Number 14 Spring 2011

The magazine for former pupils and friends of Glasgow Academy and Westbourne School

Etcetera: the place where old friends get together Editorial Contents

I’m writing this on the Euston train to Glasgow Central on my way back from the 3 Meritorious Service London Academicals’ Dinner. For some reason – possibly a dark foreboding – I’ve Regular Giving 2010-11 decided not to risk a trip to Twickenham for the annual Calcutta Cup match on 4 Seizing the moment – a morning Sunday… with Darius 5 On her bike in search of a fairer Along with the passing countryside, memories of an excellent evening fl it by – an world evening in which tales of rugby took pride of place. Although not known for his 6 Everything is possible prowess on the rugby fi eld, even the guest speaker, Lord MacLennan of Rogart, had 7 Anecdotage a rugby-related story. He spoke warmly of his undying gratitude to the boy who 10 Jim Cunningham remembers broke his arm in Fifth Form, thereby ensuring that he had a perfect excuse for taking 11 Much-loved teachers (almost) no further part in a game that he heartily disliked. remembered Undoubtedly the star of the evening was the oldest member of the company – a 12 My life after T.G.A. 140-year-old cap given to JW Arthur before the fi rst-ever international rugby 13 War Memorial Visitors match in 1871. Arthur was one of two Academicals who played in the match 14 Malcolm Allan – rugby referee, 1900-1974 between England and Scotland. (The other, William Cross, scored the fi rst points in 18 Business Etcetera International rugby in Scotland’s historic win over the ‘auld enemy’.) 19 Events & Reunions As a member of the External Relations Department at The Academy, I’m proud 20 Academical Section of what members of the Academical Club have achieved over the years and we are 24 Obituaries delighted to help the Club in whatever ways we can. 25 Updates The inclusion of the Club membership information in this pack is one way in which 28 Westbourne we can do this. From several conversations we have had recently, however, a number 30 The Academy’s Legacy of former pupils seem to assume that this comes from External Relations. Some What’s in a name? even think that it is a subscription request for this magazine. It is not – the Club 31 Home and abroad subscription funds the activities of the Glasgow Academical Club and the magazine is Special Update funded and distributed by the Glasgow Academicals’ War Memorial Trust. Do we have your e-mail address? Etcetera has been – and continues to be – very warmly received by the whole It’s how we communicate best! Academy community and we are fi rmly committed to it, now and in the future. Increasingly, however, we are considering other ways of helping to fund the Keeping in touch magazine and we are delighted to have agreed a three-edition sponsorship deal with The External Relations offi ce is situated Clive Christian that will go some way to reducing postage costs. in Colebrooke Terrace. Former pupils If any member of the Academy former pupil community would like to discuss are always welcome to pop in for a chat and look round the school. Just give possible future commercial partnerships, we would be very pleased to meet them. us a call to arrange a time. Our address is Colebrooke Terrace, Glasgow G12 With best wishes 8HE and you can contact us on 0141 342 5494 or at [email protected] The Glasgow Academical Club 21 Helensburgh Drive, Glasgow G13 1RR President – Lindsay Crawford Malcom McNaught, Director of External Relations E-mail – [email protected] [email protected] Secretary – Kenneth Shand Tel: 0141 248 5011 Forthcoming Events E-mail: [email protected] 17 June Reunion for those who left in 1950 and before The Academical Club pavilion is available 20 June Regular Giving ‘thank you’ Reception for functions. Please contact Ken Barron at [email protected] for details. September GA 100 Reception (at Anniesland, date tbc) 30 September Class of 1991 Reunion Academical Club’s London Section Secretary – David Hall, 20 Cadogan Place 7 October Classes of 1961-1965 Reunion London SW1X 9SA 13 October Kelvin Foundation Lunch Tel: 020 7235 9012 10 November Classes of 1951-1955 Reunion E-mail: [email protected] 11 November 129th Glasgow Academical Club Dinner 2 December Classes of 1971-1975 Reunion Cover: recent reunion of 1981-85. A full report will appear in the next edition.

2 Etcetera Regular Giving 2010-11 Thank you to all those who have helped get our 2010-11 appeal off to a good start. A total of just under £15,000 of new gifts and pledges have been received since November. I am pleased to report that there has been particular support for our need to buy new benches for the terrace, but I am still very keen to hear from any FPs who are interested in supporting the appeal for a new rowing boat. Bursaries remain the key focus for Regular Giving because in the current downturn there is a great need for help with fees. The Academy has supported able children whose parents need help Meritorious Service with fees for generations. Donations Former School Captain Neil MacGregor (1964) was awarded the Order of from members of our community help to Merit in November last year. Only 24 people can be members of the Order at any ensure we can continue to give talented one time. At the moment they include Lady Thatcher and Betty Boothroyd, the youngsters an excellent all-round Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales. The order, which is in the personal education at the school. gift of the Queen, was founded by Edward VII to acknowledge ‘exceptionally Thank you again to all those who have meritorious service’. Members have included Henry James, Winston Churchill helped get our 2010-2011 appeal off to a and Laurence Olivier. sound start. To view our current appeal Neil left Glasgow Academy to read Modern Languages at New College, brochure please follow this link: Oxford. He studied Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and law www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/ at Edinburgh University before studying and then pursing a career as an Art community/giving/regulargiving.html Historian. For nearly 25 years Neil has been an extremely successful Museum Director – at the National Gallery (1987-2002) and at the British Museum since Mark 2002. He has presented three television series on art and the radio series A History [email protected] of the World in 100 Objects, which aired in 2010. 0141 342 5494

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Etcetera 3 People Etcetera Seizing the moment – a morning with Darius…

You’ve got to be quick to keep up with things for the last 10 years... I’ve also dabbled in opera.’ But what Darius Danesh... sorry, Campbell. That’s advice would he give to those at the start On his recent visit to Glasgow Academy the remarkable thing about Darius. Just of their careers about how to stand out at the beginning of the Spring Term, when you think you’ve worked out at auditions, someone earnestly wants Darius was characteristically generous who he is, he’s morphed into something to know. One of the endearing things with his time in talking to young aspiring entirely different. about Darius is that he doesn’t fl inch performers in the school’s Drama from talking about subjects that others It’s over ten years since Darius fi rst came Department. ‘I have had the luck of might gloss over or conveniently ‘forget’. to public prominence in ITV’s Popstars being able to go from a pop career, He grins: ‘I stood out on one occasion – a talent show format so daringly writing and performing my own material when I tried too hard. I gained a lot of experimental that not even Simon to an acting career in the West End and notoriety as a result and it caused me Cowell had been thought of. It was not, a lot of problems. Literally overnight I he admits, his fi nest hour and certainly became a fi gure of fun before my career gave no hint of a glittering future ahead. Darius with his father and younger brother had even started. Because I wanted to Undaunted, however, stand out, I was trying too hard... Just be Darius almost immediately yourself – be true to yourself. That’s my reappeared as his own advice.’ clean-cut alter ego to come Although he doesn’t say as much, it’s back from an early grave clear that this visit to his old school – in in Cowell’s Pop Idol – the company of his father, Booth, and his after which he even had younger brother, Aria – is an opportunity the courage to turn down for Darius to lay some ghosts to rest. He the great man’s offer of a clearly fi nds solace in the fact that there’s recording contract and go his a drama department for those who don’t own way. And confounding quite fi t the conventional Academy public expectation by mould. ‘As much as this school was one constant reinvention has of the greatest blessings for me, it was just about been the shape of also one of the most diffi cult times in my life because at that time there wasn’t the network and support for someone like me. I didn’t fi t in with the academic group and I didn’t fi t in with the rugby group. So if I’m being honest, I had very few friends. Because I didn’t know who I was – because I hadn’t found my truth – I was awkward within myself. As a result I was bullied and I didn’t have the courage to tell my parents. I didn’t fi t in, so I pretended to be something I wasn’t...’ Luck is an oft-repeated theme with Darius. But has Darius got where he is today by luck or by talent? ‘I don’t play golf but I like the Gary Player quote when he said the more I practice the luckier I get. I believe that it’s partly through recognition of your own good fortune that you cultivate your own opportunities.’ And Darius’s luck held in the immediate aftermath of a car crash last year that could have proved fatal. His injuries were very like those of Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve who ended his days as a quadriplegic. Had his fracture been

4 Etcetera just slightly lower, Darius could so easily have been left in the same state. At best On her bike in search of a fairer world he might have faced an operation that could have robbed him of his voice. ‘I As you read this, I feel lucky every morning I wake up, all will be pedalling my the more so after my car crash. I start way from Land’s End by saying a prayer thanking God for my to John O’Groats head and my hands and my voice.’ in memory of my Glasgow Academical After appearing as the Laird of Lamlash husband Geoffrey in the King’s Theatre’s panto Snow Jarvis (1946) and in White – almost certainly the fi rst King’s aid of an exemplary pantomime to feature a six-foot-four medical NGO in principal boy in a kilt – Darius has set Kolkata – Child in his sights on his next project. Glasgow Need India (CINI) – audiences got a taste of it when he came and I ask if you will with his Big Band Tour last October. sponsor me. ‘In raising lots of money for Help for Heroes, I was lucky to have the It was my privilege opportunity to explore a new genre of to be married to music for me. I’d like to reinvent 40s Geoffrey for over 37 crooning in the same way that Amy years. They were Winehouse has done for 60s soul. I want 37 good years that to do something that young people included prestigious will listen to, their parents will listen to architectural and their parents too – something that awards, like the transcends the boundaries of age.’ RIBA Award for the restoration of In spending rather an exhausting Chatelherault in morning with Darius, one thing is Rosalind Jarvis Hamilton, and 37 years of campaigning apparent: he seems to have time for to make Glasgow – and indeed the world to John O’Groats (affectionately known everyone. He’s happy to pose for a – a better place, as well as 35 years of as LEJOG) in memory of him and in photograph with anyone who asks bringing up a family we both adore. aid of CINI which we both visited and him and one suspects that he rarely for which we have been fundraising for disappoints a would-be autograph hunter 37 years is not enough, but that is the some time. (a suspicion that is later confi rmed by price to be paid for a large disparity in the sight of the length of the queues age. I wasn’t born when he was School CINI has been working with mothers at the stage door of the King’s). Why, Captain of The Glasgow Academy, a and young children, mainly in the fi eld one wonders, is this so important to recognition by the school of quality of of nutrition, since 1974. Concerned him? ‘My parents are both doctors and the man, a quality he developed to the primarily by the adverse affects of I remember going round wards from full during his lifetime. malnutrition in small children, which the age of 4 taking little parcels – gifts can have lasting physical and mental Climate Change was Geoffrey’s fi nal for each of the people who worked in consequences, CINI has expanded to campaign, begun shortly after he was the hospital from the ward managers work with street children, adolescents, diagnosed with the prostate cancer down to the person who mopped out victims of sex traffi cking and now, which eventually killed him. He was the toilets. In London everyone keeps inevitably, Climate Change. shocked to learn, back in 2004, that the their heads down largely through an lifestyle of the average Briton requires Dr Samir Chaudhuri, the Paediatrician exaggerated fear of violence. We live in the resources of three planets to sustain who founded and still runs CINI, has a society in which we’re all focused on it and that the people who are worst much in common with Geoffrey. He me. My life is better when I’m open to affected by the changing climate brought is a man of vision, who works tirelessly people.’ about by the Western lifestyle, are those towards his goal of improving the lot Darius was invited to speak to the who have done least to cause it. He of the poorest and most vulnerable of Senior School assembly on his return immediately set about raising awareness India’s people. to The Academy. His peroration of the perilous situation the world is in, Any donation you are willing to make was thought-provoking: ‘You have and inaugurated a local group, which has will be gratefully received and will go what it takes within you to seize the now received a grant from the Climate directly to CINI to further its work on opportunities that every day brings,’ he Challenge Fund to work towards the mitigating the effects of Climate Change. told his young audience. ‘If you take that goals set in the Scottish Government’s opportunity – or if you don’t – you’ve Climate Change Act. For more information: fulfi lled your destiny.’ www.cini-india.org www.cini.org.uk It was in recognition of Geoffrey’s It’s an appropriate last word for someone campaigning zeal for a better world for To follow my progress: who has built a career on making the all that I decided to take up the challenge http://rosalindjarvis.blog.co.uk most of every opportunity. of a sponsored bike ride from Land’s End

Etcetera 5 of life with Type 1, I decided to be more active in raising awareness about the condition and go that extra mile, literally. I set myself a double challenge – to cycle from London to Paris and to run the Berlin marathon to raise both money for and awareness of Type 1 and my chosen charity Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Even as a competitive sportsman, both events were well outwith my comfort zone and required serious training and diabetes control planning. I am delighted to report all went well and I completed both events – running the marathon in 3 hours 32 minutes and raising over £3,500 for JDRF. Through someone I met on the Paris cycle, I was invited to do voluntary work with diabetic kids aged between 13 and 17 at a Children with Diabetes (CWD) conference at Windsor in October 2010, talking to them about the importance of exercise and how to juggle diabetes and sports. This was a great experience, getting the opportunity to help the next generation at the start of their journey with Type 1. On the back of this, and my fundraising efforts, I was invited to Everything is possible... be a guest speaker at the JDRF 2010 awards ceremony. Bearing in mind my Who said ‘Life begins at Forty’? I will have to wait and previous reticence about my condition, see if it’s true, but I do know that my life changed standing in front of 130 people sharing forever when I was fourteen. experiences of life with Type 1 was the true challenge. Hopefully I managed to inspire the younger generation and On 31 October 1999, aged 14, I was made me determined to not let diabetes reassure their parents. dealt a blow when I was diagnosed as rule my life. This moment was when Sir I also was subsequently asked by a ‘Type 1 Diabetic’. I remember the Steve Redgrave won his 5th Olympic JDRF to make a presentation on the day clearly. I was confused as to what a Gold medal, battling Type 1 (and old charity and its work at the 2011 heats Type 1 Diabetic was and thought I had age!). For a sport-mad 14-year-old this for Scottish Miss Universe hopefuls; enough on my plate with exams and was the inspiration I needed. It made however that is a tale to be saved for growing up. I looked for ways to ignore me think that perhaps ‘Everything is another place! the condition, in my case being secretive possible’ and my journey from there about it and denying that I was diabetic. on would be to prove to myself that From all of the above more opportunities this was true. As a result I went back to have fl owed – invitations to speak at the Looking back, I struggle to see why I playing rugby, participated in the Duke dinner after this year’s JDRF London to reacted like that as my family, school of Edinburgh’s Award scheme, went on Paris cycle, for example, and to help at and friends were all very supportive, school trips and rugby tours, graduated the CWD camp in Florida. encouraging me and making sure life from St Andrews University, played continued as normal (to name a few football and rugby for the University, I truly believe that every cloud has a important Accies, in particular- Messrs travelled and worked abroad and am silver lining. If it wasn’t for the fact Atack, Ker, MacLennan, Meek, Strang now employed in Edinburgh as an that I was a Type 1 diabetic, I probably and Wilson). However in reality, being Account Manager by a large international wouldn’t have cycled from London to told aged 14 that life would change media company. Paris, run the Berlin Marathon or been forever and from then on I would given opportunities to raise awareness require up to four insulin injections a day Fast forward 12 years from my diagnosis about the condition of diabetes and its and need to prick a fi nger at least three and with (I hope!) a more mature head management. times a day to test my blood was a tough on my shoulders, I have grown to accept ...Everything is possible. Life does not bit of news to take. Type 1. My moment of ‘Redgrave’ inspiration has continued to spur me necessarily begin at 40, or 14. Maybe life Luckily for me I had a moment of on to prove to myself, not to anyone truly began for me at 25! inspiration shortly after my diagnosis else, that everything is possible. So last Michael Byers (2002) which helped me turn a corner, and year, aged 25 and to mark 10 years 6 Etcetera Anecdotage

It was while I was lying in a chair in a Gardens, I had reasonable momentum dental surgery in the centre of Perth, going as I came down the long slope Looking back with Western Australia – being treated by an of Great Western Road towards affection... old rugby mate – that I was reminded the intersection with Byres Road. of an amusing statement which always Confronted with a stationary bus and As I approach my seventy-sixth year , I made me ‘crack up’ with laughter. beside it a stationary tram, I applied my look back on my life with a somewhat brakes to no avail. Nothing. Zip. With critical eye. I feel extremely fortunate The cause of the laughter was my maths apologies to Monty Python, these brakes that I was educated at the Glasgow teacher in the early 50s, whose name, if were deceased! Academy. I did not excel at anything I remember correctly, was Mr Gilmour. in particular, but thoroughly enjoyed He was a very affable man, short in Travelling at considerable speed, I those activities that appealed to me, the stature, who unfortunately didn’t twig managed to squeeze between the bus CCF, the Globe Players, 3rd XV rugby. that one of his commonly-used phrases and tram and I then made an expensive Academically I think I just coasted was the source of the class laughter. decision. I tried to get on to the along… Having explained the mystery of a pavement by mounting the kerb. Bad complex mathematical formula he would move! The front wheel hit the kerb, I look back on the Academy with huge turn to the class and say, ‘Now watch the the back end of the bike came up and affection. Compared to the high-tech board, boys, while I go through it again.’ catapulted me like a shot from a cannon, environment of the school today, Was this the inspiration for the fi lm to land face fi rst in the foyer of the Silver my Academy was slightly basic if not ‘Ghostbusters’? Slipper Cafe, which at that time was a primitive, but one still had a sense of favourite haunt of local Academy boys. I was reminded of this little gem when embarking on something big. One witness reckoned I was worth 9.3 my dentist was explaining to me how for style. I loved the Academy, and loved to look after my new dental bridge. He Fridays when one put on the Army handed me a mirror and said, ‘Look in My two front teeth bore the brunt of cadet uniform, and proudly saluted the the mirror and I’ll go through it again.’ the collision, which I was subsequently memorial and secretly hoped that some Numb as I was, I had to laugh. told was due to someone loosening all girls from Park or Laurel Bank were the nuts on my brakes. However, there The dental bridge process also had me witness to your military bearing. is always something good comes from tripping down memory lane, as my misfortune. My dentist has enjoyed The masters were all fi gures of affection, dental friend asked me how I had broken several overseas holidays and a car my two front teeth in the fi rst instance. particularly those who had little personal upgrade on the strength of my dental quirks. ‘Dodo’ Ogylvie fl inging open Sixty years is a long time, but I work. the huge windows on the fi rst fl oor remember the incident clearly as though The team I played for that year, 1949 if a boy sneezed, ‘Baggy’ Aston on it was yesterday. -50 was the under 11½. I attach a photo his bike, ‘Basher’ Ainslie (ex-Arnhem I had been at Anniesland for rugby of these cherubic champions and wonder paratrooper), ‘Bing’ Crosby in tattered training and on this occasion I had where they are now. gown, unfl appable ‘Pop’ Cairns, Lounge travelled on my bicycle. Returning suited Coleman Smith (Coley), Brigadier Arthur Hill (1956) home, which was close to the Botanic Engledow and brilliant artist, gentle Wallace Orr and cricket-mad George Preston. ‘Jock’ Carruthers came late to the school, I think from Newcastle, but very quickly made it his own. All the teachers had character and most inspired affection. There was to my mind a defi nite ‘Mr Chips’ ambience which maturity now makes more signifi cant. I loved being at the Academy and remember everything in retrospect with pleasure even reserving a hot Scotch pie from Eina in the tuck shop for my lunch, taken in the Morrison house common room. I hope the Academy of today with its sophistication and high-tech equipment Under 11 1949-50 will provide such memories for today’s I have all the surnames but I can’t remember a few of the Christian names. Names as follows: pupils. Back Row (left to right): Barry Harper, Stewart Mackie, Iain McKellar, Mr Ken Miles, (?) Burdon, Roy Robinson, Derek Guthrie Harold Couts (1953) Middle Row: (?) Brown, Eddie Connal, Gordon Page, Ken McCrossan, Forest Pender, Jock Fleming Front Row: Peter Izat, Tom Anderson, Arthur Hill, Sandy McPherson Etcetera 7 Jim Cunningham remembers...

My indoctrination began at the age incidentally one of the best teachers at of eight (after a few years at Dairsie Having read with considerable that time). Detention was a surprisingly House) into Miss Reid’s Primary 3. Two interest and nostalgia various good deterrent to misbehaviour as the abiding memories of this period remain. articles in the last edition thought of prolonging the school day We were instructed to memorise the of Etcetera, I have felt the beyond normal hours made Thursdays times tables, and were given periodic compunction to add my just as bad as Mondays. tests of our retentive memories. This tuppenceworth to reminiscing While on the subject of punishment, all seemed rather a bore to me and I there was another form of this dished copied out a note of these which I could about my wartime experiences out by prefects – Lines. This involved refer to behind the confi nes of my desk while undergoing the rigours writing out, in multiples of 100, whenever we were called upon to of an education at Glasgow something along the lines of ‘I must prove our prowess. Unfortunately my Academy. While I cannot in all not make rude faces at any prefect’. subterfuge did not go unnoticed by the honesty consider them to be the There was usually a time limit set for eagle-eyed Miss Reid, and I was hauled happiest days of my life, they the delivery of the fi nished copy, and out in front of the class and chastised. As this usually coincided with the morning a punishment for this misdemeanour, I did produce some memorable assembly when the prefects were at their was awarded several strokes of the belt. moments which time has done most active. Now, I don’t know whether Miss Reid nothing to diminish. had not acquired a belt of her own at Caps this time, or whether it added insult to This piece of headgear was considered injury, but on receiving the sentence one can remember several occasions while to be an essential part of the uniform. had to go to the teacher next door, and crouched in our makeshift shelter at On arrival at the school gates and on in front of the whole class, ask to borrow home during the night, hoping that the departure, it was obligatory to have her belt. This ignominy helped to cure all clear would not sound until we had one’s cap in place. The Sartorial Police me of the desire to take the easy way earned a day’s holiday from school. (prefects) were in attendance particularly out. in the morning, to check on latecomers The rest of my time in the junior school My second memory of those early days and anyone not properly dressed for seems to have passed without incident arose because – with the advent of the admission into the hallowed precincts. worth recording, until we all made the war in 1939 – I was evacuated to my In practice, the cap was an article of switch into Transitus under the watchful aunt’s farm in Lockerbie. This only lasted clothing which was kept folded in a coat eye of Miss Gentles. Her reputation one term as there was little danger to life pocket and only worn between the War as something of a martinet was not far or limb in those early days of the war and Memorial and the school gate – either off the mark and in no way could she I returned to the Academy in the Spring. coming or going. pass muster as ‘gentle’. However this In my absence the rest of the class had indoctrination into the ways of the been given instructions in the noble art Rugby/Cricket Senior School stood us in good stead for of knitting, and for several periods during These were two games in which every the experiences that lay ahead. the week were industriously employed pupil was expected to participate, unless in knitting squares which could be made Here follow some personal observations one had a doctor’s line, regardless of into blankets. As Miss Reid considered on life as a pupil in the senior school – whether they had any inclination or that it would be a waste of her time to aptitude. Character-forming it may indoctrinate me into the intricacies of Punishment for misdemeanours have been, and team spirit inducing, knitting, I was instructed to read to the Instead of the belt which infl icted but this was one pupil who had neither rest of the class while they plied their instantaneous but transitory pain, we the inclination nor the aptitude. Rugby needles. This certainly sharpened up had a more insidious form, in the involved running the risk of physical my reading skills – which has stood me shape of Detention. For even the injury while fl eeing about a muddy in good stead in later years. I wonder slightest infringement any master could fi eld in usually wet and cold weather. whether any of my classmates ever announce, ‘Go and get the Detention Cricket, as fi elder, involved standing pursued their knitting expertise beyond Book’. This involved a trip up to the around one side of the pitch and walking school. Master’s Common Room where the over to the opposite side at the end of infamous book was kept. On return to an over. Admittedly there was a bit of The war did impinge on our lives after the class, your name was inscribed in this activity between batsmen and bowlers the ‘phoney war’. There were several with either a single or double detention but it was hardly riveting stuff. Somehow German bomber raids in the ensuing (depending on the severity of the crime) or another – probably because I was not years on the Glasgow area. The school along with details of some literal task 1st XV or 1st XI material, I managed had a system that if the raid lasted for a which should be undertaken. to spend the sports afternoon skating at certain length of time between the alert Crossmyloof Ice Rink. This also had the and the all clear then school would start The Detention period was after school advantage that one could associate with later than normal the next day, and if on a Thursday afternoon under the members of the opposite sex – something the raid went on for even longer then watchful of David D Ogilvie (known unheard of at New Anniesland. school was cancelled for the next day. I not surprisingly as Dodo – and also

8 Etcetera Tuck shop Lord’s Prayer and notices would be (Coley). Now I don’t know whether As a previous correspondent has read out. Occasionally we would have he was of a lazy disposition or had a mentioned – this was held in a dark an outside speaker to give us a talk on fi xation on regimented lines of pupils corner of the well. It was under a something, and if there was an upcoming all bending and stretching. Although franchise of sorts from Walter Hubbard, rugby match against the High School on the gym was equipped with all sorts of who had an upstairs restaurant on Great Saturday we would get a long harangue interesting equipment, I could count on Western Road – just up the hill from about being on the touchline to cheer on the fi ngers of both hands in the whole Lawrence and Lang. I must concur our team. of my gymnastic experience the number of times that any of this equipment was with the accolade given to their mutton The Art room was part of the science actually pressed into service – it was pies. In my days at the Academy, I must block and had an entrance door with usually on the last period before the end have consumed more than 500 of these a glass panel at the top with the words of term. gourmet delights and they were one of ‘ART’ inscribed on it. Some wag at the highlights of the school day. Since some time had prefi xed the letter F as General knowledge test then, despite trying to fi nd a comparable presumably a work of art. It had been This was another end-of-term product, the search has been fruitless. like this for a week or two, but somehow happening. Although my prowess in the One other thing about the Tuck Shop not come to the notice of the authorities. academic department always had me – there was a railing down the stairs that Anyway, one morning at assembly, the trailing somewhere below the average, I led to it, and at the foot of the railing Rector mentioned this defacement, and felt that this was a department that might there was an upright that went up to said we were all going to wait here (in redress the balance somewhat – after all, the ceiling. To get to the front of the silence) until the perpetrator owned up. I took an interest in the happenings in queue and be served quickly, one could Even had I been the guilty party, there the world around me, read a lot, and had go tearing down the stairs at breakneck is no way that I would have stuck my an inquiring nature. Sadly the results of speed, grab the upright pillar and do a hand up and said, ‘Please sir, it was me’ each successive General Knowledge test speedy U-turn into the queue. It took a – so I am not surprised that after about 5 just reinforced that I was associating with bit of practice to get it right, but usually minutes of silence we were all dismissed. Terry Todd, Bruce (Stinker) Young and a lot of very bright sparks. I were the fi rst three in the queue. The cane Jim Cunningham (1949) The ultimate punishment was a caning Corps from the Rector. Usually this was not Everyone from Form 3 and upwards an instantaneous happening as one was automatically drafted into the was aware that the transgression was Dear Sir, Corps. This involved wearing a khaki of a serious enough nature to demand uniform on a Friday (no Navy or RAF retribution from a higher authority. I was interested to read in the sections in those days). In the afternoon On the one occasion when I fell foul autumn issue of Etcetera Jack we would do a bit of marching around of the establishment rules to justify Ross (1943) on the topic of the playground, and if we were lucky this retribution, I cannot unfortunately Roydon Richards as a man who might get a bit of small bore shooting remember the cause of my downfall appeared ‘a slightly vague and in the rifl e range. One Friday we were from grace, but I knew it was on the distant fi gure’. I was standing all marched from the school to Maryhill cards. Expecting at any moment to have outside the Academy after school Barracks – didn’t do anything there, the summons to attend the Rector’s hours one afternoon when and marched back again. On another offi ce, I decided to take precautions. I I noticed Roydon Richards occasion we had a fi eld day and were donned a very thick pair of swimming emerge from the imposing bussed out to a moor north of Milngavie, trunks which I wore in addition to my front door and pause on the hung about for a bit, and then came normal clothing in the hope that this stop step. He looked down at back to the school. This may seem a bit would lessen the impact. Days went by the ground, touched his chin negative, but the uniform did seem to while suffering this extra underwear, with his right index fi nger, then enhance our standing with the opposite and still no summons. So, I decided that gazed into the middle distance sex after school hours. I had got away with my infringement trying to recall something. and it wasn’t serious enough to warrant The body-language said it all! Morning assembly any retribution. The very next day, after Suddenly he remembered what This took place in the well of the school abandoning my protective layer, I got he had temporarily forgotten. – Forms 1 to 4 stood on the ground the call to F Roydon Richards’ offi ce. I An about turn into the building fl oor with the youngest at the front, cannot remember the number of strokes was followed by him emerging and Forms 5 and 6 draped themselves that I was sentenced to, but after the fi rst once again with the item he had around the fi rst fl oor railings. During one, which was even less painful than the forgotten. A full-size double the assembly the prefects did a round of belt, I felt obliged with each subsequent bass! the classrooms to make sure that no-one stroke to give a vocal expression of pain Full marks to the new Etcetera for was skiving off the assembly (there was to satisfy the wielder of the rod. a punishment for this transgression but a very professional production. I have forgotten what it was). After Gymnastics Kind regards we were all assembled, the Rector and This took place in a gymnasium at the Bill Houston (1954) sundry teachers would fi le on to the very top of the main building and was stage. We would sing a hymn, say the presided over by Mr Coleman Smith

Etcetera 9 The pre-reformation Academy I am now 91 years of age going on 92. we were little boys and middle-sized Zeus and a rogue elephant, which spent I never expected to fi nd myself so old boys, to make a statement and qualify its weekends raging through the woods nor to live for so long. As is the custom it with ‘Academy honour’ made it true round Milngavie searching for Academy with people of my age, I fi nd myself without doubt. ‘Scouts’ Honour’ carried boys having a quiet drag on a cigarette. frequently looking back to the past an equal guarantee. I belonged to the These unfortunates – once caught – were and the days of my youth in which the First Glasgow troop of Boy Scouts, instantly expelled. It was he who never Glasgow Academy played a major part. the second oldest troop in the world. let us forget that our school was a war Academy boys gave up their seats to memorial and that we were expected to I joined 2nd English, as it then was, in women and old people in crowded be offi cers if ever another war broke out. 1929 when small boys of ten still ‘got tramcars and allowed the same privileged In 1940, when I was training to be an the strap’ either from the sadistic ‘Beaky’ people to board buses fi rst. We touched offi cer, I was threatened with return to bending down in the writing room with our caps when thanked even though my unit for some misdemeanour – the their little kilts over their heads or from we had been waiting at the bus stop on prospect of going on leave to Glasgow a reluctant ‘Squeaky’ if they were really a dark cold winter’s night much longer as a disgraced private soldier was naughty. ‘Beaky’ was the universally-de- than they – there were no queues in unthinkable. tested writing master and ‘Squeaky’ was those days. We were sub-consciously Miss Wilson of whom we were all rather When I left school in 1938 with the convinced that we were very fortunate fond. There was no school coat of arms shadow of impending war black on the to be at the Academy and that we or school song in those days and rugby horizon, all the old Academy of my were expected to be almost a kind of was so important that the captain of the father and my early days had gone. The example to those unfortunates who 1st XV was automatically the captain of rector was English, we had a school went to other Glasgow schools. My the school. The late twenties and the coat of arms and a school song, some of father, who had a pathological dislike early thirties were glory rugby days and us had actually gone to Oxbridge and of universities, actually told me that he there had been a heroic international the head boy was more likely to be an had been in a class where nobody had during the late twenties when all but one academic than a rugby star. Yet when been considered bright enough to even of the Scottish back division had been the second world war came the old sit the leaving certifi cate exams and yet a Glasgow Academicals. traditions made us very good offi cers large proportion had headed up leading and after the war many of us made I left school with a fi rst XV cap in a Glasgow businesses – and he really worth-while contributions to rebuilding poor season and a very mediocre leaving believed this had something to do with Britain. I, like many others, still believe certifi cate. I didn’t then believe that I having been at the Academy. we were very privileged to have been had gained anything useful from nine Academy boys, even when our school years at the Academy. Now I realise I now realise that Dr Temple who had was ultra-Scottish, narrow-minded, that I had acquired two priceless assets been rector when my father was at parochial, non-academic, but ranked without being aware that I was doing school, and had terrifi ed me when I was among the gods as a centre of rugby so. One was ‘honour’ which is a very tested for entry, was a major infl uence excellence. old fashioned word now-a-days and in creating what would now be called the other was ‘good manners’. When ‘elitism’. He was a cross between the god Ronnie Walker (1938)

We have chosen to feature two drama photographs in this edition. Both were actually sent from overseas. From Australia, EAM (Adrian) Colman (1948) sent a photo of the cast and crew of The Globe Players’ Macbeth (1945). From Spain, CWR (Chris) Hird (1955) sent in a photo of the 1955 Christmas Show which features, amongst others, RAR (Bobby) MacLennan (1955) and FAL (Allan) Alstead (1954) as the principals.

10 Etcetera Much-loved teachers (almost) remembered Thanks to those who wrote in response to the staff photograph we printed in the last edition of Etcetera, among them Ronnie Cowan (1939) who came pretty close to remembering all the names. Just to refresh everyone’s memory, we reprint the photograph below with the names of all the staff.

Dear Joanna the left I recognised Miss Wilson who, I think, at that stage The photograph in the Autumn 2010 issue which was headed was the Junior School’s Headmistress. ‘Much-loved teachers remembered’ certainly brought back many memories for me. In fact I was amazed at the number of On the right hand side of the front row were two other faces I recognised and names I remembered from my time at teachers from my early years – Miss Walker (third from right) Glasgow Academy. and Miss McEwan (second from right). In the front row of the photograph were four of my early Also, of course, I recognised the three gentlemen in the front teachers. Second from the left was Miss Duff whom I met on row as they were around during my time in the Senior School, my fi rst day at the Academy in September 1940! Fourth from and I was amazed to see so many of my old teachers who tried to drill education into me over my twelve years at the Academy. Faces I remembered included Messrs Ogilvie (Dodo), Batchelor, Coleman-Smith, Varley and Preston – to name a few. When you consider that this photograph was of the Staff 1938-39, it is wonderful to think that 70 years later one can still recall those who have had an infl uence your life. I hope you will continue to include some of these older photographs in the magazine. Jack Lawson (1952)

We receive many excellent photographs for inclusion in Etcetera. Sadly, it is not possible to include them all, although a full online archive of Academy and Westbourne photographs can be viewed in GA Connected. If you need a reminder of your login and password, please contact: [email protected]

Etcetera 11 My life after T.G.A.

Leaving the sixth form in wartime 1943 My father had purchased a sixty-foot not-so-pleasant weather experienced in I secured a scholarship to Glasgow torpedo recovery vessel and was in the the North Sea. From Oban we cruised Technical College (now Strathclyde process of converting it to a pleasure south through the Crinan Canal to University) and after a two-year boat which he named ‘Shona’ after his Colintraive, where my parents had their accelerated course (no holidays!) I grand-daughter. He was planning a trip home. Quite an adventure – it took six graduated as a mechanical engineer. By across the North Sea to Sweden. By this weeks in all. time I had decided to return to Canada then the war was almost over and the I then returned to Montreal and was as my job was still open, however the only service that required engineering given the assignment of designing thought of an adventure at sea made me offi cers was the navy. high-pressure piping for the company’s postpone my return. I had to face a selection board in London oil refi neries. This became pretty on VE day plus one. Fortunately I was We crossed Scotland via the Forth and specialised and I found myself not only one of the few accepted and was sent, Clyde canal and then spent four days doing the designs but also supervising with the rank of midshipman RNVR, traversing the North Sea before reaching installations in the fi eld. An opening to HMS Gosling in Warrington for Gotenborg in Sweden. From there we came up in the purchasing department basic training. My time in the OTC at crossed Sweden through the Gota Kanal for an engineer to handle the purchasing Glasgow Academy was extremely useful which connects the Skagerrak and the and contracts for equipment in the in helping me get through this stage. At Kattegat with the Baltic. Unfortunately, refi neries. I was offered the job and took HMS Manadon in Plymouth we were when we were on the last leg of our it – a substantial promotion. approach to Stockholm we hit a rock introduced to aerodynamics and many I spent ten years with Texaco and and sank the ‘Shona’. other subjects pertaining to aircraft and then joined one of their suppliers in the Fleet Air Arm. We were salvaged and towed into a a partnership and sales position. The I spent my naval career on land stations, shipyard outside Stockholm for repairs. company sold equipment to oil and St Merryn in Cornwall, Carnoustie Thank goodness for Lloyds of London! chemical companies and was right on the East coast of Scotland, and This process took three weeks and six in my fi eld. Unfortunately two years Abbotsinch (now Glasgow Airport). of our crew of twelve had to fl y back after joining this company I contracted My sea time was confi ned to a week of to Scotland for business reasons. Our tuberculosis and had to spend a year in a training on a light fl eet aircraft carrier. adventure made the front page of the sanatorium. I received excellent care and Stockholm Times. was discharged with no lasting ill-effects. Discharged from the navy in 1947, I was offered a job in Montreal, Canada in the On completion of the repairs, with a By now I had a wife and three children engineering department of Texaco, an oil skeleton crew, we set sail in the Baltic, and, following my illness, was worried company. I intended to stay in Canada reaching Malmo on the southern tip of about the future. My father asked if I for only one year so I returned to Sweden. From Malmo, we were back would return to Scotland with my family Scotland after that period – to fi nd that in the North Sea again and eventually to take over his business which was the employment situation in Scotland reached Inverness at the entrance to the manufacturing food products including was not great. Caledonian Canal. Crossing Scotland by many varieties of confectionery. Feeling the canal was quite a relief following the insecure, I accepted his proposal. Scotland in the sixties was a culture shock compared to life in Canada. I had made a commitment, however, and spent fi ve years building the business so that my father was eventually able to sell it and retire. While in Scotland my children received an excellent education, and a fourth child, Joanna, was born. My heart and that of my family was still in Canada, so we made the big decision to return. The political climate in the Province of Quebec had changed for the worse, so instead of returning to Montreal we headed for Toronto. Although I was offered a job in the engineering fi eld I had been bitten by the consumer products bug and I accepted a position with the Weston organization in the confectionery and biscuit division. This was an incredible fi ve-year learning experience and

12 Etcetera introduced me to the North American Following the interview I was offered purchased a 34-foot power boat ‘Kestrel way of doing business in the consumer the job as president. The company was III’. This is still my pride and joy and products fi eld. Rogers’ Chocolates in Victoria. It was enables me to cruise in possibly the best relatively small but very profi table. It boating waters in the world. An advertisement appeared for someone had been established by Charles Rogers to start a Canadian division of an I am now retired and others have taken in 1885 and manufactured very high American confectionery company based over, but I remain honorary chairman of quality chocolates. It was basically a in Chicago. I applied for the job and the the board. I am also involved on many cottage industry but had tremendous next thing I knew I was general manager other boards and committees including opportunities for expansion. I fl ew home of ‘Tootsie Roll of Canada’. chairing a liaison committee between a and consulted my family and they all Canadian navy ship HMCS Protecteur In order to set up sales agents and service said, ‘Go for it’. This I did and it turned and the city of Victoria. As a result I have them I did a great deal of travelling and out to be the best decision I had ever spent more sea time in the Canadian navy was able to visit all the major cities, and made. With help from a wonderful staff, than I did in the RNVR! some not so major, in Canada. It was I was able to build Rogers’ Chocolates a wonderful experience and I got to into a much larger and even more While I am not proud of my two divorces, see this great country at the company’s profi table enterprise. Everything fell into I would like to thank the tolerance of my expense. I loved the job and was able to place. I had the chance to use my skills wives Eileen and Margaret and my now build the company into a very successful to build an exciting company and live partner, Lynda. I am very proud of my enterprise. in one of the most beautiful places in four children and four grandchildren who Canada, Vancouver Island. are all doing well. As a hobby, I had been making ‘Scottish tablet’ in my basement. I built the Life was not just business, and I soon Ian Haddow (1943) equipment from parts purchased at the local hardware store and was able to produce fairly large quantities. On Saturday mornings I would set off with my production in my car and sell it to various customers throughout the city, most of them Scottish bakers. The business was going so well that I decided to employ some people and set up a little manufacturing plant in a rented building. Unfortunately, my employer found out about my ‘hobby’ and after eight successful years with Tootsie Roll they fi red me. I remember the date too well. It was January 31, 1979. Undaunted, I expanded my ‘hobby’ business, enlarging the premises and purchasing more equipment. During this process, I hit the recession of 1982 when interest rates rose to 24% and my house mortgage reached 19%. As I was just in the building process, I could not hold on and in 1984 had to declare business and personal bankruptcy. All of a sudden I was out of work for the fi rst time in my life. I enlisted with a career-counseling organization for the purpose of fi nding War Memorial Visitors employment. As the recession was severe, I was not the only one in this We receive many visits at The Academy from the relatives of former pupils situation. I received incredible training and staff who are commemorated on the school’s memorials. It may interest and spent fi ve months answering some of you to know that the school’s memorials can be viewed in the advertisements and, more importantly, ‘Glasgow, Schools’ section of the Scottish War Memorials website: www. networking with as many business scottishwarmemorials.com/ executives as I could fi nd. It was through Of course every former pupil commemorated has his own story. Pictured is one of these contacts that I learned that William Kelly Carmichael Ogg who served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 9th a chocolate company on the West coast (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion – Highland Light Infantry. WCG Ogg was was looking for someone to take over wounded and listed as missing on 15 July 1916 in the battle of the Somme. management of the business. I applied He was a member of the well-known Ogg family, who owned and ran the for the job and soon was on a fl ight to Copland and Lye department store on Sauchiehall Street. A member of his Vancouver for an interview. family visited the school recently and kindly provided a copy of this portrait. Etcetera 13 Malcolm Allan – rugby referee, 1900-1974

Peter Hillis who attended Glasgow with one of his grand-nephews in School, I am convinced that they will Academy between 1958 and 1971 Adelaide, South Australia. not beat the Academy without making a special effort. The Anniesland boys At the time, rugby matches between went on to be Professor of History are sound in every department, and schools were important occasions Education at the University of they will be led by one of the ablest and attracting large crowds and prominently coolest players that has ever worn the Strathclyde. Here he sheds light on reported in newspapers. There was a Academy colours’. In fact the game no more important match than that the life of his distinguished great ended in a 6-6 draw with The Glasgow between the Academy and Glasgow Herald reporting that ‘... as usual, Allan uncle, MA Allan. High School, otherwise known as the played magnifi cently. His leadership was School. The Glasgow Evening News an inspiration to his men, and it was By most criteria Malcolm Allan was described the forthcoming fi xture in particularly fi tting that he gained their an outstanding pupil and Glasgow February 1916 as ‘A Big Event’ which two scores’. Academical. He attended the Academy ‘should not only prove a big attraction in the 1910s and was, therefore, too but yield capital sport... What may be In the 1915-1916 season, the Academy’s young for The Great War and too old the result tomorrow it is diffi cult to say 1st XV went on to defeat their main for the 1939-1945 confl ict. He excelled but while holding a big opinion of the rivals including Stewart’s College (57-0), at sport, especially rugby, going on to become one of Scotland’s most famous international referees and later serving as President of the Scottish Rugby Union, 1953-1954. Nevertheless, the family tradition was with the round ball since his stockbroker father, David Allan, played football for Queen’s Park and Scotland. Malcolm Allan was Captain of the Academy in 1915-1916 and 1916-1917, the only time anyone had been Captain for two years. He was also captain of rugby, captain of cricket and a leading cadet on the OTC. Perhaps not surprisingly he was the fi rst recipient of the Indian Trophy for citizenship, a miniature of which now proudly resides

Wearing his referee’s blazer, c. 1935. 1st XV 1914-1915, Glasgow School Champions. Malcolm Allan is seated at the right-hand end of the middle row

The Academy lost this match 0-3. Malcolm Allan is the tallest player standing in the back row.

14 Etcetera VI Latin Class 1917. Readers may be able to identify the members of the class who are not named. Back Row: Brown, R.K. Sommerville, T.M. Niven, Zech?, ? Sawers. Melville Cochrane, J.M. Reid, G.A. Paul. Mid Row: W.A. Caldwell, J.L. Gray, ? Davidson, George Donaldson, J.W.C. Milligan, George Snodgrass, J.K. Ormsby, V. Gerstenberg, K. Lumsden, ? Front Standing: E. Gerstenberg, R.I. Jardine, A.R. Forrester, E.B. Mackay, T.C. Donald, ?, Stevens, Dow. Front Sitting: D.S.S. McDowall, M.A. Allan, Ted, L.S. Morrison, Alan Stevenson.

Royal High School (22-3) and Allan Glen’s (32-0). In the previous season, the 1st XV had been Glasgow School Champions. Glasgow Academicals 1st XV, 1926-1927. The Academy also played army teams such as the 2nd Lothian and Border Horse in 1915, losing 0-3, and the Offi cers’ School of Instruction in 1916 (The Glasgow Herald’s account of the former game can be read at http://news. google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVa wPscysC&dat=19150125&printsec=fr ontpage) The game’s result now seems irrelevant when set against how few men in the team photograph opposite would have survived The Great War. Academic work might appear to have played second fi ddle to sport, but the importance of Latin is illustrated by the VI form Latin class of 1917 at the top of this page. The class is remarkable for its size and the absence of school uniform while the Rector, Edwin Temple, was captioned simply as ‘Ted’. Perhaps he was holding a copy of the works of Pliny. On leaving school he was a member ofo the strong pack which provided the foundationf for the Academicals’ back play,p described as ‘brilliant’ by The GlasgowG Herald of the 1920s. Four of thet backs, WM Simmers, JC Dykes, H WaddellW and JB Nelson all played for Scotland.S In the opinion of The Glasgow Herald,H ‘Allan’s lack of pace probably deprivedd him of a cap’, but he played regularlyr for Glasgow and was a frequent triallistt throughout the 1920s. TheT success of the 1st XV attracted large crowdsc to Anniesland as can be seen in thist photograph. AfterA his playing career he combined internationali refereeing with membership

The popularity of the Academical 1st XV is evident in the number of spectators. Etcetera 15 ofo the Scottish Rugby Union. This wasw common practice at the time, butb the length of his ‘dual career’ was exceptional.e He became a Glasgow DistrictD representative on the SRU CommitteeC in 1931, refereed his fi rst internationali in 1932 and his last in 1948. HeH gave up refereeing on beginning a fi ve-year term as chairman of the nationaln selection committee on which heh served as a member from 1931-1939 anda 1946-1953. His experience of refereeingr covered every senior level fromf international, inter-varsity, district anda club. In February 1933 he took chargec of England versus Ireland at TwickenhamT being presented, along withw the teams, to the Duke of York. ByB contemporary standards, it is interestingi to note the unusually casual sceness (below) after the fi nal whistle. MalcolmM Allan took charge of the IrelandI v Wales match in 1948, with Waiting to be presented to the Duke of York, the photograph at the foot of the page Twickenham, 1933. capturing one passage of play. AttitudesA towards the ‘whistler’ were considerablyc more respectful than today. The Times described his refereeing of EnglandE v Ireland in February 1936 in thet following terms, ‘if there was one manm on the fi eld more than another who wasw responsible for the ... match being suchs a good one it was Mr MA Allan thet referee’. ‘Mr Allan’s handling of the gameg was an object lesson to all’, was oneo report on his refereeing of Oxford v Cambridge in 1934. Nevertheless, his refereeingr of this match attracted the satiricals cartoon opposite. HeH was known as a strict referee ‘so woe betideb anybody who persistently breaks thet rules’, with the writer wishfully continuing,c ‘I do hope, however, that heh will not fi nd it necessary to whistle toot much’. This strictness was applied England v Ireland, 1933. tot players and spectators alike as in one Passage of play from Ireland v Wales, 1948. famous occasion at Netherdale when, aftera ‘taunts’ from the stand, ‘he stopped thet game, walked over to the offenders anda delivered a few well-chosen words ono the ethics of sportsmanship’. Gala’s offio cials were ‘as much perturbed as MrM Allan. The trouble was caused by a very small handful of people, and it isi understood that the club will shortly considerc how this menace to the good namen of Netherdale may be eradicated’. DuringD another border derby he told the kickerk to retake a conversion following booingb from some spectators, a ruling whichw if applied today would result in

16 One view of the referee. The origin of the cartoon hhad d fformed d without ith t bbeing i iinstantly t tl Home Guard Cricket XI ‘knocking up is unknown. penalised for “feet up”... It seems a pity 50s for Carlisle in aggressively merry that good Rugby should suffer from the fashion when the bowling was to his very little of any game being played. lack of competent neutral referees... Mr taste’. Respect for the ‘ref’ did not preclude Allan was probably unsighted when he It is rightly the players who remain in criticism and at least one irate spectator allowed Hillhead’s other try, which was the public consciousness, but Malcolm felt justifi ed in putting pen to paper. scored after a palpable knock-on, but Allan made a signifi cant contribution to ‘Dear Sir’, began a correspondent to The the fact remains that the winning team Scottish rugby as a referee and President Glasgow Herald in 1938, ‘I am sure that only scored three legitimate points...’ of the SRU. His reputation extended many of the spectators at the Rugby Such criticisms go hand in hand with furth of Scotland and he provides a match between Glasgow High School refereeing but they did not seem to classic example of how the Academy can FPs and Hillhead High School FPs damage his reputation. nurture interests which provide lifelong must be very grateful to your special In business, Malcolm Allan was works benefi t and fulfi lment to individuals and correspondent for his pungent criticism manager with the India Tyre Company the wider community. of Mr MA Allan’s harsh and unjust at Inchinnan and Morton Sundour award of a penalty against Barrie... This Fabrics in Carlisle while retaining a Peter Hillis (1971) player was in a very awkward dilemma, lifelong love of sport. During the Second as judging by his previous experience World War he joined the Home Guard, of Mr Allan, he could not have put the On this occasion a spectator when sitting behind in his eyes very accurately portrayed by the King and Queen watching Scotland win the ball into the very nebulous scrum which Dad’s Army, becoming captain of the Calcutta Cup at Twickenham in March 1938.

Etcetera 17 Business Etcetera

more subtle and impactful, communication skills or the relentless and unashamed sales pitch, I’m picking up a wealth of experience along the way. What’s more – there’s defi nitely a closer affi nity to Scotland in Canada than there is in London and the North American’s love (Left to right) Kevin Harvie, Jane Moncreiff (Chief of ‘all-things-Scottish’ means there’s Operating Offi cer of Triathlon Scotland), Nick always an invitation to something new Scott and Stuart Ker plan the Arran Triathlon The Big Breakfast! and exciting. This month’s adventures The inaugural ‘GA 100’ Business span everything from an event featuring Encap Arran Triathlon Breakfast was held at the Blythswood the Canadian Prime Minister through to Square hotel, (bright and early!) on eating Beaver’s Tail and skating on the Nick Scott (2003), Stuart Ker Thursday 24 March. It was an excellent frozen Rideau canal in Ottawa in minus (2003) and Kevin Harvie (2004) have recently set up a company (Encap) networking event with 90 former 20 degrees C. pupils, parents and friends of the school assisting businesses in reducing their Becoming an expat is a bit like reaching attending. The bacon rolls went down energy consumption and implementing graduation – it’s a turning point where a treat and Andrew Waddell (1986) of renewable technology such as solar you are rewarded with an open road. Speirs and Jeffrey gave an entertaining panels and wind turbines, which is an The choice is yours: rev up the engine and informative talk on Scottish PLCs. increasing focus for companies as energy and get going, or, sit back and enjoy the prices rise and economic conditions The ‘GA 100’ has two main functions: ride. remain challenging. As an unusual • To help provide careers support and marketing activity, Encap are the advice to current pupils and young Andy Murray (2004) exclusive sponsors of the Encap Arran Congratulations to Andy who won the Academicals Triathlon, which will take place on 10 Young Innovator Award at the John September 2011 on the island of Arran. • To arrange networking events for Logie Baird Awards ceremony held at 2000 competitors will tackle a 1500m former pupils, parents and friends of the Grand Central Hotel on 11 March. the school open water swim in Lamlash Bay, a Conrad Kirk Rafi que (1983) 23 mile cycle with views of some of The next ‘GA 100’ event is due to take Scotland’s most spectacular scenery and a Returning to work after a 12-month place in September at New Anniesland. 6-mile run to fi nish off! Pre-registration post-cycling-accident lay-off, we If you would like more information on for this event, which is by far the largest established an executive search the GA 100 or to reserve a place at the of its type in Scotland, has now opened consultancy in 2010 (www. September event please contact: and there has been a fantastic response FSRInternational.com) that specialises [email protected] so far. The offi cial launch of this event in International fi nance positions. took place at the Triathlon, Cycling We work with offshore clients in the and Running Show in London, and the Channel Isles and Isle of Man as well as Briefi ng resultant media coverage – including in Luxembourg and Switzerland. We in the Daily Telegraph – will hopefully Miranda Gulland (2002) moved into brand new offi ces in Ness, ensure that this event will provide great After four gruelling years spent working Cheshire and it would be most welcome exposure for both Encap and the island for one of the biggest global PR fi rms to hear from FPs who were at the school of Arran. Competitors are encouraged to in London, I thought it about time in the early 80s and share stories of both fund-raise for our three offi cial charities: to spread my wings and ask for a the past and present. The Mark Scott Foundation, Yorkhill secondment abroad. Much to everyone’s Muscle Fund and Juvenile Research surprise, this was granted and – before Tim Weir (1977) Diabetes Fund. I knew it – I’d moved to the Toronto is CEO of Wessex Asset Management, offi ce. a hedge fund management company Full details are available on www. specialising in natural resources and Asia. arran-tri.com I’ll be the fi rst to admit that prior to this, I hadn’t dipped my toes out of Europe and so the shift to a North ‘African insurer bails out Uganda’ American lifestyle came as a complete shock. However different things seemed, Stewart Kinloch (1978) The Academy ethos – to make the Chief Underwriter of ATI was tickled by the above headline in the African press very best out of any opportunity – pays which appeared above his photograph. As he comments, talented as Glasgow dividends every single day. Whether Academicals no doubt are, few are given credit for saving a whole country! it’s the slightly louder, but seemingly

18 Etcetera Events and Reunions Class of 1980 Reunion our 20, 30 and even 50 years reunions! It was a great day, and our thanks go to the External Relations Despite the weather, which wreaked havoc with the travel department who helped make it happen and ensured the day plans of many who wanted to attend, a small but very went smoothly. enjoyable gathering of the Class of 1980 took place at The Academy on 3 December. Those whose fl ights were not Joanna Cram (2000) cancelled and did make it through the snow – David Ironside, Angus Leigh, Roddy Macpherson, Alen McCulloch and Scott Massey (1989) Ken (Iky) Thomson (1989) Andrew Morgan – had an excellent lunch and enjoyed tours and Tim Turner (1988) of the school followed by coffee and a chance for yet more Although we missed The Academical Dinner on 12 reminiscing in the Rector’s Study. November, Scott Massey, Ken (Iky) Thomson and Tim Turner All of those who wished to attend will have another chance to had a mini-reunion of their own at the Singapore Races on the meet up with many more contemporaries when a reunion for same evening. Ken and Tim are currently living in Singapore all those who left between 1976 and 1980 takes place next year and Scott was visiting on business. Iky won big on a race so the – a date in the spring or summer will be arranged. beers are on him for any Academical visiting Singapore! Class of 2000 Reunion – December 2010 On 17 December 2010 around 40 Former Pupils of the Glasgow Academy returned to school for the Class of 2000 Ten Year Reunion. Frivolities began early in the afternoon with a champagne reception where the excited chatter was so loud and continuous we almost missed the call for the start of our school tour, being led by this year’s prefects (who were excellently-behaved and defi nitely deserve some extra free-periods for their efforts, wink wink!). Although in many ways so much had changed, it was reassuring to still feel that sense of The Academy spirit that we all cherished in our school days. Later, we went on to The Big Blue on Great Western Road for some food (and perhaps some more beverage too!) and continued until the close of the bar, where it seemed the day and evening had passed all too soon. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces and catch up on everybody’s news since leaving school, not to mention reminiscing on the mischief we used to get up during our time at The Academy! Everybody agreed they had a wonderful time, and already we started setting dates and planning future meet-ups. With so much to catch up on in just ten years with classmates marrying, setting up home, having children and developing successful careers who knows what is to come when we next meet up for

Neil MacEwen (1984), Steven Garrett (1984), Ainsley Mann (1983) and Andrew Briggs (1983) had themselves their own reunion on the slopes of Africa’s highest mountain in December 2010. Mount Kilimanjaro served as a superb environment to entertain each other with some old stories as their bodies were put to the test in climbing to the summit. There are many routes to the summit but the lads went for the Lemosho route as this allowed a longer period for acclimatisation which reduced the risk of altitude sickness. This route and the slow but steady progress allowed everybody in the group successfully to climb the 5895 metres required – on the same week that Martina Navratilova had to be airlifted off.

19 Academical Section

Accies’ Dinner 2010 GLASGOW ACADEMICAL Accies’ Junior Cricket The 128th Academical Dinner returned Section Report once again to the Cargill Hall and was a CLUB great success with over 330 Academicals Notice is hereby given to Overview and friends present. members that the Annual Unfortunately season 2010 will not be After the drinks reception, the pipe band General Meeting of the Club will remembered for outstanding success kicked off proceedings with a spectacular be held at 6.30 pm on Tuesday 7 on the fi eld of play. Having said that, numbers in the Junior Section (and loud!) routine on the stage which June 2011 in the Pavilion, New was followed by a stunning performance continue to be in very good health and Anniesland, 21 Helensburgh post-season comments from parents of ‘Nessun Dorma’ by S6 pupil Claire Drive, Glasgow G13 1RR. Hutchison. have shown their own appreciation The Secretary will make of the Section’s efforts and their The speakers were Academical Club kids’ enjoyment in taking part in the President Lindsay Crawford, Director of available copies of the Report and Accounts to any member, various activities offered. Whilst this is External Relations Malcolm McNaught, heart-warming, it is apparent that efforts Scottish Rugby International Legend on request to the above must continue to encourage better Gavin Hastings and Rector of the High address. technique in both batting and bowling. School Colin Mair. The vote of thanks Kenneth D Shand This will be addressed when the winter was given by Vice-President John sessions start again in the Sports Hall next Taylor. Secretary January. The Academical Club President Lindsay The Glasgow Academical Sports Crawford and his team worked tirelessly Club Annual General Meeting Under 18s to make the night a success and we hope League – P 10, W 4, L 6 [8 points]; will be held prior to the above Position 5th of 8 (Winners – Poloc) to repeat the success at next year’s dinner meeting commencing at 6 pm in on Friday 11 November 2012, with new the Pavilion, New Anniesland. president John Taylor at the helm. Hope Under 15s to see you there. League – P 9, W 1, L 8 [2 points]; Position 11th of 12 (Winners – Clydesdale) London Section Under 13s League – P 7, W 0, L 7 [0 points]; This is just a brief reminder that the London Section is alive and well and Position 10th of 10 (Winners – Ayr) would welcome any Academical moving to the London area. Our fl agship event is the Annual Dinner which was held this year on March Under 11s 11 at The Caledonian Club with Lord Maclennan of Rogart (an Accie) as League – P 13, W 2, T 1, L 10 [5 our main speaker; it was a very successful evening. Following drinks in the points]; Position 12th of 16 (Winners – ‘Smoking Room’, 90 Academicals and guests sat down to an evening of good Greenock) food, fi ne wine and excellent speeches in the Members’ Dining Room. Representative Honours Rector Peter Brodie updated the company on the many successes of school Dhruv Satpute was selected for both the pupils, GAC President Lindsay Crawford (1972) gave his ‘State of the Accies’ Western Cricket Academy Senior and address and London Section President, Anthony Frieze (1983), handed over Junior teams (captaining the latter) whilst his chains of offi ce to Gordon Low. Lord Maclennan of Rogart (1955) spoke Clemmie Mitchell also played for the on how (and how not!) his time at The Academy had helped prepare him for WCA Junior team. She also turned out his role in supporting the ruling coalition – as a Liberal Democrat peer. for the Western Women’s team but more A very witty vote of thanks from James Dinsmore (1983), in which special importantly played two matches for the thanks were made to London Section Secretary David Hall (1961) and his full Scotland U17 Women’s team taking PA Emma Jones, concluded the evening’s formalities. Most of the group then 4 for 9 against Durham Women U17. returned to the bar to spend more time reminiscing with old friends while Dhruv Satpute and Ewan Stewart were remaining hopeful that Scotland might – just might – achieve an unexpected invited to a WCA 2-day summer camp victory at Twickenham two days later...alas it was not to be! at the end of July. Cameron Russell, Mark Forbes, Ruairidh Russell and Euan If any Academical is interested in our London Section activities, please contact Ramsay all had matches for the Glasgow David W Hall on 020 7235 9012 or at [email protected] North U13 team with Cameron topping the batting averages for the season. Colin AC Dawson (1967)

20 Etcetera News for the Glasgow Accies Ladies Hockey Club Douglas Lockhart Update League narrowly beating Hillhead in 1st XI: After fi nishing third in National goal difference. Accies Whites where (1993) League 3 and narrowly missing a play off placed 4th in the League but are to be Douglas was fi rst capped for Scotland for promotion to the division above last commended for beating Hillhead in their at cricket at the age of 19 in 1995. year, Glasgow Accies Ladies 1st XI have last match which resulted in the Whites After 16 years and 178 caps Douglas high hopes for a even more successful League win! has decided to retire from international season this year. The team are, to date, cricket. He is the fourth-most-capped unbeaten in the league with 2 matches Summer Hockey 2011 Scottish player. As a batsman he scored remaining and have the top spot clearly The Summer hockey season will be more than 3,500 runs for his country, in sight. Another huge achievement, upon us soon. Glasgow Accies Summer including two centuries and 14 half considering that it is only the second year hockey team is a combination of guys centuries, his highest score being 151 they have competed at National League and girls Glasgow Accies Hockey against Canada in the Inter-Continental level, is reaching the quarter fi nals of the players. The summer league runs from Cup in 2008. As a wicket keeper at Arthur McKay Scottish National Cup, June to August, mainly in and around international level he had 115 catches beating a team from National League 1 Anniesland, West End. We already have and 11 stumpings. and another from National League 2 in approximately 30 members signed up to the process. You will be able to monitor play from both ladies and men’s sections. Douglas was Captain of Cricket at the team’s remaining progression in New Tops have been ordered and we are Glasgow Academy in 1993 and has the league competition by viewing the all very excited. Anyone wishing to play played for Glasgow Academicals, Oxford Club’s website www.glasgow-hockey. some fun, sociable hockey this summer University, Durham University and West com please email: stephaniebarnet@hotmail. of Scotland. During his International com for more information. career he captained the Scottish side on The 2nd XI have also had a great season, seven occasions. beating old rivals East Kilbride and scoring over 30 goals to date. They are Join our Club We congratulate him on his successful to be commended in their efforts for international career and hope that it getting through to the next round of the As always we welcome any former might not be too long before he resumes Scottish District Plate where they played pupils, or friends of The Glasgow his career with Glasgow Academicals. Aberdeen University Away on the 20th Academy to join our Hockey Club. of March. Unfortunately after a very Training is every Tuesday night, 6.30- tight match and 2 players injured, Accies 8.30pm, visit our website for more lost 4-3 in the fi nal minutes. details – www.glasgow-hockey.com. Ladies’ Cricket Section Home game supporters are most Glasgow Accies Cricket Club is proud The biggest fundraiser of the year – welcome! to announce the formation of a new The Glasgow Accies Ball was held on Ladies Squad for the 2011 season. The the 26th of March at the Grosvenor 2010/11 Season fi nishes April 2011, Ladies are looking for new members of Hilton. On behalf of the whole club 2011/12 Season will commence, any age or ability. Training is on-going I’d like to say a huge thank you to August 2011. throughout the winter on Wednesdays, Celia Hill our Fundraising Offi cer and Become a fan of the Glasgow Accies and summer training will begin at the Ball Committee for all their efforts Social Page – www.facebook.com/ the end of April on Thursday nights. in organising and making this event a glasgowacciesclans and keep up to The new Squad will play a mixture of fantastic night for all. date with our social calendar. friendlies, league games and tournaments during the summer, as well as organising Indoor Hockey Stephanie Barnet a number of social events together with We have come to the end of our ([email protected]) the men’s section. For more information, indoor hockey season. Both teams Club Captain please contact: have done exceptionally well. Accies [email protected] Blues won The West District Indoor Etcetera 21 On the same week that The Academy’s Sevens rugby team won the Hutchesons’ Sevens Competition, Lindsay Crawford, President of Glasgow Academical Club, and former president Hugh Barrow were the school’s guests at Senior assembly. After presenting the Sevens team with their medals, they talked to the Senior School about the Scotland cap won by Academical JW Arthur in the fi rst ever rugby international – between Scotland and England – in 1871. In that match, a second Academical, William Cross, scored the fi rst ever conversion in international rugby. The following week the cap was presented to the RFU at Twickenham before the Calcutta Cup match to be displayed for a year alongside its English counterpart as the joint-oldest pieces of international rugby memorabilia in the world. The English cap is insured for £40,000. Together again after 140 years... International rugby was born 140 years London. The club can also boast success ago on a bright, sunny day in Edinburgh. in the association game, with Queen’s Now, for the fi rst time since 1871, two Park asking them to provide players of the caps presented to players in this for the fi rst offi cial association game have been reunited at the football international against World Rugby Museum in England in 1872. Away from the Twickenham. touring scene, Accies hosted the meeting that led to the The Calcutta Cup match has formation of the Scottish long been considered one Rugby Union in 1873 of the greatest fi xtures in and provided one of the rugby union, but the history delegates to the founding of this game goes back meeting of the IRB. further than most realise. Today they continue to The current competition, provide players for the named after the trophy that Scotland team, the most accompanies it, has its roots recent being Johnnie in India. When the Calcutta Beattie. Football Club disbanded in the late 1870s with approximately The museum would £60 of club funds remaining, the like to thank Glasgow money was withdrawn from their bank Academicals and Simon in silver rupees, melted down, and Inglis of Played in Britain sculpted into the trophy still played for for all their efforts in today. But the inaugurating game in bringing this display about. 1879 was not the fi rst time England and Scotland had met on the pitch. Eight years before, these two teams had made Our photograph shows the 1st XV rugby team with history by participating in the fi rst-ever provided several players for the team Lindsay Crawford (1972) – holding the cap – and international rugby match – a fi xture that defeated England in the fi rst ever Hugh Barrow (1962) immediately to his right. that was continued annually even before rugby international, and were the fi rst The Rector, Peter Brodie, is in the back row while 1st XV captain, Cameron McCall, proudly holds the the introduction of the trophy years later. Scottish club to play in Ireland and Hutchesons’ Sevens trophy. The World Rugby Museum’s collection, which already contained Arthur Guillemard’s England cap from 1871, has been complemented by the arrival of J W Arthur’s Scotland cap. The cap has been loaned to the museum by Glasgow Academicals, the club that Glasgow-born Arthur played with for seven seasons. Arthur was one of a small group of Scottish club players who instigated the match, writing to the Secretary of Blackheath: ‘…we, representing the whole footballing interest of Scotland, hereby challenge any team selected from the whole of England, to play us a match, twenty a side Rugby rules’. Founded in 1866, Glasgow Accies have an impressive club history. One of the oldest clubs in Scotland, they

22 Etcetera The Academical Club invited the recent S6 leavers to New Anniesland for an informal reunion on 26 December 2010. They were treated to a (non-turkey!) lunch. A great day of catching up was had by all.

Glasgow Academy IVth Form 1966-67 Class Reunion Dinner The above event was held at the Clubhouse at New Anniesland on Friday 25 February 2011. We were delighted to have the Deputy Rector of The Glasgow Academy, Mr Gavin Horgan, as our Guest Speaker. Kenneth Russell was Chairman. Many thanks to all who came along and especially those who were there for the fi rst time. There were several who travelled a long way, from Edinburgh, Aberdeen, the Borders, Dumfries, Newcastle, Derby, and even Cyprus! We have had many e-mails since then saying how much they enjoyed the evening. It is worth noting that we had over 20 apologies from those who were unable to attend and expressed a wish to be at the next Dinner. I think the event is in good heart and no doubt another one will be planned in about 2-3 years’ time. If you were in the above year at The Glasgow Academy and perhaps have moved house or simply have lost touch, please inform us of your new postal and/or e-mail address by contacting one of the following: [email protected]; [email protected] or [email protected] George McLaren (1970)

The footballers of The Glasgow Academy would like to thank Martin Football of the other kind... Bain (1987) for his continued support of the sport in the school. Thanks to Mr Bain’s generosity, the Senior Football Team were recently able to have a guided tour of Rangers FC training facilities, attend a lecture on Sports Science and enjoy a coaching session given by the Rangers’ coaching staff. Mr Bain has also donated two football shirts from each of the ‘Old Firm’ that have been framed and signed by the professional players of both clubs. These shirts will be raffl ed later in the year to help raise money for football in the school and for the PTA. Daniel Ford (Academy staff) 23 Outside’). Having moved to Aboyne he reaching the end of his life. One of his was also active in Rotary, Probus and few humorous anecdotes of the war was Obituaries as an Elder of the Parish Church there. that he thought he was one of the few Tom also studied part-time, gaining a BA people to have been shot at not only by John WH Abram (1945) Hons with the Open University in 1998. the enemy but also by most of the Allies, 25 March 1928 – 30 July 2010 When he moved to Crieff in 2001, to including the Royal Navy, the French be nearer his family, he gradually stepped Army and the US Air Force! John William Hannay Abram died down from voluntary activities. peacefully in hospital with his family After the war he married Pat, returned beside him. Beloved father to Mike, Tom is survived by his wife Agnes – to work in Glasgow and was an active Melanie, Mandy and Denise, adored whom he married in 1951 at Greenbank member of The Academy Angling Club Gramps to Jennifer, Debbie, Caroline, Parish Church, Clarkston – and three and the Milngavie Angling Club. In Vicki, Gillian, Peter, Mark, Max and daughters, Alice, Christine and Margaret. 1983 he was immensely proud to be Gus and proud great-grandfather to chosen to represent Scotland in the home Cameron. A true gentleman. Neil C Carmichael (1949) internationals. He retired in 1986 and 9 December 1930 – 4 January 2011 later moved, with Pat, to Ilkley. Pat died in 2000 and Jacques went into a care Thomas B Buyers OBE (1944) Neil died peacefully at home in January home in 2010 where he passed away 21 March 1926 – 20 December 2010 aged 80 years. He was a pupil at Glasgow in December 2010 at the age of 93. He Academy from 1942-1949. Dearly Born in Chelmsford to Scottish parents, is survived by his son John (1966), and loved husband of Jane, father of Dan Tom became a pupil at Glasgow daughter Christine (Westbourne 1969). Academy when his family moved to (1985) and Donald (1987), father-in-law the city from Edinburgh in 1933. He of Joanne and Fiona and grandpa of Jonathan Markson (1973) Matthew, Anna and Cameron. enjoyed rugby, fully participated in 21 April 1955 – 15 January 2011 School OTC and in his fi nal year he won the ‘Dux of the Modern Side’ prize. Jacques B Elder (1936) Jonathan attended Glasgow Academy He went on to Glasgow University to 14 March 1917 – 30 December 2010 between 1960 and 1973 before going on to read law at Christ Church, Oxford. He study a shortened wartime course in Jacques Bryce Elder was born in Bastia. was a captain and coach of the Oxford Applied Chemistry and graduated in He spent the fi rst two years of his life University ‘Blues’ tennis team and an September 1946 with a 1st Class Hons in Corsica before returning with his international player for Scotland. In the BSc. parents to Scotland. He was schooled 12 years of his involvement as coach, the at Giffnock and Dollar before going In the course of his career, initially as a Oxford Blues underwent a transformation to Glasgow Academy in 1931. In his Chemical Engineer and then as a senior winning 10 victories over Cambridge last year at the school he played wing manager with both Shell and BP, Tom after 14 years of consecutive defeats. worked at various sites around the forward for the unbeaten 1st XV of UK – including Thornton (Chester), 1935/36 and was senior CSM in the Inspired by working in the United Grangemouth and Baglan Bay (South CCF. While at school, he joined the States with the late Frank Brennan, Wales) – between 1946 and 1973. He Territorial Army and, on leaving, was who coached Billie-Jean King to several was then seconded from BP to serve commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Wimbledon titles, Jonathan founded the as Director of the Scottish Petroleum Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Jonathan Markson Oxford Tennis Camp Offi ce at the Offshore Supplies Offi ce 1937. in 1981. Its international success paved the way for the launching of new centres in the DTI, where he was responsible At the outbreak of war he was seconded and programmes in the Algarve, Mallorca, for encouraging the participation of from the Argylls to the Royal Artillery Venice, Cyprus, South of France, Prague, British industry in the rapidly developing and was sent to France in April 1940 Budapest, Cape Town, Florida, Tunisia, off-shore oil and gas industry. On as a Captain, aged just 22. He was one Mauritius, Yorkshire and London. completion of this secondment two years of the youngest in the Army. His main later, Tom was awarded the OBE. On task there was to use his 1st World He was diagnosed with leukaemia last returning to BP in 1975, he became the War vintage anti-aircraft battery to best year. Son of Mrs Irene Markson and the company representative in Shetland, and effect, covering the retreat of the British late Dr JL Markson, brother of Richard later became Commissioning Manager Expeditionary Force. His battery was (1966), Jonathan died in London in there, as the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal eventually overrun and he and his men January. He is survived by his partner, approached completion. In 1980 he were captured on a beach near Calais on Andrea, and four children: Jack, Susie, re-joined the Chemicals wing of BP and 26 May 1940. Over the next fi ve years Jessica and Daniella. was appointed Special Projects Manager, he was moved continuously through based in London. Germany and Eastern Europe, from one J Granville W Ramage CMG (1938) On his early retirement in 1985, Tom PoW camp to another – an unpleasant 19 November 1919 – 4 March 2011 experience, to put it mildly. He was was appointed Chief Inspector of James Granville William Ramage died eventually freed in 1945 and returned Prisons for Scotland. After completing peacefully aged 91 years. A much-loved to UK sitting in the bomb bay of a his four-year term in this demanding husband, father and grandfather, he was Stirling bomber! He was ‘Mentioned in post, he remained active as a director born in Dumfriesshire and attended Despatches’ at the end of the war and of a number of charitable organisations Glasgow Academy between 1930 and returned with many memories, few of including the Scottish Forum for 1938 before going on to study Classics, which he shared with his family until Prisoners and Families (later ‘Families French and Economics at Glasgow

24 Etcetera University. His service in WWII, for which he was mentioned in Dispatches, Dr Allan A Sinclair (1982) included time in India, Assam and 1 September 1965 – 22 February 2011 Burma. He entered HM Foreign Service in 1947 and had a very distinguished Allan was brought up in Uddingston and attended career serving the FCO in London, Glasgow Academy from 1972 to 1982. His Bombay, Manila, Atlanta, Tangier, brothers John (1979) and Martin (1986) were also Yemen and Boston. In June 1975 he was pupils at The Academy. Allan went on to study appointed a Companion of the Most at St Andrews and then completed his medical Distinguished Order of St Michael and training at the Manchester Medical School where St George. Granville was also a loyal he graduated in 1988. He chose to specialise member of the London Section. in general practice and worked in the south of England before becoming a GP and practice partner at Darwen Health Centre (Lancashire) in 1997 where he was to become greatly respected by colleagues and patients alike. Geoff Payman In 2004 Allan emigrated with his family to New Zealand. As well as establishing himself very successfully in medical practice, he played an active In our last edition, Donald Buchanan role in a Salvation Army programme, which helped people leaving prison to – one of Geoff Payman’s former reintegrate back into the community. colleagues – contributed an affectionate tribute to him. Here David Gray, who Allan died tragically as a result of the earthquake in Christchurch in February for many years taught in the same where he was working at a clinic on the fourth fl oor of the devastated CTV department, remembers another aspect building. He is survived by his wife Frances and two sons, Alistair and Harry. of this gifted English teacher. Perhaps a less recognised aspect of Geoff Payman’s teaching career at Glasgow Academy was his production Updates of the Junior Plays. Geoff realised that, whereas commercial plays have to cut costs with small casts, school plays must maximise opportunity and bring in parental hordes to provide audience encouragement. So he wrote his own plays. In the Greek tradition, choruses of Snowmen, Aliens and Bees fi lled the stage and Geoff did not always complain if his gently ironic and witty lines were not always perfectly delivered. Thus the course of the school year did not allow, with its Christmas Pantomime, Senior Play and Junior Play, many pupils to escape exposure to an audience and fi nd, to their surprise, that they enjoyed the experience – as did the many staff and behind scenes production teams who Robert McKendrick (1952) sent us this photograph. Robert - aged 15 and in Vth Form - is in the centre helped in these large-scale productions. of the third row. But who are his classmates? In the days before speaking was formally examined, Geoff set many Harry Benzie (1955) that the time has come for a bit of new Academicals on the path to ease at I left The Glasgow Academy in 1947 energy and inspiration! interview at least, and articulate verbal when I was 9-years-old. I am still a good exposition at best, so that inhibition friend of Alasdair Brown (1955). I retired Donald MacLean (1944) often created by the old Scots adage from Xerox Corporation in 1991 and Thanks all those who have emailed ‘Better remain silent and be thought live in Auburn, California although I [email protected] asking for more of a fool than open your mouth and enjoy coming back to Glasgow. his monthly ‘biog-blogs’ – he says that remove all doubt’ never troubled he hopes to continue occasional postings Academicals. Tim Haggis (1969) to Twitter but, in his middle-eighties I am retiring this summer after 17 years now, he considers that the 17 chapters DA Gray (former staff) as school chaplain of Trent College. It’s of www.the-life-of.me complete his a job I have loved, but I’m quite clear reminiscing.

25 Chris Cole (1995) In December 2009, my wife and I opened our ski chalet business in the French Alps and we are now approaching the end of our second winter season. It is hard work but the challenge of building our own business in such beautiful surroundings is very rewarding! We are looking forward to the summer season when visitors enjoy walking, mountain biking, road cycling and the many other outdoor activities on our doorstep. For full details, please visit our website, www.chalet-la-giettaz.com

Terry Syme (2006) Having undergone 30 weeks of Initial Births Offi cer Training at the prestigious military college RAF Cranwell in Ben Aviss (1997) Lincolnshire, I have graduated as a Flying Ben became a father to twins, Imogen Offi cer in the Royal Air Force. After a and Zane, on 27 December 2010. short holding stage at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde Air Squadron, Alastair Brown (1992) I commence Phase 2 Elementary Flying On Hogmanay 2010 Alastair and Laura Training at RAF Church Fenton, North Brown welcomed their fi rst child, Yorkshire. On completion of Phase 2 Murray David Scott Brown, into the training, I will be informed whether world. I will be fl ying Fast Jet, Rotary or Murray David Scott Brown Multi-Engine aircraft. Gordon and Judith (Harris) Ross (both 1996) Maggie Patricia Ross was born on 18 August 2010. We are delighted to be parents. Marriages Christian Bruce (1990) Christian married Catriona McCracken on Friday 15 October 2010 at Balbirnie House Hotel, Markinch, Fife. It was a splendid Maggie Patricia Ross day with many former Academy and Westbourne pupils present. Andrew Hosie (1996) Jennifer Cargey (1997) and On 7 August 2010 in Toronto, Andrew Euan Stubbs (1996) Eric Ross Hosie, elder son of Fiona Terry Syme Jennifer and Euan got married on 4 Hosie, Ayr, to Laura May Richardson, September, 2010 in St Andrews. younger daughter of Archie and Shirley Richardson, Lindsay, Ontario. Engagements Amy Comins (1998) On 26 February 2011, I married Gordon Hutton (2001) Andrew PS Brown (1999) Martin James Loebell at Brantwood Gordon tied the knot with Laura I got engaged to Nicola Light (an House, Coniston, Cumbria. I was Donaghey at Alloway Parish Church, Edinburgh Accie!) on Valentine’s Day given away by my dad, David Comins Ayrshire, on Saturday 25 September 2011 in Dunkeld. (retired rector). Martin is a police 2010 in front of their family and friends. sergeant with Cumbria Police and we The reception was then held at Brig Louise Duncan (2006) live together in Cumbria. Among my O’Doon House Hotel where the guests To Mark Brennan in November 2010. guests were my two closest friends enjoyed a fantastic day – including They plan to marry on 22 July of from The Academy, Kirsten Mariott perfect weather. Countless former pupils this year in St Andrews. Louise has (nee Howie) and Rhona Murphy (nee were in attendance, including best man completed joint Honours in History and Murray). Although it was February, Colin Hutton (2002) and usher Chris Geography at Edinburgh University and we had glorious winter sunshine on Miller (2001). The happy couple spent has applied for PGDE to teach History. the day. their honeymoon in Egypt.

26 Etcetera Back Row Left to Right: Ewan Rankin, Chloe (Bruce) Rankin (1984), Hamish Rankin (TGA S4), Iain Bruce (1950 and Governor), Catriona (McCracken) Bruce, Christian Bruce (1990), Alison (Kennedy) Bruce (1961 and Governor), Alex Rankin (S1 TGA), Rowan (Bruce) McCall-Smith (1987), Roderick McCall-Smith. Front Row Left to Right: Struan McCall-Smith and Drew McCall-Smith. Another key Academical on the day (not pictured) was father of the bride David McCracken (1964)

Euan and Jennifer Martin and Amy on the jetty at Brantwood House Gordon and Laura on Coniston Water. Academicals Abroad Richard Inglis (1999) Philip Tam (1990) 40 Academicals currently in My wife, daughter and I relocated Hello! I am Dr Philip Tam (GA to Singapore in September 2010. 1980-1990), living and working Australia. Biblical fl oods, cyclones and killer sharks aside, Australia is I am now working for an M&A in Sydney, Australia from 1999. If advisory fi rm called Pickering there is interest, it might be nice for one of the best places in the world to live, work and raise a family, Pacifi c and Katy is working for any Academicals living, working GIC. I would be pleased to hear or staying in or around Sydney to with a fi ne climate, excellent and varied food, and a high standard of from any other Academicals that form a social group or network: to are also based in the region or share a barbecue, have a beer or living. Anyone interested in getting together in Sydney can email me are passing through – ringlis@ reminisce about Scotland. Records pickeringpacifi c.com indicate that there might be about on [email protected] Etcetera 27 Westbourne Birth Memories of Wartime Westbourne Tanya (Fraser) Dunford (1994) During the war, the girls of Westbourne were evacuated to Symington On 1 March 2011 to Ruairidh and House near Biggar. The Hon Dame Mary Corsar was, for a time, a girl at the Tanya (nee Fraser) twin daughters, Daisy school. Although she has lost touch with her contemporaries, it may be and Poppy, sisters to Willow. that her letter sparks off a memory or two in a former classmate. Deaths Dear Mr McNaught I was surprised and touched to receive a copy of Etcetera and thank you for Maureen V Attrill (1968) it. Although, of course, I know none of the people mentioned, it made Maureen attended Westbourne from interesting reading. 1955 to 1968. In 1967-68 she was Deputy Head Girl. For over 30 years she My time at Westbourne was short – only from 1941 to 43 and for most worked at Plymouth City Museum and of that time I was a day girl. The reason for my being sent to Westbourne Art Gallery as Keeper of Art. Maureen Gardens was that two of my brothers were at the Edinburgh Academy died suddenly at Derriford hospital, which was evacuated to Hartree House near Biggar. My Mother rented Plymouth on 16 February 2011. A much a house in the town and I made the daily journey by bicycle. I still loved daughter of Ethel and twin sister remember all too vividly struggling against the wind on cold, snowy to Douglas. mornings! Sadly I have lost touch with all of my contemporaries. Patricia Purdie (1973) The only time I was ever at the school in Glasgow was the occasion Suddenly, at home, on Thursday, 3 during the 1960s when my Father, Alick Buchanan-Smith (Lord Balerno), December 2010, Patricia (Tricia), much was presenting the prizes. He had attended the school as a small boy loved partner of Roger and sister of when, if I remember correctly, it was run by the Misses Levack. Howard and Laura, beloved aunt of With every good wish, Heather, Haley, William, Emma and Molly. Yours sincerely Mary Corsar

Symington House near Biggar

28 Etcetera Reunions

Calling all girls from the Class of ‘72 We are planning to hold a class reunion next year 2012 – probably in the late summer/early September time and would love to contact anyone who has not yet heard about it. We already have at least 20 defi nitely interested and another 20 who we hope we will be able to trace. We have identifi ed 80 girls who were in our year group at some stage throughout senior school so there are lots of you out there still who we don’t have details for. So far almost everyone we have spoken to is really keen to come – it will be amazing to all get together again after so long. We are including anyone who Melissa (second from right) and friends was in our year group at any stage advertise Frontline Fashion throughout the school so everyone’s welcome, even if you Updates didn’t stay on until 6th year (1972). Melissa (Gilchrist) Higgins (1993) If you are interested please contact me [email protected] We featured Melissa in Etcetera (No 11) and her courageous or contact Joanna Lennox at The Glasgow Academy. stand to help the people of Haiti after the earthquakes just I’ve attached an old photo, courtesy of Rosie Fraser, Fiona over a year ago. She continues to help and has launched a style McKillop and Jose Cameron, to remind you what some of us and philanthropy on-line magazine, Frontline Fashion – www. looked like in those days! frontlinef.com – as well as Frontline Fashion’s range of stylish clothes known as ‘Zamni’. Lesley (Watson) Brewin (1972) RosieR (Fraser) WallaceW (1972) MyM fi rst novel A Small Town Affair is to be ppublished in mass ppaperback in June. This iis a story about gossip, ddouble standards, and ppolitics (with a small aand a large P). I am just ccompleting my second nnovel due out in 2012. ‘‘[Rosemary] Wallace, tthe wife of the former ddeputy First Minister and SScottish Lib Dem leader The Class of 1972 - in 1969 JJim (now Lord) Wallace, Class of 1986 Westbourne reunion ffound herself living in Incredibly it is 25 years since we left Westbourne and a Kirkwall following her husband’s husband’s election elect to Westminster in large-ish group of us are meeting on Friday 10 June to catch up 1983 for the seat of Orkney and Shetland. The young Mrs and toast life at 1,3,5 Winton Drive. We will be at Oran Mor Wallace, a speech and language therapist from Milngavie, had on Great Western Road from 6.30pm onwards. Please come to adjust to living in the Northern Isles while her husband along and spread the word to anyone you are in touch with. spent half the week 700 miles away. More details are also available on Etcetera’s competitor website A Small Town Affair is not autobiography; it’s fi ction, and Facebook, on Friends Reunited or from Melanie McLean, parody at that, but the outbursts about childcare and sharp pen who can be contacted via [email protected]. pictures of curtain-twitching busybodies, written with acerbic Melanie McLean (1986) wit, have the ring of truth.’ The Herald

Etcetera 29 Photo: Colin Gray What’s in a name? The Academy’s Legacy When Captain (N) Henryk Kozlowski was demobilised The Glasgow Academy has left a legacy of excellent all-round from the Polish Resettlement Corps fi ve years after the end of the Second World War, he already knew that he could education to its pupils. You can help by leaving The not take his wife, Nan, and son, Antony, back to Poland. Academy a gift in your will. More and more members of our The communist-controlled government and his work in the community are choosing to support the school in this way. intelligence fi eld made that a deadly option. He also faced All former pupils and parents who let us know they intend to diffi culties in choosing to stay in Nan’s native Scotland. The leave the school a legacy gift become members of the Kelvin country was still gripped by the Trade Union Congress’s Foundation, which meets at the school for lunch with the ‘Poles Go Home’ campaign and, to make matters worse, Rector each Autumn. the religious sectarianism of the day made Poles a target for certain elements of society. There are many tax advantages of leaving a gift to a charity in your will. If, once liabilities have been settled, you leave Faced with an emotional and practical dilemma, Henryk money and possessions worth more than the inheritance tax courageously chose to take his wife’s name, Cunningham, nil rate band (currently £325,000), inheritance tax at 40% for himself and his son and settled down to learning English and making a new home in Glasgow. Nan returned to will be due on the balance. However, a gift in your will to teaching and she and Henryk sent Antony to the Academy The Glasgow Academy avoids paying this 40% tax – so, for but, although he lived on into the eighties as a respected and example, a gift of £1,000 would cost your estate just £600. In well-liked member of the Hyndland community, Henryk addition, there is no capital gains tax payable on legacy gifts, never forgot that he had lost both his country and his family so if you choose to leave a portfolio of shares to the school, no name and it fi lled him with regret. capital gains tax would be payable. Just before Henryk died, Antony promised him that he would If you would like to know more about Kelvin Foundation take back that family name but, out of respect for Nan, that membership, please contact Mark Taylor on: he would wait until she, too, had passed on. Well; easier said [email protected] or 0141 342 5494. than done! Nan lived until she was a hundred and one and so it is only now that Tony Cunningham has been able to fulfi l his father’s hopes and take back his family name of Kozlowski. Tony says that his old friends can still call him Cunningham Acknowledgement if they can’t pronounce Kozlowski (koz-wov-ski) but, if you Etcetera would like to acknowledge the generous help of see the name Antony Kozlowski in Etcetera in the future, at Colin Gray who took many of the photographs. least you’ll know the story of respect and heritage. That’s See more of his work at www.attraction-photography.com what’s in the name. and www.colingray.net or call him on 07901 826 254. Antony Kozlowski (1962)

30 Etcetera Pam with some of her customers

its castles, distilleries, gardens, Loch Ness her husband who brought a group over Home and abroad and all-time favourite but elusive ‘Nessie’ from Virginia USA. We covered all of Since moving on from Glasgow and not least, the superb scenery. Scotland from north to south, east to Academy I’ve lived and worked all over west in two weeks and had a ball with With my EFL hat on I also teach in the the place eg. Algeria, Oman, Kuwait, many fi rm friendships being made during oil / gas department at Robert Gordon Kazakhstan and for many years in the the time together. I’m delighted to say University and in local offshore related UK working as a Tourist Guide and this tour spawned a number of future companies. This means that, alongside EFL examiner. Having trained as a visits to Virginia for me and my family my classes, much of the time I specialise Scottish ‘Blue Badge’ Tourist Guide at and to this day this state remains my in oil-related tours, taking in Aberdeen the University of Aberdeen, my remit favourite. Harbour / Maritime Museum / Oil is the whole of Scotland showcasing Chapel and other linked topics for This is a job I really love doing and visitors of all ages & stages around the groups with this as a particular interest. nothing gives me greater pleasure during country. By being based in Aberdeen the year than showing off the impressive I tend to concentrate on the north east One of the very fi rst-ever extended and fascinating Scottish countryside and highland areas and absolutely love tours I did was with a group led by wherever I’m asked to go. introducing UK and international visitors Doris Johnson, now Vaughan – also a to this amazing part of the world with former teacher in the Prep School – and Pam Wells (Former staff)

Special update…

It is really only now when I have been persuaded to Surprisingly, the ‘oiks’, as I affectionately like to call them, semi-retire from what many people have assured me has been who were fortunate enough to have known me at the an illustrious career that I have the time to update you all on Academy, seem to have failed to keep in touch. If they want just how successful I am. to know more of how well I’ve done, I am prepared to offer them a modest discount off my latest best-selling book ‘You Modesty forbids me from itemising here all my achievements Too Can Be Almost As Successful As I Am’. and awards since leaving the Academy, but a full listing is available to any of you who are interested (and who wouldn’t Well, that’s (almost) enough about me. Why don’t some of be?) on my website www.howgreatiam.com you now write in and let us all read your recollections of my notable academic and sporting achievements at the Academy? On the personal front, I am happy to report that my lineage will continue through my sons, who, dare I say it, Sadly, I must bring this ‘Update’ to a close, as I am on the take after their father in being both gifted and handsome. verge of a breakthrough in fi nding a cure for the common Photographs of each of them, along with some video clips cold and eradicating world poverty. of my stunningly beautiful current wife (and former ‘Miss I will of course keep you posted. Westbourne’) are also accessible on the web. Sir VA Fidem [As dictated to Jim Shearer (1964)]

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