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

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Trinity College School Record Vox.. 49 TRINITY CoLI.IsGe SCHOOL, PoRT I-Iona, OCTOBER, 1945 No. l EmToR-IN-Cmsr .... .... E . MCC. Sinclair NEWS EDITOR ...... .... R . M. Kirkpatrick LITERARY EDITOR J. M. Hallward SI-oRTs EDITOR ..................... J. B. French FEATURES EDITOR ............ .......,.............. F . A. H. Greenwood BUSINESS MANAGERS ................... R. W. S. Robertson, J. W. Dumford ASSISTANTS ......... C. Barber, H. Caldbiclc, D. A. Decker, W. M. Dobell, E. D. Hibbard, T. W. Lawson, F. Main, F. D. Malloch, D. McDonough, M. F. McDowell, I .R. lVlclVlurricl'1, W. H. M. Palmer, A. M. Stewart, G. B. Taylor, W. J. A. Toole, R. L. Watts, A. C. B. Wells. PHOTOGRAPHY .................................. R. P. Stokes, S. P. Baker MANAGING EDITOR ............. ............ .... T h e Rev. I-l. N. Taylor TREASURER ...................................... A. I-I. N. Snelgrove, Esq. JUNIOR SCHOOL RECORD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF .. .................................. T. G. R. Brinckman ASSISTANT ....... .................................... P . T. Madclem MANAGING EDITOR .. ........,..................... C. J. Tottenham, Esq. - The Record is published .fix times a year, in the months of October, December, February, April, May and Iuly. EDITORIAL August, 1945, will stand long as a landmark of peace. For the iirst time in six years the World has laid down its arms and begun to set the foundations of what must be a lasting peace, and at the same time the country is striving to settle back into a state which is none too familiar to any of us. Many of us are still vague in our recollections of non- warring conditions. We have grown up in a difficult period. In 1939, we were too young to realize the terrible situation our country was ing in the years leading to the peace we were too young to go to battle. Our minds were constantly full of Wartime stories, thrilling yet distant thoughts. When

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C' 4 gin emurram Killed in Action Glen Emerson Bedore CT.C.S. 1942-431 Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.F.A.A. Died as the Result of Wounds Thomas Laird Alexander, M.B.E. fT.C.S. 1936-393 Captain, Algonquin Regiment 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. 21. 19.

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2 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD hostilities ceased we realized, perhaps for the first time, that the war had escaped us. We had done nothingg and now we could do no more. Yet are we to blame? Our age was a great handicap in giving very serious help. We were schoolboys, and our duty was to be educated. Now with the war at a close we find ourselves still in school, still striving to gain a useful education. Isn't our job to be done by steps, Lmtil we, the schoolboys of 1939 to 1945, may add our knowledge to the world, tottering on its new legs of peace? We have done relatively nothing to date. Our contribution is forthcoming, and in order to be able to help, we must take what we can from school experiences. We will be ignored by groups of veteransg we will miss much of the friendly comradeship felt between returned servicemen. We must be able to endure all this, and at the same time add our part. A firm foundation and an understanding sense of reality are required by all of us. Those who fought our battles, some of whom paid the supreme price, are at last allowed the rest they have well earned. But we must not permit ourselves to slip into lazy habitsg for we have no right to do so. we must strive to gain a sound education and make our battle a constructive one. -E. M. Sinclair