Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE :ISHBURIAN 7 SCI-IOGL DANCES There was no formal dance this year as the lfaster examinations were postponed Cbecause of 'Hub to the time when the Spring Dance was to have been held. lt is probably the hrst time in the schools history that an overall profit has been made on the dances. .Xt the end of the four house dances. we had one hundred and fifty dollars in the kittv . Thanks should be extended to the students who ran the affairs. They being: Davidson, Copeland, Booth I, .-Xndrew, Xlerrett, XYhipps, and Smethurst. One of the dances held in january introduced a new twistll J. About sixty couples came with their skates and warm sweaters to savour our outdoor rinlts. before moving indoors to gvrate in Argyle. The idea was very successful and there were no cases of pneumonia recorded by Xliss Bray the following day. Several dances were held over at Elmwood, at which manv of us were pleased to attend. 2 2 nllfore: The Arlingtons. Rigbr: Go .Iohnl

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QS THE ASI-IBURIAN this was followed by an address, Problems facing the teacher of English . given by Mr. john Stevens, provincial inspector for the Min- istrv of Iiducation. This was a brilliant session, stimulating and en- cotiraging. The remainder of the conference was devoted to a series of small meetings which covered such subjects as: Should the top man on the staff teach the weaker students, or should all his time be devoted to the brilliant ones, the responsibilities of teachers, visual aids. The Maths and Science Conference, held at St. Andrew's College was attended by Mr. Daratha from Ashbury. The meeting opened with a panel discussion. About thirty visitors tossed leading questions to the panel which was composed of Mr. Bates of the Department of Education, Mr. MacLaren of Pickering, Mr. Griffin of Lakefield, and Mr. Turgeon, a principal of one of the Aurora schools. The afternoon session produced two interesting lectures. Mr. Scholes of the Bell Tele- phone talked about the harnessing of light for the purposes of com- munication. Professor Allen of the University of Toronto discussed the structural approach in teaching chemistry. The conference ended with an analysis of the teaching of science to Grades 9 and 10. The Conference of Modern Language Masters of the Independent Schools was held at Appleby. The morning session was divided into two parts. To begin with the language laboratory in use at Appleby was explained and demonstrated. Its value was discussed and our representative was impressed with much that it had to offer. This was followed by a discussion of the possibility of a final Grade XII examina- tion in French common to all independent schools. After lunch the guest speaker, Miss M. H. Lake, presented her ideas on the teaching of French Authors. She is the co-author of one of the texts used at Ashbury. One interesting development was the possibility of hiring students from French universities as conversational assistants at our schools. NI. de Varent represented Ashbury at the meeting. The Bursar's Conference was held at Trinity College School, our Mr. Ielols attending. Here important, behind-the-scenes financial matters were discussed.

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,rn THE ASHBURIAN l 1 mv V . .... ..,,, ,, .'.t.r..A ,, , ,, , . 1 Left to Right: Menzies, Troop, Hunt. Your NVorld Today RADIO AND T.V. Ashbury has had a busy year over the air waves and on the television screen. john Smethurst and Barry O'Neill made their radio debut on CKOY on a production by Bill Timblin of King of the Golden River . O'Neill followed this by playing the part of Tiny Tim in a radio presentation of A Christmas Carol . A team coached by Mr. Pemberton consisting of Kenneth Menzies, Peter Hunt and Gil Troop competed in the T.V. quiz contest It's Your lYorld , produced by CJOH. They won in the first round, but unfortunately succumbed in the second round. The show took the form of questions on current events directed at individual members of the teams, but these persons could confer with their team mates. It was for this latter rule, that quite a few of the questions answered by Ashbury should be credited to Kenneth Menzies. Answers were valued between 0 and 5 by a panel of judges which always included one person on the staff of the Citizen who were sponsoring the show. Kenneth .Xlenzies went on to appear twice on the CJOH program lYe XYant an Answern. The first time he interviewed Ciarles Lynch of the Sflllfllillll News Service, the second time he interviewed Dr. Stewart. Clhairman of the Board of Broadcast Governors. john Bethune and -lohn Sinethurst appeared on this program on individual occasions. .Xn account of the interesting interview which Stnethurst conducted folloXX'S SCpglI'zlfClX'.