Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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evaluation. This is an outstanding program and it provides an excellent guide. Next week. the forum board of trustees will formally assume responsibility for the program and Ashbury's part will be simply to provide the required facilities. Office space will be provided. executive and administrative services will be made available. Some members of the staff who wish to, will have a most interesting opportunity for professional involvement. Working with a program like this will be a most exciting and rewarding opportunity. l am proud as a member ofthe Ashbury board that the spark was struck here and that we will be involved in a really important educational program with a real potential for nationwide significance. ixi ' K im V ff i Q Al xl I fr - fl' 'H-2. u 'S 'unv- it V IV l lfna Peter Vfllsun Brian McCordick receives the Year 5 Enriched English Prize tElmwoodl from Dr. Nlicahel Oliver. . . . . One of the most exciting happenings of the year was the McLaughlin Foundation gift to the school. The foundation has awarded Ashbury one bursary in the amount of 54,500 which will be available to a student in his 2nd last year and will be renewable for the final year, provided his work and conduct remains satisfactory. Commencing in l976 and thereafter until further notice. the foundation will supply 59,000 to enable Ashbury to provide one bursary in each of the last two years. An extremely generous gift indeed. and something that will mean a great deal to the school and of course. even more to the recipients of the bursaries. 23

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FROM THE SPEECH OF MR. NED RHODES, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, ON PRIZE DAY . . . . Action Ashbury - I am very pleased to be able to report to you that to date, Action Ashbury's capital campaign has reached a total of S618,951 of which 5404.295 has been received in cash. This total means that approximately 590,000 has been collected since this time last year, which is, in my opinion, no small feat. You will recollect that the capital campaign looked forward to bringing in during the 5 years between 1973 and 1978 the total cash target of fB750,000 and we believe that there is a very good prospect of closing the Sl20,000 gap. The school s most sincere thanks are due to those who have contributed so generously. The total pledged is made up of 362 individual and family gifts and 41 donations from corporations and foundations. lt is a fact of independent school life that we must look to gift support on a systematic continuing basis. It may sound like over simplification, but very few people give unless they are asked and the business of asking takes organization and a great deal of voluntary effort on the part of dedicated members of the Ashbury community. Our heartfelt thanks to every one of them. General chairman Donald McLaren has headed the Action Ashbury organization now since incep- tion and I once again would like to thank him in particular, along with Tony German, for ajob extremely well done. Action Ashbury continues its work, not only to close the gap, but to develop through annual giving, a broadened participation by all the school's community. I might tell you that one of the independent schools in Ontario receives from annual giving and bequests S500 per boy per annum to offset rising costs and ever increasing fees. I challenge you to see what you can do for Ashbury. I would liketo dwell now on a very exciting subject, the Forum for Young Canadians. Over the last year, Ashbury has been instrumental in initiating a most interesting new educational program. Its implications are very much broader than Ashbury College itself. Indeed they are national in scope, and the Forum for Young Canadians, as this program is called, is now being incorporated with its own board of trustees and is independently seeking the financial backing required. The concept is direct and simple. Ottawa has unique resources for teaching a subject of fundamental importance to responsible citizens of the future, The Dynamics of Government. What is government all about? How does it work? Most important, perhaps, how does a Canadian citizen, business, the labour union, the special interest group, interact with it? Starting in 1976, the Forum for Young Canadians will run 4 courses of 100 boys and girls each, from all across Canada. They will be selected by their own principals from their last two high school years and they will come here to Ashbury College to work and live together for a full concentrated week, getting to understand the real guts of government with the whole of Ottawa as a classroom. Speakers will be drawn from parliament, the cabinet, the public service, representatives of business and industry, special interest groups, the press, and political observers. Two student courses will take place in March during the mid-winter break and two at the end of June. At these times, Parliament is normally in session, students can leave their home classrooms and Ashbury College is empty. Similar courses for teachers are planned for the summer months. The board of Ashbury approved and encouraged the nuturing of the forum program, and the headmaster and director of development have spent a great deal of time on it. Kenneth Lavery, a parent and Ashbury governor. is chairman of the organization committee. Michael Evans, from Ashbury's year 4. went to a course in Washington, D.C. in March, called the presidential classroom, as part of our 22

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Another exciting and moving occasion occurred on the 17th of April when Doctor J. Tuzo Wilson was installed as school visitor. One of Ashbury's most distinguished old boys, he graduated in 1925, 50 years ago with the govemor general's medal and he has become one of the world's leading scientists. We trust he will revisit often and for our mutual enjoyment rather than to perform the traditional medieval function of a visitor which is to resolve disputes which might arise between the students and the masters at an institution of learning. This year, our headmaster is president of the Canadian Headmasters Association, representing 25 independent schools across Canada. They will meet in Ottawa this fall for the first time and I look forward with my fellow governors to welcoming them wholeheartedly and being whatever assistance we can to make sure that we put on a first class show as they have done for us over the years. So that you all are given notice as far in advance as possible, please be advised that Ashbury Day this year will be Saturday, November Ist with the weekend rf course starting on Friday, October 31st, the Annual meeting being held on Saturday. It may be of interest to many of you to note that Ronald Perry, a former Headmaster ofthis school from 1950 to 1956 will be in attendance and will have hundreds of feet of film taken during the Perry years at Ashbury. The very successful Antique Sale which the Ladies' Guild ran last fall, will be run again at Ashbury College by the Ladies' Guild on the weekend of November 7th, 8th, and 9th, and I urge you to mark the dates down. Speaking of the Ladies' Guild, may I sincerely thank Mrs. Harris, the president, for the work she has done on behalf of the school, with her Ladies' Guild and in particular, I thank the Ladies' Guild for the gift which enabled the school to complete planting around the Hughson steps. In closing, may I thank the Headmaster for the co-operation which he has shown both me personally, and the board, and everyone else who has contributed to make this an outstanding year at Ashbury. I E If .A..A.IL.A 4,11 . I . i Ts. WE SPEClALlZE Q IN cotusion REPAIR 5 eonv s. rewosn wonx g AUTOMOBILE PAINTING i ALL MAKES OF CARS ESTIMATES 1 INSURANCE ESTIMATES Z3 Ei'ii'E329Ri3'EE 745-2874 ! 4 I I 24