Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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ISABEL DOUGLAS: JANE NICHOLLS: QUOTATION: Put your hand in God ' s and he will guide you through life. Jane is another 6 Upper- er who has been at Elmwood since the days of her tender youth, and she can remember that blissful and long-ago time when the juniors were petrified of the prefects. In her quiet way she gives a lot in time and effort to school activities, and is greatly responsible for the consistent excellence of the costumes for the Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Jane is another of the epicures who, while eating those terrific home made lunches, brushes up on the noble sport of jacks. She is a competent but occa- sional player of those games played in the sunny spot on the floor of the Common Room. A cat lover, Jane often enter- tains us with the antics of her cat. Though generally quiet, Jane has been heard to make some piercing!?) comments on a variety of subjects, when the spirit takes her. She is the owner of the little beige Austin in the parking lot, and is the terror of Roc.kliffe streets as she zips around, always willing to give a ride to the flabbies who don ' t like to walk. We wish Jane good luck as she goes next year to a career in the business world. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, In my joyful school-days, All, All are gone, the old familiar faces. This year Isabel has come prepared for the great blizzard which will eventually snow the whole school in for a week. She brings two lunches, one for break, and one in case she gets a bit nippy around lunch time. At Isabel ' s feeding times, the delect- able odour of turkey (chicken) sandwiches draws a drooling crowd who watch hungily as Isabel eats those gorgeous sandwiches (we all forget our tuck money) and wonder where all the calories disappear to on Slender Iz. Perhaps she works it off running errands to pay for train tickets to Toronto to visit Paul. In any case, Isabel has twenty seven prospec- tive customers in case she ever decides to open her own Greasy Spoon. Although never completely sil- ent, Isabel has become a considerably more voluble member of the class and holds her own excellently against any 6U loudmouth (and there are a propitious number) in our discussions about the formal which go under the guise of English A classes. Isabel is another member of the class who has been at Elm- wood long enough to remember Mrs. Blyth, and like Trish and Wendy, is a long time member of Mrs. Harwood- Jones ' flock of 115 lb. canaries. Next year, Isabel plans to go to Toronto above everything for , and Elmwood and 6U will lose tire only ' domestic animal ' we ever had. Good Luck, Supercook.

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DAINTRY SMITH: Learn from the mistakes of others, for you can ' t possibly make them all your- self. Daintry is one of the few class math and science wizards, whose calm, affable exterior hides a char- acter spiced with rampant vice. Thankfully, Dain- try manages to keep a tight rein the Mr. Hyde in her, but occasionally she lets loose. A highly re- spected, well informed person who accompanied Daintry to Europe last summer disclosed various reports of Shocking Things Daintry Did. This infor- mant, who naturally wishes to remain anonymous, revealed that Daintry skipped phonetics classes at Montpellier, washed her feet in tire bidet, ate a certain patisserie out of it ' s entire stock after re- jecting the cafeteria food, aided in the abduction of university property, and did all manner of mis- chief. She is also known to have taken part in a questionable outing on the banks of the Tiber river late in the evening, with two companions of doubt- ful integrity. However, despite all these shady undertakings, Daintry is usually under control during school hours, and does an amazing amount of work. Besides getting enviable marks in chemistry, biology and maths, Daintry is also quite proficient at French, a result, no doubt, of her educational summer. Next year, Daintry plans to attend Queen ' s for nursing, and she will make an excellent nurse. Meanwhile, she advises to avoid Corsicans in rail- way carriages. DORIE BLAIR: Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what it peace there may be in silence. Dorie is constantly in a whirlwind of activity. Always rushing somewhere, she lives in mortal dread that she will be late for Physics or Chemistry. We hardly ever see her as she rushes into the classroom, zips into the bath- room to do her hair again, and flashes downstairs and over to Ashbury. A kind and conscientious prefect, Dorie was the first of our number to model this year ' s white blazer at Ashbury, where it received the Good House- keeping ) Seal of Approval. During the winter, every available moment is taken up with skiing, and Dorie certainly would have made the ski team, had there been one this year. Last year, Dorie was one of Mrs. Davies ' Austrian ski-travel package-the trip to Kitzbuhel that no one will ever forget. How could they? Mrs. D. will never live down the time Dorie rushed up to her as she sat in a crowded foyer and cried, Mummy! Thereafter, every- one avoided that strange English lady with so many daughters. When Dorie wasn ' t zipping down the Lofty Snow-Covered Peaks, she was making eyes at blonde skiing instructors, although she ' ll never admit it, but she made a friendship that has lasted for quite a while. Re- member Mr. Tom Collins, Dorie? Who doesn ' t? Where- ever she goes, Dorie ' s generous and kind personality will open doors to happiness for her, as it did in 6U.

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MEG SNELGROVE: A person gives up smoking in two stages: first they give up their cigarettes, then they give up your cigarettes. This year Meg headed Keller House and turned it into an apparently thriving business concern. Before the year was half over, Meg and her house reached the thirty dollar goal set for the Houses and contin- ued to think up schemes for raising money all year. She had bake sales for which people actually baked; she had raffles, and with the enthusiastic support of her House, she reached and overtook the thirty dol- lar goal. Meg is very popular with the juniors, something rather unusual for a prefect, and is especially favoured by the Preps. When some other prefect walks in to look after ' the babies ' , that unfortunate girl is met by a chorus of, Oh, it ' s only you. Where ' s Meg? Meg wins the class admir- ation for getting up at dawn to drive into Ottawa, and being in school before most of us have even straggled out of bed. She is one of the original few who started at Elmwood in the Junior School and can remember Miss Black, Mrs. Blyth ' s special Lent services, and hair pulled behind the ears. Next year, Meg will possibly attend Western for speech therapy. Good bye, Meg, and remember us all. SHERI PRICE: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. Sheri is a member of the fast growing body in our class who don ' t have a clue what they ' re going to do next year- this year is enough to think about. She ' s one of our superior in- tellects who lend quiet but valuable support to English A and E classes. She ' s also one of the dedicated chemistry students who make their scholarly tracks over to Ashbury several times a week. A talented essayist, Sheri can often be found jotting off at 3:05 an essay due for 3:40-a little pressure keeps life spicy for her. She and Joy have been a gruesome twosome since they were new girls in grade eleven, when they shocked the class and the world with the first Dear Bemie epistle, a most lucid and colourful document we ' re sure Alison had a hand in composing. Since then we have been regaled with memories from Charter ' s Towers, when they were prim (?) English school girls, and further pranks most unsuited to young ladies of their presumed dignity and intellect. Wherever life takes you from Elmwood, you will always have friends because of your humour and kindness. Good fortune to you, Sheri.