Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Club News Last year the idea of having clubs in the last period every Friday proved so successful that it was continued again this year. Clubs were divided into a Junior and a Senior section. Juniors from Form 4A down had a choice of joining the Crafts Clubs, or clubs on Science, French, Music or Sewing. The Seniors were offered French, Current Events, Journalism, Music, Dramatics and Philosophy. One Crafts Club was under the direction of Miss Wortley. The busy little members made their own puppets for a puppet show. They modelled heads from papier-mache, painted vivid faces, stuck wool on the heads as hair, and even did their own sewing of simple little costumes. The script of Snow White was written by the members themselves. A second Crafts Club was directed by Miss Seigeot. Here members from 4B and 4A made lovely needle- work patterns on canvas in petit point geometrical designs. These girls certainly got a good beginning for fine work later. After Christmas Miss Seigeot kindly formed a French group for the Juniors who were left without a club after the completion of their play. Here the little ones learned basic expressions used in con- versation and began to use them. The Junior Dramatics Club was probably the busiest of all. On December 17 the club presented The Bluebird by Maurice Maeterlinck, directed by Mrs. Davis. This was one of the most ambitious plays put on by the Juniors in years. A huge cast of fifty- five — including the little ones from the Nursery School up to Form 4A — is quite a handful. However everything was well organized and the play proved to be a wonderful success. Lalage Wright and Susan Madgwick deserve praise for their performances. Costumes for the play were designed by Mrs. Davis and the children ' s mothers kindly made them. For a few weeks in September Miss Darbyshire supervised a Junior Music Club. Members learned appreciation of good music by listening to records and singing songs. Later the club was disbanded so the members could join the play. The Science Club, consisting mostly of 4B, was supervised by Miss Birss. Under her guidance these budding young chemists learned to use the apparatus and then performed such wonders as making crystals, invisible ink, and flame tests. Madame Betts was head of a very exclusive French Club in the Senior Section — five members to be exact. During meetings they read magazines, worked crossword puzzles, and often just talked — all in French of course. We are sure their French has really im- proved. The Current Events Club, as usual, had quite a large enrollment. Together with Mrs. Stephen the members discussed such topics as segregation, the Royal Family, and the March 31 general election. On United Nations Day, Elisabeth von Schelle told us something about the work of this great organiza- tion. The Dramatics Club was supervised until Chr istmas by Miss Birss and afterwards by Mrs. Davis. Although this senior club did not produce a play, they learned much about production. The Music Club was directed by Mrs. Edelsten. They had planned to produce the Operetta Hansel and Gretel. However, because of the scarcity of older members, and because the Juniors had already presented a play, it was decided to postpone this until next year. Philosophy was again this year supervised by Mrs. Bruce. The meetings were spent discussing any ques- tion the girls had. The outstanding visitor this year was Canon Bruce who helped set the girls right on the doctrines of the Anglican Church. As expected this club proved to be worthwhile. The Journalism Club was something new this year and proved to be very popular with the 6 Matrics and the 5B ' s. As supervisor of this club Miss Boyle spent much time on our new magazine. For the first time we are having our magazine pub- lished by the Yearbook House, a publishing house exclusively for school annuals. With the experience we have gained this year, next year we shall be able to speed ahead even faster. Page 17

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INTER-HOUSE SPORTS Volleyball Volleyball was, as always, a great success this year. Instead of one team from each of the three houses we organized two teams to enable the less experienced players to play. After a great deal of friendly rivalry between the Houses, Nightingale ' s first team emerged the winner with Keller a very close second. Keller ' s second team was victorious edging Nightingale by only a few points. Fry House ' s teams were third in both cases. Altogether it was a thoroughly enjoyable season. Badminton At the time of going to press the Badminton play- offs have not been completed. However, the Junior singles has been finished. Susan Rogers won this in the finals by defeating Peggy Cameron. Tennis Due to bad weather in the fall, the inter-house tennis tournament has not yet been completed. How- ever, Fry did play Nightingale. In these games Laragh Neelin defeated Sandy Moffat to take the singles for Fry and Sally Sadler and Lesley Gait cap- tured the doubles for Nightingale by defeating Di Manion and Ruthie Petrie. Both Houses have yet to play with the Keller team consisting of Lynne Cas- tonguay, Joan Grier and Jean Cundill. n ' V I, tout u ' 11 Of r.,. tile 1 - a i! Oiif. to - T 4 ' -cvJ - JOoJ 7 ' ;, ' n ; ' r -Ai . -oefl Of Page 19