Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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PREFACE Try to etch in your mind the vision of four hundred kilt-clad girls, cheering and laughing in the lower field, or sitting row on row in the gymnasium. Try to bottle that feeling of pride when Branksome proves her worth, or the glow of friendship when others share good times with you. The task is difficult. Before many years have passed, those elusive memories of experiences and emotions will be shadowed by new ones. Gradually, special, subtle shades of feeling may be beyond reach, simply because we forget to remember. The Slogan is a preservative. Although it does not present several volumes of individual experiences, it acts as a reminder for you to recall your personal, unique school days. Schooldays! If you are a student, glance now at your class picture. While looking at it, think of what those people, and events connected with them, really mean. Call to mind the importance of what you may take for granted, and laugh at those things that brightened your Branksome life. Before too many years have escaped, you may look at the same picture and remember many of these associations. Outstanding events will come quickly. Fizzie! What trouble when she set off the fire extinguisher! Perhaps too, you will recall more personal incidences. And Nelly. She was always there when I needed her. Branksome is so much more than sharpened pencils and knotted notebooks. Let the Yearbook nudge your memory. I, too, have scanned the pictures. In a few words, I have tried to describe what my years here have meant to me. Branksome is kilts and ties, crossed legs, push-pins, smiling faces, horoscopes, announcements, secret notes, enthusiasm, clubs, sports, name-tapes, no baubles, teachers, Ribbit, beautiful people, the School Song, lunch bags, serious talks, spirit, learning, laughing, growing, fifty jumps, stop signs, singing, exams, sharing, debating, light- hearted chatter, lost-and-found, chocolate sundaes, kindness, skipping rope, happiness, and Slogan. The true Branksome Hall cannot be bound by words. Its facets are innumerable. You and I are inseparable parts of our school, and our actions and attitudes are products of it. As you peruse your Slogan, read between the lines. We are all writers and editors, so please scribble in your personal additions to the book. Many thanks go to Miss Forsyth and Mrs. Campbell, the business and literary advisors, for their kind help and guidance. Best wishes to all, Carolyn Brown Hugo 4 The Brunksome Slogan

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CONTENTS Page Slogan Editors 2 Preface 4 Principal ' s Letter 5 Head Girl ' s Message 6 Principal Junior School 7 Prize List 8 Activities 11 Appointments 12 The Flag Service 21 Senior Choir 22 Message from the Alumnae 24 Variety Show Pictures 28 Sunday Evening Services 30 Class Pictures 31-38 Literary 39-56 Sports 57-76 Graduates 77-88 Judy Crawford 89 Advertising 90-136 Advertising Index 137

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PRINCIPAL ' S LETTER My dear Girls, As I write this we have just entered a new year and a new decade and all the pundits are busy with prognostications of what the Seventies will bring. I have no crystal ball but I am sure that we must all be prepared for changes and some of those changes may not be altogether what we might expect or desire. The frightening Brave New World which Aldous Huxley foresaw in the Thirties would seem to be drawing uncomfortably close. Nevertheless, it is my contention that older writers reached more nearly the heart of the truth: John Stuart Mill when he said The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it and Nathaniel Hawthorne when he said Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not . Since the days of Christ, who taught that God sees the sparrow fall, man has been trying to establish the worth of the individual. Who will deny that we have made but slow progress, yet who can deny that the past decade has produced a gathering momentum? If we dare to accept the responsibility of our right to individual importance and are prepared to grant to every other man that same right, we may perhaps find our salvation from the evils of autocracy, technocracy and computerization by which, it is said, we are threatened and reap only the benefits of the great scientific and technical advances of our century. Sincerely, Year Book, 1970 Page 5