Qu Appelle Diocesan School - Noster Annus Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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Wo hear that: JOAN SKINNER - is taking a business course at Balfour Technical School. KATHY JACKSON - is at Regina College. MARILYN BLOTT - is at Regina College. PAYE ANDERSON - is at Cupar High School. PAT MIKENAS ' - marriage date is May 16. VERNA HOPPER - is now Mrs. J. Savchuk, married Dec. 6, 1958. JEAN BOWES - is taking a business course at Balfour Technical School. BEVERLEY DOLAN - is at Girvan High School. SONIA GUTTERIDGE - is at the University of B.C. BARBARA HOPKINSON - is at Teachers ' College in Winnepeg. AUDREY MOORE - is working at Simpsons- Sears. PHYLLIS OLAUSON - is training at Children ' s Hospital, Winnepeg. MAREN ANDRE - is in Victoria, B.C. BETTY CHRISTENSEN “ ig teaching in Meachen. JOYCE CHRISTIAN - is in the Grey Nuns. Hospital. ROSEMARY COLEMAN - is in the University of B.C. CAROLYN KING - is working in the library at Edmonton. YVONNE SKINNER - is at Regina College. JOAN SYKES - plans to enters R.C.A.F. DORIS CRAIGIE - is in the R.C.A.F. VIRGINIA ARNOLD - is married, and living at Uranium City. NIr and John Savchuck, DOREEN GRAYSON - is married, and living at Kitimat, B.C. (the former Verna Hopper), KATHRYN KAZMIRACK - is at Regina General Hospital. BARBARA KRUPP - is in Vancouver, B.C. JEANINE McMAHON - is at the University of Sask. DOROTHY SMITH - is nursing at Saskatoon. VALERIE WILSON - is at Regina General Hospital. JOANNE CAWSEY - is at the University of Sask. ISABEL JANES - is at the University Hospital, Saskatoon. MARGARET ROSE MATTHES - is nursing at Moose Jaw. DANA RODGERS - is at the University of Western Ont. IRENE RUTHERFORD - is in training at the General Hospital in Regina. BERYL WEPPLER - is married. SHIRLEY WILKIE - is in Kingston Military Hospital, Barriefield, Ontario. PENNY BROWN - is at the University of Sask.

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- A Letter from Beryl Stone - Auckland House School, Simla, India. October 15 58 Dear Friends, Today is the anniversary of the day I landed at Bombay, so I thought that I would share my feeling of anniversary with you, You have been in my thoughts and prayers for the Birthday on the 29th. The new gym sounds so exciting and I can imagine some of the differences it must make in your life. How well I can remember those long, cold walks to the Y.W. in the winter time when we used to return with stiff and frozen hairl Over here, I am still teaching the same old English grammar which is one of the few things which remains constant on both sides of the world, and surprisingly enough there is very little difference in the problems of teaching it. It is becoming quite chilly outside and inside as well and here we have no Mr. Kills and a bie oil-heater, therefore when it gets cold we just pile on more coal and hope that the end of term will come quickly so ' that we can go down to the warmer plains. The monsoon is finally over. It was verv prolonged this year and we had’ rain from the middle of June almost up to the end of September! There has been con¬ siderable flooding due to these rains and that means that some of the very essential crops will have been spoiled and there will be hungry people; there already are and prices go ud so very soon when greedy people realize that they can get high prices for scarce items which the people must have. Our School will close about the 5th of December when our final exams end. It does seem strange to me to start the new term in March and I did not feel right when I was teaching all through our summer at home! However, it does seem possible to have School open uo here during the winter as it does get cold and there is no real provis¬ ion for the cold in the wav of heating. Even in March it is quite chilly when you have just left the plains. The Himalayas are looking grand these days as they have just come out of their monsoon seclusion; they are hidden bv all the rain clouds for most of the monsoon but now the are looking verv white and clean and all ready for the first fall of snow; you can see some of the peaks verv clearlv and it is a great ioy to me every morning as I brush my teeth, I can look out on them - I do not think that there is a morning now that I do not look for them first! I think that morning impressions remain w ' th one quite clearlv as I can remember other nomine sights in ether different parts and even remember the smells and sounds which were peculiar to those pl aces; here the sound is that of the dhobie, or l asherman, banging the clothes on the stones; however earlv vou may be, he is already at work before you. They do not have warm water to wash their clothes in and everything is done by hand and so vou can imagine that thev get verv cold and for that reason dhobies In India are sup¬ posed to have a reputation for be ng heavy drinkers as they drink to keep their cir¬ culation going, but our Dhobie is a ver religious man, a Hindu, and he does not drink at all, nor smoke! We have the narcissus now which is a slm that winter is coming thev sav, and the scent of a bunch is filling mv room. T read our Qu ' Aopblle Crusader and was interested to read our Bishop ' s itinerary in England. I heard a Lambeth Service on the B.B.C. and him among other Bishops as thev came in prosess’on. I woiild be verv interested to see the School ' s year-book. We have some very interesting girls among us here - the latest addition comes from Ethiopia and she is a lovelv Christian girl; we have girls from Nepal, Maiava, and Burma and a good many Indian girls from Africa where their fathers carry on their business. And t en manv girls from the Punjab and other parts of India; it is a ' ■’■reat thing for me to meet all these different girls and thev bring something of their own lands and wa s to the School so that we fee-1 quite international. I think that you would be surprised to see how they know all about rock and roll and are verv keen on t e latest dance records and thev carrv on in their recreation t me in a way quite like vours, I t ' ink! Thev like the movies ver much, both Indian movies and American and the- ' ' - know much more about the movie heroes than I do! And now m heat are netting chi]]- ' ' - and so T will go and warn them -in m bath and then do some markin ' work before bed. This brines mv love and greetings to vou all, Bervl Stone. 35

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