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

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Balmoral I-lall june, 1954. My dear Girls, While I write I am thinking of the summer holidays that are just ahead of us and I want to send you away with a happy but worthwhile thought. In one of our favourite hymns you will find this line- Life full and free before you lies - A summer holiday can be as ffl!! as you choose to make it and because it is holiday time you are comparatively free. A full life is a happy life and busy people are happy people, An excellent plan for a long holiday is to decide on some worthwhile project to which you can turn when you want to be busy. During a long holiday there are always moments when little people say, What shall I do now? Middle-sized people say, I have nothing to do! and big-sized people silently wish for the unexpected to break into the too even existence of their pleasant holiday. Discover the unexpected within yourself. What have you wanted to do during the term for which you have not been able to find time? Is it reading or perhaps writing? Try writing a play for children and then gather a cast and direct it yourself. I-Iave you discovered that you have some ability in art? Perhaps you will try working with oils or pastels. Is it extra time for piano practice that you have been wanting or would it be typing or perhaps weaving? Whatever it may be equip yourself with tools, materials and instructions-be they from library, book store or craftshop and then set yourself a goal lest you leave the task half-learned or incomplete. This is your holiday and you are free to plan a project or not as you choose but remem- ber that anything worthwhile will take time and effort, therefore choose something that will give you real satisfaction. A word about the freedom of holidays-the joy of freedom and the danger of freedom. While you will be protected and guided by your parents in your holiday plans, still you older girls will have many happy hours to plan for yourselves. As you grow up you are given more and more freedom depending on how you prove yourself respon- sible. If you have learned the importance and necessity of courtesy, obedience, honesty and self-control in everyday life your freedom will bring you happiness. But if when pro- voked you lose control, when tempted you are deceitful, or are rude and slow to obey, then you still need the protection of rules from without. So soon as you establish within yourself a set of self-imposed rules that you feel you must keep, then you are free. In closing let us see the next line of this hymn- ' Life full and free before you lies, Make Christ your Saviour King. To you all, but particularly to those of you who are not returning, these two lines can mean so much. Take with you all the best your school has given to you and committing your future into Gods hands for His continued guidance, enjoy a happy, full and free Summer holiday. With my love to you all, 1

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I E i .P Ng K I . Y i Vi- BACK ROW-Maureen Hunt, Janet Davis, Dorothy Richardson, Jane Savage, Susan Carnegie, Geills Kilgour, Gail Brooking. FRONT ROW-Diana Duncan, Norma Tweedy, Pitsy Perrin, Dawna Duncan, Eirene Landon, Carol Nixon, Suzanne Flood, Mary-Kaye Simpkinson. Magazine Executive 1953-1954 EDITOR ..,,.,..,...,....,. .....,,..,...,..,.............,..............,.,....... E irene Landon LITERARY EDITORS ..,., ..... G eills Kilgour, Dawna Duncan, Susan Carnegie SPORTS EDITORS .... .......,....I................. G ail Brooking, Suzanne Flood ART SUPERVISORS ,,,.....II,,..,. .,,... M aureen Hunt, Dorothy Richardson PHOTOGRAPHY SUPERVISORS .... ..... N orma Tweedy, jane Savage EXCHANGE EDITOR .,......,,v.I.. .....,..............,....... P itsy ,Perrin ADVERTISING MANAGERS .... ..I,. C arol Nixon, Patricia Busby BUSINESS MANAGER ....... .... .................. D i ana Duncan Advertising Committee Daphne Smith Lyn Stephen Diane Smith Marilyn Stephenson Dianne McPhail Joanne Blight Jennifer Steward jane Mathewson

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Nami gf,-za vauenlcrnmr Dear Girls, A Chinese writer once said that success in life depends upon the number of persons to whom one can make oneself agreeable. As your Head Girl for the past year I hope I have to some extent succeeded in accomplishing this. This ofhce has been a tremendous experience for me-one that I shall not soon forget-one that has taught me many things. I shall long remember you all, and the year 1953-1954. From the time my appointment was announced at the Closing last june I have always felt your sincere cooperation, I thank you one and all for your friendliness and your unfailing loyalty un- der all circumstances and at all times. My eight years in this school have been very happy ones. To have been a student year after OUR HEAD GIRLFCAROL MACAULAY year for that length of time has indeed been rewarding, Each of these years can be remem- bered very vividly and has brought pleasant experiences. Each has also presented its prob- lems, but looking back only the hills are remem- beredg the valleys are forgotten. And now, though dillicult, I must say goodbye to Balmoral Hall-to the beautiful groundseto the buildings in which we have learned and laughed-to Miss Miirrell- Wfright, our Headmistress, who takes a sincere interest in the welfare of each one of us and to whom no effort on behalf of Balmoral Hall is too great-to the Staff who have guided us-to the prefetts who have worked with me and helped me in my tasks, finally to you, my good friends, I say farewell. It is my earnest wish that Balmoral Hall will encounter success upon success and this is not too muth to ask from .1 school blessed with such enthusiasm and loyal spirit. As I present my pin to our next Head Girl I shall be eager for her success as she takes the reins to guide you next year. All my love, CAROL.