Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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20 SAMARA Nancv (Haultain) Nation is living in Cal- uarv. She has two children. Alarv Osier has, during the past winter, been directing the Youth Program of the Y.W.C.A. in Kingston. Ruth Osier who is finishing her third year, has been active in theatrical ork at St. Hilda ' s College, University of Toronto. She is one of the two women w ho appeared in the Trinity College Revue. Dnmaris Owen (now Airs. Robert Patterson Jackson) is living in British Columbia. Jackie (Vernon) Palmer is again living in Ottawa. iMarv Patteson has passed the London Ma- triculation examination, and is living in Eng- land. x nn Powell is working in the Department of Trade and Commerce. She plans to spend the summer months in England. Catherine (Bate) Sampson is joining her husband. Group Captain Sampson, who is air attache at the Canadian Legation in Buenos x ' Vires. Ann Shaw went to Mexico on a holiday last fall. Vivian (King) Sykes is in Germany with her husband. Joan (Gillies) Tupper, whose home is in Vancouver, visited Ottawa recently. We ex- tend our deepest sympathy to her on the death of her mother. Dorothy Wardle is working at the Swedish Legation. Cairine Wilson is the chairman of the Ottawa Committee of the Canadian Save the Children Fund . Last summer she spent several months in Europe in connection with this work. Norma Wilson is with the Bell Telephone Company in Ottawa as a receptionist. Jacqueline Workman has been acting with the Brighton Repertory Theater in Brighton, England. Mary Wurtele, after graduating from the Montreal General Hospital, is at the Van- couver General Hospital. Ehzabeth Wyatt is completing her first year at Rockford College, in the United States. T u r I don ' t agree w ith you. Ven I was in JL) Germany before the war my wife and two boys we were always taught to get as much learning as ve could . Yes, that ' s always useful but I think that you should concentrate on one subject and become proficient in that one thing, so you can go far in life . But we don ' t learn only to get to the top . We had been arguing for an hour and a half on manv subjects, one leading to the other. Mv father was, I think, testing the ninn to sec 1k)W much education he had had. Ou zee if you concentrate on one subject you are apt to go queer. When I was studying in the Toronto University we had long dis- cussions on this subject, and later when I was working in a hospital I was able to see the effect of concentrating on oiie subject. Men would come in completely mad just from too much concentrating on one subject. It is not good . But if you learn many things you often don ' t remember any of them after a few years . Again I don ' t agree. I have five university degrees, I have worked in a hospital, written a book on politics and since my wife died some years ago I have brought up my two sons. All my learning has been of good use I think . The man picked up his tools and put them in his black bag. Veil, I guess your piano will stay tuned for a little while now . Wenuy Hughson, VI Upper Nightingale

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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.

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SAMARA 21 THIS year the activities of the RockcHffe Cadet Nursing Division have been varied and interesting. Judy McCulloch, Margot Leonard, Jacquehne Nothnagel, and Milhcent Struthers are sergeants. Three other cadets (Deirdre Collens, Norah Cameron and Joan Toller) have been promoted to corporals. There is a new colourful badge, which is awarded to any cadet with two hundred hours ' public duty to her credit. Many of the cadets are working towards this and other badges. The courses taken this year were First Aid and Home Nursing. First Aid lectures were given by Miss A. Philbrick and the Home Nursing was taken by Miss M. Dixon, both of whom are Lady Cadet Officers in the Division. Dr. Howlett gave the examinations; there were very good results, which show the real in- terest taken by the cadets in their work. We are extremely sorry that Mrs. Buck has found it necessary to resign from her position as Lady Divisional Superintendent. She has always taken a keen interest in our work, and has been our Lady Divisional Superintendent from the time the Rockcliffe Division was started in 1943. She has been succeeded by Mrs. Hulse who has cheerfully taken the re- sponsibility of such a large division of fifty- one cadets. In May we had a demonstration at the Drill Hall in Carrier Square where all the cadets of the Federal District were inspected. It was a successful drill and although much efTort was put into the preparation, the results were well worth it. We are sure that a great deal has been learnt this year and we hope that next year interest will continue and that those who are not returning will be able to put to use the knowledge gairied. ke Matt WUa Neoen, BmiUd IT WAS a year after the blitz and England was still in a terrible state. Many houses in our little village had been bombed, and ruins were seen everywhere. One afternoon, a little before sunset, I entered the quaint old Hungarian shop on the corner. There was no sign of either the old store-keeper, Mr. Lukacz or his wife, who at that time of day usually sat in their rocking chairs by the window. After I tinkled the bell a few times, Mrs. Lukacz came out from the back of the store, the Lukacz ' s sleeping quarters. She was a kind and gentle old lady, with soft silver hair, which framed her wrinkled but sweet face. Whenever I went in the store, I always hoped that she would wait on me, for I feared iMr. Lukacz a little. I could talk freely with his wife but he always looked at me with the attitude of, Don ' t bother me, child . But this time Mrs. Lukacz was not her usual self. Her eyes were red as though she had been crying and I wondered if I should say any- thing to her about them. After several attempts to speak (for in those days I was quite shy) I asked her if something was wrong. She said, no , but started to sob. I was only young then but I already felt sorry for the old lady with a husband like hers. In my pocket I had a clean handkerchief and, going to her, I pressed it in her hand. A4r. Luckacz, who I nicknamed, The man who never smiled , came into the front of the shop. In a harsh voice he told me to go away because his wife wasn ' t feeling well. I started for the door. As I was closing it I heard him say, But we must get out of here. I was very much surprised for Air. Lukacz had never had a German accent before, that is, to my knowledge. I quickly shut the door