercial — Secretarial Course — Eleanor Doyle, Muriel Johnson. AWARDING OF MEDALS Gold Medal, by Mr. Oliver Flezzelwood, highest standing in Fifth Form Collegiate — Alice Carscallen. Silver Medal, by Mr. G. M. Goodfellow, second standing in Fifth Form Collegiate — Ruth Allgeier. Gold Medal, by Mr. R. N. Bassett, for Distinction in Art — Marion Crow. hirty