Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 23 L is for Lighthall a little bit mad, He may be a weed fiend, but he isn't a cad. M for Macdonald, captain of our class, Not quite the first boy but not near the last. R is for Robertson by the telephone waiting, He usually ends up with a nice little gating. S is for Scott the form's merry joker, Whose Sunday night sport is usually playing poker. sD.S.M., o.c.o. JUNE CLOSING The closing took place on Thursday, June 1!,th, and we had the usual difficulty in firidirig room for all inthe Chapel for the Leaving Service which preceded the speeches and prize-gz'ving. The follouirzg account of the proceedings is taken from THE OTTAWA CITIZEN. N HIS parting Words to the students at Ashbury College at the closing ceremony yesterday, N. M. Archdale, headmaster for the past nine years, envisioned the college becoming a great school. Ashbury has had an oppor- tunity given to no other school in Canada, in its location in the Capital city , he said. The Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, Bri- tish High Commissioner, presented the prizes and awards at the ceremony, and members of the board of governors of the college were present for the occa- sion. Mr. Archdale said he could see no reason why an inspiring headmaster , as he believed his successor, Lt. Ogden Glass, R.C.N.V.R., to be, and the support of an energetic and powerful board of governors, should not make Ashbury a great school. I picture this great Ashbury as being not necessarily any larger than at pre- sent, but with the best of equipment, with the best of staff, and with the best of reputationmin other words, the best, he told the boys. Mr. Archdale reviewed briefly the happenings at the school during his

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THE ASHBURIAN A GLANCE AT FCRM V Form Five is at work once more, On Friday after school, For last Tuesday it was caught Playing the well-known fool. 'Twas just before geometry, About ten thirty-three, When a noise was heard throughout the school 3 Form Five was on a spree! It seems that Puggy owned a ball, Which he had brought to school, Balls aren't supposed to break blackboards, But Puggy broke that rule. Doug Hall, or Bush as he is called, Was chased around the room, The chase became a free-for-all , That was Form Five's doom. The noise reached our good Head's ears, He came striding down the hall, The merry melee he interrupted, And set work for them all. A. S. FORM SHELL F is for form-master named Mr. Cranston He must be very fine to teach in such a mansion. B is for Brown who is driven by need, To stop between periods for a couple of weeds. D is for Darby who has the forgetting disease, For when on parade he is always at ease . D also for Dreyfus the hot-tempered boy, But when near the girls he's always so coy. F is for Feuche the cartographical cuss, And when he is nipped he will usually blush. G is for Grant, Connaught's own secret weapon, Woollcombe's best batters he's beginning to threaten. H is for Hart who is rather overweight, For we have been told he can't enter the gate. J is for Johnstone the short little cad, Who always is good and never is bad.

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24 period there as headmaster, recalling that when he first assumed his duties there in 1936 there were only 63 boys attending, as compared with the enroll- ment of 183 boys during the time of the influx of English students to Canada. Learn to be Canadian When he had first come to the school, he said, it was in a time of shuffling and reorganizing. The private schools of Canada had to learn that the old idea of copying the English Public Schools, of filling the ranks of the staff with Englishmen, and developing a rather superior snobbish attitude led to many of the troubles With which the private schools were plagued. They have learned that they are Canadian schools, and while such good points of the English Public schools as can be applied to Canada are eminently desirable, these methods, habits and customs must be suited to Canada. Mr. Archdale referred to the cleav- age which had existed between public and private schools in Canada and said : That, I am glad to say, is now rapidly going by the board. Private schools, high schools and the Depart- ment of Education are all Working to- gether, even if along different lines, for the benefit of the whole community. Mr. Archdale, in his recollections of his years at the school, paid tribute in passing to the late Mr. Walsh of the teaching staff, who he said had been a real man, a real gentleman, and a lover of the college, and to A. D. Brain, the housemaster, for his unflag- ging zeal and tremendous energy. Laud Headmaster The chairman of the board of gover- nors, Col. E. N. Newcombe, who acted as chairman for the ceremony, spoke THE ASHBURIAN of Mr. Archdale's contributions to the college, and the guest speaker, Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, the British High Commissioner, had high words of praise for the parting headmaster, both as an observer of his work at the school and as a personal friend. Mr. Archdale was the recipient of a number of gifts presented on behalf of the students and the staff. Those who took part in the. presentation were: A. D. Brain, William Nelles and E. Pilgrim. The British High Commissioner was received with enthusiasm by the boys. He told stories of great men, admired by all, and personal stories, that caught and held the students' attention. He told them about having dinner one night with Winston Churchill dur- ing the Winter of 1940, when the battle of Britain was at its height. He de- scribed vividly how Mr. Churchill had come gleefully into the room, rather like a schoolboy about to announce he had Won a prize. Genius of Churchill As a matter of fact, he had Won a prize, the speaker said. He told us that half an hour earlier, news for which he had been waiting anxiously all day had arrived, and that General Wavell had started his offensive in North Africa and captured his first objective, Sidi Barrani. But it was not just Winston Churc- hill's genius that makes him amongst other things a master of war, he pointed out. Genius will not get very far unless it is taught, disciplined, tem- pered and matured by hard work, by grinding industry, by sustained toil. Churchill is one of the surest war leaders of all time, not only because he has a native flair for military affairs, but because he underwent a long, stern