Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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U21 THE ASHBURIAN We are sorry to lose the services of Hugh Huggins, who has played the organ for us for so long. We are grateful to Mrs, Baker, who substituted for him. Miss Shorter continued to play for Sunday Morning services, and on Sunday Evenings we were helped by Eliot I and Pegram in turn. A successful innovation, Eliot I played, with success, at the Leaving Service, while Grant l, Darby, and Grant ll sang. The Bishop of Ottawa, Right Rev. Robert Jefferson took the Confirma- tion service, on Ascension day, assisted by Mr, Poole, and Mr, Wright, curate at the Cathedral, There were l6 Ashbury Candidates and 3 from Elmwood, who had been prepared by Mr, Poole. The confirmation class presented the chapel with a Hymn Book suitably inscribed. Elmwood, to whom we are already indebted for the prie-dieu in the chancel, are giving us a prayer-book to match the Hymn book. Chapel clerks this year were Hatch and Shenstone, who both did a good job. We were glad to see Dr, Woollcombe, our Founder taking part in the Leaving Service at the closing in June. ' -lg-Q-3-. HON. H. H. DAVIS Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada We are very sorry to record the death of Judge Davis in July l944. A governor of Ashbury College since l93B, he took a keen and active interest in the school in spite of ill-health, and was at all times available for consultation and ready to give sound advice, His sound common-sense and high principles made him a very valuable counsellor, and his place on the Board will be hard to fill. We offer our sincer sympathy to Mrs, Davis and her daughter Diana.

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kv THE ASHBURIAN ll3l SCHOOL NOTES We would like to offer our most sincere thanks to His Excellency for com- ng to speak and present the prezes at the closing. We know that he is very busy and has little time to spare and we felt greatly honoured when he accepted our invitation. This September brought once more many changes in staff. At the end of last school year four masters left. Mr. Boon, who went to take over a parish in Jasper, Mr, Hincks, who went to Lower Canada College, Mr. Chestnut, and Mr. Travers. At the beginning of this year we welcomed Dr. Renny for Senior School mathematics and science, RSM Henry for cadet corps and defence, and the Reverend A. J. Poole as chaplain and for general subjects. There were fortunately no changes of staff during the year. Many of the Abinger boys have already returned to England, and the re- mainder, together with Mr. Harrison, are leaving this summer. We all owe thanks to Mr. Harrison for the efficient way he has handled all the details necessary in an undertaking of this kind, and for the way he has given his time and labour without hesitation to every part of the school life. We know that Abinger Hill has enjoyed its stay in Canada, but they will be very glad to return to their homes. In May, Ashbury College was presented by Colonel Newcombe with a photo- graph of Major General Guy Simonds ll92ll as he was given the D.S.O. by General Montgomery. We felt highly honoured, and especially pleased as a half-holiday came with the presentation. The picture now hangs in the Dining Hall. During the first two weeks of the summer term it was too wet for cricket, so instead a new feature was introduced-compulsory running. The Senior and Middle Schools had to run nearly to the R.C.M.P. barracks and back, a distance of three quarters of a mile each way, in twenty.minutes. This provided excel- lent training for the cross-country race itself. This year the upper port of the school was reorganized, and the forms were arranged as follows: Senior School lfor those doing matriculation workli forms Vla, Vlb, and Vlc fformerly Val. Middle School: forms V fformerly Vbl, Shell, lformerly Vcl and lV. This summer a lot more interest in tennis was shown, and it was made an alternative to cricket on Wednesday afternoons. We would like to thank the Rockcliffe Tennis Club for allowing us to use its courts. The increase of the staff in the kitchen has made it no longer necessary 'for the boys to do the dishes and set the tables, although they still do the serving. This and the cleaning of their rooms they still do with high efficiency The surprising lack of snow this year made the skiing qute poor, but we were not faced with the problem of having the rinks filled with snow, and a -great deal cf hockey was played. This year two sales were held by the Junior School for the benefit of the Red Cross Boys from all parts of the school contributed models, books, toys,