Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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MRS. GUNDY Notorious for her ability to solve the most seemingly difficult problems with ease and practicality, is Mrs. Gundy, our vice-principal. Mrs. Gundy is always around to help solve not only the problems of day to day school life, but is willing to offer invaluable advice about post-secondary schooling. Thank- you for your cheerful help, Mrs. Gundy. In the past few years the junior school has grown in every direction - downward to grade two; outward to include two portable classrooms and the addition of boys in grades two to four; and upward to two classes in each of grades seven and eight. In the autumn we look forward excitedly to moving into our classrooms in the new addition. But - most importantly - we intend to retain the same feeling of sharing and caring that marks the junior school. Mrs. Chance

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HEADMISTRESS ' MESSAGE The Elmwood motto, Summa Summarum has represented a committment to all-round excellence in education since the school was founded in 1915. The school has always sought to help each student develop the self-confidence to realize her own potential and to become a tolerant, involved member of the community. Beyond providing sound academic training, the school offers the opportunity for each girl to learn by active participation beyond the narrow confines of a classroom. There is more than ajinicism behind Oscar Wilde ' s apparently facile remark that nothing worth learning can be taught. The lessons of co-operation, tact, generosity, tolerance and respect are the most difficult to teach and the most valuable to learn. And they are learned by action and involvement. Our responsibility to provide an environment in which these values are cherished is greater today than ever before. This fast changing world demands that we prepare students to face technological and scientific changes of a magnitude once dreamed of by past generations. We have to give pupils access to technological expertise, but within a strong framework of values and deals if we are to prepare them to face the implications of their changing future. As the student population has grown at Elmwood, so too has the role the school is to play in the education of young women. Our need for an ex- tension to our facilities has grown enormously over recent years. The new buildings, which are the first phase of our Development Plan, exist because past generations of students, parents and staff have been quick to recognize this need, and have responded to it with alacricity. It is the generousity and dedication of these friends that has resulted in this exciting new building. I count myself very fortunate to have been in- volved in such an important stage in the development of the school. The new building is the result of endless gifts of time and energy, and of course money from every branch of the Elmwood family. It will be thrilling for us to work together to fill the new building with the happy atmosphere and sense of purpose that prevade the rest of our corridors and classrooms.

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Mrs. Sigmund, who is not only Elmwood ' s resident burser, is also in the game of Trivial Pursuit, an- swering questions such as, Who was the form captain of 8D in the second term? On behalf of everyone, we would like to finally thank Mrs. Sigmund for all her patient help during the year. Good morning, Elmwood school. May I help you? And helping is one of the many things the ladies in the office have been doing all year. Thank-you for all your contributions and best wishes to Mrs. Richie in her future endeavors.