Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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PAULA LAWRENCE HEAD OF FRY The deeper you go, the higher you fly. The higher you fly, the deeper you go. Morning blues would find Paula in the common room drinking coffee and reading Rasputin J. Novgorod in the Globe and Mail . Books, people, and drama hold special interest for her and no doubt will take up a lot of her time in University next year. A girl with a big heart and energy to spare, she devoted herself to her house and won respect and admiration in her position - evident not only in her victory for the House Trophy, but also in the various Fry Projects such as her sleigh ride, Christmas caroling at Porters Island, the Small Fry newspaper. Excelling academically is not a difficult feat for Paula, so the year has been useful in other ways too - there has been time to think, to listen, to make decisions, to look ahead. Elmwood will remember her exuberance, her determination, her high ups and her low downs, her love of people and her zest for life. Next year will find her in Toronto at Trinity College where it is certain she will make friends, and find the happi- ness she deserves. 10 JOY WALLINGFORD HEAD OF KELLER Joy is like the rain, but God wants me for a sunbeam not a drip. A vibrant, emotional, sensitive person, Joy was a devo- ted house head and a loyal Elmwood import from Bucking- ham for the past five years. This has been a year for the widening of her horizons - speeding through books, meet- ing new people, finding out new ideas - and all this has helped develop her into a good leader and friend, a fine pre- fect and house head. Joy is a person of great compassion - she knows how to care about and feel for people - a quality which enhanced her responsibilities as a prefect and house head and which has also given her the desire to work this summer with retarded children. Whether she makes this her career is still undecided, but she hopes to study psychol- ogy and sociology at Ottawa U. next year and someday will probably make a very dedicated and competant social worker or psychologist.

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GRADUATES JANE BLYTH HEAD PREFECT In Beauty it is begun, Beauty above, Beauty beneath, Beauty all around me. In Beauty it is unfinished. Leisure time for Jane was either spent with her nose in a book or communicating with the Doc during after hours . Jane has been very fortunate throughout her years at Elm- wood to have the ability to comprehend her studies imme- diately and have a great deal of extra time for outside activities. Although reading was her favourite pastime, time was also spent sewing her wardrobe, cooking gourmet foods, performing in Ruddigore , being a star in Reach for the Top etc, etc, etc. In the fall, Jane is off to Trinity in Toronto for Arts with a little science-zoology? . . . Intelligent, sensitive, poetic, versatile and outstanding are words that are Jane. She never sought to intrude upon other people ' s provacy nor would she force a friendship, but to know Jane is to know a beautiful and real person. JANET HUGHSON HEAD GIRL have tried to be an intellectual; but, I don ' t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. A leader, a figurehead, a prime example - all these things a head girl must be - and Jan was even more. She was an exceptional girl in every way - loyal, fair, patient, and wise; she gave her fellow prefects the inspiration and guidance to run the school and proved utterly dependable and strong. Being head girl is an extremely demanding and nerve wracking job but Janet managed to keep her cool throughout, remain strong and determined, even in the de- pression of the mid-winter slump, and yet let none of it interfere with her school work, and still pulled off an Ontario Scholarship. Euologies tend to become tiresome, and epi- thets verbose, so not much more can be said in praise of this remarkable girl. It can only be hoped, or rather, fervently believed, that wherever Janet goes people will recognize all these qualities in her and feel the same love and admiration Elmwood has for her. Next year she will be at McGill studying science and will no doubt do very well there. And perhaps one day she will make it to Caracas . . . 9

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CATHY MACLAREN PREFECT AND CHAPEL MONITER True ' friends are those who know all about you but love you just the same. A sunshine smile is a difficult thing for most people to radiate first thing in the morning - but for Cathy it came naturally and was something no morning could have been without. Her gay nature and pleasing personality were there- fore greatly appreciated as Chapel monitor and received wide acclaim as she bounced into Prayers with the Bible or bellowed out the Bible reading above the rabble of the rest- less ranks. She might be remembered as Mad Margaret in Ruddigore - or as a voice with a guitar - or just a very fine sensitive person and a great asset to Elmwood. The doors are wide open and life looks full of new challenges, for her as she goes off to Queens in September. She says the only extra luggage she will be taking with her will be her guitar case, but we know she will find happiness in a lot of other ways too. DAWN HARWOOD-JONES HEAD OF NIGHTINGALE Now what should a maiden do when she is em- braced by the wrong gentleman? An artist, musician, thinker, and friend. Dawn, in her four years at Elmwood, proved to be a person of many facets. Knowing that a happy smile and a kind word were best dicipline, she was loved and admired not only by her house but by the whole school. The year was full of activi- ties, responsibilities and excitement - conferences at Hawks- bury and Smith Falls, social animation, becoming high on people - it was a good year for her and she has made impor- tant decisions about her future. Next year she will be at Ottawa U. trying the biUngual experiment and experiencing new people, new ideas, new experiences. This will be a challenge eagerly met by Dawn and one which we feel reap great rewards for her and all people she comes in con- tact with. 11