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

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Joyce Johnston Mary Elizabeth Edgar Betty Weatherill Gloria Brown Janet Edgar Mary McLeod PREFECTS' NOTES Mary Elizabeth Edgar-No. 401515, 5 ft. 3, blue eyes, curly fair hair. Last seen wearing a Riverbend uniform, but don't let that stop you. Wanted-For forging the Mona Lisa and calling it Study of a White- washed Barn. No Reward-You can keep her! Mary McLeod-No. 45553, 5 ft. 2, deep blue eyes, blonde Cwith assistancej. Wanted-For her own sweet self. Reward-Two one-Way tickets to Al- catraz. Joyce Johnston-No. 402771, 5 ft, 5, soulful eyes, armed to the teeth. Wanted-For manslaughter. Some poor, unhappy wretch stepped oi the curb. Reward-One Magic Chef gas range or 81,000 cash Cstrictly counterfeitb. Gloria Brown-No. 401510, tall, dark and man-somf' Last seen approach- ing the certain Nip House. Wanted-For kidnapping a blue Ply- mouth. Shoot to kill. Bounty, 2c per bullet hole. Janet Edgar-No. 401515, loud and long. A rag, a bone, and a hank of hair. CSfomeone please hold Kipling down?7 Wanted-For petty larceny. Someone told her that officer MacPhai1's police badge was a screwball pin. Reward-Virtue is its own reward. Betty Weatherill-No. 62030, two eyes, a nose and mouth. Wanted-For attempting to defraud. She told everyone that Robert Taylor was her cousin, and he ISN'T! Reward-Robert Taylor.

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10 Vox Fluminis Close u Confucious say: To Grade XI- Many maidens wither- ing on stock. To Miss Moffat and Miss Shepley- Wise to resolve-patient to per- form. To Dorothy Kennedy 11938-19405- Sharp tongue only edge tool grow keener with constant use. To Mary McLeod 11935-19405- Very little go long way. To Gloria Brown 11932-19405- Grass grows more green on other fence. side of To Joan Morrison 11938-19405- Most good natured soul ever trod on shoe of leatherf' To Polly Harris 11938-19405- What you do not know would make great book. To Dolores Edmond 11938-19405- Spare breath to cool porridgef' To Joyce Johnston 11939-19405 - Of surpassing beauty and in bloom of youth. To Esther Stronach 11937-19405- Practice make perfect. To Rossme Sterling 11938-19405- No music, life be great mistake. To Frances Ivey 11938-19405- Merry heart, like medicine, does go-od. To Lois MacQueen 11939-19405- Those who dream of banquet wake to la- mentation and sorrow. To Maureen Knights 11937-19405- No place more delightful than home Notes To Jean McLaughlin 11939-19405- Variety-very spi-ce of life. ll To Shirley Richardson 11938-19405- People dangerous who make no noise. To Janet Edgar 11934-19405 - She born with great gift of laughter and sense that whole world is mad. To Margaret Bennett 11935-19405- If there be regal solitude-it is sick- bed. To Agnes Rife 11939-19405- While there is life there is most certainly hope. To June Lear 11936-19405- Ah! She flavor everything-she vanilla of so- cietyf' To Betty Weatherill 11938-19405- Age of Miracles forever here. To Dorothy Donnelly 11939-19405- True happiness found in lif-e in country. To Phyllis Hunter 11935-19405- Safer to be meek than to be fierce. To Barbara South 11930-19405- L-ove- ly creature must be seen to b-e ap- preciatedf' To Mary Elizabeth Edgar 11937-19405 - Fame is thirst of youth. To Ruth Wilkinson 11937-19405- Magnificent spectacle of human hap- pinessf' To Mary Carpenter 11937-19405- Secrecy of success be constancy to purpose. To Margaret MacDonald 11939-19405- Pretty foot great gift of nature. To Daphne Gunne 11939-19405- Ah . . . men!,'

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12 Vox Fluminis GRADE X TUM-TUM, ta-ta-the music blares forth from the merry-go-round to the tune of School Days. Just as the circus contraption goes on and on, so pass the days, months, and terms at school. In the centre of the grade ten merry- go-round, watching and working the curious individuals, zis the pivot Cother- wise known as Miss Grant? around which the joyous animals rotate. They all have something in common-their ups and downs. The class 'pres., Betty Best, because of the amazing height she can jump, is our kangaroo. Marion Booth, the deer, runs the smoothest and the fast- est. Barbara Anne King, Shirley Pin- fold, Shirley Edmond, Margaret Win- stanley and Lorna Aikins are the mon- keys and the parrots, imitating very aptly the speech and actions of the characters in The Map, a play which we presented in February. Margaret Mclnnes is the only animal really at home on the ice. Shirley Lush is our joyful, playful puppy, and Nancy Ken- nedy, called Mother Hen, is the favor- ite of the Lower School. Jeanne Mc- Kenzie, a fawn, is so light of foot that one must look hard to find her. Doris Moscarella, Florence McCurdy and Mona-Shirley Paget are interested spectators who occasionally ride the others. Winnifred Ruth McIntyre can't be called any particular species of ani- mal, for she represented us all at the Inter-High School Youth Conference at Easter. Occasionally a Hgure gets out of commission and leaves the platform 'to be readjustedf' This year Alice Bull, Rosamond Esling and Reita Wepp- ler have been worked on, but are now all back, minus a little machinery. As Marjorie Kehm's charmed lingers produce the music to which the figures sway Cfor 'tmusic hath charms to soothe the savage beast D, the merry-go-round whirls on, the animals circling around the beauty of the school, trying to take in, somehow, the wisdom and knowl- edge concealed in the mainspring. GRADE IX WE ARE SEVEN- KTEENY' CWith apologies to Wm. Wordsworthj I met a gay Grade IX'er All dressed in grey and red. It seems she goes to Riverbend CAt least that's what she saidl. I said, 'tHoiw many are there, lass? - She smiled, and turned to me- You mean how many in our class? Oh, seventeen are Wef' First, there's Joannie Harris She dances, skates, and rides, And plans to go to Paris As soon as war subsides. Next comes Betty Dowler, Who's very, very tall. As a herald, she's a howler, And excels in basketball. Then there's our 'Uprima-donna Who led our operetta. I mean our jovial Jessie, In singing there's none betta. May I present our president Whose heart belongs to Garry. Her leisure time in study's spent fSome teachers called her Marry. J A happy kid is Janie Lee Though Latin gets her down. But when it comes to dancing- Deeds goes to town. I'll introduce our glamour girl I mean Miss George, of course. She simply loves a uniform Especially the Air Force. You simply must me-et Gilchrist Most everyone knows iLizzie. At every chance at every dance She keeps the stag-line dizzy.