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A Character Own: of its \ \ \ \ A Character of its Own: Ashbury College 1891-1991 By Tony German Forewordby The Honourable RobertL.Stanfield A Celebration of 100 years of Memories and Traditions In1891anenergeticyoungEnglish immigrant, George Penrose Woollcombe, started, as his Ottawa Journal advertisement said "a private school for a limited number of gentlemen's sons" in rented rooms on Wellington Street. Woollcombedreamedof amuchlargerprivate boarding school, its prime aim: to promote in hisstudents"thegeneralculture,theall-round developmentthatpromisesthehighesttypeof character." He won the support of Ottawa's tough-minded lumber barons and in twenty years had Ashbury College settled in its RockcliffesitewherehepresidedasHeadmaster until 1933. ACharacterofitsOwn:AshburyCollege1891-1991is about people - students, staff, Headmasters, Governors-overahundred yearsofgrowing up with the City of Ottawa. Ashbury alumni havefilledrolesfromPrimeMinisterofCanada toprofessionalmagician.Butthisisathoroughly candid account. Along with achievements it tells how: 0TheBoardpaidtoolittleattentiontochoosing Headmastersand the school lost itsbearings. 0 SomeprominentGovernors,onthevergeof subdividing the 10-acre Rockliffe property to recover their loans were forestalled by the sudden arrival of a schoolful of British war evacuees. 0 Itcamewithinanaceofhavingaunionized teaching staff. 0Itharbouredsomehilariouslyeccentricstaff, many ofits finest teachers among them. continued on backflap . . . Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/characterofitsown1991ashb A Character Own: of its Ashbury College 1891-1991 A Character Own: of its Ashbury College 1891 1991 - Tony German Foreword By The Honourable Robert L. Stanfield P.C., Q.C., L.L.D. RE—ATIVE — ** ""l Published by Creative Bound Inc. Box 424 151 Tansley Drive Carp, Ontario, CANADA KOA 1L0 (613) 831-3641 ISBN 0-921 165-15-3 Printed and bound in Canada ©1991 Tony German Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval systemortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeanselectronic,mechanical,photocopy- ing,recording orotherwise,except forpurposesofreview, withoutthepriorpermis- sion ofthe publisher. Edited by Jenny Wilson Book design by Wendelina O'Keefe CartoonsaretakenfrompastissuesoftheAshburianandAshburyCollegeyearbooks Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data German, Tony, 1924- A character ofits own: Ashbury College, 1891-1991 Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-921165-15-3 1. Ashbury College (Ottawa, Ont.)-History. I. Title. LE3.A83G37 1991 373.713'84 C91-090343-3 Table of Contents Foreword 5 Preface 7 A Chapter 1 PrivateSchoolfor Boys 9 Chapter 2 Argyle 17 Chapter 3 Rockcliffe 23 Chapter 4 TheGreatWarYears 33 Chapter 5 TheWakeofWar 58 Chapter 6 TheRoaring Twenties 65 Chapter 7 TheEnd ofan Era 75 Chapter 8 NicholasArchdale 83 Chapter 9 AbingerHill 107 Chapter 10 TheWarYears 115 Chapter 11 C.L. OgdenGlass 124 Chapter12 Ronald Perry 134 Chapter 13 TheImage ofAshbury 142 Chapter 14 HierarchicalDifficulties 150 Chapter 15 WilliamJoyce 173 Chapter 16 TurningPoint 186 Chapter 17 TowardsExcellence 196 Chapter 18 The Forum forYoungCanadians 203 Chapter 19 A SpiritofPurpose 209 Chapter20 AnthonyMacoun 218 Chapter21 TheChallenge ofChange 239 Chapter22 RoyNapier 246 Chapter23 Termsand Conditions 252 Chapter24 ACharacterofitsOwn 258 Appendix A Presidents and Chairmen ofthe Board ofAshbury College 267 Appendix B TheHeadmasters 267 AppendixC The Captains ofthe School 267 Appendix D Governor General'sMedal, Southam Cup, Woods Shield 268 Appendix E The GuildPresidents 271 Appendix F Forumfor Young Canadians 271 AppendixG WarLists 272 Appendix H Ashbury College Teaching Staff 283 Bibliography 293 Index 297 Dedication To those memorable and specially dedicated teachers who leave their imprint on our lives.

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