Balmoral Junior High School - Crimson Green and White Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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EXCITEMENT Hostile Indians all over our plains, Now there’re houses and fields of grains; Just a covered wagon, with a driver named Joe, Now speeding cars and buses we know; All around there are Indian teepees, Now beautiful houses with rows of sweet peas. Calgary’s seventy-fifth birthday! Oh, boy! Everyone’s filled with loads of joy. Snow in the winter is lots of fun, Swimming pools in summer, or on beaches we run; Seventy-five years ago we wouldn’t have this. What a lot of fun we all would miss! All I can say is, “I’m glad to live here With all my friends, loving and dear.” And now comes the last sentence SO GRAND, “I GO TO BALMORAL, THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE LAND! ” —Donna Kimmel, 7C. CALGARY’S EARLY STREETS An oldtimer by the name of Frank White wrote in his diary that in 1881 he stood on Calgary’s North Hill and counted sixteen shacks plus a Mounted Police fort. In the early days they had different names for every street and avenue. Eighth Avenue was then called Stephen Avenue in honor of Lord Mount Stephen, then president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A few more of the main avenues were as follows: Abbott was Second Avenue Egan was Third Avenue, Reinoch was Fourth Avenue, Northcote was Fifth Avenue, Angus was Sixth Avenue, and Pacific was Tenth Avenue. In the small area encompassed in the list of street and avenue names above were built Calgary’s early buildings, many of them landmarks until the present day. —Don Parry, 7C. 61

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CALGARY Seventy-five years ago today, Four mounted policemen came our way; They camped on the ground, From where a small mound. Grew the great city of Calgary. Colonel Macleod was his name, He led a life of trust and fame; From home he came To give it a name, So he christened the spot Fort Calgary. From a few sticks and a brick here and there. Buildings and towers rose in the air; So citizens thankful Better you be To the man who made possible CALGARY! —Sheila Hornberger, 7A, Darrel Reid, 7A. EIGHTH (STEPHEN) AVENUE Calgary! My, this couldn’t be it! Only five wooden stores, It wouldn’t fit! They don’t have any floors! Horses and buggies line the street, Women in bustles with big tall hats. Their beaux for to meet; And look at that ' ong, skinny cat! Bang! Bang! What’s that? Somebody coming to raid the bank? But, look at it now! Nice, big, beautiful stores, And t ie houses—well, they have doors! All the cars and buses on paved roads! And people- -there are loads! What a change in our Calgary! But, I like it best this way, don’t you? —Elaine Paquin, 7C. 60

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Leonard G. giggled when Mr. Baldwin read about the Roman who swam across the Tiber three times before breakfast. “Don’t you think a trained swimmer could do that, Leonard?” asked Mr. Baldwin. ‘‘Oh! Yes, Sir,” replied Leonard. “But I wondered why he didn’t make it four and get back to the side his clothes were on.” Better keep your head inside the window!” warned the conductor. I kin look out of the window if I want to,” said Ray E. “Sure you can,” answered the conductor, “but if you damage any of the iron work on the bridges you’ll have to pay for it.” Wooer (in deep anguish)—“If you don’t marry me, I’ll blow my brains out.” Wooed—“That would be a joke on father. He doesn’t think you have any.” “Is your girl spoiled?” “No, it’s just the perfume she’s wearing.” Don—“What did the teacher say this morning?” Ron—-“Nothing.” Don—“Of course, but how did he express it?” When God made male and female, He made the male the stronger. And then to make amends— Made woman’s tongue the longer. He—“If the principal doesn’t take back what he said this morning, I’m going to leave school.” She— What did he say?” He—“He told me to leave school.” “My boy friend is serving on an island in the Pacific.” “Which one?” “Alcatraz.” Mr. Steckle—’’Notice any improvement since last year?” Caddy—‘Had your clubs shined up, haven’t you?” A professor, while making a tour of an insane asylum after the Winter Carnival, noticed a former student of his, who was one of the inmates wearing nothing but a hat. Professor—“Why is it, my good man, that you aren’t wearing any clothes?” Inmate—“M ell, sir, nobody ever comes here.” Professor—“Then why are you wearing a hat?” Inmate--”Well, somebody might.” Fran—“You remind me of the ocean.” Dick—“Wild, romantic, restless, huh?” Fran—“Naw, you only make me sick.” 62