Restitching on top left back corner, slight tear in upper right corner.
Scope and Content
Item was created by the Brandon College class of 1961 as part of their commencement activities. The flag, which is made of velvet and cotton, features the class colours of green and white, as well as the class motto "Intelligentiam pertamus in aeternum" ("Let us seek knowledge forever"). The flag features the names of the graduates divided by Arts and Science stitched in white thread. In the centre of the flag is a lamp. The flag has no mechanism for hanging.
Names include: Gladwyn Scott, Penelope Smith, Donald Goodfellow, Geraldine Ames, Cecilia Andreychuck, Helen Booth, James Bower, Robert Coleman, Enid Currie, Donna Frazer, Carole Griffith, Robert Haas, Hugh Halliday, Patrick Krecsy, Anne Lane, Nona Malyon, Leslie Milne, Margaret Moody, Janet Mooney, Brian McKenzie, Richard Neilson, Leonard Peltz, Ronald Rennie, Gertrude Shanks, Jean Yeo, Robert Armbruster, Irwin Badowich, Ruth Brown, James Bund, Ray Chernecki, Gerald Collins, Robert Ferris, Gary Gordon, Stephen Hyrich, Robert Latimer, James Moore, Lloyd Nikkel, George Peary, Mary Potharin, Allan Robertson, Duncan Robertson, Larrie Seeback, Ian Whyte and Rosalie Yauck.
Notes
Loose translations for the class mottos were provided by Dr. Rosanne Gasse (Latin) and Dr. Steve Robinson (Greek), as well as from googling the mottos in October 2006. Description by Dayna Lytwyn/Osten Sahulka (February 2024) and Christy Henry.