Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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28 THE ASHBURIAN ANNUAL CEREMONIAL INSPECTIO The gods looked down with benevolence, and after a week or more of cold winds, lowering skies and buckets of rain, the great day, Friday 12 Nlay, dawned miraculously clear. Perfect weather for a parade indeed - bright sun, but cool. The inspecting oflicer this year was Major General Roger Rowley, D.S.U., ED., C.D., for whom this was a special occasion personally as well as officially, since he spent ten years at Ashbury himself as a boy. The inspection and march past followed the usual pattern, to a medley of French marching songs played by the Cadet Corps Band of St. Lawrence High School, Cornwall. Our own band acquitted itself nobly, and the Guard of Honour's Drill was impeccable. Suddenly the loud speaker crackled with the sounds of hoarse voices giving positions and orders, and the crowd found itself witnessing a Herce battle for control of a ridge Cdominated by the headmaster's housel. An advancing platoon, faces blackened, fell to the ground at the sound of cracker-Hre from the defenders. Heedless of danger, they returned the Hre and continued to advance, finally storming the slopes and winning control - with what casualties we were not informed! The senior gymnastic team suitably provided an excellent climax to the demonstrations with a sustained display of controlled and graceful gymnastic feats on the box and the parallel bars. Major General Rowley was most appreciative of the afternoon's activities, and complimented the Chief Instructor, his staff and two Cadet Officers on a Hne show. In his closing address he brought smiles when he reminisced about his own days with the corps, and particularly with the band, in which he declared he had once been a very bad bugler. Its playing had immediately improved after his removal from it, and he thought today it was somewhat better than in his day, but, he added with a chuckle, not much! He then presented the following awards: Commanding UHicer: Cadet Major H. Smellie Best Platoon: Cadet Lieutenant I. D. Xlaclienzie Best Utlicer: Cadet Lieutenant A. D. XlacDougall Best N.C.U.: Cadet lY.O.2 R. j. Millar Best Bandsnianz Cadet P. nl. Xlinogue Best Recruit: Cadet C. H. Fairbairn

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THE .'1SHlm'L'RlA.N' 2. ' 41 Qur grateful thanks are extended to the following for their kindness in donating books to the new library. Peter Castonguay Xlr. and Mrs. james Collie His Excellency and Mrs. D. Nl. Cornett The Ottawa Citizen Xlr. john David Eaton Nlr. S. G. Gamble R. ll. Hall Brooks Commander C. ll. Little XQ rs. XY. Loftus Hon. George Xlcllraith, NIP. Xlr. R. lil. Perry Yr. G. Renison HY. ll. Smith 8 Sons. Torontol X' r. L. ll. Sibley George lf. Sigvaldason Nfajor General D. C. Spry Yr. XY. R. Wilson Anonymous donation left in office. To the Graduating Class for their line donation of tape recordings both modern and classical, many thanks also.

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