Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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SAMARA 13 KELLER tergT srgg HOUSE NOTES s House spirit is becoming keener every year, and this year House Days have been inaugurated. The House Day is usually kept on the birthday of the House patroness; it opens with the hymn and prayer of the House, and then there is a short speech by the House Prefect on its history and ideals. It is hoped that these Days will inspire us to still further efforts for the honour of our respective Houses — Nightingale, Keller or Fry. Last year Nightingale was fortunate enough to win the Shield after a year of hard work under the careful and devoted guidance of Catherine Macphail. Among our members are Norma Hall, the Senior Tennis Champion of Elmwood, and Quebec Junior Champion, who also led the Elmwood Tennis Team to victory in the Inter-scholastic competition; Cairine Wilson, the Ottawa Ladie? ' Swimming Champion in 1930; Mary Malloch the winner of the Intermediate Sports cup; and three girls on the 1st Basketball Team. In the autumn Nightingale played Fry and Keller at basket- ball, defeating both teams, and this spring we hope to win the cup presented last September by Margaret Symington. Our array of toys for the orphans last Christmas, though very good and meriting two red stars, was not equal to that of Keller, and we lost the distinction which we had held for several years of NIGHTINGALE HOUSE