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

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16 'VHINITY t'Ul,l,EGl'I SCHOOL RECORD SPUTNIK Great things have happened around T.C.S. since Russia launched the first satellite in October. Mr. Lewis and several boys were up early at one time or another trying to glimpse Sputnik I. Common-room gossip reports strange doings on the third floor of the class-room block. Queer noises have been heard coming from room X. Now that Sputnik II has been fired, gossip has it that Skukniks will soon be launched and manned, first by one of the many curs the School possesses, then by a specially- trained and equipped Space Cadet. There are also reports that Russia has used her satellites for the reconnaissance of Port Hope. The Crane Sanitation Company, particularly, has aroused great interest in top Soviet circles because of the standard necessities it produces, and the harmonious beauty of the products. We hope that the Skuknik will bring us similar information from Russia. We all realize what a tremendous amount of work is involved in constructing a satellite, but it is felt that our capable science will be quite successful. It is requested that all boys maintain a constant watch for a parachute floating down towards the physics lab. Suspended from it will be a most illustrious scientist, truly earning his B.Sc. by a display of true daring and pioneering spirit. THE SURPRISE VVEAPON - Amongst its increased population of cats, dogs and students this term. the School was privileged to play host to a vagrant skunk. To ht-gin with. this intruder was observed in the various window-wells about the buildings. Home said that he was trying to hibernate. If so, however, he wasn't very successful. T.C.S. is simply not the place for continuous slumber. lim-i-y time he was annoyed in the slightest te.g. when he was

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 Monday: 7.30 a.m.: Two deserted dining-room tables. 12.45 p.m.: Four additional tables bare. Sure cure announced: Get lots of sleep, drink lots of water and drown the wretched bugs. 6.00 p.m.: Hospital mobbed. Soup for supper, boys. Tuesday: 8.30 a.m. Breakfast late. Beastly bug, a friend to many who foresee less work fmisguided souls!J and more sleep, for weeks. Wednesday: 11.30 a.m. First of the victims head homeward. News travels fastg new slogan: Get sick quick. 12.45 p.m.: Surrender! All mobile specimens to leave on Friday morning. Milk bills soar Cfurther increase foreseen in fees next yearl. Sales of Lawson's luscious lemonade increase sharply. 7.15 p.m.: Doctor visits again, sees those near death. Mercuric oxide burned as chemistry department meets demand for thermometers. Thursday: 8.30 a.m.: Food bills further reduced, but cows over-worked. 3.00 p.m.: Doctor, confronted with some seventy horses . . . uh, patients, pardon my delirium, asks to see really sick ones onlyg those with temperatures of less than 104 degrees melt back into their mattresses. Trinity House becomes a hospital wing, all womenfolk of the School volunteer for service to the disabled. 6.30 p.m.: An almost empty chapel sits up on hearing the vibrant tenor of Mr. Lewis, who is substituting for Canon Lawrence. Friday: 8.30 a.m.: Many slant-eyes trying to avoid detection for two and a half more hours. 11.02 a.m.: Bus leaves for Toronto. 11.53 a.m.: Train for Montreal. The 'flu weekend is born. 12.45 p.m.: School almost deserted. A few victims staggering towards hospital in various stages of fever. Pallid convalescents, bundled in sweaters and towels, cough along empty corridors. Monday, October 14, 6.30 and 8.30 p.m.: Some stalwarts return from the cities. The rest remain to enjoy the fruitful results of close contact with society. Tuesday: 8.30 a.m.: At breakfast, many tables still empty, but Mongolian menace finally on the run. When's that second wave coming?

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