Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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TH E .1 SH If L' R I xl .Y I7 SCIENCE TOURS 1. Sl'iL'lIL'e' Tour to .llmlrrciil Un XYednesday, Feb. 2-lth, we set sail as per usual by bus to .Nlontreal for our Senior Science Tour. Our first visit Thursday morning was to Canadair, which we reached with a minimum of difiiculty via XI.T.S. Once there, we were briefed in the Board Room by Alf. P. Redpath, as to our program, and shown an impressive list of aircraft that had been constructed since the founding of the plant in I9-I-2: North Stars, Argo- nauts, eighteen hundred of the fabled Canadian Sabre, T.33's, and the most modern submarine hunter-killer weapon in the world, the Argus, number thirty-five, nearing completion. We saw a film portraying the birth-throes of the first Argus, and. later in the plant the new CL -I-4, as yet unnamed. the pride and joy of all at Canadair. lt is the first breakthrough in air cargo planes, capable of transporting twice the ton- nage at half the cost. A method of shaping the aluminum that was of particular interest was the stretcher . The metal is stretched, in a particular shape, past its point of elasticity, and will remain thus shaped. The interesting thing about this was the fact that the plane has a tail which opens up to receive the cargo. The plane can also be used for passenger service. After a magnificent lunch. and talks by Nlr. Ainger and Mr. McGill we departed for Dominion Linoleum. At this plant, the vice-president, Alr. lil. Blakeney, greeted us and turned us over to our guide. lt was firmly impressed upon us that vinyl tile is not linoleum and oilcloth is neither of these. Yinyl tile is placed on floors and is laid as tiles. The pattern on it is part of the composition and goes right through the tile. Linoleum is a rubber with a pattern again constant throughout, but formed on a canvas back. The method of production is most interesting: plastic in the form of granules falls through holes in a plate onto the canvas, in a definite pattern. The spaces on the canvas are thus filled with different colours until the whole sheet is covered in a quarter inch of synthetic material in a definite pattern. This is now led to a press and an oven to cure. Oilcloth has the design printed on it, and blocks of wood carrying the design must be tediously and painstakingly cut out. The design centre where the patterns were born made us all linger. After a rest and supper, we were off to the Bell Telephone Company. The Panorama , a working museum of telephones from Alexander Graham Bell to transistor chimes, was truly fascinating. We could hardly pull ourselves away from the models of the new Direct Distance Dialing System, to watch the more exciting demonstration of microwave transmission performed with a microwave transmitter and receiver to

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1 THE ASHBURIAN Zin illilemnruam XIISS SXIITH lt 18 xx1th sorroxx thxt xxe here record the death of Nllss Inef Slllltll xx ho xx as bursxr II Xshburx for the past n1ne x ears Xllss Snnth lox ll and enthuslastle xx as fflllllllll' to us all and her dex otlon to the School lenexx no bounds She had great eourafre 111 the fxce of xx hat she lenexx to be 1nex1table, and xx e extend our deepest Sxmpathx to the members of her fllilllx X IRS SN LLGRUX L The Sehool extends 1ts deepest svmpttlues to Xlr -X H N Snelgroxe 111 the loss of h1s xx 1fe durmv the l all Term, lfter Ill 1llIlCSb of some duratlon ln the sex en xears thlt the Snelfrrox es h1xe been xx 1th us Nlrs Snelvroxe hld beeome ffreltlx endelred to lll of us for her lx1I1dl1I1CSS eheermess md unselhsh mterest 111 the Sehool The funeral ceremonx toole plxee If the funeral ehxpel boxs of the SCIIIOI' Sehool NIR bUOIll Un the mornmg of une 1 the Sehool xx IS profoundlx shoel ed to le 1rn of the sudden de ith on the prex1ous ex LIHI10' of Lhlrles Roxx lex Booth X 1ee Qllllfllllll of the Bolrd ot box ernors Xlr Booth Presldent of Booth Lumber Ltd md Grind son of the llte R Booth xttended Xshburx from 19's tn 193s md for xelrs h IS shoxx n 1 lox ll md lxeen lnterest 111 the xxeltxre of the Sehool lle h IS been 1 member of the Bolrd C. mxexm IS smee 19M 1nd X lee C h urmln slnee Oeto mel Www 1 pest sx mplthx s I3 IIN U HD I '-. .' K. v Q - , A .js , el l , 2 1 ', ' 1 ' z . I u si ' ' D 2 ' ' ' ' 7 1 7 'xl' ' .Y in .l . Q' 2 ' el . .L . . 1 V. el E ' 0 R ll . D rl 2 el J: ' .l 2 Y Y .l . l 3 v 2 ' D 1 2 z 5 ' b 55, JJ, ' v' ' z 2 1 ' 1 of Hulse and Playfair and was attended bv the Stall and the , , , ' 9 J 2 k' s sl K- v .l ' C 2 1 ' .l 1 , 'I .N v x . D, z 5 ' ' , Y' ' - w 1' z z Q . . , ., 1 D a - J ' 1 A . , 1 . J ' -,' 1 7 . . v . - . - f - . 7. . ' ' ' ' . n of 'c VJ .'.'z ll ' -Q 1' 1 ' ' l .-4,- Uu' dec Q ' 1 ' goo' out to Nlrs. ooth 1 l thc txx' l x's.

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is THE ASI-IBURIAN show the amazing similarities between microwaves and light. The climax was the section on semi-conductors: We saw a transistor oscillator with a cell made from a piece of blotting paper and a quarter, and we noted the advantages of solar batteries over conventional cells. From the Panorama, we passed through the Long Distance switchboards and had a chance to see the operators whom we hear so often. Then Mr. lirohman showed us down to the IBM and relay machinery which will play so large a part in Direct Distance Dialing. VVe left the chattering of thousands of relays, our leaden legs scarcely able to support us and wandered back to our base, the Y.M.C.A. Friday morning, we reached Shell Dil safely despite the perennial snowfall, and were abruptly introduced to the technicalities of distilling crude into the various components, the heavier of which is Hcrackedi' to form more gasoline, and the lighter of which is 'fpolymerized , again to form gasoline. Wie were taken to the Resin manufacture, the newer chemical section with polyhydric alcohols, and acetone manufacture and thence to the Research Laboratories, where gasolines are tested, and the octane, or measure of knock qualities is determined. The safety pre- cautions taken throughout were very impressive: those of us who carried cameras were disappointed because of the danger the shutter might spark and cause a fire. After a good lunch here, we were oif to Sherwin XYilliams. At Sherwin VVilliams, we saw both the old and the new methods of making varnish, and learned to our amazement, that the old method makes types of varnish that still cannot be made any other way, in spite of modern equipment. Then we followed the manufacturing process from the varnishes and shellac to the packaging of the cans of paint. We noted that titanium dioxide is a wonderful white pigment here. ln the Laboratories, devices were shown to us to simulate test conditions of night and day, rain and shine, salt water and lake water. At the CBC that evening after a good meal, we were taken on a regular tour and saw the master control console, the recording room and a TV Studio with a show in progress. The master control panel is the biggest in North America, and took Northern Electric six months to design and six months to install. Recording equipment consists of six table tape recorders, and four disc recorders. ln the television studio, we learned that the program was being recorded on the new Videotape etpnipment, and that Montreal has the biggest output of programs on the continent. Un Saturday morning we were up early, and after breakfast, set off on foot for .Xlciiill University. The Assistant Dean of Engineering took us around the llngineering Building. XYC attended a lecture by Dr. Nlarshall, one of the Stormy XYeather Group, on the use of radar in meteorology. It was very line, enhanced especially by Dr. Xlarshall's