Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SUI SANG COMMITTEE A new committee has been formed this year to help raise funds for our foster child Sui Sang, from Hong Kong. On November 27th. we held a successful bazaar, earning money for Sui Sang and his family. It was supported by everyone at Elmwood who contributed various self-made articles. As well as the baking and handicraft sales we had a number of enjoyable games including a loli-pop hoop-la, a money train, a horror house and an exciting raffle. This made the bazaar amusing and fun for all and also helped our worthy cause. Among the class contributions were a bake sale organized by 4A and the publication of a small news- paper by 5C, Every term, we try to send Sui Sang several letters telling him of our surrounding and life in Canada, relating interesting happenings and making him feel part of our family here at Elmwood. We have indeed been successful with our attempt to raise funds. The committee has done much to aid, but the school has given the support. Many thanks to everyone, students and teachers alike for their keen interest and many contributions to help make Sui Sang ' s life an easier and happier one. Cathy Firestone Mary Mackay-Smith; Jane Mirsky; Kathy Rothwell; Cathy Firestone

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JUNIOR CHOIR Front Row: Verity Williams, Rosemary Kumi, Marie- Anne Harford, Debbie Grills, Pat Mullen, Frieda France Dubord, Jane NichoUs; Second Row: Jinny Lockhart, Kate Isbister, Deirdre O ' Brien, Martha McNaughton, Claudia Hannan, Anne Stead, Shane Pimm, Elizabeth Brodie. O ' Brien, Breda Durgan; Back Row: Leslie Halliday, DEBATING TEAM Left to Right Prately Fiona MacDonald, Caroline Jones, Fleur Wallis, Cathy Firestone, Janice 27

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DRAMA This year the senior and junior drama classes combined their talents to present both a Variety Show and a Christmas Play. While in the junior class, there was more emphasis on physical actions, the senior class con- sentrated more on the emotional side of drama. The results of their hard work were demonstrated in the Variety Show with a number of short and amusing plays: The Case o Mister Whiskers , Sir George and the Turkish Knight and Two to Get Married . As usual we put on a Christmas play. This year, it was Christmas in the Market Place which is the story of the Nativity narrated and performed in a towii square by a band of Gypsies who wander in the South of England. It was very successful and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. The drama classes of 1965 would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Hicks for all the help and guidance which she gave to us throughout the year. We were dismayed to hear of her departure to India but we would like to welcome Mrs. Van Dine, the Assistant Director of the Ottawa Little Theatre , who will teach us next year. WHirS END Returning from Christmas holidays, 5C found itself faced with the problem of deciding on a project to raise money for Elmwood ' s foster son in Hong Kong Sui Sang. It was Patricia Wilgress who suggested having a paper; this was agreed upon by all. She was immediately voted in as Editor, perhaps because it was her idea- -therefore she should face the consequences! Disregarding for the time other more practical angles, we appointed other editors for: Art, Entertainment, Dear Willy, Literary, House Reports, Miscellaneous, Sports, and Ashbury, among others. These positions were changed through the year to give everyone a chance at junior journalism . After that, we heckled for a whole History period ( and many others, thanks to Mrs. Whitwill ' s tolerance .) over the name of our paper. At last one weary father came up with a pun we all agreed on, and from then on, Whit ' s End was on its way. Omitting all the frantic typing and editing that went on at the deadline time of each issue, we all had a good time and were rather proud of the results: three five- or six-page issues and a profit of about twenty dollars to be sent to Japan. Our thanks go to every Whit ' s End reader for helping us to make it such a success, and to all who contributed to the paper ' s articles and stories. Without the guidance (and name-- in the title Whit ' s End ) of Mrs. Whitwill the assistance and ditto machine of Mrs. Aldous, the censorship and advice of Mrs. Blyth, and the organization of our able editor Willy (not of Dear Willy fame, though her name and advice was used there. . ,) it is very doubtful that Whit ' s End could even have made it to the Presses ! Vicky Nicholson To T LL Th ) toTH ANSWl R: BRANi:) XI 29