Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 9 holiday (May 23rd) in honour of this first visit of our patroness, and also a whole holiday every year on the occasion of her birth- day, March 24th. Hisako Matsunaga, our smallest member, with great alacrity presented Lady Willingdon with a basket of yellow roses. Some of the Seniors gave a short drill display and this de- lightful visit ended with much applause on our part, and with cheers for their Excellencies.

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8 SAMARA We have, as a school, been very much honoured by the consent of Her Excellency, Vicountess Willingdon to be our Patroness. The school hopes to prove itself worthy of this honour, and we hope to have the pleasure of receiving Lady Willingdon at Elmwood before the end of the term. We take this opportunity of thanking Mr. H. S. Southam for the beautiful engravings which he has given us, and which now adorn the dining room. They are much appreciated. Mr. J. P. Maclaren has presented us with two beautiful and interesting wood-cuts; we thank him very sincerely. The Rev. E. F. Salmon was good enough to invite the members of his Scripture class at Elmwood to a very happy evening party at his house just before Christmas. The evening was passed in playing table-games. Two prizes were given for the highest score gained — Mary Riordon won the first and Betty Carter the second At the end of the evening a delightful supper was served, and the party broke up after a most enjoyable evening. It was most kind of Mr. and Mrs. Salmon to invite the class and all much appre- ciated this kindness. STOP PRESS ! On Monday morning, May 9th, to our great delight, we were honoured by a visit fromHer Excellency Viscountess Willingdon. She was accompanied by Mrs. Osborne, and was received by Mrs. Buck, Mrs. H. S. Southam and Mrs. Norman Wilson. Her Excellency first paid a very welcome visit to the Preparatory Room and then to the Senior Class Room. While Lady Willing- don made a tour of inspection round the building, the whole school assembled, in their houses, in the Hall, where Mrs. Buck then made Her Excellency welcome in a short speech, and Her Excellency made herself doubly welcome by a charming reply and by a request, readily granted, that we might have a whole,

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10 SAMARA FRY HOUSE NOTES HE PATRONESS of Fry House is Eliza- beth Fry. We chose her because of the great work she did among the poor and unfortunate and in the prisons. Our motto, Societas Humana — Friendship to All — is typical of her life work. In this house our aim is to follow her example of love to all men, and to try to have some of her courage and determination to do the right thing. The design of the scroll is carried out in green and yellow, the school colours. The design is in a shield, and represents a heavy gateway with the sun shining through. It typifies the light and happiness that Elizabeth Fry brought into the lives of those around her, and her work in the prisons. Our thanks are due to Mary Rosamond who designed and carried out the scroll. The Fry pin is a pentagon with the letter F on a yellow ground. The House prefect is Sylvia Smellie, and the members of the House are: Edith Baskerville, Betty Carter, Gladys Carling, Jean Dunlop, Ruth Eliot, Luella Irvin, Nini Keefer, Eleanor Kenny, Betty North, Mary Rosamond, Jane Smart, Janet South- am, Betty Toller, Marjorie Wallis, Rachel White. We are proud of the fact that Fry House leads the houses in the num- ber of red stars that we have won so far. KELLER HOUSE NOTES Prefect: Julia MacBrien; Members: Nancy Atkinson, Frances Drury, Alison MacLachlin, Sharley Bowman, Audrey Gilmour, Morna Peters, Marian Coolidge, Mary Gray, Mary Riordon, Louise Courtney, Ruth Hughson, Betty Sifton and Janet Wilson.