Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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rincipal 5 Iflfjedda I have just concluded the re-reading of a Roman play written about 200 B. C. In this play a father ' s son, stolen by a slave andl sold, returns as a slave to serve in his own father ' s house. The unfolding of his real status gives the play its intensely human touch. The author has given the young man a learned tongue and a polished phrase: his utterances often bear a timeless quality. This is the way you ' ll find most folk treating you: Until they have The boon they crave They ' re as kind as can be; but success makes the knave! When they have got it, they set to work cheating you! I wanted to wish you success -but now the word is dishonoured. We have clothed it with material grandeur in our day and yet robbed it of all but an enticingly gilded exterior. For many, success is coveted because it elevates the self: it grants a boon of distinction in much the same way an epaulette lifts up the nose! -and by do doing it destroys an essential grace our world must have, or it will perish, -the grace of humility. Yet, nevertheless, I shall dare to use this word, ' success ' , but only after I have pruned it of its perishable dross and grated into it again the glory it never ought to have lost - the pure joy that arises when one achieves the greatness the world cannot see. May all of you who are here this year have that ' success ' . He and she who die for it will never perish. S L Osborne

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Rising from its parkland, serene and friendly, Trafalgar Castle appeared among the summer trees. I turned in at the gate, and so came back to O.L.C. Somehow things here seem to have changed very little over the years. Even the girls are much the same-- the gay, the moody, the clever, the siow, the cheery, the gloomy-- and all the sleepy-heads ! And yet I know each girl is unique-- a never exhaust- ed (though frequently exhausting!) source of delight for the explorer who understands. What tremendous gifts girls will lavish on those tuned to acceptance ! In my turn, I trust that one little word or idea of mine has been of help to some of them in their quest for tomorrow. Enjoyment of life in all its phases, a spirit of wonder, an active acceptance of what must be, a vigorous impatience with what should not be, an awareness of who and what we are and what we are meant to be-- all of these have filled my living with zest. May some of them brighten your days as you move into the future ! Mrs. Heard