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

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RUPER'r's LAND' GIRLS' SCHOOL 15 exciting of the year, and fortunately resulted in a win for the School for both teams. A new feature in basketball started by Miss Faraday, is the junior team, which has proved to be a popular idea with Riverbend and St. Mary's Academy. Deck tennis is a new game organized last year by Miss Faraday, and provides great competition and enthusiasm amongst the Houses. Tennis is well under way now, and we are looking forward to a successful term of it. The Houses have been very active this year in carrying their responsibilities, the competition has been great and they have been working very hard, each trying to obtain the coveted shield. The most outstanding feature of the year, for the Houses, was the Zenana tea, which is entirely arranged by the four Houses g each House sends out invitations and is responsible for a table. The tea was very successful this year and resulted in a substantial contribution to the mission work that is being done.. The Alumnae Association has also been very active this year, the members entertained at a silver tea which was held in the School and was very successful towards helping the Old Girls' Scholarship Fund. On May 5th was held Old Girls' Prayers at which it was very nice to see so many old friends. Many of us who are leaving this year will probably become Alumnae, and for those who are not too busy it would be very nice to meet again and chat over our happy school days at the Alumnae Reading Club, which meets on alternate Monday afternoons. I cannot express how happy I have been this past year in being honoured with the position of Head Girl. I hate to see the year draw to a close, and although I shall no longer be a student here 1 shall always remain a part of this fine school and its fine traditions. 1 would also like to say how grateful we are to Miss Bartlett and the Staff for the marvellous help they have given us, and finally 1 would like to thank the prefects and the girls for their splendid co-operation that has helped to make the year such a happy one. IOCELYN RICHARDSON QHead Girlb. The School year 1958-1959 is nearly over, and we pause to think for a moment of the girls who are passing out from Grades XI and XII to continue their studies at the University, or to take up other work elsewhere. Especially are we sad to say good-bye to those who have been with us for a number of years, whom we have watched advance step by step from junior forms to matriculationg we cannot mention all of them, but one we must, and that is our Head Girl, Iocelyn Richardson. Iocelyn entered the School in 1955, and soon proved her ability in the field of sports: she became a member of the Second Basketball team in 1954, of the First in 1955, was School Sports Captain in 1957, and crowned her athletic achievements this year by winning the much coveted Senior Gymnastics Cup. When two members were to be chosen to join the Canadian Schools Coronation Tour, in May, 1956, a vote was taken to discover which girls were considered by the School to be most deserving of

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12 RUPER'r's LAND GIRLS' SCHOOL 1958-59' The School year of 1958-59, which now draws to a close, will undoubtedly go down in history as one long to be remembered. I am referring, of course, not to events which have taken place in our own School, but to those which have held the stage in European politics. It is perhaps too much to expect everyone to keep time with the fast changing map of Europe, the causes and effects, but I am quite sure we can be more proud today of our British inheritance than ever before. When our year is over we shall have one very outstanding event to look back on-the Royal Visit. The King and Queen will visit Winnipeg on May 24th, in connection with their tour throughout the Dominion of Canada. Every school in Winnipeg will have a location on the route from which to witness the procession. The Metropolitan High School Choir, which is made up of five hundred boys and girls chosen from high schools, junior high schools and private schools, will perform under the direction of Miss Ethel Kinley. We are proud to have six girls represent Rupert's Land in that choir, Leslie Florance, Mary Campbell, Ruth Fryer, Margaret Glover, Virginia Cameron and myself. The choir will march on to the Parliament grounds with the Minneapolis North High School band, and will be seated there in front of the erected stand to sing for the King and Queen. I am sure the Royal Family will be proud of the Canadian hospitality, and will see how they have won their way into the hearts of all Canadians. Last year we were very sorry to say good-bye to Miss Pether- bridge, Miss Waldon, and Miss McCance, we wish them the very best for the future, and we hope they will always remember our School. It was a great pleasure this year to welcome Miss Ralston, Miss Dubois, Miss Eldred, Miss Herkes, Miss Tinning, Miss Taylor and Miss Scott, who have already become part of the School. It is with sincere sympathy that we speak of the loss of Mrs. Roper and Miss Holditch, who were with us for so long, memories of whom will always be with us. The most outstanding entertainment of the School year was the dance given to Grades X, XI, and XII by Miss Bartlett and members of the Board, and I feel quite certain that all the girls will agree with me that it was really a wonderful party, at which we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. Besides the usual House and Form parties and the Initiation party for the new girls who are no longer considered new girls, Miss Bartlett and the Staff entertained both the Iunior and Senior Schools at very jolly Christmas parties, a novel entertainment being a ventriloquist. Sports this year have attained a high degree of excellence under the expert guidance of Miss Faraday. Sports day was held, and as usual it was a great success for the Houses. We had two basketball matches with Riverbend School and two with St. Mary's Academy, playing at home and away alternately, although we were not suc- cessful in all our matches, we were far from discouraged. Our most important match was with the Old Girls, which was the most

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14 RUPERT,S LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL the honour, Barbara Sweeting and Iocelyn Richardson were selected, and the choice was felt to have been justified when their letters came across the Atlantic relating their impres- sions of the Coronation scenes, and when they returned from England full of enthusiasm regarding' their trip. Iocelyn was one of the lucky few privi- leged to sing to Their Majesties on their visit to Winnipeg on May 24. As Head Girl, Iocelyn has shown a great sense of respon- sibility, an enthusiastic interest in every School activity, and a cheerful equilibrium in daily school life. She has been more than populaI+she has been liked and looked up to by all of us, and so well has she proved her affection for and loyalty to the School, that we know that however busy she finds herself in her Home Economics course at the University, she will find time, now and then, to pay us a visit and see for herself how things are going in the old School to which she has given such loyal service. She takes with her our best wishes for all possible success and happiness in the future.-S.L.T. IOCELYN RICHARDSON 966 THE HOUSE SYSTEM 1 PRIZE ESSAY-SENIOR Each person in this whole wide world has a natural desire for success: the coolie in China for more rice, the headhunter in Africa for more heads, and so on throughout the world to the schoolgirl. She also dreams of coming to the top and of some day having achieved that irresistible something which is success What is success? Success is happiness in life and joy of others. But there are many and varied roads in life, of which only one leads to this goal-post success, and if at school the child is set upon this road, how much easier her path in life will bel There is the signpost Selfishness, which points out a narrow, lonely road, and there are also the signposts Underhand Methods, Shiftiness, Foolish Pride, Carelessness, and Lack of Interest. These signposts may be passed by, the place to leave them is in school, and a sure way to leave them is demonstrated by the House System. What is the House System? I have taken as an example of this system one directly beneath my notice, the system applied in my own school,.Rupert's Land. It is a system by which the pupils of a