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ALLEREE (SPELL IT AS YOU WILL) There was another ball game called Allei^ee, although as indicated the spelling is open to question. But then, children play games; they don't spell them. For Allereee, a lacrosse ball was ideal -but in the 1930's, the cost was 50(t, and for many children, that amounted to ten weeks allowance. While a good bouncing ball was important, one could make do with less. While counting one, two, three, the girl bounced the ball three times. On the count of three, she called "Alleree", and at the same time, she lifted her leg and clapped her hands behind the upraised knee. She repeated this process to the count of four-five-siX and seven-eight-nine, bounced once more for ten, at ten saying, "Ten, Alleree, Catch Me!" And she caught the bal1. She would then repeat the entire sequence only instead of clapping her hands behind her knee, she would swing her leg over the ball as it bounced. So the chant went like this: One, two, three, Alleree (clap behind knee) Fbur, five, six, Alleree " Seven, eight, nine, Alleree " Ten, Alleree, Catch me!(clap and catch.) The sequence was repeated swinging the leg over the bouncing ball. Experts played this game while going up and down stairs, a complicated feat mastered by very few. This was almost entirely a girl's game. Smart boys decried such games as sissy but never let themselves get talked into trying it - if you don't try, you don't get shown up by a mere girl, for then as now, in any game involving dexterity more than muscle, girls could hold their own with the boys. And they had the practice. HOP SCOTCH Hop Scptch requires little explanation. A grid of eight squares was drawn on the pavement with chalk. Each player produced her her favourite piece of glass, often from the beach, worn smooth by tide. AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS One of the reasons why the Society has had such a successful year, in the opinion on the Executive, is that we have had an active and diligent telephoning committee. It has given the Executive an immediate contact with the entire membership, a person to person contact that has proved far more effective than the Newsletter, important as that is for other reasons. Credit for the Committee properly goes to Mrs. Mildred Hughes, who first suggested the idea, and who, when it was approved, did the organizing and found the necessary phoners. Thanks are also owing to those people who did the actual work - taking a share of the membership list and phoning everybody on it before each event of the Society. They are: Mary Chapman Della Charters Dorothy Gentleman Leone Clyne Sybil Mahon Marjorie Murray Betty Metcalfe Florry Mitchell Babs Middleton Cecily Reynolds Ev Tickell Ted Sewell Participation is what makes the Society run!!! Our thanks again to you all. COMMUNITY DAY We have been informed that Community Day will feature "WHEELS AND THINGS" , in other words, in keeping with Expo 86, Transportati on. Our booth at Community Day will therefore concentrate on Transportation and Communication in early West Vancouver. We would welcome any contributions you could make - your family's first car (in picture of course) or any pictures you have of buses, ferries, roads, bridges -anything that deals with transportation. We can, if necessary, get any pictures enlarged, so do not worry about the size of a picture, so long as it is clear. GIVE US WHAT YOU HAVE!!!