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

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Editorial A MESSAGE FROM PEGGY CRUIKSHANK, 9E EDITOR, BAROMETER, SECOND TERM Dear Fellow Students: It is with a mixed feeling of pleasure and sadness that we bid Balmoral farewell. To most of us I am sure it has been a good year and we have made many good and lasting friends—but of course there is the element of sadness when we realize we must leave our teachers and also the association of some of the students, who no doubt will consider this the end of carefree school life. To the rest of us it is but the beginning of greater and higher achievements. But to all of you I say “Good Luck” and may the future be kind to all of us. From Your Year Book Editor Another school term has rolled by which means vacation time. For Grade IX it is not just vacation but the beginning of a new life. This term students have come from other schools and parts of the country to Balmoral, and have co-operated with the Balmoralites to help make the year very successful. We will not only be leaving Balmoral behind, but numerous friends. However, we will find many more in the future. Without the co-operation of all the students and the teachers, our last year at Balmoral would not have been so successful. —RON AITKEN, 9E. 6

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A Message From Your Principal this issue of the Crimson, Green and Gold marks the end of another school term. For those in Grade Nine it marks the completion of your student days in Balmoral Junior High School. By you, particularly, the things recorded here will be treasured in years to come. As memory grows faint, this booklet will recall for you the friends and acquaintances of your Junior High School years. It will recall situations and places that will arouse echoes of happiness, inspiration and regret. There will be recollections of classes and assemblies, of lessons and teachers; of parties and dances, of games and track meets, of tests and grinds, of boy friends and girl friends, and of innumerable, half forgotten happenings. When you lift this rare volume from an old trunk or cupboard and browse through it, you will smile at the old fashioned styles and the youthful faces that look back at you, and you will muse over old times and wonder what has become of all these classmates now. This book will give you many moments of pleasure at unexpected times and each time it does it will be fulfilling its purpose—for that is its mission,—to guard a small but precious part of your life, your Junior High School days, against an untrustworthy memory in a busy world. —H. W. BRYAN. 5

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Balmoral Junior High Staff Here is the 1949-50 Staff of Balmoral Junior High School. With extrq teachers for the two additional Grade IX classrooms and some other changes, we confess that some of us are NEW, but affirm that none of us is OLD! Although two or three members of the student body have hobbled around on crutches during some part of the year, the staff continues to demonstrate an agility by dodging lines on the stairs, dancing at the school parties, and getting the lion’s share of the exercise at track meet practices. In the “new’’ group you will notice Mr. Bryan, our principal, who came to us from Mount View School. Miss Ballantyne taught last year at Earl Grey School, and Miss Ramsay at Stanley Jones. Mr. Culley was formerly a member of the Bow View Staff. Mrs. McGimpsey joined us at Christmas¬ time when Miss Barnes, who was also new this school year, left us to get married. The more or less “old-timers” on the staff include Mr. Davidson, Mr. Goddard, Mr. Dann, Mr. Harris, Mr. Baldwin, Miss Williams, Mr. Pallesen, Mr. Russell, Miss Shepherd, Miss Hoskin, Mr. McDonald, Mr. Morrison, Miss Jackson, Miss Quinton and Miss Weston. Mr. Carter and Mr. Hetherington continue to battle valiantly against the inevitable dust and manage to come up smiling in spite of the not so inevitable mud and spilled ink. Two new vice-principals appeared this year to handle the increased junior high class rooms. They are both members of the “old-timers . Miss Weston and Mr. Dann (the latter succeeding Mr. Callbeck). 7