Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

 - Class of 1955

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A LAST LOOK 1915-1955 WHEN, IN JUNE, the School fire-door — for this past year its front door — slams behind the last member to leave for the holidays, we shall have said good-bye to a large and important section of Trafalgar ' s building. Let us, as we leave them, think back briefly over some of the rooms in this building and the varied purposes they have served. Remember the Lab, which, with its high stools and tables, its little sinks and many taps, recalls for some the personality of Miss Cam, and for those of an earlier date, that of Miss Hicks whose Form, Lower VI, used it as a classroom. Across the hall, next the Art Room, was Room 11, for years the abode of Upper II with Miss Bedford- J ones, then for years occupied chiefly by a piano and an unidentified smell which was always referred to as dead rat . This useful room also served for Ross House ' s meetings, and was invaded periodically by all Houses in turn rehearsing songs, storing props, or putting on costumes, and going through all the frenzy of preparing for a House Competition. The overflow of this activity spread across the hall to the small room — once a classroom, then the Prefects ' room, and more recently the Senior VI room. There, as a result, one often found oneself teaching amidst a strange and heterogeneous collection; while Hallowe ' en sheets and masks seemed to remain on the shelves perma- nently. One year a flower-decked fence stood there for weeks after a Grad Dance. On the middle corridor was another room of many functions, that architectural freak known to us for the past ten years or so as the wool room , a place where Red Cross articles contended for space with stationery supplies, the mimeographing machine, and shelved text-books. Beyond this room lay the Prefects ' den, over which it was always advisable to draw a veil. In its earlier and more dignified era, this, together with the wool room, was a Staff room, and later became Miss Bryan ' s office. On one ' s left at the foot of the marble stairs, in the lower corridor, there was originally one large room, known as the playroom, and used for singing classes, and for recess in winter — milk and biscuits being distributed from the adjoining kitchenette. Later this was the Boarders ' Study, and later still, divided [14]

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SEPT. 8 OCT. 11 OCT. 20 OCT. 21 OCT. 29 School Opening Mid-term Holiday Inter-school Tennis Matches Trafalgar Day Hallowe ' en Party NOV. 1 NOV. 24 NOV. 29 DEC. 13 DEC. 21 Mid-term House Miss Christmas Carol Marks Competition Hasell Exams Singing DEC. 22 JAN. 11 JAN. 21 FEB. 7 9 FEB. 21 End of Start of Grad Public Mid-term Term I Term H Dance Speaking Holiday FEB. 22 MAR. 10 11 MAR. 16 APRIL 6 APRIL 19 Mid-term Marks Gym Dem. Spelling Bee General Knowledge Closing Start of Term III [ 13 ]



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by a partition, it became two Junior classrooms which were referred to, for lack of numbers, as the Inner and Outer Study. The outer room must always have had a certain resemblance to a station waiting room, since only through it could one reach either the inner room or the kitchenette, and this meant that the class in the inner room had to file through at intervals, to say nothing of the procession of Staff going to the kitchenette at recess to warm their milk in the cold weather. These and all the other rooms in this forty-year-old section of the building will soon be only memories. Every one has its own history, its special associations — different for each of us. And so we say a rather regretful farewell to these rooms and corridors that have seen so much. Soon, in their place, will be a new McGregor Street, but even its newness will be tempered by our history, for the door opening onto it will be Traf ' s original front door, through which all her generations of schoolgirls have passed. Tho ' much is taken, much abides. E.S. 1955 AND ALL THAT! The time has come, the City said, For us to knock you down. You are nothing but a Road Block That slows our trip to town. ' Twas really very hard you know To hear their fierce attack. They know I ' m mostly made of stones And cannot answer back. But if I had a human tongue, The things that I could say! You know ' tis said that walls have ears — I ' ve heard much in my day! I ' ve been a school nigh forty years: The girls I ' ve come to know. I ' ve watched them as they ' ve been at work. The bright ones and the slow. I ' ve listened as for hours they ' ve sat Through lessons by the score. And when I think of some of them I shudder all the more! I ' ve heard how Caesar conquered Gaul, The strategies he planned. What Hannibal and others did To gain some extra land! Off with her head! the Queen of Hearts Once callously did cry, And History tells how poor King Charles The axe ' s edge did try . And there ' s the tale of Jericho Whose walls came tumbling down, They even break a sentence up When asked to find the noun! But I have heard of drugs they ' ve found To try to conquer ills. Perhaps they ' ll give a bit to me. Inject my window sills? I ' m on the spot, they always knew I could not move or bend. So ere I ' m flat upon my face I must this poem end! L.F.M.B. [15]

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