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

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20 RUPERT,S LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL HHEIQUZIIIP Exerutiur, 1545-47 Photo by Harold White ADVISOR TO THE EDITORS .,...,.....v....,,.,,,,.,,,,,,,, ,,,,,4,4,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,44.4,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,444 M iss Turner EDITORS ...........,,,.............,......,. Barbara Cameron, Margaret Killick, Beth McEachern CONVENORS: SPORTS ,,.,..,..,,.,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,AA,,,,,,,,,A,,Y,V,,,,A,,,,,,,,,4,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,, Jennifer McQueen ACTIVITIES ,,,,, ,,,,,,,,A,,, G wen Roberts BUSINESS MANAGER ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,s,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, P riscilla Rayner ASSISTANTS ,.,.r,,... ,,.,,,, E lizabeth Patton, Lucille Smith PHOTOGRAPHY ...,.,,. ,,,,,,,,,,,,s,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,..,..,,,.,, D O nna Kelley ASSISTANTS ,,S,,,w ,.v4,., S usan De Lamater, Esme Nanton, Ann Windatt ART sA,.s4...,.. Shirley Anderson Donna Armstrong Joan Armstrong Gaie Brock Madeleine Blight Alison Govan ,Janet Cameron, Audrey ADVERTISING COMMITTEE CONVENORS: Betty Jo Ball, Eloise Green Joanne Booker Susan Clifford Eileen Conlin Norma Davidson Anne Kobar Jackie Langtry Shannon Hall Maureen Marsh Peggy Musgrove Paula Munro FORM REPRESENTATIVES Gail Florance Cynthia Clarke Van Slyck Shelagh McKnight Janet Reid Elaine Tempest Mary Tucker Sheila Young. Johanne Wintemute

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THE EAGLE illlima Iliartlrtfia Erttrr MY DEAR GIRLS, I suppose these has never been a time when there has been a greater feeling of uncertainty in the world than there is to-day. During the years of war, which covered such a large pro- portion of your lives, there was much less of this feelingg we all knew what we had to do, we had to keep going, striving, working, sacrificing until the war was over, It is since those wonder- ful V-E and V-J days that we have lived as it were on the brink of an abyss, not knowing what to expect nor where the next step may take us. We always said during the war that settling down to peace would be even more difficult than winning the victory, though most of us, I think, secretly hoped it might not be so. Now we know how difficult it is proving to be, and you girls have indeed tremendous problems to face as you go out from school into the life of adults. Just recently there has come to you over the air such a ringing challenge, such a clarion call as should stir you all to a determination to obey the call and take up the challenge, to go forward dauntless and with high courage into the future. I hope you all heard or read Princess Elizabeth's birthday talk. If you did not, get hold of a copy somehow. Its simple sincerity and deep feeling cannot fail to move you, and the greatest note is that of unselfishness and a sense of duty. I can- not do better, I feel, this year than to let my message to you be Princess Elizabeth's message. I will therefore finish this letter by quoting some of her words: Will you, the youth of the British family of nations, let me speak on my birth- day as your representative? Now that we are coming to manhood and womanhood. it is surely a great joy to all of us to think we shall be able to take some of the burden off the shoulders of our elders who have fought and worked and suffered to protect our childhood. We must not be daunted by the anxieties and hardships that the war has left for every nation of our commonwealth. We know that these things are the price we cheerfully undertook to pay for the high honour of standing alone seven years ago in defense of the liberty of the world .... There is a motto which has been borne by many of my ancestors - a noble motto - 'I servef Those words were an inspiration to many bygone heirs to the throne when they made their knightly dedication as they came to manhood. I can- not do quite as they did, but through the inventions of science I can do what was not possible for any of them. I can make my solemn act of dedication with a whole empire listening. I should like to make that dedication now. It is very simple. I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. but I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it. I know you will all help. Yours affectionately, ELSIE M. BARTLETT.

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THE EAGLE 21 T hitnriztl Our school life can, and does, have a great influence upon us, because the training it gives is very valuable in preparing us to be good citizens. School is more than a routine of classes, homework, meetings and games, for school days can be the Best Years of Our Livesi' This is due to personal contacts one makes in a school, whether it is large or small, for getting along with people is a lesson we must all learn some time or other, and school is the best place for this. Co-operation is the keyword for get- ting along with people, it is not enough just to like and understand people of one's own age and temperament. The true mixer is at home and at ease with people of all kinds. In school, one can be friends with the young children in Grades One and Two right up to the members of the staff, as well as with people who have dif- ferent interests and personalities from one's own. Egotism and autocracy, shyness and in- feriority cannot exist where there is under- standing and co-operation. No one person can run everything in this world, any more than one person could have put on the Variety Show held at Rupe this year, or have done all the work that produced this magazine. Could one person make up the executive of such successful organizations as our Literary Society or Art Club? Certainly not! In fact there are no activities in a school that do not require co- operation in some degree. Working in executive positions, or sports teams, or on student councils while at school helps shy people to overcome their inferiority complexes which might otherwise burden them all their lives. It is interest in these things, the willingness to co-operate and be a part of such school life that makes up what is loosely termed school spirit. What exactly does the term school spirit mean? It is one which is hard to define. The real meaning is elusive because it is such an intangible thing and it is a combination of a lot of little things. The girls who do the little jobs, the unimportant, irksome, tasks which nevertheless must be done, are doing them not for personal glory, because there is none: not because they like doing them, because they are very tiresome, but because they must be done if the school is to run smoothly. The girls who helped behind the scenes at the Variety Show, the girls who collected advertisements for this magazine, the girls who wash dishes at the mission tea, are all in their own way, showing school spirit by doing jobs which they know will help things to keep going smoothly. Part of school spirit is the desire to be re- membered after one has left school. The girl who carves her name on the desk is merely trying to leave some tangible proof of her presence which will recall her memory to the minds of other girls for years in the future. Others choose a more adult way of leaving an impression in the memory of the school, for no girl with school spirit would want to be for- gotten as soon as she graduates. Some try to excel in a particular subject, sports or drama, music, art or other fields, in order that by their personal achievement in winning awards, they may reflect honor upon the school. It is school spirit that impels a girl to take an executive position she may not particularly want to hold, in some city-wide organization-not from per- sonal desire, but because she feels that her school should be represented, and that if she does her very best she can help raise the reputation of the school. It is not the number of positions a girl holds, nor the time she spends fulfilling them, but it is the spirit in which she does them that reveals her true school spirit. As we grow older and leave school, this spirit develops into a more mature, national and inter- national spirit. Our life enters another phase, and as Dr. MacFarlane said at Prize Giving last June, we are able to mould our lives with the set of tools of education we have been given at school. Thus it is the training of our minds by the books we study, the co-operation with others, the spirit of sportsmanship, the experience of both following and leading others and the last- ing friendships we make, all of which we gain in school, that are of inestimable value to us through our whole lives. Tm: EDITORS.