Hebron highlights 1984

EBRON IGHLIGHTS

THE

ANNUAL

MAGAZINE O F

HEBRON

SCHOOL

GOTACAMUND

1984

Editor:

MRS

R.

R.

WALLIS

Printed at 5

Kalaimani Printing Industries Private Limited

Oppanakara Street, Coimbatpre - 641 001

Coming to Hebron has turned my world upside down

United Nations Peace Conference?

India, Sri Lanka and Bangia Desh find representatives in Standard Five

A Masterpiece in the Making R a c h e l ' s B u t t e r fl y B a l l e t

H u n g r y B o y s l o o k i n g f o r S i l v e r fi s h ?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page The School Roll

3

The Principal's Report

6

Examination Results

1 0

School Diary

15

The New Chapel

19

Drama

22

The Staff

2 8

Sports

31

Animal Farm

3 7

Original Contributions from

the Junior School

Class Photographs and Notes-Senior

38

School

What Happens When Students Leave Hebron - A Survey

46

Old Pupils' News

49

News of Former Staff Members

58

Howlers

6 0

HEBRON EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Mr. „

H. B.

Kowski Social Jenkins B.

A.

Faszer

B.

Worker (Grad.) Chairman A., L Th. Secretary Sc.

D.G.Fountain B. A. (Hons), M.Phil., D. C. S., Dip. Tchg.

J. C. Ingleby M. A. (Oxon).. Dip, Ed. Mrs. Mr.

P. T.

Ironside

B.

A.

Locke

J.

Saunders

M.

A.,

F.

C.

A.

R. Thomson M. A., (Cantab.) M. Th. G . A . W a l l i s B . S c . , D i p . E d . , D i p . Tc h g .

HEBRON STAFF MEMBERS Senior School Teaching Staff Mr. J. C. Ingleby M. A. (Oxon)., Dip. Ed. Principal M r . G . A . W a l l i s B . S c . , D i p . E d . , D i p . Tc h g . V i c e - P r i n c i p a l M i s s M . B a r t o n B . S c . ( H o n s . ) D i p . E d . S t u d . D i p . Tc h g .

Mr. A. H. Bowdler B. Ed., (Hons) M i s s M . E a r l a m B . A . , ( H o n s ) , P. G . C . E .

Mr.

C.

Miss

Enos

L.

E.

Fletcher

M.

A.

Miss C. Handy B. A. (Hons).

Mr. A. C. Irving B. Sc., Dip. Ed. Mrs. L. A. Irving Dip. H. Sc. Mr.

W.

Mrs. Mr. Miss

Miss Mr.

L.

F. R.

James

James

S.

B. R.

A., N..

B.

Ed.

S.

C.

M.

Jones

J.

Munson

L.

Kuruvilla B.

B.

Pill

Sc.,

Dip.

Ed.

B.Ed.

M i s s S . Ta y l o r B . A . ( O x o n ) M i s s D . W a g l a n d B . A . ( H o n s ) , P. G . C . E .

M r s . R . R . W a l l i s M . A . ( H o n s ) , D i p . E d . , D i p . Tc h g .

Mrs. G. Williams

Medical Staff Dr. Dr. Mrs.

V. Lt. K.

Mahadevan Col. T. Bowdler S.

M. B., B. S, School S. Chhabra School R. N., S. C. M. School

Doctor Dentist Nurse 1

Junior School Toaching Staff M i s s M . T. J a c k s o n

Dip. Coll. of Ed.

Mr.

Cert. Ed.

Standard Six

Miss D. Grimes

Cert. Ed.

Standard Five

Mrs.

B. Ed. (Hons.)

Standard Four

I.

C.

A.

Kendall

Dodds

Headmistress

B. A., P. G. C. E.

Standard Three

Miss R. McGilvery

Dip. Ed.

Standards One and Two

Miss S. Baxter

Cert. Ed.

Music

Miss G. Neilson

Domostic Staff

Mrs. S. F. Ingleby Mr.

P.

Mr.

M.

Dodds A.

S. R. N., S. C. M. Domestic Supervisor L. C. G. Business Manager

Williams

Lushlngton Caterer Selborne Housekeeper

Miss C. G. Gibberd Mr. J. Xavler Miss J. Elliott

Lushlngton Supervisor S.

R.

N.,

S.

C.

M.

Miss P. Popplestone

Sunshine Gardens

Miss J. Moncrieff

S. R. N., S. C. M. Treetops

M r. I . C . K e n d a l l Mrs. R. Kendall

Cert.

S. R.

Mr.

B. Ed. Inter Dip. 0.

T. Inter D. S. A. Senior

8.

Pill

M r s . P. P i l l Miss J. Simkins

Miss S. Stenning Mr.

T.

Mrs.

J.

Miss

M.

Morris Morris Barton

N.,

Ed. S. C.

M.

Sllverdale Silverdale

Boys Boys Boys

Inter Girls

Senior Boys Senior Boys

B. Sc. (Hons) Dip. Ed. Stud., Dip., Tchg.

Head of Selborne

Miss M. Earlam

B. A., (Hons.), P. G. C. E. Grass Roots

M r. A . C . I r v i n g Mrs. L. A. Irving

B. Sc., Dip. Ed. A Level Boys Dip. H. Sc. A Level Boys

Office Staff M i s s F. R . A l l e n Mrs. U. Bhasme Mr.

J.

Thomas

M r. S . P e t e r s

Until December 1983 M r. a n d M r s . P. D a v l e s Miss A. Bateman 2

Secretary Assistant Secretary Accountant Assistant Accountant

HEBRON SCHOOL ROLL APRIL 1984 S TA N D A R D 1

Bellingham, James Alexander Fountain, Phillip Michael Kendall, Samuel Charles Mansukhani, Sidharth

Selveraj, Samuel Stevenson, Sun jay William S TA N D A R D 2

Cooke, Daniel D o r e s w a m y, D i n e s h K u m a r

Fountain, Benjamin Hugh Karunakaran, Manoranjan Kowski, Joerg Peter Liao, Liung Sen Nailamala, Mayur Raoul Prabhakar, Emmanuel Timothy Saighal, Tehani Seivaraj, Shirley Ruth Sharp, Philip Wycliffe S TA N D A R D

3

Devaraj, Mark D e w e y, E v a n M a t t h e w

Doreswamy, Lakshmi Narayana Krishna Hair, Deepak Hill, Christopher George irving, Glenn J i f r i , Te h m i n a Mansukhani Vikram

Mitchell, Bradley John Newnham, Paul Bruce

Rajiva, Meghna Jennifer

Cooke, Joshua Martin Faszer, Janice Ellen I n g l e b y, D a v i d L e w i s James, Sebastian Chinna

Liao, Kiong Sen Mansukhani, Hansa Mitchell, Derek Paul Nailamala, Subali Prabhakar, Joshua Thomas

Simpson, Karen Anne S TA N D A R D 5 Barnett, Colin Stuart Bayne, Sarah Elizabeth

Blencowe, Timothy James Brookes, Kerryn Ruth Brown, Sarah Joy

Desai, Akil Yogendra Devaraj, Thomas Jonathan Dewey, Laura Elsie Doreswamy, Lakshmi Amu Ironside, Deborah Joy Irving, Kim Sara March, Mary Keller Mukadam, Ali Rezci Brazendeh

Ponnampalam. Brindha R o y, R o s h a n E l i z a b e t h A n n

Safins, Sundeep Saunders, Stephen John Seivaraj. Miriam Sivarajasingham. Dhamayanthi Smith, Bronwyn Joy Wall is, Natalya Ruth

Seivaraj, Sarah Ruth

We b b , J o h n F r e d e r i c k White, Rima Anoushka

S t e v e n s o n , Ta r u n R o b e r t

White, Stephen George

Reshamwala, Akhil

Watson, Natalie Gaye S TA N D A R D

S TA N D A R D 4

6

Barnett, Alan Cameron

Brookes, Warren Leigh Brown, Andrew Benjamin David

Bellingham, Tristan Robert

Coltart, Alistair David Thomas

Dalzell, Thomas f'aul Devaraj, Simon Devaraj, Stephen Doreswamy, Dhakshinamurthy Houston, Ann Karuna

Ingleby, Katharine Jane Jenkins, Michael Alexander

Joseph, Roshan Alison Liao, Choy Sen M a t h e r, C h e l v e n d r a Mitchell, Sonya Ruth

Mathews, Lordly Richardson, Andrew Peter

Slingsby, Shereen Suleman, Saajid Yakub Vadera, Sonali Rasik White, Rohan Pelham S TA N D A R D 7

B a y n e , Ti m o t h y J o h n

Bellingham, Joanna Emily Blencowe, Steven Paul Blom, Jehudi Clements, Michael John

Desai, Chirag Yogendra Hart, Elaine Mary Isaac, Prasad Phillip J a c o b , S a m Vi l a n i l a t h u James, Katherine Muriel Jifri, Farah

Standards Brookes, Philip Ross Dalzell, Liam John Desai, Ava

Doreswamy, Jyothi Parvathy Faleiro, Lester Francis Irie, Masanorie Isaac, Ravindran Paul Khemka, Sidharth McNaughton, Malcolm David McKenzie, John Murchison Mathews, Lance

Morris, Nicola Josephine Milne, Clifford Paul, Tom Jose Penny, Mark

Philip, Suresh Andrew Ramanathan, Rekha Rao, Thusha

Saunders, Paul George Scott, Mark George Sitaraman Smith, Joanne Emma Suleman, Farook Yakub

Wallis, Elizabeth Tanya Wheeler, Rachel Elizabeth W i n k l e r, H e i k e R e n a t e S TA N D A R D 9 Blencowe, Michael Peter Clements, Natalie Ann

Kowski, Stefanie Zoyanka

Coltart, Rosemary Anne

Marsh, Eric Peter Ashok

Dalzell, Emma Jane

Moosakutty, Pervaz

Hart, Sylvia Ann

Saveal, James Paul Salins, Swarthic

Hong, Hyeonza

Selvaraj, Maria Sharp, Miriam Rgni

Simpson, Jenny Margaret Smoljenovic, Gorana Sorrill, George Jeffrey Thomson, Jonathan Harish Stewart

Timm, Angela Waltraut Watson, Janine Frances White, Lucinda Jane Wyatt, Kelvin John 4

Ironside, Bethanne Colleen James, Paul Giles

Jenkins, Stephen Wesley McAlpine, Kenneth Gordon Moss, Simon Ewart William N e t t u r, D i n e s h R o b e r t Ramachandran, Pravin

Sankar Viswaraj Scott, Nicholas Stephen Smith, Caroline Lisa

Smoljenovic, Nenad

Sivarajasingham. Satchithananthan

James, Oliver Nicholas Luke Joseph, Shirin Susan

Stafford, John Alexander T homso n, Sara h M as ak o Watson, Peter David

Webb, Melinda

Locke, Justin P Mckenzie, Bruce Allan P Morris, Charles Moss, Penelope Jane P Pun, Ganesh

S TA N D A R D

Saunders, David Allan

Watson, Timothy William Wainwright, Andrew John

Raj, Nalini Roselyne 10

Sivarajasingham, Pakeerathan

A r c h e r, N i c h o l a s J a m e s Coltart, Andrew Gavin Frost, Kenneth Edward Garwood, Scott Matthew

Tozer, Susan Carol Wa t s o n , A n n e - M a r i e Williams, Eric John

Hart, Lucy Joy

S TA N D A R D

Houston, David Christie Jacob, John Jacob, Rebecca McKenzie, lain Alastair

12

A r c h e r, F r a n c i s J o h n Clements, Andrew Ross

Dhillon, Jagdev Singh

Mirpuri, Rita Penny, Heidi Mary Ann

Fernando, Kamini Anne P

Pun, Naresh

Williams, Peter James

Shukla, Pragati

Wyatt, Andrew Kenneth John P

Staehelin, Annakatharina Suleman, Faizal Yakub Ti m m , C h r i s t i n e R u t h

Yakub, Ayesha

Muthappan, Muthuranam

S TA N D A R D

Wainwright, David Charles

13

Bennett, Douglas Prasad James, John-Mark Raghaviah James, Mary Rachel

Wa l l i s , R o b e r t Te r e o r a Watson, Pamela Jean W h e e l e r. G r a h a m P a u l

Marsh, David Richard P Parakh, Dinaz Keku S k i r r o w, J o h n P

W i n k l e r, I r e n e

Wyatt, Lydia Sharon Zachariah, Kuravilla John

Somers, Johnny Franciscus Somerset, Alexander Edward Tyman, Sarah Louise Wa t s o n , P a u l R o b e r t P Ya k u b , S h e h n a z P

S TA N D A R D 11

Arokiaswamy, Nirmala Yolanda Gillette, Daniel Earnest P P

= Prefect

5

THE PRINCIPAL'S REPORT PARENTS' DAY APRIL 1983 M r. C h a i r m a n , L a d i e s a n d G e n t l e m e n ,

T h a n k y o u a l l f o r c o m i n g t o d a y. d o a p p r e c i a t e y o u r p r e s e n c e h e r e and understand what a sacrifice it is for many of you to make the long journey from your place of work to the school. I know that the children are also thrilled to have their parents here with them, not just for the holiday but for these days when they can show off their work and display their various skills.

I should like to add my word of thanks to that expressed by our new Chairman, Mr. Kowski, to our out-going Chairperson, Mrs. ironside. Fortunately, Mrs. Ironside is still with us on the Council, so we can look forward to her

continued advice and support. We have only added Council during the last year, and that is Mr, Robin in addition to being Sarah and J. J. 's Dad, is also Union Biblical Seminary in Pune, and ihe Director of

one new member to the Thomson. Mr. Thomson, a faculty member of the their Extension Education

Department.

Staff changes have also been relatively few this year. They have mostly been concentrated in the Junior school, where Miss McGilvery, Miss Neilson and Mrs. Dodds have joined the school as teachers and Miss Moncrieff as a

house-mother. We also welcomed last August, Miss Stenning as Inter girl's house-mother. Miss Taylor as a Geography specialist, Mr. Dodds as business

manager and Mr. and Mrs. Williams as caterer and John-Paul's Mum respectively.

Mr. Jones and Miss Handy have been with us for the academic year and have filled in most usefully in a number of roles. In February we were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Morris who are the house-parents for the senior boys. Perhaps some of these folk are still new to you and you might like to make a point of introducing yourselves to them during your time in the Nilgiris.

While rejoicing in the provision of staff, we have to regretfully record the passing of some real stalwarts during the year. Miss Bateman retired in December after 30 years on the staff, a record by a long way. Miss Wilkins also left the service of the school to take up a role elsewhere in India, and the Davies' returned to Wales. Each of these had contributed many years of faithful and effective

service to the school and we praise God for them. At the party we gave to farewell Miss Bateman, I tried (rather ineffectively, I'm afraid) to express my

sense of her unique contribution to Hebron. Miss Bateman was quite a shy person, but when you got to know her, she was also one of the most interesting people I have ever met, and that is how the children found her. whether in

the classroom or the boarding situation. Her teaching for example, had content.

It was cram-full of interesting, not to say fascinating material. I am reminded of the story told about Winston Churchill's school days at Harrow. One teacher driven to distraction, remarked to his class, "I really don't know what to do 6

with you boys" to which there came the unstoppable answer from the back of the class, "Why don't you try teaching us something?". Well, Miss Bateman always had something to teach, and generations will rise up and call her blessed.

One other staff event I must mention and that is the wedding of Mr. Bowdler and Miss McGuire on Boxing Day. It was a splendid occasion with parents and

friends coming from opposite ends of the world to be present. Everybody seemed happy about the mixture of wedding traditions-Australian, Indian and

British and despite the strong Australian contingent it was still possible to conduct the ceremony in the English, language I At beginning of this term we were able to have a most worthwhile series of seminars conducted by Prof. Brian Hill, a leading educationalist from Australia.

Professor Hill was on loan to us from the Evangelical Teachers' Fellowship of

India who had arranged his visit and we are most grateful to that organisation for making him available. Professor Hill's seminars were part, the outstanding part to date, of the various efforts of the School Council to provide in-service training for Staff. His series' title was "Thinking Christianly about my teaching" and he gave no fewer tham eight lectures in three days.

That was at the beginning of term but I have hurried on rather, because there are several features of the previous term I should like to mention. The 1983 exam results were available at the end of August. O level results were something to brag about with an 82% pass rate, 60% in the top two grades.

The A level results, traditionally a tougher hurdle, nevertheless showed an impres sive 76% pass rate, though we should have liked to have seen more of these

passes in the higher grades. Our four entrants in the November 0 level exam produced a startling 100% pass rate, not one of them below a B grade. I have one or two analytical comments about this. Firstly, you will scarcely do better than Hebron anywhere else in the world with regard to 0 level results. Secondly, the idea the "Hebron has poor A level results" which I have heard put about from time to time is simply not true. Miss Barton's paper 18 month's ago proved incisively that this was not the case and recent results have confirmed this. What remains true is that we do not have enough students in our A level courses and we need more.

While dealing with examinations I should mention that our Associated Board Music results were as encouraging as ever with only three failures among the 26 candidates, and on the credit side 6 merits and 2 distinctions; Getting good exam results is only part of the musical life of a school and in many formal and informal situations we continue to appreciate the products of our music depart ments as witnessed particularly by our Junior School programme this year.

As was the case for last year the official Inter School Sports programme, organised by the Association of English Speaking Schools in the. Nilgiris, has been somewhat disrupted. For example, the football tournament was cancelled because of the troubles in Sri Lanka when many schools in the Nilgiris were closed.

Fortunately this has not prevented us from organising numerous friendly fixtures, particularly in football and cricket. Another factor, the water shortage, has meant 7

no swimming until recently and we are still not sure whether we shall be able to hold our swimming sports this year. One of the alternatives to sport, at least on the week-ends, has been an incresed amount of expeditions and outings.

Long walks-even right down to the Plains from Ooty have become quite "Fun-runs" up Dodabetta are also another form of popular madness. It is true that "the great outdoors" beckons, during this fine weather term. The it seems to me have been away on more camps than usual, the climbing

popular. certainly seniors, club is

proving popular and even the staff are "taking to the hills".

A review of out of class events would not be complete without mention

of my favourite extra-curricullar activitly, namely drama. The drama festival (last October) was to my mind the best ever. I only wish that every one of you here could have been present to "enjoy it. One of the reasons for this increasing excellence is, I think, that more teachers are being trained in drama skills nowadays, and we have certainly benefited from some of these. Another is that

we have been blessed with some really outstanding talent among the students in recent years.

We have appreciated the continued ministry among us of Pastor and Mrs. Jenkins, during a year when they have been under a great deal of personal pressure. Though Union Church is perhaps more than ever a "community church"

the school counts it a privilege to be part of an active and witnessing fellowship.

It is also good to see some of our staff members involved at St Stephen's. The informal and voluntary Christian activities, such as the Prayer Breakfast, and

the Youth Fellowship, as well as the boys' own Prayer meetings continue to be well-attended.

This year has not been a big year in terms of new buildings. The exception of course is our lovely new chapel, designed by Mr. Laurie Baker and financed by the Milne family as a memorial to Judson. Many of you were at the dedi

catory service we had yesterday, but if you have not had the chance to go inside and take a closer look, please do so. Though we have not added many new buildings this year, we have spent a great deal of time on renovation and improvement. The sale of a piece of land in the area at the bottom of the drive enabled us to use the proceeds to upgrade the facilities. Many of the classrooms

have new desks; some the of dormitories have new mattresses; kitchen euipment has been greatly improved. Inter house toilets have been rebuilt and the

dormitories have been modernised. Responding to Ooty's water crisis of last year, we have a new well on this compound and a new water storage tank at Selborne. Some of these developments, especially the work In the kitchen, have contributed substantially, I believe to our really excellent health record this year, with no major epidemics, and a dramatic decrease in the incidence of minor ailments.

You may have noticed something else new about Hebron; as in George Orwell's famous fable, the animals are taking over, (Some of the students have

remarked that the school is rather like "1984" as well). True, the pigs have gone, but we have four cows and four calves, two ducks, innumerable rabbits 8

and Soloman the sheep. The last mentioned has an Interesting history. Solomon was In fact a gift to Union Church, and such is the administration of that body, that he was destined for slaughter purely in pursuit of materialistic gain. But by the grace of Hebron School he was redeemed and restored to a new life, among the green pastures by the swimming pool. It seems to me entirely appropriate that he was purchased out of the Principal's fund for pastoral care.

Of course Hebron is not just a pastoral paradise. We are also storming into the technological age with Mr. Wallis and the Computer department in the lead. The school now has three computers, and we expect to be buying again in June, Our first formal Computers Studies course will begin in August (0 level) and we are planning in due course, to extend computer courses to every level of the school. The office is now the proud possessor of a word-processor,

even if it doesn't know how to use it, and the school's finances are hew encapsu lated In a computer programme which will clearly tell us how it was that the school went bust buying expensive teohnological gadgets, such as computers.

A little more seriously, someone wrote to me the other day and said, "It was a shock to me to find that the school has a word processor-it would have been unthinkable under the old regime, and tells me that the school of my past is no more."

Be that as it may, Hebron of some sort or other is still here and I believe we can look ahead together with confidence. Before I do that, however, I

should like to mention two other areas which have impressed me recently. First of all, the wider world of politics seems to have impinged upon us a little more than usual. We were affected directly and indirectly by the troubles in Sri Lanka. Just recently I had an Iranian lad here, a refugee from the Gulf War, explaining patiently to me that the alternative to education in India was the

front-line; he was fifteen. The Indian community abroad, especially in Africa but also the Gulf, seems to be looking back to Mother India as a haven in

troubled times and some at least, of those people are knocking at Hebron door.

The other linked observation is the very large number of past students who come back and express their appreciation that in a world gone slightly mad.

Hebron has provided for them a stability and a sense of values which are still standing them in good stead. There are more of these past students than I I c a n t e l l y o u a b o u t , b u t t h e y a r e a n e n c o u r a g e m e n t t o u s . We d o , a s

1 say, look ahead with confidence. We are looking at the possibility of a number

of new buildings, and re-thinking our curriculum at all levels, and I am planning to visit the U. IC. in June to set up a Hebron School Fellowship which will provide an on-going support for the school in the U. K. But our confidence

is not primarily in these plans and even less in a change for the better in the world situation or anything of that sort. Our confidence is in the God who has helped us in the past, and who is with us in the present, and will not

abandon us in the future. If Hebron has ever achieved anything then the credit is His, If we are to go anywhere in the future it will be because of is His grace. To this God, our God, be glory unto all the ages.

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(i. C. E. Results 0 Level 1983 STANDARD ELEVEN

F. A r c h e r

Biology (A) Chemistry (A) Language (B) Literature (C) Geography (A) German (A) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (A) [1982: R. S. (A) Maths (A) ]

A . Busaidy

Biology (A) Chemistry (C) Language (E) Literature (C) Geography (C) Physics (A) Maths (B) [ 1982: R. S. (B) ].

J. Daniel

Chemistry (C) Literature (E) German (D) Physics (B) Maths (B) [ 1982: R. S. (B) ]

R.

Biology (A) Chemistry (B) Language (A) Literature (C) French (B) Geography (C)

deSilva

Physics (A) Maths (A) [1982: R. S. (B) ] K. F e r n a n d o

Biology (B) Language (C) Literature (C) French (C) Geography (B) German (C) History (B) Maths (A) [ 1982: R. S, (C) ]

C.

Ironside

A . Jacob

Language (B) Literature (B) Geography (E) History (E) Maths (C) Basic Arithmetic (Merit) [1982: R. S. (C) ]

Biology (B) Chemistry (A) Language (B) Literature (A) French (B) Geography (C) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (C) [ 1982: R.S. (B) Maths (A)]

E. J a c o b

Biology (A) Chemistry (A) Language (A) Literature (A) French (B) History (A) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (B)

[ 1982: R. S. (A) Maths (A) ] B. J o h n

Language (B) Literature (C) History (B) Maths (C) [1982: R. S. (C) ]

J.

Joseph

Language (B) Literature (B) French (C) Basic Arithmetic (Pass) [1982: R. S. (E)]

1 0

E. M a i n

Biology (A) Chemistry (E) Language (A) Literature (B) French (C) Geography (B) Physics <B)

[1982: R. S. (B) Maths (8)] L.

Nadarajah

P. J. Paul

Biology (B) Chemisty (A) Language (A) Literature (8) French (B) Geography (C) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (A) [1982: R. S. (B) Maths (A)] Chemistry (E) Language (E) Literature (C) Basic Arithmetic (Pass with merit) [ 1982: R. S. (D) ]

Radha Ramanathan

Biology (D) Chemistry (C) Language (C) Literature (C) French (D) History (C)

Physics (C) Maths (A) [ 1982: R. S. (B) Maths (C) ] Radhi Ramanathan

Biology (B) Chemistry (B) Language (C) Literature (A) French (B) Geography (C) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (0) 1982: R. S. (B) Maths (A)

A . Ratos

Biology (A) Chemistry (B) Language (D) Literature (B) French (D) Physics (B) Ad. Maths (C)

[ 1982: R. S. (B) Maths (B) J J . Raid-Thomas

Biology (A) Language (A) Literature (B) French (B) Geography (B) German (B) History (A) Maths (B)

[1982: R. S. (B) ] J. Wheeler

Biology (A) Chemistry (C) Language (C) Literature (B) Geography (B) German (D) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (E) [ 1982: R. S. (C) Maths (B) ]

J. Witchalls

Biology (A) Chemistry (B) Language (A) Literature (D) Geography (0) German (B) Physics (A) Ad. Maths (E)

A . Wyatt

Biology (A) Chemistry (C) Language (B) Literature (A) French (C) History (B) Physics (A)

[ 1982: Maths (B) R. S. (B)] A . Ya k u b

Biology (B) Chemistry (B) Language (C) Literature (D) French (A) Physics (B) Ad. Maths (D) 11

C. S. t ftesults 1d83

Kamini Fernando

Cathryn Ironside

Jasmine Joseph

Anita Ratos

James Daniel

Benjamin John

Paul Jose Paul

Julian Wheeler

Standard Eleven Subject

Grade

German

1

Mathematics

2

French

3

Chemistry Biology

4

English Language Mathematics

3 4

Music

3

Chemistry Biology

4

English Language Geography

2

French

1

English Language Geography

3

German

1

Physics Chemistry

3

English Language

2

French

2

Chemistry

4

4

5

1

1

1

English Language

4

Mathematics

3

French^

5

Physics

4

Chemistry Biology

3

English Language German

4 .

2 1

G. C. E. A Level Results 1983 D. Ambalavanar

Economic History (B) 1982: R. S. (C) Hist. (B) Eng. Lit. (B)

T. A r c h e r

N. Slvarajasingham N. Witchalls B. Andrews

K. Marsh P. S k i r r o w

^ J. Young 12

Mathematics (A) Physics (B) Chemistry (0) Mathematics (C) Phys ics (E) Chemistry (E) Mathematics (C) Physics (B) Chemistry (0) French (D) Mathematics (E) Physics (E) Biology (E) English Literature (B) Chemistry (E) Biology (0) Physics (F) Chemistry (0) French (0) History (C) English Literature (B)

G. a E. ORDINARY LEVEL RESULTS S TA N D A R D

TEN

1982

Religious Studies Mathematics Y. Arokiasamy

B

S. Doreswamy

B

B

0. Gillette

B

A

0. James

D

A

S. Joseph

A

J. Locke

C

1. McCabe

C

B. McKenzie

A

A

P, M o s s

B

A

G. Pun

D

B

D. Saunders

B

P. Sivarajasinghami

B

S . To z e r

C

A . M . Wa t s o n

A

N. Raj

B

A

A

A (in November)

E. Williams

S. Doreswamy also gained Language (D) and French (C) in June C. Harry, in November, gained Language (B) Mathematics (B), Chemistry (B) 1

S TA N D A R D S 1 2 A N D 1 3 R. James

Biology (B)

J. Somers

Mathematics (C)

A. Somerset

Language (A), Ad, Maths (A)

(The editor would like to point out that this year's results include three A passes for 0 level Ad. Maths. The last A pass was received by Stephen ancient history!)

Pattemore back in

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The AssoGiated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Examination Results P R A C T I C A L E X A M I N AT I O N S

Katherine Ingieby

Piano

Grade

Janice Faszer

Violin

Grade

Thomas Dalzell

Violin

Grade

1

109 Pass

Elaine Hart

Piano

Grade

1

11 8 P a s s

Joanne Smith

Piano

Grade

1

120 Merit

Jonathan Thomson

Piano

Grade

1

132 Distinction

Janine Watson

Violin

Grade

1

11 7 P a s s

Hyeonza Hong

Violin

Grade

1

124 Merit

Sarah Thomson

Piano

Grade

2

11 0 P a s s

Rachel Wheeler

Piano

Grade

2

127 Merit

Heidi Penny

Piano

Grade

2

105 Pass

Rekha Ramanathan

Piano

Grade

2

120 Merit

Suresh Philp

Piano

Grade

2

11 4 P a s s

Robert Wallis

Tr u m p e t

Grade

3

131 Distinction

Bethanne Ironside

Piano

Grade

3

11 7 P a s s

Penelope Moss

Cornet

Grade

4

11 4 P a s s

Yolanda Arokiasamy

Piano

Grade

5

103 Pass

Pamela VVatson

Flute

Grade

5

11 4 P a s s

Thusha Rao

Piano

Grade

5

128 Merit

Daniel Gillette

T rumpet

Grade

6

111 P a s s

Rebecca Jacob

Piano

Grade

6

11 0 P a s s

1

11 6 P a s s 106 Pass

( Maximum marks: 1 5 0 ) W R I T T E N E X A M I N AT I O N S Heike Winkler

Grade

2

94

Lester Faleiro

Grade

2

90

Shirin Joseph

Grade

4

95

Penelope Moss

Grade

4

99

Pamela Watson

Grade

5

73

Irene Winkler

Grade

5

81

(Maximum marks : 9 9 ) 14

SCHOOL DIARY 1983 -1984 TERM ONE

6 August The school year begins with greatly (but temporarily) reduced numbers, because of the state-wide transport strike in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. By the weekend however, most students are back safely.

New staff include: Misses Carol Handy, Sue Taylor, Rebecca

McGilvery, Janet Moncrieff and Gwynneth Neilson.

M r. R i c h a r d J o n e s , M r. a n d M r s . D o d d s a n d M r. a n d M r s .

Williams.

15 August Girls' Scripture Union Camp at Quiet Corner, Mavanhalla.

2 2 A u g u s t B o y s ' S c r i p t u r e U n i o n C a m p a t Q u i e t C o r n e r.

10 September A large contingent from the Senior School walk down to B u r l i a r.

17 September Inter School Sports.

23 September Hebron Junior Sports.

24 September Hebron Senior Sports.

1 Qctober The Senior students hike to Metty along the railway line.

8 - 1 6 Q c t o b e r M i d - Te r m b r e a k .

Junior

Camp

—

Kalhatti

Inter Boys Camp — Masinagudi Inter Girls Camp — Masinagudi Senior Co-Ed. Camp — Pondicherry A Level Geography and Biology Field Trip Mandapam 27-29

Qctober

The

Senior

Drama

Festival

4 November The School's most junior staff member turns 21 < an event that is celebrated with due ceremony.

5 November A bonfire and fireworks display on the big pitch are organised by the canteen committee.

11 N o v e m b e r T h e C r o s s - C o u n t r y IB

15 November Debate: 'That every human has the right to a painless death when he chooses'. The motion is lost.

18 November Senior School examinations begin.

28 November A staff party is held to farewell Audrey Bateman and thank her for 29 years of service to the school, and the Davies family for ten years.

29 November A variety concert is held to raise money for Jayanthi, an Ooty College student, seriously ill in hospital since March.

2 December Debate: 'That rock music is Satanic'. The motion is lost.

3 December Christmas Parties are held.

4. December The Senior Carol Service in Union Church includes

s e v e r a l u n u s u a l c a r o l s a n d Te d H u g h e s ' D r a m a , ' T h e Coming of the Kings.'

6 December The Junior School Carol Service is held in Lushington Hall.

7 December In the evening, a Parent - Teacher meeting is held.

8 December Christmas Assembly consists mainly of a staff pantomime 'Peter Pan.' The school closes at noon.

24 December A Candle light carol service is held in the newly completed chapel.

2 5 D e c e m b e r B e c a u s e o f t h e w e d d i n g t h e f o l l o w i n g d a y, a n u n u s u a i l y large number of staff, with their relatives and friends, celebrate Christmas at school.

26 December Miss Kay McGuire (school nurse) and Mr. Bowdler (Games Master and English teacher) are married in Union Church, Ootacamund.

The wedding party includes.

Bridesmaids

—

Miss

Jane

Bowdler

Miss Sarah Bowdler Flower Best

Girl Man

— —

Miss Mr.

Hannah Paul

Davies

Davies

T h e o f fi c i a t i n g m i n i s t e r s a r e P a s t o r B . J e n k i n s a n d

Rev. J, Nathaniel, while Mr. G. A. Wallis gives the message.

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26 January A number of staff and their ehirdren take part In scenes 1984 shot outside St. Thomas's, Church Ooty, for the film 'A Passage to India.'

10-12 February Professor Brian Hill of Australia gives the staff a three day series of lectures and discussions on the theme, "Thinking Christianly about my Teaching'. These are concluded on Sunday afternoon with a final talk in the â&#x2013; ' school chapel; 'We shall all be assessed.'

16 February School re-opens, with two new staff, Mr. and Mrs. Tim

Morris,'replacing Mr. and Mrs. Davies as houeeparents of Senior House (for boys) in Cypress Court.

Good, if unseasonal, rain durings the holidays provides an encouraging start to the term.

17-19 February The Priority Team from. Canada visits Ooty and the school . with music, drama and puppets to help them convey their gospel message.

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March

Servants'

Retreat

. While most students go out for the day. the servants and

their families watch slides or the video in the morning.

After a chicken biriyani lunch, they have a concert of drama, dance and music. The day concludes with a football match: Servants versus The Rest. The servants win

4-3.

2 April Mock A Level examinations.

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April

Good

F r i d a y.

2 3 - 2 6 A p r i l To m S t o p p a r d ' s p l a y, ' D o g g ' s H a m l e t , C a h o o t ' s ' M a c b e t h ' is performed.

25-26 April The Junior School programme is presented.

26 April The Judson Milne Memorial Chapel is dedicated.

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April

Parents'

day

Classroom Inspection and Parent - Teacher interviews are followed by the Parent - Teacher meeting.

Mid - Term break begins at 12-30 with lunch for all Lushington.

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April

3 0

April- 5 May Junior Camp at Spring Hill. Kotagiri

2 8

April-5 May Inter Camp at Masinagudi

2 8

April-5 May Senior Camp at Pondicherry

4

May

Advisory Council.

G. C. E. 0 Level examinations begin with

Nutrition and

Cookery practicals.

12

May

T h e S t u d e n t C o u n c i l o r g a n i s e a - To w n

and Country'

Extravaganza for staff and students.

17-20

May

Many staff and students are encouraged and blessed by the convention this year led by Mr. and Mrs. James-Morse from

Wales.

2 5

May

Social Action Concert is held at Anandagiri.

4

June

School Examinations began.

2 2

June

The Leavers Service

Service to the School award : David Marsh

Scholar of the year: Daniel Gillette Sportsman of the year: Paul Watson.

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"

June

School closes at noon.

The New Chapel When the Milne family decided that their memorial to Judson should take

the form of a chapel in the school grounds, we all felt strongly that it should be a place of joy and beauty, not a mausoleum; a memorial to a life, not a death. The architect's brief was to produce an intimate space for private use

and small groups, on a scale for children, and in harmony with its wooded setting. His response has beautifully satisfied these requirements.

Laurie Baker has a widespread reputation, especially in India, for imaginative

buildings employing local materials and construction skills. He gave his time enthusiastically, inspecting possible sites, pacing out the distances between trees,

and sketching a series of possible buildings, all irregular, highly three-dimensional, and with an honest and imaginative use of materials.

Much discussion followed, amongst staff and students, and Mr. Baker took our reactions into account in producing a final plan and site. I remember the

day we stood in the chosen spot, a tiny clearing with the sun streaming through a canopy of leaves, and felt that already it was a place of worship.

The chapel was designed to follow the natural slope of the hill, and to fit between the tress, so there was very little ground work required and no trees removed. It is an irregular six-sided building of rough-hewn Kalhatti granite, with a reinforced concrete roof sloping up from each wall to a hexagonal skylight in the centre. Inside there are five sides and the floor descends in three steps

around three sides, giving a semi-circular effect. These steps, and the deep window sills, operate as seating, with deep green cushions tailored to fit.

The internal wall finish is of local brick, a light terra cotta colour. On the

lowest level is a large fireplace with an arched stone mantel. The granite chimney is almost free-standing from the building, and is reminiscent of a bell tower.

There are plenty of windows, with curved tops and teak frames.

Mr. Paul Davies superintended the building process. This was a demanding task, as the local tradesmen needed very specific instructions for such an

unusual building. For the calculations involved in preparing exact specifications, he was considerably helped by Miss Marry Barton. The roof posed a particularly

difficult problem, as it has no internal supports and like an arch could not hold itself up until each panel was in place. A rough brick column was built in the centre to support it until each piece was in position-leading more than oneanxious visitor to say that it spoilt the look of the place! Eventually, of course,

the pillar was removed and to Mr. Davies' relief, the roof stayed up, a triumph of geometry over gravity.

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Mr. Baker specified two long panels of glass and concrete, behind the speaker's stand, and gave general instructions as to making them. Mrs, Frances James was responsible for designing these. In discussions with senior art

students, we decided on very simple designs, because the glass shapes were limited by the sizes and colours of bottles available and needed to be separated by several inches of concrete for structural reasons. The panels are really walls pierced by patches of coloured light rather than windows. The left hand panel shows an amber cross with radiating light around the head; the right hand one

is a very simplified figure with a hand raised in blessing representing the risen Lord.

The panels were made in 2'x2'x4' frames on a level sand base. The

bottles, after cleaning and sealing, were placed on their sides in position; the

frames wefe filled with cement and screenings reinforced with wire, and fine plastered on both surfaces, leaving the body of the bottles showing. Mr. John Carpenter gave invaluable help with the actual making of the blocks, and supervised their installation.

The foyer window provided an opportunity to give expression to several concepts that are important to the Milne family and to us as a school. We

wanted to express praise and joy: the participation of children and adults of many nations, in the school and in the church of God; and our dependance on the Holy Spirit. After seeking the reactions of staff and students to a number of alternatives, Rachel James, an A level Art student, designed the present window.

It has a deep surrounding border of simple figures, people of different races, young and old, some with instruments, all praying, singing, playing and obviously praising God. Over all broods a white dove, symbol of the Holy Spirit. The style is loosely based on the illustrations in the Good News Bible, as these are so effective and well known.

The medium used is a synthetic liquid glass which is applied directly to a sheet of plate glass. There was no attempt to mimic conventional leaded glass; instead the design took advantage of the freedom allowed by this medium. The colours are clear and glowing and the whole window is joyful.

It was lovely to see the interest that the students took in every stage of the building, and it is obvious that they enter the chapel with reverence and happiness. For those of us who loved Judson, building his chapel has been a tremendous step in accepting his death and praising God for his life amongst us.

F. J .

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The Interior of the Chapel viewed from the speaker's stand.

To the right is the fireplace, to the left the tiered seating

The Chapel in the Woods

(Note the Narnia-style lamp. Such lamps now light all the way down the drive)

Rachel James by the foyer window

•

V,

■■.-a; The Good Shepherd

A wire depiction presented by St. Joseph's, Ooty

Looking from the speaker's stand up towards the foyer

The two panels of glass and concrete viewed from inside

The two panels viewed from outside

(Note the bell tower effect of the chimney to the right)

For a Mentory The Dedidatioh of Hebrdni Chapel

Hebron School Chapel was built in memory of Judson Ross Milne who died in 1982. In memory of him, this chapel has been built, the funds given by family and friends.

It was opened at 11-00 a.m. on the 24th April, 1984. The whple of the school attended and some of the parents.

Between two trees hung a colourful banner painted by Mrs. James. On it was written a verse from the Bible saying; 'If our earthly house is destroyed we have a house from God, eternal in the heavens.'

The service was chaired by Mr. Jenkins. To open the service some

members of staff led everyone in some bright singing. Then Mr. Ingleby gave his welcoming. He explained how the chapel came to be and its purpose tor the future. After this Miss Grimes (who had been Judson's teacher in 1982) read a Scripture portion from Corinthians.

M r. J a m e s f o l l o w e d h e r w i t h a d e d i c a t i o n p r a y e r, t h e n p u r a n d some of our friends sang a song specially chosen for the occasion. The name of the song was 'Sandy land'. Mr. Kendall Miss Munson, Saffl' Jacob and Clifford Milne played the music. Neil Milne (Dad) then gave a short word and challenge to all those present to really live for the Lord.

Finally a very dear family friend, Mr. Ranjit Singh (from Nagerqaii) represented the Milne family members who because of distance were nor able to be there. He turned the key opening, the dopr and encouraging everyone to use the chapel as a special quiet place to come to find God. Afterwards many students and parents came to our family and said how much they appreciated the service.

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DRAMA The Drama Festival Octeber 1983

This Drama festival has been widely acclaimed as the best yet, with all six plays worthy of commendation. Mr. and Mrs. Krishnaraj, English prpffessors at the Government Arts College in Ooty, agreed to be the judges.

We have printed their concluding speech below.

Jiinidr Division Ernie's Incredible lllucinations — Standard Seven

Noah Guys'

— Revolt

Standard —

Standard

Eight Nine

Npah was judged the best play. Paul Saunders, as Noah, was awarded the cup for being the best junior actor, while Dinesh Nettur, the Italian waiter in

Guy'sJRevpIt was runner-up. Thusha Rao (Mrs. Noah) was best junior actress and Stephanie Kowski (Ernie's Mum) won second place.

Senior Division

r Remember Mama

— S t a n d a r d Te n

She Stjoops to Conquer

— Standard Eleven

Journey's End

— S t a n d a r d s Tw e l v e a n d T h i r t e e n

Journey's End was judged the best play. John Skirrow, as Stanhope, won the cup for being best senior actor, while Oliver James, as Tony Lumpkin was runner-up. Shirin Joseph (Kate Hardcastle) won the award for being best actress v^hiledrene Winkler (Kathrin, in I Reifiember Mama) was runner-up.

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The Speech of the Judges The Principal of Hebron School, the members of its faculties,

the players, the Students, Ladies and Gentlemen,

First of all, I must thank the Organizers of this fine drama festival who chose me and my wife to share three evenings of rare pleasure.

The players, you would agree with me, have scanned the skies, the

earth and the seas. We saw Ernie bringing guerillas to his home, or better s t i l l , m a k i n g m u s i c a t t h e c l i n i c t h r o u g h h i s i l l u c i n a t i o n . We h e a r d N o a h trunk-calling somebody up there, and asking Him if He was satisfied. We w i t n e s s e d a w o n d e r f u l r e v o l u t i o n w h i c h w o u l d n o t e n d i n b l o o d s h e d . We

remembered one of the most beautiful words in the English languageNostalgia-through Katrin's lovable Norwegian family living in San Fransisco. We heartily agreed how "Mistakes of a Night' could be utterly hilarious and could lead to a romantic marrige.

And in our dramatic 'Journey's End' tonight we dreaded the weary existences in trenches. We have had the whole gamut of human emotions.

Now, for my comments, I should begin by congratulating the extremely encouraging audience; the willing supension of disbelief is so readily available from this gathering. In fact, I wonder if the tiny bit of complaisance that crept into a few of the players was based on this appreciation taken for granted. And I do not think age necessarily goes hand in hand with the

understanding of dramatic situations. As you all know, the Shakespearean theatre in that immortal Bard's time had only boy actors; they sometimes had to act as women who acted as men, because of story & plot.

Having willy-nilly strayed into Shakespeare (I thought I wouldn't at this late hour) let us hear Hamlet, perhaps the greatest connoiseur of acting among Shakespeare's characters; It is true, his soul was offended to hear a robustious periwig pated follow tear a passion to tatters. But he warned the

players almost in the same breath, 'Be not too tame neither' perhaps the right cue is there in his emotional outburst " What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba

that he should weep ? "

Well, the minor indiscretions in setting and changing of scenes, just one or two noticeable gaps in the dialogue and a few ill matched expressions on faces of a few of the charecters apart, the dramatic talent of Hebron is

tremendous. And like the Scandinavian mama, I might say, Hebron, You are dramatic.

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iUNIOtt SGHOOL PROGRAMME 25 - 26 APRIL 1984

The School

Worship Tell out, my soul

T. DudleyrSmith

Scripture Reading

Psalm 145

Prayer The Celebrating Song

Tune "Woodlands."

Asprey and Whipple

Weloome

Miss Jackson

Songs Hand me down my Silver Trumpet.

Standard 6

Ohiapanecas Recorders

Easy Samba Play Let My People Go

Brian Bonsor

Adaptation of the

Standards 3 and 4

Exodus

Piano Solos : Lullaby ^ Minuet

Barbara Kirby-Mason Kerryn Brookes Kate Ingleby

Purcell

Tom Hay Her

Standard 5

Ewald Bezold

Janice Faszer

Youthful JoV

Turk

Karen Simpson

The Three Tribes

A Red Indian Drama

Standards 1 and 2

Sheila Nelson

Kim Irving

Play The Pied Piper Violin Solo

' Allegro Piano Solo

Play

Duet - Flute and Violin

N a t a l y a Wa l l i s

Apples and Pears Piano -Solo "

La Petite Troupe

Sirhon Pie

Va n e s s a M i l n e

Play M i s t e r C r u m m l e ' s I n f a n t Phenomena - Kenneth Leaper - Standard 6 2 4

Mister Crummie s Infant Phenomena

Save me from this Hairy Man I

Now I'm going to make a very headmasterly comment

Let's keep It lady like, girls

S o r r y, o u t o f s t a m p s

(A corner of Standards One and Two's classroom)

K n i g h t s o f t h e H e x a g o n a l Ta b l e

(Standard One)

As Grimsby Primate what, sun-up Fox Major (A scene from Dogg's Hamlet)

He says his postillion has been struck by lightning (A scene from Cahoot's Macbeth)

Hebron Senior School Play April 1983

DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH

by Tom Stoppard

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth has been described as 'an ingenious

attempt to combine Shakespeare, linguistic jokes, political comment and zany fare Stoppard makes clear that in an autogratic system Shakespeare becomes instantly subversive, and words totally change their meaning.'

Dogg's Hamlet, Stoppard has written, is an attempt to teach the audience the language the play was written in, to illustrate the point that the same words can mean different things to different people. Consider a man building a platform using pieces of wood of different shapes and sizes. These are thrown to him by a second man. An observer notes that each time the first man shouts 'Plank!' he is thrown a long flat piece. Then he calls 'Slab!' and is thrown a piece of a different shape. This happen a few times. There is a call for 'Block!' and a third shape is thrown. Finally a call for 'Cube!' produces a fourth type of piece. An observer would probably conclude that the different words described different shapes and sizes of the material. But this is not the only possible interpretation. Suppose, for example, the thrower k n o w s i n a d v a n c e w h i c h p i e c e s t h e b u i l d e r n e e d s , a n d i n w h a t o r d e r, l b s u c h

a case, the only need is to indicate when one is ready for the next piece. So the calls might translate thus:

Plank = Ready; Block = Next; Slab = Okay; Cube = Thank you.

The fact that the observer and the builder are using two different -languages need not be apparent to either party. Moreover, it would also be possible that the two builders do not share a language either; and if life for them consisted only of building platforms in this manner there would be no reason for them to discover that each was using a language unknown to the other.

Coincidentally, Dogg's Hamlet, nostalgically recalls a by-gone era at

Lushington: the days of small boys in caps and ties, building a stage each April for the Annual Speech Day; the days when boys with treble voices attempted to play Ophelia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or Buttercup â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or Nancy; the days when "Cube" meant not "Thank you", or a particular shape, but a revered headmaster who

was, by his own admission, a square square. To him, we affectionately dedicate this performance.

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CHARACTERS

— Francisco

Simon

Abel S School boys

— Bernardo

Giles James

Charlie \

— Ophelia

Timothy Watson

Baker

\

Easy — Lorry Driver Dogg — Headmaster Lady Fox Major— Hamlet Mrs. Dogg

Moss

Peter Williams Francis Archer Dinaz Parakh John Skirrow Karinini Fernando

Horatio

Peter

Claudius ^

Andrew Wainwright -

Gertrude

Ayesha Yakub

Polonius

Michael Blencowe

Laertes ; ^ - -

Nenad Smoljenovlc

Ghost- - "I

Watson

"

Pravin Ramachandran

Gravedigger j Osric

Dinesh Nettur

Lighting

Andrew Coltart

Prompters

Satchi Sivarajasingham Nicholas Scott

Heidi Penny Pragati Shukia Art Work

Mrs. James et al

S o u n d E ff e c t s

M r. R i c h a r d J o n e s

Costurhes

Mrs. Bowdler et ai

Miss Janet Munson (Director)

Musicians

Pammela Watson Annakatharina Staehelin

Lucy Hart R o b e r t Wa l l i s

Trurrtpeters

Nicholas Scott

Mrs. Rosemary Wallis

CAHOOT'S MACBETH

The core of the play Is a performance of Macbeth taking place in a

private home because (as happened to the Czech Pavel Kohout during the period of "'•normalization" following the fall of Dubcek) many actors were forbidden to perform in public, and Shakespeare was in disfavour, A not-so-secret policeman Interrupts the show...

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Now. the linguistic jokes of the prelude (Dogg's Hamlet) take on a more serious note. As the Inspector warns, "Words can be your friend or your enemey, depending on who's throwing the book, so watch your language." The actors take his advice, more literally then he, or the audience, might have expected.

Stoppard was born in Czechoslavakia but left at the age of four. Since then he has taken particular interest in pondering how he might have faEe4 as

playwright in his homeland rather than in Britain. The political satire^, centring On the character of the Inspector, is characteristic of Stoppard, who,

as a leader of the PEN Club and mamber of Amnesty International, is constantly critical of the Soviet, and indeed, all, totalitarian regimes.

This shortened version of Shakespeare is an example of what is done to enable Czech citizens to appreciate the plays despite the offical ban on the performance of his work.

CHARACTERS

Macbeth

Mr. Andrew Bowdler

Lady Macbeth Banquo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cahoot

Irene Winkler

David Wainwfight

Macduff

Naresh Pun

Ross

Nicolas Archer

Duncan

David Houston

Malcolm

John Zachariah

1st Witch

Faizal Suleman

2nd Witch

Ian Alastair McKenzie

3rd Witch

Scott Garwood

1st Murderer

John Jacob

2nd Murderer

Ken Frost

Messenger

John Jacob

Lennox

Graham Wheeler

Hostess

Lydia Wyatt Andrew Wyatt

Inspector Easy

Peter Williams

1st Policeman ÂŤ Boris

Raj Sanka'r

2nd

Pravin Ramachandran

Guests

PolicemenMaurice

Rita Mirpuri, Tina Timm Reeba Jacob

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THE

STAFF

Mother Goose's Revised Version of Nursery Rhymes

Hebron, December 1983 Help 1 Help I the staff do yelp.

But why did you let them be ?

The kids are coming to school:

Because they were in Seminar C

Some in skirts

Diligently studying their history.

And some in shirts

And OIlie looks just too cool.

Wee Willy Wally Runs through the school

Sing a song of six boys.

Upstairs and downstairs

A pocket full of crackers.

Checking on the rules.

Four and twenty canings

Knocking on the yvindow.

Coming by and by.

Crying at the lock.

When the cane was given.

"Alex, get out of bed.

The boys began to sing.

It's past eight o'clock'.

Novy wash't that a jolly bash To exercise the king ?

Hickory, dickory, dock.

Miss Bateman ran up to the clock.

The King was in his office

The clock struck eight.

Talking to himself

Miss Bateman was late.

The queen was in the library

Hickory, dickory, dock.

Cleaning out a shelf.

Clements was in the garden Enjoying a peaceful doze When down came a cracker

Little Miss Wagland lost her bucket A n d d o e s n ' t k n o w w h e r e t o fi n d i t .

Leave it alone and it'll come home

And burnt off his nose.

Wagging its handle behind it.

O n e , t w o , t h r e e , f o u r, fi v e .

Davies and Dodds went up the hill

Once 1 caught a pair alive.

To s e e a b o u t t h e w a t e r .

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Davies fell down and shook the town

There they go again.

And Dodds collapsed with laughter.

P. Wa t s o n a n d A . W y a t t

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Who is the Odd Man Out?

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tAr. P-iU. Eric Marsh Standard Seven

STUDENT TRIBUTE I

M I S S B AT E M A N LIAM

DALZELL

Miss Bateman was a very nice person although she was very strict, but

this was a very good way to bring up a child. Some people thought 'Oh no it's Miss Bateman,' but there was nothing wrong with her at all. If you had

done your work properly, she would encourage you and praise you for your good work. She had many laughing times as well. For instance if she misspelt a word on the blockboard she would smile at her stupidity. She was also very generous. An example of her generosity was the chicken dinner and the two clocks she gave the school.

ANGELA

TIMM

Miss Bateman was very good and clever at making fabulous costumes, her quick eyes always noticing things, correcting them, and then busily hopping to and fro to fit one on a certain person.

We owed everything to Miss Bateman for teaching us manners and new

things. I don't know how to thank her enough. I would if I could.

PRASAD ISAAC

Miss Bateman was enthusiastic and took no nonsense. Being a strict disciplinarian she made sure we learnt everything from the start to the end.

Outside of class she was like Mr. Hyde turned into Dr. Jekyll. She was totally different. Even if you had got a really bad scolding in class, when you were outside you were in a different world. She never held a grudge against anybody.

She was a very nice sensible person and I wish we could have her as our teacher for a longer period of time.

JEHUDI

BLOM

.

We always listened eagerly to Miss Bateman as she explained what the bone looked like, or how Edward 1 died,, or even how we were to do our play and who had which parts. Everybody loved those days when we had play practices instead of History or Biology, but we didn't only do play practices.

We also did a lot of work. We dissected things, looked at a human body's

bones and looked at the way William died. What I really miss about her is the way she talked all through her periods .but I liked her most for the plays we did.

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STAFF TRIBUTE

T O M I S S B AT E M A N Song to be Sung to the tune of 'Clementine'

Oh. our darling Aunty Audrey

Hibernation until Easter

Sitting in your big armchair.

Then "all go" to dress the play.

We will all be lost without you.

When we find that you're not there I

With a brilliant eye for detail And your knowledge of the past,

We commend you for endurance

Hebron school's authentic costumes

Through the regimes of the past:

Are a memory that will last.

Mr. Willy, Mr. Darling, J. C. I. not least but last.

Thomas More or the Mikado,

Pirate King or winsome maid.

Yo u h a v e s e e n i t a l l e n a c t e d :

Queen of Night or My Fair Lady

Little lads with dirty ears.

All are suitably arrayed.

Monsoon mists and muddy water Caring for boys of past years.

Wardrobe mistress, without equal.

Unassuming lady, she;

In the classroom, you are famous

Qh alas, alack, this Christmas

For the strictness of your rule.

How much poorer we shall be.

Whether teaching Norman castles Or dissecting eyes - quite cool.

We shall miss you, but we send you Back to Sydney with this prayer,

We'll remember all your kindness:

"May your find, in ypur retirement.

Quietly mending young men's clothes.

Many folk for whom to care,"

Giving help to puzzled teachers.

Keeping children oh their toes.

Usually quiet, you're no bother Listening many hours away.

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Qh, our darling Aunty Audrey, Who will now sit in your chair?

Who will listen to our troubles

, When, no longer, you are there?

SPORTS The most notable event this year, certainly in the eyes of the lads, has been a non-event. As a result of the Sri Lankan troubles in August 1983, the football tournament, scheduled for the latter part of the month and the

first week of September, had to be postponed. After several attempts to run it, it had to be cancelled for the year, which meant that we lost our chance to

defend our title as Super Senior Champions. We had a very good chance of retaining the title, as we had seven of our winning squad still in school, and we had also been strengthened by the return of Paul Watson from Scotland, as well as the addition of such players as Andrew Coltart and Naresh Pun, and Graham Wheeler in goal to replace Ben John.

However the disappointment of this postponement was mollified by the success enjoyed by some of our senior athletes at the Inter School Sports.

Johnny Somers came first, second and third in the Super Senior 1500m,

800m and Triple Jump respectively, as well as running the final leg of the 4 X 100 relay, in company with John Mark James, Andrew Clements and Alex Somerset, coming second to Breeks Memorial. We also enjoyed success in the Senior Girls' division where apart from two second places and one first place in the additional events, our team of Lucy Hart, Melinda Webb, Bethanne Ironside and Rebecca Jacob won the 4 x 100m relay in a time of 56.6 seconds, beating Kodaikanal and St. Hilda's into second and third places.

It was a greatly reduced squad that went to the Inter School Sports this year but we showed some exciting successes as I have outlined above.

There were no swimming sports last year because of the severe water

shortage, and despite some improvement in the rainfall, it seems that we may have to abandon the swimming sports for a second year.

A week after the Inter School Sports, our own school athleti速 sports were held. Here a number of records were broken, and Francis Archer was very unfortunate not to put his name on the record sheet for long jump especially with his younger brother breathing down his neck late into the competition.

Again Johnny Somers made the day by breaking the record for the 100 m sprint, while Francis in the 3,000 m walk managed to break his own 1982 record by 30 seconds.

Melinda Webb and Bethanne Ironside, as I suggested last year, were 'the two Junior girls to watch, and they performed creditably. We have a number of new students or ones who have come up from the Junior School, and it

augurs well for the Junior section in the near future.

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Hockey and cricket have been rather disappointing for various reasons.

The hockey, basketball and volleyball tournaments all coincided with the Drama F e s t i v a l a t t h e e n d o f O c t o b e r. O n l y t h e S e n i o r g i r l s t o o k p a r t i n t h e hockey, coming second to Kodaikanal, while the volleyball and basketball tournaments had to be ignored.

In cricket, we managed to field three teams, but after some good fielding, all the teams were let down by poor batting and they all lost their first round matches. However, the House match series promised to produce some exciting matches and proceeded to live up to this expectation.

Hotshots have continued to thrive, and we have been fortunate to be

able to use George, from the kitchen, on two or three occasions. We have had several enjoyable staff and student cricket matches against external teams.

We may have lost most but as a result have learnt valuable lessons.

A. H. Bowdier

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Athletics Records Senior Boys

Junior Boys

100m

—

11 . 6

sees.

J. Somers*

1983

12.8 sees.

B. Moffat

200m

...

24.3

sees.

A. Weavers

1978

26.8 sees.

A. Weavers

1977

400m

...

54.5

sees.

D.D.Elliott

1975

62.1 sees.

1. Rees

1980

2 m 2 7 . 7 s e e s . P. Wa t s o n

500m ... 2m9.9 sees.

G . G r i f fi t h s

1969

1500m ... 4m 45.0 sees.

T. L i n t o n

1974

80m Hurdles

13.9 sees.

1 1 C m „ 3 ' 0 ' ' 1 7 . 0 s e e s . L . Ve a l

1976

1980

M. Garliek

1975

1976

3 ' 6 * 2 0 . 0 s e e s ., S . G r e e n w o o d T. N a d a r a s a

1979

High Jump 57^* Long Jump 6.16m Triple Jump 12.81m

K. George

1980

4*8'

A. Weavers

1977

H. Benham

1980

4.70m

A. Weavers

1977

H. Benham

1980

10.18m

M. Coehrane

P o l e Va u l t 9 ' 6 '

A . Ta y l o r

1971

7*7'

Shot

Putt

9.98m

Diseus

Javelin

25.55m

38.66m

4x100, relay 47.9s.

3000m Walk 18m 9.41s.

J. Garliek

A. Ferris

1970

9.64m

D. Crowden

1978

L. Reinhardt

1971

22.51m

D. Crowden

1978

S. Greenwood 1979

24.98m

T. P e r h a r

58.5 sees.

LA. Mckenzie 1983* P. Watson

C. Martin

H. Spikin

K. Carder

D . Ye o m a n s

D. D. Elliott

1975

F. A r e h e r

1983*

A. Joshi

1979

21m 33.6 sees. 1. Rees

1980

Senior Giris

Junior Girls

75m 100m ... 13.3 sees.

1973 1975

C. Ironside

1982

10.43 sees.

C. Timm,

1983*

13.5 sees.

R. Jacob

1982

(ISS HEATS) J. Burton

1975

J. Wilson

1976

L. Payne

1966

J. Wilson

1976

400m ... 61.2 sees.

J. Wilson

1975

800m ... 2m 53.1 sees.

J. White

1980

80m Hurdles 13.4 sees.

J. Sehrag

High Jump 4'1H" Long jump 4.83m

S. Duff

Shot Putt 10m.

200m ... 27.0 sees.

29.2 sees.

J. White

1979

66.0 sees.

J. White

1979

1974

14.0 sees.

E. Timm

1977

1976

4*6'

E. Timm

1977

J. Wilson

1976

4.21m

L. Hart

1982

1975

7.29m

8. Reinhardt

1976

Diseus 28.47m

J. Crossley J. Crossley

1975

18.47m

B. A. Ironside

1983*

Javelin 20.38m

S. Webb

1976

16.22m

J. White

1979

1975

59.9 sees.

Ra. Ramanathan

4 X 100m relay 54.0 sees.

Ri. Ramanathan J. Reid-Thomas J. White

1980 O CO C

(^ROSS - COUNTRY This year we

h a d n e w r e c o r d s f r o m1 C o r n e l i a S t a e h e l i n i n t h e J u n i o r

S c h o o l G i r l s ' r a c e a n d Rekha Ramanathan in t h e J u n i o r G i r l s ' r a c e .

There were no great feats otherwise. w i t h most winning times being a long way outside the records. Cornelia's removal o f a l m o s t 2 m i n u t e s o f f K a t e Ingleby's record was excellent, especially as s h e stopped on course to assist another runner I Unfortunately the Junior School

JUNIOR GIRLS'

(17m 16.3 sees.

J. White 1979) JUNIOR BOYS'

(19m 36.0 sees.

D. Houston 1982) SENIOR GIRLS'

(15m 28.0 sees.

J. White 1980) SENIOR BOYS'" (18m 43.2 sees.

T. Smyth 1972)

OVER

ALL

R . R A M A N AT H A N

17m 10.0 sees. (N. R.)

B. A, IRONSIDE

17m 41.0 sees.

S. JENKINS

21m 0.0 sees.

M . S TA E H E L I N

21m 8.0 sees.

A . S TA E H E L I N A.

M.

WAT S O N

18m 28.0 sees.

19m 39.0 sees.

J. SOMERS

18m 54.0 sees.

D. HOUSTON

19m 20.0 sees.

POINTS

CROSS COUNTRY

AT H L E T I C S

SOCCER

CRICKET

BASKET BALL

1983 - 1984 SCORES

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results are not available.

Blue

Gold

118

173

Blue

Gold

696

667

Blue

Gold

2 7

41

Blue

Gold

50

26

Blue

Gold

159

139

Blue

Gold

1,050

1,045

CRICKET Cricket activity during the term has been enthusiastic even if to some extent disappointing. Our first match in the Super Senior division was on the second Saturday of term in the tournament against Lawrence. We won t h e t o s s a n d e l e c t e d t o fi e l d , s t a r t i n g o f f w e l l w h e n w e h a d L a w r e n c e struggling, at 40 for 5. However some careful middle order batting on â&#x2013; their part pulled them out of trouble to take the total to 114 all out. We went i n t o b a t f a i r l y c o n fi d e n t o f o u r a b i l i t y t o r e a c h t h i s s c o r e , b u t w e r e disappointed in our batting when we collapsed to be all out for 84, against a bowling attack that offered little difficulty.

On 7th April a match was organised against Blue Mountain School.

The team was a mixed staff-student team. They won the toss and put use in t o fi e l d . W e b o w l e d w e l l t o r e s t r i c t t h e m t o 8 2 f o r 8 o f f 2 5 o v e r s . W e

started off our innings well carrying the total to 40 for 2 before we collapsed to 50 for 6. In this game we were conscious of the absence of four of our

regular players, but an excellent batting performance by Andrew Coltart pulled us out of trouble and with one remaining over we needed seven runs to win.

On that third ball we took a four reducing the target to three. We took a single at the fifth ball which left us two to win with one ball remanining.

The last ball was bowled and to our dismay Andrew was unable to make contact with it but a tumble by the wicket keeper gave us the single we needed to draw the match.

T h e fi n a l s c o r e s :

Blue Hebron

Mountain :

82

for

: 8

82 off

25

for

8

off

25

overs

:

â&#x20AC;˘

overs

An exciting match, with an even more exciting finish.

The much awaited staff-student cricket match took place on the Saturday before mid-term break. The students, looking for revenge on last year's humiliation, won the toss and decided to bat. We batted excellently with all

the batsmen gaining good scores to take the score to 84 for 4 off 20 overs.

A hat trick in the fourth over of the staff innings sent their total crashing to 12 for 3, A defiant stand by Mr. Bowdler and Mr. Jones gave their total

a more respectable took before Mr, Jones was bowled for 18. From then on the staff collapsed till at the end of play their total was 53 for 9, the students avenging the defeat of the year before.

In the house matches Blue house suffered a shock when they lost the first match to Gold by a narrow margin. However they recovered to win the

remaining two matches easily to take the series.

Overall cricket has been of a high standard this term with all players participating enthusiastically.

David Saunders Standard Eleven 35

Hebron Hotshots The following results are between 3-6-1983 and 11-5-1984

Games

Played

Goals

Won

16

Lost

Drawn

For

3

1

56

12

Against 27

The Top Goal Scorers Johnny

Somers

12

Andrew

Bowdler

10

Naresh

Danesh Paul

Pun

9

Pun

7

Watson

4

Over the past season we have had twenty regular Hotshot players, although there have often been others who have played some, like Andrew Wyatt, Bruce McKenzie, Peter Williams and Oliver James have shown a marked improvement in their footballing skills over the season. There has been an increasing number of younger players establishing themselves regular places, Andrew Coltart, Naresh Pun, and Nicholas Archer all proving themselves valuable players. A special mention should be given to Graham Wheeler who has progressively shown, himself to be a very talented young goalkeeper. Furthermore we are grateful to Geprge, a member of the school's domestic staff, who on the occasions he has played has shown great skill, especially, in the opponents' area.

Although the stiffness of the opposition has fluctuated from week to week, we: have managed to maintain a fairly high number of goals. The forward combination of Francis Archer, Ganesh Pun and Johnny Somers is a very potent one, although, unfortunately, Genesh has been absent for most of this term. The weight of Dodds and Jones combined with the skills of Andrew Coltart and John Skirrow has produced something close to an impregnable back line. Naresh Pun, Paul Watson and Bowdler have proved vital links between the backs and the forwards.

Finally we wish to express our thanks to Mr. Ingleby for being both a regular and a fair referee.

Paul 36

Watson

Hebron Hotshots

(Back Row) Ganesh Pun, Paul Watson, Graham Wheeler, Andrew Wyatt, Bruce McKenzie, Francis Archer

(Centre Row) Peter Williams, Naresh Pun, Oliver James, Andrew Coltart, J o h n S k i r r o w, N i c h o l a s A r c h e r

(Front Row) Richard Jones. Paul Dodds, Johnny Somers, Andrew Bowdler

The Electronic Revolution hits Hebron

Oi, Richard. How do you turn it on?

(A corner of the computer room)

I've been redeemed

pp.e.o.!.

Here's the accountant all forlorn

Who milked the cow with the crumpled horn

Little do you know Bull calf, a carcase hung.

Hebron Turns into Animal Farni in 1984

With eighty-nine animals, or about one third of the human population of Hebron, the school is rapidly turning into an Animal Farm. The animals at present include: cows, ducks, rabbits and a ram.

Considering the incredible rate at which rabbits reproduce it is not

surprising that the animal population is so high but we sincerely hope that the plans to sell some of the rabbits will come into action before the stehool is overrun. Already the rabbit population has outgrown its original quarters and some have been transferred to the cow shed. Will the dormitories be

next to go, we ask. Mr. Williams, the school's friendly farmer, employs a man to look after the rabbits. We need have no fears for his future employment

prospects. Once the rabbits are gone, he'll no doubt be busy looking after elephants.

The cows have been a profitable enterprise, producing milk from which cheese and butter are made. The cows and their four calves (thfee feipale

and one bull) are housed in old pig palace. Not only do the cows provide us with milk products not to mention guaranteed pure milk (instead of white water) but they keep the grass short, and supply plenty of manure for the roses and pot plants.

The ducks are purely for ornamental purposes. It was hoped that the female would lay eggs but as yet she has not obliged. However the students

find them very amusing. At the moment these two birds are being waited on hand and foot by Mr. Williams, Mr. Peters, the students and, beheve it or not. the rabbit b o y.

Solomon the ram, redeemed from the slaughter house by our benign

principal, enjoys the life of luxury offered to animals at Hebron. Our only requirement of him is that he play with the children and accept his station in life peacefully. However he does not always appear to accept this arrangement as happily as one would imagine and has become a trifle belligerent at times. Well, you can't please some sheep I

Lydia Wyatt, Reeba Jacob and Annakatharina Staehelin S t a n d a r d Te n 37

Original Contributions from Standards One and Two (Original spelling and punctuation retained) If 1 Had a Monster...

If I had a monster I would call it Doumodeon, Doumodeon was very nice except for one thing he got in trouble from the Police because they were frightend. Doumodeon, had teeth sticking out of his mouth. He stole away our shoes and put them on his feet because he had thirty five legs. Doumodeon was l-o-n-g. He ate 50000 leaves a day. Every day he grew 10 c.m. long, and fi v e c . m . f a t .

Mayur Nallamla Standard Two

If i was a dog ...

When I was a puppy with our kennels had Leakes. When it Then one day the children called we were going in we saw the Waited. When the born fire was

my sister We had a kennle of our own. But rained we stayed in our kennels wet and cold. us into the house. How Lucy we were. While children Making a born fire. We waited and going we saw the children throw our kennels

i n t o t h e b o r n fi r e . W e w e r e s a d b e c a u s e w e w o u l d b e c o l d e r t h e n e v e r . W e

went in side and what did we see but only two new kennels with the name under each one called Mayur under Mine and Subali under my sisters. But That wasn't all Because insted of ordinary dishes we got dishes with our names on it.

One day I saw the Postman coming. I went to collect the Letters. But the postman didn't Let me and killed me.

Mayur Nallania Standard Two

My Mum and Oad

My Dad is a doctor in Narsupur Chrischin hospital. He's a bos of one leprosy hospital and Narsupur Chrischin hospital. My Mum works at home. My grandfather tells aboth God. He lives in U.S.A. of America.

Emmanuel Prabhakar Standard Two A Letter

Dear Granny Hovy are you? I hope you are well? Dad went to Bangalore and came

back on Friday. I saw my teacher in the street her name is miss rhcGilvery. We are dooing experiments with water. I went to the dog show on the 13th of May. It was fun to see the dog comptishon.

Love from tehani

Tehani Saighal Standard Two 38

The ^ecjc h e ocr)4 t IT C

Sidharth Mansukhani

Standard One

Danny

Cooke

Standard

Two

Karen Simpson, Standard Four

Krishna Doreswamy, Standard Three

For Parents' Day Standard 3 and i 4 prepared a play and various items of work

relating to the story of Moses, under the title of "Let my people go".

These are some of the entries for a competition held to design a cover for the story book used for the narration in the play: God promised the people of Israel that he would lead them to a "Land of Milk and Honey". Here are some of Std. 3 and 4 ideas of what a "Land of Milk and Honey" would be like.

"My Land of Milk and Honey" My Land has peanut-butter and milk. In my land you are allowed to smile.

Yo u c a n h a v e t e a . c o f f e e a n d w a t e r t o d r i n k . W e c a n c l i m b c o c o - n u t t r e e s .

You will have peace in my land. I have a bed to sleep in. Every day have nice food. If you came to my land you learn about God. Krishna Doreswamy Standard Three

I lived in a land which had trees made out of chocolate and peppermint.

The houses were made of gingerbread and candy and toffee and life savours and fuge and marshmallows. The grass was made of peppermint and the stones were made out of money and coins, and we did not have to go to school we also did not have to buy our food because there was plenty around so we'd

not have to worry. Also there were lots of streams with sweet water in them so there was no water shortage.

Tammy Jiffry Standard Three

I would like a land that had chocolate for mud and grass "was mints and rocks were rock candy. And a big river of honey. And instead of rice and curry chocolate balls and volcanoes of custard. There would be no school and no Mums and Dads I I would live in a tree house and I would wear bear Skins

and trees grow mars bars and L would eat ice-cream.

Josh Cooke Standard Four

My idea of a land of milk and honey is I would like peppermint grass and lots of trees. And there would be a lake with chocolate and in winter

it would turn into blocks of chocolate and when it was very hot it would bubble up and become jelly. I go sailling away and kill the monster then if I was thirsty I would take melted chocolate from the lake and I would C a t c h s w e e t s a n d a e r o p l a n e s c o m e o v e r.

Sebastian James Standard Four 39

THE ROBBER CLOBBER

P r o f e s s o r B r a n e s t o r m w o k e u p o n e m o r n i n g t o fi n d t h a t h i s l a t e s t incredible invention had been stolen. He though he could make it come back.

He put his disappearing diamond on the door. He also invented a machine called the Robber Clobber. That night the Robber saw the door open and could

see a shiny diamond. He went to get the diamond; as he did something hit him and zooming down the stairs came a tub. The tub caught him and took him to the kitchen. There he and his clothes were soaked. Then the tub tipped over and he fell into a trap door. He fell on a seat and an alarm went and water

squirted him and a glove hit him. Then Professor Branestorm got his invention back and the robber went to jail.

Akil Desai Standard Five

A PICNIC

One day we all decided to go out and have a picnic including Uncle Podger. So we went on our way to have our picnic. But then We remembered about the table cloth so we had to go home and get it and I remembered to get

Uncle Podger's coat. We decided to have the picnic in the woods. We had a nice picnic and it was very peaceful and quiet.

After eating we asked if we could play. We played hidey-go-seek and some other games. When it was time to go Aunt Maria asked who would be

helpful and pack all the cutlery? I put up my hand and said "I will pack up" So I packed up all the things I could find. Just as I closed the basket I saw

Uncle Podger juggling with the dishes. I had to open the basket and put the dishes in. But this time I did not close the basket till I had all the things in because I knew Uncle Podger had some other things and guess what I He even sat on dish and broke it. He hid knives and forks under bushes. Then we left the woods and started back home. Of course Uncle Podger left his

coat behind. So we had to go back and get it. Then at last we went home peacefully.

Amu Doreswamy Standard Five

A r \

DESERT ISLAND

I was lost in the middle of the ocean. I couldn't go anywhere. I had a small store of food that would only last for a week and a half or two weeks.

I had some of the food as dinner because it was getting dark and there was no land in sight. I had a few rugs that I huddled up in and tried to sleep but I

couldn't. I starred up into the starry sky, the waves were splashing against the boat. Then suddenly I sat up straight in the boat as I was in a panic. Something was under the boat I I heard a buzzing noise, I sat still for about five minutes listening to it. Something landed on my arm. I slapped it slowly. It was a fly.

I had been so scared, but what was under the boat? Soon I knew because suddenly I saw a gleam, in front of me, as I shone my lamp that way. It was a tini So there was land. "Hurray I" I said out loud. I got out of my boat and felt the ground to make the sure it was solid. I was happy it was. I took all my

belongings out of the boat and looked for shelter but found none so I just lay

down on some sand and put my rugs on top of ipe. I said 'Goodnight' to myself and fell asleep.

Next morning I woke up and thought I'd take a walk and have a look at

the boat before breakfast. As I came close to the place where I had left my boat the boat was not there I I just went back and had another look round about.

There was nothing on the little island except two coco-nut tress, my belongings and I. I ate and drank as little as possible and when all the food and water (fresh) was finished I started on coco-nuts, and drank coco-nut water. Then one

day I saw a ship out at sea; I signalled and signalled with my rug. A boat was heading towards the island. I hopped in with my belongings and a few coco-nuts.

When I was in the ship I gave a sigh and said, "It's nice to be rescued but even so - I'm sad I"

Miriam Selvarajah Standard Five

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GYPSIES In the dark woods below There is a kind of door

Where only gypsies go.

A t t i m e s , l i k e n o w,

i have a wish to go Down

below.

Nataiya Waliis Standard Five

MOUNTAIN RIVER Icy green-blue water.

Rushes past boulders And steep tree-covered mountains.

Curving round the bends.

It passes quaint stone cottages, Where women sit spinning in the sun.

And children play happily.

Kim Irving Standard Five

EASTER Christ died to set us free.

On a cross at Calvary; He was nailed by his hands According to God's plans.

Joseph to Pilate appealed.

And in a tomb Jesus was sealed:

On the third day he arose And amazed all his foes.

He is living now.

And that is how

We can belong to his family And live happily.

Sarah Brown Standard Five

4-2

FEAR

The time when I am terrified is when 1 come down to the Junior block after dark to get something, it's ail because of a dream 1 had. My dream was that one night we were ail lined up outside Standard Six window ready to go to the drama festival play. It was so dark that night, that Kim and I, instead of going straight along the middle corridor went down the steps to Miss Munson's room. Down below on the basketball court there was a black shadow and two

red gleaming eyes. It was a wolf. 'Come on,' I said to Kim and started running up the stairs with the wolf close behind me. I was so scared that I could only slide along the ground. When I got to the stairs at the other end I pelted down them and into tha gym. That is why whenever I go down there at night I am forever haunted by those two red un-blinking eyes Kate Ingleby Standard Six

I am frightened when I am lost in a big city where I don't know my way.

I got lost in a supermarket once. My Aunt took my sister, my brother and I to

a supermarket. I was looking at ice creams not noticing that my Aunt had gone.

I got frightened and started to cry. A kind lady came up to me and took me to the door. We waited there for about half an hour and my Aunt came to the door but she did not see me. I showed the lady where my Aunt was and she

took me to her. I was so glad to be back with my family. I had a frightening time.

To m D a l z e l l . Standard Six

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I N T R O D U C I N G S TA N D A R D S E V E N

The most important member of Standard Seven was Miss Bateman, who left halfway through the year after being at the school for thirty years.

W e w i l l l o o k a t t h e g i r l s n o w, a s t h e b o y s a r e p e r f e c t g e n t l e m e n a n d would insist on 'Ladies First'.

Elaine is from U. K. via Bangladesh and Miriam is from U. K. via Sri Lanka. Lucy is from Bangalore and Farah from Kerala. Maria came to

join us during the year from a Tamil, Swedish and Sri Lankan background, Angela and Stephanie have German backgrounds, but come from Uttar P r a d e s h a n d Ta m i l N a d u r e s p e c t i v e l y. O u r ' S o u t h W e s t P a c i fi c ' c o n t i n g e n t c o n s i s t s o f J e n n y, J a n i n e a n d K a t e f r o m A u s t r a l i a a n d J o a n n a f r o m N e w

Zealand. And just to show that there are people in the class from every where from A to Z, there is Gorana from Zagreb in Yugoslavia.

Amongst the boys, Chirag (Gujerat), Prasad (Singapore), Sam (Kerala), Pervaz (Kerala), and Swarthik (Karnataka) are from India. Those from U. K. are Eric, based in Hyderabad, Jeffrey from Dhaka, James from Bombay and K e v i n f r o m P u n e . Ye h u d i i s o u r s o l e , b u t h i g h l y v i s i b l e , r e p r e s e n t a t i v e f r o m H o l l a n d . T h e A u s t r a l a s i a n s a r e Ti m f r o m N e w Z e a l a n d , a n d M i c h a e l a n d S t e v e n f r o m A u s t r a l i a . A n d fi n a l l y, t o p r o v e t h a t E a s t i s E a s t a n d West is West and doubtless the twain do meet, we have Jonathan from the U. K. and Japan.

S TA N D A R D

EIGHT

May we introduce Standard Eight, with

Milne, the dimpled villain,

the shortest teacher in the

Mark, the electronic spark.

school as form teacher:

Smith who swims so swift, Paul,

who

is

never

seen

without

his

cricket ball,

Isaac who has no material lack, Dalzell who tries to win an argument

Sid the littlest kid,

well,

N i c k y t h e K i w i M i c k e y,

Libby Wallis, the singing menace,

I r i e w h o n e v e r h a s a q u e r y,

Suresh who only works under duress,

M c K e n z i e w h o i s o f t e n i n a f r e n z y,

T h u s h a R a o w h o a l w a y s k n o w s h o w,

Scott who scoffs the lot,

Malcolm the swift falcon,

W i n k l e r t h e a c a d e m i c Tw i n k l e r,

To m t h e a n t i - P o m ,

L e s t e r, n o t m u c h o f a j e s t e r,

Joythi in her dhoti.

F a r o o k w i t h h i s fi s h i n g h o o k ,

W h e e l e r t h e d e a l e r,

Rekha, who is likely to be a heart

Brookes who's always in his books,

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Yo u ' l l n o t i c e L a n c e a t a g l a n c e .

S TA N D A R D

NINE

(Back Row) Nicholas Scott: I THINK, therefore I am... (I think). Giles James: It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Timothy Watson: I l i k e t o d o t h i n g s m y w a y.

(Middle Row) Caroline Smith. Blessed are those who count their calories, for their efforts shall not go to waste. Dinesh Nettur: It's better to look where you're going than where you've been. Kenneth McAlpine: What good could possibly come from a day that start by getting up in the morning? Simon Moss: God made us all perfect. He's just not finished with some of us yet. Sachi Sivarajasingham: All of life is learning. Nenad Smoljenovic: Laugh and the world laughs with you.

Snarl and you get better service. Sylvia Hart: Smile and the world will wonder what you're up to. Peter Watson: You hum it; I'll play it. Rosemary Coltart: Silence is golden.

(Front Row) Natalie Clements: And she will play the song that pleaseth you. Andrew Wainwright: Surely double chins and chubby cheeks shall melt away. Michael Blencowe: It's better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. John Stafford: The more I think, the more confused I get. Raj Sankar: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Bethanne Ironside: Homework

gives me a rash. Melinda Webb; Love is the safest shelter. Hyeonza Hong: To be slender is my goal; I shall not eat.

(Foreground) Stephen Jenkins: He who laughs last, laughs loudest.

(In absentia) Pravin Ramachandran: Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. Emma Dalzell: When you're in love, anything's possible. Sarah Thomson: T h i s i s a t r y i n g p e r i o d f o r m e ; I ' m t r y i n g n o t t o s t u d y.

S TA N D A R D T E N

(as seen by the boys in the class) There are twenty three women and men W h o a r e i n S t a n d a r d Te n .

The boys have the brains The girls are the pains And we mustn't forget dear old Ken.

(as seen by the girls in the class) The girls of Grade Ten are real beaut.

But the boys, alas, aren'^t even cute.

The girls have good brains But the boys are like drains Information goes straight down the chute.

S TA N D A R D E L E V E N School Prefects

Bruce McKenzie

The Reverend Haggis

Penny Moss 0

Romeo!

wherefore

art

Romeo! thou

Romeo?

S c h o l a r o f t h e Ye a r Daniel Gillette Yo u b u n c h o f b o o z e r s !

Anne Marie Watson

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy

Nalini Raj Could you hear me?

Eric Williams

The poomp sooks the stoof

Pakee Sivarajasingham Ta m i l t o k t o k , y o u s i l l y g o o s e

S TA N D A R D

T W E LV E

A n d r e w C l e m e n t s , F r a n c i s A r c h e r, P e t e r W i l l i a m s ,

Jagdev Singh Dhillon, Muthu Raman, Andrew Wyatt, K a m i n i F e r n a n d o , Ay e s h a Ya k u b .

(From left)

A TA L L TA L E O F T H E T W E LV E S

JACK climbed the BEANSTALK to retrieve the F. A. CUP

stolen by BUGS BUNNY. At the top, he found himself in DIRE STRAITS, surrounded by the music of M U T L E Y L I V E I N C O N C E RT. A i d e d b y t h e g a l l a n t RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER he managed

to escape back to the security of MOTHER SUPERIOR'S cottage.

S TA N D A R D T H I RT E E N School Prefects

Service to the School Award David Marsh

S h e h n a z Ya k u b

want my pillow

N o w l o o k , b a s i c a l l y. . .

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S p o r t s m a n o f t h e Ye a r

John Skirrow

Paul Watson

Three chords and it's got to be Status Quo

What are we, men or mice?

Sarah

Tyman

Dinaz

Parakh

You'te not angry, are you ? Let's take a putt (autorickshaw)

John Mark James

Don't you think David Bowie's the best looking guy in the world?

A Sphinx

Rachel James Standard Thirteen

What Happens When Students Leave Hebron ?

T h i s p a p e r w a s fi r s t p r e s e n t e d a t t h e P a r e n t - Te a c h e r m e e t i n g i n D e c e m b e r, 1983. However some additional information which has come to hand in the

six months since then, has been able to be included here.

T h e p e r i o d c o v e r e d i s f r o m 1 9 7 5 ( t h e fi r s t y e a r o f c o - e d u c a t i o n a t Hebron) to the present, or rather, to the class of 1982. For the purpose of the charts the most recent class was excluded.

Sources of information being primarily letters from the students themselves, or word passed on through parents and friends, reliability is not guaranteed to be 100%.

The emotional and social problems and advantages faced by students w h o l e a v e H e b r o n d o n o t f o r m p a r t o f t h i s s t u d y, a l t h o u g h s u c h a s u r v e y would be worth considering in the future. Meanwhile this survey concentrates

largely on the academic and vocational achievements of the students, and these are easier to measure.

What countries are we preparing our students to go to ? The West, r e m a i n s t h e u s u a l a n s w e r. E v e n t h e s t u d e n t s w h o a r e f r o m I n d i a , S i n g a p o r e ,

Malaysia, or the Gulf often intend to go to the West for further qualifications. Encouragingly the intention seems to be for the Asian students to return home eventually, using their educational and professional resources for the good of their home country.

D E S T I N AT I O N O F H E B R O N S T U D E N T S

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Their final destination may of course be quite different. As university fees for overseas students in U. K. become increasingly experisive, more Hebron students are

beginning to consider other alternatives, U. S. A. and Australia being popular choices.

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MARRIAGES

The chart entitled 'Marriages' indicates that Hebron students tend to delay marriage until they are qualified, especially the boys. The eldest group, who were about sixteen when they left Hebron in the summer of 1975, are now

about twenty five years of age. Of these, we have not heard recent word of two of the girls and three of the boys. Thus it is possible that by now the figures would have altered.

Sample Classes It is perhaps needless to stress that in a school as small as Hebron, there

is no such thing as a typical class. Of this most recent batch of leavers (1983) all the ones from the O Level class have gone to school, in the U. K., Australia,

India, Singapore. Of the A Level girls, one has been accepted for nurses training, one to do a B. A. Hons, course in Biology and English (In England), one is working in a bookshop in the Gulf but still hoping to continue with higher studies eventually, and the fourth is taking a pre-med. course in an Indian college.

Of the three boys, one is at University in the U. K., a second in school in the

U. K. trying to improve his A Level results and a third is working in a laboratory in the U. K. Of the 1975 0 Level class, eleven of the twelve boys we are in touch with

are graduates, and the twelfth is a draughtsmen. Three at least are doing post graduate studies, or have already completed them; one, a Ph. D. in Engineering in New Zealand; a second in Mathematics in Warwick, while a third, having gained his first degree in Cambridge took post graduate studies at Durham. Of the three girls we are in touch with, one is a college graduate in Art and Design, in the U. K., a second an Arts graduate now married to an engineer and living here in India, and the third is a secretary for the U. N. in New York.

Our first two A Level boys, who left in 1977 have interesting jobs. One is a travel agent in London with qualifications for both U. K. and Canada.

The other after gaining a B. A. in Sociology has returned to his 'native place' (Kuala Lumpur) for to work for CARE chiefly among drug addicts there.

Both of the A Level girls who graduated from Hebron in 1978 are due

to graduate from university this summer. One, who has been gaining university prizes for philosophy, hopes to continue with post graduate work; the other, who is due to gain her degree in Performance (Piano) looks forward to concerts

and recording in the U. S. A. and overseas. Already she has openings for T. V. work. Both girls have worked their way through university, one teaching as many as forty music students at a time, the other through (among others) a highly paid job in a brokers office.

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WHO GOES WHERE ?

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DESTINATION OF LEAVERS S t a n d a r d s 11 t o 1 3 , 1 9 7 5 t o 1 9 8 2 .

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9.7

12.2

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' Long term study' refers to a f u l l t i m e c o u r s e o f three years and more 'Short term study' usually refers to a two year course of study at a technical

college. The armed services include: army, navy, air force and police.

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The charts on pages 46-47 give only the courses and jobs entered by more than one student. Of those taken by only one girl thus far, we have: H. N. D. Business Studies and Modern Languages Beautician

Dental Nursing L a b o r a t o r y Te c h n i c i a n

Teacher Training School Administration

Occupational Therapy Physiotherapy Music (Performing) For the boys, the list is rather different: H. N. D. Business Studies Motor Mechanic

Boat Building (Managerial position) Banking Factory Watchmaker

Te a E s t a t e M a n a g e m e n t Army Air Force

Navy Draughtsman Physical Education Police Force

We are not aware of any who are know to be house wives being far from that two of the boys had trouble finding in Australia, although they were eventually

unemployed at present, the four we unemployed. However, we do know employment in the U. K. and one successful.

R.

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W,

NEWS OF FORMER STUDENTS VISITORS

to

HEBRON

Of all the interesting people to visit Hebron each year, by far the most important are the 'old boys and girls'. This past twelve months period has seen more than ever, and staff and students alike have been encouraged to see what interesting and worthwhile people these tend to be.

In July STEPHEN SHAW, from U. K., visited. Since gaining a degree in Chemical Engineering, he has been working for a firm making oil rigs mainly in the North Sea.

August saw a number of visitors including PAUL MARTIN, here to do research as part of his Theology course in Cambridge; PHILIP GARDINER, a medical student from Belfast, here on an elective, and PETER SAUNDERS

part way through a degree in Economics and Business Studies at Leeds.

SIMON AND SARAH BUTTERWORTH were even able to spend several weeks back in their old classes, while their Father visited other parts of India.

In September ROLAND RUTGERS, as tall as one might have predicted h e w o u l d b e c o m e , v i s i t e d w i t h n e w s o f t h e f a m i l y. H e i s d o i n g y o u t h

o u t r e a c h w o r k i n H o l l a n d ; PA U L h a s a y e a r t o c o m p l e t e h i s e l e c t r o n i c engineering course; INA, a physiotherapist, is married; while JUDICA is studying social health.

R O Y M AT H I A S , d o i n g t h i r d y e a r M a t h s a t C o r p u s C h r i s t C o l l e g e , Cambridge, came on a visit with his younger brother, and managed the school's currently popular walk down to Quiet Corner from below Snowden.

M r s PA R M A R c a m e o u t t o b e w i t h M r s Tr c h a l a o n h e a r i n g o f h e r bereavement, and during that time we were delighted to see her and hear n e w s o f t h e r e s t o f t h e f a m i l y. G I N A i s a t L o u g h b o r o u g h U n i v e r s i t y, FRANKIE in a plastics factory, GARY is a sales rep. and doing very well, as is MICHAEL, who came second in his school for 0 Levels and is now

sitting Cambridge entrance exams.

I n e a r l y J a n u a r y, S A M P O W D R I L L , h i s w i f e a n d t w o t i n y b l o n d e daughters came up to the school. At present they are engaged in language study In Karnataka, but as one of the few piano tuners in India, Sam is in great demand. Sam's two sisters are now married, one in Holland, the other in U. S. A.

TIM NEILSEN and his wife also visited Hebron in January, and left as a gift a beautiful illustrated book on Canada printed by the firm they work fo r. Ti m w a s a t sch o o l h e re i n th e 5 0 's a n d 6 0 's b u t th e n e xt vi si to r, G W E N R U S T, f r o m V i c t o r i a , A u s t r a l i a , w a s h e r e f r o m 1 9 2 6 - 3 6 .

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DOROTHY BANKS was here in Ooty over the winter months and

enjoyed seeing the new Hebron, as she had been.on the staff of Hebron, Coonoor

from

1956-1959.

CHRIS CHITTENDEN, who left Lushington in 1969, came up to Hebron w i t h h i s w i f e i n J a n u a r y. T h e y h a d b e e n t r e k k i n g i n t h e H i m a l a y a s , o n holiday from teaching jobs in Auckland, New Zealand.

REV. RALPH WITTON, who graduated from Breeks in 1945, returned on his first visit since then, bringing his wife Ruth, to see his old haunts.

D AV I D B I R D , a m e d i c a l s t u d e n t f r o m A u s t r a l i a , c a m e u p f r o m M y s o r e

where he was doing an elective, following in the footsteps of his father. Later h e w e n t o n t o Ve l l o r e .

Also in February, ANDREW WEAVERS visited. He is studying in Florida, having changed courses from P. E. to Geography. His brother CHRIS is working In Australia and engaged to be married.

GEOFF BUTT and his wife Pamel were able to spend several school and even give talks to some of the seniors. Geoff is now a for a structural consulting engineering firm and he and his wife are In youth work In their church. Greg, who Is due to complete Bible year, hopes to work with 0. M. S. In Madras.

days at the draughtsman both active school this

In March ANDY and ELKE TIMM visited Ooty and sang and gave their testimonies In church on the Sunday. It was good to see Andy able to walk well after over a year of trouble.

Later In March MAURICE NOVERRAZ, who left Breeks in 1945, came up to Hebron. He Is now director of an American Firm manufacturing hydraulics.

LORNA (NEE SMITH) Schoonmaker over from the States with her husband (an old Woodstock-student) and five year old son also visited then.

PETER DANIEL came over from Malaysia at the end of March. At Union Church on Sunday morning he was able to tell the congregation about his work in Kuala Lumpur among drug addicts.

ALAN MARTIN visited Lushington in April, down from Pakistan, where he Is working as a B. M. M. F. volunteer at Jhelum.

DAVID KEITH BANKS, who was In Lushington from 1961-1969 was back In April with his wife. David has a Ph. D. In Radio Astronomy and is currently a Senior Communications Engineer at British Aerospace and Communications Division, working on the design and manufacture of Communications Repeaters for satellites. The Senior maths and physics students and their teachers were

most Impressed with a seminar he gave them during this visit.

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KEITH GLASGOW, en route to Nigeria, where he has been asked to take an

evangelistic campaign, visited the school briefly, bringing news of a very happy visit to the Darlings last year. Keith was eager for news of his class mates, but unfortunately few of them have kept in touch with the school.

IAN MCCABE, in his final year now at the American School in Delhi, is in

Doty for a month of holiday with his parents and all his friends, especially his former class mates in Standard Eleven, are delighted to see him again.

SUSIA (NEE WIIG) is up in Doty for the season with her husband and two year old son. We have enjoyed meeting them and also seeing Mr and Mrs Wiig, who have recently returned from furlough in the States where PETER AND PAUL are both studying in college. Another visitor over from the States is

STEPHEN GREENWOOD, here to see his parents in Bangalore. As fit as ever and still enjoying the hunting, Stephen has had fun seeing how many of the present students he is able to recognise. Of all the visitors this past year,

Stephen is probably one of the very few no one had any trouble identifying.

One staff member ruefully tells of how the other week she was going down the drive with a colleague when they passed a fair haired young man trudging up the drive. 'I wonder who that was ? she mused to her friend'. 'Probably some old boy we should recognise'. The comment was made in jest, and great was her astonishment at the tea table some hours later, when she was introduced to 'ALAN MARTIN' the same fair haired young man.

A S I A

PETER DANIEL, now a graduate from Biola College in U. S. A. is working with Malaysian CARE, rehabilitating ex-prisoners and drug addicts, although he feels a particular call towards the latter group.

ROD and Ruthie GILBERT who work for Scripture Union and are based in Pune, have a third son, Daniel born this year.

CHRISTOPHER MARTIN was married to Daisy Thomas at Emmanuel Methodist Church in July 1983.

SUSIE (NEE WIIG) Reddy, with her husband Dhanunjaya, an.engineer and their two year old son Ajay came up from Andhra to spend the season in Ooty, along with Susie's parents. It has been good to see them all again.

RADHA RAMANATHAN is hoping to come to India in June to begin a pre-med. course at Manipal. RADHI remains in Singapore to continue with pre-university studies. She hopes to specialise in Computer Science.

S H O B A N A R A O w a s m a r r i e d t o Vi n c e n t T h a m b y r a j a h i n S t . J o h n ' s Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur in October.

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RHEA SINGH, is still in Bangalore although she hopes to take a veterinarians course overseas. We are always delighted to see her when she is abie to come

up for a visit. ZORRO is taking a mechanics course in Bangalore.

A U S T R A L A S I A

KIREN BADESHA is taking a Business Studies course, majoring in

Accountancy. She writes that she is sharing a house with a high school teacher who was a missionary in Papua New Guinea, 'a fantastic person who makes me feel homesick for Hebron at times'. SHARAN is doing Sociai Science majoring in Psychoiogy. They see a lot of SHOBA NETTUR who is also at university, and the CROWD EN brothers, who are both working.

JOHN and Gaylene CHOTE are teaching in Orewa, near Auckland, while GRAHAM continues his apprenticeship in light mechanics at Huntiy and plays Senior Cricket. PAUL has begun a training programme in farm techniques.

KELVIN sits School Certificate this year.

MARTY AND KATH KEMP were able to visit their family (Mr and Mrs Taylor senior and ALAN and Bev Taylor, not to mention Baby Luke) in the Summer.

RAE LANGTON is back at University after taking time off to visit India a n d E n g l a n d l a s t y e a r.

Both SHARON AND NAOMI LARSEN were able to visit their parents at Christmas. The girls seem to be coping well in New Zealand, and doing well academically.

After taking his B. D. at New Zealand Bible College, Henderson, STEPHEN PATTEMORE with his wife Raewyn and their two small children have had a few months of 'normal' family life in a North Shore suburb before heading for Thailand, for missionary work.

D AV I D A N D A L I S O N T R C H A L A h a v e m a r r i e d a n d s e t t l e d i n M e l b o u r n e ,

Australia where Mrs Trchaia has now joined them.

Mrs Beulah Wood writes from New Zealand that the family have moved to: 7 8 Va n d e l e u r Av e n u e Birkdale Auckland

This past year in Putaruru, a small country town, has been a year of growth for all of them. Rosi at seven enjoys reading, ballet, her pet lamb Edelweiss and starting piano lessons. Adrienne now ten passed Grade two in piano, ballet and violin, and runs races against her kid goat Spangles.

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BRONWYN'S music is piano and flute, while KAREN keeps busy with piano debating, cornet, singing and athletics training.

BRUCE AND JUDY WORRALL, their parents and LYNNE were all in Canada for the summer where both Bruce and Judy where married into the Neuendorf family. Judy has been studying at Bible School in Canada and remained there when the rest of the family returned to New Zealand.

E U R O P E

DARSHAN AMBALAVANAR is studying history at Reading University and managing to keep in touch with 'a lot of the Hebron kids'. He spent Christmas

with the CARDY family, and Easter with the DAVIES family in Wales.

NICKY BARTON is studying at Queen's while JEREMY is in the sixth form in Belfast.

PETER BRAMBLEBY having passed MRCP has a position as Paediatrics

Senior House Officer. CHRIS is working in Sainbury's in Bexhill, while JENNIFER, with two children at school has a job and is studying at home for a diploma course in Export.

PAUL BREEZE is a Probation Officer in London; ANDREW a Psychiatric Nursing Officer and ALISON a medical secretary as is JODI. ARDIS BUTTERFIELD has returned to Trinity, Cambridge, to do her Ph.D. in Medieval English. ADRIAN has won a music scholarship to Trinity, Cambridge.

ALASDAIR FERRY is engaged to be married to a fellow M. K., Sarah from "U.S.A. They hope to be married in Thailand in December. After less than two

years in the police force, Alasdair writes that he has become quite well known in Dumferline as 'the Chinese Detective'. FIONA, at Edinburgh University, is gaining excellent results in her Chinese courses. Apart from that, she is also enjoying the Sub-Aqua Club, and Ballroom Dancing. She is thinking of learning Japanese in her third and fourth year.

M A R K F O X w o r k s a s a c i v i l i a n f o r S c o t l a n d Ya r d w h i l e T I M w o r k s f o r

Williams and Glyn's Bank in Farnborough.

JOHN GALLAGHER gained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. RUTH was married to Dr. Charles Chunge and is now in

Nairobi with him, where they are both involved in teaching and research.

YVONNE GARDINER is in her final year of medicine. PHILIP was in Pune for his medical elective and visited the school at that time. ESTHER

hopes to be in Raxaul for her medical elective later this year.

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NICHOLAS HACKING is responsible for the Banque du Rhone's computer operations in London. The school is very grateful for the generous assistance

he has given as we set up the computer department here. STEPHEN has been representing his ship broking company in Europe, while WILLIAM continues to work in a golf and country club.

MARK HAMILTON is in his second year of medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London., while CATHY is taking English and French at Bristol University.

JANET HEZLETT visited China, travelling via Moscow and the TransSiberian Railway. ALICE is at Reading University taking Botany. KUOl does part time nursing in Reading.

PAUL GERMAN, now an honours graduate, hopes to teach Business

Studies, preferably overseas. PRISCILLA, after four years of work as travelling secretary with U.C.C.F. also hopes to go overseas, to do student work.

JO KUKATHAS is in her final year at Reading, studying Politics and Philosophy, INDRA is in London doing her Bar Finals after passing her LL. B. s u c c e s s f u l l y l a s t s u m m e r. S h e t h e n h o p e s t o r e t u r n t o M a l a y s i a t o s t a r t earning her living. She writes: 'JANET TOZER's visit has been a good opportunity to see some old

H e b r o n p e o p l e . . . I t ' s f u n n y h o w, w h e n e x - H e b r o n S t u d e n t s g e t t o g e t h e r, everybody talks about just Hebron. LIZ MARSH and JO came around today a n d w e w e n t o u t f o r d i n n e r t o ( i n e v i t a b l y ) a l i t t l e I n d i a n r e s t a u r a n t . We were all catching up on the latest news and remembering old times and laughing and sighing. Time has gone by so quickly...I met PHILIP COLMAN

recently...and we (UMA, JO and I) invited him over for dinner. We sat around gossiping for ages and forgot the time and when we finally realized, it w a s t o o l a t e f o r P h i l i p t o g o h o m e b e c a u s e a l l t h e Tu b e s h a d s t o p p e d running. It was the day before Uma was due to return to the States so we just sat around talking and dozing off until 5 a.m. when we all set off for the airport and from there Philip returned home to a well deserved sleep I think. Apparently Philip has played the Piano once or twice on 'Playschooi* o n T. V. b u t I ' v e n e v e r s e e n h i m ' .

KATE MARSH is reading Social Biology and English for a combined B. A./B. Sc. Honours degree at Wimbledon.

KAREN MCCORMICK was married in August. She is nursing in Belfast

at the Royal Victoria Hospital. JENNY is still studying architecture at Dundee.

ANDREW MCMAHON, studying medicine in Glasgow, was to go to Munaii for his elective.

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PAUL MARTIN visited India for two months last year investigating the Hindu-Christian dialogue. He and later ALAN visited the school, ALAN during his ten month 'slot' with B. M. M. F. in Pakistan, before reading History at Trinity, Cambridge. SAM is due to complete his science degree in the summer from Bristol, and hopes to visit the school also.

P E T E R M A RT I N i s p l a n n i n g t o v i s i t H e b r o n i n t h e s u m m e r a n d i n

characterictically gentlemanly fashion, even offers to help with the holiday duties I

VAL MOSS visited her sister SOLVEIG and family in the Yemen over Christmas. Apart from that, she continues to enjoy her work at the Reading College of Technology.

DOROTHEA POLSTER is training to become a Kindergarten teacher, w h i l e I < : AT 0 w e h e a r i s e n g a g e d t o b e m a r r i e d t o a P i l o t . K A M A L A i s taking a course in Hotel Management. The family have now settled in Germany in the beautiful Black Forest region.

RAGHAVAN NAIR, since graduating from University, has been working with a Civil Engineering Consultant firm. KITA is in his final year of Mathematics Postgraduate studies at Warwick university.

PHILIP RINGROSE has graduated from Edinburgh and continues with

post graduate studies in geology. ALISON, after graduating in classics, intends to train as a primary school teacher. TIMOTHY hopes to start medical studies at St. Andrews.

PAUL RUTGERS was married on 3 February to Ellen Krinkels in eastern Holland. JUDICA is engaged to be married in June. INA and Rod have a daughter, Natalie.

JAMES RUTHERFORD work as a doctor in Craigavon Area Hospital. He is married and has two childern. JOHN is reading medicine at Aberdeen.

K AT H L E E N ( n e e S a u n d e r s ) S i l l e n c e h a s t w o y e a r o l d d a u g h t e r a n d works part time as a nurse. MARY is also a nurse, while PETER is in his third year at Leeds studying Economics and Business Studies.

STEPHEN SHAW has an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering from UMIST. BARBARA is taking a degree in Speech Therapy at Leeds.

ASHLEY SMYTH, married with three children, is planning to move from teaching into Christian work in South Africa. MURRAY, married with a child, is teaching in Oswestry. CAMPBELL, married with three children, is now on an art course. TREVOR, teaching in Mexico, is also landscaping. GILMOUR is on a Fine Arts course in Sheffield, while WESLEY is heading for a degree in Human Ecology in Huddersfield. GLYN is studying physiotherapy in Sheffield.

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PETER STREATFIELD has taken over management of a hostel for boys, in M a h a r a s h t r a . R O B E RT, a f t e r g i v i n g t r a i n i n g i n t h e c a r e o f b i g c a t s a t a

National Park in Malaysia, is now back in Woburn.

ANDY TIMM in his second semester at university in Germany, hopes

eventually to become a teacher of English and Geography. ELKE is in her second year of nursing training at Hattingen.

HUGH TYMAN is running Bates Boatyard on the river Thames, while PATRICK has one more year at Kingston Art College doing Fine Arts. He hopes to exhibit his work in an Indian exhibition RACHEL works in the accounts department at Rackhams. She is marrying Guy Mason on 14th September.

MARTYN WALL, his wife and their three children are now in Frinton.

MARION and her husband Bruce with their daughter Faye are in California; ROSEMARY is in Amsterdam on outreach and might go to Lebanon for relief

work. STEPHEN is in Brighton as a postman/van driver.

PAUL WARNER is working with Kodak Reprographics, while STEPHEN is a solicitor with a Chinese firm in Hong Kong.

J A N E T W I L L I A M S i s t a k i n g a m i d w i f e r y c o u r s e i n B r o m l e y.

CHRISTOPHER is enjoying his French and German course at St. John's, Oxford.

K AT H R Y N W Y L I E , a f t e r A l e v e l s , i s w o r k i n g i n a S a l v a t i o n A r m y Children's Home. She has applied for Remedial Gymnast and Recreational Therapy Course in Wakefield. This would be a three year course. ANDREW is 6'V and takes his 0 Levels this year. He plays the euphonium and he and his friends are busy forming a group.

NORTH

AMERICA

BETTY (nee Daniel) Van Carnp is due to graduate this summer with a B. A. in Piano Performance. Her Senior Recital, set for 24 April, included an hour's worth of memorized classical pieces. After graduating, Betty hopes to start performing more, live and on T. V. and hopes for concert tours of India. JOE AND JAMES DANIEL are also studying at Bethel College, and for the past few months the family from India has been over to visit them all.

VIJENDRA DANIEL is studying medicine at Waynesburg College,

Pennsylvania, and is due to transfer to St. George's School of Medicine i n G r e n a d a a t t h e e n d o f t h e y e a r. H e w r i t e s t h a t h e i s i n t o u c h w i t h a

good number of former students and enjoyed hearing first hand news from D AV I D FA S Z E R w h o w a s o v e r i n I n d i a a n d v i s i t e d t h e s c h o o l t h i s p a s t winter.

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D AV I D r e l u m e d t o C a n a d a w i t h h i s s i s t e r C AT H Y w h o i s n o w a t Peace River Bibie Institute.

STEPHEN GREENWOOD, on hoiiday at Bamboo Banks, came up to Hebron in April. He is studying hard at college, where he is on a football scholarship. Stephen lives not far from the TRUSCOTT family in California.

BECKY (nee Hamilton) was married to Dana Howell recently. JOY, a doctor is also married and has two children, while PAUL is a pastor and also working as a tissue culture technician in cancer research.

KARYN IRONSIDE is engaged to be married in August, and the rest of the family hope to be back from India in time to attend.

UMA KUKATHAS who was awarded a scholarship on the basis of her academic performance including her excellent A Level results, is studying in Ohio. SUSIE a very active member of Campus Crusade is studying Science at Syracuse.

A L A N TAY L O R i s t e a c h i n g a t N o r t h E d m o n t o n C h r i s t i a n the winter they visited the REINHARDT FAMILY. Alan writes : hilarious time-it's ten years since I saw Larry. He's staying with while he gets pledges (whatever they are) so he can leave to

School. In 'We had a his parents build more

buildings at South India Bible Institute in Bangarapet NORMAN is at Bible College in Medicine Hat, where DAN pastors, and SHARON is in nurses training'.

FERDIE TOZER has been recommended by his employers to gain a university degree, so he is 'back to school' as North Americans say. JANET visited Hebron at the end of the first term and on the way was able to meet up with a remarkably large number of her old Hebron friends in London.

Staying with DANNY AND CHRISTINE SINCLAIR probably helped.

DEBBIE TRUSCOTT is a qualified nurse working in Arizona. RUTHIE, who is studying towards an M. A. in English continues to do very well in sports. Her ambition is to be a sportswriter/journalist in San Diego, California.

J O N AT H A N W E E S N E R , a f t e r a y e a r a t B i b l e s c h o o l , i s s t u d y i n g computer science in Oklahoma.

B o t h P E T E R A N D PA U L W I I G a r e s t u d y i n g a t B i o l a c o l l e g e . P e t e r has been planning to go to Finland to run summer camps.

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NEWS OF FORIVIER STAFF Miss AUDREY BATEMAN is settling into life back in Sydney, staying with relations. She is due to move into the retirement village later in the year.

Mr and Mrs BROMLEY have written to say that Alison has been

in and out of hospital time after time since they returned to Ireland last year, Mercifully Brendan, who was one in April, has kept very good health.

THE DAVIES FAMILY who left one Hebron to work at another (Hebron Hall Christian Centre, Dinas Powis, South Glamorgan) write that they are settling, although Seth is still not sleeping well. They are enjoying having visitors from the other Hebron: DARSHAN, TIMOTHY ARCHER, NIGEL W I T C H A L L S , D AV I D B L A C K M O R E a n d t h e M O B L E Y F A M I LY, t o n a m e a f e w .

MARJORIE (NEE DAWSON) and her husband Harry Cherry lead a very full life in their church in Sussex, Halland Chapel. At the age of 87, Marjorie's m o t h e r , f o r m a n y y e a r s a m i s s i o n a r y i n Ta m i l N a d u , a n d g r a n d m o t h e r t o S Y LV I A B A X T E R , o n e o f o u r t e a c h e r s , w e n t t o b e w i t h t h e L o r d e a r l i e r t h i s year.

JOYCE FOWLER, working in a hospital in Christchurch, was able to take a holiday in Australia last year to visit ROSALIE SCANLAN and the HAWTHORNE

F A M I L Y.

Mr and Mrs DONALD FOX have been visiting India for some months. Due to ill health, Mrs Fox had to curtail her visit, returning to C a n a d a i n D e c e m b e r, b u t D o n a l d F o x i s s t i l l i n I n d i a ; a t t h e t i m e o f t h i s

magazine going to press he is actually in Ooty, meeting many students and colleagues from Breeks days.

JOY GILBERT is living with her mother in Ashford, Kent and teaching n e a r b y.

M i s s H A L L , w h o r e t i r e d l a s t y e a r , fi n d s l i f e w i t h o u t b e l l s ' f a n t a s t i c ' .

She is actively involved with Mission England.

CHRISTINA (NEE HUNT) and her husband now have two children; A n n n , w h o i s t w o , a n d P e t e r, b o r n i n M a r c h .

Mr and Mrs JENKINS are now teaching English at an agricultural college in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. They have been producing Shaw and Dickens (Oliver Twist), ideologically more acceptable no doubt than Shakespeare-or Stoppard; 5 8

Dr and Mrs MOBLEY and their two children are now in Gwent.

David has a very stimulating job in computers, the children both seem to

be happy at school, and they are all appreciating being part of a live fellowship. They continue to take a very prayerful and practical interest in Hebron.

FIONA MATTHEWS writes that she is finding her time at Oxford increasingly enjoyable. Apart from studying zoology, Fiona finds that music,

the Christian Union, walking the dog in the country, and general domesticity fi l l h e r d a y s . S h e h a s b e e n i n t o u c h w i t h a n u m b e r o f t h o s e w h o l e f t H e b r o n last year.

K AT H M C C A R T H Y, w h o i s t e a c h i n g i n V i c t o r i a , A u s t r a l i a , v i s i t e d India in late December/early January, to acquaint herself with I.C.F. work in the Pune region and to meet friends in Delhi and Madras.

Mrs HUSTON (NEE ORME) and her husband and family are in the U.S.A. to work among Mexicans.

Mr and Mrs PAIN and their three sons are back in the Nilgiris, now working for C.M.S., and based again in Silverdale, the old Hebron compound.

The boys are weekly boarders.

Miss M. SOMERVILLE is head of St. Augustine's First School in Bradford.

Mrs SUGDEN has been accepted, and begun, deaconess's training. She and her husband are in Hartlepool, where her husband is curate in an industrial a r e a .

NICKY (NEE SWANNELL) Duddy and her husband are now back in England, where Steve is teaching in a prep school near Worthing where YETTA and GRAHAM PAIN were. They attend a daughter church to the one the Pains went to, before they returned to India in April. Nicky describes her son as a 'blond haired, rugby prop". He is eleven months old.

RUTH WILKINS joined B.M.M.F. staff and began working at Nambikkai School for the Deaf near Kanya Kumari in August. With the serious illneess of

her father, Ruth returned to New Zealand, and as well as being able to help h e r f a m i l y, h a s t a k e n t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o m a k e a d e p u t a t i o n t o u r o f N . Z . , contacting, among others, the churches or families of the Morrises, Irvings and Wallises.

STOP PRESS:

The news has just been announced that RUTH is engaged to be married to Bill Anderson, of Hamilton, New Zealand. Felicitations, Ruth I 5 9

THE LAST LAUGH

Mary Queen of Scots was very spoilt and many boys liked her.

When the lady saw the cakes were burnt she shouted blue murder at Alfred.

Children from 4 to 5 to 40 or 50 had to work

Three year old (feeding her doll from a toy milk bottle) ; There, I've finished milking her. Now you can have a turn Mum.

Junior School student to her mother (After the Junior Carol Service rehearsal) : The only ones there were Miss Grimes and a cow.

(One of the School's cows had apparently stuck its head in the back door out of curiosity).

Question: What artery feeds the heart muscle?

A n s w e r ; C a n a r y. ( C o r o n a r y )

Question: Name a part of a Gothic Church.

Answer : Flying albatrosses. (Flying buttresses)

In Wales there are now three rabbits owned by little James Davies.

He has named them: Robbie, Stephen Jenkins and Wainwright.

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View from Hebron School

Dhakshinamurthy Doreswamy Standard Six

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