Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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' Who ' s that in the middle of the street? ' Why, it ' s Dottie Hawkins — direct ' ing traffic at the four corners. Charlotte is finally realising her ambition as hotel hostess at the Royal York. I heard from Thompy the other day, and she ' s decided she wanted a little city life and excitement so she packed off to New York. She ' s staying at the Waldorf ' Astoria. Gee! that ' s quite an expensive abode! Oh! yes, but she ' s chief cook and bottle washer — (mostly bottle washer). I saw some woman pitching hay the other day on a farm. I stopped to get the time and do you know it was Ollic Koleff! She was even standing pigeon-toed! She said Helen Yates was chief spider killer in Labatt ' s Brewery. She takes after her great grand ' pappy, you know. Louise has had a nervous breakdown from getting up too early to study for exams. And Joan, I hear you are just back from Miami, where you ' ve been teaching the tropical fish how to swim. That ' s right! Valcbictorp At this time, in many places on this continent, schools and universities are marking the close of the year and the completion of courses of study by ceremonies such as these tO ' day. In the midst of a world of disorder and distress, these accustomed observ ances are proceeding in order and peace. We think of this circumstance with pro ' found gratitude. Learning still keeps its place of quiet, though from its halls both young men and young women go out to take the part which learning has fitted them to take in the vast struggle which civilization is waging for survival. If we were to search for a symbol which might embody our hopes as we leave the safe serenity of school and its accustomed tasks, we would find it in the torch which is being flown from the Western coast of Canada to England ' s great Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The torch, in many lands, and through many ages, has been the symbol of Learning, Enlightenment, Justice, Freedom and Victory. It is to be found on the keystone in the East Bay in the Hall of Honour in the Scottish War Memorial. It is characteristic of a torch in symbolic use that it is represented as being passed from hand to hand. It lights the path of him who carries it. It is timeless, it comes from strong and faithful hands in ancient days and it passes on to strong and faithful hands forever. These are the things which we would remember tO ' day in leaving our school. Some who once worked in these classrooms are now serving as nurses and ambulance drivers overseas. Some in their English homes are literally on the front line in the battle of Britain. When we began our course here three, four, five years ago a happy and joyous path seemed to lie beyond the gates of school. Now there lies a world so beset and threatened we search our minds for the steadfast purpose, the firm courage, and the clear vision of victorious endurance which will make us worthy to bear and to hand on these great things of which a torch is the symbol, and our school a teacher and guardian. Marian Thompson age Eighteen

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Class ©ap Exercises; if? During the entire morning of Class Day the juniors could be seen picking daisies, making daisy chain or preparing a tea — all for the seniors, of course. In the afternoon | | the traditional daisy chain ceremony took place, while every junior groaned with 1 dismay to see the precious chain hacked up. Then athletic awards were presented and the school withdrew, while 3 tea was given to the seniors by the juniors, v ' hich proved to be much less formal and more homey than the usual luncheon. In the evening Lower School presented the delightful Birthday of the Infanta. The school then gathered around a bonfire while each senioi threw the subject which had been her pet aversion into the flames with a poem dedicated to its conflagration. The dramatic society then presented a melodrama. And what a melodrama! We shall never forget f booing the villain and cheering our brave hero and heroine — and the way they left their audience — gasping for breath we might say — from laughing. The highlights of the play, however, came when Smitty, in her most dramatic pose, v;as handed a copy of the play by Miss Hill, and when Yvonne crawled under the piano to get another copy. A few members of the faculty, notably Miss Goodfellow, Miss Holterman, Mrs. Levelton, Miss Acton and Miss Nixon, supplied some good old ' time music, and Miss Jaques rendered a most touching solo. Thus one of the happiest evenings of our school year closed. Senior Class ropljecp Well, here I am, bus driver, back in Whitby. Guess Fll get out at the four corners and take a look around. Say! Here comes a smart limousine, a blonde is getting out. Why! it ' s Betty Forman! Hi Betty! Hi Joan! ' I guess you and Jack are settled down in a snug little house of your own. Oh yes, but not so snug, you see we decided we ' d like something a little roomy, so Jack gave me Casa Loma for a birthday present. That ' s great, Betty, and how ' s Fran? Oh! she ' s in the Georgian Room along with Jean Pipher, cookin ' up little cakes. Look! Here ' s Betty Reid and Ev McNiven coming out of the Red Cap. Don ' t tell me they ' ve been there all this time! Have you heard from Norma Williams? The last time I heard she was riding her horse across Canada and Audrey Woollings would have been here only she ' s snow ' bound in a lumber camp up north. Someone said Vivian McConnell is lost in the south seas with Sterling Hayden. Pecky and Donna are the star trapeze artists at the C.N.E. this year. Peggy and Kay are poHshing oif the ice for a couple of hockey players. We can ' t imagine who they are. I was up at school a few days ago. This year they have a large commercial class, so Betty Hull and Betty Cameron and Dibby are back teaching commercial, and they told me Ruth James is with the Met. Opera company (moving pianos). Barb Stokes is teaching the La Conga on the liners from S. America. You ' d never recognize Willie now. She ' s found some new pills, with the result that she ' s ' fat lady ' at the circus. Bernie is still Lizzie Arden ' s best customer, with three permanents a week, but she believes in the old motto, try, try again. Vi and Barb TurviUe are hula hula dancers at the Cotton Club. Mary Liz is the home-loving type, that is, rocking the cradle, total capacity, five. Page Seventeen

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Commencement ©ap €xtni t WEDNESDAY— JUNE 11th, at 2 p.m. Chairman — Mr. T. G. Rogers President of the Board of Directors Invocation Remarks Hon. Capt. Rev. E. Ralph Adye, L.Th. Principal Carscallen GRANTING OF DIPLOMAS Collegiate — Violet I. Andress (Modern History), Sudbury, Ontario; Joan Campbell, Toronto, Ontario; Williston Mildred Downham (M.S. Latin, Modern History), Strathroy, Ontario; Mary E. Elliott (Physics), Deloro, Ontario; Dorothy W. Hawkings, Kenogami, Quebec; Mary Ruth James (Latin Comp., French Authors), Bowmanville, Ontario; Bernice Agnes Johnston (Physics, French Comp.), Eston, Saskatchewan; Ollie A. Koleff (French Comp., Modern History), Sudbury, On- tario; Elaine McKinley Peck, Toronto, Ontario; Louise Martina Skutezky, Mont- real, Quebec; Marian E. Thompson (Latin Comp.), Aurora, Ontario; Helen Margaret Yates (French Comp., Geometry), Hamilton, Ontario. Commercial — Elizabeth Livingstone Cameron, Niagara Falls, Ontario; Margaret Gwendolyn Dibben, Kitchener, Ontario; Donna Jean Gillis, Ridgetown, Ontario; Elizabeth Gift Hull, St. Catharines, Ontario; Vivian Eileen McConnell, Port Bur- well, Ontario; Evelyn Beth McNevin (Arithmetic, Typewriting Accuracy), King- ston, Ontario; Elizabeth Anne Reid (Arithmetic, Typewriting Accuracy), King- ston, Ontario; Barbara Elizabeth E. Stokes, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Barbara J. Turville, St. Thomas, Ontario; Margaret Norma Williams, Englehart, Ontario. Household Science — Elizabeth Lewis Forman, Detroit, Michigan; Charlotte Gentles, Whitby, Ontario; Kathleen Elizabeth Glynn, Sarnia, Ontario; Margaret Helen McCallum, Oshawa, Ontario; Pauline Audrey Woollings, Englehart, Ontario. Dietetics — Jean Marie Pipher, Stouffville, Ontario; Frances Mary Robb (Senior Dietetics), Sarnia, Ontario. Valedictory — Marian Thompson. Prelude in C Minor Bach arranged for two pianos by Harold Bauer Connie McKeen and Miss Ruth Loghead WINNERS OF CERTIFICATES PIANO— PRACTICAL Grade X — Jane Carol Renwick (Honours). Grade VIII— Marion Buell, Helen Yates. Grade IV — Jill Sieveking (Honours), Eva Skutezky (First Class Honours). VOCAL— Grade X — Jane Carol Renwick (Honours). Page Nineteen