Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE .-1SHBL'Rl.-IN 21 THE BERMUDA TRIP Once again, this liaster, Xlr. jobling arranged and conducted a holiday trip to Bermuda. Ac- companying him were Stan Bar- kun, Dave lflam, .lohn Heeney, Bob Xloore and Tonv Sugden. He had, thanks to iis 'former as- sociations there, been able to secure temporary possession of Port's Island, a small island off Hamilton Sound. The boys niet with good weather, and enjoyed themselves im- mensely in swimming and other aquatic sports. They made a tour of the island's places of interest, and then, to be sure not to miss anything, rented bicycles to tour the island by themselves. There were always many activities going on in connection with the islands annual College XVeekl'. Several soccer and rugger matches featuring teams from Harvard, Dartmouth and Wiestern Canada were attended. One of the highlights of the trip was a day's excursion to the Town of St. George, organized exclusively for the college groups visiting Bermuda. On this excursion many American friends were made, and everyone had a thoroughly good time. Sincere thanks must be accorded to Hr. jobling for making this trip so successful, and we all hope that his future trips will be as enjoyable as this one has been. DEBATE HE annual tri-school debate was conducted this year on February 22nd. Bishop's College School, Lennoxville and Lower Canada College, Montreal, were the debaters, while Ashbury played host. Chairman-1. C. Chaniard of Ashbury. Adjudicators-Father O'Connor, St. Patricks College, Professor Kesterton, Carleton College, and A. B. Belcher, Ashbury. The Subject- Resolved that Great Britain and France were justi- fied in their recent course of action at Suez . The Bishop's Team, which consisted of Hanley and Bell, supported the affirmative side of the discussion, while Harvey and Boke, of L.C.C. supported the negative. The logic of the latter pair was, in the opinion of the judges, slightly superior to that of their opponents, and L.C.C. was thus accord-

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I I I 4? li 4 4 5 I: 1 I I gs ll 5 2 I 1 s I 22 THE ASHBURIAN ed the victory. Both sides of the issue were well presented, but the tide was turned in favour of the winners by the rebuttal speech by Harvey, whose charges against the cause of Britain and France in their joint action at Suez were inadequately refuted by Hanley of Bishop's in his counter rebuttal. Father O'Connor announced the judges' decision and compli- mented both teams on their debating techniques. POETRY READING CONTEST HE poetry reading, held in the School Chapel on Sunday, May 5th again brought out a gratifying number of contestants. Each was required to read three numbers: a set piece, a selection of his own choosing, and a sight piece. Mr. Hornyansky of the English Department at Carleton College, was kind enough to act as adjudicator and gave the boys a most help- ful and interesting address in his summing up of their respective per- formances. Upon request he also read a short lyric by his own pen. The winners were: Senior: Hutcheon, Intermediates: Rowe, juniors: Campbell I. PUBLIC SPEAKING CDNTEST HE contest was held in Rhodes Hall on Sunday, April 28th and produced a number of interesting and well thought out speeches. Chamard and Gale were the competitors in the Senior category, Noel- Bentley and Rowe, Intermediates, and Kennedy of the juniors. The judges, Messrs. D. L. Polk and A. B. Belcher had difficulty in selecting a winner from the excellent speeches by Chamard C Alu- minium in Canadawl and Gale C The Educational Problemvj but finally awarded the palm to the latter by virtue of the ease and Huency of his technique. Rowe chose as his topic The Human Heart , Noel-Bentley l ,dueation in the Soviet Union , and Kennedy, the sole competitor from the junior School, spoke on the Hawaiian Islands. The judges commended all five contestants for their interest and enthusiasm in preparing speeches and for their creditable performances in the competition. CGNEERENCES MATHEMATICS .Xsliliury College was this year host to the Nlathematics Committee of the lleadinasters' Association of Independent Schools. Represented were: Bishop Ridley College, llillheld School, Appleby College, I i 4 v l l 4 v I