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S. Flmcbael's Iltkljaelljouse, Jlatal. Her., 1H3S S. flMcbael's iltkljaelljouse, Jlatal. Her., 1H3S. MR. F. R. SNELL. S. ^Zticfyaels (Tfyronicle CONTENTS. Page Frontispiece. Editorial.................. 1 The Rector: An Appre- ciation .................... 4 School Notes............... 8 Chapel Notes............... 10 Building Fund.............. 12 Entertainments............. 12 Debating Society........... 24 Library Notes.............. 27 Page Literary Society .. Photographic Society Cadet Notes........... Shooting Notes .. Athletics............. Tennis................ Hockey ............... Rugby................. Old Boys' Notes .. Our Contemporaries 28 29 30 31 32 34 38 57 88 EDITORIAL THE RECTOR-ELECT It is not often that editors have so obvious a subject for an editorial as ours is in this issue. The appointment of the Rector's successor is obviously a matter of paramount interest. 2 S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE Mr. F. R. Snell is a Scholar of Winchester and a Scholar of Oriel College, Oxford. He obtained a First Class in the Final Honours School of Chemistry, and was then awarded a special Research Exhibition. After some time on research work, he went out to Agra, India, as a lecturer in Chemistry. On his return to England, to educate his children, he was appointed Senior Science Master at Eastbourne College, the post which he now holds. He is very keenly interested in social matters, and is vice-chairman of the Eastbourne Unemployment Council and on the Council of the Distressed Areas Association. He is a keen musician, and plays the organ. Mrs. Snell is herself a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford. They have three small daughters. By kind permission of the Editor of the South African Church Weekly Newspaper, we reproduce a photograph of the Rector-Elect on the frontispiece and, below, his message to this newspaper:- "We have, of course, many friends in England from whom it will be hard to part, but it is no mere matter of form to say that my wife and children, as well as myself, look forward to our coming to South Africa to make our home there. I am well aware that to accept the Rectorship of Michaelhouse is to accept a great responsibility and a great privilege. It is very evident that under the present Rector the School has flourished increasingly, and that it will be my part to see that the steady development which has taken place under him continues without interruption. S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE 3 "I imagine that I shall find boys in Natal much the same as those in England. There, as here, I am sure the most important function a school has to perform is to give its sons knowledge and faith; knowledge such as may fit them to seek and recognise in life the good and true and beautiful as well as enable them to earn their living, and a faith which will be to them at once a compass and an anchor in these times of swiftly moving change. "For the rest, I have received the training of a scientist and that has, I hope, taught me not to form judgments without having first ascertained facts. I shall come to Africa prepared to learn before I expect to teach." F.R.S. Eastbourne, September 11th, 1938. N.G.L. 4 S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE THE RECTOR: AN APPRECIATION Ronald Fairbridge Currey became Rector of Michael- house in July, 1930. He goes from Michaelhouse at the end of the year in order to assume the Headmastership of S. Andrew's, Grahamstown. After this comparatively short period of office he leaves behind him an enviable record of achievement. In July, 1930, there were just under two hundred boys in the School; the roll is now three hundred and twenty odd. The increased numbers demanded, among other things, the creation of a new House and the building of two new self-contained blocks. These two blocks, together with the west side of the main Quadrangle, form the three sides of New Court, whose trim lawn and flowering shrubs enhance not a little the general beauty of the place. The building of new Chemistry Laboratories outside the Quadrangle set free a room which now, fittingly altered and embellished, houses our excellent library. The Sanatorium was extended and a new wing, com- pletely modern in its equipment, was added. Physical Training, coming into the regular School curriculum, necessitated the building of a Gymnasium which, although not prepossessing to look at, yet serves its purpose admirably. Another demand made by growing numbers was for new and better playing-fields. The old football ground was levelled and planted with kikuyu grass, and at the same time a second and equally good one was made. Two new cricket fields, on the sites of old ones, were constructed, and both of these have turf wickets. S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE 5 No account of Ronald Currey's visible achievements would be complete without mention of the vast improvement in the lay-out of the School gardens, a work in which he was so ably helped by Mrs. Currey. He has, besides, made it his object to cover with ornamental trees the hitherto waste and rather unbeautiful open spaces on the east and west sides of the main buildings. He and his wife mani- festly subscribe to Bacon's saying that a garden is "the purest of human pleasures, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks," and their earnest belief in this has created for the School innumerable things of beauty which will indeed be a joy for ever. Last of the "brick and mortar" developments (but last only in point of time) comes the founding of the new Chapel. That the School, increased in size as it is, should have a place of worship more worthy of its Christian ideals has for a long time been Ronald Currey's most cherished ambition. He worked hard to collect money so that a start could be made, and he will leave machinery whereby this collecting may be continued. It is now for the School's friends, in their generosity, to see to it that the Chapel, in due course, is completed as it was begun, not by means of borrowed money, but by means of donations freely given. It is good news indeed that the work on the Chapel will be far enough advanced by Speech Day for Ronald Currey to assist at the laying of the foundation stone by the Bishop. To all these greater forward steps can be added many such others as the creation of the post of School Bursar as a separate function, the introduction of the Entrance Examination and the free Wednesday afternoon, the throw- ing open of the front gardens to all members of the School, 6 S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE and such smaller structural improvements as the continua- tion of the Cloisters along the north side of the Quadrangle and the partial grass of the Quad itself. But to make a catalogue of visible achievements is easy; far more difficult is it to attempt in words an appraisement of Ronald Currey's influence upon the spirit of the School. This can perhaps best be summed up in a phrase which is constantly on his lips-"good citizenship." It was always his object to inculcate all the qualities that this phrase denotes, and to relate the good citizenship of school- life to that of the wider life of the State. He resisted strongly any tendency towards a myopic view of education, and refused to regard successes in examinations or in games as in themselves of any great merit. These were things to be taken in one's stride. He valued much more highly the thorough preparation which made these successes possible. That the conscientious worker, rather than the "blood" of the playing-fields, should have due recognition and should come to be regarded in the School as the salt of the earth was his steadfast aim, and most of his innovations had this praiseworthy end in view. The shibboleths associated with "the old school-tie," in the accepted sense of that phase, are anathema to him. His loyalty is pledged rather to the South African Public Schools as a group, because, in his own words, "they make a real and valuable contribution to that full variety of type which I believe to be one of the distinguishing marks of a sound national life." It is a commonplace that Michaelhouse, from the time of her foundation to the present day, has been singularly S. MICHAEL'S CHRONICLE 7 fortunate in her Rectors. Each, in his own way, has done her valuable service ar.d each has left her better equipped for her purpose than he found her. For some this task has been more difficult than for others: for none has it been easy. Ronald Currey would be the first to admit (and the admission would detract in no way from his great achievements) that when he came the ground had, to a large extent, been prepared. He was able to forge ahead with a programme of development which was in itself no light task, but which he could undertake unhampered by anything except the normal set-backs and anxieties (for- midable enough in all conscience) to which the headmaster of a large school is exposed. To the personal side of his work he brought an easy accessibility and a readiness to advise which enabled Staff and boys to approach him frankly with their difficulties. To the administrative side he brought a genius for organi- zation and a wide experience gained by keen and intelligent observation during his work in other schools. To the academic side he brought a mind trained in the best traditions of a South African university and in the classical virtues of Oxford.
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