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

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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.

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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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RUPERT,S LAND GIRLS' SCHOOL itrah CEM Another school year will soon be behind us: another Head Girl will be handing on her badge to the one who takes over her duties and re- sponsibilities. Each new Head Girl inherits something in the way of traditions and customs from her predecessor, but she seldom fails to contribute something personally which makes the year memorable to those who were as- sociated with her. Margaret Killick's association with the school dates back to her Grade I days of 19353 although she left us for Grade II and Grade VI, the re- maining ten school years were spent at R.L.S., and we are proud to claim Margaret as our own. Her interests reflect an all-round develop- ment, for she enjoys sailing, skiing and basket- ball, she has a fine appreciation of art and music, while her practical side is shown in her interest in leather Work and stamp and coin collecting. In basketball she has risen through the Junior, Third and Second Teams to the First, on which she has played centre. She has her Gold Cord, and has been very active and efficient as a Girl Guide in the School Company. Margaret has fine powers of leadership which were evident when she was Captain of Jones House from 1945-1946, and which have had fuller scope in her present position as Head Girl. She has a good sense of proportion, is very level- headed, and adds to these quiet virtues energy and determination, a sense of justice, an ability to mix well with others, and vision. An enemy of slackness and in- efficiency, she has set a high personal standard of work and conduct, while giving the impression that she finds life fun, and its many challenges stimulating rather than intimidating. Next year Margaret plans to study Arts or Interior Decorating at the University of Manitoba. Beyond that her plans do not go, but she hopes that life will give her opportunities for foreign travel. As she leaves us we wish her luck and promise that we shall always remember her friendly smile, her enthusiasm, and the many services which she has performed so willingly for those with Whom she has worked and Played. S.LL.T. MARGARET KILLICK mlm ll Hahn, Qlanahian Qlitizriwlgip The dawning of the new year, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, brought the dawning of a new era in Canada. As the year unfolds we shall see examples of what the new citizenship means to the people of our nation. To me it brings a new dignity as I believe it does to the nation. The members of my family were born in different countries of the world, and therefore we were of different nationalities, and now we are all Canadians. Some of my friends who, up until now, have been classed by the ugly word foreigners, now are Canadians with me. The French people of Quebec, the Scandinavians, Ukrainians, Poles, Ger- mans, English, Armenians, we are all united under one citizenship, that of Canada. No longer must we emphasize our racial extraction. We have the right to be called Canadians, to live and think as Canadians, but to retain the privileges of being part of the great British Commonwealth of Nations.