Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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prefect antr omt g enior iSotes; Betty Caldwell A light to guide, a rod to check the erring and reprove Betty has been Head Girl of Elmwood this year, and a very good one, if we do say so ourselves! Every morning at 8.53 on the dot, her familiar shout can be heard through the cloakroom — The second bell is going, everybody! We are led to believe, by the odd remark, that the farm, Prescott, and the Burg have lost none of their charm in the last year. Each Monday evening, she is busy learning first aid and home nursing, and wearing her uniform at a St. John Ambulance Nursing Division drill. Her chief ambition is to be first at the scene of an accident just to see what I would do . She has other interests which lie outside the bounds of the school, chiefly concerning Jimmy Stewart and the Navy, Army and Air Force. Bets is headed for A4cGill next year, come what may, and we wish her the best of luck and happiness in the future. Joan Paterson came I saw . . . a?id now Vm leaving Joanie, this year ' s Head of Nightingale, is the sole person taking her full Senior and the honour or fate of Elmwood rests on her shoulders. To most of the school she appears to be the silent type , but the members of the sitting room know better! The school got a great shock the first Monday after Christmas when Miss Paterson appeared in something other than her school tunic (of course Joanie has other clothes besides her tunic!) ... It was the uniform of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and she looks very smart in it. The name Joanie P is becoming quite famous. Her niece is name d after her Aunty, also one of Caldwell ' s Jerseys, and the latest to acquire the name is a jeep somewhere in England. This is Joanie ' s fourth and final year, with University awaiting her in September. Good luck, Joanie! Janet Caldwell ' ' It ' s so peaceful in the country . . . . ' Jan is the only Fry member of the sitting room but she manages to more than hold her own against Nightingale and Keller. She and our Prescott member can usually be found arguing whether Higher and Higher was shown in Carleton Place before it was shown in Prescott or whether Prescott ' s war bond quota is higher than that of Carleton Place. So far Carleton Place is in the lead. Jan says her heart belongs to her new collie pup. Kiltie, but we know better! Between cadets, guides and the management of Fry, Jan is kept very busy but she always has a smile for us. She will be back next year, and we wish her the best of luck.

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20 SAMARA THIS YEAR, after some hesitation, we again decided to hold a bazaar although with some doubts of being able to repeat our former successes. However, we need not have feared, as the afternoon was a great success; and we were all very proud when Elmwood was able to send a cheque for $560.00 to the Navy League for the allied merchant seamen. Miss Snell again managed the tickets, assisted by Janet Ed ' ards and a staff of form repre- sentatives; and a great many were sold. Miss Chappell was in charge of the raffles, together with Ruth Osier, Patsy Drake, and Elisabeth Rowlatt. This year we were pre- sented with a great number of gifts to be raffled, for which we were very grateful. A beautiful tea set was donated by Senator Wil- son, one of Tom Thomson ' s pictures was given by Mrs. Southam, a linen dinner set was presented by Mrs. Fauquier, and we were also given a doll, a tea cosy, two pounds of chocolates, and a plant. Tea was in charge of Miss May and Aliss Zysset, helped by Margaret Hardy and Anna Cameron, and in spite of the shortage of tea and sugar, enough was saved from the mis- tresses ' and girls ' rations to give the guests a very enjoyable tea. Candy was again under the efficient manage- ment of Miss Adams, assisted by Lois David- son at the head of an able committee. Most of the candy was donated, and the sale was very brisk. Jam and cookies were also sold at the candy table. The handicraft table was under the super- vision of Mademoiselle Juge assisted by Paula Peters. Many gay things were made for the table by the boarders, and some knitted baby clothes were taken out of the house collec- tions and proved a great attraction. The white elephant table, as arranged by Miss MacDonald, with Janet Caldwell and Philipoa AlcLaren as her helpers, looked very attractive, and a brisk trade was kept up there. The book stall was managed by Miss Wood and Suzanne A ' less, and a varied collection of books was offered for sale. Miss Dickie, Mrs. Knight, and the junior forms arranged a fish pond and a monkey house in the hall, which were a great amuse- ment to the younger guests. A new feature this year was a guessing weight competition, in which each competitor guessed the weight of a delectable-looking iced Christmas cake, presented by iMiss Dixon. The boarders ' cloak-room was changed into a check-room, very efficiently operated by Miss Wood and the members of VC. Two plays were presented during the course of the afternoon:— the Nightingale play Guest House, Very Exclusive ; and a charm- ing play of the Nativity, which had been written by themselves, was presented by IVB and IVC under the direction of Miss Graham. The school was charmingly decorated in gay colours by Joan Paterson, Betty Caldwell, Paula Peters, and Anna Cameron. p THE ROOFS OF PEKING The roofs of Peking are beautiful, W onderfidly carved and made. Underneath, the coolies will pull Rickshaivs with gold inlaid. The roofs with dragons standing by. Silver, marble, bronze and gold. All kinds of roofs against the sky On palaces, teiiiples of old. Brick walls siirroimding the temples- Above, the roofs of blue tiles. The svn shining over the courtyard. Over the city for luiles and miles. The gold-coloured tiles live on palaces, While dragons hold lanterns at night. And the coolies are all going home to bed Until morning comes with light. Elizabeth Oi.iver-Bellasis, IV A Fry

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Janet Edwards for she has all God ' s good gifts of nature Jan who answers to the name of Ed. , is the busy Head of Keller. She is also a very reliable Vice-Sports-Captain and if at any time she is missing she can usually be found playing tennis or practising basketball. For the past few weeks, everytime we have seen Ed. she was standing in front of a mirror practising that new Listerine smile . . . she has just had her bands off. To come back next September or follow her sister ' s foosteps to McGill is the question, but we wish her the best of luck in whatever she does. Ruth Osier A merry heart maketh a cheerful count enance Boofie , a conscientious reliable prefect with the most devastating blue eyes which cast a ray of innocence over her entire countenance, devotes most of her spare time to giving patriotic pep talks to boost the School ' s sale of War Savings stamps. A daily attraction at lunch time is to look across the table and see a certain person making disapproving grimaces at the plate set before her and perhaps under the camouflage of the water pitcher switching her dieted lunch for the regulation Elmwood meal. We ' re very glad that we won ' t have to do without Boofie for a while because she ' ll be back with bells on to reinforce the seniors next year. Lois Davidson 4 the nice girls ... Davy is our most recently appointed prefect, so recent, in fact, that she was still a House Senior when the officers ' pictures were taken. Since joining the ranks of the sitting room one of her duties is to inspect the Juniors, and what a time she has! This one has lost her tie, that one has lost her belt, the laces of another one ' s shoes are missing, and they all have wonderful excuses for poor Davy. Although her future is unsettled we know that she would make a good business woman because these last few weeks she has been ' phoning firms about advertising in the Mag, and that voice of hers has really done wonders. At the first of the year she fascinated us with stories of the great architectural masterpieces she was going to create but on finding that she had to have Algebra to be an architect she declared, Oh well, I didn ' t care much for architecture anyway, and started contemplating a brilhant literary career. Whether it be buildings or books, Davy, good luck!