Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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Being a five year veteran ofthe school, there is almost nothing that an enterprising person like Mitch has not accomplished. Having a vested interest in animals, Mitch's highlights include housing bats and snakes on the flats and once saving two litters of rats from the cruel grasp of Mr. Varley, Mitch has also been on the rowing team, done community service and helped organize a blood donor clinic, Aspiring, naturally, to be a vet fatter attending Cuelphj, Mitch's antics will be missed and remembered, As The Who have said: 'fl know that sometime I must get out on my own - gotta leave them behind - but the kids are alright. MITCHELL ROSENBERC lohn came to Ashbury in 1979 and the same year was Ash- bury's Chess Champion. He was also a fullback on the Senior Soccer Team and lists his scoring of the 'clinching' goal against Sir john A. MacDonald - on a penalty shot- as being a distinct high point of his soccer experience. lohn's quiet and tolerant manner, as well as his grace under pressure, will serve him well in his chosen field of social work twhich he plans to take at Algonquini, IOHN TUCKER COMPLIMENTSQF SHAMROCK REFRESHMENTS 28