Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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ALISON SCHOFIELD: C ' est une folie a nulle autre seconde, De vouloir se meler a corriger le monde. - Moliere As a genuine Elmwood Original , Alison has had a colourful career in these hallowed halls. This year she is entitled to the Golden Girdle. She puts it to good use, (ask the other prefects) as well as the authority it represents. Every year she adopts some member of the class (what on earth is an Oogly?) to indoctrinate into class activities. Her techniques are soon learned and have shown their theraputic value in working out (ten- sion generated in the course of the day - with surpris- ingly few ill effects). Despite her popular image, Al- ison is a sympathetic and helpful friend. She can be de- pended upon to pull her weight in life - a guarantee of success. All the best Alison! P. S . What will you do in university, where Lady- like Behaviour is EXPECTED? HEATHER NESBITT: Crooked by nature is never made straight by education. - Fuller, 1732 Heather ' s name used to strike terror in the hearts of teachers but she ' s so far reformed as to have been on the Samara committee last year. Head of Keller this year, and even following a few rules. She ' s become very studious, going to the Carleton library whenever she can; but questionable as this pastime is, Heather still manages to come off with marks anyone would envy. Maybe she goes to the right kind of library. B.B. certainly livens up Monday mornings as she entertains us with stories of the weekend over a cup of tea and a bottle of nail polish remover - or else sits daydreaming about the glories of Quebec. Heather does have firm opinions there, and elsewhere, and sticks by them, but will listen too, to the other side of the argument. Heather ' s thinking of Law at univer- sity right now. Typically, she ' ll do anything to get to the bar. V

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LOURDES JIMENEZ: Thy life is no idle dream; it is thine own, and it is all thou hast to front eternity with. - Carlyle As head girl of Elmwood this year, Lourdes has had ample opportunity to show her leadership. Her ability to interest people in new ideas, to organize activities, to overcome opposition and combat apathy, and es- pecially to smooth over unpleasant situations - all these qualities are well known to her classmates and to the school. Besides planning class outings, she has provided lunch for someone who didn ' t expect it (remember Harvey ' s?), built her first snowman (?), and even show- ed us a new trick: turning orange at the Mothers ' Bazaar . She has withstood all manner of trials and tri- bulations - even Physics! If nothing else, she ' ll be able to use a slide rule . . . Being head girl has not changed our Lourdes though; she ' s always ready to lend or ask a hand, and even in the dark days after one ex- pedition, she carried out her duties while signing in with everybody else. Lourdes hopes to study medicine at U. of T. or McGill, to find a cure for what ails you - a good idea, because the world needs people like her. Good luck, Lourdes. Wherever you go and whatever you do, remember when . . . ARA NIXON: Between the idea And the reality. Between the motion And the act, Falls the Shadow . . Between the conception And the creation. Between the emotion And the response. Falls the Shadow. T.S. Eliot (The Hollow Men) One doesn ' t immediately perceive Ara as she spends 90% of her time sprawled on the floor. For six years she ' s been throwing herself around the gym playing basketball - a tough game when you ' re only five feet tall - and collecting various bruises and broken limbs. When she ' s not flat on the ground Ara ' s usually reading the dictionary - her favorite book - or destroying ser- ious discussions with her terrible puns. She ' s never been known to walk; Ara ' s always half-running or trip- ping, but she manages to collect herself sufficiently every now and again. Without her we wouldn ' t have a telephone or drink machine, so even when Ara leaves Elmwood she ' ll have left behind at least two VERY solid marks and won ' t soon be forgotten.

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BARB HOWDEN: Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Confessions, Book VIII Barb came to us last year and was elected Head of Nightingale by the end of it, by making herself gen- erally noticed and well-liked by the rest of the school. It ' s hard not to notice Barb with her freckles and maniacal laugh, especially when she ' s coming at you in her car. She breaks all speed records by getting to the store and back in the 30 seconds between classes. When she ' s not practicing for the Demolition Derby, Barb can usually be found rooting up some enthusiasm from the school or curled up in the common room sofa making wisecracks. Wherever she is, you can ' t miss her, but as she ' ll be spending the next year in Australia, we all will. See you around Barb, and watch those kangaroos! GAIL SADLER: If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Phoreau In the midst cf discussions and arguments (heated or otherwise) a cry can always be expected, All right, cut it out, or, Quick, quick, I ' ve gotta go. Stoneface Sadler is here, or was here, if you can catch her while she ' s hurrying from here to there, and back again. But that grin and smile and the sound of her dragging oxfords have become very familiar during her two years here . Don ' t let her size fool you! Bigger souls, (and small- er too) are known to have used her shoulder to cry on, complain to, you name it - that shoulder has been through everything! Let ' s hear it for Fitzroy! ! So where does she turn to herself? One can find out all Gail ' s secrets with her pony and the horses she dotes on while not busy being a prefect (and studying, of course . . . ). Here ' s looking at the future Gail, and hoping that you find success and happiness in it!