Branksome Hall - Slogan Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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Opheleo President Vice-president Secretary-treasurer Marilee Tisdali Cathy Simmonds Vicki Lomax In the last few months there have been several oppor- tunities for the Opheleo Society to get involved and understand the meaning of Opheleo- ' l serve ' . Our first undertaking was sending 225 Christmas cards with a balloon enclosed in each to the children at the Ramabai Mukti Mission in India. Ramabai week followed and it was very successful. We raised nearly 1,000 dollars- donating money to Ramabai Mukti Mission, Ludhiana Hospital in India, the United Way, the Hospital for Sick Children, the Ontario Humane Society, and we sent a gift to Erol Barulday our foster child in Turkey. Near the end of the term we had a clan toy collection and sent the toys to Little Trinity Church where they were repaired and then distributed. The Slogan is on its way to press and the Opheleo commit- tee is in the process of planning a campaign to raise money to support Erol Barulday in Turkey, and to assist a Branksome old girl working overseas. A grateful thanks to everyone for their interest and support and a special thanks to the committee for their help - rolling pennies! Miss Baker - thank you for your guidance and for helping to make this year a very successful one for the Opheleo. ' Seek not happiness: bestow it, and it will come to you ' Marilee What else can we do, but keep climbing! 21

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Resource Centre and French Librarians Library Bibliotheque Library Branksome ' s li- braries (all three!!!) are thriving as us- ual this year. This is an excel- lent sign that the inquiring, intelligent minds of Branksomites are in full operation ... (or that there are a tremendous number of assignments being given out.) We ' re sure that it is the first assumption that is true. Although this is not a year of spectacular development as the last few years have been, the committees have been working harder than ever to make the libraries the best ever. A great deal of thanks is due to the three committees for all their cooperation and special thanks is due to Mrs. Dick and Mme. Olson for all their help and advice. Pat, Laura and Melanie 20

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Drama Club Our hour devoted to the pursuit of expression is worth a full century of glory given by the frightened weak to the strong. Kahil Gibran The drama club has spent hours of devotion to expression, in the hope of sharing the fulfillment we have gained through productions such as The l ottery and The In-Group . We have wished to entertain but also wished to provoke thought, in the Christmas Anthology. At the present we are working on a production of some intricacy, School for Scandal . We would like to thank Miss Taylor for all her helpful guidance and the drama club for their support. Good Luck, Melanie Hazell Renata Straughen 22