Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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lOAN PRICE Toronto, Ontario Senior Matriculation Maxwell House Gus is our Class president, a lot of fun and a wonderful organiser. The lab. holds her spellbound. What can it be ? A hair tonic or some new dessert ? She enjoys all sports and greets everyone with a How d ' y do ! She hopes to attend university one day and after Music next year, you may find her with roomie, Janis, wandering McGill campus. Favourite Pastime : Sleeping — to observe the material for the psycho- analysis of dreams. Pet Aversion ; Small ice-cream cones. PATRICIA RIDDELL 1 ft(lG£ ' Art Major Toronto, Ontario Hare House 1954-6 Pat is one of our Big Four and as Editor of the Yearbook, she has taken on a great responsibility. She is without a doubt the sweetheart of the Senior Class. According to reliable sources, Pat ' s main ambition is to follow up her Art work, although nursing had been uppermost in her mind until she began to take Zoology. Favourite Pastime : A book in a quiet corner. Pet Aversion : Meetings. JOANNE STROWGER Music Major Whitby, Ontario Maxwell House 1952-6 lo is not a very frequent visitor to lower Main. She comes when she needs to borrow Dawn ' s alarm clock and stays to flaunt her Day Girl ' s privileges before our eyes. Obviously she prefers thumping the ivories to the company of the Senior Class. Her Blind Date Bureau has been the most enterprising business in the school and those who have not been satisfied may always come back and try again. Favourite Pastime : Doing everything a Boarder cannot do. Pet Aversion : Pupils who come to their music lessons early. FRANCES SWAN Aj C AHI Senior Matriculation St. Catharines, Ontario Hare House 1952-6 Swanee , Vice-President of the Students ' Council, spends much of her out-of-school time on fascinating trips to Europe and always comes up at the right moment with an account of some little humorous incident which occurred over there. Opening Tuck three times a week is a nerve-wracking job which Fran seems to enjoy and because of this, she is always in demand. Favourite Pastime : Driving the little puddle-jumper which she parks on the drive.

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SALLY MERWIN Senior Matriculation Sudbury, Ontario Farewell House 1955-6 Sal is Vice-president of the Graduating Class. She spends a great deal of her time keeping her cashmere coat out of everybody ' s reach. She laughs at hollow threats to put her on a diet. Commonly called The Fresh Air Fiend of Lower Main , Sally intends to go into nursing, if pneumonia does not claim her first. She expresses her radiant optimism at least twice a day with the words: It was hardly nice at all ! Favourite Pastime : Drinking hot apple juice. Pet Aversion : Interruptions while cramming . DIANE MILLAR Senior Matriculation Toronto, Ontario Farewell House 1954-6 Di can be found wherever an aeroplane book or an article on the north country is handy. Vice-President of the A. A. and another future nurse (or housewife), Diane is quiet by temperament and has been a blessing to the noisy Senior Hall. Petite and pretty, here is one loss that O.L.C. will greatly regret. Favourite Pastime : Watching the Stock Market and receiving lost property for Pound . Pet Aversion : The slow mail delivery from Ryerson. MOLLIE MILLAR Senior Matriculation Haileybury, Ontario Maxwell House 1954-6 As President of the S.C.M. this year, Mollie has worked hard and the annual Bazaar proved to be a great success. Her bubbling per- sonality and quick wit have gained her many friends at O.L.C. Mollie is another of our girls who is going into Nursing next year. Favourite Pastime : Complaining about French. Pet Aversions : T-o-o numerous to mention. JANIS OLMSTED Senior Matriculation Aylmer, Quebec Hare House This girl is undecided about her future but whatever it is, she will have a lot of fun doing it. Our Jan keeps the teachers in a constant state of depression from which they hope to awake to find her called to the next class. She is renouned for her original questions in Botany and Zoology. Favourite Pastime : Receiving long distance telephone calls and over- size boxes of chocolates. Pet Aversion : Being accused of living in Hull, Quebec.

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J obert and CUzabetk Latham Corners, January 17th, 1855. Dear Katherine, The most exciting things happened here yesterday. 1 must tell you all about them, beginning at the very beginning, and telling you everything. As I go on I shall try to help you to understand life here in Upper Canada, for it is so different from life in England. The whole affair began the night before last with the big freeze-up that made the river like a sheet of glass. Everyone at school was very excited because Mr. McLeod, the school-master, said that we could have a skating party that night. The day after the freeze, I was especially excited because Father had suggested to Mr. McLeod that there be a party at our house afterwards. I think that the main reason that he sug- gested it was the school-master has been courting my big sister Elizabeth, but they had had a quarrel and were not speaking to each other. Of course, since I am only twelve years old, I was not supposed to know or understand anything about it, but since Elizabeth and I sleep in the loft, I had heard her crying at night. When I asked her what was wrong, she told me to leave her alone, and just kept on crying. So I think Father suggested the party to get Elizabeth to speak to Mr. McLeod. I had gone to bed early the night of the freeze but I heard what was said below. You see, the house is built of logs, and is not very large, Downstairs there are two rooms. Across the back is Mother ' s and Father ' s room and outside their door is a ladder leading to the loft where Elizabeth and I sleep. By lying on the floor at the top of the ladder, I can see everything that happens in the main room below. The main room is our dining room, parlour, and kitchen all rolled into one. On the inside wall is a huge stone fireplace made from stones which Father gathered in the fields nearby. The hearth is our kitchen, and there is an oven built into the stones at the side of the fireplace. Father made all our furniture of lumber from his mill. There is a waterfall at one side of the island and when we came by here Father said that it was a perfect place to settle. He is very persuasive, and when other folk came by this way, he convinced them that they should stay too. Because we were first here, the town is named Latham Corners after Father. To return to Elizabeth and Mr. Robert McLeod. 1 overheard her telling Mother and Father why she was never going to speak to him again. Elizabeth wants to be married in May when the travelling preacher comes out from Toronto, but Robert is studying law and wants to wait until he writes his final examinations next year. He says it is absolutely impossible to support a wife on a school-master ' s pay, and that only an idiot would want to try it. Elizabeth says that it can be managed very well, but that she will never marry a man who considers her to be an idiot. I wish he would marry her, idiot or no, because her crying keeps me awake at night, and in school he snaps at us. Yesterday he strapped Johnny Matthews for PAGE SEVENTEEN