Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF OTTAWA- CARLETON ESSAY CONTEST RESULTS FOR 1979 Elmwood, Ottawa — The results of the judging (as they pertain to Elmwood) of approximately 3500 essays written by students of the Public Schools of Ottawa- Carleton, Ashbury College, Elmwood and Rockliffe Park, are given below. The judges were as follows; Mr. Robert Louis, MacLean’s Magazine, Mr. Burton M. Heward, The Citizen, Miss Thelma Hammell, Director of Communications, Canadian Dental Association, Mr. Gordon Eastwood, City Editor, The Ottawa Journal. The title of the essay was “The Humane Society to the Rescue’’. D.P. CRUIKSHANK TROPHY, GRADE 8 1st Janet Ingram 2nd Kalli Varaklis 3rd Linda Booker CATHERINE SMITH TROPHY GRADE 7 2nd Sue Steers HONOURABLE MENTION Caroline Garwood ROCKCLIFFE PARK SCHOOLS GRADE 6 Tassie Cameron Margaret Purdie Leilani Farha INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE Ottawa, Canada j Twelve of the senior girls registered in Grades 12 or 13 at Elmwood participated in the International Baccalaureate programme during 1978-79. Participation involved enrichment in the subjects in which International Baccalaureate examinations were to be written, and writing the examinations themselves began during the month of May. Most of the papers were written for credit at the Subsidiary Level, three students however wrote papers at the Higher Level. These students may now negotiate with the University of their choice for advance standing in subjects in which they wrote a Higher Level paper. Since Canadian Universities have only recently started to enrol students with International Baccalaureate Credits, each student is a pioneer in this negotiating procedure. One graduating student, Felicity Smith, wrote the complete Baccalaureate Diploma. In order to qualify for the Diploma, Felicity wrote three papers at the Higher Level; English, History and Mathematics, as well as three papers at the Subsidiary Level; French, Economics and Biology. In addition, Felicity, like all Diploma candidates, completed a credit in the Theory of Knowledge (required to put the subject matter learned in other courses into the proper perspective?) and to submit an extended essay in one of the subject areas studied. Felicity chose to write her fifty-page essay in the field of Modern History. Having the essay marked by a Chief Examiner in Barbados certainly added an international flavour. When the International Baccalaureate issues a Diploma, Elmwood issues a second document called an Annex which testifies as to the candidate’s aesthetic, physical and social activities” during the years she was preparing for this test of her academic abilities. Finally it may be interesting to note the NATIONALITIES of I.B. candidates which form the largest groups. From a total of 90 nationalities there were: over 100 candidates; U.S.A. U.K. Canada Iran F.R. Germany 50-100 candidates France Nigeria Uruguay Italy Netherlands 30-50 candidates Philippines Swede n Denmark Switzerland Japan Spain Australia Colombia Morag Gundy 422 232 179 109 101 97 84 67 65 54 45 43 42 42 40 38 31 31

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. . . MRS. SIGMUND AND MRS. GILLEN To the two ladies who do so much to keep the school running, thank you from all of us. Mrs. Sigmund, a veritable specialist in the field of finances, and Mrs. Gillen, a near genius in everything else, joined us this year for the first time. We all fervently hope that they will stay as we could not survive without them. jSupporf JAN For countless years Jan has faithfully served Elmwood, and it is impossible to thank him enough for his time and energy poured into so many aspects of the school. At least this year he allowed us to take his photograph. Frankly it is the very least we can do. Thank you again Jan for being there when you are needed. Mrs. Marie Ryan, known affectionately as Marie, has been with Elmwood for some time, and has admirably risen to the challenge of keeping lunches orderly and on time for her near two hundred students. Flalloween, Christmas and. Sports Day are all examples of unparalled excellence in organization and effort. Thank you. 12