Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Appointments Head Girl— Nancy Stirrett HOUSE PREFECTS Margaret Davison Betty Marshall Kathleen Stambaugh Helen Sutherland HOUSE SUB-PREFECTS Eleanor Birkett Betty Hagmeier Eleanor Henderson Barbara Parker Mary Reid Barbara Ross Rosemary Sheppard Barbara Thomas Dorothy Turner Barbara Waite Edith Wilson DAY PREFECTS Catherine Bryans Katharine Cannon Janet Davidson Elizabeth Harrison Jean Lander Jeanette McVicar Eunice Plant DAY SUB-PREFECTS Elizabeth Callow Patricia Gibbons Anna Marie Smart Jean Stirling CLAN CHIEFTAINS Campbell — Helen Franks Douglas — Barbara Parker MacAlpine — Peggy Essery MacGregor — Jean Stirling OPHELEO SOCIETY Hon. Pres. — Nancy Stirrett President — Helen Sutherland Vice-Pres. — Margaret Davison Secretary — Betty Marshall Treasurer — Catharine Bryans Committee — Kdith Wilson, Rosemary Shep- pard, Elizabeth Young, Gwen Plant. McLean — Patricia Gibbons McLeod — Eunice Plant Ross — Elizabeth Callow Stewart — Anna Marie Smart BETA KAPPA SOCIETY Hon. Pres. — Nancy Stirrett President — Betty Harrison Vice-Pres. — Kathleen Stambaugh Secretary — Jean Lander Treasurer — Jeanette McVicar Committee — Betty Hagmeier, Sherry Bond, Peggy E ssery, Phyllis Pattison. OFFICERS OF SENIOR SCHOOIv Form V — President, Janet Davidson; Vice-President, Mary Wilder; Secretary-Treasurer, Joan Strong. Form V, Special — President, Helen Sutherland; Vice-President, Harriet Taggart; Secretary- Treasurer, Anne Henderson. Form IVA — President, Elizabeth Callow; Vice-President, Jean Stirling; Secretary-Treasurer, Patricia Gibbons. Form IVB — President, Betty Hagmeier; Vice-President, Jocelyn Mc Williams; Secretary- Treasurer, Joyce Caudwell. Form IV, Special — President, Barbara Ann Boland; Vice-President, Mary Mackinnon; Secretary- Treasurer, Helen Patterson. Form III A — President, Ruth Stevens; Vice-President, Susan Goulding; Secretary-Treasurer, Jean Campbell. Form IIIB — President, Jean Sutherland; Vice-President, Barbara Rawlinson; Secretary- Treasurer, Nancy Walker. FormllA — President, Patricia Gundy; V ice-President, Nancy Baker; Secretary-Treasurer, Beth Nelson. Form IIB — President, Sarah L,ee Moxley; Vice-President, Helen Andrews; Secretary-Treasurer, Barbara Wheelwright. Form I A — President, Peggy Purvis; Vice-President, Shelagh Gilmour; Secretary-Treasurer, Jane Gooderham. Form IB — President, Barbara Elliott; Vice-President, Diana Spencer; Secretary-Treasurer, Margery Crawford.

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Few people realize the full importance of the menace which is today creeping insidiously upon us — the danger of losing all individuality and becoming completely obscured and absorbed into the maw of the mob. I am not speaking so much of the spreading Nazi regime and like movements, which quite obviously spell death to individual powers and rights, as of those smaller, more insignificant and consequently more dangerous organizations which are gaining so alarmingly fast both in strength and number. We have fallen into the lazy way of conducting our charities, deciding our politics, bringing up our children, and even doing our thinking in groups. In so doing, we are beginning to lose all faith in our own individual ideas and efforts, and to place all trust in the judgment of the mob. Rob man of his ego — of his sense of responsibility and importance in the scheme of society, and he loses all efficiency, keenness and incentive to work. He becomes merely one of a great group, ready and willing to leave every matter of importance to the decision of the rest . They, in turn, evade the issue so that many vital problems are left permanently unsolved. Avoid this state of mind. Break away from the herd. Think your own thoughts — plan your own actions, and never weakly cast away ideas because they have not the full approbation of your friends. There is no need to join a society in order to help the poor, or the country, or even the world. That of which the latter stands in direst need today is a little intelligent and understanding thinking on the part of the individual. People are so appallingly narrow-minded. They declare that they hate certain foreigners because they have heard through a friend of a friend that they are dirty, treacherous, unkind to their animals, or something equally absurd. And then they have the supreme audacity to run about clamouring for Peace, when all the time they are doing their utmost to promote the opposite. Never let yourself be influenced by these idle babblers. Surely most wars are caused by ignorance and urged on by false propaganda. Believe 17