Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 11 This year Helen Acheson, Betty Gordon, Florence Coristine, Evelyn Cantlie, Cynthia Hill, Margot Seely, Betty Sifton, Cairine Wilson and Rachel White are taking a few Upper School subjects and are hoping to finish their pass matriculation, while fourteen girls in V. Matric, and several of V Arts are taking the first part of the Middle School examination. The prize winners of last year gave the school a reproduction in plaster of sections of the Parthenon Frieze which hangs in the corridor leading to the Hall. The prize-winners were: — Catherine Macphail Genevieve Bronson Marion Gale Hope Gilmour Elizabeth Kenny Betty Hooper Charlotte Bowman Doreen Graham Janet Southam Joan Keefer Cairine Wilson Marjorie McKinnon Betty Sifton Louise MacBrien Margot Seely Mary Marjorie Blair Betty Gordon Winsome Hooper Jeannie Dunlop Gaye Douglas Mary Malloch Barbara Ross Betty Flaunt Ann Perley-Robertson We take this opportunity to thank all our generous friends for the many gifts they have given us. Last June Mr. Flaunt gave us a statue of David which stands in the library; Dr. Doughty pre- sented us with a set of valuable prints of Canada and an auto- graphed picture of Queen Mary; Mr. H. S. Southam gave us a picture; and Mrs. Sherwood presented a complete set of the Book of Knowledge to the library. Archdeacon Fleming, who gave us a delightful talk on his work among the Eskimos, sent us a copy of a marriage certificate of two Quakers with the signature of Elizabeth Fry as witness; and Mrs. Buck obtained a valuable engraving of Elizabeth Fry when she was in England last summer. Margaret Symington presented an inter-house basketball cup to the school this year and the tennis team won a handsome inter- scholastic shield, which we hope to retain this season. Several of the girls made frocks, bonnets, nightgowns and scrap books to send to the Nasik Hospital in India, where we support a cot, the gifts being first sent to Toronto to be put into an exhibition of work there.

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10 SAMARA Middle School H. Acheson: English Literature C, Canadian History C, Geometry 3rd, Latin Composition C, French Authors 3rd, French Composition 3rd. C. Bowman: Ancient History 1st, Geometry C, Latin Authors 3rd, Latin Composition 3rd, Spanish Authors 2nd, Spanish Com- position 2nd. F. Coristine: Enghsh Composition 2nd, Literature C, Cana- dian History C, French Authors 1st, French Composition 1st. R. Eliot: Enghsh Composition 1st, Ancient History 1st, Algebra C, Geometry 2nd Latin Authors C, Latin Composition C, Fi ench Authors 2nd, French Authors 3rd, Spanish Authors 2nd Spanis ' h Composition C. B. Gordon: English Composition 1st, English Literature 2nd, Canadian History 2nd, Geometry 2nd, French Authors 1st, French Compos;Jtion 1st. C. Hill: English Composition 3rd, English Literature 3rd, Canadian History 2nd, Geometry C, French Authors C, French Composition 2nd. E. Kenny: Latin Composition C, German Composition C. C. Macphail: Ancient History 1st, Algebra C, Latin Authors 1st, Geometry 1st. E. McMillan: English Composition C, English Literature 3rd, Canadian History 1st, Geometry C. M. Peters: Ancient History 3rd, French Composition 3rd. M. Seely: Composition 3rd, Literature 1st, Canadian History 1st, Geomet ry 1st, French Authors 1st, French Composition 1st. E. Sifton: English Composition 2nd, English Literature 1st, Canadian History 1st, Geometry 2nd, French Authors 1st, French Composition 1st. M. Symington: Ancient Histbry 2nd, Latin Authors C, French Authors 3rd, French Composition 3rd. J. White: Ancient History 2nd. R. White: English Composition C, English Literature C, Canadian History 3rd, French Composition 3rd. C. Wilson: Canadian History 3rd, Geometry C, French Authors C, French Composition 2nd.

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12 SAMARA This year a new office has been created, that of School Monitor, in preparation for future prefectship. The first three girls to hold it are: Evelyn Cantlie, Diana Clark and Norma Hall. We recently had a delightful surprise treat, through the kind- ness of Mr. W. J. Southam, of Hamilton; it took the melting form of ice cream and chocolate eclairs, which were, nevertheless, most enjoyable! Last autumn the daughters of Lord Stonehaven, Governor- General of Australia, who were staying at Rideau Hall, paid us a visit, when the prefects and boarders entertained them at tea. We learn that they are now at school in England. The school sent flowers and a message of good wishes to Her Excellency, Lady Willingdon, when she left for England in Janu- ary last; and by return we received from her a charming wire of acknowledgment and farewell. Her Excellency had not merely been an official patroness of Elmwood, but she had always taken a keen personal interest in the school, and had visited it more than once.