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

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22. . X- . .. C- . . IIA' if 4 ,fa 51.3 'sa G R A D E T E N THE STAFF Who's Who in Grade X ood girls have good fun in our Grade Ten and wed like you to know us and ejoice to hear of Mary and jacquies victory in Badminton. And of course you know about Onalee our famous Guide winning her gold cord? nd did you know that Sue Carnegie starred with Sadler's Wells and our other Sue was our Grade X rep. in the Manitoba Gym Championships? odo, our class president, when not training us, is training her pet Trushkag and Trish keeps us up to date with all Bomber news. qually able are the speedy seamstresses janet, june and Lynne. A musical rio not to be missed is Diane with violin, jeff at piano and Carol our soprano with the hill-billy twist. is for expert and Grade X can boast a few more-Dean and Christine in the world of art, jill in gymnastics and Pinky in diving. ever, no never, has there been a class like our Grade Ten! Grade X

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g g ggggg g g g ,gg 21 LIBRARY HEPIIHT Library Executive 1953-1954 Diane Grindley Icnnifer Rose Jill Herrick Onalee Rudd Betty-Lou McPhail Mary Thornton Beverley McLeod Martha Travers Sylvia Pierce Christine Watkins We are pleased to report that Balmoral Hall Library is growing steadily both in the demand for the loan of books and in the number of books available. We have been fortunate again this year in having numerous gifts to add to our collection and the response to our appeal during Book Week was very generous. We thank our benefactors most warmly. The Executive and Committee have worked willingly to ensure the smooth organization of the issue of books. They are always ready to receive and discuss any suggestions concerning improvements that could be made for the benefit of readers. To those students who are considering in what way they could contribute to the library's fur- ther success, the following ideas may be useful. Firstly, the following sections need to be increased -Modern Languages, Poetry, Science and Recreation. Secondly, everyone could unite in keeping the library silent and tidy so that all may enjoy the privilege of reading and studying in the attractive surroundings we are lucky enough to possess. Thirdly, the prompt return of books on or before the Gifts date due would greatly ease the Executives task. R. Urban, Librarian New Books TITLE AUTHOR cp1v13N BY 1. Stalking Birds with Colour Camera A. A. Allen Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Smerchanski and Joan 2. The Queen Elizabeth Coronation Book N. Ferrier Miss A. McMillan A. Frank Miss Dickson 3. The Diary of a young girl 4. Simplified Nursing . The Silent World , A Man called Peter 7. Scotland, Rivers and Streams 8. Oliver Twist 9. A Tale of Two Cities 10. The Pickwick Papers 11. David Copperfield 12. Pottery and Porcelain 5 6 Dakin and Thompson J. Y. Cousteau C. Marshall R. H. Adam Charles Dickens Warren E. Cox time School Glen Murray Mavis Gossling Mrs. M. A. Sutherland Mr. L. Brown The family of Mrs. A. E. Hoskin Mrs. john Bruce Bracken Balmoral Hall was blessed with generous fairy godmothers and godfathers this year. Among the gifts we have received are: a set of glass tumblers from Mrs. W. H. Nixon, a film of school life, pictures of the Smorgasbord and a swimming trophy from Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Smerchanskig a clock for the Home Economics room from Mrs. D. F. McIntyre and Miss Marjory-Lynn Mclntyreg and an interesting collection of coloured slides taken at the Smorgasbord by Misses Irene and joyce Dickson. A gift of money from Mrs. A. Richardson is being used to purchase a dimmer which will improve our dramatic equipment and a gift from Mrs. L. Duncan made it possible for us to fly a new flag on May 24th. A donation from Mrs. C. D. Fields enables us to enjoy long playing records on the school record player. Our latest gift, which has given such tremendous pleasure, is a set of pictures of Balmoral, Ballater, Braemar, Craig Gowan and Glengairn. The Head Girl and House Heads are delighted with this gift from a donor of Scottish descent. The school is grateful not only for these material gifts, but also for the energy and time given so freely by parents and friends during the Smorgasbord and other successful events of the year.

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.L -. LL, 23 Did You Know That . . . Five girls from grade eight were in the Christmas play and Rosemary Lloyd-Davies took a leading part? On the day of the Smorgasbord we had a fountain of youth? The pipes in our classroom burst showering the floor on the quarter-deck. Grades VII and VIII almost melted in the balcony on February 5? Elizabeth Dalgleish won the intermediate speed- skating races? Beryl Hoare and Rosemary Lloyd-Davies won the intermediate table-tennis doubles? Judy Bonnycastle has been on the highest moun- tain in San Francisco? We have a globetrotter in grade VIII? Nancy White has been around the world. Lynne Cousens is our hgure skating star? Eva Pokoly can speak four languages? Grade VIII is making aprons for our project in Home Economics and dolls for Art? Joanne Wilson has twice played the piano over the radio and also took part in an operetta called Rumpelstiltskin ? We were beaten by grades XII and X in the inter- form basketball and the total score for the two games was 6-81? The inkspots which were covering the floor were washed off by eighteen unseen ghosts? That this report is about grade VIII and by grade VIII? Grade VII Class Notes Last September our Grade VII Class stood on the threshold of the Senior School with all the time-table changes and responsibilities that come with growing up, even just a little, and getting into the Senior School. Most of us have been together for a number of years. There are Gail Allman, Ann Brumell, Maureen Ford, Kathy Kinley, Amy Laird, Peggy Neal, Diana Sheppard, Barbara Sidgwick and Faith Wilson who have come up from junior School. We are glad to welcome more classmates to Bal- moral Hall this year. They are Betty Dawson, Susan Dickinson, Diana Elwood, Geraldine Holmes, Edwina Hylton, Brenda Love, Heather McPherson, Lesley Musgrove, jane Ross and Helen Smith. We nearly all take dancing, jane Ross was our star on Sports Day, Susan Dickinson had a lead in the Christmas Play, and Helen Smith was one of the lucky girls who was on the stage with the Sadler's Wells Ballet. Guess Who? by Grade IX Who is the girl with blonde hair and brown eyes, In swimming a whiz but with mind in the skies? A basketball player for House Braemar A little dark girl and a skating star? Craig Gowan is proud of a basketball star She is fair, she is quick-in games shell go far. Who can often be seen in a trance? Who misses lunch to ballet dance? Who is the girl whose name stands for Peace?' Whose artistic efforts increase and increase? Who is the girl from Campbell Street Whose father gave her a trip for a treat? Who is our new ballerina this year, Who meets every Latin test with great fear? Who is our boy who isn't so neat, But nevertheless who can be quite sweet? Who is our artist who used to have braids Works at Latin and French and keeps up good grades? Our class president is a help to us all She shines in a gym class and plays basketball. Who is our Thicket Portage lass Who is well liked by all our class? Who is the girl with the Schade past With a crown of red hair but who never moves fast? Who is our genius through and through, And she is a part of a twin set too? Half of a whole is this fair lass And younger she is of the two in our class. From Reddit she comes and is Head of the Red Nearly head of the class too-Wfhat .1 head? What a head! Star boarder, ex-boarder, and musical too Good at art and at games. Guess who-guess who. Ufho is our Girl Guide dressed in blue Wfho enjoys looking after Brownies too? Who is our new girl so fair and so tall? She's allergic to Oxfords but not to baseball.