Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE LATE HON. THOMAS AHEARN.

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SAMARA JUNE 1947 SUCCESS IS NAUGHT; ENDEAVOUR ' S ALL — Broivning ELMWOOD FROM THE GROUNDS

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SAMARA SJj ®l|0maB Alj arn illmonal Wing Last September, Elmwood staff and pupils returned with eager antici- pation to find the new Thomas Ahearn «emorial Wing which had been started aarly last spring approaching coci; pletion. The great ' moving in came in November. Looking at the school as it stands now with the vonderful new wing, equipped with :harming rooms for juniors and with a modern laboratory, it is interest- jing to note the advances made since the school was founded by Mrs. Hamlet . Philpot in a rambling frame and (tucco house thirty-two years ago. Mrs. Philpot, a charming English lady, gave Elmwood the daffodil as its emblem; our colours, green and gold; and established the tradition of ' Service, fellowship, freedom and fair-play! The Rockcliffe Preparatory School, as it was then called, began with four pupils all under the age of ten; the surround- ings were certainly a marked con- trast to those of today. At that time most of Rockcliffe was part of the Keefer estate; there were cows in the field opposite the school and a swamp behind it. A potato patch