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

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Editorial Staff Editor MARGARET ALDOUS E Committee AL1soN WARNER N FERNE CAIRNS , ' - ISOBEL HUTCHISON WILLA HARVEY ' Class Representatives EDNA PINFOLD A LYDIA KLREIN LOUIE LEISTIKOW IRIS NORMAN ROBERTA McQUEEN ' BARBARA SOUTH SHIRLEY PINEQLD

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VCX FLUMI I EDITED BY THE PUPILS OF RIVERBE-:ND SCHOOL RIVERBEND SCHOOL FOR GIRLS WINNIPEG

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Page Three VOX FLUMINIS i Editorial HEN we were not so very young we blissfully supposed that editing would be heaps of fun. Cf course -we knew nothing about it because we were only class representatives then and our job was to come to meetings when we were asked to, make suggestions now and again when we could think of them, and most important of all, get contributions from our classmates. It has been said that all is fair in love and war and we would like to add editing-coax, threaten. plead, Hatter, do anything to make people write. Wfe started out to edit the magazine full of enthusiasm and with a wonderful theory about making the magazine more interesting by asking the girls to write the kind of thing that they would want to read. Getting contributions was, we thought, just a matter of giving a few pep talks to the class representatives and then keeping at them till they handed in the work. Having had the job ourselves, we knew that theirs would be no easy task but we had struggled with it so long that We also knew it was not quite impossible if only we persevered. VV e decided that editing, like Christmas shopping, is 'best done early so we were going to have our literary efforts all sorted out before the Easter holidays. Were we? We soon found that we were not, the class representatives were sorry, very sorry, but their classes wouldn't write, and strangely enough, our own class wouldn't write either. This was a bit disconcerting, but since everyone seemed to agree that if only she could have some of the holidays when she was :no longer haunted by that awful apparition, homework, she could and would write. There was nothing else to do so we gave everyone a week of the holidays in which to become writers. At the end of the week we went back to school, we had pestered our own grade over the telephone and the result of this was meagre enough, but from the rest of the school we received-one poem! No more, no less! A bit discouraged we set to work to make the best of what we had. Hours of reading literary efforts followed, and finally out of the chaos came what we thought were the most suitable compositions arranged in some sort of order. The pictures were taken and the cuts made. and now at last as we write this it is all at the printers. Wihe-n you read this you will have your magazine in your hand. Possibly we have not arranged it as you would have done. but we would like you to understand that we can neither make nor mar the magazine, Vox Flumfinis is what you make it and we think that too few of you realize this. Somehow most of you imagine that if you scribble one story or poem, not necessarily your best work, you have done your share. You haven'tl and until everyone does her best V ox Fluminis will never be the magazine we would like it to be. For you there is another year and we hope that next year our dream magazine will be your reality. But even if this Vox Fluminis is not all we had hoped to make it, still we were right when we thought editing would be fun.