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

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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL REGORD ONE OF A NOBLE CREW An editorial from the Globe and Mail, Toronto, Oct. 18th., 1940. Canada has had reason to feel proud of the young men from this Dominion who have distinguished them- selves in the air. Canadian squadrons, fighting as such, have fully maintained the magnificent standard set by the Royal Air Force, and young Canadians have done their share in making the Royal Air Force itself the Wonder of the World. The brilliant naval action in the Mediterranean is of special interest to this city because Sub-Lieutenant G. H. K. Strathy of Toronto took part in the action While serving on the Ajax. A young man of exceptional promise and great ability, Sub-Lieutenant Strathy was by aptitude and training the type of man who has made the Royal Navy feared and respected. He gave his life in the course of an action which Will fill another memorable page in British naval history. His family has contributed three sons to the armed forces. Toronto shares their pride in the part which Sub- Lieutenant Strathy played on so notable an occasion and their grief over his loss.

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 13 England, and later to Oxford. In his third year at Christ Church, he was tragically killed. Lt.-Col. Harold Hartney, U.S. Air Corps Reserve, has very kindly sent the School an inscribed and autographed copy of his thrilling book entitled Up and At 'Em, in which he gives the first complete story of the exploits of the First Pursuit Group of the United States Air Service in the first World War. Col. Hartney is a Canadian by birth and was the Commander of the First Pursuit Group which numbered among its members such Well-known fliers as Eddie Rickenbacker and Quentin Roosevelt. H. A. Richardson C86-'88l who was here with his Wife on June lst, has generously arranged for copies of Bishop Renison's notable tribute to the School to be sent to all members of the Old Boys' Association. R. T. Morris

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 ,F S7 , fu, Aff- XV, , . , ,ll . I - 1? I I 6 fx-,I O11 Q 2 BAD BOY MAKES GOOD In a brief cable to one of the heroic members of Ernie McNab's Royal Canadian Air Force fighter squadron, stationed somewhere in England, a proud father recently wrote, Bad Boy Makes Good and thereby blew the lid off a wide field of discussion, and probably set the Head- master's eyes to twinkling. The discussion surrounds that age-worn question mark -athlete or scholar?-that has set many a school boy to dreaming, many an anxious father to worrying, and many a Master to arguing pro and con over the morning cocoa in the common room. And still the question is unanswered -although the hero worshipping J.S. with its collective eyes glued to the skies might think the question was answered by the objective of that brief but heartfelt cable. To many an Old Boy, who worried more about the future of the first rugby team than the future of a Latin examination, the exploits of this youthful member of the R.C.A.F. meant a silent chuckle of glee. To many a housemaster, with hair prematurely grey- ed by the pranks and antics of a spirited athlete, the ex- ploits of this former Bethunite must have wrought a silent admission that the grey hairs were worth it. To a hard-boiled drill sergeant, accustomed to making sure that those half-holiday detention squads actually felt