Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Junior Basketball Team

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Senior Badminton Team , Junior Badminton Team Senior Basketball Team Junior Basketball Team

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SAMARA 17 VA At the beginning of the first term VA was a little smaller than it had been as VB but somewhat louder. This term was quite un- eventful for us. Catherine Hees was still taking ballet, playing the hymns in prayers, talking- politics and losing her clothes. Margaret Boehm and Frances Schulman were the pianists; Margaret was also Nightingale Sports Captain. In December Louise ReinderhofT of Hol- land joined our group and commenced giving Dutch lessons to us. She was followed in January by Catherine Prudham, from Ed- monton, who has just been made a monitor after being at Elmwood for a little over two months. She is the only one in the class who can talk politics with Catherine Hees. Catherine came just in time for Janet Lawson who was getting a stiff neck from looking down on us (because of her height). Janet also gives us performances of excerpts from Swan hake and the mad scene from Giselle; she is imitated by Shelagh Macoun, the new monitor, and tennis champ and artist of the class. Margaret Cameron, our opera singer, hails from Smiths Falls. She leads the choir each Friday in prayers with her strong soprano voice. Competing against Margaret ' s vocal chords is Felicity Giles singing her cowboy songs. Felicity who spent her summer at Trois Pistoles is now heading our French class. Last but not least is Jill Edward who came to us in March from Sudbury. Jill is the Rubinstein (Arthur not Helena) of the class although she has not yet performed for us. Throughout the year Miss Adams has been our competent form Mistress. VB In September when we returned after the summer holidays we found our numbers de- pleted to a scant five, Jo-Anne Davis, Marianne Lovink, Sandra McKee, Eliza- beth Wijkman, and Jennifer WooUcombe. Marianne, the only new girl, is from Holland and, on her arrival, her knowledge of English was very limited. Now, in the middle of April, she can hold her own with anyone and speak as fluently and quickly as any of us. (Not always does she use her acquired knowledge at the right time! ) This year we have been very fortunate in having Adiss Dixon as our form mistress. She has told us in weak moments that she would like to resume this position next year. If it is possible we would also consider this a pleasure. There is little to report concerning any sports highlights that we have made as we seem to be lacking an outstanding athlete. All of us were on the house basketball teams and Jo-Anne and Jennifer were on the badminton teams. Debating was the main inter-form activity this year, debates being held between all the high school forms. Sandra, Elizabeth and Jennifer were the form representatives in a debate against 5C which we won. That got us into the finals with 6 Matric, in which we were judged winners by a very narrow margin. The form officers were as follows: 1st Term— Form Capitain: Jennifer WooU- combe; Vice Form Captain: Sandra A4cKee. 2nd Term— Form Captain: Jo-Anne Davis; Vice Form Captain: Sandra A ' IcKee. We have occupied the little classroom at the top of the stairs, and have had many good times with our big five in 1950-1951. VC Time: 8.45 Bell (11th hour) Place: VC H.Q. Battlefront CO.: Aiajor-General M. Leonard Four young privates, Kingsmill, Campbell, A-laynard and AlcCormick are busy cleaning their finger nails in preparation for the rigid morning inspection. 2nd-in-command Jeckell