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aylesbury high school magazine contents Introduction . . 1 EDITOR Mrs. J. McLauchlan Foreword .... 2 ART EDITOR Mr. D.A. Briggs Editorial 3 BUSINESS MANAGER MissM.E. Cattell Staff Report 4 SALES MANAGER Mr. G. Marshall-Taylor School Calendar 6 House Results . 9 Senior Speech Day 10 autumn 1969 The Winter's Tale 11 The School's Music 13 aylesbury high school A Cruise to Greece 16 Perseus and Andromeda ... 17 The Year's Visitors 18 EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Hilary Merralls Operation Uganda 20 Upper 6th Julie Evans Two Teachers of English . . . 23 Heather Murphy Some Old Girls 25 Joy de Burgh Sidley Portrait of the School .... 36 Jane Cunningham The Storm 42 The Hunted 45 Lower 6th Janice Deung Fourth Year - Past and Present 48 Sally Morbey A Decade of Drama 52 Margaret Pace Work from the Art Room . . 57 Beauty and Ugliness 59 Fifth Year Melanie Bayley Two Sporting Personalities . 61 Susan Chapped Candlelight 66 Work from the Craft Room . 68 Open Day 69 ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS Moira Brown Sports News 70 Geraldine Samuel Examination Results 71 The following articles are from past COVER D.A.B. pupils during and after their further education. ILLUSTRATORS June Thorne Sally Mussen My Australia 26 Janet Castle Canada 27 Law at King's College . . . 28 Vanda Caudrey Voluntary Service Overseas 29 Linda Metalica In Defence of the Dip. A.D. 31 A Saga of Three Years ... 32 PHOTOGRAPHERS Bucks Herald A Career in Marks and Spencers' 33 Bucks Advertiser A Career in Music 34 Breakaway : Ten Years After 38 Hector Smith Life 39 Robert Glover Biological Research 41 Maurice Cousins Architecture at Nottingham . 44 We thank the above for their Over the top and after .... 46 kind permission to reproduce My Years at Sussex University 49 their work. Reflections on a B.A 51 The poem MissM.E. Cattell Sociology at Durham .... 54 Sussex University 56 Perseus and Andromeda Mr. D.A. Briggs Sociology at Leicester .... 58 is by Clare Riley 1G Mr. K.E. Evans Robin Hood Never had it so Miss J.E. Williams Good 60 Jennifer Wilding Why ChooM Nursing? .... 62 P.E. at Dartford College. ... 63 A Tri- Lingual Secretary ... 63 Teaching in France 65 Luton College of Technology 67 THE FROST SCHOOL BAKER'S OF for DANCE AND DRAMA BICYLES TOYS WITH ASSOCIATED SUBJECTS. EAILWAYS CLASSES DAILY.

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23 CHESHAM ROAD AMERSHAM, BUCKS TEL AMERSHAM 3453 introduction

A Message from the It is with great pleasure that I write on the tenth anniversary of the Chairman of the opening of the school. When one reaches the various milestones in life Board of Governors one is inclined to look back. I remember very well September 1959 Alderman when the school opened before the builders had finished their work. Mrs ZAP Williams This difficulty was coped with admirably by Miss Camp and the Staff, and the very special day arrived when the school was officially opened The Governors: by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra. We were all impressed by the natural Mr R S Clark charm and the friendly conversation of Her Royal Highness. Mrs C Wilmot Mrs G M Wood During the fjast ten years the school has grown, and with at least two Lady Summers Mrs D E Bateson hundred more girls it has been necessary to provide an annexe away Rev J B Girling from the main buildings. My fellow Governors and I have always wished Mr J E P Dunning to have all the girls within the school campus and we continue to hope Mrs W R Carslake MrsAE Holt that this will be made possible long before another ten years has passed. Mr I T E Gadsden MrsJ A Reid We have been very proud of the examination results, of the careers girls have chosen, and of their club and civic activities, as well as of the scheme known as "Operation Uganda". I wish to thank Miss Camp and members of the Staff for the enthusiasm and the loyalty they have given to the school throughout the years, which has made it possible for such splendid results.

The Open Day in July showed clearly the many activities undertaken by the school and it was impossible to spend enough time to study everything in a few hours. The variety of work shown merited an Open Week. It was rewarding to know that so many parents and friends were able to be with us on that day.

Having looked back one must look forward. I am sure my Governors would like to join with me in sending every good wish for a progressive and successful future to all who teach or study in the school, and also to those who work in other ways for the school's benefit. foreword

Almost ten years ago, when Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra officially opened Aylesbury High School, I said that it was my hope that the school would one day be one "of whose standard of scholarship and service to the community the County of Buckinghamshire will be proud". As we celebrate ten years of the school's existence we can certainly feel that we are achieving this aim. In an amazingly short time we have established ourselves academically: girls who have been educated here have gone on to a great variety of studies and have achieved notable success in their academic work. Moreover, our service to the community has, over the years, developed enormously: the Service Club, which has grown out of the community work undertaken for many years, gives to senior girls the opportunity to be of service in many fields and coordinates the service work of the school. From time to time we have been able to take part in efforts to help people in many parts of the world and at the moment our effort is concentrated upon the education of schoolgirls in Uganda.

Our international outlook has also widened: we have for many years had link schools in France, Spain and Germany and now we have one in the United States of America. Almost every year we welcome students from all these countries either for short stays or for longer periods of study.

While maintaining these valuable contacts, we continue to feel more and more a part of our local community and we are grateful to all the parents and friends of the school with whose interest and help we are enabled to continue our life and activities.

J. M. Camp editorial

Gone are the days when the daughter sat at home, sheltered, contented to do embroidery, or when the wife concerned herself solely with the intricacies of family life — how limited were their opportunities; only a man experienced life in the world outside. Today, all that remains to be penetrated by women is the all-male heart of the London Stock Exchange.

To quote Pete Seeger, confinement to: "little boxes on the hillside little boxes made of ticky-tacky" may be our lot, but we still have our individuality; to engender this is the essence of modern teaching. At Junior School, children, while learning that two and two make four, are encouraged to express themselves in their own way; on arriving at Secondary School they are presented with a wide range of subjects which they approach with an open mind. Through their study of Arts or Sciences and choice of school activities, their personality is shaped. When girls leave school, the fact that they are individuals is reflected in the form of Higher Education or employment which they enter. An insight into their varying spheres of activity — be it reading a subject at University or training for a profession — is gained from news of old girls. Therefore their letters play a major part in the presentation of this magazine.

An increasing number of girls are also interested in social work. The "do-gooder" is all too frequently regarded with scorn, but this attitude is gradually changing and, at school, interest in service to the community is aiding its progression. Opportunities to further this, for example. Community Volunteer Service or Voluntary Service Overseas may be taken up directly after leaving school.

The angular, glass and red brick structure of the High School may be seen in Aylesbury, but its influence and interest extends into society generally and through foreign connections — such as those with Uganda - into the world. Although, inevitably, people must leave the school, a bond always remains : the interest of ex-teachers who are working abroad continues, while information about the experiences of ex-pupils benefits those who are learning to be individuals.

Hilary Merralls. await the arrival of her baby, and now at the end of the year we say good-bye to Miss Gush, Miss Hughes, MissSneddon, Miss Thomas and Mr. Wild, to our assistants Mademoiselle Mongelard, STAFF Fraulein Laufer and Mrs. Francis, and to part- time members of staff Mrs. Bale, Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Greenfield.

To all who have left we say thank you for your NOTES interest and help in our school activities, and extend our best wishes for the future.

Of the non-teaching staff the following have been with us since the school opened: Mr. Dean, Mrs. Dinning, Mrs. Stabler and Mrs. Webb.

STAFF LIST 1968-1969

When the school opened we were eighteen on the Miss J.M. Camp (Headmistress) Staff; now we are thirty-six with seven part-time Miss J. Williams (Deputy Headmistress) teachers as well. Mr. D.A. Briggs (Art) Eleven of the staff appointed in 1959 are still Miss M.E. Cattell (English) here — Miss Camp, Miss Williams, Miss M.E. Miss M.K. Cattell (Mathematics) Cattell, Miss M.K. Cattell, Mrs. Madge, Mrs. Miss A. Cater (Scripture,English) McLauchlan, Mrs. Pritt, Mrs. Robertson, Miss Mr. N.D. Chaplin (Geography) Smith, Mrs. Tadman and Mrs. Norris (part-time). Miss A.P. Cottrell (Physical Education) Six other members of staff appointed between Mr. K.W. Evans (Physics, Chemistry) 1960-1962 are also still with us - Miss Tucknutt, Mrs. C. Francis (English) Mr. Briggs, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Newman (Miss White) Mrs. M.E. Pullman (Mathematics) Mrs. Rawlings and Mr. Chaplin. Mrs. I. Gleave (English) MissS. Gush (Music, French) Many former members of staff keep in touch with MissMJ. Hodgkins (Mathematics) us and we were very pleased to welcome several Mrs. J. Holmes (Music) of them on our Open Day. Miss J. Hughes (German, Latin) Miss E. Keen (Domestic Science, P.E.) Of course, changes still go on. Last September, Mrs. J. McLauchlan (English, Economics) we were joined by Miss S. Gush (Music), Mrs. J. Mrs. A.M. Madge (Biology) Holmes (Music), Miss J. Hughes (German), Miss Mr. G. Marshall-Taylor (English) E. Keen (Domestic Science), Mrs. J. Taylor Mrs. D.C. Metcalfe (History, Scripture) (Chemistry), and Mrs. J. Briggs (part-time Art); Mrs. P. Newman (History) and in January Mr. I.J. Veratch (Chemistry) took Mr. J.R. Phillipson (Classics) the place of Mr. Thomas, who has gone to teach Mrs. S. Pritt (French) in Lincolnshire. Mrs. Metcalfe left at Whitsun to Mrs. J.W. Rawlings (Spanish, French) Mrs. H.E. Robertson (French, Scripture) NON-TEACHING STAFF Mrs. T. Sherwood (Mathematics) Mrs. J. Rhodes (Matron) Miss E.E. Smith (French, German) Mrs. J.M. Rixon MissS.E. Smith (Geography) Mrs. J. Henderson MissC. Sneddon (Physical Education) Mrs. R. Pickup Mrs. P.M. Tadman (Domestic Science, Mrs. U. Dinning English) Mrs. G. Suckling Mrs. J. Taylor (Chemistry, Maths) Mrs. A. White Miss A.E.W. Thomas (Geography, History) Mrs. A. Runcie (Cook-Caretaker) Mr. A.M. Thomas (Chemistry, Physics) Mr. L.W.M. Dodds (Caretaker) Miss G. Tucknutt (German, Russian) Mr. J. Wild (Biology, Chemistry) SCHOOL PREFECTS 1968-1969 Mr. I.S. Veratch (Chemistry, Physics) Head Girl Jane Cunningham Deputy Head Girl Hilary Merralls PART-TIME STAFF Jacqueline Baker Gillian Maris Mrs. I.D. Bale (Geography) Susan Baker Charlotte Melia Mrs. A. Bates (Mathematics) Barbara Bellingham Christine Mitchell Mrs. J. Briggs (Art) Patricia Birtwell Heather Murphy Mrs. J. Greenfield (Physical Education) Kathryn Bray Hazel Parrott (Latin) The Rev. T.A. Lewis Joy de Burgh Sidley Jennifer Patterson Mrs. A. Norris (Domestic Science) Stephanie Cheek Catherine Pomphrey Mrs. K. Tydeman (Biology) Julie Evans Carole Potter Miss V.Walker (Speech Training) Susan Fletcher Celia Pratt Mrs. C.C. Francis (Spanish) Vanessa Fletcher Christine Robinson Josephine Hancock Janet Sebright FOREIGN ASSISTANTS Elizabeth Heron Elizabeth Sunley Fraulein Annette Laufer Mary Hicks Carol Thompson Mile Arlette Mongelard Anne Hill Jennifer Wilding

SIXTH FORM GIRLS 1968-9 PHOTOGRAPH BY - ROBERT GLOVER CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR

SEPTEMBER 10th Talk on university entrance to sixth forms of A.H.S. and A.G.S. at A.H.S. 12th Intermediate Christian Society (weekly Thursday meetings): Holiday reports on Inter-School Christian Fellowship holidays. Junior Christian Society (weekly meetings): alternate weeks throughout the year are spent knitting and sewing up squares of Oxfam blankets and singing Christian Folk Songs. 14th Old Girls' Tea Party 18th Visits to the school of the wife of the High Commissioner of Uganda (Dr. Asea) and their two children — had lunch and taken for a tour of the school. 19th Intermediate Christian Society: soundstrip - "There is no difference". Junior Christian Society: In between the "practical weeks" the society has quiz weeks, "Holiday Special" and "Christmas Special", discussions and filmstrips. 21st Pony Club: meeting to arrange an outing to Radnage Riding School, also discussion on organization of a Riding School. 23rd Scientific Society: lecture by Dr. D.A. Johnson of the Medical Research Council on "Genetics". 28th History Society Outing to Oxford: lecture on "History and the Cinema". 30th Jemima Mukundanga visits A.H.S. International Society: talks by Mary Streatfield and Janet Sebright on life in the U.S.A.

OCTOBER 1st Biologists' outing to Schools Open Day at Oxford University. Fifth form outing to The Charge of the Light Brigade. 3rd Intermediate Christian Society: discussion on "Popularity". 7th Senior Christian Society (weekly Monday meetings which include discussion, tape recording, Bible studies and singing): talk by Professor Boyd on "Faith and the Scientist". 12th Pony Club: further discussion about riding schools, also care of horses and riding lessons. 14th Scientific Society: lecture by Mr. V. James, F.S.R. T.E., Principal of Oxford School of Radiography, on "X-rays". 17th Intermediate Christian Society: discussion on "Coloured Neighbours". 21st International Society meeting. 23rd Fashion Show organised by "Simplicity Fashions". Oct. Science Society: British Association Junior meeting at Oxford.

NOVEMBER 6th Visit by La Troupe Francaise to A.G.S. where they presented Le Malade Imaginaire by Moliere. Pony Club: visit to Radnage Riding School. 7th Intermediate Christian Society: discussion on "Is Sunday any Different?" 8th Speech Day 11th Scientific Society: lecture by Mrs. M.E. Rowan of the Irish Linen Guild, in conjunction with the Housecraft Dept., on "Irish Linen". Pony Club: discussion on Three-Day Events. 18th Debating Society meeting. 22nd House Music Festival. 23rd International Society Meeting. 28th Intermediate Christian Society: soundstrip - "The Book that came alive". Nov. French group visit Aylesbury College of Further Education to see films of Tartuffe by Molie're and a modern version of Candida by Voltaire.

DECEMBER 3rd Staff Tea Party given by Upper Sixth form. 5th Talk by the Reverend John Bradford during Senior Assembly on the Aylesbury Fish Scheme. Sixth formers leave for Hellenic Cruise. Intermediate and Junior Christian Society: talk by the Reverend D. Croad on "Science and Belief". 6th Fifth form visit to the Aldwych, London, to see Julius Caesar 11th-14thSchool Play: The Winter's Tale 18th Science Society outing to Rocket Propulsion Establishment, Westcott. Old Folks' Tea Party 19th Carol Service.

1969 JANUARY 9th 16th Intermediate Christian Society: talks on the person and claims of Jesus Christ. 23rd 16th Third form outing to see film of Jane Eyre 17th International Society: Council for Education in World Citizenship report on Christmas lectures. 20th Senior Christian Society: Miss Russel - a Borneo missionary. During the Spring Term this society made a tape-recording and scrapoook which was sent to Thailand to help missionaries teach the natives. 25th French group: trip to the Maison Francaise to see two modern plays by the French dramatist, F. Arabal — Guernica and Pique-Nique a la Campagne. 30th Talk by Dr. H.O. Phillipson to Senior Assembly on "Mentally Handicapped Children".

FEBRUARY 3rd Pony Club: Annual General Meeting. 6th Intermediate Christian Society: soundstrip — "Martin Luther". 10th International Society: talk on Hellenic Cruise. 11th Informal Concert given for parents in the evening: extracts from the House Music Festival; also verse-speaking directed by Miss Walker. 13th Science Society: outing to Kodak, Hemel Hempstead - Kodak Colour Processing. 19th Talk on Hellenic Cruise to parents. 20th Fifth form outing to see Romeo and Juliet at Oxford. 24th Science Society: lecture by Mr. P.j. Sherwood. B.Sc., A.R.S.M., F.S.I.S., from the Metallurgical Department at Westcott, on "Rocket Propulsion". 27th Intermediate Christian Society: filmstrip - "Time to Get Somewhere", about holiday activities. MARCH 3rd Science Society: lecture by Mr. R. Faulkner of the British Trust for Ornithology on "Bird Migration and Ringing". 4th I.S.C.F. training evening. 10th International Society meeting. 13th I.S.C.F. meeting for Juniors: Fact and Faith film — "Hidden Treasures". 19th History Group to lecture on "John Wilkes" at the Aylesbury College of Further Education. 21st House Drama Festival. 22nd Sixth form outing to see Playboy of the Western World at the Nottingham Playhouse. 24th Senior Christian Society: talk by the Reverend D. French on "Why the Cross?". 28th School Concert at A.G.S. 31st School Dance at A.H.S.

APRIL 23rd French group: trip to the World Theatre Season at the Aldwych to see Georges Dandin by Moliere. 24th Staff and sixth form tea party.

MAY 1st Film at A.H.S.: Julius Caesar. Fifth form visit to Oxford Playhouse Schools Day to see Uncle Vanya. Intermediate Christian Society: talk about the life of Peter. 8th Intermediate Christian Society: discussion on "Do Christians Care?" 16th Fourth form outing to see the film Romeo and Juliet. Upper sixth form visit to Stratford to see The Winters' Tale. 22nd Third form play for their parents.

JUNE 4th Outing to the New Theatre, Oxford to see The Way of the World. 5th Intermediate Christian Society: Gospel songs. Junior Christian Society use "Practical weeks" to prepare Preaching Scrapbooks. 11th Sixth form and fourth form visit to Stratford to see The Winter's Tale. 12th Intermediate Christian Society: slides and a tape-recording concerning missionaries in Thailand — "We make a start". 19th Intermediate Christian Society: discussion on "Luck, Fate or God".

JULY 1st to 4th Computer Course at the Aylesbury College of Further Education. 8th Senior Christian Society: Inter-School Christian Fellowship Conference — "What is Man?' 9th Open Day. 10th Intermediate Christian Society: play-through of tape-reading made for Chorley Wood College for blind girls. 11th Party arrives from French link school. 15th Science Society outing to Warwick University (Science Dept.) Cadbury's Bournville and to C.B.S. Records. 16th 17thSixth form Conference: "The Challenge of Industry". AUGUST 14th Pony Club: a team representing the school are competing at "The Hickstead Horse Trials". Regular Functions which are not listed: Chess Club Junior Art Club Sketch Club Assembly and Senior Choir practices.

HOUSE OFFICIALS HOUSE COMPETITION RESULTS

DENSON D H P R House Mistress MissM.E. Cattell HOCKEY Junior 2 3 1 0 House Captain Charlotte Melia Senior 1 0 3 2 House Vice-Captains ... Vanessa Fletcher Barbara Bellingham NETBALL Junior 1 3 0 2 Senior 3 1 0 2 HAMPDEN House Mistress Miss M.K. Cattell TENNIS Junior 3 2 1 0 House Captain Jacqueline Baker Senior 2 1 0 3 House Vice-Captains Celia Pratt Carole Potter ROUNDERS 3 1 0 2

PHILIPS STANDARDS 1% 3 1% 0 House Master Mr. K. Evans House Captain Heather Murphy SWIMMING 2 1 3 0 House Vice-Captains Anne Hill Christine Robinson MUSIC 4 6 2 0

RIDLEY DRAMA 0 6 2 4 House Mistress MissE.E. Smith House Captain .Gillian Maris LITERARY 0 6 2 4 House Vice-Captains Mary Hicks Elizabeth Sunley CONDUCT 4 6 2 0

FINAL HOUSE PLACINGS 4TH. RIDLEY 19 points 3RD. PHILIPS 20% points

1 HOUSE CUP AWARDED TO HAMPDEN HOUSE 40 points 2ND. DENSON 28 /2 points

On behalf of the school the editors would like to thank all the advertisers,upon whose generous support we depend almost completely for the production of this magazine. senior school speech day

AWARDS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1967 - 1968

Presented by Miss Irene Hilton M.Sc., FLS Executive Secretary, Women's Employment Federation

FORM AWARDS 3C Sylvia Haynes • Susan Kelner and Penelope Nunn 3F Diana Cunningham and Deborah Dodds • Yvonne Wheeler 3P Susan Winters • Judith Webb 4B Vanessa Dart • Catherine Mitchell 4M Christine Seymour • Marie King 4N Susan Chapped and Pauline Slade • Jacqueline Moorcroft 4W Margaret Barf ield • Jane Barnett Lower Sixth Arts : Jane Cunningham • Catherine Pomphrey Lower Sixth Science : Elizabeth Dean • Elizabeth Sunley

G.C.E. AWARDS "O" Level. Passes in eight subjects Felicity Andrew Marjorie Dowdswell Anne Jones Sally Morbey Linda Bateman Sarah Faulkner Lesley Jones Anne Morgan Miranda Barnes Rosemary Gosden Sheila King Janet Ripp Jane Davies Claire Harding Jean Lackie Ruth Shovelton Hazel Davies Susan Hayward Anne Meekums Cheryl Tansley Janice Deung Madeleine Jagger Josephine Monaghan Jill Taylor Susan Vogt

GOVERNOR'S AWARD. Best achievement at "O" Level. Margaret Pace Jennifer Skerrett

G.C.E. "A" Level. HARDING AWARDS: Elaine Davies Susan Heath Janice McLellan Rosemary Shovelton Caroline Edwards Judith Horsfield Patricia Rolfe Jennifer Slade

SPECIAL AWARDS ROTARY CLUB AWARD: Jacqueline Richomme • Linda Warmington ASTON CLINTON AWARD FOR ENGLISH: Jane Wheatley LEWINSKI AWARD FOR GERMAN: Brenda Bowden • Jane Cunningham • Catherine Pomphrey WARMINGTON AWARD FOR HOME ECONOMICS: Jacqueline Richomme HEAD GIRL'S AWARD (PRESENTED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNORS): Jane Cunningham OLDAYLESBURIANS'CUP: Ridley House

Music was provided by The School who sang "I Love all Beauteous Things" by Christopher Le Flemming, and the Senior Choir who sang "Slumber Song" arranged by Arnold Foster and "Fly Singing Bird" by Edward Elgar.

10 The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare cannot be made more accessible to a Potter and Susan Englefield) seized their oppor- school than in a production of this quality, where tunities with him to create a real sense of family great attention has been given to studying the text intimacy. It would have been impossible for Sally (an A-Level play) in depth, to bringing out its Pickard, as Perdita, to live up to Shakespeare's underlying message, and to gracing it with beauti- poetic claims for her, but she was very sweet and ful costumes, scenery, music and dance. affectionate and wholly absorbed in her role. Greater stillness and dignity, rather than winsome- The young actors moved their adult audiences ness, would have more convincingly established deeply with their interpretation of the difficult the princess in disguise. The rest of the actors in theme of jealousy, suffering and penitence, and the court scenes helped to reproduce the atmos- redemption. The whole production was marked phere of formality and foreboding which by the complete involvement and concentration contrasted well with the earthy humour of of every actor. Bohemia's rustic revelry. This genuine light relief in the middle made the climax all the more Penny Lamb as Hermione was outstandingly tremendous. sincere and tender. She spoke beautifully, bore herself with great dignity and achieved a poignant John Molyneux as Autolycus gave a very good climax after the great control of the statue scene. reading of the sharper's character, as he exchanged Colin Smith as the self-deluded Leontes brought leering nudges, winks with his audience, with equal depth of feeling and understanding to the whom he was very much at ease. The same close baffling character of the King. Occasionally his rapport was established by Anthony Gasson as articulation obscured the meaning of his lines. the simple, honest Old Shepherd, with very good This was also true of Mark Lawrence as Polixenes, timing and with warmth of voice. John Christen- but he had plenty of attack and a regal carriage, son's Clown was a likeable simpleton and his making a convincing friend at the beginning, and occasional "hamming" was very well received. later an irate father, to Florizel. Stephen Ottridge Nor must we forget the exquisite timing (and as his son was extremely likeable and embodied ironic wit) of Time (Geoffrey Glover) — if the the ideal of manly virtue and lover's devotion. seeming pun may be allowed. Clifford Norton's Camillo was a highly polished performance. He had a quiet authority and mat- It was a triumph to have secured the main urity which contrasted most effectively with his Stratford costumes, even if the others seemed a royal master's instability. He looked his part, too, trifle lightweight by contrast. Mr. Briggs' scenery and controlled his voice well. and staging were excellent, as usual, and music by Mr. Eardley was so well in keeping that one Jane Cunningham as Paulina looked delightful longed to see the minstrels performing it. The and was very lively as the domineering yet producers succeeded, then, in awakening profound tender-hearted court lady, though she belonged pity for Leontes, after he has abjured his evil ways, perhaps to a slightly later period. Her husband, as for all the victims of his errors. The actors Antigonus (Chris Potter), also won our hearts astonished us by their ability to tackle such by his very sincere reactions in his dilemma over themes and illuminate them with their own the baby he was to kill. Mamillius (Shaun Fensom), youthful insights. like many another very young actor, proceeded to steal the show with his delightful naturalness and concentration, but the court ladies (Carole E.E. Smith

11 Other members of the cast:

A court musician Catherine Pomphrey Archidamus, a Lord of Bohemia Simon Cheek Lords of Sicilia. Peter Herne Ian Ramage Leigh Warnick Gaoler Volkmar Wanke Cleomenes Geoffrey Gurney Dion Lords of Sicilia Theodore Labuda Mariner . Trevor Howard Mopsa . Jeannette Frogley Dorcas Country girls . Brenda Bowden Shepherds and shepherdesses: Hazel Davis, Nancy Kendall, Geraldine Samuel, Margaret Pace, Anne Wilkinson, Nicola Watson, Paul Aviss, Richard Brock, David Brigginshaw, Volkmar Wanke Prompters: Ruth Shovelton and Judith O'Sullivan.

The play was produced by Miss M.E. Cattell, assisted by Mrs. J. McLauchlan and Mr. Marshall- Taylor; the music was played by Stephen Orton, Janet Sebright, Keith Grout and Carole Laurillard; dancing was arranged by Mrs. J. Greenfield; the costumes were designed and made by Mrs. P.M. Tadman, Mrs. A. Norrisand Miss E.M. Keen assisted by Sixth Form girls. Stage management was by Mrs. I. Gleave, assisted by Sixth Form girls; lights by Mr. K. Evans, assisted by Sixth Form girls; make-up by Mrs. P. Newman, assisted by Sixth Form girls, and the business managers were Miss M. Hodgkins and Miss J. Hughes assisted by Fifth Form girls.

Camillo and Leontes THE SCHOOL AND MUSIC : 1959 - A Survey by Susan Chappell, 5M.

To quote the words of a musician, now freed from what were to her, the useless encumbrances of a conventional education, "the school has produced a number of musicians - by accident". Such a comment might rouse the dedicated minority to further mutterings about the inadequate provision of time and space for the practising so vital to their later careers, but for the majority the question is not, why the numerical contribution to the musical profession is small, but rather, who are the musicians in this small society, in which the potential Du Pre's and Postnikova's are conspicuously absent?

The disturbing answer is, that the musician is YOU! Over the past few years the school has been exposed to facets of music, varying from the canned version served during assembly to the live product reached through informal contact with visiting performers. Since 1961, when a harpsichord was temporarily installed in the school hall, the quality of perfectionism exacted by eminent professionals has been introduced into the school by recitalists such as guitarist Joy Hyman, and the Camden Wind Quartet, although the 1967 visit of the Arragon String Quartet was perhaps most memorable for the 'cellist's improvisation of bagpipe and car-siren effects! Reactions to such performances range from the frankly bored to the ecstatic (comment from old girl:"lt's marvellous to say that Ivor Keys came to MY school to give a recital"). Those who have allowed themselves to relax and become interested found themselves swept up into exciting sounds, but have undergone a subtle step in their metamorphosis into that elusive creature, the musician. In this way the process is deliberately "accidental".

Excursions into the world of music, particularly by means of the Robert Mayer concerts, display the wide variety of experiences available, from the Mozart of Sadler's Wells' performances of "The Marriage of Figaro" to the modern styles of Britten's War Requiem (heard at the Albert Hall in 1965) and of "Morvoren", an opera conducted by the local composer, Phillip Cannon, at the Royal College of Music 1963. To illustrate the mechanics necessary to produce the art, a visit to Boosey and Hawkes' woodwind factory was arranged in 1963, whilst the level at which international artists work, was shown in 1966 by attendance at rehearsals of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto and Dvorak's Cello Concerto; the respective soloists were Geja Anda and Paul Tortelier.

Participation is the most valuable way of finding enjoyment in music and this has led to the growth of various choirs, orchestras, madrigal groups and more unorthodox instrumental combinations. During the past four years, an increase of peripatetic teachers and in the range of school instruments, has caused the expansion of the orchestra, which even played weekly in assembly in 1962 (though one member of staff, tired by its limited repertoire of hymns, is reputed to have said "It's just like the Salvation Army!"). Subsequent improvement in standard was obvious this year at the annual concert; the Orchestra ably supported the Senior Choir, with a reduction in the customary amount of outside help. The Carol Service is another instance of the musical link between parents and school, and this year the roof was nearly raised by such old favourites as "Personent Hodie". Choral singing is probably the method of participation most easily enjoyed by the musical non-genius, although prospective choir members might note the anonymous complaint that, "this is a contralto school" - a thin soprano line swamped by over-enthusiastic lower parts sounds rather like a squeaking mouse scurrying from a burst of thunder. The Junior Choir has earned a high reputation with such performances as "The Pied Piper" (1967) and "The Little Sweep"; in this last work by Benjamin Britten, the staff sang the solo parts. Britten has featured often in the school's concerts, ranging from "Saint Nicholas", produced in 1964, with three choirs, a string orchestra and a large percussion section, to an exceptional performance of the "Missa Brevis" conducted in High Wycombe Parish Church, by Mr. Virgo. The Senior Choir has given memorable performances of "Faure's Requiem and, in 1968, of Dyson's colourful "Canterbury

13 Pilgrims". The more ambitious have explored the depth of feeling evoked by the interesting 'modern' chord progressions of the setting of the Lord's Prayer by Mr. Newsome (who has left the school an, as yet, unchallenged manuscript sonata). The idea of bringing parents and teachers into a close circle around a group of junior musicians was successfully experimented with in 1964.

It is, however, in the music which is entirely independent of staff organisation that the "accidental" process comes into its own right; arranging luchtime concerts has not only been valuable experience for the sixth-form musician, but has helped nervous soloists to acquire the "professional technique". Many old girls have said how grateful they are for the practice and responsibility of training choirs, which is gained in the regular House Music Festivals. The variety of the programme which is (theoretically) infinite, has ranged from folk songs to Beethoven sonatas, and from mouth-organ solos to the French impressionists! (But, several people have expressed a desire for more instrumental performances and "a little less of this twangy guitar stuff!"). However, nobody wants the House Orchestra to scrape and squeak through an extract from a Beethoven Symphony; simple pieces are definitely preferable to hear. Occasionally, own compositions are included ranging from Mary Spragg's lyrical "Drifting Clouds" of 1962, to the folk song composed for the 1968 Festival by Jane Cunningham; in 1966 there was even a small composers competition organised by Mr. Newsome. Surely that is proof enough that we have produced musicians "by accident".

That is how music has evolved over the past ten years. The music of the next decade depends upon the school's desire, or otherwise, to participate. The "accidental" system will never convert us into a race of geniuses, and the musicians produced will rarely be adept enough to risk themselves in the hazardous world of the professional. Why, then, should we not ignore musical opportunities in our examination-orientated society? The answer is, that music is the language of emotional experiences, and by sharing in it, we will all have a richer education in living.

GOOD CAUSE Brigitte Chandler, Lower Six C.

This year a total of £65 was raised. During the Autumn Term sufficient was collected to enable us to send £17 to Shelter, £6 to the Pestalozzi Children's Village, and enough money was still left over for us to contribute to the Old Folk's Christmas party.

During the Spring Term we sent £9 each to The Buckingham Fund for the Blind, The Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation Trust, and the British Council for the Welfare of Spastics.

As usual, the money collected in the Summer Term served to finance an outing for the residents of the Leonard West old people's home. This year they were taken to Blenheim Palace.

The juniors have generally supported Good Cause collections more enthusiastically and regularly than the seniors. Next year, I hope the seniors will not allow themselves to be shown up and called "scrooges" by the juniors and give more regular and more generous support to the Good Cause.

THE SOCIAL SERVICES CLUB Hilary Merralls, Upper Six R.

When people consider "social service", their outlook is usually limited; they think only of service to the elderly. This year the Club has continued to prove this attitude wrong; girls come into contact with

14 people of all ages — from ten to eighty years — giving their companionship and assistance, while receiving an insight into the needs of others.

To prevent people from losing contact with the outside world is one of their primary concerns; this is especially so with the patients of the Manor House Hospital for Mentally Handicapped Children and St. John's Hospital. Visits to the former, although hard work, are rewarded by seeing a smile of delight spread over a child's face when a particular song is sung, or favourite flower or animal drawn. Similarly, patients of the latter hospital — perhaps at first difficult to approach — are always pleased to discuss their work or to obtain help in writing a letter.

Members visit the elderly at home or at "The Chestnuts" where young company is welcome at all times.

Through the Aylesbury Fish Scheme, the club has extended its activities: several girls visit the Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, doing practical jobs in the wards and helping to feed patients who are unable to move their arms — here again it is essential for patients to meet people outside their immediate environment.

During the next year it is hoped that, with vigorous support from the school, the Social Services Club will widen its interests still further.

JUNIOR SCHOOL LUNCH-HOUR ACTIVITIES ARRANGED BY THE LOWER SIXTH

A great deal of enthusiasm, ingenuity, and hard-work was put into the lunch-hour activities arranged for the first and second years, during the winter months. The Ballet Club, Team Games and Quizzes, were very popular; the Play-Reading Group was well supported, although the Stamp Club had few (but enthusiastic) members.

Comment on the activites is probably best supplied by the juniors themselves:- Forlorn but eager stamp collector: "I've run out of stamp hinges" Woodnymph, shivering at the memory: "I didn't like running round in a swimming costume all the time". (Referring to the production of ballet "Hansel and Gretel"). Second dedicated woodnymph: "I liked plastering make-up on". Shy angel: "My sister sat in the audience and laughed all through "Hansel and Gretel". Play-reader, with an eye to the future, "The play-reading gives you a good basis of plays for when you are older". A more light-hearted view of the same: "The sessions were very entertaining!" Clamouring mob of juniors: "Team games was marvellous, - Jolly good fun - I enjoyed it - especially when it was held outside — The Quizzes were good". Unanimous conclusion: "I want to do it again next year!"

The last comment was widespread and seems to indicate that the efforts of the Lower Sixth were greatly appreciated.

Janice Deung, Lower Six P.

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A CRUISE TO GEEECE DEC 1968

PHOTOGRAPHS byJ.Wilding PERSEUS Now at that Wedding Feast AND (of Perseus and Andromeda) ANDROMEDA Entered the Lordly Phineus; Of a great army he is leader. Up spoke he in voice so clear, "I have come to claim Andromeda, She's mine I do by my soul swear". Now brave young Perseus Springing to his feet Cried out, "Let all who hear and see, Be judge of whose she ought to be, The Monster whom she did so fear, Who saved her from it but me?" Then war broke out in that hall, And a never-ending flood of men Came pouring through the door. The number of Perseus' people small, But together they made a sturdy wall. Crashing, slashing, flashing of swords, The splashing of blood on the bare stone floors, The smashing of daggers on shields so strong, The dashing of men who lived not long. The lashing of spear driven into men's chests, The panting of a man, stopped for a rest. The crushing of men trodden underfoot. The hurling of knives so fast and true, The whirling of young men, old men too. The gashing of bodies, blood everywhere, The mashing of lives of those so dear, The rushing, gushing, swishing blood, The strain was too great for Perseus' men, Their hearts were heavy like molten lead And five figures long was the number of dead. So, out, with the Gorgon's head, In a trice the hall was silent again. The hard stone statues of writhing men, The cold, anguished look of the faces of them, For those with Perseus the fighting was done, The battle was over, Andromeda won.

17 THE YEAR'S VISITORS Nancy Kendall from California

Last September I arrived at Aylesbury High School wearing a knee-length dress and bright yellow plimsolls. Since then my skirts have risen by four to six inches, my plimsolls have been banished to games classes, and I can well understand why I got so many strange looks that first day. During the course of the year, I have made many adjustments besides these minor ones.

One radical change I found was the difference between the weather in my home state of California and here. It is not always sunny in California but, unlike here, the rain comes all at once in the winter. This leaves the summer with a pleasant, sunny, and boring weather situation (one has no chance to become bored with the weather here as it is constantly changing). Never having lived in snow, I found Christmas time a novel experience and enjoyed the snow long after every one else was completely fed up with it.

Food offered quite a difference as well. I came to expect "brussels" with every meal and custard on every pudding. I was always anxious to try out new foods and kept on eating the ones I liked even if, as in the case of crumpets, I had horrible indigestion afterwards.

Modes of transportation fascinated me. Although my family in America own a small "compact" car, it seems a monstrous tank next to most cars here. Distances are far greater in America; "just down the road" can be fifty miles. The adjustment here was unconscious; I get just as tired travelling two hundred miles here as I would doing six hundred miles at home.

Double-decker bus stairs were conquered after a few mishaps such as kicking the lady behind me as I scrambled up the steps or dropping my umbrella down the stairs on to the conductor's head. By the end of my year I could climb the stairs with two carrier bags and an armload of rhubarb with the leaves on (for my art lesson).

Undergrounds were much more frightening and it took me many trips to London to get used to them. We had to get from Victoria to Paddington with all of our luggage. I figured I was going to be the one who was left behind or run over but we all made it somehow.

Connected with transportation differences are the differences in dating between our two countries. In America the boy is expected to ring at least a week in advance for a date. If he is accepted he arrives in a) his own car, b) his parents' car, c) someone else's car — for a double date. The girl's parents will set a curfew for her to be home "or else", and off they go to a school dance, the cinema, a sports event, or a party. One date I had here began with a casual question on Friday afternoon — "Are you coming into town tonight?" and then "Would you like to play darts or something?" I went to meet my date in the Square but we stood at opposite ends for ten minutes before we realised it. The last bus home set a curfew for me.

One of the things which mystified me at first was British humour — although I have never had a sense of humour which included Jerry Lewis and Lucy, I was not quite prepared for David Frost. It took me a long time to stop taking serious-appearing statements seriously —such as Janet's tongue-in-cheek order for me to go outside and sing a song on Halloween to keep the witches away.

Household things were different: weighing out measurements in cooking, washing up without a machine,

18 having a bath instead of a shower and washing my long hair in the kitchen sink. Shopping nearly every day fascinated me because at home we probably go once a fortnight and put all of the food into the freezer.

The differences between my schools are quite large. My high school in America was co-educational, comprehensive, and had two thousand four hundred students, quite a difference from the High School with seven hundred girls. It was a welcome surprise to find classes of twenty girls rather than forty. The depth of study in the English grammar school is impressive; an American student will cover many subjects in his high school years at far less depth.

Despite what looks like an enormous list of differences, people are always bridges to the gap. After the initial reserve dissolved, I found warm and lasting friendships here which I shall remember always.

ARLETTE MONGELARD FROM FRANCE

Nearly on my departure, I must confess that it is in a very sad mood I am writing these few words. Indeed I just realise how quickly time has gone! I wish I could stay longer. .. turning back to these past ten months brings to me nothing but nice memories; (let's just forget about the weather which in the end doesn't matter very much). About my visits and "adventurous hitching trips" all over England I could write pages but, above all, Bucks will always come first to my mind as a lovely picturesque county; moreover, it does mean a lot for me as being the home of people I have come to know and like very much. As far as the school is concerned, all I can say is that it is a marvellous one. When I first came I immediately realised how different it was from a French school: here no harsh discipline; just what is necessary. I mean to say you don't feel it, and, especially there is a "human" atmosphere; you do get the feeling you are sharing the life of a community with all that implies. The French schools have a lot to learn from yours .... I do thank Miss Camp and the teachers. I will never forget their kindness and the way they include you in all sorts of interesting activities. It is why I feel sad to leave the school, it is why I am sad to leave all the friends I have made during my stay in England — so, I won't say good-bye butAU REVOIR.

ANNETTE LAUFER FROM GERMANY

Having been in this country for such a long time makes it very difficult for me to write something about it, because I can't really be objective.

The impression of the beautiful countryside, the kind people - and the Aylesbury High School - are still so very much alive and form a picture which will always be in the background of my mind. Until I return to my country I shall not realise what I have had to leave behind me.

I have been very happy in the school, which is mainly due to the fact that I've felt at home here. The staff were helpful — and patient, which I appreciated so much, because not only the language was strange to me but also the kind of work I was expected to do. I am especially grateful to my head of department who was always ready for advice and help. The girls in the school made teaching even more pleasant for me, and it was that relaxed atmosphere which I came to like so much.

happened to have my 21st birthday in this country and was absolutely overwhelmed by all the surprises,

19 which staff and girls had prepared for me. A lovely Wedgewood pendant will always remind me of that!

Having become so friendly with the other assistants was simply marvellous and it will make me very sad indeed that I'll not only have to say good-bye, but also Au Revoir and Adios.

Owing to a very generous amount of holidays, Arlette and I were given the opportunity of travelling through Great Britain which we enjoyed so much.

Being on the point of leaving this country brings once more all the memories back of a wonderful year I have been allowed to spend here. For the first time in my life I actually realised what Shakespeare meant by "this precious stone set in the silver sea".

Vielen dank und herzliche Grusse. operation Uganda

TWO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CAMPAIGN The Visits of the High Commissioner Dr. Asea on June 18th and later his family

Following Miss Camp's stay in Kampala, Uganda - during the year 1964-5 - as an inspector of Secondary Education, the school has maintained and increased its interest in that country; this has been achieved by raising money to pay the school fees of certain Ugandan girls. Education, which is not free, is regarded as a great privilege in Uganda and it is important that the opportunities to obtain such a privilege should be increased — this illustrates the value of our help. The climax of "Operation Uganda" came in 1968 with the visit of the High Commissioner Dr. Asea, with two of his members of staff; we were equally delighted when, later that year, his wife and two children visited the High School. Our connections have become one of the most outward-looking aspects of the

20 school: girls have been "adopted" by the staff usually happens in Uganda because many people and pupils. send their children to school when they are about nine years of age. In Uganda it is difficult to find Following are extracts from letters by Elizabeth any child of your age in the form you are now. Nagudi Mukoki and also a charming letter from the brother of Ruth Nsasiirwe expressing his deepest thanks for the help we have given his To Miss Camp. sister. Thank you very much for the marvellous blouse and necklace you sent me. You have made me very happy. . . I was pleased to receive such lovely Tororo Girls School gifts. How kind you are, to think of me as your To Elizabeth Sunley. own daughter. I realize how much you all love I will now tell you about myself. I am 17 years me, when I see all of these things. I think of you old. My birthday is on July 24th and I am in the as my mother and the students as my sisters. I third form of the above mentioned school. You am most grateful for your kindness towards me.

To Miss Camp. We started our third term on 12th September. Since then I have been trying very hard to do well in my studies. This term I have done well in Home Economics, Geography, Home Commerce and English. I hope to work harder next time.

As we are one hundred girls in one class, the headmistress said that each of us has to choose the course she will have to take next year. These were the curriculum offered: Academic, Home Economics, Commerce — with the help of the director of guidance I have chosen Home Economics. These are the subjects I will have to take in Home Economics course: English, Maths, Geography, History, General Science, Art (all of these are compulsory in each course), Home Economics and Needlework.

The Lord being my guide I hope to do my best.

Photographs by The This term we are doing cookery and half of my Bucks Herald and class are sewing. Cookery is a very interesting Miss J. Williams subject. I like it very much. In this section, they teach us how to entertain people and how to cook good food for a sick person. I hope this is can see that I am much older than you yet in a going to help me very much to deal with sick lower form than yours! All girls in the third people in the hospital as I hope to be a nurse form are of my age and some are older. This one day.

21 To Liz Sunley. off to a teachers' college where after completing We came from the so-called holidays two weeks four years she finished as a mistress. We now both ago. During these holidays we usually don't hold the responsibility of Ruth in Senior 3 and visit any far or distant places. We stay home and Beatrace in Senior 4 in the same school. Frankly help parents to pick coffee and other crops. You speaking if Mrs. Joan Cox the Headmistress of people are very lucky because you visit many Gayaza High School isn't a good lady my two places and you learn more things than we do sisters would have been expelled from her school here Let me tell you one of our customs because of school fees. On top of that we have a in my tribe. Circumcision is one of the oldest brother in Senior 2 and other young sisters in customs which the Bugisu don't want to abolish. Primary Section 7, 4, 2 and 1 classes respectively. It is performed only on boys between sixteen The little money we two are earning can not make and eighteen years of age. Sounds incredible it is our both ends meet. We have tried our best, true, this circumcision is performed even on however, to see that all our sisters and brothers girls in one of the tribes here — Sebei district. don't remain behind, despite the fact that our It is a sign of entering manhood in Bugisu and father is now unemployed. womanhood in Sebei. Circumcision season comes once in every two years. The whole district is This now gives you a clear picture of our filled with melodies, dances, aromas from roast position and how thankful we are to you. God chicken and roast meat. The bells and the will never leave his sheep unattended. So you whistles are put in their best use. There is really represented him and played a greater part friendliness and life twenty-four hours a day. in our progress. The same sincere thanks I have passed to Mrs. Joan Cox for having selected my sister from all those hundreds of children in her school. May God bless you and give you more A Letter from Abonia Nsasiirwe. than you give his lost sheep.

It gives me great pleasure to spare this time to INDIA'S PEOPLE pass to you my few words of thanks and apprec- iation; for what you did to my sister Ruth, a Dale Glenny 2P student at Gayaza High School (Uganda). I was very much pleased when I learnt from my sister Elephants swaying to and fro. (Ruth Komugisha) that was awarded bursary of Tigers crouching, ready to spring. 500/- from you. In our language called Runyankole from the western side of Uganda, They are free to come and go Ruth's second name means Luck. Or eat as they should please. Concisely we are born 11 children in our poor Family, 8 of us are girls and three we are boys But India's people are as grains of sand all of us brilliant with regards to class work at school. Our father is a retired lay reader, in the Lost to poverty and white-man's hand. then Anglican Church now Church of Uganda. Worshipping idols, offerings tomorrow, He struggled with the little money he was paid to pay my school fees and my two sisters who Diseases, starvation add to their sorrow. follow me. In 1964 I was taken into the Uganda Police Force after he had failed to pay my But still these people carry on. school fees though I passed with Grade 1 at the Senior Entrance exams. My Sister also branched India's people struggle on.

22 TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

Ann Stobo 1959-61 Roger Simpson 1965-66 Some time after I left Ayles- I am looking out of the bury High School I saw an advertisement for window at clumps of pink oleander, incompre- teachers of English in Sweden with an organis- hensible stray paraphernalia of the Bahrain ation called The British Centre which employs Petroleum Company - then desert to the low qualified teachers from England on one-year horizon. Out there the temperature is 102° in contracts which include a month of intensive the shade (if there were any). In here we are training in teaching English as a foreign lang- airconditioned to a jacket-and-tie temperature uage. and we are planning the initial course of the Gulf Technical College, using a language My training course was held in Stockholm which laboratory, making ourselves tea, ordering books is a beautiful city built on a series of islands. and equipment from England, and teaching the As well as attractive old streets and houses it first batch of students, sixteen of whom are from' has fantastically modern suburbs. Much to my Bahrain, the other nine from Abu Dhabi relief most people there understand English. (now one of the richest countries in the world, with a ruler who offered to buy the Colosseum, From Stockholm I was sent to a provincial Eiffel tower, and Piccadilly Circus on a recent town. Boras, on the West side of the country. visit to Europe). The College I came to teach in There many people did not speak English so hasn't been built, won't be for over a year yet, so teaching was great fun: such sights as an we are using temporary premises in the Bahrain elderly gentleman holding aloft a plastic Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of Caltex. elephant and asking "Am I a cat?" are unforgettable. There is never a dull moment. I like (as an out- sider) listening to the dramatic hustling of the oil- The winter that year was the severest for company operators, most of whom are being ninety years and it was essential to learn how "phased-out, filed, and paid-off" and so the to ski — so that I could join in the national gloomy corridors are full of secret conversations, week-end entertainment. I learned only because rancorous hatred and echoing shouts of "Don't I was so afraid of being left alone in the heavy try to fall-guy me, you're the one for the axe!!" Swedish forests when my instructors said "Follow me". I still find that I descend all slopes on my When I leave at 1.40 to drive the twelve miles bottom, screaming, while the little white-blond home, once I leave Awali, where a few hundred Swedish babies of three glide down gracefully. British have raised a privet-hedged suburbia from the wilderness, the desert is throbbing with the For the past three years I have worked in simoom, the sharp lunar escarpments softened Stockholm. As well as teaching I have taken by the haze, the tarmac always holding out the part for two years in two school radio pro- promise of water in a mirage a hundred yards grammes for ten and eleven-year-olds and in ahead. In Rafaa, the country-seat of the Sheiks, some television programmes for nine-year-olds, I pass Sheikh Mohammed's fifty horses in their besides producing tapes to go with a series corall and the small cabbage-garden he seems of English text books and writing some short to be carving out for himself from the eternal stories for use in schools. At this moment sands. Further on are the palace of the Ruler when I am about to leave Sweden I realise (Sheikh Isa), a new ghost town where the that if I don't leave now I shall stay for ever. College will eventually be, and then groves of

23 date-palms on the outskirts of the capital, copper, brass and carpet merchants; the lofty Manama, whose streets are deserted in the sun of meat, fruit and vegetable bazaars where the mid-day. When I enter the house, the living-room vendors squat, loll and haggle among iridescent feels refreshingly cool at 90° or, if the aircon- piles of sub-tropical produce and open sacks of ditioner has been on, positively chilly at 80°. tea and spices.

Manama has packed a thousand years of develop- Although there is a speculative unease about ment into two decades, it is a hotch-potch of all British withdrawal in 1971 and although this is styles, periods, races and codes of behaviour. In the Middle East, it is all very calm and friendly. front of my own house there is an old-fashioned The Arabs are a very genuine, hospitable, well- Arab dwelling; heavily latticed windows and a mannered, and likeable people. In spite of the blank mud wall surrounding a central enclosure, political superstructure, there is an easy, natural, in one five-square-yard area of which the owner and informal democracy: one man is held to be as has inserted a small farm where he keeps his cow, good as another whatever his birth or income. goat, geese and chickens and grows his dates. To Anyone can go uninvited to the palace in the the left are English-occupied semi-detacheds; to morning to see and talk to the Ruler. You never the rear a lavishly built modern European house meet the arrogance or cowering that pervades the where a very rich Bahrain! family sit glued Indian sub-continent. around the Saudi Arabian TV programmes. To the right are ramshackle, hastily-fabricated sheds The island being only thirty miles long and eight of planks, disused advertisements and dried across, one has visited most of the important reeds, with open plan sewage, where the very places within a week: the fifteenth century poor sweat out some kind of existence. Portugese fort where one can pick up large fossils by the handful; the palm-fringed beaches that All the taxis are magenta Chevrolets but the lie all round the coast; the aerodrome where just drinking water and garbage are pulled about by before sunset the RAF Hunters thunder steeply white donkeys. On a block of luxury flats you up to patrol the Gulf, in the twilight years of the see a caged falcon. At the College, a student British presence. may dress in traditional head-dress and flowing robes but as he leaves the classroom he lights a In the evening I wander about the garden, apprais- Rothman before driving off in his Volkswagen. ing the growth of our bananas, jasmine, oleanders, Most Bahrain! women are either in total seclus- flame-tree, cactus, roses, poinsettia, sugarcane, ion or only appear veiled and swathed in black sunflowers and hollyhocks, and wonder whether beyond the toes. There are juke-box cafes, the fig-tree and the bougainvillea will grow. supermarkets; the shops sell everything from Over the wall of the neighbouring house, I watch Nuits St. Georges and Deutschmarks to Kosher the dates slowly browning and maturing now, Dill Chips. There is a lot of barbarically tankers sound their sirens out in the Gulf and the ostentatious wealth, influenced by the trashiest muezzin calls the believers to prayer. All very Western taste, and some poverty (insignificant softly nostalgic if one could dismiss the suspicion by Pakistani standards) though most people that the call from the minaret is tape-recorded. seem able to afford gold-fillings. In the shady narrow back-streets the East still lingers on in the Moorish overhanging balconies; the rows of tiny shops in which cluster Lahore tailors; Indian sweetmeat stalls perfumed by Joss-sticks;

24 some old girls 1959-1959

Jane Elliott 1960 Elizabeth Stanton 1960 Elizabeth Kenworthy 1961 Shirley Foster 1961 Maureen Oakley 1961 15 Pat Marsh 1966 Jennifer Moreton 1961 16 Diana Woodward 1966 Valerie Dodd 1962 17 Sydney Bay ley 1967 8 Paddy Ryman 1963 18 Gillian Cox 1967 9 Judith Moorhouse 1963 19 Diane Hayter 1967 10 Marilyn Collings 1964 20 Rosemary Gimson 1967 11 Diane Davies 1964 21 Ruth Purton 1967 12 Susan Annat 1965 22 Jean Pooley 1967 13 Angela Ravens 1965 23 Jane Eeley 1968 14 Pennie Cranmer 1966 24 Vanessa Fletcher 1969

25 MY AUSTRALIA Dorothy Oxley (1964)

To me, Australia has lost its public image of sheep, kangaroos, and red-dust landscapes reminiscent of the moon. My Australia is water, chip heaters, little terraced houses, people, and friendship — these being the main impressions that will remain with me.

Water - because I adore it, especially the sea. On the journeys there and back it represented a fascinating link between such ports as Dakar, Cape Town, Durban, Freemantle, Adelaid, Sydney, Brisbane, Papeete, Christobal, Curacao, Lisbon, and Southampton. In Australia, it meant the oyster beds of the Hawkesbury river over which I crossed daily in a packed commuter train while I lived in Way Way, a fisherman's paradise on a complex of inlets, dotted with mangroves and little islands, one of which boasted a pelican colony. Way Way means 'much water'. In Sydney, it meant the harbour, crowded with ferries and crazy little yachts. It meant a short walk to the nearest in-harbour beach, or 157- bus rides to Bronke, Bondi, Maraboura or Watson's Bay, or lying in bed in my flat and hearing the hoot of tugs.

Chip-heaters - because one of these purely Australian monsters supplied my bath-water in Way Way. You feed it with 'wood, old cigarette boxes, and sweet papers — it then heats and spills out water — yellow water, because the contraption is rusty.

Little Terraced Houses - with wrought iron balconies - because these were a hallmark of Paddington, Sydney, where my flat was. Paddington was at first a slum, then an artists' colony, then fashionable, then (as it was when I lived there) a real mixture. "Society" in general had moved to newer, more fashionable, quarters. Some of the original inhabitants remained, and some of the artists; occasionally the sun brought them out on to the pavements to paint. The rest were Greek and Italian immigrants, and flat-dwelling itinerants, like myself. Hilly Paddington — disreputable Paddington, next to the brothels of Darlinghurst and the night-clubs of Kings Cross - noisy Paddington, with the Stadium not far down the road from me, offering pop groups, wrestling and roller games — beautiful Paddington of the fifty acre park, and harbour views - above all, friendly Paddington.

People — because in Australia they are so genuine. They expect you to treat their houses as your own, drop in any time. I had friends from work, of course - and, through the church I attended, many in Paddington itself. Never believe Australians are hard to get on with. They resent no 'Pommie' who doesn't expect them to kow-tow or put out the red carpet. Strongly independent, they are justly proud of their ability to be good "mates".

Among the "people" include "characters". Paddington was full of them. Not all "nice". From Kings Cross came the prostitutes, and the sex deviants, including a crop of homosexuals and fringe cases who worked at the impersonators'night club, 'Les Girls'. It was a hiding-place for teenage runaways, and violence was not unknown. A boy in our parish was beaten up and killed in an area through which I walked regularly, and I was myself able to stop two chaps from setting on a nice old man who, every evening, went round feeding the district's stray cats. Then, there were the drug addicts, waiting around the all-night chemists until just gone 11 p.m. when the next day's supply becomes available.

Friendship — because Australia gave me so much in this respect: the vicar of St. George's and his family, including Esther, who hopes to come here one day; Christine and her family and grandmother, whom I met on visitation and who made me "at home" every time I called; Mrs. Blackmore, a paraplegic with a sick husband who yet manages to keep three dogs, several cats, and an aviary, with many injured or stray birds she adopted; Nick and Anita, my landlords — and so many others, all part of my Australia.

26 CANADA Diane Davies {1964)

Out of all my impressions and experiences of life in Canada, one of the most vivid memories will be of the very cold and long winter, which seemed to go on and on. While England shivered in her "Arctic freeze of 32°", to quote "The Sunday Times", I was struggling to school through feet of snow and temperatures of between 25" and 35° below zero. I often wondered if I would ever see soil again and our garden disappeared beneath four to five feet of snow. One of the biggest drifts was about fifteen feet high and another one reached well over the roof of our single-storey school. The extreme temperatures were fairly easy to bear as the cold here is much drier than in England. The hardship came when the winds got up and they often did, sometimes to speeds of 70 to 80 miles per hour, but more usually speeds of 40 to 50 m.p.h.

Teaching here has been quote an experience in itself. Much of the first week was spent answering questions such as "Is the smog really bad?", "Do English children hate school as much as we do?", "How short are the skirts in England?", and many, many more of varying types. I then had to struggle to adjust my pronunciation of various words and to use different words so that I would be understood. Not for the Canadians is nought "nought" but "zero"; aluminium is "A-/u-min-ium"; trousers are pants.

As I was being driven to Mossbank by my principal (a word I had to learn to use) the almost unbelievable flatness of the Prairies hit me. I had been told that they were flat, but if you put the Chiltern Hills down in some parts of the Prairies they would be considered small. It is difficult to comprehend the flatness before seeing it and for a while I felt shut in by the sheer expanse surrounding me.

Perhaps an even bigger initial shock was Mossbank, but now I have become quite attached to this little town. It has a population of 650, of whom, so I'm told, at least 52 are widows! Many of the 450 school children come from the country and travel upwards of twenty-five miles to school in the morning and then twenty-five miles back home at the end of school. This has two main effects on school life that I can see. The first is that we lost a-few days of schooling last winter because of blizzards and impassable roads. The other effect is that after-school activities are often restricted because the pupils must go home. However I did manage to overcome this latter with a small group that I had interested in drama and at Christmas I produced a Christmas Pageant (with grateful thanks to Miss Cattell). In Mossbank none of the roads are paved, i.e. none of them have a concrete or tarmac surface and after any rain they become rivers of mud. For a while I wondered if one day I would walk down the Main Street to find a number of horses hitched outside the bar, but there are no longer any hitching posts and all you ever see are cars most of which are fairly recent models. Mossbank is the centre of a large farming area and consequently boasts two banks, two cafes, a hotel, three stores, three garages, and a post office, which I patronise frequently. Better choice is available in Moose Jaw or Regina, 46 and 92 miles away respectively, but of course distance here is nowhere near the barrier to travel that it can be in England.

Next September I shall be teaching at Beaconsfield High School. I have thoroughly enjoyed and found very worth while my time out here; it has taught me a great deal about other people and a different way of life.

27 LAW AT KING'S COLLEGE. LONDON Ruth Purton 1967

I am now experiencing my second year as an undergraduate in the Faculty of Law in the University of London and, lest the full title should sound too pompous, I gladly add that I have found King's to be a peculiarly friendly, even homely college. The buildings themselves are very much like the Law; they do not appear to have been planned particularly but to have "just growed" rather as Topsey did, other property adjoining the original premises being acquired from time to time as the needs of the day demanded. There is, however, an imposing and rather beautiful new block being built, fronting on to the Strand; but for the present, King's is as rambling as ever, and looks like remaining so for some several score years at least. Thus King's is the only college in the world to have within its precincts an underground station (Aldwych), Roman baths, (for whose Latinity no reputable authority will vouch), two disused hotels (the Chesham and the Norfolk) and several disused shops, all used in various ways by the college. Those of you who have experience of The Old Barn will realise it was good training for King's!

"What is university life like?" Well, of course it varies with each university and undergraduate.

On coming up to King's in October 1967, my first discovery was that I had changed my status and was now held to be a woman and not a girl: I was addressed as Miss Purton by all, including my fellow- undergraduates (at least in tutorials); that Common Room reserved exclusively for female students was called the Women's Common Room; and the Gentlemen gave us precedence through door-ways and upon the stairs.

My second discovery was a corollary of the first, namely that I would now never be told anything (apart, that is, from instruction in my subject) but would be left to find it out for myself, mainly by consulting the various notice-boards. This proved to be the only way of ascertaining such matters as my timetable, who were my tutors, where and when they would be found; what societies there were and what each offered; what future events were being planned — even when and where my examinations would be. However this second discovery came more forcibly to my attention after the first few days, because I had a very good college "Mother" who told me all she knew and guided me around the building and introduced me to my friends. Also there was a "Freshers' Squash", a sort of bazaar at which every society was represented and displayed its wares, hoping for patronage. Similarly the Students' Union (which all undergraduates have to join) issued us with a wad of papers and information and maps, both of King's itself and of London.

My third and possibly most important discovery was that it was now not only unwise and discourteous to slack a little now and then, but virtually disastrous since continuance at King's depends upon passing the Summer examinations — and except in the most extraordinary circumstances there is not provision for retaking a year in the event of failure - hence the numbers of haggard students one sees round May and June!

However there is the other side of "university life", the more spectacular side, comprising the debates and recitals and plays and societies and society dinners and balls and Union meetings, both in the university, in the college and in the faculty; and each is a miniature of the happenings of the mighty city upon our doorstep. Here then is enough culture, excitement, and activity for anyone.

If then, you like your course and like your college, "university life" is fascinating: if otherwise, it is probably miserable; but since universities, colleges and faculties differ, there is room for choice for us all, and so to those of you who are applying to university I hope you will be as happily suited as I am.

28 TEN MONTHS AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE VOLUNTEER Jane Eeley 1968

Having originally volunteered for only six months of Community Service. I extended my period as I found it so very worthwhile.

Feeling very relieved that I didn't have to do a scrap of study for eighteen months I set off for a year of fun. When I realised that the phrase "Unless you are prepared for real work, don't volunteer" was in fact true, I didn't mind because part of the fun in this work is a direct result of working hard. I was sent to a social centre in Cardiff where half my job was general office work. There was also field work which involved visiting prospective cases, assessing what needed doing and checking after volunteers had called. There were lectures to school and adult groups, meetings to attend, reports to write, and emergencies to cope with. On one occasion I had to get some girls from the hostel where I was staying to organise a rota at a house where the mother had left, the father was on night work, and there were three little children to cope with. Two of us went each night and cooked, bathed the children and slept at the house. This sort of unusual request was quite normal!

The scheme co-ordinated the activities of professional social workers, officials and groups of young volunteers and this involved meeting a great variety of people.

Having postponed my university entry for one year I can see only advantages in having done so. First, leaving secondary school and going on to further education coincides for most people with leaving home: there are many adjustments to make — involving re-orientating oneself as an individual instead of a member of a family. To have your first year away from home free from academic pressure allows you time to re-adjust sensibly your private life away from home without the dramatic changes characteristic of many first-year students — changes are natural and desirable, but it is their rapidity which is so unnatural and often leaves the young person quite bewildered. It also gives you an opportunity to play a responsible role in the community a good three years before you would other- rise be able to do so. You get to know a little more "what life is all about".

The opportunities are varied and exciting: it is a unique chance to do something in a voluntary capacity you might never be able to do in quite the same way again . .. Volunteers are often, though not always, left to their own devices and this sometimes produces amazing results! — results which professionals, tied hand and foot by time and red tape, could not hope for. A difficult old person will often accept an informal evening's chat with a young unbiased person who wants to share interests, but might refuse a social worker who would be regarded as "charity", and "from the welfare". As a volunteer you have the chance to give instead of receive, and through genuine personal service come to realise more fully your value as part of the community, outside the school situation. The break from organised A-level work is good and refreshing. The one and only setback is that you get out of the habit of learning, but I hope I may make up for this by approaching book-learning in a more adult and less rigid way. I think I shall be better adjusted to make more use of university life, and see studies as a means to an end.

I will never regret my decision in postponing my university entry and I would recommend Voluntary Community Service without reservations.

29 ILLUSIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD.

A time of doubt and transgression. The stability of life, gone With the innocence of uncomplicated existence. Once wrapped in a shroud of childhood, ,';.'-,'. Now in a fabricated world of pretence, «,'••••" ''.» Draped by a shroud of reflecting light

„ . .% Yet submerged in the darkness of midnight. .'.'' ' "> Lost in a place of dim recollection Smitten with the blinding twist of time, To cascade in a kaleidoscope of grey. And still I wait for the motion to cease Before stepping out of the maze Now far from that era of peace.

Christine Cawley Upper Six R.

BATH AT DUSK

Outside, the fluid sun melts into the dwindling clear of sky; fragile light flakes on the window, and the water reverberates with refracted petals.

The earth, receding warmth dissolves amongst gelatinous beads of cloud, poised on a greased sky. From the bath, calories of sinuous heat trail treacherously away to mingle with the textured air, as thick with fragmentary light, the dusks of night sift through the glaze.

A chill calm washes against my somnolence-crusted eye; the night breathes, for the petals curl and and fade.

Susan Chappell 5M.

30 IN DEFENCE OF THE DIP. A.D.

I can remember, on my last day at Aylesbury High School, crossing my name out of the front of the text books, tossing them over my shoulder, and announcing rather smugly: "No more learning for me, I'm off to Art School!" So off I went to become a "Dip A.D." Guinea Pig. A new degree had come into existence called the Diploma in Art and Design. When I entered Art School, no one could claim to be a Dip. A.D. and in fact no one knew exactly what it was. All we were aware of was the fact that we had to set a standard for others to follow. The basic idea of the degree was to give artists a training that would give them a status hitherto unknown — to train them to become art directors and to sit on equal terms with a board of directors at a conference table and have a say in the running of an organisation. So the course was extremely broad. We studied psychology, philosophy, sociology, the history of art, as well as specialising in a practical field of art, such as furniture design, interior design, textile design, industrial design, graphic design, ceramics, or silversmithing. Much of the unrest in art schools today, stems from the belief among some students, that the Dip. A.D. should not be an academic training. They feel that if an artist is a good artist, that is all that matters. However I am in favour of keeping the degree academically orientated. An artist, in order to sell his work today, has to compete with many others. He has to communicate at many levels and convince his clients that what he has to offer is best. Without a training designed to develop his powers of persuasion and his facilities for understanding, he is lost. After studying graphic design at the London College of Printing, I joined an educational publishing firm as a graphic and typographic designer, where this academic training has proved invaluable. Not only am I able to persuade scientists that I can arrange their equations better than they can, but I am also able to convince my director that it is worth while to spend an extra £500 for another colour on a give-way leaflet! But it's the old, old story, G.B. does not fully appreciate the potential of a graphic designer yet, so I'm off to Canada and the States to learn subtleties in "the art of persuasion". While I'm away — don't anyone dare change the Dip.A.D.!

Marie-Louise Luxemburg 1964 31 A SAGA OF THREE YEARS Lorna Crook 1966

I was faced with the outside world at nineteen, thinking I knew all there was to know about the wide and wonderful world of Art. Armed with my requisite six 0-levels and two A's, I prepared to rock art to its foundations: I headed for my chosen college for what, in the college's opinion should have been a highly successful Pre-Diploma year, and in very little time I became uncertain as to why I was there, and even wondered why I was alive.

I would warn anyone who crosses the same portals, to make sure their nerves are of cast-iron and check that they will not mind having to trample over all competition in order to achieve success. They will be expected to turn out work like an artistic battery hen, and should they be "uninspired", the lecturers will try a little friendly psycho-analysis to assist them! If they have any artistic sensibility or sincerity the course will artistically paralyse them.

I struggled through that course and passed with a first class pass to take a course in painting. Being foolish enough to take the College's advice as to where I should apply to do this, I was advised to try Camberwell College, which rejected me because my art was "too abstract". I feel the College should have known this before sending rne there.

After this saga, I was left with a year to fill in before I could apply anywhere else. Here luck stepped in and I obtained a post as a student teacher in a delightful village school, as a teacher of juniors. I sincerely can say that this was one of the happiest years of my short life; the school was a huge family, only too willing to accept me.

I soon discovered children's art is a delight and found how experimental they can be if given lots of paint, space and paper. We made art together: often when the Head entered the class, he would be obliged to dig me out of the middle of a huge pile of "inspired" children, who had wanted me to join in.

I can truly say that in this year at school, I found myself and what I really wanted to do. Things I had learnt at college began to fall into place and I used their ideas with children. Juniors are amazingly receptive to innovation and modern ideas; — we really did learn together.

At the end of my year, I was to have re-applied to Art School, but on going back to college, I again felt the atmosphere of tension and stress, so simply tore up the application papers and applied to Training College and University.

I was accepted in my first choice Training College — Trent Park. I found that I was by no means the only older entry student, and last September I began the course.

College has taught me a lot, mainly about myself. I have loved nearly every minute of it, from teaching practice to college dances. I have now decided to teach secondary school children, and am considering staying on at the end of the course to take a B.Ed, degree.

One word to those of you who may be applying for further education. If in doubt, don't. Life is long enough for you to "shop around" - there are too many square pegs in round holes in our society. Too many people apply to training college simply because they have been told university is out. I know, I nearly did it myself at one point.

Live your life, don't let it live you.

32 MY CAREER IN "MARKS AND SPARKS" Jill Morley 1968

It is now a year since I left school in Aylesbury and moved to Newport, Monmouthshire. At this time I had no idea what I was going to do as my career, providing that I passed my A-levels. I had, however, always had very definite ideas what I did not want to do - teaching, nursing, coal mining! Up till then no one had come up with a job that sounded really varied and interesting.

I expect that there are some girls this year who are in the same position as I was, and by now they are wondering how to apply for the dole, or scanning the "situations vacant" column of the paper for the tenth time.

I eventually went along to the Careers Officer in Newport who suggested a career in the retail trade. What attracted me to Marks and Spencer was that they offer so many different opportunities for school-leavers, depending on their standard of education; it is shop-work with a "difference", where you can work your way up from the sales floor into management.

I entered Marks and Spencer as a junior trainee; preference is given to girls who have taken one or more A-levels, although a high standard is not essential. By far the greater number of opportunities occur in the stores, although there are vacancies from time to time at Head Office in London. If my training at Newport is successful I hope to go into staff management.

The length of training varies according to individual progress but the average is about two years, during which time the trainee gains experience in all the departments of the store including the stockroom and office. During the first six months I trained as a sales assistant on children's wear, slips, and in the food section. I did everything from sweeping the floor to weighing bananas!

Over the Christmas period I was on slips and it was amazing to see the colourful displays disappearing until, by Christmas Eve, not one coloured slip was to be seen!! After six months as a sales assistant I became a trainee supervisor on the footwear department, and this is where I am at the moment, until I become a departmental supervisor for about a year. The job of a supervisor is a very responsible and varied one, and would appeal to anyone who enjoys meeting and dealing with people.

Whatever section you are on there are always incidents which stick in your mind, such as the middle- aged assistant who bragged she could do a handstand and was in the upright position just as the departmental manager rounded the corner — to be greeted by a pair of bright red "long Johns"!

More spectacular was the time when one assistant dropped the fire extinguisher she was cleaning. Luckily there were no customers around when it went off, but none of us could help because we were laughing too much - she had to go and have her hair done and dry off - she looked like Ken Dodd after one of his shows!

The factor which draws most of the girls to "M & S" is the excellent facilities which are provided very cheaply within the store. We have a doctor, dentist, chiropodist, and hairdresser; canteen meals are very cheap and staff are given discount on their purchases in the store. There are opportunities at all levels and if a girl shows her ability in any particular field she will be given further training and responsibilities.

For anyone interested in meeting people, and in the retail trade, a firm such as Marks and Spencer which is patronised by pop stars and royalty, and has over two hundred and forty branches all over the British Isles offers a varied, rewarding, and well paid career.

33 A CAREER IN MUSIC Gillian Smith (nee Wright) 1963

My three-year-course at the Royal Academy of Naturally the Academy lacked any social group Music (London) was unforgettable. Being eligible (except for a floundering Christian Society) and to try for entrance after only one year in the sixth any social facility. The canteen, situated amongst form, I was fortunate to be accepted uncondit- the ancient plumbing in the basement, was cheap, ionally for the graduate course: my musical but restricted and uninviting in every sense. qualifications included Grade Eight piano. Grade Dedication to music was expected and received — Six cello, orchestral experience and, what proved no chatter here about world events and little about invaluable, school music festival efforts. the opposite sex, or pop groups. Squares we were, but all squares together. I had slogged to obtain nine O-levels: a young musician, more than any other career-minded No accommodation was provided: all-male, all- person, faces a continual pull of conscience female, or mixed groups occupied flats well into between the inevitably hated compulsory home- the suburbs but this created the disheartening work in other subjects and the essential many problem of practice-time agreements (ten a.m. to hours of practice: for this art depends as much on six p.m. only), travelling to neighbouring parts to physical capabilities as on understanding, commit- practise on anything approaching a decent piano, ment, love. and a continual feeling of suppression and depression. Of course if you cared to travel back The graduate course ended with a London degree to the Academy and queue for sometimes two qualification officially enabling one to teach in hours you might be lucky enough to be graciously any field. As well as having to obtain an LRAM in given a key to one of the two hundred rooms in a first study, in the second year an almost equal the building. But even then at nine p.m. you were standard was essential in a second study as well thrown out by Paddy, a moody doorman — and I as a high standard in aural, harmony, keyboard- never could stand the noise in the semi-sound- harmony, theory,and score reading. proofed rooms. Everytime you stopped playing, a clarinet would squeak up to a top E-flat in one The rrst of the time we were expected to practise, of the too numerous, too difficult, and too pain- practise, and practise. The annual intake on the ful compositions by a contemporary composer . .. graduate course was under one hundred and an or the organist would pull out all stops in a tiny additional but very limited number took the room on the top floor... or a wretched fellow performers' course. This might last from one to pianist would show off how he could play the six years with virtually no lower age limit... a second inversion of F sharp major arpeggio or somewhat disconcerting experience to find a something equally impossible and incomprehen- fourteen-year-old playing concertos from memory sible. Still, at the end of those three years, there with the best of the three student orchestras at we all were, praying for a good board of examiners, the academy! for decent exam questions in our three-hour written papers and, far more important, that Besides these orchestras, there is a tremendously memories would not fail on those long-practised live opera class which stages full-scale works, a pieces or those nightmare orchestral scores to be chamber orchestra and weekly semi-public pianistically interpreted (Now, the clarinets go concerts in which students can play solo or in up a note from the written one, the violas change groups, and play not only a recognised repertoire into the treble clef and go up a note, cellos into but works by their composer-colleagues. Absolutely the bass clef, and down a note, the bassoons — every instrument is catered for from organ and the horns — or was it all the other way round?) harpsicord to guitar and percussion - for this is HELP! "How I wish I'd done more practice". one of the four main musical institutions in the The repetition of this phrase echoes round and country, supplying not only a percentage of round the five-floored, red-bricked Victorian England's but of Europe's musicians. Students of monstrosity for weeks and suddenly you're out many nationalities were present, including the on the lake in Regents' Park. Free at last? Or will inevitable colony of Welsh singers and groups of you have to re-take next year? The results avail- superb Chinese pianists.

34 able for the world to see on the notice board are College of Further Education with the more there the week after the exams. Someone stimulating 0- and A-level teaching. This, in whispers that you have passed, a rush to join the between the private teaching, evening classes, throng - of course your name isn't there - being formation of a junior and youth choir, organising at the very end of the alphabet the W's have a the local music festival, orchestral playing, separate sheet of paper. But it's all right. concerts, courses in music therapy, and giving pompous advice to those just beginning a career And so, out into the world of teaching - Dip Ed's in music - oh, and incidentally getting married not (yet?) being compulsory - so green and raw. and having a baby, who at seven months already A junior school year is weathered, but better loves singing and playing the piano - another comes by chance, the following year at the dedicated musician?

BEETHOVEN'S STORM The Pastoral Symphony Helen Barry 2T

It is a lovely spring day. The sun is shining, the streams are sparkling, and the trees are beginning to turn a beautiful shade of green. The wooded hills above the little German village echo with the shouts and laughter of the people in their gay traditional costume. It is May-Day.

As the music begins the people form a circle; they start to dance. As the music gets livelier, the girls' and women's skirts whirl out. A hunting horn sounds in the distance. Young men draw their girl friends away from the busy throng of people. The rejoicing has begun.

The town band begins, a little wobbly at first, but after a while settling down into its stride. Its stride as usual is a little off-key as the members of the band are not very experienced, but the townsfolk do not mind; they are used to it.

The village policeman conducts, a large round man with a little moustache. He glares furiously as the oboe player plays a wrong note. Beads of perspiration form on his hot red face as more wrong notes are played. The band marches off.

Suddenly the sky begins to darken, the streams seem to lose their sparkle, the costumes look dull, life goes out of the rejoicing. The dismayed people stare up at the sky. The first spots of rain begin.to patter on to the ground. Lightning streaks across the sky; a clap of thunder is heard. The storm has broken. The rain is now pouring down, gushing down the village street, soaking the villagers.

The people run for shelter, their costumes now wet and limp. The women's dresses cling damply to their legs, their hair hangs straight and flat. Their downcast faces show their disappointment as the storm rages on.

Gradually the lightning grows less frequent; the thunder fades into the distance. The villagers venture from their shelters. A cheer goes up from the crowd. The rain has stopped. The dancing begins again. The people shout and laugh, the costumes regain their bright colour. The day is back to its original gaiety.

CiflEERS

•Mft i BREAK-AWAY : TEN YEARS AFTER Valerie A. Dodd 1962

The writing was literally on the wall. We have by now become accustomed to mural protests, but in the mid-50's it made the headlines in the local, if not in the national, press. Not so poetic, perhaps, as some of the current slogans ("La civilisation est une fleur carnivore"), but straightforward - in letters three feet high along the wall separating the Grammar School from Walton Street — WE THINK CO- EDUCATION WORKS. Rumours of the split had been rife for some years, but no one thought it would happen. It.did — it seemed almost prophetic the last time we sang those lines about ferro-concrete and chromium steel seeking the still-receding skies.

For seven and a half years I lived a commuter's existence - one hundred and fifty miles a week between Brill and Aylesbury to be precise. But for one of those years, I was a double commuter. "Work", for our O-levels, happened at the Grammar School: "the other stuff" at the High School. The ghost of Sir Thomas Browne might well have exhorted us "Be not an alien amidst thine own people", but we didn't have our "own people" any more. Confusion inevitably resulted. The one book needful was always in the wrong school: more often than not, we were too. But that odd year perhaps eased the impact of the change. At least we got to know the faces, if not the names and functions of the new influx of staff. "Are you the one who teaches English?" I can remember saying, to a rightly horrified new head of department.

It took me some time to realise the advantages of a newly established school. Leavis speaks of the best teaching as being essentially "collaborative". I think he might have been quite pleased with those early days. The sixth form bulge hadn't started, so teaching groups were still small. We had no school traditions of teaching (or of anything else) and so collaboration was uniquely possible. The idea filtered through that perhaps the staff were as little at home as we were, so we made suggestions and sometimes they were accepted.

There were, of course, disadvantages on both sides. We could not have been the sunniest of souls: resentment didn't end with the physical severance from the Grammar School across the way. There is, for the sixteen-year-old, something reassuring about continuity of teaching : one knows the standard expected and the personality involved. And both sides shared the initial chaos engendered by a newly- built and still-building school. If it rained, plastic bowls had to be placed at strategic points on the library floor : the hall had to transform itself into a gymnasium at short notice. One query — does the fountain work yet?

The fact that I have lived on both sides of the fence — co-educational and single sex education — means that I should feel more equipped to pronounce on their relative merits. I don't. George Eliot, writing in 1854, protested that "Science has no sex : the mere knowledge and reasoning faculties, if they act correctly, must go through the same process and arrive at the same result." Yet she admitted that in creative work, one had to allow for psychological differences, which stemmed from the difference of sex. The ideal education would perhaps be a coeducational system, which recognised both these facts. Perhaps I was lucky in seeing the failures and successes of both.

In fact, I once tried to explain What Had Happened about My Earlier Education (a favourite Oxford theme) to a rather aged female don. When I had finished she looked at me in a bewildered fashion.

"How interesting", she said, "but how strange. Did it work?"

"0, yes," I replied. "They did - in their own ways".

38 LIFE Judith Horsfield 1968

I have had a varied and exciting year working in a girls' approved school in Dundee, as a Community Service Volunteer.

The school had a fluctuating population averaging about fifty-five. Each girl represented a combination of factors which added up to a highly individual problem requiring an equally individual programme of treatment. The age ranged from twelve to eighteen (not forgetting an eleven-year-old who had lived in residential or approved schools since she was eight and was considered uncontrollable as she had resorted to throwing television sets through windows. On admittance to us she instantly went on a hunger strike and absconded twice!). The school ran on the house system with specially allocated housemothers. The staff also included teachers, social workers, one psychologist, one psychiatrist ("head shrinker" to the girls) and myself (I seemed to do everyone's job at one time or another). The girls were committed for three years but according to behaviour could be out within a year. However, they remained under supervision and if necessary were recalled. Discipline was maintained by means of. monetary rewards or fines: swearing at a staff member would cost the offender a shilling whereas politeness or honesty brought corresponding rewards. It was necessary for a girl to gain in this way at least three shillings and ten pence each week if she wished to share in certain privileges. More extreme measures were taken with hysterical girls who were manhandled into a cell aptly called the "cooler" where they remained for up to twenty-four hours. My initial reaction to this brutal treatment of human beings was horror until I too was assaulted by a girl who had completely lost all sense of what she was doing! The girls did all the domestic work from ironing to mending fuses as well as their academic work, which was generally poor owing to a lack of schooling through truancy and low average I.Q. (about ninety).

The backgrounds of the girls were inconceivable to anyone with a normal healthy upbringing and as a result there was a huge barrier because neither side could fully sympathise with the other. If a girl had been fortunate and had spent her early years with two parents there would have been perpetual friction with violent fights often involving the girl and possibly six other brothers and sisters who existed in a two-roomed tenement for which they paid seven shillings and sixpence per week (with an outside toilet). Intermittently she would have been rejected and then accepted by either or both parents, thus learning to trust no one. Pushed out into the back streets of the cities she would have learnt how to fight, steal, and generally defend herself. Eventually she had gone too far or else was just one of the unlucky ones who had been caught. So a frightened, perturbed girl arrived at the school. Having left the stark world of the streets, she now had to learn to defend and fight for herself within the confines of the school. It was a place where the weak fell and the strong rose like dictators. A child might have shown some responsibility and would be given the privileges of taking a message outside school unescorted. She might find herself instantly set upon by others to smuggle in cigarettes illegally or else be "done in". This was no joke — I have broken up a fight where one girl received multiple fractures to her nose.

For myself, I did anything from teaching to signing for girls at police stations all over the country. Every day there was a case conference on an individual girl where everyone from the psychiatrist down to me had to give a report on the girl and her problems both to the staff and later to the girl's face. Equally the girl was allowed to voice her feelings and one had to learn not to be too deeply offended by "I hate Miss Horsfield". At night I would help see the girls washed and into bed and I would talk to individuals about their family, friends and enemies. Sometimes all went smoothly and you wondered why the girls were in the school at all. At other times there were eruptions — fights, stealing, absconding.

39 and we would be up well into the night, I remember in my last week hearing a commotion and finding one girl dripping with blood, having scraped "I hate life" down one arm in letters two inches high ("Tattooing" by means of scraping and smearing with boot polish had impression recently become a craze). of a The girls themselves learnt to accept me but it took time as they trusted no one deeply. Perhaps nursery at times I was too friendly, which meant school inevitable discipline problems during lessons. I was told not to have the girls in my room and to lock the door at night because they might steal my belongings - but I did not do this. Apart from two girls who stole my clothes to abscond in I had no trouble. I suspect the girls were glad I trusted them and they respected my belongings as a result, and they loved to come to my room and talk.

Sometimes I felt there was no hope for these girls who seemed to have the whole of their Dympna Me Andrew 2P. environmental and heredity factors opposing them, but the statistical evidence shows that seven out of every ten settle down and live as reasonable an existence as anyone can live in the back streets of a city, steering clear of the courts. I think the discipline of the school As I entered, the sounds hit me like a charge at a time when the girls were at a highly of electricity, penetrating and stinging my ears. emotionally charged age served to bring these A ball bounced rhythmically, a pair of feet results. It offered them a security they had stamped hard and regular. A voice screamed never had before and this was further proved conquering the scene. It was such a high pitched, by the continual flood of old girls who came piercing scream. The screamer was a small child back to visit or girls who were in trouble whose of two or three. A group of children sang, instant reaction was to ring up the headmaster. rather untunefully 'Ring a Ring of Roses'. They pitched their voices high, and shouted out the For me, it was an invaluable experience to words. In the far corner a child sat weeping, become involved in this way in society and its shy and softly on his own. A lost, lonely self- problems. pitying cry. The rhythmic wheel of a bicycle whirred round the room. In the centre sat the mothers, a large group. They babbled and cackled like geese in a farmyard. Occasionally whispering hit the air as they told their secrets to one another. Then the children would interrupt and be told to 'go away and play, there's a good child!' Yes, that nursery school was filled with life, noise happy and sad, gentle and loud.

40 It is said that if a pea could be examined in the microscope it would cover Wembley Stadium! BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH My work is mainly concerned with observing the changes in tissue and cell structure before and during tumour formation, in skin and other tissues. Pieces of tissue are just chopped into Catherine Heath 1966 tiny fragments and fixed to preserve and harden them, and to keep the structure as near as possible to that in the living state. The pieces are then The fact that I have been working at the Imperial dehydrated and embedded in a hard resin. Cancer Research Fund for three years does not Extremely thin sections (600 Angstroms thick) mean that I have devoted my life to a good cause, are cut on an ultra-microtome using a glass or but that I find the work interesting. Leisure time diamond knife. The sections are floated on water is slightly restricted because people who are fool and picked up on copper grids which gives an idea enough, like me, to fail their A-levels at school are of the minuteness of the whole process. sent to college one day and two evenings a week to study O.N.C. and the H.N.C. or equivalent The sections are stained and the grid put in the courses, in subjects related to their work. microscope. When all the appropriate knobs are turned, a picture of the tissue appears on a screen As you can imagine, there are many aspects to at the bottom of the microscope column, and is the study of cancer, for instance the different viewed through a small window. The grid can be types, how they are caused, and particularly how moved around as required, and photographs of they can be treated and, if possible, prevented. anything interesting can be taken on glass plates For this reason there are many different depart- which are removed from the microscope and ments at the Fund, such as virology, biochemistry, developed. They are printed on photographic tissue culture, and pathology. I work in the paper to give enlarged black and white prints. department of biological ultrastructure where "Harold" lives, so all our researches are centred This then is the work which I am concerned with around him. mostly. We also work on blood cells, especially lymphocytes and freeze each cell to study their Harold is an electron microscope, and at first surfaces. We also do some normal histology using glance he is a rather awesome sight, standing about the light microscope, and autoradiography for six feet high, with seemingly hundreds of buttons, light or electron microscopy. knobs, switches, levers and handles. On further aquaintance he is found to be quite friendly, and All this may sound highly technical or very routine generally does as he is told, although like the and boring, but I enjoy the work, and I enjoy technicians he does have his bad days. sharing a flat in the "big bad city", and I also enjoy the opportunities through the Fund of playing tennis, badminton, squash and, believe it The electron microscope is like an enormous inverted light microscope, but it uses a beam of or not, netball! electrons instead of light, and must therefore be kept under high vacuum during use, and the lenses are electrical instead of glass. A high voltage is needed to attract electrons down the microscope column, and the filament has to be heated electric- ally. We generally use Harold at a magnification up to 40,000 times but this can be increased.

41 The air was still; only round the trees and hedges the bird song rippled upwards like heat waves. In the paddock over the stile, the low sun picked out the individual grass blades in sharp shadow, except where they drowned in the black pools of shade spreading eastwards over the field from the base of the tree trunks. The grass blades stood motionless, a field of tiny green daggers. Those in the vicinity of two bales of straw lying on their sides were being trampled by the flinty hooves of two small, racing, woolly bodies, playing a fast game of "King of the Castle". Two matronly mother sheep looked calmly on, placid and peaceful in the solitude. I was an intruder; I hurried through the paddock and on up the lane. There, the overhanging branches from either side formed a long cathedral roof. The air was darker inside, rays beaming at intervals through the trees on the west side as if through loop holes.

Emerging into the open lane, I looked up at the gradually approaching cloud bank, a higher roof moving overhead. It was dark and angry: it was going to engulf the sun, which suddenly grew smaller. The light was leaving the sky and the land, as though the big mass of moving cloud was sucking it all up. It bellied down, dirty-coloured, with small wafts of cloud like grey spume caught up underneath, and cruised towards the sun; I could see the slight writhing movements in the mass, the many thunder clouds joining to make the huge organic unity stretching its massive shadow for many miles over the passive countryside. Most of the sky was now occupied by the dark bulk swimming overhead like a huge primeval whale; the land dimmed to a seabed many fathoms down, and the trees shrank to inky blots of anemone against the murky curve of hills. Only the sun would not quite be covered; he streamed out over the edge of the cloud, lit the brim with molten silver, and spilled great transparent rays over the sky and hills in the south-west; just there the oily clouds could not quite reach, although they stretched out two long fingers at the sun; the sky remained clear and pearl-bright right down to the horizon, and glowed palely behind the trees, black on the hill tops. Through a slit between the two tongues of reaching cloud, the sun beamed out like a spotlight and lit up the land in the west, while the steadily-spreading horde of clouds overhead

42 became blacker, and even the air between the cloud ceiling ; murky land became dim and darkening.

And slowly the sound of the rain drowned the bird song; a pattering, like millions of tiny animals hurrying in armies over the road and near- by hedge; or a polite patter of applause after the first movement of a symphony — but an applause that, instead of dying away, grows louder, and still louder, builds up into the gathering crescendo of flickering lightning, with thunder rolling and rumbling over distant hills like a drowsy giant muttering in his sleep just beyond. The rain seemed to materialise just where the top of the hedge began, invisible against the dark bulk of twigs, but not above them. All perspective of the surrounding hills - Bledlow Ridge, one mile to the west, Loosely Row, two miles north-east, the Chilterns in the far east, vanished in the sudden dimness of cloud and pouring water. The spotlight in the sky flashed on the windows of the houses on the Loosely hillsides, and they reflected tiny and white-glowing through the rain. On the steaming, glistening road it seemed millions of fleas were jumping frenziedly up and down in some frantic dance, as the rain struck the tarmac thick and fast. A blackbird sat in sole state upon the hedge; whose rain-blackened branches supported the raindrops in clear silver globules, tiny balls of mercury. The rain had a strong, green smell, trickling down my face in a cold, clean baptism, and it tasted green too, strong, sharp, green.

It is now eight forty-seven. The sun did not come out again before it set. Reaching home, I entered the kitchen in time to catch the last yellow rays slanting through the Venetian blinds on to the wall, before they faded and died as the storm clouds swallowed them up at last. Now even the clouds have thinned to the steel grey of a Winter sea, and the gale, too high overhead to be heard, is driving them swiftly and silently onwards into the night.

Jane Cunningham Upper Six C.

43 in one breath and few lectures sociology, law, management, landscape design, history of art and ARCHITECTURE architecture, structures, psychology, estate AT valuing, and town planning is another! All these aspects of building design are then woven into NOTTINGHAM set design problems of growing complexity until thesis work in the fifth year. At the end of each year the student's work up to that stage is assessed along with exam results (which carry the minor weight) and the school pronounces the student Patricia Marsh 1966 capable in their view of completing the seven-year stint to become an architect. Not surprisingly many fall by the wayside in such a career-orientated course: the reports say that women constitute 8% arrived at Nottingham University to study of students starting on architecture courses but Iarchitecture just nine months after it had been this has become 4% by finals - one can guess described by a colour supplement article as "the what happens to the other 4%. smuggest university". A year of living in a com- fortable modern hall of residence on a green and Of course the harder you work the harder you friendly campus did little to allay my suspicions. play: the architecture department has more good, So this was the university that supplied top grade if exclusive, parties, drink-ins, discussions, trips, Civil Servants; the university whose Students' and mixed hockey matches than any other Union opted out of NUS when that body department of similar size, and the pursuit of demanded higher grants. This was the place where "design for living" takes our students as far afield they were putting up iron gates when the LSE was as France, 'The Trip to Jerusalem' (Nottingham's tearing them down; a place full of convictions ancient pub), and Czechoslavakia. Meanwhile in that drugs and sex happened elsewhere and where Nottingham I have found ample opportunities to it was rumoured that students worked hard. widen my interests to include everything from tiddley-winks to Underground Films via Indian So after a year I moved from the "congenial Food Society and have had endless chances to environment" to a bedsitter in Alan Sillitoe-land meet stimulating people of all enthusiasms, where it was no longer unusual to see young opinions, and experiences. Indeed I have been children and old people. I had also moved away able to prove to myself that there is as much in from a campus that has every facility for amuse- people and situations as you care to make of them, ment one could desire; the coffee-bars ad nauseam; even if the initial impression of this university is the God Soc. Meetings; the Union with four of something built "most grand and cakely" with billiard tables, a juke box, a colour telly, and the an atmosphere as rarified as Keele and as middle Thursday night Jazz and Poetry. They were all class as any of the red brick universities. there if I had the time for a free evening.

For the architecture course is a full-time occupation particularly designed to stretch the dedication of the student to its limit. Quoted a tutor on our arrival: "This is the course where we keep you busy twenty-five hours of the day!"-and he wasn't joking. Mastering the technique of drawing with set square and tee square is one thing; tackling

44 Eyes bright and watching,, To safety? Ears pricked and alert. No! Standing over his prey They are still there Warm blood dripping from his chops. Closer, closer, Suddenly! his senses are aware. They're catching up. Aware of what? Pant on heels. The death call. Snap at his brash. What sound is this A farm's ahead. That strikes fear and death into his heart? On, on. The baying hounds, The hunted flees into the yard The sound of a horn. The hounds stop. Horses' hooves falling — Forlornly, they give tongue. But now, it's reality. They want to follow His prey forgotten. But are restrained The fox turns and flees. And he is safe. The horn sounds again, Men shout, The hounds pick up his track Horses whinny And follow the frenzied animal. Chaos reigns. His heart thumps. The hunt is over - His whole body is alive Gone, With the feeling of hatred and dread In the past. For his four-legged pursuers. The animal drops On and on, and still on, From sheer exhaustion. The blinded creature rushes He licks his bleeding pads. Towards the stream. Night falls. Beyond the stream — freedom - The moon shines down on a lone figure The ground rushes to meet him Loping wearily back. But he cannot stop. Back to safety. On, on Across the stream. Over the field, deep with furrows Jayne Roberts 3H.

45 A PARENT'S PARENTS

Words are all they have now. Society, no further use contains. Stripped of all the glory of rank Waiting for chapter-finale, a ceremonious-

Primitive-simplicity, insurmountable-peace of satisfied pride, "That is my son!" - Alas parental duties f izzled-out. Humbly collect the state's wages; Penny-watching - "Try a new soap this week".

Making a game of living. Living out the experimental-existence of children Life has been energy-used, a little mind remains Unmatched knowledge of unreadable things.

And softness flows through the ageing bodies Fascinating-meekness, mildness as gentle As ever will be found in man.

Shirley Entwistle, Lower Six P OVER THE TOP Susan Fowler (nee Edwards) 1963 LEAFY GLADE AND AFTER

Leafy glade. I never could identify myself with the feverish Shady trees. activity for university entrance which was going Straying sunbeams. on all round me during the final year at school. The system, I felt, was not for me. I wanted Peaceful pool. something more personal. But in a university- Clear crystal stream. orientated society there seemed no alternative, and so I applied to the few universities running a Cascading over rocks. course in Fine Art. But, by the end of term I was still not settled, and it was not until, after leaving Deep lush grass. school, I met a tutor from High Wycombe Thick with dew, College of Further Education, and decided to Carpet of bluebells. take a year's course—the pre-Diploma leading to the three-year course of the Diploma in Art and Setting sun. Design (Dip. A.D.), the following year. Evening shadows. Peace. Suddenly, I found myself doing exactly what I had always wanted to do-all day and every day. It was an exhilarating feeling, and I threw myself Hilary Creed 4R into college activities with enthusiasm - pottery.

46 painting, sculpture, photography, woodwork, colour animation film for children "The Emper- metalwork, life drawing, colour theory, observa- or and the Nightingale" for the Major Diploma tion drawing, history of art, technical drawing, Project. The course terminated with a Diploma structures - the whole kaleidoscope of creative Exhibition, and I emerged with Upper Second art to explore! There hardly seemed enough time presented by the late art historian and philoso- in the day, and often after lectures finished at pher. Sir Herbert Read. 7.30 p.m. I would return home to my attic studio to work late into the night. As the course was in A few months later I was in a completely differ- its infancy, our year were, in a sense, pioneers, ent environment - married to a structural and we had a considerable influence on the engineer (whom I met at the university), with structure and policy of the course. Then came the a flat in town and my first job as a publicity final decision of which area I wanted to specialise assistant for a publishing company. This involved in. I chose Graphic Design and the following term writing copy and designing leaflets and advert- began the Dip. A.D. at Leeds College of Art. isements for books sold in Britain and overseas. Ruled by the two industrial gods, time and Away from home for the first time, I enjoyed the economy, new disciplines stimulated my freedom of living in a flat in a big university city. resources, and for the first time I saw my work So this was the college of Sir Henry Moor and in print and being used for a specific commercial David Briggs! Lofty Victorian studios joined on purpose. to a small rep theatre whose maze of narrow dark corridors opened out unexpectedly into small After a year with the Publishing Company, I am studios and workshops. The course included the now working in a small team as an Editorial study of printrnaking (etching, lithography, and Assistant for the Board of Trade Journal, a silk screen), typography, magazine and advertise- publication whose prime function is to stimulate ment design, life drawing, photography, film mak- exports and encourage industries in the develop- ing, and art history. Projects were designed to ment areas, in Britain. I design art paper insets encourage individual talents. on topics of general commercial interest such as the B.N.E.C. (British National Export Council) For my final year I specialised in T.V., Graphics, and the Co. I.D. (Council of Industrial Design) and film-making; painting stills, making credit Awards, and other Board of Trade Publications. films and title sequences and animated films, and I edit photographs and captions sent in by helping on the "floor" of the T.V. studio at the companies from all over Britain, and assist in the university. Again our group (of five students and weekly make-up of articles. I supervise the turn- one lecturer) were the first year to have film- round of proof corrections from author to making facilities. Our studio was a strange sight - printer, and also do some Public Relations work the top floor of a condenmed building, bristling for the Journal. It's an interesting and varied job, with electronic recorders, a sound recording booth, and a lucrative one! projectors, film-editing machines and baskets, movie cameras, still cameras, studio lights, wires And the next step? Just hold on a moment while everywhere! When it rained, which was often, we I get my crystal ball had to rush round with polythene sheets and cover up the expensive equipment to protect it from the water which leaked in from the roof. But despite the far from ideal conditions (which will be remedied this year when the whole college moves into a new complex), we stayed until the caretaker locked up each night at 10 p.m. and I made about ten films including a twenty-minute

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48 It is also the most interesting. The people where I lived spoke constantly of the "mentality" of villagers. It was a bad mentality, people gossiped and were jalouse. If I take this as an example: jalouse, I thought, meant that people were jealous, MY but if asked someone "jealous? of what?", they YEARS did not understand my question. Equally, to AT begin with, I scarcely understood them. If someone would not sell a field, that person was SUSSEX jalouse: if a man ran out of string while making UNIVERSITY hay, and did not ask to borrow some from his neighbour in the next field, he also wasja/ouse! Jalousie to the peasants of my village was not jealousy of something or someone, it was jealousy for one's own rights, status, and independence. Thus the man who ran out of string showed that he was z jalouse man by not asking if he could borrow some. He was a jalouse man because he did not want to be indebted to a neighbour. Loraine Blaxter 1963 From paying careful attention to the use of this I have been at the University of Sussex more years one word, and listening to many other statements than I was at Aylesbury High School. It is per- by the people, about how important it was to be haps for that reason that it seems more than six independent, and how individualist they were, years since I left. I came to understand something of how they saw the world. Other people threatened one's inde- What have I done with those six long years? pendence, one had to be wary and guard one's independence, or lose one's self-respect. Under- Well, in brief, I did a degree in Sociology and standing this explained many things about Politics, and then a Master's degree in Social villagers' behaviour: how they each worked the Anthopology. But, what I would like to say a land alone, not in co-operation; why they did not little bit about is the research for the Ph.D., which use the agricultural advisers; why no one wanted I am at present preparing. For this I went to live to be village mayor: why tourists and development in a small isolated community in the French were looked on with suspicion; why my village Pyrenees. hated and fought the village next door (so much so that "someone" put a bomb in our mayor's house After a nerve-racking journey, into the most after the elections of 1969). isolated area I could find, of a country whose language I discovered I could not speak, my task The excitement that this implies, and the romance was to find out everything about that community: of living in an isolated community, often paled as not only geography, economics, political practice, I craved for a word or two of English-English, a and religion, but also the attitudes of the people glimpse of the sea or a good film. But for what to one another, to the administration, to their it has taught me about people, and what the people work and to their leisure. The understanding of showed me of love and understanding - well it the values and attitudes of the people, their view was very special. of the world, is the most important, and most difficult task of an anthropologist. Now, back in the land of English voices, of the sea

49 and good films, work seems doubly difficult. Not only do all the pleasures of England seem doubly pleasurable after isolation: but the job in hand, of explaining this village and these people in a way that makes them understandable to others, I find virtually impossible. As it is hard for any English person to explain what the values of their society are, because they hold them, and REFLECTIONS ON A B.A. do not know they are values, so it is now hard for me to identify the world view of my village: it was my world view. / was worried about sorcerers and distrusted the neighbouring villages: it is only now as I sit at my typewriter in Brighton that I can see why or how this behaviour came about, as a necessary product of our view of the world, or our assumption that other people, villagers, And so that's it. Three years and a scrap of paper or nations were jalouse. in the name of the Vice-Chancellor and the University of Sussex, to tell.you you're now B.A., Social anthropological fieldwork is the best train- delivered into your hands in a ceremony that ing I can think of for our race relations or makes you think of a kind of mass confirmation. community work. It teaches you, the hard way, Three years, and it's hard to believe that so much that you cannot understand behaviour until you time has come between this, and that day just know something about what lies behind the before A-levels, when the first massive reading behaviour, until you have glimpsed at the 'world list arrived and proved that university was some- view' of other people. In six years time, I hope thing more than an UCCA form. All this, and to be doing community work. when it comes to it, you're not sorry it's over; to want to go back there would be an admission of defeat, showing you to be unable to make the transition from the first scrap of paper to the last. In short, after three years, the university no longer represents the boundless freedom it promised from the sixth form, but rather the limits of that freedom, and now it is time to move beyond.

If that's what it feels like, having a B.A., you sometimes wonder, looking back how you ever got one at all! So much — and mostly rubbish — has been written about Sussex, that it is hard to know where to begin. However, anyone arriving all prepared to step into The Observer Colour Supplement and emerge with a diploma in Mrs. 1970-ship instead of a degree is shattered within one hour of university life. There is On behalf of the school the editors would like to absolutely no reason why the people at any thank all the advertisers upon whose generous university should be, in any way, more exciting support we depend almost completely for the and glamorous than anyone anywhere outside, production of this magazine. but thousands of people turn up expecting just

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that. Instead, at a surface glance, they appear anyone believing this and taking up American quite dull and depressingly ordinary, or, at studies as an easy option, that, although best, most conventionally unconventional. This is American literature may "begin" later than the student's first brush with the sense of illusion English, their writers certainly make up for it and reality that in so many ways is university life. by turning out extra long novels! However, it is a The effort of dealing with this, you soon find, fascinating subject, looking both towards England lies entirely with yourself. and Europe, yet with a character all of its own. Originally applying to do English I crossed the Sussex is most severely criticised for being Atlantic, so to speak, when I realised how I had impersonal, a 9-5 university with everyone briefly scraped the surface of Shakespeare and flocking back into Brighton at the end of the day. Keats at school, and that really I was longing to I enjoyed this aspect, this way of living and branch out into a literature that was entirely working in different atmospheres. After all, a new to me. The bias is more modern, of course, university is a highly artificial world which can with a small faculty, and the added draw of meet- produce chronic academic claustrophobia .. . ing Saul Bellow, drinking cocktails with John and it is surprising how many people suffer Updike, and being taught by Leslie Fiedler! from this disease. For, how on earth can you ever come really to understand anything about Now that that has all finished, I can look back on literature, if your own life is contained within Sussex quite coldly and objectively. The whole a vacuum world, somewhere between the bar thing suddenly hits me when I remember and the library? Brighton, however, is the ideal moments like walking down an ordinary corridor counterpart to the university, totally and com- and realizing that this insignificant row of rooms pletely the other side of the coin, both the was the "new school of progressive something-or- world of Brighton Rock and the world of other" that sounded so impressive in The Sunday wrinkled, unsmiling figures huddled in plaid Times. It sums up the whole gap between illusion rugs along the front at all times of the year. and reality that characterises, I am convinced, not only Sussex, but all university life. Perhaps When I tell people I have studied American in the end getting a B.A. is learning the art of literature, the initial stock reaction is a cynical: relating back and forth across that gap . .. and "You don't mean to say they actually have a my final scrap of paper is the means of putting literature in America?" However, I can assure it to the test.

a decade A Midsummer Night's Dream'60 The Merchant of Venice 1962 The Lark 1954 The Three Sisters 1966 1968 of drama

the first AHS production university - although perhaps I am particularly DURHAM UNIVERSITY talking of my own department which is very well run by us all. Diane Hayter. 1967. I came to read Sociology just because I wanted to do social work, but in fact, only a minority of sociology students intend doing this, and the discipline is certainly far more than mere vocat- ional training. It is, one could say, a study of people, of life, of our cultural and social environment, of human nature, of society.

Sociology does not just describe situations, and environments. It is not just a statistical exercise, but from empirical findings (or from more philosophical concepts) theories are deduced, tested, and applied. Sociology looks at "social statistics" the way things are - the status quo - why they are - the functions of various activites and institutions - why the existing situation It was more Providence than choice that sent doesn't change - or why it does. "Social me to Durham and more luck than judgement dynamics" lead from statics - the way in which that saw me reading sociology. However, in two situations change - any "laws" which are obeyed years Providence and luck have ensured me an - the pattern, causes, and significance of changes. enjoyable and varied university career. Sociology looks at the Family, the roles played Durham is an old university modelled on Oxford by its members, their expectations of each other, and Cambridge. There are thirteen colleges where their interaction, how one person adjusts his students may live (usually in well equipped single behaviour according to that of another, the study-bedrooms) for all three years. Each college consequences of inadequate role - fulfillment: has its own individuality and character and each, industry - the social relations at work, the although accepting students from all departments, differing expectations and demands of different contributes in its own way to the university life. groups, the varying attitudes and ways different One may sport Socialists, another rowers, another groups look at the situtation, how they view Rugby players, another "Gentlemen," another their position in the structure and the structure scientists; and the ladies' colleges are also distin- itself, how the sociologist views it, the causes, guishable. Not a "way out" university, Durham consequences and pattern of conflict in industry has had demonstrations though this may be - its necessity, purpose and success: Religion - partly the result of our very short Oxbridge the social implications of adherence to a church, terms (when no one has time to get fidgety and the developement of a denomination and the restless!) or of the changes and progress which function it serves, the relation of Church Sect have been made in the last fifteen months: exam and denomination, the implications and causes re-organization in some departments, our own of the Ecumenical movement, comparative front door keys to the colleges, student repre- religion (with that of this country in past eras sentation on governing bodies, - all this has been or with tribal religion or religions of the eastern made legitimate through recognised channels. world) the relation of one's belief-system to Barriers between staff and students are non- one's attitude to family and work — all this—but existent — we are all just members of the to try to precis or confine sociology in this way

54 is both impossible and false. It is a subject which A SONNET ON DEPRESSION unfolds as you penetrate its depths. It touches on many other subjects and one is bound during the Jogged by memories of the past, my mind course to include some psychology, anthropology, Unfolds revealing equanimity economics and philosophy to name but a few Lost are the bygone days, when love was (and one may, after one year, change to take one blind of these as one's main subject). Sociology is very Irrecovable those hours of much joy. much what the student makes it. The student is Exteme perplexity fills my brain: my encouraged to develop an enquiring but critical thoughts mind, and one's own ideas are given full scope Mingle like maggots in a rotting corpse during the final summer vacation when an orig- And new my life, like a discarded toy inal piece of work (a dissertation or mini-thesis) is written and submitted to count as one finals Ragged, is considered a moiety paper. Yet this bliss that there is for all to find Now appears to me an obscurity. Whether you happen to be studying criminology, Evasively my mind begins to warp industrial relations, Freud, family, law, drugs, Away from truth, reality to destroy empirical studies, sexual deviations, religion, Lethargy upon me, left here confined. social psychology, hypnosis, political sociology Enthrall, while I can, my tranquility. or education - it all deals with people and our social environment. The friendliness and discussive Julie Neale Lower Six P atmosphere of Durham all fosters this search for a wider knowledge and understanding and the many friends one has from the other departments give one first hand guidance on a library of subjects.

As you may have gathered, I have no complaints PARTY REMINISCENCES about Durham - except that two-timing one's man is impossible because the place is a hive of friendly The room is heavy with smoke. gossip and chatter. It combines the advantages of The vapid air contains stale living in the same college for three years with the Perfume. The people sprawl advantage of being very much a part of, and in the Bored and dormant; centre of, university life — which is hectic, The music is lifeless — exhausting, and enjoyable (new students going up The agitation has receeded. - remember to take one or more long dresses). The problem in Durham is often that too much Glasses adorn furniture- is going on - but who complains? In summary, Crude and ugly, ashtrays a very much alive and stimulating young commun- Have overgrown towers of ity within a beautiful and traditional old city Lipstick-stained filters. becomes very much the home for its three Lassitude stifles the room's thousand students. Atmosphere. A lingering kiss. One last drink goodnight. The party's over. Rosalind Seymour 4M

55 history of science. After A-level I was anxious THE GHOST OF AUTUMN to do a degree based on mathematics, but was not convinced that either any ability or my My hand's so cold I can hardly write, interest would endure till the end of a degree The candle's gone out, there is no light, course in mathematics alone. Although I knew I shiver with a ghostly fear nothing of philosophy, the course sounded And death itself is very near. challenging and interesting and indeed it proved I gaze with terror at the trees to be so, and entirely suited to someone more They seem to laugh and try to tease interested in the foundations of science and the thought behind science and mathematics, than For over their misty branches lingers in the subjects themselves. The very true likeness of skeleton fingers, They long to grip my tender frame. How can I best relate the excitement of Autumn is nature's revenging game. university life, excitement generated primarily I cast my mind back to the months before by a growing understanding of a wide and deep I remember the wonderful sights that I saw, subject and enriched by the even wider But that was nature's golden glory "discipline" of social intercourse? Perhaps mere Now it's just a forgotten story. reference is a sufficient, if somewhat lazy way of conveying it. The facet of student life most Gillian Buswell 3S. to be prized is freedom: freedom to think and act, to experiment with using time and even wasting time, responsibility to no one but oneself - every student has all this, and only students have it. I only wish I had realised a little earlier. SUSSEX UNIVERSITY Diana M. Laurillard. 1966 An outstanding incident at Sussex was apparently insignificant and yet remains a cherished memory. Someone once wrote of Sussex that "it had an An eminent and considerably aged professor was taking pains to explain a tricky point of philoso- atmosphere of hectic heterosexuality". At the phy to his attentive disciples. The point was worth time I read that, I was awed and not a little making, and to emphasise its importance he frightened by it. The description is misleading: raised a cautionary finger. However, because of what it ought to convey is the complete lack of discrimination between the sexes at Sussex. his great age, the finger was not entirely steady When I first went there I had a private comfort- and for fear that the point might thus be lost to his students, he grasped the offending digit ing excuse for any little failing of mine, academic or social: well, nobody expects a girl to be with his other hand, to steady it. The importance brilliant all the time. Comforting as it was, after of the point was unmistakeable, and Sussex has a while it had to be drastically modified. There just that attitude: the student is there to learn is an atmosphere of complete equality there, and must be helped and encouraged as far as is and if the pace was hectic then so it should be; humanly possible. surely every girl now must regard such a situation as valuable.

The course I took was one peculiar to Sussex: philosophy and theory of science, embracing some pure mathematics, philosophy, logic, and

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Top L. A corner of the art room 1969. R. "The Cyclist" : Jane Prosser 1968 Centre L. Concentration from a junior girl R. 'The Operation" : Bridget Murphy 1966 Bottom L. "Landscape": Sylvia Haynes 1967 R. 'View through the Railings" : Elizabeth Walters 1968 SOCIOLOGY AT LEICESTER expound at great length the history of the usage Diana Woodward. 1966 of the organic analogy in sociology? Who really cares if the term 'feudal society' can only really Fancy that! The old school has been open for accurately be applied to post-Carolingian France? ten years! Remember that first sweltering Sept- (Note the 'post' - really crucial!) ember in 1959, when all we little first-years suffered in ostentatiously new too-big blazers, For me, the most daunting part of the process of woolly socks and winter uniforms, because we committing oneself to the cause of the advance- couldn't get summer dresses? What a contrast ment of sociology in the face of a hostile, if not between those eleven-year-olds, be they dumpy downright disrespectful world, came at Leicester, or gangling, and the blase young ladies we are having taken the plunge (or rather, dabbled my today! feet) by reading a couple of sociology books, to see if I liked what I found. I'm sure most of my Looking back over our academic careers it seems contemporaries, or peer-group, as we sociologists strange that the decisions made at each turning- say, knew as little what sociology was, as I did, point - Latin or Biology in the third form. Music and I was horrified to find that the Leicester or Geography in the fourth, whether to opt for Social Science degree consisted of a common arts or sciences, what to do after leaving school first year course of lectures with economists, - inexorably propel one towards some definite human geographers, economic historians, and goal. Once each goal is reached a new set of political scientists, with a couple of lecturers in choices presents itself - until eventually you each subject per week. may find yourself at Leicester University as I did. We spent the whole of the first term in sociology tutorials discussing "what is sociology?" Event- Why did I choose sociology? I think, by the ually we decided it is the study of societies — process of eliminating possible alternatives. how men see them, what they are, how they Geography was interesting, but seemed to deal operate and change. But don't let that put you with hard facts (such as why Alfredo in the off! Once you've acquired the basic jargon, Pampas is probably a beet farmer), rather than you'II be as good a sociologist as the rest of us! with their broader implications. A degree in Maybe I'll write a book called "sociology can languages may offer unlimited opportunities be fun!", and talk about the chap who was given to the exceptionally gifted — opportunities to a grant of £50 to study pubs in his summer vac., sample the local liquor and hob-nob with the or the other one who went to all Leicester City's natives in various foreign parts, but for the matches last season, in the cause of science, to rest of us, it seems to be mainly a one-way give him ideas for a thesis on football hooliganism. ticket to teaching. Sociology has all of these I wrote mine after six weeks as a chambermaid in advantages and none of its disadvantages - it an American hotel. It was difficult to decide equips you to do absolutely nothing, thus not between writing about the hotel's official social barring you from entry to all the plum jobs structure, or calling it "Deviance - the case of that you feel must be lined up, waiting for the an American hotel". But as always in academic cream of the young intelligentsia, namely, circles, seriousness took precedence over "human graduates. (But how come economists' and interest" ("Woman's Own" style) and "the mathematicians' jobs are just that bit plumm- social structure" won. ier? Also, sociology is supremely interesting while you are studying it even if, after three What more can I say? University is good fun. years, you wonder exactly what use is all this Here, too, you are faced with a choice — mental paraphernalia. Who, apart from other whether to have a really good time, and to hell sociologists, is impressed by your ability to with the class of degree you get, or to punctuate

58 your hectic social life with periods spent acquiring the outlook and terminology required for academic success.

One final telling comment on society's recognition of the graduate in the mid-sixties; when my flat- mate told her driving instructor that she was a student of sociology, he said "Sociology? oh yes, I've heard all about you lot. Aren't your head- quarters at Tunbridge Wells?"

BEAUTY AND UGLINESS Helen Belger 3s

The mother bird sat peacefully on her nest in the reeds, the wind ruffling her feathers. Every now and then her mate would fly back to the nest and feed her with caddis flies and squirming mosquito larvae. When he had gone, she would make sure her eggs were still there, ruffle up her feathers and preen them. She decided to get some food herself and spritely, hopped on to the edge of the nest and with a slight movement of her wings, she was off.

The eggs were white, speckled with dark brown and looked lovely just lying there, while the nest swayed gently in the wind. One egg was larger than the rest and already there was a slight crack in it. Soon the crack grew into a small hole and a bird's beak appeared. After fifteen minutes the bird was almost out of its shell, but the effort had exhausted it, so it had to rest. Shortly after this, it managed to get out of its shell and lay there limp with exhaustion. It looked very much out of proportion, with such a large head, big eyes, and such a small body.

The young bird heaved himself with the help of his featherless wings, and managed to get himself to the edge of the nest, but he was so exhausted that he had to rest again. His small frame vibrated with his breathing but an instinct inside told him he mustn't stop. With one last effort he pushed the egg on to the rim of the nest and then it toppled into the grey water, leaving only ripples behind it, but these were soon gone as the wind ruffled the surface to the water.

The young cuckoo then settled down and waited for its foster-parents to come back with food for its hungry stomach.

59 The first week of term is dedicated to exhausting ROBIN HOOD frivolity veiled by the modest title of "week one", NEVER During this time there are dances, film shows and "coffee parties" which have been known to HAD IT produce beer and wine in the hands of a broad- SO GOOD minded host. Don't make the mistake of resisting this festivity; many friendships can be traced back Jean Pooley 1967 to these first few days when people were concerned with nothing other than bringing sweetness and light to their neighbours' lives.

cca n ts n n te At the end of the week lectures begin, which in T TT ^ ' ' ' f' ' wisdom decides that the case of the English department, total about •*- -*- Nottingham is the place for you, then 12 a week, with the addition of one tutorial. thank it nicely and pack your bags for the Lectures are more vital than they may at first Midlands. And if anywhere north of Buckingham conjures up pictures of dark satanic mills, cure seem, for if you sleep through one you may find yourself of this reaction; Nottingham is one of you have missed the Metaphysical poets. the most beautiful universities in the country, with a lake, impeccably kept lawns and lovely Tutorial groups usually consist of four students red and mauve things which flower, (the name who are expected to talk or listen intelligently for of which eludes me) while across the road is an hour a week, produce three essays a term and Wollaton Park, a stately home with all the take four exam papers at the end of the year. The usual trimmings of deer and conservatories. In results of which are promptly ignored by one and fact were it not for the occasional bout of all. The staff are incredibly anxious for the welfare student-phobia, you need never go off the of the 1st year student, urging them to bring campus for it has a grocer, hairdresser, chemist, forward any problem for instant solution until one bookshops, and a total of five cafe's and general feels positively guilty for having no difficulty eating places in one building alone. with which to confront them. In fact the only draw-backs to the English course - Anglo Saxon Most Ist-years will find themselves living in hall, and Linguistics, which burst upon me in hideous which is a very good thing as it means meeting novelty as I hadn't read the prospectus. However, people-it doesn't matter who, and you don't with a reasonable display of diligence these can even have to like them, for in the first week it's be managed for the 1 st year and dropped knowing someone that is important and this may dramatically in the 2nd. be difficult if you're in lodgings. With the exception of Florence Boot all the halls have a So if Nottingham accepts you, rejoice; show majority of single rooms, and this year the rules your face in the right place at the right time, and have undergone something of a revolution with a good time can be had by all. the result that students and their visitors can, in effect, come and go at whatever time of the day or night they wish.

Social life is dominated by the Buttery, the student bar built hopefully underground to hoodwink the abstemious Jesse Boot who was not the fastest gun in the Midlands, but founder of Boots chemists, and benefactor of the university.

60 two sporting personalities Joanna Norman has played for Sudbury Court and in the Bucks County team. She was selected for the England trial, but was not chosen for the team.

Joanna

Christine

Christine Maylor has played as shooter for Sudbury Court which won the National Clubs Tournament in 1968 and 1969. She was selected for the England Trial and won a place in the England team for matches at home and in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and went to Jamaica as goal shooter with the England touring team. Christine also plays for the Bucks county team, which is among the ten best teams in England.

61 in me and trusted me, and that alone bore me WHY CHOOSE NURSING? through all the long hours of hard physical work, Gudrun Sawyer (nee Treutler) 1961 the rigorous training for procedures in every job, and made me find time to set Granny's hair when her family was due to visit.

Maybe I didn't go out much. I had to study hard The romantic novelist would have us believe that in order not to let my patients down, but I was a girl enters nursing either to devote her life happy being needed by them. By the end of the solely to good works, or to meet a young doctor - three years training I began to find that having had difficulties myself I could pass on my own but life is not usually like that. I admit now that I had little idea what real nursing was when I way of learning to those who were three years became a student nurse at Guy's Hospital in my junior, and seeing those young nurses learn 1961. from me was just as rewarding as seeing a once- sick person leave the ward in sound health. During my first three months at the Preliminary Training School I learnt, together with sixty My State Exams were the most difficult hurdle I other potential nurses, how to make beds, dust have yet jumped, but I did get a prize for an curtain rails, scrub baths, sterilise instruments, account of nursing a baby through 'nappy rash', (acute infected ammoniacal dermatitis) and in my test urine, keep endless charts, and respect authority, as well as much detailed anatomy, final hospital exams got a distinction in teaching- hygiene, and first aid. It was gruelling to me, I call myself a bedside nurse, not a high-powered for I am not quick to learn. know-all, but I did my best, and that is what God expects of us all. Then I caught 'flu, and found myself on my nineteenth birthday all alone in Sick Bay with Now, four years later I am just as needed as I was no one even knowing I was there. There I then on the wards. My small son, the household, learnt the weight of a waterjug from bed, how the garden-all need me-but where my training embarrassing it is to ring the bell for attention helps me most is in understanding the problems and how lonely a hospital bed can be. I that face my dear husband, a general practitioner returned to the wards with far more under- in a very rural part of Norfolk, and in giving standing and sympathy for my patients. telephone advice to his patients when he is already out on another call. Almost from the start, therefore, I felt a kinship with my patients, and on all the Wherever life may lead a girl, a nurse's training is many occasions I was reprimanded for forget- never wasted. It teaches you understanding, self fulness, lack of knowledge, clumsiness or discipline, many household duties, and shows you slowness, some patient counteracted the how lucky you are to be alive and well, and how feeling of defeat by thanking me for some thankful you should be to God for this. small thoughtfulness - for reading a letter to someone shortsighted, or moving an uncomfortable-looking paralysed limb. People say a nurse can make a patient better, but for me it was the patients who made me better. They made me realise that I could not let them down. They believed

62 and how the body moves in the light of these DARTFORD COLLEGE fields culminates in a creative art experience that Gillian Cox 1967 is modern dance.

My three-year course includes all branches of physical education, plus education, psychology, philosophy, sociology, health, history, anatomy, Physical Education - for many this will conjure physiology, and my second subject English and up memories of a well-clad Spartan figure Drama. enforcing attendance on a wind-licking area of green known as a hockey pitch, in polar Much to the disbelief of many die-hard anti- conditions. This is far from my conception of physical educationalists who are under the mis- pleasure and yet I am training to become one of conception that long, lazy days are spent running these muscle-bound Amazons. From now on my around the hockey pitch, it is a tough, but most main interest will be in the sphere of what is rewarding study, and I can heartily recommend it known as Modern Educational Dance, rather to anyone. than in games or sport.

One has only to watch children dancing unself- consciously in play activities to realise that each one of us has this innate desire to move. Education, to date, has primarily been concerned with the development of the mind, but without development of one of man's primary urges - movement - education cannot be complete. TRI-LINGUAL SECRETARY Movement educators are newcomers to the state Rosemary Gimson 1967 system and I feel it a tremendous challenge to be an innovator in this sphere of knowledge. At college the work is firstly practical, for it is impossible to understand movement without actually experiencing it bodily. We follow the If you want to travel and be able really to under- principles of Rudolf Laban who was perhaps the stand the country you are visiting, then languages first to categorise his knowledge of movement are essential; I think, however, that you will find and to lay down principles for its use in that a language course at university does not education. He felt that the teacher's job was to always guarantee a job fully using your qualifi- stimulate a desire to move creatively and an cations, and four years is a long time if you have understanding of the structure and function of no definite motives sustaining you. the instrument of movement, the body, is important. However, dance goes beyond the Since I did not want to teach, but enjoyed studying functional to the expressive and brings with it languages, I decided that a commercial training knowledge of states of mind and inner drives and would be more useful than the more literary moods. studies at a university, so I went to Holborn College of Law, Languages, and Commerce in In our study of dance we give experience in three London, where I have just finished a two-year main fields, those of effort, space, and group course: "Diploma for Linguists in Commerce and relationships. An understanding of where, why. Industry" - don't be put off by its name! I studied

63 the geography, history and institutions of France AN OLD CARTHORSE and Spain since French and Spanish were my two languages, each equally important; German may be studied as an alternative to Spanish. I tackled translations of newspaper articles, documents and book extracts, broke my nails on the typewriter, and endeavoured to master shorthand, not only in English, but in French and Spanish, and staggered into the Language Laboratory where, with headphones over our ears, we looked like animals about to be slaughtered, assulted by the flow of statistics, extempore translations, the precis which, read in the foreign language, had to be written in English.

At first, the pressure is particularly great because the A-level language courses just do not prepare you for the journalistic style and vocabulary of the economic, technical and political passages on which we concentrated. Everyone in my course found it hard going at first, but it gets better as you develop more feeling for the language, and then there was always the prospect of the term abroad to sustain us! This is part of the course and I decided to go to France as I consider French to be a more important language commercially than Spanish. We lived with families in Lille in the north-east of France, went to college every day - well, practically! - and stayed week-ends in Paris, Brussels, and Rotterdam. In the stable stood a large aged carthorse. He was grey and had large bushes of white hair around Now that I have finished I shall be looking his fawn-coloured hoofs. His mane was tangled, for jobs after a six-week camping trip to Greece— for it had not been groomed for a long time; his my last chance of a long holiday! I should have coat still shone in the early morning sun. His no difficulty: many of my friends have found head was bent low and his eyes were aged and that without shorthand and typing you can do droopy. Soon he would be able to live out his virtually nothing except teach or translate (and days in the meadow and not pull the farmer's this generally only if you have a Degree in cart. He had been with the farmer since he was a Technical Translation or Engineering!) I have young colt. He moved slowly towards the door been offered a job with Mobiloil in Paris as a because he had seen the farmer coming with his "secretary-translater-commercial correspondent", nosebag full of oats. The farmer stroked the which is roughly what the course at Holborn horse's head and gently fastened the tatty nosebag prepares you for; and just read what the on to the horse and went to fetch some clean hay advertisements in the newspapers have to offer! for him.

Jane Compton 1T

64 TEACHING IN FRANCE over the wall to the "cafe du coin". Angela Ravens 1965 The huge promises made by the left-wing politi- "Will de Gaulle win?" "Are the General's words cians in order to bribe students to join them in a 'apres moi le deluge' to be proved correct?" concentrated effort to oust le General were there- recently these and similar newspaper headings fore welcomed with hysterical enthusiasm. Ideals reminded me vividly of questions being whispered became exaggerated and swelled to such propor- a year ago while I was an Assistant in a mixed tions that all sense of reality fell away. Suddenly French lyce'e at Clermont-Ferrand. the students singing the "internationale" seemed out of touch with the present. The sweeping Having exhausted the inevitable conversation changes which had been advocated were reduced, topics of "The British Parliament", "British but even so France will never be quite the same traditions" and "the English countryside", which again. Even in such a short space of time as ten were met with undisguised boredom, and after months I was able to realise the significance of the passing through the Killy season, Beatlemania upheavals which resulted. and Hippy-ism, I was amazed at the sudden burst of volubility which greeted my tentative questions about the re-organisation of French schools and universities. For once everyone had A DESCRIPTION OF MY KITCHEN an opinion, but the French character is contrary to any notion of order. My pupils listened open- Our kitchen is not very big, but full of action. mouthed to my long-winded explanation of the People hustling and bustling in the morning for tradition of debating in English schools and the sizzling on top of our new cooker which stands finally give a desultory shrug of the shoulders by the door. Someone switch off the kettle! It as if to say: "Well, the English are obviously as stands pouring out steam and splashing out water mad as we always thought they were". Never- on to the top of the washing machine and making theless, the difficulty in controlling groups of the tea-towels wet where someone has not put twelve to fifteen pupils all talking at once them away above the boiler. This boiler of ours about how they would like to see a school run, stands roaring in the corner devouring all the was a very great one. On the other hand, it was rubbish pushed into its big fiery mouth. Someone extremely interesting for me to see school- sleepily drags a pair of clean socks off the airer children discussing grievances with their which is out of the way near the ceiling. People cut teachers—hitherto such communication between bread on to the big bread board which stands on staff and pupil had been unheard-of. Teachers the jam-blotched, fat-streaked, wet, crumby table. go to school simply to teach, the staff room is You have to use a chair to reach the top shelves in a large, empty, echoing room containing the larder; not even Dad can reach the top shelf. A lockers-l myself had to contact the English foot steps in the cat bowls under the table. A plate staff by placing a note in the appropriate is just saved from crashing to the floor from the pigeon-hole. edge of the kitchen cabinet's flap. Our cabinet covers a door so the door is obviously never used, A French school is too often a kind of know- except by visitors who try to open it from the hall. ledge factory - few after-school activities exist; Then I grab a cup from the washing-up rack on there is no assembly to give staff and pupils a the draining board, have a quick drink, and dash means of being in one place at the same time. off to school. Students maintain discipline during lunch times and free study periods, making it Jacky Haigh 2P extremely difficult for the braver pupils to climb

65 On hearing the word 'candlelight' two thoughts, having opposite moods, immediately spring to mind: fear and romance.

The very word candlelight suggests a romantic setting. One automatically thinks of a tiny restaurant with soft music playing gently in the background, small tables set for two placed in dimly lit alcoves and a tall, dark French waiter standing by to serve. The candles give a warm glow making everything seem cosy and giving the feeling of romance.

To add to the mood you order lobster - yes, lobster salad accompanied by white wine, served at just the right temperature. The wine, combined with the flickering light gives you a happy feeling. You giggle quietly. Not too much. Just enough to show your contented happiness. It is not the wine, but the atmosphere made by the beautiful glowing flames of the candles which makes you feel safe and contented.

The flame of a candle can bring fear for some. Fear of loneliness. Can you not see an old woman sitting in the candlelight of her small, dark room? The flames cast weird shadows that fall on to the walls and ceiling. She can see tall and evil-looking people lurking in the corners, jumping to and fro as if in a frenzy. She looks again, her heart pounding faster, faster, faster! No, there is no one there; it is only the reflection of the flickering flames.

She gets up and moves to the huge mirror above the mantle. In the glass she sees a haggard face, her age greatly exaggerated by dark shadows falling on the hollows of her cheeks and eyes. Her eyes look like those of the devil. Surely that image cannot be hers.

The room is dark and dirty. The dim light makes everything merge into one black mass. A barrier between fear and comfort. If she tried to move from the room, over the barrier, out into the brightly lit town, surely these strange evil creatures running, jumping, dancing, dancing around her room would stop her—torment her—never let her see the peace of day- light again.

Fear and romance. Two moods, entirely different. Experiencing one mood you spare no thought for someone else who may be experiencing Linda Metelica 4N the other, yet they have one thing in common-candlelight.

66 THE EDITORS would like to thank all past and present LUTON members of the school, staff and students, who have contributed to this magazine. Limited space has meant COLLEGE drastic cuts in some articles and even the omission of OF others. For this we apologise and, at the same time, hope TECHNOLOGY that others are not deterred from making future contributions which we are always delighted to receive. Pennie Cranmer 1966 NOTE: The date printed after the writers' names indicates the year in which they left the school.

I expect everyone who wants to take a degree will THE AYLESBURY FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS automatically apply to universities - why not spare As in previous years this school has achieved an the Colleges of Technology a thought? excellent standard in the Art section of this festival. At different times in the past eight years I have spent the past three years at Luton College we have won every cup available to us. of Technology studying for a B.Sc. General This years' awards were as follows: Degree - External London University and have just sat my finals. I should say here that it is also PAINTING AND DRAWING possible to take special degrees, and both the arts and the sciences are catered for. For my two FIRST CLASS AWARDS final subjects I chose Pure Maths with Statistics PatGandy Caroline Chamberlain Teresa Riley and Physics; but for the Part I exams one has to Vanda Caudrey Annabel Overton Frances Brown take three subjects. Now I want to follow up the Sarah Hawes June Thorne Rosemary Parsons Statistics and take a year's M.Sc. Course at Janet Castle university. SECOND CLASS AWARDS I found the standard of tuition good, as good as Jack! Hall Karen Littlewood Susan Delia at a university I should imagine, as the lecturers PatGandy Teresa Riley Frances Brain were just as well qualified. But the great advantage Gillian Smee Catherine Gasson Gillian Thompson over universities was the smaller size of the classes Margaret Smith Susan Draper Elizabeth Ballard and so one got much more individual attention Melanie Robinson Dianne Spencer Helen Jeacock and assistance. In fact the classes and lecturers Jane Prosser June Thorne Janet Castle became quite a close-knit group. THIRD CLASS AWARDS I also joined in many of the college activities - Geraldine Day Jacki Mogford Anne Dooley mainly sport. There were a great many sports Karen Langdon Penelope Hancock Norma Smith catered for, and opportunities to play for the Susan Wyatt (2) Susan Reece Heather Collins college teams. Susan Carter Helen Frazer Shelley Harris Hilary Chase (2) Janet Castle (2) Sally Donne So to those of you wanting to take a degree - Marilyn Fuller think about a College of Technology as well (entry requirements are not as high!) and an SCULPTURE external London degree will stand you in good stead for any job and also for carrying on to take FIRST CLASS AWARD Judith Ramsay higher degrees. SECOND CLASS AWARD Deborah Arnott THIRD CLASS AWARDS Judith Ramsay June Thorne

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TOP LEFT 'MACHINERY' plaster relief Judith Ramsay 4N 1968. TOP RIGHT ABSTRACT carved plaster Elizabeth Ballard 3S 1968. BELOW FIGURE in wire and plaster Anna Doyle 3S 1968.

ABOVE POTS by Jacqueline Ferry 1967. RIGHT DETAIL OF A PLASTER RELIEF by a second form 1966. HEAD by Catherine Bartlett 3S 1968. "chemists" had set up a display of ordinary household goods which had been brought to a open day rainbow-range of colours by tests for their acid or alkaline content. First-year "physicists" Once it had been suggested, we all agreed that we certainly "ought to have it". Each of us thought demonstrated molecular activity, while sixth our department did interesting things and formers operated a Vander Graaff generator giving 200,000 volts. - "fireworks" for the spell- suspected that others might—even secretly wishing we might see some of their mysterious doings. bound watchers! In the Biology Lab. visitors Rumour had it that Maths was now "new", shuddered while at the same time enjoying skeletons, snakeskins, intriguing forms of pickled interesting-comprehensible! But we were not enthusiastic. Could we produce something worth- life, and a Canadian toad (live!) while to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary? If we did SUPPOSE NOBODY CAME! To create and vary the mood, music was used in the Scripture room: from the arresting "beat" music and Cliff Richard's singing to orchestral Since school seemed to go on much as usual right up to the day, everything came as a revelation not pieces, everything emphasised the main theme, only to our one thousand visitors (suppose nobody the relevance of Christianity to the life of the individual in the twentieth century. came?) some of whom were still drifting happily about the school after closing time with no real wish to leave, but to the staff and even pupils. People lingered in the Hall and in the Art Room among the delightfully arranged displays, and Some of the latter were heard to make comments showing pleased astonishment at all that was done returned to them, marvelling that so many in the old place, and were clearly proud to show children could be guided to real creativity. Similarly, trained young voices gave great it off (knowledgeably!) to parents and dazzled younger brothers and sisters. pleasure with varied programmes of songs throughout the afternoon. The Language Lab. in action was a little frightening, certainly impressive: the It was all true: Maths was interesting, and could children seemed to be learning Russian, as well as be seen to be comprehensible from the impressive the more usual French, German, or Spanish. P.E. efforts of relays of (young!) mathematicians who banished its limited hockey-stick image with played to capacity crowds all afternoon. English dance, elegant fencing, graceful archery. Cake, produced not only a delightful range of creative jumble, sweets, and many other attractive stalls writing and projects (all in the setting of a summery bower where Yeats's poetry hung on the found eager patrons, and the profits (£60!) will air) but enjoyable verse-speaking, and a dramatic swell the Uganda Fund. and beautifully-costumed literary parade. History (dull, forsooth?) offered newspapers produced by The most pleasant thing about Open Day was the atmosphere - - which was in harmony with the the girls, recordings, and a roomful of exciting sunny warm day. There were frequent loud and material. Geography showed its maps and charts, excited greetings (sometimes undignified) as we but also its range from the more scientific aspects (geological specimens) to the "human" (Indian recognised many former pupils and former costumes). Economics seemed dauntingly com- members of staff who had come especially—some prehensive—was there anything not included in it? from quite long distances. Of course, we were delighted to have among our guests many of the Cookery displays proved almost irresistibly Governors of the School and a number of town tempting, and the fashion-conscious found themselves hovering round the needlework displays. dignitaries, including the Mayor and Mayoress. It was a happy and memorable occasion. Science was fascinating! First-year Nuffield J.M.

69 U. 12 VII: Played 8, Won 3, Drew 1, Lost 4. Gillian sporting notes Parfitt, Sharon Buggey, Hilary Harding, Janet Mathew, Sally Page, Jean Samuel, Susan Barr. HOCKEY FIRSTXI: Played 8, Won 1. Drew 0, Lost 7. U. 14B: Played 1, Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1. Christine Wall, Mary Streatfeild, Kathryn Bray, Jennifer Patterson, Mary Hicks, Pamela Winford U. 13B: Played 3, Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 1. (Capt.) Patricia Birtwell, Jennifer Skerrett, Monika Clarke, Elizabeth Heron, Margaret Pace. U. 12B: Played 3, Won 3, Drew 0, Lost 0.

SECOND XI: Played 2, Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1. Fairly successful season. Very keen in first and second year but need to be consistent, especially U.15XI: J. Ramsay, M. White, S. Arnold, with shooting. Susan Taylor was selected from the M. Saunders, S. Haynes, N. Roberts, J. Gates, U.14 team as a reserve for the County Junior U.15 C. Geeson, J. Hill, E. Young, G. Thorne (Capt.) team, in which she played consistently throughout Played 4, Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 2. the season.

COUNTY JUNIOR U. 15X1: E. Young, Reserve. NATIONAL SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT: First VII reached county Area Finals. U.15 VII reached Very disappointing season. The pitches were out Territorial Area Finals - lost 5 - 7 in semi-finals. of commission for three-quarters of the time which didn't help team spirit. Juniors seem to be INTER-SCHOOLS' TOURNAMENT: First VII more enthusiastic and have one or two promising won senior section. players. BUCKS COUNTY SCHOOLS' TEAMS: Senior VII COLOURS: awarded to - Elizabeth Heron, P. Winford, E. Heron; Junior VII - E. Young, Pamela Winford and Mary Hicks. C. Geeson, S. Taylor

COMMENDED: Monika Clarke, Mary Streatfeild. END OF SEASON: Colours awarded to P. Winford Re-awarded to E. Heron. Commended for good NETBALL play - E. Young, C. Geeson. FIRST VII: Played 9, Won 7, Lost 2, Drew 0. S. Milliken, P. Winford, R. Gosden, E. Heron, TENNIS (Capt.), M. Clarke, S. Capener, C. Geeson. FIRST VI: Played 8, Won 4, Drew 0, Lost 4. Julie Evans (Capt.) Carol Geeson, Kathryn Bray, SECOND VII: Played 4, Won 3, lost 1, Drew 0. Pat Birtwell, Elizabeth Heron, Pamela Winford. M. Hicks, C. Wall, H. Hicks, M. Pace (Capt.), C. Harding, F. Hopkins, G. Ferguson. SECOND VI: Played 4, Won 4, Drew 0, Lost 0. From: Mary Hicks, Celia Pratt, Susan Rickard, U. 14 VII: Played 11, Won 7, Drew 1, Lost 3. Susan Carmody, Mary Streatfeild, Jennifer Skerrett, Anna Doyle/Pat Ramage, Helen Belger, Margaret Pace, Monika Clarke. Susan Taylor, Susan Sutton, Leonie Ing, Ann Minogue, Pauline Seymour. U. 15 VI: Played 5, Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 4: E. Young (Capt.), S. Arnold, P. Nunn, M. Warnick, G. Thorne U. 13 VII: Played 8, Won 4, Drew 2, Lost 2. F. Hopkins; also M. Saunders. Catherine Gasson/Miranda Bourne, Denise Simmons, Diane Edwards, Phyllis Briggs, Shan U. 14 VI: Played 1, Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0. From: Walters,.Elizabeth Walters, Amanda Rooney/ Anne Minogue, Clare Baker, Sarah Hawes, Christine Evans

70 Helen Belger, Susan Sutton, Susan Taylor, Leonie The school also had two teams from the U.I6 age Ing, Lynn Powell. group in the final of the County Schools Team Race - they both came third. Swimming were Very pleasant season. Good weather. Unfortunate Rosalind Wallace, Jacky Hill, Stephanie Wallace, 'A' level clashes meant a depleted 1st team on Moira Warnick, Ceri Williams. several occasions but substitutes gained valuable experience. ATHLETICS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS: Seniors - CAROL GEESON is specially commended. In A.Wilkinson, S. Entwistle, M. Pace. Intermediate- only her second season, while in the fourth form, G. Thorne. Junior - relay team included S. Taylor, she played in the 1st Team, won the Bucks C. Powell, J. Tompkins. Under 18 Doubles Championship with M. Morton (Tring) and was selected for the Bucks County FIVE STAR AWARD SCHEME: Awards to U.18 Team. H. Barry, L. Reeve, A. Marriott.

COLOURS: FIRST VI: re-awarded, Julie Evans. EXAMINATION RESULTS 1968-69

AWARDED: Pat Birtwell, Kathryn Bray, ADVANCED LEVEL Elizabeth Heron, Carol Geeson, Commended (An * indicates the achievement of the highest Pamela Winford. A-level grade; (M) indicates Merit on the Special Paper; (D) indicates Distinction on the Special SECOND VI: Commended for consistent play - Paper; (0) indicates a pass at Ordinary Level) Mary Hicks, Susan Rickard, Susan Carmody. Hilary Annenberg Mathematics, Further SWIMMING Mathematics, Physics SENIORS: Elizabeth Heron, Linda Pitts, Gillian Arthur English Lit, French Christine Wall, Pamela Winford, Carolyn Huckle, Lorraine Attridge Mathematics, Further Susan Young, Pat Birtwell, Rosamund James. Mathematics, Physics Jacqueline Baker English Lit, History, INTERMEDIATES: Rosalind Wallace, Stephanie Geography* Wallace, Jacky Hill, Carol Geeson, Moira Warnick, Susan Baker Domestic Science Gaye Thorne, Leonie Ing, Anna Doyle, Anne Barbara Bellingham English Lit, Geography Lodge. Patricia Birtwell Mathematics*, Physics, Chemistry* JUNIORS: Phyllis Briggs, Lynn Hopkins, Brenda Bowden English Lit, * French, Denise Simmons, Clare Riley, Jayne Winterburn, German Avril Witney, Eleanor Thorne, Elaine Purchase, Kathryn Bray Mathematics, Physics, Ruth Elcoate. Chemistry Kathleen Broom English Lit, French, MATCH RESULTS: Swam 5, Won 4, Drew 0, Geography Lostl. Joy de Burgh Sidley English Lit*., Economies' Geography*, Art The following girls were selected for the District Janet Cansick Physics, Chemistry, Team for the County Meeting: Rosalind Wallace Biology * Stephanie Wallace, Ceri Williams, Jacky Hill; Christina Cawley English Lit, Economics Stephanie Cheek Mathematics, Chemistry, Jacky Hill and Rosalind Wallace have been Biology selected for the County Training weekend in Wendy Clark English Lit, Domestic September. Science

71 Jane Cunningham English Lit,*(M), French*, Christine Robinson English Lit, French, German History Pauline Cousins French (0), History Valerie Seamer English Lit, (0) Florence Currie Physics, Chemistry, Janet Sebright English Lit, Geography(O) Biology Judith Shaw Mathematics, Further Elizabeth Dean Mathematics", Physics*, Mathematics, Physics Chemistry* Elizabeth Sunley Geography* (M), Mathe- Susan Donne English Lit, Latin matics*, Biology* Julie Evans English Lit, History Susan Taylor English Lit, (0) Vanessa Fletcher English Lit, History (M), Carol Thompson English Lit, Geography, Geography Biology Jeanette Frogley English Lit, French * Rosalind Warry Latin, French, History *(M) Lynda Frost English Lit, History, Alison Watt English Lit, Geography Geography Jennifer Wilding English Lit, History (D), Griselda Graham English Lit, History Economics Josephine Hancock Geography, Domestic Pamela Winford English Lit, Biology, Science Domestic Science (0) Jean Hemsley Biology, Domestic Nancy Kendall Art Science * Elizabeth Heron English Lit, Economics, SIXTH FORM -ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS Mary Hicks English Lit. LEVEL Anne Hill Economics*, Geography (M) Mathematics UPPER SIXTH Susan Lawson Chemistry, Biology* Irene Magowan English Lit, History, Patricia Birtwell Biology Economics Jane Cunningham Latin Gillian Maris English Lit, Economics Joy de Burgh Sidley Latin Linda Marshall Mathematics, Biology (Of Julie Evans Spanish Charlotte Melia Physics, Chemistry, Josephine Hancock Additional Mathematics Biology* Christine Mitchell Additional Mathematics Hilary Merralls English Lit. *, History Heather Murphy Spanish Christine Mitchell Biology Jennifer Patterson Latin Heather Murphy English Lit, French, Catherine Pomphrey Russian Geography Celia Pratt Latin Sarah Newton English Lit, Geography (0), Christine Robinson Latin An (0). Valerie Seamer History Hazel Parrott English Lit, French (0), Susan Taylor Additional Mathematics Geography (0) Jennifer Patterson Physics, Chemistry, LOWER SIXTH Biology* Sally Pickard English Lit, Economics Paula Adams Religious Knowledge, Linda Pitts Physics, Chemistry, Geology, French Biology* Felicity Andrew Chemistry Catherine Pomphrey Latin *, French *, German Moira Brown Geology, Cookery, Carole Potter English Lit, French Maths Celia Pratt English Lit, French, Nicola Carter Geology Geography Brigitte Chandler Geology, French

72 Michelle Dwight Geology Paula Salewski 7 Barbara Til lot 2 Sally Jane Edwards Religious Knowledge, Christine Seymour 8 Barbara Wells 3 Cookery, French Erica Simms 7 Joan Whaites 8 Shirley Entwistle Geology Trudy Stalker 7 Anne Wilkinson 3 Sarah Faulkner Geology Jane Tester 8 Marilyn Fettes Biology Janet Fuller Geography FORM 5MT Marilyn Fuller Geology, Art, French Rosemary Gosden History Rosemary Allen 8 Terry Packham 8 Christine Harrison Geology Jennifer Austin 8 Janet Priest 7 Margaret Johnson Religious Knowledge Melanie Bayley 8 Susan Rickard 8 Carolyn Jones English Lang., English Susan Chapped 8 Valerie RixOn 7 Lit. Monika Clarke 8 Diana Roberts 8 Lesley Jones Geology Susan Coxhead 7 PaulineSlade 8 Anne Meekums Geology June Douglas 8 Yvonne Taylor 7 Deirdre Meppem Religious Knowledge, Louise Emmett 8 Sally Washington 8 Cookery Jane Finch 8 Nicola Watson 7 Sally Morbey Geology Alison Foot 8 Katharine Watt 3 Patricia Morgan Mathematics Stephanie Hilton 8 Margaret Waugh 8 Sally Mussen Biology Caroline Ireland 8 Linda Whitby 8 Julia Neale Chemistry, English Lit Carole Laurillard 8 Gillian White 2 Maureen Newton History Stella Malpas 8 Susan Young 8 Jane Oke French Jacqueline Moorcroft 8 Judith O'Sullivan French Margaret Pace Chemistry FORM 5F Glynis Powell Religious Knowledge, Geology Sally Bacon 6 Ann Long 3 Geraldine Samuel Biology Anne Bonham 5 Daphne Miller 3 Ruth Shovelton Geology Alison Bowden 7 Catherine Mitchell 5 Mary Streatfeild Geology Maria Cirkovic 1 Jane Orton 4 Susan Vogt Geology Vanessa Dart 6 Maureen Robertson 5 Sylvia Walker Geology Susan Francis 3 Celia Roberts 4 Graeme Wall is Maths. Maralynne Harris 4 Sally Robinson 2 Jean Wolfe English Lang. Kathleen Haigh 5 Karen Watkins 2 Anne Hobbs 1 Christine Whaljey 4 FIFTH FORM O LEVELS Penny Lamb 5 Ingrid Williams 1 Susan Lawler 3 Eleanor Wyman 4 FORM 5CH FORM 4 Catherine Acaster 8 Elizabeth Hawkins 7 Helen Ashall 6 Jean Hilton-Shepherd 4 Margaret Baker 1 Christiana Spanchak 1 Gillian Brock 6 Rosamund James 6 Sally Donne 3 Marie King 8 FORM BSE Helen Elmore 7 Roselle Lewsley 6 Ann Ferguson 8 Lyn McLennan 7 Margaret Barfield 8 Susan Carmody 6 Odette Gibbs 7 Ann Parrott 8 Jane Barnett 8 Margaret Chesworth 7 Nicola Harding 8 Mary-Anne Potter 8 Susan Browne 8 Bobby Coe 5 Susan Hawkins 8 Caroline Radford 3 Sandra Capener 7 Deborah Cox 8

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