Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 3s THIS magazine goes to print, we are nearing the end of another successful and enjoyable year at Elmwood; we hope we have hved up to her high ideals, embodied in our House Mottoes, Service, Fellowship and Fair Play . We shall have many happy memories of this year to recall, and the lessons and ideals which we have acquired throughout the days we have spent at Elmwood will be a constant reminder of former times. We should like to thank the members of the Magazine Committee for their generous work and the support they have given and also our many faithful friends who have so kindly advertised in this magazine. We appreciate the interest they have shown in us for so many years. This year we welcomed Mrs. Davis, Miss Dubrule, Miss Miller, Miss Colquhoun and Mr. Brain who gave up his valuable spare time at Ashbury to teach the senior forms Latin. We hope that they have enjoyed their first year with us. We thank Mrs. Graham and all the teachers for having made this such a happy year for us. We hope that they have liked it as much as we have. Dean Clark, after many years of teaching us Scripture, acting as Chairman at our closing and taking Assembly on his mornings at Elmwood, left us in December. We were very sorry to see him go and join with all his many old girls in wishing him every happiness in the future. Although the graduating class of this year is only a tiny section of those throughout the world, we go out from the school with the firm hope that we shall help to achieve for our children the security which is now lacking in this troubled age of ours, and we pray that it may be achieved. We start out on our journey along the road of life with our school motto high in our hearts. May all Elmwoodians past, present or future live up to this our highest ideal: Summa Summarum Highest of the High . Janet Chapman, Managing Editor Bobbie Bradshaw, Literary Editor Sheila McCormick, Asst. Literary Editor TisH Heeney, Art Editor Advertising Meg Reynolds Margaret Traill Joan Campbell Joan Maynard Judy Evving Lambie Stevens Beverley Brown Micky Manion Nancy Perry Miss Underwood, Miss MacCallum, Sta Advisers

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Dear Elmwooduns, 12th, 1954. First I should like to thank the members of the Samara committee for their splendid work. We have tried this year a somewhat different arrangement of the magazine, which I hope you will enjoy. I must say that everything has run so smoothly that I have hardly been aware that a magazine was being produced, except when the deadline crept upon me for my letter and I was not ready— I want particularly to thank Miss MacCallum, Mrs. Davis, Miss Underwood, Janet Chapman, Bobbie Bradshaw, Sheila McCormick, Tish Heeney, and Meg Reynolds. This year has been saddened by the death of two people without whom Elmwood would not be here today. Below you will find an account of Mrs. Fauquier by Senator Wilson. The nicest thing that I have heard of Mrs. Fauquier is To know her well was to have a deep and lasting affection for her. She was one of those rare people of whom it may be said that those who came most in contact with her became fine people themselves because of it. I should like to quote from Mrs. Buck ' s talk to us at our Memorial Service for Mrs. Philpot, the first Principal of Elmwood— She was a crusader in education and progressive in the bes t sense of the word. The school was built on her faith in the future and her vision, with the magnificient practical and generous help of Mrs. H. S. Southam, Mrs. Edward Fauquier, and Senator Wilson. Mrs. Philpot fostered a love of good work; she believed that every child was an individual and was worthy of the best that education could give. We still try to keep the feeling at Elmwood that each child deserves a special education and special attention. She visualized, in these tangled wooded grounds, a band of happy carefree children. She was magnificient with little children. With them she lived in a world of adventure of King Arthur ' s Knights and fairies. Here in the while of these lovely qualities, which little children as well as grown Knights must possess when they go in search of the Holy Grail, I can see her yet on the occasion when they heard Wordsworth ' s poem to the daffodil. It is to those days that we owe our school emblem and our school colours. And so Elmwood had its beginning in a vision of an old homestead on the highest point in Rockcliffe Park. The idealism of Mrs. Philpot, woven into the school tradition, is still today an integral part of Elmwood and her love of true learning and sense of beauty are combined with the increasingly high academic standards required for young people today. For me, personally, this has been a happy year. I have felt, as never before, that we as a school, staff and girls, are a single unit. I want to thank you all for your help during the year. Affectionately yours, From its early and very modest beginnings Mrs. Edward Fauquier proved herself a most sympathetic, faithful and ever generous friend of Elmwood. Plans originated with Mrs. Philpot, but these could never have been realized without the staunch support of Mrs. Fauquier and Mrs. H. S. Southam. Mrs. Fauquier, until ill health forced her retirement, was President of the Board of Governors of Elmwood, and those who had the privilege of association with her, knew that reliance could always be placed upon her wise judgment, as well as her appreciation and understanding of human nature. Mrs. Fauquier loved little children. This was clearly demonstrated when she befriended a group of small English girls evacuated to Canada. Miss Martin ' s nursery school had found a wartime refuge in Carleton Place, and here Mrs. Fauquier made herself largely responsible for their welfare. These young women, who are once more in their own country, must recall with gratitude their Canadian benefactor and the many treats which she gave them in her own home. It is a privilege for m.e, a former Governor of Elmwood, to write this short tribute to a woman whom I admired greatly and remember with affection. The Senate, Ottawa, 14 May, 1954.

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Jennifer Woollcombe: Each deed thou has done, dies, revives and goes to work in the world . Jenny, head girl, efficient head girl, in fact, extremely efficient head gill, is probably spending her last year of a long decade at Elmwood. This year she has done remarkable work in many fields and has even succeeded in getting the whole school interested in organizing social events— a task hitherto unaccomplished by even the most enterprising of us. Jen works like a fiend at her schoolwork, but still finds time to be a substantial forward on the basketball team and has at least one finger in every sphere of activity. So, as we bid one of our next to permanent fixtures goodbye, we would like to wish her the best of luck, wherever she may be in the future. (We still don ' t know). Janet Chapman: There was a sound of revelry by night . Janet has been singing a great deal this year. As a member of the Ottawa Choral Union she sang in the Messiah and Mozart ' s Requiem Mass . But this is not all— Janet is also the morning half of the head boarder, a prefect, head of Fry house, on the basketball team and a good actress. This is a great weight for anyone to carry, but she does with remarkable ease. Practice makes perfect, I suppose. Janet is completing her Junior Matric this year. Her future is uncertain as yet but Janet who is independent and quite capable will have no trouble. Best of luck, Jan. Marianna Lovink; ' ' The days that Tnake unhappy make us wise . Marianne, commonly known as Schminkie is one of the hard-working Six Uppers this year. She is a prefect and does a marvellous job, as well as being honorary head of Fry. She skied all winter and loves all kinds of sports. Marianne is terribly energetic and equally industrious, especially in history class. A necessary part of the basketball team, she played both guard and forward. Another activity was plays, in which she had several good parts which she acted very well despite her heavy school schedule. Marianne is hovering between McGill and Western although Mrs. Graham strongly suggests Queens. We wish her the best of luck. Josephine Stone: She holds her little thoughts in sight Though gay they run and leap She is so circumspect and right She has her soul to keep . Jo is head of Nightingale and also a prefect. She carries out the many duties connected with these offices as well as working hard on her Senior Matric. Unfortunately she managed to hurt her knee skiing which curtailed her sports slightly but forced her to develop a very distinctive limp. Jo is saintly in and out of class to all outward appearances. The only thing which betrays her Spanish temperament and temper ( experts say she has one) is her vocabulary. This vocabulary is very original, half Spanish and has everything but technicolor which may be all for the best. Part of the Old Guard , Jo is leaving next year for Smith College or its equivalent in the States.