Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 15 T the end of last year, Marguerite Kenney Jn won the music prize for 1939 and 1940. This medal was for the greatest improve- ment. This year has obviously been a very successful one for Elmwood in the line of musical activities. Most of the girls have shown a great interest in their work and have been keenly co-operative in their classes. Extra singing has been introduced into the Friday morning prayers. A small group of girls make up a part singing choir and Mr. McTavish is very kindly directing them. Weekly Music Appreciation classes have also been organized by Mr. McTavish. During these, records of Symphonies and Concertos and different musical forms were played and then they were individually studied. The boarders have been very fortunate in hearing the Tremblay Concerts presented at the Glebe Collegiate and Capitol Theatre. At the beginning of the year Marion An- derson came to Ottawa to sing and some of the boarders were able to hear her per- formance. Unfortunately the concert of Rudolf Serkin was cancelled, but it was arranged so that the girls were able to go to the Washington Symphony Orchestra directed by Hans Kindler. Next we heard John Goss who gave his services to the Polish relief. ilfter Christmas some of the girls had the opportunity of hearing John Charles Thomas and later Josef Hoffmann. We also heard Doris Daly, an ex-pupil of Mr. H. Puddicombe, who gave a piano recital at the Chateau Laurier Hotel later in the term. Captain T. Goff, aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor General, gave us an excellent recital on one of the Clavichords he had made. He played several pieces and explained the history of his instruments. This year we feel that a delightful selection of artists has been able to be heard by the Elmwood girls and it has greatly helped to round out our musical education. ARE YOU A GOOD SPORT? RE you a good sport? By this I do not iT mean, do you excel in tennis, basket- ball or golf, for many people who are good at sports are not good sports. To come under the classification of a ' good sport , you must think and act fairly and do every- thing in an honourable manner. Do not think about yourself all the time but have some consideration for the other person. A good sport works well with other people. He knows that he cannot play football or basketball all alone, he must be a part of a team each one of which has his job to do towards making a perfect whole. A good sport takes disappointments and hardships well. He is cheerful in all circumstances and exerts his influence. Being a good sport does not apply only to games, but all through our lives. We will have to face many disappointments — so remember — it ' s easy to be cheerful and happy when things are going to suit you and life is treating you well — but the test of a good sport is when he has first been bitterly disappointed or lost a game — that is the time to show what you are made of and start to smile! Margaret Gerard, Nightingale.

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LEAVING GIRLS Back Row: — Mary Buckley, Betty Massey, Middle Row: — Jill Norton, Winifred Cross, Marguerite Kenny, Josephine Frazier, Susan Kenny, Dorothy Davis, Barbara Watson Front Row: — Margar et Gerard, Joan Thomson, Ann Davies, Damaris Owen, Dorothy Kennedy. MAGAZINE STAFF Back Row: — Nancy Bowman, Jill Norton, Mary Buckley, Betty Massey, Damaris Owen, Nancy Kennedy, Joan Creighton, Marguerite Kenney, Norma Wilson. Next Row: — Dorothy Kennedy, Joan Gillies, Mary Osier. Next Row: — Avril Crabtree, Margaret Gerard, Elizabeth Hardy, Moira McMaster, Elizabeth Paish, Jacqueline Workman, Ann Davies Front Row: — Winifred Cross, Josephine Frazier, Barbara Watson, Susan Kenny.

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16 SAMARA 0lti (§ivl ' Section OTTAWA OLD GIRLS ' NOTES 1940-41 ENGAGEMENTS Mary Craig to Richard Desbarats. Katherine Dunning to Stephen Ambrose. Gill German to Richard Porteous. Nancy Lane to Maurice (Morrie) Quinn. Jean Perley-Robertson to Robert Wright. MARRIAGES Marjorie Barron to Thomas Anderson. Louise Courtney to Paul Dillingham. Dorothy Crerar to Bernard Naylor. Sybil Doughty to Kenneth Petrie. Lillian Gardner to Robert Hyndman. Eleanor Kenny to Osborne Lawson. Peggy Law to Dennis Simon-Symons. Irene Salmon to Rev. A. L. Caulfeild. Jocelyn White to Charles H. Blair. BIRTHS Joan Elkins Bovey — a son. Jean Workman Castonguay — a daughter. Marion Gale Charleson — a daughter. Joan Ahearn Dewar — a daughter. Rachel White Garvock — a daughter. Olive Wilson Gill — a son. Joan Dean Knight — a daughter. Jane Smart Marsh — a son. Marjorie Borden Oberon — a daughter. Isobel Bryson Perodeau — a son. Alix Chamberlain Price. — a daughter. Audrey Gilmour Scott — a daughter. Ann Creighton Southam — a son. Frances Bates Stronach — a daughter Peggy Marr Webber — a son. This year there haven ' t been as many Old Girls dashing off to the Old Country or cruising in what a Certain Party has been mistakenly calling Mare Nostrum; nobody is going to finishing school abroad or trying to look exotic on the beach at Cannes. All the Old Girls, from the laziest, most blase post-debutante to the worthiest winner of the Summa Summarum, is so busy being a Government girl or getting married or having babies or doing war work that it would take a whole magazine to record their activities completely. fl few of us are still pursuing Knowledge with the same fervour (?) that we displayed at Elmwood. Mimi Boal and Anne Bethune are attending Bryn Mawr; Gaye Douglas and Diana Wilson are at Acadia University in Nova Scotia; M. M. Blair, Genevieve Bronson, Shirley Geldert, and I think Pat Milliken, are studying at Toronto Varsity; Bibi Eraser and Mackie Edwards are at McGill; and at Queens we have Mary Paterson, Peggy Clark, Katherine Inkster, Anne Shaw, and Dorothy Wardle. The debutantes slipped out rather quietly this season but debbies Elizabeth Newcombe, Penelope Duguid, Norah Lewis, and Melodie Willis-O ' Connor seemed to have lots of fun without fanfare. Melodie is continuing with her singing and would like to study in the States if Foreign Exchange Control per- mitted. Many Elmwoodians have become white collar girls in the past few months. Glenn Borbridge, Rosemary Clarke, Betty Hamilton, Barbara Fellowes, Eleanor Clark, Mary Mal- loch, — they ' re all working at the Bank of Canada; and Louise MacBrien, Nancy Doane, and Muriel Inkster are drawing maps and planes and things for the Air-force. Almost any night at the I.O.D.E. canteen you ' ll find a couple of Old Girls rushing around in white smocks — wiping off tables, peeking out of the hatch, or wondering if they ' ve broken the dish-washer. Eleanor and Margaret Carson, Cecily Sparks, Isobel Bryson Perodeau, Glenn Borbridge, Jean Perley-Robertson, Audrey Gilmour Scott, Rita Rich, Allison Cochrane, and Ruth Monk are among those present. Three of us are lease-loaned to the Ame- rican Diplomatic service. Bobby Gray works at the Embassy here, Mimsy Cruikshanks is in town for a visit but will later rejoin the Armours in South America, and Catherine Macphail Breuer is with her husband in Peru. Esme Girouard and Clare Borbridge are in the Office Administration Corps of the Red Cross, the ' girls in grey . In the Auxiliary Nursing Section of the Red Cross