Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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CHRIS WOODINC Cord has been at Ashbury since 1976, He has been involved extracurricularlx in chess, scuba diving and the Militia in addition to playing soccer, baseball, tennis and curling. In both 1980 and in 1981 he won the Most Valuable Curler Awardp Cord saxs that these awards as well as his becoming skip' constitute the highlights of his career. The most in- fluential books he has read in the past five years are Death of A Salesman and Fail Safe. Cord is aiming for a career in medicine NOBURO KITIZATO '26 Chris came with brother Matt from Brussels in 1979. Being part of a military family he is used to moving about once every three0years, Like Matt he is musically talented the plays the trumpetl and he has entered Ashbury life with a will- winning the Rowley Booth Prize in grade 12 las the best all-rounderl, captaining the ski team, rowing, and participating in both the Board of Stewards, and in Woollcombe House as a prefect. He says that while Ashbury's educational standards are on a par with other schools he has attended, the need to budget time and responsibility is more rigorous here than elsewhere, He looks forward to engineering at Queens coizo couoit GRADE TWELVE CRADS As an athletic and outgoing person, Noburo has easily made friends at a new school in a new country. Noburo has a passion for motorcycles and equally keen interests in tennis, swimming and teaching karate the has his black beltj. Cirl- watching and motocross may be the reasons why he is going to attend El-Camino University in California next year. His quotation is entirely appropriate: I may speak softly but I carry a big stick.

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Tim has done well since he came to Ashbury in 1973: he is an habitual winner of public speaking awards and various academic awards and has also been a prefect, a member of the Board of Stewards, a tuck shop manager and a representative at the Student Commonwealth Conference. Indeed, for one day, he was the stand-in for Governor General Schreyer during an Optimists Club Youth Appreciation week. He says that in his spare time he sees his girl friend Barbara, reads Anthony Burgess and plays both bass and acoustic guitar. He says he has survived the rigours of Mr. Niles' philosophy class and that is the highlight of his last year. The future? Waterloo and nuclear engineering. TIM WEBB Baxter is a relative newcomer to the school, having arrived in 1978, however his eloquent soliloquies in english and in philosophy classes will be missed. Baxter is naturally buoyant and optimistic and is quick to praise the schooI's physical setting and spirit. He even goes so far as to say that the highlight of his career is every day. Baxter was the driving force behind last year's community oriented blood donor clinic in which the Red Cross came to Ashbury and converted Rhodes Hall into a mini-hospital. He intends to take BAXTER WILLIAMS g Matt came to Ashbury in 1979 from Brussels, Belgium. His sense of purpose can be seen in his involvement in The Duke of Edinburgh Awards Programme - on a Gold level- and in his first place finish in the Science Fair Competition for his demonstration of laser holography. He is active on the ski team, in rowing, and he also does some track. His ex- tracurricular interests include the violin, canoeing and backpacking. Last year he played for the Arts Centre Or- chestra. Matt says he would like to be a doctor and he advises us that if at first you don't succeed, you're about average. Mechanical Engineering at Queens MATTHEW WOODINC 25

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Rick is leaving Ashbury after 9 years. During that time he has played softball, tennis, soccer and football ln the junior School he won a fondly remembered Humane Society Award and various ribbons for track and field. It gives him satisfaction to know that his records in discus and shotput still stand. He has continued his athletic interests in the Senior School - especially in football - where his size and weight made him invaluable until a 'trick' knee forced him into gentler pursuits. Rick says he has particularly enjoyed working on the school's grounds crew. We wish him luck next year at Algonquin, He leaves us with this thought by Charles Cabeb Cotton: The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man may answer. PAUL MURPHY Danny has been coming into Ashbury from Osgoods since 1976. Last year he won the Merit Award for year 3. His sports include being on the curling team and some tennis and soccer, His hobbies are working with automobiles and making models of cars. Danny says he appreciates the combination of athletic and academic involvement of the staff and indicates that he will attend Algonquin for a two year business diploma. RICK KONRAD Paul came to Ashbury in 1979 because he believed that the school had high standardsg he says he has not been disap- pointed His sports include playing Senior Football - as a defensive end - in 1979, He also undertook some debating and won the much coveted 'Cone of the Year Award' for his dubious ability to tear his opponents' arguments to shreds, Outside of school, he has done youth work at St. Bonaventure Church and is currently involved with a youth group at St. Charles. His attitude to life is that You only get out of it what you put into it and he intends to demonstrate his own sense of purpose by taking three years of business at Algonquin followed by two more years at university in order to gain his Bi Comm. DANNY RAINA 27