Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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Trinity College School Record VOL. 44 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, PORT HOPE. OCT.. 1940. NO. I EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ............................................ C. I. P. Tara SUB-EDITORS ................ W. Duncanson, B. Sutherland, I.. T. Higgins jumon Sr-ioor. Rsconn .................................. Mr. R. F. Yates MANAGING Enrron .................................. Mr. D. Kei-mode Parr i1L1lL The Record is published six times a year, in the months of October, December, February, April, Iune and August. EDITORIALS The School extends its very deepest sympathy to the families of our Old Boys whose deaths are recorded in this issue, especially those whose lives have been cut short on Active Service, or by accident. They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. T.C.S. is justly proud of the Old Boys who have given themselves to the Cause of Democracy. Approximately two hundred of them are now on Active Service in one or other of the Forces, and this num- ber is steadily increasing. Their ranks range from Mid- shipman to Rear-Admiral, from buck private to Brigadier, and from Aircraftsman to Group Captain. Already the first names have been entered on our Roll of Honour for this War. Two of our Old Boys have given their lives for their Country-Hugh Lockhart Gor- don, who was killed when his flying boat dived into the Pacific Ocean, and George Henry Kirkpatrick Strathy, a Sub-Lieutenant on H.M.S. Ajax, who was killed in action in the Mediterranean Sea. Three of our Old Boys have been decorated for con-

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CQ' 4 CLIIII emnrrzrm Killed in Action G. H. K. Strathy fT.C.S. 1929-343 Sub-Lieutenant, R.C.N.V.R. Killed on Active Service H. L. Gordon CT.C.S. 1922-251 Flying Officer, R.C.A.F. Yet can I not persuade me thou art dead . . Oh no! for something in thy face did shine Above mortality that showed thou wast divine QR-Q31-15

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2 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD spicious bravery, B. D. Russel, who was awarded the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross, for destroying five enemy air- craft, and assisting in the destruction of a sixth, L. R. Mc- Lernon, who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his part played at Dunkirkg and just now we have heard that H. F. G. Ede was awarded the D.F.C. for gallantry in the air during the attack on Narvik. Few schools, at this stage of the War, can say that three of their members have won such honours. We are proud of you, Old Boys, and pray that we, the boys now at your old School, may follow in your heroic footsteps. x We want to take this opportunity to Welcome the seventy-six new boys who entered the School this year. Yes,-seventy-six--a record never before equalled in our 75 years history. A dozen of these boys in the S. S. have come from war-torn England. Ten in the Junior School have come from the other side of the Atlantic. It is difficult for these boys to accustom themselves to this strange country. The everyday trivialities and events, which to us are monotonous, to them are things new and different. They have been torn away from their friends, from their very country, to be flung into the midst of us Canadians. Are they down-hearted? No!-a thousand times no! They have adapted themselves to this foreign environ- ment with the utmost of pluck and enthusiasm. Quietly and unobtrusively they find out our way of life-and they fit in. Sometimes you may catch one of them in a fog. What are they thinking about? The chances are it's Home -three thousand miles away. Not once do we hear a protesting murmur. We admire their courage: they are showing themselves to be made of the right stuff. To this we say: Keep it up, and good luck!