Sacred Heart College - Stella Oriens Yearbook (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)

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ALUMNAE NOTES Weatherbe, Belleville. To all these •we wish, however tardil ' y, man ' y •years of wedded bliss. To Pauline Gerein, a May Bride, we repeat the wish with special em¬ phasis. Cecilia Ehmann, we regret to say, has been a patient in the Grey Nun ' s Hospital for some months, bearing a long illness with admirable patience. Betty Matthews is now Mrs. H. Begg, Weyburn; Bertie Richardson, Mrs. Hofly, Bienfait—a son and a daughter. To Pat Daly and Germaine Saur- ette (Sr. M. St. Louis de France, R.N. D.M.) we offer our sincere sympathy. They have both suffered a grievous loss in the sudden death of their fathers. —R.I.P. Peg Pirt is practicing physiother¬ apy in St. Joseph ' s Hospital, Port Ar¬ thur. Esther Kiernan and Kathy Righetti are by way of becoming nurses, the former in the Grey Nuns ' Hospital, Regina, the latter in St. Joseph ' s Hospital, Winnipeg. Victoria Wachowicz is attending the University of Alberta, where she is woman ' s editor of The Gateway . Mary Molloy has spent the year at the College of Education, Saskatoon. Ethel Wild has joined the staff of the City Separate Schools. Marie Phaneuf has, for the third time, won the ladies ' award in the C.Y.C. Drama Festival. Congratulations, Marie! Annie Murphy—or Spud—and Pat Andrews are both working in Winni¬ peg. Lorna Hogan is employed with the Toric Optical Company, Saska¬ toon; Pat Daly, with the McCallum Hill Company, Regina; Patsy Mar¬ shall with the Department of National Defense, Ottawa; Agnes Roddy at Speers ' Funeral Home, Regina; Ver¬ na Murphy with an auditing firm in Toronto; Anne O ' Byrne with the Pro¬ vincial government; Jane Spelliscy with the Bank of Montreal; Anne Bujea with the Army and Navy Stores. Julie Flaman is attending Normal School in Regina. Emmeline La Roc- que is teaching at Tribune; Elizabeth Heidt at Indian Head; Rita Grajczyk at Lemberg, where she still displays the same keen interest in the doings of her Alma Mater. We recently enjoyed a visit from Helen Dech ief, a civil servant in the Dominion Government, where her sister Flore is also employed. = -- = - Titles of photos on opposite page. 1. Mr. and Mrs. H. Begg (Betty Matthews). — 2. Pauline Gerein. — 3. Betty Grudnitzki. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moser (Ann Hugh.) — 5. Julia Dengler. — 6. Shelia Bruton. ■— 7. Flore Dechief. — 8. Pat Daly. — 9. Marion Ryan, Reg. N. — 10. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Turgeon (Florence Honan). — 11. Pat Andrews. — 12. Marie Phaneuf. — 13. Lthel Wild. — 14. Rita Kennedy. — 15. Elizabeth Heidt. — 16. RUa Grajczyk. — 17. Rosemary Kustusch (Bessie Ingram’s). — 18. Mary Molloy. — 19. Paul and Ronald Giesinger. (Madge Ingram’s). — 20. Margaret More. — 21. Victoria Wcchowicz. — 22. Hugh Patrick Glenn (Elinor Maher ' s). — 23.-28. Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Slominski and family (Mary Isley). — 24. Eileen Bruton. — 25. Florence Runge. — 26. Sergeant and Mrs. C. A. Weatherbe (Grace Coupal). — 27. Carmel and dena Gavin. — 29. Frances Kusmicz. — 30. Dorothy Keyes. — 31. Lorna Hogan. — 32. Jane Spelliscy. 33. Curly Norton.

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THE QUEEN ' S DIAMONDS The year 1942 marks the diamond jubilee of the founding of the city of Regina, therefore we think it appropriate to give a sketch of the origin and growth of our capital city. To anyone viewing the fine modern city of Regina today with its hand¬ some tree-lined streets, modern buildings, network of railways, large and im¬ portant wholesale district, it would seem almost incredible that well within the memory of people still living, the site of this prairie city was far in the wilderness and furnished pasture grounds for the herds of wild buffalo. These sixty years that have elapsed since the first foundations were laid have been full of destiny and have witnessed a development in the city and region seldom equalled in the story of North America. In 1881, the Regina plains lay as they came from the hands of God. There was then neither the house of a white man nor habitation in all the hundreds of miles that extended from Fort Qu ' Appelle to where the Bow River poured its flood through the foothill ranges of the Rocky Mountains. The new Trans-Canada Railroad had reached the Assiniboine river in the vicinity of the modern town of Brandon, and was making preparations to throw its shin¬ ing steel rails into the limitless prairies. In the spring of 1881 took place the last great buffalo hunt. In 1882, 480 miles of road bed were constructed and prepared for the locomotive before the freeze-up,.at that time a feat un¬ equalled in railway construction. Battleford had been declared the capital of the N.W.T., but when it was seen that the railroad would pass far to the south of it, preparations were made to fix a new capital. Matter of the selection was left to Edgar Dewdney, the Lieutenant-governor of the Territories and after much consideration, he fixed on the location of Pile o ' Bones Creek. It is interesting to note that Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux warrior had, after his massacre of the American army en¬ camped on the banks of the Oskana Kasasteki , so named because of a pile of buffalo bones which were noticed there. The first settler in the vicinity was the late Edward Carss, who in Sept¬ ember 1881 picked a fine location at the junction of the Qu ' Appelle and Was- cana. However, the honor of being the first man on the Regina townsite went to the late Demetrius Woodward. There was a letter dated 1882 from the banks of Pile o ' Bones addressed to his wife in Ontario. It is interesting to note that some survivors of Mr. Woodward ' s family, who still live North on Albert are still in possession of the letter. Mr. Woodward died a number of years ago, but his wife, a grand old lady, lived long and passed away two years ago. Shortly before her death she said, My husband always had the TWENTY-SIX