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

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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

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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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T H E E A G L E 21 SECOND TERM- Maximum Dalton Jones Machray Matheson fSeniOr Basketball J Sportsi Senior VOlley.ball .. 20 15.61 10.97 19.91 20.00 lMiddle School Volleyball Conduct ............,...................................... 40 34.59 36.44 34.74 36.22 Work ,.,,,... . ............................................ 40 34.12 30.00 32.63 28.61 Total .........., 100 84.32 77.41 87.28 84.83 I first: Elaine Bathie, Our singing Soloist. stood third, and our choir stood fourth. In the whole competition Jones placed third. Another member of Jones House, Joan Norrie, displayed unrealized vocal prowess when she came second in her singing class in the Festival. As yet Jones has held no social events. but we hope to have a picnic in the near future. Again this year Tones is going to share the Assembly Hall with Machray at the annual Mission Tea to be held on Satur- day, May Sth. We hope that this venture will be as Successful as it has been other years. Now, as we come to the end of another very happy year, I would like to express. on behalf of the girls of Jones House. our gratitude to Miss McLean, Miss Smith. and Natalie for their untiring efforts in the House, .and to wish Jones a very pros- perous and happy 1945-46. with the shield more nearly, if not entirely within our grasp. NANCY' BRIDGETT, fSecretary-TreasurerJ. MACHRAY HOUSE Executive PRESIDENT .... ............................. IX Iiss Eldred ASSOCIATE ........ ...........,,,, Mrs. Gray CAPTAIN ...................,................ Elspeth Young PREI-'ECTS .... Joan Arnold, Martha Grimble JUNIOR LIEUTENANTS ,............... Theo Jelly, Pat Wilson SENIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .... Barbara Copeland JUNIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN ........ Sheila Young SECRETARY-TREASURER ...... ....... B etty Hurst 'N URSTING with House Spirit after a year under enthusiastic House Captain of last year, Pat Chesshire, and our helpful President, Miss Eldred, the thirty-nine girls Of Machray HOuSe'began the year full Of -zeal. We were very glad to welcome to our House Mrs. Gray, who was Soon in great demand for reading people'S charac- ters by their handwriting. The Machray Intermediates have this year proved themselves to be the most valued members of the House, contribut- ing many points by skilful baskets, good volleyball Serves. and high academic averages. Machray started the year in a very angelic wav, by being the last House to add a black square to the detention sheet in the hall. and for this achievement, a special House meeting was called. and each girl was rewarded for her self-control by getting a ginger-snap. However, the cookies must have had upsetting effects, because Soon our sheet was sprinkled with black squares! There are some people in Machray who. this year, have been particularly notable in contributing to the success of the House. Barbara Copeland has been most capable as Senior Sports Captain: Dorothy Newman has shown skill in her volleyball serves in the Intermediate games: Jean McEachern and Rosemary VVatkins have maintained very good academic Standings: Miriam Baker, Jane Matheson, Sheila Young and Joan Everett have shown agility in Inter- mediate basketballg Martha Grimble has thrilled basketball fans with some lovely baskets, On the SchOol's First Team. In fact, this year the girls of Machray have shown themselves to be people of enthusiasm and integrity, and if, next year they have again stood first in marks at the end of the first two terms,.they will have Something to be very proud Of. Come on, Machray: we know you can do it! MATHESON HOUSE Executive PRESIDENT .................................. Miss Sharman .ASSOCIATES .... Miss Speers, Mrs. Anderson CAPTAIN ,,,,... ........................... J eanne Beatty PREFECTS .......................... Mildred Parry, Elspeth Thompson JUNIOR LIEUTENANTS ............ Pat Liggins, Janet Knowler SENIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN .Q .......... Billie Baker JUNIOR SPORTS CAPTAIN ,.., Elizabeth 'Patton SECRETARY-TREASURER .......... Nancie Tooley 'S' I-IE year 1944-45 has been a successful and happy one for all the members of Matheson House, due to the capable guid- ance Of our president, Miss Sharman, and Jeanne Beatty, the captain.