Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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22 SAMARA Kay Warner. — trust I may speak and speak I will. Our capable editor of Samara has put her elocution lessons to use by her frequent pleas to, Please write something for the mag. We all want to thank her for the time and the hard work that she has devoted to its completion. She is the only one of us who represents the Arts Form, but she assures us that she is preparing to take her London Matric. next year. Kay lives in New York during the winter, but sails for England as soon after the closing as possible. Tea-drinking is the only English habit from which she does not suffer; instead she prefers Canadian milk or aqua pura. Her ambition is to go on the stage, but we ' ll probably hear of her as a stage hand or as an extra in a mob scene. Marjorie McKinnon. — ' Eat, drink, and be merry Mac is one of Parkie ' s able lieutenants in Fry. Her school day begins with the inspec- tion of the preparatory forms, and dinnertime finds her looking round with an eagle eye for forgetful waitresses. She is hoping to complete her Junior Matric and to have next year free to explore the mysteries of cooking, and to learn how to wield a needle. She has just obtained her driving license and spends her free time chaufTeuring the Day Girls around town. Marjory, too, is ambitious to go on the stage, and we ' ll be interested to know who reaches the top first, she or Kay. Barbara McClelland. — 0 ? this learning! What a thing it is. Not content to remain a Monitor, Barb has recently joined our ranks as a House-Senior. As Fry ' s hard-working games captain, she is trying to lead the house to victory. She is fond of all sports, but riding is her forte. She loves to watch Parkie experi- menting in the lab. on Tuesday afternoons. Her ambition is to be a nurse, but ten years hence you will probably find her bathing her own children in a truly professional manner.

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S x M A R A 21 prefect Mott Elizabeth McClelland. — Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both her sides. Although Head Girl, Head of Keller and Sports Captain, Liz still finds time to do a little studying. Liz has ably filled her numerous positions and has done much in rousing in the girls a keen school spirit and enthusiasm in sports. Her chief source of worry is the gradual decline in the number of Kellerites, but nothing will daunt her confidence in Keller ' s ability to reach the top. She dotes on Lmcoln-Zephyrs, Chanel perfume and Calay soap, and is addicted to sneezing and to eating poached eggs. Liz has an ambition, but it ' s a secret — even to herself. Her immediate future, at least, is secure for she is going to be one of next year ' s Toronto debs. Margaret Parkin. — ' Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence. Parkie, our smiling scholastic prodigy, is trying only nine Senior matric. subjects — she wants to leave three for next year. As Head of Fry, she has per- formed her task admirably, as is shown by the fact that Fry is so far leading in red stars. Having recently reached Sweet Sixteen she is now terrifying RockclifYe residents with her exploits at the driving wheel. Her pet aversions are rainy days (which are bad for the curls) and German vocabs., but she does like blowing people up — in the lab. Her ambition is to be a scientist, and we ' ll probably hear of her trying to disprove Newton ' s Law of Gravity; that is. if Einstein ' s effort fails. Winsome Hooper. — chatter, chatter as I go. As Head of Nightingale, Whoop is having a little trouble in keeping her chickens in order (being a chicken herself). Nightingale has almost a clean bill as far as black marks are concerned, which speaks well for her capable leadership. In spite of this, however, she seems to have a guilty conscience, for every Friday she resolves to reform on Monday. But ....!!! Winsome very appropriately and ably took the part of Florence Nightingale in the Senior Dramatic play, The Lady With a Lamp . She dotes on Ginger , powder puffs and bows in her hair. Her ambitions are to be a manne- quin or a tennis champ, but instead you will probably find her performing as a ball boy on the tennis courts.

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SAMARA 23 Louise MacBrien. — 7 draw girls ' faces on my copy books. Lou is Keller ' s only House-Senior and has been a great help to Liz. As a result of ill-health, Lou has had a very badly interrupted year. She is the artist of our group and intends someday to improve her talent at a commercial art school. She is most painstaking about her writing, yet it is nearly always illegible. It must be your artistic temperament, Lou! Her passions are varied, ranging from shorts to horses, but her Scotty, Judy, seems to have the tightest hold on her heart at present. Pamela Mathewson. — ' ' Nature Flowed and next to Nature, Art. ' ' Unfor- tunately Pam ' s term as a House-Senior was very short, owing to illness. Alter Christmas she went down South to escape the chills of winter. Judging from the monologues with which she used to entertain us, we predict that she will be a second Ruth Draper. Pam is never so happy as when she is astride her horse, Blackie, and we hope she has the best of luck in any horseshow that she may enter. SAD SONG OF A HOUSE COUNSELLOR Ah, it ' s sad I am and dreary, Always on bath duty weary, Chasing people up to bed. How I wish Fd never said, will do it for you, deary. ' ' Half past eight, and Fm on duty. Helping others get their beauty Sleep, and wearing out my feet. Don ' t tell me it ' s any treat. (Fhere ' s no other rhyme but ' ' Cutie !) Oh, where are those Golden Morners? Fhey of bells were always scorners. Now I have to climb the stairs. Drag Matrickers from their lairs In mysterious nooks and corners. And Fd like to make a query. For I think it ' s simply eerie Fhat it always is my lot Fo find the water far from hot, — Makes me feel most awfully teary. — M.F.M.