Ruperts Land Girls School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Rupert's Land College Magazine party gay. At our Valentine Party the Form Presidents acted as postmen, who opened their mail box and found several Valentines for everyone. , This term we are having an automobile race across Canada, which is causing keen competition between the Forms and arousing a great deal of excitement. We are very proud of the fact that a number of the things we have made were shown in the exhibition o-n May 20th. The things we made were sewing bags, raflia mats, and wax models. FORMS III AND IV. . FORM II We are Form II. We have a nice bright classroom, we try to keep it tidy and not leave paper on the floor. We make it look pretty with pictures and our drawings, and we have some plants. V ' . ' We make health charts and last term we kept a weather chart. We have stars for our work and conduct, last term Clementina Adamson won the prize for having the most. We enjoy our lessons and we like coming to School- PREPARATORY CLASS We are the Little People of the Library. You big girls often help us to dress and you probably hear us playing our band' sometimes. There are thirty in our family, half of us are girls: we shall be big girls soon. The rest of us will someday become Old Boys. In our first term we had a happy Hallowe'en Party ,with Grades III and IV. Fairies, Sailors, Chinese and Dutch people came-for it was a fancy dress party. The class invited mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters to a Christmas tree. Suddenly there was heard a jingle of bells. David went to investigate and he met-Santa Claus. On Valentine's Day, too, we held a party and there was at heavy shower of cards for everyone. Mr. Ernest Raymond came and shook hands with us one day. Some of us want to be writers like him when we grow upg others would be sailors, doctors, br nurses. I y Many of us have little brothers and sisters. We look for- ward to the day when they, too, will come to Rupert's Land College. W A 23

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Rupe'rt's Land College Magazine U-is for Ursula-an eloquent orator. V-is the Vim, with which we all play. W-is for Wilma, who comes top with Jean. X-is for Xmas, with holidays too. Y-is for Yvon-in French he's a hero. Z-is for the zest we show in our sport. And everything else in which we are taught. A I A FORM VII. FORM VI President ....... . ........ -. ........................ CHRISTINE MACHRAY Vice-President .................................. MARY KATE FLORANCE Games Captain ............................................ MOLLY DENISON First Leader ........................................................ JANET GRAY Before Easter, Forms VI and V shared a classroom on the first floor, which is now occupied by Form VIII. We have been moved up to a room on Miss Millard's flat which has been kindly, but somewhat reluctantly, lent to us by the Boarders. Miss Short is our Form Mistress, and although we are a small Form, we are a very happy one. .Our chief occupation at present seems to be dressmaking for dolls when we can find a few minutes to spare! --- FORM VI. FORM V I President f .................................................... JEAN MONCRIEFF Vice-President .................................... BLANCHE HENDERSON The Form is very proud of the fact that it now has a classroom of its own. Miss Davies was our Form Mistress until Easter, but her place has now been taken by Mrs. Leslie. We have done a number of exciting things this year but we particularly enjoyed Oliver Twist and the Minneapolis Sym- phony concert. Dr. Thompson's lecture made a great impres- sion on the members of Form V. We were also very interested in Mr. Robson's visit for the purpose of taking the School photograph, which was a great success. MARGARET MCNABB. ' FORMS III AND IV These Forms, consisting of ten girls in each class, are to- gether in the same room. It is one of the most attractive and sunniest rooms in the School, and our plants and pictures help to make it even more cheerful. A We have had some very happy times together. At Hal- lowe'en we had a most successful party with Forms I and II. Many people appeared in costume, and this helped' to make our 22

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Raperlfs Land College Magazine , BOARDING SCHOOL NOTES T , 5 The Boarders have been a very happy family this year, chiefly because our numbers have been large, and also because we have been so equally distributed as regards age. On our late return at. the end of September, we were very happy to find that a new sitting-room had' been provided for' us. The Staff had given up their room on the first floor in favour of the girls, and the easy chairs, new carpet, and chintzes, not to speak of chesterfields, made us feel that a real welcome awaited us, and we soon forgot our weepy farewells of the day before. a This room has been the scene of many jolly parties. On the second Sunday of term, the Seniors 'invited Miss Millard and Miss Holditch to teag Muriel Wright presided, and the less shy of our number served, and generally looked after the guests and the newcomers. The first entertainment f-was voted a great success, and hopes were expressed that many such gath- erings might take place during the year. . Tea-parties on the Sundays of the In-week-ends have been much enjoyed. -We have squeezed into Miss Holditch's room, Miss Millard's sitting-room and into Miss Pearman's room. Chatter, good things to eat, and reading aloud, have made these parties very jolly ones. Miss Schcenau enter- tained some of the Boarders to tea in her flat in Devon Court in March. Theatre parties, special church parties, and extra shopping parties have been much enjoyed, and we greatly appreciate the kindliness and interest shown us by our school- mothers. Glee Club Though we did not compete in the Musical Festival, we realize what a poor chance some of the choirs would have had of winning if we had. Under Miss Jones, wehave realized the pleasure of singing rounds, part songs, negro spirituals, etc. We helped to entertain the visitors at the Musical Party given on the Saturday of the February In-week-end, and from the amount of applause we imagine that some day we may be asked to sing again. j We take this opportunity of thanking Miss Jones for her help and interest in this work. Sewing Club X W The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission will benefit from our efforts to learn hemming, sewing, felling, etc. The Boarders' sitting-room may havebeen the scene of pricked fingers, lolst needles, and knotted threads, but the cosy little garments resulting from our labours will, we hope, help to clothe some destitute little one. Miss S-hort has helped us every week, and though at first we crept like snail unwillingly to sew, our progress has been marked and our thanks are due to Miss Short for her patience and help. 24