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

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Page Eleven VOX FLUMINIS -.-.....................--. ..... .-. -... ............... -...-.-..... ............. ......... A GRADE NINE ACROSTIC In Riverbend Grade Nine of '33 and '34 Nine 'teen-age girls there are, of whom you should know more Remember always though, that what they are is due In large degree to those from whom their minds imbue Virtues good and learning. Miss Foster, and, in truth Each and every member of the staff forsooth Royal tribute and sincere, from us all deserve Both for devotion and for patience with our nerve. E're passing on and for you writing of ourselves, Nothing gives greater satisfaction to us elves. Dear friends, than to mention that our form mistress is Miss Beatrice Wilson. Now then, Gwen, tall, curvy, charming, a sweet girl for your dreams Religiously reads all the movie magazines Antidote for science, levers and machines. Dossie, slender, Winsome, with dark and curly hair, Excels in Twelfth Night as an amateur player. Next there's Maurine, whose home is in Saskatchewan - Industrious, nice, and a pianist of distinction. Note also Edna, attractive, jolly and hearty. Entertained us all at a tally-ho party. On Betty, class president, with all a favorite Fortune has lavished good qualities in surfeit. 3 more and your poet remain to be painted 3 more and your poet and then we're acquainted. All eyes then on Shirley, the girl with the fine smile Nearly every game she can play in grand style. Dwell two on Ruth and june both very worth while 4 particulars of your poet, Come up and see me sometime ! -Eleanor Maclnnes. 1

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Tan - EWS, - A PROPHECY FOR 1944 In her evening paper, Matron Elizabeth fDocj MacKay of the---- Qrphan Asylum, read the following social item: ' Miss M. Floyd Stephens is arriving in the city . Saturday morning en route to Edmonton. The next morning she hurried through the station looking for the tall silver-haired teacher of her Riverbend School days. Seeing Miss Floyd Stephens in the distance, she hurried up to her. n Soon the conversation turned to Miss Floyd Stephen's first Riverbend class, the Grade X. of 1934. i And what has happend to all your classmates, Betty ? VVell briefly- Aldy has married an Englishman, Lord Percival Perkins and has a small son, NVilly. She is living in England. I suppose you know that one of the leading Hollywood stars, Fran- cesca Tone, is really Monica Cave. Fernie is on the stage too. starring in musical comedies. In Katie married a multi-millionaire but she is now a gay young divorcee. XVilla is as good as ever at languages. She has high hopes of becom- ing a foreign secretary. Hutchie is in charge of a United Church mission in China and is doing excellent work converting heathens. Micurdy is now the proud possessor of a husband, one of the sweetest little bungalows you ever saw, and. last but not least, twins who are just learning to walk. i You'vei probably heard Nancy announcing over the radio, she has replaced Foster Hewitt on the General Motors Hockey Broadcast. ' VV ally has fulfilled her age-old ambition to be a grammar teacher. She is on the Riverbend staff now. And that's everybody, isn't it ? But you haven't told me anything about yourself yet, Betty. There isn't much to tell. I've been working in an orphan asylum ever since I graduated in nursing. Well, ejaculated Miss Floyd Stephens, I certainly never could have guessed ten years ago what those girls would be doing now!

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Twelve CLASS EVENTS 6' WE ARE SEVEN Seven loyal Eighth-Graders Full of fancy tricks, Winnifred laughed in Glee Club, Then there were six. Six loyal Eighth-Graders Very much alive, Vivian lost her Latin book, Then there were five. Five loyal Eighth-Graders Standing near the door, Morna broke the window glass Then there were four. Four loyal Eighth-Graders Climbing up a tree, Lydia saw an inch worm, Then there were three. Three loyal Eighth-Graders With nothing much to do, Pat was sent to wash her face, Then there were two. Two loyal Eighth-Graders Trying to make a pun, Betty made a sad mistake, Then there was one. One loyal Eighth-Grader Knitting in the sun, Agnes went a-wool gathering, Then there was none. AFTER 4.30 P.M. IN THE GRADE VII. ROOM Well, said one desk to another, one evening, How peaceful and quiet it is, now that all the girls have left us for a while.', Yes,', answered another desk, it is peaceful, but I shall be glad to see them back again tomorrow, it is certainly interesting to watch them all, and see their various doings each day during the school yearf, Do you remember the time when the girls did the Alice in Vlfonder- land play P asked one desk. Yes, I remember seeing queer-looking people, who were characters of the play, hurrying here and there, answered the blackb-oard.