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F08-AV-01 - Track 1 · Item · August 1974
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of an oral history interview between faculty member D.M. 'Skin' Dewar and alumni Randy Smye '63 discussing life at Appleby College as an English teacher and football coach between 1934 and 1974. Topics discussed include the 1936 trip to Berlin Olympics; Weis Memorial window; Headmasters John Guest, Percival Wickens, Rev. Bell, staff including Mr. Colley, Alastair Walker; Mr. Whittington, Sgt. Sam Clarke, Miss Niblett and Miss James, Bruce Lockhart, John Page, Lesley Bott. Subjects include football, chapel, covered rink, Brown House, electrical system on campus, buildings around campus, Town of Oakville, golf course on campus, carving roasts at dinner, The Depression, World War 2. See attached transcription for more details.

Smye, Randy
F08-AV-01-Track 2 · Item · [1974]
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of an oral history interview between faculty member Mr. H.C. Hardwick who taught English and French from 1929 and 1964, and alumni's Randy Smye '63 and Michael DesRoches '62. They discuss life at Appleby College including quite a bit about corporal punishment and discipline.

It includes discussion of faculty member Mr. Colley and various incidents during World War 2. There is discussion about Mr. Wickens both as a teacher and later as a headmaster, life at Appleby during the Depression years and the economic difficulties the school faced; how Mr. Hardwick came to be at Appleby College as a languages teacher; how Mr. Whittington and Mr. Wickens oversaw the dramatic society.
Mr. Hardwick talks about the publication of his books as well as the school play 'How Lancelot came to Camelot'.
Other topics include: tug of war teams, inter-house battles, new gym, junior school, chapel - the opening and the organ, E.V. Brown and the building of his house; female staff including Miss James and Miss Niblett; founder Mr. Guest; the electrical system at the school, floods; facilities man Bert Halsey; different teachers and some of the stories about them and their personal lives; lists various early students and their personalities and how they were punished when they were bad.

Powell, Vernon H. De Butts
F01-S04-SS05-FL02 · File · 1911 - 1932
Part of Appleby College Fonds

File consists of correspondence between Vernon Harcourt De Butts Powell, who taught at Appleby School from 1911-1914 and Mr. Guest, Headmaster. It also includes correspondence regarding his death in World War 1 and the tragic circumstances around it.

He served in World War 1 and those letters were removed from the file and placed with the WW1 project.

File contains RESTRICTED information.

Employee obituaries
F01-S07-SS01-FL02 · File · 1938; 1949; 1951; 1981; 2001; 2004; 2005
Part of Appleby College Fonds

File consists of newspaper clipping obituaries of Appleby College employees and includes the following last names: Wickens, Colley, Whittington, Francis, Scott, Ahern, Wethey.

F01-S09-SS12-FL03 · File · 1989 - 1990; 1995 - 1996
Part of Appleby College Fonds

File consists of the Faculty Information Package for the Appleby College Extra-Curricular Activities Programme. It describes the various clubs and groups available to students and the procedure for faculty to sign up to lead the various groups. It also includes service activity programme opportunities. File also contains a list of the faculty and which club or group they are leading in 1995-1996.

File also includes the set-up programme package for 1989-1990 and two copies of the report of the Saturday Programme Committee from June 1989.

Appleby Today
F01-S07-SS06-FL03 · File · 1999
Part of Appleby College Fonds

File consists of the Appleby Today newsletter and includes articles about the retirement of Fran and Sue Richardson.