Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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THE ASHBURIAN 1 SCI-IDOL NOTES The School year opened on lYednesday, September -lth and closed on Saturday, june 6th. The 1964-65 year begins on Tuesday, Sth September for Boarders, Wednesday, 9th September for Day Boys. il JK: 11 There were several new members of Staff last Session. ln the Senior School they were Nlr. S. Barts, from Kings College School. Wimbledon, to teach English, Klr. A. Hancock, from Palmers' School, Essex, to teach Science. Both came here directly from llngland. Also joining the Staff were Mr. B. B. Vincent, from Baron Byng High School, Montreal, to teach English and Geography, and Hr. R. Bernasconi from Switzerland, who arrived for the Winter Term. :ll if 'll In the junior School there were some changes following the departure of Mr. Daratha and Mr. Fronton, and we welcomed Mr. R. Morgan and Mr. A. C. Sinclair. is IX: if Mrs. E. B. Hunter, formerly of the junior School Staff, returned in the Spring as a Special Tutor. fl? :Xl :Xi Twenty-five members of the 1963 graduating class enrolled at Universities in Canada and the United States. PX: 'XI 9? Parents' Receptions were held in Argyle on November lst and February 21st and May lst. if 'Xi :Ks Saturday night movies were again presented in Argyle by Xlr. Sibley throughout the year, and proved to be very successful. One of the highlights was the presentation of Hitchcock's The Birds while the Hlm was still going around the commercial circuits. 'Xl 'lf IX: Speakers in the Career Series during the Autumn and lYinter Terms were: Mr. Fraser on Foreign Affairs , Nlr. F. XY. Troop on Banking as a Career , Mr. C. Young on journalism , Dr. A. Hutchison on Veterinary Surgery , and Mr. H. Good on Accountancy . if fl: L. I. H. Spencer is leaving the Staff after a distinguished stay in the Junior School. His dynamic personality and varied interests in students' activities have made him a respected figure throughout the whole school. We wish him well in his new post as Head of the junior School at Halifax Grammar School, Nova Scotia.

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3 THE ASHBURIAN EDITQRIAL HNlost of us here today are not leaders and never will be. XVe are if you like, in the second class. So said the guest speaker, His Excel- lency S. Reid, at the Closing Day Ceremony, a full report of which is to be found in this issue of the Ashburian. He cited Somerset Maughan's contention, made to answer the critics, that fulhllment can be found in the front row of second ratersf' He might well have used the example of an indigenous product, Ottawa's poet of the Post-Confederation era, Archibald Lampman, who reticently yet accurately assessed his own verse as superior poetry of a minor order. At all events, an antidote to the popular conception of the independent school's exclusive preoccupation with the qualities of leadership is always welcome. Indeed the whole question of what kind of education a particular school desires is especially relevant in a year when Ashbury launches an appeal for funds, the details of which are also within these pages. The role of the independent school ought to be closely scrutinized when society is taking an increas- ing interest in education and when nations talk of education as an invest- ment. Certainly there ought to be a greater awareness of the capability of this kind of school by parents, students and staff alike.

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10 THE ASHBURIAN Nlajor H. j. Hoods is retiring from Ashbury, and hopes to devote more time to painting, in a studio in Ottawa. IX: if 3? Both the junior and Senior School lose Staff when Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Dalton move to Nova Scotia. Wife wish them well in their new environment at Digby. 3? fl? if VVe congratulate Mr. I. C. Pemberton on his obtaining 21 post- graduate axvard at the University of Rochester, U.S.A., where he will be studying Canadian-American relations in the History Faculty. 3? :Xl 36 VVe say farewell also to Mr. bl. L. Black who is moving to Montreal to study full-time for a Ph.D. at McGill. We say farewell too to Mr. A. de K. Varent from the Ashbury Teaching Staff, but hope to see something of him while he is studying at Ottawa University. Nlr. B. B. Vincent is leaving to return to England after teaching in various parts of the world for several years. IVe wish him well. 3? 3? Sk The College FootbaQl Dinner was held on November 22nd and the guest speaker was S. Cjoej Irvin jr. who presented the trophies, crests and awards. - THE STUDENTS' COMMITTEE - 1963-1064 liarle Ro-uw j. NI. Golding, R. j. Millar, J. H. Smellie, 1. P. Dawson, C. H. C. Grant, R. N. Titft, D. G. Love, I. D. MacKenzie, R. VV. Scheel. lfrmn Rozy: B. 1. Berry, R. A. Lash, B. L. Deacon, R. H. Perry. Esq., C. P. Roberts, XV. j. Booth, P. C. Hunt. .'1l73'L'lIfI S. B. Day.