Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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28 S A iM A R A the Minto Club members. Twice a week boarders and a number of the day girls were given helpful instruction, if they wished, by Miss Dexter. This was very beneficial. Tennis To the great disappointment of many, the season was too short and filled with too many other activities to include tennis tournaments in the program for 1947, but it is hoped that the 194S matches will be played as usual. Badminton In the hall during the winter months we were successful in getting both the Inter- house and the Senior and Junior School games played off before Easter. Enthusiasm has increased but numerous other activities made it difficult to get the matches played off rapidly. Fry was the lucky house in again winning the Badminton Cup by 12 points over Keller, who came second, having won the Junior tournaments. The d inners of the Senior badminton doubles were Angela Chris- tensen and Wendy Hughson; of the Junior badminton doubles, the winners were Pamela Rogers and Rose Alexander. Gym and Drill Under Miss Philbrick ' s instruction we have had a very enjoyable year. All the apparatus has been put to use by the Gv ' m classes and Shipwreck is still the favourite of the Juniors. There has been toboganning and fort building for them on the grounds, and a keen interest in baseball has been brought out in a desire for Inter-house baseball games, which will take place in the spring. The Juniors as well as the Seniors have had a year of very valuable instruction. Horse Nonsense HORSES seem to be a favourite topic of dis- cussion among Elmwoodians this year. Of course, the Pony Club started it. Colonel and Mrs. iMann founded the Pony Club this autumn and kindly invited us to join; many of us were glad to do so. So far it has been very successful. There have been rallies on Satur- day mornings and movies or lectures on horsemanship when it was too cold to ride. The Hunt Club has also had a very good season. Many of the girls, both boarders and day girls, have been following the hounds this season. One important event for us in Ottawa was the retiring of Lady Cushendon , Shirley Mann ' s horse, with a wonderful record of firsts in the ring. The school was well represented a t the Horse Show of the Ottawa Winter Fair. In the children ' s Seat and hands the majority of riders were members of the school and we were very proud when Jo-Ann Davis came off with the cup. To finish off, this summer there is to be a grand rally at the Seignory Club, where several Pony Clubs from Ontario and Quebec are to compete. We are hoping to send twelve members from our own club. We trust that everyone will keep up the good work and We ' ll be seeing you at the summer Horse Show. J. Hargreaves, V C

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SAMARA 27 FOR THE past two years we have had Miss Philbrick on the resident staff, as our gym and games mistress. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her for the enthusiasm and great interest which she has shown in all our sporting activities. Our tech- nique and spirit of Fair Play , which is strongly emphasized, have advanced consider- ably under her leadership. Sports Day 1 On Friday, June 6th, 1947, Sports Day was held. It was fortunately a day just suited for such an event, being not too hot, and it proved a great success in every way. There were con- siderably more visitors than had attended dur- ing the past few years. Moreover the pro- gramme contained a large number of interest- ing individual events which added to the enthusiasm. Nightingale captured the Inter-house Sports ' Day Cup, winning over Fry by 10 points and over Keller by 16. The other victories were as follows: — Inter-house Relay— Nightingale Senior Sports Cup— Judy Nesbitt Intermediate Sports Cup— Mavis Hothersall Junior Sports Cup— Shirley Thomas Preparatory Sports Cup— Lee Mackay. Basketball This year we were fortunate in having ex- tremely good fall weather and without much trouble we were able to get the Inter-house Basketball Games completed by November. Nightingale House was fortunate in win- ning the Senior Games and Keller, the Junior. The points were totaled for the Senior and Junior Games and it was found that Nightin- gale was in the lead. Nightingale therefore has won the Basketball Cup. A game between the Old-Girls and Seniors took place in the spring; also a game between the Juniors and Rock- cliffe Public School is being planned. Skiing Skiing has been exceptionally good this winter and has been one of the chief enjoy- ments of the boarders, who went numerous times to Kingsmere, and to Wakefield. A number of the day girls spent their week-ends at Fortune, and Rockcliffe Park has been used to some extent for the enthusiastic beginners. Skating Skating has increased in popularity exceed- ingly since last winter. The rink has been constantly in use by both the seniors and juniors and has been used for practicing by

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SAMARA 29 WHEN WE all arrived back last Septem- ber we were looking forward to a very good year. There were five new resident mistresses, Miss Aldous, Miss Castas, Miss Richardson and Miss Hudson, the nurse. Miss Wiltshire, whom we had met last year, took over the full time post of house-mistress this year. She has been very kind to riding and skating enthusiasts. So we settled down to enjoy our serene lives as Elmwood Boarders (crash). Did I say peaceful? Well, with the exception of the lounge when there is anyone in it, and the senior class room between five and six, the school is serene. Some of the officers got their heads together in early November and decided that the senior boarders should see more of the day girls. The result was an attempt at square dancing. We invited some Ashbury boys, and Peggy and Wendy brought the records. The first time, we had only two squares of four couples each, but in our second session in February we had three squares. The first time all the girls wore sweaters and got very hot; the second time all the boys wore slippery shoes. They found out just how slippery our hall floor can be! But everyone had so much fun that we are looking forward to another before the year is out. Poor Miss Hudson and Miss Beckwith! Nine Chickens ! Just imagine, nine people got chicken-pox, and all just before Christmas. Some of the earlier cases got home at the start of the holidays, but the Trinidadians and Andrea Hadley were in the Chicken coop until after Christmas. Christmas is a wonderful time for us boar- ders. The last Sunday before the holidays we have a big turkey dinner (big that is! Have a fourth helping! ) Then we go down to Mrs. Buck ' s house to sing Christmas Carols. This year we made a record of Good King Wen- ceslas with Mr. Buck singing The King . Miss Richardson used to play the piano in the music room during second study. At least that ' s how it started. Everyone loves to listen; everyone loves to sing. This turned into an eager group of juniors and intermediates, who now gather for a sing-song after study almost every night. Thank you. Miss Richardson. We have gone to many concerts this year. The Tremblay concerts have been popular. Some of the others were so popular indeed that