Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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ANN GRAHAM: The comfort of having a friend can be taken away, but not that of having had one . - Seneca Ann has been letting us have it with her " Pearls " of wisdom since Grade nine, and we ' re always in trouble, so that just goes to show the deep down evil in her mind. She ' s chapel moniter this year and has been in three Gilbert and Sullivan ' s so far with still another one to go. Pearl is easy to locate at school by listen- ing for that original laugh of hers. Sometimes she bubbles with enthusiasm, sometimes she ' s pensive, but the end product is usually constructive, so Ann will do well wherever she goes. ALISON GREEN: If you always do something constructive in your spare time, you ' ll never have any fun. Alison has been with us for five years and four Gilbert and Siallivan ' s, this last year trying her hand at back- stage instead of onstage work for H. M.S. Pinafore; and they managed to sneak a seagull into the backdrop despite protests from Mr. Innes that no bird hovers for three hours! Alison ' s talents (onstage and off) are sing- ing, ( " The Good Shop Lollipop " - questionable) and free dancing (VERY free - more questionable) and be- ing a general nuisance while doing both. Those desks just aren ' t made for tap-dancing oxfords. They ' re made for work and sometimes Alison even uses them for that. She must, because though she never appears to realize she ' s in school, she does get her essays in - just. Planning to put Australia even more down under with Barb this summer, Alison will go to the University of Australia next year if she passes Math this year. She ' ll be back in three years speaking fluent Australian but until then: Good-bye, and don ' t take any wooden

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CATHY GINSBERG: Life without love ' s a load, And time stands still. What we deny to life, to death we give. Then, and then only, when we love, we live. Nobody understands Cathy, but everyone ' s afraid to, so it doesn ' t really matter. Her screams mark a score in one of the basketball games or a correct answer in Economics class. It ' s no wonder Cathy ' s always mov- ing. She ' s the only one in the school who can make it from the locker room to the 6U classroom with an arm- ful of books and still have enough breath to keep talk- ing. Of course, that doesn ' t mean she can make it out of the parking lot in one piece - " I know there ' s a car behind me. I see it, I see it. " CRASH! Wrong car. Still, Cathy ' s liveliness keeps us all on our toes and you must admit - if Cathy ' s in the room, you know it! LESLEY PONG: Life is something growing inside your soul that you want to bring out and share with the human race. This is Lesley ' s first year at Elmwood but she ' s al- ready left an impression by rapidly adapting to Canadian life - especially snow, which isn ' t very plentiful in Hong Kong! A week after putting on skates for the first time, Lesley was skating without a flaw. Next comes skiing! Her main talent, though, lies in a musical direction. Having seen the music only once before, she accompanied a somewhat shabby Grade 13 choir on our Christmas carol. Lesley ' s a quiet, sen- sitive person but still joins in the general throng of activity. Hoping to go to a Canadian university next year, we won ' t be losing her to Hong Kong again for a while yet.

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JILL HEPWORTH: " I couldn ' t help it. I can resist anything but temptation. " Jill had long hair and a short tunic which met at the same point, the place her leather coat ends - for years, but finally succumbed to temptation and chopped it off. To all entreaties of " Get rid of that coat and do up your shoelaces before you kill yourself, " Jill smiles sweetly, agrees completely, and does nothing about it. A geography whiz, " Tarn " likes everyone to think she isn ' t really paying attention but then she turns around and explains it to those of us who were pretending that we WERE paying attention! I ' m sure it ' s all theories and sums that she ' s gesturing to Talitha across the room in math class - the answer to most questions is " Peter " . Elmwood with its uniform doesn ' t offer much scope to a girl who has thirty pairs of pants and twice as many tops, but at university Jill can let loose - and watch them fall! ! LUCY ISMAIL: I forget to enjoy all I have - incredible treasures. I am travelling again, emotionally restless, while there is land to discover, lives unlived, men not known. What madness! I want to enjoy. I want to stop and en j oy . - Amais Nin One of the truly unforgettable characters of the class - indeed, unforgettable, period. Lucy has never been known to do anything in a conventional manner (at this point it would be normal to list some of her exploits but sheer volume of material makes this impossible). Anyway, she is surprised that everyone knows everything she does. How could we NOT know? Lucy is also well known for her insatiable curiosity and original thoughts about matters that most people take for granted. At times her ability to leap from one idea to another leaves her audience at a loss, to say the least! Perhaps that ' s why she gets away with so many things - by the time the victim figures out what happened, Lucy is long gone. It would be a dull world without her. She ' s one of a kind - but one is quite enough!