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

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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.

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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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24- -Ds desc.- -D D.- - SPORTS CAPTAIN AND HOUSE HEADS The Sir James Aikins Memorial Trophy- Less than one hundred years ago, on the island of Samothrace, were found the remaining white marble pieces of a statue representing Nike, Goddess of Victory. In 506 B.C., Nike was believed to have led to victory the armies of Demetrius and to her honour this monument, sculptured ingeniously, was erected upon the cliffs of Samothrace, overlooking the Mediterranean. Fate, in the form of plundering Romans soon destroyed Nike, along with numer- ous other Greek works of art. Wheii found and pieced together Nike stood as a winged figure in long, flowing robes facing out as though heading, unconquered, to victory. Through the thoughtfulness and far-sightedness of the late Mr. Harold Aikins, Balmoral Hall now has a replica of this statue to remind us, one and all, of the victory we are seeking. It is our aim at Balmoral Hall, to gain victory in our school work, in sports, over ourselves and thus achieve higher standards. 1 Former winners of the Sir james Aikins Mem- orial Trophy:- 1950-1951-Braemar 1951-195 2-Ballater 1952-1953-Ballater 1953-1954- May the best House win! janet Davis, Grade X. Christmas Boxes Again this year, the week before our Christmas holidays began we brought gifts of food, clothing and toys to Morning prayers. These were later parcelled and made ready for Christmas delivery. These boxes were sent to the Point Douglas Mis- sion, to the Fairford Indian Reserve and also to Canada Save the Children Fund. Grades XI and XII brought specially wrapped gifts to be sent to the thirty girls at Mrs. Bryant's School. Those of us who went to the Mission learned how very happy our gifts had made people on previous Christmases and we heard from the let- ters received how much the boxes were appreciated by the others.