JULY 1970 Dunelmian Where but the Army could you be sure of an If you go into a civilian firm, you could active life-no matter how look forward to being in middle manage- ment in your late twenties. You'd be well paid. But your responsibilities wouldn't give you much opportunity for an active life. senior you became? The higher you rise in civilian life, the less time you spend away from your desk. What a contrast you'd find in the Army. By your late twenties, you'd be a Captain. You might be 2nd-in-Command of an Infantry Company, or of a Squadron of 15 Chieftain tanks. Your work would keep you active - and you would be encouraged to spend as little time as possible behind a desk. There are many ways into the Army. You could start at 16, with an Army Scholarship, enabling you to get your 'A' levels. At 18, you can go to Sandhurst - or to University, as a University Cadet, with the Army paying all your fees, and giving you a salary as well. And there are many other ways. 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My age is NAME ADDRESS To: The Local Directors, Barclays Bank, P.O. Box 31, High Row, Darlington. 3 Dunelmian SPEECH DAY 1970 CONTENTS Speech Day was held on Friday, May 29th. It was a fine early summer's day. The sun shone, and the grounds were looking School News Literary Section their best, fresh and green. The distinguished visitor was Sir Derman Christopherson, O.B.E., F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of Speech Day 1970 ... 3 The Tyranny of the Durham University. The Chairman of the Governors, the Dean Motor Car 27 Prizes 9 of Durham, took the chair and welcomed the very large number Staff News 9 The Better Part of of parents and friends who had come. He then asked the Head- School Facts 10 Valour 27 master to give his report for the year, which is here printed: Entrance Scholarships 'These Do I Love' ... 28 Mr. Dean, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentle- 1970 10 The Man 29 men, Chapel Notes 11 The 'Scharnhorst' Last winter the Headmasters' Conference celebrated its Dramatic Society ... 12 Escapes 29 centenary. It was founded by Edward Thring, Headmaster of Staff Play 14 Uppingham, one of the powerful and reformist figures of educa- tion in mid-Victorian England. Some seventeen years earlier he Music 15 had been a candidate for the Headmastership of Durham, but Paris 1970 16 Games Section the Governors had preferred Holden, the then Headmaster of Clay-Pigeon Club ... 16 General Review ... 33 Uppingham. Thring applied for the vacancy thus created at Film Club 17 Uppingham, and was appointed there. It has therefore been, Boat Club 33 Social Service Society 17 I confess, a source of some small and quite unjustifiable satisfac- Cricket 37 Sixth Form Society and tion to me in this H.M.C. centenary year to reflect that the post Track and Field ... 41 St. Aildred Society ... 17 I now hold is one for which the great Thring was considered Cross-Country Running 44 Tristram Society ... 18 unworthy. A hundred years ago too the first Education Act was Swimming 47 passed, laying the foundation of elementary education for all, Debating Society ... 18 Basketball 48 on which successive Acts have built the present vast educational The Printing Club ... 19 Shooting 48 edifice; and it is highly gratifying and appropriate that we should Railway Society ... 19 Fencing 49 be honoured to-day with the presence of the Mayor and that C.C.F 20 he should this year be himself a Primary School Headmaster. Dates for 1971 22 A hundred years ago this School had already been 26 years Avete 23 on this more spacious site, having outgrown its confined build- Valete 24 O.D. News 52 ings on Palace Green, which had been its site for many hundred SCHOOL NEWS years before. In 1870 the University was a young 38-year-old, copy; the full details you can read in the Dunelmian. The two and in its earliest years a predecessor of mine could combine remarkable points are that this has been an all-round achieve- the Headmastership of this School with the holding of the Pro- ment, not confined to one or two sports alone, and second, that fessorship of Mathematics in the University. That, of course, it has happened at a time when we have reorganised the system was before the telephone was invented; and I sometimes feel to give more choice to the boys and a bigger place for such it must have been before the invention of paper too. It would sports as swimming, basketball and shooting. The Cricket XI indeed give me great pleasure, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, if you finished last season unbeaten in School matches, winning seven found yourself able to reciprocate by combining your office with a and drawing two, thus beating the 1956 Xl's record of seven Headship of one of my Departments; but I am well aware how wins, one draw and one loss, and it is difficult to escape the the scale of things has changed. A Vice-Chancellor's task, conclusion that they were our most successful team ever. The indeed, must be one of the most exacting and exhausting a man Cricket Festival held here after the end of term proved an enor- can these days be called upon to perform; and to combine the mous success. Even the visitors, St. Bees, Giggleswick and task of ordering a large University with the additional task, as Woodhouse Grove, were kind enough to say so, in spite of our Chairman of their Committee, of keeping in order your fellow defeating all three of them. This year the Festival will be held at Vice-Chancellors must be as formidable an undertaking as to St. Bees. The Rugby XV, containing many of the previous year's pile Pelion on Ossa; only giants can do it. We are proud and young team, had their most successful season for six years, delighted that you have found time to come here this afternoon; winning twelve and only losing two of their matches in the long and if I am unlikely ever to be able to welcome you here as a Christmas term. The Captain, Miller, subsequently crowned Head of Department, we can always welcome you back among his career at the School by playing in the England Schools XV us, as we do to-day, as a former parent. against France and Scotland, something which not even Mike Since last year three new Governors have come to the Govern- Weston did. In the Easter term the Cross-Country runners won ing Body, the new Archdeacon of Durham, Canon Perry, Canon all their matches against individual schools, though at larger Hopkins and the Chairman of the Agricultural Division of I.C.I., meetings they were rather shy of the crowds and could not Mr. Pennock. I hope that all three will enjoy their association quite repeat their wins; and in the Senior House Run Spedding with the School, and I am sure the School will profit greatly from created a new record. Athletics last term were again hampered their wisdom. by poor weather. This year we did manage to hold Sports Day, Without for a while being fully conscious of what was happen- when one record was broken, the Junior Shot Put, by a clear ing, we gradually found ourselves during the year in the middle two feet; but the track was too slow for breaking records. But of one of those high seasons of sporting achievement which last summer's season ended with two boys representing Durham occur in schools from time to time. I shall not attempt to do County and one reaching the semi-finals of the All-England more than pick out the highlights, nor shall I indulge in knocking Schools Championships and our relay team was ranked second SCHOOL NEWS in the country at youth level. This summer's season has started the results of A level last July, two boys won places at Cam- well. Our outstanding runner Spedding won the Schoolboy 1500 bridge Colleges to go straight up that October, one to read metres at the Crystal Palace at Easter—a really distinguished Medicine and one Geography; and in the Christmas term, one by achievement—and at the Durham County Senior Schools Cham- examination and one on his A level results, two more boys pionships recently we won four events, surpassing last year's gained places for this coming October, one for Law at Cambridge three.