Riverbend School for Girls - Vox Fluminis Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Page Three VOX FL UMINIS My Dear Girls : I am writing to you looking out over the river which gives its name both to the school and to our magazine, and, of course, as always, I think how short a time it is since I last wrote to you and how little things have changed. And then I turn my head and see our tall new building, which was only a dream this time last year, and I realize that a great deal has changed and that we have really had a closely packed twelve months. This new building, which we have not yet named, has been certainly the greatest thing which has happened during the year. How miraculous seemed its growth and how much it has meant to us! We certainly owe a very deep debt of gratitude to our Board of Governors and particularly to the energy and generosity of our chairman without which it would not have been possible. That is another change. During the year we have become incorporated by provincial charter and I may no longer speak of trustees for they have become governors To return to the story of our building 3 and a short story it is. VVhen I left in June it was only a large hole in the ground. When I came back in August I saw a green roof showing above the trees and wondered as I drove up from the station what it was. As I frightened the workmen by climbing up the ladders to watch its progress, however, I never dreamed that we should really move in when school opened in the second week in September. Yet the first day of school we had prayers in our new assembly hall and used our new classrooms. How lovely these classrooms looking over our river have been, only those who use them every day can knowg and the gymnasium can really only be appreciated by those who trudged in the wet last year. How proud I was of it and of you at our concerts and at the Rupert's Ifand basketball matches! One sad change has taken place. The death of Lady Aikins, widow of our founder, has grieved us all. But let us be glad that we have the memory of her gracious presence at our first school closing, when she presented our prizes in June. I spoke at first of our new building, but those of you who have taken history with me will, I hope, remember the story of the Oxford don, who, when asked by a tourist to show her the University, replied: Madam, I am the University. The mediaevel tradition was right in this-that no insti- tution can be greater than the people who compose it. Thus Oxford is great, not chiefiy because of her beautiful buildings, but because of her great men-and now may we add women? In your hands, therefore, the spirit, the real and most important part of the school rests, and to you with all confidence I give its keeping. Yours affectionately, JOAN M. V. FOSTER, Principal.