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

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Entertainment and Education On Friday, March 9, the last day of Education Week, many parents enjoyed an afternoon of French and music, which started appropriately with O Canada , sung in French by the Junior School. We had fun, commented Harriet Carter, Grade One. We liked dancing and singing 'Sur Le Pont d'Avignon'. We each had a basket, rose, jaune, ou bleu, said Donna Logan, Grade Two. Frances was 'Le Cerisier', and we picked trois cerises, and put them in our baskets, added Louise Nebbs. I liked the French lullaby we sang to our dolls, interposed Donna Jean Brundage, Grade Three. For Grade Four's play, 'Cendrillon', I was the Prince and Margot was Cendrillon, Diane Plick informed us. Beth was the ugly mother and she caught her high heels in her dress,', laughed Lorraine Murray, an ugly sister. Cathy Clough took my place as the other ugly sister because I had to stay in bed, we were told by Virginia Wood. My sister said that everyone enjoyed the play. After this play, six piano students gave a demonstration of music-making. All were im- pressed with their knowledge as they followed rhythmic patterns by clapping their hands to mark the value of notes, and identified simple songs played on the piano. Grade Five then sang several French songs, and ended with a telephone conversation in which arrangements were made to go to a cowboy film. Lastly, Grade Six won well-deserved applause for their play, La Vieille Dame Qui Habite le Soulierf' The Junior School programme was followed by four songs by the Senior School Choral Groups. Firstly, Gracious Saviour by C. Van Gluck, was sung with great feeling by Grades Seven, Eight and Nine. The Grade Ten, Eleven and Twelve choir then sang a composition by Handel and a negro spiritual. To end this enjoyable afternoon, the School Choir sang, Music When Soft Voices Die , by Charles Wood. DEBORAH JAcKsoN-Grade X '4'. '.fo-. , .gf 7 . f' 1 '42 ' ? a 1 . QSM! Le Tigre Va A L'Ecole Un jour j'ai apporte un tigre dans la salle de classe, mais 1l n'a pas ete sauvage. C'est un jouet et il s'appelle Pancake. Pancake n'habite pas dans la jungle fl'Afrique mais il habite dans notre inaison. Il est orange et noir comme les tigres ordinaires et il a les yeux verts aussi. Tous les tigres ont les yeux verts et ils voient tres bien. Les pieds cle Pancake sont blancs. Les tigres de la jungle n'ont pas les pattes blanc-hes, mais ils ont les pieds oranges et noirs. Pancake a de tres petites oreilles. Autour de son cou, il y a un beau ruban bleu. Pancake est un bon tigre, et assis sur ma table de toilette dans ma cliambre a coucher il a l'air tres gentil. PAMELLA IQAYSER-GI'2LflC IX Les Oiseaux Etranges Une eleve marche devant la classe avec un grand livre. Elle demande: -Qu'est-ce que c'est? La question est tres simple et une autre eleve repond tout de suite: -C'est un livre. Toute la classe sait la reponse quand l'eleve devant la classe demande: -En quoi est-il? -Il est en papier. Puis elle ouvre le livre et montre une image dans le livre. -Que voyez-vous? elle deniande. -Je vois deux oiseaux, repond une eleve. -Sont-ils jolis ou vilains'? demande-t-elle. -Ils sont jolis, repond une eleve. Oui, les oiseaux sont tres jolis. Ils sont rouges, noirs et bleux. L'eleve devant la classe demande: -Habitent-ils at Winnipeg? -Certainement non. Maintenant elle tourne la page. -Combien d'oiseaux voyez-vous? C'est tres etrange. La classe ne voit pas d'oiseaux. Bientot elle montre trois petite oiseaux au coin de la page. La classe a souri, Il est tres interessant cle regarder les oiseaux etranges. ELizAB1c'rH WVEBS-'1'Eli-ciI'2Ni6 IX

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12 9 THE LIBRARY EXECUTIVE 1961-1962 SENIOR LIBRARY Julia Berry Carol Albertsen Eleanor Gaskell Clare McCulloch Evadne Ward Elsie Shandro The library is a very important centre of activity in the Senior School. We now have approximately 3,100 books, and an average of ninety are circulated every week. Mrs. Collie conducts library periods to help Grades VII, VIII, and IX choose books and make reports on them. In addition, a great deal of browsing and reference work goes on. Several interesting displays have been on view this year. At Christmastime a selection of paintings depicting the Nativity were displayed. During Education Week information about Uni- versities and preparation for various careers was the special feature. We wish to thank the United Kingdom Information Service for their gift of beautiful photographs of the Universities of London, Cambridge, and Oxford. During Canadian Library Week, we featured books about book-making, and the history of the art of writing. During Young Canada's Book Week we had the annual Library Quiz. The Library was filled with eager girls searching for answers in dictionaries, and in every sort of reference book. The winners in the senior section were Carol Swindell and Joan Barker, and in the junior section, Katharine Kilgour. However, there were many good papers and house points were awarded. Ballater just managed to win from its close rival, Braemar. To help Mrs. Collie, a committee of twenty- six girls has worked faithfully throughout the year. Early in the fall a group went to the William Avenue Library to learn how to mend books under the expert supervision of Mrs. Willa Wells. They were particularly impressed by the hot cocoa machine, and the remark that Mrs. Wells would be glad to have them work for her during the summer. In five mending sessions since then, with sharpened awls and a gallon of glue, we have mended many books. Seventy-one new books for the Senior Library have been made ready for circulation, and trans- parent Mylar covers have been painstakingly put on to protect the book jackets. We wish to thank the committee of Mothers who helped in this large undertaking. As in past years the library has benefited from the generosity of friends. We especially wish to thank Mrs. Colluni for the new and versatile globe, and for the beautiful Encyclo- pedia of Art. The whole committee would like to thank Mrs. Collie for her kind and patient guidance this year. The Library has certainly taken on new dimensions for ns. JULIA BERRY Chief Librarian JUNIOR LIBRARY Last year was the year several hundred new Stepping Stones books were added to the Junior Library. This year our main object has been to get these books and the other 1,200 volumes on the shelves circulating. In this respect we have been very successful, and at least seventy-five books have been taken out each week. The library is open during three lunch hours a week, and girls may come in to select books with the Librarian's help, to work from the reference books, orjust to browse. Besides this, each grade has one period a week with the Librarian. During these periods the older girls have had instruction in the use of the reference books, the catalogue drawers, and a brief outline of the Dewey Decimal System. The girls have kept records of their reading, and have had to report on some of the books they enjoyed reading. The younger child- dren have spent part of their time listening to stories which usually have been taken from the current display in the library, or stories that have led them into new fields of reading. Of the sixty new books that have been added this year, many of them have been story books that appeal to the girls who have graduated from picture books, and are eagerly becoming steady readers. Throughout the year there have been many displays. At Hallowe'en, UNICEF posters and pamphlets helped everyone to find out more about children of other lands, and to understand why the Trick or Treat money was so badly needed. During Young Canadafs Book Week the library was made as gay as possible, with red felt lining the shelves, and even part of the carpet. Twenty titles of books in the library had to be guessed from pictures put up around the wall. At Christmas a manger scene made a lovely setting for the readings of 'fAmahl and the Night Visitors , and Baboushka and the Three Kingsu.