Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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PREFECTS Back row: Bunty Poole, Margaret Howard, Priscilla Sargent, Rose Macfarlane, Greta Straessle. Front row: Tassie Metrakos, Susan Racey, Sylvia Dennis, Susan West, Emmie Lou Goobie. PREFECTS We the Prefects of ' 51 Have had a year of work and fun, Now we must leave advice to you The future Prefects of ' 52. We are — Silver, Rose, Priscilla and Tassie, Sue est, Margaret, Greta and Racie, Emmie Lou, Joyce, Bunty and Berry, A small little group but always so merry. The Prefects ' Room we remodelled in blue Is to be kept tidy and looking like new. A shoe rather dusty lies under the chair, If it is needed we advise some repair. A second-hand gym belt, and a pair of shorts too Repose in the toe of the right-handed shoe. You ' ll find the slip-cover blends like a gem With the ruby-red sashes we wore in the Dem. We commend to your use small mirror on wall. If used with discretion you ' ll look like a doll. Apart from this spot so private and gay We pass on our duties to do day by day. Under Silver our leader so inspiring and fair The hardest of tasks just vanish in air. We wish you our Followers the best for next year; Lift liigl) tlie ideals of sei ice and cheer. Susan Racey, Science VI, Fairley House. [25

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ON AND OFF THE RECORD (ivith apologies to Fitz) Excerpts from June 1961 : . . . Flash . . . VIRGINIA JACOBS designing additions lor a certain someone ' s square house . . . CLAUDETTE CAKRIERE new interpreter of the jokes at the Folies Bergeres . . . SUSAN WEST very elite designer has just finished completing revolutionary accordion pleated tunics for Trafalgar School in this city . . . Bulletin received from across the sea Congratulations due to PRISCILLA SARGENT on having completed daring climb up Mount Everest — now vacationing at Hyderabad . . . GRETA STRAESSLE just appointed Women ' s Editor of the Police Gazette — ably assisting her husband the editor in-chief . . . MURIEL JAMISON, founder and head mistress of the Little Monster Nursery School, is now expecting a little monster of her own — Good luck, Muriel . . . SUZANNE BRO N prominent Montreal socialite is building a nineteen room ski shack at Ste. Adele . . . ROSE MACFARLANE mathematician completed a survey calculating ratio of boys of Lower Canada College to girls in Trafalgar (results as yet unknown) . . . HEATHER CLEVELAND designing murals for little Christopher ' s nursery . . . vSpotted SHEILA ARCHIBALD author of the best seller Weasels and How to Trap Them at a cocktail party given in her honour at the Ritz . . . SHIRLEY STOCK founding a camp for Eskimo children in Labrador . . . MARGARET HOWARD elected president of the Old Girls ' Association of Trafalgar . . . MATILDE MIRANDA famous Cuban artist now exhibiting her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts in New York . . . CAROLE GOLD appointed principal of a certain girls ' private school by board of governors of the same school . . . BARB BOON has become an overnight success owing to her new design for mole-skin over-leggings with ermine (winter weasel) tie-ons . . . EMMIE LOU GOOBIE finished her course at Chamberlain, and is returning to Newfoundland to open a charm school in St. John ' s.

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