Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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prefect anb omt Senior jSotesf Mary Osier: How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. To find Ose as head girl this year was no surprise to old timers- As head of the War-work Committee she has been a violent cam- paigner for ACTION , in the iorm of a wildly -coloured quilt, its harmonious arrangement being under her eagle eye. She is also kept hustling looking for edible food for prefects ' tea and calling committee meetings on the subject of wearing one ' s rubbers. Here we have to make a TERRIBLE CONFESSION on Ose ' s behalf. Confidentially she is orthographically weak — well, if you must know — spelling. But believe us, Ose, we simpathyse , especially where plain dandelion becomes taraxitum vulgaris. Reports concerning Ose ' s future all tally on one point, — St. Hilda ' s, Trinity College, where she will learn her vitamins, in an exhaustive household economics course. Betty Caldwell Old Macdonald had a farm. The energetic head of Ni ghtingale House is 5 feet, 3 inches of sunshine wih a dash of southern, oh, sorry, we mean northern Irish humour to top things off. Betty, commonly known as Bets, hails from Prescott and from all we hear this town consists of 1 — the Caldwell farm, 2 — Macdonald ' s dress store, 3 — Watt ' s soda fountain and 4 — the Prescott-Ogdensburg ferry. Any evening one may hear the melodic (?) voice of Bets escaping from the prefects ' sitting room in the form of I ' ve told every little star. As yet no one has had the heart to tell our merry Head Boarder the truth about her singing. The pride and joy of Bet ' s life is the newest addition to the Caldwell family, the farm. We are all well acquainted with the cows, hens and horses. The summer will find Bets getting the farmhouse de- corated and in order so that she ' ll be able to return to Elmwood in September with a clear mind to whip through another year of school. Mary Wurtele: - Her sunny locks hang on her temples like a golden fleece. Wurtellie: Elmwood ' s busy head of Fry is also Elmwood ' s Budding Scientist . She can be found almost any time either in the Lab carefully measuring the intestines of a cat or adding another hole to her little perforated red smock with an unknown explosive. As the school Games Captain she often has a tired arm assisting the hefty Elmwoodians over the horse in Gymn classes. To day pupils Wurtellie is a sure time table as she is always seen sauntering up Buena Vista with just two minutes to go before the last bell. Mary will start her training at the Royal Victoria Hospital next September. Good luck Wurtellie!

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10 SAMARA NIGHTINGALE HOUSE NOTES LAST year Nightingale was successful in winning the House Shield, the Inter House Sports Cup, and the Intermediate Sports Cup. This year we tied for second place with Keller in the House Plays and came second in the House Collections. So far we are second in stars. Mrs. Elliott left us just before Christmas and we were very sorry to lose her, but wel- comed Miss Morrison as our new nurse. Angela Hampden-Ross left after Christmas to study for her London Matriculation. Joan Paterson, Margaret Bronson and Margaret Maclaren have won posture girdles this year. Paula Peters has been a very active and enthusiastic Sports Captain. During the basketball season much of her free time was given to the juniors to help them with their shooting and passing. We wish the very best of luck to all the Nightingalers who are leaving this year, and sucess to the girls next year who will carry on our motto, ' ' Non nobis solum . Not For Ourselves Alone. MEMBERS OF OUR HOUSE Head of House — Betty Caldwell [ Margaret Ann McKee Monitors — I Joan Paterson i Ruth Osier Sports Captain — Paula Peters Vice Sports Captain — Lois Davidson Barbara Beamish, Margaret Bronson, Angela Christenson, Pauline Coulson, Isabel Earl, Joan Gillies, Wanda Hutchings, Jean Johnson, Margaret Maclaren, Shelagh Nolan, Moira O ' Leary, Elizabeth Paish, Ann Patteson. Staff: Miss Sinden, Miss May, Miss Mor- rison, Mrs. Fortune. LAST YEARS PRIZE WINNERS Summa Sumarum — Ogden Blackburn Junior High Endeavor — Elizabeth Paish House Motto — Ruth Osier Proficiency — Norma Wilson, Elizabeth Paish Improvement — Priscilla Aylen Dramatic (Improvement) — Elizabeth Edwards Public Speaking— Pat Archdale Physical Training — Helen Christie Short Story — Nita Nichols Stars — Dorothy Davis Intermediate Tennis Doubles — Paula Peters and Janet Edwards. The teams are as follows: SENIOR BASKET-BALL Forward Guard Centre Guard Centre Forward Forward Guard — Lois Davidson — Pauline Coulson — Ann Patteson — Paula Peters — Margaret Ann McKee — Elizabeth Paish. JUNIOR BASKET-BALL Centre Guard Centre Forward Guard Forward Guard — Margaret Bronson — Margaret Maclaren • — Angela Christensen • — Moira O ' Leary Barbara Beamish Wanda Hutchings. BADMINTON First Singles First Doubles Second Singles Second Doubles Third Singles Betty Caldwell Betty Caldwell Paula Peters Paula Peters Lois Davidson Margaret Ann McKee Moira O ' Leary. SENIOR VOLLEY-BALL Paula Peters Isabel Earl Pauline Coulson Ann Patteson Margaret Ann McKee Elizabeth Paish Lois Davidson JUNIOR VOLLEY-BALL Margaret Bronson Barbara Beamish Margaret Maclaren Wanda Hutchings Angela Christensen Shelagh Nolan

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Anne Powell: So wise, so young, they say, do ne ' er live long. When I think of all I ' ve got to do — ! — that haunting refrain informs us that Powell, head of Keller this year, is getting des- perate. When not buried in a book in the reference library, or pounding out the scale of D minor on the piano, she keeps a watchful eye on the money collected from the sale of war-saving stamps. In fact, she is very busy! She holds the unigue dis- tinction of being the only prefect who can sing and who is in the choir. She made a most fascinating hero — in fawn ski underwear — in our ballet On Wings of Love or Target for To-night ; and her rendition of a German woman in the Keller House Play — Hier habe ich einen Fisch — delighted Miss Sinden ' s heart. If she can wade through Virgil this summer, her fate next fall will rest with the professors of Trinity College, Toronto. Jacqueline Workman: How happy the life unembarrassed by cares of business. Basta is the erratic member of VI Up. In the third cupboard on the left in the Senior Classroom, her character lies revealed: a mass of books, a pair of suede shoes, bits of peanut crunch, concert programs, not to mention reams of paper whose cryptic designs can only be deciphered by the owner. As well as being the star of the ballet On Wings of Love, Basta directed, yelled at and pushed around the unwieldy corps de ballet and kept us in stitches all through the most hectic rehearsals during the Christmas term. Rules are the bane of her life, as witness her complete disregard of the sanctity of the Prefects sitting room. To say that her future is definitely settled is a slight exaggeration, as one day she pictures herself taking pulses in the Blood Donor ' s clinic and another drafting the innards of a plane. Elizabeth Gilchrist: If music be the food of love, play on. This year Liz is our only representative from the West and we hear a good deal about her home-town Winnipeg. Any time when strains of Show Boat Themes are heard we know that Liz is not far off. Her roommates constantly hear about Victory Bond (Vickie), her three year old horse, and her sailor brother?! Between Paul Gaugin and a mad Russian, Gilchrist ' s art is slightly hetic. We hope though, that some day she will be able to draw a straight line without using a ruler! (We really don ' t mean that Liz). Every morning at thirteen minutes to nine there is a race between Liz and Miss Chappell to see who is going to ring the first bell, and the same proceedure follows at seven to nine. Another Gilchrist duty is pound, and she needs a great deal of courage to stand up in front of the school to ask, Who does this belong to? On occasions she finds a garment of her own to hold up, and then she is rather embarrassed. Liz ' s future is undecided as yet, but whatever she does we wish her the best of luck.