Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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Clock-wise from Top: Mrs. Black from gr. 7 8 and Mrs. Heinl, from gr. 10 11; our fix-it men. Ron. Dennis, Wayne and Gord; the Kitchen staff; Mrs. Orth. our nurse, and Mrs. Allchurch. the House Manager; Mrs. Huppeler. the float housemother, and Miss Wiggins, our Dean. 13

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Staff We dedicate these pages to our office staff, our housemothers, and our house keeping staff. We want them to know how much we appreciate all they do for us. Clock-wise from Top: our assistant dean, Mrs. Jardine; Mrs. Sadoway, Mrs. Crawford, and Mrs. Greenslade; housemother for gr. 9, Mrs. Shaver; Mrs. McKittrick from the study hall and Mrs. Knowles who lets us sign our life away; Mrs. Luchka building fund secretary.

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Ladies Guild Essay Contest Senior Winner Hester Fuchs My educational experience taught me more about myself and my future direction than I had ever expected. For Educational Experience Week I went on the Theatre Experience. I must admit that at first I thought it would be quite dull because I had put Media Experience down as my first choice and really wanted to go on that instead of the Theatre Experience. Therefore, my attitude towards the Theatre Experience was not very good but after the first day, my attitude totally changed. Theatre Experience. What do you think of when you hear or see that - Theatre Experience? My thoughts? Wow! We get to see a lot of plays. Whoppee! Wrong. The Theatre Experience covered a majority of topics dealing with the whole subject of entertainment, not just theatre. We saw dance classes, acting classes, we were briefed on set design, costumes, make-up, theatre upkeep, lighting and the electrical engineering involved in putting on a production BUT the best thing we learned - in every single class and talk - was about the reality of the entertainment world. It ' s easy for a person to say I ' m going to be an actress or I ' m going to be an actor. But nobody thinks about all the work and effort you have to put into something like being an actress or anything for that matter. I didn ' t - at least, not until the Theatre Experience. I remember the acting classes the best out of the whole three days. In fact, I remember the first acting class the best. The teacher was excellent. When we arrived in his three hour class he spent fifteen minutes talking to us about why we chose the Theatre Experience and about the romanticism and ideals about acting. Then, he took another fifteen minutes and tore down and shattered every single idea and dream about acting. He told us about the REAL acting world. Did you know that there are 5,000 actors and actresses in the Acting Association in Canada (I think it is ACTRA) and that only approximately 900 were working as actors or actresses in January 1983? Only 900! I was shocked. Then he said Notice how there are more boys than girls in this class . And there were - approximately 8 boys and about 4 or 5 girls. Why? The schools pick more boys than girls because the majority of acting jobs around are for men. All I could think of when he said this was Oh, what an encouraging thing to say to a group of 20-odd girls. Your marks have to be high and you really have to work or you aren ' t even going to get on a little T. V. commercial on which you smile for approximately 59.9 seconds. I liked being discouraged about the acting field because it put a lot of ideas I had straight in my head. For example, I ' m not going to do a measly late night commercial, and the day after it is aired get millions of ' phone calls from agents claiming I am the next Ingrid Bergman - because I ' m not and nobody is going to come to me and beg me to be their client - 1 have to do it all myself. The acting teacher destroyed the whole glamourous picture that, I think, the majority of us had in our heads and that was the best thing I learned altogether. As I said earlier, we learned about a lot of areas of entertainment and we saw how some of these areas interconnected with each other. At the Tarragon Theatre, Mr. Marshall (sort of the top dog in stage design) talked with us and showed us a rehearsal room, costume room, lighting room, set design room and then told us of different acting classes such as voice and stage combat. He fully explained all these topics. Then, during the three days we saw how all of the things he told us about came together when we saw productions such as Cabaret and Sugar Babies and how important they were in the production. After learning about theatre - in front and behind the scenes - it ' s made me realize that to be involved in theatre, you aren ' t just limited to being (i) an actor or actress or (ii) acting teacher. You can go into almost any field - costuming, design, make-up - and still be involved. Maybe you won ' t be a leading man or woman and maybe you think that the standing ovation isn ' t for you because you ' re behind the scenes, but it is, because without the set designer or the costume maker or the make-up person, the show could not have gone on - and you know what they say The show must go on. So I feel that you can still get satisfaction out of knowing that the standing ovation is for everyone behind the scenes too, who make a whole production possible. I ' m not sure if I ' m going to become the actress I ' ve always wanted to be. In fact, I ' m not even sure if an actress is what I ' ll end up trying to be, but at least I ' ve learned some background and know the real story about the entertainment world and I ' m going to try anyway.