Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 11 Our thanks are due to M. Riordon and V. Gilmour for the lovely scroll which heads our house-board. In the middle of the scroll is a green shield, edged with yellow, in the centre of which is a figure of Mercury flying over the tops of mountains — a symbol to us of the possibility of overcoming difficulties, as Miss Keller our patroness, has so wonderfully done, and as we hope to do. Miss Keller ' s almost incredible overcoming of the terrible handicap of being blind and deaf and dumb — in spite of which she went through college and lives the life of a highly intellectual member of society — is indeed an inspiration. We received a very kind reply to our letter asking if we might claim her as the patroness of our house : — Dear Miss MacBrien: Miss Keller asked me to say that she is very much pleased that you have named your house for her. She sends you her cordial greetings and best wishes. Sincerely yours, Netta Broddy (Sec.). Our house motto is Fair Play , and our pin a yellow diamond shape with a green K. We have two fairly good basket-ball teams and hope to hold our own in the Inter-House matches this spring. We congratulate those who have succeeded in gettipg red stars. We hope that before the end of the term everyone will deserve congratulation and that those that already do will keep up their good record. NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES This House is named after the first great nurse, Florence Nightingale, who gave up her life for others and who founded the great order of trained nurses.

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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.

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12 S AIM A R A Those of Nightingale House aim at following in the footsteps of this great woman, in the little that they can do by giving up each day a little time to others and by helping those less fortunate than themselves; also, remembering that Florence Nightingale ' s first patient was a dog, they particularly stand for the love of animals and of Nature. The House motto is: Non Nobis Solum , which embodies the principle of service. In the centre of the scroll above the House Board is a green shield with a lamp in the centre; above the lamp is the school crest, and on either side are scrolls — on one ' ' Nightingale House is written and on the other, Non Nobis Solum . The House pin is a triangle with a green N on a yellow base. The following are the present mem- bers of Nightingale House : Prefect : L. Wilson; Members: J. Ahearn, D. Blackburn, M. Dunlop, P. Fosbery, M. Gale, B. Gordon, E. Kenny, N. Hall, H. Mackay, S. Watson, J. White, C. Wilson, E. Williams, C. Wood, C. McNaughton (gone to England for a time), Betty Smart. JUNIOR SCHOOL Form I, — Joan Carling, Hope Gilmour, Ethel Southam, Betty Hooper, Joan Eraser, Betty Ball, Moira Leathem, Julia Adamson, Sachiko Matsunaga, Genevieve Bronson, Crairston Wilkes, Leonard Courtney, John Wood, De Lacy Passy. Preparatory: Lilias Ahearn, Jean Robertson, Anna Wilson, June White, Charles MacLaren, Lee Snelling, Alex Robertson, George Robertson, Geoffrey Goodwin, Hugh Buchanan, Donald MacLaren, Doreen Graham, Hisako Mutsanaga, Gill German, Russell Smart, Diana Vernon, John Filleul.