Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 13 T. li. Finlay, XY. H. Birbeck and Michael Berridge, the Server, Gordon VVebster and the Crucifer, Peter Noel-Bentley. And finally we feel bound to say a very special word of thanks to this year's prefects whose reading of the daily Lessons has been quite outstanding.. THE MCDTI-lER'S GUILD L'RINu this year the Nlothers' Guild again fulfilled a very useful function in the school. We would like to thank this organization for the time and energy spent on our behalf. The work of the Mothers' Guild consists mainly of organizing various projects, the money from which is given to the school in the form of gifts, prizes, or cash. This year the Guild held the animal clothing sale, a tea and home-cooking sale. They also served lunch at the Old Boys' Reunion. Their donations included a credence cup- board for the chapel, cups for the Swimming Meet, prizes for the best dormitories, money to pay for band instruments, and four hundred dollars to go towards bursaries. Once again, our sincerest thanks for these benefits. MUSIC N appreciation of great music is usually not acquired without some effort. The most a teacher can do is create the proper atmosphere. and lead the students to sense the spirit and beauty of music. It is our desire in the music classes of the junior School at Ashbury College to provide a standard by which the students may evaluate the good, or better, and the best in good music and develop a love for it. The Rhythm Band, recorders, and a systematic course of listening are extended throughout the year. MEN AT VVORK Passy, Pyefinch, Thomas

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THE ASHBURIAN If SCIENCE NCDTES CII-INCIC tours and trips this year perhaps have been more interesting than heretofore. On january l-lth we made our usual trip to the Gatineau Power Company, where once more the horizontal generators were very fas- cinating to watch in action, and we gained much from our visit. The next tour took us to the Gatineau Commercial Alcohols Limited, where we saw the production of lfthyl Alcohol from Sulphite Haste Liquor. Une of the more interesting features here was the Automation, which has been gaining so much prominence in recent years. The process entails the addition of lime to the waste Sulphite Liquor, and then by the normal fermentation process, alcohol is obtained through a succession of distillations. Nothing is wasted here. The steam in the process is used until all the heat is extracted, and the waste carbon dioxide is taken over to the Magnesia Plant the building of which was a direct outcome to use up this gas. ln the Nlagnesia Plant, we saw the manufacture of all kinds of insulation materials. At the same time that this tour was in progress, a group of Kliddle School boys travelled to the MacLaren Pulp and Paper Company and saw the manufacture of newsprint. The long paper machines proved to be of great interest. This tour was supervised by Mr. Snelgrove. On February 13th, a group of Upper School students travelled to the Montreal Road Plant of the National Research Council. The Chemistry Building was first on the Tour, where we saw some appli- cations of radioactive elements, a pilot plant for extracting oil from Alberta sands, and a method for drying grain in storage, to name a few. From here, we moved to the Aeronautical building to see the supersonic wind tunnel and the spinning tunnel, then on to Building Research to observe tests on stresses and strains on prefabricated houses. From here we travelled to the Radio and Electrical Engineering Divi- sion to see the new Underwater Television Camera which has been developed here. XVe found that the earliest underwater Television sy- stem on record was given experimental trials at the Bikini atomic site in 1947. It was also used in connection with the loss of the British submarine Affray , four years later. The newest one developed by N.R.C. has been used to study the animal and plant life in the sea, and in salvage operations. We also saw in action a giant lightning generator. Finally we were intrigued with one group of scientists who were attempting to get rid of the screech from airplane jet engines. Saturday, Feb. 28th, saw a few Sixth Form boys on tour of Computing Devices of Canada. We went first to the XYestboro property of the firm, and were fascinated by the great computer used for in-