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THE PETERTTE No. 404 1986-87 THE HEAD MASTER & THE SCHOOL MONITORS 1986—1987 THE PETERITE 1986-1987 No. 404 Contents PAGE PAGE School Notes 2 Rugby 32 Senior Common Room 2 Hockey 37 Valete 3 Squash 40 Commemoration 5 Swimming 41 GCE Results 6 Cross Country 42 Careers 7 Cricket 43 Chapel 8 Tennis 49 Music 10 Boat Club 50 Drama 14 Athletics 52 Societies 15 Oxford Cup 52 Expeditions 19 Archives 53 The Weather 21 Robert Middleton 53 Combined Cadet Force 22 Old Peterite Club 54 House Notes 24 Obituary 61 Literary Section i—xii School Appointments Head of School: Nigel Collinson. Vice Head: Joseph Fricker. School Monitors: Peter Allan, David Burns, Mark Davies, Lisham Harris, Peter Maloney, Mark Owens, Paul Wareham, Kate Bennett, Daniel Conaghan, Ben Lowes, Conal Scholes. Games Captains: Rugby Nigel Collinson Cricket Nigel Muirhead Hockey Timothy Wharton Girls' Hockey Joanna Seaton Boats David Burns/William Terry Girls' Boats Nicola Hutchinson Netball Joanne Gill Squash Peter Allan Girls' Squash Natasha Jackson Shooting Richard Carr Tennis Clive Walton Girls' Tennis Miranda Pacey Chess Alistair Fernie Swimming Joseph Fricker Cross Country Mark Owens Editorial Committee Stephanie Atkinson, Paul Bryan, Emma Cowl, Alistair Fernie, Jacqueline Grace, Diane Harrison, Lucy Hughes, Philippa King, William Lamb, Jason Mellor, Peter Willmott and Antony Wilson. Mr. J. C. Brown has given much help with the design and layout of the magazine. The Editor is grateful to the committee and contributors for all their help, especially Rory Houston and Peter Maloney, who took "action" photographs. 1 School Notes Both St. Peter's and St. Olave's Schools become fully coeducational in September 1987. The number of girls will inevitably be small in St. Peter's at the start, but all the signs are that this number will soon increase. In September 1986 several new members of Staff joined the School, Mr. A. P. Wright, B. Mus. (London), L.R.A.M., from St. Dunstan's College, as Director of Music, Mr. P. M. Barton, M.A. (the Queen's College, Oxford) from Dover Grammar School for Boys, Mr. I. K. Hardwick, M.A. (Wadham College, Oxford) from the William Parker Comprehensive School and Miss A. J. Hodgson, B.A. (New Hall, Cambridge) all to teach Mathematics, and Miss J. M. Crocker, B.A. (Exeter) to teach Art and English. We say goodbye at the end of the School year to Mr. S. A. Cranville who goes to Le Rosey in Rolle, near Geneva, Mr. P. N. Barras who goes to live (and work!) in Milan, Mrs. D. Davies, who has been appointed Housemistress of Girls at Wells Cathedral School, and finally to Mrs. G. Thomas, who has helped us this year with the teaching of Chemistry. We are grateful to them for their positive contributions, evidence of which can be seen in the pages that follow. In February 1987 the Chaplain, the Reverend Mr. W. S. Griffith, left to become Precentor of Leeds Parish Church, and a month later the Reverend Mr. S. C. Harvey, B.A. (Reading and Cuddeson Theological College, Oxford) joined the Staff to replace him. Mr. Harvey comes to us from Oldham Parish Church and is quickly making his beneficial mark. At Oxford and Cambridge places were awarded to Jonathan Croft at Pembroke, Lucy Gilbert at St. Catherine's, Shaun Hullis at St. John's and Victoria Rigby at St. Hilda's Colleges, Oxford, and to Helen Benton at Jesus, Mark Owens at Trinity, David Pyle at Emmanuel, Mark Reid and Daniel Shannon (O.P.) both at Corpus Christi Colleges, Cambridge. Joseph Fricker has been awarded an English Speaking Union Scholarship to attend a school in America for the year 1987-1988. In memory of Mr. R. B. Daniel, who died on the 22nd July, 1986 while leading a School party on a Norwegian icecap, a Fund was set up which raised more than £14,000 to help pupils with the expenses of expeditions. Lucy Gilbert is the first to receive an award and she is given £1,000 towards the cost of taking part in the British Schools Exploring Society expedition to the Spitzbergen Archipelago, in the Arctic Circle, an appropriate first award because Lucy was with Mr. Daniel in Norway, and what better way to honour his memory than to return to that same area, to continue where he left off? At the end of June we were pleased to receive at the School one of the Norwegian Helicopter Mountain Rescue team, Mr. Audun Ursin, who brought Mr. Daniel out of the crevasse where he had fallen. Christopher Harris and James Martin were awarded R.A.F. Scholarships to gain private pilots' licences. Matthew Doncaster won a R.A.F. Sixth Form Scholarship. Scholarships at 13+ were awarded to Anthony Curtis, Benjamin Fraser and Ian Gordon, and at 16+ to Helen Booth. Lectures have been given to the Sixth Form by Mr. R. Wooldridge, Mr. Conal Gregory, Mr. P. J. Nobes, Mr. D. Raynor (O.P.), Mr. J. Shannon, and the Dean. Mr. & Mrs. G. M. Shuttleworth organised another Family Fun Day on the 31st May and some £2750 was collected for the N.S.P.C.C., a splendid effort by all concerned on one of the few good days of the summer and much enjoyed by the many who came. Miss Betty Clarkson, the Head Master's secretary, retired in September 1987. In September 1986 Mr. J. A. Owen Barnett was appointed Housemaster of Dronfield House to succeed Mr. R. B. Daniel and he follows Mr. P. Taylor into School House in September 1987, when Mr. & Mrs. Taylor take over responsibility for the new Girls' House in Dronfield. At the same time Mr. D. J. Hughes succeeds Mr. Cranville in Queen's and Mr. P. J. Stephen takes over the Grove from Mr. B. Allen. An interesting letter appeared in the Guardian on the 18th June 1987, which we reprint with permission — a pleasing tribute to Mr. G. M. Shuttleworth. "Sir, — In September 1948 I became a pupil at Mill Hill School. One of the junior masters there was G. M. Shuttleworth who had played both football and cricket for Cambridge; but not rugby. In those days all rugby place kicks were taken with a direct approach, the slanting ball being hit with the point of the toe. At practice one day Shuttleworth set the ball up vertically and approached it from a 45-degree angle, hitting it with the side of the foot as one might take a corner at soccer. This occasioned great hilarity among us boys, until he began regularly kicking goals from inside his own half. This demonstration was, I believe, witnessed by two future England players, John Williams and Jim Roberts, who may have had a hand in spreading the idea. Now that "round-the- corner" kicking is more or less universal in rugby, I wonder if any of your readers knows of any earlier invention of it. If not — and if Guy Shuttleworth truly invented it — this may be the only instance of a major innovation in a sport by a man who never played the game seriously at all. — Yours, David Butler. London SW13." Senior Common Room In September we welcomed, as new members of the Senior Common Room, Julia Crocker to teach Art and English and Ann Hodgson to teach Mathematics and to bring much needed help and expertise to the Boat Club. Also to teach Mathematics, we welcomed Ian Hardwick and Pelham Barton, who also took over as Head of Computing; finally Andrew Wright joined us as Director of Music. All very quickly settled in and each has made highly individual contributions to the life and good humour of the Common Room. Gill Thomas came in January to teach Chemistry for two terms and she leaves with our best wishes for the future and we congratulate her on the birth of her son just before the end of the Summer Term. At the end of January we sang goodbye to Stephen Griffith as he moved from the relative security of being an Independent School Chaplain to the demanding post 2 of Precentor at Leeds Parish Church. He was succeeded as Chaplain by Steven Harvey who has quickly put his stamp on the life of both the School and the Common Room. During the three-week hiatus between the departure of Stephen and the arrival of Steven, Chapel Services were run under the benign guidance of Dick Hubbard, rejoicing in finding yet another outlet for his boundless energy, released since relinquishing his Housemastership of Queen's. At the end of the School year we say goodbye to Stephen Cranville and Philip Barras, Stephen to Switzerland, where, as an Economist, he seems to have found a job which will bring greater rewards for fewer hours worked; Philip on the other hand looks forward to domestic life in Italy and none of us seems to have heard much of actual work to be done there! Diana Davies also leaves; although she was ostensibly appointed as a part- time member of the Staff, she has played a very full part in many School activities and we wish her, her husband and family, good fortune in the future. Members of the Common Room have continued to be active in a wide range of School activities through the past year. A number of them are mentioned here, to give some idea of the range, and I can only apologise for any inadvertent omissions or errors. During the Christmas Term a Staff squash team, a regular lunchtime 5-a-side indoor soccer team and various combinations of Staff rugger sides performed with differing degrees of success, but always with masses of enthusiasm.