Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Miss J. MAY CARTER Dean

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T)o Carter THE STUDENT COUNCIL Dear Miss Carter, This has been a year of accomplishment for the Student Council and at this time we should like to express our thanks to you for your interest and encouragement. Perhaps at times, you have felt that you were talking in vain but we assure you that the point has always been made. We enjoyed the fact that our customary sponsoring of the first school dance of the session involved also the introduction of a Hi-Fi set. We hope that you will remember, as we shall, the riotous debates which led to the calling of a whole School Assembly to settle the issue and which christened the dance the Hi-Fi Hop . We thoroughly enjoyed the evening. Pat Riddell ' s decorations, developed around a musical theme, were most attractive and Mr. Ron Hewett of the C.K.L.B. station in Oshawa, for whose acquaintance with us we must thank Joan Collacutt, was a really talented Master of Ceremonies. The Council has had few unpleasant problems to deal with this year and for the absence of these in particular, we want to thank you truly. We have appreciated so much the spirit of your leadership and we hope you will look back upon 1956 with particular pleasure. Affectionately, FRANCES SWAN, Vice-President. PAGE EIGHT

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editorial Last year, in May, when I was elected Editor of Vox Collegii , I was thrilled beyond words. I was honoured that O.L.C. wanted me, a new girl, as Prefect. That night I dream- ed that I was Editor — in bifocals, with a stub of pencil, sitting at a littered desk, correcting galley sheets. It was very roman- tic. Then, after the night, in the cold light of morn- ing, I faced grim reality. The extent of my knowledge of writing and printing would not even cover the cheese in an O.L.C. mouse- trap. Now, as the smoke of battle clears, and Vox Col- legii goes to press, I won- der. Do I know much more? It has all happened so quickly and has been such a wonderful experience that it has seemed almost like the dream that I had. PATRICIA RIDDELL, Yearbook Prefect, This year, the Chapel year, is particularly special at O.L.C. and someday all of us privileged to be here now, will look back and say; I was there when the Chapel was built . But that is not all that we shall remember. We shall hear again the heated debates — Shall we change the Yearbook name or shall we not? We shall remember the posters: Vote for Blue Flyte or Vox Col- legii or Thread of Gold . We shall re-live the excitement of the voting day and the result: Vox Collegii was still our book. We shall hope: that we too have put something worth while into the collec- tion of College Yearbooks. Now the editorial desk is clearing and the floor again reveals its wooden nature. Already the Staff walks in a more or less normal way to the door instead of teetering one foot in front of the other through the clutter of copy and pictures. Yet the course of life is perverse for now, naturally, there are fewer knocks which need to be answered. The mail-man brings no more advertisement contracts or cuts: and picture proofs will not weigh his sack for a day or two yet. So, worn down with editing copy, your Editor reclines in her easy chair, a capacious wastepaper basket close at hand, composing her remarks to you. Chiefly these must consist of thanks: for the challenge we have been given and the opportunity we have found. It is true that we have quailed at the prospect of our inadequacies being laid bare but we have tried to forestall the possibility of this and individually, and as a Committee have consulted you, the Faculty and School, to know what suggestions you wished to offer us. You have been very good to us and there are indeed many of you that we must specially thank. Dr. Osborne gave us the privilege of calling this the Chapel Edition and has indeed made it all possible. Throughout the year he has given us of his resources as a Principal and of his gifts as a per- son. He offered us a great adventure when he asked us to join him in his plan to bring more closely to- gether, through the Alumnae Bulletin, all the members of the College, past and present. May his hope be fulfilled and in all our homes may Vox Collegii have a conspicuous place so that the name of the College may continue to be known across the country. To Miss Carter we are in perpetual debt — for ideas when ideas were lacking; for her judgment when feeling ran high and for time, when time ran out. Mrs. Hill too, we cannot re-pay. She leaves U3 with a lasting impression of integrity and ability as we look back over the days when she waited for o ur debates to end so that she could know for PAGE TEN