Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 21 Peggy McLaren. — ' ' Toil is the law of life, and its best fruit . Peg is our baby, although she is trying eight of her Senior Matric. She very thoughtlessly decided to get measles when we were in the middle of writing these notes — all our sympathies to you, Peg, but you really didn ' t miss a thing. She is headed for Switzerland next year to become a great skier (to quote her), and to do a little studying as a side line. She is determined to become an aviatrix, or failing that, to drive a train — there is certainly nothing small about her ambitions. Stop Press. — It being a woman ' s privilege to change her mind. Peg has just informed us that she may be going to Paris instead of Switzerland. Well, folks, you ' ll see her if, and where you see her! Marion Ellsworth. — ' ' Her love of youthful sports . Marny joined us as a House Senior half way through the first term, after a bout with her appendix. Preferring the society of their measles to that of the prefects, much to our chagrin she and Pat retired to the infirmary for a few weeks after Christmas. She is a prominent member of Fry House, being their Sports Captain and Pat ' s very able assistant. She is planning to go to school in Paris next year, that is if she can be persuaded to get off the boat, and it will take some persuading, from what we gather. Her none too lofty ambition is to ride an aquaplane on her head. She will probably end by being a circus acrobat ! Her weaknesses are sports in general, ice-cream cones, radios, and curling peoples ' hair with tongs. HEAD GIRLS Ethel Southam; Genevieve Bronson.

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SAMARA 23 INTEREST in our varied programme of sports continues to increase, and we want to thank Miss Blackburn for devoting so mucli of her time to help us. We shall all be very sorry to say goodbye to her in June when she is leaving us to be married, and should like to wish her every happiness in the future. SPORTS DAY Hot weather greeted us on Sports Day last June. This, however, did not dampen our enthusiasm, and everyone entered whole heartedly into the interesting programme of races. After some very stiff competition the inter-house sports cup was won by Fry. Other cups were won by the following: Senior Championship, Barbara Kennedy; Intermediate Championship, Muriel Crocket; Junior Championship, B. B. Eraser; Primary Cup, Mary Blackburn; Long Jump, Muriel Crocket; Tug-of-war was won by Keller, and the Relay Race by Nightingale. BASKETBALL We have been striving harder than ever this year to improve our teams ' standard, and have been most fortunate in having Miss Enid Palmer, an old girl, present at several of our practices. She gave us some very valuable tips from which we all profited. Owing to various mishaps to members of the first team, their places wet-e taken at different times by able substitutes. At the beginning of the year Marion Ellsworth had to part with her appendix, and was unable to play until after Christmas. Ethel Southam was unable to play from the November week-end until after Christmas, and Elizabeth McClelland was out from Christmas until after Easter. Both teams played Ottawa Ladies ' College in one match this year. The College was successful in the first team game, but our second team won after a hard fought struggle. We also took our first team up to Kingston, where we played Hatfield Hall, Cobourg, in the Queen ' s University gym. It was a very strenuous game with Hatfield victorious, 17-13.