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F08-AV-86 · Item · [1983 - 1988]
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a video created by alumni Jason Smith '83 called 'Memories of Appleby College'. The video shows the Appleby College campus and buildings set to piano and choir music. The video is divided as follows:
0.00 - 0.09 minutes - title
0.10 - 1.13 minutes - Classroom and Library (Shows the Memorial Classroom Building, Science and Resource Centre, Library, McLaughlin Quadrangle and Breezeway)
1.14 - 1.48 minutes - Art Center (shows the McNichol Arts Building and court yard)
1.49 - 2.28 minutes - Gym and pool (Shows old single gym and pool)
2.29 - 2.38 minutes - The Arena
2.39 - 2.56 minutes - The Dining Hall
2.57 - 4.27 minutes - The Chapel
4.28 - 5.07 minutes - Powell's House
5.08 - 5.34 minutes - Old Cottage, The Barn, Powell's Field
5.35 - 6.39 minutes - Colley House and lower field
6.40 - 7.56 minutes - Walker House (includes the old Infirmary, back field which is now the turf field)
7.57 - 8.18 minutes - Old Infirmary (pans across to where the current health centre is located, also between Walker House and Colley House)
8.19 - 8.49 minutes - Cadets
8.50 - 9.21 minutes - Cricket (field between Colley house and the Chapel; arts building)
9.22 - 9.56 minutes - Lower field by lake, to bridge and creek
9.57 - 12.06 minutes - field in front of Headmaster's house to back field now turf field to lake

Smith, Jason
F08-AV-57 · Item · 1996 - 1997
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a promotional video about Appleby College, called "Appleby College: A Great Place To Learn. Students, faculty and staff talk about life at Appleby College. The video was used for recruitment of new students. The video is divided into the following sections:
0.00 - 1.37 minutes - Opening
1.38 - 2.29 minutes - Program Overview
2.30 - 3.35 minutes - Northern Campus
3.36 - 5.45 minutes - Activities and athletics (includes studying abroad, International service projects)
5.46 - 6.43 minutes - residence life
6.44 - 7.37 minutes - chapel
7.38 - 9.06 minutes - Set up for the future

F08-AV-47 · Item · 1990 - 1991
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a documentary video about Appleby College made by Sheridan College Students in the Fall 1990-Spring 1991 school year. The 11-minute video discusses the following:
0.00 - .059 minutes - Choir and chapel
1.00 - 1.42 minutes - John Guest and history of school
1.43 - 2.04 minutes - school motto (Michael DesRoches speaking)
2.05 - 3.48 minutes - John Bell
3.49 - 4.11 minutes - Dining Hall
4.12 - 5.17 minutes - Prefects (Kris Whalen speaking)
5.18 - 5.59 minutes - John Bell, construction, John Bell Chapel
6.00 - 7.03 minutes - sports
7.04 - 8.07 minutes - Cadets (David Moore speaking)
8.08 - 8.18 minutes - Ned Larsen and the 1970's
8.19 - 8. 39 minutes - Northern Campus/ Lake Temagami
8.40 - 9.13 minutes - Entrance Exams and new admission standards
9.14 - 9.39 minutes - Headmaster Guy McLean
9.40 - 11.00 minutes - Coeducation; closing Junior School

F08-AV-41 · Item · Jan. 6, 1984
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a promotional video about Appleby College. Items discussed include chapel, academic integrity, athletics, location, northern campus, and boarding program. The video is divided as follows:
0.00 - 1.13 minutes - Chapel and choir
1.14 - 1.40 minutes - Alexis Troubetzkoy - headmaster
1.40 - 1.54 minutes - Mclaughlin Quadrangle
1.55 to 3.59 minutes - Academic integrity (includes Steward Large, Hank Mann, Tim Bertlet, John Berriman, Stephen Krane)
4.00 - 4.19 minutes - library
4.20 - 4.44 minutes - athletics
4.45 to 5.06 minutes - location
5.07 to 7.39 minutes - Lake Temagami and Northward Bound program (includes Knobby Noble, John Easson, John Galway)
7.40 to 9.24 minutes - Sports (includes Anthony Rowe, David Singer, Peter Hobert)
9.25 to 9.33 minutes - Dining Hall
9.34 to 11.00 minutes - Boarding and residence life (includes Peter Josselyn)
11.01 - 12.18 - relationships and friendships

F08-AV-25 · Item · 1940
Part of Audio Visual Collection

Item consists of a colour movie promoting Appleby College in 1940. It shows all aspects of life at Appleby College. The movie is created by Leslie P. Thatcher.

The video is composed of the following:
0:00 – 0:09 – Exterior of Colley House
0:10 – 0:037 – Exterior of Powell’s House
0:38 – 0:45 – Faculty Cottage near barn (Possibly Shannon Cottage)?
0:46 – 1:15 – Powell’s Field, Main Field; can also see Powell’s House and Colley House in the trees
1:16 – Text: Habits in cleanliness are induced by careful, daily supervision
1:21 – 1:43 – Faculty member waking up junior students in dorm. They are sleeping in single beds
1:44 – 2:01 – Student washing in own sink area, then shows someone off screen they are lathered up before getting permission to wash soap off
2:02 – 2:23 – Nail, hand, ears, nose, face inspected for cleanliness by Faculty member
2:24 – 2:33 – Text: Privacy is respected and individuality developed for the older boys in providing them with rooms of their own
2:34 – 3:16 – Student at desk researching
3:17: Text: Worship is a daily part of the boy’s life
3:23 – 4:01 – Exterior shot of students going into the chapel, the bell tower and chapel stain glass window
4:02 – 5:17 – Rev. Bell giving a sermon; shots of students in pews; students singing
5:18 – Text: Small classes with individual attention provide thoroughness in tuition
5:27 – 5:56 – Faculty Member Mr. Colley, in classroom with map of Asia; students sitting at desks
5:57 – 7:02 – Students in science/chemistry lab; teacher at blackboard
7:03 – Text: boys learn how to live together in the recreational life of the college
7:11 – 7:36 – Boys playing pool
7:37 – 8:05 – students playing music at piano
8:06 – 8:35 – Student getting book from library shelf
8:36: Text – Masters and boys meet at meals in close informal companionship – Here table deportment is stressed
8:48 – 9:09 – Meat being carved by Master, students eating
9:10 – 9:22 – Rev. Bell eating
9:23: Text – Every boy is taught how to play and take part in games
9:29 – 9:46 – Grass tennis court, students playing tennis
9:47 – 10:11 – Students playing golf
10:12 – 10:22 – Cricket and view of playing field from Northwest corner looking south towards lake
10:23 – 10:31 – cricket and back of Colley House
10:32 – 11:38 – Text: Cricket is one of the main summer sports
Cricket games and cricket practice
11:39 – Text: Strong bodies are developed in various exercises
11:48 – 12:52 – Gymnastics – parallel bars, exercises, rolls and flips
12:53 – 15:04 – Text: A senior squad at physical drill
Outside demonstration of gymnastics
15:05 – text: Erectness of posture, smartness of carriage, discipline and perfect control are created by Cadet Corps training
15:05 – end – cadet corps training and cadet inspection
16:54 – can see the E.V. Brown Cottage in trees
17:18 – Text: Ceremonial Drill (cadets)

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.

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