Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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22 [ THE ASHBURIAN At time of writing everything points to an excellent show with all personnel of the corps being keen to hold the leadership among cadet corps in M.D. No. 3 gained a year ago. Viewed in retrospect it has been a good year with everyone working hard in an effort to not only maintain but better a high standard and the corps instructor is indebted to all ranks in general for their willing co-operation and attention to work and in par- ticular to the corps commander, Major Hooper, for an excellent job; his officers and C.S.M. Smith and C.Q.M.S. Castello who formed a- fine team; to Bulpit and Brown for their much-needed help and last but by no means least, Mr. Pilgrim for his unfailing good-humour and patience in bringing along the junior corps very often under extremely and trying circumstances. It is absurd to spend one half of life in struggling for riches or power, and the other half in wondering why you are not possessed of happiness, which has nothing to do with either. A little mouse was running Atop a cereal box. Amazed, out cried her sister: ' You ' re crazy as a fox . To which our friend replied: Stop acting like a fop. It says here clear as day Just tear along the top .

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THE ASHBURIAN 21 Similarly a first aid team of three stretcher crews was organ- ized and progressed excellently under the tuition of Cadet C. Brown, a qualified First Aider . Our first appearance in public was participation in the Ninth Victory Loan Parade March Past on the 2nd of November, 1945, when No. 137 Ashbury College Cadet Corps alone represented the cadet movement in Canada at ceremonies in front of the National War Memorial in Ottawa, and did an excellent job for which we received congratulations from National Defence Headquarters. Shortly afterwards winter closed in on us and placed a severe strain on training generally, due to lack of sufficient room but with co-operative work on the part of the corps and the exercise of much ingenuity on the part of the commanding staff this obstacle, the worst of all, was taken in stride and no break or loss occurred in training. Various allied subjects were taken up and absorbed so that when the weather cleared again we were ready to start pre- parations for the final inspection in May. Unfortunately the Ashburian had to go to press before the final inspection so that a full report on same will not be available until Christmas but as an alternative the following brief outline will give the proposed programme: General salute and inspection in line. March past by platoons. March past in column of route. Advance in review order and general salute. Coy. platoon and section drill. Squad work in Morse and semaphore signalling. Map reading, knots and lashings, aiming instruction, rifle exer- cises, first aid, etc. Massed physical training. Gymnastic display on horse, parallel bars and mats. Tableaux by whole corps — senior and junior. Final address by inspecting officer and presentation of Platoon Cup.

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THE ASHBURIAN 23 GYM NOTES THIS school year has been a very successful and gratifying one in the sphere of physical training and gymnastics and when one remembers the physical condition of the boys in general at com- mencement and compares it with the present standard the value of this training is emphasized. For the last couple of years P.T. as a formal activity had lapsed due to the difficulty of getting instructors in war-time so that train- ing in this work started literally from scratch in September, but once started the progress made was remarkable. Work was planned and carried out as follows:— Forms I and II. P.T. and organized games; Forms Transitus and III, P.T., boxing, mat work and some elementary vaulting horsework; Form Shell, P.T., elementary gym on all apparatus, boxing and club-swinging; Forms IV and V, Advanced P.T., gymnastics on all apparatus, and indoor training on field sports events. In the Junior school the classes were very enthusiastic and the small boys worked and played hard, with each boy without ex- ception being given the opportunity to take control of the class and organize, teach and conduct a game of his own choosing. The boxing in Transitus and III uncovered some very promis- ing material and a good foundation was laid for further training in succeeding years. Forms IV and V with a few additions from Shell made up the school gym teams for the show during cadet inspection and school closing and their standard of work on the horse, parallel bar and groundwork was surprisingly high. Voluntary gym in the evening was very well attended and some of the outstanding performers put in lots of time and effort per- fecting their work; certain evenings were allotted to games only and lots of practice matches in basketball and volleyball were held. The VI Form syllabus did not allow for any P.T. this year with the result that only a few of this form were included in the gym teams but it is hoped that in the not too distant future all classes will take gym. In that event there is no doubt that in a couple of years Ash- bury will have excellent gym teams on all apparatus quite capable of competing with any in the province if the same spirit and en- thusiasm is shown in the future as in the year just : nished.