Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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 .

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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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JANE TYNAN-BYRD: Better late than never! Jane ' s another new girl, coming to Elmwood for her last year of high school. It may be her last year but we ' re sure it ' s not her least. Already she ' s created di- versions in school, like arriving five minutes late for every class and grinning through lips smeared with vase- line during the winter months, (Jane ' s particularly sus- ceptible to chapped lips. ) Nobody could figure out how she could live in Ottawa and have a Quebec license plate at the beginning cf the year, but we were almost afraid to ask. The answer could have been just about anything, and knowing Jane we ' d probably be listening to a plot, on the part of somebody or other, to take over the world. Our lips are sealed Jane, but we don ' t have to grease them to keep them closed! VIOLET TAI: To me, the greatest happiness is to have the oppor- tunities and the courage to follow one ' s lent, though the opportunities are rare, and my courage is limited. Violet has made herself heard both at Elmwood and Ashbury this year. All the teachers there, who didn ' t think any of the girls could talk, were surprised by the discovery of one who most certainly could. When put in a classroom situation, a most serious case of lockjaw seems to hit everyone but Violet, and classes would be dull without her. Who else would ask Mr. McGuire his opinion of her suspenders while stand- ing there in Ashbury ' s number one dress? Still, she somehow manages to absorb everything that ' s said and works just as hard as the best students. If Violet stays in Canada for university you can rest assured that hers will be the most interesting classes.