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

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18 VOX FLUMINIS during the season. On the last day of March the staff was challenged to play the girls in doubles. Three teams were formed by each side-Miss Carter and Miss Grant vs. Jean Vinson and Mary Rose MacKenzie, Miss Crawshaw and Miss McKinnon vs. Iris Norman and Miss Sheffield vs. Ruth Rich and Eloise Edmond. The teams were closely matched and showed a great deal of fine playing. As this goes into print the season has not ended, but it is expected that the year will be finished by a successful Peggy Campbell, and Miss McAdoo and tournament. J .V., I.N. ., jp. tx..-5 Q it 4 2 'z,5',, its . V in mini' Hifi, V Q ' ' xx k' 4 ' '-,Aft 'I it 4, V . THE COUNCIL Top Row--Marjorie McKinne1l, Mary Harris, Roberta Jean McQueen, Mary Paterson, Pat Veysey, Louie Leistikow, Peggy Campbell, Mary Rose MacKenzie. 2nd Row-Caroline Harris, Pat Murray, Maurine Stuart, Margaret Graban, Peggy Murray, Iris Norman. 1st Row-Jean Vinson, Catherine Bingeman, Ferne Lount, Phyllis Hunter, June Lear, Shirley Pinfold, Helen MacLean, fMargaret Bennett, absentb.

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VOX FLUMINIS 17 terest continues to prevail and the weather forecast remains favorable, it is hoped that in the near future an inter-house riding meet will possibly be held, which will provide fun not only for the contestants, but is guaran- teed to amuse even the most cynical onlooker. Riding looks forward to more Wednesdays of fun ! ! C.H. SWIMMING S USUAL, a great deal of interest has been taken in the swimming this year. The annual swimming meet held on May 19th, 1937, at the Y.W.C.A., was a pronounced success. The various events were run off well, and Garry House, carrying off top honors, sank Douglas and York by wide margins. Since last September there has been even a larger group attending the Wed- nesday afternoon swimming classes reg- ularly. It will not be long now before we shall be making preparations for the 1938 meet, which is to be held in May. This year there will be four houses- Douglas, Garry, York, and Nelson- competing, instead of three, as in previ- ous meets. Thus we are hoping that the coming gala will go down as one of the most successful in the history of River- bend. M.D. 11 BADMIN TON NOTES FITHE Badminton, this year, has been a ,L great success. Interest in it has in- creased considerably. Saturday morn- ing has become a momentous occasion for our players. We can't say that we are all Jack Purcells, but we do have a good time. We may truthfully say that since the beginning of the year our playing has improved. At the first of the season the badminton was opened by a doubles Round Robin, the prizes were presented by Miss Carter to Betty Slater and Ruth Rich. Several other Round Robins were held at intervals SECOND BASKETBALL TEAM Mrs. Kobold, Eileen Gray, Peggy Murray, Janet Edgar, Ruth Rich, Shirley Cruikshank, Eloise Edmond, Anne Shaw, Iris Norman.

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VOX FLUMINIS 19 R AcoIIvIIII3s R ...Y of D.......g,,5...l.Qnl'QlQ.Q..'lQ..Q'QfE EWS, new teachers, new girls, new uniform, new Hall, new colours, new crests-everything's new! And yet, strangely enough, the school remains the same. To us who were at Riverbend last year, the thought of seeing any uniform other than the familiar blue, seemed wholly unimaginable. Now the smart grey uniform with the contrasting red has built itself firmly into the tra- ditions of the school. Again, last year it seemed impossible that there could ever be any houses other than Douglas, York, and Garry. Yet now Nelson Hall, so ably set on its feet and launched by Caroline Harris, is equally well known to us. The new teachers, at iirst com- plete strangers, are now become our familiar friends the staff, and the new girls are no longer new girls, but just other Riverbenders. Of course, with all these radical changes there was criticism. Hot discussions ensued as to the colour and material for stockings -should they be grey or red C?J, ribbed or smooth, or whether brown, black or grey shoes should be made official, on the course to be adopted by red-headed girls regarding the new scarlet blazers. But now at last these perplexing, if minor difficulties, have been overcome. Once more Riverbend runs smoothly on its course, so different, yet so un- changed. Therefore, to Riverbend the old, the Riverbend of the blue uniforms and three halls, we fondly toast good- bye-Riverbend the new, starting out on its fresh era, for whom it has been ours to lay the first foundations of its new traditions, we salute, in hope, in confidence, in love. P.C. -. GLEE CLUB NOTES NDER the able direction of Mrs. Dempsey, the Glee Club sang Jesu, Babe, in a program at the school short- ly before Christmas. Mrs. Dempsey coached several girls to sing in the Musical Festival, which started on March 28th. We have not received the results yet, but we are sure the girls kept up their usual standard of fine work. The Glee Club is now practising two songs, The Sky is Full of Clouds and My Love D-welt in a Northern Land, for the closing exercises. M.M. -1.-1 . BROWNIES HE Riverbend Brownies have had a very happy and successful year. We are glad to say that we have a large number of new Brownies. There are also four Browniekins, who are looking forward to becoming Brownies when they have passed their tests. The en- largement of the pack has resulted in the foundation of a new Six. We now have four Sixes, the Elves, the lmps, the Fairies and the Pixies. Each Six has a leader or Sixer, as she is called, and also a second Sixer. There is a spe- cial song and yell for each six, as well as the Brownie song that they all sing. The Brownies have lots of fun at their meetings and they also learn many use- ful things. At Christmas they made net stockings and filled them with toys for the poor families. On February 19th a Brownie Rally was held at Broadway-St. Stephen's Church. Each of the packs present put on a little play. Our Brownies enacted the story of the Tar Baby. They did very well and were asked to repeat it for Mrs. Semmens, the Winnipeg Divi- sion District Commissioner. At the beginning of the year our Brown Owl, Miss Wellband, had to re- sign, but her place was exceptionally