Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Diana Warner: He who proposes to he an author must first be a student. Warner, our representative from South of the Border, joined our ranks at the beginning of the second term. Generally she can be found in the art room studying the Arts instead of swotting for her metric — the lucky creature! Our nightly studies are accompanied by Warner ' s discords as she puts in her hour (?) of practising. Twice a week she may be seen rushing down Buena Vista to catch the 3.45 street car so she will not keep Mr. Puddicombe waiting for her music lesson. The continual noise issuing from the sitting room is the result of the constant arguments with Sue on to diet or not to diet. Judging from her frequent seconds we gather she supports the negative. Her pet weakness is bed, her hero Laurence Olivier, and her ambition to write a sequel to Gone With the Wind. We wish you luck! Next year she plans to go to Columbia where she will continue her studies in music and history. Winifred Cross: is not enough to be industrious. What are you industrious about? Winnie hails from Montreal, in which city she is in her element, and is Head of Keller. She spends part of her time working in a daze and part in collecting or distributing pound. Anything may happen anywhere and anyhow, but nothing worries her. German is her forte. Reason — she visited there for two and a half weeks! She has recently taken fencing and soon she will probably be a champion. Her greatest asset is her ability to get along with everyone. Next year will find her at McGill or somewhere in Montreal. Ogden Blackburn: God gives every man a voice, but few a song. Ogden lives about four miles out of Ottawa, next to the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, which is about the only way of locating her. Her main ambition is to learn how to sing God Save the King in tune. She also hopes to take her Senior Matric next year and is looking forward with a certain amount of fear and trembling to the Latin. Ogden is invariably good natured and it is very seldom that you surprise her without a smile on her face. Her pet occupation is tearing her hair out in exams. We wish her all the best in the coming year.

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prefect i otesi Susan Kenny: Eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we diet. This year as Head Girl and Head of Fry, Susie has successfully completed her seventh year at Elmwood. She hopes to finish her senior matric and is then on her way to McGill. Despite her frequent mental eruptions over her three maths when books may be seen flying across the classroom, she may be found peacefully tearing her hair out over her two Latins. At last Sue ' s lifelong ambition has been fulfilled — she has a plaid suit! This summer the members of the ham. golf club will be taking shelter behind trees while Susie roars down the fairway of the nine-hole course with her new clubs, having reduced her score from 200 to 100. Her hobby is collecting permants, which explains why the walls of her bedroom resemble those of a tourist bureau. Her pet hate is scansion in any shape or form. Even though she strives valiantly every week to sing second with Warner in the school choir, we fear she will never be a singer, but there are other fields in which we know she will attain success. We ' re with you, Susie! Margaret Gerard: Laugh when I laugh; I seek no other fame. Gerdie surprised us all by landing back at school last September with glasses. However, this does not interfere with her ability at sports and this year she is our able Sports Captain besides being the Head of Nightingale. Her absence at morning prayers is audibly noticeable as the other prefects find it difficult to keep in tune without her toneful (?) soprano to drown their vague murmurings. Her famed reputation has been maintained by her daily jokes. When she runs out of these she translates them into French, complete with gestures and facial ex- pressions. Each day we hear I am going to get my license soon. The soon has not yet come but when you walk down the street and see all the telephone posts broken, you will know why. Gerdie is planning to take Lil ' s Home Lover ' s Course next year and she says that any other applications must be made soon as they only have one kitchen in their house. Any time you want a meal drop in at 49 Mac. (if you are the dare-devil type). Barbara Watson: Wisdom Cometh not to every man by chance. Continuing her record of winning the proficiency medal. Bubbles is this year sailing through her complete senior matric with flying colours (she hopes). A second edition of the absent minded professor, we can expect her back at school every night at 6.00 to get the book she forgot. Her favourite expression is you know . The trouble is we usually don ' t. Poor Bubbles can ' t take part in our scrumptious teas on Friday afternoon because she is on a diet, but when we have ice cream — it ' s a different question. Her pet weaknesses are Fifi, her bicycle, and Nickie, her dog, who disappeared for three months, but lo! she arrived at school one morning with the joyous tidings — Nickie ' s back. As a result she no longer needs an alarm clock, which by the way she absolutely detests. The main problem of the year has been McGill or Toronto. Whether Sue ' s constant persuasion will finally land her at McGiU or not remains to be seen.

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SAMARA 9 THIS year our Sports have been made very- pleasant and instructive by Miss Snell; we all look forward to our gym and drill classes with great pleasure. Sports Day was held on June 11th, last spring. It was a lovely day and the mos- quitoes were not too bad Fry was vic- torious and won the Sports Shield. Last fall on September 27th, we played in the Interscholastic Tennis Tournament. It was lots of fun, but we were beaten by Lisgar Collegiate. We also played Basket- ball and some girls started Archery. It was a new experience for most of us, but we certainly enjoyed it and we hope to begin it again soon. This winter we were not able to play basketball in the Ashbury gym, so we did more skiing and skating. Skiing was taken up with great eagerness by the English girls, most of whom took lessons from Mrs. Gordon-Lennex . For the first time, we had a ping-pong tournament. The results were as follows: Senior Singles — O. Blackburn Senior Doubles —1 , Kenny M. Gerard Junior Singles — E. Goodeve Junior Doubles — E. Bourinot J. Bryson We also played our Inter-house bad- minton tournament after Christmas. Fry was successful in this only losing one match. I want to thank Miss Snell for all valuable help in badminton. It certainly improved our game immensely As yet we have not started to play tennis but we have begun basketball again and are choosing our teams for the spring games. The Drill Compe- tition is going to be held in a levr weeks and already we are looking forward to Sports Day. This year has been a very happy one. All the girls have been very enthusiastic about games. Thank you again Miss Snell, for a very enjoyable sports year. Margaret Gerard. SONG OF THE WINDS The North Wind is a lone wind with icy, frosty breath. That moans outside the window like a spirit bound by death, And drives the clouds before him in a race towards the west. The East wind is a chill wind that cuts you to the bone, And makes each mortal scurry to the comfort of his home. To sit him down in quietness before a fire, and rest. The West Wind is a gay wind with life and vividness. That lures men from their hearths and homes, away from laziness, flnd sends them forth to unknown shores, to seek beyond the west. But the South Wind is the singing wind that drifts beneath the stars. Between the moonlight ' s silver rays and shining coral bars, And sings across the ocean deep, across its moonlit crest. Winifred Cross, Keller.