Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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20 SAMARA Diana Saunders has been visiting in Toronto, and there are rumovars of an en- gagement soon to be announced. Joyce Tetley and Gloria Vaughan have been taking business courses. Joyce has also been working at the Beaux Arts, while Gloria has been busy with the Junior League. We hear that Diana Vernon is living in Montreal now. Mrs. Peter Wilson [Pamela Matthewson] has been very busy looking after her small son, Peter de Wolfe. Kay Warner has not paid us her usual flying visit this year. We hear that she is still in New York. Barbara Whitley is working for the Junior League, and the Red Cross. She works as well at The Red Triangle Club and expects to do more radio work in June. There have been many Elmwoodians at McGill this year: — Mackie Edwards — we hope it lived up to her expectations: and Mary McCrimmon, in first year. B. B. Hasse in second year. Pat Gait and Pat Spendlove in third year. Spenders is also in the C.W.T.S. Betty Fleck, who is in medicine. In addition, Frances Bell and Beatrice Black have been in Montreal studying nursing. SINGING WITH GRACIE When we got on the boat to come to Canada we found out that Gracie Fields was on board too. After we had been on the boat for guite a little while, she asked the children to sing. I was there too. R little time later we had a concert and Gracie Fields sang some songs. While she was singing one of the songs she put on the lift boy ' s cap. It really looked quite funny, because she sang a song to go with it. It was fun. Angela Christensen, Form III. NOTRE PROMENADE DANS LES BOIS UN jour les professeurs et les enfants des troisieme et quatrieme classes sont alles faire une promenade au lac. C ' etait le printemps. J ' ai vu la maison de la princesse Juliana. Nous avons coupe des pussy-willows et beaucoup d ' autres plantes. Nous avons fait a pied presque deux milles. II etait deux heures et demie quand nous sommes parties et quand nous sommes rentres il etait quatre heures. Martha Bate III BELLS flt seven o ' clock the first bell goes, Why it does nobody knows, flt seven thirty the next one rings, Out of their beds the girls it brings. After breakfast at half past eight. You ' re supposed to go out but I ' m generally late. The prayer bell goes at nine o ' clock, And down the stairs the school girls flock. Every half hour a bell does go From class to class we march to and fro. At half past three the day is ended. Except for the boarders whose day is ex- tended. Bridget Hastings, Nightingale. THE GNOME In a field one day. On my way home. Dressed very gay, I saw a wee gnome. He had a red cap And a blue coat. He was going down a stream In a wee small boat. Camilla Crump, Form II.