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

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VOX FL U MAI N I S Page Fourteen At our first meeting, held May 4th, we voted for officers. Those elected were Morna Kenny, President, Iris Norman, Secretary, Mary Harris, Vice-President and VVinnifred Ruth Maclntyre, Treasurer. , The aim of the Society is to teach the girls appreciation for animals. A Poster Competition is being held, the winners of which will receive marks for their houses, but owing to the fact that the club has started so 1'ecently,,there has not been much time for other activities. We know that after its enthusiastic beginning, the club will be a success. A -Agnes Richardson, Grade VIII. A 'fe' , 1 - L, fi' I C 4. Q .lj 3 1: . .K f.-2 11.1 - - , 2' - , , , KINDERGARTEN Puff! Pulfl Up the grade of learning comes the merry, clattering Kindergarten train, carefully piloted by the engineer, Mrs. Campbell. ' Now for the passengers-fair haired, bonny Bill Guy, blue eyed John and his wee sister, curly haired Danny and Marilyn, roguish but loving Giovana and Donald and then the old reliables, Marianne, Mary Elizabeth, Sherry, Eleanor and Elspeth and lastly, Molly, who is the late comer. What is in the baggage car-rosy cheeked harvest apples, Hallowe'en cats, Christmas cards, valentines, shamrocks, etc.-a whole year's work. Now our journey is nearly ended and we can all look back on the many happy hours we have spent together. a

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Page Thirteen VOX F L UM I NI S --..--....-...-........ .... ........-.......... .... .............. .......... .... ......... .................... ....... . ........-......- The girl who sits in me was Alice in the play, but her real name is Louise, said a desk in the front row. Another desk remarked that it was filled with pretty drawings of girls which were were drawn by its owner, Julia. The desk by the back door said very proudly, Iris, who is the games captain, owns me. . Proof ! that's nothing, said a desk in the centre of the room, My owner is Caroline who is the class representative. The desk behind it said, My owner groans at the first period on Monday morning. I wonder why P The reason that Mary Rose groans, explained the blackboard, is because the first period is Grammar. My, I am uncomfortable, said another desk. Why ? asked a desk in the front row whose owner was Marjorie. I am so full of samples which Pat is collecting. I-Ier twin, Peggy, collects samples too, sighed the desk in the opposite corner. Another desk in the front row said, My owner Margaret, is very kind to me but her legs are so long that she doesn't fit me.', ' A desk near the side blackboard said, I belong to Phyllis, who always disturbs me by talking when Iwant to take a nap. n A desk near the window said, My owner's very nice, what I see of her, but she is always late for classes and when she gets there I am almost pulled to pieces by her search for the right book. You know her, Louie. The bell rang and the desks' voices were drowned out by the voices of the girls of whom they had been talking. LIBRARY CLUB Grades V. and VI. have Library Club meetings every Friday at four o'clock. VVe have just finished a very exciting story called The Children of the New Forestf, We all settle ourselves comfortably in arm chairs. We sometimes quarrel over a blue arm chair which is very comfortable. Some of us sit in front of the fireplace. We spend half an hour every week in this cosy room. It is one of my favorite periods. , -Barbara South. Grade V. THE JUNIOR HUMANE SOCIETY This spring a new club made its appearance at Riverbend, in the Junior Humane Society. It has been started in the public schools in VVin- nipeg and this year it has been started here in Grades Two to Eight.

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Page Fifteen VOX FLUMINIS NATURE STUDY OUR BIRDS When spring comes, with it arrives many of our feathered friends who have spent the long winter in various countries. Among the first arrivals that are attracted to Riverbend's beautiful grounds are the robin, the flicker and the junco. Then a little later we find the oriole, a blaze of color, and sometimes if ,we are fortunate, we might catch a glimpse of the scarlet tanager. Around the latter part of May, we may distinguish during the day, the songs of the brown thrasher, cat bird, rose-breasted grosbeak, and all the numerous summer warblers. Very often, the tiny humming bird is attracted to our bushes of lilacs and other flowers. The road towards the Lower Fort Garry which follows the Red River, gives glimpses of numbers of water birds such as the cormorants. many varieties of ducks, gulls and flocks of geese which are all on their journey north. Beside swamps, which are also passed on the road, we often see the red-winged blackbird and its lively relation, the yellow headed black- bird. Gn reaching the Lower Fort, many more opportunities to find birds nesting in several places reveal themselves. Une time, my friend and I found a phoebe's nest on a rafter of an old buildingg in it were four eggs which hatched later on in the summer. She nests there every year. Our summer is short in Manitoba, and this year, spring is very late, which means also that the birds are two weeks later in arriving. But in spite of the weather, it is said that we have a much larger show of bird life than many places. -Ruth Wood. Grade IX. LIFE HISTORY OF A BEAR There is a big black bear out at the park who has a brown muzzleg this year she has two young cubs who are both black like herself. If these cubs were wild, they would go around with their mother and she would teach them how to live. After that she would chase them away to live as best they could by themselves. They would make their home in rocks and would hunt for ants and other such insects found in rotten trees. They like berries very much and fishing is a delightful way in which they spend many hours. Bears look very clumsy but there is nothing swifter than their big paws and when the bears get angry they become very unpleasant.