Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Colour Photographs by VV. G. R. XYilSon

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SCHOGL OFFICERS Captain of Scbool W. HAUGHTON School Prefects THE ASHBURIAN C. E. BARNES P. G. LOETUS R. BERGER R. A. PAQUETTE M. H. E. CONNELI. P. G. PARKER W. K. L. DAXVSON P. C. SINIITH J. R. M. TYAS aptain of lV00l'lC0'llIl7C Home Captain of New Home P. C. SMITH C. E. BARNES Captain of Connangbt Home P. G. LOETUS Captains of Football Captain of Skiing STRATTON R. J. CIlIX'ERS G. R. CAIRNS Captain of Hockey Captain of Soccer W. K. L. DAXVSON P. G. LOETUS Captain of Curling P. G. PARKER CADET CORPS Officer Conznmnding Second in Conznmnd CfA'1A-IOR W. HAUGHTON CXCAPT. J. C. R. TURTON Gnara' Connnandcr CfLT. P. G. LOETUS Platoon C07Il7IlH77flCTS Cflns. j. R. M. TYAS, C. BARNES, XV. K. I.. ITAXVSON Company Sergeant Major Q7lf17'fC'7'7llt7.YfC7' Sergeant R. j. CmvERs G. R. C.-XIRNS Drnrn Major O.C. Flag Party R. L. R. VAN R, Bmznmz

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zo THE ASHBURIAN NOTES Now, also, with deep regret we have to record the death of our Visitor, Lord Alexander, who died of heart failure in London on 16 june. His two sons, Brian and Shane, came to us when Lord Alexander was ap- pointed Governor-General. During his period of office in Canada he dutifully inspected the cadets, who are attached to the Governor-Gem eral's Foot Guards, and was well known to Ashbury as parent and friend. He became School Visitor on relinquishing the Governor-Generalship in 1952, when he returned to England to become Minister of Defence. Our sympathies go to Lady Alexander and her sons in their loss of this great and gentle soldier. The school closed this year on 12 June and details of the exercises are in the middle of this journal. Not long after the war, a retiring head- master stressed elsewhere that the aim of his school was breadth of interest and a capacity to elicit not only leaders but happy eccentrics of all kinds, placing more emphasis on correct self-expression than on ambition. The President of Brock University Ca former Rhodes scholar and disting- uished member of External Affairsj spoke most ably on this theme and extended it, and so did the Captain of School in his valedictory. Ash- bury, we think, is in one way and another taking notice of the point. CThe Graduating Class gave a hand-made clock for the school libraryj. There are perhaps fewer accounts this year of so-called club activi- ties. This is balanced by the introduction of more literary contributions and copies of drawings and photographs. Mr. Fordyce, who came to teach drawing and painting this year, has the promise of the coaching house being turned into a studio for the school shortly, and no doubt this side of Ashbury life will be developed. Mr. Fordyce, by the way, is a painter in oils and acrylic colours who sells profitably many of his pic- tures, especially those of Newfoundland. It was nice for the Masters' Common Room to be able to give one to Mrs. Blyth as a mark of their affection and respect for her. The Headmistress of Elmwood is going to England with her husband, Lieut.-Colonel David Blyth, who will be en poste there for the next three years. One of the biggest changes in school has been the replacement of four very courteous and painstaking Central European waitresses by boys who are detailed in turn for duty by their houses. VVhile the stan- dard of our waitresses has not yet been reached, we are glad to mention that the service is better now than it was when the boys first took over at the beginning of the school year. Another remarkable change is the wearing of shorts in the spring term by masters in the junior School. Mr. Beedell, a former Olympic canoeist, led, we believe, followed by Mr. Flynn with some interesting Australian measurements and Mr. Robertson with the standard, short South African version.