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

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WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPOKE AS A CHILD. I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD. BUT, WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS. I CORINTHIANS I3 In this, our final year of pampered learning, we must start to put away childish things to enter the problem-riddled world. Man is seeking to help Earth who is still but a child. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION - OVERPOPULATION - WAR - POVERTY - STARVATION - problems we seek the solutions to. We are still human, but as mechanization takes over we may no longer have the emotion to help others, only the power to conquer and defend ourselves. Man is losing his identity and his emotions. In suburbia, neighbours do not associate with one another, there may be only a chance meeting in the impersonal supermarket. The cement cells, known as apartment blocks, are void of any type of emotion. Man turns to drink and drugs to escape the realities of life and the put-down on emotional display. These should not be used as an escape but to enrich the joy of living life. Take what we have been taught, learn as much more as we can, and when those of us who have managed to have completely to put away childish things become our unemotional leaders, we must again turn to riots to show men that emotion cannot be conquered. Janis M cK eag Editor

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YEARBOOK STAFF BACK ROW: Joyce Lee, Colleen Cartledge, Judy Dodd, Connie Kucharczyk. KY.. .a CENTRE ROW: Deb Riley, Joan Rankin, Edelgard Roeder, Sam Macdonald. FRONT ROW: Brenda McGinnis, Janis McKeag, Helen Hayes . Editor-in-Chief ........ . . .Janis McKeag Co-Editor, Business Manager . . . . .Joan Rankin Advertising Manager ..... n. .Edelgard Roeder Photography Editor ..... . . Colleen Cartledge Assistant Editors: Joyce Lee Brenda McGinnis Sam Macdonald Deb Riley Advertising Committee: Janis McKeag, Brenda McGinnis, Connie Kucharczyk, Helen Hay, Joan Rankin, Judy Dodd, Edelgard Roeder, Leslie McQuade, Lezlie Martinson, Jane Briggs, Sue Hogman. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We should like to express our thanks to Barney and Arthur of Paramount Studios, to all those who kindly offered advertisements for our yearbook, and to Inter-Collegiate Press of Canada, without whose consistent help this book would not have been possible.

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Dr. Harriet Perry Balmoral Hall, June 1969 Greetings to the Graduates of 1969. The school has realized a remarkable year of consolidation under your leadership and a review of which brings to mind an impressive array of achievements. The Student Council, organized last year has developed into a smooth machine, flexible and comprehensive under your direction. The Chapel services, barely started last year, have become a pivot point in the school day, unique, topical and above all, enjoyable to students and staff alike. The Sports programme has moved briskly with variety, sparking a dormant interest and netting some well deserved rewards under your care. The social life of the school has bloomed under considerate, well managed planning and beautiful settings. Such a free and happy atmosphere points to a clear understanding of limits, rather than rules at every level of privilege and is due to a clear interpretation of suitable behavior by the executive mem bers of your group. I congratulate your class in its solidarity in that it moved as a single team with such outstanding loyalty to the group. It has been a good year in and out of classrooms with the atmosphere of study as dominant and all other important adjuncts in school life as secondary to the scheme of the school year. I wish each of you joy and success as you address yourselves to your next assignments or victories. Yours sincerely, Harriet M. Perry