EDITORIAL Here is your Christmas Yell I Yes, I know its a different shape from what you've, "been used to, but it still continues the usual news and views about Friars School. The reason for the larger size is to help with the printing and collation which always has to be done at the busiest time of term. In this my first term in the iBditorial chair I would like to express my thanks to all who have contributed to the magazine, to Keppel- Palmer and his helpers, to Michael Boddy for his help in off- loading it all on to me-•-('!), to Richard Hatfield for his cover illustration and to Jane Stevens and Sally Whitestone without whose typing skills nothing would be in your hand now. T.B. Friars School, Great Chart, Ashford, Kent. llth December 1979 Dear Readers, . I hope you. enjoy this edition of the Yell. As it is my first term as editor my staff, Mr. Boardman and I are striving to make this edition of the Yell one of the most enjoyable we have ever produced. This term all three boys who took common entrance passed into their public :schools. The hard-court, as predicted in last term's Yell is now finished and in full operation. The Baxter Building is going oni .remarkably q_uickly, the outside is.now finished and the inside is hoped to be finished by March. , Mr. Stevens and his wife have settled in very well, there is a report on him in the Yell with another report on the other new staff. Yours sincerely, Editorial Staff : N. Keppel-Palmer, C. Sllott, S. Azizi, And. Gillespie-Smith. ROOM HR.!AHD\MR£. The Editor of the Yeli interviewed Mr. Stevens and Mrs. Stevens. Mr. Stevens was at school at St. Johns, Leatherhead where he was a foundation scholar and a school prefect. He was in the Classical Vlth. In sports he was in the 1st XV rugby and the 2nd XI cricket. After public school he entered the Army for National Service'in the Somerset Light Infantry, and was with this battalion for a year. : After going to the Mons Officer Cadet School he was commisioned into the Gloucestershire regiment and was attached to an R.A.O.C.,unit in Munster. He was in industry in Gloucester for a short time after National Service where he interviewed staff for •jobs. After that he went unqualified to a prep school called Tockington Manor near Bristol from 1963 to 1964-. Then he went to St. Luke's College, Exeter which is one of the best training colleges in the country. After two years he came out as a qualified teacher and then went to Bedford School prep department. He next went into the Royal Navy and was commissioned as an Instructor Lieutenant and after having trained at Portsmouth and Greenwich he taught at H.M.S. Ganges which was" a training establishment near Ipswich with 2,000 junior seamen. From 1972 to 197^ he was posted to the Depot Royal Marines at Deal. Prom there he went to St. Faith's School, Cambridge where -he was Head of ivlaths and Second Master. Prom there he was appointed to Friars School. He has a degree in history and is interested in most forms of sport, gardening and classical music. He plays and coaches rugby, football and cricket. Out of all these jobs he enjoys what he is doing at the moment. He thinks Friars is an excellent school and hopes to increase the number of boarders, he has two sons, James and Peter, both at Friars. He wants to make Friars the most sought after school in the South alast with parents putting their sons names down at birth. Mrs. Stevens was at the Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedford and from there-she went to St. Godric's College in London for a secretarial course., she worked for a number of years in London as a secretary, then for a year or so in Bedford where she met Mr. Stevens. She •worked a;s a secretary1 in the hand book bindery and the person who owned it was' actually pne of the best hand .book binders in the country. This job she found most interesting as she could have an insight into all types of art such as music and poetry. ' . N. Keppel-Palmer MR. TONY BOARDMAN Mr. Boardman was educated at Epsom College and Goldsmiths College of Education. His first school post was at Hazelwood School, Oxted where he taught for nine years. He was Head of the History Department there as well as being in charge of the Junior Department and being Second Master. • From 1978-9 he was Head of History at Dean Close Junior School, Cheltenham and came from there to Friars at the start of term to be Second Master. He teaches History, Music, English and Latin and his main relaxations are music and gardening. He lives with his wife and two sons in Sandyhurst Lane. MRS. PAT OLDKNOtf Mrs. Pat Oldknow joins us as Senior Matron this term. This is her first job as a school matron but she has had many years experience in nursing in both medical and surgical wards. Her most recent job was at St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey where she was a Staff Nurse. MRS. DIANE LEEDHAM Mrs. Leedham joined us this term as the class teacher for Transition. She was trained at St. Mary's College, Cheltenham and since than has taught in schools in Essex and Kent. She is married to a teacher and lives with her family in Canterbury. MISS SARAH tfELANDER Miss Welander is teaching the expanding Reception class. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies Collage and trained at the College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham where she studied Art as her main subject and qualified with a B. Ed. Degree. MISS LIN TILTMAN Miss Tiltman is a trained Nursery Nurse having qualified on the N.N.E.B. course at fest Kent College of Further Education. She is assiting with the junior forms, but especially in the Pre-Prep. •ooOoo- I would like to express my thanks to ell staff and boys of Friars concerned who presented me with the beautiful inscribed decanter on the occasion of my retirement. I shall treasure it as a memento of a very happy association over many years with both boys and colleagues. May all of you at Friars continue to flourish and if you ever journey "down under" do look me up. Roy Baxter This term Friars boys have been involved ,in .two sponsored activities. #e entered a sponsored swim at the Stour Centre in aid of the British Heart Foundation and we made £210.04. < The next day we walked in Challock Forest in aid of the florid Wildlife Fund "Save the Rhino" appeal. From this we raised £50.6?. The whole school sat exams this term and we also had three boys sitting Common Entrance. Mr. Creeth has a new car but the old one is still seen around the school as it has been bought by Mr. McCartan. Central Heating is being installed by Mr., Wells throughout the House and Assembly/Dining Halls. There are now smiles on all the boys faces at the new tropical conditions which exist. The senior dormitory is now in the Cottage where a partition has been put up in the big dorm to provide a Monitors Room. The Sixth form started life in the Library this term but have since taken up lodgings in the Music Room. Music lessons now happen in the Hall. •'•„_,. Ne bid farewell to Mr. Stanley who has been delivering the morning p'ost to Friars School ever since it' was founded in 1950. At assembly Mrs. Boddy presented a cheque to Mr. Stanley and wished him well in his retirement. Various films have been shown this term on Motor Racing, Fishing, Rain Forests, Rivers, Electricity and other topics. The dormitories are now hung with personal pdsters of varying shapes and sizes. Boarders entertainments this term have included quizzes for staff, monitors and juniors and mimes and plays in which Nathan Harmer has been a leading light. The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal this year raised £151 in the village with Friars contributing £9.09- A party of boys was taken to Twickenham to see the Varsity Match. During the term about thirty boys have been regularly attending mini-rugby coaching sessions in Ashford. In the muddle of the summer holidays Edward Marley went to play cricket at a college in Dover with people from all schools against this college. He took 2 wickets and scored 10 runs. College 291-6, Mixed People 156-10. The Firework Display was well attended by over 300 people. They ' enjoyed an impressive display made possible by contributions of over £100 by parents. Our thanks go to Mr. Nickel-Lean and his helpers for organising the display and to Mrs. Boddy for dealing with gallons of soup and large quantities of hot dogs. EOPLE & PLACES BAXTER BUILDING The new gym, which was started ir tfa® summer term 1979, was given the name The Baxter Building in acknowledgement of Mr. Roy Baxter who loyally served the school as a master for 25 years. Last term he retired to live in his native land of Australia. Now the building towers above the rest of the school with its massive iron frame work. It has been built with two floors, and is more spacious than its predecessor. The dimensions are 4-0' by 80' including storage space.