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THE CANTUARIAN

APRIL 1973

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CONTENTS EDITOR I AL

T H E SCHOOL

CH APEL NOTES

MR. T. P. PART IN GTON

TH IS AN D TH AT

REV IEWS

Dll AMA IN SCHOOLS

CORR ESPON DENCE

CON TRIBUT IONS

IlOO K REVI EWS

K I NG'S SPORT

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THE SO CIETIES

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M USI C

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c' c' F. NOTES

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OKS. N EWS

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OUR CONTEMPORARIES We ackn owledge wi th thank s the receipt of maga zines from the fo llowing schools :Aldenha m, Amplefort h, Bed ford , Brad ford G .S. , Campbell Co llege (Belfast), Dover, Epsom , Felsted. G lena imonci , Ho lmewood HOllse, Hurstpierpoint, K.C.S. Wimbledon, Lanci ng, La tymer Upper, Loretto, Mal vern, Marlborough, Milner COllrt, New Beacon, Newcastle R. G .S. , Orwell Park, Â· Queen 's Co llege (Hong Kong), Rad ley , Rugby, Simon La ngto n Gi rls' G .S., Stonyhu rst, Westminster, Whit gifl, Worksop.

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXVII No. 2

APRIL, 1973

EDITORIAL The structure of the Sixth Form curriculum is currently being reconsidered at a national level. The present system is a specialised one: its virtue is that this permits a sixth-former to master enough knowledge in his own field to begin to pass beyond rote learning; its evident defect is that it may discourage sixth-formers from pursuing a wide range of academic interests at as much depth as they might wish for or as, sometimes, might be useful to them in later life. Since any curricular changes would have to be accompanied by alterations to the existing G.C.E. structure, one is anxious to hear of modifications to the latter which might promote the opportunity for more diverse study beyond "0" level. The Schools' Council is open to criticism in that, whilst it claims to "represent the views of all the interested parties in education", it tends to do so 'n such proportions that the attitudes of certain lobbies are guaranteed a numerical and verbal dominance. However, one of its best recent proposals is that "A" levels should be replaced by "F" (Major and Further) and "N" (Minor and Normal) subjects in proportions of 3 : 2 or vice-versa. This seems an attractive idea, and one assumes such a scheme wo uld try and ensure that all arts sixth-formers developed their grasp of a numerate subject beyond "0" level and that all the science sixth had a tangible incentive to further study of a humanity or foreign language, or both. However, the essential reservation one wo uld wish to make would be that the major subjects should be studied no less deeply than "A" levels now; else good sixth-formers wo uld be repressed in their own special interests. In practice, it is hard to see how this could be done except by the not unreasonable means of the sixth form course becoming one of three years- possibly to be achieved by bringing forward some "0" levels by a year, and completing the others early in the "F" and "N" course. 65

A. Ahmadzadeh]

Unfortunately, the Schools' Council seem less willing to argue for this expansion of a schoo!'s teaching and learning opportunities than they are to use the new proposals as a devIce to erode the present standard of "A" levels; meantime shaking their heads in mock-sadness that they should find this necessary. One of the less amiable effects of the expansion. of tertiary education in t~e last ~ecade has been its creation of a certain body of vested mterest that seeks a sItuatIOn prejudIcIal to the standards customarily achieved by the good sixth form. Any erosion of "A" level standards wo uld accentuate this as it would also subjugate the interests of the capable sixth-former to what the so-calied "new .sixth" are prepared t? cope with. It .is sad, then, to have to give an ambiva lent recephon to proposals that, Insofar as they al1n to achieve a greater breadth of sixth fo rm study, would have considerable sympathy and support from many of us. THE CANTUA RI AN

Editors: J. S. G. Thomas, J. R. Seers,

K.S., M.S .,

P. A. Strickland,

K.S.,

J. C. Kingsman.

THE SCHOOL Captain of School: C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. Vice-Captains: N . B. Platts-Martin, K.S., M.S . M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S. Head of Walpole C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. Head of Galpin's M. J. d' A. Sephton, K .s. Head of The Grange K. J. N . Meek, K.S. Head of School House N. B. Platts-Martin, K.S., Head of Meister Omers C. J. G. Ware Head of Luxmoore A. Mather Head of Linacre P. R. Taylor, M.S. Head of Marlowe J. S. G. Thomas

M.S.

SCHOOL MONITORS

C. E. A. Reddick, K.S., N. B. Platts-Martin, K.S., M.S., M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S., A. Mather, K. J. N. Meek, K.S., M. J. D. Donaldson, P. R. Taylor, M.S. HOUSE MONITORS

School House: The Grange: Walpole: Meister Omers: Marlowe: Luxmoore:

N. B. Platts-Martin, K.S., M.S., S. M. Amos, M.S., C. H. Morgan. K. J. N . Meek, K.S., R. G . P. Pollard, K.S., J. R. Seers, K.S., M.S., M. G. T. Allen, K.S., R. W. Mansbridge, B. J. Q. Wheeler, M.S., K.S . C. E. A. Reddick, K.S., M. D. J. Donaldson, P. W. R. Carpenter, P. D. Chalkley, C. J. Howe. C. J. G. Ware, A. L. Dawes, K.S., M. A. Lakhani, W. Macdonald. J. S. G. Thomas, M . F. Robinson, A. J. Ellison, K.S., M.S., M. S. Good, K.S., M.S., C. M. Noble, K.S. , P. E. S. Richardson, S. J. White-Thomson. A. Mather, T. C. Lawrance, S. C. Reeve, M. Coerper, I. McL. Davis, I. R. O. MacDonald, R. W. D. Staveley. 66

Galpin's: Linacre:

M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S ., J. D. M. Taylor, S. J. Harrison, K.S., M.S., G. C. Olcott. P. R. Taylor, M.S., A. St. J. Brown, P. A. Reacher, A. Gent, M. G. Cheesman, K.S. C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S. A. St. J. Brown R. A. Kock S. J. Isacke C. C. Kilbee W. J. Pearson M. D. J. Donaldson M . G. T. Allen, K.S. T. G. Philpott N. B. Platts-Martin, K.S., W. M. Duggan, K.S. P. C. Whitaker C. E. Rudgard P. R. Taylor, M.S. J. P. Bianco S. B. Mather

Captain of Hockey Captain of Boats Captain of Cross-Country Captain of Rugger Captain of Atlz/etics Captain of Cricket Captain of Swimming Captain of Tennis Captain of Fencing Captain of Shooting Captain of Squash Rackets Captain of Gymnastics Captain of Judo Captain of Golf Monitor for Music Monitor for Woodwork Monitor for Art

M.S.

SALVETE T. J. Ackers, G. Arculus, S. C. Barker, T. J. Barnard, F-A. Binggeli, S. K. Brook, N. A. Brown, N . C. Brownbill, P. G. Bulley, L. H. Cartledge, D. J. M. Chapman, P. J. D. de Leyser, S. S. D hillon, F. C. D ibden, A. M. Dyke, M. J. Earl, R. Edmondson, S. H. Farrell , R. H. Hannah, N. R . Jorgensen, A. A. A. Kanji, C. M. Leigh, J. D. Lowe, J. W. McFarlane, M . P. Mahtani, M. K. H. Moss, Jane P. Moylan, N . G . F . Pardoe, M. J. Pearson, D. A. Porter, C. R. Plummer, M. A. Rae, C. O. Rasmussen, R. W. H. Riley, A. C. Rudkin, N. R. Smithers, A. C. J. Solway, J. N. D. Sparks, S. M. Stirling, P. C. L. Sultan, C. M . Todd, M. D. van Biommestein, J. R . S. Ward, N. G. Wells, G. R. Willis.

VALETE J. G. Anderson, R. W. Armstrong-Wright, G. P. R. Ashenden, W. W. Bowyer, R. A. Brown, G. R . Busby, N. P. Butcher, A. P. W. Campbell, N. C. W. Campbell, N. D. Cavell, R. H. T. Christophers, A. J. Cowderoy, R. B. Damon, G. P. Daniel, M. E. D . de Styrcea, T. P. C. Dodwell, G. M. Dorman, J. R. F. Eaton, A. J. Elliott, M. A. Elliott, S. G. Gallyer, J. E. Gardam, P. A. Gerstrom, Stephen J. Greaves, S. J. E. Greenhalgh, D . J. Grigson, M. N. E. Harris, J. M. H ill, P. J. Holdstock, G. N. Jones, M. B. Kemp, R . C. D. Kirkwood, J. J. Lambe, A. J. Mackintosh, R. A. N. Mackintosh, N. H. Moll, O. J. M uddiman, D. V. Neale, K. M. S. Plunkett, H. B. Powell, M. O. Romberg, P. C. Saddington, J. P. Sauerman, J. J. Shires, S. W. Souster, S. P. Swann, N. H. A. Terry, S. A. Thom, A. C. Thompson, J. F. H . Thompson, R. A. G. Thurston, G. P. Williams.

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES ANDERSON, J. G.-Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. ASHENDEN, G. R. P.-Came April, '68; Upper Sixth; Hon . Music Scholar; House Monitor; School Monitor; Secretary of Choir; Mon itor for Music. BOWYER W. W.-Came April, '68; House Monitor ; School Monitor ; Upper Sixth; 2nct'Rugby Colours; Sgt., C.C.F.; Hon. Secretary of Harvey Society. BUSBY, G. R.-Came Jan., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 2nd Rugby Colours. BUTCHER, N. P.- Came Sept., '68 ; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. CAMPBELL, A. P. W.-Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 2nd Rugby Colours; C.S.M., C.C.F. CAMPBELL, N. C. W.- Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; House Monitor ; Minor Sports Colours for Fencing; Secretary of Social Service Un it. CAVELL, N. D.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; Hon . King's Scholar; House Monitor; 1st Rugby Colours. CHRISTOPHERS, R. H. T.- Came April, '67; Music Scholar; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Head of House; School Monitor; Secretary of Choral and Operatic Societies; Academical Clerkship at Magdalen College, Oxford. COWDEROY, A. J.- Came April, '68; Upper Sixth; King's Scholar; Open Scholarship in Engineering at Corpus Christi, Cambridge. DAMON, R. B. F.-Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; Hon. Senior King's Scholar; Open Scholarship in English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. DANIEL, G. P.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. DE STYRCEA, M. E. D.- Came Sept., '69; House Mon itor; School Monitor; Captain of School; Upper Sixth; 1st Rowing Colours. DODWELL, T. P. C.-Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; King's Scholar; 1st Swimming Colours. DORMAN, G. M.- Came April, '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 1st Rugby Colours. EATON J. R. F.- Came Jan., '69; Upper Sixth; Hon. King's Scholar; House Monitor; Sdcretary of Tenterden Society; Secretary of Choir; Choral Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge. ELLIOTT A. J.- Came Jan., '68; Upper Sixth; Hon . Senior King's Scholar; House Mo~itor; Flt.-Sgt., C.C.F.; 2nd Colours for Rugby; Open Exhibition in History, New College, Oxford. ELLIOTT, M. A.-Came Jan., '68; Music Scholar; Upper Sixth; Secretary of Bell Ringing Society; Academical Clerkship at Christ Church College, Oxford. GALLYER, S. G.- Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; School Monitor; Head of House; Captain of Cricket and 1st Colours; Captain of Hockey and 1st Colours; 1st Rugby Colours. GERSTROM, P. A.-Came Jan., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 1st Rowing Colours; 2nd Hockey Colours. GREAVES, STEPHEN J.-Came Sept., '68; King's Scholar; Upper Sixth; Open Exhibition in English (Milner) at Fitzwilliam College, Camhridge. GREENHALGH, S. J. E.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Hon. Secretary of Europa Club. GRIGSON, D . J.- Came April, '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Head of House; School Monitor; 1st Rowing Colours; Captain of Boat Club; Sgt., C.C.F. 68

HARRIS, M. N. E.-Came Sept., '69; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; School Monitor; 1st and 2nd Cricket Colours; 1st and 2nd Rugby Colours; Finance Secretary for King's Week; Open Exhibition in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. HOLDSTOCK, P. J.-Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 1st and 2nd Rugby Colours. JONES, G. N.- Came Sept., '68; Hon. King's Scholar; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Captain of Judo and 1st Colours; Hon. Secretary of Judo Club. KEMP, M. B.- Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Head of House; School Monitor; Captain of Judo and 1st Colours. LAMBE, J. J.- Came Sept., '68; King's Scholar; Upper Sixth; Minor Sports Colours. MACKINTOSH, A. J.- Came Sept., '68; King's Scholar; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. MOLL, N. H.- Came Jan ., '69; Music Scholar; Sgt., C.C.F. ; Founder and Hon. Secretary of Aeronautical Society. MUDDIMAN, O. J.- Came Jan., '72; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 1st Cricket Colours. PLUNKETT, K. M. S.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; Hon. King's Scholar; Sgt., C.C.F. POWELL, H . B.- Came Jan. , '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Head of House; School Momtor; Captain of Rugby and 1st Colours; Captain of Tennis and Minor Sports Colours. SAUERM~N, J. P.-Came Sept., '71; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; Secretary of Somner Society; Open Exhibition in History at Christ's College, Cambridge. SHIRES, J. J.-Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; Hon. King's Scholar; House Monitor; 1st Cricket Colours; 2nd Rugby Colours. SWANN, S. P.- Came Sept., '67; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 2nd Cricket Colours. TERRY, N. H. A.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; Music Scholar; House Monitor; Secretary of the Choir; Secretary of 1st Orchestra. THOMPSON, J. F. H.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. THURSTON, R. A. G.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; King's Scholar; Hon. Secretary of Pater Society; Open Scholarship in Classics at Keble College, Oxford. WILLIAMS, G. P.-Came April, '68; Upper Sixth; Music Scholar; House Monitor; Secretary of Music Circle; Open Exhibition in History, St. John's ColleJle. Cambridge.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE AWARDS, 1972-ADDENDUM Ford Studentship in Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Oxford. HARRISON, S. J. Parker Exhibition in Music, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. PLATI'S-MARTIN, N. n. Mason Exhibition in Modern Languages (for Law), Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

BUSBY, G. R.

CHAPEL NoTES Confirmation. The highlight of the Lent Term's services was the School Confirmation, held in the Cathedral Quire on Saturday, 24th February, and taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was attended by a large number of parents and friends, as well as by the Middle and Lower School, and 50 boys were presented to the Archbishop, together with 34 from the Junior School. As his text the Archbishop spoke on the sentence, "He who is near me is near the fire".

The two Quiet Days for confirmation candidates were held in the week before the Confirmation at St. Gabriel's, Westgate, and were led by the Revd. Kenneth Gibbons, Vicar of St. Mary, Portsea . The First Communion for the newly-confirmed was held the next morning in the Chapel of Our Lady Undercroft, when they were welcomed by an encouragingly large number of boys, parents and friends. Visit of Canon de Berry. From 14th-17th February we enjoyed the company of Canon Keith de Berry, Rector of St. Aldate's, Oxford, who was introduced by the Headmaster at Assembly and who took as his theme "A Personal Faith". In three days he spoke to several classes in their Divin ity periods and held informal meetings with various groups of boys, those meetings in the boarding houses. going on till late in the e.ve.ning as boys took the opportunity to ta lk about the meanmg and relevance of ChnstIantty today. Many took the chance of a personal interview with Canon de Berry. Thanks. The chaplains wish to express their thanks to all who help with the preparation for our services, especially to Barnaby Wheeler, head sacristan for the past two terms, whose quiet, efficient help has been so valuable. Divinity Lessons. Divinity lessons with Sixth Form groups in the Lent Term were enlivened by the visits of several people from outside the school. Brother John Michael, a Roman Catholic Franciscan from the Canterbury House, answered questions about the life of a religious order; Miss Heathe~ Le Dieu, Tr,,:velling Secret~ry ~f the Church Missionary Society, spoke about her expenence as a mISsIOnary and umverstty lecturer 10 Nigeria; a priest of the Hare Krishna cult explained his beliefs about God and illustrated the method of meditative chanting. In addition, we have been pleased to welcome and talk with three of the Residentiary Canons of the Cathedral, Canons Pawley, Prichard and Robinson. Special Services. On two Sunday evenings special services were held, .in each of which about thirty boys took part. On 18th February a group from the Juntor Houses led a ervice of readings and hymns with the theme, "Who is Jesus?" On 25th March a number of more senior boys gave a reading from Dorothy Sayers' radio play, The Mall Born to be King. Both were held in the Eastern Crypt, taking the place of Evensong, and both were much appreciated by those who came. Wednesday Communion Services. On Wednesdays during Lent the daily celebration of Holy Communion in the Memorial Chapel was moved to 6.10 p.m., followmg afternoon school, and with the Series 3 order of service and a short address. 70

Visiting Preachers. We have been pleased to welcome as our visiting preachers at Evensong last term;Feb. 11. Canon Joseph Robinson. Mar. 11. Canon D. W. Cleverly Ford, Director of the College of Preachers. Mar. 18. The Ven. J. R. Youens, Chaplain General and Chaplain to the Queen. Collections. In the Lent Term donations were given from the Sunday collections to the following causes;-

£ 23 ·00 11·00 46·00 39·00 21·00 10·00 27·50 22·00

Nicaragua Earthquake Appeal Christian Action'S work for the homeless ... Help the Aged .. . Christian Aid . .. Royal National Institute for the Deaf Invalid Children's Aid Association .. . U.S.P.G. (for the church overseas) .. . Fr. Danders' Saigon Orphanage

P.F.B.

MR. T. P. PARTINGTON Tom Partington will be retiring from the Junior School.in July on medical grounds. He has not been at all well during the past year, and the doctors have decided that he

must now retire.

...

He has been at Milner Court since soon after the end of the war, and for the last fifteen years has been Second Master. Several generations of boys and parents will have been greatly indebted to him. To those of us in the School he has always been a most devoted and loyal friend, a solid rock on whom we could always depend. In the classroom, the games fi~lds, the orchestra and choir and in the common room, he has always given of hIS best m complete service of the School and all its members and it will be very difficult to imagine Milner Court without him. ' I am sure that all Old Boys, Parents and Friends, who have known Tom Partington over the years, will want to join in a presentation to him to mark his retirement. Please send any contributions to the Reverend J. H. Edmonds, Milner Court, Sturry, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 OA Y. J.H.P. 71

tillS AND THAT The Mayor We were glad to have the Mayor and Mayoress, Alderman and Mrs. H. L. Buckworth, with us for Matins on March 25th. The Headmaster attended the Oxford and Cambridge Schools' Examination Board on March 11 th; replied to the toast "Floreat Schola Regia" at the most enjoyable O.K.S. Dinner at the East India Club on March 2nd, and preached at Dover College on March II th o He was in Ca mbridge with Mrs. Newell from March 7t h to 9th, and attended the Domus Dinner at Trinity College, Oxford , on March 31st. The Headmaster

King's dominated the annual Schools' Six-a-Side Tournament organised by the Canterbury Hockey Club on II th February. Seven teams took part, two each from King's, St. Edmund's and Simon Langton and one from Kent College, with each playing the others on a points basis. Tournament winners were King's School "B" with 16 points, followed closely by King's "A" with 15. Third, with 13 points, were Kent College.

Sixes. ..

When the Kent Schools' Rugby Sevens were last played two years ago, Eastbourne defeated King's in the final. This year, on 14th March at Beckenham, Eastbourne's run ended in the semi-final at the hands of the Duke of York's R.M.S. side, but King's won through with a convincing victory over Judd from Tonbridge. [n an exciting final, King's beat the Duke of York's 18~JO.

••• and Sevens

Engagement

Congratulations to Mr. Pittman and Miss Laura Perree on their recent engagement.

Hope springs eternal

Stephen Hope has gained a major musical success by winning the organ scholarship at Bristol University. Stephen was one of five entrants, and part of his duties will be as organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Church, Clifton.

The sponsored swim by members of the School to raise money for "Action Charity Swim for the Crippled Child" succeeded in raising £442·3 1. Our thanks arc due to those who took part in the swim and to those who contributed so generously to the Appeal. Oxford just hiccupped home to beat Cambridge in their twenty-fifth The throat race annual Wine-tasting Contest this year. Oxford's captain, Antony Northrop, O.K. S., explained the appeal of the pursuit to The Times reporter: "The pleasure of the sport of wine-tasting is getting the answers right. We enjoy trying to describe tastes and smells in words. Some of them are indescribable. They smell like old socks, and taste like oatmeal, which I have never tasted." Northrop is following unbelievably closely in the footsteps of Robert Clarke, a.K. S.: both were in Meister Omers, both have captained the Oxford wine-tasting team (Clarke in 1971 when Oxford also won), and both scored the highest individual marks in the contest. Ml'. Pollak is working on the improbability of the whole affair! 72

Congratulations to Mr. Goddard on his appointment as Headmaster of Mr. Goddard Plymo uth College, which takes effect from the beginning of the next academic year. We wish Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, not forgetting Olivia, every success and happiness. The Headmaster generously granted the School a short but welcome Short Holiday holiday from after Matins on 4th March to 6 p.m. the next day as recognition of the Oxbridge results and a good term.

From K.S. General Paper, May, 1972:Snap! Q. 19. In New York a new punning game is being played in which a question has to be answered by the name of an artist 01' writer. e.g., Who hates trumpets? Answer: Gericault. Make up three questions and answers in the same mood . From "New Statesman", December, 1972:Weekend Competition No. 2,234. Set by Woodchuck. "Who hates trumpets?" "Gericault". An excruciating New York game involves inventing questions-and-answers on this model. Competitors are asked to supply their own versions.

Visiting artists include Craig Sheppard, the outstanding pianist at last year's Leeds Piano Festival, while our own dramatic offerings are Shakespeare's Twelfth N ight in the beautiful garden of Chillenden Chambers, The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry, and Terence's Andria in the Pater Society's own translation. Musica l tastes will be catered for by the ever popular Serenade in the Cloisters, two Symphony Concerts and a Concert of Light Music, and there will be the usual wide range of Exhibitions. King's Week

No one wins the "Business Game" two years running, but to be knocked Only a Game! out by a girls· school ... ! Our defeat in the second round was at the hands of Wolverhampton High School who made a profit of £3,586,490 against King's £2,738,030. Still, they were the only girls left in the contest, and our team didn't do as badly as one unsuccessful challenger who went out with a loss of £2t million. ... to M. O'K. Webber, a.K.S. , on rowing at No.6 in the Cambridge Boat Race crew, winners by a record margin. ... to Nicholas Marshall, a.K .S., on winning the Dinner Match (2nd pairs) at Real Tennis for Cambridge. · .. to R. L. M. Wohanka-Ransom, a .K.S., on his appointment as Cambridge Squash Captain for next year. · .. to M. D. J. Donaldson and T. Hunter on being chosen to play for the Schoolboys' XV v the Schoolmasters' XV. · . . to Christopher Gibson on having been awarded the Senior Arpeggios Cup for obtaining the highest marks during 1972 in the Trinity College of Music Grade VIII Examination. He took the examination last term on the treble recorder. · .. and to Stuart Sampson, a.K. S., on being awarded a Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholars hip to the Inner Temple. Congratulations

We were honoured by the visit of Mr. John Pring, of the New Don't Shoot ••• ! Zealand Rugby Referees, probably the leading referee in the world at the moment. He refereed the Blore's XV v Kent University "A" XV. In New Zealand he refereed all four tests of the Lions' last tour there. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Katherine Pring. The following is an extract from the W.R.V.S. Magazine (January, 1973):"Boys from King's School help with Meals-on-Wheels in the holidays. Marlowe Social Work They are excellent and the recipients of the dinners love to see them. They are not only an asset socially but there have been occasions when a disaster has been discovered a! a house, and it :-vas one of the boys who coped in each case calmly and correctly. What IS even more delIghtful, when they go on to University they return in the vacations to help-often now, drivers, in their own right." Exhausted oarsman on the landing-stage at Pluck's Gutter: "Can you give Overheard me a hand out of the boat ; I'm not feeling too nubile at the moment." -Fair enough, he was only a Colt! A lot has been happening at Kelly College, Tavistock, since September. Mr. Mr. Ball B.all has instituted a fortni ghtly report and tutorial system, and he would like hIS school to have more girls (15 or 20 rather than the present six) since he feels their presence is stimulating (academically, of course) and makes for a more balanced school society. Mr. Ball also plans closer links with the town of Tavistock mainly by means of social work. We look forward to further news. Births

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Dyer on the birth of a son, James Willoughby (3rd October), and to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes on the birth of a son, Simon Daniel (15th January).

O.K.S. Musicians

Howard Williams (Linacre, 1961-65) is now Conductor of the Renaissance Singers. At a recent London Concert, John Potter, a contemporary of his (School House), was their soloist.

The Librarian acknowledges with gratitude the recent gifts of books from: The Library the Headmaster, the Revd. P. F. Boyden, Mr. J. Breese, O.K.S., Mr. E. E. Kingsman, Mr. H. Maxwell, Mr. M. E. Milner, and Dr. J. M. Courtney, O.K.S. (More Sonnets). Elizabeth Steele's Hugh Walpole, the first book-length appraisal of this distinguished O.K.S. since Marguerite Steen's study of 1933, was also kindly sent to us by its publishers, Twayne's of New York. In re~ent months the main reading room, the reference section and the Durnford have all been relighted, the reference section has been carpeted and there has been some general refurbisWng. The cost of most of these improvements has been met by the Library'S H.M.S. Challe1lger Fund. Promising Playwright

M. J. M. Aggleton had a short dramatization of a morning scene in the Plender study hall broadcast on the B.B.C.'s Books, Plays, Poems on 28th March. 74

Mr. Vincent Snell, O.K .S., returned to Canterbury in February to give a Transcendental public lecture on Transcendental Meditation. He is a retired consultative Meditation surgeon and now leader of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, which teaches the stress-releasing technique in this country. The technique is a simple and natural way of achieving a calm personality. Mr. Snell left King's in 1923 and now lives in Sussex. Many congratulations to the Fencing Club on completing another unbeaten season and for the second year running wi nning every available Senior Team Championshi p in the County plus two out of the three Individual Championships. Their successes included: the Team Foil Championship, the Team Sabre Championship, the Team Epee Championship, the Three-Weapon ChampionsWp, the Foil Team Knock-out Championship, the Individual Sabre Championship (N. C. Bane) and the Individual Epee Championship (A. J. Carter). Fencing

Michael Good spent part of his summer holidays rubbing brasses in Norfolk churches, which contain some of the finest examples in the country. The net result was an exhibition of some 23 of the finished products, also mounted and framed by Michael, at Christ Church College, Canterbury. The high standard of exhibits bore witness to Michael's dedication (he has been rubbing brasses for ten years) and perfectionism. He recommends the hobby as a combination of many things including history, woodwork and deciphering Latin inscriptions, but it obviously involves a great deal of hard work: the largest rubbing in the exhibition took I I hours to complete, and Michael lost a stone and a half in his ten days in Norfolk! (A photograph appears in this issue.) Not for the lazy!

The term saw a good crop of House Plays from Marlowe, Galpin's and House Plays Meister Omers. Two Stoppards and a Shaffer- all British, by jingo! Reviews appear later in the magazine. On Wednesday, 14th March a party of 11 musicians gave an informal concert at this preparatory school which Âˇhas close links with King's. The programme, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to Walton and jazz, was a great success and it is hoped that opportunities will be found to repeat the venture elsewhere. Selwyn House

With tbe Tenterden Society being given a new lease of life within the School, Stephen J. Harrison and Philip Chalkley have made their way through to the final of The Observer National Schools' Debating Competition. They won the Regional (Kent) round, competing against three other schools at Sutton Valence, and then proceeded to win the Southern Final at Whitgift against Lady Eleanor HolIes School, Wallington High School, St. George's, Weybridge, Sheen Grammar School, and Christ's Hospital. They now contest the final against the winners of North, East, and West at the City of London School on May I I tho This is the first year that King's has entered the competition. Debating

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â&#x20AC;˘ Congratulations to Paul Strickland on being awarded a Harveian Society An Editor Prize for his article on the Blaxlands (see The Canluarian, April, 1972). The aim of this prize is to perpetuate William Harvey's spirit of careful enquiry, and the requirement is a piece of original work in any branch of knowledge, pursued as widely and deeply as possible; the prize is open to a number of Kent schools. Paul's work on the Biaxland a rticle has paid dividends: it has to date won him two prizes, and it is probable that it wiII also be published in a new history of Fordwich. Names of King's composers are appearing with increasing frequency upon the cathedral service lists. Peter Cowell's canticles in F major for boys' voices are in the repertoire. Matthew Bright's responses are well established, and several works of Jonathan Seers have crept in.

Cathedral Music

On 22nd March, King's won the Kent Senior Schools' Hockey Cup for the first time by beating st. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, 2- 0 in a closely-fought final. The "Frank Mason" Kent Schools' Hockey Tournament was played at Kent College with twelve teams competing for the Friends of Kent College Cup. As after the Rugby Sevens, in the next morning's assembly the team captain received the cup from the Headmaster to enthusiastic applause from the whole School. Hockey Victory

Henry Bell-Wilson, O.K.S., is one of the country's leading collectors of early English clocks, and much sought after as a lecturer. He is also an ardent collector of Sevres porcelain and antique furniture particularly of the Queen Anne period. Mr. Bell-Wilson's great grandfather was Mayor of Canterbury and built and presented to the city the Royal Museum, so he considers that a love of the arts may have been slightly " in-born". Clock Watcher

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On the last Sunday of term the chaos, rivalry and intense partisanship of the House Music Competition were with us once again. Never is House spirit so strongly or vociferously in evidence! Mr. Simon Preston, Organist of Christ Church, Oxford, adjudged Galpin's the winners of three cups, and only Marlowe stopped them sweeping the board . A full report appears later in the House Music Competition magazine.

Both the Natural History Society and the Boat Club made financial contributions to the fighting fund of local preservationists battling against the Thanet Water Board's proposal to extract up to 2Âˇ2 million gallons daily from the upper reaches of the river. And victory came on 23rd March when, after an exhaustive inquiry, the Department of the Environment announced their decision that the beauty and amenities of the Little Stour Valley far outweigh the Water Board's need for additional supplies of drinking water. This news will please the many who enjoy the wildlife and vegetation of the Little Stour, which joins the main river at Pluck's G utter. Battle of the Little Stour

REVIEWS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE DR. WILLIAM URRY The evening of Thursday, 15th February was both cold and wet, and it was therefore with some trepidation that officials of the Somner Society awai ted their audience for a joint meeting with the recently formed Canterbury Historical Association being held in the Shirley Hall. However, fea rs that their assessment of the appeal of Dr. Urry would prove over-optimistic we re quickly calmed as both boys, excited by fumours of his powers as a speaker, and townspeople, drawn by previous experience of those powers during his

long years as Cathed ra l Arch ivist, poured in. "Christopher Marlowe" proved a peg upon which Dr. Urry was to hang his unrivalled knowledge of Tudor Can terbury. The age was brought to life in a manner totally new to the majority of his audience for here attention focussed on the microcosm and not the macrocosm as we were give n, not a glimpse of great affairs of state, of BurghJey or the Armada, but a pano ram ic view of small-town society . .. of a murder in Palace Street or a brawl in Northgate ; of so-and-so livi ng in a house where Marks and Spencer now stands; of a yo ung man being chased do wn St. Peter's Street by Christopher Marlowe's colourful , if irate, siste r Dorothy, the wife of a publican; of the you ng Christopher himself using the personal library of the Headmaster whilst a poor schola r at King's; and of a young man, in all probability Christopher, a year or two later, reading the wiII of a deceased relative to the assembled company in his best Cambridge voice! Dr. Urry had an endless supply of such anecdotes and astounded us all with his apparent knowledge of the house, occupation and family of each and every citizen of Eliza bethan Canterbury, all of which was recounted wit ho ut recou rse to a single note!

Finally, the commonly accepted view that the death of Christophel' Marlowe was the result of a sordid affray in a public house was effectively dismissed. It seems likely that, whilst the death itself was an unplanned accident resultant upon his own over-hasty temper, he was in some way in vo lved with underworld characters and th e spies of the secret service

networks so characteristic of the age. As yet the truth remains obscured, but all of us are now convinced that, if anybody is to clarify the mystery, then it will be Dr. Urry. B.T.

TRIO RECITAL: GUITAR, VIOLIN AND HARPSICHORD ANTHEA GIFFORD, JOHN TRUSSLER, MICHAEL STEER FRIDA v, 26TH JANUARY I N THE SHIRLEY HALL These three yo ung artists appeared under a similar debut scheme to that which gave us a chance to hear the Japanese pianist, Etsuko Tazaki, last yea r. Live music of such quality so early in the Lent Term is a real treasure and one sincerely hopes that the scheme will be re peated man y tim es. On thi s occasion a very sizea ble and appreciative aud ience was

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The trio certainly presented an unusual combination of instruments, hut the programme was expertly devised, and the complete ensemble was only heard at the very end . From the beginning it was obvious that the different combinations of instruments could present extremely beautiful and unusual so unds : two pieces for guitar and harpsichord, by Boccherini and Sylvius Weiss, displayed the fascinating similarities and contrasts between these two instruments, the one flexible in tone, the other more rigid. The Shirley Hall obviously has excellent acoustics for the guitar; the comely Miss Gifford continued with a Suite in A minor by Lin Froberger, tra nscribed by Julian Bream. Of the four movements the lovely Sarabande was outstanding- one could feel the hall holding its breath. The first half of the concert ended with a Bach Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord, introducing John T russler's rich smooth tone and secure technique. The harpsichord was a li ttl e tinny on the ear but in the third movement a change of tone made for a very sensitive performance. The second half of the concert opened with the third set of six inventions for harpsichord by Stephen Dodgson, receiving its first public performance. These short impressions were very free in style and a little too loosely organised to facilitate concentra tion on first hearing, but they made for contrast in this well-organised programme. The one remaining duet combination was violin and guitar, represented by a Sonata by Vi valdi and the Fourth Sonata by Paga nini. The first was beautifully concise, preserving a perfect partnership of performance. The Paganini had an inevitable gypsy flavour and the violin fireworks we re tossed off with aplomb. To tie all the threads together the complete trio finished by playing the Trio in One Move ment by Michae l Steel', the harpsichordist. This was a gentle, relaxing piece, beginning with a channing prelude for solo guitar, continuing with a winning tune for violin, and saving up the harpsichord to add rhythm at the end. For an encore, McCartney's Blackbird was simu lated by high violin ha rmonics. J. R . SEERS.

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As is customary, this was first a devotional occasion emphasised by readings carefully chosen a nd admirably delivered by the Revd. Peter Allen, but by any standards the impact of the opening chorus, SchUtz's Glory be to Jesus was most impressive. The Madrigal Society, conducted with unfailing sensitivity by Edred Wright, seemed richer in treble voices than is sometimes the case, and the other parts were at their usual ve ry high standard. The chording was less certain in the very demanding Purcell Hear my prayer, 0 Lord but the Morley Nolo Mortem Peccatoris and the Agnus Dei from Byrd's Four-Part Mass we re confidently a nd beautifully sung. The Chamber Orchestra, led by David Goodes, sounded well in the particular acoustic and with Stephen Hope the organist gave a very good account of the currently popular Albinoni/Giazotto Adagio in G minor. Handel's tenor arioso from Messiah, "Be hod and See" was sung with some vowel difficulty but good tone quality, and the evening's performance ended with three treas ures : a small group sang Vittoria's motet, 0 Vos Omnes, with great ski ll and expression, then the Society gave most moving performances of Tallis's When rising [rom the bed of death and the fin al chorus from Bach's St . Matthew Passion. Another memorable occasion in the Eastern Crypt; there should not have been one empty seat. A. SEERS. 78

THE MARLOWE HOUSE PLAY "BLACK COMEDY" By

PIITER SHAFFER

4TH FEBRUARY

Black Comedy was a good choice by Marlowe in that the play provided the element of farce wh ich House Play audi ences invariably welcome, as well as making interesting

forays into the territory of "double entendre" and the like. When the curtai n rose, the audience (and actors) were literally left in the dark, for in this inge nious comedy the usual states of light and darkness a re reversed. A few of the lines tended to wards the inaudible at the very beginning of the play, but when the lights came on, the actors reall y began to hold their audience. One can obviously understand the difficulties involved in having to perform as though one is in darkness, but, in general, the cast seemed to ha ve mastered this problem. The visual humour of an unlikely assortme nt of caricatured characte rs franticall y gropin g about in the " dark" freq uentl y reduced the audie nce to ga les of laughter as unrestrained as r have heard in the Shirley Hall. The set was ve ry well constructed and had many imaginative incidental decorations which effectively caught the eye . Throughout the play, the lighting was commendably accurate a nd never distracted the audience from being involved by the action. Costumes were pleasantl y colourfu l and contributed to the considerable visual interest of the play. The acting was of an impressive standard and it wou ld be wrong for me to single o ut

anyo ne actor as being the "star" because a ll the performances were very good. Christopher Snell and Deborah Baza lgette both acted admi rably and confidently, putting their jokes across with a great deal of polish. Ada m Finn was spot-on in his portrayal of Miss Furnival, the tipsy spinster, as was David Ogilvy in his interpretation of Colonel Melkett (I smell type-casting!). Jeremy Thomas, the co-producer of the play, "camped up" his acting wit h great consistency in the role of Harold Gorringe, and his ex perience as an actor resulted in his turning in yet another fine performance. James Lyle was hilarious as Clea, the coquette of the farce, while Peter Wagstaffe made a notable acting debut as Schuppanzigh, having perfected a marvellously guttural German accent for the play. Michael Robinson also acted well as Bamberger, the stone-deaf millionaire. The production was excellent and both the co-producers, Mr. Stephen Woodley and Jeremy Thomas, deserve much praise for giving the audience a most delightful and enjoyable evening. . M-A. LAKHANI.

MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT A wide, colourful spectrum of musical activities was skilfu lly displayed at the Concert in the Shirley Hall on February 25th. Some people have a favou rite colour for flowers, and others a favourite "colour" in music: a piano is monochromatic, but a f ull orchestra has a wide range of instrumental colours. The graceful waltzes of Brahms' Op. 39 are familiar in the piano versions for two or four hands, and so the more colourful orchestral ve rsion of those played by the Second Orchestra under its conductor, Mr. David Goodes, had an additional polychromatic charm. 79

'The Allegro Agitato lirst movement of G rieg's A minor SOl/ata fo r 'Cello and Piano has lyrical and dramatic elements, the piano having the lion's share of the " agitato" passages. Andrew Woolmer played with admirable vigo ur and cla rity, and the 'cellist, David Newland, produced a smooth tone and flu ent phrasing, a nd mastered the technical difficulties of the high register. One had to listen attenti vely to the 'cello part, as the instrument was placed so close to the front row of the audience at fl oor level th at the sounds were masked from those sitting furth er back, and the brighter tone of the pia no swa mped the lower notes. Clare nce Mye rscough had no such handicap in the Paga nini Violil/ COl/certo No.1, because his head and shoulders were at a higher level, a nd one could see his rapid fingerwork and bow movements as well as hear the resulting sounds cl earl y. The well-drilled Chamber Orchestra, unde r D aVid Goodes' control, produced an accurate and delicate acco mpaniment for the soloist, and blossomed into a sonoro us tu tti when he was silent. There were few concerted passages, .as the main orchestral tas k was to supply a quiet backgro und of pIZZicato chords, whIlst all eyes and ears we re on the brav ura playing of the soloist. When Paganini wrote th ~s~ works to display his own virtuosity in the 19th century, he was probably the onl y VIOlInist able to play them: he would certainl y be surprised to see the deceptive ease with which Cla rence Myerscough obta ined all his ingenious and spectacular effects that delight the ear and dazzle the eye. The G lee Club's contribution, under the guidance of Mr. Christopher Tinker, was Italian Salad by Genee : this was memorable for the good quality and balance of the voices, and for the outstanding perfor mance of the star operatic tenor, Signor Roberto Scotti: every word of the ensemble was clearly a udible, although sung in Ita lian! Mr. Tinker also made his successful debut as the conductor of the Massed Band, that outshone Nebuchadnezza r's famous group of players upon the cornet, flute, harp, sack but, psaltery, dulcimer and other instruments of music. The serried ran ks of fl autists, cla rinettists, oboeists, horn, trumpet and trombone players, not to mention saxophones, mas ked from view the tubas, "sarpints" and percussion, that could be heard , if not seen. Milhaud's Suite Fral1. aise took us on a short Cook's T our of Gau l, now divided into five parts. Only " Bretagne" (alias Brittany) seemed a little unsure of itself: everyo ne could enjoy the " Willy and his little drum" theme fro m Provence, and the liveliness of life in the "IIe de France" . This attracti ve wo rk has piquant touches of Milhaud's early 20th century "modern ism", giving it a spicy flavour that left us all with a pleasant taste at the end of a feast of good things from a well va ried menu . " M uSlcus".

THE BRITISH HEADLESS VALLEY EXPEDITION CAPTAIN SIR RANU LPH TWISTLETON-WYKEHAM-FIEN NES, B.T. , F.R.G.S. Sir Ranulph began his talk by briefly describing two of his previous expeditions. The first was a haza rdous journey by hover-craft up the White N ile, a distance of some 4,000 miles. The second was an expedition to Central Norway to survey a glacier for the Norwegian water board . This involved a team of scientists and equi pment being dropped from a plane and parachuting on to an ice field measuring 100 yards by 100 ya rds. Both tas ks were completed successfull y except fo r a few injuries and the loss of some expensive equipment. 80

'The British Headless Valley Expedition was, in fact, just a single stage of a much lon~er journey to trans-navigate the whole of British Columbia. After five months of extensive training they set o ~t from the Y ukon border in the N orth. Having completed the first stage which necessitated crOSSIng the Rocky MountaIns, the?, arnved at the top of the Headless Valley. Since 1910 thirty-five men had ventured I ~, and none of these had returned. Cliffs rose up on either side anything up to a mile high, and beneath the water swirled over the rocks at speeds up to thirty-six knots. The r ubber rafts with which they were going to attempt the journey had only previously been tested on the hardly hazardous waters of the lower Thames! There were three boats, one of these being occupied by the B.B.C. camera crew, anothe~ by a tea'!' from the Royal Scot's G reys, of which Sir Ranulph was once a me~lber, whIle. the thud was occupied by Sir Ra nulph himself. Needless to say all three arnved safely 10 Vancouver after some 2300 miles, of which 1,500 were completed in the boats. , The lecture had a very good attendance and was liste,;,ed to w!th interest. The film was disappointingly short and perhaps one would have liked a little more on the actual Headless Valley, but the slides, of which there were about one hundred and fifty, were excellent. It was, as a whole, a most interesting and enjoyable lecture. J. C. KINGSMAN.

SKI-ING HOLIDAY: STEINACH, AUSTRIA-JANUARY 3rd-12th Mr. Gollop had decided to take another ski-ing party to Austria, which ~onsisted of a group of 20 of us, plus Major M orton and D r. Gough. After a 22-hour Journey, we arrived at the village of Steinach, situated south of Innsbruck. However there was little or no snow to be seen. Fortunately, at 4,700 feet, there was plenty of it plus bright sunshine. There we were divided into two ski-ing groups. Two days later, three had emerged, due to our greatly varying skills. Major Morton, i~stantly recognisable in a bright red cagoule, preferred to tackle the slope~ sedately on hiS ?~n . Mr. Gollop and Tim Fahey seemed to have the habit of nearly collIdIng, the latter aVOldmg disaster with a neat parallel stop that produced a minor snow storm. As most of us were trying to master parallel turns, T om H unter and Steve Checkley shot down the slopes with ease. This was in contrast with the beginners' group, where Dr. Gough seemed to be having difficulty with his snowplough turns. Happily, no bones ~e.re broken. When classes were over we made full use of the facilities-a restaurant, a chalrhft and a draghftbefore four o' clo~k, when it became too dark to continue ski-ing. In the evening, the adult members of the party would be seen playing liar dke in the bar opposite our hotel, which sold beer at half-price. Towards the end of the holiday, we came to know some D utch tourists from our hotel. As we were now Common Marketeers, this had added significance ! After an all-too-short week we left Steinach. Thanks are due to Mr. Gollop for a most enjoyable holiday, and we look forward to next year's, also scheduled to take place in Austria.

M. A.

SELWYN.

GALPIN'S HOUSE PLAY "ALBERT'S BRIDGE" By TOM STOPPARD SUNDAY, 18TH FEBR UARY, 1973

Albert's Bridge might seem at first sight an odd choice for a House play. A radio play has so many small scenes, in so many settings, and yet the individual scenes are often rather static. And Stoppard's characteristic verbal humour is not easy to put across in the Shirley Hall, where audibility is always a problem, and quick exchanges and patter tend to become blurred. And yet the Galpin's play worked. That it did so was a great credit to Mr. Woodley and his cast, and not least to Jonathan Bianco, whose ingenuity and engineering produced one of the most dramatic sets I have seen on this stage. From the moment that the curtai ns parted on this impressive framework it was clear that even a radio play could have a visual impact- perhaps the play could have been re-titled "Bianco's Bridge"! Among these huge girders Stephen Harrison played his whimsical Albert, always audible and often agile- he had to be to get up and down the ladders from one scene to another. With him on the bridge was a fine chorus of workmen (Michael Carter, Jonathan Burke, and Bill Stevens) whose dialogue showed a good sense of timing. Richard Crosby, as the pram- and husband-pushing wife, was lively and articulate, susta ining the play through the difficult middle scenes. Another good example of teamwork in acting was provided by the Town Council, presided over by Simon Ingram, bearing himself li ke a portly gentleman, supported by Colin Russell, sniped at by Andrew Winstanley, and harassed by a neurotic Duncan Arthur as the Borough Surveyor. John Taylor and George Olcott made a credible father and an incredible mother respectively, and Marcus Sephton was convincingly "twitched" as Fraser, the would-be suicide. The play was taken at a good lively pace, the set was splendid, the actors enjoyed themselves-and so did 1.

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THE CRUSADES DR. BOASE There are very few King's historians who can claim to be experts concerning the Crusading period. However, pro Boase, with the aid of a remarkable set of slides, overcame all difficulties admirably and immediately won over the audience's interest. The talk was based on the architecture of the age. We were given a picture of key monuments in Jerusalem- the Great Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre- in astonishing detail. The second half of Dr. Boase's lecture dealt with the castles built by Crusaders in Armenia, Turkey, Syria and Israel- one can only regret that the projector did not do these magnificent photographs full justice. In the question-time, Dr. Boase showed his extensive knowledge of the period and pulled through the most obscure of them with great patience and affability. This talk was fascinating and enlightening, fully justifying the good turn-out it received. M. H. PEARSON. 82

LUNCH TIME CONCERTS 29TH JANUARY

Schubert

Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 784 S.

HARRISON

2ND FEBRUARY

Andantino and Allegretto from Sonata (Op. 166) Sonatina Drei Romanzcn (Op. 94) N. F. RODERTS (oboe), S. J.

HARR ISON

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8TH FeBRUARY

Saint-Saens Gordon Jacob Schuman" MatthesolJ

Sonata a 3 in G minor Telematm Sonata a 2 in F major Purcell Chaconne in F major ) C. J. GIDSON, A. J. J. ELLISON, S. R. HARRISON !recordors J. W. SMITH (harpsichord), L. H. CARTLEDGE (cello) 13TH FEBRUARY . Haydn String Quartet (Op. 33, No.3) (The Bird) P J N P. J. DA LE, B. J. Q. W HEELER. S. M. AMOS, . . lCHOLL 23RD FEBRUARY S. J. Davies Sonatina S. J. DAVIES (oboe), S. J. HARRlSON (piano) Two Italian Arias Q. H. POOLE (cor angla is), S. J. HARRISON (piano) M. W. Gut/eridge A Quartet of Tunes Q. H. POOLE (flute), S. J. DAVIES (oboe) . M. W. GUTI'ERTDGE (clarinet), S. J. HARRISON (plano) 2ND MARCH Beethoven Trio in C major (Op. 87) N. F. ROBElns, P. A. BURROWS (oboes) Q. H. POOLE (cor anglais) 12TH MARCH Beethoven Violin Sonata in D (Op. 12, No. I) . ) B. J. Q. WHEELER (violin) , S. J. HARRISON (piano 14TH MARCH Schllmanll Nos. 1,2,3,6 from Frauenli be und Leben (Op. 42) Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen ( bl) A. B. CHAPMAN tre e . N. B. PLATIS-MARTIN (clarinet), S. J. HARRISON (plano) 15TH MARCH Vivaldi Recorder Sonata in G minor D. Scarlalli Piece fo r harpischord (L 358) . . ) Vivaldi Sonata in A minor for recorder, bassoon, harpsichord (Flt'st and Second Movements A. J. J. ELLISON (recorder), M. S. GOOD (bassoon) S. R. HARRISON (harpsichord) S. J. Harrison organised the concerts. Next term it is hoped there will be several after lunch during Ki ng's Week.

20th CENTURY IDEAS IN ART The subject of Dr. Stephen .Bann's l ectu~e o~ Febr.uary 9th was the "poet an~ environmentalist, Ian Hamilton Fmlay. Beg10mng wIth a dIS~USSlO!, of several concre!e poems composed by Finlay, Dr. Bann went on ~o talk about hIS envlro!'mental work which centres around his simple croft-home near Edmburgh. The many slIdes shown revealed a system of three ponds connected by a bur~ running through a c~~efully ~r~anged garden containing an ever-increasing number of delIberately thought out poems 10 stone, slate, 83

wood or marble, which create around them a complete and satisfying miniature environment by subtle reference to the outside wor ld from within the intimate atmosphere of the garden. For example, model aircraft-carriers made of marble and performing the function of bird-baths imply the parallels between birds and aeroplanes, alighting, filling up and taking-off again. The carriers are a hint of death made more poignant by the simple rustic setting. The Art Society is most grateful to Dr. Bann for sparing the time to come and give a lecture wbich was entertaining and very well-illustrated. B. J. Q. WHEELER.

MEISTER OMERS HOUSE PLAY "ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD" By TOM STOPPARD The curtain rose to a simple, clean-cut and good-looking set in pale blue and white; and we were immediately introduced to Rosencrantz (Paul Baron) and Gu ildenstern (Moosa-Ali Lakhani), th e two characters on whose " short, blunt human pyramid" the play stands or falls. So much oftbis extraordinary comedy consists of quick-fire intellectual quipping between these two that it is essentia l to find two players who act and react well together. As it was, the performances of Paul Baron and Moosa-Ali Lakhani were both "tours de force".

Baron tackled his mammoth part like an adenoida l moth, twittering, hunched, dominated, yet eminently likeable. A veritable Shakespearian-type clown even down to the tousled sandy locks, the weak bulbous eyes, a nd the inane grin! Lakhani's Guildenstern made an excellent contrast: be was alternately equanimous and fiery, constantly clarity personified, and frequently remarkably perceptive. Lakhani's beady black eyes peered over the bridge of that ex pressive nose like twin lasers, and when he stood blinking in contemplation we all reflected with him. Sometimes Ros. and Gu i\. seemed to interlock li ke two intricate pieces in a jigsaw puzzle; at others Baron's woolliness and Lakhani's spikiness appeared to be diametricall y opposed. But at all times the two of them exhibited a fine sense of timing, with split-second cues and highly effective build-ups of snappy remarks leading to very funny climaxes. So the play was a success, although some of the lines flew over the heads of the audience, while others landed in the stalls like lumps of cold suet pUdding. As to the rest of the cast, Mark Greaves could have given the Player a fraction more braggart showmanship and proportionately less plumminess: however, this is a minor criticism of a creditable effort. The Battersby brothers mimed exquisitely, the Tragedians were suitably ornamental , Adam Barker was Adam Barker. Only the Shakespeare scenes were slightly below par. Having said that, Clive Rowntree made a splendid little knobbly-kneed, suspicious, whining Hamlet. Not the perfect choice for a House Play (but then, what is ?), Rosel/crantz and Guildens/em was none the less a tboroughly good evening's entertainment. Congratulations and thanks to tbe Producers, Messrs. Copeman and Graham, and to everyone else involved.

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THOMAS.

BRUCKNER: A MUSIC CIRCLE LECTURE

J. HARRISON

Probably most of us know little more about Bruckner than that be wrote very !,?ng s mphonies, and tends to be coupled with Mahler. SteI;hen Harl'lSon started hiS expositIOn ~ the life a nd work of this still underestimated and misunderstood composer .by pomtmg ~ut that, in spite of their na,!,es both ending with -er, It was a mlst~ke to thmk ?f them as a pail'. Bruckner was a high RomantIc, MabieI' a late. Bluckner was 36 yeals older. And it is another popular misconception that the symphomes are excessively long. They are not abnormally so for the period. Nor is his orchestra part!cularly large. Bruckner did, however, have the rare ability to communicate a sense of bigness. He was unusual in other ways. He had n~t heard a n.ote of Beethov~n or Wagn~r until neal' middle age, and cannot really be. consldere~ as either a moder,nlst (Wagnenan) or classicist (Brahmsian). Furthermore hiS personahty was markedly dllTerent from a ll. the other great Romantic compose rs: bumble, narrow-mmded, unselfcon~dent, very tImid sociaUy. He was also a very late developer, a country scboolmaster s son wbo only qualified as a senior teacher in 1855 at the age of 31. But he had by then become a fine organist and improviser on the organ, though it was only with difficulty. th~t h7 was persuaded to compete for the post of organist at Linz and to study composition In VIenna. He achieved mastery in a six-year course of harmony and counterpoint,. and St~phen Harrison outlined clearly the development of his personal style through the. InteractIon of his two chief preoccupations, with large-scale choral works at,'d symphomes: there are frequent quotations from the masses in the early symphonies, and broad stlUctural resemblances. The textual problems in the symphonies were then dealt with, at .some length, and Stephen Harrison came down strongly in favour of the' early ver.slOns of the early symphonies. He also considered the church music to ?e t~e best of ItS time. I thought he was a little hard on Liszt, whose faith as expressed In hiS church musIc seems to have been as sincere if not as simple as Bruckner's. The iUustrations were arranged so that similar passages f~om dilTer~nt. symphonies were played one after the other to show particular facets of hiS styl~ : pI~zlcato accompaniment to melodies, chorale-like themes, rusticity, etc. We. heard I11S typical rhythm of triplet alternating with duplet, and considerable u~e of ~epetItIon . The latter was almost a mania, expressing itself outside music in the countIng of mammate objects, and numbenng of every bar in his composItIons! Finally the whole of the first movement of the third symphony was played. It is not easy to f~lIow thought on this s~ale, but if we bad any doubt that th.e effort would be worth making, Stephen Hamson s enthUSIasm for hiS subject dispelled It . R.~S. 85

HOUSE MUSIC COMPEtItION i should, at once, state my view, which is that Music Competitions should be "contests" in communicating enjoyment first and in scoring points for this or that aspect of presentation or performance a long way last. Unfortunately this year, whether through lack of rehearsal time or some other reason, efficiency seemed to me to be more in evidence than feeling. With exceptions, I admired rather than enjoyed . There are certain basic essentials in successful musical performance, and judged by these one wo uld think it wou ld be easy to say that one performance was more successful than another. All that would be needed would be a grading system that totalled up tbe points gai ned under various headings, sucb as- intonation, tone colour, pbrasing, rhythmic control (rather different from rigid control !), intell igent use of dynamics, balance of texture, communication of mood or emotion, audibility of words, commun ication of

sense rather than syllables, difficulty of the music, enterprise in the choice of music, enjoyment of the performers, aud ience response, etc., etc.

You may have heard an interesting radio programme called Interpretations on Record, when comparisons are drawn between renderings by well-known artists of a particular piece of music. In fact, the performances are usually all very good, and the panel have some difficulty in coming down with a usually heavily qualified vote in favour of one Or two as being the "best". But how would they manage a comparison of Schnabel's Beethoven and Billy Mayer!'s Marigold? At anotber level, how can a reasonably fair adj udication be made between the Schubert of House X and the Horovitz of House Y? Does a system of points do the trick? If so, what system? I suppose if each participati ng group knew that accurate intonation was going to be considered more (or less) important than, say, projection of phrasing, they would appear to be com peting on a fair basis. But which is better, a brilliant display of fingerwork that allows the player little scope in demonstrating how well he can phrase, or a beautifully phrased slow movement that needs little fingerwork? The answer is, all things being eq ual, neither. So, what is more important than anything else? And after that, what is the runni ng order? Can these questions be answered to produce general agreement? Simon Preston must be warml y thanked for undertaking the unrewarding task of comparing the uncomparable, and The Grange and Linacre commended for their enterprise in commissioning original works. I will refrain from saying where (if at all) I differed from the adjudicator, or specifying which pieces I enjoyed particularly. But I hope next year more performances will get behind the notes or words to the emotions that can only be discovered by imagination. The rehearsal of detail is essential, but spontaneity on the occasion matters more.

R.P.S. MARLOWE

Instrumental

LUXMooRB

Instrumental

THE GRANGE

Vocal Song Instrumental

Vocal Song

Sonata ill A millor (recorder, bassoon, harpsichord)-Vivaldi. Night watch-Brah ms. Charles Augustus Fortescue- Liza Lehmann. Classical Gas (flute, guitar, trumpet, piano)- Mason Williams. White Shoe Blues- Robert Johnston. Jesus Christ Superstar- Lloyd Webber. The History of Susanna (First Performance) (oboe, horn, two violins, 'cello, double-bass, piano)-Jonathan Seers. Revecy Vellir du Prillialls-Ciaude Ie Jeune. The Call and Antiphon) Five Mystical Songs)-Vaughan Williams.

Instrumental

LtNACRE

Vocal Song MEISTfiR OMERS

GALPIN'S

WALPOLE

SCHOOL

HOUSE

Instrumental Vocal Song Instrumental Vocal Song Instrumental Vocal Song Instrumental Vocal Song

Illtroc/uction, Aria and Chorale (First Performance) (three viol ins, viola, two 'cellos)-N icholas Bannan. Drop, drop slow tears--Walton. . Old Mother Hubbard and This Old Mall- Hutchmson and F ulleylove (arr. N . Bannan). Trio for Clarillet, 'Cello alld Piano (Op. 114) (First Movement)-Brahms. Silcllt Worshlp- Handel. Hail, Smiling Mom-Spofforth. These Magic Hours (La Vie Parisielllle)-Offenbach. Trio Romalltico (flute, oboe, c1arinet)---de Lorenzo. Lasiate 111; morire- Monteverdi. The Ballet of the Shades- Berlioz. Oboe Quartet (Fourth Movement)- Gordon Jacob. Oh, No John- afr. Thiman. Scarborough Fair-arr . Simon and Garfunkel. Die Marchcllerzahlullgell (No.3) (clarinet, viola, piano)-Schumann. Miserere mei- Vittoria. Die beidell Grelladiere-8chumann. REsULTS

Instrumental 1st

Galpin's 2nd Walpole =3rd School House Meister Omers House SOllg 1st Galpin's 2nd School House 3rd Meister Omers 4th The Grange

Vo cal

30 28 27 27 37 36 35 34

Total

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Marlowe Walpole Galpin's The Grange Galpin's Walpole School House Meister Omers

29 28 27 26 94 90 88 87

DRAMA IN SCHOOLS Traditionally drama in schools has meant a play by Shakespeare or a writer of equiv:alent. standi~g, rehearsed and acted as an out-of-school activity. However, for at leas.t fifty ~e~rs an mcr,easmgly IOfidentt~1 movement has sought to extend the scope of drama in schools by brmgm!1 lt mto. the.c ~ssroom aO on ~ the time-table. Th is has meant drama of a less formal kind, often un~npted, With htt e or no re hearsa and rarely intended for public performance. . . . Classroom drama can be used with at least three different ends in view. F irst, It can be. seen as th~ occasion for ractising one of the arts, the participants being cre"'ltor~ and !l.o. longer n~erely mterpreters , here the edu~tional benefits claimed are that the individual's crea.hve ablittles are stimulated hand t~ht he has an opportunity to develop his own expressive vocabulary III speech a n.~ movement- ,~nce e name "Creative" drama by which it is often known. But it is also refereed to as ~evelopn~tntaIF dradf!1a, its advocates drawing on the work of developmental psychologists such as ~ean Plagct an . on reu lao psycho-analytical theory, both of which emphasise the importance <?f dramatl~ play fO em~lt~al growth, using Aristotle's term "cat harsis" to denote the "acting out" of pamfu! e.xpenence an co I.C S. A second role for drama in the classroom is the obvious one of an aid to the study of hterary texts, including prose narrative and poetry as well as I?la~s. Selected ex~erptsdf~om the latte~h~ann iflf~~~ a~ iven the ir proper dimension of theatre more eaSily If they are. perlo rme Ill. some way f ~erelY read while insight into the dramatic content of a narrative may be gamed t hrO~g? t~e pro Â°d dramatising' a story or a b.allad . An~ themes and situations from almost any text can urt lee exp ore through various forms of ImprOVisation. These two uscs of drama are clearly related and have the ir pla~e in the .work in En~lish (ihough th~ secon~ is, of course, app!ica.ble to foreign lit<?rature as well) . It.s thud usells. as mediU~he Â°dr:~a~~~~ro~~f assimilating mateflalill almost any subject. The most obVIOUS examp C IS, 0 course,

some event, historicai or contemporary, or of some social issue. tn this case it is also seen as a useful umbrella under which themes and facts from different fields can be related to one anot her instead of remaining in the somewhat artificial compartments imposed under a system of examination by subjects. The growth of such work in both primary and secondary schools has, of course, created a need for specially trained drama teachers as well as for non-specialists with some knowledge and experience of the appropriate techniques. The non-specialists corne for the most part from Colleges of Education whi le specialists are trained in the handful of Drama Colleges that nm courses for teachers as well as actors. These courses are usually separate since in the past the needs of the actor preparing to work in the theatre have been felt to be sign ificantly different from those of the teacher who would go into the classroom. However, in recent years there have been developments in the theatre which have brought it- or at least certain sections of it-closer to the classroom. It has become less forma l and Jess elaborate, it has tried to redefine the relationship between actors and aud ience, often by trying to involve the latter act ively in the play, and it uses improvisat ion. The latter is in fact fairly extensively employed now, both in the training of actors and in the rehearsing in plays. For the actor of today is seen to need the same qualit ies that are valued in the classroom: inventiveness and imagination. Educational drama received its first impetus in this country from the publication of a book in 1917 called The Play Way by Caldwell Cook which described work at the Ferse School, Cambridge. So, having begun outside the state system in a school with a conventional academic curriculum, it then became most widely accepted in predom inantly non-academic schools within the state system! It is only recently that its value has been recognised by an increasing number of grammar and independent schools who are building drama studios and employing specialist staff. C.D.E.G.

CORRESPONDENCE School House, 26,h March. 1973.

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IN PRAISE OF BETTER FILMS Dear Sir, In past years the school's films have varied in quality, age, and artistic content, so much so that the audience has on the whole been non-appreciative. However, this term at least three films shown, each from a different source, display an increase in quality, that we hope may bring back an aud ience that will understand the medium as an artistic as well as an entertaining and communicative form (j.e., change people from being subjective to objective viewers). The school has in the past pulled out a masterpiece like Grapes of Wrath, but generally films rested on the purely commercial sort li ke Every Home Should Have Olle, and Hotel, to some of the cheap rate films wh ich the Europa Club shows on its low budget. It is a pity and an annoyance that when the school arrives to show "a work of art" something jarsÂˇ- the Europa Club is famo us for its film slipping; the school were more original when they showed Killg Lear with the wrong lens: we ended up seeing Russians as eight foot starving giants when standing up, and like short, thick wood blocks when they lay down. Of course there is the problem of sound, especially noticeable in Death ill Venice; attempts are, however, being made to improve that department. Cinema is the most exciting and important art form that we have at present, despite its commercialism. Therefore it has been a great experience to see three great films within one term, each of a highly artistic nature, despite the earlier complaints. Never before has the school in one term showed so much of high quality: Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Kozintsev's Killg Lear and Visconti's Death ill Venice. It is a pity, therefore, that few can take in foreign films, fo r they are the source of pure cinema. What the school now needs to develop, that is if it can maintain its present high quality of films (both modern and classic), is the occasional lecture on film. Cinema is in a depression due to the lack of understanding towards the media: D. W. Griffit h's Birth of a Nation and intolerance are both accepted as masterpieces, but we ignore the great works of Akira Kurosawa, Felli ni, Truffaut, and the more controversial British directors. The cinema needs liberating; it is an art form wh ich needs to be understood especially in conjunction with society. If that understanding were to come about, television would be put in its rightfu l place, the human being would see much more in himself, not to mention the films themselves, and then we could have a serious attempt to distinguish pornography from art. C. C. FITCHB'IT. 88

Night Bangl The wind is steely. It is still dark. What's that1A yoghurt carton blows round and round round and round with the sound of grating plastic. Who's there1A~e,

three pm-points of smouldering light. Talking. Spectacles sJint. I am I?ushed against the hedge (with Its scrawny old arms). I won't go near that patch of grey because there are wolves gnawing at a newspaper with their fangs dripping •••

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FOR A FORGOTTEN FRIEND

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Adam Finn

Happy in the sun-speckled orchard, we dashed through banging branches as if in a speeded-up movie, chasing eacb otber, or more often notbing at all. Then we would drop down under a tree in utter exhaustion and wait until we bad enough breath to get up again. We came to the end of tbe trees and raced over a fence towards the hot dusty barn. We collapsed coughing in the straw. A brief comment decided that we should make "a camp". For sweaty, scratched, blissful hours we went about our work. Every moment brought up a new problem or idea, while the next found an answer or approval. Yet words were used little: we could understand each other's signs and noises without any difficulty. At last we crawled into our completed room and talked about the things that our flying-free surroundings inspired. Things whicb only boys of twelve and thirteen understand. Things which, in their unreality, still kept a largely hidden but vitally important fantasy world going. Preserving the past and nearing the future. We wriggled to find a comfortable position. We sucked straws and felt for little pieces of dust caught in the sweat round our waists and ankles and necks. Tben suddenly we knew we needed action again, that we had more energy to use up. We crawled out into tbe dazzling sunlight through a hole, broken in the rotten boarded wall of the barn. We ran along tbe side of the wall, bending low, not to be seen, pulling out new pieces of straw from our waists as we went. We threw ourselves down on the bank by the track, hidden among tall dry grasses. We waited, poised for the right moment, breathing deeply. The noise of the hot van working over the bumps increased, coming closer. We glanced at eacb other, then got up, and, bopping over tbe bumps and stones, raced for the road. We allowed tbe hot farm manager a glimpse of us, and tben turned and climbed back up the bank, towards the barn again. We beard nothing, saw nothing, except each other's breath and running bodies. Then we reached our door, crawled back into our dusty room and froze. The car motor could still be heard. It stopped. Was he coming? A door slammed; the van revved up and went on. We listened attentively-it slowed and turned up the track towards the barn. We listened to our hearts beating, and smiled with the thrill of excitement. The engine thankfully spluttered out. We could hear the shuffling footsteps on the straw. They were far away. He was going past round the other side. Tbe crackling faded and we couldn't understand. All around was tbe suffocating fear that he bad found us and was standing above us, waiting for us to crawl out. Then there was a cough over by tbe entrance and a few footfalls on tbe gravel-tbe engine started and our adventure was over. We got up and made our way outside. We instinctively knew that we both were ready to go home. We sauntered now, back through tbe roofed orchard. We remembered tbe afternoon and every now and again glanced at each other simultaneously as if for reassurance of friendsbip. We got to the road in a stream of red sun, and silently wished each other goodbye with a nod and a smile. Suddenly r felt uncomfortable to be "1" again. ADAM FINN.

In the Mirror

John Edwards

I prepare the sincere look.

r must not smile.

How clean are my teeth? The scar has almost healed. r must leave it. My hair, it needs watcbing. And now to endeavour tbe perfect look. Suck in the chin. Close the moutb. Keep tbe jaw forward. And tbe faintly bored look. Perfect. r am now presentable to be seen.

Steven Armstrong

CUT

BANG! r stumble back, dizzy. The world spins. r reel, trying to find .support. r prop myself against a wall. Everything is okay. Slowly r see the glove commg back at me. r duck to make sure not to hit the wall, as r just did. Outside, a drop runs down on to my nose. Sweat. r put my band up and rub it off. I catch a sight of my hand. Dizzy. Blood, oozing down. r find another prop. Prickly feeling in my mouth, empty. Nothing in my stomach-yes, a deep feeling rising rapidly. Control it. Another look at my hand. The feeling speeds, reaches my brain. Pain stabs into my head. Panic arises. More blood: five drops on the floor. Bleeding badly. Numb, my head flops on to my shoulders. Blood drips into my eyes. Unorganised breathing. Pressure in my stomach. r start crying. Running. My head is going to burst, building up to a climax.

r reach

the matron's room, safe at last. The stitcbes sink into my head. 91

The Luntltic's Curse Nousa-A'i Lu',hani

I could not agree to act out my life So I told the players to stop the show, But they blamed me for being foolish And young. Because I did not act, They despised and shunned me; And through my isolation I saw them as they really wereHuma,n mon~eys, pointing, pinching, poking, Waggmg their mad ears, Sniffing arrogantly with powdered noses. And they hated me, and bellowed at me, And painted their faces to scare me. So I danced naked on to the stage To stop their play and make them listen. But, outraged, they called me a madman And locked me in this asylum. Now from my cell I scream at the actors To shatter their illusion and help them be real.

THE KITE-FLYER

Norman Marshall

He was a South-Indian, a typical Tamil boy. Fifteen or sixteen years old, short, stocky, with well-greased and combed black hair, muscles like iron and leathery-soled feet. He couldn't read or write: the things this school sets up as goals would be beyond his wildest dreams. But I still regarded him as a better being than me, though he was a servant, and I the master's son. He could suffer pain that I regarded as unendurable without flinching; he was as strong as a horse; he could run like a hare over any ground, no matter what sharp stones were scattered around. He knew about the streets of Madras, the back ones, not the rich, white, residential areas, the city centre, the offices and shops. He would buy raw sugar-cane for us, and climb trees like a monkey, where we could only drag ourselves fearfully upwards. And he could make kites, and fly them, high, higher than the wheeling kestrels that abounded above the house. Kestrels, with their shrill whistle and brown feathers, circling round and round, were a daily sight. They gave the house a name, a name that meant something. His kites were marvellous. He made them himself, spending hours a day on them. Everything was scrounged, begged or stolen. Coloured tissue paper, thin sticks, rolls of strong, sharp twine. He would save grains of rice from his supper, and use them, squashed up, to glue his creations together. And then he would take them out onto the big, scrubby playing field, and fling them up, set them going, higher and higher, soaring like the kestrels, specks of colour, high away. He would stand, four-square, shifting constantly, pulling in twine, letting out more, and all the while watching his kite, anxiously, intently, like a mother her baby, fiercely possessive, intolerant of interference. But he did not make kites just to fly. That was far below him, something for his fouryear-old half-brother. No, his giant kites were for fighting. A kite flying high was a challenge. If it didn't want to fight, it came down quick. Sometimes there would be no kites flying, so he would issue the challenge. And then from somewhere, maybe two miles away, another would appear, rising confidently, a brave new challenger, a knight with no device. These duels between unseen enemies fascinated me. The two kites would hover in the air, while their unseen lines would saw away, and the generals would anxiously manoeuvre, tense with worry, in perpetual doubt. And then the fight would be over, and one beautiful speck would jerk as its back was broken, its line cut, and it would fall down like a dead leaf, disconsolate, defeated, aimless. An unseen boy would curse, and run off to see if he could recover it. And the other, exhausted, would haul down, and set about checking the line with scrupulous care, and repairing the fragile warrior for another fight tomorrow. 93

1 .. ..4 Tree

61ark Pearson

I sit in a tree and paint the sky through golden holes an open canvas

a delicate brush forms its first outlines a lark reels in the distance the audience is there the lark holds the stage its sharp form playing in the spotlight a branch sways and the picture shatters the lark fades away to silent chords.

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Jonathan Kingsman My dog ran straight for the rabbitÂˇ I was surprised when he caught it, ' But when he kept it in his mouth So long that the whimpers grew to nothing, And the fur was dampened with death I felt the sickening thought Of one who knows another life And another death.

61ark Pearson

Halllis

As delicate and sensitive as happiness, Two loving hands entwine and Two minds become a mutual one, Sacred and inviolable. Searching and finding, Saying far more than the tongue In a single gesture. Entrusted with the power to create and destroy; Long elegant fingers that can Shape the world in a curt sweep: The machinery of the mind That only tells its macabre secret To the midnight sky. The fat innocent hands of the child, Grasping flashing sparklers, Become the flushed, vigorous hands Of sensuality. And then Gradually they turn into The gnarled hands of the old manThe leafless branches of a dying trec: Sad and parched, Cold and grey. Lines start and end.

I. S. G. 1'honul8

BOOK REVIEWS THE BRITISH REVOLUTION: 1750-1970 M. ST. J. PARKER AND D. J. REID One of the major growth areas in the School curriculum in recent years has been the study of economic and social history for it has percolated down from the universities to first the Sixth Form and now increasingly the Middle School as well. Textbooks have, however, been somewhat left behind by the speed of this ad vance, and the aim of this book is to fill a gap which plainly exists at "0" and C.S.E. level, and this the authors have done most effectively. Yet their achievement goes beyond this, for The British Revolution would also serve as an excellent introduction to an "A" Level course. The subject matter of the book is the forging of the Britain in which we now live, and the authors take as their starting-point the multifarious revolutions beginning in the eighteenth century- in population, in commerce, in agriculture, in transport, in finance, and above all in industry- revolutions which have proved to be continuing ones and which symbolize the central change of the modern world, the change from a static to a dynamic economy and society. Modern economic historians have become increasingly awa re of the intricate inter-relationships between these phenomena, and, whilst the authors naturally simplify, they never distort, their exposition of complex concepts being both strikingly lucid and commendably awa re of recent research work which they have processed and rendered fit for teenage consumption. Thus their discussion of the causation of population growth could notbe bettered at this level. These are dramatic events in themselves but their capacity to capture the imagination is further enhanced by the lively style which pervades the book. Certainly the deep and humane concern the authors show for the quality of life of countless anonymous people throughout the last two centuries and their keen appreciation of the social costs of economic growth allied with their suspicion that economic considerations will in t he future be modified more and more by broader social issues will appeal to the young of today. What is so encouraging is that this has been done without descending to the self-indulgent sentimentality of an earlier breed of historians such as the Webbs and the Hammonds or to the dreary and trendy hysteria of the Doomwatch brigade! In dealing with such social issues they make particularly effective use of much contemporary mate rial concerning the standard of living, especially for the l840s and 1930s. Th is is to be welcomed all the more insofar as the young, in their admirable impatience with the social ills of today, all too often display a lamentable ignorance of the fact that these ills were immeasurably worse in the recent past. A careful reading of this book, far from encouraging the drop-out mentality, should restore a sense of balance and instil the conviction that by the determined efforts of governments and individuals our present social problems need not prove intractable. It is perhaps cautionary to recall that little more than a century ago the average age of death of the working-class in Manchester was seventeen, that little more than fifty years ago virtually no council housing existed, and under forty years ago there were over three million unemployed! 97

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The scope of the work is admirably broad, for not only are the effects of the wars of our own century. a,?alysed but so also are. the growth of the Welfare State and the appearance of the Permissive Society; not only IS the emancipation of women discussed but so also is the development of sport and fashion. Indeed, the only mistake your reviewer could d l scov~.r concerned the treatI!'ent of recent developments in horse-racing for, alas, Arkle and NI~lOSky were scarcely tnumphs of Bntlsh bloodstock, being Irish and American-bred respectIvely! I!, concl~si on, this book is an indispensable aid to the understanding of the country in :vhlch we Itve; fortunately that understa!'dlllg IS greatly facilitated by the many splendid IllustratIOns. and diagrams l,ncorl'orated lO the text. Finally, perhaps some future social hl~tonan Will see reflected III thiS book the mcreasingly egalitarian spirit of the age for neither Mr. Reid nor Mr. Parker anywhere confess to being the then Head of Economics at King's, Canterbury and the Head of History at Winchester College respectively! B.T.

A CORN OF WHEAT A. M. Gelsthorpe, 1892-1968 .. . the. name and dates stated so bluntly tell nothing of the man, nor would the lOltIals after his name- D.D. and D.S.O.-indicate much more than that he had ~ d egree in theology and was a soldier of some repute. The brief descnptlon of the posItIons he held III the latter half of his life would give some clearer pointer as to wh~t sort. of JO~ he did, but nothlO!! of the. man. He was, in fact, Assistant Bishop on the Niger, Bishop lO the Sudan and Assistant Bishop of Southwell ... and, of importance to King's, an O.K.S. and Governor.

Mrs. Gelsthorpe has drawn together a diary and record of the life and times of Morris Gelsthorpe under the title of "A Corn of Wheat" and has produced an interesting document, portraYlllg a man of great compassIOn and integrity. He was a convinced Christian from his early days, a great player of Rugby football and a brave soldier. After the first World Wa.r he was ordained and soon found himself ill: the mission field ... on the Niger and later m the Sudan . In both of these places the Impact he made was considerable. One of his colleagues wrote: "Gelsthorpe mediates the spirit of Christ. Diffident in expressing an opinion, but full of friendliness, he is a constant illustration that it is the man's spirit that .counts." Canon Sargent, then Chaplain to Archbishop Lang, recalled that after one VISit by Gelsthorpe, Lang remarked, "That man is pure gold." . During the second World War when ~elsthorpe w~s first Assistant and later Bishop m .the Sudan he moved aroun~ as extensively as pOSSible. At that time Egypt and the Middle East was the centre of .mterest and Gelsth?rpe was well awa re of the importance of hiS w?rk. f'mo!,~st other thmgs, thiS w~rk entailed many meetings and Olle man wrote of the Bishop s abllttyat the.se m~etIngs: I ~m not an ardent churchman, but it delights me to watch the way ~n which BI~hop ~orns quietly and unwaveringly gentles the ship upon ItS way. He IS heavenly-mmded, but he has a clear vein of practical common sense which often with surprising unobtrusiveness informs the whole." The Government Inspector of ~ducation in the Sud!,n PI!t it more succinctly when he said, "Yes, the Bishop IS meek. He IS so meek that he mhents the earth before one knows it." 98

In 1952 Bishop Gelsthorpe retired from the Sudan, returned to !"nl?land as Assistant Bishop of Southwell and Rector of Bingham- and he was also mVlted to becom~ a Governor of King's. "A great honour indeed", was what the Bishop felt, and the feelmg was mutual. There had been a cOl!nection between Canon Shirley ~nd the Gelsthorpes ever since the fonner had served with Frank Gelsthorpe, the Bishop s brother, at S?apa Flow. When the possibility was mentioned to the Bishop, he wrote, "If I am Illvlted. I shall simply jump at it and wherever I am and whatever I do I shall find time to serve as a Governor should hope to serve". For the rest of his life he kept his promise and contributed with real care and devotion to the well-being of his beloved K.S.C. The friendship shared with Canon Shirle~ was a warm and enrichening experience, and gave great joy to the last years of both their ltves. This is the picture that Mrs. Gelsthorpe has pieced together. It portrays a man from whom others drew great joy and strength and for whose life King's should always be grateful. P.J.D.A. One thing the reviewer cannot well express is my own sense of gratitude for Bishop Gelsthorpe's unfailing help and encouragement during my first six years at King's. There was never a more welcome visitor or guest.

J.P.N.

'LIVING AND WRITING: DYLAN THOMAS' EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER COPEMAN Christopher Copeman's latest book is a new kind of venture, and will, hopefully, be the first of a series under the general title of "Living and Writing". It is designed for use in the classroom and consists of fifteen poems and short stones by Dylan Thomas, With short connecting passages of introduction, commentary and suggestions for the pupils' own writing. The book is essentially abo ut Childhood, rather than being simply about Dylan Thomas, although careful reading enriches one's feelings for both. Christopher Copeman's halfinformative, half-questioning tone in the link passages lea,?s to a kmd of response that makes Dylan Thomas a real human being, and also !'lakes one more awar~ of the skIlfulness of his works. Many of the questions help make It clear why som~ thmgs III th~ poems and stories remind one so vividly of personal childhood expenenc~s : certamly the questions make the thought of writing more exciting and less dauntmg. There IS the pleasantly whimsical tone of "A park is a different world for different people. For adults it may be the place for enjoying the beauties of natu~e, or takmg ~he dog for a walk (I wonder what it is for the dog?), or ' dating' ." Or there IS the provocative type of questIon, which is surprisingly revealing to answer, such as, "Why does Dylan Thomas blush when Mrs. Bevan gives him 'a wicked smile'?" This leads on to the more personaltsed :'Have you ever been embarrassed by yo ur thoughts when somebody looked at you as If they knew what you were thinking?" There is something slightly disconcertmg about th~ number of these questions that one would like to answer, although there IS the comfortmg word of warning in the Preface, "It is certainly not intended that all the suggestions should be written on or discussed! " 99

The illustrations of Dylan Thomas and places associated with him are interesting,

~nd back up th~ klOd of mformatIOn whIch IS given about such poems as Do not go gentle

mto that good nzght. Here one learns of the growrog Illness which afflicted Dylan Thomas' father, t?, whom the poem IS addressed,. and lines like "Rage, rage against the dying of the Jrght lead ~ne to a fuller apprecIatIOn of the fact that great writers often write ÂŁ personal and mtlmate reasons. or

Finall~, this book is as much intriguing for what it tells us about Christopher Copeman's mmd as It IS for what we learn about Dylan Th omas. The collection helps us to discover that Dylan Thomas was very h~man, and m the process of th inking about some of the questIOns and suggestIOns, one s mmd IS subtly steered into discovering more about ourselves .. Readers should be able to wrrte more skilfully and humanly themselves as result- thIs IS, after all, the aIm of the book! a G.G.B.

PHYLLOGOMPHUS SPP We hear so much these days of species becoming extinct that it is good to realise that there are stIll specIes to be dIscovered. Shortly to ~ep?se in the British .Museum, a~d presently described in the Journal of the Societas Illte!natlO".alIs Odontologlca, IS the hItherto undiscovered male of the dragonfly P"yllog~mphus occldentallS, and the ~olotype of a completely new species, P. pseudoccldentalIs, dIscovered by Roger P. Lmdley, O.K.S. (his brother, Robert still at school havmg done some of the leg work). These species we re found near the Bandama R iver' Ivory Coast, and are only the most recent of a number of species described by the Lindleys: I

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WILLIAM HARVEY'S BIRTHDAY The end of the present form of Local Government, with the Mayor and Corporation of Folkestone reduced to the status of a Parish Council, will a lso put an end to a ceremony by WhICh the Borough of F~lkestone has regularly celebrated one of its most distinguished sons and benefactors: WIlham Harvey.

Repre~e!,tatives.of the Bo~o~gh (led by the Mayor), of the Harveian Society of London of the BrrtJ~h MedIcal ASSOCIatIOn, of the Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone (founded WIth the aId of a ~enefactIOn from Harvey), and of The Ki ng's School (which Harvey a!tended befole gomg to Padua to study anatomy) met on 1st April to lay a chaplet at hIS statue, and subsequently to restore their circulaiions with tea in the Leas Cliff Hall. .Although this was t~e last occasion in ~he present fO.rm, the British democratic process wIll doubtless be mgemous enough to deVIse some contmuation of the custom. I.N.W. 100

HOCKEY Retrospect 1973 Sports reports in school magazines are unavoidably dull to almost all but the club's most ardent supporters and the players themselves, who are human enough to want to see their names in print. Nevertheless, such reports are there for the record, and the record given below tells its own tale. But there are some general observations that might be of interest to our devotees. Some of our sides over the last six years have produced better overall records in school matches, but in the end I thi nk this was the best side I have pretended to coach. It was the first to win the Frank Mason Tournament for Kent Schools- in a year of record entry. And, in matches lasting 20 minutes each, to achieve results like our 3- 0 victory over Chatham House and our 2-0 defeat of St. Lawrence in the final, suggests an ability to rise to the occasion which is the mark of a good side. Steadiness under pressure is another: in that we have sometimes hung on for long spells of intense pressure before emerging to victory. It has, of course, been a characteristic of our hockey over the years that defence has been better than attack: lack of fine weather and firm surfaces in the early part of the season is a major cause. This year, too, despite the vast improvement in the weather, now that the freeze has moved to other areas, defence has still predominated. We set ourselves the gruelling task of trying to have ten men back in defence and eight up in attack. Most of the time it worked, thanks to our now well-known training methods. But there were times on the breakaway when attacks have failed for lack of close support because the second assault wave was still r umbling (or even grumbling) up from the rear, too late to sustain the impetus. There were times, too, when it would have made all the difference to know that our forwards had the skill to be sure that one attacker could beat one defender. Nevertheless, skills have been much better, especially in the forwards. The good weather and Bob Jordan's splendid pitches have helped: six-a-side training and non-C.C.F. hockey in previous terms contributed; the noble labours of all those coaches of the Junior and Middle games who give so generously of their time and effort have borne fruit "above". Tactical sense and speed of thought are generally better, and for this I am sure we owe much to Soccer and Match of the Day. But they are far from satisfactory yet, as we discovered one black week in March when we suffered three defeats in less than a week (one a replay with our side weakened). Then we learned the hard way that over-elaboration, holding on too long, and lack of drive and urgency into the circle can waste all the successes of mid-field play. But it all came right at the end and the Frank Mason Tournament saw the side's full potential realised. Altogether the Club, small though it is with only about 130 members, seems to be in very good shape. We allow half our places to the under-IS's and so large numbers get an early chance to discover the pleasures of the game. The converts seem to be enough to give us the quality if not the quantity higher up. A sign of this quality can be seen in the fact that this year, for example, the 1st XI never beat the 2nd XI and indeed lost to their representative Six in the Canterbury Six-a-Side Tournament, though they did manage to be runners-up. The 3rd XI, too, with more matches than before, have been an excellent side in their own right, playing some very good hockey which was a far cry from the agricultural variety of old. To have such reserves is a great source of encouragement. 101

I One final point: on the last Sunday of term we played the O.K.S. and the choice of a Sunday seems ~enerally to have been regarded as a success. It made it possible to produce a very strong side to play the firsts, and the better half of a second XI too in which some rather distinguished names appeared. And though this year one or two b~aks were pressganged into making up the numbers, we hope that in future two fu ll O.K.S. sides will become a regular feature of the last day of the season. We need only a few more volunteers to make this a really splendid occasion. Sadly this is the year in which we stand down from the Oxford Festival' so the season is over. Ih~ve mentioned no names because the XI was a fine team: they played as a team and It IS as a team that they should be remembered. They all got their colours and they were (goalie first):P. G. Shorrock (M.O.), P. A. Reacher (Lin .), S. B. Mather (Lin.), M. D. J. Donaldson (W.), C. E. A. Reddick (W.) (Captain), J. C. Sparks (Gr.), P. Y. Kalfayan (Gr.), J. P. H. Burke (GaL) (Hon. Sec.), C. C. Kitbee (Lin.), M. Asfaw (GaL), G. J. G. Partridge (Gr.). B.W.J.G.W. RESULTS

v St. Lawrence. Lost 1- 3 v University of Kent. Lost 3--4 v St. Edmund's. Won 1---0 v Tonbridge. Won 2-1 v Kent College. Won 3- 1 v Canterbury. Lost 2--4 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 2- 2 v Sutton Valence. Lost 1-2 v Dover College. Lost 0-1 v Dulwich. Lost 2-4 v OKS. Lost 0- 2 Frank Mason Tournament v Cranbrook. Won 1---0 v Dover College. Won 1---0 v Chatham House. Won 3-0 v Kent College. Won 2---0 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 0---0 v St. Lawrence (Final). Won 2-0 House Matches: Senior: Linacre beat Galpin's 3-0 Junior Six-a-Sidc Tournament: Won by Galpin's

II 2nd XI

This was onc of the best 2nd Xl's that the school can have had for many years. We were fortunate to be able to call on twelve good players, eight of whom were in last year's unbeaten Colts' team and three of the others from last year's 2nd or 3rd XI. Their record was good, but could have been much better if over-anxiousness hadn't crept into the play in the opposition circle. This resulted in a comparative I~ck of goals compare ~ with the terrific territ.orial advantage that the half-line normally set up. The forwards hnked very well In mld-fi~ld, .showed genulll~ thrust and made many scoring chances, which they didn't take. All. the ma!1y combmatlOns we played III defence were very reliable and gave opponents little time or room III our Circle. It is impossible to pick out individuals when all eleven played so consistently well. It suffices to say that many of the team would have been in the 1st XI in an ordinary year. Of the matches, we lost to St. Lawrence early in the term, and to Tonbridge, against whom we played our one poor game of the season. The best performance was in the second half against a n equally good Sutton Valence side, when we completely broke down their defence.

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Congratulations go to the six players from the 2nd XI who won the Canterbury Six-a-Side Competition and our thanks to both Pollard and Pearson for captaining the side so admirably. Team: L. H. Canning, C. H. Morgan, A. J. T. Strong, R. G. P. Pollard, T. A. Cllantler, R. M. H. Moss, S. J. Checkley. C. J. O. Ware, S. J. White-Thomson, W. J. Pearson, A. J. Young, N. H. Cain. RESULTS

v St. Lawrence (Home). Lost 1- 2 v St. Edmund's (Away). Won 2-0 v Dover College (Away). Abandoned 1-0 v Tonbridge (Horne). Lost 1- 2 v Kent College (Home). Won 3- 1

vA. W. Dyer's XI (Home). Won 2-0 v Sir Roger Manwood's (Home). Won 3- 1 v Sutton Valence (Home). Drawn 0-0 v Dulwich (Home). Drawn 1- 1 v O.K.S. (Home). Won 3- 1 A.W.D.

3rd XI The team had a mixed season, winning two of their matches, losi ng two and drawing three. The general standard of skill was not high and play was in consequence often scrappy. Harris and McDonald wele a very reliable pair of backs while Ahmadzadeh, Hill and Hathway worked hard in attack together with Coerper playing his first season of hockey, but passing in the middle of the field was rarely constructive and it was not until the end of the season that the team began to build any effective attacking moves. Nor was cohesion helped by the tendency of several players to nag each other and the referee during the game. Barker, a quiet and efficient captain, was sometimes the only member of the team whose voice couldn't be heard! However, the team always played with enthusiasm and spirit and in the first match did well to hold a strong St. Lawrence side 1- 1 at half-time before losing 5-1. A 2-0 victory against St. Edmund's a week later restored their confidence and they were perhaps unlucky to then playa sllccession of thre~ draws. On drier pitches towards the end of the term they began to play with greater coherence and dnve and achieved their best result with a 4-0 victory over Sutton Valence, only to Jose the last match 0-2 to Dulwich. The following played regularly: H. R. Edeleanu, I. R. O. MacDonald, O . D. Harris, M. D. L. Barker, T. McL. Davis, A. R. Hopkins, C. E. H. Willis, N. R. Hathway, N. de N. Hill, A. Ahmadzadeh, M. W. Coerper, C. A. Young. The fo llowing played once: L. N. Canning, P. G. Shorrock, A. Mather, S. C. Reeve. RESULTS

v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 1-1 v Sutton Valence. Won 4-0 v D ulwich. ' Lost 0-2

v Sf. Lawrence. Lost J- 5 v St. Edmund's. Won 2-0 v Dover College. Drawn 3- 3 v Tonbridge. Drawn 2- 2

C.D.E.G.

Colts' XI As we remind ourselves after an unsuccessful season, it is not the results that really matter at Colts level. Much more important has been the fact that with only one match cancelled and hardly any practice time missed because of unfit pitches, we have been able to play an unprecedented amount of hockey during the term. As a result, the team has gained immensely in experience, and by the end was showing considerable promise for the future. The defence was generally sound-except in the circle, where it really matters- with. Davies, the capta in, and Jones particularly skilful. But the forwards took a long time to settle down, and found it very difficult to score goals. Tarry was in a class of his own as maker and taker of chances, but Gower and Sheridan improved rapidly. and the display against Sutton Valence showed what might have been. In spite of adversity, the team remained remarkably cheerfu l, and enjoyed their hockey. And that, after all, is what the game is all about.

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Team: Judd, D . K. L. Jones, Strutt, Santi, J. G . W. D. Davies (Capta in) , D. N . Hopkins, M. N. T Smith, Tarry, S. C. Hall, Gower, Sheridan. . RESULTS

v St. Lawrence. Lost 1- 3 v St. Edmund's. Lost 0-2 v Tonbridge. Lost 0----6 v Kent College. Lost 0-2

v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 1-1 v Sutton Valence. Won 3- 2 v D ulwich. Lost 1- 2

P.G.H., G.P.R.

Junior Colts This season wiII be remembered for the unbelievably good weather and for the fa ct that we won some matches. More pract ice produced improved cohesion and in most games we were able to put pressure lived. It led sometimes to good goals but frequently on the oppositi on even if too often it was only shortM to missed chances. The defence, too, tended to make costly errors and fritter away a useful advantage. Very few goals conceded were the fault of Armitage who was a reliable goalkeeper. Butcher, the best st ick player, led the side well from cent re-half. Cu lly, a begi nner, showed natural apt itude at right-half and all the forwards by the end of the season had developed fairly good control. Fazal and de la Hoyde in particular impressed, the fo rmer for quick ness and the latter for tireless work, intelligent passing and sheer opportunism. In the matches, we were outclassed by St. Lawrence, suffering the same punishment meted out to the 2nd XI last year. To win the next match was all the more creditable. Better stickwork was the real reason for the defeats by Tonbridge and Kent College but we fought hard against both. The victory over Manwood's was deserved but the forwards fa iled to make it more decisive. T he Sutton Valence game was lost in the closing minutes and we could have scored four times against Dulwich at the start instead of once to prevent them overMrunning us in the second half. An attempt to fo rm a nucleu s of players in the Christ mas Term nonMCorps Hockey is to be made next year and this, we hope, may go some way to solving our problems at this level. The following represented the team: Arm itage, Salkeld, Strong, Cully, Butcher (Captain), Rankin, Sm ith , Osborn, Fazal, de la Hoyde. Walters, Lister, Horner, Ainley Walker, Cox, Gent, Farrell , Wright. RESULTS

v St. Lawrence College. Lost 1- 11 v St. Edmund's. Won 3- 2 v Tonbridge. Lost 0-3 v Kent College. Lost 0-3

v Sir Roger Manwood's. Won 2-1 v Sutton Valence. Lost 1-2 v Dulwich. Lost 1-4

I.I.D.C., H. E.I.A., G.O.c., R.1 .M.

RUGBY FOOTBALL Blores Game The game, made up of varying abi li ties, developed a good spirit through the term, producing "A" and "B" XV's of Quite good quality. The experience gained from the Term will be valuable. The following played for the "A" XV: M. D. J. Donaldson, P. R . Taylor, A. Mather, T. K . Reeve, R. A. Kock, C. E. Rudgard, T. Hunter, P. A. W. King, R. W. Mansbridge, K. A. Nutman, P. A. Burrows, W. F. Todd, J. C. Biron, C. J. Russell, N. J. Hadfield, P. Obolensky, C. D. Bowen, S. M. Amos, C. M. Britten, S. D. Jones, W. R . Donaldson, J. T. Pearson, A. J. Newell, A. Gent, C. N. Dutton, P. C. L. Sultan, K. J . H. Newman, H. M. Stead, A. E. W. Balson, 1. n. Johnson, C. A. Haddon-Cave, P. E. Stevens, P. Theok ritoff, S. E. Robinson, T. C. ScottMMorey, J. M. Forshaw, H . E. Boultbee, S. A. Balson, D. J. Howells, D. Mather, N. P. Brown, A. L. Dawes, P. J. Nicholl , J. C. Marks, T. F. Jermyn. R. A. KOCK.

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Kent Seven-a-Side Tournament The Tournament was held on 14th March and King's entered two VU's. The 2nd VlI,led by R. A. Kock, tried hard but were beaten in their first round match against SI. Dunstan's College 2nd VIr. However, they went on to beat Judd School 2nd VII in the First Round of the Plate before being knocked out next rOLind by Gillingham G.S. 1st VU. The 1st VII began with a shaky sta rt by beating Cray Valley School 22- 10, and ollr winger, Keith Nutman, was inj ured and was replaced by Clive Britten. King's improved when they beat Duke of York's R.M.S. 2nd VII by 32-0 to reach the quarterMfi na!s. Here King's came up aga inst Du lwich whom they beat 20- 8. In the semi-final, the va perhaps had its best ga me in beating the st rong Judd School VIl by 28-4. In the fin al, King's mel the powerfu l R.M.S. 1st VII. King's opened by scoring two tries and time, However, R.M.S . ca me back early in the second half with two the score line stood at 12-0 at halfM tries, only one of which was converted, and thus the score stood at 12- 10 to K ing's unti l just before the end when King's scored after a fin e run by Cli ve Britten, Icavin g the final score at King's 18- R,M. S, 10. Our tha nks go to Mr. J. R. Reeve, O.K.S. ( 1902- 10) fo r his continued support and gene rosity. The fo llowi ng played:1st VII: C. M. Britten, R. W. Ma nsbridge, M. D. J. Donaldson, T. K. Reeve, S. R. Osborne, P. R. Taylor, T, Hunter. (Reserve: P. A. King). Also played: K. Nutman. 2nd VII: P. A. Burrows, W. R. Donaldson, J. T. Pearson, S. D. Jones, R. A. Kock, J. C. Biron, A. Mather. (Reserve: P.Obolcnsky). M . D. 1. DONALDSON.

King's Invitation Sevens RESULTS

King's, 18 v SI. Paul's, 4 Col fe's, 0 v Eltham, 22 King's 11, 22 \, Col fe's Under M16, 4 S1. Paul 's, 4 v Colfe's, 14

King's, 24 v Eltham, 4 King's 11, 18 v Colfe's Under-I 6, 0 St. Paul's, 18 v Eltham, 6 King's, 12 v Colfc's, 10

House Seven-a-Side Tournament Finals: SEN IOR: J UN IOR:

Linacre, 15 v Wa lpole, O. Lll xmoore, 12 v School House, O.

Rosslyn Park Seven-a-Side Tournament After winning the Kent VU's, hopes were hi gh that we would do well in thc Fes tiva l. In our first match we had a hard game agai nst Taunton which we won 10-4. Richard Mansbridge was injured in this match, so Yeoland Kalfayan came in on the wing and Clive Britten moved into the cent re for our match against Churchers. Here we gave a much improved performance and won 38-0. This meant we had to play Eltham in the next game, and that the winner of that match would go through to the quarterMfinal. Eltham scored first and converted . King's replied in the second half with a goal and a try, but Eltham replied with a try. So the game went into extra time. Eltham scored fro m King's kick-off and clinched the game. Monmouth won the final against Downside. I would like to thank those who played for the I sl VII and those who provided the opposition , for the enjoyment we all had, in part icular Michael Donaldson. The following played for the 1st VII: P. Y. Ka1fayan, C. M. Britten, R. W. Mansbridge, M. D. J. Donaldson (Captain), T. K. Reeve, T. Hunter, P. R. Taylor, S. R. Osborne. Reserves: S. D. Jones, A. Mather, R. A. Kock, J. C. Biron. R.I.H.G.

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THE BOAT CLUB We have been very fortunate in having excellent weather this term which has made boating rather enjoyable. although the lack of rain did mean that the rjver was usually empty! Pluck's Gutter was unusable for most of the tcrm and we only had about a dozen VIII outings, in view of which we were particularly pleased to take the F irst YIn and two Colts' VIlIs to Putney for a practice before the Schools' Head. Once again we were grateful to London Rowing Club for its hospitali ty on that day. and to the O.K.S., John Medhurst and David K ing, for making all the necessa ry arrangements. Of necessity. most of the boating was concentrated on fours and small boats at Fordwich, which has improved the standard of fours rowing - the First IV has won two pennants this year- and of boat control in the eights. The purchase of an outboard engine for an old wh iff- unused since the days of boat ing at Grove Ferry I- and keeping Gemini at Fordwich have helped to make maximum lise of the available river and of the equipment at Fordwich.

It has been a good term in every way, and it is fai r to say that the nucleus of oarsmen who were rowing in the Autumn Term has raised the standard generally, particularly at the Colts' level. The small number of senior members of the Boat Club and the large number of enthusiast ic junior members resulted in experiment ing with having two Colts' VIlIs and no Second VIII, although there is a Senior IV. The First VIn has been developing well, though their performance at the Schools' Head of the River race was a li ttle lacking in urgency and was d isappointing. However, they will be traini ng at Cambridge fo r a few days before term and should do much better in next term's regattas. T he Senior IV tra ined keenly and put lip respectable performa nces at the Schools' and Medway Heads, although they were undermined by illness.

The experiment of having two parallel Colts' crews has been very successful, since they provided valuable competition for each other and only had three seconds between them at the Schools' Head. The "Prioress" crew won the pennant for the Fastest Restricted Colts' Crew at that Head and a Colts' IV did well at the Medway Head. Next term the Colts will be split into "A" and "n" crews and they should do well in their respective events. The Junior Colts have had an VIII and a IV and have been doing well in learning the basic skills. They have a number of fixtures next term, which should help them develop their racing techniques.

Finally, we have been very grateful to Mr. Griffin, Mr. Butt and Mr. Land, who has been doing his teaching practice here, for coaching the "Fordwich oarsmen". We hope the boys they have coached will do something towards improving the standard of the summer House rowing, and the two latest restricted sculling boats, wh ich Peter Willis has just fin ished build ing, should also add to the facilities ava ilable to the Houses.

T hc Crcws FIRST VIlT: COLTS' VIII: "Geoffrey Chauccr" COLTS' VIII: "The Prio ress" JUNIOR COLTS' VnI: THE SENIOR IV:

J. R. W. Ellis, bow; M. W. Lancy, 2; G. C. Olcott, 3; M. S. Sa llstrom, 4; M. C. G. Lane, 5; C. A. C. Quested, 6; M. J. d'A . Sephton, 7; T. D. Townsend, stroke; J. S. Rankin, cox. C. M. Foale, bow; S. P. Bowers, 2; J. Q. C. MacBain, 3; M. D. Croft, 4; M. E. D. Pretty, 5; R. P. Yonge, 6; A. D. Mathers, 7; R. M. Iron, stroke; D. R. W. Jayne, cox. N. J. Boulter, bow; N. A. C. Down, 2; W. P. Haydon, 3; J. M. Hall, 4; J. Kingsman, 5; A. J . Ba ines, 6; R. C. A. Miles, 7; N. E. Cheese, stroke; J. B. Hosking, cox. M. D. M. Shreeve, bow; N. B. Paine, 2; S. J. Nicholl, 3; R. J. Fox, 4; J. J. Wi l ms~ hurst, 5; P. J. Madeley, 6; R. P. Mills, 7; I. D. C. Currie, stroke; D. J. G. Partridge, cox. M. P. Barrow, bow; M. F. Whitby, 2; D . R. Hammett, 3; S, H. Ratcliffe, stroke; J. C. W. Davison, cox. G.G.B. 106

THE FENCING CLUB The Fencing Club has completed an outstandingly successful season, winn ing a ll school matches and for the second year running making a clean sweep of every available Senior Team Championship in the County plus the Ind ividual Sabre Championship (N. C. Bane) and the Ind ividual Epee Championship (A. J. Carter). Only the Foil title went astray to a local member of the British Youth Team. The results speak for themselves and in school matches one remembers particularly the outstanding victory against Eton and t he hard fought match wit h Dover College. Unfortunately the fixture against Harrow had to be cancelled. All members of the Club have fought well and the Seniors especially are to be congratulated on their achievements. Things have not always been easy however. In the fina l of the Team Foil Knock~out Com~ petition against K.S. Rochester wc lost the first three bouts and it was only the determined fighting of Richard Staveley which turned the tide and gave King's a narrow 5--4 win. I n the Individual Event which followed, King's had nine fencers in the last twelve and a lthough Mike Allen lost his final bout for the championship against the highly experienced O. Thompson, K ing's took the next four places. In the Junior Compet ition, Andrew Macfarlane fought splendidly to tie for first place and was finally placed third after a barrage. The Epee Championships produced some very good fenci ng and Anthony Carter at last found his best form to win an exciting fina l, with last year's champion, Mike Allen, in second place, It was also very pleasing that his parents were there to see him do it. Andrew Macfarlane, who is still a Junior, again did extremely well to gain third place against more experienced opponents. In other outside competitions, Nick Bane is to be congratulated on gaining second place in the South-East Section Foil Championships and it was good to see two of our younger members, Cheshire and P. Williams, well placed in the Kent "Under 14" Event. Much of the cred it for the Club's success over the past two years, however, must be given to the Captain of Fencing, Mike Allen. H is outstanding leadership, not only on the piste, but behind the scenes servicing the weapons and organising the instruct ion, has been inva luable. He has certainly made my task much easier and I would li ke to thank him for all he has done. M.E.M. RESULTS School Matches v DANE COURT. Won 59--4. 1st Team (F.RS.), Won 25- 2; 2nd Team (F.E.S.), Won 27-0; Junior Team (Foil), Won 7- 2. I' ETON COLLEGE. Won 66- 6. 1st Team (F,E.s.), Won 21- 6; 2nd Team (F.E.S.), Won 27-0; Junior Team (Foil), Won 18- 0. v JUNIOR LEADERS' REGIMENT R.E. Won 36- 7. 1st Team (P.E.S.): Won 21- 6; 2nd Team (Foil), ... Won 15- 1. v K ING'S, ROCHESTER. Won 52- 20. 1st Team (F.E.S.), Won 18- 9; 2nd Team (F.E.S.), Won 20- 7; 3rd Team (F.s.), Won 14--4. v DOVER CoLLEGE. Won 24-21. 1st Team (F.E.S.), Won 14- 13; 2nd Team (Foil), Won 6- 3; Junior Team (Foi l), Lost 4-5. County Competitions KENT SCHOOLS' FOIL CHAMPIONSHIPS. 2nd, M. G. T. Allen (K.S.c.); 3rd, J. S. Sharp (K.S.C.); 4th, C. M. D. Ellis (K.S.c.); 5th, R. W. D. Staveley (K.S.C.). JUNIOR FOIL CHAMPIONSHIP. 3rd, A. E. Macfarlane. TEAM FOIL CHAMPIONSHIP. 1st, K ing's, Canterbury. TEAM FOIL KNOCK~OUT CoMPETITION. 1st, King's, Ca nterbury; 2nd, K ing's, Rochester. KENT SCHOOLS' EPEE CHAMPIONSHIPS. 1st, A, J. Carter (K.S.C.); 2nd, M. G. T. Allen (K.S.C.); 3rd, A. E. Macfarlane (K.S.c.); 5th, N. C. Bane (K.S.C.). KENT SCHOOLS' EPEE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP. 1st, King's, Canterbury. Colours awarded: A. E. Macfarlane and P. H. B. 'Baker.

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CROSS-COUNTRY CLUB It is very pleasant to be able to record our best season ever. In school matches we lost to on ly one school, by one point, on t~e day that OUf top two runners were running in the Kent C hampionships. This was in fact t he most pleasmg aspect of the who le season, because it is the first time we have been able to

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and P . C. W. Smith ach ieved this but they have consistently led the first team, despite being of o nly Colt s age. The term started with fi ve school matches and the Inte r-House match, a ll within the first fOll r weeks of term, from which the first team ma naged to stagger undefeated, having ach ieved the double o ve r our old ri va ls, Skinners. There then fo llowed a two-week hiatus, in which training reached a peak in prepa ration fo r the trad itional five schools match, this year at Hi ghgate. Unfortunately the Senior team collectively had one of its weaker runs, a nd without M a rshall a nd Smith lost annoyingly to Harrow by one point. After this the Senior team convincingly outran a ll its school opponents for the rest of the term, fini shing with revenge for last year's defeat by Dulwich. The highlight of the Colts' season was in the Lemon- Norris C up in which they were second in a very hi gh class field----defeating twelve other schools. After Marshall and Smith, the Seniors were no rma lly led in by a very consistent P. D . Chalkley, who was at times ha rd pressed by W . A. Selwyn. A. St. J. Brown, R . M. Sayers and W. M. Duggan a ll had good individ ua l runs, and the margin of victory depended on how high this group of three finished. The last two places were filled from P. W. R. Ca rpenter, O. C. Lya ll . P. J. Oirl ing a nd M. N. Hamway. The Colts, in the absence of M a rsha ll and Sm ith, were led by eithe r O . A. R. Gherson or T. J . Boyle. Able assistance was provided by A. McD. Cairns, P. R. R owland and C. K. Stanley, with some erratic but no nethe less vital support from O. D. Orbach, L. A. Backler, S. J. Moor and D. A. O. Bernard. After his "discovery", in the Inter-House match, M. N. H amway proved to be of value to both Senior and Colts teams. In some of the matches an Under-14 team was fielded, with J . H. McCabe and T . B. Barnard providing a very useful spearhead. Fina lly, my most grateful thanks go to Philip Carpenter fo r a ll his highly efficient he lp on the organisatio na l side, to Mr. Cooke for his help in training, and, of course, to Mr. Sugden , to whom the cred it m ust go for this high ly sllccessful season. A. ST. J . BROWN. As St. John Brown steps down from the captaincy after two highly successful seasons, I should li ke to record the debt wh ich the whole Club owes to him for his forthr ight, st imulating leade rship. Not o nly has he managed to handle both the boys a nd the master-i n-charge with consummate skill, but he has a lso managed to render the Club's run of success hi ghly enjoyable. He has set standards wh ich it wi ll be difficult to emulate, but he has left the Club in such a healthy state that the effort to do so will come naturally and easily.

J.B.S. RESULTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH. "THE KNOLl! RUN" AT SEVENOAKS Seniors only (23 Schools competed) I. Judd 86 2. Raynes Park 154 3. Sevenoaks 159 4. K.S.C. 227 5. John Fisher 248 SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH (HOME) Seniors 25 I. K.S.C. 101 2. K.S.C. (2) 109 3. Caterham 135 4. Ardingly d.n.f. 5. Whitgift

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THE JUDO CLUB Unfort,undate but unav?id!lble cancellations reduced the number of the remaIn er very conVInCIngly.

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new fv~nt th~ Club's fi xture list was the Sussex Schoolboys' Individual Championships. We entered a cam 0dmnbe, ut lie to armlocks and strangleholds being prohibited we only managed to gain tl,ree an a ronze. .

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Our !1e~ instructor, Clive Morgan, seems to have settled in well and the CI b h be fit d . I 1I as ne e Immense y from his different style of Judo. Colts' Colours were awarded to P. Marshall and M. Moss.

The Team: P. Whitaker (Brown), T. Hunter (Blue), J. Olcott (Blue) A Mather (Green) P Dobbs P. Marshall ' , . oss range, . reV1C (Orange).

«Go~ae:;ng)e') AM' MMoSS (G(Oreen), p)'zStreaickland (Green), N. Hadfield (Orange): I. Davis (Orange) P. 110

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THE SOCIETIES In spite of the fact that no report has appeared for a year, the Society has been far from inactive. On May 6th last Summer Term, Dr. J. T. Killen, of Jesus College, Cambridge, gave an illustrated talk on "Latest Developments in Linear 'B'- Into the Labyrinth", and at the end of term, on July 12th, we were very fortunate to have Professor G. Zuntz, now of Manchester University, who spent the morning with us translating and reading the Arbitration Scene from his own edition of Menander's EpiJrepofltes. In the Autumn Term, 1972, Mr. R. W. Harris spoke on "Classics and the Renaissance" on September 16th, P. J. Wagstaff, O.K.S., gave an illust rated account of his "Travels in North-West Greece" on September 26th, and Mr. G. P. Robertson advanced the latest theories on the "Destruction of Minoan Civilization" on October 14th. This term we have again had three lectures: on January 20th, Mr. A. S. Mackintosh gave a most interesting account of "Antony and Cleopatra: History and Literature", a subject which might have proved unrewarding to most speakers; on January 25th, Mr. D. T. D. Clarke, Curator of Colchester Museum, gave an illustrated lecture on "Roman Britain", showing the types of remains that he has come across; and on March 15th, Mr. J. B. Wilson, now at the Oxford Department of Education, returned aga in to speak on "What Philosophy is and is not", his talk being followed by a long discussion. On March 16th a party went to Dover College's production of Aristophanes' Clouds. The performance was unfortunately disappointing in nearly all respects: we have certainly seen better there. This term has also seen our most successful visit yet to the Kent Classical Reading Competition, held on March 6th at Sevenoaks School:Open Greek: 1st equal: P. B. Baron, K.S., C. F. P. Bourne, K.S. A. J. Maynard, K.S. Junior Greek: 1st 2nd: I. F. Walker. Open Latin: P. H. B. Baker, K.S. 1st: Middle Latin: Commended: C. H. Battersby. G. N. J. Norrish, K.S. Junior Latin: 1st equal: Commended: D. G. Hudson. Messrs. Mackintosh and Miller are to be thanked for their invaluable contribution to these successes; also Mr. Miller for his work as President, and especially for his excellent editing of our translation of Terence's Andria, which he is to produce for King's Week. P. H. B. BAKER. PATER

Mainly due to House Play commitments, the Society has not been as active as one would WALPOLE have liked this term. Of the three projected meetings, two actually took place, the other having been cancelled because of an unfortunate clash with the Marlowe Society Poetry Reading. On 10th March there was a tempestuous but ultimately useful General Meeting in which M. C. Greaves was appointed Hon. Treasurer and a number of plans for next term were formulated. These included joining the Drama Section of the Kent County Library so that we cattsubstantially extend our range of play readings, holding at least one open air meeting on a fine summer evening, having another traditiona l Society Breakfast, and going to a London theatre. For our second meeting on 24th March members were asked to bring short, pithy and preferably amusing pieces to read aloud. Our throats lubricated by some delightful Moselle, the readings were excellent, both in execution and choice, ranging as they did from Edward Lear to Alan Bennett, from England, Theil' Ellgland to How 10 be 011 Alien, from verse, prose and drama to a letter from the previous day's Times. Needless to say, we hope and intend to increase our activities next term. (Any Sixth Former interested in joining our ranks should contact a Secretary.) J. S. G. THOMAS, P. D. CHALKLEY. The Society has not been terribly active this term, but we enjoyed three good lectures and an outing. The first lecture was given by Dr. P. M. A. Sherwood, O.K.S., a lecturer at Newcastle University, on his own subject. "Photoelectron Spectroscopy". Despite the title, he gave a lecture that was very interesting to Sixth Form chemists.

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Âˇ Everyone enjoyed the outing to the B.P. ~sle of Grai n Oil Refinery. We seemed to spend a lot of time In the canteen, but a lecture was squeezc~ In between coffee and lunch, and afterwards, despite the issue of .safety helmets, no one suffered any mishaps as we toured some of the Refinery. Tea ended a very enjoyable day. Vr(e se?m to specialise in lecturers ".ÂĽho.giv~ us fright~ning titles as Dr. Land lectured to us on his Ph.D. sllb!.ec!: Some. Asp~ts of Carb.on Fixation 10 Chlorotic Barley M utants". T he lecture, of special interest to A level bIOlogists, was q Ui te well understood by the non-biologists bold enough to attend. Finally, .Dr,. A. F .. M. Smi.t~ ca!!le down from Keble College, Oxford, to talk to us about "Use of Mathemat ics In Making DecIsions. We learnt some practical Mat hs" as well as some amusi ng facts about ourselves. Next te~m we ~~pe to give a fi lm show, and Sir Frederick Da inton, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Oxford, will be giVing a lecture. Pla ns for an outi ng are under way. A. R. DORWARD. We welcome Alan Balson as the new Secretary; he will be taking over this coming PHOTOGRAPHIC term. Over the p~st tW? years the Society's facilities have been greatly improved. However, the Society still needs many more members. So, anyone interested-see the new secretary! S. D. BARNES, A. AHMADZADEH.

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Besides the first roun~ of the Daily Nfail Schools' Competition, in which K ing's was knocked out! last. term saw a fnen dly matc11 With the masters. Twelve hands were played on a dupl icate basIs, With the Masters fina lly losing by 900 points. MASTERS: I. J. R. E. Paynter, Esq. 1. A. B. Apps A. S. Mackintosh, Esq. v. R. H . Wheatcroft 2. J. M. Cooke, Esq. 2. P. A. Strickland A. C. Barker C. M. Noble A. B. Apps.

The King'~ Film Theatre's C?bjective is to show entertaining modern British, or American, fi lms, FILM preferably In colour. Profit IS to be put towards obtaini ng better sou nd equ ipment. The Club real ises that the. fi lms this term were not of a particularly high standard, but were not helped by the bad sound reprod uctIon. It was, however, a cross-section : The Reivers with Steve McQueen and The Spy Who Came ill From the Cold with Richard Burton can be classed as en tertainment whil~ Death ill Venice is art. It is hoped that in future we can obtain more entertainment films yet avoid i ~g pure ' commercialism if possible. The Club administrat ion. is as fo Hows, and I would li ke to thank everyone concerned for making sure the Club stayed on the ralls : The Headmaster (Patron), Mr. J, B. Sugden (Head of Administration), Mr. W. J , R .. Hi ld ick-Smit h (Head of Projection), A, St. J. Brown (Treasurer), J. N. Powell and W. F. To~d (CommIttee Members) and P. R .. Taylo: and others (for seeing that the Parry was in order before, dun ng and after ~ach film). T he Club IS also mdebted to those who gave time, equipment and encouragement towards thIS first term. T~e n~x~ co~lection of fil ms will be in t he autumn, when J. N . Powell will be Secretary. The titles under conSideration Include: Psycho, The Magllijiceltt Seven and Summer 0/'42. C. C. FITCHETT. Th is has been another busy and successfu l term for the Jazz Club. A General Meet ing was held near the beginning of term in order to establish the Club on a sounder financia l basis. Nearly 20 members were present and a termly subscription was introduced. The new influx of money enabled us to buy (with the kind help of Mr. Thatcher and Mr. D. A, Brown) a hi-hat, a crash cymbal and a bass-drum pedal. This, added to some of the school equipment, provided us with an effective, albeit makeshift, drum-kit. JAZZ CLUB

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With the rhythm section flou rishing on a permanent footing it was possible to get down to regular rehea rsa ls and run-throughs and many varieties of Jazz have been played: trad., ragtime, blues, be-bop, and jazz-rock. A Junior Sect ion has been formed and has shown that there is enthusiasm and ability in the lower part of the school. Undoubtedly the highli ght of the term was when eleven members and the President visited the Leas Cliff Hall at Folkestone on 22nd February to see the Stan Kenton Big Band in action. This was a superb experience enjoyed by everyone there, and it was encouraging to know that someone is concerned with the teaching and development of Jazz in schools. In conclusion we would like to thank the Headmaster, Mr. Wright for his encouragement, and, of course, Mr. Gollop for his organisation and drive from the top. A full Jazz Club concert has been arranged for next term. W. F. TODD, N. EDMUND-JONES.

The Society has had an active term, and has met regularly every week. We have been BELL-RINGING very lucky to have had the help of Mr. Luck and Mrs. Niblett, whose presence has given the stabili ty needed to bring the beginners on in the best possible way. That D. Jones, M. Strutt and C. Gibson can now contemplate handling the inside bells to Bob Doubles is due largely to their influence, and in part to the resident "experts", H. Edeleanu, our Captain, and P. Niblett, a young ringer with considerable experience. P. Wagstaffe, A. Wil kinson and C. Foale, all new members, have fai rly genuinely mastered the complexities of Plai n Hunting very quickly. This is all very encouraging and there is every hope that we will shortly have a band that will prove to be well above our average competence. M.N.W

Regularisation has been the key-note of the debating society this term, Under the active guidance of Mr, Goddard, the President, a committee of five has been formed to provide for cont inu ity and a wider base of committed people. There have been two debates. For the first we were pleased to have Messrs. Graham and Turner debating from opposite sides of the house on the motion that "T,V. is the bane of ou r society", and they were well supported by Stephen J . Harrison and Michael Selwyn on the one side and Pau l Strickland and Chris Noble on the other. The motion was defeated 28 votes to 12. There was a disappointingly small and unconstruct ive audience which d id not su it the Parry well. The second debate had a small but better audience and the Sixth Form Lect ure Room lent a more suitable atmosphere. The motion, "This House believes selfishness to be the ,best policy", proposed by Phi lip Chalkley and St. John Brown, with arguments that were, respectively, convoluted and extreme, was heavi ly defeated by the li beral-historical approach of Jonathan Seers and Kin/Wey Meek! The School entered The Observer Schools Debating Competi tion and found unlooked-for success, more about which can be read elsewhere. P. D. CHALKLEY. TENTERDEN

We continue to tick over at the comfortable rate of two meetings a term. On February MARLOWE 27th Mr. C. H. Copeman and Mr. M. A. B. Morpurgo, a ided by five boys from the School, int roduced and read a select ion of children's poet ry ent itled "The Innocent Eye", wh ich charted the gradual awaken ing of reality in the child-poet's mind, and the d iscovery of themes such as rebellion, death, and personal relationships. On March 9th Mr. Peter Hainsworth of the University of Kent gave a lecture entitled "Dante, the Father of the Italian Language". He dealt with Dante's study of linguistics and the pract ical benefits h is poetry derived from it. The Writing Circle continues to provide a vast reservoir of material for the Contributions section of The Caflfuariall. A. J. J. ELLISON. 113

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This term has been spent rehearsing DUfUfle's Reqlliem, in preparation for the conccrt On CHORAL May 12th with the girls of Benenden and Simon Langton. As always, attendance has fluctuated SOCIETY considerably: perhaps the prospect of female company wi ll keep the numbers high next term. There was a sing-through of various secti ons of the M essiah about half-way through the term, an experiment m llch enjoyed by all prescnt. It is a pity that the Society cannot devote morc of its rehearsal. time to this sort of singing, but the pressure of conccrts makes this well-nigh impossible. Our thanks afC due to Mr. Wright, of course. but also to Messrs. Scott and Tinker for their stereophonic accompaniment. M. S. GOOD, J. S. G. THOMAS. Most of the term was spent in preparing Italian Sa/ad by Richard Genee for the February GLEE CLUB Music Circle Concert. By having to work up something for performance enthusiasm and general interest was much greater than last term. Pressure from House Music caused the inevitable ret urn to dormancy during March. Grateful thanks to our cond uctor, Mr. Tinker. B. J. Q. WHEELER. A wide range of music has been played this term. At various stages we sight-read Haydn's Symphony No. 95, Moza rt's Symphony No. 38 (The Prag lle) and a Ha ndel concerto grosso. For the Ash Wednesday Passion Music we prepared Giazotto's Adagio jor Strings alld Organ based on a fra gment by Albinoni, with Stephen Hope at the organ. The highlight of the term's work was the performance of Paganini's F irst Violin Concerto with Mr. Myerscough in the Music Circle Concert of 25th February. Although rather overshadowed by the outstanding performance of the soloist, great credit must be given to our conductor, Mr. Goodes, who with so little rehearsal was able to keep soloist and orchestra in "perfect harmony" . We thank Mr. Robertson for Jeading the orchestra and MI'. Goodes for hi s conducting throughout the tenll.. CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

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Owing to unforeseen circumstances the proposed tour of Israel in the summer had to be cancelled. Work towards the K ing's Wcek symphony concerts has continued, however, and the programme has now been settled (the same for both concerts). The curtain-raiser will be Elgar's Garaciaclis march and the symphony will be Dvorak's ninth, From the N ew World: both have been studied in detail this term. In between will come four short concerti. of which we have so far only been able to study Elgar's Romal/ce for Bassoon alld Orchestra with Michael Good as soloist. Time has also been found for a little sight-reading of Schubert's N inth Symphony, Th e Great C major. Thanks are due to Mr. Wright for his patience and inspiration, to our leader, Clarence Myerscough, and to Christopher Gibson, Nicholas Bannan a nd Nigel R oberts for all their hard work in setting out the orchestra. P. J. DALE. FIRST ORCHESTRA

Most of the term has been spent preparing for the M usic Circle Concert, and, after some prom ising rehearsals, the orchestra performed three Haydn walt zes fo llowed by the Grand March from Verdi's Aida. They were-, especially the latter, a definite success. The playing has been of a good standard this term with some promising results. We thank Christophel' Noble for his leadership and Mr. Goodes for his patient and encouraging conducting throughout the term. S. J. DAVIES. SECOND ORCHESTRA

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''this was a rather more successful term ~han ~ast, in that we had a definit~ goal.to w~:)fk for ; ~he Music Circle Concert on 25 th February, III which we played the whole of Milhau~ s SUite Fral/palse. BA Th is was a very exciting task, particularly for the Brass play.ers, but one 'Yh1ch they oveIcame d'dly in performa nce, and indeed the overall standard was creditable, ~or wh l~h our thanks mu.st spl~~ ~lIr conductor, Mr. Christopher T inker, making his debut as Bandmaste~ III ~ major conce~t. Certam go b s also took part in the Kent Wind Society performance of Handel s Fireworks MusIc on 24th F~:rl1:~y, which in terms of sheer sound was an exhilarating experience for all concerned. ND

N t term we will be preparing for the usual fixt ures; the i nciden~al music for. the Disabled Drivers' ~~d the Concert of Light M usic, which this year we hope to hold m the open air. S. J. H ARRISON.

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CHOIR

The Choir was much larger this term, particularly due to a ~ubstantially increase? number of trebles. As the lack of trebles can be a d ifficu lt problem, thiS was very encouragmg.

For services in the Nave, the Choir moved to a position on the main steps leading up to. ~he Quire, as it was arranged some years ago . The effect of this has been to give the ~choo~ a more posl.l1ve lead and singing directly down the Nave gives anthems greater resonance-two thmgs d ifficult to achieve in o~r former position on the Dorth side of the Nave. The follow ing anthems have been sung by the whole choir :Whence doth that goodly jragrance (Kitson) Teach me, 0 Lord (Attwood) When 10 the temple Mary weill (Eccard) Ave Verum (Elgar) . Judge me. 0 God (Mendelssohn) Though I speak ~yit" the tOl/gues ojmell (Balcstow) The Lord is Killg (Boyce) Salvator MundI (Blow). . Lord who hasl made liS jor thine own Lacrymosa (from Mozart s ReqUIem) (Psalm 14'8) (Holst) Ghrisllls Facllls Est (Bruckner) Small vocal groups conducted by Jonathan Seers have provided the followin g anthems for some Evensongs ; Great Lord of Lords (Gibbons) . . The Shepherds' Farewell (Berlioz) Cl'llcifixlIS etiam pro nobis (AntOnIO Lotti) Ave Vel'lltrl Corpus (Elgar)

S. M.

MADRIGAL SOCillTY

AMOS,

P. W. R.

CARPENTER.

Because Lent was about as late as it could be it was felt a good idea to have the annu~l Passion M usic in the Eastern Crypt on Ash Wednesday rather than on a Sunday late.1ll the term. Rather than tackle the whole of a .. Passion· ... this year we took the opportul11ty of singing a selection of motets and sacred pieces, formlllg a very presentable programme.

All thanks are due to Mr. Wright, who after a last-minute crisis with the trebles and with an injured wrist, coaxed forth some very fine i inging on the night. J R S •

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS This has been a useful term as regards Basic Training which ha 11 Th T .. has been fe-organised into a four-term course, taking three terr~: ~g~~ew~PEX e ra!ntn~ prOcgramOle by a onc-term Ca~re Course for those who pass APEX. designed primari ly for pro:;:i~~a~~C.O~~~:wed

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ank lets I~ smart, comfo:table and easy to maintain. This dress is already proving i tselfl~op~ja r. ts and The Field Day exercises went well These included . It i d n ~t~ac~h fo~owed by a full day of Fieldcraft which left everyone tired but hopc~un~g ~h~~i~c/nA f~ . ways a er e ommandos staged their long night exercise which again was ~uccessful. '

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is going on a mos t interesting Course, so the radio net should operate

We were more qlan fortunate th~s .1C?rm to be rewarded by one of the best lectures of recent times Thr Officers of The Light Infantry DIvIsion gave a presentat ion programme ent itled "Ulste'" Th' Ice were. fortunate enough to be there will not easi ly forget the way in which the Army's rOI~ \~as d~sel w 10 by slJdes and facts, by examples and personal experiences, and we thank them for it. ve oped The term ends on a note of anticipation as we prepare for our Easter Camp at Setnesmoen, in Norway.

T. O. PHILPOTT (C.S.M.) Promotions this term:-to C.S.M.: C. B. Oldfield T. G. Ph ilpott · to St· A E M t: 1 . L/Sgt.: ~. G. T. Wheeler; to Cpl.: R. M. Iron, P. R: Randall' to L/Cpl' 'R' F·.rra·I' CacJarRanebc' to R. H. Wmdell. ' "" , . . 0 rts,

W.J.R.H-S.

ROYAL NAVAL SECTION This ha~ been a successful and enjoyable term. Trai ning has been geared to the NP d All " and the signs are that the result s of these wi ll be good. An enjoyable lecture :~ give~XblyTIlC~h~~i~ Stavcley, R . N., and we were glad to act as hosts to a Conference of C C F R N R Offi . I' p. The Sect.ion d.ivI'ded m . t0 th'lee par t"les lor F'IeId D ay; fifteen cadets spent . .. . . . daeerson111Ht M liS Sregion an excellent }(, . undergom~ tria ls. at Portsmo~th, ~~companied by Sllb.~Licut. Copeman; eight wen t ealoci ng .:vitit i.; e/~t Vye and eight enjoyed an active VISit to the Roya l Marines' Depot at Deal. leu. I am grateful for all the work done by the three senior cadets CPO 's Sta I d I k d L Roberts. Stave.ley will be the senior cadet on the Easter Camp in Nor~a'y 'which vfu~~ ~tller ~~ e an b IS are also attend mg. , . . mem ers D.J.R.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION T~e pressure of Proficiency exam inatio"!s has not bee,,! so immediate this term and therefore it has been possible. to. make the programm~ morc vaned. The recrUIts squad, because it was so small had to be ·oined to the slmJiar Army ~quad, wh ich had its advantages but was not idea l. The orienteeri~g test pasied off succesffisfl~llY and <?n Field Day most of the cadets flew at Manston while a few made a long road journey to our a lated station, West Raynham, between King's Lynn and Norwich There was d h . in our bid for the Assegai Trophy but the result wilt not be k~own until the sllmmer. some goo s ootmg There are two ~)Verseas actiyi.ti7s these holi days, with fOllr cadets joining the arduOlls training expedition to Norway and eight cadets VISltIOg the Royal Air Force in Germany at Gutersloh. P.O.W. II G

O.K.S. NEWS The Melbourne Dinner of The King's, Parramatta O.E.U. was held on October 20th, 1972. O.K.S. present were Derek Fearon (1941), Robert Davies (1963) and their wives, and Alan Blaxland (1960). The latter also sends word that Colin Porter (1948) is with the E.P.A. at Melbourne working on pollution research. Both "row up" a Sunday morning thirst in the Gentlemen's Eight! We congratulate Canon D. L. Edwards (1947) on his appointment as exam ining chaplain to the Bishop of Bradford and J. G. Owen, formerly Housemaster of Marlowe, on being appointed D irector of Education for Devonshire. Canon Poole (I928)'s inspiration and efforts led recently to an interesting and successfu l exhibition of contemporary church embroidery at Coventry Cathedral. Roger Snell (1956) writes offering to collect news of O.K.S. in Holland. He is also actively in terested in cricket, sq uash and tennis. His address is Weresteign 98, Slieducht, Holland. Robert Hammersley (1962), in his final year at Oxford, must be congratulated on finding time to cond uct the Schola Ca ntorum who recently gave a performance of the Monteverd i Vespers (1610) with the English Chamber Orchestra. Jonathan Williams (1968) was recently seen in London, having toured South America as 'cellist with the same orchestra. Bernard Rapson (1970), reading Maths. at Oxford, we hear, is organising a Bach concert for the 19th of May. Jan M. Osborn (1948) is in Nairobi as General Manager of the Wellcome Foundat ion Ltd. (East Africa).

Andrew Cobb (1957) appears well~proportioned in a photograph of the East Africa Rugby team in the Sunday Natioll, July. 1972. P. H. Honour (1941), having written a deli ghtful book on Venice, has now produced one on Cabillet Makers alld Furniture Designers. E. Lucie~Smith (195 I), who has written on the history of French pa inting and reviewed art trends since 1945, has produced an interesting book on Eroticism ill Western Art. It is sad to hear of the death of Dyneley Hussey (1912), the distinguished music and art critic whose style had affinit ies to that of Walter Pater (O.KoS.). Great sympathy is extended to his wife, Dr. Kathleen Costello, on her loss (and ours too). Licut. L. S. Burr (1966) of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment is reported in the Kelltish Gazelle to be well on his way to becoming one of the Army's lead ing fencers. We hear from Mrs. Day that Flight Lieut. John Day (1964) was involved in a d ifficult but successful helicopter air/sea rescue off the East Anglian coast. His brother Nigel (1966) had a less sllccessful experi ence two miles up over Harlech when the engine of his Gnat exploded. After ten days in hospital, un~ deterred, he successfully completed his course by passing out top and collecting four trophies. Both praiseworthy achievements for the Days. ' David Blcazard (1971), we arc pleased to note, has been appointed organ i ~ at SI. Luke's, Ramsgate. Christopher Ward Smith (1969) gave a recital for the Save the Children Fund in Canterbury last summer. J. S. Billinghurst (1923) has moved to Bantry in County Cork and "life is very pleasant". Peter Billingburst (1951), now a Major, is still with the M.O.D. in London. The other son, Michael (1958), is Managing Director of the Australian branch of the Metropolitan Estates and Property Corporation and has two sons. Alan Abbott (1966), having obtained an upper second in Arabic at the University of London, later topped the list in the Higher Exam ination of the Diplomatic Service (MECAS), and then was posted as Infantry Platoon Commander 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment in Bahrein in 1971. Then after two months on a course in the Department of Oriental Studies at Durham, he distinguished himself in Mi li tary Interpretership to be promoted to Assistant Adjutant, H.Q. Intelligence and Security Group (U.K.). He is now married to Miss Diane Craven and has probably been posted with the 39 th Brigade to Belfast. We are pleased to hear that John Wiltshire (1935), F.I.C.S., is now a Senior Pension Administrator in the City of London. Congratulations go to Prof. Alan B. Clemetson on his appointment to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the State University, New York. N. P. Finn (1964) is now married but we have no details. w

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J. D. Moss (1939), .after a sojou rn in South Africa, was a mong those present at the Centenary Dinner i Canterbu ry. He IS now Head of D rama for the Natal Perform ing Arts Council. Congratulations. n Also present at the Centenary p inner, modestly disguised as Laurence Kenney (1937), was the Mayor of the Royal ~orollgh of ~ensmgton and Chelsea: We would li ke to congratulate him o n a rather rare event-clccllon fro m bemg Deputy Mayor to bemg Mayor-and apologise fo r not doing so earlier. We are not. surprised to learn that another Scrivenor, aged six days, has been entered fo r the School b J . P. Scrlvenor (1960) ! y D. J. M ills (1?62) was married to Jennife r Anne Pikes in Ma laya in 1966 a nd now has a da ughter. He is prC?sentiy with the Commonwealth Development Corporation at the Head Office for two yca rs before gomg overseas. FENCING The annual O.K.S. ,fenci ng ~atch with the ~chool I.las been arranged for Satu rday, 14th J uly. Will all O.K. S. fencers who will be ava ilable please wl'lte to Richard Bird Woodbury Bromley Lane Chislehu rst Kent. ' , , ,

ENGAGEMENTS Fisher- Campbcll.- R. I. B. Fisher (1963) is engaged to Alison Campbell. Horsfall Turncr- Thompson.- J. Horsfa ll TU rner (1 964) is engaged to Yvonne Thompson. P lummer- Tylcr.- Christopher Plummer (1 968) is engaged to Rosetta Tyler.

MARRIAGES Moss-:-FcnsoJl.- J. D . Moss (1 939) was married to Jill Fenson on September 11th, 1972, at D urban, South Afnca. Haycs- Bishop.-Lieut. N. H. Hayes, R.N. (1 966) was ma rried to Pauline Bishop at Plymouth on August 12th, 1972. Heslop-Plumb.- R. X. Heslop (1 965) was married to Angela Plu mb in July, 1972, at Canterbury. M itton- von Fritschen.-R . E. B. Mitton (1 957) was married to Barba ra Ines von F ritschen on Octo ber 14th, 1972. Maycock-Parker.-W. D . . Maycock (1961) was married to Gill ian Mary Pa rker on J uly 28th, 1972, in Johan nesburg. South Afri ca.

BIRTHS Redpath.- To Elizabeth (nee Stewa rt) and Niel (1 962), a da ughter (Lucinda Ma ry), on August 30th. 1972. Quested.- To Alix and David (1 947), a daughter, on August 31st, 1972.

DEATHS Varlcy.- John Gera ld Varley (1 925) died suddenly on October 31st, 1972. Andrews.-K. B. Andrews (1 926) died suddenly at home in Ryde, I.O.W., aged 61. Wcst.- MajorÂˇGenera l Clement Arthur West, C.B., o.s.o., M.C. (1910) died. aged 80 years, at Heathfield, Sussex? on. September 4t h, 1972. He had a meritorious mili tary career involving bot h wars and he was fo r a time m charge of Sout hern Command .

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OBITUARIES ARTHUR JAMES LUSH (1892-1973) Many of the older generat ion of O.K.S. will remember Jimmy Lush with afTect ion. Born in 1892. he entered the school in September, 1906 and became a Monitor in 1909. He was Captain of Holme House under Mr. Evans (called "Winks" because he always wi nked his eyes when a question was asked of him), a member of thc 1st XV in 1910, and O.F.C. Sergeant in 1910. On leaving school in July, 191I , he went up to Keble College, Oxford, where he rcad Science. Subsequently, he engaged in business in the City, becoming a Director of Victor Blagden & Co. Ltd., which specialised in heavy chemicals, and made an important contribut ion to the war effort from 1914. Jimmy Lush himself served in France with the 6th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade until incapacitated by wounds. Subsequently, he entered the War Office in 1918, and returned to Victor Blagden after the war, marrying G ladys, the daughter of the Managing D irector, in 1920. They had three daughters and one son. He will be remembered as a man of great charm and great courage.

R. H. GOWER,

O.D.E.

(1930-36)

King's will always be deeply indebted to Dick Gower as the Captain of School who bridged the gap between the old order and the new when Joh n Shirley became Headmaster. It was the latter who persuaded him to stay on for a further year from 1935 to help in the transition, and the strong-minded young man provided a remarkable foil for the formidable, innovat ing Headmaster. Gower was much more than the interpreter of John Shirley's wishes; in the headlong rush of changes and reform he was also the guard ian of old customs to which boys like to cl ing. and in consequence the partnership was never a placid o ne. Its success, however, was ma ni fest both in the firm foundat ions for the future wh ich were laid in that year and in the respect and affect ion which endured between the two unti l John Shirley's deat h many years later. D ick Gower came to the School in 1930, his Mi lner Schola rship revealing the fa mily background of colonial service in which he was later to make his own chosen career. He was an astonish ing all round athlete, and all the more so because he succeeded despite defective vision and indifferent health. Captain of cricket, with a record of centuries in one season which has only recently been surpassed: capta in of hockey. wi th a Blue to fo llow at Cambridge: in the XV: adept at every mi nor sport, there seemed to be no ball ga me wh ich he could not master. From Cambri dge Gower went on to a distinguished ca reer of 22 years in the Tanganyika administration· His vigour and ingenuity in the field were a by·word amongst his colleagues, and he proved equally effective in central government as the Permanent Secretary of a Minist ry. His memorial there was the trust and friendship of great numbers of Africans. For the writer, who " fagged" for him at school and was his colleague in Tanganyika, grief is tempered by a hundred recollections of that strong sense of humour which imbuecfn ick's company with a sense of fun under even the most unpromising ci rcumstances. T he sympathy of a ll who knew him will go out to his widow, Sylvia, and his son, David.

"BER'r'

It was with deep regret that the School learned of the deat h of "Bert", as he was affect ionately known to all the casts and backroom boys for many years. He first came to King's in November, 1935, to make·up the cast of Richard of Bordeaux, and came each successive November, except for the war years until 1951 when the School played The Merchant of Venice as their cont ribut ion to the Festiva l of Britain: Thereafter, King's Week came into being and, wherever the plays took place, Bert and his team did their make-up either in Prior Selli ngate or under the Deanery or, more recent ly, in the Ladies' Cloakroom under the Great Hall. Event ually "Old Bert" retired and "Young Bert". his son, took over, but so fond of the School was Old Bert and so pleased was everyone to see him that he always came to a performance with his son driving him down, unti l 1971. He will be greatly missed. 119

CANTUARIAN LODGE No. 5733 At our December meeting we were pleased to welcome David Llewellyn Delahay-Jones (SH 1944-47) as a member of the Lodge. We wish him a long and happy association with us. By kind perm ission of the Headmaster the Triennial Meeting will be held in the School Libra ry on Sat urday, 2nd June, 1973. Representatives of the Province of Kent and our sister lodges the Old Lawrent ian Lodge No. 4 141 and the Old Dovorian Lodge No. 5647 will be there and any O.K.S. Masons who wish to attend arc very welcome. It would give us great pleasure to see any Masons from Lodge No. 760, The King's School, Parramatta. who may be in this count ry at that pa rticular time.

The Otnt uarian Lodge meets at Euston Hall, 1 Ellston Road, London, N.W. I, on the fourth Thursday in February, April (Installation) and October, and the first Thursday in December each year. Membership of the Lodge is open primari ly to those who have been educated at the K ing's School, Canterbury, for Governors, Masters and Officers of the School, present and past, and to close relat ives of O.K.s. and Boys at the School. We should also be only too pleased to hear from anyone similarly connected with the King's School, Parramatta . Our Secretary is Keith Lewis (SH 1946---49) of 16 Darynglon Drive, Perivale Park, Greenford, M iddlesex (Telephone: Home 01-578 4167, Office 01 -349 9191). Please contact him should you require further details.

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lst XI SQUAD. WINNERS OF THE FRANK MASON HOCKEY TOURNAMENT Back Row,' T. A. Chantier, A. J. Young, P. Y. Kalfayan, J. P. H . Burke, S. J. Whi te-Thomson, P. G. Shorrock, G. J. G . Partridge, R. G. P. Pollard. Fronl Row: J. C. Sparks, P. A. Reacher, C. E. A. Reddick, M. Asfaw, S. B. Mather, C. C. K ilbee. [Kemish Gazette

THE VICTORIOUS FENCING TEAM Back Row: P. H. B. Baker, M. A. Harrold, R. W. D. Staveley, A. J. Carter, M. W. Newsom. From Row: N. C. Bane, M. G. T . Allen, J. S. Sharp, C. M. D. Ellis.

Over: THE WINNING KENT RUGGER VII Back Row: S. R Osborne, T. K. Reeve, C. M. Britten, R. W. Mansbridge. Frollt Row: P. R. Taylor, M. D. J. Donaldson, T. Hunter. [Kemish Gazette

MICHAEL GOOD AND BRASS-RUBBING [Kelllish Express

THE CANTUARIAN

AUGUST 1973

CONTENTS PAGE

EDITORIAL

121

THE SCHOOL

122

CHAPEL NOTES

124

TH IS AND THAT

126

MUS ICAL TH IS AND THAT

130

LEAVING STAFF

131

SPEECH DAY, 1973

133

K ING'S WEEK

146

CONTRIBUTIONS

ISS

REV IEWS

160

BOOK REVIEW

168

KING 'S SPORT

169

C.C.F. NOTES

187

THE O.K.S. T llUST

189

O.K.S. NEWS

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CORRESPONDENCE

190 192

OUR CONTEMPORARIES We acknow ledge with th ank s the receipt of magazines from the following schooI5:-

Aldenham, Ashford, Bedford , Brad fi eld , Bradford G .S., Dane Court T . H.S., Epsom, Fe lsted , Hu rst pierpoin l, K .C.S. Wimbledon , King's Rochester, La nci ng, Mal vern, Marlborough , Mil ner Court, New Beacon , Rad ley, Ru gby, 5 1. Edward's, St. Pau l's, Sto nyh urst, Westminster, Whitgift , Worksop.

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. XXXVII No. 3

AUGUST, 1973

EDITORIAL We live at the gates of Europe, here in Canterbury, and never have we been so conscious ofit. Throughout the country the stimulus to learn a fore ign language is stronger than ever before. Good, says the scientist, inspired, let us learn enough German to read scientific journals.

Fine, says the historian, let us learn enough French to read, in the original, source material

on the French Revolution. Excellent, says the businessman, I will learn enough Russian to sell them factories. Businessmen and housewives spend precious spare time at evening classes; and here in schools we have responded to the demand to be taught to speak a foreign language (as opposed to knowing the grammar), and are beginning to cater for special and limited language needs.

Where, though, does th is leave Modern Languages, as a n\ain subject in a Sixth-form course, on a level with Mathematics or English or H istory l In an age which demands serious commitment to a specialist subject after the age of 15 or 16, doubts about the validity of Modern Languages as a Sixth-form subject have arisen. A criticism which has been frequently voiced is that the study of modern languages is only marginally vocational; that is, except in rare cases, the study to wh ich we are asked to devote so much t ime at school does not lead to a career. A strange criticism one would have thought, seeing that it is not levelled at other Arts subjects such as English or History. The implication must be that these subjects, though not vocational, develop intellectual skills which are considered necessary to full development of the mind, and that the study of a language is in la rge part mechanical and a matter of mimicry. The main business of learn ing a foreign language is seen as the acquisition of a technical skill : useful, perhaps essential in a shrinking world, but no more qualified to occupy the central place in an "A" Level COllrse than learn ing to dr ive a car. H is time perhaps to fe-state the case fo r Modern Languages. 121

THE HEADMASTER, painted by Miss Anna Zinkeiscn [Elltwistle

To take the charge that language Jc•.r;ling is mimicry. Certainly, this was the new truth proclaimed until recently by the followers of behaviourist psychology, who staked every. thing on a utomatic responses, and the use of regimented language laboratories, and nearly squeezed the life out of language learning. Fortunately, it has been rediscovered that it is not so. To begin with, perhaps ; but increasingly language learning becomes a matter of feeling oneself into the methods of expression of a Frenchman, or Russian

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In other words, it is an exercise in imagination and empathy. Looking at English attitudes towards foreign language study in the past, one cannot avoid the feeling that such empathy has been suspect, as actors have been suspect. Too much feeling into other people's situa· tions has been seen as dangerous to an awareness of one's own indiv iduali ty. We have been proud of our uniqueness, and wary of compromising it by understanding foreigners

too readily. Fortunately, such attitudes have changed. Imagination and the willingness to consider and appreciate the alien are valued more highly. But to understand, one must be equipped. Study of a foreign language in the Sixth·form should be, and we hope is, a voyage of discovery, a journey into another country; and possibly the most valuable thing about it is the sense of dissatisfaction that grows if one goes on it as an unprepared tourist. It should be a stimulus to the acquisition of basic intellectual skills which every educated person should possess: the ability to criticise and appreciate literature, and other art; the ability to explore and evaluate possible historical reasons for a community being as it is; the ability to probe beneath the surface and see how the commun ity works. We are not saying that the modern linguist is some kind of superman, an amalgam of literary critic, historian, and social scientist. But let us nail our colours to the mast, and declare that these skills are not exclusive to specialists, and are essential to the full education of an intell igent person. We hope that modern language studies provide a stimulus, and we hope that at the end of the journey the Sixth·former will come back equipped to use his own language in a clearer and more lively way, and to appreciate better and criticise more effectively the society he lives in.

THE SCHOOL Captaill of School: C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. Vice· Captains: N. B. Platts· Marti n, K.S., M.S., M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S. Head of Walpole C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. Head of School House N. B. Platts· Martin, K.S., M.S. Head of Galpill's M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S. Head of Luxmoore A. Mather Head of Linacre P. R. Taylor, M.S. Head of Meister Omers C. J. G. Ware Head of The Grange R. J. P. Pollard, K.s. Head of Marlowe J. S. G. Thomas SCHOOL MONITORS C. E. A. Reddick, K.S., N. B. Platts·Martin, K.S., M.S., M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S., A. Mather, M. J. D. Donaldson , P . R. Taylor, M.S., C. J. G . Ware, R. J. P. Pollard, K.S., J. S. G . Thomas 122

HOUSE MONITORS N. B. Platts· Martin, Ie s., M.S., S. M. Amos, M.S., C. H. Morgan, C. M. Britten. Th e Grange: R. G. P. Pollard, K.S., J. R. Seers, K.S. , M.S., M. G. T. Allen, K.S., R. W. Mansbridge, S. J. isacke, A. P. Finn Walpole: C. E. A. Reddick, K.S., M. D . J. Donaldson, P. W. R. Carpenter, P. D. Chalkley, C. J. Howe Meister Omers: C. J. G. Ware, A. W. Dawes, K.S., W. Macdonald, S. J. Greaves, E. M. P. Watkins Mar/owe: J. S. G. Thomas, M. F. Robinson, A. J. Ellison, K.S., M.S., M. S. Good, K.S., M.S., C. M . Noble, K.S., P. E. S. Richardson, S. J. White·Thomson Luxmoore: A. Mather, T. C. Lawrance, S. C. Reeve, M. W. Coerper, 1. McL. Davies, 1. R. O. Macdonald, R. W. D. Staveley, W. M. Duggan, K.S. Galpill's: M. J. d'A. Sephton , J. D. M. Taylor, S. J. Harrison, K.S. , M.S., G. C. Olcott LiflaCl'e: P. R. Taylor, M.S. , A. St. J. Brown, A. Gent, M. G. Cheeseman, K.S. , C. C. Kilbee, R. M. Sayers Captain 0/ Boats M. J. d'A. Sephton, K.S. Captain of Cricket C. C. Kilbee Captain of Athletics S. J. Isacke Captain of Hockey C. E. A. Reddick, K.S. Captain of Swimming W. J. Pearson Captaill of Tennis M. D. J. Donaldson Captain of Cross·Country W. A. Selwyn Captain of Fencing M. G. T. Allen, K.S. Captain of Shooting T. G. Philpott Captain of Squash Rackels N. B. Platts· Martin, K.S., M.S. Captaill of Gymnastics W. M . Duggan, K.S. Captain of Judo P. C. Whitaker Captain of Golf C. E. Rudgard Captain of Basketball R. W. Mansbridge Monitor for Music P. R. Taylor, M.S. Monitor for Art S. R Mather Monitor for Woodwork J. P. Bianco School House:

SALVETE A. D. Cooling, J. A. F. Cowderoy, M. Downie, E. C. Finsaas, S. R. May, A. C. L. Plint, J. A. Poppleton, S. G. Rodway, S. A. Sillars, C. R. M. Steel, K. L. Tobin, C. M. Wallace.

VALETE J. P. Chilton, S. R. Harrison, G. A. Hocknell, M·A. Lakhani, K. J. N. Meek, P. A. Reacher, A. P. V. Roberts, B. J. Q. Wheeler, A. J. Wilson. VALETE- addendum: July, 1972 G. R. A. Ward. 123

VIRTUTE FUNCTI MORE PATRUM DUCES HARRISON, S. R.- Came Sept. , '69; Upper Sixth; Senior King's Scholar; Han. Music Scholar. LAKHANI, M-A .- Came Jan. , '68; Upper Sixth ; House Monitor. MEEK, K. J. N.- Came Sept., '68; Upper Sixth; House Monitor ; Head of House ; School Monitor. REACHER, P. A.- Came Jan ., '69; Upper Sixth; House Monitor; 1st Hockey Colours; Tennis Colours ; Han . Secretary of Somner Society. ROBERTS, A. P. Y.- Came Jan. , '69; Upper Sixth; House Monitor. WHEELER, B. J. Q.- Came Sept., ' 68 ; House Mon itor; Head Sacristan ; Han. Secretary of Glee Club.

CHAPEL NOTES Ascension Day. This year there was the customary whole holiday on Ascension Day, and our main celebration of the Holy Communion was held on Ascension Eve in the Eastern Crypt of the Cathedral, where for the first time we sang the Series 3 service to the music publ ished by the Royal School of Church Music, led by a large contingent of the school choir. Visit of the Archbishop. The Archb ishop, who was unable to celebrate for us following the Confirmation in the Lent Term, very kindly agreed to join us again for a Sung Eucharist service on Sunday, 6th May, which was much appreciated by the large number of boys present. Visiting Preachers. We have been pleased to welco me as o ur visiting preachers in the Summer Term: The Revd. Neville Cryer, National Director, British a nd Foreign Bible Society; the Revd . Michael Marshall, Vicar of All Saints', Margaret Street; the Revd. Bruce Hawkins, Canterbury Diocesan Youth Chaplain ; the Revd. John Morrison, Chaplain, Lincoln College, Oxford ; the Revd. Dendle French, Thetford Team Ministry; the Revd. Canon Peter Baelz, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Oxford University; the Revd. M. C. O. Mayne, O.K .S., Head of Religious Broadcasting, BBC Radio. LEPRA. Two years ago the then members of Remove 2 raised ÂŁ 16 for the work of LEPRA (the Leprosy Relief Association). That money has been used to treat eight children, in the early stages of the disease, at out-patient clinics in India. So this term, following a visit by the Regional Organiser, Mrs. E. Salisbury, who spo ke about the work of the Society and showed slides of her recent visit to India, this year's Remove 2 determined to raise more money for this work, and managed to collect the magnificent total of ÂŁ93. This, we are told , can provide one year's treatment for 46 children in India. J24

"Thank You." The Chaplains gratefull y acknowledge the help of many boys in preparing for and conducting our services, both in the Memorial Chapel and in the Cathedral. Sacristans, servers, and those who move chai rs all play an ind ispensable part. [n additio n, Luxmoore House was responsible for the Evening Service in the Eastern Crypt on Sunday, 13th May, and a group of members of the school a nd friends presented us with a service, "The Nature of True Love", on 1st July. Chapel Fund. Donations have been made to the following causes this term from the Chapel Fund:£ 14·00 British a nd Foreign Bible Society 5·00 Kontum Mission, S. Vietnam 9·50 Samaritans 22·50 Christian Aid 14·00 South African Church Development Trust 24·00 New Guinea Mi ssion 7·00 Lord Mayor Treloar Trust for physically ha ndicapped children 16·00 Leprosy Relief Association 5·00 Clergy Orphan Corporation 8·00 Shaftesbury Society 44·00 Save the Children 77·50 Oxford and Bermondsey Cl ub (Commemoration Collections) P.F.B. CHOIR T he foll owi ng Anthems have been Sling during the term :This joyful Eastert/de (Wood) I saw the Lord (Stainer) Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley) This is the record of John (Gibbons) Faire is the Heaven (Harris) 0 heart subdued (Brahms) Thou wilt keep (Wesley) Great Lord of Lords (Wood) Glorious ;s Thy name (Mozart) BlessedCity (Bairstow) o clap your hands (Vaughan Willi ams) Creatioll's Hy mn (Beethoven) Come Holy Ghost (Attwood) For OUf Recital in King's Wcek:Psalm 148 : Lord, who hast made liS (Holst) o where shall wisdom befoulld? (Boyce) ChriS/liS Factus Est (Bruckner)

For the Commemoration Service:Ifal/elujah! (from Handel's Messiah)

Small groups, under the direction of Jo nat han Seers, have sung the fo llowing Anthems at some Evensongs:Ubi carilas et all/or (Durllfl6) Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky) o for the willgs of a dove (Mendelssohn) Os jusli (Bruck ner) Locus iste (Bruckner) S. M. AMOS, P. W. R. CARPENTE'1. 125

f THIS AND tHAT Through the gene rosity of Major D. J. B. Jervis, O.K.S. and Governor T he Headmaster's a notable painting was added on Speech Day. to those already hanging Portrait 111 the Shirley Ha[ 1. The ha[f-Iength portrait of the Headmaster, in canonical dress, is the work of M iss Anna Zinkeiscn; we feel sure that her a lready very hi gh reputation will be further enhanced by this happy example of her art. We were very sorry to hear of the death of Professor Townsend, a good friend of the School whose so n, Nicholas, was at one time in Linacre. In the 1930's he painted a number of facsimile portraits of distingu ished Old King's Scholars for the Dining Hall: some remain there, th e rest han g in the Shirley Hall. Professor William Townsend

The Headmaster preached at Grenham House on May 20th, attended the Governors' Meeting at Haze[wood School on June 25th, and presented the prizes at Woottonley House on July 7th, as well as at J.K.S. on July 17th. With Mrs. Newell he a lso had the pleasure of visiting Streete Court on May 10th and of entertaining the East Sussex Division of the LA.P.S. to dinner on May 8th, and the choristers of Canterbury Cathedral in the Tuck Shop on June 20th. The Headmaster

Apart from those members of the Staff whose valedictory notices appear elsewhere in this magazine, we bid farewell this term with our thanks and good wishes to Mr. V. G. Barnes (who is going to take a Diploma in Art Teaching at Birmingham) and to Mr. G. O. Chapman (who is going to teach at Lambrook School, Bracknell). Masters' Valete

Mr. J. B. Sugden will be taking over School HOJlse a nd Mr. M. J. Hodgson, Riversleigh.

New Honsemastcrs and Housemastcr's Wife

Mr. Robin Pittman and M iss Laura Pern!e were married by the Dean of Jersey in his drawing-room on Apri [ 19th.

After many valuab[e years as House Matron, Mrs. Campbell leaves Mrs. Caml,bell Luxmoore this term with the thanks of a ll who knew her. However, she will be the School House Matron next term to help the "new leadership" settle in, before leaving us altogether.

"Epic" Error The Gooseberry Patch

From an Economic History essay:"Industrialisation was greatly helped by the Protestant epic"!

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Woodley on a daughter, Miranda, on 21st April and to Mr. and Mrs. Boyden on their daughter, Joanna Mary, on 19th May. 126

f Lectures

Many thanks to Mr. John Ardagh for his lecture on "France and Europe Today" and to Mr. Alan Chandler for an interesting evening on the "Commedia dell' Arte".

We should like to correct a statement that appeared in a review of the High Conunissioner of Malawi's talk last December. It is not true that elections have been done away with. Mr. Katenga-Kaunda writes: "elections arc conducted every four years, but no other party has won any seat in Malawi since the Mala wi Congress Party under Dr. Banda won a 'landslide' in the first-ever General Election. The only difference with the Westminster elections is that elections are conducted under a system suitable to Malaw i." An Apology

The Librarian would [ike to thank the Headmaster, Mrs. Ingram, and Library Books .. , A. Ogilvy, Esq., for their recent generous gifts of books to the Library. . . . and morc Library Books

A notice appeared recently in the Undercroft requesting the return of some German library books. A list of no less than 59 books then followed with a demand that they be put in the Master's pigeon-hole as soon as possible!

. .. to W. W. Bowyer on being awarded the Shelton Memorial Exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford . . . . to R. A. M. Constant and J. W. Hannah on graduating at the Sovereign's Parade at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurs!. · .. to C. B. Oldfield and R. M. Iron on winning Army Scholarships. · .. to C . B. Hamblin on being selected for the Oxford University Cricket Team. He is already a Blue. · .. to the Fencing Team on winning the Pearson Trophy in the Public Schools' Fencing Championships. · .. to M. W. Coerper on representing the Public Schools' L.T.A. against the All England L.T.C. at Wimbledon. · .. and to Stephen Harrison and Philip Chalkley :on competing in the Finals of the Schools Debating Tournament for the Observer Mace. A ph,pto, in fact, appeared in the Observer of 6th May. Readers are referred elsewhere in this issue for particulars. Congratulations

Addenda

Unfortunately omitted from the Speech Day programme: P. W. R. Carpenter, N. J. C. Bannan and C . A. Haddon-Cave were appointed Honorary Music Scholars during the past term.

Nine of the twenty-two poems broadcast by the B.B.C. in their "Books, Plays, Poems" programme of poems selected from work sent in by schools all over the country, on 25th June, 1973. The poems were by P. D. Niblett, M. J. Randall, A. R. C. Durrant, N. A . Brown, R. Edmondson, C. J. Robinson, Steven A. Armstrong, A. M. Wenban and G. N. J. Norrish. The Producer commented: "My goodness! What a performance. Nine poems broadcast, all of them very good and another heap of fifteen set as ide as possibles. By any standards, th is is an outstanding contribution," Pocts Laureate

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To achieve a clear spa n within St. Mary's Hall for use as a gymnasiulll A spot of re- it was necessary to remove the oak pillars supporting the main beam; decorating running longitudinally. A 65 feet steel truss, triangular in section, has been placed in the valley of the roof from which hangers will hold up the main beams. The oak pillars will now be removed. In addition, heating, domestic hot water from an oil-fired boiler, showers toilets, storage, a nd games room are being provided, ' This would seem the place to thank Mr. Ken Goddard, School Caretaker, who is moving to another job a fter twenty-seven years' service at King's.

The Pavilion on Birley's has recently been extended a nd improved through the generosity of contributions to the O.K.S. Trust. There was a formal opening ceremony during lunch on the second day of the O,K.S. Cricket Match, on July 14th. Major General C. L. Payne, c.n., C.R .E" President of the O,K.S. Association, officiated .

How's that?

One of the Priory classrooms (P I I) has becn re-furbi shed and now serves as a Sixth Form Work Room, equipped by the Headmaster's Fund. In the Winter Term it will be for the use of boys taking Oxbridge, and for the remainder of the year for "A" Level candidates, A Great Work

The Sublime â&#x20AC;˘

Well, almost. Canterbury Music Club has engaged Shura Cherkassky, the famous Russian pianist, to give a recital in the Shirley Hall on Thursday, 18th October.

More gems from the Shells and Removes in last term's "Fags' Exam". We learn that the importance to tbe School of Cardinal Pole lies in the fact that his son, Hugh Pole, was Captai n of Rugger. (Hugh PowellCaptain of Rugger, Winter 1972). In add ition, we are told that the Commando-in-Chief during King's Week was none other than Idi Amin,

. . . and the Ridiculous

Mr. Robert Smith, once a Master here and formerly respo nsible for Robert Smith King's Week, is now at the Marlowe Theatre as part of his Arts Council course on Arts Administration, with a view to an appointment to an administrative post perhaps in one of the regional arts associations. Mr. Smith is, incidentall y, the author of the Twelfth Night review in this issue. We were delighted to see at lhe first Symphony Concert, Eric Robinson, Music Night whose Music Night with his B.B.C. Orchestra gave such pleasure to television viewers until his lamented stroke a year ago. He said he was particularly impressed with the standard of the music and were he still "in action" he would have included two or three of our boys in his programme. A party of eight expericnced Zambian primary school teachers visited the School on the afternoon of 25th May. They were led by Mr. G. Mwale, a senior officer in the C urriculum Development Department of the Zambian Ministry of Education, and they sat in on several Sixth!Form English periods, as well as maki ng a conducted tour of the Grange and the School generally. A Visit of Primary Significance

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School Organ

Those who visit the new Watling Street United Reformed Church may be interested to know that some parts of the organ there for merly belonged to the King's School. Thro ugh a sum prov ided by the Headmaster's Fund, the School has a t last its own mini bus, It will be fo und extremely useful for a variety of act ivities.

School Minibus

Jeremy T homas leaves the ed itoria l body this term with our than ks for Retiring Editors three years of unstinting effort in all departments. We also thank Jonathan Seers for his musica l contribution, and both leave with our best wis hes for the future. Tell Me The Old, Old Story

Singing Down Under

Mr. Brian Wilson and Mr. David Miller, two Classics Masters here, have just had a book published by the Oxford University Press. It is Stories from Iferodo/us- an adapted translation.

We hear that Nicholas Cu rtis, O.K.S., is at present on an exhaustive tenweek concert to ur of Australia a nd New Zealand, returning on 27th August. He is with the Baccholian Singers a nd will a lso be doing solo work.

We acknowledgc gratefully gifts from the follow ing parents a nd O.K.S.:Archives Mr. Derek Fitchett has made himself responsible for the cleaning and framing of our eighteenth century watereolours. Mr. A. V. Ingrams has presented us with two volumes of Ireland's HistOlY of Kent, containing many plates and a fulsome accou nt of the glories of the School in late Georgian times. Mr. C. E. Worsfold has sent us much material of the Shirley era, as well as a collection of Stone Age implements (wh ich a ntedate the fo undation of the School I). Mr. E. J. Smalma n-Smith has given us a ll the "paper" he received here as a boy in the fifties: calendar, fixture cards, etc. It makes a formidable heap. '" important or apparently The School Archivist asks us to say tha t a ll gifts, great or small, tri vial, wi ll be greatl y a ppreciated. Our neighbour, Col. Whi tehead, has been making a study of Canterbury's The Thick Mediaeval for tifications (1378-1386). The famous Hen ry Yeveley (or Yevele), Grey Line the builder of the Cathedral nave, appears to have been responsible for much of the design. The system is remarkable as being the earliest in the country to make provis ion for handg uns, though the main defensive "artillery" remained bows ancl arrows. Col. Whitehead tells us that " The King's School Tower (the one in Galpin's garden-Eds.) deserves especial notice, as it is the best example to have survived . Its ground-floor (gunroom) has three embrasures, w ith a garde-robe and fireplace, both of these an improvement in ame ni ty on the 1378 type of tower." 129

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We close with a clippillg from a Devon school magazine:Frank Al,),ea) "We welcome new, of' Old Boys, particularly those who have died"! (Memo to ali O.K.S.: don't leave it that late!).

MUSICAL THIS AND THAT

With so many musicians leaving at the end of the Summer Term, a

Roll of Honour

word or two in appreciation may not be out of place. The participation of four soloists (alileavers) in the Symphony Concert is noted elsewhere. But one must also mention the seasoned experience and musicianship of these and other (now O.K.S.) players which contributed so greatl y to whatever success the Orchestra may have achieved in King's Week. The dress rehearsal of an overture and symphony took place when five key players were stili sitting examinations, and two leading violinists were on sick beds. In circumstances like these we must count ourselves fortunate that this year we had top players of such quality. Paul Davies (A.R.C.M.), Nigel Roberts, Michael Good, Stephen Harrison, Jonathan Seers- such names have appeared so frequently in these pages over the past years. Add those of Todd, Edmund-Jones, Hope, Plat~s-Martin, Ellison, Newland, Barnes and Peter Taylor (Monitor for MUSIC), not forgettmg Harry Christophers, Martin Elliott, Nigel Moll , Nicholas Terry, Patrick Williams, John Eaton, Barnaby Wheeler, and Gavin Ashenden, all of whom left earlier in the year, and I doubt whether there has ever been such an exodus of talent. Singers, players, conductors, composers, secretaries, concert ,Promoters (and many w.ere all of these th ings), their contribution to the School and ItS musIc have been prodigiOUS. I gratefully pay trIbute to them and wish them continued success. I must add one further name- Philip Carpenter- Choir Secretary and latterly Honorary Music Scholar. His efficiency has been a bye-word in the School, and the Music Department has benefited enormously from his cheerfully given services. The new Music Library will always be a permanent reminder of them. E.J.W. The Madrigal Society's annual volley from Bell Harry tower at 7.00 a.m. Ascension Day was very nearly washed out (in one of the best summers on record every outdoor musical event was paradoxically threatened by the weather). But the singi ng did take place, as Mrs. White-Thomson will testify, for she found the music still at the top of the tower some weeks later. An innovation to the King's Week arrangements this year was to hold

Eaves-dropping an open rehearsal of the major items of the Symphony Concert on 13th June. This enabled many boys who could not make the actual concerts to hear the programme. It also allowed the performers a chance to relax a I ittle before the exams., with the knowledge that much of the ground-work for King's Week concerts had been covered. The weather just allowed the Band to perform their annual recital to Disabled drivers Kent's disabled drivers during tea in the Water Tower (now more often known as the Watergate) garden. "Visiting" conductors included S. J. Hanison and J. R. Seers. 130

The policy of giving potential King's entrants a taste of King's music is continuing, I.A.P.S- following the Lent Term's very successful concert at Selwyn House Preparatory School. On the 8th Maya conference of the LA.P.S. were presented with a short concert in the recital room. On June 15th a party of senior boys gave a short recital at the Choir House, thus maintaining an important contact in view of the new system

there. Christopher Seaman, O.K.S_

... has accepted the post of Principal Conductor a nd Artistic Director of the Northern Sinfonia. He is expected to retain the position of Principal Conductor of the B.B.C. Scottish Symphony Orchestra, which, at 31, he is the youngest man ever te hold.

LEAVING STAFF J. L. GODDARD After sixteen years here, John Goddard leaves King's to take up his appointment as Headmaster of Plymouth College. 1957, the year which saw the opening of the Shirley Hall, was an exciting time of expansion and change at King's: when John came here that September, he was quick to see the opportunities available and it was not long before he was making a positive contribution to the life of the School both in and out of the classrOom. Early to benefit was the Boat Club, where he assumed responsibility for the Colts' Eight, a task in which he endured the rigours of Pluck's Gutter for nearly ten years, and the results of his coaching were reflected not only in the successes of his own crews but also of subsequent First Eights in the 1960's. In those days, too, the Autumn Terms found him devoting similar energy and enthus iasm to one or other of the School rugby teams. In the classroom he has shown versatility in teaching a variety of subjects, but it is in History and Politics that he has made his major contribution in recent years. His capacity for clear thinking coupled with his wide reading have made him a stimulating teacher, particularly for senior boys, and if some have found his standard of effort and achievement a demanding one, it is no more than he has always set and exacted of himself. Senior boys,

too, have benefited from his exceptional grasp of current affairs, both world-wide and local, and could be assured of lively and provocative discussion on Ihese topics. In his early days he was the resident house tutor in Galpin's under Richard Roberts, a happy partnership which continued when Richard moved a Luxmoore in 1960. The experience thus gained fitted him admirably to take over the Housemastership of School House in 1963, which with characteristic thoroughness and efficiency he has made his major task in the last ten years. Since 1969 he has had the sympathetic support of his wife Muriel, and their colleagues and friends, as well as many boys, will remember appreciatively the gracious evenings of entertainment which they have so often provided. They will be much missed both in the School and by their friends in the city, and in thanking them for all they have done for King's we wish them every happiness and success in their new venture. D.S.G.

B. W. J. G_ WILSON The School suffers a loss in Brian Wilson's leaving. Liberal in mind and gentle in manner, he has shown in his eight years here that gift of the good schoolmaster, gaining both the affection and the respect of his charges. t31

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untempered by fanaticism; those in his Walpole tutor set and later in Riversleigh have been infected by his zest a nd fun, enthusiasm bounded by thc highest standards of responsibility, reliability, and consideration. We wish him and Sara well. Eastbourne College is fortunate in having such a talented

E. H. BROWN

R.N.P.

Eric Brown's connection with the School has been longer t ha n most people real ise. He

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his own furniture factory in Whitstable for many years and built a great amount

of the furn iture around the School, of which the littings in the Physics and Chemistry Labs. are the most notable. Shortly before he closed his factory he was asked to build two Woodwork benches for the School by Canon Shirley, who then persuaded him to COme and use them!

The School's lirst Woodwork class, therefore, had two benches,a few tools, Eric Brownand 76 boys! That was in 1959, and since then Eric Brown has developed the Woodwork to a high standard: over the years he has acqu ired a comprehensive range of equipment and his influence and knowledge have been behind the building of numerous stage sets and responsible for the increasingly wide range of skill s shown by the boys. This year's exhibition of indoor and outdoor furniture, veneering, french polishing a nd turnery suggests the diversity of the interests he has encouraged . He has also introduced "0" Level Woodwork into the School and a number of boys have enjoyed taking it. His main achievement, though, has been to establish the tradition of Woodwork in the School. Junior boys who learned to use a saw and to ha ndle wood became the stage builders and House carpenters as they got older and acquired practical skills which were of permanent use to them. A number of his pupils have gone on to The London College of Furniture and are now running their own businesses.

He leaves the School this term not to ret ire, but to take a fcw months' rest and to sec what he's "going to do next". We shall miss his pleasant sense of humo ur and modest expertise in a surprising number of things, but he is not leaving without providing us with

a first-rate successor in Mr. George Anderson, who has been his personal friend for 25 years and was the Works Manager in his factory. It seems as if those two work-benches are sti ll exerting their influence! G.G.B.

JANET THWAlTE Janet Thwaitc came to King's in January, 1965, and as Matron to Linacre in April:

for the past few years she has been Senior Matron, and now she is retiring. Her almost legendary capacity for work is matched only by her totally selfless willingness to help everyone. All members of Linacre will have some memory of very particular help she has given them: perhaps a visit in hospital or in the Sanatorium, perhaps a cheerful or wise word when it was most needed. But many other members of the School will also be grateful to her-for her work in the school surgery, or when she has been the matron on duty, or behind the scenes in King's Week productions. She has set us all an example ill how nnich we should be willing to help each other. C.J.M,

SPEECH DAY - 19th JULY, 1973 Mr. Dean, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. It would be unforgivable if I did not mention first the new picture which now adorns these walls- my alter ego. You will have ample time to study the skill and charity of the a rtist. For myself, 1 sho."ld like to tha'.'k Major JervIs for so genero usly commlsslOn lllg the portraIt. I would also Irke to thank M ,ss Anna Zinkeisen most warmly not only for tackling so readily such unpromising material but also for making the whole operation such an agreeable affair. I will go and sit again for her at any timc. One word of caution, however. The wOI'd "Ex it" underneath is purely coincidental and has no immediate relevance. And now my wannest welcome to yo u all. We value yo ur support and presence more than words can say. Yours especially, Mr. Preacher, for whatever the occasional breath

of criticism which ruffles the placid waters of the B.B.C., we have come to see in that august institution the custodian (I hope) of our values as well as the constant purveyor of relief and relaxation from the troubles of the day- there is after all no tranquillizer so effective as television and, as Mr. Sandy Gall of LT.N. made clear on a recent visit, the care with which the 9 o'clock news is stud ied by a rival concern is a nightly tribute to its virtues. We welcome you then, Sir, for what you are and do, we thank you for your words of hope and encouragement this morning, and we rejo ice to know too that whatever may have been

our occasional and unworthy doubts the spiritual welfare of the British Broadcasting Corporation is in such excellent hands.

A word of special greeting too to a ll of you who are parents and who so generously entrust your sons to our care. Generously, because it is an act of high trust and what splend id people they are with their energy, their idealism and their determination. But generously too because not content with paying fees which never grow less you subscribe handsomely to the Headmaster's Fund which this year has enabled me among other things to buy a minibus for the more economical and expeditious transport of school parties and to furni sh a reading-room specially equipped for sixth form study in elegant and comfortable style. 1 tha nk you all most warmly and 1 repeat what I have often said before: that the more parents can renew their own school-days (or at least the happier moments of them) by attending the plays, concerts, services and athletic events of this great school, the happier I shall be. This great school, 1 said, and so it is. A wonderful place this rogue elephant among schools as some may once have called it in part compliment, this bull in a china shop, this cuckoo in the nest- you choose your metaphor at will; but for me this other Eden, demi-paradise, with the second half never so far round the corner as not to enable you to appreciate the first. A great and splendid school with so many members of whom one can be so justly proud- and what would the Precincts be withont it? We have our faults, no doubt, but lack of life and vigour is not one of them , and it is for our

virtues that our name stands high- as long entry lists indicate and as an embarrassingly large number of Canterbury parents so readily and so spontaneously recognise. However, 1 should like now in nostalgic vein to turn back the pages of history- not very far, just eleven or twelve years- so that we may see how far we have come not in

terms of material progress and new buildings (I leave that for some other occasion) bnt in respect of changed attitudes and approaches and in evolutionary progress. How wildly remote from actuality is that erstwhile no tion of the public school as a cloistered fortress remote from all contact wi th the outer world, intent only upon perpetuating the barbaric customs of the past and preservi ng under the semblance of religion and in total disregard 133

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supenorlty. That neve~' was a true picture, but there was enough in it to provide for those less than favourably d isposed some substance for the myth. Let me in any case give you almost at random so me examples of how customs and attitudes have changed . Take fagging first- th at emot.ve word. Of cou rse there a re o ften Jobs to be done- moving cha irs for example. Ifthey have to be moved before nine o'clock at night, they are moved by yo u'nger boys and .t IS called fag$lI1g; If they have to be moved after nine o'clock, they are moved by older boys and It IS J~st called movll1g cha llÂˇs. Noblesse oblige. There is very little in the way of personal faggll1g. InflatIon and II1creased wage demands see to that. But on

occasion I see no rcason why a, busy senior boy with wide responsibilities for the welfa re of the. place sho uld not by thell' mu tual agreement have the he lp of some yo unger boy 111 takmg me~sages or ev~n Introduce hml to the rudllTIents of domestic science. Or take corporal punIsh ment whIch nowadays gets everyone so ve ry excited. The first question o n the hps of every Frenchman and qlllte often asked by British parents too. You have to be very careful there. It IS often asked in a d isarmingly innocent way- "Headmaster what a~e yo ur views about carpor,al punis}lJ1~e n t 1" You can't tell at all whether they ar~ whollYIfl fa vo ur and regard a beatlllg as the I'Ight a nswer for any offe nce or totally opposcd and thtn~ of It as a grave II1frll1ge m ~nt o! the rights of man. So I always let them answer the q~estlOn themselves, and t hey mvaflabl y do. For myself, 1 still thi nk that on rare occaSIOns a canlllg may be t he fi ght answer when a younger boy (say) has been gui lty of steahn g and needs to be pulled up short sothat he may make a sudden change of directionand expenence wo uld seem to support tillS. Dr. Johnson, of course, once said: "There is now less fioggmg In our great schools than formerl y, but then, less is learnt there; so that what the boys ge t at one end, they lose at the ot her". Herc, alas! I ca nn ot go a long with the learned doctor. .Now more imp?rtant things. Once-and not very long ago- there was rigid regimentatIOn, now there IS. concern and. care for the ind ividual boy, his interests, aptitude and preference. There IS a much Wider element of choice- witness the variety of activities ava ilable in place of ordin ary games on a Wednesday or T hursday afternoon- we hope soon to mclude BaSIC Cookery ; a nd though in the A ut um n Ter m Rugby Foot ball rightly

to my mmd mamta1l1S a paramount though not excl usive position, in the Lent and Summer the .opportunities for personal preference are wide open. There is a broader range of sport avaIlable too wIth golf, ludo, basket-ball and canoeing now coming to the fore and extended opportUllltles for athletics, hockey, ten ms and cross-country. Nor need th is militate against success

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our trad itIOnal past lines-overall in otlr games this has been an outstanding

year. W itness last week's defeat of a stron g O . K.S. XI at cricket the unbeaten record and continuin g tr.iumphs of the Fencing. Club, and one of the b~st Rugby seasons we have ever had-W Ith t he 1st XV, after losmg its captain and sundry other injuries, settling

down to two months' unbroken success with a signal victory over an unbeaten visiting team from Blundell's and culminati ng in a fine l!,atch against The King's School, Parramatla, wh Ich splendIdly reversed ou r defeat of thllty-six years before- with victory in the Kent

Seven-a-sides as a final rel ish. Not a bad centenary year! Ch?ic~, of course, matters nwch more t~an it was once thought to, but it must be choice set wlthl!1 a. framew.o~k of prudence, obligation and due regard to the advice of others. Self-servIce m the Dmmg Hall has brought many blessings and I know it is bringing many

more as its opportunities are increasingly exploited, but none has been more keen ly appreciated than the chance to choose (within reason) the food you eat, the time you come 134

and the peoplc yo u sit ncxt to. Yet to assume and apply such a measure of cho ice when it comes to dccldlllg on your three "A" Levels would be folly in the extreme. For your chOIce there IS more relat,ve- ,t must be guided by those who teach and know you and who can hazard a shrewd guess about which three subjects- an d two should be related-

will serve your interests best. Notable among the other changes of the last ten or twelve years is t he greater openness of oU! socIety. Of course there are nsks but we do our best to guard against them and

the nsks of enclosure With Its remoteness and tension are far greater. How natural it seems now to have o.ur telephones in the Undercroft and not least through our Social Service scheme to be Im ked more closely WIth the wider commun ity in which we li ve. This was somethmg noted recently With warm approval by a parent whose son was down for another

famolls school and. who be~ause of this transferred his name to King's. How natural too to have beer and Cider available three or four times a week for our seniors in the Junior Common Room. "Very relaxing, you know, Sir", as one of them put it to me in a moment of friend ly candolll'. And so it is. Nor have I ever yet had to put a top limit on consumption but l'lease don't take that as a challenge, yo u gen tlemen behind. For all sorts of pretty convlllclllg reaso ns I do not myself sec any likelihood in the immed iate future of K ing's "going co-ed:'. Yet he wo ul d be chu rl ish indeed who d id not gratefu lly acknowledge the contnbutlOn made to th~ S,xth Form by our few g irls and one day there may well be more- ;,dlO know~? 120% mcrease after all next term. We keep our options open and meanhme we enJoy ver~ cordial relations with the girl s' schools in our neighbourhood through muSIc and socml occasIOns of one sort or another not least the debate with Benenden which, foll owing a northern precedent, I instituted so;ne years ago. Two other developments deserve a mention herc. One is the closer links which now un ite li S with our Junior School at Sturry. We arc one school and though my re lations with the boys. t~ere are avuncular rather than discipl inary, they are very much my concern. I rejoice to. VISIt them whenever I can, not only because it is a very beautiful place but because It IS a deilght to see and to share, howeve r briefly, in the li fe of that thr iving community wlHch IS a part of ourselves. We are much closer together too with a great deal of coming and go mg, and we up here share their prid e in the fine new swi nuning bath made possible by the Ileneroslty of parents wh Ich has now supplanted th at dark, unwelcoming pool by the nver whIch dId servIce far too long. Secondly, there is Marlowe, our day-boy house. r remember my pleasure at finding how well integrated they weie with the rest of the School, a pleasure qtllckly followed by disappointment on being told by their Housemaster that nl1mbers had fallen to nearly 50-and could I please d o something about it? Well, I didand far too m uch. There are now 98 boys in Marlowe if! may include the g irls as boys and though we can just hold it at 99 any 1110re would ca'use acute embarrassment. It would be easy though d istasteful to impose an art ificial limi t. I may well find it more sensible to allocate some day-boys to. boarder houses. In either case I shall require from day-boys at entry and throughout thel[ school career a more exacting standard in work no doubt but also in general participation and contribution to the life of the School. There will be no ro om for t h?se who con tract out of the ir obligations, who give little and ta ke what the~ can. That IS my Warnl!,g to the few to balance my apprec iation of the many and of theIr parents too. We value IInmensely our close ties with them and they li ke all our parents are a lways morc than welcome visitors- they are a natural feature of the landscape. Now a word about half-terms- a novelty in 1962. "Never let them have one" was my predecessor's inju nct ion . They had only had one- or was it two?- since St. August ine,

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I asked to meet some ofthe semor boys. So a coffee party was arranged for us in the Old Grange? the School Mon!tors' study: A solemn and decorous affair it was. Yet I remember one pomt put to me w.th that ch.ld-ilke mnocence which boys can so read ily assu me whe~ they want to ask a really loaded question . "What are your views abo ~t half-terms, Sir? one of them asked wIth beglllhng sweetness. Prov.dence came to mya.d. For nine years as Headmaster of a large day school of l ,050 boys I had know n them each term and I a nswered "I shall miss them very much". It gave me t ime to approach the matter with caution, as I still do. However, we have had our half-terms and now that I shall have been able to re-structure the school year with consequent saving of school time we shall have them henceforward as a regular oasis in the midd le of each Autumn and Summer Term. On one matter, of course, there was never a mOlnent's discord or disagreement. The midda~ break-up in December a nd March was carefully calculated to please evcrybody, and so It has. It has even allowed an extra day before the official end of term to cover any posSIble emergency, though oddl y, or perhaps on reflectIOn not so odd ly we have never had to make use of it. ' There a TC those who sec us in sombre vision as custodians of the old ideals and standards in a new dark age which threatens to engulf the world. I wou ld agree abou t the old ideals and standards but Iwould cut out the bit about thc new dark age- for all their eccentricities I have too much fmth III the young for that. But they need and deserve something to hold on to and even if for a time they kick agai nst it, it is there for them to return to too. Bell Harry stands as the symbol of enduri ng values, of something greater than ourselves . That is why though I value choice, variety and experimentation [ would never lightly ~urrender those OCcaSlO?S wh~n the School as a whole me ts to fulfil its primary obligation 7 III the great Cathedral In wh.ch It IS pfl vdeged to wo rshIp. Something noted with war m approval tinged with envy by a visitor from The King's School, Parramatta. There were few concessions to modernity. in 1962 and whe n you looked at our premises the. Palace Beautiful seemed remote enough 111 all conscience. We have travelled a long way In lmproved amenttte~ and !l e~ approaches. Xct there are limi ts. You rarely hear a boy address a master by h IS Chn stlan name except In one or two privileged cases on the games field- though I must say I would prefer anythi ng to being addressed as Reverend Newell . And i f casual dress is sometim~s wo: n, It is or should be. confined to the board ing houses, and m the Precln~ts or the CIty, K ing s School dress righ tly holds its undisputed sway. But when all IS sa.d and done, then as now the old recipe holds good when dealing with the young-a blend of affection and discipline, of concern and control. The ingredients never vary, It IS only from boy to boy ar from generation to generation the proportions which may change. Each boy must know too that there comes a moment when yo u say " Do that" and he. obeys. Happy the schoolmaster who can gauge the proportions and the moment to a mcety. ~~fore I turn to list so n~e of o ur ach ievements in the past year, lad ies and gen tlemen, thiS IS perhaps an appropnate moment to say a word about the universities. Five or six

years ago if liberal-minded dons saw on a Headmaster's report (not that I have ever been quite so outspoken) "This boy h~s be.en un co-operative and throughout his school career a generally dISruptive mfluence w.th !Jttle regard for his own appearance or for the rights or conv,enience of others", they said to themselves, "Ah, an original- we must have him",

They d.d and you know what happe ned . An exaggeration? Not al together. Now they 136

are more d iscriminating. T hey take note of old-fas hioned th ings like character a nd loyalty and detennmatlOn, and t hey pay more than passing attention to the reports fro m schoolswhy,. even sk ill a nd stamina in games need not count against yo u. It is easy and grotesquely unfa.r to spea k III ter ms of dechne a nd fall, but there is no d isputing the fact that there are many, especially in the newer universities, who have had to learn much the hard way. Nor are the planners wholly free f rom blame. There was the init ial error of using the Oxbridge pat.tern as of ~1~l v.ersa l, applI ~atiOn which It IS not. So now there must be a pause during w,luch an eqUl,h b l'l ll l~l IS achieved. Meant ime, a mass ive effort to develop other form s of

h.gher educatIOn w.th the opportun ity for the yo ung to express their preferences now and fo r those responSIble to settle their priorities later. Mind yo u, not all our boys a re cast strictl y m the academ.c ',:,oldd- though it is ~ood advice to go academically as far as yQU can . We cover a pretty w.de spectrum. I reJo .ced greatly when I heard of one recent O.K. S. clearl y domg very well In the Mercha nt Navy, another at Sotheby's, a third in Physical EducatIOn at a ComprehenSIve School and yet a nother who will surely in d ue CQurse manage the bIggest H dton of them all. Vet the fin est example of our versatility and spread !Jes closer at hand. 1. know no better place fo r a meal out in Canterbury than the restaurant entitled Qu ine's Diner and so successfull y run- with a little help frQm home-by two. O.K.S. brothers of that name. I turn now to the highlights of the year- first, musical. Our concerts a nd recitals in thlS famous week and before that thro ughout the year. Four choral awards- which is a record- and four O.K.S. now members of the St. Pa ul's Cathedral Choir- Mark Deller David Thomas, Paul Ell iott a nd Jonatha n Alder. Something for us all to be prQud of and . to bn ng a spec â&#x20AC;˘.al blush of pn de to the face Qf that great trainer of singers and mUSICians, Edred Wnght. A special tri bute, too, on this occasion to a very gallant lady Mrs. Vera Reynolds. Her association with the School has lasted now for thirty years' though one can scarcely believe it. Nothing is allowed to sta nd in the way of her commit: men ts here a nd she has never missed a lesson. Generations of boys owe their love for the piano to her inspired teaching and countless School productions have relied upon her unstinted help wi th the costumes. A truly remarka ble record , and a truly remarka ble wo man-:we send o ur warm greetin gs to her for the next stage of her convalescence.

A splend.d entry for t he Music Scholarship Examination in February, and if the dream of a VIS.t by t he Orcl,estra to play in concerts at Jerusalem <;lid not qu ite come true, why not one year and a.ded perhaps by some generous benefactor Rome, Paris or Vienna? May I at th IS stage express our very warm tha nks to the Dean and Chapter for allowing us to hold the Serenade In t he Nave- for the first t ime, wi th a very splendid congregation. Academically, too, this has indeed been a memora ble year. Oxford a nd Cambridge are places lor wh.ch I have the highest regard- I was at both- a nd they enjoy for me a near-pa nty of esteem. I will not say I favo ured Cambridge in the Boat Race but with Michael We bber rowing in thei r boat I was not sad or surprised that they wQn. To go back to ~x ford or Camb l'l dge as [ o ften do is a rea l refreshmcnt o f the spirit, it is a reassurance

too .f ever yo u ha ve doubts abo ut the sense or sanity of undergraduates. It gave me great happ mess therefore that thlS year not only did we achieve twe nty-two awards, eighteen of them open and a h.gh figure by a ny reckonll1g, but we also. gained forty-seven places in all. which lS so fa r as r can dIScover an all-time record. And of the five schools which come before us on the list, fo ur are nearly twice as big. One further point which shows the note of servlc,e ,I S not absent- therc is a great and growing increase in the number of boys opting for mediCin e as a career. 137

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Of co urse, this is not the only critci'ion of a sc hool 's virtues but it would be wrong not to give honour where honour is due- to the boys. And to the masters. 1 wonder if you know the story of the American vis iting the Vatican. As he looked round on the host of officials and fun ctionaries, he said to Pope John: "How many work here?" To which Pope John replied "About half". Kin g's is a place which demands from all who serve her no half measures, and they find in this devotion their own reward and satisfaction. I cannot mention them all by name but on yo ur beha lf, ladies and gentlemen, I thank them. And to one- or rather two- [ must allude. It is our habi t nowadays each year to despatch one of ou,' up-and-coming housemasters on some missionary enterprise elsewhere. A sad business in some ways. Farewells always are. We don't want to lose them, yet it is right that they should go with ideas and ideals acquired here a nd to take root in other soil. And, of course, it is a very genuine tribute to King's that other schools look to us so regu larl y for their headmasters. Vet it is the personal side which counts today. We shall miss Mr. and Mrs. Goddard very greatly and 1 more than most, for after a ll, it was I Who brought them together and 1 fee l both the responsibility and the parting very keenly. No more of those sharp but fruitful encounters in the Com mon Room, no more of those lovely pictures drawn or painted with exqu isite care or subtlety. It is not every day th at I lose both a housemaster and an art mistress, but Plymouth is to be congratu lated on its good fortune and we wish them well. Headmasters these days have to face many occupational haza rds- one day I think 1 shall record them. Suffice it for the moment for me to say that 1 am sometimes surprised that 1 have survived them for so long. One such hazard 1 know only by hearsay. [t concerns an erstwhile pupil of mine, now headmaster of a new and impressive school housed in a splendid castle and drawing its boys and girls from all over the world. He was somewhat unnerved when a vety distinguished person indeed , his patron and governor, wrote to remind him that his grand-daughter was joining the school the next term and then added ominously "One never really knows what a school is like unti l one has a close member of the family there". But we have our rewards. One of mine is the letters I receive in everincreasing numbers day by day. 1 know some of them can pose difficu lt problems and j ust occasionall y there is a rude one wh ich gets a cool but exquisitely courteous rep ly. But by and large they are generous and grateful and heart-warming. Four examples very briefly. "1 must congratulate you on the achievements of your boys. The whole place seems so much more adult and responsible than it was twenty years ago." Or again from a visitor who came to speak to us : "It was nice to be in a school which is so sane and confident" . One from a recent Old Boy- "I shall never forget my time at King's. It has given me a moral code which, although one is tempted to rebel against it when at school, is relevant, almost frighteningly relevant, in the outside world" . Or another from a boy whose father thought he wou ld never make it on Common Entrance: "Looking back on my time at K ing's, 1 simply can't think how lucky I was at going to such a fine school where the atmosphere was superb for working and enjoying oneself at the same timeprobably", he adds perceptively, "because of the easy re lations between masters and boys which help so much". There was the off-the-cuff remark too by a schoolmaster now retired which warmed me greatly, for he has had long a nd wide experience- "I should not be surprised if the tone is higher now at King's than at any other public school". Or what about this for a masterpiece of gratitude and diplomacy from a boy still in the School"I would very much like to thank you and your wife for entertaining me so gastronomically well last night (actually 1 had not done much to help) for, although I have very few complaints about school food, the supper at No. 14 provided a delicious difference". An ambassador, at least. 138

One last w?rd, ladies and gentlemen, about leadership- once overplayed and then by contrast decned and dended as something scarcely worth mentioning except in ridicule and contem!;'t, yet never more. needed here as elsewhere tha n today. We have been very fortunate. thIS year III our se n,or boys- positive without being oppressive or tyra nnical, consc,entlOus yet never dull, combining high intelligence with wide imagination and a sense of duty w,th a sense of humour. I should like to mention each by name but three must suffice as examples of them all. My two Vice-Captains, Nigel Platts-Martin and Marcus Sephton happil y ulllted III equal partnership, consubstantial but not, a las! coete~nal, for both leave. thIS term, a nd Christopher Reddick, Captain of School, tough, reSlltent and perspIcacIOus, who together have guided the School and myself into calm and su nlI t waters at the end of an exceptionall y happy a nd sllccessful year. My warmest thanks to them and to t heir colleagues. And that, Mr. Dean, is all except for the very brief "Speeches" as they are called and then the Epilogue. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

ACADEMIC AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS GAINED 1972-73 OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS W. W. BOWYER

G. R. BUSBY M. G. CHEESMAN

R. H. T. CHR ISTOPHERS A. 1. COW DEROY R. B. DAMO N

1. R. F. EATON A. J. ELLIOTI' M. A. ELLlO'IT

A. 1. 1. ELLISON

M. S. GOOD ". STEPHEN 1. GREA YES M. N. E. HARRIS

S. J. HARRISON N. B, PLATTS-MARTIN

Shelton Memorial Exh ibition, Christ Church, Oxford (Engineering) Ford Studentship, Trinity College, Oxford Open Exhibition in Modern Languages, St. Peter's College, Oxford Academical Clerkship (Tenor), Magdalen College, Oxford Open Scholarsh ip in Engineering, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in English, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Chora l Exhibition, Trinity College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in History, New College, Oxford Academical Clerkship (Bass), Christ Church, Oxford Open Scholarsh ip in English, Christ's College, Cambridge Open Scholarsh ip in Modern Languages, Magdalene College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in English (Milner), Fitzwilliam, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Cambridge Parker Exhibition, Trinity College, Cambridge Mason Scholarship, Corpus Christi Colle(le, Oxford

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M. J. D' A. SEPHTON R. A. G. THURSTON G. P. WILLIAMS

Open Exhibition in Engineering, St. Edmund ld:all, Oxford Open Exhibition in H istory, Christ's College, Cambridge Open Scholarship in History, St. John's College Cambridge ' Choral Exhibition , St. John's College, Cambridge Open Exhibition in Class ics, New College, Oxford Open Scholarship in Classics, Ke ble Co llege, Oxford Open Exhibition in History, St. John's College, Cambridge

MUSIC AWARDS S. W. BARLOW M. W . BRIGHT

P. E. DAVIES

C. J. GIBSON

S. A. D . HOPE

A. J. MACK INTOSH N. B. PLAITS-MARTI N Q. M. POOLE J. P. ROBERTS N. F. RODERTS

J. R. SEERS

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National Youth Orchestra Passed Associated Board Grade V!l1 (Singing) National Youth Orchestra Awarded A.R.C.M. Awarded Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Oboe)Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Trinity College of Music; awarded Senior Arpeggios Cup for highest marks Grade VUI treble recorder Bristol University; Organ Scholarship (St. Paul's Church, Cli fto n) Passed Associated Board Grade Vlll (Bassoon) (Merit) Passed Associated Board Grade VlJl (Clarinet) Distinction National Youth Orchestra Passed Associated Board Grade VllI (Piano) Merit Awarded A.R.C.M. National Youth Orchestra Scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, tenable at the Royal Academy of Music National Youth Orchestra Passed Associated Board Grade VlIl (Singing) Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VnI (Flute) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIIT (Piano) D istinction 140

â&#x20AC;¢ C. S. SNELL .. , N. H. A. TERRY D. J. Q. WHEELER P. H. W HITE

A. R. J. WOOLMER ."

Passed Associated Board Grade VJl[ (Piano) National Yo uth Orchestra Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Violin) Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Oboe) (Distinction) Passed Associated Board Grade VlIl (Horn)

SERVICE AWARDS R. W. D. STAVELEY

R. A. M. CONSTANT R. M. IRON

C. B. OLDFIELD

Royal Naval University Cadetship R.M .A. , Sand hurst Awarded Army Scholarship Awarded Army Scholarship

OTHER AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS P. A. STRICKLAND ".

Awarded Harveian Society Second Prize

FIRST CLASS HONOURS GAINED AT THE UNIVERSITIES, 1972 G. S. CARDONA P. M. JONES ...

Trinity College, Oxford; in Philosophy, Politics and Economics .... St. Catherine's College, Oxford; in History

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN AWARDED SECOND CLASS HONOURS, 1972 S. J. ASHFORTH C. S. T. DOSHER

C. I. COLLI NS M. S. DAWOOD

'Queen's College, Oxford; in Mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge; in Archaeology and Anthropology, Part n Sussex University; in Biology London School of Economics; in Economics 141

T. GRANT

R. F. GRAY

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R . B. HAM BLIN 1. R. HARR INGTON

T. R. HARROP W. M. LATIMER N. D, K. MANSERG H D . A. SA RGENT

Lincoln College, Oxford; in History SI. Catherine's College, Oxford; in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Christ Church, Oxford; in History Bristo l University; in Law University College, London; in History Christ Church, Oxford; in Physics Balliol College, Oxford; in Philosophy, Politics and Economics Oriel College, Oxford ; in Philosophy and Economics

FIRST CLASS HONOURS GAINED AT THE UNIVEllSITIES, 1973 J. D. BOX A. J. CHAMBERLIN J. N. LAWRANCE J . J. RAEMAEKERS

I M. T HOM

R . L. M.

WOHANKA~RANSOM

University of East Anglia; in Biological Sciences Corpus Christi College, Oxford; in Classics Balliol College, Oxford; in Classics Peterhouse, Cambridge; in Archaeology and Anthropology, Part II Magdalene College, Cambridge; in Archaeology and Anthropology, Part II Christ's College, Cambridge; in History, Part I

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN AWARDED SECOND CLASS HONOURS, 1973 C . J. R. ABBOTT C. T. W. ANDERSON M. L. W . BAYLIS

C. C. BORN !. D. COX R . H. W. DUCKWORTH

S. G. H . FREETH I.

GODMAN

J . C. GROVES F. R. HAMMERSLEY

SI. John's College, Cambridge; in Architecture, Part I Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; in Law, Part I Tri nity College, Cambridge; in History, Part I Jesus College, Cambridge; in English, Part Il SI. John's College, Cambridge; in Social and Political Sciences SI. John's College, Cambridge; in Natural Sciences, Part II Jesus College, Cambridge; in Classics Trinity College, Cambridge; in Chemical Engineering, Part n Trinity College, Cambridge; in History, Part I Magdalen College, Oxford; in Music 142

R. J . M. INMAN

New College, Oxford; in Classics

T. B. JEFFERY

Jesus College, Cambridge; in English, Part I

W. 1. M . KENDALL ...

SI. John's College, Cambridge; in Music, Part II

H. KONIGSBERGER

Magdalene College, Cambridge; in Architecture, Part II Jesus College, Cambridge; in Modern Languages, Part I

W. MARTIN

G. A. ROBB ...

Newcastle University; in Chemical Engineering

G. S. THOMSON

King's College, Cambridge; in Music, Part II

R. S. W . TONKING

Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in History, Part I

N. P. W . WATSON

Pembroke College, Cambridge; in Natural Sciences, Part II Trinity College, Cambridge; in Mathematics, Part I

A. WILLIAMSON

DISTINCTIONS GAINED BY O.K.S. 1. P. FRANKS

Britannia Royal Naval Engineering Branch

Keble College, Oxford Cricket Blue

B. HAMBLIN

College,

Dartmouth,

J. M. HUTCH INSON

Worcester College, Oxford Rugby Football Blue

1. C. JEPSON

Formal Associateship of the Royal College of Science (Upper 2nd Class Honours Degree)

P. KING

Awarded A.R.C.O.

A. S. MARRINER

National Youth Orchestra

L. PARKER

Academical Clerkship, Magdalen College, Oxford

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N. W. S. PITCEATHLY

Manchester College of Music- graduated with distinction

A. A. RANICKI

Trinity College, Cambridge; Smith's Prize. Research Fellow in Pure Mathematics

W. S. SAMPSON

Awarded Duke of Ed inburgh Scholarship to the Inner Temple

R. L. M. WOHANKA-RANSOM

Christ's College, Cambridge Squash Bl ue

M. o'K, WEBBER

Jesus College, Cambridge Rowing Blue

PRESENT HOLDERS OF EXHIBITIONS GENERAL EXHIBITION FUND

B. J. Q. Wheeler to Pembroke College, Cambridge

BUNCE EXHIBITION

N. H. A. Terry to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

GILBERT & SHEPHERD FUND GIFTS J. G . Anderson to Reading University R. G . P. Pollard to York Un iversity ANDERSON GIFT (SERVICE AWARD)

R. W. D. Stave ley- Royal Navy

WADDINGTON GIFTS

P. E. Dav ies to Royal College of Music M. S. Good to Magdalene College, Cambridge

DAVIS

C. J. G . Ware to Westminster Hospital

O. K. S. G IFTS

S. J. Gallyer to St. Andrew's University J. S. G. Thomas to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge M. E. D . de Styrcea to Magdalene College, Cambridge H. B. Powell to Queens', Cambridge

MCCURDY EXHIBITIONS

S. P. Swann to Merton College, Oxford R. H. T. C hristophers to Magdalen College, Oxford P. A. Gerstrom to Lincoln College, Oxford

LEATHERSELLERS' COMPANY'S ExHIBITION ...

N. J. Cavell to St. Catharine's College, Cambridge

OLIVER JOHNSON GIFT

T. C. P. Dodwell to Exeter College, Oxford

EIIUOYIle INTRODUCflON Ladies and gentlemen, before I read this ancient Anglo-Saxon Elegy, composed in the genuine alliterative style, I must ask you to Imagme that thIS hIgh hall IS chan !led to a low thatched Saxon long-house; imagine that the jolly decorations on the cellmg have become smoky beams, that the polished floor is strewn with damp rushes, a nd that you and everyone here are sporting grizzled beards and coarse smocks. 144

t'No man!s voice have I heard for many months, "Or sweet song of women by the seashore, "As I wander the waves walloping the walrus", Cried our hopeless hero, Hengist the Hoodlum, O.K.S., Adrift in a damp coracle, dismal. "Each morning I moan with the sea-mews, "Or gesticulate with gin-botties at Japanese Oil-tankers; " Yet I have known heady happiness, "There, many miles across the mildewed sea, "The King's School Canterbury men call it." The wretched man wrings his wrinkled hands, As he first remembers the rite of Prize-giving, When mead flowed from every fount and flower-pot, Tea-cakes and ice-cream tubs tumbled from the sk ies; kiss his liege-lord's hands, He sees himself his lurid literary lollipop, Receive to the ranks of battie-scarred heroes, Remembers his return To the applause of peasants and poverty-stricken serfs. he dawd led through the dusty town, And other days, Sporting the headdress that struck horror into the hearts of all who saw it, The dread straw-boater; once he ran amok, battle-axe swinging, Leaving a tra il of truncated traffic-wardens, Strangled, strewn a long the High Street. And he remembers fearsome battles with FONKIR, the fire-breathing dragon Of the Library, because his library books were late back, How it followed him fiercely, crying "Fonk! Fonk! " Finally how he defeated it, using a fire-extinguisher And a wobbly wooden stool; he weeps like a woman As he recalls the carefree days of King's Week; Forgetting his words in a Fringe play, he fidgeted five minutes, Then, as the audience were about to attack with hatchets, He delighted them with licentious limericks instead; How in the Serenade in the Clo isters, crooning on h~s krumhorn, by a male ox, He had been mauled and mutilated Apparently jealous of his gyrations on the giant German reed instrument ... "That", he mumbles, "is no more, and I am made "Like those two towers over there on the coast, "Ruined, rank vegetation rooting amongst the rafters, "Slates grey and green overgrown with lichen." Now he pulls out a crumbl ing, 400-year-old copy of the Canlllariall, Screams aloud with laughter, roars at the echoing breakers. A man must cherish what memories he has, To keep him ha ppy when the unkind weather comes; And no man is safe from solitary exile, Like Hengist, wineless on the wai ling waves. A. J. J. ELLISON 145

KING'S WEEK, 1973 What can a Manager demand of King's Week after four sun-drenched and successful years? A challenge from the weather? A little controversy? Despite, or perhaps because of, both, this year's Week was as successful as ever: in addit ion to the Symphony Concerts the main play sold out as well. ' The uncertainty of the weather caused us to prepare the Shirley Hall whenever outdoor performances were due to take place, in case rain should force us indoors. Such contillual reorganisation requires a remarkable amount of work and once again the King's Week commandos rose to the task, most responsibly led by John Taylor. It was the inclement weather wh ich also forced us indoors for the Serenade, but what was lost of the traditional, romantic atmosphere of the Cloisters was amply made up for in musical terms, as the 1,500 people who packed the Nave would readily testify. We are sincerely grateful to the Dean and Chapter for allowing us to transfer the performance into the Cathedral at such short notice. Thc controversy (or perhaps that is just a convenient exaggeration) centred upon the most thoroughly thought-out school play in recent years, TlVelfth Night. Having returned from a year of stud ying drama, Christopher Gillespie treated us to an outstand ing production of the play in modern dress. One critic, obsessed perha ps by his dislike of such treatment of Shakespeare, expressed his disagreement in the local paper. Naturall y the cast were upset, particularly as little attention had been paid to their closely detailed study of the text, which ensured that Shakespeare's intentions were strictly adhered to. Anxiously the audience reaction was awaited, as the play was already sold out, but the cast need not have worried for every performance was greeted with rapturous applause. It so turned out that all our other plays this year achieved excellent reviews, yet none achieved the clear diction and impressive ensemble playing of TlVelfth Night. Jeremy Thomas excelled in his last role at King's, a most professional rendering of Malvolio, whilst a splendid new talent was unearthed in the person of Adam Finn, who charmed everyone as Cesario. Christopher Gibb, Christopher Snell, Andrew Newell, Robert Battersby and Richard Crosby all made distinctive contributions, producing the most enjoyable evening's entertainment experienced by the Manager this yea r. Our thanks go to Canon and Mrs. Pawley for allowing us the use of their beautiful garden and to Mr. Gillespie, of course. What else remains in the memory? Stephen Camburn as Luther, Elizabeth Wilson's 'Cello Recital in the round, a highly entertaining rendering of Terence's The Girl from Andros, Craig Sheppard taxing our Steinway to its limits, some good clowning by the thieves in Le Jell de Saint Nicolas, Ian Campbell overcoming the formality of the occasion with his folk songs, Michael Good 's brass-rubbings, the King's School "bygones" . Yet I have still not mentioned the most professional entertainment of all. [refer, of course, to the Symphony Concerts. A Dvorak symphony and four soloists of high calibre, all drawn from within the school: Stephen Harrison, Nigel Roberts, Michael Good and Pa ul Davies. Perhaps the best way in which I can pay tribute to them, and to Edred and the orchestra, is to point out that Alan Ridout actually composed the Flute Concerto for Paul Davies a nd the King's School Orchestra. Paul's rendering of it will long remain a treasured King's Week memory of a year in which dramatic and musical events ranked on a par with each other. 146

The Manager's tha nks go above all to Richard Mansbridge, yet a nother brilliant, highly effiCient Secretary, wh~se contnbutlon to the Week was inestimable, to his able helpers Dickon Pollard and Mike Donaldson, to Mr. Tarran and his six financiers Paul Stevens Chris Noble, Steven White-Thomson, Jona than Seers, Michael Good and Chris Reddick' to Mr.. Robinson and his staff, to Mrs. Stewart and the kitchen staff, to Mrs. Thwait~ and M Iss Deenng and finally to all the actors, musicians and backstage boys who contributed to the success of the Week. One person above all was sadly missed and we extend our most sincere good wishes to Mrs. Reynolds for a speedy a nd complete recovery. It has always seemed to me that King's Week exists first and foremost for the boys. It is a wo nderful, educatIOnal expenence, worth all the effort put into it in a term which otherWise would be unnecessarily dominated by the spectre of examinations. I have felt privileged to be associated with it and, as I hand over to Stephen G raham, I can wish him every s~ccess,. confident m the knowledge that he wi ll be able to call 0 11 boys a nd staff as unstmt1Il1j 10 their efforts as those of the last five years have been. King's Week is an aspect of this school of which we should feel proud. In a world which appears to be governed more and more by purely materialistic values, it is a haven of sanity and enjoyment and as such It must be preserved at all costs, without overtaxing those who stand to gam most from It, the boys themselves. J.B.S.

THE SYMPHONY CONCERTS J U LY 14TH AND 18TH

. Three conducto~s and a seventy-strong Symphony Orchestra, four instrumental soloists 10 a concert contal!,lIlg the first performance of a Flute Concerto, informative programme notes, and roof-ralsmg applause : what more could a reviewer ask for? The answer is "Adequate space in which to do justi~e to each item and to each principal performer!': BreVity may be the soul of Wit, but It IS the bane of the conscientious reporter since multum in parvo is not easily achieved . ' Afte.r the opening Triumphal March by Elgar, played with all the jingoistic fervo ur and Vlctor!an exuberance that it requires, we heard Nigel Roberts' dulcet-toned oboe in a melodIOUS Concerto by Bellini, with String Orchestra conducted by Clarence Myerscough. A little-known Ro,,!ance by Elgar for Bassoon and Orchestra, played by Michael Good, was noteworthy for Its relaxed contemplative mood, and the smooth instrumental tone resembling that of a good baritOne singer with some rich bass notes. ' Steph~n Harr!so!, th7n played the piano solo in the skittish Scherzo from one of Litolff's Concerti ~t a sCllltll.laling speed and with enviable sang-froid, the accompanying orchestra revelling m the rollicklllg race. . AI~n Ridout h!,s the happy knack of writing music in a modern vein that is both lIlteiligibie ~nd, enjoyable. His Flute Concerto was written for, and played by, Paul Davies, With the KlIlg s School Orchestra; all rose to the occasion with close attention to the composer's. beat. The slow movement has poise and beauty (a rare ingredient in modern mUSIC), Whl l~t the VIgorous Finale, with its virtuoso cadenza, was exciting and adventurous. Congratu.latlOns to all who took part in the sterling performance of a splendid new composllion that we hope will soon be heard again . 147

The New World Symphony is D vorak's greatest, grandest a nd most cha llenging Composition, and so popula r that many listeners would know ever~ phrase by heart. The School Orchestra, under Edred Wright, recreated Its majestic sonontles and Iyn cal melodies with a sure touch, the result of innate musiclanslllp and thorough tram 109. To sum up: each of the six items in the impressive programme pro\dded a stimulati~g and joyful experience for two large audiences that showed their ap preciation m no uncertaIn manner.

M us l ~ us .

(With acknowledgments to the " Kentish Gazelle"- Ed.)

TWELFTH NIGHT It was a bold decision- and in many ways a welcome one-:-to present thi s most familiar

of Sha kespeare's comedies in modern dress. In the delIghtful ga rden of Chillenden Chambers, with its many variants of settmg, entra nce and angle, the la nguid atmosphere of Orsino's court in the very first scene and the somewhat self-conscIOus guests seemed just right and succeeded in establishing at once what was Intended to be the character of the production. It comes as a surp~lse ~he~ expected fi ~ures firs,t app~ar In <l:n unusual guise. This can be refreshing and Illummatmg, and so It was with thiS open mg. However, though there were many amusing and imag inati ve tou ches to come, the modern

setting was not altogether successful. Moreover, the (understandable) exuberance of the performers on a final night had the audience laughing at much that was extraneous and harmful to the play's real mood a nd atmosphere. Earlier performances may have been more disciplined, this one ran close to being too casual. Odd though it may seem, period costume can look and feel more natural on young actors than their own so-called " natural" clothes-they can be less self-conscIOus play mg at being someone else than being themselves. Furthermore, the rhythms a nd phrasmg of Shakespeare's text certainly provoked- perhaps subconscIOusly-gesture and stance which were often at variance with the period the costumes sought to suggest. And agalll, whatever the effectiveness of costume and setting in a scene such as the openillg . one Of , say, the character of Malvolio, overall there were probably more losses tha n gams., Fortunately at its very heart the production had a n outstandingly mature, mteiligent and deeply felt performance-that of Viola, whose sincerity stood out head and shoulders above the superficiality of the characters and some of the perfo,rma.nces which surrounded it. And the key role of Malvolio was as complete and convmCIng m ItS own terms as one could wish. An apt and imaginative transposition of perIod turned him Illto a model modern Estates Manager with his imlllaculate SUit, portfolIo, umbrella and brIsk galt, with the hint throughout of an all-too-vulnerable vanity. This performa nce ran the whole gamut of the emotions from farce to near-tragedy, each one commandingly handled. The one fal se note perhaps was the teddy bear, full of comic possibilities though it was. The whole production was splendidl y spoke'.', too- every word so clear in this intimate setting and so intelligently pointed that one vIrtually took for gra nted a qualIty which IS not easily achieved. . One other performance deserves special mention- that of Feste, not an easy role With ,his oÂˇÂŁten . tiresome jf not incomprehensible, verbal games. In retrospect he seems to emerge a.-tlie real Master of the Revels in this pr<idlictiQn,.stepping lll .and .out, c.ondu<;tIng,

cajoling, pressi ng forward actors a nd action, and withdrawin g from time to time to jo in

the Jazz Club's co ntributions. A pity that these were so reticent and remote; in consequence, th e audience was in clined to lise th em as an interlu de fro m and not a part of the actio n. Other perfo rmances strayed from serio us portrayal of character and indul ged in easy

early la ughter, after which it was difficult fo r them to establish a ny seriousness. Some minor parts- nicely conceived as they had been- ma naged to exceed their function and disturb and unbalance the surrou ndi ng action. Again, the "last night" atmosphere may have been to blame, but th e playas a whole and the characters themselves suffered from this self- in dulgence or un will in gness to all ow laughter to spring naturall y from situation

or character. Sir To by fou nd it d ifficul t to establish a convinci ng, credi ble relationship wit h Olivia and her household, Maria suggested successfull y a mi xture of fl irt, hoyden and competent lady's maid, but her relatio nship with Sir To by was a lso barely hinted at. Olivia, after an outrageo llsly "camp" first couple of scenes- hilario us though they were-

from then onwa rd s never appeared to be inside the role, which posed problems for the production and other characters in later scenes. It was a pity there was no change of costume for her fro m the dark glasses, fl oppy hat and tro user su it. This might have helped to establish a change of mood.

Sir Andrew in his early scenes, Malvoli o throughout a nd the others in the cast whenever occasion offered, evoked a response that sprang ge nuinely from the play. There were also many rewards in the form of inve ntive and amusing surface deta il. If one judges in terms

of ente rtainment, the performance was continuously absorbing, and the closely packed audience on a warm summer's evening clearly appreciated and enjoyed a relaxed and

festive offering.

R. D.

SM IT H

SERENADE IN THE NAVE Owing to the inclemency of the weather, the Serenade was held in the Cathedral and judgi ng by the hundreds of people who packed the Nave the change of plan in no way lessened the popularity of this a nn ual K ing's Week event. Every cha ir was quickl y taken and inch by inch the grey fli ghts of steps were fill ed. The wonder a nd bewildering beauty of the building were roused by a very effective fanfa re composed for the occasion by Jonatha n Seers. Soon followed that remarkable wo rk of Tomasi for solo fl ute and drum, Le Tombeau de Mireille, which displayed the superb musicianship and technical abili ty of Paul Davies (flute), rhythmically accompanied on the dru m by Nigel Edmu nd-Jones. Two other works for wind instruments were perfo rmed later in the evening. Decidedly F rench in mood was the Wind Quartet by F ra n9aix-most professionall y performed, being fro m beginn ing to end tongue-in-cheek and vulgar in the nicest sense of the word without ever losing a ny ensemble. Gounod's Petite Symphonie refl ected wind play ing of a very high standard . As usual it was the Madrigal Society, under Edred Wri ght, a nd Cha mber Orchestra, cond ucted by David Goodes, that dominated the progra mme, the latter excelling itself in the Nave while the Madr igal Society tended to lose a lot of clarity, especia lly in their faster numbers, because of the vastness of the bu ildin g. Particularly impress ive though was Pil ki ngto n's Rest Sll'eef Nymphs which was most ex press ively sung with good cl ynamic 149

contras t, excellent phrasin g and a p. .rtic ularly good bass line. The Trois Chansons de Charies d'Orleans by Debussy were also very convincing; the last, depicting the seasons, was magnificent. The singers portrayed th e seasons brilliantly, their outbursts being authentically "villa inous" without being vulgar. The Chamber Orchestra, which was admirably suited to the acollstics of the Navel perform ed two works. The first, Symphony No.4 in F major by Boyce, was always fu l, of vigour and very cheerfully performed. Later in the programme was Gretry's Zem ire el A zor (177 1), orchestrated by Sir T homas Beecham. Though thi n in texture, it was

charmed by melody. A last group of pieces by the Madrigal Society included songs in German by Mendelssohn (which suited the Nave aco ustics well) and Bra hms,and the Serenade fitti ngly ended with Vaugha n Wi lliams' setting of The Cloud- Capp'd Towers from Shakespeare's text. Surely th is was the concert's most memorable piece, sung immaculately and with great fee lin g :" . .... We are such SLuff As dreams are made all, and ou r little life

Is rounded wi th a sleep." R. H . T. C HR ISTOPHER S.

'CELLO RECITAL BY ELIZABETH WILSON It was bold and commendable of the King's Week organisers to assign their opening concert to an artist as yet little known. Twenty-six-year-old Elizabeth Wilson proved an intell igent and stylish 'cellist and her recital with Gustav Fenyo last Wednesday in the Shirley Hall gave much pleasure to an enthusiastic audience. Her programme was a model of variety and interest. She began with a late Sonata of Debussy, a masterly piece of strik ing contrasts. Here was sensitive inflection of t he phrasing without loss of overall shape. T he sonatas of Beethoven present special problems of balance to 'cellist and pian ist. The foreground material, divided as it is almost equally between the instruments, is easily swamped by a wealth of subordinate detail. If these problems were not entirely solved in Miss Wilson's performance of the A major Sonata there was, nevertheless, a fire a nd v irtuosity to her interpretation wh ich Beethoven would have surely approved. The Variations on a Theme of Rossini by the 20th Century Czech composer Martinu is a direct, brittle and amusing piece and was performed with the right mixture of flamboya nce and parody. Chopin's Sonata Op. 65, hardly one of his most characteristic works, drew some warm and committed playing from both performers. Here again, however, problems of balance were 110t always sorted out and once or tw ice the pianist was in danger of overwhelming the solo part.

Miss Wilsoll is plainly an artist of considerable promise. She possesses an impressive techn ique and uses it to harness a temperament of some power. If only she can overcome lapses of faulty intonation, such as occurred at various points throughout her programme, she may go far.

A.R . (Pri,,!ed hy COl/rlesy of Ih e " Ken!ish Gazelle"). 150

PIANO RECITAL BY CRAIG SHEPPARD The American pianist, Cra ig Sheppard, achieved youthful fame last year when, at the age of 25, he won the second prize at the international piano competition at Leeds. Naturally, his appearance at the Shirley Ha ll attracted a full house of music-lovers, who gave him an enthus iastic reception.

The subtle charm of Mozart's C major Sonata (K.330) is apparent in each of its three mo vements: the relaxed atmosphere created by the Allegro Moderato is preserved in the Andante Cantabi le, though the section in the minor key introduces a tinge of nostalgic sadness that is fina lly dispersed by the cheerful flowing Allegretto. Beethoven's set of Variations and a Fugue on a theme fro m his ballet music for Prometheus reveals not only the composer's ingenu ity a nd inventiveness, but also the tremendous advance in piano-

playing technique that his music necessitated . The basic theme is simple enough, but evidently it appealed greatly to Beethoven, since several years later he concluded his epic Th ird Symphony with another set of variations for orchestra, usi ng the same Prometheus theme. The Valses Poeticos, by Granados, lived up to their title, and were played by Craig Sheppard both with gentle lyricism and dynamic power. The enigmatic Sequence IV, by Berio, drew thunderous applause from some members of the audience, though it left others puzzled by the fireworks of this avant-garde composer. The barbaric brilliance of Stravinsky's Petrouchka, and the amazing technique that the pianist displayed, produced an emotional and intellectual climax to the recital. After this lour-de-force, the melodious encores by the 19th Century Romantic composerpianists, Chopin and Liszt, bridged the interval between the Classical and Modern periods, and showed that the performer's powers of interpretation covered the whole range of piano music during the last 200 years. MUSICUS.

(Prin!e" by courlesy of Ih e "Kenlish Gazetle").

LUTHER Of King's Week's four plays, neither Le Jell de S. Nic"las nor The Girl }i"om Andros run deep, and in TlVelfth Night, whatever depths of pity and fear are at times opened up, the lid is firmly banged down again before one can forget that it is a comedy. Thus Luther alone offered its audience an opportunity to feel seriously involved for long; and it was taken, by everyone concerned in the production, to the utmost the play allows. The effect of cleven scenes disjointed in time and place, inevitable in a historical plot like this, is rather bitty, despite Luther's presence in all but two of them, and despite the smoothness of transition in this production. Moreover, the play had had to he cut to about a half, which cannot have helped. There was also the midly bothersome difficulty of trying to make out what on earth the Knight was there for, draped almost silently over his grand piano with practically nothing to do till the tenth scene; but that was Osborne's fault mostly, and apart from that the weather's, for driving us in to a stage whose encumbrance by a piano might have been fatal to the otherwise well-suggested re'llism of the setting and excellent costumes. That the production did not suffer from )5J

this, and that it showed literally no other sign of the difficu lties involved in sh ifting indoors with so little chance of rearrangement, was a triumph for Christopher Copeman. Even indoors the open ing scene was strikingly effective, and it was only a glim,pse, at an earlier rehearsal, of the monks' procession through the Dark Entry, with plainchant and incense, which made me realise how great was the loss of the intended setting. Another triumph was the almost perfect audibil ity, something really hard to achieve in a half-empty Shirley H all ; the only awkwardness came when the Knight, at last divulging what he was up to, had his first lines drowned by the hea rty strains of Ein' feste Burg.

Stephen Camburn was admirable as Luther. He had all the presence a nd the experiencc needed for this central role: the agon ies of his uncertainty, his sincerity, the attractiveness of his preaching, his preoccupation with his bowels, his harshness, and his tenderness,

were all excellently done. Of the characters who form the portrait's frame, outstanding v,ere Mark Greaves as Tetzel, with his superbly commanding sales- ta lk for Indulgences, and Jonatha n Hewes as Luther's wife, a short part beautifully done. To list the other good performances would merely be to reprint the programme, and if I include two very minor complaints it is merely to show that this is not empty flattery: Richard Wheatc roft , as the Prior, rushed some of his words a little, though not enough to detract from his cffectiveness; and Christopher Bourne, while conveying excellently the wo rldl y cynicism of Caietan, was more inclined to shout than I would expect such a cyn ic to be. There. The critic has said everything critical he could think of, and it adds up to nothing compared with the sheer competence of every part, and the moving effect of the whole. D.J.D.M .

THE GIRL FROM ANDROS If you take a play 2,139 years old, put it in a setting 800 years old, with a cast none of whom is much more than 18 years o1d, you may have an interesting combination, but not necessarily, onc would have thought, promising material to appeal to an audience in

1973. But The Girlfrom Andros did have this aud ience appeal, and it is a great credit to the translators, the cast, and their energetic producer that the Classical Play was again, for me, one of the highlights of K ing's Week. For whatever Julius Caesar may have thought of Terence's lack of "vim", I'm sure he would ha ve approved of the li veliness

of this production. Terence's "Andria" is not an easy play to present today. Translation robs it of the Latin verse that delighted Cicero, and it needs all of the skill of the actors to put across the long expository speeches at the beginning of the play- even if these did seem such an improveinent on the earlier soliloquies in the second century B.C. A great deal therefore depended on William Dugga n, who had to cope with much of the exposition . His firm characterisation of Simo, and the interesting interplay and contrast between him and Paul Baron's convincing Chremes, made these characters the two pillars on which the play stood. It was on these pillars tha t Simon Amos was able to bu ild his splendidly stylish Davos- the third pillar- whose confident acting and lively asides provided the main link between the audience and the play. 152

TWELFTH NIGHT [A. H. Woolf LUTHER [A. H . Woolf

But these three main characters were well supported. Piers Baker was good as the spineless Pamphilus, and Simon Dumas as the equally spineless Charinus. Judith Marshall made a delightfully pert Mysis, and Jane Baron's Midwife, too, was a pleasing cameo. Philip Murray-Pearce, as ecito, made a nice doddering "man from the country", "uoflapped" by the hysterical reception of his news. And, of course, Marcus Sephton played Dramo, Sima's strong man.

But a play is not just a collection of individual performances, and the main reaSOn for the success of The Girl from Andros lies in the enthusiastic teamwork, inspired by David Miller, which united the actors, setting and play, and united us, the audience, with Terence and Menander. C.H.C.

LE JEU DE SAINT NICOLAS This was an excellent choice for the King's Week French play. Written towards the end of the 12th century by Jean Bodel, it has the characteristic mediaeval variety of tone, theme and colour which is familiar to English audiences brought up in the theatrical idiom of Elizabethan theatre so that on this occasion there was no barrier of "foreignness" of style between play and audience to add to that of language. John Griffin's skilful modern French version cut the original to an hour, paring the pious propaganda to a minimum and concentrating on the exotic pagan buffoonery and on the colourful scenes of low tavern life. This was undoubtedly the right decision since these are the parts of the play which have the most life, certainly for a modern audience and one suspects too for the majority of the citizens of 12th century Arras where it was first performed. The production handled the frequent changes of scene and incident neatly, using a multiple setting in the mediaeval manner and a nicely judged stylisation in costume and decor which helped to clarify character and action. There was also a generally high standard of relaxed, well-detailed acting, particularly in the tavern scenes where Evans, Landymore and Haswell as the three thieves and Woolmer as the publican stood outthough their performances could have done perhaps with more projection-while Woolman held the pagan scenes together with an authoritative performance as the king's senechal and Cowie made even the colourless part of Le Peud'homme convincing. My only criticism would be that for all these virtues the play did not make quite as much impact as it could have. The pace sagged occasionally, there were problems with audibility at times and the direction never entirely solved the admittedly difficult problem of weaving the different strands of the material into a convincing whole or of imposing stylistic unity on the play's many variations in tone between the serious, the comic and the realistic. Nevertheless, the performance was nearly always alive and entertaining and if it made few converts to the cult of Saint Nicolas that is surely the author's responsibility! For what remained in the mind at the end was not so much the power of miracles to convert the heathen as the integrity of the pagan emir who refuses conversion and when forced to comply declares that his heart is not in it. As is so often the case with mediaeval religious drama the play's real concern seemed to be with man rather than God and this quality the production did justice to with some conviction. C.D.E.G. 153

KING'S WEEK REACTIONS [A. H. Woolf c. D. E. Gillespie (top left), J. C. M. Griffin (top right), J. B. Sugden (lower left) THE MINIBUS [G. G.B.

THE IAN CAMPBELL FOLK GROUP For many people the Ian Campbell evening was a highlight. It brought a totally different style of entertainment from the normal K ing's Week fare and this they fo und refreshing. There were others whose critical faculties were operating only on such questions as pitch and tone and for them the entertainment was poor. One factor which in general detracted from enjoyment was the lack of a mpl ification. This meant that anyone sitting near the back of the hall found it almost impossible to disti nguish the words, either spoken or sung, and of the instruments, only the piano accordion was loud enough to carry clearly but only at risk of losing the voices almost completely. Valiant efforts were made to rectify this during the interval, but these were only partially successful. The group themselves are lively and interesting people. Their knowledge of fo lk music is wide and in some ways academic. It is their respect for the origins of much of their material that inhibits them from dressing up their songs into polished party pieces. Some of their listeners recalled the sophisticated urbanity of the Spinners, who performed at King's Week some three or fo ur years ago. That form of fo lk music, however, is almost wholly derivative and very different in its approach. Ian Campbell, the "front" man, introduced the programme and soon involved the audience in a chorus song ... not the easiest of things to put over in a large hall without amplification. However, the Shoemaker's Song, which requi red us only to clap, went over much better. One of the best-received numbers was Lorna Campbell's rendering of The Ballad of Matty Groves-a version she learnt from Jean Robertson . It is known in outline in many different forms and sometimes called Little Musgrave. Far and away the happiest listening came when Ian Campbell's own songs were sung: The Sun is Burning and The Gulls of Invelgordon were two favourites. Probably the cleverest was his sati rical comment on the Great Folk Revival, which, said Ian Campbell, "all started in my back kitchen" ! It is a pity that the edge of enjoyment was taken off this concert for reasons for which the group were in no way responsible. It is important to balance the cultural diet of Ki ng's Week and a group such as this can provide the balance, given the right circumstances. P.J.D.A.

CONCERT OF LIGHT MUSIC IN THE GARDEN OF

No. 14

THE P RECINCTS

The combination of an excellent band with a summer afternoon in an English garden proved a worthy attraction which was greatly relished by a capacity audience. The Band immediately established its standard with a spirited and impressive performance of Vaughan Williams' Folk-Song Suite (1924) ; there followed four characteristically amusing Yale Songs sung with panache and polish by the Glee Club. The obvious enthusiasm of the sextet (clarinet, trumpet, trombone, bass, piano and drums) of the K ing's School COlltinued 011 page 159 154

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Norman Marshall

Frederick woke up. Above him there were confused, soft murmurings. At least, he thought they were above him. Which way up was he? Slowly feeling returned; he seemed to float in darkness. He was lying on his back, on a hard surface. He reached out with his hands. The floor was cold, and stone, and rather dusty. He could feel bits of stone, mostly quite small. He opened his eyes. The light hurt them. He shut them hastily. He opened them again, more cautiously this time. Blinking, squinting, he had a quick look around and above him, and then shut his eyes again gratefully. He seemed to be in an empty hall, a warehouse- it had that seldom-visited mustiness of warehouses. It seemed to be rather large. He opened his eyes again. The vague murmurings ceased. Further experiment convinced him it was something within him, and he tried to ignore it. Slowly he tried out his limbs. Everything seemed in order, but he still felt quite unwilling to move. Suddenly he heard a sharp noise to his left. Swiftly he turned his head to locate the source. Apparently a largish lump of stone, almost apple-size, had fallen out of the high, vaulted roof. Getting up slowly, he crawled over to it. It was very old. On one side the surface was carved and tooled. It seemed to be a line of figures or letters, but in no language or script he had ever seen . Meanwhile, the murmurings began to pervade his mind again. Opening his eyes was no good; they were already open. The murmurings were getting louder, and dividing into blocks of sound, that sounded like speech. In fact it rapidly became clear that it was speech. Suddenly it flashed into his mind that the writing on the stone and the voice in his mind were in tbe same language, though he did not understand either. He began to concentrate. The voices were intoning, like an old priest chanting prayers. Suddenly Frederick felt frightened, terrified. The voice was ringing in his ears, slowly, mournfully, rolling on like a flow tide. He ran down the hall, the long passages of the old, decaying, deserted palace, his palace. Tbe words began to be intelligible, and their meaning drove him to blind, mad terror, the fear of the partly known. The words were his trial, his sentence- "Let him live, let him live, tyrant, murderer, let him live forever as we shall all die forever". Frederick fell to the ground, senseless.

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Food

Jeremy Thomas

Two medium dry Tio Pepe Refined liquid gold caresses the lips Infuses through the blanched almon'd teeth And subtly stimulates the palate. ' Canellolli Dark, firm, substantial offerings Lie in a dish of silken brown Steeped in a sauce so rich and red. Black burns- mince is minutePancakes look like lunar surface. Scaloppine di Vitello alIa Marsala A picturesque title heralds Grassy meads of veal and french fries Not forgetting grey greasy mushrooms With their serried flaps of skin. Amiable mars.la trickles down the throat ' Succulent hunks of mottled meat Squirm and ooze ill the gorge. Meringue Glace Sweetness and light on stainless steelCrisp beige meringues cemented together WIth real daIry cream, tepid Against the dollop of strawberry ice. Coffee Thick china cup and saucer, Hot, black, reflective liquid, Cream, sugar crystals, tongue tang. You owe me ÂŁ3.

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Th"m"s C,,'es The tall oak, low green branches cast a dark shadow over a rusted barbed-wire fence. The wooden post rotting away. Green lichen, its roots in tight, clinging for existence. The tang of mint in the air. Stinging nettles choke the ground. Brambles smother the hedge. Beyond, a stone arch-way, the railway running over it. Water dripping to the road.

T" 11 Still-B",." n"y

tI"y N",.,.ish

From the moment it started and I got your letter, today stopped meaning anything. Today you were going to be my friend. And n~w you're just twenty-four hours when all the people go around. You're dead. You are lowered into a small child's coffin, an unfulfilled death. Your face is unlined, ignorant of the way we were going to treat you, run unbounded, happy in your arms. Or how we were going to abuse you, throw off your armsMaybe it was just as well. 1S8

Jazz Cl ub, allied to their expert playing, gave wide enjoyment, as did the familiar tunes from My Fail' Lady which the Band then played. As a change from the screaming of the swifts which is a feature of the Serenade in the Cloisters there was a steady accompaniment from sparrows, who were joined by an ambulance siren during the splendid performance of the verbal Geographical Fugue by the Glee Club ; their song about men who enjoy laughing and drinking wine was also admirably sung and evoked a warm response. The final item was a performance by the Band of Walton's Crown Imperial Coronation March; undoubtedly they have played it better than on this occasion but despite occasional blemishes it made a rousing and fitting conclusion to a thoroughly enjoyable hour of music. A. SEERS.

CHORAL AND ORGAN RECITAL IN THE QUIRE OF THE CATHEDRAL

A large number of people turned up to this admirable recital but an even larger number of visitors succeeded in producing distracting background noise from the Nave. Thus the quiet opening notes of a sprightly Scherzo by Bossi, played by Ian Sadler, hardly emerged into audibility. Once one became accustomed to the interference, however, one could tell that this was a well-executed performance. The choir, some eighty strong, took to its feet to sing two contrasted pieces. Boyce's o where shall wisdom be found? balanced some slightly timid verse-singing against a solid closing chorus. Edred Wright's shaping of Anton Bruckner's motet, Christus factus est, was masterly, rising from barely aud ible beginnings to a massive climax and sinking again to primeval silence. Widor's Fifth Organ Symphony is justly famous for its closing " toccata", but the other movements are worth hearing. Milo Coerper chose to play the slow movement, quite a long piece despite being taken at a smoothly-flowing pace. The repose offered by this meditative piece afforded useful contrasts between the energetic efforts of the choir. The choir really came into its own with a magnificent'performance of Holst's Lord, who hast made us for thine OWI1 , the words a metrical versIon of Psalm 148. This work, based on the famous Cologne Chorale punctuated with alleluias, is an ideal display-piece fo r a young and enthusiastic choir. The tuning problems of the quiet opening were solved without difficulty and there was a rare delicacy in the unaccompanied passages. Then, as the work built up in massive power, the choir responded superbly, the sheer weight of sound surpassing anything an orthodox cathedral choir can produce. This would have made the ideal finale to the recital. Instead we heard Stephen Hope, this year's organ scholar export, give highly professional performances of a Bach chorale prelude and the first movement of Elgar's G major sonata (a work very close to the performer's heart). Although the whole recital was obviously one of the secondary attractions of King's Week, the wealth of talent and dedication displayed throughout was most impressive. R. HORTON. 159

REVIEWS SCIENCE-SALVATION OR DAMNATION? SIR FREDERICK DAINTON,

F.R.S.

On 22nd May, Sir Frederick Dainton, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Oxford, came down to give a Sixth Form lecture. The question he began with was "Why does man pursue Science?". Basically, it was argued, man's instinctive love of discovery and science's practical applications are the two principal reasons. Professor Dainton then followed this up with a history of the progress of Science, and then, more specifically, with a discussion of post-Second World War developments. Large investments in scientific projects to "clear up the mess" and pave the way to a better tomorrow paralleled a growing confidence in the powers of Science which had, after all, done much to win the last war. However, in the Sixties doubts arose- where were these miracles? They were, it is true, there, but the realms of pure science offer esoteric vistas and for the ordinary man, the general public, such advances seemed of little immediate relevance although widespread redundancies caused by the increased use of industrial machinery were tangible enough. Likewise the controversies over nuclear armaments and pollution have contributed to a sense of insecurity inherent in a world of rapid social change, and manifested in an all-too-emotional nostalgia for the world we have lost. Unfortunately, there was too little time for Sir Frederick to give more than tantalising glimpses of his own, more SUbjective viewpoint. Since he himself plays a leading role in the shaping of this country's scientific future, his views would undoubtedly have been enlightening. Nevertheless, this was a talk that could be appreciated by artists and scientists alike, and our thanks are due to Professor Dainton for a talk that was both absorbing and lucidly expressed . A. R. DORWARD.

THE MACHINE IN 20TH c. ART We are very grateful to Mr. Christopher Green for rushing straight from the Courtauld Institute of Art to Canterbury to talk to us about the influences that the machine had on art during the first half of the 20th century. Mr. Green's talk was more of a seminar than a lecture, the audience being invited to step in with questions or points for discussion . This was happily taken up by a small group, but unfortunately the majority appeared to expect to be talked at, and were evidently unused to this very informal type of teaching. Mr. Green dealt less with actual machinery than with the effect that its presence and development had had on the minds of artists. By showing a variety of unusual slides he was able to demonstrate the revolutionary effects upon art of this "mechanical and technological philosophy". V.G.B. 160

THE GIRL FROM ANDROS [A . H. Woolf NORWEGIAN ADVENTUROUS TRAINING PARTY

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NORWAY'73 The chief a im of our Norway trip was to discover and enjoy the delights of a cooler climate. This we did: fOf several managed to find themselves in o nly a pair of briefs and a swea ter in a blizza rd , havin g been turned out of their Norwegian Snow Tent in the early morning to dress. The conditions we met in Norway were, sad ly enough , abnormal, and a particu la rly mild winter restricted us to the lower levels owing to the risk caused by avalanches, so we were unable to move about in the mountains as much as we had hoped. However, we ski-ed, we snow-shoe-cd. dug snow-holes, pitched ground-sheet tents in the snow, managed some mountain walking, and pitched OUf snow tcnts in which we stayed the night. In a ll these activities Lieutenant John Brevik admirably instructed us and gave us a taste of how swift and efficient a tra ined group of sold iers could be in arctic conditions. Most of liS found the ski-ing qllite a cha llenge a nd exhaustin g as it was cross-cOlmt ry in essence. Even just walking on skis in a long line proved too mueh for a few who persisted in sitting down, lIsing their sk i st ick s as padd les. Nevertheless. it was always nice to be able to sit back and enjoy the sight of others suffering from the same problems. By the end of the two sessions we spent pract ising we were al1 reasonably proficient . Some fe lt that it was the highl ight of their trip as well as most entertaining. Digging snow- holes proved, to sta rt with. to be a different mattcr altogether. We had a ll dug holes befo re-but John Brevik showed liS once aga in tbat pract ice and sk il l were req uired. The holes were relat ively easy to d ig- though it was curious how the snow sapped one's strength- and so was the entrance tunnel, but the roof was going to be d ifficult to construct as the snow at such low levels was not yet properly co mpacted. The Norwegians advised us that a night spent in a badly constructed snow-hole would be disastrous. Alas for the hopes of some of us ! For those of us who prefer a more leisurely approach to ca mp the journey to and from Setnesmoen (about 64Â° L1t. N.) was a key part of the tri p. It was highlighted by the journey up the coast of Norway through the evcr-changin g islands of the Skerry G uard in the S.S. Erling Jarl. We saw plenty of sheer cliff faces dropping stra ight down in to the sea, set against the constantly various faces of the sky-a foretaste of wea ther to come. On the return journey, crossing the North Sea, the Naval Section members were in thei r element in a fo rce 7-8 wind. Several of the Army Section did not appreciate being rocked to sleep quite so much. Duri ng the camp and in our journeys we gained a good pict ure of the kindly Norwegian people a nd their towns, both large and small . We saw Stavanger, Bergen, Alesund , Andalsnes and Molde, which we explored as time allowed, findin g each with its different qualit y. Our gratitude for the hospita lity of the Roy? I Norwegian Army ca nnol adequately be expressed here. They housed us, fed us, tra ined us; gave us ex pe rt and wise advice about the freak snow conditions; they kindly arranged a lecture (which we had hoped fo r) by Mr. Arne Randers-Hccn, a famo us Norwegian climber, who illustrated his fascin ating talk on the Romsdals arca (just behind the camp) with his own colour slides. Perhaps the Norwegian s' reaction to us may best be summed up by the unintentionally ambiguous Engli sh of the Norwegian Major in charge of Setnesmoen, Majo r Hatleli d, to whom wc owe so much for his patience and understand in g, when he sa id, "We have never seen such cadets before" . ~

All our thanks, too , to Mr. H ildick-Sm ith in pa rticular for his careful orga nisation , and 10 the other officers, Mr. Wen ley, MI'. Rcid, MI'. Hodgson and Mr. Vye who came with li S.

R. W. D. STAV,ny (C.P.O.).

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THE lst Xl (Le!t to rigltt) D. C. Arthur, J. P. H.llurkc, C. M. Noble, A. St. J. Brown, A. J. Newell , C. E. A. Reddick. R. M. H. Moss, D. 1. Gower, C. C. Kil bee, M. Asfaw, S. J. White-Thomson [Kell/b,ÂˇIt Gazelle

THE 1st VIII G. C. Olcott, J. R. W. Ellis, M. W. Laney, M. S. Sallstrom. M. C. G . Lane, M . J. d'A. Sephton, G.G.B., T. D. Townsend, C. A. C. Quested J. S. Rankin [E"twistle

LASKER LECTURE We were very pleased that Professor Peter Murray of Birkbeck College was abl~ to como to Canterbury and deliver this year'~ Lasker Lecture. Pro~essor M'!rray, ~I: autho~lty on the sculpture and painting of the RenaIssance, took as the IItle for h,s talk The M1I1d of the Renai ssance Artist". During thi s talk he considered the ways In which the ,Renaissance artist had studied and exam ined the arts of Greece and Rome, and how the,lc,ol1<;>graphy had been changed from pagan uses to suit the requirements of early Chflstlamty, and

had then been taken up by the new artists of the Renaissance a nd transformed to meet the requirements of a new age. This new age was characterised by a sense of the im portance of the ind ividual, and a

rediscovery of classical literature and phi losophy. Professor Mu rray then demonstrated, with the use of slides, how this had produced an art wh Ich dIffered radICall y from ItS immediate predecessor but owed much to th~ Greek and Roman sculpture whIch, at that time, was being unearthed in Ita! y. USIng thIS ,as a ,startm g pomt, the Renaissance ~rtt~ts added information and id eas deVised from claSS ical literature, an~ went on to revolutlOllIse

painting by their indepcndent d iscovery of the laws of perspectIve. .

Professor Murray's lecture was extremely interesting and informatlve and enjoyed by all those present. It ~Iso had the double benefit for those working towards "A" level History of Art in covering agall1 some Important parts of the syllabus.

V.G.B.

FINAL OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS' DEBATING COMPETITION King's, in thc shape ?f Philip Ch~lkley and Stephen. Harrison, took p~rt for the first time this year in the NatIOnal Schools Debat1llg Coml'elltlO n for the Obs", JeI Sli vel Mace. As reported in an earlier issue of the Calltuarian, Kmg's succeeded

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the area and regional rounds to reach the final, held 011 May I lt~ at the ~I ty of London School, against Liverpool College, Tudor Gran!',e and Gresham s. ~:ng s debated WIth Gresham's the motion "This House would IIlstltute a State. Lottery , ~!lIlst the other two contested under "ThIS House would abolish Pl'lvate MedIcal PractIce . The event was remarkable for an imposed

digni~~ wi~h arrang~ments for an. A nnual

General Meeting briefing, Dinner and the CompetItIon Itself, Willdl was designed to intimidate: lofty, gloomy and formal. Thc pancl of Judges distinguished: chaired by Sir Geoffrey Howe, It consIsted of Baroness Howarth, Esq ., Douglas Hogg, Esq., and Kenneth Harns of the Observer. their final decision did not do JustIce to our aspiratIOns for they came to that Tudor G range Grammar School were the best team ! Book-tokens to all the competitors in add ition to the Mace for the W1l1 ners.

held 111 a hall was espeCIally Lee, T. E. B. Unfortunately the conduSlOn were awarded .

The compet ition suffers a I~ttl c fron: l~nderrepresentation and. the standard IS, 110t

particularly high. Furthcr entnes by K1l1g s would be a worthwhlie and, [ would add, an ultimately successful occupation. I would like to thank Mr. Goddard for h,s advIce and encouragement through each round of the competition. , P. D. CHA~KLEY,

CHORAL CONCERT I N n l E QUIRE OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

On the evening .of May 12th, the choirs of Simon Langton Girls' School, Benenden School and the K1l1g's School performed Maurice Durufle's Requiem Mass. This was preceded ,firstly by Vaughan Williams' Five Myslical Songs sung by Stephen Varcoe and the Klllg s School Madngal SocIety. [t was a pleasure to hear the solo part in thi s work sung by a true ban tone, and Stephen Varcoe reached the highest notes with rare ease. The. fourth so n~, Come my way, was the most memorable, a nd was performed with telling c1an~y,

slmphclty and warmth. Love bade me welcome was too fast and operatic, but the magica l entry of 0 Sacrum COllviviul11 made its always unfa iling im pact. The cho ir accompan ied .car~full y, a l~ d were always in tune, but with a sma ll number of singers there was an ineV itable tI~lnness at the climaxes, especially at the end of the second song, I gol me jlowers, and dunng much of the final song, Ailliphon. It would have been a help

to have the poetry pnnted on the programme- no reflection on the choir or soloist, but such poetry needs to be seen as well as heard. Between the Vaughan Williams and the Durufle, C hristopher Tinker played Marcel D~lpre's Variations sur un Noel with assurance and a well defined sense of phrasin g. If a pnze w~re to be awarded for the most outstanding performer of the even ing, it would go to hllll. ~11 three works are a headache to any organist, and to have to play them in close succeSSIO Il, and to be able to play all three with such sk ill, was immensely impressive,

and much of the overall success of the concert was due to him. Maurice Durufle's finely wrought Requiem was performed carefully, sensitively and at times very movingly. Some imprecise leads and a few slight tempo miscalculations

threatened to make some of the movements ponderous. But these things were unimportant when compared WIth the clear and loving understanding with which Mr. Edred Wright conducted the work, and when seen against the music itself, with its consistently high level of Ill VelltlOn, the carefully regulated variations in mood and texture and the outstan9ingly beautiful harmonic language. T he Kyrie was marvellously sung, and the long flOWing li nes were phrased with professionalism, lead ing to a climax of great emotional splendour. There were moments of terror and tenderness in Domine Jesu Christe and shining splendour in the SaIlClllS. By careful placing of voices the effect of the plain;ong especially in the last two movements, was unforgettable, and the translucent, even sensuous: beauty of the final In para(UsUln was a sound which many will remember- until the next performance.

P.J.M.

AN HOUR OF JAZZ IN THO SHIRLEY HALL

MAY 27TH

The Jazz Club has not had its own concert for some considerable time, and its popularity

was clear from the large audience which filled the greater part of the Shirley Hall. The whole concert was livel y and entertaining and the performers brought their numbers off with great panache. 163

The only drawbacks to a splendid concert were the standard of introducing players over the mike (not reall y professional enough) and a tendency in some of the items to lose the rhythmic vitality so essential to jazz. After a slow start, however, the show picked up and the players dictated the mood once they had warmed up. Unfortunately there is little room in a report such as this to mention everything and everybody. However, Duncan Craik deserved a ll the applause poured out by the audience for him. His piano playing provided a welcome contrast, and was exceptionally professional. The band itself had an outstanding trombonist, Bill Todd, and his own Old Mall Rock was a really enjoyable finale. The clarinet play ing was well " in the mood", and the double bass line assured , though perhaps even too prominent in places. The brass a nd saxophone players completed a remarkable IouI' de jOl'ce, consider ing the amount of playing they had to do. The percussion was perhaps the best of a ll. Stephen Hope looked the part, and certainly sounded the part too! Blue Mooll and the Count Basie, Duke Ellington items were amongst the best. The second Brubeck number, for flute and piano, was most beautifully played by Paul Davies (flute) and Nigel Edmund-Janes- a memorable duo. T he evening doubtless a fforded ample pleasure to Ian Gallop, President of the Club. The aud ience would have applauded and demanded encores well a fter the concert, but the players were sensible in drawing the concert to a close in reasonable time. P. A. BURROWS and C.G.T.

PIANO RECITAL by STEPHEN HOPE, STEPHEN HARRISON

AN D

PETER TAYLOR

T he ge neral standard of performance at this recital on 22nd June, given by three boys two of whom were having a "trial run" for the ir A. R.C.M . exam inations, was high enough to make criticism for a school magazine difficult; if the po ints raised seem minor, that is a reflection on the skill of the players. The Rachmaninoff and Chopin pieces played by Stephen Hope showed technical sk ill but especially in the Rachmaninoff, the changes of speed brought out more sudden altdrations than the score indicates. The immediate impact was strong but the total view distorted . This cannot be said of Harrison's performance of the demanding Beethoven Sonata in C minor. The problems here are vast, and there may have been some errors, but one felt that the player hadn't got lost in the technicalities of playing but had subordinated technique to thought. Criticism of Peter Taylor's performance o f Ferguson's Sonata in F minor is morc difficult as it is not a very well-known piece, but it seemed very well played ; the spectacular outer parts of the outer movements showed much skill ; perhaps even more impressive was the control a nd delicacy of the inner sections, wh ich seemed to have more purpose and inspiration. All in all the few who attended experienced a very wo rthwhile eve ning. 164

PROGRAMME

Prelude in C sharp minor (Op. 3, No.2) Study in C shar p minor (Op. 25, No.7) Study in G sharp minor (Op. 25, No.6) Sonata in C minor (Op. III ) The Darkened Valley Soho Forenoons Sonata in F minor

Rachman inOff} Chopin Chopin Beethoven Irela n d } Ireland Ferguson

STEPHEN HOPE STEP HEN H ARRI SON STEPHEN HOPE P ETER

T A YLQR S.J.G.

MUSIC CIRCLE CONCERT Th is concert was the third of four concerts which occurred on consecut ive Sunday evenings in the midd le of term. It thus tended to be overshadowed by the more illustrious concerts from the Jazz Club and Galpi n's I-fouse, but gave younger performers a cha nce to ga in valuable platform experience. Two talented pianists, b~tJ:l in their first year, opened the programme. Alex Winterson and David Bulley both sho'!'Vcd. plenty o.f.fla lr m the first movcmen! of. Mozart's Sonata in D for piano duet (K.381), their synchroOisatlOn bette! III the passage work than III Simple chords- always a problem for piano duett ists. These two shou ld go far, so long as they remember that Mozart should always be played with a coo l head. A fugue by Bac.h for ob~e (Nigel Roberts), cor anglais (Quent in Poole) and bassoon (Michael Good) alt houg~. ~Iayed wlt~. beaut Iful tone! soon bega n to sou nd like Hindemith . A well-known voice mysteriously uttered slxty-seyen from .t he audIence and order was temporarily restored. Lack of rehearsa l was not a problem for a tno of ex-King's, Cambridge singers (Simon D avies, Mark G utteridge and Quentin Poole) in songs by Paxton and Youl l. These th ree will be valuable as their voices develop . Two y~ ung in~ t r ument a li sts showed promise. And rew Maynard tackled the second movement of Bra hms' E flat major clarmet sonata very effecti vely, while Peter Cowell produced the idea l sou nd for the first movement of Gluck's flute concerto in G major. The recital. room. never flatter~ a voice,. but Matt,hew Bright will always be luck y in possessi ng a pleasant counter-tenO I qu~l l ty . The f10 nd parts.m Purcell s Sweeter thall roses were well managed. The Enigma Quartet had a faIrly qUiet term but thClr perfcrmance here of the scherzo from Tchaikovsky's D major quartet was full of Slavonic fire. Paul ~avies, A.R. C.M . , wound up the cO!1cert wit h considerable panache. His playing of the last movement o fIbert s flute co~certo (an unashamed dlspl.ay-piece) held the attention th roughout, his superbly dexterous fi nger-work showmg all the youn ger mU SIcia ns how rewarding are the fru its of dedica tion. J. R. SEERS ~.

GALPIN'S HOUSE CONCERT ~h e concert op~ned wi~h Stephen ~ ope plaring two Chopin Etudes with much sensiti vity, skill, and vanety of expressIOn. ThiS confident mtroductlon was followed by Purcell 's Music /0,. a While (sung by Matthew Bright). The audience was su itably beguiled and were next tteated to three of Britten's Six Metamorphoses f9r solo oboe, played by Nigel Roberts. For me, these were undoubted ly the highlight o~ the concert: . '!'Jlgel showed almost total technical mastery of these ext remely difficult works, and played With a mesmeflsmg beauty of expression. A sharp contrast wa~ provided by. the next item, extracts from a Horn Concerto by Franz Strauss, and played by Jeremy DaVies accom pamed by Stephen Harri son. Here there was some sprightly scale-wo rk on the horn though also some fau lty intonat ion. . The Schuma~ ROlll a~ze in F sh!lrp fo llowe?, car~fu ll y performed by Colin R ussell , and then came the pl ec~ most obVIOusly deSigned. to dIsplay the virt uos ity of the performers, Stephen Harri son (piano), Pau l Davle~, A.R.C.M. (ftu~e) and '!'Jlgel. Roberts (oboe), the Trio by Walton Leigh. By the slow movement the perfor mers had got mto thell' st nde, and the last movement (vivo) was lively an d exciting. 16~

Although Crusill's Clarinet Duo in C. playcd by Stcphen Harrison and Nicholas Cox. suffered from too little variety of expression, the two jazz numbers that succeeded it (featuring "Duke" Edmund-Jones on piano, Stephen Hope on drums and Bill Todd on trombone) provided some lighter enterta inment and were extremely successful. Paul Davies then undulated his way through a Valse by Goddard- a performance which improved as it went along- and the slowing arpeggios rounded the work off brilliantly, Three Yale songs ended the concert on an enjoyable note. Messrs, Bright. Davies. S.J .• Todd and Edmund-Jones gave renderings which were beautifu lly in tune and which contained some well updated lyrics. It was a well varied programme of a high sta ndard wh ich both musicians and the d isappointingly small audience enjoyed,

M. S. GOOD.

WALPOLE HOUSE CONCERT The Summer Term's co ncert programme was certain ly a very full one, with two house concerts, a Music Ci rcle concert and a jazz concert all on consecutive Su nd ays. My main criticism of the Walpole concert was that it tended to bear witness to this fact, wit h the standard of performance as variable as the programme was varied. I think it is important to realise that a concert, whoever puts it on, is a serio us occasion at which per~ formers communicate music to the audience; here the necessary atmosphere was marred by the strange direction that we should Jaugh if mistakes were made, and by the supposedly witty deliberate mistakes on the programme. I hope this procedure wi ll not be repeated. as it lowers the tone ofKing's School concerts. As for the music itself, I very much enjoyed Brahms' Geistliches Wiegelllied sung by Desmond Barnes with much more control than I have heard from him in the past. The highlight of the concert was for me the fin ale of Gordon Jacob's Oboe Quartet, with Peter Burrows as solo ist. This was perhaps the only inst rumental item with a genu ine sense of performance, and it was played with considerable panache and crisp attack from all players. But the singing group known as "The Speughs" stole the show with their witty re-wording of J, F rederick Bridge's T:he Goslings so as to make it more topica}; thr~ughout the sta ndard of tuning and ensemble was very high, and the overall blend was excellent, as It was III the rather larger Yale group, However, in many items the performers sOl:,nded as iT they were yi rtually sight-read ing, and played with no sense o f commitment or performance. ThiS was a Pity , because If the whole concert had been ~ll? ~o tl~e s tandard of the Jacob a nd " The Speughs" it wou ld have been very commendable. Another ~n tl c l s m IS that the concert was far too long- a n hour is quite long eno ugh in the: cramped and stuffy ~onditJons 9fthe recita l room in the summer- and it would have benefited enormollsly If some of the poorer Items had Simply been omitted. S. J, H ARR ISON

AN INDUSTRIAL PROJECT With the permission of the Headmaster, we were invited to examine and prepare some statistics on a small , newly-established knitting factory situated in the industria l area of a new town, Curmbran. The factory employed fifteen people and was based on two enormous machines costing £8,000 apiece. Each one was capable of producing the equ ivalent of one pullover every five minutes. Most of our survey was based on the mechanical side of the knitting process rather than the making up side, For five days we took readinss from the performance of the machines and their three operators; it was, to say the least, rather hypnotic. On the sixtl~ day, we analysed and edi~ed the readin&s, The result we presented to the manager was that he was loslllg £170 a week through time and matenal wastage. To conclude, we would recommen d anyone who has such a chance to take it up; it is both a useful and interesting way to spend a holiday. A, G, F . BRASH, C. F, PANTON. 1 ~6

ENTRY TO CAMBRIDGE DR. COLIN BERTRAM,

4TH J UNE

. The ~ocieties, Room was filled with aspiri,ng Cambridge entrants for this informa l, entertaining but highly IOformatlve talk by Dr. Bertram, unti l recently Senior Tutor at St. John 's and great ly involved with admissions. ':os b~~kground. to h~ s subject, D.r..Be r~ram explained how Oxford and Cambridge d iffered from et her ullIverSl tles, especm lly III that admiSSion, IS handled on a college rather than a faculty ba sis, Cambridge has three a pplica nts for every place ava dable, and Dr, Bertram sa id that numbers wou ld be higher if it were not for the good sense of Headmasters and Housemasters in "cuttin g off the tail " of cand idates who clearly have no chance. With every candidate for a place at Cambridge, all colleges usua lly have to take four main facto rs into consideration: "A" Level resu lts, Headmaster's and Housemaster's reports, interview, and the Entrance Examinati on. Different emphasis is given to each of these considerations at different colleges: for example at S1. ~ohn's they do not make ca ndidates take the Cambridge Awards a nd Entrance Exam, unless they ar~ potential scholars, and consequent ly set more store by "A" Level results, ScholarShips and exh ibitions, however, are awarded purely on academic prowess shown in the Cambridge Examination; so, as Dr. Bert ram amusingly put it , if yOll are not a nice character but you a re very clever, there is hope for yo u yet ! Dr. Bertram left plenty of time for some very interesting questions, pa rticularly on the minimum "A" Level grades required to have any chance of getting in to Cambridge. There is a scale for measuring "A" Level results in wh ich grade A = 5 points, B = 4, C=3, a nd so on, and Dr. Bertram to ld us that seventy per cent of Cambri dge entrants have twelve to fifteen points. Dr. Bertram had already warned that S1. John's would probably expect three grade A's from ~omeone wanting to read Mathematics there, so not surplisingly questioners were eager to d iscover the least popu lar colleges and the easiest ~ubject s to get in on, both of which must contribute to the not over-high average "An Level grades required in practice. In other words, who comprise the thirty per cent with less than twelve points, and why aren't there more King's boys among them? Dr, Bertram did not give away any "trade secrets", but he thought the Cambridge system of admissions is as fair as is humanly possible, Nevert heless, he did point out that sword-swa llowing or si milar is likely to make a fair impact at the interview! Th is was typical of the fl ashes of humour which enlivened Dr. Bertram's lIsefullectu re; we much appreciated the time he spared to talk to us, J. S. G, THOMAS.

THE NORMANDY ViSIT ".

Ha~ing just retu rned from a very eventfu l trip to Norway wi th the C.C.F" I had slight doubts about the WIsdom of spending a furt her week away on a School expedition, being driven arou nd Normandy in a less-than-Iuxurious minibu s o n a "historical" tour. My fears perhaps seemed justified on our first morning in France since it was sleeting and the minibus wou ld not start! [n fact, the weather was very rarely on our side but the interest and enjoyment of our trip was more than adequate compensation for the onslaught of the elements, Our tour took in a number of famous places including Rouen, Caen, Mont Sf. Michel, Jumieges and Bayeu x, but desp ite the obvious hi storical associations of these names, our visit was foremost a holiday, and no-one forgot it. Our accommodation was, with one exception, very good and this was supplemented by the French cuisine, which spcaks for itself, a nd well-spent leisure. No account of this trip would be complete without thanking Messrs. Brian Turner and David Reid for organising the holiday and prov in g to be such safe a nd capable drivel S, although bot h they and Mrs, Turner could perhaps profitably brush up o n their peda l-ca r cycling as onc French motoris t discovered to his cost. H owever, the visit was a grea t success and everyone enjoyed themselves very much, G. D. HARRIS.

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BOOK REVIEW "THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS" by BRIAN GARDNER. (Hamish Hamilton, ÂŁ4 Âˇ25) Mr. Gardner's book, published in Ju ly, appears likely to become the standard history of the public schools; astonishingly, it can claim to be the first one wntten, and It IS interest ingly detailed, pleasantly written, and accompanied by excellent photographs. The au thor stresses the prov ision that many public schools origina ll y made for the sons sometime. class-consciousness . . " he fir ml y o f paupers, (a nd of local citizens generall y', their blames on the 19th century. We are told, for IIlstance, a gn sly story of a VlctOl Ian foundation whose governors, when they began, were advised by the governors ofa well-establIshed school never to accept any sons of local tradesmen, lest they "had the sons of gentlemen shak ing hands perhaps with school-fellows beh ind the counter". In similar vein, Mr. Gardner makes much of those schools which, like Sir Roger Manwood's, seem to have achieved many of the better aspects of public school life whlie working within the framework of the L.E.A.s. Only in its last few paragraphs does the book deal with current controversies; and yet its whole drift suggests that, IIlsofar as academic standards are now the main rationale of public schools, they may be returnIng to their histor ical funct ion, after an Empire-absorbed interregnum. King's itself is the first school featured, and its claim to be the oldest Engl ish sch~ol is full y accred ited by the author. Alas, our latter days seem less exalted! One of the J Ul cle,~t sections of the book is Appendix 8, "The P ubl ic Schools in the 20th Century EstablIshment, which features over 200 men of power and d istinction, and not one of them IS an O.K.S. Still , this reviewer found solace in one of Appendix 8's minor charms: a lIst of the publIc school antecendents of a ll six ed itors of The NelV Statesmall. A Kat henne Whl teho~n tory came to mind: of the Hampstead-progressive couple whose son, rough~~ up at hIs local primary, came home muttering: "Mummy, I hate the worktng classes. S,o scandalized were his parents that they sent him off to board at a prep school so that he d grow up a revolutionary and be published by Penguin Books after all. Welcome to Mr. Gardner!

S.C.W.

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CRICKET Retrospect From many points of view 1973 has been a very good season for King's cricket. Preseason expectations of how well the XI would fare were surpassed and some really interesting and exciting cricket was played. Several of the finis hes were close on time, which added to the tension. The overall standards achieved in the course of the season were most satisfactory. Even though few would dispute the fact that D . r. Gower and C. C. K il bee were t he best of our batsmen, a ll of the others showed up well freque ntly enough to prove that there was good battIng In real depth. One can sympathise with some at the lack of opportunity for them to prove their worth more than just a few times, but, whe n two matches are won by 9 wickets and three more by 8 wickets, this sort of thing is inevitable in a short season. However, at the end of what has been a particularly happy season, each member of the side has his own highlight to look back upon. Gower and Ki lbee will each remember more than one very good innings, and Gower may even remember a hat-trick against K.C.S., Wimbledon . C. M. Noble can recall his fine performance against M.C.C. and the clock, and D. C. Arthur his discovery of confidence and the innings he played at Dover. Though R. "Modesty" H. Moss may have had little to say for himself in the course of the season apart from " How's that?" he showed himself to be a most promising wicketkeeper as well as a very so und and correct batsman. For h im a good future at the game seems to be assured. M. Asfaw is a gifted a ll-rounder and one wonders whether he was more pleased by his 7 for 9 against the Buccaneers or by his 50 not out against R.M.S.E. when runs were bad ly needed. S. J. White-Thomson is another all-rounder who may fi nd difficu lty in deciding which was his finest ho ur. Probably S0l110 of h is batting gave hi m rather more satisfaction than d id his 4 for 5 agai nst Wye Collegc. One of his better performances was his partnershi p with Asfaw against Eton Ramblers when they both played good spin bowling intell igently and well. A. J. Newell was one of those who suffered to some extent from lack of opportunity. His 3 for 18 against M.C.C. went a long way towards helping the team to a fine win, a nd his quickness in the fie ld was a lways of the greatest value. C. E. A. Redd ick came into the XI to add authority to the lower order batting and proved his worth on more than one occasion. J. P. H. Burke will doubtless remember his fine one-handed catch on the boundary and will be remembered by others for the way in which he hid his disappointments. He had the knack of getting a good wicket now and again and his bowling was used j udiciously by Ki lbee. A. St. J. Brown is not likely to argue when it is said that he is too good a playel to bat at No. II, but someone had to be there and his reward was to open the bowling and to bowl steadily, though often without much luck. This was a team of character. It was refreshing to be witness to some of the friendly and often witty banter which went on throughout the season. The complete togetherness of the team on a nd off the field seemed natural and spontaneous, though much of the credit for the good spirit, and sometimes high spirits, must go to Kilbee, whose captaincy earned him the utmost respect and loyalty from those under hi m. 169

â&#x20AC;˘ One of the Xl's best performances was against a strong O.K.S. team. A generous first day declaration by the O.K.S. led to a truly fasci nating second day's play, when the batting of K ilbee and Gower against the understandably good bowling of C. B. Hamblin, C. J. C. Rowe and P. J. Cattrall was of an exceptiona lly high standard . The victory of the XI in this match was essentiall y a team effort in wh ich every member of the side contributed in one way or anot her. The fielding was excellent and some fine catches were taken, including two by R . J. Tarry, who was on loan to the XI from the Colts. Now, having been in charge of the 1st XI for the past twenty seasons, and having umpired their last 250 or so matches without missi ng a single ball of any game, I hand them over to Mr. Alan Dyer. In doing so, I wish him as much pleasure as I have enjoyed, and as it is likely that he will inherit more than ha lf of th is year's team, 1974 should be another very good season. Now I must offer thanks to those of my colleagues, both past and present, who have helped with the coaching of Cricket at King's and whose will ingness to give unsparingly of their time and energy has been of enormous encouragement and assistance to me and to all of the cricketers on the ir way up through the School. My thanks, too, to the Headmaster for his staunch support and encouragement of the game at all levels, and to all past and present members of the. XI who hav~ helped me to keep ~oung at heart. Thanks again to Mr. Bob Jordan for hIs splendId pItches 111 what, for hlln, has been a d Ifficult

season. I shall now look forward to watching some cricket from a deck-chair, though still continu ing to give whatever serv ice I can to the benefit of King's cricket. C.F.

COLIN FAIRSERVICE After twenty years as master-in-charge of the 1st XI, Colin Fairservice will be handing over the reins to a younger man, though he continues to be in overall charge of sport at King's with a special concern for Rugby Football and Cricket. Good enough in his earlier days to play for Kent and Midd lesex, Colin retired from first class cricket before the war and devoted his energies to coaching and umpiring. His ability as a coach has never been questioned and as an umpire he was rated the best in Minor Counties cricket. At King's, he has shown a genius for getting the best out of everyone by saying the right th ing at the right time and by trying to ensure that the eleven enjoyed their cricket. If, as a resu lt of this policy, the team did well, so much the better, but his overriding concern was not whether they won or lost, but how they played the game. Despite th is apparent disregard of results, his record is a formidable one by any standards. Just as in 1963 he could claim to have coached the best XV in school rugby, so in 1970 h is Cricket XI was indisputably the finest in the country. He would be the first to admit that he has had some very gifted players over the last two decades, but cricket is essentially a team game and without his sound advice and good humour th ings could so easily have gone wrong. It says much for his devotion to duty that he has umpired every School match since 1954. Never has anyone served any school sport with greater loyalty, and never has anyone more deserved the success that has come his way. R,P,B, )79

â&#x20AC;˘ 1st XI Matches Played 16. Won 6, Lost 2, Drawn S

King's 121-6 dec.; St. Andrew's College (South Africa), 101-6 King's batted fi rst on a sodden wicket and, due mainly to a Icsolutc 50 from Gower. managed 121 - 6. After early setbacks St. Andrew's midd le order played out a rather un inspired draw.

Wye College, 41; King's, 42-1 wre batted. first on an easy-paced wicket and through a combination of poor batting and good seam bowling, particularly from White-Thomson (4- 5), were bowled out quickly for 41. Gower and Kilbee steered King's home to a 9 wicket victory.

King's, 187; Dulwich, 143-5 On a good wicket Gower (62) and Kilbee (45) explored the mediocrity of the Du lwich bowling lay ing a good foundation to the innings . Dulwich floundered at first but recovered to play out for a draw.

King's, 148-8 dec.; St. Lawrence College, 120-6 Afte~

Go":cr (57~ had a~ain led the innings, ~ uppo r ted by Moss (20) and White-Thomson (2 5), King's lost qUick Wickets 10 a vam attem pt to add qUick runs. St. Lawrence, following the course of previous garnes, lost early w}ckets but co nsol idated aga inst the scam bowling of M. Asfaw (5- 30).

King's, 150-7 dec.; S t. Lawrence C.C., 85-6 The batting was this time led by Kilbee (43) and White-Thomson (40), who inspired a total of 150-7. St. Lawrence were shocked by an early onslaught from Brown (3- 17) and never recovered.

King's, 169-3 dec.; Highgate, 133-6 Gower (89) p!ayed a memorable. innings backed by Arthur (2~) and ~hen Ki lbee, allowing King's to reach 169- 3. Highgate lost ea rl y Wickets and never really looked like gettmg the runs, though given ample time, with Kilbee taking 4- 32.

Eastbourne, 258-4 dec.; King's, 93 Eastbourne batted fi rst on an exceptionally fast-scoring ground, reaching 258-4. King\, apparently wea kened by long hours in the sun, batted badly and collapsed to 93 all out!

Buccaneers, 37; King's, 40-2 On a rain-affected wicket the King's seam attack was able to tear the Huccaneers' batting apart, M. Asfaw (7- 9) excelling. Kilbee and Noble coped wit h the conditions after lunch and saw King's safely home to an 8-wicket victory . ....

K.C.S., Wimbledon, 112; King's, 115-2 Wimbledon began well with an opening stand of 62 but then collapsed to fine bowling from Gower (6- 8 including a haHrick) and Kilbee (3-4 1). King's first four batsmen then shared the 115 needed for victory.

M.C.C., 152-9 dec.; King's, 153-2 M.e.c.

were well contained by tight seam bowling from Brown, Asfaw. White-Thomson and Burke and eventually halted by Newell (3- 18). King's responded ably to the challenge and were led home with some sparkling stroke-play and good running by Kilbee (65 not out) and Noble (54 not out).

King's, 156-9 dec.; Eton Ramblers, 155-7 King's reached 156- 9 largely due to a good recovery led by Asfaw (46) and White-Thomson (32). Early successes in the field gave way to stron g hitting frol11 the Ramblers' midd le order batting, which only just fa iled to take them to victory. 171

Dover College, 68; King's, 72-1 On another rai n-affected wicket, Dover were bowled out for 68, Asfaw. Wh ite-Thomson and Kilbec sharing the wickets. Arthur (39) and Gower (27 not out) took King's two runs short of victory before K il bee admin istered the coup de grace.

King's, 164; R.S.M.E., 166-5 Asfaw (50 not out), Red~i~k (30) a~d Mo~s (2~) I ~d the ~ing's r~covefY. but the bowlers ,were unable to contain some forceful military battmg, with Kmg s suffenng their first defeat to a club side.

King's, 201- 7 dec .; Band of Brothers, 198-8 Gower (65) and Arthu . (40) began with a sta nd o f 96 and were then ably supported by the rest of the middle order. The Band of Brothers adapted their sH'okes sufficiently to beat the uno rth odox field but could not quite overhaul the King's total.

King's, 205 and 112; O.K.S. , 139-4 dec. and 158 King's batted well , the first four ~atsmen s.hari ng most of the runs. The O.K.S. declared .overnight and King's began aga in the next mornmg reachmg 85- 1, due to the efforts of Gower (44) a nd Kilbee (38), before collapsing to 11 2. Tight bowling a nd good field ing then brought about a notable 20-run victOlY.

Stragglers of Asia, 106; King's, 106-7 Electing to bat o n a green wicket, the S tr~gglers wcre d i ~m i ssed for 106 after s<?mc ,fine sea m bow.ling, especially from White-Thomson (4- 13). KlIlg's were led m the chase by a dommatmg 60 from Kllbcc but could only draw level with o ne run being needed from the last ball.

Batting Averages Innings

M . Asfaw ... .......................... .

c. c. Kilbce ...................... ...... .

D. I. Gower ......................... . . S. J. White-Thomson ............... . C. M. Noble.... .... ......... .......... . C. E. A. Reddick ...... ............... . D. C. Arthur ................. .. ....... .. R. M. H. Moss ........... . .. ......... . A. St. J. Brown ..... .................. . J. P. H . Burke ... . , ......... ... ....... . A. J. Newel!... .................... .... . Also batted: R. J. Tarry. 12,4; P. E.

No t Ollt

Rllns 4 220 9 17 4 455 17 2 530 13 4 183 15 185 3 I \07 8 17 258 o 11 1 1\9 2 28 6 34 2 9 34 \0 2 Stevens, 0, 10 ; P. R . Taylo r, 0 n.o .

Highest Score 50n.o. 65 n.o. 89 40 54 n.O. 33 40 23 14 n.o. 9 n.O.

Average 44·00 36·00 35·33 20·03 15·45 15·29 15· 19 11 ·90 7·00 4-86 4·25

Bowling Averages Average Wicke ts RUlls Overs Maidens 10·00 12 120 54 22 D. 1. Gower .................... ... .. .. 12·51 33 181·5 413 M . Asfaw ...... .... ................... .. 50 13-20 19 249 10004 31 S. J. White-Thomson ........... ... . 19 ·75 24 465 171 ·3 39 C. C. Kilbee ........... .............. ... . 20·01 17 342 21 A. St. J. Brown ...... .. ... ............ .. 91 23-43 7 164 A. J. Newell ........................... . 40 6 47-69 3 143 44 8 J. P. H. Burke ... ............ .......... . A lso bowled: P. R. Taylor, 15·6·23·3; P. E. Slevens, 24-5· \01 ·3. Catches: R. M. H . Moss, 19; C. C. Kilbee, 15; S. J. White-Thomson, 7; A. J. Newell , J. P. J-I. Bu~ke, 5; D. 1. Gower, C. M. Noble, M. Asfa w, 4 ; R. J. Tarry, 3; A. St. J. Brown , C. E. A. R eddick, P. E . Stevens, 2; D. C. Arthur, I. C. C. K ILDEI!.

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2nd XI -The .great thing. about t~e 1973 season was the very kind weather. All eleven games were completed with virtually no mterrupt!on and the fina l record was Played J 1, Won 3, Lost 2, Drawn 6. The large num ber of draws once aga m stressed how difficult it is to get sides out in the time available. Jt required unusually good figures by Seers and Morgan to provide two of our wins and the third was ach ieved against batting that was remarkably fragile. Our batting only once let us down bad ly and it was always interesting to watch. Pea rson and Check ley were the most enterta ini ng, the former very correct, the latter very effective. These two were the only batsmen to reach 50 but Jones, Platts-Martin and Hathway all showed batting potentia.I. Seers was the discoyery of the season, plugging away wit h great accuracy and proving rema rkably economical. He was well ass isted by Jones with leg-break s and googlies and Check ley with hostile bur sts of unorthodox pace. The Captain, Peter Taylor, had a happy-go-lucky a pproach that went down well and he also made u~eflll runs and took his share of the wickets. He mll st take the cre dit for wha t has been a happy and abso rbing season. R.P.B., P.W.B. R ESULTS

K.S .C.,99; Dulwich,93- 9. Drawn. K .S.C.,42- 2; St. Lawrence, 4 1. Won by 8 wickets. K.S.C.,97; BeverleY,99- 1. Lost by 9 wickets. K.S .c., 76-8; Eastbourne, 124. Drawn. K.S.C., 4 1; R.M.S ., Dover, 42- 5. Lost by 5 wickets. K.S.C., 119- 6 dec. ; Sutton Valence, 11 4- 5. Drawn. K.S.C., 76-9 dec.; Dover G.S. , 59. Won by 17 runs. K.S.C., 123- 5. Police, 131-5 dec. Drawn. K.s.C., 46--4; Dover College 2nd XI, 45. Won by 6 wickets. K.S.C., 128- 7 dec.; SI. Lawrence 2nd XI, 56- 9. D lawn . K.S.C. , 140; Chaucer, 109- 6. Drawn.

Colts' XI Thanks to a large fi xtu re list and kind wea ther, this has been a very enjoyable SeaSOll. Jt has also been as successful as o ne cou ld have ho ped, wit h an ordina ry side on paper ach ieving considerably more on the field . A ~ter careful . playi ng in, the early bat smen have not been fr ightened to attack the bowling and ,HaIl, Sheridan, Lar~ms a nd T~ rry have all buil t SO l' c impressive innings. With the ball, Dawes has been a model of consistency, wh ile o thers have a lso performed most cred itably, if less often. The highlight of the fieldmg has been th~ close ca tchin g, with Petrie, Hall and Tarry making some outs tanding efforts. How?ver, the. deep fieldm g has generally been rather slovenly and the throwing has been particularly crratlc. Despite an excusable tendency to become ove.r-involved in matches Hall has led ' his side to some good wins and has a lways set a n excellent example in the field. We have b~en ve ry lucky to have a keen and efficient scorer in Walters. . .Despite threateni ng wea.ther, no play was los t during the two-day Co lts' Fest iva l. King's had a 4-wicket wm over a good scratch Side from the Colts of clubs in East Middlesex who took some time to find out their own stren.gths. Middlesex n~ade 89 a nd King's managed, by some'sleepy play in the last half-hour, 10 ~ake th~ fi!1lsh close., Meanwhile the Kent Schools C.A. made a rapid 100 to beat Felsted in quick time. A~amst Kmg s, Felsted s great depth of batting enabled them to decla re at 160-7. King's were well up With the clock at 89- 2, but became beca lmed in the nineties and then collapsed to 11 J all out. The fo llowing played regularly : ·S. C. Hall, · P. R . Sheridan, ·E. H : D . Larkins, .R. J. Tarry, ·0. E. Dawes, N. J. Robertso n, P. J. S. Petrie, D. R. Kennedy, C. D. Barlow, W. K. Hayes, M. J. Strutt, J. R. Cotton. • Awarded Colts' Colours.

RESULTS

Pl ayed J 5, Won 8, Drawn 3, Lost 4 K.S.C., 163 (Tarry 54); D ulwich,56. Won. K.S.C., 122 (Robertson 47 n.o.); S1. Lawrence, 94 (H all 5- 27, Ta rry 4-20). Won, fli~h~ale, 69 (Larkins 4- 20) ; K.S.C.,70- 6. Won.

Tonbridge, 156- 6 dec.; K.S.C,63- 9. Drawn. K.s.C., 85- 8 dec.; Eastbourne,86-3. Lost. K.S.C., 64; St. Augustine's College, 67-5. Lost. K.S.c. , 142- 5 dec. (Tarry 72); K.C.S., Wimbledon, 144- 6. Lost. North School, Ashford, 41 (Dawes 4-13); K.S.C.,44-4. Won. K.S.C, 128-4 dec. (Larkins 72 n.o.); London Schools CA., 117- 6. Drawn. K.S.C., \30- 5 dec. (Tarry 49); Dover College, 61. Won. K.S.C., \36- 1 dec. (Ha ll 71 n.o.); St. Lawrence, 69 (Ha ll 4- 15, Dawes 4- 12). Wall. K.S.C, 124-5 dec.; Kent Schools CA., 101- 7. Drawn. Nort h School, Ashford, 71 (Tarry 7- 19); K.S.C.,72- 7. Won. East Middlesex Colts, 89 (Larkins 4- 22); K.S.c., 92- 6. Won. Felsted, 160- 7 dec. ; K.S.C., II I (Sheridan 41 ). Lost. C.l.R.J .. H.E.l.A .

Junior Colts This has been the best season for some years. The record speaks for itself but, more important, we have kept 24 players on the game and most seem to have enjoyed their cricket. T he School's cricket is in safe hands and we hope that everyone from this game will be keen to get into a Sc11001 team in the future. All members of the team have made at least one vail18ble co ntribu tion to the batting and we have usually recovered well when necessary. Wright , aggressive and effective, and Shaw, correct and reliable, have led the way with some excellent innings. They have been well backed up by de la Hoyde, who can hit th" ball remarkably hard, and Rankin, who has always shown great potentia l but perhaps not enough application yet. Poor defence or over-eagerness have often spoiled the chances of others and the main fault has been a reluctance to move the feet when appropriate. The bowling has been spearheaded by Rankin who has bowled quite superbly- half his overs have been maidens a nd he has captured 33 wickets. His bowling against Tonbridge and Clifton was extraord inary: 38-22-30-11. He will doubtless be looking for more spin nex t year. He has been well supported by the accuracy of Mullender and Longmire who have given little away throughout the season. Eagels looked very good at times but permitted himself too many " 'oose" ones. The spin attack was not called up very often but both Urquhart and Wright did well when requ ired. Our only real complaint is an apparent lack of interest in sett ing their fields. T he fielding has been less exciting, mainly due to lack of anticipa tion and speed of reaction. De la Hoyde has kept well though he still has much to learn. Wright looked fairly ag ile in the deep and Dale was very safe close to the bat. The best performances were probab ly against Tonbridge and Clifton, who were on tour, though the most courageous was against Dulwich in the first match. Our one loss was against Eastbourne when, for once, the batting failed- it would have been good to have played them again. Rankin captained shrewdly and has co mmanded the respect of all-one interest ing statistic is that he and the team allowed the opposition only 1'74 runs per over duri ng the season. RESULTS

Played 14, Won 8, Drawn 5, Lost 1 Du lwich 138- 6 dec.; K.S.C.,97- 9. Drawn. K.S.C., 135- 8 dec. (Wright 54); St. Lawrence, 47 (Mullender 5- 12). Won. Kent College, 113- 8 dec.; K.S.c., 11 4- 2 (Wright 59 n.o .). Won. K.S.C., 114; Tonbridge, 63- 8. Drawn. K.S.C.,49; Eastbourne,55-4. Lost. R.M .S., Dover, 55; K.S.C. ,56- 2. Won . Sutton Valence, 122 (Rankin 5- 22); K.S.C.,82- 6. Drawn. K.S.C., 109; K.C.S., 91 (Longmire 6-24). Won. K.S.C. , 136-7 dec.; Ashford North , 13 (Eagers 5- 3, Mullender 5- 6). Won. Dover College, 85; K.S.c., 86-3. Won. K.S.C. , 137- 6 doc. (Shaw 54); St. Lawrence, 55 (Urquhart 6- 4). Won . K.S.C., 132 v Kent College. Ra in. Abandoned as a Draw. K.S.C., 103- 7 dec.; Chatham House, 31- 6. Drawn. Cli fton, 90 (Rankin 7- 21); K.S.C.,93- 6. Won. M.J.H., A.W.D. 174

Under Fourteen XI Judging ~y the r<:sults, this has ~een .a successful season. T he team seemed to have the ability to su rvive Wille very tight fim shes, and to Will With some games that seemed well lost , Downie Smit he .;, W'W b~~vl~~:r~I~~~~~~l~o~tc~r~hin's .k~afk o~ bringhi nlg himself on at the decisiv~ m~ment) were a 1\'~on;p~~:'~ . I I' t e W IC e s. onet e ess, the attack lacked penetrat ion, as was clearly shown lilt le dast .ew matches. Perhaps the problem was lack of variety: there was no rea lly fast bowler and " no goo spmner. g Thedbatlin wasl:ess distingu ished. Nicholas began the season in fine form Smithers scored freely at

isttent, butI no one else showed good enO~lgh tech nique or sufficie~t ~~~e~~i~::;~nF~lbuiWaasntJ~, enn"'lnogsst coTns h

. e earn on yonce reached 100. All in all , though, it has been a very pleasant season, with good weather and some enjoyable cricket. The team: S. H .. Farrell, Smithers.. Nicholas, M, J. Wi ll iams, W. G. Brown, Downie R A Randa ll Hannah, P. E. J. Hili , Naunton DaVies, Stansfield. ' .. , Also played: Aildey-Wa lker, Balicki, Wenban, Solway, Hays, Rodway. R ESULTS

Played 10, Won 5, Tied 1, Drawn I , Aba ndoned I , lost 2 K.S.C.,57; Dane Court, 54 (Hannah 5- 17). Won. K.S.C., 79- 9 dec. (Nicholas 40); St. Lawrence, 46. Won. Kent Collcge, 54 (Farrell 4- 6); K.S.C.,55- 5. Won . K.S.C. , 89- 3 dec.; R.M.S., Dover, 68- 5. Drawn, K.S.C., 60; Sutton Valence, 60 (Downie 5- 26). Tic. K.S.C. , 29; Dover G.S., 30- 0. Lost. J.K.S., 69- 9 dec.; K.S.C.,70- 3. Won . K.S.C., 106; St. Lawrence, 73. Won. Kent College, 123- 5 dec. Rain. Cba tham House, 186-5 dec.; K.S.C.,70. Lost. P.G.H., l.M.C.

THE HAYMAKERS'

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b The Hayn~a~ers have bad another enjoyable season. Results have v~ried, but Ihe cricket has always ee~ entertammg. [am gratefu l to all who have supported the Clvb as managers and la ers and ~:;~~c~~~S~:~a~;atl~~~k~IOP' Esq. (Secretary) and David Sharp (Chief Waggo~er) who h~v: Pll t in a RESULTS

D. J. REID (President).

Haymakers, 125-4 dec. (B. Wilmn, Esq., 82 n.o.); K.S.C. 3rd XI, 36. Haymakers, 116 (C. Jackson, Esq., 43 n.o .); Municipal,80- 6. Haymakers,44; Elham , 45- 2. Haymakers,24; Barham, 25- 7. Haym?kers, 103 (G. Robertson, Esq. , 45 n.o.); Barham, 80- 9 (8. Wi lson, Esq., 4- 12, M. Allen 4- 16). Techmcal,60; Haymakers, 62- 5. H?ymakers,87; Wickhambreaux and Jckham, 32 (M . Asfaw 4-10, D. Betts 4- 16). D I ~cesa n , 89 (D. Gowc r 4- 8); Haymakers, 90- 2 (H. Aldridge, Esq. , 51 n.o.). Ad lsham, 130 (P. Boorman, Esq., 4- 22); Haymakers, 57. Beverley, 171- 7 dec. (P. Boorman, Esq. 4--49). Rain . Haymakers, 186- 5 dec. (1. Cooke, Esq. 65, D. Sharp 49); Bretts, 73. 175

THE BOAT CLUB 1st Eight The 1st VIlI began its summer training at Cambridge fo r the last week of the Easter holidays. We were grateful once again to the Jesus College Boat Club, and pa~ticularly to its Captain, for their laVIsh hospitality and for the use of their excellent faclillles. It was good to see M. O'K. Webber looking largel: than ever and no w a Blue. The VI!! impro ved rapIdly dunng the week, wh Ich was enjoyable both on and off the w.ater- It s amazing what a fair and a few dod gems WIll do !- and they dId some very good t llnes over short distances. On the Saturday they entered Senior "C" VilIs at HammersmIth Regatta, but were beaten by a th ird of a length over a mi le by an ex perienced Tideway crew frOm Poplar, Blackwall and Distr ict R.C. On~e again the peculiar sk ills and knowledge needed for racing on the Tideway made us feel like coun try bumpkll1s!

There was a four- weck break before the next regatta, during which the term's main interval a nd land training took place. This was badly ha mpered, however, by the lack of water at Pluck' s Gutter and mud-pushing proved to be a poor substi tute for oar-pull ing. We were only able to row in eights once in some of the weeks, so that it was particularly enjoyable a nd useful to have our a nnual "friendly" races with U ni versity College School at Richmond, though the occasion mad~ the crc",:,'s compa.rative unfitness clear. The r~cing spirit was certainly there, though, a nd It was eVIdent agall1 a few days later at Tonbndge, where three crews went for a day's racing. Twickenham was the next public regatta and here the VIII acquitted itself very well in Senior "C" VIlIs. It beat Kingston Granunar School by two lengths and 111 fine style in the first round, but was beaten by a quarter of a length by Kingston R. C. in the semifi na l, when the crew suddenly and belatedly realised the effect of the staggered start. The same attack and determination were to be seen at Walton Rc.gatta a ror~n i ght l ate~, a lthough they were beaten by a strong St. George's College, Weybndge, crew 111 the semIfinal. The fo llowing week-end presented an ent irely new kind of challenge in the National Schools' Regatta, which took place at the new international rowing course at Nottll1gham. Pangbourne's charm and four-lane racing have been replaced by tbe Impersonal efficIency of a six-lane international course, with times measured electromcally to a hundredth of a second . The new venue caused a smaller entry than normal, though a ll the best crews were there and the standard was as high, or higher, than ever. The VIII came fifth III its heat fighting U.C.S. and Winchester ad mirably, though they were all convincingly beaten by Monmouth School and Rad ley. The repechage, which took place a couple of hours later a nd on the same day as having travelled up from Canterbury between 6.00 a:m. and midday, was a disappointment. The VIII rowed well and looked very good agamst Pangbourne and Winchester, but the day's exertions had really removed any cha nce of winning and qualifying for the final. In both races the VIII led fo r the first five hundred metres and showed themselves to be in the class, but perhaps no more. Next year we shall t.ravel up the day before and once again try to adjust our sights upwards. 176

Although the season may not appear to have been very successful , it was a happy and skilful crew that was fun to coach. It owed much to the efficiency a nd cheerful captaincy of Marcus Sephton and to the excellent coxing of James Rankin, who has promised not to grow before next year. Overall the crew's performance was very creditable when one considers the handicaps under which the Boat Club suffered this year. G.G.B.

Colts' "A" Eight Like the 1st Eight, the Colt s' crew had some ollti ngs at Cambridge before the beginning oftenn. Boating from The Leys School boatho use, the founda tions were laid in almost ideal circumstances. Sadly the first series of races, aga inst U.C.S. at Richmond , provided no real opposition and when the crew went to Putney to race the Westminster Colts two were ill and one was away o n a course. Even so the races were evenly divided. Howev~r , both .these trips indicated that the po tential was considerable. A number of large and talented oarsmen In the middle of the boat provided the solid base and gave full scope fo r the inspired rowing that emerged at Thames Ditton . The first three races at Thames D itton were all c1ose-a canvas, a few feet and two feet. The final of the event, the Novices, was rather easier and won by two lengt hs. At Twickenham the next week the Colts' cup was won, not qu ite so easily, but convincingly enough. It seemed that , having beaten SI. George's, Weybridge, the Co lts' "A" crew were capable of great things. At Walton Regatta, however, opposition from Marlow Rowing Club was too st rong and we went to Nottingham wit h high hopes but not quite the flair there had been. In the event, the crew didn't race anyt hing like as well as it was capable of doing. We came third in our repcchage and so were without a place in the fina l. The last regatta , at Kingston, provided a win over Westminster Colts by three feet before we succumbed to a powerful crew from Poplar and Blackwall . Two fac tors ~ont~i b ll te towa rds a fast c::rew : good bladework and a raci ng spirit. Both were there in some measure In tIllS crew and the augul'lCS for next year are good. P.J.D.A.

Colts "B" Eight The earlier part of the term was inalispiciOl!s in its results; after a long o ut ing with Westminster at Putney the VIlI competed unsuccessfull y in l \ 's at Thames D itton and as an VIII at Twickenham. But thi s all provided useful racing experience which enabled the stern IV to win the Colt s' event at Medway Towns Regatta . This victory gave extra confidence 10 the crew who arri ved in good form at the six-lane course at Nott ingham for t~e Nat ional Schools' Regatta. After a defeat in their first race by Eton and Rad ley they had.merely to finIsh in the first four crews of their repechage to gain a place in the final. This they did , leavmg St. Edward 's well behind and , by a splendid series of attacks. overtaking Cheltenham and very nearly Shrewsbury as well. Mter a desperate struggle along the enclosures the latter held them off by two fect. Alt hough the final was dominated by Elon and two Radley crews the excitement was undiminished for our crew since, after finding themselves last at one stage, they once again rowed past Cheltenham and gained sweet revenge o n Shrewsbury to gain fourth place. Much credit must go to stroke and cox for coaxing such a fine performance out of the crew. The term ~nded on a very satisfactory 110te with a win in the Novice IVs at Kingston Rcgatla. The crew had tramed admirably hard and had perfected their tactics for the 800 metre course. In the semi-final they defeated Molesey after a rather nervous row, but in the final they pulled o ut all the stops to beat Kingston by one length o n their ho me water. S.W.W.

Junior Colts' Eight The Junior Colts showed much promise this yea r, mastering basic techniques quick ly, and forming themselves into a friend ly. good-natured crew who worked well together. Perhaps best of all , they deve10ped great determ ination to fight every race right to the end. 177

This showed in the l V's racing agai nst Tonbridge, where they beat all except one of the Crews they mel. In VIlIs the crew lost- by a narrow margin- to U .C.S. a nd Tiffin; more a result of nervousness and lack of confidence th an lack of skill. They then won each of t hree rows agains t St. Paul's in a most convincing way, and one of the I Vs won the Junior Colts' Cup a t the Medway Towns Regatta. At Nottingham the pro.b.lem or nevc~ having raced six abreast became obvio lls in the first rOl.md; the I'epechage was a most excltlllg race- Wmehester kep t half a lengt h ahead, and the Hampton JUnior Colts just managed to push King's down to thi rd position by a fraction of a second. S.J .G., M.J .V.

The Crews J.R.W.Ellis,bow; M.W.Lancy,2; G . C.Olcott,3; M. S.Sa llst rom,4; M.C.G. Lane,5; C. A. C. Quested, 6; M. J. d'A. Sephton, 7; T. D. Townsend, stroke; J. S. Rankin, cox. CoLTS' "A" VIII: J. C. Kingsman, boll'; R. P. Yonge, 2; R. C. A. Miles, 3; N. E. Cheese, 4; M. E. D. Pretty, 5; A. J. Daines, 6; A. D. Mathers, 7; R. M. Iron, stroke; D. R. W. Jayne, cox. COLTS' " B" VIIT : C. M. Foale, boll'; S. P. Bowers, 2; P. J. Phillimore, 3; R. J. G. Fox, 4; W. P. T· Haydon, 5; M. D. Croft, 6; N. J. Boulter, 7; J. W. M. Hall, stroke; J. B· Hosk ing, cox. S. G. N icho ll , bow; A. Y. D. Moss, 2; J. M Maxey, 3; P. B. Marshall, 4, JUNIOR CO LTS' J. J. Wilmshurst, 5; P. J. Madeley, 6; R. P. Mil ls, 7; J D C. Cunie, stlOke' VIII: D. J. G. Partridge, cox. C. M. Foale, bow; R. J. G. Fox, 2; J. Q. C. MacBain, 3; M. F. Whitby, stroke; TH E KI NGSTO N J. n. Hosking, cox. NOVICE IV: I STVIIJ:

Fordwich Rowing Rowing at Fordwich has been undermined this term by the abno rma lly low water level in the ri ver. It soon became apparent that a river six inches deep was no use fo r blades seven inches wide, a nd there were many unavoidable times whe .... no boat ing was pos~i blc. The water level rose towa rds the ef!d of the term because the weeds grew so vigorously, bu t they d id not actually leave much room for rowmg! T he lack of water was ('ven mo re ev ident at Pluck's G utter, so that the eights had to boat hurriedly as and when they could. The days of leisurely double-sh ift out ings at Pluck's Gutter !:.eem to have gone, which means all the sen ior boys from the eights were trying to coach all their houses at the same time: there simply aren't enough boats or river for th is to happen, so that t he a mount of coaching of junior boys has been lower than in former yea rs. Thi s is a n alarmi ng trend, as the eights obviollsly need the back ing of a ll the house oarsmen to achieve an y kind of strengt h in depth. Despite all the drawbacks, however, there has been a lot of good rowing at FOl'dwich this term. Linacrc won the Senior House Fours and the "B" Fours Competition. Luxmoore won the "A" Fo Ul's and the standa rd of the "e" Folll's was, surpri si ngly, higher tha n last year. The win ning crew from Grangecoached by Peter Will is-was closely fo llowed by Walpole and the overall level of the lower-placed crews was better than recently, which was very encouragi ng. Grange's success prompts the question "When d id a "C" Four last win which wasn't coached by Peter Willis?" The Scu lling competitions also saw some good racing: S. H. Ratcliffe na rrowly beat Quested in the Whalley Cup, R . P. Yonge won t he Gard'.lcl' Cup a nd J. P. Armitage won thc Novice's Cup. The Carden Cup, which is presented to the House which has made the la rgest contribution to the eights in the season, was presented to Galpin's, who had no fewel than four in the First Eight. Once again we are grateful to Mr. Wilkinson, who was helped this year by Mr. Griffin, fOl organising all the racing and rowing at Fordwich. Michael Robinson and his assistant Boa t Ma l'~h ~ ls kept the ~~y to-day llmning welluudef control , but o ur warmest thank s go, as always, to Peter Willis: Ills ul1fmlmg efficiency and good humour and his superb craft smanshi p, which kecps every thin g working, makes one realise that we can survive wit hout wa ter belter than we cou ld without him! G,G,B,

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ATHLETICS Retrospect I n many ways, this has bee n perhaps the bes t season I can remember. Aft er a successful Sports. the Senior tea m went on to prove pro bably the best for at least eight years. It was unbeaten until the las t fixture, and many outstanding performances a nd records were achieved. Eleven other schools were beaten, including Eastbollrne a nd Dulwich; three Kent Schools titles were won, and S. Osborne went on to reprl'sen t Kent at the National Schools At hletics Championsh ips in Cheshire, where he was placed fifth in the Seni or Javelin , with a th row of 54Âˇ24 met res (J 84 ft. 6 in.). Osborne's throwi ng was the outstanding feature of the season, but he was well supported by our best spri nters for years in K. Nu lman and C. Britten; good middle-distance performers in N. Platts-Martin and Y. Kalfayan; solid distance men in W. Duggan, P. Smit h and R. Sayers; so und hurdl ing from C. Ware; fine triple-jumping from Y. Ka lfayan: a nd the usual high-quality throwing from S. Isacke and C. Tate. Only in the Long Jump, where the standard was a little below top-class, and High Jump , where it was considerably so, were there weaknesses. Other schools had tbei r stars, but on ly Duke of York's and Du lwich had simila r depth. The Under-17 team was not quite so successfu l, but it, too, won IllOSt of its matchts. The lead ing performers: were K. Newman, G. Gherson, E. Rogans a nd R. Wi lliams wbo, with severa l others, show great prom ise. It was also good to see a num ber of Under-iS's working away. We have been able to give them some competition this season, and next year should see a number of them in the tca m. It is essent ia l, especially in tech nique events, like jumps and throws, for athletes to have early and continuous coaching. One disappoi ntment at the start of the season was to find that two or three boys, on whom much coaching time had been spent, had decided no t to cont inue with athletics. T his is their choice, of course, but it does prcsent serious problems to those t rying to ma intain a high standard in a majo r school spo rt. It is hard not to fee l that such boys have some obligation to the Clu b. Another unsatisfactory aspect of the season, unfortunately, was the faci lities. Bob Jordan did his best for us, and we were grateful to him. But he had many d ifficulties. As a result, fo r a good part of the term, it was impossible fo r us to train reall y thorough ly. Despite these d ifficulties, however, it has been an enjoyable and successful season. Thanks are due to the coaches, Messrs. Milner, Trapp and Sugden, who have put in a great deal of work. S. Isacke and Y. Kalfayan have been very good as Captain and Secretary respectively. By thei r hard work, and example in compet iti on, they have done much to help maintain the standa rd and reputation of the Club. D.J.R.

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Match Reviews

KS,C. v R.M,S, Dover (Home) (May 12th)

SENIORS: K.S.C.,77; R.M.S., Dovel', 66 JUNIORS: R.M.S., Dover, 82;; K.s.C.,60,

Tn the Senior match we were sadly outclassed in the sprints with our opponents only dropping one poi nt. However, this was made up for in the middle and long di stance events where we ga ined max imum points through Platts-Ma rtin, Sayers, Kalfayan and Duggan. In the throws we gained 1st and 3rd place in each event with Osborne winning both the javeli n a nd the shot. In the Junior match we were thoroughly beaten, gai ning only three Ists throughou t. N('wman won bo th the Hurdles and the Tr iple Jump- bo th good performances. Our lack of class in the throws was shown up where we obtained minimum points. t 79

K.S.C. v Eastbourne v St. Edmund's (Home) (May 26th) SENIORS: K.S.C., 123; Eastbourne, 96; S1. Edmund's, 65 J UNIORS: Eastbourne, I I I; K.S.C., 108 ; St. Edmund's, 69 T he Seni ors produced a very good all-round team performance and emerged as comfortable victors in the end. To o ur surprise we won both the sprints. Nutman recorded t 1·2 sees. in the 100 Metres, thereby equalli ng the record. and Britten won the 200 Met rcs. Platts-Martin won the 400 Metres and 800 Met rcs_ bot h in good times. In the throws we were at our ~t and we only dropped one point. Osborne WOIl all

three events and Isacke and Tatc backed him up ably. Two Juniors competing as Seniors broke school records, Smith the Middle 1500 Metres record with 4 mins. 2 1·8 sees. a nd Williams hi s own Junior High Ju mp record. In the Relay, our team broke a long-standing record with a time of 45·5 sees. T he Juniors produced a much improved performance and only lost to Eastbomne by 3 points. Lake a nd G herson both did well and Newman yet aga in won the H urdles and T ri ple Jump. Compared to previous years the throws were not good, even though C1fev ie won the Shot. As in the Sen ior match our Relay team broke the record, wit h 4? ·7 sees.

K.S.C.

King's School, Rochester (Away) (June 2nd)

SENIORS : K .S.C.,78; K .S., Rochester, 64 JUNIORS : K.S.C.,93; K.S., Rochester, 50 In the Sen ior match we o nly ga ined two firsts on the track through Britten and Platts-M artin. However, this was made up for in the t hrows where we obtained maximum points through Osborne, lsacke, Tale a nd Hu nter. On the whole a rather uneventful match. The Juni ors thoroughly beat their opponents, only droppi ng one first place in the process. Lake completed a fi ne treble by winning both spri nts and the Long Jump. Robinson also broke the Middle Shot record, with 11 ·43 metres.

Kent Schools' Championships (June 9t h) Following many successes in the District Sports on May 19th, several a thletes competed for the first time in these championshi ps, and we had three individual winners. Osborne won the U ndcr-20 Javelin, setting a new school record in the process. Kalfayan won the Under-20 Triple Jump, fa ili ng to break the record by 1 cm. Smith won the Under-I ? 3000 Metres and other good performances were achieved by Newman and Gherson.

K.S.C.

Dulwich

Highgate (Away)

(J une 5th)

SENIORS: K .S.C., 116; Dulwich, 112; H ighgate, 73 JUNIORS: Highgate, 112; K.S.C.,86; Dulwich,8 1 In th is match we probably had o ur best win of the season. Dulwich produced a very good team, but in the end we scraped home victors by 4 points. Smith established a new 3000 Metres record with 9 mins. 15·5 sees. and other firs t places were gained by Kalfayan, Osborne and Isacke. In the J unior match we were sound ly beaten by H ighgate, but there were some good ind ividual pcrfonnances. especially from G herson and Newman. 180

K.S.C.

St. Edmund's (Away)

(June 12t h) SENIORS: K.S.C., 78; S1. Edmund's, 64 J UNIORS; K.S.C.,88; St. Edmund's. 54 In the Senior match Nutman and Britten both clocked 11路1 sees. for the 100 Metres, thereby establishing a new record. Platts-Martin a nd Kalfayan both ga ined two victories and all the second strings performed adm irably. In winning the Javelin, Osborne threw 60路62 metres, which beat hi s own record by a considerable distance. The Juniors had a comfortab le win with Ghcrson performing especially well. Scott-Marcy produced a much improved throw to win the Javelin.

K.S.C.

St. Lawrence College (Away)

(June 16th) SENIORS: K.S.C.,83; St. Lawrence, 59 J UNIORS: K.S.C.,90; S1. Lawrence, 51 In the Seniors we had yet another com fo rtable win. Barnard produced alII' one and o nly High Jump victory of the year and other firsts were ga ined by Platts-Martin, Sayers, Kalfayan, Osborne and Isacke. The Juniors were met with litt le opposition. Oherson and Rogans both recorded two victories and Scott-Mo rey yet again produced a good throw in the Javelin. Williams broke his own Junio r High Jump record with an impressive jump of 1'59 metres.

Duke of York's Cup at R.M.S. Dover (June 30th) Although we fa iled by thrce points to retain the cup, we put up wha t was probably our best performance of the season. Nutman and Britten both performed well in the sprint s. Platts-Martin, a lthough running weB could not manage more than a third and a fourth. Duggan won the Steeplechase with Chalkley a good second. fn the Triple Jump, Kalfayan finally broke the record with a fine jump of 13路29 metres. It was in the throws, however, that we excelled, where we dropped only two points. Osborne won the Javeli n, came second in the Shot and wo n the " n" string Di scus. Isacke won the Discus and also the "8" st ring Long Jump. Tate performed well in both the JaveliJl and the Shot. T he Relay tcam aga in broke the record with 45路2 secs. However, our perfor1llance was not quite good enough to wi n the cup, which proves that only a nearly fault less performa nce is good enough in this type of competit ion.

SPORTS After a wet morning thc rain stopped just before the Sports started and the afternoon slowly improved. As might be expected, most competitors were well below their best fOrIll so soon aftcr the beginning of term but there were a number of good performances and competition for the House Athletics Cup was keen and close throughout. In the Seni or events, S. White-Thomson (M) showed surpri sing speed to win both the 100 Metres and 200 Metres from Britten (S.H.) a nd N utman (M.O.). His time of 11'2 sees. in the 100 Metres equalled the School record and considering the conditions this was probably the best performance of the afternoon. Ware (M.O.) showed good style in the Hurdle event, Platts-Martin (S.H.) was not hard-pressed in the 400 Metres and Sayers ran well to win the 800 Metres and 1500 Metres. Standards in the field events were predictably fa irly Iowan sllch an afternoon but Isackc's SllCcesses in High Jump and Disclls looked encouraging. Tn the Middle age-group R. Marshall (Gal.) showed his versatility by winning the 400 Metres, the 800 Metres and tak ing second place in the 1500 Metres which was won by 1). Smith (Or.) in a time which was almost 14 seconds faster than the Senior event. In the sprints Newell finished well to beat Lake in t h~ 100 Met res and Gherso n ran a good 200 Metres. Newma n (Lx.), a most promi sing young athlete, gamed three fi rsts, Hurd les, Long Jump and Triple Jump. T he throws were do minated by Carevic (W) And Maxey (M.O.). The Junior field events were held bcfore the S port ~ a nd the most notable pe rformanc ~

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came from Wi lli ams (M.O.) who cleared 5 n. Lo seL up a new Junior H igh Jump record .. ~~obi nson (W) won bot h Shot and Discus and should do well in the futu re' with mo re coach ing. O ther prOlnlsmg youngsters include I rwin (Li n.) with successes in 100 Metres and Hurd les, Orbach (S .H.) who won the 400 Metres and 800 Metres, and Barlow (Gr.) who too k the Long Jump and 200 M etres. . Co mpet ition for the Athletics Cup was close with G ran ge fi nally victo rious after winn mg the Senior Relay from Li nam,;- and Meister Omers. M.E.M.

SPORTS RESULTS Senior Events 100 METRES.- I White-T homson (M); 2, Britten (S. Ii .); 3, Nu tman (M .a.). TI:me: 1l·2 sees. 200 METRES.- l ' Wh ite-Thomson (M); 2, Bri tten (S.H .); 3, Nut man (M. a .). Time:. 24 '1 sees. 400 METREs.- l : Plaus-Martin, N . (S.H .); 2, Kalfaya n (G r.); 3, Donaldson (W~. TUlle: .55'3 secs. 800 METRES.- I, Sayers (Lin.) ; 2, Platts-Martin , N. (S.H.); 3, Dugg~n (Lx.). Tllne: 2 111m. 11·3 sees, 1500 METRES.- I, Sayers (Lin.); 2, Gent (Lin.) ; 3, Dugg~n (Lx.). Tune: 54'4 secs . . H URDLES ( 110 M ETREs).- I, Wa re (M.O.); 2, Coste1oe (Lm.); 3, Hadfield (M.O.). Tillie: 16·2 sces. WEIGHT.- I, Taylor, P. R. (Lin .); 2, Tate (Gr.); 3, Macdonald (M.a .). Distance : 10 ·67 metres. Dlscus.- I, Isacke (G r.); 2, Hunter (Lin.) ; 3, Noble (M) .. Distall.ce : 30'8 metres. JAVEUN.- I, Tate (Gr.) ; 2, Greaves (M .a.); 3, Hunter (Lin .). DI~tallce : 36 ·9 metres. . . HIGH JUMP.- l , Isacke (G r.) ; 2, Finn (Gr.); 3 (equal), Ban nan (Lm.) and Edmund-Jones (Ga \.). Helghl.

L~N~·J~~n~._I, Kalfayan (Gr.) ; 2, Haswell (Ga\.); 3, yvhite--Thom~n (M), Dis/ali ce: 5·59 metres. TRIPLE JUMP.- I, Haswell (Ga!.); 2, Jsacke (Gr.) ; 3, Fmn.(Gr.). DlSlallc~: 1 t '92 met res. RELAY (4 x t OO METRES).- l , Grange; 2, Lmacre ; 3, Mei ster Omers. Tllne: 49·2 sees. M iddle Events 100 M ETRES.- I, Newell (W) ; 2, Lake (M .a.); 3, Bowen (GaL). Time :' 12·4 ~ees . 200 MSTREs.- I, G herson (Li n.) ; 2, P unwar (Lx.); ~, Lak e (M.a.) . Tllne: 2~ '1 sees. 400 METRES.- I, Marshall, R. (GaL); 2, G~e~son (Lm.); 3, Punwar (Lx). Ti me: ?O'4 sees. 800 M ETRES.- I, Marshall , R. (Ga!.); 2, G lrIlIl g (W); 3, Doyle (GaL). Tune: 2. mm. 1 7'~ secs. 1500 M ETRES.- I, Smith , P . (Gr.) ; 2, Marshall , R. (GaL); 3, Moore (M.O.). Tlln~: 4 mm . 40 6 secs. H URDLES (100 Mh"TRES).- I, Newman (Lx.); 2, YOlmg.(S.H .) ; 3, Pl~ nwar (Lx .). Tllne:. 17·2 sces. WEIGI'IT.- I, M axey (M .a .); 2, Carev Ic (W); 3, Morns (M.a.). D!stullce: 10·84me.ll es. Dlscus.- I, Carevic (W); 2, Young (S.H .) ; 3, Mu! ler-der (Gr.), .D lstallce : 24·8 ~etl es. JAVELlN.- l , Ca revic (W) ; 2, Maxey (M.a.) ; 3, G U'lmg (W). Dlstallce :. 33·2 metles. HIGH J UMP.- I, Olcott (G al.); 2, MOllnt (Gr.); 3, Corbett (M .O.). f!el/{ht: 5 ft. . LONG J UMP .- I, Newman (Lx.) ; 2, Lake (M.O.); 3, Camburn ( Lx.) . D" stallce : 5·32 met les. T RIPLE JUMP.- l , Newman (Lx.) ; 2, Rogans (Ga L); 3, New~l1 (W). !?,stallCe: 11·06 metres. RELAY (4 x 100 M ETRES).- I, Luxmoo re; 2, Wa lpole ; 3, Lmacre. Tllne: 50 ·6 sees. Junior Events 100 M ETRES.- I, Irwin (Li n.) ; 2, Nicholl (Lin.) ; 3, Rat~1i ffe (S.H .) .. Tilli e:. 12·6 sees. 200 M ETRES.- l, Barlow (Gr.) ; 2, Marks (GaL); 3, Sm it h, A. R. (Lin.) .. TmlC : 27·5 sees. 400 M ETRES.- I, Orbach (S .H .) ; 2, HoweUs (S.H .); 3, Marks (Gal.). Tillie , 62·4 s«:s. 800 METRES.- I, Orbach (S.H .); 2, Buckledee (Gal.); 3, Rowla nd (Lx.). Tillie: 2 !'" n. 23·7 sees. HURDLES (100 M ETRES).- l, Irwi n (Lin.); 2, Battersby (M:O .); H udson (W) . Tune: 18·0 secs. WEIGHT.- l , R obinson (W); 2, Wells (W); 3, Lockycr (Lm.). Dlst~lIce: 11 metres. O lscus.- l , Robinson (W); 2, Lyons (M) ; 3, Trotlsdell (M.O.). Dlsta!lce: 27·4 metres. JAVEUN.- I, Dawes (M. a.) ; 2, Orbach (S.H .); 3, Mu llender (G,...). D,stallce: 3 1 '~ metres .. HIGH J UMP .- l , Will iams (M. a .); 2, Bates (W); 3 (equal), Dh illon (Lx.) and Smi th, A. (Lm.). Height: 5 ft . (Record). LONG J UMP.- l, Barlow (G r.); 2, Sm ith, A. ( Lin .); 3, Ma rks (GaL). Distallce: 5·42 metres.

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Athletics Cup (First 5 places) I Grange 138 points; 2, Linacl'e , 124! poin ts; 3, Meister Omcrs, 123 poi nts ; 4, Walpole, 90 points; , 5, School HOllse, 86 points.

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THE FENCING CLUB Du ri ng the holi days .six members of the Club, Mike Allen, James Sha rp, Nick Bane, Mark Ellis, Anthony Carter a nd M ike Newsam took part in the Public Schools' Championships. Bane reached the Foil fi nal an d the re~t , some gett ing to the semi-finals, did well enough for the team to be awarded the Pearson Trophy. T hiS was a fine effort as we have not held th is cup since 1966. Also wor! hy of note was P iers Baker'S achievement in the County Epee Championships, where competing against Semor fencers he reached the fi nal pool and finally gained thi rd place. Some familiar faces were missing from the O.K.S. team this year but the match was as excit ing and enjoyable as ever. In fact it could not have been closer. The School tea m won the Foi l 5-4 and the O.K.S. levelled the score by taki ng the Epee 5- 4. I n the Sabre even t with each tca m having won four bou ts, the result of the match dependcd on the last hit, which was won for the O.K.S. by Richard Bird. T he usual supper party brought the day to a fittin g conclusion, T h i~ term we say farewell to M ike Allen who has been an o ut sta nd ing Capta in of Fencing, our ViceCapta m, Ja mes Sharp, Secretary Ma rk Ellis a nd Ma rk Harrold . T hey have given the Clu b splendid service and we wish them every success in the future, and hope to see them in the O.K.S. tea m next year. O.K.S. Mateh S chool Team: Macfarla ne and O.K.S. Team: Result : School,

M. G. T. Allen (Ca pta in), J . S. Sharp, C. M. D . Ell is, A. J. Ca rter, N. C. Ba ne, A. E. P. H. B. Baker. R. Bi rd (Capta in), A. Bird , C. N . Wood a nd J. K . Eden. 13; O.K.S., 14. M. E.M.

GOLF CLUB We were not able to equa l last year's unbeaten record in matches but I think that it is true to say that the Clu b is flourishing. Thcre is always a fairly long waiting list for Juni or Membership at Canter bury and amongst a gro up of keen younger members there are several who show di stinct promise. The most impo rta nt dates on the calendar a re the I nter-Ho use, the O.K .S. Cup, the Kent Schools' Championship a nd recent ly the AER Li ngus Schools' Championship. At the I nter-House Competition we were delighted to welcome the Headmaster and Mrs. Newell to Princes when Mrs. Newell presen ted the Cup to G al pin 's, winners for the second year r unning and fi ttingly represented by the Captain and Secretary o f Oolf. T he turn-ollt fo r the O.K.S. Cup was splendid- 28 i rom K ing's and 11 from the loca l membership. T he winner was a loca l member who returned a n excellent 47 gross for 12 holes. Our thanks to Richard Young, i/c Jun io r Section, for organisation and to Geoffrey Brealy, Captain o f the O.K.S. Golfi ng Society, fo r aga in com ing over to present the trophy and genero us p rizes of golf balls. We fa iled sadly to win the regional q uali fying round of the AER Lingus at the Nevill but recorded 79 and 81 to finish fo urt h in the Kent Schools at St. Au gustine's. Here, G ravesend School won for the thi rd successive year with a brilliant 71 a nd 76. In the matches aga inst St. Lawrence, o ne was d rawn and another lost with a depleted side, but Ba rrow and Downie bot h made their mark with hard-fought victories. T he new fix ture with Cranleigh was a great Sllccess at least from the social point of view, a nd the magnificent high tea served to us. Those who played wi ll not forget the challenge of this course and its beautiful setti ng nor, I imagine, it s treacherous heat her. The result is perhaps better fo rgotten- we met a much stronger team. To conclude I would li ke to thank MI'. a nd Mrs. Young and Mr. and Mrs. Alcott for thei r inva lua ble help at Princes, bid fa rewell to some veterans of the Clu b-Kilbee, Morga n, !sacke and Quested, and say how much I appreciate the assistance given in transport by P,O. W., H.E. J.A., and A.W.O. J J .D.C .

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TENNIS It is doubtful if King's ten nis has ever had a better season than this one. For several years, a genera tion of capable players had been working their way up the Schoo l, and by now had rcached the 1st VI' simultaneously, we were lucky enough to acquire onc of Maryland's better juniors, Milo Coerpcr. M ilo proved to be an outstandingly good team man , as well as a player of adult techn ique and accomplishment and his part nership with the ferociously~hitt i ng Peter Sterck (himself a much improved player) yielded no fewe r t han 27 rubbers without a defeat in friend ly matches for our 1st pai r. Their only losses, in fact were in the Kent Final of the Glanvi Jl Cup, when both t hey and the team were beaten by the very pro: fess ional opposi tion of Eltham and Sevenoaks. In fact, apart from t he G lanvill Cup, the 1st VI lost on ly once, late in the season a nd wi th a weakened side to St. Edmund's in a si ngles match. Eye-catching though the first pair were, almost as much was owed to the ma ny victories of o ur 2nd pa ir, Adam Darker and Michael Donaldson , who bot h played wit h great determination and stead iness, a nd wit h an intelligen t sense of what composes good doubles tactics. O ur 3rd pa ir, too, Peter T heokritoff and Dill Selwyn, played some accomplished tenni s, whilst we were lucky to have such strong reserves as Alan Dawes, Richard Staveley and Charles Haddon-Cave. T hough victories over Tonbridge, Dulwich, Eastbourne a nd K.C.S . made the season memorable, just as strik ing was t he enormous quanti ty of tennis that was played by boys of all stand ards on the School courts especially in the first half of term. Their access to the courts, and consequent weight of numbers ensured that Luxmoore reta ined the House League, but Marlowe and Meister Omers chased them bravely; Luxmoore also beat Meister Omers in the full Inter-House Competition. Our one regret was that at the cnd of the season rain cut short what promised to be an excellent match wit h the O.K.S., to whose players we sha ll hope to offer a drier welcome next year. I should li ke to thank Mr. Wenley and Mr. Dee fo r the help they've given in sustaining the burgeoni ng task of administering School tennis at cl ub and team level. Apart from the 1st VI, named above, the following regularly represented the School:2"d VI: A. L. Dawes, R. W. Staveley, C. A. Haddon- Cave, G. C. Hughes, W. J. Hughes, R. W. Fidao, P. J. Wagstaffe. CoIlS' VI : M. C. Greaves, D. N. Hopk ins, A. T . McD. Ca irns, R . F . Bayliss, J. K. Pattinson, B. C. Judd . After term ended, the 1st I V d id notably well in the Public Schools' Youll Cup at Wimbledon, reaching the last 16 with a 2- 0 win over Epsom and then defeat ing the Kent champions, Eltham College, 2- 1. In th is latter match, Coerper and Donaldson played impressively to defeat Agar and Harri ngton, one of Kent's best young pairs, 6-0, 6-3, and Coerper beat Agar 6-2, 6-3, in the decid ing singles. A q uarterfin al against Bolton, the eventual Youll Cup winners. followed and in this bot h o ur first and our second pairs had oppo rtunities of winning a set, but neither could manage to cl inch one. RESU LTS

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1st VI I'Tonbridge. Won 5--4 v Chatham T.H.S. (Glanvill Cup, Rd. I ). Won 3- 0 I' Sevenoaks "AU. Won 5l-3t v Dulwich. Won 6!-2, I' 81. Lawrence. Won 8t-t V Eltham 0-3; v Sevenoaks 0-3; v St. Ed mund's 2- 1 (Kent F inal, Glanvill Cup) I' The Common Room. Drawn 4t---4! I' Simon Langton. Won 6-3 v Eastbourne. Won 5-4 I' Kent College. Won 7t-H v K.C.S., Wimbledon. Won 5-4 I' St. Edmund's. Won 6- 3 v Dover College. Won 6!- 2t I' St. Ed mund's (singles). Lost 5- 7

2nd VI v Tonbridge. Drawn 3-3 v Sevenoaks 3rd. Won 7- 2 v Dulwich. Won 5!-3, v St. Lawrence. Won 8-1 I' The Common Room. Won 7t-H v Simon Langton, Won 6-3 v St. Augustine's Abbey 1st. Lost 3!v St. Edmund's. Won 3!-2! Colts' VI v Tonbridge. Lost 3!-5, I' Dulwich. Lost 4-5 v Eastbourne (one pair). Lost 1- 2 II Dane Court T.H.S. Won 6!- 2t " R.M.S., Dover. Won 5!-3! II Dover College. Won 8- 1

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BASKETBALL CLUB This has been a splendid s~ason for the C lub. All the matches of the first team have been won except for t,he first one versus J U~lor Leaders. When we met them at the first malch, Junior Leaders, this year s current. Army Champ lon.s, gave us a good display of how Basketball shou ld be played, and we all learne~ from It: What a pulsa!lOg game ~he return match proved to be! We took an early lead and hung on to. It, sometimes by two pomls, sometimes by one, and we fina lly emerged victors by 46-42. ThiS year the C lu b h~s been for~unate to have strength in depth and there has been plenty of competition :?r places: T.~e attraction of playmg only three times a week, and Saturday off to enable the coach to go Ha>:ma~ mg ,proved .g~eat, an~ many had to be turned away . We were very fortunate th at we were able to brmg III some promlsmg Ju ni ors. The fi rst team was ~ui1 t around three regular members of last year's group. Of the forwards Lee Cann ing was one of the most Improve~ players, bot h ,?n the fast brea k and hi s shooting. Tim Chant ler was-slow to sta~t, but lat,er retl!fIled to I11S old form. Michael Allen worked ha rd and showed improvement: though a little erratic at tllnes. We were very fortunate to have three aggressive backs. The main criticism of t~ese t hr~e was that t ~ey could have been more penetrating in their attack. R ichard Mansbridge, with h!s expenence. set DaVid Bowen and Philli p Sh~rrock a good example and they were q uick to learn from hlln. We shall be .very fortunate to have DaVid Bowen, the most improved player with us aga in next seaso? B!Jth DaVid Ma?tey and "Chip" D iggins pla>:ed for the first team. The for~er, when he learns to dn ve hlOlself hard , Will command a regular place III the team and the lattcr st ill a Jun ior promises well. ' ,I, In the Second team, well led by Nicholas van Drimmelen, the improvement after the fir st match when they only managed to score four baskets, was marked. ' My thanks $0 to t~e CaPtai,,!, R ichard Mansbridge, for setting such a high standard and for leading the t~am so well , III p~rtJcular dU~lOg the matches, and to all the members of the C lub who enjoyed it every bit as much as their "amateurish" coach d id. The fo llowing played:lSI T'!am: L. H.â&#x20AC;˘ Canni ng, DT. A. C hantlel', M. G. T. Allen, C. H. P. D'gg' ) C D I Ins , D . S . Maxey, R . W . M ans bn dge (Ca pam t , . . owen , P. G. Sho rrock. 2w"d T..Geam: N. A. G. va n Drimmclen (Capta in), W. Macdo nald, H . R. Bou lt bee, I. M. Cheshire, C . . . Neame. 1st Tea m II S1. Edmund's. Won 40-30 II Ju nior Leaders. Lost 14-27 v Junior Leaders. Won 46-42 II Royal Marines. Won 37- 6 II Simon Langton. Won 36- 15 I' American Visito rs. Won 21- 20 II Royal Marines. Won 43- 7

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I' St. Ed mund 's. Lost 8- 20 II Ju nior Leaders. Lost 8- 39 II Roya l Marines. Won 22- 0 v Simon La n~ton. Won 40-23 v Royal Man nes. Won 26--9 R.I. H.G.

Senior Inter-House Basketball In the ~nior House Basketball Competition, Marlowe, Meister Omers, Grange and School House all woI} thell' first round matches. I n the semi-fi nals, Meister Omers beat Marlowe by one basket during extra time and Grange were SllCCessfui aga in st School House. The final was .closel~ contested throughout and , despite the School team experience of some Grange players, at half-t une, With accurate shooting from Maxcy and Scott-Morey a nd good defensive play from ~h~rroc~, Macdona ld and St~rck. Meister Omers were th ree poin ts ahead . Aft er the interva l Mansbridge lalIJed IllS men and qra nge tncd desperately to get into the lead but the Meister Omers' team settled down to play steady, effect ive basketba ll a nd ra n o ut com forta ble winners by cleven poi nts.

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RESULT

Meister Omers, 26; Grange , 15 Teams Meister Omers: Maxey (16), Macdonald, Sholfock, Scott-Moley (10), Sterck, Ware, Cheekley. Grange: Mansbridge (2), Allen (4), Dlggms (6), Kal raya n, Chan tier (I), Isacke (2), Cheshire. M.E.M.

SWIMMING The Club's record this year has been moderately good with only one overall defeat in the season. This was against Dulwich and Highgate in a triangular ~ateh, both these schoo~s having good swimming !ecords and excellent indoor pools. The Club's strength thi s year has been due to Its depth of competent SWlOlffiers at both Senior and Junior levcls, a lthough unrortunately we had only rour swimmers in the Middles age group. The Junior team WOll all thei r matches whi le the Sen iors won all but three. The Middles, whilst losing most of their matches (only two were won) had extremely close results and all were hard-fought events. The Club should continue to be successrul next year as rew swimmers will be leaving the School. We will, however, miss o ur present Captain, W. ~. Pearson, whose standard of swimming has always been very high and who has done much to make thIS year's Club one or the best ro r the last rew years . RESULTS K.S.C., 131; R.M.S .. Dover, 119. Won. K.S.C., 116; Eastbourne,93. Won. K.S.C., 120; Sutton Valence, 60. Won. K .S.C.,97; Highgate, 121; Du lwich,108. Lost. K.S.C., 1&1; St. Lawrence College, 10&. Won. K.S.C., 100; Tonhri dge,81. Won. K.S.C.,123; Christ's Hospital, 75; Tonbridge,95. Won. K.S.C., ]51; R.M.S., Dover, 146; St. lawrence Co llege, 62. Won. Colours First Colours: W. J. Pea rson, C. E. H. Willis, N. H. Cain. Swimming Colollrs: A. P. Fi nn , P. C. L. Su ltan. Colts' Colollrs: B. M. H. Willis, P. R. Randall, 1. N. H. Dale, P. J. Scott.

New Records 4 x 331 Yards Freestyle Relay. School Team. 66'& secs. 200 Yards Freestyle. N . H. Cain. 140'& secs. 200 Yards Backstroke. W. J. Pearson. 151'5 sees. 4 x 331 Yards Individual Med ley. W. J. Pearson. 94·& sees. .100 Yards Backstroke. W. J. Pearson. 67'0 sees. 33+ Yards Backstroke. W. J. Pearson. 19·3 secs. MIDDLE: 100 Yards Breaststroke. P. R. Randa ll. 79·9 sees. JUN IOR: 331 Yards Butterfly. J. N. H. Oak. 20 'J sees. 661 Yards Freestyle. P. J. Scott. 3& '7 secs.

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C.C.F. NOTES ROYAL NAVY SECTION The Easter holidays saw six R.N. cadets at the enjoyable Adventurous Camp in Norway. Above average N.P. results were a lso made known, and G. D. Harris was awarded our newly-instituted prize ror the best overa~l.result. D. W. Nicoll WOIl the prize for the best result in the A.B. exam. This term has seen plenty of sa lling, and the Annual Inspect ion was aga in held at Westbere, where Air Commodore Seymour went afloat ror a short sa il. We have had visits from Captain Stevens, R.N., who advised about ten boys interested in a career in the Serviee; from Lt. Sessions, R.N., who lectured on hi s experiences as a glaciologist in Patagonia; and rrom various Officers and c.P.O.s rrom H.M.S . Pembroke. The latter was visited on Field Day and wc arc grateru l to Lt.-Cdr. Barber (First Lieutenant) for all the help he has given us. ' In the coming holidays, eight cadets are visiting Loch Ewe in Wester Ross for the Annual Camp, whilst three others are going on separate courses. This brings to an end my firs t year as Officer ilc, and I would like to thank Sub~Lt. Copeman and the N.C.O.s, especia lly c.P.O. Staveley, for all their hard work and assistance. SlaveJey is to be co ngratulated on his award or an R.N . University Cadetsh ip. D.J.R.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION The.re is rarely any difficulty in finding boys who are keen and wi lli ng to join an ard uous training expedition to Norway, or a camp with R.A.F. Germany, or a continuous gliding course, or, the highest or all perks, the flyin g scholarship training course. It is not difficult to find boys for a gliding weekend or a flying afternoon in Chipmunks but it is difficult to find boys who are keen and willing to stay on in the Section to act as N.C.O.s. Si nce our academic traini ng takes very nearly the minimum period or six terms this problem is going to be wi th us until a stronger feeling of gratitude for all the fun and experience develops in the senior boys, coupled with a desire to replace what they have taken out. We are there,fore very grateful for the help and interest given by Sgt. Ogilvy, who leaves us this term . The well~estabhshed firm of OgiIvy and Son has guided the Seetion splendidly and we sincerely hope that the tradition will be maintained. Seven cadets will be on gliding courses during the summer holidays at Manston or West Mailing, the two a irfields which sti ll provide our only sources or air experience. P.G.W.

ARMY AND BASIC SECTIONS The past term has been a particularly fu ll and varied one. The Annual Gencral lnspection was taken by Air-Commodore T. P. Seymour, C.B.E., M.B.I.M., who delighted us by his enthusiasm and informal approach. The emphasis was laid upon practical training, including '303 shooting, battle~craft techniques, an assault course, a signals exercise, a n initiative exercise and vario us methods or crossing water. Th is was closely rollowed by a night exercise and Field Day a ll a imed at improving the chances of cadets in their Apex Examination. At the same time the mo re bread~and-butter aspects of training have gone well and should go even better next tenn. We hope to bring the H.Q. Company group into being in September, inside which all aspects of senior tra ining will coa lesce, Commando , Signals and R.E.M .E. work , together with some Engineer instruction. Summer Camp this year wi ll be at Sennybridge, near the Brecon Beacons, and wc are hopi ng Ihat the weather will settle fair. Last Easter we went for our Adventurous Tra ining Camp to Norway as guests or The Roya l Norwegian A:rmy. This was a great success, enjoyed by all. Trai ni ng included cross~country skj~ing, snow~hole dIgging, mountain walking with a six-inch fall or snow in two hours, and a night in a snow-tent in the Romsdal behind Setnesmoen. A report appears elsewhere in th is issue by R. W. D. Staveley, o ur Cadet C.P.D. 187

Hearty congratulations to C.S.M. Oldfield and Sgt. Iron on their being aw~rdcd Army Scholarships, and man thanks to C.Q.M.S. Pollard for hi s ever-present help to Mr. Rccton In the matter of,the stores .Y t and to P W R Cnrpcntcr (oricnteer-in-chief) and A. 51. J. Drown for many sktlful hours an d cqUlpmen. ... . spent training OUf onentcers. T. D. W. FAHEY (Sgt.). Promotions during the term

To C.Q.M.S.: R. G. P. Pollard; to Sgt.: R. M. IrOil ; to Cpl.: A. R. Farrar, C. J. Roberts, R. H. W.J.R.H-S.

Windell ; to L/ep!.: D. C. Edwards, P. M. Seymour.

ACTIVITIES A f '( ow playa regular part in the School's week as an altern~tive to C.C.F. Each term, boys (node ~~ls)e~r~ asked to select six activities in orde~ of preferen~ from a list of ~ver forty. Most are placed in their first choice. and next term all are placed In one of theIr first three choIces.

Reports of this term's act iviti es from masters in charge include the fo llowing:Fishing: "Very good coarse fis hbilng.,in the Stom and lakes. The texture and l1avol1l' of the brown trout caught makes school food prefera e. Riding: "Nothi ng of much interest save my involuntary demonstration of the landing technique after fo rced ejection ." Judo: A list of injured. Swi mming: Heat ing of the Pool has made all the difference. Computing: The School's new Olivetti computer is now being lIsed not only by speciali st mathematicians. Ben~Rlngi n g: Beginners' classes.

Photography: An exhibition of work will be held in King's Week. Society lect ures have been reintroduced. Pottery: An exhibition of work will be held in King's Week. Drawing: Mainly architectlll'al, includir:'-g v i~its to William Holfo rd and Partners, and a detailed examination of their plans for parts of the Umverslty of Kent.

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are organisc.d by senior bIOys a Many of the boys have proved efficient and able IIlstructors. . wou com'!len p< looked after the Pottery group, and Jonathan RhlOd. the Drawmg group.

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THE O.K.S. TRUST The O.K.S . Trust continues with its activities to give help both to the School and to individuals as the need arises, and it might be useful at this stage to take a look back over the last seven years, and see what has been achieved. To deal with smaller sums first, five O.K.S. who had recently left were given help towards further education which they could not otherwise afford, with total sums ranging between £50 and £600. Four donations have been made to individuals connected with the School, for various reasons, the sums ranging from £5 to £425. The School has benefited by three major donations, and a number of medium and small ones. Pluck's Gutter was improved- the Trust's first disbursement of all- at a cost of £550, the O.K.S. Room was provided with everything except the fabr ic, for £1,045, and the first of three payments of £1,250 has been made for the improvements to the Pavil ion on Birley's. A photocopier for the Common Room, canoes for the C.C.F., and a new engine for the Boat Club coach's boat all cost smaller sums, and there have been some minor d isbursements to the School as well. A grant of £500 was made to Milner Court's appeal, to provide them with a better swimming pool and science facil ities, the Bursarshi p Society has been helped to the tune of £700, and a substantial contribution is being made to the fees of a boy still at the School. The finances of the Trust are so soundly run that, with all that expenditure, the invested capital sti ll stands at around £37,000, r,'-.J the annual income at present is about £2,400. At the end of seven years, the covenants of some O. K.S. contributors are fi nishing, while the majority have another three years to run. It is to be hoped, that with that record to look at, many other O.K.S. who have not so far contributed, will step in to take the place of those whose covenants are ending and who deserve the thanks of so many to whom they have helped to give financial assistance or better amenities. I will be glad to send a covenant form for your use. Friendly Lodge, Fordwich, Canterbury_

K. A. C. GROSS, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.

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O.K.S. NEWS It is not often that news from O.K.S. brings firstÂˇhand information of overseas events that for various reasons never completely get into the press. Dr. George Hamber (1946-52) writes from Burundi of the intertribal fighting- a liquidation which included the educated minority of the main tribe, the latter being 85% of the population- in which 100,000-200,000 died . Few were spared , whether doctors, priests nurses, students at university and secondary schools, merchants and craftsmen. For a while, Dr. Hambe; was the only registered doctor in an area with a population of over 700,000 people. We wish him continued safety in his courageous work.

Paul Horner (1937-41) is warmly co ngratulated o n hi s appoin tment as H .M . Ambassador to the Ivory Coast. Th is continues his career in the Foreign Office which ha s inc1uded responsibilities fo r security as well as diplomat ic matters. Late last year Sir John GuiIJum Scott (1 92 1- 29) earned a very honourable retirement from Secretary Generalship of the General Synod, having also been secretary of the Chu rch Assembly for 25 years. We hope he and Lady Scott will enjoy many more happy years. Bill Simpson (1929-32), recently public relat ions d irector RE.A., will in September become public relations consultant to the British Airways group . Bill, author, broadcaster and journa list, a fter a distinguished service in the R.A.F. in the last war, now steps further ahead. Dr. Michael Patterson (1948- 53), who is a general practit ioner with the South American Missionary Society in N. Argentina, with a "practice" of thousands of square miles, recently gave a talk to the parishioners of Herne Bay about his arduous work. We lea rn that R. C. Harris (1956-65), Dip. Est. Man ., A.R. l.e.S., is now with the Department of Public Works of Canada, in the canadian High Comm ission in London. Julian Delahay-Jones (1944-47) is now manager of the Cannon Street Branch of BarcJays Bank, bu t he find s time to serve on the Parish Council and enjoy act ively art and mu sic. Congratulations to Charles Meek, C.M.G. (1934-39) for, after some very distinguished years with the Civil Service in what is now Tanzania- which he recalled in a lecture to the Royal Commonwealth SOCiety- he is now Chairman of the White Fish Authority. It is interesting to note that this post was at one time held by a nother O.K.S., who, li ke Meek, was an ex-Colonial Civ il Servant. Richard Henderson (1958- 63) writes to say he has been appointed Private Secretary to the Governl?r or South Australia and welcomes a visit from any O.K.S. passing through Adelaide. We send congratulations . D. W. Ntehett (1938-42), after 24 years of commuting to London, bas now opened a s n~atl ga llery rol' pictures and ant ique prints in Ca nterbury. He enjoys the qu ietness of a Canterbury rcsldence.

ENGAGEMENTS Paul Jakeman (I 963- 67) is engaged to Nikola, dallghteror Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Lawrenso n or Bournemoulh.

MARRIAGES From Australia we are pleased to hear that Ivor G. Davics (1961 - 66) has married LorreUa Caryl Koch, eldest daughter of A. V. Koch of Moorabbin , Victoria. Congratulations a nd best wishes to Arthur Drcnnord (1917- 23) and Jane on reaching their ruby wedding. We wish them furth er happy years together.

BIRTHS To Simon Laine ( 1952- 56) and Christine (ll ee Leask) , a so n, Alexander Hugh.

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DEATHS It is sad to hear that Lieut.-Colollcl Geoffrey Strahan, C.LE., O.D.E. (1901- 06) d ied on the 7th Ju ly at Petworth. We send our deep sympath ies to Mrs. Strahan. Also of the death. or Canon A. L. Warner (1891 - 92), who died on February 22nd at Terringlon SI. Clement. We send our sincere condolences to his wife, son, daughter and grandch ild ren. We hear from Lieut.-Col~nel H. G. N . Leakey (1914- 18) of the death of Colonel W. S. Darroll (1905-08) and send our sympathies to his wife, son and grandchildren . Lieut.-Colonel Leakey recalls that he and Colonel Barroll were bot h in the R.I.A.S.C. and served together in Quetta before the last war.

The compiler of the O.K.S. News realises that there has been some delay in presentat ion of the news and wishes to apologise ror disappointment. He is, however, now catchi ng up on events.

CANTUARIAN LODGE No. 5733 At the Installation meeting held on the 26th April, 1973, J. F. Berry (M. and M.O. 1939-42) was appo inted Master or the Lodge, and the following were appointed to act as officers :J. C. A. Lock (M 1946- 50), D. J. M. Ray (W 1957- 62), R. C. V. Fisher (1915- 18), P. H. Short house (Gr. 1924-32), E. K. Lewis(S.H. 1946-49), R. A. Finn (1916- 19- 25), W. H. Chippendale (Lx. 1953-56) J. V. Kent (S.H. 1925- 35), E. O. Harris (S.H. 1918- 22), R. W. Allison (M.O. 1936-40), A, Fox-Mal~ (Lan. 1925-26), R. j, H . Gollop (1966- to date), G. J, Kent (S,H. 1957- 62- 67), L. J. Ray, the father ofD. J . M . Ray, is Immed iate Past Master. We were very pleased to hear that the Bishop of Plymouth (S.H. 1927- 32) has been made Gra nd Chapla in of the United Grand Lodge o r England, and that J. R. Pearson (1916-19) had received further Grand Lodge Honours. We offer both of them our warmest congratulations. We continue to exchange summonses and news letters with Lodge No. 760, The King's School , Parramatta who have amended their bye-laws to offer membersh ip of their Lodge to those who were educated at the King's School, Canterbury. We welcomed Charles Moore to our Installation mceting and hope to see many more of their members at our meeting when they are in the U.K. By kind permission of the Headmaster, o ur Trien nial meeting was held on Saturday, 2nd June in the School Library, at which representat ives of the Province of Kent and ou r ~ister Lodges, the Old Lawrentian Lodge No. 4 14 1 and the Old Dovorian Lodge No. 5647 were present. It is very pleasant for liS to be allowed to meet in and enjoy the hospitality of the school, and we are most grateful to the Headmaster and all others who were concerned. We are pleased to welcome as a joining member Dr. J. H. C. Gough, the father of R. W. A. Gough (M 1971). . The cantuarian Lodge meets at Ellston Hall, 1 Euston Road, London, N.W.l, on the fourth Thursday III October, February and April (Installation) and the first Thursday in December. It is established primarily for all those who were educated at the King's School, canterbury, for Ma sters, Officers and Governors of the School (all past and present) and for the fathers of the boys and O.K.S. Membership is also open to those similarly connected with the King's School, Parramatta. The secretary is Keith Lewis (S.H. 1946-49) of 16 Daryngton Drive, Perivale Park , Greenford , Middlesex. (Telephone: Home OI-578 4167; Office 01 -3499 191). Those interested shou ld cont act him for inrormation. J. F . BERRY .

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CORRESPONDENCE Graydon, Westbere, Canterbury. July, 1973,

Sirs, May r please, through your columns, express my very deep and si ncere gratitude to all those friends, Parents and Old Boys, who contributed so very liberall y to the most generous present on the occasion of my retirement from the Junior School. [ do apologise for not writing a personal letter of thanks to each and everyone of those very kind people whose names, regrettably, are unknown to me, but I do hope they will accept this as a true expression of my real and very sincere gratitude for their great, r should perhaps say overwhelming, kindness to me. To yo u all [ say, simply and sincerely, "Thank you". Yours faithfully, TOM PARTINGTON.

EDITOR'S NOTE The Editors apologise for the omission of numerous items of information received by the School in August. Over the long summer holidays it is not always possible to record all such items in time to put them into print, but we trust the next issue will close a ny gaps.

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