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He studied at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1952 where he met Ross Lee Finney in 1949. Finney had a good reputation after serving in World War II in which he was wounded by a land mine. Ashley stated, "Everyone treated him as if he [were] James Bond." Finney went on to approve a paper Ashley wrote on a Bartok string quartet during a weekly analysis seminar.