Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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20 The Branksome Slogan before!) I had all o ' poor Minerva ' s rivets behind my bench, and smeared dirty grease all over her sparklin ' clean airyplane wing. At 7.30 sharp, Minerva came trottin ' up the long aisle o ' planes, with her red hair piled up in a neat little bunch on top of her head, — and walking like as if she owned the world. I felt pretty small (and me 6 ft. 3!) to be doin ' such a dirty trick, but it was too late then, and I ' m right glad now that it was. You shoulda seen her poor little face when she saw her ' plane. First she just looked at it, and then she sat down and bawled like her little heart was breakin ' . For ' way at the end of the long aisle of riveters, you could see the inspector beginnin ' to look over the work, and she would lose her job sure, if he saw hers. So nere ' s where my big plan began to work, and at last I got me chance to speak to her. raced up to poor weepin ' Minerva, cussin ' under my breath (but loud enough for her t ' hear), ' ' anyone who would be mean enough to steal a pretty girl ' s rivets, and dirty up her airyplane ! Then I give her my big striped handkerchief what my father ' s aunt on his mother ' s side embroddered and sewed for me, and mutterin ' words o ' kindness and sympathy all the while, I fixed up her wing and hammered all the rivets back into their rightful places; so that before long both the plane anc: Minerva w as as good as new. Then, — just like I ' d been hopin ' all the while, she rushed up and threw her little arms around my quiverin ' neck, and raved on about, ' ' You wonderful, wonderful man — I always knew — what would I have done — right gallant of you — until my blushin ' face was a glory to behold. Well, to get around to the point, — Minerva got A.L from the inspector, and me, feelin ' that all prelim ' nary introductions had been taken care of, asked her out to supper. The long aind short of it is that Minerva and me went steady-liks for six weeks, and then got married up, so ' s we could be together all the time. We was sure made for each other (we both agree on that) and everyone says that our home life is a fine and peaceful state to behold. Anyways, in cloisin ' , I just wanted to say; — what lily maiden o ' 1860 woulda believed it if she ' d been told that a guy could win a girl by sup- plyin ' her with nine steel rivets ! MARJORIE ARCHIBALD.

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22 The Branksome Slogan Prophecy, or I Hope to Die Youns Up to now I have always held a certain amount of respect for the wisdom of our honoured Latin teacher, but nevermore will I heed her advice. In accordance with her pleadings I sat down one night and for nearly fifteen minutes pursued the thoughts of Virgil. It was no use. I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes. Gradually I became aware of things drifting about me, and suddenly a whirring sounded in my ears. I found myself in a helicoipter! Amazed, I felt it swoop and plunge dow n, down, down We landed. Dazedly I stepped to the ground and rubbed my eyes. What was that in front of me? It was a huge sign emblazoned Tor- onto Exposition of 1960. I promptly boarded a bus headed for this exhibition, and, as I dropped into a seat, I noticed a fashionable society woman sitting beside me. I looked again. W hy it was my old class- mate, Dorothy Robinette! She recognized me and immediately we fell into an animated discussion about our school days. Discussion I say, but in reality it was a monologue. I sank back in my seat and listened. My dear, she said, with sl little shriek, I must tell you about what ' s happened to all the girls. I suppose you heard that Kay Deacon had sextuplets three years ago — it w as in all the papers — it was a medical marvel. They would never have lived if it hadn ' t been for that new vitamin discovered by Ruth Alison and Louise Dolson. Strange, w e always thought Joyce Frankel would delve ahead into scientific research but she ' s turned to a literary career instead. She is the editor of that famous magazine, Life and Literature. She must have been inspired by all those Lit. essays she wrote in her last year at Branksome. And the chief cartoonists for the publication are Pegg Drew and Budge Archibald. And did you know that Ann Spence w rites the sports column for the daily paper. She ' s quite as fam.ous as Jim Coleman ever was and flies all over the world to see the international matches. She meets everybody. Why she told me that on her last trip to Norway she ran into Mary Ritchie who had just founded a new political party with a platform of More herring for our own people. Keep Norway ' s products m Norway. Mary ' s quite lost her old Canadian ways. And in last year ' s Olympic games, held also in Norway, Patsy Earl carried off the world ' s figure skating championship. Then T read in Ann ' s column the o ther day that Madeleine Windeyer just swam in the Arctic Ocean to prove that it could be done, and is now rumoured to be risking her life by attempting to ski over the North Pole.