Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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16 SAMARA prefect JHote M. Cruikshank. — Happy- Go- Lucky. Mimsy as our Head Girl has done splendid work this year. It is largely due to her influence that the day girls have been brought in closer contact with the Boarders, and under her enthusiastic leadership there has been remarkable school spirit and keenness. One of her most important duties comes at the end of the week when she assumes the role of hostess at the Friday afternoon business meetings. If Mimsy ' s high hopes are realized she will leave Canada next year to become a Yankee at Smith College in Massachusetts. We ' ll hope the Toronto Matriculation examiners won ' t be too hard on her. Virginia Copping. — Subtle wiles are in her smiles. Gin as Head of Nightingale has carried on the good work of the former prefects of that house, which at present is leading in the competition for the House Shield. She also with Mary Malloch is the official collector for our school donations, and her winning smile has caused the gold to come pouring in this year. Ginny is a hard worker both as a boarder prefect and as a guard on the basketball team. She will cross the high seas next year to Paris, and we wish her the best of luck in that exciting ville francaise. Mary Malloch. — Knowledge is power. Mary as joint treasurer with Ginny and school librarian, carries out her duties very efficiently. She is one of the few girls completing her honour matric. this year and we wish her every success. Mary has been longer in the school than any of the other prefects, and so we consider her advice very weighty and valuable. When our reporter ques- tioned Mary as to her plans next year, a very worried countenance answered I don ' t know, but whatever it is, we hope she ' ll do well, and if it ' s along a studious line, we haven ' t any doubt that she will sail along at the top.

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SAMARA 15 We welcome the new girls to our house, and hope that they will help to uphold its traditions in the future. Fry House members this year are : — Head Girl Miriam Cruikshank House Prefect Mary Hampson House Senior Janet Hutchison School Monitors. .Betty Hooper, Patricia Macoun and Sheila Skelton Barbara Barrett, Mimi Boal, Glenn Borbridge, Heather Collins, Margaret Curry, Joan Daniels, Betty Davison, Joan Dean, Elaine Ellsworth, Beatrice Fraser, Patricia Gait, Hope Gilmour, Alexandra Greening, Barbara Kennedy, Dorothy Laidlaw, Mary Jane MacAskill, Mary McGuckin, Marjorie McKinnon, Melodie Willis O ' Connor, Mary Palmer, Margaret Parkin, Hope Wattsford, Anna Wilson, Gwyneth Young. Mistresses — Miss Thwaite, Miss Barrow, Miss Bertheny, Miss Mills. HOUSE PREFECTS Virginia Copping Alix Chamberlain Mary Hampson

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SAMARA Mary Hampson. — Smiling through. Hamp as head of Fry and a boarder prefect has done excel- lent work in the school this year. Through her perseverence, Fry has kept to its previous standards and will be in close competition for the shield. Hamp though not one of our outstanding athletes is always to be found down on the playing field, with a smile on her face that ought to make any games shirkers feel ashamed. Her plans for next year are Switzerland, and we expect to have her come back with the title of Our Best Canadian Lady Skier. Be sure you do it, Hamp! Alix Chamberlain. — Flying High. Alix is our tiniest House Senior, but has successfully piloted Keller through another year. Her energy in that respect is boundless. She also excels in gym and has gained her stripe. On the badminton court her fame is renowned and she is also one of our leading singers. It is due to Alix that the cakes arrive for our weekly gatherings on Friday and even though it is a hard thing to hand over ten cents to Miss Chamberlain every Thursday, we certainly do like her taste in cakes and cookies. Peggy Waldie. — 11 She Shoots, She Scores. Waldie as our basketball captain this year has spurred us all on to greater efforts. She is also a keen badminton and tennis player and is on both teams. As a House Senior she has done a great deal for Keller, and is an excellent lieutenant to Alix. Waldie and Hutch between them manage to keep track of the lending library and satisfy Elmwoodians with the reading material they have to offer. Peggy is another person who is going across the ocean next year and we hope that good luck and happiness will follow her over there and back again.