E)B;l3A'1S::, SrC R l)P }Ul!', 1980 Tenax Propositi Ulteriora Pieto The M~gazine of Glyn Sclloo1 Epsom GOVERNORS 1979/80 Chairman: County Councillor MRS. A. L. T. COOPER (Surrey C.C.) Vice-Chairman: P. R. BoTES, EsQ. (Epsom and Ewell Borough Council) I. iR. <eoLEMAN, iBsq. (Staff) B. W. Cou.rns, Esq. ~Headmaster) J. K. FAWCE1I'lf, Esq. (Co-opted) "He clad him with the habit of a pilgrim- a scryppe on his County Councillor shoulder and a pilgrim's staffin his right hand." MRS. C. GERRARD (Surrey C.C.) (Caxton, "Golden Legend", 1483) A . E. 1l[oIJLAND, Esq. (Parents/Staff Association) DR. D. E. JoNBS {Epsom and Ewell Borough Council) PROFBSS0R F. E>. RICHARDSON (Higher Education) R. W. iROllHiWEIJL, EsQ. (Epsom and Ewell Borough Council) No. 55 JULY 1980 R. !P. F. SAUNDERS, Esq. (Surrey C.C.) G. WAIJI!., Esq. ... (Surrey C.C.) OFFICIALS 1979-80 Head of School P. D. DAVIES Deputy Head of School A. L. DICKENSON Head of Abbey L. B. NICHOLSON Head of Carew P. P. MORAN Head ofSt. Benet C. J. CORNISH Head of Tudor J. G. W. LUNN Senior Prefects: G. D. BARCLAY, H. J. WATKINS, D. E. WILLIAMS. Prefects: L. J. H. BAILEY, S. J. BENNETT, P. M. CARROLL, I . CooK­ ABBOTT, J. c. COOPER, w. w. HICKS, A. c. LEA, s. M. LEWIS, G. K. M. LITTLE, P. D. LONGS1AFF, J. E. MITCHELL, c. G. MOTT, D. M. NICE, R. P. NYE, G. R. PETERS, s. M. SIMS, G. A. SKJPP, B. s. SLADE, J. R . SMITH, A. T. WOODHEAD. Captains Soccer P. D. DAVIES gymnasium and complete refurbishment of the language laboratory Rugby D. N. WILLIAMS to become a general audio-visual teaching room, have been other Cricket I. M. SLADE welcome improvements to the teaching accommodation. It is to be Athletics S. V. MACKNESS hoped that provisional estimates to improve the School's administra­ Cross Country R. JOHNS tive facilities under the Minor Works programme for 1981 and to Basketball I. J. BROOKS add significantly to Sixth Form teaching and Common Room Tennis P. P. MORAN facilities in the Major Works programme of 1982 will materialize, Chess R. P. NYE despite the inroads of inflation into County budgets. If these are Swimming I. J. NEWCASTLE brought to fruition, the main outstanding need will be for a sports "Ebba's Scrip" Editor M. w. SPEEKS hall, as despite several attempts in recent years on the part of myself Editorial Stafl S. ALLDRIDGB and the Patents/Staff Association, no scheme to provide one has N. A. AZEVEDO yet reached the stage of feasibility. J. H. CRUTCHLEY Important though buildings and facilities are, staff are a school's S. L. DANCIGER most important resource, and although the year has, as usual, seen R. A. JOHNSON some departures, it has been possible to make some very satisfactory G. P. SUAREZ internal and external appointments. Mr. G. P. Wells left the post of Head of Biology at Christmas to take up an appointment as Head of the Science Department in a SCHOOL NOTES large comprehensive school in Corby, Leicestershire. Apart from his great success in furthering the work of the Biology section, This time last year I was reporting on Deputy Headmasters-the especially course development at Advanced Level, Mr. Wells took retirement of Mr. J. H. Hallam, the appointment of his successor charge of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme when it was Mr. R. J. S. Turner, and that of Mr. G. Currie to the newly estab­ intloduced in April 1979, and has been instrumental in getting the lished post of Stcond Deputy Headmaster. I am pleased to be able Scheme well established. I am grateful to Mr. Warne1 for taking to record that all three have had a very good year. J.H.H. ha& over this task, which is becoming increasingly demanding now that forgiven me for referring enoneously to his last school, which should so many boys are involved. Mr. R. S. Matthews, B.Sc., was appointed have been stated as City of London School, and from his ebullient Head of Biology with effect from January 1980 after several years fonn on Speech Day, and later on a private visit to the Staff Common shaiing the teaching of the subject. Room, is clearly enjoying retirement as much as we anticipated At the end of the Easter Tenn, Mr. K. H. M. Curtis retired from for a man of his wide range of intere&ts. R.J.S.T. and G.C. are well the post of Head of English Department after many years and a established, although their precise responsibilities vary as reorganisa­ quarter-century in the School. He has been a dedicated and effective tion proceed-: the latter has taken 0';er from the former a& Head of teacher, a superb play producer and made a particularly strong Upper School and has in turn been succeeded by Mr. K. F. Penny, contribution to the reorganisation of the School in the last few M.A., who, after many years in the English Department and several years. He will be greatly missed, but fortunately i~ succeeded by as Carew Housema~ter, is no strange1 to Glyn. Mr. L. T. Bircher, B.A., who has taught in the department for some At the beginning of the year the School received its second full years and will ensure continuity in these challenging times. comprehensive intake of five Forms, 150 boys across the normal The other Head of Department who left the School, but at the ability range. This means we now have such year groups in the two end of the academic year, was Mr. J. G . Purdy. Apart from his Lower School years (Years 12 and 13) and in the first of the Upper teaching of Classics, Mr. Purdy was involved in much of the general School years (Year 14), while Year 15 is of similar size, although life of the School through his wide range of interests, including originating from entries in 1976 and 1977, when reorganisation squash, archaeology and music. I am especially indebted to him for commenced. With a Sixth Fo1m still of Hudents all following courses organising the School's Extra English support for boys who need for G.C.E. Advanced Level, we have a total School population as it on intake. Mr. B. Carnell, M.A., of the School's present staff, we go to press of 759. The County Council has had to provide some becomes Head of Classics Department. additional accommodation and this has brought consequent im­ provements to several departments, the most significant of which Other staff who left at the end of last tenn were: have been the new Mathematics Unit and the major expansion of the Mr. D. A. Godwin from the Mathematics Department for a Craft/Design/Technology Department. Partial re-building of the post at St. John's School, Leatherhead. Mr. Godwin will be missed, not only for his scholarship in Mathematics, but also 2 3 by all the cricket enthusiasts after strengthening Glyn's game S() Mr. P. 0. Bymolen, Cert. Ed. (Tech.), has been appointed to the much in recent seasons. enlarged Craft/Design/Technology Department after several years Mr. P. L. John also left the Mathematics Department after teaching at Desborough School (fo rmerl y Maidenhead Grammar three years in the School, and we wish him well as marriage School), following his education at Halters Lane School, High take~ him to the Briftol area. Outside the classroom he put much Wycombe, and Shoreditch College. time and effort into maintaining the School's growing strength Mr. R. K. Chandaman, B.Sc., has been appointed to the Biology in Cross-Country. section of the Science Department. Mr. Chandaman was educated Mrs. C. M. Roberts has relinquished her part-time post in the at Ri vermead School, Kingston, and the University of York, where Geography Department. Apart from her general help in the he took First Class Honours in 1979, and then carried out his post­ School, she will be particularly missed by colleagues for her graduate year at Chelsea Coll ege, teaching at Glyn during the sterling work on the Staff Common Room Committee. Spring Term. Mr. T. J. Crooks completed his year as an Instructor in the Craft/Design/Technology Department, and has taken up his Mrs. E. E. Gerrand, H.N.C., comes to Glyn after considerable place at Shoreditch College to train further for technical experience of teaching in Scotland and latterly in Kingston-on­ teaching. As an Olympic silver medallist oarsman, he gave Thames. Her education was at Rutherglen Academy and Coatbridge great assistance in programmes of general fitness training, Technical College. and in the Summer Term started the School's Cycling Club. Mr. N. P. Gregson, B.Ed., has been appointed to a temporary Two of the School's non-teaching staff also retired: post in the English Department on his return from an appointment in Gibraltar. Mis. G. Baulcombe from the post of Cook after twenty-two years on the staff of the Glyn Canteen. Mr. M. J. Harris, B.Sc., also joins the Mathematics Department Mrs. M. Smith after eight years from the post of General after serving at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School; he was educated Duties Assistant in the School Office, during which time she at Weymouth Grammar School and Sheffield University. coped with unfailing courtesy and cheerfulness with all the Mr. J. P. Williams, B.Sc., joins the Geography Department after increasingly heavy demands made as a result of reorganisation. undertaking his post-graduate training at Christ's College, Liver­ We wish them both health and happiness in their retirements.