Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Sam is one of our jet-setting Ashburiansi he is a Canadian citizen but has lived in Peru, England, Germany, France and Venezuela. He has been a member of the senior soccer and hockey teams for two years and has played tennis too. Sam says he is most appreciative of the interesting teachers and students whom he has met but he also wishes that the school would supply the boarders with some form of entertainment SAM MOZE R 'Gigi' came to Ashbury in 1974 and has been a slightly in- credulous observer of things here ever sinceg his cartoons in last year's Ashburian demonstrate just how incredulous and how observant he is George has had the unique experience of making the Senior hockey team last year but not this, and he lists one of his highlights as winning the LCC. Hockey Tournament, Similarly, he remembers the senior football team's victory at BCS as a treasured moments We wish him the best next year when he goes to Queens - ultimately for medicines RICHARD PARKS and the senior hockey team with some new pants! GEORGE PETRAKOS 22 Richard plays senior football and hockey - being a stalwart of both teams. He is well liked by a variety of people, both sporting and non-sporting, a fact which testifies not only to his athletic competence but also to his tolerant manner and dry wit off the field, He has been a good prefect in fulfilling such unappealing tasks as checking tables in the dining room and supervising detentions and has also been zealous in organizing his house for inter-house competitions, HEY' Are you reading this in 2001? If you are, and if you have not been in touch with Ashbury, wont you drop us a line? Wed like to have your address. No kidding. Think about it.

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Grads: mont you send us your address in October? ll e is ant to guarantee that you receive your copy of The ,-Xshhurian. Please do so. - eds. Andrew is equally versatile on the field or on the iceg he plays Senior Football land hopes to do so at universityl and is a stand-up, alternate goalie for 'Woodys Senior Hockey team He says that he really enjoys the people he has met through sport, His favourite books which both stress determination and the obsession to overcome are Papillon and For Those I Loved. Grant is not unl ke c ock , s r convictions and sticks to them - while maintaining a mildness and a sense of humour that round out his personality Clrant's faith lfhristianl is known to everyone and has made him a useful member of The Board of Stewards' Worship Come mittee, by the same token, he has successfully begun a len- ding library of regligious books based in Chaplains C1reen's office His work as a prefect shows the same steacliness and persistence that he brings to the soccer field and to his course work in the International f3ac'calaureate And it you have doubts, he's happy to talk about them, because sOClc'Jt'N he All told, a man for all seasons ,bs ' s , Qi A4 GRANT MCINTOSH Doug is Ashbury's authentic punk rocker and he enjoys soaking in the sounds of such groups as The Sex Pistols, Rich Kids and DiI.L, He says life as a boarder is generally good - providing him with time to read books such as The Tin Drum and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, both of which he rates highly. Doug would like, he says, to amass a personal fortune and to re-organize The Sex Pistols, although he did not in- dicate which comes first.

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Allan is originally from the wilds of Deep River and has been dazzled by the glitter and polish of Athens on the Rideau ever since, He has taken part in soccer, baseball, swimming and jogging, He enjoys listening to the music of Chick Corea, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck, When he has time, he writes short stories of considerable merit, Outside of Ashbury, he has been involved with Formula Ford racing in Montreal and with being a leader and advisor to an Adventure Group of Scouts. He has earned his bronze in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. He was deeply impressed by the book For Those I Loved. Next year, Allan intends to take Psychology or English at Queens FRANK PORRECA Well, Gordo, it has been a crumb off the cake of life, these eight long years, now what's the 'scam?' For someone who knows the ropes as well as you do it is sometimes hard to tell where the head prefect of Alexander House ends and the iconoclast begins! But you've always balanced yourself well from your days as a junior School monitor up to your membership in the Board of Stewards, At least you tried. Do you remember your spirited attempt to break the mid-winter blues with the Battle at OK Corral? So what if it didn't succeed? You not only organized this year's Student Com- monwealth Conference but also injected your own brand of much needed humour into the proceedings. The school would have been worse off without you las it was during afternoon games, quite frequentlyl. Good luck, Gordo! A fog s, Q ALLAN PLACE Ashbury's own 'Italian Stallion' came to the school in grade 8 and won a merit prize in his first year. In the senior school Frank has been the first soccer team goalie for four years - a remarkable record and an indication of why he is considered one of the best in the Ottawa Valley. He says he has enjoyed making friends among students and teachers and he un- derlines the importance of the personal touch which the school has. Frank's goals include winning a soccer scholarship f to an Ivy League College J, running a restaurant like his father does lThe Caprij, and getting married and having many bambinos to help run the business GORDON SELLERS 23