Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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MRS. BRUCE WITH CO-HEAD BOARDERS - l ONTON DARRICADES, BARBARA KENNEDY, AND HEAD GIRL - FRANCES WOOD.

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SAMARA JUNE, 1956 SUCCESS IS NAUGHT; ENDEAVOUR ' S ALL — Browning ELMWOOD FROM THE GROUNDS S OW-77 ?

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S A jM A R A 3 Dear Elmwoodians: iVIy first year as your Headmistress is drawing to a close. As I look back upon it, I am full of gratitude for the challenge it has brought and for the wonderful spirit of co-operation that has been developing among the staff, the officers and the students of Elmwood. What has been accomplished has been due, in no small measure, to this. The support and encouragement of all my former students who have written this year have been much appreciated. I think particularly of Gillian Neville and Bobby Bradshaw in England, the former showing talent and promise at the Douglas-Webster School of Dramatic Art and the latter at Veterinary College. I think, too, of Alary Fisher-Rowe at the University of Rome, Sheila McCormick excelling at McGill and Jennifer Woollcombe at Queen ' s, as well as of the many others who are carrying on their Elmwood training at institutes of higher learning. It is my sincere wish that Elmwood Old Girls will become a more active group for they can contribute much to their Alma Mater. If Elmwood students are to make their mark in the world, it ill be because they have learned to put first things first, to give rather than to expect from life and to develop those intangible integrities that characterize a purposeful existence. It has been rewarding to watch you this year as you accepted responsibility and learned to make the sacrifices that develop character. I have been proud of you as you struggled to work consistently and discovered that hard-earned accomplishment was a much more satisfying experience than merely being- entertained. I have been proud of you as you struggled to live up to your ideals, and I am convinced, noting these things, that Elmwood must and will go forward and that the finest elements of her spirit will never die. You may not always succeed in the way that the world counts success. Does this really matter? Robert Browning has said, What I aspire to be and am not comforts me , and again, A man ' s grasp must exceed his reach, else what ' s a heaven for? Our school motto puts it this way, Success is naught, endeavour ' s all. Our Lord taught us to remember that iMan looketh on the outside but God looketh on the heart. Live to glorify God and everything in your life will fit into place like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. You must do this, for You are not your own. You are bought with a price. If you keep these things in mind, you will live happily and have true success, for you will be given the strength to overcome your difficulties and reach eternity, which is your goal. A ' lay I offer you my best wishes and those of the staff in all your future endeavours. Sincerely and affectionately.