Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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18 SAMARA her splendid leadership of us last year. She is with us again as Head Boarder and School Games Captain. Other Nightingale prizewinners of last June whom we should like to congratulate are: Genevieve Bronson who won the Proficiency Medal and the Bronson Dramatic Art Medal; Suzette Bourinot, the Junior Improvement Medal; Ruth Creighton, Mrs. P. B. Taylor ' s Art Prize; Geraldine Hanson, Major McKeand ' s prize for writing. In the School Tennis Tournament of last year we were very successful. Ethel Southam won the Senior Tennis Singles Cup, (pres. by Mrs. E. Fauquier); Ailsa Gerard and Barbara Kennedy (Fry) — Sen. Tennis Doubles Cup (pres. by J. Wilson and K. Gordon); Winsome Hooper — Intermediate Tennis Singles Cup, (pres. by Mrs. Russel Smart); Shirley Geldert and Melodic Willis- O ' Connor — Intermediate Tennis Doubles Cup, (pres. by J. Southam). Ethel Southam and Ailsa Gerard were also valuable members of the school tennis team. Olga Brown won the prize for archery presented by Mrs. F. Ahearn; and Eleanor Clark and Ogden Blackburn were awarded posture girdles last June. Ogden is the youngest possessor of this award. This Christmas we gained three stars for our House for having the largest and most attractively arranged display of clothing, toys and foodstuffs for charity. We have also succeeded in winning the Badminton Cup for the first time. Congratulations, Badminton team! We have great hopes for our Basketball this year, thanks to our enthusiastic Games Captain, Barbara Hampson, and her lieutenant Barbara Fellowes. We are at present tied with Keller, with four matches to go. Pamela Erwin left us just before Christmas to go to England. We miss her contributions to the star board and wish her good luck abroad. We welcome all new girls to Nightingale and hope that they will give their loyalty and support to our house in the years to come; and to those who are leaving we wish all good things in the future. The members of Nightingale are: — Genevieve Bronson . . Head Day Girl and Head of House Ethel Southam Head Boarder Barbara Fellowes Monitor Barbara Hampson Monitor Jane Toller .Monitor, Term I Cecily Sparks Monitor, Term II Anne Bethune, Ogden Blackburn, Suzette Bourinot, Olga Brown, Eleanor Clark, Penelope Duguid, Jane Edwards, Shirley Geldert, Clara May Gibson, Geraldine Hanson, Winsome Hooper, Nancy Martin, Marion Monk, Mona Morrow, Helen Murdoch, Patricia Murphy, Beatrice Norsworthy, Mary Paterson, Jacque- line Vernon, Dorothy Wardle, Norma Wilson. Mistresses — Miss Neal, Miss Booth, Miss Beckwith and Miss Heney.

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SAMARA 17 They are as follows — Junior High Endeavour B. B. Fraser Special Proficiency Award S. Skelton Special High Endeavour B. Kennedy Music Medal G. Young Music Improvement Medal M . Fry Physical Training Medal B. Hooper (Presented by Mrs. E. Fauquier) Gym Stripe M. Ellsworth Posture Girdles B. Hooper D. Laidlaw M. Ellsworth Our collection for the poor at Christmas, of knitted garments, old clothes, toys, etc., was very generous but it did not merit as rnany stars as those of Keller and Nightingale. The house play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, tied with the other two houses. It was presented at the Christmas party, and was great fun to do. We should like to thank the Fry mistresses who were so kind in helping us. At Christmas we were sorry to lose Melodie Willis-O ' Connor, who we had hoped would continue to bring distinction to her house by her tennis. We wish her luck at Netherwood in Nova Scotia. The members of the house, as they stand, are: — House Prefect Patricia Galt House Senior Marion Ellsworth Monitor Dorothy Laidlaw Monitor Kathleen Warner Monitor Marjorie McKinnon Monitor Mary Fry Mimi Boal, Elizabeth Fleck, Peggy Marr, Glen Borbridge, B. B. Fraser, Barbara McClelland, Heather Collins, Barbara Gilbert, Mary McColl, Margaret Curry, Barbara Hopkirk, Mar- garet Parkin, Joan Daniels, Genevieve Inglis, Anne Perley-Robert- son, Joan Dean, Susan Kenny, Nancy Riley, Mackie Edwards, Norah Lewis, Anna Wilson. Mistresses— Miss Martin, Miss Mills, Miss White, Miss Bertheny. NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES 1935-36 nAST year Nightingale was last in red stars, but we are determined to make up for our lapse and do our best to regain the Shield. At present we rank second to Fry, but we mean to make good use of our last few weeks. We were very proud indeed when Ethel Southam, the Head of Nightingale and a Senior Prefect of the school, won the Summa Summarum award last June; and we would congratulate her on

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SAMARA 19 ' ' We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately. — Benjamin Franklin Genevieve Bronson. — Brightly smile and sweetly sing. Yennifer, as Head Day-Girl and Head of Nightingale, is completing her eleventh and last year. She topped all her scholastic achievements last year by getting six firsts and a second out of the seven Senior Matriculation papers she tried. With such an outstanding record she should certainly further her studies at college — Are you listenin ' , Yennifer? We can- not truthfully say that she is as blameless in other things. For instance, her friends will tell you that outside of school her punctuality is distinctly conspicuous by its absence! Consequently it is not to punctuality that she attributes her social success, but to the fascination of her most expressive eyebrows. If you have not already seen the amazing sight of her eyebrows in action — do not fail to do so. Ethel Southam. — A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! Eth is our Head Boarder and the proud possessor of last year ' s Summa Summarum — Congratulations, Eth! She is one of our foremost athletic stars, being School Sports Captain and Tennis Captain. The school did its best to carry on without her for seven weeks, part of which time she spent in sunny Bermuda. She causes her room-mates much anxiety (or is it amusement ?) by holding forth in her sleep at night. As yet she has not disclosed any state secrets — but there ' s still hope! Another of her failings is dropping things — let us explain. She has been dropping subject after subject all year until she now has a grand total of seven (which number includes such subjects as cooking and dressmaking). Ethel has the distinction of being the only girl who has been at Elmwood for twelve years. She will probably be super-annuated this year! Alison Cochrane. — Great oaks from little acorns grow . Pee-Wee is Minnie ' s under- study in Keller, and has had the privilege of taking several House-Meetings (she ' s not so sure that it ' s a privilege!). She is the Reference Librarian and spends all her spare moments recovering lost books. She is particularly noted for her puns which are usually so deep that the average mentality cannot fathom them. We often wonder if she herself knows what she is talking about. She is always kept busy on Friday afternoons reading our teacups — although she admits she knows nothing about it. We find her a little determined in such things as wearing her school ring upside down, and parting her hair in the middle — which, we assure you, does not suit her. Her ambition is to run an orphans ' home — she probably got the idea when inspecting the babies before prayers.