Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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16 SAMARA January 30 — Examinations over — FREE DAY. January 31 — Some of the boarders heard Portia White at the Glebe Collegiate. February 1 — Beginning of second term. February 7 — Many of the boarders heard the Minneapolis Symphony at the Capitol Theater. February 10 — The seniors went to a formal dance at the Country Club, given by Admiral and Mrs. Nelles. February 16 — 19 — Long week-end. February 21 — Several of the boarders saw the Winnipeg ballet. March 1 — Dress rehearsal of Shall We Join the Ladies. March 3 — The play proved to be a great success. March 7 — Concert by Ross Pratt, pianist. March 9 — All the boarders went swimming at the Chateau. Dinner at the Grill for the cast of Shall We Join the Ladies. March 11 — Toe H meeting. March 16 — Several of the seniors saw The Little Foxes at the Little Theater. March 23 — Major Carter of the C.W.A.C., a former Elmwoodian, came to the school and gave us a very interesting talk. March 24 — The Minto Follies, attended by all the boarders and many of the day girls. March 28 — Senior boarders went to the Capitol, to hear Rudolf Serkin, pianist. March 29 — Easter holidays began. April 11 — Boarders returned. April 12 — Summer half-term began. April 27 — Senior Play- — a great success! May 7— V-E day! A half holiday. May 8 — Holiday. The boarders saw the official celebration on Parliament Hill and enjoyed fire-works at Ashbury in the evening. May 9 — Special V-E day ceremonies at Elmwood and Ashbury. May 22 — Tea for parents. May 24— Half holiday. May 25 — Examinations began. June 4 — Examinations ended. June 11 — Sports Day and Public Speaking. June 12 — Closing Exercises. Summer holidays began.

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SAMARA 15 cfiool Calendar 1 944 = 1 945 September 13 — Boarders returned from summer holidays. September 14 — School opened. September 16 — Swimming at the Chateau for the boarders, and on to tea at the Wayside Inn. September 19 — Lucia di Lammermoor at the Auditorium. September 30 — An Ashbury dance was attended by some of the seniors. October 3 — The Reverend Brian Green came to school and gave us a very interesting talk on England in war time. October 4 — A second meeting with Mr. Green at St. Matthew ' s Parish Hall. October 7 — Again we met to hear Mr. Green, this time in Lauder Hall. October 9 — Discussion group, in Lauder Hall. October 21 — The St. John Ambulance cadets took part in an inspection by H.R.H. Princess Alice. October 25 — A few senior boarders attended a concert by Marian Anderson. October 27 — Hallowe ' en party. October 28— Dance at Ashbury. November 5 — Toe H meeting and tea. November 7 — Major Darby visited us and talked to us about Poppy Day. November 10 — Mr. Alan Wilkie and Miss Hunter-Watts acted for us some delightful excerpts from plays by Shakespeare and Goldsmith. November 18 — Rehearsals commenced for the Elmwood-Ashbury play, Shall We Join the Ladies. November 19 — A Toe H meeting was held at which Brigadier Hepburn addressed us. November 21 — Many of the boarders saw Carmen at the Auditorium. November 22 — Boarders again attended a concert— Joseph Szigeti, violinist, at the Capitol Theater. November 26 — The cast of Shall We Join the Ladies was entertained to tea, at Elmwood. December 1 — Many of the seniors attended a formal dance given by Mrs. Patteson at the Country Club. December 9 — -The senior boarders gave a small dance. December 11— The Toe H Chain of Light was held. December 13 — The Parlow String Quartette at Glebe Collegiate. December 14 — The House plays were held. All the boarders were invited to tea and to sing carols at Mrs. Buck ' s house. December 15 — Mrs. Fauquier came to judge our house collections. December 18 — Our annual bazaar was held. December 19 — Christmas holidays began. December 22 — Examinations began. January 8 — Boarders returned. January 9 — School opened. January 10 — A few senior Boarders heard the Little Symphony of Montreal. January 24 — Several of us enjoyed the concert of Alexander Uninsky, pianist. January 27 — A dance was held at Ashbury. January 28 — All the boarders attended the Friends of Poland entertainment at the Capitol Theatre.

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prefect anii ilousie Mentor Motti Janet Caldwell I ' m not arguing wilh you I ' m telling you. Janet Sheila Ross Caldwell — Carleton Place, Ontario — Head Boarder and Organizer superb — Chief high Mogul of the sitting room with one whole shelf in the cupboard to herself — having to our envy a vurry Scotch sense of humour and a highly irregular Ottawa X ' alley accent — also having a passion for lemons and blond boxers. She deliberately and with malice aforethought contributed Dog to the sitting room and encouraged the barbarous custom of imbibing chox at break- time — her favorite expression aside from highly irregular is I luvit — favorite perfume Cuir de Russie — She swoons over Sentimental Journey and Gregory Peck even though Davy does claim the latter — future and ambition are mysterious but her immediate future rests with Elmwood. Ruth Osier The battle ' s won My course is done. Boofie, our born dramatist, is never emotionally middle-of-the road, but always on top of the world or in the depths of despair. Usually, if she makes school by 8.50, the horizon ' s clear and she enters the Hall as our beam of sunshine. But if we find her in the sitting room after prayers, we steel ourselves, for then she ' s usually a storm-cloud casting a deep shadow over her corner. She often accuses Miss Dixon or Miss MacDonald of being the cause of such moods for teaching those outlandish subjects, Trig and Latin. Favourite expression — Heaven to Betsy! followed by Do you understand this Cicero or Sallust ? Renowned for her bicycle, which is in a class by itself and for her perpetual argument with Messy as to whether the theme song of Sunday ' s Hour of Fame is Rhapsody in Blue or The Warsaw Concerto . Despite the fact that they both listen every Sunday, the question remains unsettled — the two pieces having, of course, no similarity. In one field of music, though Boof knows her stuf¥. Friday teas find her flipping through the hymn book, whistling snatches of everything from Rock of Ages to Jesus Bids us Shine. This, needless to say, promotes much hilarity among the sitting room inmates. Boof is off to Trinity College, Toronto. Toronto, beware! Lois Davidson but ask that you remember me , from The Bohemian Girl. Lois Nan Davidson. Elmwood 1940-1945 — called Davy — vigorous head of Nightingale, although she is forced to admit that Flo bewilders her. After successfully demolishing the sitting-room sofa and table, Davy is beginning to watch her weight — any day now the skin may cover the bone. She has tried desperately, in spite of adverse criticism and jeering from Keller ' s head, to go Bohemian on us and still thinks it would have been a good idea. Duringf Friday teas, she sedately munches sandwiches while the others rapidly gain poundage on the Davidson specialty, chocolate cake with mauve icing. The pound never lacked at least one of Davy ' s shoes, and school hours usually found her resembling a shoe advertisement — slipper on one foot and loafer on the other. Has a wealth of expressions including, CafT! caff! Tic, tic! and Whosit . Is notorious for losing things — is always late because nobody else is there so why be early. After deliberating over Smith, RadclifTe and other famous institutions, McGill, this session, finds the campus glorified with Davy ' s presence and loving it too.