Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Year Book, 1968 Page 5 —Painting by Alan Collier JENNIE E. MacNEILL. M.A., LL.D. Principal — Branksome Hall 1958-1968 The above painting was presented to Miss MacNeill by the Alumnae Association, and is hung in the Dining Room of MacNeill House.

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Page 4 The Branksome Slogan DEAR GIRLS: The Principal ' s Letter It has never been easy to write a letter to you in December which you are to read in June but your editors always urge me on and I try to co-operate with them in their heavy task. It is especially difficult to write this, my last letter to you, as your Principal, but I shall try to share a few hopes that I have for the student body. I am always encouraged by the great numbers who are in- terested in what seems to me to be worthwhile things. Your emphasis on good sportsmanship, your enthusiasm for the work of the different societies and especially your concern for those less fortunate than you, whether in this city or in far countries, are very important and I hope that those who have tended to be self-centred will grow more broad in outlook the longer they are here. Each June we give a prize for integrity and the girl who receives it is to be congratulated. However, there are many girls who are worthy and I think that it is not too much for us to dream of a day when every single one will deserve to win it. It was the French writer, Moliere, who said, If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows . You may feel that you try and do not reach the standard you wish. Remember Browning ' s, Ah, but a man ' s reach should exceed his grasp or what ' s a Heaven for? and instead of complaining think of his less well-known lines The common problem, yours and mine, everyone ' s, Is not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be — but finding first What may be and how to make it fair up to our means . With Christ as our example, and with His help, we can go farther than we sometimes think. I am finishing forty-one years as teacher and Principal at Branksome. Now I graduate with the Class of 1968. We leave our best wishes to you and ask God ' s blessing on the School and those whom we are leaving as they endeavour to Keep Well the Road

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Page 6 The Branksome Slogan Sunday Evening Services The rattle of chairs being moved from the Gymnasium to the Common Room in Main House, at the hour of 6.30 each Sunday evening, is an in dication that the Sunday evening Service of worship will commence shortly. The various committees of girls who faithfully carry out their duty, week by week, arranging and re-arranging and restoring the room when the service is over, is a tribute to the sense of responsibility which the girls display. In the course of the year, the School has been favoured with visits from Public and High School teachers from different parts of the city and Province; Missionaries on furlough from various countries of the world, involved in the many facets of life in other cultures, as well as those who direct operations from the Home Base; top-ranking professional business- men as well as those who are involved in the work-a-day world, while one Minister drove 100 miles to speak at our evening service; and mingled with these interesting and informative speakers, we include Moody Science films, musical evenings and occasionally an evening when we have Bible contests, and firesides. Girls from our day school are most gracious in coming to us to share their many talent?, such as piano playing and singing, and for this interest, we are most grateful. When the pressure of examinations is not upon us, the period spent with Miss MacNeill, before her fire, enjoying coffee and informal pleasantries, is always a delightful and pleasant one.