Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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PREFECTS FRONT ROW: Cathy Duff, Wendela Roberts, Mrs. J. Stephen, Senior Mistress; Mrs. Blyth, Barbara Fletcher, Caroline Nicholson, Jeanette MacDonald BACK ROW: Kit Heaman, Daphne Twidale, Barbara Grisdale, Ingr ' id Gluzman, Ellie Sanders, Diane Nancekivell, Patricia Watson, Mardie Aldous SCHOOL OFFICERS 1963-64 HEAD GIRL Barbara Fletcher SENIOR PREFECT Wendela Roberts HOUSE HEADS - FRY Cathy Duff KELLER Jeanette MacDonald NIGHTINGALE Caroline Nicholson HEAD BOARDER Jeanette MacDonald VICE-HEAD BOARDER Kit Heaman PREFECTS Mardie Aldous, Ingrid Gluzman, Barbara Grisdale, Debbie Gill, Diane Nancekivell, Patsy Watson SPORTS CATPAIN Ellie Sanders SAMARA STAFF EDITORS Mardie Aldous Audrey Laidler ADVERTISING EDITOR Debbie Gill ART EDITORS „ Molly Blyth Becky Heggtveit COMMITTEE Brenda Firestone Pat Carlton Debbie Duval Diane Nancekivell Laurie McDonald Special thanks to Mrs. Aldous and Barbara Fletcher for all their help. 4

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Head Mistress ' Letter Dear Elmwood, I have only just discovered that the word school comes from a Greek word which means leisure. This was an interesting discovery because I imagine that most of you would not associate school with that word and you would probably meet with some disapproval if your days at Elmwood were all spent in a leisurely way! The Greeks did not think of learning as resting, either, but they did believe that a good education taught a boy to use his spare-time well. And so we find the Athenians flocking to the theatre day after day for the fun of it— not watching second-rate plays such as we see so often on TV and the movies, but listening intently to stories about the deepest and most real issues of human life as they were presented on the stage. Their dramas have survived the test of over two thousand years and are still being read and acted today. The world that is waiting for you when you leave Elmwood looks as if it is going to offer you more spare time than man has ever known before. We are told that automation will soon reduce the working-week to three days. All the up-to-date gadgets that are being invented to make housework quicker and easier are already giving women more free time. How are you going to use all these leisure hours ? Will you be bored or will you be able to fill these long times of recreation richly and profitable in the service of God and other people. The training for leisure starts at school, as the Greeks knew, and so I would urge you to read about and ponder the wonderful world in which you live, to paint and sew and make music to write poems and stories and plays (even if they never get as far as the Samara) and to keep your minds alert to the kind of lives that people are living, far away from Canada. Sui Sang, our adopted son in Hong-Kong, has opened our eyes, hasn ' t he, to the poverty and overcrowding of Chinese children? There is so much for you to do now and when you grow up and so many opportunities for you to make this world a more blessed place because you have been born. Robert Bridges tells us to be busy making and doing worthwhile things even if it seems that they do not all amount to a row of beans. We may not end up as female Picassos or Richard Burtons, but we shall have been givers not getters: I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise. And man in his hasty days. Is honoured for them. I too will something make And joy in the making; Altho ' to-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking. God bless you all. Your affectionate friend and headmistress, a

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EDITORIAL A good school should give a person two great things: first, it will surround one with a tradition and a standard of behaviour and second, a sense of interdependence and membership one of another. We feel that this statement is very true of Elmwood. We have many traditions which we treasure, among the most important of them our morning prayer service. This begins the day in the proper spirit and teaches us to face any difficulties with courage. Another important activity (although a fairly recent one) is the Annual Charity Public Speaking Contest. From these speeches we learn about the troubles and problems of those less fortunate than ourselves Aside from these charities, we have also adopted a young Chinese child -Yung Sui Sang. He has done a great deal for us, in making us realize the true meaning of gratitude. This little boy is so genuinely thankful for the smallest contribution that we make that we begin to feel a sense of family membership with him - caring about him and hoping he cares about us. Our standard of behaviour is high, although admittedly we do not always live up to it. We do try, however, and the general impression that visitors have of our school is of a happy and well-disciplined group of girls. This is what a good school can offer. The classes are small, so that an enforced, regimented type of discipline is not necessary. We feel that the most valuable type of discipline is self-discipline. All our efforts at Elmwood are directed towards this goal. We hope that everyone will long cherish the traditions which have come to mean ' Elmwood ' ! Best of luck to all! NOTES OF INTEREST It was with regret that we said ' Good-bye ' to Mrs. Olive Mott who was our Matron for a number of years. Congratulations to: Mrs. R. F. Bartha On the birth of a son Paul Frank Andrew June 15, 1964 Mrs. B. R. Davis On the birth of a daughter Cynthia Elisabeth May 25, 1964