THE ALUREDIAN

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PAGE P A GE Editoria l 3 Junior Litera ry and Debatin g Societ y 29 School Notes 4 F a ll odon Society 30 Chapel Jubilee Fishing Cl ub 30 JCricket, 1958 23 Crew 38

Pioneer Notes 26 Canoeing Home for the Holi- days 3!) Rover Crew 26 Correspondence 41 ,.. Sheldon Society 27 'The News-sheet' 42 Music Club 27 The Old Aluredian Club 42 History Society 28 Obituaries 51 Art Club 28 Valete 53 Modern Languages Societ y 29 Salvete 55 Literary and Dramatic Society 29 Acknowledgments 55 THE ALUREDIAN KING'S COLLEGE, TAUNTON.

EDITOR : C. M. DIAMOND. SUB-EDITORs : E. ] . LAVENDER, D. W. PERRY. Vo L. XXIX. No . 4· FEBRUARY, rgsg.

Editorial HERE is so little time to do anything, even write the Editorial of T The Aluredian, that the question of time spent in extra curricular activities springs readily to mind. For most of the senior members of the School there is very little time in which very much must be done. This is a healthy sign, which is suitably reflected in the reports of the various activities in the following pages. On the other hand, many of the junior boys in the School are not so busy, and while they are not so concerned, of course, with organisation, they do not always exploit to the full the many and varied ways available pf spending the out-of­ school hours. A Public School is after all the place for these things, which do form an important justification for our somewhat contro­ versial existence; school work, however, should not be put in danger of neglect. It would certainly be excellent if more boys, both juniors and seniors, would bring forward original contributions to The Aluredian. There was a time when such contributions, together with the Letters to the Editor, formed an important part of The Aluredian. Sadly, this is no longer the case. It must be due more to shyness than lack of ability! At any rate, some attempts would be encouraging. One improvement in The Aluredian, seen for the first time in this issue, is the simplification of House and Club and Society notes. This means that the writers of House notes especially have no longer to lose much time and perspiration in trying unsuccessfully (always unsuccess­ fully) to avoid using the same cliches which have appeared in these pages year after year. It also means that a great deal of money is saved in producing The Aluredian. Unfortunately, this factor becomes more and more important as time goes by. In conclusion, we should like to thank the previous Editor,' A. J. Holland, and his Sub-Editor, R. J. Abraham, for all the hard work which they have put into The Aluredian during the past year. THE EDITORS. a School Notes

E celebrated the sotb Anniversary of the Dedica tio n of the C hapel W this term on Friday. October 24th . This was an important date in the religious history of the School and was celebrated w ith a solemnity and sincerity fi tting to the occasion. Our Provost , the B ishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Exeter, President of the Woodard Corpora­ tion, the Bishop of Taunton, a nd Bishop Wilson, Custos of the School, we re present. In the morning there was a Sung Mass and in the after­ noon E vensong. On both occasions the Chapel w as packed to capacity with friends of the School. parents and boys. Further d etails of the J ubilee Celebration will be found in a special article in Choir notes. The Headmaster stated at Assembly one morning that the Chapter had decided at its November m eeting to e rect a new Classroom Block in rg6o . Details about this building will be available , w e hope, for publication in our October issue. King's College would like to express its vvelcome of the Cathedral School Llandaff into the Woodard Corporati on and hopes that this step will mark the beginning of a new era of success and prosperity for it . We have great pleasure in hearing of the following e lections as Fellows of the Chapter :- Rear Admiral H . W . Faulkner, C.B., C.B.E ., D.S.O. The Right Revd . D . J . Wilson. The Right Revd . The Lord Bishop of Llandaff. The Revd. W. J . P . Cox. Admiral Faulkner, Bishop Wilson and Father Cox are already well known at King's, as they are Members of the School Council. Mr. S. Carlile Davis and Mr. J . L. Rogers have retired from being Fellows. They have been Fellows for many years and we venture to associate ourselves with the many expressions of appreciation they have received. Mr. Rogers was a most generous supporter of the War Memorial Fund. The Archdeacon of Taunton, the Venerable G. F . Hilder, has also resigned his Fellowship owing to great pressure of work. He was for several years Custos of King's and Chairman of the School Council. He promoted with vigour the cause of the War Memorial Building and it was under his Chairmanship that the Appeal for the Loan was launched. We wish to express our warm thanks to him for all he has d one to help King's and we hope that in his new capacity of Honorary Fellow he will not lose touch with us. We announce with deep r egret the death of two Fellows of the Cor­ RANDALL CARTER UNMACK poration, Colonel C. J . Troyte-Bullock and the Very Reverend F. P. M.A. (Oxon.), D. es L. (Uni v. de P3r is) Harton, Dean of Wells. Headmaster 193 7- We are very grateful for the gift by Mrs. Bowes-Cavanagh of two carved oak pews in the Lady Chapel, in memory o f h er husband and Presented by Membe rs and Honorary Me mbers of her son; also for the gift of a p ew from Mrs. Miller, in memory of of the her brother, F. J . F . Russell , O.A., born 1903, died I944- The Bowes­ Old Alu red ia n C lu b Cavanagh memorial pews were dedicated on Sunday, October sth, 1958. 1958 The Russell memorial pew will be dedicated on Sunday, June 7th, at Evensong.

4 The School congratulates Mr. J. Foot, O.A., on his recent appointment in Sir R. Welensky's new Go vernment in Rhodesia. He has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary to th e Ministry of Home Affairs with special responsibility for information services. H. W. Cowling, O.A., who left King's forty-eight years ago, paid a flying visit to the School during the Michaelmas Term. He has been tea planting in Malaya. He showed his pleasure at the progress of the School by converting his loan of £roo to the War Memorial Fund into a gift. We warmly appreciate this token of his interest in the School. The Members and Honorary Members of the Old Aluredian Club have presented the Headmaster with a portrait of himself by Mr. William Dring, R.A., in honour of his 21 years' service in the School. The Honorary Members of the Club include the Chapter and the Masters. The Headmaster has given the portrait to the School and the O.A. Club has presented him and Mrs. Unmack with an artist's copy as a personal gift for them to keep in their house. This Michaelmas Term we welcome two new members of the teach­ ing staff, Mr. Baker and Mr. Lance. Both have made their mark upon the School already. Mr. Baker has impressed many people with his memories of the last war and he read an excellent paper to the History Society in which he revealed amongst other things that he was involved in the building of a bridge on the River Kwai. Mr. Lance, an ex~College Rugger player, has taken over the running of the Junior Colts, and has coached the team, which started badly, to a successful season. This year we welcome another American Exchange Scholar, Jim DeW. Perry, as successor to Michael Olds, who left King's last term after having spent a year here. Perry, who comes from Kent School, Con­ necticut, is in the Woodard, and will be at King's for a year befo.re entering Harvard University. We hope that he has enjoyed his first term here and that his initiation into the game of Rugger and into our School life has been both pleasant and painless. The South Western Division of the Headmasters' Conference were the guests of the School for the Michaelmas Meeting of the Division on Tuesday, qth October, 1958. A Working Party of Division IX of the Association of Headmasters considering the "Four Term Year" held two conferences at King's this term on Wednesday, 8th October, and on Wednesday, 19th November. At the end of a thirteen weeks' term it is refreshing to think of a school year in which most terms would be nine weeks and no more than ten I This Michaelmas Term, Sergeant-Major Gooderham has been awarded the Cadet Forces Medal in recognition of twelve years' service, but he has rendered much more than "twelve years' service" to the School Corps. After congratulating him on the decoration, we all thank him most sincerely for the pains he takes, the time he gives up for us, and the extent, far beyond that which his office requires, to which he joins in the life and activities of the School. Mr. Lyons Wilson and Mr. James held a joint Exhibition of their work at the Castle Museum in Taunton this term. The Exhibition, which ran for a fortnight, was very successful, and we congratulate them both and also thank them for all the time and trouble they devote to boys at King's. We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Wilson on the birth this term of a son, who has since been christened Andrew by the Chaplain.

B 5 The School was touched by the news of Terry's retirement at the The Summer Term ends o n Tuesday, z8th J uly. end of the Summer Term aft er twenty- tw o years' service to the School. further preachers this year are: The Bishop of Crediton, Whit­ One morning this term in Assembly he was presented with a handsome Sunday, 17th l\Iay; the Headmaster of Prestfelde, 31st May; the Arch­ tobacco bowl and a cheque as the result of the gene rous response to a deacon of Totnes, Vice-Provost, 7th June; Bishop F abian-J ackson, 12th collection at the beginning o f t erm amongst boys, masters a nd outside July; the Right Revd. Bishop A. E . J . Rawlinson, 26th July. friends. He had b ecome well known for his s teady service, his love fo r We congratulate the following on their success in the Associated King's a nd his unassuming spiri t. We wish hi m a long and happy Board of Music Examination :-Piano: A. R. J. H obbs (G rade V­ retirement. Credit), D . W. Perry (V), P. J. Reynolds (V), D . D. H ill (IV), G. C. The Carol Services attract each year a large r a nd larger n umber of Darvill (Ill-Credit), T. W. R obinson (!-Credit), P. Wadland (1- visitors. Nearly 500 people a ttended the public service in December. Credit), J. W . Morgan (I ). 'Cello: T. G. Waddington (VIII ), M. W. D. Couch (V-Distinction). Theory : A. G. There was a large number of entries from the School in the Somer­ Porter (I ) . Singing: J. (V). set Music Festival and o ur congratulations must go to the fourteen boys Gray (V), C. G. Sandercock (V), F . J. Rose who won the classes for which they entered, to the fi ve others w ho The Headmaster h as accepted works o f Special Merit from the fol­ were awarded a Certificate of Me rit for gaining 8o marks or over, and lowing :- C. M. Di amond, D. B. Abraham, A. P. J ames, A. D. Zebedee, to all those who have taught them so excellently. This year the School R. C. Kennard, R. P . Edwardes. had the greatest number of awards since it first participated in the Music Festival, whi ch augurs well for the future. Celebration of the Jubilee of the Chapel Mr. Bernard Brown, the well-known trumpeter, gave the School a recital during the Michaelmas Term. After tracing the development of N Friday,_24th October, 1958 , the School, together with a large num­ his instrument through the ages by means of 'live' examples, he gave O ber of_ fnends, parents a nd guests, celebrated the 50th anniversary a short recital on the modern trumpet . We thank him for a most inter­ of the dedicaton of the western portion of the nave of the Chapel. esting and unusual afternoon's entertainment. . This portion was dedicated on F ebruary 8th, 1908, by the Lord The performances of H .M.S. Pinafore were a resounding s uccess Bishop of E xeter. The sanctuary and eastern portion of the nave were in every sense of the word. All concerned are much to be congratu- completed in 1936 as a memorial t o the Revd. Canon V . S. Stuckey lated. Coles, f or many years Senior Chaplain of this division of the Woodard Society. It was dedicated b y the Right Revd. Bishop De Salis in 1 936, As the result of being heard by a p asser-by in l{olway Avenue, the in the presence of the Duke o f S omerset. Light Music Club was given the chance of playing for T aunton Youth Club one Sunday in the Michaelmas Term. This passer-by happened to ~he celebration took the form of two services, Sung Mass in the know that the Youth Club wanted a 'live' Skiffie Group to come to play mormng, and Evensong, preceded by a 'Te Deum,' in the afternoon. to them, and Mrs. Unmack, who is on the Committee of the Youth Club, The Mass was celebrated by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Dr. was asked if the King's Light Music Club could play for them. She H. W. Bradfield, who is also Provost of the Western Division. Also approached the Headmaster, who gave his consent. So on Sunday, taking a part in the Mass were the Bishop of Taunton and Bishop Wilson, November 23rd, they entertained the Taunton Youth Club very success­ the Custos of King's and Chairman of the School Council. fully for two hours. They were received with great enthusiasm and have After the sez:vice there was a reception held in the dining hall. Guests been asked to repeat the performance next Lent Term. and _representatives of . other Woodard Schools were received by Field Marshal Lord Harding has very kindly promised to be the the Bishops a_lr_eady mentioned, together with the Lord Bishop of Exeter, Guest of Honour at Speech Day on Friday, 12th June, 1959. the School VIsitor. During the lunch hour visitors were able to see an exhibition of photographs laid out in the Library, illustrating the history The Junior House Prizes will be presented on Saturday, 30th May, of the Chapel. 1959, by Major R. Cely Trevilian, Divisional Bursar and Fellow of the Western Division of the Woodard Corporation. Lady Whitby hopes to . The 'Te. Deum' and Evensong at 2 o 'clock were preceded by a pro­ through the Front be able to visit the Junior House in 1960 as the Prize-giver. cessiOn. This began at the Front Hall and, passing Court, proceeded to the Chapel. The Confirmation will be at 3 p.m. on Thursday, .12th March. The part in the procession were representatives from Revd. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Provost, has kindly . Among those taking Right vanous Woodard Schools, namely, St. Clare, Penzance, St. Winifred's, promised to administer the Rite. Llandudno, and Bloxham School; all bore their respective banners. The Lent Term ends on Easter Tuesday, 31st March, 1959, but O.A.s were also represented in the procession. it is rumoured that in special cases permission may be granted for boys ~ter the procession a solemn 'Te Deum' was sung in the Chapel. to join their parents on Easter Monday. The Bishop of Exeter then preached a very memorable sermon, taking The Summer Term begins on Tuesday, 28th April. as his text, "What mean ye by these stones? " The O.A. Reunion is 16th-18th May. . Strangely enough, this text was very similar to the one used by Rev. Sports Day is Saturday, 23rd May. Willam Tuckwell, a former Headmaster, in his last sermon to the School The Right Revd. Bishop D. J . Wilson, Custos, will preach at Even­ in 1878. The text used in that case was "These stones shall be a witness song on the Sunday after Speech Day, Sunday, 14th June. unto us."

6 Solemn Evensong was then sung by the C haplain, an an them_ one would answer, I suppose, we mean that this is the House of God. " Ble~ed City •. Heavenly Salem"-being rendered by the c hoi r. The Here we used to find Him, and here He g ave us His blessing. Blessmg was given b y the Bishop of Bath and Wells. But more than that. In the Chapel is made the repeated memorial After Evensong tea was served to all. The celebration of the of Chri st's death and resurrection. "This do, in remembrance of Me." anniversary was now over and the guests departed from what was a Every church is a shrine or covering for the a ltar. And the altar is the most memorable a nd inspiring occasion. memorial stone of God's delivery of His people. There is re-enacted, We are deeply grateful to the President for supplying the Aluredian re-presented, that eternal sacri fice whereby the waters , not of Jordan, with a copy in full of his sermon. but of death, are rolled b ack and entry is made into the promised land. To those who approach the altar are given the fruits of that sacrifice, THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S SERMON forgiveness of sins and newness of life. Those who approach the a ltar Joshua, Chap. 4, v. 6 ff. " What mean ye by these stones? .. . are themselves taken up into that sacrifice which is commemorated there, The waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant and are made a part of it. They are presented to the Father in heaven, of the Lord . . . and they are there unto this day. " a living sacrifice, willing victims as members of His body who gave The stones were a war memorial so to speak. They commemorated Himself for them and for the whole world. Those who approach the a great delivery. It was the beginning of the end of the delivery of the altar take real part in, are a part of, Christ's continual intercession with J ews from their bondage in Egypt. First the crossing of the Red Sea. the Father in Heaven. "Look," He says, " look on them as found in Then the long years in the Wilderness. And now the crossing of the Me ." "Look," they say, " look on us as found in Him and, despite all Jordan and the entry into the promised land. I suppose they looked our misusings of Thy grace send us back into the world to bear fruit of rather like Stonehenge, or Avebury. Twelve massive stones standing souls for Him." Those who approach the altar have already a foretaste erect, glinting eerily in the moonlight. And there they stood, for genera­ of their life in Heaven. For here earth and heaven, time and eternity tions. An Arc de Triomphe commemorating God's delivery of His people. meet and are intermingled. Calvary that was, here is. Upon this Jacob's But they are not there now. pillow of stone is set up that ladder to heaven which Calvary made and For God's delivery of His people from Egypt and His bringing of on which the angels ascend and descend as with all the company of them into the Promised Land has been superseded by that of which it heaven, men on earth laud and magnify God's Holy Name. What mean ye by these stones? We mean that here, by the mighty act of God, we I was in any case but a type and a preparation, by His delivery of man­ kind from the bondage of sin and death, and His opening of a way into pass over into the realms of heaven and kneel at the very throne of God eternal life. Not the rolling back of the waves of the Red Sea or of itself. Jordan, but the rolling away of the door of the sepulchre is that which We kneel at the very throne of God Himself. But only for a has now to be commemorated by a victory stone. The great and final moment. Fnished and done is the mystery of Thy dispensation. We triumph is that "one full perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and have made the memorial of Thy death, we have seen the symbol of Thy satisfaction," of which every Christian church is a memorial stone. What Resurrection, filled with Thy undying life, enriched by Thy inexhaustible mean ye by these stones? We mean that God has mightily delivered sweetness; but day by day or week by week finished and done. What His people: that Christ has triumphed over sin and death: that He has then? What mean ye by this worship on these stones? made all things new : that He has opened unto us the gate of everlasting Or, to put it another way, what is the relevance of this Chapel to life. This is what we mean. life in this modern world? What mean ye by these stones? An ex­ Fifty years ago they made this Chapel. And perhaps to each boy asperated and uncomprehending world may well ask the question. What of each of the generations of boys who since have used it, it has a special is the point of having a chapel in a school? meaning and enshrines a peculiar memory. Some perhaps remember it The point, for the world, is that the worship may overflow into daily as they first knew it when they were new boys : when everything else at life and may provide the springs of action and govern all relationships. school was strange and noisy and a little frightening, and home-sickness Most of our human life consists of our personal relationships one with was always just round the corner, the chapel and its services was a another, and the value, so to speak, of the Christian religion lies not so familiar place, like church at home, a place where you could be alone much in its enabling us to solve difficult but somewhat abstract moral and think and be quiet-a refuge from school life. Others, perhaps, problems, but in the power which. it bestows to get these general relation­ remember it especially at the time when they were prefects, so seriously ships right. Difficult moral problems, e.g., questions of social justice, trying to live up to their. responsibilities, to learn the ~rt; of e~ercising colour bar, pacifism, do not appear so difficult to those who have learnt authority, to rule without fear or favour, and not to fail m ones trust. to live rightly with the people they meet day by day. To learn kindli­ So many problems, perplexities and temptations brought day by day ness, compassion, tolerance, sympathy and understanding: to acquire into this chapel to be prayed about. Many more, perhaps, remember meekness, i.e., the absence or control of anger, and gentleness, i.e., the it as the scene of their Confirmation, that splendid shining moment of healing, softening peace-making touch, this is the priceless gift to men high resolve, that moment of v~sion of a dedicated .life, a. f~ding or a of the Holy Spirit of God. What mean ye by these stones? We mean a faded vision now perhaps, certamly never to be agam so VIVIdly recap­ gradual conformity to the image of Christ, a desire and ability to grow tured, and yet one still capable of inspiration. Others, perhaps, re­ like Him and to live among our neighbours as He lived. For this the member it for a half-furtive private visit at the height of some adoles­ Chapel stands: a memorial of His continuing presence within and among cent crisis or tragedy, and for the quiet, the comfort and the reassux:ance us. What mean we by these stones? We mean "Emmanuel: God with that was found here. What mean ye by these stones? Every smgle us., Indoors the House has been well represented in the two major activi­ House Notes ties of music and the opera, 'H.M.S. Pinafore. ' Sandercock (violin ) deserves special mention in these fi elds. Said , as assistant stage man­ KING ALFRED HOUSE ager, led the stage staff. On the field of play we tried, but alas without success. In the Senior House Captain : A. ]. Gullick. Rugby Football Inter-House Competition we lost to the Woodard 6--o House Prefects: R . J . Payne, T. W. Wyatt, C. H. Abraham, ]. C. in a hard-fought, muddy and enjoyable game. In the Junior we were Baker, J. M. C. Peace and K. R. L. J ones. outplayed by a strong Bishop Fox team. In the Shooting we were also unsuccessful, but the Juniors must be congratulated on coming second Deputies and Common Room Committee: P. J . Green, D. W. Perry, in the Junior Competition. N. B. Bentley, T . G. Waddington and D. C. Morgan . We greatly appreciate the s taunch support of Mr. Harvey and Mr. Wilson to the House and their uncomplaining acceptance of all the trials and tribulations of a Housemaster and his assistant. We should also like This year, in the Senior shooting, we only succeeded in gaining to thank Mrs . Harvey most warmly for her kind interest in the House. fourth place, although this may have been due in part to the fact that we shot last, by which time visibility was diminishing rapidly. We con­ gratulate J. M. C. Peace and E . J . Marshal! on being awarded their colours. BISHOP FOX HOUSE Unfortunately, in the Junior competition, we failed to retain the shield, but we congratulate R. D. Hennessy on a particularly fine per­ House Captain: R. D. Bishop. formance. House Prefects: A. G. Hopkins, E. J . Hatfield, J . Hartland, C. M. In the Senior Rugger Cup our team went down to the Meynell, Diamond, C. J . L. Langabeer, D. S. D. La Touche, F. N. Sherley­ all but their great spirit and determination made their opponents fight Price. the time. We congratulate A. J. Gullick, K. R. L. Jones and N. B. Bentley on being awarded House colours. Deputy Prefects and Common Room Committee: Miller, Paton, Hench­ Our Junior team played magnificently to emerge joint winners in a man, Osborn and Gibson. triple tie after five hours of Rugger. This term the Upper Common Room has bought another easy chair to see him go. to the greater convenience of all concerned. Bishop has been an inspiring leader and we are sorry Certainly many of us will miss his stentorian tones in lunch assemblies. Once again we should like to thank Mr. Townsend for his unfailing support and interest in the House, and we extend a warm welcome to We speak with pride of our Senior House Shooting team. We Mr. King, who has now completed one term as Assistant Housemaster. have both the Captain and the Secretary of Shooting in the Fox and many a suspicious eyebrow has been raised at our victory in the Senior competition, but our team stands above this in righteous glory. Our not far behind the winners. CARPENTER HOUSE Junior team also were We were unlucky not to beat the Woodard in the House matches, R. H. M. Smart. House Captain : but perhaps a measure of our strength was the fact that we were only School Prefect: M. C. Harris. beaten by one try after a replay. The team played excellently and only lacked penetration. We were, however, playing very much in our half House Prefects: D. J.. Starling, B. L. Said, B. K. Sum, D. A. E . White­ in the second match and the Woodard try was only the result of arduous house, I. D. Sharpe. pushing. Deputies: C. J. V. C. Brough, N. Daw. The Junior team played themselves into the final round, beating and the Carpenter to get there. However, they only Committee: C. J. V. C. Brough, P.C. Southcott, P.C. both the Meynell Common Room managed to draw with the Alfred, and we shall have to be content to Dane, N. Daw, R. D. Toogood. share the Junior Cup with both the Woodard and the Alfred. on the birth of Birth: We wish to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Wilson During the performances of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' Mr. Jacquet man­ their son, Andrew. aged to play a convincing double r6le as Stage Manager and assistant Acquisitions: This term the Carpenter were fortunate enough to move Housemaster to the Fox at the same time. into the three dormitories in Hareston, the house which the School We were, perhaps, not as well represented in the Taunton Music has recently acquired. We take this opportunity in thanking most Festival as in previous years; nevertheless, Sherle}'-Price was in the warmly the Chaplain and Mrs. Reddish for their long-suffering woodwind trio which came first and Hopkins also did well. acceptance of our presence there. 11 10 It is strange that the Housemaster should always be mentioned l ast WOODARD HOUSE in Hou_se Notes, but we are loath to deviate from ~ u s t om . Mr. Morgan has gmded the House through yet another t erm with his usual sagacity House Captain : T. H. Vodden. and tenacity. We also owe the e fficiency of Fullands House to Mrs . Morgan, a nd we are thankful to her for all she has done . Prefects: M. Aristidou, R. A. Adam, M. D. Earnshaw, J. ] . Kennedy. Deputy P refects: C. M. Kitsell, H. S. Trowell, D. B . Busfi eld, E . J. Lavender. MEYNELL HOUSE Common Room Committee: C. M. Kitsell , H. S. Trowell, E . J . House Captain : C. A. W. Martin. Lavender, N. R . Garnett. School Prefect : M. R. Martin. House Prefects: P. F. W. Twose, C. R. Eagle, J. M. Glover. We were glad t o welcome into the House this term J . de W. Perry. an American student, who will be here for a Y.e ~r . and hope that he will Deputy Prefects : P . J . Villar, A. F. Yule, A. J . Atkinson, M. J . Torrens, enter wholeheartedly into the Woodard traditiOn . C. W. Green . We congratulate the Senior House Shooting team, which consisted Common Room Committee: Atkinson, A. J ., Taylor, R. G., Torrens , of M. D. Earnshaw, T. H. Vodden, M. Aristidou, M. V. Evans and Villar, Yule. M. W. Lobb, on a v ery fin e performance. Although before the event their chances were not rated v ery highly, they s ~ot extremely well .and were second to Bishop Fox by the narrow margm of only two pomts. In a pre-war Aluredian the Meynell was reported as active if not The House was represented in the Junior Shooting Cup by J. A. Taylor, prominent in a very large number of ways. For the continuance of this P. W. Graves-Morris, J. G. Steven and C. A. Steven, and, though tradition we must thank, not as usual in the 'last but not least' fashion, none of them were very experienced, they put up a good show. We but first, Mr. Padfield, Mrs. Padfield and Mr. Jordan, the last named conrgatulate M. D. Eamshaw on being awarded his Shooting colours. especially for his interest in the sport of the House. As the result of a long struggle in the House matches we won the In the Senior Rugger competition, climax of the Michaelmas Term's Senior Rugger Cup and share the Junior Cup with the King Alfred and House Sports, we were drawn in the first round against the Alfred, who Bishop Fox. In the ?eniors, we b e a~ Bishop F?x 3-0 in a replay after proved a good opposition. After tries by Lee and Eagle, both within the first having drawn w1th them o-o; m the semi-finals we beat the Car­ first twenty minutes, they held us back for the rest of the game. In the penter 6-0, an.d m et ~he Meynell in the final, winnin~ S-3 with a try subsequent final against the Woodard we met very much stronger opposi­ and its conversiOn agamst a penalty goal. The J umor team met the tion, against which the team played very well. The scrum worked to­ King Alfred three times, the first game was 3-3. and the second and gether as a pack and outplayed the Woodard in some very useful forward third were drawn with no score in either game. As a way out of the movements. The threequarters were weaker than those of the opposition, stalemate they tossed up to decide who should play the Bishop Fox, but nevertheless performed very well. It was through the magnificent de­ who was to have played the winner. King Alfred won the toss, but their fensive kicks of Twose at fly-half that we held the W oodard back for much match with the Bishop Fox was again a draw-hence our share in the of the time. They, however, forced themselves over our line quite early in cup. The Woodard congratulates the _members. of ?oth of. its teams for the second half and scored a try which was converted. Shortly after that their very fin e performance and for therr deterrmnation durmg the House Twose secured a penalty goal, but the score remained at S-3 to them matches. until the end of the match, although we were pressing on their line to­ Mr. Pytches has been a continual source of inspiration and a guidance wards the end. The team are all to be greatly congratulated on playing to the House, and we thank both him and Mr. Whitworth for all that a fine game, and as a result of this Glover, Grant, R. I. N. , Yule, Barnes, they do for us and for the interest they show in the activities of the B. C. S., Braham, Buchman, Carter, Couch, Kimberlin, Lee, Torrens, House. Trigg and Villar were awarded their House colours and Twose, Eagle and Martin, C. A. W., re-awarded them. In the Junior Competition we were not so lucky, being drawn Choir Notes against the Fox, but the team put up a very good resistance and there T the end are promising players among them. of the Summer Term we lost several of our members, of A wham we should mention our Head Chorister, A. J. Holland, who In the Senior Inter-House Shooting Competition we were unlucky in has given the choir many years of valuable service. However, under having a team with little experience, only one of whom had shot in the Mr. Tyler's able guidance, we settled down to what was to prove a very School VIII and we came a close fourth. However, in the Junior Com­ busy term. petition, the team-Budge, Payne, Gray and Thomas-performed very well, earning first by a clear margin of I4 points. October 24th was the Jubilee of the Dedication of the Chapel. The celebrant at the Sung Eucharist was the Provost, the setting being Tyler The table tennis table has at last been re-topped after eleven or so in A. The afternoon service was a fitting climax to such an important years of suggestions. The game has been revived greatly this term, due day in the history of the School, opening with Stanford's 'Te Deum' in to an influx of keen juniors, among whom are several promising players. B fiat and finishing with Bairstow's 'Blessed City.' In mid-November a selected portion of the C hoi r t ook part in a re­ suit from pressing. . It was perhaps a pity that reasons of economy cital of music at St . Andrew's Church as part of their Organ Fund prevented the dressmg of . the sisters, cousins and aunts-a very pre­ Appeal. Four anthems were sung and Couch sang a solo, 'It is enough,' sentable lot-m a more umform style and one more suitable to the date ah,' with Waddington playing the 'Cello Obligato, and Bent­ from 'Elij of the piece. ley sang a tenor solo , 'Adam lay y-bounden.' The recital was concluded by the 'Magnificat' and 'Nunc Dimittis' to Stanford's setting in G. Buchman, Vodden and Paton gave admirable support to Bentley On Remembrance Sunday we sang a t the British Legion's annual as members of the c:ew. Vodden brought the necessary vigour to the Service at the Empire Hall. Although the torch proved a little e lusive, part of th~ Boatswam's Mate, but his accent was of puzzling origin . we trust that our singing was befitting to the occasion. Is Oi-tal-man as funny as the original I-tal-i-an ? Paton gave one of It is now becoming a custom that we beat W ellington in the Music the most completely satisfactory performances of all. He sang the part Festival and this year was no exception. Our performance of Charles of Deadeye very competently and his acting of the mis-shapen villain Wood's 'Expectans Expectavi' gained us 85 m arks to our rivals 75. of the piece was very .accomplished. Perhaps the best items in the per­ e tno of Buchman, Vodden and Bentley, 'A British The Choir formed the backbone of 'H.M.S . Pinafore,' but that i s formance were th tar is a soaring s oul, ' in which they received rousing support from the the scope of these notes. not within chorus, and the duet, 'The Merry, Merry Maiden and the Tar,' in which . It has been .said that th~ Michaelmas Term would not b e complete the singing of Couch and the s ubtle characterisation of Paton were Without the Festival of the Nme Lessons and Carols. This year saw the shown to full advantage. introduction of several new carols, including 'A Spotless Rose,' by Howells; 'Adam lay y-bounden'; and '0 leave your sheep.' The most accomplished p erformance of all has been left until last: that of Martin, a. ruler of whom the Queen's Navee could be justly proud. Sublim~ arrogance and self-importance were expressed H.M.S. Pinafore in ey~ry gesture and lme, an? his voice was in the true Savoy opera traditiOn for such parts. Th1s was a p erformance which would have HEN give three cheers, and one cheer more-not only for the gallant graced any stage. T captain, but also for the whole crew of the 'Pinafore,' not forgetting the men below decks in the orchestra pit. A performance such as we If the occasion had been m emorable in no other way it would in­ saw on Thursday night made it well-nigh impossible to believe that deed h~ve been so for the part played by the orchestra, studded it is there is not a well-established operatic tradition at King's. So many true WJth stars from other firmaments, but composed to a very large flashing eyes, so many bosoms swelling with pride, spoke of an assur­ de~re e, ~ the P~oduce r and Music~ Director pointed out with proper ance usually born of long experience. And though the singers concen­ ~nde m h1s curtam spee~h, ~f .boys m the S~hool. Heartiest congratula­ trated on telling the tale in their own melodious way, they had plenty tions to them all for their spmted accompamment, which played a large of time for play. A triumph for all concerned, and above all for Mr. part in the evening's entertainment. Tyler, whose boundless energy and enthusiasm inspired this produc­ 'Our sau~y s~ip ' s a beauty,' and the audience agreed with the crew. tion. It remains a mystery how the training of cast and orchestra to The set was mev1tably the work of Mr. Jaquet and his band of indus­ such a degree of excellence could be carried out within so short a time. trious stage hands; it had everything demanded: atmosphere Fortunately, he had some excellent material at hand. Couch as simplicity and style. A fine piece of work! ' Captain Corcoran and Bentley as Ralph were always a d elight to listen The British tars' cheeks should flame, but should the fashion have to. The gallant Captain's mood was admirably suited to the melan­ s~read to the r.est of ~he cast? The make-up of Sir Joseph Porter and choly state of affairs at the beginning of the second Act when every­ DI~k Deadeye .m p~rtic~lar and the principals in general was good, but thing is either at sixes or sevens. Perhaps, at other times, he seemed a a httle more d1scretion m the use of paint and powder might have been little solemn, but this did not seem out of keeping with the dignity of beneficial to some of the complexions we saw. so distinguished an officer. Bentley, too, laid proper emphasis on the music; he might try to move his head rather less in the course of his . Gr~titude . for the invaluable assistance and support of numerous lyrical outbursts. ~nends m le~dmg costumes and properties and in helping with make-up Toland sounded, and looked like a Buttercup of long experience, IS recorded 1~ the progra~e: as ever, and perhaps even more than a plump and pleasing person, while Darvill, a maiden fair to see, the ever, the lad1es of the Sewmg Room are to be thanked for their tireless pearl of minstrelsy, sang the very difficult part of Josephine with great help. It is a very real achievement, but only two of the very many courage and dash. and never, never missed her B. What! never? No, costumes needed had to be hired. never. His wholehearted playing of the role made him a delightful And o~e c?ee~ more! for Master J. C. L. J ames, so dignified and heroine. Atkinson's voice was a trifle small for the part of Hebe, but stately a MJdsh1pm1te, but he must surely qualify one day for the chorus he was always tuneful and looked as though he might be able to rule of Peers in 'Iolanthe.' Sir J oseph when given the chance. . ~he keynote of the performance was enthusiasm and this was so 'Fhe performance was held together by the fine, disciplined sing­ mfechous that many of the audience must have felt they were seeing the ing of the crew and the friendly chorus of Sir J oseph's female relatives. o~era as fresh as when .it was first produced eighty years ago. It cer­ The men in particular were magnificent and their smartness indicated tamly had much more hfe than many professional productions. that Ralph was no.t the only audacious tar who refused to refrain his P.V.H. 14 15 Assistant Stage Manager B . L . Said 'H.M.S. PINAFORE' Lighting Designer ...... M. F. Jaquet, Esq. Gilbert & Sullivan Electricians P . W . Villar, C. W. Green, J. G. James I. H. Baker, C. J . V. C. Brough, M. J. C. Thuell (by kind permission of Bridget D 'Oyley Carte) Stage Hands Properties F. J. Nye, J. A. Spence CHARACTERS Wardrobe R. J . G undry, E. M. Hatley, D. C. Morgan Make-up Mrs. L. B. H. C. Baker, M. F . Jaquet, Esq., The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., R. ] . West, D. W. Perry, N. Daw, C. A. W . Martin K. R. Wilson, Esq., R. First Lord of the Admiralty B . C. S. Barnes, R. J. Paton Captain Corcoran, Commanding ' H.M.S. Pinafore' D. ] . Couch Coiffeuses Miss M. R . Harley, Miss P . G. Warne Ralph Rackstraw, Able Seaman N . B. Bentley Call Boys D. J . D. Henchman, W. Treharne-Jones Dick Deadeye, Able Seaman .. R. J . Paton Scenery designed by the Stage Manager and built under his direction by Bill Bobstay, Boatswain's Mate T. H . Vodden L. B. H. C. Baker, Esq .. I. H . Baker, J . G. James, B . L . Said, A. G. Gray. Bob Becket, Carpenter's Mate R. E . Buchman Scenery painted under the direction of W. Lyons Wilson, Esq., by M. J. Tom Tucker, Midshipmite J . C. L . James Torrens, P. J. Green, D. C. Morgan, C. P. Jones. Sergeant of Marines ...... D. J . Starling The costumes of Sir Joseph Porter and the Midshipmite by Rose Shaw, of Josephine, The Captain's Daughter G. C. Darvill Bath. All other costumes either lent by kind friends or made by the Hebe, Sir Joseph's First Cousin T . J . Atkinson Ladies of the Linen R oom Little Buttercup, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman N . P. Toland Hired Lighting Equipment-Strand Electric. Ship's Bell lent by the Somerset Fire Brigade. CHORUS OF SISTERS. COUSINS & AUNTS We are most grateful to all those, too numerous to mention individually, who have kindly lent properties, and helped the production in many ways. C. J . Deane M. R. C. Kent J . R. Robbins J. R. M. Delacour 0 . M. R. B . Marke F. J. Rose ] . R. Halton C. A. G. Paul A. D. T . Thomas A. R. J. Hobbs G. B . Radcliffe G. Tucker J . M. Hughes P . J . Reynolds M. J . Waterhouse J . G. James K.C.R.F.C. CHORUS OF SAILORS Captain: R. D. Bishop. Vice-Captain : T. H. Vodden. R . P. Edwardes C. M. S. Kitsell I. D. Sharpe A. G. Gray J. M. C. Peace J . M. Shove Hon. Secretary: C. R. Eagle. C. W . Green D. W. Perry M. J . Torrens P. J. Green J . C. Robinson G B. Val!ender T was very fortunate this year that there were still eight members of E. J. P. Hepworth P . R. W. Robinson I last year's XV here besides some very promising Colts players. This MARINES ensured that the season would be successful and it has been : only two matches have been lost and a high standard of Rugby has been C. R. Eagle N . R . Garnett achieved on many occasions. ORCHESTRA Remaining from last year we had in the scrum R. D. Bishop, C. R. First Violins F . W . Hart, Esq. (Leader) , Eagle and H. S. Trowell, while in the back division there were T. H. Mrs. E. Sturgess, D . B. Abraham Vodden, Adam, Harris, Martin and Twose. Second Violins P . Y. Lee, C. G. Sandercock For the traditional trial match against G. W. Morgan's XV, the Viola Mrs. G. H yde vacant places on the wing and at scrum-half were filled by Starling and 'Cello T. G. Waddington Osborn; Aristidou and Paton joined Bishop in the front row, Price be­ Bass A. John Sherley­ Esq., C. H . Abraham came Eagle's new partner in the second, and Lavender and Flutes H . K. H . King, were, as usual, Miss G. Burrows Price with Trowell comprised the back. Our opponents Oboe drawn mainly from the ranks of the Somerset Police, and remaining Clarinets D. A. Sturgess, Esq., F . N . Sherley-Price S. T. Walker, Esq. positions were filled by M. J . Jordan, Esq., and five King's boys. The Bassoon game was played under dry conditions and showed the team in a fairly Trumpet R. I . N. Grant Trombones T . B . Ravenor, Esq. , R. W. Hollington, promising light, although there was obviously room for improvement. W . A. Rogers Our three tries were unconverted, and this problem of having no really Timpani and Percussion M. H. Ferguson competent goal kicker dogged us through practically the whole season. Our opponents scored one converted try. Producer and Musical Director : J . M. TYLER, Esq. An 'A' XV was fielded against Downside School 2nd XV, and their performance was a joy to watch. Downside were completely outplayed, and, following some almost text-book passing movements, Martin and Assistant Conductor ...... J. J . Kennedy Starling on the wings scored three tries each. We eventually won by the Stage Manager ...... M. F. Jaquet, Esq. wide margin of 32-0. House Manager ...... G. W. Morgan, Esq. 17 16 Cheered by this result , the team we nt to Exeter in high spirits. Un­ The last game of the season was against the Old Aluredians. In a fortunately, however, as the result shows, we were unable to adapt our ve ritable morass we won 3-0. Despite the mud, on several occasions play to counter the tactics being employed by our opponents. Thus the O.A.s' backs produced dangerous movements. However, they lacked instead of kicking, both for touch and midfield, we persisted in orthodox the essential forward superiority to make real use of their abilities . The passing movements which gained no ground and made possible several type of play and the score were inevitable, but it is interesting to wonder Exeter break-throughs. what would have happened had the weather been kinder. Following this match, there was a re organisati on of the team. Shove R.D.B. an.d B:ough came in instead of Paton and Sherl ey-Price at prop and blind-side wmg forward ; Harns was mo ved from half-back to bring pene­ tratiOn to the centre; and the displaced Twose became wing instead of JUNIOR COLTS Starling. The full back position was fill ed by Gibson. After an inauspicious start, followed by some changes in the team, . The_ rearranged team showed its paces against Clayesmore, nine tries the first victory came at Bruton; this established the pattern for the rest m all bemg scored. The play of the threequarter line proved undoubtedly of the season. The threequarters, although not always remembering to that the changes were wise ones. Twose, especially, showed that his move as a line, and, if necessary, to tackle low, were constantly re­ new position suited him by scoring six tries. minded of their duty by Llewellyn, who, as Captain and fly-half, be­ Against Millfield, as against Clayesmore, the scrum showed that it came an example to the whole team of both aggressive attack and reso­ lute defence. In the early part of several games the forwards were slow w~ a powerful machine, the backs having considerably more than their fair share of the ball. The low score of 3-0 can be attributed to the on to the loose ball, but usually Statham's consistent vigorous scrum­ very good covering and defence of the Millfield team and also to a cer­ maging gave a lead which the rest of the pack followed in time to pro­ tain lack of real penetration in our threequarter line. vide the backs with enough of the ball to score tries. Towards the end of the term the team really began to play together and contrived to The back ,division showed up better against Allhallows (away) keep the game open, even on some very muddy pitches. Twose again distinguishing himself by scoring fiv e tries. A very fit All~ J .R.L. hallows pack prevented our forwards giving the threequarters the usual high percentage of possession of the ball. RESULTS The match against King's School, Bruton, proved to be rather 1st XV scrappy. At no time during the whole game did either side appear ex­ ponents of the new rules and there was no fast and open Rugby of the Oct. 1 'A' XV-G. W. Morgan 's XV (home) Won 8- 5 Oct. 4 'A' XV-Downside School 2nd XV (home) Won 32- 0 standard envisaged. Oct. 8 Exet er School (away) Lost 6-8 After travelling to Dartmouth we were rewarded by a clean, fast Oct. 11 Clayesmore School (home) Won 29- 0 Oct. 15 Millfield School (home) Won 6-0 and open game. Although the scrum was unable to dominate the large Oct. 18 Allhallows School (away) Won 21-0 pa~outh pack, _the threequarters made good use of the ball and by Nov. 1 K ing's, Bruton (home) .. . Won 17- 0 mtelhgent play gained an II-O victory. Nov. 5 R.N.C., Dartmouth (away) Won H-0 Nov. 8 Canford School (away) Drawn 3--- 3 The Canford match, for the second year, was a 3-3 draw. How­ Nov. 15 Kelly College (home) Won 25- 3 ever, this again was partly due to the fact that, although we had a slight Nov. 19 West Buckland School (home) Won 3--- 0 superiority in the scrummage, our backs lacked the final dangerous thrust Nov. 22 Bryanston School (away) Lost 3---14 which is essential for good threequarter movements. Nov. 29 Queen's College (away) ... Won 9-0 Dec. 13 Old Aluredians (home) Won 3--- 0 The te:un played tog_ether better than in any other match against Played 14. Won 11. Drawn 1. Lost 2 . Kelly, and 1t was only the1r hard work and firm defence which prevented Points for : 176. Points against : 33. a higher score than 25-3· The threequarters were merely spectators in the match against West 2nd XV Bu~~nd, which was inevitably ~ forward ~attle, due to the very muddy Oct. 8 Exeter School (home) Won 11- 0 cond1bons. Our try was scored 1n the penod of the game at the begin­ Oct. n Taunton R.F.C. Colts (away) Lost 0-14 ning before the ball became unmanageable, and showed what the game Oct. 15 Millfield School (home) Won 14- 3 might have been like had the conditions been better. Oct. Hl Allhallows School (home) Won 17-11 Oct. 22 S.F.I., Cannington (home) Won 43--- 3 Something must have happened during our trip to Bryanston, for Oct. 25 Sidcot 1st XV (home) Won 26- 3 we seemed to have returned to the Exeter match days. Some unfortu­ Oct. 29 Crewkeme 1st XV (away) Lost 3--- 9 nate luck and also a lack of adaptability and cohesion resulted in a Nov. 1 King's School, Bruton (away) Won 44--0 Nov. 8 Canford School (away) Lost 0-8 14-3 loss. Nov. 15 Taunton R .F.C. Colts (home) Lost 3--- 5 The backs regained some lost form for the match against Queen's, Nov. 19 West Buckland School (away Drawn 3-3 Nov. 22 Milton Abbey 1st XV (home) Lost 0-3 and, considering the conditions, some remarkably fine open play was Nov. 29 Queen's College (away) Won 6-0 seen. A sloping pitch made it difficult to get out of the mud bath at the Dec. 6 Weston G.S. 1st XV Won 5-3 bottom, which naturally made it unlikely that a high score could be Played 14. W on 8. Drawn 1. Lost 5. achieved. Points for: 175. Points against : 57.

H! 19 The following represented the Junior Colts :- . . .. Senior Colts XV Smith (iv) (KA), Miles (M) , Magurran (Bp.F ). Evans (1v) (W). Rees (u) Oct. 4 Downside School (home) Lost S-28 (M) , Llewellyn (KA) (Capt. ) , Eva ns (iii) ( Bp.F), Statham (W). Stephens Oct. 8 Exeter School (away) Won 26- 5 (W). Whitton (Bp.F) . F onseka (Bp.F) . Bracey (W) , Burtoo (C) , D eane Oct. 15 Millfield School (away) Lost 9-10 (C) , Riess (Bp.F). Hennessy (ii ) (KA). Cooke JBp.F) . Kelley (W ). Oct . 18 Allhallows School 3rd XV (away) Won 9-6 Stewart (C). J ennings (M) . Shergold (M ) . Adam {11) W. Oct. 29 Taunton School (home) Won 12- 9 The following represented the ' Under 14' Colts :- .. Nov. 1 King' s School, Bruton (home) Won 12- 0 Bishop-Stephens (KA). Smerdon (M) . Sirns (~), Bentley (11) (Bp.~). Nov . 12 Taunton School (away) Lost 3- 5 Morice {KA). Madin (Bp.F) . Smith (ii) (M). Vmcent (W) . Bentley (111) Nov. 15 Milton Abbey School (away) Won 9-0 (Bp.F). Wood (Bp.F), Timpson (W). Trythall (Bp.F) (Capt.) . Launders Nov. 22 Bryanston School (away) Drawn 3-3 (M). Fleming (M). Ford (M). Burnfield (M) . Batey (Bp.F). Grun (W) . Played 9. Won 5. Drawn l. Lost 3. Scorers for the 1st XV :- . . . . Twose, 17 tries, 5 penalty goals, 12 conversiOns; Martm. 13 tnes; Starling. Points for : 71. Points against : 66 . 6 tries; Price, 4 tries; Harris, 3 tries; Adam, 1 try, 2 conversions; Vodden, Junior Colts XV Aristidou, Trowell, Brough, 1 try each. Scorers for the 2nd .xv :- . . . Oct. 8 Exeter School (home) Lost 0-22 Edwardes, 2 tnes, 3 penalty goals, 8 conversiOns; Starhng, 7 tnes; Hat­ Oct. 15 Millfield School (away) Lost 5-24 fi eld, 2 tries. 1 penalty goal, 4 conversions; Kitsell, 4 tries; Lobb, 2 tries; Oct. 18 Allhallows School (home) Won 26-3 Pearce, 2 tries; Earnshaw, 2 tries; Glover, 2 tries; Whitehouse, La Touche, Oct. 29 Taunton School (home) Lost 5-22 Langabeer, 1 try each. Nov. 1 King's School, Bruton (away) Won 41- 0 Won Scorers for the Senior Colts XV :- Nov. 12 Taunton School (home) 5- 3 Russell, 7 tries, 1 drop goal; Lipman, 7 tries; Monk, 4 tries; Vaux, 2 penalty Nov. 19 West Buckland School (away) Won 3- 0 goals, 2 conversions; Fussell, 2 tries; Beal, 2 tries; Trigg, Kay, Butt, 1 try Nov. 22 Milton Abbey School (home) ... Won 16- 0 Nov. 29 Queen's College (home) Won 9-0 each. Dec. 6 Weston G.S. (home) Lost 3-8 Scorers for the Junior Colts XV :- Evans (iv). 5 tries, 9 conversions; Miles, 8 tries; Magurran, 4 tries; Rees, Played 10. Won 6. Lost 4. 4 tries; Smith, 2 tries; Llewellyn, 2 tries; Adam, 2 conversions; Kelley, Whitton, Riess, Hennessy. Burton, 1 try each. 'Under 14' Colts Evans (iii), Fonseka, Scorers for the 'Under 14' Colts XV :- Nov. 5 Taunton School (home) ... Won 14- 3 Madin, 2 tries; Smerdon, 1 try; Batey, 1 try; Bentley (iii). l penalty goal; Nov. 15 Milton Abbey (away) Lost 0- 6 Evans (iv). 1 conversion. Nov. 19 Taqnton School (away) Lost 0- 3 Nov. 29 Queen's College (home) Won 3-0 K.C.M.R.C. The following were re-awarded 1st XV colours :­ T the beginning of the season prospects for the Shooting VIII looked T . H. Vodden, C. R. Eagle, H . S. Trowell. A virtually hopeless because only two members of the previous team The following were awarded 1st XV colours :- remained. However, in looking up various classification shoots, we R. A . Adam, M. C. Harris, M. Aristidou, W . A. Price, M. R. tried about ten boys for the remaining six needed. We were surprised at Martin, P. F . W. Twose, J. M. Shove, A. G. Osbom. being able to select a definitely hopeful eight, which, although it has been The following were awarded XX's colours :- . changed quite considerably during the term, has always shot very satis­ Lavender, R. S., Gibson, J. S . P., Brough, C. J. V. C .. Hatfield, E J ., factorily. The more or less permanent members of the team, besides the Sherley-Price, F. N. captain and secretary, were Earnshaw, Starling, Marshall, Vaux, Monk, The following were awarded XLV's colours :- Gilbert and Lobb. Budge and Grant also shot frequently. Results this Bentley (i), Glover (i) . Lobb, Martin (i), Langabeer, Kitsell, Yule, Smart. term have been very satisfactory. We have won all our "Country Life" there were nineteen. Unfortunately, we did not do as The followng were awarded Colts XLV's colours :­ matches, of which Monk, Philippe (i). Butt (i). Trigg. well as this in the N.S.R.A. matches, where we in fact won only three of the nine that we took part in. The following represented the 1st XV :- This term we have had some very good individual scores. Hatfield Gibson (Bp.F), Martin (ii) (M), Harris (C), Adam (i) (W), Twose (M), has had three maximum scores in the N.S.R.A. matches, Sherley-Price Vodden (W). Osbom (Bp.F), Bishop (Bp.F) (Capt.). Aristidou (W). Shove (Bp.F). Price (Bp.F), Eagle (M). "Brough (C), Lavender .(W). two in the "Country Life," and Starling one in an N.S.R.A. match. Trowell (W) , Hatfield (Bp.F). Sherley-Price (Bp.F), Paton (Bp.F), We hope that our success will continue in the Lent Term, as we shoot Starling (C). "Country Life" only. F. N. Sherley-Price, D. J. Starling and M. D. were awarded colours. the 2nd XV :- Earnshaw The following represented Average Average Edwardes (Bp.F), Pearce (W). Whitehouse (C), Bentley (KA), Hatfield C.L. N.S.R.A. Aggregate (Bp.F) (Capt.), Smart (C) , Lobb (W), Martin (i) (M), Glover (i) (M). E. J . Hatfield (Captain) 97.3 99.1 98.9 Paton (Bp.F), Langabeer (Bp.F), Eamshaw (W), Sherley-Price (Bp.F), F . N. Sherley-Price 96.1 97 .3 97.1 Kitsell (W), Yule (M), Said (C), Henchman (Bp.F), Starling (C), La M. D. Earnshaw 93.1 92.3 95.7 Touche (Bp,F), Bonsey (Bp.F). Reyuolds (C). D. J. Starling 95.7 96.0 93.6 The following represented the Senior Colts :- Marshall ... 91.6 94.4 92 .3 Vaux 92.5 92.2 91.3 (Bp.F). Vaux {C), Lipman . (W), Russell (Bp.F). Lyle (K.A.), Fussell Lobb 91.1 92.0 89.6 Monk (W) (Capt.), Trigg (M), Beal (W), Taylor (ill) (Bp.F), Butt (i) Gilbert 90.6 91.0 92.5 (Bp.F), Kay (C) , Braham (M). Jones (iii) (KA) . Taylor (iv) F.S--P. (W). Philippe (i) (KA) , Bames (iii) (W). Hennessy (ii) (KA). D 21 20 C.C.F. Notes performed outstandingly, but the standard of fighting was very high throughout. (I ncidentally, Bruton had beaten Queen's, so we can chalk UR experiment this summer of running our own camp, o n the lines up a theoretical v.ictory over them as well. ) As for m embership, we are O of Simonsbath, for volun teers for all levels, was not an unqualified now full to capactty. success-the weather was too unkind for that- but it was certainly a The Club is organised in three groups, of roughly eight members in great achievement. For instance the bulk of the tentage at four di s p ~ rse d The seniors have been con­ sites was put up, and some tons of stores d1stnbuted by a relat!vely each; seniors, intermediates and juniors. rn sabre, and are progressing very satisfactorily, although small advance party in heavy wind and rain. This was some feat, as tinuing to lea our sabre is still rather basic. The sabre is a very interesting weapon, in 12 working hours. it was accomplished and we intend to challenge Queen's to a sabre match in the Lent Term . Then the weather relented and training went ahead well until the The match result against Bruton speaks for our foil. We have only the week-end. Some members of the Cadre Camp covered 45 miles in taken on the one match this Michaelmas Term as we have been concen­ 6o hours with full kit or the trolley. The remainder of the Cadre were trating on the sabre. not far behind as to total distance covered . Co-operation between the Cadre and Middle Camps on this scheme was successful. The Middle The intermediates are now reaching the more advanced stages of Camp, using transport to rush from one important road junction to foil, and look very good. We would like to arrange a match for them another, managed to waylay most of the Cadre groups on th e 1~ weary in the Lent Term, but we seem to have more members than any other way home from ambushing Captain Pytches on the Brendon H1lls. school club in the a rea, which makes junior matches difficult to arrange. On Sunday the rain came again, and we were lucky that it did The juniors comprise the eight new members who joined us at the later let up and allow us to strike camp only in a Scotch ~~ st. It did beginning of term, and who are, of course, learning basic foil. They are put paid to the final scheme, whtch in.volved all th~ee trammg camps. progressing quite remarkably well and we can expect great things in After a very wet night out, when the M1ddle and J umor camps fell upon the future. the Cadre's out-camp, they found that the Cadre were already on their way back to base, and were showing little interest in the attacks ~ade At present the seniors and intermediates are instructed personally upon them. This was a pity, as the sc?eme should hav.e ~ e en the chmax by Prof. Sanders, and the seniors teach the juniors under his supervision. of a tough week's training for the Jumors. However, 1t IS clear that co­ This is the first term we have been able to do this, and it seems to be a operation between the different groups is too much to hope for-par­ very good system: it means each junior gets practically in­ ticularly if one goes away. dividual tuition, and their rapid progress is certainly a tribute to its success. We are not yet fully geared to the new training syllabus, but ~h e adjustment to a three-term N .~ .. 0 . Cadre and a s~orter . course leadmg To sum up, this Michaelmas Term has been one of progress and to the Army Proficiency Cert1ficate (old _Part 2) 1s takmg place, a~d consolidation. The Club is flourishing and becoming stronger and should create opportunties for even more mterestmg and valuable tram­ more experienced every term. As for the future, we are arranging ing in the Cadre. The pass rate in the first A.P.C. exam. was only 70 several matches for the Lent Term, and even more dramatic progress is per cent, but all the failures were in drill, and something will be done to be expected then. ! to rectify this We would like to tharlk Prof. Sanders for his endless care and Senior N.C.O.s at the end of term were:­ patience in teaching us, and Mr. Morgan for his constant attention and Under Officer : Martin, M. R. great interest in the affairs of the Club, in spite of all the other numerous S/ Sergeants: Harris, Kimberlin, Martin, C. A. W. activities which clamour for his precious time; and now our most sincere hearty thanks to Mr. Mangin for the enormous amount of time and Green, Hartland, Hat­ and Sgts.: Adam, Aristidou, Bishop, Earnshaw, trouble he has so freely devoted to the Club. Without him we could Whitehouse. field, Hopkins, Smart, Starling, Vodden, never have achieved anything like the progress we have made AJC.Q.M.S.: Wyatt. this Michaelmas. M.ST.J .F. Fencing Club URING the Michaelmas Term the Club has been even more active Junior Colts Cricket, 19s8 D than usual. The normal tuition period has taken place every Tues­ day; and in the interests of ~atch fenci!lg t~ere ha~ been a _compulsory (This account should have appeared in t he last number of the practice every Sunday, whtch we thmk IS addmg fightmg fire to "Aluredian ," but the notes were mislaid.) academic technique Matches played: 6. Won 2. Drawn 2. Lost 2 . As for the Club itself, French and Perry took over the leadership at the beginning of term. Few of the old members had left at the end HIS season was in some ways more successful than these figures of the summer, and so there remained a hard and experienced core of T would suggest, for it is at least four years since we lost as few as fighters, who proved themselves by decisively bea~ing King's School, two matches. In only one of the matches lost was the opposition too Bruton, our old and willing rivals, by r6 fights to nme. Lee and Blade strong for us : the oj:her we presented to them ! Three of our batsmen

22 23 r r eturn match with Taunton allowed themselves to be run out. Indeed, the season w as remarkable Rain caused the cancell ation of ou for the sudden epidemic of run-o uts which afflicted us a t the beginning School- perhaps it was just as well! of July. There were no fewe r than seven in three matches. In the The last fixture was against Exeter School (away). Our opponents drawn games the advantage lay with us when stumps were drawn . batted first and took an hour to score 18 runs on a w icket which gave our bowlers no help. By teatime they had raised the total to 52 fo r 4· e who are at present of small There are several boys in this young sid After tea, however, they more than doubled the score i n 25 minutes by stature, but who will undoubtedly make their mark in a year or two ind ulging in some big hitting-to the discomfiture of our bowlers. They ect, mention must be made when they are somewhat taller. In this resp then d eclared at IIZ-6, leaving us about 100 minutes' batting. It must is already a very competent of J . S. Smith, who, for his size and age, be confessed that I f elt the task beyond our capabilities, especially as all-rounder; of Phillips, who proved a reliable bat and a quietly efficient the opposition was a team of giants, two o f their tallest opening the of Evans, who, although large scores eluded him, has none­ captain; and bowling with a fair turn of speed. theless the makings of an excellent cricketer in all departments. This year, his fielding was at times quite brilliant, and his accurate and swift However, my gloomy f ears we re g radually dispersed. Smith and pick-ups and returns accounted for several of our opponents' wickets. Phillips made the highest first wicket stand for many years. It was Others who did well in this important department of the game almost incredible, for not only did it seem that we had a chance of saving were Llewellyn, who saved many runs by fielding in a 'suicide' position the game, but even of forcing a win, if the batsmen were a ble to keep at forward short leg, and Rose, who improved as the season progressed. up the rate of scoring. On the whole the team fielded very well. On Phillips' dismissal for 23, Jennings came in and hit I7 before As usual, we opened with the Allhallows match (home). Once being caught. That was 99- 2, and Smith was still there and batting again, however, we had to be content with a draw in our favour. We very well indeed. Only I4 runs were needed-but there were only seven made IOI for 6 dec., to which our visitors replied with 6I for 7· In minutes left for play. Smith was caught after making a well-deserved this match we were indebted to Monk for a handsome 32 . 54, and Fonseka and Salman hit off the necessary runs in the last over. We had won by seven wickets. The team is to be congratulated on its We were next visited by the School whom we have not succeeded performance and on snatching a v ictory amid mounting excitement. in defeating for many years. Taunton were too goo~ for us, b.owling us out for 38 and making 4I-I in reply. They contmued battmg, how- · Looking back over the season, it must be said in fairness to our ever, and we eventually dismissed them for 77. bowlers that they were most unlucky at times. Stewart in particular, on whom we relied to take the early wickets, often bowled extremely The next match was against Millfield (away). We batted first and well without meeting the success he deserved. In the event, Smith ran up the respectable total of 95, Llewellyn and Cooke putting on 30 proved to be the best, with a total bag of IS wickets for 87 runs, and runs for the last wicket. Millfield replied with 8o for 8 at stumps. Thus his performance against Milton Abbey has already been men­ the game was left in a most exciting position, when victory was almost tioned. Phillips used himself sparingly and sensibly. The ball which within our grasp. earned his wicket in the Exeter match was a real beauty and would have accounted for a much more experienced batsman. Rose, our young A fortnight later we visited Wellington. Our bowlers gave us a left-arm spinner, was quite successful on the whole, but, like so many fine start by dismissing them for a mere 46 runs (Rose 4 for 8, Stewart slow bowlers, he suffered severe punishment, particularly in the last 3 for 8). It was here that we generously made a present to them of the match. He will be very useful next year if he can keep the ball up to match with no fewer than three run-outs. · We lost by seven runs. the batsmen and push it through a little faster off the pitch. This disastrous habit of throwing away good wickets stuck, for ~ Salman was an efficient wicketkeeper, but not so successful with the the very next game, against Milton Abbey (home). three. bat~men agam bat as he should have been. One day he will be a good bat, for he has ran themselves out, including the unfortunate Smith {his third run-~>Ut a natural freedom of movement, but at present he is too nonchalant in in three successive matches) when he seemed to be set and was battmg his approach. J ennings will develop into a useful bat if he can resist well. It was most disappointing. However, although we lost five the temptation to retreat with his legs while 'hanging his bat out' on wickets for a paltry 2I runs against some fairly acc_urate bowling and the 'off-side.' Fonseka, who was, unfortunately, too often prevented an intimidating field-the fielders were almost breathing down the bats­ from playing by prior calls on his time, may well become a real scourge men's neckS-Jennings and Fonseka decided that. the only chance of to bowlers next year if he can control his hard hitting. At present he is survival was to hit their way out of trouble. This they proceeded to too inclined to pull to leg. do in such a forthright manner that t~ey beat the fielders b~ck to a respectful distance and added 55 preci.ous runs . before J enmngs was I will conclude by repeating what I wrote last year, that out for an admirable 25 . Fonseka continued to .live dangerous.ly, and, keen cricketers who are willing to learn will be spending time and money assisted by some bad· fielding, kept the scor~ moyi~g along memly, ably to good purpose by attending a reputable Cricket School for a week or assisted by Llewellyn, who collected IO, unbl Philhps was able to declare so in the Easter holidays. at II9--9· Fonseka ?ad made ?I not ·o!-lt. . Smith then ran thro~gh their We must not omit to thank our team of scorerS-!. P. L. Smith, side, taking seven Wickets for SIX runs m eight avers, five of 'Yhich ~ere J. C. S. Horrocks and S. E. Surridge-for their neat and accurate work. maidens-a remarkable performance. He took the last VItal Wicket with go seconds of the game left. Milton Abbey had made 37· H.K.H.K.

24 25 Pioneer Notes Societies and Clubs " Si Monumenturn R equiris, Circurnspice " SHELDON SOCIETY T the e nd of the Summer Term we said a sorry 'good-bye' to Mr. Chairman: T. H. Vodden . A Cocksedge. We cannot be too grateful to him for building the Pioneers into an efficient body of men. Taking his place, Mr . Baker Secretary: R. H. lVI. Smart. Treasurer : C. A. W. Martin. In has proved of great value, bringing with him a wealth of new ideas. T was decided at the beginning of term that future meeti.ngs. of the the ranks, we were sorry to lose Tyzack, our colourman, and Murray, Society would be held in the Headmaster's new Study, wh1ch JS more ever, replaced by Horder, Owen, a very able wo rker. These were, how Iconvenient both to him and to the Society. New members elected gates and Woodward, who have Nye, Rowe, Spence, Robbins, Wood were : M. R. Martin, R. A. Ad am, M. D. Earnshaw, P. L. Szabo and fitted in very well . During the term, we finished the excavation of the road, and removed the pile of rubbish which has not, as yet, grown J. de W. Perry. again. Certain odd jobs were done with good will, including work at Due to unforseen circumstances , we were unable to go through wit? Hareston, the Biology Laboratory extension, and the new linen and the whole Michaelmas Term programme. f!owever, 1. H~rtland ~ead his drying room. Toward the end of term we started work on a bay between paper, entitled 'Conqueri_ng Climat~,' w?ich was very mtereshn~ and the Prefab. Classrooms. informative. He emphasiZed how little mfluence man had on climate, Before concluding, we must thank 'Sid' and 'Ern' for their assist­ whereas climate had considerable influence on man. ance and gratefully acknowledge their tolerance of us, poor amateurs. At the Michaelmas Term Party, Mr. Ure, of the "Daily Mail," was We must also thank the Bursar f or his support, and Mr. Baker, for his the guest speaker. He spoke on many aspects of the Press and answered untiring enthusiasm. some challenging questions. C.W.G. To end the term's activities, M. D. Earnshaw read a paper entitled 'De Rebus Pectoris,' in which he proposed that the relationship between Rover Crew the mind, the soul and God could be explained by a wave theory. In conclusion, we would like to thank the President and Senior Rover Mate: R. A. Adam. Scribe: 1. 1. Kennedy. Vice-Presidents for their continual support. R.H.M.S. Vicar: T. H. Vodden. Treasurer: M. R. Martin. T the beginning of term it was decided to limit the number in the A Crew to fifteen persons. There were then thirteen people in the Crew, but as five were to leave at the end of term, seven more were MUSIC CLUB accordingly elected: Eagle, Gibson, Osborn, Sherley-Price, Sum, Waddington and Whitehouse. Chairman: H. R. Padfield, Esq. Much was done during the term. A camp-craft course was pro­ Secretary: A. G. Hopkins. Treasurer: D. 1. Starling. posed to raise the declining standard of camping know-how in the Crew. It did not function this Michaelmas Term, but, thanks to the encour­ Other Committee Members: C. A. W . Martin, 1. 1. Kennedy, agement of Mr. Wilson, it will next term-in corps time. D. W. Perry, 1· G. Waddington. The Sardinian Camp has advanced from an idea to a reality. The IRSTLY, we thank Mr. Padfield and Mr. Tyler for the guidance, camp will probably consist of about sixteen people. Bearing in mind F encouragement and support that they have so willingly given the hard labour of the Corsican expedition, Mr. Pytches is taking 'Clio' throughout the term. to do the donkey work. Four people outside the Crew have been elected to come to Sardinia as guests. They are Kitsell, Lavender, R. S., Miller, On 8th November the only Concert of the term was held in Big K. W., and Trowel!. If any others have to drop out, further invitations School. For many, this was to be a dress-rehearsal for the Somerset will be extended. Music Festival. The high standard of performance at this Concert was reflected in the excellent achievement of the School as a whole at the During the term colour slides and also movie films were shown of Festival a fortnight later. the trip to Yugoslavia, which was an undoubted success. A full account is to be found elsewhere. On Sunday, r6th November, Bemard Brown gave a trumpet recital During the term it was unanimously decided to ask Mr. 1ordan to the whole School. His excellent performance proved both instructive and Mr. Lance, who have shown great interest in the Crew, to become and amusing. permanently attached to it. In conclusion, we congratulate Mr. Tyler and everyone concerned We once more thank our G.S.M., Mr. Pytches, for the time and who devoted so much time and effort throughout the term to making energy which he has devoted to the Crew. 'H.M.S. Pinafore' a great and memorable success. 1·1·K. A.G.H. 26 27 HISTORY SOCIETY Unfortunately, we had to postpone a trip to a London Art Gallery, Chairman: R . D. Bishop. but it is hoped that this can be arranged in the near future . E. A. Tuke had departed from the traditional trend of art and had Secretary: J . R. West. Treasurer : A. G. Hopkins. produced a constructional picture made in wood. E had six meetings in the Michaelmas Term. R. C. Poulton, Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Lyons Wilson's support has been greatly W O.A. , gave us a resume of his year in America as an exchange aappreciated by the Club, a nd we should like to thank them very much student. Mr. Baker r eminisced about his imprisonment by the J apanese for their interest. during the last war in a talk entitled 'The Emperor's Shovel.' In addi­ N.R.G. tion, there have been four papers: J. R. West advocated isolationism D. Bishop in a survey of British Economic Policy si nce the war; R. MODERN LANGUAGES SOCIETY analysed the origins and consequences of the Suez Crisis; A. F . Yule used the Russian Campaign of r8r2 as a focus for a more general assess­ Chai rman : C. M. Diamond. ment of Napoleon; fi nally, R. H . M. Smart compared the Socio­ Secretary: E . J. Lavender. Treasurer : J . J. Kennedy . Economic Foundations of the regimes of Napoleon and Hitler. prog r a~m e for .the .Michaelmas Term was lively and co.nstruc­ The Michaelmas Term has been a most successful one. For this HE des1gned pnmanly to promote the actual speakmg of success we must, of course, thank the individual conhibutors. T tive, ign languages and concentrating less on their grammatical cor­ thank the new members who have greatly the fore But we must also There were six meetings, at which members read and dis­ enlivened the meetings: and, no less, the continued co-operation and rectness. cussed papers on subjects ranging from " Le General De Gaulle" interest of Mr. Pytches and Mr. Whitworth. We also had a talk on Dr. J .R.W. to " Religion and the Modern World." Adenauer as seen b y the Germans themselves, from H err Wirth, and ART CLUB we thank him for a very interesting evening. The highlight of the term was the s howing of a French film based on the novel by Andre Gide Chairman : P . J. Green. called " La Symphonie Pastorale," which all members enjoyed. We Secretary: N. R. Garnett. Treasurer : R. P . Edwardes. thank Mr. Harvey and Mr. Mangin for their continued support and activities of the Society. 4th Member : M. J . Torrens. advice in the administration and E .J.L. AT the beginning of the Michaelmas Term we were glad to welcome M. G. Alien, P. J . Blackmore, N. V. Bickford, P. J. Grant-Anderson, C. P . Jones, S. M. Scaddan, C. B. Swale, C. J. LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY Timbrell, I. G. White, M. J. Monk, A. R. Salman, G. B. Busby, M. J. Chairman: C. M. Diamond. Kay and D. K. Millard. Hon. Secretary: M. D. Earnshaw. Treasurer: R. A. Adam. A party of Club members was invited by the Taunton Deane Arts Society to see a film show on Wednesday, October zgth, at Corfield HE following new members were elected at the beginning of Hall. The Headmaster very lcindly gave us permission to go, and we T the Michaelmas Term: M. Aristidou, J. de W. Perry, C. J. Langa­ saw the following films: "Picasso," a film of the artist's life and work; beer, D. W. Perry, J. R. West, A. F. Yule, P . T. Bonsey. There was a film on the new Coventry Cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, and an ambitious plan this term to produce privately the play " Winter­ how he got his ideas for it. Following an interval, we saw " The Visions set" by the American playwright, Maxwell Anderson. However, owing of William Blake," showing his ideas of heaven and hell, which were to shortage of time and the fact that the School production of "H.M.S. well illustrated by his pictures. "Should Every Picture Tell A Story" Pinafore" took precedence as far as the use of the stage was concerned, was the last film. We should like to thank Mr. Harvey for taking us that plan had to be discarded and we read the play instead. The Society there and to the Arts Society for the enjoyable evening. paid its usual termly visit to the Theatre Royal at Bristol and saw the As Mr. Harvey has taken such an interest in the Club, it was de­ controversial piay, "The Entertainer," by John Osborne. The play cided to ask him to be a Vice-Chairman, a post, which we are glad to was the subject of much discussion amongst members of the Society say, he has accepted. and, if for that reason alone, the trip was a profitable one. Once again we thank Mr. Wilson for his co-operation and particpation in the activi­ A few members were invited to attend the opening by the Mayor ties of the Society. of Taunton of Mr. Lyons Wilson's exhibition of water colour paint­ ings, held at the Castle Museum. Mr. James contributed a number of interesting and contemporary carvings. We are glad to say that the JUNIOR LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY Exhibition was a great success. Chairman: M. H. Ragless. shown in connection On December 14th the following films were Secretary: J . A. J . Taylor. Treasurer: R. F. Barnes. with the Modern Languages Society : " Van Gogh," "Ballet by Degas," "Guernica," "Begone Dull Care" and "Mamma Don't Allow." The HE Society was not very active in the Michaelmas Term, only two programme was appreciated by everyone; the films "Ballet by Degas" T meetings being held. The ~rst was a Brains Trust, which was a and "Begone, Dull Care," being in colour. · great success. The panel of brams was made up of Mr. J. R. Lance,

28 29 Mr. T. N. E. Mangin, M. R. i\'lartin and R. D. Bishop. They gave PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY very mteresting and arnu ing a nswers to s uch questions as ''Does the Chai rman: M. D. Earnshaw. panel believe in ghosts?" The other item on the term's biJl was a snap talk. The first pnze was won by G. A. Herbert, who talked on Acids, Secretary : E. J. Hatfield . Treasurer: J. Hartland . and the second prize by N. A. Miles , who talked on Feet. Finally, we Committee : D. B. Busfi eld, R. G. Taylor. would like to thank Mr. Mangin, our Vice-President, for his help in the HE Society held six mee tings in the Michaelmas Term. At the first running of the Society . T Saturday meeting of the term it was decided t o hold some p ractical M.H.R. demonstrations on developing and printing. In fact, three such meet­ ings took place, two o n contact printing, given by Busfield and Garnett, FALLODON SOCIETY and one on enlarging by Earnshaw. On the second Saturday we saw Chairman : A. W . K. Lau. some films on Germany with the Modern Languages Society. Unfortu­ nately for us the commentaries w ere in German, but the colour in one, Secretary : G. Busb y. I reasurer : N. Ab bott. a pre-war film, was superb. At the final meeting of the term the Society Committee Members: R. D. Toogood, P. C. Dane, N. J. E. White, saw a Kodak film-strip, " Photography in Ultra-violet and Infra-red." M. J. Torrens. At this meeting Earnshaw effected his intended resignation from the post of Chairman, which was fill ed by Hatfield . No new committee T the beginnin g of the Michaelmas I erm we welcomed Mr. J. R. members were elected . A Lance as our Vice-President. Early in the term Mr. Lance gave a J.H. lecture on his experiences in Corsica a nd also showed some of his colour slides. Mr . E. H. 0. Ma rtin gave a lecture o n " Fisheri es in Africa" near half-term and showed the photographs which he took there. There WIRELESS CLUB was also a very successful Brains Trust. Some very interesting ques­ Chairman : C. W. Green. tions were asked by the members. Near the e nd of term, two films : Treasurer: R. R. M. Braharn. Secretary: A. G. Gray. " Phenothazine Pays A Dividend" and "Man Against Insects" were HERE seem to have been two fields of interest in the Club this shown. Both films were greatly enjoyed by the member s. Next (Lent) term, miniature transistor receivers and enormous communications term it is hoped that each member will do an T individual project. Lastly receivers, the former ruled over by Braham and we like to thank Mr. Lance for his support to the Club the latter b y Gray. and also f o~ Braham succeeded, after m any de allowing the members to use the microscopes. termined efforts by many different people, in building a miniature pocket transistor receiver which actually A .W.K .L. worked without aerial or earth, and Gladwell spent a long time trying to do the same. Gray continues to modify and improve an RrrssE FISHING CLUB receiver, originally belonging to a former Club Chairman, Fuge; the HE Michaelmas Term was an active and successful one for the Club. whole receiver runs twenty valves and takes just over a tenth of a T The highlight of the term was the King Alfred's Day expedition to horse power from the mains! Rowe, who joined the Club this term, Stathe, when Mr. Stanley, a local coarse-fishing expert and Mr. together with Gladwell, Budge and Villar, is stiH in the designing stage J aquet, both very kindly provided transport, and eight members of and has spent the greater part of the term drawing up plans for a really the Club were taken to the water for a day's fishing. The weather, professional communications receiver, which runs into four large sheets though a little cold, was fine, and one heard snatches of conversation, of art paper. such as, " . . . looks as though we should catch . . . " on arrival at Although the Club is running on a temporary aerial at the moment, the water. However, the number of fish caught was not as high as many amateur stations are heard on most days from all Continents and people expected, though in the case of the "live-baiters" the fish them­ even a daily schedule from New ZeaJand. Some members of the Club selves were willing enough; the anglers failed to make contact. Despite are complaining of the monotonous CQ, CQ, CQDXro, etc. ! the comparative lack of fish, we all had a very pleasant day, and are Finally, we thank Mr. Padfield for his continuing interest in the most grateful to Mr. Jaquet and Mr. Stanley, who made the expedition Club and for guarding our financial resources . possible. A.G.G. AJrnost every Sunday throughout the term a small party made its way to the canal and several good roach have been caught. Wadding­ AEROMODELLING CLUB ton and Wood have both been very successful there, the former having Chairman : R. S. Lavender (ii). taken two roach of over I lb. Yule has also done well: he caught a pike of some 6! lbs. there. We are looking forward to some good pike Secretary: M. St. J . French. Treasurer: C. R . Budge. fishing there during the Lent Term when the fish reach peak condition. 4th Member: R. E . Buchman. Finally, we should like to thank Mr. Jaquet most heartily for his LTHOUGH the Club had been disbanded f or some time it was re­ continued help and guidance to the Club, and also to express our sin­ A. constituted at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term.' under the cere thanks to the kitchen staff for the excellent packet-lunches which direction of C. W . James, Esq., and Busfield. Now during second they provide for "brothers of the angle." prep. qn Saturday evenings the woodwork shop is reserved exclusively J.C.B. for Club members. The Club embraces all forms of modelling, but no

30 31 conventional woodworking is allowed . Mr . Jame s has very kindly Later m the term a lecture, accompanied by shdes, was given found us enough space by in a corner of the shop even to accommodate the Chairman on the history and design of BntJsh_steam locomotives the considerable equipment of our members. ; it gave many examples of diesel and steam locomotives. During the term the C lub has been quite active, with a varied We are also grateful to H. K. H. King, Esq ., for his help and selection of models regularly appearing on, in or over the bottom fields, advice . and several more a re under construction. M.A.E. We would like to thank Mr. Townsend for looking after the Club funds, which are mounting up, in spite of the hole knocked in them DANCING CLUB by subscriptions to two magazines. Lastly, our thanks to Mr. J ames for his constant care and attention to us and to all things in the wood­ URING the Michaelmas Term members of the Club attended three work shop. D dances, two of which were away. All these dances took place M.ST .j.F. during Novem~er . The first, on N?vembe_r ~4th, was the College Dance. Our dmner jackets gave an arr of d1gmty to one of t~e best STAMP CLUB dances ever h eld at King's. Everybody present had a most enJoyable evening dancing to Reg Dyer and his Chairman : A. J . Atkinson. band from Bridgwater. . The refreshments were up to their usual impeccable standard, for which we Secretary: J . S. P . Gibson. Treasurer: R. E . Buchman. wish to thank Miss Gascoigne and her staff most warmly. Committee :Member : A. W. K. Lau. Accompanied by Mr. Pytches, 30 members of the Club journeyed WING to the limited number of rooms, the Club was not able to to Gardenhurst for a very pleasant evening on November 29th. T~s O meet every week. However, there were regular meetings. Most dance was also in dinner jackets and it is hoped that in future these Will of the old members from last Summer Term were s till here be w..orn at the majority of our dances. in the Michaelmas Term, so only a few new members were elected to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan were with us when 20 members of the Club the Club. Mr. Clench, an old and valued friend, has kindly given attended a dance at Bishop Fox's the following night for yet another some very interesting stamp magazines and some useful catalogues to really enjoyable evening of dancing. the Club. This has enabled us to form a new library. Unfortunately , We wish to thank most warmly the Headmaster for allowing us owing to the pressure of work in the kitchen, we were not able to have to have dances, the Vice-Presidents an annual celebration for being so willing in accompany­ at the end of term. It is hoped that we may ing us to them, and the girls' schools for providing such delightful have some films on " Printing of Stamps" in the Lent Term. Lastly, partners. we should like to thank Mr. Pytches for his support and interest in the M.C.H. Club. A.W.K.L. MOTOR CLUB TREVITHICK SOCIETY Chairman: C. A. W. Martin. Chairman: M. C. Farr. Secretary : D. B. Busfield. Treasurer: N. R. Garnett. Secretary: M. A. Eaglesome . Treasurer: C. E. Cutler. T the end of the Summer Term we were very sorry to say good­ HE Michaelmas Term has been an extremely active one for the Society. A bye to Mr. Cocksedge, our Vice-President for many years, who T There were two visits to motive power depots and a number of film has left us to take up a post in engineering at Dean Close. In Mr. shows. Cocksedge's place we welcome Mr. Baker, who is also a keen engineer. For the second meeting of term, J . R. Hawkins, M. C. Farr and We were also very sorry to say good-bye to J. G. Watson and M. J. C. E. Cutler volunteered to form the panel of 'brains' for a Brains Vickars, who have both done valuable work for the Club. Trust. This meeting threw a new light on many aspects of railways Our activities have been varied during the Michaelmas Term. Early generally and increased the knowledge of those members present. in the term R. L. Hill gave a very enlightening talk to the Club on The following Sunday a group of boys paid a visit to the Taunton some of the many aspects of Rally Driving. This talk was enjoyed Motive Powet Depot with the kind permission of the shed-master, Mr. immensely by all, and it is hoped that more members will offer to give As ton a talk to the Club in the future. Later on in the term a picture quiz on some of the world's cars was made as difficult as possible by the Chair­ On King Alfred's Day, a party of five boys made a visit man and Secretary, but, in spite of this, R. L. Hill, who was first, to Newton Abbot Depot and Works, and also to Exeter and Exmouth and J. N. Woodgates, who was second, managed to give the correct Junction Depots. The expedition was a great success and proved a answer to most of the questions. very enjoyable day for those conc~med . On the practical side, the body of the Club's car is ready to be The films seen in the two film shows were "Bridge of Song," towed away, but alas! nobody has offered to buy it. It is hoped to " Work in Progress," "Wagons with Care," "Fully Fitted Freight," have the engine put together and in running order within the next term "Every Valley" and "Long Night Haul." These were fully appreci­ or so, but we are still trying to find a more convenient place to work ated by everybody and covered a wide scope, including road as well in than the hangar, which has no electric lighting. as rail transport. D.B.B. 32 83 SAILING CLUB King Alfred's lJay brou ht " Checkpoin t," v.;th _Antony tee! and Vice-Commodore: l. H . Boyle, Esq. Stanley Baker. .-\ film of m otor racing interspersed With love scenes. Rear-Commodore : E . J. Hatfield. On the gth of ~ o\ · e mber, " A Town Like Alice" was shown . An ailing Secretary : C. M. S. Kitsell. Treasurer: E. J. Lavender. extremely good and, at times, ad film. Virginja McKenna, Peter F~ch and Rhona Anderson ga\·e remarkable performances. A most movm Other Committee Mem bers: W. A. Rogers, J . M. Glover. experience. HE Michaelmas was our first term as an official Club, but we were On the 23rd of ·ovember, " Tiger in the Smoke" was shown. Again­ by no means inactive. T the sound was for a time non-existent, due to some faulty connections in Our first major problem was exactly how the Club would be run. the loudspeaker system. It was an exciting film set in . the mnrk of a It was decided, after some discussion, that we should have members London foa, \\'ith a killer on the loose . . . Tony Wnght played the and associate members. The associate members would fit out the boats killer with "bonald Sinden and Muriel Pavlow in the leading roles. in the winter, under the supervision of the members, and by the summer the associate members might themselves be members, and be able to Finally, the end of term film, " Battle of the River Plate," in techni­ sail. Thus the Club would put boys through their paces in sailing, from colonr. J ohn Gregson and Peter Finch played the two Commanders fitting out craft to actual helmsmanship . of the British squadron and the German 'Graf Spee' respectively. . .. " A splendid piece of film-making. Its fighting is bloody and We then needed a Vice-Commodore, who knew something about its sea scenes are ma,onificent ... " ("Daily Herald"), which sums up s~iling and could come with us on ex~ ursio~ . ~r. I. H. Boyle very this fine British production. kindly consented to fill th1s post. m sp1te of his berng up to his eyes in work for years to come. His help and guidance have been absolutely This term's selection was a good one and had something for every­ invaluable. one. The o nly thing missing was a Western. Although they may be hackneyed, they are still popular, so perhaps nexi: term . . . We feel that "Water, water everywhere, yet not a drop to sail on, " is most applicable to the Club, for although there is a lot of water near the School, all of it is unsuitable in one way or another. We have spent hours poring over maps to find a lake or reservoir suitable for sailing, the sea being too far to be practicable. And it now looks as though Junior House Notes we shall have to wait for the completion of the Clatworthy reservoir, AVING sajd which we hope will be in rg6o. good-bye to two of our teaching staff and one matron H at the end of July, we were extremely fortunate to welcome three In spite of this, we will still have fixtures with R.N.C., Dartmouth, such replacements as Mr. Sykes and l\ir. Lodge in the former role and Exmouth S.C. and Lyme Regis S.C. We hope that by the Summer Miss Moore in the latter. All three are already very much a part of the Term there will be a few more to add to the list. life of the Junior House. Mrs. Reddish, too, has taken over most of the The Headmaster, our Commodore, has very kindly promised to Art teaching with marked success. Considering the weather-anly some lend us enough money to buy our first boat, when we have decided what . three perceptible frosts in the whole term, much rain and mist and little class the Club will adopt. The committee will go to the National Boat sun-the matrons and, no doubt, the cooks also, are to be congratulated Show for that very reason. on the healthiest l\iichaelmas Term for a long time. Good health con­ We should like to thank Colonel Hedley, who gave us a most in­ tributed to good Rugger, though the rst XV fared less well when on teresting talk on camping and sailing and helped us to form the Club enemy territory, and also facilitated the preparation and presentation of by giving us ideas. a "''ide range of music, drama and recitation on November 22nd. Accounts of both these activities are given below. Lastly, we should like to thank the Headmaster for his guidance and supervision in this rather difficult task of starting a Sailing Club Otherwise the term ran an eyen course, lightened by the usual films, at King's. He has given up much of his time to talk to us and help inter-House quiz sessions, Hallowe'en party and the like. On October us in every conceivable way. 24th we joined with the main College in the celebration of the _soth Anni­ C.:M.K. versary of the Chapel's dedication, and other visits to the College in­ FILM NOTES cluded Remembrance Day, 'H.M.S. Pinafore,' in which ex-Pyrland Hall boys figured prominently, and two welcome opportunities of watching HE first film of the term was Wait Disney's true-life adventure, " The the rst XV in action. It is a pity that our own fixtures prevented onr doing T Living Desert." A beautiful film, full of comedy-drama and pathos, this last more often. Music has figured prominently in the term's activi­ which is so typical of Nature. The colour and photography were re­ ties. In addition to the formation of a string orchestra, successes at the markable and perhaps the highlight of the film was the 'stingaree' or Festival included the winning by Monk and Edmonds of their class in scorpions' dance. piano duet and certificates for piano for T. W. Robinson, Winter and On October 12th we saw "Away All Boats," yet another American Edmonds and for 'cello for M. W. Porter. The Junior Choir also won war film with roles stereotyped for Messrs. Jeff Chandler, George Nader their event. Mr. Lodge also produced some very successful carol sing­ and Lex Barker, whilst Julia Adams supplied the glamour with the usual ing for the Nativity Play, which was presented in a new form this year, bathing scene. The sound track was of poor quality, which was not partly in the Pemberton Room and partly in the Chapel, with an address enhanced by the American accents. by the Headmaster.

34 35 JUNIOR HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT Home 8 3 Sat .. Nov. 15 1st XV v. Connaught H ouse This happy event took place at Pyrland Hall on Saturday, 22nd 2nd XIII v . Connaught House Home 56 0 Wed ., Nov. 26 1st XV v . Taunton Away 3 9 November, 1958. Its o bject was twofold- to g ive every boy a chance 5 Sat .. Nov. 29 1st X V v . Connaught House ... Away 0 to appear on the s tage and to entertain the parents and friends in such 2nd X III v. Connaught House Away 33 3 a variety of ways that all tastes would be catered for. Variety was the Wed .. Dec. 3 1st XV v. St . Peter's Away 5 10 keynote of the afternoon. 2nd XIII v. St. Peter's Away 9 11 Dec. 6 1st XV v. WeUington Home 6 3 " The Magic Pudding," by Norman Lindsay, was most enjoyable. Sa t .. It is an Australian play and was produced b y Mr. Lodge , himself an HOUSE MATOIES Australian, who I am sure must h ave been very tired of telling everyone 1st Round :-Gibbs, 10 points; Oldham, 8 points. from the smallest boy to the costume designers in the wardrobe room: Final :-Wbitby, 27 points; Gibbs, 0. what a wombat looks like. Colours: M. J. D. Dobney (captain) , D . J. Turner (Vice-Captain [re-awarded ] ). Song of H. Parrott, M. A. B . Nurdin, S. P . Beauchamp, R. ] . M . Garrett, A. L. The songs: " The Pig's Tail" (Gilbert), "A Countryman's Porter, J. H . Calder, J .P. Edmunds, P . R. J effries, D . C. G. Henderson, Praise" (Thiman), " Shadow March" (Gilbert), "Cargoes" (Martin M . R. Owen. Shaw) and "Quand j'etais chez mon Pere" were rendered with a zest and finish one expects and gets from Mr . Tyler's pupils. 46th TAUNTON KING'S COLLEGE JUNIOR SCOUTS Recitations have once more become fashionable. For a time the art On the r6th January, 1959, as dusk was falling, two cars crept over has been neglected in England, though, I hasten to add, not in Scotland. the icy surface and came to a halt at the Scout Hut; two drivers offered The magic of Robbie Burns and many others is still as powerful there to­ a prayer of thanks for their safe return to Pyrland Hall. Awaiting their day as it ever was and there are very few Scottish children who do not return was an urgent message, Aluredian notes by tomorrow; thus ter­ learn a 'Party Piece' every Christmas. minated the winter camps and commenced the writing of these notes. The Recitations : "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Dealing with last things first. Two camps were held on Dartmoor, Aix" (Browning), "Locbinvar" (Scott), " A Wet Sheet and a Flowing each of a week. The first opened with a barn camp at Pu!labrook, then Sea" (Cunningham), "The Sailor's Consolation" (Dibdin), "Waterloo" moved to Swimcomb in the heart of the moor, where we occupied a dis­ (Byron) and "The Cloud" (Shelley) were courageous, even if every word used farm; this was established as our base from which exercises would did not reach right to the back of the hall. The difficulties of speech take place. Everything happened at once-fog, rain, floods and a pair rhythm (by no means under-rated) had not been completely mastered at of convicts got away. What more could be desired to raise the hair of this first attempt, but it is to be hoped that the delicate art will be per­ the strongest boy in camp. However, training went on and it proved a severed with, if only for its cultural value. very enjoyable camp. The boys who played the piano lived up to their high reputation Phase two of the camp with a new team moved direct to Swimcomb; and the 'cellists and violinists proved what can be done by great then came the snow. Survival craft was the word, and this it had to be, enthusiasm and hard work, by both boys and staff in a very short time. for it was a one-way trip, get there and stay; anything forgotten had to I think all who were there would agree that the orchestra put up a be done without. Our sole companions were sheep and ponies. We lived magnificent performance. When you realise that the boys have only well, stores held out, training went on, the snow continued. Life existed had less than one year's tuition and have only played together for one in a great empty and very white space term, they are to be warmly congratulated. Were we mad? Was it worthwhile? When it came to leaving, dig­ "The King's Breakfast," by A. A. Milne, .is always popular, due, ging out, the towing up icy roads made possible by a snowplough and in some measure perhaps, to the fact that everyone has either acted in two Landrovers, perhaps one could hesitate to answer these questions. it himself or herself or known someone who did. Miss Glencross and the Yet the answer is summed up by the people of the moor who came to boys are to be congratulated on making the most of it and thereby leaving see us on our way out. " You have a wonderful team of boys; please us with another happy memory. come back again." Much could have gone wrong and much was learned, were a success and will be long remembered. Once again the all parents present must have been grateful both for the the camps I think gained by their cheerfulness and bearing the respect of the people of of their sons in some part of the programme and also for the boys inclusion the moor. Our thanks to Mr. T. Eaton, Mr. J. Killingbeck, Mr. G. generally high standard of achievement. Well done both teams. A PARENT. Turner, and Mr. J. Coaker of Sherberton Farm. These notes cover a period of Scout work into the last term. The JUNIOR HOUSE RUGBY FOOTBALL, 1958 Troop number is still high. In view of the number of boys who are Points Points aiming at the second-class badge, it needs, in addition to Monday, the Date Team Opponents Venue for against day of Scouting, many evenings of both teaching and testing. The Cubs Wed., Oct. 22 1st XIII v . Taunton ... Home 11 5 have sent up to us a number of very good boys. These have made their Wed., Oct. 29 1st XV v. St. Peter's (Weston) Home 11 5 2nd X III v. St. Peter's (Weston) Home 8 3 mark and show no signs of lacking in interest. Well done. The future of Sat., Nov. 1 1st XV v . Hazelgrove Home 24 5 Troop work and expeditions looks promising. To those who have left, 2nd XIII v . Hazelgrove Home 23 3 for your good work, thank you. To those who are now the Troop, keep it Wed., Nov. 5 1st XIII v. Wellington Away 0 11 up. Sat., Nov. 8 1st XV v. St. Dunstan's (Burnham) Home 26 6 2nd XIII v. St. Dunstan's (Bumham) Home 5 5 I.H.B. 36 37 too much for them and they swung s omnolently at anchor a few hun­ With the Rover Crew to Yugoslavia, 1958 dred yards off-shore. The sand was always hot under f oot and the wasps never stopped buzz ing, so sooner or later one w as bound to flop E were showered w ith warnings. Ab out_th e petrol, t~ e ideological gratefully into the warm brackish water until it was c ool enough t o dangers and about the foJ]y of c a W mpmg o n muruc1pal rubbish come o ut and start on the usual evening walk into the village. Yugo­ dumps ( this last being a most thoughtful and realisti c w arning by the slavian shops a re open from fiv e until nine in the morning, and again Foreign Office), but, despite all this, we went to Yugoslavia. And we in the evening, so it gave us a chance to trot out the few word all came back. s we knew in order t o obtain the e ssentials of existence before g oing o n to the About the journey out across Northern Europe little should be said. principal cafe_in the place. It was here that w e m ~d e our first important It was a s uccession of wet autobahns, wet c amp-sites a nd indecently sociological discovery, namely, that Balkan beer IS not to be compared early starts each m orning. But once we we re into Austria and over the with its British counterpart. Then it was back to bed, with more Grossglockner, we began to feel m ore like Rovers and less like the galli­ stars in the sky than one ever s ees here, and the land-breeze blowing vanters from Ghent to Aix. It even stopped raining now and then. On fin e s and into the utmost corners of our sleeping bags; and above all, Sunday, August the 24th, we crossed the Wurzen Pass (the steepest in and beyond it all , was the gentle wash of the sea at the foot of our beds. Europe a t I in 3) and entered Yugoslavia. We s pent a couple of days We shall not forget the police either. At Knin they tried to arrest recuperating near Bled and then pressed on to Plituice, in the heart of Harris for inadvertently filming a barracks, but his show of sang-froid Bosnia. Here there are thirteen lakes of various colours. At this stage so disheartened them that they gave up. At Omis they reduced Mr. we decided that, although we were seeing plenty of Yugoslavia, we were Pytches to a smouldering travesty of his usual self by making him fill not seeing much of the people. So we ditched the itinerary and concen­ up three forms in triplicate for every member of the party. It wasn't trated on the national culture, which was fairly cheap outside the main safe to speak to him for the rest of the evening. tourist roosts. After camping one night on a disused jetty near Split, If anyone thinks it is un-Roverlike currently in use as a lovers' lane, we moved about IS miles down the to travel b y car, let him know that it is very much simpler-let alone Adriatic to Omis, a small fishing town. Here an adroit mixture of sign­ safer-to pilot oneself plus 6olbs. of luggage across the width of Corsica language, broken German and hypothetical Serbo-Croat elicited a camp­ than it is to navigate a motor car through the average city once your driver site from the father of one of the police. It was a rocky beach in full has the bit between his teeth. One learns to ignore the muffled curses, view of the main road and gave passing peasants many hours of amuse­ and even the looks of absolute malice which flash from the driving mirror lose their sting ment as they watched the capitalists in various stages of deshabillee and in time. But disrepair. when you are borne towards a busy junction at the statutory 40 k.p.h., skid to a near halt in the middle, and are then asked: "Which way We spent three days here and then headed North again to Zadar, NOW? " in a desperate voice-well, the horseless carriage begins to lose the centre of the thriving cherry-brandy industry. Leaving here, we some of its appeal. However, in all fairness to our drivers, we should had to make a detour of about forty miles, as the new coast road to say that the only casualty in over 3,000 miles was one chicken. Rijeka was incomplete-one bridge still had to be built. This was almost There are many more memories to evoke, if there were space, but our last experience of Yugoslavia gravel roads, which are ironically there isn't, and so there aren't. It was a memorable trip, though it was marked on the maps as "good surface." That night we reached the felt by many people that Yugoslavia is too much a police state to allow Istrian peninsula, the Italianate part of the country south of Trieste. the word "holiday" to be used in its normal sense. But nearly all the After camping on two widely differing siteS-on one of which we were Yugoslavians were kindness itself to us: there seemed too much of the nearly imprisoned for a day by a steam-roller-we left the Adriatic and Balkan joie de vivre about them to let them bother very much about spent our last night in Yugoslavia at Postoina, where there are some the government. Like the river in the caves we saw at Postoina on our vast caves which the Germans used as petrol dumps during the war. last day in Yugoslavia, the current of independence flows deep but very The Resistance managed to destroy the dumps. From here we crossed strongly, and just as we climbed from the dark chilly stillness of the into Italy I3 days after entering Yugoslavia. Our run home let us see the caverns into the blue light of day, so one feels that this young country Dolomites , Innsbruck, the Arlberg pass and the Grand Duchy will ultimately be able to doff its heritage of blood, sweat and tears in of Lichtenstein before we came to the more familiar Western atmos­ exchange for something better. phere of Switzerland and Eastern France. We sailed home again from B.W Dunkirk. .A.K If this strikes you as merely a breakneck dash from one unpro­ nounceable place to another, be sure that it sometimes seemed the same Canoeing Home for the Holidays to us. When the German weather had stopped hounding us further south, the Balkan police did their best to keep us on the move. Yet HEN Barnes and I finished making a canoe we thought it a good from all this vast kaleidoscopic array some memories do stand out in Widea to try and canoe to Horsham, the nearest place to our homes. sharp relief for one reason or another. We will none of us forget the Of course, the weather this summer was against anything and everything, crossing of the Grossglockner, for instance, with its strange juxtaposition as we realised. However, we started off from Bath on the 29th July of modern road and untameable mountain. Nor will we forget the hours with high hopes and our camping equipment. We suffered our first re­ of abandon at Omis, with the heat haze always on the horizon and the verse here when we were literally "locked in," having to negotiate five fishing caiques chugging painfully up the channel until the effort proved locks before we got into clear water.

38 39 The going was heavy in the weedy water until we got on to the Avon work is necessary when undertaking a trip like this . . .Licences .. maps river, which we had to take after some fiv e miles owing to there being no and permits have to be obtained and the daily provtswns, which, of water in the canal for three miles. We took a wrong fork on this river course, can be bought en route. We think that a canoe trip makes a under the misguidance of a fisherman. However, along this piece of good holiday, but plenty of time, and, of course, good weather, are river we met a policeman looking for an abandoned canoe which had helpful factors. been stolen; we thought this was the right moment to look for shelter S.H.G. for the night. We found a friendly innkeeper who let us spend the night in a barn belonging to him. This was fin e and it was a great Correspondence comfort to have a solid roof over us, particularly as it had rained all the afternoon and did so all the night. We were very satisfied with our EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER FROM AN O.A. AT first day-about 15 miles. MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY The next day we were off to a very early start and went through HE popular conception of a university student as the young Bradford-on-Avon at 6.30, our first town. By late lunch time we had T Bohemian who runs wild if given half a chance is not without got to Devizes, where we had to negotiate 29 locks. This we did by foundation. But he usually grows a beard because he never gets up carrying the canoe on a cart supplied by the head lock-keeper. The early enough to shave and wears odd clothes because they save his Savernake tunnel was our next set-back, as a special licence is required laundry bills. Hall life sometimes takes a riotous turn. Last year's to be able to use it and hence we had to walk round it. After this we Guy Fawkes' Dance at one of the women's Halls resulted in six arrests paddled all the afternoon and then got on to the River Kennett, a good when our lads did a "conga" down the main road and were accused fast-flowing river, which helped us along very well, and by about 9 of obstructing the traffie-quite unjustly, of course. Actually, the six o'clock we were again looking for shelter. This we found just after were acquitted, as police evidence was contradictory, though it cost the passing through Newbury. Junior Comn:on Room £65 in barrister's fees .. The police are out ~or We started the next day rather late, after a good breakfast, because vengeance this year and have threatened to bnng enough Black Manas we had to mend a leak which had occurred. We continued on the for the lot of us. Kennett, passing some beautiful scenery and lovely houses with gardens Altogether, there are six and a half thousand students here, of sloping down to the river. We encountered many swans, too; they did whom some fifteen hundred are girls. Of the eleven faculties, Science not take too kindly to us in our small craft and were rather a nuisance. leads with seventeen hundred students, Arts comes next with fifteen hun­ We left the Kennett-Avon canal at Reading, having done 75 miles from dred and Technology third with thirteen hundred. Two hundred people Bath and portaged the canoe round ro6 locks. We were now on the are reading for French Honours, with a staff of twenty-four to teach Thames, wide and beautiful at this point, and we made for one of the them. I think the German Department has only eighty or ninety Eyots and pitched our tent for the night. This was our first night under students. canvas, and, as usual this summer, it poured with rain all night. It Residence is often a problem for many people, as only just over was still raining when we set off at 6.30 the next morning. We made a one thousand are in Hall. There are one hundred and fifty of us at good way, although there was quite a lot of shipping. We had to stop Hulme Hall, which stands in eight acres of ground and is half a mile for provisions once. There are several locks on the Thames for which from the University. We have to share rooms in our first year and there is a fee of 9d., whether using them or not, but they all worked everyone feeds communally. smoothly and we went through with several other boats at a time. The University is now building two new Halls and a fifteen-storey All went well until we got to Staines, when we ran out of money block to house the homeless. · two miles from Chertsey (where we hoped to spend the night) and there R.M.S. were two more unavoidable locks to get through. We told our troubles (•We mu.ch regret that we have not enough room to print the !etter in to a man building a house on the river's edge and he gave us some in­ fu.!!.-Ed.) formation we wanted and 2/6, which enabled us to get through the next two locks. We were very grateful and we parted good friends. We FROM TIIE MIDDLE EAST were able to make our destination that night and were lent a caravan WANSBOROUGH, O.A., writing to the Headmaster, said:- by some friends in which to spend the night. This was perfect, as we T were able to have a good rest and dry our kit, too-all very necessary. • '' . . . . I have just completed National Service, having spent six months at Nicosia and thirteen months (thanks to the revolution!} The next day was Saturday. It was pouring with rain, and, as we at Habbaniya. were very weary and thought we would not be able to get enough pro­ visions to see us over the Bank Holiday, we decided to canoe to Walton­ After I had been at Cyprus for two months the security restrictions on-Thames and catch a train home. This we did and took the canoe were lifted and we all made the most of the opportunity to sample the for the last bit of its journey with us in the train. We arrived at Horsham delights of the various beauty spots and historic sites of the island. Much at 6 p.m. We had canoed IIO-II5 miles in five days, which we felt was of Cyprus is barren (notably the R.A.F. stations!), but there are also quite enough in the appalling! weather we had had. some extremely beautiful parts, expecially the Troodus mountains and the Kyrenia. hills overlooking the Mediterranean. This made me regret We are very grateful to everyone who lent us equipment and gener­ my posting to Habbaniya, which came right out of the blue : not many ally gave us assistance and encouragement to go on this trip. Apart National Servicemen see more than one "permanent camp" during their from the building, which is interesting, a good deal of administrative two years. 40 While at Habbaniya, Baghdad, Babylon and other historic s ites all O.A. DINNER afforded mterestmg excursions, although Iraq i s for the most part barren A record gathering of Old Aluredians attended the London Dinner and unbeautiful, the only hill-country being in the North, further than at the C haring Cross Hotel on Saturday, December 6th, 1958. I had a chance to explore. But the year did afford one week which outshines all others I r e­ The Chairman of the Club (M r. F. Vyvyan-Robinson) presided and member- that in the Holy Land. The journey was none too comfort­ the Guest of Honour was the Headmaster, who was accompanied by Mrs. ab;e: the buses which had been r ecommended t o us being in for re­ Unmack. pair at the time, leaving only ones not fit for service even f or short The Chairman proposed the toast of ' 'The Headmaster and Mrs. I '[ JOUrneys . The twenty-hour ride hardly induced the a ppropriate s tate Unmack," and reminded the gathering that they were marking the 21 'I !, of mind for pilgrims approaching the Holy City! years of Mr. Unmack as Headmaster. : :1 t:l · But during the following week all this was forgotten. Coming from " I will give you just a few statistics," said Mr. Vyvyan-Robinson. 11 fiat, barren country, we appreciated all the more the hills and valleys "In 1937, when Mr. Unmack took office, the School varied between roo !I if . and vegetation of Jordan, much the more beautiful, though economi­ and 200. By 1940 it had risen to 2ro; by 1950 to 324; and today it is l'i • I :I cally the poorer, o f the two countries. at the capacity figure of 450. I ' I . Somehow. one expects to see enormous crowds of pilgrims throng­ " In addition, new buildings have been erected and properties outside ' mg every shrme and blockmg every road, but rather the opposite was the boundaries of the main college have been purchased. Great extensions true. Only at "Gordon's Calvary" were we delayed by another party, have been made to the playing fields. Without going into details, I know I ·J ' . I one from England organised by "Church Illustrated" (the e ditor that progress has kept pace with numbers in the academic, sporting and I preached at Sung Eucharist at the Cathedral) . Of course, it would be I other activities which go to make up school life. 11 '· very different at Easter or Christmas. ~ i i ' 'A master once reported on a boy as 'a model student-but not a I I. \: I think one could spend six months or more roaming around J ordan I and never tire of it. Everywhere there is history, beauty and the rever­ working model.' If I had to write a report on Mr. Unmack I should unhesitatingly write : ' A m odel Headmaster-and a very hardworking ' ence engendered by generations of pilgrims. Once accustomed to the ' elaborate and ornate decorations of Greek Orthodox Churches, a nd to model.' (Applause.) seeing the sacred spots of the Old Testament (notably the Temple and ''I am sure the Headmaster will be interested to hear that the appeal Abraham's Tomb), marked by a mosque, one cannot fail to be inspired to mark his 'coming of age ' resulted in over soo individual donations, not only from all parts of the United Kingdom, but from by the timelessness of the land where Jesus lived; or on on e's walks, twenty other I to know that this is countries.'' I I where the Son of God played as a boy and taught and suffered as a man." Mr. Vyvyan-Robinson said that the Headmaster had intimated his ! I ,1. intention of presenting the portrait to the School, but the Club Committee I 1il The Newsheet were determined that Mr. and Mrs. Unmack should have something for ; lir N the Michaelmas Term, 1958, it was decided to go ahead with plans themselves as a permanent reminder of the old boys' affection and of I Il l I to institute a School newspaper. There have been six issues in all their appreciation for all that they had done for King's. :I 11 with a circulation o{ about 250 copies. Although He said: ''Thanks to the generosity of the 1: 11 . I the paper has hitherto donors, and the very '! I'I consisted of comparatively little news and a large number of articles generous co-operation of Mr. William Dring, we commissioned a second and light matter like horoscopes and crossword puzzles, in the Lent portrait. This is at present on view at the exhibition of the Royal Society Term it is hoped that a d /i 1 1 etailed account of School life will be presented of Portrait Painters and will later be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Unmack at ~II in the two issues. This reduction in the number of issues has been Taunton. We have, therefore, the rare distinction of having two portraits I necessitated by reasons of time, economy and material. Finally, by a Royal Academician. In addition, it is our intention to present Mr. I although the standard of material has not been consistently high, a and Mrs. Unmack-probably at the Whitsun reunion-with an album i: I great deal of work has been put into the paper by a great number of which will constitute a pictorial record of this gathering." ,, I' people. C.M.D., R.D.B. Of Mrs. Unmack, the Chairman said: "While your name does not I'.; I appear in any prospectus as occupying an official position, I can assure 'I The Old Aluredian Club you that to Old Boys you occupy a very special place. We appreciate I: EARO.A.s, that, without your unfailing support and encouragement, much that has I:' D You will find in this supplement a full account of the London been accomplished could not have taken place. For that-and for your Dinner, which we feel will be of special interest to all who were pre­ personal devotion to King's, to its boys and its Old Boys we welcome I your presence vented from being present on this very special occasion. The portrait of with us tonight to share in the honour we do to your husband." (Applause.) of the Headmaster now hangs in the Dining Hall as permanent reminder 11 of this notable period of the history of King's and as a real work of art. Mter the toast had been enthusiastically drunk, the Chairman said : 1::' The usual activities of the Club have occurred and are duly recorded. "Headmaster, as Chairman of the Old Aluredian Oub, I have il I would call your attention to notices of coming events and confidently great pleasure in presenting you with this portrait as a small token anticipate your support in the near future as at all times past. of our aopreciation and gratitude for all you have done llj !r H. REES PADFIELD, for King's in the past 21 years. We trust that you will be ·spared Hon. Secretary (Taunton) O.A.C. to continue your good work for many more years. :it 42 lil 43 I I ! i I I THE HEADMASTER We know where we are going and we know who is going with us. We are sometimes teased about our pride in our links with the remote educa­ In his reply the Headmaster said :- tional past in T aunton, but we are rightly jubilant that we are not only " I am deeply touched by the kindness and generosi ty of the Old one of the Woodard Schools, but also are a School which holds in great Aluredians and Honorary Members of the Club, who include the mem­ respect the pious hopes of Bishop Fox which led him to found the ancient bers of the Governing Body and the Staff of the School. The honour School in 1522. appreciated. To have one's which you have done me is most warmly "No school can flouri sh without a good Governing Body. It is not signal portrait painted by a famous artist such as Mr. Dring is in itself a for me to write a r eport on those who guide the School from above, but honour, while the idea that the portrait may be accepted by the School it may be permitted me to express heartfelt thanks after 21 years that g Hall is enough to make one feel Council for hanging in the Dinin we have had the great privilege of such wise and sympathetic guides who proud of being permanently associ­ immensely humble and yet immensely have done so much to encourage and been so very appreciative of initia­ as King's College, Taunton. ated in this way with so fine a School tive and enthusiasm. King's owes an enormous debt to those who have " I like to think that Mr. Dring has represented me as I am, but I directed her fortunes in the last t wenty-five years. The late Dr. Kirk know myself too well to imagine that. I really look as nice as he has made was a great tower of strength in the dark days of the Industrial Slump me look! He has been very understanding in painting a background when many Public Schools found thei r way hard. He was a beacon light of trees, as it has always been my ambition to carry on the tradition of of economic insight and reli gious fervour. The School has been singu­ Williarn Tuckwell and turn the School grounds into a magnificent park. larly blessed in the fact of having two such eminent Provosts as Dr. " It is a great additional joy, especially to my wife, that, through Carpenter and the Bishop of Bath and Wells during the last quarter of a the marked generosity of the donors and through the kindness of Mr. century. Dring, we are to receive as a purely personal present a copy of the "My wife and I are much moved by the presence here to-night of portrait for our own house. We are much touched b y this additional Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter and also by the fact that the Bishop of Bath personal gift. My wife is misguided enough to like looking at a picture and Wells, though himself prevented from coming by a diocesan .:>f me, so it will be put bel-Jind my chair, but in front of hers. It will duty, is so graciously represented by Mrs. Bradfield. The early days be a token of the loving kindness of many generations of Old Boys and were not easy days (are any days easy?) and I have vivid memories of of all the others who are associated with this gift. We are most deeply reliance upon the help and encouragement of Dr. Carpenter; of Colonel grateful for the great kindness and generosity of you all. Moberly Bell, who was then Divisional Bursar; of Mr. Freeman, the " I must say something about the progress of King's during the last Registrar of the Woodard Schools, unfortunately prevented by illness few years and about the ~ opl e who are really responsible for it? ex­ from coming to-night; of Father Jennings; and of the Vice Provost, Canon ceptionally happy and successful development. The Headmaster 1s, of Hall, now Archdeacon of Totnes. These and many other Governors by course, the figurehead, and when the ship is honoured the laurel wreath their kindness and courtesy paved the early way, just as now the pillars must rest on the brow of the figurehead, but the success is really achieved of the later period make burdens lighter and tasks pleasant. It is a great by the team work of the crew and by the devotion and energy of the honour to have here to-night the Chairman of the School Council, Bishop many people who work for and love the ship. Wilson, and Mrs. Wilson . "Those who deserve the greatest honour in this our period are those " King's owes a very great deal to the present Divisional Bursar, Old Boys of the School who died for us in the War. But for their Major Cely Trevilian. He was formerly our Custos and, like his father, nobility and sacrifice we should most of us long ago have become tor­ he had a long record as a Fellow of the Woodard Corporation and a warm tured and starved bones lying under the soil of a prison camp. But it regard and affection for Kirlg's. His encouragement and his insight into is not only for our safety that we must thank them . . Their grea.te~t human problems have been throughout many years a source of great honour is m their doing of a deed that can n~ver be repaid. Sham~ It .Is strength to the School and to the Woodard cause in the West. that some, indeed not a few, today in our be1oved country take pnde m doing as little as they can even when they are well paid. Human progress ''There is one person I should like to mention to-night of whom I can only be made when labour and sacrifice are based on love do not usually speak in publie--my wife. I am emboldened to do so and enthusiasm and not upon mere gain. It is hard to speak calmly through the kindness which you and your Committee have shown by m­ of those who fell in the War, but they are the biggest part of the success eluding her in this celebration. I do very greatly appreciate this, as both and pride of Kirlg's. The many School Captains who fell in the second I and King's are deeply indebted to my wife. Year after year with un­ War, as well as in the first, typified the calibre of the. men. Of pe~ple failing devotion to the welfare of King's she has encouraged me and like my first School Captain, Norton, one ea~ only say !ike Hamlet gnev­ helped the School as no other person could have done. Many brilliant ing over his father, "He was a man, take him for !'-ll m all. I shall not ideas have been originated by her. It was her suggestion to appeal to look upon his like again." He gave me in the earliest days, as so many parents and Old Boys for loans to the War Memorial. Without her sug­ others have also done since a vision of what human beings can be at gestion we might still be without that building. their very best. This is the vision which makes all the turmoil and "I should certainly never have undertaken the task of being Head­ anxiety of a Headmaster's life worth while. master of Kirlg's if I had not known that I could constantly draw m­ "Then we owe to our benefactors the heritage of our religious tradi­ finitely upon her courage, her sympathy and her enthusiasm for the tions. We have no doubt as to our Christian aim in life : we do not cause of King's and for the cause of religious education in general. wander in the existentialist darkness of a Jean Paul Sartre or a Carnus. Others can more properly speak of what she has done as hostess, as com-

44 45 fo rter of the sad, as wise adviser of those in perplexity and of her cour­ Those words were printed in the School Rules, but he w ould like to a&eo ~ s :ecent public work, but what I can say from the inner history of see them carved in stone somewhere in the School, perhaps in the new Kmg s IS that without her the history of the last 22 years would have been a ve ry much less successful one both for m e and for the School. buildings. dmaster concluded: " I thank you all fo r the great honour " I have so often p aid tribute at Speech Day to the magnificent work The Hea you have done me in presenting me with my portrait, and my wife and of t~ e Mas t ~ rs and especiall:;: of th ~ Housemasters that I hope they will you most warmly for the magnificent copy, for this notable cele­ forgive me 1£ I JUSt say how Impossible It wo uld be to conceive of King's I thank bration and all your generous hospitality. wi~ ho ut the 'Old Guard'-Mr. Morgan, Mr. Townsend and Mr. Padfield. It Is on them and on many other willing horses that the main burden has " The School" was proposed by Major P. G. Bligh (F38) and the rested. I should like to recall to you some names from the past to which Second Master (Mr. G. W. Morgan) replied. King's owes much-Bishop O'Rorke, Father Sarge nt. Father Dawson Mr. Morgan spoke of the academic and athletic progress of recent Mr. Chester-Master, Mr. Hart and Father Taylor. A new guard is spring~ years and paid his tribute-as one who had served under the Head­ ing up centering round the younger HousemasterS-Mr. Shawyer, Mr. master f or almost the whole of the 21 years-to the dedicated life of Harvey and Mr. Pytches, and including our devoted Chaplain, Father Mr. Unmack . I should like to Re ddi ~h, and our tireless College Bursar, Mr. Sprunt. Mr. H. J. Hann (W 45) proposed " The Guests" and Dr. S. C. and zealous secre­ pay tn~ut e also to the wonderful record of my patient Carpenter-who initiated the idea of a portrait of Mr. Unmack-replied She has been at King's for 23 years and has made tary, Mtss Crockett. in a typically witty speech. a great contribution to its friendliness and its progress." Mr. Derek Randall (F47) proposed the health of the Chairman. The Headmaster then referred to the boys of the School and said that it was really the fine quality and character of the vast number of the The company was as follows: - boys, the homes from which they come and their sincere religious faith Mrs. H. W. Brad­ which had done more than anything else for the School. He had been Guests: The Headmaster and Mrs. Unmack, particularly impressed, on many occasions, by the unself-conscious field, Mrs . F . Vyvyan-Robinson, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Wilson (Custos} acceptance of the fundamental place of the Christian faith in their own and Mrs . Wilson, the Rev. S. C. Carpenter and Mrs. Carpenter, Major life, by boys of all ages, and he knew that this was something of great R. Cely Trevilian (Divisional Bursar) and Mrs. Cely Trevilian, Mrs. C. G. value. Barnes, the Rev. Willfred Jennings, Mr. William Dring, R.A., Mr. G. H . Sprunt (Bursar), Mr. J. Trevisick and C. A. W. Martin (School "I have left till the very last the greatest treasure of King's-the . Old Aluredians. What they are King's is. If they fail, King's is a failure; Captain) but they do not fail. Never was the prospect brighter. In all walks of Housemasters: Messrs. G. W. Morgan (Bishop Fox), R. D. life, in Church, Politics, Professions, Services and Industry, the O.A.s Townsend (King Alfred) , P . V. Harvey (Carpenter), J. J. Pytches go from strength to strength, and what I have said of the boys at School (Woodard) and A. Shawyer (Junior). to think of the effect which is of course true of the Old Boys. I rejoice King Alfred : R. A. Abraham, D. S. Ashton, R. H. S. Ashton, in· the life of the country and of J. the School, large as it now is, will have D. Barningham, G. R. D. Bradfield, C. W. 0. Collins, ]. M. Coombs, are adventurous and go far. many parts of the world, for O.A.s M. C. Culver, G. E . Davies, C. A. Gulliford, W. D. Harry, B. E . C. " It is a happy coincidence for me, Mr. Chairman, that you are the Hopwood, J. V. Keene, ] . B. Killingbeck, D. R. Killingbeck, L. C. Chairman of the Club, for you were the very first Old Aluredian to enter King, A. N. Lane, H. J . Lasham, B. ] . Lester-Smith, J. F. Parke, a son during my period of office . There have been very many before G. E. Pa~enter , A. R . D. Rutherford, A. J. Selwyn-Smith, T. Wilson and since that day, but it was for me a special joy to welcome so early Stephens, M. J. Trapnell, G. Turk, W. E. Uphill, F. Vyvyan-Robinson, in my time the son of such a notable and loyal O.A. Nothing could R. Wadland. enhance so well this evening for me as to see you, Sir, in the chair, and Mrs. Vyvyan-Robinson here also." Bishop Fox: P. G. Bligh, R. W . P . Beech, J. D. Butt, J. A. . Coussey, D. C. S. David, A. C. Emmer­ Secre­ Carnegie, B. L. Charles, R. B The Headmaster also paid tribute to the work of the General J. M. Graham, B. C. Grigg, C. St. J. committee. son, G. W. Falcon, T. Falcon, tary and members of his family, and to the members of the James, N.]. Jefford, T. G. Jefford, I. C. Air Com­ Hartnell, J . Heald, M. H. He said it was a sorrow to him that health conditions prevented P . C. Maltby, T. I. Miles, R. B. L. Osborn, J. C. S. Plant, D. G. from being present. They and Kerr, modore Ewens and Sir Travers Clarke Randall, P. L. Side, R. ] . Side, M. S. Toland, W. J. Sutton. also Bishop Sara had represented the O.A. Club with great advantage to the School on its Governing Body. It is a still greater sorrow that Sir Woodard: P . Barber, C. G. Barnes, J. A. Bartlett, E . E . Boehm, Lionel Whitby had so prematurely died. He did much for the School J. H. Coombs, D. B. Delaney, C. T. Gallegos, A.]. Gibbs, H . J . Hann, and for the Club. He carried out fully in his life the advice of Nathaniel S. R. A. Hill, R. James, B. ] . W. Large, M. Lewis, E. G. Luff, P . Woodard: "Never play the hero. Seek to pass through life without Paine, R. H . Peck, A. C. Robinson, A. T. Simson, W. ]. Simson, attracting the eyes of men. Slight no man's good opinion, much less his R. St. J. Stagg, D. C. C. Stott, C . N. Wallis, A. Wynn-Mackenzie. love. Never challenge the world. Neither seek nor depend on the praises Meynell : W. F. Bond, A. R. Daryabegui1 T . Eaton, D. A. rest on your shoulders of men. Consider the success of the community to Edwards, D. E . Follett, D . B. Gosheron, A. R. Harrison, J. R. Harrison, or religious. Do all only. In your labours look not for effects, social D. H. Jordan, M. Matthews, T . G. Rant, M. L. B . Robinson, J. Rogers, to the sole glory of God." J. A. Townsend. 46 CarppentFer: kC. NBaArnaTrd, P .d J M. CChampion, D. H. W . Hackett (Ass) has recently moved t o 2 St. Michael's, Church F Cheung, P . E. owes,l . ran s, . . oogoo , . . Tro tt, J. H . Walsham. Street, Braunton, N . D evon, and P. E. Randall (F48) is now living King Edward: D. Bernhard-Smith , ]. E. Garvey, J . H . Garvey at rr Gaskell Avenue, Knutsford, C heshire. M. D . Hal!owes, L. Sank ey. ' H . S. Phipps (Wq) has l eft Yeovilton and is now in Cornwall, where Day Boy : G. W. S mall. his address is Sou'west, Cancarnshire Lane, Rosudgeon, Penzance. Junior: B. G. Dobbs. A. A . Preston (Msr) has m oved from Salisbury, Rhodesia , to P .O. Box Ex-Staff: R. N. Bryant and C. C. Hart. 4s6g. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. Telegrams of greeting were received from the Taunton Secretary F. N. Lane (-rg) h as written t o say that his address now is Caythorpe, (Mr. H. R. Padfield, Meynell Housemaster), who was absent owing to Rempstone Road, Swanage. Illness; P . J . Culverwell ; and " O.A.s serving in Cy prus." J. Foot (- 20?) has been r ecently appointed Parliamentary Secretary Ap?logies for absence ~d messages o f congratulations to the Head­ to the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Federal Government. He has master mcluded : The President (the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath been given particular responsibility for the Information Services in and Wells) , Mr. R. C. Freeman (Registrar of Woodard Schools), Lieut.­ which field he has shown special interest as a back bencher. The Colonel Moberly Bell, Mr. Maurice Bradshaw (Royal Society of Portrait announcement of his appointment was made in Salisbury, Rhodesia, Painters) , R. 0. Davis, G. Bowes-Cavanagh, P . Bowes-Cavanagh and on December 8th, 1958. G. F . Williams, C.B.E. ] . H . B . Davie (A43) writes from Cholo, Nyasaland. He has been in Nyasaland for three years and is coming on leave from March to The Rugger Match July, 1959, when his address will be Southfields, 2I Fullands Avenue, Taunton. He plans to be at the Whitsun Reunion in I959· He is now A. R. D. Rutherford again contrived, with the s upport of some at a fully qualified the accountant and combines his work with the Nyasa Golden Lion, to raise a good side to represent the O.A.C. at King's Tea Estates Ltd. on Saturday in Cholo with the appointment of Accountant to a , 13th December, rgs8. The following took the field:_ Colonial Development Corporation P. B. Charlton Project in North Nyasaland. He (Fsr) (Capt.), 0. Akigbogun (Ws8), J. C. D. has recently met John Foot and his son, Alan Plant (FSJ), J Foot, who was at . Hunter Watts (Asr), D. Vickars (Ws8), P. L. Chubb Lancing, and a former pupil of the Headmaster. (M58), R. B. H. Coussey (F55), R. J . Stoneman (Ms8), S. W. G. Clough R (CSJ), J. M. Coombs (Asr), R. J . Heyhoe (F52), P. E. Fowles (CS7) . B. Ingram (Ass) was gazetted to be 2nd Lieut. in The Royal Corps R. Blake (F56), A. N. Other, T. G. Jefford (Fss). G. W. Morgan, Esq.: of Signals on the r8th October, rgs8. He has taken a Short Service was the referee. Commission. The field was a morass once again, but remarkable skill was shown M. N . Phillips (Asr) hopes to be ordained at Leicester Cathedral next by both sides to overcome the conditions and the game was most inter­ Michaelmas to serve in the new parish of St. Luke's, Stocking Farm, esti_ng to watch. The School ran out winners by the only score, a new housing estate on the outskirts of Leicester. Until then he will a try, presumably which was well deserved, but perhaps a draw would have been a truer be in Lincoln, where he has made contact with Mr. Gower, result, since the School were frequently very hard pressed. The O.A.s whose son, M. Cower (MSS), is in a bank at Cambridge. Phillips' address will were supported by J . B. C. Brown (M56) , P. L. Toole (A58), C. G. be Bishop's Hostel, Lincoln, pro tern. Bames (W22), T . T. Barnes (WS7), T. C. Falcon (Fsr), A. K. Vodden L. D. Barnes (A4o) has written from I4II McBride Street, North (W56), D. J. Pearce (Ms8) , J . B. Killing beck (Ass). T. M. Eaton (M52), Vancouver, B.C., Canada. E. S. Catchpole (Ass), R. A. H. Powell (A56), R. G. W. Richards ]. M. Clutterbuck (M47) is leaving Tewkesbury at Easter to work in (W55), R. G. Harden (Aso), A. R. D. Rutherford (A45), N. J . Giles the parish of the Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, E .C.r , and hopes to (A55), V. T. Baddeley (M 53), R. St. J . Hartnell (F57), J. A. Camegie be at the next London Dinner. His duties at Tewkesbury have pre­ (FSJ). vented his participation in O.A. activities recently. The Carol Service took place soon after tea and all O.A.s at King's P. Kingman (AS7) has secured a place at Selwyn College, Cambridge, were very glad of the opportunity to attend the major School occasion. and a County Scholarship, and will go up when he has completed his Later in the evening a very conge~ial gathering took place at the George National Service next October. He has been at Mons Officer Cadet Hotel, at which Messrs. G. W. Morgan, H . R. Padfield, C. W. James and School and expects to be commissioned in January, I9S9· He has Sgt. Gooderham assisted. met at Aldershot, Ingram (ASS), now commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals; Laidlaw-Srmth (Ms6), who hopes for a commission NEWS ITEMS in the Royal Armoured Corps; and Platt-Higgins (C57}, who is a com­ R. S. ]. Stagg (Ws6} writes to say that his address for correspondence parative newcomer to Army life. At Winchester, Kingman also met at all times will be The White House, Barby, nr. Rugby, Warwick­ T. O'B. Bamber (W54), of the Royal Hampshire Regiment. shire, although from February to July he will be at The College ]. B. C. Brown (M56) combines preparation for the National Sciences Hostel, Rugby College of Engineering Technology, Eastlands, Rugby. Tripos, Part II, with running Christmas parties for Londoners' children A. N. Price, formerly of Cradley Heath, is now at I7 Newlands Drive, whom he met hop picking last summer. He has met Michael Cower in Blackheath, Birmingham. Cambridge, of whom Kingman also has written. 48 49 B. E. C. Hopwood (A36) was home on leave and visited King's G. Reuben-Ball (-1931) has written for Old Boy badges to the School in November last. He is a medical officer in Uganda, but no address Shop. He is teaching music a t King's School, Ely, and a lso for the there is available. Isle of Ely Education Committee . His address is Woodlands, Earith, f. Preston (M46). We congratulate John and Cynthia Preston on the Hunts. birth of a son, David , on Tuesday, 30th September, 1958. Bruce Gendall (M42), writing from .Mon treal, tells us that the O.A. P. ] . Thomson (A 43) has written concerning the education of his two "colony" is on the increase. W. W . ] . Ewens (-19) has been li ving sons. He also has some cogent things to say about State education and there for some years. Tony Baxby (F48) arrived from England in the some good advice to boys who intend to take up farming when they middle of 1958 and is now working in the city in both insurance and leave King's. This letter h as been passed to the Careers Master. public relations. David Harris (A42) has just come into Canada from B. 5. Quinton-Jones (- 1928) recently paid a visit to see how King's had Malaya and is working on thermal energy developments for the Shaw­ progressed s ince his day. inigan Company, one of Canada's largest power concerns. Bruce Gendall , now married to a Canadian, ]. C (CsB) is working for the MacLean­ . Tyzack is at the time of writing a Trooper in The Royal Hunter Publishin Horseguards, Household g Co. Ltd., and is running their editorial branch office Cavalry Training Unit, Combermere in Montre Barracks, Windsor. al. He finds it a thoroughly enjoyable c hange after ten years in Fleet Street and recommends Canada to anyone who feels in need C. Shannon (M57) writes from Geneva, where he is studying at of rejuvenation. His address: 3250 Ridgewood , Apartment 4, the University. His address for that period will be 16 rue de Conseil Montreal, Canada. General, Geneve, Switze rland. A. G. Tristram (M49}. We congratulate Alan Tristram on his marriage NOTICES FOR YOUR DIARY to Miss Betty Briginshaw on Saturday, 23rd August, 1958, at St. The Hockey Match will take place at King's on Saturday, 14th March, Andrew's Church, Blagdon . The best man was M. Burt (M48). 1959. If you wish to play you should write to D. C. C. Stott, 38 K. E. H. Morris (A52) and P. C. Simmonds (A5o) paid a short visit to Avondale Road, Bromley, Kent. N.B.-The School 2nd XI now King's in the Michaelmas Term . They were on " leave," Simmonds plays recognisable hockey under good conditions and is eager to match from the Belgian Congo and Morris from the U.S.A. its skill against O.A.s. ] . W. Matthews (C57) is now with the Civil Service in London and is The Whitsun Reunion and Annual General Meeting of the Club and active in Cross Country Running and Swimming Clubs of the Civil also of Members of the Benefit Fund will be held at King's from Satur­ Service. His address in London is c I o Belvedere Hotel, Granville day, 16th May, to Monday, 18th May, 1959, inclusive. The Annual Place, London, S.W.7. Dinner will be held in the College Dining Hall on Saturday, 16th May. Circulars will be sent out The R evd. Dr. F . M. Trefusis (-06) has taken the living of Cheriton early in April. Bishop, where his address is The Rectory, Cheriton Bishop, Exeter, Old Aluredian Ties. These can be purchased at 15s. each from the Devon. Secretary and T. I. Miles, 34 Foxley Lane, Purley, Surrey. Cash with order, please. ]. R. Dalton (A5o) writes from Japata Estate, P .O. Box 353, Kitoli, Kenya. Since leaving Lincoln in 1952 be has spent a year at The Taunton Secretary would most warmly thank all those who Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, and thence to Kenya. sent him greetings at Christmas time and regrets that there are now so He married in 1954 and a daughter was born in 1957. many good friends that be is not able always to reciprocate, but hopes they will not feel that their greetings were unappreciated. I. W. Lovell (W5_1) . We congratulate I. W. Lovell on his marriage to Miss Linda Clare Crabtree at St. Mary's Church, Riddleston, Keigbley, on Saturday, 6th September, 1958. Obituaries T. Fletcher (18g3) visited the School recently and saw many things new at King's since those days when the School consisted of 70 boys, but VERY REV. F. P. HARTON be also found some familiar things to recall pleasurable memories. DEAN OF WELLS H . Vyvyan-Robinson (M45) rejoices in the arrival of a son, Hugb, who HE VERY REV. FREDERIC PERCY HARTON, Dean of Wells was born in the first week of September, 1958. V-R. has trans­ T since 1951, died while walking near Wells Cathedral on 3rd Novem­ ferred from British West Indian Airways based on Trinidad to a U.K. ber, 1959. He was 6g. independent air line based on Bermuda plying to the States and Francis Harton, as be :was called, was the son of William Henry Montreal. He has met several O.A.s in his travels, viz.: T. N. M. Harton, and was educated privately and at King's College, London, of Bayne (A46) also a civil air line pilot; E. R. P. l/awken (E13), whom which he was later made a fellow. Having studied at Bishop's College, V-R. met in Miami; and also H. Lane-Davies (M44), who was on a Cheshunt, he was ordained in 1913. He was vicar of Ardeley from 1922 temporary visit to Kingston, Jamaica, as architect in the building of to 1926, and after a year in Ceylon he was appointed warden of the a new university there. He was accompanied by his wife. To contact Sisters of Charity, Knowle, Bristol. In 1936 he became vicar of Baulk­ H. Vyvyan-Robinson directly, the best address is: Captain i'ng, Berkshire, where he remained until he was appointed Dean of H. F. Vyvyan-Robinson, cfo Eagle Airways, Bermuda Ltd., Hamil­ Wells. He was honorary secretary of the Archbishops' advisory council ton, Bermuda. on religious communities from 1935 to 1951 and warden of the Society 50 51 of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, for 12 years. In 1951 he was select preacher in the University of Cambridge and he was a governor of St. Paul's and Dauntsey's Schools. Among his publications were The Elements of the Spiritual Life (1932) and The Mystery of the Cross (1940). He was a Fellow of the Western Division of the Woodard Corporation and was a good and true friend to King's. He married in 1921 Gladys Mary Sibyl Robin, who survives him. Mr. John Betjeman writes : - The quiet and unassuming manner of Francis Harton hid a gentle strength. He was a man of few words and those well chosen. In private life and in the pulpit he commanded attention because he spoke as one with authority. His spiritual advice was much in demand. His friend­ ships were deep and lasting. He and Mrs. Harton made the deanery of Wells a social centre of the city and the Dean played a big part in the work of the cathedral choir school. He was an accomplished musician. He was also a practical man of business, having been a notable master of the Mercers' Company in the City of London. He had a great love of Wells Cathedral and took much trouble over the care of the fabric and wrote an admirable popular guide to the build­ ing. It was due to his influence that the impressive carving of the Cruci­ fixion was put up in the north transept to catch the eyes of the crowds who come in summer to watch the knights jousting when the clock strikes. He was a much loved parish priest in the little Berkshire village of CANON MILES SARGENT Baulking, where he is to be buried. He was a staunch Catholic but did not believe in putting country people off with too much ritual. By con­ ANON i\IILES PEARD SA RGENT, Chaplain at King's from September , 1!14l, stant visiting, unruffled example, the effective use of the Book of Com­ C to December , 194\J, d ied suddenl v a t his ho me in Suffolk on 18th December, mon Prayer, and by preaching plain doctrinal sermons he built up there J\J58. - a loyal following. Many owe their faith to the example and teaching of Miles Sargent was born o n 1st March, 18\11. He was educated at K ell y Co ll ege, T avistock, and Christ Church , Oxford, a nd was ordained in 1!116. H e Francis Harton and hundreds of friends will sympathize with his widow, was assistant Chapla in at St. Edward's School, Oxford, from 1 921 t o 1 !1:24 , who was such a help to him, and will be grateful to him always. Librarian of Pusey House from 1 92~ to 1933, a nd Vicar of St. Matthew, \Vest­ (Reprinted from "The Times" of 4.11.58, by kind permission of the Editor. minster, from l!l33 t o 1935. Before coming to King's he was for three yea rs We should also like to thank Mr. John Betjeman for permission to print Chapla in at Marlborough Coll ege. H e was a man of many interests a nd activ ities. his tribute.) He founded the Crowhurst Farm Mission t o hop pickers in Kent. participated prominently in its work for 20 years a nd wrote a book, ' 'St. Francis of the Hop­ fi elds," about his experiences. He had been Organizing Secretary and Cha plain of the Association f or Promoting R etreats (whose magazine, " The Vision, " he COLONEL C. J. TROYTE-BULLOCK, D.S.O. edited) ar.d was himself a n experienced conductor of r etreats a nd quiet days . In recognition of his work in this country for the Zululand Missiona ry Associa­ OLONEL CECIL JOHN TROYTE-BULLOCK, D.S.O., died in tion , Father Sargent was appointed in 1956 an honorary canon of t he diocese of C hospital on 7th February, 1958, in his 8gth year. Zululand. All who knew him at King's will hardly need to be rem inded that his e nthusiasms included scouting, motorin g, a nd-as members of the Trevithick Colonel Troyte-Bullock had a distinguished military career, which Societ y in the ' 40s will recall- railways. began in 188g after his education at Charterhouse. He joined the 1st After leaving King's F ather Sargent was for a time Sub-Warden of the Com­ Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment in 18g1, and, having served in munity of St . Mary the Virgin, W antage, and then Vicar of Ixworth in Suffo lk . Jersey from 1900-1905, he joined the 2nd Battalion, with which he served In Hl 56 he was appointed R ec tor of another living near Bury S t . Edmunds, in Malta, China and India. During the First World War he commanded Fornham All Saints, where he died. the 7th Service Battalion in France, was twice wounded, and was awarded Innumerable people will feel that the expression "a great priest " is particu­ the D.S.O. for gallantry in the battle of Guillemont. At the outbreak of larly appropriate when applied t o Miles Sargent. He was outstanding fo r his pastora l qualities : he had the capacit y to an unusual degree of conveying to the last war he was one of the first to volunteer for the Corscombe Home people that they really mattered to him, that he really cared what happened to Guard, and, although retired midway through the war because of his them in sma ll ways as well as in the big issues of life . There are very many age, he continued to take a keen interest in organisation. O.A.s, and others as well , a t K ing's between 1941 a nd 1949 who wi ll think of him as an irreplaceable persona lity and a true and affectionate friend. A nd there After his retirement from the Army, Colonel Troyte-Bullock was a are many also w ho, on lookin g back, will realise t hat it was as a result of know­ member of the Church Assembly and of the Salisbury Diocesan Confer­ ing him that their lives t ook a new a nd better direction or were strengthened ence. Amongst his other interests were the Society of St. Francis of and renewed in a purpose that had grown dim. F ew. perhaps, guessed that Assisi at the Friary, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, and behind t hat cheerful and sociable exterior lay a k een sensitiveness t o the knocks the British Legion. He of this world a nd no small share o f the sorrows of life . was a J .P. for Dorset. He married in 1904 Miss Joan Harper, who sur­ vives him.

52 Colouel Troyk-Hull ock was elected a Fell ow of the Western 01 vision of the Woodard C orporati on on 18th :\tlay . 1920, and became a n Hon­ c orary Fell ow on 19th .J une, 6 1952 . He was a very reg ul ar attendant both .n at m ee tings of the Chapter, of which he was a Fellow for thirty-two

0 J years, and all the c hi ef fun cti ons at King's. He had a devoted interest 0 \J v in the progress and ,,·ork of the School, where he wi ll be sadl y missed .

<( ~ L <( i ."!"' Yalete o._ >._ .!" 9 1ART, Roger H arold ~ l o un cey. Cl .U.VI. (C.) E ~ House Prefect 1057, H ouse Captain a nd School P refect 105 8. ~ nd X V Rugger L v"' Vl <( 19 56-57-58, H ouse Colours Rugger , H ockey and Athletics, H o use T ennis Team, z Ta unton a nd Somerset Athlet ics Teams, 3rd XI Hockey, Secretary Sheldon u.: < Soc iet y. Committee l\lember of D ancing Club, F ounder a nd Chairman of P .T . a: Club, i\ lember of R over Crew, Litera ry a nd Dramatic Societ y. History Society, Cert. 'A,' Sgt., Guard of H onour. Music Club . c 0 Address: Little Woodborough , Woodfields, Dursley, Glos. ..0 HARRIS. Malcolm Crofter. Cl U VI (C. ) \J $ cL "0 School Prefect 1958 , 1 st XV Rugger 1957-5 8 (Colours) , 3rd X I Hockey 1957 , vi r':: 2nd X I. H ockey 1958 (Colours), Secretary P.T. Club, Treasurer Dancing -'- vi Club, Member of Sheldon Societ y, History Societ y. Literary a nd Dramatic :I Soc iet y, Rover Crew, Cert. ' A ,' S / Sgt .. P rofici ency Badge. 1st Class Shot. House T ennis VI , H ou~ e Colours, Swimming, Shooting. Athlet ics, School OJ Athlet ics T eam , Server. ~ 0 U"\ $ Address: l verleigh, E lm Park R oad, Pinner , Middx . 00 1-- ---:- U"\ ~ i5. BISHOP, Roger David. Cl. U.VI. (F .) ~ "' ..: u.: ~ Deputy Prefect 19 .5 7, H ouse Prefect J 958, School Prefect a nd H ouse Capta in Q. cL 0 ]!)58, G.C.E. '0' level 1956-57, 'A' level 1958, 1st XV Rugger (Colours Hl57- "' L 58) . Ca ""::> ptain 1958, H ouse Colours in Rugger (1956-57-58) , Chairman History ex: Cii Societ y. Rover Crew Mate, Sheldon Societ y , Photographic Societ y, Cert. 'A,' c > ci Sgt .. F ounder-Editor of the News-sheet. Somerset Schoolboys' Rugger 1957-58. X L er' Address : Springfield H ouse, Worle, Weston-super-Mar e. ~ L:"' ci STARLING. David J ohn . Sc.L .VI. (C. ) L: H ouse Prefect 1958 , R oyal Naval Scholarship. Specia l Entry to R.N.C., Dart­ .!" mouth , Somerset Athletics T eam 1955-56-57-58, Captain 1958, All England Athletics Championships 1955-56-57- 58. Long Jump Champion 1958, School L w"" OJ "' Athletics T eam 1955-56-57-58 (Colours) . 1st X I Cricket 1957-58 (Colours) , v c er' 1st X I H ockey 1958 (Colours) , 2nd XV Rugger 1957-58 (XL V's), Shooting OJ > u VDU (Colours), Swimming Side 1957-58, House Golours Cricket, Hockey, -'"' Shooting, Athletics, Swimming, Treasurer Music Club, Member of B adminton vi Club, Dancing Club, Bridge Club, Cert. 'A,' Sgt. , P roficiency B adge, Marks­ man . Gua rd of H onour. er' ~ L c j o L Address: Command Secretary, H .Q. , B .A.O.R .. B .F .P .O. ·10. .!: I"' HARTLAND, J ohn. Sc.U.VI. (F.) "":> 2 u House Prefect 1958, G.C. E . 1956-57-58. Science Librarian , She! don Society, dl L: Litera ry a nd Dramatic Societ y, Dancing Club, Secretary Photographic Societ y. Member of Music Club, L j Sgt., Cert. 'A, ' 1st Class Shot, H ouse Colours 0 Steeplechase. Scholar. > Address : Dalhousie, L yme R oad. Axminster, Devon. OJ u 0 L EARNSHAW, Malcolm Drummond. CI.L.VI. (W .) CL House Prefect 1 (1 ~8 . 2nd XV Rugger 1957-58, Shooting VIII 1958 (Colours), OJ .{ > Chairman Photographic Society, Secretary Literary and Dramatic Society. 0 Member of Sheldon Society, R over Crew, History Society, Modem Languages s:. ~ Vl Society, Music Cl ub, Fives Club 1957-58, G.C.E . 1956-58, H ouse T eam Rugger L: (Colours), Shooting (Captain 1958). Fives, Athletics, Cert. 'A,' Sgt., Guard of Honour, Marksman. Address : Willinghurst Cottage, Shamley Green , Guildford, Surrey.

53 ARISTIDOU, Michael. CI.Rem. (W. ) House Prefect 1958, Menrbcr of D ancing C lub Comrnittee, Cert. "A.' Marks. Sa1vete man , Sgt .. 1st XV Rugger 1~ 58 (Colours), House Colours Rugger , Light Music Club Com mittee, Chairman Basketba ll Club , School Athletics Team, Member MICHAELMAS TERM, 1958 of Litera ry and Drama tic Society, R over Crew, Proficien cy Badge. King Alfred House : Bishop Fox House : Address : Troodos H ouse, Wentworth Estate, Virginia W ater, Surrey. t Allen, M. G. t tBarrie, W . R . I. t Bishop-Stephens, A. W . Batey, M. 1· Li\NGABEER, Colin J ohn Lovelace. Cl LVI (F. ) Blackmore, P . J . tBentley, M. A. D . H ouse Prefect 1958, G .C.E . 1956-57. 2nd XI Cricket, 2nd XV Rugger (XLV Grant-Anderson, P. J. T . Bentley, R. P . Colours), H ouse Colours, Rugger , Member of History Societ y. Literary and tJones, C. P . Bickford, N . V. Dramatic Society, Music Club, Light Music C lub, Cert. 'A.' L /Sgt., Member tMarshall, R. A. tDelacour, J. R . M. of Band 1954-57, Drum Major 1958, 1st Class Shot, Server . Morice, M. J. Head, M. D . Address : Rose Cottage, Ashcott, nr. Bridgwat er. Philippe, M. R. Hogge, S. P . Scaddan, S. M. Madin, D . H . Smith, R. J . Murray, P. G. S. KIMBERLIN, R ichard Henry. Sc.U.VI. (M .) Swale, C. B . Olds, 1· C. G.C.E. 1956-57-58, Member of Sheldon Society, History Society, Library •Walker, A. E . tPlant, M. A . Committee, Guard of Honour, Cert. 'A.' Marksma n , S /Sgt., Exhibitioner, Waterhouse, M. 1. Trythall, M. House Team Cricket , Hockey, Rugger and Shooting. White, I. G . W . tWhitton, 1· W . tWood, M. ] . Address : The Coach House, Broomfield Hall, E nmore, nr. Bridgwater. Young, A. R . L .

YULE, Adrian Francis. Cl.U.VI. (M .) Carpenter House : Meynell House : Deputy Prefect 1958, G .C.E. 1956-58, Tennis VI 1957- 58, 2nd XV Rugger Alwa n, H . 0 . Burnfield, A. J . Amirkhosrawi, K . 1958, L / Cpl., Member of History Society, Literary and Dramatic Society, Cowley, R. C. Modern Languages Society, House Team Rugger , Hockey, Tennis (Colours) Gibson, R. 1. R . tFJem.ing, A. P. W . Fives. ' tGoode, R. P . C. tFord, R. G . Hillier, P . R. T. Hill, A . C. Address : 1 Hare Court, Temple, London, E .C.4. 1ames, A. P. tHughes, G. L . Marchant, P. L . Launders, 1. D. REYNOLDS, Christopher Stephen, Sc.Rem. (C.) ttMott, R. A. K. Radcllile, G. B . tpaul, C. A. G. t Rees, T. C. 1st XI Hockey 1958 (Colours). G.C.E. 1958, House Colours Rugger, Hockey, Roberts, P . C. E. Sims, A . 1· Athletics, Fives, Cert. 'A.' L / Sgt., 2nd XV Rugger 1958, Bridge C lub, Dancing t Robinson, P. M. Smerdon, R . A. D . Club. tSmith, 1. S. Tong, D. T . W . Address : 2 Oakhurst Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol 9. ttSwaffin-Smith, C. G. Tribbeck, G D . Winter, I. · ]ONES, Kenneth Reginald Lacey. Cl.Rem. (A .) Zebedee, A. D . House Prefect 1958, House Colours Hockey, Rugger, Fives, Bridge Club, Music Club, Craft Club, Fishing Club, Marksman, 2nd XI Cricket 1958, G.C.E. 1958 , W oodard House : Proficiency Badge, L/Cpl. Berryman, M. W . Address : Agent's House, Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wilts. tCraven, M. A. 1· Evans, T . Gaines, R. E . F . GIBBINS, David Martin. Vc. (A.) tGrun, W. Junior House Team Hockey and Cricket, G.C.E. 1958, Cert. 'A.' L /Cpl. , 1st t Herbert, W. R . Class Shot, Music Club, Bridge Club. 1enks, M . Address : Greenend, Plymtree, or. Cullompton, Devon. t:Kent, M. R. C. Marsden, S. E . Perry, J. de W. CUTLER, Colin Edward. V.Rem. ( A.) tRolls, R. L. Cert. 'A' (Pt. I) , Treasurer Trevithick Society, Pioneer , Stamp Club. Sheldoo, R. F. Vincent, R . W. J. Address : 150 Worcester Road, Malvern Link. White, B . H. tDenotes Day Boy. TONG, David Tai-Wai. Sc.Rem (M.) tDenotes Ex-Pyrland Hall. Fencing Club, Chess Club, G.C.E. 1958. *Denotes Re-Entry. Address : 7 Marigold Road, I / F Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Acknowledgments E wish to thank. all our contemporaries who have sent us copies of W their publications since our last issue. 54 55 THE ALUREDIAN

Contents

PAGE PAG E Editorial 3 Music Club 51

School Notes 3 Art Club 52 F . Vyvyan-Robinson, M.C. 6 Pottery Club 52 King Alfred House Notes Aeromodelling Club 52 Carpenter House Notes 8 Fallodon Society 53 Bishop Fox House Notes 9 Arch

EDITOR: C. M. DIAMOND Sus-EDITORs : E . J. LAVENDER. D. W. PERRY VoL. XXIX. No. 5 OcTOBER, 1959

Editorial HE Headmaster has expressed his confident hope that the new block T of classrooms and studies will be begun in March or April of 196o. This is news which can be welcomed only with delight-not least by the prefects in the smaller studies. The material development of the School will then be complete, inasmuch as any additional buildings will be luxurious in comparison. This happy state of affairs should lead one to refl ect that the School's material progress has advanced at such a rate that all our efforts must be maintained to ensure continued progress in other spheres. There is a risk of being accused of preaching when one refers to the "moral" or " spiritual" progress of the School, but these are the most appropriate words. The account of the School's many and varied activities provided by the Aluredian is proof of the ready and enthusiastic service of very many boys; nevertheless, as we watch the bricks being laid for yet another new building, it will be fitting to con­ sider what is the ultimate purpose for which so much time, money and labour is being expended-Certainly it is not to enter into competition with the facilities which so many State Schools are able to provide. There is sure to be a passage of time between the appearance of this editorial and when building begins, but it is not too soon to remind oneself of that side of School life to which bricks and mortar can contribute nothing. THE EDITORS.

School Notes F the [2o,ooo lent in 1956 by parents, O.A.s and other friends of O King's towards the erection of the War Memorial, [3,200 has already been repaid; [2,400 by means of payment of loans drawn by lot, and £8oo repaid exceptionally by the Chapter for special reasons. Of the loans repaid, [1,900 has been offered for relending to the School. It is very comforting and very gratifying to have this warm support and to know that there is this growing 'nest egg' available if needed. Even more gratifying is the fact that some lenders have very generously converted their loans into gifts, either to the War _Memorial Fund or to the Chapel Completion Fund. We are deeply grateful for these gifts, which were made by: H. E. G. Mumford, Esq., O.A., froo; H. W. Cowling, Esq., O.A., £wo; an anonymous O.A., froo; and D. L. M. Sum, Esq., £so.

3 It is a custom that a Mayor should attend a service at either his own long association with the more material problems of the School, and local church or a church of his own choice on the first Sunday after his everyone will remember with gratitude her patience and willingness to mstalment. In accordance wit~ this tradition, Mrs . Unmack, as the new help. On behalf of the School, we wish her every success and happiness Mayor of Taunton, ~ccompamed by the Corporation of the Borough, fo r the future. attended Sung Mass m the College Chapel on Sunday, 24th May. The We had several good lectures during the Lent and Summer Terms; preacher was the Chaplain of King's, who is this year also the Mayor's they covered a wide variety of subjects. Outstanding in the Lent Term Chaplai~. On ~half of the S~hool, we congratulate Mrs . Unmack on was "The Atlantic Alliance, " a very enlightening talk by A. E . Wilson, her electwn to this office and W1sh her every success in the coming year. Esq., who has had considerable experience in international politics and Dr. A. E . J. Rawlinson, the former Bishop of Derby and a very who was able to give us a first-hand account of the present situation in old friend of King's, spent the week-end at the School as a guest of the Berlin and the issues which are at stake there. During the Summer Headmaster and Mrs: Unmack after bemg a speaker at the Mayor's Term two notable speakers visited us. Early in the term, Mr. Edward banquet on the prevwus Thursday. Dr. Rawlinson preached in the Holloway, from the Economic Research Council, spoke to us on the Chapel on the evening of Sunday, 23rd May. European Economic Community and its significance to Britain and Our Speech Day in July was honoured by the presence of Field­ Europe, both financially and politically. Later, Mr. John Foot, M.P ., Marshal the Lord Harding of Petherton, who inspected the Guard of O.A., who is now Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Home Honour and distributed the prizes. His striking personality was evident Affairs in the Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, kindly from the moment he arrived, and his address to the School after the dis­ agreed to interrupt his Government mission in England to speak to us tribution of the prizes was inspiring and rendered all the more valuable about the problems facing the Government there, stressing the impor­ by the fact t~at the. advice he gave us was drawn from the principles tance of a fact little appreciated in this country, that the Africans them­ that have guided him so successfully through his own distinguished selves are still not very advanced yet in education, culture or methods of career. administration. His lecture was admirably illustrated by two films, which gave a vivid and contrasting impression of life within the Federa­ The School was also honoured on Speech Day by the presence on tion. the platform of Mr. R. M. E. Reeves, who is one of the trustees of the Dulverton Trust. We are deeply grateful for the gift by the Trust of Among the guest Preachers who visited the School during the Sum­ £2,50? towards the new buildings. It is a special source of pride that mer Term was the Revd. De W. Perry, from the United States, who, the g1ft should have been made, not only in recognition of the value of after first telling the School something about the Episcopal Church of the work done at the School, but also because the School has done so America, preached an original and stimulating sermon on the question, much to help itself in the last few decades. The gift is especially appro­ " What Am I?" He was especially welcome, as his son, Jim Perry, has priate in that the late Lord Dulverton was the last M.P . for the old spent this last year at King's as a member of the School through the Borough of Taunton. Student Exchange system operating between the two countries. We hope the experience has been as enjoyable and valuable for him as it has been . The Sc~ool Orchestra and Choral Society, assisted by several adult for us, and we wish him the best of luck in his first term at Harvard. and professiOnal guests, performed Haydn's "Creation" in the School Chapel on the Sunday of Speech Day week-end. All those who took Once again there was a favourable report on the standard part, and especially Mr. Tyler; the organiser and conductor, are to be and efficiency of the School Corps after the annual General Inspection. congratulated on the high standard which they attained. Details of the This year it was on 1st June and conducted by Brigadier J. Grose, performance will be found elsewhere in the Aluredian. O.B.E., M.C., and, in spite of the fact that the March Past left some­ The well-known bass baritone, Mr. Hervey Alan, gave a recital to thing to be desired, he was greatly impressed by the standard which we the School one Sunday afternoon in the Lent Term. He took the oppor­ have attained in Training and Instruction. tunity during the time at his disposal to trace the development and char­ We congratulate A. K. Vodden on gaining Honours, 1st Class, in acteristics of Opera, illustrating the points he made with well-chosen Part 11 of a degree in Chemistry at Queen's College, Dundee; A. M. and often humorous examples. His personality and wit turned what Munro on being elected to a Science Fellowship at Cornell University, had seemed a doubtful subject in the eyes of many boys into a highly U.S.A.; and T. P . Brennand on his election to a Fellowship at Trinity instructive and entertaining guide towards an appreciation of Opera. College, Dublin. It is sad to lose in one term two such devoted servants of the School as our Sanatorium Sister, Miss Harley, and our Head Lady Cook, Miss Many O.A.s will be interested to hear that Mr. S. Turnet:, the School Palmer. Sister has come smilingly through several epidemics; we shall carpenter, has now been at King's for over 25 years. There was a special not soon forget her hard work, her wonderful kindness and her sympathy dinner of past and present Pioneers to celebrate this on Wednesday, 22nd for her patients. Miss Palmer, too, will be sadly missed for her pro­ July. fessional skill and her great enthusiasm for a high standard on festive As University result lists are now so voluminous from the various occasions. In these last she has, with the caterer, shown a humour and Universities and are not always published in the Press, we should be an enthusiasm which will long be remembered. We wish both her and most grateful if Old Boys would be so kind as to let us know when they Sister well in the future. pass examinations and gain degrees, etc. We are very interested in all We were also sorry to see Miss A. Bailey, the Assistant Matron, the successes of O.A.s and like to keep our records up-to-date and com­ leave us at the end of the Summer Term. This marked the end of a plete as possible.

4 5 T. G. Waddington has been chosen to play the 'cello in the National Youth Orchestra. The Headmaster has accepted work of special merit during the Lent and Summer Terms from the following boys : -G. Shardelow, ]. A. ]. Taylor (iv) (twice), N. P . Butt, I. Hanak, R. H . Poppe (twice), D. D. Hill (ii), M. A. Coward, P. J. Cary, B. C. S. Barnes (ii) , C. M. Diamond .

F. Vyvyan-Robinson, M.C. (Chairman of The Old Aluredian Oub, 1956 to 1959) HEN the decision was taken t o elect a Chairman of the Old W Aluredian Club, it was realised that elections to this office would provide members with an opportunity to show their appreciation of those senior members who had served the Club with loyalty and distinction . It was natural and right that the first O.A. to be. elected to this office should be F. Vyvyan-Robinson, whose outstanding loyalty and devotion to the Club and the School are clear to all. Let us recall that he left King's in 1915 to serve with distinction in the First World War. He left the scene as Head Prefect and returned as General Secretary of the O.A. Club in 1920. He held this position until the early thirties. It was a long and hard task, possibly sometimes discouraging, to rebuild the Old Aluredian Club after the devastation and disruption of war, and it was a small but warm-hearted group that did so under Vyvyan­ Robinson's guidance. He relinquished office for a few years, but it is significant that, when the Second World War burst upon us, it was Vyvyan-Robinson and Hawken who made a special journey to Taunton to hand over the records of the Club into what proved to be the safe keeping of the School. Again followed a hiatus and a rebuilding, and always there was Vyvyan-Robinson to look to for help, quiet reassur­ ance and loyalty in action. In his three years as Chairman he has fostered the Club through a period of rapid growth. There have been many tasks inevitably in such circumstances which came his way, but his official association with the visit of Royalty to King's and the presentation of the Head­ master's portrait, both expressions of the strength and vitality of the School and the Club, must surely be a fitting climax to his many years of devoted and loyal service. The Club has indeed been fortunate in its first Chairman and all O.A.s and all at King's appreciate the great debt they owe him, while realising that for him it has been a humble pleasure to serve. This realisation is the noblest tribute which any man can earn.

F. Vyvyan-Robi nson, Esq., M.C .. O .A . [see page 6

6 House Notes KING ALFRED HOUSE House Captain: A. J . Gullick. House Prefects: R. J. Payne, C . H. Abraham, J. C. Baker, J. M. C. Peace, T. W. Wyatt, N. B. Bentley and D. W. Peny. Deputies: T. G. Waddington, A. E . Walker, D. C. Morgan, J . S. Kemble, R. K. L. Lo and A. R. Salman. Common Room Committee: P . J. Green, Waddington, Lo, Salman, Kemble. In the Lent Term, our Senior Hockey team, unfortunately, failed to retain the cup, being beaten by Bishop Fox (2-I) in the semi-final. We congratulate the following on being awarded their House Hockey colours: C. H. Abraham, N. B. Bentley, R. K. L. Lo and A. G. Chubb. The Junior team, however, successfully defended the cup against Mey­ nell (3-1) in the final. We did not excel in the Senior and Junior Steeplechases, but we should like to congratulate both the teams, and especially R. J. Payne and W. M. Bray, for a spirited effort. The House song for the Music Festival was "Simon the Cellarer"; we thank Mr. King for providing the accompaniment. In the Summer Term, J . C. Baker won the Senior Discus event and R. K. L. Lo and A. E. Walker were placed in the hurdles. In the Junior events, R. D. Hennessy was particularly successful, winning the long jump, hurdles and high jump. We were represented in the xst XI Cricket by N. B. Bentley, I. D. Philippe and N. V. Lyle and in the 2nd XI by J. S. Kemble, J. C. Baker and M. A. Eaglesome. We were sony to see that we were not as suc­ cessful in the House Cricket League as in previous years. Cricket House colours were awarded to N. V. Lyle, J. S. Kemble and M. A. Eagle­ some. Despite gallant efforts on the part of all three pairs, we lost the Fives Cup. We should like to mention, however, I. D. Philippe and P. P. Morgan for a fine performance and for gaining their House half­ colours. I. P. L. Smith represented the House in the Tennis VI. Although we had as good a team as last year, we lost the cup, coming only third in the Inter-House Competition. House half-colours were awarded to N. V. Lyle. C. G. Hennessy broke the existing School record for the backstroke in the Swimming Sports, while P. J. Green broke the record for the plunge. Both Senior and Junior teams were unsuccessful, and we lost the Junior Swimming Cup. We should like to congratulate T. G. Waodington on gaining admittance to the Royal Academy of Music and also for being selected to play in the National Youth Orchestra. We would like to congratulate E. J. Marshall, also, on being appointed Honorary Secretary of Shoot­ ing. Finally, all members of Alfred would like to express their apprecia­ tion of Mr. Townsend's continual patience, enthusiasm and devotion to the House. Both he and Mr. King have contributed in no small way to make the last two terms very pleasant ones, and we thank them for it. c 7 CARPENTER HOUSE BISHOP FOX HOUSE House Captain : A. E . Whitehouse. House Captain : E . J . Hatfield. House Prefects: B. K. Sum, B. L. Said, I. D. Sharpe. C. J. V. C. School Prefect: A. G. Hopkins. Brough, N. Daw, P. C. Southcott. House Prefects: D. S. D. La Touche, C. M. Diamond, F. N. Sherley­ Deputies : N. W. L. Abbott, P.C. Dane, G. B. S. Busby. Price, K. W. Miller, R . J. Paton, J. S. P. Gibson, A. G. Osborn. Common Room Committee: Dane, R. D. Toogood, Abbott, A. W. K. Deputy Prefects: C. L. F. Barnford, P . T. Bonsey, R. P. Edwardes, Lau. P. L. Szabo. Common Room Committee: Edwardes, Bonsey, Barnford, R. J. Gundry. In the Lent Term our Seniors once again fared well on the field of play. In the Hockey matches we reached the final for the second succes­ sive year by beating Meynell 2-0; however, we came up against a strong The " piece de resistance" of the Lent Term was undoubtedly our Bishop Fox team and went down fighting 2-0. C. J. V. C. Brough, spectacular win in the Steeplechase; this gave us the cup for the N. Daw, D. J. Millard, A. E. Whitehouse, R. D. Toogood and N. J. E. thirteenth year. The Juniors romped home with forty-four points, but White were duly awarded their House colours. Our Junior team was the climax came when the Seniors also won with forty-four points. Hall outplayed by a strong Alfred team, the eventual winners. In the Steeple­ won first place. Eighty-eight points for the whole team is a new School chase our Seniors performed creditably to come third, but our Juniors record, and both teams are heartily congratulated on their fine effort. were again out of the hunt. We congratulate C. J. V. C. B~ough, N. Bamford, Edwardes, Gilbert, Hall and Price were awarded their House Daw, N. J. E. White, I. D. Sharpe and H. 0 . Alwan on being awarded half -colours. their House colours. In Hockey, our failure in the Junior contest was amply compen­ In the Summer Term we again tried, but failed, to meet with the sated for by our success in the Senior. We beat Alfred 2-1, and then success hoped for. Individual talent was lacking on Sports Day. How­ went on to beat Carpenter in the final 2-0. Buchanan, Gibson Hopkins, ever, our Junior Cricket team performed very creditably in the Cricket Osborn, Shove, Taylor and Timbrell were awarded their House colours. League; they drew with Woodard and in the final defeated them by two We did not distinguish ourselves particularly in either the Senior runs after a very exciting and memorable struggle. Our Tennis team was or Junior Sports, but we did regain the Standards Cup from Woodard. inexperienced, but, nevertheless, played with cool determination; the Fives team also suffered from lack of experience rather than of We came a good second in the Swimming Sports. Paton's magnifi­ spirit. Kay swam well in the Junior Swimming events an~ Toogood cent swimming, which broke four records, is worthy of mention, and dived well in the Senior event. Vaux represented the House m the final Hall, who gave the most successful support, was awarded his House rounds of the Officers' Shooting Cup, and we congratulate him on coming half-colours. third. Our failure in Tennis was more than adequately made up for by our We failed to regain the Corps Cup this year, but, judging by the success in Fives. Our first pair, Osborn and Hatfield, were beyond keenness of our Juniors and our large representation at the Summer doubt the best in the School. Edwardes, who also played well, was Camps, it should not be long before the cup returns to us. In the Lent awarded his House half-colours. Term we acquired a new changing room at Hareston, and we look forward Lastly, in the sphere of sport, we must mention Sherley-Price's to further renovations at Gatcombe in the near future. superb shooting in the Officers' Shooting Cup. Out if a possible 372 We should like to thank Mr. Harvey and Mr. Wilson for the con­ points he gained 369, which should stand as a record for a long time. We tinual support and interest they show in all spheres of the House's acti~­ also claimed the runner-up in Hatfield. ties. We should also like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and the Chaplam We were naturally pleased to learn at the end of the Summer Term and Mrs. Reddish for the patience and kindness they have shown us at that we had won the Corps Cup. Gatcombe and Hareston. We should like to thank Hatfield for all he has done for the House, and wish him, and all the other leavers, the very best of luck in the future. Finally, we should like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Jaquet for all their help, guidance and encouragement at all times .

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9 8 MEYNELL HOUSE WOODARD HOUSE House Captain : C. A. W. Martin . House Captain : T. H . Vodden. School Prefects: M. R. Martin, P. F . W. Twose. School Prefect : R. A. Adam. House Prefects : R. I. N. Grant, C. R. Eagle, J. M. Glover, A. ]. House Prefects : ] . ]. Kennedy, ] . de W. Perry, C. M. Kitsell, H. S. Atkinson, D. J. Couch. Trowell, E . J . Lavender. Deputy House Prefects : P . J. Villar, M. J. Torrens, C. W. Green , Deputy Prefects : D. B. Busfield, N. R. Garnett, M. W. Lobb. T. C. Carter. Common Room Committee : Garnett, M. J . Pearce, Busfield, M. V. Common Room Committee : Villar, Torrens, R. G. Taylor, Carter, Evans. R. E . Buchman, P . Y. Lee .

At the beginning of the Lent Term we were very pleased to see R. A. Adam made a School Prefect and also Captain of Hockey. Meynell's part in School activities showed itself particularly As usual, the Woodard Rugger players turned out to represent us prominently in the Summer Term. We were privileged to have in the in the House Hockey matches. We were beaten l But only by one goal. House not only three School Prefects, including the Captain and Vice­ Unfortunately, the Junior team fared no better. M. W. Lobb and J. M. Captain of the School, but also the Captains of Tennis, Swimming and Lipman were awarded their House colours for outstanding play. of Pioneers and the Captain and Secretary of Athletics. Couch sang one We did not do so well as in previous years in the House Steeple­ of the leading parts in the performance of Haydn's " Creation," and we chasing, but several individual performances are to be highly corn­ should like to congratulate him upon his success. mended. Amongst the Juniors, Monk was first, Barnes third and Evans In the Lent Term the Senior Hockey team beat the Woodard team, (iv) ninth. The Seniors, however, apart from Kennedy (second) and Carter scoring the only goal in the first few minutes of the game, but Vodden (eleventh) finished somewhat lower. the next match against Carpenter was lost. Twose and Glover, J. M., The Summer Term proved very successful for the House. In the were re-awarded their colours, and Trigg, Couch and Barnes, B. C. S. , School Athletics we gained four of the six cups available, namely, the were awarded theirs. In the Junior Hockey match we beat the Woodard Junior Sports, the Relay and the Senior and Junior Victores Ludorum. 1-0, the goal being scored by Phillips, but we lost in the final against Special mention must be made of Kennedy and Monk, who won the Alfred after a fiercely contested game. individual trophies, and of the Relay team, consisting of Vodden, Pearce, Trigg and Buchman were awarded their half-colours for Cross­ Kennedy and Taylor, who ran so well that they also broke the old School country running, coming respectively fourth and ninth in the Senior record. Steeplechase; Miles came second in the Junior. The inter-House Tennis Tournament has never been one of our strong In the Summer Term we very narrowly lost the Standards Cup and points. However, this year we did extremely well and were only the Junior Sports Cup, but easily retained the Senior Sports Cup. The defeated by four points. Special mention must be made of J . de W. House Tennis team, under the able direction of Lee, won the Tennis Perry and of our third pair, Adam, M. J. , and White, B . H ., who were Cup. The first pair, Lee and Buchman, won all their matches, and the undefeated. second pair, Kochanek and Hanak, only lost one point. As a result of In the Swimming Sports we again retained the Standards Cup and this, Kochanek was awarded half-colours and Lee and Buchman were also gained the Junior Swimming Cup, largely due to the efforts of Adam, re-awarded theirs. The Tennis team was especially promising and it is M. ] . We were a close second in the Relay, with a very exciting finish . good to know that all of the team will be with us next Summer. At the end of the Summer Term we were sorry to see T. H. Vodden, The Fives team had less success, but the Swimming Sports spelt our unfailing House Captain for a year, leave us, and we are all sin­ success for Meynell. We won the Senior Sports Cup and the Relay Cup. cerely grateful for everything that he has done for the House. In the Relay a new School record was set up, and the team is to be Finally, we must thank Mr. Pytches warmly congratulated on a fine and Mr. Whitworth for their effort. Martin, C. A. W., Glover and wisdom and support in all the affairs of the House. Twose were re-awarded their Swimming colours and Thomas, Carter and Lee were awarded theirs. We owe our warm thanks to Mr. Padfield, Mr. Jordan and Martin, C. A. W., for their leadership during these terms. Mr. Padfield never tires in the enthusiastic way in which he guides the House and the interest he takes in House affairs. Mr. Jordan's contribution lies mainly in the realm of sport, and we are grateful to him for all that he has done for us. Our special thanks must go to Martin, C. A. W., who has success­ fully led the House for two years. We shall miss his guiding hand and we wish hlm and all the other leavers every happiness for the future.

10 D 11 Summer Term also saw the introduction of the practice of singing a Chapel Notes short Introit in the Lady Chapel before the Evemng Service processional . N the last issue of the Aluredian, Michaelmas Term, 1959, these notes In conclusion, we must not fail to mention our contribution to the I were fully occupied with the outstanding event of that term- the celebration of the Purcell Centenary, which took the form of a perform­ ] ubi lee of the dedication of the Chapel. The Sung Mass in the morning ance of his verse anthem, " Rejoice in the Lord," with the original string was celebrated by the Provost, the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, and, accompaniments. in the afternoon, with no less than four Bishops attending, there was D.J.C . Evensong, at which the Lord Bishop of Exeter preached a truly memor­ able sermon, which was, through his kindness, printed in full in the Aluredian. Orchestra Notes At the end of the term there was the Festival of the Nine Lessons GOOD deal of the Lent Term was taken up with rehearsing Haydn's people each succeeding year, and Carols, which draws more and more Symphony 104, with no particular object other than the fun of doing usual high quality. A the serving and singing being of the so. However, the Summer Term was a very different story. We got During Lent, instead of inviting an outside clergyman to give a down in earnest to playing Haydn's " Creation," and it was gratifying series of weekly addresses, the office o f Compline was sung and proved indeed to know that, of the orchestra of 36 which played for the per­ conclusively that Plainsong, for all its antiquity, has an abiding beauty. formance, half of it consisted of boys. "Chaos" was represented in On 12th March the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells confirmed nearly varying degrees of perfection, but we feel that Haydn would not have sixty candidates. been too disgraced by the finished product I Holy Week was celebrated in all its glory, building up from Palm In work by smaller groups there has been much activity. Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday and Good Friday to the Communion Sunday again saw the hymn, "Ride on," accompanied by a brass and and Sung Mass of Easter Day. Bishop Wilson and Dr. Carpenter very percussion ensemble, this time sufficiently strong to dispense with the kindly assisted us during Holy Week. assistance of the organ, and very impressive it was, too. The performance Purcell, sung at the end of During the Summer Term we had no less than seven guest preachers. of the anthem, "Rejoice in the Lord," by term, was accompanied by some of the strings, and another group per­ We should like to thank that indispensable but too-little recognised formed Bach's Fourth Brandenburg concerto, with Mr. Hart as soloist. body, the St. Lawrence Guild, for all the work they do week by week; of a French Horn, we shall have a also Mrs. Lloyd and the linen room staff for looking after the Chapel When next term sees the advent linen. full complement of instruments. On the strength of this we shall look for even greater things from the orchestra. It remains only to say how No one can have entered the Chapel at any time, especially Easter, grateful we are to the various instrumental teachers for their help and without noticing the beautiful flowers which are alway there, for which encouragement. We can assure them that their efforts are not in vain. we warmly thank Mrs. Morgan. D.W .P . Choir Notes Haydn's '' Creation'' N Sunday, 14th June, the School Choral Society and Orchestra gave the prospect of Easter at School. wE began the Lent Term faced with O a performance of Haydn's "Creation" in the Chapel. Two of the This entailed considerable preparation of special music, but did not soloists came from outside and the orchestra was augmented by some pro­ prevent the performance of several anthems, including "Abide with me" fessional instrumentalists at strategic points, but the performance was (Stemdale Bennett), "Greater Love" Uohn Ireland) and "The King of nevertheless essentially a School enterprise, which owed its success to the Love" (Somervell}. youthful vitality of those taking part. And none more youthful or vital Each Friday evening during Lent a small group sang the Office of than Mr. Tyler, whose infectious enthusiasm was once again the factor Compline. Easter week music included the singing of the Palm Sunday which inspired chorus and orchestra to give of their best and gave unity and Good Friday Passions to the traditional tones, with the Vittoria and colour to their interpretation. · choruses, the Chaplain taking the part of the Evangelist and D. J. Couch The visiting soloists, Miss Edna Lloyd and Mr. David Palmer, sang that of Christus. The latter also sang the Reproaches. Other minor beautifully. Their purity of tone, their power and their phrasing set parts were taken by members of the choir. The anthem on Easter Day too high a standard for Couch to match, well as he did with the long and was Mr. Tyler's "My Beloved Spake." difficult bass part. His voice, which has not yet fully developed, has Important occasions in the Summer Term were the Speech Day Com- more the qualities of a tenor than a bass, and, in consequence, there was memoration and Civic Services. These saw the introduction of Stan- not quite enough contrast in the trios. Nevertheless, he showed a good ford's Evening Service in A and Darke's Communion Service in F. deal of promise. Other anthems included "The Spirit of the Lord" (Elgar), "Save This was indeed an ambitious undertaking, the more so as it took us, 0 Lord" (Bairstow), "0 Thou the central orb" (Charles Wood), place within a few months of the performance of "H.M.S. Pinafore." "The Cherubic Hymn" (Gretchaninoff) and "I was glad" (Parry). The Now, as then, the chorus, this time enlarged by members of the staff and 12 18 some 30 trebles from Pyrland Hall , was splendid , a nd the orchestra re­ sponded amazingly well to the exacting demands of Mr. Tyler's conduct­ ing, which made no concessions to t he inexpen ence of m any o f the per­ formers. Inevitably, a fe w of the noises reminded us that chaos was still not so far away in one or two places, but, what is much m ore impor­ tant, is that the glorious work was gloriously and triumphantly achieved. P.V.H. ~ w u Library Notes 01 <;:"' ?; u 2 URING the Summer T erm two important innovations have quietly Q_"' f- D come into operation. The first is a reorganisation of the Library ~ vi staff. There is now one head librarian and several librarians, each com­ I I pletely in charge of one section or group of sections. Each section has its own w ithdrawal book and return shelf. E 0 The second innovation is that of leaving the dust covers on the books .D and putting a transparent polythene covering over them. This shoulcl 0 0"' ?; make the books much more attracti ve and protect them b etter. (.) f- There seems to be s ome misunderstanding about the way in which <{ s: new books are chosen. Sneering remarks about librarians choosing the books that they want are not uncommon. In fact, however, the system ~a..: is very democratic. A suggestions book is placed in the library and any­ ::> 2 body with a library permit can suggest any book. The Library Com­ CO mittee (comprising one boy and / or master from each department) then u meets, discusses the suggestions, "' _....,_ and votes on them. The books decided "'~ > on are then ordered and bought. If you suggest a book which may not ;. -.c. Q. be known, it would be worth seeing the librarian into whose section the 0 u ~"' V book will go, so that he can recommend it at the committee meeting. "'0 E I "0"' We should like to take this opportunity of thanking Lieut.-Colonel the c <( Hon. Gerald French, x ~ D.S.O., for presenting a copy of his book, "Gordon ~ .n <{ Pasha of Sudan," to the library, and we regret that we omitted to thank - (.) er: Dr. Westholm for his presentation copy of his own book of 103 paintings 0..: from the Gothenburg Art Gallery. vi

L .c K.C.H.C.-1959 u .2 ::> (.) 0 f- 2: Captain : R. A. Adam. Hon. Secretary : ] . M. Glover. .n _J"' -.c. .n 0 ROSPECTS at the beginning of the 1959 season were not at all bright, ci _J P the hockey players of potential in the School amounted to eight for­ vi s: wards, two halves and a goalkeeper. Moreover, the season did not fully ci get under way, because of the bad weather and the 'flu epidemic, until :oe ~ -. N their new positions to play a high standard of hockey. _

l4 enthusiasm was never l acking, and goals were often scored by good fol­ lowing through. M. W. Lobb scored some good goals against Taunton School and Hruton, while the short corners taken by P. F. W. Twose were often successful. 9. c To cope with the difficulties of the early part of the season, teams "" were selected from those members of the rst and 2nd XI's and Senior <1: 'A' XI's were fielded against Kelly --.:. Colts who remained " on-games. " College, Taunton School, Bristol G.S. and J. B. Killingbeck's XL Although these matches did not produce a high standard of hockey, they did help to keep the game going in the School and much informa­ ~ tion was learned from them. lL" It was not until the third week of February that the rst XI was ~ c fully assembled. The first two matches against Taunton H.C. and Mill­ field were very scrappy games. Although the team was not fully fit, no excuses can be made for the low standard of hockey which characterised ] these games. The former was a goalless draw ; while the latter resulted v for the opposition, who were both quicker to the ball er:" <.: in a o-2 victory _J ed very tight marking throughout the game. i and maintain 0 The pitch was very hard for the match against Exeter School and _j '- this resulted in fast, open hockey. The defence, particularly J. M. Glover in goal, held together very well against a powerful attack. The forwards " " were not combined, but managed several times to get the opposition "L -. backs 'square.' Trowell, H. S., sent across some good centres, from ~ c .,.., >.. V which M. W. Lobb scored two goals. P. F. W. Twose scored two good "' -;::" Cl) ai goals from short corners. "' .r:_" .s Vl Q) 2 The match against B.R.N.C., Dartmouth, was played in changing .:L u z conditions. However, due to the considerable emphasis that was put on ·;: u: u 0 changing direction and cross-field passes, the forwards were able to slip 0 through a strong defence. X s ... ~ f- Once again the O.A.s produced a fast and surprisingly fit team . "' _) ~ After being two goals down, the goal-scoring machine managed to move > u: into action late in the second half. Bentley, N. B., and M. W. Lobb z

B 15 The 2nd XI did not enjoy a successful season. This was mainly due 2nd XI to the fact that it contained too many individuals, so that there was no Jan. 24 v . Q.E.S., Crediton, 1st XI (home) Cancelled cohesion between defence and attack. Lack of footwork and bad position­ Jan. 31 v. Clayesmore School (away) Won 1--0 being c reated by the opposition. How­ Feb. 4 v . Exeter School (away) Cancelled ing often resulted in wide gaps Feb. 11 v. Allhallows School (home) Cancelled ever, the ball did occasionally move around quite quickly as a result of Feb. 18 v . Taunton School (home) Lost 0-2 some lusty hitting and the customary '2nd XI spirit' was present through­ Feb. 21 v . Taunton Vale H .C. (home) Draw 1-1 out. Feb . 25 v. Millfield School (home) Lost 0-2 Feb . 28 v. Bristol G.S. (away) Lost 1-2 R.A.A. Mar. 7 v. Q.E.S., Crediton (away) Cancelled SENIOR COLTS Mar. 11 v . Somerset L.I. Depot (home) Won 5-l Mar. 21 v. King's School, Bruton (home) Lost 0-2 The Senior Colts completed another successful and enjoyable season Played 7. Won 2. Drawn 1. Lost 4. to score goals, and without defeat. The chief strength lay in their ability Goals for : 8. Goals against : 10. the three inside forwards did well in this. The defence was sound, and conceded only two goals in six games as against 27 goals for. Senior Colts Inaccurate passing and inconsistent hitting were the chief weak­ Jan. 28 v. Crewkerne School 2nd XI (home) Won 2-1 nesses; both can best be overcome by individual practice. Jan. 31 v . Clayesmore School (home) Won 9--0 Feb . 4 v. Exeter School (away) Cancelled The record of the Senior Colts over the last ro years makes inter­ Feb. 11 v. Allhallows School (away) Cancelled esting reading. Out of all games played, only two have resulted in Feb. 14 v . Milton Abbey (away) Cancelled These were both in 1954, when, owing to the waterlogged state Feb. 25 v . Millfield School (away) Draw 0-0 defeat. Feb. 28 v . Bristol G.S. (away) Won 9---D of our own grounds, only two matches were played. Mar. 11 v. Allhallows School (home) Won 4-1 I. D. Philippe captained the XI with enthusiasm. Colours were Mar. 21 v. King's School, Bruton (away) Won ~ awarded to Philippe, Lyle, Adam, Blake and Toland. Played 6. Won 5. Drawn 1. Lost 0 C.W.J. Goals for : 27 . Goals against : 2 JUNIOR COLTS Junior Colts Jan. 24 v. Q.E .S., Crediton (home) Cancelled The following played for the team: ~erryman, Cary, R. D. Evans, Jan. 31 v. Clayesmore School (away) Won 6--0 Hanak, R. D. Hennessy, Horrocks, Jennmgs, Llewellyn, Magurran (cap­ Feb. 11 v. Allhallows School (home) Cancelled tain), Phillips, Riess, Ryland, Shardelow, J . S. Smith, P. J. White. Feb. 14 v . Milton Abbey (away) Cancelled Feb. 25 v. Millfield School {home) Won 2-1 Though the team had few outstanding players, there were a great Feb. 28 v. Exeter School (home) Lost 2-3 many in reserve who were quite good enough for the team. This meant Mar. 7 v. Q.E .S., Crediton (away) Cancelled that during absences through illness the replacements caused no deteriora­ Mar. 11 v. Allhallows School (home) Won 2-1 tion in the side. The teamwork was good and usually defeated any Mar. 21 v. King's School, Bruton Draw 1-1 individually skilful players whom we met. Played 5. Won a. Drawn 1. Lost 1. T.N.E.M. Goals for : 13. Goals against : 6. RESULTS 3rd XI 1st XI Mar. 21 v . King's School, Bruton (home) Lost 0-S Jan. 31 v. Clayesmore School (home) Won 4-0 Feb. 11 v. Allhallows School (away) Cancelled 'Under 14' XI Feb. 21 v. Taunton Vale H .C. (home) Draw 0-0 Mar. 18 v. Taunton School (home) Lost 1--4 Feb. 25 v. Millfield School (away) Lost 0-2 Feb. 28 v. Exeter School (home) Won 5-3 The following represented the 1st XI : Mar. 7 v. Somerset County 'A' XI (home) Cancelled M. Glover (Hon. Secretary) (M), E. J. (home) R. A. Adam (Captain) (W), J. Mar. 11 v. B.R.N.C., Dartmouth Won 4-1 Hatfield (F), P . F . W. Twose (M) (3), J. S. P. Gibson (F) , M. W. Lobb Mar. 14 v. Old Aluredians (home) Draw 2-2 (W) (9), Osborn, A. G. (F) (2), Trowell, H. S. (W), Brough, C. J. V. C. Mar. 18 v. Hockey Association (home) Lost 1-4 (C), Bentley, N. B. (A) (5), La Touche, D. S. D. (F), Daw, N . {C) (1), Mar. 21 v. King' s School, Bruton (away) Won 3-1 Russell, L . C. L. (F). Played 8. Won 4. Drawn 2. Lost 2. The following represented the 2nd XI : Goals for : 19. Goals against : 13. Sherley-Price (Captain), (F), Payne, R. J . (A), Couch (M), Paton (F), 'A' XI Daw, N. (C), Szabo, P . L . (F), Lipman (W), Chubb (ii) (A) (2), Shove (ii) (A), Alwan (C), 1st XI (away) ... Won 3--0 (F), Salman (i) {A), Lavender (ii) (W), Abraham Jan. 28 v. Crewkerne (C), Beal (W), Millard (C), Trigg (M), 7 v. Bristol G.S. (home) Draw 0-0 Morgan (ii) (A), Storrs (C), Vaux Feb. Russell (F) ( 4), Philippe (A) (1), Budge (M), Adam (ii) (W) . Feb. 12 v. J . B. Killingbeck's XI (home) Lost 1-2 Feb. 14 v. Kelly College (away) ... Won 2-1 The following represented the Srd XI : 18 v. Taunton School (away) Won 2-{) Feb. Abraham (ii) (Captain) (A) , Lavender (i) (W), Lavender (ii) (W), Beal Played 5. Won 3. Drawn 1. Lost 1. (W), Buchanan (F), Griffiths (W), Timbrell (F), Toogood (C), Dane (C), Goals for : 8. Goals against : a. Barnes (M), Salman (ii) (A) .

16 1T The following represented the Senior Colts : The batting reached something like its true form at Millfie ld, and, Philippe (i ) (Captain) (A) (5), Lyle (A) ( 12) , Adam (ii) (W) (1 0). Smith thanks to Philippe 47, and Millard 43, we were able to declare at r66-4. (iv) (A). Toland (F), Thomas (M), Budge (M ), Fussell (F) , Storrs (C), Had the rate of scoring been stepped up in the middle of the i nnings, a Blade (M), Butt (F), Blake (F) . much higher t otal could have been achieved. Millfield went for t he runs The following r epresented t he J unior C olts : from the s tart and were soon we ll placed, but good b owling by Osborn Magurran (Captain) (F ), Kochanek (M) (2), Llewellyn (A) (8) , Phillips (4- 44) found them with 139--9 and 15 minutes left. One feels we should (M ) (1) . E vans (F) (1), Jennings (M) , Hanak (M) , White ( M), Shardelow have clinched this, but sensible batting e nabled our opponents to win in (M), Ryland (F ) , Riess ( F ) , Cary (F ), Horrocks (A) , Smith (C) , Berry. the last o ver. An excellent game. man (W) . We managed t o run into winning form against Kelly College, The f ollowing represented the 'Under 14' XI : although the middle batting w as still shaky. It was left to an unbroken Cowley (Captain ) (M), Hughes (M), Marke (M), Philippe (ii) (A) , Jones eighth wicket partnership of 95 in 45 minutes (Dane 50 not out and (i) (A) , Morice (A), Delacour (F) , Trythall (F ), Goode (C) . Sherley-Price 47 not out) to put us in a r easonable position. The following was re-awarded 1 st XI Hockey Colours : Victoria College, Jersey, were o n t our, and were dismissed for the J. M. Glover. modest total of 132 (Hatfield 3-17, Osbom 4-33). This should have The following were awarded 1 st XI Hockey Colours : been well within our compass, but spiritless batting left us well short of E . J. Hatfield, P . F . W. Twose, J . S. P. Gibson, M. W . Lobb. the necessary total. Queen 's College were set r87 to get (Bentley 45) . Our batting against The following were awarded 2nd XI H ockey Colours : slow flighters was not very intelligent. Although Queen's lost only four Trowell, H . S. , Bentley , N . B ., Brough, C. J . V. C., La Touche, D . S. D., Osborn, A. G., Daw, N ., Payne, R. J., Szabo, P . L. wickets in getting the runs, no less than 12 simple mishits landed in the empty spaces. Poor fi eld placing? The following were awarded Senior Colts Hockey Colours : Dartmouth arrived with a strong XI, and, batting first, made a Philippe, Lyle, Adam, Toland. lively start. We were well satisfied to dismiss them for rg6 in two hours (Sherley-Price 3-22). With plenty of time, we, too, batted briskly and ran into the sort of f orm expected, losing our third wicket at I73· Philippe (92} batted really well. Twose reached 41. A very good win . K. C. C. C., 195"9 Wellington set us to get r63 in two hours on a good wicket and we were well up with the clock in the early stages; 30 in the first 12 minutes; 1st XI 6o in half-hour. The advantage was then thrown away by some unneces­ sarily cautious batting, which cost us the match. We were left with 24 ITH seven colours from last year's very successful XI still avail­ runs required in rz minutes and five wickets standing. The last wicket W able, great things were expected this season. Unfortunately, as so fell in the last over, six runs short, after a rather hectic attempt to win, often happens in cricket, things did not turn out as expected. The batting has not been reliable, particularly in the middle of the order. This has The Stragglers match was played at King's this year. Bentley made often meant that good starts were not consolidated, or that tailenders were a breezy 52. It was touch and go which side would win right up to the left with a lot to do. Individual lack of confidence set in fairly early on. last over, and a draw was perhaps the just result. Osbom 5-63. The bowling was steady, but had little penetration. With little excep­ The final match, against Emmanuel School (on tour), was played tion, the fielding was keen and efficient. Some of the throwing was first­ under perfect conditions. By lunch King's had reached I3I-2 in go rate. Everyone in the side proved his worth with bat or ball at some minutes, but visions of a mammoth score were dispelled as wickets began time or other, but it was a lack of consistency which was our undoing. to fall, against good bowling, after the interval. The total reached 208 The O.A. match was early this year and resulted in a fairly com­ (Philippe 62). fortable win; Hatfield bowled well with 4-36. Emanuel got off to a good start, but they, too, fell away in the middle, and were 131--9 with 30 minutes left. In spite of narrow There was then a lull for Athletics, before we went to Exeter. This escapes, they survived. Both sides stood up to the heat, and fielded game found us well out of match practice against an XI on top of its well. Osbom s-6r, Twose 4-50, bowled well. A very good day's form, and we were well beaten. cricket. The Allhallows game found both sides short of bowling. Bentley On the whole, some interesting matches were played, and King's made a very bright 52 not out. were perhaps a little unfortunate in just losing all the close finishes. At The Masters' XI were made to toil hard in the field, but managed no time was there any thought of playing for a draw. to hold out for a creditable draw. This seemed to discourage the XI, Millard (who kept wicket cheerfully at all times), Dane and Sherley­ quite unreasonably. Price were awarded their colours. Russell is to be cotnmended for his Twose (5-34) bowled well against King's, Bruton, and left us with excellent fielding and throwing from the boundary. a good chance, but deplorable batting against steady bowling found us Matches: · 3 won. 6 lost. 4 drawn. well behind at the end. C.W.J. 18 p 19 OLD ALUREDIANS v. KING'S COLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE v. ALLHALLOWS SCHOOL KING'S COLLEGE OLD ALUREDIANS KING'S COLLEGE ALLHALLOWS P . F. W. Twose c & b Stoneman 15 Samson lbw b Sherley-Price 27 p F . W . Twose b Y earsley ... 22 Pollard c Twose b Philippe 39 R. A. Adam c Greatorex b Stone- Burt b Twose 10 A: G. Osborn c Bartlett b Years- Bartlett c Philippe b Dane 45 man ...... 23 Giles b Hatfield 3 !ey ...... 1 Rookes not out 17 H . S. Trowell c Barnes b Stone- Champion c Twose b Sherley- H . s. Trowell b Green 39 Yearsley not out 31 man ...... 15 Price 11 I. D. Philippe b Y earsley 30 Cox, Boyd, Wheeler, Carter, I. D. Philippe b Trott 19 Wadland b Hatfield 26 N. B. Bentley not out 52 Green, French and Read did N . B . Bentley not out . .. 30 Greatorex b Hatfield 5 Millard b French 5 not bat. Lyle c Greatorex b Trott 0 Akibogun b Hatfield 0 Russell b Yearsley 0 Millard not out ...... 6 Trott b Os born .. . 0 Lyle run out ... 5 A. G. Osborn, Russell, Sherley- Barnes b Osborn 7 Sherley-Price not out 8 Price and E . J . Hatfield did Tait not out 12 Dane and E . J. Hatfield did not not bat. Stoneman lbw b Osborn 9 bat. Extras 14 Extras 8 Extras 17 Extras 6 Total (for 5 wkts) 122 Total 118 Total (for 7 wkts) dec) 179 Total (for 2 wkts) 138 0. W . R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. Greatorex 6 0 8 0.0 Twose 7 1 17 17 .0 Yearsley 17 4 46 11.5 Twose 7 0 18 0.0 Champion 9 0 20 0.0 Hatfield ... 15 4 36 9.0 Read 13 0 53 0.0 Hatfield 6 0 20 0.0 Stoneman 14 3 50 16.7 Sherley-Price 9 2 16 8.0 French 4 1 11 11.0 Os born 12 0 40 0.0 Trott 6.4 2 30 15.0 Osborn 15 3 41 13.6 Green 5 0 23 0.0 Sherley-Price 6 0 17 0.0 Rookes 6 0 26 0.0 Dane 6 1 20 20.0 Result : King's won by 5 wickets. Philippe 6 1 17 17.0 Result : Match drawn.

KING'S COLLEGE v. EXETER SCHOOL EXETER SCHOOL KING'S COLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE v. MASTERS' XI Jowett c Trowell b Hatfield 5 P. F. W. Twose b Westcott 5 Gorley b Sherley-Price ... 9 Lyle b Yeabsley (D.) 4 KING'S COLLEGE MASTERS' XI Edwards not out 71 H. S. Trowell c Yeabsley (C.) b D. Yeabsley not out 84 Yeabsley (D.) 6 P. F. W. Twose c Morgan b P. V. Harvey lbw b Twose 24 Cann, Spencer, Davies, Westcott, I. D. Philippe c Edwards b James ...... ro M. F. Jaquet b Hatfield 0 Coombe, Story and C. Yeabs­ Yeabsley (D.) 0 A. G. Osborn lbw b Turner 29 C. W. James not out 106 ley did not bat. N. B . Bentley b Yeabsley (D.) 1 H. S. Trowell c Padfield b Turner 15 Fussell b Osborn 14 Millard b Yeabsley (D.) 0 I. D. Philippe lbw b Fussell .. . 24 H. R. Padfield b Dane ... 1 A. G. Osborn not out .. . 21 N. B . Bentley c Turner b James 10 G. W. Morgan c Trowell b Dane 23 Russell c Gorley b Westcott 0 Millard not out 64 G. F . Turner b Dane 1 Dane. b W estcott 8 Russell b Turner 38 W. Gooderham did not bat. Sherley-Price lbw b Yeal:isley Sherley-Price lbw b James 13 H. K. King not out 2 (D.) 6 Lyle not out ...... 4 M. J. Jordan lbw b Philippe 4 E. J. Hatfield lbw b Yeabsley Dane and E. J. Hatfield did not D. A. Sturgess did not bat. (D.) 0 bat. Extras 4 Extras 12 Extras 7 Extras 1 Total (for 2 wkts dec) 173 Total 63 Total (for 7 wkts dec) 214 Total (for 7 wkts) 176 0. w. R. Av. 0 . W. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. o. W . R. Av. Twose 7 0 31 0.0 D. Yeabsley 13.3 7 26 3.7 Padfield 7 0 44 0.0 Twose 9 1 so so.o Hatfield 15 1 43 43.0 Westcott 13 3 25 8.3 James 18 3 82 27.3 Hatfield 10 1 45 45.0 Sherley-Price 11 1 38 38.0 Turner 11 3 53 17.6 Sherley-Price 6 0 16 0.0 Osborn 10 0 28 0.0 Fussell 3 1 10 10.0 Os born 9 1 41 41.0 Dane 3 0 8 0.0 Jaquet 2 0 18 0.0 Dane 7 s 82 10.6 Philippe 3 0 24 0.0 Philippe 3 1 15 15.0 Result : Exeter School won by 110 runs. Result : Match drawn.

20 21 KING'S SCHOOL, BRUTON v. KING'S OOLLEGE PELICANS v. PEMBROKE OOLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE KING'S COLLEGE KING'S SCHOOL , BRUTON PELICANS PEMBROKE COLLEGE P. F. W. Twose b Barber 2 Maffey c Osborn b Hatfield 12 P. V. Harvey, Esq., b McMurray 18 Mead c Trowell b J ames 24 A. G. Osborn b Barber .. . 32 Watson c and b Osborn 30 I. D. Philippe lbw b Brook . . . 8 Palmer not out 63 H. S. Trowell b Barber .. . 2 Pearson c Trowell b Sherley- Millard st Stevens b B edford- Brook b J ames . . . 3 I. D. Philippe lbw b Maffey 14 Price . .. 26 Russell 7 Searle c Russell b James 26 N. B . Bentley b Maffey 0 Gifford lbw b Twose 20 c. W. James, Esq. , c Thomas b McMurray lbw b Philippe a1 Millard lbw b Maffey 0 Hughes lbw b Twose 23 McMurray ...... 38 Thomas b Trowell 3 Lyle lbw b Barber 0 Welby b H atfield 0 H. S. Trowell st Stevens b Boyle 27 Russell not out 7 R ussell b Barber 1 Barber lbw Twose 0 Lyle c Russell b McMurray . . . 16 Boyle, Stevens, Robson and Dane lbw b Barber 0 Merret lbw b Hatfield . . . 3 N. B . Bentley c Searle b B edford- Bedford-Russell did not bat. Sherley-Price not out 13 Freeman c Dane b Twose 25 Russell 25 E . J. Hatfield b Barber 1 Bosworth lbw b Twose 0 Russell c Stevens b Searle 7 Newlands not out 0 Dane lbw b McMurray . . . 5 Extras 2 Extras 12 Sherley-Price b McMurray 0 E . J. Hatfield not out . . . 1 Total 67 Total 151 Extras 8 Extras

0 . w. R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Total 160 Total (for 5 wkts) 161 Maffey 14 3 29 9.67 Twose 15 5 34 6.80 Barber ... 16.1 7 25 3.56 Hatfield 19 3 49 16.33 0 . w. R. Av. Newlands .. . 3 0 11 0.0 Os born 11 1 30 30.0 Bedford- o. w. R. Av. Sherley-Price 9 1 20 20.0 Russell 11 2 22 11.0 Hatfield 5 0 31 0.0 Philippe 2 0 6 0.0 Palm er 6 0 17 0.0 Dane 4 0 25 0.0 Brook 3 1 7 7.0 Sherley-Price 12 0 53 0.0 Result : King's lost by 84 runs. Robson 7 0 24 0.0 C. W. James 12 3 41 18.66 Boyle 10 1 42 42 .0 Philippe 1.5 1 8 8.0 McMurry 8 5 18 3.6 Trowell 1 1 a 3.0 Searle 3 1 22 22.0 • Result : Pembroke won by 5 wickets.

KING'S OOLLEGE v. KELLY OOLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE v. MILLFIELD SCHOOL KING'S COLLEGE KELLY COLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE MILLFIELD SCHOOL I. D. Philippe c Dumphy b Williams b Trowell 6 Torrens 6 Martin b Hatfield 0 I. D. Philippe c McConnell b Diment b Osborn 38 A. G. Osborn c and b Spence ... 29 Spence b Sherley-Price 20 Burgess 47 Wilmott run out . . . 18 Millard b Mitchell 21 Mew c and b Trowell 0 A. G. Osborn b Khan 21 Craig c B entley b Sherley-Price 42 H. S. Trowell c Mew b Torrens . . . 14 Dumphy lbw b Hatfield 2 Millard c Burgess b Bonnell 43 McConnell b Sherley-Price 1 Lyle lbw b Spence ...... 9 Seymour c Hatfield b Sherley- H . S. Trowell run out . . . 5 Burrough b Osborn . . . 0 N. B . Bentley c and b Spence . . . 9 Price 4 N. B. Bentley not out . .. 20 Mirehouse lbw b Sherley-Price . . . 17 Russell c Williams b Torrens 6 Badcock hit wkt b Osborn 0 Russell not out . . . 0 Burgess c Sherley-Price b Osborn 10 Dane not out 50 Mitchell c Osborn b Sherley- Sherley-Price, P . F . W . Twose, Khan c Twose b Osborn 11 5herley-Price not out ... 47 Price "7 Lyle, Dane and E. J . Hatfield Nicholson b Sherley-Price 0 Fussell and E . J. Hatfield did not Stanbury c Dane by Osborn 0 did not bat. Bonnell not out 20 bat. Marsh not out 6 Bell not out 4 Torrens run out 0 Extras ... 29 Extras 7 Extras ... 18 Extras 2

Total (for 4 wkts dec) 165 Total (for 9 wkts) 168 Total (for 7 wkts dec) 208 Total 47 0 . w. R . Av. 0. w. R . Av. 0 . W. R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Burgess 12 1 38 38.0 Twose 9 0 31 0.0 Torrens 9 3 48 16.0 Hatfield 9 2 18 6.5 Bonnell 13 1 28 28.0 Hatfield 8 0 46 0.0 Mitchell 13 1 40 40.0 Trowell 8 2 18 9.0 Khan 4 1 22 22.0 Os born 6 4 44 11.0 Williams 2 0 11 0.0 Os born 5.1 2 11 5.5 McConnell 3 0 13 0.0 Sherley-Price 6 8 41 18.66 Spence 14 a 72 24.0 Sherley-Price 6 8 3 1.0 Diment 4 0 14 0.0 Seymour 2 0 11 0.0 Bell 6 0 14 0.0 Dumphy 2 0 8 0.0 Burrough 1 0 9 0.0 Result : Milliield won by 1 wicket. Result : King's won by 156 runs.

22 G 23 KING'S COLLEGE v. VICTORIA COLLEGE, JERSEY PELICANS v. WESTBURY-ON-TRYM VICTORIA COLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE WESTBURY -ON -TRYM PELICANS D. C. Hunt c Lyle b Osborn 21 I. D. Philippe c Le Cornu b Merriffian c Twose b Osbom 30 Philippe st Harvey b H odson 37 C. C. Brown lbw b H atfield 0 Weedon ...... 17 Tutton b Osborn ... 23 Osborn st H arvey b Sherman 8 A. J. Hucq uard lbw b Osborn . . . 10 A. G. Osborn c Le Quesne b Goss c Da ne b Twose 13 Millard lbw b Sherman . . . 0 D. A. R . F erguson b H atfield . . . 57 Weedon ...... 0 K H arvey b Osborn 4 Twose lbw b Searle 6 E . P. Le Gresley st Millard b Millard c Ferguson b L e Quesne 4 H~ds o n c a nd b Osborn 24 C. W. James, Esq ., st K elson b Osborn 0 H . S. Trowel! lbw b Weedon 9 Kelson lbw b Sherley-Price 6 Hodson 37 P. H . Scriven b Osborn ... 6 N. B. Bentley c F erguson b Le P. Setchell b Osborn .. . 4 H. S. Trowell not out 14 M. ]. P . Weedon lbw b Sherley· Quesne ... 7 Sherman not out .. . 16 N . B . Bentley lbw b H odson 2 Price 11 Lyle c Scriven b Hunt .. . 5 Searle c M illard b Osborn 3 Dane not out 26 I. W. Harrison run out . .. 14 Dane c F erguson b Le Quesne 7 J . Thorns c Os born b Twose 0 Russell, Sherley-Price and E . J . S. J. Le Cornu b Hatfield 0 Sherley-Price c L e Gresley b L e Tottle c Millard b Twose 1 Hatfield did not bat. E . G. Le Quesne c Osborn b Quesne 1 Extras 10 Extras 6 Trowell 3 Fussell not out 8 T . B . Walker not out 2 Butt b Hunt 12 Total 184 Total (for 6 wkts) 135 E. J. Hatfield lb w b Hunt 0 Extras 9 Extras 3 0 . w. R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Twose 17.5 3 53 17 .6 Merriman 5 0 12 0.0 Total 132 73 Hatfield 4 0 9 0.0 Sherman ... 11 2 35 17.5 Osbom 16 6 52 8.66 Searle 9 1 35 35 .0 0. w. R. Av. Sherley-Price 5 1 12 12.0 Setchell 6 0 22 0.0 Hatfield 12 3 17 6.33 Hodson 9 3 25 8.3ll Trowell 10 1 21 21.0 Dane 4 0 19 0.0 Result : Pelicans won by 4 wickets. Os born 13 4 33 8.25 Sherley-Price 11 1 32 32.0 Result : Victoria won by 59 runs.

KING'S COLLEGE v. QUEEN'S COLLEGE KING'S COLLEGE QUEEN'S COLLEGE I. D . Philippe st Sullis b Feizal Fonseka lbw b Hatfield . . . 5 Saleem 15 Baker c Hatfield b Twose . . . 0 A. G. Osbom c Thompson b Donaldson c Russell b Trowell . . . 59 Feizal Saleem . .. 22 Skinner c and b Osbom . . . 25 PELICANS v. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXON. Millard b Feizal Saleem . . . 3 Feizal Saleem not out 52 P. F. W . Twose c Sullis b Feizal Fauzi Saleem not out . . . 43 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE PELICANS Saleem 21 Elford, Westerby, Sullis, Thomp- H. S. Trowell st Sullis b Feizal son and Lewis did not bat. A. Roberts lbw b Osbom 94 P . V. Harvey run out 0 Saleem 86 J. Vincent-Smith b Osbom 24 I. D. Philippe b Kossuth 0 N. B . Bentley c Skinner b S. Kossuth run out . . . 45 Millard lbw b Murrey . .. 11 Fonseka 45 I. Leeson c Twose b Osbom 0 C. W. James b Trembeth ... 88 Dane c Fonseka b Feizal Saleem 7 A. B . Trembeth not out 14 P . F. W. Twose lbw b Trembeth 7 Fussell run out 2 D. K. Edwards not out 1 H . S. Trowell c Roberts b Rose 18 Russell not out 14 D. Impres, G. Rose, G. Murray, N. B. Bentley not out ... 41 Sherley-Price c Thompson b G. Stephenson and R. H . Dane c Murrey b Trembeth 0 Feizal Saleem ... 4 Moore did not bat. Russell b Kossuth 9 E. J . Hatfield c Westerby b Osbom b Trembeth 0 Feizal Saleem ... 7 Sherley-Price not out G Extras 11 Extras 4 Extras 4 Extras 2 187 Total 188 Total (for 4 wkts dec) 182 Total (for 9 wkts) 176 0 . w. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. 0. w. R. Av. Lewis 2 0 14 0.0 Twose 8.38 1 46 46 .0 Twose 16 0 61 0.0 Kossuth 9 2 22 11.0 Baker 2 0 12 0.0 Hatfield 6 1 29 29.0 Trowell 3 0 19 0.0 Murrey 5 1 16 16.0 Elford 2 0 10 0.0 Sherley-Price 6 0 20 0.0 Os born 14 3 62 20.6 Trembeth 11 4 37 9.22 Feizal Saleem 28 8 78 9.125 Osborn 6 1 85 85.0 Sherley-Price 4 0 13 0.0 Stephenson 7 0 66 0.0 Thompson 8 0 80 0.0 Trowell 8 1 28 28.0 James 2 0 12 0.0 Rose 3 1 19 19.0 Fonseka .. . 9 2 20 10.0 Dane 8 0 15 0.0 Dane 1 0 11 0.0 Vincent-Smith 3 0 19 0.0 Fauzi Saleem 4 0 17 0.0 Philippe 8 0 19 0.0 Moore 1 0 6 0.0 Result : Queen's won by 6 wickets. Result: Match drawn.

24 26 KING'S COLLEGE v. B.R.N.C., DARTMOUTH KING'S COLLEGE v. WELLINGTON SCHOOL B .R.N.C. , DARTMOUTH KING'S COLLEGE WELLINGTON SCHOOL KING 'S COLLEGE Stodart b Trowel! 58 A. G. Osbom c Kabn b R eeve 16 Hannam b Trowel! 37 I. D. Philippe c Salter b Kabn b Twose . .. 23 I. D . Philippe c Godfrey b Ralph-Boldman c Fussell b Womersley 48 Rehman c L yle b Sherley-Price 24 Gwinnell ... 92 Sherley-Price 11 A. G. Os born c and b Hurley .. . 11 Moylan-Jones c Lyle b Trowell .. . 25 Millard lbw b Kabn ...... 10 Collins c Sherley-Price b Twose 50 P . F . W . T wose c Hawkins b Gregson b Sherley-Price 3 P . F . W . Twose b Gwinnell n Hawkins not out 31 Hurley 33 Godfrey c Twose b Trowel! 4 H . S. Trowel! c Moylan-Jones b Davis b Twose 12 H . S. Trowel! run out . . . 1 Dove c Twose b Osbom . .. 10 Gwinnell ... 0 Hurley lbw b Trowell . . . 2 N . B. Bentley b Womersley 11 Burt b Twose 24 N. B . Bentley not out 14 Lea not out . . 12 Russell c Hawkins b Womersley 34 Ridley not out 19 Lyle b Reeve 4 Pow, Salter, Smith and Lyle run out 6 Reeve b Sherley-Price 4 Dane not out ... 4 Womersley did not bat. Butt lbw b Hurley 4 Gwinnell run out 1 Russell, Fussell and Sherley-Price Fussell b Hurley 0 did not bat. F . N . Sherley-Price b Hawkins 2 Extras 1 Extras 18 Atkinson not out 0 Extras 8 Extras 6 Total 196 Total (for 6 wkts) 199 Total (for 5 wkts dec) 163 Total 156 0 . W . R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Twose 13 2 58 29.0 Reeve 6 2 30 15.0 0. W. R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Trowel! 9.66 3 55 18.33 Stodart 12 .66 0 60 0.0 Twose 17 2 52 26 .0 Hawkins 8 1 42 42.0 Osborn ... 10 1 60 6.0 Moylan-J ones 8 0 34 0.0 Sherley ·Price 15 1 52 52 .0 Hurley 12 4 42 10.5 Sherley-Price 7 3 22 7.33 Khan 7 1 33 33. 0 Osbom 8 0 29 0.0 Womersley 10 3 50 16.7 Gwinnell 8 3 24 8.0 Trowell 9 2 22 11.0 Collins 6 0 16 0.0 Result : King's won by 4 wickets. Result : Wellington won by 7 runs.

KING'S COLLEGE v. SOMERSET STRAGGLERS

PELICANS v. OLD TAUNTONIANS KING'S COLLEGE SOMERSET STRAGGLERS OLD TAUNTONIANS PELICANS I. D. Philippe cP. Harvey b P. V. Harvey st Millard b Hunter 0 Osbom 64 P . Evans b Twose 4 I. D. Philippe c Brice b A. G. Os born c P. Harvey b B. Childs-Clarke b Osbom 20 R. Dickinson b Osbom 28 Williams 34 Yates 27 P. Murphy lbw b Sherley-Price 0 D. Hazell b Twose 39 A. G. Osbom lbw b Humphrey 60 D. J. Millard lbw b Hunter 3 P. Yates c and b Osbom 24 R . Williams lbw b Osbom 16 Millard lbw b Humphrey 0 H. S. Trowell b K . Harvey 2 I. Burrough b Twose 5 P. Young b Osbom 10 Russell not out 12 P . F . w. Twose c Ja.mes b G. Hunter not out 17 C. Bull b Twose 1 P . F. W . Twose lbw b Hazell ... 3 Burrough 9 R. J . VenD. did not bat. C. Brice c Millard b Osbom 0 H. S. Trowell not out 6 N. B. Bentley run out . 52 G. Dyke b Osbom 12 C. Humphrey c Twose b Osbom 0 N . B . Bentley, Dane, Fussell, Russell c Murphy· b Butt 0 K.· B. Harvey b Osbom 0 J. Reid not out 5 Sherl.ey-Price and c. w. P. C. Dane lbw b Butt 8 N. P . Butt did not bat. D. French b Twose 13 James, Esq., did not bat. Lyle run out 19 C. W. Ja.mes not out 4 A. Davey run out 2 Fussell c K . Harvey b Yates 29 Extras 6 Extras .. . 22 F . N. Sherley-Price not out 1 Extras 4 Extras 6 124 Total (for 4 wkts) 127 Total 154 Total (for 7 wkts) 141 0. W . R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Twoee 14 4 37 9.25 Hazell 8 1 22 22.0 0. W . R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. Dane 5 0 11 0.0 Dickinson 4 0 10 0.0 Hunter 16 2 25 12.5 Twose 12 1 44 44.0 Osborn 13.4 5 44 8. Willia.ms 10 1 19 19.0 K. Harvey 11 1 44 44.0 Trowell 3 0 9 0.0 Price 4 0 18 0.0 Reid 3 0 14 0.0 Yates 8.1 2 42 21.0 Os born 15 5 63 12.6 James 1 0 8 0.0 Davey 1 0 1 0.0 Burrough ... 6 1 29 29.0 Sherley-Price 7 1 27 27.0 Humphrey 8.3 2 23 11.6 Butt ... 4 2 10 5.0 Result : Pelicans won by 6 wickets. Result : Match drawn.

26 H 27 KING'S COLLEGE v. EMANUEL SCHOOL 2nd XI 'S COLLEGE KING EMANUEL SCHOOL The curate's egg of the School's cricket started, as so often in the P . F . W . Twose c P. ]. Lewis A. M. Rigby c Hatfield b Osbom 29 past with a thumping wi n over the Old Boys. We then appeared to b Cbapman ...... 25 J. E . Cbapman b Twose . .. 34 al struggle and lost four matches in a row . There e b Chap- aba~don the unequ A. G. Osbom c Mail T. R . Woodcock c Russell b se at this, for our fielding was woeful, our bowling man ...... 37 Twose .. . 11 should be no surpri I. D . Philippe b McMillan . . . 62 ] . E. M. Maile not out . . . 57 for the most part wildly inaccurate, and our batting resembled the antics D. J. Millard lbw b McMillan . .. 22 V. ] . Dodds c Ha tfi eld b Os born 4 of a tired holiday-maker with a prawning net. Also we were clearly N . B . Bentley b McMillan ... 1 M. H. Lewis b Twose 2 average at least one "run out" per match, and so far we c Radford b Chap- determined to H . S. Trowell M. F. Radford c Bentley b d fi ve in four consecutive games. Perhaps we did not want man .. . 24 Osbom ...... 4 had achieve P . C. Dane b McMillan 15 P . ] . Barker b Twose ...... o to win. Russell c Dodds b McMillan 7 K . Dixon c Millard b Osborn o At last, against King's, Bruton, we were able to stop the rot, and F . N . Sherley-Price c P. J. D . G. Mci\1 illan b Osbom ... 10 we really began to look and play like a team. Couch and Lipman de­ Lewis b Chapman 1 P. ] . Lewis not out bowling attack, our Fussell not out . .. 0 veloped and maintained an accurate and formidable E. J. Hatfield b McMillan 0 batting became much more forceful and the fielding was transformed. Extras 14 Extras 15 All this led us to five quick victories. These included the Cannington game, in which, for the first time, we matched agriculture with agricul­ Total 208 Total {for 9 wkts) 172 ture by importing a very diffident J. C. Baker from 'B' game. He whoofed included four fours. He 0. W . R. Av. 0 . w. R. Av. the ball with great vigour and his 2I not out Maile 5 0 27 0.0 Twose 17 4 51 12.75 continued to serve us well for the rest of the season, and, quite apart McMillan 16.2 6 34 5.66 Hatfield 10 0 19 0.0 from his breezy batting, his clean catching and fielding were good to Barker 7 0 22 0.0 Sherley-Price 5 0 15 0.0 Chapman 14 4 58 14.5 Os born ... 18 5 72 14.4 watch. Dixon 2 0 11 0.0 A long break, due to the Certificate examinations, gave us a good Radford 8 0 42 0.0 chance to forget all that we had learnt, and in our last fixture-against just this. The first three gave up Result : Match drawn. Taunton 'A'-our early batsmen did their wickets almost without a struggle. It says much for our new blood and for the tail that we lost this game by only I8 runs. Pelicans' XI Somehow, we always manage to produce at least one really note­ These fixtures are usually rather more light-hearted affairs than worthy battle each season, but this year there were two. The first was School matches, and help to remind one that cricket was originally in­ the away match against the T.M.O ., perhaps better named "Couch's vented as a form of amusement. Benefit." In blistering heat on a wicket simply crawling with runs, a display in hand, while we dealt with West­ our total was only 64 for seven when he joined Eaglesome. In P~mb~oke beat us, with something I27 before bury likeWise . (Osborn 6-52.) of lively and resourceful batting these two brought us to and we ended with 145 on the board. Clearly in­ are not always dull, by Couch was bowled, !he Univ~rsity match showed that draws with fresh energy after tea, Couch then made merry with our hopeful of victory right up to the last ball. fused keepmg both s1des opponents, taking eight for 28.-four of these in one over, including a Osb?rn (5-44) and Twose (4-37) enabled us to dismiss the Old hat trick. It was a splendid and quite devastating performance. Ta?-?tomans for I24 after they had made a good start. Osborn (50) and The other exceptional game was against Wellington, when Brough, Ph1lippe (34) then put on the only opening partnership of the season bowling what he would be among the first to admit was arrant rubbish, to give us a comfortable win. took six for 37. I suppose his object was to encourage the enemy to Matches: 2 won. I lost. I drawn. indulge in an orgy of wild hitting, since four of them were well caught Our passage in the Baker Cup was too short to warrant a separate at widely separated positions in the deep. _ We .went out in round one, in some far-flung corner of Our thanks are due to Couch for his patient leadership in a season paragraph. in Somerset, defending ourselves to the end, as the shadows lengthened which, if not always inspiring, at least gives us no reason to look back and night fell. All our wounded were evacuated. · anger. C.W.J. Results: Gratias King's College, 168-8; Old Aluredians, 82. Home. Won. Exeter School, 163-4; King's College, 54 . Away. Lost. It has been a depressing season for bowlers, gardeners and tenders Allballows, 167-5; King's College, 105. Away. Lost. of the turf, and Mr. Davey has been hard put to it to keep everyone v. West Buckland. Abandoned after 15 minutes. Rain stopped play. done so is in itself a testimony to his enthusiasm Crewkeme School, 77; King's College, 67. Away. Lost. happy. That he has King's College, 106-9; Millfield, 107-3. Away. Lost. and hard work. King's, Bruton, 87; King' s College, 89-4. Home. Won. . The catering was again of the highest order. Miss Gascoigne and T .M.O., 43-9; King's College, 44-2. Home. Won. · everything possible to make this side first-rate. S.F.I., Cannington, 80; King's College, 81-6. Home. Won. MISS Palmer have done King's College, 145; T.M.O., 87 . Away. Won. Umpires, scorers and scoreboard manipulators--many thanks. Wellington, 79; King's College, 80--2. Home. Won. Taunton 'A,' 109; King's College, 91. Home. Lost. C.W.J. M.F.J. 28 . 29 SENIOR COLTS JUNIOR COLTS Won 2. Drawn 2 . Lost 5· Not, on the face of it , a very impres­ Played g. Won 2. Lost 3· Drawn 3· Abandoned I. ~ i ve record, but the season provided some very enjoyable cricket played m an excellent spirit. In spite of these seemin~ly unimpressive statistics, this year's team has b . It was the batting which een the best for a long hme. Of the drawn game~, rn:o ended very let us down . Only Smith showed style, much in our favour. and he, unfortunately, did not have a very successful The aggregate of run~ scored m e~g ht matches, season, largely due, must surely be a record, whil no doubt, to a lack of height and strength. Jennings e an opemng partnership of 104 cer- made several very 1.?9?' is. During the season there were good hard-hitting innings, and Phillips, Evans, five individual so's and three Llewellyn and Stewart t~~ y It must be a long time, too , since a made some useful runs on occasions. In general, however, slow off / leg-break bowler- the golden 4Bl ·kmore-has taken more wickets (24) than any rules: bat straight and head down, we re all too often n eglected. ac . other bowler, and at a cost of less than 13 runs ap1ece . This weakness in the batting did not give much encouragement to the bowlers . This was a pity, because here the side was very well­ However, in the first match against E~eter, the teai!l started equipped. Stewart bowled better and better as the season progressed, d. astrously by losing five wickets for 10 runs, m reply to the1r total of and at the end showed as much promise as an opening bowler as any 1 ~g_7 dec. Ford (57 not out) and Wilkes (30) then came together and Colt for a long time. H e moves the ball late and is beginning to swing put on 74 runs. We finally achieved n6. it away from as well as into the batsman. In the very exciting match, Against Allhallows, we ran up the good score of in which we beat Taunton School, he had several long spells 158, ~mt, as usual, and main­ the match was drawn. They had reached 79 for six tained his accuracy and hostility to the end. Phillips and Smith ! but, JUSt when the also match seemed to be ours, added a further 59 runs w1thout bowled well, but the other most successful and promising bowler was loss. Rose: in spite of unhelpful wickets, he bowled his left-arm slows very Our first encounter with Taunton School had to be abandoned be­ accurately. He should try to raise his arm rather higher. Evans should cause of heavy rain-a rarity this Summer-when we made a fine start, persist with his leg-breaks : he turns the ball well, but has not yet got scoring 62--r. In the return ~ture, we sc~red 152--:7 dec. , Bentley down to hard practice to ensure all-important (S not out), accuracy. 4 Wilkes (38) and Vmcent (21) bemg the chief scorers. The The ground-fielding was of a high standard, and the match against opposition batted very cautiously and had made 100-6 at close of play. Millfield was nearly snatched out of the fire with the help of four run­ This year, Millfield proved too strong for outs, two of which were the result of quick us, making 1~2--2 dec. picking up and accurate We could manage only 75 in reply. Apart from throwing, and the other two may well have been Ford (2n Won. 104, Bentley (56) and Evans (63) giving _us a fine . start, whi~h King's White College, 54; Allhallows, 55 for 3. Lost. consolidated with a fine 48, 36 runs of :which came m boundanes: Our Allhallows, 92 (Stewart 6 for 23, Phillips 3 for 23); King's College, 87 for 5. opponents Drawn. replied with 93, largely owmg to the excellent bowling of King's College, 77; Heathcoat Apprentices, 79 for 3. Lost. Winter (5 for 20) and Blackmore (4 for 32). King's College, 59; Milliield, 62 for 8. Lost. Our last fixture, against King's College, 139 for 6 (Jennings 40, Evans 26, Phillips 24) ; Bryanston, 96 Wellington, was an e~citing match, _which for 7. Drawn. we only just failed to win. We made 121, to which Ford contnb~ted Milton Abbey 1st XI, 145 for 9 (Stewart 4 for 51); King's College, 71. Lost. 45, Vincent 21, and Marsden, playing i?- his first _match, a mo~t p~tient Taunton School, 120 (Stewart 6 for ll5); King's College, 122 for 9 (Jennings 41 , 19 Evans caused something Llewellyn 37). Won. of a sensation by takmg two of the1r WlCkets in ·his first over before any runs King's College, 110 (Jennings 25, Smith 29); Taunton School, 112 for 7 (Phillips had been scored. There then follo~ed 3 for 23, Stewart 3 for 46). Lost. a stand of sr. They finally reached our score for the loss of e1ght P .V.H. wickets. so 81 Blackmore found the position of captain no s inecure, but he im­ Before Sports Day there had been very keen competition for the prove ~ c~nsi d e :ab ly as the season advanced. His best m atch was against Standards Cup . It was finally won by the Bishop Fox, with the Woodard Queen s, m which he made 29 and took seven wickets for 29-a fine per­ and Meynell close behind. formance. The prizes were presented b y Major-General H. A. Borradaile, who .That w~ did n ot win more matches is partly due to some untid took a g reat interest in the sports. field.mg at times and to lack of. sustained accuracy in the bowling. Th~ e against batting ~as also suspect sometimes, but the fi rst seven batsmen of the During the term there were two School athletic matches, on regular si.de all made g ood s cores during the season. If they can over­ Taunton Athletic Club and the other a gainst King's School, Bruton, come thetr weaknesseS-failure to get completely behind the ball , or a Both took place at King's under fin e conditions. In the match against te':dency to retreat towards square leg-they will develop into a for­ Taunton A.C ., the result was in the balance until the last event, the rrudable team later on, for they have all undoubted ability w ith the bat. 4 x no Yards Relay, which Kin&"'s won, thus. winning the ~hole match. King's, Bruton, were beaten easily by 6 8 pomts to 41 pomts. Results: were held on the new fr,ooo King's C ollege, 116; Exeter School , 188--7 d ec. Away. L ost. The Somerset A.A.A. Championships cinder track at Norwood Playing Fields, Bath. Conditions could not e, 158; Allhallows, 138--6. Away. Drawn . King's Colleg have been worse; throughout the meeting there was continuous rain and King's College, 62- 1; Taunton S chool. H ome. Abandoned . wind. Only six people represented the School-Eagle, Pearce, Monk, King's College, 75; Millfield, 154- 2 dec. Home. Lost. Taylor, Brough and Miles. Eagle and Taylor came second in the 17-19 King's College, 93; Queen 's College, 8 4. Away. Won. and 15-17 220 Yards respectively, and Monk came third in the I5-I7 88o King's College, 171- 9 d ec.; Bryanston, 112- 9. Away . Drawn. Yards. King's College, 152-7 dec.; Taunton School, 100--6. Away . Drawn. The Taunton and Wellington Area Youth Championships were held King's College, 207-5 dec.; Milton Abbey, 93. Away. W on . on Thursday, 17th June. We entered a large team with considerable King's College, 121; Wellington, 1 2~ . Home. Lost . success, but not quite the success of last year. After a close fight we lost the Area Shield Trophy, which we have held for two years, to Wel­ lington School by the narrow margin of two points. In the 17-21 age group, Kennedy won the Mile and Hurdles, the latter in an excellent time of 15 .4 seconds, and Martin won the 440 Yards K.C.A.C. in 52.6 seconds. Monk won the 15-17 88o Yards in 2 minutes 7.6 seconds, and in the 14-15 age group Magurran won the .roo Yards in II.I Captain: M. R. Martin. Hon. Secretary: C. R. Eagle. seconds and the Relay team were easy winners in 49.6 seconds. May 23. King's College Athletic Sports. The same Relay team of Madin, Magurran, Pratt and Tribbeck won Shield at the Somerset Constabulary Sports on 4th July. May 30. v. Taunton A.C. the Schools' Sports were June 6. Somerset A.A.A. Championships. All who came first and second at the Taunton Area asked to represent Taunton in the Somerset Area Championships, and June 17. Taunton Area Youth Championships. those who came third were asked to act as reserves. School, Bruton. June 27 . v. King's In the Somerset Area Youth Championships on nth July, Kennedy July 4· Somerset Constabulary Sports. won the 17-21 Hurdles in another excellent time of 15.5 seconds. In July II. Somerset Area Youth Championships. the same age group Pearce came second in the 440 Yards, Eagle third m the 220 Yards and Baker third in the Discus. In the 15-17 age group, HE season began with the School Sports, which took place under the Torrens came second in the High Jump and Taylor third in the 220 T same fine conditions as we had throughout Pie term. Performances Yards. Martin won his 440 Yards heat, but, unfortunately, was pre­ on the tr~ck were generally of a very high standard, but some .. :field events vented from running in the final by stomach cramp. This was our last were a little weak. Three records were broken. Monk clipped 4.2 fixture of the season. seco~ds off the Colt 88o Yards record and 6.3 seconds off the Mile record, J , J . Kennedy is congratulated on being awarded his Athletics and m the Medley Relay the Woodard were a second inside the old record. colours. winners of the Senior Sports Cup with 47 . The MeY?ell were easy the Athletics Club would like to thank Mr. Morgan and Mr. pomts, rg pomts ahead of the Woodard, who were second. There was Finally, Pytches for their invaluable help throughout the season. a very cl~ struggle .in the Junior Sports, the cup finally going to the ~oodard With JI P<;>mts. ~he Meynell ~ere a point behind and the C.R.E. BIShop Fox three pomts behind. The Semor Victor Ludorum was won by Kennedy, who won the ~ile , 88o Yards and Hurdles, and who put up a very fine performance m the Medley Relay. The Junior Victor Ludorum was won by Monk, winner of the Mile, 88o Yards and 440 Yards.

82 88 SPORTS DAY RESULTS K.C.C-C.R.C. SENIOR T the beginning o f the season ] . J . Kennedy was elected Captain. 100 Yards-! , C. R. Eagle; 2, M. R. Martin; 3, J . A. J. Taylor. Time : 10.5 During the season the side defeated T aunton A.C. 40-41; secs. (Record : 1 0.2 secs.) A King's, Bruton, 40-96; and the City of B ath School, 34-44· We nar­ 220 Yards-1, M . R . Martin; 2, C. R. Eagle; 3, J. A. J. Taylor . Time 23 .( secs. (Record : D. J . Starling, 22 .7 s ecs ., 1958 .) rowly lost a r eturn fix ture with Taunton A.C .. where o ur team was badly 440 Yards-! , M. R. Martin; 2, M. J. P earce; 3, J. A. J. Taylor. Time : 53 .5 affected by 'flu , a nd were defeated b y B. R. N.C., Dartmouth, 47-31. secs. (Record : P . J. Robinson , 52 secs ., 1949.) Matches against Exeter School, Allhallows, Clayesmore and Queen 's were 880 Yards-1, J. J. Kennedy; 2, R. E. Buchman; 3, T . R. H all. Time : 2 mins. cancelled. 5.8 s ecs. (Record : P. J. R obinson , 2 mins. 1.3 secs., 1949.) At the Somerset Schools' Championships we were third out of 15 1 Mile--1, J. J. K ennedy; 2, T . R. H all; 3, R. E . Buchman. Time : 4 mins. 43. 9 s ecs. (Record : P . J . Robinson, 4 mins. 25 .2 secs .. 1949.) schools in the intermediate section. As a result of their p erformances, 120 Yards Hurdles-1, J . J. Kennedy; 2, R. K. Lo; 3, A. E . Walker. Time : Kennedy, Monk, Hall and Miles ran for Somerset in the West of Eng­ 16.4 secs. (Record : D. E . F . Luke, 16.2 secs., 1954.) land Championships. High Jump--1, M. J . Torrens; 2 , C. R. Budge; 3, N . Daw. H eight : 5ft. 2ins. During the season M onk has run especially well, coming in first (Record : D. E . F. Luke, 6 ft. 1in., 1954 .) amongst the School runners on every occasion . Hall also ran consis­ Long ~ump--1 , C. R. Eagle; 2, E . J. H atfield; 3, R. K. Lo. Distance ; 17ft. 8!ms. (Record : D. E . F . Luke, 22ft. Oins., 1 954. ) tently, a nd Miles, Bames, R. F ., and Pratt all showed improvement, Javelin-1, A. G. Osborn; 2, H . S. Trowell; 3, R. E. Buchman. Distance : which bodes well for the future. 143ft. Sins. (Record : T. J . Nutt, 152ft. 4ins., 1957.) At the end of term the Bishop Fox won the Steeplechase Cup for the Discus-1, J. C. B aker; 2, M. V. E vans; 3, F . N . Sherley-Price. Distance: eleventh year in succession. The individual r esults were : Senior Steeple­ 107ft. 5 ins. (Record : I. A. Brigham, 120ft. 9ins. , 1948.) chase-r, Hall (20 mins. 59 secs.); 2 , Kennedy; 3, La Touche. Junior Weight-1, C. A. W . Martin; 2, C. R. Eagle; 3, J. A. J. Taylor. Distance : 34ft. (Record : C. A. Klinkenberg, 38ft. l Oins., 1957.) Steeplechase-r, Monk (rs.so secs.); 2, Miles; 3. Bames, R . F . The con­ ditions w~ re v~ ry good, but the times were excellent, even taking this JUNIOR into cons1derahon. 100 Yards-1, N . A. Miles; 2, B. F . Kochanek; 3, R. B . W . Wilkinson. Time : In closing, we should like very much to thank Mr. Morgan for his 10.9 secs. (Record : D. J. Starling, 10.9 secs., 1956.) consistent interest and assistance concerning the side, and also 220 Y:Uds-1, N . A. Miles; 2, L . C. L . Russell; 3, J . E . Blake, P. H . Madin. Mr. Pytches, who accompanied us regularly on away matches and did Tune : 24 .5 secs. (Record : D. J . Starling, 2 4.1 s ecs., 1956.) most of the timing. 440 Yards--1, M. J . Monk; 2, N . A. Miles; 3, C. J . Magurran. Time: 56.0 secs. (Record : D. J . Starling, 54 .3 s ecs., 1956.) The foll?wing represented the side during the season :- J. J. Ken­ 880 Yards-1, M. J. Monk; 2, P . R. Pratt; 3, C. J . Magurran. Time : 2 mins. nedy (Captarn) (W), M. ]. Monk (W), T . R. Hall (B-F) (colours) Miles 7.1 secs. (NEW RECORD.) (M), Bames, R. F. (W), Gilbert (B-F), Pratt (B-F), Buchman (M), 1 Mile--1, M. J. Monk; 2, P . R . Pratt; 3, J . C. Olds. Time : 4 mins. 48.3 secs. Carter (M), Edwardes (B-F), Miller (B-F). Bames, B. C. S. (M). (NEW RECORD.) 120 Yards Hurdles-!, R. D. Hennessy; 2, R. E . Kelly; 3, M. J . Adam. Time: J.J.K. 19 secs. (Record : J . R. Perry, 16.8 secs., 1954.) High .Jump--1, R. D. Hennessy; 2, M. J . Adam; 3, M. J. Kay. Height : 4ft. Sms. (Record : J . R. Perry, 5ft. 4in., 1954.) K.C.S.C. Long Jump--1, R. D. Hennessy; 2, N . A. Miles; 3, E . C. Llewellyn, G. D. Tribbeck. Distance: 16ft. 4ins. (Record : D . J . Starling, 19ft. 9ins. Captain: 1956.) • C. A. W. Martin. Jave~-1. M. J . Adam; 2, M. J . Monk; 3, G. D. Tribbeck. Distance : 118ft. Vice-Captain: T . H. Vodden. Hon: Secretary: R. J. Paton. 9ms. (Record : H . S. Trowell, 136ft. 9ins., 1957.) Discus--1, B. F . Kochanek; 2, C. J. Magurran; 3, M. A. Salman. Distance : HE team has had a highly successful season this term. The sadly 108ft. l Oins. (Record : J. C. Baker, 113ft. 6ins., 1957.) T depleted_number of swin;uners left from last year was compensated Weig~t-1 , F . T . Riess; 2, L . C. L. Russell; 3, C. J. Magurran. Distance : 33ft. for by the high standard which has been achieved. A measure of this 4ms. (Record : H. S. Trowell, 35ft. Oins., 1957.) standard may be seen in the results of the Swimming Sports, where no fewer than e1ght records were broken, four of them by R. J. Paton. INTER-HOUSE RELAYS The team began training earlier than usual this season, and this Senior (220, 440, 880, 220)-1, Woodard; 2, Meynell; 3, Bishop Fox. Time : practice was evidently beneficial. Each individual swimmer has under­ 3 mins. 49.6 secs. (NEW RECORD.) gone a stiffer training schedule than before and this method will be con­ Junior (4 x 100)-1, Meynell; 2, Bishop Fox; 3, Woodard. Time : 46.6 secs. tinued next year. (Record : Woodard, 45.6 secs., 1953.) Senior Sports Cup : Meynell. At the end of the season, T . H. Vodden, T. R. Hall and R. .T . Junior Sports Cup : Woodard. Thomas were awarded colours and R. J. Paton, J. M. Glover and C. G. Standards Cup : Bishop Fox. H~D;llessy were re-awarded them. R. D. Toogood came fourth in the Senior Victor Ludorum : J. J . Kennedy. DlVmg at the Somerset Championships at Minehead. This is a particu­ Junior Victor Ludorum: M. J. Monk. larly good result, as there were many other competitors.

34 35 The team has been fortunate in having Mr. Alex. Smith, the A.S.A. diving coach, to help on many occasions, and much is owed to him for K.C.T.C. his invaluable advice. However, the hardest task, that of training and keeping the side together, has been admirably carried out once more by HE tennis team began to take shape soon after the end of Athletics Sergt.-Major Gooderham. It is mainly due to his firm guiding hand T Standards. Lee and J. de W. Perry played well together as the that no swimmer has been reluctant to train, and that we have such an first pair, losing only one match during the season. I. P. L. Smith impressive result at the e nd of the season. His kindness and enthusiasm and Kochanek formed the second pair, while the third pair consisted have been appreciated by the whole School and reflected in the general of Buchman and Kennedy. These six played in every match. standard of swimming. The season opened auspiciously, as the O.A.s were beaten 8-r; Thanks also are due, as always, and in all fields of sport, to Mr. a perfect day was prevented only by two draws. Exeter was then Morgan for his efficient organising. Without him we should have defeated 5-4; Lee and Perry were narrowly defeated by the Exeter achieved little. first pair, but the second and third pairs made up the deficit. The next Results: match was a close 5-4 defeat at the hands of Kelly, followed by a 9-D Played 6. Won 5. Lost 1. victory over Queen's. Next came a 6-3 defeat by a superior v. Millfield School (Won)-46-28 pts. Bryanston team. v . Kelly College (Won)-64!--47! pts. After the Bryanston match the pairings were shuffled : Buchman v . Queen's College, Taunton (Won)-56-27 pts. and Kochanek combined to form the second pair, with Smith and Ken­ v. Wellington School (Won)-62-31 pts. v. Kingswood School (Won)-99-58 pts. nedy as the third pair. The new arrangement proved a happy one, as v. Blundell's School (Lost)-75-64 pts. the remaining matches were won handily-Wellington by 8-r, Bruton In the Meade-King Competition we came second to a very good by 7-2, and the Masters 8-r in a most enjoyable match. Taunton School side, and, although the points seem heavily against us, A fitting climax to the season came in the House matches, in which we were only just behind in most of the events. the rising standard of tennis at King's was clearly demonstrated. Mey­ nell clearly had the best team, with 20 points, but they were given a SWIMMING SPORTS close race by Woodard with r6 points and Alfred with 13. Lee and SENIOR Buchman proved to be the best pair, winning all their matches. ;;o Yards Free Style--1, Glover (M); 2, Vodden (W); 3, Hall (F). Time : 25.0 Thanks for a most successful season go to Mr. Sturgess for his able secs. coaching~ to Lee for his excellent leadership; and to the O.A.s and 100 Yards Free Style (RECORD)-1, Paton (F); 2, Glover (M) ; 3, Hall (F) . Masters who gave up valuable time to provide some enjoyable tennis Time : 57 .7 secs. for all concerned. Finally, Lee is to be congratulated on being re­ 150 Yards Free Style (RECORD)-!, Paton (F); 2, Glover (M) ; 3, Hall (F) . awarded colours and Perry on being awarded them. Time : 92.0 secs. 440 Yards Free Style (RECORD)-!, Paton (F); 2, Vodden (W); 3, Carter (M). Time : 5 mins. 31.8 secs. 50 Yards Backstroke (RECORD)-!, Hennessy (A); 2, Carter (M); S, Martin Fencing Club (M). Time : 29.0 secs. 50 Yards Breaststroke (RECORD)-!, Paton (F); 2, Glover (M); 3, Thomas HE Lent Term was a very full one for the Fencing Club, in spite of (M). Time : 29.3 secs. T. the. epide~c. We were very fortunate in having to cancel only one 100 Yards Breaststroke (RECORD)-1, Thomas (M); 2, Carter (M); 3, La mstrucbon penod, and that was due to Professor Sanders' illness. We Touche (F). Time : 1 min. 15.5 secs. fought matches against King's School (Bruton), Blundell's School and Diving-!, Toogood (C); 2, Hennessy (A); 3, Vodden (W). two against Queen's College, in which Lee fought exceptionally and con­ Plunge (RECORD)-!, Green (A); 2, Davenport (C); 3, Braham (M). sistently well. We were able to fight a junior team for the first time in Relay (RECORD)-!, Meynell; 2, Woodard; 3, Bishop Fox. Time : 1 min. the Lent Term, and the results were most encouraging. Bassett and 49.2 secs. Stringer Senior Cup--Meynell. both fought very well. Standards Cup--Woodard. The . int~rmediat~ class has now _joined the seniors in learning sabre, JUNIOR and the JUruors continue to learn foil. Our standard of fencing has im­ 50 Yards Free Style-!, Adam (W); 2, Morice (A); 3, Mears (F) . Time : 27.7 proved steadily and most noticeably. Perry was selected to attend an secs. Amateur Fencing Association course in London during the Easter holi­ 100 Yards Free Style-!, Adam (W); 2, Hennessy (A); 3, Kay (C). Time : days, and proceeded to bafile us with science on his return. 64.9 secs. We were less active in the Summer Term, as some 150 Yards Free Style-!, Adam (W); 2, Kay (C); 3, Monk (W). of our members 50 Yards Backstroke-!, Kay (C); 2, Hughes (W); 3, Hennessy (A). were involved in rival School activities. However, we fought one match 50 Yards Breaststroke-!, Hennessy (A); 2, Horder (A); 3, Hewson (W). Time : at home, against Downside School, which we won most convincingly. 36.4 secs. We also arranged a demonstration of fighting for Speech Day, which 100 Yards Breaststroke-!, Hewson (W); 2, Hogge (F) ; 3, Madin (F) . Time : took the form of two "knock-out" competitions, one at foil and the other 82.8 secs. at sabre. French, Perry, Lee, Lo, Peace, Blade, Poland, Salman (i), Diving-!, Adam (W); 2, Bassett (F); 3, Stephens (W). Coward, Polack, Bassett, Stringer, Poppe and Fonseka have all repre­ Junior Cup: Woodard. sented the Club during either the Lent or Summer Terms.

36 37 We would like to thank Mr. Mangin most sincerely for the enormous C.C.F. Notes amoll:nt of t~ e and effort he has devoted to_th e ~lub, an_d Mr. Morgan for his unfaihng mterest and support, mcludmg his financ1al help in the T is now fiv e years since the C.C.F. at King's was given a n ew look, form of a loan from the Sports Fund, which has enabled us to buy six I and there is no doubt that it has become a much m ore effective new jackets, ':ery badly needed. Lastly, our thanks must go to Professor organisation. This can be seen in the higher standard of instruction­ Sanders for his great care and patience in teaching us. the number of passes in the Army Proficiency Certificate this year was that of last year-and particularly in the better and wider dis­ Matches: double Also, five years later and largely coincidentally, Wed ., F eb . 4-Queen's (home) Lost 6-23 play of leadership. (1st foil , 2nd foil, 1st sabre) the War Office has recently introduced many of our ideas on training. Sat ., Mar. 7- Blundell's (away Won 18-- 9 especially the in~e rtion of non-military subjects into the syllabus, and (1st foil, 2nd foil, junior f oil) of arduous campmg. Wed., Mar . 18--Queen's (away ) Lost 10-17 (1st sabre, 1st foil, junior foil) We cannot afford to be smug. Although we have five years' start, Sat., Mar. 2 1-King's, Bruton (away) Lost 6-12 a great deal of building still remains to be done if the type of training (1st foil , lst sabre) offered to the N.C.O. Cadres-currently six platoons undergoing a three­ Sat., June 27-Downside ( home) Won 16- 9 term course-is to be really valuable and interesting. Fresh ideas are M.St.j.F. needed constantly; they have not always come from the top, and we hope that these healthy and constructive self-criticisms and suggestions K.C.M.R.C. will always be forthcoming. T the beginning of the Summer Term only two members of our team The General Inspection was a great success. Brigadier Grose was A had left, and so we were able to start off on a good foothold, especi­ very impressed with the training, and the standard of leadership at all ally as we already had two spare members to join us. levels. The March Past was not very good, but this failure was in part compensated for by the excellent performance of the Guard of Honour We started well, and by the end of the term we had only lost two and Band on Speech Day. This was a fitting tribute to Field-Marshal m~tches. very encouraging, and our standard out of t"Yenty This was Lord Harding, the Colonel of the Regiment, to which our affiliation of shooting defimtely showed a tendency towards improvement. Two of over fifty years is shortly to end. As a memento, a silver ashtray is to three members ?f the team used Martinis, principally the left-handers, or be presented to the Regimental Headquarters of the Somerset but we were pefffiltted to use the Lee-Enfields only for the inter-Schools in the name of King's College C.C.F. Shooting Competition. In this, we unfortunately did not do as well as Light Infantry we had hoped, and I think that it was the Landscape target that was A list of senior ranks is subjoined:­ the reason for our downfall. We came 52nd out of about 240 other SENIOR N.C.O.s schools. SuMMER TERM, 1959 classified, and 73 marksmen In th~ Summe~ ~em: the whole School M.R. competed m the ehrmnating round for the Officers' Shooting Cup. This UfO: Martin, C. A. W., Martin, left E. J: Hatfield, F. N. Sherley-Price, Vaux and Budge as finalists to C.S.M. : Vodden. compete m three rounds, each out of 124, making a total of 372:- C.Q.M.S.: Wyatt. lst Round 2nd Round 3rd Round Total S/Sgt.: Adam, Hopkins. F. N. Sherley-Price 124 122 123 369 Sgts. : Baker, Green, Gullick, Hatfield, Kennedy, Kitsell, La Touche, E. J . Hatfield 121 116 117 354 Vaux 120 113 119 352 Miller, Waddington, Whitehouse. Budge 115 108 103 326 The winner of the cup was F. N. Sherley-Price with a record score of 369. Pioneer Notes On the whole ';le have ~ad a very successful season, and it is hoped that, under, Vaux s new Vlce-captamcy and Marshall's secretaryship, "Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice" next seasons team will have even more success. Lastly, our thanks to LTHOUGH throughout the Lent Term we showed very little progress Mr. Mangin for his continual patience in helping the team. A on our main projects, many smaller and less interesting jobs were Lent Te~ Averages: done. A loading bay for dustbins was constructed between Rooms 26 Match Aggregate and 27, and has been in constant use since then. At the beginning of E. J. Hatfield 97.1 98.1 the Summer Term, however, we were given the final go-ahead for the F . N . Sherley-Price 97.3 97.3 Marshal! 94.7 95 .6 workshop, and since then we have not looked back. The floor of the Grant 95.7 95 .5 workshop was quickly put down, along with the foundations, for part Vaux 92.5 93.7 of the new rifle range. Water was laid on and the door frames arrived Lobb 91.1 93.6 and were placed in position, while bricklaying went on at a good speed Monk 95.9 94.8 Gilbert 94.0 90.3 under the expert eye of "Ern," with our master bricklayers, Hawkins Hennessy 89.9 89.3 and Graham, who gave instruction to our less experienced members. F. N. S-P. Meanwhile, "Ern" laid the drains, and, after some slight setbacks, these ss :r:: 39 were duly passed by the Inspector. Since the garage walls must bond in with the range walls, and these must bond in with those of the work­ Speech Day, 1959 shop, the foundations for the garage walls, which will be made of con­ crete blocks, have also been started. PEECH Day this year was held on a Friday once more-Friday, 12th July-and coincided with the middle of a hot spell. The accent e Summer Term has also been remark­ S So much for the work. Th was very much on the C.C.F., as a tribute to the Guest of Honour, esday, zznd July, "Sid" joined all able for its social side. On Wedn Lord Harding of Petherton, who, having inspected the Guard of Honour and ex-Pioneers at a dinner in honour of his 25 years' service Pioneers in the morning, presented the prizes in the afternoon. at the School. Among those present were the Headmaster, the Bursar, Mr. Baker, Mr. Pytches, Mr. Jaquet and " Ern," and, during the course The Service of Thanksgiving was held after lunch, all:d the B~shop of the meal, the Headmaster exhibited a photograph from the Aluredian of Bath and Wells, as well as the Bishop of Taunton and Bishop Wilson, of 1940, showing "Sid" and " Hany." We would like to congratulate our Custos, were present. " Sid" on his notable achievement. The prize-giving was held in a large marquee, pitched between the On the following day we had our annual outing to Hinkley Point biology lab. and the first XI cricket nets, in or?er to enable th~ whole Atomic Power Station. Besides the Pioneers, a small party of Sixth School to be present. The experiment was a decided success and IS ~o be Form scientists were present, and we were also pleased to have Sid, repeated in future years .. We were indeed fort~ate to have the Bishop Ern and Allan with us on this trip. of Bath and Wells as chairman so soon after his return to England; and In conclusion, we would like to acknowledge the work and untiring he had some interesting anecdotes to relate about his recent trip to the support given us by the Headmaster, the Bursar, Mr. Baker, Sid, Ern United States. and Allan, and to say how much we appreciate the amount of time they give up to us. The Headmaster made his report a particularly short one in order C.W.G. to allow Lord Harding as long as possible to address us. The report was long enough, however, to give an encouraging account of the School's activities during the year, and particularly welcome was the news that the building of the new classroom and studies block is to begin early in 1960. The Headmaster's duty of welcom~g the ~ayor of Taunto? was Rover Crew more than usual a pleasure this year, as It was his first opportunity of congratulating Mrs. Unmack, on the School's behalf, on her election to Senior Rover Mate: R. A. Adam. Scribe : J. J. Kennedy. that office. Vicar : T. H. Vodden. Treasurer: M. R. Martin. Lord Harding took for his text the lines of the hymn asking that URING the past two terms there has been considerable activity in we may "live our lives courageously." The wisdom of his words, sup­ D the Crew. In the Lent Term, a shortened version of the camp­ ported as it was by the great authority with which he was clearly entitled craft lectures was given by the G.S.M. These were held on Monday to speak, made a deep impression on everyone who was present. A vote afternoons, and thanks to the close co-operation of Mr. Wilson they of thanks was proposed by the Custos, Bishop Wilson, and seconded by were an undoubted success. The duplicated notes will also be very the School Captain, who led the School in three cheers for the Guest of useful for people going on future camps. Honour. Lord Harding was kind enough to ask if the School might be At the end of the Lent Term the following were invested: Hatfield, given a whole holiday; this was a request which the Headmaster was Martin, C. A. W., Eagle, Gibson, Osborn, Sherley-Price, Sum, very pleased to grant. The holiday will be used to convert the t:adi­ Waddington and Whitehouse. Throughout both terms there have been tional King Alfred's Day holiday of the Michaelinas Term from a smgle regular services in the Lady Chapel. day into a long week-end. The Summer camp this year is to be held in Sardinia and promises The exhibitions this year were based principally on the project com­ to be an excellent "rough" holiday. The party going will consist of petitions, and there were some fiD:e things on show, e~p.e~ially in _the Mr. Pytches, Mr. Hartley and fifteen boys. Eight of this number are models section. Next year there will be a full-scale exhibition of pamt­ non-members of the Crew who have been invited because many mem­ ing in Big School, of works by both present boys and O.A.s, in honour bers of the original party had to drop out. The Land Rover is being of Mr. Lyons Wilson's twenty-one years at King's. taken to ease the burden of humping equipment as well as personal kit around the island. The success of the 1959 Speech Day was due to many factors; per­ unpredictable, the weather, During the camp we hope to be present at the "Festival of the haps not least among them was the great allowed us to have tea under the trees. Redeemer" at Nuoro. This event is the chief religious festival of the which even year, and should shed interesting light upon the character and customs of the Sardinian people.We also hope to climb the highest mountain, as we did in Corsica in 1957. Finally, we should like to express the Crew's appreciation of the tireless efforts of Mr. Pytches. J.J.K. 40 ortrait possible. My wife and I we re later greatly t?uched to learn that Headmaster's Report fhe O.A.s intended to present us both WJ th an artist s copy for our own house. Our heartfelt thanks go out to all the k~d donors from al! over MY LoRD BISHOP, LoRD H ARD ING, MR. MAYoR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the world, and particularly to Mr. Vyvyan-Robmson and to the tireless There was once a King of Sweden who visited a small town. The Honorary Secretary of the Club, Mr. Barnes. Burgermaster said to him, "We beg the pardon of your Majesty for not One of the things which we at King's find most cheering is the stream g reeting your Majesty with a salute of cannon, but there are seven r easons of news of the notable progress of Old Boys all over the world_. Some why we could not do so . First, we have no cannon . . .. " The King in­ of them are still in the early thirties. In the last fe w weeks, for mstance, terrupted him and said, with a smile, "Mr. Burge rmaster, I will let you we have heard of the election of Edward King ~s Dean of Capet?wn, of off giving me the other six reasons." I am going to make a very short the rapid promotion of Michael Hoare to a leadmg resea:ch appom~m~nt report for at l east seven reasons. The first is that our Guest of Honour in the Esso Oil Company, and of Bruce Gendall runrung the ed1tonal is so distinguished that we wish him to have as much time as possible for office in Montreal of a big publishing firm . We had a very his speech. I hope you will let me off giving you the other reasons. welcome guest recently here, John Foot, O.A., Parliam ~ ntary It is a great pleasure for me to echo the wartn words of welcome to Secretary for Home Affairs in the Federal Government of Rhodesia and you, Sir, which the Provost has uttered. You are indeed kind to give us Nyasaland. If the younger O.A.s continue as at present, we _sha~ soon so much of your time and interest. We are deeply grateful and count it have very many O.A.s in positions of great ~portance. It Is a J_oy !o a great honour to welcome you as our guest. We a re very lucky, my think of the influence of the School and all It stands for, spreadmg m Lord Bishop, to have you back again from America in time for our Speech ever-widening circles throughout the world. We welcome her~ tod!I-Y Day. It is customary for the Headmaster to say a few words of welcome Mr. Waiter Long, the new Chairman of the O.A. Club, and we w1sh him to the Mayor of Taunton, but as the Mayor is this year batting, so to a very happy three years in that chair. speak, on his/her own home ground, it seems almost presumptuous to To come nearer home, I am glad to report that the School is going use the word "welcome." We are very proud, Mr. Mayor, of the further very well. No Headmaster is ever really content with thin_g:; as they are; link which you have forged between the School and the historic town of he always wants improvement, but even w1th the most cntical of eyes I Taunton and we wish you every success and happiness in your important find little to complain of. I must admit that it has been a wonderful year task. and that there is very much to fill us all with hope and confidence. In work the new schemes are bearing good fruit, in games there is keen~ess The greatest news of the year is that of the decision of the Chapter and great vigour and much increased record~ to build the new Studies and Classroom Block in 1960. :>kill· Our in athletics, Plans for the new always high, did not prevent the breakmg of four more this building are in the Front Hall. year. The There are several very progressive C.C.F. had a very good inspection report and lost the Headmaster half features in it and it will be a worthy crown to complete the essential a day's work. I warmly congratulate Sergeant-Major Gooderham on his modern educational equipment of this School. The cost will be great, award of the Cadet Forces Medal. It is a very well-merited honour. possibly £35,000, and will be mainly covered by loans; but we have five The Rovers went to Yugoslavia. thousand pounds still to our credit from the grant of the Industrial Fund for the Advancement of Scientific Education, to replace two rooms which We had a very inspiring Jubilee Celebration of the Chapel Dedica­ were absorbed into the Science Block, and I should like to support the tion in which both the President and the Provost took part. The per­ words of appreciation and warm gratitude spoken by the Provost about fo~ances of "H.M.S. Pinafore" were a notable achievement in music the recent grant of [2,500 towards the new building from the Dulverton and acting. The Junior House is also very flourishing. It recently had Trust. We are honoured today by the presence upon the platform of Mr. a magnificent prize-giving in glorious weather. It may be good news to Reeves, one of the Trustees of the Dulverton Trust. He tells me that many parents of very young boys who live here that so many of our two reasons led the Trustees to make this magnificent gift: firstly, the Pyrland Hall day boys turn into boarders n?wadays that the opportuni­ fact that King's had done so much under her own power to build herself ties for day boy entrants there are more bnght than we expected them up during the last thirty years, and secondly, the fact that the late Lord to be. Dulverton was the last M.P. for the old Borough of Taunton, and would, I thank all the Masters, particularly the Second Master, Mr. Morgan, with his great interest in education, have been gratified to see the rapid the Chaplain and the Housemasters for all their support and hard work. progress of this Public School in Taunton. This wonderful help is a very I thank also the Prefects and the large number of boys who, by their keen­ great encouragement and inspiration, and I hope, Sir, you will convey ness and willing service, make the School what it is. I thank all those to the other Trustees the warmth of the gratitude which we feel. parents also who, by their high ideals for their sons and by their encour­ agement and co-operation, do so much to lighten our burdens and make The Old Aluredians and Honorary Old Aluredians, which include the our work worthwhile. I hope they will not be led away by this attack Provost and Chapter and the Masters, led by the former Chairman of the on Latin. If there is really shortage of time in the curriculum, our first O.A. Club, Mr. Vyvyan-Robinson, and by the Honorary Secretary, Mr. duty is to save the hours and hours whi~h little ~hild~en have to waste in Barnes, have most generously presented me with my portrait. I have school learning how to spell. There IS now m eXIstence an excellent passed this on to the School Dining Hall, where the very great portrait system of simplified spelling. A book describing it is in the Front Hall painter, Mr. William Dring, tells me that it is certain to keep the boys on near the plans of the New Building. The book is not costly, and my their mettle. I 'm not too sure about that. Mr. Dring knows all there Secretary will, if application is made to her, sell some copies today and is to know about art, but perhaps not so much about boys! I was deeply order others immediately. moved by the generosity and number of the gifts which made such a 42 L 43 . .I hoi_>C . parents of children in Independent Schools will per­ Sist m cla.Jmmg more help from the State. They pay their taxes and Lord Harding' s Speech they deserve help. There is a movement among parents now afoot to demand a fair deal, and I hope it will grow and flourish greatly. The It is a very great pleasure and a very great privilege f?r me tc;> be only way to get help is to ask for it! here this afternoon and to have the honour, first of all of bemg received by a Guard of Honour from the C.C.F., then to present .the prizes, and We have such splendid support from parents that they may like to now to have the privilege of speaking to you. I should hke first to con­ hear what we value most highly in that support. May I briefly set it gratulate the Guard of Honour and the Band; to. congratulate t.hem m.ost out in the concise Biblical form of "Wise" and " Foolish?" Wise are sincerely and heartily on their turn-out and dnl~ and on ~he ir ~ e anng the parents who encourage their sons to become well educated and on parade and particularly on the way, the forthnght way, m which you cultured persons. Foolish are the parents who want their sons only to answered my questions and looked me straight in the eye as you spoke to do what is useful for exams or useful for making money or useful for me . It gave me a very good feel indeed. Well done! Then I should parental self-esteem. like to congratulate most heartily again the prize-winners. There were a Wise are the parents who do great many of them, and it i~ ~ great p~easu:e for me to give thei? their not spoil their sons, but inspire them prizes. I could not help notJcmg with a proper sense of duty. Foolish are that, m spite of the Headma._ster s plea the parents who can never for the simplification of spelling of English, allow their children to be in the wrong even when obviously that there were qmte a num­ at fault ber of dictionaries among the prizes. I always keep a dictionary and who feed the child's mind with excuses so as to protect parental pride. on my desk. As someone once said, the stories are short, but extremely inter­ Wise are the parents who rate good character, unselfish service and esting. Finally, I should like to congratulate the Headmaster and the Christian Faith as their most precious aims for their children. Foolish Staff and the boys on the excellent report which the Headmaste: h~s are the parents who set all store on worldly ambition and on rivalry been able to give, and on all that I have heard of the School, wh1ch 1s between their own children and the children of others. very good, very good indeed. Perhaps, in the light of the Headmaster's Report, I should add a special word of cong:atulation to th~ P.arents, Wise are the parents who train their sons to give generously of their which I do. I know from a good deal of expenence of schools mdv-ectly, efforts and to remember that the boy who does most for his school gets what a big part parents have to play, and I am sure that I vo1ce the most from it. Foolish are the parents who train their son to despise thoughts of everyone sitting on this platform when I say what a tremen­ every activity which does not foster his own self-interest and to ask the dous contribution the parents can make, and I am very glad to hear that biggest price for the least possible effort. you do make it. Wise are the parents who tell their sons that at school they must You, my Lord Bishop, will realise that I am not particularly partial eagerly learn and not wait to be stuffed with knowledge without any to Bishops! Nevertheless, it is a very great honour to be on the same mental effort of their own . Foolish are the parents who teach their sons platform as y~m, Sir, and the Bishop of Ta~nton; two Bishops wh~ I to put popularity above rectitude and opinion above truth. Foolish is think are all nght because they happen to be m Somerset. I should hke the Headmaster who goes on too long. to thank you and the Headmaster for your very kind remarks about me Before I close I must say how deeply we mourn the loss of three personally, generous remarks which I do not deserve, but, nonetheless, very devoted friends of King's. Father Harton, who was the late Dean deeply appreciate, and I should like to thank the whole company for of Wells, and Colonel Troyte Bullock were both Fellows, and we shall your very warm welcome to me this afternoon. miss them greatly. Father Miles Sargent is still remembered by many Now, if the parents will forgive me, I should like to address the rest Masters and Old Boys with warm affection, and we are very conscious of my remarks to the boys primarily. There are, I think, two things of the great services he rendered to the School as Chaplain through the which seem to me to be important, particularly in a speech on such an War and for several years after it. occasion as this. The first is that you should be heard, and the second The progress of King's has meant increased burdens for the School that you should have something to say. This is true of life also. In Council and particularly for the Chairman, Bishop Wilson, and for the order to make a success out of life you must know what you are about Divisional Bursar, Major Cely Trevilian. They give us generous encour­ to do, so when I make a speech I try to have a theme and for that reason agement and a great deal of time. We are deeply grateful. I also I usually like to provide myself with a text; not that I am going to venture to thank you, My Lord Bishop, and the whole Chapter, for all preach a sermon. I have a good many speeches to make and I often we owe to the kindliness and sympathy with which our footsteps are envy the Parish Priest who claimed that he could get away with the guided. We are especially grateful for the notable and heartening same sermon morning and evening by taking his teeth out in the morn­ decision to proceed shortly with the new classroom and studies building. ing. I was at a wedding last Saturday and in the Order of Service there was a hymn which always strikes me very favourably indeed:- "Father, hear the prayer we offer, Not for ease that prayer shall be, But for strength, that we may ever Live our lives courageously.'' And my text this afternoon is "Live your lives courageously." Have of mine : -"Live your lives courageously." And if you go on with the courage of your convictions. In these the difficult and uncertain days hymn to the third verse you will find that it reads like this: - there are quite a lot of people going about who are sacrificing principle to expediency. They call it being flexible. I do not believe in it and I " Not for ever by still waters, strongly urge you not to believe in it either. Have the courage of your Would we idly rest and stay." beliefs and your principles . Have the courage to disagree. Have the courage to say " no." Have the courage to admit that you are in the I am not suggesting that your life here is 'idling by still waters,' but, wrong and to climb down, if need be, and do so graciously. Have the comparatively speaking, it is . You lead a comparatively sheltered life courage to stand up in public for what you believe in, and have the here in your school, and when you go outside you will find things some­ courage to disagree with popular and public opinion if it is necessary to what different; and coming to the last two lines of the same hymn:- do so in order to stick to your convictions or principles or beliefs or faith. "But would smite the living fountains Have the courage to take a risk. I do not want to encourage you to be gamblers; I should get into hot water with the Headmaster and with the From the rocks along our way." Bishop if I did so, but life is a gamble, a great deal of it. People talk You will find plenty of rocks. They are all over the place and you will today about calculated risks. Well, I should suggest that there are find them along your way, but I hope and I know that if you follow the occasions, frequent occasions, in your lives when excessive calculation of theme of my text as well as you can you will have your ups and downs, the risk is likely to lead to the opportunity being lost. By all means your successes and your failures, but if you stick to that thought and calculate, you must; but if you are to calculate you must have know­ that theme through your lives you will, I have no doubt whatsoever ledge. You must have knowledge on which to base a calculation, that you will, s~ite many living fountains from the rocks along your otherwise you will be making one in the dark and you will be groping, way, and you w1ll have a great deal to help you. You will have the so do not hesitate to take a risk. Most of the big mistakes that I have love of your family, you will have the background and the support and seen in two World Wars and in a great deal of other things, in condi­ intere~t. of this. great School, y~mr School. You will have your heritage tions not fully at war, in most of the cases most of the opportunities have as Bntish subJects and you Wlll have your duty to your Sovereign and been missed, in my experience, because people have been too cautious. your country, and your faith in God, so we all have a very great deal They have not been prepared to take a risk. There is always time and to help us in living our lives courageously, and in smiting living fountains there will be frequent times in your lives when you will have to take a from the rocks along our way. risk on a very sketchy calculation, perhaps without any knowledge at all, without being able to work out all the details and all the effects; so I always find that the most difficult part about a speech is bringing have courage and take a risk and remember these lines that go:- it to an end, and I am always reminded when I get into difficulties in that respect of the story of the schoolboy howler. A boy was asked to "He either fears his fate too much, or his deserts are small, write an essay on the way of life of our American cousins. "The Who will not put it to the touch to win or lose it all.'' A:mericans are a h~ane race. They do not hang their criminals, they kill them by elocution." My elocution is of a particularly killing Good lines to remember if you are variety, going to follow this precept that I a~d I do not want !o be responsible for the early demise should like to encourage you this afternoon to remember of anyone here all your lives. this afternoon. I will now conclude my remarks by reminding you again Courage comes from many things, but you will never have courage of my text, "To live your lives courageously," and to express the hope, of the kind I mean, moral courage, courage to stand up for what you the very devout and fervent hope, that you, ~ll the boys of King's College, believe in, to say "no," to disagree, to go against the general swing of Taunton, and all those who follow you, Wlll have great success in life opinion, to accept defeat graciously, and then grit your teeth and start in '_'smiting living fountains from the rocks along your way," and may again, and to accept victory, too, in the same spirit; you will never have I w1sh you, every one of you, and the School, great success in the future that kind of courage unless you cultivate will-power. Some people think in all your undertakings. will-power is a thing man is born with or without. This is a complete mistake. Will-power is something which everyone can develop and will­ power is the basis of courage. It is the basis of everything in life. There are some words of Sir Winston Churchill in one of his speeches in the course of the last War which I am very fond of quoting:- •'All the great struggles in History have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the face of odds or by the na,rrowest of margins." And as you go through life I am sure you will find that often the odds will be against you, that the margin will possibly be very small and you ,,rill have to depend on your will-power to produce the courage, the determination, the resolution which is needed to see you through, and that is the thought that I should like to leave with all the boys of King's College, Taunton, this afternoon on this Speech Day, in this brief address 46 SCHOOL PRIZE UST Societies and Clubs University F irst Class H onours-A. G. Ace. F oundation Scholarship (Clare College, Cambridge) -}. B . C. Brown . R esearch Scholarship to U .S.A .­ SHELDON SOCIE1Y A. M. Monro. Royal Naval College-D. J Starling. R.N. Special Entry Examination-M. J . Vickars. R .A .F. College, Cranweii-M. C. Harris; Chairman: T. H. Vodden. Entrance E xamination- F . C. Southcott. R.M.A., Sandhurst-N. J . Davies, Secretary : A. G. Hopkins. Treasurer: C. A. W. Martin. C. P . Orbeii-Durrant, D . E . R oyle, J . C. Tyzack. C ounty Scholarships-­ R. J . Cole, C. M. Diamond, F. J . Hartland, F. J ames, B . W . A. Kirby, J. URING the Lent Term the Society remained alive, but only kicked Stevenson , E . R . Urquhart, T . W . Wyatt. Credit in Associated Board D once with a discussion on "Unemployment." T. W. Wyatt out­ E xamination ('cello) , Grade VIII- T . G. Waddington. General Certificat e of lined the types and causes of unemployment and ventured to suggest a Education : Distinctions-C. M. Diamond (French) ; A. J . Holland (Ancient solution. Thereafter, the discussion was focussed on " Can Britain Com­ History) , R. M. Smith (French). J . Stevenson (French). pete in World Markets? " Fortis et Fidelis-C. A. W . Martin. Provost's Prize-A. G. Hopkins. Head­ The lean days of Lent were followed by the fat of the Summer. master's Prize-T. H . Vodden . The Society was presented with three papers and the climax of the Sum­ VI FORM mer activities came with the visit of the Rt. Hon. The Lord Geddes of Crealock Price English Prize-E. J . Lavender. Classics-D. W . Perry. French Epsom, C.B.E., who spoke on " Has Trade Unionism Outlived Its Use­ -C. M. Diamond. German-E. J . Lavender . Ancient History-D. W . P erry. fulness?" He concluded that it has never reached its optimum, -and Modem History-}. R. West. Physics : Science Upper VI-C. H . Abraham; that it must do so if Britain is to remain a first-rate nation. The occasion Science Lower VI-K. W . Miller. Chemistry : Science Upper VI-A. G. was not only memorable, but valuable, too, and it helped the Society to Hopkins; Science Lower VI-I. D. Sharpe. Biology-M. J . Torrens. take a more balanced view of Trade Unionism. It was interesting to note Geography-R. A. Adam. History of Art-P. J . Green. that Lord Geddes' subject, with identical wording, comprised a question CLASSICS REMOVE in the G.C.E. general paper three weeks later. English-M. St. J . French. Latin-J. R. Halton. French-M. J . Monk. Ger­ C. M. Diamond gave the first paper of the term on "Ibsen." In a man-}. M. Glover. History-W. Trehame-Jones. short space of time everyone had more than a vague idea about the SCIENCE REMOVE Norwegian playwright, who, as Diamond stressed, was also a poet in Mathematics--R. R. M. Braham. Physics-D. B. Abraham. Chemistry- his own right. D. M. Rowe. Biology-A. G. Gray. The second paper was on the "Origins of Modem Germany," and V FORM was given by T. W. Wyatt. He showed how patterns in German his­ English-R. C. Kennard. Latin-N. P . Butt. French-N. P . Butt. History­ tory recur throughout the centuries, which may be attributed to certain M. A. Coward. Mathematics-!. D. Philippe. Physics--R. W . Vaux. aspects of the German character. This led to discussion of the more Chemistry-R. W. Vaux. Geography-}. A. Fielding. Art-E. A. Tuke. recent problems. Handicraft-C. M. S. Kitsell. Finally, J . de W. Perry presented the Society with a paper on IV FORM ''Existentialism.'' He skilfully outlined the contributions of the most English-}. C. S. Horrocks. Latin-B. M. Phillips. Greek-D. Bromwich. prominent existentialists, pointing out that it is not a true philosophy. French-D. D. Hill. German-P. W . R. Hewson. History-G. A. Herbert. He concluded by showing the importance of existentialism to both Divinity-}. C. S. Horrocks. Mathematics-D. Bromwich. Physics-B. M. Christian and Atheist. Phillips. Chemistry-R. N . Woollacott. Biology-C. P . Baxter. Geography -J. A. J. Taylor. Art-N. A. Miles. Handicraft-}. 0 . Rees. The Society thanks the Headmaster not only for the use of his Study, but also for his guidance and the interest which he shows in the Society's ID FORM activities. English-A. C. Hill. Latin-A .. D . Zebedee. Greek-0. M. R. B. Marke. A.G.H. French-G. C. Darvill. German-J. R. M. Delacour. History-B. H . White. Mathematics-F. L. Marchant. Physics-C. A. Steven. Chemistry-C. A. Steven. Geography-F. J . T. Grant-Anderson. Art-M. G. Allen. Handi­ HISTORY SOCIE'IY craft-P. J. Blackmore. Form Prizes : ~I. D. Philippe. Vc--R. A. Poland. V Rem.-P. R. W. Chairman: R. A. Adam. Robinson. IVa.-D. D . Hill. ~J . A. J . Taylor. IVc-C. B. Stewart. Secretary: J . R. West. Treasurer: A. G. Hopkins. llla--A. D. Zebedee. Illb-R. P . Bentley. Illc--1. Winter. HE election of four new members at the beginning of the Lent Term Lyons Wilson Sketching Prizes-M. J . Torrens, R. Beal. Chambers Memorial -Gibson, Hatfield, Sharpe and Miller-did Prize-C. R. Eagle. Firth Memorial Divinity Prize-D T not avail the Society . W . Perry. Music in its first two meetings, Prizes-D. J. Couch, J. J . Kennedy, T . G. Waddington. Senior English which were, unfortunately, decimated by in­ Verse-J. R . West. Junior English Verse-M. D. Head. Junior English fluenza. Mr. Edward du Cann, M.P. for Taunton, paid a considerable Pros&-N. A. Miles. compliment to the Society in coming on 6th February to answer ques­ tions put to him by the members. O.A. Prizes and Awards for Projects-R. F. Bames, R. Beal, C. W . C. Bracey, On 13th February, Mr. L. E . Jones, R. R. M. Braham, J . E . Blake, M. H . Ferguson, A. G. Gray, G. A. Herbert, Honorary Lecturer of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, gave A. G. Hopkins, N. A. Miles, R. E. Owen, E. A. Tuke. an illustrated lecture on the more outstanding of England's Churches. 48 f9 J . de W. Perry, our American exchange student for this year, JUNIOR LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY chatted authoritatively in answer to questions about the United States and American points of view generally. The outstanding feature Chairman: N. A. Miles (Lent) ; L. F. Ryland (Summer) . of the term was the presentation on 19th March of the Society's tape­ Secretary R. ]. Stevens (Lent) ; M. W. Cooke (Summer). recording of the Trial and Execution of Charles I. West edited the script, and Vodden as King Charles, Diamond as Lord President of the Court Treasurer : G. Tucker. and C . A. W. Martin as Narrator, worked hard and successfully to pro­ Illrd Form Member: J . G. Smith; W. R. Herbert (ii) . duce an altogether excellent result, made even more gratifying by the was composed of an Inter-House discovery that one of the first proposals made at the inaugural meeting HE first meeting o f the Lent Term , in February, 1949. ten years ago, was that the Society should make a T "Twenty. Questions,. " in which Cooke, Tucker, Fleming, J ones The result was a narrow win to re-trial of Charles I. C. P ., and Knight compnsed the panel. the Meynell. Again the brain-testing "Brains Trust" was called upon The Summer Term began with the customary outing, this year to to fill up a Saturday evening's agenda. Mr. Jones, Mr. Mangin, Bames, Longleat House, the home of the Marquis of Bath. It was held as early R. F ., and Taylor, J . A. J., were the four guests who had their know­ as possible, on 6th May, so as not to impede the gallant progress of ledge tested With questions ranging from "The panel's view of an ideal most of the members towll.rds G.C.E. Finally, on 28th May, Mr. K. R. wife" to "Are Aspirins Psychological? " The interesting subject of Williams lectured on the local history of Cossington and Bridgwater, and America was the topic of the last meeting of the Lent Term. J. de W. proved as instructive as he was entertaining. Perry answered q~estions admirably, and the Club was honoured by his Mr. Pytches and Mr. Whitworth once again deserve our gratitude appearance. Dunng the Summer Term the ever-useful "snap-talking" for their help and guidance-especially since it was they and Mr . Harvey was used as the programme for a meeting. The subject "Soccer" won who drove the Society to Longleat. the prize for M. A. D. Bentley from M. Plant and W. R. Herbert, who J .R.W. talked on "Alc~hol:' and "Th~ Ato~c Bomb" respectively. Lastly, the Club would agam like to offer Its gratitude to Mr. T. N. E . Mangin, who has showed an unfailing interest in our welfare. N.A.M.

LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY Chairman: C. M. Diamond. MUSIC CLUB Secretary: E. J. Lavender. Treasurer: J . J. Kennedy. Chairman : H . R. Padfield, Esq. N the Lent Term the Society held several meetings and also visited Secretary: A. G. Hopkins. Treasurer: J. J. Kennedy. I Bristol to see a memorable production of ' 'The Taming of House Secretaries : T . G. Waddington, I. D. Sharp e. D. J. Couch, the Shrew." Early in the Lent Term the Society met and drew lots, or A. John. rather marbles, to choose two members on whom the Society should call to provide an evening's programme each. The lot fell on Messrs. Bonsey HE main feature of the Club's activities in the Lent Term was the and West, which resulted in a reading of Ibsen's play, "The Pillars of T House Music Festival. It was decided that the nature of the Community," and a debate entitled "This House believes that the the Festival should be altered so that a programme of higher quality country is going to the dogs,' ' respectively. The activities of the Society and of more reasonable length would be attained. Several items were were curtailed in the Summer Term by the fact that many members entered by each House, and a committee chose which items should com­ were occupied with exams. However, the Society, in conjunction with prise the programme. The Festival was very successful and our con­ the Modem Languages Society, visited the Theatre Royal, Bristol, early gratulations go to all who performed. in the Summer Term, and saw an excellent production of "Cyrano de In the Summer Term the Club held a new type of programme Mr Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand. Even though it was produced in Mangin kindly allowed himself to be stranded and we held a "Desert English, the play lost none of its original flavour owing to an excellent Island Discs" programme. It is hoped that the Club will hold other translation, and Mr. Peter Wyngarde's portrayal of Cyrano, which was such pr~grammes in the ~ture. At the end of June the Club held a a triumph of swashbuckling bravado, yet at the same time a penetrating Concert . ~ th~ Ch~pel, chie~y devoted to organ music. It is good to see and sensitive study of a very complex personality. that actiVIty m this sphere mcreases. Finally, on 2oth July, a Concert The Society met again during the last week of term for a successful was held, at which Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 was performed. reading of the play, "Ring Round the Moon," by the modem French Our thanks go to F . W. Hart, Esq., for his performance in this Concert. playwright, Jean Anouilh, and members were able to appreciate to the . The Club's Record Library continues to be increased, and the Music full the shrewd wit and the humour of the dramatist. In conclusion, we Library has been moved out of the main Library into Room 24 . should like to thank our Vice-President, Mr. Wilson, for his continued W,e thank ~r. Padfield and Mr. Tyler for their guidance, help and support and interest in the activities of the Society. enthus1asm, which ensure the smooth running and progress of the Club. E .J.L. A.G.H. 50 51 ART CLUB With the coming of Summer, and long light evenings, we were able Chairman: P . J. Green. to do much more flying than the restricted light and poor weather had permitted during the Lent Term. The result was that the Club put on : P . Edwardes. Secretary: N. R. Garnett. Treasurer R. an excellent d1splay of ftymg, both on and off control lines, on Speech 4th Member: M. J . Torrens. Day. Bracey's performance was particularly creditable, although the HE influenza epidemic during the Lent T erm caused the Art Club display was essentially a Club effort and the result of much hard work T to go into hibernation, except for the Saturday evening meetings . by members. It provided much excitement and skilled flying, as well Thus we were unable to hold an Art quiz or show any films . However, as skilled crashes! It was difficult to see which entertained the parents we made this good during the Summer Term. most! Woollacott's free flight model, our faithful .. gap filler," certainly On 6th June we showed the following films: "Design for Africa"; had our hearts m our mouths. "Switching on the Sun," showing how advertisements were made in the Also on Speech Day the Club made a most notable contribution to depths of Winter; "Energetically Yours," in colour, a cartoon drawn the Projects Exhibition; among the many excellent models, Bracey's by Ronald Searle. They were, unfortunately, not up to the usual stan­ " Deltaceptor" and Ferguson's " Thames Barge" (both of which won dard of the Club. prizes) were outstanding. Altogether, the progress made has been most We should like to thank the Chaplain for keeping " control" of a encouragmg and even more models are expected next Michaelmas Term. few members of the Art Club who went on a sketching expedition to Finally, we should like to take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Beer on Thursday, 23rd July. The outing was a success, and a few J ames for all he .does, not only for us, who, like numerous other people, worthy sketches were produced. constantly dash m and out of the woodwork shop and leave tools lying To R. P. Edwardes, who organised the expedition, we owe much out on the benches .. We hope we shall be less trying in future, although resolution I of its success; we are losing in him a tireless treasurer who has done it seems to be a trad1tion to break this good much for the Club. M.Sr.J.F. The standard of the art produced during the last two terms has FALLODON SOCIETY improved under the expert guidance of Mr. Lyons Wilson, to whom we Chairman : A. W. K. Lau. Secretary : D. J. Millard. are very grateful. We are also indebted to Mr. Townsend, who has Treasurer : N. W. Abbott. been very patient with us and has shown a great interest in our efforts. T the beg~ning of J;he Lent ~erm, in order that the Club may have N.R.G. A more active pursmts, the s1ze of the Club was reduced. Owing POTIERY CLUB to the cold weather all the meetings were indoors. There were two film : "Industrial Dermatitis" and "Enterprise" in the first one; Chairman: E. A. Tuke. shows and " The Story of Antricide" and "The Traveller's Tale" in the second. Secretary: R. E. Owen. Treasurer: I. P. L. Smith. Both were greatly enjoyed by all members. Mr. Lance brought some HE Club has made much progress during the past year. More mem­ rats for breeding and for the dissections of VI Form Biologists, so cer­ T bers have joined and work of an increasingly higher standard has tain members of the Club took charge of the feeding and cleaning of the been produced. The electric kiln, which has replaced the old muffle rats, which are still surviving well. furnace, has been much used, and has proved most successful. Both In the Summer Term there were a new aquarium and a new vivarium this and the acquisition of more modelling and decorating materials have in the laboratory. During meetings members went down to the stream aroused a keener interest throughout the Club. to collect specimens for them. Some members prepared culture solutions Speech Day, 1959, saw the first independent exhibition in the Club's for plant experiments. There was an exhibition on Speech Day; it was history. This was particularly successful, as a large number of well­ the best we have ever had. All the members have been very keen, and made articles were displayed in an original manner. we owe this to Mr. Lance, the vice-president of the Club, whom we should like to thank for his encouragement and general interest. It is hoped that in the near future the Club will pay a visit to Dunster potteries to see hand-thrown pottery being made. A.W.K.L. Finally, we should like to thank Mr. James for his keen interest in ARCHJEOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY the Club's activities. Chairman: D. P. B. Miller. Secretary: M. H. Ragless. R.E.O. Treasurer: E. A. Tuke. AERO-MODELLING CLUB ~TER the inaugural meeting at the beginning of the Lent Term we Chairman: M. St. J. French. A. mtended to have a full programme. Unfortunately, owing to the Secretary: C. R. Budge. Treasurer: R. E. Buchman. ep1dermc we were only able to have two meetings. The first of these was an outing to two hill forts, one a small earthwork near Broomfield, the 4th Member: C. W. C. Bracey. other the larger and more impressive, Castle Neroche. Three films were HE Club was very active during the Lent Term, with well-attended shown at the other meeting: "Look to the Land," "The Changing T meetings every Saturday, and on some Mondays. Many models E.arth" and "The Search for Oil." . The second one was not of a very were constructed, either as projects or with a view to flying in the Sum­ high standard, but the first, which was a study of soil erosion mer Term, and the Club showed itself to be very much alive, if only by in Australia, and the third, which dealt with petroleum geology, were the constant roar of engines outside the woodwork shop. excellent.

62 68 During the Summer Term we had an outing to Charmouth. D espite The Society was very fortunate in having a v isit by Mr. Lancelot the unfortunate incident of one member of the party gettmg stuck m a Vining early in the Summer T erm and fi ~t Y: members, inclu mud glacier, we had a most enjoyable day. We collecte ding .fi ve vice­ d . some quite presidents, attended . It was a great pnvilege to hear th1 interesting foss ils and minerals; some of the latter were s d1stmgmshed displayed on }5 mm . expert and he entertained all those present with Speech Day. We would like to take this opportun spicy reminis­ ity to thank Mr. Lance cences and useful hi nts. We are very grateful to the and Mr. Martin fo r their help during the outing. Headmaster f or allowing us to hold the meeting on a M onday night. We were intending to survey a small hill fo rt near Broomfield during The Society also heard an interesting lecture by M r. T. the Summer T erm . Howeve P . Halton r, owing to a lack of suitable transport, we on " Ektachrome" in the Lent Term. In the Summer Term, Mr. were only a ble to go Leonard there twice . On the fi rst occasion we I?ade a Meux ( Deputy County A rchitect) gave a lecture o n the Bru compass traverse o ssels Exhibi­ f the main earthwo rk, and, where this had tion ; Mr. Ross-Woolf , a distinguished local photographe been ploughed out, o r, w ho won the f the boundary of the fie ld. When we we re next " Daily Sketch" award, also showed us some of his pict there we started t o leve ures, and his l the slope and took the contours of the western lecture was such a success that he has promised t o side of the hill fort. Th come back and t alk e willing s urveyors we re P. E . Dewey, J . M. to us again. We were a lso delighted to have a visit from Graham and G. B. Vall Mr. Tarr; he is ender, w hile R. F . Bames drew the actual m ap. now well known to most m embers, and we should like to th We are hoping ank him for to continue the survey. during. the Michaelmas T erm. bringing his latest creations a long to us so frequently. Finally, we would like t o thank our V1ce-PresJdents, Mr. Jordan, Mr. In the future, the So Pytches and Mr . Jaquet ciety's policy will remain the same: to provide for the guidance and help that they have so demonstrations, lectures, willingly discussions and films . It is hoped that some given to us. members will volunt M.H.R. eer t o read papers, but whatever else happens there will be at least one meeting every fortnight. FISHING CLUB Lastly, we should like to thank all those who entered prints for our NFORTUNATELY, the Lent and Summer Terms have not been very competition and congratulate those who won awards. We hope that the U active for the Club. This was not due to any lack of enthusiasm, but standard will be higher next y ear and that members will be encouraged because fate intervened. In the Lent Term the School was ravaged by a to pursue the hobby with zest while the good weather l asts. 'flu epidemic, which cut our fishing down to one sing!~ expedition to the Prize-winners: R. I. N. Grant, M. Sho Canal on J. ve, ]. F.]. Kemp, E . M. 22nd February. Even that was not particularly successful; Hatley. most of the fish caught were under-size. R.G.T. During the Summer Term examinations seemed (quite rightly) more WIRELESS CLUB important than fishing. Moreover, the long spell of hot, dry wea~h e r at Chairman: C. W. Green. Treasurer: R. M. Braham. the beginning of the term caused the temperature of the water to nse ~oo Secretary: A. G. Gray. much, and when Waddington, Grant and Baker were taken to Durle1gh LTHOUGH it becomes almost unbearably Reservoir by Mr. hot in the Club hut during Jaquet (who very k:indly provided transport) •. the water these Summer months, there has, nevertheless, was considerably warmer A been some keen than the a~ and the fish :~ere sluggts~; Those activity. To save some of the more strenuous manual labour, that did rise to the fly were not an electric very mterested and came short. How­ drill has been purchased and has proved very popular. We ever we had a very pleasant day, and also, during are extremely grateful to ~rs . the Lent Term, hired some films from Mullard Ltd., and these, too, were J aq~et, who brought us an excellent tea. Baker did try Hillfarrance very popular. Brook later in the term, but the water was very low and the day very At the beginnin hot. Once again the fish were not enthusiastic g of the Summer Term, Hobbs, Robbins and Stewart , and he came back empty­ joined us, and handed. Despite this rather miserable we hope to teach them some of the fundamentals of this . tale of lack of success, we can say fascinating hobby of radio. with confidence that next term holds high hopes for us. Getting down to individual Mr. and Mrs. Jaquet work: Rowe has started to build the continue their unfailin~ interest i? the Club, communications receiver which he has been and, to conclude, we should like planning for so long. It is to express our smcere gratitude for all built on a chassis 2ft. by rft. and certainly looks they very impressive. have done for us. At the J.C.B. other end of the size scale, Braham has built a successful, although rather t emperamental, miniature transitor superhet receiver for PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIE'IY four pre-set stations. Chairman : D. B. Busfield. Secretary: R. G. Taylor. J ames has constructed a ten watt amplifier, which forms the nucleus Treasurer: K. W. Miller. 4th Member: N. Garnett. of an intercom system between his house and the shack in his garden. N the Lent Term the main emphasis of the Society's activities lay on Gray has been working on a combined tape recorder, intercom I darkroom work. The committee and senior members gave several system, amplifier and receiver, and the quality of the tape recorder has interesting demonstr~tions, and, as a r~sult, many of our new m~mbers at last become quite reasonable. are now well-versed m darkroom techmque. The darkroom was m con­ Green has been modifying some 88 set amplifiers for the C.C.F. and stant use throughout both the Lent and Summer Terms, on Sundays ~d has fixed up a very successful public address system in the Land Rover. half-holidays, and so~e good wo~k has been produced. w_e would like In the exhibition on Speech Day, all these pieces of equipment to were take this opportumty of thanking Mr. Padfield for allowmg us to use exhibited, together with some lent by Mr. Padfield from the Physics Lab. the Physics Preparation Room for this purpose. A.G.G. 54 65 DANCING CLUB SAILING CLUB Vice-Commodore: I. H. Boyle, Esq. Rear-Commodore : E.]. Hatfield. Chairman: C . A. W. Martin. Secretary : T . H. Vodd en . Secretary : C. M. S. Kitsell. Treasurer : E . J . Lavender. Treasurer: E . J. Hatfield . Committee Member : J . S. P . Gibson. HE Lent Term was one of preparation for the coming season. We URING the Summer Term members of the Club have attended fiv e T were still hoping for the use of Clatworthy Reservoir, and n ow we D dances , four as guests and one as hosts. On Friday, 22nd May, are more confident of having permission to use it next year. We decided thirty boys, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Morgan and Mr. and Mrs . it would be better to have only two matches in the Summer because of Padneld and Mr. Pytches, were guests at St. Audries . This was a very our inexperience. pleasant and dignified dance. On Friday, 17th July, those of us who The first match of the Summer Term was against R .N.C., Dart­ had finished our exams went to a dance at Weirfield School. We danced mouth, in Dartmouth One Designs. The Headmaster drove us over to in the gymnasium, which had the supreme advantage of being cool on a Dartmouth. In the first race, Hatfield and Rogers capsized. It must heavy and humid evening. On Saturday, r8th July, five boys were have been cold, because no one capsized in the second race, but we still guests at a dance held by the Prefects of Taunton School. The dance was lost by 69t points to 47 points. enjoyed by all who attended. A larger group, twenty in all, went to The second match was against Milton Abbey and was held on an Bishop Fox's School annual dance on Tuesday, zrst July, accompanied ideal day, warm and with a force 3 S.W. wind. In the first race we came by Mr. Sprunt. Everyone enjoyed the dance, despite the heat. first, third and last, which gave us ut points to ro points. However, in The highlight of the year was the College dance, held on Thursday, the second race, the wind altered, and the different helmsmen tried to 23rd July. This was a very happy occasion, as it achieved its primary use the previous tactics, which proved fatal. We were the last three object of being a social gathering. boats and therefore scored the minimum points of six; on the other hand, they sailed very well and scored the maximum of rst points. We sailed The band was first-class and received able support during the interval in their Enterprises, four of which they had built, and which proved an from the School's Light Music Club. We thank Miss Gascoigne and her interesting topic for conversation with regard to the class we plan to staff for providing such wonderful refreshments. adopt. Finally, our thanks to the Headmaster for allowing us to attend the We sincerely thank Mr. Boyle for the time he has devoted to the dances held by other schools and for helping us so much in the organisa­ Club during the last two terms and also for his active participation in tion of the College dance. Also we would like to thank all our vice­ the essential roles of bailer and ballast! presidents for accompanying us so willingly on so many occasions. Lastly, we should like to thank the Headmaster for showing such an interest in this relatively new sport at King's, and for allowing T.H.V. us to arrange our matches. We hope that in a few years you will see an active Club with more experience and better results. C.M.K. STAMP CLUB CONJURING CLUB Chairman: A. J. Atkinson. Secretary: R. E. Buchman. Chairman: F. J. Nye. Secretary : R. M. Braham. Treasurer: A. W . K. Lau. Treasurer: N. P . Toland. 4th Member: N. V. Lyle. URING the Summer Term, Mr. Clench, of the Taunton Stamp Club, HIS new Club was formed at the beginning of the Lent Term to meet D gave an interesting lecture, and several competitions were held. The T the needs of the small but enthusiastic group of amateur conjurers latter aroused some interest, but the lecture, undoubtedly, stimulated the in the School. We are extremely grateful to the Headmaster for allowing most activity. Mr. Clench's mounting and lettering set a very high stan­ the Club to come into existence and for his consenting to be our president. dard indeed for any such work in the Club. During the Summer Term We must also express our warmest thanks to Mr. M. F. Jaquet (our vice­ we also came into possession of a large number of stamps; some from the president), for, without his support, the Club could not function. Headmaster's correspondence and some from a friend of the Club in Early in the Lent Term it was decided that the Club should meet Australia, who has sent us many valuable first-day covers. Mr. Clench weekly for a practice session and once a fortnight for formal meetings. also made a donation to the Club of several Victorian covers and stamps. So far, the latter have consisted largely of lectures by Mr. J aquet, but Unfortunately, our Chairman, Atkinson, .is leaving this term and so we it is hoped that in the future members of the committee may partly take lose a most active and competent committee member ; we also lose Lau, over this instruction. who has been an extremely efficient treasurer. At the first meeting of the Summer Term the conditions of member­ Next term we hope to hear Mr. Clench again and also to hold further ship were tightened up. Members are now expected to join the Club for competitions and make another visit to the Taunton Post Office. at least a year and a promise of secrecy must be made. During the term Mr. Jaquet taught us a good deal of sleight-of-hand and also some effects Finally, we should like to thank Mr. Pytches for his continual with apparatus. Now, after the "close season'' of the Summer Term, we interest and help to the Club. are looking forward to an active Michaelmas Term. R.E.B. R.M.B. 66 57 LIGHT MUSIC CLUB Junior House Notes Chairman: R. A. Adam. Secretary: C. M. S. Kitsell. Jrd Member: D. A. E . Whitehouse. GLORIOUS Summer has made the swimming bath the centre of our A out-of-school life throughout the term and resulted in probably the E should like to thank the Headmaster for granting us the privilege highest all-round standard of swimming and diving since we came here. W of performmg at the School Dance. Although Whitehouse the A re-arrangement of the cricket into seven smaller games, so that group:s resident dmmmer, was unable to be present, Adam, M. ]., 'ably every boy has had more activity and less time merely watching has proved deputised. a success, but not, alas, been reflected in a successful year for the rst XL which, though it contained ten potential bowlers and apparently The main characteristic of skiffie is its ringing beat, and the dominant adequate batting strength, never really got going. feature of the group was the s trength of its rhythm section. Martin In the Scholarship field, W. R. I. M. R.'s manipulation of the tea-chest bass is to be admired (as are Barrie (already at the College) als~ gai the size of the blisters on his hands!). C. M. Kitsell and R. A. Adam ned an Open Scholarship and G. Pedler was awarded the Aston Scholarship. have improved their guitar (and banjo) playing over the past two terms. The Common Entrance results were good, thirteen of our fourteen entrants passing into the College The_ group at last possesses an electric attachment for one of the guitars. and two others being successful Whitehouse has become a good drummer, and his kit seems to grow in for other schools. size every term. He will become a first-rate performer when he learns Sports and Prize-giving, on 4th June, brilliantly fine for the first to conquer "nerves," but as yet he does not really let him~lf go. time for years, went off very successfully. The Sports, though they only produced two new records, were of a high standard throughout. The The vocal and close harmony of the group is still as good as ever. cups and certificates were kindly presented by Mrs. Cely Trevilian. In But the lack of new material in tunes and songs has resulted in a certain the afternoon, Major R. E . F . Cely Trevilian, after presenting amount of staleness. the prizes, gave us a very pointed and memorable exhortation on the Last Lent Term the group gave a spirited session to the School, theme of " Be yourself." among other things four guitar strings and the bass string broke; how­ This term we have said Good-bye, with very real regret, to Miss ever, it went down well. During the Easter holidays the group took part D. E. Glencross, whose six years here have contributed so much that at a large dance. During the Summer holidays we plan to be " on tour" has been happy and fruitful, both in the classroom and in the life of the in the South-West and hope to have a number of engagements. House in general. Dr, the Cubs, the artists and the Staff, every one of us in one way or another will miss her presence and her influence and The members of the group are going their several ways at the end all join in most sincere good wishes. of the year, and, as a result, there has been considerable effort by the Club to try and keep the spirit of "Light Music" alive in the School. Several small groups have been formed and show considerable promise. PRIZE LIST Let us hope that they continue _to keep the spirit going. D Block: G. A. Butt, C. E. James, R. J. Mott, D. C. Warren, R. J . T. Warren, Finally, we should like to thank all those who gave the group so R. W. J. Cope, C. S. Reis, R. C. Sprunt. much of their support in its difficult moments. Mention must also be C2 : Form Prize-T. G. Bibby. Languages-]. Glade-Wright. Mathematics­ made of Deedman, who helped out on the bass when Martin's fingers R. Glade-Wright. English-P. S. Rumball. gave out. And thanks must also be given to all of those who endured Cl : Form Prize-D. I. Walker. Nature Study-D. I. Walker. Languages­ that ''hideous twanging noise coming from the gym' ' every Saturday M. J . Hope. English-J. W . Morgan. Mathematics-J . A. G. Norman. evening. Progress-C. H . Davis, R. S. D. Pond. B2 : Form Prize-B. P. Howard. Languages-M. A. Webb. History-R. W. James. Mathematics-M. Macrae. Progress-D. G. Walker. Bl : Form Prize-C. J . King. English-C. J. King. Latin-G. J . Knox. French-R. A. Baker. History-C. M. Murray. Geography-M. W. Porter. Mathematics-D. C. G. Henderson. Progress-C. C. Edmonds. A2 : Form Prize-D. I. H . Tyzack. English-D. I. H . Tyzack. Languages­ S. P. Beauchamp. Mathematics-M. A. B. Nurdin. Al : Form Prize-G. Pedler. Mathematics-G. Pedler. Latin-J. P. Edmunds. Geography-]. P. Edmunds. French-C. J. Shirley-Smith. English­ n. J . Turner. History-A. L . Porter. Progress-P. J. Chubb, P. C. Mott. Music Prizes : C. C. Edmonds, M. A. Evans, M. W . Porter. Woodwork prizes : M. A. B. Nurdin, D. I. H. Tyzack. Art Prizes : G. N. Gladwell, D. C. Johnston. Divinity prizes: H . Parrott, B. P. Howard, M. R. Winckworth. House Prize-M. J. Ace. "Fortis et Fidelis" : (Head Boy) D. J . Turner.

58 59 JUNIOR HOUSE ATHLETIC SPORTS JUNIOR HOUSE CRICKET, 1959 SATURDAY, 30th MAY, 1959 Date Opponents Team Venue Runs for Runs against 880 Yards (Class I}-1, Calder; 2, Parrott; 3, Perratt. Time : 2 mins. 46 secs. Wed ., June 3 Wellington lst Away 17 19 for 3 Wellington ... 2nd Away 64 65 220 Yards (Class I}-1, Barnard; 2, Nurdin; 3, Ace. Time : 28.5 secs. for 4 High Jump (Class I)-1, Ace; 2, Nurdin; 3, Howard. H eight : 4ft. 3ins. Sat., June 13 St. Dunstan's (Burnham) lst Home 83 for 7 144 High Jump (Class II)-1, Knox; 2, Barnes; 3. Curtis. H eight : 4ft. Oins. St. Dunstan's 2nd Home 108 109 for 2 Cricket Ball (Class I)-1, Turner; 2, Calder; 3, Gladwell. Distance : 178ft. 9ins. St. Dunstan's 3rd Home 86 lOO Cricket Ball (Class II)-1, Xnox; 2, Edmonds; 3, Winckworth. Distance : 147ft. Wed ., June 17 Taunton lst Home 99 101 for 5 lOO Yards (Class I)-1, Bamard; 2, Ace; 3, Nurdin. Time : 12.4 secs. Thone Under 12 Home 65 68 for 6 100 Yards (Class II)-1, Monk; 2, Knox; 3, Bames. Time : 13.5 secs. Sat., June 20 Connaught House lst Away 137 for 8 100 Yards (Class III)-1, Giles, S.; 2, Sax; 3, Evans. Time : 14.0 secs. dec. 79 for 6 Connaught House 2nd Away 221 36 100 Yards (Class IV}-1, Cope; 2, Wilson; 3, Mott. Time : 15 .0 secs. Wed., June 24 St. Dunstan's Long Jump (Class I)-1, Ace; 2, Calder; 3, Gladwell. Distance : 15ft. 5ins. 1st Away 19 101 St. Dunstan's 2nd Away 74 76 for 4 Long Jump (Class II)-1, Knox; 2, Bames; 3, Monk. Distance : 13ft. 9ins. St. Dunstan's 3rd Away 55 31 Long Jump (Class III)-1, Sax; 2, Butt; 3, Evans. Distance : 12ft. Sins. Wed ., July 1 Connaught House 1st Home 93 76 440 Yards (Class I)-1, Calder; 2, Nurdin; 3, Parrott. Time : 1 min. 7.2 secs. Connaught House 2nd Home 185 for 6 dec. 31 220 Yards (Class II)-1, Knox; 2, Monk; 3, Cembrowicz. Time : 30 secs. Sat., July (NEW RECORD.] 4 St. Peter's (Weston) 1st Away 77 78 for 3 220 Yards (Class III}-1, Giles; 2, Sax; 3, Berry. Time : 31.2 secs. St. Peter's 2nd Away 85 86 for 3 Wheelbarrow Race--1, Bamard and Glade-Wright, R.; 2, Parrott and Wyse; 8, Wed., July 8 Queen's Gladwell and Calder. College Under 13 Home 91 for 5 132 for 7 dec. 100 Yards Hurdles-!, Bamard; 2, Calder; 3, Howard. Time : 16.8 secs. Sat., July 11 Wellington 1st Home 82 86 for 7 440 Yards (Class II)-1, Knox; 2, Monk; 8, Cembrowicz. Time : 1 min. 18 secs. Wellington 2nd Home 74 for 3 72 60 Yards (Class IV)-1, Cope; 2, Wilson; 3 Snell and Matt. Time : 8.9 secs. Wed., July 15 Taunton 1st Away 131 for 8 [NEW RECORD.] dec. 111 for 4 Thone Under 12 Young Visitors' Race (Girls}-1, Zoe Giles; 2, Susan Baker. Away 60 182 for 8 dec. Sat., (Boys)-1, Peter Glade-Wright; 2, Simon Holder. July 18 Hazlegrove 1st Away 94 75 Hazlegrove 2nd Away Inter-House Relay (Class Ill) (4 x 110 Yards)-1, Gibbs; 2, Whitby. Time : 61 62 for 4 1 min. 7.3 secs. Hou.e Matche. : Inter-House Relay (Class II) (4 x 110 Yards)-1, Oldham; 2, Whitby. Time: Senior-Whitby beat Gibbs. Whitby beat Oldham. 1 min. 4.5 secs. Junior~Whitby .beat·. Gibbs.' Whitby beat Oldham.

Inter-House Relay (Class I) (4 x 220 Yards)-1, Whitby; 2, Gibbs. Time: Colours : H. Parrott (Captain) (re-awarded); D. J. Turner (Vice-Captain) 2 mins. 4.5 secs. (re·-awarded); J . H . Calder; D. C. G. Henderson.

Winners of Standards' Cup-Whitby. Winners of Sports' Cup-Oldham.

Victor Ludorum : Class I (over 121 on 31/7 /1959)-J. H. Calder. Class II (11-121 on 31/7 /1959)-G. J. Knox. Class m (9i-11 on 31/7 /1959)-R. B. Sax. Class IV (under 9i on 31/7 /1959)-R. W. J . Cope .. The Cups and Certificates were presented by Mrs. R. Cely Trevilian. 60 The Rover Crew 1n Sardinia-Summer, 1959 From Cala Gonone we returned to Nuoro in time for the most important celebration in the Sardinian calendar-"The Fe~t of the Redeemer." At this festival representatives from almost every v1llage ARDINIA ?-Somewhere in the Mediterranean, isn't it ?-uncivilized in the island converge on Nuoro, and each band of villagers is and a popula­ S sort of place where they have bandits and vendettas distinguished by the traditional costume its members wear. These are of tion of about one peasant to every five square miles. richly-coloured cloth and velvet, embroidered by hand, with intricate Those were the reasons why the Rover Crew went to Sardinia for needlework designs and filigree patterns in gold and silver. The climax three weeks this Summer. of the festivities, which lasted about a week, was a magnificent pro­ cession through the town, which involved all the different village con­ The island, lying a hundred and fifty miles off the West coast of tingents, a religious train consisting of a huge crucifix and statues of Italy and just South of Corsica, is about three hundred miles long and various saints and of the Madonna, and a colourful detachment fifty miles wide. From the information we managed to glean beforehand of Napoleonic-looking horseguards. it seemed that transport was going to prove difficult, and a succession of long hikes in great heat an~ .over the sort of countryside we visu~ised, We left Nuoro and made for Porto Conte, a tiny village on the did not seem a very prom1smg answer to the problem. Accordingly, shores of a large bay near Alghero. Although our camp-site here, we decided to limit our activities to the Northern part of the island and strategically situated in a pine wood with a grape plantation on one flank to use the Land Rover to transport such equipment as tents and cooking and the sea on the other, seemed at first sight idyllic, we found that we utensils. had for company once again sea-urchins and thunderstorms-Sea-urchins are malevolent vegetables growing on the sea bed, bristling with brittle On arriving at Porta Torres we made straight for Nuoro, an inland red spikes, which embed themselves in unwary feet and prove very diffi­ town situated near an inviting lake. This lake was marked quite clearly cult to extract. However, we spent three lazy days at Porto Conte on the map, but when we got there all we could find was a rather in­ bathing in the blue Mediterranean and feeding royally on the produce significant reservoir in which it was prohibited even to swim. At once of the left flank, and would have left the spot favourably impressed if it we came up against the language problem, and even conveying the fact had not been for one event which tended to drown the recollection of that we wanted milk in our coffee provided an entertaining exercise of anything that happened before. On the last evening there, two of the ingenuity. On being shown .a .drawing of a cow, which, by virtue of its three sections decided to pack up their tents while they were dry and clearly discernable charactenstlcs, was UDffilstakably a cow, one enter­ not yet dampened by the dew, as the next day we were to start on our prising Sardinian promptly turned it upside down and was mystified journey home and should not need them again. Our oracle, an ex­ when he could not understand what it was. perienced weather prophet, issued a weighty and well-considered state­ was a fifty-fifty chance that it would not rain. So the two We remained a few days at Nuoro, recuperating from our jo~ey ment: there their tents, and, with a magnificent gesture of to the weather, then set off .on f?o~ m an sections took down and becoming acclimatised a.m. it started adventurous spirit for a village near the East coast, Dorgali. This JOurney abandon, entrusted themselves to the elements. At 3.15 spurred on by past experiences, we made a bee-line for a di~couraged most of us from further hiking to rain, and, took a day and a half and symmetrically onto the ambitions. The sun was extremely hot, the country was rough­ neighbouring boat-house, and were just packed available floor space when the storm broke over our heads. Unfortu­ alternating between stifling rocky ~lains, desert-like regions scarred by nately, there were some large holes in the roof and we-Some of us­ we spent th~ whole dried-up river beds, a~d deep ~ding valle:ys-:-and next morning when, with spirits up our JOUrney sqwrmmg ever deeper mto the got very wet. Consolation came the of the night which spht sight of our beautiful crackling fires, we uncomfortable niches of a cliff-face, or contracting into an ever smaller already in the ascendant at the reason for these saw three bedraggled creatures appear from the tent of the third section, surface area under crudely constructed bivouacs. The they had passed a very behind a neighbouring who, with glee, had predicted disaster for us; painful contortions was a thunderstorm raging their tent, bailing it out. These loosed an occasional cloud upon us, just as a energetic night under the protection of mountain range which things are funny in retrospect ! reminder that the magnificent spectacle before us was not merely thunder and lightning, but quite capable of breaking over the mountain to~ to The most striking feature of the island was the inhabitants them­ swamp us, too. It didn't, and late the ne~t afternoon we plodded mto selves. Wherever we went we were welcomed with the greatest Dorgali, an isolated village sprawled on a h1gh plateau under the shadow enthusiasm and with a generosity that few of us had experienced at any of a towering mountain; from there we were transported by Land Rover other time in our lives. They are a completely care-free and light-hearted through a tunnel to Cala ~on~ne, an even smaller villag~ on t~ sea­ race; time or urgency are words that just do not seem to exist in their shore. In spite of its ·beWitching name, Cala Gonone did not rmpress life or language. They would ask us to join them for a drink on the us over-much, and was remarkable only for its sea-urchins, its slightest acquaintance and were likely to misunderstand us and take hard ground and the reputation which attached to Billy Sum overnight, offence if we showed any trace of hesitation or unwillingness. As a re­ so to speak. The latter was gain~d one evenin~ when Billy, in a happy sult, the one time we did meet with any "nasty characters" we were mood, having lost the steps leading up the chff to the road from the properly had, and that was at the fair during the festival in Nuoro. A beach, began, acco~ding to reliable. village eye-witness accounts, t<;> walk friendly type, lounging against a rifle range, saw a group of us pass by up the cliff-face With an extraordinary ease. ~at the true Circum­ and invited us to have a go. Accustomed by now to honesty and friendli­ stances were remains something of a mystery, and the last person to be ness from the locals, we accepted the invitation, and, egged on by him able to enlighten us on the subject is Billy Sum. and also by a noisy crowd which had quickly gathered, proceeded in turn 62 68 to smash every shell and pop every balloon in s1ght, finishing with a THE VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS SCHEME magnificent salvo from Clive Martin, who shot along a row of about Habitual readers of the ''Sunday Times" will have noticed, during the last twenty balloons and popped every one. This feat was hailed by the eighteen months, the number of letters and articles that have appeared in that crowd with a great cheer, but then a sudden stabbing doubt prompted paper concerning the Voluntary Service Overseas Scheme. It was the Bishop of with a rather forced casualness how much we were going Borneo, together with the Bishop of Portsmouth and Alec Dickson, Esq., of someone to ask the Royal Commonwealth Society, who first had the idea that "students" who to have to pay. At the answer of two thousand lira-about twenty-five were not eligible for National Service, and who were having to wait for a year shillings in English currency, the atmosphere changed instantaneously, (or in some cases two) before going up to University, could give a far more and there were angry boos from the crowd. Rather deflated, and unable valuable type of " service" both to others, and to themselves, by working on to do much about it, we paid just over half this monstrous sum to an projects in the more remote parts of the Commonwealth. The "Year Between Scheme," as it was first called, was soon " under way.'' After the inevitable evil-looking woman leering over the barrier in triumph, and then marched struggle to find money to fi nance the Scheme, and the necessary Interviewing off with some show of resolution, hoping that our solidarity would dis­ Committees, in September and October of 1958, ten Volunteers were sent to courage pursuit. It did, but I cannot help feeling that there are two Sarawak and four to West Africa. I shall confine this article to how I know any rate who now boast that they have given the Lion's the Scheme has affected Sarawak. One fact of interest to King's boys is that Sardinians at of the Sarawak contingent; there are, besides myself, two other ex-Woodard tail a good twist at least once in their life. School volunteers. In Sarawak, three are teaching in Mission Schools situated In conclusion, we should like to thank Mr. Pytches on behalf of in small towns in the " ulu" (the Schools are both Sea-Dayak Schools, though put into the preparation of there are a fair number of Malays and Chinese), two are working under an the Rover Crew for the time and energy he Anglican Priest who is running a joint Government-Mission Community Develop­ the camp, for without him it would never have happened, and also to ment Centre, four are working in Government Co=unity Development Projects Mr. Hartley, who twice shepherded us so efficiently across the Continent (these exist to help the more backward people to better their own conditions without letting anyone get lost, which was quite a feat. with the materials that are to hand), and I am working as the Bishop's Personal Secretary (really a sort of A. D. C.) . The Community Development Schemes are E.J.L. all situated in the jungle o ne or two days' journey up-river from the nearest town. Some people will question the value of such a Scheme, but, after nearly a year in action, the doubts as to whether relatively untrained (i.e., non-specialist) 19-year-olds could do anything of lasting value in such a short time as a year or eighteen months have been completely cleared away. Until Sarawak can produce sufficient teachers with a good enough education to teach Junior Secon­ dary Classes, there is bound to be a critical need for such teachers, and, from the Government's and the Mission's point of view, the fresh enthusiasm which is present in anyone who has just left school is of great benefit. In the Com­ munity Development Projects much can be done to relieve the senior staff from a good deal of routine supervision. Another benefit is the contact that has been possible with the youth of the country, who are far more likely to respond to people of their own age than to men of forty. And, of course, the value to the 0 20 Volunteers themselves is immeasurable. The experience of living in a tropical, ENGLISH MtLEs multi-racial, multi-lingual society, which in Sarawak is made up of such friendly, likeable people, the experience of having definite responsibilities and the feeling that one is really doing something worthwhile--these, amongst other things, have resulted in many of us intending to return to Sarawak after we have had our training in England, and further experience, to work either in Government Service or for the Mission. The work I have been doing has been different to that done by the others. SARDINIA It has been a wonderful privilege to work for such a great man as the Bishop, who himself works so hard (he is "on the go" from 5.30 a .m . often till after 11 p.m.) and yet always keeps his lively sense of humour. Besides the office (j work and all the other Kuching activities, I have been lucky to have travelled to many parts of Borneo. The Diocese includes the State of Brunei and the Colony of North Borneo, in addition to the Colony of Sarawak. We have travelled in Dakotas, Twin Pioneers and little Rapides, Government and Ch4lese la~ches, canoes propelled by outboard engines (these, when the rivers are low, have to be hauled up the many rapids and shallows), cars and Land Rovers; we have in one parish used cycles; and we have walked-these are the means of travel which the Bishop has to use in order to visit his widely-scattered flock. In England one would find it hard to believe that it is almost impossible to average more than 2! miles an hour when walking in the jungle. Let any doubters come and try and see how quickly then can walk along batang (slippery tree trunks laid haphazardly across the jungle swamp) or climb up and down the narrow, slippery, muddy hill paths. During early May I had a week's holiday, and, together with three Vlth Formers from St. Thomas's School (one 21-year­ old Sea-Dayak and two 18-year-old Chinese) walked to Simanggang (the main town in the Second Division) from the end of the road which is being built from Kuching to Simanggang. We must have covered over 75 miles in 4! days, one day walking for 91 hours, and during that time I lost 8lbs. in weight I This was a chance for me to see the Dayaks in their normal living conditions. That is

64 65 an ad vantage that the " ulu" volunteers have bad . Though always wonderfully But what is the greater t ask ? hospitable, as indeed they w ere on this occasion , as one may expect , w hen the Take the c up, d rink of it, you say. Bishop stays the night at a longhouse. the people give him an especially big But that is not a worthier thing to do do th an to be what I am and to perish , party with plenty of d ancing, talking. t uak (very potent rice beer) a nd often I suppose. bottles of T ennants Beer, brewed i n Scotland ! There is little contact between Everything is fi nished. the urban and the " ulu " people, and, in fact , when we ret urned to K ucbin g Nought mult iplied by fi ve, by twenty-fi ve, by fi.ft y-twenty, is nought; after our " walk," the capital of Sarawak was so starved of news that we were By in fi nity, is nought . given an interview on R adio Sarawak and with the " Sarawak Tribune," the No matter how strong my e ndeavour, purpose in life has gone; impression b eing that anyone who was mad enough to walk long distances in I am as nothing. the j ungle, unless it was absolutely necessary, would be worth interviewing. But i t has gone only because it h as lost t he necessary context , as the children . I could w rite pages a bout the different interesting experiences that I have This act of pride and vanity which you suggest , been so lucky to have enjoyed a nd the many friends I have made as a result This supernatural transfixm ent , selfis h betrayal of honour, of this " Year Between Scheme." The Chinese New Year Celebrations (the What can it do ? towns are predominantly Chinese, who now are more numerous than the Sea­ For a time it may give pleasure and satisfy conceit to s uffer f or a time. Dayaks, who used to be the majority group), the M alay Hari Raya Celebra­ But if man i s to be man again he must never a bandon that manhood b ecause tions, the v isit of the Duke o f Edinburgh and the Diocesan S ynod and Council the coeffi cient has been l ost, are but a few of the e vents that have taken place. But, above all, the most For with patience, true humility unto death, faith, charity and love, it may valuable e xperience has been that of seeing the Missionary Church in action again be found. in a country where only 5% of the population are Christians of any denomina­ J .R.W. tion. The tremendous growth and progress of the Church in Borneo gives one some inkling of what it must h ave meant to have been a Christian in the days of THE CAPTAIN St. Paul. It is the work of the Church in Borneo to free the " ulu" people from On the fourteenth of May, 1940, Commander James Vone joined our ship's fear of the spirits and the better educated urban p eople from empty materialism, company . H e w as a stern-looking man , a nd many a n ervous whisper was and for that great t ask resources are so limited that opport unities are some­ exchanged among the men as he w as piped aboard. times missed . Men and women willing and able to serve Our Lord in the H .M.S. Brobell was a strong cruiser of the line and was in dire need of a Mission Field, prayer with which to support them, and, until the Church in man of Captain Vane's obvious abilities , but somehow we were sad to see Billy Borneo can be self-supporting, money with which to finance their work-these Craw hand over the command. As soon as the e xchange ceremony was over, are all urgently needed from England, and much is done through the S.P .G. Captain Vane went straight to his cabin, but he could h ardly have had time to and the Borneo Mission Association. unpack b efore he called an offi cers' meeting. In conclusion, I can assure anybody who feels attracted towards joining We had already been presented to him on deck and he greeted us all by the Voluntary Service Overseas Scheme, that, if be is successful in being selected, name and rank as we filed into his reception cabin. he will have very few (if any) regrets, and he will have much for which to be First Officer Brody; Lieutenant Somes; Third Officer Bramer-ah I Bramer, profoundly grateful. the stores aboard ?-good !" And so it went on. H e remembered us all first J. Y. CROWE. time and we became aware of his incredible efficiency. 24th June, 1959. H e bade us sit down , a nd we did so with our eyes riveted on his granite face. For a full minute he stood surveying us, his hands thrust deep into his jacket pockets, and we felt his eyes boring through us as he formed his first RUINS impressions. Ours were already formed. I could see that as I glanced around The tempter said are you satisfied with life me. To live purposeless; "Bones" Brody and Somes w ere sitting together as always, and they looked To speak petty conversation and excuses impressed with the new commander . There were ten of us altogether in the In this ridiculous perverted irrelevant place, cabin, and all to a m an had their eyes glued on the fierce disciplinarian in front Drowning with the others in the tidal sludge ? of them . Do not abide the inconclusive dullness of sleeping and eating and meals; Captain Vone was tall and distinct ive with broad, square shoulders. His Assume a greater task. head seemed inordinately large and it was only after some study that I realised Smothering foliage of Summer leaves, he does not want you that it was the strength of his facial f eatures that gave that appearance. His It is not romance, his desire. face was powerful, with deep-set , gimlet eyes which bored one through. His Bare trees, harsh cold of Winter for him; nose was large and pointed , but neither Roman or J ewish. It was a well-shaped Bitterness and galling poverty. nose, deepening the e yes, and dividing into t wo dark, black lines above them . Take fride in anguish and in suffering ! His left eyebrow seemed to be raised permanently just a little, giving him a I shal wound you and transfix you. suspicious look. Certainly there were more cr eases above that eyebrow. Come then, take the cup, drink of it. High cheek-bones m ade the full face appear drawn , but accentuated the classic lines of his semi-profile. The mouth rather surprised one by its full­ Much of what you -say is true, I replied, ness, and it was fixed in a t wisted p osition, the right corner b eing turned up Though you tempt me too obviously. in an eternal cynical smile; but the Captain was no cynic. In fact, he detested I was in a hotel the other day anything that was not wholesome. His face was dark and evil, but, when he And I watched a group of men by the window in the first-floor restaurant, spoke, we knew that his face told nothing of his character. The only expressions Eating anxiously, painfully, they looked like clamouring seagulls half-way down that passed across his face were the slight raising of his right eyebrow and the the cliff. twist to his mouth. When he spoke, he seemed both earnest and preoccupied I watched the children looking at the gravy spots on the waiter's overalls : at the same time. Dirty brown on black. "Gentlemen," he almost whispered the word, " I am now your commander." They stand where they ought not, these children, He spoke with finality and resignation. His voice w as low and quiet, but well Tense, joyless, humbled, lost at the cross-roads of the city. controlled. He reminded m e of a famous actor who used to read Dickens at And then I watched a bus stop in the street : public performances. Please lower your head when leaving your seat. " I am now your commander," he repeated, " and, as such, I must get to They jump off with a show of vigour, know you and you must understand me. From my experience in such matters Walk, tread, dig in the ground desperately. I know you will be guessing at my past history. In order that no false impres­ It is as if we stand amid atrocious ruins, sions may be formed, as they undoubtedly would be, I will tell you all. If there Exhausted, wasted away, consumed, life gone. are any questions I am perfectly willing to answer them. 66 87 " This is my first command. It will probably be my last, for I am not a THE NIGHT WATCHMAN Naval man." We exchanged glances. and he withd rew his hands from his (after W . COWPER) pockets and put them b ehind his back. "Yes, I know, you will think me un­ orthodox. I h ave my own methods of running a ship. The night draws in as from his friendly hearth The watchman steps on to th e "My cold bare street , career has been typical : Public School and eventually Navy.'' And tramples on towards the lonely task His eyes Bickered warningly from one to another of us, but Brody ignored Which waits for him. What co the warning mforts does he leave . He stuck up his hand . That ever further fall beneath his pace "You say 'eventually Navy.' sir. What happened in between ?" The black To bring him nearer to his goal. What then eyes flashed anger momentarily at Brody. then the twtsted smile broadened­ • • not with mirth. After a pause, Captain Vo ne answered. From warmth, from happiness and family. " I spent the intervening years in-an institute." A murmur rose around Towards a night of loneliness and thought. the room, but Captain Vone raised his hand for silence. What stimulus can urge him from his home To bring him eager to his nightly watch "No," he sa.id, slowly, "I was not in-sane . . . I was in-prison ." The dark When dreary hours require eyes gleam a vigil kept ? ed and once again a murmur rose this time to an excited chatter. H e must not tempted be to slumber, Presently, Captain Vone for called "Silence !" Then h e sighed . "Now you will The part of guardian angel must be played want to know why. Well, I must t ell you. I was imprisoned for a murder­ By one whose fortitude which may be required I did not commit. Fortunately. I h ad good and powerful friends out in To warn of fire or keep his charge the free world who unharmed soon proved my innocence. But the mark was against me.'• From vagabonds and thieves. This thought alone Tactfully steering away from the subject and redeeming himself at the same Now urges him to bar the gates behind time, Brody asked, "Your Naval experience, sir, is it . .. " And venture in to start his hourly round. He steps, and from the walls " MY Naval experience is great." No undue pride had shown either in his so gaunt and tall tone or in his face. He was simply stating fact. Rings forth an answering cry. Each pace In triplicate resounds, as though there walked When the meeting was over and we had discussed all the points at issue, Two others high above the grimy lioor. the Captain got up from the table round which we had all been sitting. But no, 'tis still deserted but for one, "Gentlemen," he said, "I am a stem commander-take care. That is all." The old night watchman plodding slowly round. With that we saluted and left. Up frail steel ladders now he makes his way With raucous clang where'er a hob-nailed We spoke of that meeting for a full week afterwa boot rds and soon discovered Meets rung, his torch before that we could not fathom our strange commander. One thing we were to guide him on all quite O'er sacks and crates, whereon the sure of-we were all afraid of the Captain. We showed him more than pure dust of days respect. He never spoke to us personally Doth lie, which rest awhile till they must off as Billy had been wont, and the next To travel one meeting of the full officers' company was not until a month more stage to their abode. later. His foot, well practised to the The ship need to test was going into action. Each pace, lest rotting timber should give way We had been steaming in the Pacific and were now heading full-speed for And send the keeper crashing to his death, the coast of South America. We officers still did not know why, for Captain Now steps with care to bring its owner on Vone had disclosed nothing to us but our position and the direction in which Till, weary, he returns towards the ground we were heading, which we knew anyway, and that action was imminent. And winds his way through stacks and piles and dust We were worried. Captain Vone was an exceptional man. Ship's Com­ To reach the haven where he sits at last manders are naturally reserved-it.is their duty to reduce fraternisation among In meditation, thinking of his life, the ranks to a minimum, lest the men become softened-but the Captain evoked Of three score years which cannot be regained. a supernatural fear in us all with his impersonality. But here contentment lies, for youth has passed, When the fighting came, we were told only where to train our guns­ And old age, creeping over him so fast nothing more. We knew only that much about the battle as we could see our­ Has left a man whose satisfaction stands selves. We seemed to be steaming straight into the face of danger and Vone With thought and quiet. There chimes the hour; stood on the bridge, impassive, issuing his orders like an automaton. But I A clock he knows not where starts off the long could see, as his aide-de-camp, that there was the brain of a genius behind his Succession of loud peals, which tell the few poker face. Who lie awake, 'tis three o'clock. A beverage It was neither sheer stupidity nor he brews, to send its warmth proud bravery that made him force an Into the farthest fingers entry between the enemy ships. 1t was cunning. of his hands Positioned directly between Which, numb with cold, two enemy ships, we could fire without being fired upon. It was now grasp the steaming cup an incredible And bring it shaking to the purple lips situation and only a few men in the whole British Navy could have thought of . that plan. • • • But lo, faint It was only a fluke shot that managed to hit our bridge. streaks of light stretch out across the Eastern sky And herald in the dawn; the young chaste day Vone was not killed, but many others were, and the ship was in a bad way. Begins, whose freshness V one ordered a retreat. , undiminished still By thronging crowds and industry's loud sweat At a meeting after the battle his only words were, " We all need a refit." Displays the work of nature at her best. That evening I went to his cabin to enquire about spares for the gunnery The workman slowly wakens; man, whose sleep towers. The Captain was sitting at his desk. The twist to his mouth had Is o'er, prepares himself for toilsome day; gone. His brows were drawn together in a frown as he read from a poetry The city stirs, and starts to crash its way book which he was obviously enjoying. I was sorry I had disturbed him, but Into the solitude of a mind of peace, he said he did not mind. The Captain was a tired, lonely man-I could see For which the busy life of London's day that. He was not evil; he hated war, and he was a genius-! knew that, too, Holds no attraction. Now from reverie and I was not afraid of him any more. And reminiscence comes a mind for whom I tell you this story because I met V one not so long ago in town. He was The day is o'er. The bells chime eight, and lo teaching at a Public School. R.J.P . The old night watchman from his warehouse steps, Bound homewards to the daylight and to sleep. J .R.H. 68 69 '' Aluredian '' Crossword The Old Aluredian Club EAR O.A.s, D As the c ontents of the O.A. Section of the Aluredian grow, the the need for a letter from me decreases. There are so many new and important items in this issue, however, that I f eel it vital to c all your attention to notices concerning new branches in Bristol and South Wales, the proposals to consider the Halford-Hewitt Golf Competition and the formation of a Masonic Lodge. To these are added additions to the Year Book as well as a full account of all that has happened since the last issue. It would be fitting to associate all O.A.s with the tribute to F . Vyvyan-Robinson, which appears in this issue, and to welcome W. Long as Chairman for the next three years. Finally, may I draw your attention to the list of dates for your diary and urge you, the reader, to support the Club by attendance and active participation in some of the activities listed here. H. REES PADFIELD, Hon. Secretary (Taunton) O.A.C.

THE HOCKEY MATCH The annual Hockey match took place as arranged, on Saturday, 14th March, I9S9. at the School. The following represented the O.A.C.: G. Bowes-Cavanagh (W44) ; D. M. Gosheron (M44) ; D. Burt (Mso); R. B. L. Osborne (FSJ); D. ] . Hunt CFS4}; A. N. Other (?) ; C. R. Wilcock (M48); D. B. Gosheron (Msr); C. D. Romaine CFS3); T. R. C. Webster (M48); D. W . H. Sargeant (F48). Supported by P. H. Lippiatt (W 40}; H. INew;ell (A4r); and R. Birch (F48). The ground was in good condition and the overhead conditions were dry, so that a fast and open game was played. Both sides found it diffi­ cult to control a fast-moving ball at first, but settled down after a while. The game was closely contested, although the O.A.s always lookea on CLUES ACROSS CLUES DOWN top. However, the final score was two goals each, but the School only 1 The emperor visited King's (10) 1 Starts near the pavilion, but it's not cricket (11) scored the equalising goal in the last few minutes. The O.A.s were helped 6 Jab (4) 2 Shouted (6) to complete the XI by T. E. Trigg, of the School 2nd XI, who played 8 Abbreviation for left-wing scientists (3) 3 " Every-'s du!}' is the king's, but every-'s he should have been wearing a red shirt. 9 Look about, it is nothing to do with a fat soul is his own ' -Shakespeare (7) well enough to suggest baron (4, 5) 4 Pane (sic) in the neck ( 4) It seems appropriate to record here that another O.A., J. B. Killing­ 11 Sick (3) 5 A Northern languag-e (5) 12 Mock (4) 6 Furrowed (8) beck (Ass). brought a strong side from Bristol, consisting mainly of 13 Worth winning, but only just (6) 7 Acted (3) members of Bristol University XI and A. H. Bendle CFS4) and J. Camegie 15 This might describe a drawn game (9) 10 Another Northern language (4) (FS7) to King's on Thursday, 12th February. Unfortunately for this, the 18 Number of maids and mops (5) 14 Chaos (11) 20 This ache is not the same as a stomach pain (5) 16 Paper acts (5) pitch was very wet and soon became a quagmire, so that it became chiefly 21 Not unconnected with a stomach pain (5) 17 Posh (2, 3) a manful battle with conditions. However, all cancerned seemed to enjoy 23 Hiah class (5, 4) 19 Reaffirmed (8) the afternoon. 25 Strikingly foreign (6) 22 A material (7) 27 Blunder ( 4) 24 The start of a count (3, 3) 29 Even in verse (3) 26 He is supposed to know the !'rice of every­ WHITSUN REUNION 30 Dilated (9) thing and the value of nothing (5) 31 .. Let me have men about me that are- , 28 "- Bede " by George Eliot (4) O.A.s from 1910 down through the years to I9S8 agreed that the Shakespeare (3) 30 " The- it was that died "-Goldsmith (3) 32 Iron or system (4) Whitsun Reunion was the "best ever." Brilliant weather and a record 33 Not such a-; the masters have one (10) attendance set the scene. Thanks, in part, to the heavy rains of last Winter, the groundS-Surely one of the greater glories of King'S-were The answers will be found on page 91. at their best.

70 71 If old hands felt a little sadness that one or two of the tall trees at On the sporting side, the School made a clean sweep of the two the bottom of the fi eld were showing signs that age was beginning to cricket matches and the tennis match for the second year running. take its toll, there was compensation in that the new plantings-so dear All too soon came the time to say our farewells . Some 20 of the to the heart of the Headmaster-were already s howing a glimpse of more fortunates-plus a few really late-comers- had a convivial even­ greater glory to come. ing at The Harp. Tea u~der the trees near the Fives Court-the trad!tional opening to the reuruon-was attended by nearly roo O.A.s, and 1t was pleasing Our thanks to the Headmaster and Mrs . Unmack for all they did to see that more than the usual number were accompanied by their to make the week-end so enjoyable; to Mrs. Morgan for so cheerfully ladies. having the peace of her Sunday afternoon disturbed by the invasion of for the addi­ Hall. Fullands; to the Bursar and the Staff under his command The dinner was held for the first time in the College Dining must have meant hours record attendance tional work they so readily undertake (those teas The move proved extremely popular and there was a Taunton Secretary, upon whose the Club (F. Vyvyan­ of work); and we must not forget the of 103, presided over by the Chairman of shoulders falls the whole of the organising. Robinson). As befits a reunion, the speeches were commendably short and there The following attended the DINNER on Saturday evening:_ was plenty of time for personal gossip of days gone by. T. I. Miles (F39) , B. J. W. Large (WS4). R. J. Stoneman (MS8), "The School" was proposed by J. B. Killingbeck and the School S. W. Counsel (WS7). R. G. R. Fox (Fs6), T. G. Rant (M43), G. L. M. Captain (C. A. W. Martin) replied. The Headmaster proposed the Old Bowes-Cavanagh (W44) . D. McD. Kennelly (Ws8), H. W. Culverwell Aluredian Club and read a cable from W. D. Harry (who was on a (Azg), R. M. Crowe (A48), W. Long (A18), C. M. J. Barnes (Ws4), business tour of West Africa) and G. K. Standen, who had got together R. B. Pick (FS7). J. V. Keene (A38), B. R. Parsons (F48), B. V. H. in Lagos. Ful~erton (W46), A. R. Harrison (Ms8), J. C. Tyzack (CS8), B. P. D. Cole (W49), A. R. B. Booth (FS8), D.]. Dickinson possible to hold White (A3o), J. A. The Headmaster expressed pleasure that it had been Stamp (Fs6), A. M. K. Brown (WS8) , R. G. W. Richards be the first of many. (As6), P. M. the dinner in the School and hoped that it would (Wss), H. J. Lasham (A38), A. M. Edwards (Fs8J, M. S. Toland (Fs8), A. R. D. Rutherford responded. R. Wadland (As6), S. W. G. Clough (CS7). T. G. Wansborough (As6), Proposing "The Chairman, " C. G. Bames (General Secretary) said J. N. Newman (M43}, D. J. Haywood (MSJ), R. D. Bishop (Fs8), P. M. V-R.'s three-year term of office expired the following day. On behalf of Alderson (WS~), D. R. A. Lloyd-Edwards (CS7), B. E . P. Blyth (W4o), the Officers and Committee he presented the Chairman with a plaque .P. J. Champwn (CS7) T. M. Eaton (Msz), ] . H. B. Davie (A43), of the School crest as a small token of their appreciation of the services R. St. J. H. Stagg (WS6), C. Bulloch (FS7), G. Bulloch (FS6), C. A. he had rendered the Club. Gulliford (F23), J. F. Gilchrist (Fs8), A. N. Lane (A1g), B. W. A. In accordance with custom, O.A.s acted as servers at Sung Mass Kirby (FS8), M. J. W. Cook (FSS), B. M. Widgery (As6), C. E. Webber in the Chapel on Sunday morning. At evensong, the newly-elected (Fs6), J. E. Platt-Higgins (CS7), L. B. Tait (A46), R. A. H. Powell Chairman (Walter Long) read the first lesson . (Ass). R. J. Sheppy (Fsz), J. B. Killingbeck (Ass), K. J. Shapland (W46), D. Barningham (A14), E. S. Catchpole (Ass). ]. W. H. C. During the day the Annual General Meeting was held and a report Salvidge (M41), M. H. Bridgeman (WS3), D. S. Ashton (AS6), R. H. S. appears elsewhere in this number. The Benefit Fund Meeting was also Ashton (Azz), A. R. D. Rutherford (A4S), F. Vyvyan-Robinson (A15), held. In the afternoon there was a large gathering at Fullands for tea. T. T . Barnes (W56), C. G. Barnes (Wzz), D. ] . Hunt (F54), Monday dawned bright, and, if it was not exactly cloudless, the 0. Ak1gbogun (Ws6), ] . A . Rowe (Ass}, I. D. Primrose (WSJ), R. w. barometer was "Set Fair," and the lines which furrow the brow of the Hughes (MS7), ]. Heald (FS4), T. P. Halton (MS7), ]. W. Matthews Taunton Secretary every Whit-Monday morning had disappeared before (CS7), G. T. Kitsell (Wzg), R. Kitsell (WSJ}, ]. N. Darby (Ass), D. M. breakfast. Pinn (WS3), R. M. Alford (E23), ] . S. D. Taylor {W16), N. Tyrell The Old Brigade had a surprise when the early arrivals included Mr. (E1o), ] . D. Murray (Fs8), D. ] . Pearce (Ms8) , R. W. K. Snell (WS4) J. H. Goldsmith, who joined the staff in 1913, and, after war service, I. H. McBride (AS4), M. C. Guilmant (Ws8), C. St. J. Hartnell (FS7)' returned as Second Master in 1919. Now retired, J. H. G. showed a re­ T. O'B. Bamber (WS4), ] . Camegie (FS7). D. P . B. Tovey (A4o}, P: markable memory not only for names, but as to the careers upon which Howells (FS7), P. Aristidou (Ws8), R. W. Widgery (Aso) . boys of his years had embarked on leaving. Later in the day there was Honorary Members: H. R. Padfield, J . J. Pytches, H. K. H. King, a warm welcome for Mr. Hugh Large, who was on the staff from 1948-s6 R. D. Townsend, M. F. Jaquet, P. V. Harvey. and who did so much for the musical life of the School, as well as being Guests: The Headmaster, The Chaplain (the Revd. E. S. Reddish}, Woodard Housemaster. the Second Master (G. W. Morgan). During luncheon in Big School the Headmaster and Mrs. Untnack Headmaster's Guest: The Rt. Revd. the Lord Bishop of Crediton. were given an album of photographs and Press cuttings of the London Dinner at which their 21 years at King's was marked by the presentation As well as those attending the dinner, the following were present for of portraits of the Headmaster by Mr. William Dring. R.A. Both the some part of the Reunion : - Headmaster and Mrs. Unmack spoke of their pride in King's and of their P. E. Fowles (CS7), J. G. Watson (Ws8), N.]. Giles (AS1), M. G. joy at the ever-increasing number of Old Aluredians who come back at Bissell (As8), D. ]. E . Curry (Fs6), ]. W. C. Copleston (MS8), R. Whitsuntide. Clutsom (CSJ), R. F. H. Trevett (WS4), M. C. Trott (CS7), R. C. C. '12 73 James (Wss), P. L. Davie (A45), ]. C. Samson (M44), C. I. Bamard OFFICERS & COMMITTEE : The following officers and committee were re­ (C56), D. M. Gibbins (AS8), R. H. Kimberlin (Ms8), S. G. Nurse (A54), elected : ] . M. L. Holland (C57), D. Wilkinson (M55) , D. A. Cheale (A54), R. W. General Secretary : C . G. Barnes--Proposed by W. Long. seconded by W . Ball (W46), R. N. Deane (C57) , K. W. Crocker (M54), R. G. Harden Vaux. (Asr),]. Hunter-Watts (Asr), A. H. Bendle (F54) , ]. S. Harper (Fsr), Taunton Secretary : H . R. Pad fie ld- Proposed by C. G. Barnes, seconded J. H . Goldsmith, Esq. (Second Master, I9I3-1919), D. H. Morgan (W54) . by F . Vyvyan-Robinson. Apologies for absence and greetings were received from : P . Treasurer: W. D. Harry-Proposed b y R. H. S. Ashton, seconded by L . B. G. Tait. Bligh (F38), R. N. Deane (C58) , ]. B. C. Brown (M56) , ] . M. C. Committee : Messrs. Rutherford, Stott, Miles and Eaton were re-elected­ Kimmins (Wsr), G. W. Winsor (A4r), A. G. Whitehead (C57) , ]. E. Proposed by F . Vyvyan-Robinson, seconded by C. A. Gulliford. Heal (WSs), H. E . G. Mumford (Aro), D. H. Burston (Wss), R . L. H . ] . Hann was elected to fill the v acancy caused by the resignation of Stewart (Er8), A. S. G. Watson (W35), P. G. Pharaoh (C53), E. R. ]. M. Coombs-Proposed by]. V. K eene, seconded by H. R. Padfield. Urquhart (C58), C. D. Bellamy (Ms6), D. H. Jordan (M47), A vote of thanks to J. M. Coombs for his services to the Club during the C. S. Gamble (F52), R. James (Wss), M. B. Price (Er4), F. G. H. Ewens past four years was carried unanimously. (Wr8), ]. Weeks (A53), P. L. Chubb (Mss) . D. R. Luke (Mss), the Revd. Auditor: J. V. Keene was re-appointed auditor-Proposed by D . Earning­ C. E. B. Neate (A26), D. M. Clubb (F57), J?. . R. Bellamy (M55), .J. ham. seconded by H . ]. Lasham. Skinner (M37), T. H. Brigham (W42), P . L. S1de (F57), P. E. G. Sm1th LONDON DINNER : It was agreed that, at London Dinners, dress would be : (2o's), I. R. Chudley (F57), D. B. Gosheron (Msr), A. E. James (Er7), "Dinner jackets or Lounge suits.'' the Revd. N. W. Scott (A23). GOLF : The Taunton Secretary said he had received a letter suggesting con­ sideration of the Club entering a team for the Halford-Hewitt Golf Competi­ The following represented the O.A.C. against the School rst XI:_­ tion. ].C. Samson (Captain), R. Wadland, R. ]. Stoneman, N. _G1les, P. It was agreed to support the idea if an organiser was forthcoming Champion, M. Trott, B. Greatorex, D. G. Burt, L. B. Ta1t, T. T. . NAME & TIE : F. Vyvyan-Robinson said that, without wishing to move any Bames and 0. Akigbogun. resolution, he would like to invite the attention of the Committee to changing The following represented the O.A.C. agai?st the School 2nd XI:- the "Club" part of the title; and also to a new design for the tie. C. Bulloch (Captain), D.]. Curry, M. B1ssell, R. Trevett, D. ] . Hunt, The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. G. Bulloch, R. M. Crowe, ] . A. Carnegie, C. St. J. Hartnell and R. B. Pick. OXFORD DINNER The following represented th_e O.A.C. ag;:inst the School Tennis VI:­ The annual Oxford Dinner was held this year on Friday, 8th May, J. B. Killingbeck (Captam), I. McBnde, D. Cheale, D. S. Ashton, in New College, and afterwards in C. Reis' room in Jesus College. The M. S. Toland and E. S. Catchpole. guests were the Headmaster, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Townsend. O.A.s resident at the University present were: D. S. Ashton, E. E. Boehm, T. P. Brennand, H. H. Chaun, T. G. Jefford, A. M. Monro, C. Reis, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING B. D. Short, C. J. Soo, T. P. Wansbrough, A. N. A. Ward, HE 49th Annual General Meeting of the Old Aluredian Club w_as J. C. Y. Watt. Other O.A.s present were: T. M. Eaton, C. Bulloch, T held at King's College on Whit-Sunday, 17th May, 1959, the Chair­ G. Bulloch, N. Ngan and P. L. Side. As is customary at the Oxford man (Mr. F. Vyvyan-Robinson) presiding. O.A. Dinners, there were no formal speeches, but the Headmaster ex­ pressed the warm thanks of the guests and said how great was their MINUTES : The minutes of the 48th Annual General Meeting, held on 25th May, 1958, were confirmed. pleasure at such generous entertainment. ANNUAL REPORT: The Committee's report for the year ended 31st Decem­ ber, 1958 (as printed in the Year Book), was adopted. NEWS ITEMS Proposer : The General Secretary. Seconder : D .. P. B. Tovey. L. W. Reed (W47) keeps in close touch with M. H. D. Milne (W47) and FINANCE : A. R. D . Rutherford proposed the adoption of th!l accounts (~ B. W. Ball (W46) and has now settled down at IS Mayfield Avenue, published in the Year Book). . He said the Club had IJ:!-":de mvestments .m Kenton, Middlesex. British Motor Co. Ordin~ Shares and in the North Bnttsh and M~rcantile Assurance Co. Ordinary Shares. It was proposed t<;> assent to the taking over R. B . Cheetham (M55) has now completed two years in British South of the North British and Mercantile by the Commerctal Assurance Co. Ltd. Both Africa Police and expects to return to England in rg6o. He has met investments were showing a. capital appreciation. Sgt. R. f. Pagett (F48), f. M. Hughson (A56), f. Michael (Mss) and The proposal was seconded by R. H. S. Ashton and carried. A. A. Preston (Msr). 0-IAIRMAN, 1959-62: F. Vyvyan-Robinson vacated the Chair on completion of his three-year term of office. Major P. Bligh has been seconded to the 17th Gurkha Division and is now stationed at Seremban, Waiter Long was unanimously elected Chairman for 1959-62, on the pro­ Malaya. posal of T. I. Miles, seconded by T. M. Eaton. D. L. Harris (A42) has w.ritten to say that his present address is: Mr. Long took the Chair and thanked the members for the honour the~ had cf o Shawinigan Engineering Co. Ltd., Montreal, Quebec. paid him. He also expressed the thanks of the Cl.ub to Mr. Vyvyan-Robmson for the work he ha.d done as Chairman, and, in earlier years, as Secre~. Me':ll­ F. G. Bendell (Msr), we hear, is still with National Cash Register Ltd., bers were fortunate in that he would continue to serve the Club m financtal but has moved from Bombay to Singapore and will be there for two matters and in a professional capacity. years. B. D. Short (F53). who is general factotum of the O.A.s at Oxford, R. F . L. C asserley (A48) is teaching French at Eaglebrook School, Deer­ writes of successfully seeking small parts in Covent Garden Opera Co. fie ld , Massachusetts, U.S.A., which is a boarding school for boys aged performances at Oxford and of the great interest to be found back­ 10 to 15 years of age. The school has excellent facilities for ski-ing, stage in opera. He has recently been awarded a B ritish Council but a compensatmg low Winter temperature. Studentship. G. L. H. Hughes (M56) _passed out top of his recruit intake and not, E . Fugler (M58) has been in training at Netheravon with the R.A.F . unnaturally, was a.f>plymg for a commission. He played hockey for the Police. By the time this appears, however, he expects to have com­ Battalwn when statwned in Northern Ireland with the Royal Warwick­ pleted his course successfully, after which he will almost certainly be shire Regiment. sent abroad. The Rev. C. ~- B . Nea~e (Az6) is now Vicar of St. Stephen, Bourne­ e. L . Breeze (A54) has written from 59 St. Catherine's, Lincoln. mouth, havmg relmqmshed the Chaplaincy of Radley Colleg he D. f. Starling (C58) has enjoyed his first term at Britannia Royal Naval R. G. Ward (W44) writes from Charlotte Street, Dumbarton, where College, Dartmouth, and played hockey for them against the School in has been engaged on shipyard reconstruction. He was then transferred as assistant manager on fitting out ''The Maid of Kent, '' the new car March, 1959. ferry for the Dover to France service. H . C. Fall (F55) holds an Industrial Exhibition at the National College of Rubber Technology and now holds at least two diplomas in the M. C. Saunders (W42) . Congratulations on the birth of a son on Sunday 21st December, 1958. ' study of plastics. f. B. Thorne (A49) has qualified as an Engineer and Architect and com­ A. P. Bhagat (M51) . We congratulate A. P. Bhagat on the occasion of bines Private Practice with lecturing in Architecture at the Birming­ his ~arriage to Mis Neela Ray on Sunday, 22nd February, 1959. The place m Calcutta. ham College of Architecture. marnage took E. L. Crabb (A41) has now served thirteen years in the British South G. A. Scott (A51) was married to Miss Monica Rosemary Follett at Brood­ Africa Police, mostly in remote stations with responsibility for large water Church, Worthing, on Saturday, 18th October, 1958. D. E . territories. A few years ago, however, he became editor of the two Follett (M43) and T. G. Rant (M43) were ushers. We offer belated police magazines. Crabb has an eight-year-old daughter and a six­ but warm felicitations. year-old son. R . T. E . Sawklll (F4o), also of B.S.A. Police, is by E. E.J!. _Easton _ (MS~) gives his present address as: c/ o The Department this time a near neighbour in a suburb of Salisbury. of Mmmg Engme~n~g. McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., where he is D. P. Fulks (F49). We congratulate Fulks (i) on the birth of a daughter at presen~ a quahfymg student. He caught sight of A. Baxby (F48) in January, 1959. He gives an address at Orchard Flat, Blants Court, on a bus m Montreal, but was unable to make contact. Sonning Common, Reading. A. N. Dando_ (M54) w~s promoted_to Sub-Lieutenant, R.N., in January, A. R . B. Booth (F58) has now been for some months at an R.A.F . Fly­ 1959, C1f1d IS servmg m H.!d.S. Tiger. He expects to be in the Mediterr­ ing Training School after completion of his period at the Initial Training ~nean m November. His br<;>ther, R. G. Dando (M51), is flourishing m the Merchant Navy and Wlll soon return to England to sit for his School, Cirencester. Master's Ticket. R. f. A. Aubrey-Cound (M49) is now serving as a R.A.F. pilot on a twelve-year engagement and was seeking a permanent commission. T. O'B. Bamber (W54) informs us that his brother, R . E. Bamber (W51) Having been to Canada and being isolated in Anglesey, he has been was married in July last. prevented from keeping close contact since leaving the R.M.A., Sand­ G. P. Bennet~ (M31) was transferred from Associate Membership hurst. to Membership of the I~stitution of Mining and Metallurgy in April, A . Ward (W54) was applying for an appointment with the Colonial Office 19.5~· and has bee~ Assistant Group Production Engineer to a large in the Overseas Administration Service on completion of his final year ~nmg firm at their Anglo-Transvaal · Head Office in Johannesburg at Oxford in June of this year. smce February, 1957. · in June (M43) returned to England after 10 years in the Middle P. H. Downs (A49) joined the Northern Rhodesia Police Force f. N. Newman duty in Nyasaland during the emergency. ' East with the Iraq Petroleum Company. He is now working in the 1957, and saw London office , but writes from Morocco House, 197 Worting Road, f . _A . G_ole .CW49) completed a tour in West Africa and returned on leave Basingstoke. JUSt m time for the Whitsun Reunion. Immediately prior to this he spent three weeks at the Man o' War Boy Training Centre Victoria R. Side (F53), we hear, rumoured, was married early in the year, but S. Cameroons, which is a similar venture to The Outwa~d Bound no details are available. Schools. H~ is. still in the Geological Survey Department, Kaduna P. A. Thyer (A 57) is proposing to enter a University to read chemistry South, N. Nigena. in October, 1959. He has completed his National Service with the T. q. Freeman (MSS) announc~d his marr~age to Miss Evelyn Andree Royal Corps of Signals in Malta. Tietze on Saturday, 25th Apnl, 1959. His address is not known but S. R. A. Hill (W56) was applying for a National Service commission he could probably be found: c/ o 333 East Forty Third Street, 'New early in the year. He was then stationed at Catterick. York 17.

78 77 P. M. K . Morris (M44) was mentioned in the " Church Times" as a m em­ ber of the Staft of St. David 's College , Lampeter. A. G. B . R owe (As6) is making plans to go to London from Chagford shortly, a move he does n ot welcome except as an opportunity to commence his training a t the University (King's College) with a view to ordination. B. R . P. Hawken (E13) writes from Florida that he hopes to be over in England next year and is looking forward eagerly to paying King's a VlSlt. K. Pearn (F43) was selected a m ember of the team to represent Great Britain at the world underwater spear fishing championship at Malta from 13th to 18th August, 19S9· He has been champion of the Looe Underwater Fishing Club for the past fi ve y ears and has caught over a ton of fish under water with hand spear and elastic-powered gun. f . W. C. Bull (F4o) is now on the staff of Unilever Ltd., and, although ~ 0' his home address is not known to us, he can be contacted: c/ o 4th "'<::: Bn., East Yorks Regt. (T .A.), Hull, E . Yorks. >. "' B. f. Lester-Smith (ASS) wrote in the early stages of his attempts to gain 0 .r:: V a commission while on National Service and we hope has now success­ (!) fully completed the road to the Officers' Training School. "'Q_ VI

G. E. Boyce (A48) has been for the past two years the General Manager L ::J of the Duke of Manchester's Estate in Kenya. His address is: 0 c Kopsirowa Estate, P.O. Box g, Hoey's Bridge, Kenya. He corre­ 0 sponds with f. W. Loe (A48), whom Boyce believes to be an Instructor I at Sandhurst. 0 t' G. Goddard (M37) . Contemporaries will wish to know that G. "'::J Goldschrnidt (M37) changed his name during the war years and has \..') (!) recently written from g6 Holders Hill Road, London, N.W + .r:: +-' P. A. Webber (AS8) writes from California, where he combines helping OD c his father to run a sizeable Motel Unit with continuation of his studies +-' V at the University of California. His new address is included under (!) ~ Year Book Additions. c

OD f. N. Darby (Ass) has passed the first professional examination of the c Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He has completed his Articles t' and is now continuing his training with his father's firm . I"' D. H . Jordan (M47) announces the birth of a son on 19th July, 1959; '0 0 destined for Meynell House, circa 1972? _j D. Braund (Msz) has been home on leave from Uganda, where he is serving in the Colonial Police after a period of training at Hendon and Kampala. He can be contacted: c / o 14 Fullands Avenue, Taunton. ]. B. C. Brown (MS6) has completed his stay at Cambridge and is to take up a research post at Birmingham University, where he will pre­ pare a thesis for a Ph.D. He went with the Cambridge Hopping Mission in Kent for three weeks prior to taking up his appointment . . Mitra (CS7) has been admitted to the London School of Economics October, rgsg. where he will read Law. James (C54), who has been reading Geology at Durham University, as graduated with an Honours Degree ~d has taken up an appoint­ ment in Mrica with the Anglo-Arnerican Corporation of South Mrica. He recently became engaged to Miss Marjorie Anderson, of Newcastle.

78 P. A. Day (F44) has recently been appointed administrator of Tristan da Cunha. For the past fiv e years he has been a D.O. in Tanganyika. ]. C. Spear (M 51) was recently married to Miss ] oan Humphreys, of Meiford, Montgomeryshire. They are now living m Taunton. R . 0. Davis (W52) has been training with the Crittall Manufacturing Company for an overseas executive position. He commences his first tour in the New Year, probably in Singapore and Malaya. S. f . Walker (W47) was at King's for a few hours on the day of the Annual Inspection and was full of news of his life in Canada and the opportunities out there. T. f . Bellers (Wso) was married at Kluang, Johore, in July. He can be contacted by writing to: Captain T. ] . Bellers, rf6th Q.E.O. Gurkha Rifles, Kluang, ] ohore, Malaya. M. B . Price (Er4) joins the growing numbers of O.A.s with sons at King's. His son is now in Bishop Fox House and was awarded an O.A. Scholarship. R . fames (W55) was married in August, rgs8, and is now a proud father. He combines teaching at his old Prep. School in Stock­ bridge with singing in Winchester Cathedral Choir, where he has also met P. E. Kingman (A57) and A. Fry (F54). He also met A. R . Symes (M52) at a local Young Farmers' Club, D. Burston (W56), who intends to proceed to Mirfield to prepare for Holy Orders, and D. Brooks (Fsr). G. L. H. Hughes (M56) passed W.O.S.B. in April, and, no doubt, by this time is commissioned. He served under D. E . Royle (C55) for a short while. R . H . Kimberlin (M58) has succeeded in gaining a place at Southampton University. ]. H . Walsham (C54) visited King's in the Summer Term, accompanied by his fiancee, immediately prior to sailing for Brazil. H. ] . Broucher (Fsr) paid a short visit to King's with his wife on their way through Taunton. He is a specialist in computers for E.M.I. Ltd. M. N. Phillips (ASI) was made deacon by the Lord Bishop of Leicester in his Cathedral Church on Sunday, 2oth September, 1959, to serve in the parish of Saint Luke, Stocking Farm, Leicester. His address is : cf o St Luke's Parsonage, Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, Leicester. G. E. Parmenter (A55) is working in the Electronic Computer Division of a firm at Boreham Wood, Middlesex. ]. H. B. Davie (A43) returned to Nyasaland in August. During his leave he managed to attend several first Wednesday of the month meet­ ings in London as well as the Whitsun Reunion. He hopes to be back for Whitsun, 1963. The Rev . .C. L. Pricw (31) is Chaplain at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. G. H. Ames (W2o). Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. AiDes on the birth of a son. He looks forward to joining the ranks of O.A.s with a son at King's; and to Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Rigg (A35) on the birth of a daughter. R. W adland (A 56) was married to Miss Carol Edsall on 12th Septem­ ber·, 1959, at the Parish Church, Wisborough Green, Sussex. Their address is: 42 Woodland Gardens, London, N.~o .

79 R. G. P. Claydon (W44) writes from Kenya to say he will be in England SOUTH WALES next year and hopes to attend Bristol University on a thr~e-yea r degree course. Claydon has been working in the Kenya Vetennary Depart­ While we have a substantial number of members in South Wales, ment. there are probably more Old Boys of King's in that area who are not members of the Old Aluredian Club than in any other part of C. M. J. Barnes (W 54) has been posted t ~ the . Schoo.l o~ Infantry at the country. Warrninster, Wilts, as an instructor. Dunng his semce ill Cyprus he During the coming Winter an effort is to be made played for the Army side in inter-Services hockey matches. His younger to resuscitate the South Wales Branch-based on Cardiff-which was once the strongest brother, T. T. Barnes (WS6) finished his Army service last month pillar of the Club. All members will be hearing from G. T. KITSELL, and is with J. S. Fry & Sons Ltd. a t K eynsham. He has pla~ed rugby Martyr Worthy, Peterson-super-Ely, Cardiff, who has for B.A.O.R. and represented his Battalion at rugby, c ncket taken on and the secretarial work during the exploratory period. hockey. If you know of any Old Boy living in South Wales who is not at A. G. F. Rippon (M4o) . The month of October gave Geoffrey Rippon a present a member of the Old Aluredian Club, will you let Mr. Kitsell " double" to celebrate. His wife gave birth to a son and he was re­ have his name and address ? elected M.P. for Norwich South with an increased majority.

MARRIAGES HALFORD-HEWITT GOLF The Public Schools' Old Boys' Tournament for the We offer congratulations and good wishes Halford-Hewitt to the following on the Challenge Trophy is played annually at Deal. It has been suggested that occasion of their marriage : - we have sufficient golfers among our members to submit an entry. M. ]. Berryman (W53) to Miss Maura Macrae at Newport, Mon ., on Will all members interested in this project write to : C. G. BARNES, nth April, 1959. General Secretary O.A.C., 56 Bedford Avenue, Barnet, Herts.? P. R . Tozer (A ) to Miss Geraldine Ross at Windsor, on 3rd October, If you know the names and addresses of any Old Boys who are 1959· golfers-even if they are not at present members of the Old Aluredian Club-please let the General Secretary know. R. A . B. Stephenson (M47) to Miss June McCleod at Perth, on 22nd August, 1959. D. E. R. BeUamy (M55) to Miss Norma Mouritzen at Bulawayo, on 3rd October, 1959· ALUREDIAN MASONIC LODGE A. A. Preston (M51) to Miss Andree Murray at Middelburg, Transvaal, The founding of a Masonic Lodge has been under consideration for on 1st October, 1959. some time. Will all those able and willing to promote this please write to: WALTER LONG, 274 Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex? Major T. ]. Bellers (Wso) to Miss Teresa Pilarski at Kluang, Jahore State, Malaya, on 24th July, 1959.

O.A. SCOUT GUILD BRISTOL BRANCH MEETINGS The Annual Meeting of the Guild was held at Whitsun this year. The newly-formed Bristol Branch-covering Bristol and the South­ Unfortunately, the Committee, elected in 1958, had nothing to .report. West-held its first meeting on Wednesday, 7th October, at 7.30 p.m., In 1958, because of an apparent degree of support, a Committee at Hatchett Inn (off the Centre) . The branch will meet on the first was elected to run the affairs of the Guild, but they found little could Wednesday of alternate months, i.e., 2nd December, 1959, 3rd February, be done, as practical support was not forthcoming. 1960. At the meeting this year, it was agreed to wind up the affairs of A dinner has been provisionally arranged at the Hawthoms Hotel the Guild until such a time that such a project should find favour with for Thursday, 17th March, 1960. a new generation. Members living in the Bristol district will have heard of th~se The funds have been invested in Premium Bonds until they are arrangements from the Branch Secretary-J. B. KILLI~GBE~K, ~ills needed. Hall, Stoke Bishop, Bristol9-but any O.A. who finds hunself ill Bnstol It is with some sorrow that I have to declare the Guild closed. I on meeting nights will be welcome. should like to say a word of thanks to all past members who made a The Vice-President (the Headmaster), the Chairman, ~e General success of Ben Lawers, Spain, and also those who helped on the Cairn­ Secretary and the Taunton Secretary attended the first meeting of the gorm Camp. branch. TIM EATON.

80 81 MEMBERS' LIST Sanda!l, R. T. E .. P.O. Box 8124, Causeway, Southern Rhodesia. (F40) Som. (32) HE following additions and alterations have been notified since the Smith, P. E . G., Meadows, Chelston, Wellington, Spear. ] . C .. Manor Close, Staplegrove, Taunton. (M51) publication of the Year Book for 1959 :- T Standen, G. K., United Africa Co. Ltd., Niger House, Lagos, Nigeria. (F37) Aristidou, M., Troodos House, Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water , Surrey. Vincent, T. W ., 40 Alma Road, Bristol 8. (W58) Vyvyan-Robinson, F., Applegarth, Woodstock, West Clandon, Guildford. (A15) Arnall, D . M. , P .O. Box 90, Zomba, Nyasaland. (M36) Webber, P. A., Motel Town House, 1920 State Street Santa Barbara Attfteld, J. R., 56 Glenn Avenue, Purley. (A48 ) California. (A58) ' ' Baddeley, V. T., 25 Earlham Grove, Weston-super-Mare, Som. (M53) Weeks, ] .. Dud~e Hill Cottages, Gaydon Road, Bishop's Ithington, Leamington Bayne, T . N. M., 94 Waterloo Road, Southport, Lancs. (A46) Spa, Warw1ck. (A53) Bellamy. D . R., Sidgard, Sidroad, Sidmouth, Devon. (M55) White. N. ] . E., St. Helier, Hillsborough Road. Ilfracombe. Devon. (C59) Bennett, G. P., P .O. Box 77 27. Johannesburg, South Africa. (M31) Bonner, J. C .. Trenance, Hickman Road , Penarth. (A14) Bruford, R., Cobb, Dudsbury Avenue, Ferndown, Wirnborne, Dorset. (A49) Cheung, D., St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. (C57) We heard from A. G. F. Rippon, M.P., just after our last issue had Chubb, P . L ., 18 Woods Orchard Road, Tuffley, Glos. (M58) gone to the press. He was about to go to Paris at the invitation of the Clutterbuck, Rev. J. M.. The Church of the Holy Redeemer. Clerken- National Assembly, Monsieur Charbon Delmar. well, London, E .C.l. (M47) Presi~e nt of the F~ench Daunt, A., 26 Oakmount Avenue, Highfield, Southampton. (M32) Monsieur Del~ar IS President of the European Local Government Con­ Dillon-Godfray, J . T .. 17 Turpin's Chase, Oaklands, Welwyn, Herts. (W48) ference, of which Geoffrey Rippon is a Vice-President. Eamshaw, M. D., Overhill Cottage, Easton-in-Gordano, Som. (W58) He was going to visit Israel at the invitation of the Israeli Govern­ Essery, R. W . W., Wooda Mount, Warleggan, Nr. Bodmin, Cornwall. (M39) ment during the Easter recess and he very much hoped that both he and Evans, R. A., 3 New Road, Haverford West, Pembroke. (A53) Mrs. Rippon would be able to visit the country then. Facer, C. A. H ., 20 Steeles Road, London, N .W.3. (F51) Besides being Leader of the Opposition in the L.C.C., he is a Mem­ Falconer, J., Apt. 12, 2050 Claremont Avenue, Montreal, P .Q. , Canada. (16) ber of the Court of London University. He enjoys wearing academic Fulks, D . P., Orchard Flat, Blant's Court, Sonning Co=on, Reading, Berks. robes from time to time. (F49) Gamble, C. S., 26 Tythrop Park Farm, Kingsey, Nr. Aylesbury Bucks. (F52) Giles, N. E., 30 Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, Bristol 8. (A55) Goddard, L .. Lynthorpe, Battenhall Avenue, Worcester. (A ) Gregory, Capt. L. (R.N .. Retd.), The Myrtles, Wellington, Som. (00) Grigg, B. C., Watlands, Scayne's Hill, Sussex. (F46), Grigg, J. A., 3 Harley Gardens, London, S.W.10. FOR YOUR DIARY Harris, M. C., Everleigh, Elm Park Road, Pinner. (C58) 1959 Henchman, D. J. D., Savannah Rock, Wadebridge, North Cornwall. (F58) Dec. 2-Bristol Branch Meeting Heyhoe, R. J., 48 Lancaster Road, Salford 6, ~ncs. (~52) Hillier, D. J. G., cfo Education Dept., English Electric Co. Ltd., Stafford. (Hatchett Inn, 7.30 p.m.) (C56) . Dec. 4--London Dinner-House of Commons Hughes, G. L. H ., H .Q. Officers' Mess, C.O.D . Donnington, Nr. Wellmgton, Shropshire. (M56) Dec. 12--Rugby v. The School, at King's Langabeer, C. J. L., Rose Cottage, Ashcott, Bridgwater, Som. (F68) Dec. 12--Carol Service in School Ch~pel Lees, D. J. G., High View, Highland Road, Purley, Surrey. (F56) 1960 Little, J. B., 6 Broadwalk Road, Weston-super-Mare, Som. (M53) Lien, W . M., The Manor House, Northfield, Birmingham. (A55) Mar. 12--Hockey v. The School, at King's Luke, Lt. ·D. R., The Officers' Mess, 4 Regt. R .H.A., B .F.P.O. 30. (M55) (Names to D. C. C. Stott-two XI's Miles, J. G., 55 Ridgeway Road, Long Ashton, Bristol. (M51) welcomed) Mitra, J. K .. 206 Torbay Road, Rayners Lane, Middlesex. (C57), June 4/6-WHITSUN REUNION Morfey, M. H .. The Ridges, New Road, Nurton, Pottingham, Wolverhampton. (M55) (Accommodation at County Hotel Morgan, D. C., Wahroonga, 65 Southfield Avenue, Paignton, Devon. (A59) booked-names to General Secretary by Pearce, D. J., Hazeldene, 39 Grove Avenue, Yeovil, Som. (M58) February 1) Peck, Dr. R. M., Royal Edward In1irmary, Wigan, Lancs. (W35) Dec. 3-Rugby v. The School, in LONDON Phillips, The ~evd . M. N., St. Luke's Parsonage, Halifax Drive, Stocking Farm, Leicester. (A51) Preston, A. A., Beechcote, West Clandon, Surrey. (M51) Prior, Revd. C. L., Britannia R .N.C., Dartrnouth. (31) A monthly meeting is held in London on the Prior, W. H ., 38 Gillian Avenue, Aldershot, Hants. (M35) First Wednesday of the month at : The Golden Lion, Rees, A. S., 2 Manor Mead, 22 Queen's Road, Weston-super-Mare. (17) 25 King Street, S.W.l Reynolds, D. H ., Homestead Cottage, Home Farm, Sully, Barry, Glam. (A50) Ridler, P. J., M.A., Talbot House, Denstone College, Uttoxeter, Staffs. (W46)

82 83 Obituaries s.c.c. Dr. S. C. CARPENTER Nature and Grace Working in perfect harmony combined HE Reverend Dr. S. C. CARPENTER, D.D., Dean of Exeter from To fashion one 1935 to 1950, and Provost of the T Western Division of the Woodard Whose gracious dignity of mien and mind, Schools from 1935 to 1953, died at Exeter on the 19th of August, 1959 . Whose zestful scholarship and polished wit Spencer Cecil Carpenter was born on the 3rd of November, 18?7. Were used in deep humility to fit and educated at University College School, London, a~d at Gonvi!le Him for God's service. and Caius College, Cambridge. He took a second-class m the Classical Thus, as His priest, with charity immense, and a first in the Theological Tripes, and was awarded the Cams Greek Unmindful of reward or recompense, Testament Prize. He was ordained in 1902 to the curacy of St. Paul's, He tenderly discharged his cure of souls; Newington, and was later Sub-Warden of Queen's Co~l ege, Birmingham, Then, with his course completed full of years and then Vice-Principal of Westcott House, Cambndge, and Warden He creaturely accepted death, of his college mission in Battersea. In 1913 he became Fellow, tutor and Making his latest breath lecturer of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and in .1~22 was appointed His final act of glad obedience Vicar of Bolton. From 1916 to 1922 he was exammmg Chaplam to the To the Will of God. Bishop of Southwark and from 1927 to 1931 to the Bishop of Manchester. In 1930 he was made Master of the Temple, where he remained until his appointment to the Deanery of Exeter. He was Chaplain to King George V from 1929 to 1935, and Select Preacher at Oxford and Cambridge. Among his many activities, Dr. Carpenter took a close interest !n St. Luke's College, the diocesan training college at Exeter •. and ~e did much, by presiding at meetings and giving the benefit of ~1s adv1c~, to help the cause of the League of Nations and, later, the Umted Nations. The Reverend NIGEL SCOTI, O.A. Dr. Carpenter was an able ~te r~ with ~ remarkable lucidity of HE Reverend NIGEL SCOTT died suddenly in August, 1959, while style-a quality which was also distm~tlv~ of his se~ons . He was par­ T on a holiday which his doctor had ordered him to take. He was ticularly well known as a Church histon~n. an~ his books ha_d , _and the eldest of three brothers, all priests and all Old Aluredians: his brother have, a wide appeal. He was at one time editor of the penodical, Roy is a Royal Naval Chaplain, and the third, Michael, is well known " Theology." as a champion.of the African native and of other humanitarian causes. Dr. Carpenter's work in education will long be. r_emembered in the Nigel ~inbolt Scott was bot? in 1905 and entered King's as a mem­ West of England at Exeter University, at _ Tr~mmg Colleges and ber of Kmg Alfred House m 1920. He made his mark as a at Schools-particularly Woodard Schools: Kmg s College, Taunton, Rugby forward, playing for the 1st XV for four seasons. He became a and St. Clare's, Penzance. It was not only his sch~lars~~p an_d his great Sergeant in the O.T.C. and was appointed Head Prefect. He left school powers of exposition which made his influence so mspmng, It was a.lso in 1924 and went up to Wadham College, Oxford. From there he went his sincerity, humility and sanctity. N<;> one could ?e more unpresurnmg in 1926 to Chichester Theological College and was made Deacon in St. or more genuinely a friend. He was himself surpnsed at the. d~ep af!.ec­ Paul's Cathedral in 1929. He was ordained Priest, also in St. Paul's, tion which he aroused in others. He had ~ remarkable msi~ht mto in 1930. He was ~ssistant Priest at St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, human character, and if he had a weakness It was that sometrmes he and then at All Samts', Margaret Street. From 1930 to 1940 he was a was perhaps too generous in his estimate of people. very active worker with the St. Pancras House Improvement Society At King's, members of the staff greatly ~ppreciated his kind friend­ that Church-inspired movement for slum-clearance and resettlement: liness and interest in them, with never a hmt of patronage or co?-de­ founded and directed by Father Basil Jellicoe. scension. And many are the Old Boys and ~asters who received Father ~cott. was appointed Vicar of Addington in 1940; of Coates, enlightenment and inspiration from his sen_no~s m Chape~. Old B~ys Gloucestershire, m 1941; of Alcester, Worcestershire, in 1942; and of and parents too will not soon forget the dignity and graciOusness With Brompton Regis, Somerset, in 1954. He remained Vicar of this last­ which he p;esid~d at the annual p~ze-gi~ing ceremony and the S';Jbtle named parish until the time of his death. He leaves a widow. humour and dry wit which charactensed his speeches on those occasiOns. Father Scott was a powerful preacher. One person at least-and Dr. Carpenter had a reputation in ecclesiastical circles as a ~tates­ there are ce~~in~y man:y more-still retains, after more than twenty man and diplomatist, and certainly it was a good act of Pr~vidence years, the VIVId 1mpresswn made by a sermon of his delivered in the which brought him to King's in 1935. Few men. could. have guided !he ~chool Chapel when he was on a visit to King's. He was prevented by College more successfully out of the temporary d.ifficultl~s of !bat penod 1ll-he~lth from a longer career of the utmost vigour and fruitfulness for of history than Dr. Carpenter. King's will always chensh hi~ memory, the Kmgdom of God. We shall always remember him at King's as an and the existence of Carpenter House will be a constant remmder of a inspired. and inspiring priest, strong and fearless and yet full of great and devoted friend of the School. compassiOn.

84 86 Mr. EDWARD PAGE, O.A. E are extremely sorry to announce the death of Mr. Edward Page, W who was 64. Mr. Page left King's shortly before the first World War and started his own electrical business. At the outbreak of the war h e joined the R.A.S.C., with which he served until h ostilities ended. In 1923 he opened at Slough the first branch of The Sun Electrical Company in the H ome Counties. He was subsequently made manager and worked with the firm until eighteen months before his death. As a Freemason, a Slough Rotarian and a m ember of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Page was well known in local business circles. He was a keen sportsman, being especially fond of boating, shooting and cricket. Mr. Page's widow survives him; there were no children.

Colonel C. V. MOBERLY BELL T .-COL. C. V. MOBERLY BELL, O.B.E., who was a Fellow and L Divisional Bursar of the Western Division of the Woodard Cor­ poration from 1935 to 1939, di ed suddenly in London on 14th August, 1959. . Clive Vincent Moberly Bell was born in 1885 and was educated at Marlborough. He had always wanted to be in the Army, and he left school in 1902, as he was offered a commission in the Sussex Militia, and went to South Africa for the last stages of the Boer War. After the war ended he was given a commission in the Loyal North Lancashires, with which Regiment he remained throughout the rest of his military career. After the end of the Second World War he was Secretary for some years of the Army Benevolent Association. He was always an excellent Regimental officer, as he was really interested in his men and took a great deal of trouble about them. He was Divisional Bursar of the Western Division at a time of con­ siderable economic difficulty and financial anxiety. His buoyant cheer­ fulness and great sense of humour were a valuable support in those days of stress and strain. H e gave great service and was a wise administrator, thus contributing much towards putting King's on a firm and stable foundation.

86 Valete

LENT TERM, 1959 :vtORGAN. David Colin . A.Rem. (K A) Deputy Prefect 1 959, H ouse Team (Rugger, Athletics, Steeplechase, Shooting), G.C.E. '0' level 1958, Member of Music Club, Bridge Club, Motor Club, Cert. 'A,' L (Cpl., 1st Class Shot, Proficiency Badge. Address : 65 Southfield Avenue, P aignton . WHITE. Norman J ohn Eric. A.R em . (C) House Colours (Hockey) , House Team (Rugger, Steeplechase, Swimming, Athlet ics), G.C.E. '0' level 1958, Fallodon Society Committee Member, Cert. 'A,' 1st Class Shot. Address : "St . H elier," Hillsborough R oad , Ilfracombe.

SUMMER TERM, 1959 MARTIN, Clive Anthony Winston. Sc.L. VI. (M) School Captain 1958-59, H ouse Captain and School Prefect 1957-58-49, House Prefect 1958, Rugger 2nd XV 1057-58 (XLV's 1958), Swimming Side 1955-56- 57-58-59 (Captain 1959), School Athletics Team 1956-57-58-59, House Colours (Rugger, Swimming, Athletics), G.C.E. '0' level 1956 -57, 'A' level 1 959, Chairman Dancing Club and Motor Club, Committee Member Sheldon Society, Music Club, Member of Photographic Society, Rover Crew, Choral Society, History Society, Literary and Dramatic Society, Cert. 'A,' Under-Officer 1959, Marksman, Guard of Honour 1958, Proficiency Badge. Address : " Penrice,'' Hilary Road, Taunton. MARTIN, Michael Robert. Sc.L.VI. (M) Vice-Captain of School 1958-59, School Prefect 1 958, House Prefect 1957 , Rugger 1st XV 1957-58, Colours 1958, Captain of Athletics 1958-59 , Swimming Side 1955 -56-57 , Richmond Rugger Sevens 1958-59, Captain 1959 , House Colours (Rugger, Athletics, Swimming), Chapel Prefect 1958, G.C.E. '0' level 1956-57, 'A' level 1958-59, Treasurer Rover Crew, Member of Sheldon Society, Dancing Club, Modern Languages Society, History Society, Entrance to London University and St. George's Hospital, Cert. 'A,' Proficiency Badge, Under­ Officer, Marksman, Guard of Honour 1958-59. Address : Alte Braum, 167 Lomas de Zamosa, Buenos Aires. VODDEN, Trevor Hugh. Cl.U.VI. (W) House Captain and School Prefect 1958-59 , House Prefect 1958, G.C.E . '0' level 1956-57, 'A' level 1958, 'S' level 1959, Rugger 1st XV 1957-58 (Colours), Vice-Captain 1958, Richmond Sevens 1958-59, Swimming Side 1956-57 -58-59, House Colours (Rugger, Steeplechase, Swimming), Chairman Sheldon Society, Literary and Dramatic Society, Secretary Dancing Club, Member History Society, Vicar of Rover Crew, Sacristan, Cert. 'A,' C.S.M., Guard of Honour 1959, Marksman, Proficiency Badge, Entry to Selwyn College, Cambridge. Address : The Rectory, Cossington, Somerset. GULLICK, Alexander John. Sc.L .VI. (KA) House Captain, School Prefect 1958-59, House Prefect 1958, House Colours Rugger, G.C.E. '0' level 1956-57-58, 'A' level 1959, Chairman of Bridge Club, Member of Music Club, Modern Languages Society, Cert. 'A,' Sgt., 1st Class Shot. Address : 10 Abbey Road, Torquay, Devon. HATFIELD, Edwin John. Sc.L.VI. (BF) House Captain, School Prefect 1959, House Prefect 1958, Rugger 2nd XV 1957-58, Hockey 1st XI 1958-59 (Colours) , Cricket 1st XI 1958 (Colours), 1959 (Vice-Captain), Shooting Colours 1958, Captain 1958-59, House Colours (Fives, Hockey, Rugger, Cricket, Shooting), G.C.E. '0' level 1956-57, 'A' level 1959, Committee Member Sailing Club, Dancing Club, Badminton Club, Chairman Photographic Society, Member of Sheldon Society, Bridge Club, Cert. 'A,' Sgt., Marskman, Proficiency Badge, Server, Rover Crew Mate. The late Fr. Nigel Scott. O .A. [see page 85 Address : 54 Waiter Road, Swansea. WHITEHOUSE, David Anthony Edward. Sc.L .VI. (C) House Captain, School Pefect 1959, House Prefect 1958, Rugger 2nd XV 1958, Hockey 2nd XI 1959, House Colours (Rugger, Hockey, Fives), G.C.E. '0' level 1957, 'A' level1959, Treasurer Light Music Club, Member of Bridge Club, Dancing Club, Cert. 'A,' S(Sgt., Marksman, Guard of Honour 1959. Address : "Avondale,'' Peterston-super-Ely, Cardiff.

87 TWOS£, Paul Francis Worth. Cl.Rem . (M) School Prefect 1959, House Prefect 1957- 51:! . Cricket 1st XI 1956 (Colours) 1957, "-TlUNSON. Anthony J ohn. Sc.L. VI. (M) . Hon. Secretary 1958, Captain 195\l, Rugger 1st XV 1956-57-58 (Colours) . · House Prefect 1959. G.C. E . '0 ' level 1957-58, 'A' level 1959, Cha1rman of Hockey 1st XI 1959 (Colours). Somerset Colts Cricket 1958, Captain 1959. Stamp Club, Member of Photographic Society, Music Club, Chess Club, Cert. House Colours (Cricket , Hockey , Rugger , Athletics) . H ouse Teams (Tennis. 'A,' L / Sgt., 1st Class Shot, Guard of H onour 1959. Steeplechase, Swimming), Member of Motor Club, Stamp Club, Dancing Club, Address : Westminster Bank H ouse. Poole, Dorset. Music Club, Rover Crew, G.C.E. '0' level 1957 -58-59, Cert. 'A,' Cpl., Marks­ man . PERRY. J ames de Wolf. Cl.L.VI. (W) . H ouse Prefec Address : 25 Ilsham Road, Torquay, Devon. t 1959, Tennis VI (Colours), Keeper of Tenms Courts 1959, H ouse Teams (Rugger, Tennis), G.C.E . 'A' level 1959 ,_ Secretary Basketba_ll ADAM, Ronald Alastair. Cl.L.VI. (W) Club, Member of Sheldon Society, History Society. Literary and Dramatic School P refect 1959, House Prefect Hl58, Rugger 1st XV 1957 -5 8 (Colours), Society. Modern Languages Society, Dancing Club, Chess Club, 1st Class Shot, Richmond Sevens (Captain 1958), Cricket 1st XI 1957-58-59 (Colours), Hockey Entrance Scholarship to H avard University. 1st XI 1958-59 (Colours). H ouse Colours (Rugby and Hoc~ey). G.~ . E . '0 ' Address: 76 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. level 1956-58, 'A' level 1959, Chairman of HlStory Society, Light Music Club , Basketball Club, Tre OSBORN, Alan Goldie. Sc.Rem. (BF) asurer of Literary and Dramatic Society. Member of House Pre Sheldon Society, Senior Rover fect 19 59, Rugger 1st XV 1958 (Colours). Hockey 1st XI 1959, Mate, Cert. 'A,' S/Sgt., Guard of Honour 1959. Cricket 1st XI Address : cf o Allahabad Bank, Bombay. 1958 -59 (Colours 1958-59). House Colours (Rugger, Hockey, Cricket , Fives, Tennis, Swimming, Athletics), G.C.E. '0' level 1958-59, Mem­ GRANT. Robert Ian Norman. Cl.U.VI. (M) ber of St. Lawrence Guild, Dancing Club, Badminton Club, Bridge Club, Rover House Prefect 1958-59. Cricket 2nd XI 1959 . Shooting VIII 1958-59, House Crew, Cert. 'A,' L / Sgt., Marksman, Server. Colours (Rugger, Shooting), G.C.E. '0' level 1956-57, 'A: level 1958_. 'S' level Address : cf o Cable and Wireless Ltd .. Bridgetown, Barbados. 1959, Member of Music Club, Modern Languages Society. Dancmg Club, SOUTHCOTT, Photographic Society, Cert. 'A,' Cpl. (Armourer), Band, Marksman Peter Charles. Sc.L.VI. (C) . House Prefect 1959, G.C.E '0' Address : Lud Lodge. Stonegallows Hill, Taunton. . level 1957. 'A' level 1959 , Treasurer of Bridge Club, Cert. 'A,' Cpl. , Signals Classifi.cation. DIAMOND, Charles Michael. Cl. U. VI. (BF) . Address : Black House Inn, Bitton Street, T eignmouth, Devon. House Prefect 1958-59, G.C.E. '0' level 1956, level 1958-59, ·s· Cha1rman VILLAR, Philip James. Sc.U.VI. (M) Literary and Dramatic Society. Mod_em Lan~ages Soci ~ ty: Library C<;>m­ Deputy 1957-59, House Colours Rugger, '0' mittee, Member of Sheldon Society, HlStory Society, Cert. A, L/Sgt .. Editor G.C.E. level 1956 -57, 'A' level of "Aluredian," Scholar, Entrance to 1958-59, Member of Wireless Club, Photographic Society, Chess Club, Motor Merton College, Oxford. Club, Ce Address : "Scarborough,' • 1 Parkfield Road, Taunton. rt. 'A.' Cert. 'T.' Signals Classification, Assistant Instructors• Examination, Guard of Honour 1958-59, 1st Class Shot. WYATT, Terence William. Cl.U.VI. (KA) Address : " Farthinghoe," Shoreditch, Taunton. House Prefect 1958-59 G.C.E. ··o· level 1956, 'A' level 1958. 'S' level 1959, WADDINGTON. Tom Garstang Member of Sheldon S~ciety , History Society, Literary and Dramatic . CI.L.VI. (KA) Society. Deputy Prefect 1958-59, G.C. E . '0' level 1957, 'A' Music Club, House Team (Rugger, Hockey, Steeplechase), Cert. 'A .' S/Sgt. . level1959, Committee Mem­ C.Q.M.S., Server, ber of Music Club, Treasurer of Fishing Club, Member of School Orchestra, Entry to Durham University. Cert. Address: Broadgate, Newton St. Cyres 'A.' Sgt .. Guard of Honour 1958-59, Chorister, Music Scholar, Entry to , Exeter. Royal Academy of Music. PAYNE, Roger John. Cl.Rem. {KA) Address : Kirklee Cottage, Albemarle Road, Beckenham. Kent. House Prefect 1958-59, Captain Hockey 2nd XI. House Colours (Hockey. WALKER, Alexander Evelyn. Vc. (KA) Rugger, Steeplechase). G.C.E. '0' level 1957-58, Member of Fives Club, Music Club, Dancing Deputy Prefect 1959, House Team Rul?ger, G.C.E. '0' level 1957. 1_959, Mem­ Club, Cert. 'A,' L/Cpl. . ber of Fallodon Society, Aeromodellmg Address : 37 Mill View Road, Milldenborough, nr. Tonbndge. Club, Pottery Club, Bndge Club, Photographic Society, Cert. 'A.' Part I (1956), 1st Class Shot. SUM, Bik Kwong. Sc.U.VI. (C) Address : The Bull House, Burford, Oxfordshire. House Prefect 1958-59, House Colours (Rugger), G.C.E . '0' level 1956, ·~· SZABO, Peter Lajos. Cl.L.VI. (BF) level 1958, 'S' level 1959, Chairman of Chess Club, Member of Photographic Deputy Prefect 1959. Pioneer 1958, Hockey Society. Bridge Club, Music Club, Basketball Club, Rover Crew, Cert. 'A,' 2nd XI 1959 (Colours), House Cpl.. Colours Hockey, G.C.E. '0 ' level 1958. 'A' level 1959, Member of Sheldon Signals Classification, First Aid Instructor. Society, History Address : 20 Inverness Road, Society, Basketball Club, Committee Member of Chess Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Fives Club 1957, 1959. SAID, Brian Lawrence. Cl.Rem. {C) Address : 34 Hapesbury Court, Shoot-up-Hill, London, N.W .2. House Prefect 1958-59, Rugger 2nd XV 1958, House Colours (Rugger), G.C.E. EDWARDES, '0' level 1957-58-59, Secretary Robert Peers. CI.Rem. {BF) of Bridge Club, Member of Art Club. Motor Deputy Prefect 1959, Rugger 2nd XV Club, Dancing Club, Badminton Club, 1958, House Colours (Rugger, Steeple­ Music Club, Cert. 'A.' S~ . . chase) , Treasurer of Art Club, Member of Pottery Address : East African Railways and Harbours, Box 806, Narrobi, Kenya. Club, Trevithick ?ociety, Music Club, G.C.E. '0' level 1958-59, Cert. 'A: L/Sgt., Drum MaJor, 1st SHERLEY-PRICE, Francis Nicholas. Vb. (BF) Class Shot. House Prefect 1958-59, Rugger 1st XV 1958, Captain 2nd X~ Hockey 1959, Address : "Viskan," The Retreat, Merthyr Mawr Road, Bridgend. Cricket 1st XI 1959 (Colours), House Colours (Rugger, Cncket, Hockey). DANE, Paul Clifford. V.Rem. (C) G.C.E. '0' level 1958-59, Hon. Secretary Shooting 1958-59 (Colours). Winn~r of Officers' Shooting Cup 1959 (record total). Member of Dancing Club, Music Deputy Prefect 1959, Cricket 1st XI 1958-59 (Colours 1959) . House Colours Club and Orchestra, Cert. 'A.' L/Sgt., Marksman. (Rugger and Cricket) , House Team (Hockey, Athletics, Tennis). Member of Address : R.N. Engineering College, Maradon, Plymouth. Motor Club, Photographic Society, '0' level 1959, Cert. 'A.' L/Cpl. Address : 33 East Overclifl Drive, Bournemouth. PEACE, Jeflery Michael Clift. Sc.L.VI. (KA) ABBOTT, House Prefect 1958-59, House Colours {Shooting). Hou~e Team Steeplechas~. Nigel William. Sc.L.VI. (C) G.C.E. '0' level 1957-58, 'A' level 1959, Member of Mustc Club, Photographic Deputy Prefect 1959, G.C.E. '0' level 1957, 'A' level 1958, 'S' level 1959, Society, Cert. 'A,' L/Sgt., Marksman, Proficiency Badge, Server. Treasurer of Fallodon Society, Member of Motor Club, Music Club, Address : 25 Richmond Road. Cardiff. Photographic Society, Cert. 'A.' L/Cpl., 1st Class Shot, Server. Address : Manor Farm, Little Canford, Wimbome. Dorset. 88 89 V.Rem . (W) GARNETT Nicholas Robert. Sc.R em . (W) ALSFORD, Michael Raymond. y Prefect 1959, G.C.E. '0' level 1958-59, Secretary Art <;In?, Committee House Steeplechase Team, Member of ~l u s ic Club, Aeromodelling Club, Chess Deput '0' ert. 'A,' Marksman. Member Photographic Society, Treasurer Motor Club, Cert. A. L/Cpl., 1st Club, G.C.E. level 1959, C Class Shot. Address : Long Acre, North Heath , near Pulborough. Address : 16 Burlord Road, Salisbury, Wilts. BLAKE. John Eric. I Va. (BF) T OOGOOD, Rodney David. V.Rem. (C) . . . Junior Colts Cricket 1957, Senior Colts 1958-59, Senior Colts Hockey 1958 Common Room Committee, Cricket 2nd XI 1958, Swunmmg S1de 1959, House (Colours), House Tennis Team, G.C. E. ' 0' level 1959, Committee Member Colours (Hockey, Swimming) , H ouse Team (Tennis, Rugger). G.C.E. '0' level of Junior Literary and Debating Society, Member of Bridge Club and 1959, Member of Fallodon Society, Bridge Club, Motor Club, Photographic Photographic Society, Cert. 'A,' 1st Class Shot, Server. Society, Cert. 'A,' L / Cpl. . . Address : 45 1 B ath Road, Bristol. Address : White Lodge, Druid Road, Stoke BIShop, Bnstol 9. KAY. Michael John. Vc. (C) LAU, Alfred Wing Kuen. Sc.I:.VI. (C) , , , , , , Senior Colts Rugger 1958, Swimming Side 1958-59, G.C.E. '0' level 1959, Senior Common Room Comm1ttee, G.C.E. 0 level 1957. A level 1958, S Member of Art Club, Fallodon Society, Chess Club, Cert. 'A.' level 1959, Chairman of Fallodon Society, Treas ure~ of Stamp Club, M emb ~r Address : 2 Archibald R oad, Exeter . Club, Music Club, Bndge Club, Photographic of Fencing Club, Dancing COTTAM, Edwin Paul. IVb. (M) Society, Cert. 'A,' L / Cpl. Address : Princes Buildings, 5 Ice House Street, Hong Kong. Member of Photographic Society, Stamp Club, Chorister, Cert. 'A.' Address : Nestleton , Rhiwbina Hill. Rhiwbina, Glamorgan. EVANS, Michael Victor. V.Rem. (W) . Senior Common Room Committee, House Colours (Rugger and Shootmg) , Member of Motor Club, Fallodon Society. G.C.E. '0 ' level 1959, Cert. 'A,' L /Cpl., Marksman. Address : 288 Union Street, Torquay, Devon. Salvete PEARCE, Michael John. Vc. (W) . LENT TERM Common Room Committee, House Colours (Rugger, Athletics), Rugger 2nd XV 1958, G.C.E. '0' level 1958-59, Member of Stamp Club, Motor Club, Cert. Carpenter: Davenport, M. A. J., Inman, I. G., Reece, C. L. , Terpening, M. P . 'A,' L /Cpl. h ' Bishop Fox: tJeffries, P . R. , Nicholas, A. V. Address : " Ladrum," Church Road, Cinderlord, Gloucesters rre. Meynell: James, T . J ., Wilkes, C. M. ROGERS William Anthony. V.Rem. (KA) G.C.E. ' '0' level 1959, School Athletics Team 1956-57, 195~. House Teams Woodard: Knight, W. G. W ., tLiddle, G. J ., Padwick, ] . R. , UPerry, B . J . (Rugger, Hockey, Athletics), Sailing Club Team and Comm1ttee Member of Orchestra, Music Club, Choral Society, Cert. 'A.' SUMMER TERM Address : 100 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. Carpenter: Spence, J . D . EDWARDS, David Keith. Vc. (C) tDenotes ex-Pyrland Hall. Cricket 2nd XI 1959, House Teams (Rugger, ~ockey, Athletics)., M;mber of Music Club, Art Club, Bridge Club, G.C.E. ·o level 1959, Cert. A, L/Cpl., :!Denotes Day Boy. 1st Class Shot, Proficiency Badg~. Address : 39 Henley Grove, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. DAVIES, Robert Hugh. Vc. (C) . Cricket 2nd XI 1959, House T eam (Rugger and TenniS), Member of Acknowledgments Photographic Society, Bridge Club, '0' level1958-59, Cert. 'A,' L/Cpl., Marks- E acknowledge with pleasure receipt of the following contemporaries: m~ddress : 74 Brownhill Road, Chandlers Ford, Hants. W The Bloxhamist; The Dolphin; The Wellington School Magazine; HALL, Timothy Richard. V.Rem .. (BF} , , The West Buckland School Register; The Britannia Magazine; The Swimming Side 1957-58-59, Runmng S1de 1959, Cert. A, Chorister, G.C.E. '0' level 1959. Monktonian; The Hurst-Johnian; The Allhallows School Magazine; The Address : 13 The Glebe, Shalford Road, Guildford, Surrey. Exonian; The Raven; The Kelly College Chronicle; The Lancing College Magazine ; The Wyvern; The Eastbournian; The Tauntonian; The BRAY, William Minter. V.Rem. (KA) G.C.E. '0' level 1959, Cert. 'A,' 1st Class Shot. Ellesmerian; The Westonian; The King's College School Magazine; The Address : The Cottage, Holway Green, Taunton. Priory School Magazine, Kingston. BUTT Anthony John Seward. V.R em. (C) , , G.C.'E. '0' level 1959, Member of P .T . Club, Aeromodelling ~lub, Cert .. A. L /Cpl., 1st Class Shot, Army Proficiency Certificate, Band, S1gnals Classifica- ANSWERS TO "ALUREDIAN" CROSSWORD tion. . s : Longhill Farm, Cucklington, Wmcanton, omerset. Address CLUES ACROSS : l. Abyssinian. 6. Prod. 8. Lab. 9. Peer round. 11. Ill. EAGLESOME, Murray Anthony. V.Rem. (KA) . 12. Jeer. 13. Eggcup. 15. Undecided. 18. Seven. 20. Belly. 21. Ulcer. 2nd XI Cricket 1959, Secretary of Trevithick Society, Member of Mus1c Club, Cert. 'A.' 23. Sixth Form. 25. Exotic. 27. Gaff. 29. E'en. 30. Distended. 31. Fat. Address: "Craigleigh," 33 Quantock Road, Weston-super-Mare. 32. Grid. 33. Commonroom. WOODWARD, Roger Jon. V.Rem. (W) CLUES DOWN : l. Agriculture. 2. Yelled. 3. Subject. 4. Nape. 5. Norse. Society, Art G.C.E. '0' level 1959, Member of Music Club, Choral 14. Pandemonium. 16. Deeds. 17. De lux. Club, Trevithick Society, Cert. 'A,' Pioneer. 6. Ploughed. 7. Did. 10. Erse. Address: "Crossways,'' 32 Love Lane, Andover, Hants. 19. Restated. 22. Chiffon. 24. One two. 26. Cynic. 28. Adam. 30. Dog.

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