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

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RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 9 THE HEAD GIRL Joan Watson entered the School as a Grade IX pupil in 1929, and during her four years at Rupert's Land College she made herself a vital factor in all school activities. She was Captain and Musical Director of Machray House for her last two years, a member of the first Basketball team and of the school choir. As Head Girl, she showed a sense of duty, a strength of character and a spirit of cheerfulness and goodwill which made co-operation with her a pleasant task for staff and prefects. The awarding of the Esprit de Corps pin to Joan is proof of the recognition by her school-fellows of their debt of gratitude to her for much unselfish service rendered. Joan's high principles and loyal attachment to the school, and the air of resolute purpose and dignity with which she went about her duties as head girl, made her a figure not easily to be forgotten. She is one of this season's debutantes, and intends taking up the career of nursing next year. She leaves us with the affectionate good wishes of the school for a very happy and useful future in that larger world in which we feel confident that Joan will continue to be a leader. 'I' 'I' 'I' HEAD GIRL'S LETTER It seems impossible that another school year can be drawing to a close, and that once again we are looking back on a circle of varied and interesting days. As usual, this year we had our parties. We started at the beginning of the year by having the new girls' initiation, and after they had gone through their somewhat severe trials, we rewarded them with refreshments and dancing. Then came the fancy dress Christmas party that Miss Millard and the staff gave as a surprise for the girls. We were most royally entertained and waited on, and truly experienced the delights of an old-fashioned Christmas party. After Christmas the prefects and house officials entertained the staff at a Tally-Ho, when the joys of winter were fully sampled. In May we entered for various items in the Manitoba Musical Festival, and we realize that it was the interest that Miss Dovey took in this work that made the practices a pleasure instead of a drudgery. I should like to take this opportunity of thanking Miss Dovey for her unselfish efforts and hard work which did so much in drawing out the musical talent of the girls. Here might also be mentioned the pleasure Captain James and his band afforded us by playing for us at the beginning of the year, when the popularity of his King's Horses was again proved.

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8 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 20-School reopens. 28-Basket-ball match, School vs. Riverbend at Rupert's Land College. May 1-Old Girls attend School Prayers. 5-Basket-ball matchg School vs. Riverbend at Riverbend School. 9-20-Manitoba Musical Festival. School won Junior and Senior Private School Chorus shields. 24--Empire Day. School holiday. June 1-Lantern lecture by Miss Doupe on Holland. 5-Entertainment of Greek, French and English plays, given by the Juniors. 10-Picnic given by Grade X for the Staff and Grades XII and XI. 16-Graduates' luncheon. Grade XII dinner party. Prize-giving at the Auditorium. '! ! !' A SUMMER SCENE As we rounded the corner, we came upon one of those charming scenes that sometimes break suddenly on one's sight like a colored picture flashed on a screen. We were high on the side of a hill, and from our feet the green velvet of the grass billowed away, sloping gradually to the valley of the sparkling little sapphire brook which we had crossed a few minutes before. Scattered over the pasture were sleek black cattle which shone like jet in the bright June sun and stood out clearly against that green carpet with its pattern made by the white of the daisy, the gold of the buttercup and black-eyed-Susan and the darker green spots that were lone trees and bushes. Away to the east the carpet rose again and was topped by emerald woods of pine, spruce, elm, oak, maple and ash, stretching into theblue distance in a gentle sea of rolling swells. To the west, it fell, and the cheerful red roof of our destination could be seen, seeming to urge us to hurry to the cool shade of its surrounding sentinel pines. In spite of its invitation, however, we stood a moment more to view the broad acres of young grain spreading to the foot of the dark mountain, outlined inkily against the brilliant sky. The fields were cut by the pale ribbon of the new cement highway which sometimes cuts into the bright jade necklace made by the maples marking the way of the old gravel county road, and sometimes swung off into the fields as if wishing to explore the beauties of growing things there. Beyond, the railway gleamed silver, and the 4:46, patiently chugging her way to the village three miles farther on, reminded us that Father Time does not wait for mere mortals, so we continued our way with mental vows to return again very soong which we did. , ANNE CAMERON

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10 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE Another outstanding event was the display of physical work, which was held in the school assembly hall, as in former years. To Miss Parker goes the credit for so successfully planning and carrying out the programme, while the girls co-operated splendidly to make the evenings a success. It was with great enjoyment that we viewed the display in the studio, there were drawings and paintings of all kinds, wool-work, furnished dolls' houses and linoleum cuts. A great deal of credit is due to Miss Brewer who has furnished inspiration to the art workers during the past two years. At the other extremity of the school, on the same nights, the chemistry laboratory was arrayed in its full splendour. Such things as chemical gardens, sensitive flames and coloured flame tests were exhibited-the work of Miss Sharman, who has laboured so energetically to improve the condition of the laboratory, and to present Chemistry and Physics as the interesting subjects that they are. Our closer relationship with Riverbend School this year has been very pleasant, we have felt that a spirit of friend- ship has become stronger than that of rivalry, much as we have enjoyed meeting on the battle-ground of sport and music, we hope that this drawing together may be increased and strengthened in future years. Quite an outstanding feature of the year has been the successful efforts of the girls to raise money for missions, the magazine fund, the gramophone fund and other school interests. Each House in turn has run a Tuck Shop at recess, when buns and apples have been sold to hungry girls of all ages. Grade XII sold candy posies, the prefects and form presidents organized a Tea which made 310.10. Other money-making schemes were Grade X's sale of candy, which made 35.70, Grade IX's woollen golliwogs, which made 315.00, Grade VIII's book-marks and raffle, which made 31060, Grade VII's felt animal tags and curio exhibition, which made 31020, and Grade XI's sale of snap shots, which made 33.15. Once again Tennis has proved a popular sport, the coaching which Miss Parker has given has resulted in the fact that many of us who used to play at tennis, now make a more serious effort to play real tennis, although our efforts may still appear somewhat hopeless to the casual on-looker. An unusually large number of basket-ball matches have been played, and the interest of the teams has been well maintained. Quite remarkable has been the way in which Grade XII more than doubled its numbers this year. Of course, the recurring problem of conflicting time tables arose, the solving of which required all the mathematical skill of Miss Bartlett, who, as ever, works hard behind the scenes of school life to make things run smoothly. Looking back