Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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4 Forum Forum o for Q A , pour I .. L ' Yoong xxW,g4 Jeuneo C anadmns Canadlens C ' - K D .N gllklno'-ig Compliments of Carling Motors Ltd.

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whom are ordained ministers! unnl Friday evening. each week was tilled with intense activity. with five or six formal sessions per day . Many agencies contributed. The Pub- lic Service t'ommission arranged tive young professional admtnistrativc trainees to work with each course as Counsellors. They were all bilingual. The National Capital Commission pro- vided guides and helped with intcrpreta' tion services. The Houses of Parliament were quite properly the focal point of the programme. As well as full briefings by the Speakers and Clerks of both the Senate and the Commons. many ol, the sessions took place in Parliamentary Committee rooms. Most of the students met their own M.P.'s and they saw exciting action on the tloor of the House of Commons. A night at the National Arts Centre. a dinner with Members at the Parliament Buildings. a tour of Ottaw a. a visit to Rideau Hall and the final banquet and dance spiced the vveek's activities. From their own overwhelmingly enthusiastic reports and letters. the first two hundred Forum students had a most remarkable and memorable evperience. ln addition to Tony German. Director of Development. w ho is also the Forum's Executive Directoi'. Housemaster Gore don Hyatt was Administrator and Mas- ters James Bailey' and James Humphreys took part as student supervisors. Mrs. J. Marland. the Matron. Chef Mark Taticek and the kitchen and maintenance staff were fully' involved and did a wonderful job in making the students feel at home. A very important factor was that these students from all parts of Canada lived together for a full week. The School provided an ideal home. Rap-sessions. snow-ball fights. singing round thc piano. the discotheque. the dining hall. volley'-ball - just getting to know one another - all these added their own dimension. French-English. East-West. City -Rural A biases and pre-conceptions came out. minds opened. ideas flowed. friendships formed. Working together to a comtnon aim - the understanding of one's own country f gave these first class young people a solid basis on which they' can build their. and Canada's future. The programme has been most suc- cessfully' launched. Two more courses are set for June. and nevt year is now being planned with continuing support from the people and institutions which have rallied to it. and with continued just -glib? ' 1 w' --we Iii-ff 1 13 ,. i pn 'fab'--I I.. 1 jul' .-Xbov e Senator loisey chats with Nlaiie Nlaitni Below Nick ltlieaiton discovers the hun'i.in cl.-iitv-:rt wth N..titft..N.1Itips-i'l fi I r 1 'r J . , S, s . 1 if-'.J. 1 . I ' SL-5 t' T FF- 2 ' 1' l- lxs s k HS .i enthusiastic participation by the sort of Ashbury College can look with iustili first class young people who have able pride on the success ot its ov already attended. The foruni tor Young initiative and with enthusiasm on i Canadians has a really stgniticant and valuable and enrivhing addition to the progressive part to play in thc realm ot lite ot the school Ilsell C'.m.idian education Refprinted ti-om The Xchhtiry N,-w s . .-'4

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H0llSEMASTliR'S REPORT - Znd l l.A'l' WITH APOLOGIICS . . . lNlasters'Common Room 'l'here xx as a door to xx hich I found 110 Ixey. There xx as a xeil past xx hich I could tlxti sL'x.'. ii . . Those xx ho stood before The Tax ern shouted 'Open then the The 'Claude' door. H K.D.N. Well had the bodimg treinblers learned to trace The day 's disasters in ltls morning face. The Locker Rooms Earth has not anything to shoxx more fair: Dull xx ould hc be of soul xx ho could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty Mathematics HA slumber did my spirit sealg I had no human fears. Choir With shrieking and squeaking ln fifty different sharps and flats. Dining Hall I heard a sound as of scaping tripe And putting apples xx ondrous ripe Into a cider press's gripe. Morning on the Flats Methought I heard a voice cry' 'Sleep no more'. Chapel But if at the church they xxould give us some ale And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and xx'e'd pray' all the livelong day. Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray. Elmwood She dxxelt among the untrodden xx ays Besiclesthe springs of Dove. A maid who there xx ere none to praise And very fexx to love. A.C.T. Senior Garcia at xxorlx Q? NIR A B Blzl.C'lll-.R Scniot llouscmastct and Head ol the lpngltsh llcpartincnt lxl-13. loot A New Prize For The Best Short Story ln The L'pper School A prize for the best short story in the upper school is tnost suitably named after Nlr. A. B. Belcher. an English teacher at Ashbury from I943 to 1963. The A. B. Belcher Memorial Prize commemorates a remarkable human being. he xx as. by all accounts. a superb teacher who could. in addition. act on stage and write prose or poetry' as xxell as a professional. 'Dukei was a metnorable figure as he ambled around each day' in his bedroom slippers. His impact on individual students xx as lasting. As the memorial in the 1963 Ashburian stated: We will have other teachers ofEnglish. . , but xx hoever they may be they cannot talxe Duke's place. and it is unlikely that their influence on future generations of Ashbury students xx ill be as forceful and as pertnanent. Mr. Belcher's teaching of English must surely haxe been enhanced by his professional experience on Broadxxay. an experience deepened by his close connection xxith a brilliant young C.B.C. group in Toronto which centred upon Nlavor Nloote. As a xx riter. 'Dulce' possessed great clarity and control ol nuance. a slxill xxidely recognized after he published a book of verse. His poems spealx for themselves and txxo extraordinary and ageless lines in one of our chapel xx indoxxs continue to haunt generations ol' Ashbury students. Try reading the poem aloud. JUNE. 7:00 P.Nl. Un such a sunset exening. Peace comes bubbling clear From exery xxell oftulip. From ex ery rose's spring. The great xx ings of angels ln such a peace are furled. And God runs quiet fingers Through the tired hair of the xx orld. D.D.L. i 1 '