Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 21 eagerly awaiting the next one to find out her opinion of it. Since she has been a House Senior she has been of the greatest assistance to the Mistresses, especially to Miss Neal on dancing days, when she helps the Juniors to dress and hang up their dancing tunics. — M.W.J. JocELYN White. — Jocey has been at Elmwood for seven years and this year is a Prefect in Nightingale House. She has w orked hard and faithfully for Elm- wood. As a guard of the school Basket-ball Team, Jocey has proved most efficient and she has distinguished herself in her effort to keep us interested in all sports. Patiently each day she has looked after the dinner register and waiting list which, although they may appear trivial, are in reality very trouble- some matters. The most arduous task she undertook was a? ad- vertising manager of this magazine. When Jocey leaves. Elm- wood will lose a valuable Prefect, one who has rightly earned the love and respect of all, and who has done her best to uphold the hi gh standards of the school. — M.H.S. BOOKS AND THEIR READERS Cairine Wilson Water Babies Norma Hall Guide to Badminton Barbara Watson Great Expectations Betty Plaunt The Poor Little Rich Girl Joan Ahearn Beautiful Joe Betty Sifton Black Beauty Audrey Gilmour Plain Tales from the Hills Florence Coristine Eat and Grow Thin Joan Watson Fuzzy Wuzzy Virginia Ferrante Hugo ' s ItaHan Simplified Helen Acheson Points on Tennis Catherine Macphail Ask Me Another Jean Dunlop Freckles The Primary When We Were Very Young Form I Little Women — Cynthia Hill, V Matric.

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20 SAMARA showed her fellow Prefects her mettle. Fry House is extremely fortunate in having Symie as its House Prefect and she has kept up the high standard set by Betty Vaughan, Prefect for ' 28- ' 29. She is also a very valuable member of our first Basket-ball Team. Medora Brixton — Toronto claims a valuable member in Medora. A dark, wavy-haired lass, who, during her year and a half at Elm wood has endeared herself to all of us. Dodo captained the School Basket-ball Team this year, and al- though we were beaten in our most important match with the Old Girls, it was due to Dodo ' s good judgement in placing the team that we were only defeated by one point, the score being 14-13. Keller claims her as its House Prefect and she has certainly justified Mrs. Buck ' s choice, for she has led Keller on to be the foremost House for Red Stars. Dodo is one of the brighter stars in that brilliant constellation — Joan Ahearn, Janet Southam Co., who seem to spend their time learning French verbs for Madame. Janet Southam. — In September Janet was made a House Senior with the promise of becoming a Prefect after Christmas. She took her place in the round of school duties so well that at Christmas it was felt that she had earned her Prefect ' s pin most nobly. The Preparatory claims most of Janet ' s attention and they readily learn to bring their big worries and troubles to her motherly lap. Janet had a birthday early in April and we hope by the time Samara is published we will have partaken of that scrumptious chocolate birthday cake that has been promised. Gone but not forgotten. Gladys Jost. — On behalf of the Prefects I want to welcome Gladys to our select circle as a House Senior. Coming from a large school to us in Sep- tember, we are sure she found it very difficult to get -«.TPl used to our ways, although never once did she make complaints or suggestions that things might be done a little differently. On the last day of the old term we asked Mrs. Buck if Gladys might come to tea with us that we might acquaint her with the mysterious ways (!) of one with authority. Up to the present, Gladys has not been present at a Staff-Prefect meeting which is one of our most thrilling moments, so we are

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22 SAMARA OLD GIRLS ' NOTES The second annual performance of the Elmwood Old Girls Dramatic Club was given in the school hall on February 13th. It was the first performance to be given on the new stage since it was rebuilt last summer. The play was The Lilies of the Field by John Hastings Turner. It is the story of the twin daughters of an English clergyman who, as a birthday present from their grandmother, have the choice of a month in London during the season or ten yards of pink crepe de chine. What happens to the twin who goes to London makes an amusing story. It has many witty lines, and was well received by a large audience. Over two hundred dollars was made for the benefit of the school library. The cast was as follows . — The Vicar Betty Fauquier Ann (his wife) Catherine Dougherty Elizabeth Pat Fosbery Catherine Vals Gilmour Mrs. Rooks Walter Sylvia Smellie Violet, a maid Clare Borbridge Barnaby Haddon Nancy MacCarthy Bryan Ropes Ruth Bostock The Hon. Monica Flane . . .Isobel Grant Withers (maid) Clare Borbridge — S.S. Betty Fauquier, Vals Gi lmour, Nancy MacCarthy and Sylvia Smellie have been in Ottawa all winter. Sylvia is the Secretary of the Old Girls ' Association, and Betty is one of the active members of the Committee. Vals has done good work for the Drama League, and Nancy has been an energetic member of the May Court Club. Their excellent work in connection with the Old Girls ' Play was much appreciated. Roslyn Arnold and Janet Wilson are both at school in Paris. Ruth Seely is at Lausanne. We get most enthusiastic letters from them all. Edith Baskerville is still abroad but is expected home at the end of the summer. ' Edie spent her Christmas holidays in the South of France. Mrs. Douglas Blair (Gwendolyn Borden) is one of the most active members of the Twentieth Century Women ' s Liberal Club.