Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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4 THE ASHBURIAN mers doing field work in Geology including one summer with Mr. Odell of Mt. Everest fame. Besides obtaining high scholastic honours, Wilson played a prominent part in the social and athletic activities at Trinity College. He has been successively Treasurer, Secretary, and President, of the Literary Society, of the Geological Society, and of the Harriers, and was a member of the Students ' Administrative Council. He also debated for his College, his Univer- sity, and for Hart House, and has taken part in amateur dramatics. We wish him success and the best of luck at St. John ' s College, Cambridge, where he takes up his studies this Fall. THE ASHBURY COLLEGE LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY On the proposal of Mr. C. W. Thompson, a society, to be called The Ashbury College Literary and Dramatic Society, was formed on March 8th, 1930, at a meeting of the cast of Juliiis Caesar. At that meeting and at one held on April 7th, the following officers were elected : Honorary President — The Rev. Dr. G. P. Woollcombe. President — Mr. C. W. Thompson. Secretary — R. M. Leathem. Treasurer — Mr. B. K. T. Howis. Committee — D. F. Macorquodale, H. C. Hammond, J. W. H. Rowley. The Society consists of those in the school who were directly connected with the production of Julius Caesar, and it may add to its membership from the Upper School as it sees fit, and elect Honorary and Associate Members. The object of the Society is to promote the interests of the school in drama and in literary knowledge and to provide entertainments. It is hoped that the Society will be able to produce one or two short plays for the school as well as a bigger production. The proceeds from Julius Caesar amounted to $250.19. Part of this has been devoted to buying new chairs for the Senior Library, a framed copy of the programme, and a picture of the cast. The first Honorary Member is Mr. Leslie Chance, who was in charge of the final rehearsals of the play, and there are thirty Foundation Members who will remain permanent members after they leave school.

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THE ASHBURIAN 3 the Headmaster for several books and to many boys who have given reading material to the Library. The Library has also been enlarged by the purchase of about 150 new books. A Draughts Competition was organised by the Junior Library before the Easter Holidays and was won by Ghent who beat Fer- guson 11 in the final. Another competition for the Junior Library is now in progress. Prizes are to be given to the juniors taking the best and second best photographs between April 2()th and May 20th. The badminton tournament w as won by Henderson, who beat Schlemm in the final. Honour has been brought to the school by the award of a Massey Scholarship to J. T. Wilson who was at Ashbury from 1919 to 1925. The Massey Scholarships are similar in nature to the Rhodes Scholarships, but are open only to Canadians, and are tenable at Cambridge University. While at Ashbury Jock Wilson won four first form prizes, one second, and the Governor General ' s Medal, and was on the Inter- mediate Football Team. He took his Honours Matriculation in 1926 and proceeded to Trinity College, Toronto. He took First Class Honours at the end of his first year in Mathematics and Physics and graduated this year in Geophysics. He has spent several sum-

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THE ASHBURIAN 5 The Society takes this opportunity of thanking all those who helped to make its first effort so successful. In addition to those named above, the members are : — Mr. W. H. Brodie, D. Mathias, C. Eliot, S. Macdonnell, B. Ritchie, R. Coristine, H. Fensom, M. Grant, A. MacCarthy, M. Menzies, D. Monk, G. Perodeau, P. Smellie, R. Wodehouse, J. Magor, W. Robertson, R. Stanfield, G. Wodehouse, G. WhitcBer, G. Abel, and J. Calder. The first Annual Dinner of the Society was held at the Chateau Laurier on May 7th. JULIUS CAESAR The Literary and Dramatic Society presented Shakespeare ' s ' Julius Caesar at the Little Theatre, Ottawa, on Saturday, March 15th, in the presence of Their Excellencies the Governor General and Lady Willingdon and of a large and distinguished audience. Dramatis Personae Julius Caesar J. Rowley Octavius Caesar— F. Macorquodale -Marcus Antonius Triumvirs after the death of Julius Caesar— ' K. Wodehouse Cicero ) P. Smellie Publius J Senators G. Whitcher Mr. W. H. Brodie R. Leathern M. Grant C. Eliot Conspirators against Julius Caesar D. Gillies J. F. Magor G. Perodeau M. Menzies : B. Ritchie MaruUus f Tribunes F. Macorquodale Artemidorus a Sophist of Cnidos S. Macdonnell A Soothsayer S. Macdonnell Messala friend to Brutus and Cassius D. Gillies Varro 1 . W. Robertson Clitus G. Perodeau Claudius [ G. Wodehouse Strato f servants to Brutus G. Wodehouse Dardanius | G. Whitcher Lucius J J. Calder Pindarus wife to Julius Caesar D. Mathias Calpurnia servant to Cassius M. Menzies Portia Wife to Brutus H. Hammond First Citizen a carpenter A. MacCarthy Second Citizen a cobbler H. Fensom Third Citizen P. Smellie Fourth Citizen S. Macdonnell Fifth Citizen : .. G. Abel Servant — . F. Sherwood Servant R. Stanfield D. Monk and R. Coristine replaced C. Eliot and R. Stanfield in the Montreal production. Marcus Brutus Cassius Casca Cinna Trebonius Ligarius Decius Brutus. Metellus Cimber Flavius