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

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20 RUPERTJS LAND GIRLS, SCHOOL Photo by H. White. Back Row-Shelagh McKnight, Peggy Musgrove, Madeline Blight, Miss Lucas, Susan Clifford, Paula Munro, Donna Armstrong, Janet Cameron. Front Row-Ruth Swatland, Alison Govan, Miss Turner, Barbara Cameron, Shannon Hall. fllllagamsziiw Exvrntiur, 1947-42 .ADVISER TO THE EDITORS ..,.,,... ,, .,,.,.,..,,........,,.,,,,..,,,.,.,,,.,....,,,,....,.,,....,.,.,.,..., Miss Turner EDITORS ...,... .....,,....,.......,....... ....... B a rbara Cameron, Alison Govan, Ruth Swatland BUSINESS MANAGERS ...,. .....,.... M iss Lucas, Paula Munro, Peggy Musgrove SPORTS ,...........,.,.......,,..,.......,.,s......,. ,.,,,..,.,.,...,...,,...,,.,.., ,..,. S h elagh McKnight, Mary Tucker PHOTOGRAPHY ....,....,,. Donna Armstrong, Joyce Beriham, Elaine Tempest, Carol Warner RECORDING EVENTS .......,,.....,...............,,.,..,.,.....,.....,..,...,..........., Judy Adamson, Shannon Hall ART EDITORS ..........,.............. ...... J ill Baker, Janet Cameron, Jane Wallace ADVERTISING CONVENERS ....,................,....,..,,.,,..,,.,.........,,,., Madeleine Blight, Susan Clifford ADVERTISING COMMITTEE Shirley Anderson Lucy Hooker Paula Munro Helen Powell Joanne Booker Pat Joy Peggy Musgrove Beth Southam Isabel Briercliffe June Kobar Gay Newman Jeanne Gorrell Dorothy McClay Doris Perry FORM REPRESENTATIVES Gail Florance Marilyn McClaSkey Ruth Simonds Barbara Risk

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THE EAGLE ina Ifiartlrifz llvitrr My Dear Girls: With the usual little shock of surprise I realize that another school year is nearly over. Do you remember how you felt on the first day of the term last September? When you began the work of your new grade, some of you probably wondered how you would manage it, then, as the days and weeks passed, you found you were gradually getting through the work and now you feel that you will soon have been successful in passing up into the next grade. If you have been truly successful, you will have gained besides actual knowledge some added self-reliance, you will know that if you work steadily and consistently, you will win the power needed to go on to the next and harder task whatever it may be. If, however, you are still lacking in self-reliance, if you expect all your thinking to be done for you, and rely too much upon the assistance of your teacher, then make up your mind to make a real effort next year to improve in this respect. Beware, however, of becoming self-sufficient, you always will need help and must be willing always to listen carefully to those who can teach you the things you do not know. There is a great difference between self- reliance and self-sufficiency. The present-day world is suffering very badly as the result of Man's self-sufficiency and pride. Man has grown so clever, he has conquered almost every secret of nature through his skill in science, and can he not be justly proud of his accomplishments? Why, Man has been clever enough to learn to produce sufficient power to exterminate speedily whole cities and towns, indeed, his whole race if he so wills! And this is the result of comparatively very few years of effort on his part. But see where he has failed! He has little or no ability to get on with his neighbour, and this power he cannot acquire from science. The only hope for mankind is that men learn to consider one another and to respect the rights of every individual, Man must learn to love his neighbour as himself. Will you each think of this and remember that you yourself play an important part in this world? If you are weak, the world is weaker, if you are strong, the world gains strength. All my best wishes go with you with the hope that you may play a worthy part in life to the benefit of those around you. Yours affectionately, ELSIE M. BARTLETT

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THE EAGLE 21 1 4 hitnrittl Individuality is the salt of common life. You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it nor subsist on its food. One of the most important influences of Rupert's Land on its girls is the help it supplies in the development of their individuality. We in Rup- ert's Land are fortunate in having this oppor- tunity to develop our own personalities - an opportunity not afforded to such an extent to the students in schools of a larger size. where large numbers hinder the early start of such development, because more attention is paid to them as a mass than as individuals. When the child is very young, before start- ing school, she has a strong individuality col- ored by the influence of the parents. Once our school life begins development also begins, and as we are not completely prepared to make our own decisions and form our own ideas, we at- tach ourselves to a group of equally confused friends, and in life, for several years, it is the gang that is important - not the individual. There are seldom any serious disagreements among the ideas of the gang members, and when such begin to appear, one may depend on its being caused by the Hrst signs of adolescence, which is, as most of us agree, a very confusing age. It is when this adolescence stage is reached that young people want to be like the gang and get they start to think about being them- selves toog as they grow older this feeling of wanting their own individual personalities grows and grows. Unless they are unusual this growth continues the rest of their lives. This all-important individuality is the major cause of rifts and clashes between people. Teamwork and individualism are opposing fac- tors, but the importance of each cannot be over- looked. People with their own ideas and ideals find it hard to understand those of people from whom they differ. Education leads us if not to sympathize with at least to understand points of View that differ from our own. It is this difficulty to understand other people and at the same time retain one's own individuality that can be blamed for most disagreements. Then, too, individuality is the essence of democracy, in fact, it is the mainspring of the whole democratic way of life. It forms the backbone of the freedom which we enjoy today in spite of the threats to it which have arisen and are still arising. Every individual in many countries of the world has the privilege of hav- ing his say in the government when he becomes of age. Every single person in our country is allowed to think and speak freely and also en- joys freedom of the press. We are all allowed to have our own religion. We call these liber- ties privileges because, although every person should be allowed to have his own individual- ity, even now regimes threaten to quash these liberties. We are in the post-war period of the worst war the world has ever known, but even now after one menace has been removed another looms on the horizon - that of Communism. Today we all hear much about this threat and it fits into this editorial because under this system people are not allowed to be individuals. This system of regimentation allows a few men to rule everything concerning the lives of all the people who are not allowed freedom of the press, or even fredom of thinking, in fact, with no political fredom at all, how can they be in- dividuals? The loss of our valued individuality can be a dangerous thing, too. What better example can be found than the danger of a fear or anger- maddened mole of people who, losing all sense of proportion, because individuality has been lost, cause wild demonstrations and riots? Nothing can be more important than a devel- opment of this often lost characteristic so neces- sary in life. That is why this special chance that we are given at Rupert's Land to develop it is, we think, one of the most important aspects of our school life. The girls who attend this school are not just rows of faces above green tunics, but girls whose various personalities, abilities, and faults differentiate them from each other in the way that today, although similar to, can never be quite identical to yesterday and tomorrow. THE EDITORS.