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

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Page Eleven VOX FL UMINIS Athletics at Riverbend play an important part in the daily life of the school, and the afternoon games periods offer a splendid variety of activities. September saw the grounds dotted with girls practising for Field Day. High jump, broad jump, baseball throw and dashes kept every- one busy, until an early snow drove us indoors, and postponed the meet until the spring. November brought the beginning of the basketball season, and gym classes were well underway. Deep snow in December made tobogganing and skiing on the river banks the popular sports, and basketball continued in the gym. In January inter-class basketball matches were played, and outside the rink was gay with skaters, at all hours of the day. We even boasted a hockey team for a time-unsteady-but enthusiastic! February and March were given over to hard work for the gym dis- play, the effort being well repaid on the night of March 24th. May I say how proud I was of you all. The highlights of April were the Riverbend-Rupert's Land basketball games, in which the First and Second Teams divided the honors with Rupert's Land, and made a fitting close to the basketball season. And now we are outdoors again-and baseball and bicycles are the order of the day. Soon tennis and archery will claim our attention. and so we finish our year of sports-with a feeling of something accomplished and another year to look forward to! -Miss Gwendolyn Bowman. THE GYM DISPLAY If you had happened to be in Riverbend School any time during the day of March 24th, you would have noticed an atmosphere of suppressed excitement, and in one or two cases it wasn't exactly suppressed. The teachers themselves seemed to have the Oh I wish it was over air and slowly but surely you yourself would have become very curious to know what it was all about. At last you would inquire and the person you asked would give you an injured look and reply The gym display-tonight- didn't you know ? The morning and afternoon dragged slowly for the girls, who alternately dreaded and hoped the evening would come.

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VOX F L UMINIS Page Ten .... ........ ,.......... ...... . . . ..... --.....-... ..... . ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,-U., GRADUATION At the end of every school year at Riverbend, which is generally in june, the many girls clad in white, assemble for the closing exercises. Each year special attention is paid to the girls in Grade Eleven who are graduat- ing. For the majority of them it is the last year at Riverbend, and the ceremony that accompanies graduation is one full of solemnity and senti- ment. It is not merely the long white dresses that they wear, nor the bouquets of roses which they carry, that create these feelings, it is the thought of leaving school, school friends and school associations for other pursuits that provides this atmosphere. Some of the girls have been attend- ing Riverbend ever since it was instituted four years ago, and the school has come to be almost a part of their lives. Among all the graduates there is not one girl who will leave the school without some regret. For although all school girls may say they dislike school, when it comes to leaving it they are surprised to find they are doing so with some sadness. It will be hard to realize, when graduating, that we have reached the end of our real school days, for whatever we may do afterwards, whether it be university, boarding school or going abroad, it will not be like our former school days. When we have once left Riverbend we will never be able to enter it on the same level again. The girls who were young when we were there will be growing up, and many little things will be changed. That is why we view our coming graduation with both happiness and sadness, loath to leave our school. yet looking forward to what the future may hold for us. with great expectancy. -Frances Aikins, Grade XI. THE COUNCIL qLeft to Rightjz Back Row-Mary Walston CSchool Captainj, Betty Moxan CGrade VIILJ, Vivian Keeler CGrade VII., Vice-Pres.J, Margaret Aldous CGra.de IXJ, Grace McCurdy fGrade XJ Front Row-CPrefectsJ Betty Neal, Grace Clark CGrade XLJ, Peggy Carlisle, Frances Aikins.

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l VOX FLUMINIS Page Twelve ..........-...-.-......-..-...-.............-......-.... ..-...--..-............................ At last 7.45 came and the girls began making their appearance at the school. At eight o'clock it started and as' each class went up whispered good lucks were given them by those whose turn had yet to come. The Kindergarten and Grades I. and II. had gone through their marching and Grades III. and IV. were playing their games when the call came for the senior group for apparatus. Each girl as she waited for her turn secretly hoped and prayed it would not be she who slipped or made a mistake. Grades VII., VIII. and IX. patiently waiting, could be heard mumbling Up, down, 1, 2 3,,' or instructions to that effect because no one relished the idea of being out of count when doing Danish gymnastics. The Grades V. and VI. went up next to do their folk dances and Grade X., while waiting, tried their strength for their tumbling and pyramids. The Grades XI. and XII.. calm and composed, as was becoming to the senior grades, waited, feeling confident their Swedish gymnastics would not go amiss. The tap dancers went up next and when the strains of the Side VValks of New York were waited down to us we lined up for our grand finale. All had gone well, the atmosphere changed to one of relief and satis- faction and if you should have chanced to inquire why it had changed, the person you asked would look at you in disgust and say The gym display- over-didn't you see it ? -Inas George, Grade X. .1 1 W. Y? FIRST AND SECOND BASKETBALL TEAMS fLeft to Rightlz' Back Row-Marion McCurdy, Kay Hall, Mary McLean, 'Mabel Stewart, Betty Neal, Marnie Austin, Ariel Anderson, Grace Clark CCaptain, 2nd Teamj. Middle Row-Jane Whyte, 'Peggy Carlisle, Betty Dailley CCa.ptain, lst Teamj, Carla Lehmann, Inas George. Front Row-Frances Aikins, Rtuth 'Baldry, Miss Bowman, Grace McCurdy, Eleanor Flatt.