Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 19 NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES HAST year Nightingale enjoyed one of her most successful years. For the fifth successive time we won the House Shield, and by mutual consent had four members less than the other Houses, at the beginning of this year. Although we all did our level best to maintain our previously high standard, we found it very difficult, and up to the time of ' ' Samara ' s going to press, we had the least number of stars. Never mind, Nightingale — the year isn ' t over yet! We were very thrilled and honoured to have Lady Moyra Ponsonby join our ranks as an honorary member just before Christmas, and we hope that we have proved to her that she joined the right House. At Christmas, Margo Graydon left us, as a House Senior, and a generous contributor of stars, her presence was greatly missed. But at the beginning of the second term we were fully compensated for our several losses, by receiving four new and very enthusiastic members from Form HI — Ogden Blackburn, Jane Edwards, Jacqueline Vernon, Norma Wilson. We were proud to have among our members last year Mary Kingsmill, who as Games Captain of the House, was responsible for the great improvement in our Basketball, Badminton and Tennis teams. We would also like to congratulate Elizabeth Symington and Mary Paterson on winning the Senior and Junior Sports Cups (resp.). It was largely due to their efforts that our winning the House Sport ' s Cup was made possible. We were more than usually successful in our tennis last year. Shirley Geldert won the Junior Singles, and Winsome Hooper, paired with Louise MacBrien, won the Junior Doubles. Also Ethel Southam and Betty Hooper (Fry), won the Senior Doubles.

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18 SAMARA At Christmas, the House Collections reached the highest standard yet attained, as regards the usefulness of the contribu- tions; indeed the Keller Collection was quite outstanding. The Old Girls joined us too this time, and had a special display of their own ; we were delighted to have their co-operation in this way. The sum voluntarily raised for the Federated Charities ' Campaign was much higher than in previous years; $262.00 was contributed by Staff, girls and the domestic staff; our donation to the Poppy Day Fund amounted to $25.00. During the past year girls taking the Arts course have also studied the essentially practical arts of housekeeping — cooking, household science, and dressmaking, and have paid visits of in- spection to a steam-laundry, and a large dairy.

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20 SAMARA Other prize winners were Ethel Southam, who won the Philpot Token; Marion Monk, the Junior High Endeavor; Margo Graydon, the Dramatics Medal; and Genevieve Bronson and Joan Eraser, dramatic prizes for notable individual performances. Some more of our achievements last year were winning the Basketball and Sports cups. Never before have we been so com- pletely successful, and sincere congratulations are due to Virginia Copping who piloted us skilfully through the year. Nightingale House members this year are — Ethel Southam . . . Senior Prefect and Head of House Genevieve Bronson Senior Prefect Ruth Creighton House Senior Margo Graydon House Senior Ails A Gerard Monitor Katherine Inkster Monitor Anne Bethune, Ogden Blackburn, Suzette Bourinot, Olga Brown, Eleanor Clark, Jane Edwards, Pamela Erwin, Barbara Fellowes, Shirley Geldert, Esme Girouard, Barbara Hampson, Geraldine Hanson, Winesome Hooper, Nancy Martin, Marion Monk, Helen Murdoch, Patricia Murphy, Elizabeth Newcombe, Mary Paterson, Jane Toller, Cecily Sparks, Jacqueline Vernon, Norma Wilson. Mistresses — Miss Neal, Miss Booth, Miss Belford, Miss MacCallan. KELLER HOUSE NOTES IT has been a long time since Keller has succeeded in winning the House Shield but at present we rank first in red stars. Let ' s keep it up, Keller, to the very end! We should like to congratulate Alix Chamberlain, our energetic leader last year, on winning the gold Music Medal. We were also proud of Peggy Waldie who won the award for the girl who best lives up to her house motto ; and of Dorothy Leggett who won the Improvement Medal. Muriel Crocket upheld Keller ' s prestige in Sports by winning the Intermediate Cup. Another of our achievements on Sports Day was winning the tug-of-war. Although we were most unfortunate in the Badminton tourna- ment this year, we hope to redeem ourselves in Basketball. In the Fall we succeeded in winning more matches than the other two houses. Janet Dobell as Sports Captain and June White as Vice have been largely responsible for the enthusiasm and co-operative spirit of the two teams. At Christmas we maintained our high standard with regard to the House Collections, receiving three stars for having the greatest number of clothes and supplies for the poor. We were sorry to lose Mhairi Fen ton at Christmas. She made a good contribution in red stars, and gained distinction in our house play at the Christmas party.