Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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-vsxf' ' Ox 1-A sfwi STEPHEN SUH Stephen, born in Montreal, came to Ashbury in 1974 but took a year off to sample boarding life at TCS. He enjoys curling, cross-country skiing, the marathon and cycling. Chess and the Ashburian are also part of his activities. He hopes to take commerce at Queens He points out that a person has to study either for the love of it or be into S-M, an Ontario scholarship ffor achieving 80'XiJ works out to approximately 507 per hour of study time, We hope he improves his hourly income. BRUCE TAYLOR Bruce f Pinhead J Taylor is a long-standing member of the Ashbury boarding community, and is justly famous both for his uncanny ability to shirk any unlooked-for responsibility and to muss his hair in even the weakest breezes. Seriously though, Bruce has had much to contribute to school life: he is an active tennis player, climber, snowshoer and skier, and he has undertaken the task of organizing the school's fledgling Foster Child sponsorship program lafter much prodding and arm-twisting from cohort David Welchll. Bruce will take his half-inch-wide ties and collarless shirts to the University of Victoria this fall, where he plans to study Physics and Astronomy. Make not your thoughts your prisons. William Shakespeare. TONY WANG Who will ever be able to forget that mysterious figure, bent over his poorly-illuminated desk in the wee hours of the morning, desperately attempting to finish his functions prep before the Breakfast Bell goes? Tony Wang has acquired a reputation as a studious, resourceful, and personable student in his lone year at Ashbury talthough he's known as a truly terrible soccer playerll Tony hails from Hong Kong, and brought with him a wicked sense of humour. He is reputed to have won the Upper Flat Insult Competition beating Bruce Hicks in the final round by a TKO. Tony hopes to turn Professional next year at the University of Toronto.

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Although this was IK s first and last year he has left his mark on the soccer field and the hockey rink With his talents the first soccer team managed to make it to the finals, He also enjoys a relaxing game of golf or chess Together with his younger brother they have left a favourable impression on the grade 13 day boys form Next year he plans to attend Robin has graced Ashbury with his presence ever since he first put his left feet into grade ten Forgetting his two left feet, Robin is a good soccer player and is even better as a freestyle skier He was also on the formal committee Like many ftoo many in factl of his classmates he is looking forward to the closing ceremonies After a brief period of meditation, Robyn is going to U of T to study archaeology His positive attitude about school is brought forward with the quotation from Paul When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, its a 4-disc PAUL SMITH Paul was born in Tacoma Wash. and this was his first year at the school. He is an outdoorsperson, enjoying fishing, cam- ping, swimming and canoeing. Next year he is either attending UBC. or Ryerson to take electrical engineering. He was greatly influenced by the famous Doctor Hopkins, as can be seen from his chosen quotation: Right chaps! We're movin' on . . . ' 27

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PIERRE VANASSE Pierre came to Ashbury in the fall of '74. His favourite sports are tennis, broomball and skiing. Pierre's driving exploits are heard far and wide as a little streak of yellow flashes by. Last year he organized the Maintenace Company and with his valuable experience he hopes to enter Ottawa U or Western to take business administration. His driving techniques and life can be summed up by: salt lt' Where there's a will, There's a wa y. TIM WARREN Tim's cartoon of Mr. Niles' office in last year's Ashburian will long be remembered. He lists his school activities as the ones I can't escape from. His favourite sports are hide and seek and bull leaping. He insists that he'll settle for nothing less than Oxford University or Kemptville to pursue his interests in fish farming in desert regions. He that lets The small things bind him Leaves the great Undone behind him. Piet Hein, DAVE WELCH The award for the best quotation must surely go to Dave A veteran of Ashbury life l1971J, he plays soccer, curling, and basketball and, in addition to being a prefect, he is involved in the Board of Stewards, debating, chess, Continuum and Ashbury's fosterchild program. He describes himself as a hopeless optimist whose policy is to abjure promulgating obfuscatory syntactical anomalies of a brobdingnagian nature. Watch out U of T! Here is Dave's award winning quotation: There is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is ex- cellent. Mao. N1 1. V, 29