by Alex | Apr 27, 2023 | Alumni & Friends Story, RJC News
For her Grade 12 year, Elizabeth Armbruster (Zacharias, 1944), known as Beth among her family and friends, decided to leave her family farm near Meadow Lake, Sask. to attend RJC (then known as the German-English Academy). She was determined to prepare herself to...
by Alex | Dec 6, 2022 | Alumni & Friends Story
Imagine sitting in a typical classroom, trying to have a conversation with high school students about faith and life. It will probably be awkward at first, though you might get to a good conversation eventually. Now imagine those same students and the same...
by Alex | May 3, 2022 | Alumni & Friends Story
For Becky Warkentin (grad 1997), the opportunity to travel the world by motorbike was a chance of a lifetime. As an avid traveller with a love of motorcycling, it was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up. So she and her husband quit their jobs and travelled the world...
by Alex | May 3, 2022 | Alumni & Friends Story
For Paul and Lois Tiessen being a Christian business owner doesn’t mean faith has to be front and centre. You don’t have to be promoting your company as Christian to be a person of faith in the business world. For them it’s about using business skills to give back to...
by Alex | Nov 22, 2021 | Alumni & Friends Story
Cory Farthing still gets chills when he remembers the first tournament he played at RJC, and the moment when the school’s fans started to cheer. He was there for the volleyball invitational tournament as a student from Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon. “[It] was...
by Alex | Nov 22, 2021 | Alumni & Friends Story
Eldrid Roth grew up living one block away from the RJC campus, which meant he got to play hockey with the team before he was even a student. As a kid he and his brother Brian, and often other kids from town, would walk over to the school and help the students clear...
by Alex | Nov 22, 2021 | Alumni & Friends Story
The summer before Dara (Friesen) Miller came to RJC, she was so excited, and nervous, that she spent hours hitting volleyballs at the side of their garage getting ready to join the team. Dara attended RJC from 2004-2007, and athletics were a core part of her RJC...
by Alex | Nov 19, 2021 | Alumni & Friends Story
For his Grade 12 year, Jacob Harder (1946) was determined to go to RJC. But he had two big problems. One was that he didn’t have any money to pay for tuition. And the second was that his father believed any education past Grade 9 was a waste of time. His mother, on...
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