Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Cbitonal As our school year draws to a close, we must loo hac to see what it has profited us. If there are any who doubt that they have received anything beneficial or con ' structive at O.L.C. this year, let them loo hac with us and weigh the evidence. Perhaps the most important thing we have gained this year is friends. A true friend is the most valuable possession any person can have, and at O.L.C. we have made friends whose love we will cherish all our lives. Of immeasurable value also has been learning to live together in a harmonious community life. We have had to be broad-minded, ready to meet others half-way, or our life here would never have been a success. If there is anything needed in the world today, it is people who are willing to co-operate and sacrifice for the benefit of all. Hence our experience here will he mvalimble to us in years to come. When we leave this school, we will enter a world of confusion and misunderstand- ing, but we will also enter a world at a great turning point in its history. Either it can become a place of peace and good will, or it can become lost again in the mael- strom of its greed and jealousy. It is up to us. We now what we want. Do we now how to get it? Our life at O.L.C. this year has helped to equip us, not only by our academic studies hut also by our daily life together, to grasp this situation intelli- gently and with imderstanding, so that we may at least help to start the world on its way to the goal of peace and security. M. MacL. Page Four

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YEAR BOOK STAFF P ' iRST Row, left to right: — Virginia Richards, Shirley Griffith, Marion MacLeod, Louise Cole, Edith Beach. Second Row — Phyliss Dickens, Jackie Brayfield, Audrey Shaw, Joyce Lehto. A Word of Explanation Late in the year it was decided that we should try to revive the O.L.C. Year Book. Because of this late beginning the book has not reached the standard we might have wished to attain. Since their duties were assumed at the time when their school work was heaviest, the Editorial Staff could not give to the Year Book all the time that they would have desired. Nevertheless, all things taken into consideration, they would like to express the hope that the book will prove acceptable, and may serve as a beginning for the editors of subsequent years to build upon. Page Three

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€tiitorial This year the future loo s more hopeful to us who are starting out in a world which is m the process of freeing itself from the dar shadows of war. Most of us realize that the years ahead offer all a mighty challenge. We are conscious of the tremendous problems which confront our generation — the tas of rebuilding abroad, the problem of readjustment at home and, above all, the necessity to establish a firm foundation for peace. We have been acquiring the tools with which to equip ourselves for ta ing part in the great job ahead. We now that the responsibility is that of youth and we realize that this responsibility is an honour — perhaps the greatest honour awarded any people at any time in the history of mankind. The leaders of every peace-loving nation realize, as exemplified m the San Francisco Conference, that we must rearm morally for the battle for peace which has already begun. There miwt be no Lotus Years ' this time. The slaughter, the hearthrea , the disease of the past decade must never be allowed to occur again. We, the people, have a responsibility to those of our generation, who will be returned service men and women, and to the starved peoples of Europe and Asia, crushed by the ruthless Isms ' . Totalitari anism must be banished. We must discard material- ism, don the garment of love, and rearm for the fight to retain the peace which we all hunger after. The challenge is directed not only to the Youth of today, who remained at home during these five years of war, but also to the veterans who return. They have a responsibility too. We must help them to fulfil their responsibility. There will be another war in another twentyfive years if the returned soldiers thin that their duty is done. We need these men who have met reality and now what will happen if we fail now. Everyone everywhere — no matter what his position in life — has before- him a challenge and a respo-nsibility in the Battle for Right. The education which we have been receiving here, and which we shall continue to further in the great wide world around us, will mal{e us responsible custodians of the democratic traditions of our land. We need the courage, the vision and the deter- mination of a strong people if we are to succeed. Let us bend our shoulders to the tas . Let us not shun the advice of our fathers and express the opinion that we, the Youth of the World, now all. Let us put our hand in the hand of God and soon we shall discover that the way is not as difficult as it now appears. V.J.R. Page Five