Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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14 SAMARA having produced the best collection. Next Christmas, however, we hope to recapture the title and we suggest that members of Nightingale shall begin collecting now with that object. The members of the House this year are: — School Monitors Norma Hall, Evelyn Cantlie Mary Ardern, Dorothy Blackburn, Genevieve Bronson, Vir- ginia Coristine, Debora Coulson, Mary Craig, Katherine Dunning, Joan Fraser, Doreen Graham, Katherine Inkster, Catherine Irwin Joan Keefer, Peggy Law, Eleanor Legget, Helen Mackay, Mary Malloch, Harriet Mathias, Betty McLachhn, Elizabeth McMillan, Christine McNaughton, Betty Flaunt, Celia Froctor, Ethel South- am, Elizabeth Symington, Susan Watson. Mistresses:- — -Miss Neal, Miss Challis, Miss Gegg. Last year, under the prefectship of Medora Britton, Keller was second for the House Shield, and this year we are trying hard to recapture it from Nightingale. Last year, also, Audrey Gilmour and Helen Acheson won the Senior Tennis Doubles, while Nancy Bonnar won the Junior Singles. This year we were fortunate enough to be able to give the largest number of toys to the Christmas collection for the poor, for which we received three red stars. In sports, we were beaten in basketball by Nightingale, but hope to recover our prestige on Sports Day. Helen Acheson is a valuable member of the Tennis Team, while Anne Coghlin and June White upheld the honour of the House at the Minto. Our House Day is to be October 1st. Our House hymn, Fight the Good Fight , was chosen because of its spirit of incen- tive to overcome difficulties, as our patroness has; our House crest, Mercury flying over the mountains, symbolizes the same ideal. Our House prayer, too, is in keeping with our motto Fair Play . The House members for the year are: — House Prefect Betty Sifton Prefects Cynthia Hill and Helen Acheson School Monitor Diana Clark Prefect House Senior Cairine Wilson . . Betty Gordon KELLER HOUSE

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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

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SAMARA 15 Elizabeth Alguire, Marjory Barron, Cecil Bate, Frances Bates, Eleanor Carson, Alix Chamberlain, Rosemary Clark, Alison Cochrane, Anne Coghlin, Florence Coristine, Ann Creighton, Sybil Doughty, Ethel Finnie, Lilian Gardner, Ann Gorrell, Betty Hamilton, Nancy Haultain, Moira Leathem, Dorothy Leggett, Grace McDougald, Jean Robertson, Pamela Simpson, June White, Jean Workman. Mistresses: — Miss Woolcott, Miss Bayes, Miss Adams. FRY HOUSE Fry is very proud of having had among its house members Margaret Symington, the Archery Champion, whom we heartily congratulate. She very generously presented a cup for inter- house basketball, and Fry hopes to be the victor. Nini Keefer, whom we are all proud to have as a house mem- ber, is holder of the Senior Sports Cup. This year Mrs. Buck presented us with an engraving of Eliza- beth Fry for which we thank her very much. Archdeacon Fleming generously presented us a marriage certificate with her signature as one of the witnesses. The interest in our patroness is thus made more vivid to all the members of the house. In the first term. Fry ranked last in red stars, but there is still time left, and we are all trying hard to raise the number standing to our credit. The House members for the year are: — Head of House .... Rachel White (Sports Captain) House Senior Margot Seely Lilias Ahearn, Theodosia Bond, Glen Borbridge, Gladys Carling, Margaret Carson, Peggy Crerar, Miriam Cruickshank, Jean Dunlop, Patricia Gait, Hope Gilmour, Mary H ampson, Betty Harris, Janet Hill, Betty Hooper, Nini Keefer, Eleanor Kenny, Barbara Kennedy, Kathleen Lawson, Dorothy Laidlaw, Mary McCarthy, Elaine MacFarlane, Patricia Macoun, Ruth Monk, Joan Watson, Anna Wilson, Rosemary Youle. Mistresses: — Miss Thwaite, Miss Mills, Madame de Buy.