Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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This year Ashbury Fitness Awards were introduced to provide a challenge for students wishing to attain a high standard of physical fitness. Only two students, M. J. Beedell and G. C. Davies, were able to attain the gold standard. Grade 9A decided to practice, rather than preach, anti-pollution measures and spent an afternoon cleaning a stretch of the Ottawa River shore-line. The variety of refuse collected was beyond belief. Another expedition to thc shores of the Ottawa River was organized by the Captain of the School after the Final Examinations. This year Mr. B. W. Bellamy fScience and Mathematicsj and Mr. G. R. Armstrong fTypingj joined the academic staff. Mrs. E. Hamilton assumed the position of Senior School Matron. Mr. W. W. Byford retires, while Mr. G. W. Thomson, Mr. V. J. Burczak and Mr. F. T. Jones leave us for other appointments. Notes on these members of the academic staff and on those who join the staff in September appear on later pages. asf I I .ii X11 WL. NZ PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CANADIAN PRESS

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NOTES The School closed on Saturday. ,Iune l0th-in remarkably unseasonable weather. Details of the ceremonies follow these notes. On the previous evening a barbecue was held at the School under the auspices of the Ladies' Guild: this was well-attended and proved highly successful, despite inclement weather. The Ontario Scholars are Bryan Boyd. lke Stoddard. W'illy Liang. Richard Bennett, Frankie Chu. Anthony Leung. Charles Yap and Andrew Chan. All members of Grade 13 qualified for their Secondary School Honour Graduation Diploma. We gratefully acknowledge substantial bequests by the late Mrs. Harold Lewis and the late Mr. Eric Beardmore. which will be used for some specific purpose as yet undetermined: also a generous donation by Mr. Wk H. Connell - sufficient to allow for the construction of the Connell Laboratory alongside the Cargill Southam Laboratory. We are also very grateful for sundry gifts by many friends to the Annual Giving Programme. which is designed to supplement the budget at Ashbury College in the general field of academics. We thank the Graduating Class of 1972 for their gift of an automatic bell- ringing system. A few days before the provincial elections in the fall, members of three political parties spoke to students of Ashbury and Elmwood. Speaking as a Conservative was the Hon. A. B. R. Lawrence. member for Carleton East and Minister of Health. The New Democratic Party was represented by Mr. Denis Deneau. candidate for Ottawa East. and the Liberal Party by Mr. lan Kimmerley. candidate for Ottawa South. A lively period of questions and answers ensued. In February the Hon. John N. Turner. Minister of Finance. addressed the senior school. convincingly pointing out to the students their need for in- volvement in present-day affairs. Welcome visits were also received from Mr. Ray Jones. President of the E. B. Eddy Co.. Mr. John Brow. who spoke on Insurance. and Mr. Paul Leblond, Director of the Student Exchange Programme, Canada Committee, whose subject was The Future of English Canada . The Hon. Paul Hellyer, spent a morning at the School during May. dis- cussing with senior students the policies of Action Canada. The traditional carol services were held at the end of the fall term under the able direction of Mr. F. K. Graham. The usual Christmas Dinner was not held, the money thus saved being sent to the Christmas Exchange - a measure strongly supported by the boys. The Winter Sports Day was followed by the Annual Sports Dinner, held at the School. On this occasion we were honoured by the presence as Guest Speaker of His Excellency The Governor-General of Canada. who presented the School with a picture of himself in what His Excellency described as his Hworking clothes . A list of the awards appears in the Sports section of The Ashburian. Under the leadership of the Chaplain a number of Ashbury students cruised in the Mediterranean during the Easter holidays. Once more we thank Dr. and Mrs. Conway for their kind hospitality after the final performance of the Ashbury-Elmwood production of The Mikado . a notice of which appears on a later page. . On 10th May Ashbury 'held an Open Day. for the second successive yearg visitors were once more able to see the School in action in the classroom and on the games field. 7

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ASHBURY COLLEGE Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada Eighty-First Year Citing Cremonied LEAVING SERVICE PRIZE GIVING 090 Saturday, June 10th, 1972 9