Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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DEAN ' S MESSAGE Dear Students, Now that travel is becoming easier and cheaper, it is quite possible that some of you will visit Jamaica in the future. If you do, go to one of the local Markets where they sell fruits and vegetables, and where the price is decided upon after some bargaining. When the buyer finally purchases what she wants she will usually say: Where is mi braata? The braata may be a carrot, a tangerine, or a handful of peas: it is the little bit extra that the buyer gets for her money. Most of us would be willing to accept the braata , but how many of us would be willing to give it? Yet the market-woman who is generous never loses, for her customers always return. Here at the school we have many students who give their braata in the form oftime; time given to school organizations such as the A.A., the Choir, the Yearbook, the S.C.M., and the Debating Society. Time spent preparing the School Magazine, chaperoning junior students, and performing other necessary, but unpublicized activities. Without these stu- dents, the College would be a poorer place. If the graduates of 1970 leave school and go out prepared to give , instead of expecting to always get, they will find that their attitude will maKe life more worthwhile, and this way of life will bring its own rewards. If each student returning to OLC next year comes back willing to contribute her braata in some form or other, we will have more of that elusive, intangible, but essential school spirit . Sincerely, Dorothy Perry 3

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PRINCIPAL ' S MESSAGE The chief aim of the Ontario Ladies ' College is the moulding of mind, body and character. The challenge to the faculty and staff is enormous, because a totality of devel- opment is required — not only academic and physical, but moral, spiritual and emotional growth of a girl is expected to be on a superior plane. The fact that girls live in the school provides situations which foster this overall development in a unique way, but at the same time places a heavier mantle of responsibility EDUCATIONALLY SPEAKING on those who teach and guide. The motto of this school has been wisely chosen by our forefathers. Veritas Virtus Venustas — truth, virtue and loveliness is a worthwhile philosophy of life to acquire while attending O.L.C. It was Milton who wrote that the end of learning was to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. It was Plato who believed that truth was both permanent and beautiful. Loveliness certainly is the mark of a fine and noble character. Character means courage, truthfulness, trustworthiness, a sense of honour, indepen- dence, fair play, public spirit and leadership. We must not be content that our school merely imparts knowledge, develops and trains character in the narrow sense, but rather we must impart that sense of direction so essential in overcoming life ' s obstacles and hurdles. Hence the school chapel, religious worship, teaching and the development of a view of life are incorporated in the goals of the school. It was Sir Richard Livingstone who wrote at its best, the residential school has been and is admirably successful in producing men with right values and a clear way of life. There is no substitute for character. Reginald C. Davis, M.A., M.Ed., M.Mus., Ph.D., Principal

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HEAD GIRL ' S MESSAGE When I think of OLC and all that is has done for me and all that it has meant to me in the past four years, a verse from Shakespeare ' s As You Like It comes to my mind: All the world ' s a stage and all the men and women merely players, each one of them having his entrance and exit ... O.L.C. is not only a stage over which many girls pass from one year to another, most of them gaining some sort of personal reward or experience, but it is also a stage in another sense. O.L.C. is another level in the devel- opment of one ' s character and life. This is true regardless of how long you may stay here. This school is different from other secondary schools in several ways. More than one hundred girls live in the building, from day to day. Through necessity they must quickly teach themselves how to get along with others. Some girls merely exist here while others take full use of the varied sources of interest and potential that the College offers to each and every one of its students. Girls are given responsibilities and leadership duties in the hopes that they will be able to handle these weights to the best of their ability. As the times change so do the rules here at O.L.C. Changes are good and necessary. However the basic structure and the traditions remain and always will. Again I would like to quote William Shakespeare: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end. My life at O.L.C. has closed its doors now I am leaving its comforts and its hardships and its people to pursue another life, another stage. A happy life consists of the tranquility of mind. Janet Smith