Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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24 THE. BEAOTvSOME SLOGAAT. Miss Marjorie Weller, of St. Catharines, has returned home after an enjoyable trip on the Continent. Miss Muriel Eobertson is teaching piano at Havergal Ladies Col- lege, Toronto. Miss Marjorie Hopkirk and Miss May Chown, of Kingston, are continuing their studies at Queen s University. The marriage of Miss Abbie Morrison to Mr. Frank Allan took place at St. Augustine s Church, Toronto, on October 6th, 09. Miss Marion Phin, of Gait, has returned to her home after spend- ing the summer in Portland, Ore. Miss Jean Mickleborough, of St. Thomas, was in Toronto for a few hours on her way to Winnipeg, where she is to spend the winter. Miss Geraldine Stephenson, of Winnipeg, has been visiting in Chatham. Mrs. Hillary, formerly Elsie Taylor, of White Horse, is living in Skagway, Alaska. Miss McKay has returned from abroad, but is not teaching at Branksome, much to the regret of the girls. She is now living in Montreal. Miss Jean Eoss has made her home in Strassburg, Sask., and is teaching school there. Miss Katie Maclaren has been at. the Eastbury School for Girls, Watford, Hertford, England, for the last two years, but has now returned to her home, 292 Frank Street, Ottawa. Miss Edith Mason is now living in Vancouver, at 1796 Sixth Avenue, Fairview. Miss Kathleen Eaton, of Port Hope, is going to Philadelphia to live. Mrs. Harvey Gordon (nee Thelma Lester) is living at 921 Bathurst Street, Toronto. Mrs. Leslie Victor Smith (nee Edith Ellis) has returned to the city after spending her honeymoon in England, and intends to board at Windermere Hall, Jarvis Street. Miss Laura Aitken and Miss Greta Playter are at Varsity now and in residence at Queen ' s Hall. Miss Helen Cantley was abroad last summer. Miss Annie Bryson, of Ottawa, attended the Macdonald Institute at Ste. Anne ' s, Quebec, last year.

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAX. PERSONALS Old Girls visiting the school find missing two faces which were centres of the most pleasant memories of the first years at Branksome Hall. When first Miss MacCurdy left there went with her recol- lections of violent struggles connected with Themistocles, Neoclis filins, Atheniensis ' ; squares on the hypotenuse of a triangle ; ladder- against-the-wall problems, etc. Still, we remembered the gentler arts while Miss Macdonald was there ready to help us farther onward, but she, too, is away this year earning a well-deserved rest from the nerve- racking duties of governess in a ladies ' college. The patience they both had with us, even in our most wilfully irritating moods, we realize and appreciate now fully, and can thank them all the more lovingly for the time, thought and care they gave us unstintingly. The Alumnae Association cannot be grateful enough to Miss Macdonald for her assistance in the past year. She has been so interested and helpful, and ever ready with advice and suggestion. Indeed, it is through her that this paper has become a reality. Miss MacCurdy is living in San Francisco, but all letters addressed to her home, Onslow Station, IS ' ova Scotia, will be forwarded to her. Miss Macdonald is living with her brother at 117 Frederica Street, West Fort William, Ont. Miss Eeid and Mile. Compondu spent the summer abroad, the latter visiting her home in Switzerland, and Miss Eeid travelling on the Continent. Miss Jean McTavish was abroad with her father last summer, and is now living at 570 Spadina Avenue, Toronto. Miss Alice Fortune, of Winnipeg, an enthusiastic golfer, was suc- cessful in winning four cups last summer. Miss Lily Shannon has charge of the Choral Class at Branksome, and we may feel sure of its success. Miss Maud Banning, of Chatham, is visiting in California. Miss Gladys Brock and Mr. Edward Martin were married in Winni- peg last June. One of the prettiest of October weddings took place in Peterborough, when Miss Mollie Meldrum was united in marriage to Mr. Ernest Green. They are living at 133 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto. Miss Edith Anderson, Miss Mary Elliot and Miss Gladys White made their debut at the Governor-Generars ball in AYinnipeg last October.

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN. 25 Miss Mary Hannah is studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass. Miss Margery Kilmer is continuing her musical studies, and passed the Senior Pianoforte at the University with 1st Class Honors. Miss Eloise Phillips was at Macdonald Hall, in Guelph, in 1907. Mrs. Douglas Eraser, Jr., whom many of the girls remember as Marie Junkin, is living at present in the Nanton Apartments, Nanton Avenue. Miss Jean Morton is visiting in Scotland this winter. Miss Marguerite Thompson, of Dawson, is studying music in New York. Miss Constance Macdonald is living in Toronto, at 321 Jarvis Street. Miss Ruth Winchester was in the West all summer, teaching school at Tantallon, Sask. Miss Hilda Rutherford is continuing her piano and vocal studies in the city. Miss Fotheringham is another Branksomite at Varsity. She is now in her third year in medicine. Miss Vera Smith was married in July, 1908, to Mr. Frank Follett, and is now living at 72 Roxborough Street E., Toronto. Miss Mina Jenkins graduated last year from Grace Hospital, Toronto. Three of our girls are training for nurses : Miss Florence Bradfield in the Sick Children ' s Hospital, Toronto; Miss Marie Thompson in the Presbyterian Hospital, New York; and Miss Bessie Turner in the Royal Victoria, Montreal. Miss Madele Pearson and Mr. Louis Brophy were married last June, and are living in the city at 311 Avenue Road. IN MEMORIAM The school has suffered a sad loss in the death of Miss Florence Merrick, who passed away on November 9th of last year, in Kingston. Miss Merrick was Associate Principal of Branksome Hall from its commencement, and by her bright, cheerful and refined manner, her tactful kindness, her taste and good judgment, and the true nobility of her Christian character, she endeared herself to all with whom she came in contact. She will long continue to be an ideal to the pupils of past years.