Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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10 SAMARA House Members Staff: Miss Adams, Miss Gooderham, Miss MacCallum, Mme. Krupka, Mrs. Mieklejohn. Girls Jennifer WooUcombe— Head of House, House Senior Shelagh Macoun— Prefect Meg Reynolds— House Sports Captain Jane Mulholland, Salma Ikramullah, Joan Fagan— monitors Marlene Amber, Joan Campbell, Mary Fisher-Rowe, Sheila McCormick, Audrey Ashbourne, Lynne Gordon, Carolyn Bruce, Sonia Tarantour, Barbara Webster, Myrna Badham, Judy Kleinhans, Rosemary Findlay Senior Basketball Forwards: Jennifer WooUcombe, Sheila McCormick, Joan Fagan, Sonia Tarantour. Guards: Jane Mulholland, Meg Reynolds, Joan Campbell Junior Basketball Forwards: Rosemary Findlay, Caroyln Bruce, Sonia Tarantour, Barbara Webster Guards: Myrna Badham, Mary Fisher-Rowe, Judy Kleinhans Senior Badminton Jane Mulholland, Sheila McCormick Junior Badminton Sonia Tarantour, Carolyn Bruce IN September of this year one member of the staff and five students were added to the enrolment of Nightingale House: Miss Kaye, a member of the staff, and Esther Prudham, Nadira Masood, Susannah Clarke, Elizabeth Richardson and Linda Carnell from the school have all made great contributions to the spirit of the House, During the fall term we were awarded first place in the House Collections. We also came first in The Royal Touch in which our mem- bers gave most gratifying performances. In the winter term, our juniors captured the Junior Basketball award — thanks to the capable management of Joan Maynard, the Sports Captain. Our House was also repre- sented in the finals of the Senior Badminton doubles. As Head of the House, I should like to ex- press my thanks to all the girls who have helped to uphold the tradition of Nightingale House. House Members Head of House — Prefect: Margaret Boehm Head Girl: Sandra McKee Prefect: Catherine Prudham House Senior: Jo- Anne Davis House Senior: Josephine Stone Monitor: Annika Book Sports Captain: Joan Maynard Staff Members Miss Shand, Mrs. Kilpatrick, Mrs. McAulay, Miss Robinson House Bobby Bradshaw, Vicky Brain, Linda Carnell, Susannah Clarke, Judy Ewing, Margo Freiman, Sue Hislop, Nadira Masood, Esther Prudham, Elizabeth Richardson, Virginia Shurly, Frances Wood. Senior Basketball Forwards: Margaret Boehm, Jo-Anne Davis, Catherine Prudham, Virginia Shurly Guards: Annika Book, Joan Maynard, Josephine Stone, Frances Wood. Junior Basketball Forwards: Elizabeth Richardson, Marianne Merry, Susannah Clarke Guards: Margo Freiman, Judy Ewing, Vicky Brain, Sue Hislop

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SAMARA 9 THIS year, we have been very happy to add six new names to our list of members. They were: Lorna Travaglini, Margaret Dickson, Tina Tarantour, Frances Cabeldu, Sandra Graham and Mickey Manion. They have shown themselves to be full of the good competitive spirit that builds a house. Although we did not quite succeed in win- ning the houseplays, The Ghost Story did ac- complish our real aim: to entertain the audi- ence in every possible way. But we were not very lucky in the house collections, and only managed a close third. It was in the sports field, however, that we did justice to our house. We won both the senior basketball and the senior volleyball. And although we came second in the senior badminton singles and third in the doubles, we claim first place in both junior singles and junior doubles. Senior Basketball Forwards: Lorna Travaglini, Susan Richard- son, Sally Wright, Janet Hanson, Nancy Perry. Guards: Marianne Lovink, Janet Chapman, Lambie Stevens Junior Basketball Forwards: Betsy-Jane Davis, Sandra Graham, Frances Cabeldu, Tina Tarantour Guards: Beverley Brown, Cicely Dunn, Margaret Dickson. Senior Badminton Singles: Marianne Lovink Doubles: Marianne Lovink, Janet Hanson Junior Badminton Singles: Sally Wright Doubles: Sally Wright, Susan Richardson House Members House Senior — Head of House: Marianne Lovink Monitors: Janet Hanson, Janet Chapman, Lorna Travaglini Staff Miss Leonard, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. English, Miss Maxwell, Mrs. Stephens, Mr. Hyndman House Susan Brain, Beverley Brown, Frances Cabeldu, Betsy-Jane Davis, Margaret Dickson, Cicely Dunn, Sandra Graham, Naz. Ikramullah, Olga Kingsmill, Nancy Perry, Susan Richardson, Lambie Stevens, Tina Tarantour, Sally Wright, Mickey Manion. Kellen. Jto444,e Note6. WHEN we returned in the fall most of our seniors of last year had left but we welcomed nine new members in their places. We are also glad to have Miss MacCallum in Keller. For weeks before the House Collections we were seldom seen without knitting needles. We produced a fine showing but unfortun- ately Nightingale ' s was just a little bigger and better. Meg Reynolds was Sports Captain, but ow- ing to no fault of hers, we have not as yet excelled in the sports world. Jane Mulholland and Sheila McCormick won the Senior bad- minton. We still have great hope for Sports Day. Our house play. The Golden Doom, was excellently worked out and well received. I would like to thank all the girls in Keller for working so hard and so well together, and for making this year such a happy one for all of us.

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Bettg Charter (KImtooob 1923 - 1929 The news of Betty Carter ' s serious illness last December came as a tremendous shock to all her friends. We had never associated Betty with illness; she always seemed the embodiment of health. The picture of her buoyant figure on the tennis courts, where she played championship games; seeing her pass by the school in her neat little Chevrolet with a gay smile and a wave of her hand or erect and determined in the uniform of a major in the Canadian Women ' s Army Corps, all this was part of the Betty we knew: but Betty in the hospital and the daily bulletins growing less and less encouraging, this seemed incredible. The end came on Saturday, February 14 and we were left bewildered. Betty Carter came to Elmwood in 1923, a keen and equiring young student. She left in 1929, a Prefect and Head Girl of two years ' standing with her name on the Summa Summarum Board. She had a high scholastic record culminating in Honour Matriculation, while as a forceful member of Fry House she entered with zest into all general school activities. Always a sports enthusiast, she excelled in this regard, and in addition to her prowess exerted a valuable influence on the games field by her own high sense of sportsmanship. We recall how at school Betty often deplored the unruliness of her curly auburn hair, which we secretly admired, and we could not understand why she worried because she could do it only in one way, when that way was so obviously attractive. Then there was her ever ready smile and an innate courtesy and friendUness, symbols of her warmth of heart; while in her eyes, with their clear straight look, was mirrored the integrity of her spirit. These are the things we shall remember of her. On leaving Elmwood, Betty entered the University of Toronto from where she graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Her first post was with The Royal Commission on Financial Relations between the Federal Government and The Maritime Provinces. Later she became a Statistical Research clerk with the Bank of Canada. After the outbreak of war, Betty served with the Ottawa Detachment of the Admini- strative Section of the Red Cross. In 1941 she enlisted in the C.W.A.C., becoming one of its original officers. We were not surprised when promotion after promotion came to her. Posted to England in 1942, she later commanded the wh ole of the London area of the C.W.A.C., and finally, holding the rank of Major, she was in 1944 named to perform the duties of General Staff Officer Grade II with the Directorate of Military Training in Canada. In spite of her busy life, Betty continued to participate in sports whenever pos- sible. She was a club champion of the RockclifFe Tennis Club and a Gatineau Ski Zone Champion. Figure skating and golf also claimed her interest. In tennis circles she will be greatly missed, not only by her friends among the members of the Rock- cliffe Tennis Club, but also by Club officials and attendants who speak with warm affection of the valuable part she took in all Club activities, not least of which was the time she gave in helping and encouraging the very juniors whom she regarded in a real sense as her friends. Only last summer, when far from well, Betty Carter won the Ladies ' Singles Championship of the Rockcliffe Tennis Club. Betty Carter was the kind of pupil a school is proud to have, the kind of Old Girl of whom it is equally proud. Life was wonderful to her because of the way she lived it, and she gave richly and unsparingly of herself to make life finer for those about her. She had that true sense of values which recognized what was important and what was unimportant only possible to those possessed of great strength of cha- racter. This quality was in turn a source of strength to others, particularly to her friends. All her days she had an abiding loyalty to the ' better things ' and we are the poorer for losing her from our midst. E. B. B.