Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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SAMARA 21 THE AJAX CLUB, HALIFAX THE Ajax Club, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was organized for sailors of the Royal Navy, and sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy have been made honorary members. Mrs. C. Stuart Mc.Euen, of Montreal, ap- pealed to a number of friends for subscrip- tions and gifts to furnish the Club, and so enthusiastically was her appeal met that it spread the length and breadth of Canada, until the Club took on the aspect of a National tribute from the people of Canada to the men of His Majesty ' s Navies. Thousands pass through its doors weekly; and the Club is said to be the finest thing of its kind in the British Empire for ratings. There are two lounges on the ground floor, and on the second floor is a library with 2000 books, all new. Every book has a name plate with the donor ' s name in it. We also have two games rooms, a streamlined kitchen with a monel-metal sink and a glass door through which the men can see ex- cellent food being prepared for the two dining rooms (tray service), where a 20(zf three course meal is served between 6.00 and 9.00 in the evening. There is a Master- at-Arms and a Leading Seaman, lent by the Royal Navy, who are resident in the Club. The only paid help are two cooks and a gardener-furnaceman. Working parties are sent up every morning, from His Majesty ' s ships in port, to clean and polish. the present time a fence is being erected round the three and a half acre grounds. A vegetable garden has been planted, and volunteers are undertaking flower-beds. It is hoped that friends who have perennial gardens will send contributions of plants. Every sailor in England has his little garden, and we are most anxious that the men will have the joy and pleasure of flowers in their own Club grounds. Prior to the Ajax Club ' s being open, the men of the Royal Navy had no place of their own; their enthusiasm and appreciation of the Club is most touching, and many say it is their home in Canada. As an old Elm- wood girl and librarian of the Ajax Club I would very much like to feel that my old school played a part in this National tribute to the men. As long as the war goes on the work of the Club must continue. We get no Government grant, nor grant from any large organized war charity, and as a National tribute we prefer that the interest of the Club be kept going amongst personal friends and business organizations. In the running of the Club, over a period of five and a half months, we can say that we are self-supporting, and should continue to be so provided any improvements, repairs or fresh equipment, can be met by outside sub- scription. For instance our garden has to be fenced in. The price of the lumber must be donated, and the sailors do the work. We also require a garden-hose. A plat- form is being erected in the centre of the garden for a boxing-ring, and during the summer months inter-ship contests will be held. A silver cup is being donated, but we need several sets of boxing-gloves. We are preparing two deck tennis courts, and the men have been rolling what was the old tennis court for this purpose. We require two nets and rings. It has been suggested that a cup be donated for the inter- ship deck tennis competitions. Much of interest takes place in the Club. For instance the survivors from the Jervis Bay, and their rescuers, were entertained at a luncheon-banquet in the Club. We have looked after wrecked men and survivors from other ships. We are giving pleasure to thousands of men, who, apart from the dangers which they have to face on the North Atlantic, have families and lo ved ones who have been bombed and made homeless in England. Mhairi Fenton, Librarian, Ajax Club. DECEMBER December is the time of year. When every one is filled with cheer; The Christmas season is at hand. People are joyful through the land. December is the time of year. When the sky is always clear; Grown-ups hustle and rustle about. While little children play and shout. Babs Soper.