Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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16 SAMARA Lower IV B and IV C Lower IV B and IV C share a classroom and take some lessons together. There are eleven of us. Judy Kellock, Maggie Gill and Susi Brain usually manage to come out at the top of the form. Cally Grant, Jenni- fer Hooper and Betsy Jane Davis have the same interest — horses. Jennifer is sometimes a boarder and sometimes not. Shirley Ann Mc- Kay is another horsewoman. She is also our form chatterbox! Andrea is good at gym, and Karla Krug is a star of the ballet class. Along with Upper IV B and IV A, this Christmas we presented a Nativity Play, di- rected by Miss Briggs. The play was success- ful. After Easter we are going t o give a play of Rip Van Winkle with the same forms. We had a form tea before Christmas. We invited quite a few mistresses, but unfortu- nately some could not come. There was hard- ly any food left over; although we had a good deal of ice cream, there wasn ' t a drop left! We had lots of fun, amid the spilling of ginger ale. We hope to have another tea as soon as possible. Old Qink ' Moiei. Old Girls ' Executive President— Elizabeth Edwards First Vice-President— Cynthia Sims Secretary— Anne Bethune Treasurer— Norma Wilson News of Old Girls Engagements Lois Davidson to Mr. A. V. R. Lawrence Norma Wilson to Fit. Lieut. James Davies Elizabeth Gilchrist to Mr. Christopher Sum- mers Elizabeth Newcombe to Fl. O. Earl Mayo Jane Viets to Mr. George Perley-Robertson Joan Paterson to Mr. Ayton Keyes Marriages Janet Caldwell to Mr. Keith Ma sters Elizabeth Kenny to Capt. A. S. Thornton Gaye Douglas to Mr. Frank Packard Births Catherine (Inkster) Ferguson, a son Jacqueline (Workman) Hyland, a daughter Mary (Osier) Bull, a son Activities Virginia Copping Wilson has been appointed President of the Junior League of To- ronto, 1948-1949. Mary Spragge holds an important Secretarial position in the I.O.D.E. Ogden Blackburn is Assistant Head of the Children ' s Ward in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, where her sister, Mary Blackburn, is also nursing. Letty McGreer is nursing at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Angela Christensen, Peggy MacLaren and Suzanne Mess are attending McGill. At Carlton College are Wendy Hughson and Elizabeth Paterson. Carol MacLaren and Louise Williamson are attending Skidmore. Martha Bate is taking a pre-med course at Bennet College. Halcyon Barcant made her debut in Trinidad last summer. Elizabeth Paish is attending the Interpreters ' School in Geneva.

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SAMARA 15 Diana Fraser is the wild one of the form — she comes from Iroquois! She is also the joker — the clown! But she is foremost to defend sturdily the rights and liberties of the form. Finally, Eioisa Madrazo is our latest addi- tion. She comes from Guatemala but is mak- nig remarkable progress in learning English. We also enjoy talking Spanish (?) to her. Form V C The nine-o ' clock bell rings, and those who have been fortunate enough to catch an early streetcar are lounging comfortably at their desks. As the second bell is heard, the class is completed by the appearance of Felicity Giles and Mary Frances Matthewman, our vice- captain in the first term. The first class begins. Margy Boehm, our form captain in the first term, is asked a ques- tion. Unfortunately Margy is hidden behind a pile of books and by the time she rises to the occasion, Janet Lawson has answered it. The day wouldn ' t be complete without some mention of Toronto by her two loyal sup- porters, Cathy Hees and Frannie Schulman. In composition class Gretchen Weston is a favourite with stories about those beloved summer holidays. At noon, we usually hear Rhon Curtis, our form captain, at the piano trying out a new tune. Last, but far from least, there is the ever-present problem of finding a nick-name for either Sheila Cabeldu or Shelagh Macoun, our vice-captain. It seems that whenever a mistress asks one of them a question the other immediately pops up with the answer. With the addition of these last two, V C is complete, and is under the careful guidance of Miss Philbrick, our form mistress. In closing, we should like to mention our very successful form tea which we had on February the eighteenth. Our guests were Miss Philbrick, who poured tea. Miss Smith, Miss Wiltshire, Mrs. Armour and Miss Dixon. Mrs. Buck, Miss Adams and Mademoiselle were unable to come. Form IV A A is for Allie who ' s starting this rhyme; E is for ' Liz ' beth who ' s never on time. is for Jenny, the brain of the form; ' s also for Jo, a horsewoman born. L is for Lynne, who is good at her drill; O is for Olga who comes from Brazil. 5 is for Sandra and Sylvia too — Sandra ' s vice-captain and Sylvia ' s new. T is for Tina, our little Dutch lass; This is IV A, and we ' re proud of our class. Upper IV B The mistresses popped their heads out of various doors as IV B trotted down the hall with Sarita Setton in the lead. Sarita is our present Form Captain, and very efficient. She came from South America two years ago and is devoted to the piano and music. Jane Colville and Shirley Thomas sailed past everyone in a happy discussion about their loved horses. They both are very sporty and extremely good riders. Joan Fagan and Wendy Gilchrist, both having tried preliminary skating tests, were excitedly relating their adventures. Joan, we gathered, had passed hers, and Wendy would try again in two weeks. Both are enthusiastic about skating and take lessons at the Minto Skating Club. Lambie Steven and Virginia Shurly strolled into the classroom talking about hockey and football, in which Lambie delights. As they sat down, Virginia announced she could do a back dive and so their talk changed to Vir- ginia ' s favourite subject, swimming. Patricia Heeney ( Tish ), Sylvia Ricci and Sheila McCormick brought up the rear, chat- ting about Tish ' s violin. She had it with her, and we gathered around to see. Tish loves music, and Sylvia from Guatemala, and Sheila, love dancing to it. The bell sounded and our normally talka- tive form settled down to work as the door closed on the mistress ' s Good morning, girls.

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SAMARA 17 GENERAL NEWS At the May Court Ball, held on January 28th, at the Chateau Laurier, several of the Old Girls distinguished themselves in the sparkling Revue that was produced for the occasion. We hke to think that you could pick them out in the crowd because they were Elmwood Old Girls, but just for safety ' s sake we will list them for you. Ann Southam (Creighton) was a featured performer and sang with great skill into a microphone for the first time in her life, and is willing to admit that had it not been for her early training in Assembly at Elmwood, she could never have done it! She had one lone supporter in the mixed chorus— Ethel Toller (Southam)— but two Old Girls are all you need for a sure-fire hit. In the professional chorus line that appeared next on the pro- gramme, Penelope Sherwood, Patsy Drake and Diana Gill were the shining lights. Then came the dreamy Waltz number, and as dreaming was never encouraged in the good old days, we only had one representative in the person of Paula Peters— just to make sure the number wouldn ' t fall apart. The show wound up with a lively old-time Square Dance, and Jean Castonguay, Claudia Blackburn and Kitty Griffin gave the number the sparkle it might have lacked. The Revue was under the con- venorship of Ethel Toller, and in our opinion, was the great success it was for the obvious reason that the back-bone of it was — ELM- WOOD OLD GIRLS. Other Old Girls who are actively working with the May Court throughout the year are, Luella (Irvin) Bethune, Ahson (Cochrane) Connolly, Mary (Gray) Ducq, Barbara (Hop- kirk) Dunne, Susan Edwards, Ruth (Monk) Finnie, Eleonor (Carson) Grant, Lillian (Gard- ner) Hyndman, Pamela (Erwin) Kingstone, Genevieve (Bronson) Laidlaw, Lynette Mac- Brien, Christine (MacNaughton) Macdougall, Elaine McFarlane, June White, Anna Wilson, Jane Viets. Associate Members (those with over ten years of active membership) are: Jocelyn (White) Blair, Gwendoline (Borden) Blair, Cynthia (Hill) Campbell, Marion (Gale) Charleson, Nancy (Teller) Cleary, Betty (Toller) Davis, Ethel Finnie, Jean Finnie, Rachel (White) Garvock, Betty (Fauquier) Gill, Vera, (Birkett) Gill, Janet (Southam) MacTavish, Nancy (MacCarthy) Minnes, Julia (MacBrien) Murphy, Audrey (Gilmour) Scott, Cairine Wilson, and Catherine (Guthrie) Woods. Professional Members are: Jean Burns, Betty Carter, Marion Monk, Barbara (Ross) Davies, Cynthia Sims and Cecily Sparks. Out-of-Town Members are: Joan (Elkins) Bo very, Catherine (MacPhail) Bruer, Helen Burns, Mary (Craig) Desbarets, Louise (Court- ney) Dillingham, Hyacinth Lambart, Patricia Macoun, Ruth (Hughson) Strickland, Frances (Bates) Stronach, Peggy (Marr) Webber. From the above you can readily see that Elmwood Old Girls are very actively engaged in social service work in this community, as they are in every other city in which they live. Ashbury -Elmwood Reunion An Ashbury-Elmwood Reunion was held in London, England, on September 4th, arranged by Pat Archdale and Dim Sabhn. It proved a great success. Among those present were Margot Peters, Mary Blackburn, Jill Barben, Margaret Hardy. Everyone enjoyed this hap- pily-planned get-together. Old Girls ' Match The Old Girls basketball match against the present girls resulted in a win for the present girls, with a score of 18-10. A hilarious diver- sion was caused by the arrival of Janet (South- am) MacTavish and Luella (Irvin) Bethune complete in school uniform— and umbrella. Complete in uniform, we say, but hardly such uniform as would meet with approval at morn- ing inspection!