Balmoral Hall School - Optima Anni Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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' T TTTTWWT 'WWW' ' T ' 31 The occupants of the White House become really active only four times a day, at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and when they're supposed to be in bed. The occupants of Room V find it necessary to practise Gymnastics after lights out. Witness the seniors' headaches due to fallen plaster. Ann and Nancy in the next room are notorious for rising with the breakfast bell, and the black book seems to belong to them exclusively. In the next room we meet a menagerie, consisting of-a porky, two bambies, horses, a rabbit, three Grade VIII's and Carol. If you hear queer sounds issuing from across the hall, it's just Miss Sharman experimenting again. Next we pass a room belonging to none other than Miss MacMillan, our beloved house mother. As we go down to the senior floor we pass the infirmary-which we'll pass by hurriedly. The occupants of Room II have striven to create utter chaos and success is nearly theirs. If you hear the tap running at extraordinary hours, it's this famous trio, having a laundry. Their favourite pastime is ringing the bell for maid-service! Now we enter Room I-but as usual the cupboard door is in the way. Where's the architect who built this place? Miss Boreham has taken an immense interest in this room-just look at the maps on the walls- and Marg. still thinks Cape Cod is in Africa. Hear yells of pain? It's just Ada with her two- finger treatment on Marg. Then we mustn't leave out our famed literary artist who lives here, Geri -she spends her time hiding from Miss Hawkes, under the bed, on essay days . GERALDINE SCHOEPP and MARGARET LOUGHEED. THE 16TH GUIDE COMPANY In September, 1950, the Balmoral Hall Guide Company was first formed. When patrols had been organized with the names Heather , Blue- bell , Thistle and Gorse , and the number of the company chosen, work was begun in earnest. Some new Guides were enrolled during the course of the year, increasing the Company to 28 Guides. Proficiency badges were earned, and the second class guides passed some of the required tests. Each week there was time to play games and to sing when the work was finished, we enjoyed coming to the meetings. The Guides like to do a good turn for the school each year, and we decided to buy the School a new basketball. A Shamrock Tea was held on March 17th in the school dining-room, and we were successful in raising sixty-six dollars and thirty cents. Besides having the regular meetings and entertaining at tea, the Guides found time to go on a hike at Bird's Hill. This year has been very successful for the new company, and on behalf of all the Guides I would like to thank our hard-working Captain, Margaret Killick and Lieutenant, Pat Taylor. SALLY DANGERFIELD. Brownie Interests The Brownies of the Sixteenth Pack meet in the dining room at 3:20 p.m. every Tuesday after- noon. Our Brown Owl is Mrs. A. W. P. Harri- son, and Tawny Owl is Mrs. E. Elders. There are twenty-two Brownies in the pack, many of whom have never been Brownies before. An enrolment was held in November, to which our parents were invited. Mrs. Troop and Mrs. Griffiths, our commissioners, took part in this ceremony when fifteen Brownies were enrolled. We are planning to have a hike and picnic in the spring. SALLY BLANCHARD. Choir Under Mrs. Dennis' excellent supervision, our newly formed Balmoral Hall Choir has achieved much since the school year began. Our choir made its formal debut on All Saints Day when the girls sang as an anthem Crimond's The Lord's My Shepherd . On Remembrance Day, the choir led the school in the singing of O Valiant Hearts , in keeping with the spirit created by Canon Wilmot in his address. However, we feel that the outstanding event of the 1950 term was the Carol Service in which junior, Inter- mediate and Senior Choirs gave a fine presenta- tion of traditional Christmas music. Plans are now made for our choir to sing in this year's Winnipeg Musical Festival on April 9th, Because of the lack of entries in the Private School Competition, we are striving for laurels in the Senior High School Girls' Folk Song Class. A sincere vote of thanks from all of us in the choir goes to Mrs. Dennis for the time which she spends in training our newly-formed School Choir. LORNA CRAIG, CLAIRE MCCALLUM.

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so Braemar has undoubtedly had a wonderful year. This is largely thanks to the help and en- couragement of Mrs. Fallis, Mrs. McEwen and Miss Inglis, and to the good leadership and will- ing help of Katharine Wood, our House Sports Captain, and Geraldine Schoepp, our House Pre- fect. joan Malaher, the secretary of Braemar, has done a wonderful job. All the girls on the Volley- ball and Basketball teams have showed good sportsmanship and House spirit, as have our loyal supporters of these games. I would like to thank everyone in our House for making this such a successful year, and I would like to say also how much I have enjoyed being Head of Braemar. The best of luck to all of you in the coming year! SALLY DANGERFIELD. RED HOUSE NOTES As we glance at the residences of Balmoral Hall, we see two large houses known as The White House and The Red House. Although many people think there is a vast difference in their structure we know that the Red House has as many beautiful girls and good tiities as the White House. In the Buttonhole , better known as the Nursery , we find Elizabeth Cooper from Win- nipeg who already shows some of the necessary qualifications for the 1990 Balmoral Hall House Mother. On the bottom bunk can be found Kath- erine Kaufmann still struggling to smooth the creases out of her bed. On top of Kathy is Liz Coopers older sister Margaret, who doesn't believe in making hay while the sun shines . Across the hall we hear the Little Angels , joan Onions from Toronto, Elizabeth Echols from far away British Guiana, and Sally Blanchard from the oil city of Calgary. These girls don't believe in soap and water, sleeping or keeping tidy rooms, much to Mrs. Elliot's dismay. Next to the Little Angels we find the room with many doors. Its occupants are Carla Ann Gustafson from Minaki, Ontario, Bettie Mae Townsend from Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and Dor- othy Cox from the city of Winnipeg. In this room the sandman comes late at night and stays until 7:55 in the morning! This room could easily be called the Food Bar of the Red House for upon entering one can very often see brown paper bags and coke bottles. Then we come to the Problem Children of the Red House who have to occupy separate rooms. In Grand Central Station we find our marvellous and glorious Mrs. Elliot who carries all our bur- dens like any mother. Beside Mrs. Elliot is Mrs. Little whose posture everyone envies. It would be much to our advantage if she gave us some pointers. Then climbing the fourteen creaky, worn steps we come to the Heaven of the Red House. To the right of the stairs we find our third member of staff, Miss Arnold. Although we admire her musical talent and the delicious candies she always has, we do wish her every success in her efforts to use the Bath Room in future years. Beside Miss Arnold are the early birdsn in the Red House, jane Park from Nestor Falls, Ontario, and Anne Robinson from Kelwood, Man- itoba. Anne, always ready for food, never ready for lights out or the rising bell, can always be heard if not seen. But wouldn't the Red House be dead without her? To Janie we wish the best of luck when she goes to the U.S.A. and sincerely hope that Anne will be able to accompany her as Private Secretary . Across the squeaky hall we find our enthusi- astic skater, Lynne Cousens, and last but not least, beside Lynne, we find the only seniors of the Red House who try to carry out the Boarders' Consti- tution . Behind the half-closed door, we catch a glimpse of Donna Patterson, our Red House Head from Carberry, who hopes to be freer in thirty years to diagnose the mump and measles cases of Balmoral Hall. Her assistant in keeping the Red House under control is Joyce Burnell from Moline, Manitoba who can always be seen planning a gar- den and lilling her hope chest. When june comes we will slowly and reluc- tantly descend the two flights of stairs and bid farewell to our House mother who through the past ten months has helped us and always been our friend. Although some of us will not be here next year, we pass on to the Red House boarders our good times and our best wishes. JOYCE BURNELL, DONNA PATTERSON. WHITE HOUSE NOTES The White House which really isn't white, except for the pillars, is a dark contrast to the snow in winter, but we love it anyway. Its out- standing feature is the Boarders' Sitting-room, with its two large windows giving a beautiful view of the river. The Grade XII's who use the room as a classroom often End the scenery more inter- esting than lessons.

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Q2 GRADES V 81 VI The Gymnastics Competition Some of the most interesting work that we have done this year has been our gymnastic work. We have striven for poise, balance and control, and through the patient guidance of Mr. Thorsen we have, little by little, achieved a measure of self-confidence in this work. In the middle of March, the gymnastic competition took place in the school gymnasium. Two outside judges, chosen by Mr. Thorsen, arrived to judge our work. Each class was represented. Cathy Young won the Sen- ior Competition, Judy Hanson the Intermediate, and Faith Wilson the junior Competition. Dawna Duncan set a record for rope swinging. House- points were given to all participants. An exhibi- tion of our gymnastic work is to be held in the Playhouse Theatre on Friday, May 18th. JANET BLEEKS. Visual Education At Balmoral Hall we are fortunate to have equipment for showing slide-hlms and slides. The Pictural Tri-purpose projector, and the Victor 16mm. projector Qcomplete with sound system and beaded, radiant screenj have come to us from Riverbend and Rupert's Land Schools. This has made it possible for the school to enjoy the wide selection of Visual Education Aids offered today. The Seniors enjoy the Science and Social Study films. The juniors also are an appreciative audi- ence as there are films designed to appeal to their experience and interest. F. B. SHARMAN. Dancing Every Wednesday afternoon at one-twenty, we race upstairs to the gymnasium in our scant blue dancing tunics. From September to November we in the Senior Class did body movements to make us supple and graceful. Then we began to learn a dance for our display in May which is keeping us very busy. There is also an intermediate group, a junior group and a primary group of dancing enthusiasts. This year we have all been learning Greek dancing but next year, those who are ready and would like to, are to study Ballet. G. WARD, Grade VIII.