Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute - Spectrum Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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L. to r. — Betty Thiessen, Sadie Dueck, Leona Loewen, Helen Enns, Dorothy Rempel, Katie H. Enns, Tina Konrad, Katie Enns, Katie Froese (standing). With spring the time is drawing closer when we will have to part. We have come to feel like sisters and will certainly miss each other’s company in summer. Living to¬ gether we have learned to know each other and understand each other far better than we ever could have in school. We have also shared many precious hours of fellowship in our evening devotions. With nine girls in the four rooms you can imagine that it is as busy as a beehive from early morning till eleven when the lights are supposed to be out. The typical day at the dormitory begins at 6:30 for the Enns girls who eat breakfast at the College. By the time they are back from breakfast some others may be awake. They tot¬ ter around in various stages of sleepiness and make resolutions to go to bed earlier next night. There is the smell of burning toast and we all know Katie is having breakfast. By now most of the rooms are the scene of mad last-minute preparations. Amid the scramble an alarm clock suddenly rings. Somebody has really been catching up on beauty sleep. By ten to nine, however, the dormitory is quiet again. At four o’clock, exhausted from a day’s work, we drag our heavy feet upstairs. When we come up, though, somehow our weariness vanishes and we all gather in one room, dis¬ cussing the day’s events. Around five there is a scramble for the kitchen and we start pre¬ paring supper. The diminutive kitchens can hardly hold the active preparations. At seven o’clock we settle down for a few hours of hard concentration on our homework. There is one event which must be mention¬ ed — the installation of the telephone. What excitement that aroused! At first it was such a novelty that we phoned up our friends almost every day. This year at the dormitory has been an eventful and happy one and I am sure we will all look back to it with pleasure. Dorothy Rempel. 43

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Back row (I. to r.): Levi Goertzen, Henry Janzen, Harry Janzen, Peter Peters, William Dyck, Albert Reime.r, John Peters, Leonard Mann, Jake Wiebe, Helmut Peters, Walter Faik, John Klassen. Middle row (1. to r.): Ruth Neufeld, Rose Wall, Helen Epp, Helen Dyck, Luise Wall, Anne Spenst, Greti Klassen, Irene Wieler, Augusta Voth, Anne Voth, Martha Regehr. Front row (1. to r.): Marianne Unruh, Lorraine Regehr, Helen Neufeld, Bertha Pauls, Grace Neufeld, Mr. Doerksen, Martha Kroeker, Mary Enns, Katie Enns, Hedy Dyck, Katie Dueck. The concert choir can be regarded as a traditional institution in the M.B.C.I. curri¬ culum. The choir this year consists of 30 enthusiastic students, mainly from grade XI and XII. We are sorry that several of our best singers are not back this year, which is perhaps the reason why we are not the winning rival of the original choir. Nevertheless we all find joy and satisfaction in singing. Every group has its favorites, and some of ours are: “Crossing the bar”, “Lerchengesang”. and “There is a Balm in Gilead”. It was the privilege of the group to visit various churches. There were: the Sounth-End Church in Win¬ nipeg, and the country churches like Niverville, Elm Creek, Morden, and Domain. At all places the choir experienced a warm reception. We hope that the programs contributed to the promotion of friendship between the home and the school, and that through them we have acquired new students. The motive of these programs was to in¬ troduce the new mennonite “Gesangbuch”, and to have spiritual fellowship. The program consisted of lectures by Mr. Schellenberg and Mr. Regehr, and songs suited to the content of the message. The choir thanks their conductor Mr. Doerksen, to whom the success of the choir is due and their faithful pianist, Helen Epp. We also thank the “Unterstiitzungsverein”, for contributing to the school a Gestetener Multigrapher. This enabled us to multiply our song sheets, and thereby add to our store of melodies. We wish the next year’s choir as much success as we have had. William Dyck.

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1) Supper with Dorothy and Leona. 2) Homework for the Enns sisters. 3) “Bald, ja bald, o schon...” 4) Cakes and cokes make a lovely party. 5) Christmas banquet with the Penners. 44