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

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26 'RUPERTJS LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL Jan. 31-Friendship book completed and taken to Guide Office for Bess- borough Shield Competition. Feb. 15-Greater Winnipeg Patrol Leaders' Conference at' which Margaret Killick was presented with her 100 Hours War Service Badge. Zl-Visit from Flight Officer M. VVeiss CW.D.j, an Old Girl of the school, who taught us drill in three ranks Qas done in the servicesj. ZZ-Thinking Day CLord Baden- Powell's birthdayj. Our company collected a small sum for the Thinking Day fund. Mar. 10-First Class Home Nursing and Thrift. l7-National Guide Cookie Day- our company sold 250 packages, totalling over 956000. 17-Small medicine bottles were col- lected to be used in the City Hospitals. Apr. 22-Church Parade at Christ Church. May 2-Visit from Mrs. Girling. 5-First Class Tests. During the Easter term, Miss Paulson kindly taught second and first class First Aid, passing many of the Guides. We are also grateful to Mrs. Crozier, who came to teach us Morse on our newly bought buzzer. VVe are very much interested in this method of signalling and hope that some of us will be able to pass our Sig- nallers' Badge. One of our chief projects this year was compiling a Friendship Book, containing pictures of Canadian life Cindustries, trans- portation, sports, fashions, .birds, animals, stamps, pictures of our company, and Hags of the many nations from which Canadians comeb, to be sent with others from com- panies throughout Manitoba to countries of liberated Europe. These books were judged for the Bessborough Shield and we were pleased to hear that we had received an honourable mention. Ann Gostling, Margaret Killick, Mary Lou Sime, and Doris Twidale attended Guide Camp last summer, the first three at Ponemah, Lake Winnipeg, and the latter at Pike Lake, Sask. The camp was grand fun and even better than our anticipation. To make up for peeling masses of pota- toes, consuming rice and gaisin pudding once a week, and swatting mosquitoes, there were games, sport and stunt nights, swimming, campfires apple-pie beds, and midnight feasts. This year a good deal of badge work has been done, Jane Wallace and Ann Drew have passed their second class, and several Guides have almost completed the Work for their first class badge' and have earned the following proficiency badges during the year and at Guide camp: Athlete, Artist, Child Nurse, Cook, Homemaker, Hostess, Knitter, Laundress, Needlewoman, Pioneer, and Swimmer. All in all, we have had a very success- ful year, and we would particularly like to thank our captain, Mrs. Gostling, who has given us so much encouragement in our work and arranged such an interesting year for us. ANN GOSTLING. MARGARET KILLICK. BROWNIEIS Brownies, Brownies, we are called the Brownies, .Merrily we trip along, as we sing our Brownie song. N November an enrolment and fly-up was held. Mrs. 'Girling, D.C., visited the pack and enrolled Helen Gregg, Elizabeth Nairnsey and Katherine Vlassie. Golden Hands were presented to Johanne Wintemute and Ruth Simonds. The visi- tors and parents played Hey, Little Lassie and Skip To My Lou with great aban- donment, which clearly showed they could catch the Brownie magic of the afternoon. In December the Brownies attended the District Tea which was put on by the local association for the benefit of provid- ing uniforms for underprivileged Guides. Shortly after this, Mrs. Oliver found it impossible to continue with the pack, and since then it has been greatly handicapped. It has been impossible to find a new per- manent Brown Owl. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Girling have done their best to keep things skipping along. Mrs. Purdie offered to train the Golden Bar Brownies, and Delphine Davey, Eliza- beth Gill, Isobel Jones, Glen Murray and Katherine Young are hoping under her inspiration to earn their Golden Hand and Wings in June. Last week two Cadets came to our aid. Marion Swan, Brown Owl of the First Presbyterian pack, and Evelyn Murray, a former Rupertsland girl, and they have taken over as Brown Owl and Tawny Owl until the end of the year. We are hoping that by next term a Brown Owl will have been found. To do good turns is sometimes very hard, And so we we have to be upon our guard, To do our best in everything, As well as form our Fairy Ring. A DISTRICT COMMISSIONER

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Q 1 4 T ll If lf A C1 l lr 93 4 . 4 J .- THIRD AND JUNIOR BASKETBALL TEAMS There was no inter-,Qracle hashethall in the Easter term. The Gym Competition will take place on May 10th, and Mrs. Robinson of the Y.W.C..LX. and Miss Forsythe of the Normal School will be the judges. During' the Sinnmer term we all look forward to the Deck tennis matches which promise enjoyment. G5uihn5 auth THE NINTH COMPANY GIRL GUIDES CAVPAIN H ................ Mrs. Ci. S. N. Gostling lilwlvird Palm! LEADER .r.. ........................,,.... S heila Young' SECOND .... ...............,,... S helagh Mclsfniglit Rea' Rose Patrol LEADER ..... ......,............. . .... K largaret Killick SECOND .... .......,,,,................ . Alison Govan Oriole Patrol LEADER ..... ............................ D Tanet Cameron SECOND .... ......,..,,,,,,.,.,...,,,,., D oris Twidale .Sil'Lfl111l'0C'k Patrol LEADER .... .............................. . 'Kun Gostling SECOND .... .... I ane Wallace l.J.Xl'll Nli GOULDING. tfSports Captainl. glg1'IJflI1IlL'5 HIS year has heen a most successful and interesting one for the Ninth Company. VVe welcomed many new Guides, hut were sorry to lose -loy Tredennick and Valerie Hallancl who left us during the year to return to their homes m England. Much has heen accomplished and the fol- lowing' is an outline of the year's activities: Sept. 19-Upening' Meeting. Oct. 14-First Class Half Day Hike. '7t7wCl1urch Parade at Grace Church. Nov. 9-Guide Camp Reunion at All Saints' Church. Dec. Z-District Tea held at R. L. S. to raise money for the district. Z-Brownie Fly Up - visit from our District Commissioner, Mrs. Girling. 16--First Class Mapping' Tests.

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THE EAGLE 27 Tillie Qtris bei .5 ,A o X. f s , if li. ' r 5-fi Wim i '- 'fl' P If ft, ,N .IL If M., it Y li i' XL l r 1 ' li! ' as 1 ffl i c . i ffvi' 'lx j .fx 4,2 MT' 1,003 jg-47-Q 0 , H - pm! fa mg j,'flqfj'r.dk tme !Dl lr asf? MUSIC DANCING HIS year there has been a good deal of activity in various branches of music, which we hope will continue and develop next year. The Music Competition between the houses, in piano, solo singing and choral singing, took place in November, and gave the girls valuable experience, especially in selecting choirs, accompanying and con- ducting them. Most helpful and encourag- ing adjudications were given by Miss Ethel Kinley and Miss Marjorie Dillabough. Many piano students enrolled in Septem- ber, and, under the tuition of Miss Helen Hines and Miss Davies have made good progress. The Studio Club met at the school in December and March, its activi- ties culminating in the recital given for the parents in May. . A number of girls entered for competi- tions in the Music Festival, and in the class for girls Clow voicel Anita Aitken came first, and Joan Norrie tied for second place. Although the school choir, directed by Mr. Stanley Osborne. was defeated by Oxford High School. the girls sang well, and are very grateful to Mr. Osborne for so patiently devoting much of his valuable time to training them. The Middle and Junior School has had another enjoyable year studying music with Miss Davidson. On November 1 the seniors sang in the choir at St. Iohn's and now they are preparing an anthem and other music for the Alumnae Service at Holy Trinity in June. Several girls have played for school prayers: particularly are we indebted to Lucille Smith for her skilful and willing hymn-playing both morning and evening. Thanks are due to Miss Hines, Miss Davies, Miss Davidson and Mr. Osborne for all their help and encouragement. O hold the annual display of dancing at Rupert's Land is quite exciting, but to take a company of thirty people two thousand miles to dance in Ottawa is really thrilling. The Winnipeg Ballet was asked to go and perform for the Recreational Association of Ottawa in their Canadian Celebrity Series. Imagine the preparation of costumes for the school display multiplied by about fifty and you will have some idea of the amount of work entailed in pre- paring the ballet company for a show of those proportions. In addition is the sort- ing of innumerable small adjuncts to every costume. such as head-dress, stockings. gloves, shoes. sashes. etc.: everything must be ironed and checked on arrival - the scenery hung and the lighting arranged. The ballet company had a special coach on the train and everyone stayed at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. Many of the dancers spent their free time in the beautiful swimming pool there. The performances were a great success. with sell-outs both evenings. and everyone in Ottawa was very kind to us, inviting the company out to parties after the per- formances. In addition, the people of Ottawa were extremely appreciative of the Work which dancers are doing in Win- nipeg. Dancers in Rupert's Land are also help- ing to build up this standard of artistic work in Western Canada. The classes have done good work this year, always doing their best with what talent each girl possesses, even though it is not always very much. The Tunior Class is larger than usual, while the Intermediate Class has main-