Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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SAMARA 17 SPORTS NOTES THIS year we welcomed to the staff as Sports mistress, Miss Woolaver, under whose guidance we have greatly improved our technique and enthusiasm. So, thank you, Miss Woolaver, for a very pleasant sports year. Sports Day [1938] last year was held on May 21st, some time earlier than usual, and it proved a great success in every way. It was a fine warm day and both the audience and participants enjoyed the events thoroughly. Fry captured the Inter-House Cup, beating Nightingale at the last minute by two points. The other awards were as follows: — Inter-House Relay — Nightingale Inter-House Tug-of-War — Keller Senior Sports Cup — D. Wardle Intermediate Sports Cup — M. Pater son Junior Sports Cup — J. Creighton Preparatory Sports Cup — E. Pater son BASKETBALL We should like to extend our thanks to Mr. Archdale for the use of the Ashbury Gym, where we again carried on Basketball throughout the winter. Two groups, one of seniors and one of juniors, went on Mondays and Thursdays respectively, to practise. Basketball has always been the main school sport at Elmwood, but this year we were very glad to note a greater amount of enthu- siasm than usual, particularly amongst the seniors. We were very glad to play against the Ottawa Ladies ' College in their gym this winter and, though we were very badly beaten, their hospitality soon put us at our ease. This year, the gods so favoured Fry that she won the Inter-House Basketball matches, and had the outstanding record of winning all her matches. The real highlight of Autumn Basketball, however, was the riotous game between the staff and the school teams, amid the lusty cheers of a very amused audience. The staff, puffing and panting as much as the girls, after the onslaught, came out victorious; 28-26.