Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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Janet Edwards agree with no man ' s opinions — have some of my own. Janet Edwards alias Bugs or Ed — our perfectionist in almost everything from Tennis to Chemistry. Despite our complaints that one is supposed to be issued brains, brawn or beauty, she goes right on hogging the three. Friday, her greatest accomplish- ment — getting out of the dishes; the amount she pays Ann to come for her at just the right moment having been a subject of great sitting-room speculation. Ed ' s unique feet may spring from her equally unique habit of walking a mile to school and back — and home for lunch! We suspect she does it so that she will be able to give her children the old I walked a mile to school through sleet and rain routine. Somehow labelled as respon- sible and so entrusted with the collecting and sorting of fabulous sums any time there is any activity involving money. If Elmwood but knew the hours she has spent locked in the sanctuary of the sitting room trying to discover where that fifty-cents went to or — and this is far more drastic — where that fifty-cents came from. Since McGill has become as traditional an Edwards field of action as Elmwood, we never doubted — despite all her ponderings — which would be the college of Ed ' s choice. Philippa McLaren I do not long for wealth or fame, I crave no laurel wreath I long to turn a handspring, though And whistle through my teeth. Philippa McLaren — Elmwood — called Pip — is our sprightly dark-haired member of the sitting room and the sole member of Six Matric — always keeps us posted on the school activities upstairs — we feel she has won her place in history by her never-ending enthusiasm for those little, sticky pink things called War Savings Stamps — renowned for her hats which she valiantly wears to school to put our more humble headgear to shame — her pride and joy is a plaid pork pie. After many faithful years yearning over As time goes by in honour of Humphrey, she suddenly switched her attention to three little notes in Eddy Duchin ' s Embraceable You — poor Bogey, on the rebound married Lauren Bacall — with Davy she takes the prize for being a giggler, but Pip accompanies hers with squeals. Pip is the sitting room ' s baby, being the youngest and smallest of the five. 1945-1946 finds her working hard in the hope of thrilling the Ontario Department of Education. Next year may find her almost anywhere. Betsy Allen How wonderful it is to find A truly scientific mind. Ballen is our energetic Head of Fry, and although she took over that post in the middle of the year, after Margaret Hardy ' s departure, she has done an excellent piece of work. Every morning sees her trying to persuade certain members of her House to stop talking before prayers and to take ofif those bracelets. Outside of her regular duties, her main occupation seems to be attempting to blow up the chemistry lab or to paralyse the olfactory nerves of her schoolmates by the odours that pervade the corridors in the vicinity of her experiments. However, we trust that what we have suffered will not be in vain and that these researches will contribute to her future fame, as she prepares next year to take Entrance Examinations to Cambridge.