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

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u VALEISIICTOR lune, 1964 As this years graduating class looks back on our experiences here, we remember with some nostalgia the many traditions of this School. The annual events have be- come part of us, especially of those who have frequented these halls since the lunior School. Some of us can still recall the junior Halloween Parties and many of us, the Christmas Parties in the residence. Crepe paper costumes, cardboard masks, cookies and ice cream whirl in our memory against i background of black and orange. Then. two months later, comes to mind, a Christ- mas tree laden with lights, ornaments and :mall presents, confused with laughter and Christmas songs. The gaiety of these two cvents will not be forgotten. The Gymnastics Displays and Field Days also bring back vivid recollections OUR HEAD GIRL OUR SCHOOL CAPTAIN Long rehearsals in the Playhouse, Clusty JANE MOODY N'ARC'A JACKSON chairs, brilliant theatre lights, mats and hoops along with the awful stage-fright flutter all rush back with amazing clearness when the words Gym Display are mentioned. Nor can we forget that final rush to the tape either on flying feet or in cumbersome sacks, or perhaps through tires and un- der benches. The House loyalty and excitement electrifies the fall air on this day as does the stage fright and anticipation on the display nights. Nlore subdued, but just as firmly implanted in our minds, are the memories of Prayers and the Carol Services. l am sure many of us will return later to join our School in the Opening Prayer, a hymn, a Bible passage, another hymn, and to hear Miss Murrell- Wright's announcements. VVith the memory of taking the part of the Shepherd boy, xi Shepherd, a King, Mary or loseph in the Nativity service, the Carol Service takes on a special significance for those of us who have played these parts. Some of us recall reading, singing in the Choir. or even watching each year with renewed awe the scenes of Bethlehem. Associations will remain of lighted Christmas trees dimly illuminating the Cfymnasium or of a choir bearing lighted candles and singing Once in Royal Davids City. These thoughts of Prayers and of the Christmas Service are imprinted clearly in our minds. These are but a few of the many traditions of the School which we who are graduat- ing take with us in our minds as we move on to Universities or into Schools of Nurs- ing. I could reminisce about so many of the events we remember, but we all feel glad that we shall be able to come back to share the happy events that will always belong to this School. JANE MOODY Head Girl

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6 Miss F, B. SHARMAN June, 1964 No words can express adequately the contribution that Miss Sharman has made dur- ing her half century of teaching, and since the better part of her professional career has been devoted to this school, her contribution has been extensive. Miss Sharman is best known probably in the Science Laboratory - known to hund- reds of our alumnae and also to many of their children. She is known not only by our senior students whom she teaches but by the smallest child who mysteriously discovers that Miss Sharman will nurse an injured bird back to health, harbour a snake, show keen interest in a dead owl, classify an odd stone, a piece of bone or a wild flower. No scien- tific speciman is ever unimportant to Miss Sharman and it is this interest which she has for so long imparted to her students. Although it is some years since Miss Sharman was awarded her Master's degree in Science at Stanford University she has never ceased to discover opportunities for new courses in nuclear physics and advanced science, For this reason so many of her stuf dents have succeeded in the science laboratories of both Canadian and American Uni- versities. As Vice-Principal for the last few years Miss Sharman has shared the duties of ad- ministration and in a personal way she has been a true friend to staff and students. To a dedicated teacher, to a loyal friend and adviser, we bid God-speed.

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THE PREFECTS Standing - Roberta Kipp 1Spoa'ts Captainl, Marcia Jackson 4School Captainl, Alexandra Willis, Elizabeth Clough, Katharine Kilgour. Sitting - Jane Moody fHead Girlr, Susan Hutchings, Ruth Thomas, Catherine Gourley, Joanne Brodie, Janet Harrison. CLARE MQCULLOCH One of our former students, Clare McCulloch died at her home in Winni- peg on Qctober the third, 1963. She had spent last year studying at Neuchatel Iunior College, Switzerland, where she successfully completed her Senior Matriculation. It has been only a year since Clare was at Balmoral Hall. She entered Grade VII in 1957 from Grosvenor School and was an excellent student, placing first in her class several times. Good at gym and sports, she was Sports Captain of Glen Gairn I-louse and played on the School Basketball team. She did well at everything she tried, and was never satisfied with less than her best. Clare was a Prefect in Grade XI, served on the Library Executive, and was a member of the School Choir. Being artistic, she was often appointed the head of decorating committees for dances, and many of us remember her famous Apink tree'. Clare's last effort for her school was to arrange for the planting of a hedge, the gift of her class at graduation. As the hedge grows, we will con- tinue to remember her, Clare endeared herself to many friends for she was always full of fun, All last year her mother was visited by girls, wanting news from Switzerland. Many of her former class-mates and friends returned to Balmoral Hall to join the School on Monday, October the seventh for a simple and beautiful Memorial Service conducted by Miss Murrell-Wright.