Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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18 SAMARA Births Hope (Gilmour) Buchan— a son. Nadine (Christie) Cranfield— a daughter. B. B. (Fraser) Deziel— a son. Jill (German) Frewer— a son. Betty (Fauquier) Gill— a daughter. Nancy (Bowman) Heath— a son. Mackie (Edwards) Hertz— a daughter. Nancy (Doane) Heggtveit— a son. Glenn (Borb ridge) Jurozynski— a son. Genevieve (Bronson) Laidlaw— a son. Nini (Keefer) MacDougall— a son. Helen (Collins) Matthews— a son. Sarah (Wallace) Nairn— a son. Winsome (Hooper) Newton— a daughter. Pat (O ' Donnel) Stronach- a daughter. Ailsa (Gerard) Stuart— a daughter. June (White) White— a son. Diana (Kingsmill) Wright— a son. Jean (Perley-Robertson) Wright— a son. ' Noiel Engagements Gaye Douglas to Pat Packard. Mary Osier to The Reverend Edgar Bull. Nancy Paterson to Paul MacFarlane. Barbara Ross to Dr. Fred Davies. Marriages Helen Acheson to Frederick Coleman Peckham. Ann Binks to Nicholas Roundtree. Marise (Jackie) Bishop to Raymond O ' Connor. Dora Borja to Jose Antonia Salaverria. Betty Caldwell to James Walker. Jane Edwards to Victor Jura Wilgress. Dr. Elizabeth Fleck to Dr. Charles Brown. Joan Gillies to David Tupper. Marguerite Kenney to Edward Julian Brower. Betty Massey to Louis Breithaupt. Damaris Owen to Robert Patterson Jackson. Mary Paterson to Gordon H. Kester. Sylvia Smellie to Charles Ritchie. Diana Vernon to Maurice Newnes. General News A CONTRIBUTION of five hundred dollars was given during the past year by the Old Girls ' Association to purchase necessary equip- ment for the new laboratory in the Thomas Ahearn Memorial Wing. The purchases in- cluded a vapour-cabinet for ventilating the laboratory, and other equipment. At the time of the Christmas bazaar, a very ready response was received to a request for articles for the White Elephant table which was directed by Old Girls. Contributions were sent from Toronto and Montreal, as well as from Ottawa. Among those who were active in organizing this table were: Mrs. H. E. C. Price, Mrs. Fred Toller, Mrs. Robert Southam, Mrs. Duncan AlacTavish, Elizabeth Edwards and Dorothy Wardle. The executive of the Old Girls ' Association arranged a surprise tea for Mrs. Buck, last June, to present a landscape painting by Bob Hyndman in commemoration of Mrs. Buck ' s twenty-seven years as Headmistress of Elm- wood. Among the Ottawa debutantes of 1947- 1948 were the following Elmwoodians: Margot Peters, Daphne Wurtele, Margaret Maclaren, Margaret Bronson, and Rosemary MacKeen. Cecil (Bate) Baskerville has moved to Wash- ington to join her husband who is air attache at the Canadian Legation in Washington.

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SAMARA 17 MUSIC WELL, here we are, school year vintage 1947-48, with the musical world of Elmwood so completely behind our backs, that we are simply amazed! The Elmwood piano-players are not what they used to be. Coached by Mr. McTavish, they have been treating the piano very respect- fully, in a new series of exercises designed to make everyone relax, which are called Weight-Playing . One lets the arm and wrist relax completely, and lets the fingers do all the work. Unfortunately, dire results have been noticed in the recent Posture Week. It seems everyone became so relaxed, that it was difficult to find anyone who stood up for her House. Elmwood ' s voices too have changed— almost overnight; once they were high, far-distant squeaks— but noiv, they are a full thundering chorus— at least, u ' ? think so! It all started at the beginning of the school year, when Miss Richardson, a very charming and musical-minded teacher, joined our staff. Now, Miss Richardson sings no mean soprano herself; and when she heard our (no doubt) cherubic voices while ' dusting off ' accompani- ments to our singing classes, she had a little idea. She pulled Mr. McTavish into a huddle. The outcome was, that Mrs. Buck was pre- sented with the suggestion— why not revive the choir? Mrs Buck thought it would be a good idea; so the very next day those of us who were brave enough, and who could carry a tune, were herded into select little groups of first sopranos, seconds and contraltos. NOTES At first the results were pretty dim. We were situated well in exile from the rest of the school, in the wilderness of the nursery school; and on first attempts our voices sounded pretty hollow, as if we had been wandering in there without food for a long time! After a while, however, we began to improve. We could even sing in tune sometimes, in case the piano didn ' t. (It ' s a dear old upright, but it does play several notes off key! ) At last the big day came when we were to sing for morning pray ers. We sang responses lustily, to everyone ' s satisfaction. We even sang Christmas carols. After our debut we were rather puffed up. To put it very mildly, we considered ourselves full-fledged and en- tirely terrific. Imagine— only fifteen of us leading the whole school! The only queer thing about the affair was that the whole time we were singing, we kept on hearing a small assortment of voices, not our own. They were all kinds— soprano, contralto and second. We finally traced them all to Miss Richardson who, bless her, had been doing her loyal best all the way through to keep us in tune. We are not sure if she can sing in double harmony, but she comes very close to it. Now, in closing our report for this year, we find ourselves musically complete. We ask you, the musical outsiders— lookers-in upon our school— would you want anything more than a full-sized music studio, seven pianos at your disposal, and an angel-voiced choir and teacher? We ask you what more does a school need?

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SAMARA 19 Frances Bell is taking a course in Public Health Nursing in Toronto. Ann Bethune will be in England for a few weeks and will be bridesmaid at Jacqueline Workman ' s wedding on May 30th. Mary Blackburn is a graduate A ' lothercraft Nurse, and is now at home in Ottawa. Ogden Blackburn, after taking her degree at the University of Toronto, is graduating this year from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Hope (Gilmour) Buchan is living in Eng- land and now has two sons. Janet Caldwell is at the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. Florence (Corristine) Carter and Joan (Goodeve) Peters are living at Benny Farms, Montreal. Ann Chisnell is still living in England; she visited Elmwood when she was in Canada last fall. Virginia Corristine (now Mrs. Eric Hig- gins) is living in Southampton, England. Averil Crabtree is living in London where she is working with the Canadian Veterans ' Affairs. Lois Davidson is finishing her Junior year at Vassar. This summer she plans to take a course at St. Andrew ' s University in Scotland. Ann Davies graduated a year ago from the Kingston General Hospital and is now nursing there. Natalie de Marbois is living in Toronto and visited Elmwood last fall when she was in Ottawa. B. B. (Eraser) Deziel is living at Riverside, Ont. Penny Duguid (now Mrs. Thomas Read) is living in Oxford, England, where her husband is studying. Janet Edwards recently spent a month in Mexico City, visiting friends. Joan Fraser is visiting Mrs. AUister Buchan (Hope Gilmour) in England. Margaret Gerard will graduate this year from Queen ' s and will take a position at the Montreal Road Laboratories of The National Research Council. Florence Gherardi is now living in Short Hills, New Jersey. Elizabeth Gilchrist is planning a trip to Europe this summer. Jessie Gilmour is in the office of the British High Commissioner in Ottawa. Esme Girouard is at the Canadian Legation in Norway. Sue (Kenney) Howe is living in Halifax. Glenn (Borbridge) Jurozynski is Hving in London, England. Mary (Paterson) Kester has the status of a lecturer at the Woman ' s College of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. She is in charge of public relations work there. Lois Lambert is in charge of a Gift Shop in Montebello. Dorothy Leggett, having completed the course at the Margaret Eaton School in Toronto, is graduating, this year, from the Physical Education department at McGill. Suzette (Bourinot) MacDonald is in South America. Betty (Hamilton) Maitland is living in Cairo, Egypt, where her husband is attached to the British Foreign Office. She has two sons. Nini (Keefer) A4cDougall lives in Cartier- ville, Quebec. She has a daughter and a son. Lette McGreer, who graduated from the Montreal General Hospital is now at the Pres- byterian Hospital in New York. Suzanne Mess is at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and is making an excellent record there.