Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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

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Junior Basketball Team

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18 SAMARA hurries in, glances at the clock, and collapses on the desk. The privates respectfully remain seated. Lieutenants Steven, Shurly and Fagan trot happily in, rapturously hugging a crumpled piece of paper, a picture of Lawrence Olivier. It ' s infectious— until the General stalks in. All snap to attention, then lapse into puUing up their stockings. The General regards its watch and an- nounces, In one minute ten of this battalion are late. — The clock is covertly set back one minute. Suddenly there is a shght tremor and a rumble is heard! Ten of the battalion are arriving in no uncertain terms. Lance Cor- poral Bradshaw, because of size etc. arrives on the scene first. She mutters to the General and folds herself neatly into the back seat, closely followed by the Ashbury mascot. Gunner Perry. With true aim Perry pitches sundry articles into the desk and collapses into a chair. Heavy buckled Captain Chapman, nose in a long book, shuffles in and lowers herself into her groaning chair. This specimen is tailed by two other birds of the same feather. Corporals Gilchrist and Setton. Both are heatedly dis- cussing their diets; Setton ' s in case she ever meets Tyrone Power and Gilchrist ' s in case she ever grows back into her gym shorts. Self appointed M.P. Sergeant Heeney swings in, humming a mixture of Tennessee Waltz and If . Suddenly And did you know? floats through the open door. Well! Really! fol- lows on its heels and Privates Bates and Paes saunter in, tearing apart some unfortunate victim. It ' s a bird— it ' s a plane— suddenly the light dawns. It ' s the Rear-Guards, Thomas and Hamer, plus the baseball bat, stamp collection, and tennis racquet. The race is a dead heat and the General barks, Battalion Present as the 8.50 bell begins its tinny serenade. 4A Bev is our form captain; Susan is our Brain Judy is the dictionary; And Callie ' s here again; While to help our ranks to fill. Spring brought back our Maggie Gill; Sally ' s the one who supplies the mess; Miss Jessop is our form Mistress. We always supply the fun For the forms two in one. Upper 4B The time is 12.05 and the Upper 4B ' s hap- pen to have a study period. All of these eight girls, I should hope, are glad to be sharing a class room with the 4A ' s. Four of them are at ballet. Karla Krug, Andrea Rowley, whose prize possession is a new pair of glasses, Janet Mclllraith, who is knee high to a grasshopper, and Marianne Merry are our ballet stars. The latter of these four, is known to eat toast by the peck, but unfortunately she never seems to get any fatter. Cicely (Cis) Dunn is indus- triously slaving over her math. Math comes quite easily to her as she got 100 in her math exam; ditto for spelling. Cicely was form vice captain for the first team. Susan Hislop is our New Zealander and she finds French almost impossible to learn. Susan is our form vice captain this year. She is furiously passing notes and giggling to Vicky Brain. Unfor- tunately they sit rather close together. Vicky has a book concerning nearly every subject on her desk, but which is which she doesn ' t know. Last of all there is Peggy Baker. She is a good worker but it is impossible to hear her when she talks. I can ' t hear you , is always popped at her. They have had about three form teas with the 4A ' s which they should have enjoyed. Upper 4B is quite an industrious class when it wants to be but for the exception of a couple of people sometimes— not mentioning names! The class almost always succeeds in being the noisiest, if not, I must say the wildest.