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

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VOX FLUMINIS g Page Two f FOREWORD 'if' Vox F luminis is now three years old 5 old enough to talk and have a mind and ways of its own. N It is not quite so fat a child as a year ago, butlthat may easily be ex- plained in these days of economy. Its tongue prattles sturdily. May its voice awaken happy echoes among a growing circle of Riverbenders past and present. r

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VCX FLUMINIS RIVERBEND SCHCCL FUR GIRLS

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Page Three V OX F L U M I N I .Si ' Riverbend, Spring, 1932. My dear Girls, This is the third birthday of Vox Fluminisf' and to it I send my most sincere good wishes for a very successful career and many happy returns of its publishing day. The appropriateness of its name has only been em- phasized by time. Once more, ffor the third time lj I am writing to you by the side of the river, which has given it to you--a proof if one were needed, of how much it does mingle in our voice as the background of our work and play, both winter and summer. It would perhaps be a rather far-fetched allegory to compare the work of our magazine itself with that done by a river, and yet in studying the influence which geography has had upon man's history it is always pointed out that rivers serve as connecting highways for the settlements upon their banks. In the same way Vox Fluminis gathers within its pages and groups for us the events of the year. On the whole I think we may say they have been happy, joyous events and of much interesting variety. We have here the record of those things which happen every week--swimming, riding, the Glee Club, those things which take place for ourselves alone-such as the inter-class basketball matches, the concert which the Princess Patricia's Band gave for us, our picnics, and then those great events to which we invite visitors-our Closing, the Christmas concert, the Sports Day. I do think, however, that they have one thing in common-at them all we have enjoyed ourselves. I shall not describe them. You have done so in the pages which are to follow, bringing out their spontaneous pleasure much better than I could do The Magazine, and wefbecause of it, owe a very deep debt of gratitude for the work done by the gifted Editor-in-Chief of these three numbers, Miss Mackereth. It is with a real sense of our loss that I tell you, what most of you know already, that next year Vox Fluminis will be of neces- sity in other hands, as Miss Mackereth plans to be married in the summer. I know that you join with me in wishing her every happiness in her new life. I Once more let me bring this letter to a close by extending to you all my most affectionate good wishes. Perhaps you will allow me to mention especially this year's Grade XI., the first matriculation class to have been with us during its whole high school career, and for whom therefore I should like to wish the best of success, both in the immediate and in the more distant future. To you all equally, however, I sign myself with real meaning, Yours affectionately, JOAN M. V. FOSTER, Principal.