Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 7 EDITORIAL ONCE more we publish Samara, to record the events of an Elmwood year, a year of steady progress and honest achievement, and, what is almost better, as Browning says, records of brave endeavour to do our best to live up to our exalted motto, Summa Summarum. Last year under the leadership of Betty Sifton, was a year of reorganization, and the setting-up of precedents which we have been faithfully carrying on. And though such outstanding years form the high lights in Elmwood history, it is by unobtrusive common effort in honest work, and high endeavour on the part of all, that the traditions of our school are being built up. It has been a most happy year of uniform progress in all directions. We should like to take this opportunity of publicly thanking the members of the magazine committee for their co-operation in producing Samara. We also thank the girls who have contributed the reading material, illustrations, and photographs. There has been an attempt to publish a Samara of somewhat less literary character, and we hope this will afford pleasure and enjoyment to its readers, as well as portraying the life and events of Elmwood.

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6 SAMARA Dawn Ekers ] 57 Our Bridge Club ! Mary Hampson Vx [ Peggy Waldie J CO • iofto J Anne Coghlin, VII Arts 58 Elmwood in 1953 | Cynthia Copping, VI Matric 59 Why Study? ' ' Elaine McFarlane, Upper VI an c. fThir cr of T if ' J AN FRASER VC 60 Laughing at Life | Hooper Va 60 De Tour en Jour Jean Workman, VI Matric, f Harriett Mathias ] VII 62 Line-Up of VII Arts . | Debora Coulson [ Arts [ Hazel Ross ] 63 We ' ' Barbara Kennedy, Vc 64 A Toast Ailsa Gerard, Vb 64 Courage Susan Edwards, IVc 65 Mrs. Swallow Pamela Booth, Form I 66 A Peep at Rabbits Susan Edwards, IVc 66 An Enigma Janet Dobel, Vc 67 Elmwood Crossword MiMl BOAL, IVb 68 Enigma Janet Dobell, Vc 68 IVC B.Ross, yc 69 Prize Story 1933.— Reward Theodosia Bond 78 Definitions Elizabeth Symington, Vx 79 Advice C. Fisher, V Arts. 80 Humour 80 Riddles Penelope Sherwood IVc 81 Boners E. MacFarlane 81 Advice 82 Diamond Puzzle Elizabeth Symington, Va 82 Number Puzzle Maria Petrucci, Vb 83 Puzzle Solutions . 84 Autographs 87 School Directory

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8 SAMARA IT IS a great pleasure to us to record yet another year of happy progress in the life of Elm wood. Our numbers have been well maintained, and a really keen spirit in work and play has been shown throughout the school under the leadership of joint Head girls, Harriett Mathias, Head-boarder, and M. Craig, Head day-girl. The system of merit-awards makes it possible for a girl to keep track of her own progress in conduct, reliability, and active goodwill, and at the same time it stimulates her zeal for her House, which benefits directly by her behaviour. There has been close competition between the Houses throughout the year; their positions have varied almost from week to week, and it is still an open question as to which will win the shield. Before commenting on the various events of the year we should like to give sincere welcome to those who joined the Staff last September, Miss Scott, Miss Barrow, Miss Crawford, Miss Ash, and Miss Carver. On February 9th, we had the great pleasure of a visit from Her Excellency, the Countess of Bessborough, who is our pat- roness. She very kindly gave us a holiday, which was added to the mid-year week-end. May we offer our hearty congratulations to His Grace Archbishop Roper, on his recent elevation in the See of Ottawa. Elmwood has vivid recollections of his kindness. During the summer months a house sprang up in the school grounds; is it officially the Principal ' s Residence, and we felicitate Mr. and Mrs. Buck on their charming home. In emergency, however, it does duty as isolation quarters, and then we fear that the rightful occupants are not so comfortably situated! One of the outstanding events of the year was the present- ation of the first Philpot Token to the Old Girls ' Association on November 29th, before a large representative assembly of Old Girls, and in the presence of the whole school. We only wished that Mrs. H. S. Philpot could have been on this side of the Atlantic to have presented the token in person. The form and purpose of the token are described elsewhere in this issue. We have had the pleasure of two visits from the Hon. Cairine Wilson as ' ' special pleader ; in November, when Ottawa was exerting all its energies in the Emergency Relief Campaign, she kindly explained fully to us its purpose and prospects, and later she spoke to us on behalf of the Children ' s Fund, a really