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Blacl< and Gold

Lushington Boys ' School

ANNUAL

MAGAZINE

1973

OOTACAMUND, NILGIRI HILLS, SOUTH INDIA.

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Statement: required Under Section 5 (2) oE the Press and Registration oJ Books Act: 1867 FORM

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Place of Publication

Ootacamund

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Periodicity of its P ublication

Annual

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Printer's name

A. Muthoolingam

Nationality

Indian

Address

Ootacamund & Nilgiri Press, Ootacamund

Publisher's name

Mr. R. T. S. Darling

Nationality

British

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Headmaster, Lushington Boys' School, Ootacamund.

Editor's Name

Mr. J.C. Ingleby

Nationality

British

Address

Lushington Boys' School, Ootacamund.

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Name & address of the indi- l vidual who owns the news- I paper and partners or share- ~ holders holding more than 1 one per cent of the total I capital. j

Headmaster, Lushington Boys' School, Ootacamund

I, Mr. R. T. S. Darling hereby declare that the particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

R. T. S. DARLING,

Ootacamund, } 12-11- 73

Headmaster, Lushington Boys' Scho0l, Ootacamund.

CONTENTS

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STAFF'N STUDENTS

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EDITORIAL.

What's in a name; that which we call a rose.

By any other name would smell as sweet.

This looks like being the last "Black and Gold", but not, we trust, the last school magazine to chronicle the even.ts of our school. Under what title these chronicles may appear is difficult to say- "Black and · Blue'" perhaps: or, in memory of our sister school, thinking about some ·suitably agricultural title. names ·it seems likely that Juliet (in our quotatidn) was wrong. (She was not to blame ; it was a moment when: even·, a 14 year ofd· might be allowed to err).

Nam~s do matter, particularly after a while. So do all the other banners and flags and slogans under which we serve. Juliet. herself was trapped by her name, caught up by loyalties more ancient and stronger than those she had to Romeo. Every new name is a new start for good or ill, and new beginnings need new foundations . We must borrow some bricks from the old building.

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All the quotations on the section title-pages are from Romeo and Juliet and are respectfully dedicated to Standard X and XI who know everything about the play, or soon will do. As one author rather. sadly said, when chided about the rash of inappropriate quotations he had used to introduce his chapte.rs: "C'est mon seul sport.,,.

Warm thanks to all those who have helped to produce this magazine, 'to the boys for their contri· butions and to the parents without whom the boys would not have been possible.

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G. Nelson Mr,. M . S. Liddle Mr. R. H. Bissell Mr. R. T. S. Darling Dr. V. Garlick Miss D. M Hall Mrs. M. Justin Mr. J. H . Martin

PRESENT STAFF fl eadmaster:

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TEACHING STAFF

J. Beattie Mrs. W . E . Beattie Miss J. R Byerlee Mrs . E. Darling Mr. C. Enos Miss G. Hindm:m Mr. J. C. Ingleby Miss M. T. Jackson Miss Marzook Dr. C. Matthews Mi~s D . R Wagfand Miss; A . P. Webster

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BOARDING STAFF Miss J. Elliott Miss E. J. Holmes Miss R. P. Hulks Mrs. S. F. Ingleby ~dr . & Mrs. D. Langton Miss M. Reid Miss R. Wilkins School Office : School Doctor : School Dentist: -

Mr. J. Thomas Dr. M. Mitter Dr. P. A. Johnson

STAFF ON FURL0UGH Miss A. 0. Bateman Mr. & Mrs. G. Wallis Mr & Mrs B. Wood

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School Prefects:

J. D. Chote J. G. Davies D. J. Harris

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T. B. Smyth JULY - NOVEMBER 1973

School Prefects :

J. Linton P. J. Martin

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Dormitory Prefects: P.Bird J. L. Short P, R. Veal

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The story of the staffing situation for l973 really路 begins at the end of the previous year when Mr. and Mrs. Wood left with their family for furlough~ 路 Incidentally, we now congratulate them on the recent addition to their family of a baby daughter and we share their rejoicing.:.

Two parents kindly helped to fill the gap. Mrs. F. White came to live in for the February term to take Music classes, Piano and Choi~. The Rev. H. R. Martin- came regularly from Coimbatore to take Latin. Miss Marzook began to help with violin teaching and, -after Mrs. White was obliged to return ho-me'"in May, Dr. C. Matthews began teaching :-C- piano.

During Mr. Smyth's ~bsence in the February term Mr. M. S. Liddle joined us to teach and to take boarding duties. Sam Powdrill, an "old boy", helped for a few weeks. Miss Chapman travelling from Australia to Britain, rashly looked in at Lushington to see her friend Miss Jackson and found herself hard at work. She gallantly stayed until August and then moved to Hebron for a further spell of service.

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In August Miss Bateman and Mr. and Mrs. Wallis and their family left for furlough. Miss Hindman came for one term to replace Miss Bateman and Mr. and Mrs. Langton moved in to care for Senior House and to help in many other ways. Mr. Langton is taking P. E. classes and is getting a repair and improvement programme under way and Mrs. Langton is taking Music classes and the choir.

Mr. and Mrs. Darling returned with their family, for the last phase of the boys' school before amalgamation.

)~fr. Smyth leffwith 4i& family in August (Trevor having acted· as a junior helper before leaving). Mrs. Smyth left -1.. in June. Their arrival in 1972 to replace the Darlings for fll;rlc;mgh had ·been very much appreciated, especially when o.ne consid.ered tbttir heart warming willingness to face the l\pheava1 involveg. Their presence was even .more appreciated' through 'the year and their loss is keenly felt. His availapility for .the principalship of the new school had be~I}. a real encouragement and the alteration of circumstances which led hirh back to the U. K. again was hard to understand.· His influence was apparent in.all the forwkrd lookiltg ·planning which was ·so necessaty and he leaves behipd .. not only a school, in ,good shape and good h'eart · bttt: ~lso plans f o~ a ·fine ad<;fition to the buildings. r

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The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Practical Examination, November 1972.

B. Garlick

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A. Cutting

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P. German

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P. Smith

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N. Briesman

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M. Ga rlick

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A. Hay

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D. Elliott

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J. Cheriyan

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Music Theory Enmination, November l!J72.

P. German

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D. McManus

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A. Hay

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N. Briesman

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P. Smith

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S. Truscott

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P . Bennett

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M. Daniel

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M. Garlick

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P. Gill

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Carol Service. Union Church, Coonoor.

14 Team ends a day · early because of threatened . general strike. End;of-tyrm se{vic~.

30 Last G. C. E. candidates' pap~r.

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2 Classes begiri.

6 Mr. Martin makes his first visit to teach senidr Latin 14 Miss Marzook begins teaching violin.

17 Seniors to Hebron for Social.

24 Hebron Lushington teacher& ' workshop. (So they do .work now and again!)

28 Mr. Smyth ieaves for Coim ba ~9re to Britain.

(This was later revealed to be for the purpose of consulting Miss Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Darling about the possibility of the schools amalgamating in 1974.) Mr. Ingleby in charge. Mr. Liddle ' comes in again to teach.

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8 Inter-School Sports weigh-in.

14 School Sports heats.

17 School athletic Sports.

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Mr. Smyth returns.

Sam Powdrill welcomed . back as a junior helper.

Seniors welcome Hebron senio.rs to social here.

APRIL

5 Inter-School Sports heats.

6 GCE "mocks".

7 Inter-school Sports.

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Sam PowdriU le~ye~. Miss Chapman~ a visitor en route from Australia to the U. K., takes over his classes . .

Easter holiday starts. Camps.

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2 Parents' Day Programme p. m. (because of power cuts) after morning Parent's' meeting. Holiday " ' . -~ · · begins.

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Boarders return.

JUNE

2 Mrs. Smyth leaves.

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G. C. E. begins.

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Repair of refrigerator completed· _,__ duration dubjous according to expert.

9 G. C. E. French Orals.

23 · Seniors to Hebron for Social.

JULY

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Mr. John Jacob of Scriptµre Union .begi.ns his visit to the school.' . ~'

6 Violent storm.

Lights fail

7 Hebron Council meeting finds it has an absent Chairman, delayed • by storm . .. A.,noth~r Council member with him likewise held up.

8 . Very heavy rain. No morning church outing. · Mr. Jacob takes service in gym.

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Missing Council members turn up.- - Spent the time marooned on ·a tea estafo · near Naduvattam.

No power yet. Prep by daylight ·after school. '

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New prefe£tS presented with badges.

19 :Electricity supply- restor~d.

18 AUGUST

1 Junibr ·.Fancy Dress

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3 Senior Fancy· Dress party.

4 S. U. Rally in Lovedale.

9 Term ends~ Miss Bateman and the Wallis Family leave for furlough during the holiday.

14 The Darlings return.

16 Mr. Smyth leaves.

25 Miss Hindman comes.

27 Mr. & Mrs. Langton come.

28 Boarders return. New boarders arrive.

29 Classes begin for the new school year. Numbers higher than last year.

SEPTEMBER

2 Miss Chapman leaves to help in Hebron.

5 Dental inspection.

Open wide, please.

7 Last football match of the season. Seniors lose and Juniors win against Lawrence. Kashmiri paper cutter comes.

10 Fir8't Irdckey match. the Nilgiris.

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Lost 0- 1 to Gentlemen of

Mr. & Mrs. Merriweather's .Diam0nd Wedding.

It is not ·so very fong since Mr. Merriweather felt he must resign from the Council on account of age, and we are grateful for their continuing keen and prayerful interest in the school. Those boys and ·staff who have the privilege of knowing them appreciate their youthful zest a·nd spirit.

12 Senior classes to St. Joseph's for Macbeth.

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14 Choir and a spectator group to the Anna Stadium for the Inter School Music Festival. The last minute need of a piano is met by a group of our boys in games clothes who manoeuvre it into the Stadium in front of an admiring crowd. (All those interested in Music, one pace forward MARCH ! Right? Get along and move the Colonel's piano ........... ) 路 17

Most of staff to Coonoor for joiht meeting of both school's staffs with the Council to discuss Half holiday for all pupils. amalgamation.

Welcomed by all!

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Seniors to H ebron for Social.

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" Month end" begins - a record one for the time of year. I t has been made as long as the Easter one (or almost so) by adding in Gandhi's birthday next Tuesday and 路 granting Monday in between. A sum total of events (starting from an accident) which is unlikely to recur? Again, welcome to all. A Senior party goes to Mukurti with Mr. IngJeby for one night. ,

OCTOBER

Hebron sisters visit (except semors m camp at Avalanche) 2 Gandhi's birthday . Union Church Sunday School hike and picnic to the tallest trees in the Nilgiris at Arambee. Seniors to Kalhatti Falls. Senior Hebron girls call en route from their camp.

3 Digging begins to enlarge the Cub Pitch to a tennis court.

4 First hockey house match.

' 6 Some seniors to St. George's to watch Girls' ,路Hockey Festival.

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7 Evening Church outing goes instead to Sacred Music Festival at St.. Stephen's. . Lushington Choir, among others, assists the Nilgiri Choral Society.

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Standards X & XI begin project on Ootacamund, tackling the town with questionnaires.

C~nfirmation service at St. Stephen's.

12 A strange creature is seen at dusk by Standard V boys going to prep. It is variously reported 1 as being a wild boar, civet cat etc. An exciting hunt is ended by the prep belL 路 14 Overton's return brings boarding numbers to 140.

With dayboys' numbers at 12, this is a higher total than for the last two years.

15 Last house match.

16 Seniors to Forest Products Exhibition.

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Junior cJasses to International Dolls Exhibition .

20 Diary goes to press.

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. 21 HEADMASTER'S REPORT 1973.

Mt. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. & Mrs. Darling and their three children left for furlough last August and during their absence we have experienced much of the goodness of God. A 路bearding school like Lushington is a community in which all, from the youngest tE> the 路oldest, staff and boys ali}.ce, share in a common concern. ,Pare11ts too, tl}.ank God, make a real contribution to the school community and that is why it is such a pleasure-to welcome you all here today. 路 During the June term a number of parents and other interested friends gave valuable help in the schooJ. Mrs. Bookless, Mrs . .McMillan, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Kennedy filled-in on the teaching side. Mrs. Casebow helped in the . office and, when she ret\u.ned to her husband in Orissa, Miss Phyllis White came as often as possible to give secretarial help, which was continued through the following term as well. Mr. Rod Gilbert, a popular and talented member of the Enghsh Department, left in July and at the same time Mr. Jim Heslop, an old boy of the school, who had been helping for several months, also departed. ft is in the June teFm that our Std. XI boys and Prefects leave and others take their places. It is fitting that I should express our appreciation of the contribution which prefects make to the school. They form part of the framework of service, authority and discipline within the school community, and contribute to a reasonably stable environment, which is so essential in the development of young lives. We have been very grateful for our prefects and wish them well in their future careers, which, we hope, will continue to be those where there are opportunities for service and leadership.

Examinations are also the order of the day in the term under review. Twelve candidates were presented for the June G. C. E. '0' Level Examination. Five of these boys were in Std . X and they were entered for two or more

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subjects. All passed in at least one subject and one boy gained three passes. In November four of these boys added at least one more subject to their list of passes and John Davies gained three.

Of the Std. XI boys : Stephen David passed in three subjects and brought his total to four G. C. E. '0' Level passes.

John Kirk gained four passes and made his total nine .

David Parker added another five passes to his already considerable quota and ended up with twelve. His grades were 8 firsts, 3 seconds and a fou rth.

Samuel total eleven .

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David Robertson gained 3 passes and brought his total to five.

Philip Stockley and Philip Turner both gained five passes and brought their totals to ten and seven respectively.

The June term is the monsoon term and it is also the football term. When monsoon and football collide, as they often do, the game can become a test of stamina, if not of swimming skill. (!), and sometimes it is literally a washout. Our senior team had no success in the interschool games, but .the Juniors did well, until the captai n and some other talented players had to leave before the end of the term. The tale of football was also repeated in our other two main games - hockey and cricket. The 路 team did their best, but found the opposition too strong for them. As they didn't win, we hope, at least, that they lost gallantly. In the Inter-school sports we were relegated to fifth position this year, but we all based in the reflected glory of Hebron's fine achievement in gaining such a splendid first place in the girl's section. If we can't do it, it is nice that our sister can !

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For the beginning of the September term we welcomed back Mr. & Mrs. Ingleby, who had gone separately on furlough to the U. K., but who decided to come back jointly to Lushington. In considering their service here they laid to heart the Scripture which says, "Two are better than one". I am glad to say that we think so too! It was also a joy to welcome back Miss Moria Jackson, who returned after her mother's death, and who has been teaching Stds. II & IV throughout the year. Miss Joan Elliott arrived in August to take charge of Junior House and Miss. Webster came early in September to teach Std. V. We thank God for sending his servants back, or here for the first time, and thank them for coming. My 路wife and l took up our duties at the beginning of the September term and we were delighted to be back in Lushington again. In November Mr. & Mrs. Brian \Vood and their two girls left for New Zealand on forlough.

We are hoping that God will lead them to return after one year as their se:vices were greatly appreciated.

Mrs. J. White came to help us out in the music department at the beginning of the February term and to take over where Mr. & Mrs. Wood had left off. It was very noble of her to come, and of her husband to spare her, and, as today's programme indicated, Mr. White has made a valuable contribution to the cultural life of the 'school. We are hoping that she may be able to stay yet another term, if Mr. White can bear the strain of absence.

Health on the whole has been good. Last term we had a few cases of Hepatitis (all mild) and a single case of the same disease this term. Sore throats, sudden fevers and tummy upsets .come and go, but our Doctor and Miss Hulks, the nursing sister, have been able to cope with each situation that has arisen. The school is also in the very fortunate position of having near at hand Dr. and Mrs. Garlick, who are always willing to give specialist advice and attention.

No doubt part of the reason for the good bill of health is the good food which the boys get. I say this with confidence, even though school food is not like

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Mum's baking! In this connection we were very happy to welcome back Miss. Wilkins our housekeeper in January.

She and M-iss Helmes have no easy task, especially in these days of food shortages and rising prices, and on your behalf I wish to thank them, as all other staff members, for what has been done this year. 路 Samuel Powdrill, who left last June, came back to help us in April, but unfortunately he 路had to go, soon after he arrived, for medical tests to London. Miss Wendy Chapman, a friend visiting Miss Jackson, has been helping since Sam left, and we have appreciated the help our friends have given.

At the end of February The Hebron Council and the Lushington Managemnet Committee asked me to go to the U. K. and consult with Miss. Hall and Mr. & Mrs. Darling about the amalgamation of the two schools. Mr. Ingleby kindly stood-in for me during my absence (I was in the U. K. for three weeks altogether). Mr. Uddle again came -~ to our aid .and took over some of my teaching load and some of Mr. Ingleby's. This was a great help and I wish to express our sincere appreciation to him.

We look forward to Mr. & .Mrs. Darling's return in August. Planning for the new school in 1974 will be a colossal task, but with Miss Hall back in Hebron and Mr. Darling in Lushington the task will be so much easier.

One main purpose of the joint school will continue to be the development of character in your sons and daughters.

We are conv路inced that the most potent factor in this process of character development is the inculcation of Christian principles and we shall endeavour to show the young people that these principles are not outmoded, but are relevant to the pressures of life in the 1970s. It is our firm conviction that characters built on this foundation have a durability and strength which will stand up to the ravages of time and the erosion of morals common in many societies today. We are encouraged as we go forward by your interest and prayers and we thank God for his faithfulness and enabling grace.

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CLUBS.

TYPING CLUB .

People join typing club if they are that type. Somehow continuous tapping and the first few lessons in which all you type is one letter over and over again : fff fff fff and so on, irritates them no end. But once the first stage is over and they can type out sentences at quite a. speed (if they get that far) it is exciting. They begin to find it interesting and the thought that one day they will type at 160 warn. keeps some going ! However some give up at the seeming futility of the first lessons. These people leave the club at the first opportunity.

There are boys who catch on to the skill and enjoy it immensely. Of course, tb.ey speed ahead of the ones who finally struggle through the s~cond lesson in one term. The speeds range from 10 to 44 warn. Miss Byerlee runs the typing club which starts at 4-30 p. m., and for the enthusiasts continues until supper time at 6-10 p. m. The less enthusiastic members stop at 5-30 p. m. The main problem is that members of staff are very co-operative (from the students' po int of view) in leaving typew riters under lock and key, so that most of the boys share, and thus spend ¡ half the time watching others.

Mary Cochrane, Std. X. W OODWORK CLUB.

The Wo odwork Club meets every Wednesday afternoon under the expert guidance of Mr. Beattie. The woodwork room is under th~ staff dining room and has a very good set of tools which Mr. Beattie brought out in 1969. This year a variety of things has been made, ranging from a canoe to inlay work, to several model boats. Some of the other things made were a banjo, a cassette stand, a four- sided fru it bowl and some pencil boxes. The club has been enjoyed by everyone and we are grateful to Mr. Beattie for putting so much time into it.

James Short, Std. XI.

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STAMP

CLun.

Stamp Club is really only enjoyment, swapping and making profit, although路 some of the older boys might get the better of you. Miss Jackon does not collect stamps which I think is odd because she has路 been taking stamp club for nearly three years. We do not learn much about stamps, but we do learn of countries we never heard of befor:e, as well as some of the different animals and landscapes.

Most people do not go for the value in stamp club, but for the beauty. If you swap with a person who looks at the value, you are sure to make some profit. If he does not have a拢 I stamp, then you can ask for quite a few nice ones in exchange. It is good fun looking at other people's stamp albums and putting in all the loose stamps that you have. I like admiring my ever increasing stamp ~ollecti.on .

Philip Gardiner, Std. VJJ .

ART CLUB.

The art club is about the smallest club. It has five members who all enjoy themselves somehow in the time given. Miss Webster takes the club and tries to make it as enjoyable as possible.

Usually you go in and find something to draw, sketch or paint before she arrives. Then you attempt to make materials used from some sort of likeness to the masterpiece. This is usually the hard part so almost the whole period is spent on this. If your own picture looks terrible, you wait till l\A:iss Webster isn't looking and innocently throw it away. If she catches you, she probably flatters you on how beautiful she thinks it is, and persuades you to carry on.

There is nothing more fun to do if your imagination has dried up than to get out the charcoal and pretend to draw picture. Actually you attempt to screech the charcoal as much as possible. Someone is bound to shiver at the

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noise and thus gives the a rtist. satisfaction in his work.

Pen and ink drawings is one of the favourites as there are quite a number of stickers and posters in the school which are attractive. T hus the artist gets lured into attempting one of them. The final touch is usually a huge smear or smudge.

Modern art is the easy way out of anything. You can turn any picture (it has been proven by us) into an unusally mind-rending, thought provoking picture. Splatter pai nting often adds the modern look to the picture.

We do enjoy ourselves thoroughly in our club, and when the bell goes we often try to stay a while longer in o rder to finish off a pict ure. The practice we get it also useful for our Art G . C. E. 's if we take them.

Geoff Butt, Std . X. C OOKING CLUB .

This term the club consists of Gary Parmar. Tony Pe rhar, Peter Bennet, Virgil Schrag, Greg Butt and myself.

Biggs.

Miss Holmes very kindly puts work, time and not a little patience towards taking us once a week, although Miss Wilkins took the club once. We bake quite a variety of delicious things to eat (if they're made properly.) Even the most experienced of cooks (the cooking club members not excluded) make errors .

For instance: The doughnut recipe calls for l ~ ozs. of sugar. The club is divided into two groups of three each. Peter Bennet misread the recipe and put 8 ozs. in the mixture . So w~ put both lots of dough together , and ended up with 4! ozs. of sugar instead of 1-} ozs. This may have been the answer why half the doughnuts crumbled and half didn't rise ; or possibly Miss Holmes breathed while working the dough.

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Still, we learn by our mistakes, Bennet ! and it's good fun anyway. So, I ought to encourage you to come and join the cooking club next time you get a chance, but I want to get a place myself.

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Stephen J. Gibbs, Std. X. SCRABBLE CLUB.

The scrabble club is headed by Miss Wagland. It is held in her room because there are only four members: Thurston, Mullins, Rettie and Williams. Jn our games we have three people playing together, while Miss Wagland plays the fourth one. Miss Wagland has a handicap and has to double the other person's score. We start playing at 4-30 p. m. and ended at 5-30 p. m.

Miss Wagland watches every move we do so that she can guide us if we are stuck. Sometimes Williams makes up funny words like sithory, which he could have made into history. Thurston and I beat Miss Wagland hollow.

We are the best of the lot. Mullins and Williams are just getting used to the game. It is very exiting. Sometimes I wish we could have a competition one day.

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Simson Rettie, Std. VII. CHESS C LUB .

The chess club is in Std. X and Xl room, and just the same as all the other clubs, it meets on Wednesday at 4-30 p. m. The p~ople in the chess club are Paul Paterson, Naynard Schrag, Peter Wiig, Mark Gillette and me.

Mr. Ingleby takes the chess club.

What we usually do is we all get a chair and bring it round the table which Mr. Ingleby is at. Sometimes he just plays a game from a book and sometimes, but seldom, he asks us questions. Of course these questions are not very difficult. The first day _we all had to guess what Whites move was from a game in a book. Mr. Ingleby

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got the most points, and then me. Gillette then Paterson.

The other two hadn't joined us yet.

These days I usually play Mr. Ingleby. He usually wins after I have had a long struggle for freedom. However, I beat him once. The moves have been noted below.

Andrew Linton 1. P-K4 2. N-KB3 3. B-B4 4. N-QB3 5. N-N5

6. 0-0 7. P-Q3 8. '! . .

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Q-R5!

11. BXP ch 12 . . N-KB3 13. BXP 14. BXP db/ch 15. Q-R8 mate.

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Mr. Ingleby P-K4 N-QB3 N-KB3 B-B4

0-0 B-Q5 BXN NXP? N-R4.

P-KR3 K-Rl P-Q3 RCB K-Nl?

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CLUB. Mr. Langton takes this club up in his flat. So far this term we have done all sorts of things.

First of all the Lushy mixer went wrong, so we had a go at mending it. We still have not finished mending it, but we think that it might be something to do with the inside of the motor. First of all we checked the connections, both the wires and the brushes. We took out the brushes and found them worn down a lot, so we replaced them with new ones. Then we tried it again, but it still didn't work.

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When Mr. Langton rode on his scooter one day, there was a noice which sounded like the fly-wheel rubbing against the cover. When we opened it up in fact it was, but we managed to repair it successfully.

One week we went to the Plastic factory near the Expresso Coffee House which Mr. Trchala works in. They had about twelve workers and three machines. Altogether there were about five moulds ; one for combs, one for needle boxes, one for needle cases, one for the head s of knitting needles, and one for plastic bows and arrows.

In one corner by a machine was a scrap sack and nearly all of us picked something interesting out of it. In another room there were about eight lady workers checking and cutting off little bits of unwanted plastic, and one lady packed them up in boxes.

One week Mr. Langton went for a trip down to town and on his way back up the drive, he couldn't change gear because the clutch cable snapped . When it came round to , "clubs" on Wednesday, we took the old cable out and replaced it with a new one. This was not easy because we had to take the head off and the horn out to stuff the tight fitting cable into position.

So far this term Mr. Langton has given us very exciting things to do.

Andrew Smith, Std. VII. FmsT Am

CLUB .

The main th ing a11 the members liked was that they had to do very little work. First, Miss Chapman just simply talked to us about what to do if such and such happened. When it come to the times for learning how to bandage etc. we just bandaged each other up, or at least tried to. There were 11 or 12 boys in this club which took place in standard 5 classroom last term, each Wednesday afternoon . I am glad I was only in this club for one term.

Peter Bennett, Std, IX.

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31 WAR GAMES CLUB.

Wargame club looks the most unlikely place to have a war. Before the club starts there is more than enough noise, but when it starts no noise is heard except for the varied curses which are voiced with exasperation, annoyance or frustration. The only time a war is liable to start is when unauthorised people arrive-as they invariably do.

It is unwise to talk too much of your aspiring ambitions are appropriate steps will be taken by your opponent so as to render your forces innocuous. Unfortunately, in dealing with tanks, the gunsize is crucial and, for that matter, so is the range and armour depth; so foolhardy measures are inadvisable. However the club functions smoothly and is 0. K. to play in.

Anon.

THE CHOIR .

Despite the absence of Mr. Wood, the choir has been 路 going (under reduced pressure) i路n 'the last year. In' tfle spring term Mr. White, a parent, came to teach music.

She also took the choir and succeeded (by strong arm methods !) to keep the choir going. During that term we sang vrious things, mostly on Parents' Day. Mrs. White did not stick to religious music, but introduced some other songs-one about a yellow bird in a banana tree, and another (lighthearted to say the least) concerning the cultivation of upper lip fungus, and involving a fair bit of acting. All went well (nearly) and the parents and visitors 路 enjoyed it all.

During the May-August term, the choir went out of existance, owing to acute lack of it.

Then in this last term, the choir was resurrected (joyfully or otherwise) by the arrival of Mr. Langton, who came with Mr. Langton to help out with Senior House.

The choir was wanted, not by the police, to take part in ~ the Interschool Music Festival. So, in the short time allowed us, we feverishly practised up our own piece, Mozart's Gloria, which we had already sung on Parents' Day, and Goin' Home - a Negro spiritual set to Dvorak's Largo of the Symphony "From the New World". We -

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were to sing this latter piece with the combined schools' choir. The festival was held at the Anna Stadium in Ooty on September 14th. Twelve schools participated, including a group from Kodaicanal High Clare School's brass band.

Their sousaphone was a great attraction and their final piece, "Mother Goofs"- which was nursery' rhymes with a touch of discordance and slure-was . enjoyed very much.

Of course, we all greatly liked the Hebronitem, "All in the April Evening" (which has been sung at least half a dozen other times!) Apart from the minor difficulty of no piano, which was rectified by a stalwart few heaving the Lusby piano on and off a lorry, the whole thing went well.

After a brief break from practice, we were asked to contribute to a choral service at St. Stephen's Church on Sunday, 7th October, at 4 p. m. Luckily, one of the required pieces was "Going' Home", to be sung with the Nilgiri Choral Society, and students from St. Hilda's and Blue Mountain Schools. We hastily practised up a five-part 路-hymn "From路Every"Ston:ny Wind that Blows", which is about the Mercy Seat where God meets His people, ~ad at the service it went all right.

At the time of composing this brief (!) article the choir has begun again feverishly practising, this time for the Christmas Carol Service, to be held in Union Church Ooty on November, 18th.

David McManus, Std. X. THE CUB PACK.

At first Miss Byerlee comes down saying, "PACK. PACK. PACK." Then we make a circle around her , then she reads out the team points. After that we squat down and put two fingers of each hand on the ground.

Then she chooses a person to lead cubs. He says, "Akala, we'll do our best," then we jump up and do a cub salute with both hands and then the leader says, "We'll <lib, <lib, <lib, <lib. We'll doh, <lob, <lob, doh." Then we go to our dens and have inspection. Then we play games. Sometimes we polish staff's shoes or things like that.

M. Truscott and R. Rutgers, Std. IV. '\

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MASINAGUDI CAMP 1973

On Thursday afternoon we set off for camp, some on our cycles, others by the lazy way taking a bus. No one got lost on the way down, and we all arived before nightfall. The Inspector of the -Masinagudi part of the Sanctuary came and talked to us, to try and encourage us not to bother to get close to any wild animals !

In the morning after breakfast, some boys would go and explore and look for wild animals, others would take their morning bath in the canal or in the dam. We would stay in the water for two or three hours and then come out for lunch. Then in the afternoons Mr. Ingleby took walks for those who wanted one, and once or . twice they had success in seeing some wildlife. The most common animal we saw was our favourite friend, the monkey! 路 During the day there was always someone in the water. Other than the usual sports at the camp, we had football games and bicycle-tag around the area in front of the hut. The more energetic boys went for cycle rides to Theppakadu to see some tame elephants and others followed the canal down to Moyar, as they wanted to see some wildlife in that part of the sanctuary.

On Monday morning we packed up our beds and left for school. Some of the boys who travelled down by bus walked back up the Sighur ghat. The boys who had cycled down had a tiring job going back up the Sighur, but we were all happy when a car or jeep had room for us and we could travel up to Ooty by that means.

It was a very happy camp and most of those who went to it enjoyed it, thanks to the staff in charge of us and all who attended the camp.

Paul German, Std. X.

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THE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

The two Lushington entrants for this year's general knowledge quiz were Dilip Nirody and Radhakrishnan Nair. The quiz was held in the "United Planters of South India" building which is situated near Spencer's in Coonoor. The quiz was sponsored by the Lions Club of the Nilgiris.

The quiz started soon after a quarter past four when everybody had assembled in the hall. The method was that the questions were read out and the first person to put his hand up was asked fo provide the answer. One of the audience doubted the efficiency of this method and voiced his opinion, whereupon the quizmastr.r was路 hurt and would have retired, only an apology was received and accepted.

After this slight disturbance had been cleared up the quiz resumed and the boys and girls set to it with gusto.

As the quiz progressed, questions of varying difficulty and comprehensibility were asked.

The Lushington boys, though getting off to a very poor start, soon regained their form and confidence and set to the task of an sw.~ ririg the questions. The first successes were gained on questions about Scotland. They also clocked up a few marks on elephant jokes, because they had been told at Lushington so many times! We were glad to notice that Dilip, from Lush ., was the only boy to know the person who discovered Uranus; also 'Kitta' Nair guessed the answer to why the Eiffel Tower put on weight every year - because of the paint put on it.

In the end Lushington came third. Lawrence School came first and Stanes High School were second. Lawrence got nineteen points, Stanes fourteen and Lushington eleven and a half.

S. Nirody (Standard X.)

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A SOCIAL

As the dull roar of cars tumbling up the drive is heard the pace of grooming and getting ourselves ready in borrowed coats and shoes is quickened.

By the time the boys are completely ready 路 (or nearly ready - one is never quite ready for a social) the girls are in the staff room, with the fire burning, waiting for the 路 boys to arrive. The room slowly gets warmer so, as the boys begin to come in, the girls begin to leave the room. . This doesn't last long because the girls, feeling cold, begin to move back in and the boys move out.

After a while most people are playing games of draughts or chess, in which they are not really engrossed because he (or she) probably have another he or she to think about. So groups decide to leave the room in equal numbers of boys and girls.

Around about supper time people begin to return and we soon go to have supper.路 After supper, people walk slowly towards the gym. Slowly, because they have to get rid of the hot air they have accumulated during the social.

Once in the gym, games (played too often before) begin and everybody yells for some new and better ideas which never come. After the ho.u r or so in the gym they return to the staffroom for a snack ahd a discussion.

Then the time has come to say goodbye.

R. Nair, (Standard X.)

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A PRACTICE AT ST ANES

Oh no, half a sunny Saturday wasted in practising "Going Home" for the Annual Music Festival at Anna Stadium. We left for Stanes after lunch in eight groups of five.

Seven groups got into an already packed bus, and

had an uncomfortable ride down to Coonoor.

We got to

Stanes in time for the two o'clock practice. We practised; and practised; and practised. TypicaJly, the Lusby tenors had to be taught the ending for 'Going Home', and theri we kept on practising.

At last we were 'fairly good', so

we had tea, and made off io the bus stand.

The journey

to Lushington wasn't worth remembering, except I found the mac that I was carrying wasn't mine.

(I found mine

in the dorm.) Otherwise it was boring and we got to Lush in time for supper, safe and sound .

Brian Adams, (Standard X).

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37 THE MUKERTI CAMP 1973

After considering and trying out all the possibilities of getting to Mukerti for a full four-day month.:.end camp on Gandhi weekend, Mr. Ingleby and Mr. Beattie had to resort to a two-day and one night 'camp'. This sounded fun (and indeed turned out to be) so, although I was officially out for the weekend, I joined fourteen other people in going to the camp. At the last minute, practically, Stephen Truscott (alias 'Trash') came up to me and said he had no bag to carry his 'gear' in. I agreed to try and stuff his clothes and food in my rucksack and a satchel I had over the crossbar. Trash insisted on taking the rucksack. He didn't know quite what he was in for. He managed to procure a bike, or some THING going by that name, so we decided to cycle together. There was an immense rush to stuff all our equipment in the bags and throw out whatever possible.

"Great" said I, looking at our bulging bags and rucksacks.

"Wait a minute," said our king, helpful friend Trash, "what about this % ! @ ? & rucksack? Hey, who's got some rope? "I have," said Peter Bennett.

"Far out," I said.

So we tied this awful cumbersome thing on another bag.

"0. K." "Wait a minute," says Mr. Ingleby, "what about a puncture outfit?" Mr. Langton very kindly solved our problem by supplying us with the necessary items. " Right, we're already late. Let's get on the move."

So we met some other people at Sait's bike shop. The sleeping bag was already off, so f made an effort to re-tie it onto the bag. We stopped in town for some sweets.

There was a band of about six or eight of us at the time, At Danmere I had to re-adjust this cumbersome sleepingbag again, and yet again later. Some way out of Ooty, Trash's bike needed adjutsments and repairing. So far we had spent more time on the side of the road than on it.

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This stop lasted about twenty minutes so I decided to get niy rucksack from Trash and put the sleeping bag on it, because it had straps for the purpose. So we re-adjusted the weight and I took the rucksack, which was a relief, not in weight, but the rucksack was easier to carry. We had to make several more stops, untiJ we were six or seven miles from Ooty.

Mr. Ingleby passed us here and we gave him a brief resume of what had happend. At this point the stronger riders (I was not in that category) went ahead. Trash took Ragu Nair's big r.ucksack, so we had a rucksack each. We went along with M urray Cochrane and there were few meetings between the groups after that. Ragu and 'Rat' McMillan were the only ones we saw again and Ragu , with less weight to carry, was able to go ahead with Rat. We triumphantly crossed the Parson's Valley dam, rather I did.

I thought it was the Porthimund dam. When we finally came to the Porthimund dam, we had to throw the bikes and the rucksacks over the gate, because it was locked. ~ Then Cochrane led us up a long hill which seemed to never end. I still think Cochrane must be a musk-ox. He raced ahead, but we were bogged down with tpe practically shoe-deep water rushing against us. " Ever heard of shooting the rapids upstream on a bike," I said, in an effort to cheer us up. Cochrane was ou t of sight. .

Then we came to a downhill stretch, an d we literally skied down. I had my brake full on, with no effect, and Trash had his feet on the ground, because he had no brakes. -1 didn't want to go in the ruts in the track, because I could not tell their depths, so I went on the hum p in th€ middle. We seemed to be zipping along, and we were out of control, and it was quite scary to shoot through bushes in the middle of the road. I dug my heel in the ground and turned off into a siding, and nearly went down another hill, except there was no road there. Trash turn ed deliberately into th€ mud bank at the side of th e ~ 'road'_ The rain was just pouring down. We were lost We stood under two trees and put the sleeping bag over our heads and ate cookies fo r whP:t seemed ages. We stamped our feet to keep warm. We were scared we would have to stay out the ni ght in the ra1r ·,.:id catch pneum onia .

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Finally the rain lessened a little and some people came along and helped us. They showed us the way and two of them took our bikes about two or three miles to the camp.

We found all the people inside drying clothes and wearing short or underpants, except a couple of people who came out to meet us.

When we finally, - I repeat finally, reached the hut, such as it was, we at last had a roof over our martyred heads (both our names are Stephen). Whether it would keep us dry was another matter. When we tried to get inside we were crowded back by unpacked teas, lunches and people trying to dry sleeping gear and clothes. When we finally got into the fire-warmed room, carefully evading numerous oranges and sandwiches, we found we would have to wait a while, and quite a long while at that, before we would be able to dry our things out. When our turn came, we found it was going to take us all afternoon, and evening as well.

Some of us sat around the fire recounting our journeys there. We told of how the man who had pushed Stephen Gibbs's bike to the hut, said he had cycled 500 miles to Madras in five days - travelling 120 miles a day ! Others were fixing or riding cycles. Those sitting round the fire were for the most part attired in underpants and a clean shirt. Everything was kept as close to the fire as possible which resulted in such minor(?) catastrophes as Richard Eaton's (or 'Tiger' as he was nicknamed at camp) running shoes being burnt. Some hardy ones even went for a swim in the lake which had risen a great deal, covering several familiar landmarks.

We spent a while coJJecting wood for a bonfire, which we lit at night. This also served for drying purposes, which was extremely useful. We had a really good supper at the fire. Due to the heat we were continually paying visits to a small spring from which we collected drinks of pure sweet water.

We told stories for a Jong time until it was finally bedtime. We had aJJ chosen places before hand and

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we went to them, after a lost cup of coffee. Schrag and Bird got out their 'survival sheet' and clambered into two large easy chairs. This survival sheet was made of a substance like tin-foil, which was extremely annoying, as any movement, no matter how slight, made it crackle and rustle like a tank in dry twigs. The fire in the room was very hot, so they, after much complaining and grumbling from all of us, took it off. However only a few of us slept, at all that night. The others talked and whispered unceasingly. Some rose early in the morning to sit by the embers of the previous night's fire. That morning, after breakfast, practically everyone went for a swim.

Packing of dirty and wet clothes was our next major problem. Dirty clothes always seem to take up twice the amount of space as clean ones. 路 Loading was a problem as well. We loaded as much as possible on to the bikes.

Ragu had a carrier, so onto this was loaded the heaviest and biggest rucksack. Packed like this, he couldn't ride his bike very well so he hoisted it onto his shoulders. But it was too much of a struggle for him so Stephen Gibbs took it. This painful part of the trip only lasted as far as Porthimund dam, where together with McMahon and Cochrane we had lunch. Before we had finished, the taxi that was to take the non-cyclists back to Ooty arrived. As the others had not yet arrived, we put all our heavy, and otherwise, luggage on it, then made a quick getaway carrying next to nothing.

Little Ragu slowed us all down as we wanted to There were two keep together in case of emergencies. things that bothered us about the bikes : two were bulging with splits in the tyres, one in Stephen Gibb's front tyre (by far the worst) and one in Trash's back tire. By a great fluke we made it to Ooty eventually, continually waiting for Ragu.

On the whole we found this camp to be highly enjoyable, and think we should have more of the same.

Stephen Gibbs and Stephen Truscott, (Std. X)

T kese. vi olent deligh ts have violent ends.

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LUSHINGTON SCMOOL RECORDS, OCTOBER 1973.

ATMLETICS SENIOR:

100 m 200m 400 in 800m 1500 m Hurdles H. Jump : L. Jump H. S. Jump P. Vault Discus Shot Relay

19'3 38'10!

9'6 83'10 32'9 49.4

J. Robertson A. Taylor G. Griffiths G. Griffiths D. Robertson P. Turner R. Veigel A. Taylor P. Field A. Taylor L. Reinhardt A. Ferris Lushington

1970 1971 1969 -1969 1971 1971 . ' 1967 1971 1971 1971 1971 1970 1971

14.3 30.3 68.7 2.41.2 16.6 14'7 33'5 55'8t 25'6 7'4t

J. McMahon M. Cochrane M. Cochrane P. Brambleby L. Veal M. Cochrane M. Cochrane P. Bennett D. Schrag L. Veal

1972 1973 1973 1969 1972 1973 1973 1973 1968 1973

11.8 24.9 55.2 2.9.9 5.2.8 17.8

5'5

JUNIOR:

100 rn 200 rn 400 rn 800m Hurdles L. Jump H. S. Jump Discus Shot P. Vault

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SWIMMING SENIOR:

~路

2 lengths freestyle 4 lengths freestyle 12 lengths freestyle

29.3 74.9 4.38 40.5 41.5 1 length 51 '

Backstroke Breaststroke Underwater 路 Plunge

44'1

1 9 6~

J. Robertson J. Robertson D. Robertson D. Robertson P. Rutgers J . Stockley ? . Louis

1969 1971 1971 1972 1970 . 1970

JUNIOR:

_ . Bennett 15. l 36.1 P. Bennett P. Bennett 2.40.7 J. McMahon 19. 6 23.3 R. Abbott I length 19'5 H Oakshott 43' N . Reinhardt

1 length freestyle 2 lengths freestyle 6 -lengths freesty.le

Backstroke Breaststroke Underwater Plunge

1972 1972 .

<路

1972 .~ 1971 1972 1972 1970

CROSS COUNTRY OLD COURSE

Allcomers record Lushington-senior junior

17.37

R. Root

197 1

17.40

1971

19.25

(Kodaikanal) D. Robertson G. Field

18.43.2

T . Smyth

1972

20.55.0

L. Ve~

1972

1970

NEW COURSE

senior junior

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SPORTS 1973

At the time of writing the most probable result of the Junior Hockey Championship is that Lush. will win it or at worst share first place with St. Joseph's. 路 This is encouraging, as we needed a good sports -resalt at year 's end; success has no t .come easily in 1973. To be fair the Junior teams we have fielded in t he falter-school competitioq h9!1ve all acquitted themselves creditably. The. football team was second overall and the cricket team had a good victory over Breeks. But'the S.eniurs hav.e. had a lamentable year. Not a victory was recorded .in any Inter-school competition and the hockey team conceded a record total of 38 goals in 3 matches. The I nter Basketball team also failed to record a win. _T wo main causes may be fo und for these f ailures : the rise of standairds in. all sports on the Nilgiris (basketba11 was a prime example) and, sadly, a lack of fi ghting spirit in at le1st so me .of the Lushington teams.

Oh the cre:iit side, Lushington continued to f oUow the policy of ente ring for a wide variety of competitions, whether the boys had good cha nces of winning or not, and earned for themselves a reputation as 'good losers.'

Certainly the standard of sportmanship was generally high.

Also there were some pleasant memories. some of John C hote's c ricket innings, Trevor Smyth's fo otball, 路C}.nd the Junior hockey team's fine teamwork as they recorded im pr~ssive victo ries over St. George's and Lawrence all come to mind.

At hom,e the ho use championship has been keenly fought-as always. Mukerti proved the stro n.gest house in both Senior and Junior Cham pionships for 1972-73. The 1973-74 competition is of course already well under路 way.

The coming of the new school in 1974 may mean(t hat the pattern of school sport will be changing soon. ~Certainly Lushington teams will be sallying for th under a different name ! Perhaps it will be possible to move in the direction of greater diversity (there are happy rumours about the availability of tennis cou rts). Whatever the f uture, what matters most is that the boys continue to do their best and find enjoyment in the recreation they need.

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ATHLETICS School Championship

Senior standards were good this year without being outstanding. Macleod dominated the sprints and T. Smyth the longer distances while Trchala won the jumps. The fact that Smyth also added some field-event successes gave him the Senior Championship. The House Competiti0n . . was neck and neck until the very last event. Pykara's victory brought them dead-level with Mukerti and there 路 the matter ended.

Junior records fell like nine-pins. Cochrane has no fewer than 4 new records to his credit as well as the overall Junior Championship. L. Veal and Bennett broke a record apiece, so that the proverbial "rewriting of the record book" came about. Kundah won the House Championship but all the houses scored well. _J.....

RE)ULTS:

Seniors

100 metres l Macleod 200 metres 1 M1cleod 400 metres 1 Macleod 800 metres 1 T. Smyth 1500 metres 1 T. Smyth Long Jump 1 Trchala Triple Jump 1 Trchala

2 Elliott

3 Carder

13.0

2 Elliott

3 Carder

27.2

2 D. J. Harris

3 J. Chote

62.4

2 Macleod

3 Trchala

2.26.2

2 Macleod

3 J. Chote

2 J. Chote

3 P. Veal

2 D . J. Harris

3 Sinclair

17'7

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Pole Vault 1 T. Smyth

2 D . J. Harris

3 S. Truscott

Discus 1 T. Smyth

2 J. Chote

3 G. Smyth

Shot 1 ·J: Chbte · ,... 2 D. Nirody

3 D. J. Hafris

Relay 1 Pykara

2 Mukerti

3 Kundah

Senior Champion I T. Smyth 2 Macleod

3 Trchala

56.1 •4••

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Juni ors

100 metres 1 L. Veal

2 P. Smith

3 Shaw

14.4

200 metres 1 Cochrane

2 McMahon

3 P. Smith

30.3

400 metres 1 Cochrane

2 C. Martin

3 Paterson

68.7

800 metres 1 L. Veal

2 V. Schrag

3 Hay

High Jump 1 P. Smith

2 M. Garlick

3 P. Bennett

4' 1

Long Jump 1 Cochrane

2 L. Veal

3 V. Schrag

14'7

(new record)

(new· record)

(new record)

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l'riple Jump 1 Cochrane

2 Bennett

3 Tozer

33'5 (new record)

Pole Vault 1 L. Veal Discus 1 Bennett

2 T. Fox 2 McMahon

3 Worrall

7'4l

3 P. Harris

55'8!

(new record)

(new record)

Shot 1 Bennett

2 V. Schrag

3 McMahon . . .

Relay 1 Kundah

2 Mukerti

3 Pykara

Junior Championship 1 Cochrane 2 L. Veal

3 Bennett

INTER-SCHOOL ATHLETICS.

A new scoring system (designed to help the smaller schools) helped us to gather in 29 points at the Inter-school athletics, but this total could not prevent us sinking to sixth place. We only had three certificate winners (counting a relay team as one) and altogether it must be admitted our showing was a little disappointing. It may be blind optimism but I do feel that it was 'one of those days' (the senior team dropping the relay baton in the relay heats was all too typical) and that the fu ture may hold better things . We were pleased, however. to see the rise of Breeks. They did magnificently with over 100 points and third place overall. May they continue to be a force in the N ilgiri Athletics.

RESULTS :

D. J. Harris 2nd in Senior pole vault Macleod 2nd in Inter hurdles Relay - Sub junior (Sanders, Hay, Shaw, Field) - 2nd

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• Our bowling let ·us down badly this year. Our bats"'\ · me'n always had something .to offer, especially Chote, but with easy runs being given away in every match, they ' always had too much to do. Standards of cricket are comparatively high in the Nilgiris these days (a reflection perhaps of the Indian team's recent run of successes) and .~ we need to raise our standards at Lushington even to be in with a sho\lt. Best memory of the season, from our point of view, was a very good knock against Breeks, a match we could have won if the bowlers had kept their heads.

RESULTS:

v v v v v v

St. George's Brindavan , Blue Mountain Lawrence Breeks St. Joseph's

Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost Lost

JUNIORS:

The juniors did manage to record one win over Breeks, · and also bowled well against St. Joseph's. Had the batting ·· not let us down rather seriously on that occasion Lushington would have been in with a good chance of repeating .last year's victory. Luke Veal captained the side and provided the best of the batting and the bowling. ·' RESUTS:

v v v v

Brindavan Breeks Lawrence St. Joseph's

Lost Won Lost Lost

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FOOTBALL SENIORS1

The departure of T. Smyth, the best footballer all round I have seen at Lushington, left a big gap in the, Lushington team, in its attacking potential in particular, but perhaps also in its, spirit. 路路 The team started well, playing an excellent first half against Breeks and looking to be worth a draw, but finally lost rather unluckily, 3-0. At Lawrence we were . qvermatched but the coach was delighted that the team managed to score at least once. However the landslide defeat at St. Joseph's was a bad omen for the coming season.

RESULTS:

v Breeks v Lawrence v St. Joseph's

Lost' 0-3 Lost 1- 6 Lost 0-11

JUNIORS:

The Junior team started the season wen with an away victory over Breeks and a home win against Lawrence. At this stage they were definite contenders for the championship.' However St. Joseph's showed up the weaknesses in defence -. they had been slow to cover aII season - and finally we had to b~ content with the runner's up position.

Still this was a thoroughly creditable effort. McMahon captained the side and was a tower of strength throughout.

RESULTS:

v v v v

Bree ks Lawrence St. Joseph's Brinda van

Won Won Lost Drawn

3-2 2-0 1-3 0-0

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BASKETBALL

INTERS:

f

The school entered an Inter team this year for the first time and came up bump against the rising standards in Nilgiri sport, especially in this competition. Though the team lost throughout, there was no shortage, of skill, rather of height, weight, speed and healthy aggression.

There is hope, however, that there is the foundation here of a good senior team one day. A better court, too, may help to raise standards. Basketball remains the only sport in which Lushington has won a Senior Championship.

Let's hope we can get back to that one day.

RESULTS:-

v v v v

Brindavn Kotagiri P. S. St. Joseph's Stanes

SENIORS:

Lost Lost Lost, Lost

HOCK .EV

It would be kinder to draw a decent veil -over the performance of our senior hockey team this year. However the record speaks for itself. It also highlights ' the increasing demoralisation of the team as the season progressed. Admittedly all the teams we played were of a high quality, but the sad fact remains that potential was not realised, skill not exploited and above all the enemy was not faced fairly and squarely. This might be thought a harsh judgement but our defeats were, in fact, of reeord proportions.

BESULTS :-

v .Lawrence v St. George's v St. Joseph's

Lost 0-8 Lost 0-13 Lost 0-17

JUNIORS:

There is no doubt that this was one of the best Junior hockey teams Lushington has fielded. The victories against St. George's and Lawrence were thoroughly

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convincing and showed a high degree of skill and teamwork.

If the team fell somewhat below its own high standards aga.ins~ u~t. J9.s_el?h's1 it was stil! ..\Yor~h the P,i;aw t~at gav~ it at 1¢a,st a, s11¥f m the Cb.a:mp1onsh1p. Tozer (tpe captarn/ ' J.:: McMhllorr, . L.~.:Xtt~I: V. Schra~ (\nd ;,P avid Cr.aig ,all excelled.bu! were · Jll~mbei:& of,a fme team. It: makes a L pleh~l)t. cn:l_'nge to win. , . ' .~ ~ qr, -J '

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RESULTS:,

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·vl 'st., Georg~ 's lY Lawrence v St. Joseph 1s

Won . 3-0 3-0 ·WGn Drawn 1-1

SWIMMIN_G~ AND CROSS COUNT~Y r. . .

You may have noticed the ab'sen erbJ detailed reports on swimming and cross-country. These competitions come too late in the yea-f to be admitted to 6ur survey. The swimming-sports, as we go to press; -stand teetering on the · brink so to speak, as we wait breathlessly to see wheth~r the pool will fill after it's annual cleansing. The c ~oss­ couhtry 1for thei seeond year in sucC'e&sion is being run over a sti!Lmore ardteoiis and precipitous ~ourse; the old course now runs ·tlir.oitglF. 'a farm belonging to the Indo-German project and we:; hfive had to abandon it. The 19'72 race (nof.included iirt the:.. 1972 .B & C) tl;lerefore ·established new timings. · T. Smyth.won the Senior event and L. Veal th~ JunioE Times were well outside the -previous records, ' which :may confirm that the new course is the tougher of the two. ' · OTHER SPORTS

Cricket, athletics, football, basketball, hockey, swimming, cross-co"QQ.try -=. what else? Well., >table tennis most of the year ro-:ttnd and wve sent a team to the Inter-School Competition. · Some of the Senior boys managed some 1 tennis and that may be a sign of the times. 'British Bull~ dog' and 'Kabadi' still flourish unofficially and the boys joined in ea 'game ·of .s0ftba11 recently when the J;Iebron girl~ ,visited us . . All ii: all , a very full programme.

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I went on the boat on the lake and I saw sunken house boats.

Lloyd Porter, Std. lb.

I like to go swimming at the Poona Club. I use a ring.

I like going backwards. ..., Brian Clunas, Std. 2.

I play "Catch" with my brother.

Danny Gillette, Std. la.

I like riding my sister's two wheeler. It is yellow and silver and it has a bell. I like going a top-speed on it.

Andrew Powell, Std. 2.

I go swimming in Calcutta. I get on my Dad's back under the water and he takes me for a ride.

Andrew Millar, Std. lb.

At my house I like to play "Police and Robbers." We went to Simms Park and we saw a river.

James Daniel, Std. 2.

We go to the swimming pool when we have time on some days. I like to go to the bottom of the swimming pool. I like to play in the swimming pool.

Paul Martin, Std. 2.

I have a bicycle and I ride it very fast.

Ian McCabe, Std. la.

At home I try to ride my bicycle. My brotheJ has put a bell on it. I ride on the road.

Timothy Veal, Std. 2.

I take our pussy in the swimming pool and then she runs out.

Ghalib Mukadam, Std. 1b.

I play football witfi

my brother.

Kelvin Chote, Std. I a.

I ride th~ - bicycle and_the wagc;m is tied to the bicycle. sister Ukes to ride the bicycl~ too. My brotlier likes to play with the little bicycle.

Peter Schirmer, Std. 2.

My

We always go swimming at home.

Andreas Polster, Std. la.

I ffke to pfay on my three wheeted bike at home. It's red and blue. It has two seats and the back seat has an edge -around i'f.

Keith Adams, Std. 2.

We have a frew swimming poof. We have a shower. }...

The swimming poo-1 has stairs in it.

David Wheatley, Std. 2. .路

MY PET.

We have a tortoise. It is my big brother's. He caught it in India路, in a _river when it was empty. We have a tank to put him in. And we have another tank for the fish.

One day Daddy was reading the newspaper. We let the tortoise go on the table. and he made it go the other way.

David Millar, Std. 3.

MY AEROPLANE.

I have an aeroplane because I live on an island and I need it to go to New Zealand to get some food to eat.

My cousins live in New Zealand and I go there to see them in my aeroplane. It is nice. I love my Nana. I see my Gran and Grandad in New Zealand.

Nevan McLeay, Std. 3.

MY NEW CLASS.

. My new school is called Lushington. I have a new dorm. It is called Eagles. I have a new class, It is standard three. There are 11 people in standard three.

In Lushington there was a storm. It was raining, and the ground got wet. We could not go to play outside. In the storm lots of trees fell down.

Johannes Polster, Std. 3.

58 DUTIES IN CLASS.

The hardest duties are fun. Working is fun if you get sombody to help you. One of th~ jobs is tidying the classroom.

Do the cleanest things first, like putting the hockey sticks straight. Then sit in the teacher's seat and tell the other chap what to do. e, g. Dust the piano. Dust the window sills. Dust the Library, and tidy up all the other things.

That's all!

Just as simple as that.

Mark Truscott, Std. 4.

THE MONSOON.

The monsoon is come. Oh. how beautiful the flowers are.

Nearly every morning when I get up, it is just so cloudy, and when I get out of the house it is bucketting with rain.

In the evening it is full of mist. The ground is soaked, so we can't play cricket. Thunder shouts while the lightning flashes.

Rain, oh rain, how good you are, but why do you make the place so muddy?

Joseph Daniel. Std 4,

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THE RAIN.

This term it has not been raining much but this last week it has bee_n raining quite a lot, so I qo not think . we can have a game of hockey.

One day when I was playing hockey with Andreas on the big pitch, it began to rain, and so we had to run our fastest up into the classroom, but by the time we got up the classroom our hair was soaking.

When we got to the class, the bell went, and so we were glad that it had started raining because it sent us up just in time for class.

Allan Ironside, Std. 4.

GERMANY.

I went to Germany for my furlough. I went with Elke, my sister, in a Lufthansa, Boeing 747.

When we came to Frankfurt, it was raining, so we had to stay up in the air. From Frankfurt, we went in a Lufthansa Boeing 707, and on that plane we had a plastic cup with paper on top, and I had bilberry juice in it.

In Dusseldorf we saw our friends arid cousins. Then I went alone to Velbert in a Volkswagen with ~y Grandfather. 路 We have T. V. at home. I like looking at it. chopper bike and a Swiss watch.

I got a .'

When I came back to school in India, I was so used to German that I had forgotten some English.

Andreas Timm, Std. 4.

60 Seen wil:h Junior eyes.

HOCKEY.

In hockey you have a stick, but not an ordinary stick.

It is a stick made of plywood with a curve on it. You have a ball, but not a rubber ball, cork ball. You don't hit p,eople with your hockey stick, otherwise there would be crying, "Boo, boo, hoo".

These are some of the rules.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Feet is when the ball hits your feet.

Obstruction is when you turn your back on the other team.

Off side is when two people aren't with you.

Sticks is when you lift your stick above your shoulders. k.

Elbows is when you push someone with your elbows.

Cuts is when you dig your stick under the ball and it rises.

Paul Chote, Std. 4.

Overheard in Std. 3 6' 4 Classroom.

1st boy : "Why are they building a tennis court ?" . 2nd boy:

"Because Mr. lngleby has a tennis racket." . Overheard in the clinic.

Std. 4 boy :

"I don't like that evil spirit."

Miss Hulks : "What evil spirit?"

Boy:

"That evil spirit", pointing to a bottle of Avil syrup.

61 AUTUMN "It is Autumn," said the squirrel, "I must gather my nuts."

"It is Autumn," said the birds, "We must leave you, friends."

"It is Antumn," said the stoat, "I must change my colour."

"It is Autumn," said the leaves As they fell from the trees.

Autumn is the most beautifu'l season of the year.

Joseph Daniel, Std. IV.

AUTUMN \

"It is Autumn," said the leaves as they fell from the trees.

"It is Autumn," said the squirrel as he gathered some nuts.

The trees are full of golden leaves .

Autumn has come again to the woodland folk, Autumn, oh Autumn, how beautiful you are.

Allan Ironside, Std. IV.

AUTUMN Autumn is very colourful, Leaves change colour.

Some turn red, orange and brown, !hen they flutter to the ground.

When you walk through forests, You hear the leaves crack le The leaves are very beautiful, The leaves are very colourful Oh, Autumn, how beautiful you are .

Come again another year .

Roland Rutgers, Std. IV.

AUTUMN Leaves, leaves are falling down, Yellow, orange, red and brown, Leaves are falling down.

Birds migrate, Squirrels gather nuts, Bats, ra.ts, snakes and snails All getting ready for winter.

Paul Chote, Std. IV.

62 NOVEMBER 5t:h 1605

It was dark and musty in the cellar under Lords. In the room was a man, a soldier, his name was Guido Fawkes. Also in the room was a little lamp. By it's light you could see piles of wood for the winter. An hour passed, the soldier got up and started to work, he moved the firewood and revealed barrels of gunpowder. Suddenly, in marched a file of soldiers. They caught Guido Fawkes and took him to the King, who was James the 1st. Guido knew he would be sentenced to death so he was very rude to the king and his court. He also knew that his friends were in hiding in the country and they would have to fight but they would not be strong enough to win. So he was put to death and his friends were all killed except one who was thought to have given the plot away. He was put into the Tower of London but was later released.

T. Gibbs, Std. 5.

THE BOY WHO KEPT ANIMALS That boy! He's awful!

He kept a pest In his desk!

It was a rat i What do you think of that?

There was an armadillo In his pillow I There was a cat Under his bedroom mat!

He kept dogs In his socks He had a turkey With the lurgy !

What do you think of that?

There was a puppy Which knew geography!

What do you think of that?

N. Miller, Std. 5

THE MOUNTAINS OF AUSTRIA Lofty mountain peaks Look down on village streets.

Upon the mountains high, The pine forests lie.

R. Casebow, Std. 5.

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63 THE LAME MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL (;ATE

This morning we saw a play written by Std. Seven.

Their play was about the Jame man at the Beautiful Gate in Jerusalem. They were dressed nicely and they did the play very well. After the play, Miss Wagland explained their costumes to us.

P. Wehmeier, Std. 5.

FLYING CHIPS

One morning I was working hatd in my classroom.

Suddenly I heard a branch crash to the ground. l looked to the window and saw the branch that had fallen. The man who had chopped it down had started to chop another branch, chips flew everywhere. Soon that branch crashed down. After that he climbed to the top and started to chop, after two or three minutes, the top fell down. After break we watched him work. The tree was just about cut down and soon it came thundering to the ground.

THE MONSTER FIGHTERS

On a cold and wet Thursday morning, while we were having English I saw a flying saucer whizzing through the air. Our teacher had gone to her flat to get our books, so I beckoned David Faszer and pointed to the flying saucer.

Suddenly it disappeared.

"It must have landed on the big pitch'', I said to Fuz (David Faszer). By thi s time all the class was crowding against the window. I took Fuz and Duncan Craig with me and we ran - to the big pitch. There I realized my mistake. We hadn't enough people lo attack the monsters, who were now swarming the pitch. I had a good Jook at the flying saucer, it had Venus 77 all around it. The monsters were green and had spikes sticking out of them.

We were just about to run away when one of the monsters grabbed us and took us to the flying saucer. The monster pushed a button and out came a flying car. He made signs to us to get into it. We jumped in and the monsters pressed another button and we found ourselves whizzing through space. In desperation I pressed all the buttons I could find. The car did a summersault and

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started crashing back to Earth. Puz had been exploring and had found a bomb. After about a minute we had reached the big pitch. We jumped out of the car and Duncan threw the bomb at the flying saucer. It found its mark and there was a loud explosion. After about a minute the whole school was on the pitch.

"MARTIN" I nearly jumped out of my seat. I bad been caught dreaming. Mr. Darling was there.

"You can do me one hundred lines - I must not dream in class."

S. Martin, Std. VI. I

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BLACK AND BORING Black and boring Like a Friday morning Black and boring Like a Monday afternoon Oh what a joke!

I went and broke The rhyme I committed that crime of breaking the rhyme.

-D. Faszer, Std. VI.

LUSHINGTON L U S H I N G T 0 N

is for Lusby, the best of all schools is for ugly, like some of us boys is for slushy, like our pool is for having things to enjoy is for ink that blots what we do is for - no that's wrong, I'll give a clue is for good and never bad is for tea that we like a lot is for others as well as Dad is for nothing, nothing to blot -D. Faszer, Std. VI. A JOKE

There was a man at a bus stop waiting for a bus and he had three eyes, no arms and one leg. What did the bus conductor say when the bus came?

Eye! Eye! Eye! You look arqi!ess, hop on. -C. Windsor, Std. VI.

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THE LAME MAN : A PLAY

(The scene is set outside the Temple of JerusAlem.

A visitor to Jerusalem interviews various pebple involved in the healing of a lame man the day before. Enter the visitor.)

Ah, here's the temple. Wasn't this the place that the man in the Iraqi Date shop said that路 the lame man was healed yesterday? 路'路Just a few minutes and the people will be coming, then I'll be able to find out what happened. (Enter the previously lame man.)

Good day, you 111cky man.

Lame man : Good day !

Interviewer:

Interviewer : You are the person whom we are learning about 路 a11 over the world. I mean the man who was healed by Peter and John.

Lame man: Yes sir, I am the one whom you are looking for. And I am so thankful to God that He has healed me in this way.

Interviewer: Well, well. How did it feel when you were healed, and why did you believe that if you tried, you would be able to walk?

Lame man: It felt so verv mysterious, . but wonderful at the same time. I felt some impulse that I just could not resist, so I leaped up in the air. I was so surprised that I stood still fo'r a minute, trying to figure out why I was so high up, and the ground was down so low beneath me. Then, suddenly, I realised that I was standing up and could run and jump and do all sorts of things. So I started praising God ! !

Interviewer: So then this wo uld be the most dramatic experience of your life?

Lame man:

Oh, of course sir!

(Enter John) Interviewer : Well it has been very interesting to interview you. Good day.

Lame man: Good day, sir.

Interviewer : (To John) I hear that you played quite an important part in the incident concerning the cure of the lame man just recently.

Could you tell me what happened?

It happened when my companion and I were John : making our way to the temple.

Interviewer : Now was this going to the temple a regular happening?

Why yes. Peter and I usually go to the John : temple at three o'clock to pray.

Interviewer : Go on. ,,,__ John: We were passing through the Beautiful Gate when our attention was caught by a beggar sitting there, calling for alms.

Interviewer : Had you seen this man before, or was he knew to you?

John: Yes we had seen him many times before.

His friends brought him every day to sit at the gates and beg.

Interviewer : How did this man attract your attention?

He called out to us and begged us to give John: him something.

Interviewer : Fire ahead.

Well, my companion, Peter, told him we John: had no money, silver or gold, but we had something better.

Interviewer: Was the man astonished at this or was he calm?

John : His face lit up joyfully and he seemed ready to do anything.

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Interviewer : Go on.

John: Peter took his hand, and in the Name of Jesus commanded him to walk.

Interviewer : Do you personally think that was black magic or a true miracle?

John: I lived with Jesus for three years and saw him do many similar miracles. I believe that when He died, He rose and went to heaven and can stil1 do miracles.

Interviewer : Thank you very much. (Enter two ordinary passers-by.) Well, sirs, I expect you were at the great happening yesterday . . Could you tell us about it?

It is true that we were in this incident and Believer 1 : that we believed. I will tell you about it.

Believer 2: So will I. Believer 1 : I was walking to the Beautiful Gate one day.

Believer 2: I was too .

Believer 1 : When I saw ... .

Believer 2: We saw ...

Believer l : Don 't interrupt. We saw a large crowd and heard si nging coming from inside it. I immediately ....

Believer 2: We immediately We immediately ran forward and saw that, Believer 1 : in the centre of the. crowd, was the lame beggar, or wh at used to be, dancing and praising God. Believer 2: My turn now.

Believer 1 : Be quiet. This Jame beggar had been Jame for 40 years and I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw him dancing. The people said that two men had come along and told this man, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, to get up and walk. They then said that Jesus had made him walk in His Name. I then knew that Jesus was the only one who could do it and I believed.

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Interviewer : So you are n0W a devout Christian'?

Believer 1 : Oh, yes.

Inrerviewer : Thank you very much.

Believer 2 : A lot of people will be intersted to hear this.

(Exeunt omnes) Standard VII.

A BIRD~S EYE VIEW

"Chirp, chirp." Far off in this green silent garden it was the only noise. Below me were a crowd of boys. Even they weren't m.aking a noise as one might expect.

"Chirp." I distinctly heard it come from one of the waving trees. It was one of my pals. As I called he left his perch on the swaying tree and came to me. We talked about the wide-spread view in front of us. The graceful trees which looked like giants were beautiful. They seemed all to have a different green. A pine stood directly in front of us with its sturdy trunk.

Suddenly a straining truck interrupted the silence. It was as if a shell had been dropped it was so sudden. Hours it seemed had passed till it had gone. A jeep, its engine purring, followed, sounding much better.

Our eyes passed higher up and we saw a hill standing up against the sky. Trees almost covered it and stood out like a silhouette. Large shapeless clouds covered the sky above it. My friend told me to look farther into the sky.

There the dazzling outline of the clouds hiding the sun looked like lightning.

Feeling dazzled, my eyes swept across the garden once more. All the greens mixed together as my eyes flashed past. Truly it was a magnificent sight.

Paul Martin, (Standard VII.)

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VIKING NIGHTMARE

We sighted the Vikings just off the strait of Dover.

Immediately the beacon was lit and the people got ready.

As soon as we saw them our hearts went as cold as ice.

It seemed to take ages for them to come as we were. all tense.

To us they were as tough as rock and as crafty as foxes There were about fifty ships in the fleet, so that meant a big attack and we would be beaten.

It was said that the Earl of our town was crying like a boy because he knew his people would be slain.

When we thought of the Vikings we saw them like huge steam rollers, rolling us into the depths of the ground, with blood pouring from their swords, like water from a tap.

It was winter then and there was a lot of snow, and if you went to a battlefield, it was like Snow White's mother, when she pricked her finger and the blood fell on the snow.

The ships slowly advanced until they were about 500 yards away. when we got the biggest shock of our lives.

They were not Viking ships at all, but just rotten ships with torn and holy sails.

We were so happy that we danced up and down and had a feast. ' William Hacking, (Standard VII.)

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THE DRAGON'S TALE WITH A TWIST! SCENE I

Introduction - Jester Good afternoon ye Lords arid Ladies Squires and maids and tiny babies A play we here present For your entertainment Most of the words are written by us, Kind friends helped with never a fuss It's now the hope of Standard Six You'll like our story - and it's twist!

SCENE II

Dragon : Ha Ha Ha; Here is the place of thine imprisonment, 0 thou wretched damsel.

Lady:

Please Sir Dragon, free me I pray thee ; thou art so powerful and I so weak.

Dragon : Be quiet and get thee hence into the castle. am without mercy.

Lady :

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Oh, What have I done to thee to make you do this evil?

Dragon : Nothing, nothing! I have joy in capturing beautiful ladies and I get hungry. Hurry inside or I'll eat you now instead of later. (Fierce roar: Locks her in).

SCENE 11

Lady:

(On balcony) Alas! Alas! Hour after hour passes and no-one comes to rescue me. (Sound of singing from forest.) Hark ! That's not the dragon's fearsome voice ! At last someone comes!

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Knight :

What a gloomy castle, it makes me shiver and shake; Who can own it ?

Lady :

Thou art right to shiver and snake. to a great and terrible dragon.

Knight :

Then why art thou, a beautiful maiden, on the balcony!

Lady :

The dragon has imprisoned 路 me. When he is hungry, he will eat me. Please save me.

Knight :

How I wish I could free you, but ' I know not how.

Lady:

Kill the dragon.

Knight :

I will, I will. But what is they name, Madam ?

Lady:

When though hast 'killed the dragon I will tell you. Till then it is a secret. 路

Knight :

Alright, but mine is just as secret as yours till then. (He leaves).

It belongs

lt will be easy then.

SC!iNE III

Dragon : (In forest clearing; hears sound) Hist! one comes this way !

Some-

Knight :

Oh, there thou art. set the lady free.

I come to kill thee and to 路

Dragon:

Ho! Ho! You haven't a chance against me.

I will kill you with one blast of my fiery breath.

Knight:

Have at thee, foul beast. see what we shall see.

Dragon :

My mouth is watering for thy blood.

(They fight) We shall

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Knight :

(Leaping forward) Open not thy vile mouth lest it croak no more. (Thrusts lance deep into head, but gets burnt at the same time. Dragon gives wild scream and falls to ground. Knight in pain). . I have killed thee vile creature, but alas, I am like to die myself. (Stumbles off).

SCENE IV

Knight:

(Enters ; lady路 on balcony) Madam, thine enemy is dead. I will release thee.

Lady :

(Comes from the castle) Oh, my deliverer ! I thank you with all my heart.

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Knight :

Farewell, dear Lady. injured.

I fear I am mortally

Lady :

A dragon burn ! The cure for that is a touch from a dragon's tail. Rest near the trees while I run and twist it from his body.

Knight:

You won't faint at the sight of blood?

Lady:

Nay, nay - I am made of sterner stuff and I must heal thee brave sir. (Lady returns with tail). Come, my hero, if thou hast strength.

(Touches him with tail. He recovers).

Knight :

Oh, madam, thou hast saved my life.

Lady :

And thou hast saved mine.

Knight : Lady:

Shall we unite our fortunes forever?

Gladly. Tell me thy name.

Knight:

I am the Lord of Lushington.

Lady :

And I am the Princess of Hebron.

Both:

Let us build together a wonderful new inheritance.

Standard VII.

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AN AMAZING EVENT At Easter, while we were at Mukerti on camp, a really extraordinary event happened. When I was sunbathing, watching some people playing with my ring, it suddenly flew high over their heads, being carried away with the strong wind. It landed with a bump and strangely enough it went on, gathering speed every moment and I just sat there watching. But then I realised that it was not going to stop (it was now going at about 10 m. p. h.) and I cou1d not catch up with it. It was racing along, bumping over the rough, mud-caked ground and J was getting anxious, wondering what would happen next.

I had run quite a long way and I was getting tired so I _settled down to a trot and I watched it getting farther : away every minute. Then I suddenly saw something that made me really run. It was speeding toward a fast moving stream. It went hurtling down a steep slope to the stream, but it miraculously got caught in an old, rotton, treestump. But it was not the end, because I ran straight into some mud and I sank down nearly to my knees. I came out with my shoes looking anything but clean.

This find was to Jead to many hours of fun, wallowing about in the mud, and then washing ourselves in the stream.

Philip Gardiner, (Standard VII).

A DAY ON A CATTLE STATION

As usual I got up at six o'clock and first milked the cows, while my smaller brother got twelve eggs from the hen-run.

After breakfast (I had two eggs) we started our day's work. As it was a holiday I didn't do my schooling. The week before we had mustered up the cattle and they were in the paddocks. We had already sold the good cattle to graziers and we had to brand the rest. That was today's job. The labourer_s had already started to heat the brands.

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Our brand was X. It took us ten minutes to get the first one roped up. At ten o'clock we had done 18 cattle.

Then we had a break and a cup of coffee. Then we started again.

At about 11 o'clock when Dad was roping a bull, its back legs got free and it gave Dad such a kick. One of the labourers named Jim, lassood the bull and got it down.

When Dad tried to get up he found he couldn't and his leg hurt horribly, So Mum radioed the doctor and we put Dad on a couch. Then in about two hours we heard the sound of a light plane. I went outside and saw the doctor get out of . the light plane. The doctor looked at Dad's leg and X-rayed it and found out that it was broken. He took Dad into the light plane and told us that he was going to put Dad's leg in plaster.

Meanwhile the boys, Jim and the others, were still branding. By lunch (1 p. m.) we had branded 36 cattle.

We were all hungry ifs we had been branding all morning.

We had cold meat and potatoes in their jackets. We started again at 2 o'clock. At 3 p. m. Dad came back with his leg in plaster. He stayed on the couch for the rest of the day.

By tea we had branded 72 cattle. We went in for tea and I got a big surprise ; for it was my birthday and Mum had made a big tea for me. Mum told me to go outside and look for my present. When I went outside I saw a pony which had a piece of string round its neck and a piece of cardboard tied to it. On the piece of cardboard it said 路'From Mum and Dad". l twas just what I wanted.

As it was my birthday the rest of the day was free. ~k When it got dark one of the boys called Bill started playing his banjo. We sat round the camp fire until 9 p. m. and then we went to bed tired.

Stephen Shaw, (Standard VIII.)

75 Lost in t:he Desert:

(Extract from a Diary) I have been staggering on for some days. I have a pint of water left and I am still somewhere in the middle of the Sahara desert.

This all started off 路 as on oil-discovering expedition.

But we were attacked by a band of Touaregs who slaughtered everyone in the expedition except me. I was radio operator, and they let me go because they thought I was a magician because I could get "voices out of a box".

I could not stop the Touaregs slaughtering everyone路 else, because I was out of camp establishing radio contaet with our base and I came back when I heard the shots. They were about to kilJ me when one of them discovered the radio. They were terrified of it and as I tried to warn base of the danger I was in, one of the Touaregs shot the microphone to bits. So I am here now, wishing that the T ouaregs had killed me there and then.

All I can do is some shade behind worst of the day. my boots wore out

stagger on, and at midday I try to find a sand dune and rest there, through the My feet are sore and blistered because some time ago.

At night I get as much warmth as I can because the nights are very cold. I get up as early as possible, so, that I can get a reasonable distance before the sun gets really hot.

My water has run out and my tongue is swelling for lack of water. My throat is as dry as a bone. Each day I travel less and less as I die a lingering death.

(A later entry in the diary) I don't remember any more. I learnt the rest from what an oil exploration team doctor told me. This is how his story goes: "We were travelling along and had just topped a rise when we saw you lying there with vultures

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flying around you. We chased them off and put you in our hospital truck and returned to our base where we treated you until you got better, then we brought you to Cairo. If we had found you a day later you would have been a beautiful white skeleton without any flesh at all."

David Miller, (Standard VIII).

AN INCREDIBLE STORY

Alas, my plight was so saddening. I was lying helpless, tied to the railtracks firmly, ready for my death under the wheels of the next train. It was sunset, the birds sang so sweetly, but my heart sang a song of unquenchable sorrow.

The breeze murmured through the trees silhouetted against the huge red sun, but the cold, dark breezes of death murmured through the harp of my blood vessels. DEATH in , such a vile way. It rang through the dank strange corridors of my mind. As I thought about it I could see a faint light in the distance coming through the death-echoing, lurking passages of my mind. I could see the end, the beam of the engine light blinding me, the cruel piercing whistle,a bloodthirsty crunch, then then I'd be walking up to St. Peter and we1l, yes. Death tolled the ghastly, resounding gong of the devil himself. Anguish tore my body apart. All was quiet; I could hear the faint chuff chuffing in the distance, A cruel, searching beam, the hissing, clanking, hooting, rattling, roaring, blood curdling towering black mass coming down at me. ARRGH !

SNAP ! I tore my bonds, jumped up with one, mighty lunge; the anguish was too much. A desperate dive, crunch, owww !

Was my leg gone? The train passed away.1 Where was St. Peter? Surely I was dead, but no. the tracks were still there, cold in the darkness. I lay panting and gasping for a while. Slowly I picked up courage to look at my leg. No! Not all my leg was gone. My foot had been cut off and now the blood was pouring out. How could I save myself from blood-loss? Suddenly an idea struck me. I took my shoe off the foot still attached to me and then let the blood

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run into it. I set about retrieving my unattached foot.

What to do? Fix it back on again. Did I want a false foot?

Certainly not. So I painfully set about retrieving the shreds of the rope that had tied me to the track. Slowly, fumbling in the dark, I got the rope unravelled till there was nothing but thin threads left, these I carefully tied to my shoe lace so as not to lose them or let the wind blow them away. But alas, my shoe was full of blood. What to do? Once again my genius gave me an idea. I drank the blood out of my shoe and let the blood continue to flow into my shoe. Every time the shoe filled up-I drank the blood. Now I carried on with my job. I remembered that I had a pin in my pocket, so I put my hand in my pocket, and sure enough my memory had not failed me.

Now I proceeded to make a row of holes around the top of my amputated foot and around the bottom of my footless leg. Then I threaded the strands of unravelled rope through these holes, pausing now and then to drink the blood out of my shoe. At last, after many hours of toil in the dark, I managed to tie my foot back on to my poor leg and secure the mend by binding it with the leftover threads and my vest. Though my leg and foot were very pa infu1, I dragged myself away from the railway tracks and slept soundly until morning.

Paul Smith, (Standard IX)

A CRASH

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now half an hour from our destination," I adjusted my seat belt a little more tightly and I settled back and started to concentrate on the book I had started reading. .

"Ladies and gentlemen," the voice crackled, "we are very sorry to say that there is some mechanical trouble in the engine of the plane, and we will have to make a forced landing out here in the forest. We would request you not to panic, but to fasten your seat belts tightly and brace yourselves for the impact, thankyou."

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I put my book away and leant forward in the proper position. Suddenly there was a tremendous impact and I felt my head and body being crushed into my knees. Then I blacked out.

When I came to I found out that I was not injured badly except for a couple of broken ribs, and that my chest was badly bruised.

I looked all around me and called out to see if anyone else was alive besides me. After further examination I found o.u t that everyone had been killed, but, by some miracle, I was saved.

I went outside and saw that the plane had landed in very dense forest. I went back into the plane, got some food and set off into the forest.

Virgil Schrag, (Standard IX)

AN EPITAPH Here lies the body of Moses His carcass bed ecked in primroses The gravestone he paid for himself And kept it for years on a shelf Forseeing the day when he'd die And be put in the cold ground to lie.

Moses Jived a good godly life Taught the same to his nine kids and wife So that when they, too, passed away, They'd meet him again some day.

Some say he' died in a battle, Some say he died in his bed, But he died when the foremention ed gravestone Fell off the shelf on his head !

Christopher Martin (Standard JX)

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MY NEIGHBOURS

We live in a semi-detached house. This means that we have two neighbours sharing walls with us. The trouble is that the two are complete opposites.

On one side are the Karataks. This couple seem to leave their house less often. The husband goes out once a week to an exclusive dinner club which is reputed to be frequented by millionaires. But to these occasions he wears a tatty sports jacket, light blue Bermudas, rugbysocks, pale yellow plimsolls and a flashy hat covered with badges, from S. U. badges to Esso badges. The Mrs. tends to do her shopping at ten o'clock at night. ' She usually returns with a crate of lemonade, a box of crisps, a container of ice-cream and a few tins of odds and ends. They have a very complicated hi-fi stereo which takes records, tapes and cassettes but they only have one short demonstration cassette and a cracked seventy-eight r. p. m. record of a Cossack charge. In the sitting room there is a collection of seventeen tables, but only two wooden chairs. The husband, when at home, works on a physical experiment which he has been working on for the past twenty years.

He is trying to find a cheap power source for electricity.

On the other side of our house we have the Smiths.

Mr. Smith is a factory employee at a local plant. He is very regular back from work, home at exactly five fortyfive. From then on he watches television. Occasionally he goes out with his cronies to the local pub and joins them in a strike. He regularly buys the daily newspaper and the Sunday Special. Mrs. Smith goes out shopping at eleven in the morning. She meets all her friends at the shops where they talk about the latest bargains, and how their toasters have packed up. She often invites them over for tea when Mr. Smith is out. They have five children who go to the local school. They are regular church-goers.

They are also members of a local club. Every summer they go to France or Italy for a fortnight .

These are factors only their neighbours would notice, but an outsider would easily notice the state of their front gardens. The Karataks' is a jungle while the Smiths' is a well kept vegetable garde n.

John McMahon, (Standard X).

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TEN MINUTES TO WAIT

This is the age of supersonic transport - minus your eardrums and I mean minus ! The noise and noise pollution ye~.rs of the 21st century.

I was seated in my conveyo-cylinder expecting the arrival of the Trayn. "Oh, hurry up. There are only twenty minutes to my appointment, I am glad that it is only 948 miles or l would be late . It is rather boring on the Trayn, such a straight track and the scenery goes by too fast to be able to take any notice of it. I think the management should install film viewing units on the Trayn, but I suppose there isn't enough time to see such oldfashioned, slow things as films. Hmm the Trayn must be coming, the conveyo-cylinder is lifting off the ground, but that means still another five minutes. Let me see, that would be about 250 miles away. Not much. This is agonising, the conveyo-cylinders are comfortable enough, but so much precious time wasted. Just think, even with outdated equipment I could have built another house !

The Trayn should be modernised a bit to stop this colossal waste. Ah! It has arrived."

"You're two point five nine seconds late, driver" I exclaimed, after glancing at my chronometer.

"Yes, I know, sir, but we plan to make it up in the next quarter hour" he answered coolly. In a few milliseconds there was the faint shock of breaking the sound barrier and a voice called over the loudspeaker : Ten minutes to Wait."

"Ten minutes to my appointment in Wait," I thought.

"Man, what a waste of time, but I think-I shall programme my computer by milliwave."

Nigel Brieseman, (Standard X).

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An incident which illustrates the need to have a sense of humour.

At ten minutes past nine Mr. Welsh was already ten minutes late for wo,rk and was trying to swallow down his breakfast and at the same time do up his shirt buttons.

He was panicking again and knew he would not be long with his present job, if this sort of thing kept on happening.

He thought of his boss preparing his dismissal speech as he paced up and down his office, "Clack, clack, clack, clack." It scared him and made him panic all the more.

"Where would he get another job with this sort of reputation?"

Finally, at twenty minutes past nine he raced out of the front door and sprinted down the street, his shoe- laces undone, becoming more bedraggled every pace he took.

"How can I get out of this?" he thought. "Think, think, please! I must be going mad, too much exercise, not enough sleep." These thoughts raced through his mind as he ran, but he could not think what to say. Now he was too tired to think. Puff! Pant ! Puff! Pant ! The Office seemed to get farther and farther away.

The name of 'Welc;h' was well known at the office of "The Associated Building Company of Dorset", mainly because of his reputation as a latecomer. Jt was true the boss was pacing his office preparing his speech, but he decided to let Welsh speak first. "I might as well see what he has to say for himself before I fire him." He tried to think what the condemned man was thinking; he could not, it was beyond him.

Welsh had slowed down a bit now, and suddenly he stopped, about a hundred yards away from the office. He had thought of something. Maybe it would save his job for a little longer, he would try it anyway.

His courage came back to him as he strode into the office.

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"Good morning, sir," he said to the boss, "I am Mr. Welsh, I have come to apply for a job which, I believe, was just made vacant about thirty minutes ago."

That brought the house down and the boss could not help a broad grin creeping across his race. It changed to a chuckle and then to a hearty laugh.

A sense of humour had saved him his job, but he knew it would not last unless he made a habit of coming on time. It so happened that it was January 2nd and that was his New Year's resolution.

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Are Sc:hool Daqs the Happiest Days of One's Life?

A few weeks ago a friend of mine who has left school asked me whether I thought school days were the happiest days of one's life. Of course, at the time I answered hotly that they could not be and started a lengthy argument stating a11 the horrors of school Iife. 路 This argument was intensified by the fact that I had just received the cane for an offence which is too wicked even to be mentioned.

Eventually we settled on an agreement that in certain ways school days are one's happiest, and in certain ways they are one's unhappiest, as I remembered when sitting down to supper that night.

Sometime later I was thinking about this subject, and I began to realise the significance of what my friend had been saying to me.

The first point that I realised in favour of his argument was the wonderful months of holidays I had. I calculated that I must have enjoyed at least five months of holidays each year and only seven months of school. I thought about a working man's holidays, and discovered that these are very short; in all, at the most not more than two months per year, much of it split into nai:ional holidays and long leave weekends.

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Next I realised the great deal of sport I had been able to compete in during the term, and thought of how much a working man would have : Saturday night at the club playing billiards, or a Sunday's golf; not my idea of exercise. I am an athlete and do a great deal of running and also take part in team games such as soccer, cricket, hockey and basketball.

Thus I began to realise some of the benefits of my school life. I still supported my theory concerning rules and punishments in school, and maintained that school rules and punishments were the worst. Then a few days later, I discovered the rules and punishments that a working man has, and found to my horror that they could be worse than I had expected. For example, when a man 'got the sack' I realised this was as bad as being expelled, and very few boys are expelled from school nowadays.

I also realised that having a boss at work is worse than having a schoolteacher or headmaster. I met a few unemployed workers outside the labour union building the other day and found out that all five of them had cruel and unforgiving employers yet not one of them was 路 employed by the same person. Thus I realised the harshness of business life was as great as that of school life.

Another advantage which points to school days as being the best of one's life was indicated to me in the local newspaper the other day, when I read the local head lines, 'Working Men Demand More Pay', followed by an article written by a Member of Parliament trying to stress that the price increase was too great for the workers, and many of them were going hungry, wit h their pay being sufficient to cover the cost of rent and other necessities with only a small amount left over. The rising taxes also point to a school boy's advantages over a working man's.

There have been few if any days that I have gone hungry ; my parents have always paid for my education and my needs which, as I have grown, have increase drastically, with my demands for a new record player on the grounds that I have did well in. the last examinations.

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Of course, I decided to look at the matter not only from the point of view of the working man but also to consider whether the lives of other people, such as men in the armed forces, members of Parliament, and those with well paid jobs, were better than those of a school boy.

I have discovered that the life of a man in the service is hard, and that he has to put up with many hardships.

Members of Parliament always seem to have great worries which I as a schoolboy have not experienced. Even rich men, and those with steady jobs have problems concerning their wealth and their positions.

I have discovered that one rich millionaire is one of the unhappiest and unluckiest people that I .have ever known of. Although he has plenty of money, misfortune, in the form of illness and death, has been rife in his family.

This of course does not prove a great deal, certainly not that schoolboys are happier than rich men, as such misfortunes may strike a schoolboy too, but it does show that all the riches in the world cannot buy life or happiness, whereas I, and most of my poor friends at school, are extremely happy.

Thus I have come to the conclusion that school days are some of the happi est of one's life and there are not many exceptions to turn the argument the other way. I for one have experienced many happy years of school life, and have made many good friend s during my school days, many more than I would expect to meet in some dull routine job that I may happen to take when I leave school.

David Trchala (Standard XI).

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A GLOOMY OLD HOUSE

Not so far from where I live in the extreme north-east of London is an old wood of greyish coloured trees - I have been unable to identify them. Amongst these trees run a winding lane made of grey gravel, which leads into the open space in the middle of the wood. Here is situated one of the gloomiest houses I have ever seen. It is long and low - built entirely of grey stone which once must have looked attractive but now gives away to the newcomer the fact that it is only three miles from the cement factory. The walls have soot engrained into them and are far beyond recovery. It has some windows but only on the side on which one approaches the house. It gives one the impression of a grey-faced giant, blind in one eye, staring threateningly at a visitor. The doors are made of oak, but now they are rotten and it is impossible to determine their original colour. Grey smoke pours from the chimney, but nevertheless the house lacks the welcoming appearance that is characteristic of a house with a fire going, the smoke puffing merrily out of the chimney.

The weath er in my opinion, makes the house gloomier than need be. I cannot remember ever visiting the place when there has not been rain, fog, or sleet. It makes me shudder to think of living in that isolated place alone.

But the owner of the house, though he is well over eighty years of age, refuses to _leave his home. His wife died of a fever, and his daughter fell off the roof while helping to remove the thatch. What a place to live in, and what memories it must bring back to the poor old man.

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The house is surrounded by trees, as I have said before, but to me they do not seem like normal trees : they seem almost dead, they never have green leaves, but always grey or brown, grey or brown. The neatest road is nearly a mile away: there is no noise around the house except the cawing of crows. All likeable birds keep rclear of the place, I believe. There is often an almost terrifying silence.

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That is my impression of Mr. Greywood's house, and I shall never forget the utter gloominess which surrounds the house and its sole inhabitant. :t' Peter Martin, (Standard XI)

MY DREAM ROOM

If I had a room of my own there would be many things that I should like to do with it. Of course I could not do all of these things but here are some of my chief desires.

I should have a bed with a sponge rubber mattress.

Underneath this bed would be a set of lockers and drawers for keeping my things which are generally known as 'junk'. On this bed I should have a deep green or a deep blue bedspread. At the head I should have a specially designed reading lamp which could be easily adjusted to any desired position.

In the wall I should set a quiet ticking luminous alarm clock. This clock would have to be in a position where it would be visible when I was in bed.

Underneath my bottom sheet I should have an electric blanket with an adjustable control switch built into the wall. My bed would be placed in a convenient corner of the room as near the door as possible and in a place which would get the first rays of the sun. To let in the light I should have to have a big plate glass window with adjustable venetian blinds, and then deep green or blue curtains to come across this window.

Along one wall I should have a set of cupboards and drawers for my clothes and hobbies. In one drawer I should place a record player in another a tape recorder and in another a radio. These would all have switches on

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top of the drawer which unfortunately could not be controlled from my bed. On the bench I should have an asbestos covering so that I cmald do any soldering I.wished there.

On the other bench I should have a kettle, so i1liat I could have cups of coffee whenever I 'liked. Near the heater would be a cupboard to hold the coffee, milk and sugar.

In the middle of the room there would be a small coffee table and about one and a half yards from here, two comfortable couches.

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On the floor I should have a soft green wall-to-wall carpet. The walls themselves would be covered in wallpaper of the latest supersonic aircrafts. Other parts of the wall would have technical data written all over them 1and cutaway diagrams of cars, planes and other machines. , Last but not least I should have a desk on which to do my ~omework, and a very uncomfortable seat to keep,_me awake.

My room would , be open to anyone who came in peace, and distinguished guests could occupy my spare couch. The room of course would be closed to destructive younger brothers !

Peter Veal, (Standard 路XV)路

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A SHORT PLAY

SCENE: A Noisy Classroom. Most of the pupils are present.

Enter Cuthbert.

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0. K. Sit down, be quiet. (Noise continues) Ozzie, sit down. Be quiet.

Ozzie :

Yes sir ! Anything you want.

Cuthbert :

Sit down ! That's your last warning, Ozzie !

Tom ! Sit down!

Tom :

Hey, Prefect. May I ask Bunter a question ?

Thanks. Hey, Bunter, have you got that team written out?

Cuthbert :

0. K. Tom, see me at break time.

Tom :

What for? You did not give me a last warning.

Cuthbert:

So what! You know you are not meant to shout across the class, and also the question had nothing to do with prep.

Bunter:

That's not fair on him, Cuthbert. you if he could ask a question.

Cuthbert:

What answer did I give him? Anyway, it's none of your business. (Enter Master)

Master :

What is all this noise about? Why are you all out of your seats? Now sit down and get on with your work! (Five minutes of silence)

Prefect 2 :

(Entering) How do you do your physics prep? And where is it? ~

Cuthbert :

I do not know. Is there a physics prep?

I didn't even know. Ask Abe.

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Prefect 2:

Yes. 0. K. By the way, may I ask Watson for some lines ?

Cuthbert :

Yes.

Prefect 2 :

Hey, Watson, where are my lines?

Watson :

Oh!

Prefects 2:

Well, they are doubled now. in by lunch time tomorrow.

Watson :

Oh, come on, that's not fair. You are meant to give twenty-four hours for lines, and ..... .

Prefect 2 :

You were meant to hand those lines in today. (General argument)

Master :

What's all this noise about? I've warned you before ! Settle down and do some work.

Do not question prefects' orders. Don't let me hear any more noise, or everyone will do extra work!

I have forgotten them.

Hand them

The End. Timothy Linton, (Standard XI.)

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Radhakrishnan Nair (Standard X)

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OLD BOY'S NEWS

Warwick Lee 1964-66. writes ·:- ''At the moment I am in my second year of an Arts course at the University of Tasmania. If I am successful in this c·o urse, 1 ·hope to tea~h at Primary level".

Charles Durman - Worked in a library for two years, then changed to working for air-line companies in the reservation department.

Paul (Clarence) Crook -- Is serving with the British army in Germany, has three children and has written a novel!

Danny Reinhardt: - He and Larry are at a Christian , College in U . S. A. He writes "Man, what a change from an all-boys' school to a co-ed one ! Everything was -so different that it took me a while to get used to it. Let me tell you from experience, it kinda hits you when you c.o me out of Borstal! From what I hear, Lush has really changed. Mr. Ingleby MARRIED? Impo§sible !"

Wallace Murison writes :- "I've now joined the Edinburgh City Police as a constable. So far the job_bas been very interesting - and prospects for promotion are very good. "Fungi" (Alistair) Ferris is at Glasgow doing Catering and Hotel Management. Well, I must go as it is just about time to start locking up the drul\ks".

Bramblebys - We were sorry to hear that Mr. Percy Brambleby died on April 13th after serious heart trouble.

The family- are living in Bexhill. Peter hopes to study medicine after 'A' Levels.

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Ken Pullen - writes from ·N. S. ·w. Australia. - "For school I have to walk a mile, to a pretty good boys' school, not co-ed, (a bit disappointing) but I already reckon more work is done in class compared with classes with such nice distraction in them."

94 Andrew Kennedy, now at school in London, writes :"I would much rather be in Lush, than in this old dump.

I have to go for more than half my teen-age life".

Prixhusp Contractor, now at school in Rajkot. - "The 路 buildings here are made of pure stone. Just this term a n,ew building came up. Its cost was only 2,000,000 rupees.

This school previously was just for princes".

Christopher Weavers. At St. Lawrence School, Ramsgate, taking 'A' levels and hoping to do medicine .

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Schrag - George is now a father, and enjoying the privilege very much. Duane is still in college and the owner of a large, ancient car.

Sam Powdrill - After a brief spell at Lusby as a Junior helper, Sam had to fly to England for medical investigation.

Happily, after tests, he was fully cleared and is now in U.S. A. Gibsons -

Colin and Keith are at Chesham High

School.

Steven David -

has a a job with the Midland Bank in

Winchester.

Adrian Wilkinson - is working in a Library and hopes to do a course in librarianship soon.

Constables - John at St. Mary's Paddington Medical School, David and Mark doing 'O' levels at Eltham College.

Harlands - Paul is engineering in Surrey with the local council. Tim doing medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and is in his 4th year - qualifies in April 1975.

Jim Heslop - has moved to Muswell Hill and is doing Management Advisory work.

Pelhams - Peter at University of Manchester doing Geography. Philip is a laboratory technician at a Public Health Laboratory in Bristol.

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Philip Lesueur -

is in his 3rd year at Marling School.

William Duncumb -

is in his 3rd year at De.er Park.

But:t:erfields - Adrian has won a scholarship to Kings College Cambridge Choir School and starts in January.

Ardis is at Oakham School, Rutland, where Ken and Ruth hope to go to teach in September.

Wat:sons - Bruce is in his second year at Monkton (he has shot up). Mark is in his second year at Eton and doing his 'A' levels this summer. ,

St:ockleys - James is doing 'A' lege and then working on a farm for to study agriculture at university or 'A' level results. Philip is doing Geography at Eltham College.

levels at Eltham Cola year prior to going college, depending on English, History and

Jeremy Robert:son - is doing Biology and Chemistry at Chelmsford Technical College where he is re-taking his 'A' levels.

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at Roehampton.

Nigel Parish - is doing physics at Southampton.

Michael Nicol - is re-taking 'A' levels in Zoology and Botany and working part-time in a laundry.

Graham GriHii:hs 't

is Assistant Manager in a Central

Heating shop.

Bernard Griffiths - is in his last year for his teaching diploma at Goldsmiths College.

Marsh - John is doing his finals of his B. Sc. honours in architecture. Stephen is an articled clerk with a s0liGit0r in Oxford Street. Pet:er doing 'O' and 'A' levels to become a vet. · · · Christopher Burn John Davis -

at the Purse School, Garribridge.

is in Grade 13 at sahool in Toronto.

Bookless - The familv has moved to St. Albans, Herts. where Rev. Bookless is a curate. The boys are at Monkton Combe Junior School.

WollSt:eins - Markku and Erkki are in Finland visiting their grandparents, before going to Tunisia. Etkki writes :"I am in Finland now with my mother, but my father is in France to learn french. I ain 8 years now and I ·got a hick (btke) and 30 German mark and that is lots more than , 30 rupees. . I got another pare of pyjamas."

D. J. Harris - is living · in Kew, and has started at Monkton Combe.

John Chot:e writes from school in New Zealand:- "I'm in the First Eleven Senior Hockey and Cricket teams that's great, and it's a school of 900 boys. I'm in the school band and also in ·a Gilbert and Sullivan opera."

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TAILPIECE

It is not long since the amalgamation of Hebron and Lushington schools was viewed as being likely to occur in the late 70s due to the continued shr~nkage of the foreign community in India. Many converging factors forced the recent re-examination of the possibility as being something for the immediate and urgent future. The possibility emerged from the re-appraisal as a positive proposal and plan. It is no longer a last resort ("if you can find a better 'ole go to it") but a forward move which should not only enable standards to be maintained but which should provide a much more suitabl~ preparation for life in western society today.

We accordingly move towards the close of "Lusby" as a boys' school, but any regrets merge into the anticipation of the new situation with all its possibilities for creating a new school, blended from the two present ones, but yet new in every way which the future demands. The pace involved in planning this is "hot'', for time is short, . but there is a welcome sense of moving in the right direction. Thus the end to this story is the start of a new one.

The Romans made a god whose image bore two faces and, placed at the do orway, one face looked into the house while one looked out. He was deemed to govern entrances and beginnings. Even now we have something of this double view and we look back over Lushington's past and on into the unknown future, glad that our God holds the future in His hands and will lead us in it with His steadfast love as He has led us in the past. We dare to follow, in spite of shortcomings, because "His mercies are new every morning" and "there is forgiveness with Him that He may be feared". Sure of him, we can say with Judson "the future is as bright as the promises of God". Thus armed we can press on.

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