Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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18 SAMARA Mary Kingsmill. — Living and Laughing at Life. Kaley , a House Senior and one of our leading gymnasts, acquired her gym stripe on the eve of Miss Green ' s departure. As school basket- ball vice-captain she has upheld Waldie enthusias- tically and has been a great help. Kaley is noted for her thoroughness and precision in all that she does, and her carefully spelt ( ?) lists are to be seen posted on the notice board daily. Kaley is gifted with a marvelous sense of humour, that will always get her out of any scrape and our Friday afternoon gatherings have profited greatly by her merry cackles. Elizabeth Symington. — Keeping out of mis- chief now. Liz has always been noted for her love of fun, but this year she has turned it to good account as one of our illustrious House Seniors. She ' s always to be seen in the thick of the fray on the playing field and was one of the four to be presented with a gym stripe at Christmas. Liz ' s happy smile will be missed next year, but may she carry it with her wherever she goes and always turn it to good advantage. Janet Hutchison. — Up, up, my friend, and quit your books Hutch as a House Senior has done her duties thoroughly and well. With time on her hands she winds the clocks early every morning much to her room mate ' s discomfort to say nothing of her own. She is one of our most industrious scholars, and has greatly added to the number of Fry Stars both this year and last. Her main occupation apart from studying is knitting and I ' m sure if ever she goes into business it will certainly be in the wool trade. She is a great source of amusement to us all, especially the Juniors, by the rolling of her eyes, and if the wool business did not prove to be profitable, there is always the thought of a career as comedienne in the movies.