Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 17 are Winsome Hooper and Elizabeth Mac- Millan. Another Branch of the Red Cross is the Canadian Women ' s Transport Service and we ' re certainly well represented there. Eleanor Carson, Margaret Carson, Susan Edwards, Joan Eraser, Betty Eauquier Gill, Hope Gilmour, Bobby Gray, Betty Hooper, Barbara Hopkirk, Liz Kenny, Vals Gilmour Minnes, Sybil Doughty Petrie, Barbara Ross, Sylvia Smellie, and Lilias Ahearn. At Red Cross Headquarters we have Luella Irvine Bethune, Joan Ahearn Dewar, and Audrey Gilmour Scott. While we ' re on the subject of the Red Cross we might mention that there are usually a number of Old Girls on each of the Com- mittees that do the cutting out of garments for the Red Cross at the Maycourt. Then, of course, there ' s the Red Cross Tea-Room too. If every ex-Elmwoodian who works there bought a few bricks we ' d soon have enough to build new premises for the res- taurant. Here ' s the list: Lilias Ahearn, Clare Borbridge, Elorence Coristine Carter, Alison Cochrane, Penelope Duguid, Joan Eraser, Hope Gilmour, Betty and Winsome Hooper, Norah Lewis, Julia MacBrien Murphy, Jean Perley-Robertson, Kay Bate Sampson, Sylvia Smellie, Cecily Sparks. Many other Old Girls worked for several months at the tea-room but jobs or husbands or pressure of other war work forced them to give it up. Muriel Crocket has almost, but not quite, settled down to life in Ottawa. After all her adventures in Iran, we can imagine that Sparks Street hasn ' t got as much allure for her as the market-places of Teheran. Kathleen Warner is living in New York with her parents and doing Red Cross work there. Mhairi Eenton stopped off here for a few days on her way up north for a rest. She is the librarian for the bustling Ajax Canteen in Halifax. Loads of Ottawa girls with naval or air force husbands are living in Halifax now, or at least spent part of the winter there. Alix Chamberlain Price, who was down there, is out in Rivers, Manitoba now; and Ethel Southam Toller has moved from Halifax to Montreal. June and Dickie White were in town for Jocelyn ' s wedding but returned to the east soon after, Joan Elkins Bovey and Cecil Bate Baskerville are down there, too. and Ann Creighton Southam was there for a while as well. Margaret Curry, who was in Halifax for the first part of the winter, has returned there for a brief visit and a little later she and her mother will travel out to Esquimault to join Captain Curry who is stationed on the west coast now. While she was in town Margaret helped to run the Better ' Ole, a canteen on Sparks Street. Geraldine Hanson visited us a few weeks ago from Kingston. She was looking aw- fully well and says Libbie is fine too. Maria Petrucci is still in Teheran, or was the last time we heard from her. The latest war despatches have made Iran seem not as glamourously remote as we once pictured it to be. Gillian German, is working for a new Montreal cosmetics firm and her work sends her travelling about the country a bit. Jane Smart Marsh, who has been waver- ing between careers in art, music or literature, seems, for the moment to have settled on Literature. She is writing scripts for the Film Board and for Crawley films. Betty Smart is being creative out in Van- couver. We ' re not sure what she ' s creating but we think it ' s poetry. Marjorie Mac- kinnon is in California, studying Dramatics at the Pasadena Playhouse. Of the two gymnastic Dorothys, — Dorothy Leggett is in her final year at Margaret Eaton, and Dorothy Laidlaw is Games Mistress at Ovenden. Jane Toller spent a great deal of the winter in Toronto and while in town did Maycourt work. Anna Wilson is studying Interior Decorating in Toronto. Rockcliffe Manor, beware! Upheaval approaches. Pamela Er- win was our energetic President this year and in her spare moments did a vast amount of knitting for the Merchant Marine. And does anybody want to know what we did? We mean Cairine and Cecily? Well — Cairine was busy with the Children ' s Aid and the Wilson ' s young English guests and Cecily gyrated between the Maycourt, the Red Cross Tea-Room, the Children ' s Aid, the I.O.D.E. canteen, Crawley Eilms, and a concert party touring the various military camps.

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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

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18 SAMARA From Kingston we learn that Joy Armstrong and Elizabeth Hanson are doing war work and Geraldine Hanson is working in a bank. On page 16 is the list of the engagements, marriages and births. There have been so many that if you don ' t keep your eye glued to the Classified page or your ear glued to a few key holes you ' re liable to wind up about six events behind. TORONTO OLD GIRLS ' NOTES 1940-41 None of us has much spare time these days, what with canteens, the Red Cross Transport, and numerous other activities, mostly in connection with war work. BIRTHS Elaine Ellsworth Holston — a son, William Jr. Deborah Coulson Armstrong — also a son. ENGAGEMENTS This field has been very popular, and we wish all of the lucky Boys the best of everything in the future. Marion Ellsworth to Donald Rowan, with wedding date, the 14th of June. Clara May Gibson to Bob Kilgour no de- finite plans as yet. Barbara McClelland to Mike Mills who is overseas in the Navy. MARRIAGES Peggy Waldie to Tim Lowns-Borough last fall. Tim is now overseas. Mary Baker to Alan Wainwright, R.C.A.F. on December 9, 1940. Esme Thompson to Ted Pepall on April 26th. They are living in Arvida, Quebec. Jane Smith, Genevieve Bronson, Shirley Geldert, Pat Milliken, Nancy Baker, Mar- garet Parkin, are among the old Elmwoodians taking courses at Varsity this year. Jean Dunlop is very busy with the Red Cross Transport, and is also singing in a Troopshow that visits the various military camps around Toronto. Barbara McClel- land dances in these shows. There is not enough space in which to tell of the good work being done by all the girls these days, but then aren ' t we all doing all we can to help make things easier for the boys right in the front line ? We want to wish you all in Montreal and Ottawa the best of everything in your work. MONTREAL OLD GIRLS ' NOTES 1940-41 ENGAGEMENTS. Helen Mackay to Alexander Moffatt— R. H. R. Black Watch. MARRIAGES. Prudence Dawes to Harold Gilmour, Esq. Ailsa Mathewson to Albert F. Riley, Esq. BIRTHS. Congratulations to Mrs. O. A. Gratias [Betty Plaunt] on the birth of a daughter; to Mrs. Peter MacDougall [Nini Keefer] on the birth of a daughter; to Mrs. Peter Wilson [Pamela Matthewson] on the birth of a son; to Mrs. Jimmie Alexander [Barbara Hampson] on the birth of a son; to Mrs. H. V. Price [Mary Hampson] on the birth of a son; to Mrs. John Jones [Ruth Creighton] on the birth of a daughter; to Mrs. Hollis McHugh [Jean Brodie] on the birth of a daughter; and to Mrs. Russell Medland [Betty Brown] on the birth of twin girls. Mrs. Jas. Alexander [Barbara Hampson] is living in Northern Ireland with her hus- band, who is in the R.A.F. and their very young son, Michael. Mrs. Robert Armistead [Pamela Wilson] is living in England. We hear from her sister Claire Wilson, that Pam left from Curacao to join her husband, now a Major, and was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. After waiting for several hours in life- boats the survivors were picked up by a destroyer and taken to England. Mrs. Ronald Bennett [Janet Dobell] was living in Kentville, N.S. for some time with her husband. She is back in Montreal now and is busy with Red Cross Work. Mrs. William Bowen [Dawn Ekers] is at Debert with her husband and baby. Her husband is with the Duke of York, 17th Hussars. Mrs. Robert Craig [Evelyn Cautlie] has just retired as first vice-president of the