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

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The Yearbook Staff Standing: Connie Kucharczyk, Diane Gourluck, Anne Macdonald. Seated: Elizabeth Haworth, Jane Harrison, Edelgard Roeder, Debbie Davidson. cknowledgements We would sincerely like to thank the following people for all their help with Optima Ann! 1969-70: Paramount Studios, for their patience with our poses, D. W. Friesen 8 Sons Ltd., for their co-operationg Our advertisers, without whom the book would be financially impossible, Mr. lan Jessiman, for pulling us out of the bogg Janet Harrison, for spending a great deal of her summer doing the layoutsg and Stew Searle, for filling in some empty patches. 6

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QL? Mr. lan L. Jessiman Chairman of the Board of Governors TO THE GRADUATING CLASS Jane Harrison asked me to condense the remarks made by me at I the closing Evening Song on Sunday, June 7, 1970, so that the remarks could be printed on this page of the yearbook. It is a very great honour to be asked to do this, and, in condensing the remarks I have at- tempted to utilize those which I feel will be the most useful to each of you. I indicated that it was not an easy or certain future upon which you would embark, and that it was becoming more difficult to develop a rugged and individualistic character in the present day and age of the crowd mentality. The collective actions of the crowd has replaced the great value which is inherent in individual action and thought. There will be those who would expect you to readily accept that the directives of a system of law and order are designed to work for the betterment of society in general is authoritarian and must be ignored, not just ignored, but in fact broken down. I can only wonder and question in my mind, whether there is any more sense in being a member of the crowd which in confronting a group of policemen shouts obscenities and throws stones than there is in being a member of a platoon of soldiers which in obeying the orders of a senior officer fires upon unarmed women and children. It seems to me that each situation is equally abhorent and repugnant. Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe. There are many experiences to be had in life, some joyous, some sad, some difficult, some easy. Some good number of you may find yourself a person with which to share your future experiences. While this may tend to insulate you from the trials and the tribulations of the world, I can assure you that unless you have learned to be your own master and in control of your thoughts, in control of your own person, and in control of the means and thoughts by which you will govern your life on the road to its conclusion you will find that even such insulation may prove inef- fective in dealing with the problems which surround you. James Alan, in some well-directed words of inspiration, said A noble character is not a thing of favour or chance but the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association with noble thoughts. l urge each of you girls to spend some time each day in your future life in original thinking. Don't be so caught up in the hurly-burly of life that you cannot find a moment in the span of it for contemplation. The thinking process does not come naturally. Your mind must be continually used to expand. Thinking is an essential process in the attainment of happiness. Place a value on good health and give it priority over worldly or material possessions. lf you want good health, think good thoughts of health. Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. If you really want to protect your body and your health guard your mind. I recommend to you the great blessing of hard work. The application of effort over an extended period of time is still one of the shortest routes to happiness and the sense of fulfillment which comes from a full life. Go out and make your opportunities, don't wait for them to be handed to you on a platter. This will just never happen! Luck just doesn't exist. Situations which appear thus have usually been carefully manufactured. Have belief in yourself. In concluding my remarks on this page, I leave you with this main expression of belief. Peace of mind is the greatest of all achievements. You cannot arrive at the end of your life with this quality and char- acteristic unless you have been possessed of and employed throughout your life the highest standard of moral and ethical behaviour. It is a realization which many leave until too late. For that reason, of all the things it is this quality - peace of mind - which you should most actively pursue as a goal in your life. Best wishes to each and every one of you for continued good health and much happiness. U 5

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The Senior Faculty Back Bow: Mrs. Kobold, Mr. Adelman, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. McDiarmid, Mrs. Hoag, Mrs. Klymkiw. Middle Row: Miss Brown, Mrs. Byrne, Jr., Miss Cheng, Mrs. Hijmans, Mrs. Curtis. Front Row: Miss Burch, Mrs. Rankin, Dr. Perry, Mrs. Chown, Mrs. Trevenen, Dr. Lander. Missing: Mrs. Byrne, Sr. The whole lot of you are flat, and I don't mean chested ! Thank heavens it's Friday. 7 I'd rather fight than switch