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

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Magazine Executive . . A.A New Building ....,....L Editorial ..... ,.,i,.. The Prefects ..,..... Letter from the Literary Section Our Juniors ......., Candid Camera Library Reports ...,iri New Building Notes .,..,..,... Music Notes ,. The Houses ..l..i...., Class Notes .... .. The Residence .. ...,, ,L Sports Report ..,...r,er Alumnae Notes Exchanges ........ ...ee Graduate Notes ..,...... Valedictory ..... ,A ,A Calendar ...,,.,, ........ School Directory Autographs ....,. CUNTENTS Headmistress ...., L L Optima Anni During the Christmas Term a competition was held in the q9l110l School to produce x mime for the Balmoral Hall Magazine. From about forty varied 8Ilt1l6S the ML azlne Executlve Cho e Optima Anni , The Best Things of the Year, submitted by Betty Xllf'll0l

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5 EDITUHI I. Optima Anni At last we have given a name to our Magazine and for young readers and non-Latin scholars I translate- The Best Things of the Year . Whether in Nursery School or Grade Twelve, each of us has her own conception of the best things that happened this year at Balmoral Hall. It may be that hundred per cent in mathematics, that wonderful Graduation Dance, or even that place on the Basketball Team. Our Magazine, with the innovation of a title this year, is a review of all these commendable events. But the very BEST thing for Balmoral Hall, and so for us, is our new building. As we go to press I look at bulldozers, cement mixers, boiling tar, great lumps of mud, and piles of gravel. What a contrast to the architect's drawing! But the drawing is to be a reality in September. For the small juniors in Kindergarten and Nursery School and Grade I there will be new classrooms on the lower floor of the building. The second and third floors will contain rows of bedrooms all equipped with gaily-patterned curtains and matching bedspreads. At last, boarders, a fireplace has arrived where everyone can enjoy fireside chats in the drawing-room. Who will bring the birch logs in her trunk? Now there will be a cold-lunch room for the day-girls-no more lunch hours in the Science laboratory, Kindergarten or Common Room. At the extreme end of the building is something for everyone-a larger dining-hall, and a completely new kitchen. Now we all wait for the completion of the building, and this thought is the bond that has held us together this past year. The trials of crowded quarters and noisy drills have been tolerated because of the pride and expectation with which we wait for the opening of our new building. As we wait, we speculate on differences in the life of the school which the new facilities will bring. The old proverb, The old order changeth yielding place to the new comes to mind as we think of our new title, Optima Anni , and our new building, the best thing of the year . JAQUELINE LYE, Editor