Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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JOHN WILEY Alphonso has, he cheerfully agrees, enjoyed his three years at Ashbury, especially, he points out, the atmosphere created by staff and students. He has played soccer and baseball and has participated in the Science Club as well as The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, his hobbies also include coin collecting, fishing, target shooting and listening to hard rock. He plans to attend Waterloo or Queen's to read Chemical Engineering, Happy is the man that findeth wisdom.. .and everyone that retaineth her. Solomon 28 ln 1977, Ashbury was honoured with the presence of this budding biochemist who, upon arrival, quickly established himself as an intregral part of the rowing team. john went on to participate in the Art Club, the Science Club, swimming and skiing. He found, he says, that the low point of each week was the Monday morning assembly but he speaks favourably of Ashbury education in general- even without the girls who, he suggests, create a necessary and pleasurable confusion. After Guelph, he hopes for a career in nutrition, The smartest man is he who can learn from the mistakes of others. l ALPHONSO ZAIDI Tony's four years at the school have left a favourable im- pression on him: Leaving Ashbury is as hard as coming into it, he admits. While he is a good student - winning awards in chemistry and general proficiency - he also enjoys playing tennis, soccer, and softball. In his spare time he takes up chess or photography, but his favourite hobby is electronics, the latter interest underlines his choice of Electrical Engineering at U of T or Queens'. Tony believes that Ashbury's sense of community is the key to its success. TONY YUAN

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profound changes in his own country, will be missed, at least, since he is going to Carleton to take architecture, we ought to see him on Old Boys' Weekends - and one has the feeling that is a good thing. Winston came to Ashbury from Hong Kong in 1976 and his quick grasp to local lingo la dialect called Ashbury College Boarding Flat International Englishj plus his prowess on the first football team and his high academic standing won him everyone's respect. He has sat quite a few math contests successfully, run the cleaning company, served on the refugee committee and been a prefect, he has, as you can see, a well- rounded character lwe don't call him 'Tank' for nothingl. He says he relaxes by reading and by listening to folk or classical music. After taking business at U of T he would like to suc- ceed his father in the family business. Where there is a WALL, there's a way. WINSTGN TENC When not in the Windsor, Bob is either playing soccer, basketball or softball. An accomplished soccer player, Bob has won the MVP for the Second Soccer Team twice and the MVP for the First. Besides his duties as prefect, he served on the Board of Stewards as Chairman for the Acropolite Committee, Bob has travelled to Czechoslovakia and Hungary as part of the March Trip. Next year Bob hopes to go to Western or Mount A to take business and Commerce in preparation for a career in the business world. lf we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Sir Winston Churchill ROBERT SMITH lohn, who has been here a number of years, has devoted a lot of time and ability to the soccer teams - playing for the Second and First Teams with enthusiasm and skill. john is also on the Board of Stewards, where he serves as Chairman of the Worship Committee. During the summer, john is fairly active at a summer camp for handicapped children. Where he will go next year, he is not certain yet, or of what he will take. A solid member of the school, john is a likeable guy who is always ready for something new and exciting. lOHN WENKOFF i 27

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GRADE TWELVE GRADUATES Craig came to Ashbury in 1975. He played First Football this year and during the summers he works as a lifeguard at Nepean. He says he will always remember that junior Football trip during which the bus returned to Ottawa wreathed in black smoke from the oil which was hitting the manifold. He has enjoyed Ashbury's family-like atmosphere and the chance to do things as diverse as backgammon and first aid - not to mention a key role in Mr. Penton's house play called Sub- merged which Craig performed in this year. 3 I Why dwell on the mistakes of the past when you can look forward to the mistakes of the future? CRAIG ARIS Who can do justice to Fabrice? Indeed, Fabrice himself is so interested in this question that he plans to enter the priesthood after attending university in Europe where he will study Theology, Canon Law and Classical Literature. His numerous awards in English, Creative Writing, History, Latin, French and Public Speaking are duly recorded, but it is the quality of his mind and spirit which will be remembered both by those who debated with him and by his teachers who, as this writer can testify, watched and wondered. When asked what were the highlights of his stay at Ashbury, he wrote: Each academic day fits into the overall contentment a reply that might make you smile - but only if you didn't know Fabrice. In a lighter vein, he tells us that his sports were a concentration in skilful evasion with The Ashbury Oratorical Society lof which he was the founder in 19771, the Blood Donor Committee I1979-801 and the library being his real interests. Fabrice praises Ashbury for the liberality of its FABRICE CADIEUX education which stresses initiative by encouraging students f'not only to fend, but to live for themselves in the humanistic sense. Pas de zele. Talleyrand lack is an unpretentious person whose work as a paramedic in Montreal has given him an unusual breadth of experience. Service is, perhaps, a keynote of his character since he worked this year on Project 4000 ffor refugeesl and took part in the First Aid Club as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Program. He is a most personable chap who should make a promising career as a business ad- ministrator after attending Concordia University. By the way, he played First Football and won a Ladies' Guild Award of Merit in 1979. He suggests that Ashbury should seek to enhance the family atmosphere for boarders and says that he is pleased with the many good friends I made here. His quotation sums him up: Courtesy is contagiousg start an epidemic. . IACK DYM 29