Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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12 SAMAR A NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES HAST year Nightingale had the good fortune to win the Shield, and this year each girl has earnestly done her share to attain red stars. Harriet Mathias won the great distinction of having her name added to the Summa Summarum Board, last year. We are most fortunate to have Genevieve Bronson as one of our house members. She greatly contributes to our Star; board, and last year she was presented with the Philpot Token, a great honour to herself and her house. Last June Rosa Johnson kept the Nightingale colours flying by winning the Senior Sports Cup, and Winsome Hooper following her good example won the Junior. We were also lucky enough to win the Basket-Bali Cup. The season for Basket-Bali is not yet over this year, but in the Autumn the competition was keen, and we just managed to come out top by one game. The deciding match will be played this term. We should like to congratulate Mary Kingsmill and Elizabeth Symington on being two out of the four girls to be awarded a gym stripe. Congratulations also to Ethel Southam who played up splendidly on the school tennis team. At Christmas we had house plays, which were all exceedingly good. Much to our delight our play came first, but Fry ran us a very close second. Badminton held our interest after Christmas, and the matches were very exciting. Keller got the honours, and we came one point behind.

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SAMARA 11 At Closing the following awards were made : Summa Summarum and Senior Proficiency Medal Harriett Mathias The Philpot Token Genevieve Bronson Junior High Endeavour Award Marjorie McKinnon Improvement Medals ( Hope Gilmour Ethel South am Music, Proficiency Medal Anne Coghlin Improvement Medal Harriett Mathias (Presented by Mr. Puddicombe.) Physical Training Medal Rosa Johnson (Presented by Mrs. Edward Fauquier.) Dramatics Medal Theodosia Bond (Presented by Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bronson.) Prize for Improvement in Dramatics Debor a Coulson (Presented by Lady Perley.) Art Prize Anne Coghlin (Presented by Mrs. Plunkett Taylor). Short Story Medal Theodosia Bond (Presented by Mrs. Marling Gordon.) Speech Prize. Anna Wilson (Presented by Dr. Woodhouse.) Writing Prize Anne Bethune (Presented by Major McKeand.) House Award Jean Workman (Keller) The various awards in Sports and Athletics are given in detail under Sports Notes . This year the School Library has been in the capable hands of Mary Malloch, Janet Hutchison and Peggy Waldie; we thank them for their good work. It is encouraging to see the reference library in constant use. A number of interesting books on various subjects has been added during the year, including donations from several kind friends, notably a handsome set of Makers of Canada given by Cairine Wilson; a set of beautifully bound novels by Sir Walter Scott, presented by Dr. Doughty; three books on birds given by the Hon. Cairine Wilson: and books for the fiction library from Barbara Ross. To help forward our geography, Colonel Willis O ' Connor presented us with a widely comprehensive wall-map of Canada. At Christmas the contributions to the House-collections were most practical in character, and took the form, not only of clothes old and new, but also foodstuffs, fuel, and milk and bread tickets. We had previously collected our old and damaged toys for the Boy Scouts ' Hospital. The sum raised for the Federated Charities amounted to $150.00, and more than $30.00 was collected for the Poppy Day Campaign. The usual Christmas hamper from Elmwood found its way to five destitute homes; and a portly turkey graced a sixth table, bought with contributions in money to Keller House Collection. Perhaps we should now be thinking of collecting old summer clothing for those less fortunate than ourselves ? It has been suggested recently, by some Old Girls, as a good plan.

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SAMARA 13 The House members for this year are: — Virginia N. Copping Prefect and Head of House Mary Malloch Prefect Mary Kingsmill House Senior Elizabeth Symington House Senior Ethel South am Monitor Eleanor Leggett Monitor Genevieve Bronson Monitor Anne Bethune, Barbara Alan Brown, Suzette Bourinot, Eleanor Clark, Ruth Creighton, Prudence Dawes, Katherine Dunning, Pamela Erwin, Barbara Fellowes, Joan Fraser, Shirley Geldert, Esme Girouard, Margaret Graydon, Ailsa Gerard, Barbara Hamp- son, Winsome Hooper, Joan How, Katherine Inkster, Marion Monk, Elizabeth Newcombe, Mary Paterson, Barbara Ross, Esme Thomp- son, Jane Toller. Mistresses — Miss Neal, Miss Crawford, Miss Booth. KELLER HOUSE NOTES EOR several years Keller has held second place in the Com- petition for the House Shield, but we are determined this year to better our previous records. We greatly appreciated the beautiful picture which Dr. Doughty and Sybil presented to our House. It is a water- colour of Elmwood and Mrs. Buck ' s house, done by Sherriff Scott, and we shall treasure it very much. Last year we were very proud to have Anne Coghlin win the Music Medal: this year Alix Chamberlain, the head of our House, is one of the two competitors, and we wish her every success. At Christmas we were fortunate in collecting the greatest number of clothes and supplies for the poor, giving us first place in competition with the other Houses, and for this we won five red stars. Peggy Waldie is our School Games Captain and through her energy and keenness we have improved in games. Peggy is also a valuable member of the Tennis team. Our Senior Team did very well in Basket-ball last Autumn and we wish to congratulate them. Keller triumphed in the Inter-House Badminton and we are very pleased to be the first house to win the Cup. Alix Chamberlain won her stripe for gym, and a number of posture-girdles have been awarded to members of the House. The House members for this year are: Alix Chamberlain.. House Senior, Head of House and House Sports Captain Peggy Waldie House Senior and School Games Captain Moira Leathem Monitor