Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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J 10 Elm Avenue, Toronto, Canada, June, 1956. Dear Alumna, 1906-1956 You probably know that this year I am celebrating my 50th Anniversary at Branksome and am sending you this year ' s number of the ' Slogan as a little gift. I am finding this Anniversary a very thrilling experience. Everyone has been so exceedingly good to me and we have had several delightful celebrations. The Alumnae Dinner at the Granite Club on Thursday, April 26th, was certainly a tremendous success and we had so many messages and cables from all the five Continents. This year ' s Com- mittee is to be congratulated on the success of this Dinner. We were only sorry that the accommodation was limited to 410 so that there were many who could not attend. The portrait of myself by Miss Marion Long, the gift of the Alumnae, was unveiled at that time, and it will be placed in our New Library Building, which has just been started — including some very fine modern Science Rooms. You have all heard of our Extension Fund to which so many of you have con- tributed — receiving subscriptions from $1 to $5,000. This Fund made possible the building of our New Junior School three years ago with a nucleus left over to start this Library Building. We feel sure you will come to our aid again as you have in the past, and that the Building will be completed free of debt. We need $100,000! — but what is that to our Alumnae? This addition will give us wonderful equipment — second to none, I believe, among the Independent Girls Schools of Canada. Do you know that we have 10 acres of land with nine buildings and also a Farm of 50 acres? How much we have to be thankful for! However, what matters most is our School Spirit that it may continue to grov each year is, I am sure, the hope of every Branksomite. To you all — my love and very best wishes. Most sincerely yours,

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YEAR BOOK, 1956 Page 9 SLOGAN Left to Right: Mrs. McLelan, Janis Levering (Sports), Mary Daniell-Jenicins (Photography and Art), Jane Garden (Editor-in-Chief), Jennifer Campbell (Literary Editor), Sheila Westman (Advertising Editor), Miss Livingston. General Committee: Joan Campbell, Catherine Clark, Martha Gray, Sandra Holm, Judith Howell, Pamela Thompson, Myra Tupker, Jane Watson, Louisette Wilkins. Advertising Committee: Edith Bell, Jane Burt, Elizabeth Graham, Patricia Gordon, Sheila Harvie, Louise Holden, Heather Anne Holt, Penny Jenkins, Catherine Johnston, Joan Sanderson, Joyce Sanderson, Sandra Seagram, Margaret Stobie.