Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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ECHOES OF YESTERDAY As some crushed rose-leaves from an old world garden, Bring back the thoughts of happy days gone by; So may these voices from Trafalgar School days, Awake sweet echoes in the memory. 6

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Crafalgar a aga ine taft: Editors: Miss Johnson and Miss Padfield V xsiimm St anaget: j jseioei tant : Miss Gass Kay Bullard Miriam Rowley tcretarp: Leonie Ward Committee: Form VI — Gertrude Brown, Marguerite Burnside, Phyllis Ross, Louisa Napier Form V — Kay Bullard Form IV — Marion Baile Form III. A — Muriel Carsley Form III. B — Kathleen Perrin Form Upper II. A — Nora Dawson Form Upper II. B — Maysie MacSporran Form II — Margaret Archibald Form Upper I — Beatrice Carter Form I — Ruth Bishop ! au0e IRepre entatibe: Miriam Rowley The Editors offer this, the first number of the School Mag- azine, to the past and present girls of Trafalgar, fully realising the difficulties of catching the echoes of thirty years, but hoping that this small beginning may at least make one more link in the chain that binds the old girls of Trafalgar in loyalty to their school, and that the present girls, reading of the fine work done in the world by those who climbed the hill before them, may appreciate their heritage and en- deavor to live up to the noble traditions of Trafalgar.

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A LETTER TO THE SCHOOL GIRLS PAST AND PRESENT, OF THE TRAFALGAR INSTITUTE When Miss Cumming was SO kind as to ask me for a message to be put in your school magazine, my first thought was that nothing that I could say would be of much interest to the mass of the readers. The Past is by no means always interesting to the present. But on second thoughts I realized that the magazine must hope to include among its readers many, I hope very many, whose connection with the school dates, Hke my own, a long way back; and to them the mention of the past will not seem dull. But in case I should weary any one, I shall limit the few words I have to say to greet- ing and remembrance. I congratulate with all my heart the promoters of the mag- azine, and I wish it all success. It has often been talked about, this magazine that was to be; but I think that in former days we must have lacked courage and initiative, perhaps we were also afraid of falling short of material. I am glad that the present community has more daring. There is a proverb which tells us that it is the first step that costs. I am never quite sure of that; for there is often a wave of triumphant excitement at the begin- ning, which is apt, later on, to sink to a monotonous level. So I wish for all connected with the paper much satisfaction in a pros- perous start, and much continuance in well-doing afterwards. To the readers, as well as to the Editor and contributors, I send warm greetings. I do not personally know many of the girls who sit at the desks in the school-house now; but I still know some, and when I read the names of the newer-comers, I feel that I know, by reputa- tion, something of them too. But my memory goes not only to the girls who were in school when I left it, but to the girls who have been there since I knew it, the long procession of Old Girls, who separated from the companionships and interests of school- days to pass out to their own paths in life. It goes to the girls who, before the middle of their days went west , as our soldier lads say; these are not many, thank God, for the young should live to work and to enjoy. It goes to the long-familiar place, to the garden, and the house, and the school-house, and the mount- ain lying behind, where, about the time that this letter reaches Montreal, the glorious sunshine of May will be bringing out the young leaves, and the annual resurrection of life which makes the eternal youth of the world. It goes to the busy routine of the Household, and to the endless side-issues of daily life, plays and fancy-dress dances, tennis on the lawn and sliding on the mount- ain, which in the retrospect seem to stand out much more than the actual school-work. That too I do not forget; and while I am quite well aware that there were many girls who did no more 7