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

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 The Dramatic Society is again being directed by Mr. Scott. Stock- wood has been elected President and Hodgetts and Denny Vice-President and Secretary respectively. Six new members were elected to complete the membership. Mr. Wilson is again producing the Christmas play for the new members of the society which is to be Friar ' s of Berwick by John McCake. We wish Mr. Wilson and his cast the best of success in producing yet another hit performance. The Electronics Club with Nick LeMoine as President and Mr. Wilson as Director is going to buy an Electronic Transistor Kit. This will enable the members to build several different electronic and radio devices. The Club may also take part in ham radio broadcasting, using LeMoine ' s equipment. The Photographic Society is again using the School ' s dark room facilities. Gross is the President this year and Colin Starnes is Vice- President. Both these boys have taken several football action shots which Mr. Lawson found very useful in classroom coaching sessions. THE LIBRARY The Library staff under Mr. Gordon is being organized in a slightly different way this year. From a chart posted in the stack room, each of the thirteen librarians may find out his various weekly jobs for the whole term. The advantage of this system is that everyone knows his tasks well in advance from a quick glance at the chart. Steve Wilson is Head Librarian. Two librarians each week are engaged on repairs in an effort to catch up in a branch of our work which fell badly behind last year. Since September, eighty-one new books have been catalogued and placed on the shelves. We have received many gifts this fall and we wish to thank most sincerely Governor-General Massey for a large col- lection, P. H. Lewis, W. J. Blackburn, A. Bruyns, Charles Clay and M. B. Sullivan. ENTERTAINMENT This year the School is providing more entertainment on Saturday evenings than ever before. On the first two Saturdays there was an informal sing-song and a performance by the School orchestra. With a new instrument, the clarinet, played by Ron Atkey, John Wilson at the piano, Pat Saunders on the trumpet, Kip Southam and Paul Davoud alternating on the drums and Bill Warner playing one of his washtub boogies, the orchestra had an enthusiastic reception. A short movie was shown on both nights. The first one, which described the building of the railway between Seven Islands and Knob Lake, was particularly interesting.

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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD race started. At the beginning, Brent House led by almost a whole lap but this gap was diminished very rapidly by the avid racers from Bethune and at the end of the race, Bethune was quite clearly ahead. From the beginning to the final whistle, a roar of cheering from the spectators in the balcony almost deafened those on the gym floor itself. Now it was time for the apple bob in the swimming pool. Several baskets of apples were dumped into the pool and another set of equal teams dived in to see who could recover the majority for his House. Again Bethune won with a final count coming to 245-240. To finish off the competition, there was a chocolate bar hunt in the upper half of the classroom block. Despite many doubtful hunters who were convinced that there weren ' t really any chocolate bars, many of the New Boys managed to find what they were looking for. The evening ended with refreshments in the Hall. THE CLUBS The Debating Society with Mr. Dale in charge has chosen its new executive and the first general meeting was held on Friday, November 7. All dates for Little Big Four School debates have been set and Ridley is opening the schedule here on November 21. George Thomson, Hugh Paisley and Ralph Daniel are supporting the motion Resolved that chivalry is dead . The Executive this year is composed of Willows (President), Stockwood (Vice-President) and Paisley (Secretary), ably assisted by council members, Daniel, Price and Jamieson. The Political Science Club is again holding its meetings during the winter. The club elected Willows as President and has chosen eleven new members. Mr. Rowan is director of the club this year and the Honorable George Hees (1922-1927) is Honorary President. For the first time in many years, the club is going to begin meeting regularly before Christmas. The Band is being organized earlier than usual this year under Band Leader Willows. With a full squadron parade every week, it is almost ready to lead the corps. On Remembrance Day two trumpeters played the Last Post and the Reveille in front of the School cross and four others played at the Cenotaph in Port Hope. The Band is preparing to take part in a church parade in the near future. This year the French Club is trying out a new idea. They have limited the club to boys who are fairly fluent in French. The club has been holding informal discussions in French and is putting on a French play, Le Due de Beaufort, which should be an interesting highlight of the Christmas entertainment. Under the capable direction of Mr. Bishop there are about fourteen members. The executive consists of Maxi Ferro (President), Peter Chubb (Vice-President) and Colin Starnes (Secretary).

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16 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD In addition to these activities, two football rallies were held in the gym to teach the new boys the School yells. David Stockwood introduced the members of Bigside, the orchestra led a few songs, and the cheer leaders generated a great deal of enthusiasm. SCHOLARSHIPS E. J. D. Ketchum, Head Boy 1958, won the Pat Strathy Memorial Scholarship at Trinity and the Peter Larkin Scholarship. The Pat Strathy Scholarship was founded by G. B. Strathy, Q.C., L.L.D., ( ' 95- ' 97) and his family in memory of his son, Sub. Lieut. G. H. K. Strathy ( ' 29- ' 34) and is given to the student obtaining the highest lirst-class honours in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and enters the course in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry at the University of Toronto. It is of the value of one thousand dollars. The Peter Larkin Scholarship is given for General Proficiency. Michael Joy won the Professor William Jones Scholarship at Trinity and a Federal-Provincial Student Aid Bursary. Peter Perrin won the Richardson Memorial Sc holarship at Queen ' s. T.C.S. Boys have now won 182 University Scholarships in twenty- four years. Our congratulations also go to Michael A. Hargraft ( ' 48- ' 53) who has been awarded the Franki Fellowship at the University of Toronto; Michael graduated in Civil Engineering with first class honours. And to Nicholas Steinmetz who has had his Scholarship at McGill renewed for another year. UPPER SCHOOL RESULTS, 1958 These were not as good as last year when VIA had the best class results in the Province but they were still good. There were eighteen candidates who wrote 145 papers and passed 140 (one boy failed four) making 96.5% passes. Thirty-two per cent were first class honours and total honours were 74.4%. VIB passed 77.5% of the papers with 41% honours. Ted Ketchum obtained 97% in English Composition and had an average of 87% in all papers. Five other boys scored nineties. The best results were in Geometry, all passed, 14 honours, 10 first class, one credit. Physics, 15 honours, 9 first class, 1 credit, 1 failure. English Literature, all passed, 13 honours, 4 firsts. English Composition, 10 honours, 4 firsts, 1 failure. Latin, all passed. Algebra, 12 honours, 5 firsts, 1 failure. Trigonometry, all passed, 9 honours, 4 firsts.