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• Dallachy Lecture, Cargill Hall, Thursday 7 October (See Page 6) • Glasgow Academical Club Dinner, Friday 12 November (See Number 12 Summer 2010 Et The magazine for formercetera pupils and friends of Glasgow Academy and Westbourne School • Dallachy Lecture, Cargill Hall, Thursday 7 October (see page 6) • Glasgow Academical Club Dinner, Friday 12 November (see page 8) Editorial Contents Why not get connected? 3 The way we used to learn 5 Regular Giving 2009-2010 One of the most satisfying jobs we do in the External Relations offi ce is reconnecting people. 6 The Cargill Ball Dallachy Lecture 2010 Sometimes we ‘reconnect’ people with their past when they come to visit the school. Dates for your diary It’s not unusual for FPs to revisit Glasgow Academy after an absence of 50, 60 or even 70 years - and it’s great to see the memories come fl ooding back. 7 Academical’s new novel - at age 93 The Kelvin Foundation On other occasions we’re just the means of two people who haven’t been in touch for a while getting back together again. On page 20 you can read of two 8 The Glasgow Academicals’ Club Academicals whom we helped to reunite in Australia after 67 years. It’s amazing that 12 The Glasgow Academy War Memorial John Crombie and Allan McNicol recognised each other, but fortunately Glasgow accents are a dead giveaway! 14 Westboune Section Talking of getting in touch, we’ve had a suggestion from Alastair Marr (1974) that 17 Sculling for the elderly we encourage everyone to log on to GA Connected and leave their details. 18 This sporting life Alastair says, ‘you have done such a lot of hard work on GA Connected’ that we 19 Awards should let everyone know that it’s a great way to meet old friends. Moving up, moving on… So here goes... 20 Updates GA Connected - http://glasgowacademy.web-intouch.com - has some great features 24 1959/60/61 Reunion that allow you to: 25 Announcements ● search for school friends 27 Ten years after… ● keep your contact details up to date 28 Obituaries ● view photos of recent events 30 From our own correspondents ● view information on future events In addition, your very own ‘Friends Reunited’ site has been redesigned, updated and improved. GA Connected now has many more great features - in particular our new archive section with hundreds of old school photos of Glasgow Academy and Westbourne School for Girls. Why not help us build our new online photo archive? We need your help to build Do we have your e-mail address? an even better archive of Academy and Westbourne history. If you have any photos of your school days, we’d love to hear from you. It’s how we communicate best! If you need to a reminder of or don’t have your login/password details to hand, simply e-mail us at [email protected] Keeping in touch So why not take a look? It’s your site - and we’re always delighted to hear your The External Relations offi ce is situated feedback. in Colebrooke Terrace. Former pupils are always welcome to pop in and have a chat. With best wishes JuJust give us a call to arrange a time. Our adaddress is Colebrooke Terrace, Glasgow GG12 8HE and you can contact us on 00141 342 5494 or at [email protected] TThe Glasgow Academical Club 221 Helensburgh Drive, Glasgow G13 1RR PPresident – Lindsay Crawford EE-mail – [email protected] SSecretarye – Kenneth Shand One for the archive: TTel: 0141 248 5011 EE-mail: [email protected] Many congratulations to Seamus McGuigan TThe Academical Club pavilion is available (left) and Oscar Lee fofor functions. Please contact Ken Barron (pictured with Jan at [email protected] for details. Fulton) who - in winning this year’s Law Society AAcademical Club’s London Section of Scotland schools debate held in the Debating SSecretarye – David Hall, 20 Cadogan Place Chamber of the Scottish Parliament - have retained the Donald Dewar LLondon SW1X 9SA Memorial Trophy for the school. Glasgow Academy is the fi rst school ever to win the TTel: 020 7235 9012 competition two years running. EE-mail: [email protected] 2 Etcetera Glasgow Academy appointed CP Kimber as an English teacher and RAF Section offi cer in my days. He was one of the most-travelled individuals I had come across in the late 60s. He often had a story to tell from his past and often recalled his exploits stating, inter alia, ‘When I was in the Antarctic....or in the Amazon....or in the Mekong delta... the Australian outback....’. We groaned at each memory of the latest episode of Kimber’s Travels. (He was on a par with Wicker’s World at the time.) But we groaned in jest and he knew it. We loved to hear of his exploits. I was telling a group about my time working in Ghana, Nigeria and then Pakistan. From the rear of the hall, I heard a groan. I smiled. CP Kimber had taught me to ride these envious sniggers. The Kimber Effect still lives. Meanwhile, I am almost fi nished my eighth book a crime novel entitled Betrayed in the Nith... Miller Caldwell (1969) The way we used to learn... When I was at school, masters had nicknames ‘Bruiser Engledow’, Batchie, With the recent media coverage for big! There were 120 balloon sites round Frankie Parkes, ‘Baggy’ Aston (BG the Battle of Britain’s 70th anniversary, Glasgow and one of the most important Aston), ‘Bobe’ Runcieman and - the I looked again at Andrew Wylie and factories for making them was the Kelvin best of all the masters who tried to get Douglas Anderson’s splendid book A Hall where thousands were produced. me passes despite an almost complete School at War. Yes, I remembered the The RAF also had a ‘soup kitchen’ in lack of success (I did pass both lower early ‘evacuation’ of my class to a house the northern corner of the playground French and German) - ‘Chris’ Varley. in Bearsden, the return to Colebrooke where steaming concoctions were He was the nicest and best master I ever Street, the air raid shelters and the had. I got on well with ‘George’ - GD prepared for distribution to other balloon barrage balloon in the playground but Preston - and was his 1st Sgt in the sites round the city. There was a radio other things also came to mind. One ATC No 1715 fl ight and we spent a in the armoury and I remember the day, in a storm, the balloon broke week on RNAS Macrihanish and fl ew excitement of hearing of the D-day free and there was a worry that its in open cockpit Swordfi shes on dummy landings in June 1944. trailing cable might smash some school torpedo dropping in summer 1941. I windows. It didn’t. Not the one in our We certainly lived in different times. was previously in the OTC - becoming playground, but the photograph gives JTC and got cert ‘A’. This ensured Alan Carlaw (1949) some indication of the balloon’s size - promotion to L/Cpl but I longed to Etcetera 3 get out of it and was delighted when school trip to Paris and the Loire Valley. out to be two places for your feet! You the ATC was formed. Other masters I After a horrendous journey over land can imagine the incredulity and broken remember were ‘Bing’ (What else would with mountainous seas in the English French when we approached Morty to he be called?) Crosbie; Mike Page, my Channel, we eventually made it to our tell him that it looked like someone had Maths teacher who was killed in action; one-star hotel in the student area of stolen the toilet, as the WC was missing Clapton - surely would have been called Paris. Morty had a rule that when in and there was just a gaping hole! Other today ‘Clappers’ - I had him for Maths France we all had to speak French. This brighter boys got carried away with (Geometry) never my best subject on a caused considerable concern when one their French saying, ‘This could not be Monday morning and was terrifi ed of or two of us decided to visit the loo and how General De Gaulle went about his this bad-tempered Lancastrian teacher found that the plumbing wasn’t what business in the Elysee Palace!’ - who was probably very good but had we were used to in the leafy suburbs of Fortunately Morty calmed things down to face people like me early Monday the west of Scotland and they obviously with the French equivalent of ‘I’m afraid morning! hadn’t heard of Shanks of Barrhead! this is as good as it gets’ and ‘have a bash We surveyed various toilets in the hotel When we were at school we were and see how you get on!’ and they just had this great hole in the always called by our surnames - in my ground and what we eventually found John Watson (1965) case ‘Hope’ or my nickname to rhyme - ‘Soapy’. Colin Hope (1943) Memories of Academy Staff 1938-45 There is, to this day, one sound of sum- Miss Wilson Mr J Coleman Smith – the Gym mer, a lark in a clear blue sky, which, for me, always evokes memories of (CCF) Miss Wilson was head of the Prep In Coley’s days the gym was on the Corp camp at Fort George.... memories School. She was known as ‘squeaky’ top fl oor where he reigned supreme. of lying back in the long grass, drowsy - guess why, because of her voice.
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