THE WYKEHAMIST

Cloister Time 2016 No 1472

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EDITORS Index

Ralph Cornell (D) Editorial 2 Jack Jowett (I) Vale The Head Man 4 Ludo Leatham (E) In Memoriam Sir Jeremy Morse 7 Henry Lloyd (A) Feature Articles 8 Edward McCrossan (F) Music 16 Joseph Morse (B) Theatre 16 Harry Petter (K) Sport 19 Thomas Saer (Coll) Home & Away 22 Harry Stewart (G) Ave Atque Vale 22 Charles Stranack (H) The Register 29 Caspar Temple (C) Don in Charge NPW Correspondence to [email protected]

The Wykehamist, first published in October 1866, is 150 years old this year.

║EDITORIAL participate in the boarding life of the School, providing an evening of respite for End of an Era Housemasters and giving us men wider social acquaintance with dons. Edward McCrossan (F) He also reformed the main House At the end of this term, the Head Man leaves competitions, aiming to increase participation us after eleven years at the helm. Looking and enjoyment across the board. In that regard, back at the past decade, we can clearly see the more-disciplined Junior Drama Festival how much RDT has done for the School, both and House Singing Competition have been for the boys and for the dons. especially popular; the more so where they allow comic opportunities to what might Among the men he is known for the quality of otherwise be rather stayed events. his suits, quick wit and his Chapel talk on St Ignatius’ Church in Rome. (After the third The academic side of things has always been repeat of this particular talk, we now all important at Winchester, and introducing appreciate the extraordinary forced perspective Cambridge Pre-U courses has enhanced our of the dome created by the seventeenth- academic distinction, not least because the century Jesuit architect Andrea Pozzo!) We dons regard it as a great improvement on A- have also now learnt that some people like to levels. Throughout two gruelling ISI enjoy sermons and/or music with their eyes inspections, we received great reviews, a credit closed, and that they are definitely not asleep! to the School as a whole. Though understated, Winchester remains at the top end of the Upon his arrival at Winchester, he academic spectrum and continues to have high immediately reformed the Chapel system. university acceptance rates. Chapel attendance was reduced from five days a week to two for JP and MP, and V Book and In RDT’s time here the fundraising activities VI Book 2 (formerly exempted from weekday of the School have been developed, increasing Chapel) were required to attend the new the number of bursaries, allowing those men Wednesday talks - which have brought many who might otherwise not be able to come here dons back into Chapel, and many interesting to benefit from the education the School and entertaining talks. As well as this he offers. That has made the social composition enhanced the House tutor system, requiring of the School more diverse and much more every don, with very few exceptions, to be a interesting. He created Winchester College House tutor. This ensures that all dons

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Society, which has raised about 23 million PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Centre for pounds during his time. European Reform, and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School More recently, we have had a change in of Economics. All of these “experts” agree timetable, pushing the start of lessons forward Brexit would result in a drop in foreign to 0845, and with that a change in the time of investment, less trade, and slower economic Chapel. Hours have been decreased from forty growth. “Take back control” has trumped to 35 minutes, which from my perspective, has sensible economic arguments in a populist made double Chemistry a lot more fashion. Economists who provide favourable manageable! This makes up for the fifteen forecasts of a Brexit do so only through great minutes of sleep that we are now missing out speculation. Untruths and outrageous claims on. have emerged on both sides. The greatest of these come from the Leave campaign - the lie From the point of our daily lives RDT changed that Britain hands over £350m a week to the a lot, and for the better. And I could not write European Union, which could be spent on the about the Head Man without mentioning his National Health Service in the event of a wife, Cathy. It is a mystery to us all how she, Brexit. The gross sum is in fact £250m, and without fail, manages to watch every event becomes £120m after taking into account the that the School has to offer, and always with a money put back into the country. NHS great deal of enthusiasm. She entertained us all Providers, an organisation which represents at Witham Close as JP men and again when managers of NHS trusts and hospitals, states we moved into VI Book. She is simply that 75 per cent of its members see a Brexit as amazing. We will all miss them both, and their having unfavourable consequences for the spaniel Jones, and wish them the best of luck NHS. Both sides are guilty of untruths, but in the future. Leave has misled more. Like other parts of the Western political climate, populism has Win Coll & the EU “Neverendum” trumped sense.

Henry Lloyd (A) Mr Rees-Mogg put forward a jurisdictional argument. He claimed that the Common Law The debate, marred with lies and contradicting of Britain was fundamentally incompatible statistics based on different economic with the EU. His greatest objections to the EU forecasts, has cheapened raw facts, and is a are that it is not accountable to the British failure on the part of the British political class. people, does not solely address the concerns of One side argues for sovereignty. The other Britain, It therefore undermines British argues for a more secure economic future. democracy, as its laws are supreme and its Brexiteers seem more committed to their cause legislature not directly elected by Britons. Mr – whether this will translate into a democratic Rees-Mogg longs for the sovereignty of the majority will soon be seen. The latest polls House of Commons. He argues that the UK show Remain just three points ahead. The does not need the EU to make trade deals, School's Law Society welcomed MP Jacob making particular reference to Barack Rees-Mogg, a keen Brexiteer who made his Obama’s claim that if the UK were to leave case. In a similar spirit, the School held its the EU it would find itself “in the back of the own debate on the subject, which was both queue” of states negotiating a deal. He says informative and entertaining. On the whole, that there are “zero” states in this “queue”. He the School seems to lean towards Remain. As asserts that the City of London would be better do I. off unimpeded by EU legislation. He states that a “United States of Europe” is currently As Michael Gove put it, “I think people have forming - it already has a flag, a national had enough of experts” – a wholly irrational anthem, a parliament, and might soon have an opinion, seeing as these experts are: the Bank army. An opt out for Britain in this “ever of England, the International Monetary Fund, closer union”, however, has already been the National Institute for Economic and Social secured by the Prime Minister in his Research think-tank, the Treasury, the Institute negotiations with the EU on 20 February. Mr of Fiscal Studies, Oxford Economics,

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Rees-Mogg’s eloquent arguments were briefly VALE DR R.D. TOWNSEND persuasive. Informator 2005-2016

The School's debate, chaired by the Debating Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Society President Harry Goaman (E), included Inspector of Education, set out the essential Angus Robinson (Coll), William Stone (F) and qualities of a great headmaster: the need for Alexander Butcher (A), who argued for mental and physical resilience; to have a Remain, and Irfan Badshah (F), Robert certain presence; to be able to get on with Boswall (E), and Angus Groom (Coll) who staff, pupils and members of the community; argued for Leave. The democracy of the EU, above all, to have an unswerving commitment trade, economics, public services, and political to raise standards of learning. In drawing-up clout were all debated. Remain dominated. his wish list, the author Jeremy Sutcliffe, Stone’s quick wit was noteworthy and added writing in The Guardian, distilled the some humour to the debate, often at Boswall’s experience of a number of successful heads: expense. Butcher similarly picked up on vision, courage, passion, emotional Boswall. One of the highlights of the debate intelligence, judgement, persuasiveness, was Butcher’s rebuttal of Mr Rees-Mogg’s curiosity. All heads carry the burden of claim that there are no countries “in the queue” expectation. The Headmaster of Winchester for trade deals with the United States. Having College, additionally, bears the weight of “followed up” on Rees-Mogg’s assertion, history – in this case stretching back more than Butcher discovered that there are currently 53 six centuries. The present Head Man has countries “in the queue”. A vote was taken at further enshrined some of Winchester’s great the end of the School's debate: the result was Wardens and Headmasters of the past – 94-18 in favour of Remain. placing their names strategically on the doors of buildings. Not just Warden Harris (1630 – All of the debaters deserve praise for their 1658) who ensured that the College buildings contributions to the high-quality debate, which survived, or Warden Harmar (1596 – 1613) brought clarity on both sides. The fact that the one of the principal translators of the King issue of Britain’s membership of the EU has James Bible; not just George Moberly (1836 - gone from dividing the Conservative Party to 1867) highly principled and somewhat dividing the country is a failure on the part of sceptical about change, or his successor politicians, and a personal stain on Mr George Ridding (1867 -1884) often referred to Cameron’s time in office. Mr Cameron went as the Second Founder, but more recent from announcing his Eurosceptic feelings to Headmasters: Burge (who modernized the his party on becoming leader in 2005, to curriculum and introduced Div), Rendall, promising a referendum on Britain’s Leeson, Oakeshott, Lee and Thorn. membership of the EU in January 2013, in an attempt to court UKIP voters. He has Ralph Douglas Townsend came to Winchester contradicted himself and lost credibility by as Headmaster in September 2005, campaigning vehemently for Remain, despite accompanied by his wonderful wife Cathy, of having spoken of leaving himself. The obvious whom more later on. He was previously question is this: if leaving is so bad, how come Headmaster of Oundle and, for ten years, you were willing to let Britain take the risk? Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School – a The country is now divided and left with a post he secured from Eton at the age of 36. decision to make – one which should have Australian by birth, he is culturally, been made by well-informed politicians. The linguistically, stylistically and by information from which it will do so is temperament, utterly English. (He claims that confused and brittle. The blame lies on no one he is in fact bilingual and can turn on the most but the Prime Minister for the position in guttural “Strine” at a moment’s notice!) He is which the British people currently find captivated by literature, art and music and themselves. most at home in conversation - delving, probing, enjoying logical and coherent thought, and occasional disputation.

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At Winchester, he took on the leadership of a pupil. When matriculation requirements were school in transition. From a federation of introduced for entry to Sixth Book, the number departments and boarding houses, to a of top grades at GCSE went up by more than centrally-run institution - from a school that 300 in one year. Division was reinforced and had always formulated its own intellectual A-level phased out in favour of the Cambridge ambitions and quests, but which now found Pre-U, a move that, perforce, took Winchester Government regulations inescapable. A out of the national league tables. Plenty of plethora of modular examinations, devoured other leading schools later followed suit. The by academically rapacious Wykehamists as introduction of the Pre-U meant fewer they completed up to eight A-levels each, was subjects, fewer examinations and a lot more seen by Dr Townsend as anti-intellectual and a focus and depth. The dons, highly qualified, threat to the very essence of Winchester’s true able and committed, responded with delight to ethos. And the School’s constituency was a credential that suited them and the boys. It changing. No longer drawn from a relatively was only a matter of time before various heads small number of UK preparatory schools, boys of departments became principal examiners in arrived at Winchester from across the globe. their subjects. Meanwhile, the age profile of Common Room was altered by the arrival of a Aware of a heady mix of ferment and foment, group of young teachers and academics. Often RDT might have given total concentration to a from abroad, Winchester Junior Fellows list of problems and difficulties, mostly brought enthusiasm, energy and a healthy and ineluctable and some seemingly insoluble. But bracing iconoclasm. The ability to attract that is not his way. It was much more likely teachers of high calibre to Winchester has that he would be seen strolling through War been one of RDT’s particular strengths. Cloister, chatting to a group of boys, and looking forward to an extended lunch and There were plenty of memorable bons mots. lively, informed conversation at Witham Close When one don asked for leave during term to with colleagues and distinguished visitors. Of travel abroad to get married for the fourth course he might well have already chaired time, RDT replied “You have been married half-a –dozen or more meetings that morning, quite enough – the answer is no!” The employing characteristic imagination, clarity wedding never took place. On another of thought, humour and extraordinary occasion, when announcing the engagement of decisiveness – qualities borne partly of two dons, he read the Banns of Marriage rite experience, but rather more of courage, from the Book of Common Prayer to the confidence and natural authority. assembled weekly Dons’ Common Room meeting, concluding, as he read the final A complete overhaul of management sentence “If any of you know cause or just structures and consultative committees impediment why these two persons should not throughout the School, and not least within the be joined together in Holy Matrimony, ye are Governing Body, secured efficient and to declare it”, by cupping his right ear with his transparent organisation. The newly-formed hand and surveying 180 degrees – the dons Winchester College Society developed and burst into hilarious applause. His lightness of enveloped goodwill from the extended School touch and humour in CoRo meetings was a community near and far, past, present and hallmark. future. Its very wide remit has continued to bring unprecedented levels of financial support Winchester houses dons and their families, and to the School’s immediate needs and long-term the School has been successful in sustaining aspirations. Along the way, life-long friends full-boarding for the boys, seven nights-a- and devotees of the School have been won, not week. These are considerable strengths, but only in the UK, but significantly, in Hong they bring manifold responsibilities. The Kong, the United States and elsewhere as well. demands on housemasters were eased with the involvement in house duties by all dons, and The academic life of the School was the introduction of a tutorial system. The transformed. Winchester, always adept at recent Inspection Report lavished praise on finding challenges for clever boys, now set Winchester’s pastoral care. Dons have also internal and external evaluations for every taken more prominent roles in Chapel.

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William of Wykeham’s Chapel, thanks to the into a comfortable Common Room for dons, a Head Man’s interest in art and spirituality, has new Treasury has been built in a medieval become the place to admire the entrancing stable, and the PE Centre has been greatly sculptures of Peter Eugene Ball (now enhanced. He muses as a non-sportsman that collectively named by their donors, with sport is probably stronger at Winchester now several other Ball sculptures in Fromond’s than it has ever been before. His flair for Chantry, Michla and Mob Lib as ‘The Ralph ceremonial has lifted the School’s common & Cathy Townsend Collection’), or the life. Memories of great occasions will endure: exceptional sacred music emanating from the receiving distinguished alumni Ad Portas organ and choir. It is the place to experience (including whole groups of servicemen and liturgy, fine sermons and brilliant talks. It has academics); the presentation of a new Royal become an intellectual as well as a spiritual Colour to the CCF; services in the Cathedral font. with brilliantly constructed and delivered sermons and addresses; an exhibition of An international dimension and a global international significance held to mark the perspective have been fostered in various 400th anniversary of the publication of the ways. The School’s international network King James Bible; speeches to leavers at fosters cross-currents in schools and Domum Dinner, both hilarious and moving in universities in Europe and throughout the their counsel. world, with exchanges of students, teachers, ideas and philosophies. A sixteen-year-old RDT has set the agenda, but also the tone - pupil from the African Leadership Academy in intellectual, cultured, appropriately Johannesburg or from Montgomery Bell competitive, ambitious, hard-working. He has Academy in Nashville Tennessee or from the certainly not acted merely as a CEO. While he lyceum in St Petersburg might well benefit has never lost the Australian gift for plain- from Winchester’s initiatives and inspiration speaking, his style has been more that of the in the same way as a boy in Sixth Book. RDT intellectual pastor. He knows the boys, takes has been alive to the importance of looking an interest in everyone in the community, is outward, generously sharing the School’s always approachable, sociable and amusing. expertise and prestige without taking risks And we cannot think of him without thinking with its reputation. And in doing so he has of Cathy, who has played a major part in the helped many other people and institutions in life of the School and in his success. She has the Far East (where he has taken an active given unqualified and unlimited support to interest in the WLSA-Fudan Academy, adults and boys alike. She has displayed Shanghai, and, more recently established a genuine enthusiasm for all the activities of partnership with Keio University in Japan) in School life. She entertains, shows Russia and Armenia, in Central Europe, and understanding and consideration, and is never throughout the ten member schools of the judgmental. A gifted person in her own right, Winchester International Symposium. Closer with a special love and knowledge of music, to home, and long before the Government she has had a telling influence on the placed demands on leading independent atmosphere in the School. Some years ago a schools, Winchester formed partnerships with boy wrote to Dr Townsend to congratulate him two academy trusts. The School had historic on his choice of wife. Not many people would links with Midhurst Grammar School, and it dare to do that, but what he said was what made sense to take a leading role in its everyone thinks! transformation into Midhurst Rother College, West Sussex in 2008. Resettled in their home of many years on the Northumberland-Cumbrian border, Ralph and So Dr Townsend will take his place among the Cathy should reflect on the fruitfulness of their roll-call of 57 previous Headmasters of time at Winchester. I know they have been Winchester. During his eleven-year tenure, very happy here. Their vision speaks more of there have been many outstanding the future than the past, and the Founder achievements. Some of these are tangible and would have approved. Whilst Winchester is to abiding. New Hall and QE II have been some extent a polyglot society with a plurality refurbished, Old Bethesda has been converted of religious belief, it has been persuaded over

6 the past decade of the beauty of holiness. The from the start; and he became a director of Williams and Townsends’ guiding precept predates William Glyns in his early thirties. of Wykeham and even the birth of Christ. As In 1965 he was recruited to the Bank of England, tapped Aristotle suggested, education is not just on the shoulder by the then Governor, Rowley Cromer. training the mind, but also the heart. He became an Executive Director and member of the Court at the age of 37, which must make him one of the KMP very youngest directors in modern times. He was initially responsible for Home Affairs, but soon switched to the International Portfolio. He carried a lot of the ║SIR JEREMY MORSE responsibility for dealing with other Central Banks and Finance Ministries as sterling came under pressure in the A tribute delivered by Sir David Clementi to the mid-1960s, and an even bigger role post the November London business community at the Church of St 1967 Devaluation, as the decision was taken to wind Lawrence Jewry on 4 May 2016 down the role of sterling as a reserve currency. Jeremy is on the record of saying about this period of his career It is a great pleasure to see so many here today; and, for that “a well conducted tactical retreat is of greater my part, an honour to have been asked by the family to interest than winning": a comment which will come as a speak in memory of Jeremy. bit of surprise to those who have played chess with Jeremy, or indeed croquet at their country home in If you reflect on Jeremy’s many strengths, it is pretty Gloucestershire, where he always seemed pretty clear that he would have been outstanding at almost any interested in winning, and not much interested in tactical job which required putting on a suit and tie. Had he retreat! followed his father into the law, it is hard to believe he would not have reached the highest ranks of the Bar and Still at the Bank in 1972, when the Bretton Woods subsequently the judiciary. Had he chosen the civil agreements around fixed exchange rates were coming service, it isn't hard to see Jeremy as the Sir Humphrey of under sustained pressure, he was asked by the Directors one of the larger Whitehall departments. Or the Foreign of the IMF to lead an international task force, the Office, where he and Belinda would have played host at Committee of 20, mandated to look at the whole one of our major Embassies. Or, since he was a godly international financial system and to propose revised man, the Church, where he would have been a popular arrangements. The role required him to leave the Bank Bishop of one of the great English dioceses; and in the and he became a Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. gardens of the Bishop’s Palace, he and Belinda could In the end, the oil crisis and the radical changes in have demonstrated that their gardening talents went well currency flows that followed, signalled the end of the beyond “coarse gardening” which was Jeremy’s Who’s fixed rate era. But the work done by Jeremy and his Who entry. small Committee, which included the bright young spark of the Bank of England at that time, one Eddie George, There is no doubting too that, with his double first in meant that the move to flexible rates was a much cleaner Classics, had he accepted the offers made to him to affair than it might otherwise have been. follow an academic career, he would have reached the highest posts. Although you might think that, having In mid-1974, after ten years of public service, he was been a Fellow of All Souls, an honorary Fellow of New recruited back to commercial banking by Eric Faulkener, College and Chancellor of Bristol University, he in fact first to be Deputy Chairman of Lloyds Bank and then in managed to tick the academic box in the margins of his 1977 to succeed him as Chairman. It is a role he held for financial career. 16 years and for which he is probably best known, forming later a brilliant partnership with Brian Pitman as In any event, we are here in the heart of the City since, CEO which presaged a golden period for Lloyds, as it after National Service and Oxford, Jeremy chose finance, consolidated its position as the best retail banking and he entered banking as a trainee at Williams and business among the four main Clearers. He might be Glyns. There is not a lot to say about Jeremy's career as considered fortunate that the bid for Standard and a junior banker, and this is because he did not spend very Chartered was unsuccessful. But the decision to stay out long as a junior banker! Perhaps one point of note about of Big Bang mergers of the mid 1980s owed nothing to his early career was that it involved secondments to both fortune, but rather a clear analysis on his part that the Cazenove and Cooper Brothers, experiences which cultures of commercial banks and investment banks did would have widened his understanding of the City as a not mix easily. whole. As if one Lloyds was not enough, he sat on the Council It must have been rather testing being Jeremy's boss in of the Corporation of Lloyds and in 1992 chaired a those early years, trying to calculate how long it would working party which recommended radical changes to be before roles were reversed, and you were reporting to the regulatory structure of the insurance market. He him. And, if it was uncomfortable being Jeremy’s boss, found time to be a director of Legal and General and ICI, it would have been equally daunting to report to him, and then Zeneca when it was demerged from ICI. He sure in the knowledge that Jeremy’s understanding of any also found time to return to the Bank of England, this issue would have exceeded one’s own. His ability to time as a non-executive member of the Court, first with analyse complex problems quickly, and then to articulate Robin Kingsdown as Governor, and then back in harness solutions in a clear manner, would have been obvious with Eddie George. His reputation in the Bank was of being "the ablest Governor the Bank never had".

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If he had a long relationship with the Bank of England Hamlet enters, and the two engage in a battle and the world of Central Banking, he had an even longer of wits, resulting in our protagonist’s relationship with his old School, Winchester. He was a boy there in the 1940s, in his final year the Senior Prefect discovery of his beloved jester’s skull. Despite and the winner of all the Classics prizes; many years later his brief appearance, the First Gravedigger is he was a parent; from 1987 for ten years he was Warden distinctly individual, and his discourses with of the College, chairing the Board of Governors; and his assistant and Hamlet address themes most recently he had the fun of having four intrinsic to the play’s development. However, grandchildren in the School. With his prodigious intellect, coupled with great judgment, he is considered he is remarkable simply because he surprises by most to be the outstanding Wykehamist of his us. generation. Why is the appearance of a cemetery so Indeed, well beyond the ranks of Wykehamists, it is hard to think of any City figure with a stronger combination of startling in a play whose sole concern is death? intellect, judgment, wisdom, courtesy and humanity; or It is only in the final act that Shakespeare of anyone who could move with more facility from a provides the audience with a concrete mundane issue of commercial banking to some fiendishly reminder of the lofty concepts over which difficult issue of international finance. As already noted, Hamlet has been philosophising. I find the he was competitive, but he was not ruthless. In his personal habits, he was modest. While many of his peers gravedigger’s comment were being driven to work, Jeremy sat on the Tube doing if he be not rotten before he die - as we the Times crossword. have many pocky courses nowadays, that will scarce The depths of his achievements, and the width of his contribution in both the public and private sector, mark hold the laying in - he will last you some eight him out as one of the great City figures. And even if one year could get close to naming a very small number whose or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year career in finance matched that of Jeremy, they are to cut deeper than any of Hamlet’s prior unlikely to have had the same devotion to family that musings on the corruption of flesh. Hamlet’s Richard will speak of shortly; and they could surely not have had the same high reputation in a wholly parallel call “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would world (in Jeremy's case the world of chess, cross words, melt,/Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew” problem solving and fictional Oxford detectives) where pales in comparison: the gravedigger’s morbid the name of Morse resonates as clearly as it does in the technicalities make Hamlet seem pretentious. City. Indeed, as the gravedigger throws skulls to the Gathered here in this wonderful City church, we should ground carelessly, Hamlet’s misgivings over give thanks that Jeremy chose to build his career within the gravedigger’s behaviour, accusing him of the Square Mile, and thanks for his remarkable being “one that would circumvent God”, are contribution to so many institutions. We are fortunate to counterpointed with the gravedigger’s have known him. We shall remember him with great affection: as a City figure of extraordinary ability and of philosophy, who sings “a pit of clay for to be the highest integrity. made/For such a guest is meet”: we are but the mud which carpets the ground. Hamlet is ║FEATURE ARTICLES confronted with death’s grim reality: it is not a “sleep” that is over in an instant, rather a Who is your Favourite Character from lengthy process of decay. By showing Hamlet English Literature and why? the true end-point, the play’s themes are given some basis in reality, thus changing the tone of Jeremy Choo (I) Winner of the Connell the play. “To be or not to be” ceases to be a Guides Essay Prize 2016 question posed in a philosophical discussion, and is shown to be a real choice: the The fifth act of Hamlet opens with the image gravedigger brings death back down to earth. of a grimy figure, half-buried in soil. He sings This is much-needed; Shakespeare’s brilliance a song and a parabolic shadow swings across lies in the unexpected form this takes. the stage as his back arches to and fro. Known in the script as First Gravedigger or First These are ideas that have been communicated Clown, he is an oddity in an already peculiar before - Gertrude commands Hamlet “seek for scene. Digging a grave for the recently-passed thy noble father in the dust” - but it is only the Ophelia, the gravedigger discusses with an gravedigger who presents a cogent case and assistant whether the deceased deserves a makes the prince seem irrational. Where Christian burial after her apparent suicide. Gertrude and Claudius are insensitive to

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Hamlet, the gravedigger’s infallible logic started digging graves was the day that Hamlet urges the prince to see the truth of the matter. was born. It is as if he is twinned with the For example, he corrects Hamlet when saying prince. Shakespeare’s alignment of the two that the grave he was digging was for no characters makes their contrasts seem all the woman, but “one that was a woman” - for once more marked. Where the prince’s experiences in the play, Hamlet has no comeback. Despite with death drove him into a deep depression, being dressed in an undertaker’s garb and death has become to the gravedigger a speaking in a working-class tongue, the ‘property of easiness’. Hamlet must, to a gravedigger offers Hamlet intellectual degree, aspire to this bedraggled pauper. After equivalency that the high-society Horatio, as all, he is so much more than what a mere indicated by his mindless recitations of “ay, prince can ever be. It is only by becoming the my lord”, cannot offer him. gravedigger that Hamlet might find resolution, and end his torture. The gravedigger deceives The gravedigger surprises us, but not himself. us; his impact on Hamlet is formative. He is He has a brilliant arrogance, and is not afraid more than meets the eye. After all, the to challenge outright this travelling stranger, as gravedigger claims that it isn’t sovereigns who can be seen in his battle of wits with Hamlet. “hold up Adam’s profession”, but grave- At one point, the gravedigger shoots down makers like him, because they were around at Hamlet’s attempt to catch him out with a sharp the beginning of human history - grave- quip: “’tis a quick lie, sir. ’Twill away again digging transcends the fleeting entrances and from me to you.” The gravedigger denies exits of courtly life. Hamlet’s taunts, as well as picking up on the prince’s earlier use of “quick”, and puns on it However, on the basest level, one is attracted meaning both “alive” and “fast”. Prior to this to the First Gravedigger simply because he is scene, Hamlet has demolished all challengers an amiable character. Additionally, unlike with his wit. However, the humble gravedigger some of Shakespeare’s supporting characters, gives as good as he gets. As Hamlet remarks to the gravedigger seems like a believable figure Horatio, with a life of his own. He sings a song of a How absolute the knave is! We must speak by past love: the card, or equivocation will undo us. In youth when I did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet The eloquence of the gravedigger’s “absolute” To contract - O - that time for - a - my behove, language impresses and intimidates even O, methought there - a - was nothing - a - Hamlet; the prince can no longer conceal meet. himself through ambiguities. In an unsuspecting figure, we find a wonderfully But in the second verse, his love tragically silver-tongued rebuttal to Hamlet’s dies. The gravedigger does not whine about philosophy. Despite reciting Gertrude and having lost his love (this makes him a tragic Claudius’ remarks, the gravedigger has the figure), but celebrates the fact that at one point charisma to win over Hamlet. As a teenager, I he loved and was loved. Beside Hamlet’s find myself naturally inclined to reject exchange with Ophelia in Act III - conventional figures of authority. The First Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a Gravedigger represents the play’s streak of ring? non-conformism: how impressive it is that the Ophelia: ’Tis brief, my lord. true noble is a manual labourer. Hamlet: As woman’s love - the gravedigger seems admirable. Indeed, But the First Gravedigger is more than just a throughout the play, love is something warped character who shares and can keep up with and chastised by the protagonist: Gertrude and Hamlet in the wit and absurdities of his Claudius’ relationship is dubbed as incestuous; language. He explains that “I have been sexton Ophelia is hounded to madness. On the other here, man and boy, thirty years”. In drawing hand, the gravedigger is not bitter, but emphasis to how his career has spanned preaches a positive worldview, antithetical to childhood and adulthood, the gravedigger Hamlet’s. In doing so, the gravedigger brings a implies that he had no proper life before he spot of ideological variety to Hamlet, making started digging graves. Indeed, the day he the play seem less dogmatic and dense.

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Ultimately, however, the gravedigger is so focuses on education in South Africa. Having had powerful a character because he believes in some of the best educations in the world, we felt it love in a universe where it is absent. appropriate for us to put our efforts into helping those who hadn’t been given the same start in life In bringing death back down to earth, acting as as us. Through various methods we managed to raise over £3000 prior to our trip. a fit challenger to Hamlet, and operating as the antithesis to much of Hamlet’s philosophy, the On arrival we were greeted by Anna, who is in First Gravedigger can be seen as an interesting charge of managing many of the charity’s projects character. However, I find him extraordinary in the Cape Town region. She took us to a school because he embodies these qualities despite his named Tereo, where we would be working for the ragged, filthy appearance. Essentially, this is first few days. This primary school is situated in what comedy is - a settlement of two Somerset West, a town just outside the city. Many incompatibles. Billy Crystal has played him, of the children live in the surrounding townships, yet the gravedigger is a memento mori, whose and have very little opportunity for education. As presence and twinning with Hamlet creates an we drove on the motorway towards the school we saw many of its pupils walking and cycling awkwardness: the prince is meeting his own unaccompanied on the side of the road; in England undertaker. The encounter is so coincidental this would be completely forbidden. We were that the gravedigger seems like an agent of already seeing how much effort these children are fate. He could easily be a member of the willing to put into their education. audience or a different player who has wandered onto the set, offsetting the chain of Pulling into the school we were overwhelmed by events and deciding the play’s finale: a deus ex all the pupils rushing out to greet us; their curious machina of the greatest play ever written. little faces all peering up at us. School was just Indeed, the conversation between Hamlet and finishing for the day, and we were introduced to the the gravedigger is intimate, and doesn’t seem six kids who were staying for aftercare. These children were chosen by the charity because they staged. Going further, it occurs in a world are ‘at risk’, meaning every day they go back to a separate from Hamlet’s courtly drama, and is drunk father who beats them up, or mothers who the first time peasant and aristocrats are are out prostituting themselves leaving their kids at mingled. The way that the First Gravedigger home, or older siblings who regularly expose them reduces the complexities of Ophelia’s alleged to gang violence and drugs. suicide (illustrated in the recent Tennant version with a coffee and sandwich) as one Their teacher, Chloe, absolutely poured her heart might in explaining the action to a friend at the out to them, giving them all the hugs and love they pub after the theatre. It certainly could not don’t get at home. In class we enjoyed making come from any other character in the play - posters and painting, learning about how to improve the environment, and reading stories to consider it beside Gertrude’s elegiac each other. The real fun, however, was play time. description of events. The First Gravedigger We had jousting wars with the kids on our rids the play of its metaphysical tosh, whilst shoulders and swung them around in circles until still musing on those themes, just as an we felt dizzy. The joy I experienced in that audience member might, and in doing so playground was far beyond getting that new iPhone draws the play into the space between the for Christmas; we were simply in the moment stage and audience. This is what makes him an being kids again. The bond we made with those six unequivocally brilliant character. He manages children was truly special; there were no to be comic, but not a relief. boundaries, despite our numerous differences, which stopped us all from becoming great friends.

Wykehamists Volunteer in South Africa It was only after we finished work at Tereo that we

were told that the teachers had discovered that one Rory Bedford (Coll) of the children, Gideon, had bruises all over his

body from where his mother had beaten him up the In April 2016, six Wykehamists travelled from day before we arrived. We hear stories of violence their respective corners of the world to meet in the all over the media, but when it’s a friend you react beautiful city of Cape Town. Those involved were completely differently. We all felt angry and me, Christopher Cheng (Coll), Jolyon Scriven (F), confused: why would anyone want to hurt such a Fedor Misyura (Coll), Gareth Tainton (C) and Tom smiley little boy? Furthermore, it was astounding Saer (Coll). We chose to volunteer for the charity that none of us knew; while we were busy picking SOS Africa, an English-based charity which

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him up and running around, he was in pain, but he Once everyone had left we spent another few hours never showed it simply because he wanted to have sorting through countless bags of old clothes. These fun with everyone else. It makes our broken nails are all donated by the local hospital to Joyce, and it and scratched knees seem rather insignificant. was our job to sort through them all then distribute them accordingly. Joyce runs a small shop where The next place where we worked was a soup people in need can buy these old clothes very kitchen, run by an ‘auntie’ named Joyce. She cheaply. started her kitchen twenty years ago, when her The next stage of our trip was a visit to the daughter died from aids. It is situated in the middle township in Grabouw. We were greeted by a of a township in Sir Lowry’s village. On the way couple named Garot and Amie who live in the in, we passed an area of the township known to township. They have an incredible story: coming have a large Rastafarian community. Anna from privileged backgrounds, a couple of decades informed us that, although the older Rastafarians ago they had a ‘calling from God’, telling them to are generally quite peaceful people, the younger sell their house and move to the slums. They have ones often use the culture as an excuse to do drugs. now adopted about twenty children as their own, all She was once chased out of the area because she of whom have special needs and disabilities. felt so threatened by the Rastafarian youths. Next Without them, these children would be left alone to the kitchen there was a building with loud music on the streets, and would die of starvation, disease, and many people standing around it. This is the or murder. local shebeen: a place where people come to drink illegal home-made spirits and often take drugs such Garot and Amie took us to a local centre for as marijuana and the infamous ‘tik’. children with cerebral palsy. This was a very overwhelming experience, to see people with In the kitchen we made several huge pots of soup. disabilities so severe that their quality of life is The ingredients are all donated by local severely reduced. The shock on all of our faces is supermarkets: when the food goes out of date they still ingrained into my head. I knew that we were give it to Joyce. We spent a few hours sorting beginning to understand the world better when Joly through mouldy bread, chopping up vegetables and said to me ‘We are so unbelievably lucky’. We adding stocks and spices to the steaming pot. were told that one of the girls there, about eight years old, who was in an almost vegetative state, Throughout this entire time, a Christian service was had been born with no disabilities but had been going on in the main part of the kitchen: the local taken to the centre after her mother had attempted priest was giving sermons and the people were all to strangle her. singing hymns. We were invited out in front of the congregation, consisting of about a hundred people, We then went on a tour of the township area. We to introduce ourselves. We were then introduced to drove slowly through the town, with Garot and a woman who had recently given up prostitution to Amie greeting everyone we went past. The people seek a better life for herself, and a man who used to were friendly and respectful of this incredible be involved in gangs and drugs who had recently couple; they had clearly made a big impact on the decided to become a Christian. He was, however, town. Many of those they greeted, we were having doubts about his decision, maybe due to informed, are gang members or leaders who are pressure from the gang or withdrawal from the often involved in murders and other crimes. There drugs. We all spoke to him and tried to convince was one mother who was still grieving the rape and him that his new way of life would be far more murder of her fourteen-year-old daughter. One man fulfilling. allowed us to enter his house; I think most English campsites are more habitable. Inside the shack they When the food was ready everyone lined up with had room with a double bed, where the family of an old ice cream container, which we poured the five sleep, and a small area for storage. Everything soup into, and gave them all some bread. Every else is outside. They have a stone to cook on, and a individual thanked us; they were all truly grateful communal tap where they wash and fetch drinking for this food which honestly none of us would water. I am not sure where they go to the toilet. touch. These people ranged from the homeless, to those who had been in knife fights, to those who There are two main gangs working in the Grabouw had evidently been involved in drugs in the past. area: the 22s and the 24s. The 22s are known as the Joyce told us that everyone there was collecting less radical of the two; they’re involved in food for their family: that ice cream tub of soup burglaries and muggings. The 24s, however, are would have to feed five for that day. One mother, more extreme. They plan their crimes, often who collected two tubs, was trying to feed all committed online through fraud, and are not afraid seventeen of her kids. to murder or rape anyone who gets in their way. Both of these gangs are also heavily involved in

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drugs. The infamous ‘tik’ which is hitting South We all walked away from that trip shocked, but Africa is a form of crystal meth which is both also having learnt a great deal about human nature. cheap and highly addictive. A few members of a We saw first-hand how society in the townships is gang which we passed were high when we greeted breaking down. Since the police are limited in their them, and the effects were truly terrifying. They capabilities to prevent crime, the whole community didn’t seem to be on a slight buzz; they were is living in anarchy. Drug lords rule the towns, and completely brain-dead: there was nothing going on those who choose honest methods of living fear for beneath their eyes. their lives every day. Human compassion is unbelievably low, and life is worth exceptionally The worst part is how people end up in these gangs little. We hear stories all the time of people killed in the first place. The members disguise tik as a for the cash in a till, or people being raped by men sweet by adding sugar and colourings. They then who have been told that this act will cure them of go to the schools and hand it out to children, some their HIV. The mother who had attempted to as young as eight years old. These children then get strangle the little girl we met had apparently gone high on the drug, and since it is so incredibly to jail for a few months for the crime, where she addictive, they suffer severe withdrawal symptoms had then gotten pregnant again, was released, and is after only one hit. They therefore go and find the now raising her new child on the streets. gang in order to get some more of the drug. In return, however, the gang will ask them for Our experience of this collapsing society was, favours, which start off small crimes such as unfortunately, not all second-hand. I went out to pickpocketing. After a few years of involvement, South Africa a few days before my friends came however, the children grow up, and progress to out to meet me, staying in a lovely holiday house fully-fledged members, involved in inter-gang wars with my family. It was Easter Sunday: we enjoyed and murders. At one school which we visited there an egg hunt with some younger cousins and I had were signs telling the children not to eat any my first steak having been vegetarian for lent. We ‘strawberry pops’ and many other sweets. The road all went to sleep content with yet another day in just outside the school is known to be the paradise. battlefield of the two gangs. Here they meet to settle disputes, often ending in bloody gunfights. At about five in the morning, I awoke to a banging sound. Confused and tired, I ignored it before After the tour we went to a different school in trying to get back to sleep again. However, my ears Grabouw, just outside the township, where SOS pricked up as I heard footsteps coming up the Africa has one of its main aftercare centres. This stairs. A torch shined in my eyes as I sat up in bed, centre has about twenty kids who are again all ‘at thinking that maybe something had gone wrong risk’. These children have all been with SOS Africa and my dad and some security guards were coming longer than the Tereo children, and the results of a to check on me. I quickly realised this was not the few years with the charity are truly astounding. case when I saw that one of them was holding a They are all polite, friendly and come across as knife. Another came up to me with a can, which he well-educated and all-rounded. We enjoyed playing put right into my face, shouting ‘do you want me to football and rugby with them, and helping them f***ing pepper spray your eyes?’. Two of them with their homework. Chris had brought a couple then went either side of my bed, and pushed me of keyboards, so we also spent ages trying to teach down with their weight on my chest. The sinking them catchy pop tunes. They also all lined up to feeling that I had in that moment was indescribable. have a go on my saxophone, with mixed results! I didn’t want to die. I had plans for the future, beautiful places to visit, fascinating topics to study, A memorable aspect of the trip for me was the mesmerising songs to listen to, and amazing people concerts that we played. We played music to the to meet. For a short while, I watched all of those afterschool centre in Grabouw, and to the entire dreams shrivel and die. school at Tereo. These children are rarely exposed to a large range of musical genres, especially a live In those first five minutes my only thoughts were performance on western instruments. The children survival. My eyes were on the knife. I was all closed their eyes and listened quietly to the desperately trying to obey the men’s commands. slower ballads which we played, focusing on the ‘Where’s the f***ing money?’, they kept on emotions in the music which we were trying to shouting at me. I heard the words: ‘I will tell you express. We then played some more popular songs, where everything is, just please don’t hurt anyone’ at which point everyone got up to dance. We must come out of my mouth, but the voice felt distant, have had almost a hundred children at Tereo almost like it wasn’t me. I sat up to point to my jumping around us as we played, with some even cupboard where my wallet was. Straight away they showing off some impressive break dancing pushed me back down again, and so I described in talents! It was truly a celebration. clear English where my wallet, phone, laptop and

12 headphones were. However, I had hardly any cash, fence surrounding the house. In hindsight these and on the black market laptops will sell for very sounds were the screaming that I heard followed by little. This agitated them, and I tried desperately to a struggle. tell them that that’s all I had. I started to feel very afraid when they kept on shouting the same phrase: Security arrived within seven minutes. The rest of ‘Where’s the f***ing money?’. The only risk I took the day was spent with policemen, detectives and was not telling them about the other side of the fingerprint analysers, all of whom had hundreds of house, where my family was fast asleep. I guided questions to ask about the incident. We also had a them to all my valuables, strictly keeping them as therapist arrive straight away to ensure that all of us far away from my sister as possible, who was were mentally stable after the event. My whole sleeping downstairs. Had they found her, they may family is incredibly lucky that my dad is himself a well have raped her and left her for dead. therapist, and that therefore we are all well educated in how to keep ourselves mentally The next thing they did was restrain me: they tied healthy. If it weren’t for this simple fact, I might my wrists and ankles together and shoved socks not be here today: had I not been taught how to stay down my throat to gag me. They then threw my calm under stressful situations I may have reacted duvet over my head so I couldn’t see, and quite differently. threatened to slit my throat if I tried anything. Two of them left the room to continue searching the The police never found the thieves. They probably house, but I was aware that one of them was still in sold the goods within a couple of hours and then my room watching me. At this point my mind left the town. One thing I must say about this whole started to wander chaotically: I wasn’t sure if they event is that, even though I was afraid, I never once had found the rest of my family, I wasn’t sure if had the feeling that these were bad people. I never everyone was still alive. I thought I heard someone felt any anger or aggression towards them. screaming; my whole body started shaking, and I Crucially, I could tell that they didn’t want to have started crying as I thought maybe my sister or to hurt me. They were not bad people; they were mother had panicked when the men came in. I then only desperate. They had been pushed to their heard a lot of scrambling and running, followed by breaking point by the world they had been thrown dead silence for about five minutes. For those brief into. I would almost certainly do the same thing in moments I thought I had been orphaned. their situation. This does reveal a lot of sad facts about South Africa. However, it also confirmed to I then heard my dad calling up the stairs to me. It me that beneath all of the murder figures and crime took me a while to get the gag out of my mouth, rates there are still human beings who ultimately but when I did I simply asked him ‘Are Mum and want nothing else but to live in peace and harmony Fran alive?’. When I heard the word ‘Yes’, a deep with each other. warmth filled me again. Almost instantly it became simply a story I could tell my friends. No one had Another point I must highlight is how unfairly so been hurt. Our lives would continue as normal. My many are treated in light of these events. The police dad went and got a kitchen knife to cut me free. I put a huge effort into finding the villains, giving us ran through to hug my family, and straight away therapy and reassuring us that they were doing felt joyous and happy again. everything they could to prevent such attacks from happening again. Had I been a black boy living in a My dad later told me his side of the story. He woke township, I would not have received the same up to the banging sound as well, and after hearing treatment. The moment it’s an English schoolboy, some strange noises from my side of the house, everyone reacts. I was told that, if I wanted to, I decided to go and investigate. I was staying in the could take this story to the local English opposite end of the house, so he walked down the newspapers. I chose not to. Would one of the corridor and opened the door to the annexe. When children at Tereo receive the same treatment as I he did he saw that the French doors had been did? It disgusts me to say that they do not. Crime smashed down, and could hear men upstairs in my within the townships is far higher than crime room. He then had to make what he says was the against the wealthy. When a white schoolgirl is worst decision of his life. He decided that if he ran murdered, the whole city becomes enraged, but upstairs to try and save me, the men would when the same thing happens to a black schoolgirl, probably be armed and at least one of us would be no one takes any notice. Until South Africa starts killed. I was either handling the situation well or seeing all people as equal humans, their problems they had killed me already. So he closed the door will persist. on his son, and went to get my mum and sister to safety, before pressing the alarm. At the sound of So how can a whole society be collapsing so this the men ran downstairs, and jumped up on a rapidly? How can we all enjoy our luxurious dustbin to hurdle the three-meter-high electric lifestyles while these people are being treated like

13 animals? I think the answer to these questions may viewer first is the vast amount of debauchery, lust come from those we have met along our trip. and general sin. Bosch obviously meant to do this; People like Garot and Amie, who are not only the exaggeration is used as a warning. This shows dedicating their lives, but putting themselves in that Bosch is not quite hopeless for humanity, or potential danger, in an attempt to salvage an entire else he wouldn’t have even bothered, however he town. Over the course of two decades they have seems fearful for humanity. The impact of Bosch’s become a serious authority in Grabouw, and are exaggeration is a view that seems very similar to respected by teachers and gang members alike. Augustine’s idea of Original Sin, the idea that we They are the last glue keeping that town from have inherited sin from Adam and Eve and are now anarchy. People like Matt and Claudia, who put all slaves to the desires that are its consequence. Bosch of their efforts into building and maintaining all of portrays the humans as being helpless, ignorant and SOS Africa’s projects. They strongly believe that, perhaps even naïve in relation to what they are although South Africa may have lost a few doing; they are simply giving in to their lust. ‘The generations, the only way to save the next is freedom of will’ was also brought up many times through education. People like Joyce, who, in light by Martin Luther, whose view was that humans of a terrible tragedy in their lives, decide to simply had no free will when it came to sin, and dedicate their time to making other people’s lives despite not agreeing with this view at first, later on better. And people like Anna and Chloe, who are Erasmus ‘had become more “evangelical,” out there every day giving these children the love somewhat closer to Luther’s pessimism’ (S.E.P). they need while also teaching them how to cope in life. These people are the desperately needed light Then further down the slippery slope we find at the end of the tunnel. ourselves in Hell, in which lots of obvious hellish things are going on. There is, however, a rather MP Div: Human Nature in Bosch and Erasmus interesting detail in the bottom left of the panel: it is showing the same hand signal as God in the first Oliver Law (H) panel, which symbolised The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit plus Jesus as both God and Man. Through the painting ‘The Garden of Earthly However in Hell the hand has a knife embedded in Delights’ Bosch shows us quite clearly what his it and appears to be very out of place. More views of humanity are. Before seeing what is going importantly it is useless. Bosch makes a very key on in the painting it is important to observe the point here which seems to tie in with his warning: layout. The painting, a triptych, is divided into that there is a point of no return, in which this sign three sections: the Garden of Eden, Earth and Hell. has no meaning as you have turned from God’s This could have been done just to divide them but I help, blessings and warnings. This perhaps is there think that there is meant to be a consequential just to reiterate that God has been there all along relationship between the three panels. By going and that by ignoring him they have fallen helpless with this view it makes Bosch’s views obviously to sin. This is again similar to what Erasmus pessimistic and very Augustinian. thought, ‘without grace promised to the faithful, The left hand panel shows God presenting Eve to humans are helpless and unable to keep from Adam, having decided that he should have sinning’ (S.E.P). company. God holds Eve’s hand and blesses them with his other hand when introducing them to each On the other hand, it could be said that God’s hand other whilst, rather strangely, Adam’s feet touch was always there and was simply useless. As in it is God’s robe. In the middle of the panel sits an owl, unable to stop the consequential sequence of supposedly evil, watching with curiosity perhaps mankind from Eden to Earth to Hell. This would waiting for Adam and Eve to fall down the slippery contrast with Erasmus’ view of God and his role in slope from Eden, Earth and maybe into Hell. The what you are. Erasmus’ view is more optimistic physical connection between God and Adam and than Bosch’s, as he opposes ‘the inadequacy of Eve highlights the reliance humans having on the secular learning’ and therefore believes that being divine. This view is shared with Erasmus, who said taught with God by your side, so to speak, a child that reason “counts for nothing before God, without can be directed and controlled at least away from whom human powers can do nothing.” (S.E.P) In unforgivable sin, if that exists. However, that belief the Bible when temptation draws Adam and Eve was also taken from Erasmus due to Luther’s they fall epically, and until recently, religion has highly pessimistic impact on him. been the glue that connects humans and keeps them from going too far astray. Curiously, Bosch seems to have put himself in Hell, right in the middle, housing a few sinful Leading on from this and into Adam and Eve’s people. I don’t think at all that he is suggesting that state after the Fall, Bosch shows us Earth – a this piece of art is only relevant to himself but Garden of Earthly Delights – and what strikes the rather that he does not want to come across as

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being hypocritical and wanting to situate himself in • See this playing out with Russian and Chinese the ‘high seat’ and that he wants to show that he as power politics, Iranian adventurism, North a human being also - a part of this sinful, Korea, phenomenon of Islamic extremism of unescapable sequence. Another view on this and which Daesh represents the most extreme end perhaps the most likely is that he is looking of the spectrum … increasingly global, and the regretfully back through the sequence that he reasons behind migration. would have been through and is now warning us by • Extraordinary challenge for policy makers – giving us his view from down in hell. This can be finite bandwidth (PM’s current priorities) shown by his longing look over his shoulder. Character of Conflict The nature of warfare (always visceral, always At a Wykehamist Riflemen’s Dinner held at violent, characterised by friction, in which the White’s Club on 26 April 2016, the Chief of the simplest things become impossible, always about General Staff, Sir Nick Carter OW, gave the politics) never changes. following address. But the character of conflict has evolved significantly in the light of the all-pervasive nature It is impressive how many senior military figures of information (we live in a gold fish bowl) – hence have been Wykehamists: some new truths: Two RAF officers, Dowding and Portal • No distinction between war and peace, an era immediately come to mind, the former an innovator of constant competition, hot peace, whose integrated air defence plan arguably was maskirovka, all instruments of national power, instrumental in winning the Battle of Britain, and cyber – a game anyone can play not just states the latter who as CAS regrettably fended off the • Traditional difference between home and away Army’s attempt to establish an Air Arm. And two is eroding (Paris, migration etc.) Army officers stand out in Wavell and Carver; the • Enemies have become increasingly adept at former whose father was advised by the Head Man, concealing themselves, acquiring Dr Fearon when a military career was suggested for commercially available technology, exploiting his son: “This desperate step is not necessary as he our weaknesses, and are no respecters of state has sufficient ability to make his way in other walks borders of life.” There was no chance of John Thorn ever • No conflict has a purely military solution – it’s making the same observation about me! And the the politics stupid - and the answer has to be an latter on whom Montgomery observed: “this officer integrated approach (the new operational art) thinks there is nothing but dead wood between him • Success is invariably determined by the and the CIGS” (I’m not sure whether Monty was triumph of the narrative, not straightforward CIGS by then …) terms like ‘defeat’ or ‘victory’ – the perception I am going to talk about the qualities the Army is of the audience is the centre of gravity – looking for in a young person today and the sorts of importance of tomorrow’s headlines: challenges they will face - I shall start with the The formulation of strategy requires a challenge. o different approach – ‘intended’ versus Strategic Context emergent – ‘ends, ways and means’ Strategic context never been more dynamic or paradigm is helpful – but policy complex, defining condition is one of instability: makers invariably want immediate • Growing opposition to the global architecture options to tomorrow’s crisis, that has been in place since WW2 (e.g. UN, motivated by tomorrow’s headlines World Bank, G7) – for some it might be down o This has a bearing on the military’s to a sense of historic entitlement being denied relationship with policy makers – • Existential threat to the West (UK in huge responsibility to lean into it, particular) – not terrorism or Islamic establish mutual understanding as a extremism, nor the threat of imminent invasion platform whence to speak the honest – rather it is: truth (and do with properly researched o An undermining of rules-based evidence) architecture whence we draw our • Battlefield increasingly decentralised – notion prosperity, freedom and enviably of the ‘strategic corporal’ – concertinaed chain open way of life – won’t happen of command and long screw drivers – junior decisively … it will creep up on us. leaders must understand the context Risk of miscalculation – e.g. Turkey, o • Society’s expectation of military restraint Russia, Syria through Article V or a much higher, and the legal and ethical context failure to place our actions in the now very different – has a potentially very context of an agreed, understood, negative impact of risk taking. assured and mutually balanced So what for our requirement of young people? deterrence theory.

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• Talent clearly, and ideally from as diverse a played the complex Prelude, Choral and Fugue recruiting base as possible for piano by Cesar Franck. • Innovators – adaptable and agile (Sir Michael Howard observation) The Baroque Concert performed in Chapel • Application and a preparedness to study on Sunday 5 June will go down as one of the (Antonio Giustozzi: “Every age has its follies, greats. Directed by Rebecca Miles, the players the folly of our age has been an irresistible included Alex Toal (B), William Nestor- desire to change the world without first studying and understanding it.”) Sherman (B), James Bertlin (I), Ned Robertson • Ability to get on with others and see the other (B), Joseph Zubier (Coll), Angus Robinson person’s perspective (Coll), Jacob Thorn (Coll), Angus Robertson • Leaders (Montgomery observed following his (B), Maxim Meshkvichev (B), Krishna Amin inspection of Win Coll CCF in 1946: “there is (Coll), Sam Grew (B) and George Gillow (A). latent leadership in all ranks.”) – this is an They played four pieces by Vivaldi, one by area where we have to work far harder than Schickhardt and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto ever before … moral courage. No 5. Most players performed on several My Conclusion instruments. Every item was joyous, but • It remains the most stimulating of careers – but Zubier’s singing and Robinson’s harpsichord we are extremely poor at explaining it playing deserve special mention. • Paradox of popularity versus understanding (sympathy v empathy, victims v heroes), while The Kirby Prize for musical composition was our profession becoming increasingly complex • Iraq and Afghanistan were tremendous adjudicated by Professor Michael Finnissy of recruiting vehicles (glamorous to the young) – the University of Southampton, who stressed but we must be used successfully next time the importance, whether referring to classical (e.g. Libya) musical forms or not, of the expression personal feeling. Byron Adlam (H) won the ║MUSIC Junior section for a piece including violin, viola, cello, double bass, tam tam, Tibetan The annual Songfest held on 12 May showed bowl and snare drum. Ethan Horsfall (Coll) the depth of good singers presently in the won the Intermediate section with a nocturne School. Singing is cool! There were for piano. And Angus Robinson (Coll) won the memorable performances from Angus Senior section for a remarkably sophisticated Robertson (B), Maxim Meshkvichev (B), piece for piano, oboe and vocal trio. All entries Henry Warner (E), Joel; Fernandez (B), were of a very high standard. Orlando Beeny (H), Hugo Millard (E), Luca Lombardo (Coll), Christopher Cheng (Coll), The Eve of Winchester Match Concert was a Angus Robinson (Coll), James Bertlin (I), stunner. Alex Toal (B), Julian Moore (I), High Charles Williamson (B) and Samuel Morton- Chilcott (G), Finbar Tellwright (I) and Orland Morris (G). Outstanding performances were Beeny (H) formed a brass quintet to play heard from Peter Costello (B), Cottrell van pieces by Ewald and Gershwin; Maxym Wingerden (A), View Damrongwattanapokin Kadarauch (H) played Beethoven’s Sonata in (K), Tristan Knott (K), Joseph Zubier (Coll) E Flat Major; Jonathan Hedley (F) sang the and Oliver Le May (A). song cycle “Earth and Air and Rain” by Gerald Finzi; and ADA (violin), Max Cheung (Coll The French organist Thomas Ospital, Organist cello) and Victor Lu (I piano) played Titulaire at Le’eglise St-Eustache Paris, gave Smetana’s Piano Trio in G Minor. Every an organ recital in Chapel on 10 May, performance was of the highest quality. demonstrating a brilliant technique and prodigious ability to extemporise. The theme of the School Concert was The Old World and the New and featured music of Chamber Music II on 19 May presented three the 1920s from England and America. The striking performances: Anton Mathiesen (F) programme was constructed as a tribute to the played Finzi’s Five Bagatelles for clarinet and support Dr & Mrs Townsend have given to piano, Ben Jenkins (F) gave an exceptionally music over the past decade. sensitive performance of Schubert’s A Major Elgar – Empire Match sonata for piano and Max Cheung (Coll) Warlock – Capriol Suite 16

Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue accompaniment, and performed by counter- Samuel Grew (B) piano tenor Joseph Zubier (Coll), whose exceptional Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending voice enhanced the pathos of Sophocles’ Adrian Adlam violin tragedy. Winchester College Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra & Academy Strings A more traditional approach to costume and Conductors: DST, ADA set design was taken in order further to capture the feel of the play as a whole. What started off as a few blocks slowly evolved into the ║THEATRE entrance for Oedipus’ palace and its courtyard. For all involved, to see the physical Thomas Saer (Coll) manifestation of the play’s ideas grow as a child does in complexity was an engrossing The School Play this year, Oedipus Tyrannus, experience for the audience. The lighting, for was performed on the 15, 16 and 17 March, which Tom Redfern (E) took command, directed with precision and zeal by SJH. The amplified the themes and provided performances were received extremely well by concentration for the most important scenes. audiences, praised notably by David Raeburn, The make-up applied by PECR and AAK current head of classical language at New added to the carefully detailed physical College, Oxford, and Stephen Anderson, representation of the play. former classics don. During a trip to London for research on the The two lead roles, Oedipus and Creon, were play and its deeper concepts, the National performed with vigour and emotion by Harry Archives were visited for a viewing of the Berry (B) and Ned Whitley (D) respectively, production in which Ralph Fiennes played to an exceptional standard, the result of hard Oedipus. The cast agreed that Berry was better work and intensive rehearsals. They were suited to the role! SJH herself translated the complemented by the impressive on-stage play from the Greek in order to have more of presence of the Chorus comprising James an original feel, and it was entirely successful. Trevelyan (G), Ralph Carro (Coll:), George There is often a difficulty in conveying the Jones (A), Ben Jenkins (F) and Mark themes of a classical tragedy, considering its Sinkinson (H), who rose to the challenge of distance in time and relevance for today. It is, remaining on stage throughout the play, for example, difficult to engage with contributing throughout their own reactions to polytheistic religion now culturally remote - the main action. Particularly striking was the what is myth for the present was reality for presentation of the Arrogance Ode, sung by all that time. Nevertheless, the contemporary five members of the Chorus to the well-crafted translation made for a highly accessible and and refined music of Christopher Cheng engaging presentation of the story. The fame (Coll). of the tale of Oedipus is still familiar enough to connect with a modern audience: there was The staging of Oedipus’ courtyard, defaced by no trouble in following the events, laid out graffiti and surrounded by sprawled plague with precision in this production. A dynamic victims at the beginning of the play, made it atmosphere on the stage was preserved at all possible to enter into the troubled city of times, helped especially but the constant Thebes as envisioned by Sophocles. Oedipus’ contribution of the Chorus. steady progression from proud ruler to broken man was made clear by Berry’s performance, There was very much a focus on the emotional helped by the presence of Jocasta, played by side of the play. The rich character Cosimo Asvisio (K), whose personal effort development was well brought out by every and costume made for a convincing portrayal. scene in which there was a progression either The inclusion of music at the crucial parts of in plot or in the characters’ way of thinking as the play made for an increase in depth of events unfolded. The revelation that Oedipus’ atmosphere, especially the final ode of the parents are not the people he believes them to Chorus, adapted for song with be was executed with bracing clarity and intensity.

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can turn a normal person into a murderer. We Despite the overall difficulty in conveying a saw some great acting from Nial Tainton (C) story which, although familiar, is removed and Viggo Von Moltke (C). The dark tone was from the present by almost 2,500 years, SJH’s punctuated by humour - this play deserved to version of Oedipus Tyrannus conveyed the be awarded third place. warnings against arrogance and power with fresh relevance. The quality of acting, along Deciding to condense the Shakespeare’s A with that of the stage, lighting and costume, Midsummer Night’s Dream into less than half- made for a memorable evening in the theatre. an-hour with only twelve actors was a bold decision on the part of the Hopper’s directors. Tom Stoppard’s one-act play After Magritte, As a result, a lot of the reflective speeches and depicting a bizarre tableau of a room which is humour of the play had to be removed to allow eventually explained in its entirety, was the complex story to unfold quickly enough. performed on the 6-8 May. Directed by Will Nonetheless, this adaptation enthralled. In Nestor-Sherman (B), and starring Harry Berry recognition of its originality, the judges (B) as Reginald and Luke Wroe (D) as the decided to award it Taylor Pot. inspector, alongside Emily Pacey and Amelia Abraham from Peter Symonds College, the Adapting the script of a well-known English surreal comedy of Stoppard was performed comedy invariably ends with a simple yet with great energy, allowing for the humorous funny Jun play, and Chawker’s adaptation of nod to Magritte’s surrealist works without a the Dad’s Army was no exception. This break from character. The cramped design of portrayal was faithful to the television series the set added to the general absurdity of the and the actors did very well at capturing the plot, with careful attention to detail. This was thoughts and movements of the ageing an elegant little piece of theatre. Nestor- members of the home guard, especially Sherman will take his production with the Barnaby Clutterbuck (F) as Godfrey. It came same cast to the Edinburgh Fringe in the second, and in another year would have taken coming summer holiday. first place.

Jun Plays The question of what superheroes do when they are not saving the world has been asked Harry Petter (K) & Caspar Temple (C) many times in films such as The Incredibles. Kenny’s picked a refreshingly original answer Some of the actors seemed to be quite nervous in the form of Ian McWethy’s play in Furley’s version of the Blackadder episode Superheroes, in which the heroes deal with Private Plane”. As a result, some of the everyday tasks in their superhero identities sarcastic humour for which the series is so (rather than civilian ones) with unintended well known became lost on occasions when consequences. Iconic superheroes such as lines were hurried. Even so, Furley’s achieved Batman and the Hulk were perfectly portrayed. a successful comic portrayal. In particular, The same can be said of the actors who played Conrad Kakhinra (A) gave a brilliant the bemused civilians who get caught up in the performance as the charismatic Lord Flashard, misadventures. The result is a series of as did Izaak Hayward (A) as the Red Baron. humorous short sketches which would amuse Both of them shone. The result was an original even those who aren’t familiar with all the portrayal of this classic British comedy. characters involved.

As MDH said as he introduced it, the Cook’s The idea of coarse acting is to make fun of bad play, based on the assassination of John acting, and it is therefore doubly important Lennon, was sadly very topical in the week when you perform it to avoid accidental bad after the shootings in the night club in acting, forgotten lines or missed cues. Orlando. It is rare to make such a dark choice Otherwise the audience will be all too aware of for a Jun play, but in this case the directors’ the failure of the performance. Fortunately, in decision payed off thanks to the well- written Michael Green’s All’s Well that Ends As You script. L’Epuisement; a Reckless Serenade Like It, Toye’s managed to avoid this in their delved deeply into how bullying and rejection production. The actors did a good job of

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imitating the ridiculous portrayal of characters expressions, Phil put on a highly memorable which bad actors produce. and commendable performance which was definitely a favourite with the audience. There was a great sense of anticipation and excitement in the air in QEII on the second The closing performance of the morning was morning of the festival. With six houses Monty Python’s Life of Brian by Beloe’s. In having already performed their Jun plays the the past, it has been difficult in cramming a day before, the benchmark was set high, and it whole film into the half-hour slot allocated to was clear that the remaining five houses knew each play, but careful selection of the most that they would have to perform to the best of appropriate scenes allowed for a distilled their ability if they were to have any chance of version of one of Britain’s most famous winning the competition. The Junior Drama comedies, which was not only as funny as the Festival is one of the most exciting annual original but also easy to follow. Especially theatre occasions, since it is the only show to commendable were the creative use of the set, have a competitive aspect, and the only event ingenious costume design and brilliantly- that requires a whole year group to take part. crafted dialogue between members of crowds These elements create a vibrant atmosphere in various scenes. where anything could happen, and where sheer Jun plays have come a long way since my first desire to win brings out the best in the young year at Winchester, and the festival itself has actors. become a highlight among all members of the School, young and old. The competitive nature Freddie’s opened the show with a shortened draws on the friendly house-to-house rivalry version of Shrek, combining a familiar story which we have come to know and love. with creative lighting and prop use. It is Special thanks must go to the judges, Mrs always a challenge to adapt a well-known film Cathy Townsend and Ms Jessica Waters- to the stage, but the ease with which this had Leavins for choosing the winners, and MDH been achieved was impressive. for organising the festival, the future of which looks brighter than ever. Trant’s, who went on to win first place, gave an excellent performance of Posh, a powerful ║SPORT adaptation of The Riot Club. What made Posh so compelling was the convincing accents of Jack Jowett (I), Ludo Leatham (E) & each character and the dialogue between them, Charles Stranack (H) as well as very slick (and in some cases dynamic) scene changes. After a successful pre-season tour to Barbados (where Lord’s won three out of four matches College took a different approach to the other against local opposition), Lord’s went into the houses, with Arabian Nights demonstrating season with high hopes and expectations. To their ability to bring a frame-story production complete this pre-season training, Lord’s were into the world of Jun plays, something which to play the Oratory School in Reading in the most houses are not brave enough to attempt. Twenty20 format. Having been set 140 to Luckily, the concept did them great credit, chase, Lord’s unfortunately came up twenty with a fantastic and near faultless performance runs short of a victory. This came despite the which was constantly oscillating back and best efforts of New Zealand visitor Mark Otley forth between two different storylines. Arabian (D), who picked up three key wickets in the Nights was both funny and fast-paced, yet Oratory’s innings. However, wickets fell in retained enough detail to avoid confusion. quick succession in the Winchester innings, Phil’s gave the penultimate performance, with making a successful run-chase was all the an episode from the wartime series of more difficult. Blackadder, “Corporal Punishment”. The difficulty in adapting Blackadder for the stage Another flurry of quick wickets in the is conveying Rowan Atkinson’s deadpan succeeding match at Marlborough led to the humour effectively, but by casting the best- second loss of the season. Coping with the suited actors to their respective roles, as well absence of Lord’s most-prized player Dan as clinical timing of punchlines and facial Escott (Coll) was proving to be difficult.

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However, the victory against Abingdon in the A difficult loss against Radley ensued. National Twenty20 qualifier showed that Winchester bowled well to confine Radley to Lord’s were still strong without him. This 150. An excellent bowling performance from qualifier came the day after the loss at Shirvani (with his 3 wickets) proved that Marlborough, and a strong batting Lord’s were still hungry. Lord’s, however, performance all but guaranteed victory. Rollo were bowled out for 110, and lost this match. Quinault’s (H) unbeaten 63 from just 55 Hunger was shown in the following week deliveries underpinned Lord’s total of 133. when Lord’s responded with three 200 plus Cameos from various other players contributed batting efforts, securing winning draws against to this score. On a relatively slow wicket in a the MCC, the XL Club, the Butterflies and the twenty over match, this total was a decent one. Rifles. Among these totals was a 50* from Abingdon were restricted to just 99, since Shirvani, a 55 from Seb Byers (I), a 40 from wickets fell at regular intervals in their Dodd, a 46 from Jowett and a 98 from Albert innings. Wickets were shared between the Song (E). This culminated in an epic match bowlers, but Gus Dodd’s (K) two wickets from against the Portsmouth Grammar School. four overs were notable since they came with Although Lord’s had not beaten PGS in five an economy of just three runs per over. This years, they were still confident of victory. victory took Lord’s into the next round of the With Lord’s having fallen to 32-4, Byers National Twenty20 competition. The match posted the innings of the season. His 89 not would be against Wellington. only anchored the innings, but also included a brilliant partnership with skipper Rupert Kettle The Wellington Twenty20 match saw Lord’s (G) which kept the runs flowing. Lord’s ended set Wellington a score of 97. Lord’s suffered up with a very defendable 209. With the ball, from a batting collapse, which came by virtue all bowlers contributed. Freddie Egleston’s (D) of Sam Curran’s masterful bowling. Curran is four wicket haul was a highlight, in part already playing for the Surrey First XI and is because it included the wicket of the likely to be seen playing in an England shirt in dangerous Caldera. PGS were bowled out for years to come. Although this total was below 103, which wrapped up a crushing 106 run par, Lord’s put in a valiant effort in the field, victory. with Kahan Shirvani (K) taking the wicket of the skillful Curran. However, Wellington The season came to a climax with the managed to knock off the runs with overs and prestigious game against the Old Wykehamists wickets in hand. The following weekend saw at Winchester Match. The OWs were put into Lord’s bounce back from this loss to record a bat first, and the aforementioned Escott made memorable victory against rivals Bradfield. 61. However, a lack of support meant that the Lord’s batted first, setting a score of just 137. OWs were bowled out for just 126. Dodd’s This was on a slow wicket, but was three-wicket haul and Shirvani’s double were nonetheless below-par. Lord’s would win this stand-out performances. This total was sub-par game with an unparalleled bowling on a decent wicket, and the target looked performance. After a decent start, Bradfield achievable. Despite some solid bowling from found themselves 47-1 and set to chase down the OWs, Lord’s recorded yet another victory the runs. Young Harry Vaughan (C), however, at Winchester Match. Egleston’s 41 and soon stepped up. His commanding spell would Byers’ 28* secured this victory. This summed reduce Bradfield to 77-7. It now seemed up a successful season. unlikely that Bradfield would win the match. A Bradfield eighth wicket stand, nevertheless, With all the commotion of Winchester Match took Bradfield to 107-7. Michael Urashima’s and the majority of the visitors watching the (A) important wicket removed their number Lord’s match against the OWs, it wasn’t five batsmen, bringing Lord’s even closer to looking too good for the senior Commoners v that valuable victory. Further wickets from Joe OTH match. It was looking even worse as by Scull (Coll) and Henry Adams (Coll) secured 14:00 (when the match was meant to begin) - this victory. Bradfield were bowled out for 127 only six players had turned up! But a few and Vaughan finished with a brilliant five- phone calls later brought the total up to nine a wicket haul. side, which was an adequate number of players to start the match. But even with the sum of 20

the players being equal, the odds were heavily blow to the Commoner team! Jack Knollys (G) favoured on the side of OTH because their came in trying to swing like a baseball player players were in the higher teams - and half of and was sadly bowled as well for just one run. Commoners team haven’t played since Toye Wilfred Garret (D), one of the big hitters of the Pot in MP. After a brief toss between Max 3rd XI, came in and certainly lived up to his Clapp (K) and Sebastian Robbins (C) it was reputation to swing wildly as hard as he could, decided that OTH were going to bat. Toby though he didn’t make much of a connection Calder (K) opened the bowling against a with the ball. Sadly for Commoners, just as strong batting side of Tom Nottingham (I) and Leatham was getting into his stride, he was Tom McCleery (F) who hit for four runs in the called out LBW for a ball he had left and was over. But this had nothing on the wicket given out on twenty runs. maiden by Myles Unwin (H) in the next over where he bowled Nottingham (I) with a clean It looked as if Commoners hopes were over Yorker which looked almost unplayable. when Ralph Cornell (D) came in and went out for a duck. People were getting ready to pack Henry Beddow (B) was to come on next. This their things away when suddenly Myles Unwin started well for Commoners with one of (H) came into bat and was on sixteen runs in OTH’s danger men out in the second over. Not about ten balls. Commoners’ hopes were up much happened over the next few overs apart again - if Safi Riaz (K) could keep Unwin on from Beddow (B) and McCleery (F) building a strike then there was a chance of victory. partnership which Commoners needed to Sadly in one of the final overs, Unwin was break up. They decided to bring on two fresh bowled by Amin who came in for his final bowlers, Leatham (E) and Max Clapp (K) to over. It was over! Commoners had hit 79 runs add some variation and hopefully take some off fourteen overs, achieving about half of the wickets. Clapp’s (K) over didn’t start very runs needed for victory. well - the first two balls being hit for ten runs - but on the fourth ball McCleery (F) miss-timed This year has been a very successful one for -his shot and ended up with a top edge only to the School’s water polo team, conceding only be taken as a spectacular catch by Unwin (H). five losses out of 27 matches. This term has been a particular success, the team having no Things were looking good for Commoners; for losses from any of their matches. The highlight a while they thought they would win this of the water polo year was drawing with match against all odds. Then Viren Amin (I) Charterhouse 7-7 after having lost to them 23- came into bat. He and Beddow (B) hit 0 five years ago. The team had a slightly rocky Commoners all over the place with a great start to the season with two new slightly partnership leading up to the nineteenth over inexperienced goalkeepers, Paddy Mannion where Amin (I) was finally bowled by Adam (H) and Omar Lingemann (A), but after their Caperton (G) on 27. Their innings finished first couple of matches they got into the swing with 127 runs and Beddow (B) hitting 47. of it, leading the team to closer point Tension was high in the Commoners team as boundaries within the matches. Neil Sanderson they knew they had to bat well to reach that (E) is the offensive powerhouse of the team score and with OTH a side of bowlers it was and is especially effective paired with Alex looking unlikely. Even so, Caperton and Osband (D) and Louis Russel (A); Sanderson Calder came into bat, starting well hitting five is currently top scorer for the team, followed off the first three balls, but sadly Caperton top closely by Henry Chan (A), an MP man. The edged it and was caught for a golden duck. inter-house water polo competition, Wong Pot, Leatham came in at three and tried to stabilise was a particular success this year despite some the order by blocking his first six balls. He underhanded tactics from some houses! This then opened up, hitting a few fours until led to a very exciting and intense semifinal. Calder was bowled by Amin at the other end. Clapp, one of the 3rd XI’s star batsmen, came The final had a surprise team in the mix with a in at four to do some damage, but to the horror face-off between the All Stars and Freddie’s, of the small group of Commoners families the All Stars captained by Tom Collings (H) watching, he was caught and bowled on his and Freddie’s by Neil Sanderson (E). It was a first ball by Henry Bertlin (I). This was a huge truly nail biting match with a single goal 21

scored in the last thirty seconds by Sanderson Benton (Coll) and Pan Siripark (E) made it to (E). Thus Freddie’s retained the title for the the semi-final of the competition, coming second year running. The team has improved seventh overall (from a field of 600 teams at immensely over the last four years. An the beginning of the tournament). improvement in attitude towards the sport and the introduction of talented players has The Drew Travel Scholarship Exhibition brought about progress as a whole, which had mounted in Art School on 14 May was judged in turn led to recruitment of more novice by the DTS Committee to be the best ever. players into the game. With the season coming Impressive work was seen from Joseph Morse to an end and with the senior players leaving, (B), Arthur Boothby (B) and Harrison Taylor the mantle of captaincy has passed to (D) on Berlin; Rico Kim (H) and Thomas Sanderson with Collings as vice-captain. Miller (G) on Madrid; Philippe de Bree (F) on Together these two will make a formidable Iceland and Milford Killian Dawson (E), Tzar side with both offensive power from Tarporvala (H) and Bryan Ho (C) on Sanderson and defensive prowess from Budapest. Collings. The water polo team is expecting a very good season next year. This term’s Theology & Philosophy Lecture was given by the Head Man on the enigmatic ║HOME & AWAY topic “The Hot-cross Bun as Symbol of Oppression”. It was an account of Matthew Harris (Coll) has been selected for contemporary anger, atheist and theist, and its the UK team (of four) for the International impact on religious debate in the public Chemistry Olympiad, which will be held in sphere. Tbilisi, Georgia from 23 July until. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Wykehamist has Sixteen Catholic men were confirmed by the represented the UK in a Science Olympiad Abbot of Douai at Douai Abbey on Saturday 4 (previously Tom Spence (Chemistry 2012), June. They were William Blanchard (F), Dylan James Pinder (Chemistry 2013), Adam Heath Brooks (G), Alfred Fardell (G), Tristan (Biology 2014), Guy Cheng (Biology 2015)). Gauthier (I), Titas Grusnius (C), Michel Four Wykehamists were selected for the Final Haddad (G), Inigo Maciejewski (B), Luke Selection Round, the maximum number Mitchell (B), Sebastian Montgomery (C), permitted from one school. There were 5822 Jermaine Nwosisi (C), Oliver Roberts (Coll), entries for the national competition and just Niall Tainton (C), Gareth Tainton (C), Alberic the top 25 were invited to Cambridge. Jim Teilhard de Chardin (H), Hugh Travis (H) and Jeon (Coll) and Michael Smith (Coll) both Isaac Yong (G). performed extremely well but were just short of the standard reached by the four who were ║AVE ATQUE VALE selected. The Final Selection Round involved a three-hour theory paper based on early- Vale APW undergraduate concepts and a three-hour laboratory practical exam, involving the A newcomer to Kingsgate Street in 1985 synthesis of an organic compound and the found himself entertained by the passing show quantitative analysis of an inorganic traveling north and south along the street. He compound. spotted eccentrics of all kinds, young and old, male and female. One pedestrian in particular Alexander Osband (D) has attained the First kept him smiling. This was a tall, thin man, Dan Black Belt in aikido, an exceptional smartly dressed, moustachioed – and pulled achievement. forward, it seemed, by a capacious briefcase with a wilfulness all its own. Ably guided by AEWA, two pairs of Winchester debaters from Middle Part Andrew Wolters had already been a competed in the Finals Day of the Winchester don for four years by the time the International Competition for Young present writer first experienced him. He spent Debaters (ICYD), which was held in Oxford his first eighteen years in Epping, Essex. on Saturday. All involved did well; Rory Success in the 11+ took him to Buckhurst Hill 22

County High School which gave him a good himself: Morris-dancing with Henry old-fashioned grammar-school education (akin Thompson in The Roses of Eyam, for example, to that received by many a Winchester don and bringing alive Dons’ pantomimes, or giving in many ways provided by Winchester to this the world his Servant in The Merry Wives of day) and prepared him to read for an honours Windsor (detailed to carry off Falstaff in a degree in Chemistry (with subsidiary laundry basket). From the stairs on the private Mathematics) at the University of Reading side of Beloe’s after a House Supper in the late 1968-1971. There he remained to complete a 1980s, he delivered a speech which included a PhD in 1974. He decided to do a doctorate Chemistry experiment produced from the because he thought it would make him a better wilful briefcase and ended with a homily: only teacher: he had wanted to teach from about the as the latter unfolded did his auditors realise age of nine and an enlightened Essex County that he was quoting verbatim the lyrics of the Council had already allowed him to test his theme song to the soap opera Neighbours, at vocation in Ivy Chimneys Primary School, that time such a favourite with senior Beloeites Epping – a vocation from which he never that their table at Lunch was always empty wavered. (save for the guest) by 1.30 pm when the programme came on. APW’s doctoral thesis was entitled “An X-ray The present writer, then a very callow new Study of Seven Co-ordinate Complexes” – Housemaster, remembers being invited down which surely pre-figured the tenor of his career to Toye’s very early in the morning of the last as one of the finest, most perceptive teachers day of Cloister Time 1990 to retrieve a of the later twentieth century. Hopperite who had been out all night with some Toyeite friends: APW’s gentle He taught first at Brentwood School (1974-81) interrogation of these MP boys was so droll where he also became a day-boy housemaster. (“Ah, James, so you were helping Luke with He survived a most searching interview with his Gee-OG-graphy project were you? Peter Cattermole (legendary Winchester Head Mmmm. I see…”) that a quick rescue was of Chemistry and Head of Science who struck vital if straight faces were to be preserved. fear into the hearts even of government Twenty-five years later APW delivered a ministers) and started teaching in Science Wednesday Talk in Chapel using as visual aids School in September 1981. He did this for the some huge pieces from his collection of next 35 years. He became House Tutor in crystals and so wowing his listeners that he left Furley’s at the beginning of Common Time Chapel to thunderous applause; what the 1982. He served as Housemaster of Toye’s official subject of the talk can have been I from the beginning of Short Half 1989 until haven’t the faintest memory, but the occasion the end of Short Half 1999. He was then was unforgettable. Mike Thompson (MAT), a House Tutor simultaneously in Beloe’s and former colleague in Chemistry, reckons that Phil’s (James Sabben-Clare consulted the Andrew could appear live at the Apollo and Warden over this double duty: there was no might even be mistaken for a certain Torquay precedent) until he became Registrar in 2005. hotelier (and Andrew is retiring to Devon…). He did his fair share of committee work: he chaired the former Housing Committee for MAT worked for five years in the Science Tommy Cookson (thorniest of portfolios) and School laboratory next to Andrew’s. He was served on the Security Committee and the struck by the way his mentor and guru treated Senior Management Committee. Latterly he every pupil as a potential chemist; and by the was an admirable Chapel Steward. joy and laughter coming from that lab. All Andrew’s gifts as demonstrator-raconteur were But such a factual summary gives no sense of dedicated to bringing out the best in his the remarkable teacher and personality charges; his politeness, kindness and modesty Andrew Wolters is. Nor can it convey the were the hallmarks of his teaching and his sound of That Voice. housemastering.

Andrew has a wonderful instinct for His reports were models of usefulness, understated theatre. He helped Tony Ayres put accuracy and phrasing – and the individual on plays and occasionally appeared onstage pupil bounced from the page.

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The Head Man writes in appreciation of Boy (amazing what a combination of Talisker Andrew: and a Chinese lantern can achieve in the “Whenever, as has been my practice, I chemical imagination). He will see more of his have asked the JP men gathered round talented children: Stephen, Ruth and Alice. my dining room table to award a star to Will he still be able to follow Polly and the the don whose hours they most enjoy, Billets Doux, though? He will certainly APW infallibly, year after year, came out continue to relish his cellar. with the most stars. “He’s hilarious”, they would say, “and he’s so nice to us – and To have been a colleague, a pupil or a friend he knows so much science!” There can of Andrew Wolters is to have been granted a be no higher praise for a teacher. When I very special privilege. Winchester and all his arrived at Winchester in 2005, Andrew friends wish him well. had just been appointed Registrar. We worked closely together. Not RJW surprisingly, he turned out to be very good at the job, explaining the School in Vale PJMC his inimitable way to parents, prep school heads and little boys. His efficiency filled Arriving in 1994, Peter has taught History, Art beds; his charm, smile and humour won History and Div. He has been Housemaster of hearts and minds. Where other schools Toye’s and a tutor in Chawker’s. He has been had market-speak aficionados, master in charge of tennis and rackets. He Winchester had a personality. He was a initiated the latest archaeological dig of St splendid public face for Winchester. In Elizabeth’s Mead. That is the brief, factual 2010 he returned to his native Science description of his time at Winchester. The School, but as Chapel Steward, he stood interesting bit is how he did it. between College Hall and School, greeting the boys on their way to Chapel, The Head of History, Dr Laurence Guymer correcting their dress, admonishing the writes - ‘To PJMC, learning is the tardy, a circus master on full display, development of ideas deeply entrenched in the bringing theatrical flourish to what might soul. For countless Wykehamists he has otherwise be drudgery. In forty years of performed unselfishly the role of the midwife school mastering, I have known no – guiding, supporting and encouraging. He is colleague so modest, so faithful, so not merely a boys’ favourite – a Winchester adorable.” rite of passage like the learning of notions and the singing of Domum – he is an inspiring and In all of his time at Winchester, Andrew never challenging teacher and intellectual. Inspired, imposed a cropple of his own devising, never no doubt, by Laslett, Russell and Furet, he gave a Sargent’s, never put a pupil in made the history of ideas one of the major detention: he still wouldn’t know how to. elements of studying the past at Winchester. “What this tells us, if anything,” he says, “I Many boys have left his hours on the eleventh don’t really know.” His pupils, past and and twelfth centuries – a time when a present, know. He understands the importance resurgent papacy sought to establish and create of courtesy and fun in education. “When I’ve boundaries of power and belief – inspired to needed to remonstrate, my usual technique has pursue medieval history at a higher level. He is been to say to a boy that I’d really be most also one of the few teachers able to bring alive grateful if he would please do it this way the medieval Muslim world when teaching the rather than that way.” All dons: take note. Crusades. He takes the long and broad view. Heads of Department have chased him for Andrew retires to North Devon where he has marks and schemes of work; Directors of had a house and a circle of friends for many Studies for registers and reports. He belongs to years. MAT reports that Andrew will be nearer no-one and makes no demands of others. He is now to Lundy Island, a special place to charming, deadly funny and just a little bit Andrew and his family; and he may be able to naughty. This, and for much more, is why he spot UFOs in the Devon night sky – as once he has been admired and cherished at Winchester. thought he could in the garden of the Black “For nothing is sweeter than to occupy the

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quiet precincts that are well-protected by the where the boys were left in no doubt about the teachings of the wise.” degree to which he cared about them, in the round. Gaetano Lo Coco, a recent pupil, writes: “Dr Cramer’s lessons were rituals of bewilderment. One former Toyeite writes: “Peter had an The essence and the wonder of his teaching extraordinary gift for seeing meaning in our was that there were never any answers. The words and actions - often more than we could search for answers itself defeated the nature of see ourselves. There were many occasions history as an art: condemned (or blessed) to when he noticed something one of us had done endlessly repeating itself in multifarious and or said, and it seemed to come alive in his beautiful ways, like the arabesques of an mind, to trigger ideas and connections which illuminated manuscript. This ritual undoing of we only partially grasped. This was immensely answers brought with it a powerful, reassuring and exciting, and empowering charismatic sense of ongoing tradition. When actually. Thinking back, it was more generous Dr Cramer arrived at a lesson on the 12th even than I realised - the way he granted century renaissance, he could well have had children insights that projected way beyond the companionship of Gregory VII and their experience. I think of it as a constantly Virginia Woolf for the morning, and over the unfolding, anthropological imagination, which course of the forty-minute lesson, a breath- really informed his decisions - and we, the taking progression of thought would lead to boarding House as a whole, were its the ineluctable conclusion that the evening beneficiaries. The time and energy he put into should be spent with Rubens and Gioacchino this imaginative way of life was unfathomable. da Fiore. It was beautiful, astounding and I remember the House as a dynamic place captivating.” where ideas were always in the air. We began - and this was another thing Peter brought with A short extract from Peter’s entry on Anselm him - to be concerned with what kind of of Canterbury for The Oxford Companion to system we were in. He showed us through his Christian Thought gives a sense of his mind example that it was possible to run a system working and his use of analogy: “The Christ of based on mutual respect, where the very nature pathos, very characteristic of Anselm’s time, is of hierarchy was questioned, and, for example, not Anselm’s Christ. Grief, straitened with the friendships between the years were common. precision – the coldness even – of argument, is He gave us an ever-expanding language. So sublime. Not sublimated: it is still there, harsh many phrases and names, books he lent and as ever, and the sublime is less of Rembrandt’s never expected back. I remember him reading Deposition than of Mantegna’s Entombment.” a long German passage one evening; we didn't speak a word of German, but that barely Lest this become decidedly hagiographic, I mattered. Someone will get something from it, will say that Peter can be trying. For instance, and that mustn't be prejudged - meaning comes everyone is supposed to meet at 1400 outside about in radically unlikely ways. This is one San Francesco in Arezzo. Peter isn’t there. It thing I know I carry with me.” was always difficult though to be cross with him, because I knew there would be a good Peter and Kate have very fond memories of reason for his lateness. It would be about Toye’s, with their family growing up really giving his time and attention to other alongside the boys. They have been wonderful people. That might be talking to two or three friends to many people, and will be sorely boys in front of a work of art – education with missed from our daily lives. Peter wrote a capital ‘E’ – or having a conversation with a recently about “how bound up with this place” local. he felt. We hope to see them back often.

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Vale ECM As MPB has so eloquently written, “I cannot overstate the loss that will be felt by Emma’s When Emma Macey joined us as Head of Art departure”. she immediately set about transforming both the infrastructure of Art School and its ethos. NPW From commissioning purpose-built cabinets from Rupert Brown to installing new kilns, Vale AEWA pottery wheels, extraction tables and purchasing SLR cameras, she ensured that “Who’s going to tell him to get his hair cut?” pupils had the resources they needed and HM’s question was the only difficult one created an environment which fostered artistic AEWA’s interviewers had to discuss after we endeavour. The hosting of some remarkable had met him. And, of course, no one had to tell exhibitions in Art School, the development of him. As he has demonstrated throughout his a superb library, and the appointment of time here, his apparent otherworldliness inspirational artists-in-residence have all made conceals a keen understanding of how the an incalculable contribution to the cultural life world works. He arrived in September 2012, of the School as a whole. Like all the best the hair much shorter although he was still teachers, Emma has never tired of learning bouffantly coiffed as he has been ever since. new skills, studying printmaking from scratch He came with impressive academic and imparting the thrill of mastering a new art achievements: seven A levels, all at grade A from to her pupils. All this creative energy is (there was no A* then) at Magdalen College harnessed by a deep commitment to an School followed by a first in Greats from understanding of artistic discipline and the Merton. He is a genuine scholar, who has application of critical theory. No wonder her continued his research into Ovid. His edition pupils have thrived. of selected poems from Amores II will be published by Bloomsbury next year. His A similar synthesis of informed judgement and youthful looks sometimes resulted in his being imagination has marked her work as the mistaken for a boy by coach drivers and ticket School’s Designated Safeguarding Lead. The inspectors, but he always took that with the DSL is perhaps the most challenging of all same good humour he brought to his teaching. roles in the School, demanding as it does His Classics hours were characterised by his accountability to external agencies as well as clear exposition of material of which he was to pupils, colleagues and parents. It is entirely always in complete command, his scholarship characteristic of Emma’s integrity that she and his patience, and boys of all abilities stepped down as Head of Art in order to benefited from his sympathetic and humane devote her energies to this most taxing post. approach. LMG admired the way he slotted Her approach to dealing with vulnerable pupils nicely into the ranks of V Book Div. He led has inspired the highest levels of trust and his pupils through the intricacies of the respect. She not only has an astonishing grasp Enlightenment and nineteenth century of procedural detail, but a clarity of thought in nationalism, and guided them from the jungles even the most complex situations. Her tireless of colonial Africa to the horror of the death determination to get policies absolutely right camps. He explored the major themes of the has never been a merely bureaucratic matter course through music, literature, philosophy for her: she cares passionately about what and history. His lectures were informative, happens when policies are enacted, and she accessible and funny. A dedicated rower, he knows that the happiness of pupils and staff spent most afternoons down at the boathouse, alike depend upon communicating not just a playing a key part in our recent success. Word set of guidelines but the principles which quickly spread from the oarsmen that he knew inform them. We are all profoundly indebted his stuff and was to be taken seriously. He was to her for her ability to find the right solution confirmed in 2015 in Chapel. As well as to problems which at times have seemed taking Preces and Z Sunday worship in intractable. Kenny’s, he regularly gave the address at Monday Chapel. His talks were always artfully crafted, bringing in something of the everyday

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– such as his bicycle puncture – and linking it involved. This is exactly the same approach he with Jesus’ call to each of us to love God and has had in Toye’s, where he has been an our neighbour. After taking a GDL next year excellent assistant housemaster for the last he intends to become a barrister specialising in year, supporting and engaging with the boys. family law. His intellectual precision and His often carefully-selected and humorous patience will be very well suited to his new Preces, combined with his strong banter, will career, but his departure is a great loss to be greatly missed!’ teaching and to Winchester. For the last two years JMG has taught V Book JPS Div. LMG writes: ‘He brought a new linguistic dimension to our study of the past. This was Vale JGW certainly the case with topics such as German identity and nationalism in the nineteenth JMG has been an exceptional teacher of century and with the problem of the modern languages over the last three years. A euphemistic language used by the Nazis in true polyglot, he has taught German, Russian connection to the Holocaust. He delivered and French, and enjoyed introducing his post- many stimulating and provoking lectures – on IGCSE classes to Czech and Dutch. We never Alexander Pushkin, the break-up of the former let him forget that he withdrew his application Yugoslavia and on the ethnic cleansing that soon after interview, but once he had been took place in Bosnia in the 1990s. Indeed, he talked around and offered the job he seemed worked well with MR to convince V Book of quickly to take to the place and the man’s utter inhumanity and barbarity! He was Wykehamists certainly took to him. This is no a lively, inspiring, interesting and caring Div surprise: his lessons are always meticulously don.’ planned, pacey and delivered with good humour, whilst his marking turn-around times JMG has also made a significant contribution put most of us to shame. He has also produced to each of our major sports, running soccer and a huge number of excellent teaching resources, cricket teams, as well as refereeing Winchester which have been spoiled only by his refusal to Football. His decision to defect to Eton can use anything other than Comic Sans. He is perhaps be explained by his competitive genuinely interested in pedagogy: he mentored streak: he wants to be dishing out 10-0 SJH through her teaching qualification this thrashings in the Yearlings Ds, rather than year, and will start a part-time MSc in being on the receiving end of them. We are Learning & Teaching in the autumn. He has sure he will be a great success in his new post given generously of his time, be it helping and shall very much look forward to seeing latecomers to Russian to learn the Cyrillic him at soccer fixtures in the autumn – if rather script with extra lessons up to house, less so to the results. cheerfully stepping in at the last moment to cover for absent colleagues or participating in Vale HBC departmental trips, such as those to Bad Reichenhall and Kaliningrad. We had some idea of HBC’s talents when he applied to come to Winchester because JPS SEH writes: ‘JMG is a man of action as well. had taught him in the Lower Sixth at He is equally at home acting as a paintball Tonbridge. He went on to Oxford to get a first scenario hostage in a sheep shed in South in Greats at Balliol, spent a year tutoring a Wales as he is chasing his Mallory Challenge travelling American, then returned to teach at team around the Lake District or descending a Tonbridge for three years before coming to Himalayan trail in the snow. He has totally Winchester. He is in many ways the ideal immersed himself in the life of the CCF and colleague: calm, reliable and reasonable. He the work with the Lotus Flower Trust, proving buys you a pint because he wants to have a himself a resourceful and able leader. He has drink with you and talk about cricket, not enjoyed the challenges that have been on offer because he has an agenda. And when he has an and is always willing to give of his best to agenda he always gives you plenty of notice. make the experience better for the boys He takes his qualities into the div room along with infectious enthusiasm for Classics; he is

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organised and thinks carefully about what he is Vale SIC teaching. He deals firmly but fairly with boys who make a nuisance of themselves, and exam SIC first visited the School during Short Half sets have reason to be grateful for his 2012, having taken a detour in her planned thoroughness. He has been a great promoter of business trip to the UK, to come for a last teaching and learning within the Classics minute interview. Challenged on European and department, and has used his teaching World History by a rigorous panel including experience as co-author of two Latin the Second Master and the Director of Studies, textbooks: Latin Stories: a GCSE Reader; and she held her own and was appointed as the Latin to GCSE. He eagerly embraced VI2 Div, next Winchester Junior Fellow. From the putting careful thought into the content and moment she arrived in the following balance of his courses. His knowledge and September, she began to make her mark in experience of the Classical world have made many areas of School life, including V Book him a valuable member of the dons’ team on Div, basketball, tennis, dodge ball, House Classics trips. He prepares materials for the tutoring, supporting the CCF adventure boys and when we arrive at a site gives a brief programme - the list goes on. LMG, her introduction to its layout and history which mentor in V Book Div, writes: gives everyone succinct orientation. And his skills extend to people-smuggling. At Rome “SIC is a southern belle who favours this year one boy discovered he had left his basketball kit and slacks over hoop skirt, passport somewhere between Heathrow and corset, pantalettes, straw hat and gloves. A Italian immigration control. Armed only with a steel magnolia, she is strong, strict and colour photocopy of the passport and dogged independent; yet caring, gentle and persistence, HBC was able to persuade the collaborative. She is a stickler for good officials to allow him in, preventing serious manners and kind language: an enemy of disruption to the start of our trip. He has made profanities. She has embraced every oddity, an impressive contribution to sport: football idiosyncrasy and challenge of Div in her three (Yearlings E), cricket (Yearlings A, and years at Winchester, sailing a steady course running Toye Pot this year) and Win: Co: Fo: through medieval kingship and warfare, the (Palmer) have all been beneficiaries. Of his wonders of the Renaissance and the ideas of teams he says with characteristic modesty: ‘not the Enlightenment, and the totalitarian terror many victories, but great progress’. And that’s of the Third Reich. She brings the past alive, real modesty. The Yearlings E won back-to- uses it to shine a light on the present and back games against Charterhouse and allows the boys to explore it freely and Bradfield; the Yearlings A got to the final of imaginatively. At the same time, they develop the Hampshire Cup this year. JPC is fulsome a love of learning and enhance their analytical in his praise of his stint as assistant and evaluative skills. And what’s more, they housemaster in Trant’s. ‘I am actually a very learn how to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge finicky housemaster; I like things just so but I again! She drags a fine-tooth comb over every have never once had to tell Henry how I like Div task, expecting a good deal from her things to be done. He has watched all my little pupils and giving much back in constructive ways and emulated them. The boys notice this criticism and encouragement. SIC is a team and also his level of care for their welfare. He player. She never leaves a man behind. When is hugely generous with his time for them she goes, Winchester will lose a little of its which they greatly appreciate.’ After three colour.” successful years at Winchester HBC is leaving us to be Head of Classics at Colfe’s School in Beyond the classroom, she supported LNT and south-east London. He will undoubtedly make the basketball programme. With considerable a great success of that, and he leaves a big hole experience of High School and Club here. basketball, she brought fun, energy and enthusiasm to the coaching, joining in with the JPS drills and passing her knowledge to the boys. With Amanda Chain, she brought about Dodgeball Soc, one of the fastest growing and most popular societies in the School. Prepared 28

to turn her hand to anything, she ended up owe part of their interview success to her supporting the kayak/canoe programme with tasktimes, in which she stretched them with the CCF. MGC writes: texts far outside the syllabus and gave them a “SIC is reliable, sincere and conscientious but flavour of the tutorial experience. On trips she determined to have fun whenever possible. I was the ideal lieutenant. She knew what to do am not certain of the full extent of her and did it instantly, and the boys responded previous experience, but one senior coach without question. She took over theatre make- described her as being ‘pretty handy in a boat’, up and proved herself equal to any challenge, which offers a fair depiction of her skills. Her including turning boys into dragons and personal paddling highlights include a poking out Oedipus’ eyes four nights in a row spectacular (and recorded) head-on smash into under extreme time pressure. She also helped the base of a fallen tree on the Middle- SJH direct that play, and her expertise in Derwent river and, assisting in an epic rescue classical drama and rapport with the pupils of a capsized canoe in the midst of a squall on were invaluable. With ACS she coached the Bassenthwaite Lake. In the first incident, she Yearlings C footballers. JPC says she was a was paddling in the bow of the boat with ‘brilliant’ house tutor in Trant’s, combining a another don in the stern. After a vain effort to no-nonsense approach with a sense of fun, and pull the front of the boat away from the tree creating an excellent personal relationship and seconds before collision, Ingram turned with her tutor group. She always made it clear around to her partner and said ‘I thought you that her choice of career was finely balanced were going to steer a bit.” between teaching and law; in the end she has chosen law. We wish her well, and have every Always up for a new challenge, she took on confidence that she will succeed, but teaching the role of directing the Toye’s House play in and Winchester will be the poorer without her. December 2014. The three episodes of Fawlty Towers were a master piece. With patience, a JPS sense of humour and complete commitment, she brought together a superb cast of Toyeites ║THE REGISTER to create three wonderful nights of comedy genius. WINCHESTER MATCH

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class teacher, a superb sports coach and a Friday 17 June 2016 wonderful friend – she will be greatly missed. 7.30 pm Concert Hall, Music School Works by Maurer & Hazell Winchester College Brass Quintet SEH Beethoven – Sonata in E flat major op. 81a Les Adieux Maxym Kadarauch (H) piano Finzi – Earth and Air and Rain Vale PECR Jonathan Hedley voice, Nicholas Salwey piano Smetana – Trio in G minor To make as much of an impact in your first Adrian Adlam violin Max Cheung cello, Victor Lu piano

year as a teacher as PECR has done here Workshops & Events requires some special qualities. It doesn’t 0950-1010 Bell Ringing in Chapel matter where you look: the div room and 1000-1030 UCAS Careers Presentation for Parents of Boys in VI.2 School tasktimes; the sports field; the theatre; the 1015-1100 Service of Thanksgiving & Dedication Chapel boarding house; she’s made them all her own. 1100-1125 CCF Prize Giving Parade Ball Court 1100-1300 Watercolours Demonstration Bethesda Garden PECR took to teaching like a duck to water; in 1100-1300 Exhibition of Pupil Artwork & Print Sale of the div room her vivacity, clarity and pupils work organisation won her sets over immediately, Lino Printing Demonstration by Jonny Hannah (Print Room) and the few boys who had harboured ideas of Raku Firing Demonstration by Grant Pratt having some banter with her name were (Ceramics Room) briskly sent packing. She needed very little Art School 1100-1700 Art History Trip to Amsterdam Photography mentoring, and generally knew what to ask for Flint Court before it was offered. Oxbridge candidates Passageway

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1100-1200 Greenpower Car Demonstration (weather 1100-1200 Golf Competition: School vs OWs at Micklem dependent) Mill Short Play Area 1130-1245 Exhibition: 'Renaissance books and 1100-1230 Rackets: Exhibition match manuscripts from the Fellows' Library' Eccles 1130-1300 Fencing: Kirby Foils in the Sports Hall, PE Room Centre 1130-1300 Careers Library open to visitors Careers 1100-1245 Athletics: Junior and Senior High Jump & Library Invitation Short Sprint, Kingsgate Park. 1130-1300 Judo Display in the Sports Hall, PE Centre 1300-1400 Lunch 1130-1300 Rifle Club: OW/Parents vs Bisley Team 2014, Cecil Range 1415-1630 Exhibition of Pupil Artwork & Print Sale of 1145-1230 Ultimate Frisbee Soc Match, Lavender Meads pupils work 1200-1900 Cricket: Lords vs OWs, Lords Lino Printing Demonstration by Jonny Hannah 1200-1900 Cricket: 2nd XI vs OWs, Meads (Print Room) 1200-1300 Have a Go Golf at the Micklem Short Play Raku Firing Demonstration by Grant Pratt Area (Ceramics Room) 1100-1230 Tennis: Junior & Senior Doubles Finals, PE Art School Centre Tennis Courts 1415-1630 Library open to visitors Moberly Library 1200-1300 Kayaking Display, Swimming Pool, PE Centre 1415-1630 The Bard in the Brewery: In the 14th Century Brewery the Library will be marking Lunch ‘Shakespeare 400’ with an exhibition of Lunch will be served for current parents and their families in photographs of Wykehamical productions, Boarding Houses from 1.00-2.00 pm, with pre-lunch drinks original texts from Shakespeare’s starting as advertised by the Housemasters. contemporaries, costumes to try on, speeches to perform and a trail for younger visitors Win Coll Soc will be hosting a lunch in its marquee beside Moberly Library Hunter Tent on New Field. This will be a pre-booked, ticket- 1415-1600 Chess Game Area Near the Bar only lunch - at a subsidised rate of £30 per head. 1415-1630 Design Technology Exhibition Mill 1415-1630 Exhibition: 'Renaissance books and Those bringing picnics are invited to enjoy their meals whilst manuscripts from the Fellows' Library' Eccles watching Lords and 2nd XI cricket on Lords and Meads. In the Room event of poor weather, War Cloister and the Loggia under Musā 1415-1700 Children’s Treasure Hunt Lavender Meads may be used. Picnics may be dropped off in the Junior Common 1430-1530 CCF Gun Run Competition Lavender Meads Room by QEII Theatre during the morning, ready for collection 1445-1530 Talk: The St Peter's Lectionary - A Masterpiece at lunchtime. of The Romanesque by Peter Krakenberger (Don 1973-2013). After lunch Dr and Mrs Townsend will take tea in the Win Coll Restricted to 20 places. B1, Flint Court Soc Marquee by Hunter Tent. Visitors are welcome to join the 1600-1700 Careers Library open to visitors Careers Warden at the Marquee to thank Dr and Mrs Townsend for what Library they have done for Winchester. Tea will be provided free of 1610-1650 Short Play: ‘After Magritte’ QEII Theatre charge. 1700-1715 Whole School Namers New Field Refreshments The Lavender Meads Mall Refreshments will be available all day on New Field at the Open all day: following locations and times: Bar and Food Tent & Music performances Lotus Flower Trust Stall JCR Moberly Library Book Sale in Aid of School Charities 1000-1645 – sweets, drinks and ice cream Hands-on and Interactive Displays and Exhibits from Science School Win Coll Soc Marquee Wilds Sports Clothing 1530 Marquee open for tea and biscuits Adventure Education Stand 1600 Tea with Dr and Mrs Townsend (straight after lunch if Soft Play Area for Children raining) Win Coll Charities Committee Stall Exhibition Society: Silk Route 2017 Stall Bar & Food Tent CCF Stand & Field Gun Display 1030-1900 – tea and coffee Young Enterprise Stall 1200-1700 – snacks and sandwiches Cornflowers 1200-1900 – alcoholic bar P&G Wells 1715-1830 – BBQ Kingsgate Books & Prints. Paintings by Iain Vellacott Afternoon Sports Programme Raw Bean Coffee Stall 1400 Cricket: Lords vs OWs continues, Lords Juliet Howard’s Jdryer Stall 1400 Cricket: 2nd XI vs OWs continues, Meads Grange Park Opera Stall 1415-1630 Tennis: School vs OWs on the PE Centre New CD Releases from Winchester College Tennis Courts Afternoon only: 1415-1530 Water Polo: School vs OWs in the Swimming Classic Car Display Pool, PE Centre The Spirit Lamp Stall 1415-1600 Karate Display at the Dojo, PE Centre Treasure Hunt 1415-1500 Aikido Display in the Sports Hall, PE Centre 1415-1530 Croquet in the Warden’s Garden Morning Sports Programme 1415-1645 Commoners v OTH U17 Cricket, Kingsgate 1000-1300 Rowing: Junior, Senior and Icena at Boat Club Park 1000-1100 Rackets: Prince’s vs OW’s 1415-1645 Commoners v OTH U15 Cricket, Doggers 1100-1200 Cricket: Lords Warm-Up at Hunter Tent 1500-1645 Squash: Mini Tournament & Final of the 1100-1200 Water Polo: Commoners vs OTH in the Individual Tournament Swimming Pool 1545-1645 Archery Display on Lavender Meads

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1515-1645 Basketball: School vs OWs in the Sports Hall, The Top Ten Ideas in Science PE Centre Dr Michael Clugston 1600-1645 Tug of War on Lavender Meads Slavonic Dr Rosamund Bartlett Music Translating Anna Karenina Music by boys in the School will be performed at the following Spirit Lamp times: John Andrews 1130-1215 Big Jazz Band at the Bar and Food Tent Area Writing for Major Political Magazines on New Field Thomas Merton 1230-1400 Music at the Bar and Food Tent Andrew Leigh (ASL) 1400-1530 Selection of Music on New Field How many brothers and sisters did Jesus have? 1515-1600 Cantores Episcopi in War Cloister MUSIC 1600-1655 Drop into a Selection of Classical Performances 28 April in School Joint Evensong with the Choir of 1600-1655 Shagwagg on New Field New College Oxford in Oxford 1700-1715 Bagpipes on Lavender Meads 1 May Film Music Festival in aid of Libia College Gardens 3 May The following gardens will be open from 1400 to 1600: Jazz Night Bethesda 5 May New Bethesda Garden (courtesy of Mrs Kathryn Irvine- Chamber Music I Fortescue) Le Beau – Drei Stűcke War Cloister Garden (redesigned in 2014 to commemorate the Calvin Chan viola Adrian Adlam piano Centenary of the Great War. The new design will mature over Quilter & Gurney songs the next three years) Maxim Meshkvichev voice Samuel Grew piano Warden’s Garden Boellmann – Variations Symphoniques St Michael’s Churchyard Adrian Tsui cello Nicholas Salwey piano Witham Close, 62 Kingsgate Street via Music School car park Schubert – Wanderer Fantasy D760 (courtesy of Mrs Cathy Townsend) Nixon Chan piano 8 College Street via Halifax Passage (courtesy of Mrs Maria 9-10 May McMaster) Visit by Thomas Ospital, Organiste Titulaire, 1 St Swithun Street accessed via gate opposite P&G Wells on L’èglise St-Eutache, Paris College Street (courtesy of Mrs Augusta Wolff) 10 May Phil’s Garden (courtesy of Mrs Charlotte Yeomans) Informal Concert 12 May Songfest SOCIETIES 14 May Classical Quiristers’ Concert, Odiham Parish Church Dr Daisy Dunn 19 May Catullus: The Life of a Roman Poet Chamber Music II Empson Handel arr. Martlett – Overture to the Royal Iraj Ispahani and Patrick Spottiswoode Fireworks Music Rebuilding the Globe: realising Sam Wanamaker's Dream Jacob – Chorale Prelude Friends Winchester College Brass Ensemble Mr Peter Krakenberger Finzi – Five Bagatelles The Beatus Apocalypse from Las Huelgas Anton Mathiesen clarinet Nicholas Salwey piano Mr Peter Krakenberger Schubert – Sonata in A major D664 The Holy Face of Lucca Benjamin Jenkins piano French Film Soc Franck – Prelude, Chorale & Fugue Le Salaire de la peur Max Cheung piano by Henri-Georges Clouzot 22 May Les Diaboliques Middle Part Award Holders’ Concert by Henri-Georges Clouzot 24 May Geography Informal Concert Professor Daniel Dorling 26 May The UK: strange maps and new political choices Staff Concert History 2 June Professor Richard Carawardine Chamber Music III Lincoln and Emancipation Schubert – Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Andrew Baines OW Byron Adlam & Nina Harvey violins Dearest Mother: Letters Home from a young Sapper Officer Louisa Adlam viola Harry Robinson cello fighting in France and Salonica in World War One, Purcell – Songs Sir Mark Allen Joe Zubier countertenor Jamal Sutton harpsichord The Arab World Armstrong-Gibbs – Sonata in E minor Kenneth Clark Society Alexander Howard cello Jamal Sutton piano Dr Frederica Law-Turner Britten – Sonata in C Dead Unicorns, Vanquished Venetians and the Max Cheung cello Grand-Maitre of France: the puzzle of The Cloisters' 5 June Unicorn Tapestries Reconsidered Baroque Concert Law Bach – Brandenburg Concert No. 5 Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg MP In D major, BWV 1050 Law and the European Union Angus Robinson harpsichord Ramsay Jacob Thorn violin James Bertlin flute Climate Change: Global crisis, Global opportunity Back – Partita in Bb BWV 825 Science George Gillow harpsichord Mr Stephen Tindale

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Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Trumpets Sen Colts 2 0 3 in C major, RV 537 Jun Colts A 5 0 4 Alex Toal, Julian Poore trumpets Jun Colts B 5 0 3 Winchester College Baroque Ensemble Jun Colts C 2 0 3 Rebecca Miles director Yearlings A 3 0 6 11 June Yearlings B 2 0 5 Music for a Summer Evening Yearlings C 3 0 4 EC4 Choir & Orchestra with Chapel Choir Yearlings D 2 0 3 Purcell – Come, ye Sons of Art Croquet Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia Senior croquet tournament (Dunn Plate) vs. Eton and Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs Charterhouse Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm BWV 229 Eton won on the tie-break of points scored. Bach – Magnificant in D BWV 243 Seniors: 12 June Abingdon – Won 3-0 Kirby Prize Golf Adjudicator: Professor Michael Finnissy, Seniors: Southampton University Bradfield - Won 3-0 14 June Tonbridge – Drew 1.5-1.5 Informal Concert Eton – Won 2-1 16 June Stowe – Drew 2.5-2.5 Junior Part Award Holders’ Concert Delhi Cup 17 June Will Townsend (D) won the Net Competition with rounds of 73 Eve of Winchester Match Concert and 74 Beethoven – Sonata in E flat op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ Rowing Maxym Kadarauch piano Wallingford Regatta Finzi – Earth and Air and Rain J15 VIII finished 5th in the final of J15B VIIIs Jonathan Hedley bass Nicholas Salwey piano J18 VIII were the fastest non-qualifier in both J18A VIIIs and Smetana – Trio in G minor Elite VIIIs Adrian Adlam violin Max Cheung cello Bedford Amateur Regatta Victor Lu piano J14 4x+ won, beating Sir William Borlase by 1/2 length in the 21 June final. Organ Recital 1st VIII beat Oriel College by 2 lengths in the final of Elite Organ pupils of Winchester College VIIIs. 26 June Sailing School Concert: The Old World and the New BSDRA Southern Championships Music of the 1920s from England and America Winchester 1: 2nd Place and Southern Area Champions Elgar – Empire Match Winchester 2: 4th Place Warlock – Capriol Suite Beat Canford and Sherborne Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue BSDRA Hoad Shield Samuel Grew piano Open: 2nd out of 16 Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending U15: 2nd out of 16 Adrian Adlam violin Beat Bryanston and Canford Winchester College Symphony Orchestra, Beat Wellington Chamber Orchestra & Academy Strings Beat Eton David Thomas, Adrian Adlam conductors Swimming 28 June Seniors and Juniors lost to Cranleigh Informal Concert Tennis W D L 30 June 1st VI 3 0 5 Two Pianofest 2nd VI 1 0 7 Mozart – Sonata in D major K.448/375a 3rd VI 1 1 4 Samantha Carrasco & Nicholas Salwey Colts A 1 0 4 Mendelssohn – Overture to ‘A Midsummer Colts B 1 0 3 Night’s Dream’ arr. Ford for ten hands Jun Colts A 3 0 4 Sallie Birchall, Nao Dickson, Charlotte Ford, Jun Colts B 1 0 4 Maria-Lena Loncke & Sophie Saraby Jun Colts C 0 0 4 Rachmaninoff – Suite op.19 Jun Colts D 0 1 2 Victor Lu & Nicholas Salwey Yearlings A 2 0 2 Lutoslawski – Paganini Variations Yearlings B 0 0 3 Angus Robinson & Jacob Thorn Yearlings C 0 0 3 THEATRE Yearlings D 0 0 1 After Magritte by Tom Stoppard Water Polo 5-7 May Seniors: SROGUS Cranleigh – Drew 7-7 The Doll’s House by Heinrich Ibsen Marlborough – Won 9-4 5 June Junior Drama Festival 17 June V Book Comedy Theatre 28-29 June SPORT Cricket W D L Lords 7 3 9 2nd XI 1 0 7 3rd XI 1 0 5 4th XI 0 0 5

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