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

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1967 was a year of change for Canada, moving into her second century of nationhood, a country growing in importance in today's world, growing in hope. For the first time, the World's Fair was held in Canada, in Montreal, and our country was flooded with foreign visitors. For the first time also, Canada hosted the Pan- American Games in our own city, Winnipeg, This was the wonderful year to be a Canadian. All across Canada, provincial, municipal and personal Centennial projects were completedg some spectacular, as Winnipeg's Centennial Centre or Regina's new auditorium, others exciting, as the 3, 500 - mile canoe trip from Rocky Mountain House across Canada's waterways following the original route of the voyageurs. More personal projects expressed the feeling of our Centennial in fine workmanship, as the retired Winnipeg clockmaker who made a beautiful grandfather clock incorporating the Centennial design, Canadians everywhere saw the Centennial as a chance to show their pride in their country. r Not since 1867 had the world looked with such interest to our country and many were surprised to find us, not a northern satellite of the United States, or a British Overseas colony, but a maturing nation. 1967 was a year of change for Balmoral Hall, too. At Christmas, Miss Murrell-Wright, our headmistress of sixteen years, retired, and Dr. Perry came in her stead. Balmoral Hall no longer had a headmistress, but ' a principal. The scholastic year of 1966 - 1967 brought changes too. The Senior School enjoyed new laboratories, completely re-outfitted with individual working units for students, and more important to some, with the laboratories came new, white labcoats. A photographic darkroom was created between the two laboratories for students interested in photography. ln June, Balmoral Hall sponsored a bus tour of Eastern Canada. Some forty girls enjoyed a ten-day tour, including Quebec City, Niagara Falls, Stratford Theatre, and of course, EXPO. The scholastic year of 1967 - 1968 will bring even greater changes. Before the Centennial year is out, work will be well underway on the new Senior School Building. We are keeping Balmoral Hall growing with Canada. ' Although Balmoral Hall, like Canada, looks back on the years that have been with pride and fond memories, she looks ahead with hope for a newer, better future. - Jane Thomas Editor

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N l BAH ' LLU Balmoral Hall, June 1967, Greetings to the Graduates of 1967, This year of Canada's Centennial will always be more important to each of you as your year to graduate from high school. This time has been a point clearly plotted on your future plans ever since an education became something about which you felt strongly and in each succeeding year this point became more important as your goal. Many of you are not quite sure of your next step while others are quite certain of their future direction, Certain or uncertain, each will find herself at the beginning of a new kind of education, part of a fascinating, endless chain of developing interests either in a formal group, such as a college or a professional course or singly as in the arts or sports. Having come this far and succeeded in a formal discipline each of you have learned through your application that your education may be achieved only by you for yourself, and that those odious examinations are of prime importance in proving this fact to you. Every good wish for success in your future endeavours. Yours sincerely, Harriet M, Perry.