Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 19 Lower IVB and IVC First of all I should like to introduce our form mistress, Mrs. Berzins, who has given us a very pleasant year as well as helped us with our work. There are two boarders in our class, Lilias Ahearn, who is very interested in special art and ballet, and Sally Douglas who is very artistic and does well at gym. Christina Wijkman has come from Sweden and Jana Stepan comes from Czechoslovakia and we are very glad to have them here. Susannah Clarke and Sandra Graham are both stamp collectors. Lynn Castonguay is a very good artist. Jean Garvock is very quiet and does her work well. Rosemary Findlay was the lucky one and went to Bermuda for Easter. Lauretta Landymore gets very high marks in arithmetic and we all wish that we could do the same. Frances Cabeldu, who came to Elmwood in October, not only gets good marks but is fun-loving as well. She became captain of her form when Michal Crawley left at Easter. Miss Shand ' s Class (lA, II and III) Whose form room is this? What an attrac- tive place! We are invited in. Bright pictures on the wall, wonderful scientific collections on a table, and twigs gaily growing in a jar of water! Miss Shand and eight girls are happily occupied— and here comes the ninth: Louise Hayley is a fine officer, and has been checking the cloakroom. A spelling lesson is in progress, and we notice that this is where Ann Gilbert shines. All the class seem to be doing very fine work generally, and we learn that some of the girls have special interests: Helena Wijkman is a fine pianist, and won a prize in the music festival; Effie Malamaki is the ballet dancer; Jane MacTavish and Wendy Blackburn paint well; Laragh Neelin is developing a talent for writing stories; Susan Southam is a star at gym and games; Judy Toller is good at just everything. The bell rings, and we have to go to another and much duller class. Thank you for a very interesting time! Miss Fleniington ' s Class (I and Transition) Who are the girls in the front row in morning prayers? Almost everyone knows by now that the three big girls are Shane Spanner, Susan Tovell, and Busy Garvock; that the youngest of the group are Sarah Garvock and Jill Castonguay; that it is Georgia Gale who turns around to smile so engagingly while Miss Flemington frowns severely; and that the other four are Margot Toller, Sheila MacTavish, Julie Newsome and Rita Browning. Compared with the ten little girls who appeared in prayers for the first time last September, Forms I and Transition now appear quite grown-up Elmwoodians. THE END

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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.

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20 S A Al A R A Dramatics DRAMATICS this year under the able super- vision of Mrs. Meiklejohn have pro- gressed rapidly with the junior plays and once again the senior play. The house plays which were missed by all of us last year were put on in December, after the determined and persistent house- heads had kept us after school and Saturday mornings for much needed and later appre- ciated rehearsals. The winner this year was Fry with The Wonderjul Tourist, a well staged and talented piece of work. Especially worth mentioning were the jungle scenery and animal costumes. It was repeated the week after at the bazaar for others to enjoy as much as we did. Keller ' s comedy, The Quilt- ing Bee at Bascombe ' s, and Nightingale ' s It was a Love ly Meeting, tied for second place. Outstanding in the plays were Janet Chapman and Susie Brain as the wonderful tourist and his wife; Jennifer WooUcombe, as the slightly erratic Aimt Abigail and Shelagh Macoun in the difficult role of Alonzo Allen both in the Quilting Bee; Bobby Bradshaw, who played the oldest member at the Lovely Meeting, and Jo-Anne Davis as the timid chairman. The play which annually creates the greatest excitement and interest is the Ash- bury-Elmwood play under the direction of Mr. Belcher. The Little Theatre was packed and ushers were kept busy, showing over four hundred spectators to their seats. This year Eliza Comes to Stay was presented, a three act comedy about a young bachelor who suddenly finds himself the guardian of an old friend ' s daughter, excellently portrayed by Diane Boyd who had the difficult job of playing a plain and awkward Eliza in the first two acts, but an attractive and sophisticated girl in the last act. The prim and snobbish Lady Penny brook who talked in an extremely affected tone of voice, which was well main- tained throughout the play, was aptly played by Pat Knowlton. Diana Fraser as the flashy and sophisticated actress-financee of the Hon. Sandy Verrell displayed unusual talent in a comedy role. As the firm and disapproving nurse, Leslie Anne Jackson played a small part with ability and conviction. The male roles were enacted exceptionally well with John Fi ' aser and William Grimsdale outstand- ing. Eliza Comes to Stay was considered among the best performances ever put on by the Ashbury-Elmwood Dramatic Society. The seniors presented five scenes from Housman ' s Victoria Regina, Strained Rela- tions , The Rose and the Thorn , Under Fire , A Woman Proposes , and Six O ' clock Call , to an enthusiastic audience on April 27. Several of the roles were divided to give everyone a chance to display her talent. Diane Boyd, Leslie Anne Jackson, Catherine Hecs, and Pat Knowlton were among the best actresses.