Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Jennifer Bagnall; SENIOR PREFECT, Mrs. Whitwill; HEADMISTRESS, Kathy Mulock; HEAD GIRL Standing: Susan Massey, Susan McHardy, Charlotte Sinclair, Julia Berger, Lynn Carr-Harris, Cathy Cuthbert, Kathy Mulock, Deborah Hunter, Jennifer Bagnall, Mary-Margaret Southcott.

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SAMARA COMMITTEE Standing: Jennifer Chance, Christine Haase, Jacqueline Heard, Jane Martin, Debbie Coyne. Seated: Mrs. Whitwill. EDITORIAL Dear Elmwood, This year, with a new Headmistress, a dazzling art room, a greenified main hall, and an almost scuff-proof dining room, Elmwood plunged into a new decade. Once more frustrated S-Day volunteers t rudged the streets in search of Ads, caught teachers and other Perfects in the Act , and grinned and grimaced at our new photographer. As always, the months of ' 69-70 seem to have flown by, as Mrs. Harwood-Jones and Mr. Thompson persevered Patience with the Musicals of Ashbury and Elmwood, Drama went Greek , Prefects spirited us all, and dances and Folk-Ins whirled splendorously by. This year integration with Ashbury in many sports activities, added to the bi-cultural aspect of the school. Ashburians and Elmwoodians volleyed looks and a ball at each other over the net, curled, and even drowned each other. SAMARA has been compiled easily and quickly this year. My thanks to my committee, whose help was inval- uable, to Mrs. Whitwill, Mrs. Aldous and Mrs. Carter, with- out whom we could not have gone on , and especially to the school, whose co-operation was tremendous, even if they didn ' t think so. Good Luck 70- ' 71 Samara Committee! Love, Jackie. 5

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HEAD MISTRESS ' LETTER This is my first letter to you and I know that it will seem strange to see a different signature and to miss a familiar face from that perenial photograph with the pre- fects. We all said good-bye with much sadness to Mrs. Blyth and we all wish her much happiness in her new life in England. Some of us were lucky enough to see her once again when she visited Ottawa at Christmas for the marriage of her daughter, only to bid her good-bye once more. Mrs. Blyth s mother, Mrs. Abbott, is also sorely missed, particularly, I am sure, by her young friends in the Junior School who used to visit her. We also felt a little lost without Mrs. MacMillan and Mrs. Ross, though we are happy that they are not too far away and will be able to visit us. On the positive side the fall term started with some things - a spanking new art room, (an achievement in the eyes of all but former Grade 13 students who ask with tears in their eyes what happened to their old chesterfield), a new look in the front hall with carpet, curtains and paint, a new rug in the office, (and where did that old safe go? One would have thought it rooted to the earth like the elm trees), and later new floor and paint in the dining room. We welcomed new staff and new girls and found Mrs. Aldous as Vice-Principal wearing more hats and doing more work than ever. Thank you Mrs. Aldous, and thank you all those of you who have given of your best in the past months, and I would like to wish you everything good in the years to come. We shall eye our remaining, and dwindling, space and see what is next to be done, and perhaps one day we shall even build out beyond the foundations. Yet some things will remain - those odd names on the doors of form rooms which belonged to the old boarding school, the portraits here and there, including the one of the Elmwood Old Boy , and the Indian on horseback in the front hall, the Parthenon frieze in the stone corridor, and, most important of all, the friendships made and the dreams dreamed, a little bit of the fabric of life. Joan M. Whitwill STAFF Back Row: Mrs. Earle, Mrs. Micklethwaite, Mrs. Wood, Dr. Micklethwaite, Mrs. Uhrenbacher, Miss Ann Locey. Middle Row: Mrs. Edna Sims, Mrs. Harwood-Jones, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Munroe, Mrs. Perley-Robertson, Mrs. Grills, Mrs. Routiiffe, Mrs. MacDonald, Dr. Kaitell, Miss Dariene Coyle. Front Row: Miss Martel, Miss Bronson, Mrs. Aldous, Mrs. Whitwill, Miss Black, Miss Carter, Mrs. Davies, Mrs. Teichman.