Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 3 FR US, the senior class, our final and most profitable year has come to an end. Through this editorial, we are able to express our warm and sincere gratitude to the many people whom we have met along the way of our school life for their invaluable aid in the framing of our characters and the furthering of our plans for the future. We feel, as, surely, those who have gone before us have felt, that in consequence of the training received at Elmwood, we shall be able to face the complex problems of our daily life in this Atomic Age with a self-confidence denied to many by educational barriers. During our eventful and unforgettable years here, we have witnessed the retirement of a beloved headmistress, Mrs. Buck. Though she is no longer one of the guiding factors of our daily life, she will always have a prominent place in the history of the school. Fortunately, her successor is one who, with her experience and understanding, is succeeding in earning the trust and admiration of all her students. We wish her all the luck that Dame Fortune can provide to make her career at Elmwood a successful and happy one. In the place of greatest honour in our magazine this year, we have placed our young queen whose natural graciousness and personal charm we saw for ourselves last autumn when she visited Ottawa. We are aware that she is depending on all the young people of the Commonwealth to help her. No matter what path our feet will tread in future life, we shall always remember and feel deeply indebted to Elmwood. To those who come after us, we can pass on the advice which we have found invaluable: Fulfill the spirit of the school motto; aim high! Leslie Anne Jackson, Managing Editor Diana Eraser, Assistant Editor Wendy Quain, Literary Editor Committee Diane Boyd Patsy Knowlton Suzette DeWolf Margaret Boehm Janet Law son The editors of Samara wish to thank all those who have in any way helped us to publish the 1952 issue.

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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong, but I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as J now invite you to do.

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4 SAMARA Dear Elmwoodians, Past and Present: It is a great pleasure to me to have the opportunity to put down in black and white my gratitude for all the help I have had during my first year at Elmwood. I have particularly enjoyed meeting Old Girls, both in Montreal and Ottawa. We are compiling as full a list as possible of Old Girls and their activities, and hope in the next SAMARA to have a chronicle of your vital statistics. The present girls have made me feel very much at home here; by the example of their behaviour I have learned a great deal of what Elmwood stands for. It is important that we all remember that any community, and particu- larly a school, is made up of individuals, and that each individual is a vital part of the structure of the school; if one of us makes a mistake, the whole suffers. This is why I feel added pleasure in looking back at the past year; it has been such a happy one that I feel that everyone must have been doing her best. For the future I ask that we may work together so that tradition and progress may walk hand in hand. Yours sincerely.