Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 19 Margaret Parkin. — A good laugh is sunshine in a school . Parkie , our cheery Head Day Girl, has just concluded her last year at Elmwood, and she leaves behind her a splendid record of well-deserved successes, both in work and in leadership. Having already obtained her Honour Matric, she has been able to give thought to the lighter subjects of the Arts Form, as well as continue with Maths, and Science. Parkie ' s particular idiosyncrasies are her infectious giggles, and the quizzical way in which she wiggles her nose when feeling gay. The objects of her afTection are violets, Yardley ' s, and Friday afternoons after four! Her future career remains as yet a mystery to us all, including herself, but as her ambitions run to aeroplane designing and scientific research in radium, it is bound to be spectacular. Next year she is going to continue her search for knowledge at Varsity, where she will be anchored for the next five years. Gute Gliick, Gretchen. Kathleen Warner. — ' ' 0 to be in England, Now that April ' s here!!! Our able Head Boarder returned unexpectedly this year to take her London Matric, after having bidden her final fond farewells last June. She intended to study in England this year, but we are all very glad she changed her mind and returned to Elmwood. This year Katie has been very busy managing the boarders and preparing for her exams — quite a departure from the comparatively easy life of an art-formist. She is very fond of adopting all stray articles left around in the Sitting Room, and we always know on whose shelf to look for wandering rulers, erasers, pens and little black note books. She also likes costume jewellery, play suits (not rompers) and talking, but positively abhors dressing in a hurry, Monday morning, and drinking tea (and she ' s English!). She is so fond of changing her mind about her future career, that at this early date we are a little doubtful as to what it will be. Next year, however, she plans to go to England. Winsome Hooper. — ' With thee conversing, we forget all time. Hoop has led Nightingale successfully through another year. She is doing some Matric. work as well as exploring the mysteries of the cook book, colour combi- nations and other arty subjects. Her fancies run to sports, especially skiing and tennis, and we ' ll probably hear of her in the future as a Wimbledon star. One of her ambitions is never to grow old, which may be the reason we see her pumping up Buena Vista on her bicycle with a big bow in her hair. She loathes wearing hats, but loves shorts, and wind in her hair, and curiously enough she portrayed Wind in the dancing recital. In two years she intends to be a deb. but in the meantime what WILL you do. Hoop ?

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18 SAMARA MY DOG WUFF The Queen is very beautiful, But not quite enough; Nor are the Duchesses But just look at my Wuff. P. Archdale THE BROOK Rippling, gurgling over the rocks, Onward to the sea; Little splashes here and there. Longing to be free. Soon before the bubbling brook Could finish its gurgling game, It found itself falling right into a lake. Then out of it once again. After a while it stopped its play, And glided gently out to sea; Where it joined the billowy, foamy waves Never again a brook to be. — P. Archdale THE ROBIN once knew a robin With a bright red breast. I asked him, Mr. Robin, Will you be my guest? He hopped down from the tree And then began to chirp That way up in the tree It was the better perch. But he stayed with me, my robin, In my nursery chair. And I loved my little robin; We were a happy pair. — D. Gill, Form II

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20 SAMARA Marjorie McKinnon. — ' ' The blush is beauti- ful, but it is sometimes inconvenient. The capable Head of Fry is wielding pots and pans and paint brushes this year instead of slaving over German and Latin vocabs. In her ninth and final year, we find her competently leading Fry to the close of a very successful year. Marjorie ' s flamboyant colour schemes for bedrooms are a great source of wonder to all her form-mates. As purchaser of our weekly teas, Mac spends from Monday to Thursday en- deavouring to extract ten cents from each of us. She likes swimming, swing skirts, and chocolates, but detests stews, and creeping things of all descriptions. She still aspires to a career behind the footlights — don ' t forget to send us tickets to your first night, Mac! Patricia Spendlove. — Skilled she is in Sports and Pastimes. ' ' Spenders as Head of Keller, Editor of Samara and School Sports Captain still finds time to do some Honour Matric. work. She wrote her Oxford entrance exams in November and after a year at McGill hopes to go to Oxford. (Imagine Pat with an Oxford accent!) During the winter Spenders spent Monday and Thursday afternoons dashing frantically around the school with a basketball list in one hand and a hockey list in the other. One of her ambitions is to sit opposite Kay in the House of Commons and finish the arguments they started in school. (From our experience in the sitting-room, beware House of Commons!) Patty is very fond of aeroplanes and intends to learn to fly this summer. We shall probably hear of her landing a seaplane on a peak in the Rockies. Dorothy Wardle. — Wei can she sitte a horse and Faire ryde . As Nightingale ' s only other senior officer, Wart-Hog has ably assisted Winsome throughout the year. She is completing her Matric. and intends to go to Queen ' s next year — then those frequent trips to Kingston will be quite unnecessary. She enjoys sports of all kinds, especially riding and golf. She dotes on horses and hopes someday to own a ranch some- where in the wild and woolly west near her beloved Rockies. We shall probably hear of her herding cows or jumping off glaciers, but, in the meantime, her adventurous soul must be content with day-dreaming of these over her Geometry theorems.