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

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VOX FLUMINIS 17 How do you do, Miss Carter? CShe still has the same old pep.J Here We are over in the school building. These classrooms are certainly not much like they Were when We used to be in them. Just look at those uniforms-blue cellophane. That's all right for this time of year. 'That voice sounds familiar. You say that little girl is June Edmison's granddaughter? I remember the days we used to stand around singing Get Along Little Doggie and June was ring-leader. So this is the new swimming pool. What we vvouldn't have given for that in our young days. Well do I remember all the plans We used to make for one. Where are those girls going? -Flying. Oh, yes, this is Wednes- day afternoon. And that's Morna Kenny's grandchild going riding. She inherited that love for horses, eh? . Do you have many boarders, Miss Carter? You say there are no boarders, they all fly to school every morning from Where they are. That's nice for them. It eliminates a lot of lonesomeness. It frees you from a lot of trouble, too, no doubt. Did you hear that Wee one over there reminding her class about bringing money? The school may change its appearance but the some old traits outlive the years! MAURINE STUART, '36, ' York Hall.

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16 VOX FLUMINIS golden-brown coat had two black stripes down the middle of it! Johnnie tried everything to remove the stripes--Bon Ami, patent corn cures, soap and water-all to no avail. The stripes would not disappear and there they remain until this day. . JoYcE J oHNsToN, '40, A Douglas Hall. THE STAR Vibrant star out in the west, Silver dew-drop from the sea, Put in heaven by nature's artist Just to look down here at me. I Even tho' the dark surrounds you, And at dawn you fade away. I imagine you are dancing, Dancing, on your merry way. Come back tomorrow evening, In all your silver sheen, And tell me of your travels, And things I've never seen. - LoU1E LE1sT1Kow, '38, York Hall. RIVERBEND FORTY YEARS -HENCE HERE I sit a confirmed old maid of fifty-four propelling this dear little gyro of mine in the vicinity of Winnipeg. I just happened to be looking through some of my old diaries the' other day and the ones of 1935 and 1936 reminded me of those good old days back at Riverbend in Winnipeg, so I decided to come back and have a look at the place. Here we are-not bad time, five hundred miles an hour. They have a few additions since the days I was here. How time slips by. 4'Could I look around your school, please? Why, yes, of course. Would you like to see Miss Carter? Miss Carter! By all meansll' , What's this I see! Why the dear old school has turned modern. All these fixtures are quite the newest thing and the furniture- well, I say, I wish I had a few of our old class back here to see the place. . It sounds as if someone was tearing down those stairs at an awful rate. Everything for speed these days. Well, blow me down, as Pinny used to say, if it wasn't---.

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18 VOX FLUMINIS SONGS WITHOUT QTHEIRD WORDS WILLA HARVEY Little, but independent, Ella's our own President, And a very competent Library Assistant. DOROTHY MCLAREN It's her old Saskatchewan custom When she's walking on her feet To put her toes before her Don't you think that's kind of sweet? FRANCES TEAKLES Sweet and low And with glances, Sorry I can't Hear you Frances. ISOBEL I-IUTCHISON They asked me how I knew That my rhymes were true, I to them replied Of mockings here inside Told me they'd have to do. DOROTHY FORSYTH The mischief goes 'round 'n 'round And she pops up here, On the first pun you sit down Her jokes are all renowned- You'1l hear more of them, I fear. MARGARET ROSS Can a little child like men Have some coffee or some tea? No, oh, no, but milk will do And some chocolate biscuits, too! ' 1. .. v 1 -A , ', -. ' JY' r 1 u, ' A-,fi I W p c 'A 1, efn '41- uf' .JW