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

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24 RUPERT,S LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL Thank you, Miss Foster, Miss Kennedy, and Mrs. Purdie, for all your help, and good luck to those girls who will not be with us next year. We hope that those who are coming back will keep Machray's standards still steadier and higher in the future! RUTH FRYER CSecretaryj. MATHESON HQUSE President and Staff Associates ....... ...... .. Miss SHARMAN, Miss DUBOIS, Miss ELDRED Honorary Captain ....................................... .LESLIE FLORANCE House Captain ................................................ MARY TOMKINS House Prefects and Senior Lieutenants....JEAN SELLERS AND DOROTHY KING Junior Lieutenants ........................................ SYDNEY ROBERTS, ELIZABETH JOHNSON Senior and Junior Sports Captains ........ .JEAN SELLERS, LOLA IVIARSON House Secretary ........................................... .NANCY KEYES In a short time we shall have reached the end of what has been a very enjoyable and satisfactory year for Matheson House. Again this year we had the honor of having the Head Girl as Honorary Captain. For the first time in history, Matheson was top House on Sports' Day, and first in Basketball and Deck Tennis, third in Badminton, and Tennis has still to come. Due to the good work of all the girls and to our sports, we have managed to hold first place, too. in Term results. Though our conduct has not been a help, we still hope we have a good chance to win back the Shield. A At the Mission Tea Matheson shared the Assembly Hall with Jones. and gave a Shadow Play Cinderella, directed by Dorothy King. Thus far this year we had only one party, the Junior House, when after fun tobogganing at River Park. the Juniors came back

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RUPERT,S LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL 23 MACHRAY HGUSE NOTES President and Associates ......... Mlss FOSTER, MRS. PURDIE, Miss KENNEDY House Captain ............,, ......... B ERYL FORD Prefects ,.,,..,,,,.....,.,,,.....,,., ,,,,,,.,, J ANET WILSON AND MARGARET STOVEL Senior Sports Captain .....,.,, FRANCES HAZLETONQ Deputy-MARY LEGGATT Junior Sports Captain ,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,, MARGARET TOMKINS Junior Lieutenants ......... ......... R OBERTA WILCOX AND ANNE CUNNINGHAM Treasurer ...................................... SYLVIA RETALLICK Secretary .................... ,................... R UTH FRYER Our first big effort was for the inter-house Sports' Day on October 6. VV e were quite successful in the Final totals, coming second with fifty-one points, just six points behind the winner, Matheson. The Mission Tea, in preparation for which committees were busy for weeks, was very well managed, due to zealous officers and the girls' co-operation. As well as the act11al tea-table, Machray sponsored a candy-stall, to which any member of the school could contribute candy. Its results were better than we had hoped, and our final profit was more than 32400. We would like to thank our friends who poured for us, and all the other guests who made such satisfactory results possible. Machray's sports have not been so successful as last year, although we came second in the deck-tennis tournaments, we have, however, kept a high work average and set a record in conduct. During the autumn term we had twenty-nine detentions, and in the Easter team only twenty-eight, with no order marks in either. Con- gratulations, girls, and do the same next year. The date of our annual picnic has been set for the afternoon of Friday, May 31, at Kildonan Parkg we expect to have a wonderful time.

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RUPERT's LAND GIRLS' ScHooL 25 for tea and games in the new Common Room. Plans have been made for our summer picnic. The scholarship which His Grace, Archbishop Matheson kindly offers, was awarded, last year, to Leslie Florance. Every girl is working hard this year, too, for some fortunate one will win it. This closes the account of Matheson's activities for the year, so let us wish all our present and ex-Matheson members the best of luck. N.1XNCY KEYES tSecretaryj. PRUNELLA The fantasy, Prunella, by Lawrence Housman and Granville Barker, this year forms part of the English course on the Grade Eleven Curriculum. This, added to the fact that it is a charming play, attested to the sound choice of its producer, Sylvia Lloyd Turner. The play was presented in the concert hall of the Auditorium on the night of January the twenty-ninth. The cast of twenty was chosen from Grades X, Xl and XII. Their performance deserves high praise not only on account of the sincere portrayal of the characters in the play, but also because of the understanding manner in which the elfin-like quality of the atmosphere was maintained. The story concerns a girl who was brought up by three strict aunts and who ran away with an actor, only to return broken-hearted and weary to her home three years later. Leading male part and the heaviest role in the production was taken by Leslie Florance. who. as Pierrot, brought to mind the lovable yet heartless Great God Pan. in her interpretation of the vain mum- mer. Frances Hazleton drew many laughs from an appreciative audience as Scaramel, the toe-dancing servant of Pierrot. Prunella. showing three entirely different moods, was successfully characterized by Thelma Draper. The three gardeners, Mary Doris Le Roy, Margaret Stovel and Jean Sellers impressed us with their love of work, and a country boy who charmed us with his voice, taken by Mary Leggatt, gave life to the lovely garden where the story was unfolded. . Muriel Ferguson, as the hired singer for Pierrot, very easily melted the heart of Prunella. The three aunts were delightful. Ruth Fryer, Mary Medland and Gertrude Hoppins gave excellent interpretations of these old- fashioned guardians. Mary Tomkins as the bustling maid-servant Quaint, drew a gust of laughter every time she appeared on the stage. The little statue of Love, Jennifer McQueen, who came to life on four occasions to give advice, was a model of patience and endurance.