Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA MoiRA Leathem. — ' ' Laugh and the world laughs with you. ' ' Minnie (Haha!), the competent head of Keller, has been most successful in raising the standard of her house. She is forced to be mercenary on Thursday afternoons, when she endeavours to extract from us our reluctant contributions for our weekly tea. Of the prefects she has travelled most, in England, Ireland, Scotland and last but not least — Tennessee, where she fell in love with the darkies. She may have no equal in manipulating windows during Modern History lessons, but — put her in a kitchen and we won ' t vouch for the consequences! She likes the sea, corn on the cob, hugging cushions, Katherine Hepburn and water-melon. Sheila Skelton. — ' ' Variety is the spice of life. ' Susie, Hooper ' s lieutenant in Fry and our star badminton player, maintains her apple-cheeked complexion by her daily perambulation to school on a two-by-four bicycle. Her booming voice and subtle wit arising from the floor, enliven our pre- fect teas every Friday afternoon. Her superior knowledge of current events puts us to shame. We find she is fond of guides, Greek, good arguments and toasted marshmallows. Her future wavers delicately between soap box oratory — a ' la Tim Buck — and a parliamentary career — a la Agnes MacPhail; but first we are counting on her to continue to bring honour to her school in her- ' studies at Queens. Alison Cochrane. — She ' s little but she ' s wise, she ' s a terror for her size. Allie, our Puck-like house senior, has done much to help Min in Keller. Her sympathetic nature ( — expressed in the words I feel sorry for — ) is well known. Allie spends her time retrieving library books and pacifying the babies before prayers, while her leisure hours are divided between elaborate washings of Duff, her dog, struggling beneath the weight of German- books twice her size and attempting to drive a car. Allie takes the wind out of our sails regularly with her penetrating remarks. At last she has mastered the difficult art of adjusting the tilt of her beret.

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SAMARA Ethel Southam. — ' ' Founded upon a rock. ' ' Cool, calm and collected, Hetty is a Senior Prefect and Head of Nightingale. She also aspires to great heights on the Tennis and Basketball teams as well as in the kitchen, while her happy nature helps us whenever we discover that life is not a bed of roses. Her latest acquisition is her jaunty car Tantrum, in which she often conveys the weakly cookingclass to further its domestic accomplishments at Oakhill Lodge. Her chief pastimes are valiantly upholding and defending the family newspaper, practising to be a boarder and drawing windows and painting curtains much to the fascination of the unartistic VI upper. Among the objects of her affection, are sleep, her little watch, Hoop, tennis and chiens chauds. Barbara Kennedy. — ' ' A beam that smiles the clouds away. ' ' Head Boarder is Ken ' s title and well she lives up to it and from morning till night she worries over her brood like the old woman who lived in a shoe. She is fittingly Sports Captain of the School and also of Fry, and plays energetically on the basketball and tennis teams besides trying her skill at many other games. As our secretary, she sprinkles crumbs between the pages of our precious red notebook in which she keeps the notes of our prefect meetings and good- ness knows what else. Her gifts of story telling and imitating greatly amuse us in Our Cherished Hour. Of any Elmwoodian, Ken has hailed for the past six years from the farthest point west, and admirably advertises Sunny Southern Alberta as the spot in Canada. Among her various pastimes are making lists, struggling with matric, tidying the sitting-room, keeping a diary, and making time, and she is crazy about treaclepie, Jasper, bulldogs, hot baths, golf, and her camera from which issue streams of peculiar pictures. She evidently believes in See yourself as others see you.

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26 SAMARA Anna MacKay. — ' ' Sits in a foggy cloud. ' ' Fish is Minnie ' s faithful lieutenant in Keller and is the advisor to the fiction loving boarders. She is an acknowledged book-and-magazine worm. She dotes on Wednesday ' s mail, Scotland, French-toast, fresh air, ice-cream cones and back-brushes. She still has a fervent desire that she may some day learn to wield a needle with maidenly grace — perhaps Paris will teach her this next year when, she tells us, she is going to finish — (what ?!) GwYNETH Young. — ' ' She lives in noble sim- plicity. ' ' Imagine Fry ' s elation when Gyn gained her House Senior Badge after a fleeting period as a Monitor. Her agreeable nature makes her a popular peace-maker. Art is her forte and she is the outstanding exponent of it in the school. She likes horses, cornfritters, simplicity and pink under- wear and her ambition is to be an aviatrix and to see her great grandchildren. She profitably em- ploys her time trying to remember what she has forgotten. Periodically she is to be found playing eenie-meenie-minie-mo w ith the map of Europe, in attempts to settle her plans for next year. Ruth Creighton. — Handle with care. Our Nightingale boarder House Senior is still recuperating after appendicitis. Her worthy contributions to the Art class will be greatly missed next year — not to mention her sympathetic nature. She has been one of our long- suffering librarians and often used to be seen accompanied by a large volume of Scott — (for appearances ' sake ?). Is fond of caviar, taxis ' , suede shoes, pretzels and Maxie Baer. Margo Graydon. — A well-graced actor. At Christmas we were sorry to lose Margo, a House Senior of Nightingale. She contributed greatly to her house star board as well as being an out-standing actress and a bright light of VI Matric. She is working as hard as ever, and we wish her the best of luck in her Matriculation. 1 [»1