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

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THE EAGLE 19 themselves to be musically our superiors when they earned 86 marks for their own choice, the difficult setting of Schubert to The Lord is my Shepherd, while we gave Dr. Staton 85 marks worth of The Water of Tynef, I hope that next year the girls will enter the Festival again and make an effort to win. But whether they win or not, I have sufficient confidence in their good sportsmanship to be sure that if they do enter again they will do justice to their teacher's training and profit by the experience. This year a School Song was composed which we are publishing in the magazine. In connection with this song, a most interesting paragraph was noticed in an old school magazine dated 1931. In her letter to the girls, Miss Millard. then Head Mistress. said this: 4 For some time I have been meaning to suggest to the school that we should try to compose a School Song, or to choose one already written, for Rupert's Land. I feel that school spirit would be increased very much by our singing together a good song which in some way embodied our aims and aspiration. VVill you try to help us? If you fail, I am g-oing to suggest one of ,Iohn Oxenhanfs, the last verse of which is: 'Ever onward to the tight, Ever upward to the Light. Ever true to God and Right, Up and on l' Those words and the ideas conveyed fit in rather well, don't you think, with our crest, the eagle, and our motto, 'Alta iPetens'? We cannot claim for our song that it is good : it was written as an experiment with the idea of encouraging other suggestions. Its permanence is not anticipated, but it is an attempt to embody in some way the girls' aims. and it was received with some enthusiasm by them. When I leave these girls and the school I will feel that I am leaving something of myself behind me, but I will also. I hope. after twelve years, be taking something of the schooI's aims and ideals with me. I feel that I owe the school a debt of gratitude for giving me the privilege of having such experiences as I have wandered or rushed through this year. -Especially do I want to thank Miss Bartlett, Miss Sharman, and Miss Turner for their guidance and assistance throughout the year, I would probably have gone to the dogs without them. A paragraph remains. When I first began to write this I had just heard of Roosevelt's death. As I finish, the San Francisco conference is embarking on its fourth day. The majority of the peoples of the world are involved in this conference and we must pray that, all nations respecting the rights of one another in a' time when mercy tempers justice, generations in the very near future may be able to say that they have striven until The war-drum throbbld no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. AMY Bissr CHead Girll.

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18 RUPERT's LAND GIRLS' SCHOOL HOCKED by the sudden death of President Roosevelt, stirred by the great vic- tories Which the Allied armies have won on every front, harrowed by the awful price which men are paying to maintain our freedom and theirs, I must now try in some way to bring the past school year into perspective. By the time that this is read the thunderstruck amazement and bewilderment created by the President's death will have abated, and the effects of that catastrophe will have been partially clarified. Meanwhile it is difficult, yet necessary, to conjecture what the next few months may hold. It is the duty of all the Senior School, as future citizens of a chaotic world, to acquire and maintain an intelligent and broad-,minded outlook upon both national and international affairs? I fully realize how easy it is to see no farther than 'our school Walls and city limits. The-re has been a worth-while Red Cross effort this year, especially in the very successful bazaar held by Grades V., VI. and VII. The juniors might remember that in only a few more years they w'ill .be the prefects, we who are now the Council only dimly recollected Old Girls, that the more a girl ,does the mone she becomes capable of doing. The Intermediates, too, have shown considerable executive ability, initiative, and increasing maturity in outlook. Such things as knitting and sewing may seem small when compared with the magnitude of this war, but they constitute something essential which every average girl can do. As the battle for Iwo lima fully testified, the greater the victory is ,the greater are the casualties: I am fully aware that we have not done all that we could, in our circumscribed school world, to alleviate universal suffering. Therefore I urge that next Sieptember, now that peace has come within our grasp, the girls will not forget Mrs. McWilliams' excellent explanation of the aims of the U.N.R.R.A., and will, by doing their utmost, small as their individual part may seem, help to create peace in our homes and com- munities, in our country, and in the world. Although the girls' war effort has not always been commendable, we have had considerable activity in other lines in our school this year. Inter-house competition, especially in sports and in our music competition, has been keen. Therehave been other activities too, to prevent any semblance of peaceful calm from stealing over the old building. As can be seen by a glance at the School Calendar, we had our Initiation Day in late September. Then the Staff again very kindly gave three Christmas parties, one for the juniors, one for the intermediates, and one for the seniors, which proved to be most entertaining, the senior party closing, in what is becoming a traditional manner, with the singing of Christmas Carols and Auld Lang Syne. In February of the Easter term a Variety Show was held in which the majority of the senior girls took part either as performers or as equally important stage assistants and business managers. Near the end of the Easter term the grade nines presented a most amusing play, Sauce for the Gosling, and gave the proceeds to the Red Cross. Our Annual Mission Tea is to be held this year on the fifth of May in the Summer term, and then will come what might well be called the climax of'all the activities of our School Year, Prize Giving. As in any well constructed story, We are gently brought down to earth again. This occurs a little later with a lapse of holidays and the arrival of our reports. - i I 1 ,gf This year twenty-three girls from the senior singing class did something which has not been done for over ten years. We competed in the Festival against Oxford House. The test piece, The Rising of the Lark, from Oxford House was Worth 83 marlcsg it dropped two marks in value when we sang it. Oxford House again proved

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20 RUPERTJS LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL l Finn-2-c Nntcs FIRST TERM- Maximum Dalton Jones Machray Matheson Sports CMiddle School Basketballj .... 10 7.14 3.57 10.00 8.57 Conduct ...................................................... 30 27.24 27,00 27,69 27,24 VVOrk ............................. 40 34.86 31,76 34,11 31,35 Music Competition ...... - 20 17.47 17.27 16.93 17.40 Total ............. 100 86.71 79,60 88,73 84,56 DALTON HOUSE Executive PRESIDENT .................................,.. Miss Turner ASSOCIATES ...... Miss Newton, Mrs. Purdie CAPTAIN ,,,,.. ..............,,.,.....,,..... une Sinden PRICFECTS ....... ..,... S helagh Fisher, Daphne Goulding TUNIOR LIEUTENANTS .,,........... Pat Gattey, H Anita Aitken SENIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .... Daphne Goulding JUNIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .,.... Louise Pellenz SECRETARY ... ..........,.................... Pat McKnight 'W Y achievements in various fields, many of its members have brought honor to Dalton House this year. Fxcelling scholastically, Amy Best won one of the four top lsbister Scholarships for VVinnipeg last year. Throughout the year. Amy has Obtained A standing in Grade 12, and we are very proud to have her Head Girl in our House. Another outstanding scholar is Wiiiifred Grayston with A average in Grade 11. Dalton boasts two especially musical members, one being Anita Aitken, who. with her lovely contralto voice, topped her class in the Manitoba Festival with 86 and 87 marks. Anita, as DaltOn's vocal soloist in the House Festival, placed first with 89 marks. Betty-IO Ball, our pianist, came fourth in the Manitoba Festival with 83. while her musical solo in the House com- petition helped Dalton to place first. Sports enthusiasts in Dalton have dis- tinguished themselves in many fieldsg Daphne Goulding, school sports captain and a prefect of Dalton, is a competent photographer and an excellent defence on the school's first basketball teamg Louise Pellenz, vice-sports captain, june Sinden, house captain, and Amy Best, Head Girl, are all first team members. Pat McKnight is a guard on the Second team. Donna Armstrong Won two firsts. one second. and two fourth prizes in the Regina Horse Show during the Easter Holidays. In figure Skating Pair for Greater Wiiiiiipeg, Shelagh McKnight and her part- ner placed Second. Rosemary Henderson also proved her skating skill at the Skating Carnival. House Captain, June Sinden, an accom- plished dancer. thrilled Variety Show audiences in February with a Spanish Castanet dance. E Pat Gattey, a Junior Lieutenant, worked tirelessly back-stage during the Variety Show. contributing to its success. She also helped to plan the enjoyable Hallowe'en Party. , - I Dalton succeeded in winning the Shield last year. This year's results are not yet complete, so, come on Dalton! PAT MCKNIGHT, CSecretaryj. JONES HOUSE , Executive PRESIDENT ....... ....................... M iss McLean ASSOCIATE ..................................... . Miss Smith HOUSE CAPTAIN .,.........,..,,..,,,,,,,, Natalie Baie PREFECTS ....... Betty Baker, Nancy Martin LIEUTENANTS ...,.,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Nancy Pearce, Aileen Dickinson SENIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .,,. Margaret Killick JUNIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .......... Esme Nanton SECRETARY-TREASURER ........ Nancy Bridgett 'N ITH the re-opening of school last September we greatly missed Miss Bussell who had left Rupert's Land in June and would therefore no longer be our House President. We were very pleased, however, to welcome Miss McLean as our new pre- sident, and Miss Smith 'as associate. On the School basketball teams this year we have Jennifer McQueen who is the captain of the Junior team, Margaret Killick, Betty Baker and Aileen Dickinson on the Third team and Lucille Smith on the Second team, so we feel Jones to be fairly well represented. In the music competition, held for the first time in many years this November, ,Tones House made a fair showing. Lucille Smith, as our pianoforte soloist, stood