Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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SAMARA 19 Junior League. She has been taking a V.A.D. training course. Mrs. Robert Coristine [EUzabeth Syming- ton] took some subjects at McGill this year. She is working very hard for the Artillery Branch of the Soldiers Wives ' League, and is a member of the C.W.T.S. — the Transport Service. Mrs. Jack Cundill [Anna Reay Mackay] has been doing Junior League Work, as has Mrs. Kenneth Thompson [Mary Lyman] who is now living in Pointe Claire, Que. Joan Daniels has just finished her first year at McGill, she has also been doing work for the Junior League. Mrs. Robert Dunn [Kay Lawson] is still living in Montreal, and she has been working for the blind. Mrs. Ryland Daniels [Catherine Grant], Mrs. Miller Hyde [Anne Coghlin], Mrs. Jarrett Smith [Harriet Mathias], Mrs. O. A. Gratias [Betty Plaunt], Mrs. W. M. Eakin [Margaret Symington], Mrs. Wilson McCon- nell [Marjorie Wallace], and Jane Russel have been busy Red Cross Workers all year. In addition Mrs. McConnell has been busy with the Refugee Committee, and Jane has been working at child photography. Mhairi Fenton is living with her aunt in Halifax, where she is working hard in Mrs. McEwen ' s now famous canteen and hostel for the soldiers. Mrs. Gordon Forbes [Mary Riorden] is with her husand at Rivers, Man. She has been doing a great deal of painting, es- pecially of Air Force Subjects, and had several pictures in the Montreal Spring Exhibition. Mary Fry has just graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from McGill, where she honoured in Psychology. Mrs. Harold Gilmour [Prudence Dawes] is living in New York, where she is con- tinuing with her sculpture. Jean and Betty Heubach are working for the Victory loan campaign. Jean is also busy with Junior League work, while Betty works at the Children ' s Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Fred Heubach [Margo Gray don) is living in Montreal. Janet Hutchison is treasurer of the Junior League for a second year. She also works for the Red Cross. Rosa Johnson is at the Royal Victoria Hospital, doing research on surgical shock. Mrs. John Jones [Ruth Creighton] is living in Orillia. Moira Leathem is teaching fourth grade at Lome School in Pointe St. Charles. Mrs. Irving Grosthwaite [Olga Brown] is living in Montreal. Mrs. Russel Medland [Betty Ross Brown] has every minute taken up, looking after her twin daughters. Margaret Main has just finished her third year at McGill. Mrs. H. E. McHugh [Jean Brodie] is back in Montreal from living in Baltimore, and London, England. Helen Mackay has been doing Red Cross, and Junior League work, she has been working on the Refugee Committee, and with the Black Watch Auxiliary. Helen is to be married soon, and we want to wish her all sorts of happiness. Beatrice Norsworthy has graduated from McGill as a Bachelor of Science, with honours in Biochemistry. She is to work in the Montreal Neurological Institute at Electro-Encephalography. Mrs. H. E. Price [Mary Hampson] is living in Surrey, with her very young son, Gre- ville. Mary Lee Pyke, is in Boston studying horticulture. Pykie specializes in herb- gardens, and is getting to be an authority on the subject. Mrs. Rocke Robertson [Roslyn Arnold] has been working with the Red Cross and with the Auxiliary for No. 1 Canadian General Hospital. Mrs. Barclay Robinson [Ruth Seeley] is kept busy with her two children, as well as Red Cross Work. She has retired as Hon- orary president of the Junior League. Mrs. A. F. Riley [Ailsa Mathewson] is living in Winnipeg. Mrs. Alan Stevenson [Alice Peck] is living in Montreal. Margot Seeley is working in the library of the Montreal Star.