Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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STANDING: Diana Conway, Heather Nesbitt: Executive Assistant, Sheri Price: Art Advisor, Cindy Leigh, Sue Cohen. SEATED: Penny MacRae: Associate Editor, Mrs. Aldous: Committee Advisor, Marnie Edwards: Editor. Dear Elmwood: It is our Easter break and the ' Samara ' committee is about to meet its first deadline. As I sit here, surrounded by form notes, pictures and literature of various kinds, I realize just how difficult it is to assemble a book such as ours. New to the job as I am, I must admit that I find the prospect of being initially responsible for the eventual production of this ' Samara ' rather frightening. However, I have been assignee! a helpful and creative committe whose combined efforts have resulted in a reassuring efficiency. To them I give my grateful thanks. Special thanks should go to my associate editor. Penny MacRae, whose enthusiastic support and creative efforts these past few months have resulted in the 6 Upper grad write-ups. I greatly appreciated her clever sug- gestions and imfailing confidence. 1 would like to give special recognition to Lesley Forester. She has filled many of these pages with her vivid photography and has spent a lot of time and effort to help beautify our book. To my financial editor, Lynne Sampson, 1 give an extra big thank-you. Lynne handled our finances with cool calm and never gave up plugging for advertisements and patrons, even when, at times, she was met with dis- couraging apathy. Also too, I wish to thank Sonia Taticek for imdertaking responsiblility for the junior school this year and we hope that you girls, in particular, will like what has been done. I could go on but unfortunately, there is not enough time and space. Nevertheless, before leaving you with a last though, I would like to thank Mrs. Aldous, whose support has been invaluable and Mr. Stan Williams, our ' National School Services ' representative, for his helpful advice. Also for his kind patience, while we fussed and fixed our hair, before we ' d let his camera click. Please help next year ' s committee with suggestions and support. It really does help to feel that the students are interested and willing to support their year book. A year book like ours can only be as good as the student body makes it. The committee has done its best in organizing the material, but the content and life of it must come from you. It has been a good and rewarding year. My committee and I hope you like your 1972 Sumara. With best wishes, Marnie Edwards Editor 3

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Dear Elmwood: All things come to an end, I suppose. Actually, I am writing these words to you (urged on by our editor who has deadlines in mind), before the end of the school year 1971-72 really comes. Already, as I write, I am touched in anticipation by those thoughts that come to me every year in June. Are they perhaps more poignant than ever, as in imagination I look ahead to the graduation of the last of you that will share all my memories? Some who will leave us in the summer were new to Elmwood when I too was new. Maybe that is a special bond. Others I have known throughout their high school years. Some have been with us a shorter time but have made their mark and will never be forgotten by me or by Elmwood. As always the year seems unique. Shall I ever again meet a 6 U class I feel I know so well, a 6 M so scared of modern history but with such flashes of brilliance, a 5 A so often in hot water but so full of get-up-and- go, a 5 B so fond of parties, a 5 C so talkative and so busy and with such good appetites, a Junior School so full of talent and everything that makes a Junior School tick? The answer must be of course, that each year brings its new problems but also its new surprises and new joys. New doors will open for you in September whether they are the big doors of universities or the symbolic doors of new courses and new opportunities within our own walls. The old end becomes the new beginning. How fast you all grow and how much we hope for you all, both those who stay with us and those who leave. 2

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Nancy Worthen: Head Girl, Mrs. Whitwill, Pat Mullen: Senior Prefect STANDING: Janie Ginsberg, Marissa Goebbels, Ingrid Sorenson, Sarah Whitwill, Jane Micklethwaite , Marnie Edwards, Diana Magee, Janet Urie, Pat Mullen. SEATED: Nancy Worthen, Mrs. Whitwill