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Austin, James
Person · 1924-2012

James McNiece (Jim) Austin was born in 1924 in Chapleau, Ontario. He was the eldest of four (4) sons of Allan McNiece and Rita (Dickinson) Austin. He was married to Rosamond Mills (1924-1948) who died shortly after giving birth to their twin daughters Rosamond (1947-1997) and Elisabeth (1947-).

In 1939, Jim Austin went to Sudbury to learn to fly with the help of his uncles Chuck and Jack (Austin) who had started Austin Airways. From 1939 to 1942, he attended Trinity College School in Fort Hope, Ontario. In 1942 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and served during WWII as Flight Engineer, RCAF Bomber Command, Squadron 429 (Bison). After his father’s sudden passing in 1946, he joined the family’s business, Austin Nicholson Lumber Company, and worked in the lumber industry until his retirement in 1988.

Founded by Jim Austin’s grandfather (James McNiece Austin (1866-1922)) in 1901, the Austin Nicholson Lumber Company of Chapleau, Ontario became a major actor in the forest industry and was, in the late 1910s, the largest supplier of ties in the British Commonwealth. The company had contracts with Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) and in 1916, for example, it signed a three-year contract to provide the CPR with 200,000 ties per year.

From 1946 until the sale of the family firm in 1956, Austin was in charge of many of the bush operations. After the sale of the firm to W.B. Plaunt and Sons of Sudbury, Jim Austin stayed with the company until joining Eddy Forest Products in Espanola. He was Assistant Woodyard Superintendent, and after managing Eddy’s Pineland operation in Nairn Centre, he moved to Timmins in 1976 for work. Four years later, in 1980, he returned to Nairn. When he retired in 1988 he was Special Assistant to the Manager of the Woods Operations Supervising Research and Development in Lumber Operations and Production and Control of Waste Products.

After his retirement Jim Austin moved to Sudbury and resided there until his death in November 2012.

Bickle, Thomas Henry
Person · 1916-1937

Thomas Henry Bickle was born on March 11, 1916 in St. Louis, USA. He attended Trinity College School from 1928-1932. On July 5, 1937 he drowned in a boating accident in Gananoque, Ontario. In the mid-1950s his parents funded the creation of a new boarding house at TCS, named Bickle House, in memory of their son.

Nash, Edwin
Edwin Nash Fonds · Person · 1919-1987

Edwin Nash (1895-1989) grew up in Froyle, Hampshire, England, where as a young boy he began gardening for the Vicar at the local Anglican church. It was at this time he was also trained in motor mechanics. In 1919, while still in England, Mr. Nash was hired by Trinity College School. He arrived in September of that year and while only intending to stay in Canada for two years, remained an employee of the school for more than 65 years. He served as Building Maintenance Supervisor and Chief Groundsman. Working under four Headmasters (Orchard, Ketchum, Scott and Wright), Nash was credited with saving the school from the devastating fire of 1928. Following the fire, Mr. Nash continued to serve T.C.S. at its temporary location in Woodstock, Ontario. There, he traveled once a week to town with laundry through all kinds of weather. While at T.C.S. Mr. Nash painted buildings, mowed and rolled lawns, maintained the gardens, and cleared snow from the roads and rinks. His favourite memories of T.C.S. included operating the School's Fordson tractor purchased in 1933 for $75 and the time one of the School's goats ate the tulips he planted for Speech Day. He was also well known for repairing the school's cricket bats. The Edwin Nash Garden at T.C.S. was dedicated to Mr. Nash in 1985.

Kelly, Madelon
Madelon Kelly · Person · 1960s-1990s

Madelon Kelly worked at TCS for 22 years from the late 1960s to the early 1990s as a Mailroom employee and the travel coordinator.

Brown, Eldon
Eldon Brown Fonds '89 · Person · 1986-1989

Eldon Brown (1971) attended Trinity College School from 1986-1989. He was a member of several athletic teams as well as a Steward in 1988-89.

Thetford, Gordon Anderson
Gordon Anderson Thetford '15 Fonds · Person · 1911-1915

Gordon Anderson Thetford (1895-1969) attended Trinity College School from 1911-1915. He was a prominent athlete winning the Grand Challenge Trophy in 1915, as well as several other medals for track and field.

Lennard Family Fonds
Lennard Family Fonds · Family · 1919-1923

John Exton Lennard (1903-1989) attended Trinity College School from 1919-1922. He received a Distinction Cap for his performance as the best outside wing in the Little Big Four Football League. His brother, Samuel Bertram Lennard (1905-1981), attended the school from 1919-1923 and won the Challenge Cup for the best all-around school cadet and was a Triple Colour award winner making the school's first football, hockey and cricket teams. He later went on to attend the Philadelphia Textile School. Both brothers worked at S. Lennard and Sons Ltd (The Lennard's Mill) upon graduation.

Bruce, Robert
Robert Bruce '14 · Person · 1912-1914

Robert Bruce was born 1897 in India to father Henry William Bruce. The family moved to Collingwood, Ontario and he attended Trinity College School from 1912-1914.

Seagram, Charles J.
Charles J. Seagram '36 · Person · 1929-1936

Charles J. Seagram was born May 20, 1918 in Orillia to father J.H. Seagram. Charles Seagram entered Trinity College School in 1929 and graduated in 1936.

Godfrey, Paul
Person · 1934-2014

Paul Godfrey worked at TCS from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1965 to 1999 as a History teacher, the Director of Guidance, a soccer and cricket coach, and the Bethune Housemaster from 1970 to 1984. He attended TCS as a student, graduating in 1952. He then received his M.A. in History from Emmanual College, Cambridge. A pavilion was created on the TCS cricket field and named in his honour.

Shepherd, Oswald George
Person · 1892-1952

Oswald George Shepherd attended TCS from 1907-1910. His father was E.H. Shepherd, Esq. from North Bay, Ontario. He played First Football and Hockey while he attended the School. He served in both WW1 (Lieutenant with the 159th Battalion Canadian Infantry) and WW2 (Lieutenant-Colonel and District Dental Officer in the C.D.C. at M.D. 7).

Levedag, Peter
Person · b. 1939

Peter Levedag was born in 1939 and attended Trinity College School from 1951-1958. While at TCS, he was a Bethune House officer and played on the football and swim teams.

Scott, Ken
Person · 1924-

Ken Scott was born in 1924. He attended Trinity College School from 1940-1943, and serves as year chair for his class, and honorary trustee of the School. Ken is a veteran of WWII who served in the Royal Canadian Navy for 22 years. He came to Canada from his native England as one of the young men invited here to escape the war in Europe. Upon his graduation from TCS, he headed overseas to join the Allied effort, serving as a Officer on the HMS Ironbound and HMCS Crescent and was later promoted to Lieutenant. After the war, Ken returned to Canada and had a successful career at the Dominion Life Assurance Company.

Southey, Jim
Person · 1926-2016

The Honourable James 'Jim' Bonham Strange Southey was born in 1926 in Bowmanville, Ontario. He attended Trinity College School from 1941-1944. Following TCS he attended Queen's University and Osgoode Hall, where he was a silver medalist in 1953. Jim was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1975. He served as president of the Canadian Judges' Conference, the Ontario Superior Court Judges' Association, and the Lawyers' Club of Ontario. He was also Chair of the Board at Trinity College School and was an early advocate of Co-education at the School. Jim died on July 29, 2016 in his 90th year.

Seagram, Norman
Person · b. 1934

Norman Seagram was born July 10, 1936 in Toronto to father Norman O. Seagram, a lawyer. Norman Seagram, Jr. entered Trinity College School in 1947 and graduated in 1952.

Jack Goering
Person · d. 2017

Jack Goering was born February 16, 1925 in Barcelona, Spain. A TCS alumnus, he attended the school from 1941-1943. Inn his graduating year he served as a prefect and won the Grand Challenge Cup. He received his B.A.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Toronto and his Ontario Teachers Certificate. Jack Goering worked at TCS from 1961 to 1985 as a Science teacher. He was a proud advocate of sustainable living and co-founded the Ganaraska Hiking Trail in Port Hope, Ontario with Pat Lawson.

Tait, Trevor
Person · b. 1887

Trevor Spottiswoode Tait was born March 20, 1897 to father William Lesesne Tait, Esq. and Florence Amelia Tait of Norfolk, Virginia. Trevor had two siblings: Arthur Lesesne Tait and Dorothy Lancaster Gray. Trevor attended Trinity College School from 1907-1913. Arthur attended also attended TCS from 1907-1912. Trevor married Katharine Stymetz Lamb Tait, a stained glass artist. He died March 10, 1984.

Dunbar family
Family · 1913-1957

The Dunbar family lived and worked in Guelph, Ontario. Angus Dunbar was born in December 27, 1899 and was employed as a barrister in Guelph. Angus attended Trinity College School from 1913-1917. His son, Charles 'Rusty' Dunbar also attended TCS from 1953-1957. While at TCS Rusty was head prefect.

Budge, Donald
Person · 1936-

Donald C. Budge was born in 1936 and attended Trinity College School from 1947-1954. While at TCS, Budge served as a Brent House office, was an assistant editor of the TCS yearbook The Record, and played on the tennis, football, and soccer teams.

Dale, Geoff
Person · 1918-2017

Geoffrey Dale was born in 1918. He earned his B.A and B.Ed. at the University of Toronto. Dale served in the Toronto Scottish Regiment in the U.K. and Europe in 1940-1945. In 1946 he was hired as a teacher at Trinity College School. He was appointed Assistant to the Headmaster in 1955, Assistant Headmaster in 1968, and Deputy Headmaster in 1978. Dale coached Littleside Football and produced many of the Senior School plays. In 1983 Dale retired from TCS. He passed away in 2018, in his 100th year.