Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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MR. V. J. BURCZAK Mr. Vic Burczak joined the Staff in September 1970 to teach Physical Education and Geography. but his activities have ranged far beyond the gymnasium and the classroom. He has been assistant coach of lst Football. coach of 2nd Hockey and of Track and Field: in addition he founded and ran the Archery Club and took on the task of advertising manager for the Ashburian. To Mr. Burczak belongs the distinction of having devised an equitable form of roster for day duty masters whereby no one member of the Staff was stuck with a fixed and possibly distasteful day of the week. We thank Mr. Burczak for his contribution to the life of Ashbury and we give him and Mrs. Burczak our best wishes for the future. .l. A. C. MR. W. W. BYFORD It is not often on these pages that we can record the happy conclusion of a lifelong teaching career. This year. such an occurrence has taken place in the case of Mr. W. W. Byford, affectionately known to his colleagues as Bill . Q Bill Byford taught his first class in London. England, in 1929. From that day to this he has practised his profession all over the world and can speak with equal ease of classrooms in Singapore, Africa. The United Kingdom or America. He raised his teaching skills to the highest level and those students passing through his Chemistry and Mathematics classes will remember his lessons as they remember few others. Indeed. they have been most privilegedg there are few of us today that can match Bill's ability to combine the strictest of class discipline with an acceptable learning situation. Behind Bill's some- times fierce countenance there was always a heart-felt willingness to help a student achieve his fullest potential. Very few boys did not discover this. as the numbers of boys who beat a path to the Byford door at any hour of the night or day bear witness. Happily the Byford family are not moving too far away. We hope that we shall continue to see them on social and other occasions of the School. It will be hard for us to think of the teaching profession without Bill being part of itg somewhere, somehow. Perhaps if we hope hard enough we won't have to! W.A.J. n Q 5 -' N' Y S I Qi? 7' 'H ' . larry ' ' ' ' .. V, 1 PHOTO BY JANE EMBER 15

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SPECIAL PRIZES. Presented by Mr. M. H. E. Sherwood: THE ALWYN CUP Uunior Track and Field1 Philippe Wiener THE JOHN MICHAEL HILLIARD MEMORIAL PRIZE fTrans A1 Eric Wilson THE STEPHEN CLIFFORD MEMORIAL PRIZE for the Boy in the Junior School who wins the Most Points for his House Ian Rhodes THE WOODS SHIELD Uunior School: Academics, Sports, Character1: Iain Johnston THE LADIES' GUILD MERIT AVVARDS. Presented by Mrs. T. L. Bates Grade 9 George McKenna 10 Stephen Grahovac 11 Richard Childers 12 Peter Johnston 13 lke Stoddard THE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PRIZES Grade 9b Shawn McNulty 9a Peter Steacy 10b tl1 Arthur Loebg C21 Michael Moore l0a Stephen Rigby llb Jules Chatel lla Frederick Stoddard l2b Douglas Pearce 12a Ian Smith 13 lke Stoddard 13 Stephen Stirling THE MEMORIAL PRIZES. Presented by Dr. J. J. Deutsch THE ROBERT GERALD MOORE PRIZE FOR ENGLISH 1121 David Yaxley THE SNELGROVE PRIZE FOR MATHEMATICS C9-101 Stephen Rigby THE ADAM PODHRADSKY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR MODERN HISTORY 1121 Nigel Macleod THE FIORENZA DREW MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FRENCH 1121 Philippe Pardo THE EKES MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS 1131 Bryan Boyd THE C. ROWLEY BOOTH MEMORIAL TROPHY IAII-round Achievement In Grade 121 Donald Morrison SPECIAL AWARDS THE ASHBURY FITNESS AWARDS Mike Beedell Greg Davies THE PITFIELD SHIELD Uunior House Competition1 Dragons: Captains - Bob Morrison and Michael O'Meara THE SOUTHAM CUP tBest Record in Scholarship and Sports1 Richard Bennett THE NELSON SHIELD lHead Boy1 Bryan Boyd THE GOVERNOR GENERAUS MEDAL Bryan Boyd 14

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MR. F. T. JONES It was lunch-time. One of the new masters fa quiet and unobtrusive gentleman from Walesj was on duty for the first time. The boys were in their places, and there was the usual slight shuffling and muttering which always precedes the silence for grace. Suddenly the air was shattered by two deafening staccato bellows: HSHUDDUP! STANDSTILLV' Fred Jones had arrived - in every sense of the word! The effect was electrifying and there can't have been a boy who wasn't wondering what had hit him. But this formidable voice was the voice of experience. How many teachers still make the fatal mistake of trying to be palsie-walsiei' fto quote one of Mr. Marland's favourite phrases!j from the start, and then wonder why they can't maintain any sort of discipline? Mr. Jones was too old a hand to fall into that particular trap. He left nobody in any doubt as to who was going to be the boss, having established that, he was able to relax gradually and methodically, and soon to become one of the most kindly and popular masters Ashbury can ever have known. This popularity was exemplified by some writing on a wallg under the name F. JONES on his parking space, somebody added H. . . is a nice guy. Rather different from most of the statements expressed in mural adomments at Ashbury - or any other school, for that matter! The writer of those words summed up the general view. However rebel- lious the present-day student may seem, he still respects fand prefers, a master who will keep him in order and demand high standards from him. Fred Jones did just that - but he did it with a warm humanity and a glorious sense of humour. He was also a steadying influence on the Masters' Common Room, where tempers occasionally Hy as high as thev do anywhere else in the school. The first time Mr. Jones was witness to sn. it, he stared at the offender in blank disbelief and then, with withering -n, uttered the immortal phrase OH, PICKY PICKY! -- which may look meaningless on paper but which had a devastating effect at the time! He came to us from St. George's School in Vancouver, where he now returns - partly to escape the Ottawa winter, but principally to accept vastly increased responsibility as Administrative Assistant to the Headmaster. One can only hope that a teacher of his calibre will not be totally lost to the classroom - but whatever he does will be characterized by zeal, efficiency and almost overpowering enthusiasm. And if, in a few months' time, we learn of a beer famine in B.C., we shall know that Fred still maintains an unchallengeable supremacy in yet another of his many and varied talents! He leaves Ashbury a better place for his two-year sojoum among us, and he will be greatly missed by stall' and boys alike. We thank him for what he has done fand, far more, for what he has beenl, and we wish him, Carol, Simon and Martyn a safe trip to the Far West fcharacteristically they're going via the Maritimes -- how did he ever become a geography teacher! Q, and a full, happy and successful life when they get there. - c.W.'r. 16 PHOTO av M. L. w. BARNES