Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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4 SAMARA destroy those with whom they compromise and agree. Therefore now is the time for us to pull our heads out of the sand, and mobilise our forces, remembering that weakness on our part invites attack by Communist power. It is our duty to those men who bought so dearly our four freedoms, with their very lives, to be ever prepared and ever vigilant. It has been said that our democratic world must know its enemy. But what is more important, we must know ourselves; and what is yet more important, we must realize that our freedom and strength are one, for without freedom we cannot have strength and without strength we can never hope to preserve freedom. We have said that we cherish our freedom so greatly that we would give our lives to preserve it. But the question What is life without freedom? takes on a new meaning when there is a future prospect of no life at all. How then do we feel about defending a free society if to defend freedom is to risk all life? This is a question which we of the new generation must carry in our minds, searching deeply in our hearts for the right answer. Let us never be war-mongers, but let us also not be blind fools, coasting along blithely in a dream world which we have built around ourselves, only to awaken with a start to find, too late, that all our illusions are fast crumbhng. But above all, let us pray God for some deliverance out of the most troubled time the world has yet known. Our earth has survived two devastating world wars. It is up to us to see that she is not plunged into the deadly chasm of another. A LTHOUGH Nightingale did not excel in stars last year, we hope to regain our - former standard once more, for we were second at Christmas and are working very hard. We were sorry that there were no House Plays this winter but we come second in the House Collections for which everyone in Nightingale worked very dili- gently. We were happy to welcome to the house this year Miss Tyrrell, Miss Hudson, Miss Shand, Mrs. Grierson, and also a number of new girls. To those who are leaving Elmwood this June we say goodbye and wish them the best of luck in all they do. House Members Mary Code, Head of House; Sallie AlcCarter, Head Girl; Judy Nesbitt, Prefect; Christian Nothnagel, Monitor; Norma Baird, Margaret Boehm, Roberta Bradshaw, Margaret Cameron, Jo-Anne Davis, Eleanor Hamer, Catherine Hees, Leslie Ann Jackson, Alarilyn Jeckell, Alison Mackenzie, Joan McAvity, Sandra McKee, Sylvia Ricci, Frances Schul- man, Virginia Shurly. Senior Basketball Norma Baird, Mary Code, Leslie Ann Jack- son, Marilyn Jeckell, Sallie McCarter, Judy Nesbitt. Junior Basketball Margaret Boehm, Margaret Cameron, Eleanor Hamer, Jo-Anne Davis, Alison Mac- kenzie, Sylvia Ricci. Senior Badminton Judy Nesbitt, 1st singles; Mary Code, 2nd singles. Norma Baird, Leslie Ann Jackson, doubles. Junior Badminton Alison Mackenzie, singles; A4argaret Boehm, Eleanor Hamer, doubles.

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SAMARA 3 Summa Summarum Summa Summarum, Highest of the High , This has been our motto As the days go by; And in the years ahead of us, No matter where we roam- Though far away from Elmwood, Though far away from home- Let us not forget it: You remember; so will I, Summa Summarum, Highest of the High . Diane Boyd, VI Matric. Keller EDITORIAL A s WE, the graduating class, stand on the threshold of a new life, it is necessary A that we think seriously of the evils that beset our present world, and decide X. A-now what is to be our position in the future scheme of events. Shall we be great leaders or followers? Only time can tell. But we can decide now whether or not we shall be good citizens of the democracy which our forefathers valued so highly that they gave their lives to preserve it. And it is up to us, the generation about to take its place as citizens of the world, to value this trust and guard it well from any interference by an alien country that might wish to see us enslaved within the bonds of a subversive doctrine, a doctrine that would crush and kill all the truths that we hold to be self-evident. This is truly an age of obliteration . We have seen within our time the discovery and use of the atomic bomb, a weapon, we thought, to end all weapons. But man is foreve r searching, it seems, for ways to shorten his brief stay on earth, and now he has produced a final, more deadly discovery, the hydrogen bomb. It is baffling for us to conceive why man should search and work so diligently, only in the end to bring about the extinction of his own race. But it is too late now to bemoan that fact: now is the time for us to take steps to prevent forever the use of this deadly weapon. Winston Churchill has rightly called our present situation the two worlds . On one side we have our democracy — government of the people by the people — and opposed to this is the Communist state whose object is the victory of Communism throughout the world. Our leaders and diplomats have tried repeatedly to bring about an understanding, all through the harrowing period of the cold war, with a country that uses compromises and agreements only to

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Senior Badminton L. Jackson N. Baird J. Nesbitt M. Code Junior Badminton E. Hamer M. Boehm A. MacKenzie NIGHTINGALE HOUSE L. Jackson N. Baird Senior Basketball M. Jeckell J. Nesbitt S. McCarter M. Code M. Boehm F. Schulman Junior Basketball E. Hamer A. MacKenzie N. Cameron S. Ricci m