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

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4 VOX FLUMINIS lurincipafs .fetter Dear Girls: In this, the Coronation year, our thoughts are centred even more than usual on the subject of loyalty, In spite of great dis- tances and rather vague ideas about the might of Empire, we, as Canadians, find ourselves held by inexplicable bonds to the royal family and all it represents. Suppose we liken this loyalty to the crown to one of the ripples made by a pebble dropped in the quiet waters of your life-one of the outermost, I think, for it cannot exist without the presence of other and stronger ripples. The greatest of all your loyalties should be that to yourselves- to the best that is in you. Do you flatter other girls through a desire for popularity or do you tell the truth when necessary and keep quiet at all other times? Do you stoop to gossip and unkind remarks or do you remember always to do unto others as you would that they should do unto you ? Do you blindly follow the crowd or are you brave enough to stand up for what you know is right? This loyalty to your highest selves is the first ripple of all, and on its strength depends the number and power of all the others. You cannot really be true to yourselves without being true at the same time to the influence of your home and to the ideals of your parents. Whether you like it or not, strangers often judge your home and yourparents and your school by your behaviour. Are you being loyal to them in everything you do? If you are true to yourselves, you need have no fear for this second ripple. And if the first two are strong, the ever-broadening ripples-- loyalty to your class, to your school, to your country and to your Empire-will be correspondingly strong. f'But what can one person do? you ask. That is the question of a weakling-the class, the school, the country, even the vast Empire -each is composed of individuals, and the ripples made by one individual merge with and influence those made by another. Your business is to see that yours are the best and strongest possible. - To thine own self be true, H And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. In conclusion I would like to say how much I have admired the determination and business acumen displayed by your Editors. They have spared no effort to make this magazine a success, and I con- gratulate them on the result. Yours sincerely, J. MAY CARTER, Principal.

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VOX FLUMINIS 3 nun-,n-u,,n,,,,n,,,,u ,,,,,,1. I ' EDITORIAL STAFF E I I I sis I Editor-LYDIA KLEIN : . Committee: l AGNES RICHARDSON, Business Manager ' ' PEGGY CAMPBELL, CAROLINE HARRIS, MARJORIE MCKINNELL I : Class Representatives: E MAURINE STUART JANET EDGAR HELEN MCLEAN , CATHERINE BINGEMAN SHIRLEY PINFOLD ELEANOR SOUTH , I ,............,...,..,............................ ......................... gclztorzal HEN everything is arranged at last, and the magazine is ready to go to press, we look back on the work of the last few months and especially the hectic rush of the last few days, and wonder frankly how we ever did it. While we were writing up the unfor- tunately numerous last-minute articles which are considered abso- lutely essential to the magazine and which our fellow students had either refused to write or had conveniently Overlooked, we surprised ourselves with vocabularies 'of which, until then, we had been unaware, and variety we did not know we possessed. We realize this was owing to the stimulus produced by dire necessity, and to the fact that we did most of that writing between the hours of twelve and two a.m., experience having shown us that our ideas, such as they are, flow most freely during that time. However, we have a confession to make-a little thing that weighs upon our consciences for what'S left of themb. Until the editing of the magazine was thrust upon us, we considered our- selves honest and truth-loving citizens. Now we have come to the dubious conclusion that a little prevaricating is sometimes a good thing. This policy we first employed to our advantage during the collecting of advertisements. Not having the slightest idea our- selves as to the date of publication, we nevertheless announced with confidence to certain advertisers that' the magazine would be out the beginning of June, to others the middle of May, and to still others, the end of April. We can only hope that the final date will satisfy all concerned. And just here, we would like to thank those who have advertised with us and those students who were interested enough to co-operate in making this magazine what it is. We have really had a great deal of fun organizing the magazine and finding out what had to be done before it could be published. And now a word to our successors-the only advice we can offer you Cthough we feel we could write books on the subjectj is that which was offered to- us, which is offered to everyone, and which no one ever takes-begin early!

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VOX FLUMINIS 5 gllllllllllllIIIIIIILUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIlllllIIIIIIIIIIllllgllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Glass Wotcs allllIIlIIIlllllllllilllllllllllllIIlllllllllIllIIlIIIIIIIIlIllllllIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE EXIMUS fWith apologies to Oliver Goldsmith, and anyone else who feels insultedj Riverbend! sweetest school of all the plain, Where work and plenty of it, made the train Of maidens of the duodecim class Love thee not less, but leisure more,-alas! How often have we blest the sinking day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play. And yet to leave thee and thy rolling lawn To flee thy sports, to feel thy charms withdrawn, A prospect drear, far from thy staying hand To wander cloud-like through the ravished land. And our one joy that to return and view Where once our Sheff1e stood, our aspidistra grew. Our Sheffie ! how we knew her benign gaze So slow to chide, so very quick to praise, Yet righteous anger from her did we dread And listen, closely for her light deceptive tread, Oh! to relieve the puzzled was her pride, To tell which country was to which allied, And more than all the wisdom of the arts, The essence of young ladies to instil into our hearts. A maiden was she to our classroom dear, Maid Maurine, our president, in her fifteenth year, Her airy fairy fingers ever warmth expressed, As from our souls her music chased our care distressed And Beth devoted to the muses too, a voice To make the weary music judge rejoice. How blushed our wholesome Beth, the day that she Painted her nails so red, that one did see A ruddiness beneath the handkerchief She placed to her nose for dainty sniff. Then the preceptress, thinking it was blood She saw beneath the gauze in falling flood, Cried, Hence, away, begone, thou art excused, Ruth Fellows never yet a nosebleed hath refused. Anon proud Helena the roving eye doth claim Ere yet one viewed her beauty, one heard her, loud, proclaim That asylums for the mad were but a heinous shame And To Spank or not to Spank which was most to blame? And lo! neglected evils she found out and decried, And for her noble cause, how sweet, to battle at her side.