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

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MUSIC SECTION MISS E, ARNOLD MISS E. DESBRISAY M 4 1 ' X ' N ' ' , S ,. ..V A ' n M i ' Sf MRS. F. CHRISTIE MRS. GRAHAM Page Thirty-one

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cheats is never the team that really wins out in the end. Swift, clean playing always proves the most successful. Games develop a desire to keep playing even though cften the competition is great. They teach you how to be a good loser, because very few teams win all the time. They teach you, too, how to win graciously. But most important of all they teach you to play for the sake of playing and something greater than your own self, so that at the end you have a sense of hav- ing done a good job. The training we get by playing games is carried over into our everyday life. This train- ing keeps us strong and determined not to go under in the face of difficulties. It teaches us to play fairly, to play cleanly and to the best of our abilities. These, I think, are the true aims of sports. Building a strong and healthy body is important, but more important still is the acquired charac- ter that makes a real sportsman. It is this characteristic that enables people and nations to live together in harmony and peace. Think of the big responsibility you have in determining the kind of nation you can build, if, as indi- viduals of that nation you have learned to play the game. I've enjoyed this year at Riverbend very much. During the few months that I have been here I have come to love you all. I am grateful for your friendship, and for the things we have learned together. I sincerely hope that we have come nearer to attaining the ideals of a true sportsman. J. GRUsz. 'A' BOWLING Monday after four was the day when the girls, accompanied by Miss Martin or Miss Grusz, made their way to the Y.M.C.A. bowling alleys for their weekly bowling. During the year there was keen competition among the girls, and around the beginning of December the final inter - house game was played. This game was played one Saturday after- noon at the Mall. The girls all enjoyed them- selves and the competition was keen, but after some very accurate figuring by Miss Martin it was found that York was on top. After Christmas, bowling was discontinued as the girls found they had too many other activities. I am sure the girls enjoyed the bowling and that they appreciated the help that Miss Martin so willingly gave. MAUREEN NORD. BASKETBALL NOTES JUNIOR TEAM This year cur junior team was made up cf three separate sets, A, B, and C, with a few spares. All the girls were playing basket- ball for the first time. The Juniors worked hard with Miss Grusz and won their last two games. Their captain, Miss Annie Lou Armiston, was partly responsible for the enthusiasm which the juniors showed at their practices and in their games. Our Juniors certainly showed the other teams how to turn out to practices. Many of these girls show great promise and we look for- ward to better basketball teams in the future. INTERMEDIATE TEAM Due to the keen teamwork of our Intermedi- ates this year, they set a record by winning all the games of their season. This was partly due to the outstanding playing of Clem McNern, a forward. The captain is Cara Joy Hughes. The Intermediates were composed of several mem- bers of last year's junior team as well as some new players, all of whom were under fifteen. Therefore our Intermediates played. as Juniors against the Kenora Juniors, and won their game. The Intermediates have had a lot of fun this vear. SENIOR TEAMS Our two Senior teams, lst and 2nd, play- ed good -lean basketball throughout the year. With a Jined effort, they beat Kenora, with Paddy Lou, captain of the lst team, making the winning basket. The captain of the 2nd team was Joss Robb, who played both forward and guard equally well. 41 THE BEAVER Last summer on my holiday, I say a beaver work and play, He slapped his tail upon the water, As if to say I hadn't ought to. He dug a channel to float a tree, And worked so hard it worried me, He built a dam without a gap, , I think he was a clever chap. DANA LEIGH HOPSON, Gr. III. Douglas Hall. 41 The church is on the top of the hill, On Sunday the bell will ring. ' The minister stands in the pulpit, And then we shall sing. SANDRA JEAN SERVICE, Gr. II. Douglas Hall. Page Thirty

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There are, of course, many women taking germ-uae More D..,,--,.A.,,,,,.,..,.,,,,., F1111 Flon, Man, MUSIC AND WOMEN To-day, more than ever, women are taking a prominent place in the field of music. A glance at this season's list of Celebrity Concerts in Winnipeg shows that five of the ten solo per- formers were women. The same ratio would no doubt exist in almost all musical centres of the world. Let us make a brief survey of what women have done in music up to the present. The largest contribution given to music by women seems to have been through their sing- ing. An eighteenth century singer, Mrs. Susanna Cibber, is of special interest to us because she was the sister of the English composer Dr. Thomas Arne. She took a leading role in the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742. Other concert and operatic vocalists of the past include such women as Jenny Lind, Patti, Galli-Curci, C1araButt and Madame Schumann-Heink. Outstanding women singers of today are many: Lily Pons, Kirsten Flagstad, Marian Anderson and Helen Traubel, to mention but a few. In the instrumental branches of music, too, women have been quite active. Clara Schumann is perhaps the best known and best loved example, and is still considered one of the greatest pianists the world has heard. An earlier performer, born in 1751, was Mozart's sister, Maria Anna Coften called Nannerl J who was, like Mozart himself, a child prodigy, and who played duets with him on their childhood concert tours. Teresa Carreno, another eminent woman pianist, was born in Venezuela in 1853 and composed the Venezuelan National Anthem. Distinguished instrumentalists of today include the English pianist Myra Hess and Harriet Cohen, the South American pianist Guiomar Novaes, the famous Polish hardsichordist Wanda Landowska, and the Canadian violinist Kath- leen Parlow. While women have proven themselves cap- able musicians in vocal and instrumental music, they apparently do not take so great an interest in orchestral work or in musical composition. part in chamber music groups and in symphony orchestras, but so far these organizations are composed largely of men. An exception of in- terest is Phil Spitalny's famous all- girl orchestra. In composition, too, while many women have written musical works, few have obtained uni- versal recognition for their efforts. Fanny Men- delssohn Csister of Felixj is said to have written the music for her own wedding. Clara Schu- mann also composed, and has twenty - three works to her credit. More recent women compos- ers are Cecile Chaminade, Mana-Zucca, Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Evangeline Lehman. Special mention should be made of the young Canadian composer Barbara Pentland Cformerly of Win- nipegb. Her works may be heard frequently over Canadian radio networks, and composi- tions by her have also been performed in seven other countries. There are other forms of musical endeavour in which women have participated Cfor instance in pedagogy and in the writing of literature per- taining to musicj which are too wide in scope to consider here. However, it is interesting to note in passing that an important Canadian executive position is held by Winnipeg's Eva Clare as Director of Music in the University School of Music. The conclusion that we reach, then, is that while women have already done much to pro- mote the art of music, there are still greater and more varied ventures ahead for them. Let us give them our support and encouragement in every way possible. 'A' Riverbend School for Girls. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dear Girls of Epworth: The time has come once more at Riverbend for editing our year book, Vox Fluminis. Al- though we have very little contact with you at Epworth, we have not forgotten you, and we re- member you especially at this time when we send you a copy of Vox Fluminis. The girls of Riverbend are very much inter- ested in your activities at Epworth and would be very grateful if you would send us your 1948 magazine. Sincerely, CAROLYN ELLIOTT, 41 Editor. LAST YEAR'S GRADUATES Phyllis Hustgn ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Grade 12, Riverbend Barbara Champ ,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Grade 12, RiVeI'beDd Nancy Merrill ........................ Grade 12, Beverley Ann Laidlaw .... lst yr. Arts, Riverbend Broadway Gloria Anderson .......... Interior Dec., Ft. Garry Ruthe Myles ,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,, 1 st yr. Arts, Broadway Patt McCarthy ............................................ at home Beth Coulter ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Grade 12, Riverbend Margareth Nasselquist ........ Grade 12, Riverbend Mary Mathers ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,, lst yr. Arts, United Mary MacIntosh ...... lst yr. Home Ec., Ft. Garry Gwen Alsip ,,,,,,,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,,,,,,,,,,, United College Peggy Dolmage .................... lst yr. Arts, United Page Thirty-two