The Newsletter of the Old Loughburians’ Association
Quad No 2 Autumn 2012
Head-to-Head in Sri-Lanka Paul Fisher meets the heritage of Norman Walter, Headmaster 1959-73 foundation (1872) and still has Walter's contribution and it was very 800 Christian boys among its easy to stand in the beautiful space in huge total of front of the empty easy to imagine 3500. benches and imagMy main ine Norman addressNorman addressing purpose was ing his boys. his boys to see what Before leaving I was they had made of Norman Walable to meet the current Principal, ter in his first headship before he came to Loughborough in 1959 and how they had preserved his memory ... and in this I was not disappointed. It was clear from The Norman Walter portrait in the LGS Library the portrait in the Library to the It took all morning to drive the 100 plaque on the wall of the block named miles or so from Aluthgama on the for him that he remains very much part The Trinity Chapel south-west coast of Sri Lanka to Kandy of the school still. His name and photoin order to visit Trinity College, Norman graph feature prominently in the enBrigadier Aryatne. His rank and solWalter’s former school. trance hall and the written record of his dier's background emphasised similariOn arrival I was met by the Principal's five years as Principal describes a time ties and a difference between LGS and secretary and introduced to my guide of astonishing achievement and educaTrinity. We share impressive memorials Shane De Silva, Master i/c of Cricket, a tional advancement, the result of his to the dead of the two world wars but at Christian, teacher of Theology and energy and focus on matters both pracTrinity a very recent memorial had just Boarding Housetical and intellectual. been established to the dead of what to see what they had master - a formidaAt the centre of the they call "The Thirty Years War" in ble and familiar made of Norman Walter school was the most which fifteen of their former pupils had range of responsiin his first headship beautiful Christian been killed serving in the armed forces. bilities. Chapel, open at the Respice finem, look to the end, is the Cricket, it was clear, was of the highest sides to the elements and based on the school motto and it sits well with the standard here but when I met the traditional Sinhalese Audience Hall with palpable national consensus to put the school librarian and was taken round its forest of stone pillars. The graceful civil war behind them and bring the the prized school archives, I realised rafters and tiled roof were Norman country together. In this, as in all other we had much more in common. Threeways, Trinity expects its boys to be quarters of the Sri Lankan population taking the lead. are Buddhists but Trinity is a Christian Paul Fisher The Sign on Norman’s block
Time gentlemen please - for Pullinger and for pupils
The Pullinger Block goes to the scaffold
LGS has always prided itself on the absence of bells at the beginning and end of lessons. Now the big new clock in the Sixth Form Centre, gift of the OLA, keeps pupils punctual. Behind Red House the time has finally come for the Pullinger Block to go to the scaffold - and to rise again as the final member of the Science and Mathematics Park. The new clock in the Sixth Form Centre