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

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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

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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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20 VOX FLUMINIS well filled by our new Brown Owl, Mrs. Griffiths. She is assisted by Iris Norman, our Tawny Owl. We hope that the Brownies will keep up their good work and that Riverbend will always be proud of them. I.N. THE SIXTY-FIFTH GUIDE COMPANY UR 65th Company, this year, hasn't been as successful as it might have been, and I feel that we aren't getting much support from the girls. Don't people join Guides for the common good rather than for their own sakes? But we do have fun! We are planning many new things for the coming weeks -meetings and Cthe greatest thing of allb tea outside. Miss Law, our Captain since Septem- ber, has unfortunately been unable to join us for the last few Tuesdays, but Miss Kernigan, with the help of Miss Johnston, has kindly agreed to take Miss Law's place until she returns. And so, all those who could be Guides we ask you to help us build up a com- pany that Riverbend may be glad to own! A.M.C. .l -.... . GRADUATION DAY HE band is playing! The sun is streaming down. People are begin- ning to arrive looking so very sum- mery in pale greens and blues. The first grads are coming. What a thrill to wear that long white dress and carry those fiowers. Don't they look beautiful? They are so graceful, so calm, so cool, but oh - What time is it? Are your knees shaking as mine are? What if I should trip on the stairs? With which hand do you shake hands? Oh, it's so hot. Is my nose shiny? Is my hair all right? These flowers are so' heavy. On which arm do you hold them? Is it time to go up? Excitement! Quivers in every voice, shivers up every spine, tremours in every heart. The bell goes. A hush falls. The music begins and up the school marches-ah! but the grads don't march-they move in a graceful procession to soft music. The prize giving is over. What comes next? Tea-not yet, you grads, there are the clicks of a few cameras first of all. The band has started up again. The horns are booming and blaring to a pulsing rhythm. You find you are walk- ing with a swing in your step. Excite- ment is still in the air, but it has changed -it's not the tense, tremorous, mysteri- ous excitement that went with the cere- monies in the gym, but it's an excite- ment that makes you want to laugh and smile and later, maybe, weep. The youngsters are stuffing ice cream, the grads are being snapped and congrat- ulated, people are moving continually. Everyone is here that you know-so many handshakes, so many smiles, so much happiness. And then they begin to go-a few at a time, but gradually the laughter is less loud, the tables of tea and cakes are empty, the sun is past its prime, the air is cooler, the sea-gulls are crying over the river and you may have a tear too many in your eye. M.G.S. JUNIOR PLAYS AVIN G just seen the Junior plays, we really feel that Garbo will soon have to look out for her rights, and that Riverbend at any time could turn into a Hollywood. This impression was con- veyed to us by the acting in the fairy play Candytuft, directed by Mrs. Price and Miss Crawshaw. The threes and fours quite made us forget it Was a fairy tale, so rapt did we become in the enthralling romance of Candytuft CJoan Thomson! , and the Prince CSher- ry Carruthersb, protege of the beauti- ful fairy queen CMary Elizabeth J uddb . The fives and sixes combined educa- tion with entertainment in their play, the Red River Settlers, presented by Miss Burns, finishing up with the lighter Robinhood. In short, the afternoon of April 13th was a thoroughly delightful one, thanks to the ability of the River- bend Juniors. P.C.