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

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20 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE GRADE X PICNIC The day to which we had looked forward so many times during the past few years at last dawned. June the 10th, 1933 was the eventful day of the Grade X picnic for the Graduating Class. How many of us lay in bed that morning pondering over the terrors that ran through our veins this very day a year ago when it was up to us to supply the graduating class with a,full day of entertainment! But happy were we that morning of 1933 when we blissfully realized that it was our turn this year to be entertained. It happened to be a Saturday, but even so, ten o'clock found Grade XI in the bitter depths of an Algebra class two weeks before the departmentals, so great was the relief when motor horns were heard outside, and the beckoning voices of their occupants telling us to hurry out to the cars which were to drive us to Mrs. Pugh's beautiful summer home. Some even resorted to a scarlet-coloured truck which conveyed them there not as soon as hoped, but never-the-less on time. . The day proved to be very hot and the first hour or so was spent, by most of us, in roaming around the lovely grounds and hankering after the river. Soon however our hostesses had us all seated on the ground, then gave us a scrumptious lunch, composed of several kinds of salads, dozens of sandwiches and some wonderful concoction which quenched our thirst most satisfyingly. Ice cream with huge strawberries poured over it was the dessert, with cake and cookies, and when everyone had eaten as much as she could an afternoon full of activities began. Croquet, badminton, tennis, bowls and dancing were tried by everyone until we became too hot. Then we roamed about the garden and the woods, finding there a swing, which proved disastrous to one! The busy afternoon sped past, and soon it was time for tea, which was every bit as delightful as the lunch. It was nearly six o'clock when we finished, and people began to try to make themselves look respectable enough to venture home again. Finally however, as all good things do, so did this day come to an end. Cheers were raised, good-byes and thank- you's were said, motor engines buzzed and with many voices ringing in the evening air the Grads drove away home, all agreed that the 'day had been most happy and successful. KATHERINE SAUNDERS

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RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 19 Mothers, and Brothers and Sisters would know, that when a Brownie is at a Pack meeting, if she falls out of a tree or off a toadstool, the other Brownies will be quite capable of looking after her. And that was the end of the year. There was just one more pack meeting, when we said Good-Bye to two fairies, two elves and one little person, who had to move away to another part of the Forest. 'I' 'I' -I' THE MAN FROM ALBERTA Friday, April the seventh, saw the majority of the school assembled together to enjoy The Man from Alberta , a play in three acts under the able direction of Miss Turner. The proceeds amounting to thirty-one dollars and twenty cents, of which five dollars and seventy cents were made by the Grade ten candy stall, were in aid of the Magazine Fund. The man from Alberta, Fergus Wimbush CJoan Watsonl goes to England with the hope of persuading Mrs. Calthorpe CMiss Parker! to marry him, because if he does so they inherit between them the state of a wealthy uncle who has just died. It is with great difficulty that Mr. Priestley, CMary Laird! Mrs. Calthorpe's guardian and legal advisor persuades her that Mr. Wimbush is most eligible . In order to form her own opinion of Fergus, Mrs. Calthorpe poses as Perkins , the parlor-maid, and while she is playing this part Fergus falls in love with her. Robert Gilmour fGerry Kilvertl, Mrs. Calthorpe's young cousin, is visiting at Beach House, and when Ada QEileen Chandlerj and Ruth Wimbush CJane McConnellJ go for their brother, he falls in love with Ada. Mrs. Hubbard CMary Kingstonj the ugliest woman in Christendom and her daughter Minnie CAgnes Swalwellj add greatly to the humour of the play. Minnie, who is leaving England, has come with her mother to bid farewell to Mrs. Calthorpe, to whom they both present their photographs. Later in the play when Fergus asks for a photograph of Mrs. Calthorpe, Perkins shows him Mrs. Hubbard's, which is most amusing, and thus he forms an utterly wrong conception of her. The part of Martha, the cook-general of Beach House was capably filled by Miss Bartlett. , When Perkins, by her audacity and charm has succeeded in making Fergus fall in love with her, she returns under her correct name, and having straightened out all complications, happily marries him. ELIZABETH WRIGHT

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RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 21 PRIZE GIVING This event was held on the evening of June 16th in the Concert Hall of the Auditorium. . When Miss Millard, accompanied by Mrs. Harte, the Chatelaine of Government House, and His Grace, Arch- bishop Matheson, appeared upon the platform, the spacious hall was filled with the friends of the school. The pupils of the grades below Form XI, then filed in from the side doors of the stage to the front rows. They were no sooner seated than a burst of triumphal music pealed forth! Everyone turned to see the graduating classes come in from the back of the hall. No one, who saw that white-clad procession of happy-faced girls, their arms filled with flame-coloured flowers, pass up the aisles, will ever forget that joyful march. Mrs. Harte presented the prizes and scholarships to the winners, from the very littlest ones in the Kindergarten to the tall young ladies among the graduates. After Miss Millard's report had been given, and the Archbishop had spoken a few kindly words, we wandered out into the soft evening air, our hearts full of the haunting words of our old song: We'll honour yet the school we knew, The best school of all. ELIZABETH CHURCH 'I' 'X' 'I' THE THREE BEARS There were three bears lived in a wood, Merrily blow the leaves-og They went for a walk to do them good, Among the green, green trees-o. A little girl named Goldylocks, Merrily blow the leaves-og Played in her garden sweet with stocks, Among the green, green trees-o. She came in sight of the three bears' house, Merrily blow the leaves-og She went to the door and crept like a mouse, Among the green, green trees-o. When she got there, on cloth white as snow, Merrily blow the leaves-og There were three plates of porridge all in a row, Among the green, green trees-o.