Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN and a fine orchestra which played con- tinuously as we toured the most interest- ing Parts of the Island. Now and then, too, we were re- 5 leased for a free night on the mainland. These we usually spent very enjoyably listening to steel or Calypso bands at the Island's hot-spots! 77 Towards the end of our stay in Bermuda, we were treated to a deep-sea fishing expedition by Mr. Moore. NYe spent an exciting day at sea several .9-' ,.Q.- ' Q miles off the island. Our endeavours M 'rf were rewarded bv a handsome catch of ' ra... A . ,st -',. ' ilk- -...flu six large fish of various species. On Easter Sunday we attended services at the Cathedral in Hamil- ton, and were later introduced to the Bishop of Bermuda. Almost before we realized it, our holidays had evaporated, and we were winging our way back to Ottawa, penniless, sunburnt, and happy. Many thanks are due to Mr. Jobling, Nlr. Anderson and the faultless Bermuda weather for making this year's Easter vacation a truly memo- rable one. DEBATING Until this year, there has been little interest in debating at the School and, as a result, little activity has taken place beyond the annual tri-school debate which Ashbury has won with monotonous regularity. Unfortunately, debating, instead of being regarded as the contest of wits that it is, has been looked upon by many as merely much ado about nothing and its clique of devotees has been forced to pursue its way in the face of misunderstanding and indifference. This, however, was the year of the great Revival! No longer were debaters regarded as eccentrics. They walked, talked, and even behaved like the others who roam Ashbury's precincts, in short, they were acceptable. This, coupled with the fact that several trips were taken, aroused interest again. Perhaps, on second thoughts, saying that in- terest was aroused is being too optimistic. I base my hopes solely on the fact that the whole Senior School managed to produce an unprec- edented number of confident, if not competent, debaters: five! Surely in such a school of intellectual giants as this, the structure of that superlative art, debating, cannot be allowed to remain on its present shaky foundations, for there is no combat more stimulating. no excite-

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20 THE ASHBURIAN V, , ' . f- ,Z32fHf fff,'f 'l 7435 '1.-af W BERMUDA TRIP This year, Mr. Jobling and Mr. Anderson once again supervised the annual Bermuda Trip, which was composed of 13 pleasure-seeking boys: Dries Oosterbaan, Bohdan Zaporski, Red and Don Dunn, Don Flam, Ray Manbert, Allen Gill, Iain Ewing, John Letch, Peter Gillean, James Whitmarsh, Gary Lacharity and Graham Pottinger. We left cold Canada on March 29th following a night at the Toronto Y.lVI.C.A. and arrived an incredibly short time later in Warm, cloudless Bermuda. Hastily doffing our winter overcoats, we spent the next few days frantically putting up tents, making beds, purchasing provisions, and so on. Once firmly established, the group broke into two logically separate bands, the Seniors and the Intermediates, and invaded the mainland. Each year, invariably, the first thing that attracts the Seniors is the motor-bike hiring scheme - a quick, handy way to tour the island comparatively inexpensively. And, each year, invariably, many hair- raising escapades are performed on account of these vehicles. Fortuna- tely, this year we had a fatality free vacation, though both Donny Flam and Don Dunn lost a few layers of skin from their knees and elbows and perhaps some of their clothes will never again see wear. In many ways the greatest attraction was the College Cruise abroad the f'Chauncey NI. Depeww, sponsored by the Bermudian Gov- ernment and enjoyed by the most senior and responsible of the party. The enjoyment of the cruise was further increased by excellent weather

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22 THE ASHBURIAN ment more intense, no contest keener than that encountered on the debating floor. It is truly wit matched with wit, and a better mental exercise could not be devised. Our first verbal contest this year was against St. lVIary's in Brockville. There, represented by Chamard and Gale, we upheld the positive of the motion 4'That Integration Should Be Pushed Through Immediatelyw valiantly but vainly. Once again, St. Mary's lived up to its fine reputation for hospitality, and we want to express our thanks to them for making the trip to St. lVIary's one of the year's most pleasant. In the second bout with this school, held here at Ashbury, we were again verbally vanquished. This time, replacing our first string pros with recruits Brodhead and Fisher, we contested the negative of the issue That the U.S. Is Justified in Going to War Over Quemoy and Matsu . This year, as an enthusiastically received innovation, Ashbury sent a team to compete in the International Speech Festival held at St. Michaelis College of the University of Toronto on February 20 - 21. Each of the four members of the competing teams was required to make one speech: an extemporaneous, an original, an interpretive, or a humourous speech. Upon the conclusion of these, the four mem- bers formed two teams of two men apiece, one team upholding the positive, the other team the negative of the motion. Representing Ashbury, Gordon Gale made the extemporaneous, John Chamard the interpretive, John Gamble the original and Tim Brodhead the humourous speech. Debating on the motion That Compulsory Union Membership is Undemocraticv, Gale and Gamble joined to support the aliirmative, while Brodhead and Chamard teamed up to uphold the negative of the issue. Each team debated three times against outside schools, the negative team winning two of their debates, the aflirmative winning one. Of the individual speakers, Gale alone shone, winning the Runner Up in the Extemporaneous division. The final result was that Ashbury placed third of the eight Canadian Schools competing, and eighth of the combined total of sixteen schools. The trips both down to Toronto and back, and the stay in Toronto itself, despite many frenzied moments, were highly enjoyable, and this excursion will be remembered for a very long time by those who were privileged to take part. Our last and perhaps best debate this year was at the University of Ottawa. There representatives from eighteen schools of the Ottawa region gathered to debate the motion That Canada is Culturally Dependant Upon the United States . Each competing school was required to produce two teams, one upholding the afiirmative, the other