Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Travel is an education in itself. During the last few years many of our students have travelled thousands of miles under the supervision of members of our Faculty. One of this year ' s graudating students has visited Rome, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Spain during her stay at the College. What a wonderful extra education this has been. Everyone needs to pass from the immediate scene of a school environment to something wider so as to enjoy a largeness of view and a breadth of mental vision. By changing our point of view we learn that we are all members of a world society of human beings. Travel has its place in building an effective life. It makes us capable of thinking more thoughts. It is knowledge - of- acquaintance that provides the surest intelligence. An ideal travel vacation will store your mind with thoughts to be imaginative about in future months and years. Perhaps it was your trip to the Appian Way out of Rome, the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, the Tower of London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the windmills on the Dutch coast. In anyone of these, the stimulating aura of the environment would make history come alive, and forever enable you to recapture the past with the vividness of the present. The visitor would have seen not only the stones and bricks of the physical setting, but the hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves and hates that moved those who walked there. Many of our students have come back from trips abroad which have been educationally profitable. Never have I found a satisfied appetite, but rather an enthusiastic where next? Every road is lined with adventure for the traveller who walks it wide awake. You do not need to indulge in an Odyssey, which Ulysses did for ten years, dallying here and there, nor do you need to follow the century-old trail of Marco Polo, as a young couple did a few years ago. Rather, all you need is to get aboard a train, or ship, or a car or airplane and head for any part of Canada. The trans-Canada Highway may provide you with a starting place, for in this country we have the longest paved highway in the world, with final stop signs 5,000 miles apart at Victoria, British Columbia and St. John ' s, Newfoundland. Travel is for young people, and the Canadian Youth Hostel Association, with over 13, 000 members and over 35 hostels to help you explore Canada with holiday making suited to the nature of the environment and at a very nominal cost. To learn or to feel something we have never known before can be a profoundly stirring experience. To record it in a vacation diary or in photographs or movies makes it forever ours. Travel is an education in itself. Reginald C. Davis 4

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Within the bounds of Whitby, Trafalgar Castle stands; A building stately and secure, raised up by skilful hands. A sheriff had his home here, his family graced the halls. And within this lovely setting he gave Receptions, Dinners, Balls. But hard times fell upon him, and he was forced to sell This Castle which he ' d come to love, and where he ' d hoped to dwell. Some business men with vision procured this one-time home. And changed it to a College to which young girls might come. At first their education could best be called genteel . And comprised the social graces which held a great appeal. But as this new school prospered under worthy Dr. Hare Its scope was greatly broadened, and academics flourished there. The standards of the school were high - as were its morals too! And many young girls entered their studies to pursue. In days when entertainment was simple and home-made These girls still found enjoyment, in spite of seeming staid. Their resources were quite limited - we ' d call them deprivations! But with the means at .their command they invented our traditions. The formality of May Queens; the maypole on the lawn; An early picnic breakfast, now unfortunately gone. Biographies and Daisy Chain, prophecies grim or gay. Speeches at Senior Dinner, wet eyes at each Class Day. Elation at Commencement, for school days now were done; They were emancipated and womanhood was won! The years rolled by - how quickly! - Centennial now is past. And this school has amply justified the hopes within her placed. Great y increased facilities, freedoms unknown before Are no- lot of students entering O. L. C. ' s door. Although externals alter, fundamentals are the same; And Virtue, Truth, and Loveliness are still our major aim. Our social customs differ, uniforms change in style. The ladies now are called the girls, but strive for what ' s worthwhile. Dear Old Trafalgar! During the years now past. Many, many students graduated from this place. Our hope is, that, in years to come, as other girls enrol Within these hallowed precincts, they will seek, and find, their goal.

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Dear Students, This is my eighth - and last - message, and as I write it I share the feelings of those of you who will be graduating this year: regret at leaving O.L.C, and anticipation of the future. The past seven years have supplied many memories which I will carry with me when I go to Israel later in the summer. There are many things 1 should like to say, but space is limited, so here are some thoughts suggested by a magazine article on President Ford ' s daughter. Her boyfriend said: I have never known her to take a positive stand on anything . This seemed a very sad commentary on the young lady. To have no positive views and to take no positive stand on any issue, demonstrates an unwillingness to become in- volved in life: or, in modern terms, become committed. Dr. W. G, Saltonstall wrote: The uncommitted life is not worth living .... Commitment is willingness to stand up and be counted. It is a human MUST Commitment will bring sadness as well as joy, loneliness as well as friendship, but it brings excitement and demands the use of all a person ' s resources WITH commitment we can move mountains: WITHOUT it we cannot move a molehill. We are living at a time when there are many mountains facing us: world hunger, overpopulation, economic depression, stock-piling of atomic weapons, and many more. Christopher Fry could have had this in mind when he The time for adventure is not over; adventure has merely changed its form. There are challenges and opportunities waiting for those who are willing to face up to them. Don ' t stand aside from life; become involved, or committed, and make a positive contribution to the world you live in. You ask Why? 1 say, Why not? wrote: Thank God our time is now, when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere. Affectionately, Dorothy Perry 5