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

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CUNTIENTS Editorial ..................... Turning the First Sod .....i,,,,,,, Letter from the Headmistress .,.,,,, Head Girl's Valedictory .,.,..., The Prefects .,........,i,,,,,. Literary Section ......... 'Fhe Christmas Village ...... Our Juniors ..........,.... School Activities ........,.....,,.,., Boarders' Notes ...,...,. Guides and Brownies ,,...,. Class Notes ................. Library Report ....,..,..,......, Dancing ....... Gymnastics ....... Autographs ....... Sports ............... School Calendar ,...,. Graduates .......,. Alumnae Notes ...... School Directory ,...... ,4c6ua eau We would like to express our thanks to our photographer, Mr. Harold W'hite, to Brigdens of Wbinnipeg, Ltd., to all who kindly offered advertisements 'for our magazine, and especially to Stovel-Advocate Press without whose consistent help this book would not have been possible.

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IEIJITUHII-ll Uur School . . . our Juotlzera Blue print of a school! What a singular frontispiece in contrast with other plans that appear foremost in the year book of the world -- yet how appropriate. What a positive picture for the future our blue print presents! What successful manoeuvres will accomplish Operation School Building! What lies behind our blue print? Ink, parchment - but something more. In American history a Tea Party preceded a declaration that was to be the blue print of a nation. At Balmoral our blue print was preceded by a Coffee Party fbut a proper one with coffee in cups, and not in the brinkny. However, the next year the sea did claim our guests when the Captain and Crew of the Good Ship Balmoral enter- tained on deck, at a Smorgasbord. The following year the deck gave way to a Village Square. Indeed, just as Boston business men, alias the Indians, could claim a part of that 1776 declaration, we have big friends and little friends, alias the candy clerks, the sailors, the townsfolk, who can claim their part in our blue print. Edmund Burke said that example is the school of mankind and it will learn at no other. Our blue print is a thesis from masters of that school H from our mothers -- who have been such examples of loyality, service and foresight which qualities are Clearly evidenced in our blue print. Indeed, they have been master draftsmen. The school is their design. In it they will see their Bricks for Balmoral. In it they will see the better things they planned - -the classrooms, the common room, the art room, and the new plumbing, a memorial to the more seasoned fixtures which performed aquatically one glorious February fifth. Yes, in years to come Balmoral Hall will be proud of its building, and praise its designers. It is for us, Balmoral Hall of today, who know these designers, who saw them in action, who know their Part as draftsmen of our blue print, to say thank you. And so, though inadequately, we say our thank you, and take off our hats four sailor hats and our New York originalsj to you, the draftsmen of our new Balmoral- to you our mothers and to Miss Murrell-Wright - mother of it all! Blue print of a school, and what a lot we can learn from it! As the architects follow their blue print, so must we find ours and follow it, for there will be the plan for our success and for new Balmorals. As our mothers worked on this plan so we must work on ours and see as they did, somewhere in the small print of the legend, Meliora Petensf' Dawna Duncan, Editor