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

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10 Vox Fluminis GRADE X OUR CLASS IN SONG Jessie Dangerfield - You're Danger- ous. Dorothy Dickson- 'Is it True What They Say About Dixie? Betty Dowler- Heaven Help the Work- ing Girl. Virginia George- Keep An Eye On Your Heart. Joan Harris- The Wise 01d Owl. Penelope Hodgson- Pennies From Heaven. Anne Kingsley- Annie Doesn't Live There Any More. Jane Lee- Lazy Bones. Jean Love- My Little Fraternity Pin. Helen McLean- Sweet and Low. Jean McNearn- For When I Walk I Always Walk With Billy. Patricia Northcote- The Navy's Here. Helen Palk- She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific. Joan Pickard- The Nearness of You. Isobel Rice-Jones- Do I Worry? Miss Shepley-- I've Got My Eyes On You. GRADE IX Elizabeth Auld- The hand that made you fair hath made you good. - Measure for Measure. Rosa Rayner- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -Romeo and Juliet. Mildred Longstaffe- 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. -In Memoriam. Pat Bernard- Straining harsh discords and un- pleasant sharps! -Romeo and Juliet. Kitty Rainey- A close mouth catcheth no flies?- Don Quixote. Betty Loggie- Her flowing locks-the raven's wing. -Burns. Jean Gardiner- Ye have many strings to your bowef' -Proverb, by Heywood. Kathleen Richardson- She wears the rose of youth. -Anthony and Cleo- patra. Eleanor South- There's nothing half so sweet, As love's young dream. -Love's Young Dream. Helen Trickey- , Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low-an excellent thing. - King Lear. Elizabeth Holland- That place where I do keep my books, . . . Is unto me a glorious court. -By Fletcher. Nancy Complin- How far that little candle throws its beams, So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -The Merchant of Venice. Misqs Gregory - A lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. -Psalms. The Class- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. -King Henry V. GRADES VII AND VIII THE eights filed in with a bang and a din, The sevens trundled after. Then mischief was ready to begin, Mingled with shouts of laughter. Books were hurled high in the echoing air,

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Vox Fluminis 9 9.1416-Pin proudly drops a penny in 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.5 9- Snake. -Miss Argyle waits patiently in hall. -Miss Grant departs, followed, as usual, by Shirley Rooper, with her half-knitted sock. --Miss Argyle strides in, grins, Good morning,', drops apparatus and chuckles merrily about it. Miss Gregory comes in, poises 9.4.5- 'waiting for a Good morning, and proceeds to ration out the time. Shirley Lush goes a half-minute overtime, discussing a Catholic- ismf' 9.5915-Betty Cameron loudly reminds 10.20- l0.30-- Lush that the time is s-hort. Miss Carter clicks in, breathless, sets down her books, remarks on the distance between the houses, and dictates ten words. Shirley Edmond confounds Miss Carter with new French con- struction. Miss Carter promptly asks her what time she went to bed. 10.46-Pin prances to the front and calls 10.55- 11.00 11.05 11.32 11.35 12.00- 12.05 loudly for French books. Every- one has gone for milk and bis- cuits. Margaret Mclnnes dazedly raises her head from her book, wonders where everyone has gone, and continues reading Ccompletely forgetting it was she who an- nounced the house meetingsb. -Clouds of chalk dust arise in a last vain attempt to show clean running shoes. -Gym-Miss Lowman trips lightly down the line, docking thirds of points for dirty shoes. -Dulcie removes her shorts and struggles into her tunic, all the while chatting gaily to Joan, for- getful of the waiting Latin class. -Joan returns to remind Mclnnes that she should be at Latin, not extra Algebra. Miss Moffat scurries into- room. -B. Anne stands for a split sec- ond and re-tumbles onto pillow with knitting. 1207-Miss Moffat scans faces to find 12.07 12.31 one which might possibly have done its homework-spies Mar- garet Winstanley. 12-13-Margaret reads her answer to a question which required only two words. -I'm hungry, too. 138-Lush, O Miss Grant, you should 1.40 1.41 1.42 see the fan ballet-it's a scream! -Only two in the room for roll call-the rest at basketball prac- tice C?D -Miss Shepley waits avidly in the hall. -Feverish work. 1.59-Alice and Lorna wander in. Ex- cuse us, please, Miss Shepley, we aren't really late. We were just waiting for Isobel. She's so slow. 2.11--Miss Grant asks for Wednesdayls 2.40 3.10 prep. Betty Best answers the first question from Marjorie's book, across the aisle. Marigold disentangles her legs, crawls out of the piles of books surrounding her, shakes her hair back, wig- gles her eyebrows and answers the second question. Miss Grant suspiciously asks Betty B. for the third one. Betty cranes her head over Mclnnes' shoulder, and Miss Grant brings her back Saturday morning. -Those not in Physics Lab. remain to study C? D -Recess. 3.25-Study begins. Miss Lowman 3.30 bounces in and looks blankly at the stream of girls leaving the room Cforgetting they belong to the other half of the Physics classb. -Most of the rest of the class go to the library leaving Miss Low- man with a study of about four people. 345-People return in order to pile books before going to knitting. 4.00-Knitting. 4.30-Bell. 4.45-Shirley P. collects pound and chases stray pupils from the school.

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Vox Fluminis ll 'Mid shrieks and yells and screams of rage, And teasing and grieving and pulling of hair- Disgraceful for girls of such an age. Diana fussed and fumed and boiled, 'Cause Elle.n and Peggy her pen had spoiled, Sherry, the President, scolded in vain, Grades seven and eight were at it again. Robin and Marie turned towards the door, Miss Mclnnis arrived and mischief was o'er: Banging and bumping immediately s.topped,- Attention was turned on ink to be mopped. Isobel hastened a blotter to bring, Joan hurriedly took it and blotting began, More blotters were tossed to the scene of the mess, And Valery spoilt the front of her dress. Marion tried to study her maths While Shirley and Gail were asking, What class? Donalda was changing her tunic and shirt, And Betty was cleansing her shoes of their dirt. Marjory and Mary are good girls in class, But are ready to join in the fun when they are asked. The bell sounded loud and the classes began, And now they are working as hard as they can! HOW VVELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR PREFETCTS? MATCH the prefect with the proverb which fits her, by putting the number of the prefect in the space in front of the proverb. 1. Winnifred Ruth McIntyre- 2. Marion Booth- 3. Betty Best- 4. Shirley Pinfold- 5. Marjorie Kehm- 6. Margaret Mclnnes- 7. Mary Weiner- 8. All the Prefects- J Hurry not, worry not. J Practice makes perfect. J Speed is essential in all things. J Silence is golden. J Rhapsody of words. J Second thoughts, they say, are best. Look before you leap. Creation sleeps . D D Look for answers on page 41. LIGHTS OUT WITH THE BOARDERS Betty Cameron-O, go to sleep. We'll talk in the morning. Diana and Valery-Let's get up and go down the fire escape. Anne Kingsley-Miss Shepley, do stay and talk to us. Marigold and Mary-Couldn't we be last tonight? Please- Robin-Let's see if we can talk till mid- night! Patricia-Marj., will you put my hair up in curlers? Kathleen-I hope Shirley Temple will sleep well tonight. Rosa and Ellen-There's a basketball game tomorrow, so we must go to sleep right away. Shirley and Marjorie-I wonder what he's doing tonight! J can Ross-Shut up! I'm trying to hear my French under the bed clothes.. Jean Gardiner-Ah-, do we have to go to bed now?