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

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4 14 Vox Fluminis afzicfaq in Qaacfe 27 6.00-The boarders come to the school house to study. 7.00-Marion entertains them with her imitations of ?? 8.30-8.55-After a separation of twelve hours, girls greet each other as long lost friends. 8.57-Rosemary grabs a Bible, discovers a passage to read, and rushes out to take prayers. 8.58-Miss Martin comes to the door, passes her keys and pencil down the line, and arranges Lorraine in alphabetical order A'WAY from Lois. 8.59-Evelyn helps Miss Martin into her gown. 900-The bell rings and talking continues. Miss Martin saunters over to the housepoint list with a pencil in her hand. There is immediate silence. 9 02-In prayers, hymn books are re-distributed. 9.15-History period-Miss Sumi hurries into the room, and tells those who did not stand to be seated. As there is to be an Economics test, everyone solemnly proclaims, United we stand divided we fail. 9.35-Audrey has finished the test before anyone else is half through it. 9.45-The subject having changed to current events, there is slight party friction in the back corner of the room. 9.50-Miss Baker comes in and immediately begins discussing the year book with Marianne. 10.15-Miss Baker accuses Grace of making a racket-when the pipe in the corner starts to knock. 10.30-Recess-Muryn and Mary Elizabeth get to- 10.45 gether to discuss ...... affairs. Everyone else rushes down for their soda biscuits. -11.00-Latin students try in vain to get Miss Carter off the subject. 11.05-Jane dashes in and asks for volunteers to serve at a tea, but as teachers have a priority on certain girls, she does not get much 11.15-Miss Carter begs Eileen to ask a question. 11.25-Ann pleads for more photographs for the year book. 11.30-In English period, Miss Baker divides her 11.45 time between the year book, the library, and Browning. -A click is heard at the back of the room: Isobel has taken a picture of Miss Baker. 12.45-Dinia spills her ink on the floor. Everyone 12.20 12,26 offers to help but Marilyn is the quickest and rushes out for some Dutch Cleanser. -12.25-Scrubbing and giggling around Dinia's desk drowns out Mrs. Sparling reading the Bible. -A scuffle is heard at the back of the room. The girls around the empty desk are trying to support Shirley Swail's books. 12.20-Evervone starts to leave for lunch. T2 710-The bell rings, class dismissed. 19 .10 -Tbe half-starved lunch line rushes in. 12.45-Grace finishes her lunch, Lois and Lorraine have just come in, and Kathleen is grimly waiting for her milk. 1.35-Miss Martin takes the roll call, then half the 1110 room rushes in with hastily-made excuses. -Shirley Popham asks May I leave now, Miss Martin ?-and goes to another class. 1.41-Jocelyn slips in quietly-as usual. 200-Miss Brown asks Gail a chemistry Question, and she answers looking alternately at a blank page and Evelyn's book. 205-Time for a cough candy, Roberta. 2.10-Although she is not the monitor, Norma 2 10 2.40 ouickly cleans the boards, but is careful not to erase Joan's drawings. -Miss Sumi and Ellen converse in French, leaving the rest of the girls in a daze. -Miss Martin chases the Physics girls to Lab. 2.41-Due at another music lesson, Rosemary leaves. 2' 42 2.42 -She's not the only one. -4.00-Dead silence in study-no wonder-no assistance. one's there. 7eacfze'14 ' !Val'e4 It will be a Red Letter Day at Riverbend when- MISS CARTER: discards her Red Cross bottle and a-dmits that Latin is a dead language. MISS BAKER: walks into her English classes saying, 'tGreetings, Gates, what'd youse hear from de mob? MISS SUMI: forgets to insist upon boiling it down and gives up the idea of History Units. MRS. MUNROE: gives us two chocolate-covered biscuits and forgets all about sodas, MISS MARTIN: decides that Algebra and Geometry are useless and that she must take an intensified History course. MISS BROWN'S brain has a total eclipse and she has to learn all that Chemistry again. MRS. JONES: remembers to give her German tests and remarks, Girls, your pronunciation is won- derful! MRS. PRICE: isn't there to ring bells. SADLER: replaces the Rye Waltz with a hot ip. MRS. MCQUARRIE: teaches us to sew a reet pleat for a drape shape. MRS. LITTLE: doesn't smile pleasantly at the girls on door-duty at prayers. MISS BURNS: fails to 'bring her class up to the top of the War Savings list. MISS VOORHEIS: turns up some morning prepared to teach the kindergarten advanced psychiatry. MRS. JOBIN: absent-mindedly assigns a Grade I in- stead of a staff member to the head of each lunch table. MISS STUART: gives out with a solid boogie beat during those Tuesday mornings in prayers. MRS. SPARLING: wears all those cute lapel pins at the same time. MISS ARNOLD: comes out into the open where we can see her. MRS. REID: loses that heather look. MR. BANCROFT: replaces The Turtle Dove by Down the Road Apiecef'

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Vox Fluminis 13 PREFECTS' MESSAGE Dear Girls It is hard to realize that the time has come for us, the prefects of 1944-5, to lay down our duties and resign from the v a rio u s tasks that we have tried to carry out to the best of our ability during the past year. As we go forward, enriched by our experiences, we take with us many cherished and happy memories that will long remain dear in our hearts. Our one consolation now as we leave, is that we may always return on such occasions as the French plays, English plays, the Gym display and other reunions. Then again on Old Girls' Day we, as the Old girls, will come back again to challenge you, the present girls , in baseball, basketball, volleyball and the other good old school sports. Just a short time ago We received the great news that the war in Europe was over. Although it brought to all our minds a momentary relief, we also thought of those whose suffering was not yet over, and of the many loved ones who would never return. We hope and pray that sometime within the next year we may see the world completely freed from strife and turmoil, and that we will soon have an everlasting peace, We would like to thank all the girls we leave behind, for making our last year at Riveiibend such a happy and memorable one. To the six who take on our responsibilities, we wish every success in their new undertakings, and we hand the torchg be yours to hold it high . With 'best wishes to you all for the future. THE PREFECTS, 1944-45 0 PREFECTS EVELYN DUNFEE-'43-'45 . . . tall, dark-haired glamour gal . . . basketball and volleyball teams . . . always ahead on her History notes . . . ambition: to be a nurse-imagine Lyn lowering anyone's temperature! SHIRLEY SWlAlL-'40-'45 . . . athletic . . . on basketball team . . . likes horseback riding . . . known for her untidy books and straight hair . . . amlbition: to get Douglas to the top of the housepoint list. BEVERLY F ROFST-'43-'45-Garry's prefect - en- joys badminton and -dramatics-known for her dark eyes-plans on Home Ec. HELEN DUNFEE-,43-'45 - likes swimming and acrobatics-wants to be a nurse- Was it ever, wow! -known for her poise in prayers. TI-IPS LS THE LAIST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF US, Grade Twelve at present residing at the north- west corner of the school building of Riverbend School for Girls in the City of Winnipeg in the County of Selkirk, Students. We hereby revoking all former wills and testamentary dispositions heretofore made by us. WE NOMINATE AND APPOWT the present Grade Eleven class of Riverbend School and the survivor of them, to be the Executors and Trustees of this our will. WE GIVTE, DEVIPSE AND BYEQUEATH all the Real and Personal estate of which we shall die possessed Tr entitled to unto our said Executors and Trustees hereinbefore named, in Trust for the purposes fol- owmg:- , Firstly, to Day our just debts, graduation and examination expenses, And thereafter in trust to pay over or C0nV9y the f0l10wing bequests to the persons or corporations hereinafter named, namely:- To Riverbend School: Betty-Lou Allen's sore back and business ability Shirley Barton's mesh UD stockings and blush Phyllis Beatty's radio voice and history notes Joan Clegg's 97 memorized pages of Tschaikowsky and her empty shampoo bottle Helen Dunfee's brain and subtlety? Beverley Frost's pantomime and her eyelashes Catherine Irvine's appendix Ceffective last Novemlberj and her golf clubs Marie McCrimmon's-'Tll remember you in my will and her Latin translation Nora McLeod's pet bunny Wallace , her fingernails and her hicoughy laugh Jacqueline Porteous' radiator, skates and nose drops JOCe1yn Williams' literary ability and her Dutch doll Anastasia All the rest and residue of our estate both Real and Personal WE GIVE, DEVDSE AND BEQUEATH unto the future inhabitants of the present Grade Twelve classroom of Riverbend School absolutely. With full power and authority to our Executors and Trustees to sell and dispose of all or any part of our Real or Personal estate, where necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of this our will, and to execute any and all Documents that may be neces sary for so doing. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have subscribed these presents written fin so far as not printedj by our- selves at Riverbend School this Friday, the thirteenth day of April Nineteen hundred and forty-five. SIGNED published and declared by the above- named testatrices as and for their last Will and Testament in the presence of us both present at the same time, who at their request and in their pres- ence have hereunto subscribed our names as wit- nesses' Grade Twelve 1944-45 fWitnessesD M. E. BROWN L. D. BAKER

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Vox Fluminis 15 PATTY LOU RIDDELL - Selma! CAROLYN AUSTIN - 04 HELEN SMITH - - ANNE CAMPBELL - AMY CAMPBELL - VALERIE HEAD - - BARBARA LENNOX - DOROTHY JACKSON JUNE BAKER - - - NORMA GRAY - - MARGARET JAN - DONNA RIDDELL - PHYLLIS HUSTON - MARY MCINTOSH - BARBARA CHAMP - AUDREY EAST - - We eaufcfn 'Z Sleep a Wink .Baal Nagin' AUDREY HAVERSTIICK MARION BELL - - ELSPETH BURRIS - MARION ANDERSON EILEEN ELLIOTT - ELLEN KINNEARD - DIDI RICHARD - - SHIRLEY POPHAM - SHIRLEY BARTON - CATHERINE IRVINE PHYLLIS BEATTY - MARIE MCCRIMMON JOAN CLEGG - - - NORA MCLEOD - - JOCELYN WILLIAMS BOARDER'S NOTES We 'boarders were discussing the past year the other day and we all agreed it really had been a swell year even considering all our little quibbles concerning the table list at the beginning of the year . . . and the impatience with which we waited for our turn at the telephone each night . . . and how we celebrated a birthday each night before Lights Out just so we could bring in cokes and cake, etc., and how the next morning we'd always find a note on our dresser from Mrs. Reid telling us to clear out the brewery . . . and talking about notes . . . rememlber all those we got telling us to be more like ladies and hang up our towels and to please pick up our shoes . . . and oh, yes, how y0u'd fight over the bathtub each night and finally when your turn came there was no water so you'd yell down to the floor below for Water!! and eventually a slow dribble would begin dripping from the faucet and just as you breathed relief you'd discover that there was no hot water left, so there would be noth- ing left for you to do but apple-pie someone's bed or put cold face cloths in it or something equally as gruesome just to get even . . . because you would rememlber then about the time somelbody had left soap flakes in your bed and had removed the mat- tress so that you had a pretty terrible sleep on just springs with all the soap in your pyjamas that night, and therefore there was every possilble reason why you should get even . . . but we never thought of get- ting even with those people who threw cold water from the Jungle Room onto our heads at night as we groped our way to the Red House . . . or that party who used to make so much noise in the Grade 12 class room while the rest of the school tried to DIANA CARRUTHERS I'll Be Taken for a Sleigh Ride in July. Pack Up Your Troubles. California, Here I Come. Smiling Through. Chatterbox. Irish Washerwoman. Scatterbrain. I'm a Little Tea Pot. Time Waits for NO One. Here Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes. Higher 'n' Higher. I'm Beginning to SEE the Light. Million Dollar Baby. Sweet and LOVELY. He WEARS a PAIR of Silver Wings. Candy. Let's Take the Long Way Home. Meet Me in ST. LOUIS. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. I'm a Little on the Lonely Side. Kitten on the Keys. Whispering, South American Way. Canit Help Singing. Fredship , Fredship , Just a Perfect Fredship . I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean. There's Something About a Sailor. He's in the Army Now. Don't Fence Me In. Toscanini Iturbi and Me. Where Have You Been, Billy Boy? With the Wind and 'Rinse' in Your Hair. study? lbetween seven and nine, because we always blamed Josephine Blew for that because Josephine is the 33rd boarder who used to mess up our rooms each morning after nine o'clock because WE always left them tidy . . . and we just know it was Josephine who made all that noise after Lights Out and then fixed it so we'd get the blame . . . but Josephine was a good boarder anyway and agrees with us other thirty-two boarders that we sure had fun and have spent one super year living in Riverbend. REMEMBER- JOc's, Nora's, and Marie's riding rig-the Vox Fluminis deadline-the French Plays-Gail's legs - that Grade Ten class-house picnics-the inseparable Lois and Lorraine - those Physics tests - Miss Brown's crinkled nose in Chem Lab - Jane's brief- case-Marion's Physics Blues-June's housepoints- Who Gets the 'Car Tonight? -Marilyn's flames- Patti's and Mercedes' pins - the messy Grade twelve room - Miss Carter's Red Cross bottle -U the milk and biscuit brawl-Barton's coiffures- those interesting English periods-Grace's George- Norma's maps on the board-Isobel's aeroplanes- the Gym Display-Johnnie's after four-B.J.'s Blues -the History units-the rose in Shelagh's wallet - spilt ink - Rosemary's car - talk of men in the 7 and 8 room - Muryn's favourite record, A'Tippin' In -Emy's G.B. pin-Joan's dog-Miss Sumi's boil it down -Ann's blind dates-Kay's and Audrey's hair-Dinia'S visits to school-Marilyn's brother - Gusty's marching-Joan Bathgate's flowers for Mrs. Sadler-Shirley's horses-