The Fulford League Debate Trophies

1. Bryan Jones Trophy
The Bryan Jones Junior Trophy goes to the winning school after each of the three tournaments: Fall, Winter, and Spring. The Spring winner inscribes the trophy with the names of the year’s three winners.
Bryan Ross Jones, 1936-1983, taught and served as housemaster at Lakefield College School for a quarter of a century. He loved language, literature and books: he brought that love to the teaching of these subjects and of history. Outside the classroom, he coached track and field, soccer, and hockey, but had time for a central involvement in the stage as well: he both directed school plays and acted with the Peterborough Theatre Guild.
Perhaps his most enduring legacy to Lakefield, however, was in debating, which he established as a formal school activity. Nor was he merely interested in the rhetoric of debates: he had an enduring and infectious concern with world issues, and many students benefited from his insights on several school trips abroad. He died in Switzerland at the age of 47.

2. The Fulford League Senior Trophy
The Fulford League Senior Trophy goes to the winning school after each of the three tournaments: Fall, Winter and Spring. The Spring winner inscribes the trophy with the names of the year’s three winners.
Mrs. George Taylor Fulford presented this trophy to Trinity College School, in 1949. Mrs. Fulford was a member of the Fulford family of Brockville, Ontario, who were prominent as successful entrepreneurs and friends of the great and powerful throughout the early years of this century. The family fortune was founded on successful worldwide marketing of “pink pills for pale people.” Their home, the Fulford Place, is now operated as a museum by the Ontario Heritage Foundation because it provides an excellent example of early twentieth century architecture and home furniture.