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Newsletter No. 79 October 1991 OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 1.

GULF WAR HONOURS THE OLD BOYS' DINNER We would like to congratulate Gerald Boxall (1954) Chairman, Vickers Defence Friday, 15th November, 1991 Industries on being appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.). at the Roehampton Club FORTHCOMING EVENTS Chairman: Robin Reeve, Head Master , K.C.S. Principal Guest: The Honourable Sir Stuart McKinnon OLD KING'S CLUB 1991 This year the Dinner returns to The Roehampton Club , Roehampton Lane, llthNovember School Remembrance Service (Morning Assembly) 8.50 a.m. SW15, where it was last held in 1985. The facilities are excellent and ample parking is available. Buses 72 and 265 pass the main entrance; 33 and 37 stop 15th November Old Boy's Dinner, Roehampton Club. nearby. 1992 We are pleased to welcome as our Guest Speaker the Honourable Sir Stuart McKinnon (1957), a judge in the High Court of Justice, Queen's 18thJanuary Annual General Meeting 11.30 a.m. (following Corporation of Bench Division . His considerable experience of matters legal , together with K.C.S. meeting) his interest in matters sporting - and particularly golfing - promise an entertaining evening. Old Boys with legal connections will certainly want to come; while those without wig and gown will equally find old and new SCHOOL friends with whom to spend a pleasant evening. 8th November First Orchestra Concert, St Matthews, Durham Road, 7 .30 p.m. Cash Bar from 7.00 p.m. Dress: Dinner Jacket or dark suit 16th November Friends of K.C.S. Christmas Fair. From 2.00 p.m. Dinner at 8.00 p.m. Tickets: £22 excluding wine 7th December Choral Concert, St Martin's in the Fields. 7.30 p.m. 8thDecember Christmas Celebration for the Elderly, Dining Hall. 3.00 p.m. 13th December Carol Service, St John's, Spencer Hill. 2.00 p.m. Hon Secretary Wanted Alan Wells, the OK Club's Hon. Sec. for the last ten years, has decided in OTHER AT SCHOOL his sevumpty umpth year that he would like more time to pursue other October 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, December 8th. Antiques Fairs. interests - mountaineering, bird-watching ... ? he declines to comment. His impending departure, however, opens up an opportunity for another Old Boys are welcome. Tickets and enquiries please contact: Old Boy - to step in and take over this interesting job. King's College School, Wimbledon Common, London SW19 4TI. The working conditions are modern, congenial and well-equipped. A Tel: 081-947 9311 Fax: 081-944 6526 team of three willing helpers are on hand to help run the office, and the School itself provides willing and co-operative back-up. The office is officially open on Tuesdays and Thursdays every week, from REGISTER OF impossible to acknowledge these individually. KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL Some 1,000 Old Boys who were in the School 10am to 1.00pm - though it would be foolish to pretend that the work does OLD BOYS, VOLUME 4 under Frank Shaw, and who have not sent in their not occasionally overflow into the Hon. Sec's off-duty hours. Work has been completed on the Dixon entries, and personal details , are in the process of being The job entails keeping the records up-to-date, mailing out Newsletters, the Shaw entries are in the process of being circularised. Dinner and AGM notices, attendance and minute-taking at six evening compiled. It is unlikely that the finished material will When the work is ready for publication, Old Boys Committee meetings every year, general correspondence and the mainte­ be completed in less than a year. will be notified, and it is hoped that sufficient Old Boys who have sent in details of their careers numbers will want to buy the Register to cover most nance of friendly relations with OK's around the world . Alan himself will are sincerely thanked, and they will realise that it is of the cost of producing it. remain in situ to brief and help his successor during the initial settling-in period. Write to the Chairman or call Alan at the School - in the first instance to King's College School, Wimbledon Common, London, SW19 4Tf. Tel. 01-947 9311 discuss the idea and your interest. 2. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 3.

OLD KING'S CLUB: OFFICERS AND COMMITIEE PRESIDENT: R.M. Reeve (Head Master K.C.S.) · EDITOR'S NOTES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING VICE-PRESIDENTS: 18th January, 1992 R.B. Armitage (1991), L.R. Barkey (1985), D.D.C. Belchamber (1986), !lirC�·ril Black (1974), We are lacking some early issues of the Newsletter and would be very grateful if members holding All Members are invited to the Annual General J.C.· Burr (1987), K.A. Collyer (1974), A.G. Cranch (1969), R.E. Dawson (1979), R.F. Diacon (1983), P.K. Gerhold (1984), J.D.E. Hamilton (1983), A.D. Hein (1986), D.E.M. Jarvis (1975), copies numbered 9 and 27 could let the Secretary, Meeting of the Old King's Club, to be held in Collyer J. Keeling (1987), H.R. Lewis, O.B.E. (1969), D.M. Maxton, M.B.E 0), C. Taylor (1973), Alan Wells, have them for our master set. Hall on Saturday., 18th January 1992 at 11.30 a.m., N.R. Topping (1984), G.R. Walter (1978) � �-/JA..:r- Photocopies will be taken for the School Archive and to take sherry immediately afterwards, followed (Year of election shown in brackets) ff,,BJ- J1...2{<,) a(!f:!.J,_ files. If members wish to have their originals by lunch for those who apply. ,. returned, this will be arranged after photcopying. A.S. Wells L.G. Brew . HON. SECRETARY: HON. TREASURER: Contributors are thanked for the items they have HON. MEMB. SECRETARY: A.G. Sinclair AGENDA Chairman 1991/2: E.A. Stokes provided in the current Newsletter. Material for the 1. Minutes of A.G.M. held on the 26th January Elected Members: R.J. Bannister, M. Barron, M.P.C. Francis, R.J. Hudson, H.M.G. King, R.J. Morris, next issue should reach the Club Office by the 15th 1991 (circulated, see Newsletter No. 78, April H.E. Moss, D.W. Parry, N.J.D. Roberts, A.G. Sinclair, E.A. Stokes, P.A. Wilkins. February, 1992. Please be prompt. 1991, pages 7-11). R.J. Morris, Editor 2. To receive the Honorary Secretary's Report. Representatives of Accredited Activities: Cricket: D.W. Talbot SECRETARY'S NOTES 3. To receive and approve the Club's accounts to Cross Country: J.P.H. Smith 31st August 1991 - copies will be distributed at Golf: P.N. Crowther CLUB OFFICE. the meeting. J .R.B. Garrett Hockey: This is manned on Tuesday and Thursday mornings 4. Election of: Rifle Club: F.A.L. Hedditch, M.B.E., R.V.M. but messages may be left at any time with the School Officers. Rugby Club: J.D.E. Hamilton telephone operator on 081-947 9311 or via the School P.J. De C. Newman Trustees of the Invested Funds. Swimming: Fax No. 081-944 6526. Tennis: C.G. Diacon Committee Members. K.C.S. Lodge: H.M.G. King Honorary Members. SCHOOL SHOP AND CLUB COLOURS Sub-Committees: 5. To elect the Honorary Auditors. Finance: M. Barron (Chairman), R.J. Bannister, L.G. Brew, P.N. Crowther, N.J.D. Roberts These are obtainable from the School shop in The Social: L.R. Barkey (Chairman), R.B. Armitage, M. Barron, M.P.C. Francis, R.J. Morris, H.E. Moss, Lodge (next to the Sports Hall). See notice inside 6. To receive the report of the Benevolent Fund, E.A. Stokes back cover. including Accounts for the year ended 31st August 1991 - copies will be distributed at the Hon. Auditors: N.H.J. Miller, A.C.A., G.P.N. Phillips, A.C.A. ADDRESSES meeting. We thank all members who have kindly sent in new 7. To elect the Trustees of the Benevolent Fund, Newsletter Editor: R.J. Morris, 38 Manor Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1 YB (081-940 5641) addresses. These are also required for those listed and to approve the Officers and Members of the Benevolent Fund: later in this Newsletter. Management Fund. Management Board: R.M. Reeve (Head Master K.C.S.), R. Lowndes, L.D. Peters, D.V. Smedley 8. To consider any Resolution submitted within the Trustees: L.R. Barkey (Chairman), L. G. Brew, J.D.E. Hamilton, C. Taylor NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS Rules. Hon. Treasurer: L.G. Brew The Club maintains a number of albums containing cuttings from newspapers and magazines about Old 9. Subscription rates. Trustees of the Invested Funds� M. Barron, D.W. Parry, M.A. Smith Boys and about the School, which always evoke 10. Any other business, notice of which shall have Careers for School Leavers: much interest when they are on display. The Secret­ been submitted to the Chairman prior to the Old King's Club Adviser: J. M. Robson 0737 353834) ary will be glad to receive any such news items which meeting. members may come across, particularly those from local or specialist papers, which might otherwise be missed. Alan S. Wells MEMBERS OVERSEAS Honorary Secretary If any Club member is going to, or is already resident in, a particular country, a list of members there, Nominations for officers and committee members together with their addresses, can be provided by the should reach the Honorary Secretary by the 31 st Secretary on request. December 1991, duly proposed and seconded in writing, together with the written consent of the 1920's GAUDY nominee. 21 st September 1991 Drinks will be served after the meeting. Lunch will A report on this event together with letters received be arranged for those requiring it. Please contact the will appear in the next issue. Secretary. 4. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 5.

W.B. LLfWELL YN He will also be remembered by generations of Captain, Vice Captain and Prefects EXTRACTS FROM JUNIOR SCHOOL fencers for providing a 'minor' sport for a 'major' I would like to extend my warmest thanks to HEAD MASTER'S REPORT number of participants, with meticulous organiza­ Matthew Sharp , Russell Cake and all the Upper The present members of the Junior School and the tion as well as personal expertese . Happily, although Sixth prefects for their hard work over the year and many Old Boys who have been taught by him will In the Junior School we are proud to have a broad retired, he will be continuing to give the fencing club I wish them every success in the future. I would also find it difficult to imagine a term starting without the programme covering a wide range of knowledge , the benefit of his experience. like to congratulate the following on their appoint­ presence of Bill Llewellyn, either in the classroom, skills and interest and we aim to open up its riches to We wish him a long and happy retirement. ment: on the touchline or on the conductor's rostrum, to all boys . B.J. Stokes Captain of School: Christopher Jarvis mention only some of the more obvious fields where The Art Department put on a splendid open even­ Vice Captain: Tom McClelland his influence has been felt. They will recall, I am ing entitled "T he Circus". Most of the boys in all year Senior Prefects: William Brierly sure, that where possible, kindly persuasion, and groups were involved in the development of that Paul Calaminus where necessary, unambiguous firmness, have been HEAD MASTER'S NEWSLETTER theme , in the painting , the modelling, the procession Rupert Cryer the hallmarks of his teaching approach. Those with in those colourful clowns' heads and boots, in the Simon Phillips genuine difficulties were nudged along, those who Common Room glamour and razzmatazz of carnival. Also admired Oliver Stokes idled soon found it did not pay. As is usual at the end of the Summer Term, we say were some of the exceptional pottery, elegantly Horace Williams In the Common Room he will be greatly missed. good-bye to some members of the Senior Cpmmon sculpted, sturdy but also amusing and skilful His reaction to nearly all situations was equable and Room. Fourth Form Entry 1991 spectrum watches and fantastically detailed insects good-humoured and his guidance helped numerous It is a great pleasure to be able to record our It may interest parents to know that among the boys and designs for supersonic trainers. colleagues and not just the new-comers . His appreciation of the work of Michael (Mike) Smith entering King's in September, 31 have a family A fine range of music was played and sung in the company was always welcome in moments of relaxa­ who now retires after 40 years teaching at King's. He connection with the School, and the 143 new boys charity concerts the School has given. This ranged tion and when serious matters arouse his contribu­ came here as a talented young physicist in 1951 and will come from 18 preparatory schools and our own from the simple joys of the Christmas Celebration tions were forthright and to the point. Few who were then ran the Department from 1957 until 1986. His Junior School. for our elderly and infirm neighbours through the present will forget the absolute appropriateness of enthusiasm for his subject influenced generations of familiar carols and stirring melodies of our Christmas his tribute at Peter Gibbs ' memorial service but his sixth form boys and he has been equally interested in Commemoration Day Concert in aid of asthma research at King's College colleagues will remember more frequently his irreve­ stimulating an awareness of science in the Junior I was delighted with the number of parents who Hospital to that notable Choral Concert at St Luke 's rent , not to say outrageous moments. School. Outside the laboratories Mike has, of braved a doubtful afternoon to join us on Commem­ Chelsea where the School helped raise £3000 for the It will certainly be duller without him. course, been indistinguishable from the success of oration Day . We do make every effort to provide a cause. D.S.H. Jones the K.C.S. Fencing Club. He also ran the School's varied afternoon and, of course, we value parents' The wide diversity of the Summer Plays or the Film Unit for many years and has recently been train­ support immensely. I should like, on behalf of Junior School Drama Workshop on Commemora­ ing boys in life-saving. King's, to thank the Band of the Welsh Guards and tion Day involved boys new to acting, apprehensive their Director of Music, Lt Col Hannam , for provid­ Patrick Higgins is leaving King's to return to of an audience but achieving remarkable perfor­ MICHAEL SMITH ing such a dramatic climax to the day. Incidentally, Cambridge as a Fellow of New Hall. Patrick has mances in movement , articulation and stage the Band came (without fee!) for old time's sake - taught History at King's since 1984 and we are presence . the regiment has long associations with the King's Michael Smith retired a the end of the Summer Term indebted to him for his work with the History and It is for this educational purpose and for our CCF - prompted , in addition, by an ex-meinber of after 40 continuous years of Physics teaching at Debating Societies. Assembly that we built and equipped Collyer Hall. the Band , Alan Cude, whom many of you will know King's, for most of the time as Head of Department. The Junior School production of "Lord of the as one of our school porters. After a distinguished undergraduate career at Appointments for 1991-92 Flies" was the first authorised adaption of Sir I expect many visitors noticed the display case in Cambridge, Mike came to King's in September 1951, There are further changes to announce in the Science William Golding's Novel, written by Nigel Williams . the entrance of College Court for the Jelf Medal , and rapidly established himself as a skilled teacher Department for 1991-1992 following Dr Peter Sir William , his publishers Faber, and the impresario presented to the School by King's College at the with an immense grasp of his subject, and the ability Lewis's retirement as Head of Physics at the end of Robert Fox wanted the play tried out by ordinary opening of the building by Professor Stewart Suther­ to make it come to life in a striking manner. None of this term. Robin Hughes will become Head of schoolboys and King's was honoured to be chosen land on Commemoration Day 1990. The case was his pupils from the 50s and 60s will forget, for Physics and Stephen Foot , the head of Chemistry, and visited by Sir William himself and his party. designed by Andrew Carnall (Lower 5 Maclear) as a example, his demonstration of the Doppler effect by becomes in addition Head of Science . There is breadth also in the rich variety of the trips technology project and was made for the School by cycling past the labs at high speed, whilst blowing a Peter Kirman will be retiring as Seconed Master in. that Junior School boys have enjoyed. From the specialist exhibition company run by Richard long continuous note through a cycle horn held a year's time . Next year will provide us, of course, Norwich, through Dover on to Singleton Downland Armitage, O.K. who is also a current parent. between his teeth! with the opportunity of saying "thank you" to Peter Museum and Fishbourne Roman Palace, past the Mike had the ability both to inspire brilliant for his outstanding service to King's. I thought Russian Exchange Visit Mary Rose at Portsmouth and over to Beaulieu, pupils, and to devote immense care and patience to parents would like to know, however, that Peter will The Headmistress of Moscow School 23 has asked us Junior School boys have enjoyed their visits, asked the yongest beginner in the Junior School. He be succeeded by Andrew Lang, who is at present to join in exchange visits. School 23 is an excellent some shrewd questions and produced their lavishly broadened the knowledge of his pupils through Senior Master . In order to prepare for the hand­ school in the centre of Moscow which specialises in illustrated and often word-processed projects. They scores of Science tours during the holidays , his hard over, Andrew is stepping down as Head of Classics English. We are hoping to arrange accommodat ion have tramped the Brecon Beacons and the work, care, and attention to detail ensuring consis­ and will be succeeded in September by Christopher with L VI families for 15 boys this autumn, and we mountains of Snowdonia and, nearer to home , have tent success. Jackson. shall then visit Moscow next spring. donned their green wellies at Menist Wood Agricul- 6. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 7.

tural College. Others have investigated antiquities at of their twelve matches, losing only when physically Competition and the national SA TIPS Senior fortunes of those ships, squadrons and regiments the British Museum or laughed and cried with "The overpowered in possession. Challenge. Francis Simon came second in the with which we are associated. The tremendous strain BFG" at the Polka Theatre. Victories against St Paul's, Whitgift, Dulwich and Townsend-Warner History Prize and four other that 'Desert Storm' has placed on military resources It is naturally a source of pride that all our seventy Donhead provide useful omens. The Second and King's Boys were placed in the top ten. Although the has had its knock-on effect for the CCF. All three eight Common Entrace candidates were successful, Third XVs had good seasons, winning more matches adjudicator did not award us the team prize this year, sections have noticed a sharp drop in administrative seventy five of them passing to our own Senior than they lost and there was much to enjoy in their the School takes pride that all three trophies rested support as servicemen were drafted to help the war School, on terms entirely parallel in every way with attractive and enterprising play. Commitment is, of on our shelves for most of the academic year - a effort. The Royal Tank Regiment was unable to able boys coming from the very best outside course, not synonymous with success and Minimus unique achievement. provide us with a visit, and the Captain of the aircraft preparatory schools . Even with a notably tougher showed better enthusiasm than teamwork in the carrier HMS Ark Royal was forced to withdraw as second Maths paper than anyone could have reason­ season, while Quintus looked better and better each our Inspecting Officer this summer. In our own way ably expected only two boys dipped slightly below match . LOWER Vlth FORM EVENING we helped as best we could - a luxury food parcel the agreed line of qualification in a reckoning based I have supported strongly against considerable 9th MAY 1991 was sent to a detachment of the Fleet Air Arm. on all subjects. Senior School pressure the right of Junior School Excellence marked the efforts of our scholars this boys to play soccer, not least because it is a national John Robson for the Old King's Club and Bob Hiller Army year. Jami! Molidina, Timothy Millington and Alexis game. Our 1st XI had an excellent season, defeating for the School organised another very successful During the first week of the summer holiday, about Sotiropoulos won Scholarships and William Head­ such soccer playing schools as Alleyns and City of Careers' Evening at the School when some 94 inter­ 30 cadets from the Army Section headed off to ley, Francis Simon, Leo Abrahams, Michael Asquith London and the Second XI and Septimus also had viewers, mainly Old Boys , dispensed advice in 214 Okehampton in Devon for the annual camp. During and Tariq Haq, Exhibitions. Eight other boys were fine seasons. interviews with the members of the Lower 6th forms. the week, cadets took part in a variety of military accepted on the basis of those papers. This reflects Our Hockey players also steadily acquired their The range of subjects was as diverse as ever ranging training , including weapons training, close quarter well the appetite for learning of these boys and basic skills and improved their performance. The from Accountancy to Marine Biology. The Old Boys battle drills and signals, which always goes down others. definition "all-weather" surface did not envisage and Guests, as always, enjoyed the excellent well! Again, the Section competed admirably in the There is a better balance of the programme in the heavy snow but no other adversities daunted them. hospitality provided by the School. This is a most week's competitions: the Assault Course, March, Junior School, science with languages, applied skills Although cricket generates more genuine litera­ important service and grateful thanks are due to Shoot and Orienteering, coming 2nd overall. with fine arts, oracy against literacy, participation in ture than any other game, I suspect that the title 'The John Robson for organising the interviewers on 30 recruits joined at the beginning of the academic proportion to instruction. This is certainly true of the Reference of Cricket' will never be written. As a behalf of the Club. year and have all shown much enthusiasm in their development of sport. In previous years boys who game its unlikeliness and irrelevance to anything but A.S.W. first year's training, passing their shooting and safety were not natural ball players had rather bleak and its own English charm are the very reasons why it test and their drill test. unprofitable games afternoons. The use of the Sports should continue to be played. Our cricket profes­ The Army Section has not missed out on exercises. Hall and the covering of the pool have altered that. sionals - we have had three at work this year - have CCFREPORT The annual inter-Section Night Initiative exercise at All our boys can now swim and the improvement in done much to raise the standards of all players, not Precis of the Combined Cadet Force Article in the Pirbright proved just as successful as the previous skills of both the weakest and the strongest swim­ just those in teams. Minimus enjoyed a most success­ School Magazine year. Six teams had to make their way round six mers owes much to the diligence of ourP.E. staff and ful season, winning all their games and Septimus Lieut Comdr R.J. Mitchell is the checkpoints, completing an initiative test at each. In to the arrival of our swimming instructor, John were almost as successful. Results elsewhere have Contingent Commanding Officer the past, this exercise has been simply a timed night Seabrook. Boys who once had no confidence in the varied considerably. The 2nd XI with four wins in hike, with the Navy winning on most occasions. water were soon pacing around the pool using a seven games fared better than the 1st XI who had a However, the introduction of the initiative test two CCF variety of strokes. rather disappointing season. years ago put a stop to the Navy's winning streak, Following his appointment as Housemaster of Once again a relay record was broken at the 50 boys benefited from the coaching in the Sports with the Army team winning ever since. Major, Mr Mosely stepped down as Contingent Swimming Gala and the high quality of junior swim­ Hall nets over the winter, but learning strokes on The Army Section also had a successful start to the Commander last summer. We are all relieved that he ming was reflected in the individual records of hard, true indoor surfaces is rather different from year and demonstrated great prowess in tackling the has decided to remain in the Corps as CO of the RAF Richard Todd and Oliver McGinn. Six boys applying them during a season when wickets were at major obstacles in the assault course at Whitgift and Section; we can ill afford to lose his enthusiasm and represented Merton in the Surrey Championships. best soft and frequently more suited to mud-wrestling. made sure the London District Assault course dedication. The changes in the School timetable, Many of my recent visits to the Sports Hall have Once again this summer every boy in the School had Trophy was brought back to King's. resulting in the parade afternoon transferring to a found our boys learning a wide variety of skills in the chance to have regular net coaching from our This year 's adventure training, which is one of the Friday, have had a significant effect on the lack of Athletics. Although this remains a minor sport in professional coaches and it was gratifying to see a best courses offered to boys in the CCF, takes place support the Forces have been able to offer us. In terms of team competition, there was a string of fine regular band of enthusiasts enjoying this opportu­ at Matterdale in the Lake District. The week of train­ some cases , those regular NCOs, on whose expertise performances at the IAPS District Meeting and at nity. ing includes numerous activities: hiking, climbing , we have come to rely , can only visit us twice a term , our Athletic Sports on Monday. The tennis players had another excellent season. sailboarding ; canoeing; and this year, water skiing . and consequently we are turning to our own senior The first team won all their Surrey league matches, The bi-annual Inspection Day took place this year Commitment across a wide range of participants cadets more than ever. They rarely let us down, and defeated Dragon, Colet Court and Clifton in the on May 3rd, with an inspection by Rear Admiral J. was the theme of our Junior School Rugby this year. no-one can fail to be impressed by the quality of the Quadrangular and were very narrowly outpointed by Carine, ChiefofStaffto the Naval Home Command. Our First XV was especially impressive. They played young men that the CCF moulds. Whitgift in the Surrey Cup. This year's summer camp was held at Proteus in open, attacking rugby, fast and fluent in the backs Our thoughts this year have frequently turned to Our quiz teams won the IAPS District Quiz Nottinghamshire. and tough and tenacious in the pack . They won eight the Gulf, and we have found ourselves following the 8. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 9.

Royal Navy ing, was greatly enjoyed by the thirty cadets that COMMEMOR ATION DAY Alex ander Sidney Sussex Natural Science Once again, this has been a busy year for the section, took part. 22nd JUNE 1991 Gvozdenovic with over a quarter of the cadets taking part in Later in the summer Louis Reddick and Steve Alexander Trinity English activities outside the new Friday afternoon slot. Santorell i attended a nine day course at Brunel As last year the School kindly provided a marquee on Ivanovitch The Cheverton Champ has been well used this University, entitled European Space School. Steve the Old Boys' lawn (Lodge garden) when Len David Knight Trinity History year, once on a navigation exercise on a cold Sunday put on a demonstration of model rocketry for the Bar key , Tony Stokes and Mark Francis set out tables Timothy Lamont Jesus Natural Science in February and on another occasion for an overnight Section during the Autumn Term. Three rockets and chairs etc . An excellent tea was provided for Smith camping trip. Unfortunately the Champ broke down were launched from the school playing fields, two of OKs and their families and the stalwarts from the James Laurenson Peterhouse English on both occasions, and, in the case of the overnight which parachuted safely back to earth. The third Rugby Club headed by Mike Tampin and Katharine David Leigh Trinity Social& trip, the group had to be rescued by the minibus the caused some alarm, for the wind blew it towards the Cowherd organised the bar arrangement. The Political Science next morning! Headmaster's study. However , it was luckily caught Secretariat arranged a display in the Dalziel room Akbar Shamji Sidney Sussex History We were again lucky enough to have a visit to our in the tree outside the tuck shop and was retrieved and Clare Craig kindly recorded up-to-date informa­ Tomasz Sokolowski Emmanuel Natural Science affiliated ship, Ark Royal, at the end ofthe Autumn with some considerable effort. This Easter, eight tion in the Old King's Club computer. Alan Cude of Paul Southern Trinity Hall Maths Term. Whilst on board the ship we went through a cadets will travel to RAF Wildenrath in Germany for the School staff was instrumental in arranging for the Philip Syrpis Jesus Law cold manoeuvre , one when the engine is not started. what should be a very interesting and enjoyable Welsh Guards band to play. Grant Warnock Gonville& English The cadets were most impressed with the size of camp. Caius operation on the ship which was threatened with The RAF Section was finally relocated in the Gulf duty at the time. Sports Hall after the old hut was knocked down two ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS The following boys won places for university courses The section also took part in the CCF National years ago. However, this room has not yet been in 1990: Regatta shortly after the beginning of the year. We properly furnished and we have not been able to use The following boys have gained entry to Oxford and D.D. Acharya, St George 's London, Medicine sent down competitors in the bosun class boats and it as much as we would have liked . The switch of Cambridge in this year's round of interviews and K.N . Ahmad , King's College London , Mathematics the windsurfing. extra-curricular activities to Friday has had both examinations: & Business /Management Studies We also had regular trips down to the south coast advantages and disadvantages for the Section. The Oxford J.Q.J . Alderson , Warwick , Business/Management to Portsmouth to have trips out into the Solent on PE Department now uses both the swimming pool Adrian Ainsworth Trinity Classics Studies various fast patrol boats. A trip to HMS Hunter for and the Sports Hall on Friday , preventing us from Julian Cater St Edmund History M.S . Balchin, London Imperial, Computer Studies a group of GCSE Navigation candidates, was marred offering activities like canoeing or self-defence Hall and Electronic Engineering only by the captain having to stop the boat as a courses. However, we have been promised some Chris Croft Brasenose PPE A.J.T. Brown, Manchester, Combined /General position was being taken on a tower not on the rnap! gliding by the Volunteer Gliding School at West Zafer Djabri Trinity Maths Arts On most occasions the opportunity was taken to Malling and are planning to take groups flying and Andrew Ellams Brasenose PPE N .D . Buxton, Bristol, Mathematics sleep overnight on the retired destroyer , HMS Kent . dry-slope skiing next term. Mr Lavender and Mr Alex Fuller Keble Classics J.J. Cavanagh , St Mary's London , Medicine It is an uncomfortable night anyway but the six Bennett supervise the Computer Flight Simulator Oliver Glasgow StHugh's Law R.J.R. Chilvers, York, English o'clock call is especially unpleasant. A trip to HMS and the Electronics/Aero modelling groups respec­ Jamie Hamilton St Edmund English J.P . Church, St George 's London, Medicine Fencer later in the year was by all accounts an enjoy­ tively . This will leave the NCO's to organise all other Hall R .J. Davidson , London Imperial, Electrical & able day despite rough seas and some casualties of activities during the exam-filled Summer Term. Thomas Hawkins Trinity Classics Electronic Engineering sea sickness . Fortunately , we have a very strong NCO Cadre Ian Hepburn St Catherine 's History J .M. Dower, Glasgow, History A trip to sea on a fast patrol boat was also available group , many of whom can expect promotion and/or Giles Hutchinson Exeter Classics S.R.F. Edgar , Reading , Chemistry on the summer general camp as one of many places on week-long RAF Gliding courses in the near Thomas Livesey Wadham Classics M.P. Francis , Aberystwyth, Computer Studies and future. activities including sailing, canoeing, shooting, Hasnain Malik Keble History for PPE Economics orienteering and firefighting. Activities worthy of note include the inter-Section Ben Norman Worcester Medicine R.B . Franolic , Bristol , Biochemistry Individual cadets also had the chance to join CCF Night Initiative exercise, where the RAF teams came Dominic Thomas Balliol History G . Gabriel , Manchester, Georgraphy teams on the night hike which was combined with third and fourth out of six, an improvement on last Anthony Van Der Trinity Classics J.G. Goode , Bristol, Geography (Physical Science) initiative exercises at each checkpoint. The navy year's performance; the various evasion exercises Meer S.C. Hall , Sheffield , Anatomy /Physiology and team beat several other Army and RAF teams to held on Wimbledon Common; and a visit to the Simon Williamson St Anne' s Maths Pharmacology finish second out of six. Royal Aeronautical Society. B.O.J. Hamm ond , Edinburgh , Computer Studie s Louis Reddick (Cadet Warrant Officer) Cambridge P.J . Harris, York , Psychology RAF Louis has been an outstanding Senior NCO . He has Neil Anderson St Catherine 's Classics B.G. Hart, Kent, Industrial Relation s This has been quite a busy and successful year for the won his glider pilot 's wings and an Air League Flying Hugh Chow Downin g History A.N . Hayes, Warwick, History RAF Section. Last year , Mr Mosley took sixteen Scholarship . A Julian Belchamber award will help Richard Collins Girt on Geography M.D. Hedges. East Anglia, Mathematics with cadets to RAF Locking for an Easter camp . This him to pursue his flying further. He is also , deser­ Steven Coren Downing Law Philosophy gave them the opportunity to participate in a range of vedly , one of a handful of British Air Cadets who will Timothy Fitzmaurice Girton Natural Science S.K.M . Hirji , Sath , Business/Management Studies adventurous activities , as well as several outdoor travel abroad this summer on the International Air Nicholas Gibbins Queens ' Natural Science D.M. Houston, King's College London, English exercises . Last year 's Summer camp, also at Lock- Cadet Exchange Scheme . Timothy Gray St John 's Medicine 0 . Huxter , Edinburgh , Combined /General Course 10. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 11.

G.B. Ingram, Birmingham, Financial Management M.J. Bonner , Newcastle, Institutional Management OLD KING'S CROSS COUNTRY CLUB OLD KING'S HOCKEY CLUB D.M. Johns, King's College London, History A .P. Downer, Bristol, European Law This year's race against the School will be held on 7th F. Joseph , Manchester, Civil Engineering D. Jacobs, Ealing, Accountancy The Section had a splendid season in 1990-91. Our December at 2 p.m. It is just three miles over the M.A. Keshavjee, Warwick, Combined Studies A.F.D. Porter, Oxford, Chemistry and Physics best ever result in the Glenfarclas Cup was to be Common and is therefore suitable for anyone with a W.J. Killick, Reading, Land/Property Management A.O. Struthers, Norwich, Leisure Studies eliminated 5-4 on penalty flicks after extra time in the modicum of fitness! If you would like to run you are J.F.B. Leeper, Warwick, Mechanical Engineering quarter final of the Cup by Old Whitgiftians at 21 hrs. welcome just to turn up on the day. Anyone requir­ B.S. Lewis, Exeter, Economics KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL and on a blustery evening in March. I hope we can ing more details or information about running gener­ A.O. MacDougall, Southampton, Biology THE OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE achieve more in 1991-1992. ally in the area is welcome to contact me. My address H.B. Makiya, London Imperial, Civil Engineering BOARD Seven leavers including Russell Cake and Richard is at the front of the Newsletter. Carter have indicated their interest in Old Boys' B.K. Mathews, Bristol, Chemistry The Academic League Table published by the Daily Julian Smith hockey - I think that brings my temporarily (I hope) A.P. McCleave, Manchester, Geography Telegraph on 29th August this year which listed the mislaid list of contact members up to about 80 poten­ A.L. Moorthy , Birmingham, Combined/General 105 schools whose "A" Level candidates gained at tial players . Arts least 40% A and B Grade passes, showed King's OLD KING'S GOLF CLUB S.M. Morgan, Lancaster, Georgraphy The need for a 20 year old or 30 year old Secretary College School in 15th place with 69.9%. The Golf Club had a busy June during which 19 M.J. Newman, Reading, Land/Property Managment and dynamo for this Old Boys' Section is critical. This is a remarkable achievement by any players attended the Spring Meeting held at Malden D.G. Norris, Durham, Economics and Politics In addition to Glanfarclas, I hope we can play standards, especially as King's College School does Golf Club. Some good scores were recorded with D .J. Owen, East Anglia, History with Politics against. Surbiton H.C., Wimbledon H.C., Old not take girls. Many schools profit greatly, especially Mark Francis having the best stableford score and A.J. Palmer, University College London , Statistics Rugbeians, Public Schools Old Boys' Sixes and The in arts subjects, by luring away exceptionally clever winning the Bill Cox Cup . S.T. Parker, Bristol, Chemistry School(? 3 Xl's). The only firm date I have so far is young ladies from girls' schools. (In fact, among The following day, Robin Clark, Guy Chesser and M.B.R. Patel, Southampton, Medicine Thursday, 2nd April 1992 v. The School. boys-only schools we came 7th). John Oliver putted for the Club in the Royal J.V.B. Piper, East Anglia, Law I have moved and my correct details are now: The Oxford and Cambridge Board started operat­ Wimbledon Putting Competition, but not with any A.R. Pirrie, Leeds, French and Portuguese Drayton House, 55 Cliveden Road, Wimbledon ing in the summer of 1874 and King's College School overall distinction! S. Pithey, Birmingham, Biology SW19 3RD. Telephone (home) 081-540 8773, was among the twenty-three schools that the Board Thunder and lightning caused the curtailment of J .S. Potter, Reading, Land/Property Management (office) 071-377 3246. examined. The range of subjects and methods of the match against the School , also held at Royal A. Radia, Edinburgh, Economics J.R. Bruce Garrett assessment were of course, very different from Wimbledon, and no one match was played to a finish B.K. Richardson , Durham, Classics today's, but it is pleasing to record that by 1880 for the first time in many years. D.J. Saville, Leeds, Law King's College School headed the list of all the The Club's team of six qualified for the finals of the H. Sivagnanaratnam, Bristol, Mathematics competing schools. Grafton Morrish competition for the ninth year R.E. Sneller LSE, Economics with Statistics OLD KING'S RIFLE CLUB The Head Master, his staff and his pupils in 1991 running . Steady scores by Robin Clark and Charles P.A.T. Stenlake, Reading , History are to be warmly congratulated on sustaining a Turton, playing top pair at The Addington, and Running Deer Competition - 30th March M.T.E. Stephens, Manchester, English tradition for academic excellence which was first Chris Gems and Howard Souter still left a good deal In total we had twelve members attend and the N.M. Sundaram, Bristol, Mechanical Engineering established at King's College School over one of work to be done. Happily Mark Townsend and the standard of shooting was high considering that the with Production Engineering hudnred years ago. Secretary were up to the job, and the Club qualified sporting Rifle is not the Club's main discipline . M.W. Thomas, Loughborough, Mechanical Eng­ F.R. Miles in seventh place out of the nine London region The results were as follows: ineering qualifiers. FOX Richard Hudson 41 A.S. Thomas, Dundee, Medicine OLD KING'S CRICKET CLUB The Club will take the same six players that were BUCK Simon Wood 56 L. K. Vairavamoorthy, King's College London, Commemoration Day - 22nd June 1991 the runners-up of the 1990 tournament to Norfolk, DEER SINGLES Gavin Franklin 28 Computer Studies with Business/Management The Old Boy's 1st Team, Captained by Darren during the first week of October , to play in the first DEER DOUBLES Neill Roberts 22 Studies Talbot, lost to the School who scored 210 for nine round against Bolton at Brancaster. A second round OVERALL WINNER Richard Hudson 129 S.A. Webb, Swansea, English declared, Russell Cake scored 62 and Bruce Gardner match against Charterhouse or Epsom awaits the SWEEP Nick Holliday winning £? K. Zaman, Queen Mary London, Statistics and 50. Peter Noble (Old Boys) took four wickets for 41 winners. It is hoped the team might go one stage The winners of the categories, who were awarded Computer Studies runs. The Old Boys scored 152 all out, Dudley further this year and win! Bullet Keyrings, are to be congratulated as there was some considerable competition. Thomas scored 42. H. Malik (School) took five The Secretary would like to see a greater competi­ The following boys won places for polytechnic and wickets for 50 runs . tion for Grafton Morrish places , and hopes that Club Shoot 600K - Sunday 14th April Art College courses in 1990: The 2nd Teams played a limited overs match at players such as Daniel Davies, Marnock Aston and Ten people shot with the first outing of our newly J. Ahman , Kingston, Mathematics West Barnes lane which the School again won. The Andrew Fordyce will, amongst others, press their acquired 'Green Spot' ammunition. With the one D.D. Sweiry, Birmingham, Computer Studies Old Boys' Captain was Kelvin Walton. Next year this claims for a place. As Angus MacDougall , Guy unlucky exception, none of the shooting members D.W. Talbot, East London, Business/Management fixture may be on a Friday evening and it is hoped Chesser and Mark Townsend have already played in scored less than 44. Studies that there may be an Old Boys v School Staff match one shape or form, it may be that a new generation of The results were : 0. Davie-Turner, Wimbledon Art College also. King's Golfers is appearing out of the School Leavers KINGSHOT Geoff Atkinson 47.4 P. Inglis, Camberwell Art College Any enquiries please to Darren Talbot, Tel. 081- of the second half of the 1980s. MARKSMEN Neill Roberts 49.7 Y. Suh, Chelsea Art College 398 4603. Peter Crowther , Tel : 081-947 1568 RIFLEMAN Gareth Thurston 36.2 12. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 13.

The victors of their categories were awarded their OLD KING'S RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB OLD KING'S SWIMMING CLUB by a 3-1 win over Felsted Old Boys . The 3rd round Spoons with much reverence and due ceremony over paired us against last year 's runners up, St George's lunch in the Surrey Hut . It being the close season when bat, racket and mallet For at least the fourth year running the annual Weybridge . Much to their surprise , and ours, our team of Pilcher and Diacon/Springthorpe and Shoot at School on Commemoration Day - 22nd June hold sway, there is little to report in the recent past , Commemoration Day "match" against the School Druckman , for once all played well at the same time, A typical British summer day typified the 120°F con­ other than to note the year's social and gastronomic failed to take place. Having now taken over as and a convincing 4-0 victory was achieved. ditions , the searing heat nearly called a halt to the zenith - the Veterans' annual luncheon in July at a Secretary/Swimming Representative , my aim for At the time of writing we are due to play the semi­ proceedings . The Old Boys' team gathered in the delightful hideaway in rural West Sussex. The Club 's next year is to muster at least two teams so that at final on 7th September against the 1989 winners of "tea" tent for some pre-competition refreshment. future tense , however, becomes Jess conditional by least some sort of event can be held. the competition , Old Elthamians. Our team for this The School Team was ready at 2 p.m. prompt. the day as our plans for a new ground and clubhouse For those who would like to get involved in match is Pilcher and Diacon/P. Druckman and Once again we had agreed to a handicap of forty come closer to some sort of realisation. After several competitive swimming, stroke improvement, or just Springthorpe/A . Gregory and E . Camp. More infor­ points, which later created a very interesting months of debate and negotiation, the purchase of keeping fit, it is hoped to start training sessions at the mation will follow in the next Newsletter. scenario . Our team was as follows: half the Old Blues ' territory at West Barnes Lane is pool dependent on sufficient numbers. If you wish to Needless to say, I would be pleased to hear from Geoff Atkinson Gavin Franklin very near to being achieved. The ground scheme will register interest or find out more you can either con­ any Old Boys who would like to play for the Club, Mike Hook Nick Holliday be to build an adjoining but separate clubhouse , tact me or John Seabrook at the pool or via the either on Commemoration Day or in the D'Abernon Amjid Salam Chris Hudson which, it is hoped , will become in the nature of an Sports Club . Cup matches . Tim Moir Warren Rushton Old Boys' Association offering facilities not only for Philip Newman Tel: 081-543 6776 Christopher Diacon Tel: (home) 0932 347653 and scored 732 points. rugby players but also for others of the Old Boys' Philip J. de D . Newman has recently taken over as (office) 071-895 0077 The School scored 692 making the competition sporting clubs. In this way the Club will provide a King's College School Old Boys ' Swimming with the handicap a Draw! No one knew what to do venue for a variety of activities and will encourage a Representative and his address can be found at the next or how to resolve the impasse. Then we decided new focus of apres-match social life which over the beginning of this Newsletter. to draw on Jack's experience, the result was decided last few years has become a little moribund. KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL LODGE on a count out on the number of bulls; we had 34 to For the fabric itself we must wait until the season No. 4257 their 16. The Shield has returned to the Old Boys. of 1992/93, however until that auspicious moment we OLD KING'S LAW TENNIS CLUB have been grateful to receive the offer of a pitch at It is encouraging to report that we have been able to Public Schools' Veterans Ashburton - 17th July the Old Blues and the use of their clubhouse during welcome two younger Old Boys as members of the It is with a great deal of sadness that once again I The summer months have seen the usual inceased the coming season. This in itself must be a vast Lodge , A.V. O'Flaherty and I.D. Thomson. At the must report that the School did not make an appear­ level of activity from the tennis section, all the more improvement over last year 's uneasy nomadic exis­ Meeting at the School in May, Robert Yonge was ance at the Ashburton . This year the School 's Cadet so this year due to an extended and so far unbeaten tance and will help erase the melancholic memory of Installed as Worshipful Master by John Newman . Rifles had to be taken out of circulation because of a run in the D'Abernon Cup. the charred skeleton at Robin Hood Way . R .H.F. Norris is Senior Warden and N .E .C. Evans design fault! Maybe the days of a King's College The usual matches against the School took place We need new blood, new bodies and renewed Junior Warden. Guy Brew is now the Treasurer. School School victory in the Ashburton are a thing of on Commemoration Day, and were both extremely enthusiasm. Nobody is too old, too slow, too inept, On the 26th June H .M.G. King was appointed the past , but it does not stop the School trying - or closely contested. The School , after a number of too socially unacceptable to play rugger - believe fairly lean years now has probably its strongest side Provincial Grand Supt of Works and G .E . Cox Past does it? me , we bear witness to this every Saturday . Get into for nearly 10 years , and as a consequence the Old Provincial Grand Supt of Works. They were both Golden Shot - 17th August the loft, dig out the Cotton Oxfords and knee length Boys ' 5-4 win in the 1st team match was only invested by the Provincial Grand Master (The Earl Conditions for this shoot were quite reasonable in bags and join the New Age of Kings ' College School achieved after some close and hard fought matches. of Shannon). the morning for the 200x range. The wind was light Old Boys rugby. It takes no more than a telephone It is to be hoped that some of these good young Members of the Lodge greatly appreciate the and did not prove to be a problem. The lOOxrange in call to one of our many officers. players will become available for the Old Boys in the kindness of the Head Mas~ r for allowing us to hold the afternoon proved quite a contrast, wind gusting M.E . Bruce . Tel: 081-549 5118 next couple of years, thus enabling some youth to be our Installation Meeting at the School. Our thanks up to five minutes between shots. The sun also came added to an Old Boys' squad that is perhaps best too to Mr Ball and his staff for the splendid dinner out towards the end of the day and the light made Officers described as experienced . For the record the Old they provided in May . On 20th July The Master sighting tricky, which for most proved to be quite a President, J.D.E . Hamilton; Capt of Club, M.P. Boys 1st team on Commemoration Day compri sed arranged an "At Home " in the garden of his hom e in headache . Despite these problems there were some Tampin; Hon. Secretary, M.E. Bruce; Hon. P. Druckman and Diacon /Springthorpe and Herne Bay in aid of Masonic charities. This proved remarkably good scores . Treasurer, D.M . Druckman; Fixture Secretary, Thompson/Chevalier and Moir. to be a very happy event much enjoyed by members The victor for the Golden Bullet was Paul A.B . Todd; Hon . Auditors, J.V . Pomeroy , B.M . The improvement in overall tennis standards at and their guests . Charlton with a score of 89.7 out of a possible 100. Moritz. the School mean s that the 2nd VI also contains some Membership is open to all Old Boys over the age of The club "doubles" was won by Jeremy Bennett and Captains competent players. As a consequen ce the Old Boys' 21 year s and memb ers of the School Staff. Detail s of Paul Charlton with a joint score of 174.8 beating 1st XV , I. Cox; Vice, J. Bruce . 2nd XV, S. Hare ; 2nd team of Robin and Simson/D . Dru ckm an and Member ship may be obtained from the Secretary or their nearest rivals by some eight points . Vice, P. Worsick. 3rd XV to be agreed. Vets XV, J. Francis and a 3rd pair who probably prefer to remain any member s. R.J. Hudson Hole. Team Secretary , L.E . Glover. Committee : K. unnamed, narrowly lost by 5 matches to 4. E .A. Roberts Cowherd , P. Elkington , D .Hamilton , M. Tampin, I am also pleased to be able to report that we are W. Gerry. currently enjoying our best run in the D'Abernon Cup since 1964. A bye in the 1st round was followed 14. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 15.

KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL LODGE ultimately led to freelance scriptwritng. Over the Squadron LeaderD.G.T.R. HAYES (1929) (known semi-retirement ( the semi- because the rest of us are No. 4257 years, I worked on dozens of magazines, writing as "Lofty" for the 23 years I served in the R.A.F.) waiting with baited breath to see whether he can many thousands of scripts for everything from teen­ How shall I start - well, I retired in September extrapolate himself from business and the Met­ It is encouraging to report that we have been able to age romance to science fiction. I was involved with 1979, and as I was already a yachtsman , my wife and ropolis). He is now, therefore, acting as a consultant welcome two younger Old Boys as members of the the Gerry Anderson "Thunderbirds" project, and I sailed "Hyades" from the south coast, across the in the music industry, leaving more time for his other Lodge, A.V. O'Flaherty and I.D. Thomson. At the later, the most successful comic, "Look-In". At vari­ Bay, along northern Spain and into Portugal. We pursuits. Jon is still thriving at Southampton Univer­ Meeting at the School in May, Robert Yonge was ous times, I also edited newspapers and magazines lived on the boat for eight years, cruising the sity, as is his wife Elsa, who is still working in one of Installed as Worshipful Master by John Newman. for Ranks-Hovis-McDougall, Canadian Pacific Mediterranean, during the summer months. Unfor­ the maternity hospitals there. They are, (I think it is R.H.F. Norris is Senior Warden and N.E.C. Evans Ships and Ford. However, the bulk of my writing was tunately, my wife Eileen suffers from an incurable official now) heading for an expanded existence, Junior Warden. Guy Brew is now the Treasurer. always for the young, and my favourite output was illness call multiple schlorosis (M.S.) which although since Elsa is expecting a baby in late September. And On the 26th June H.M.G. King was appointed for the Thames T.V. series "Danger mouse ", which she suffered for many years, got worse about three I too have some news, in that a young Indian lady has Provincial Grand Supt of Works and G.E. Cox Past became something of a cult. My wife and I moved to years ago, so what with that (and old age!) it became agreed to marry me ... To take place in Hyderabad Provincial Grand Supt of Works. They were both France in 1990, where, with around eight acres of obvious to me, I'd have to give up yachting - too (central south India) on the 4th January. She comes invested by the Provincial Grand Master (The Earl forest and meadow to tame, we find our priorities lie stressful! So I managed to buy a small villa, by the from an illustrious family, once ministers in the court of Shannon). more with spade and chainsaw than with typewriter coast, about 25 miles north of Gibraltar, where we of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Her great, great grand­ Members of the Lodge greatly appreciate the and tippex. have been dwelling ever since. Still, I'm not one to sit father was the first Indian on the Viceroy 's council, kindness of the Head Ma:.ter for allowing us to hold And that's it. I often play the "Whatever around all day on the patio, doing nothing - so last and funnily enough, her great uncle was at Caius in our Installation Meeting at the School. Our thanks Happened To So-And-So" game, and wonder about May, (with the money I got from·s~ling my boat) I the 1920s. Isn't it curious how these things turn out? too to Mr Ball and his staff for the splendid dinner the three masters (all junior school) who gave me so brought a motor caravan . My wife and I collected it My only reminiscences of what Caius was like in the they provided in May. On 20th July The Master much encouragement with my writing. I owe much to and I crossed the ferry from Newhaven and cruised 1920s therefore come from a spritely old gentleman arranged an "At Home" in the garden of his home in Cecil Venner, E.H. Oakley and - naturally - E.H. across France, visiting friends . We arrived back here living in India. I must find out whether he was one of Herne Bay in aid of Masonic charities. This proved Keelan-Shaw. Also, of course, I think about A.A. at 2100 hrs on 8th July. All together I had driven the first Indians to arrive at the College. to be a very happy event much enjoyed by members Rossi, the senior school master who taught me so 3,750 kms ... not bad for an old codger!! Now, I'm Talking of the College, I should think you will and their guests. much of the French upon which I rely today. I like to resting up!! have heard that we have acquired the Squire law Membership is open to all Old Boys over the age think he would be pleased with the easy manner in So for the present - that's that! library building, which will now become the college 's of 21 years and members of the School Staff. Details which I order my Ricard! D.G.T.R. Hayes library while the other lawyers move across the river. of Membership may be obtained from the Secretary Yours very sincerely, Otherwise, little has changed. The other day I took Angus P. Allan or any members. RICHARD MONTGOMERY (1987) the M.A., and spent a fascinating day catching up on Pyrene, Castragnede E.A. Roberts Dear Head Master, my colleagues from undergraduate days. A huge 31260 Saliew-du-Salat, France Having not been in touch for some time I thought range of careers, some of them most unexpectedly I'd drop a line to let you know my whereabouts. Still respectable. D.O.S. FROHLICH (1977) reports: at Caius, but hopefully for not much longer. Infact Well, I hope this letter offers a little respite from OLD BOYS' NEWS Since 1982, a few years out of school, I started a Jon and I did try and see you some months back, and your preparations for the coming term, and also that company supplying computer supplies and equip­ indeed, we drank some of your sherry, when Jon you had a good Easter. As a postscript I whould add ANGUS P. ALLEN - Dear Mr Morris, ment. Almost ten years on my company has grown to came to talk to the 6th Form on, if I remember that the spelling mistakes are only due to my Sheer enjoyment of the Newsletter (surely a modest be listed in the top 200 of an industry which includes rightly, the legal complexities of research on inadequate typing skills, and not due to my early enough term for a thoroughly entertammg over 7,000 dealerships across the U .K. embryos. It was the first time I'd seen the (now not so education. magazine?) prompts me to submit an authobio­ In the last three years, we have won five major new) theatre and sports complex. My brother and I With best regards, graphical piece which I hope you can include in the awards, including an IBM Quality Award, VAR spent an hour or so looking around in awe, muttering Richard Montgomery "Old Boys' News" section of the next issue. I am magazine Award for Excellence and Tuplip under our breath about "it wasn't like this in our Computers Dealer of the Year (twice). always entertained by the directions Old Boys have day". The sort of experience that (quite falsely) EDGAR NEMETH (1972) taken, and perhpas contemporaries of mine would makes one begin to feel older. Dear Mr Miles, Dr M. HADLEY BROWN (1978) writes that he be intrigued to discover just what happend to "Old I'm hoping to finish off the PhD in July, and then I see from a recent number of the Daily Telegraph moved to Thetford in 1989 to take up a partnership in Piggy Allan" ... on to something connected but different, namely that for your Register you are asking for Old Boys a six man general medical practice in Thetford and In a report marking my transition from junior to overseas development. Quite at what level I'll get who served under Mr Dixon to write and give you senior school, E.H. Keelan-Shaw remarked: "I want the nearby village of Brandon. Since then he has into the field remains to be seen, but I hope to find details. replaced another partner and over the next year will a signed copy of his first published work". I didn't some project work in agricultural and rural develop­ I do not fall into this category as I entered KCS be seeking another two replacement partners send it to him, as I feel he would not have ment. Thus many of my "spare hours " are consumed Senior School in September 1923 from Rokeby Prep because of retirments. He passed the MRCGP exam appreciated "Buck Jones and The Raiders Of The with writing letters and finding out about organisa­ School and was placed in Form 1VA and the Head­ in 1988. Muriel and he now have two children, Iron Road". I began work at Amalgamated Press in tions such as Oxfam, but also the larger entities such master was Lionel Rogers. Andrew (4) and Kathryn (3) . His address is 15 Hill 1953, and after National Service in the Gordon High­ as the ODA and World Bank. I was in West House under Frank Hole and ran in House Lane, Croxton, Thetford, Norfolk IP241 UR . landers, returned there to develop a career that Our family news is that Dad is in the process of the Cross Country. J played Rugger for some years 16. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 17.

under Dudley Collier who was Captain of the Club. I hope you will be able to attend the Gaudy . Nicholas and Christopher , all educated at King's. General Manager of the Bechuanaland Cattle In 1932 a Rugger Club section of the Metropolitan Unfortunately my wife and I will be overseas at that Except for myself they were excellent rugby players Ranch , Mr Chris Dreyer. Special Constabulary was formed as another time so I will not be able to attend. who readily made the first XV , and distinguished The scheme was to turn the North Eastern corner General Strike was expected, and Rugger Clubs There were 84 including staff at the last 1920's themselves in other ways, though I must hasten to of Botswana into a second Argentine to supply beef for the British market. It were asked to form mobile sections. Dudley Collier Gaudy but the numbers will be rather less this time. add that I did make the Wye College rugger team for stretched from the Rhode­ was our Sub-Inspector. Yours sincerely the three years I was there. sian Border westwards to the Okovany Swamps and During the War I was in the Intelligence Corps, Alan S. Wells I feel I should remind the School that during the southwards from the Zambezi to the near Francis­ Interrogation Section, speaking French, German Hon. Secretary years prior to the outbreak of the war , that is during town. It was to be the biggest ranch in the world and and Hungarian. the head mastership of Mr H.J. Dixon, there can be is probably the best cattle country in Africa and In 1944 I had special interviews and language tests From RUSSELL SLATFORD (1988) no doubt that King's was the finest shooting school in abounds with game. in Hungarian, as the intention was to infiltrate from I began coxing at the age of 14 at school (1984), in Britian, magnificently trained by Captain Churchill­ In 1953 after a couple of accidents involving the children we decided that the interior of Botswana Italy into Jugo Slavia and so into Hungary to cut the 1985, 1986 and 1987 I won the Schools' Head and in Clark , better known to us boys as Blase, and German's long line of communication. This was 1986 and 1987 I won gold medals at National Sergeant-Major Lee . was not a sensible place to bring up a young family, that I should resign and we should go somewhere blocked by the Americans who said they had prom­ Schools. I If memory serves me right we won the Surrey Bowl more civilised. ised Stalin invasion in the West. I spent the rest of the In 1987 I was selected to cox the Great Britain seven years in succession, the Sussex Bowl five and In Rhodesia I became a farm manager , learnt to War in Belgium and Germany as Interrogator. coxed IV in the World Junior Championships in the Ashbarton Shield three times. I myself was a grow tobacco and in 1956started farming on my own. I hope that you will not find this too boring , but I Cologne, Germany . We came 10th out of 15, only0.4 promising shot, was given every encouragement and thought to put you in the picture. seconds off 7th place. opportunity to shoot well but sadly never quite made I did have one moment of glory when we grew the top priced bale of Virginia tobacco sold on the auction Edgar Nemeth In 1988, I was Captain of Boats at school but the eight. I should like to add that the East Surrey floors one season. I was also a pioneer Burley 6 Spring Gully Place , Wahroonga N .S.W. 20786 unfortunately I was three weeks too old to cox at ' Regiment could not beat us school boys either. Rus­ tobacco grower. In the 1960s the Agricultural Minis­ Australia junior international level. In 1989, (my year off) I sell and Morris, both friends of mine brought great try decided it could not rely indefinitely on the two Tel : 489 6034 coxed at Leander Club where we raced around honour to the School by winning the First and Third Europe, winning at Ghert and Ratzberg regattas. Balliol scholarships in Classics. main crops Virginia tobacco and maize, that farmers In 1990, I coxed the Durham University 1st VIII, After leaving King's in 1939 I went to Wye College should diversify into other crops. This did not much From HENRY RYLAND (1922) that summer I was selected to cox the Great Britain in Kent to study farming. In May 1941 I enlisted in interest me but having a degree I felt obliged to assist Dear Mr Wells, coxed IV at the Under 23 World Championships in the Suffolk Regiment, was commissioned into the on leading the way. I concentrated on Burley I was saddened to read in Newsletter No . 78 that Austria, where we came 5th in the final. 6th/8th Punjab Regiment , Indian Army , in 1942. I tobacco, we had a lot to learn about growing com­ Y .P. Lidell had died . I was a friend of his at school , In 1991, I again coxed Durham University 1st served in the Sind Desert on the North West Fron­ mercially on a field scale and I became poor in the though a year or two ahead of him, leaving in 1922, VIII , and again was selected to cox the Great Britain tier , in Malaya, and in Java and in time commanded process . It took many years to get out of debt. The and well remember his prodigious strength in the coxed IV in the Under 23 World Championships in a Machine Gun Company attached to the Assault lesson is - leave it to others. Groundnuts are still a scrum . We used to call him "Fatty" Lidell . Scicily, we finished 4th in the final, only one second Brigade , the 23rd Indian Division, with the rank of Cinderella crop, but Burley and cotton have Several years ago when revisiting the old country , off bronze medal. Major. flourished. a mutual friend of ours told me of seeing him in his I still have my final year to finish at Durham After the Japs surrendered I represented the There has never been a dull moment farming in house-cum-post office in Gloucestershire , and said University where I am reading Geology . After that I Indian Army on Colonel Sam Silkin's War Crime s Rhodesia/Zimbabwe . The folly of U .D.!. sanctions , how much Lidell hoped old school chums would look may continue further education at Oxford or London Court in Singapore , during 1946. Colonel Silkin later war , Independance, the threat of Marxist/Leninism him up as he was feeling a bit isolated . So I did, and Universities where I would hope to cox (and have became the Attorney-General in several Labour and now the Government wants to give half our farm we had a very interesting lunch together in the been indirectly asked to do so) . r Governments prior to Mrs Thatcher becoming Prime away. To date we Iiave managed to survive but it is nearby pub . Next year , after the Olympics, I have been invited Minister . Later in 1946 I returned to Wye to com­ becoming more difficult every year with droughts , However , the main purpose of this letter is to tell to take part in Senior Selection , and hope in the next I plete my B.Sc. degree in agriculture and to my great shortages , inflation and poor prices except for you an amusing story about him which you may not few years I can represent my country at Senior surprise found lots of lovely girls there , one of whom tobacco. have heard . In school days he'd not sign himselfY .P. Intenational level. became my wife. I was at Wye 1939/40 and again Should you visit the country, it is very British, you Lidell , but "Y.P . (because you have to) Lidell"! 1946/48. will feel quite at home and we have some wonderful Yours sincerely My dearest wish was to find and rent a farm prefer­ game . I think you will agree that those wicked white Henry Ryland From ROUER TOPPING (1939) ably in West Sussex. This we failed to do . During my settlers did rather a good job , in a few short years . 48 Foxboro Point , Esex, Conn. 06426, U.S.A. Dear Mr Miles, travels I never ceased to wonder at the achievements Every diplomat I have met here tells me there is no P.S. Since writing the above I have just received Mr I understand from my brother Nicholas that you of the British in Empire building . When the Govern­ other country in Africa like Zimbabwe . Reeve's invitation to a Gaudy on 21st September for would like particul ars of my career , such as it is. The ment set up the Commonwealth Developmenty Cor­ We have two sons both farming and four daughters school leavers in the 1920s. I'd like to attend and will completed form you sent to me, with his own details , poration , the aim was to have a second Elizabethan plus twelve grandchildren . Should we have to come look into that possibility . before realising his error. I am writing a precis of my era , I decided I would like to play a part in it. I finally home I hope room can be found for us. life and suggest you extract whatever you need . succeded in persuading Dr Alec Fowler to let me join We now have a herd of Beefmaster cattle , an Dear Mr Ryland , Much of it though personal does express my feeling his Anim al Products Division in 1950. Initially I American breed originally half Brakinon blood , a Th ank you for your remarks about Y .P. Lidell and the reasoning behind my actions . worked at Head Office in Dover Street, Piccadilly quarter Hereford and a quart er Beef Shorthorn which we hope to publish in the Newsletter. I am the eldest of four brother s, Roger , Peter , but was out to Botswana in 1951 as assistant to the which my wife manages, and grow maize, cotton , 18. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 19.

soya bean s and wheat under irrigation, in fact it is thirds of State Maintained schools provide no cricket 8th May 1991, having been Deputy Mayor in 1986/87 company, and a favourite of the Prince of Wales , was very like American farming, and also use Massey facilities. and 1988/89. He has also been Hon. Secretary of the at King's College School in 1862. A number of Ferguson farm machin ery. Old King's Club Benevolent Fund since its pupils, however, were to distinguish themselves as I have always been interested in politics and JOHN S.L. BALL (1968) is now the Services inception . popular playwrights. Leopold David Lewis, for current afairs, but as an oppositi on support er never Manager in the Registrar's De partment of the Bank instance, translated The Bells from the French for got anywher e, although I did addre ss public meet­ of Eng land in Gloucester. WOLSTANH.R. WEBB (1921)writesthathespent Irving, who virtually established his reputation in the ings. I served in the British South Africa Police a lifetime as a railway signals engineer and during the play . Lestock Boileau Wooldridge, who acted under Reserve for 28 years and was Pari sh Tre asurer for DERE K BRID GES (1956) is the Chief Registrar of second world war, provided liaison between the the name of William Lestocq, wrote numerous several years , until a heart atta ck intervened. I think the Bank of England and his depa rtment is now American and British Air Forces in the development successful farces , and it is interesting to note that I have written enough. I hope one day we shall met located in Gloucester. of new weaponry. The post war years found him recent American research has shown that Oscar and very best wishes to my old School. It did a good travelling throughout Latin America. Later he Wilde based many of the incidents in The Importance job with my brothers and me . A .R . (TONY) BUNCE (1953) has recently retired served with the United Nations Technical Assistance of Being Earnest on one of Wooldridges popular Yours sincerely as a Manag er in the Dividend Office of the Bank of programme to the Middle East, particularly as farces . Roger Topping England. adviser to the Iranian State Railways and as Senior In Maclear 's day , the annual school theatrical My wife has just read this through and is a bit upset, Lecturer to the Railway Training Centre , Lahore , performances , which took place during prizegiving , only passing reference s to her. I must make amends, PETER HARTLEY (1962) now works as Director Pakistan . comprised English , French , German and Greek she insists on a name. of Educ ation and Trainin g in the Diocese of He has now published a book called "Thirty years plays. Thomas Anstey Guthrie, the future successful Her maiden name was Anne May de Ha villand Chelmsford tackling all the challenges with the around the World " (price £11.95 plus post and pack­ novelist and playwright, records a performance of Hall, only daughter of Colonel and Mrs P. De H . departm ent that links with the 140 Church Schools in ing £1.50), about his experiences. His address is The Frogs by Aristophanes in which he took part. Hall , D .S.O., M.C. , of Kingston upon Thames . Essex and the five Lond on Borough s besides the Cabanon Picciola, Route d'Aubres, 26110 Noyons, Unfortunately, after uttering the first fifteen lines of Education and Training issues in the 580 or so France - should you wish to order a copy. his part , he totally forgot the rest , but satisfied the ROGER J.A . WILSON, M.A ., D .Phil. (1967) parishes of the diocese . audience by repeating these lines again and again He is a lecturer on Classical Archaeol ogy at Trinit y C.L.M . ZANOTTI-FREGONARA (1986) In with adroitly altered intonation. Among those who College, Dublin and has now been made an Assistant COLIN N. HENDERSON (1960) is the Transfer October 1990 he successfully completed an M.Sc. also performed was the painter W .R. Sicker!, whose Professor. He won a scholarship and is a graduate of Office Manager in the Registrars ' Department of the course in Semiconductor Science and Technology. Shakespearian recitations were widely praised and Wadham College, Oxford where he gained the T. W . Bank of England in Gloucester. With it he was also awarded a Diploma of Imperial who, at that time, contemplated a career on the Green Scholarship in Classical Archaeology. College . Subsequently he enrolled (October 1990) stage. Certainly his paintings and etchings of theatres Between 1987 and 1989 he held the Alexander von T.J . LUSCOMBE (1978) is working as a Director for on a PhD course in the Materials Department of the and music halls show that his interest remained. Humboldt research fellowship at the the English Shakespe are Company . same college. This course is sponsored by Plessey Two other famous theatrical figures were also in Archaeologisches Institute in the University of Industries, in part, as it is SERC funded through the the School under Maclear , the future actor-manager, Bonn. He is the Louis Claude Purser lecturer and R .C.W. MAYER (1961) is the Training Manager at CASE studentship award. He is at present continu­ Sir John Martin Harvey, and William Waller Lewis, also a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and a Fellow the Bank of England . ing on this course which will also lead to an M.Phil who acted under the name of Lewis Waller. The lat­ of the Society of Antiquaries , London. award, probably by the end of this year. ter, an extremely handsome man, appearently had a Books he has written include: Piazz Armerina I. McWILLIAM (1939) has written from Cumber­ large fan club of adoring society ladies, one of whom , 1983. Contributions to the Oxford History of Class­ land with some notes for his younger brother Don 's THE THEATRICAL TRADITION AT although in an advanced stage of pregnancy , was unwilling to miss one ofWaller's first nights , with the ical Works 1986. Guide to Roman Remains in Bri­ Obituary . KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL tain 1988, and now Sicily under the Roman Empire result that she gave birth in the ladies' cloakroom at Rev . N.I. MOIR (1978) has been appointed as the theatre. Waller in 1895 produced and took the 36 B.C. to A.D. 535. (Published by Aris & Phillips When the founders of King' College London and its Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of St Albans - leading role in Wilde 's An Ideal Husband, and he Ltd, Warminster, Wilts) . Junior Department, the School, were searching for a April 1991. was one of the two men to whom Wilde appealed for He has fond remembrances and great regard for suitable site for the buildings, the Strand location, help after his arrest. Graham Tingay and lives in Oxford (see new addre s­ offered by the Crown , was heavily criticised on the S.J . MUNDEN (1985) after graduating from Mert on After the move to Wimbledon, undoubtedly the ses) . This information was given by his moth er. grounds that its proximity to the main London College , Oxford in English , joined Unil ever and is leading theatrical figure was John Barrymore who , theatres was a serious moral threat to young men. C.E . WINN (1945) maintains his connection with . curr ently working as a brand manager for Lever besides fluttering the hearts of many young ladies in The presence of innumerable public houses, includ­ Middle sex County Cricket Club , for which he played Brothers, makers of Persil, Lux and that enfant the Wimbledon area , played for the 1st XV. ing one that was actually built into the old frontage to for several years, as previou sly he had done for terrible Radion. Today, a number of King's College School Old the College , was apparently not regarded as a risk. Sussex and Oxford Univer sity. He is a Tru stee of Boys have made , and are making , a reputation for Theatres, until Macready reformed them in the their Cent enary Youth Trust . The y have recently set ROB ERT PHI LLIPS (1989) is at Quee n Mary's acting , in spheres that now include radio , television 1840's , were the favourite haunts of the Lordon up a separate "Sir George Allen Youth Cricket (London) reading Aeronautic al Engineering. and films. The outstanding figures are Richard Pasco prostitutes. Fund" . This is based on a legacy left by Gubby Allen and the late Jimmy Edwards , both of whom are suffi­ In its early years , therefore , King's College School and will be used for the development of youth DA YID V. SMEDLEY (1948) was elected Mayorof ciently famous to be known by all. could boast of few professional actors , though Henry cricket , especially important now that some two- the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Th ames on the However , the two Luscomb brothers , one a lead- Kemble , the leading comic actor in Irving 's 20. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 21.

ing West End producer, the other a versatile actor, Donald A. McWilliam (1940) died 7th December support of the Old King's Club of which he was Easter tours to the West Country, one or both of the are establishing their reputation. Mark Brickman 1990. Honorary Secretary from 1976-1979 and a Vice two Lidells, one a school master, the other a B.B.C. has made a name producing plays, especially for P.L. Osborne (1929) died 8th May 1991. President thereafter. announcer, as good forwards. We were perhaps less younger audiences, and often in remote parts of the D.R. Spearing (1937) died from cancer on 14th It is fitting that his two sons, David and Dion, were professional in our dedication to the game than is British Isles. Simon Treves is a member of the September 1981. educated at King's and that they and his daughter now expected but there was an abundance of humour B .B. C. drama company, and broadcasts regularly on Lt. Col. Charles Cumberworth Todd, M.C. (1910) were successful academically and in their careers. It and enthusiasm. the B.B .C. died 1991. gave him great pleasure that his grandson was also at No side is better than its leader and it is a warm and I have no doubt that this list is a sketchy one, and C.M. Willcox (1917) died from a road accident King's . cherished memory that Dudley himself was in all it would be a pleasure to hear from any Old Boys who approximately 6 years ago. I was most fortunate in having his example ahead these characteristics a marvellous example. have chosen the stage as their career. Denis Shore Wood-Dow (1934) died 8th May 1991. of me at home and at school and no one could have Later during the 1939/45 War he rose to high rank F.R. Miles A.A. Wright (1920) died - date unknown. had a better example or a better older brother. in the Marines and after that played his part in the He was a fine man, liked and respected by all who desperate need to restore the country's economy. He knew him and by all who worked with him. He will be travelled extensively, particularly in South America MARRIAGES OBITUARIES long remembered. promoting the sale of prefabricated buildings, A.J. Burford perhaps fortuitously benefitting the communities at Mervyn Evans (1937) married on 8th June 1991 to both ends. S.C.L. Burford. Leon died shortly before his 78th Sally widow of the late Professor G.E.L. Owen. He spent a happy retirement in Kent. He died in birthday on the 18th January 1990 and left the Dudley Cpllier (1925) died in February last. Not Dr Ian Hamilton (1938) married Miss Clare North in February, survived by his wife. There were no memory of a happy man with an equable tempera­ many of us are left who remember him from our Epping on 13th April 1991. children. ment and a sense of humour. Always cheerful and schooldays but, as will be so with all who came to A. R. Koumis (1985) married an American girl, K.A. Collyer Catherine, July 1991. courteous, he enjoyed being with people and was an know him after that, he was quite unforgettable. A S.J. Munden (1985) married Elizabeth (nee Barnes) entertaining companion. If help was ever needed, his commanding presence, a born leader and, as with so December 1990. offer of suitable assistance was readily made and many big men, a gentle, humerous and considerate R.J.M . Garnett (1945) His son Christopher Garnett Timothy D. Roberts (1975) married Louise M. gratefully accepted. His family was always important manner . writes that his father spent all his professional life as Cantrill on 15th September 1990 in Orange, New to him and he took pleasure in tracing back the I remember him first in the early twenties. Dudley an engineer, initially in Surrey and London, where South Wales, Australia. earliest records that could be found. In his early - even then over six feet tall - walking across the he worked for the British Iron & Steel Research years he had the value of kind and thoughful parents playing fields from the Ridgway with little Lam Na Association, and on Asdic Development for the BIRTH and a home life that complemented the benefit which Ranong beside him . Lam - since a Thai Ambas­ Admiralty. In 1950 he was married to June Leggett, he had and appreciated in his schooldays at King's. sador - lived with the Colliers at that time. Dudley whom he had known since childhood, and in 1956 R.C.S. Evans (1977) a son, Peter Jonathan Sydney He will be remembered not only for his sporting and led the School's first fifteen two years running with they moved to Yorkshire where my father began his Evans, born in Sydney, Australia on 2nd July 1991. other abilities, prefect, OTC, cricket, rugger, shoot ­ outstanding success. thirty year career with ICI. In 1965, now with three ing and tennis, but equally for his friendly manner at He left in 1925. It would be fair to say, I think, that children, the family moved to Derbyshire when my DECEASED all times. his great talent was for leadership rather than for father became Work's Engineer at ICI Derby. Since After matriculating, he was selected for school as academic distinction and he went straightway into a 1983 he worked on his own, being still retained as B.G. Atkins (1926) died on 15th December 1990. a Trainee Manager in the Rowntrees' Group and commercial career. consultant to a BR project in York until a few weeks D.A. Collier (1925) died February 1991. soon became manager of a subsidiary company with Fortunate ly, at that time his work was in London. before his death. W.O. Cooksey (1929) died 10th May 1991. This a factory in London. Together with Frank Hole, a contemporary, he He was a lifelong member ofthe HAC, and served followed only two years after the death of his After the war he became manager of a Morton and rebuilt the Old Boys' Rugger side. I think it is for his also in the Green Howards when the family moved brother, Dr Frank Cooksey and within ten days of his Murray confectionery company, with Murray Mints association with the Rugger Club that he will be most North. During the Fifties, he made an expedition to 80th birthday. Fortunately he only suffered a short and Pascalls of Mitcham being added to his respon­ clearly remembered by Old King's. Those were the North Africa, driving a Jeep across the desert . He illness and was in hospital for just three weeks. sibilities . days when we changed in Kingston Baths (since was a keen sailor, and spent as much of the summer suplanted by a John Lewis store) and walked both H.E. Cornish (1922) died 5th May 1991., This led to an appointment with the Beecham months as he could on Lake Windermere. Recently Menzies Graham Cranbrook (1929-1932) died June Group which had added a confectionery section to ways over the bridge to the Old Deer Park. Very he fulfilled a lifelong ambition to buy a house in 1990. He attended King's College, London and their more usual operations. This development was often we had but two supports, Dudley's wife Phy! Northern France, from where he spent much of his and her sister. His teams sparkle with names woven last year exploring the Great War battlefields and obtained a B.Sc. in 1937. not completed and he was offered a position of P.J. Dewey (1940) died 11th August 1991. similar standing in another company of the Group. into the patter of King's story - Frank Hale, himself monuments. R.J.M. Garnett (1945) died 24th April 1991. At the same time he was offered a managerial a fine player until he was injured, Ronald Owen later The only friend from King's College School with Professor L.S. Hearnshaw Died l 0th June 1991. appointment with the Cadbury-Fry Organisation. Chairman of the Prudential (and, of course, of the whom he stayed in touch was Keith Roberts, who P.D. Kelly (1956) died in Kenya on 9th February He accepted this, as he preferred to continue his Finance Committee of King's Governing Body), now lives in Sweden. 1991 aged about 73. longstanding career in confectionery, staying each Frank Smith a founder Vice-Chairman of Warburgs, C.P. Lambert (1919) died 28th December 1990. week in a flat which he bought at Bath and returning Billy Mercer founder of one of the leading firms of Leslie Hearnshaw who died at the beginning of July T.G. Middleton (1982) died, aged 26 years, in a to Wimbledon each weekend. Quantity Surveyors, Reg Ridgway co-founder of aged 83, was the leading psychological scholar of his climbing accident in Italy on 8th August 1991. He showed his appreciation of his school by his Marples, Ridgway. Sometimes , too. especially on day. 22. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 23.

He entered King's College School from the Junior Charles Lambert died on 28th December 1990 aged Hillingdon until he retired in 1972. School in 1921 as the top entrance scholar of the 87 years. His wife Mrs Pat Lambert writes that he In 1973 he moved to Hampshire where he took a year. He edited the School Magazine and was a often spoke of his days at King's. In his later years he keen interest and active part in the life of the village school prefect. He was awarded the Sambrooke was rather frail and was unable to travel much, so of Broughton. Exhibition in 1925 and on leavng King's College rarely visited the School. He had a long and happy School in 1926 to read classics at Christ Church retirement down here in Devon, after many years of Oxford, he was elected to the Skinners' Compan; running a very successful business in Southampton. leaving exhibition. He served in the R.A.D.C. during the Second World Although he had failed to win an entrance scholar­ War, on the British Army Staff in Washington. ship to Oxford he had an exceptionally distinguished He had many hobbies and interests; a major academic career. After leaving Oxford, where he relaxation was his great interest in railways and he took a first in literae humaniores, he moved on to had a lay-out of model railway, with fine models he King's College London, where his father was Profes­ made. One of his prize passions was a splendid 00 sor of History. Here he took a first in Psychology, gauge model of a "Schools" Class locomotive. No. and started his career by specialising in industrial 931 "King's, Wimbledon". psychology. I have, also, a beautifully bound copy of "The During the Second World War he was a lecturer in Golden Treasury" presented to him, in 1914, as a psychology at Victoria University, New Zealand, prize for English. The plate is signed by the then until his appointment to the Chair of Psychology at Head Master, H. Lionel Rogers. Liverpool University in 1947, where he was to remain until his retirement in 1955. Donald A. McWilliam (1940) M.I.E.E., His pioneer work in intelligence testing was M.l.Mech.E. who died on the 7th December 1990 handicapped by the lack of computer technology at served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Nav; that time. Inevitably he had close contacts with Sir during the war as a Lieutenant R.N.V.R. He was Cyril Burt, whose work on the assessing of human grateful for all the School had done for him in laying intelligence was later to be seriously questioned by the foundation for his life and also said that the Old scholars who accused him of deliberately manufac­ King's Club was inseparable from it. He was a keen turing the evidence on which he founded his assump­ supporter of the Old Boys' Rugby Club and later tions. Hearnshow was invited to write Burt's entry in became a Rugby Union Referee. the 1971-1980 series of the Dictionary of National After the war he had his own electronics firm and Biography. lived at Thorn by, Northamptonshire. He leaves a At Liverpool Hearnshaw was responsible in estab­ wife Valerie, two sons and a daughter. lishing his department as one of the most important centres in the U.K. for the study of psychology. J.E. Mahoney, 0.8.E. (c. 1930) died on 21st March Elected President of the British Psychological 1991 aged 78 after a short illness. He leaves a wife Society in 1955, he played a major part in its and five sons. He was a Civil Engineer who worked functions. He was also among the leading figures in the majority of his working life for George Wimpey the development of the International Association of & Co., his final position being that of Personnel & Applied Psychology and from 1964 to 1974 he edited Training Manager. the International Review of Applied Psychology. In the late 1950's he was honorary director of the Philip Luther Osborne died 8th August 1991. His Medical Research Council Group on Occupational wife Mrs Barbara Osborne writes: After he left Aspects of Ageing, which was linked to his Depart­ King's College School he became an Articled pupil ment at Liverpool. It is interesting to note that the to E.G. Timbrell Borough Engineer and Surveyor to pioneer of medical psychology. Henry Forbes Epsom & Ewell Borough Council. He was made an Winslow, was at King's College School from 1848 Associate Member of the Institute of Municipal until 1854. Engineers in 1934 and an elected member of the F.R. Miles Institution of Civil Engineers in 1937. Over the years he held various appointments in the Engineers Departments in the Boroughs of Epsom and Ewell, Walthamstow and Uxgridge and lastly Deputy Engineer and Surveyor to the London Borough of 28. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 29.

Hand, P.W. 1957 Horsfall, J.A. 1954 Kay, G.C. 1948 Hann, C.W. 1955 Howard, D.G. 19? Kearn, R.M. 1962 Hard, J.R. 1955 Howard, G.B. 1945 Kell,B.J. 1948 Harding, M. 1955 Howe,A.A. 1938 Kempson, D.A. 1937 Hardy, R. 1943 Howell, M.J.H. 1957 Kendall, E.W.J. 1962 Harrington, P.L. 1937 Howell, T.E.W. 1954 Kendall, W.F. 1943 Harris, J.R. 1951 Howlett, R.J. 1947 Kennedy, M.J. 1954 Harris, 1953 Hubbard, A.W. 1955 Kenway, M. 1952 Harrison, 1940 Hudson, E.M. 1938 Kerr, A.R. 1964 Harrison, E.H. 1948 Hughes, D.J. 1948 Kidd,J.D. 1950 Hart, A.J. 1938 Hulbert, D.M.P. 1938 Kimber, D.J. 1948 Hart, J.M. 1955 Humphrey, G.T. 1951 King, G.S. 1952 SCHOOL REGISTER E-L Hatfield, R. 1952 Huntley,R.E. 1938 King,J.M. 1946 Eley, M.K. 1951 Forster, R. 1955 Graham, T.H.G. 1939 Haward, D.G. 1954 Hurd, D.J. 1952 King, R.A.C. 1943 Elliott,C.R. 1943 Forth M.J. 1941 Granger, M.A. 1958 Hawkins, J. 1940 Hurst, B.W. 1937 King, R.J. 1940 Elliott, D.M. 1954 Forward, D.E.E. 1957 Grant, A.L. 1960 Hazell, G.F. 1957 Hurworth, R.H. 1938 King, T.E.V. 1947 Elliott, D.W. 1944 Foster, I.J. 1954 Grant, I.R. 1953 Heakes, D.F.V. 1939 Husband, A. 1954 King, W.H. 1953 Emmans, J.A. 1954 Francis, J.G. 1956 Gray, N.F. 1956 Heard, P.A. 1941 Hutcheon, K.F. 1946 Kirby,D.W. 1952 Endean, D.C. 1946 Frank, L.P. 1948 Grayer, B.L. 1943 Heath M.J.T. 1951 Hutchinson, K.M. 1945 Kirby, P.S. 1947 Engel J.E. 1944 Fraser, (post Hammerton- Greaves, K.S.W. 1948 Hebb,J.H. 1938 Hvalkof, P.B. 1951 Kirk, R.C. 1941 Epstein,J.P. 1954 Fraser) 1945 Green, K.P. 1937 Hegarty, T.W. 1959 Hdes, F.C. 1937 Kitchener, M.A. 1963 Epstein (post Arnold), Frazer, R.I.H. 1942 Green, R.A. 1939 Henderson, D.G. 1953 Hyslop, R.E. 1950 Klein, R.L. 1945 M.A. 1952 Freeborn, J. 1946 Greengrass, J.E. 1942 Hennessy, R.C. 1954 Ingram, D.C. 1952 Kloos, P.J. 1941 Evans, A.G. 1941 French, E.L. 1940 Greenhalgh, A.J. 1953 Herd, D.C. 1943 Ingram, H.A. 1939 Kneller, P.A.C. 1945 Evans, B.T. 1952 Freund (post French), H.O. Greenhalgh, L.P. 1951 Heyland, P .J.R. 1939 Ingram, J.P. 1939 Knight, K.C. 1944 Evans, D.J.P. 1948 (post O.H.) 1940 Gregory, D.N. 1956 Hickox, A.J.L. 1938 Iremonger, E.L. 1937 Knight, M.J. 1950 Evans, L.J.F. 1953 Frost, J.C. 1945 Griffiths, G.F.C. 1946 Hickson, M.G. 1953 Ixer, W.E.A. 1956 Knight, R.B.D. 1950 Evans, H.R. 1952 Fulcher, J.F. 1949 Griffiths, I.T. 1952 Higginson, C.P.A. 1953 Jackson, W.N. 1949 Kuipers, R.D. 1953 Evans, P.L.C. 1964 Gammon, E.J. 1942 Grinsted, B. 1939 Highwood, D.C. 1942 Jackson, R.A. 1950 Lamprill, L.W.M. 1939 Eveling, D.W. 1956 Gardner, J.B. 1949 Grogan, A.H. 1942 Hill,A.T.M. 1957 Jago, J.C. 1968 Lance, G.E.N. 1951 Evison, S.J. 1940 Gates, D.A. 1957 Grogan,J.R. 1940 Hill,N.S. 1951 James, A.T.W. 1950 Lander, P.l. 1950 Ewbank, J.S. 1936 Gawne-Cain, J. 1957 Gros, A.E. 1952 Hillier, E.G. 1940 Janacek, R.E.M.W. 1945 Lane, J.B. 1945 Fairey, M.B. 1956 George, B.F. 1956 Gross, J.E. 1947 Hinchliffe, P.G. 1951 Jaques, A.F. 1947 Lane, P.S. 1943 Farley, P.J. 1954 Gibbs, G.K. 1941 Guest, L.G. 1940 Hirsch, G.H. 1948 Jarvis, D.L. 1956 Lanes, P.F. 1946 Farr, A.P. 1941 Gibbs, D.C. 1945 Gussin, R.C. 1941 Hitschmann, M.P. 1948 Jenkin, L. 1962 Lang, G.A. 1939 Farr, M.W. 1942 Gibbs, G.J.H. 1941 Guttmann, W. 1941 Hobbs, R.L. 1941 Jenkin, M.A. 1956 Langmaid, P.G. 1950 Farrer, M.R.W. 1938 Gifford, E.H.W. 1938 Guyatt, A.R. 1956 Hobrow, M. 1939 Jenkyns, H.C. 1963 Langmaid, P.G. 1950 Ferguson, J.F. 1939 Gilbertson, A.K.G. 1942 Gwynn, P. 1944 Hochland, E.S. 1941 Jennings, A.G.P. 1940 Langrish, R.R. 1953 Ferguson, M. 1954 Gillam,E. 1943 Haas, C.P.G. 1955 Hocquard, P.S. 1946 Jennings, R.D. 1946 Lansdale, A.J. 1959 Ferguson, M.R. 1940 Gills,B.G. 1951 Hack, G.�. 1953 Hodge, P.B. 1950 Jennings, R.E. 1939 Lansdale, J.E. 1939 Fiddes, N.E.A. 1953 Gips,M. 1951 Hackett, B.J. 1956 Hodkin, R.K. 1948 Johnson, C.V. 1944 Large, A. 1952 Field, J.D. 1941 Gittens, J.M. 1939 Haigh, A.L. 1942 Hoffmann, H.G. 1936 Johnson, D.R. 1954 Lavender, N.D. 1952 Field, J.R. 1954 Givan, V.H. 1955 Haigh, J.A. 1954 Hoffmann, K.J. 1941 Johnson, H.H.V. 1946 Law, A.N.E. 1945 Finch, J.S. 1957 Gledhill, C.F. 1956 Halanen, G.E. 1945 Holden, D.J. 1940 Johnston, P.J. 1961 Lawson, T. 1952 Findlay, 1953 Glithero, J.F. 1941 Haler,A.O. 1954 Hollamby, D.C. 1947 Jones, C.A. 1962 Leach, J.D. 1940 Fish, P.L. 1960 Glover, C.M. 1961 Hall, A.J.C. 1954 Holliday, N.J.N. 1952 Jones, D.M.N. 1950 Lee,G.Y. 1947 Fisher, H.M. 1947 Goddard, G.M. 1948 Hall,A.N.J. 1962 Holmes, N .J. 1961 Jones, E.J.R. 1937 Lee, R.M. 1953 Fisher, J.P. 1952 Golley, A.O. 1950 Hall,D.R. 1937 Honeysett, C.G. 1944 Jones, P.A. 1959 Leffler, C. 1952 Fleming, J.A. 1946 Good, G.A. 1939 Hall, 1.H.E. 1954 Hood, P.S. 1954 Jones, P.G. 1957 Le Maitre, B.W. 1952 Fletcher, J.B. 1945 Goodchild, L.G. 1943 Ham,F.S. 1938 Hood, R.J. 1949 Jordan, D.M. 1957 Lemon, R.C. 1942 Ford, J.F.G. 1962 Goodlad, P.M. 1958 Hamberg, N.A. 1963 Hook,J.S. 1949 Joyce, M.D. 1951 Lender, R.G. 19? Fordham, M.W. 1937 Gordon, G.H. 1948 Hamerton, J.L. 1946 Home, J.A. 1940 Jupp, A.A.S. 1951 Lendon, R.G. 1960 Forster, M.J. 1945 Gover, B.R. 1956 Hamilton, R .. 1952 Horsfall, B.C. 1940 Jupp, K.A. 1956 Leppard, J.C. 1940 30. OLD KING'S CLUB OLD KING'S CLUB 31.

Lewis, G.R. 1937 Long, M.D. 1960 Lund,J.A. 1957 proved so successful for the Campaign and with Mike At the end of this year Liz Inglis and Dorothee Lewis, J.T.. 1948 Lovelace, M.N.G. 1948 Lundie!, R.T. 1952 Melligan's help organised a video race evening. For Hendrikx retire from the Council having served the Lewi, M.A. 1941 Lovell, R. 1939 Lush , R. 1948 both of these events, and particularly, for the maximum perid of three year, allowed. Both Liz and Lilley, P.W. 1939 Loveridge, M.J. 1949 Lyon, D.J.deB. 1956 Venetian Carnival, a great deal of hard work and Dorothee have been hard working and popular Lintott, J.R. 1943 Low, T.J. 1951 Lyon, J.M. 1951 effort was spent in preparation. Notwithstanding all members of the Council. Particularly over the last Littlechild, C.V. 1958 Lucas, E.F. 1942 Lyons, N.K. 1953 the effort in preparation and in selling tickets we twelve months their has been the greatest workload Lodge,D.H.A. 1947 Lucfaft, R.S. 1957 Lyons, R. 1954 were unable to fill either event. We could have and I would like to thank both of them. In addition London,R.G. 1943 Lumb,F.C. 1939 catered for some 50 or 60 more people at the Micky King retires having served three years as Venetian evening and many more at the race night. Treasurer. Micky has not only performed the Difficulty in selling tickets has become something Treasurer's job with great efficiency but has also report. First , however, let me tell you of this year's BENEVOLENT FUND of a growing trend. As indicated in last year's report, been an active member of the Council. I am Some time has elapsed since the last report of the activities. we have this year set up a system of year representa­ delighted that he is remaining on the Council as a activities of the Benevolent Fund, but happily the Our year started, as usual, with our new parents tives who were available to help sell tickes and to representative of the Governing Body. This enables support which the Fund exists to provide has evening in October. Notwithstanding our choosing help place parents on tables with other parents who John Hamilton to retire from that role. John has continued unabated and has indeed been extended Halloween night for this function the vast majority of have children in the same year. The year representa­ served the Friends for more years than he would wish recently, as the recession has put increasing pressure new parents braved ghosts, ghouls and long leggedy tives have worked well and we are enormously grate­ to count both as Chairman and as the Governing on parents and families. beasties to be with us. Most of those attending chose ful to them for their efforts. Without them our Body representative. He is not only our longest The generosity of Old Boys, via gifts and coven­ to join the Friends and the success of the evening can difficulty in selling tickets would have been even serving member but was also one of the originators of ants, has swelled the Fund's resources to the point be gauged by the difficulty we had in persuading more acute. the whole concept of the Friends. I would like to take where it is currently able, out of income from people to leave when it was time to go home! I am aware, of course, that these are difficult this opportunity to thank him for all he has done. invested capital, to support four boys by part-paying Following the new parents evening, in late economic times. I am also conscious that the Council meetings simply will not be the same without their fees at a variety of different levels. November, . we again held our annual fair. Last year campaign has been followed by events being him. The Fund is, of course, just one of a number of we raised over £6,000 which, considering the organised in support of the forthcoming tour for As for next year, the new parents evening is sources of help to which the Head Master can turn in econonmic climate , was an enormously gratifying Rugby players and rowers to New Zealand. booked for October 30th, the Christmas Fair for cases of need . However, being focused as it is on performance. It was, however, the first year in the Nevertheless, I feel a real fiustration for those who November 16th and the Christmas Celebration for boys about to enter the sixth form, and who would fair's history that it had not made more money than work so hard to organise quality events and who do 1st December. In addition we are planning a new otherwise be lost to the School, the Trustees are it had in the previous year . This year we believed that not appear to receive the support which they deserve venture. We have booked the school grounds for particularly proud of the part it has been able to play we might be lucky to equal last year's performance. from the body of the Friends. Sunday 17th May 1992. We intend to organise on at this crucial stage of their school careers for a grow­ Infact, all our worst fears proved ill-founded. We Next year will see a full programme of events. I that day a family summer day out. Plans are still in ing number of boys over the years. made a profit of £7,300 which is a quite staggering would ask those of you who have not been to our embryo form but we envisage food, side shows, This is a report, not an appeal. The Fund is alive amount and which comfortably beat all previous events before to make the effort to come at least races, competitions; everything one can envisage to and well and functioning. Of course more gifts would records. once. I feel sure that if you do so you will find that entertain the whole family. If anyone has any ideas increase its ability to help more boys. Full details of Each year we attempt to change the format of the you want to come again. It is the principal aim of the please contact the Secretary, those who don't have how you might help can be obtained via the Old fair in some small way. This year we were very Friends to help parents and staff get to know each any ideas please pray for good weather! Whichever King's Club office at the School. pleased to welcome some of the school's musicians other in a friendly environment. Please support our category you come into, please support all our who performed seasonal music. Our new stall selling '"·R· Barkey events so that we can achieve that aim. events. Please do not require those who are already mulled wine and mince pies also proved a great During the year, thanks mainly to the fair, we working hard to organise the events to chase you in THE FRIENDS OF success. It is interesting to note that those "stalls" raised a total of £8,800. Over the last few years we order to sell tickets. Show your appreciation for KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL which registered the greatest increase in percentage have tended to spend our money on major projects them by chasing them to buy tickets! FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT profit were the activity stalls. I suspect that this may, and this year we decided to spread the benefits rather This is, perhaps, the most maudlin of my five 1990-1991 in no small measure, have been due to the fact that more generally. We have in fact invested £11,200 in reports. Let me not end it that way. May I say thank This is the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Friends' fathers were happy to stand around drinking our the school. A full list of our projects appears on the you to all those who have served on the Council over of King's College School and the fifth which I have excellent mulled wine and were not in such a hurry to back of the accounts which accompany this report. the last five years including both Headmasters and prepared. After eight years on the Council (three as leave . They include the purchase of such items as a special the Bursar. I remain convinced as to the importance Treasurer and five as Chairman) I have decided not Following the Christmas fair we again organised, spray booth for the pottery shop, music folders for of the Friends to the School. The contribution we to offer myself for re-election as Chairman next year . together with the School, the Christmas celebration the choir, oars for the boat club, chemistry videos for have been able to make to the facilities of the school This is, therefore, my last report. for some two hundred of Merton 's elderly . As I said the chemisry department, an outboard motor for the by purchasing the various items which are listed on I have greatly enjoyed my involvement with the last year , the format is now reasonably well fixed. CCF and divers, a television and video recorder for the back of the accounts should not be under­ Friends over the last eight years and hope to remain The Junior School choir performed as expertly as the Junior School science room, contact pads and estimated. We have made a real difference to the life involved for a year or two longer as an ordinary ever and our guests clearly enjoyed themselves. tackle bags for the rugby players , and a video of almost all King's boys over the last fifteen years. member of the Council. My one regret is that I am During the Easter term we organised two camcorder. At the present time we have approxi­ Just as importantly, however, the contribution which handing over the reins at a difficult time for the functions. In February we had a Venetian Carnival mately £5,000 in the bank available for future we should and do make in encouraging a community Friends . I will return to that subject later in this and in April we adopted one of the ideas which had projects. spirit amongst parents and between parents and staff 32. OLD KING'S CLUB THE SCHOOL SHOP The Lodge, is of enormous importance. met, there soon came the inevitable question: 'where I offer you best wishes to my successor and hope were you at School?' So too among prospective Woodhayes Road, that he or she enjoys the job as much as I have. mothers-in-law. This started around the eighteen­ London SW19 4TT John S. Rink seventies and soon blossome-:1out into many-sided Telephone: 081-947 9311 Ex. 217 Chairman 1990-91 Old Boy activities, social and sporting. AROPS followed this speech up by asking member-socieites Master in Charge: Andrew Moore AROPS Manageress: Mrs. Muggeridge about their date of foundation and any similar infor­ Current times of opening: At the Annual Conference, held at Whitgift School mation. Regreeably many well known schools failed in May 1991, the main paper in view of a General to respond, but a fair picture of the times was to be Monday to Friday 12 noon to 5 p.m. Election bound to come within about 12 months or seen. Late Night - Thursday till 7.30 p.m. less was given by Simon Mc Vicar from ISIS. He dealt The majority of answers covered the 1880-90 Closed Christmas/Easter/Half Term weeks and last week July, first week August with the work of the Independent Schools' Action perid. Ampleforth, Dulwich, Hurstpierpoint, King For sale, in addition to a full range of School clothing supplied, are the following: Groups operating within key or marginal parliamen­ William's (1.O.M.) preceded us by a year or two, all tary areas with the co-operation of schools, parents started in a similar formal fashion. Some others were OKC WOOL SCARF ...... @ £10.25 and old pupils. He urged all people living in any area more distinctive. Repton (founded 1557) for OKC CUFF LINKS ...... @ £5.15 where an ISAG activity existed to give it every possi­ example. 'In 1774 The meeting of Gentlemen ble support. Although the Labour Party had educated at Repton School held at the Grange Inn, OKC TIE BAR ...... @ . £4.60 quietened down on their threats to abolish indepen­ Burton-on-Trent "Dinner on Table at 2 o'clock". dent schools by gradual processes, there still Similar dinners were held between 1777 and 1784, OKC TIE PIN ...... @ £4.60 remained their threat of cancelling such schools' later from 1824. Old Boys' magazine started 1885, Charitable Status and thus greatly increasing their cricket club in 1881, but still the complete Reptonian OKC KEY RING ...... @ £32.10 costs to parents. The matter would be in voters' Society began only in 1901. Breakfast in those easy OKC BLAZER BADGE ...... @ £16.00 hands and every vote counted. going days must have been an impulsive time. At Sid­ Other discussions covered practical ways Old cot (founded 1808) 'a small group of old pupils met OKC STRIPED SILK TIE @ £13.00 Pupils' Societies could benefit their schools and the on 27 April 1870 at breakfast and decided to found an administrative experiences they could pass on to Association of Old Scholars at the next General OKC CRESTED SILK TIE @ £15.35 their member-societies. Meeting'. St Paul's (founded 1509) goes back furth­ OKC CRESTED POLYESTER TIE ...... @ £6.65 The King's College School representatives showed est of all: 'Old Pauline dinners have been held with great interest in the conducted tour of Whitgift's new gaps since 1660. For a while "Summer Breakfasts" OKC STRIPED POLYESTER TIE ...... @ £6.65 buildings. These are exceptionally spacious, _blend­ were held at 3 p.m. Then annual or biennial dinners ing in most effectively with the existing buildings, started in 1864. The Rugby Football Union was OKC OB RUGBY F.C. TIE ...... @ £6.65 The 'New Extension' comprises science, CDT, founded in January 1871 with St Paul's and OKC STRIPED BOW TIE ...... @ £4.10 computer and art rooms, as well as luxurious, air Wellington College the only two school founder conditioned archives and library accommodation. members. The Old Pauline Club was founded in OKC GOLF UMBRELLA (Postage £1.00 extra) @ £14.35 We learnt th~t the whole cost of a massive £15m was 1871.' Perhaps the most esoteric report comes from met entirely by the Whitgift Foundation and the Emanuel (founded 1594): 'Groups of Old Pupils OKC HAND PAINTED HERALDIC SHIELD @ £22.00 construction took three years to complete. The used to go on rambles regularly in the 1890s. It is OKC POLISHED BRASS BLAZER BUTTONS (small) @ £3.00 peacocks in the Quad carried on serenely uncon­ generally accepted that the seeds of the official cerned. Association founded in 1904 were sown in this way'. OKC POLISHED BRASS BLAZER BUTTONS (large) @ £3.00 As usual when Elections approach , AROPS is Our old friends at Whitgift must have the last word increasing its activities with meetings in Lancashire, and demonstrate their sporting interests. The earlier OKC BRIGHT GILT BLAZER BUTTONS (small) @ £3.00 Surrey and Avon before next May. Old Whitgiftians R.F.C. was founded in 1876, the OKC BRIGHT GILT BLAZER BUTTONS (large) @ £3.00 A.G. Cranch Whitgift Wanderers C.C . in 1878, the Veterans Rifle Club in 1896 (after 20 years of informal teams) and KCS LAMBSWOOD JUMPERS (Chest size) ...... @ £28.00 HOW OLD ARE the Annual Dinner in 1884. But the Old Whitgiftian OLD BOYS' SOCIETIES? Association itself was not formed until 1907. Our own entry holds its own among this company : effec­ K.C.S. ENTERPRISES LIMITED tively, Dinners from 1873, Club conceived 1883, Registered in England No. 1882088 It was Prof. Honey of Leicester University who born 1884. Registered Office: King's College School, Southside, SW19 4TT spoke most interestingly at an AROPS meeting A.G. Cranch V.A.T. Number: 391568910 about the innovations in the Public School world in Victorian times. He was intrigued by the building up of a clannishness among Old Boys . When strangers Band of the Welsh Guards Beating Retreat on Commemoraton Day 22nd June 1991.