Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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EDITOR 'S FORICWUR D Ashbury' 76: Positive Vibration. Say you just can't lixe that Negative xx ay You know xx hat I mean Make xx ay for the positixe day Cause it's a new day New time. nexx feeling yeah! Say it's a nexx sign Oh xx hat a nexx day BOB MARLIQY - Rastaman Vibration Only three years ago. xx hen I first arrixed at Ashbury. the school was still 'The Reform School ofGreater Ottaw af Today. however. the hard xx ork xx hich Don Paterson advocated to bring Ashbury out of its 'Dark Ages' has succeeded. and it is great to be at a school xxhich is noxx a xxinner. Ideas. opportunities. projects now seethe at Ashbury. led by' interested teachers but run by industrious students. Tony German and Hugh Robertson operate the nexx Student Forum xx ith the help of Michael Evans and others. Tony Macoun. having been assisted by former Ashbury-' Boy' Chris Teron. xxill have the International Baccalaureate operating as basis for student application to any university in the xx orld. The Independent Press. started and run this year by the Ashburian Staff with the help of Drum Lister. provides first-hand experience in creative journalism. A dive club. driver's education course. Mediterranean Cruise. outdoor education program and varied sports program all offer a virtually limitless range of possibilities to Ashbury students. Provided. of course. that they reach out for them. The point being that with enough student interest. anything can be done at Ashbury. The teachers. including Mr. Joyce. when one proposes a project will say. almost invariably. Yes. let's see how xve can do it. rather than No. here's xvhy' it can't be done. Not that many things cannot do with mending - the administration should have a greater appreciation of the ability and integrity' of the students and avoid such occurences as the 'Great Oxfam Rip-Off' or the Who deep sixed the Neptune Project scandal. The talent. interest. and perseverence amongst the students staggers the imagination -I found this fact out when I saxx them funneled into the Independent Press. Ross Brown and John Lund on proofreading. Peter Belicki and Kevin Reeves on art. David Welch on graphics. Brian Baxter on reporting - to only name a few - all possess enormous talent. imagination. ideas but also. most important of all. a basic good humour and keenness to do a lirst-class job and help out xx-herever possible. Also. in the past few years a true school spirit has developed. Not the blatant. loud. shouting type associated with L.C.C.. for example. but a good-humoured. relaxed. sure and latently strong spirit. borne out of a positive attitude and a strong comaraderie amongst students. and between teachers and students. This spirit of knoxx ing that one can achieve a goal. and working towards it. was xvhat won Ashbury the Myles and Lenny band. and is what will lead Ashbury to success in the future. t j f t . , Xl I xlr. .tl - J 41 , 's 3 -, x 'f - ' s-Q Une does not fully appreciate thc extent of this unity amongst students at school itself. for one is immersed in it. Only in retrospect. thinking ofthe relaxed. good times one Itas with the others. and in the small things. does one really come to know what Ashbury is, Giving each other lifts. explaining math problems. buying each other a brew in the Hayloft while skipping liconomics. plus the knowledge that. in a bind. any Ashbury friend xx ill get you out of it if he can: this is Ashbury. On the night of Closing Day Iltis year. I held a final 'Graduation Zoo' at my place. Virtually the entire graduating class. plus many teachers. attended. The feeling of being 'Ashbury Boys' held over. The party wore on. until. at five in the morning. the sun rose. Gradually. as the remaining graduates began to leave. xxe felt a curious difference. The coming of morning signified more than just a nexx day: rather an end to one phase of our lives and the beginning of another. as ifthe rich. bright sun illuminated for us the huge. living xxorld that xxas to be ours. We shook hands adult-style. not thumb-to-thumb that is the trademark of our years. No longer Ashbury boys. but ourselves. But though xxe are to disperse over the xxorld like marbles on a stone floor. each finding our own path. I think xxe xxill alxvays retain that common focus. that of having lived through a young. vibrant phase ofour lives together. and hax ing come out of it. also together. As the final car set off doxxn the drive-xxay. in broad daylight. I caught lan Burke-Robertson's eye. We both grinned. and raised our thumbs. in the victory sign ofour age. We'd made it. and xxe were xx inners - all of us. IAN HIGGINS 5

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1- ' f --3.-ff - . f ,- THE LEAYING CLASS From rmx tlcft to rightli lan Suarth. Drummond Lister. Mark Grtuxniith. Second Row: George Duong. lan Higginx, Jett Beedcll. Rogcr McGuire. Pvtcr Stuat-5. Third rim: Gcorgc Mclicnna. Michael Lynrh- Staunton. Stcxcn Jay. Diinintwk Lam. Adrian Conn ax. A-Xluic Lcawcit. Fourth Rmxi Pctcr Mclxillc. lan Bttrkc-Rubwtwti. Michael Fvanx. Kcxin Rot-wx thchind Miuhaclt. Donny Yuen. Gcurgc Daxid li-titfiwk. Paul Farquhar. Fifth nm: Mark Zagcrman. Manucl .-Xltnudt-xar. Julian Longxxwrth. Stcxcn Cutllix. Riuhard Turxn. Dax id Singh. .8-Q. ...M n H .,,4,....-. A .-.nv-' ,,....-,...p -,,..--.. 'ff ' I ' . sh F5 an THF PRFFFVTS