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

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STANDING, Left to Right: I. Cox, C. Campbell, B. Wilson, T. Stovel, N. Flintoft, B Craig SITTING: C. Templeton, S. Litch, S. Kennedy, A Morton. Honorary Editor . . School Editor . . . Business Editor . . Advertising Manager Executive Editors: Literary ...... Photography . . Sports .... Music ,,,,, Iunior School . . . THE YEARBOOK EXECUTIVE . . Trish Stovel . . Shirley Litch . . Sydney Kennedy . . . Colleen Templeton . . Anne Morton . . Bonnie Wilson . . Brenda Craig Nancy Flintoft . . Cathy Campbell Jennifer Cox Associate Editors: Anne Morton, Bonnie Wilson, Cathy Rowed, Sydney Kennedy. Advertising Committee: Trish Stovel, Sydney Kennedy, Patty Sparrow, Jean McKinnon, Nancy Flintoft, Colleen Templeton, Debbie Riley, Judy Rudd. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We should like to express our thanks to Paramount Studios, to all who kindly offered advertisements for our yearbook, and especially to Inter-Collegiate Press of Canada, without whose consistent help this book would not have been possible.

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Ealmnral Ball A RESIDENTIAL AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Conducted under the auspices of the Anglican and United Churches Balmoral Hall is ideally located. Eight acres of land surrounding the buildings provide ample space for summer and winter sports. In addition to the required academic subjects, classes are given in ART, MUSIC, PHYSICAL TRAINING, GAMES, and DRAMATICS, Kindergarten to Grade XII. For prospectus and information concerning admission for September 1968, Write to The Principal: Dr, Harriet Perry, Balmoral Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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OF MY ACCURSED HUMA EDUCATIO It seems to me, that in this rapidly progressing civilization of ours, man is gradually losing his ability to live. The superficial features of modern society are catching him unaware, and are distracting him from the basic elements of human life. Not only is man distracted, but he is obsessedg obsessed with the self-interest that is inherited by each succeeding generation in accordance with a timeless law of nature. lt is not so much the fact that these conditions exist that is so alarming, for perfection is without our sphere of capability, but it is the intensity to which they have developed that so degrades mankind as a unit of beings which is superior to all others on earth. For out of this, the destructive forces of man's superior image are accelerated .... and its gold is fast fading. It is the voice of man's education that limits the human element of his being. He learns to suppress the primitive desires that arise in him so that he may become civilized enough to be a part of the twentieth century Age of Dehumanization. Man is in a dangerous state of entirely losing his sensitivity as a result of the smothering effects that his indoctrination have upon him. His mind is preoccupied with the lust for material wealth, rendering him oblivious to his role as a Person. Not since childhood has he lived as such. After all his young questions were answered and the wonder was replaced with flat, crude reason, there was nothing to do but crave for the tangible results of his existence. The enthusiasm for the living state is extinct and it is accepted today as if it were owed us by the gods. To replace modern man's blase attitude with a deeper sensitivity to the natural forces of this life would serve as a major preventative to the degeneration of human reaction. It is man's self-extension which is the solitary means by which the faded gold of his image can be restored. Shirley Litch Editor