Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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16 Photo by w. F. Moore. Gymnasium

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The Branksome Slodan Editors : DOROTHY HENRY JESSIE WRIGHT Slogan Staff: HELEN SPENCE ISABEL LINDSAY MARGARET DONALD ELEANOR ROSS JEAN PIRIE PHYLLIS HARVEY Alumnae Representatives : AINSLIE McMICHAEL, T3

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THE BRANKSOME SLOGAN 17 For a number of years, it has been the custom of our Editors to concern themselves with nation-wide problems. The Immig-ration Question, Prohibition, and The Future of Canada have all been ably discussed, but this year our interest and our energies have been turned from world-wide problems to those here in School. Since the School has been permanently established in Rose- dale, and even before that time, it has been the ambition of every true Branksomite that we would one day be fully equipped with an up-to-date Gymnasium. This seemed almost an impossibility until last year when we were able, with the assistance of the Alumnae, to erect a building which included, not only a Gymnasium, but six class rooms, a dining-room, day girls ' cloak room, an art studio, and quarters for the housekeeping staflf. Branksome has always had reason to feel proud of her school spirit, and this year, it has been more evident than ever. Daily, girls who have been away from the School, five, ten, even twenty, years come to see Miss Read and to inspect the new building. They say school days are the happiest days, but when they are over, new in- terests enter the lives of the Old Girls. The old school is forced into the background unless some definite purpose draws them back. The drive for the new building furnished the definite purpose in our case, and we find that we now have both past and present girls united into a strong body, whose strength is steadily increasing. On the opposite page, we have reproduced the interior of the Gymnasium, which also serves as an assembly hall. The stage has been equipped with red, blue, yellow and white lights, which enable us to produce some splendid lighting efifects. These new fe atures have created great interest among the girls and we have encoun- tered no trouble in finding some who are always enthusiastic about putting on a play or providing an evening ' s entertainment. A basket- ball court, with removable baskets, and two badminton courts have been installed, besides rings, ropes and the usual gymnasium equip- ment. A new Prefect Board occupies almost one side of the right wall, and has proved much more practical than the half dozen pre- viously employed.