Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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24 SAMARA SPORT NOTES XT was with great regret that we said good-bye to Miss Blackburn at the close of last year, but we welcomed Miss Powell with much enthusiasm in September, and we want to thank her for helping us in our various sports. She has given much of her time and many helpful suggestions for which we are all grateful. SPORTS DAY Our Sports Day last year was a great success. Apart from a temperature which soared to un- known heights, and a few mosqui- toes, we all enjoyed ourselves immensely, both watching and taking part in the various races. After a good deal of hard work, the Inter-House Sports Cup was won by Nightingale. Other cups were won by the following: Senior Champion Muriel Crocket Intermediate Champion Shirley Geldert Junior Champion B. B. Fraser Primary Cup Barbara Howe and Barbara Soper Long Jump Muriel Crocket The Tug of War was won by Keller and the Relay Race by Nightingale. BASKETBALL We started the year ' s basketball with great enthusiasm and many resolutions to make this our best year and to improve our play. Thanks to Miss Powell ' s giving us practices at York School during the winter months, we feel that we have improved quite a lot. The First Team played Ottawa Ladies ' College in their gym one afternoon last autumn, and we are glad to say that after a hard struggle we were successful. The First Team also went to Kingston where we played Hatfield Hall, Cobourg, in the Queen ' s University Gym. It was a very exciting game with Hatfield victorious 28-27. We played half of the Inter-House matches in September, and hope to complete them very soon. Nightingale won the House Basketball Cup last year.

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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.

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SAMARA 25 HOCKEY The rink was very popular this year and enterprising skaters could be found on it in all spare moments. The school hockey team played three matches against the Old Girls and won two games and tied one. Inter-House hockey matches were begun later in the season, but owing to unfavourable weather were not completed. We hope there will be more hockey than ever next year. GYM AND DANCING The gym classes each week have been greatly enjoyed by the gymmers and at the Drill Competition, the audience was enter- tained by a display of vaulting, rope c limbing and work on the rings. Everyone has been most enthusiastic about the dancing this year, a ' nd we all hope we have improved in our work. We welcomed Miss Eason this Fall and we would like to thank her, too, for making our classes so interesting. On May 11, we had our Annual Recital. Unfortunately, owing to bad colds, some of the girls were unable to participate and Miss Eason nobly filled their places, which, of course, greatly added to the performance. The Drill Competition this year was most successful. The groups had been trained by Miss Powell, but on the afternoon of the competition each class was led by one of the girls. We all anxiously waited for our judge, Mr. Buck, to name the winners, who were the Sixth Forms. Posture girdles have been awarded during the year to: K. Warner, L. MacBrien, B. McClelland, P. Spendlove, G. Inglis, P. Clark, S. Kenny, M. Paterson. Last June A. Cochrane, M. Boal, P. Gait, B. Hopkirk and P. Murphy also won their girdles. BADMINTON This sport has been greatly enjoyed this year and we have just completed the Inter-House matches. After some excellent games Nightingale proved victorious once again. MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES In the autumn Major Chapman again conducted his Archery classes. He had several new pupils who made very good progress. Riding plays an important part amongst the girls, and although during the winter months there was none, autumn and spring days have found many enthusiastic horsewomen. TENNIS Tennis is still a favourite sport at Elmwood and everyone is very keen. The courts are continually in use whenever the weather permits.