Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 17 0mm (J Ib irlsi ' i otes! 1941-42 WE go to press amid such a flurry of engagements, marriages, and new babies, that it would seem almost simpler to report the doings of the career women and add that everyone else is busy being or becoming wives and mothers. However, we know our duty. Wincing at the three letter adjective in the heading, we shall begin to cudgel our aging wits for the memory of who married who, and what occupations should be attached to what names. ENGAGEMENTS Genevieve Bronson (now at U. of T.) to Archie Laidlaw. Alison Cochrane (busy with V.A.D.) to Capt. Don Connelly (overseas). Penny Duguid to Fl. -Lieut. Ian MacNaughton. Joan Goodeve to Lieut. F. H. Peters, R.C.N.V.R. Dorothy Laidlaw (gym mistress at Ovenden) to Lieut. Bill Marsh. Barbara Ross (now in Bank of Canada) to Chuck Waterous, (in England). MARRIAGES Eleanor Clark to Fl. -Lieut. David McGinnis. Pamela Erwin to Sub. -Lieut. Courtney Kingstone. Hope Gilmour (M.T.C.) to Hon. Alistair Buchan (in England) . Elizabeth Hanson to Lieut. Ken Ward, R.C.E. Nancy Haultain to Pip Nation (overseas). Winsome Hooper to Fl. -Lieut. Jack Newton (in Ottawa) . Barbara Hopkirk to Sub. -Lieut. John Dunne (Newfoundland) . Nancy Lane to Lieut. Peter Maurice (Morrie) Quinn. Louise MacBrian to Pilot Officer Ross Gray (living in Calgary) . Marjorie Mackinnon to Rowley Booth. Penelope Sherwood to Flying Officer Norman Brown (Sydney, N.S.). Jane Toller to Capt. George Wodehouse, R.C.A.M.C. Jacqueline Vernon to Lieut. H. Palmer. BIRTHS To Claudia (Coristine) Blackburn, a daughter; To Joycelyn (White) Blair, a son. To Eleanor (Kenny) Lawson, a daughter. To Dorothy (Hardy) McPhee, a daughter. To Betty (Harris) Devlin, a daughter. To Irene (Salmon) Caulfield, a son. Now for some news of the career women! We are grateful to Rosemary Clarke for taking over the presidency of the Old Girls, when our erstwhile president was married (Pam Erwin). She is carrying on beautifully, and has us all knitting like mad for the Navy League every Wednesday night. In- cidentally, all the Ottawa Old Girls who haven ' t rallied round, ought to come and join our pan sessions, if only in the interests of self -protection. (Sometimes we even dis- cuss intellectual subjects like surrealism or Karl Marx!). There must be some Old Girls whose names begin with A, but we can ' t think of any at the moment, so we ' ll start off with a few Bs. Anne Bethune is going to Bryn Mawr. Mimi Boal is living in Nicaragua. Glenn Borbridge has been working for the Bank of Canada all winter, but she ' s giving up her job in May. Eleanor Carson spent most of the winter in Florida and smuggled in about the only thing you ' re allowed to bring back from the States these days. ... a heavenly tan. It ' s almost dark enough to match her Red Cross Transport Service Khaki. And speaking of the Transport Corps, we are well represent- ed there. . . . f ' r instance, Susan Edwards, Betty Hooper, Barbara Ross, Sylvia Smellie, etc. Margaret Carson is with the R.C.A.F. (Women ' s Division) at Aylmer, Ontario. The Air Force is going to keep cropping up all through these notes, so we might as well give a list of the girls in the blue right now — Lilias Ahearn Buskirk, Barbara Fellowes, Pussy Hill, Melodie Willis O ' Connor, and Eleanor Leggett. Peggy Clark is starting work at the Foreign Exchange Control Board soon. Muriel

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16 SAMARA MUSIC THIS year we have been to many enjoy- able musical performances and have heard many beautiful records. On September twenty-ninth we went to see the Russian Ballet, the lovely music of which was mostly by Tschaikowsky. On October twenty-ninth, some of the boarders went to hear Paul Robeson at thfe Capitol Theatre. We attended, on November twenty- seventh, a concert given by some Czecho- slovakian artists in aid of the Czechos- lovakian fund in London. On February fourth we had the great pri- ilege of hearing Rubenstein. His technigue was wonderful. It was amazing to see how far he could stretch with his hands for he is a small man. We heard, on February fourteenth, a Russian Choir sing at the Technical School. The singers wore their native costume, which was a very pretty blue. One man was dressed in bright scarlet and wore high topboots. We all wondered why he was different until suddenly at the end of the performance he sprang out of line and did a Russian dance. A tuning-fork was the only aid the choir used. Lastly on March twenty-fourth we went to hear Vronsky and Babin play the piano, which, I think was the best performance of the year. They played on two pianos and had seven encores. Two outstanding pieces were a Brazilian dance and a polka by Schwanda. Interest in music has grown greatly this year. A choir has been formed with twelve members who sing special music three times a week at morning prayers. On Friday we NOTES have a musical service which we find quite lovely. Each member of the choir has a purple stripe on her tunic. At the end of the Christmas term the boarders all went, as usual, to Mrs. Buck ' s house to sing carols. We make a record every year of our singing and found it very amusing to compare this year ' s with some of preceding Christmases. During the singing classes, Mr. McTavish often plays us records — the most popular of which are the New World Symphony by Dvorak and Beethoven ' s Fifth Symphony. On Friday evenings once a month, Mr. McTavish comes to give the boarders musical entertainments of records, piano playing, singing, musical games, and musical general knowledge. Before the holidays some beautiful records of Steiner ' s Crucifiction were played which were greatly enjoyed. E. H. KNOW YOUR ELMWOOD 1. In what year was the school founded? 2. Why is the magazine called Samara ? 3. To whom is the flag pole dedicated? 4. Who was the first Head Mistress? 5. Who are the governors? 6. How many times have we won the Ottawa District Tennis Shield? 7. In what year were the houses incor- porated? 8. What is the school motto? 9. What are the house mottos? 10. What is the school flower? Answers on Page 19

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18 SAMARA Crocket has an interesting job with the PoUsh Embassy here. She is always so busy, that no one ever sees her except our popular Allies. The Navy moved the Curry ' s to Esquimault last Spring, so Margaret is living out there with her family. Mimsy Cruikshanks is working in Washington with Nelson Rockefellers Pan-American group. Betty Carter, Anna Wilson, Clare Borbridge, Hope Wattsford and Gerry Hanson are in the C.W.A.C. All happy in the service, we hear. Nancy Doane and Muriel Inkster are draft women at R.C.A.F. Headquarters here. Jane Edwards is attending Trafalgar this year, and is about to blossom out into a glamour girl any day now, just like Sue did. Betty (Fauquier) Gill is in England, a driver in the M.T.C., as are also Pat Gait and Elizabeth Kenny. Ailsa Gerard, Pat Macoun and Gaye Douglas are working in the government. Shirley Geldhert is stuffing knowledge under her flaming locks at the University of Toronto. Esme Girouard is working in Air Vice- Marshall Bishop ' s office at R.C.A.F. Head- quarters. Three of us are burning all night incense to a new Muse. The Documentary Film has reared it ' s hydra head in Canada and Jane Smart Marsh, Betty Hamilton and Cecily Sparks have become it ' s hollow-eyed hand-maidens. Jane is one of the National Film Board ' s most talented producers and script-writers. Hammie works for the Film Board too, as a sort of messenger extra- ordinary and assistant plenipotentiary to sundry geniuses and oh-dont-they-think-they- are-geniuses. Cecily works for Crawley Films who produce documentary films. She does all kind of interesting things, includ- ing sound cutting, operating the camera, editing, and script writing, etc. Katherine Inkster, besides being treasurer of the Old Girls Association, is a district visitor for the Ottawa Welfare Bureau. Dorothy Leggett is teaching gym at the Ottawa Ladies ' College. Julia (MacBrien) Murphy has started her twins in the Elmwood Nursery School, so that she had time to do a wonderful job of organizing the canteen for the temporary buildings at the Experimental Farm. Peggy (Marr) Webber has two men to be proud of ... . her son Michael because he ' s so cute, and her husband Michael because he took part in the raid on Spitz- bergen. Jean (Perley-Robertson) Wright was living in Edmonton for a while this year, but she is in Ottawa now. We don ' t quite know where Maria Pe- trucci is now, but we were all glad to hear that, due to the intervention of the British Government, she and her father got safely out of Teheran after the trouble last year. Pam Kingstone, Winnie Newton, Sue Bourinot and Marion Monk are in the Nursing Service of the Red Cross. Mackie Edwards and Susan Kenny are at McGill. Dorothy Wardle is in her final year at Queen ' s, and is the first girl to become President of the Queen ' s A.M.S. Congrat- ulations Dorothy! Gill German is coping with the domestic situation at home, and working three days a week at the Red Triangle, which is something of a record. Muriel and Katherine Inkster, Cecily Spark ' s, Elizabeth Newcombe and Peg gy Webber devote one night a week to the Triangle. Cynthia Sims helps at the Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic. Margery Woodward also helps there, when she is able to spare some time from her arduous job as assistant secretary at Elm- wood! Frances Bell is at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. B. B. Eraser is at McGill, and Joan Eraser is in the Red Cross Office Administration Corps. Elizabeth Newcombe and Anne Perley Robertson are in the Office Adminis- tration Corps too. Barbara Watson and M. M. Blair are attending the University of Toronto. Mary Malloch and Barbara Ross are work- ing in the Bank of Canada. Mary (Craig) Desbarats has returned to Ottawa from Halifax.