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

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Four JOAN M. V. FOSTER

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Page Three VOX FLUMINIS Sept. 13th: Oct. 3ra': Oct. 4th: Oct. 28th: Nov. 3rd: Nov 10th: Nov 17th: N0v.'22rid Dee. lst: Dec. Sth: Dee. 20th: fan. 19th: fart. 27th: Feb. 5th: Feb. 7th: Feb. 14th: Feb. 23rd: Feb. 27th: Feb. 28th: Mar. 9th: April 19th: April 20th April 23rd: April 24th M'ay 7th: . TI-IE SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1933-1934 VVe trooped back to school. The prefects. Grace McCurdy, Mary Cowan, Marnie Austin and Mabel Stewart were appointed. Sports Day. The Senior cup was won by Grade XI., the Junior cup by Grade VII. We held our Hallowe'en party and had skits by the different grades. The House System was established and each house held its first meeting. We held our Armistice Service. Mrs. Herklots spoke on disarmament. The Junior School had an indoor sports day. The French Club was honored by a visit from Madame Zimmern. We presented Twelfth Night. a great success. A We had an outdoor I-Ilouse Party and had refreshments afterwards. We wrote our last exam and then sang carols lustily for an hour. Mr. Shaw gave us a lecture on Dr. Drummond. The Alumnae held a silver tea. The Houses received the names of York Hall. Douglas Hall and Garry Hall. We held our annual swimming meet at the Y.W.C.A. VVe celebrated Valentine's Day by having heart-shaped things for lunch. 3 The Junior School presented Alice in Wonderland, with great success. Open Day. Our parents came to see us taught. Gur basketball teams played Ruperts Land's. VV e were victorious. The Gym Display. Great excitement! Q The Senior Glee Club sang in the Festival. The Intermediate Glee Club sang in the Festival. The badminton finals were played off. Inas George won the singles and she and Mary Cowan won the doubles. Miss Gertrude Rutherford spoke to Grades X.. XI.. and XII. Arbor Day. We planted tive evergreen trees. Enthusiasm displayed by juniors over new sand-pit.

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Page Five VOX FLUMINIS PRINCIPAL 'S LETTER A Riverbend Spring, 1934. My dear Girls, This is, as you know, the last letter which I shall write to you as your Principal. Five years ago, when I wrote the first letter in your magazine I linked the first and last times of any action as being of special significance, quoting to you De Quincey's saying that we never do anything consciously for the last time without regret. Regret is there because the last time must always be an end, bringing with it a certain sadness for that reason alone, but in this case it is too mild a term for the very real sorrow which I feel in leaving so many of those. both old girls and present girls, whom I have come in the last five years to regard with so much affection. I think I may say without conceit that the fact that I am leaving you brings to an end one phase both in the life of Riverbend and in my own life and I want therefore to state the qualities which I have hoped would develop as special characteristics in this school which you and I have built together. I should like it to stand for solid, stable things-for hard work, for a sound academic standard, for honesty and clarity of thought. for sincerity of character and purpose. These are plain, homespun virtues. perhaps, not appealing at once to the eye, but they are amongst those things whose worth increases with the passage of time, when others, possibly of a greater superficial attractiveness, will have faded. You have come to expect of me a review of the year's events and even in as solemn a letter as this I want to refer to the formation of our houses. which now after much thought and discussion we have called after three fortresses of the early history of Manitoba-York. Garry and Douglas. I consider the introduction of this system to be a very important development and I hope that through your friendly rivalry and your loyalty to your hall, you may learn a greater loyalty to the school as a whole. I ani not going to say good-bye. Life in the strange way that it has. will no doubt bring many of you into touch with me again and in any case I shall always watch the school and each one of you individually with real interest as your friend. So I shall say in closing only farewell -may you travel on in prosperity and happiness. As always, Yours affectionately, ICA-N M. V. FOSTER. Principal.