Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Editor Sub-t ' .flitor Svvrt ' tary- 1 rcasiirvr Sports Editor Art Editor House Rt ' presentatiie Honorary Adviser . Patricia rrHKR() y Jan He[ ry Marilyn Spencer Elizabeth Scrim(;er Jean Holmes CyNTHL LlDSTONE Miss MacGaciien MAG A Zl E COM MI TTEE Form Senior 1. Form Junior 1. Form Va. Form B. Form 1 A. Daphnl Pinhey Elizabeth Hay Rosemary (Graham Sylvia Skelly Form I B. Form HIa. Form HIb. Form L [)pcr II. Jacqlelixe Beaudoin Form II. Form I Frances Macor ViR ,i.MA LeDain Barbara Davison Anne Pattison Judy Cliff Susan Racey [131

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MISS JANET L. GUMMING Principal of Trafalgar School for Girls from I ' ) 17 to 1940. Died at I ictoria, British ( ' olurnbia. on January 26 i, 1946. They are not dead who live In hearts they leave behind. In lives whom they have blessed They live, and shall live As time declares their good And proves their immortality. Trafalgar Girls, past and present, and many others associated with Miss Gumming, gathered at the Ghurch of St. Andrew and St. Paul, on Tuesday, January 29th, 1946, to pay a tribute of aflFection, respect, and gratitude for the life, service, and influence of a wise and great teacher, a great and good woman. The Venerable Archdeacon Gower-Rees in his address at this service put our thoughts into words: ■ ' For twenty-three years, which is a long time in so responsible and exacting a task. Miss Gumming guided the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual growth of the hundreds of girls who passed through Trafalgar School. This memorial rite is not a tribute to official service or literary genius, or popular and public distinction — it is homage to personal character. It is your and my declaration that a life of such transcendent purity of purpose, and of such utter unselfishness is an example which cannot fail to inspire all who ever came under her influence. It would be disrespectful familiarity to a woman of her lofty spirit, high ideals, her great soul, her rich cultural endowments, her long and honourable life to endeavour to weigli and estimate her character. Though she has passed from among us, she has left behind her, her better part: she has left us the legacy of her bright example, the memory of her noble life. She requires no memorial of carved wood and stone: her memorial is found in the hearts and minds of those she taught and loved. [15]