Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 3 SEPTEMBER, opening the second year of war, saw us back at school, ready to do anything we could in the way of war work. Elmwood has answered generously every appeal for both war and peace time activities. We are very glad to have been able to continue to support the Nasic cot in India. To further our war effort, a War Work Committee was formed. This committee has been helpful in promoting the knitting of a large number of garments for refugees. It has also done much to encourage the buying of war saving stamps. In addition a fund was set up to buy sweets for the children in bombed areas of England. In the second term we began electing Monitors instead of having them appointed. The two elected from the sixth forms and the one from 5 A were re-elected after Easter. The work of the lunior Representatives has been shown by the large number of contributions that have been received. We are sorry that space does not permit us to print all of these. The French department in this year ' s Samara is a new under- taking, and we hope that next year it will have more contributors. It has been a privilege to have with us this year a great many English girls and we hope they have enjoyed their year here as much as we have enjoyed having them. We should like to take this opportunity of thanking Mrs. Buck and all the staff for a happy and successful year. We feel we are particularly fortunate to have been able to continue all our usual activities despite war conditions. To Miss Stewart, and Miss Edgar, the magazine staff and all its contributors, we extend our thanks for their help in its publication under difficult conditions.

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2 SAMARA MAGAZINE STAFF Editor Barbara Watson Assistant Editors [Diana Warner Art Notes Nancy Bowman Dramatic Notes Sue Kenny Lecture Notes Betty Mcissey Music Notes Shirley Smith Boarders ' Notes 1?° ' ' . ? Kennedy [Avril Crabtree Boarders ' Calendar Nancy Kennedy Sports Notes Margaret Gerard Pho { ftHa?dT School Calendar Jill Norton Exchange Editor Joe Frazier French Department Editors (Aline Dubois Jacqueline Workman L -y Notes K ' |lt5« Junior Represenlalivss °jh °kish Advertising Committee Margaret Gerard Marguerite Kenny Norma Wilson Joan Creighton Mary Buckley Mary Osier Ann Davies We gratefully acknowledge receiving: 1. The Blue and White — Rothesay Col- legiate School. 2. Trinity University Review ' — Trinity University, Toronto. 5. The Ashbtirian — Ashbury College. 4- Ovenden Chronicle — Ovenden. 6. The Branksome Slogan ' ' — Branksome Hall. 6. Lower Canada College Magazine — Lower Canada College. 7. Lux Glebana — Glebe Collegiate. 8. The Pibroch StTa hdllan School. 9. Trafalgar Echoes — Trafalgar School. 10. Hatfield Hall ikfagazwe — Hatfield Hall. Magazine. 11. Bishop ' s College School Magazine — Bishop ' s College School. 12. Edgehill i?me7i — Edgehill. IS. St. Andrew ' s College Review — St. An- drew ' s College. 14- In Between Times — Upper Canada College. 15. The Study Chronicle — The Study. 16. The Beaver Log — Miss Edgar ' s and Miss Cramp ' s School.

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4 SAMARA €lmtDoob Dear Girls, I am very happy to have the opportunity of sending you a brief message. First, I should like to thank all the Magazine Staff for their splendid work, and particularly, the Advertising Department for their unflagging efforts, which should result in a substantial sum for our Candy for Children in Britain Fund. I want also to thank you all for the many delightful ways in which you have shown your thoughtfulness for me this year, especially when I was a victim of influenza and other trying illnesses last winter. And now I would like to say a special word to the English ones amongst you, not because of your being in any sense ' apart , for you have all earned the right to be called Elmwoodians, but because I know that the year has not been too easy for you. Many of you have been homesick and more anxious than your companions have perhaps realized at the time. We have liked the way you have tackled this and have noticed how valiantly you have over- come your prejudices and your reluctance sometimes to accept too readily new ways. We feel that in this second term you are showing your real mettle and are proud of the contribution you are making as Elmwoodians. We know there are many things that you miss besides your families and your homes — the way they do things in your English schools, your friends there, English games, even English weather, and in fact everything that is just England to you. But we hope that you have found much to like in Canada — our sparkling winter days, sunshine on the snow, skiing, the thrill of a Can- adian spring and our wonderful outdoor life in summer, and, with all of this, the easy comradeship and friendship which we have tried to give generously to you. It has been good for us to have you in our midst, and we are very sure that is has been good for you. The measure of the success that you make of this great adventure of yours will be the way in which you prove yourselves worthy ambassadors of the old schools to the new. Very soon we shall all be saying good-bye to each other before going off for holidays by the sea, in the mountains, and many other lovely spots of this lovely country. Let us remember how very fortunate we are that we can look forward to days of refreshment and recreation, and, while we enjoy them, let us not forget that it is only because of the untiring devotion to duty which is being displayed by those close to the great conflict that this privilege is ours. Yours affectionately,