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

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KL. .A Photo by Harold White Studio FIRST BASKETBALL TEAM SECOND BASKETBALL TEAM Photo by Harold White Studio INTERMEDIATE BASKETBALL TEAM Photo by Harold White Studio

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AS I look back on the year's sports activities I think they have been very worthwhile. Field Day in the fall was a good effort. The sports captains worked and the results showed in the running and jumping. The hurdles relay was well done in spite of it being such a new activity. Going into the City High School Volleyball League was good for us. At first volleyball was quite a struggle. I can still hear the groans from many of you as we kept at it for many weeks. Its a great game and I'm so glad you have come to like it. The effort was worth it. Having just learned the gam-e, you played very well against stiff competition and y-ou were wonderful sports about some pretty grim scores. After all th-at is the important thing isn't it? The shortness of the basketball sch-edules I know was keenly felt, but at least we have our trip to Kenora to finish off our season. The basketball teams played excellently. We started to practice much later inthe season this year and the dramatics took many of our players. Again the question comes up, why do we play against other schools? To win? or to get our enjoyment out, of playing the game? The thrill of teamwork, the co-ordination of brain and body. I was' proud of the way you people handled yourselves on the Hoor at all times. Thank you too for your enthusiasm and hard work at practices. Skiing was extra this year, and certainly en- joyed by all would be Bill Irwins. We were lucky to get such a competent instructor. It is wonderful the spirit good instructors can instill in their pupils. There is no thrill quite like skiing. It is a glorious sport. Badminton, swimming and tennis, will be participated in after Easter, and this year we hope to take several more girls to Portage to compete in the Manitoba Provincial Track and Field Meet. Our sports year therefore should end with a full schedule indeed. Sports are a very important part of a school curriculum. The education you are getting is preparing you to go out and cope with life. Life has often been compared to a game. Games teach teamwork. A team that has many in- dividualists on it is not the winning team. If you can learn to co-operate and work with the other fellow it is a great thing. Games teach fair, clean play. A team that plays a clean, fast, fair game, knows in its heart that it is the winning team. Games teach discipline. There are rules to every game and we must learn to curb our impetuosity and willfulness and follow the rules of that game. Games teach perserverance. During a game you don't quit because the going is tough, or you are losing. n 't You play all the harder with every ounce of energy and strength you have. Games teach courage, quickness of thinking, agility, and coa ordination of the whole body. Most important of all games teach good sportsmanship. You can't win all the time. The glory comes from playing a game with your whole heart, for the playing of it. Life won't always work out your way, there will be disappointments, but if sports have taught you to carry on in spite of many obstacles to be good losers and graceful winners then they have achieved their purpose. My two years at Riverbend have been very happy ones. The sports captains have been will- ing workers and a great help. Thank your so much girls for your co-operation, you under- standing, your enthusiasm and for the feeling you gave me that you were pulling with me the whole time. The friendship I have here I do value hihly. I know that the memory of River- bend School and all whom I have come to know and love will always be with me. So to address our spirits to the height, ' And so attune them to the valiant whole, That the great light be greater for our lights, And the great soul the stronger for our soul: To have done this is to have lived through fame Remember us with no familiar name. GRUCZ. . i' RIVERBEND WINS AGAIN! The Kenora teams arrived at Riverbend to have the annual game of basketball against the school. The games began at two o'c1ockg -they proved to be exciting, close and full of fun. We had two girls, Sheila Harri-et and Mary Graham from St. Mary's to referee. The Junior game offered a fine display of sportsmanship, and we compliment you, juniors, on your unity in your teamwork. The sefnior game was a very good game, en- joyed by all the players. J uniors:-Annie Lou Ormiston, Helen Grant, Val Head, Janie Park, Carla Ann Stewart, Anne Jenkins, Mary Hope Mclnnes, Ann Stephenson, Janet Bleeks, Carolyn Dyson, Monica Brown, Ann Fox. , Final score 16-14. Seniors:-Cara Joy Hughes, C-lem McNern, Liz Ann Beaton, Paddy Lou Sparling, Pat Stone, Rutha Anderson, Claire Tribble, Betty Ann Runner, Diane Armstrong, Nancy Smith, Donna Young, Joss Robb, Barbara Drybrough, Mar- jorie Lush, Joan Mitchell, Sandra McNamara. Final score 32-14. J OSS ROBB. Page Twenty-six .,. .

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