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Tltu MAGAZINE of KENILITIOR,TH GR,AMMAR, scHooL Names (from left to right): BACK ROW: B. M. Jones, R. Turrell, M. f . Bramwell,l.J. Perry, lean Billett, Marilyn Jones,lanyce Brown, Susan Webster. MIDDLE ROW: D. G. Lewis, M. A. Chambers, B. A. Ormerod, D. Hallgarth, A, f , Grout, Patricia l/an Diest, Diana Aldiss, Alison Collins, Rosamund Mykura, Jane Bryson. FRONT ROW: I. F. Day, G. R. Martin (Deputy Head Boy), J. C. Bushell (Head Boy), The Deputy Head- master, The Headrnaster, The Senior Mistrcss, Jacqueline Houghton (Head Girl), Patricia Malin (Deputy Head Girl), Anita Scarth. WHITSUN 1969

Editorial Committee: MR. R. A. Rorrn Ar,rsoN WBr,cH MR. J. SoumrALL HBrnN PsyroN-Bnunr MR. P. B. SprNcrn C. P. HonNrn Mn. R. L. SroNHoro P. Mauonrs Mtss B. E. Tayron ' Mrss J. VaucHAN Headmaster: MR. R. N. MrrcnELL MR. R. R. WINN MRS. D. FonsyrH Deputy Headmaster: MR. E. C. W. CHAPMAN Mns. M. E. Httt MRS. S. HucHEs Senior Mistress.' Mlss D. GtBsoN f. MRS. G. JorrNSoN Mrs. M. MaRsDEN MR. E. N. ANNasrB Mrs. V. NtcHoLsoN MRS. J. A. Bornna.u MRS. A. PgaRCE MR. G. M. CarNg MR. N. W. SrsvnNs MR. D. N. CruunEns MRs. R. SpTNCER MR. M. J. CrtAlagrns Mns. J. E. Wrrrs MR. B. Davtrs MR. R. F. Drr,lcouR Mr. C. J. Eowanos MR. J. P. FurcnoFT MR. D. R. Fonsyrn HOUSE OFFICIALS: MR. J. Fox CLINTON: Mn. J. H. Harr, Capt. T. F. Day Elaine Baxter Mn. J. D. Hanpy Vice Capt. H. Farthing Anita Scarth MR. D. S. H^lnr DUDLEY: MR. J.'W. HILL Capt. J. Barton Jane Bryson MR. B. D. L. hcrsoN Vice Capt. D. Hallgarth Margaret White MR. C. M. JacrsoN GAUNT: Mrss J. JnNrrNs Capt. R. C. Twitchen Jean Billett MR. M. LToGARD Vice Capt. M. J. Bramwell Susan Webster MR. A. A. Mprcarru NEVILLE: MR. D. J. Monnrs Capt. B. M. Jones Patricia Malin MR. P. J. Mucxnnsrc Vice Capt. P. Montgomery Mns. B. PanKrN Rosamund Mykura EDITORIAL School Diory Is it possible that in the increasingly uncon- ventional school life of today a ceremony of 7g6g-g tradition such as prize-giving can have a SPRING TERM 1968 significant place ? Indeed, there are many cynics among us who would have no hesitation Monday, 8th January: Beginning of Term. in either completely abolishing or greatly Friday, 19th January: Visit to "Treasure modifying it, and one does not find it difficult Island" at Belgrade Theatre. to see their point of view. For who really looks Wednesday, 31st January: Concert by Gabrieli forward to this event with any feelings of Brass Ensemble. joy pupils, anticipation or ? Certainly not the Monday, l2th February: Governors' Meeting. and one doubts whether even the speakers relish their task of preaching to several Friday, 16th February: "A Midsummer hundreds of blank, uninterested faces. Night's Dream" performed by Coventry Training College in School Hall. This, then, is one way of looking at it, but Mon., Tues., Wed., l9th, 20th,21st February: we believe that Prizegiving as it stands does Half Term Holiday. have a place, and that the whole element of Monday, 26th February: Visit to Standard- is gives place. tradition what it its How can a Triumph works. Open evening for 5th form school retain any sort of atmosphere, any sort parents. of conscious unity, without incorporating such ceremonies ? Thotrgh it is not the fashion Thursday, 7th March: Visit of Talisman to admit it, most people like to feel a certain Theatre Company. pride in their school. Saturday, 9th March: Performance by Harle- quin Ballet Company. pupils If were to throw off their qualms Thursday, l4th March: Parents' Associatiorr about convention in other words, adopt a Dinner Dance. different attitude of- mind toward school, and attempt to see its benefits, then tolerance and Friday, 15th March: Gilbert and Sullivan a desire to be part of a co{nmunity during Concert arr. by Kenilworth Music Society. youth could come to the forefront. It is an Monday,25th March: Open Evening for Znd easy way out to take the cynical point of view, Year Parents. but we believe that a little more acceptance of Tuesday, 26th March: Mid-Warwickshire school tradition can give, in the long run, both Cross Country Races. pleasure and satisfaction. Thursday, 4th April: Performance of St. THs Eorrons Matthew Passion in School Hall. Tuesday, 9th April: Junior and Senior House Rugger Tournament. We hope that CINILD will now appear Wednesday, 10th April: End of Term. regularly, once a year, at Easter, and that in consequence it will be a bigger, better, and altogether more satisfactory ntagazine than it has been in its recent sporadic appearances. SUMMER TERM 1968 We have had a mass of material to choose Monday,29th April: Beginning of Term. from, most of it of very high quality, and the Saturday, llth May: Parents' Association final selection has been difficult; much has had Fete. to be rejected purely for reasons of space. Thursday, 16th May: Kenilworth Music B.D.L.J. Society Concert in School Hall. Tuesday, 2lst May: Dramatic extracts per- Saturday, 23rd November: Parents' Associa- formed by students of Coventry Training tion Christmas Fair. College. Monday, 25th November: Open evening for Wednesday, 22nd May: Meeting for parents Lower 6th parents. of new pupils. Wednesday, 4th December'l Performances Thursday,23rd May: School Athletic Sports. Thursday, 5th December F of Monday, 27th May: Open Evening for lst Friday, 6th December ) "The Rivals". Year Parents. Monclay, 9th December: Governors' meeting. Monday, 3rd June Friday, June 7th: Half Friday, 13th December: Parents' Association Term Holiday. - Christmas Party. Monday, lTth June: Open Evening for 3rd Thursday, 19th December: End of Term. Year Parents. Monday, 24th June: Governors' Meeting. SPRING TERM 1969 Thursday, 27th June : Leavers' Service. Monday, 6th Beginning Friday, 28th June: Senior House Matches. January: of Term. Monday,Z0th January: Open evening for 6th Thursday, 1lth July: Sports Evening v. Form parents. Parents. Visit to "King Leat" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Thursday, 23rd January Tuesday, 4th February: 'Oo oA' Wednesday, lTth July\Performances of and level Trial Exams. Wednesday, l2th February: House Cross- Thursday, l8th July f "Trial by Jury". Friday, 19th July: End of Term Country. Thursday, 13th February Tuesday, 18th February: Half-Term Holiday. AUTUMN TERM 1968 Monday, 24th February: Open evening for Wednesday, 4th September: Beginning of 5th Form Parents. Term. Thursday, 27th February: Careers Evening Thursday,l2th September: Coffee evening for arranged by the Parents' Association. parents of hew pupils. Tuesday, 4th March: "LJse of English" Exam- Wednesday, 18th September: Visit to'oDoctor ination. Visit to "The Winter's Tale" at Faustus" at Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Lincoln College, Oxford. Monday, 23rd September: Open evening for Tuesday, llth March: National Mathematics Upper 6th parents. Contest. Thursday, 3rd October: Parents' Association Friday, l4th March: Parents' Association A.G.M. Dinner Dance. Tuesday, 8th October: Visit of Primary Monday, lTth March: Open evening for 2nd School Parents. Form Parents. Saturday, lzth October: Concert by Birming- Tuesday, l8th March Thursday, 20th ham Philharmonic Orchestra. March: Careers Interviews.- Tuesday, 15th October: Visit to "Much Ado"' Wednesday, 24th March: Governors' Meeting. at Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Thursday, 27th March: Visit to Royal Mint. Thursday, lTth October: School Pize Giving: Friday , 28th March: Performance of Handel's Prizes presented by Mrs. J. B. Butterworth, 'oMessiah". wife of Vice Chancellor of Warwick Uni- Tuesday, April lst: German exchange party versity. leaves. Monday,ZSth October Friday, lst Novem- Wednesday, April 2nd: End of term. ber: Half Term Holiday.- Summer Term 1969 begins Monday, 2lst Wednesday, 8th November: Cast of School April. play visit to "The Rivals" at Cannon Hill, Birmingham. Thursday, l4th November : Lunch-time outing to Poetry and Jazz Concert at Belgrade 'o Everybody thought that Mary's child wAS a Theatre, Coventry. plant') .-D.R.17. Some Impressions of Spain Summer Holidays 1968

port Blanes - a beautiful little Spanish fishing ance in the market. . . . Live fowl and rabbits turned holiday resort. The bay dominated by on the stalls, waiting for purchase and. . . . the ruins of a castle and a monastery on top dgath. . . . of a hill at one end. . . . A town of many con- trasts: Large modern hotels and blocks of Traffic police at every junction: resplendent flats on the front An avenue of trees, in spotless white uniform and white helmets, some removed to make way for a tightly blowing a whistle and beckoning on each car . police packed car-park full of dusty cars Narrow . . . who did not mind trousers or old streets behind the front wide enough shorts, but objected to bathing shorts, in the for one car if one is lucky, often only wide street: ask Nigel Mykura. . . . enough for two bicycles. . . . The glamour and Spanish food: generally very enjoyable, but bustle of the holiday makers on the front, the not if it was eggs and bacon, nearly raw even old women dressed in black and sitting at the though fried in goat's milk. . . . The Spanish door of their old houses in the back streets. . . . speciality, paella thought to contain too Dusty cars and buses in the streets, and a much rice by many of our party, and even donkey standing patiently in the main square unpopular when it contained octopus every day: a donkey with his ears poking ::i. through a straw hat on his head, and heavily laden with hand-made pottery packed in large And then there was the weather: not always quantities of straw. as sunny as the travel brochures would have us believe. . . . The hottest day was the day we left, of course On our first evening, a Little shops full of souvenirs often with thunderstorm the hotel shook with the their wares laid out on the pavement- in front thunder, the sky was lit up by sheet lightning pottery which was easy to step on, but not . . . . the 'roads' round our hotel were soon -so easy to pay for, as one of our number dis- rivers of mud in the torrential rain. . . . But covered Hundreds of stalls on the prom- the weather was always warm enough to swim enade on market day: very crowded one in the clear blue sea: to wear a snorkel and cannot move. . . . Fish markets in the town- disappear beneath the surface, coming face to often with the fish still alive, as one fisherman- face with a fish found, to his cost, when one gave him a vicious nip on the thumb. . . . Fruit in abund- D.J.M.

Hockey Report 1968 The hockey teams have on the whole had a the lst XI did well to become winners of their very satisfactory season, particularly in view section, and in the semi-final they drew with of the few occasions on which they have been King's High School, but conceded the match able to practise on grass since the Autumn on corners. half-term. No matches were played from February lst until March l5th, owing to snow I should like to record my thanks to Mrs. and waterlogged pitches. Wiles for her excellent coaching of the Junior In the Under 18 Tournament on March 15th teams. Senior team practices have been well at- Season's Results: co-operation and helpfulness tended, and the Goals Goals of the captain, Pat Malin, and deputy captain, Won Lost Drawn For Against Elaine Baxter, have been much appreciated. lstXl 5 2 2 Colours awarded this season to: Pat Clarke, 2nd XI 3 Valerie Goodman, Carol Evans, Pat Potts. u.15 Xr 2 3 2 u.14 Xr 3 3 u.13 Xr 2 I I u.l2Xr 1- " I wnnt to see how people's curves ore coming Total 169 , 51 35 svf".-J.H.H. B.E.T.

THE TIRST XI

Names (left to right): BACK ROW: Pat Clarke, fanet Hamphries,ludith Miller, Carol Evans, Helm Peyton-Bruhl, Linda Harman. FRONT ROW: Elaine Baxter, Pat Potts, Pat Malin (Capt.), Valerie Goodman, Beverley Kelly. Mid-Warwickshire Athletic Ghampionships 27th ]une-Edmondscote Track Boys' Team Results Fine performances were achieved by the Minors K.G.S. 2nd following: Juniors K.G.S. 3rd S. Lippett: Minor Boys' Interrnediate K.G.S. 3rd Long Jump lst l4'2t Seniors K.G.S. lst D. Leigh: Junior Boys' Mile lst 5m 5.0s Kenilworth also won the Senior Boys' Relay M. Todd: Intermediate Boys' cup. 220 yds. lst 25.6 P. Curzons: Intermediate In the Junior and Intermediate sections, Boys' Pole Vault l st 9'O' both groups were beaten by Leamington J. Bushell; Senior Boys' 120 College and Warwick School, whilst the yds. Hurdles lst Minors were unlucky not to win the Minor B. Jones: Senior Boys' Discus 1st 108 '3* " section. The Senior team did well in winning T. Day: Senior Boys' Shot l st 37 '6' their section, flnishing twelve points clear of G. Miller: Senior Boys' Pole Leamington College, and 30 points clear of Vault l st ll '3" Warwick. Senior Boys' Relay lst 46.8

CRICKET 1968

Inadequate playing and practice facilities have BBsr BarrrNc AvBucEs again hampered the development of a satis- Runs Inns. Highest N.O. Av. factory standard of cricket. Without a home osquare' all matches had to be played away, A. Grout 39 3 24 0 13.0 ancl all but two of the Under 15 matches had M. Barton 2A 3 11 0 6.6 to be cancelled. Bpsr BowrrNc AvrnacEs Overs Mdns. Runs Wkts. Av Batting seems to be the School's greatest .T. Day 18 3 42 7 6.0 weakness, and a lack of determination to play T.Bubb 6 I 18 3 6.0 oneself in was often apparent in all teams. There is a nucleus of enthusiasm and skill in Under 15s XI the Under 15s, Under 13s and Under l2s, and Captain' K. Langley it is to be hoped that next season's results will be more impressive. May 18 Woodlands (A) Lost by 6 wkts. June 29 Caludon (A) Won by 3 runs BBsr BlrrrNc AvBnacEs Runs Inns. Highest N.O. Av. J. 9 I 9.0 lst XI Love 2 9no R. Payne 9 291 4.5 Captain'T. Day Bnsr Bowrmc AvnnacEs May 4 Dunsmore (A) Lost by 6 wkts. , 11 Ullathorne (A) Won by 2 wkts. Overs Mdns. Runs Wkts. Av. July 7 Woodlands (A) Lost by 6 wkts. C.Beesley 8 5 4 6 0.6 13 Coleshill (A) Lost by 5 wkts. K. Langley 17 I 29 6 4.8 Under 13s XI Brsr Bowr"rNc Avrnacrs Captain'P. Spalding Overs Mdns. Runs Wkts. Av. May 4 Dunsmore (A) Won by 2 wkts. A. Pare 26 10 36 12 3.0 May 18 Woodlands (A) Lost by 10 runs P. Spalding 37 10 66 11 6.6 June 22 Caludon (A) Lost by 24 runs July 13 Coleshill (A) Lost by 8 wkts. Bnsr BarrrNc AvrnacEs Runs Inns. Highest N.O. Av. A. Goodman 13 3 8no 2 13.0 Under 12s A. Brough l7 3 81 8.5 I. Hills 13 3 13 1 6.5 July 8 Woodlands (A) Won by 4 wkts.

Inter-House Basket-Ball 1968-69 Basket Ball was started as an Inter-house INTER-HOUSE League Championship in October '68, with CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS the 5th Year as the Senior limits. A11 matches Pts. were efficiently refereed by boys studying Basket-ball Refereeing for the Duke of Played Won Lost For Agst. Edinburgh Award Scheme. Al1 teams played lstClinton 3 3 0 50 27 with enthusiasm and skill to produce a flne 2ndDudley 3 2 I 44 34 competition, from which Clinton emerged 3rdGaunt 3 I 2 39 49 clear winners. 4th Neville 3 0 3 26 43

Inter-House Cross-Country 1968-69 The Inter-house championships were held Junior Race: 2 Miles on 12th February, 1969, a bitterly cold day which turned into a snow storm just after the INorvpuAL start of the Senior Race. Enthusiasm and inter- house rivalry produced keen competitions in lst S. Lippett Time: 14.59 the Junior Race, won by S. Lippett, who was Znd C. Edwards challenged all the way by C. Fdwards, & very 3rd G. R. Jones promising lst Year boy, and in the Intermedi- ate Race, by D. Leigh, who finished well ahead of the rest of the field. There was less CnauproNSHIPS interest on the pafi of most competitors in the Senior racq and apart from M. Chambers, lst Gaunt 57 pts. the winner, results suffered accordingly, al- 2nd Clinton 68 pts. though the weather also hindered perform- 3rd Dudley 76 pts. ances. 4th Neville 99 pts. Intermediate Race: 3 Miles Senior Race z 4t Miles INorvrouAL INnrvrouAL lst D. Leigh Time: 19.54 lst M. Chambers Time: 28.02 2nd G. A. Jones 2nd N. Allen 3rd A. Beattie 3rd J. Barton

CsauproNsHrP CrmnaproNsrrrP lst Gaunt 63 pts. lst Dudley 71 pts. Znd Clinton 72 pts. 2nd Clinton 74 pts. 3rd Neville 76 pts. 3rd Neville 81 pts. 4th Dudley 103 pts. 4th Gaunt 82 pts.

Basket BaIt 1968-69

As Basket Ball has only recently been estab- Nov. 4 Southam (A) Lost 2548 lished on a competitive basis in the school, it 11 Campion (A) Lost 24-28 was decided to run a short fixture-list, with 25 Princethorpe (H) Won 26-25 the Under 16s as the senior team. Captained Dec. 2 Blackdown (H) Won 30-20 by S. Mallorie, the team gained experience as An inexperienced Under 15s side played the the season progressed. Other stalwarts of the same four Schools in the Easter Term and team were K. Langley, P. Bloxham, M. Todd, showed a steady improvemelrt throughout the J. Love and P. Monaghan, who finished as season. top scorer with 26 points. P. 4 L. 4 Pts. For 94 Pts. Against 132

Rugby 1968-69

Rugby Football has been badly hit by 'pitches', the team well and again proved to be the or farm fields, which proved to be unplayable strongest attacking player with 33 points to after the first shower of rain. Training was his credit. difficult, and most lst XV matches to be had played away. After losing several early matches, the club was further hit by injuries The lst XV was chosen from the following to P. Curzons, M. Todd and S. Berry, and, players: T. Day (Capt.), B. Jones (V. Capt.), later in the season, to B. Jones. Readjustment P. Montgomery, J. Perry, C. Radburn, M. proved difficult and it was not until C. Brook, M. Todd, D. Williamson R. Skelcey, Radburn was moved to scrum-half and T. Day P. Curzons, P. Sargeant, S. Berry, P. Minton, returned to inside centre, that the team began P. Molitor, B. Booden, J. Kendall, J. Bushell, to play with more assurance. T. Day captained M. Bramwell, J. Flowers. lst XV Results 2nd XV Results Sept. 14 Stanbridge Hall (A) L. 0-6 Sept. 14 Stanbridge Hall (H) L. 3-14 25 Warwick School (A) L. 6-13 25 Warwick School (A) L. 0-3 28 George Dixon (H) L. 8-17 28 George Dixon (H) 'w. 6-3 Oct. 2 Leamington College (A) L. 6-22 Oct. 2 Leamington College (A) L. O-17 5 K.E.VI. Stratford (A) W. 16-0 5 K.E.VI, Stratford (A) 'w. 33-3 12 John Wilmott (A) L. 0-3 19 King Henry VIII (A) L. 0-50 19 King Henry VIII (H) L. 0-50 26 Bournville Tech. (A) L. 9-17 26 Bourneville Tech. (H) W. 6-3 Nov. 9 Dunsmore (A) w. 24-0 Nov. 9 Dunsmore (H) L. 8-24 23 K. Ed., Edgbaston (A) Cancelled 16 Ullathorne (A) L. 3-22 Dec. 7 Harold Malley (A) Cancelled Dec. 7 Harold Malley (A) L. 3-16 Jan. 18 Lawrence Sheritr (A) L. 6-35 14 Tudor Grange (H) Cancelled Feb. 1 Warwick University (H) Cancelled Jan. 11 Manor Park (A) D. 6-6 12 K.E.VI, Nuneaton (A) Cancelled 18 Lawrence Sheritr (A) L. 0-20 Mar. 8 King's Heath Tech. (A) L. 11-16 25 King Edward's, Aston (A) L. 3-30 Pts. Feb. I Warwick Univ. II (A) W. 8-6 Played Won Drawn Lost For Agnst. 8 Caludon Castle (A) Cancelled 10406 Mar. 8 King's Heath Tech. (H) L. 3-19 HOUSE RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIPS 1969 Pts. Juniors Played Won Drawn Lost For Agnst. RouNo I 163112 76 238 Clinton - Nil, Dudley - 26 pts. Gaunt - 30 pts, Neville - Nil. RouNo 2 Losers: Neville - 44 pts., Clinton - Nil. K.G.S. v. THr Oro Boys Winners.' Gaunt - 11 pts., Dudley - 3 pts. The season ended on a grand and glorious Gaunt, captained by P. Spalding, proved note when the School defeated the Old Boys to be the strongest team. Davies, Jephcote by 9 points to 8 after a particularly hard- and Poulton dominated the forward play, fought struggle in which the School were whilst Golby, Height and Spalding ran reduced to thirteen men. elusively. Seniors D^Ly, lst T. XV Capt. RouNo 1 Clinton - 3 pts., Neville - 10 pts. Dudley - 13 pts. Gaunt - 3 pts. The Second XV was ably captained by R. C. RouNo 2 Twitchen, but aftqr frequent calls by the lst Losers: Clinton - 22 pts., Gaunt - 8 pts. XV to replace injured players, the team was Winners; Dudley- 3 pts., Nevil[e- 6 pts. rarely at full strength. Owing to the unplay- Neville had the much superior team with a able state of the home pitches, the Second XV strong set of forwards and powerful three had to bear the brunt of cancellations. quarters. Lack of harmony split their efforts, and only a good attacking movement with Todd scoring in the closing minutes secured The Second XV was chosen from the fol- Neville's win over a lively Dudley team. lowing players: R. C. Twitchen (Capt.), Championship Positions P. Bloxham, M. Haszko, P. Monaghan, JuNrons SnNrons J. Barton, M. Webster, R. Collins, M. Hills, lst Gaunt lst Neville K. Langley, P. Jenkinson, K. Beckett, M. 2nd Dudley Znd Dudley Thompson, P. Hall, S. Mallorie, J. Newey, 3rd Neville 3rd Clinton T. McSweeney, M. Haswell. 4th Clinton 4th Gaunt cRoss couNTRY 1968-69 The School held a short, but intensive cross- Mar. 4 Warwick, Myton, K.G.S. at K.G.S. country season in the Easter Term, which LI.1 2, U .L 3, LJ.15, O.15 finished on March 18th, with the Mid- 12 Blackdown, Abbey, K.G.S. at K.G.S. Warwickshire Championships. C. Edwards u.12,U.13, U.15, O.15 (Under 12s), D. Leigh (Under 15s) and M. 18 Mid-Warwicks. Championships Chambers (Over 15s) established themselves U.13, U.15, O.15 at Blackdown as the School's leading runners. Feb. I Inter Area Race at Rugby D. Leigh, C. Edwards, G. Jones D. Leigh proved to be the School's most 12 Inter House Championship at K.G.S. promising cross-country runner. With a fine u.13, U.15, O.15 27th position in the County Championships, 22 County Championships at Sutton this is most encouraging, as Leigh will be in D. Leieh Coldfield the same age group next season.

"Wbt, MuftfiLx"

Susan Webster o, irdro Languish, and Je:an Bittett as Julia, i n Sher idun' s " The Rivals" . (Phot o . hy courtesy of Kenilworth Weekly News).

l0 When Sheridan wrote "The Rivals" he was Playing the blustering aristocrat Sir Anthony attempting to save drama from the pit into Absolute he brought his part to a climax with which it was sinking. After the liveliness of "You have been too lively Jack", and he never Restoration theatre, drama had become a faltered from playing the part of a dominating stream of sentiment and Sheridan was trying father with excellence. In acting his son Jack to produce a revival of wit and integrity in the Absolute Jon Bushell performed the romantic theatre. fn Kenilworth Grammar's production army captain very well from behind his of 'oThe Rivals" Sheridan's wish was com- voluminous moustache. Contrasting with the pletely complied with owing to Mr. Jackson's comparative sanity of the rest of the male cast skilful pruning of the asphyxiating sentiment- in their attitudes to love Paul Roberts' ality of the later scenes to bring out the full Faulkland was full of neurotic force. As force of character and plot, which needed country bumpkin turned town dandy Michael ooThe attention before its intricacies could be fully Haszko easily put more into Rivals" as appreciated. Acres than ever Sheridan or Mr. Jackson intended him to but his ad-libbing pleased Through the auditions much unknown everybody. Through "The Rivals" we dis- talent was revealed and, coached by Mr. covered that Howard Farthing could com- Jackson and Mr. Chambers, it emerged sym- mand the whole stage when he appeared as pathetic and well-rehearsed. Perhaps the most Sir Lucius O'Trigger. As servants Paul New- play outstanding contribution to the was made man, Matthew Wright and Richard Reeves by Diana Aldiss whose, portrayal of Mrs. got the most out of their small but essential Malaprop showed her as having an excellent linking parts. stage presence. However Diana did not over- members the cast. shadow the other of Not only did the cast provide entertaining Limited by the character of Julia, Jean Billett evenings but also the luxuriance of scenorY, could be done by obtaining showed what costumes and lights set their performance off quality in her performance and by delivering with brilliance. Subtle changes in the emphasis clarity. The common-sense of her lines with of the lighting heightened the atmosphere of her part contrasted well with that of Faulk- eighteenth century Bath. A11 who were. back Susan Webster, land's acute sensitiveness. stage contributed to the success of "The given Lanquish, made the role of Lydia Rivals". The high standard of performance lanquishing appear easy by careful acting of a and enjoyment attained from it justified al1 difficult part. Susan Wills, as Lucy, made the hard work given by the cast and production pleasurable as she went about service seem team in the preceding months in order to depriving everyone of their secrets and money. obtain the best from Sheridan's work. From amongst the men Tim Day's perform- ance still remains uppermost in any memory. ANrra Scanrn, Upper VI Arts

SOCIETIES

SCHOOL MUSIC Directed by the tireless'Mr. Delacour, the activities of the choir and orbhestra are not The past yeat has been a very successful one. limited to giving school performances. The musical tradition of the school, although They have also performed as part of the limited to seven years, has again been main- massed choirs and orchestras at the Mid- tained and its future assured by the willing Warwickshire Grammar Schools' Concert support of the juniors and the musically every year. The Madrigal Group, last year, inclined staff. sang at a public concert in Leamington Spa

11 Town Hall and this July seventeen of their Beverly Kelly, N. Giles, Susan Webster, members are giving several recitals in Germany J. Kendall and D. Wilkinson was beaten and Austria. (on a majority verdict of the- judges) when proposing the motion, that 'this House con- Prizegivings, Leavers' Services, and Carol siders it is better to compete than to win'. Services owe most of their success to the choir, who every year provide musical inter- The most disappointing feature has been ludes. The willingness to participate and listen the small number of people willing to speak music evidenced to is by the dinner time from the floor after the motion has been pro- concerts and recitals such as that given in the posed and opposed. One hopes that with time Spring Term by Mr. Metcalfe. more people will take the plunge. Only then Perhaps the greatest success for the choir will the Society begin to run itself, without and orchestra has been the recent perform- having to rely on the efforts of the perenniat ance of Handel's "Messiah". This was notable 'willing horses'. for the number of visiting singers and players R.A.R. and for the exceptional solo performances of G. Morris and Hilary Sargeant. Last Easter the school performed Bach's oratorio, the St. SENIOR ENGINEERING CLUB Matthew Passion, and the Summer Term 1968 The school engineering club, which has been saw the sixth form and many staff engaged in running two nights a week for 18 months, is Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury" per- open from 4 p.m. to 6-30 p.m. on Wednesdays formed as the second half of a concert. and Fridays, and has a regular attendance of between 10 and 15 pupils. In the Autumn Term the School had a chance to listen to a concert in the School hall Some general craft work is done, but the arranged by the P.T.A. and given by the emphasis is on engineering. Projects include Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra. At steam engines, hot-air engines and also some Christmas it was the turn of the juniors, under work with reinforced plastics. the direction of Mr. Hart and Mr. Delacour. The success of music at K.G.S. cannot be The main interest, however, is the building ascribed to the choir and orchestra alone. of a 3+ in. gauge Caledonian Dock Tank Many non-musical helpers have willingly Locomotive, which has now reached an ad- supported the many activities. Thanks must vanced stage of construction. Approximately also go to the many old pupils, parents and 1,000 pupil-hours have been spent to date on friends who have given up their time to help. this project.

JaNB BnysoN, U.VI.Arts For this type of model engineering the high degree of accuracy and craftsmanship that is SENIOR DEBATING SOCIETY necessary is maintained very well by the mem- bers of the club. There have been several successful debates this year, most of them attended by large Congratulations to David Hurst, who won audiences - which leads one to wonder how the Junior Section in the Model Engineer many people come simply because it is 'some- Exhibition in London at the beginning of the where to go' in the dinner hour; which, in year with his Stuart No. 9 Horizontal Station- turn, leads one to speculate on the advisability ary Steam Engine. of holding debates after school. Many thanks to Mr. Spencer, from all club The highlight of the year has been the de- members, for giving up so much of his own bate against Leamington College for Boys in time. the Coventry Junior Chamber of Commerce inter-Schools Competition. Our team of five M. Tayron, U.VI.Sc.

t2 FOLK SONG SOCIETY ability of some of them to hold their own in The start of this yeff has seen the formation Senior League play, and, above all, in the of the Kenilworth Grammar School Folk Song success of our Under-l5 Girls' team in reach- Society. In the past, folk-evenings have been ing the last 4 in the National Schools' Tourna- held several times a year, each time attend- ment. With fewer members, more practice, ances being very good with money raised for and more inter-school and league competition, voluntary service. But with the leaving of we should, in the next yeat, produce some many of the stalwarts of these evenings it has very promising players. become necessary to recruit more talent from B.D. the school, and, along with the fact that many people had expressed an interest in folk-music, THE SAILING CLUB it was decided to form a folk-club. The driving forces behind the club have been Mr. Edwards The opening of Draycote Water, near Rugby, and Miss Jenkins, and much of the praise as a sailing centre for Warwickshire has led us must go to them. The objects of the club are to hope that it will be possible to form in the to provide talks on different aspects of folk- near future a School Sailing Club catering for music, trips to various concerts and owork- about twenty senior pupils, and application shops' in which instruction in the playing of for affiliated membership has aheady been different instruments will be given. fn the case made. At the moment it is not clear where the of the latter, the guitar must be con@ntrated f,150 or so required for the purchase of a ofl, as this is by far the most popular instru- dinghy suitable for tuition and competition is ment in the School. going to come from, but means of raising funds are being explored. R. C. TwrrcHru, Z. VI.Sc. B.D.L.J., G.M.C.

THB RHYTHM AND BLUES APPRECIATION SOCIETY THB ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY past Meetings of this society are held every Mon- A metaphorical delve into the brings day lunch-time at I o'clock in the Domestic little to light in the way of archeological few Science room. The society aims at a greater happenings, apart from one trip and a and wider appreciation of all forms of R. and wall-gazing sessions. We earnestly beg for preserve 8., especially Negro Blues, soul music, Reg- your support and the enthusiasm to may otherwise be gay and R. and B. proper. Encouragement is this treasured society, which given to members bringing and playing their forced to face the fate of the dinosaur and his own recordings, whereby we aim to have a contemporaries. fair cross section of this music form. S.rnag HmroN. L.YI.Arts W. J. KeNoaLL, L.VI.Modern

TABLE TENNIS JUNIOR ACTIVITIES After some four years' struggle, the Table JUNIOR DEBATING SOCIETY Tennis Club is on the brink of solvency. In A varied number of subjects are debated future, therefore, the Club will be able to (animals prove a popular topic) with normal impose a more realistic limit on the number of Junior enthusiasm. Of special interest was a members, and those who join will spend far First Form balloon debate in which speakers less time waiting for a game. dressed up very successfully to portray the This is especially fortunate at this time, characters they were representing. Colin since the most encouraging feature of this year Edwards as Dr. Kildare emerged the victor. has been the rise in the standard of play among Debates limited to the First Form are oc- younger members. This is reflected in the casionally held to give them more confldence

l3 in speaking to a group; these are usually very JUNIOR GYM AND TRAMPOLINE successful. Often the Debating Society joins CLUB the Junior Scripture Club. The result a A small but keen number of Junior girls religious debate. have considerably improved their gymnastic ability with the assistance of Miss Taylor, but attendance has been rather disappointing. JUNIOR SCRIPTURE CLUB Debates and talks by pupils on such subjects JUNIOR METALWORK CLUB as witchcraft, ghosts, and Greek mythology This is mainly for first and second year boys. have formed the basis of the Junior Scripture The members are encouraged to design their Club, which is run by Mr. Hart. The res- own work and are shown basic forge and lathe ponse and attendance at these meetings have work. The enthusiasm is very high and such been very pleasing. The Club tries to cater for things as enamelled copper ware, lamp brack- all interests and stimulate thought among the ets and screwdrivers have been made. juniors. C. P. HcnNrR, I.VI.Arts Sfatt Profiles The Club is run by Mr. Hart and N. Giles, L.VI.Sc. and has played several matches against other schools. In the words of Mr. Hart oolt has a following of keen members". Results: Played: 10. Won: 5. Lost i 4. Drawn: 1.

.IUNIOR BADMINTON CLUB Says Mr. Hardy, 'oA small group not parti- cularly distinguished in performance". As yet the Club has played no matches, owing to lack of experience. The club starts keen and promising players in the right way as can be seen by the promising results of the older players

JUNIOR COOKING CLUB The Junior boys cook a variety of dishes under the helpful guidance of Mrs. Davis. Just before Christmas they made Christmas Puddings with great success and hope to have similar success in other such ventures.

COLLECTORS' CLUB The broad scope of the once-thriving Collectors' Club has now unfortunately dwindled to become more of a stamp-swapping session, although enthusiasm is still present. Mrs.l. Boireau

14 JUDITH BOIREAU was born in Bristol (22.1.43) and spent most of her life in Kent. She attended a middle-class Girls' Grammar School which produced the image of a "very hockey-playing schoolgirl". She enjoyed uni- versity life at Leeds immensely, following the 'arty trend', but never quite succeeding, and becoming an active C.N.D. memb "I was very pleased with myself, because I actually did something about a belief". For a short time she lived in London, but hated its anonymity, although she loved Manchester because it was "full of life" and "I felt at the centre of a group that had definite identity". In this area she finds the countryside pleasant but resents the concentration of money so evident in certain areas.

She did not particularly want to teach but could not stand the insularity she met whilst workin g at the University library, or the 'rat- race' of the business world. However, despite early misgivings she is happy teaching 'oI like the moment when the class has responded to an idea * you can feel the warmth". But "I hate having to exert discipline and dislike- apathy".

Her likes and disliks are many and varied. Mr. R. A. RoW Her favourite poet is T. S. Eliot - "Some of his poems mean a great deal to me". She ROGER ANTHONY ROLFE lived in Wins- enjoys Iris Murdoch "Obvious escape- low, Bucks. until he went to Leicester Univers- 65Qsf- fantasy, really engrossing". She admires ity at the age of 18. He married at23 Dostoyevsky and the playwright Anouilh ting married is a numbing experience''.- He ("Not a great, but can be very powerful"). teaches French, but at one time taught English to 'A' level. His worst subject at school was Geography ("A completply barren study, I She dislikes other women and wishes she could never see any point in it"). His am- had a sports car, didn't chain smoke, and had bition ? "I didn't know what to do, so I creative talent "I'd give my eye-teeth to be became a teacher" (his wife also teaches) absorbed completely- in anything". She likes 'oI can't imagine doing anything else". travelling, delights in curling up in front of a He says he is intolerant, and hates illogical- warm fire with a box of chocolates (as well as ity, repetitive work, and marking. However, being pampered). She also takes great pleasure he enjoys holidays "I would say I am in gardening and films. ool basicallv \azy", eating am getting far too fat", cooking and gardening.- He sings "with more enthusiasm than skill" usually reads two C. P. HonNrR, Z.VI.Arts books a week (his favourite authors include

15 Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell) and "ff he puts it, "There are so rnany good plays on I'm not talking, I have to doodle". television I am rather critical of theatre pro- o'I ductions". don't embarrass easily" but he His real dislike is mob mentality as displayed feels embarrassed by other people in awkward at political rallies and football matches. He situations. detests pop music for what it stands for, say- ing, "Pop music should have no part in social His views are dual on many subjects but on or cultural functions. On the hotly debated student unrest he warns "I am reasonably question of his beard he states: "At first I liberal-minded to the actions of the young but didn't like it, but it grows on you". fear that if they carry on causing trouble there will be a backlash from the middle classes On the subject of laughter he likes exagger- which will take us back to Victorian times". ated themes, some satire, and Hancock in He has odd political views. "I am something particular "I've got a crude sense of of a Conservative-Socialist" and wisely sees humour". He doesn't find topical jokes funny. no sense in change for change's sake, but only He 'owill watch anything" on TV, 'softly for betterment. Softly' in particular. Rather ashamedly he prefers the cinema to the theatre because, as C. P. Hoxxr,R, I. VI.Arts

ORTGII\AI, WORK

COVENTRY However cold or grey it is City, I love you I feel I am not completely alone Even your hard-faced people When I sit by the dying fountain For some srnile Put out of the misery of freezing Sometimes. City, you are warm in your clothes your I love your bustling shops Fertile in barrenness And cafes But do not change ffi€, City, New unattainable clothes For fear I should change you And hankies Help me to think And gloves And write about other cities And the pigeons in the Precinct Which I may not love so dearly. And the obscene statues And, City, Even you Which weren't meant to be obscene though may try your I love your many blackened spires To capture me under the wing of And the new and the old New Hard Faces you. And I don't think it sacrilegious I still love To display sculpture EnwrNa LovB, L.VI.Arts In your City, I love your two ages City, I love the pictures you make In the early morning SIGHT City, I don't mind your vulgarisms Being too new and too brassy I wandered along in a sea of darkness, For one day the old must fall A sky of noise. And, City, I was the ship without a pilot I love there being people around me. Blind in a storm of shoppers,withotrt harness. Into waves of invisible cars and bikes He said he would meet her in one month's I pushed forward sight, Suddenly, without cause Alone at the coast of the Isle at midnight. I slipped my head heat-pain and whirl- ing lights.- - Charlie never came again to that fair isle, And Cassandra grew ill never more to smile. A pulse of pain pushed and drove say she died a broken heart, At the back of my head. They of They say she rises again and they're true in A burning fire in cauldrons of ice. part I could stand it no longer and broke down For quiet nights year after year, and cried. on winter Cassandra's footsteps on the grass you can A blanket of peace fell over me silently, hear. Halting my tears. She travels through the forest to the coast to I saw a mist of golden orange wait, Gently breaking into shapes and colottrs. But Bonnie Prince Charlie is far too late. Then Sight ! Colours ! Life ! Joy Crmnr WtruAMS, III.K Of being able to see ! The beauty of trodden-on paper, The sadness of a child's broken toy. Crowded shops in a Christmas fight In the African Jungle And People jostling for space. The dark night falls The Pure glow of neon lighting And from between two bushes Outshines the sun, but not my sight. An Elephant crawls. Clrrrrnms To l.t-, III.S The Tigers trumpet, The Lions laugh, The Hyena roars LADY CASSANDRA As he takes a bath In the cool, cool lake, Cast your mind back to a long time &go, Where the Kangaroo swims To Prince Charlie's ftight to the land of the With the cackling Leopard snow. With his funny whims. To Scotland he fled, to the mist for a while, The Monkey chews And then across the border to Cassandt'a's On the bones of his proy, fair isle. As the snakes fly around, for day. Lady Cassandra was beautifully dark, Waiting Her brown eyes sparkled with the light of an P. fIa.RvEY, IV.K arc.

At last she had found the man most sought And she rejoiced when Charles to her island FAREWELL TO STEAM was brought. Farewell, steam locomotive friend, Now a lot happened on that fafu isle, Your age of glory's at its end, And at last the Prince left with a kiss and a A hundred years, or more, has been smile. Your presence on our daily scene. He promised to return with one purpose he From locomotion Number One, said To Evening star, your course has run For Prince Charlie and Cassandra then were Through more years than mere man's allowed, to be wed. You've held your place, supreme and proud.

l7 With hiss of steam and plume of smoke, The middle-aged man started to whistle and To us you lived, you breathed, you spoke; on seeing that he had attracted everybody's A living thing of steel and brass, attention, he stopped as if expecting applause We'd travel miles to see you pass. but instead he went red and lighted a cigarette. One of the girls started to giggle; the other Conceived by men like Webb and Dean, one unwrapped another sweet. (Whose like again will ne'er be seen) Gresly, Collett, Drummond Brothers, Not much happened on the journey: the Churchward, Stanier, Hughes aud others middle-aged man smoked fifteen cigarettes Ages of men have fashioned you and drank one can of lrroer. Only one girl re- In towns named Ashford, Swindon, Crewe; mained in the compartment as her sweet- Draughtsmen's skill and craftsmen's art eating friend was being sick somewhere else in Have carefully shaped your every part. the train.

Remembered are the names you bore, The train arrived on time and Bob wasted Of peaceful Saints and men of war; no time in leaving Euston. He spent the next Earls and Dukes and Ladies Royal, hour looking at shops and laughing at other Racehorses and regiments loyal. people, which was his main sour@ of humour. He then decided that it was time for the pro- You never slaughtered, hurt or maimed, test, and he looked around for a taxi and after The thousands that road transport claimed, five minutes he managed to hail one. But days you erred are remembered still. At Seven Oaks and Quintinshill. The post office tower turned out to be ten minutes away. The driving was poor and so The age of steam draws to its end was the tip which brought about an un- No more will locomotives send warranted stream of abuse. Bob just laughed A plume of smoke high in the air, and waved meaningfully at the driver. A sight that made man turn and stare. Bob thought he saw the tower sway and on As heavenward your exhaust curled, pointing to the tower and shouting, 'Timber!' You changed the history of the world; about twenty people around him ducked. And so we say "Well done ! Farewell" ! Your reign is o'er, you served us well. The lift took a matter of seconds to reach the top and Bob stepped straight out into the T. D. ArrrN, III.K restaurant and almost disappeared in the deep pile carpet but was rescued by an attractive young waitress who planted him neatly in a chair by the window. THE PROTEST He ordered a meal; until now he had not Bob handed over his ticket. The train was realised how hungry he was and the food already in; ten minutes early, Bob thought, vanished completely. A fat fly was crawling but on further thinking it could be the previous towards the edge of the table, Bob smiled and one twenty minutes late. He looked for an crushed it under his thumb, then, somewhat ' empty compartment in vain and eventually nauseated, wiped his thumb on the table-cloth. settled for a second class smoking compart- ment. He sat with his back towards the engine The bill was excessive, and Bob was sur- and surveyed the compartment. He was not prised to find that he had enough money. He alone as there were a middle-aged man, two looked slowly around for the service exit and young girls of about eleven, three beer cans, spotted it next to the lift. A quick look round two paper cups and a fair selection of sweet proved to him that nobody was looking. He papers, all of whom were heading for London. tried the door. ft was unlocked; he had expect-

t8 ed to have to force it. About twelve steps led Not a muscle quivered in his immense body, up to the outside air. There was a barrier but But even I could sense this proved no problem and Bob was soon The reserves of his great strength. standing on the ledge. The wind blew out all Graceful as a run of water, sound of the traffic below. The cat flowed down the road after a terrified buffalo, Bob launched himself into space; he never His marvellous control, a wondrous thing. even shouted. After all it was to be a silent He stopped; motionless as a marble, office protest. FIe died the instant he hit the Now I could see his muscles bunch. roof but he continued straight through to the Then a few bounds and a great thirty foot floor below. It was lunch time. leap, The fourpenny letter they found in his And he was catapulted onto the back of the pocket was addressed to the Postmaster- buffalo. General. Lurching and staggering, the enormous animal D. H,ITLGARTH, U.VI.Sc. Never knew what had hit him. The tiger sank the claws of one front paw Into the buffalo's shoulder, BAKED BEANS Plunged his long feline teeth Dressed in red uniforms, Into the back of its neck, Yet pale from exhaustion And hooked the other round its nose, They persevered. . . . While drawing the head down. To be guillotined ? With the bull plunging forward, To be consumed in the burning heat ? The cat ripped it with his hind feet Or perhaps by someone who is hungry, As the buffalo fell, Do you like baked beans ? Its neck broke instantly, And the tiger proceeded, to look for his next JoaNNa WUNnTRGER, III.G prey. C. Hasrsw, II.S I cry as I sit on the dry wall: Tears are my only rewrrd for seeing SUNDAY The death of nations. It's Sunday afternoon. From my vantage point I see The sun is shining down. The crumbling cities of the world, Man is at peace with the world, Where everything has ceased to exist And the world at peace with man. But is as chaff on the soft breezes The neighbour mows his lawn Ruffiing my matted hair, and While we just sit in the sun Flapping my threadbare coat against the wall. And think religious thoughts Because today is 'Our Lord's Day' I cry as I look into the oosix Great Abyss into which Humanity has fallen: days he laboured, and on the seventh But tears are of no avail; I return to the day he rested" Wet, dusty hillside above the crumbling wall So we just sit here in the sun And die. Thinking religious thoughts. Yes ! you too can be religious ! J. Lovr, V.S Just think that the Lord is good And quote the Bible to yourself Because the Lord he will provide THE TIGER'S KILL Just pr&y, "God bless me", and "God curse Twisting out of the cover, hint", As sinuously as a snake, And your heavenly insurance policy He stood in breathtaking beautY. Is paid right up to date.

t9 But Monday is work day and to hell with were hundreds of them, it seemed; the whole God garden was teeming with tall, laughing boys Yes ! you too can be religious ! in their late teens. Peter, who was eighteen, Sitting in your deckchair Paul, a gay sixteen; I could barely count them, Thinking religious thoughts. they flew so quickly past me. Even now my The church is doing a wonderful job tearing memory tries in vain to grasp the clear detail itself to pieces of each living face, as like gay spectres, they Proclaiming peace on earth and proposing dance just beyond the eyes of my memory. new theses Mankind is one brotherhood they cheerfully intone There were fewer girls; Mary-Ann, the wife Sitting on their pontifical backsides of a floating cousin named Stephen; Louise, Watching the world. Paul's pretty sister; Jayne, some sort of cousin Millions starving to death that I never knew properly. But best of all the The rest ? photographs of my mind reproduce Caroline. Sitting in their deckchairs She was seventeen, and one could not pass Thinking religious thoughts. over her. She sat, sprawled before my mother's M. Mc[,srraN, V.T feet, her curled tawny hair blowing gently in the soft, persuasive breeze. Her dress was the colour of the grass, her eyes the colour of dying beech-leaves, her face gleaming and soft. REMINISCENCES OF TEN YEARS AGO It was a warm August ten years ago; a tawny salute to an otherwise disappointing summer. It was on Cousin Caroline that my childish, Outside the weather-clouds were gathering; immature eyes rested as I sat with my mother inside, we sat, all knowing the dark omens of and my uncle on the beautiful terrace that my storm, but laughing, enjoying the heat. No- poor faded father had built. I was young; but body knew where they were, or where they I knew that what I was seeing was like a poppy wanted to go; all they knew was that it was s beautiful, and that they wanted to stay. *:'S ;: L:I:'ffix' in!"f,'#';"' :H*':nes I was young, hardly nine; a true winter child, gawky, thin, and a hero-worshipper. I Maybe I notice it more, but is it true that noticed everything, and stored it; so my August no longer salutes June and July, be memory is as clear today as if it had happened they warm, chilly or non-committal? Maybe; this mornent. We were all there, the whole certainly no August was ever like that one. family, sitting drinking tea and iced coffee on Now Uncle John is a name on an over-grown the big green lawn like a fertile cloak out- gravestone; my mother lies beside him, her spread before our huge house. Meringues and weary body discarded by the bomb that shortbread passed among us, and slowly dis- spoiled my home. All those youthful boys appeared; talk, laughs, jokes, shadows, each have gone, and to most arcjust names on our fell and drifted in the air until another came local cenotaph; Mary-Ann, Louise and Jayne to take its place. died as my mother did. I can remember seeing my otrd Uncle John, so close to natural death that he preserved every scene irr his fading memory; there he sat, But maybe the worst fate fell upon the next to my mother, with her taut, brave face beauty, Caroline. She was a brave creature; and her sorrows. These two were the oldest of she and I alone, of all that gay brood, survive the family, a brother and sister; all the ten years later. I am a quiet, cynical girl, others belonged to young blood, to the other much as she was, in looks; she has a scar, brothers and sisters now departed. There from her forehead to her cheek.

20 The thoughts of a starving child If you, Somewhere, sang to the sea on a blustery cloud-night, your Where the seas are blue, with wave top froth salting lips; And not red, like ours, If you, Where rain is pure water, wandered through a poppy cornfield, golds; Not heavy, black fire-jars, with the clouds crying to the autumn A girl is laughing happily, may be then you'd know what happiness is. Bubbling like an overburdened spring. 'W'. J. KpNnatt, L.YI.Modern Because she had the very price Of a new dress. BLIND TRAMP Ar-rsoN Lovr, IV.G He stood, Conspicuous, on the corner with a tray round his neck. CAI\DLELIGHT Waiting for money to be fed. Candlelight thoughts shadows on a wall. 'Blind', said the sign, but I knew better. A bare room with a round table balancing a Knew he could read every letter. solitary candle. A red candle throwing shad- R. Thumwood, III.G ows on the wall, big, shapeless shadows which change with the draught coming from under POLITICS AND SPORT the door. There is a man pictured on the wall, old and bent, with a beard reaching to the The controversial aspect of politics and sport floor. has come into consideration during the last few years and especially during the recent The candle has a glow round it; red, warm Olympic Games in Mexico. Many internation- and smooth. It is burning. The hours melt al events in football, cricket and many other away, quickly and slowly. Nothing moves. games have been affected and ruined because The old man bends to catch his beard, to stop of certain political matters. This is a very bad it getting dirty from the shadows on the floor. thing for relationships with other countries. On the other wall flickers an old woman, In football recently there has been ever- trying hard to smile at the shadow on the increasing rivalry between international teams opposite side of the room. It is deathly quiet. because their respective governtnents are al- A11 noise has been deadened by the thick walls ways quarrelling. Many players have been where two shadows are trying so hard to meet. injured because of the rough tactics employed The candle is getting lower; melting away, by their opponents. One example that comes leaving waxy pools on the table. It is so still. to mind is with the Argentine team, Estudi- antesplaying Manchester United in a European The candle splutters, gives a sizzle and Cup match. finally flickers out, and the two shadows are In cricket also; the D'Oliveira affair was a in the able to embrace overwhelming, envelop- thing that would have been avoided if there ing dark. The room has gone into nothingness, had not been trouble in South Africa with the next night when another undisturbed until the Ian Smith regime and the question of eqp4l candle will be lit, and two more shadows will rights. This caused a winter tour to Sotith live and die, together.' ' ;:" ^ Africa to be cancelled. 'ir' SusaN LrwrsoHN, V.,S In the Mexico Olympics there has been trotrble over 'Black Power' in America. Many ..IF coloured American athletes showed themselves YOU" up in front of spectators and millions of tele- If you, vision viewers all over the world by un- played hide-and-seek on a summer afternoon, necessary demonstrations on the winner's with a bee concerto and flowery smells; rostrum over this 'Black Power'. ' Even before the Olympic Games started I fall to my knees, ashamed that I should be many countries in Africa boycotted the Games alive, knowing that these men died to give me because South Africa was competing. Some freedom and that I should live. My hands European teams, including Russia, threatened gently caress the wood, the memorial, and I to boycott them because of this. feel its texture, the roughness, the ridges in the wood. The Why shouldn't sport haveaseparate govern- roughness shows the wear and the damage, and ing 'body' which has no contact with inter- ridges and chips show the mutilation people, fering governments ? of innocent women and children, the wounds caused by bombs, fire This w&y, all competitors and players would and other deadly weapons. get on well together regardless of their nation- The holes are the wounds of bullets and of ality and colour. More would watch the sport knives, and the termites and woodworm are and consequently the gates income on the the bad element, infiltrating a country, would increase. Surely this would be better. destroying the good part and converting the P. HanRrs, IV.G rest from health to ruin, or a state of dilapida- tion. The heartbreak is reflected in the breaks of PIECE A OF DRIFTWOOD the wood and the breaks in unity of a people A mark of respect, a sign of someone,s hate are shown also. The hard-core of the wood and another's sorrow, yet a memory, d marker is a loyalty and a people. The most important of unending despondency, it stands as a aspect of life is the people, which is the memory of love and of loyalty of the men who strength, the hard core of life and of faith. have died and whose only memorial is a piece Yet, like the wood, the peace, the spirit and of driftwood. the love is all destroyed by war. But still the spirit The piece of driftwood acknowledges all of cannot register in the wood. The pain, the lives of the people, who now are buried the suffering and the torture can only be related beneath it, It too, one day, had its importance; by those who have actually suffered and it too, was cast aside, unworthy, unneeded cannot be represented by such material things and now forgotten. The piece of driftwood, to as a piece of driftwood. all who knew and still remember the dead, M. Tooo, V.S reflects the lives, but not the spirit, of men. It shows &ge, deterioration, the effects of the PROGRESSIYE MUSIC sun, of the sea and also finally, but not the least important, of war. But surely it cannot Progressive music is played by a frustrated, reflect the pain, the suffering, the torture and imaginative, and musically brilliant section of the hate of war. society. The innovators of this form of escap- ism are despised for their lack of morals, un- Each aspect, each feature of the wood kempt appearance and a basic disrespect for represents a person, a people or a situation. the older generations. I gaze endlessty, with a heavy heart, at the Groups such as the 'Jimi Hendrix Experi- wood which to me represents a part, a hole in ence' 'Led and a longing my and Zeppelin' have only scratched of life. My stare at first the surface centres on the colour. in their search for new, un- ? orthodox sounds, which to them express their I see in this the blood of men. Men savagecl feelings about the'Establishment'. by war, tortured and killed through hate. The They are criticised for their hypocrisy, sd!- colour is brown, the old dried blood, and ing one thing and doing another, but to these co"vered in black like charcoal and dirt. The groups material possessions are only symbols dirt signifies how the men lay in the dirt, un- of well-earned success. Their only real care is wanted, forgotten, victims of the hate, the being able to play their own brand of music methods used in war. without conventional inhibitions.

22 The music they play is often loud, impulsive He sorted out the best bush and set down and explosive, using the imagination of the the basket. He began to pick, to control his listener as a target to aim at. The idea is to eagerness and count each one as it fell in place. surround the audience with sound and to One two three. He picked the best; captivate them until they are involved only in not bothering about the red ones. He thought what is being played. The 'Pink Floyd' are only of the berries; the best places where they exponents of the atmosphere-creation. grew in, the shape and size, the heaviness. He There is no limit to Progressive Music. ate none. He didn't like the taste even, only Already Groups have dabbled in the field of the berries, glistening in the sunlight, falling electronics to express their musical imagina- one by one, filling slowly, one by one by one. tion, and no doubt this will be the 'medium' He picked meticulously, placing each one into which groups of the next flve years will use to the basket, feeling a terrible loss when they communicate with their adherents. dropped from his fingers and rolled into the dew-specked grass. He was satisfied to see that HaszKo, U.VI.Modern M. the basket was nearly full and each neat, virgin-white stalk forlorn on the stem. BLACKBERRIES When they reached the fleld the sun was high 'I'm tired' his sister said. He'd forgotten in the sky and hot on their necks. He had been her, totally wrapt up in his own world of thinking as he walked, with the empty basket concentration. She disturbed him and he lost banging against his ankles, of the blackberries count. He felt annoyance burn inside him and he would pick. Huge and juicy. Millions. He knot itself in frustration in his stomach. He Ioved to see them as they fell into his hand, ignored her in his anger and went on picking huge and juicy and shiny ebony-black. He deliberately. hated the green ones, the ones that crushed in his fingers and those infested with grubs. 'But I'm tired' she shouted petulantly and Hated them. He would crush them between his he glanced over at her, standing there, crumpled and damp and smeared with juice, fingers or grind the soft berry into the ground : with his foot. He felt an enorrnous disappoint- and burrs in her hair and socks. ment, that was inexplicable which would frustrate and anger him. He would count each 'Go home then' he said slowly, 'You've one as it fell into the basket. Not let her hear done nothing all day. Just been a nuisance. them; silly, clumsy creature. Go or, go home'. He stamped his foot aggressively as if to ward off a barking dog. she called, holding onto 'Look over here' She shrugged but remained silent. He turned from his arm and trying to wrench the basket his back on her and started picking again, but grasp. his it was useless, knowing she was there behind 'Lots over here'. He freed his hand. 'Go him, watching. He lost two or three which away'. he said. rolled into the thicket. 'Pick your own'. And then she turned from him and began 'But I haven't got a basket'. to pick, reaching with outstretched arms to- your pockets 'Put them in or something. Go wards the succulent fruit which sometimes away'! crushed in her fingers, leaving a red stain and He pushed her from him and abruptly dis- a few single berries in her eager palm. She ate missed her, thinking of the blackberries and more than she saved and by now her motth seeing the bushes straggling across the field. and teeth were purple with the juice and her She stumbled but said nothing and ran to- hair hung damply around earth-smeared wards a bush which she began attacking in cheeks. furious jerks, falling into the brambles and crushing the fruit between her fingers as she He turned to watch her crushing the berries fell. and then could not bear the waste.

23 'For heaven's sake' he said. He said it water pattering on leaves and then drizzle viciously, as his mother had once said it to through the bushes him when he had been pestering. 'For heaven's sake' with that certain, same tone in his voice The dew began to slide down grass blades as before. as the rain came harder, and his hair felt wet. He looked around for his sister. 'Damn blast' 'Go home'. he said. Words which he vaguely knew were She winced. But she still stood there waiting wrong. He couldn't see her at first, as she was and he knew that if he did make her go, she'd huddled in a copse: she was sitting underneath only get lost. She was fumbling in her pockets one of the huge trees, which had spread its for blackberries which she brought out in branches out as though to shelter her. She was pulpy masses. He wouldn't let her have any wiping something on her dress; her handker- from the basket. 'oNo" he'd cried in panic and chief he supposed. slapped her outstretched arm hard, so that she'd blinked and drew back frightened. She The rain beat down on him and he ran for stood looking at him rubbing the stinging arm. his coat which was piled in a heap in the field, and he covered the berries in the basket too 'Just look at you' he said scornfully, anger for protection. The sunset was fading rapidly, he the dishevelled rising inside him as viewed and a rosy blush was the only evidence that dress stained face. 'Look at that pocket and there once had been a sun. now. You shouldn't have put them in that pocket. It's ruined'. She looked down at the A jagged spike tore at the sky and thunder pocket where a spreading purple stain was bellowed in the bowels of the earth. He ran for soaking into the nraterial. She blinked hard shelter but as he reached the tree, instinctively again and said nothing. drew back as though afraid. Something he 'Go and wash it' he said, 'over there'. knew. That lightning would strike the branch- Pointing to the river which dawdled its way es. He backed away, wondering which way to through the middle of the field. She ran off. turn. The rain was hard and cold against his bare hands and legs and continuous flashes lit He was glad he had gotrid of her at last, and the earth and trembled in the sky. The basket started to pick again, looking at ttre basket bumped against his legs as he ran and he to see how many there were. He remembered could feel the berries falling, feel himself slip- and resumed counting. Soon there were no ping on the slime-covered earth. Then he more berries and so he picked up the basket remembered her and turned to see, but she and moved further along the bush, turning was still under the tree, holding her arms to- 'hidden over leaves to find berries; carefully wards the sky as if to catch the pretty lights. steppingover thecow dung which was speckled His face remained impassive and then, as if with red and blick flies, which swarmed away on a sudden impulse he turned and ran, not when he approached, buzzing; and then re- slipping but holding the basket to him, pro- settled. The basket was heavy and he changed tecting the berries. The water was sliding from hands, grimacing thoughtfully in the distance his plastered hair, down his neck and he shook at the sun rapidly falling through the horizon. it away, like a dog in the rain, until he reached He stopped and resumed picking, but here the hill, and climbing he kept his head down, the blackberries were scarce and red, not ripe shuddering and clutching the basket to him and black and he becamg annoyed and lost when each flash was echoed by thunder, and concentration. He felt a spot of rain on his then when he had reached the top, wet and outstretched hand and looked up wherq storm cold, mud splattered on his bare legs and clouds were accumulating in a threatening, coating his shoes, he sought amongst the depressed blanket. He sat down on a stone and rocks and found a dry hole and sitting there, watched the water in the puddles riddle with huddled over the basket, he looked down into rain drops. The flies were still buzzing around the valley where rain was beating against grass the crust-topped cow dung; and he could hear and leaves and waited for the storm to pass.

24 He waited; with his face calm and untroubled, like a shroud over the tops of trees. void of emotion. Then shrugging the water from his shoulder, he lay on his stomach, emptied the basket and Gradually the thunder becarne tamed, was counted how many blackberries he had lost; now' a whimpering shudder in the mountains. the juiie ran over his hands and the stain The trees dripped water on rain slid from the looked like blood. leaves, and a faint blue steam rose from the valley bottom sealing it from view and falling Brvrnr,rv SpaclB, L. VI.Arts

SOME ENCHANTED EYENING

It was a pafiy, or a secluded, moonlit cliff top. parent, numbered people mingled. I turned The stars gatecrashed through the leaves, my back on my living death, and saw a sea of winking suggestively to my depressed self. life. Lovers ebbed and flowed through the trees, using stradows as if they needed an excuse. A magnum of clich6s sifted through my Gift wrapped music diluted the atmosphere mind as I carefully made my weary way down into a poem which refused to rhyme. Trans- be a rotting staircase (which I hadn't noticed-

25 fore). Tranquility was reflected by wet 'bluesy' jazz were stimulating my hitherto pebbles. I didn't look back. I could still feel drunken senses. I chewed each note 32 times, myself being cocooned in conversation and but there never was a risk of indigestion. The fishpaste sandwiches. I jumped with all my musician was knee-deep in brine and com- heart and painlessly hit the soft sand. The munication. I looked at his moon-silhouetted party had already become a memory. figure, but could retain nothing. I stared into his see-through eyes, but only the music re- I was glad had read Alice in Wonderland I mained well-defined. (3x). I sensed the ceaseless life of my surround- ings. My misery had performed the phoenix as its pidce de resistance. I suddenly became During the applause I glanced round to aware of something I had been hearing for notice the absence of the rotting staircase. I precious seconds of my now meaningful, but hadn't expected to see it, as I knew I was not confused, life. I was reliving a dream, which returning. I had never bothered to dream. The mixed ernotions of a tenor saxophone whispering R. A. CourNS, Z.VI.Sc.

RIVER

The river crawls sluggishly through the city, gotten by no-one. Orange peel, cabbage leal,es, passing the monotony of warehouses, paint- half-dead flowers, rotten plums and decaying peeling barges and rubbish, dropped and for- fruits float past, aimless, homeless, forgotten.

26 From far off a gull cries, the sound dying down into mud where other living things have amongst the rusty oil drums that litter the sunk before it. dockside. A tug drifts by and hoots dismally Splintered wreckage passes ofl, unseeing, as if crying out to be noticed. But no-one hears, jostling a wooden box with 'Tate & Lyle' on no-one cares, so it breaks off suddenly and the side. A car lies rusting on the wharf, left to wanders on through the silt and muck and vanish in time. A dog, man's faithful com- filthy water that is the river. panion, slinks through the rubbish around the A cat floats by half-drowned, with a piece car) a sack of bones held together by flea- of string tied tightly round its neck, but not infested skin. It howls as a piece of razor tightly enough to ensure a quick death. It sharp glass slashes its paws; but no-one hears, threshes wildly, legs kicking without rhythm, no-one cares. For who can hear, or care in a in a maniacal attempt to save itself. With an world too preoccupied with war and the moon effort born of desperation, it mews for help, race to bother. pitifully, weakly, but no-one hears and it sinks ArrsoN Touns, II.S

UNWANTED

He sits alone, The dreary fllthy room, cold and damp, Six years old, small, frightened, the walls and ceiling cracked. a pitiful sight. No doors, carpets, curtains, or windows, Dressed in rags, no shoes; his hair the so-called furniture thick witlr dust, unwashed or combed. No lights or fire.

27 It's just a dirty smelly hole. But think how you live, the work you do, The boy, bedraggled, unwanted, It might quite easily have been you. Hungry, thirsty, tired, ill, Rosrvrany WrrrrAMs, IV.G Bored His parents ? They neither help nor care, Thoughts burn wild, During the day, they work, Fire in the night. During the night they go out with friends. Darkness evolves, 'Never mind about the boy', they s&y, Men into light. 'We didn't want him to begin with'. White agaimt black, What is he supposed to do ? Light extinguished. Uneducated, hated, Thoughts burnt out, Who cares how he lives ? Death distinguished. Some do, they must, or he would die. D. S. HarrcARTH, U.Vl.Science

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28 personal viewpoint, however, opinion altered &//ert.fo /r/, E*fo, somewhat. 58% said that they would not be influenced by an accent when they were are grateful to the many who have We choosing a boy or girl friend; 27 admitted letters to the Editors of 'CINILD' % written that this would affect them sometimes. covering such varied topics as changes in school uniform, raising money for Voluntary There were two questions which could Service, the siting and contents of the Libtaty, come under the general heading of religion thanks to the valued supporter of the Under and they received very different types of ooDo 14 XV, catering for inter-school matches, and answers. On the direct question, you the permitted size of footballs in the play- believe in God ?" the school as a whole was ground. Al1 letters have been read and noted undecided.4l l13% replied oyeso, 25 ll3% 'no' onot and we regret that it has been impossible to and 33 I 13% were sure'. They were rather print them, or our replies to them, in full in more united, it seemed, on a question which this issue. related directly to themselves. "Do you think Tnn Eorrons attendance at assembly should be compul- sory ?" received an affirmative reply from only 40Yo. The question ooDo you smoke" ? produced a result to satisfy any health fiend or anti- Yiewpoint cigarette campaigner. 62yo did not smoke at all, and of the remaining 38 y,, 19 smoked only occasionally. Several general topics for, investigation were considered, among them: dreams, chivalry, Whilst 60% admitted to being a little super- various social problems (continually under stitious (4% were extremely so and the others discussion) and a few rather more lighthearted 'not at all') opinion on the subjects of witch- subjects. Eventually, it was decided to com- craft and fate was fairly evenly split. 53% pile a questionnaire which included a cross- believed the former to be a superstition and section of the above topics. In explaining this, 4s%decided that they were "believers in fate". we hope we have justified all the question- naire contents whether it be the question In a modern, co-educational school such as on our country's- political situation or the ours, the topic of chivalry seemed an obvious more serious affair of ooThe Magic Round- one to choose. It was a subject on which, about". Serious, indeed, for it seems that this apparently, people found it difficult to agree. is the television programme which is influ- 52% were of the opinion that the age of encing the housewives, accountants, lawyers, chivalry was dead, leaving the other 48\ of onavvies' tycoons and (dare we suggest it ?) of romantic optimists (or was it just the boys ?) tomorrow. For 52% of our senior pupils con- insisting that it was still, very much in evid- fessed to watching this- saga regularly, and ence. This led us on to the much-disputed only 23% had never ssen it. Could this be, matter of female emancipation. There was a perhaps, merely the influence of convention ? very even division on this point. 3l% thought 64% agreed that they were influenced in this that women should be emancipated, 34% way a little, whereas only 15% denied that were against the idea and 35% believed that convention had any effect on them, compatat- women had already reached this stage. (It's ively conventional answers from a group of true that the "Cinild" editorial committee is modern teenagers. Similarly 80% were against made up of twice as many girls as boys, but the legalisation of the drug cannabis in spite did someone say they shared equal rights of current trends among young people- which . . . . ?). In an attempt to show just how cap- we see reflected in the national newspapers, able the girls were in such highly skilled particularly those (no names mentioned) which matters as electrical engineering, we asked how tend towards sensationalism. From a more many of you could mend a fuse. Unfortunately (owing to a technical hitch) not everyone dis- was the reason for the question on old-age closed their sex on their questionnaires and pensions. 4l % knew that a single person's after both 5K and Lower Sixth Science had standard pension was only f4 l0s. but 39% emerged unlabelled, we were forced to give up thought that it was f,5 10s. The remainder, the idea of proving feminine equality (not to with the exception of one idealist who is no say superiority) and we came up with the doubt anticipating his old-age longingly, be- figures that a percentage of 59 "neuters" lieving his pension to be fr27 10s., were of the could, in fact, mend a fuse. opinion that it was f6 10s. How much more satisfactory it would be this were, fact, At this point, we again became rather more if in the case. . serious. "Do you get on well with your . . parents ?" was the question we asked. Happily, 7l% of you replied that you did most of the We finish on a somewhat gayer note (ex- time, 27 % do for some of the time and only cept, that is, for those people who are truly 2% reported that you never got on well with dissatisfied with themselves). How many of your parents. fn contrast, one of our numbers, you would, if you had the opportunity, choose obviously enjoying an idyllic home life, boast- to change yourselves in any way ? Only 37 y,, ed good parental relations ALL of the time. it seems what a vain group of students we To help back up these statistics, 60% said that have, or -is it just that you have, by now, all they would not Ieave home, even if they had learned to live with your faults and failings ? the opportunity. Two of you, at least, have not. But, sad to s&y, we can think of no way of helping those pupils As a school with an active voluntary service who replied to our question, "Not 'atf". movement, we wondered just how aware our senior pupils were of some of the problems facing certain members of our society. This Trrn Eprrons

,,AS OTHERS sEE US....r'

ARTICLES FROM FRENCH Sundays, are phlegrnatic and self-controlled AND GERMAN ASSISTANTS as they are taught to be, they strongly obj *t, In France, when asked by my friends to in the theatres, to the rows of pink hats belong- describe the English family I was living with, ing to the party from a Women's Institute. I just saidt "O, well, they are not typical: they They deplore prudish attitudes (like Lady have no lawn in front of their house". You Plunkett's) and the artificial modesty of their cannot ask the French to imagine the English fathers who talk of their cottage (a twenty without their sacrosanct lawn, their fog and roomed castle) or invite you for a snack before theirmackintoshes, their bowler hats and their a dance which turr s out to be a five course carnation in the button hole, their strong long meal ! Young or old, you have to be English bodies and their curly black or reddish hair to have those gorgeous foolish ideas like but the sketch will not be complete sponsored walks, jumble sales, or associations without adding a brief portrait of the new asserting that the earth is flat. You cannot rising generation, flourishing with long legged deny their warm welcome to foreigners, their short skirted girls, always accompanied by attractive personality and if the young English their long haired and scruffy male replicas. were to be cut off from something nowadays, You can't ignore them because they are it would not be from the Continent any more shaking the old English way of life. And, even but from their parents. if they still frequent the pubs, are able to queue up for fish and chips and buses on Mlle. Joelle Hardy

30 Since I want to write down my personal im- politan a fact which is underlined by the pressions of England and English life, I do port. - not claim objectivity. And yet I try to be as England certainly is a beautiful country with just as possible. such picturesque places as Durham, York, and As the inhabitants of an island, English Lincoln. I think English people are good hosts people have lived their own way of life. It is and not at all stiff, as many Continentals be- different from the Continental one in some lieve. ways. Wine, for example, is afi important Post - war West - German society seems factor in European culture and should not be Americanized and there are many nouveaux underestimated. It helped to inspire and form riches. The old order of society has been re- it in the Romanic countries, in Austria and placed by a new social system. One does not South Germany. It also creates an atmosphere any longer speak of classes. I do not com- of festivity. Although English social life plain. There are advantages as well as dis- from which we can profit indeed is far advantages. The situation in England is more relaxed than the Continental one, it different. Over here one still distinguishes shows a certain lack of festivity. With respect three social classes, and the limits between to food it is much the same: one just does not them are more conspicuous than in mymother bother about it as much as Continental people. country. The advantage is that a worker, So it seems almost natural that the Baroque a clerk or a banker knows which class he style could not gain a foothold over here a belongs to. The disadvantage, however, is style which appeals to the senses. - greater: the banker looks down on the clerk and the clerk looks down on the worker instead The Victorian Age smothered man's sensual- of communicating with him. A gradual social ity, and at present English people still try to reform seems urgent and unavoidable. There escape morally from that period which on the should be spent much more money for the one hand made England the leading country improvement of living and working conditions in the world, but on the other hand cut short in the Black Country as well as in the Ruhr the natural richness of life. This escapism is district in Germany. Lastly, the Church of necessary, but it is sometimes too rigorous England should not regard herself as a safe- and cramped. The consequence is quite often guard of ancient and venerable buildings, but o'Modern a bad taste in fashion and pop music. she should meet the physical and spiritual at any price" seems to be the catchphrase. But needs of men. loud colours of dresses and trousers are a bad substitute for real elegance. I want to finish with a view on the relation- ship between England and the Common Whereas Germany has never had a real Market. There would be a real chance of bring- capital for different reasons, England's cultural ing both sides closer together if England and commercial life has met in her metropolis entered the Common Market. De Gaulle is for many centuries. This lack of a capital was not the last President of France, so we all can fatal for Germany, and it shows that she had be hopeful. of nothing but some big and many consisted Herr D. Konrad small states which were governed by absolute monarchs. This is one of the reasons for the nationalism in the Germa n Empire and in the Third Reich. However, back to London: her o'Not musical life and especially her theatres are ALL of us are going decimal".-G.M.C. unique in the world. The beauties of London o'I prowl round the library, wondering what his are not so conspicuous as those of Paris, but legs are like') .-8. D.L.J. one can discover them on a doubledecker bus o'It or on long walks, As the mother city of the took me hours to get that out of a boy last Commonwealth of Nations, L,ondon is cosmo- period".-J.H.H.

3t THEM AND US was very aptly put by S. Gatley of 2G when she said, "They shouldn't have so many The Questions: liberties!". And to end, although Moss wants to get rid of us, S. Smith, I.S. disagreed when What are your opinions on 6th formers ? she said with a blank expression: "The 6th and form ? we don't see enough of them". What are your opinions on form- lst-5th And we sincerely hope that her grievance will 'ers ? be alleviated on Sports Day. In a rash, unpremeditated moment we It wouldn't of course, be fair to let the decided to find out what were the feelings of juniors the juniors on the-question of the 6th form shoot us down without having the and what the 6th form in retaliation thought opportunity to fire back, so the mature, soph- about the juniors. The comments were wide isticated 6th formers were allowed the freedom and varied, some unfit for publication, and of their tongues on that subject. print ooRowdy, others, the best of which we have in here. noisy, loudmouthed" expostulated Firstly, let us put the points of view of the Julie Eastgate of L.VI.Arts. unbiased, unprejudiced lower school. o'Cocky little devils" said J. Barton, LJ.VI.S. Well, Amanda Bailey of 5T feels that the Christine Riley, L.VI.A, thinks they "Totally o'The Sixth arq best bunch we've had so far". lack discipline". Patronising ? Well, Linda how flattering, we s&yr but unfortunately Harman, L.VI.S, is even more so: "Haven't this good start is quickly counteracted by C. got as much respect as we had at their age". Goonan of 25 saying a very emphatic, Is it true ? I tend to think so, but am I really ooRotten ! !". This comment was echoed many qualified to judge ? times around the school and was even added to with such delicate expressions as "Lfgh!" The prefects generally agree that they see the perhap: and "Yuk !". With deflated egos we battled on worst side of the lower school and in our task. because of this Sue Webster, U.VI.A, thinks o'The "They should all go to 6th form colleges" school would be better off without said Moss of 4K, and under normal circum- them". A debatable point, I would say ! stances perhaps we would have agreed with At this point, after listening to Tim Mc- him, but his tone of voice implied that he was Sweeney's rather sarcastic exclamation that: o'They're not trying to be constructive. Linda Wake, all a bunch of peasants", perhaps one 5T, and J. Hirons, 4K, possibly had the most ought to put the other side of the picture for sensible and truthful comments to make: Jackie Jackson L.VI.M says about them: o'They ooNot are nice because they're allowed bad!!!" and S. Wheat U.VI.A feels more freedom to be nice". and: that "The junior girls arc all right". 'of should think they're full-time martyrs". But the majority of the tributes went to the Yes well, one has to take the rough with the 5th form boys from a vafied selection of 6th smooth ! The 6th form boys come under flre form females, all of whom wished to remain quite regularly, from the junior boys, for anonymous such as, Anon of L.VI.A who said, being 'ibig-headed'0. whilst the iunior girls' swooniog, 'oI think we've got the nicest bunch favourite term for the senior girls is "bossy". of 5th forrn boys ever". Catter, 2K, says, ooThe girls are O.K. !!" The most stunning comments though have and on the other hand J. Beare, I.S. retorts been left until last; these are from a small with: "If the boys are nice and handsome they collection of boys in the Upper 6th Modern. can stay". M. Haszko startled us with his perception One of the major grievances of the juniors when he said ooa progression from 11-16".

32 o'Youngof", J. Heather's comment was, and the railways, lowering the transport rates to a B. Davies listening attentivelY, remarked, minimum. British Rail could therefore lower 'oYes, but what age group ?" passenger fares. Rail is a public service and does not have to make a Proflt, but how It is pearls of wisdom such as these which to Mr. H. Wilson, P.M' if it did seem to indicate that perhaps the juniors are :::{?tting not so stupid after all !

The summing-up comrnent must, however, SusaN Ba.vrtss: prominent member of come from a certain o'Today, wives are overruled by their staff who prefers to remain anonymous. husbands, but I think that they should be 'oA horrible lot, spoon-fed and feather- given as much freedom as theY like." bedded" and when asked whether this was the juniors the 6th form the directed at or Pnr VaN Dresr, U.VI.Modern: reply was: "If the cap fits. . . ." . "Mammoth shopping expeditions at vast Artsolq Wsrcn, L.VI.Arts expense, coming home loaded with polythene- wrapped Christmas puddings and battery- produced turkeys ! Children demand fantastic toys and teenagers sadly contemplate Christ- mas without their boy friends. Everyone Sixth Form Opinion would like to go to midnight Mass but the have asked them over for a few drinks (A collection of extracts from essays written Jones's and "We can't go to church smelling of gin, by the Upper Sixth on a variety of topics). can we ? So perhaps we'Il miss it this year" . oomissed R. TunnELL, U.VI.Sc.: (They have it" for the last fifteen "Prosecutor, jury, magistrate, God. Who years). If people do not believe in the religious do they not have their are 'you to condemn a person you do not side of Christmas, why in August, know to a life of yet more years of suffering, disgusting display of self-indulgence not while you, in that same breath condemn to when the weather is better and they would way to the next death millions in another climate, away from get stuck in snowdrifts on the your hypocritical eyes ? Your scorn cuts deep, Eat-in-Drink-in ?" life-ebbing gashes, but yet they cannot die. Repeal the law on (attempted) suicides. . . . " P. MotttoR, Lf.Vl.Science : "It is hard to appreciate why doctors con- P. GINN, LI.VI.Science : tinue heart transplants. There is sufficient "Why are we still forced to carcy on with evidence from the failure rate to seek another the ancient tradition of playing games ? I get way round the problem. The heart is the more exercise from walking home from school strongest muscle in the body, and its function than I do from playing table-tennis ! The and efficiency surpasses any man-made pump- building of the school computer would seem, ing mechanism. Until man has the engineering projebt, to ffie, to be a far more worthwhile skill to produce such a machine, to completely especially as I have no inclination for games at replace the heart, he should accept heart- a11...." failure and realise his shortcomings". J. PBRRv, IJ.VI.Science : P. SancEANT, U.U.Sc.Mod.Arts : "Let me suggest one way of overcoming the problem of congestion on the roads in Britain. 'oCensorship, in any form, is surely one of ootaxed" Road haulage should be off the roads. the most petty and short-sighted policies ever This would save frustration to other drivers to be devised by man. Anyone who tries to and save money in road repairs. Having taken alter the ways in which people wish to com- this transport off the roads, I would put it on municate is interfering with the basic rights of

33 a community of freedom of speech. It is not Our main fund-raising events are the up to one man, or a small number of men, to Summer Fete and the Christmas Fair, and the say that a book or film should not be pub- committee will be very pleased if the pupils lished or shown. It is up to the public at large will co-operate with us this year in trying to whether or not they wish to see it. People achieve our current target of a Mini-Bus for should be intelligent or independent enough use in School outings of all kinds. to decide for themselves. Censorship in any Any individuals or groups who are willing (including political) of its forms is the sign of to help us will be welcome and we will do all a weak and oppressive society, and should not we can to provide any materials, help or ad- be supported by anyone who believes in the vice you may need. Mr. Chapman or Mr. freedom of the individual". Rolfe, as staff representatives on our commit- tee, will put you in touch. Par Marm, U.IV I Section: A. G. Wanpsu-, Chairman People s&y, l"You're too soft-hearted and sentimental," but could it not be that I am just human with human instincts and re- actions ? I would not dream of placing a human in a cell and submitting him or her to Old Students the tests and trials which are undertaken in CnntsropHER (1966-68) some research establishments. We must, how- Hrnsr reflects on his ever, take into account the fact that medical first six months at Lancaster University: and technological research would be at a "It's rather difficult to gauge your reactions standstill without such experiments. But I to a place once you have settled into its would be sincerely grateful if the applicants pattern. I suppose that the most positive thing of these tests would pause to think before they you can say about a University is the lack of act. Just how long will it be before humans are any pattern. used for such practices ? However, let's get down to essentials; How many hours are you compelled to attend in a week ? You have to go to seminars, which are small classes with anything from three to Parentst Association fifteen students. I have five hours of these in my week. Our Association was formed in 1965 with the object of bringing together the parents of And what do you do in between ? pupils to enable them to meet socially and to Well, there are seven hours of lectures that band together to raise funds for the purchase it would be as well to attend if you want to get of those extra items not provided by the further than your first year. In fact, you are Education Authority. often just as well, if not better, reading the At the moment we have over two hundred books the lecturers have got their notes out of. members and would be pleased to welcome Apart from lectures, you are supposed to work members from the other 350 families with for your seminar, you have to prepare for children at the school. your exams and you are expected to do about five essays in term (10 weeks). To date we have provided the curtains in the hall at a cost of f,500, have made a start At Lancaster, you have to do three subjects on provid-ing seats in the playground, and in the first year. I'm taking English as my ooTrust have also formed a Fund" to provide major subject, but I spend as much time in my prizes and bursaries for pupils. It will take other two, which are Politics and Philosophy. some considerable time to achieve the sums By the second year, however, you do special- required, but we think this a worthwhile cause ise in one subject. And at many universities and one which will benefit future pupils of the you do only one subject throughout your three school. years. This is so at London, Birmingham,

34 Oxford and Cambridge. At Sussex, there is an Really, it's up to you. You get out of introductory general course until Easter of University just what you put into it". your first year, and at Keele there is an intro- ductory year on top of the three year course. AnNErrp WrurEHousn (1961-68) offers advice from Bangor: In fact the actual teaching at Universities is the part the whole thing. think weakest of I "Freedom is the key to university life; the could be said that Universities really that it academic staff recognize that the student are the freest institutions in our society. And voluntarily attends university because he is so they should stay. It is when this freedom is interested in his subject, and they work in being tampered with that student rebellions close consultation. Here at Bangor University, arise. And in my opinion most of the student North Wales, it was found that, in many sub- outbursts are thoroughly justifled. Nearly jects, the students were not satisfied with the everything you read in the papers about the course syllabus; representative student com- libertarian nature Universities is true, but of mittees were formed and changes were sug- vastly exaggerated, for instance, in Lancaster's gested to the professors of the various depart- own sit-in only about 120 out of about 2,000 ments. Not long afterwards, the changes students were involved, and in the subsequent demanded were successfully initiated; a protest march into Lancaster about 150 parti- working example of democratic procedure cipated. I joined in both of them, but it hasn't within the university. seemed to have had much effect on Dr. Adams ! When they aren't working or protesting, Few students, arriving at the university of how do students flll their time in ? their choice, will find it ideally suited to them in every aspect. It is the students' task to use The answer to that is: Easily. In fact you his freedom to shape the university to his spend most of your time just eating and needs; not an impossible task ! drinking. I rarely consume anything other than milk, cheese, crisps, oranges and Keg advice on University choice Bitter. A few words of are relevant here, from one who has just been And when you are not drinking ? through the mill and who only just made it, to those about to enter the system ! There is debating. There is usually a dance a week which has eithet a'progressive pop' or The situation in English Universities is a 'soul' group. There is the folk club with definitely one of overcrowding and more and people like Al Stewart, Ron Geesin and the more people are applying for University Incredible String Band. places, especially in the popular arts subjects, There are art exhibitions and painting and English, French, and History. If your chances sculpture workshops. There is a theatre and a of gaining a university place are slender, and concert hall in the Lancaster campus. And the your sole ambition for the present, is to go to drama society puts on plays like 'Loot', university, then it is advisable to apply to a 'Twelfth Night', 'Sergeant Musgrove's Dance' less popular university or to a less over- 'Present Laughter', and 'Waiting for Godet'. crowded faculty. It is usually possible to change your course at the end of the year There is an Arts Festival once a year. There when the majority of universities offer hon- is Adrian Mitchell as the resident poet; there ours courses to students, based on their is politics with societies ranging from the academic success in one of their three first- Monday Club and the Primrose League on year subjects. However it is a wise move to the far right to the Marxist Discussion Group obtain first-hand information by making a and the Revolutionary Socialists Students' student-contact at the University of your Federation on the extreme left. And there is choice to flnd out about the various systems sport (if that kind of thing takes your fancy). in operation".

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