Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 15 prefect J otesi Jane Smith : There is nothing like fun, is there? Sme is head boarder as well as being a senior prefect. Although she is taking some Upper School matric, she finds time to spend up in the Art room, doing strange things with charcoal or oils. She keeps up faithfully with events in her home town [Toronto] and studiously scans the papers daily. The bane of her life, we hear repeatedly, is Algebra — and we gather that she is very fond of the New York night life! She is planning to give the Canadian West the once-over this Summer, and in the Fall she hopes to go to Toronto University. We wish you the best of luck, Jane, whatever you do. Gill German: Gill, since she became a House Senior after Easter, is our day-girl representative. Her ambition is to be an architect, [which is at least original], but some sceptic might remark that so far she has not finished her matric, although she is hoping to do so this year. She likes bright colours, and long hair, since she ' s had hers cut! Her reason for not being an enthusiastic athlete is my foot as she apologetically informs us. We wish her luck in her career as architect, but we quake when we think of the trend houses will take about the year 1950! Joan Daniels: Whistle while you work. ' ' Joan is Head of Fry and Secretary of Toe H, the Circle of the Lamp. She plays a roaring game of jacks, as most of us know, to our sorrow. She is also keen on the more orthodox sports of tennis and basket- ball. She is fond of anything that is tur- quoise blue, peppermint patties and Ladies ' Home Journal. She hopes to complete her Junior Matric, and next year expects to be a deb. in Montreal. As she is not sure that this is what she wants to do, we wish her luck if she attempts anything more ambitious.

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14 SAMARA BADMINTON First Singles — G. Douglas Second Singles — N. Baker — jG. Douglas — N. Baker — jj. Alexander — A. Powell TENNIS First Doubles Second Doubles Our Tennis team has not yet been selected. We managed to make a good House record last year in sports, and we still have great hopes for winning the house shield, although we are just a little behind in stars at the moment. Gaye Douglas is our able Sports Captain, and Nancy Baker is Vice-Captain. The members of the House this year are: Sue Edwards — House Prefect. Jane Smith — Head Boarder. Nancy Doane — Prefect. Juliet Alexander, Nancy Baker, Bea Black, Nancy Bowman, Joan Creighton, Winifred Cross, Anne Davies, Gaye Douglas, Janet Edwards, Jessie Gilmour, Vivian King, Anne Powell, Clair Perley-Robertson, Claire Wilson, Sarah Wallace. Staff — Miss Adams, Miss Eason, Made- moiselle Juge. PEACE WORLD peace is not impossible, but it is highly improbable. In the first place, few people realize what peace is. As individuals, and as nations, we talk glibly of peace, and how to establish it, but only in an abstract, rather narrow- minded way. To some it is merely a respite from war; to others it is a foolish dream which had best be forgotten. Peace is neither of these. It is, certainly, the absence of war, but it is not that alone. It is a dream as well, but it is far from being a foolish one. The greatest mistake is to define peace as a negative guality. Peace is as positive a guality as war. We must cease to think of it as a passive, quiescent state of affairs, or as an interval between wars. We must realize what peace means. But even when we fully understand its meaning, peace is not easy to achieve. It requires more than the guidance of inspired leaders, more than the vain sacrifices of eternal wars to end wars, to accomplish peace. It means the ceaseless, untiring effort of every single individual toward peace, for peace is primarily a question of harmony between individuals. And striving for peace is not merely talking of its desir- ability. It means the shedding of prejudice, prejudice of class, of colour, and of nation- ality. It means the absolute willingness to forget oneself, to understand the points of view of others, and to accept them if neces- sary. Peace cannot be brought about until the world has been made almost perfect, free from injustice, from crime, from oppres- sion, and from poverty. Such a world is difficult to imagine, but so it must be if we are to have peace. And lastly, peace can only grow out of a firm desire for it, and the absolute con- viction that it is a necessity. We are too prone to believe that war is inevitable, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Wars have been raging for centuries, but by the same token, peace has also existed. We must realize that war is an evil which has to be overcome, and that all through the centuries the desire for peace has fostered great deeds and noble thoughts. Whenever war breaks out, man has failed in his mission. There is a theory that eternal peace would mean eternal stag- nation. If peace were no more than the absence of conflict, this theory would be true. But peace must be striven for, since it is necessary in order that humanity may have time to produce works of art and to forward the progress of civilization. Peace is an ideal which cannot, perhaps, be reached. Nevertheless, it, like perfec- tion of character, must continue to be an ideal after which to strive. Peace is not impossible, but human nature must change greatly before it can be achieved. A. Bethune — Nightingale

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16 SAMARA Anne Bethune : e suis mats je ne reste pas. Anne is working for her Senior Matric and also finds time to run Nightingale House. Anne is the lady of the Sitting room and you will always see her pouring out Friday tea. She is a lover of fluffy Pomeranians and Summer holidays. She dislikes wild horses and you can never find her if there is a spider in the house. At present she is learning to drive a car and we fear for innocent dogs and unwary pedestrians. Anne is hoping to go to University next year. We doubt if she will ever stop working; but she loves fun like the rest of us and knows how to play as well as work. Nancy Doane : gazed and gazed, but little thought. Nancy is in the Arts Form, and spends most of her time painting in the Art Room. Besides this, her hobbies are riding, gazing out the window, and being original about her spelling. She loathes mice and arith- metic. She dotes on her Airedale, Junior, and occasionally brings him into the Sitting room, where he causes general chaos. She wants to go to Boston to study Art, or to help Miss May with her Saturday morning Art classes, or possibly to go to MacDonald to learn to cook. We gather that Nancy ' s future is very undecided. Susan Edwards: A little learning is a dangerous thing. Besides being head of Keller House, she is also the official collector of the School. She runs around pleading the causes of various charities and extorting hard-earned pennies from reluctant philanthropists. She is finishing her Junior Matric as well as taking a few Arts subjects and hopes next year to go to College and take up photo- graphy. We, who have suffered from her candid camera shots, hope she has fun.