Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA 5 cMead Qi df P ie edd. and Mo444 e SeniMl Sally Wright: 4 daughter of the gods, Divinely tall and most divinely fair . Sally came back from a wonderful summer last year to find herself Head Girl. She has proved very capable in this office and terrific fun in spite of it. She is kept busy by (a) the combination of Six Matric and Six Upper subjects, (b) by Joan Maynard, who sits next to her, (c) by all and sundry activities, that is, all school activities at Elmwood and sundry military ones elsewhere, (d) by R.M.C. (Rabian Maycourt Cabaret), by the T.M.C. (tunic measuring committee) by the C.G. (cat George) and the D.M. (dog McCarter), and (e) by ushering the grumpy Prefects into prayers to help her curb morning talkativeness among the students. Sports are the activities in which Sal excels; she is one of the school tennis champs and a mainstay of the basketball team. In the winter Sally is to be found up at Camp Fortune most week-ends improving her skiing. As Sally leaves, I see Prefects pause for a moment from pulling out grey hairs to join her in a prayer for the future well-being of our favourite class. Good-bye, Sal, and good luck in nursing. Joan Campbell: O thou who hast the fatal gift of duty . Each morning at 8.50 a tunic-clad figure bursts into the classroom, drops her books on a desk, and departs with great speed. Joan is off to find the bell and ring it. She has been chosen for this task because of her reliability, and she has proved just as efficient as an electric system. Joanie shines as efficient Co-Head of Keller and as a Prefect carrying on the tradition begun by her mother not too long ago. Speaking of shining, Joan ' s Latin and French are worthy of note. Joan is an excellent guard on the basketball team and plays baseball for Keller, but her favourite sport at the moment is driving around Ottawa in her new car and whipping over to Madame ' s each Saturday morning for a French lesson. Joan is going to Carleton for one year and then on to Queen ' s to take a course in Social Service Work. The people whom she looks after will be extremely fortunate and we shall miss her even-tempered disposition and cheerfulness. Good luck, Joan. Joan Fagan: The play ' s the thing . The theatre is about to acquire one of its brightest stars because of the fact that Joan is leaving Elmwood. A Prefect and a girl who won and deserved the Philpot Token, Joan is one of the two survivors of the old guard composed of Sarita Setton, Wendy Gilchrist, Shirley Thomas, and Sheila McCormick, who came to Elmwood nine years ago. Joan has several records that she lives up to faithfully every year; for example, winning a prize at the Hallowe ' en party, being the star of the Ashbuxy-Elmwood play, and taking as many subjects as possible. As a result, this year finds her running up to friends and saying with mixed feelings, Just think, this is the very last time we ' ll ever be doing this. Joan drives to school every morning in her car and uses it for sundry escapades at night— going swimming, invading gang domiciles and playing April Fool ' s tricks, not to mention indulging in interrupted feasts on the rocks and woodsy activit ies in the East. Next year wfll find Joan On the Steps of Carleton . We all wish her the best luck and good times at College and a meteoric rise in the acting world.

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4 SAMARA CdiiandcU It ' s hard to believe, but another successful year at Elmwood has drawn to its close. Looking back over the months we see how our Houses with the aid of their hard-working house-heads have done their best to live up to the ideals of Service, Fellowship, and Fairplay which are are House Mottoes. Work, fun and excitement have all been a part of this year which we will often recall in the years to come. As well as the usual enjoyable activities we have been able to take part, for the first time, in an Opera, in a Debating Club, and in the printing of a school newspaper. We feel fortunate to have with us from England Miss Buckmaster, as our capable and understanding House Mistress. This year we also welcomed Miss Boyle, iVIrs. Chater, Miss Schurman, Mme. Bedard, Mrs. Cameron and Mr. Heney. We hope that they have enjoyed being with us. We thank Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Bruce, and all the teachers for making many things possible for us, and in so doing making this year such a happy one. We should like to thank the members of the Magazine Committee for their hard work and their enthusiastic co-operation, and Miss MacCallum who gave us a great deal of her time and energy as staff adviser. We should also like to thank our innumerable friends who generously gave their support to this magazine through their advertisements and Miss Colquhoun whose help as a canvasser was greatly appreciated. Here at Elmwood, besides receiving a good education, we are given the opportunity to learn self-control, independence, reliability, kindness, and toler- ance. We should, therefore, take advantage of all that is made available to us, because what we learn here will become our instruments of the future. Each member of this year ' s graduating class will have her duty to fulfill which will be made possible if we live up to the ideals expressed in our school and house mottoes, and in the school prayer: Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest, To give, and not to count the cost. To fight, and not to heed the wounds. To toil and not to seek for rest. To labour and not to ask for any reward, Save that of knowing that we do Thy will. It is with regret that I announce the passing of A4iss K. A. Neal on December 18th, 1954. She was at Elmwood for eighteen years and all who knew her will remember her patience and understanding. How often we recall her voice saying, Who owns these shoes? as she would emerge from the pound cupboard or, How many permits do you need? . There were times while waiting she would give us oral Arithmetic and then point at one of us and say, Answer , invariably calling the wrong name. Miss Neal spent the war years in England and returned to us for a short time, but went back to make her home with a nephew in Surrey. We all miss her, and to her family, we extend our sincere sympathy.

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Joan Maynard: Full of fun and fancy free . Joan is a Prefect, school Games Captain, and a stout pillar of Nightingale House. She has been with us for five years— five very character-forming years- she now loves sports of any type, especially skipping (what?) in class and R.M.C.-ing. Joan was a deb this year, so we all learned how to waltz, what to waltz to, how to curtsy deeply, and what to curtsy to. Indeed, her social schedule has been so heavy that at time of writing we have fourteen pounds less of Joan with which to contend. She captained the school basketball team, won the senior badminton singles, is on the tennis team, is an enthusiastic skier, skates like a professional wrestler, and manages to include studies in her busy program. Next year Joan is going into Physical Education at some college yet unknown, but her teacup says that sometliing (or someone) also unknown will change her mind within a year— wonder, or maybe we don ' t! Sheila McCormick: Did He who made the lamb make thee? Ehnwood will not be the same next year without Sheila— a Prefect, joint head of Keller, and Head Boarder. Artist, ballerina, actress, brain child, and an eflScient organizer . . . that is Sheila. Like Joan Fagan, Sheila after nine years at Elmwood has established several goals which she reaches each year— high jumping, badminton doubles, a prize at the Hallowe ' en party, and public speaking. Sheila nostagically looks back on a completely individual career at Elmwood, a career not wholly constructive which obtained for her more than her quota of gatings and detentions. She leaves Elmwood with not only a wide vocabulary to her credit but also a repertoire of expressions typically Sheila. We shall certainly miss her. Next year, Sheila is going to McGill, so we wish her the best of success there and wherever she may go in the more distant future. Constance Darricades: A youth, light-hearted and content, I wander through the world . Our Chilean senorita with the fantastic nickname (Ton-Ton) has in a mere year and a half risen to the rank of House Senior. This year has been a busy one for Ton-Ton, as she was a principal in the senior play, took an active part in producing the school newspaper, and is also editor of this year ' s Samara . Although her extra-curricular activities are many and varied, Ton-Ton ' s favourite pastimes are taking fast trips to Port Hope, reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and counting the days until she goes South America Way . Fortunately Ton-Ton will be back at Elmwood next year to grow more violets in her ink well! Mary Fisher-Rowe: La Vie en Rose . Mary came to Elmwood three years ago, carrying on the tradition of her family. She is now a House Senior of Keller, second in command in the boarding school, and generally a girl who is game for anything— except Math, and the dissecting of rats. Coming to Elmwood from England, Mary gave us the impression of a typical English girl— reserved and nice, with a ready laugh, a quick mind, and an incriminating blush. As well as other duties, Mary does an admirable job in keeping track of the lunch register. In her school work she is carrying a heavy course in Senior Matriculation subjects. Mary ' s plans for next year are continental. She hopes to go to Italy to study languages and then on to The London School of Economics. Although she has an interesting career ahead of her, our personal predictions are that it will be lost to marriage. Pleasant journeyings.