Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 15 NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES 1936-1937 lAST year Nightingale succeeded in winning the House Shield after being behind until the last two weeks. This year, owing to many absentees, we are behind, but are hoping to repeat our success of last year. We are very proud of Genevieve Bronson, who, as Head of Nightingale and Head Day Girl last year, won the highest award — the Summa Summarum. We should also like to congratulate her on winning the Public Speaking Medal and the Gold Medal for Music. Denny, as our leader, guided us through our most successful year, for besides winning the House Shield, we captured the Bad- minton and Sports Cups and the Basketball and Tennis Shields. We should also like to congratulate other prize winners of last year. They are as follows: — Ethel Southam — Award for High Endeavour. Cecily Sparks — Dramatic Art. Jacqueline Vernon — Improvement Medal. Patricia Murphy — Posture Girdle. In the School Tennis Tournament we were very successful — four of our members having won matches: — Ethel Southam and Betty Fleck (Fry), Senior Doubles; Shirley Geldert, Intermediate Singles; Winsome Hooper and Penelope Duguid, Intermediate Doubles. Congratulations are also due to Shirley Geldert and Mary Paterson, the former for being on the School Tennis Team this year and the latter for winning a posture girdle last Christmas. This Christmas we repeated our success of last year by winning in the collection of clothing, food and toys for the poor children. Good work, Nightingalites!

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14 SAMARA Elizabeth McClelland — Ancient History, R; Algebra, C; Latin Authors, 3rd; Latin Composition, R; French Authors, 3rd; French Composition, C. Margaret Marr — EngHsh Composition, 3rd; EngHsh Lite- rature, R; Canadian History, R; Algebra, R; French Authors, 3rd; French Composition, 3rd. Margaret Parkin — Geometry, R; Physics, R; Chemistry, R; Latin Authors, R; Latin Composition, R; French Authors, R; French Composition, R; German Authors, R; German Composition, 2nd. Maria Petrucci — Ancient History, R; Geometry, R; Latin Authors, 3rd. Penelope Sherwood — English Composition, 3rd; English Literature, 2nd; Canadian History, 3rd. Patricia Spendlove — English Composition, 2nd; English Literature, 1st; Canadian History, C; Algebra, 2nd; French • Authors, C; French Composition, 2nci. Cecily Sparks — Spanish Composition, R. Dorothy Wardle — English Composition, R; English Lite- rature, R; Canadian History C; French Authors, C; French Composition, 2nd. The following results were obtained in the McGill University Junior Matriculation examinations: — Elizabeth Fleck — English Literature, 62; English Composi- tion, 57; Algebra, 65; Geometry, 61; French Grammar, 86; French Composition, 62; Chemistry, 64; Latin Composition, 67; Latin Sight, 63. Beatrice Norsworthy — Algebra, 50; Geometry, 61; French Grammar, 80; French Composition, 75; Physics, 70; Chemistry, 78. Mary Fry — Algebra, 76; Geometry, 82; Music, 86.

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16 SAMARA We are hoping to win the Basketball Shield again this year. Shirley Geldert as our Games captain and Gerry Hanson as vice have inspired our teams with their great enthusiasm. The Basketball teams are as follows: — 1st Team: — Shirley Geldert, Clara May Gibson, Gerry Hanson, Winsome Hooper, Marion Monk, Dorothy Wardle. 2nd Team: — Anne Bethune, Margaret Gerard, AilsaMathewson, Mary Paterson, Rita Rich. The Badminton team: — Shirley Geldert, Ailsa Mathewson, Margaret Gerard, Winsome Hooper. Pen. Duguid left us in the middle of April, going with a party of private school girls to the Coronation. We all join in wishing her a wonderful time abroad. To the members of Nightingale who are leaving this year, we wish joy in the future, and to those who are returning — we hope that they will carry our motto high — ' ' Not for ourselves alone. ' ' The members of Nightingale are : Winsome Hooper Head of House Shirley Geldert Monitor Dorothy Wardle Monitor Clara May Gibson Counsellor Term I and II Geraldine Hanson Counsellor Term I Anne Bethune, Suzette Bourinot, Ogden Blackburn, Penelope Duguid, Pamela Booth, Jane Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Margaret Gerard, Ailsa Mathewson, Nancy Martin, Marion Monk, Rita Rich, Joyce Tetley. Mistresses — Miss Beckwith, Miss Heney, Miss May, Miss Neal. KELLER HOUSE NOTES HAST year we did not quite succeed in winning the House Shield, but are determined to put our name on it once again this year. Let ' s make sure we do it, Keller! At closing of last year the following members of Keller won distinction : — MoiRA Leathem Proficiency Medal Alison Cochrane High Endeavour Award Elizabeth McClelland Silver Music Medal Patricia Spendlove Special Music Prize Maria Petrucct Art Prize Barbara Whitley (Second time) Short Story Medal Eleanor Carson Speech Prize Muriel Crocket Senior Sports Cup Muriel Crocket Long Jump Cup Alison Cochrane Posture Girdle