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

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Page Tlzirty-one V OX FL UMINIS A GRADE IX. CLASIS NOTES This is the Riverbend Broadcasting System, station N-I-N-E, bring- ing to you a resume of the events of one blue Monday morning in the Grade Nine class-room. First Period, Science. Miss MacDougall enters. Come along girls. Hurry up and get settledf' and the day has begun. X , Half an hour later she is leaning exhausted against the radiator, try- ing tokeep a listless class instructed in the principles of floatation. She begins to dictate Archimedes, principles, starting, When a body- and Lydia absent-mindedly finishes- meets a body coming through the rye. Luckily for Lydia the bell rings. 4 Second Period, Hygiene. Ten minutes after the bell Miss Rutherford trips in, and begins to teach them something they should have learned iin Grade VI. Every few minutes she goes to the board to illustrate some point, during which time the diligent students play catch across the room with a jack ball. Third Period. Miss Montgomery ambles in for French. By this time a general boredom has settled over the room, and numerous yawns are being unsuccessfully suppressed. Miss Montgomery proceeds to talk on indefintely about the apostrophe in Hgrand' mere while the sleep-y class watches the snow melt. When the quick steps of a Grade Eleven are heard hurrying to the bell, a smile of vague pleasure illuminates the faces of the girls, and they rush out to milk and biscuits. Twenty minutes later Miss Gregory enters. to find an exciting game of jacks in progress about to go on indefinitely. But eventually they are settled again, and the fourth period wears slowly away. Miss Erith comes in for the last period, the class rises, then sinks wearily down again thinking, 0nly forty minutes more till lunch. Soon Miss Erith is droning away at that most fascinating of books, Robinson Crusoe. By this time all efforts, on the part of the class. of assuming i-nterest are abandoned, and Pat, safe behind Betty, shamelessly writes a letter, while Marilyn sits in the corner huddled up in her blazer, and pokes Pat every few mi-nutes entreating her in a hoarse whisper to close the windows and turn on the heat. Agnes and Morna in the opposite corner are dili- gently drawing sketches of nothing in particular. Betty tries to look politely interested, but fails miserably and keeps asking Agnes for the time. while VVinnifred 'behind a pile of books, gets most of her homework done. Vivian amuses herself by fussing with Lydia's hair, soo-n exhaust- ing the patience of her victim, who, after a disgusted glare at Vivian, moves her desk forward out of reach, and continues to stare vacantly around the room.

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CLEJSTO if' i :J .Q-sr! Lil -W 'Wert .. !,. ...-. Y . I O .- ll I li ji i S If sa - I '11 I i fs Hi Q 5 2 l C: l I' 0 HEI i 3 lil gil S H x fx ual HQ ll I 2- 92 GRADE X. Grade ten is the class with lots of pep, Grade ten is the class with the lively step. XV e are a happy, carefree bunch, Perhaps too carefree, I've a hunch. Betty is our president dear, On her we rely too much, l fear. Maurine. the pianist of our class Halls from Saskatchewan, a bon V v lass. rl: June. the girl who's full of fun, Always is ready to pull a pun. Dossie, the Sec. of Douglas Hall Answers nobly to the Call. Yvonne, our friend, who's slim a-nd tall, Is o-ne of our captains in basketball. Edna. who lives on Vifellington Crescent, Gained a point for always bei-ng present. n Ruth, a nice girl, who's by no means dumb, Always chews VVl'ligIC'j'S Spearmint Gum. Gwen, our pal, with her big, bold eyes. In the festival won a prize. Shirley. the girl with the winning smile, Is as jolly as can be all the while. Eleanor. the very smallest lass. Is the poet of our class. Miss Montgomery. our guide, and friend, U Has been but a year at Riverbend. Grade Ten

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Vox FL UMINIS Page Tztiffy-fam Suddenly the bell sounds and the half-sleepi-ng students come to life miraculously. By the time a relieved teacher has given out the homework, Betty and Wiiiiiifred have escaped inconspicuously out of the back door and are probably half-way home. The rest of the girls stagger out, think- ing-lunch!! But then their spirits drop again. Sewing all afternoon! A Did you hear that crash the other morning before prayers? That was Winnifred and Betty trying to move the piano, but they moved it the wro-ng way and had to spend the next ten minutes getting it upright and putting the keys in place. g We hope Vivian will forget her grammar troubles for a few weeks while she basks in the California sun. Lydia excelled herself in the Easter exams. by getting one hundred and three per cent in Latin. I Marilyn, known by her bouncing march, is this year's new additionto our class. She's a boarder. pea-green from Dryden. Agnes provides much entertainment to bored classmates by becoming hoarse and more hoarser while reading history. Pat recovered from a dangerous tonsil operation in time to attend the daince. The class stooge. in other words Morna, -spends most of her time getting chalk for Miss Gregory, and closing the door. XV e have spent this year under the iron rule and eagle eye of Miss Vtlilson. So far we are none the worse and possibly a little better. This is statio-n N-I-N-E signing off. XVe hope to return again next year as station T-E-N. WHO'S WHO IN GRADE VIII. VVho's the artist who draws so well, In fact her drawings are simply swell-- julia. VVho's the girl who's always giggling, XVorries the teachers with her wriggling- Ruth. XV ho five weeks did with us stay. And on the piano she does play- Marjorie. XVho's the girl who likes to walk. To ru-n. to jump. to eat and talk- J . Margaret. XVho's the jolliest in our class, Fair, and clever. what a lass- Caroline.