Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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JILL HEPWORTH: I couldn ' t help it. I can resist anything but temptation. Jill had long hair and a short tunic which met at the same point, the place her leather coat ends - for years, but finally succumbed to temptation and chopped it off. To all entreaties of Get rid of that coat and do up your shoelaces before you kill yourself, Jill smiles sweetly, agrees completely, and does nothing about it. A geography whiz, Tarn likes everyone to think she isn ' t really paying attention but then she turns around and explains it to those of us who were pretending that we WERE paying attention! I ' m sure it ' s all theories and sums that she ' s gesturing to Talitha across the room in math class - the answer to most questions is Peter . Elmwood with its uniform doesn ' t offer much scope to a girl who has thirty pairs of pants and twice as many tops, but at university Jill can let loose - and watch them fall! ! LUCY ISMAIL: I forget to enjoy all I have - incredible treasures. I am travelling again, emotionally restless, while there is land to discover, lives unlived, men not known. What madness! I want to enjoy. I want to stop and en j oy . - Amais Nin One of the truly unforgettable characters of the class - indeed, unforgettable, period. Lucy has never been known to do anything in a conventional manner (at this point it would be normal to list some of her exploits but sheer volume of material makes this impossible). Anyway, she is surprised that everyone knows everything she does. How could we NOT know? Lucy is also well known for her insatiable curiosity and original thoughts about matters that most people take for granted. At times her ability to leap from one idea to another leaves her audience at a loss, to say the least! Perhaps that ' s why she gets away with so many things - by the time the victim figures out what happened, Lucy is long gone. It would be a dull world without her. She ' s one of a kind - but one is quite enough!

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ANN GRAHAM: The comfort of having a friend can be taken away, but not that of having had one . - Seneca Ann has been letting us have it with her Pearls of wisdom since Grade nine, and we ' re always in trouble, so that just goes to show the deep down evil in her mind. She ' s chapel moniter this year and has been in three Gilbert and Sullivan ' s so far with still another one to go. Pearl is easy to locate at school by listen- ing for that original laugh of hers. Sometimes she bubbles with enthusiasm, sometimes she ' s pensive, but the end product is usually constructive, so Ann will do well wherever she goes. ALISON GREEN: If you always do something constructive in your spare time, you ' ll never have any fun. Alison has been with us for five years and four Gilbert and Siallivan ' s, this last year trying her hand at back- stage instead of onstage work for H. M.S. Pinafore; and they managed to sneak a seagull into the backdrop despite protests from Mr. Innes that no bird hovers for three hours! Alison ' s talents (onstage and off) are sing- ing, ( The Good Shop Lollipop - questionable) and free dancing (VERY free - more questionable) and be- ing a general nuisance while doing both. Those desks just aren ' t made for tap-dancing oxfords. They ' re made for work and sometimes Alison even uses them for that. She must, because though she never appears to realize she ' s in school, she does get her essays in - just. Planning to put Australia even more down under with Barb this summer, Alison will go to the University of Australia next year if she passes Math this year. She ' ll be back in three years speaking fluent Australian but until then: Good-bye, and don ' t take any wooden

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DAPHNE SNELGROVE: When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. - Apollodorus (Ceasar and Cleopatra, Act III) If you ever see a green car coming down the middle of the road, get out of the way! It ' s Daphne driving without her glasses again. This phenomenon can be seen several times during the day as the Snelgrove taxi service, packed with Grade 13 ' s, roars back and forth between Ashbury and Elmwood. It ' s amazing though, that Daphne never makes it back to Math class in less than fifteen minutes. Of course, this doesn ' t affect her grades. Daphne doesn ' t learn things; she absorbs them while doodling or reading dirty books like The Ambassador . Daphne ' s favourite pastimes are strangling chickens and keeping her driveway blocked with snow during the winter so that she can ' t get in to school. It ' s lucky this doesn ' t always work, because without her, half the school wouldn ' t have eggs for breakfast! ROBERTA LAKING: When you ' ve got to choose - anyway you look at it, you lose ... Roberta ' s our mad scientist with flaming red hair and aviator glasses. She can be depended on to walk quietly up to somebody who ' s stumbling through their homework and set them straight, but give her an English essay to write and she becomes stingy with words! Roberta ' s the only girl in Elmwood with her ox- fords polished and her belt in the loop but we don ' t hold it against her. She still giggles conspiratorily whenever anything against the rules is being plotted and every now and then she throws in a hit of her own. Though she ' s generally silent, Roberta ' s ideas should take her far. We ' ll see you at the top Roberta. Don ' t forget us .