Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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Year Book, 1968 Page 7 EDITORIAL Above the door of the Branksome Hall castle in Scotland are inscribed these words: In varld is nocht nature has vroucht yat sal lest ay, Thairfore serve God, keep well ye rod, thy fame sal nocht dekay. ' In the world there is nothing nature has wrought that shall last forever. Therefore, serve God, keep well the road, thy fame shall not decay. This motto was taken by Miss Scott, the founder and first principal of Branksome Hall School. Thinking it too eloquent she chose the motto, Industria et Scientia . It remained with the school for approximately three decades when it was again changed to our present motto, Keep Well the Road . Today, very few people realize that we have still another motto in our school, that of the prefects. Live pure, speak true, right wrong. — the charge given by King Arthur to his knights when they were sworn in as Knights of the Round Table. It was certainly not an easy motto that King Arthur gave to his knights and it is not an easy one for us to follow. The above words are symbolized in the colours of the school flags: red, green, black and white. Every Branksome girl is proud of our mottoes and honestly endeavours to live up to them and so upholds the traditions of Branksome Hall School. Now as every girls goes her own way, I hope that each will have the strength and the will to Keep Well the Road . Patricia Parker