Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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26 THE BEANKSOME SLOGAX. READING CIRCLE OF ALUMNAE ASSOCIA- TION OF BRANKSOME HALL With the object of assisting those of our pupils whose actual school days are over to prosecute studies at home, a course of reading has been devised, and is herewith presented for consideration. The period popularly known as the Elizabethan Era has been chosen, not only as providing a wealth of material unparalleled in the annals of England, but as forming, in a true sense, the beginning and the inspiration of our modern English literature. The course of study will naturally commence with careful con- sideration of the HISTOEY of the period, for it is in the light of the conditions of the time that authors and their works are, in the first instance, rightly understood. In this connection it is suggested that the members of our reading circle begin with Chapter VII. of Greenes Short History of the English People, and supplement the sketch therein contained from the works of Historians who devote particular attention to the Elizabethan Era. It is important that the students feel the aspirations of an awakened people, and realize the eagerness for conquest, the sense of freedom, and the strength of loyalty that characterized the people of England at that age. BIOGEAPHY also, as presented in such a work as the English Men of Action ' ' series, will still further help the students to re,alize the spirit of the age. This historical course, however, would be quite inadequate without some investigation as to the condition of the masses of the people. Such a work as Traill ' s Social England, ' ' Vol. III., will enable the students to obtain an intelligent grasp of the social conditions of the time as manifested in the manners and customs, the occupations and recreations, and moral and religious standards. Books of history and biography will naturally be supplemented by such historical EOMANCES as Walter Scott ' s Kenilworth and Charles Kingsley ' s Westward Ho ! These contain within them the spirit, and indeed much of the detail, of history, and make the period to be living and full of meaning. Knowledge of tlie period through books of History, Biography and Eomance will naturally be followed by study of the HISTOEY of the EITEEATITEE. Eeiiable accounts of the lives of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare and their literary contemporaries will provide the neces- sary information. A clear statement will be found in the admirable article on Elizabethan and Jacobean literature in the revised edition of Chambers ' Cyclopaedia of English Literature. In the light of this the works of Spenser, Shakespeare and other writers of note of the period be invested with a new interest and