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

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6 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE corners which have been raised around our School, and all these are steps towards the ideal. Our new Homecraft Course will some day develop into a very big room I hope, so that one of my big personal aims for the school will be realized. One of the very encouraging features of the year was the excellent results of the Departmental examinations in Grades XII and XI, which appeared in August. Many of the girls who had worked so hard during the year, felt themselves rewarded.. The high standard of much of the work in Grades X and IX made us hopeful of equally good results next summer. Then, the responsible attitude of you all towards school elections CSchool Captain, Prefects, Esprit de Corps winners, etcl , have made me very happy during the last two years. I know you are beginning to realize your responsi- bilities and to use your judgment- preparations toward living a full and useful life when you leave school. When you were preparing the material for this magazine, you had not heard of the resignation of Mr. Beech. I know how much you will all regret his absence from Rupert's Land, where he has worked faithfully for seventeen years. Our best wishes go with him and Mrs. Beech for their continued health and happiness - they celebrated their golden wedding two years ago. ' Finally, our thanks go to Miss Turner, who has so unselfishly edited our magazine, and to all who have worked to make it a success. With love and best wishes, Yours affectionately, G. E. MILLARD

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Ihr TEIQIP VOL. V. OCTOBER, 1933 No. 1 MISS MlLLARD'S LETTER November, 1933 Dear Girls, Past and Present: Though this letter is addressed to you all, it will be read this year, I expect, more especially by present girls than by those of the past, Q5,fQhB,.Old Girls are producing their own News Bulletin. fHowever, in case this does find its Way into--any Old Girl's hands, we from the school offer you our best Wishes for the continued success of the Old Girls' Association and our sincerest greetings. The years fly by so quickly that you jolly little Kinder- garten people are tall, grown-up seniors, taking Leaving Certificates at Prize-giving before we can realize it. Then you come back to see us as members of the Alumnae, and how good it is to have you with us again. I Wonder if you can realize what happiness it is to Watch the progress and development of a girl from Kindergarten to Grade XII? How much interest one takes in her successes and what sympathy one feels for her in her difficulties. At Rupert's Land we are privileged to do this, as many of you spend your whole school life with us. You cannot imagine how happy we were in September when several seniors came back to Grade XII, girls who had been With us for so many years. We spend such busy lives at school that we find it difficult sometimes to find time to be still and to consider Whether or not We are trying to live up to the high aims and ideals We have set before us. Do you notice, that as We reach up our aim goes even higher? That is what makes school life so interesting and absorbing, because I feel that you are all trying to build a splendid Rupert's Land With us. Building a school is so much more engrossing than building a material thing. How expensive it would be for a house-owner to add rooms and odd corners continually to his home. Yet that is what we are always trying to do at school-trying to find Ways to improve our school so that every girl coming to us may find moreihelp and happiness. I feel our Self-Government, the House System, with its many and varied activities, our Literary Society, the Inter- House Musical Festival, the Form Societies for raising missionary funds, the House Drill-Teams, etc., are all l l

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RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 7 1932 SCHOOL CALENDAR : 1932-1933 Sept. 14-School opens. Welcome to Miss Sharman, Miss Dovey, Miss 23 Parker and Miss Harding. -Boarders' Initiation party. 30-School Initiation party. 7-Grade IX Tag Day. 10-Thanksgiving Day. School holiday. 20-Members of the Upper School visit new Auditorium. 21-Lecture on Ancient Egypt by Mr. Glanville, of the British Museum. 28-Boarders' Hallowe'en party. 29-Recital given by Captain James and the Princess Patricia Band. . -Commemoration Service at St. John's Cathedral, sermon preached by Rev. J. F. Cross. 11-Armistice Day. School holiday. 19-Zenana Mission Sale. 25-Dr. Douglass gave a talk on My Trip around the World, to which Boarders were invited. -Lecture on The Socialization of Architecture, by Prof. W. F. Osborne. 14-House Musical Competitiong adjudicated by Mrs. J. Roberto Wood. Matheson House won. 16-School breaks up. Senior Christmas party. 17-Junior Christmas party. 5-School re-opens. -Grade IX toboggan party, entertained afterwards by Mrs. R. E. Stewart. -Grade XI picnic at Mrs. R. S. Law's, Middlechurch. 11-Grade X Tally Ho! Entertained by Mrs. J. H. McDonald. -Tally Ho! Given for the staff by the Prefects and House officials. Entertained at Government House. 23-Miss Sutherland's lecture on Story-Telling. Oct. Nov. 1 Dec. 9 1933 Jan. Feb. 3 4 17 Mar. 9 16 April 3 4 7 3-Members of Grade XI saw a performance of Oliver Crom- Well, - given by students of Kelvin Technical High School. -Members of Grade XII attended a lecture on The Old Curiosity Shop, by kind invitation of the Dickens Society. -Novelty Dance Tea organized by Grade XII and the Form Presidents. -Story-telling Competition, adjudicated by Miss Edna Suther- land. 5-Parents entertained. Display of physical training, art and school work. -School breaks up. Performance of The Man from Alberta.