Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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.

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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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SHARON NADOLNY: Nothing is more precises than a friend and yet we take our friends for granted. Nothing is more helpful than a friends help. Sharon is one of the most studious and industrious scholars in our class. So dedicated is she to educa- tion that she is a student at both Elmwood and Ash- bury, and is notorious for her hysterical laughter and belting yell in the Stone Corridor at Elmwood and the tunnels at Ashbury, where she is a favourite of Mr. Wallin ' s. Knee socks over Leos and a Joe Namath prefects blazer distinguish Sharon from the rest of 6Upper, but she has other Identifying Char- acteristics. Nadolnuts is one of the Red Hot Mamas who drive Sean and Mr. Hyndman crazy (is it her Raquel body, or her Oh Mr. Hyndman, Pleeeeeease come and help me please?). Besides her other virtues, Sharon is a Talented Conversationalist and a mar- vellous singer of B ' nai Brith camp ditties, which often become duets with Karen. Eat your heart out, Carly Simon, no one sings ' You ' re So Vain ' with as much emotion as Sharon. Classics is another subject Sharon enjoys-the ILIAD brought out hidden talents in her, like composing her own Homeric Epithets. Remember the countless variations on ' Achilles of the Nimble Heels ' ? Sharon ' s not sure about her plans for next year, but she may end up in Fine Arts, with Mr. Hyndman ' s blessings. Our blessings on you too, Sharon. It ' ll be too quiet if you aren ' t back next year. ANN PERLEY- ROBERTSON: It is a fair, even handed, noble adjustment of things that while there is infection in desease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly con- tagious as laughter and good humor. Ann has been at Elmwood for three years, and was a member of the class for the vintage year in grade eleven. Now the girl with the ' bedroom eyes ' is the tactful and efficient Head of Nightingale House. She is much appreciated by house members lor her sincere desire to work on their behalf, and for not holding unnecessary house meetings. However, an undeserved blow from Fate hit Ann the week before Christmas exams started, when she contracted mono. This, of course, rendered her totally helpless to write exams, and we thought of Ann with, pity as we wrote English and Math and Classics and Biology. . . . Classics with Mrs. H. -J. were enlivened with Ann ' s stories of Athens, and we will think nostalgically back to those quickie butts during classics break at Ann ' s long-suffering aunt ' s house. This year, as a birthday gift for Ann, it is the class inten- tion to present Ann with her very own mug and map of the Common Room because of her infrequent visits to the den of iniquity. Next year Ann plans to go to Algonquin for Early Childhood Education. We wish her the very best of luck and happiness. 17