The Cantuarian December 1985 - August 1986 by OKS Association

THE CANTUARIAN

DECEMBER 1985

CONTENTS PAGE

EDITOI!!AL

nils AND THAT

CI-IAJlEL FUND

VA LE

IN MEMORIAM

FOCUS

Tim CANT UA IIiA N INTERVIEW

1l00K I!EVI EWS

HO USE NOTES

REPOIHS AND nEVIEWS

MUSIC AND DRAMA II VISITS

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III THE SOC IETIES

IM AG INATIVE WRITING

SPOIlT

SA LVETE AND VA LETE

LETTEI!S TO THE EDITOI!

TH E CAN T UA RIA N PHOTO COM I' ETITION

C.C .••. NOTES

ASSOCIA TED nOA!!D EXAM INATION !!ESU LTS

THE SCHOOL

CANTUARIA N LODGE

THE CANTUARIAN

Edi/ors: B. P. Arend s, K.S., Lu cy E. C h a rrin gton, K.S., Lucia J . Co n ybeare, K.S., P. H. M cClee ry, K.S., M.S., J. Nas h, K.S., J . P. H. N icho ll s, K.S., P. E . H . Pain es, K.S., R. P. R eed , K. S.

Ph%graphic Editors: M . J. S mith , J. Senior Edi/or: P. J. Brod ie,

Kidde- H a n sen. M.A.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES We acknow ledge wit h tha nk s the receipt of magazines from the fo llow ing schools: Amp lcforth. Bedfo rd, Bradfield, Brya nslon, C hartcrhollsc, Dulwic h , Edi nburgh Academy, Epsom , Felstcd.

Glcnalmond, Holmewood House, Lambrook, R. G.S. Newcastle, S1. Edmund's, SI. Lawrence, SI. Paul's, Stonyhursl, T onbrid ge. Westmi nster.

THE CANTUARIAN VOL. L NO. I

DECEMBER, 1985

EDITORIAL School assemblies and Canluarian edi torials have in the past stressed the public responsibilities incumbent on privilege . This preoccupation suggests that King's pupils still see themselves as belonging to a leading class . T he first major step towards citizens hip is, however, the same for every yo ung person . It is the a ttainment of the right to vote. Franchise is only five years away fr om the youngest Shell boy, while the majority o f Sixt h Formers will appear on the electoral register before the O.K.S. list. If a general election were called tomorrow, those over eighteen would have exactly three weeks to decide on the direction they believed it best for all Britons to follow. One suspects that the reasoned aware ness o f most seniors at King's regardin g the relevant issues would not be impressive. True, King's Parliament 'back benchers' ha ve not backed the same politica l party on each occasion: but it seems unlikely that such fluctuations reflect a genuine reassessment, based on more thorough know ledge, of the merits of the expounded Labour and Conservative policies. A much more plausible explanation is the familiar adolescent con flict between parental views (mainly Conservative) instilled since childhood, a nd radical, more leftwing, ideas symbolising independence a nd intellectualit y. Consistent unthinking support for a particu la r party is obviously undesirable. On the other hand, long-term governmental inefficiency is the visible result of the electorate's persistent desertions to an opposition party in reaction to a current government's failure in a single fi eld

(unemploymen t now, inflation in 1979). All aspects of policy must therefore be weighed up : is it possible that you will be voting today's rejected party back into power in five years ' time? Moreover, in extreme cases , voting through prejudice or emotion, instead of reasoned analysis,

can be highly dangerous: in 1933, Adolf Hitler was democratically elected Chancellor of Ge rmany. The preponderance of unmeditated, uninformed popula r voting may even cast doubt on the viability of democracy. Plato believed that effective government could only be conducted by a minority of wise Guardian-rulers . The great nineteenth century liberal J. S. Mill also feared the 'tyranny of the (uneducated) majority' and sought to counteract it with extra votes for a qualified elite. Marxists have claimed that central direction in the interest of the people is in fact more democratic than the execution of the confused selfish whims ex pressed by the people themselves . I a m not advocating an aristocratic form o f government. 1 merely wish to point out that , rather than seeing themselves as fledgling members of such an oligarchy, King's pupils should concentrate on questioning - and then aiming to improve - their own claim to ordinary political rights. The wielding of the suffrage is not something that we should look forward to without some serious deliberation in advance . TA RA USHER.

FltEDERICK KEMPF (J.K.S.) the youn gest soloist to play with the Royal Ph ilh armonic Orc hestra (The Guardian)

~his ÂŁf ~hal f . l ' 80th b'rthday there died Leslie On 23rd Novembe':i_~ofew ~~~~~ ab~~'ad~~ster a~d the 'originator of the Mltchdl (HH 191 H ), h' 'felnge to whom we offer our condol~nces, Requiescant teleVISion Interview . e an '~:d made' many good friends. A service of visited the School three urnes, In. recent ;e~r~d on 5th February at SI. Paul's Church, Covent thanksgiving for Leslie Mitchell s life IS to e e Garden . .'. ' -22) a ed 81. He remembered a great dealabout On 3rd November died Philip Elliott (SH 1917 f ~e:t regret that the memoir he was thInkIng the King's School of his day, and It IS ~ matt~r t~ar Dr David Elliott one of his three O .K.S. of writing has been lost to us. We un ~rt~n d amo~g his father'S 'papers to the School. sons, will send any matenal that may e oun or died on holiday in Canada, aged 73. Bishop Gordon Strull, sometime parent an~ Gover~xt to the Old Synagogue, where the new He had retired to Canterbury,) O on~ oflth~h ~h~~~sp~edecessors, mere sycamores, had had with a ,d family. walnut trees In our garden test I y to t e c.~ his drains. Our sympathy goes to hIS WI ow:. h d his famil y o n the death of Mrs. We also offer our sympath y to Mr. Mac Intots onat~,e death of their mothers . The School Mackintosh, and to the Headmaster fa lM,d Dr:'i~~tosh and Mrs . Ridout, which took place In Choir sang at the funeral services a rs. ac Canterbury.. r elsewhere in this issue, as do those of Robert Pollet Fuller notIces of someMof thhellabCovMe ~P~~::netime assistant master. (W 1959-63) and Alan IC e , ,

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The appointment of Canon Dr. Anthony Phillips, Chaplain and Fellow of SI. 10hn's College, Oxford, to be Headmaster of King's from September 1986, was anno unced in November. Canon Phillips is 49, married with three children, and has a background of law as well as theology. Before coming to SI. 10hn's he was Dean and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. We shall , of course, write more fully later, but we are sure that we are breaking no em bargos in wishing Canon Philli ps and his family much happiness at Ki ng's and in Canterbury. Before the appointment a certain amount of consumer research was conducted by masters stuck for a prep. T hey got what they deserved: 'He should be able to recognise the needs of modern youth - i.e. all Houses should have a video' or ' I don' t really mind as long as he isn't utterly raving' or 'There is absolutely no reason why he shouldn 't be a clergyman (unless all the parents become devil-worshi ppers)'. After the successful applicant's record had been studied, mailers were summed up thus: 'He seems quite an intelligent sort of bloke.'

The Headmaster Elect

Whether it's the Lord's favour, high moral or dietary fibre, a clear conscience, or something else, He and they alone know: but three milestones generally associated with a decent degree of decrepitude were reached, to their friends' surprise and pleasure, by astonishingly youthful people this term. Mr. and Mrs. Fairservice's Golden Wedding Anniversary was celebrated at a dinner given for them by the Headmaster and Mrs. P ilkington at SI. Augustine's on 15th October. Mr. Fairservice mentioned a number of snags at the wedding, such as the organist's ill-judged and self-centred demise, and also that he had , in fact, started his cricket-coaching at King's in 1928 (temporarily, in the nets then on the Green Court) though he did not come properly till 1953, from Stonyhursl. We are somewhat saddened by rumours that he might be retiring from his extremely efficient work at the bookstore before very long. Col. K. A. C. Gross, O.B.E., was 80 on 27th November. Looking exactl y as he has done for as long as anyone can remember he is briskly getting on with his third (post-war) career, as printer. Before that he was one of the few OAP computer-programmers, having trained after retirement from what had been a very full career at King's: Classics and English master (1 945-69), Housemas ter of School House (1947-52) and Commanding Officer of the Corps (1947-64) . He also managed to squeeze in being Han. Secretary of the O.K.S . Association for 16 years, not to mention self-ta ught bee-keeping. Oh, and designing and building his house. Mr. Gore's Golden lubilee year closed with a presentation 'to him on 29th October of a gift from the O.K.S. Association, by the hand of Major-General P. H. Lee, C.B. , (LX 1943-46), and of a cheque fro m members of the School and of the Common Room . Mr . Gore has decided to retire at the end of the Lent Term.

After You With The Elixir

The Report of the Archbishop of Canterbwy's Commission on Urban Priority Areas was of course leaked, 'rubbished', hailed and generally deprived of the need to be read some days before its publication early in December. It contains a chapter on Education which The Times Educational Supplement chose to present under the fat headline Parents urged to turn from private sector. 'Inner city Christians, particularly the clergy, should think twice before sending their children to private schools, the Church of England report says.' What the report actually says is 'It has been pointed out to us in evidence that the support given to their Church schools, or other local schools, by the clergy and laity is greatly increased if they send their own children to them. Words of support can seem hollow, if by their decisions about their own children they indicate that they think there is a better education to be found somewhere else. We do not suggest that this is the only factor Christian parents in urban priority areas will wish to consider in deciding on the education of their children : obviously there are many factors they will weigh. But we ask

Faith In The City

them to include this among the factors they consider.' It seems clear enough that those who wish to know what the Report says about education will have to go elsewhere than the TES. As a matter of fact urban clergy already thmk hard about th Is matter, the Report acknowledges' and about one-third opt for private secondary education, much as other clergy . It would b~ interesting to know the corresponding fi gure for the eighteen members of the commission. Two sent ch ildren to King's, for a start: of course they did, if they thought that education matters greatly and that suitable education was to be had here. Both these opinions might have been mista ken: but would it have been right to damage the real life of a real child for the sake of some dubious future general good? 'He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. ' It was entirel y right that a remarkable record - a century of service to the School by one family - should be commemorated by a gi ft , but it was characte ristic of that fami ly that the gift should befrom them . On Sunday, 17th Novem ber, after attending Matins with the School in the Cathedral, some dozen or more members of the C urtis and Dawkins fa milies assembled in the Mint Yard to see Mr. Hugh Curtis present on their behalf a fine teak bench with the inscription 'Given in 1985 by their children in memory of Harry and Minnie Curtis, and of Ha rr y's mother Jane Curtis, and to mark their cen tur y of service to the King's School' . The bench stands outside Galpin's, which was the Headmaster's house when Mrs. Jane C urtis came to wor k as housemaid for Dr. Blore in the 1870s. She became a particularly trusted member of his household. Harry Curtis started at King's at the age of 12 as 'Pots', and via the butler's pantry, whose erstwhile windows overlook the bench, became eventually the invaluab le and formidable Steward of the School. He and his wife (nee Dawk ins, a very old Northgate family) with their elder children more or less single-handedly managed the School's material needs throughout the difficult times of the War, down in Cornwall, and in the not much mo re a bundant post-war times back in Canterbury. One of the sons , Mr. Denis C urtis, was the School chef till 1975, while two others came to King's as pupils, Hugh in The Grange and Nicholas in Marlowe. T he whole occasion was a heartening reminder that while the wo rd ' community' has been perverted by agitators and social engineers, the thing is still to be found and is good. Community

With this slogan on the 2.50 franc commemorative stamp the French, that emi nently logical people who think in threes, marked the three hundredth anniversary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a n act of totalitarian Pluralismc , fratricidal bigotry which scattered many thousands of Huguenot refugees Fratcrnitc over Protestant Europe. Some came to Canterbury, where a previous wave of continental religious persecution had already deposited the de la Pierre or Peters fami ly, by this time well-to-do and settled in Blackfriars, with sons at King's. 1985 being Huguenot Heritage Year in this country, the Peters family held a grand reunion at Blackfriars in September. On 15th December Blackfriars featured in The Cross and the Dove, a C hannel 4 programme about the Huguenots in England. Mr. Trowell and some Shell boys looked very fetch ing in the Refectory, while Mr. Jo hn Peters, the historia n of the family, was interviewed in our de la Pierre House. It is pleasi ng 10 know that Edward Peters is due to come to King's in a yea r or two. Tolerance,

The theme of the 2nd Canterbury Festival, which was held from 22nd September to 12th October, was Italy. Some of the School buildings were agai n used, Blackfriars for an ex hibition of modern Italia n painting and the Old Synagogue for a number of lectures. That on Ital ian Renaissance Gardens dealt a blow to what survives of English chauvinism. Hopes for a big leap for ward from last year's brooding Green Court sculptures rose one morning when a green and red object was spotted in the Mint Yard tree. The mobile attracted more attention when it displayed a sonic dimension but what had promised to be an exciting trans-media collage turned out to be an escaped macaw.

The Canterbury Festival

One of the Festival events was an exhi bition in the C formed by Dr. John Bargrave (KS 1623) when he w . a~he~ral Crypt of the Bargrave Collection, tIS ,cunous that two of the earliest 'museums' i ;~ 1\1 ta y, an eXIle from Cromwell's England. Ark) were estabhshed by such near contempor~r~ IS c~ntlr (the other ? ne being 'Tradescant's Bargrave, and John has left an accoun t of the 'weet at dmg s. Bargrave s uncle was Dean Isaac e -en exeats' he used to spend at the Dean's country retreat at Chartha m. ' '" . What he describes as a 'Royal Academ t ~~ t~e Royal Museum by J onat han Barnaid i~eR ~~~Ii..lj~o)n to be organised in the summer e lamels Gallery tn Fulham in Se tern be . onathan had a one-man show at autumn WIth Glyn Wyles (GL 1970- ?2) and"o~~~'she a lso hopes to exhibit at Canterbury next

Our friend Dr A L R w I ' of the Shre';' a~d' K7ngseR~~~~~.~t ~t~o~les o~Twelfth Night, The Taming . S hakespeare Series and w econ from hIS Contemporary ~ar ~~c~sed hIS optnion of the authorship of ;~em~~t grarru l to hIm. Dr. Rowse has not so . or a espeare, but Mr. Calvin Hoffman will ha' e aw u . poem currently claimed by some It could be Shakespeare. Anyone interested in th ve nOne of It for the autho r of the plays: so great deal from the Opposing cases argued in Th ;. problems of author-hunting would learn a Etclh IS Supported by most impressive knowle%ge fmes Lilelra~y Supplement of 30th December. ' IS conc USlve, and knocks the stuffing out o t 1e other. The Librarian wishes to ackn vI d . Mr. R. C. Reading (GR 1947_St e ge wIth thanks gifts from Mrs. R. Lewin Mr M G D v' He tells us that about 400 bo01~~e~r ~:de~e~~~i1!r~;~v:st ofThe King's s~hooi, P~rr~m=ttl:: A very generous gift to the Caxto S . . al y tIllS telm. from Mr. H. C. S. Hall (SH 19S4-~) o~~~~ gti~o tghntcal to be described here, is On its way We are also grateful to Mr Eric H;ll f h ~. lI ector of Compugrap hic U.K. Ltd. ~gatives of School subjects, formerly in t~~ p~~s~snr to ~ur archives a number o f plates and r. Hall now runs the business from Herne Bay. Son 0 Messrs FIsk Moore of Canterbury. . GIfts .

Greater ~he Cover photograph of the November ' SIX Harrow boys, a shade too ex ensi~s ue of Personal Investor showed Faith In The City assertIon that Private Ed uca tion Pa~s w~IK. dr~ssed for some, over the ÂŁJ3:0~~ t~f~~~~tl~; ~~~~j,~1 ,~as boarder through thel~~~:u~~~ ~~~ estimated that it cost up the most valuable thing of a ll if Jgr,~,~ ~~. tJa~dmlt that thIS argued some parental commitm:nlt ~t adredally.gOOd school was investment of this ~~d;:~to prospellr, yet by objecti ve criteria only ea e pomt, well ill ustrated by a purple- owned f . oney we spent. It seemed a good ha rdLIbrary to lunch. From the Norman Stai~s the Igule photographed striding purposefully from Court wasn't awash with rubbish. . centu lles approved . And for once the Memoria l

. S' h . . The Gentlemen of the U A LIttle 811 Gentlewomen, just gi rls _ h~~1 IXt - there never seemed to be any Off The Top of history. With what is some~i~:~c~11 ~ff~nto the sunset, Or the dustbin tI e t.e reform of the Oxford a nd . . Cam bridge admissions functIon and thIS year's was the last In fa ~YS em t 1e Upper SIxth lost its non-ornamental ~ave ~een. the rise and fall of this institutio~ !I~f~~onablr lonbg-lived parrot cou ld quite easily IStOl lC SIxth Form. The first mention of th~ U IS no to e confused with the much more .pper SIxth Occurs tn the Rotulus of Christmas Term 1936, and the ritual of the whole thi sttckl~nd all, just glamorized the takeover o~g~d~~t~~i~~ ~rtvlle~es, blue hat:band, silver-knopped wo u you guess, sat the Higher Certificate exami t' y p(u IICex?tnmatlons. How many boys, na IOn A - evel s fore-runner) in 193 5? The 5

. h S h I was then much smaller that was nDt the reaSDn answer IS 6; and thDUgh t e . c DO. candidate It is Df cDurse, true that public examinatiDns CharterhDuse, fDr examte, had JUs; °f~ny equitable m~thDd of academic assessment, especially are an indispensable an maJDr par 0. be reg ulated by such assessment. To. that extent the if access to scarce further ed~catlOn IS to' Dunts as prDgress; but there is a difference between develDpment Df the e,,:amrnatlOn system c keeping fit and pumprng IrDn. . fT . U er Sixth was the disclDsure Df the eXIstence 0. he One side-effect Df the passrng D/th~ tP~embers ShadDwy pDwer manipulators, they, well, Upper Sixth CDmmlttee, by Dne 0. ItS as ,. existed: chie fl y Dn dDughnuts frDm AddrngtDn s. . . d ttempt at defectiDn by CDI. Neville - but he fDund the DespIte a determl~e ad tally' barred by Mr. Duesbury who. just happened Music rDad to. freedDm . acc:h:ntime Df day Dn BDulDgne statiDn - a cDmplete to. be there passrng r in the Basilique de Saint Remi fDr Dur secDnd Drchestral team assembled Dn ~8th SeIJtem~~e DccasiDn was again much enj,?yed by th~ School y cD ncert rn Rhelms, Can tel bury ~t~rn C\t ·ress were nDt entirely an exercise rn superlatives, by ca party, and, If the accDunts rn t e DD b rstDne who. was nDt believed when he asserted audience and hosts as well. Also. by r. um e , that he was nDt a native. . was the articipatiDn Df the ChDir in the Songs AnDther memorable mUSIcal event Df~h"tter: y cathfdral Dn 22nd December, just befDre oj Praise prDgramme teleVIsed frDt than e~g~:mme attracts, we were tDld, milliDns Df viewers. Christmas. This peak-audIence SPDt Dr e pr 8 a bDarder at Milner CDurt and a pupil Df Mr. On the same day FrederIck Kempf, aged the Dun est sDIDist ever to. play with the RDyal RDnald SmIth , establIshed a recDrd by hbetgt mD:eme~ Df MDzart's piano. cDncertD rn A, K414. PhilharmDnic Orchestra. The pIece was t e IrS k . t published by Mr William · players will find two. WDr s JUS . Slightly less a d vance.d s t rIn g r. V" ,. s and Duets Jar Violin and Viola, they are McCDnnell useful. EntItled Duets JO I two /0 In available at £1 .80 each from the SChDDI ShDp.

(Sibyl/a Martill)

Miss Chafy who. supplied the delightful mathematical failure by her grandfather whic h we printed in Dur August issue has allDwed the SChDOI archi vist to. stud y a sumptuDusly prDduced and rare cDmpilatiDn Df his (her grandfather's) mDre mature years . ThDUgh narrDwer in SCDpe than the Gesta Romanorum the deeds Df the Chafys illuminate the IDcal histDry Df DDrset (their main strDnghDld) and Df Canterbury in a fascinating manner. We learn, fDr example, abDut Mr. Bennett's 'CUriDUS DId hDuse in the Brick Walk (with its haunted chamber Dn the stairs always shuttered, where a fDrmer PriDr was said to. have hanged himself), built among the ruins Df the DId MDnastery Dn the N . side Df the Cathedral Church all nDW cleared away, leaving a melanchDly wilderness Df cDlumns and arches; the little garden at the back ending amDng the buttresses and IDDking into. the cavernDUS crypt, where he kept a large TDrtDise and a captive Hawk, Jimmy.' This is illustrated by the extremely rare phDtDgraph Df the TudDr hDuses built into. the Infirmary Arches, between Linacre and the Dark Entry, which were cleared away by Dean AlfDrd in abDut 1860. We also lea rn hDW MinDr CanDn Chafy (also. briefly LDwer Master) saw his relatiDn to. the Cathedral. ThDmas Sidney CDDper, the renDwned Canterbury cattle-painter, had drawn a lithDgraph Df the Cathedral and was sDliciting subscriptiDns fDr prints. Mrs. Chafy said no.: 'We have plenty Df views Df the Cathedral: I am sure we do. nDt want any mDre.' But Chafy thDught Dtherwise: 'Well, my dear, the DId CDW has given me a gDDd deal of milk, I really must have anDther portrait Df her. ' And so. he did. Miss Chafy, whDm we were very pleased to. have with us in OctDber, has a lso. kindly given permissiDn fDr the family papers in the DDrset CDunty Archives to. be cDnsulted. They cDntain SDme 18th century King's Schoo.l information. Gesta Chaforum

The review Df H. G. Wells by JDhn BatchelDr (OL 1955-60) delayed by circumstances beYDnd Dur contro.l appears in this issue. So. dDes a review Df English Public Schools by James McConnell for which we thank Dr. Higginson, late Df Christ Ch urch Teachers' Training CDllege. Mr. McCDnnell, who. visited King's last year, describes twenty-five SChDOls in his bDOk. The many iIIustratiDns presumably represent each SChODI's preferred self-image, at least to. SDme extent, but DccasiDnally Dther consideratiDns seem to have weighed with Mr. McCDnnell. BDDks by O.K.S . which have been mentioned in the press recently include Rising Jrom the Root by the Revd. ChristDp her DDnaldsDn (MR 1931-34), whDse subject is the future shape Df the Church Df England, and EAA Oshkosh, the World's biggest aviation event by Nigel MDII (OL 1969-72). EAA stands fDr Experimental Aircraft Association, and 'if you want a fr iendly, easy-gDing airs hDw with masses to see and do., OshkDsh is where you should head .' It is 75 miles NNW Df Milwaukee. Edmund de Waal (MR 1977-82) has earnt a fDotnDte in Margaret Spufford's Small Books and Pleasant Histories. Bya diligent study Df nineteenth century Punch he has established that Irish navvies and Irish jDkes entered England in clDse alliance, at the time Df the railway-bDom. However, as Bogg Willicisms (1700) shows, the slanders we re nDt new. Books

There can be little doubt that the principal at hletic event Df this term, and How Glorious very probably Df the century, was the Orand Challenge Race fDr Eights And Reslllendent between the Masters and the MDnitDrs. It was rDwed Dn 15th December on the Fordwich Cut and lasted all Df 5 minutes, wrested from the aptly named FrDstbite Club who. seemed to. think they also. had a race Dn. Wherever listeners can be found and cDrnered in time to come, the tale of a great victDry will be tDld and re-told. SDme practice in this direction, not least by the Masters' CDX, already tODk place before the event. We are cDnfident that a full aCCDunt appears elsew here in this issue. SDme Dther things happened as well. The Rugby Club had an excellent seaSDn, with a recDrd number of wins against SChDDI sides, and wit h an enjoyable visit to Rugby SChDOI itself, where very delicately they did not win. Mr. MilfDrd cDmpiled a learned historical broadsheet fDr this tour.

----== d National teams with pride of place going to Edward A number of boys represented County an ·n a gainst Germ'any in the discus. Jeremy Bagshaw Mbu (B) who was selected for GreJ-t Bnta; the National Schools Athletics Meeting, Jonathan (B 1980-85) was placed 4th m the ISCUS a Turner (MR) played County Rugby, and Simon Gardner (B), James Nevile (GR) and Simon s-Countr for Kent. Hugh Pritchard (MT) despite Attwood (T) with Matthew Fe,n~ (B) ran ;rs?(~e his can~e won his section of the Inter-regional 'rolling down the rocky n ver m 01 fIla g d will still be young enough for the same age-group Championships on the Dee at Llango en , an h ase 'City 's star paddler' permanently set up . Th K t" sh Gazette keeps t h e p r next year. e en I .. t be classified uni versally as games, we welcome Finally, while we ac knowledge that It mlgh.\ n? the King's School C.C.F. contingent. and record the arrival of the frrst seven gil s m mbers of the Dining Hall staff who have passed Examination. It covers such things as The Professionals therr City an . 1 nd food presentation and the service of nonhealth and hygiene, persona a

we congratul~tG~ir~~e~~~d'services

alcoholic drinks . .. . r direction are the operations of Alastair Carey Presumably not circumscnbed m that partlcul~ caterin henomenon, the Yummies. Roughly (GL 1969-73), chose~ by FemGlI to rehre~e~t ~tneaid for it t~t they wear striped shirts while they speaking the Yummles cook v~ry we a, g s~ er thing is that they're not too catery . People do it. Also their clients say thmgs lIke ij'~ P do it?' And they are completely and utterly say 'God, this is absolutely wonderfu.l I you . impressed.' B (SH) have carried on the English Mark Palmer (MT) .and 7holt~.tabf~e;upiIS Each of them earnt £75 for First Class Department' s tra:~:~?o~ hF~~e\f) by winni~g his resflective section in the Letters the School (and 1 P t Office letter-writing competition . Sholto, then still regional heats a f t ,e as k t a 'wish you were here' letter to an absent at Milner Court, wrote as a ghOsft! a~dh~ard ;~~e~t ion ' and very possibly has got the Palmer father. It was judged to be 'full a mSlg ,adn b ' . . h K t Social Services ata ase . household mto teen . National Schools Public Speaking Competition A clean sweep of the Under 16 pnzes at th~ 1" Foster (GR) and Amlt Das (W) who were at Maidstone was made by TedGeo.'g~ (1h~) I~~n the Under 19 section. The winners go on respectively 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Vlctona a to the next stage of the contest. .. T i m's £1 8 billion profit by threading his Simon Thomason (SH) chipped £35 off ~[~~:~_di:'n~c~ional ';'aze. He came 5th out of 60,000 way by computer through GYRON'2a g!an The overall winner, from Spain, whizzed through U.K . competitors, With a time of 10 mmu t es . lation when you look at your next telephone in 18, and now has £12,800 to show for It - a canso bill. h elled in school drama was made clear in The struggle out there for those w ~ exc g O K S _ all as it happens, from All The recent separate press references to tree yo un ... , .. World Is Linacl:e. II (1981 -83) is very articulate about the problems of ral s m~ Not A Stage Lucmda Ga. owa ~thOu gh hers is a success-story in a way: ' I felt that the 10hc.al funds for trammg, a . I ho are good enough to perform now , w I e authority interviewing panel was lookmg for peop ~ Y" , 'Anyway Kent stumped up and Lucinda the schools are looking for potential, not the ~~~~~:~gis Mauhe';' Townshend (1974-79). After is now at the Central Drama School. Less for the Arts Theatre, he has had expen ence rangmg Cambridge, where he also ran a, youthgrO~IP north-east ' but he still has not managed to obtall1 from local radio a nd NYT to clubs m t r· t· Actors' Trades Union) card. He has been trYll1g the vital Equity (the powerful and monopo IS IC 8

for three yea rs, and without it no major engagement is possible. Equity is divided on the issue of access to membership but the protectionists have so far managed to muster a majority of votes. Peter Waddington (1970-75) has made it - he appeared as Mr. Denzill in B.B.C. 2's production of Trelawny oj the Wells in October. His manner was later described as 'traditional'. While Matthew Townshend may wish he had less time to spare we were most grateful to him for coming to adjudicate (a nd perhaps even more important, comment construc ti vely on) the House Drama Competition. It was held on Tuesday, 12th November, in the Shirley Hall, and Broughton won, with an excerpt from A Streetcar Named Desire. The Grange ran up, with a bit of Caligula , and it was good to see much engaged but un stodgy effort from all participants. But two Bald Prima Donnas is about six too many. Our request for a few details of their former lives was met most generously by the new masters (each his own) . We can only print a brief selection from the spread. Dr. D. M. Arnott fled his native Glasgow as a n infant and grew up in Perthshire, where he bathed in Sainsbury's bottled water which wells up in his village. He was at school at Morrison's Academy, Crieff, which he left for St. Andrews University a nd his first First. After an interlude at the University of Pennsylvania he did post-graduate research at Cambridge, so ask him anything you want to know about C-20 substituted isobacteriochlo rins. Dr. Arnott is married and this is his first teaching job. M. D. M. Gama is with us for a year, in place of Mr. Sugden. His perma nent school is the College Louis Aragon in Torcy, a 'new ' town, and is only three years old . Enigmatically, he finds King's 'remarkable'. M. Gama worked for two years in Indonesia, on a co-operative scheme, and is now married to an Indonesian lady. Dr. W. R. Pickering got both his degrees at Sheffield but thinks he was mostly educated teaching at the Friends' School, York, and at Gordonstoun. He has numerous sporting interests, including mountain rescue of which he was joint leader a t Gordonstoun, and one cultural interest (Buddy Holly). He is married with two children. He was struck by lightning in 1970 . Mr. P. H . Reiss was in the Tonbridge U l4 Rugby team which beat King's 50-0 in 1978. After Oxford he worked in Greece 'organising parties of stroppy Brits' and here he has taught Removes. He planned to stay for only one term and he has not changed his mind. But it is true that he had already arra nged a year's pre-ordination work in South Africa. He made many friends here who wish him well and who wi ll miss him. A valedictory to Mr. M. G. Davis will be found elsewhere in this issue, and also a mirror held up by Miss Ulrike Haussmann, our Assistentin. La Nouvelle Vague

We are very sorry that the list of newly elected Music Scholars which was printed in our August issue did not include the names of Benjamin Cooper (MT) and Julian Stur! (T). In the April issue the entry for Captain of Cross Country should have read J. D. Wright, K. S. We are grateful to those who brought these errors to our attention.

Errors And Omissions

The History Sixth's set text, Bishop Gilbert Burnet's History oj my own Time, has been described as 'a valuable, if prejudiced acco unt': p.193 'Pilkington was .. . an honest but indiscreet man, and who gave himself great li berties in talking.' p.211 ' ... and Ross (a poor ignorant and worthless man, but in whom obedience and fury were so eminent that they supplied all other defects) .. .' ibid . 'Turner, a sincere a nd good-natured man, but too quick an imagination and too defective a judgement, and one who had been conversant more with men than books.' Queen Anne Is Dead?

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10 'GUYS AND DOLLS' (J.S.N.)

VALE MR. MICHAEL DAVIS (K.S.C. 1976Âˇ85) Of the last nine years I was Mike's head of department for three, and he has been mine for six. It is very much a tribute to Mike's qualities, his cheerful willingness to cooperate in the early days, and then his commonsense and tact when he was in charge, that we became and remained friend s, despite the outward change in our relationship. He took over at the time of change, when the construction of a new, more flexible, timetable and the introduction of Spa nish in the lower school meant greater competition for the German department. He grasped the opportunity the situation offered to ensure that those pupils for whom three years to O-Ievel was proving an unrealistic proposition chose another option ; and then met the challenge by concentrating all the resources of the department on getting the more realistic number that remained through O-Ievel. The success of this strategy can be seen in the fact that it is now expected that all but a very few taking O-Ievel German will pass. To this end he made fu ll and enthusiastic use of the newly installed language laboratory, and initiated a new course that was more closely geared to O-Ievel requirements. With all this, a nd the continuing use of German assistants, the standard of spoken Germa n is now undoubtedl y higher in the fifth forms . From this sound base he consolida ted the position in the sixt h form maintaining the number of A-level candidates at around a dozen, of whom a higher proportion are now A grade potential, despite intense competition from other departments. To develop linguistic ability the exchange with Ettal has been main tained, and Mike initiated links with other schools. He made use of his university connections to start up a regular programme of lectures on aspects of German history and culture, notably by Prof. J . P. Stern. Trips to the theatre and enthusias tic use of videos have helped to stimulate sixth-formers' interest. Mike leaves the department in very good shape: good 0- a nd A-level results, well-stocked and organised book, tape and video libraries, and a confident approac h to the challenges posed by both the new Ox bridge entrance examinations, a nd the G.C.S.E. All o f us in it wo uld like to tha nk him, and to wish him further success in his new career. M.J.V.

(Alexlinder Morgan)

OUR YUMMIES (Kellfish Gazelle) THE CURTIS FAMILY ANI) THEIR GIFT (Kelltish Gazelte)

IN MEMORIAM LESLIE MITCHELL (HH 1914-20)

Leslie Mitchell was born in Edinburgh on 4th October, 1905, and died in London on 23rd November this year , just seven weeks after his 80th birthday . To him belongs the singular distinctIOn of having opened the B.B .C. TelevIsIOn Service from Alexandra Palace in 1936, and the Independent Television Service from the Guildhall in 1955, as well as having been the immediately identifiable voice of one of the leading newsreels, British Movietone, for nearly forty years _ most notably in the period 1939-1945 when the newsreels were a major factor in boosting war-time morale. Leslie Mitchell was at King's from 1914 to 1920. During the 1920s, after further schooling in England and in Switzerland (where he was taught science by Barnes Wallis), he joined the acting profession and , in 1934, did his first radio broadcast for the B.B.C. In November 1936 Leslie Mitchell inaugurated the B.B.C. Television announcing service as the B.B.C.'s Senior Announcer, and in 1938 he became the Senior Commentator for British Movietone News a job which, for a large part of the period between 1938 and 1975, he did continuously. Despite ill-health which plagued him ever since a serious road accident in the 1920s Leslie Mitchell continued to do much free-lance work for the B.B.C., Associated-Rediffusion, and other television and film organisations. All these activities (including detailed accounts of his time at King's) were described in Leslie Mitchell Reporting (Hutchinson' s, 198 1, reviewed in The Cantuarian, Vol. XLV, p. 257 (1981)) - activities which, illness and being housebound notwithstanding, were maintained right to the end of his long life. Mrs. Mitchell informs me that her husband had onl y recently completed work on a programme about newsreels, which the B.B. C. intend to broadcast on New Year's Eve. Nor were the B.B.C.'s cameras the only ones that the Mitchells admitted to their home: on 30th June, 1984, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were kind enough to allow me, Mr. H . J. Pragnell and Edward Vine (GR 1979-1984) to invade them with cameras, lights and other paraphernalia of film -making, in order to interview them for the King's School archi ves . The first man ever to conduct a television interview was infinitely patient and kind that afternoon to the amateur crew that, fifty years on, had come to interview him. The Mitchells' hospitality resulted in our shooting 62 minutes of vintage reminiscence ('Algernon Latter was a very, very fearsome gentleman . . . He kept us all in order, and frightened us all at the same time - rather like Reith in the broadcasting business') . Much of Leslie Mitchell'S philosophy was revealed in his answer to Mr. Pragnell who had asked him whom, of the many people he had met in his career, he admired most: 'I have this terrible predilection for excellence. I don't mind what excellence or in what shape, but if it' s beautifully done, I cry with relief. . . I have met a lot of people who were fascinatingly good at their job, and that fascinates me.' In the short span of years that followed our initial contact with them in 198 1, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell made three visits to King's. In November 1982 they brought with them 92-year-old Mrs. Stella Tower, widow of the Revd. Bernard Tower, Leslie Mitchell' S much-loved Headmaster at the Junior School. Mrs. Tower was conducted around Walpole House, which she had lived in nearly seventy years earlier when that house was J .K.S ., by two Walpole Remove boys whom she char med totally - and they, her! Leslie Mitchell has left in the arc hi ves of the B.B.C., I.T .V. and Movietone, a lasting record of his physical presence and personality. As a result, his must be one of the most frequent ly documented li ves ever. Mrs. Stella Tower described this life well in the Thames Television programme This is Your Life devoted to Leslie Mitchell (1 st December 1982), when referring to him as a boy at J .K .S. all those years ago she said: 'Graciousness in small boys is rare - but Leslie has had it all his life!' R.B.Ma. 12

BISHOP GORDON STRUTT I first met Gordon Strutt on 4th June 1963 h ' . Wlfe arrang~ments for my Installation as De~n Th' w en ~y b a~d I were I~ Canterbury making . IS was t e eglnmng of a fnendship which lasted until hiS death. T he ministry of Gordon Strutt had been a n d ' . the Second World War he served as a Chaplai;~n~~u~d to be a vaned and exacting one. During on D-Day 1944 and was severely wounded in A 0 e orces landing on the Normandy beaches In three parishes in the North and for f' e ugust o~ the same year. After the war he served came to work in the Canterbury diocesel(n (ge5a;s w~~ haplam of H .M. Prison, Leicester. He and m 1959 was appointed Archdeacon of Maids~~ Ica~ St dMa.ry Magdalene, Addiscombe, As a member of the Chapter Gordon was an ex-off' ne ~ eSI entlary Can~n of the Cathedral. ICIO overnor of the Kmg s School. He proved himself to be a most helpful and res onsibl meetmgs regularly and always contrib~ting toet~ed"ge~ of t~edGover.nmg Body, attending its e a es an ISCUSSlOns, taking his fu ll share m decision-mak ing. He had the real interest for it was shown by the fact that he sent Micha~~ ~~e sfc~~~1 at :eart, and his regard and affection On 7th November, 1965, in Chester Cathedral ~ u - Ime oarder and Sar~h as a sixth former. Stockport, from where he continued to attend Gordon ,was c<;msecrated Bishop Suffragan of under three Diocesan Bishops until his retiremen~~~r~.or~ me~tmcgs . He served with distinction IS ome In anterbury. He died suddenly on 1st October, 1985 at the beginning of a Ion _ I and a memorial service was held in Canter~~ anCe~hh~hdlay. The funeral took place in Canada Coggan preached. His ashes were buried in th2C I ~ t ego; II th November at which Lord OIS er .. art at the conclus~on of the service. What was the secret of Gordon Strutt' s lif nsPIi such strength of character such decisiveness e~ ~~e a~on which gave him such integrity, an~w.er is a simple one. G~rdon Strutt was a' u .ove an ~o~cern for so many people? The ThiS I~ what made him so dependable and so ap~~~a~~tt~~ ~nslian . He had hl~ prio~ities right. knOWing he wo uld give them his attention co a~. any went to him With their problems always from the heart as well as from the headnc~rn;n compassion . The advice he gave was a person to lean on for support and comfor t H or was e was as kmd as he was strong and wise, we extend our sincere sympathy at this time' toeM a mdosthdevoted husband and father and . . al y an t e famil y I t~mk It may be truly said of Gordon Strutt as it w 'd f . . that He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit :~Jal f ~ Sht. BAarndabas by hiScontemporaries over to the Lord .' 0 alt . n large numbers were won

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ROBERT POLLET (W 1959-63)

Robert a former editor t' . <;m 1st August 1985, aged 39. His first book Pollet, of poems, published at of theThe a eC rn uanan, died in April 1964. Robert Pollet's life was gde~ot~e;~~t~e~~t;~~elved a warm review in these pages . I He was born in 1945 in Woolwich Militar H an English mother. After King's School he we~t too~tta , t~e elder son of a French father and I ' JohndS College, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He travelled widely when young thro~gh Af . m uni versities in Senegal, Cameroun , Mad:gl;aSC' ara r, nQ' aatnar, thedUS an mted audt States; Arabia and later taught He wrote verse from the age of nine as well as Sk . veterans returning home) and an unfinished doctor I~tgll.' Poetry. He saw six books of his verse published . a eSIS 13

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. h i d· talents of his time the extent and worth of his contribution Unquestionably ~lm~n~ t Heiset~chnn1cal and musical gifts, as well as his range of subject-matter xceptional a mong his contemporanes. At least a dozen of have ~et to be esta IShe 1· . ahnd his abllIt]1t~e;npy:o °d~~:~~~~:~ ~ny thoroughl y researched anthology of his generation. IS poems WI SEBASTIAN BARKER.

ALAN MICHELL, CMG. . 8 h N ember aged 72 came to teach at King' s in 1937. There Alan Michell , who died o~ 2 It . o:ct that Ala n Michell did in three short years. He came can be few masters who ma ~ t 1e Imp r and the Stanhope Prize . He was sensitive, dapper, from Jesus, Oxford , with ahflfsthIn H I~t~s;" always inspiri ng greater effor t and better essays. ls witty and an excellent t~c er' ld ~~~:elY test the best Ki ng' s School defence in the R~gby Of a WInter afternoon e cou s . master in Walpole under Ronald Groves. KIng's three-quarter line. H~ s~on b~cfm~ ;~~~~~~~~~~s~nd some masters felt urged to stand u p to the was then In a peno 0 tur u en f .n c"ple A colleague recalls that Alan did so In wnt!l1g formidable headmaster on matlters 0 Ptfld ,ID e~r Alan ' 'Dear Michell' , 'Dear Mr. Michell ' . and Canon Shlfley 's three rep les star e , . . 1940 · d the reserved occupation age of schoolmasters from The trau~a o f DUI~'tlfk !I1 M:: ROy;la~:nk Regiment and thence into Intelligence at Bletchley t 25 to 30 , WU h lsC hAt~~\ 94~n~~n~ld ~ roves now headmaster of Campbell College ! Belfast 'F!I1vlted h and !11 t e . " Alan sli pped effo rtlessly !I1to the orelgn him to head the histor y. department.. T he ne~\;yef~vitation When Sir Maurice Oldfield visited Office' , as an OKS Pbutflt , fohr hdeeaagt;l~e ~~qV~ired particularly about Alan and spoke most highly Kmg's a year or two e ore IS

of his services in Cyprus a nd South-East ASIa . . . Our wa rm sympat hy goes to his widow Jo, and to hiS family.

A.D .W.

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fOCU0 'QUE SOY ERA IMMACULADA COU NCEPCIOU' This is the local pa tois for ' I am the Immac ula te Conception ' , the answer Our Lady gave to St. Bernadette o f Lourdes when she was as ked , during the sixteenth a pparition , 25 March,

1858, who she was. O ur Lady appeared to St. Bernadette eighteen times in Lourdes in southern France - in February, March and Jul y of 1858 - and ever since Lourdes has been a place o f pilgrimage. T hree adjoining Basilicas have been built and a fourth , an underground Basilica, was completed c. 1960. Millions of people visit Lo urdes every year in search o f a miracle, a solution to a prob lem, to get to know God , or out of curiosity. I first we nt to Lourdes in the la te summer of 1982 with the Catholic Associatio n Annual Pilgrimage. I did not go fo r a cure or to get to know God , but because a friend of mine had been the previous year a nd had as ked me to go with him when he went again. P aul a nd I did not go as ordinary pilgrims, but as ' bra ncardiers' , i.e. we helped care fo r the sick, whom we pushed in wheelchairs or carried on stretchers. We helped to ta ke them, for example, to the International Mass in the St. P ius X Underground Basilica, or to the baths where they would bathe in the water which had first come to the surface when Mary had told Bernadette to wash in the then non-existent spring. However , once she had poked about in the mud a spring of water broke the surface and she was able to wash in it. Ma ny peo ple have bathed in these wa ters, but only a few of them have been cured . Since 1858 there have been about eighty cures from terminal illness a nd disabili ty which cannot be accounted for by medical science, i.e. miracle cures . I have never actuall y seen a 'cure'. but I have seen rema rkable cha nges come ove r people. For example, in 1983 , on the wa y back from my second trip to Lourdes, one o f the fi ve men with whom I shared the train compartment too k a razor blade out of his hold-all , showed it to me and threw it out of the window, saying that if Lourdes had not worked for him he would have ki lled himself. T here was also a total change in his attitude towa rds Lourdes a nd God. Previously, he had been most disparaging, but now, for him, Lourdes was the most wonderful place in the world - he had 'seen the light ' . For me, this is what the miracle of Lourdes is. Lourdes is not so much about the few people who receive miracle cures, although obviously this is ve ry im portant. It is about the way in which all who go there are cha nged inwardly a nd spiritually. Take the case of a lady I met there. She had come to Lourdes to find the answer to a question and whilst just chatting to one of the bishops, her question, without her asking, was a nswered. A great burden had been ta ken off her mind . This is the great strength o f Lourdes. Even if a sick person is not cured , they are at least give n the strength to cope with their illness, disability or even the problems of daily li fe such as unemployment or poor housing conditions. T his is shown by the joy fu l mood among the sick pilgrims, especially when it is compared to the often dreary, deathl y atmosphere found in a hospital ward for the terminally ill. Lourdes is a spiritually enriching shrine where the sick a re some times cured or a t least give n the strength to cope, and where o ften close and long-lasting friendshi ps are formed with ablebodied helpers (who come from all denominations and all walks of li fe and who pay their own way), the sick a nd of course with God Himself. T his is why I intend to re turn to Lourdes next summer (1 986), for the fifth time, as a member of the Confra ternity of Lourdes Helpers. M ICHAEL PETERBU RS. 15

The festival has a specific theme to differentiate it from other festivals. Canterbury's proximity to Europe, its continental visitors, the wealth of possible productions and the chance of sponsorship made the theme of a European country a good choice. The great achievement of the Canterbury Festival, in Mark's view, is that it actually happened. The sceptical have been converted and the festival looks set to be an annual feature of Canterbury life. JULIEN FOSTER.

STUDENT POWER We are very gmtejulto Marcus Dalrymple (GR 1979-81) jor this article about his experiences as a student governor at Atlantic College, St. Donat's Castle, Wales, one oj the United World Colleges. Unless you are familiar with Atlantic College, you may think it strange that two members of the governing body are ex-students who have recently left. However, this very much reflects what the United Colleges are all about. In all spheres of life the students are given as much responsibility as they are capable of bearing since it is believed that responsibility, as much as any academic discipline, is part of a rounded education. The commitment that each student devotes to his or her community service is an example of how highly responsibility is regarded. Whether as a member of the rescue services, of the estate service or in working with handicapped children, a student will find himself in a position of responsibility towards other people. This sense of student commitment to the community applies equally to the environment of the college, in that everyone is encouraged to take an active part in issues concerning student welfare. Because the college is completely international and the students come from very different backgrounds, living in a western environment can prove to be quite a culture shock for some students. It is issues such as this, college rules and other aspects of student life, that are very much left to the students themselves to discuss and to resolve. Thus it is regarded as essential that the students should have their opinions voiced when dealing with larger issues, such as the raising of scholarships, national committees and the selection of students and college ideals. At the end of each academic year an election is held to choose the new student governor. The position is then held for two years, which means that there are always two members of the governing body who are very much in touch with wha! is going on at the college. A meeting was recently held at the college which I attended. Unfortunately, much of what was discussed concerned two incidents that had occurred at the college over the summer. One was the death of a student, the other an accident at sea involving a member of the life boat crew. More encouraging was the news that there is now a student from China at the college. This is particularly exciting since he is the first Chinese student that has attended the college. What is also unusual about this student's scholarship is that it was raised by the staff. It was also encouraging to hear that the staff are to continue to donate a sum of money towards this scholars hip. For me personally it was a very interesting experience. Having been on the staff-student council whilst at the college I realised how very important it was to continue to have a student's point of view voiced amongst the other governors. For, although all the governors take a very active interest in the college, there are certain issues that even the most well informed outsider would know nothing about. I also realised how important it was to remain active in trying to promote the ideals of the United World College Movement now that I have left. Cynics might argue that a group of international students numbering 380, living in an 'idealistic' atmosphere can do very little to enhance international understanding, but surprisingly enough young people today are far from being disillusioned and are very concerned about global issues that will ultimately affect their lives, and here we are not just talking about the nuclear issue.

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Wha t has a lso been inte restin g a bo ut being on the boa rd o f gove rn ors, has been to see how very co mplicated a nd time consum ing a thing it is running a non pro fit-m a k ing orga nisation t ha t relies to ta ll y upo n do nations a nd scholarships fo r its mainte nance. It was good to hear th at a new student ho use was being built in place of a so ca lled ' tempo ra ry' ho use that had been e rected when the college first sta rted mo re than twenty yea rs ago. T he m oney for this house had bee n provided by a constructi o n fo u nd a tion who have in the past been extremely generou s to the co llege . Nex t yea r I sha ll be o n the exec utive com mittee whic h co ncerns itself m o re with the fi na ncial side of runn ing the college. Fo r th e present, however, I have felt very pri vileged to have been able to mee t so man y peo ple who have m ade it in their own pro fessional spheres and a re no w devo ting th eir e nergy to a very va lua ble ca use.

MASTERS v. MONITORS ROWI NG RACE T he reason for th is c urio us ha ppen ing was expla ined in the official programm e thus:This / amolls race goes back ill his/Dryas far as November / 985. 11 is believed Iha l fhe legel/dary rowing fig ure, P. N. McCleery. remarked thai ally blil/cli 0/ idiots, if they were half-fil, could beal the Masters 01 rowing. When il was maintained ,hal llial seemed fO cover 'he Monitorial body quite well, Mr. McCleery 01 ollce issued his Jamous challenge, /0 which fh e Mas ters were proud (0 respond.

O n th e day t he two crews we re - in a biza rre way - we ll ma tc hed . The m on itors had youth, fitness a nd vigour on th eir side (so t hey said) but very little row ing expe rience: t he Masters were a lmost ove r-ripe with ex pe ri ence b ut we re wo ndering whe th e r t he boat should be fitted wit h those nea t litt le mas ks t ha t supp ly oxyge n whe n ' pla nes a re in t ro ub le. T he Mas ters we nt out first, so t ha t th eir co x co uld demo nstra te his ski ll bo bbing and weav ing between a ll the sailing boa ts . T he Mon ito rs used t he usua l delaying tacti cs in o rde r to pan ic their opponents - bu t unde r th e stern eye of t he ump ire t he re was no hin t of a fa lse start. The mas te rs pu lled a way stron gly a t a rating of (proba bly) a bout 24: the ra ting o f the mon itors ra th er depended on which of the crew one wa s watchi ng.

So in the end th e 382 yea rs of ski ll t he Maste rs had clo cked up triump hed - th a t, or t heir co mbined weight o f 2/ 3rd of a to n was simply impossible to stop o nce t hey got going - a nd th ey ca me in so me 3 lengt hs ahead . It was howeve r a m os t e nj oyable fi xture - a nd a pleasure to see so ma ny spec ta tors (it wo uld be unfa ir to spec ula te o n wha t ma ny o f t hem were ho ping to see) . It's muc h to be ho ped tha t th is will beco me a reg ula r fixtu re (as long as too m a ny of th e 1st VIII do n ' t become Mo nitors . . . )

The crews: THE MA GIS TRATE: bo w R. M. Hooper, Esq . , 2 S. J . G rah a m , Esq . , 3 M. J . Vye, Esq ., 4 G. W. Ha rtri dge, Esq ., 5 M . J . Hodgso n, Esq . , 6 P. J . D. A llen , Esq . , 7 R . V. J. Butt , Esq ., stroke S. W. Wood wa rd, Esq ., cox P . P il ki ngto n, Esq . THE DESPERATE: bo w J . Gopa lji , 2 J. D . Mc L. Wrenc h , 3 J. G . Bend ie n, 4 M. F. McC ull o ugh, S A. W. J . Ha rdi ng, 6 M. J. Nash , 7 J. R. Seagra ve, str oke P. H . McCleery, cox J . De l Ma r. Umpire: D. S . G oo des, Esq. 18

(Jakob Kidde- Hansell and 1. S./-I .)

Masters

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The MaAistrate

The 'Desperate

The cA.11lusea

THE NORTH'S RICH HERITAGE COMES TO CANTERBURY . .. The Midlands and North I recall belong to a quarter of a century ago, a backcloth of youth viewed now nostalgically and with some inevitable distortion. It's a North reserved today for T. V. advertisements for wholemeal bread and warm nourishing soup, a fairy-tale world of clothcaps, horse-drawn carts and thick comforting accents. It's captured best for me by three writers of my youth, Milton Tordsworth, D. H. Chatterley and Philip Lurkin.

Happy those days when early in the morn By ra ilway bridge and bricky wall downcast I made my way carefree to school on foot Past Derwent's steady stream; nor did its voice Unheeded go but, mentor wise, of life, The end of life, and all life gives and takes It spake; (there follow the words of Derwent) 'Eh lad, don't muck arou nd but do some work, Him that skives off is nought but a berk. I didn't get where I am without some toil, Carving my way through rock, hard stone and soil. Put back into it, pu ll thy finger out, To strive , to seek, to find, is what it's all about.'

Moved by these words o'er my thou ghts there hung A darkness; [ scorned delights and lived Labori ous days ... MILTON TORDSWO RTH.

As Dad passed me my bacon bully, unceremoniously served to me in my pil boots, [ qu ivered. The corn sheaves stood, a testimon y to the teeming earth, with the pu lse and beat of life in them. All the world was around the house, vibrant, vital and quivering. A woman ent ered. I took her eagerly in my arms a nd pressed her close. The moonlight was play ing on the lobes of her ears and [ glimpsed the coal d ust in her dimpled cheeks. She cried mournfully as if from a distant star, "Barrie, my lad". Something tore at my heart and, qui vering, I agonised, "What, our mam? "

"Son, sao, never stray south of the Trent. " "Mother , I'm go in g to Canterbur y," I said.

Dad spat into the fi re grate, picked his nose with o ne fi nger and his leelh with the other, rose manfully and growled, "And ['m going t' Pig and Ferret. " It was the only time I' d seen him quiver.

D. H. CHATTERLEY. 19 (Jakob KiddeÂˇHansell alld },S.H.)

Sunny I1keston

Come to Sunny Ilkeston Laughed the girl on the poster, Kneeling up on the sand In tautened white satin . Behind her a mine shaft Offering its own form of Eden. 'Dark satanic mills,' cried Mr. Blake Till they moved him to the Bottoms, Screaming 'Don't measure my nature, I don't kno w'. That Whitsun, a letter fell through th~ door. It was from bosomy English rose, IDVltlDg Me to meet her in Bradford Cathedl:al, Told of how Dockery made aw ful pies, That summer was fading, books are a load of crap, And that somehow it was best to swerve Nort h; I suppose it' s true. PHILIP LURKIN.

REASONS AGAINST ATTENDANCE Fell asleep in previous lesson and not woken. Given up. Will grovel. Seems to be U.D.l. 'No more physics' . III - crack on head. At police station. Thought they had the lesson off. Apres Maths. Muddle with Biology notes . Parents informed. Will catch him eventuall y! Had to buy spikes. Being a godfather.

'Crashed out'. He will make his own peace. A sudden bassoon. Medical for Brazilian visit. Resting (eyes). Certified. In bed asleep. Says he was there. Turned ank le. Darker phase of the moon. Makes up excuses which don ' t hold water. Eyes . Not in uniform -

sent to matron.

Apologies. 20

SIT. VAC. Walnut Tree Cottage,

School Lane, Fostan,

Lines. N032 2LO. 9th October, 1985. Richard H. B. Sturt, M.A., Clerk of the Governors,

68 Castle Street, Canterbury. Dear Richard, I see that you are in charge of so rting thin gs out so I'd like you to know that I ought to be wheeled in as Head of The King's Sc hool, Canterbury, I take it the Canon's done a runner but don't worry. 1 can sort out the ruffia ns in the playground for yo u. I will be completing my teacher's tra ini ng course next sum mer so eve nts will fall in to place nicely. I've spent the last two years learning all about Educat ion so I probably know more about the subject than anybody you know. During my two teaching practices in Warrington I adopted a n experimental approach and came to the conclusion that the Laissez faire theory is about as much use as a fart in a colander. No, I go for the Big Stick method every time. I expect you'll agree. Suffice it to say, yo u' ll not get me in o ne of them huge and ugly comprehe nsives. I bet you could wa lk about all day in one of them and not find the classroom you are supposed to be in . Act ually, that's not such a bad idea when you come to think about it; jot it down in yo ur notebook and we' ll get together soon and knock out an article fo r the Times Ed. It might pay for a few rounds down the locaL I' ll leave the curriculum planning to the other blokes, but I'd like to take charge of some of the more important matters myself. For example, I'll decide what the new names of the bu ildings will be. We will re-name the buildings won't we? I think we shou ld. For instance, the block where my office is will be Principal's . (Or P. Off. for short on the master plan .) Finally, if there are any saps in the classrooms (teachers, that is, not the kids as you expect somc of them to be missing a few links) yo u'd better warn them that there is no place for them at the school when I get there . We must aim for the highest standard s li ke Sir Keith says . I'd appreciate an early reply as I'm going skiing this Xmas and it wou ld be nice to celebrate my appoi ntment by go ing on the piste. Yours sin ce rely, RICK CROWE.

34 & 36, Castle Street, Dover, Kent,

CTl 6IPN. 12th November, 1985. Dear Rick, T hank you very much for your in terest in The Headman's job. It's true the Canon's done a runner. I showed your letter to the Governors and they all agreed that, with your interest in sk i-ing, yo u are just the man th ey a re lookin g for, since you could star t at the top and go downhill all the way . We look forward to interviewing you on a date convenient to you, in the Oute r Hebrides. The l SI Apr il wou ld suit us well . Yours si ncerely, R. H. B. STURT. Rick Crowe, Esq., Walnut Tree Cottage,

School Lane, FOSTON,

Lines., N032 2LO P .S. Could you send on yo ur references and get Fa th er C hri stm as to drop us a lin e too?

KING'S THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN ASSISTANT Coming from Frankfurt University where there are more th an 30,000 students to the small but li vely world of King' s is li ke a change from land to sea . For the first fe w days I was overw helmed by hundreds of impressio ns, tho ughts and Ideas. How surpnsIng was It then to beco me part of the school rat her qu ickly and to feel q UIte comforta ble. , . . The very specia l uni fo rms, Mattins, the mce refreshIng breaks - one won t fInd thIs coffee service at Germa n schoo ls - the dinn ers where I w~s often the o nly female partIcIpant, the great va riety of sports a nd music activities, the magnr flcent hlston c settmg of the school,m the Cathed ral precincts, my bea utifu l flat, and last but not least the gorgeo us Autumn of 85a fter a few weeks I took th is all for granted . I particularly enjo yed teaching small gro ups and I a ~ sure th at most ~tud ents real is~d thei~ improvement in speak ing German, al th o~gh , fo r a f ew, It seemed to be dIffI cul t not t~ for~et the lunchtime periods. I also wish that dISCUSSIO ns In the SIxth form abo ut CI uCla I sub1ects lI ke na ture preservation , pollu tio n, Europe and the E .E. C . had msplred some students wIth more reflection a bout these th emes whic h concern every sIngle person today . Most people were very poli te, but to my regret , ~ e ry reserved too. In spite of th at I made fr iends whom I hope to see aga in. Teachmg at Km& s was a great expenence - a tremendous opportunity to gain an insight into the life of a PublIc School. I wIll remember well the musIcal events, the C hapter Ho use Concert, the Charity Concerts, the House Concerts and the mcred lble production of Guys and Dolls. I wou ld lik e to give my tha nks to all who helped to .make my sho rt stay in Canterbury a very interesti ng a nd good one which I would not have mIssed for anytillng. ULR IKE HAUSSMANN.

(Sara Bee)

CJhe CantuariaIL qnterview MR . PETER DAWSON (W 1947-53) T he General Secretary, A.E.R.E. Harwell

What will the A uthority's Fast Reactor Programme mean for the man in the street?

O ur existin g nuclear power reactors o nly ' burn ' a sma ll fractio n - a few per cent - o f the ura nium loaded in to them. T he remainder, which is recove red fro m the spent fuel at th e reprocessing pla nt, is called 'depleted' ur aniu m , because it is depleted of its readil y fissio nab le compo nent. Fast reacto rs can conve rt this ot herwise useless depleted materi al in to pluto nium which ca n then be used to fuel them. Used in this way the depleted uran ium we have stored in Bri ta in a t present could provide energy equivalent to Brita in's entire coal reserves - eno ugh for the next 300 years. So the pur pose of our fas t reactor resea rch a nd development prog ramme is to make sure in the lo nger term that Bri ta in 's electri city supply is secure; a nd to redu ce the a mount o f uran ium whic h would have to be impo rted into Brita in, because the effic iency o f its use wo uld be abo ut fifty times greater tha n it is in the existing types of nuclear sta tion. T he Prototype Fast Reactor operating at Dounreay in Scotland feeds electricity into the Na ti o nal grid and has given operating experience and confidence in safety . But a lo t of development remains to be done before commercial stations are designed a nd bu il t. We a re collab orat ing with others in Europe to share the costs and pool technical skills.

2. To what extent do you expect Harwell's activities to influence public attitudes to nuclear power over the next decade or so? As part o f the Atomic Energy Aut hority Harwell has a duty (spelt out in the 1954 Ato mic Energy Act) to provide the public with info rm atio n on ato mic energy. We a re proud of o ur nationa l rol e and a ttach a great deal o f importance to in for ming people about what we do and why. T he Laborato ry produces extensive literature o n all aspects of its wo rk. We sho w our nuclear reactors and accelerators, and our highly sophisti cated laboratories and equipment to more th an 2,000 members o f the public every year. We prov ide, free o f cha rge, a 'Speakers Service' which sends experts to many par ts of the coun try to give talk s, show film s a nd a nswer questions. T he Service has become very popula r wit h man y schools and colleges. Nuclear power has a vital contribution to make to na tional a nd world energy needs. T he industry has paid enormo us attentio n to the health and safety of its employees a nd the pu blic a nd has an excellent safety record. It is vital that everyo ne sho uld understa nd these two im portant facts.

3. Do you f eel that some people 's concern about the effect of nuclear power and research on the environment is justified? O f course people a re right to ask questi o ns abo ut the effects o f nuclear power o n the environment. We do o ur best to a nswer them full y and o bjecti vely. Wit h the suppo rt of the Government we carry out a lot of research to ensure that nuclear reactors operate safel y and reliably, and that the prospect of a serious accident is extremely remote. We also devote a lot of effort to increasing con fidence that nuclear was te can be disposed of witho ut significant effec ts o n the environment. All methods o f generating electricity have some environmental effects but it is fa ir to say that nuclear generation is comparatively good in this respect. In fact, the Ro yal Commissio n o n Enviro nmenta l P ollutio n, a n influentia l independent bod y, has recently endo rsed an increase in nuclear capacity, in the interests of limiting the poll uting effects associated with coal fired generation . 23

4. How much and in what areas does Harwell contribute towards solving non-nuclear industrial problems?

About one third of Harwell's work is now devoted to tasks outside the nuclear power programme. It is Government policy that the Atomic Energy Authority, with a wealth of skills in engineering, materials development, inspection, analysis, process technology etc. should actively apply those skills to the benefit of other industry to tackle more general social and environmental problems. I could quote dozens of examples of success (though many involve the commercial secrets of companies and cannot be cited). Some which I find appealing are: (i) use of environmental modelling techniques, developed in the nuclear programme, to evaluate non-nuclear nuisances such as causes of fog in Teesside, effects of halocarbons on the ozone layer and the degree of ingestion of lead from car exhausts; (i i) novel aspects of radiocarbon dating. The Harwell low level measurements laboratory provides a Carbon-14 dating service to archaeologists, museums and auction houses for authenticating the date of archaeological specimens and works of art. Harwell recently dated the 2500 year old remains of a man found in a Cheshire peat bog for the British Museum. The story appeared in national T.V. news bulletins; (iii) the development of novel methods of analysis such as 'thin layer activation'. In this technique a tiny spot of radioactivity is embedded in the cylinder wall of a car engine. As wear takes place tiny fragments of radioactivity are scraped away from the cylinder and are eventually trapped in the oil fi lter. The amount of radioactivity in the filter, when correlated with the odometer reading, is a highly sensitive indicator of the wear which has taken place; (iv) developments applied to medicine. Reinforced plastics developed for nuclear plant have been adapted for limb prosthesis. Ion beam accelerators have been used to extend the life of hip joints. For Moorfields Eye Hospital Harwell has adapted a technique designed for inspecting nuclear materials. A new machine has been built for examining the human eye to detect ab normalities which may require surgery; (v) examination of engineering structures for cracks . Techniques developed for inspecting nuclear reactors have been adapted for inspecting gas pipelines, offshore structures, rail track and - perhaps most appealing - the inner workings of Big Ben which is inspected annually by our scientists following a major breakdown in 1976.

5. How much say does the Government have in projects at Harwell? Are they Harwell's chief customer? The Atomic Energy Authority is a public corporation and the Department of Energy is our sponsoring Department, responsible for funding a great deal of our work. In addition we carry out tasks for other Departments (including Trade & Industry, Environment and Health & Social Security), for public sector industry (the Electricity Generating Boards, British Nuclear Fuels, British Gas) and for a range of private companies large and small. We are also active in research sponsored by the European Communities which involves collaboration with European laboratories and industry.

6. How often and in what areas have you felt that scientific research and economic and moral issues have been in conflict at Harwell? To what extent does a scientist carry a responsibility for his invention? I can only answer this question from a very personal point of view, but in my experience scientific staff have not felt their research work puts them in a moral dilemma. Indeed I share the belief of my colleagues that it is right and proper to devote our scientific skills to a technology that promises freedom from energy constraints in an energy hungry world, and which can spin off benefits into other industries, creating employment and increasing prosperity. The question about a scientist's responsibility for his invention is a difficult and important one . It is the use made of scientific knowledge, not the knowledge itself, which may be good or evil. My own view, and again it's a purely personal one, is that the scientist has basically 24 THE MILL HOUSE (Lllcy Amos)

the same kind of personal responsibilities in society as anyone else. And he may therefore have to ask himself whether what he is doing is for the benefit or dis benefit of mankind as best he can judge; and ac t appropriately if he concludes it is not.

What do you regard as Harwell's greatest achievements?

Nea rl y a fifth of the U nited Kingdom's electricity is now nuclear a nd the proportion will SOon increase when Ge nerating Board nuclear stations under construction feed electricity into the grid. Harwell from the very start of the U.K. programme made a key research contribution to this achievement. Harwell' s great scientific and engineering strength has also enabled it to turn into a mUltidisciplinary laboratory success full y undertaki ng research and development under contract for a wide range of industrial customers. Well over half of its costs a re now covered from sources other than the Department of Ene rgy's Parliamentary Vote. B.

What achievements in research at Harwell do you hope for in the future?

I feel con fident that Harwell's research will make nuclear power cheaper wit hout in any way diminishing its sa fety and environmental a ppeal. For example, developments here should enable nuclea r fuel to remain in the reacto rs of our nuclear stations for much longer, thereby getting more electricity out of the fuel. Other wo rk is expected to extend the stations' useful li fe . We a lso plan to develop improved testing methods a nd greater lifetime reliability o f nuclear plant, as well as eva luat ing and demonst rating optimum met hods for the long term storage of nuclear wastes . In the non-nuclear field we hope Harwell's research will res ult in the evolu tion o f new materials, testing methods and production processes to the benefit of British industry and the community as a whole. In particular we plan to make important contributions to o ffshore technology, energy conserva tion, space technology and microelectron ics. W e are also sure that we have a continuing

role in help ing o ur excellent safety standards and practices to be transferred to other sectors of industry.

9. To what extent is work at Harwell duplicated by work overseas and what efforts are made to avoid this? Work a t Harwell ranges from fundam enta l research, like that pursued in universities, to very specific commercia l proj ects carried out for specific customers. We attac h tremendous importance to fundamental research because in our experience it helps maintain the high overall standard of our science, tri ggers new and sometimes un ex pected approaches to practical problems and opens up new avenues which may eventua lly o ffer the prospect of substantial economic benefit s. In this whole area it is our policy to encourage scientists to publish their work a nd maintain close links, both at home and overseas, with other scientists engaged in similar activities . At the other end of the spectrum we may be un dertak ing research and development work for industrial customers to help put them in a more competitive position, o ften with overseas suppliers, a nd there is no way of avoiding the possibility that our research is being duplicated. We have to hope we are a head of the fi eld . I have al ready mentioned the collaborati ve arrange ments we have with other European countries. In addition OUf research into fu sion as a possible source of electricity generation in the next century, whic h is centred on the Culham Laboratory near Harwe ll , form s part of the coordina ted programme of the Euratom Community of which this coun try is a mem ber.

10. Do you agree with the view that the British are good at research and bad at exploiting their findings? What effort does Harwell make to ensure that research is followed through by successful production and marketing? Can you point to any big success stories in this area? Harwell really sta nds o n the boundary between public service and private enterprise since o ne of our main fu nctions is to assist directl y in wealth creation by transfer of our technology into 26

industry. We have a large Marketing & Sales Department whose job is to ensure that markets for our ~xpertlse are IdentIfIed and that our substantial capabilities are used by industrial orga nISatIOns to the full. In addition to the examples I gave in response to your fourth question I could mention as bemg partIcularly successful: (i) the 'doping' of silico. n crystals in our Materials testing reactors for the semiconductor industry', (ii) th e routme pro d uctIOn and sale of the short-li ved radioisotope Iodine 123 for use in hospitals both at home and abroad; (iii) the use of neutron radiography to examine oil now in a running engine, and of X-radiography to examIne aeroengmes under load (we were awarded a Queen's Award for this development a long WIth Rolls Royce); , (iv) the user of laser beams to stud y c,ombustion processes in the internal com bustion engine; thiS technique IS now used by engll1c manufacturers to design more competiti ve products;

(v) the development of a novel ul traso nic technique for detecting and sizing cracks in engineering structures; (vi) the development of new tec hni9ues for removi ng polluta nts from car exhausts. Every Jaguar car exported to the USA carnes a 'clean-up' device developed at Harwell.

II.

What else should we have asked you, or would you like to tell us about?

I hope I have managed to convey the impression tha t Harwell is a li vely and exciting place at whIch to work. It has now diversified its research a nd development programmes widely beyond the.leClUlrements of the nuclear Industry so as to make maximum use of its un iq ue research fac IlItIes a nd the pa l tIcular expertISe Its sCIentIsts and eng meers have acq uired in their nuclear wor k. We have no shortage of customers and a re confident a bout our fu ture. So I wo uld like to thmk that ~ome of your readers WIll spend a summer wit h us as vacation students while they are at ~nIverslty, and perhaps become members of our sta ff in due course. And remember that, lIl.addltlOn to aura,cllve careers for sc ~e ntls ts and engll1eers, we also have opportunities for 11011 sCIence graduates m personnel a nd fmance work and general administratio n.

(Joshua Mowfl)

BOOK REVIEWS 'ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS' JAM ES McCON NELL (The H erbert Press Ltd., 46 Northchurch Road, London N J 4£J. 1985. £14.95. pp. 1-224) Ja mes McConnell one-time House Maste r at Etan College, has produced a valuable rec? rd of t.went~ fi ve o f the Engli sh Public Sc hools. As a former ~o u se M~ster at a n E liz~beth~n found~tlOn. ,I,fmd his charting of tradit ion and change perceptive, a nd his que~yJO~ of the term Pub,lIe School prop itioUS. As he explain s: • " Publi c Sc hool" is a mi sleading term which lingers on tho ugh, It has become out of date and the sc hools themse lves would prefer to be known by some othe r name. . The aut hor is we ll qualified to make and suppo rt judgements o~ this kind ~ecau.se, afte,r a long te~chJOg ca ree r a t Etan he moved into the professional world of educat io n, becommg, mter alia, a n adViser to the Commissi~n for the E.E.C. on internmional schools. Not surprisingly, though Eton Co llege provides the last of the essays in this volume, .~he a uthor' s pe.rso~al enthu siasm for the place he taug ht in for twenty-seve~l ye~rs, sta nds o ut. But he tlles}o chec ~ his bias and makes some informative compariso ns when he wn tes: Eton c~ n.n ot .ma~c h the glOilo us env ironment of Sedbergh the histo ri cal associations o f Canterbury, the monas tic msplrali on of Ampleforth or the coed ucational ~ltract ions o f Bedales. Cha rt erhouse has a superior desig ~ a nd .techn?l ogy centre, Sherbor~e a better spo rts hall, Marlborough a more excit in g a rt sch oo ~ a~d Duh~lch a fmer picture galler~. S1. ~au l s and Win chester still have a slight edge academica lly, Ch.n st ~ Hospital wear ~ more ecc~nt rl c um for m , We llington has one more VC and half a dozen schoo ls III thi S book charge higher fees., ' Arter thi s recogniti o n of the attract io n of other places, Mr . McConnell sketches a n effeclive profile of what he considers is 't he rea l Eto n' , Doublin g ac ross pages 18- 19 there is a splendid panorama ent itled 'The King's Sc hool, Can terbury', It illustrates perfectly the sp iri t of the a necdot e, quoted by the author, o f the new b~y who. wro,te home to his parents ' I a m settling down well here. T here is a Cathed ral in th~ School gr~un.ds. The historical c?ntext of the school is we ll set and its con temporary vita lity is reflected III th~ descnptlO,n ?f both academiC a nd socia l ach ievement. Th e impact of the ad missio n of girls since the 1970s IS I.I0ted ql1:lzzlcally. Mr. McCol1l~~1I finds them more poised and more ma ture than their male conte,mpora n es , He mform s us that the gil ~s 'are tolerably amused by the boys' stru ctured attitudes and the Importa nce they at~ac ~ to team games, As an historian [ fo und myself browsi ng on the account of Rugby. TI~e author does JU ~ l1ce ~o Dr. Thdmas A rnold 's pioneering whilst clearing away some myths, not ~e~st establlshed,by Tom E!IO~VlI s,School a{s. Th e Ru by saga is wid e ranging, There is the story of Wilham Web ~ El,hs who, ,d~sre~ardm g !h~ ru. es of footb~1I as played in his time, 'first took the ball in his ar,ms and ran wuh It thus ong~ natm~ the dlstlllct.lve feature o f the Rugby game'. At anoth er level we may consider 'the Rugby mo uld of h.lgh-mlllded left-wI~g inte llec tuali sm' as exemp li fied in a Head Mas ter who was la ter to become an Archbishop of CanterbUl Y, Dr , Frederick Temple, One commen t made by Mr. McConnell about today ' s Rugby School- 'The.perfor m ~nce a t ,Advanced Level remains a mystery, as Rugby in com mon with a few other sc hools, declined t,o disclose ItS G',C.E. results to the author of a book' - prompted me to ta ke down from my shelves a detailed report, PUbltSide,d in 1838, by an investi gat ive American, Dr. A lexander Bac ~le , He, was lT~uc h upset by Dr. Arno l S unwillingness to all ow stra ngers to sit in a tiessons or to talk W l t~ pupI.ls. Tr~ m g to ~hass ~ h~ ,R~vg. HCfd Master, Dr. Bache tackled one of the H ouse Masters \~ h o re~elved ~lI,m ';':Ith muc osp lta lt y ut \~ 1~ info rm cd him stern ly that ' ho use etiquette' did I~O.t perm\t showmg a visito r II1to the stud y-rooms o f pupils. Some curta in o f sec recy o bviously ha ngs trad itionally . " In his Envoi Mr McConnell draws attention to the co nti nuing threat by political campal gne ~s to ~bol,lsh all rivate ed ucati~n . To the case which he cogen tly argues against ~vhat he fo~esees as 't he natto n ah~at l on of fn owledge, wisdom a nd et hics', I suggest there are, th ree other c1all11,S that might be added on the eV idence that ca n be adduced from his tour of the twe nty-five schools of thi S book. " ', First English Public Schools appearing as it does in 1985, o ffe r.s wiLnes~ o f cO ll tlllUit y and sta? llIt y ,for the ed ~cat ion of you ng people a t a time when the Sta te system , I~ suffenn g from prolonged. dl sruplion with the conseq uent disadvantaging of ma ny pupils and the demorahslllg of teachers. Second, commg thro ugh 28

the ma ny and diverse accounts of the Public Sc hools, there is a rec urrent factor - the significance o r residenti al ed ucati on exemplified in the H ouse system , Here is an agency fo r c reat in g a sense of loya lty and in identification with wholesome va lues at a time when we are surro unded by a di sintegrating socie ty. Thirdly, the claim of a far-sighted Englishman , hi mself a son of Wincheste r and Rugby, Sir Michael Sadler, is worth pondering, Lecturing to a n American audience in 1930 o n The Future oj Secondary Educatioll he concluded: 'Education must p roduce a n el ite. The elite must emerge from the whole range of human society. How then can these two func tion s of ed ucat ion - the furtherance of a commo n interest and the fosteri ng of a n elite - be effect ively combined ?' En hancing the lucid ly presented informat ion o f this book are the super b ill ustrations, T he volume mu st surely contain one of the most comp lete collect ions of illust rations of the English Public Sc hools, their build ings a nd their co nte mporary acti vities, at present availa ble. l. H. HIGGINSON.

'H. G. WELLS' JOHN BATCHELOR (GL 1955-60) (C. U.P. ÂŁ19.50; paperback, ÂŁ6.50) H. G. Wells is a noveli st often dismi ssed to the lower reaches o f the li te rary league's second divis io n, a populariser of progressive thought, a hater of the Englis h governing class, the prophet of the new educated class, a man - by his own ad mission - 'clever but not clever enough', At the sa me time, critics have duly recogn ised the man ner in which Wells, a bove o thers, characterises his age, capturing delightfully its trends and concerns. In short, a fin e journalist with a genius for imagina ti on but little real a rti stic conscience, In his vigorous, stimulating and adm irably concise st ud y o f Wells' s writi ngs Mr. Batc helor see ks to red ress the balance a nd re ~estab l ish Well s as a novelist who not on ly mastered a number or novelistic genres but also extended significantly their imagina tive range ; an early example is the handling of the 'utopian' tradition a nd 'invasion' novel in The War oj the Worlds {I 898). The cr itic illustrates ent husiast ically and coge ntly Wells's temperament which 'takes science as its donnee but ra pidly disp lays itself as pr imari ly literO/y', yielding the highest kind of literary and imaginative pleasure. Mr. Batchelor eschews bi ograp hical deta il except where it mea ni ngfu ll y illumin ates the writte n word and this perhaps is one of the critic's most important judgements , While Wells's many emotiona l rela tionshi ps a nd cr ises are mercifully subordinated , the variou s influ ences on his thinking of Darwin, Hu xley a nd Nietzsche a re usefull y documented, and perceptive comment on Wells's ideas is supplied by rrequent contras t a nd compa riso n with his friend Co nrad . . After energet icall y cele bratin g the shee r creative high spi rits and Swift ia n brilliance of imaginat ion of the ea rlier work s, Mr. Batchelor turns to Wells's fict ion from The New Machiavelli (1911) onwards, Personal circumsta nces and lack of variety in theme led to a fla gg ing of inventio n a nd whi le two of hi s most famo us novels, Tono-Bungay (1909) and The HistOlY of Mr. Polly (1910) e nj oyed enormou s success, they were fo llowed by te n re la ti vely barren years in which Wells sought va inly for a publi sher to take a new novel. The energy and creati ve exuberance of the earlier wo rks gave way to a didacticism (accentuated by c ri ses in personal life) wh ich legislated against many of Wells's greatest ta lent s. These were largely resurrected in The Bu/pingtoll oj Bu/p (1 932) where Wells recovers, to a considerable extent, the qualit ies he di sp layed in the Edwardian period: structural coherence, dramati c vitality, comedy a nd a se nse of the inter-relationshi p of personal a nd public concerns. Mr. Batchelor is a critic who entertains while he informs, a true mi xt ure of ' best sente nce a nd moost so laas ', Nowhere is this more evide nt than in his excellent analysis of the Great Fishbourne F ire chapte r of Mr, PolIYi in its blend of physical emergencies, farcical in vention and high sensory exc itement it illustrates beyond doubt Wells's crea tive brillia nce, It is a tribute to Mr. Batchelor's c ritical energy and e nthusias m that his sy nopsis of the e pisode comm unica tes - as onl y th e best cri ticism does - a good deal of the sheer vita lity of the original. Wells is not much read at King's (nor elsewhere) in 1985 . Mr. Batc helor has done much with this book to show how much we are missing. No cr itic can do more, S.l.D.

VHouse @Notes SCHOOL HOUSE

Mr. Ross's first term was one to look forward to enormously, anticipating many notable achievements, both sportmg and cultural. On the sporting front the House has had a busy term. We were well represented in the Junior rugby teams at all levels particularly by John Davies, Martin Ie Huray and Joe PollItt. However, the seven-a-side teams suffered mixed fortunes with U. 14 and senio r teams failing to impress! T he House League fought valia ntly and provided a n opportu~lty f?r many to discover Birley's (congrat ulatiOns to Patnck Lidstone for appearing on the ru gby fi eld for the first time in seven years and to the Finns for 'breakin g' up the League). T he ~el1lor basketba ll team met with some success before fma lly succumbing to Galpin 's . On the cultural and musical side, School House's mal~y talents have been in strong evidence . Under the directorship o f Omar we were runners up in the inter-Ho use play competition and our sincere tha nks are due to Mr. Wainde for pulling on an excellent JUlllor play. We have also provided a number of musICians for choirs and orchestras and Guys and Dolls. Ou r Oxbridge candidates each went abo ut their ta~ks in differe nt ~ays - some wo rked hard while C rac Downes, after gaining a choral scholars hip, decI~ed that mtellectua l discussion with Lucia Conybeare wo uld be his best polIcy. And It worked . '.' Socia ll y and not so socia ll y the House has been very aclive. The new girls vel y qUickly settled in particularly Vicki Peterson who showed her affection through vi,?lence, a nd Kate Hamilton who spent the latter half o f the term culti vating her garden. Omar fmally got himself a purple gow n while Oscar Blend played the 'Gooseberry' in nearly every 6u study m the school. On the veggie front we successfull y kept the compu te r room chairs warm, particularly Simon Thomason who came 5th in an in ternational computer co mpetI~lOn . . . A special mention must go to Melville Eyton who added much spice to our lIves and m exchange Look our soap, O Uf shampoo, our razors, our s h o~ers . . . . . Finall y we are ever grateful to Miss J . a nd the Imen room lad les without whom . .. and a specia l thank yo u to Mr. Wainde and Mr. ~ nd Mrs .. Ross for all the energy they ha ve put m (both in the House and on the fami ly Side) III their first term , which has not been without ItS hectic moments ! DAVID STOCKS AND OMAR MADI-tA.

THE GRANGE

As the last-ever Grange Upper Sixth rides off into the sunset, we'd like to begin by thanking those who've helped make our time here comfor table or happy: the domestic and linen, room ladies, Miss Delafons, and Mr. & Mrs. Woodley; and we d lIke to wis h Nick Briggs good luck m the Old Gra nge. With fifteen Oxbridge candidates, three Purples, the two leadin g parts in Guys and Dolls, and the rug,by cup It has been a memorable term for The Grange . ~blgall a nd Tim Bn!lgs certa inly showed style (and that wasn tal! .. .. ) In the mus I~a l that packed the Shirley Hall for four dellnous I1Ights, whilst Deborah, Ka te, Suk ie, Clare and Piers (no , not tha t one!) all played their parts confidently. (Of course, we all knew the Briggs were singing men - but thiS was different!) Sam Hardingha m was a reso urcefu l ASSista nt Stage Manager, hav ing a month earlier shown her own real sk ills as a n actress when our Ca/igu/a was placed second to Broughton in House Drama. 30

Besides drama, Broughton were our riva ls in rugby and colleagues for a much-appreciated Monitors' evening of drinks and darts in their well-lit cavern - our thanks to Mr. Hodgson. We beat them in th is year's rugby final (played as a Sevens Competition), for our third win in nine years as against their five. The basis of our team was the four members of the I st XV pack who had such a good season : Piers McCleery, Nick Briggs, Jeremy Gordon and Jimmy Nevile (who went on to represent Kent A and Rosslyn Park Schools, a considerable achievement). Mark Ursell and Tim Briggs were strong and fast 2nd XV players too. Elsewhere on the athletic scene Adrian Leach pumped iron and sculled (when not laughing at the Monitors' Eight's efforts), Bobby Morse captamed the Colts A XV successfully, and Zoe de Linde brought a new dimension to the netball scene. There were plenty of signs from lower down that Grange's traditional grega riousness is in no danger of being lost, and we wish them as many good years as we had. THE MINT.

WALPOLE

No attempts at originali ty or even verse, this term. All incentive for 'famously unfunny social quips and repetitive boastfulness' seems to have gone. I wonder how to fi ll the blank page facing me.

Let me thank Mr. and Mrs . Vye for handling potentially riotous si tuations and Miss Burr for breaking in the new entrants, and the cleaning and sewing lad ies for keeping the House trimmed. (Oh, and Chris Painter for the new pastel walls.) On the sporting front the Junior Rugby Sevens Cup found itself a new home in Walpole, while the Senior House Basketball Cup stayed on the House wi ndowsill , although Linacre tried desperatel y to seduce it from Marcus Cumber's clutches, with the aid of two eager maids. Culturally, Vijay's tireless e fforts a t producing a situa tion comedy went sadly unrewarded . Adam Ric hards and Ronnie Bircher's insatiable appetites for the spotlight led them to take part in the Guys and Dolls production. The House, uncharacteristically quiet this term, has not seen much other drama, except that Lanfranc finally witnessed the fu lfi lment of tradition. I would like to wis h Vijay a ll the best for the next two terms, and also take th is opportunity to thank him for sparing the House his culinary experiments. Bye, you guys. Beam me up, Scollie. JAY ESH GOPAUl.

(Sarah Carlisle) 31

MEISTER OMERS

This term saw the revival of musical activity curtailed during the su mmer term by examinations and King's Week. The Jazz Band became a Wind Band to incorporate several talented newcomers and a Concert was given before half-term in the O ld Synagogue. We are indebted to Mr. Barry Rose, Mr. Stephen Matthews and Mr. Bill McConnell for their generous assistance and the event proved so enjoyable that another concert is fixed for the lent term. In rugby a cloud was cast over some good performances by the injury Andrew Cunningham sustained to his neck. We have admired his fortitude in hav ing to wear a collar support for so long and hope to see him back without it next term. Those who represented the School at the highest level were Hugo Barton, Nick Wakefield and Joe Wrench whilst Hugh Gi rling had to sellie for the 2nd XV this season after his illness. In the 3rds Mike Miller was a key member of the pack and of a side which did not concede a single point until very late on and only lost one match . Jonathan Veitch, Bill Stanbury, Richard Costain and Hugh Andree all played in the 4th XV and at least seven members of the 5th form played in the Colts. Charles Vavasour captained the U. 15 A and Spencer Santry and Tony Ogedegbe were regular members of the U .14 A. We were well represented in the Band C XVs at Junior level but space prevents the mention of a ll the names. David Knight distinguished himself by fin ishing 84th in the Canterbury Marathon in 3 hours 36 minutes and he and Bob Wallis ran in the School team. Rumours abound that at least two others have tried this sport but fou nd it difficult since they got lost quite regularl y and had to be hunted for by the Master i/ c. In the hockey world our Junior League team triumphed in the six-a-side competition on Blare's . Well led by Ben Palmer they beat Marlowe 4-2 in the final. Our parts on-stage in Guys and Dolls were Arvide (Joe Wrench) and Liver-Lips Louie (lain Girling); backstage Hugh Girling was in his element but nearly received a serious injury. Tim Bainbridge was again heavily involved with the Lighting and John Tegner was the you ngest member of the Orchestra . This term has seen a new arrival in the shape of a fine garden seat presented by Mallhew Justice. We are most grateful for this donation and it will doubtless be well used in the closing weeks before A-levels. . We thi nk that we are bidding farewell to Judith Reed and Mallhew Eyton for the second time - if they can tear themselves away qu ickly enough. It is ho ped that they have been successful at Cambridge. Finally I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Craik for a ll their work and in particular a superb candle-li t House C hristmas Supper. Our thanks too to the cleaning staff who tolerate our failings in personal orga nisation and straighten everything up . T his has been an enj oyable term and we look forward to the challenges of 1986 when the House reaches its 50th an ni versary. JONATHAN WRENCH.

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(Alexander Redmon)

32 (Above le/t) A Plasma Assisted Vapour Deposition (PAVD) system developed at Harwell for coating the external surface of fue l element cladding cans used in the Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR). (Above right) Non-Destruct ive Test Engineers from Harwell exa mining the Great Clock of Westminster belter kn own to us as Big Ben. (Below) U ltraso nic Inspection of the Nozzle Sect ion of a Prcssuriscd WaleI' Reactor Pressure Vessel. I II

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MARLOWE

A revitalised Marlowe emerged after the summer holidays determined to achieve further success. Although this largely eluded us, sincere efforts were made all round . On the sports field, success has been mixed. In the House Sevens, our biggest weapon, Tim (Let's eat 'em) Turner, our 1st XV star, was unavailable, and a weakened team, with two 2nd XV men, Robert (The Butcher) Patterson and Fergus (O.K. Boys) Simpson, went on to be pipped in the dying seconds by both M.O. and Broughton, although Mitchinson's crumbled under our mig ht. On the other hand, the Junior House League hockey team showed extreme promise by reaching the final of the competition . Alt hough our already weighed-down trophy shelf was not strengthened this term, the dedication and spirit of the teams was very evident. Drama has also fl ourished this term, all those involved with Mr. Big must be congratulated for a superb effort and a certain fourt h place . The House also had ten people involved with Guys and Dolls, most notably Emma Venton, whose performance was particularly breathtaking! The inaugural House Sixth Form dinner took place towards the end of term and was a great success, highlighted by D.J .R. 's enlightening speech and Robert Webb's bizarre choice of evening dress. Finally, [ would like to congratulate Emma Venton on her recent appointment, and thank Joe (who has trod where many a brave man would not dare to go), the tutors and most of all Mr. and Mrs . Reid, for all their help this term . ANDREW SHERWOOD.

LUX MOORE

Luxmoore has had a stimulating term in certain areas, with certain others getting a rest after a very active last term, notably on the social front. This te rm has been a successful one for sport, with everyone being involved. The senior House Rugby league was almost a success story. We only lost once (to Linacre). The shells have been very sport orientated : they all got into a school Rugby team. Baba Epega won the 'Man of the Match' shield four times in the U. 14 A XV and Scott Friedlander was awarded it once . The Rugby Sevens ended up with Luxmoore 'drawn' to play Broughton, Linacre and The Grange. Needless to say we did not get through to the final day! However the teams were surprised by the determination we put into our game and none of them found ours an easy match. The house U.15 Seven did very well to get into the final, losing to Galpin's. The junior Hockey team also proved a good side narrowly missing the finals. Luxmoore has often come close without grabbing a cup. Maybe that will change in fut ure years . Twenty-four golfers took part in the Luxmoore foursomes on a glorious Sunday at Prince's. Julian Woods and his godfather wrested the cup from last year's winners - the Rowes. This term Luxmoore did its share of social service: various sponsored events (including fossi l collecting and break dancing) raised well over ÂŁ300 for Mencap. Almost everyone participated . Thirty-five members of the house helped with the annual late-night Christmas shopping for the elderly and physically handicapped. 33

THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK - DA vm DIMBLEBY AND LORD SCARMAN BORROW THE SOCIETIES ROOM (Rupert Ainsworth) THE LAST UPPER SIXTH (Jakob Kidde-Hal/sell)

The House drama entry looked promlsmg at one stage; Simon Richards and Magnus Montgomery in particula r. However it was not fully exploited . What was so interesting about the flo or? What was on those pamphlets? The long silences gave the playa specia l quality. However we a ll thank Michael Camburn for the supreme efforts in the directing of the play. With the arrival of winter it has been noticed that Jakob has begun to hibernate in his study a great deal; however Andy Guy and the M.O . connection remain tight-'libbed' about it all . Many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, especially for arranging for us to have such an excellent Christmas Dinner, to Angus Macdonald for his bagpipe acco mpaniment afterwards, including the deliberate errors, to Mrs . Beddoes for her expert ha ndling of the health of the house, to the 'elite' monitorial body, a nd last but not least to our splendid cleaning ladies. MIKE MCCULLOUGH.

On the sporting side Galpin's has had a series of ups and downs. The junior seven-a-side rugby team brought back the silver under the leadership of Flemmich Webb. The basketball team played some very good games but were beaten in the semifinal by White hot opposition. The house league rugby had an enthusiastic a nd successfu l term un til the competition was stopped because of injuries - sorry, Mitchinson's! The house concert included music from Mozart through The Anim als' House oj the Rising Sun to a composition by James Waters and a performance by the rock band . We had a repertoire by the jazz quartet made up from the members of Jura study and an interesting adaptation of an Offenbach opera by Chris White and Andrew Fordham . These eccentricities were interlaced with various vocal performances and a string quartet. The evening was completed by the Galpin 's chorus with the celebrated Gendarmes' Duet. T he whole concert was most success full y arranged and produced by Andrew Fordham. There has been a strong interest in this term's production of Guys and Dolls with Natalia Fetherston-Dil ke taking one of the main parts as Sarah, C hris White, Steve Grimes, Ali Morgan a nd Tom G rieves as various Guys, and Lucy Cha rringto n, Clare Wilson and Marius Kiely as part of the Salvation Army. Lucy Amos performed as a stripping doll a nd Richard Preston managed to keep his calm as a multinational waiter. Most of this term's academic wo rk was done by the fair number of Oxbridge candidates in the form of Brett Arends, Lucy C harrington, Angus Robertson, Elizabeth Robertson and, 1 suppose, myself. Natalia did bother to come back for a seventh term but was given a n unconditional and a C hora l Scholars hi p, much to the env y of the rest of us. The fire risk seems to have decreased on top floor but the everlasting connections with Walpole a nd Luxmoore conti nued in the normal way, to be joined with added interest from M.O. and Broughton 6b. We see the loss this term of Alex 'Bean' Newman-Rogers and Darren 'Des' O'Conor so I suppose the continuing autobiograp hy by Dov Taylor will have to provide the entertainment, much to the love of Eddie Dykes . Jules Godley returns fr om his time in Lattergate next term to be replaced by Steve Grimes . The house dinner was brillia ntl y cooked by Mrs. Woodward and the evening closed with a Mint Yard disco in the gym. O ur thanks go to Mrs. Jones and the ladies abo ut the house, and to Mr. and Mrs. Woodwa rd for their continua l help a nd encourageme nt throughout the te rm . GE RARD MORR IS.

LIN ACRE

Linacre has, yet again, flouri shed this term. After a mere twenty-four hours Octavia departed, having gained an unconditional place at Jesus (surprise, surprise)! That left only four seventh termers to battle through the term - although we took solace watching the fo urth termers tearing their hair out. Even Iheir number diminished when J eremy Avis won a choral scholarship to Oxford. Fortunately we could combine his talents with those of Anthony Evans-Pughe, to whom we are a ll indebted, to produce a House concert that may even have surprised ourselves (except the Clarinet duet!) The Padre's and D.P .H's rendering of Old Mother Hubbard turned out to be as much a visually amusing as a musically amusing performance! - - -As with every Autumn te rm , we stood back and greeted an influx of new gi rls to grace our House. The most baffling has been Tiggy and her fu ll and varied fan club . We a lso welcomed Johann von Wersebe who seemed to cope very well indeed wi th Linacre life, a nd Mrs. Davis who became a House Tutor. The House Drama Competition was adjudicated by an old Linacre man, but we were disqualified on technical grounds alt hough the standard of the performance augurs well for next term's house play. Jonathan Nicholls especially put a lot of time into it amid some frantic Oxbridge work and we are very grateful to him for his efforts . On a sporting note we flourished, wi nning the House League competition (before it was abandoned) and playing well in the interhouse seven-a-side tournament. The House could boast three 1st XV playe rs and a raft of 2nd and 3rd XV players too. I am indebted to the House and especiall y to the monitors, clean ing ladies and, of course, Mrs. Birley. We are sad to lose Mr. Davis who in turn, I think, is sad to leave 'the warm fire that is a lways burning in Peter Allen's study'. Above all I would like to thank P.J.D.A. for his great hospitality and friendship over the years . I wish my successor , Alistair McFie, all the best for his two terms as Captain of House. JAMES SEAGRAVE.

BROUGHTON

A strong seventh term Cambridge contingent returned , mustering eleven 'A' grades at A-level between them . At first the five 6u members formed the entire monitorial body, but by ha lf-term they were ably supplemented by four , and eventually six, 6a monitors who will surely form a very effeclive team in 1986. We had on ly three new arrivals this term , all of whom have settled in wit h remark able ease despite Lucinda Roberts' ordeal with the catering committee's selection team. Once again Broughton has been extremely well represented in school rugby teams and R.B.M i's chats 'about the game' have been mo re than welco med by J on Ga rdner, Duncan Ives and Eddie Mbu, all of whom received first colou rs. C . J . Brooke (2nd XV captain), Philippe Lacamp, Dave Lau rence and Peter Hamilton all picked up second colours, whilst Toby 35

â&#x20AC;˘ Duthie has captained the 3rd XV. Unfortunately The Gra nge took the House Rugby Sevens cup, but we felt that it would be rather nice for them to win once in a decade. Nick 'Baker's Doze n' put up a valiant performance in the House League but were hampered by the fact that most seniors played in a school team. Matthew Fenn distinguished himself in the cross-country club a nd ran for Kent during the term (when M .R.G .P. could find the right place a t the right time) . The juniors have also been active on the rugby field and were unlucky not to win the junior cup. Perhaps our greatest success of the term was in the House Drama Competition where Sarah Holden directed our play, based on A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, which came first in a close contest with School House and The Grange. Mark Evans and Philippe Lacamp played important roles in Guys and Dolls while Nick Baker and Giles Bird looked after the exciting lighting. Academically the term has been largely successful with the possible exception of our 6a Ec.Pol. contingent who seem to find themselves pushed inexorably towards the boltom of the league despite the 'Great P .G. 's' efforts. 6b have shown great enthusiasm in their work a lthough it has been suggested that Dave Laurence and Philippe Lacamp have been more than distracted by other activities such as the latter's body-building programme which has been well supported by some eminent literature. No mention of academic success would be complete without reference to Duncan Ives who has adopted the mantle of T.V. Monitor, a lthough he has begun to doubt whether all television is educational. On the social scene Broughton has been far from quiet and the visit from The Grange Monitors was enjoyed by all, even though the darts match never got under way. The combined Linacre/Broughton monitors' meal at Marchesi's was most enjoyable and the House Party was a resounding success . As the House prepared for the departure of the last 6u, the Hodgsons found a new favourite baby-sitter in the shape of Lucinda Roberts, who was personally trained by Toby Duthie, and who received the seal of approval from David and Sally . Overall, the term has been a very enjoyable one, and, on behalf of all the House, I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Hodgso n, Mr. Hutchinson, the other tutors and a ll the domestic staff for their care and attention throughout the term. It only remains for me, on behalf of the 6u Monitors, to wish the House all the best for the future. PATRICK PA tNES.

TRADESCANT

T his term has proved to be a good one . Soaring like a condor on the hig h thermals of the Andes, Tradescant gave a taste of its potential, achieving consistently high results. Our Fencers, Andrew Wickerson, Jon Rawlinson, Alex Carr-Taylor and Jon Bendien, helped the school through some important competitions and matches: the South-East Kent epee competition, where we came 6th and 7th; the Kent team competition where we came 2nd; the individual sabre competition, where we came 3rd; and the 3 weapon event where we were willing to settle with gold. Congratulations to Andy, Jon and Alex for their first and second colours. While some wielded swords, others, namely Paddy Greenleaf, Gareth Evans, Nicholas Daley, Mark Lawrence, Jerome Kemp and Neil Littlejohn showed true talent at Ru gge r. Paddy, a second XV man, was borrowed by the firsts, go t his second colours, as he helped his team to one of the best ever seasons. Gareth shuffled around from As to Bs and back again, a nd the juniors, who have a fa ir share of As and Bs will undoubtedly bring great improvement to Tradescant rugby. Robert Dickson (U .2 1 West Sussex snooker) was the mastermind behind o ur successful snooker competition, through which he sailed. Ph il Evans was awarded his first 36

â&#x20AC;˘ sq uash colours and Simon Attwood is to be congratulated for his selection for the Kent CrossCountry team, and despite the nauseating. noise of the ergometer, we look for wa rd to seeing James Stealns and Jeremy Nicholas showmg their prowess at the head of the river. One of the best examples of the degree to which a House can come alive was tha t of our House Party, whele undiscovered talents were discovered and great sufferings were suffered . Thank yo u very much to all those mvolved, especially the catering staff and the housemaster and his wife. ' C rafty.men condemn studies, simple men admire them', but Alex Stur!, Abib Bocresion and Jon Bendlen tned to use them for Ox bridge - no doubt they did well, good luck! A spontaneous group of some formidable actors was formed this term. The House competition play ~as a success (produced and directed by Julia and Sarah) and Guys and Dolls was made that httle bit more ente rt~min~ with Dominic Stearns, Paddy Greenleaf, Ailsa Buchan, Alex Sturt and Max FrancIs dlsplaymg real mastery of acting. On behalf of the House, I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Wetherilt, Mr. Parker and the tutors for an eventful term, a nd MIss Bnne for never failing in her never-ending work. JON BEND lEN.

MITCHINSON'S Normal Service will be resumed as Soon as possible.

LATTERGATE

With the arrival of 41 new boys and 3 new moni tors, Lattergate hfe too k lIme to get motivated, but once they had found their feet they entered into an incredible consortium of activities : C hnstlan Dwyer, Simon Roberts, James Linforth, Richard Rmaldl and Tom Baker all held secure places in the U.14 A rugby team, while. Simon Triggs, Jonathan Penner, James Robertson and Ju han Moore fenced for the school the lalter two winning silver medals at the Kent schools' fi~al. On the musical side virtually the whole house expressed their talents through the house concert, especially Alexander Skarbek on the French Horn, and the old Holmewood House rock group, headed by David Everist. Many others involved themselves m the second o~chestra, especially Simon Roberts, Simon Dobell , Edward Jones-Thomas, Jocelyn Martin, Julian ' . . Moore, Stephen Preece and Simon Hart. Many also became mterested m drama, and Simon Dobell played a very convincing Jesus in Dennis Potter's Son oj Man, the Lattergate house sketch . Though timi.d for the fir.st two or three weeks, the boys soon found their feet and , joined by the lat~ arnval .of Dommlc Burdess, soon made themselves at home. It did not take long for the milk machme to flood Itself, for sleeptalking to transcend to hallucinations of flying saucers, and for Jerry Gordon's bed to get soaked in water, though the bell was rung an hour early on the fll'st mormng at half-past six! All in all the term has be~n an enjoyable one, with everyone becoming involved in as much as possible y~t stili mamtammg an amicable and caring attitude that is such a necessity in a small ho'!se. We Wish Jules Godley and James Charlesworth good luck as they return to their respective semor houses and hope that Tom Grieves and Jerry Gordon, who now take over, will run the house as effectively as before. Our thanks go to the cleaning staff who have still miraculously !llan~ged to restore Lattergate from the havoc of the boys, and to Mrs. Maitland fo r her mestlmable care and help. Our fmal thanks go to Mr. and Mrs. Thane, for their incredible patience and benevolence. We hope that they have enjoyed this term as much as the rest of the house. THE MONITORS. 37

REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA GUYS AND DOLLS T HURSDAY-SUNDAY, 12lh-15lh DECEMBER, IN THE SH IRLEY HALL

A rare treat was o ffered to Canterbury audiences when 'B road way came to tow n' in the form of a prod ucti on of Guys and Dolls. T he decept ively sombre red brick of th e Shirley Hall , whose wa lls ha ve absorbed words a nd notes from numerous previous productions, revealed to the aud ience a tra nsformed auditorium and stage . T hrec levels of seatin g gave each member of the audien ce opport uni ty to savour the split-level stage, with its back drop of neon lights (advertising goods a nd services avai lab le on Broadway), and its cat walk , in front of the orchestra pit, upon wh ich lead ing cha racters wo uld late r seduce the aud ience wi th thei r di a logue and song. The opening trio of G uys, accompanied by tig ht and energe tic o rchestral playing, set the sta nd ard which was relentlessly mai ntai ned by th e rest of the east and instrumentalists as the show unfo lded. Throughout the prod uction we were given the opportu ni ty of hearing individual lead ing vo ices which were strong, fresh and clear, a llowing the text of the so ngs to be easil y understood. Similar ly, the chor us was we ll balanced producing accu rate and exciting part singing. On occasions when individual voices and chorus came together, as in 'Sit down! You're rocking

the boat', the effect was stunning. These quali ties o f confident professionalism we re similarily displayed in th e act ing of the main cha raclers an d of the Guys and Dolls, were they on Broadway, in the Save a Soul Mission or in the EI Cafe Cubano. The company displayed throughout an assurance and confidence that was admirab le . So many mo ments of Ihis prod uction highlighted the eno rm ous wealth of ta lent that is in Ihe sc hool and as such, an ex hausl ive list wo uld bc required to ensure that fu ll credit was give n whc rc it was due. However mention must be made of the outstandin g performances of Tim Briggs and Ab igail Willis, to app lau d th e fi ne choreog raphy a nd the exuberant dancing of the G uys and Dolls , and to acknow ledge the inspirational direction of Mr. And rew Dobbin, Col. Paul Neville and Mr. Barry Rose. Broadway came to Canterbury in December '85 - it would be no surprise were Broadway to host, at sometime in the future, forme r King's students who 'trod the boards' on this memorable occasion. GRENVILLE HA NCOX.

38 'GUYS ANIlIlOLLS' (J.S.N.)

CHARITY CONCERT SUN DAY, 27 1h OCTOBER, IN TH E SHIRLEY HALL The C hapel Choir opened the programme which was given in aid of the Roya l National Lifeboat Institute . With th eir fi rst chords the choi r gave us a clear indicati o n that it was a calm sea and a ve ry prosperous voyage that lay ahead under the direction of Mr. Barry Rose . T here were some delightful moment s in th e two Stan ford motets (Beali quorllm a nd Justorum Animae) where bo th the magic of pianissimo control and a real force of climax were achieved . T he size of th e Ha ll robbed the cho ir o f this latte r qu ality elsewhere in their programme but this was of little conseq uence when set aga inst the tight rhythmic deli very, for example, of Gardner's Tomorrow shall be my dancing day and the beautifully po ised phrasing in Ned Rorem's Sing, my sOlll, his wondrous love. The good balance betwee n th e two soprano parts was much appreciated. as was the balance between soloist Sara Bee and the choir's accompan iment in Mendelsso hn's Oh jor th e wings oj a dove!. Sara's welcome eye-contact with her audience in a trio by Henry Lawes co uld perhaps have been adopted by o th er soloists, but their confidence in into na tion and ensemble was never lacking . Natalia Fetherston-D ilke was the soloist in the ar ia Ich jolge mit Freude and presented Bach's line in a confident , clear LOne, th ough the element of j oy was perhaps not full y realised. The nonchala nt deli very of the glee quartet's Sly Damon touched on the professional and was ri ghtly well received. Finall y, the choir sa ng Ala n Ridout's Moses and the Red Sea, the first performance of the revised edition of a n earlier work, wi th Jonathan Wrench (bariton e solo) a nd piano du et (Alan Ridout and Stephen Matthews) . Opera singers Dennis Wicks (bass) a nd Joa n Croft (soprano) concluded th e first half of the programme with Tc haiko vsky, Mozart, Ed ward Ge rm an, The Flea and some powerful wo rk from the diaphragm. T he evening ended with a performa nce o f Smetana's Vltava by th e School Orcheslra in which the strin g section es pecia ll y excelled in both controlling th e fili gree passages a nd sustaining th e expansive melodies. A slightl y faste r te mpo might have helped in guiding us through the stormier passages, but here was a con fident reading of a difficult score in which all departments of th e o rchestra we re hea rd to good effect. Before this, the st rin gs we re ha rd pressed to balance wit h wind a nd percussion who respo nded wit h ent husiasm to Col. Paul Neville's baton in a li ve ly, crisp performa nce of Cortege de Bacchus by Deli bes . Between these two items Clarence Myerscough deli ghted the aud ience in Saint-Saens' Havanaise for violin and orchest ra with his technically accomplished solo perform a nce, well supported by a reduced orchestra who slipped into th e role of accompaniment with an assured ease. D ENN IS K IDDY.

LlNACRE HOUSE CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 30th OCTOBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL A wide range of ta lents were revea led in Linacrc's House Concert where all thirteen it ems were played or sun g with great enthusiasm by various gro ups invo lving more tha n half the housc. The comical was mi xed wi th the seri ous, and class ical with popular to give a va ri ed and in teresting programme. Commendable presenta tion and o rganisation ensured smooth-running of the proceedin gs a nd the continual attention of the a udi ence. A sta rtling start was give n to the concert with The sound oj the drums created and performed by C. Frew and D. Jevo ns. It was followed by th e first appearance of the House Choir under the capable direction of Jeremy Av is. Two un accompa nied Traditional Yiddish Folk Songs we re s ung with good balance and precision . The last item of the concert was The Two Grenadiers 39

'GUYS AND DOLLS' (J.S. H.)

â&#x20AC;˘ by Schumann which had won Linacre the House Song Competition last year, with the additional role of Anthony Evans-Pughe at the piano. In both the singing was of a good quality and the effort made to sing from memory was well worthwhile. Some other vocal numbers were undertaken by various groups throughout the concert. Now Ihe Lord his reign begins by Henry Lawes was finely sung by a trio of Marlowe's Sara Bee with Lucy Hoare and Anthony Evans-Pughe. A warm clear tone was produced in the top parts, though the middle part could have been a little louder, and the bass provided a firm line. In a rather different style was Andrew Fordham's Walking inlhe rain. He gave the necessary backing to versatile Jeremy Avis who sang with impressive involvement and professionalism. Songs in a lighter vein were very well received. Three lillie maids/rom school from the Mikado were suitably fastidious through the voices of Lucy Hoare, Katie Woodcock and Iona Hay. Old MOlher Hubbard for a change involved the Housemaster and a tutor in the musical side of the concert. Mr. Allen and Dr. Humberstone both sang Hely-Hutchinson's mock Handel very convincingly, and with some amusing stru ggles for the top notes. Eq ually funny was The Blues sung by the Gentlemen of the Upper Sixt h (James Seagrave, Michael Nash, Anthony EvansPughe and David Watkins). The words were taken from the Blue Book of 1947, as revised by the 6u committee 1985, and the music from the Anglican Chant Book. It served its satirical purpose very effectively, though some of the non-pupil audience didn't quite get it. On the instrumental side, some impressive pieces were heard from soloists and chamber groups. Agile fingerwork was combined wit h musical taste to give a poignant performance of a Chopin piano stud y, The Revolulionaty, by David Watkins, though a little more phrasing by the hands rather than the feet was needed. An accurate interpretation of the first movement of Piano Sonata in C (K.330) by Mozart was given by Michael Nash. What was lack ing in the phrasing and rather too harsh a touch was made up for by confidence. Enth usiastic applause was give n to K. Allen and O. J ackson who played the Menuet from a Clarinet Duet by Viotti. The piece proved to be a little beyond them but they were determined to fin ish it and kept calm even when they missed many of the notes. Some very competent violin playing was heard from Christopher Whiteley and Anthony Evans-Pughe in a Sonata by Nardot. The phrasing and style were su ited to the baroque music and there was good communication between the players. The first movement of Brahms' Cello Sonata in E minor was played with sensitivity by Christophe Brandt with Mrs. Brandt at the piano. The lack of phrasing a nd good intonation was probably the result of nerves in playing such a difficult piece. Congratulations go to Anthony Evans-P ughe and Jeremy Avis who need a special mention for their leadersh ip of the house's music in giving such an enjoyable concert. KRISTIAN BELLI ERE .

MEISTER OMERS HOUSE CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 30t h OCTOBER, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

A well-fi lled Old Synagogue was warmly welcomed by Mr. Craik and enjoyed a varied programme of solos and ensembles. The programme was opened by a performance of the familiar sounds of Purcell's Rondeau Abdelazar by Robert Wilson and David Knight (violins). Other Baroque pieces included the first movement of Albinoni's oboe concerto, most competently negotiated by Peter Apps, two movements from a Bach flute sonata, played by John Tegner a nd neatly accompanied by Julian Cridge. Also from this era were Paul Solway's eloquently sung version of Handel's Arllhou Iroubled? and a fine centre-piece to the programme in Loeillet's Trio Sonata. This starred soloists John Tegner (flute) and Peter Apps (oboe) against the cont inuo of Messrs. Stephen Matthews (piano) and Paul Wenley (bassoon) . If there was a certain lack of balance th is was definitely compensated for by a good sense of style and proportion and was a most interesting item. 40

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There was a lso a sensitive performance of de Senneville's Ballade pour Adelaine by Mark Majurey (piano), and a ro bust a nd imaginat ive performance of Mendelsso hn's It is enough by Joe Wrench. T hese two were then featured in a slightl y untid y trumpet d uet. T he las t three items were o f a lighter na tu re. Joh n Teg ner ret urned to give a suave musical acco unt of Des mond Bla ke's Penny Whislle Rock o n his piccolo. Mr. Craik gave us his Ow n pot-po urri o f melod ies in [I 'S Cock rail lim e Again a nd there was th en a ve ry spirited conclusio n by the M.O. Ho use Ba nd, which performed two n umbers from Soulh Pacific a nd Haro ld Walters's versions of Dry Bones a nd When the Saints. There was ve ry good ensemble, capa ble intonat ion and a considerable degree of verve, to produce a very enjoyab le performance. In addition to some of th ose mentio ned above it included Hugo Barton, James T hom pso n, Daniel Smith, C hristopher Pope and Spencer Sa ntr y with Ali C raik (MT) a nd Ant ho ny G illes pie-Smith (LX). They were most ably directed by Joe Wrenc h. Thanks must go to Mr. Barry Rose (for tra ining the singe rs), M r. Bill McCo nnell a nd particu larly Mr. Stephen Ma tt hews , who acco mpan ied fi ve o r the item s. M.O. mu st be congratu lated on a ve ry credi table and enjo yab le

even ing' s en tert ai nment. J EREMY COOPER.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORDS AND MUSIC FOR REMEMBRANCETlDE FRIDAY, 8th NOVEM BER, IN TH E CHAPTER HOUSE

In Wes tern Ch ristendom , the mon th of November has long been the time when the Saints a nd the Departed are specia ll y re membered. Because of the arm istice date in World War I , there has in man y cou ntri es now been add ed in November a furth er time for remembrance of those who di ed in wa r. You can, fo r insta nce, find A rmed Forces Day in Italy or Veterans' Day in th e U.S .A., and we reta in o ur ow n national observa nce at th e Cenotaph and in tow ns, cities

a nd villages th ro ughout the lan d . Wh y d o we remember? Why sho uld we remember? 1 suspect Ihere are man y suitab le a nswers; and diffe rent answers may be appropr iate for different contexts. We need to combine the thankful reme mb rance of those whose li ves were cut short by agg ression agai nst our way of life with a reflect io n o n the pat hos a nd tragedy wh ich wars innict o n so ma ny indiv iduals and communities. It is a ll to th e good, in other wo rds, th at patriotism of th e j ingoistic so rt shou ld have no part in these occas io ns, and that war in a ll its a mbi valence shou ld be presented as a costl y weapon of last resort. For it is a n inexorable law that the things we va lue must in the end have their price. T he nobil ity o f dyi ng fo r a great cause in which yo u believe lies in sta rk contrast to the chaotic slaughter which wa r unleashes. The a nthology o ffered to a n app reciat ive a ud ience in the Chapter Ho use o n 8th November brought o ut in a ba lanced way th e di fferent themes which the wag ing of war brings to mind . Sorrow, resigna ti on, faith, confidence, futilit y, hope - a ll we re to be fo und , fo r who can say th at one theme rath er than another is to be preferred? Th e read ings ra nged from J ohn Bunyan to Wilfred Owen, fro m Prudentius (a 4th centur y Spanish Chr istian poet) to Geraint Jones a nd Corsellis, two poets killed in World War 2. T he music included items fro m requiems by Duru fle, Brahms and Lloyd Webber, a nd settin gs of Jus/arum animae (Stanford) and the Russian Contakion for the Departed (B . J . Finn K.S., M.S.). We a re g ra teful to Mr. Allen, Mr. Rose , Mr. Flood and th e C hape l Choir for th is a nth ology, an d ho pe that o n the next occas io n th e awkward acoustics of the C ha pter House will not be exacerbated by a cathedra l chime which did not kn ow when to stop. P.F.J. 42 (SlIfeymoll Sab(1 ofrer Andrea del Sarto)

Toby Widdowson (A6b)

I Remember

I remember a small boy sitting on a wall in a school yard. A boy with crumpled socks about his ankles and scuffed shoes with laces undone. A boy who had not combed his hair for several days. A boy with an untiable tie, with a soiled shirt, a torn jacket, and a cap which was dusty and worn-out due to frequent frisbee practice. A boy that was a menace. A boy that was me. I am standing in front of the boy but he cannot sec me. I am talking to the boy but he cannot hear me. I am guiding the boy but he cannot sense me. I am the boy but he does not know me. lf I remember the boy's future mistakes, will he avoid the path I followed so unhappily? Will he be guided by my 'I wish I could have' reminiscences? As I look at him I am seeing a person unsoiled by stupidity and by society. I remember a school sports field and an open goal. I remember a boy with laces flying, hurtling towards a goalie who was still sitting making daisy-chains. I remember a look of astonishment from a games master and then I remember a pain in my chest. An unexpected dip in the ground the cause of embarrassment and shame, and, later regret. The boy looks up from his perch on the wall at a bird which swoops across the grey sky, a black sign. Perhaps the boy is feeling already that feeling of degradation which he is bound to feel. I remember a classroom in July. A boy sitting ncar the open window watching the rolling fields and the colourful hills of the concrete playground. A teacher repeating a question three times to the tillers of almost brutal classmates. I remember the harsh words of the mother-figure and the aching wrist from hours of writing lines. Worst of alii remember the sense of inferiority. This was only the beginning of the countless honrs spent paying for minutes of mindless, gratuitous tomfoolery. The feeling of happiness at a well-delivered joke was sullied too often by the pain of going too far and finding the laughs giving way to sneers. The boy looks up again, worried, questioning. Is he thinking of his future? Can he foresee the pain of being torn from his family to board at a harsh and oppressive prep-school? I remember our new 'parents'. Fat and thin. Short and tall. Unkind and more unkind. 'Gct into line. J 'Decline this.' 'Conjugate that.' 'Eat your sewage pudding.' 'Don't argue.' 'Stop running.' 'Stop chewing.' 'Stop smiling.' 'Stop everything.' Call the boy imagine any of Ihe mislakes he is aboul 10 make? The rules he will break? The friends thaI he will fail to make? The misunderstandings and the homesickness? The unhappiness and the regret? The boy's head is hung, pressed hard againsl his chest. His face is drawn. His eyes reflect anxiety. Again he looks lip. Across the rooftops a dense mass of fog is sweeping in, swirling above the chimneys and enveloping them one by one, like the shining possibilities of his life. The fog moves on, an anonymous, forceful presence. The fog might remind the boy of the torture he musl endure before the end of his childhood. But he is too innocent, too blind to control himself in any way. His future is far away. Why docs he need to think about anything other than the cosy life he has now? The pain and the mistakes arc for me to deal with. He is not to be sullied by the future. He is only a happy memory. I remember. I remember; shame, degradation, misunderstanding, failure, sadness. Too many people will not like this inoffensive little boy. He will nol understand what makes him do the Ihings he docs. He will suffer again and again. Like falling dominoes incidents will lead to further and worse incidents. Evenlually Ihe boy will become disillusioned and untrusting. Docs Ihis boy have to become me? I come closer to him. He almost looks at me and for a moment hc seems to sec and recognise mc; but his head droops again. I move to him and shake his hand, but he cannot feel Ihe reassurance except in Ihe depths of his subconscions. He cannot hear me as I speak "I am you. You arc me. We arc us." And now I leave him to his present and future. As I walk away he gets up from Ihe wall and slouches off to the lights which shine in front of him Ihrough the darkness. I move away as well, leaving behind me a string of extinguished lighls. 44

Sewn Up

Andy Darley (Sha)

'Bed in five minutes.' 'Oh, Mummy!' I pleaded. But she wouldn't listen. She never does. When I'm older I'll go to be~ at .half past .ten or even later. ~nd when I'm bigger I will sleep until nine o'clock in the mor~mg!n the holiday and go to a bIg school like Daddy did. Now, what time is it? Big hand on f,ve, little hand on seven. Quarter past? It's near the middle so musl be near half past and quarter past is near there, I think. ' , 'Come on - upstairs,' Mummy said. Mummy sometimes invites lots of people for supper at our house. They shouldn't be allowed 10 eat Mummy's food because they can make their own and I'm hungry. Tonight is a night when Mummy has ask~d olher grown ups to eat my food, and I've got 10 go to bed. 'I wanl to play.' 'No darling, not now.' I know; I'll pull a face and walk backwards upstairs. 'Na.~aah. ~an't catch me.' I can run backwards upstairs. Mummy is walking in front of me. Help, I m failing. Help, help, help. My longue, it hurts. There's a funny taste. Ow! Mummy's k~elt down. It ~urts, It hurts. Mummy calling Daddy. The funny tasting sluff is everywhere. It s all red. A~d It hurts; Here comes Daddy, he's picking me up, up, up. I'm high off the ground, bul It hurts, II hurts. I II close my eyes, then il won'l hurl. It's dark like my room but it still hurls. Open my eyes. I'm in Daddy's big red car. Where's Mummy? I want Mummy. It hurls. I want Mum?,y because it hurt~-,It hurts.ym moving. There's Mummy. The big red car is moving. My hand. It s red. ,My han~; It s wet WIth the funny stuff from my tongue. Mummy's holding my ~and: Mummy II make.,t betler. My tongue slill hurts, hurts. On Mummy's lap. Mummy's holdmg ~Ighl. My t?ngue, It .hurts. We've stopped. Mummy's carrying me like Daddy does. It hu!ls. BIg hO!lSe. I m ~t a bIg, old house. Daddies with white coats and Mummies wilh blue skl~ts and. whIle hats. I m off the ground, up, up. There's anolher big funny coloured Daddy. He s co!"mg. here, 10 '!le. It hurts. He's taking me. Mummy, Mummy. Mummy's still got my hand. I m hIgh up. HIgher than Daddy carrying me. But it hurts. I? the ~ouse .. Lots of Mummies and !?addies. In a little !oom, like my bedroom. A big black chair. He s pullmg me down. In Ihe chair. LIke my bed. W,lh my teddy. He looks like my teddy. 'Open your moulh.' My mouth. Doesn'l hurl so much. Open il. All Ihe funny stuff's coming oul. Funny coloured hand. My tongue. He's made It hurt, hurt. Talking, talking. Lots of words. Fast, long words. ' . . . stitches . . . I ' . . . will hurt. .. ' Hurt, slilches, stilches, hurt. Doesn't hurt. Will hurl. Needle, collon. Mummy. Where's Mummy? Hand, my hand. Mummy's got my hand. Daddy. Car. Daddy went in Ihe big red car. 'Now, hold your tongue out.' Tongue. Needle. Tongue, needle, tongue. It hurts, it hurts. It feels strange. But it hurts, hurts. Lots of cotton, cotton. In my mouth, my longue, collon. Will hurt. It hurls. Won't cry. Haven't cried. Won't cry. 'There now, wh~t a brave lad.' Funny coloured man. Moulh. Tongue: doesn't hurt. Mummy. Up, up, u~. SIt do~n on !"ummy's lap. Sleep, tired. Bed. Stairs. Funny face. Backwards. T.ongue, doesn I ~urt. TIred, !Ired. Funny coloured man. Up, moving. Tired, big red car. Tired. S,t down. Soft, like my bed. Bed, sleep, sleep, sleep.

Torsten White (5r)

Rona

It is difficult for me to explain fully about a person whom I have known for over half my life, an aging piano-teacher who became almost a grandparent to me. When 1 am compelled to think of someone 1 know well and respect very much, she is the first person who comes to mind, not because of great achievements in her life, but because of the simple, outgoing warmth of her personality. She lives contentedly with a kind-hearted husband, who slowly mends antique clocks in an upstairs room in their cosy semi-detached house. That small house has always had a special stabilizing effect upon me, not only because 1 am so familiar with it but also because it hasn't changed at all either in atmosphere or appearance. From the age of seven to the age of sixteen that house with Rona Saville at its heart has been a lasting continuity in my life. Each Thursday evening I, the young prep-school boy, used to arrive at the doorstep pleased to be out of the stuffy car that was my lift, but rather apprehensive of a piano lesson with Rona, for which 1 had not I,repared adequately. Soon, having been offered two buns with cheese and a large chocolate bar, 1 crouched before a small black and white television to wait for some young girl's piano-lesson to finish. My lesson turned out better than 1 expected and 1 would yet again be called her Number 1 pupil, just as her last pupil had been . Rona is a person who, in her early old age, has retained a laugh and an attitude which is generally seen only in young and carefree women. She also has a lack of patience which is reflected in the way she prepares food, like cheese sandwiches with tomato ketchup and far too much butter. But it is such things which have always been amusing to my sister, my mother and me because of the stories which have arisen out of her cooking, especially the story of the time when Rona made a cup of tea for a friend with the ready-boiled water from which two eggs had just been removed. After the lesson my mother would collect me and somehow we would all manage to stay to drink sherry in Rona's sitting-room, where sometimes I might ask about the silver tennis trophies which she had won or about Robert Louis Stevenson's house where she lived when her father was Governor-General of New Zealand. Sometimes, to the anger of my father, we wouldn't leave Rona's until after eight o'clock at night and there was always the sight of her or her tall, old husband standing enthusiastically at the open door of their house as we drove away. However, there is always another aspect to Rona, which is that she has an all-knowing wisdom about her even when she is most happy. Whenever my mother or anyone close had a problem, whatever it might be, Rona, while still not coming out with a perfect remedy, seemed to be able to rekindle hope or happiness or at least rationalize the problem. Whether it was just the length of her life or a deep understanding she would always be able to create solace. Before my first term at the King's School we were all talking in her sitting room and Rona said, 'When you go to King's you will fccl too big and too aloof to come and sec us, won't you?' At the time I could not have thought of anything more ridiculous. Now, after over two years at King's, I can remember what she said to me and know that yet again there was a lot in what she said.

Mirror Truth

Andy Darley (Sha)

Silver-backed, glass-fronted, I am beautiful. I show the truth in everyone, Big or small, beautiful or ugly. 1 can make them look bad, I can make them look good. To me, they are all ugly. I am beautiful. But what am I? A reflection of them. 1 am clear, Light and shining; they are pink, false and dark. 1 am different. Yet they are me. They look different at different times. Blame it on me. Without me, they would Not see who they are. There is one of them who is beautiful. Like me. She is different. She wears no extra colours. 1 have seen her since she was young. She is getting older. She blames it on me, because I show Her she is older. Unfair. 1 am beautiful. She changes. I do not. 1 like her. She does not like me. Because 1 show her what she is, I show The Truth.

The Dump

Sholto Byrnes (Sha)

An autumn wind waved the horsetails, and a sodden Track led to th.e island. In tall, lush grass, broken Branches lay hIdden. Down by the fir trees a bird Winged its way over the Dump. ' A pile of ashes indicated last night's fire. A hole in the rush-covered entrance revealed the camp Dug out of a little hillock, enlarged by , Many years of use. Inside were buried memories: a Swiss army penknife A chipped and marred frying-pan, some broken piec~s off a wooden partition Old war magazines and comics ' A treasury of old essentials. Well-worn earthen paths criss-crossed our territory, Summer evenings spent hiding behind nettles or climbing ridges Running after the enemy, building outposts ' Of imagined reality. And then they built the housing estate. 47

Nowhere

Bruce Ashcroft (Sha)

Now I have nowhere like that, But when I was young I had many such places. They ranged from the cupboard under the stairs To the wardrobe. Most special of these was the Ottoman in the room upstairs,

For this was the one place where I knew I couid be alone because no one else could get in il. Whenever I had been told off for doing something I didn't, Or when I'd not had the last word, I'd creep up the stairs,

To the room where dust lay like a second carpet, And where Mum used to do her hairdressing. It smelt of a musky, shampooÂˇlike smcll, And was always dark because there was only one window.

Here I would sit and think, Or listen to the drum-beat of the grandfather clock, Or the bassoon-like voice of my grandfather. Now, when I'm depressed and need to be alone

I cannot fit into the Ottoman, The cupboard under the stairs is full of hoovers, And my wardrobe is full of clothes. So now I have just one place Icfl. I call it 'The World'.

Robert Webb (M6b)

Nietzsche Pitiful man, 'Posthumous, I you said,

(of no time - more like). but the joyous energy of youth betrayed you. And in the end, you rotted. Your philosophy jumped out of the page (you wrote to the end) and throttled you.

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WAITING (Mark Evisoll) GIRLS IN THE C.C.F. (Alexander Morga,,)

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lucia Conybeare (A6b) • hope that some day. will break the glass window behind which • have lived my life, and perhaps meet the happy, laughing people beyond it. For as long as • can remember. have been a face at the window; a lonely observer, longing to be included. My nose pressed white against the pane. have watched and listened to the people within, laughing at their jokes, desperately wishing to be noticed. Occasionally, a near-anonymous hand has reached over the sill towards me, and. have grasped it eagerly ... only to find that there is nobody behind it. Those. longed to love might wander past the glass, but never stopped to speak, and, with a single warm goodbyeing laugh, would disappear out of earshot. When. was vcry young, • seemed involved, flushed with leadership and surrounded by those who thought me powerful. Awe can be as excluding as hate, • discovered, and while they talked about what. had done, what. would do, • slowly shut thc casement window and dragged the shutters across. No-one stopped to notice, no-one complained, or asked what was happening; I just shut myself out of their lives, and was gone without a murmur. Mine has been the curse of looking beyond, above, but never around me. Those in years above me seemed everything that. could possibly desire, yet when. arrived in their company they became attainablc, tedious, and. was again stretching for the window on the storey above. Those who spoke to me frequently lost their glow of originality and beauty; the people. wanted were those who ignored me, or cast an occasional careless word in my direction - laughingly intimate, the gesture was never repeated and • hoped with a deep'seated yearning beyond my years. With a change of surroundings, a new dimension was added .• now longed not only for the company of those older than me, but also those of my own age; • craved popularity and yet also the closeness of a real friendship. The window thickened - I had to strain my ears to hear the easy banter, and alternated between wishing to smash the glass, or to have the courage to close the shutters for ever, and become self-reliant, - dependent, communicating with no-one save the fictional characters that paraded through my dreams: Anna Karcnina; Peter Rabbit; W. B. Yeats; Margot Fonteyn; Lady Jane Grey and the rest of them .• was 'Best Beloved' of Kipling, Dickens' 'dear reader' and the unseen sister of everyone from the Fossil sisters to the man in the iron mask. For a while. did, in fact, try this total retreat, but. grew weary of being both Romeo and Juliet, and began to draw near to the window again. Once. almost managed to get out, but only by compromising my mind so much that it became impossible, and. remained in my own world. As. began to meet new people, • realised that. was not merely behind a window, but in a glass box, eminently transportable, and totally impenetrable; the more. cared about my exclusion, the thicker the walls became, though some people broke through - the wrong ones, with whom conversation was hindered by a barrier the size of the Berlin Wall. My ultimate moment of consciousness that. would never fit in must have been the day. left the school that • had - in body if not spirit - been attending for the last five years. Through my window • watched a hundred and nineteen girls weeping for the end of youth and irresponsibility before the pressures of the sixth form. A familiar brown hand waved a handkerchief at me, and a voice wracked by sobs beseeched me to have one happy memory for which. could join the weeping throng. '. don't cry crocodile tears for anyone,' and away they went, deprived of yet another memory to feed their nostalgia. Relief. And then the starting at a new school, and the gradual realisation that the window had come too; stigmatized for intelligence, made untouchable by a scholar's gown, • longed to hear the magic words: 'What did you get?' - but. haven't had that for five years. Will • ever hear it again? Every night. return home and cry, behind my window, until the glass is blurred with tears. Contrast makes the isolation more bitter still. For one day. was popular, tasted success and gained the strength to push down the barrier ... the next day it had been rebuilt, and the futility 49 WHO Mt:? (Mark E,·ison)

of ~y efl'orts divide the pane into latticed win~ows; mr face is split .Iike a photo-fit - sad eyes, smdmg mouth, two eyebrows - and of all my hterary fnends, even NIgel Molesworth has deserted me for more fertile ground. I have failed. For many years I have known that to be extrovert is beyond me, the barrier of my flattened nose and yearning eyes is become insuperable, and I watch those who hate me seduce those I love, while I giggle nervously, scrabbling desperately at the leaded window that bombs could not shatter. If only, if only ... if only I could be introverted, love no-one but myself, smoke up the glass and feel content to be alone, drawing pictures on the window for myself alone; if only I could achieve this, a kind of stunted happiness might be mine I could breed sarcastic scorn, deride and despise all those whose activity I could no longer see a~d envy. Alas, I am undone. Too late to give up the life I have unwittingly chosen, too late to kill the feelings in my inappropriately companionable heart, too late to give up, too late.

His Own little World

Ted George (Sha)

Mr. Brown,

The gentleman, Wouldn't so much as tread on an ant,

The meek, little businessman,

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Whom everybody likes. But things are different at a quarter to nine; It's time to go to work. He walks out of the front gate, Gets out his keys, V nlocks the door and steps into a whole new world. He puts the key in the ignition, turns it, and then. His eyes tUfn red,

His teeth sprout fangs, His body grows, ripping his suit to shreds. Claws shoot out of his hands. His cloven feet hit the accelerator.

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He is the King Kong of strength, The Ben Uur of driving, He is ruthless. Pedestrians beware!

The traffic lights mean nothing to him, H's just green, green, green.

Pelican Crossings, Zebra Crossings, The flashing Belisha Beacons, Don't register in his mind as warnings, but as prey.

The speedometer doesn't stand for speed, But for the number of victims. Nothing can, or will stop him. And so it is. He plays with his secret thoughts, in his own, Little world. 50

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Sir Emirikol

Andrew Nash (5r)

Sir Luke Emirikol had had a hard time advancing up the ladder of classes in the feudal system. The only honour on which he built was that his father had been the King's groom, and he had thus profited by old King Saraman's death. The King had died early after becoming insane and bestowing honours upon anyone who had mentioned his horse's name. Thus the Emirikol family had risen in prestige and Luke, the groom's son, was now respected by everyone except those

who knew of the King's insanity. So Luke, to prove his bravery and valour, accepted the rival family's challenge of attempting to cut short the life of the Great Smage, a very large, very nasty piece of work, even for a Stryacaurus.

His acceptance gained him respect in the days leading up to his departure to the Murzfil Hills, and the lair of Smage. He had received as a gift from the rival family a sword, supposedly magical in nature, but in fact a wooden stick under the disguise of an illusionist's spell, cast by a man

with a twisted sense of humour. Eventually Luke, after stalling his departure as long as possible, for reasons of preserved health, set off upon his perilous journey. He journeyed many days across the renowned Barron Downs, until he came across a group of travellers, comprising an Elven fighter, a Gnomish barbarian,

an Orcish assassin and a Dwarfen thief suffering from a slight handicap of having a wooden leg infected with Dutch elm disease. These ambitious but very unsuccessful weirdos were good company and Luke decided to ride with them for a few days. Much to his surprise on the third morning, Luke, upon returning from the call of nature, found his possessions and gold gone. All he had left were the clothes he wore, his horse and weapons and a note saying, 'Never talk to strangers!'. After Lnke had exhausted his entire vocabulary of insults, he mounted his horse and rode off towards the lair of Smage. By the time he arrived at his quest Luke had calmed down enough to realise that attempting to kill Smage might best be left to the professionals, although his honour and arrogant pride would not allow it. So he ventured on with his task, hoisted his lance, checked his saddle and took a deep breath. 'Oi, Smage! Come on out! I want to do you!' yelled Luke. 'Oh, I say. There is no need to get all flustered, old chap,' replied Smage's voice echoing from the cavern. (Smage was also well known for his rather precise speech.) This took Luke aback as he was not expecting so much in the way of arrogance. After all he had a strong ego too! He then realised that Smage had been sarcastic. This his ego could not endure so he charged Smage and inserted the lance with amazing precision in Smage's left eye socket and through his small but adequate brain. Suddenly he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, a beautiful maiden, the legendary keeper of Smage. Legendary was right, in fact she had been trapped to lure passing knights to rescue her as a means of achieving a regular food supply for Smage. The two eventually married, in the traditional manner. Luke returned his 'magical' sword to the rival )'amily along with the severed head of Smage. The prestige of the Emirikol name rose enormously until the maiden filed for a divorce. Luke ended up having to pay alimony payments, which he often managed to avoid by knowing the right people.

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On Bounderby

Mark Evans (A6b)

Bonny, bouncy Bounderby, Born without a stitch! Your mother took one look at you And left you in a ditch. You lived alone for years and years In all that cold and damp. You suffered every illness, The measles, flu and cramp . But on your tenth birthday You found somewhere quite dry; You snuggled down, you stunted form, In a comfy, warm pigsty. Oh, life was hard and full of woe, But never did you complain. Why, anything more comfortable Might well have made you vain. But then you hit the jackpot, You really made some pelf. And what is so important Is that you did it all yourself! o pushy pumpkin Bounderby With veins swelled on your head, The whole world would be happier If you'd only drop down dead.

o Bully of Humility, o brazen, windy man, If you broke your neck tomorrow, I wouldn't give a damn!

I'd say some more to spite you, But I've run clean out of rhymes. It's you that makes me wish That I'd never read Hard Times.

(Edward Winf ield)

Epitaph for Thomas Gradgrind

Simon Attwood (A6b)

'Here lies Thomas Gradgrind': that statement is a fact. His stone is square and two by two, the measurements exact; Indeed t'was measured carefully, with Gradgrind's very tape, How sad for him his place of rest has not the same square shape. The man who carved that very stone considered putting 'Tom', But Gradgrind 's ghost appeared one night and said: "It's all spelt wrong.' The reader's eyes look down the lines, the letters neat and trim; These self-same letters, in their looks, reflect the man within. For Gradgrind was a tcacher, for whom there was no doubt, That definitions must be learned, as Sissy Jupe found out. For Gradgrind there were no such things as individual names: So Sissy was Cecilia, a fact one could not change. And reading on see 'Rest in Peace' (and peaceful he will be, For in his box that's six foot down there's real monotony). And finally the day he died, the fourth of February, And had there been a bit more space, he' d want the half past three . A man of fact, precise and grim, but now he is no morc, He'll find there arc no '-ologies' . ' help him through heaven's door.

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GALPIN'S HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY, 10th NOVEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

A very good turnout, wh ich included enthusiast ic parents and friends, was greeted with Mozart's

Eine Kleine Nachtll1usik (1st movement) played by Chris Walker, Sebastian St.John Parker, Natalia Fetherston-Dilke and Sophia St.John Parker, 'co-ordinated' by Andrew Fordham. T he serious atmosphere was lifted when the greater part of Galpin's fema le cont ingent lOok to the stage singi ng The Goslings, a light-hearted affai r led by Lucinda Mi ller. T hen it was back to the serio us side with a very we ll-executed perfor mance of Debussy's firs l Arabesque played by Lucy Charri ngton . She was succeeded by Ju ra Q uartet comprising Matthew H ulme (sax), Jos h Mow ll (bass gui tar), Ric hard Preston (trombo ne) and Sebastia n St.John Parker (piano). T hey played two pop ul ar 'golden o ldies'; Nobody does it better a nd House of the Rising Sun, with some feeling, even if nobody was q uite sure where th e gui tar am p. was plugged in! Still - we loved the ti es, boys! A ndrew Ford ha m ret urned with anot her sma ll choir to sing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, accompanied by the stri ng q uartet and Tom Grieves on the oboe. T his was followed by the highlight of the evening - the massed entertainers of Galpi n's, inc ludi ng Mr. Woodwa rd, and their excellent prod uction of Instant Sunsh ine's The Nouveau Poor. It was extremely well sung and Chris White (conductor) managed to get the timing j ust right to make it humorous but not r idicu lous . James Waters then played his own piano arrangement of a song or two and was fo llowed by Catch ing (he first olle home, written, arranged and performed by Andrew Ford ha m (bass guitar), with Chris White (vocals), Chris Walker (guitar), Lucy Charrington (keyboards), Candy Mart in (drums) and James G umpert (trumpet). It was 'full of su rprises' (quote - various anonymous members of the group) but no net heless enjoyed by al l. To rou nd the evening off the two leading lights of the concert, Ch ris W hite and Andrew Ford ha m , sang the Duetto Buffo di Gatti, a tun e of Rossi ni's arra nged fo r 'Miaows' by Carl Stu eber, a nd they ret urned a few minutes later, minus pain ted o n whiske rs, to j o in The Wi lli ng Majority in sing ing the celebrated Gendarmes' Duet by Offenbac h. It ended an enjoyable evenin g well , and I 'm sure Galpin 's wish to thank A ndrew Fordham for all his hard work an d organ isation

and Jeremy Avis (Linacre) a nd Ja mes G um pe rt (Schoo l House) for appea rin g. KATE H AM ILTON.

THE KING'S SCHOOL CHAMBER CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 13th NOVEMBER, IN THE CHAPTER HOUSE

After a long day at wo r k, and with a temperatu re of _6Â° forecast, the tho ught of attending a student rec ital in what I was sure wou ld be a cold Chapter House did not appeal to me. However, my son , Darren, had organ ized this recital, a nd since he was to cond uct a few items, go I must. I am glad tha t I d id. T he Chap ter House was wa rm (I sal o n top of a hot air d uct) and there was a ha ppy, expeclant at mosp here as the programme began with a string orchestra playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3, ' with Darren conductin g. T his concert o is a buoyant. j oy ful wo rk , and its spirit was

conveyed we ll by th e players. T here were a few tuning and balance problems, but it was a musical performance, a nd it was an excellent start to the evening. Congratulatio ns to Kat herine Hamil to n

for her sensitive, secure leading. Mr. Matthews composed two interesting pieces specia ll y fo r the soloists who were giving them their fi rst perfo rma nce. T his was music dema nding a high tec hnical sk ill , and it was obvio us 55 FANTASY (Oliver Jackson)

that no compromises had been made. A hauntin g, pla intive Sarabande was beautifully played by Tanera Daw kins, 'cello. She produced a singing tone that was perfect for the lyrical qua lity o f the music. Sarah Pendlebury, cla rinet, played the Piece de Resistance with a feeling for the contrasting elements of this work . Even though she had a few reed problems, she kept the musical content in tac t. A bigail Willis, flu te, Alice Cooper, harpsicho rd , a nd Tanera Dawkins, 'cello , played two movements from the Sonata in E major by J . S. Bach with a clear understanding of what this music is all abo ut. T hey produced a good ensemble, only mar red by lapses in tuni ng a nd ar ticulation. A lexander Sturt, flu te, and J onatha n Finn , bassoon , gave a n excellent performa nce o f two Impromptus by Jean Francaix. This really was superb duet playing which gave me much pleasure. T hese two lads played like rea l pro fessionals! Total eclipse from Ha ndel' s oratorio Samson was sung by Jeremy Avis, tenor, with Tanera Daw kins, accompanist. Jeremy has a lovely voice, and he has a real feel fo r a musical phrase, but he appeared to be very nervous, and this was tra nsmitted to the a udience. Stage presence is very importa nt for a per fo rmer, a nd es peciall y so for a singe r. Still , having said that, I did enjo y his singing. I was less happy with the Mozart Piano T rio in C performed by Kr istia n Belliere, piano , Alice Cooper, violin , and Ailsa Buchan, 'cello. Although there were a few satisfying moments, the performance suffered from too fast a tempo . I felt that the playe rs were aware that they we re in trouble, a nd they lost their nerve. With more ex perience they will learn how to cope since they are good musicians, without a doubt. T he programme ended with the beautiful Bachianas Brasileiras N o. 5 by Villa-Lobos. Sara Bee, soprano, the orchestra of seven 'cellos, and Darren Everhart, conductor, are to be congratulated on this musical rendi tion of what is really a difficult work to perform , even though it often sounds otherwise. Musical conviction was in every note of this performance, and I loved it. In fact, the whole evening was a great success . I was more than a little impressed by the quantity a nd qua lity of the musical ta lent at King's. C H A RLES A. EVERH ART .

LATTERGATE HOUSE CONCERT FRIDAY, 22nd NO VEMBER, IN T HE OLD SYNAGOGUE

A varied audience o f boys, parents and masters collected on Friday, 22nd November for a concert which had been advertised with a single caption : ' You'd be surprised! ' It was to prove a n extremely a pt title for a n occasion which was very di verse in content. It began with the ' Mixed Bag' Orchestra which ma naged , though not without the occasional stumble, to play with fair ability four pieces, fini shing 'seasonally' with Jingle Bells. It was follo wed by three solos, the first by Stephen Preece who played a melodic piece by Le Couppey for horn admira bly, though perhaps with a touch o f nerves . Next was Jonathan Grimes on the oboe who performed competently a nd flu ently, while J ames Linforth 's saxophone solo added a touch of joviality to the concert with the Sailor's Hornpipe. Two flute duets, played harmoniously by Jocelyn Martin and Mark Handley were both executed delightfully with sound rhythm and ensemble. There followed a performance o f a high standard by David Everist on the piano who played with skill and versatili ty. His Capriccio in F by Handel showed he was a good musicia n and not limited to the synthesizer. 56

T his performance was followed wi th great effect by the Brass Quartet a nd Percussion playi ng two pieces of William Cornish arra nged by Nicholas Hare. T hen came fo ur solos, the first of which Simon Roberts on his violin perfo rmed with great expression a nd understandi ng . Similarly the bassoon solo by Simon Hart flowed soothingly, as did Alexander Skarbek's horn solo: Lattergate's only honorary music scholar played the long and difficult Saint-Sa;;ns horn piece very well and with great emotion. T he last solo was by one of the monitors, Tanera Dawkins, who played with great skill the Sicilienne by Paradies, accompanied sympathetically by Alexander Skarbek . The fina l entry o f the concert was the pop gro up which ori ginated a t Holmewood House a nd is now housed in Lattergate. T he members of the gro up, David Everist, Julian Moore, H ugh Hawkins, Simon Dobell a nd Edward Jones-Thomas, set out on a variety of pieces ra nging from Rocking all over the world to 'Axel F' . Helped by guests from other houses (John Tegner, Lucinda Miller and Elizabeth Robinson), they earned enthusiastic applause from boys and parents, ending a very enj oyable concert that could onl y have been so effectively assembled under the guiding hand of Miss Anthea Wilcock, who deserves great than ks for a tremendous evening's enterta inment . T HOMAS G RIEVES.

SECOND ORCHESTRA AND JAZZ CLUB CONCERT SATU RDAY, 7t h DECEMBER, IN THE SHI RLEY HALL

T he concert opened with spirited a nd bold renderings o f P urcell's Rondeau from Abdelazar a nd a Gavot in F by Boyce . Christopher Gray's solo in Trumpet Tune and Ayre by Jeremiah Cla rke was clean and rich in tone, though the accompanying orchestra sacrificed clari ty for sheer volume. The Peasant Dance by Charles Woodhouse thumped a long rhythmically, but ra ther odd noises emerged from the strings (in admittedly difficult passages) a nd the woodwind section lac ked confidence in its leads. This was in fact typical o f the second orc hestra 's performa nce throughout the evening - genera ll y enthusiastic and rh ythmic but frequentl y out of tune a nd prone to lapses of concent ration . The Barber-shop Quartet followed next, singing (or humming) fi ve very enj oyable ditties. Jeremy Avis's fin e tenor voice was a real pleasure to listen to, always clear and full o f variety, and his back-up trio (Chris White, J ames Gum pert and Andrew Bush) we re controlled and well co-ordinated . T he need for a second try in Yes, sir, that 's my baby emphasised the difficul ty of sta rting unaccom panied. The Quartet ended with a spark ling a nd lively departure from barbershop tradition, The A nimals went into the A rk. The Ja zz Club's performance was generally excellent, with several no table solos . Ja mes Gumpert on the trum pet in Satanic Blues was superb, and both Andrew Bush a nd Alista ir Craik , on the clarinet and saxophone respecti vely, played confidentl y and with fl air. T hey were given solid support by James Lawrence (trombone), A ndrew Fordham (bass), Phili ppe Lacamp (drums) and Jeremy Avis (piano). My onl y criticism is a slight lack o f polish at several moments, and a sense of lac k o f bala nce or interplay between the players sometimes . The Second Orchestra returned, and acquitted themselves much better than before. T he conductor's own Canon for Strings was somewhat nervous to begin with , yet although the underlying parts occasionally wobbled precariously a nd spluttered, there were many sweet sounds. A La rgo and Allegro by Corelli we re coped with , rather than mastered. T he flute was clear and strong in the Largo, though the harmonising among the woodwind as a whole was rather laboured. The violins stru ggled ma nfully in the Allegro , but one sensed Mr. McConnell had some difficulty in controlling the orchestra, as discipline and concentration wavered slightly. 57

Bizet's Fa ra nd o le from L'Arlcsicnnc was muc h more purposeful a nd contro lled, and ra rely out of tune. C hr istopher Wat son gave a very sOllnd and entertaining rendering of H arold Walters's Farly Falhams o n his tuba, a nd th e accompaniment showed the strings at their bes t. The co ncert fi n ished wit h Leroy A nd erson's boisterous and c heerful co mpendium of C hristm as tunes . Overall it was a kee n and spiri ted effort by th e yo unger musicia ns in the sc hool, wit h enjoyable appeara nces from two groups of o lder musicians who disp layed their tal ents very nota bl y. But t he most pra iseworth y aspect of th e concert to me was t he enormous amou nt of organization t hal had gone in to co-ordinating such a large grou p of musicia ns into an orches tra . There was an evid ent lack o f practice so met imes, but th is was outweighed by the musical a bilit y of th e o rc hcs tra as a whole, eve n t hough there were indi vidual weaknesses . A ll c redi t must be given to Mr. McConnell , who gu ided, o rga ni zed and co ndu cted eve ryo ne involved, a nd it was clear th at it was hi s e nt husiasm whi c h inspired eve ryt hin g a nd made it happen. P IERS MCCLEERY.

'UNMAN, WITTERING AND ZIGO' THE SCHOOL HOUSE JUNIOR PLAY

SUNDAY, 15th DECEMBER, IN ST. MARY'S HALL UI/man, Wi//cring and Ziga tells of a class of schoolboys who murder their fo rm master beca use he won' t co-opera te wi th their rebellious schemes. They th en set about manipulating his successor. In effect, th e play ex plores th e vio lence whi c h ma y lu rk d eep in every perso n, hi dden by the cloak o f society. I was particu lar ly imp ressed by th e se nse of threat wh ic h this producti o n co nveyed. There was a di sturbi ng a tm os p here or vio lence and me nace in the class room scenes, especia ll y when Will e rin g was being b ulli ed , and th e re were mo ment s whe n th e performa nce seemed almost too rea l. A mo ng th c horrible class , drawn from the Shells, Remo ves and Fifths in School House, c unnin g C uthbun lVas brought to life vividl y by Ross Duttso n, as was cha rml ess C lo istermouth by Jimm y Kni ght. T he main part of Ihe fo rm mas ter - J ohn Ebony - was played with maturity by Sho lto Byrnes, and Simon Blend was ce rt ai nly in cha ra cter as a very cy ni cal a nd world weary Cary Fart hi ngale . T ile Headmas ter was played by Ben W rench, and a brief appearance was made by William Go rdon- Harris as a detec ti ve (as we ll as a n evcn briefer one by Mr. Ross himself as th e geria tric ca reta ke r). Nicho las Flower a lso played an important part as the prompter. Co nsidering th e time th e cas t had to rehea rse th e play (only abo ut half a term) thi s was a ve ry cred itab le performance, admirab ly produced by Mr. Stephen Wainde. Despite a few id iosy ncrac ies sllch as the erra tic lighting whic h sometimes c ut off the actors in mid-se ntence t his p roduction lVas enjoyable and humorous . T he set was we ll thought ou t a nd the audien ce were appreciati ve. This production sho uld be followed up with o th er junior plays by other ho uses. M A RTI N ST EWART.

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VISITS SYMPH ONY ORCHESTRA V ISIT TO RHEIMS FRIDAY-SUNDAY, 27th-29th SEPTEMBER Col. Neville may have to ld us 'The French love a bit of sc hmalz' but th e customs offi cials at Dover we re dec ided ly non pl ussed by his D-Day dated passport. With a cho rus of 'Dib Dib Dib' we meek ly followed Mr. a nd Mrs. McCo nn ell on board the boat. Chr is Walker was never seen again, while A ndrew Fordham and J immy Gu mpert's late return to the coach aro used furth er specul ation. Speculation continued into ou r stop for lunch 'en route', where a new game called

'Name th at Meat' was in troduced and th e wine tasted stra ngely fa miliar. . . A further sto p in the id yllic settin g o f a mOlOrway service area gave an oppo rtunity fo r th e d iscerning listener to ap preciate the subtleti es of Jeremy's Concert ante for T hree O ra ngina Bottles (King's Week '86?) a nd a lso gave P iers and A ntho ny a chance to discover the sheer roma nticism of the French coun tryside . (Mea nwhile, back at Dover, Col. Nevi lle was still look ing for his passport. .. ) Arri ving in Rheims li ke fr ightened refugees, the 'Coach people' were bi lleted amo ngst va ri ous French fam ilies. (Back in Calais, passport now located, jet-setting Col. Neville's high flown aspirations were furt her de flated by the news of an a ll-out French rail strike called in protest at our visit.) A fte r a good nig ht's sleep, we all arrived (even Col. Nevi lle, look ing sligh tl y the worse fo r wear) early the nex t morn ing at the arc hi tect ura ll y impressive basilica for a rehea rsal of the evening's music. After lunch we all assembled 'it la mairie' (Sarah Pendlebury and Libby Robi nson both looki ng a litt le 'horse') fo r a champagne and funny pi nk biscuit reception . During the speeches, Dr. H um berstone (nervo usly grappling for his Ga uloises) sk il full y kept the waves of French rhetoric to an unsquirmabl e minimum in English translat ion, wi th out sounding too much

like a Eurov ision song contest compere. A diverse aftern oo n was spent by all parties, a nd everyone arri ved 'soberl y' d ressed for th e eve nin g concert which was a reso unding success . T he programme included pieces by Mozart, P urce ll and Vivaldi , whose Concerto Grosso for Iwo violins was played by Mr. Myersco ugh and his da ughter Nadia. T he first ha lf was completed with Ala n Rido ut's Concerta nte fo r five wind a nd O rchest ra (solo ists - Alex Sturt, Caractacus Dow nes, Jeremy Avis, Jonathan Finn a nd Ma rtin Ie H uray). After the interva l Mr. Myerscough Featured again, playing Saint-Saens' Havanaise in a performa nce of 'virtuositC' and 'sensibilitC' as the French press descr ibed it. T he concert was rounded off by Sch u bert'S 3rd Symphony in D majo r. After the performance the French were somew hat bemused by the sight of several funerea ll yclad musicians wh izzing round in dodgem cars at the fairground conveniently placed three feet from the door of the Church (rather handy for those members incapable of taki ng the last movement of the Schubert symphony). T he return journ ey was fai rl y uneventfu l: we a ll tuned into o ur Walk mans wh ile Nick Baker a nd Ka tie Ham il to n tuned into each other a nd Simon Blend's q ui ck fire humo ur was much in demand. Again the superl a tive qua li ty of lu ncheon so overwhelmed Tom Epps and AI Stun that they we re rendered quite incapable of speech fo r some hours a fterwards ... After such a successfu l tr ip it onl y remains to thank everyone on both sides of th e Channe l invo lved in its organisati on, and in pa rticular the Canterbury-Rheims 'jumelage' com mittee,

Mr. a nd Mrs. McCon nell , Mr. Mye rsco ugh and o ur guru -

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THE GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP MONDAY-SATURDAY, 9th- 14th SEPTEMBER After a long and hair-raising trip with M.R.G.P. at the wheel and Mike Brooke clinging to the rope that held our luggage on the roofrack, we arrived at the Blencathra Centre. The hostel (formerly a Victorian lunatic asylum) was not far from Keswick and, on arrival, seemed deserted. After a short hike to whet the appetite, the welcome smell of home cooking filled our noses as we approached the building. We were all ravenous and were grateful for the generous quantities of English food cooked by two burly farmers' wives. The next day, after being dragged out of bed at 7.30, we set off, having eaten a large cooked breakfast, for a nearby hill-sheep farm. The farmer was very friendly and gave up most of his morning to us. He described the method of farm ing and its conflicts, while taking us for a very interesting tour of his land. He also demonstrated the skills of his sheepdog. Because the day was fine, Mr. Parker decided to take us up Helvellyn to look at the glacial features. The climb was truly spectacular a nd seeing the corries, tarns, arretes and drumlins etc. corrected my hazy ideas of the size of these features and of how they were formed. Keeping up wit h Mr. Parker's energetic pace was difficult, but the urge to get to the top kept our tired legs going . Mr. Gales was suffering from acute blisters by now for he had borrowed Mr. T hane's enormous boots for the field trip. The view from Striding edge was unbelievable and we all felt the climb was worth the effort. The other days were just as worthwhile and by the end of the trip we had covered much of the O-Ievel course, having studied limestone scenery, National Parks, The Forestry Commission, rivers, quarries and mines, water resources and finally map-reading. We were given two lectures, one by a National Park ranger (during which even Mr. Parker nearly fell asleep) and the other by a man from the Forestry Commission. Every evening we spent an hour or so going through and writing up the day's events followed by video films which Bruce Marson had skilfully persuaded the reluctant Mr. Gales to hire. The expedition was well organised a nd provided many useful case studies to back up the 0level course. It was not only educational, however, but great fun and we all owe our thanks to Mr. Parker and Mr. Gales, to the cheerful ladies who kindly cooked for us and to the Almighty for sending rain only on the day we returned.

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GERMAN ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 1905 - 1985 ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, 11th OCTOBER -

22nd DECEMBER, 1985

The German Art in the Twentieth Century exhibition at the Royal Academy is the first in a series that the gallery intend to stage dealing with the twentieth century art of the major western nations, other than France; and one that has received a mixed reception. On its opening in October all critics urged their readers to view the exhibition for the experience they would surely gain, whilst bemoaning the fact that it was far from comprehensive and included much poor work. Many critics focused upon the point that Nazi art has been excluded: the exhibition's organizers defended their decision by dismissing all art of the Third Reich as second or third-rate. Many felt, however, that the pictures should have been hung and visitors allowed to make up their own minds. 60

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These arguments apart, there was much to enjoy in a wide-ranging exhibition, a great deal of it, no doubt, previously unknown to those who visited it. My personal preference was for the art of the Expressionists, which formed the beginning of the exhibition; a preference which seemed to be shared by others. One was treated to the sight of the works of the artists of the Die Briicke and Der Blaue Reiter groups intermingling with each other to form one visual expression of the decadence of pre-First World War German society. The artists of this movement _ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmitt-Rottluff, Emile Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Oskar Kokoschka - shared a disdain for academic art and in their works sought to formulate - in Kirchner's words - 'a modern language for the preoccupations of modern man'. The large gallery III was devoted entirely to Lovis Corinth and Max Beckmann, the latter of whom Norman Rosenthal, one of the organizers of the exhibition, professed, in a letter to The Times, to regard as the most important German artist of the first half of this century . Both were largely unknown to me before the exhibition , but I came away with a clear preference for the impressionistic work of Corinth. His gentle group scenes contrasted deeply, howe ver, with his haunting 'Ecce Homo', a large canvas 'which can be read as a metaphor of the power a nd vision inherent in German twentieth century art' and in which 'the pathetic figure of Christ foreshadows the destiny of art and artists under National Socialism.' Beckmann's pictures are less than beautiful to look at, but an underlying emotional and symbolic meaning is apparent in his frightening and mysterious work . Of the artists of the Dada and 'Neue Sachlichkeit' movements, George Grosz and Otto Dix shone brightest, losing none of their appeal through fami liarity. Their mockery of bourgeois values and bitterness at political hypocrisy are fully summed up in, respectively, Hoch's 'The Art Critic' and Grosz's classic 'Pillars of Society'. The visual arts of the Bauhaus were represented by Louis Feininger and Oskar Schlemmer; but no sooner had we digested these than the years of National Socialism were upon us. On coming to power in 1933, Hitler had a staggering 15,997 works of art confiscated and declared as 'degenerate' and artists such as Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters and Paul Klee were forced to work abroad. Klee's deceptive naive imagery, often requiring much contemplation , contlllues to be popular, and, undoubtedly, he should have been more fully represented. Of his seven works shown, 'Captive' is an assured masterpiece in which 'frustration, menace and alienation' are simply, yet subtly, displayed. The organizers of the exhibition have declared that their aim has been to 'focus upon the continuities in the (German) art of the twentieth century'; yet since the Second World War German art seems to me to have rapidly declined. If art is to survi ve then progression is necesssary; and in recent German art there has been no progression. One has only to look as far as France to see how greatly art can progress in a short space of time - the development from the Impressionist art of the 1870s, through Fauvism, to the Cubist art of the 1920s was formidable. Picasso, the greatest artist of this century, was forever progressing. I would argue that in recent times American art has advanced most, whilst German art has declined. Thus I rather hurried through much of the second half of the exhibition, pausing to pick out a few good, and original, pictures by such as Penck, Baselitz and Koberling, amongst much of the second-rate work of the 'Expressionist revival'. But oh! that I might implore them to look to the future rather than to the past - Germany's recent past is a subject that few should want to dwell upon. The Academy had obviously intended to provide a climax to the exhibition by filling the Central Hall with the sculpture of Joseph Beauys. The Guardian's critic had seen it as just that, whilst John Russell Taylor from The Times saw it as the lowpoint of the exhibition; and with him I tend to agree. It certainly seemed somewhat far-fatched to suggest that these abstract pieces of wood and metal were 'loaded with references to autobiographical experience, contemporary politics, Germany's past a nd the hope of a future founded upon ecological principles' and that they 'proclaim his determination to break down the barriers between life and art.' I wo uld be more than happy if he were to concentrate in the future on breaking down the barriers he has created between the artist and the spectator. 61

A nd so, in places, the exhibition was far from comprehensive and there was, later on, much work that was less t han good . Yet in that it undoubtedly helped many to 'view the art of this period in a n entirely' new perspective', as the Royal Academy had hoped, the organi zers should be congratulated for staging the exhibition and Mr. Pragnell t hanked for accompanying us to view it. JAMES BEECHEY.

THE SOCIETIES T he problem of new ta lent afte r the departure of Jonathan Williams and Mark Humphriss has solved itself with many new boys flooding in: mainly from School House. They learnt quick ly a nd were soon able to print jobs for others. From School Hou se ca me James Eddison, Simon Bird, Ben Hardy, Sholto Byrnes, James Knight, and Uncle Tom Locki ng and all. The 'Res t of the World XI' included Tom Parker (MT), Jonathan Berry (L I B), Dav id Beckett (L / LN), Wi ll ia m Derouet (L IB), Tom Ward (B) a nd the half~dozen n on~corps printers. Foremost of all has been James Edd ison, whose determination, high sta ndards and common sense have produced what has defeated far more experie nced printers for years : a list of the Society's type faces. This has been a massive task, and he earns the thanks of all our customers for the next te n years! Now the big news! From a n O.K.S. co mes a wonde rfu ll y ge nerous gift- his seco nd, in fact. Mr. H. C. S. Ha ll (SH 1 954~8), now Managing Director of Com pugrap hic U.K. Ltd, is sending us free of charge a Comp ugraphic Edi tWriter (wi th floppy disc storage!) to replace the Universal II Lhat he gave us in 1980. We have not yet seen ou r Ed itWriter, but it wi ll extend the range and efficiency of our typesettin g for yea rs to come. Finally, as ever, our thanks to George Neeve who co ntinues to rescue and advise us each Thursday evening.

CAXTON

M.J.M. AND R.J.M.

This term's activ ities have large ly been concentrated on cleaning our plot in the cell arer's garden for use this summer fo r our ann ual lettuce crop. However, we have also sown some winter crops whic h, frost perm itt ing, should do well and be ready by April. We also had a mediocre crop of apples in September whi ch we re of so me use to the new Ca terer. Gene ra l progress in the garden has been good, espec iall y as our wo rk has been supplemented by the work of a co ntrac t ga rdener, and we hope tha t by su mm er the Archbishop wi ll be able to sit in a quiet yet neverthe less wel l-kept garden. It on ly remain s for me to thank Mr. Barham for all his care and attention over the five or so yea rs I ha ve been at school and to wish James Gregory the best of lu ck in maintainin g a lively gardening club at King' s. GAltDENING

PATRI CK PA INES.

The term started with a fasc inating lecture by Dr. Lew is Ryder ent itled 'The Beginning of the Universe', durin g which he described so me of the nuclear processes occurring duri ng the first few minut es of the Universe's life. The lec turer's enthus ias m for his su bject was an object Icsson to all teac hers in the audie nce! T he second eve nt was a presentation by Dr. Cy ril Ise nberg on 'T he Scie ntific Properties of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles'. With the aid or imp rcssive demonst ration s, he showed how films and bubb les adopt shapes which minimise their surface areas. He also explaincd how this pr incip le can be applied to the solving of var ious mathematical prob lems invol ved in, for exa mple, the construction of road network s. HAltVEY

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A visit to Ke nt Un iversity for the Chr istmas Science Lect ure brough t a not her presentation from Dr. Isenberg, thi s time on 'Detecti ng Eart hquakes and Nuclear Explosions'. He explained, amo ngst other things, how to make a simple se ismometer and how seismology provides important information about the struct ure

of the Eart h. The final meeting was a very appropriate one with the festi ve seaso n feast approaching. Professor Jack Powles lectured o n, and demonstrated (wit h a little help from the audience), 'Blowing up Ball oo ns'. He related the p ressure changes occurring in the balloon to the way it inflates a nd expla ined some thing of the structure of rubber a nd the effect of te mperature on it.

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The Band this term has comprised Jimmy Gumpert (trumpet), James Lawrence (trombone),

JAZZ

Ali Craik (saxop hone), Andy Bush (clarinet), Jeremy Avis (piano), Philippe Lacamp

(drums) and Andrew Fordham (bass). And rew Ford ham has, once agai n, been the Musical Di rector. The Jazz Club has made two appearances this term. T he first was on the first floor of British Home Stores, 27th November, and was done as part of a Charit y for the elderl y. Highl ights included Jeremy's oriental render ing of John Cage's versio n for unprepared sy nth es iser of the we ll -know n Blues in C, whil e Andy played us the 12" (unfortunate ly-exte nded remix) of Tishomingo Blues. After a very va ried programme, to a capacity audience, AI was permitted a short breather, whilst the Barbershop Quartet (J ere my Avis, Andy Bush, Jimmy Gumpert and Chris White) took the stage to provide a humorous interlude. We would lik e to express our tha nks to Mr. Wen ley for kindly shipping all the esse ntial equ ipment (instrument s, mus ic stands, video reco rder. .. ) to and from BHS. The whole or the ni gh t's ac ti vities were compete ntl y ca ptured by our 'old faithru l' Mart in Edwards onto vid eo tape ror arc hi va l purposes. Our second appeara nce was at a concert in aid of the Royal Marines Benevolent Fu nd, in the Shirlcy Hall (7th December) and once again we performed 'in tandem' with the Barbershop Quartet. Despite Andy's hect ic arrival and Jeremy's health , Phil succeeded in getting all the drums toget her and hi s bow tie strai gh t, and Jimmy found his glasses - all before the performance started. We played fOllr pieces: I'm Shy, M(IIY Ellen, Sensation, Satanic Blues and Moustache. Overall, the eveni ng was a success and our thanks go to Mr. McCo nnell for in viting us to play, and to Mrs. McCo nnell ror kindly recording our errorts. We wou ld all sincerely li ke to thank Dr. Mallion for his support and encouragement throughout the term. TH E JAZZ CLUB.

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Cubberley of Sevenoaks School on 'Roman Food' was especially well-attended. As well as illuminating in a live ly way our somew hat limited preconceptions, he insp ired us 10 hold our own Roman banquet at the Casa Tc nn ick. The food we cooked was tasty (though the contents of the oatcakes were a little suspect) and proved more than ample. Unfortunately the tone of the evening was drastically lowered not on ly by the indecency of some of the togas but also by magisterial cordax and grape~ throwing. As wi nter drew in, we were pleased to welcome Mr. Nicholas Purce ll from St. John's Collegc, Oxford, who gavc a fine and widely-ra nging talk on ' The Low Lifc in Ancient Romc'. It encompassed a broad social panorama - laundcrers and their drunken graffit i, off-licences, pimps, slaves and 'scortae'. As before, a large and appreciat ive audience attended the talk. Our thanks are due to Mr. Tennick for his organization and guidan ce during these past two terms, especiall y as regards the banquet. As Martial put it : 'Musteus est: propera, caros nec differ amicos. nam mihi cum vetulo sit petasone nih il.' P IERS MCCLEERY.

The Society held a debate on Sunday, 20th October in the Societies Room, with twentythree people present. The motion before th e Hou se was: 'Thi s Hou se believes that the re is too muc h elitis m in English educalion.' T he mot ion was proposed by Debo ra h Co lma n, seconded by Jon Ben dien, and opposed by David Watki ns, seco nded by C harlotte Bishop. The Hou se was equally divided in the final vote, wit h seve ral abstentions. The debat e was characterised by a high quality of argument, both in the main speeches a nd in the contrib utions from (he floor. G.H.

TENTERDEN

Rugby Football The School XV 'Tis not in mortals to command success But we' ll do more Sempronius, we' ll deserve it.'

(Joseph Addison Coto ii. 43.) Somewhere in the history book of 'Life's Minor Pleasures and Trials,' a list of worthwhile ac tivities will include rugby football. 'Football ,' a locally-rule-governed affair, wrongly attributed to W. Webb-Ellis' finger prints in 1823, sanctioned at Rugby School by a 'Levee of the Sixth on August 28th, 1845' (J. S. Crossley Football Rules), formed a rudimentary game with a bullock's bladder at King's on the Green Court during the same period between ' trees, railings and buttresses'. (History of the King's School, Canterbury Woodruff and Cape) . By 1873, the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham and The King's School R.F.C. being formed, and the newly-codified Laws of the Game invoked, the school team that evolved played on Blare's Piece . Since 1927, St. Stephen's Fields, acquired and renamed Birley's Piece, has been the home of the 1st XV, who have played modern rugby football there ever since - though never more successfully than now. The 1985 1st XV has played and beaten more school teams in one season than any other King's 1st XV in the history of the game here. 'The essential matter of history is not what happe ned, but what people thought and said about it. !

(W. Frederic Maitland) Reviewing the players and matches is like netting a trawler of oysters and finding a pearl in almost all of them. September began with a pre-season tour to the sea-side and party conference centre, Blackpool. Training and preparation took place at Fylde Rugby Club in order to select a XV for the season. Two local games were played, producing a win against King Edward VII School, Lytham St. Annes, and a loss against Arnold School. The northern adventure completed, players aboard The Ro yal Scot for Euston on 12th September were eager to start the season on familiar soils. The summery autumn up to half-term produced skilled, fast running rugby and a sack full of points in the opening games against St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, Cranleigh, St. Paul's and R.M.S. Dover. Whilst the memory box contains jewels of remembrance mingled with old shoes , the three push-over tries of Tim Turner at No.8 against Cranleigh proves the Yiddish proverb: 'See one miracle and you've seen the lot,' to be false. The grit and character of the team was tested with the loss against Eltham College. It provided a welcome air-pocket of reality, a sobering insight for an unbeaten team that needed to be reminded what Kipling meant abo ut treating those two impostors (Messrs. Success & Failure) just the same. As if struck by the moral 'Grub first, then ethics,' the XV produced three immediate away wins against K.C.S. Wimbledon, Eastbourne College and Felsted and notched up over 65 points. Enthusiasm for the toughest games to come against Dulwich, Tonbridge and Epsom College remained constant, unlike the fickle weather, though heavy grounds slowed down the try-scoring significantly . Arguably,the two most impressive wins towards the end of the season can be attributed to David Laurence's right foot - a touch of magic at Tonbridge where a drop-goal won the match; added mystery through his 15-points win against Dulwich; but miracles - none! Just innate skill, a conditioned reflex and a cool head at the time. Other wins over Epsom College and Berkhamsted School were sparkless, except for Edward Mbu's two dazzling tries against 64 THE SCHOOL XV Stallding: I. D. S. Linney, • J. P. Gardner, P. H. McCleery. -T. J. Turner, H. D. H. O. Barton, ·N. H. Briggs, A. A. Bush, J. C. O. Gordon, ·1. D. MeL. Wrench, N. C. Wakefield. Sealed: *1. P. P. Nev ille. P. O. S. Lawto n, ·E. O. Mbu . *1. R. Seagrave (Capt.),· D. M. Ives t D, J. Laurence. P. P. Lacamp. · ' S( Colours (P. W.D.)

the former, and another 'Typical Turner Try' from the base o f the serum against the latter. King's only other defeat of the season came at Rugby School, where the XV underplayed in the first half, and favoured the home team and the ghos t of Webb-Ellis on his own pitch that day. 'There is properly no history, only biography.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reflecting on the players in an article is to make onl y ro ugh silhouettes out of them, but they did a ll the work and deserve all the credit. Unlike previous XVs, this one was strong at for ward, especially in the front row. Elder-statesman Jonathan Ga rdner was a cathedral of stability . Having played in every 1st XV match (plus a ll pre-season tournaments and tours of Durham in 1984 and Blackpool in 1985), he represented the Kent County XV in all their matches and rounded off the close of term by playing for Rosslyn Park. Ja mes Nevile's hooking won him a place in the Kent and Rosslyn Park XVs. He is a wily young campaigner who mi xes hooking with propping to the disadvantage of his opponent. Jonatha n Wrench adopted a high seriousness at tight-head prop and mastered many heavier, more muscular opponents at the scrummage . At second row, Nicholas Briggs occupied the main jumping position, and as a n ambitious bac k row player for his club, he will relish captaining the School VII. P iers McCleery and Hugo Barton added stability and foundation in most aspects of forward play; whi lst in the back row, Timothy Tu rner, lain Linney and Jeremy Gordon were quick, at hletic defenders in open play . Taken together, the pack were workmanlike and very responsive to teac hing a nd coaching and their energy and sharpness suggests they wi ll be capable sevens players too. The strength a nd talents of the three-quarter line were repeatedly displayed despite early losses of first-choice backs through injury. (Christopher White and Philippe Lacamp have an instinctive appetite for the soil and their return to it is overdue.) At centre, the Captai n, James Seagrave, supplied the maturity to the backs. His power and penetration mid-field was complemented by his decisive tackling and the quiet urgency he fel t about duties. A fine example to his players, he brought out the dignity and decency in everyone whilst always permitting self-expression on the field of play. David Laurence ass umed a heavy responsibility at outside half. As a fine passer of the ball, he contributed style and elegance a nd scored 72 points with his penalties, conversions and a drop-goal. At inside centre, Nicholas Wakefield sup plied the cutting-edge and simple truth that opponents a re there to be stopped! Scrum half Duncan 1ves played in every game, represented Kent County and scored 5 tries for the XV. No. IS, Pau l Lawton (who must be one of the lJest protected fu ll-backs in school teams this season), was secure under the high ball and did a sound job . On the left wing, Andrew Bush played for Kent Coun ty and performed well. On the right wing, Edwa rd Mbu provided the mercurial and devastating element necessary to a wi nning side. His presence generated inspiration in his own team and apath y in opponents . He scored 7 wonde rful tries from the power in his body which appeared apocalyp tic at times . Everyone must be congratulated on such a n outstanding season. Dr. Johnson believed that everyone has a lingering wis h to appear considerable in his native place, a nd this is true for the second year running, si nce the I st XV remain undefeated at home. Whilst apologising for my own forbidd ing parochialism in this, the enthusiasm of young players and passionate search for the non-material good th ings in life must not go unappreciated by reade rs . For this, the sounds of Die Frau ahne Schatten ringing in my ears, a nd so much more, 1 a m very grateful indeed . I am also gra tefu l to everyo ne who encouraged the 1st XV : to the Headmaster, the Lower and Second Masters a nd Staff of regu lar supporters; to the coaches/referees and Kent Society who always do such good service to ru gby football; to parents, fr iends, boys and girls who cheered us on, and to the Groundsman and his staff who kept all our pitches so smart. R.B.Mi. 65 (Alexander Morg(lfIj

f Team: P. G. S. Lawton, E. O. Mbu·, J. R. Seagrave· (Capt.), D. J. Laurence, N. C. Wakefield, A. A. Bush, D. M. Ives·, J. P. Gardner·, J. P. P. Nevile·, J. D. McL. Wrench·, N. H. Briggs·, P. H. McCleery, I. D. S. Linney, T. J . Turner·, J. C. O. Gordon. Also played: P. P. Lacamp, H. D. H. G. Barton, C. N. White, M. J. Nash, M. W. Ursell, P. A. Hamilton, J. D. Godley, P. J . O. Green leaf. · Isl Colours.

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RESULTS P layed 13, Won I I, Lost 2. Poi nts for 203, Points aga in st 82. SI. Lawrence (H). Won 41~6 II Felsted (A). Won 25~0 Cran leigh (H). Won 12~0 II Dulwich (H). Won 15~3 SI. Paul's (H ). Won I I~O I' To nbrid ge (A). Won 11·9 R.M.S. Dover (i-I). Won 12·6 v Epsom (H). Won 11·6 Eltham (A). Lost 6·12 II Rugby (A). Lost 6· 1 I K. C.S. Wimbledon (A). Won 2 1·13 II Llerkhamsted (H). Won 9·6 Eastbourne (A). Won 23·10

TOUR XV R ESU LTS King Edward VII School, Lyt ham 51. Annes (A). Won 15· 12 v Arno ld Sc hool, Blackpool (A). Lost 0·24

2nd XV

Some Rugby seasons come and go without leaving any great impression but there is little doubt that we shall all remember 1985. This has been a highly successful seaso n, notable for the high quality of the rugby played and the friendship that has been shared. Forty·seven tries to five paints a fair picture o f numerous exciting and entertaining encounters. None of this can be achieved by cha nce and the whole squad deserves credit for the hard work that they put into developing individual and un it skill s, a nd into improving fitness. Practices and team meetings were a pleasure and there was great satisfaction ga ined from the realisation of the potential that was revea led during early season trials. Michael Nash captained effectively unti l injury caused him to hand over to C. J . Brooke who combined well with the pack leader Hugh Gi rling. The leadership and experience of these players helped to mould a cohesive unit with a determined team spiril. The SI. Lawrence game was won in style wit h the pack taki ng command a nd the backs setting the trend for the season by produci ng nUillcrous ovcrlaps from various situat ions. Cranleigh provided a sterner test bu t the team emerged well from this with some we ll ~ take n tries and then, in one of the best performances, beat SI. Paul's up at Barnes. Following thi s, injuries caused rearrangement of the backs and this led to the wi ns over Eltham and K.C.S. Wimbledon being competent but not as domi nating as they shou ld have been. At Eastbourne it was frust rat ing to watch wrong options being taken and alarming to be trailing 7·9 with only ten minutes of the ga me remaining. However, in a thrilling finish, the real character of the team emerged as they scored two splendid tries, one of them initiated by a brilliant run by Mark Ursell. The trip to Felsted introduced the demands of weHveather play, taking most of the players by surprise, but eventually they adapted well and were able to dominate the second half. Spirits were now high and the team produced another of it s tOp performances in a well·deserved victory at Du lwich, which owed much to the inspiring leadership of C. J. Brooke and Hugh Girling who scored the three tries between them. A very fine match, containing a great deal of high·quality rugby, saw Tonbridge lose their unbeaten record on Birley's, and this built up hopes of an undefeated season. Unfortunately, an excellent, tough contest against Epsom led to the only loss, and this by the narrowest of margins. It was particularly galling that the decid ing score should be a dropped goal by a prop! If on ly the first· llalf opportunities had been seized ... Duke of York's tackled courageously but the home backs were in rampant form and the opposing defence was frequently stretc hed to breaking point. No one would have predicted a pointless draw as the fina l result of the season but the team was significantly weakcned for a variety of reasons and could not find the penetration required against a good, hard, workmanlike Berkhamsted team. This was indeed a rather flat end but it cou ld not detract from a memorable season that has given great pleasu re to players and spectators. The pack lacked weight and height but possessed st rength, drive and mobility. The solid, dependable front row employed various permutat ions of Hugh Girling, J ulian Godley, Meherwan Kandawa lJa and Fergus Simpson. They provided a good base for the scrutlltllage and all ran faster as the term progressed . In the second row Hugo Barton was avai lable for ha lf the ma tches and his rock·like qualities combined well with the mobility of P ierre Woodward and the solid lineout j umping o f Angus Scott. Jim Cha rlesworth developed well at number 8 and provided a sound link with the scrum half. Paddy Green leaf a nd Nick Rollason maintained an exceptionally high work rate, and the whole back row played wit h great determinat ion, show ing the ability to be dest ruct ive or constructive as required. On ly Robert Patterso n played in every match and it was good to see him grow in stature to become a very fin e scrum half who combines well with his backs and who possesses the abil ity to put his opponents under great pressure . Mark Ursell showed an unselfish willingness to move from fu ll·back to fly·half where he played with flair and courage in developing an excellent half·back combination.

f The tallest players, C. J. Brooke and T im Briggs, formed a st ri king pair of centres who developed a good understanding and who possessed the skill to lau nch the wi ngs on numerous try·scoring sort ies. Peter Ham ilton (10) and Michael Nash (9) were the leading try scorers and often showed great pace as well as deception in their running and the tactical awareness to appear outside each other in attack. Andrew Guy also made a va luable contribution and revea led startling accelerat ion and commendably straight running. Giles Elliott improved tremedously, managing to speed up all aspects of his play, and showed the knack of appearing in just the right place in the attacking line. Specia l thanks arc due to those other players who filled in gaps caused by injury and ill ness - they always gave of their best and let no one down. J find it difficult to recall a season that I have enjoyed more or found more rewarding. I have appreciated the willingness that the players have shown to support each ot her throughout the last few months and I have been most impressed by their generous nature in all matters. They have made the most of their opportunities and will surely do so aga in in the future. M. J.H .

The/ollowing played ill six or more games: C. J. Brooke (Capt.), H. W. Girli ng (Pack Leader), R. E. Pat terson, F. J. Charlesworth, G. Elli ott, M. Ka ndawalla, M. W. Ursell, P. J . Q. Greenleaf, P. A. Ha milton, N. W. Rollason, P. D. W. Woodward , T. P. Briggs, A. G. J. Scott, J . D. Godley, F. W. Sim pson, H. D. H . G. Barton, A. M. Guy, M. J . Nash. The/ol/owillg also played: N. C. Wa kefield , A. E. Mitchell , A. L. Odgers, A. J . Craik, J . D. Richardso n, M. B. Ryeland, A. H. C. Sherwood, C. R. Sma hnan·Sm ith, S. P. Stuttaford . RESULTS

Played 12, Won JO, Drawn I, Lost I . Points for 246, Points against 39. II SI. Lawrence (H). Won 64·0 II Felsted (A). Won 22·0 II Cra nleigh (H). Won 18·6 v Du lwich (A). Won 14-0 v SI. Paul's (A). Won 16·0 v Tonbridge (H). Won 15·4 v Eltham (H). Won 12·4 II Epsom (H). Lost 6·7 v K.C.S. Wimbledon (H). Won 16·6 II Duke of York's (H). Won 46·3 II Eastbourne (A). Won 17·9 II Berkhamsted (1-1). Drawn 0·0

3rd XV

A splendid seaso n. A quick gla nce through past edi tio ns of The Cantuarian does not reveal its like at this level, and surely there ca nnot have bee n a th ird XV wit h so much ent hu sias m and good hu mour. Toby Duthie led wi th spiri t a nd fine example, while Mark Ryeland's dazzling skills at outside centre were not matc hed or shackled by any opponents. At half·back Anthony Wattenbach a nd David Stocks fed a nd kicked with maturi ty a nd sk ill ; furt her out Andrew Mitchell, Alistair Craik a nd Simon Stutta ford lin ked very well toget her in whatever positions they ha ppened to find thcmselves; on the wing And rew Sherwood fin ished o ff many movements with elephantine charges to the line. No set of bac ks, except perhaps 51. Paul 's , eq ualled their talents. Up front the captain was powerfu lly bound to Michael Whitehead a nd Michael Miller (a remarkably speedy prop) who in turn were shoved with considerable power by Mark Evans a nd Andrew Walker. They were never outscrummaged in the set pieces. At the back Andrew Barron, JOIl Richardson, Richard Smahnan·Smith and Ste phen Grimcs destroycd and lin ked with gusto. High points in the seaso n were the first try against Du lwich, the dogged defence against SI. Paul's a nd the cracki ng start against Cranleigh. Pity about Tonbridge, but on the day they were the better side. Considerable thanks are once again due to D.J .R. and B.J .0. for their immacu late refereeing and I would like to thank all members of the 3rd XV for giving me such an enjoyable and rewarding season. J.s.R. The/ollowingplayed: A. J. Barron, C. E. Butcher, A. J. Craik, T. J. W. Duthie, G. Elliott, M. A. Eva ns, D. C. Everhart, S. J . Grimes, A. M. Guy, A. D. Howard, A. W. Leach, M. R. A. Miller, A. E. Mitchell, D. R. O'Conor, J. D. Richardson, N. W. Rol1a son, M. B. Ryela nd, A. H. C. Sherwood, F. W. Sim pson, C. R. Smalman·Smith, D. G. Stocks, S. P. Stuttaford, J. C. A. Veitch, A. A. Wa lker, P. L. Warncr~Sm i th, M. F. Whitehead. RESULTS

Played 10, Won 9, Lost I. Poin ts for 216, Points against 16. v Epso m. Won JO-O v Cra nlcigh. Won 31·0 II SI. Paul' s . Won 4-0 II Felsted . Won 8·0 II Dover College. Won 60·0 v Dulwich. Won 24·0 II K.C. S. Wimbledon. Won 31·0 II Tonbridge. Lost 10·6 )I Eastbourne, Won 20·0 II R.M.S. Dover. Won 32·0

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4th XV

The fourt hs have enjoyed their season as much as ever and played many clos~ matches. The ten~l began r,ather badly with four malches losl in a row. The first was against C ranbrook 3rd XV whIch we lost (6- 10) In the dymg seconds of the game after spending most of the time in the opposition's twenty-two. Then came two poor results against Cranicigh (3-23) and S1. Paul's (0-22). We were narrowly defeated by Sulton V~lencc (7Âˇ15), where they fielded a combined thirds a nd Co lts A Icam. Then just before half-term , on a very uneven pitch, we beal Easlbourne (24-6), the thrcequartcrs playing especially well to send over our wing Will~am Stanbury for fou~ tries. The match against Felsl:d was played in heavy rain and the pack sensibly kept the ba ll light for most of the tune. In the end we won ~4 -0) with a good try from ou r resident Dying German, Mathias Kostering. Du lwich was the closest of our matches whIch we unfortunatel y lost 3-4. At Tonbridge we were simply overpowered by their enormous forwards, but w!! defended well. an.d kept ~he score down to 0-15. Epsom were by far the most impressive team we faced, ~ncl after 10slOg War~er-S m. l th 10 the first five minutes of the game, our remaining fourteen players faced a barrage of tries caused by Epsom s cont ll1Ued overlap, and we lost 3-44. I wou ld like to thank a ll those who turned o ut regularly for the team and especia ll y a ll those who playcd for us at short notice. T he4t h XV, as usua l, glad ly supplied the success ful3rd XV wit h the cream of its talent on many occasions a nd of course this produced wea knesses in its tea m. JONATHAN VEITCI-!. Team: J . C. A. Veitc h, O. P. C. Langton, J. S. Murch, H. J . A ndree, W. J . Stanbury, R. H. Pentin, M. Kostering, J. J . C humas, D. J . Graham, P. A. Bushell, A. D. Howard, R. B. Cooper, J . R. Brown, 1. R. Nicholas, P. L. WarnerSmith, S. J. Grimes. R ESU LTS

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P layed 9, Won 2, Lost 7. Po int s for 50, Points against 129. Cranb rook (H). Lost 6-10 v Felsted (A). Won 4-0 Cranleigh (H). Lost 3-23 v Du lwich (H). Lost 3-4 St. Paul's (A). Lost 0-22 v Tonbridge (A). Lost 0- 15 SUllon Valence (A). Lost 7- 15 v Epsom (A). Lost 3-44 Eastbourne (A). Won 24-6

Colts A XV Once again, the Colts XV finis hed the season wit h a n im press ive record, but perha ps more s.igni.ficantly, deve~o ped individually a nd collcctively to the extent that a nu mber of this team should make a powerful contnbutlon to the continued success of Senior ru gby at King's. Furt hermore, to have ac h i~ved S l~C.'l success from such a he~vy progra.mme of away fixtures a nd often after conced ing the fi rst score, suggests not Just abI li ty, bu t a lso character, a vital Ingred ient of success on and off the field. The seaso n began at St. Lawrence o n a bone-hard pitch, whe~e ~ h e .fo~war~ s monopoli~ed pos~ess i on .and the b~c k s ran and scored at will' this was fo llowed by a fair ly comfortable Wto In sI milar, If less emphatIc, fashIon agamst Cranlelgh. Pleasi ng though thes~ performa nces were, it was obvious that our next opponents , St. Pau l's, having innicted defeat on us the previous season, would be a considerably more difficult obsta~le. Indeed, the prospects looked blea~ .when, with the match hard ly a minute old, they wcre allowed to take a. four-1lI 1 I.ead. The '~hole s ld~ ~eac.ted maglll ficently to the challenge, but particularly the pack, who proceeded to demolish a fo n:rlldab le lookmg Oppo~l tlon to the scrummage, gaining the upper hand conclusively elsewhere, whi lst the backs ran elUSively and defended with purpose. The result was a most grat ifying win, and in many ways the most complete perfor mance of the season. The fo ll owing week, therefore, was a huge anti-climax. Perhaps. guilt y of under-est.im?ting the opposition, we again allowcd our opponents an early score. (Indeed. this was o ne alarmmg feature of the Side s play throughout the seas~ n , and it was to cost us dearly against the best sides). A good Eltham team .then rut hlessly took adv~ntage?f slack defens!ve tcchnique a nd punished our errors to run out easy winners, though certamly flattered by the margm of vIctory consldenng our share of possession and territory. We recovered composu re wit h a comfortable win at K.C. S. Wimbledon , based on fo rward dom in ation a nd a st ~te tactical kick ing. A diffi cu lt ga me agai nst Eastbourne was won co n v i ncin~ l y in the last q uarter, and. although conceding a not her early score against Felsted, the side responded fo rce full y ~ o ga l ~ a mO.re comfortab le Will tha n once .I?oked likely. T hen ca me the match against Dulwich, which was to be a bItter d lsapPo lll tment. Vet a not her early de fiCit was recovcred, a nd for the last quarter of an ho ur we successfu lly de ~e n d~d a si ngle point l e~d agai n ~t considerabl? press ure unt il a lmost on the fina l whist le, a penally award f\ave the D ulw lch kicker the o pportu nity to wto the ~a m e with a ~v<? ll Â struck e ffort. There were contrast ing fortu nes the fo llowing week, however , when m a ~opsy-t~rvy an~ lugh ly entertalll ll~ g game, we inflicted upon a lively Tonbridge side their first defeat of the scason, havlllg aga in to withstand press ure In the last quarter in defence of a single-point lead away from home.

Disaster st ruck the following week at Epsom, in more ways than one. They were the next to benefit from our generosity, with the game only seconds old, and were to prove that against the best sides (they had never lost a game) it is catastrophic to be so lax - even for a few minutes . Eve n so, we fou ght our way to within one score and in a closely contested game a win st ill looked possible unti l a series o f bad injuries to key players disrupted and demoralised the side. Fo rtunately, the last two matches of the season restored the balance, and if the match against Duke of York's in appallingly muddy cond itions lacked quality, that against Berkhamsted produced a very good allÂˇround performance, and so me spa rkling tries, with the final one of the season going fitlin gly to S. Frcdericks, the loose- head prop, who dived over with elegance and style, after a sto rming 25 yard run. The strength of this team has unquestionably been among the forwards. The scru mmage was awesome: pushover tries accounted for a vcry large proportion of tries scored; rarely did we fai l to score from a five metre scrum, and indeed, at times it looked as if even the 22Âˇmetre line was in range! Very fcw sides could cope with such a concerted drive, and even if they could do so for part of the game, they invariably buck led in the later stage and were noticeab ly slower to loose ba ll . Heig ht, a llied to good throw ing, in the li ne-out meant that we were usually dominant in that phase too, which was not on ly a useful sou rce of possession to the back s, but also a llowed liS to launc h attacks through the forwards. Loose ba ll was plent iful, but if there are criticisms o f the forwards, they arc that they arc sometimes too upright in ruck s, and a li tt le loose. Furthermore, a lthough they revel in running in the o pen in close su pport, and do so q uite for midably, their presenta tion of the ball in the tack le cou ld be improved at times. In the fro nt row, the combinat ion of S. Fredericks, A. Lin forth and M. Overton was disturbed by injury o r unavailability but once, in co ntrast wit h the rest of the side. T his, and of course their so und techn iqu e, a ll ied to basic strength, gavc the side well- needed stability in every sense . The big second row men were indeed the 'engine room'; there S. Turner ga ined valuab le clean possess io n at the front of the line-out , scrummaged effect ive ly and did the 'donkey-work' in the loose. His place-kicking was a surprise, but a very effective bonus. J. Mycroft. in his first season ever in th e posit ion , was a revelation. He soon adapted, and dom inated the midd le of the li ne-out with somc su perb two-handed catching (notab ly at K. C_S.). He scrummaged wcll, and ra n to good effect in the o pen. Nat ura ll y it took him rather more time to adapt to techniques in ruck and maul, and it is this that probab ly prcventcd his se lect ion for the Cou nty sidc. It is to his immense cred it and a pointer to his outstanding potential that he joined S. Turner in the Kent Under-16 squad , after so little experience in the position, and it is hoped that his sad injury a t Epsom docs not prevent him from playing and cnjoying the gamc again. E. Va lpy. who also played in the second row, can consider him self unfortunate that there were for most of the season two o utstanding players in that position, for he was most impressive when he played and could very well be a 'dark horse' to fo llow with regard to Senior rugby. A. J ohns a lso played well in a couplc of games, but pcrhaps needs to show more real commitment. T he back row werc a very lively unit indeed, and a dominant influence in most ga mes. At Number eight , T. Epps, another most promising player, showed improved control and distribution at the base of the scrum , ran well in su pport , hand ling effect ively, and tack led well when needcd in defence. His height at the back of the li nc-out brought use fu l, controlled possessio n. I. G irling and R. Morse, at open and blind-side flanker respect ively, were tireless and aggressive workhorses, together constantly harassing and pressurising opponents, a nd frequent ly linking purposefully in support of o thers in attack. I. Girling ran especially effcctively, but needs to improve his distribut ion when he is finally stopped - for it will ha ppcn earl ier a t Se nior level. G. Eva ns a lso played a couple of matches at flan ker a nd cont rib uted wcll. The backs were, for various reaso ns, such an unsett led combination, that it was dirficu lt for them to establish a consistent rhythm, and, it has to be sa id, further work is still needed in somc cases 011 the basics of ha ndling, alignment in defence, a nd tackling. Furthermore, the pattern of the team's play was based largely on the forwa rds, and so it was only occasionally that they were really given a frce reign. Vet there were matches containing somc very good runni ng indeed at the bcginn ing and end of the seaso n. At fu ll -back, J . Davies was sound and uncomplicated, and read the ga me well ; to make a bigger impression furt her up the schoo l, however, he will need to find morc pace ancl quicken his reactions. On the wing, A. Vigo, when he played, proved elusive, quick, and positive in possess ion, ancl worked hard on cover defence. M. Cumber, convertecl from scrum-half, proved casily the most invent ive a nd resourceful runner, and made the most of lim itcd posscssion; he was a reliable additional full back in defence under the high ba ll. T. d'Offay a lso ran st rongly and very st raight and tack led gamely. His handling and posit ional play in defence improved considerably through the season. Of the centres, O. Rotimi was by far the most impressive, a strong, direct yet elusive runner, hc was a most difficult opponent to stop, and he retained posscssion when tac kled. His own tackling was solid , and his handling sure. K. Phillips too tackled well and handled tidily, but looked more at home on the wing. and indeed his pace and strength 0 11 th e outside might prove more effective there at a higher Icvel tha n in the cent re, whcre he seems to lack vision. S. Beaugie worked hard , handled very well at times and tackled gamely. but was a little predictable and ponderous at times. The ha lf-backs in any team are important. in conjunct ion with thc back row. At fl y half, B. Marson was a vital cog in the wheel, was sou nd in most respects and kicked most astutely at times. Hc looked a t his best , however, at fu ll back, when he played there, and could do well therc in future. A. Murdoch at scrum -ha lf made significa nt advances as the season went by. His pass was quick and accurate; he often ran incisively and linked well with his back row, especially on the blind side. Once he was aware of the immense value of tactical kicking from th is position, this aspect of his play improved considerab ly. In addit io n he frequently prod uced cover tackles at crucial moment s. This has been a most enjoyable seaso n. I am su re that many of Ih is side will make a considerable impact o n Senior rugby over the next two seasons. Team spirit has been excellen t, a nd this is due in no small way to the excellent captaincy of R. Morse, who has bee n an inspiring and responsib le exa mple to al l. My thanks go to him, indeed to the whole side, to those of the B XV wh o actecl as replacements at various times, to those parents who su pportcd us at home and on our cxtensive travcls, and to C.J. R. J., who soldiered on manfully with a B XV too freque ntly robbed of its most able players by the demands of the As. R.C.W.

f Team: J . R. Davies, A. O. Vigo, T. D'Offay, M. J. C umber, K. O. Phillips, O. Rotim i, S. M. Beaugie, B. C. Marson, A. G. F. Murdoch, S. M. Fredericks, A . R. Linforth, M. A. 1. McH . Overton, S. R. Turner, J . A . W. Mycroft, E. F. Va lpy, R. J . Morsc, (Capt.), I. C. G irli ng, T. A. F. Epps. Also played: A. C. H. Johns, G. J . V. Evans , J. A. C. Landale .

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P layed 12, Wo n 9, Lost 3. Po in ts fo r 254, PoilllS against 90. St. Law rence. Won 62-0 v Felsted. Won 19-9 C ran leigh. Won 28-0 v Du lwic h. Lost 7-9 St. Pau l's. Wo n 12-7 v Tonbridge. Won 22-2 1 Elt ham College. Lost 7-24 v Epso m. Lost 7-18 K.C.S. Wim bledon. Won 20-4 v R.M.S. Dover. Won 27-0 Eastbourne. Wo n 12-0 v Berkhamsted. Won 31-0

Colts B XV There was litt le to savour in a disappointing term's rugby . The backs were lacki ng in pace and penetration a nd the low 'points for ' tally re nects this most clearly . Thc forwards were strong in the tight situations, but lac ked mobility in the loose. enabli ng opponent s to set up good possession too easily. To add to these problems an ab normally large number of in juries meant that it was difficult to field anything like a settled side. All this was unfortunate , but would have been easier to accept if the sq uad's collective attitude had been a positive one. Sadl y this was not the case. Fu ll turn-outs for traini ng sess ions were rare and too few of the squad were prepared to work ha rd to im prove their tec hnique and fitness. Defeatist view points were domina nt in pre-match preparations, although it must be sa id that the tea m never gave up in the actual games . In fact there was some very determined tac kl ing, in thc face of often continuous pressure from the opposition. Everyt hi ng might have been better if the season had got off to a more successful start. After being outclassed by Ihe Cranbrook A XV, the match aga inst C ra nleigh was close. A serious injury to the hooker, Andrew Cun ningham, and another o ne to o ur scrum-ha lf tipped the sca les in the opposit ion's favour a nd morale sagged . The bright spots of the seaso n werc a n exciting last-mi nu te win at K.C.S. Wimbledon a nd a n e fficie nt one against Felsted, when we were ablc to fie ld our Slrongest side. [t is to be hoped thai those who have tried consistent ly throughout the term will experience more success and enjoyment in rugby next year a nd that the disruptive and negative elcmcnts in the squad will decide to adopt a more mature attitude in the fut ure.

C. J .R.J. Tile following played: D. M. Bainbridge, T. A. Bainbridge, J. R. Beatlon, S. M. Beaugie, O. E. A. Bird, M. R. Brooke, A. J . SU. Cunningham, J. R. Davies. T . d'Offay, G. J. V. Evans, E. O. H. Fox, C. R. Gooderham, S. A. B. Guthrie, J . R. A. Harland Fairweather, T. R. E. Kitchin. L. C. Michaels, A. G. F. Murdoch, J . W . Muskell, A. R. Nash, P. A. Norris , A. J. Oliver, B. C. Pu llen, J. P. E. Ra lph, S. St. John Parker, P. O. A . T homas, J . L. Topbam, E. F. Valpy, T. St. J . Whi te .

RESULTS Played 10, Won 3. Lost 7. Po int s for 39, Poi nts against 162. I' Cranbrook A XV (A). Lost 0-26 v Cranlcigh (H). Lost 0-12 I' 51. Paul's (H ). Lost 4- 18 v K. C.S. Wimbledon (A). Won 8-6 v Eastbourne (H). Lost 0- 13 v Felsted (H) . Won 14-0 I ' Dulwich (A). Lost 0-26 I' Tonbridge (A). Lost 0-37 I' Epsom (A) . Lost 0-24 I' R.M.S. Dover (A). Wo n 13-0

Junior Colts A XV Very few inju ries have meant that the competition for team places has been very hot; on a couple of occasions players have been out because of illness, but the quality o f the replacements has been such that I consider every team that was fielded was on a par wit h a ny other that played this season.

The general physical appearance of the side has been 'smallish', but a lightweigbt pack, technica lly very sound a nd very mobile. has made for a very q uick game. Scrummagin g was genera ll y very good but line-ou ts were ra ther suspect at times. On a Ki ng's ball we were often loose and slow in tidying up, but as a d isrupt ive influ ence on an opposition ball the pack were very good. S. Ursell came through from the back of the line-out to destroy oppositio n ball tim e and time again. Back play improved throughout the season, and indeed, in the very last game they did not drop the ball o nce. The first ga me against St. Lawrence was fairly straightforward and the point s were shared between the fo rwards and the backs, J . Landale converting five out of eight. C ranleigh was a reasonable game; the score could have been a lot more as on th ree occasions the ba ll was dropped in the oppositio n's in-goa l a rea. A loss against St. Paul's (two pena lties to one) was a n unlucky result . Tackling by both sides was superb a nd ra rely did eit her side penetrate the o ther's 'twentytwo'. Elt ham Co llege was a keenly contested mat ch; the forwards were o n fo rm and were able to keep hold of the ball for most of the match - the backs were a llowed it from time to time. K.C.5. Wimb ledon was a close match: good defensive work by the backs kept them o ut and two tries to one was the fina l score. The Eastbourne match was excellent. Aga in the forwa rds took control. and occasionally let the bac ks play with the ball. bu t not too often as their backs looked very dangerous. At half-term the record was: played 6. won 5, lost I, point s fo r 129, poin ts against 26. Felsted was a no ther exciting match, each side scoring a brilliant try. C. Vavasou r was the ' loca l hero'. T he visitors from Dulwich were big and fast! A lthough they ra n in a few tries the King's tackling was very impressive; Dulwic h were running out of replacements by the end of the match. Tonbridge was not a bad match. but it just was not to be King's day. The match aga inst Epsom was reasonab le. King's scored first, bu t a try scored from a well-rehea rsed move was disallowed. a nd right ly so, as the re feree was unsighted. This meant that heads went down and Epsom took total contro l. T he last match of the season was against Berkhamsted: two very well matched sides. For the last len minu tes they were camped on the Ki ng's goa l-line ; R. Scali kicki ng for touch under great pressu re. Eventua lly. in the last min ute, they managed to get a score. All five games since ha lf- term have been lost, but two of them (Felsted and Berkhamsted) were very, very close indced. Positional changes from last year wort hy of note were: M. Ie Huray at scrum half, a player with great potential (assuming he grows a little), R. Scott at fly ha lf, by no means a natural number 10 but someone who has given his best and performed well, a nd J. Mycroft a s hooker, an aggressive 'mauler' a nd also ab le to throw a long ball at the line-auI. J. La ndale, centre/w ing and the place kicker fo r the side, has had a n impressive season and for one Sa turday, when the Junior Co lts were free, was promoted to the Col ts, a nd I bel ieve played very well. C. Vavasour, the captain of thc side, has had a superb season, both in his ow n game and in the leadership o f the side. He now has a sma ll scar on his check to remi nd him o f playing rugby for the King's School Junior Co lts A XV. (Man y thanks Charlie!) A cou ple of new faces and the promot ions from last yea r' s B team have lifted the sq uad to improve on last yea r's results (as was predicted twelve months ago by Mr. Ga les). A lthough there will be no new faces next year, I am sure thai this determined sq uad will carryon improving. I hope to hear of even better resu lts next year. Good luck to o ne and all. G.W.H. Team: J . D. Mycroft, J. E. Kemp, J . J. Morse, M. J. C. Pollitt , E. J . Beaugic, R. W. G ir ling, S. J . Ursell, W. Ballenden, C. W. A. Vavasour (Capt.), M. G. Ie Huray. R. C. Scott, A. J . H . Brown. J. A. C. Landale, F. G . Webb, H. P . Philpott, M. O. Ososa nya, R. J. Kabban, M. L. Nicholls. Also played: E. K. van Ti l. R ESU LTS

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Played 11, Won 5, Lost 6. Po in ts for ISS, Point s agai nst 133. SI. Lawrence. Won 42-0 v Felstcd . Lost 4-6 Cra nleigh. Wo n 14-10 v Dulwich. Lost 0-38 SI. Pau l's. Lost 3-6 v To nbridge. Lost 10-2 1 Eltha m College. Won 36-0 v Epsom . Lost 4-30 K.C.S. Wi mbledon. Won 10-4 v Berkhamsted. Lost 8-12 Eastbourne. Won 24-6

Junior Colts B XV The season sta rt ed with a rush. We had only three days to produce a team to play Cra nbrook. Wit h no preparation it was li kely {hat we would not do too wel l. Cranbrook, expecting stiff opposition sent a combined A and B XV which proved far too strong fo r an unprepared B XV. Seven changes were made for the next fixture agai nst Cranleigh but the opposition was except ionally st ro ng and we were well beaten. It was clear from the sta rt that we had a good set of forwa rds bu t a weak back division. They were small, not particu larly fast and not very keen o n tack ling low and hard. The statistics prove the poi nt. 40 tries were scored duri ng the season , 27 by the forwards of which 16 were scored by the 2nd row (J . Aboderin 12, M. Montgomery 4), and on ly 13 tries were scored by {he backs of which 8 were scored by L. F. T. Dunn. He might have scored more bUI he had to stop every VI hour to have his gating card signed. No points came from penalt ies a nd only 20 points from 10 conversions. 71

Just bcfore half-term we produced 3 good wins which almost evened out the points tally, but unfortunatcly, in the match against K.C.S. Wimbledon, wc lost M. Lawrence for the rest of the term with a serious shoulder injury . He was proving to be an exceptionally good wing forward and our defence was cons iderab ly weakened by his loss. Felsted was a match of two halves with the wind blowing straight down the pitch. We led with the wind 18-0 at half-t ime but were overhauled in the last five minutes - poor kicking and poor tack li ng gave the game away. The victory against Du lwich was the most satis fying o f the four victories and o nce again the forwards were responsible . 3 tries by the forwards including a pushover tryon their put-i n under the posts set up victory. Against Tonbridge and Epsom the team was sadly dep leted by injuries and absentees. I am sure that with the top 15 boys in this V. 15 B Group, both of these matches could have been much closer and I believe they could have been our victories. The season ended with a very close match against Berkhamsted a nd J. Aboderin failed by 3 ins. to score his 13th try and give us victory. I would li ke to thank Magnu s Montgomery and Mike Holden for captaining the team and all 38 people who turned out to play during the season. I hope many will con tin ue to play next year and some, wi th improved fitness and dedication. I hope to see them in the A XV a nd cven the 1st XV in a few years' time .

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The/ollowing played: ( I i) E . H. Hug hes, M. I. Holden, S. Williams, M. L. Milhench, (9) J. Aboderin, (8) O. D. Scott, L. F. T. Dunn, E. R. S. Floydd, (7) R. F. Ferra ri , M. Mont gomery, (6) M. W. Stafford, (5) P. E. Jessup, B. E. Palmer, N. W. Arnold, (4)S. L. Friedlander, N. H. Mitchcll , M. C. G. Lawrence, I. W. Monk ho use, M. L. Nickolls, (3) J. C. Wyatt, N. H. Litt lcjoh n, J . D. Mycroft, D. P. P. Godfrey, D. J. Marshall, (2) C . R. Stanb ury, J. A. Cridgc, J . E. Kemp, J. M. Rowsell, (I) E. K. van Til, R. W. Girling, A. S. Michael, C. M. Pope, J. F. Ibbott, P. J. Woods, J. R. T. Ashbee, J. I. Manning, L. R. Sa lerno, J. R. D. Barnes. ( ) Malches played. RESULTS

Played II , Won 4, Lost 6, Drawn I. Points for 180, Points against 244. I' Cranbrook (H). Lost 4-46 \I Felsted (H). Lost 18-26 II Cra nleigh (A). Lost 0-56 II Du lwic h (H). Won 18-6 I'SI. Paul' s (H ). Lost 10-36 \I Tonbridge (H ). Lost 0-26 I ' Sutton Va lence (H). Won 56-0 II Epsom (A). Lost 0-30 II K.C.S. Wimbledon (A). Won 20-4 II Berkhamsted (A). Drawn 4-4 II Eastbourne (H). Won 50-10

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Played 3, Lost 3. SI. Paul 's. Lost Ch islehurst a nd Sidcllp . Lost II Tonb ridge. Lost Thejollowillgplayed: (3) J. R. P. Thomson, J. F. ibbolt, C. J . T. Job , E. K. van Til, J. C. Wyatt, J. R. T. Ashbee, J . R. D. Barnes, (2) B. E. Palmer, C. R. Sta nbury, J. D. S. Williams, L. R. Salerno, C. F. Paine, I. J. Udoycn, J. H. Nightingale, (I) N. H. Mitchell , J. I. Manning, J . E. Kemp, N. H . Litt lejohn, C. M. Pope, P. J . Woods, D. McDonnell, J . C. Ousey, O. D. SCOII, A. S. Michael. ( ) Matches played. II

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Th is year's intake, except for a few notable exceptions, lacked the determination and commitment which are esseillial for developing skills and winning matches. The fact that the three teams cou ld on ly manage five victories between them, has, unfortunately, demoralised and frustrated many boys. On several occasions this term boys have been asked to co mpete in obvious mismatches, a nd understandab ly these games have shattered any confidence they had. If injuries are to be avoided, and a boy's enjoyment of playing rugby maintained, then it is crucia l that there is a reassessment of certain fixturcs. 72

Despite the occasiona l air of despondency which has hovered over the under 14 pitches this term, Mr. Reiss, Dr. Poots, Dr. Maltby a nd myself have been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm generated by the boys, even after a heavy defeat. Winning is important in terms of a boy's pride, and sense of achievement, but the major consideration is his enjoy ment. The o ne aspect of their game which has Icd to thei r demise this season has been that some boys did not relish the prospect of tackling. Rugby is a physical game, a nd can not be played withollt a degree of body cont act. The first four games aga inst C ra nleigh, SI. Paul's, Eltham and K.C.S. Wimbledon saw King's domi nate or hold the opposition in the set picce, but they were not able to prevent teams from securing possession from rucks or mau ls. Therefore, in the absence of some positive tack ling, whenever the opposing team had the ba ll they looked li ke scoring. It is true that several injuries and posit ional changes did not enhance the cohesiveness of the team, but genera lly there was a lack of confidence and concentration. It was not until the first home match against a fine Eastbourne team, that the boys sudden ly rea lised their potentia l, and they played like demons. This was an extrcmely exciting game with King's just holding off a strong Eastbourne challenge in the last fifteen minutes of the second half. The next two games were a lso splendid performances, particu larly the Dulwich game. Aga inst an enormous pack, King's ou tplayed Dulwich in many aspects of the game and werc a shade un lucky to draw after missi ng two kickable penalties. After a run of four games without a defeat King's switched from their Mr. Hyde impersona tion to a soft and gent le Dr. J eky ll. Against Tonbridge, Duke of York's and Berkhamsted, (the latter game being a sligh t improvement) King's could not dominate. Several careless mistakes and slipped tackles saw King's lose to the better team on each occasion. During the Epsom match I had to remi nd myself tha t this was supposed to be a n Under i4 rugby game, and not the nightmare it seemed. This game was a complete farce, and should not have been played. Count ing the wa lki ng wounded merely confirmed my original thoughts. Boys playing beyond their physica l capabilities are more likely to get hurt, and this will only fuel the arguments of those who wish to reduce the amount of rugby in sc hools. Of those who played this seaso n, the pack can be proud of their efforts, particularly with regard to scrummagin g. The front row of E. Burt, A. Das and B. Epega were sol id and most e ffective. Considering all three were fla nkers they performed except iona lly well. Baba the ca ptain, fo r much of the seaso n, was by far the most explosive and dynamic of a ll the team. His awesome st rength was a major factor in the se rum's success . The second row of J. Hudsmith, C. Dwyer, and S. Hart were good tech nicians, as were the back row ofS. Santry, C. Hall and E. Linforth . Edward made a considerab le improvement throughout the season and he shows great promise as an open side flanker. C. Hall also performed with dist in ction in thc line out, consid ering he is only just thirteen. Of the backs S. Roberts is a g ifted sc rum-ha lf, who has the advantage of bei ng left-handed. His partnership with M. Northeast turned out to be the best pairing at half back for many years, He is a tremendously st rong running player who possesses a mighty kick. His abi lity to relieve pressure and make breaks has helped the team immeasurably. The cen tres of R. Rinaldi and T. Baker arc not in the classical mould, as both have been converted from the back row. Despite this, they have given the leam fo rcefu l run ning in mid fi eld and a grea ter physica l presence. The two main wingers for most of the season have been A, Ogedeghe a nd A. Tuboku-Metzger. Although lacking in electrifyi ng pace, both have played well. T he sa me can be sa id for N. Daley who though a fu ll back, has played fly half and centre when the need has arisen. He has a good eye for the ball and he has added stability to the team. Finally I would li ke to tha nk Messrs. Reiss, Poots, and Maltby for a ll their help and assistance with the running of the three teams this season. It has been most cnj oyab le, and 1 sincerely hope tha t a ll the boys concerned have enjoyed it su fficiently to cont in ue playing next season.

G.P.G. Team: E. W. Burt, A. Das, B. A. Epega (Capt.), C. P. Dwyer, S. Hart, J. C. Hudsmith, C. D. K. Hall, S. D. Sa ntry, E. J. Linforth, S. W. Roberts, M, G. Northeast, T. C. Baker, A. R. Rinaldi, A. E. O. Ogedegbe, A. Tuboku -Metzger , N. V. Daley. Also played: P. H. Apps, B. Ashcroft, S. Bocresion, D. J. Cox, S. L. Fried lander, K. P. Godfrey, A. P. Hancock, H . J. Longrigg, J . L. Martin, A. J. W. W. Skarbek, P. R. Trussell. Player oj Ihe season: B. A. Epega. R ESULTS

Played 12, Won 3, Drawn I, Lost 8. Points for 73, Poin ts against 181. II Dulwich. Drawn 4-4 I' C ranleigh. Lost 8-10 II SI. Paul's. Lost 3-40 v SI. Mary's. Won 10-4 II Eltham. Lost 6-16 II To nbridge. Lost 0-i6 II K.C.S. Wimbledon. Lost 9-22 II Epsom. Lost 3-46 II East bourne. Won 6-0 II Duke of York's. Lost 0-i6 II Fclsted. Won 20-0 II Berkhamsted. Lost 4-7

t Under 14 B XV Statistics without reaso ns a rc li ke musta rd without beef. Ailment, injury ~nd the predatory gales ensured that the tea m was liable to change every week - fu rt herm0,re we lacked a ny real pace III t l~c three-quarters and a l ~o a powerful kicker a nd these arc not abilities Ihal appear overmght. But too many tnes were given away through a ral l ~rc to tackle _ I hope C ranleigh, Eastbourne, Fels(cd,.To nbridge and Bcrk,hamsled arc all gratefu l for those extra POints - on ly Dulwich. S1. P aul ' s and Epsom were obv iously much bette r sides. T he pack, ably led by Ashcroft and Bocrcsion, foraged w~ lI , bringing victories ~gai n st Sutt o n Valc'!-ce and Duke of York's, b ut wi th li tt le pace in the li ne there were few options OP:11 to t hem. Price, Darley and DavI.es a ll tackled well at times though Grimes, a prop, proved to be the best tackler III the team. The best rugby ~a me III the second ha lf against Epsom, when ext ra determination and drive revealed just how much fun good rugby IS both to play and to watch. Despite a poor season in terms of result s it has been a most enjoyable ~erm; the team have remained enthusiastic and will ing, united in an aversion to fitn ess training (chorus-leaders Curlewls and Hancock) - the coach has been sen t to South Africa in disgrace but he tak es with h im happy memories - thank yOll.

P.H.R. Teams: J. R. Price (Cclpl.), J. M. Grimes, A. M. Curlcwis, S. Keelcr, S. Hart, N. A. J amiesoll , J. J. F. Stobbs, B. Ashcroft, S. Bocresion, B. A. Marquis, D. J. Cox, D. J. Rycroft. P. R. Trussell. A. P. Hancoc k, A. M. H. Darley, P. G. Davies, H. J. LOllgrigg . R ESULTS

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Played II , WOIl 2, Lost 9. v Du lwich. Lost 0-62 Cranlcigh. Lost 4-37 II Tonbridge . Lost 6-28 SI. Paul's. Lost 0-36 v Epsom. Lost 0-52 Sutto n Valence. WOIl 12Âˇ4 v Duk e or Yo rk 's. Won 16-0 K.C.S. Lost 9-16 I ' Berkhamsted. Lost 0-20 Eastbourne. Lost 0-32 Fclsted. Lost 4-24

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On the basis of resul ts, the team had a very u nsuccess ful season and lost all tI.le matches. H o'.veve~, the scores do not reflect the ent hus iasm and deter mination or the team who had to struggle agat llst vas.tly supcr](;>r SIdes. On several occasions, the opposition cons isted of A or B sides a nd consequent ly the matches had little meaning. There must be a strong case ror finding suitable fixtures with more evenly matched opponents. Hawkins was a sound captain and had the difficult task of boosting morale in some or the more uneven games. Handley proved to be a determined rull back a nd SI. Joh n Parker was a ~lsefu.1 fly ha ir. Godrrey made some good .runs 0 11 tl~e wing and He ll ings was prepared to tackle opponents at least tW ice IllS sIze. The whole squad deserve pratsc ror theIr dedication, and ma ny o r the p layers will do we ll in the rut ure. Finally, thanks to M.N.W. ror his services as a referee and to all the parent s who turned up to support the team. lo P. AND H.R.O.M.

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TheJollowingployed: E. J . Beerbohm, M. A. Billot, P. A. Cairns, H. R. Clayton, A. G. ~oe, S. Cole, Dalamal, P. G. Dav ies, K. P. God rrey, M. R. Hand ley, A. P . Hancock,.C. J. Haswell, H: L. Hawkms,. R. A. Helhngs, N. A. J am ieson, J . E. D. Knight, P. Kwan, A. E. C. Lacy, T. J . LockI ng, B. A. Ma rq UIS, J. W. Martm, D. SI. J o hn Parker, J . J. F. Stobbs, S. C. Tester, M. D. Weston. RESULT S

Played 6, Lost 6. Points ror 4, Point s against 281. I'SI. Paul's (A). Lost 4- 16 I' Betha ny (A). Lost 0 -74 v Ch islchurst and Sidcup (H). Lost 0-36 v Tonbridge (H). Lost 0-65 v Epsom (H). Lost 0-60 I' Duke or York's Under-13 XV (A). Lost 0-30

t Badminton Last summer saw us (under Gary Smith) come a close second in the Kent Schools League, going down to Gravesend Grammar School only in the second leg of t he final. Th is term has seen us win our first trophy: in the five-way tournament held at Dover College and entered by the local independent schools. The shield ror the best school a nd the cu p ror t he best pa ir (Matthias Kostering a nd Al ista ir Mcrie) now both reside at King's. Interest ingly enough this was ten years to t he month since Peter C reswell a nd Pla i Kitiyaka ra played our first ever malch - against SI. Lawrence College: o ne or t he rour other schools ! Our second pair at Dover were Raj iv Vijaya nathan and Jayesh Gopalji, both or whom have been awarded Minor Sports Colours, a nd in other matches our team has included Jason Yap, Pcter Thomas, Pat rick Trew, Simon Stuttaford, Bruce Marson, and at U. 16 leve l Lawrence Lo and Alex Skarbek. Jayesh is unfortunately leaving us this Christmas, after an all too brier badminton ca reer. Ot her matches this term (all senior except o ne): v Dover College. Wo n 4-0 v Sta rfo rd House. Lost 2-4 v SI. Lawrence College. Won 10-8 v Dover College (U. 16). Lost 0-4 v Sheppey Sc hool. Won 4-0 v Kent College. Won 4-0 A trip to see a China v. England match b rough t a new enthusiasm to all who went (even ir only Jaso n Yap was happy at t he resu lt !), and Matthias was soon gingering up the tea m to turn out to practices to imitate t he su pple fluency of the Ch inese team . New ju nior p layers have given us opt im ism ror the fu ture; Law rence Lo and Alex S karbek have been regular and diligent in practice, although ot her talents have been wooed away by the lure or rugby. Thank s as ever must go to Pat Davis ror his good-hu moured and tireless efroris in coachi ng us. R.J.M.

Basketball Once aga in , the Senior House Compet ition provided good, entertain ing Basketball for large numbers of enthusiastic supporters t hroughout the term. The early matches produced no shocks, a lth ough Ma rlowe and Tradescant had an exciti ng, if not especia lly sk ilrul , encounter, before Tradescant just edged home. T hey were to succumb to t he powerru l Grange team in the Second Round. Walpole dismissed Broughto n wit h surprising case, a nd gave an carly glim pse of the good fo rm that was to follow. Mea nwhile Ga lpin's demonst rated good ball skills in t hei r win over School House, wi th A. Vigo scor ing heav ily, ably supported by J . Ralph a nd E. Va lpy. Meister O mers lost to a determined Linacre team. The match of the tournament was undoubted ly t he semifinal between The Gra nge a nd Walpo le. T he G range, with R. Morse and J. Gordon to the fo re, pushed Walpole, for whom M. Kostering was o utstanding, all t he way. Indeed the lead changed hands constant ly throughout, a nd neit her team had more t ha n a ro ur po int advantage at any stage. It was excit ing st urf; neit her side deserved to lose, but when the whist le went, Walpole were in fro nt. The o th er Semifinal was rather more or a n a nti-climax. Galpin 's were without two of thcir best players, a nd had no answer to t he height of the Linacre team , for whom J . Mycroft was totally domi na nt near t he basket. A. Barron and J. Marshall also scored heavily in an easy win. Unfortunately the fina l too fai led to live up to expectations. Linacre were deprived, largely through injury, of several key p layers, and with J. Marshall fouled off after a few minutes, M. Kostering, O. Rotimi, K. Ph illips a nd M. Cumber were able to score at will. All cred it goes to Linacre fo r struggling ma nfu lly (and womanfully) to the end, against a strong tea m, who thus reta ined t he trophy. My thanks go to all for an enjoyable compet iti o n, b ut particula rl y to the captains of the teams fo r their organisat io n , Housemasters for t heir support, and G.P.G. for ass ista nce with t he rerereeing. R. C.W.

RESULTS

/ SI Round: Marlowe 14, Tradescant 18; Luxmoore 7, School House 24; Linacre 4, Mitchinson's 30. 2nd ROllnd: The Gra nge 35. Tradesca nt 8; Broughton 14, Walpole 32; Galpin's 34, School House 20; Meister Omers 18, Linacre 26. Semi/if/als: The Grange 22, Walpole 24; Galpin's 18, Linacre 46. Filial: Walpole 52, Linacre 6. Main Scorers: Wa lpole: M. K6stering 50, M. Cumber 20, O. Rotimi 10, K. Phillips 10. Linacre: A. Barron 28, J. Marshall 24, J. Mycrort 20.

Boat Club Summer Term 1985 My a pologies to a ll that this wi ll appear late, I hav ing missed the editor's deadline by some very considerable margin!

Colt VIII

T his VIII proved to be disappoint ing. T he loss of its st roke man to the 1st VIII left the crew short of con fid ence. Confidence was further damaged by being clea rly o utclassed at the Metropolita n regatta, even if it was by the eventual win ner of Colt Vili s at the Sc hools' Regatta later on in the season. This lack of con fi dence led the crew to talking itself o ut o f a poss ible win at T hames Oilto n against an Etan crew a nd poor steering led to the crew losing to Bedford School al Cambrid ge Regali a. 3rd place in Co lt B VIlI s at Natio nal Sc hools' Regatta summed up a poor season.

The VIII The Lent term wit h all the problems created by the weather left us with a fair ly blea k o utlook for the summer but, once again, the Sarnersee worked it s magic and the crew that returned from Switzerland was of a completely di fferent class from the one thai had performed so disma lly in the Schools' Head and the Head of the River. At our first regatta, Hammersmi th Amateur, o nly mounta in ous waves prevented us from winni ng both Sen ior C and B Vilis - we won the latter aga inst Kingston Gramma r School before the organisers called off the event. The weat her was more clement at the Metropolitan Regalia and the VIII rowed a very fair race in the final of Senior C but it just failed to beat A bingdon . The fac t that Ab ingdo n went on to lose to Radley in Senior B VIlI s showed us, however, that we were well short of the pace requi red to be amongst the top schools. A cox less IV from the VIII were ent ered in Senior B cox less IVs a nd won - this is the Club's first win in coxless fours (I th ink). The next regatta was Nottingha m City, held at Holme Pierrepont. In addit ion to the VIII we had a coxless pair a nd a sculler from the VIII racing in jun ior events, two Ju nior under 16 double sculls and a Junior under 16 cox less pa ir. The Ylll's per for mance on the Sa turday in Senior B VIlIs was disappointing, showing us once again that we were still sho rt of pace, coming 4th to Rad ley, Bedford a nd even Kingsto n Grammar School. On the Su nday the VllI raced far, far better, o nl y na rrow ly fai li ng to win Senior B VIlI s from King's Chester by the sma llest of ma rgins; this was a far more encouragi ng performance. The J unior pair rowed well o n the Saturday but was ou tclassed by the conditions as mu ch as anyt hing else o n the Sunday. The sculler sculled creditably on the Satu rday but he 100 did not cope very well on the scond day with the rough water, Of the J unior under 16 pair a nd one of the double sculls, the least said the better but the other J unior under 16 double scull did very well, com ing second to Loughborough R. C.; these two doubles were to meet twice again in the season , but King's never ma naged to reverse the verdict. We entered Championship VIlI s (The Q ueen Mother's Cup) at National Schools' Regatta far fr om confident about our chances of qualifying for the fin a l and the draw did little to reassure us: Eton, Radley, S1. Edward's, Cheltenham, Bedford and King's, Ca nterbury - a nd we had to come in the fi rst three. Some will say that we put too much into the fir st race, but fo r us the prize was to be won by reach ing the final and what a spectacular race it turned out to be. From the very first stro kes King's led the fi eld and by half way had estab lished a comma nding lead - no one emerged to challenge us in the second ha lf of the race and the order over the fini shing line was King's, Eton, C heltenham , with the ot her three crews failing to qualify. Many thought after this that King's might win a medal in the fi na l but the truth was thai the quali fi er had been our fin a l a nd there was li tt le disappointment about sixth place behind Hampton , King's C hester, Shrewsbury, Eton, and Cheltenham especially as we were little more than a length down on the winners and had still been leading at half way. King's has now had a n VIII in the fi nal o f the Q ueen Mother' s C up fo r the last three yea rs a nd we must now be judged as o ne of the top rowing schools in the country . . . . And so to Henley .. Alt hough the VIII that rowed at Henley was uncha nged from National Schools' this was not befo re the seats of a number of people had been tria led for - this may have been somewha t mean but it kept everyone on their mettle and we reached Henley in fine fett le. Once again we entered the Special Race fo r Schools as examinations prevented us from entering the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup. Alo ng with Shrewsbu ry and Cheltenham, we had been seeded in the draw a nd so we had a reasonab ly comfortable ride to the final, a lthough a near disaster along the enclosures on the Satu rday night against Bed ford a lmost hera lded our demise . In the fi na l, against Shrewsbury , stroke's spoon disintegrated on the fi fteenth stroke while we were leading by a canvas - the rest of the race was rowed bravely by one and a ll but Shrewsbury won by 2114 lengt hs. What might have been?

However, to reach a Henley final, the School 's first for man y yea rs, is highly commendable a nd for a crew noticeab ly ' short of real talent, to do so is outstand ing - well done. Steve ~righ t , .t he. Ca ptain , went on to. scull for England in the Home Countries International as a junior, bri nging England victory III hiS event. Paul Dyas wuh Henley reserve, Ben Lynch, won the silver medal in Junior under 16 Double Sculls a t the Nationa l Rowing Championships and represented the South o f Engla nd against the Nort h and South of France at the Anglo-French Internat iona l. T he coach, if he may be permitted to write it, went on to coach the Brit ish Junior Cox less Four at the Junior World Rowing Championships where the crew won the silver medal. I wou ld li ke to thank the Capta in, Steve Wright, who had many disappointments this season but who mu st take much of the credit fo r the success of this year's VIII. I must also tha nk P. J .D.A. for his help, advice and support a t a ll ti mes a nd for coach!ng the Colt VllI , S.J .G. for his hel!?, good sense and bonhomie in Switzerland a nd for coaching a very su ccess~u l JU nior Colt squad, and G.W .H. for plaYing a key role in the Top Squad 's weight traini ng a nd now for running the J Unior under 14 Squad. T hanks also mu st go to R.V.J.B. and S.W.W. for their work with the Junio r under 14s and part icularly to the lauer for a ll the years he has run th is squad until G.W.H. too k over this sum mer. My final thank s go to Peter Will is who has built two q uad sculls and two pa irs in lillie over a year, has su ffe red burglaries a nd vanda lism on our new site very patiently a nd who continues to be a great source of wisdom and co mmon sense. R.M.H.

Top Squad. Crew Lists. Call VIII Bow

Richardson J . D. (LN)/R icha rds S. W. (LX)/ Kandawalla M. (LX) a t Ca mbridge a t Met ropolitan 2 Frew J . D. (LN) 3 Cooper R. B. (LX) Sma lman-Sm ith C. R. (B) 4 5 Miller M. R. A. (MO) 6 Stearns N. J. (T) 7 Lynch B. W. (MR) St roke de Giles E. B. (GR) Smilh T. C. E. (GL) Cox The VIII Bow S. D. P. Gerrish (GR) C. J. Ochs (OL) 2 3 C. R. J . Co llyer (MR) 4 O. R. E. Smith (MO) 5 J . R. Nicholas (T) S. A. Wright (LN) Captain 6 7 A. W. Leach (OR) Stroke P. E. Dyas (LN) Cox J. M. Del Ma r (OR) Reserve at Henley B. W. Lynch (MR) At Nottingham Cily: Junior 2- Wright, Nicholas; Junior Ix Gerrish; Ju nior under 162- Miller, Stearns; J unior under 16 2x a) Lynch, Dyas. b) Cooper, de Giles . AI National Schools Regalia: Junior 2- W right, Nicholas: J unior Ix G .B. M. Bis hop (B). AI National Championship and Home Counties Inlernational: J unio r Ix Wright. AI Na tional Championships and Anglo-French: J unior 16 2x Lynch, Dyas.

Autumn Term 1985 Sculling and Small Boating Squad T his term placed a n emphasis on increasing fitness and st rengt h, not o nly for success in sculling th is term, bu t also for the stamina req uired for rowing next term. Technique was improved slowly over the thirteen weeks and was brought to a much higher standard a l the end . T he scu lli ng result s ma inl y featured Paul Oyas and Ben Lynch as wi nners a lthough Guy Bishop, J ohn Phillips a nd J ames Stearns had their moments. Ou r first event was Maidstone where Be n and Paul came 1st equal in Junior under 16 sculls and John Phi lli ps wo n J un ior under 15 sculls. 77

The next event was Wcybridge sculls where Paul a nd Ben agai n had the sa me time and won Junio r under 16 and Junior under IS sc ulls respectively. Guy Bishop a nd James Stearns both sculled well and achieved good piacings. At Marlow Ben and Paul both had vcry good times wit h Ben bealing Paul by less than a second a nd agai n they won the J un ior under IS and under 16 divisions. Joh n Phillips had a good lime, but wit h Ben in his divisio n he had to be conte nt wit h seco nd place. Guy Bishop atlained honours by coming seco nd in Juniors. Ma rlow was followed o n Sunday by Upper Thames Small Boats Head . after a n entertai ning night in the Hampton Schoo l Gym where the famous Wendy Burgers were enjoyed by everyone ... for t he next week. Ben a nd Paul came second in Junior under 16 Doub le Sculls, being o nly narrowly beaten by Hampton . James Stearns and Adrian Leach performed well on Junior coxless pairs, coming third against stiff competitio n. Other combina tions were less successfu l. Pangbourne Scu lls gave Ben a good Junior under 15 win a nd Pau l's third in Junior under 16 was very creditable. Guy Bishop, Kieron Allen, John Phillips and William Gordon- Ha rris all produced pleasing performances. Hampton Small Boats Head was a d isappointment to a ll , partia lly because of the very late a rrival of the coach. The last event of the term was the Burway Smal1 Boats Head where Ben and P a ul won Junio r under 15 a nd under 16 Sc ulls and, together, won Ju nior u nder 16 cox less pairs. Adrian Leach and James Stea rns were the fa stest J unior cox less pa ir entered and t he o ther combinatio ns a ll had reasonable rows. In all a good tcrm, with Ju nior under 14 Q uad scu lls being entered for Upper Thames and Hampton. A lso , for the first time, girls j o ined t he scu lli ng squad - fi ve of t hem: Ela ine O li ver, Anna Keat inge, Pia Lo fdah l, Tara W isdom and Nicola Shaw. Elaine, Anna a nd P ia competed in two events a nd won trophies fo r second and third placings at Pangbourne. Thank you to R.M. H , and P.J .D.A. for coaching and, of course, to Peter Willis, who with his characteristic conscientiousness, is complet ing an VI I[ and two new coaching launches. ADRIAN LEACH, CAPTA IN OF BOATS. The Master i/ e Rowing adds that the tola l nu mber of boys and girls in the Boat Club this term was 39 - Ihis is by far and away the largest number of peo ple who have been members in the Autumn IeI'm.

Canoeing I'

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First 1 wo uld like 10 thank on beha lf o f the club our leaving ca ptain, H . Pritchard, for his contributio n to it over hi s time atlhe school. As our most successful member ever, rising from Novice to Division 1 in under fo ur years, and representing E ngla nd in the European Youth Champion ships, he has raised the sight s of ordinary members, a nd enabled them to lea rn fro m watching him in pract ice on the StOll'" In addition he has done good work as Capta in. We sha ll miss h im , a nd wish him every success both o n the water and ofr. Th is term was marked by a very large in nux of new boys , So me of these moved on 10 other sports but t he regular Mo nday and Friday tra ining was ma intained , and in November nine took the B.C.U, I-Star test, a nd passed. Two D.C.U. sla loms were visited, both of them at Novice level. O n 13th October Rattray and Stevens went to Durngate, at Winchester, a nd a week later Eddison a nd Stevens co mpeted at Ya lding. A lthough no one was near promotion, respecta ble times were scored, considering t hat these were first appeara nces at this level. At half-term Eddison a lso went to the Kent Ope n Sla lom C ham pionship at Ya lding . A ll three paddlers - and ot hers - should be encouraged to take part in next year's slaloms in Sout hern E ngla nd , a nd try for promo tion, The training programme this term has been ably maintained by C.N. BartleH , and S. Rowsell , and I want to thank them for their commitment and skill ; also M. Ga ma, who is on the staff for just a year, b ut has been of grea t assista nce to the club on the water. Fina ll y, 1986 is the tenth anniversary of the Canoe Clu b's first entry into B.C.U. events. We hope 10 mark it wit h some sort of social event o ne weekend in t he summer, so if t here are any O.K.S. ex-members who wou ld like to be kept info rmed, please let me know.

M.J.V.

(Sibyl/a Martin)

(J.S. fI .)

THE SECON D FIFTEEN Standing Row: P. J . Q. G reenleaf, M. Kandawa lla, F. W. Simpso n, P. D. W. Woodward, T. P. Briggs, A. G. J. Scott, G. Elliott, A. M. Guy, M. J . Hodgson Esq. Sitting: N. W. Rollason, M. W. Ursell, H . W. Girling, C. J, Brooke (Capt.) , F. J. Charlesworth, P . A : Hami lto n, R. E. P atterso n.

Cross-Country Wit h 'the Boss' over in Paris on sabbat ica l, and a change in the High Co mm and, everyt hing looked sct for another exhilarating term of blissful mud larking. T he advent of the Magica l Mystery Tour and a somewhat morc disciplined training programme, a mo ngst other th ings. were to lead to the Se nio rs' most success ful A ut umn term's running for some time. T hroughout t he term , Ihe Senior tcam was hampered by lack of nu mbers, but was consisten tly led with distinction by Mall Fcnn and Sim on Attwood, with st rong support (even if irregular) from Nick Henry. Si mo n Brook, Mig Va le and the Pritchard b ro thers. Dave Knight also fi gured towards the end of tcrm. The Inters mel with mi xed fortunes. Ben Wrench and An thony G ili espie~Smith ran fine races t hroughout a nd were competent ly backed by Richard Edmonds and Joshua Lumley, all fo ur coming wit hin the top ten in every 'priva te' match. Unfortunately the enthusiasm of the lower ranks (Barker, Cutter, Foot, Morley, Smith) was rarely able to produce that all-im portant back-up needed to secure wins, but no doubt t his will come wit h time. The infa mous Rochester cliff was the first venue of term. The Seniors, unperturbed, scored a comfortab le win, b ut fitn ess provcd to bc still a problcm for some Inters. The bu ild-u p to Bexley witnesscd scvcral mcmorable X-C ex pcditio ns: t hrce members o f t he clu b perfo rmed a vanishing tric k in a d isused tu nnel, while o n a nother occasion Captain Boogie, in his own inimitable way, led the club , while em ula ting Dav id Puttnam d own a t Sa ndwich, into a male nudist beac h. At Bexley, the Senio r tea m produced a n outstandi ng perfo rma nce, and won silver medals. Richard Edmonds produced so mething else a nd the Inters d id well to come fourth. Both teams were higher placed t han Sevenoaks, bu t a fort night la ter t he tables were tu rned, with some pretty suspect tactics from the opposit ion. The Seniors lost by just one point, and in the Inters race G-S romped home in fir st p lace. In the final match of term, Skin ners probably d id everyone a favo ur by not tu rning up. The Seniors again came t hroug h convincingly against Judd, but the I!Hers were somewhat outclassed, des pite some good individual ru ns. Bureaucratic expertise towards the end of term left thc relay team out o n its own at Northwood a nd the Highgate Harriers race was over before t hey knew it! With Matt at the helm next term (recently se lected for Kent together with Si mon) the club looks certain to go on to even better things. T he heartiest of thanks are, of course, due to M.R.G. P . for all the time and tireless cncrgy he has put into it s sm ooth runn ing (and to C .D.E. for the meticulous admin!). ANDREW P RESTON.

RESULTS 28th September

Senior: Inler:

I, K.S.C., 32; 2, King's, Rochestcr, 46 . I, Kin g's, Rochester, 36; 2, K.S.C., 45.

12th Octo ber Cambridge Harriers Races al Bexley Senior: I , Sk inncrs, 4 1; 2, K. S.C., 55; 3, Scvcnoak s, 68; 9 ra n. (Ind ividual positions: S. A tt wood 7th, M. Fen n 8t h). Inter: I, Skin ners, 2 1; 2, Rochester Maths, 23; 3, P urley, 67; 4, K.S.C., 87; 9 ran . 26th October Senior: I , Sevenoaks, 40; 2, K.S.C., 4 \. Inter: I, Sevenoaks, 38; 2, K. S.C ., 52. 16t h November

Sen ior: Inler:

I, K.S.C., 36; 2, Ju dd, 44. I, J udd, 24; 2, K.S.C., 52. 8th Decembe r 'Thanel Opell 10' S. Attwood, M. Fenn 59:30, M. Va le 66:30, D. Knig ht 67:00, R. Wa ll is 70;00.

Fencing A t the start of term we founel o urselves a somcwhat unbala nced club wit h a curi ous distribut ion o f mem bers. J o n Bendicn , the Capta in, in the Uppcr Sixth , and Andy Wickerson in 6a, with t hree in 6b, made a total of five fencers only in thc Sixth Form , who were to be t he nucleus of our teams. Below t hem were five only in the Fi fth Form, but ilHakes of a dozen -or-so in the Rcmovcs a nd Shells gives encouragemcnt over numbers and the gro wt h of lhe club. We were also very fort unate to bc able to cngage Mr. Paul Ro ma ng as an add itio na l coach who will concentrate ma in ly on developing the skills of t he sa breurs. 79

(Jol/athall Marshall) BADMINTON SEN IOR TEAM I'LAYE RS SÂˇH. Yap , R. Vijayanathan, P. O. A. Thomas, B. C. Marson, S. P. Stuttaford, J. Gopalji, M. Kosterin g (Capl.), A. J . M. Me Fie.

(James Eddisoll)

Our first matc h against King's, Rochester, was important to liS, therefore, keen as we were to avenge our defeat last yea r. T he First Team foug ht well winn ing 14- 13 and givi ng real encouragement to the others who also won, rising spend idly to the occasion. From then on the tea m suffe red from a variety of illnesses a nd ailments , so that we seldom had a complete first team and never one that was fully match fi t, and, well though everyone foug ht, we had to give best to very strong teams from Whitgift a nd K.C.S. Wimbledon. Whitgift just now have several fencers in the vari ous Nat ional Squads, so , despite some of the best fe ncing standa rds we have achieved, we were seen off, though Mark Adamson fought with great skill and determinat ion in the S.E. Sect ion Epee to come 4th in the fina l (with Whitgift 1,2 & 3). Later our epee teams met with their more usual success in a fi ne match with King's, Rochester, and wou ld be the first to ack nowledge the debt they owe to Mr. Ralph J ohnson , the cu rrent Brit ish Epee Cha mpion, who practises with them when he can. A highlight on one evening was the bout in which Jon Rawlinso n beat him 10-9!, marvellous to watch - and Mr. Johnson was so pleased that he commemorated Jon's victory by presenting him with a bottle of champagne (for home consumption !) A mixed term then, not without its disappointments, but equ ally nota ble for some fi ne achievements a nd a bui ld up amongst the j unior members who have shown considera ble enthusiasm a nd determina tion in developing their early fe ncin g sk ills. This has been helped by those seniors who have given of their time and effort which is much appreciated . I should like to tha nk J on Bendien who leaves this term for wha t he has been able to do for th e Club and to wish him well for his futu re. His successor as Ca ptain will be Andy Wickerson. W. l .R.H-S. v Ki ng's, Rochester. Won 34-20 1st (F.E.S.). Won 14-13 2nd (F.E .). Wo n 12-6 3rd (Foil). Won 8-1 v Whitgifl . Lost 9-45 1st (F.E.S.). Lost 4-23 2nd (F.E.). Lost 4- 14 3rd (Foil). Lost 1-8

RESULTS v K.C.S. Wimbledon. Lost 22-33 1st (F.E .S.). Los' 11-16 2nd (F. E.). Lost 8-11 3rd (Foil). Lost 3-6 v King's, Rochester. Won 21- 15 (2-team Epee Matc h) Top scorers fo r K.S.C. - maximum 5 victories M. S. Adamson & J . J. C. Rawlinson 5 each.

COUNTY COMPETITI O NS

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Kent Schoolboys' 3-Weallons Tea m C hampionship 1st, K.S.C. A Team, 23 victories; 2nd & 3rd , K. S. Rochester; 4[h, K.S.C. B Tea m, 13 victories; 8th, K.S .C. C Team, 6 victories. K.S.C. A Tea m: M. S. Adamson (Foil/B), J . J . C. Ra wli nso n (Epee/B), J. G. Bendien (Sabrel7) B T ea m: A. J. Wickerson (Foil17), C. Majo mi (Epee/4), P . F. J . Brot hers (Sabrel2) C Team: J. A. Stern (Foil/ I) , A. J . Carr-T aylo r (Epee/4), J . I. Manning (Sabre/ I) Kent Schoolboys' Team Foil C hampionshil)S Senior C ha mpionship 1st, K.S. Rochester; 2nd K.S.C. K.S.C . Tea m: J . G. Bendien , A. J . Wickerson, M. S. Adamson. Junior C ha mpionship 1st, K.S. Rochester; 2nd K.S.C. A Team. K.S.C. A Team: P. F. J . Brothers, J. I. Man ning, B. M. Ray ment. U. 14 C hampionship 1st, Bishop Cha llenor' s; 2nd K.S.C. K.S.C. T eam : E. C. George, J . J . L. Moore , J . H . Robersto n. Ke nt Schoolboys' Individual Sabre C hampionships SCldor Championshill 3rd , J. G. Bend ien, (K.S.C. ).

S.E. Section (A.F.A .) Schoo lb oys' Indi vidual Epee Cha mpionships Senior C ha mpionship 4th, M. S. Adamson (K.S.C.). Semifina ls: J. G. Bendien (K.S.C.) and A. J. Wickerson (K.S.C.). J unior Champio nshi p 2nd, C. Majo mi (K.S.C.). S.E. Section (A.F.A .) Schoo lboys' Ind ividual Sabre C hampionships Senior C haml)ionship 3rd, J. G. Bcnd ien (K.S.C.). J unior C haml)ionship Semifina ls: C. Majomi (K.S.C.) and J . I. Ma nn ing (K .S.C.)

lSI Colours were awarded 10: A. J . Wickerson a nd J . J . C. Rawlinso n.

2nd Colours were awarded to: A. J. Carr-Taylo r a nd C. Majomi.

Junior House Hockey League T he J unior House Hockey League, instituted this year to cater for Under 15 and Under 14 boys not in rugger teams, proved a great success. After the co mpletion of two leagues involvi ng ten teams, the fina ls were played on Wed nesday, 11th Decem ber. Lux moore, with Friedlander prominent , defeated T radesca nt for fi ft h place, but Galpin's a nd Linacre with just a disa llowed goa l each to show for a close-fought contest sha red third place. The fina l was between Marlowe a nd Meister Omers, each o f whom had won all their prev ious matches. Meister Omers took a n early lead, but Ma rl owe, wit h Stevens and Da rby prominent , fought back to equalize just before ha lf- time. Palmer was largely responsible fo r Meister Ome rs scoring three goa ls in qu ick succession in the seco nd half, and althoug h Ma rlowe pulled back one goal, the a ll -round st rengt h of Meister Omers saw them through to a deserved 4-2 victory. P.G.H., H.E. l .A.

Shooting The focus of this term's events was the C.A.D.S.A.M. full bore compet ition at Longmoor in October. This was a two day event consist ing of bot h elect ric and gallery shoots. The ju nior team did very well considering their inexperience with full bore rifles. Dave Hemsley decided that .22 shooting was much less pa infu l even though he did get ha lf the team's falling pla te score. The L.M .G. pa ir would have done better had the mach ine not jammed during the fi nal shoot! Over the weekend the teams had a chance to use a selection of modern weapons. Back at home the .22 shoot ing has contin ued wit h the addi tio n of added interest fro m a number of this term's new boys (and girls). Our own range on Blore's has been renovated, so we should be back to normal next term and the inter-house competition should restart. Teams: G. L. Morris, S. J . Brook, C. W. J . Do nald , N. J . Ba uL U.16: D. A. Hemsley, A. G. Charleswort h, D. P. Morr is, D. E. Jcvons. Our tha nks go to R.S.M. Booth for runni ng the ranges and for driving us to Longmoor and for his constant help throughout the term. GERARD MORRIS.

Sailing The fir st ha lf of the term was spent in com peting for the Win ler Term Series titles. In the Lark ~er i es Peter Burrell showed his dominrU1cc although he was often faced ~vith stiff comp~tit i oll from Ma rk Adamson. Various faces a~peared

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Squash The Sen io r V had their best ever record for the Christmas term, winning a ll eleven of their matches against other schools. Ot her teams in the past have won all their school matches before Christmas, the most recent bei!lg Paul Bromley's side of fivc ycars ago, but t hey played only six matches. The team a lso reached the last ..16 of th~ N~t l onal !our~ament, a feat which had never before been achicved at this stage of the season. Jayesh Gopa~~1 and Alistai r M~Fle at first an.d second siring respectively obviously had the most di ffic ult matches to play but Gopa lJI lost o nly three. tImes ~nd Mcrle only tw ice in th eir cleven ga mes. Matthew Durham lost only once at third string and our fourth a nd fifth s tnn~s, f.?ave Stocks and Phil Evans, Wall all their ga mes. Never before has the lower order been so success ful , or so conSCien tIOus and ha rd working in practice. The quality of the oppositi o n was by no means negligib le at this level but only once, at C r a~broo k w l~ e n ~tocks w~s 2-0 down, were either of t hem serious ly th r~atened. In the s~ m e gaple Matthew Dl~rhaf!1 decided the tiC with a n epic display of d rops a nd lobs wh ich allowed hiS opponent at third st nng a mere 5 pomts III three games. Stocks a nd Evans ca rried all before them in Sc hoo l matches and their strok ,,: pla~ was so accurate and severe that opponents simply could not cope, and were swept aside with sca rcely a shot fired III anger. In his last term with us Jayesh Gopalji was an excellent captain, alwa~s pre~ent at practice sessio ns helping and encou raging other less ab le members of the side. 1.1 s ~ould not be hel~ against him that he lost as many games as (h.e rest of the side pili togcther! H is powers of orga msa tlon and persuaSIOn were unusually good and much of the credIt for our success is his. He will be sore ly missed in the New Year. The U.16team were able and enthusiastic and would have won all six of their matches but fo r a n art ifi cia ~l y weakened side losing 2-3 at SI. Edmund's. In this match the ~ efeat w~uld have been even .greater byt for. an herOIC c~meback by Charlie Boorman who won at fifth stri ng after loslllg the first? games. Andy V,tntO I~ at first stnng ~von al.1 IllS games against schoo ls and Peter Thomas at second string lost on ly agaillst SI. Ed.m und s . Ricky Kher al.( lurd ~tnng won all his games and for the U. I 5s David Godfrey and Jones-Thomas were the pIck of th~ players, the s l~ e 10~ lIlg only once in a truncated game against Cranleigh. The enthusiasm generated by Mr. C. J. Millar was muc h. In eVld.enee and ~ve are most gratefu l for all he has done for Junior squash at King's over the past dccade. He goes II1to retirement with our very best wishes.

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RESULTS King' s beal Harrow 4- 1, Kent College 5-0, Cranbrook 3-2, SI. Edmund's 5-0, Cra:l leigh 4-0, SU1I.on Va lence 5-0, SI. Lawrence Ramsgate 5-0, Collyers Vlt h form College 5-0, Epsom 3-2, S I. Anselm s 4-1 , and GOIdonstoun 5-0.

Girls' Games Hockey Term sta rt ed well with a very good match against an O.K.S . team which include~ many recent leaver~ plus Tracey Smith, our first-ever girls' hockey captain and who now plays for the Navy. Her superIOr play an~ greater fitness show.ed o ur newly-formed team how much there was to learn. The School team then set to to Improve their fitness and to practise their skills.

We were particularly pleased to have Sa rah Holden, back for her Ox bridge term, in the team again at Centre Hal f and her ma noeuvering of both ba ll a nd opponents in opening lip the ga me and covering vast areas of grou nd have been outsta nding; we shall miss her very much next term. Thank you, Sarah, fo r all YO ll have contributed to girls' hockey. By (he time our schools' fixtu res bega n , against Dover Co llege, t he team was begin ning to take shape and to lose 0-2 was no disgrace, a nd we gave them a beller game in losing 2-3 a t t he end of term . Gelling into their stride JUSt be fore ha lf-te rm, the gi rls played very well 10 beat Cranbrook 2-0 and anot her memorable match was that against U.K. C. later in t he term . Lucy H oare at Left Wing scored an outstandi ng goa l. U.K.C. can usual ly expect a fa ir ly co mfortab le win but this term a 3~3 d raw against th em surprised and p leased us. Credit for cleven of the fourteen goals scored t his term goes to Melanie Bones at Left Inner , who has shown an instinctive abi lity to be at the right place close to the goa l at the right time, and th is has given the rest of the team the confidence to play good auacking hockey. More goals have been scored this term than the two winter terms last year, when, although potentially a very good team, goals eluded us and results were therefore a li ll ie d isapPOinting. Capta in Katie Woodcock is a strong leader at Centre Forward. She distributes the ba ll we ll and is a greatly improved player. Katherine Kelly has aga in made some astonish ing saves as Goalkeeper and the cha nged ba la nce of our resu lts this term is due main ly to Melanic scoring goa ls and Katherine prevent ing t hem. The rest of th e team has steadi ly improved on teamwork, a nd more use of t he Right Wi ng, Lucy C harrington, has provided more opportunities to shoot. The midfield has bee n st ro ng, wit h A nto nia A ment at Left Ha lf and newcomer A lex Cochrane at Right Half whose ski lfu l stick work will be an asset nex t term when t he team moves round to fill Sarah's place, and despite losi ng her the prognosis fo r next term looks good a nd encouraging. The 2nd X I have played three matches and although they did not achieve a win, their standard of play has improved. They have given the 1st X I good practice throughout the term and have maintained their interest. Specia l mention should be made of He len Davis who has capta ined the 2nd XI and played very well at Centre Ha lf, and for several matches has subst ituted in the 1st XI. Tara Usher was tenacious at Centre Forward and of the two Wings, Blythe Levett ha s also shown great te nacity and Fafa Woodward is fa st and increasi ngly ski lful with her one-handed st ick work. I am very g rateful to Mr. Peter Henderson for all his su ppo rt, encouragemen t and expert advice this term. The 1st Xl: Katherine Kelly, Cat herine Wa lsh, Antonia A ment , Sara h Ho lden , Alexand ra Cochrane, Lucy Hoa re, Mela nie Bones, Katie Woodcock (Capt.), Emma Conyers, Lucy Charri ngto n.

The Jo llo wing girls also played: Helen Davis, Judi th Reed, Edwina Paine, Blythe Levett, Fafa Woodward, Sophia

St. J oh n Parker, Emma Venton.

The 2nd X I: Sama ntha Hardingham, Alison Ruckert, Tessa C harleswort h , Emma Venton, Tabitha Winnifrith, Helen Davis (Capt.), Alice Cooper, Fafa Woodward, Julia Warrender, Tara Us her, Lucy Amos, Blythe Levett. RESULTS

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v O.K.S. Lost 1-3 v Dover Co llege. Lost 0-2 v Kent College. Lost 0-4 v SI. Lawrence. Wo n 2- 1 v Cra nbrook. Won 2-0 v Sevenoaks . Draw I- I v U.K.C . Draw 3-3 v Ashford. Lost 1-4 v Dover College. Lost 2-3

v Dover College. Lost 0-4 v Kent College. Lost 1-4 v Dover Co llege . Lost 1-3

Netball We have had a very good term and have won all our matches except the game against Cranbrook. Last year Cranbrook had an exceptiona l Under 16 team, most of whom were members of the Kent team. T heir phenomena l training and method of tight teamwork cont rol produced outstanding p layers and we were lucky enough to gain two of them in the de Linde twins. Zoe at Centre and Tara a t Goa l Attack were relied upon to set up the attack and Ihey have been well supported by the rest of the team. Both Tara and Soph ia St.John Parker shot well in a ll matches, a nd captain Charlotte Hare and Vicky Peterson were reliable in defence, using their height to the best advantage. Our one disappointment this term was at t he Kent Schools' tournament which was held at Sheppey Sc hool. Desp ite coming third in our sectio n , we fe lt we had a rea l chance of doing even beller. It is always prude nt to ta ke a reserve to these tournaments in case of inj ury. We fully intended to do so, but because of illness , Sophia St.John Parker at Goa l Shooter had to be replaced at the last moment by Sa ra h Holden and our reserve was a lso not fit to take part. Having played and won four games with a full team, Katie Woodcock fe ll heavily and sprained her foot. With one team member short , we lost the last three matches. We have learned our lesso n and we will have high hopes of next year's tournament.

Our 2nd VII have played well and consistently, win ning one o r their matches and losing three again st ve~y much bigger schools. One match they won ' t ro rget is when they were three players short, and C harlotte Ha re spramed her ankle sprinting round to raise rese rves. And thel~ rour were needed! The /st VII: Sophia St.John Parker, Ta ra de Linde, Katie Woodcock, Zoe de linde, Nicola Odgers, Sa lly Ann Hawken, C ha rlott e Ha re (Capt.) , Vicky Peterson. The following girls also played: Sara h Holden, Elizabet h Ibbott , Sarah Fahey. The 2nd VII: Karen Bieasdale, Helen Dav is, Eli zabeth Ibbott, Tara Usher, Emma Durham, Cat harine Walsh, Sa rah Fahey, Vicky Borr. RESULTS

v Benenden. Won 26-7 v Cranbrook. l ost 14-35 v Wye College. Won 41- 12 v Sim on langlOn. Won 17- 13 v Georrrey ChaliceI'. Won 11 -8 v Sevenoaks. Won 24- 17 v Quee n Eli za beth's . Won 33-20

Ke"t Schools' Tourn ament v Rochester Gra mmar. Won 6-1 v Kent College. Won 12-1 v Blackheat h High. Won 9- 1 v Bromley High. Won 11 -0 v Maidstone Gra mmar. Lost 9-13 v Sevenoaks. Lost 6-7 v Gravese nd Grammar. Lost 4- 10

2nd VI I v Benende n. Won 15-7 v Cra nbrook. lost 4-30 v Simo n La ngton. Lost 6-27 \1 Georrrey Cha ucer. Lost 4-10 JAW .

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Jennifer E. Andry, P. H. API's, B. AshcroFt, T. C. Baker. O. G. Beaton, SHin V. Beaugie, O. R. Beckett, N. C. Beechey, E. J . Beerbohm , J . O. Berry, M. A. BiIlot, S. J . A. Bird, Victoria M. Boff, Melanie-J ane Bones , ~. O. W. Bowker, J. R. Brisea ll , Ai lsa M. Buchan, C. Buchholz. O. P. C. Burdess, E. W. Burt, S. T. S. Byrnes, P . A. Ca lms, G. Camp.bell , Elizabet h E. Carlyle, Tessa V. Charleswort h. H. R. Clayton, Alexa ndra M. Cochrane, A. G. C~e, S. Cole, Lucia .J . Conybeare, Emma S. Conyers, Alice L. Cooper, B. M. Cooper, D. J. Cox, T anya A. Cox, J. A. Cndge, A. M. Curlewls, M. Da lama l, G. H. Darby, A. M. H. Darley, A. Das, P. G. Davies, Tara J. de ':inde, Zoe C. de Linde, S. D ..0. Dobell, Emma Durha m, C. P. Dwyer, J. A. Eddison, K. Clare Edmondso n, P. C. Elhott, B. A. Epega, D. J. C. Ev.en.st, Sarah F. Fahcy , N. J. E. Flower, Martina I. A. Fowler, E. C. George, K. P. Godrrey , J. P. Gooderha m, E. A. Gnrrm , J . M. Grimes. C. O. K. Hall, Katha rine L. Hamilt on, A. P. Han coc k,~. R. Ha ndley, B. Hardy, S. H a~t, Sal~y-An n P. Hawken, H. L. Hawkins, R. A. Hellings, G. D. Hogben, J. C. E. Hold mg, A. N. W. Hone, J. G. Hudsmllh, Eh~bet h C. Ibbott, M. R. Jackson , Ophelia James, N. A. Jamieson, N. J asani, Loui se D. J essup, L. B. Johnson, Katnn a E. Johnston, E. R. H. Jo nes-Thomas, S. Keeler, J. E. D. Kn ight , P . Kwan, A. E. C. ~acy, M. C. G. ~aw re n ce, N. p. Lawrence, Blythe S. J . Levell, D. N. Lewis , E. J . Linrorth, H . Y. L. Lo, T. J . Lockmg, B. A . Ma,rqUls, J . L. Martm, J. W. Martin, P . N. D. Medawar, Mira nda L. A. Merron, J. J. L. Moore, M. G. ~o r t h east, Nicola E. Od g~rs ,~ . O. Ogedegbe, M. P. O'Su llivan, D. St. J ohn Parker, T. D. Mc~. Parker, K. T. S. Patunson, J. T. V!. Penner, V I C tO~ta E. Peterso n, F. E. Pink, S. M. Preece, J. R. Price, N. J. Pnce , J oann~ M. Prophet, !J. E. Quam, D. C. A. qUl n, A. R. Rinaldi, Lucinda J. Robert s, S. W. Roberts, J . H. ~ obe rt so n, Ehzabeth A. Ro.bmson, H . J . Ro ge~s , Phlllppa Rubins, D. J . RycroFt, S. Saba, S. D. Santry, M. H. I. SClaudone, N. A. Shah, L. Nicola Shaw, D. P . S lmpsOl~ , A. J. W. W. Skarbek, Fiona E. C. Stewart, J. J. F. Stobbs, N. J. H . Sturt, J. H . Tegner, S. C. Tester, S. G. E. Tnggs, P. R. Trussell , A. Tuboku -Mctzger, P. W. F. van NOllen , J . C:. von Wersebe, Susanna M. J . Walsh, Q. M. W~rnerÂ Smi th, Julia Wa rrander, J . E. G. Waters, Fiona Watson, ElOise M. T. Webb , M. D. Weston, Clare O. L. Wilson, Tabitha J . A. Wi nni rri th, Tara L. Wisdom, P. J. W. Wood ward, A. J . G. Young.

VALETE-JULY 1985 ADEBAJO, A. A. 3 Ashogbon Street, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria; Holmewoocl House; Sept. 'SO;.W ; House Monitor; The Hunling of the Snark' Ath letics Vice-Captain (1st Cols.); 1st V Basketball; 1st Xl Soccer (Mmor Sports Cois.); Colts Hockey; U.14 A Rugby; to read German and i nternational Re la tions a t Reading University. ALBIN, Christina A. E. 5 Harkness Drive, Canterbury, Kent ; Simon Langton Gi rls' School; Sept. 'S3; MT; Honorary Music Scholar Aut. 'S4; Gen. Exhib. to Exeter University '85; House Monitor; C hamber and Sc ~ ool orchestras; Oklahoma! Orchestra; Symphony Orchestra; The Creation. Solomon; l SI Hockey Cols. ; 1st Tenllls Co ls.; to read Music at Exeter Uni versit y.

AND~EWS, D. M. 2~ Bea umont Street, .Lo nd~n WI N I FF;. J.K.S.; Sept. 'SI; L/ LN; Secretary o r Pater Society; Edllor T he Ca ntuana n; Romeo a nd Jul.let; Wild Oats; Anti gone; Murder in the Cathedral; Symphony Orchestra ; Cross-Country Club (2nd Co ls. ); Tenllls Club (2nd Cols.); to read Classics at Univers ity College, Oxford. ASSADOURIA N, R. 45 Cottesmore Court , Stanford Road, London W8 5QW; Hohnewood House; Sept. 'S I ; T; Head or House; U.14, S IS + 2 Vilis (2nd Co ls.); 2nd XV; to read Biochemistry at King's College, London . AYL0T'!, J. L. Chet wy~d Lodge, Shett ish~m, Ely, Cambridge, CB6 ISB; King's School , Ely ; Sept. '80; L/SH; House Momtor; School ChOir - Verdi s ReqUiem; to read Engineering Science at Exeter/Durham University. BAKER, Sophia A. 31 Sussex St~eet, London, SW l; Francis Holland. Roedean; Sept. '83; GR; A Midsummer Night 's Drea m; The Importa nce or Bemg Ea rnest; Capt. Netba ll (l st Cols. ); Girls' At hletics; to Ravensbourne College or Art. BALKWILL, A.~. White ~otlage, Old. Hill, Chislehurst, Kent , Bickley Park School; Sept. '80; G R; School Choir; Chamber ChOir and vanous productions; to read Law at University College, Londo n. BARRY, P. N. 2 Tudor Way, Church Crook ham, Fleet,. Hants; J .K.S.; Sepl. 'SO; MO; Head or House; Vice-Capl. of School; Sgt. Cadet Corps; Rugby 1st XV (Cols.); Vice-Capt. Basketba ll ; Swimm ing Team; Army Air Corps . BARTON, J . M. Mun~ay Fa rmh~use, Pl u c~ ley, Ashford, Kent; Friars , Great Chart; Sept. 'SO; MR; 1st Fencing Tea m (1st Cois.); to tutonal college m Cambndge; hopes to read Economics at University. BAS HA~RAT, M. J . L. The ~ommery, Bovingdon Green, Marlow, Bucks, SL7 2J H ; J.K .S.; Sept. 'S I ; W; House MO.llIto~; Ham let; The Huntlllg or the Snark; The Three Sisters; Jun ior At hletics; to read English at Edinbu rgh Ulliversity. BEAUG.IE, H .. McN. 22 Bisham Garde~s, London .N6,6DD; Highgate Junior School; Sept. '80; L/Gl; HOllse M~ll1tor; Wild Oats; Oklahoma!; A MIdsummer NIght s Dream; The Three Sisters; Hamlet; Co lts A XV, 3rd XV; SWlmmlllg Capt. (l st Cols. ). BENSTED, Emma L. Copton Manor, Faversha m, Kent; Ashrord Sc hool ro r Gi rls; Sept. '83; MT; to read History at Jesus College, Cambridge. BRADLEY. N. c.. 4. LeycroFt ~Iose, Canterbu ry, Kent; J.K.S.; Sept; '80; MT; Rugby 1st XV (1st Cols.); 1st XI Cricket (1 st Cols.); to Jom the Poltce Force. BRETT,. E. J. T. Juliham Place, Mu lberry Hill, Chilham, Ca nterbury, Kent , Cf4 SA H; J.K.S.; Sept. '80; L/LN; House MOllitor; I.st X.I Hockey (2nd Cols. ); 1st XI Cricket (2nd Cols.); 2nd XV Rugby; to read Economics/Statist ics at Exeter Uillvers ity. BRIND':EY, C. M. !9 ~urray Road, Wimbledon, London, SW J94PD; Milbou rne Lodge; Sept. 'S I; T; House Moni tor; A Midsummer NIght s Dream; House concerts; to read Law a t Birmingham University. BURGES WATSON, M. E. c/o Private Letter Section , Foreign & Commonwealth OFfice King Charles Street Whitehall London SW I; J '.K.S.; Sept. 'SO ; L/G R; House Monitor; The Beggar's Opera; Haml~t; to read Hi story SI. John '~ College , Cam bndge.

BURT, S. W. 37 Sea View Road, Herne Bay, Kent, Cf6 6JB; J .K.S.; Jan. '80; MT; House Monitor; Pat ience Lost. House Plays; 1st XI Soccer (Cols.); to read Mechanical Engineering at Southa mpton University. ' BYSH, R. A. Bir.kenaUee 3S, 4270 Dorst~n II, West Germany; No rthbourne Park; Ja n. '8 1; LlW; School Badminton; Squash; Tenllls; hopes to enter Banking Ca reer. CARON-DE LI ON, F. A. 76 Ab ingdon Road, London W8 6QT; LycCe Charles de Gaulle; J a n. '83; LlG R; Rugby U. 15 B, U. 14 B; Football; to take A levels at University College School. C HANTRY, P. A.~. 42 Cr~nwe.1I Grove, Sheppert on, Middlesex; Hampton School; Sept. 'S2; Sen. King's Sc holarship ; Sec. Harvey Society; SWlnlmmg (2nd Cols.); to read C hemistry a t Christ C hu rc h, Oxrord. COLLYER, C. ~. J . The Ma nor House, Ford, Hoath, Canterbury, Kent CT3 4LS ; J .K.S.; Sept. '80; LlMR ; Head of House; Rowmg (1 st Cols.); to read Estate Management at Reading Un ivers it y. COU LTER, A. D. 3S7 Li verpool Road, Southport, Merseyside; J.K .S.; Sept. '80; MO; House Mo nit or' House Plays' hopes to become a C hemist. ' , COUS INS, J. ~ . Pope's Cour.t, Mongeham, Deal, Kent. Cf14 9PQ; Tormore, Northbourne Park; Sept. 'SO; LI B; House Plays; AntI gone; Three Sisters; The Mayo r or Zalamea; Percll ssion; Fencing Cols; to take a J ewellery Course. COX, J .. N. M. The Mill House, Radipol~ Village, WeY!llOuth, Dorset DT4 9RX; Forrcs Prep. School; Sept. '80; W; House MO Ill ~or; Schoo! a nd C hamber ChoIrS ; The Hunting of the Sna rk ; Harvey Society Co mmittee; Durnrord Society; Ca ler.lng Co~mllt~e ; Golf Capt. (1 st Cols.); Squas h 1st V (l st Cols.); Hockey 1st XI (1st Cols.); to read Economics at Bnstol Ulll verslty. CUN LIFFE, J. N. W. 63 Commo n Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN I JOT; Holm ewood House; Sept. '80; Ll LN; H<>ad o r Lattergatej House Mo nitor; Romeo and Juliet; Money; 1st VI Tennis ( lSI Cols. ); Co lts B Rugby. DA WK INS, J . R. Pykle, Du cketts Woo~, Thundridge, Ware, Herts, SG 12 OSR; J .K.S.; Jan. 'S I; MO; House Monitor; Sherlock Holmes; Rugby 3rd XV; Cn cket 3rd XI (Capt.); Basketball Team; hopes to study Business Administration. DE L1.N DE, A. C,. 12 ,R ue Sa int Merri, 75004 Paris, France; Wi ndlesham House, Sept. 'SO; L/GL; House Monitor; A MIdsummer NIght s Dream; HamIel; Big AI; Sweeney Todd; Rugby 1st XV.

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ELLIOIT. R. J . C. Vinehall Farm, Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 SSW ; Claremont School; Sept. '80; L/OL; House Monit or ; Sweeney Todd; Big AI; Wild Oats; Rowing J un. 15 VIII ; 3rd VIII . 2nd VIII; Sculling. ENGEL, Nalascha, 8 Hackington Road, Tyler Hill, Canterbury. Kent en 9NF; Kent College; Sept. '83; MT; Chamber Choir; Girls Hockey 1st X I (Cols.) ; to read German & Philosophy probably at King's College , London. EVANS, R. T. 2 Ma nwood Avenue, Canterbury, Kent; J .K.s.; Sept. '82; MR; Army CCF Sergeant ; Ca noeing (Min.

Sports Cols.); Colts Cricket Xl; to 5t. Lawrence College. Ramsgate. EYNON , Sophia L. Tusker House, Newton, Porlhcawl, Mid Gla morga n, CF36 SST; 81. Clare's Co nvent (Porthcawl); Sep!. 'S3; SH; Ho norary Art Scholarship; A Midsu mmer Night's Dream; to spend a year in Italy then to Lo ndon to st udy Art. FALL, Catherine, S. 11 0 Beaurort Mansions, Beaurort Street , London SW3; Cobham Hall; Sept . '83; Wi Music Scholar; Sy mphony and Chamber orchest ra; Chapel and Crypt Choir a nd Ba nd; The Three Sisters , The Hunti ng or the Snark; to read P.P.E . at St. Hilda's College, Oxrord . FALL, Melanie C. 110 Beaurort Mansions, Bea urort Street, Lo ndon SW3; Co bham Hall; Sept. 'S3; GL; Music Scholar; Orchest ra; Chamber Choir; Oklahoma!; T he C reat ion; Solomon; Big AI; to read P.P.E. at Christ Church, Oxrord . FERNANDE Z, L. M. Mill Court, Ashrord Road, Bea rsted , Ma id stone, Kent , ME I4 4NR; Eylesden Court; Sept. 'SO; LX; House Mo nitor; T he Visit; Epsom Down s; Soccer 1st XI; Tennis; Badminton; Rugby; Cricket. FIRTH, I. J . L. Borness Borgue, Kirkcudbright, Scotland; New Beacon; Sept. ' SO; L/ GL; J .1 5 Sculling; U. 14 Colt s; 2nd XV; Soccer 2nd Xl. GALLOWAY, Natasha C. Boughton Court, Boughton Aluph, Ashrord, Kent; Roedean; Sept. 'S3; LN; A Midsummer Night 's Dream; Murder in the Cat hedral; The Mayo r or Zalamea ; to read English at Lincoln College, Oxrord. GAMB INI, S. Piazza Della Repubblica, 30 Milan, Italy; Holmewood House; J an. 'SI; LX; CCF Army; A Midsummer Night' s Drea m; hopes to become a n Oil Brok er. GILBERT, Rebecca M. The Vicarage, 23 High St reet. Bridge, Canterbury, Kent; Bedgebury Park School; Sept. 'S3; MR; School Choir; to read German Studies a t Lancaster University . GOSS, L. C. St. John 's Vica rage, Church Road. Red hill , Su rrey RH I 6QA; Aske's Boys School, London; Sept. 'SO; LIMO; Music Scholar; House Monitor; School Orchest ra; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Ham let ; The T hree Sisters; to read Mu sic a t St. Edmund Hall, Oxrord. Organ Scho lars hi p. GOU LDEN, Oliv ia J. Broad Street House , 44 Broad Street, Ca nterb ury, Kent; Simon Langton Girl's School; Sept. 'S 3; MR; House Mo ni tor; The Three Sisters ; Hamlet; to read Law at Bristol University. GU ISINGE R. Victoria H . Litt le Oast , Rhode Common, Selling, Nr. Faversham. Kent; Walt Whit man High Sc hool, U.S.A.; 'S4; LN ; to read English a t Un iversity in America. GULAM, A. F. G. A. Riverscape, 225 25th Avenue SW , Apt 1001, Ca lga ry, Alberta, Canada; Hillcrest, Nairobi; Jan. 'S I; L/G L; House Monit or; Sweeney Todd; Big AI ; to College in the U.S.A. HALL, G. F. Buckett, Cherville Lane, Bramling. Canterbury, Kent; Glengorse; Jan. 'S I ; L/ LN; House Monitor; Ha rvey Society; Rugby 2nd XV (2nd Cols.); Hockey 2nd Xl ; Basketball; Cricket 3rd Xl i hopes to read Mechanical Engineering. HARDWICK, Katherine A. Lenacre Hall Farm, Sandyhursl Lane, Ash rord, Kent T N25 4PF; Highworth School ror Girls; Sept. 'S3; MR ; Ho norary Sc holar; House Monitor; School Choir; to read Agricult ure a t Newcastle Uni versity. HOR SBRUGH -PORTE R, Zoe M. Bowers Crort, Coleshill, Amersham, Bucks; Dr. Challoner's High School; Sept. ' S3; T; Schoo l Choi r; House concerts; to read English at Durha m Universit y. HU GHES, J. E. 3 New Street , Deal, Kent ; Nort hbourne Pa rk ; J a n. 'S I ; T; House Monitor; House concerts; to read History or Art at the University or East Anglia. HULBURD, Joanna. M. Ca non Place, Wingham, Ca nterbury, Kent CT3 IBD; Simon Langton Girls School; Sept. 'S3; MT; C hora l Society; Squash and Tennis Teams; to read Geography at Exeter University. HUMPHR ISS, M. G. W. The Rectory, 13 Ersham Road, Canterbury, Kent. en 3AR; J .K.S.; Sept. 'SO; L/MT; Rowing U.14 A; to read French and Econom ics at Reading University. . J ACKSON, F. W. Orchard House, Vilamoura, Boliqueime, SIOO Louie, Algarve, Portugal; Imernat ional School. AJgarve; Sept. '80; T; to read Mechanica l Engineering at Imperia l College, London. J ACKSON , S. C. Sack ville Cottage, The Greco, Sed lescombe, East Sussex T N33 OQC; Vinehall; Sept. 'SO; L/LN; Capt. C ross-Country (1st Co ls.); Rugby 1st XV; to read Aero Engi neering at Loughbo rough or Southampton University. JOB, J . R. G. S T he Close, Winchester, Hants, S023 9LS; Westminster Under School; Sept. 'SO; L/G R; House Moni tor; Head Sacristan; School C hoir; Serenade and Chapel Choi rs; Training Orc hestra; Band; Jazz Club; Symphony Orchest ra, Canterbury Psa lms; Solomon; Verd i's Requiem; Ring Around the Moon; The Importa nce or Being Earnest; Rugby 5t h XV; Hockey J. Colt s B XI; Soccer 2nd XI; C ricket 3rd XI; hopes to read Law and Economics at Keele University. KIDSON, C. A. S. Flettons, c lirr Road, Hythe, Kent CT2l 5XJ ; Dover College Junior School; Jan. '8 1; T; Soccer U. 15, 2nd XI, 1st XI; Hockey Colt s; Cricket U. 15; to read Economics at York Un iversit y. LLOYD, E. Litt le Dixter, North ia m, Sussex; Du lwich Co llege Prep School, C ranbrook; Sept. '80; B; School Band; Orc hest ra; Capt. Fencing (l SI & 2nd Cols.); to read EngineeringlEconomics a t St. Anne's College, Oxrord.

86 PADDLE YOUR OW N CANOE -

HUG H PRITC HARD (Mrs. Prilc/lOrd)

DUC KOLOGY (Jakob Kidde-H al/sel/)

LONG, W. R. N. 22 Hawthor ne Road, Bickley, Bromley, Kent: Bick ley Park School; Jan. '81; MO; House Monitor; House plays; U. 19 Badminto n; 2nd Xl Cricket; to read Law at Quee n Mary College, Lo ndo n. LUMSDEN, Soph ie 1. 150 Burbage Road, London SE21 7AG; James Allen's Girls School; Sept. '83; SH; House Monitor; Oklahoma!; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Blithe Spirit; Hamlet; Girls l SI Hockey (1st Co ls.); l SI VII Netball (1 st Cols.); 2nd VI Tennis; to read English at Bristo l University. MADIGAN, C. M. B. 3 Tudor Close, Chislehurst, Kent; Bickley Park School; Sept. '8 1; W; Ki ng's Scholar; House Plays; Ham let and ot her plays; to read English at Keble College, Oxford. MOORE, M. R. Clarence Road, Ba llards Nook, Lynd hurst, Ha nts; Holmwood School; Sept. '80; L/ LN; House Moni tor; Money; hopes to become an Actor. MU RDOCH, A. I. M. Random Cottage, Gordon Road, Buxted, Sussex; Ashdown House; Sept. '80: MO; House Monitor; Jac k Sheppard ; Ant igone; Sherlock Ho lmes; 1st team At hletics; 3rd Xl Cricket; 41 h XV Rugby; hopes to beco me Tax Lawyer/Company Sec retary. MU RR ELL, T. J . 23 Granville Park, Lew isham, Londo n SE 13 7DY ; Brya nston School; Jan. '83; B; The Lady From Maxim 's; 1st Basketball team; 3rd XV Rugby; to read Polit ics al Sussex University. NEAME , T. Colkins, Faversha m, Kent ME I3 9L U; Wellesley House; Sept. '80: MO; House Mon itor; Rugby 4t h XV, 2nd XV ; hopes to become a Geologist. NEV IL E, M. J . M. I Belaga Close, Middle Wa llop, Ha nts S020 SU; J .K.S.; L/GR; Rugby XV; Swimming tcam. NIX, C. W. Bria r Cottage, 18 Modest Corner, Southborough, Kcnt; Hilden Grangc: Jan. '8 1; LX; House Monitor; Epso m Downs, The Visit; 4th XV Rugby; 4th XI Cricket. ORR, J . C. Chislct Park, Chislet, Canterbury, Kent Cf3 4BY; Wootton ley House School; Sept. '80; MT; House Monitor: 2nd XI Cricket (Cols.); 2nd XI Hockey; to read Geography at King's College, London. PARKER, N. V. I. Bcltingc Road, He rne Bay, Kent; Friars Sc hool; Jan. '80; MT; Patience Lost; School Ba nd; to read Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the South Ban k Polytechnic. PETERSEN, R. C. Croft's Wood, Pet ham, Canterbury, Kent: J.K.S.; Jan. '81; MT; to tutoria l college. P HANG, F. T. L. 5 Vanbrugh Court, Wi ncott Street, London SE ll 4NS; The Garden School, Malaysia; Sept. '80: LX; Vice Head of House; Fenci ng (2nd Cols.); Colts Cols., U. 16 Ken t Champ ion; Badminto n; Table Tennis; to read Accountancy at the London School of Economics. PONG, Melania, M. Y. 4201 Grosvenor House, 11 8 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong; Head ington School, Oxford; Sept. 'S3; School Choir; Chapel Choir; to University of Pennsy lva nia, U.S.A. PR ICE , J . A. Medlar House, Ly nsted, Sittingbourne, Kent; Wellesley House; Sept. 'SO: MO; House Monitor; Vice-Capt. Swimming (1st Cols.). PRI DDLE, J . V. Urbanisacion Ca rabobo, Ca lle 145, 101 64, Valencia, Venezuela; Ya rdley Court; Sept. '80; B; The Lady From Maxim's; Hotel Parad iso; Golf (Cols. ); Rugby 3rd XV; Tennis 2nd XI; to read Chcmical Enginecring at Tri·State University, Angola, Ind iana. PULESTON, A. J. 23 St. Law rence Forstal, Cante rbury, Kent; J .K.S .; Sept. '80; MT ; to read Mat hemat ics and Management Stud ies at Ki ng's College, London. RAWLI NSON, J . J. 17 Cascade Avenue, Lo ndon N IO 3PT; J. K.S.; Sept. 'S2; W; CCF; to In dependent Sixth· form College. READI NG, R. K. Cha ntries , Herewa rd Avenue, Birchington, Kent Cf7 9LY; Grenham House; Sept. '80; L/G R; Compute r Room Monitor; CCF Navy & Army Sect.; House League Footba ll/ Rugby/Cricket; hopes to become an Accountant. RISLEY, Emma, C. 18 St. Joh n's Lane , Canterbury, Kent CT I 2QG; Darton Court Girls Gram mar/ Perry Court Rudolf Steiner School; Sept. '83; MT; House Monitor; Oklahoma!; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Three Sisters; Hamlet; 1st Hockey (2nd Co ls.); to read P. P.E. at Christ Church, Oxford. ROBERTSON, Clare L. The Cott age, Milner Court, Stu rry, Ca nterbury, Kent CT2 OAZ; Ashford School for Girls; Sept. '83; B; Symphony Orchest ra; Ant igone; The Lady from Maxim 's; to read Span ish at Durham University. SHAW , A. H. Oast Cottagc, Gu ildables Lane, Crock ham Hill , Edenbridge, Kent TNS 6QU; Hazelwood; Sept. 'SO; L/ N; School Band; Rowing 1st VIII (1st Cols.); to read Chemica l Engineering at Nott ingham University. SHI RLEY, S. J. E. L. POfl uageae, Challock, Ashford, Kent; J .K .S.; Sept. '82; MT; to enter Horticult ure. SIMEON, C. J. B. The Old School House, Burnham-on·Crouch , Esscx CMO SAH; Marlborough House; Jan. '8 1; T; House Mo ni tor; Soccer I st XI (2nd XI Capt .); to RMA Sandhurst. SQU IBB, A. W. 12 Eardley Road , Belvedere, Kent DA I7 6HA; St. Michael's Ol ford: Sept. 'SO; L/G R; Secretary of the Traini ng Orc hestra; FootbaU2nd XI; Rugby U.1 4; Ju nior Colts C; 5th XV; to read Chemistry at New College, Ox ford. STR IVENS, R. E. The Old Manor House, Chesterton, Nr. Bicester, Oxon; St. Lawrence Junior School; Sept. '80; L/G L; Hon. King's Scholar; Head of House; 1st Orchestra, Chamber Orchest ra; Chapel Choir; Hockey (2nd Cols.); to read Chemistry at New College, Oxford.

87 LOURDES (Michael Pelerburs)

., TAGO, J. A. D. The Long House. Lower Weddington, Ash, Canterbury. Kent CT3 2AS; Lawrence House School, Lanes; Sept. '80; MT; House Plays and Concerts; U. 14 Cricket; J. C. B Cricket; hopes (0 read English al University. TAYLOR, S. D. L7 Echapree, 1264 St. Cergue. Valid, Switzerland; Ecole Pri maire CollexÂˇBossy; Sept. '81; OR; King's Scholar; Ho n. Music Scholarship; House Monitor; Orchestras; Choirs; Hamlet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Importance of Being Earnest; Ring Arou nd The Moon; to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. VIRAN I, K. M. M. P.O. Box 46808. Nairobi, Kenya; Hillcrest School, Nairobi; Jan. 'S I; L/SH; to United States/Canada for Furt her Ed ucation; Businessma n. WAGGOTT , R. O. Ridgeway. Hollow Lane. Nr. Lingfield, Dormansland, Surrey RH7 6NR; Brambletye; Sept. 'SO; LX; School Choir; The Visit; Epsom Downs; Rowing 2nd VIII ; to read English at University. WH ITTINGTON, Joan na S. So uthwood Lodge, 33 Kingsley Place, London N6 5EA; Nort h London College School; Sept. 'S3; W; House Monitor; Netball 2nd VII ; Tennis, to read P.P.E. at Somerville College, Oxrord. WHITLESEA, J . R, I Leslie Road, Bi rchington, Thanet, Kent; J .K.s.; Sept. 'SO; MR; House Monitor; to read Chemistry at King's Co llege, Londo n, WILLIAMS, J. H , Xmas Lodge, Church Lane, Yaplon, Arundel, W, Sussex; Windlesham House; Sept. 'SO; L/W; House Monitor; Secretary Caxton Society; 3rd XI Hockey; 3rd XI Cricket; hopes to read Mechanical Engineering at University College, London. WILLIAMS, R. A, S Acacia Gardens, $ 1. John's Wood. London NWS; Abbey Junior School, Westgate; Sepl. 'SO; LIB; Rugby 1st XV; Hockey 1st XI; Soccer 1st XI; At hletics; Basketball (Capl.); to read Law at Ki ng's Co llege, Lo ndon. WILLIAMSON, Tessa J . V. Becchm ount. Conyngham Lane, Bridge, Canterbury, Kent; Barton Court; Sept. '83; MR; House Monitor; School Band; School Choir; Netball 2nd VII ; Tennis 1st VI; Squash 2nd V; to read Business Studies at Newcastle Polytechnic. WONG, Josephi ne G. W. S. 37 Chester Close South, Regent's Park, London; SI. Pau l's Co-Educatio nal College, Hong Kong; Sept. 'S3; T; Chora l Society; to read Medicine al 51. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. WOODFORDE , O. F. WOrlen House, Worten, Ashrord, Kent; Friars School; Sept. 'SO; L/GR; The Beggar's Opera; Ring Arou nd the Moon; to read German at Leicester Uni versity, ZAMBLERA, M. 57 Willen Way, Pells Wood, Orpington, Kent; Betteshanger School; Sept. '80; B; House Monitor; Rugby 1st XV (Co ls.); Athletics (2 nd Co ls.); Hockey 2nd XI; Football 1st XI; retaki ng A-levels at Davies'.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 23 Stirlings Road, Wantage, Oxon. OX 12 7BB. 10th October, 1985. Dea r Sir , In your review o f the King's Roc k Co ncert in The Cantuarian, April 1985, p. 136 you sa id that ' ... no pup ils at King's had ever put on a rock co ncert for the School'. Kin dly check Cantuarians Apr il '64/ J une '64/ Ap ril '65/ J une '65 fo r reports of a Schoo l Show put on by the pupi ls in th e Shi rley Hall which st rongly featured two rock groups - T he Bedlam Bret hren and T he South Bo und Blu es T rain . T he above q uote is cha llenged. We look fo rward to hear ing from you. Yours faithfully, J. D. STOKES (GR 1960-65)

The rock concert by Invisible SUIl in March, 1985 was the f irst concert entirely devoted to rock music. We are grate/ulto Mr. Stokes/or drawing our allention to a report in 'The Cantuarian', April 1964, page 99, a/tel' The Bedlam Brethren had presented the first item in The Penny Reading 0/201h March: T he Penn y Readi ng we nt off with a ba ng, or perhaps I shou ld say a big noise, presented by Th e Bedlam Brethre n, T he vol ume of the a mpli ficat ion un fo rtun ately made it di ffic ult , at least in the fro nt of the Hall, to assess the skill of the perfor mance, whic h seemed to be enjoyed more by the aud ience than by the perfo rmers, j udging by the ex pression on their faces. However, it was a cheerful noise. F, H .V. - Ed.

Mar lowe House, The King's Sc hool. 19th December, 1985. Dear Sir, I have recently been chosen, from over 400 young persons frol11 a ll over Britain, to take part in a Britis h Sc hools Exp lo ri ng Society (a registered Charity) expedition to the Yukon in North-western Canada during the sum mer of 1986. This is a n exciting opportu nity to expe rience sub-arctic condit ions, whi le comp leting detai led glac ier-based and botan ic stu d ies. I would li ke to appea l to any O.K.S, or parent who might be able to contribute a small sum towards a total of ÂŁ1600, which must be raised totally by each participant before early June. Alternatively I would be keen to hear fro m anybody who ca n direct me towards so urces o f fund in g, such as travcl o r adven ture bursa ry sc hcmes fo r whic h I might be eligible. Yo urs thankfully, ANDREW SHERWOOD.

Milner Cou rt , Sturry, Canterbury. 3rd December, 1985. Dea r Sir, A colleague and I are taking a group of fourteen boys on an eight-day tour of Canada nexl September, comb in ing soccer matches against four Prep Schools in the O ntario area wit h so me sight-seei ng and excursions of educati onal bencfit. Obviously such an ambitious vent ure is very costly. I know that many O.K.S. members are Old Boys of J .K.S. and was wo ndering whether Ihey might care 10 contribute to our fund-raising, ei ther in the for m of a cheque payable to ' J .K.S. Ca nada To ur' or in the for m of sponso rship. I look forward to hea ring from anyone who can assis t in this field - any o ffers of he lp would be much apprec iated. Yours fa ithfully, p, R. TURNE R.

Wa lpole and Galpi n's, T he Ki ng's Sc hool. 8th December, 1985 . Dea r Sir, A ft er obse rvin g the prost itutio n of the J .C.R. tha t is prolifera ting aroun d us we feci that it is time to speak out. Being 'old hands' at Ihe drink ing game we be li eve that the J.C.R. is of a low sta ndard and Ihal there is plenty of room fo r improve ment. We suggest the fo ll owing ideas: I) T hc introduction o f music. T his could come in the for m of a j uke-bOX whic h alth ough init iall y expe nsive would pay fo r itse lf over a peri od. 2) More am usement faci lities. 3) More comfortable a nd att ract ive decor. For exa mp le nicer cha irs and tab les, situa ted aro und the whole room and not just around the wa ll s, plus curta in s, plants and wallpape r. 4) The introductio n of dim med and local ised lig htin g. 5) The possibili ty o f one ex tended session o n Saturday even ing instead o f two sepa rate sess io ns. Duri ng thi s extended sessio n the dr inking limit cou ld be raised. 6) The opport uni ty to ta ke dri nks o uts ide in the summe r. 7) The abo li tio n of the prese nt system in whic h everybody must buy their own d rinks. 8) The suggested reforms may make it diffic ult to mainta in the J .C .R., tuckshop and statione ry in lhe sa me rool11. If this diffic ulty arises we suggest employ ing a room such as the Sixth Fo rm Read ing Room fo r the J.C.R. Your men on the doorstep, GUY DUNN AND BILL

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Broughton House, The Ki ng's School. 16th December, 1985. Dear Sir, I sho ul d li ke to point ou t some inaccuracies in Miss Deborah Colm an's letter whic h was prin ted in the last edition of The LCJIlluarian. T he Act of Uniformity of 1662 was the second step in a fu ll Anglican reviva l wro ngly attributed to the

Earl of Clarendon (Edward Hyde). It followed the Corporation Act of 1661 and was itself followed by the 1663 Conventicle Act and the 1665 Five Mile Act: these four acts together constituted a very strong element of uni formity and the possibili ty of persecution and/or prosecution for the religious non-conformists. This Angl ican revival was spo nso red mainly by Archb ishop She!don and was made all-t he-more compl~te by a Churc h/gentry allia nce which meant that any measures, like the Act of Settlement of 1662, v.: ~l ch did aid the non-co nfor mists were disregarded by the bulk of what J. R. Jones has termed the 'political nation'. Hence, I would argue that by 1665 a rigid un iformity was imposed, and streng.thened ~etwe~n 1667 and 167 1 by a series of Conve~ticle Act~ to which Ch~r1es II had to ag~ee because of h!s poor fmanctal position. However, I wou ld also hke to pomt out that di ssent was not killed although It was markedly reduced by such measures. I would also argue that a si milar situation exists at sc hool: Alt h oug~ so me rules are more liberally in terpreted in the case of monitors, it is arguab le that the lugher on.e IS, the further o~e has to fall. Pu ni shments for more se rious offences tend to be more onerous fo r mO l11tors who often rece ive the doubleembarrassmen t of de-monitorisation and a hefty puni shment. The sa me was true of the non -co nformi sts in the reign of Charles 11: altho ugh small mi sdeeds by nobi lit y we re often over.looked b<;lth as a concessi?n to their nob le privilege a nd to save controve rsy and embarra.ss ment, l af!~er dlscl:epancles were dea lt w ~th vicio usly, especiall y after the introduction of the Test Acts 111 1673, which agam s~re n gthe ned t ~ e dn ve for Anglica n Uni fo rmi ty. The Earl of Stafford is an example as he was executed 111 1679 for hiS secret cat holicism, whereas many less important secret cath ol ics escaped un harmed. Hence, by accepting monitorship although one may gai n certain privil~g es and even exe m~tion s from public punis hments for mi no r offences, one also exposes o neself to sc rutmy not only by pupils but also by staff, wh ich can and oft en does mean that o ne is more sev.erely punished for .one's off~ n ces than a non-monitor. I a lso feel that the suggested absol ute set of l?un.l s ~l ments w~uld b~ Inappropna~e a~ cases are never exac tly similar and it is important to study each II1 d.I Vldu~1 on I11S men ts or de-ments, Ju st as judges in Cha rles II's reign also st udied ind ividua l cases on thell' merits (even thoug h the system was very cor rupt). It is important to ens ure that 11l0ni torship carr ies both privilege and.p restige a.nd the best way of doing this is by trea ting monitors slightly different ly ~rom the ~ulk of the pupi ls (a~d tillS should not be confused wi th favouriti sm). To a large exte nt the effiCien t runnmg of a house and II1deed of the schoo l depe nd s upon the monitorial body and any measures whic h wo~ ld upset thi s ~ystem could OI~ l y be LO the d~tnment of Houses and the School as a whole. Hen ce, exem ptions for mon itors are esse ntJal, alt hough It would be emp has ized that a ny dece nt moni tor wou ld not push these exemp tions too far and if he did so he would jeopard ise his mo nito rsh ip. Overall one would say that the rig id un ifonnity of the 1660s sho uld b~ an esse n!ial el.ement of the sch?ol rules. However, taci t exemptions shou ld be granted in retu rn for th e se rvice a ~onllo r gives the commulllty, although these exe mptions sho uld no t make a mockery of the ~a ct that mon itors should lead by. example. When a mon itor openly breaches his trust he sho ul d be dea lt With mo re severely than other pupds. Hence I would arg ue that the present 'system', far from maintaining 'less des irab le histor ically based practi~es', has act ually succeeded in doing away with the more distasteful aspects of the 1660s and eq ually has retalOed the benefits of the pri nciples whic h un derlay Sheldon's reli gious un iform ity. Yours faithfull y, PATRICK PAINES.

(Sarah Carlisle)

3, As hog bon St reet, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. 1st December, 1985. Dea r Sir, I am writi ng to co ngratulate the school on making soccer a major sport. Co nsider ing soccer is the national sport in almost all the countr ies of the world (includi ng England) and the most-watched sport worldw id e, I think the change from minor spor t to major spo rt has been long overdue. Hockey, whic h is the major sport in the Lent term, does not have anywhere near the popularity of soccer and is sadly on the decline. This conversion from minor to major sport also enco urages potentiall y good soccer players com ing from prep~school to ca rryon the sport a nd this can only im prove the standard of th e game in the school. In this way, talent isn't st ifled as has happened in the past. An example is Michael Darko (a n O.K.S. whom I' m sure man y people still remember) who used to score abo ut six goals a match while at prep-school and who gave up soccer completely to play hockey (alt hough he was also a more than adequate hockey player). T here is a lot of un tapped talent in the sc hool and the sc hool showed its potential in the 1984 season when it beat Harvey G.S. (the Kent representatives in the Engla nd School Championships) who we re undefeated until then. I remember a Harvey boy tell ing me how they had wanted a nice, easy warm -up before th e Engl ish Schools, but they got the shock of their lives when they lost their unbeate n record to King's. King's has always seemed to concentrate much of its resources on rugby, rowing and fencing to th e detrime nt of other sports, but the school sho uld be a place where all sports are equa l. Students sho uld not just choose a spo rt that can reward the m with fi rst colours (instead of 'j ust' mi nor sport s colours) but sho uld choose sports that they enjoy playin g the most. Yours eccentr ically, AOEKEYE AOEBA JO

1980-85).

40 Sutherland Place, London, W2 5BZ. 9th December, 1985.

Dear Sir, I am sure that every O.K.S. aged 68 and under will rejoice that your report of Arthur Gore's portrait being hu ng in the Shirley Hall had no hin t of his retirement despite his fifty years of o ut standing service. It was good to see that he chose to sit weari ng his O.K.S. tie (The Cantuarian, August 1985). In the sa me issue your C.C.F. Notes relate: 'The Loch Ewe autumn half-term trip has been esta blished for some yea rs now'. As a Loch Ewe enthusiast, I would have spotted previous reports in The Cantuarian. T he ro le of R.N. Aultbea is no secret, so why the silence? Or am I blind?

Yours faithfully , A. D. W ILSON

(GR 1935-40).

Mr. Gore tells us that he will be retiring at the end of the Lent term. Mr. Wi/son is quite correct _ and we are flattered by his careful reading of 'The Cantuarian' - in stating that previous Loch Ewe trips were not reported. This is because they were 'unofficial' and thereby barred from mention in c.c.F. Despatches. - Ed.

THE CANTUARIAN PHOTO COMPETITION 'CONGRATULATIONS TO CANNON PILKINGTON ON HIS APPOINTMENT TO ST. PAULS HE WILL HAVE TO ARRANGE FOR HIS SHEPHERDS PIES TO BE SENT UP.' Place: The Bell a nd Crown Public House, Pa lace Street. Winner: Mr. J. R. Parker. 91

C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION The summer camp at Longmoor was an act ive and sliccess ful onc. The thirteen cadets who atlended went through a varied programme, including fi ring of SLR , GPMG, and pistol, a visit to the Pa rachute Regiment Depol at Aldershot, orie nteering, and a final tactical exercise which tested everyone's fieldcraft to the utmost. The cam p also gave the cadets the cha nce to strike up acqua int ance wi th a section of Gurkhas, and wit h a detachment of Tr inidad and Tobago cadets in Britain to give disp lays of marching. The first event of Ihis term which we must mention is the entry of girls into the CCF. Seven girls joined, a nd alo ng with a number o f older boy entrants have been going through a n accelerated training programme involving d rill, weapon trai ning and shooting, sig nals and fieldcraft. We a re very pleased wit h this new departure, a nd hope thatlhey are the first o f many. Numbers in the APC squad are up this year, and they a re to be com mended on their general turnout a nd enthusiasm. Results have been mixed : everyone passed the Ar my Weapon Safety Test first time. but the squad is not very hot on marksmanship! However, judging by the wo rk done so far, next term's fieldc rafl a nd patrolling test should go well , T he squad took part in a night exercise on the 23rd October, where they were helped by NCOs: next term they will be on their own. T he Comma ndo sect io n retained a ll its veterans, with thei r own distinct ive sty le. The good a utumn meant that a full programme cou ld be ca rried out, incl uding sca canoeing at JQss Bay, bridge buildi ng on the ma rshes, a sport ing abseil at the Warren, and fi nally the Senior Night Exercise on 7th December. On Field Day the Section had a fu ll day dry skiing, ca noeing, sailing, a nd wi ndsurfing. REME, wit h its scram ble bi ke and Land Rover, has kept the interest o f its fo ur members, to be increased by one next term . Our thanks to Sgt. Swa in fo r his cheerful a nd resourceful help. At prese nt there is no sepa rate Signals Sect ion, but our C lansman sets mea n that radio communication rema ins a very important part of our activities. and they are used frequently in traini ng and on exercises. We hope that a couple of APC squad members may opt to train as cadre for signa ls next year. Next term we look forward to the new integrated progra mme post-APC which will provide activ ities for a ll senior mem bers of Ar my, RN, and RAF Sections. This will be a more sensible arra ngement than the present duplication of activ ities and will involve canoei ng, climbing, sa il ing, first aid, shoot ing, signals, river crossing, et a l. Promotio ns w.e.f. 17. 12.85: C pls Brook and White to Sgl. M. J .V.

ROYAL A IR FORCE SECTION One of the most pleasi ng aspects of this. my fina l term as Section Comm ander, has been the frequency of flying at RAF Manston, d ue both to the strong su pport we receive fro m Sqn Ldr Stonham, OC I AEF, a nd the fine autumn weat her we have enjoyed. Many of the senior cadets are qu ite proficient now at ha ndling a C hipmunk, a nd the lure o f aerobat ics remai ns as strong as ever. Hav ing returned our Pri mary Glider, we are eligible fo r ai r experience glidi ng, also a t Ma nston. We o nly managed one Su nday's flyi ng wit h 6 17 Gliding Sq uadron. but six cadets obtained a la unch. It was a rather rainy morn ing and the gliders were la unched between showers. Unfortunately, one eager cadet. wi th a wide pre~ l au n e h grin on his face, was sent off just as a cloud burst. He ret urned bedraggled, subdued a nd, I suspect. a nnoyed with his first silent flig ht in a n open cockpit. The Sect ion sp li t into IwO on Field Day, a nd fifteen innocents opted fo r my rapid tour ofS.E. E ngland in the minibus taking in the RAF Museu m at He ndon and the Imperial War Museum at Duxford on the way - all within thirtee n hours. LI Parker's gro up wisely went for the sa fer, more leisurcl y activity: rock~cli mbi n g near T unbridge Wells. There has been a fair amount of Adventurous T ra ining, includi ng one fine afternoon's canoeing in Folkestone Harbour , a bsei li ng in, around and o ff the Sc hool build ings, the inevitable Escape and Evasion Exercise a nd, recen tly. a success ful Night Exercise on Scot la nd Hi lls, organised by W/O Sherwood, FISgt Webb a nd J/Cpl Muskett. Most of the tasks set were completed a nd all returned safe and sound to the Precincts before 4 a. lll . despite the efforts of two disruptive undercover agents, the smaller dressed in a German steel helmet and leat her coat. a nd the larger so enveloped in an Arct ic a norak that he cou ld neit her see where he was goi ng nor what he was do ing, resulting in a gorse bush bei ng challenged and interrogated for at least three min utes on the grounds that it resemb led one o f the o pposition. T he Hovercraft is almost co mpleted! T here have been problems wit h sew ing a nd filli ng the skirt, but the maiden fl ight should take place in Februa ry or March . I should li ke to thank Sgts. Nash and Norris for their work on the project over the lasl eighteen mont hs and Wg Cdr Wen ley for his tech nical guidance and support. Finally, my thanks go to Lt. Parker fo r his help wit h the outdoor activ it ies a nd to RSM Booth fo r runni ng the Stores and tra ining ou r recruits - who, incidentally. included our fi rst female cadet.

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I ~ h ou l d li.ke to put on. record, the great i n debte~ness of the CCF to Michael Davis. From his earl y days in the Army Sect ion to 1m last term, 1I1 cha rge of the RAF sect ion, he has been a very active part icipan t and leader a nd we arc very grate ful for all he has done. We wish him the best of luck for the future. His last important act has been to brie f Squadron Leader Bradley RAF (ret'd) who will be taking over from him.

P.o.w.

NAVAL SECTION This term we have seen most of the organising do ne by the leading sea men o f the section, name ly P. J . Burrell, P. J . Dorling, and J . P . P. Nevi le. T he excitement started with a river crossing, which showed several ape-li ke qualities of the younger mem bers of the section to be useful while hanging upside-down on a swinging rope only a few feet above the wa ter leve l, the height depending on those crossing. C. F. Paine a nd N. C. Plant showed that they were not going to gel wet wit hou t mak ing a determined e ffort to scramb le all the way across. This exercise was generally liked by all a nd there was much laughter as o ne by one everybody took a swim. We a lso had a day of sail ing a nd canoeing for which we give thanks to the canoe club and the sailing club. This was done early in the term as it gets a bit cold at this time of year for those unfortunates who do nOI possess a wei suit. This led on to our field day when half the section enjoyed a day of climbing under instruction at Boules while the ot her ha lf spen t a sp lit day between dinghy sailing and wi nd surfing in the harbour and a sail in the 32 foot COIlleSSa on which A. G. Charlesworth and P. J . Burrell showed the ski pper his ropes! M. W. Stafford showed that he cou ld get his revenge quite easily by soak ing LIS all with a shower of cold sea water down the back of our necks. J . P . P. Nevile aga in proved that the Mari nes' way of doing a P .L.T. (Practical Leadership Training) was the best when he led a group of 4 over the course in a time which a lmost halved the rest. P . A. A . Foot, A. P . N. Fullman, C. R. Gooderham and P. J . Burrell showed that they cou ld (to everyone's surprise) lead a group over the co urse wit hout too much trouble. J. J. Drewe, N. W. Reid a nd P. J . Woods all showed im mense ski ll in carrying and rolli ng the barrel arou nd the course. We showed the Commandos a thing or two when we were asked to show them how to do the assault course and were then asked to hel p them get themselves and a rat her la rge looki ng log over the course under the stop watch, having been split into two groups. A. W. Macdonald-Bell showed how easy it was to avoid steppi ng on the barbed wire and A. J. McClymont showed his abi li ty to make the Tarzan swi ng look easy. A day spent cycling arou nd Kent in the rain yet agai n showed how easy it was to get a puncture miles away from Canterbury and severa l contestan ts had to fall ou t, while ot hers braved the odds and completed the set course. The ter m has not all been used doi ng st renuo us exercise; we bave a lso foun d time to do some class work wit h P. J . Burrell a nd P . J. Dorling teachi ng for th e Able Seaman's test at the end of term, a nd some of the more senior members of the section are studying hard for their Nav igatio n exam . We wish them a ll luck and hope that we shall see some higher ranks a t the begin ning of next term. My thanks go to J . D. Godley for helpi ng thi ngs along and representing Ihe Navy with Pele a nd Phil on the night exercise, and to Mr. Thane and Mr. Durgan for everything they have done this term. F. J. CHi\RLESWORTH.

ASSOCIATED BOARD EXAMINATION RESULTS And rew Fordham Do uble Bass G rade 8 Pass Anthony Evans-Pughe P iano Grade 8 Pass Darren Everhart Bassoon Grade 8 Merit Luci nda Miller Flute Grade 8 Merit Christophe Brandt 'Cello Grade 8 Pass C larissa Price Piano Grade 8 Pass P iano Grade 8 Merit Sarah Pendlebury Andrew Bush C lari net Grade 8 Distinction Kristian Belliere Piano Grade 7 Distinction Pass William Henderson- Deeves 'Cello Grade 7 James Gumpert Piano Grade 7 Pass Benjami n Finn was awarded a silver medal by the Associa ted Board of the Royal Schools of Music for his high mark of 143 out of 150 for Grade 7 Piano, Summer T erm, 1985. 93

THE SCHOOL Captain oj School: P. H. McCleery, K.S., M.S. SCHOOL MON ITORS

J. R. Seagrave, M.S., J. Gopalji, K.S., D. C. Everhart, M.S. , A. W. J. Harding, K.S., M. J. Nash, K.S., Abigail B. Willis, K.S., M.S., P. E. H. Paines, K.S., M. F. McCullough, 1. G. Bendien, A. L. Odgers, K.S., G. L. Morris, Natalia E. Fetherston-Dilke, K.S., J. D. McL. Wrench, M.S., A. H. C . Sherwood, Katherine E. Kell y, K.S., D. G. Stocks. HOU SE MONITORS

School House: A. L. Odgers, K.S., D. G. Stocks, Charlotte K. Bishop, A. M. T. Clements, R. D. C . Downes, M.S., C. P. 1. Flower, K.S., M.S., Katherine E. Kell y, K.S., O. Y. Madha, N. A. Papachristidis. The Grange:

A. W. 1. Harding, K.S., P. H. McCleery, K.S., M.S., Abigail B. Willis, K.S., M.S., A. T . T . P reston, 1. D. Foord, N. H. Briggs, 1. R. Brown, A. W. Leach.

Walpole:

J . Gopalji , K.S., G. M. Dunn, M. K6ster ing, J. J. Oliver, S. Vijayanathan.

Meister Omers: J. D. MeL. Wrench, M.s.,S. H. Yap, H. W. Girli ng, M. 1. Smith, S. L. White, W . 1. Stanbury, K.S. , R. P. Reed, K.S. Marlowe:

A. H. C. Sherwood, M. R. Peterburs, W. A. Webb, R. S. Petts, T. 1. Turner.

Luxmoore:

M. F. McCullough, M. Camburn, P. G. S. Lawton, A. Macdonald, N. W. Rollason.

Galpin's:

G. L. Morris, A. G. E. Fordham, M.S., J. D. Godley, W. J. Murch, Lucinda L. Miller, M.S.

Linacre:

J. R. Seagrave, M.S., M. J. Nash, K.S., A. J. Evans-Pughe, M.S., A. J. M. McFie, J . P . H. Nicholls, K.S., M. R. Evison, M. F. Whitehead, A. J. Barron, K.S.

Broughton:

P. E. H. Paines, K.S., C . J. Brooke, K.S., Sarah C. Holden , N. R. Baker, M.S., J. P. Gardner, K.S. J. G. Bendien, A. F. B. Stur!, K.S., M.S., A. Bocresion, P. L. Evans, 1. R. Nic holas, D. A. Stearns, Julia J . Pears, Sarah A. Pendlebury, M.S.

Tradescant : Mitchinson's: Lallergate:

D. C. Everhart, M.S., H. D. Pritcha rd, K.S., B. W. Nash, K.S., Alison C. Ruckert, D. S. Vye. J. D. Godley (GL), F. J. Charlesworth (LN), J. C. O. Gordon (GR), T. Grieves (GL), Ta nera K. A. Dawkins, M.S. (GR). CAPTA INS OF SPORT

Rugby Football Boats Boys' Swimming Girls' Swimming Athletics Golf

Badminton Canoeing Girls' Hockey

J. R. Seagrave, M.S. A. W. Leach G. M. Dunn Karen L. Bleasdale E. O . Mbu M. W. Ursell

Soccer Netball Chess

M. K6stering H. D. Pritchard Katherine E. N. Woodcock M. Durham , K.S. Charlotte L. Hare A. 1. M. McFie

Monitors jar Music: A. J . Evans-Pughe, M.S., A. F. B. Stur!, K.S., M.S. Head Sacristan: M. J. Smith 94

O.K .S. NEWS WILL APPEAR IN OUR NEXT EDITION

CANTUARIAN LODGE No. 5733 (The King's School, Canterbury, Masonic Lodge) During June this year Lau rence Kenny was appointed Master of the Lodge, having previously held the office in 1970 and 197 1. By kind permission of the Headmaster the Triennia l meeting was held at the School on 1st June this year. Various Gra nd Officers and members of our Sister Lodges, {he Old Lawrentian a nd Old DoYorian, atlended and parties were shown round parts of the School. Dinner was at S1. Augustine's and everyone enjoyed a splendid occasion in the delightful surrou nd ings. We look forw ard to welcoming Alistair Ha rd ie and wish him many happy years in Freemasonry as a member. Any O.K.S. Freemasons who are not members of the Lodge are cordia lly inv ited to attend the Lodge In stallation Meet ing on Thursday, 12th June 1986. Details will be available from the Secretary a nd the meeting will be held a t Freemasons' Hall , Great Queen St reet, London WC2, Cantuarian Lodge is established fo r those who were educated at the Schoo l or who have close links with thc School, including fathers of O.K.S. and of boys or girls at the Schoo l. Further details concerning the Lodge can be obtained from the Secretary who is David Morgan, 365 Maidstone Road , Gillingham, Kent ME8 OHT, or any other Ca ntuarian Lodge member known to you. We shou ld be vcry pleased to hear from you.

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THE CANTUARIAN

APRIL 1986

CONTENTS PAG!!

EDITORIAL

THI S AND THAT C HAPEL COLLECTIONS

103

VALE

104

MR. ARTHUR GORE -

FIFTY YEARS AT KI NG 'S

105

IN MEMORIAM

107

BOOK REVIEW

109

FOCUS

110

MERGER IN THE C ATliEDRAL

11 6

THE CANTUARIA N INTERVIEWS

11 8

HOUS E NOTES

122

REI'ORTS A N D II EVIEWS 1 MUSI C AN D DRAMA

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11 TALKS

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111 VISITS

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IV THE SOC IETIES

157

IMAGINATIVE WRITING

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SI)QRT

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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OXIlRIl)GE PLA C ES

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THE SCHOOL

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S ALVETE AND VALETE

182

C .c. . Â·. NOTES

185

O.K.S. NEWS

187

TH E CANTUA R1AN

Editors: B. P. Arends, K.S., Lucy E. C ha rrington , K.S., Lucia J. Conybeare, K.S ., P. H. Lidstone , J. P. H. Nicho lls, K. S., R. P. Reed, K.S ., M. P. J. Stewart , Tara P. Usher, K. S" R. A . F. Webb , K.S ., Photographic Editors: J. Kidd e-Hansen, J. M. Ma rshall, M. J . Smith, A . P. Wallenbach. Senior Editor: P. J . Brod ie , M.A.

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VOL. L NO . 2

EDITORIAL Are yo u an Artist or a Scientist? Ah, boring, you say. What a cliche. Obvious question. But you will invariably answer. 'An Artist,' you say, or, 'A ScientisL' 'Can't do maths,' you will say,

'Never was any good at E nglish.' But most at this school will announce themselves as Artists, most will profess a positive aversion for Physics, a complete blank when confronted with a Maths question. Arts 6b is more than twice as large as Science 6b . And we wonder why this country is seriously behind in the manu facturing industries, when Science is poorly patronised and Scientists are looked upon as 'boring'. The problem is our entire attitude to Science. I am not accusing Artists of dire maltreatment of Science, of igno ring it when it is in its most desperate position. I am not clearing those poor innocent Scientists of any blame in this fi asco - we are all responsible, and we all need to change our attitudes . T he trouble, particularly here, is that Arts are seen as the only creative subjects, the only place people can go if they really wa nt to express themselves , the only thing really sensitive people can do - Science is for those un interesting blockheads who like everything cut and dried, who don't do any thing interesting for themselves , or don't have any imagination at all . This attitude is based not only on the prejudices of Artisls, but on the whole way in which society looks at Science and Arts, and especially the way they are taught. Science is not, you see, boring and unimaginative. It is not the exploration of a uni ve rse which is all there, in which all explanations exist, where we only have to discover why, and all will be explained. There is a depth of inte rpretation and creati vity in Science which many, even Scientists (perhaps especially Scientists) are not aware of. A Scientist is not giving ultimate explanations of the world. What he or she is doing is merely creating a model, one which may effectively predict a phenomenon and allow us to make use of it - to create something, a building or a medicine, for example. And some time later, whether it is years or months or centuries later, someone else is bound to disprove that model, to point out inaccuracies or create a better model. One look at the history of the development of Science will show you that. Science teachers do little to quell the impression that everything they say is absolute truth . T he myth pervades even the subject itself, not just the surroundings . And if we wa nt to improve the position of our country, and perhaps more important, the species, we have to change our attitude. More people must do Science subjects, but not to the exclusion of everything else - the new subj ect combinations must include both fields, for one without the other leads to conflict, and ineffectiveness . Science must be taught di fferently, with much more emphasis on its philosophy. We must change our attitude to Science and destroy the myth that it is uncreati ve . ROBERT WEBB.

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Mr. Calvin Hoffman who died o n 4th February in Florida had been a regular visitor to King's since 1976. He described himsel~ in wo:ks of reference as a poet, but for some thirtyxears he devoted hImself IndefatIgably to researches - or one could say to missionary wo rk - In support o f hIs theory that the so-called works of Shakespeare were in reality Christopher Marlowe's (KS 1579). By hIs wIll a Trust has been established which will encourage Elizabethan hterary studIes through an annual world-wIde pnze, and which will also finance scholarships here. Mr. Hoffman was a wIdower. Those who knew him (and to know him was to know an utterly devoted worker of shaming humility) will be sorry to hear that Mr. S. Burnap, for ma ny years clean~r In Marlowe, dIed early in March . He recalled his time at King's fond ly, except those occaSIOns when the Mmt Yard Gate was not open on the stroke of 6 a.m. His time-keepIng was thereby comprom.lsed, and those injuries to the perfection of his attendance to duty he could never qUIte forgIve. Dr. Mallion represented the School at the Memorial Service for Les li~ Mitc?ell (HH 1914-20) at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 5th February. Tributes to Leshe MItc hell s contnbutl,?n to broadcasting and the freedom of information were paid by some half a dozen people promment in this fie ld. We were sorry to hear of the deaths of Mr. Geoffrey Yo ung (SH 1928-32),. a great figure in O.K.S. golf for many years, and of Captain Joh n Armitage (GR 1972-76) In a hang-ghdIng accident. To all the bereaved we offer our sympathy. Requiescant

T he Very Revd. Victor de Waal announced his retirement as Dean of Canterbury on 22nd January. The Dean is ex officio Chairman of our Governing Body but Dean de Waal's interest in the life and welfare of the School was not confined to this official link, important as it is. His four sons were all educated at King's, and his wife was on the staff for some time. Through this he had good day-to-day knowledge of the School's needs and concerns, and he gave it his understanding support consistently. His tenure will perhaps be remembered most for his promotion of the artistic and scholarly aspects of the work of the Cathedral, with an especial emphasis on intercultural links. While this was obviously subordinate to the Opus Dei, one may recall the commissioning of a major History of Canterbury Cathedral, a project for a team of scholars under Professor Collinson, and the latest addition to the set of portraits of Canterbury's Deans. This remarkable painting is the work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. While his shyness made him, at times, a somewhat forbidding or remote figure for the younger members of the School, Dean de Waal's personality had its extrovert side: his love of crosscountry driving may be mentioned, for example . We shall miss him and the whole de Waal family, and wish them well . The Dean

We congratulate Mr. Durgan and Miss Rogers on their engagement: nonflautists may need to be told that this is an entirely in-house development, though the key words were spoken in Greenwich Park at Christmas. Mr. Fairservice and Mr. Gore retired at the end of the term, as sadly forecast in our last issue. Their respective connections with King's are of a third and half a century, and they were joint guests at an understandably nostalgic farewell party on 25th March. Among the gifts was a quite remarkable cake in the shape of the School shop, astonishing for its accuracy and wealth of detail. It was made for Mr. Gore by 'Battleship' Dawkins, retired carpenter brother of the late Mrs. Curtis. His work was proverbial for its durability: and though the cake looked good to eat it really ought to be preserved as an example of craftsmanship. There is more about Mr. Fairservice and Mr. Gore elsewhere in this issue. In And Out

(Surah Carlisle)

The King's boy interviewed on TVS about what the historic Channel Tunnel Treaty signing at Canterbury meant for him replied that ~Schoollunch was a bit earlier than usual', but there really was more of a stir to It than that on Ash Wednesday, 12th February. Once Canterbury had been chosen as the venue (Leeds Castle was considered, but the irony of choosing for its safety a place surrounded by water was spotted in time by the sharp wits of the Foreign Office) security in the Precincts was gradually tightened to the point when no one carrying a large gun would have got away with it for long. Dogs sniffed, very thin flat bombs were l?oked for be~md study posters, and the special Sewers Squad said ours were the most mterestmg on~s they d ever.splashed m. On the day itself masters had to show passes but for the uns~bverSive pupils a wmg collar or the je ne sais quoi of a King's girl sufficed. Mrs . Thatcher arnved at 13.10 and kmdly asked some J.K.S. boys if they were feeling cold. M. Mitterrand came at 13.15 and everyone walked from Lardergate to the Deanery, 'to the polite applause of public schoolboys' as the BBC put It. Some of the smaller public schoolboys and Mr. Milford waved flags. The really important people had luncheon in the Masters' Common Room where they signed the Visitors' Book . M. Mitterrand spelt his name wrong. Afterwards there was qUite a lot of English wine left over but no French. The Treaty was signed in the Chapter House, on a table from the School Dining Hall. The Captain of School was supposed to do something but the rough-spoken media men thought he was getting in the way so he only did a bit of it. Mrs. Thatc~er t<;lld M. Mitterrand that his ancestors had built the Chapter House and that thIS was an hlStonc moment. M. Mltterrand didn't say anything about Mrs . Thatcher's anc~stor~ but he. said that the moment was historic. That was about it, and everyone drove off, takmg httle notrce of some punks and a horse who were, separately, protesting outside the Mint Yard Gate. Now the Tunnel has to be dug, assuming Parliament approves it, and this will be done by the Channel Tunnel Group whose English operation is managed by Mr. M. J. Gordon (GR 1940-46). There is an interview with him elsewhere in this issue. The Unmissing Link

We congratulate the Revd. Canon Michael Mayne (MO 1943-49) on being appointed Dean of Westminster. For the statistically minded, 670/0 of O.K .S. deans come from 13% of the Houses: Some kind of Equal Opportunity Comm ission ought to get to work on thIS fivefold Imbalance. Shortly before his appointment Canon Mayne was able to announce in a letter to The Times, in answer to a rhetorical question, that he had come across a Kerenhappuch; Dean !'Iewlett ~ohnson, the Red Dean of Canterbury, having named his daughters aft~r two of Job s. Her Sister was KeZiah, but there was no Jemima. The sometimes fraught relatrons at the highest level between School and Deanery did not interfere with socialising lower down too much, not as. much as theopaque glass which at the Dean's wish was put into some, but not all, school wmdows lookm!\ mto his, and their, garden. Why Job called his daughters Rouge and Mascara nght from birth IS not known . His views on the dangers of sport, felt to be 'in the tr~dition of Times letters', won an award for Bruce Pullen (SH) in the recent Times Junior JournalIst Competition. It IS also m the tradition of School House correspondents, whose views on what Caractacus wore and whether lead balloons go up have in their day reached British opinion makers. Deans And Daughters

Although this phrase might describe an~ old day here, it was appropriated by a group of boys and girls whose object was to produce a play entIrely without adult help or hindrance. A cast and team of some two dozen or more directed by Omar Madha (SH) proved that it can be done, and done excellently, when on two nights in succession Arthur Miller's All My Sons ))layed to a packed Shirley Hall . The simple moral problems of the play, and the mtenSity of their statement, made it an apt choice for the K.Y.D. debut. King's Youth Drama

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Another first (we believe) was the Ballet Solo which Elizabeth Michael (MR) choreographed and danced m the Marlowe House Concert on 7th February. The music (Mendelssohn) and the treatment were .clasSical. The harsher texture of ~odern dance was perhaps represented by the clutter of. muSic stan~s, chal~s and othe~ objects on the stage. Their sullen immobility counterpol!'ted emphatr~ally With Ehzabeth s beautifu l movement. We would like to see more ballet at Kmg's after thIS courageous start. We were interested to learn that lames Newall (B 1979-84) is to be director of the 1986 Scottish Student Drama Festival. Kno,,:,ledge of Scottish university life is somewhat limited at King's: we hope to hear more from him. Mr. Tristan Garel-Jones M.P. (GR 1954-59) has apparently been 'under Wet And Dry attack from Thatcher loyahsts'. But the Government Chief Whip has gone ., ., on reco~d that he 'greatly values Tristan Garel-lones's contribution to the Whips Office, and Mr. Blffen, Leader of the House, thinks he is 'first-class'. So there. It is ,,!,ore hkely, accord!ng to o."e master of the 50s,. that the 'Garel-J ones flair for provocation' hes at the root of thIS growhng, rather than anythIng more airy-fairy like catching compassion. The .Headmaster, we understand, has been invited to give his views to the Archbishop's CommISsIOn which produced the ~uch talked about Faith in the City report. He already knows some of Its members as former Kmg's parents. News has come through that one of the musts of the April social calendar IS b~mg organIsed by Jeremy Taylor (LN 1981-84) at the Hammersmith Palais. DeSigned to out-chaos Chaos, the Terror Ball seems a snip at ÂŁ15 a ticket. Although descnbed by hIS own mother as 'not the world's greatest brain' Jeremy has done hIS sums pretty we.ll, assuming that all 2500 tickets are sold. A trial run _ the theme was Bondage and Black Tie - held at the ancestral home and zoo-park in Somerset was very encouragmg. The Idea might be developed creatively for King's Week . Investment In Terror

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Some four or five years after she came to Canterbury in search of first-hand material Monica Furlong's Genuine Fake has been published. It is a biography of A lan Watts (GR 1928-33), an expert on Buddh ism from his precocious school-days, who died on the guru-ridden West Coast in 1973 aged only 58. We are very grateful to Canon A llchin for reviewing the book for us. Another O .K .S. of unconventional views and accomplishments was John Macgregor (1834), inevitab ly k nown as Rob Roy. He resembled his contemporary General Gordon in combining an active and quirkily adventurous bent wit h strong religious and philanthropic convictions. Macgregor is o ne of the Exp/orers Extraordinary described by John Keay in his latest book; we hope to review it in our next issue . Walter Pater (K .S. 1853) has engendered a growi ng band of academics dedicated to the study of his works in deep detail, and to bringing them to a proper degree of esteem in the world . The Pater News/eller, based in Arizona and Aberystwyth, reports their activities twice a year. Walter Patel'.' A Life Remembered edited for the U niversity of Calgary Press by Robert Seiler will adopt 'a syncretic approach, one which encourages a sy nthesis of the insights gained so far'. It will include comments on Pater by writers ranging from A. C. Benson to A rthur Symons and Oscar Wilde, but a lso material on the yo ung Pater culled from J. R. McQueen, his contemporary at King's. T he old Luxmoore House, in New Dover Road, was built by General McQueen, J. R.'s father, as the fam il y home (his initials in ornamental brickwork can still be seen on the Dover side of the building) and the two boys spent much time there elaborating Tolkienlike the geography, history and lang uage of an imaginary empire . We shall rev iew the book when a copy is obtainable. Diaries and memoirs written at school are of value not only as potential quarries for biographers but as social docum ents in their own right. A nyone who has read such writings, the less selfconscious the better, will know how the whole feel of a period can be conveyed by some comment - or something not commented on. We are therefore grateful to hear that Mr. H.C.M. Pitts (HH 1910-14) may send us furth er memoirs of his school and First World War experiences or of the possibly more remote world of the Malayan planter. Books

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Despite unco-operative weather King's sportsmen and women battled through to a number of successes. Among them was not the attemp t to transfer the coaching of the 1.1 5 VIII from the ideal but froze n Fordwich facility to the sp urned but liquid P luck's Gutter water. The coach was last seen in the engine-bereft launch paddling hard wit h a garden spade against a brisk current. A rare double was brought off by David Laurence (B) who scored goals within minutes for two 1st Xis. A nd it wasn't an own goa \. On his way from his soccer match he innocently stopped to watch the hockey: an injur y, grab that stick, a second goa\. The King's 1st Vll won the Kent Sevens and reached the Quarter-finals at Rosslyn Park; the 1st Hockey XI had an unbeaten season, and King's fencers won the Kent Schools Indi vidual Epee Championships convincingly: both Gold medals, both Silvers, and one of the Bronzes. Peter Davies (MO) is dangerously near being 'Sports Quizkid of the Year'. Having entered the competitio n o n a whim he was in the last 16 (out of a thousand entrants) at the end of the term , a nd about to dazzle BBC 2 listeners from Stoke on Trent. Sport

The House Song Competition was won by Luxmoore - we believe for the first time, and despite their hav ing drawn the unpopular last slot, when the adjudicator is gene rally believed to settle for a safe middling verdict from a merciful doze . But this year's man, Mr. Dennis Kiddy, was clearl y more decisive and discriminating. Music

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Other musical events of the. term, h'"including a very well received concert at St . La wrence J ewry, are repor te d f u II y e Isew h ere m t IS Issue. Here It might be mentioned that the Crucifixus pro nobis anthology of words a!,d mUSIc for Holy Week deserved ly brought so many to the Chapter House that perhaps the(~Ulre mlllht h~ve been a more suitab le venue. In a ny case, the C hapter House for all Its maglllflcent ceIlmg IS not a numinous place. T his was the theme of a competition organised for Kent, Sussex and Surrey schools by the publIshers of the Kent Life magazine. Possibly driven b escapIsm there was a large entry from King 's. The vision of the futur~ generally con~lsted of perm any three of torture, electronic implants foodpIlls, ntual nots, and so o n, but some prophets saw or said they saw democracy and other I!!,probable goodies. Christopher Hall (W), Matthe~ Billot (MT) Sa~ McCall (LN) and Mart~n Stewart (SH) all won prizes - Martin at 15 winning the Under 18 class - and seven or eIght others were patted on the back. School In The Year 2000

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The collections taken during the Lent Term were given to charities with some local connectIon:

Bible Society Canterbury and District Association for Mental Health Canterbury Oxfam gro up Friends of Kent and Canterbury Hospital National Centre for Cued Speech for the Deaf Samaritans Strode Park Coach House Appeal

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VALE COLIN FAIRSERVICE (K.S.C. 1954-86) Colin Fairservice retires at the end of this term, having been on the staff at King's for over 32 years. When he arrived in January 1954 he was put in charge of the 1st XV and the 1st XI, as well as numerous other time consuming chores such as the School Calendar, examination entries, seating lists, bills to parents, as weB as running the bookstore and the ground staff! On top of this he frequently had to persuade reluctant colleagues to referee league rugger matches, and to settle disputes between Housemasters as to who was, and who wasn't, eligible to play for their respective league sides. It must all have been remarkably tedious for him, but somehow the problems dissolved when Colin was brought in, and oil was poured on the troubled waters . His great love was, of course, the 1st XV in the winter and the 1st XI in the summer. He ran the rugger for 13 years and the cricket for 20 and his record for both was quite extraordinary. For every school in Kent and for some in Surrey and Sussex the match against King's was the great event of their rugby term, and yet despite the immense incentive that this gave them to excel themselves, all too often they simply could not cope with the quality of the play provided by the teams that Colin had coached. Of the 109 matches played against other schools whilst Colin was in charge no less than 86 were won! There were no intense training sessions and no summer camps before term started; the 1st XV simpl1'-enjoyed playing, experimenting and throwing the ball about, and the school flocked down to Birley's to cheer them on. They were seldom disappointed and every time a try was scored by the home side hundreds of boaters were hurled skywards and the team went from strength to strength, carried forward on a tidal wave of spontaneous enthusiasm that seemed impossible to resist. In 1963 the I st XV won every school match, and then went on to win the Richmond Sevens by beating St. Edward's, Liverpool 30-0 in the final, a record winning margin at the time. In 1966 Colin reluctantly agreed to retire at the age of 57, though many felt at the time that this was rather premature! In his last year he had produced another exceptional side and the last match of the season was against Rugby School who were touring in the South because they had a side of outstanding merit, that was unbeaten at the time. The final score of 14-3 in our favour was a well earned and fitting finale to Colin's 13 years in charge. In that time he had produced one International Jim Parsons; a final Welsh trialist, Graham Pritchard; 3 other blues and a host of 1st class club players, most of whom played for Rosslyn Park. If one includes his 17 years at Stonyhurst, he had 5 times produced finalists in the Richmond 7s, and twice winners of the competition! One of the members of his winning Sevens team had played 49 times for a King's 1st team at either cricket of rugger before he was on the losing side! Colin's release from the pressures of rugby meant that he could now devote his entire energies to cricket and by 1970 the 1st XI was without doubt the best school side in the country. They won 10 of their 16 matches and drew the other 6. Four of the batsmen scored centuries, one of these being a not out double century in a one day game which didn't start until midday! Two of the bowlers took 48 wickets each at an average of under 13 runs per wicket, and the bowler who came 4th in the averages opened the bowling for Oxford University the following season. Not surprisingly the team was never seriously threatened during the season except, oddly enough, in a match against the Common Room which didn't rank as an official fixture. The following season was all anti-climax but it did see the emergence of David Gower, in the 1st XI at the age of 14, against the advice of one or two who thought he was too young. Never has a gamble been better justified by subsequent events and David would be the first to acknowledge his debt to Colin's watchful eye in the all-important early years. His present languid 'laid back' style probably owes much to Colin's relaxed, though never casual, approach to cricket. King's and England both have good cause to be grateful! 104

Colin always brought the best out in his teams because he never said too much so the boys always listened; he was always sympathetic to those who failed and had a chee~ful word to them, his opinions were always respected and .once he had mad'e his point he left the boy to thmk over what he had saId and thus see for hImself the soundness of the advice offered. We hope that ,:,e will still see him from time to time on the touch line in the autumn, or in a pavilion deckchalr m the summer, and we Wish him and Joan the long and happy retirement they both so richly deserve. R.P.B.

MR. ARTHUR GORE -

FIFTY YEARS AT KING'S

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How did you come to King's? My father apprenticed me to horticulture but I knew that was not for me so I applied for a job here myself. ' 2.

What were your first duties here? There were only two Houses - School House and The Grange . First I was a house porter in School House, which involved all kinds of household chores: I even had to clean the shoes. I then. moved frorr:' there and did all sorts of jobs in the school, such as filling ink wells, and bOilerIng (the heatmg then worked on solid fuel). I then worked as school porter in the office of No. 25 for thirty-four years, with Harry Curtis, the school steward . We had no Clerk of Worbin those da.ys, and all purchases and requests for repairs were dealt with from our office. Dr. Shirley was still obtammg extra Houses for the School and increasing the number of pupils at Kmg's, and economy was of very great Importance. One special memory I have is the visit of the King and Queen,. when they came to give the school the Royal Charter. We served tea to them m the school library. It was all rather exciting because with a man of Dr. Shirley's character y.ou n~ver knew what you were going to be asked to do. He telegraphed me when I was on holiday In Scotland to tell me to report to a garage in Cambridge and stay there so that I could learn to drive and learn about cars. Driving him was another of my jobs. If he'd had a bad Governors' meeting with the then Dean Hewlett Johnson he'd tell me all about it on the way home. I listened and kept quiet. Dr. Shirley once said to me that he was a humble man and I thmk he was when he was relaxed. I held him in the greatest esteem. 3.

What did you do during the war years? I was involved in the school's evacuation to Cornwall - we had to load everything into a whole goods tram and I helped to make up the Inventories. I had volunteered for the R.A.F. before the school left for Cornwall. For nearly all my war service I was in transport in the Middle East and although It was good to come back here, It was also strange as I was used to not knowing where I would be from day to day. Directly after the war it was my job to keep a record of fuel used,. and to deal with the clothing coupons. We had to match the coupons up very accurately to the weight of clothIng sold; for example, each wing collar was worth two or three coupons, out of about fifty coupons received a year. Food was of course also rationed. 4.

How has the appearance of the school changed? There are. obviously the new buildin!ls .of Mitchinson's and Luxmoore, and before the Shirley Hall was bUilt there. w~re tenms courts In Its place, but apart from that the buildings have changed a lot more on the. I?slde than the outside. Befo;e the war the Headmaster originally lived in what IS now GalpIn s. He lived In some style, With the boys' dining hall on the first floor and the maids' rooms along the top corridor. The school butler used to welcome parents at the front 105

door o f Galpin's a nd we were all on our toes when they came. T he dining hall as we know it today was the brainchild of Harry Curtis - it was a series o f offices until it was completly gutted to create the new di ning hall.

How has the dining hall changed while you have been here?

Originally the dining hall was a house, a nd then Mr. Curtis had the idea of conve rting it, and creating the undercroft with it. Top table was in the area where the servery now is and on it were silverware a nd napkins with the school crest on them . T he Headmaster sat in the middle with a few mas ters a nd the school monitors on either side, a nd the school was placed in houses around the hall. The Captain o f the School said grace in Latin and then the waiters in white jackets a nd shirts, black ties a nd navy trousers filed in a nd put the food at the head of each table. It was my job to walk around a nd make sure each table had the right amount. T he school was often involved in important occasions taking place in the Cathedral, at which times the di ning hall was made to look very special wi th its trophies , cut-glass, silver a nd chi na with the school crest on it.

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Conditions were fairly sparta n. T hey slept in unheated dormi tories and each had a cubicle with a curtain, washstand , basin a nd jug with cold water. It was one of my jobs to make sure these jugs were filled. T here were about a dozen dormito ry maids who lived on the top fl oor of Galpin's : they wore overalls in the morning and cha nged to black frocks and white a pro ns in the afternoons. I used to enjoy the fire drill when everyone, including the maids, had to abseil down the side of the house on the Davis fire escape - a thing which we nt round your waist.

Were you involved in the starting of the J.C.R.?

Yes - I was as ked by Canon Newell to help get it going. I went to see the clerk of the licensing magistrates a nd spent a n a fternoon going through it with him. I think the J .C .R. is a good thing. It's nice to see young people enjoying a pint legally with masters, rather tha n trying to avoid them in a pub .

How did your school days differ from those of pupils here?

A great deal. I went to an elementary school. After a few days here I realised the opportuni ties tha t the boys had in their educa tion here were enormous compared to mine. H owever, I don ' t resent this. Everyone now is so much better o ff than when I was younger. In my youth you never lived beyond your means or owed a nybody a nything, but now hi re purchase a nd credit cards are a way of life.

Have you noticed a change in the attitude of young people while you have been here?

Yes , I would say , with respect, that young people today are not blessed with the manners they had thirty or forty years ago; fo r example all the boys used to raise their hats to anyone connected with the school. I think the cha nge came in the sixties. But we are living in a diffe rent age now.

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Do you think the King's uniform is a good idea?

Yes , very much so, and it helps with discipline, even though inevitably some of the pupils try to bend the rules a little. To new parents the uniform list can look ra ther for midable, fo r example some think that nine wing collars is an unnecessarily la rge a moun t, although in fact it's not unreasona ble. They are rather ha rd for the shop to come by, but as we sell two thousand a year (they - and the white shi rts that go with them - are also popular with people outside the school), it's a good order for a ny fi rm . Canon Newell wa nted to economise on uniform and I suggested the introduction of a shirt with a soft collar attached , as wing colla rs were at tha t time d iffi cul t to obtain. That would have been an economy, but the image of King's would have been lost. As fa r as girls' uni fo rm is concerned , when the girls started coming in nu mbers Canon Newell as ked me to get samples of blazers and skirts so as to develop a uni for m for the girls. T he scheme never really got o ff the gro und. 106 (Jol/a/hon Marshall)

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Boys aren't as smart as they used to be, perhaps because they're trying to look like pop stars. I remember Dr. Shirley standing outside No. 25 after prayers and just pointing to any boy with dirty shoes. That boy didn't come back with dirty shoes the following day.

11. What will you miss most? I shall miss being with young people, the staff and meeting new parents. I'll miss the routine, but I shall enjoy being able to do what I want when I want. I enjoy Do-It-Yourself, gardening and landscape drawing and painting, and I hope to do some travelling.

IN MEMORIAM CALVIN HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman who died aged 80 at his home at Sarasota, Florida, on 4th February, had been a regular visitor to King's since 1976. Some twenty years earlier The Cantuarian had briefly noticed his book The Man Who Was Shakespeare, in which it was argued that the plays commonly ascribed to Shakespeare could not have been written by that ill-educated and ignobly commercial man. They were the work of our own Christopher Marlowe, poet, scholar, free spirit, blasphemer and homosexual friend of Sir Thomas Walsingham of Scadbury Park, near Chislehurst. Whatever may be thought of the literary arguments marshalled for this thesis, the book is a first-class thriller - something acknowledged by the original American title, The Murder OJ The Man Who Was Shakespeare, which Calvin loathed - and it was therefore a little strange that when Calvin wrote asking if he and his wife Rose might visit Canterbury 'to discuss a long-meditated project' only the very faintest of bells rang. Nevertheless hospitality, curiosity and assonance with the chink of dollars all suggested the same thing: and a warm invitation was issued. The long-meditated project was clear as to its objective: it was to ensure that the Marlowe gospel should continue to be preached after the Hoffmans' death. What was not yet clear, and had remained unclear to the American universities and to Marlowe's Cambridge college, Corpus, which had already been approached, was why a place of learning should lend its name and allot resources to an activity on (and to some minds beyond) the edge of scholarliness. It was eminently a situation for the worldly realist Shakespeare, not the hothead Marlowe. How this incongruence of interests was reconciled over the next nine or more years, with their

nine or more visits and ninety - or nine hundred - letters, to issue in honourable harmony, is a tale not discreditable to the human condition . Calvin came to understand and accept our reservations and scruples, and we his dedication and single-mindedness. Our mutual usefulness was obvious - there was no need for any coarseness of definition - but as time went on a mutual affection began to overlay it. Calvin's vulnerability (he never really got over Rose's unexpected death in 1979) was a factor in this. So was the spectacle, to the laid-back or just lazy English, of his pneumatic-hammer persistence. We enjoyed the notion that the BBC not only televised but actually paid for his second prowl among the Walsingham tombs at Chislehurst. Nothing was found, yet not so convincingly but that another dip into them was not totally ruled out - Calvin was not an old media-man for nothing. We liked it when despite his total ignorance of Italian he followed a clue to Padua. There he discovered the record of the burial of one Merlo or Merlin (known spellings of Marlowe), at a date hinted at by the clue and consistent with his theory. This was a thrill indeed, till a newshound's scepticism revealed, via the Paduan telephone directory, how common this name is in Padua. But again, a faint significance remained attached to the circumstance: re-activation at some future propitious date was conceivable. 107 (Jonathall Marshall alld Anthony Wallenboclt)

His last visit to King's was in the autumn ?f 1985. He was beginni,:g to. 10,ok and fed his age but he was anxious to go over the iJrovisIOns of the s~heme In which his long-meditated project' had over the years been embodied. Th~ p~eumatIc-hammer pounded. every clause of the Trust from whose income, after his death, KIng s would fInance a world-wide annual essay prize and a number of its own scholarships . They held up, and he was a reassured guest at a luncheon given on the eve of his 80th birthday and of his last flight home to Sarasota. And he said that he was perhaps really leaving home in leaving Canterbury.

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BOOK REVIEW GENUINE FAKE, A BIOGRAPHY OF ALAN WATTS MONICA FURLONG (Heinemann, ÂŁ12.95) Alan Walts, who was at King's from 1928 to 1933, was born in Chislehurst in 19 15. The only child of elderly parents, he was recognised from child hood as exceptionally ab le. At the age of 19 he published his first book, The Spirit 0/ Zen, and from then until the end of his life there fo llowed a steady stream of books, lucid and readable expositions of subjects often thought to be difficult and obscure: the mystical element in religion, the place of spirituality in a largely secula rised soc iety and the relat ionship between the different religious traditions of humankind. Watts was a man ahead of hi s time. He became a Buddhist d uri ng his years at King's, a much more surprising and courageous thing to do then than it wo uld be now. During the fo rties he became for a time a priest of the Episcopal Church in the Un ited States, tho ugh it is not easy to assess the exact nature of his return to C hrist ian ity. He reac hed the height of his fame during the sixties, when he was living in San Francisco, and recog nised as one of the leaders of the hippy moment of that decade. To those who lived through that period th is book will bring back memories of a moment in history which already seems very far away . He was evidently a man of enormous energy, with a great delight in life which he was able to communicate to others. Inev itably one compares this book with Monica Furlong's earlier and more substantial life of Thomas Merton, the Cistercian monk from the Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky. There are, at least at first sight, striking similarities between the two men . Both grew up in Europe; both lived most of their life in the United States; both became widely known as writers on religious topics; both had a particular interest in the relationship between Christianity and the religions of the East. But at that point the similarities come to an end. Merton's life, whatever judgement one makes of it, had a remarkable integrity to it. He stuck at the task of being a monk, and in the end found fu lfilment in it. Watts was much less consistent. His life involved a series of moves, which in the end seem li ke evasions, and which led towards a kind of disintegration. By the last decade of his life, when he was based in San Francisco - he had arrived there via New York and Chicago - Watts was into his third marriage and faced a serious problem over alcohol. Being a renowned guru he seems to have fou nd it impossible to accept help even fro m a professional psychiatrist, let alone fro m a more prosaic body such as Alcoholics Anonymous. T here is a sad ness abo ut the last chapters of this book. Film taken of him in 1969 shows him look in g seedy, ill and older than his 54 years; fr iends were concerned about his obvious fatigue and about hi s heavy drinki ng. It is difficult to escape the impression that Watts was a man CflUght up in movements of ideas much larger than himself. He was part of the open ing of the west to the culture and religions of the east. H is deeply religious nature could never find a permanent restin g place. Moving between traditions, he was never fu lly initiated into any of them, and never fully committed either. And yet this life in its brokenness speaks clearly of the baffled religious quest of our time, the search for a new experience and understanding of the mystery which unde rlies our uni verse. A. M. ALLCH IN.

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A year off. No, I don't want to do Camp America, work in Europe or a secretarial course. Chalet-girl? No way. For once in my life I do know what I want to do: work in the third world - preferably with children. I ended up at Holy Cross in Transkei. ('Where?' 'A homeland'. Blank faces. 'Of South Africa.' 'Oh.') This was under the auspices of Project Trust, an organisation whose work and aims I admire enormously. Fourteen of us were dragged up to Scotland, to a remote island (120 people and 2000 sheep) for a 'selection course'. Most of us showed we had the 'flexibility, initiative and sensitivity' (!) required to go abroad and I arrived in South Africa in January 1985. Johannesburg was in mid summer and as I lugged my bags along the entire train looking for the 'Nie Blankes' ('Whites Only') carriage, I began to wish Pretoria had made more progress towards abandoning apartheid . Five days later I reached Holy Cross. Admittedly I did take a roundabout route, and the bus broke down, and it was the rainy season so we had to stop frequently while other accidents were cleared off the road. It was an interesting journey, meeting White South Africans on the trains, being the only white person on the buses, and careering round the dirt tracks of Transkei: both the drivers and the roads leave a lot to be desired. Transkei is in the south-east of South Africa and the Pondo and Xhosa tribes live there. The language is Xhosa - a series of clicks and normal pronunciation combined - although officially people use English. It is a very hilly country, densely populated and very different from most of South Africa where you can travel for miles without seeing anyone. The people live in rondavels - huts made of mud bricks which are whitewashed and thatched. A family usually has about five of these, with a small area of land - this is their 'kraal'. Groups of kraals form 'locations' - our villages. There is no running water or electricity outside the towns and the roads are lethal. Men rarely find work in Transkei, many are migrant labourers in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa. They used only to be allowed to return home once a year to see their fami lies - at Christmas (hence the 'baby boom' in September!) However, this is improving somewhat. Each town has its mines for which the recruiting agency is 'Kwa Teba'. The most prestigious jobs for women include nursing, teaching and clerical work. Families tend to be large, and extend to include aunts, cousins, grandmothers . .. The staple food is 'mealies' (corn), which is grown on each plot of land and can be ground up into 'mealie-meal' which makes a porridge-like substance. Pumpkins, carrots and cabbage are also commonly grown. The cooking is on an open fire, in a three legged pot. ('If you're wh ite, it's a 'missionary pot'; if you're black it's a 'kaffir pot', one (white) South African told me.) Wood is a scarce commodity whic h the women cut down and carry in large bundles on their heads back to their homes. Buses go everywhere though erratically - and paying-as-you-hitch is a common way to travel. Religion is strong, ranging from Christians to Donkeys. Holy Cross was originally built as a mission hospital in the I920s. The wards are built of mudbrick and all in a poor state of repair: the doctors' houses and church however are clay-bricks and far more 'glamorous'. -It is now run by the Transkei government. Most doctors in Transkei are foreigners: Ugandans, Indians, Europeans, Australians. Holy Cross is described as 'the last bastion of the British Empire' by the T.B. consultant for the country, himself an expatriate. Basically that means that English doctors on one year contracts get jobs there: hence a rapid turn over of doctors which is not as beneficial to the community as more long-term doctors could be. 110

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I also managed to see a lot of Transkei and Southern Africa during the ~ight months. I ~itched around the country with friends and also walked locally and further afIeld. I met all kI';'ds of people, ranging from the ones who were stupefied that I was worklpg m a black hospItal to those who didn't seem in the least impressed or surprIsed. The hospItalIty was fantaslIc - meals, lifts out of the driver's way, invitations to homes and so on. It was an incredible year: I felt that I was taking so much from the community, in terms of knowledge, friendship and experience, ~nd giving ver~ little in return. Of co,!rse I got fed up at times, very fed up in fact, but that IS hardly surprIsmg. In retrospect I WIsh I could have learnt and done more. But I suppose that's inevitable. FRANCESCA WATTS .

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL This term saw the setting up of a student group affiliated to Amnesty International. Meetings included an introductory talk by Mr. Lopez-Real, the Hon. Sec. of the Canterbury branch of Amnesty International, a visit by several of us to the UnIVersIty to hear a talk by an ex-prIsoner of conscience, and writing letters on behalf of prIsoners of conscIence (as part of the natIOnwide letter-writing campaign) . The collection taken at the King's Youth Drama production of All My Sons enabled us to make a gift of ÂŁ100 to Amnesty International and we would like to thank the producer, the players and the audience for their generous contributions. We would also like to thank Mr. Rooke and Mr. Woodley for their help. Next term we hope to continue our activities as an Affiliated Group , and to build on this term's very encouraging start.

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INTER-SCHOOLS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE COMPETITION On 6th February the cream of the King's School intelligensia in the form of Paul Mortlock Paola Wilson, Nicholas Tothill and Peter Davies, took part in the opening rounds of the South: East Inter-Schools Academic Challenge competition being held at St. Augustine's. That afternoon the King's School team beat Ashford Girl's School and St. Lawrence by comfortable margins to reach the semlfmal~. Thus a ,,:,onth later a. re-arranged team (Mortlock, James Dunning, Edward Hogarth, DaVIes) found Itself competmg against Tonbridge School at St. Edmund's (special thanks to Mr. D. J. Reid who at very short notice drove us up there) in the semifinals which we won. In the final, however, we met Our match in Maidstone Grammar School, who, after a tense half-hour match, beat us by some 200 points. All that remains is for me, on behalf of all the team members, to thank Mr. P. W. Durgan for making the whole thing possible. PAUL MORTLOCK.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD Walkin~ fifty miles in fiv~ days through mountainous country carrying all your camping gear and food IS no easy task. It IS, however, part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme which twenty-two sixth formers have commenced this term. ' The scheme was started in 1956 by the Duke of Edinburgh under the influence of Kurt Hahn the founder of Gordonstoun and initiator of the Outward Bound Courses. The Award Schem~ is not ayo~th organisation, but 'is designed ~ an introduction to leisure time activities, a challenge to the mdlvldual to personal achIevement (H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh). You can enter the scheme at three dIfferent levels: Bronze for those over fourteen' Silver for those over fifteen' and Gold for those over sixteen. The school at present only has people heading for Gold. T~ achIeve the award they WIll have to reach specified requirements in five different sections . I. Service - they have to give at least sixty hours over a year in the service of others. This can range from visiting patients in Canterbury Hospital to going on a seven day police course. 2. Skill - one or two skills have to be developed over an eighteen month period. These skills can range from pottery to ballroom dancing. 3. Physical recreation - a specified standard has to be reached in a sport which could include the normal school sports or such exotic ones as skiing or parachuting. 4: Expedition - in. small groups, and unaccompanied by Masters, they will have to travel for fIve days through wIld country or carry out a specific exploration. 5. Residential project - to broaden their experience each individ ual has to undertake some shared activity with others who are not their everyday companions. 'It is something to write down on the U.C.C.A. form.' I fear that this is the reason why some have entered the scheme. I am sure it will be useful for the U.C.C.A . form but that should not be the prime reason for joining. The idea underlying the Award is to encourage each individual to Improve o~ the st.andard he or she has already reached . Therefore those trying to obtain quick results by domg skIlls that they are already good at, or by backdating service already done will not gain much success. In their academic and sporting life at King's pupils are pushed by masters, tutors and housemasters to achIeve results. Those doing the Award will receive little pushing. One of the aims of the Award is to encourage a person's initiative determination and self-discipline. '

I wonder how many of the original twenty-two will still be doing the scheme next year? They have un III the age of twenty-fIve to complete It and then receive their award from the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace. I hope to have progress reports written by those doing the scheme in future issues of The Canluarian. M.R.G.P. 113

SRI LANKA CRICKET TOUR 1986-87

At the end of the year the School Cricket XI will be going on a three-week tour of S~i La n~ a. Matches will be played against several schools in the Colombo, Kandy and Galle areas, mcludmg St. Thomas' College, Mt. Lavinia, whom we will be playing this Summer on Birley's. Some of the matches will be played on the Test ground~ in the three centres, and we have been warned to expect talented opposition in all the fixtures. WIth a very strong team thIs year we look forward to some excellent cricket. As always on these occasions fund-rais.ing is a necessity, and the Tour Co~mittee has a~ranged a number of ventures which we hope wIll prove enjoyable as well as profItable. These mclude a Grand Raffle, a Steak Barbecue Supper, a Souvenir Magazine, a Gentlemen's Sporting Dinner, and a Barn Dance at Junior King's. The Grand Raffle has some splendid prizes including Audio-visual equipment and a Winter Weekend Break with a trip to France. Tickets are on sale now from the School or through Sue Trigger on 0227-60947 or at 63 Burgate, Canterbury. The Souvenir Magazine, printed on high-quality paper and with many articles on Cricket, Sri Lanka and the School, will be available shortly, and copIes can be obtamed at £2 .00 each from the School or Sue Trigger. The Steak Barbecue Supper will be at Birley's on Friday 11th July, the first day of the O.K.S. match, at 6.00 p.m. If you plan to attend the Serenade that evening (8.15 p.m.) come along and have a good supper beforehand. Tickets are aVailable through Sue Tn gger at £5 .00 for adults and £3.00 for all King's pupils and children under 16 years. There WIll be a well-stocked bar. The Barn Dance and Gentlemen's Sporting Dinner will take place in the Autumn Term, and details will be published later. In addition to these activities the whole tour party and many of the younger cricketers in the School are currently being sponsored for runs, wickets and catches in school fixtures this term. All proceeds go to the tour fund. We all look forward to a highly successful tour which will extend international contact and support the School's reputation abroad . We will be grateful for any help you can gIve. P.A.E.D.

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BUILDING BRIDGES The gargantuan achievements of modern science were shown to be mere imaginations earlier this term when the group of yo ung ladies and gentlemen studyi ng physical science in school labo~atory number two embarked on a progr~mme of bridge building which drew upon their consIderable resources of mgenUlty and provIded entertainment for a week. The enormity. of the task was realised when H .. E. J. Aldridge Esq., published the stringent bUlldmg r~gulatlOns. He reqUired bndges to be bUIlt from balsa wood, not exceeding thirty-five grammes m mass, to traverse a space of two hundred and thirty millimetres. Quantities of balsa and premIUm grade balsa cement were provided, along with lengths of black flax for those who considered a suspension structure. The task was contemplated with some trepidation by the aforementioned gentlepersons, but extensive blue prints were soon drawn up for these monumental

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Benjamin Lynch Esq., was certainly the most ambitious, undertaking a structure which required great ma~ual dexteri ty a nd had a distinctive lattice work which made it particularly decorative . Patn~k LIdstone Esq., undertook the construction of a suspension bridge, but was soon entangled m twme. MISS Blythe Levett was, unf? rtunately, conspicuous by her a bsence, and her partner, Mark Adamson (Fencer Extraordmau'e) Esq. , was left with an exceedingly simple structure, conSlStmg of a board glued to ~wo blocks of wood, which he pondered upon at great length, and eventually concluded, to hiS own advantage, that he should do nothing. David Botha Esq ., and Jonathan Marshall Esq., assembled a most attractive piece, which was veneered for added strength. They were so satisfied with their achievement that they christened it 'BotMarsh'. After many hours of arduous labour a nd deliberation, the day of the final test dawned . Each bridge was to be subj ected to the rigorous trial of performance under tension whilst spanning the test aperture. T he tension was provided by loading a stout cross member with great weight. The first to be tested was that of the aforementioned Mr. Lidstone. His fine piece of engineering unfortu~ately showed signs of strain at half of one kilo~ram loading, and totally collapsed on . apphcatlon of a further half of one kilogram, due to hIgh winds. The event was heralded as only a minor setback for the progress of science. The award for the finest bridge must without doub t go to Messrs. Michael Miller and Michael Kn ight, whose elegant and straightforward Warren Girder contruction held thirty-nine kilograms before breaking; truly an amazing accomplishment for modern science when it is borne in mind that the bridge weighed a mere twenty-four grammes. The remaining bridges, for the most part, performed creditably. Mr. Robert Webb's bridge collapsed under modest loading, whilst Miss Levett's simplistic design held considerable weight and the famous 'BotMarsh' bridge suffered slight surface cracking of the fine veneer finish: In summary, this detailed investigation into the tensile properties of light materials under compression and tension considerably enlightened the gentlepersons concerned, and the performance of such structures even astou nded some of the most learned physicists. ROBERT WEBB AND PATRICK LIDSTONE .

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CJhe Cantuariall qnterview~ MICHAEL J. GORDON (GR 1940-46) Managing Director of The Channel Tunnel Group 1.

How did you get involved with the C.T.G.? I'm a chairman of a company called Taylor Woodrow, and it is one of the fifteen companies in the Channel Tunnel Group. I was chosen to be chief executive of the group while we obtained government approval. I have had the job for a year now.

What does the Group consist of? It is formed from five construction firms and two banks in Britain, with five construction firms and three banks in France. So far we have spent twenty-four million pounds, and expect to have spent twenty-six million by the time the concession is signed.

Why does Britain need a tunnel? About 60"70 of Britain's trade is with Europe and the volume of this trade will double by 2000. The only connection we have with Europe at the moment is by ferry and air. Our access to Europe must be improved if we are to move forward. Now we have the finance necessary, we must build it. 4.

What jobs will the scheme create? There will be 5000 construction jobs. and 4500 working at the terminals when the tunnel is operating. Many jobs will be created as a res ult of the 700 million pounds worth of orders for equipment. The main increase will be due to the lower freight cost to Europe, which should result in more exports. 5.

Theferries have said 30,000 jobs will go when you start operating. What do you say to this? Many of those jobs are not exclusively ferry related. Jobs such as customs and excise will still be needed for the tunnel. I also do not think the ferries will go out of business, but they will restructure themselves. We can coexist with them, but whether they go bust is up to them. 6. The Kent County Council has condemned your plan, as the Pas de Calais will profit immensely by becoming the 'crossroads of Europe' while East Kent will merely be a right of way. We have been asked to construct the most efficient link between Britain and France, which is what we will do. This will result in tremendous growth potential at both ends of the tunnel. The Pas de Calais is an ecological and economic disaster area, which can only improve. East Kent, however, is the 'Garden of England' and many people want no change. I think it is up to the people of Kent whether they decide to develop the potential and compete wit h France, with the resulting jobs, or stay as they are. They must decide what their priorities are. Do you approve of the way a local inquiry has been bypassed? A local inquiry , if Sizewell is any guide, would take about six or seven years. This would kill the project, as the money might no longer be there, or the agreement between Britain and France that it should be built. The plans will go before the House of Commons to be debated and discussed. I think in a way that will be more democratic than a local inquiry. 7.

Why have you chosen a rail tunnel rather than a road tunnel? 70"70 of people in a poll said they would prefer to drive, but then 70"70 of people would want beer: it's not on. We looked carefully at a ll possibilities and a 31 mile road tunnel is, at the 11 8

moment, technologically imllossible to ~entilate. The tunnel would have to be larger (12 metres compared to 7.4 metres) which wo.uld mcrease the cost and time taken, with risks of overuns 10 budget and time. What we have IS a system that is as fast as driving, safer, and less stressful.

9. You are a private co"!pany, dedicated to making maximum profit for your shareholders. Surely then the contracts WIll go to the most competitive bidder, not just Britain and France? We will be controlled as to. the amount .of profit we make by the Governments. All the eqUipment fOi the tunnel IS available 10 Bntam and France, and as they are closest to the tunnel, all the contracts should go to them, proVided they are competitive . 10. What of the increased danger of drugs and rabies smuggling? The smuggling is not Our problem, but that of the customs people. We will have traps to prevent animals straymg through. 11. Will it be possible to buy Duty Free in the tunnel? At the moment no, but we say that either everyone should be ab le to sell duty free across the Chann",l, or no one. Frankly, duty free IS a dangerous nonsense and it would probably be better to give everyone two pounds than let them have a bottle of spirits on a ferry.

12. Do you have anything else to say to 'The Cantuarian '? I am disappoi~ted with the large amount of ','egati:--e cO.mment in the country about the tunnel. ThiS IS a fantastic de~elopment, the largest CIVil engmeenng project this century, and we should be proud of It. It Will cut cros~-Channel fares by 30 or 40 per cent, and move us forward. I have .spent thirty years In .Amenca and have seen the effect of a positive attitude to life. I hope we Will become more positive .. ThiS country became great because of people risking their lives or money, as we are, and domg something. Only this will move us forward. '

MRS. CHARLES SCOTT-KNIGHT Chairman, Canterbury City Council Economic Policies Sub-Committee I.

What do you think of the City Council's present tourist policy? I think it's quite right. The City Council had no tour ist policy until about two years ago, with

the result that It was a ll totally uncoordinated. People have come to Canterbury for hundreds of years, but In the last five years the numbers have increased enormously. The policy we have now IS to try to spread them throughout Canterbury, not ohly throughout the town itself but also to send them off to the country and the coast as well, and to encourage more long-staying vISitors. But ~t IS gomg to take qUIte some time for the policy to become really effective, because wh~n a city hke Canterbury has had no tounst pohcy for so long it takes a while for it to be refmed. '

2. Are most oj Callierbury's tourists day visitors or more long-term? . We did a survey in the summer and I think that the day visitors are decreasing and the staying vIsitors are mcreasmg, but certainly for a long time a lot of them have been either from London or the Continent. I don't want to discourage visitors (I hate the word 'tourist') but what we have been havmg are not only people coming do.wn for the day - or even part of the day, which IS worse - but people who come here with no Idea what there is to see: they are just decanted out of a coach for a few hours, and because they don't know what 'Canterbury' is they look at the Cathedral (and If they don't know the background to it it may mean little to them) and then go off to the shops, thereby missing the Canterbury we all know. 3. What are the main attractions oj Canterbury other than the Cathedral? . For the visit?rs who know Canterbury there's an increasing amount; probably the real attraction IS Just wandenng around the city absorbing its flavours. But I think it is probably one of our 119

biggest lacks that we haven't got any really big alternative attractions (as York has) because our museum service is so woefully behind the times and this is one of the reasons why a grou p of us in the Canterbury Archaeological Trust want to develop St. Margaret's Church into a P ilgrimage Interpretation Centre rather along the lines of the Viking Interpretation Centre in York. That will be a really major attraction; but there are a lot of things in Canterbury if people know they're there.

Why is our museum service so 'woefully behind the times'? Because in general the City Council has until recently been very unimaginative about its museum policy, although it has started to change that, and this summer the Poor Priests' Hospital will be opened as a heritage museum . In fact we have spent the most enormous sum of money going on towards, I think , ÂŁ\4 million - on this Poor Priests' Hospital, which is - after the Cathedral - our finest medieval building. I also think the proposed railway museum is a splendid idea; we really should make more of Canterbury's very early paying passenger railway to Whitstable. 5.

What part have you played in promoting and developing Canterbury? As far as tourism is concerned I was the first and am the current chairman of the new Economic Policies Sub-Committee, which is a terrible bureaucratic mouthful. It is the first time we have ever had any committee in the City Council dealing with tourism, and I think I was instrumental in clamouring for its creation two and a half years ago. 6.

Why has a city such as Canterbury not had a 'tourism' committee until so recently? Tourism for Canterbury happened really by accident, and we had no coordinating body, which I've always thought extraordinary. One of the interesting things about this committee is that every other 'council cycle' we invite people in Canterbury'S tourist trade to an informal meeting - which means Chambers of Trade, the Archaeological Trust, the National Trust, the Hoteliers et al- which has meant much better relations between 'the industry,' so to speak, and the City Council. 7.

What do you think of the local attitude to tourists? There has always been a dichotomy between the natives and tourism, and this is one of the things which worries me. It's not so much resentment (though it comes over as that) as more a lack of understanding of the necessity of tourists to the local economy. I think it' s bad that locals should think tourists a bad thing, because, after all, we are all tourists when we go to other places. Furthermore, to all those who say how appallingly the French behave, how about how the English behave in Boulogne? I feel quite evangelical about this because I do think there needs to be much more debate about tourism in this city, and people need to realise that not only is it necessary for the city - it creates an enormous amount of jobs and generates a lot of economic vitality - but it's right anyhow, because we are never going to understand each other until we visit other countries. 8.

What do you think of the modern development in the centre of Canterbury? I think it's very much better than it was before it was pedestrianised, but I still think it is absolutely hideous. However, it was the kind of development which was done after the War (Canterbury was blitzed) and there is the same kind of architectural quality - or lack of quality - in places like Exeter. 9.

What are your views on the Pizza Parlour to be opened by the Christ Church Gate? Every building in planning terms has a planning use and the Cathedral Gate was a restaurant, a hotel and a take-away, so there is no change of use. The only other controls are those exercised by the landlords, in this case the Dean and Chapter. However, I believe that a pizza parlour there will be a disaster. On the other hand, Morelli's opposite has gone. I think the pizza parlour will be extremely short-lived. 120

!o.,hie fiWh at ,?vould you like to see happening in the development and promotion 0' Canterbury uture. 'J

I'd like to see even more conservation work - we've done a great deal already I'd 1'k t 1 see the development of the museum service - for example the Westgate Mus d' b. eSI 0 vIOU the Pilgrimage Interpretation Centre in St Margaret's Church Most of ,"lumI ,an ld, Â°1'k y, moves which wo Id k' "bl . a, wou 1 e to see Practical t he bUl'Id'mg 0 f more hoteUIs. rna e It pOS51 e for us to have more long-staying visitors - like

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lIouse fiotes School House has this term seen many changes. First of all we won a cup! Secondly there have been many structural changes in the House thanks to Mr. Ross's new ideas. Once again our vast musical talent (14 music scholars) has been in strong evidence with the House Concert, well organised by Crac Downes, providing a very pleasant evening's entertainment. With the same efficiency Crac also guided a rather rowdy rabble (i.e. against all odds) to 3rd place in the House Song. On the sporting scene we were well represented in both the junior and senior hockey teams and in the football sides. In the House Cross-Country Crispin Flower and Ben Wrench led us to an extraordinary 2nd place, while six knights in shining games clothes rescued the Hockey Cup from the clutches of Galpin 's and Broughton. Also on the sporting scene (?) congratulations to Dave Yule and his lads on winning the Junior Chess Cup. On a more cultural and academic note a special mention must go to Omar Madha for his brilliant production of All My Sons which provided him with a long-needed excuse for his lack of work, and to Charlie Sclater and Ben Wrench who were ruthlessly enlisted as Stage Manager and Prompter/General Slave respectively. Also on stage Jimbo Gumpert played superbly in the much noisier and surprisingly musical Invisible Sun Concert. The House also proved that we have a few brains in the shape of B. and J. Finn who came 1st and 2nd in the Olympiad Mathematics competition and we wish them all the best in the next round. Top Floor was kept amused by Jeremy Murch proving that he couldn't cut hair, Ollie 'Potato Head' Langton suffering the consequences. In 84, things have been far from quiet. During one of their weekly Jane Fonda Workout sessions they nearly destroyed the gym. Kate Hamilton is learning fast how to play the trumpet to the tune of Daisy, Daisy . .. Welcome to Neil Shah and Simon Cole who joined us this term and helped Zoo live up to its name. They will be joined by two more next term. Finally on behalf of all the House we would like to congratulate Mr. Henderson on his first half-century - fifty terms' loyal service to the House - and to thank Mr. and Mrs. Ross, all the tutors, Miss J. and those marvellous ladies of the linen room for all their care and attention which has ensured another splendid term. THE MONITORS.

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THE GRANGE

As usual, The Grange talent oozes from every pore in the old building's walls. Academically, The Grange provided ten of the forty-four Ox bridge acceptances (Simon Gerrish on condition he picks his French O-Ievel up from gutter standards), but - alas! - we were knocked out in the first round of the Academic Challenge. (Come back, Steve Taylor, all is forgiven!) . However, Pete 'Rambo' Gtitke surpassed all levels of expectation and finally passed Maths O-Ievel. Unfortunately John 'the Philosopher' Chum as didn't quite make it, but could now be taking extra lessons from Pete. On the sporting front, Nick Briggs captained the rugby sevens, Adrian Leach the Boats, whilst Grange members made up four of the victorious team who won the Kent Sevens (Nick, Mark, Jimmy and Jerry). In the meantime, Bobby and Tim played a bit of 1st XI football. The juniors once more showed muscle, winning the basketball final; Ginge 'Don't mess with me' Nightingale and Jule Morse to the fore. Oh, and Mark played Hockey. Culturally The Grange provided six members of the Choir (and yet just missed the wooden spoon at House Song), whilst Sam, Tim, Suki and 'Skids' received a standing ovation for their efforts in All My Sons. Our thanks again to Mr. and Mrs. Woodley for the affectionate control they exercise over us sinners, Miss Delafons and her newly acquired hamster, the linen ladies for their devotion, and the cleaning ladies for their eternal smiles. THE OLD GRANGE.

WALPOLE

Yes. House Notes. I've got it, I'll use a pseud quote that characterises the typical Walpolian perfectly: I teach the superman He is this lightning He is this madness! (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra) In the House Song competition Andy Bush and Clarissa Price got us to the Hall on time (if slightly out of tune), a difficult task that both managed magnificently. Congratulations to Lucinda Miller on becoming a Walpole Monitor as well .

Our condolences go to Marcus Cumber who suffered withdrawal symptoms during the occupation of the TV Room by the House Play. Cahoot's Macbeth, a sophisticated piece, was comical, with the visual panache and that directorial je ne sais quai that characterises Durgan and Wainde Productions, and of course Walpole: I should like to take this opportunity to tender our thanks to them for their willingness to spend so much time and energy on the play. Even James Oliver did not let an off-stage partnership interfere with his acting . One should not forget Philip Warner-Smith's cameo - a heartfelt, living performance if ever I saw one . Sarah (,Siouxie') Fahey lent fierce desperation to her part as 'Vera from the Dirty Spoon' - and congratulations must go to Veronica, Victoria and Clarissa for their brilliant satire on Diana Ross and the Supremes. Matthias and Kolapo found a niche as the House's most ardent fans of Dynasty/Colbys, Dallas, along with James Oliver, Simon ('Luke') Brook, Rat Vijayanathan, Charles Majomi, Olu Rotimi, oh, and surprise, surprise Marcus Cumber. Simon Rowsell sent a shiver of fear up every fag's shoelace. Levity aside, I'd like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Vye for their deft handling of any situation, 123 (l.S.H.)

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Miss Burr for keeping the house in good trim, and the tutors and the staff :-ho. keel? the house functioning. I'd also like to thank all those well-wishers who expressed therr mlsglvmgs before my 'eloquent misreading' of Mark Ch. 8 in the Shirley Hall. SAN JAY VlJAYANATHAN.

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Despite the appalling weather some sport was possible and we were well represented in hockey, football and cross-country. Hugh Girling, for the third season running, blocked the space between the posts for the 1st XI hockey and Bob Wallis was an invaluable member of the defence of this successful team. For the 2nd XI, Joe Wrench, Hugh Andree and Johnny Veitch have been prominent members of this unbeaten, prestigious band of players. In the Colts XI lain Girling was our representative whilst Ben Palmer, Chris Pope and Bob Wilson all played in the Junior Colts. Nick Wakefield (third time lucky) has been elevated to the important role of House Monitor and was the second top scorer in the 1st XI Football . Dave Knight . ' _ has done well in the cross-country team. In the Inter-House '. . . cross-country the seniors and juniors finished in creditably high .' positions . Unfortunately the attitude of most of the. inters who showed a lamentable lack of house spirit spoilt the good efforts of the others. It IS to be hoped they have got the message from those they let down so badly. We ended the term by winning the Inter-House hockey competition. On the music front, we gave another concert (the third in the last fo ur terms) in which the juniors gave some excellent performances displaying remarkable talent. The Band now has fifteen members and has gone from strength to strength. I was encouraged by the efforts of the entire house in the House Song when their rendering of The Lark in the Mern was placed a respectable sixth. In the Academic Challenge we gained the highest marks of all Houses in the Preli~inary round. Congratulation to Peter Davies, our youn&est sche lar, who has reached the last Sixteen e ut of 1,000 entrants in the B.B.C.'s 'Sports QUlzkld' programme on RadIO Two. It remains only for me to say thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Craik whese time and patience add to our success and also a special thank you to our cleanmg staff Without whom we would no t sur vive in the clean and healthy house we all respect. Having already good House unity and spirit we should be aiming for even better resul ts next term and for the future. JOE WRENCH .

MARLOWE

This term sees the end of an era in Marlowe's history. Gone soon will be the old furniture and stained carpets, to be replaced by brand new desks and chairs. With a lick of paint throughout, all this will bring the House well and truly into the 1980s . A major highlight of the term was the House cencert, which gave a pleasant and entertaining evening of music and dance. Memorable moments included Nicholas Jamieson's energetic trombone playing and Fergus Simpson and Elizabeth Michael's hilarious duet. All those involved , and especially Sara Bee and Eliza beth Michael, must be congratulated on their hard wo rk , which certainly paid off. Thanks, teo , to Mr. Rose for all his help and encouragement. Still on the music frent, Marlowe's interpretation of Time /0. Remember did not score particularly high with the 124

adjudicator of the House Song Competition, but Sara Bee, Andrew Webb and Adrian Norris must be thanked for their direction and accompaniment. Our Oxbridge results were very pleasing on the whole, with four out of six candidates winning places. Well done to Robert Patterson, Elizabeth Michael, James Dunning and Paul Mortlock. Marlowe has again had an active sporting term, hindered only by bad weather and illness. Robert Patterson gave his all (including part of one lip) for the 1st XI hockey team. Andrew Sherweod and Michael Peterburs both played regularly for the 2nd XI. Tim and Simon Turner once again played an im portant part in the 1st XI soccer team. T he intermediate cross-count ry team was well placed in the inter-House event, led by Richard Edmonds who ran splendidly in winning the race. A fu ll turn out was achieved in all age groups . Finally, many thanks to Joe, our indefatigable cleaner, to all the tutors and most of all to Mr. and Mrs. Reid fer all their hard work and encouragement. ANDREW SHERWOOD.

LUXMOORE

Luxmeore started the term with its usual flourish of activity, also welcoming Mike Camburn as a second school monitor. With the Inter-House Cross Country Luxmoore managed a third place with the seniors as well as with the overall result. Nick Henry (2), Simon Richards (6), and Anthony GillespieSmith (5) all contributed well . In the Junior Inter-House Basketball, Luxmoore got to the semifinals but lost to The Grange: and in the Chess competition it appears that the Senior team have reached the semifinals and are pointing towards the finals. The social scene in Luxmeore has certainly not been stagnant, except perhaps for the 6b who remain hopeful for September '86. However it seems that Dom Graham and Nick Rollason have both found 'warrens' to keep their rabbits in; is that not so Julia and Amanda? Lastly, but certainly not least, Mike Camburn has been keeping up with study 75 tradition and has 'S .A.Pped' some of the strength from Tradescanl. T his was the term of the House song competition, and Captain Stratten's Fancy proved to be the winner. It might be that the heartiness and spirit that Luxmoore put into the singing woke the adjudicator up. Towards the end of term Luxmoore presented the play The Happiest Days ef Yeur Life. Thanks to Mrs . Tennick (with Mr. Miles helping out in every way possible) rehearsals and such like ran smoothly. The play, with its ridiculous plot, turned out to be fu ll of laughs. Nevertheless the cast were apprehensive about what the final product wo uld be, but it was a matter of 'It will be all right on the night', and everything went as scheduled. Certain acters placed a great deal of conviction into their acting, such as when Mike Camburn (Billings) intended to thrash Ophelia James (Miss Gossage) with a cricket bat. Robbie Cooper (Rainbow) adeptly handled his cigarette and as for when Camilla Davies (Miss Whitchurch) had trouble with the 'gun' what can be said? .. Once again I would like to thank Mrs. Tennick for all the effort she put into the play and for giving everyone who took part such a happy time. Finally our thanks go to Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, Mrs. Beddoes and to the cleaning ladies for keeping the Heuse in shape this term . MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH.

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The introduction of soccer as a major sport this term has been given a mixed reception in Galpin's; Andrew Welbourn played for the I st XI and Dave Taylor played in the 2nds with the occasional appearance in the school team . Despite these efforts however the house results were not up to the standard set by the hockey players. We had two school team players in the house this term : Bill Murch captained the team and also lead the house XI and VI to the final and semifinal of their respective competitions, and Arthur Vigo won his 2nd colours and brought back the silver from the Junior Four-a-Side Tournament with the help of Simon Beaugi", Justin Topham and James Ralph. During the season Andrew Heddle was also presented with 2nd colours. James Ralph created basketball history by playing in the U .15, U .16 and 1st school teams in one term. The junior hou~e basketball team under Toby Williams and coached by Dave Taylor had a successful term m getting to the final but was knocked out by The Grange in a close match. All in all Galpin's has had a profitable and enjoyable term's sport, with many other people representing school teams in their various sports. The House Song In th e Mood was directed by Andrew Fordham and accompanied by Lucy Charrington. The whole house (bar rowers) sang m the competitIOn and came a respectable fourth. The house chess team, under Brett Arends' control, won the final against Luxmoore. Galpin' s had a good representatio~ in the King's Youth Drama production of All My Sons. This excellent performance was co-directed by Tom Gn~ves, who also took one of the mam parts. Chris White starred as Frank Lubey and Manus Kiely helped to construct the stage and also arranged the props. The performance in which Galpin's took a large part of the credit was the concert by Invisible Sun. The band was lead by Andrew Fordham, who also wrote most of the no~~cover son!ls.and played bass guitar Chris White took the lead vocals and the front of stage posllton. Chns hiPPY from Purley' Waiker played (or was it thrashed?) the lead guitar and also gave us a bur~t of his vocal abilities , much to Mr. Hooper' s enjoyment. The stage extenSIOn was. bUIlt nearly sm.gle handedly by Jools 'Cleaver' Godley although he did accept some help when his head was feehng tired. We would like to congratulate Lucinda Miller and Lucy Charrington on their resl?ective promotions to school and house monitor, and to thank Mr. and Mrs. Woodward f?r their help and encouragement throughout the term, and Mrs. Jones and the ladles for lookmg after us.

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Christmas festivities ended, we returned to a mixed bag of Oxbridge results (congratulations to Adam Barron, John Nicholls and Dave Watkins), and the delights of January weather. As snow barred victory on sporting fronts, we devoted our multiple talents to cultural ends; Plunder-fever gripped the House as soon as term began, and notwithstanding initial fears of producing a mere 'Traversty' '. we endured until t.he

performance, battling through, testmg r;hearsals, ,<Ied with almost religious fervour by the dl-rector), and takmg m our stride such minor obstacles as Widespread decimatIOn of the cast by ' flu a week before the performance! and a. rather inconsiderate visit by some heads of state, which depnved us of valuable rehearsal time. Sparks flew amidst blows and curses as the set-builders toiled long into the small hours, but 'it'll 126

be all right on the nighe was proved ~et again ; John Nicholls and Jeremy Avis excelled, Mike and Helen made a charmmg couple, whilst Lucy and Katie gave a fine display of feminine subtlety. We returned from a welcome half-term break to discover that we had exactly a week in which to rehearse for the House song competition, but Jeremy Avis managed nevertheless to produce a choir and Land of Hope and Glory, whilst not perhaps up to our usual standard, nevertheless came a satisfactor~ fourth in the competition. On a more sporting note, the Linacre trumpet could be heard at first softly, and then rather louder; those blessed with selection for the crosscountry didn 't mana~eto d~minate quite as much as we did last year - doubtless impeded by adverse weather condtllOns; m the hockey, however, we were more success fu l and with a team richer in enthusiasm than in talent, hacked our way convincingly to the final, where School House finally managed to get the better of us. At the time of going to print we are still fighting bravely and successfully m the football and hockey eleven-a-side competition, whilst the House academia kept its collective finger on the buzzer, having swept through the first round with an easy win against Tradescant. It only remains to thank the tireless. Mary and Glenda and the rest of the cleaning staff, for keepmg the House presentable; Mrs. Birley, scourge of the reluctant morning risers, and finally, of course, P.J .D.A. who kept the show by and large on the straight and narrow road throughout ' an interestingly varied term for all concerned. THE MON ITORS.

BROUGHTON

With the departure of the last 6u and in the absence of any public examinations, the House turned its attentions to a production of Twelfth Night in addition to its heavy sporting and social commitments. Mr. Peter Brodie, with rare skill and energy, managed to combine the rich acting talent in Broughton to produce yet another high-quality House Play. This included some unorthodox interpretations and was in spite of Andy Walker who thought that he was still on the rugby field and Orsino who had trouble with his voice. Earlier in the term, Mark 'Bonehead' Evans and Lucinda 'Ya' Roberts found time to star in a splendid production by the King's Youth Drama. Another cultural breakthrough was achieved when we reached the semi finals of the academic challenge by beating School House in a close contest, with our drama critic Jon Taylor rising .. . . . to the .o~casion. A wholehearted effort in the House Song Competition under the msplratlon of Phil Nature Boy' Lacamp saw us achieve a commendable 6th place . On. the sporting scene, fencing once again continues to be a growing part of Broughton's sportmg repertOIre, but gatmg seemed even more popular with the Removes. The successful 1st XI hockey team, w hen in action, was ably supported by P. P. Lacamp and Duncan Ives who deservedly won hiS first colours, and there was even a guest appearance by Dave 'is he or isn't he' Laurence. Such was the House's representation in school teams that when we made a space m one of our trophy cabmet~ we Imm~dlately added the House Football cup by putting our fIve 1st XI footballers mto actIOn alongSide the notable skills of John Scarlett Duncan and Eddie Mbu, who punctured three footba lls while taking the goal kicks. Earlier in the term we had come second to our neighbours in the Senior cross-country and had won the Middle and Junior Cups, all of which made us the overall winners by some way. Matt Durham captained the 1st XI soccer team, and Matt Fenn captained the senior cross-countr y team and did very well to run for Kent. Indeed it was this comm itment that inspired ' Jabber' Walker to run from Dover to Canterbury with his sui tcases full of duty-free on his way back from Holland. 127

, Amongst our budding socialites, Pete Ha~ilton seemed to b~ in hibernation for most of the term while 'Rambo' Walker spent hIS spare lime brushmg up hIS French. Our reSident Romeo Dave took a promotional retreat to Lattergate and was promptly followed by Blythe to keep him company and to escape from Jon Taylor's corny chat-up hnes. Edwma helped out wIth the assembly checks and managed to 'keep in the top social circles', whilst Eddie summoned enough energy to get out of bed to pester Miranda. Si~on Stuttaford did very well on the stock market using his shares discount from Burton's to wm the best-dres.sed man award but Matt Durham's Valentine Day investments in Interflora have yet to pay dlvldend~. We enjoyed the successful Darts match with School House and we look forward to returnmg theIr generous hospitality. Finally, we are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. Hutchinson, the other tutors and the domestic staff for the care and attentIOn that made thIS term a most successful and productive one. MARK RVELAND.

TRADESCANT

This term again saw sporting, academic and cultural achievements, and got off to a flying start with the news that Abib Bocresion had gained a place at Trinity College, Oxford . Our next success was in the inter-House cross-country match which was won individually by Simon Attwood and in which our senior team also came first. Tradescant lived up to its name as the top fencing House when Jon Rawlinson and Andy Wickerson came first and second in the Kent epee championships. David Verey and Dawit Teferra took us through to the semifinals of the House Badminton competition, losing to Walpole, the eventual winners. Congratulations to Ian Gardener and Abib Bocresion for their second colours for hockey, to Dawit for his place in the school under-I9 basketball team, and to Jeremy Nicholas and James Stearns for theIr places in the first VIII. Meanwhile Paddy Greenleaf and Emma Conyers performed very convincingly inAII My Sons, the King's Youth Drama production. Tim Weller, the Y0!lngest m.ember of InvISIble Sun, and its only St. Augustine's component, drummed WIth professlOnahsm m theIr concert. In the House Song competition we were placed a highly respectable second, whIch means that we have, been in the top three places for three years running. An. Impressed adj~d l cator descnbed our good sense of performance' and our 'confidence from fIrst note to last . WIth more muSic scholars than ever before, a total of nine, we put on a very credItable House c~ncert. It was greatly enj~y.ed by everyone as were the celebrations afterwards, especially by Juha who soon lost her ablhty to negotiate stairs ... Finally, a word of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Wetherilt and the. tutors for all their. work, and of course to Miss Brine who nursed the House through a medIcally very demandmg term. ALEXANDER STURT.

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MITCHINSON'S

For Mitchinson ' s House Spirit has been the name of the game for the past two terms. The frivolities of last term culminated in a very successful evening of House entertainment where the idea was to make as big a fool of yourself as was possible, Ian Brown achieving new heights with his punk impersonation! Everyone returned from Christmas still bubbling with festive spirit. The gallant Mitchinson's hockey and football teams braved all weathers, achieving an honourable second place in both of our first round matches. Credit must be given to this year's Shells who started with a bang by carrying off the Wenley Cup. There is much potential here for the future, especially as this term we have provided five of the U. 14 soccer side with two more in the Bs and with Barcelona rumoured to be interested in signing Mark Northeast. In House cross-country our Seniors attained a well earned fifth place but man of the match must go to Josh Lumley who came second in the intermediates. Enough of brawn, what of brains I hear you say? Our Academic Challenge team proved they were not just a bunch of pretty faces when they came second in the preliminary round and fended off stiff opposition from Marlowe in the second round (the infamous battle of the black gowns) and Broughton in the semifinal and at the time of writing threaten to win the competition for the third time in the four years of our existence. These House Notes would not be adequate without warm congratulations to our charismatic monitor and music scholar, Jeremy Cooper, who against all the odds pulled Mitchinson's up to a very impressive fourth place in the House Song Competition and, as if this were not enough, skilfully organised the House Concert which proved a tremendous success. Many thanks to all who took part, particularly the soloists and Bruce Nash, 'the caveman'. The next item on the agenda is a House play which it is hoped will be performed early next term. Good luck to Bruce, the Producer, who is setting the wheels in motion (and still gets his preps in on time?). Once again House enthusiasm promises to make it a success. Finally, it remains only to thank Pam and the domestic crew who kept the house clean against all the odds, Mr. and Mrs. Turner and the tutors for keeping Mitchinson's ticking over in such a productive way. DOMINIC VVE.

LATTERGATE

Since the majority of the house consisted of 'old hands', it did not take long for Lattergate to pitch into the swing of things and liven up what is usually considered a dull term. The freezing temperatures and snow did not stop the boys from making a marked impression upon school sport, with Tom Baker reaching the Kent under 15 Hockey side and Edward 'Spike' Jones-Thomas playing consistent and successful squash, even for the Under 16s, while the rest of the house manifested itself in the school hockey, football and rowing teams. The temperatures did, however, allow several snowball fights, which seemed very popular, though the monitors and housemaster did seem to end up a little worse for wear!

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more and more Lattergate boys seem to be developing their talents which made last term's concert such a success and will hopefully be beneficial to their senior houses. Inside the house there has been widespread activity, especially with the arrival of Hugh Milward whose bounce and energy almost equalled that of Dominic St. John Parker (almost!) and the transformation of Peter 'Bobb' Medawar who has left his computers and joined the 'Aha!' fan club. Alexander Skarbek enjoyed the increasingly frequent visits of an M.O. female, while 'Link' complained and called for more! Life in the monitors' study has been 'plentiful' with the arrival of David Laurence, Stephen Grimes and Blythe Levett, though sometimes privacy could only be found in the house library. I wis h good luck to Jerry Gordon as he returns to The Grange and to Dave, Blythe and Steve as they remain in Lattergate for another term. My final thanks go to the cleaning staff who have kept Lattergate looking miraculously tidy after the onslaught it has received from the boys (especIall~ upon chaIrS) and to Mrs. MaItland for coping with the continual moans, groans and tears wIth unbendmg dIlIgence and care. Most importantly I thank Mr. and Mrs. Tha.ne for their expert handlin~ of the hous~ and hope that Lattergate continues to progress as rapIdly as It has done under therr short but enjoyed government. THOMAS GRIEVES .

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REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA MARLOWE HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 8th FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The concert got off immediately to a good start with a well-balanced trumpet duet by Metzger, played by Rob in Scott and Damian Simpson. T his confident performa nce was followed by Handel's Art Thou Troubled? sung by Sara Bee. She featured quite prominently in the concert, as she also sang the Bach-Gounod A ve Maria with Andrew Webb, Benedictus by Haydn, and a group arrangement of Try /0 Remember by Harvey Schmidt with Tabitha Winnifrith and Lucy Hoare . All these songs were well rehearsed and confident, and the balance in the duet and trio was good. Tom Epps and Richard Pentin had the difficult task of following Sara's performance, but their adaptation of Carillon worked well , and Tom produced a clear tone and good dynamics, making this an excellent item. Robert Webb then played firstly a beautiful performance of Heller's Study in D and a contrasting second piece, Shostakovich's Prelude in E flat minor. He also adroitly compered the whole evening. A cheerful rendering of The Entertainer from the Jazz Group preceded a rather nervous Anthony Michael playing Dvorak's Humoresque on his double bass . With a little more confidence and a quicker tempo this would have been a very good performance. Andrew Webb and Richard Edmonds then played a Horn duet by Purcell which, although susceptible to odd tuning, was well received; and Richa rd Pentin continued with a nice interpretation of the music from The Incredible Hulk. Elizabeth Michael provided a surely unique feature fo r a concert at King's, a ballet solo . She improvised her own da nce to a n extract from the first movement of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony. Mozart's Sonata in B flat was well played by Adrian Norris, and after a Handel flute solo by Charles Gooderham the audience was treated to a not particularly musical but nevertheless entertaining account of We're a Couple of Swells su ng by Liz Michael and Fergus Simpson. The concert ended with a beautiful performance of Try to Remember to which added thanks are attributed to Lucy Hoare, Tabitha Winnifrith as well as Julia Rose who accompanied on the flute. I'm sure that everyone would like to thank Mr. Barry Rose for his help, and for accompanying so many items, and Sara Bee and Liz Michael for organizing a very interesting and varied concert. LUCINDA MILLER.

SCHOOL HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY, I61 h FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

This School House concert was remarkable fo r the fluency and natural musicia nship of many participants. T he well-organized programme ra nged from Dowla nd to Paul Patterson with forays into jazz standards and music hall numbers. 131

A Danzi bassoon and string trio movement opened the evening in mellifluous if rather careful fashion. Kristian Belliere then exchanged his 'cello for the Steinway and played the opening movement of the early A minor Schubert Sonata D537. This was a very interesting performance which emphasized the beauty of Schubert's harmonies and the sureness of his structural sense. Mr. Belliere has a keen ear for keyboard colour. The Rondo movement from Mozart's violin and viola Duo was played by two enterprising young ladies, and the madrigal group then presented three songs, with Crispin Flower's rich and softly-cushioning bass underpinning the vocal quartet skilfully. Hindemith's desire to write for nearly every possible chamber combination of instruments resulted in the players' choice of the third movement from his Quintet for violin, clarinet, trumpet, piano and double bass. Such adept and well-trained performers might have tried harder to combat the impression of sterility this music so often produces. Caractacus Downes conducted the salutary tale of Rebecca, the girl who slammed doors ... with much precision. It is a refreshingly unselfconscious music-theatre piece for about a dozen players, with music by Paul Patterson set to words (sometimes indistinctly heard in the Shirley Hall's bloomy acoustics) of Hilaire Belloc . After an interval we had some surprisingly gentle jazz performances, followed by Bizet's Toreador Song sung with much less aggravation than one usually hears. I would have liked to hear the School House choir sing more. Jonathan Finn and Caractacus Downes turned in some beautiful performances of bassoon and clarinet duos. What a pleasure it was to hear such refined and instinctive playing. From our wanderings around Elysium we were rocketed down to crusty Earth by Mr. Stewart Ross and his able accompanist Mr. Martin Miles with a pungent rendering of Flanders and Swann's Have some Madeira, M'dear! I hope and trust that this will not be Mr. Ross's vocal swansong, but it had to be mine for the evening owing to the peculiarities of British Rail's timetable and my need to be in London that night. I had to miss the School House Orchestra (of no less than twenty-nine players) in a Grand Finale of Holbourn, Praetorius and Mozart with their conductor Mr. McConnell. The high musical quality of so much in this concert and the promise of three Music Scholars entering School House in the coming year point to all manner of exciting musical events continuing to be generated in this House. I look forward to the privilege of attending another School House concert before too long. GEOFFREY SABA.

MEISTER OMERS HOUSE CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 191h FEBRUARY, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

Meister Omers, which regularly presents House Concerts, has clearly discovered a successful format for its programme, striking an effective balance between classical and light music. The concert began with two short pieces played by Nicola Nelson-Smith (flute) and Deborah Aldridge (oboe). They captured the contrasting mood between For the Union Dead by Darren Everhart (O.K.S.) and Bartok's more spritely Paprikajancsi (Mikrokosmos Book 5), playing with a vitality that more than compensated for slight problems with balance and intonation. Thomas Ford's Since first I saw your face was sung sensitively by Paul Solway, Julia Warrender, Joe Wrench and Peter Apps, although equality in tone between the four parts was sometimes lacking . A clarinet trio comprising Hugh Andree, James Thomson and Daniel Smith gave a suitably lively performance of Colin Evans' Clarinet Capers. It was followed by George Dyson's Elfin Market played with confident security and generally good intonation by Robert Wilson and Anthony Ogedegbe (violins). James Thomson gave an expressive performance of the second 132

movement of Krommer's, Clarinet Co~certo .. He played confidently, displaying a clear tone throughout the mstrument s range, despIte havmg to play at such short notice (the result of John Tegner's absence throu~h illness): Stanford's A Song of Freedom was very ably sung by Paul Solway, who used hIs wIde dynamIc range effecltvely. We then heard two piano solos in a similar vei.n: the theme from All Creatures. Great and Small, and Toussaint's Nostalgy, played by Julian Cndge and Mark MaJurey respecltvely. Both players showed good finger control especially in bringing out the melodies where necessary. ' Peter Apps's performance Of the first and fourth movements of Telemann's A minor Oboe Sonata was excellent, with great control over phrasing and dynamics in the first movement revealing a full-bodied ton~ with effective use of vibrato. The technically demanding fourth movement was dehvered WIth apparent ease, the articulation being almost immaculate. The audIence was captIvated by Joe Wrench's superb baritone in Linden Lea. He sang with great warmth and faultless breath control. This was followed up, in complete contrast with a humorous rendering of Lehrer's rather morbid but very funny I hold your hand in mine. .Hugh Andree, who als,? had to play ~t short notice, ~howed his prowess as a jazz musician WIth Petite Fleur, a tradItIOnal Jazz clannet pIece. I parltcularly liked the 'sliding' effect which came off well, and which made up for the slight intonation problems. Mr. C~aik's customary piano medley, this tim~ entitled A Sentimental Interlude, was brought off WIth ItS usual success. Fmally we heard two pIeces played by the Meister Omers House Band: a selection from '1y Fair Lady and The King and I, followed by Semper Dixieland (Sousa/Walters). ThIS was performed with M.O.'s usual enthusiasm, although the addition of a bass drum to the rather limited percussion section would have helped provide rhythmic security to the ensemble. However, the audience's obvious enjoyment became apparent when they asked for more at the end! Thanks go to Deborah Aldridge, Anthony Gillespie-Smith and Alastair Craik who are not in M.O., for ap[)earing, to Mr. Stephen Matthews and Mr. Barry Rose for their ac~ompaniment, and to Mr. WIlham McConnell for hIS advice and assistance. Congratulations to Meister Omers as a whole and especially Joe Wrench, who organised the concert for producing yet another

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ALEXANDER STURT.

CHAMBER CONCERT SUNDAY, 2nd MARCH, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE

This concert displayed much musical ability and technical precision, in what was, for many of the performers, a busy term, academically and in other areas of music. The concert had a strong French theme - Poulenc twice, Francaix, Faure and Milhaud. One wonders whether the predominance of French composers was in some way linked to the Channel Tunnel Treaty ' signed in the Chapter House only a few days before! The concert opened with the Final of the Sonata for Four Hands by Poulenc, composed in 1918, excellently performed by Tanera Dawkins and Elizabeth Robinson with a liberal and lively co-ordination, and a modern energetic interpretation. The second movement of Poulenc's Flute Sonata followed, from Lucinda Miller (flute) and Elizabeth Robinson (piano). The moving and warm flute tone seemed to complement the bare, stark Synagogue surroundings. Jonathan Finn (bassoon), Kate Hamilton (violin), Ben Rayment (viola) and Kristian Belliere (cello) - all in School House. - played the flfst movement of the Quartet in B flat by Danzi, with a high level of musIcIanshIp. Although the mtonatlon occasIOnally shpped, the dynamic range was expressive and well controlled. 133

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The ensuing cello. quartet (Tanera Dawkins, Ailsa Buchan, Kristian Belliere and ChristDpher White) perfDrmed a RDmance by GDltermann, with a SDnDrDUS, appealing and, to. qUDte Mr. SCDtt, 'civilized ambiance' . T he brief Divertimento. fDr three cellDS by Ticciati was enjDyable, apparently fau ltless and Dne Df the better perfDrmances Df the evening, pairing well with the RDmance. The rDSY Edwardian tDnes Df the cellDs were challenged by the free, hum DrDus and enterta ining interpretatiDn Df three Df the seven ImprDm ptus Df J ean Francaix by Alexander Stur! (flute) and JDnathan Fi nn (bassDen) . Quentin ThDmas, in his first yea r at King's, played Lyric Piece Op. 43 No.. 5 by Grieg with sensitivity and imaginatien. He will be an asset to. King's music. Kate HamiltDn and Elizabeth RDbinsDn (viDlins), ChristDpher Whiteley (viDla), Tanera Dawkins and Ailsa Buchan (celles) then played the famDus Minuet frDm BDccherini 's Quintet in E . Apart from Dne small blemish, BDccherini 's gift fDr pleasing string writing came acrDSS clearly. They then played a n arra ngement Df Elgar's Chanson de Malin with a tDne that typified the high standard these five players have reac hed . Sara Bee (sD pranD) then beautifully sang Pie Jesu (Faure) and Orpheus wilh his Lule (Sullivan), with first class intenatiDn , demDnstrating her pDwerful range. T he chDice Df Pie Jesu, hDwever, lacked Drigina lity, but this was mDre than cDmpensated fDr by the delightful singing. The CDncert clDsed with fDur mDvements frDm La Cheminee du Roi Rene by Milhaud, perfDrmed by A lexander Sturt, DebDrah Aldridge , Caractacus DDwnes, Martin Ie Huray and JDnathan Finn (wind qu intet). T he graceful playing cDmplemented the title Jongleurs . The ensemble was excellent, alt hDugh certain sectiDns seemed to. lack dynamic CDntrast. It is a pity the CD ncert was nDt sUPPDrted by mDre pupils frDm King's, bDth as musicians and audience . Perhaps next time, the synagDgue heating ceuld be turned up higher Dn such a cDld night. MARTIN E DWARDS.

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TUESDAY, 4th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

Caplain Simllon's Fancy Love Leads to Bailie The Toreador 's Song In the Mood Transports oj Delight Linden Lea Who's next?! The Lark in the Morn Land oj Hope and Glory Gel me 10 Ihe Church on Time IJ I only had a brain Try 10 Remember

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Peter WarlDck Luxmeere (Elizabeth Rebinsen) Buenencini Tradescant (Alexander Sturt) Bizet Scheel Heuse (Caractacus Dewnes) Ga rland Galpin 's (Andrew Ferdha m) Fla nders & Swann Mitchinsen's (Jeremy CeDper) Vaugha n Williams Breughten (Philippe Lacamp) Lehrer Lattergate (Them as Grieves) arr. Cecil Sha rp Meister Omers (Jenat han Wrench) Elga r Linacre (Jeremy Avis) Lerner & Leewe Walpele (Andrew Bush) Arlen & Harburg T he Gra nge (Tanera Dawkins) Tem Je nes Marlewe (Sara Bee) Hew is success e n this sert ef eccasiDn measured? One essential ingredient must be the extent to which the singing is enjeyed by the participants, and e n this greu nd the a fterneen seemed to. have been an enjeyable ene fDr mest. It was geed to. hear snatc hes ef the sengs being sung areund the scheel several days later. As far as musical success is cencerned , varieus facters have to. be balanced, and different adjud icaters give differin g weights to. these. This year Dennis Kidd y, Directer ef Music a t St. Edmund's Scheel, made a num ber ef telling cemments en each interpretatien which we re later circulated to the perfermers. Luxmeere came eut narrewly en tep, but there were cemmendable perfermances a ll the way threugh, with the marks allecated semetimes the same (e.g. Nes 6, 7 a nd 8 a beve). It was interesting that the winning heuse did ne t need a cenducte r. Hewever ene e r two. ether he uses weuld prebably have dene better with semebedy to. give a firm lead (and eye to. eye centact) frem the frent. T his was Luxmeere's first win ever, and the confident accempanying ef Elizabeth 134

Rebinsen ebvieusly was an i!l'pert~nt facter in their success . Other he uses were also. very well accempallIed. As well as a stlmulat lllg a nd sensitive accDmpa nist, a seng needs ef ceurse geed musIcal preparatlen and must be chesen as suitable fer masscd singing by unisen veices wert h hearing and net tee difficult to. cemmunicate to the numereus peep Ie who. ceme aleng 'to. hear It. It was enceuraglllg that thiS year the level ef preparedness ef mest heuses was geed. R.P .S.

MITCHINSON'S HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 8th MARCH, IN THE SH IR LEY HALL

I was very excited b y the pr.espect ef the MitchinsDn's Heuse Cencert, knewing the .great musIcal petentla l whIch the re IS, and true eneugh the evening was a great success. As was the case a year age, a gre,n de.al ef pleasure lay in the star perfDrmances ef peeple net usua lly asseclated wIl h the mUSIcal SIde ef King's. I' m talki ng firstly Df ceurse abeut Mr. Parker's cycliC renderlllg ef Mezart's Hern Cencerte Rende which, with Jeremy Ceeper as hese and kettle, was very enjeyable. The secend star perfDrmance came frem Chris Barron who. dressed fit fDr the sneeker table, admirably executed ene ef my faveurite sengs, Five FOOL Two: There were a number ef superb items ef a mDre serieus nature which were delightful to. listen to . The first was The Swan perfDrmed by Matthew FDrbes . It was beautifu lly played and thDrDu~hl~ m~sica l. Matth ew brDught this Dff well, altheugh he needs to. develDp a greater sense Df prDjectlOn III hIS plaYlllg. The d 'Erla nger Poeme played by Alice CDDper was also. extremely bea utiful a nd shDne wi th gDDd tuning and tene. Technical difficu lties were handled well as were nerves. 1 we uld have preferred me re emDtienal cemmitment fDr such a reman tic we rk, but it was very 'classy' all the same. Lastly Myles Bewker's perfermance ef the Mendelssehn Andanle and Rondo Capriccioso was truly magnificent, displaying the immense ameunt ef ta lent he has . The variD us vecal items were ve ry enjeyable but sDmetimes lacked a little cemmitment Dn the part Df the singers. The first two. items, namely Consider Yourselves (Bart) a nd When I was a Lad (G & S) were bDth spirited a nd well-prejected. Jeremy led well as beth cDnducter and smger, a nd I pa rtIcularly ltked the 'Dfficial clip' in the Gilbert and Sulli van . There were several smaller wDrks which were all enjDyable. The Madrigal Seciety suffered frDm lack ef cenfidence Dn the netes, a lthe ugh werds and ensemble came acress well. An Exlracl almosl Jrom the ROlulus was a su"erb idea . I thDught the singers had a geDd Dppertunity here to. slllg semet hll"!g threugh the medIUm Df cemed y, but failed because they apprDached it rather lt ke the Psalms III Assembly; nevertheless it was a brillia nt piece ef writing a nd mDst amusing. The Heuse S~n.g came Dff well and suffered nDne Df the prDblems which dDgged it in the HDuse SDng CempetltlDn. DlctlDn was clear and a steady beat helped to. make it a very smDDth jDurney m Transports of Dellghl (Flanders a nd Swann). T he String Quartet's perfDrmance was very CDmpetent, lackmg Dnly a certam prDj ectlOn. The fIddl es handled SDme tricky mDves well. Bruce Nas h's c.Dmlcal extra Item was a s ketch as a Neeli thic ma n (Buill Up Area) and it was received With de ltght by the audIence despIte ItS prD-channel tunnel intrDductiDn! The HDuse Orchestra attempted a dangerous wDrk with Handel's Music jar Ihe Royal Flrework~, but Dverall they succeeded m prDducing a gDDd performance. Tuning is always a problem III such grDups but a gDDd .rhythm and clear direct iDns from Jeremy carried it thrDugh. 1 enjDyed the BDunee the mest WIth ItS sweet tDne and li vely spirit. Of the two. la rge r items I think the Swing Band a ttained the best seund. Its careful accDmp~nim ent Df sDIDists was dDn e well, es peciall y cDnsidering the pre blems Df ba la nce using electrDllIcs .. Jeremy a nd Altce a lso. sang well in their tunes. I particularly enjDyed Matthew's dr ummmg III TOOl, TOOl, Toolsle, Goodbye, but might I suggest using brushes next time? 135

â&#x20AC;˘ This number brought the evening to an enjoyable and successful end. Everyone who took part deserves congratulations on providing such a good show, particularly the piano accompanists who do such an unenviable task with such ability and all those who worked hard back stage. Finally credit is due to Jeremy Cooper for organising, cajoling and bullying everyone into giving us a splendid concert.

DARREN EVERHART.

CHOIR CONCERT IN LONDON THURSDAY, 13th MARCH, IN ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY After a brief detour through the lesser known parts of our great capital city, the coach, bearing most of the chapel choir, arrived at the ornate and beautiful church of St. Lawrence J(t,wry, to be met by the others, who had come by car. There then followed a brief rehearsal of the music, after which coffee was kindly provided before the concert. We waited anxiously to see whether the size of the audience would surpass that of the choir, and thanks in part to devoted parents, it did . The mood of the concert was serious but informal, and a brief (usually!) anecdote by Mr. Barry Rose between each item helped to keep the interest high. The programme was very varied and included some of the gems to which the school has been treated every other Sunday morning at Matins. Sara Bee surprised no one with 'her magnificent solo in Ye,now are sorrowful from the Brahms Requiem, and the other soloists, Jonathan Wrench, Alexander Stur! and Jeremy Avis, were a credit to the school. T here was a short instrumental interlude, when the second movement of the Poulenc Flute Sonata was played without a trace of nerves, by Lucinda Miller, sympathetically accompanied by Elizabeth Robinson. A duet accompaniment was the usual feature of Alan Ridout's Moses and the Red Sea (the composer and Stephen Matthews), and thanks must go to Andrew Lumsden for his superb organ playing: T he hour long programme was greeted with much applause. ' We then had an hour to ourselves in which to soak up the culture of London, after which we boarded the coach, and made an uneventful journey back to Canterbury. Our thanks to all the drivers, and particularly to the Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, the Rev. Basil Watson, and of course to Mr. Barry Rose for organising it all. TAB ITHA WINNIFRITH.

THE NEW YORK JAZZ ENSEMBLE MONDAY, 19th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

Despite the unenthusiastic reaction from the school when Mr. Allen announced the advent of the New York Jazz Ensemble, and the rather pessimistic notices circulated around the houses telling all music scholars to turn up, by order, the a udience in the Shirley Hall was very large for a school concert. The atmosphere in the hall was rather like that at a rock concert and loud applause exploded at the appearance of the choir, although this could be due to the largely male audience and largely female choi r. T he choir contained about thirty boys and girls of our own age from seven schools in Manhattan, and a bass player. In size and age the choir was not d issimilar from our own. However, there were two stark differences: obviously the music was rather foreign to our Stanford-tuned ears, but even more striking was their appea rance. The Ensemble was colourful , looking happy and, worst of all, horror of horrors, it moved! T he choreography of the numbers was partially premeditated, partially spontaneous and the result, albeit disorganised at times, conveyed excellently the enthusiasm of the singers. 136

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Jazz singing would at first seem to be impossible. Improvise with your voice? What words do you sing? The answer is simple: whatever comes into your head. This type of improvisation, scat-singing, was invented by Louis Armstrong one day when he forgot the words and resorted to doo-bee-doos. The first half consisted of quick-tempo numbers using the entire choir with scat solos. The mood was then calmed down by a slower number, the Sombrero Samba which prepared everyone for an excellent rendering of Honeysuckle Rose by a girl with an amazing voice. The texture was then built up again in stages, using larger groups and faster tempos progressively to a number called, I think, Sid in the City. By this time the choir was flagging a bit, but the reaction from the audience produced an encore which I felt was their best number, Come on Down the Road, taken from the musical The Wiz. The reactions I heard as I left were diverse. The musicians in the school were mostly highly complimentary. The rest were less certain, but I think this could be due to the culture shock involved in the discovery that Fame really does exist! CARACTACUS DOWNES.

INVISIBLE SUN IN CONCERT TUESDAY, 18th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL Numerous posters, lurid tickets, long queues a nd formidable bouncers heralded the arrival of Invisible Sun. T he electric atmosphere mounted as the Shirley Hall was filled with an impatient expectant audience, psyching up to the introductory music, and rows of pupils chanted 'Weller! Weller!' As ties were being loosened suspense was fuelled by eerie spotlights, voluminous smoke and a sudden burst of loud music - Invisible Sun had begun in earnest. As the smoke cleared a nd lights grew brighter, it was rather an anti-climax to see these familiar faces producing such a powerful rendition of She Sells SanctuGlY. Although Chris White's voice may be slightly too choral for the music, his style and charm captured the audience and he confidently kept the atmosphere high spirited. Tim Weller meanwhile remained undisconcerted by his fans and kept cool throughout Chance which had been dedicated to him , in which he showed immense skill and talent. James Gumpert made brief but extremely commendable performances, notably in Andrew Fordham's creation Catching the First One Home, leaving many of the audience wishing that James was a full time member of the band. Alistair 'OK-Yah' Craik was also much admired, despite microphone problems and those dark glasses which he abandoned in time for Dire Straits. The concert went from good to better to excellent. As Chris White stripped off layers of clothes his inhibitions went with them and his voice improved. The keyboards were handled expertly by Jeremy Avis recapturing the Cure perfectly (as did Chris's dancing). And Chris Walker's Clapton rendition was as good as the original, althoug h his beard was, disappointingly, mostly make up. Every Breath You Take recaptured the spirit which had been deflated by the more skilful, less noisy Japan interlude and Jeremy Avis's voice provided a refreshing contrast while his elaborate physical gestures encouraged (and received) vocal accompaniment from the audience. This was followed by what many consider to be Invisible Sun's best work, Walking in the Rain - yet another interesting composition by Andrew Fordham, who was on the keyboards. Andrew's pieces certainly seemed to be the highlights of the concert: Accidents still happen was catchy and had Chris White in his element, inducing a lot of foot-tapping, whilst Playing with Fire seemed to deserve a throng of people dancing beneath the band. 137

On bass guitar, Andrew showed incredible skill throughout the concert, proving he can do more than write the music, and Chris Walker proved he wasn't just any old hippy. Possibly the most outstanding was Jeremy Avis on keyboards and the piano who held the concert together and set the pace for the evening. What was most remarkable was the adaptability of the band, having reproduced great classics a nd some surprisingly original and inventive music of their own, written by Andrew. The concert would have benefited from a few more of Andrew's songs, although Invisible Sun did produce creditable renditions of the adapted songs. As the yo ungest member of the band, Tim excelled himself, especially in Rebel Rebel, and managed to snap the occasional drumstick (dramatically) in heated moments. Not only did Chris White emulate professional vocals but his stage behaviour showed few ner ves and little bashfulness. We began to wonder when he sang I think I've fallen in love . .. with that face if he'd been gazing into a mirror, but credit must go to him for keeping the concert flowing and ironing over awkward moments. The band finished with a rousing climax, Rock around the Clock, and left the audience cheering for more. Even after the encore Don't you Forget about Me the audience left reluctantly, not wanting to leave the unique atmosphere in the Shirley Hall, well earned by the talented band members.

The concert was a valiant and successful injection of life into the school and the band coped remarkably well, proving that such musical talent can be put to more vigorous uses and support Live Aid in the process. EMMA CONYERS.

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TRADESCANT HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 22nd MARCH, IN ST. AUGUSTINE'S DINING HALL

That this was possibly the finest of the many House Concerts I have attended is surely attributable to the efforts of Mr. McConnell, Alex Sturt, Ailsa Buchan and Sarah Pendlebury, a ll of whom should be congratulated on the organization of the concert. T he evening began and ended with two items from the House Orchestra under Mr. McConnell's experienced baton. To begin, Gluck's Entty of the Priests and Beethoven' s March in B flat received accurate and sensitive performances. with shining contribut ions from the percussion.

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The concert ended with Weber' s March for the Royal Society of Musicians and the last three movements of Haydn's Divertimento No. I (St. Antony), featuring good tuning from wellbalanced groups of highlighted woodwind players and precise ensemble, aided by an excellent side-drum. The second item, the Pie Jesu from Faure's Requiem, was given an impassioned and confident performance by Julian Sturt . Tunin g suffered a little but he injected a great deal of emotion into his singing. Ailsa Buchan displayed virtuosity, beautiful tone and almost flawless intonation as she skimmed effortlessly through some quite demanding passages in W. H. Squire's light-hea rted Tarantella. Alex Sturt accompanied this and the previous item with composure and exactly the right degree of deference to the soloist. Julian Sturt and Ailsa Buchan were joined by Giles Hogben and Quentin Thomas for a nearly note-perfect performance of the Minuet and Trio from Haydn's string quartet Op. 76 No.4. The ensemble was excellent although the young players were a little tentative initially; the first violin gradually began to take over the leading role from the viola, finally ending the piece with a masterly flourish. The Quartet shrunk to a Trio and with growing confidence tackled the Allegro from Leclair's Trio Sonata in D minor with enthusiasm and technical skill. 138

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'It's JlIIl tIIat lliaee I told YOD aboDt tile telepboae caD, YOD've beea very oervy - and aever bad a _ t from eacb otller before, aud It worr\ell me.' Job waited for. few -.co.ds, aad tllea said lIowly, almost supldously, 'You're not worried Uke tbIB. 'Ibm's a ,.,rectly IIm,1e explanation.' He waited, aud Alex looked blm wltb au tnqDlrina ellPrliSsloD. 'Jlmes waDted to teU you tblt I'd left my briefcase offtee, but It wu IU rllbt, u I weDt beek Ind lot It.' He plused and looked at Alex. 'I'm 10101 for I walk,' AIel!. IUOUM. 'JlIIl down to tile end of tile lane and back.' 'Rip.. I'U eo_ wltb YOD,' JObD said. 'Ob YOD don't bave to,' Alex repUed. 'I'd ratller 10 on my own.' 'WeD, aD rlabt,' said Joh. relactaDtiy. 'Oo.'t be too 10.1.' Alex IIIpped oat of tile sltd.1 room, ber beart tIIumpl.l. Sbe shut tile coat. Sbe opened tbe front door, aud walked oullDtO tbe cold November air. darkealDl, aud a few flakes of mow were nuderlna dOMl, Ind settUnl. She walked do_, bard. Wbat wu blppe.lnl? Before tile 'pbone eatl, abe bad been perfeetly contented. now she iblvered: her biuband wa .ne. to her. As abe tramped alDna \be stony road, abe_rellleetjll o. her yean 01 marriBle: • redsed willi a sbock tbat abe bardly knew aaytblal b .......d: ob, she knew lIe'd been born Ia Bloemlo.tela, bls parents had died, a.d bro....t .p by au eeeeiltrk aut, wbo wu a striet Presbyterlaa, bot bow aboDt ....11 tII,n !I~ulil In tlleir three years of marr\qe, he bad .ever latrodaeed any frIe.ds to her had aay letters, ..ve bIDs, and reladou' letters. The streak of jealously arose Ia ber and sbe>neatIY turned back, a.d demanded 01 ber bDlba.d tile trutll ••• for sbe wa so...e ..,.tb: a _ t tbat concerned ber, and sbe tboupt determinedly tbat sbe wu to fbid oat••• TiJnIq back towards tile bouse, ber heart started tIIumplal u abe ..w a ear In tbe The lleidlam.,. were 0., aad t/le ear lllded put ber do_ tile laae. Her IIDSband wu staIDdi••:; I. tile poI'dI. 'AliI There you lire. I _ aettIaI worried,' be Called wbe. be saw her. Alexlllpped lato tile bouse, foUowed by Joll•• Sbe sat down apia In tile IItdnl room. dosed tile door. 'Wbose _ tllat car?' Uked Alex Iillldy. Sbe wu lolnl to dIScover tile trutb. 'Car? car? Ob, lIIat .... SOl}leOne who'd lost bIB way •• .' 'I _. Where _ be tryial to let ~1' 'kr to •• .' Job palded, and looked at Alex. 'C/Jallo.t St. Giles.' Alex gI8recI at Idm, til........ knew \be ntll. 'Wbo _It? Your mlstrea1' abe said hars/lly. •Alexl SIIe ... JlIIl try\Jq to fbid lIer wayl How eoald you?' 'So It was a womau,' Alelt said matter of 1aCtIy, and tIIen relQSed lato silence. 'For londnesslllke, Alex. What'. wroDI wltll you tbls neal.11 You're belnl so mysterious.' 'Not u myeterlODS U YOD,' repUed Alex. her Yolce sbaklal. 'TeD me tile trntb.' 'Bat t/Jere'....0....' to teIIl I dou't uderstand youl' AlexltOCld &p, .,.81 bard DOt to IIrea\llDto lIyster1eS. 'Fkst I let tills weird 'pllooe caD, tile. YOD act an 1DJiter\0D8. tIJe. tile ear arrives aad yon lie to me about It.' 'I've told 10U aboDt tIIosel Den'. a perfectly. • .' 'S\J!IpIe~..adoa •• .' broke ID Alex. 'AD YOD've told me Is rubblsb. I waut to know wbat hu beeil 101a1 0•• UntO UJen, I wtD believe notblal yon say.' Alex walked out of the door.

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'Hmm••••ot badl DIaI0lue loes on a bit IbllDlb.' 'Perhaps. I'm not sare bow It's lolng to end tboUlh. I Iblu tbal Ihere'll be some Idnd of .ffalr lolnl o. - bnl tbat mlpt be • bll eUebH.' 'Wb.t are you lolnl to caD It1' 'Some weird title - 'To bave and 10 bold' perh.ps •• .'

Nicolas Reid (Rf)

Tomorrow's Yesterday Tbe lrey su sets. Bowler Hatten lraze la lulllble, Concrete pul_. A wblpplal wlDd Cuts endless sUees tIIroulh City Suburbs. Time stands In an old canal. Nllbt's curtain doses DI In. CbUdren llial no longer: Tbey spit Ia sebool pisYlrounds' A coUage of brleks aad glass sean

A duD sky.

Sholto Byrnes (Sha)

Happy Memories

I remember tbat summer, aD tbose years ago, Wben I eame to stay with my grandparents. TheIr eottqe wltb wbitewashed waDs smelt of Honey.nelde, ud tile air _ beavy wltII poUe•• Bees bummed around daadelloDS bldde. Ia lonl Insb meadow gras. Graadm. weeded tile nower beds, whUe Grandad Cbased me roud tile gardea. Breatbiess, we aD . ~~~l!!~,:.::ad we.t to lit on tbe veraad.b, and sipped •I bomemade lemo••de with lee cubes. Tben It wu tea Urne: pDes of dainty saudwlebes And cupcakes, wubed down wltb coco•• 'Eat np your cake, there's • lood boy,' but tIIere wu No need lor eneoDrageme.t: every morsel tasted better from Great-grandmotller's plate, every drop nectar from Great-uele Job.'. pewter mUI. After tea It was my favonrlte lame - tbe road safety pme. nearly always won; somedmes Graadma won, It wu tbe fUR of tile game tII.t eou.ted: Round tile I.kes, tbroDgb tile creepy woods, Miss • tara for b....1 • pnneture, tben up tile sbort cut .nd Yes, tllrow • IIx ud bomel 'Run alDnl now. let IDto your pyJ.mas for a slory before bedl' And I raa u qaleldy as I could upstairs, ud I.to my pyJamu A.d dowastairs ...... I sat OR Graadm.'s lap I. froat of tile bumlal beartb WhOe Grandad told us a story .bout Erstmere elves, The little people who Und In tbe maaleal woods .roud Entmere. And for me It wu aD true, Ihough tile wbole bolld.y Now seems like .n Idyllic dream. 143

Edward Beaugilt

The Tower Block Tbe tower rises to the sky And points down to bell. Boarded up windows And sprayed-upon walls Blend silently into tbe cUff of grey. A dazzling sea of glass and technology Pride of tbe council Is now a concrete tombstone Shadowing those wbo live within. Damp peeling walls cannot smother Tbe sbouts of anguish and frustration. There is no peace or privacy In the concrete monster, Speared through the heart Of a town called Malice.

Andrew Darley (Sha)

The Incredible Bouncing Man

Bouncing In and out of Deatb's reach, as if he were on elastic: My Grandad. 'Stand by your bedsl Here comes Grandad': A permanent smile engraved on his face, Walking stick in one hand, pint glass in the other. But annually, at Christmas time, be goes that little bit Too far, enjoys bimself Just too mucb, Drains bis seemingly etemal energy source, And always ends in bospital. The family sit round bis bed. Drips sustain bls energy and blood level. His eyes are closed. The nurses have given up. Tears form. Grandad is a deatbly wbite, mouth open, Just breathing. But by the end of tbat week be is always better. Four beart attacks, three years of nearly dying at Christmas, Two weeks to live in 1960, and twenty years of chain smoking: He would never give in to septicaemia. He's always back, drinking, eating and most of all talking, Witb eigbty-two years behind bim and countless years in front, Causing scandals In his old people's bome, Asking If widows can come and stay with him. My Grandad is unique. And wonderful. 144

Myles Bowker (Sha)

Paralysis

Nowadays I have nearly forgotten about being able 10 walk with my aunl in Ihe park. I only vaguely remember ancien I delails: a birthday parly, Ihe cake, Ihe jellies and playing rounders in her large garden. Then somelhing happened - somelhing beyond conlrol. No longer could my aunl walk up Ihe slairs and she had 10 sleep downslairs. In Ihe winler she had 10 be lifted inlo Ihe car, and in Ihe spring she was in a wheelchair. I wondered why she was getting Ihinner, ralher Ihan gelling better. Even her voice changed. She had 10 sleep in Ihe aflernoons. Somelimes I looked Ihrough her window and she would be asleep - mOlionless - and I had 10 creep away so as nol 10 dislurb her. Within Iwo years she was complelely paralysed allhough she was jusllhirlyÂˇsix years old. Only her eyes and mind were alerl. Her speech was almosl uninlelligible. Every day she was balhed and dressed and would sit, supporled by cushions. One beautiful day in June we arrived with some groceries and Ihe firsl rose of Ihe summer. Grandpa gave Ihe rose 10 my aunl and Ilhink I saw a genlle smile appear on her nearly immobile face. My brolher and I wenl off 10 Ihe park, engulfed in sunlighl and swarms of children. We had always Ihoughl Ihal she would recover and seeing her so many limes in Ihis horrible condition made us slarl 10 do our own Ihings again. Laler we sel off for Ihe beach al Broadslairs as it was half lerm. We look a picnic and spenl Ihe day In Ihe sunshine. The beach itself almosl seellled 10 be moving from Ihe counlless lourlsls walking around under parasols. I wished it could be my aunl who was moving Inslead. In Ihe evening we walked along Ihe clifftop and followed Ihe palh. The sunsel was golden, bul we walked easlwards where Ihe full moon was silver over Ihe sea. The sky was so lighl ahead of us. Then we saw a gap in the cliff where Ihe sea had made a narrow culling Ihrough Ihe chalk cliff and we walked downwards Ihrough Ihe narrow gap. I did nol wanl 10 walk inlo Ihe dark cave al Ihe end of Ihe palh. Inslead I looked up al Ihe full silver moon and Ihe silver sky, wbere it seemed as Ihough riches lay. I feit uneasy. Ilhoughl of Ihe valley of Ihe shadow. We walked back 10 Ihe cliff lop and in our lasllook allhe sea saw a wide palh of IIghl over the waler. As we arrived home Ihe lelephone rang. I ran In and answered it, happily saying hello 10 Grandpa. But the voice was serious and he wanled 10 speak 10 my falher. I handed Ihe phone over and ran inlo Ihe kitchen 10 make some loasl with my brolher. The news was shocking. My aunl had died. She had died as we were looking al Ihe white Ughl and Ihe palh over Ihe waler. I have had 10 change my prayers. No longer can I ask him 10 make my aunl better; I have 10 ask him 10 look afler her in heaven. Five years laler I still pray 10 God for Ihe same thing, yel now a shorl lisl of olher names has appeared with hers.

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It is not easy to make the first movement of G rieg's Op . 7 P iano Sonata sound terribly convincing, but Quentin T homas succeeded, using stark dynamic contrasts and sudden turns of speed. The piano itself was none too hot but th is did not impair his technical prowess in any way; however, the music seemed to lose itself somewhere in the development sectio n (altho ugh this may have been more the fault of the youthful Grieg) . Alex Sturt now took the stage in an aston ishing performance of Ibert's Piece pour/lute seul. His impassioned, imp ress ionistic solo conjured up shades of Syrinx with technical mastery and wide variety of timbres . Next the Minuet from a Reicha wind quintet (Op. 99 No.2) was played with zest by Alex Stur!, Ailsa Buchan (this time on the oboe), Sarah Pendlebury, Nic holas Musson and Peter Pugh . The bassoonist allowed his enthusiasm to spill over into volume but the notes were accurate a nd individual soloists were brought out beautifully. Peter Pugh then battled briefly but bravely with Field 's Sehnsuchts- Walzer, winning in the end. The elegance and slickness with which Joplin's Easy Winners' Rag was played by Sarah Pendlebury and David Verey on clarinets was remarkable. Tim Weller's drums were rhythmically almost impeccable and A ndrew Wickerson (bass) and A lex Stur! (piano) provided a firm but discreet accompaniment. Complex syncopations were handled with deceptive ease. It was a pity that with playing of th is quality this was the only 'non-classical' item in the concert. The T radescant House fo ur-part choi r was similarly o ustanding. Diction in Early one Morning (arr. Dunhill) and Mo rley's It was a Lover and his Lass was excellent, as was the tun ing. Sarah Pendlebury at the keyboard played the first of the Three Rondos on Folk-tunes by Bartok gracefu lly and mellifluously. She seemed und eterred by the at times complex rh yt hms and performed with skilful contrasts in dynamics and moods. Her in to nation was also very good indeed. The penultimate item was Love Leads to Bailie by Buononcini which deservedly came second in the House Song Contest. To hear two-thirds o f Tradescant singing together with ex pression, synchroni zation, verve and perfect intonation was an experience in itself. Mr. McConnell and the Orchestra returned with the Weber and Haydn to round off an extremely enjoyable evening. And so to Veuve (or more Veuve) in the Gateway Chamber. JONATHAN F INN.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SUN DAY, 23rd MARCH, IN THE SHIR LEY HALL

The concert was shared by the School's Second and Chamber O rchestras, and though there seemed to be a small overlap of personnel, it was an impressive 7 1 players in the Second Orchestra who were launched into The Valiant Knight by Woodhouse by thei r condu ctor, Mr. McConnell. T he spirited attack of all sections was largely carri ed over into the Couperin Dances, which gave a chance for smaller gro ups to be heard in the contrasting sonorities of this arra ngement by Gordon. Particularly confident were the brass. Something of Ives' joyful polyphon y appeared in the Folk Festival by Walters, o rchestrated by Mr. McConnell. T he orchestra matched the music with a rugged but rhythmic panache, while woodwind and brass stood in turn to play their 'break'. T he orchestra's final piece was a much shortened version of the las t movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphon y by the intrepid Woodhouse (What Ho, Lud wig!). T he players may have felt something of the exaltation of the real thing, and such a precis seems justified on such a n occasion . The pace was stead y but the unanimity was good, the large numbers of strings play ing with considerable zes t. After the interval the Chamber Orchestra accompanied five works with soloists from the School, and finished up with the first movement of Schubert 's 3rd Sympho ny o n their own. Colo nel 147

Neville's firm and clear direction took us through music that sounded more like a mixture of Rossini and Beethoven than the Schubert we know from later works. It gave the orchestra the opportunity to play with an ebullience denied it in the accompanying rOle. The solo works were an interesting selection of mostly seldom heard pieces. Each soloist brought something of himself to his chosen work. Not all were equally good at projecting the dynamic contrasts in such a large building: how difficult it is to know how you are sounding 'out there'. Caractacus Downes certainly had the easiest job in this respect, Weber's 1st Clarinet Concerto (1 st movement) virtually forcing it on the performer. On this occasion the soloist brought out very well the lyrical pathos and classical side of the composer. Hindemith's sombre music for the funeral of George V needs intensely committed and heartfelt playing if It is not to sound dull. Christopher Whiteley and the strings cam~ ne~r to achieving this. It seemed at first a little too careful, but the fmal chord placed everythmg m perspectIve, and the audience appeared well satisfied. The first movement of Vivaldi's Flute Concerto in C minor brought Alexander Stur! to the fore. He gave the impression here and there that he would have prefered ~ slightly faster tempo, but he had the confidence to play this testmg mUSIC, and phrased sensItIvely when he had the chance. Jeremy Avis also played an Italian Concerto, all thre~ movements in this case -:Marcello's famous one in C minor. HIS accuracy and sense of dIrectIOn were very good. HIS instrument did not seem to have quite the dynamic range one has heard, making it difficult for him to give unrestrained expression to the slow movement. Between the latter two pieces came Dvorak's Waldesruhe for cello and orchestra, whose romantic and soulful mood was perfectly captured by Tanera Dawkms and the Chamber Orchestra. The mellow tone and D flat tonality combined to make a rich contrast with the Baroque pieces. The first bassoon counter-melody also came across particulady well, and one wonders why this miniature tone-poem is not heard more often. A most enjoyable evenmg. E. J. HARRIS.

f 'PLUNDER' THE L1NACRE HOUSE PLAY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 18th & 19th FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

It would be easy to label Ben Travers' Plunder as a play totally governed by the wit Travers derives from words and conflicting caricatures, but this cannot be said of the Linacre production. Fluently moved by acting ability and a firmly directed sense of ~osit.i0n, Mr. Allen's characters in general rose above their ~riginal intentions, eff~rtlessly exposIng.m a reahstlc way the hghter sides of human nature, whIch were much apprecIated by the audIence. From the very beginning, the audience seemed W identify with Jonathan Nicholls's Freddy Malone, the devious many-faced criminal, half-lovmg and half-hatmg hIm for hIS.materI~hstlc cunning. By contrast, Mrs. Hewlett drew little sympathy, and her humourless confIdence m her legal and moral propriety was put across well by Kalte Woodcock. ThIS made her encounters with Jeremy Avis's D'Arcy Tuck all the more comIcal, and her end as a bl&amlst all the more suitable. Mrs. Hewlett is the victim of Plunder; her mablhty to respond hght-heartedly to a Machiavellian game of chess makes her infinitely unsuitable as opposition to the experienced and manoeuvring Freddy: 'Plunder ... That's what I do. That's how I live. It's my profession.' The plot of Plunder begins on a relatively simple level, and grows more complicated, as !lny farce does but never loses the interest of the audIence. The developmg mtrIcacy and WIt IS comparabl~ to that of a Tom Stoppard play; words and movemelH coalesce to emphasise characters' qualities. Jonathan Nicholls's Freddy Malone was acted confIdently and wIth presenc~, and his shifty character was immediately established by his change from a blunderIng golf fanaltc t48

to a scheming cro?k .. Jerem~ Avis as D'Arcy Tuck was supremely funny in movement, speech and faCIal expreSSIOn, hIS fraIl vulnerablhty was played up excellently when things started going wrong for hIm. Lucy Hoare's Jo~n Hewlett brou~ht out the confident and sulky heiress, arrogant and yetseemmgly devoted to DArcy Tuck, whIlst MIke Whitehead as Oswald Veal acted well as a socIal mcongrUlty, comIcally Insecure In a world where his 'spooning' and lack of eloquence make hIm dependent on. hIS mother and uncle, all of the same humble background. His uncle, SImon Veal (Edward WInfIeld), possessed a fascinating ugliness in everything he did, his lack of teeth and eVIl grIn suggestIng a marked lack of affection that was in true 'Steptoe' style. Mention must be made of the set for credit must go to Christophe Brandt Mark Evison James Charlesworth and the director for the. ingenious idea .of rotating !I wall through ninety degrees to make a b~droom ~nd for constructmg ~nd organtzmg a set whIch made a creditable country manor mterIor. WhIlst set changes ImpaIred the pace shghtly, Plunder moved swiftly along, economIcally cut and vIgorously executed. But all vigour needs inspiration; for Plunder it came In the form of Adam Barron as producer and Rev. Peter Allen as director. The warm cohesion between cast and producers made Plunder witty, captivating and entertaining _ all anyone can ask for from a house play. TIM

BRIGGS.

'ALL MY SONS' KING'S YOUTH DRAMA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 281h FEBRUARY AND 1st MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

It was, dare I say, perha~s a somewhat sceptical audience that filled the Shirley Hall to see a performance of Arthur MIller's. All My, Sons, which was directed, produced and acted solely by members of the school, but thIS scepltclsm was rapidly dispelled as the play developed. The play Itself was an ambItIOUS on~ for any group to choose, and this made the high degree of professtonahsm mantfested dunng the performance all the more impressive . . The set was simple and yet highly effective; the use of the split-level stage meant that any Itnes whIch had to be spoken towards the back were not lost in the upper stage which has a tendency to swallow words spoken upstage; and the sparing, yet thoughtful use ~f the lighting e~hanced the set s overall effectIveness, particularly in the last act. The standard of acting was hIgh, and wh~t was perhaps a shght lack of confIdence and.spontaneity during the first act soon strengthened mto a compelhng drama by the second and third acts. Mark Evans painted a vivid pIcture of Mr. Keller,. a man d?gged by a nameless past, and the repressed emotion beneath the exterIor of e!lsygomg ge,!i~hty could , and did, erupt with terrifying violence on occasion. Samantha Hardl'.'gham sensItIvely portrayed Mrs. Keller: a sad figure futilely obsessed by a hopelessly unreahstlC dream, and the pathos of the moment when that dream was irrevocably shattered was, for me at any !ate, one of the most moving moments of the evening. I was parttcularly Impressed by the skIlful use of make-up to create an appearance of age and weariness, and It made her fme performance all the more convincing. Tom Grieves and Lucinda. Roberts worked t~gether extremely well as a team, and there was no sIgn whatever of the InhIbItIon that can sometImes spot! an otherwise convincing performance. As a p~lr whose relatlOn~hlp was m danger of being broken up through no fault of their own, they eVInced ~ verÂĽ conSIderable depth of feehng; Tom GrIeves especially at times seemed in dan&er of losmg hIS control over the part he was playing, but he always seemed to keep just WIthIn the borderh!le between ~cting, and virtually being taken over by the role, and both of them were ImpressIvely profeSSIonal.

The rest the cast wer~ an able support to the main characters, especially Paddy Greenleaf's ~ature, plaYIng of the dISIllUSIoned Dr. Bayliss, and Susanna Walsh, who gave a realistically bItchy performance as the embIttered LydIa Lubey . 149

Criticisms are inevitable. Articulation was occasionally a problem, and this was l?articularly due to the American accents, which were at times difficult to understa,:d~ and took time for the audience to become accustomed to; there was also a general opmlOn that the separ~te performances did not really begin to coalesce as a dramatic whole until the s~con d and third acts; however, involvement by all concerned at the end of the play was total, despite an occasIOnal tendency to overdo the emotionalism of the play. The overall effect was most mGmorable. A mention must go to the producer. and director, O~ar Madha. O:lIlsiderable commitment and initiative are required to bring a plOneenng productIOn such as this to completIOn, and the credit must go to him as to the rest of the cast, and mdeed to all who made the pl.oductlOn possible. All My Sons has established an impressive precedent which others! I hope,. Will follow; the performance was both an enjoyable and a movmg one, and the standmg ovatIOn received at the end was richly deserved. JONATHAN N I CHOLLS.

'THE HAPPIEST DA YS OF YOUR LIFE' THE LUXMOORE HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 8th AND 9th MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

'You can't fit two into one!' the ever pessimistic Rainbow (Robbi Cooper) warned us. ?ut the cast of this hilarious farce certainly tried, and supplied the school with one of the funmest productions I have, as yet, encountered. Set after the war, John Dighton's play is centred in a bo~s' school, which is ordered by the ministry to prepare to accommodate another sch~olof similar Size and standard. What IS ~ ot realized is that the homeless are in fact very dissimIlar, mdeed the~ are female, ~nd as Dick Tassell (Nick Henry) predicted, the effect on the establIshment IS to jollIfy It up a bit (although this proves to be an understatement!). Luxmoore revealed a wide, and varied acting ability, which was directed to fitthe many differ~nt characters to a high standard. The strai ght, yet polished performances of NIck Henry as DIck Tassell, and Libby Robinson as Joyce Harper, were slIckly executed and contrasted with the other, more bizarre and comic characters of the cast. Camilla Davies played the upstanding and ever-efficient Miss Eve.lyn Whitchurch; a marath?n role which she carried off with poise and an impreSSIve feel for her lInes and part. The contmUlty of characte r which she showed reflected the professionalism of the whole cast. Her ma le counterpart, Godfrey Pond, played by Nick Rollason, was a cliched, yet effective, flustered, puzzled a nd therefore a mUSIng Headm~ster. DespIte. a te ndency to rush: and consequently lose the meaning of a few of his lines Nick kept us smilIng and gave an admlfably believable performance . Rainbow, played by Robbi Cooper, provided many dry laughs with his s,low,. methodical and reasoned performance as the overworked porter and groundsman. He wasn t go mg to let Netball stands get the better of him and remained unabas hed , yet ever cymcal about the pandemomum around him . Mike Camburn, who played Rupert Billin&s, deserves praise too. Unli ke most of the other characters he finds no peace or entertamment 10 the dlffe~ent clfcumstancesand spends hIS time desperately trying to escape the unwort hy mtentlOns of MISS Gossage (OphelIa James) and retam control over his pupils notably the ever schemmg and wIcked Hopcroft mmor (Edward Hughes). He aroused both sympat hy and a musement with his convincing performance. Adam WhIte also gave a funny and well acted portrayal of Barbara Cahoun, demonstratmg an ab IlIty whIch could be useful in future productions. t50

But this discussion of characterization would be incomplete without the mention of Miss D'Oyley played by Charl?!te Hare . For me, her performance made the play. Her very presence on th e.sta~e had the a udience In fIts a nd her gawky , bumbling, yet well intentioned and ever enthUSiastIC part was played to perfection. Generall y, the play. was performed with confidence, clarity and vigour. The scene changes exemplIfIed the attentIOn to detail whIch was ImpressIvely apparent throughout and the patience and time spent rehearsing were evident. Mrs. Fiona Tennick is to be congratulated for her ceaseless enthusiasm a nd energy which moti~ated a ll concerned a nd diffused into the play to result in a profeSSIOnal and amUSIng productIon which was much enjoyed both by the audience and by the players. EMMA VENTON.

'CAHOOT'S MACBETH' WALPOLE HOUSE CONCERT AND PLAY SUNDAY, 16th MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

. This was a most enjoyable evening of music and drama I?roduced by Walpole, and the original Idea of combmmg a concert wIth a play worked well , each Item complementing the other wit hout either becoming too heavy-going. The concert was opened rather tentatively by a Fantazia for string trio by Purcell (Bruce Marso~, Sarah Fahey and James Sharp), which gained in assurance as it went along, but lacked dynamiCs; Clanssa Pnce followed thIs at the piano with a musical performance of Debussy's Goll/wog s Cakewalk, a pIece whIch SUited the atmosphere created by the set for the play in whIch the concert took place. Andrew Bush then gave a dramatic and well-executed renderi ng of the last movements of Cooke's Clarinet Sonata in B flat , and then switched to accompanying for Nevile Prescott to play Pavan by Stephen Dodgson. Andrew Bush was joined by two honorary Walpolians, Rebecca Vye and Lucinda Miller, to play thre~ Handel pieces as a wind trio. This was an impressive item, well-tuned and perfectly together m ItS phrasIng, and thIs was followed by Chris Gray on his trumpet playing the first move ment of the Larsson Concertino, in which he showed a good range of dynamics. T he filling of the Drum Sandwich proved to be a high point of the evening, in which Jaiye Aboderin's professiona l drumming brought a smile to all faces except his own. Toby Barker and C hris Gray were the trumpeters. T he now mevltable Andrew Bush appeared again to give a secure perform~nce of Blow, blow thou Winter Wind, in which he revealed a good singing tone. The thr~e stnngs of the fIrst Item were jomed by the second violin of Lawrence Lo to play Wesley's Stnn~ quartet No.2 m D .. Get me It? the church on time su ng by nine eligible Walpole men m a JOVIal and relaxed spmt very satIsfactorily rounded off the first part o f the evening, and And rew Bush must be congratulated on co-ordinating it so successfully. The audience needed to have their wits about them to enjoy fully Cahoot's Macbeth by Tom Stoppard. A know ledge of Shakespeare's Macbeth was useful if not essential, as the action revolves around an amateur house productIon of Macbeth in Russia, which because it is forbidden by the authorities , poses as a meeting between fri ends. A government inspector comes round to break up the action, and later another visitor is received in the form of a woodman who speaks another lan.guage, which to our ears sounds like gibberish English. The cast 'catch' the ability to speak thIS language, a skIll whIch came m very useful when the inspector arrives again and tries to take all that is said as evidence against those present. This shortened 'drawing room' version of Macbeth came across very well and produced the overall r~fined atmosphere. The three witches were very inaccu rately described as ' hags' a nd Adam Richards as Macbeth played the role solidly and did well to keep the drama of the play wlthm the play gomg, as all the other drama went on around him. Lady Macbeth was convincingly eVIl, and the hostess calm and collected . Perhaps the performance of Macbeth was a little bland, 151

but this was what was needed to accentuate the difference between it and reality. Guy Dunn as the inspector played his role with an impressive charisma, necessary for such a lone and focused part. His comments were successfully snide and sarcastic and his dry humour sometimes too quick for us lesser mortals in the audience, whom he involved almost brutally in the action. Equally good, but in a very different way was Sanjay Vijayanathan as the foreign woodman, whose character was less complex, but who showed great skill in talking gibberish and making it sound natural and very funny. The climax of the play was when these two men met, a time at which the isolation of each was poignantly shown. Perhaps the message in this is that, just as by murder Macbeth distances himself from his fellow men, so by repression of their people do authorities do the same, until they find themselves so cut off from them that it may just as well be gibberish that passes between them. Mr. Paul Durgan and Mr. Stephen Wain de must be congratulated on such an entertaining production, which, despite the relatively short time for its preparation, was also very well-polished. Lucy CHARRINGTON.

'TWELFTH NIGHT' THE BROUGHTON HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 22nd AND 23rd MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL

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TALKS THEORY AND PRACTICE IN POLITICS THE RT. HON. WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, M.P. MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Societies Room was warm ~nd crowded when William Waldegrave came to talk, on a cold, dark nIght In winter, In the mIdst of the Westland crisis. He was a young, slightly nervous man With curly dark hall' and a pro~lnent nose. He spoke swiftly and at length, as politicians do, and .".'an!,ged to be Witty, enthusIastic ~nd not at all self-righteous. Being perfectly honest that politl~s IS a p~etty dIrty bUSiness, he dId not apologise for it and showed that he himself IS a very skilful ~olitlclan. He had pre~ared a 'hillh-Ievel academic speech', he said , but he knew what we wanted. we Âť:anted to know Who IS gOing to resign next?' However, despite knowing what we wa'?ted, he tned very ha:d to avoid commenting on it and almost succeeded. Nowhere were his politIcal skl~ls more ObVIO~S than when he was told, in the middle of a sentence, that Leon Bnttan had resIgned. He dldn t know, haVing been travelling when it was announced but all. he saId was 'Oh, ha.s he?', and paused not a jot, not a second, but carried on talki~g as If It didn't change a thing. TalkinÂĽ ~bo u,t what it was li,ke to be a minister, he made much of the similarities with 'Yes, Pnme MInIster '. Lord Flower s report ~n nuclear waste had won unanimous approval on all SIdes, but when It came to actually finding a site on which to dump the waste everyone was suddenly :;ery ~nhelpf~1. The principle 'NIMBY' (Not In My Back Yard) applied. While everyone agreed With dlsp,?sal In theo,ry, no one wanted It In theIr constituency. This conflict between theory and practIce In polilIcs was one of the main themes to his talk. Through?ut, a keen sense of his enthu.s!asm for and enjoyment of politics was obvious, which was refreshIng c?mpared to so lI!any polilIclans who Just drone on, pouring out the Conservative or Labour manIfesto. Without, It seems, the least bit of interest in what they are saying. Mr. Waldegrave was even Interested In hIS Job, and talking about the environment was quite animated! Politic~ is a dirty. business, requiring the skills, he told us , of Machiavellian plotting and crosseXamInatIOn. But It was, he said, addlclIve - and he was obviously hooked. ROBERT WEBB.

A DA Y IN THE LIFE OF AN M.P. MR . DAVID CROUCH, M.P.

. Our local M.P.,. David Crouch, having braved the snow, was welcomed by Mr. Hattee, to give us an Inte:estlng and enlightening talk on the workings of Parliament and the duties of an M.P. both In and out of the House of Commons. He opened hi~ talk by explaining the ti".'e-table of events of a typical day in the House. This begInS at 2.30 WIth QuestIOn Time, the 'CIrCUS Act' of the day, continuing often long into the nIght, With debates. ' He also talked about Private Members Bills, which can be raised after Question Time using the Ten MInute Rule, and ~hlch are debated on Fridays. Members frequently have to queue from 2 or 3 In the mornIng In order to get their names on the ballot list, which comes out once 153

a week, He informed us that it was possible for M,Ps , to make their name in the Houseby introducing such bills. Kenneth Baker, for example, first became nouced m the House for ~uttmg forward a bill that income tax should be slashed by a massive SIX pence m the pound . Mr Crouch next went through the li fe of a bill with its vario.us st~~es in parliament. He passed com~ent on the efficiency of the Party Whip System, and their ability to predict the outcome of . most divisions to within a few votes . The bill is t he~ debated m th~ House of Lords . When questioned on the subject, he stated his support for this h,stoncal mstllutlOn. He did, ho;"e~er, admit a change in policy from his younger days, after bemg converted to U)rd Stockton s view that the Lords 'make us think again' and that they are a useful body, hav mg less pressure on them, a wider viewpoint, and greater respect from the public than the members of the House of Commons. He then described the system of committees in parliament, their functions and how they used up a great deal of an M.P.'s valuable time. . He finished by explaining some of the other functions of a back-b~nch M.P. For him , these included not only constituency duties, such as.answenng constituents lettels, but also headl.ng the Interparliamentary Unio n Committee which receives foreign delegatIOns and makes tllPS abroad itself. In all this was a useful and enjoyable talk which was enlightening to many of the A-level students present and complemented their studies very well.

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One of the greatest achievements of this exhibition is that it has given a new meaning to the previously often offensive label 'Modern Art'. The mention of this innocent term tends to lead to a seemingly instinctive display of revulsion on the part of the amateur British gallery-goers. Because an easy-to-read Reynolds is about as testing on the brain as a 'Let's read with Mother', they convince themselves that it is all meaningless rubbish. And through gross generalisation, this 'definition' is applied to all Modern Art indiscriminately. Moving chronologically, American Abstract Expressionism pioneered by Jackson Pollock and his large drip paintings, gives way to one of my favourite rooms: Post-War Europe. This 'kitchensink' art, Expressionist in style, deals with the drabness of daily existence after the war, resulting in sombre and almost morbid paintings. One of the most beautiful of these is Guttoso's 'The Discussion'. an enormous canvas in which a group of nicotine-stained workers are disputing current ideals and tension is rife. Only one room is dedicated to sculpture, which is dominated by Moore's life-size 'King and Queen' . An entire room is given over to Giacometti's thin, elongated figures, which undisturbed save by a withdrawing portrait of Somerset Maugham by Sutherland, seem to emit a sensation of life thoug h they are rigid and rooted to the ground. Giacometti demonstrates well the opinion that sculptors paint better than painters, being more practical and simplistic in approach; his paintings have a minimum of colour but such presence. An unlikely leap to Francis Bacon, but it is he who in many ways is closest of all to Giacometti; by portraying single, distorted figures to the point of disturbing realism, he produces feelings of isolation and tension combined with overwhelming anguish. Lucian Freud represents, along with Bacon, figurative painting, and although working towards the same end at which brutal rawness is achieved, his method is entirely different. P laci ng Freud alongside Bacon in the exhibition accentuates the sharp-focussed , clear-cut realism of Freud as compared to Bacon's painterliness and distortion. From British Figurative Painting to Abstract, and Victor Passmore's reliefs using basic shapes, in which he is attempting to further the development of painting, having abandoned his PostImpressionist style as futile. Abstract Expressionism follows and to some extent overlaps, as Abstract artists such as Heron and Terry Frost are influenced by its more painterly a nd vigorous approach. A more systematic fo rm of abstract art is 'Op Art', represented in my mind by Soto's black/brown squares jutting forward from a background of black and white pinstripes of varying thicknesses. This relies on the movement of the spectator to produce the effect of the squares swaying to and fro until they stop jarringly as one reaches a certain point of proximity . The famil iar hard-edge art which finds so little sympathy among the public, belongs to what is labelled 'minimal art', so-called because it is concerned with basic forms and their potentials. A famo us example is And re's rectangle of bricks, 'Equivalent VIII , . Pop Art, though occupying a couple of rooms only, remains bright in one's memor y if only for its colourfulness a nd garish nature. T his is typified by Patrick Caulfield's plain blue room, on the inside of whose window is a cartoon-strip gold fish tank, and on the outside a photographically realistic landscape complete with castle and mountains. Lichtenstein's 'Whaam!' and Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Diptych' find little sympathy. And so to the present: neo-expressionism and the resurgence of figure painting. It is large (e .g. Kiefer's 'Parsifal Ill ' ), rough (e.g. Schnabel's portrait painted over a wall of broken crockery), a nd vigorous (Baselitz's 'Adieu' - the upside-down figures against the yellow and white chessboard). It is here that two of the most discussed artists are discovered, though not 155

consequently liked much on the whole. If you, too, asked why Baselitz paints his figures upsidedown it is a reflection of his 'dissatisfaction with a very liberal type of painting' and he does it 'to ~et the imagination free'. And as for Josef Beuys' work composed of objects ranging from a hammer to a lump of beeswax, it is quite simply poetic. What this massive survey of art since the war has done is to show, or prove to the more stubborn spectator, that there is hidden within the often bewilderin& heading 'Modern Art' an enormous range of work, in fact something for everybody. And thIS enormous quantIty and quaht~ of work cannot help but leave one feeling reassured that art now IS excltmg - compare your feehngs on leaving the Reynolds exhibition and this one. SIBYLLA MARTIN.

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Having heard tales of twenty-three hour working days fro~ 6a, many of us 'Yere apprehensive about the trip, especially having to leave at 5.0 a.m.! The flfst d~y began wtth a pretty ttredlooking bunch meeting at the Mint Yard minus AI Mo~gan and PIerre Woodward who forgot to get up. The journey went well unttl we got to. Blrmmgham whe.'e the flfst dlsast~r struck, and no, this particular one had nothmg to do wIth RIchard Costam. The hlfed mmlbus wIth the now famous caption 'U drive the Best' stuck on the back, managed to gIve up m the mIddle of a motor way at the hands of 'Go fast Gales!' The~, while admiring the motley crew per~hed on the hard shoulder one luckless motonst drove straIght mto the back of another. Steve Gnmes immediately leapt t~ his feet and managed to capture the hapJ)Y moment on film. While the minibus was towed to a garage Mr. Parker's group went ahead wIth changed plans and everyone eventually met on Heughscar Hill where we looked at limestone features . Having st~died the area we went to the Blencathra Centre where we first encountered our chef Mrs. Toast BIrkett. After supper we worked for a couple of hours and then went to bed. Day 2 began at a n unearthly 7.30 with 'I,t's all.good fun' Parker bou,:ding in only to be showered by flying pillows in the largest boys dormItory. The gIrls meanwhIle were woken wIth a timid knock on the door. After a breakfast of sausage, bacon, baked beans and plenty of toast, we set off ready to scale Helvellyn. The. walkers were split into three groups, each stopJ)ing six times on the way up to take notes on vanous glaCIated features and also make several fIeld sketches . Striding Edge was out of the questIon because of dangerous Ice, but the clear and summery day allowed a glorious view of Red Tarn, Helvellyn and surroundmg valleys. The descent was highly eventful and the snow proved IrresIstIble for gomg down on our backsIdes. When we got down we had lunch beside Lake Ullswater. In the afternoon the boys plus Mlfanda went for a 'short stroll' up to Shale Tarn while Mr. Gales took the other three gIrls mto town for supplies. In the evening we copied up notes on the day's work and were mtroduced to the fascinating art of geomorphological mapping . Day 3 began much as day two with Mr. Parker fighting back somewhat against the tired bo~s. Having been briefed on the day's work we set out towards Borrowdale and sedIment anal~slS. We took fifty samples of stone from moraine and used them m t~e evemng to make vanous assumptions . In the end results differed greatly, Paul Dyas's seemmg almost H),? perfe~t to be true! At Borrowdale we experienced the only rain of the tnp: not really. SUfl~n~mg as It IS the wettest place in Britain . Our second disaster occurred m the afternoon whIle dnvmg up Homster Pass: the minibus once again broke down. So we had to walk through a bog to get to the head of the valley a nd had about half-an-hour to look at the area before It restarted. Not wantll1g to risk breaking down on a steep hill again we started back. On the way back down the valley we bump started it twice only to see it give in again outside a small hotel. Here a large rock

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in between t,,:o back wheels added to ,?ur problems and not even the might of Jeremy Gordon could budge It. SO we Jacked the vehIcle up and then found the rock came out easily. The way back was even more eventful as we broke down several more times once because of several sheep which suddenly jumped in front of the van forcing us to brake'sharply. After yet anothe.' bump start Mr. G~ les decided the brakes didn't do the van any good at all so he stopped usmg them and It wasn t long before we were back at the centre! That evening we worked hard on sedIment analYSIS and each group made a number of conclusions as to what the sediment was, how it was formed and so on. Again results differed greatly. On day 4, our last day! we were suppo~ed to ~t~dy lowland glaciation in the Eden Valley, but thmgs went shghtly dIfferently. The hlfed mmlbus was towed to Penrith while the school minibus took half the group into Penrith to 'shop'. The other half had tug-of-war contests until they were taken m later to the Ford garage. The mechanics were pretty baffled as they couldn't find the fault, so lots of spare parts were sent for from Carlisle. The school minibus and rented Sierra set out to return to school when it began getting late while the rest of the party was allowed into to,;"n on and o ff for three hours. We discovered a graveyard which proved to be very mterestmg, espeCIally when Bobby managed to stop a fight between a dog and a duck! At 4.0 p.m. we discovered the minibus was fixed; it had been a tiny, single fault in the fuel cut off area which took two minutes to fix! The journey back was raucous and we all did a good job of keeping the driver awake. Even though we missed some of the work on the trip, the case studies we now have will be very useful for A-levels and the trip was therefore most worthwhile. We would like to thank Mr. Parker,. Mr. Durgan. and Mr. Gales f~::)f takingu~ up there, making the trip so enjoyable and for havmg great patIence not only WIth the mmlbus but with us also. JONATHAN VEITCH AND SUSANNA WALSH.

THE SOCIETIES The main business of the tenn depends on whom you ask. Nick Preston would say it was th~ four play p,rogrammes. together with the attendant invit ations. A II My Sons, Twelfth . . NIght, Caho.0t s flr!acbeth and, The Happiest Days of Your Life have meant a lot of work. The setting up IS always a long Job WIth the long lIsts of names. With all of these we have combined litho and lett.erpre~ tec.hniques, and the Twelfth N"ight programme-completely in Old English, and in silver ink, whlch bnngs Its own problems-was a major item . The ~ajor ne~s from a longer·tenn point of view was however the arrival of our EditWriter from Compugraphlc. It arnved. on t~e same day as Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterrand, and we were given with it four t¥pe.styles: Enghs~ (hke the re~t of The Cant'l;'anlm), Baskerville (in which this item is set), Univers and Frank.lm (t~o ~ans senf type~). With four fonts 10 each style and twelve lenses (ranging from 6·point to 3?-pomt) thIS gtves us the eqUIvalent of 192 type-cases- and this machine never runs out of sortsl The floppy disk st~rage means tha~ alterations can be made to jobs without starting all over again, and last year's jobs can be retrieved and used m a moment. R.J.M .. M.J.M. CAXTON

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The choir has also performed more than usual, with la st term's television broadcast for Songs oj Praise and this term the vis it to St. Lawrence Jewry in London (an account of this elsewhere); and in Canterbury OUf usual com mitm ents at Matins, the Carol Service, Confirmation. and on the last day of this term 'An Anthology of Readings and Music for Ho ly Week' in the Chapter House. entitled Crucifixus Pro Nobis. This was assembled by Mr. Allen and Mr. Rose, wi th Mr. Flood prov iding the accompaniments on the portable organ. We owe Mr. Barry Rose a great thank-you for the time and effort he has put in to make the choir sing as well as it has done, and look forward to many more years of progress and enjoyment. THOMAS GRIEVES.

T he anthems at Matins in the last two terms have been: Campbell Stanford Mende lssohn

Praise (0 God in the Highest Beati quorum Via I waited for the Lord Nation shall speak Peace unto Nation Dies lrae (The Requiem) And the Glory oj the Lord (Messiah) The Three Kings When to the temple Mary went Insanae et Vanae Curae Ye now are sorro wful (The Requiem) KyrielSanctuslBenedictus from Missa Sancti Johannis de Deo Agnus Dei from Missa Sancti Nicolai Pueri Hebraeorum The St. Matthew Passion

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After nine years in the job, R. B. Ma. is hand ing over the Curatorship of the Douglas Jervis Society to W. R. P., who is now running the Society as a Thursday afternoon 'non-Corps' Activity (while R. B. Ma . continues with the Jazz-Club Activity). This will enable a much more regu lar maintenance service to be devoted to the Society's philatelic collections which , with the vast increase in new stamp issues over recent years, has been becoming more and more difficult to provide. So far thi s term we have concentrated on listing and cata loguing the collection (Richa rd Edmonds has been particularly helpful with his background knowledge of G.B. issues), and some of the younger members have worked on their own collections (much material provided by Ju lien Foster). We hope to revise and extend the collection, particu larly the postal hi story section , and always welcome any materia l, however commonplace it may see m (potential 'donors' please contact W.R.P.). R. B. Ma . AND W. R. P. DOUGLAS JERVIS

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The term started with Dr. Jo hn Martin (King's College, London) demonstrating that 'Computi ng in Physics is Fun'. The small but appreciative aud ience was ent hra lled by a ser ies of fasci nating exampl es illu stra ting how computi ng has helped to solve various scientific

problems. A party visited West mi nster School for the Henry T izard Memorial Lecture, given by Lord Marsha ll o f Goring, the Cha irman of th e Centra l Electricity Genera ting Board . He spoke mos t convincingly on 'Electricity a nd Nuclear Power'. cen tring his lecture on t he prob lems o f nuclear was te disposal, a nd how they are being overcome. Radioactive exhibits bought a sense of realism (and apprehension?) to the audience. It should be mentio ned a t this point th a t Mr. C. J . Mill ar has rece ntly become the Chair man of the Kent P hysics Centre. T he Centre holds its meetings at the University of Kent a nd parties from School attended two of this term's lectures. Professor J. Maleka of the Open Unive rsity gave the Leonardo da Vinci Lecture Demonstra tion on ' T he Robot Revolution ' . He outl ined the histo ry of robotics, touched on robots in the world of science fic tion and finished by illu strat ing t he present stage of robot development with a series of well chose n exam ples from industry a nd recreation. The Isaac Newton Lectu re Demonstration was given by Professor Norman Jones (University of Liverpool). His title was 'Shape and Strength' a nd during his lecture he identified a nd descri bed the three ma in elements of cr ucial im portance to struct ura l engineering , namely t he behav iour of different materia ls, the d ifferent load ings stru ctures are subjected to a nd the type of responses which res ul t from t hese two factors. It is hoped that topics for lectures next term will include nature conservation and mass spectrometry. C. J. R.J.

T he Club t his term has comprised Ja mes Gumpert (Trumpet), Alastair Craik (Saxophone), A ndrew Bush (C larinet) , J a mes Lawrence (T rombone), J ere my Avis (Piano), A ndrew Fordham (Bass) a nd P hili ppe Lacamp (Dr um s) . Andrew Fordham has, once again , musica lly directed. We have had a n unusua ll y quiesce nt period, having given no public perfor mances this term ; the time has largely been'Spe nt on the ini tial preparation of the trad itiona l-group reperto ire to be prese nted in the King's Week conce rt next te rm. R. B. Ma.

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The Society's main attraction thi s term has been the visit of Dr . Andrew Waw n fro m the Sc hool of E nglish at the University o f Leeds. Before th is talk, some may have wondered why Dr. Waw n should bother to come all the way from Leeds to talk to sixth-form students a bout fairy tales; he should rather be d iscuss ing 'pro per ' li te ra ture . However, apar t from t he fact that t hi s was probably one of the most entertaini ng lectures given at t he schoo l, it a lso co nvi nced many of the relevance of fa iry tales, not only in literature, but a lso in life in genera l. We were fi rst given a brief history o f th e fa ir y ta le over the past few centuries. U p until the seventeenth century it was cons idered to be suitable for everyo ne, a nd then it was d ropped . It returned in t he for m of cau tiona ry tales fo r children, and by the ni neteenth century it was st ill for child ren only, but was seen as more acceptable. Dr. Wawn made a connect ion betwee n fa iry ta les a nd 'proper ' literat ure, usin g t he novels of Dic kens as an exa m ple. A lthough written a t the time in which fa iry ta les were strictly for childre n o nl y, their action often takes place in a world j ust as removed fro m rea lity as that of the fa iry tale. Bot h adopt this contrived world in order to make a point or teach a lesson . T he lesson ta ught by most fa iry ta les is essentia lly one of growing up . They inst il the ideas a nd opin ions needed to guide one smoothly away from the protected environment provided by pare nts, and towards independence in the real world . T he example Dr. Wawn used was the story of the F rog Prince, at t he end of which the young gir l de fi es her father a nd throws the frog against a wa ll . It is at this moment, when she begin s to assert her own will rather than adhere to that of her father, that she begi ns her own li fe, shown by the conversion of the frog into the essential fa iry tale ingred ient - the ha ndsome prince. So me may find this sy mbolism rather too fa nciful , or think that t hey a re readi ng too m uch into stories which were designed si mply for innocent entertai nment, but heari ng Dr. Waw n speak has at least made us thi nk again about a litera ry subject wh ich is currently bei ng revalued by many. He is to be sincerely tha nked for providing us with this insight in a supremely en ter ta in ing fas hion. MARLOWE

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Swaa b of Co rpus Ch n sti, Cambndge, a nd o n Othello by Dr. Nicholas Shri m pton o f Lady Ma rgaret H II Oxford. a , Lucy CHARR INGTON. T he Society met on 18th Marc h for a talk entit led 'The Greeks and Mathematics' and we ~.ere'pleased to be able to w~lcome a posse of math ematicians for a spot of ~ross. . fer tl il s~llOn. The speaker, Mr. Richard Wallace of Kee le Univers ity. ra nged widely a nd With authonty over t~e tn~ky ~round he had chosen. He suggested that ultimately the Greeks did mathematics because t hey found It sat.lsfymg. He gave a clear explanation of why so m uch Greek ma thematics seems to be g~om et ry, of what IS meant .by squ ar,ing the cir~le a nd of how cl ose the Gree ks came to discoverin the elUSive n. If ~ome of us felt a lIttle depnved. of solid ma themat ical demonstratio n, ot hers were rel i eve~ to be ab le t.o enJoy a wealth of a necdotal detail. T here was, I thi nk, so met hing for everyone' and it was a treat to hste n to such a good comm unicator. '

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1986 was the year of the snow, but it was also the year of the finest 1st XI for many years. Eight or nine players with 1st XI experience were available (although some of them ended up in the 2nd XI) and so this was always likely to be a successful season. However, the degree of success and the style with which it was achieved were unexpected. In the opening game against Chatham House, the visitors' skill and match practice looked as if they might prove overwhelming, but fine goal-keeping, a little good fortune, and a well-taken goal by Vigo secured a surprising victory. With their confidence established, the team went on to win the next three games and to look increasingly impressive. It was particularly disappointing, therefore, that the weather had such a devastating effect on the season. When play was resumed after five weeks' 'rest', a series of unfortunate injuries disrupted the defence. Two draws and a disappointing performance at the Frank Mason Tournament followed. (On the latter occasion, two players were unavailable through injury, a third played though unfit, and three more received injuries during the day.) However, the season ended on a high note with a splendid game against Kent College, who secured a draw with a goal in the last five minutes. The all-round strength of the side was impressive. In goal, Girling had the best of his three seasons in the side: brave, fast and dominant in the circle, he was both reassuring and inspiring. At full back, Ives was fast, strong and safe, and Wallis settled in quickly, showing his skill and a fine temperament when Ives was injured. The half-backs were particularly good: Stocks, with his idiosyncratic stick, tackled safely and attacked forcefully and Murch covered tirelessly and held the defence together, so that his return to centre half against Kent College was the decisive factor in the improved performance. On the left, Patterson was soon matching the other two for constructive intervention and it is a pity that he has had only one season in the team . In the forward line, the most obvious improvement on last year was the presence of two fast, skilful and determined wingers in Gardener and Lacamp. They gave a much needed width to the attack and both scored fine goals. The other newcomer was Vigo, still a Colt, who made an immediate impression by scoring the winning goal against Chatham House. He could occasionally be brilliant, and he was the leading goal scorer. At centre-forward, Clements showed impressive ball control and set up many attacks by his dazzling dribbling. Perhaps the best player in the side was Ursell, whose positional sense and match temperament were remarkable. Murch's influence as captain was important: he was at once forceful through his example of determination, and steadying when necessary. The team's success was greatly helped by his calm authority.

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RESULTS v Chatham House. Won 2-1 v Sir Roger Manwood's. Drawn 2-2 v Kent Police. Won 4-2 v Sutton Valence. Drawn 1- 1 v Duke of York's. Won 1-0 v Kent College. Drawn I-I v Dover College. Won 4-1 Cancelled: Simon Langton, Cranbrook, SI. Lawrence, Canterbury H.C., St. Ed mu nd's, O.K.S.

2nd XI The team this yea r was one o f the st rongest for ma ny years, being unbeaten unt il the last match. It was a great pity that once again the season was considerably shortened by the snow and rain - we only managed to play six of the ten arranged fixtures. It was some weeks into term before we got our first match against Duke of York's. We'd bu ilt up our skills on the 'all weather pitch', but play ing on grass came as a bit of a shoc k. The encouraging point in this match was that the forwards took their chances and usually scored. Hugh Andree scored three times, once from a penalty. He's proved to be a very skilful and determined player, who has held the forward line together. Our goa lkeeper Craig Butcher also played well- saving a penalty nick - and was able to cla im at the cnd of the season that he had not had a goal scored against him. Our second match was in the rain and mud at Dover, and was shortened to twenty minutes each way. The pitch was so wet that the ba ll kept being stopped by pudd les, but our defence took it all in their st ride as usua l. Giles Elliot and Paddy Greenleaf have been superb all season, hardly letting anything get through to the goalkeeper. Giles would do anything to stop an attack, as we witnessed when he trod on a winger at Dover. Paddy went in to tackles looking very menacing, but usually succeeded through sheer skill, in tackling players, who obviously were not used to losing the ball. We then had a spell o f very bad weather until after half term, when we went to Manwood' s for a match in the fog. The pitch was more like a ploughed fi eld, and the teams were never su re where the ball was going to, or coming from. The forwards were working hard but playing in a line which caused some missed opport unities, when suddenly our goal keeper Craig was hit on the head by a loose ball and had to go off to hospital for stitches. Andrew Sherwood was then plucked fro m the forward li ne to find glory, when as subst it ute goa l keeper he saved a penalty. This seemed to give our forwards more room and three goals were cracked in . Jo Wrench, our captain, scored twice, and in fact has not missed many opportunities this season. He's able to move very fast down the left wing, bring his stick round with a windmill action, and rocket the ball into the circle. The opposition are usually totally bemused by this, and he' s set up many a good goal. At this point I should also ment ion Andrew Sherwood who, when he was not saving pe nalties, played on the right wing. He has improved a lot this season, and usually managed to drive his way stra ight through the opposition. Andy was often to be found on the ground near the corner nag having chased a ball hopefully crossed by Heddle or Veitch, and not Quite managing to get there. Our match against St. Lawrence was Quite close, Although we spent a lot of tim e in their half we could not seem to score and at half time it remained a goalless draw. SI. Lawrence were Quite aggressive, but Nick Henry managed to break the sta lemate, scori ng his second out of three goals this season. Nick has developed a lot this term to become one of our key players, able to dribble and distribute the ba ll intelligently; he should do weU next year. By the time we played Sutton Valence we were feeling confident, but they turned out to be Quite a classy side, and we were caught out once or twice by their lifting of the ball, which could be very incisive, taking them 20 - 30 yards further at a time. Our defence played well again though, and Sutto n Valence were unable to get through, We've been lucky with our ha lves, who have been much better players than one norma lly finds in a 2nd XI. And rew Hedd le if he could stop the ball , was able to move easily up field, and often played a useful one-two with Andrew Sherwood. Heddle turned out to be very nifty, while Adam Barron was able to control most balls, and make very strong passes, which early in the season were rather mechanical, but later became much more imaginative. being hit through the defence at difficu lt angles; he proved very reliable. Johny Veitch at centre half seemed to have the ba ll glued to his st ick as he stumbled through the defe nce to the edge of the sixteen, often beating several players on the way; even the referees were amazed. And so we faced the last match unbeaten. and perhaps just for one year we could beat Kent College. They obviously expected to win, and were shaken to find that they were being tack led, and beaten at the back. Peterburs. our ot her goalkeeper, played superbly , coming out and cha llenging the attacker, and stopping what seemed like obvious goals. By half time they were one up, but we were obviously still in with a chance. After a tense second half in wh ich Andy Sherwood scored a good goal , we suffered our first and last defeat of the Season. I cannot finish the report without mentioning one of our star forwards - Christophe Brandt. He often managed to find room in the '0', where rcally there should have been nonc, and he made some vital passes in front of the goal. In the last two seaso ns he's become one our most dependable players. as weB as keeping the rest of us cheer ful. It was a most enjoyable season, and I am very gratefu l for the way the team put up with some of my more dubious refereeing. R.W.T.

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RESULTS

Played 6, Won 5, Lost l. II d v St Edmund's (A). Cancelled C v C,halham House (A) . anc~1 v Si~ Roger Manwood's (H) . Won 3-0 v Simon Langton (A) . Canee e v St Lawrence (A). Won 2- 1 v Duke of York's (H) . WO~ v S~tto n Valence (H). Won 3-0 v Dover College (A). WOOd v Kent College (H). Lost 2-1 v Cranbrook (A). Cancelle . Team: J. D. MeL. Wrench (Capt.), C. E. Butcher, O. Elliot, P. J. Q. Greenleaf, A. J. Heddle. J . C. A. Veitch, A. J. Barron, A. H. C. Sherwood , N. C. Henry, C. E. J. Brandt, H. J . Andree.

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v Duke of York's (A). Wo n 7-2 v Dover College (A) . Wo n 4-2 v Sutto n Valence (A ) . Wo n 6-0

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that it was agreed before the start to play just twenty minutes each way. Then followed fi ve weeks of snow and next an historic moment when we defeated St. Lawrence 3-0 for the first time in twenty years at this level. The team played well on this occasion and deserved its success. T hree days later we met a talented Sutton Valence X I who dominated the game so that a 0-3 defeat was no disgrace. The fi na l mateh against Kent College was a dogged defensive affair in which we did well not to be overwhelmed by a highly ta lented team. Once again we played with a depleted side and Baker performed magic feats in goal to keep the opposition a t bay. Palmer produced a nother excellent individual effort to score our o nly goa\. In defence Ie Huray and Godfrey were outstanding a nd in attack Palmer was the best stick player wh ilst Friedlander worked away li ke a beaver a nd did many good things. Many ot hers gave creditable perfor mances in the ot her positions but this will be remembered as Baker's season for his sheer courage a nd brill ia nce in goal.

l.l.D.C. The/oJ/owing played: T. C. Baker, J. Marozzi, I. J . Udoyen, C. N. Downie, D. P. P. Godfrey, M. G. le Huray (Capt.), G. A. Bones, S. L. Friedla nder, B. E . Palmer, C. M. Pope, P. E. Jessup, R. I. W. W ilson, C. R. Stanbury. Also played: J. G. Wright, S. Bocresion. A. G. West. RESULTS

v C hatha m House (A). Lost 0-2 v Duke of York's (A), Draw n 2-2 v Dover (H) . Drawn 0-0

S1. Lawrence (H). Won 3-0 v Sutton Valence (H). Lost 0-3 v Kent College (A). Lost 1-3

Under 14 XI There are some good players in the school at this age . Splitting the ta lent with soccer has had some e ffect, but a very large number of begin ners opted for hockey, a lthough for the greater part of the term the weather kept them unoccupied . It is up to these boys' determination to see whether hockey can flourish in future years. This was not a successful season from the point of view of results since we are in a very strong hockey area, but the team played extremely well at times in atrocious conditions of nood and mud (not to mention fog). Dan Rycroft and Giles Darby shared capta incy - bot h will do very well in fu ture years. Our defence did not usually concede many goals. Handley, Kwan a nd Hellings were excellent backs: Stobbs, Hirst, St. John Parker and Van Notten a lso show promise. The team were a fr iendly group who did not let themselves become down-hearted. H. E. l .A. A X l: S. W, Roberts, M. R. Ha ndley, P. Kwan, J. L. Hirst, D. J . Rycroft , J . J. F. Stobbs, J . E. D. Knight, J. W. Martin, D, St. J ohn Parker, G. H . Darby, H. L. Hawkins, C. J . Haswell, P. W. F. Van Notten, T. J. Locking. Also played: R. A. Hellings, T. C. Baker, B, A. Marquis. BXI: A. M, H. Darley, G. p, J. Joll iffe, A. E. C. Lacey, D. E. Quain, C. D. K. Ha ll , J . R. G reggio, N. D. Lawrence, A. J. McLean,

House Matches The junior six-a-side competitio n cou ld not be played because of the weather. In its place, an indoor four-a-side tournament was held, In a rousing fina l, Galpin's inspired by Vigo, over~ame Meister Omers, led by Gi rling, by 7-6. The snow disappeared just in time to a llow the senior six-a-s ide tournament for th e Grasspha lte Trophy to be played on Blore' s o n 8t h Ma rcil. The early rounds saw few surprises as School H ouse disposed of Marlowe, Linacre put ou t The Grange, for whom Van Notten a nd Roberts were impressive, and Galpin's, loo king a little tentative, defeated Tradescant. Meister Omers, without their geographers, were perhaps unfortunate to lose by a single goal to Broughton. In the semifinals, Schoo l Ho use could only draw with Broughton, but as the better all-round side, it was probably fa ir that they went through to the fina l after a penalty compet ition. In the other ma tch, Li nacre su rprised the favo urites by their tenacity, and despite Murch's great experience, Galpin's were defeated 3- 1. The fina l was then an anti-climax: Linacre's giant-killing effort had obvious ly overwhelmed them. Clements and Stoc ks were able to d icta te the cou rse of the game , a nd a lthough the fi nal score was o nly 2-0, a School House victory was never in doubt. In the eleven-a-sid e competit io n, Galpin's , School House and Meister Omers came through the early rounds fai rly easily as expected, but the holders, Broughton, bad ly hit by a series of injuries, were forced to scratch, thus letting Linacre into the sem ifinals. Galpin's then had litt le difficulty reversi ng the result in the sixes by disposing of Linacre 4-1. Meister Omers and School H ouse, on the ot her ha nd, played a very close game . Alth o ugh M.O. scored ear ly o n, School H ouse were on top in the first hal f, with Clements a nd Ie Huray prominent, and sustained pressure brought an equalizer fro m Stocks. In the second half, however, M.O, looked mo re convincing, and a goal fro m Palmer proved enough to see them through to the final. A well-fought and evenly contested match ended the season. Galpin's, with Murch dominant and Topham dangerous on the wing, had more of the play in the first half, but Hugh Girling kept control of his circle to break up most attacks. An indiv idual goal from Veitch then gave Meister Omers the lead, somewhat against the ru n of play . The seco nd half was much more even. Chances were missed at bot h ends, before la in Girling put the issue beyond doubt with a welltaken goal, and Meister Omers deserved ly won the cup for their a ll-ro und skill and determination. P.O.H.

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Girls' Hockey Bad weather and other factors have led to an unusually small number of matches being played this term , which was disappointing because we sta rted wit h an exceptionally good win, bealing the University 2nd Xl for the first time ever and convincingly. The match was played on an excellent pilch at the University and it seemed to bring the best out of the tea m. A rather scrappy match aga inst Queen Elizabet h's, Faversham fo llowed and thereafter not a great deal of Il-a-s ide hockey was played. However we were able to get together quite a good tea m for the Kent Schools 7-a-side at the end of term in which we were 3rd in our group, though this was played on a cold. wet morning unconducive to hockey. Katie Woodcock has been a lively, energetic capta in who has shown sk ill and drive at Centre-Forward. We shall miss all our 6a players but particu larly the wings, Lucy Hoare and Lucy Charrington, and Kate Kelly has been the latest in a li ne of good Goalkeepers and has been outstanding in her interceptions and positional play. T hough there has been li ttle hockey for the 2nd XI th is term, we look forward to a vigorous revival in September. Mea nwhile ou r 1st X I has appreciated pract ising wit h the boys' 3rd XI. J.A.W . Colours were awarded to: Katie Woodcock, Kate Kelly, Lucy Hoare. 1st X I: Katherine Kelly, Catharine Walsh, Emma Venton , Antonia Ament , Alexandra Coch rane, Helen Davis, Lucy Hoare, Emma Conyers, Katie Woodcock (Capt.), Melanie Bo nes, Lucy Charrington. RESU LTS

v U.K.C. 2nd XI. Won 5-0 Kent Schools 7-a-side Tournament v Highsted. Drawn 0-0 v Queen Eliza bet h's. Won 1- 0

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Association Football 1st XI We faced th is season with some trepidation. Soccer had become a Major Sport, the fi xture list had been greatly strengthened, but no benefit wou ld yet have been felt from coachi ng in the junior groups. Early seaso n preparations were severely hampered by heavy rain, but in the first match we looked competent in ou r 4-2 defeat of St. Augustine's, with Tim T urner and Nick Wakefield scoring 2 apiece. Three days later we went 3-1 up against St. Edmund's, only to concede 3 goals in the last 10 minutes with some dreadful defensive blunders. Bob Geldof would have applauded our charity ... and we were to make further donations as the seaso n progressed. We travelled to Brentwood with 4 first-cho ice players unavailable. At half-t ime it was I - I , at full-time 1-3. We played very well, but not well enough. Tim Briggs deputising in goal played magnificent ly. Then came the weather - a month of snow , frost ?ond ice when the pitches were unplayable and our 'gym' pathetically inadequate. Winter-quarters having been left, we found ourselves 0-3 down at half-time on Du lwich's tiny pitch. We rallied and scored 3, Dave Laurence's nying header being matched by Tim Turner's half-volley on the turn. The whist le went 7 minutes early, and our momentum was halted. Westminster's wingers were neatly contained by fu ll-backs Simon Stuttaford and Peter Hamilt on, and goals by Matthias Kostering and Dave Laurence saw us 2 goals up with only minutes remaining. An uncharacteristic blunder by Simon Turner in goa l gave them a hope - the co nsequent defensive panic allowed them to equalise in a game we really should have won . At Epsom we were humiliated. Rugby Sevens injuries had put out Peter Hamilton and, to all inten ts and purposes, Dave Laurence; the pitch was small, uneven and nard; the ba ll bounced to an ext raordinary degree; and we played appa lli ngly badly. A quick and aggressive Epsom side scored 4 and we managed just 1. T hings were not much better against Dover College. The defence looked inadequate and the attack inoffensive. Matthew Du rham scored a good goal to give us the draw, and Simon T urner saved a penalty. On the fina l Saturday of term the O.K.S. looked invincible: Mondadori, Briggs, Kerry, Nash ... and in the 5th mi nute they were given a penalty. Not even they knew what for. Then Simon Turner and lain Linney collided and both went off. Almost unbelieveably we began to produce some of our best football of the season . T he defence played su perbly with Bobby Morse sweeping authoritatively, the mid-field sad ly without Nick Wakefield gave as good as they got, and even the attack looked effective, with Paul Norris, Mark Ryeland and Dave Laurence aUlooking sharp . The game ended 2-2, but we felt that the moral victory was ours and that our season had been salvaged. 166

My thanks go to Matthew Durham for his capable ca tai and referee matches, and to Mr. Neville Float and h· p ncy, to arll my coll~agues who have agreed to take teams , IS grou ndsmen or all th eir help and co-operation.

Team: S. R. Turner, S. P. Stuttaford I. D. S Linne R J M . P.A.E.D. M. Durham, M. Kdstering, D. J. Lau;ence, P: A. N~~ris·. . orse, P. A. Hanu lton, N. C. Wakefield, T. J. Turner, Also played: S. J. Attwood, N. H. Briggs T P B· . J. Scott, D. S. Taylor, J. C. von Wersebe, A.. ·W:llg~~'n~: R. DaVies, A. O. F. Murdoch, M. B. Ryeland, A. G. First Colours: M. Durham, T. J. Turner, N. C. Wakefield. Second Colours: M. Kdstering, l. D. S. Lin ney R J M P . , . . orse, . A. Noms, S. P. Stu ttaford, S. R. Turner.

RESULTS

Played 8, Won I , Drawn 4, Lost 3, Goals for 17, Goals against 21 v SI. Augustine's (H). Won 4-2 . . v SI. Edmund's (H). Lost 3-4 v Westmmster (H). Drawn 2-2 v Brentwood (A). Lost 1-3 v Epsom (A). Lost 1- 4 v Dulwich (A). Drawn 3-3 v aDover College (H). Drawn I-I S .T ... v .K.S. (H). Drawn 2-2 corers. urner 4, Kostenng 4, Wakefield 3, Laurence 2, Norris 2, Durham I , Ryeland J.

2nd XI Th!! most signi~icant factor this season was the weather From th b . . the pitches were either covered in snow or frost bound d i ef egmn.mg of February 10 the first week in March K.C.S. Wimbledon, Co lfe's, Kent College and Sevenoaak~ ~? p ay 0 an.y kmd was poss ible. Fixtures were losl againsl Brentwood. ~t the beginning of the season were carried out· in Ie preparations for t~~ games against St. Augustine's and Such conditions were not very conducive to serio us and har~X~~~~l%/oor condit ions - cold easterly wind and rain. The te~m players were desperately short of football know-h w .. .. and passlllg. Unfort un ately wit h only a few practice se· 0 ~nd Si mple Important skills like head ing ball cont rol the lack of experience and sk ills the football played b:~~en~~~a~fble these s ~iI1s were not greatly impro'ved. Despite approach, eit her head down and go for goal or big bo t d h p~oved q~lte ~uccessful. T hey relied on the d irect SI. Au.g~stine'~ had a very weak defence and man 0 o:~s s~ ase III the direction o f the oppos it ion's goa l. opportulllties and It was the mid-field S. Gancz (2) N B .y g (2) J gul~ have been scored. The forwards missed many looked th.e better f~otballing team, th ey squander~d ~~~~al 'I· aVlcs (3~ that ~ame to t l~e re~cue. Although Brentwood only leadmg by a sUlgle goa l at half time Goa ls by T I c l~n~es pIaYIll~ with the wmd III the first half and were The match against Dulwich was like the ~irst match o;y or an aWrence III the 2nd half gave us a good victory . passed withou.t a serious practice or match so it was not u ~e~ew season: very scrappy an.d unorganised. Four weeks had n~xt game agalllst Westminste~ Colts proved the best contest or~~~ed. Helped by 3 pena ltl~s ~ve even tu~I.ly won 7-3. T he missed severa l good chances III the first half and des ite b . seas?n ~nd ~vas played III Ideal cond itions. Westminster s~ore one rather ~crappy goal. In Ihe second hal f,lin 's ~~ga~upenor III Virtua lly all aspects of the game could only pitch more effectively began to pressurise the Westmin;te dgr, to ~ut o~e or two passes together and usi ng the big shot. A draw was a fa ir resuh and a good one fo r King'~. e ence. -ron a corner, J. Davies scored with a first time Canterbury Eagles proved to be a fairly you ng team and more skilful approach. It was the same story but in reverse our str~ng~l and speed were sufficient to overcome their M aga lilst t le . :K.S. Their strengt h and speed were too good for a weakened 2nd XI with 4 regu lar playe~s miss· take advantage of the dimi nutive figure of James 'eng. I ·r~ n.y oPhPoartullities to score arose but we seemed ashamed to un I ,e III t e .K.S. goal. The four Vth .formers in the team - A. Murdoch J D v· next year and wH h on ly two 6b players in the side the· a·u,es, B. Marson and J. Watson look to be 1st XI material under IS squad now .in ex istence, we hope there will ~~ ~~m~e many c hang~s next season. ~owever, with a regular My thanks to J. Nevile for captaining the team _ a rerabl young ~bnld skilful play~rs ~o fill the vacant positions. < I e, responSI e and enthuSIaSlic leader.

Players: T. P. Briggs (6), M. F. Whitehead (6) J C von W e r . D.J.B. (5), J. P. P. Nevile (5), J. R. Davies (4), P. a.' A: Thomas (I)sege ~2>y N' H. Briggs (4), P. F. Elam (6), S. R. Gan" I G F. Murdoch (4), D. J. Laurence (I), A. G. J. SCOl( (I) BeNt· a Y(40)r (6), J. R. Watson (6), D. S. Vye (I), A. p .' J. Cocknll (1), J . A. W. Mycroft (1). ' . . arson ,M. B. Ryeland (I), A. C. Welbourn (I), ( ) matches played.

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The team was: J . A. Stern , A . P. Fa rrell, P. J . Cockrill , J, H. Sca rlett, J . J. Chu mas, A, G, F. Murdoch , G. J. C. Burki ll , A. R. U nfo rth, J . W. Muskett, M. A. J . McH. Overton, S. J. Attwood, A. M. Broni ma nn, I. Cawley, W. A. Webb, J. A. C. Landale, M. I. Holden, P. M. Carrington. RESULTS ~III

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Under 15 XI For this age group in particu lar, it was a pity that the season was so drastically curtailed by the weat her, for a highly prom ising side was denied the opportuni ty to develop. T he opening game, played in monsoon conditions and freezing, biting wind, resu lted in an easy win over St. Edmund's. T he first goal of the season was scored by the opposition, but into their own net. Thereafter King's domina ted and scored some good goals, profit ing in the last quarter from goalkeeping errors. Sti ll it was clear that M. Holden , among others, was a player of particu la r promise. Indeed , it was he who opened the scoring in the match agai nst Brentwood - also played in rain and cold wind wit h a brilliant solo effort , beating three de fenders in the penalty area and slotting home. T his lead held until half-t ime, but in the second half some bad defensive errors were punished and the home side emerged as deserving winners, though slight ly fl attered by a two-goal margin. T he Westminster game was notable for the qua lity of the fi nishing. T here will have been few goals at this level of soccer to compare with the long-range shots by C. Vavasour a nd J . La ndale that flashed into the roo f of the net afte r two penetrating runs at the heart of the defence. T he concluding game at K.C .S. on a small pitch was a patchy affair. The first half found Ki ng's well on top but unab le to create good chances, and yielded a 1-0 lead . A scrappy second half saw goal-mouth action at bot h ends, but King's applied suffic ient pressure to score two more, including another gem from M. Holden . This team prom ises much for Soccer in the Senior school. In goal, N. Daley was highly competent, usually a nticipating well , but occasionally acrobatic too, and he maintained concentration at all times. The 'back four' were sometimes insecure, bu t C. Vavasour was a n effective, unpretentious sweeper of prod igious work-rate, and E, Floydd was a cultured left back. R. Schafer progressed well at right-back, and latterly in the centre of the defence, but dwelt on the ball a li ttle too much. J. Aboderin played in the centre of the defence bu t suffered through lack of mobility. M. Nickolls moved to right back and played well , but was more at home in midfield: skilful though perhaps a little lazy. The strength of the side undoubtedly lay in the midfield and attack. A. Brown, the captain , was a dominant influence on every game, tackli ng hard and direct ing play with sk ill and vision; F. Webb was a driving force on the left side, wh ilst on the right, F. Ososanya displayed silky dribbling sk ills and great effort and determination. On the wings, J . Landale used his blistering speed to great effect a nd supplied a number of good crosses, whilst on the left, T. Rose was a penet ra ting, game attacker. At centre-forward, M. Holden was outstand ing. Though small, he compensates fully with uncanny close control and the abili ty to turn with the ball. His finishing ab ility reminds the author of J immy Greaves, whom he vaguely remembers, from newsreel clips of course , His game will be even more effective when he learns to use other players to take pressu re on hi mself, pa rticularly when other teams, such as Brentwood, need two men to mark hi m. This has been an enjoyable, if brief, season, and the whole squad has played a part. My thanks go to C.J .R.J, for his enthusiast ic and invaluable contribution to the success of the group . R.C.W. 168 FOOTBALL 1ST XI S/ol/ding: P. A. Norris, S. P. Stuttaford, R. J. Morse, M. Kastering, D. J . Laurence, P. A. Hamilton. Seated: I. D. S. Linney, T. J. Turner, M. Durham, N. C. Wakefield, S. R. Turner,().S.H.) TilE SCHOOL SEVEN Winners of the Kent Schools Troph)'(-) S/olldillg: N. C. Wakefield (0), M. W. Ursell (0), D. J . Laurence (0). D. M. Ives, J. P. P. Nevile (0). Sea/tel: J. C. O. Gordon (0), N. H. Briggs (Capt, oJ, A. A. Bush (0). ~ " .... ~ .. , n c: ' ;nn.... r. () Mtm P P '~"'lIm" (Kpnli,(h (jOTI'll,.!

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Playe d 4, Won 3, Los t I , Goals for 16, Goals against 4. v S1. Edmund's. Won 8- 1 v Westminste r. Won 4- 0 v Brentwood. Lost 1-3 v K.C.S. Wimbledon. Won 3-0

Under 14 XI With th e introduction of foot ball into the junior part of the sc hool for the first ti me in King's history, the prospect of achieving a standard capable of competing with the many footballing schools in the fixture list seemed extremely remote. However , despite the inevitable teething problems the so called 'rugby boys' adapted far more readily to the round ball than they ever d id to the oval variety. What they lacked in physica l presence they more than made up for in skill, and as this year's results illustrate football at this level has been successful and above all extremely popular amongst the boys. The first matches again st J.K .S. and S1. Ed mund 's we re rather patchy affairs, and it took some time before they slarted stringing a few passes toget her. King's dominated, but never capit alised on their territoria l advantage. In fact, one aspect of their play during these two games, which surfaced again on several occasions, was the abilit y of the back four to strike at goal - their own! These rare, but unforgettable sights have been the only blemish on what has been a solid and dependable defensive performance. Jackson, Burt, Skarbek, Andrews and Unforth have all been most impressive. Coupled wit h a good back line, this year's intake are fortunate to have two competent goa lkeepers. Clarke and Epega have both performed admi rably throughout the seaso n. In particu lar reference must be made to the match against Ca nterbury Eagles where Baba performed wonders, showing athleticism and courage in fro nt of a host ile attack. The midfield of Das, Davies, Hudsmith and Northeast have proved as in most good teams to be the driving fo rce and the bac kbone of the team. They have all competed with dist inct ion, and shown great tenacity . Of the attac kers Woolston has been the most effective in front of goal, and his timely finishi ng has proved invaluable, particularly in the Brentwood and Sevenoak s games. If he can ma intai n his present strik e rate then he could be devastat ing in later years. A centre forward needs the support of not only the midfield but also his fellow forwards. This year's team operated for much of the season with two rat her diminutive wingers in Cox and Hamilton. Their supply of crosses and their ru nning off the ball , has been a con tributary fa ctor in the team's success. Although it is rather invid ious to single out one person in particu lar, especially when all the team have played so well, Mark Nort heast deserves a spec ial mention. He possesses the vision and all the skills which outstand ing players are made of and to have been lik ened to a schoolboy Bryan Robson is indeed a great com pliment. To have attempted to play in a matu re style, and to have competed on a par wit h some of the best teams in the region, is a tremendous achievement, considering the side's lack of experience and the disruptio n caused by the weather. The results against Sevenoak s, Canterbu ry Eagles and Westminster (a lovely outi ng!) were highly commendable. As far as the under 14s are concerned , this has been a most satisfactory start to football at King's. With teams o f this calibre coming through the future looks extremely promisi ng. Finally I would like to thank and congratulate all the team for their effor:s this seaso n, Mr. Newbury for his assistance with the B Team and most of all Mr. Dix for initiat ing football at King's.

G.P.G. Team: B. A. Epega, A. J . R. Clarke , O. B. And rews, M. R. Jackson , A. J . W. W. Skarbek , E. J. Linforth , E. W. Burt, J. C. Hudsmith, M. G. Northeast (Capt.j, P. G. Davies, A. Das, D. J. Cox, D. C. T . Hamilton, A. J . Woolston. R ESU LTS II II II II

P layed 7, Won 3, Drawn I , Lost 3, Goals for 15, Goals against 10. J .K.S. Won 6-2 II Westmin ster. Lost 0-1 S1. Edmun d's. Won 3-2 II Ca nlerbury Eagles. Drawn 1- 1 Brentwood. Lost 2-3 II K. C.S. Wimbledo n. Lost 0- 1 Sevenoa ks. Won 3- 0

House Football With Soccer now a Majo r Sport the InterÂˇHouse League was disco ntinued. The weather put pa id to the six-a-side compet it ion, but the In ter-House K.O. Cup Compet ition survived and saw a very strong Brough to n side beat a depleted but gallant Marlowe side 5-0 in the Final.

P.A.E.D. 169 HOCKEY Tt:AM Bock Row: Emma Conyers. Catharine Walsh. Kate Kelly. Emma Venton, Alexandra Cochrane. &aIM: Lucy Hoare, Luey CharringtOn, Katie Woodcock, Helen Davis, Melanic Bolles. Ab$('lr/: Antonia Amen!. (Ken/ish GaUlle) NI:.TBA LL TEAM Bock Row: Victoria Pelerson. zOe de Linde, SallyÂˇAnn Ha wken, Tara de Linde. Seoloo: Sophi a St.Joh n Parker, Charlot1e Hare. Katie Woodcock. (Kemish Go~eflt')

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This year has been the most successful that we have had, in both the five schools East Kent Tournament last term a nd the Kent League this term. In the latter our U. 19 team has again reached the finals, playing Gravesend Grammar. We lost the first leg of the fin a l; the seco nd is next term. The U.16 team a lso gal th rough: the first yea r that we have done this with both age-groups, but here 100 Gravesend won the first leg very decisively. So few schools play at U. 16level that arranging matches is a major problem, and this lack o f match experience mea ns that ou r younger players have not yet shown their full potential. Ovcrallihe U. 19 team won four and lost fou r matches. The players were Matth ias Kostering, Alistair McFie, Jason Yap and Rajiv Vij ayanat han, with Simon Stuttaford and Bruce Marson bei ng va luable reserves . The wonder is that we manage to win so many matches with only one court to practise in and with almost a ll of our players having such heavy comm itments elsewhere. We have a wide choice in thc U.16s, with Andrew Vinton, Paul Norris, Charlie Boorman, Lawrence La, Alex Skarbek, C hris Hall and Philip Kwan a ll keen, and a ll potentially good, alt hough to compcte agai nst other schools realist ically a ll necd a lot more practice and perseverance - in addit ion to coaching sessions. Walpole retai ned the senior Housc Compet ition cup, with the hard smashes of Matt hias Kostcring, the reliable and talented play of Vij ay a nd, in one leg, Bruce Marson beating in the final the ever unruffled Alistair McFie and lain Li nney of Linacre. It is a pity that lain Linney cannot devote more time to Badminton! Next term sees the U.16 House Compet ition, and we hope that despite the better weather the court will be used to its fullest extent. M. KOSTERINQ AND R.J.M.

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There were echoes of this in the matc h against 0 K S It d I if a litt le rusty and overweight) and none more so th~n'A was .8?0 to see sta warts. of the past back in action (even the resurrection of the School Basketball Club to its present l;ga.l~~I~~~~, ~~lOr t~ hutasm was la rgely re~ponsible for on lhe fl oor in tired desperation added to, rather than detracted fro .:n , I~e a~c~a~~~~ spent most of the time prostrate The st re~gt h .o f this te~ m has been its defence, partic ularly under the bo~rds w"th T B'

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Junior House Basketball Competition This year's competitio n has been well-supported, a nd the standard of play has been quite high , renecting the nourishing state of basketball in the school. From the outset it was clear that G range, Ga lpin's and Walpole would be stro ng contenders for the trophy, with Luxmoore the 'dark horses' of the competition. The match between Walpole and Galpin 's was highly entertaining and particularly closely contested. Eventually, however, the combined talents of T. Williams, W. BaUenden and E. Floydd subdued the efforts of Walpo le's key player, J. Aboderin. In another close game, Lux moore edged o ut T radescant, but could not then contain the powerfu l Grange side, for whom J. Morse, J. Nighti ngale and F. Ososanya scored heav ily . The final between Grange and Galp in 's was a tense, low-scoring affair, but a fine game of basketball, notable for its control a nd tight defence. It was not un til the last minute that either side gained more than a two point lead, a nd Gra nge, tha nks particularly to J. Nightingale , but also to B. Marquis, a pro mising Shell player, edged home. T hanks go to a ll Houses and Housemasters for their suppo rt, senior boys who helped prepare their teams, and G,P .G. for assistance wit h refereeing. R,C.W, RESULTS

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Semifinals: Ga lpin 's 30, Walpole 25; Grange 43, Luxmoore 28.

Final: Galpin 's 18, Grange 26. Leading Scorers:

G ra nge: Nightingale 28 pIS., Morse 18 pts. Ga lpin' s: Ballenden 54 pts., Williams 26 pts. , Floydd 24 pts.

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Throughout the term great improvement was see M . who I am sure will turn imo a very classy runner iv~~ h'os~ notable was. Dave KlUg hl who came on dramatically and ness to tram. Yet again Simon Brook ran well with great strength and showed o nce a nd fo r all that he can ~u 1 I~ become legendary and given how li tt le train ing he's ~OUP.lI faste r !han a nyone else. Mig Va le's fini shing spri nts have look good for the future _ providing he isn ' t sick ! ne III comparison to the Dave Kn ights of this world, things must

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Attwood 15.12; Fenn 15.23' Brook 1613 ' Vale 1621 :Onig ht 16.22; G! lIe~pie-Sm ith 16.43; W re~ch 17.30'; Evans 1709 teams ran. Kmg s A placed 10th, King's B placed 26th . . Merchant Taylors . 6t h o ut of 16 teams. Coulsdon - Densham C up S. Attwood 3rd overall - Bronze medal. Match v. Dover Team came 3rd - Bron~e meda ls for Attwood, Fenn, Brook and Knight. King's took 1st 6 places. Match ~. Kent College Sef//prs: King's 30; Ken t College 56. }ulllors: King's 30; Kent College 69. A ttwood won Seniors, Rowsell won J uniors.

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Fencing This has been a very encouragi ng and success full errn. After a difficult and very closely foug ht triangu lar match with Hailcybury and King's School , Roches ter, we took on Westminster School and then Etcn College, winning both matches handsomely. T he Kent County Open Championships in Epee and Sabre sa w our three se nior fencers on very good form. In a compet ition that produced a remarkably high sta ndard of quality fe ncing, Mark Adamson not only reached the final, he came 2nd to Ralph Johnson (Sa lle Boston) last year's British National Epee Champion. Andy Wickerson (sabre) and Jon Rawlinson (epee) reached their respective semifinals, coming within an ace of entering the finals. T his part icular competition was extremely well-organised, maintained a very high standard throughout and wi11 long be remembered by those who took part. The Kent Schoolboys' Indiv idual Epee Championships which we hosted had a much larger entry than usual and our epeeists rose to the occas ion in no uncertain way. After the second round all the seniors were through as well as four of the seven juniors. In the Senior Final the result was in doubt right up to the very last fi ght which was between Mark and Jon. The winner of this fight would be the Ind ividual Senior Epee Champion fo r 1986. And the fi ght went to the very last hit, so well do these two fencers know their opponent's style and technique. And then , suddenly, the buzzer sou nded, the light was on , and Jon Raw li nson had won on the very last hit of the compet ition. Andy Wickerson had come 2nd and Ma rk Adamson 3rd after a most exciting contest. In the Junior Final we again had three contenders for the honours and in a st rong final pool Charles Majomi was a wort hy winner just seeing off Ben Rayment, runner up, and David Hodgson claimed 5th place. After all these marvell ous achievements and with the end of term in sight, I dare say a sense o f relaxation stole upon us. Suffice it to say that in our last match, a fri endly, against that redoubtable Club, Tenterden Swords, we were brought to earth by our seniors and bellers quite comprehensively. With Mark Adamson (bruised thumb) and Toby Young (ruptured spleen, - not, I hasten to add, a fencing accident , simply a Oight o f inco nsiderate steps that got in the way) bot h "ors de combat, some of our less experienced fence rs were to their consternation thrown into the fray. I should li ke to rec.ord how well the term h ~ gone and to say thank you to aUthose who have helped in the organization of th ings, in the preparing o f match equipment and in bringing on the junior fencers, especially Andy Wickerson and Mark Adamson, Captain and vice-Captain respectively. We are also all very well aware of the debt we owe to Mr. Bob Gambrill, Mr. Paul Romang and Mr. Ra lph Johnson. The fa ct that School Fencing can, at a time when we have so very few sen iors, ach ieve and maintain such a high standard of fe ncing spea ks volumes for their dedicatio n and coaching skills. Th e new generation of juniors holds much promise for the futur e and I end by congratulating all those ju niors who reached their respective Remove or Shell medal pool, particu larly Tom Ward and Jonathan Berry . Mr. Milner, who helped preside, complimented all the juniors on the quality of their fencing and very kindly presented them with their medals. W.J.R.H-S. RESULTS v HAILEYBURY AND KING'S SCHOOL ROCHESTER. (F. E.S.) 1st and 2nd Teams. 1st, Ki ng's , Rochester, 27; 2nd, Haileybury, 23; 3rd, K. S.C., 22. 3rd Foi l: 1st, Hai leybury, 15; 2nd , K.S.C., 8; 3rd, Ki ng's , Rochester, 4. v WESTMINSTER. Won 36- 18. 1st Team (F.E.S.). Won 16- 11 2nd Team (F.E .). Won 13-5 3rd Team (Foil) . Won 7-2 v ETON . Won 35- 19. 1st Team (F.E. S. ). Won 23-4 2nd Team (Foil) . Lost 3-6 3rd Team (Foi l). Lost 4-5 U/ 14 Team (Foil). Won 5-4 v TENTERDEN SWORDS F.C. (Club Match) Lost 10- 44. 1st Team (F. E.S. ). Lost 3-24 2nd Team (F.E.). Lost 4- 14 3rd Team (Foil). Lost 3-6 174

COUNTY COMPETITIONS Kent ~OU "ty A.F.U. Open Epee Competition Fma.I .Pool: 2nd, M. S. Adamson (K.S.C.) Semlfllla ls: A. J. Wickerson (K. S.c. ) and J. J. C. Rawlinson (K. S.C. ). Kent CO ~I~ty A ..F.U. Op~n Sa bre Competition Semlfmals: A. J. Wlckerson (K.S.C.). Kent Scl~oo lb oys' Individual Epee Challll)iOllships Sell/or Event: 1st, J . J. C. Rawlinson (K.S.C)· 2nd A J W' k (K S C 3rd, M. S. Adamson (K.S.C.). . , , . . IC erso n " .);

Jun ior Event: 1st, C. Maj omi (K.S.C.); 2nd B. M. Rayment (K S C ), 5t h, D. H. Hodgson (K.S.C.). ' . . " Team Tr.oPhy: 1st, ~ing'~, Ca nterb ury; 2nd, King's, Rochester' ' 3rd , jUOIor Leaders Regiment, Dover. Internnl Junior Meda l Competitions: Removes: 1st, T. J. Ward; 2nd , J . I. Manning; 3rd, P. F. J . Brothers. Shells: 1st, j. D. Berry; 2nd , J " R Price', 3rd ,S. G . E. Tr'Iggs. 2nd Colours awarded to: B. M. Rayment. Colts Colours awarded to: J . D. Berry, J . J . L . M Oore, N. C. Plant, j. R. Price, j. 1-1. Robertson.

Netball What last term showed itsel f to be a very good netball tea I I d f . two of its matches and lost only to a very determined Ashfo m, las la. a rust~at mg term due to weather but has won enjoyed the c.hance to play indoors against Dover College r~ t~;~; ~~~~~~ t~ea;;~c lemen t weat her, the gi rls partic ularly We shall miSS our three 6a girls: Charlotte Hare who has b h I fl' . very well against Dover) and Katie Woodcock T hi; has been a e p u capta m, Sophia St.John Parker (who shot to be able to resume in the Autumn with a st r~ng group ~lgl.a l~u.cc~~s f~1 YLe~ rdfor t~e net~al1 tea m and we are fort unate Hawken. Ir 111 e e m e twms, Vicky Peterson, and Sally-An n The 2nd VII have enjoyed their matches and have been reli bl d h ' . has improved and Emma Durham has been an energetic cel~lre~~~l r~n\ uSIa.s~c· 1 Karen ~Ieasda le's a.ccuracy in shooting A good feature of the seaso n has been th e number of gi Is 1 u p abyer, be en DaV IS has capta med the team well. r w 10 h ave een a Ie to represent the school.

J AW. Colours were awarded to: Charlotte Hare , Sophia St. John Parker , Katie d ck. ' o oW co IVII st : VIcky Pelerson, Charlott e Hare (Capt) S iI A H k .. . Sophia St.J ohn Parker, Nicola Odgers. " a y- nn aw en, Z~e de LlIlde, Katie Woodcock, Tara de Linde,

The/ollowing played inlhe 2nd VII' Sarah Fahe C I . W I Em ma Durham, Helen Davis, Karen' Bleasdale , l;maa~I~~I~ardfn~hhal~I,lE~::b~~e~~b~;~ Cochrane, Nicola Odgers , RESU LTS

1st VII: v Dover College . Won 27- 13 v Wye College. Won 15- 13 v Ashford. Lost 13-15

2nd VII: v SI. Edmund's. Drawn 7-7 v Dover College. Lost 9- 13 v Ashford. Lost 4- 15

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Rugby Sevens Senior Sevens Tournaments: The School VII d k of teams more clinica ll y and honestl y than full-blown Rugby Rughy Sevens exposes the st rengths an. ':"Ica ~leSdS~\sembIC a successful VIIs team only occupies those who fu nction Fifteens. Like the finely-tuned quartet, or SlIllI ar-slze I by playing in tune all the lime. I

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Rochester. Won 28-0

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Dartford. Won 20-0 The 2nd VII were disappointing, though they worked hard for their onc win of the day. II

Kent COllnty Scllools ~e.vells Tourtl'!f!,ent dd I Without practices (long since abandoned on snow-cum-frostThe Slart of the prest lglolls competitions came su e~ y~ vn a nd untested A talented Vll drawn from the successful bound pitches), the prospects for the sdcalsOldl w~r:o Ut~ene:ent and won th~ trophy, last held by King's in 1982. 1985 1st XV 's seaso n th rew hearts an lea Sill Nicholas Briggs's thril ling nine tries added glitter to his Captaincy of the team on a day that shone on everyone. Thirty-two schools competed . R ESU LTS

v Maidstone G.S. Won 26-0

v Duke of York's. Won 18-6 v Skinners. Won 19- 16

v Judd. Won 16- 12

Final v Bethany. Won 14- 10 Every player in the team scored at least one try during the day's ru gby.

Surrey Schools Illvitatioll Sevens TOllmam~~t I d's pitches as they did at Askea n's ground a week before. Inju ries Ki ng's d id not repeal the same su~cess o n IC lmon d ew Bush _ elsewl;ere in sport bedevilled the team's prospects to vital players -. Duncan Ives , David Lauren~e and(~n r leigh and Campion) the latter ending-up in the final against , from the start. KlIlg' s group produced two wmners ran Millfield. FOrly-eight schools competed. RESULTS

v T iffi n . Won 18-0

v Cranleigh. Lost 6- 12 v Campion. Lost 6-22

Rosslyn Park R.F.C. Natiolla l Sclto.olsISeve"f TOllr;~~::;'~e first day and our success owed much to Edward Mbu 's King's performances were patchy III t le ear y gam d 24 h M h arc. presence on the fie ld. King's qualified by winning its group on Mon ay t RESULTS

v All ha llows. Won lO- O v Loughborough. Won 16- 0

v Ellesmere Lost 4- 24 v Haydon. Won 28-0

.. Ih Rosslyn Park Ground. King's won 9-0 and qualified King's returne9 to contest Radley Colleg~ \he ~ ~~~I~~~ g~~~~ m:tch was won decisively by St. Bees (0-20) the King's for the quarter fmals, an~ fa ced St. Bee~ c 1,!0. .. t achieved in 1976 The loss against SI. Bees must also bt:. VII deserve to be rec'!gllized f,!r reachllngdtbhlS pos~lOn I~af~rth CoJlege and CilriSt College, Breco n before winn ing the put inlO context. PrevIOus to thiS, they la eaten mp tourna ment o utright. . Congratulations to alilhe players on their successes; they workcd hard under strenuouS cond itions, and mostly without training or coaching, too. I must keep out of the way more often. R.B.Mi. f II

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v Da rtford G.S. Won 16-0 v SI. George's. Won 18-4

v Duke of Yo rk's. Lost 0- 3 v Co lfe's. Won 14- 0 v Ch islehurst & Sidcllp. Lost 0-28

Squash The sq uash season since Christmas has been rather like the curate's egg, parts of it were excellent and parts were rather ordinary. As far as the 1st V were concerned the demands of hockey, soccer and rugby sevens meant that we were at full stre ngth on only five occasions. Our unbeaten rC{;ord went in the first match of term when Tonbridge beat us 4- 1, Matt Durham providing our on ly win, on courts that were scarcely playable. due to condensation. Mall Durham was a lso the hero in the next matc h against C ranb rook, when he beat thei r second string, who had previously won every ti me she had appea red aga inst us, to clinch the ma tch 3- 2. We then lost to Brighto n College with a much weakened team, but then beat Mi ll Hill 5-0, SI. Lawrence Ra msgate 4-1, Sevenoaks 4-1 and St. Edmund's 5-0. We were el iminated in the Premiere competition by Seaford College, 4-1, and then just before half term beat Eton 4-1. At Seaford Phil Evans had a rema rkable win at fifth stringl 9-2, 9-2, 9-1, and the win at Eton was our first there for some time. After half term our full strength team lost to St. Anselm's 2-3 before they had time to recover from the break, and thereafter we were never at fu ll strength again. Kent College beat us 3- 2 and Dulwich won, 4- 1, despite an heroic effort by Phil Evans agai nst their second string. Individua lly Alastai r McFic ca me on a great dea l, and never gave up, whatever the odds, H e did very well in deed to take the first strings of Tonb ridge and Cranb rook to 5 games, early in the term, and he fin ished with an epic win at Dulwich. No pra ise could be too high for his efforts on behalf of the Squash team during the term, whether as a player, an organiser, or a persuader of those re luctant to travel great distances to represent their sc hool. Phil Evans was also wholly dedicated to his sq uash and became the most improved player in the side. David Laurence did not play quite as much as he would have liked but, nonetheless. should be an effective first st ring next year, and Dave Stocks concentrated on his hockey after the Tonbridge match. T he J unior teams made encouraging progress through the term with enough good players to make futu re prospects rosy. The U. 16s won 4 of their 9 matches but were rarely at full strength. Andy Vinton was thei r best player with so lid help from Ricky Kher a nd occasiona l assistance from the erratic and effervescent Peter Thomas. Lower down the order Neil Bishop had a great win against Tonbridge, and Stephen Calthrop was always keen to play, twice representing the 1st V when the need was greatesl. He was an exce llent starter, but frequently fad ed as he tired; when his st rength grows to match his height he could become a formidable opponent. The V. ISs were probably our strongest team this term, and had a superb 5-0 win at Lancing, the best result that we have ever achieved there . David Godfrey was first st ring when Edward Jones-Thomas was not available, and his severe style was generally too much for most opponents of this age. Christopher Calthrop , lower down the o rder, improved markedly as the season progressed. He had some good wins in the last month and was always keen to play, Fina lly the V.14s, with Edward Jones-Thomas and Nick Daley , had two class players who were never stretched in school matches. With Harry Longrigg to back them up, the prospects for the V, 15s next year are quite reasonab le. 177

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'PLUN DER' (l.S.H. and lona/han Marshall)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The King's School, Ca nterbury. Shrove Tuesday, 1986.

Dear Sir,

As from tomorrow, should not The Larder Gale be renamed The Traitors' Gale?

Yours fait h fu lly,

R. V. J . BUTT.

2, Hazeldene Meads, Dyke Road Avenlle, Brigh ton, BN I SLR.

281h February, 1986.

Dear Sir,

I was most interested, and indeed moved. to read A.D.W.'s percept ive memoir of Ala n Michell . Most happily it demonstrates that the esteem and affection in which he was held by colleagues a nd co ntemporaries was fe lt equa ll y by those whom he taught. I wonder if I may add briefly to what has been written? A.D. W. includes reference to Michell 's mili tary career. A lth ough this un likely so ldier did well , and when comm iss ioned ret urn ed to the R.T.R., it mu st OCC ur to O .K.S. who knew hi m that his a lmost inde fin ab le Qual ities of urbanity, elega nce of bearing, motion, dict ion and writ ing were hard ly the perfect material to match the harsh , mecha ni ca l rea lit ies of the tank. Moreover, as he wrote to me at the time, he co ul d not persuade himself tha t 'man was created to be dedicated to the polis hing o f cowhide'. T hese qua lities did however bri ng him toget her with a ki ndred spirit in the war~time poet Henry Reed (presumab ly polishing cowh ide a longside) who, in his Lessons 0/ the War, dedicated the poem Nam ing the Parts to A la n Mic hell . Whether he had a ny hand in the writ ing I ca nnot say, but knowing his cast of mind I would risk the conjectu re that it was not unl ikely. At a ll evellls, the fami ly now treas ure a handsome ly produced presentatio n copy of the work, inscribed to Alan by Henry Reed. A fina l int rigui ngly domestic note. By happy coincide nces, A lan's connectio n with th e King's School cont inues in the fami ly, for his younger daughter Rac hel married Mark Pearson (LX 1 969~73) a few years ago. I understan d that the meet ing o f the two was as entirely fo rtuit olls as it was fortu nate. O r is it si m ply that King's moves in a mysterio us way? Yours faithfully, GEOFFREY W. AVER Y.

T he Grange, The King's School.

161h March, 1986.

Dear Si r,

The ru le on Standard Change in t he Rotu lus states that d uring ou t-of~school ho urs we are to wear a jacket, a tie (which must be visible), a smart shirt, and pressed trousers. I adm it that it wo uld not give the Sc hool a good image to walk around town look ing li ke ragam uffins, but it would surely be more sens ible to have a more relaxed attitude to dress on half~days and when t ravell ing to a nd from School. If we wish to go into town, it is fai rly plai n to the juvenile pop ulation of t he town that we are 'Pengui ns', even if we wear the dress suggested in t he Row lus. P lease can we be allowed, on some occasions at least, to wea r t he clot hi ng we want? After a ll , if we a re in town , casua ll y dressed , who is to know we are fr om King's? Yours fa ithfully, JULIEN FOSTER.

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AVIS, J. P. BOCRESION, A. CHARRINGTON, Lucy E. COOPER, J. H. DAWKINS, Tanera K. A.

DIXON-CLARKE, Lucy J. ELAM, P. F. FALL, Kale

FALL, Melanie

GERRISH, S. D. P. MICHAEL. Eli zabet h

MORTLOCK, P. E. REED, R. P. ROLLASON, N. W. SQUIBB, A. W. STANBURY, W. J. WHYTE, T. J. WILSON, Paola R. A.

CAMBRIDGE ARENDS, B. P. BARRON, A. J. BEARD, Francesca L.

BENSTEAD, Emma L. BROOKE, C. J. DOWNES, R. D. C. DUNNING, J. R. EVERHART, D. C. FETHERSTON-DILKE, Natalia E. FOORD, J. D. GILLESPIE-SMITH, A. H. GOPAU l, J. HARDING, A. W. J. HAWKES, W. S. B. McCLEERY, P. H. MORLEY, Octavia K. NICHOLLS, J. P. H. ODGERS, A. L. PAINES, P. E. H. PATTERSON, R. E. PRESTON, A. T. T. PRITCHARD, H. D. REED, Judith C. ROBERTSON Elizabeth J. WATK INS, D. R. WILLIS, Abigail B.

New College Trinity College Lady Margaret Hall Merton College Worcester College for 1987 St. Hilda's College Magdalen College St. Hilda's College Christ Church St. Edmund Hall Worcester College University College Magdalen College for 1987 Hertford College New College Wadham College forl987 Lady Margaret Hall Balliol College

English Engineering English Music Music Geography History & French P.P.E. P .P. E . Geography Classics P.P.E. Engineering History C hemistry Biochemistry Theology English

Gonv ille & Caius College Trinity College Jesus College Jesus College Downing College St. Catharine's College G irton College G irton College

History Modern Languages English History Geography E nglish Law Music

Magdalene College History Magdalene College Economics Pembroke College Economics Christ's College Economics Emma nuel College English Trinity College for 1987 History Jesus College C lassics Jesus College Classics Trinity Hall English Gonville & Caius College Natural Science Peterhouse History Gonville & Caius College for 1987 Law St. Catharine's College Arabic Studies St. Catharine'S College Natural Science Sidn ey Sussex College Law Newnham College Geography Girton College Archaeology & Anthropology Girton College English

The following have been offered Conditional Places.Â·ALDRIDGE, Deborah C. FLOWER, C. P. J. LOFDAHL, Pia USHER, Tara P.

St. John's College Magdalene College Queens' College Pembroke College 180

Law Natural Science Economics Economics & Law

THE SCHOOL Captain of School.' J. D. McL. Wrench, M.S. SCHOOL MONITORS M. F. M~Cullough., G. L. Morris, D. G. Stocks, A. H. C. Sherwood, Katherine E. Kelly, K.S., N. H. Bnggs, S. VIJayanathan, A. J. M. McFie, M. B. Ryeland, M . Camburn, Lucinda J. Miller, M.S., D. S. Vye, A. F. B. Sturt, K.S., M.S., Tanera K. A. Dawkins, M.S. HOUSE MONITORS

School House: D. G. Stocks, A. M. T. Clements, R. D. C. Downes, M.S., Katherine E. Kelly, K.S., O. Y., Madha, N. A. Papachristidis, P. F. E lam.

The Grange:

N. H. Briggs, A. W, Leach, J. R. Brown Tanera K. A. Dawkins M S M W

U~sell,N. G. M.cCarthy, K.S., W. S. B. H~wkes, K.S., Samantha J. ;'ia~d';ngham'

Vtctona M. Wtlson.

Walpole: S. Vijayanathan, G . M. Dunn, M. K6stering, J. J. Oliver. Meister Omers: J. D. McL. Wrench, M.S., S. H. Yap, H. W. Girling, M. J. Smith, S. L. White W. J. Stanbury, K.S., R. P. Reed, K.S.

Marlowe:

A. H. C. Sherwood, M. R. Peterburs, W. A. Webb, R. S . Petts, T. J. Turner Emma J . Venton. '

Luxmoore:

M. McCullough, M. Camburn, P. G. S. Lawton, A. Macdonald N. W. Rollason. '

Galpin's:

G. L: Morris, A. G. E. Fordham, M.S., J. D. Godley, W. J. Murch, Lucinda J. Miller, M.S., Lucy E. Charring ton, K.S.

Linacre:

A. J. M. McFie, F. J. Charlesworth, J . P. H. Nicholls, K.S., M. R. Evison, M. F. Whitehead, A. J. Barron, K.S.

Broughton:

M. B. Ryeland, M. Durham, K.S., D. M. Ives, J. P. Taylor, L. M . Fenn J. H . Scarlett. '

Tradescant:

A. F. B. Sturt, K.S., M.S., A. Bocresion, P. L. Evans, J. R. Nicholas, D. A. Stearns, Juha J . Pears, Sarah A. Pendlebury, M.S.

Mitchinson's:

D. S. Vye, B. W. Nash, K.S., Alison C. Rosemary Hardwick .

Lat/ergate: Hockey Girls' Hockey Boats Rugby Football Cricket Swimming Girls' Swimming Tennis Girls' Tennis Squash Rackets

Ru~kert, A.

J. Craik, M.S., J. H. Cooper

T. Grieves (GL), J. C. O. Gordon (GR), S. J. Grimes (GL), D. J. Lawrence (B). CAPTAINS OF SPORT W. J. Murch Girls' Squash Rackets Katherine Woodcock Golf A. W . L~ach Badminton N. H. Bnggs Basketball M. B. Ryeland Soccer G. M. Dunn Sailing Karen Bleasdale Canoeing A. J. M. McFie Netball Catherine Walsh Chess A. J. M. McFie Cross-Country

Monitor for Music: A . F. B. Sturt, M.S. Head Sacristan: M. J. Smith 181

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N. A. Alcock, G. B. Andrews, M. A. Ay ida, E. J. Bet ham, J . R. Brett, A. J . R. Clarke, N. W. S. Davies A. F. A. Fahm, I. B. Fardell, D. T. Hami lton, J. P. Hawkins, J. L. Hi rst, G. P. S. Jolli ffe, D. R. King, R. M. L: Kn ight, B. N. J. Long , J . G. Macdonald·Bell , A. J. M~Lean, H. C . Milward, S. M. Morgans, J. S. O'Mahony, C. Y. Pong, R. J. Redfern, P. C. Rogerson, O. A. Subramaman, Q. P. Thomas, A. N. WaItS, A. J. Woolston, K. W. Yeoh.

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BAKER, N. R. II Cross St reet, S1. Dunstans, Canterb ury, Kent CT2 8AT; Dover College Junior School; B; Sept. '80' Music Scholar; House Mo ni to r; Head of Stage Lighting; Symphony and Chamber Orchestras; to read Eleclricai Engineering at Imperial College, London. BEND IEN, J . G. Flat 2, 2 Gilben Street, London, W I7 I HH; Westerleigh; Sept. '80; T; Head of House; Secretary of Tente rden Soc.; R.A.F. Jun. Cadet; Capta in of Fenci ng (1 st Cols.); J .14 & J ,15 VIII Rowing; to read Economics at L.S.E. BISHOP , Charlotte. Cu lverden Farm house, Tunbridge Well s, Kent TN4 9QL; Sacred Heart School; Sept. '83; SH' House Monitor; Marlowe Soc.; Photography Soc.; Oklahoma!; Blithe Spirit; to read PhilosophylTheology at Durham: BROOKE, C. J. 53a Stubbs Road, Hong Kong; Northbourne Park; Sept. '81; B; Hon. Senior King's Scholar; HOllse Mo nitor; Du rn ford Soc.; Blax land Soc.; The Lady From Maxim's ; Rugby 2nd XV Ca ptain (2nd Cols.); 2nd XI Football Capta in; Ath letics 1st Team, Secretary (1st Cols.); Hockey U. 14; Squas h U, 14; to read Land Economy at Downing College, Ca mbridge. COLMAN, Deborah C. Sarratt Mill House, Sarratt, Herts; S1. Helen's, Nort hwood; Sept. '83; GR; Marlowe Soc.; Durnford Soc.; Tenterden Soc.; School Choir; The Importance oj Being Earnest, Guys and Dolls, produced If You're Glad, I'll be Frank; 2nd Netball and Tennis Teams; to read English and P hilosophy at Bristol University. COX, Ta nya A. Four Winds, Wood land Way, Kingsgate, Broadstai rs, Kent CTIO 3QD; Clarendon House, Ramsgate; Sept. '85; MT; left· sadly· after twelve days due to fam ily illness. CRAIG, J . A. Po nd House, Bishops Down Park Road, Tunb ridge Wells, Kent; Ma rlborough House; Sept. '82; LN; Caxton Soc.; to Brooke House, Sixth·Form College. EVANS·PUG HE, A. J . Birchanger Rectory, Bishop's Stonford, Hens CM23 5QH; St. John's Co llege Choir School, Cambridge; Jan. '80; LN; Music Scholar; House Monitor; Durnford Soc.; Schoo l Band; Orchestras; Chapel and Crypt Choir; Oklahoma!, Talisman, Pirates, Guys and Dolls, Money, Murder in the Cathedral; to read History at Edinburgh University, EVERHART, D. C. Fernlea, Hollow Lane, Cante rbury, Kent; Kent College; Sept. '83; MT; Music Scholar; Head of House; Sy mphony and Chamber Orchest ras ; Choral Society; Chamber Choir; Guys alld Dolls, Hamlet; At hlet ics (1st Cols.); Rugby 2nd XV; to read Music at Girton College. Cambridge. EYTON, M. M. IS Queensgate Mews, London, SW7; Streete Court School; Sept. '80; MO; Durnford Soc.; Tenterden Soc. ; A Midsummer Night 's Dream; Rugby 5t h XV ; Hockcy/R ugby U.1 4 Bs; to read T heology at King's College, Lo ndon. FETH E R STON~ D I LKE , Natalia E. 85 ChristcilUrch Road, Winchester, Ha nts S023 9QY; Bryanston School; Sept. '83; GL; Hon. Music Scholar; House Monitor; Durnford Soc.; Secretary of the Choir; Chamber and Symphony Orchestras; School and Chamber Choirs; Oklahoma!, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Guys and Dolls; Choral scholarsh ip to read History at Trinil Y College, Cambridge. FOORD, J. D. 15 Alleyn Park, london SE2 1; Dulwich Co llege Prep.; Jan. '80; GR; House Monitor; Swimming (2nd Co ls.); Rugby 3rd XV; to read Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge. GARDNER, J. P. 22 Wood lands Park, Leigh·on~Sea, Essex; Alleyn Court; Sept. '81; B; Hon, Music Schola r; House Monitor; Harvey Soc. ; The Lady Jrom Maxim 's; Rugby (1st Cols.); to read Chemistry at London University. GILLESP IE-SM ITH , A. H. The Warren , Shobley, Ringwood, Hampsh ire BH24 3HT ; Friars School; Sept. '80; LX; Senior Scholar; House Monitor; to read Economics at Pembroke College, Cambridge. GOPAU l, J. T. P.O. Box 70354, Ndola, Zambia; J.K.S.; Sept. '81; W; Hon, Scholar; Head of House; School Monitor; The Hunting oj the Snark; Captain Squash (1st Cols.): Tennis 2nd VI; to read Economics at Ch rist's College, Cambridge. HARD ING, A. W. J. 4 Bois Heros, 1328 Oha in, Belgium; Bra mblelye; Sept. '80; GR; Head of House; Marlowe Soc.; The Importance oj Being Earnest; Squash 1st V; Tennis 1st VI (2nd Co ls.); 5th XV; 10 read English at Emmanuel Col lege, Cambridge. HOLDEN. Sara h C, West Leys, Bracondale, Esher, Surrey KT IO 9EN; Surb iton High School, Sept. '83; B; House Monitor; Tente rden Soc.; Durnford Soc.; Chapel and School Choir; Three Sisters, Hamlet, Guys and Dolls; Girls Hockey 1st XI Capta in (1st Cols.); Net ball 1st VII ; Ten nis 2nd VI; Girls' Ath letics Captain; to teach in India before reading English at Durham University. 182

JOHNSON, L. St. Rap haels. Buxted, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 4JS; Sk ippers Hill; Sept. '85; W. McCLEERY, P. H. Buckstone Farm Wind lesham Road Ch bh S Scholar; Captain of School, Du rnf~rd Soc.; S m hon' 0 a~, urrey GU24 8ES; J.~.S.; Sept. '81; GR; King's Sheppard, A Midsummer Night's Dream' IS/ Soc%e~cche:t~a'(fh~~er OrChestra; RlfIg Round the Moon, Jack to read Classics at Jesus College, Camb;idge. ap am st 0 s.); 1st XV (Team Cols.); Cricket 3rd XI;

NASH, .M. J. 12 1 Dri ~gt h orpe Road, Dringhouses, York Y02 2LF' ., . , Monitor; House Momtor, Durnford Soc' Marlow S . ' J .K.S., ~ept. 8 1; LN; KIng s Scholar; School Orchestra; 2nd XV Rugby (Cols.); Cro;~-Countr; (~~~' J~kl Sl),~~par:.; Allilgolle, Murder in the Cathedral; Second At hlet ics (Cols.) to read English at Edinburgh Univers~y . 0 S., st I Soccer (1st Cols.); Cricket 2nd XI (Cols.); NEWMAN·ROGERS, A. P. Flat 2 Dents Road Wand w h L Todd, Big AI; Rowing 2nd VIII (cols.); to Si~th Forsm °C~Iieg~.ndon SWI8; Brambletye; Sept. '81; GL; Sweeney O'CONOR, D. R. H.E.C. (0), B.F.P.O. 34; Marl borough HOllS . S '8 1· 0 to school m Germany; hopes to read History at Bristol Univer~ity.ept. , L; Sweeney Todd; Athletics Team; ODGERS. A. Gorsebrook, Pembu ry Road Tunbrid W II K King's Scho lar; Head of House; Rowing 1. 15 A VII1~ Reb' 2 e~1~~~2 3QN; Ho lmewO<?d House; Sept. '80; SH; College, Camb ridge. ' ug y n , to read Natural SCIence at Gonville & Caius PAINES, P. E. H. Frensham House Piltdown Uckfi Id Ea S Scholar.; Head of House; C.C.F. (Army); D~rnfor~eS' . ~I . ussex TN22 3XN; ~orthwo~; Sept. '80; B; Hon. Senior and Cricket; to read History at Peterhouse, cam br?~ge~dltor of The Calltuanall; Captam of House League Soccer C b PEMBROOK, F. J. G. Frognall Wickhamb 2nd XI; to Davies' tutorial c~lIege. reaux, anter ury, Kent; Wellesley House; Stowe; Jan. '82; MT; Crickel POLLITT, M. J. C. Stream Farm Wenbans La W dh E U. 15 A; to Skinners School. ' ne, a urst, ast Sussex; Holmewood House; Jan. '85; SH; Rugby PRESTON , A. T. T. Coombe Hill Lodge Fil z A Vice~Head of House; Paler and Durnford Socs ~~o~f;e I v~nue, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4SH; J.K .S.; Sept. '80; 2nd VI.II ; Captain Cross-Country (Cols.)' A·t'h let icfo(~~I~ta).g~ ManadgcAr Thf! lmpo~tance oj Being Eamest; Rowing Cambri dge, , . , 0 rea rablc StudIes at St. Cat herine's College, PRITCHARD, H. D. 20 Joy Lane, Whitstable, Kent en 4LS' J K S . S '. " C.C.F. (R.A.F.); Caxton and Du rnford Socs . Canoe' , . . . , cpt. 81, MT; KlIlg s Scholar; House Monitor' Cross·Country (1st Team Cols.); Squash Cap'tai n of ~n~(lst C?ls. ); G.B. U. 18 I nt~rnational ; Ca noe Club Captain; Camb ridge. n team, to read Natural SCIence at S1. Catharine'S Co llege, REED, j ud ith C. I I Wil berforce Road, Wisbech Cambr'd PE . Scho la~; House Mon itor; Antigolle, Sherlock Holmes' ~i~~ 1st ~/(~Ud cASII, ro):d School; Sept. '~3; MO; Hon. Ki ng's , n 0 s. , to read Law at SIdney Sussex College, Cambndge. SEAGRA VE, J . I Fullerton Road Carshalton Beech S SM5 . Scholar; Head of House; Vice.C~Plain of School' D~;n~urrey ,4JU; Pno~y School, Banstead; Sept. '80; LN; Music Orchestra; Captai n 1st XV (Cols.); Captai n Cricket I st ~~d(g~ .• )~~lOOI ChOIr; School Ban~; Chamber and Symphony WATK INS D R M M· II d ' s., occer 1st XI; to read HIstory at Bristol Universi ty. . ' .. yers, I an ,Nr. llphook Hants GU30 7NA P b diS . Momtor; to read Archaeology and An throP~logy at Girto n C~II::e,eca':nb~~~~: ChIchester; Jan. '80; LN; House WHEELER, S, P. 27 Flood St reet Lo ndon SW3 SST' D I . h C II ; 4th XVs; to City of London School. ' u WIC 0 ege Prep., Lo ndon; Sept. '82; GR; Colts Band WILLIS, Abigail B. 24 Creswic k Walk Lo nd . TI H . . King's Scholar; School Monitor; Marlowe S~~~; S ~ h~n;lCtta Barnett Schoo l;. Sept; '83; GR; Mu~ic Scholar; Hon. Dream! The Three Sisters, The Importance oj B:in% Ea;;;/;h"cmber anddDRh/e/l~s Orchestra; ~ Mldsl~mmer Night's Cambridge. ' uys all 0 s, to read English at GIrton College,

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HARLAND. Lucy J. 5, Westcombe Park Road London SE3' C' f Mo nit or; Durnfo rd; A ntigone, Big AI; Netb~ 1I lSI VII ( I 't ct~ 0). Lo ndon Sch~ol for Girl~; Sept. '~3; GL; House HOPE.MASON A d J D . s 0 s. , to ready HIstory at BrIStol Umversity. , man a. eneslde, Quarry Close Oxted Surrey RH8 9HG C d · A lv!idsumme~ Night's Dream, Big AI; School Ch~ir' S u' ;. roy .on HIgh School, Sept. '83; Gl; Busllless StudIes at Edinburgh University. ' q ash (Ca pt.) (Cols.), Tenms (Co ls.); to read Germa n and MARTIN, S. H. 49 Lings Coppice, Croxted Road Dulwich L d SE Schola rsh ip ; House Moni tor; Pirates oJ Penzallce , Bi AI '. on on 21; J.K.S.; Se~t. '75; GL; Hon. Chora l Hamlet; to read Modern Languages at King's C~lJe:e, LO~~~~afs, Oklahoma!, A MIdsummer Night's Dream. MORGAN, <;>. B. 15 Hillside, London SWI9; Ashdown House' Se t l SI XI Cricket; hopes to read History at Edinburgh Universit/ p. '80; Gl; House Mo nitor; 1st XV Rugby; 183

MOWLL B N B The Vicarage Boughton-Under-B1ean, Faversham, Kent ME I.3 980; Packwood Haugh Prep.; Se t ~80: Gi..· 'House Monitor ;' C.C.F.; to read Law at South Bank Polytechnic. p. • • . C bur Kent CT3 ISH' Tormore Upper School; Jan. '8 1; GL; OCHS, C. J. Wingham HousSe, ~ ISnghhaml 'Ba~d~e+rai~~g Orchest ra' Ist 'and 2nd VIII; (1 st & 2nd Cols.); to read Wheelbarrow Soc.; Harvey OC . , C 0 0 , ' Mechanical Engineering. • S . SPENCER, N. R. 164 Ramsgate Road, Broadstairs. Kent; Wellesley House; Jan . 81; GL; Choral oelcly; 4th Xl . '. Cricket; Sailing; to Trainee Management. . F Westmeston Hassocks Sussex BN6 8SH; Benenden School. Sept. 83 , ROBERTS, Annabel E ..G. Nort~ Am: rllca ya1r1mN• lball (Cols 'J' 1st VI Tennis (Capt.); to read Chinese at Edinburgh GL; Oklahoma!, Big AI, Antigone, st e ., University. . 0 f d Woodbridge Suffolk ' Wycliffc College; Sept. '80; GL ; Music Scholar; ROBERTS, D. E. H . o Smhlth Y~oBttagd~' Chra~b~r Orchestra· 'to read Economics at Edinburgh University. Head Potter; lst rc estra, a n , ' '8 Norman Lane, St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent;. Northbourne P~rk; Jan. 1; GL; . . R y~~t:~~bi.N~ ·S~~ti!)~hC~~;~I Society; 3rd XI Cricket; to read Business St udies at Polytechmc.

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION Numbers in the sect ion are buoya nt, with over twenty new recru its comi ng in after Christmas, sixteen in the APC squad, and fifteen on the advanced courses, includ ing five girls. This term Mr. Booth has been putting the new recruits through basic train ing, with the useful assistance of our promising junior NCOs cad re, Cpls Allen, Overton, and S1. John Parker. T hey wi ll go on nex t term to take the fir st clement in their proficiency test, map and compass work. . Despite the \~eather, the A~C sq ua~ mana~~d to complet.e its train!ng in patrolling and ~ieldcraft. They lear.nt how 10 move in sections, to relay mformallon effiCiently by radio, to navigate, and to set up hides . They showed IIlterest and energy, and they all did well enough on the night exercises on the 5t h/6th of Marc h to pass . However, we hope they also learn t that only pract ice will enable them to pat rol really well : the su mmer night exerc ise will give them a chance to improve things like tactical silence - and building hides that stay up. The senior cadets , apart from the REME sect ion , took part in what is now going to be the pattern fo r all three CCF Sect ions. They were joined by members of the RAF and RN, and div ided into two groups, which did parallel cou rses. Everyone completed two courses over the term, from fi rst aid, map and compass, shoot ing, a nd signa ls, and the idea is that every cadet, once they have done the first two years, wi ll have the prospect of doing twelve different courses if they stay in for an additional full two years. One of the highlights was an exercise in the snow at the Warren, where participants in both first aid and map and compass courses came together to find two 'victims' of a climbing accident, give them first aid, and then transport them out on foot on a stretcher. Many thanks to REME, and Lewin and Wickerson in particula r for providing such patient pat ient s. REME have cont inued learning on the two veh icles which the Section possesses. They are a small but thriving group, with an extra recruit this term, and I am glad to sec their interest in general military training on Night Exercise and Field Day. Now that the APC squad have fini shed thei r syllabus those th at wish to stay in the Co rps wil l do a term of advanced infantry training, interspersed with ca noeing, rock climbing, etc. We also hope that one or two will vo lunteer for more specialised training in signals, and that they and others wi ll receive some preliminary training in instruction, in readiness for NCOs cadre next year. At the lime of writing, Adventu rous Training Cam p in the Nort h of Scotland is only ten days away - eighteen cadets will be travelling up to Loch Ewe. Finally, Su mmer Camp this year will be at Nessc liff in Shropsh ire, and we hope very much that we shall get a good response for this important element in our training year, especia lly from amongst our new recruits. M.J.Y.

ROY AL NAVAL SECTION Despite the very cold weather of the past few months, the section has enjoyed an active term outdoors on most T hursdays, and we also heard two very interesting talks by offic ers from the Navy, the first on helicopters and thei r ant i-subma rine role, and the second fro m an officer who is based on our affi liated ship H.M.S. Illustrious, an anti-submarine warfare aircraft carrier. The first afternoon spent out of doors was organ ised o n Scotland Hills, by Peter Burrell from the warmt h of P. W.O. 's car; he directed us towards the assault course (and the log to go over it) and then pointed vaguely in the direction he wanted us to do an army style 'escape and evade' - what a shame he had to cOllle and find li S! Following th is, the next Thursday was spent pistol shoot ing - an informative afternoon that saw the emergence of a section of 'Dirty Harrys'. We then went skiing at Folkestone on the dry ski slope which was covered in snow at the time and was therefore rather wet!, an afternoon on which P. W.O., in a qu iet corner of the slope, set about trying to teach McClymont and Darli ng how not to 'hit the piste' - the loca l instructors viewed the new competit ion somewhat sceptically! The high light of the term was unquestionably the field day, which by general consensus was hera lded as one of the best ever. The day was spent in Poole with the Roya l Marines. We arrived in Poole the even ing before the actual day and after a small debate between R. W .T. and P.W .0., Jules God ley was ca lled in to lead us to the base ... he cou ldn't, but thankfully a Dorset taxi dri ver solved the dilemma. It was not long after we had sett led in that Charlie Gooderham alienated a rat her large Royal Ma ri ne who clearly felt it was his duty to inform this misguided cadet that looking at someone who is looking in at your window is just not on! Thankfully the situation was tactfu lly defused by the timely arrival of R.W.T. and P.W .D. who informed us that the next day our eyeballs wou ld be 'dented' by the speed of the boats we were to go in - P. W.O. then declared that it was his ambition to drive one of these mach ines. Unfor tunate ly for him the coxswa ins of these boats were too protective and none of us got anywhere near the co ntrols (who's going to argue with a six foot marine?). The morning of the day was spent firin g S.M.Gs, G.P .M.Gs and S.L.R.s under the watchful eye of two marines who organised a competition in which C.P .0. Charlesworth - the head of the sect ion - came first and L. S. God ley came second. This was foll owed by a rat her st renuous hour in the gym playing among other things 'murder ball'. Ou r next stop was at the R.M . amphibious base where we were shown a selectio n of 'good bits of kit ' â&#x20AC;˘ some of which went at 75 m.p. h . We then all climbed into, and su bsequently drowned in the fo lds of seven foot tall 'womble suits'. Everyone then had a go ill rigid raiders, Pacific, Atlantic and L.C. V.P. craft, and we were all duly impressed by their performance, and soaked in freezing water thanks to the 'white walling' skills of the coxswains who seemed oblivious to the fact that noorboards are hard when you are jumping waves at 60 m.p.h.!

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warfare ~e~c~Pters. ~~ ~~pIS:a ~art missile system and to provide 'the platform and facilities for command 1 rete this connection the R.N. section of the C .C.F. were invited to visit con tnbute to F ree ~l.r e ence WIlle and C(;>ntrop l o f manli~e r~~c~a~r~~a'riu~ ~~IS~I\OOI confirmat ion our ranks were rather decimated, but we st~1l managed the slup at ortsmout o n . : immediatel led away to the Command Room, where a bnef talk was t? fill a minibus. On reachmg .th~ ShiP, we wf~av and in ~.A.T.O. From there we proceeded to the wardroom and given about the r?le of th.e ship m the Roya Ythat Mr Booth ave us a tasle of his iron will : when offered a pint were welcomed w l t~ cerlam. beverages. It \~asd~~: back After the u~expected re freshment we proceeded to dine. LUnch he c<?urteously decrh~rd, say mg t~at h;f ha~n ilie wardroo~ , all waiter served. After coffee we were split into fo~r smaller consisted of three u courses an co ee I I ins ect ion of the ship including the bridge, hangar, engme room, gro ups, to enable a more thorough an~ persona a n~ an additio nal ext;a the hull of the ship, which was immense. m~ht ~eck , crew's quarter~ , thethoper~eUtoy nOrrotl~;Navy as we came into cont~ct with aU the different aspects of a war ship. ThiS tri P was an eye~ope n er mto evan . . .. d H M S Galatea _ a leander class fri gate - when she called at Dover, and had a fascmatmg tour W e a Iso vlSlte ... .' t t 'III ,trious' of the ship. Being thirty years o ld, she proved an mterestmg contras 0 u .' . Finall the section's tha nks go to Mr. Thane a nd Mr. Du rgan who have orgamsed tillS term so well for li S. y, JU LI AN GODLEY AND PHILIP DORLING.

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O.K.S. NEWS A.nfhOny M. Dean (1940) has retired after 22 years as a Director of the European Broadcasting U nion in Geneva. He was recent ly awarded an O.B.E. by Her Majesty, a nd was made a n honorary cit izen of Catalonia. Though he will continue to spend most of his time on the Co ntinent, he plans to spend severa l weeks a year in Kent a nd would be very glad to see or hear from any O.K.S. eit her here or in Geneva. Addresses: 6, The Carriage House, Lees Court, Sheldwich, Faversham, MEI3 ONQ; and 24 rue de la Printaniere, 1293 Bellevue, Geneva. J . H. Breese (1942) retired from Goldsm it hs' Co llege in 1984, and has moved to Norfo lk where he works voluntarily as a cou nsellor, an organizer and an editor. J. A. G. Stonehouse (1950) is now an Insurance Consultant, and li ves in Hitchen, Hens. 8. Hyatt (1953) has taught English to Aerospatia le engineers in Toulollse, where they make both the Airbus a nd the Concorde, fo r two yea rs. H e owns a house in Welwyn Ga rden City that is let coincidentally to two other O.K.S. Colonel I. B. R. Fowler (1959) is now Chief of Staff at the Dircctorate of Artillery at Woolwich, having previously commanded 94 Locating Regiment RA in Germany. M. M. Hall (1960) is with the Foreign a nd Commonwealt h Office, a nd is a t the British Embassy in The Hague. O. J. M. Ray (1962) has returned to Rickmansworth from Hu ll following his secondment from B.P. C hemicals to the B.P. Venture Research Unit, and requests that any O.K.S. looking for fund ing for fundamental research which is 'curiosity led', and which meets the criteria set out in Nature 316 40 1 (1985) should cont act him at 019208222. R. D. Rawlins M.D., B.S., F.R.C.S. (1963) has been appoin ted Consulta nt O rthopaedic and Trauma Surgeo n at Bedford General Hospita l. He was very pleased to meet J. Hembry (1954) in Liege where they were both invest igating a new plastic bone fi xation device that has been developed in the U.S.S.R. A member of the Royal Naval Reserve. he is probably the only doctor to be qualified to command a rigid inflatable boat for the Royal Marines. A. O. Vander Meerseh (1965) has returned to the U.K. having until recently lived in both Swazila nd and South Africa. Whilst in Sout h Africa he met A. G. Kypris (1965) in a li ft in a Durban Hotel. M. G. Dover (1967) is a Senior Editor with publishers A llen Lane & Penguin Books. E. W. Marsland (1968) now married and with three children, is working for P. E. Consulting Group as a senior management consultant. and enjoys sa il ing yachts in warm climates. which hobby is 'kindly supported' by his wife who ma nages a n international yacht charter business. A.. W. Dawson (1970) is married. with two children, and lives in Sevenoaks, Kent. When he worked for the B.B.C. Music Division he regularly mel D. A. Sargent (1969), A. G. L. Ly le (1970) and R. H. T . C hrislop hers (1972), a ll involved in Radio 3. M. W. Iliff (197 1) is a Chartered Accountant with P rice Waterhouse where he is a senior manager specia lizing in auditing. D. J. Iron (197 1) has retired after 14 years from the Royal Navy, as a Lt. Commander, a nd is now wit h the Stock Exchange as a project manager in the In formation Services Division. K. D. P. Green (1973) is with Price Waterhouse, and has recently served with the New York Office. Lt. R. M . Iron (1974) is wit h the Royal Engi neers, having graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He will shortly complete his post ing to Oman, before goi ng to Ulster, after which he is to attend the Army Staff Co llege. A. J. C. Cowderoy ( 1975) is studying for his M .Sc. in Management Scie nce at Imperial College, London , having spent six years in software with I. C. L. I. A. Miller (1975) having gai ned an honours degree in Economics at London University is in the computer industry, and is married with a son. M. N. TempleÂˇSmilh (1975) is a Navigator in the R.A.F., stationed at R.A.F. Finningley, Yorkshire. He is now ma rried. T. E. Milliken ( 1976) is now in the Corporate Development Dept. of IC I (N.Z.) Limited, having so ld his share in his former company to h is partner. He continues to live in Wellington. FIt. Lt. A. J. Tracey MA (1977) having amassed 1000 hours on the Hawk, and after three years as a fast jet flying inst ructor, is now on a weapon course at R.A.F. Brawdy. J. A. F. Cowderoy (1977) has been awarded the George Wash ington Business Scholarship by the English Spea king Union and is to ta ke a two year M.B.A. Programme at the Graduate Schoo l of Business, Stamford University, California. Previously he was a sh ip broker in the City for six years. D. W. P . Cowderoy ( 1980) has recently graduated from Wye College with an honours degree in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. C . Curl (1980) having completed his MA course at the University of East Anglia, has been appoi nted Head of English and Drama at Haileybury Junior School, Windsor, where he is also responsible for the Choir, ath letics and rugger. C. J. Perry (1980) recently became the youngest holder of the Amateur Rowing Associat ion Gold Level Coaching Award. Follow in g a period as Assistant Coach to Nott ingham Cou nty Row ing Association, based at the National Watersports Cent re, Holme Pierrepont, and a lso as coach to the Great Britain Icc Barrel Jumping Team, he has been appointed Director of Rowing and Nationa l Coach in Hong Kong, preparing crews for the Com mo nwealth and Asian Games. 187

O. M. Seymour (1980) has completed a BA honours degree in Archaclogy at Readi ng University. and hopes to find fame and fo rtune as a professional pilot in Canada. J. Wall (1981) has recent ly set up his own property marketing property on Spain's Costa del Sol, which offers a fu ll service of legal and fina ncial advice, management and re-sale depIS., free inspect ion flights. and mortgages. He is

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contact O.K.S. Hon. Sec.). C . R. Smit h (1982) has now gained a 2nd Class Hons. degree at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. and has been commissioned into the Royal Air Force. His father R. A. Smith (1955) has recently been promoted to Group Captain, currently stationed at R.A.F. Brampton, having returned from R.A.F. Sta nley, in the Falkland Isla nds, where he was O.c. Adm in. Wing. T . R. J . Lewin (1984) is living in Japan before going up to Bristol University in October 1986.

DEATHS Clegg-Dr. William Bernulf M.D., L.R.C.S., T.P. (1926), on 18th September, 1985 , aged 78. Mitc hell-Leslie Scott Falconer (1920), on 23rd November, 1985, aged 81. Ellioll-P hillip Russell Hallen T.D. (1922), on 3rd Novembcr, 1985, aged 81. (Hon. Treasu rer, O.K.S. Association, 1967-70),

Pollet-Robert Maurice (1963), on 5th August, 1985, aged 39. Bryant-Revd. Ch ristopher Rex (1922), on 8th J une, 1985, aged 79. Joyce-Patrick No rman P iercy (1940), on 6th September, 1985, aged 63. Armit age-Capt. John Pcarce (1976), on 10th August 1985, as a resu lt of a hang-glider accident in Germany. aged 26,

ENGAGEMENTS Cra nfie ld-Pegg-Sarah Cranfield (198 1) to Malcolm Pegg, on 30th November, 1985. Goodsall-Bc nnell-R. M. S. Goodsa\l (1955) to Moline Elle n Bennen.

BIRTHS P rice-To Bonn ie and David Price (1970), on 14th November, 1985, a son, Mark Will iam Salter, brother to Kate. Miller-To Adcle and Ian Miller (1975), on 20th Ju ne, 1984, a son, Sa mucl Geoffrey William. Tenwlc-Smit h-To Lucy and Matthew Temple-Smith (1975), in February , 1984 , a son, Lu ke.

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Strivcns-Hogg-R. P. B. Strivens (1978) to Sarah An n Hogg, on 19th February, 1983. Whitson-Darling-M. V. Whitson (1976) to Lou ise Darli ng. on 4th May. 1985.

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THE CANTUARIAN

AUGUST 1986

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PETER PILKINGTON

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THIS AND THAT

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VALETE

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IN MEMOR IAM

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THE CANTUARIAN INTERVIEWS

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BOOK REVIEWS

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HOUSE NOTES

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REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA II TALKS

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IMAGINATIVE WRITING

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SPORT

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KING'S WEEK

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SPEECH DAY

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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THE SCHOOL

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C.C.F. NOTES

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O.K.S. NEWS

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THE CANTUARIAN

Editors: B. P. Arends, K.S., Lucy E. Charrington, K.S., Lucia J. Conybeare, K.S. , P. H. Lidstone, J. P. H . Nicholls, K.S., R. P. Reed, K.S., M. P . 1. Stewart, Tara P. Usher, K.S., R. A. F. Webb, K.S. Photographic Editors: J . Kidde-Ha nsen, 1. M. Marshall, M. 1. Smith, A . P. Wattenbach . Senior Editor: P. J . Brodie, M.A.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES We ack nowledge with thanks the receipt o f magazines from the following schools:

Ampleforlh, Bedford, Bryanston. Campbell Co llege, Edinbu rgh Academy. Marl borough, 51. Lawrence, SI. Lawrence

Junior School. Tonbridge, Westminster.

THE CANTUARIAN AUGUST, 1986

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PETER PILKINGTON - AN APPRECIATION The hardest thing is to begin. Even how to refer to him is a problem. Headmaster? By the time this is read, if it is, he won' t be. Canon P ilkington? Suggests he has retired to a country living. A nickname? T here isn't a really established one. Peter P ilkington seems best. It has the simplicity of a name on a tombstone, which isn 't quite the note to strike, but also the simplicity of a name that is sufficient in itself: Bismarck, Crippen - that sort of thing. In my mind there is no doubt that, when a critical assessment of Peter P ilkington's work at King's will after a proper passage of time have become possible, this ki nd of simplicity, the consequence of preeminence (in its context, bien entendu) will come easily and naturally. Such a critical assessment is not yet possible nor is this the occasion for one were it possible. For a start , we must wait to see how it all turns out, as the last German Crown P rince said in the interval at Oberammergau. The wider social, economic and moral forces of our time will have to be understood better than they can be now . But a contemporary view, even at the risk of showing mostly the parish pump, may have its value. The history o f King's as a school of national standing is now always begun in 1935, the year in which Canon Shirley became Headmas ter. Something of the sort was said by Peter Pilkington at Speech Day. But Mitchinson, Field a nd Galpin did not preside over a school that thought little of itself. It was ancient, it had produced famous men, it played its pa rt at the centre o f the national church. It was also small , and its physical and legal incorporation in the Cat hedral body kept it so while other schools grew . It did not have the substance to absorb the sudden blow of the 1930s depression. The (correct) decision to start Milner Court had ove r-extended it fina ncially. Shirley revived the School's morale, its numbers a nd its fina nces in a way that left many who experienced the rebirth under a permanent spell : 'We don't know how it was done and only he could have done it. ' T he ac hievement of the years 1935-38 was certainly astonishing. There were 24 more years to come. By the time Shirley retired the School had trebled in numbers and had burst from its confinement between the Mint Yard and Walpole. Academic standards were high - about as high as in Galpin's day - a nd by most o f the other obvious gauges the School was flouris hi ng. It was indisputable that Shirley's successor, Peter Newell , was taking on a challenging task : how to follow a legend . But the real challenge was probably not understood . While Shirley's King's invited compa rison with schools o f the highest reputation it lacked their networks of responsibility, their administrati ve structure and their taki ng quality seriously. Brilliant opportunism cannot sustain an institution. Sooner or later someone jogs the table and the house of cards collapses . The close connection with the Cathedral, historic and greatl y cherished , t89 PETER AND HELEN PILKI NGTON

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presented further problems, financial and other, in relation to this greatly grown King's. They too had not been attended to . Newell perhaps did not identify this state of affairs as the real challenge. In any case it was hard enough to hold the line against the excesses, trivial and not so trivial, of the 'Youth Culture' of the sixties. By no means all Headmasters elsewhere proved strong enough to do it. But the seeds of its own destruction in Shirley's achievement remained. When Peter Pilkington came in 1975 he, or rather they, for Helen's contribution was characteristic and important, brought abilities, experience and background that matched closely the needs of the School. The historian saw King's in the context of a century or longer of both educational and church development. He could draw up the balance-sheet of influences, historical personal, institutional, which had moulded it to its present shape. The politician knew the curreni influences that might mould that shape nearer to the heart's desire, and enjoyed contriving that they did so. Eton had provided the experience of a great institution upheld by a complex structure and yet spontaneous, indeed sometimes very lively, within it. Eton was also rich and could do some things as well as such things can be done: this set some standards. On the other hand the Newcastle boy from Dame Allans School set some standards higher. What was the outcome of this match of need and ability? My contention is that Peter Pilkington's importance for King's will eventually be seen chiefly in his having changed its outlook. He encouraged it to judge itself by a less provincial standard. Some of the bragging has gone. He created and fostered less capricious and hugger-mugger ways of managing it s business. He discouraged, not wholly successfully, the old craving for a superman at the top. Next I would place the creation of a businesslike yet very amicable relationship with the Dean and Chapter, capable of holding in equilibrium the interests of Governors, landlords, and a vigorous community of 800 or more angels and others. The management of this symbiosis is the price that has to be paid for having a school second to none in the beauty and the almost palpable sense of history of its setting. That Peter Pilkington was fortunate in the sympathetic personalities of the Dean and Chapter of his headmastership did not eliminate the need for statesmanlike gifts of a high order. Lastly there are the achievements that perhaps come first to mind and that match any that came before them. The immense programme of building and the acq uisition of buildings St. Augustine's, Luxmoore, Mitchinson's, Blackfriars, the Old Synagogue, the Technology Centre to name only the principal ones; the modernisation of all the Houses, the new laboratories, Dining Hall extended, also the Music School , the making of girls' residences. The admission of girls in sizeable numbers, the reform of the curriculum , of the system of Sunday services .. . Even sport : new Boathouse, new rowing trench, new tennis courts, all-weather pitch, pavilion rebuilt, soccer allowed. And a successful appeal that paid for a bit of it. Were there any weaknesses? This is not a hagiography, but it is in the School magazine. The question may be raised but it wo n' t be answered. But as well as a great work, Peter and Helen Pilkington are leaving behind in Canterbury many, many friends who will sorely miss them, their warmth, helpfulness and humanity. Also they were - are - tremendous fun .

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Many O.K.S., and by no means only fo b Requiescant greatly saddened by the death of F . r~~r mem ers of The Grange, were of Menston-in-Wharfedale _ ranCls OIgt on 24 May at his,home village . . wIth It made that his full address till well on int he w~s v"Jy j)roud that hIS famIly s connection fuller notice of this excellent and civilised m 0 pos -co e ttm~s. He was m hIS 81st year. A an appears later m thIS Issue. The School was represented at the funeral by Mr. Allen. On 12 June there died the Ven. Basil Clark S 11 (SH 19 . Albans. He was 79 and is survived by his dau n~t t 2 l -25), Archdeacon Ementus of St. g ers, 0 whom we offer our sympathy. Valete P. and H.P.

O!, t?e Headmaster's. last Speech Day - or last working Speech Da - at from all limbs of the had outlined the Headm ,anon e ausmarez) m a speech full of matter P. H. Lee on behalf of the 0 K S A ' ~~ter s remarkable achl~vement here, Major-General plan of Canterbury, one of o~ly thre~s~~:lil~hn6:i~~e!'te? ~hde Pllkhmgtons with an Elizabethan of Braun and Hogenb Th d' mc u e m t e CiVitates Orbls Terrarum abandoned for the Min~~~rd i';,,~~~ia~~~I:~ t~lan s~o;sh the old School buildings, then just it. was the parents' turn. They were re resent ewes 0 t e present Headmaster's House. Next gIft was too heavy to bring (it was a s~endid ~abf,IMrts. AUdfre Y Eyton, who explained that one r es atue 0 Summer, attnbuted to Sir George

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James Frampton, destined for the Pilkingtons' Somers~t garden) and another, 't<? help with sc~ool fees', was discreetly conveyed in an envelope. Of th~ thIrd, a set of four antIque sliver candlestlcks, a specimen one was held out to appe.as~ cunoslty. It looked all nght. Indeed, the, parents' generosity testified in the most convmcmg way possIble to Canon de Sausmarez ~ earher assessment. The boys and girls of the School, by the hands ~f Jonathan Wrench and Katle Kelly, presented the Headmaster with a silver travelling commumon set and Mrs. PIlkmgton WIth an antique cut glass jug. Jonathan Wrench's speech revealed ~n unsuspect~d famlhanty WIth Latin tags. Latin tags, and an original one composed by Mr. Mackmtosh, also fIgured on the Governors' gift of a silver bowl, presented some days ear her. The Comm~n Room and others.. a day later, gave the Pilkingtons a 17th century m,ap. of Kent by ~peed . It IS possIble to zoom m, vIa a plan of Canterbury in the border, on the Kmges Schole , no . 36 among the wonders of the City. The rules of the Royal Academy unfortunately made it imp<?ssible to bring to Cante~bury the portrait of the Headmaster by John Ward, R.A., then hangmg m the Summer ExhIbItIon. We had to make do with the photograph displayed by 'ALBANY at large' in the Sunday Telgraph. ALBANY detected in it 'a touch of the Jesuit that belongs to all great headmasters'. We shall judge for ourselves in the Autumn.

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Ven. John Simpson, the present Archdeacon. An internal appointment is without precedent at Canterbury in modern times but the School were very pleased to hear that an old friend and pare."t would be taking .over as head of the Cathedral community . We wish the new Dean and all hIS famIly much happmess when they cross the Green Court, probably on foot. The Very Revd . M. C. O. Mayne (MO and LX, 1943-49) was installed as Dean of Westminster on 7 July. A fortnight proved plenty long enough to get ready for a weddmg. Deans

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We congratulate Mr. and Mrs . Ross on the birth of Alexander Ian Charles on 2 Ju ne. All concerned are well.

A recent survey disclosed that the average annual contribution to charitable causes in this country is ÂŁ72 p~r family. When one re.members that very many fami lies cannot gIve anythmg Itke thIS, the fIgure may become an uncomfortable one to contemplate against one's own disbursements. It is therefore encouraging to be able to report that a number of Houses organised various specIal chantable fund-ral~mg activities this term, in addition to the ones that go on regularly. Somethmg over .ÂŁ2000 ;vas raIsed for the benefit of the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research Trust, the Canterbury PIlgnms HospIce, a Children's Village and others. More money was needed to enable Lucy. Charrington (GL) to travel to Badsal in Bangladesh where she will spend five weeks these hohdays helpmg at the Oxford MISSIon. She has raIsed most of it by industrial sponsorship but there does seem to be a need for a less chancy source of finance for the growing number of schemes of thIS sort. One wonders whether the endowments of the former closed awards at Oxford and Cambridge, now near enough redundant, could not be brought into play somehow.

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Two well-attended House Dinners marked the Golden Jubilees of Marlowe House (on 3 May) and of Meister Omers (on 22 May). Both were hdd at St. Augustine's, after dri nks 0." home ground, and such was the quahty of the catering, and their own, that three speeches apIece were receIved wlthenthuslasm. Messa~es from old members in farflung parts were also greatly hked. Complele hsts of those attendmg can be found under O.K.S. News in this issue. Golden Hazes

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At the annual celebration held this year on 11 May at William Harvey's native t~wn of Folkestone the Harveian Society of London presented the School With a bust of Harvey made by Nigel Boonham. The inscription reads 'William Harvey 1578-16~7 I Physician to Ch~rles II discover of the circulation of the bloodl Boy al thIS School 1588-1593 . The bust, which IS probably as close to a true likeness as medical scrutiny of Harvey's h~alth record coupled with the critical study of other portraits can now altain, has been placed m the lobby of the Biological Laboratories . That Harvey's ideas, though claSSIcal, are not dead was shown by a questIOn on them, Illustrated by an adaptation of his own diagrams, in this year's Biology O-level paper. The Library received author's copies from Mr. Norman Scarfe (W 1936-41), Mr. R. F. W. Orindal (H 1933-39) and Mr. Peter Brodie; and gifts from Mrs. de Launcy and from the girls of Har~eth Hall.School, NashVIlle, Te,:,nessee, the latter m appreciation of hospitality received al Kmg s earher m the year. The Llbrana~ acknowledges all these Wilh gratitude. Dr. Higginson has kmdly sent us a copy of hIS paper entItled H. G. Wells: Son of the Silent Social Revolution which was presented at the 1986 International H. G. Wells Symposium; and through Canon Alec Sargent (DB 1909-14) and Mrs. Ursula Warren we have received a charming first-hand account of the memorable funeral in 1853 in the Cathedral of Bishop Broughton (KS 1797). It is written as part of John's lfistory for theth~n seven year old John Horsley (KS 1855) by hiS grandmother Mrs. Sankey: '" and the Kmg s Scholars and all the Cathedral clergy made lhe processIOn and John counted 103 surplices'. Miss Chafy marked another welcome visit to Canterbury by sending us a fine lithograph from Ackerm~nn's History of Cambridge, showing a Doctor of Divinity's full scarlet. It is, i~ fact, a portraIt of her handsome great-great-grandfather, the Revd. Dr. William Chafy (KS 1788), Master of SIdney Sussex and later VIce-Chancellor of the University . Was modelling a usual occupation for Georgian Heads of Houses? Gifts

To O .K.S . of the 40s and 50s it will come as no surprise that the approaching marriage of Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson produced a thorough and learned investigation into their ancestry on the part of the Revd . S. B.R. Pool,e, Hous~master of School House from 1941 to 1947, and for many years a member of Debrett s edltonal staff. HIS sermons to the School, drawi ng out the moral content of the Almanach de Gotha, were always eagerly awaited. Mr. Poole, who is living in reltrement m Canterbury, has very kindly sent us his paper in.which he establishes that the Duke ?nd ~uchess of York are respectively 12th and 13th in descent from Richard Boyle, 1st (and great) Earl of Cork! Canterbury boy and putatIve O .K.S. Mr. Poole's paper is too extensive to be pubhshed here m full, but we shall gladly send a copy to any reader who writes for one. The ascent from the Duke of York to the Boyles is relatively simple - Windsor, Bowes-Lyon, Cavendlsh-Bentlck, Bentmck, CavendIsh, Boyle - but the triple link of the Boyles with the Fergusons must be studied in Mr. Poole's original paper. . The Earl of Cork (and his b~other for whom he wa,ngled the bishopric of Cork) are usually ,"eluded among O .K.S., but It IS not clear on what eVIdence. The Earl wrote an account of his own life in which he mentions his Canterbury birth (his mother belonged to the old-established Naylor famI ly) but m wh l~h ~e says nothmg ~bout the King's School. Neither brother appears on the relevant rolls of Kmg s Scholars, so If they were at the School it was as commoners. They both studIed at Corpus.. Cambridge, with which King's had a close connection through the Parker schola~sh lps, and .It may be that thIS fact wa~ expanded into a full King's connection at some stage. It IS more excltmg to blame the Earl's SIlence on his reluctance to be associated WIth ~ school ab<?ut which a strong whiff of 'the old religion' continued to be smelt by the SUSPICIOUS, not WIthout cause, ever ~ince the days of C~rdinal Pole and Headmaster Twyne. AccusatIOns of papIst leamngs certamly led to Boyle's WIthdrawal from the Irish scene at one stage, and to the loss of his first fortune: but he made up for it handsomely later It would be very interesting to establish something secure about the Boyles' schooldays. . Corks and Yorks

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'This is the most beautiful place I've ever seen' - the words of a YOungish American to his wife as they came out of the Dark Entry and saw the Green Court under slanting late afternoon light. Of course, there were very rew people about. People sometimes add anthropological interest, though: 'The youngest boys are called shells - that's because they don't know very much. They are forced to wear their wing_ collars without ties. Ties are reserved for the seniors.' Even Mr. Vorkink, who spent the whole of last year with us, reported to his American pupils at Exeter that 'the school momtors wear bright purple academic gowns and were often late Into class because they would be stopped by tourists who wished to photograph the!"' - and why not us.e ~ good .one often? Mr. Vork~nk got quite a good group for his own famll~ album: hIS son Chnstlaan, BIshop Tutu, Terry Walte; oh, and the Archbishop - but not a dIlutIng soul else. Michelle and Melanie inspected the School for their project - they are at the Diocesan and Payne Smith C.E. Primary School, over the wall from the Forrens. Stereotypes were corrected: 'Before we met you we were scared because we thought you would be very hard and speak very posh. But after we had met you we thou,ght y~u were really nice.' Nevertheless, 'I really like the School but I wouldn't like to come_ A PIty, and our loss_ Visitors

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'Dear Sir, I am writing in the hope that you may be able to help me, I have been looking for a copy of Rudyard Kiplings The thou sa nth man, If thats how you ItS spelt, If not please excuse me, I have looked through many Poetry Books and cannot find any reference to It anywhere, I hope you can enlighten me. I Remain yours Sincerley (signature)

PS. if no-one at Kings school knows then it does not exist' Our honour was saved - Mr. Duesbury found it in Songs from Books, and sent a copy to the enquirer. Sir Anthony Parsons' (MO 1937-39) They say the. Lion: Brit~in 's Legac{, to the Arabs provoked some vigorous reviews when It was pubhshed In spnng, possibly because of Sir Anthony's growhlg diplomatic guruhood on the media. We are very grateful to ~nother former ambassador, Slf Donald Murray \GR 1938-42} , for writing about it for us. Mr. TIm Tatton-Brown has revIewed Mr. Norman Sca~f~ s (W 1936-41) Suffolk in the Middle Ages, Mr. Hubert Prallnell the Revd. Dr. D. Ingram HIll s (SH and G~ 1925-3 1) Canterbury Cathedral in a ne~ senes pubhshed by Bell, and Mr. Ross John Keay s Explorers Extraordinary, which contaInS a sectIOn on Indeed an extraordl':!ary man, John MacGregor (KSC 1834). Mr. Ross tells us he has hImself wntten over two dozen tItles for Wayland Publishers in the last three years; but despite their being 'addressed to the lower age groups' the publishers have not sought reviews of them in these pages. We are not sure if the Very Revd. D. L. Edwards' (GR 1942-4:) The Futures of Christianity _ an intriguing title - has been publish~d yet, but we sh~uld hke to revIew It In due course. We have, it seems, missed our chances wIth NIcholas Best s Happy Valley ~nd Tennts and the Masai by not recognising in the author Mr. N. S. F. Browne.(LX 1961 -66), as sharp as Evelyn Waugh and sometimes better'. Perhaps a Canterbury Dec/me and FallIs breWIng. .. Not yet published but with a strong claim to be included in an anthology of schoolboy wntIng about the War is Mr. G. D. Lindley's (LX 1943-47) The Phoney War at the farrots. Though the account has only been set down latterly the ~uriously sane prep schoolboy s scale of values is totally convincing. The MS has been placed In the School archlves_

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The main question in a recent King's Scholarship General Paper was based Absent, on an extract from ~atrickLeighFermor's (GR 1929-31) Roumeli. So we Leigh Fermor, P - th<!ught It mIght be InterestIng, wIth luck even for him, to see if he would wnte us a model answer. A letter, begging yet it was hoped challenging, was despatched to a rather bland '~are of' address, and by a miracle it eventually reached Mr. Leigh Fermor on hIS Greek acropohs. By another mlfacle he hked the Idea but then the miracles ran out: he 'had to lea.ve all of a sudden for Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria' and after that it all rather dIed .. We have had ~ charming letter to say this which will be lodged in the Walpole CollectIOn wIth other hlStonc manuscripts. Canterbury was one of the centres for this year's B'nai B'rith Music FestivaL Our Old Synagogue appropriately (B'nai B'rith - Sons of the Covenantbeing an international Jewish association) provided the venue for a recital of Music Composed in Terezfn, the Nazi concentration camp near Prague where almost inexplicably a rich creativity co-existed with temporal misery and hopelessness. Other recitals took place in St. Mary's Hall but the main event of the festival was the world premiere in the Cathedral of a large-scale liturgical oratono by Ronald Senator, Kaddishfor Terezfn. The Kaddish is a Hebrew Prayer for the Dead, and its recitation is a solemn duty for the mourners: a sharing of this duty resulted in a deeply felt and convincing performance_ Much of the choral singing is for children's voices. The choir for this premiere, from Desborough School, Maidenhead, was trained by NICholas Bannan (LN 1968-73) . Full reviews of this term's music appear elsewhere in this issue but, outside King's Week we should menti<!n a fine violi,! recital on 22 June by Alexander Stewart (W 1977-82), who 'will shortly be takIng up a ChopIn ScholarshIp at the Warsaw Conservatoire, and a trip to London on 29 June by a choir of some 20 boys and girls to record, under Mr. Rose, a Christmas L.P. release with James Galway and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A potential totting-up record for Dr. David Selman (MO 1962-67) followed his letter to The Times in which he accused the organ voluntary broadcast on St. George's Day from Lichfield Cathedral of lasting 'from Hughenden Valley, through High Wycombe and on to The Crown at Littlewick Green, a distance of some twelve miles.' Unsportingly the offending organist, who had noted the exact duratIOn of the voluntary, 10 minutes 5 seconds, riposted that that implied an average speed of 71.4 mph for his critic's drive. Not to mention what presumably went on at The Crown before the journey was resumed. Music

The 1986/87 Sri Lanka Cricket Tour, the first of its kind for King's was unveiled in a very handsomely produced booklet towards the end of the term. Packed with messages of good wishes from statesmen, headmasters cricketers and geographers (no value judgement should be read into this order), with revealing biographies and demure photographs of all participants and much, much more, it is a snip at ÂŁ2.00 from the Tour Manager, Mr. P . A. E. Dix, althe SchooL The northernmost city to be visited is Kandy, well aw~y from the troubled area of the ISland. David Gower (LN 1970-75) has contributed some mterestmg reflectIOns on tounng whIch are certaInly not the work of a ghost-writer. Incidentally those who felt unhappy about the manner in which David's captaincy of England terminated receIved strong support from Sir William Deedes writing in the Daily Telegraph on 12 June. Bruce P~llen (SH) ~hose prizewinning letter about the dangers of Rugby in schools we mentIOned In our last ISsue has got more mileage out of it. Somehow it found its way among the Letters In Conference & Common Room, a trade magazine, and only close scrutiny of the text would have dISpersed the image of ripe pipe-sucking in a leather armchair. How school teams fared is reported fully elsewhere. Here we record that at least eight O.K.S. competed at Henley. John Maxey (MO 1972-76) was in the Nautilus crew that won the Grand, and has gone on to represent Great Britain at the World Rowing Championships. On the other hand the 'Garel-Jones VIII', at one time hot favourites for the Parliamentary Grand Rowing Spectacle, were pushed off the front page by Mr. Callaghan's aquatics on the day itself. Sport

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The useful income that King's derives from its poets goes on. Andrew Darley (LX) and Jonathan Ibbott (LN) did their stuff in the National Poetr Competition run by Cadbury and, for the third time in four years, the School Poetry Award came to Canterbury. The boys' own prize-money was a rather scaled dawn version of the school's but their work will be published. Andrew also won the top prize £50 for his age group in the W. H. Smith Young Writers Competition. His affectionate p~rtraii of his grandfather The Incredible Bouncing Man will be published by Smiths. There's money in wool still: Tom Phillipson (GL 1980-84) won the Knitmaster Student Designer of the Year award, a chunk y £1200, and will be joining St. Martin's College of Art in the Autumn for yet deeper study of Fashion/Textiles. No doubt he will remember the Design and Print Studio in his affluence. Deceptively haute couture, the Baron de Lancey and de la Hanty Foundation fitted out Helen Spiegel (GL 1979-81) with a Middle Temple law award. King's Video-men and women won the regional heat of the National Schools' Video Contest with Light at the End of the Tunnel? Produced by Martin Edwards (SH) and fronted by Blythe Levett (B) it investigates the fears and hopes generated by the Channel Fixed Link scheme. We understand (but have not had time to confirm) that their success will bring £1000 in equipment to the School - enough for the Reliant Robin of this technology. Even wi nning the final would not produce Lotuses but it would be very pleasing all the same. Golden Golds

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To the traditional performances of King's Week, which now include Mr. Milford's marvellously varied arrangements for the over-leisured, there was added this year a thrilling (the word is used accurately) opening when the Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch beat Retreat on the Green Court. While the music, the ma rching and the sword-da nce exercised their spell the many hundreds of spectators must surely have asse nted to the values and certainties of a simpler age. It was a superb spectacle, anyway, and we are grateful to the Regiment for coming and to Mr. Allen for arranging it. We hope to welcome the Black Watch to King's again soon. Glamour

The Common Room welcomed two new masters this term. Born beyond the Medway, a nd even educated at Tonbridge, Mr. Charles Holland read Greats at Merton College, Oxford, won a Half-blue running the 400 metres a nd was not blown up when a steam-engine fell apart in the Rajasthani desert. He then worked for some months in an inner-city you th club in Everton. Mr. Holland is single. His solace is playing the French horn. Mr. Tim Jennings was born in Ashford . We next hear of him at Wadham College, Oxford, reading Modern Languages. This equipped him to make himself clear to a future wife in German, French a nd Italian, and it turned out to be German. He has worked behind bars in Catford and he taught for three or four years at a comprehensive school in Peterborough. Having lived on a narrow boat on the Thames he now gives anything that floats a wide berth . If you want to influence him give him an old 78 with music by anything-eli us on it. Kentishman And Man Of Kent

An exceptionally large number of masters left King's at the end of this term but the Common Room will be bigger than ever in September. The three masters who have retired, Mr. Goodes, Mr. Hildick-Smith and Mr. Ogilvy, have over 70 years' service to the School between them, and the affection a nd respect which they have earnt were very apparent at the dinner given in their honour at St. Augustine's. A full Valete appears elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Woodward has retired from the housemastership of Galpin's: the fabled Woodward barn must, after all , exist. We wish the Woodwards glorious rural fulfilment after a devoted and civilised tour of duty. Mr. Duesbury takes over in Galpin 's in September. We wish him and his family much happiness there. Services Rendered

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VALETE DAVID GOODES (K.S.C. 1951-86) Few men have contributed more to King's English than David Goodes. With thirty-five years of devoted and inspiring teaching, loyal service to three Heads of Department and to many enerations of boys, David is synonymous with all that is best in English teaching, at King's ~nd anywhere else. His essential qualities - charm, good humour, critical acumen, sensitivity, humility, common-sense - have always combined to produce a teacher of rare insight and inspiration as well as ensuring 0- and A- level grades of a consistently impressive standard. A meticulous and shrewd corrector of written work, David has been seemingly tireless in his preparedness to take 0.0 dep~rtmental chores,. however unp~latable. Not prel?a~ed, unlike MacNeice's figure, to 'Sit on his arse and hang his hat on a pension', It'S characterIstic of David that he will continue to teach an A-level group while running the King's Bookstore, a task of growing proportions. It's with a feeling of great joy and relief that we know David will still be in our midst. I speak for every member of the department when I say that we owe David Goodes an immeasurable debt for his inspiration, advice, steadying good sense and, above all, for his warmth and friendship. B.J.D.

There can be no doubt that much of the credit for the present school boat club rests with D.S.G. In 1952, when he took over from John Corner, the school had just taken delivery of its first Eight. It was kept in a shed at Grove Ferry, while the rest of the club boated in Fours at Fordwich . It was not long before the school was boating four Eights from a new boathouse at Pluck's Gutter, Fordwich being left for House Rowing. The years at Pluck's Gutter tested D.S.G. 's patience to the limit, what with suffering at times from no water in the river, being banned from using what was laughingly called the tow-path by an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, and using a launch that (when it went) only managed half the speed of the Eight. Even so there were very few occasions when total frustration set in and the bicycle was thrown into the river. The jokes continued, the encouragement was always there, the cries of ' Well Done!' echoed forth. The big Henley win always eluded him, but even not counting the numerous wins at other regattas, his record of three firsts, a second, a third, two fourths and fifth in the Schools' Head of the River, together with three finals and four semifinals in the Princess Elizabeth Cup at Henley, must make D.S.G . one of the most successful school coaches of the period.

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Early on in his time at King's David received a letter from Canon Shirley which included the sentence 'I make your salary £400 plus £50 for being useful.' One feels that this princely addition to his income, though no doubt gratefully received, is unlikely to have been a necessary inducement to David to make himself 'useful'! Certainly in the direction of music-making, during the long time I have known him, enjoyment and good fun have been the driving forces that have characterised his approach, whether playing the piano or viola in chamber music, conducting the chamber orchestra (which he founded with John Sugden in 1954), or taking the string section 197 (Above) MR. ANGUS OGILVY, MR. DAVID COODES AND MR. JOHN HILDICK-SMITH (AIlthollY WQ//e"bachJ (Below) KING'S PUPILS PRESENT THEIR CHEQUE FOR £1,900 TO AMELIA POWER FOR THE STOKE MANDEVILLE SPINAL RESEARCH TRUST (Kef/fish Gazette)

rehearsals. Taking up the baton seems to have happened more by chance than design. In 1953 the then Director of Music, Malcolm Boyle, decided he would like to play the Poulenc Organ Concerto, decIdedly not a pIece that can be conducted from the keyboard. The project looked unlikely to get off the ground, until largely through the determination of the leading boy violinist of the time (Miles Baster, now the leader of the Edinburgh Quartet) decisions were made strings and timpani players assembled and the only person willing to risk it handed the baton, viz. D.S.G I Since that day of course many King's pupils have responded to his beat and inimitable rehearsin'g style, and he holds the unique distinction of having participated musically in every King's Week since its inception to the present day. R.P .S.

JOHN HILDICK-SMITH (K.S.C. 1961-86) John Hildick-Smith joined King's in September 1961, having already done a stint as housemaster at t he Royal Masonic School at Bushey. His brief was to start a Geography department, whIch he proceeded to do, wIthout the help of any specIalIst teachers and with a certain amount of scepticism from his colleagues. The fact that he did a very sound job on the foundations partly explains why the present department is flouris hing, well-equipped and successful. Coming from a Regular Army family, it was natural for him to join the C.C.F. and in 1965, to take over as contingent commander. The highlight of the year in those old compulsory C.C.F . days was the adventurous training camp, organised by John in Snowdonia, the Lake or Peak Districts or even Norway. These camps were full of useful hard work, but great fun and since John was ever mindful of safety in the mountains, quite a few occasions arose when we were able to assist those in distress, through our excellent equipment and training. 1 remember an occasion in the Devil's Kitchen area of Snowdonia, when John and 1 (and, of course, dog) came across a large ill-led party of walkers, ill-equipped in plastic macs, jeans and plimsolls, whose leaders were planning to take them to the summit in the prevailing snowstorm. John immediately took charge and organised a rescue and recovery operation, which got everyone down safely - and made the National news the next day. John resigned from the C.C.F. in 1980 and was gracefully sidling towards retirement when he answered an urgent call to take charge of the Fencing Club . He became thoroughly involved with this, with all its concomitant timeconsuming duties such as away matches. It was so typical of him to do the job thoroughly to the best of his ability whatever the inconveniences and we will certainly miss his cheerful interest and helpfulness in many ways around the School. John is also par excellence a family man, with a family to be proud of, and there is no doubt that he and Marion made a splendid team and that King's was well served by their four children as they passed through the school. We wish him a long and very happy retirement and feel sure that at least his health will be well monitored, with all four children as doctors and Marion a consultant geriatrician. P .G.W .

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From J~hn Sugden's very first arrival in King's nineteen years ago, one was aware that he was a 'ventable force de la nature': the keen eye, the springy tread, the decisive speech wi[t: Its hmt of !'I0rth~rn stubbornness all announced a man who was going places; 'low profile' did not come mto his otherwise. extensl.ve vocabulary. As a nervous fellow-newcomer myself, I remem~er my awe as John, m our fIrSt Modern Language~ Dep~rtment meeting, brazenly sel forth his own views on the methodology oflan&uage-teachmg, views which were received with respect by such dlstmgUlshed teachers and hngUists as Gerald Peacocke and Richard Meredith Not that the Department lacked vitality then, for the two latter together with Richard Roben; had already introduced many new ideas, and the school already resounded to the hubbub of 'vigo~ous oral teaching'. But John was well-armed; his own education and previous teachin expenenc~ at .t,,:o great DIrect Grant schools, Bradford and Portsmouth, had instilled in hi~ not only hngUlstlc excellence, but considerable competitiveness and an outlook which was sharply alert to new developments in teaching. This enthusi~sm and sharpness were infectious; John's classes responded energetically and many of the bnghter hngUists-to-be estabhshed a rapport which was to last for several years His expertise embraces language and literature in both French and German so that, preaching what.he practi~es, John has always given special consideration and encouragement to the double hngUlst; and smce he IS hl&hly read himself and always well abr.east of current affairs in all three countnes, hiS lessons are mvanably stImulatmg .and mformatIve. In a highly charismatic style of teachmg, he loves nothm.g better than provokmg arguments in class, often adopting extreme vlewpollHs himself, tongu~-m-che~k. Humour IS always apparent, all his pupils, bright and slow ahke, bemg urged on to higher thmgs br a ceaseless banter, not to mention the fear of suddenly bemg set to learn the whole of the term s syllabus by next Friday, for John has always adopted a somewhat cavaher attItude towards regular prep-settmg! Most importantly, he has shown a deep concern for each individual pupil and has willed each one towards success. Inevitably, John's qualities led to his being appointed Head of Department, first of French and then of all Modern Languages, and he carried out this rOle with verve and distinction. On the material side there was a dramatic increase in equipment and facilities: an extensive library of tapes and topical articles appeared, use of the video-recorder was encouraged and a brandnew language laboratory installed. But these were not mere gimmicks; they were essential requirements for producing competent, interested students, an aim which John has always stressed and which he has achieved with striking success. Meanwhile younger colleagues found him approachable and helpful, always prepared to drop everything and sacrifice an hour or two to advise over some problem, anything from class-management to exam-marking. John w~s no less energetic in other spheres, and indeed his ver.satility is remarkable: he produced two Mohere plays, one for Kmg's Week and the other for Meister Omers, he was in the C.C.F. for a time and he coached both athletics and cross-country running. The latter sport's rise in prestige at King's in recent years has owed much to his dedicated training and leadership. Most Importantly of alI, he gave twelve years' unstinting service as housemaster of School House. In School House John fostered an atmosphere which was remarkably friendly and informal, y~t at the same time carefulIy controlIed. His warmth and approachability meant that he knew hiS charges extremely welI and understood how they ticked. The individual was what mattered and John always refused to try and mould individual pupils into an established type. His actions in any given situation would be tailor-made to benefit the person in question, even if it meant bending the rules a little. He would go out of his way to place trust in people to act in a mature and responsible w~y, and then would reac~ with just severity if this trust was abused. Conversely, he might turn a bhnd eye to a spot of rogUish, but harmless, adolescent behaviour. His enormous concern for each individual was shown in the time he spent in helping boys and girls plan their future and in preparing them for interviews. He was keen to support alI the House's ventures 200

t only in sport but in music and drama at which his house was particularly strong. In so many noys a large number of young people have reason to be grateful that they were placed in John's wa ,

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f Ne\~castle-under-Lyme School which will surely gain from all his human and managerial ~ualities. We wish him and Marie-France, together with Christophe and Alexandra, every possible future success and happmess.

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ANGUS OGIL VY (K.S.C. 1968-86) Angus Ogilvy came to King's in September 1968. 'I answer to the name of Jock' was one of the first things he said to me, and Jock he has been to everyone here. Unlike some of us, he came to King's with considerable and varied experience behind him: research (after a First) at Cambridge in the radiotherapy department, temporary jobs at Radley and WelIington, two years in New Zealand (at the school where Robin Finney now is) and 17 years as senior Physics master at Wellingborough, during eight of which he was also a housemaster. When he came here he shared the job of senior Physics master with me for six years. Within the department we have admired Jock's wide knowledge and his clear brain and the lucidity of his explanations. Some people think that a man's handwriting is a clue to his character: Jock's writing is upright, clear and distinctive, and these are very much his own qualities. Always thoughtful, and knowing what he thinks, alI his writing is concise and incisive: reports, comments on Nuffield investigations, notes and summaries - alI reveal the mind of a man who gets to the heart of the matter. Jock had run the C.C.F. at Wellingborough for 10 years, ending with the rank of SquadronLeader but here he has run Activities, and he has been very much the right man to organise what ~y predecessor as Master of Studies once calIed 'fretwork'. For many years he has matched staff and pupils as with serene perseverance he has issued his 'Non-Corps Amendments' until every last pupil has been swept up or, in the last resort, been 'excused by housemaster'. With great patience and a belief in the rightness of it all he has managed Activities without either bulIying or cajoling: he knew that staff and pupils would eventualIy fit mto the pattern. A similar task has been the running of athletic standards: again with great calmness he has marshalIed staff and pupils on Birley's for so long that I cannot remember who ran them before him. Bookbinding has been another area where Jock's undemonstrative efficiency has been very useful to the school and to individual pupils. Jock and Eleanor lived in Bramhope Cottage (one of the houses in the London Road which the school then owned) when they first came to King's and so it was natural that he should first be a Plender tutor and then one of the first Tradescant tutors. Unlike some other clever men, Jock is kind and patient, and his tutor sets will know that they have had reason to be grateful for that. Jock and Eleanor retire to Wales, to a house with enough land for Eleanor to keep her horses and for Jock to have the chalIenge of creating a large garden. They are not so far into Wales that they cannot see England, and we hope they will look in our direction and have happy memories of this school to which they have contributed so much. C.J.M. 201

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(K.S.C. 1978-86) David Flood arrived in Canterbury in 1978, fresh from university, to be Sub-organist of the Cathedral and to take up a teaching post at King's . Eight years and two children later he is moving on to take over as Organist and Choirmaster at Lincoln Cathedral. All who knew him will miss his boundless energy and real enthusiasm for all the forms of music in which he has been involved. In his time at King's he has taken on vast and various tasks. He has proved a particularly successful organ teacher, and has seen four of his students win Oxbridge organ scholarships. Apart from being the School's organist, playing for all our Cathedral services, he has also been a Walpole Tutor, director of the Crypt Choir and a fine and easily understood teacher of all aspects of the 0- and A-level syllabuses . He also single-handedly set up, conducted and organised his own Cantata Choir, made up of local professional singers, which over the past two years has presented several extremely successful concerts. His organ playing with the Cathedral Choir has seen him tour in France, Holland and East Germany. He has also played in services of great importance, notably the Archbishop's Enthronement and the 1982 Papal visit, and in more records, television and radio broadcasts than can be mentioned. As a teacher and friend, we have known each other many years, his house being always open for company, advice and even food if needed! Certainly he deserves to be remembered as a great family man as well; his children will surely become fine musicians with the wealth of musical talent surrounding their formative years. Both King's and the Cathedral will be sorry to see him go. Lincoln has gained a fine musician. I sincerely hope he will be happy in his new job. JEREMY AVIS.

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IAN POOTS (K.S.C. 1980-86) Ian came to King's after a distinguished stay at University College, London, (a PhD in Organic Chemistry followed a first class honours degree) and a Certificate of Education course at Hull. The choice of Hull was natural for someone from such a happy and close family as lan's. His parents live in Hull, where lan's father is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University. At interview Ian immediately seemed the sort of person who would fit in well at King's. This judgement was not misplaced and in a relatively short time he has become a respected and popular member of staff. lan's pleasant manner makes him easy to get on with and his considerate nature makes him an excellent friend to have. Nothing is too much trouble for him and he can always be relied upon to perform any task with the maximum of efficiency and the minimum of fuss. Indeed, he has a quiet determination to do things very well, and does not like to commit himself to new challenges unless he feels that his efforts and results will meet his own high standards . By the same token he expects efficiency and hard work from others and does not suffer fools gladly. He is a self-sufficient and sensibly ambitious man and his usually easy-going and relaxed exterior conceals a steely resolve to make a success of his career. Ian has a good sense of humour and is always prepared to try something new, if he thinks it will be fun. Most of his exploits have been thoroughly enjoyed, but I will long remember the green face with which he returned from his one and only pot-holing trip. When relaxing away from School he likes nothing more than a day's fishing, or a round of golf and he has a keen and varied interest in music. 202

PATfERNS (Lucy Amos)

During his time at King's Ian has carried out a series of jobs with the quiet efficiency that has become his hall-mark. He was soon asked to take over (or was landed with ?!) the runnin of King's Week, a formidable task for someone in his second year of teaching. Predictably h~ rose to the challenge and can look ba~k with sati~faction on a job well done. Whilst ,not a natural games player, Ian has helped with JUnIor rugby, fllhng a role that has become IncreasIngly difficult to man, He has also been fully involved with the Army section of the C.C.F. and recently took Over running the high finance of the Boat Club . He has learnt a lot about the cost of new gear boxes for old minibuses , and probably a little more besides. The teaching of chemistry has always been Ian's top priority and in this he has been outstandingly successful. He has worked tirelessly to help each of his students to achieve his or her, full potential. He has been a hard task master (his lunch-time re-test sessions are wen: known!) but he has also managed to pass on his interest in the subject. Ian was acting Head of Chemistry for the 1984-85 year. The temporary regime was very different from the permanent one, but the end product was just the same, a highly professionally run department and excellent examination results at both 0- and A-level. Ian leaves King's to practise his skills at St. Paul 's, where the new High Master knows a good chemist when he sees one! The trout fis hing may not be too good at Mortlake and the price of golf club membership in S.W. London may not assist his handicap, but Ian will soon make himself at home, Our thanks to him for his whole-hearted contribution to King's over the last six years and our best wishes for every success in his future career. C. l,R .l.

PAUL DURGAN (K.S,C, 1981-86)

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The message from Eton was : 'We have a good teacher for whom we cannot find a permanent post', So Paul Durgan came to King's, to teach Geography, a task he has fu lfi lled with energy and enthusiasm over the years . Always a caring teacher with a good command of all aspects of his subject, he was willing to give his time and effort to help the deserving pupil. He had little time for those who wanted to play the fool. The form room teaching, however, was only a small part of Paul's extensive contribution to life at King's. He was a person of many talents who was equally at home in the form room, the concert hall, on the stage, sailing on Westbere lakes, or skiing in the Alps . He was an officer in the Naval Section of the CCF; he ran the sailing; he produced and acted in plays; he helped on school skiing trips; he played in the school orchestra; and took photographs for school teams and for drama , Special mention must be made of the sailing where he built up a useful fleet of boats and a strong fixture list. Another field where his contribution was particularly noticeable was in drama. He acted himself, but also produced House plays and the Junior Play for King's Week. He achieved a great deal partly because he always set himself high standards. If something was worth doing he was going to do it properly. He disliked, for instance, the clutter in the Upper Common Room and spurred us on to produce the Common Room improvement plans. He was also always willing to have a go at something, I always remember when he decided to go skiing at two hours' notice, It will be hard to replace Paul in all the activities he was involved in, but mainly I will miss his enthusiasm and good common sense. His future life is to be very different. It was with delight that we heard he was engaged to Bridget Rogers, but with sadness that we learnt he was to leave teaching for accountancy. He has not quite severed all links with King's for his wife will still be teaching music here, so we hope he will call in on the long weekends he will now enjoy . We wish both Paul and Bridget success and happiness in their new life. M,R,G.P. 204

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COLIN ELLIS (K.S.C. 1984-86) During his two years here Colin Ellis grew in the esteem and affection of all who encountered him, particularly in the classroom and in his work as a Grange tutor. The quiet exterior belied the strength of a young man whose own background - upbringing a hundred yards from the Maze prison; education in an Ulster secondary modern school followed by transfer to a Quaker grammar school; a First in French and German at Oxford despite never having set foot in France until after Finals - might have given him a mixed view of King's pupils yet who served them sympathetically as well as observantly. It was a mark of Colin's real integrity that he seemed to fulfil his commitments better and better here, even once it had become known that he was to leave schoolmastering and pursue the more lonely if potentially rewarding path of retraining to be a solicitor: he begins work at the College of Law in Chancery Lane for the Common Professional Exam this autumn and we wish him well with this and with subsequent Law Finals. It will be schoolteaching's loss; and we shall miss the perceptiveness of his subject and tutor comments on his pupils and tutees, as well as the time and patience he showed with them individually. S.C .W.

DOMINIQUE GAMA (K.S.C. 1985-86) A European teacher exchange requires the participants not only to give lessons in a subject which they may not normally teach, but also to adapt themselves to the varying demands of a different educational system. Dominique Gama came to us from a day school for pupils up to sixteen in the suburbs of Paris. Far from expressing what would be justifiable shock at the rhythm and pace of life at King's, he approached his year here with a cheerful resolve to participate as fully as possible. His conscientiousness and concern together with his interest in every aspect of the job were exceptional by any standards. He takes back to Torcy our gratitude and good wishes. D.P .H. 205 LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL? (Above) INTERVIEWING MR . DAVID MITCHELL, THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT (Departmef1t o/Transp ort) (Below) ON SITE (Christopher TOlhill)

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IN MEMORIAM GEOFFREY A. YOUNG Born in Carshalton , Surrey, in 1915, Geoffrey Young was at King's, in School House, from 1928 to1932. On leaving he went into the firm of printers founded by his grandfather in 1884 In the Second World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Tank Regiment and in 1947 h~ married Joy, whom many O.K.S. will have met at various golfing meetings and school occasions In business he went on to become managing director with his brother Bill Young (O.K.S.)Âˇ eventually retiring as Chairman, just a few years ago. ' His great passion from his school days on was golf. He became Captain of his Club at Banstead Downs, and his handicap, even in recent years, was 6. His name is engraved on all the main club trophies. A founder member with H. G. Arnold of the O .K.S. Golfing Society in around 1946, he became Secretary, Captain a nd then President. His service to the Society as Secretary cannot be evaluated: it spanned over ten years. It was during those post war years that our newly formed society became a member of the Public Schools Golfing Society, taking part in the Halford Hewitt Competition each year. His real interest, as far as O.K .S. golf was concerned, lay with the boys of King's. It was his enthusiasm and support at coaching sessions, at the School's annual outing, on Ascension Day, to Prince's Golf Club in the early sixties onwards, and the boys' involvement at the O.K.S. meetings at Canterbury each year, which eventually led to golf becoming a main sport at King's. O.K.S. golfers owe a tremendous amount to Geoffrey Young; it is hoped a trophy to commemorate his long association with the School and the Society will soon be available. We know it would be his wish that such a trophy should mainly involve the School' s golfers and their progress. GRAHAM YEARWOOD (SH 1935-38).

I fir st met Geoffrey in 1967 at the Inter-House and for the next fifteen years he and his wife Joy came to Prince's to help me run the competition . Geoffrey took a remarkable interest in the boys personally , giving them wise advice about the game right down to precise details about how to fill in a card correctly (frequently not understood by many competitors). I soon learnt too that he had a comprehensive knowledge of the many and complicated rules of the game. Geoffrey always ran the putting competition and organised the generous prizes of golf balls which the O.K.S. Society present every year. Many recent O.K.S . will remember him speaking to them after the prize-giving when he would urge the assembled multitude to join the Society when they left the School and I know that many have cause to be grateful for this advice since they have discovered a marvellously happy comradeship in the Club . It is impossible to pay adequate tribute to Geoffrey's totally unselfish and dedicated contribution to the School's and the O.K.S. golf. We have all lost a warm and generous friend who by his interest, enthusiasm and commitment forged a link between the boys and the Old Boys which few if any schools could match. As Master i/c Golf I was fortunate to have known Geoffrey a nd would like to record my gratitude to him for the tremendous support he gave me: it is thanks to him that golf is now a main sport in the School and the School wants to be involved with a trophy to commemorate Geoffrey's inestimable work. We hope that in some way it may be connected with Prince's Golf Club where he will be forever with us in spirit though sadly no longer in person. LJ.D.C. 206

FRANCIS H. VOIGT It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of 'Pini' Voigt. A housemaster can be

such an important influence to so many in their formative years. He was, and it was all good . He transferred from St. Edmund's to King's in 1942 to become housemaster of The Grange when the two. schools were .'enjo~ing' the. wa r in the lovely Carlyon Ba~ Hotel in Cornwall, in which pO~ltlOn he remamed tIll the fIftI es. To cope successfully wIth all the problems encountered m wartIme condItIOns m a fIve star hotel - no stars at all by the time the school left - required all the determination and patience of a Hercules: a mighty mouse indeed. I well remember my dormitory next door to his study-cum-bedroom with paper-thin walls. The battle of noise raged nightly but it was usually the news in French at full blast which won. Our respective wills were tested, but his was always the stronger. His love of everything French - including the sadly unrequited love fo r his lovely lady from Aries (whom we probably wickedly dreamed up) - could not fail to rub off on those in his charge. A memorable summer holiday with him in my last year touring cathedrals gave me a lasting love of the 'Bassin de Paris'. He even allowed me to drive his old car which required nerves of steel. He had the all too rare gift of being a strict disciplinarian without ever being oppressive. It was almost unthinkable to offend him. He was neat, meticulous, almost dapper in personality as well as dress, and by his own example encouraged interest in so many of the good things in life, including dignity and respect, at the same time being a true fri end and mentor to all . The Grange Newsletter in 1948 referred to him as a housemaster-cum-father confessor. I am sure that is the way he is remembered by so many. Sadly, followi ng his retirement in 1965, he rather lost contact with his friends in the South, part ly through the need to look a fter his sister in the house they shared for many years. His contribution to the lives of all who were fortunate enough to know him though, will not be forgotten. COLI N PATERSON (GR 1943-49).

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CZhe Cantuaria~ GJnterviewcB CANON PETER PILKINGTON 1. What is the most important thing you would want a pupil to gain from an education al King's? Do you think there are any qualities strongly represented among King's pupils? Like all schoolmasters I want pupils to realise their full potentiality and gain some feeling for the richness of life. Of course, this includes academic fulfilment, but also it must involve a growth in maturity so that individuals can learn to be sensitive to others, open to new ideas and ready to question any popular ideology or fashion. To sum up - my ideal is an individuai who is aware of his neighbour and of all the variety of our civilisation as expressed in art, politics music, literature and religion. I have always been impressed by the independence and individuality of King's pupils. This school has always been so diverse as to fit no pattern and I think this is the right ethos for a school.

What do you consider the job of headmaster to be?

He must maintain the community as a coherent working body, and try and unite its diverse parts. Hence, he must be ready to listen and discuss ideas with colleagues and pupils. He must be careful not to usurp others' functions and not try to be every boy's or girl's Housemaster and tutor. He must combine the almost impossible task of being both remote and accessible, as, in the end, the discipline of the community depends on the authority he exerts. He must be responsive to changing patterns in education and society, so that he can take the lead in initiating new policies or the discussion of new ideas.

Has the nature of the school changed much while you have been here?

We have drastically changed the curriculum and the accommodation in the boarding houses. The object has been to create a community which emphasises individual development, rather than corporate conformity.

4. Do you feel that King's is too insular? What do you think is the role it should play in Canterbury lifo? Inevitably a boarding school has a separate identity and can become too bound up in its own life. However, here we are helped by our central position and by the fact that we share the Precincts with the Cathedral. Hence, we are less institutional than many schools . As far as the town is concerned, I have always supported social service activities - though we must be humble and realise that the contribution of 13-18 year olds to a community like Canterbury is limited in scope. I have always felt that our facilities should be as available as possible to the wider community.

Why did you first come to King's and why have you decided to move to St. Paul's?

Life, I think, is best lived in chapters ten to thirteen years long. I had been 13 years at Eton when I came here. A Governor of King's asked me to apply. My move to St. Paul's has followed the same pattern.

What kind of future do you envisage for public schools?

Societies benefit from independent institutions. Individual freedom is best preserved by the ex istence of alternatives to a state monopoly. I feel that, provided they are not abolished, independent schools can thrive. They must guard against being exclusive by giving generous scholarships, which we try to do here. However, these schools only deserve to prosper if they develop personal awareness and are responsive to the needs of society in education and ideas. 208

They must not see th~melves as privileged and exclusive, emphasising their prestige and power; but rather use their mdependence and resources to develop new ideas and a sense of social responsibility which helps all of society.

7. Do you feel that King's allows enough opportunity for self-motivation and originality of approach? Teaching is a difficult task in that it is obvious that pupils need to pass examinations but also it is only valuable If interest and individual response are aroused. Hence, schools and tea~hers tread a tIghtrope between over-structured learm~g. and an app~oach which allows pupils to work or not as they feel. Further, a boardmg school If It IS to functIon, must have rules which guard against ItS degeneratmg mto a .cross between a beach at St. Tropez and a pop concert. I hope that we manage to tread the tIghtrope successfully.

What do you think about the new GCSE exams?

There is much that is good abo~t the n.ew examination in that it places emphasis on more imagmatlve teachmg, pa:tlcularly m cert~m SCIences, English and Modern Languages. There IS a problem, In that a WIde ran~e of abIlIty IS covered by the examination and it is crucial we prC;lerve academIC standards, ~n vI.ew of the fact that English universities have short degree courses whIch presup~ose specIalIsatIOn m the SIxth form. Therefore, the new examination also has to give pupIls gUIdance as to whether they are fitted for sixth form courses.

9. How would you describe your childhood? Do you ever wish you were still at school, and if so, why? I had a happy childhood during the 1939-45 war and immediately afterwards . I was not happy at school between 13 and 16 but greatly enjoyed the last two years. I would not like to be at school again - too many examinations!

10. How do you think people at King's will remember you? How do you wish to be remembered? As an historian, I prefer to let history make its verdict.

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Why were you attracted to politics? First of all, the very fact that I'm a miner's s~n from South Wales is enough to give anyone a political outlook_ Secondly, when I was grow 109 up 10 Tonypandy, I could onl~ have been either Labour or communist. I was twenty-one before I saw what a Tory looked hke, and he looked just like the rest of us_ It was education, politics and the chapel for us; they were the door to a better world , and that's why I got interested. I lived in a very narrow valley called the Rhondda: that was our world. We didn't travel. My mother had joined the co-operative stores which had a guild for women that led her to the Labour party. Someone stopped her one day and said, 'You ought to be ashamed; your father was a great Liberal and yo u're ~orking for the Labour part~.' So she went to my grandfather, and I was with her and she said, 'Father, I've been told I m a disgrace to yo u because I've joined the Labour party.' He smiled and said, 'If I was your age I'd probably be in the Labour party, but I'm too old to change, so I'm going to stay with the Liberals.' 1_

Have you become more conservative compared to the Labour party you see now? Probably both of us have changed. I've changed because I'm older. It's twelve years since I've made a party speech because when you're made Speaker you lose your seat and you never go back to party politics so I sit on the cross-benches in the Lords. But the Labour party's moved a great deal further to the left than in my time. 3_ Do you feel that the Labour Party's new and moderate 'Freedom and Fairness' campaign is just an image? I believe they want freedom and fairness. I believe, and now you. see wher~ I've changed, that every party wants freedom, but they've got different means of achlevmg thel~ goal.. I ~annot believe that there's a monopoly of canng on anyone Side. The Tones wouldn t get 10 If they only cared for the rich - the rich haven't got ~nough votes, thank goodness. We're living. in a very difficult period. Your generatIOn I thmk Will have as n:uch I?am as was had at the begmn!ng of the first industrial revolution; in a hundred years everythmg wIll be settled, but 10 your penod graduates will find it hard to get jobs. We will find an answer, although we won't want as many people on the shop-floor. Because people still have a right to grow to full stature, tomorrow's politicians have got to find ways of enabling people to serve the communIty - perhaps a form

of service. I wouldn't vote for conscription, but I think we've got to find some system whereby people can use their gifts even if they don't have a full-time, paid j~b. And als~ we've got to fi~d a way for sharing the greater wealth that the .computer ~ge Will produce! ~n ?rder to remam a democracy. There's injustice in people contmually havmg no work - It s ndmg for trouble. The British will go so far and then say 'Enough's enough'.

How much does your Christian faith mean to you? My faith is a very simple one and, unlike the Church of England, I don't find it h~rd to believe that God Almighty is almighty, and therefore say, 'o.h, If cle~er men dow,n here can t understand it, it can't be possible.' God is almighty and Jesus Chnst was hiS son, and I ve never been anywhere _ deserts or jungles - where I couldn't say my prayers and feel that God was With me.

Do you feel that the Labour movement is closely connected with the church? It was true when I went to parliament, and in Mr. Attlee's cabinet after the war, when I was a backbencher there were seven Methodist local preachers. Nowadays you'd be hard put to find one. That big change reflects the change in the country. Far [ewer p~ople g~ to church than went forty or fifty years ago. But they Will come back, I haven t lost faith. Faith endures.

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Do you feel that your status as an establishment figure has undermined your links with 6. our local commUni'ty-? y Dh hallelujah! I go home to Tonypandy sometimes and they make a fuss of me: they're proud because I took the name of that village. I say to them 'Fancy me ending my days as Mr. Tonypandy - I don't like to .say 'Lord' to them - and they s~y 'Yes'. But in myoId constituency, I am still 10 the telephone dIrectory as George Thomas. I hke to be 10 the Lords, though, not for the title, but so I can keep my links with parliament. MPs who lose their seats and don't go to the Lords go down quickly. When you're in the Lords you still have an influence. Do you agree with the reformation or abolition of the Lords? It was always going to be abolished, for the last two centuries. In my maiden speech in the House of Lords I said, 'I'm very glad I stopped abusing your Lordships' House ten years ago, when I realised that I might come here! ' I think it plays a very important part. I have never believed in a single chamber government for this country, because there would be no checks on it. It could lead to a dictatorship which very few other things in this country could. It's illogical, but the system works. You'd think the hereditary system would be ridiculous, and there are young men there no:" to whom. I say, 'The yirtue's worn a bit thin by now hasn't it?' But you cannot have everythmg logical 10 hfe. Wantmg to make Sunday the same as any other day just because it's not logical is a stupid argument. 7.

Your sentiments seem a bit like those of Edmund Burke_ What do you think of him? I'm a great .admirer of Edmund Burke. A great parliamentarian. It was he who pointed out that an M.P. IS not to delegate - once he's elected he speaks for Britain. I have strong views on Sunday, but my constituents don't share my views at all, so I used to say, 'I've got to be honest with myself and I disa&ree with you and I'm not voting for Sunday trading.' Actually you'll never lose If you're straightforward with people. It's if they think you're twisting them around you'll lose . 8_

What do you think of the criticism that the Commons gives a bad example? I think a lot of th~ criticism is ju ~tified. It ha.s alw.ays been a noisy house - there's nothing wrong With nOIse, With people shout 109 With mdlgnatIOn when they feel deeply and passionately about something. What is wrong is if you get people - and there are some there and there were in my time - who will stop a point of view being heard because they don't like it. It's terrible and it's being copied in some of the colleges, where if they don't like right wing views, they won't let them speak. That's as bad as not letting the left wing speak . 9.

10. Do you believe that there should be legislation? If a college persistently said, 'No one of the right wing may speak here' I would close it down, because I would ~ay that's not a proper University. University means universal and you should lIsten to every pomt of view. My professor once said to me when I was a student in South Wales, 'What papers do you read Mr. Thomas?' 'The Daily Herald sir, I'm Labour.' And he said 'Are you so afraid of another point of view that you can't bear to read it?' That taught m~ an Important lesson.

11. Is it more difficult for a Speaker to control the House of Commons now? .1 think that only by strict adherence to the traditions and the values of the House of Commons Will our democracy be saved. We don't want too many bullies going in there who are afraid to let anybody speak if they disagree with them. But we can trust the common sense of the British people, they'll make su re they don't get that. There's a great value in Commons tradition. The traditions and procedure of the House are part of our safeguard. The alternative, if there was no House of Commons with all its noise, is too terrible to think of. 211

12. Do you thillk there should be political educatioll ill schools? Our people are sophisticated, and they quietly make up their minds about people, events and issues. In some unspoken way a mood sweeps the country and I can sense such a mood at present. Teaching politics is like teaching sex, you can get into trouble so easily. But if you grow up in a democracy, you've got to be educated to take your part. It was a Tory, Disraeli, who said 'We must educate our masters now', after the passing of the Education Act in 1870, when fo; the first time we had state education rather than just church education. We need their teaching but I don't believe that a teacher is entitled to push just one party's point of view in school: 13. What did you teach whell you were a teacher? I taught in the prehistoric age. We had all-age schools and so we taught everything, history English, geography, music, the lot. Whether you were any good at it or not. However, history and English were my favourites, they were the ones I was best at. English has helped to unite the world: more than half the human race speak the language of this little island. Our fathers were wonderful people, and there's also good literature today. The next century will be exciting it'll be so different. '

14. Are your loyalties still to the Labour party? I'm a miner's son and my brother was down the pit. I want social justice and equal opportunities for everyone. Let me answer the question you haven't asked me. I would 1101 close down the private schools. I believe that there's room for them in the system. You gain from being in a school like this . I realise that every time I come to these schools. I went to Tonypandy Grammar and I say, 'If you can't get in there, try Eton or Harrow.' 15. But there are lOiS of people ill TOllypalldy who dOll't have the opportullily to go to Eton or Harrow. Oh no. We've got a long way to go before there's equality of opportunity and it still means a lot if you're the son of a duke compared with the son of a miner. Life is full of challenge. But the great thing about our democracy is if you've got the fight in you, you can be like all the people in parliament who fought their way up. I still believe that poverty should never prevent a child growing to full stature. I don't want to be different, because I have a label attached to me, from what I was when I was without this label and the comfort I enjoy today. I keep in touch by going back to my valley and old constituency, and I make sure I visit the council. With the splendour of the Lords it's easy to get out of touch. It's easy to forget the struggle that people have. Life is pretty grim for a lot of our fellow citizens today. We've got to find an avenue for people to use their gifts and encourage them, without making anything compulsory.

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THE BLACK WATCH BEAT RETREAT (By kind permission of 'The Guardian' and E. Hamilton West)

fOCUc, Egypt The land where the dead live in luxury while the living die in poverty It is always difficult to put onto paper what you see and what you feel, but even harder when what you see is more than you can possibly absorb, and what you feel is a mixture of emotions which are almost impossible to unravel. Arriving as we did at night in an alien environment, I thought that it would be only a matter of hours before I would have adjusted. However, this uncertainty of ours marked only the beginning of three weeks of ceaseless amazement and conflicts of conscience. I think the first thing which struck me, almost inevitably, was the noise and apparently unending activity, combined with an oppressive humidity. This last feature is unusual for Egypt, but was due to the fact that the day before we arrived, Cairo had received the equivalent of its annual rainfall in just twenty-four hours. With no drainage system for the roads, many areas were flooded. On the way to fetch us from the airport, our friends had seen a taxi driver with his trousers rolled up, standing in a flooded section of the road, washing his car. An inane sight it may have been, but we were soon to realise that this was a common feature of Cairo. We had already been told that Cairo was the place to go in order to see anything out of the ordinary. Indeed a man with no legs overtaking us on a three-wheeled motorbike; raw animal carcasses ready for consumption tied to the back of an open van in rush hour; up to sixteen people (often one family) crammed into a peugeot; and a story of a man, two children and a goat on a motorcycle quickly led us to appreciate this. Anyone who complains about London rush-hours should first experience a ride through Cairo at almost any time of the day. All large roads are one-way, with three lanes on each side and often a tram line running down between them, occasionally cutting across the road to join another track. There seem to be few rules to the game of 'Dodgems' which takes place daily along these roads, except that you should reach your destination as quickly as possible, overtaking on any side wherever a gap appears, and stopping only for the traffic police who step out into the road every so often to halt the flow. There are, however, two important things to keep in mind: firstly you must not stop at traffic lights, whatever colour they are, and secondly do not knock down any pedestrians. The penalty for this is arrest - that is if you are fortunate enough to be reached by the police before being lynched by the crowds, who will waste no time in administering their own form of justice. The real impact was made on me, not by the old Egypt, the pyramids and the temples, but by the living, the Egypt as it is now. My sympathies lay with Riffat, a student we met in a charityrun college, near the end of our stay. He found it intensely frustrating that foreigners came to Egypt only to see the parts which had died long ago, showing no interest in the present situation of the country, which Riffat, and many others like him were so desperate to change. Cairo, as is the case of many African cities, does indeed have situations which are far from satisfactory. Many buildings, already five storeys high, have ramshackle extensions built on top of them, seeming in most cases to be perilously dangerous. There are many who are not fortunate enough even to live in one of these dwellings: the seasonal labourers, from countries such as the Sudan, often live in make-shift shelters on the streets. Early one morning our host looked onto the street to see the flaps of a large cardboard box opening and two young children climbing out, having spent the night in there. 213 EGYPT (Stephen Grimes)

Then there is the city of the dead, an incredible area on the edge of Cairo, filled with elaborate tombs and mosques, built by rich families, hund reds of years ago. It is inhabited by several thousand people, now squatting in these ancient graves. T he compulsory national service also creates problems . Those not intelligent enough to gO to university after the eleven months service, have to remain for up to two years wearing the tight black uniforms of the security police, often with a battered machine gun slung over their shoulder. The pay of about twelve pounds a month, when some have a wife and children to feed , creates a great amount of unrest. It was the security police who rioted a month before we arrived, sweeping through the city, burning several hotels and night clubs. I think that when you visit a country such as Egypt, struggling to get on its feet, you cannot help feeling hypocritical in a variety of ways. You find yourself wishing to help, but preferring to live as you already are, yearning to be friends, but feeling only resentment in return, and what is worse, knowing that you deserve it. It was this part which caused me the most problems, and most cause for thought. On some occasions I even began to wish that I looked like them, so that I was no longer a rich foreigner, but one of them. That was until I realised that when it all came down to it, I would much prefer living my luxurious western life-style. I do not think that I am alone in this conflict of conscience. I do think, however, that too many people are so frightened by the whole concept that they end up hiding their heads in the cosy Western world. They turn a blind eye to the problems which, after all, are only partly evident in Egypt, rather than going out to face them, even if the effort is futile. STEPHEN GRIMES.

KING'S VIDEO, 1986 Light At The End Of The T unnel?

Wise men turn in your graves: Hollywood has come to King's. In the early half of 1986, newly formed King' s Video produced a short documentary for two prestigious, national competitions: the Focus-Multi Broadcast Schools' Video Award and the Radio Times Film and Video awards. The ten-minute programme examines possible impacts that the Channel Tunnel could have on Kent. If the team is successful, the team could win over ÂŁ4,000 worth of equipment from FocusMulti Broadcast, with ÂŁ2,000 and a place on the television series B.B.C. Showcase '86 from the B.B.C . In February a hopeful team drew up a 'story-board' - containing the film 's proposed visual and sound sequences (and very well drawn by Samantha Hardingham) - for the first round of the competition. The race to beat the deadline was on - the script was handed in, at the last possible minute, by a frantic messenger in London. At the end of March, the good news came: King's had become one of ten schools in the South East (itself one of ten national 'areas') to be loaned filming equipment - the first stage had been passed. Ahead lay dozens of coffees, several migraines, finger-biting and, on top of it all, O-Ievels! It is difficult and demanding work to produce a film. Finance had to be raised, interviews arranged , facts researched, presenters and technicians chosen, and a detailed script prepared, Patrick Lidstone raised the finance for the film within the School. The Headmaster very kindly contributed from the Headmaster's Discretionary Fund and the Careers and General Studies Departments generously supported the project. A film crew was formed, of Patrick Trew as sound recordist Chris Tothill as lighting engineer and myself as producer-cameraman. Dr. Mallion oversa'; the operation and developed the grey hairs that the rush and the deadlines and organising the transport produced. Dr. Mallion's cleanhlg lady also very pl!-tiently pIH up with his rooms' being cluttered with eqUIpment and turned mto a vtrtual teleVISIon studIO for the 214

duration of the production. Fifteen people turned up to a udition as presenter as the result of very helpful English Department publicity for the project. Blythe Levett and Tim Briggs were chosen - both have outstanding talents not only for acting but also for reading out very ungrammallcal scnpts! The filming dates. came and with them the delightful news that the Minister for Public Transport, Mr. DaVId Mltchell, M.P., would give us an interview in London on the Channel Tunnel. The team went up to the enorm.ous Mi~istry buildings to be very well received and to be shown mto. a fully-fledged broadcastmg StudIO in the basement, often used by B.B.C. and /.T.N. Th~ Mmlst,ry P ress Office gave us m~ch help \,reparing for the Minister, even switching on a flashmg red Broad~astmg m Progress sIgn whIle we were filming! The Minister gave us much valuable mformatIOn and he acknowledged that Tim Briggs was 'better then some professionals' ! Newington villa~e wa~ the next stop. The film crew were disgorged in the tiny, picturesque village and began mtervlewmg several helpful villagers for their opinions on the Tunnel. Much of the fu n of filmin~ surprisingly co~es from disasters occurring. During one interview, the camera slowly panned n ght to a large fIeld, with the presenter (Blyt he Levett) nowhere to be seen: a guttural 'cut' from the producer soon followed. Blythe's patience was also severely stretched by no fewer than fIfteen 'takes' of one narration paragraph in the pouring rain in Newingt,:m's High Street. It did not help, either, when someone started to mow the lawn next to the mIcrophone! T he cameraman expressed a near dare-devil fondness for high cliff-shots that was not shared by Dr. MallIon, the Master responsible for his safety. A film crew needs to be fed - Tim Briggs was only too pleased to remember this in 'Pizza H~C after shootmg m Lo.ndon. Mrs. Levett~ in addition to generously spending a whole day dnvmg. us ar~)U nd the Newm&ton area, most kmdly supplied the crew with mountains of sausages and c,hlps WIth lashmgs of gmger ale, !lfter our marathon day on the 'East Kent Countryside Tour on the traIl of the VIllage of Chen ton. T he School's bright blue minibus rumbled up many a country glade in an attempt to find an elusive S.D.P. candidate's house. The need for neutrality in programming is and should be paramount - something not always easy on such a se~sitive topic as the C hannel Tunnel. However, the Channel Tunnel Group's sp~kes~an , ,"1r. RI~hard Storer, prOVIded matenal for the 'pros' (as, of course, did the Minister), whIlst spot, mte~vlews In the Docks of Dover, and the interviews we collected in Newington, gave ~ seful cons maten~l.. The B.B.C. trammg manual, On Camera, provided much theoretical help m the productIon, glvmg the script-writers Nicola Shaw and Kate Kelly invaluable advice. Very practical help came from several willing sources. Mr. M. R. G. Parker, Mrs . Levett, Dr: Poots and Mr. ,Pollak prOVIded transport help at a busy time, prepared to drive to the White Chffs at a moment s nollce . Those mentIoned (a~d Mr. Geoffry Nice, prospective Parliamentary candIdate for the S.D.P: and Mr. WallIs of Newmgton, n?t so far mentioned) generously made us welcome when we VISIted them to do mtervlews; the MIOIstry of Transport, the National Union of Seamen, a nd the Channel Tunnel Group gave us much valuable research material. The Dover Harbour Board and PolIce were very helpful during our filming at the Docks. . The team enjoyed making the film very much - my heart, for one, lies in the professional fIeld of .FIlm and TeleVISIon as.a career. I look forward to making the next film at King's. If anyo.ne IS mterested, do not hesltateto ask to see the film or join us in future productions. Dr. Malllo.n IS l'!reservmg the, flOIshed fIlm :- and the sev~ral reels of 'raw' footage that went to make It - m the School s VIdeo ArchIves. Once agam, thanks to everyone involved. MARTIN EDWARDS .

Stop' P~ess: On the very day that this article was submitted to the Editor, I received the news that Kmg s has been chos~n as the winner of the South-East Area, and our film will now go for ward to the NatIonal Fmal whIch ~Ill be Judged in September. The schools placed second and thIrd were St. Vmcent ComprehenSIve School, Gosport, and Devizes School, Wiltshire. FocusMultI Broadcast wrote: 'The judges had an extremely difficult task and were very impressed 215

with the high standard of technical, drama and creative elements featured in the entries. In addition, they appreciate the planning, work and time undertaken by teams who arranged interviews and/or fi lming on location with outside organisations.' . R.B .Ma.

SCHOOL HOUSE FUND RAISING EVENT (ROSS AID)

In total over ÂŁ1000 was raised by a magnificent series of events. Even the most determined vegetables from the heart of School House took part in some kind of event, be it walk, silence row or whatever. The whole House got up and went, driven on by a sense of compassion (fo; the Snehasadan children's village) or by a sense of greed (for the new house video and T.V .). We had a monitors' three-legged race, several people skipped or played basketball, and the sponsored silence was quite popular, surprisingly so among some of the more garrulous members of the House. There was even a sponsored smile! However, by far the best attended event was the walk. This involved a supposedly (1) twenty mile walk from Chilham to Charing by various country paths. The conditions were less than good - by the time the walk finished most were bespattered with mud, sweaty, and very tired. The Hardys very kindly provided a meal for some, fo r which we are very grateful. Now it is all over, apart from the rowing, and still more money is owed - the last few pennies always take the longest coming in, so please, if you owe us money ... SHOLTO BYRNES AND NICK FLOWER.

BOOK REVIEWS i

THEY SAY THE LION: BRITAIN'S LEGACY TO THE ARABS A PERSONAL MEMOIR ANTHONY PARSONS (MO 1937-39) (Jonathan Cape, ÂŁ9.95)

Anyone at the top of the Diplomatic Service like Sir Anthony Parsons has a tale or two worth telling and can add some footnotes to history. Few are gifted enough to tell the tales so vividly and with such a warmth for his chosen li fe . T his is a fascinating personal record of service in the Arab wo rld , all the more impressive as Anthony Parsons kept no diaries. But, in addition , there is with each entertaining account of diplomatic li fe in a series of Middle East posts an epilogue which adroitly compares his own experiences with the subsequent changes in each country. He became an Arabist by accident of war, but as with many young Bri tons he formed an affectionate understanding of the Arabs, which carried him through a notable career. He came to the scene when the glamour of Burton and Lawrence had dissolved with the waning of British power; and even Glu bb Pasha was soon to leave the Hashemites. In the time-span of this book British and French influence in the Arab world was replaced by a variety of fervent nationalisms but by no Arab unity except for a shi ft ing sense of kinship. The region gained great mater ial wealth - the Vast Surpluses of the Oil Producers, the 'VSOP' of the Seventies - and partly as a reaction to this materialism it gradually acquired a covering of Islamic revivalism, th in and patc hy in some places, suffocating and bigoted in others, which no Arab government can ignore. T his was the environ ment in which Anthony Parsons worked . He was Assistant Military Attache in Iraq in a troubled time of the early Fifties, when power was precariously in the ha nds of the Royal House and the legendary Nuri Said. Thereafter he was a member of the Diplomatic Service and, fo llowing a short spell in Jordan, he was fortunate enough to be in Egypt 216

. the era of Colonel Nas~er, surelx the most significant of all the revolutionary Arab nationalists. Later ~ went to the Sudan dunng a penod covering the revolution of 1964, which he describes in lively detail. His reflective backward ~ook on dev~l,?pments in .all four .countries shows his wide understanding of the Arab kaleidoscope. But It was as PolItical Agent 111 Bahre1l1, a few years after Khartoum, that he played vital part. To him fell much of the task of guiding the Ruler towards an independence fraught with insecurity :fter Britain had told the Gulf States in 1968 that our protective treaties would soon end - and this o nly a few months after assuri ng them of the opposite. In this book he claims no personal credit: but he deserves it. Anthony Parsons' major theme is that throughout all this evolutionary period the Arab world has had 10 struggle with the intractable problem of Palestine which was the burden bequeathed by Britain. He argues this fluently, and it is a ~r~ci al factor constantly to ~ e borne in mind ~hene.ver Arab issues are debate~. Essentially, however, thiS IS a per~onal. book, and his account shows 111 dehghtful measure that there IS much enjoyment and personal satisfactIOn to be gained from a career that carries hardship, discomfort, even danger, along with its variety and excitement. Life for a diplomat is rarely dull, though much of it is intensely isolated: hou se-hun ting in an alien environment, raising a fam ily in transitory surroundings, and never forgetting that the friends made in each place are watching you as a representative of a foreign country. But it is also bird watching on an Indian aircraft-carrier in the Pe rsian Gu lf, and feeling the translucent cold of a winter dawn in the desert. Anthony Parsons shows that it was all wort hwhile. DONALD MURRAY.

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL CANON DEREK INGRAM HILL (SH/GR 1925-31) (Bell & Hyman ÂŁ9.95, ÂŁ5.95 pb.) It was Ruskin who said that, 'great nations wr ite their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.' Canterbury Cathedral stands as an expression of medieval faith and artistic endeavour to the greater glory of God, as well as a meeting place for prayer and devotion for Anglicans, and of pilgrimage for Christians of many denominations. Canon Ingram Hill has known the cathedral since his schooldays and has been fortunate 10 remain within reach of it since then, allowing an acquaintance with many of the leading churchmen of the past half century. He loves every stone of the building and lives within sight of Bell Harry, which no doubt gave him the inspiration for writing this, his second book on the cathedral. The book is divided into two sections. The first is history from the earliest Christia n building on the site, thought to have been constructed in about 410, and known in subsequent centuries as either St. Saviour's, the Holy Trinity, or more usually Christ Church. The second part is in the form of a tour of the Cathedral and Preci ncts. There are detailed chapters on the stained glass, memorials, and furnishings. In the historical survey Canon Ingram Hill traces the architectural development as well as the sometimes strained relations between Canterbury and Rome, as when King John' s nominee, John de Gray, Bishop of Norwich, was enthroned as archbishop against the wish of In nocent III in 1205. The Pope instead chose his friend Cardinal Stephen Langton, resulting in the King's vindictive expulsion of the monastic community who sought refuge at the Abbey of St. Orner. Only in 1213 did the king finally submit to the election of Langton and the monks were allowed to return. Perhaps in this chapter the author could have included the often heated relationship between the monks of Christ Church Priory and their rivals of St. Augustine's? Obviously the darkest day in the history of Canterbury Cathedral was the dissolution of the monastic comm unity without resistance, perhaps through fear of the butchery meted out at Glastonbury and Colchester, in April 1540. Becket's shrine had been destroyed in 1538 and the destruction of various priory buildings such as the refectory, great dormitory and infirmary followed over the next few decades. It seems however that the stained glass and much medieval carving survived until the Civil War. In 1643 Richard ~ulmer whom the author describes as a ' renegade priest', but omits to mention as being an O.K.S., stor med mto the cathedral on the order of the Parliamentary Commissioners to destroy as much of the medieval glass as he could reach with a ladder. He even described desecrating a representation of Becket by ' rattling down proud Becket's glassy bones', a description I am surprised the author omits as he lik es to include it in his conducted tours of the cathedral at the appropriate point. 217

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One further act of desecration although not undertaken for a violent or religious motive was the demotiC in the 1830s of Lanfranc's Norman tower at the north west end of the nave. Canon Ingram Hill describO~ the two western towers as 'the finest foil to what lay behind'. but from the architectural point of Vi: the loss of the 11 th century tower must be regretted. W The guided tour of the cathedral brings the pilgrim through the Westgate and up St. Peter's Street and Guildhall Street to Mercery Lane. So entry into the Precincts is through Christ Church Gate which also alas, received the destructive zeal of Richard Culmer who was also known as 'Blue Dick'. Before enterin' the cathedral the author takes us round the exterior and to the buildings in the Green Co urt. Much detaft is included which is hard to find elsewhere: and, fo r example, in the Cloisters how many visitors will look for the arms of Pope John Paul II, and of Prince Charles among the seven hundred bosses without having read the book first? The tour of the interi?r is covere9 in the sequence of archi te~tural development begi nning. in the Western Crypt started under Pnor Ernul f m 1096. Canon Ing ram HIli remarks on what a splendid building Ihe 12th century cat hedral mu st have been 'with fe w equals' . Perhaps those eq uals were - and are - the German cathed ra ls of Speyer, Mainz, and Worms, the first-mentioned with a crypt similar to Canterbury's. Chapter 4 is devoted to a detailed study of the medieval glass which, in spite of Culmer's destructive atten tion, remains the most complete in Britain . The auth or might, however, have suggested the difficulty in viewing the detailed 'pictures in glass' without a pair of small field or opera glasses; one also needs to be on one's ow n. Chapter 5 describes the tombs and memorials including three by the sculpto r Henry Weekes who was educated at the King's School. He was responsible for the tomb of Archb ishop Sumner who died in 1848. Incidentally, did you know that the tomb of Archbishop Chichele was installed in 1425 eighteen years before his death? Chapter 7 describes the twelfth century wa ll paintings in th e Western Crypt which, in the author's view, 'are unsurpassed in European medieval art '. This is not quite accurate: the sma ll Romanesque churches of S1. Peter and Paul, Niederzell, and S1. George, Oberzell, both on Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany, have a more extensive collection in a better state of preservation. Gurk in Austria a lso rivals Canterb ury with paintings from about 1230. The book ends with a useful glossary, and lists of archbishops, priors, and deans. As a guide to Can terbury Cathedral Canon Ingram Hill's book is most readable, but it does, I feel have several weaknesses. A plan of the Precincts and priory buildings would have been useful at the beginning of chapter 2. T he photographs, whilst numerous and often taken from original angles, are frequently too dark. Over the past few years there have been a number of excellent illustrated books, not least those by Lois Lang-Sims, Canon J. F. Shirley for Pitkin Books, and most recently, Jonathan Keates and Angelo Hornak's gu ide which is in high quality colour. It is a pity Canon Ingram Hill's volume does not contain a few coloured photographs especially for the chapter on the glass. For an enthusiastic study of Canterbury Cathedral this book ca nnot be beaten, although whether, architecturally speaking, Canterbury has the edge over Lincoln Cathedral mu st be a personal view. I know the late Alec Clifton Taylor's answer. H.J .P .

EXPLORERS EXTRAORDINARY JOHN KEAY (John Murray, £10.95) t'

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I have always been bemused by the ex hortations of some current politicia ns to recapture - like so me ethical Falklands - Victorian values. The problem is that the Victorians themselves were a rum bu nch. From the prurient-minded nice ladies who covered unseemly piano legs, to the thou sands of prost itutes who filled the streets of the large cities, Victorian life encompassed, not surprisingly, all types and all values. It had its fair share of hypocrites, honest doubters and eva ngelists of all creeds, yet what it did excel in was the creation of eccentrics, those whom we today would term the loony fringe. The Victorian age saw the final nowering of individuality, between the grinding anonymity of the medieval and media eras. Victorian explorers were the epitome of this cult of the individual. John Keay's high ly-readable Explorers Extraordinary is not concerned with the big names of nineteent hcentury exploration, the Livingstones, Parks or Burckhardts, but introduces us to seven lesser explorers, or rather seven men and women who thought of themselves as travel writers and who, in order to find a niche in an over-played and fading genre, exaggerated their own persona lit ies and feats to the limits of credulity, and beyond . First we meet John 'Rob Roy' MacGregor (K.S.C. 1834) 'boxer, evangelist, 218

an traveller, philanthropist, and canoeist extraordinary', author of that celebrated Vic.torian marks~ A Thousand Miles in tlie Rob Roy Canoe. Why Rob Roy? It sounded good, so not to miSS out bestse erd idea MacGregor used the name for himself, for his canoe and fo r the small dog th at sat on on a gOO and accompanied him on some of his journeys along the Nile, Danube or Great Lakes. Eq ually the prowpreaChing to London crowds, paddling through swamps or fighting off swarms of besetting natives, ~{ho::::s as no surprise to learn that MacGregor helped found the The Boy's Own Paper. II c~ MacGregor embellished his stories, Louis d~ Rougemont's tal.e. be~inning with a sh~pwreck in 1864 I nding in an Australian prospector's ~amp m 1 8~6, aptly .entltled The Most Am~zmg Tale a Man and eL' ed to Tell' is stretched beyond behef. It read hke a glonous hotch-potch of all nmeteenth-century E;er t~Vre stories from King Solomon'S Mines to Lord Jim , with a strong dash of the earlier Robinson a ve~e Yet what could easily be scoffed at is handled with gentle humour and wit by John Keay, whose CrllS li~n for his odd subjects is a marked feature of his writing. He is never cruel. The sad story of Mary K~f~ley, who lost herself among the peoples of West Africa for a few peaceful.weeks, is be.autifully reco:d~d, In the life of another Victorian lady, Isabella Eberhardt , who both found m travel rehef from the limIts asndISexpectatlOnS . . sex and cIass . of their a Explorers Extraordinary is light of touch, yet moving and fascinating at the same time. I missed B.B.C ..'s R d'o 4 series of the book, but John Keay's ea rlier work on a similar theme, Eccentric Travellers, is stili avaai:able. It will form part of my summer reading and if it is one half as enjoyable as its sequel, I have several happy hours ahead . J .S.R.

CAPTURED ON JORDAN BY ARABS OF HOOLEH (from Joh" MacGregor's 'The Rob Roy on the Jordan ')

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SUFFOLK IN THE MIDDLE AGES NORMAN SCARFE (W 1936-41) (The Boydel/ Press, ÂŁ19.50) Norman Scarfe who is one of the most distinguished local historians in East Angli a, has spen t a lifetime studyi ng and writing about the history and landscape of the area, and part icularly about his Own native Suffolk. He is perhaps best known for his Shell Guides: Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge and Ille Isle Of Ely, ~ut by far the ""!ost significant bo~k he ~as written is The Suffolk Lant!scape!n the very important 'Mak mg of the English Landscape ' sertes edited by Professor W. G. Hosk ms. ThIS book (published in 1972) is a brilliant survey of the history of the Suffolk landscape from its beginnings after the lasl Ice Age right through to the huge changes that have take n place in the county, particularly in the urban areas in the last centu ry or so. Now 14 years later Norman Scarfe has written a new book about Suffo lk Which looks in more detail at aspects of its history, particularly its topographical history , between the 6t h and the 16th centuries. T he sub-title, Studies in Places and Place-names, the Sutton H oo Ship-burial, Saillfs Mumm ies and Crosses, Domesday Book, and Chronicles of Bury Abbey, shows so me of the dive rsity the studies in the book, and it makes a splendid sequel and supplement to hi s earlier Suffolk Landscape. T he book, wh ich has been very handso mely produced by the Boydell Press, is div ided into four main sections. T he first, entit led 'Settlers and Miss ionaries', starts with a discussion of early place-names, and examines in detail the evidence fo r very early Anglo-Saxon names as well as possible survivals from the earlier Brit ish period . There is a particularly interesti ng section on the - field names (Ashfield, Laxfield etc.,), and this is accompanied by a fine series of maps. ' By fa r the mos t famous early Anglo-Saxon discovery in Suffo lk is the magni ficent Sutton Hoo treasure and ship, and there are two in teresti ng sectio ns in the book which add to the rapidly growing body of Sutton Hoo studies. T he first part of the boo k co ncludes with a discuss ion of the coming of East Anglian Christianity, and is again a specific study of one aspect of this, the li fe of St. Botolph a nd his connection with the very important church of Iken which was almost certai nl y the documented leanlo , Botolph's celebrated mo nastery. Excavations at Iken in 1977 revealed not only traces of the original 7t h century church but also the base of a very fine carved free-sta ndi ng cross . The two middle sections of the book deal in turn with West and East Suffolk. In the West Suffolk section Norma n Scarfe has studied in particula r aspects of the history of St. Ed mund and of his great Abbey at Bury. T here is also an interesting discussion of the context of the mag ni fice nt walrus-ivory cross (now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York), which Norman Scarfe suggests was made in the mid-12th century fo r Bury St. Edmu nds by Master Hugo, the painter of the famous 'Bury Bible'. The final chapter in this secti on looks at th e two early 13th century Cllronicles of Bury Abbey by Jocelin of Brakeland , and Nicholas of Dunstable, which add so much life to the history of the Abbey at that tim e. The East Suffo lk sections of the book look briefly at Sout hwold, 'S!. Edmund's Offs hore Island ' and Du nwich, that evocative place on the east coast that has been almost en tirely destroyed by the sea. There is then a longer essay on the topography of the Yoxford area behind Dunwich, sometimes called 'the garden of Suffolk', whic h again shows Nor man Scarfe's special affin ity fo r this fascinating county. T hi s section ends with a brief look at Wingfield and Fressingfield, and the social hi story behind some of Suffo lk's finest late medieval parish chu rches . Finally there is a brief section entitled 'Tales before the Reformat ion' . Th is is the re-tell ing of two strange tales by the Chronicler Ra lph of Coggeshall and of a moral tale from the 'Hundred Mery Talys'. All in all this is a fascinating book, but o ne perhaps best read a fter Norman Scarfe's earlier Tile Suffolk Landscape, or by those who are already fa mili ar with the county's lo ng historical past. Let us also hope that this work will inspire Norman Scarfe's successors at the School to study and wr ite about the history and landscape of their own areas.

TIM TATTON-BROWN.

220 KING'S WEEK (Andrew Charlesworth, J.S.H., Jonathan Marshaff and AllthollY Wallenbach)

Vlfouse ~otes The early part of the term was dominated by various sponsored events, varying from three legged walks to cake making in 84, to raise money for Stoke Mandeville and an orphanage in India, with any surplus to the refurbishment of the House. A superb effort by everyone enabled over ÂŁ1500 to be raised . Although the House is not inundated with sporting genius there were some notable achievements, particularly Martin Ie Huray's brave century in defeat against the mighty Broughton empire, and Mr. Ross mistaking the inter-house rowing for the swimming sports . Unfortunately this event did not inspire us to greater things in the inter-house swimming. Culturally the House has been very much more in evidence, with Omar having many 'women of both sexes' panting after him and Jerry Murch being typecast, both in Nicholas Nickleby . Also Ross Duttson, Jim Knight and Kate Hamilton were to be seen in The Golden Masque of Agamemnon. Once again our countless musicians provided a strong element in King's Week. A special mention must go to both the Finns, with J playing a concerto, and B having his Sea-Nocturne performed in the Serenade, whilst Jim Gumpert celebrated the fact that his voice has broken (well nearly) by finding a woman. As ever the School House linen room ladies have kept us all in good spirits and tidy shape, and we are ever grateful to Miss J, who is relinquishing 84 in order to direct all her attentions to the boys next term. So it only remains for me to thank on behalf of the house Mr. Wainde and Mr. and Mrs. Ross for all their care and attention, and to congratulate the Rosses on the birth of their third (and final?) child, Alexander. Finally I wish my successor, Charlie Sclater, the best of luck for the future. DAVID STOCKS.

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THE GRANGE

Like the sequel to some epic novel, this term's Grange House notes prove that whilst success is admirable, so failure is tolerable - something on which The Grange prides itself. A near miss in the Athletics placed us second to Broughton, but the cup would simply have been a good sidekick to the Rugby cup we won earlier in the year. Adrian's back injury (with dubious causes) rendered him impotent to captain the First Eight at Henley, whilst the enjoyment of the house party was anticipated a bit too early by some of the Removes. Musically, The Grange talent of note this term is summed up by Piers Trussell , M.S., attempting Grade 5 theory for the fourth time, perhaps distracted by the sweet harmony of Austin 5. Credit, however, must go to Tanera and Gorm Lawrence who performed brilliantly in their respective concerts. For 'admirable success' mention must go to Bobby Morse for his appointment as Captain of Football, having the physique of Maradonna and all the skill of Angus Scott with a hangover. The swimming and water polo cups retained their positions on The Grange shelf (for the fourth 22 1 KING'S WEEK (Andrew Charlesworth, J.S.H., JOllalhall Marshall alld AlllltOllY Worre"bacltj

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and sixth consecutive year, respectively), Jerry taking 1st colours (and presumably the captaincy?) whilst Zoe's dominance of the Shells (and of Ed.) resulted in her promotion to Lattergate, besid~s Captain of Netball. The Grange's dramatic talent was evident in King's Week, with three people in Nicholas Nickleby and eight in The Golden Masque of Agamemnon, Tim Briggs going on to join the National Youth Theatre. Craig 'meat-head' Butcher used his mammoth frame as wicket-keeper for the 1st Xl, in spite of the apparent risks to his career prospects as a model. Clare and Stu shared theIr dutIes (and that wasn't all!) as mOnitors, whlist passIOn turned to compassion in the raising of ÂŁ440 for Spinal Research by Grange walkers. Sympathy is conveyed to the leavers who face the world beyond the Mint Yard Gate with nothing but their charisma or, in some cases, cultivated decadence. The proof of the pudding they say, is in the eating - The Grange's considerable appetite for success and entente cordial; (whatever that is) originates from Mr. Woodley, the purple 'Daddy-O' Nick, ' loyal and trustwort hy if not always the most eloquent', and the rest of the indefatigable team . Our thanks equally to Miss Delafons and all the ladies. THE OLD GRANGE.

WALPOLE

House notes tend to be static things by their nature. The content changes with regard to personalities, but the subject matter stays the same: how many prizes the house won, and comments (supposedly funn y) about the more noticeable members of the house and their exploits. I could not find the mood to write house notes like that today. Perhaps it was hearing Jerusalem sung for the last time by my year of '86 in the Nave that brought this mood on, not ~ii' of melancholy, but of the realisation that we are not coming Ik11 back after the holidays. No longer will Adam's catchphrase 'Gospel! Truth! Honest!' murmur down a corridor, no longer will Phil crack his array of (four) jokes (,Sanjay, where's the cathedral gone? Oh, you're standing in front of it'), Simon Brook's never-ceasing flow of complaints will dry up, Oily's water pistol will too, and in the T. V. room Matt K6stering ('Komm on, ze Verld Kerp only komms vunce effry four yirs') will be no more. And James Sharp and Bob Williams will have made their last cup of tea and read their last comic at school. As to how many cups we have won - we won the Shuttle Relay Cup and came second in the House Cricket. For our 6a, being in Walpole was a very enjoyable experience, and from our somewhat biased viewpoint we thought it the foremost house, and we wish to record our thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Vye, Miss Burr and all the staff. Every year-group, and especially ours perhaps, harbours the sub-conscious feeling that the school stops when it leaves - it doesn't and neither do we. As S.V., G.M.D., M.K., J.J.O. , S.J.B., A.J.R ., and A .A.B. disappear from the monitorial roster, I would like to take this opportunity to wish next year's law-men good luck and a peaceful year (they may be boring, but they don't play havoc with your preps). I wish my successor luck in Lanfranc (the Bat-cave). SANJAY VlJAYANATHAN .

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The term has proved to be a very productive one, for without exception the members of the House have involved themselves in a wide-ranging spectrum of activities. Bob Wallis has agai n excelled in both cricket and running, playing for the 1st Xl and competing in the Maidstone Marathon. He has also been appointed Captain of Hockey for the 1987 season. Joe Wrench, Hugh Andree and Johnny Veitch have been regular members of the 2nd Xl whilst Hugh Girling and Nick Wakefield 'Waggoned' the Haymakers most efficiently and Hugh has had the honour of being in charge of the Commandos during King's Week. Michael Miller strong armed himself into the 1st Vlll and David Knight has pounded another 1000 miles of metalled roads around East Kent. On the subject of mileage many members of the House competed in the Canterbury half marathon, Veitch and Costain appearing as 'Batman and Robin' and Miranda doing the girls proud. In the Charity Walk for the Hospice and Spinal Research we managed to raise the highest IOta I of any House with Charles Eagle-Bott raising the highest figure for anyone individual. In Athletics we won the Standards Cup thanks to a fine communal effort and some good orchestration by Nick Wakefield. Both Spencer Santry and Peter Apps have been in the Junior Athletics team and Hugo Barton won his 1st Colours. At the Swimming Pool Karen did well as Girls' Captain and we reached the final of the water polo only to be annihilated by The Grange. Some fine performances were recorded at the Sports when we won most of the relays with James Beallon, Richard Costain, James Thomson, Spencer Santry and Mike Smith swimming especially well. In music we have been well represented by John Tegner, and Peter Apps and the House Band played at the 50th Reun ion Party. All of us who are leaving have enjoyed our five years in Meister Omers immensely - including our new bathroom - but one thing never changes and that is our House spirit which has always been high. I am sure Michael Miller will keep that spirit alive. It remains only for me to thank Mr. and Mrs. Craik for their smooth running of the House, the cleaning staff for keeping us in order with such good humour and tolerance, and to wish Mike Miller the best of luck for next year.

MEISTER OMERS

JONATHAN WRENCH.

MARLOWE

This term Marlowe celebrated its fiftieth anniversary . Many years have now passed from our meagre beginnings and the House's stature has grown enormously over the years. The strength of Marlowe today, contributing to almost every sphere of the school' s life, is a great indication of how well a day boy/ girl community can add to the life of a predominantly boarding school. To celebrate our fir st half century, a commemorative dinner was held in St. Augustine's dining hall on 3rd May . All surviving Housemasters, Tutors and Heads of House (who could be traced!) were invited , and although some were unable to come, such as Andrew Stirton (1983) who had a sudden case of food poisoning, it was extremely pleasant to see so many past representatives of Marlowe, from so many different generations . Speeches were made by Mr. Reid, Colonel N. F. Gordon-Wilson (Head of House 1939-40) and Mr. P. Pollak (Housemaster 1959-76). Toasts were drunk to the health of the House. It was a very enjoyable evening and one which will be remembered for many years . 223

Marlowe has again had a very mixed sporting term; however, I feel I must first mention Marlowe's successful soccer 'cup run' at the very end of last term. After defeating Luxmoore 2- 1 and Walpole 7-0, a weakened team faced Broughton in the final. So without Tim and Simon Turner, Tom Epps and a number of other key players, our final performance was less stron than hoped, and we were eventually defeated by a convincing margin. This term our housefu~ of rowers showed their potential by coming second to Linacre by a mere one point. The Whole team must be congratulated, especially Ben Lynch our Captain and 1st VIII Colours Man and Adam Watts, who did particularly well to win the Junior Sculls. Nevertheless our success in some areas was matched by less eminent performances elsewhere (though still great effort was always applied). It seems that our Cambridge Blue in Athletics, D.J.R., has not yet been able to transfer or inspire any of his talent to our athletics team, captained by Andrew Howard Fergus Simpson and Joanna Prophet must also be thanked for their captaining of the swimming and league tennis respectively. The House's best wishes go to Robert Patterson and Simon Turner who are both off to Sri Lanka this winter. Once again the social highlight of the Marlowe calendar was the Fathers' Cricket Match On 1st June. For the first time, it was a limited overs match, which resulted in a very tight game which the boys won on the last ball of the match. All our thanks go to Mrs. Vye (Mitchinson's) and my Mother for organising such a splendid tea, as well as to the many Mothers (too numerous to mention by name) who contributed. Congratulations to the winners and thanks and commiserations to the losing fathers (captained especially well and for the last time by R.P .B.). Finally, goodbye and good luck to all who are leaving this term and those taking Oxbridge exams next term. I hand over my purple gown after a year's use to Joanna Prophet and wish her all the best as both Marlowe's and the School's second female Head of House, this proving that sexual equality only exists in Marlowe and that again where we lead, others may follow! I would also like to thank Joe, our Domestic Manager, the Tutors and most of all Mr. and Mrs. Reid for all their hard work and patience this term. ANDREW SHERWOOD.

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Once again the Summer term comes to an end and 6a leave to give way to another year. Mike 'I'm now 15 stone' Camburn is off to read Spanish. Jakob 'Let's take it easy' is off to some war-zone. Angus 'doctor and the Medics' Macdonald is, we hope, off to London to read Medicine. Paul 'I'm cool' Lawton is going to study in the City . Nick 'James Dean' Rollason is to be congratu lated on his place at Oxford. Dom 'Warrenmaster' Graham is going to live it up at Hull. Finally Mike 'fool to stay another year' McCullough will spend the next four years at Edinburgh. Luxmoore's sporting successes varied. An unfortunate mishap prevented our strong house tennis team from reaching the league final. After one win our cricketers were beaten by the eventual winners. We were second in the Athletics relays and second in the swimming standards . Junior tennis and water polo teams reached the semifinals. We had high hopes in the Interhouse Athletics Sports, but despite many winners we came 5th after some relay mishaps. Luxmoore's traditional Summer half-term concert in the games room was attended by eighty parents and friends. The concert got off to a good start with two light pieces played by a twelve piece band. There followed solos by Alex Skarbek (piano), Dan Rycroft (trombone), Ben Eaton (saxophone), Nick Plant (piano), Debbie Aldridge (oboe), and duets by Ben Eaton and Nick Plant (Clarinet) and Andy Guy (flute) and Phil Dorling (violin). Libby Robinson organised the music and accompanied expertly throughout. The programme then diversified into some excellent 224

ketches and lighter music (including Jakob's swansong Is there anyone out there?, and the s ani tors' traditional Mad Dogs and Englishmen. More of the words were known this year. With mnlya few rehearsals and usin~ the. entire junio~ hall as cast, Mr. Miles pr.oduced a marvellously rvelY Ernie's Incredible IIIucmatlOns full of Imagmatlve touches. Erme was played by Nell ~awrence - with great gusto. The cup-winning house song entry closed the concert. The house was well represented in the jazz concert and the King's Week plays. There were twelve pairs in the House Golf competition. A back injury kept the Head of House from playing and allowed the Housemaster to take his place: and new names go on the cup. I wish the best of luck to Peter Cockerill and the monitors in leading the House through next year . . All that remains to be said on behalf of the House is many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, Mrs. Beddoes and her staff of ladies for their never-ending devotion to the House. MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH.

This summer term, as usual, has been a busy one on all sides. Public exams have been on most people's minds: for some the pressure has not been too great, but the rest of us still have to 'wait and see' , The junior 4 tennis team consisting of Flemmich Webb, Giles Bones, Julian Astle and Bill Ballenden won the inter-house knockout. The girls under Alex Cochrane and Clare Wilson got to the final of their competition and the senior team lead by David Taylor and Andrew Heddle came second in their group. Dave Taylor and Andrew Vinton played for the school 1st VI for which they were awarded 1st and 2nd colours respectively. 1st colours were also awarded to Chris White for athletics and Bill Murch and Stephen Grimes for swimming. Bill's encouragement during the second half of the term brought us fourth place in the swimming standards; 'Exam pressure' was the excuse for not winning. Chris Mitchell and Ed Valpy organised the house crews for the inter-house regatta and Ed Valpy also crewed for the 2nd VIII and was awarded colours . Dan Morris was awarded colours for his continuous victories in the golf team. Congratulations to Alex Cochrane on her . appointment as captain of girl's hockey next term. About half the house have been involved in King's Week. Andrew Fordham appeared in nearly all the musical items and directed the superb Jazz Concert. Lucinda Miller, Chris Walker, Chris White, Sophia and Sebastian St. John Parker, Tara de Linde and Matthew Hulme made up Ihe rest of the musical appearances of Galpin's. Tom Grieves played an excellent Nicholas Nickleby, supported by Marius Kiely, Clare Wilson, Chris White, Lucy Charrington and Stephen Grimes. The music in the play was by David Everist and Julian Moore. Alex Cochrane, Andrew Curlewis and Simon Dobell graced The Golden Masque oj Agamemnon and the back up to King's Week was helped by Elizabeth Robertson in the King's Week office and Billy the kid and Stumpy as part of the commandos. This term has been the Woodwards' last at Galpin's and we will all be very sorry to see them go. Mr. Duesbury will take over as housemaster next term and we wish both parties the very best in the future. A grateful thank you goes to Mr. and Mrs. Woodward for a wonderful house barbecue. Thank yous are also due to Mrs. Jones and the ladies for keeping us healthy and clean. I wIsh Stephen Grimes the best of luck as he takes over as head of house next term.

GALPIN'S

GERARD MORRIS.

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The hands on the clock were pointing ominously near twelv o'clock, as I contemplated the task of producing a set of house notes by the following morning. Empty brain. Various openin e phrases drifted aimlessly across my mind ... 'A fine term a~ round.' No, No, sounds too familiar. .. How about 'A gOod balance of sporting and academic achievement'? ... No; heard it before - I needed something original; what about - Wait for it - a stream of consciousness? knock on door come in hello are you doing the house notes yes have you mentioned winning the senior tennis yes it seems i have and the swimming standards oh yes thanks for reminding me i nearly left that out we won them didnt we we didnt (Chiasmus) quite get the water-polo but i suppose we made up for it by winning the academic challenge. He was right. It suddenly struck me that we had enjoyed a fine term all round, in which the House had maintained a good balance of sporting and academic achievement. T hanks to Al Mcfie's tennis skills, Dave Botha's enthusiasm in encouraging us down to the poolside, and Jeremy Avis's trigger-happy activities on the buzzer in the academic Challenge, not to mention Ed Winfield's coordination of our victory in the House rowing competition, our silver collection was flourishing. Linacre had played a prominent part in King's Week; Andy Mitchell and James Robertson, amongst others, took part in the classics play, and we were well represented in N ichOlas N ickleby by Lucy Hoare, Helen Davis and Edwa rd Winfield . Also notable was Jeremy's debut as a stand-up comic at the Jazz concert; the audience was impressed, but we've suffered for years. The somewhat unexpected Kingswalk was another major event, and we managed to raise the la rgest amount of money for the charity. (Is that too pompous? No - rather good, I think ' , must include it somewhere .) All the frenzied coming and going seemed at times to be in danger of interfering with the varying amounts of revision being done by the 0- and A-level candidates, but most managed to survive until the last paper. T he end of the exams was celebrated as usual by the House Party which was a characteristically memorable affair. The beer, which somebody had dyed gree~ 'for a joke', was well up to its usual standard; the food, for some obscure reason, turned up in a bus, and John and Adam's masterly treasure-hunt totally failed to occupy anybody for more than ten minutes . It only remains to extend the usual round of thanks to Mrs. B, without whom we would be able to sleep until ten o'clock, the indefatigable industry of Mary and Glenda, the rest of the cleaning staff, and of course P.J .D.A ., who managed to keep the boat afloat throughout a varied yet successful term, and we wish Andrew a nd the rest of the new monitors the best of luck for next term. THE MONITORS,

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BROUGHTON

Despite the pressures of arduous public examinations for many members of the House (causing some individuals to sleep through extensive fire practices), Broughton still managed to keep its trop hy cabinet(s) well stocked and our socialites were once again in evidence. Since there were five House Monitors (J on, Phil, Matt, Mark and Duncan) in the 1st XI, it was not surprising that we retained the Senior cricket cup, but Walpole helped to produce a good finaL Remarkably, these cricketers were responsible for about 80"70 of the 1st Xl's wickets and about 70"70 of the runs, The Juniors were not to be outdone and they won their cricket cup after a close local derby with Tradescant. Meanwhile the House came close to success in tennis by reaching the finals of both competitions. Any disappointment here was more than compensated by a fine victory in the swimming shu ttle relays. We just missed out in the running shuttles (even though the seniors won convincingly) but further domination by the senior relay team on Sports Day contributed to Broughton's winning the Athletics cup for the 7th time in eight years. When he could be found, Eddie Mbu destroyed the school discus record, by a mere 4 metres, and then came third in the National Championships. Domestically and socially, the Removes spent less time partaking of refreshing cordials in the ruins because of their considerable gating commitments, although they found a less palatable alternative in the form of 'Tippex' thinners. When he could find time to stop worrying about his appearance, David Laurence moved in predictable social circles while Simon Stuttaford discovered that only Colgate Blue Minty Gel could provide the extra hold that his hair required. Philippe Lacamp has been trying hard to get everyone to 'be a man such as I' but, even if he fai ls, things promise pretty well for the next year. Many were busy contributing towards the success of King's Week and we were particularly well represented in the plays and the administration. The social services project continues and we were pleased to take the Almshouse occupants to some of the King's Week events. We should like to thank Mr. B. J. Duesbury for his ten years' service as a Broughton Tutor and wish him all the best as he takes over Galpin 's. At the same time we should like to welcome Mr. S. J. Graham who will be joining us as our new Tutor. We are all grateful for the care and attention of all the cleaners and Tutors but should like to give special thanks to Mr. Hutchinson and, of course, Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson who have succeeded yet again in making the term productive and, above all , most enjoyable. A lot of us are leaving now and I should like to wish the best of luck to the Monitors who have a whole year ahead of them. Five of us will be reunited in Sri Lanka at Christmas and we shall look forward to catching up on all the news. MARK RYELAND,

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On the sporting front Tradescant boasts a long list of achievements this term, both by individuals and by various House teams. Jeremy Nicholas and James Stearns have maintained prominent positions in the first VIII, and James has been awarded 1st colours for rowing and is appointed Captain of Boats next year. Simon Attwood, Ian Gardener and Mark Lawrence have all done well in athletics teams, with (an and Simon receiving 1st colours and Simon becoming neXI year's Captain of Athletics. Emma Conyers has achieved 2nd colours for swimming and startled everybody by breaking seven of the eight girls' swimming records. Meanwhile Paddy Greenleaf is to be Captain of golf from next term. Phil Evans and Abib Bocresion have played in the second tennis VI, and . . . Andy Wickerson, the Captain of Fencing, has done very welI . .. . . . . to be selected for the national junior fencing team. Rather belated congratulations also to Phil and Gareth Evans for being awarded 1st squash colours and 2nd cross-country colours repectively at the end of last term. In the inter-House rowing competition Jeremy and James, expertly coxed by Nick 'Wyman' Reid, gained a large new piece of silverware for the House thanks to their efforts in the senior coxed pair event. Our House tennis team thrashed all opposition to win the competition very convincingly, and the junior cricket team managed to get through to the final where they made a gallant but vain effort against Broughton. We were the runners-up also in the swimming sporls thanks not least to the efforls of Mark Lawrence and Emma Conyers, the (atter winning u; the girls' cup. On a cultural note, we have made significant contributions to King's Week, with Paddy Greenleaf, Max Francis, Emma Conyers, Dominic Stearns and Ailsa Buchan participating in Nicholas N ickleby (Paddy deserving a special mention for his excellent playing of Squeers), and Ted George and Tara Wisdom appearing in The Golden Masque oj Agamemnon. Our abundant supply of musicians have taken part in nearly all the musical events between them; particularly noteworthy is Tim Weller's appearance, or lack of it, in the Jazz concert. Toby Widdowson worked hard on the administrative side in all the King's Week events. Finally it remains to thank Mr. and Mrs. Wetherilt, the tutors, Miss Brine and the domestic staff; and a special word of thanks to Mr. Ogilvy who is leaving us after many years of lireless support for the House. May I also wish the best of luck to James Stearns who occupies the New Guinea room as of next term. ALEXANDER STURT.

LATTERGATE

Despite the arrival of the two new monitors - Simon 'Schwarz' Stuttaford and Jerry 'Horsey-Horsey' Bartlett - Lattergate has continued to run smoothly this term. As usual there was a lot going on in the sporting line. James Brett and Nicholas Davies spent much of their time improving their physiques down at Westbere. Alex Woolston played a lot of serious tennis for the school and also managed to win our own house tennis tournament, beating Tom Baker in the final. The tournament brought out an interesting band of tennis players, including Hugh Milward and his 'Wizard' new racket. There was also an internal Croquet tournament which was won by the creator Dominic Burdess. On the Cricket scene we had many participants, including Tom Baker, David Hamilton, Dominic St. John Parker, James 228

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SPEECH DAY

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I~e had two particularly notable athletes in the house with Giles Andrews claiming the 'Young Athlete of the Year' award, and Richard Rinaldi coming very close to breaking a record. Cho y' pong also looked like a record breaker of the future as he 'butterflew' into the swimming lfi followed closely by Christian Dwyer, Alex McClean, Jo Stobbs and Ian Fardell on the I b CU. . odd occaSIOn. On the cultural scene Simon Triggs and Simon Roberts took part in The Golden Masque of Agamemnon along with monitor Simon, while a few others, notably David Beckett and Jon Berry frequented their 'Seneschal Gentlemen's Social Club' . Andrew Hone must a lso get a menti~n at this stage for coming second in the end of term exams. Other notable events of the term must include the Charity money which has been raised a sum of about ÂŁ500. The money was raised in a variety of sporting ways, such as sponsored swims and stilt walks, and went to a number of worthy charities as well as providing the house with a new T.V. and recovered Billiard table . Hugh Hawkins featured in the 'Hot Ice' concert, playing his guitar, as did J.T., but undoubtedly the latter's most glorious moment must have been his squash victory over Jerry Bartlett who has been appointed Captain of Squash for next term! Finally we would like to wish ourselves (that's Dave, Steve and Blythe) the best of luck on leaving Lattergate, and hope that the transition to normality will not be too much of a shock. We would also like to thank Brenda and her gang for keeping the house immaculate and sweet smelling. We wish the Thanes and Mrs. Maitland the best of luck next year and hope that with the continued help of Jerry and Simon and the new monitors, they will run the house as successfully as they have done this year. THE MONITORS.

THE END OF THE STORM (John Watkins)

229 THE BUST OF WILLIAM HARVEY, PRESENTED TO THE SCHOOL BY THE HARVEIAN SOCIETY, AND GCE OÂˇLEVEL BIOLOGY I, JUNE 1986 (By kind permission oj the Oxford alld Cambridge Schools Examination Board) (AlllhollY Wattenbach)

REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA ELIJAH SATURDAY, 10th MAY , IN THE CATHEDRAL

As one of the few survivors of a memorable performance of Mendelssohn's most famous choral work given in the Shirley Hall in King's Week 1958 under the direction of Edred Wright I approached this year's performance of the work in the Nave with great interest and expectation . Nowadays It IS the custom to assIst the .choral resources of the School with choirs from neIghbouring schools and once again Benenden and Simon Langton Girls augmented the Soprano line! with some additional weight fo r the ~ale voices provided by the Deal. and Walmer Handelian SocIety. Whlle It IS always the case that time f~H rehearsal of all these different bodies together IS absurdly madequate, under the masterly dll'ectlOn of Mr. Barry Rose the different groups of voices had been welded together with excellent results. The great choral numbers like the opening chorus and the scene on the mountain top when 'God the Lord passed by' came over with great effect, the power of the orchestra being admirably enhanced by the use of the organ (in some numbers) which was in the experienced hands of Mr. David Flood. Colonel Paul Neville wh,? conducted had gathered together four very competent SOIOlSts, outstandmg among whom was Lmda McLeod the mezzo soprano, a lady of dignified presence and powerful voice, who was at her best in the part the composer wrote for Queen Jezebel, and in the most famous solo in the work '0 rest in the Lord'. Geraldine Hackett-Jones the soprano, sang with great gusto and obvious enjoyment so that it was a pleasure to watch her as w~ 1l ~s to listen; her great solo number 'Hear, 0 Israel' was, as always in this work, one of the hlghhghts of the evemng. Of course the dramatic effect of the oratorio depends largely upon securing a good bass to sing the part of Elijah and Mark Peterson was well up to the demands of this part with its fine solos and impassioned recitative in varying moods. David Johnston the tenor has some excellent numbers and sung the lovely aria 'If with all your hearts' with great expression, but this is the least impressive solo part in the oratorio from a dramatic point of view. Young Master Julian Sturl's sudden appearance in the pulpit to sing the part of the boy on the top of Carmel proclaiming the coming of rain was a good theatrical stroke. My only regret was the omission of the exciting chorus 'Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire' which describes Elijah's ascent into heaven with ' fiery chariots and fiery horses' which is a kind of climax to the last part of the work. Doubtless this had to be omitted for lack of rehearsal time. But all in all, it was a fine evening and at the end of nearly three hours one was neither tired nor bored, a tribute both to the composer, and all those who took part in this revival of a great Victorian masterpiece. DEREK I NGRAM HILL.

SECOND ORCHESTRA CONCERT SATURDAY, 17th MAY, IN ALL SAINTS' CHURCH The Second Orchestra Concert this term was due to be at St. Lawrence College Junior School, Ramsgate, but this arrangement was changed and, at very short notice, Mr. Cooper generously accommodated the Concert at All Saints' Church, Military Road. As it turned out, this was a most apt setting, with a very resounding acoustic; the place was certainly well filled with sound . 230

Mr. McConnell a~nounced the first item, The Valiant Knight, by Charles Woodhouse (d. 1939) This was a stIrrmg, rousmg march which mcely set the scene. I particularly hked the nostaigic, almost 'Austrian' strains from the string section. Altogether, it was very confident. The dance suite The King's Ballet by Francois Couperin (court musician to Louis XIV) was resented next, in strident, yet solemn manner, its three-part allegretti, andante and allegro being Performed vigorously, without inhibition. p Mr. McConnell's arrangement for orchestra of Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Tune and Ayre gave the opportunity for trumpet soloi~t Chris Gr~yto take the limelight. This regal and dignified ieee - with, however, a cunous refram very remlmscent of Polly Put The Kettle On! - allowed ~h ris Gray to display, a firm, fa~ltless solo part, clear over the rest of the orchestra, and with the occasional, mce, Purcelhan tnll. At this stage, a speech was given by Mrs. Mandy Troughton of the Herne Bay Opportunity Group. She eX(llained t hat they were a play group with a difference, formed 13 years ago to help children with spectal needs, referred to ther:' by health .",s,tors, doctors and social workers. The children helped were mentally and physIcally handicapped WIth speech and language problems. The Gro up caters for those in the age range 12 months - 5 years. T he work is completely voluntary, and transportation to the Group's centre is by volunteer drivers. T hey work on a limited budget, receiving a small grant for each child with a specific handicap. They operate at the moment in St. Bart's Church Hall, Herne Bay. T his has been ideal for the last 13 years, but now they feel that they need separate rooms to help each child with language problems in an entirely individual way . Fund raising started a year ago, they now have a plot of land, two mobile units, and they hope to start building in September. Infants from Herne Bay, Sturry, Canterbury and Hersden are received, with a maximum of 25 children at present. When the new centre is operational they hope to increase from the current service of two days per week. Money collected this evening by voluntary donation at the end of the Concert is to be given to the Opportunity Group for these purposes. A splendid saxophone section then followed . Mr. McConnell quipped that one musical purist he once knew told him, 'There is only one thing worse than a broken saxophone, and that is one that works !' This self-depreciation proved to be completely unjustified, and it was remarkable to me, only really having heard this instrument in jazz and brass ensembles, how successful a quartet of various saxophones was in rendering music written long before the instrument was ever devised. T he quartet comprised Sarah Pendlebury (soprano saxophone), Alastair Craik (alto saxophone), Caractacus Downes (baritone saxophone), and Mr. McConnell himself (tenor saxophone), and all five of the pieces they played were arranged by Paul Harvey, Leader of the London Saxophone Quartet. Bransle Genlil, by Mictiael Praetorius (1571-1621), was very delicate and elegant and, to my mind , could almost have come from the pen of Henry VIII; Sel/enger's Round, by William Byrd (1543-1623), was intricate, yet unified, as was the contemporary (with the previous item) Sometime She Would and Sometime Not, by Giles Farnaby (1560-1640). T here then followed a modern piece, Lil' Liza Jane, in Southern 'minstral' style; this was an incredibly short item - according to my timing of the 'action replay' I am listening to when reviewing this concert sometime after the event (which I am able to do by courtesy of Mrs. McConnell's sound archives), it lasted only 37 seconds. T he final Saxophone-Quartet piece was another work by Michael Praetorius; Couran te and Springdance took us back to the 16th Century mould again. It had a lilting rhythm and was, for its date, remarkably 'syncopated' . Altogether, thIS Saxophone section was a most enlightening, educational and enjoyable interlude. Reel Fiddlin' which followed consisted of traditional Scottish folk themes arranged for Orchestra by Mr. McConnell. Although the ensemble parts of this piece were not quite as together, '" places, as the other items presented, the solo violin part was, nevertheless, very effective, as was the short flute solo, which was then 'answered' by the violin . I also liked the stirring, tlmpam start. The next two items were amongst the most outstanding for their sheer entertainm~nt value, as well as for the individual and collective virtuosity that they displayed, and they were certainly ones that I ran several times when listening to Mrs. McConnell's tape. On The Track, by Jack 23 1

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Simpson, gave xylophone soloist Tim Watson his moment of glory. The piece was an addictive one - a sort of 'xylophone ragtime' with a GermaniclBavarian flavour. Tim Watson, who performed the piece entirely without music and was very attentive to the conductor, carried it all off with great panache and nonchalance - using, at times, as many as three sticks. Hootenanny, a term thought by some authorities to have been derived from 'Hootin' Annie' refers to a public performance by an ensemble of folk singers and musicians. Each soloist performing group presents in turn their individual interpretation of a ballad or work song. These Hootenannies came into being in the early American West where communities sprang up. This particular American answer to what a cockney Pearly King might call a 'knees-up' started with a Gershwin-esque 'swing' opening, leading to the blues Lonesome Road, each part of the orchestra taking its turn - flutes, oboes, trombones, strings, etc. This was followed by an Oklahoma type of string piece, with flute section and trombones standing. Then I detected the theme of Michael, Row The Boat Ashore, featuring the trumpets, horns and trombones in various combinations of 'standing' mode. Finally, I recognised Down By The River Side. Mr. McConnell had commented , before this complex item started, that there would be 'a lot going on', and he certainly was not exaggerating. The finale was from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, arranged by the late Charles Woodhouse especially for the younger orchestra. This constituted a rousing and polished end to the proceedings. This was a most enjoyable concert. These Second Orchestra Concerts under the direction of Mr. McConnell, with Mrs. Sue McConnell invariably close at hand in support, always have a warm and 'family' atmosphere about them; this is demonstrated by the way in which Mr. McConnell lent a fatherly hand to one boy whose violin string had broken (with his cheerful comment to the audience 'You always have to do running repairs in this orchestra! '), the generous helping of talent from the First Orchestra, and the enthusiastic participation of colleagues' young children in large numbers - in addition to the McConnells' own boy, Michael, I noticed Sophie Johnson, Jane Tennick, Stephanie and Catharine Rooke, Julia Rose, Helen Simpson and there were no doubt others whom I did not identify. ÂŁ76 was collected for the Herne Bay Opportunity Group. R .B.Ma.

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Cha Cha Sorella Si Trocadero Rosemary First Movement 0/ a Concerto Bourree The Minute Waltz Italian Dance Hello Dolly

Debbie Aldridge, Simon Richards, Ben Eaton, Nick Plant, Alex Skarbek, Dan Rycroft, Libby Robinson, Andy Guy, Magnus Montgomery, Phil Dorling, Ant Gillespie-Smith and Jimmy Gumpert. Frank Bridge Alex Skarbek - Piano Rimsky-Korsakoff Dan Rycroft - Trombone Bach Ben Eaton - Saxophone Chopin Nick Plant - Piano Madeleine Dring Debbie Aldridge - Oboe Jerry Herm.an Ben Eaton - Saxophone Nick Plant - Clarinet 232

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Nick Baulf, Nick Price, Roger Puplett

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Adam White, Scott Friedlander, Ralph Kabban

Is there anybody out there? Jakob Kidde-Hansen Guitar Filing

Nick Baulf and Nick Price

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Alex West, Lovene Bhatia, Alan Olby

Mad Dogs and Englismen

Mike Camburn, Nick Rollason, Angus Macdonald

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Ernie's Incredible II/ucinations Alan Ayckbourn Cast: Neil Lawrence Ernie Andrew Darley Mum Jonathan Hawkins Dad Alex Skarbek Auntie May Doctor Mahesh Dalamal Receptionist Jo Price Officer I'Grinder' Felix Pink Referee Abdul Fahm Kid' Saracen Baba Epega NazislBarkers Mark Weston, Dan Rycroft P roduced by Martin Miles, Esq . Three Juvenile Delinquents Mike Camburn, Noel Coward Nick Rollason, Angus Macdonald I

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Peter Warlock

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TALKS CENTRAL VERSUS LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSOR BRYAN KEITH-LUCAS 'People start yawning at the mention of local govern ment.' T hese were the opening Words of Britain 's top academic authority on the subject. Recently, though, the present Conservative administration's local government policy - ratecapping fo r some Labour councils and diSPosal of the largest ones - has raised local government from parking tickets to political controversy. Rev iewing this development, Professor Keith-Lucas avoided the text-book neut rality of many political talks at King' s. You can hardly get more devolutionary than a Liberal councillor. T he multifarious reproduction o f the English system of local government elsewhere in the world is testimony to its quality, especially when it is reproduced with such respectful rigidity that the mace appears among Canadia n Eskimos while Afri can town clerks sweat it out in wigs a nd blac k woollen dressing gowns on the Equator. Nevertheless, it was conceded that constitutionally Parliament may define the powers a nd limitations of local authorities. Opinions va ried from a (sarcastically-intoned) 'Whitehall knows best' to those of local democracy's most ardent patro ns. The a udience was interested to hear that the latter included Sir Keith Joseph who has in the past condemned central inte rference in local affairs - education for instance: Another member o f the Cabinet , Lord Hailsham, had written a book criticising undemocratic dictatorshi p from Westminster, but , as he has since explained , matters look somewhat different when it is oneself who is in office . T he famous last words o f the Greater London Council urging Londoners to 'Say no to no say' have rebounded ironically. T he ÂŁ10 million anti-abolition campaign has elicited Government proposals to outlaw political advertising by local counci ls. P rofessor Keith-Lucas felt that such ' no-say' amounted to a censorship of the key function of local representatives to ' raise hell' where necessary over local schools, buses or Cha nnel Tunnels. Robert Morse's question returned squarely to the requirement of effective regional administration. Professor Keith-Lucas thought local councillors were more flexible and efficient. He covered, in addition, the most up to date local government issues of Liverpool's illegal budget, the pla nned poll tax, and the British Government's predicta ble rejection of a European Human Right to local government. In short, the talk had a liberal bias , but as long as the audience is aware that counter-a rguments exist, there can be nothing but welcome to a personal viewpoint which combines liveliness with breadth o f info rmation. TARA USHER.

THE CREATION THE SCIPHILOS SOCIETY DEBATE 'The wolf also shall dwell with the la mb , and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them' (Isaiah 11 v.6). Has the great divide between the mutually abusive camps o f Arts and Sciences at King:s finally been bridged? The Scientific and Philosophical society, student run, was founded thIS term in order to promote the bratn as an extra-curncular organ, a nd IS open to all. The fIrSt deba te, though not about the coming of Christ, was on the no less theolog i call~ controversial topic o f T he Creation - Science v Religion . It was to ma ke or brea k the SocIety. 234

We had three main speakers on each side - though, tha nkfully, the large turnout in the cieties Room was not arranged in the aggressive King's Parliament manner. Omar Madha St~rted off, pointing out wisely that one's opinion on the creation depends on intuition more \ an proof. Robert Webb argued that in man's constant strivi ng for explanat ions, science is I urely the only viable approac h, because onl y science is testable. H is speech was dynamic and Smaginative, but the theme not wholly consistent. From Martin Edwards we caught references quarks and quantum theory, but because he add ressed the table rather more than the audience the progression of his argument left much to the imagination . Blythe Levett spoke with clarity and conviction of 'holes' in the scientific explanation of the creation, such as the various unexplained prehistoric fl oods that wiped out whole species, and the failure of anyone to find the legendary Missing Link. Lucia Conybeare went as far as to challenge the very funda mentals of the theory of evolution, refering to Hendel's discovery that genes cannot actually develop, but can only be broken down - hence, presumably, we are all degenerates. Although her rhetoric lent more to earl y morning Open Uni versity tha n Eugene Terre-Blanche, her speech was at least clear. Jonathan Marshall was perhaps the most convincing of all, pointi ng out that science has never explained the human capacity fo r aesthetics, morality, love, a nd 'sou l', wi th the sincerity and feeling of someone who really beheved what he was saytng. That the debate had to be red uced to a vote at the end was an anticlimax, for one felt that a 'victory' for one side or the other was irrelevant. Instead, the debate seemed act ually to be leading somewhere. It had risen above anything I have ever heard at the King's Parliament, and let us hope that the Society can sustain the momentum of what was a resounding initial

success . PETER ELAM .

QUESTION TIME IN THE SHIRLEY HALL There is a tradi tion of 'Question' programmes, founded mainly on the belief that the politician or public figure is by some stra nge magic att ributed with more knowledge and qualificatio ns than the common man to answer questions o f importance. T he viewing or listening audience is rather small , therefore, limited to those who still have a certain confidence in their leaders. lt is perhaps distressing that these people have power a nd influence enough to support at least three 'Question ' programmes, one on Radio 4, one on B.B .C. l a nd one on I. T. V. It was the B.B .C. programme that came to use the Shirley Hall on. the last day of half term. Turning up to cover the event fo r The Canluarian, I was at first greeted with suspicious challenges, but when they had learnt I was from the school magazine, I fo und myself escorted only too eagerly around the whole production set-up. (Even T. V. people are susceptible to feelings of awe for 'The P ress' .) T here were fo ur cameras in the Shirley Hall , a nd twent y-two televisions in the production van. I counted them . The producer , looking spruce in a checked sk irt and blouse, was friendly, aware perhaps of the power of her smile. Robi n Day was nowhere to be seen, though his presence was clearly to be felt. His name, though unspoken, was present in every sentence.

Having secured myself a place in the gallery with a camera, I adjo urned un til the start of the rehearsal. The smartly dressed and middle-aged a udience were installed in their seats, excited and tense at the lights a nd cameras - the prospect of being seen on television by all their fri ends. 'Oh look, there's ... !' . The dazzle of possible fame was at last an immedia te prospect. The product ion staff had the unenviable tas k of chatting up the audience, easing them, with relaxed talk a nd cool jokes, into a successful production . They had a man from the radi o to sit in Ro bin Day's chair and answer questions, as a warm-up. He seemed to enj oy the effecti ve boom that the th roat mi ke gave his voice. T hen Sir Robin himself appeared , followed by the fo ur members of the 'panel', who were a right-winger, a left-winger , a liberal a nd Mr. Edward Heat h. 235

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The hour's potential for boredom was kept unrealised only by the wit and aggression of S. Robin Day, who deflated the rhetoric with sharp stabs of courteous rudeness. The tension a Ir boredom built up by a long speech dissolved into relieved laughter whenever Sir Robin strun~ - it was a source of comfort to the audience when he confirmed their disbelief in what w~ being said. 'It's quite a lot of production expense for an hour's television,' ruminated a productio assistant. 'Of course, a couple of hours' football would be much cheaper. .. but I think it'~ worth it, on the whole.' ROBERT WEBB .

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VISITS BOAT CLUB TRAINING CAMP: SWITZERLAND 1986

It is not easy to describe this year's Boat Club training camp on the Sarnersee. At the start it looked more like the Clapped-Out Saab of the Year Rally. In the middle it suddenly looked as if the whole thing had been planned in order to allow a Masters' IV to train in secret. And at the end - oh, 'the end' about sums it up. Having in the past inflicted agony on just an VIII, then an VIII and a IV, R.M.H. now decided to make two VIlIs suffer. He even persuaded that nice young Mr. Hartridge to join the usual team of torturers, the Revd. Allen and Mr. Graham. Indeed, for some of the squad, Mr. Hartridge, with his afternoo n O-level Maths lessons, seemed even worse a threat than R.M.H. himself. The Hotel was as good , and the food even better than before and as soon as we arrived it became clear that the K.S.C.B.C's reputation has indeed spread : we are used to Westminster coming out to see how it' s done, but this year the British National Rowing Co-ordinator and Chief National Coach, and the G .B. Olympic IV had come along to pick up a few hints. (At one stage the National Coach volunteered to take Chris Mitchell' s place in the 2nd VIII when he was injured, but our selectors proved too fussy .) Inspired by this company, the coaches pushed the VIlIs into a very heavy work-load; it's a real reflection on the general fitness - and determination - of the crews that they did not crack, but came on well through a very punishing schedule, made necessary by the freezing over of the Westbere lake the previous term. Indeed, even the coaches took to the water in the coxed IV - photographic evidence of this effort may be in this edition (unless the masters have got to the editors). Despite outings at 7.00 a.m., very hard work (and supervised P.S.I.s for O-and A-level candidates !) it proved a very happy week because the real progress being made was clear to everyone; the younger members of the squad in particular showed a remarkable improvement. Off the water it proved a relaxed and civilised week. True a surprising number of people seemed to be wandering around with ice on their wrists - and the Captain of Boats' jeans looked rather 236

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u~hk eJihemselves real cowards when faced with the whole squad plus a snow-field. Still, Mr.

hr~~am seems able to do a pretty good job repairing Ford exhausts (pity he didn't take the r-box course as well). gea the end of the week it was clear that - despite the bigger numbers on the trip this year ~he combination of intense work and relaxed good company had worked its usual magic in ;elding a crew together (a vital factor after the previous term's ice). But it wasn't the end of the week yet - by no means . .. On the way home, just before a long, up-hill tunnel a few miles away from Basle, the Transit's (new) gear box fell apart. . . Mr Allen battled with German-Swiss as he poured money into the call-box. Yet again (second ear iunning) our patron saints from Stampfli came to the rescue, with a Range Rover, whilst rhe only other car big enough turned out to be a rather vast Mercedes. So nine hours later Mr. Hartridge swayed off in the Range Rover (wot, no green wellies?) and then we all stopped at the border for a few hours as they didn't like our papers. Mr. Allen nearly declared war on France (a bargain for 700F.) and Mr. Graham's French was pushed when it became clear that he would have to go through a 45 min . adoption ceremony before they'd let Kanda in . And so - twenty-four hours later - back home, apart from Messrs. Hooper and Graham who had to go all the way back to collect the repaired (the Swiss are efficient) bus. But as ever R M.H. had the last word - this time in French . As the bus, at last nearing home, was stopped by deux gendarmes, M. Hooper rather surprised them by announcing that he and Mr. Graham had been driving a dozen young girls round Europe. Oh la la. As the Sultan of Turkey remarked on being told that the King of Sweden was at the front door with a small army, 'Allah is great, but things are very strange.' Now there's a motto for the Boat Club. AN EVEN OLDER SWISS CUSTOMS OFFICER.

6b BIOLOGY FIELD TRIP TO DALE FORT, PEMBROKESHIRE APRIL, 1986 At first sight, Dale village was exactly as most of us had pessimistically imagined, and arriving in a typical Pembrokeshire downpour a mile's walk from the field centre confirmed our worst expectations of the week ahead. However, matters soon improved when the accommodation was viewed, supper appeared and we discovered that not all marine ecologists have long beards and flared trousers, and can be quite normal. The next few days consisted of a mixture of field work and lectures for us, while Mr. Wetherilt developed his fascination with seaweed, and Dr. Pickering dressed up as an American tourist, complete with camera, binoculars and devastatingly attractive sunglasses . Our lectures were all given by Steve, our tutor, who tolerated our ignorance with great patience, and even charmed Vicky into handing in some work. The field work varied from identifyi ng plant species in the pouring rain, to painting yellow spots onto creatures on the beach, but whatever the weather, the staff's enthusiasm and abundance of knowledge, made the trips to the shore very enjoyable. The penultimate day heralded the culmination of the course in the form of projects on a wide range of topics. These were not nearly as bad as we had expected and provided an opportunity for Pierre, amongst others, to display his innate eloquence, when giving his project talk on the final day. Following the talks, four of the more insane members of the party took to the water, but a temperature of 4Â°C meant that four extremely numb bodies emerged soon afterwards. Many of us then spent several hours at the end of the peninsula, scarcely believing the fabulou s views offered to us, by the moon on the sea and the unspoilt countryside in the background. 237 THE MONKEY HOUSE (Christopher Barro" and J.S.H.)

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VISIT TO PARLIAMENT On the sunny morning of Thursday, 1st May, 1986, fifteen members of J.S.R.'s 6b polilics set - accompanied by J.S.R. himself - caught the 8.00 a .m. train from Canterbury West. In fact it turned out to be the 8.03 a.m. after the stationmaster had held up the train for three minutes waiting for certain late arrivals (no names mentioned!), but despite this slight drawback we still managed to be at Charing Cross at 9.30. The occasion was, of course, J .S.R. 's annual visit to Parliament, and we were, for the mOSI part, enthusiastic, as we made our way to the Norman Porch of Westminster. There we were met by Mr. Michael Pownall, a fairly young man holding the post of Establishment Officer for the House of Lords, and having weaved our way through the intricate Parliamentary securily system without buzzing or exploding we began our day with a tour of the Palace of Westminster . It must here be said that it is almost impossible to hold a correct opinion of the structure of the Houses of Commons and Lords without actually visiting them. They are much smaller than generally expected, which is something that does not come across on television or in pictures. Mr. Pownall gave us a comprehensive tour of the Chambers, lobbies and corridors of Westminsler - releasing some useful information in the process - and then left us in the central lobby. After Mr. Pownall's tour we were met by Mr. Tristan Garel-Jones, an M.P. and an O.K.S. from The Grange, who took us into one of the Committee rooms and gave us a very interesting talk about the life of a Whip. After this fascinating insight into the true affairs of Parliamenl we had a look into some of the Committees that were sitting, and then met Patrick Paines, who gave us a vast collection of Parliamentary information papers to aid us in our quest for good A-level grades. By now it was almost 1.00 so we retired to the far corners of the metropolis for lunch. An hour and a half later we managed to get back in by waving tickets for the Stranger's Gallery or giving promises that there were some waiting for us inside. Having watched the Speaker's procession we filed into the Strangers' Gallery and spent a marvellously entertaining hour watching the Prime Minister's Question Time and other assorted business of the House. This certainly brought politics to life for us and injected a large degree of realism into our studies. Leaving the famous faces of politics behind us we descended from the Strangers' Gallery al the end of Prime Minister's Question Time to meet Lord Cranborne. He gave us an interesting talk about his work - expressing some rather dissatisfied views about the present system and then showed us some more of the Palace of Westminster, finally delivering us up at the House of Lords . We spent a bit of time there but as the pace was much slower than in the Commons and the subject matter less sparky, most of us left somewhat prematurely to find a well needed drink outside. We finally left Victoria at 5.40 - accidently leaving Richard Costain behind - and arrived back in Canterbury with some useful political experience under our belts. All in all it was both an interesting and an enjoyable day. Thanks must go to Mr. Michael Pownall, Mr. Tristan Garel-Jones and Lord Cranborne, to all the MPs who managed to provide tickets for us, and especially to J .S.R. for making the whole thing possible. MARTIN STEWART. 238

THE SOCIETIES ~MNESTY INTERN~TIONAL

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'he Ij,ho . Things were made much easier this year by the new EditWriter, producing second and third versions ~f (~e jobs with an absolu te minimum of time-wasting. It is also being put to good use by Mr. Johnson In hiS capacity as Comptroller of the King's Calendar: a lengthy task necessitating frequent additions, for which the EditWriter is well suited. The rest of the King's Week load fell on the shoulders of James Eddison and the activity printers, who have worked very hard to keep as many other customers as possible satisfied as well. ~h.ough the number of occasional printers has dwindled with the increase in rowing and examination aCliyl~~, the impetus fro m the splendid September intake has produced a vast range of material for the exhl ~ltJon of the year's work, and we must here belatedly acknowledge the part played in this by the arrival of Nicola Shaw (LN) as our first lady member for a while. She has brought a note of refinement to the Caxton Room - and even to Tim! With much regret we mu st say goodbye and thank you to Nick this sum mer, wishing him the very best for the future. R.J.M / M.J.M. 239 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL POSTERS (Suleymall Saba)

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and trebles recording carol ~ in London,w ith t~ e flautist James Galway, The choir OS whole has sung throughout the term at matms and special services such as those of Ascension Day ~ the Commemoration on SPe.ech Day .. Reduced in number ,we also perforn;te? a varied and enjoYab programme for the Serenade 10 the ClOIsters . The anthems this term were: ThlSjOyjul Eastertide arrang~ by Charles Wood; Missa Sancti Johannis de Deo by Haydn and Now the Lord his reign begins for the Ascension Day service; Ascendit Deus by Ph illips; Come Holy Ghost by Attwood and Mr. Rose's ow adaptation of Palestrina for the service in the crypt; I was glad by Parry; The Lord hath been mindfu~ oj us by S. S. Wesley; and My soul. there is a country by Parry . The anthems for the Commemoratio Service were Justorum animae by Stanford and 0 how glorious is thy kingdom by Harwood. n Our soloists have been Jo Wrench, Jeremy Avis and Sara Bee, and they will all be sorely missed. We wish them the very best of luck in their respecti ve futures and owe them a great debt. Finally we wish to thank Mr. Barry Rose fo r hi s co nsis tently enthusiastic approach and enco uragement

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Jonathan Ibbott (Rg)

The Gardens of Physics The air is close and black, And the scarf tickles gently On the back ~f my neck. Another PhYSICS lesson. Already the room is hot, HeavY with the perfume or the girls In the class before us. Tbe blackboard is clean of words, Touched with the smear of a board rubber Where a sole equation was banished, Only to return again for us, To multiply and creep outwards Into a complex network of figures and leiters To be copied dutifully down In dog-eared, ink-smudged exercise books. I wonder what 6b did To get off as easily as they have. Tbe first equation appears on the board And with it my mind begins to wander. Snakes. Cobras, mambas, perhaps a python here and there. How to kill them? Machete? Crossbow? Got iI! Home-made flame thrower. The intrepid explorer ventures round the compound, The grasses brushing tentatively at his side. The sun beats down upon his already browned skin; The cobra rears ready for the strike. 'Yes Ibboll, perhaps you would like to answer. The question's on page ninety~six.' The figures loom into vision Distances, speed and time. 'Well, err.. .' The figures still don't make sense. 'The distance is seventy~nine point two metres, sir,' The figures come together Into something remembered from last lesson. The explorer is lost to reality, Left frozen, wailing for the strike, Never to be thought of again, Except, perhaps, until next Physics lesson.

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The First Daffodil

Sholto Byrnes (Sha)

The evening perfume of freshly cut barley drifts over the hedgerows, While lazy breaths of cooler air stir the summer tranquillity. The dying sun smiles deep orange over distant, timeless hills Where sheep mill around green pastures, and swarms of flies Congregate above piles of droppings, Oblivious to the rising storm still far away. Dark clouds gather, yet cause no disruption; they are Harmless still and will not arrive before another day or two. The sun sets, faint rays still visible recalling memories of Another year, another summer, and of a harrowing and Rejected love. Russet and cream pastel leaves pile carpet the forest floor. A ceiling of tree tops hems in feelings, letting in only Cracks of light, an excuse for warmth. Another year, another autumn and What difference? Bitterness swells inside him, Bitterness at a cruel God. A sea of tree trunks and branches Rushes past him, leading his mind on, on through the Tame wildness, ready to be free and dangerous at winter's icy touch. A cool, morning freshness pervades, while dawn's menacing fingers March on, ruthlessly destroying the silence of the night. Grey anguish returns, rolling over the wide expanse of fields after the Dulling passivity of mental fatigue and sleep. Even now, the winter after, the memory of Her hammers at his senseless mind. Dry earth crumbles under world-weary feet. He tries to Forget by using mundane routine, forcing oblivion, forgetfulness that Must come, to release him from hellish Torment. Yet after winter's white blanket has melted, And the freezing gales have faded, There comes a new hopefulness, The hopefulness of new life and the great Awakening from sleep. Slothful greenery bestirs itself, Exuding joy after the sorrow of the winter. The sun climbs slowly, sending warm shafts of light, Cutting through the dregs of winter's depression, Illuminating dark and dusty places with a Muted yet fulfilling hope. His heart still belongs to winter, and she is still his Ice Queen. Spring's hope cannot find a way in. He, harsh and cold, still smarting from wounds reopened by Callousness, is oblivious to joy - what is joy without Love - without sharing joy? And then he sees a sight of banal brilliant significance: The first daffodil.

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The Horses Dates are just numbers ~nd kings destined to go mad A d abolish Parliament m 1066. :e crevasses on the desks are hills, d we are horses, riding through the wild moors, Ina time that never existed. I: the background, the voice goes on, Droning, hypnot!s~ng, like a record player, Turning into obllVlon, While the horses Gallop on into the mist. Our pens have dropped, Making a blue mark on every page, In every exercise book. Our listless looks on sandpaper faces are gone: We are all intent, For though to the master we are following Henry VIII, In ourselves we are on grassy plains, Cantering in slow motion ..â&#x20AC;˘ And the enemy come forward to meet us, Each one plants an arrow in our breasts, And we stumble to wakefulness, The piercing bell pulsating through our heads. 'Your prep is the essay,' and none of us dare to ask, 'What essay?' Horses can't write, anyway ..â&#x20AC;˘

White Lines

James Martin (Shb)

'Hi there, truckers,' the female voice whispered, 'I sure hope you like Madonna, 'cos we got two of her songs comin' up right now.' The Americanised swish lulled on, caressing the night. 'Stuttgart 80 kilometres,' declared the sign as it whizzed past in a white flash. With headlights piercing the trees and gloom ahead, and turning the puddles into moons, the driver pondered. 'Riders on the storm' ... 'Pirelli' ... 'all awra, all awra. Gonna dress you up in â&#x20AC;˘.. ' Madonna droned on. The van hauled its heavy cargo, on to Germany. 'Well truckers, some late news. There's been a major drugs 'bust' at Dover just now. Two middle-aged men were caught red-handed with ten kilogrammes of cocaine. Now to relax, here's Wham, and "I'm your man".' The driver's eye twitched and he shifted in his seat, glancing furtively at the wing-mirror. He accelerated and drove on, smashing the puddles and scattering the water-droplets like strands of glass. 'Stop.' The legend rounded a sharp bend to meet him. A policeman raised a white glove to stop him. He braked. 'Would you let us search your van, sir?' 'Certainly,' the man replied, 'but I think you'll find it empty.' He was sweating slightly. Remember what M. Lagard said. Under the van. Don't think. 'Right-ho, you can go then,' the policeman shouted from behind the van. The barrier lifted and he started to move through, but he paused before he breathed again. He inhaled deeply and his mind was flickering like a 30s film-strip. 243

'Well we've just had some sad news from London folks: two sixteen-year old boys kill themselves with overdoses of cocaine today; so watch out there all you coke lovers. Anywaed now we have the Pet-Shop Boys and "West-end girls".' y, The driver wiped his brow with his sleeve and closed his eyes under the pressure and lirin situation. He was yanked out of his temporary mental sanctuary by a blaring horn. He swervea to avoid a car coming straight at him. He had ventured onto the other side of the road. 'East-end boys, West-end girls.' The road ahead blurred for a second as every raindro conglomerated into one immense sheet. The driver accelerated. Was it right? Yes. The money~ The lives? Worth it? Remember what M. Lagard said. Don't think. â&#x20AC;˘ 'Coke is it. .. ' The road blurred again. 20 kilometres to go. Remember what M. Lagard said Don't think. Cars flashed past like comets; the rain drove harder. Lightning split the Sky' illuminating the rugged skyline with a blue flash. Stuttgart 18 kilometres. The van drove on' dragging its heavy cargo. ' 'All right truckers, now music time again, this time Grandmaster and Melle Mel with "White Lines".' The van shuddered and wobbled. The driver accelerated. The white lines in the centre of the road twisted ahead like an albino snake, winding towards Stuttgart. Remember what M Lagard said. Don't think. Stuttgart 14 kilometres. . 'White lines, connected to my mind.' All the road was now one huge puddle, the sky and trees as well. The driver's head swam, in the huge pUddle. Another horn, but this time he didn' t care. There was a horn in every corner of his mind. '24 kilos' ... 'white lines' ..â&#x20AC;˘ 'getting kind'a low'. Remember what M. Lagard said. Don't think. The driver accelerated. Remember ... M. Lagard ... think ... accelerate ... horn. 'White lines, blow a.way. Crash! The foaming, white river was deep; deep enough. I

The Crown's Gem

Dominic Burdess (Sha)

'Looks like land,' Charles said, hopefully. He held a crystal sherry glass in one hand, and pointed with the other out across the port railings of the steamboat. Diana started to murmur something, dreamily, but the ship's rear horn cut in, invading the lilting music of the orchestra in the candle-lit darkness. A slow mist wafted gently past the supping couples, but was quickly blown away by electric fans to keep the heat and insects at bay. The thundering of the horn stopped, and the couples gradually moved to the railings to see the first signs of land. 'Sorry, Diana?' 'Er ... nothing ... ,' she replied, staring blearily out across the reflection of Bombay's lights in the evening sea. That night there was a good deal of merry-making on the bright, four-funnelled steamer. Diana woke before seven the next morning and roused Charles immediately. He dressed himself in a beige safari suit, lifting the perfectly pressed cotton from his tailor's characteristic green tissue paper. After washing and shaving, he donned his aftershave hurriedly and liberally, and, only pausing to kiss Diana briefly, pressed the 'service' button and left the suite. A maid arrived presently to dress Diana, much against Diana's will, and she joined Charles on the foredeck several minutes later. Scanning the wharf together, they tried to pick out Philip Witheridge; described as 'white-haired, around fifty, with a handlebar moustache', presumably with a chauffeur. 'It could be anyone,' Diana had said. 244

The identity of a small, yet muscular, man with a tanned face and a military air, leaning . tiently on a cream Bentley was obvious from a glance. Calling a boy to carry their handImp"ag lugg e, Charles strode purposefully towards the gangway, with Diana hurrying behind. As they reached the bottom of the gangway, the captain thanked them and wished them a I asant stay. Keeping their eyes on Philip, who had not yet noticed them, they stepped gingerly ~ ~ween the piles of baggage and of Indians lying around in the morning sun. A couple of hopeful elesman had set up booths along the wharf, but no one bought the things they had to sell: :~e travellers were sorting out their passports, luggage and cars. Anyone not bustling around was waiting anxiously for the chance of helping, for a bit of money. At last they reached the figure of the ex-army colonel, looking in the opposite direction. Charles tapped him gently on the shoulder, and he spun round on his heel, stamped his foot, and murmured something about the time. Charles apologised, though he didn't know why. 'Well tally-ho, and let's be orf then!' Philip declared, and he opened the door for Diana. She chu'ckled politely. 'How far to the Residence?' Charles asked. He hoped that they could be under fans before noon. 'Oh no more than a few hours: we should be there by four o'clock,' Philip answered cheerfully. Charl~s sighed, and stared morosely at his crocodile-skin shoes. Savile Row was half a world Ilway, now. The chauffeur, a dark-skinned, greasy-looking native with a pale blue suit with a Union Jack emblazoned across his left-hand breast pocket, slid quietly into the plush velvet covers on the seat in front, and slammed the car-door. 'Residence, please and 'juldi'!' 'Wait!' Charles was looking at the unhappy boy with beady brown eyes dolefully clasping his hands in front of him like an inexperienced actor. The car slewed to a halt, and the boy ran on behind. Charles threw a few anna to him for carrying the luggage, and the car sped off. They passed through acres and acres of brown, sunburnt fields, the peasants brown as the earth they tilled and the children beside the old and lame. Soon they reached white, plaster buildings with a door and a single window in each, and every so often the dome of a mosque or a mandir arched against the dusty sky in the same white plaster. As they drove, slower now, through the dirty streets, the Indians stared, clearing the road at their own speed. The car gently rounded the corner and jostled on the cobbles into the centre of an active bazaar. The subtle aroma of exotic Asian spice mingled with the already odorous atmosphere. Cheerful, noisy salesmen shouted their wares in ringing tenors, comparable to the singing in the mosques. Veiled women slid along in long black dresses and shawls. Donkeys and oxen mouched stiffly between the active stalls. The chauffeur shouted in Hindi at the wrinkled boy carrying a stick, who was driving goats across the square in front of the rolling bonnet of the car. Suddenly, a face popped up at Diana's side and peered in through the window. Accompanied by a slow rocking of his head from side to side, he held bags of cashew nuts, pointed at them repeatedly, and frantically gabbled at her. A policesahib, in an ill-cut blue suit, tugged at him by his arm, and the face disappeared from view. Several seconds later, the policesahib ran up to the moving car, and apologised through the glass. He looked as if he expected a medal. After a lot of pushing and shouting, the car shoved its way out of the last of the Indians, and continued along more dirty, narrow streets, Eventually, the endless white buildings and gaudy shop-front windows gave onto a long, wide avenue. It was clean, with tall, green trees on either side. No Asian face could be seen at all, save the occasional kindly smile from a uniformed, squatting gardener. This was British land. At the end of the avenue, like a picture of the Taj Mahal, a great, pillared palace sat majestically 245

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The Visitor

Amit Das (Sha)

The needle pierced Kathy's skin, pushing her into an abyss of blissful darkness. Her body was stretching, enveloping her middle-age wrinkles and massaging her pains. She was spinning through a funnel, dangerously close to the side, yet never touching it. At the bottom she could see a diamond, glowing and sparkling, even in the gloom. Kathy fluttered over the diamond, not daring to pick it up. Finally she clasped it in her hands, but it was burning hot. Immediately she dropped it. It fell and smashed against the black rock. The syringe lay shattered on the threadbare carpet, fragments of glass glinting everywhere. She was still unconscious, but her high was disappearing like an April mist. 'Reverend Oswald! Reverend Oswald!' A frantic voice hammered at her head, blaring away her foggy sleep. An old face framed in white curls looked into her eyes anxiously. 'Why is this woman calling me Reverend Oswald? Where am I?' Kathy jerked away instantly, scared of her strange surroundings. 'Now, now, don't overdo it! You've been very ill.' Her soothing tones helped to calm Kathy. 'What time is it?' inquired Kathy trying to get out of her bed. She was held back by the old lady who looked genuinely puzzled. 'Time? What on earth's time?' She shook her head and left the room. Kathy got out of bed and walked to the window. She looked out onto the most perfect landscape she had ever seen. Manicured lawns rolled out into soft, bubbling rivers. Women were working in fields full of ripe hay, laughing and chatting. The sun shone merrily upon the whole scene. Kathy now realised what was happening. She was still under the influence 246

d gs and was dreaming this happy scene. Kathy sighed in relief. Now she could enjoy herself, of r~ h she had never had a dream of such intensity before. Kathy inspected the room and .lth:e ~id glanced into a mirror hanging on the wall. She stopped dead, her eyes widening in .S S k A dizziness blanketed her and she fell to the ground unconscious. sho C â&#x20AC;˘ When Kathy awoke, her head was aching and pounding. Although she thought that she must 'n a hospital, she could not hear any of the normal noises associated with them. Her room be ~ windowless and the only source of light was a shaded bedside lamp. The only other person ~athe room was an old lady her face framed in white curls. ' Oh no! I'm still in this dream. How can it be so realistic?' Kathy cringed at the thought but It was becoming more and more likely that she was not dreaming. Suddenly the Old Woman awoke. 'Ah Reverend, you're looking much better now. Did you sleep well?' Without waiting for an ans;'er shke carr!ed on, 'If you're feeling up to it we can go and see Mother Humble. Doctor's orders you now. Since Kathy was feeling much better she decided to let this woman take her to 'Mother Humble'. This nightmare could not get any worse. The Old Woman led Kathy out into a series of blindingly white corridors, polished and waxed. After walking for about five minutes the Old Woman stopped in front of a black door. The door stood out like a black sheep in snow. 'Now dear, off you go. I'll be waiting out here.' Resigning herself to fate, Kathy opened the door. The harmless dream suddenly turned into a terrible nightmare. 'Sit down, please do sit down.' Kathy in her shock at seeing the room had not noticed the lady in the corner. She was of Kathy's age, obviously well looked after and wearing black clothes. Kathy's mouth still hung open. She was dumbfounded. She had entered her own living room and on the floor was a corpse - her corpse. Spilled on the floor were the syringe and drugs. 'This is your room isn't it?' asked the woman politely. We had great difficulty in searching back 258 years to find this exact date and time in your life.' 'How ... where and I? .. This building, I mean?' Kathy was dazed, her skin paler than the heroin on the floor. 'You are in what was the New York Memorial Hospital. Kathy you are a rare case. You have come into our world through the use of drugs. Oh yes we have had cases like yours before but you are the most recent. You have entered another person's body ... I think that's why you have fainted in your house in shock. 250 years ago, in your life time, crime was rampant. Women were harassed, raped and used. 'Only in marriage could a women find happiness,' so said the public. Yet even in marriage she was under the male fist. After the Great War, only 2000 men were left on Earth. Now â&#x20AC;˘. .' Kathy cut her off, her face a picture of confusion. 'Wait! Wait! Please slow down!' Kathy shook her head, unable to digest this chunk of information. 'What is this Great War?' 'The Great War of 2002? The Desert Lands cut off the world's oil supply. The Western Governments reacted by producing a bomb so lethal that not only did the Arab men die, all the Western men died. Apparently it contained a germ only effective in men. Haven't you noticed the lack of men in the landscape?' 'Of coursel' thought Kathy, 'even in the fields there were only women.' 'Women by this time were helpless. When the last men died, it was universally agreed to form a new society which I am now a part of. It contains none of the greed, sickness and rot of your 247

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stinking society. The society is divided into grades and when a baby is born she is automaticaIl put into a grade. She is then reared according to this grade. Grade One is the ruling class o~ which I am a member. Grade One members are allowed a profession and I chose History. Grad Two are called the Reverends - the women whose body you're in was one - they enforce tb: law and peace. The Helpers, like the lady outside are part of Grade Three. Each person in Grade One and Two is ascribed a helper who looks after them. Grade Three contains the Tillers. These are the workhands and they take care of the land.' As the Historian paused for breath, Kathy asked a question which had been itching her. 'If there are no men, how do you produce babies?' A look of satisfaction spread across her face. Surely she had found a flaw in this perfect society. 'Before man died out, we collected some sperm samples. These have been divided and refined so that only females can be produced. Man was a parasite and we are glad to be rid of him.' The Historian looked pleased. 'Kathy, let me assure you, this is not an image. You are actuaUy in New York, on the 17th July 1987. That is your front door. If you wish you could walk out and live your own life. But remember, your society is rotten and without love. It is honeycombed with violence and filth. Our society is pure and new. Because of its youth there are no faults in it. If you wish you can stay with us. Although there is no romance in our world, there is an abundance of love.' If she left her world , all the familiar things she knew would disappear. Even in this wretched world she had many friends who loved and cared for her. Yet the logic of the Historian 's words penetrated her mind . Finally she replied by turning and following the Historian out of the door. She could hear a taxi honking outside the window. As the door closed, it slowly faded away until only a blank corridor was left. 'Come on, Reverend , it's been a long day.' The helper reached out for her arm and led her away.

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The Jazz Club's activities this term have largely been directed to prepari ng for the King's Week Concert which (complete with technical gremlins!) took place on Saturday. 12th JAZZ July, and is reviewed elsewhere in this Cantuarian by James Sharp. We have, however, I ed tWO other engagements this term - the Kent Schools Rugby Football Uni on Committee Dinner pate $t Augustine's Dini ng Hall on Friday. 9th May. at which the hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson th~ Band was on the best fo rm I have heard them fo r some time at this), and at J .K.S. after their concert , d during their buffet supper on Saturday, 5th July. anThe Traditional Band has once again been James Gumpert (tru mpet), Andrew Bush (clar inet), Alastair ik (saxophone), James Lawrence (trombone), Jeremy Avis (piano), And rew Fordham (bass) and Philippe ~~amp (drums). All were musically directed by Andrew Ford ham. Elaine Oliver (saxophone), as last year, mented the Band to fo rm the 'Combo' in the King's Week Concert. The Big Band this year really li ved a~~o its name, with a veritable 'cast of thousands'. There were fi ve trumpets (Joe Wrench, Damian Simpson, Crispin Flower and Robin Scott , in addition to Jimmy Gumpert) , eight saxophones (Elaine Oli ver, Ben Eaton Caractacus Downes, Matthew Hulme, Simon Richards, Nick Young, and Mr. McConnell, in addition 10 Ali 'Craik), and five trombo nes (Anth ony Gillespie-Smith , Richard Preston, Magnus Montgomery and Daniel Rycroft , alongside James Lawrence), as well as Jeremy Avis (piano), and And rew Fordham (bass and musical direction). T urning hi s hand to thi s musical form in the Big Band was Tim Weller, already well known for his drumming work in several 'rock' gro ups, who very ki ndly stood in at extremely short nol ice for Phil Lacamp, who had a plet hora of cricket commitments duri ng the rehearsal per iods in Ki ng's Week. Libby Robi nson kindly took over on piano in A in 't Misbehavin' wh ile pian ist Jeremy Avis had a 'vocal' . The Barbershop section was again very popular this year, and for this I am most th ank ful to Chris White, Jeremy Avis, Andy Bush and Andrew Fordham. As always, I am extremely gratefu l for the support of Mr. McConnell, who worked very ha rd indeed with the other seven members of the saxophone section, rehearsing them separately at ea rly-morning, and ot her inconvenient, times. Also in connection with the King's Week Concert , I should very much like to thank the lighting team of Ti m Bainbridge, Chri s Tothill and Giles Bird - all under the fatherly eye of Mr. Wenley - for setting up the lighting and ingeniously arranging (as only they know how) that the Shirley Hall power could supply Nicholas Nickleby and the Jazz Concert, in gentle succession! Mr. Mathews, Mr. Miles. Mr. Jonathan Williams, O .K.S. and Nicholas Preston were all very patien t with the undersigned 's reluctance to produce programme copy. I should li ke to thank Mr. Brodie and his Management team, Mr. Dobbin and H ugh Girling and the Commandos for all their support. Finally, l than k Mrs. McConnell and Mr. Pragnell for recording, and Oliver Langton fo r filming, the Concert. Sadly, we have more than our usual number of departures this year. In the Combo and Big Band. Elaine Oli ver leaves, after being a very keen and loyal participant in the Jazz Club during her two years here. Crispin Flower (trumpet) has also been involved for the last two years, whilst, again in the trum pet section, Joe Wrench has bowed out a fter playing in the Big Band in the las t four Ki ng's Week Concerts. In his final year in the School, we were very pleased to have a contribution to the Big Band fr om Caractacus Downes. In the core-Band, Jeremy Avis and Andy Bush depart after one year in the Club (but two years in the Concert - in the Barbershop). I am very grateful fo r their hard work and the joie de vivre they have introduced into the Activities Sessions. I write this three days a fter the King's Wee k Jazz Concert and many people have told me how much they enjoyed Jeremy's impromptu 'stand-up comic' tu rn when the Concert was held up by a 'blown' fuse! I am very grateful to him for having had the courage to do this - I certainly could not have done it! Alastair Craik has been a loyal and dependable member of the Jazz Club fo r the last two years as saxophonist in the core-Band, and, the year before that, he was in the Big Band. Quietly, and unobtrusively, but always with good hu mour, he never failed to produce solos of impressive and characteristically reliable quality - he always came to rehearsals well prepared and evidently did a lot of hard work o n his solos, and other ' notes' , at home. He will be very much mi ssed. In losi ng Andrew Fordham , as we now do after his four years in the Club , the last two of them as its Musical Director, we become bereft of a leader of singular mu sicianshi p and drive. Nearly all the players mentioned in thi s report - like, in fact, most music pupils at King 's - have an incredi bly wide range of mu sical interests and abilities, and Andrew is an archetypal example of this. He has virtually pioneered 'rock' music here (with many of his own compositions), and has taken part in the Orchestra, Choir, BanCl and Barbershop . And , since he was recrui ted into the Jazz Club fo ur years ago - and especially during the two years in which he has been its Musical Director - he has risen with ever-increasing stature in this genre as well. T here are not many moments of ind ividual glory for the bass player in a jazz group. but Andrew has always taken a pride in the overall sound of the bands that he has directed. He has wor ked the small bands and the Big Band very hard, there is no doubt about that. But the members of these ba nds followed willi ngly, holding And rew's opinions and suggestions in great respect, for his musical judgement was never in doubt. I thank him very warml y, as he leaves, for the tremendous amount of work that he has put in . The Musical Director's 'baton' now passes to Ji mmy Gumpert. R.B.MA. 249

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Th is term a new society was set up, being on ly the third of its ki nd to be set up in rec memory that is 'owned and run' entirely by students. T he Scienti fic and PhiIOSOPh·e~ Society joins two other wort hy bodies which have th is qualification: King's Youth Dra~ and Amnesty International. Indeed we hope that this is on ly the start of an increasing movement a a, that more pupil-run societies will be set up. The aim of thi s particular society. as thras hed out at th~ fi~d meeting, is to provide a base for discu ss ion and debate abou t scientific and phi losophical issues. It is no~1 as many who have not attended it say. 'pseud' in any way. There is nothing 'false' about interest in such matters. The first meeting, a debate on 'The Creation - Science as opposed to Rcli gion', is reviewed elsewhere in this publication . For the seco nd and last meeting this term we were lu cky to have an America n lecturer in philosophy in to talk about 'The Ethics of Deterrence' . T he talk was in teres ting and thought-provoking and the discussion afterwards was constructive - unus ual in such matters, where discussion too ofte~ ~ere!y goes round in circles. The differenc~s in Americ~n and B.ritish approaches to the matter were hlghhghted . We, of course, can afford to thm k about umlateral d isarmament, but the Americans ca n't in strategic terms, mainl y bccause of the enormous difference in ideo logy between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. I found the di scussion fr ighten ing, outlining the hopelessness of our position. Next term we hope to have a lively line-up, includi ng a debate on whether poli tica l violence is justified ' and poss ibly one on vegetarianism. All in terest, as always, is welcome. T hanks to Mr. Aldri dge and Mr. Jackso n for non-participant support. SCIPHILOS

ROBERT WEBB.

T his has been an excellent year for the second orchestra. Its repe rtoire has grow n

THE SECOND enormously, and the a tmosphere has been friendly and infor mal ; if someone can on ly ORCHESTRA play five notes, they are accommod ated somewhere and made to feel th at they have

somet hing usefu l to give. Our first concert, in aid of the Royal Marine Band Benevolent Trust, was held in December, and presented the school with a few Royal Marine mu sicians who joined the o rchestra for the evening. The programme was varied, and included classics such as the Rondo from Abdelazar by Purcell, as well as a seasonal rendition o f A Christmas Festival of Carols arranged by Leroy Anderson . Two soloists showed their developing talents. Chri s G ray perfo rmed very con fiden tly in Trumpet Tune and Air by Jeremiah Clarke, and Christopher Wat son played the tuba with great character in a piece by Harold Walters arranged by Mr. McConnell, In March, the o rchestra introduced the Chamber Orchestra concert, and despite performing to a filled hall , nerves were not apparent. We played four pieces, including the evidently popular Hootenany, and a rousin g version of the finale from Beethoven's 5th Symph ony, arranged by C harles Woodhou se. Our final concert, in a id of the Herne Bay Opportunity Group, took place in All Saint's Church, Canterb ury , and brought the total raised for charity by the orchestra over the year to £200. The programme included some of the best items from the year' s work, including Reel Fiddlin', in which Giles Hogben played an effective so lo. Under Mr. McConnell's direction, a saxophone Quartet provided some var iety, with its perfor mance of pieces by Praetorius, Byrd and Giles Farnaby. We are most grateful to Caractacus Downes, Alistair Craik and Sarah Pendlebury for giving up their time and performing so well. However, the highlight of the evening was, to my mind, On the Track in which Timothy Watson played the saxophone with tremendous dexterity, accompanied by the orchestra. The prolonged applause was thoroughly deserved. T he final even t in a most successful year was a trip to Chilh am Castle in June. T his was enjoyed by all who went and I hope that many such outings will be undertaken by the orchestra in the future. Thanks must go to Andrew Wickerson who has worked so hard both as a participant and adm inistrator. Also belated thanks are due to Nic k Lewin, who has helped to manage the orchestra wit h great efficiency for several years, and who will be greatly missed. Fin ally, I'm sure all the orches tra would wish to thank the McConnells for their unflagging keenness and initiative, which continues to make th is orchestra so ent hu siastic. TABITHA WI NN IFRITH. 250

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The season started slowly with the pitches and nets unusable following one of the wettest springs for many years. The first match against St. Lawrence and Highland Court had to be abandoned and the pitches only just recovered in time for the Highgate match, which was won ve comfortably by nine wickets. There then followed a frustrating few weeks with good weath~ during the week, but poor weather each Saturday. This was partly to blame for drawn matches against Dulwich, Eastbourne and Incogniti. Against Dulwich the XI bowled and fielded particularly well to defend a modest total of liS, but against Eastbourne, after a very fair Or even generous declaration, the XI lost their way badly at the beginning of the 20 overs and were guilty of not chasing the target for long enough. However the next drawn game at Cranleigh was totally different, for after Cranleigh had finally been bowled out for 161 off 71.1 overs the XI off only 40 overs finished at 160 for 8. Lacamp-andTaylor put on 100 for the first wicket' but were both out, along wfth Ryeland, with about 12 overs left. The middle order led by Linney continued the attack until 12 runs were needed from the last over. Linney was run out off the first ball trying for a second leg-bye to retain the strike, but Butcher scored 9 runs from the next four balls - which would have been 10, but for our second short run of the innings _ and needing two from the last ball, he was bowled . . The first match after the break for the exams, against The Band of Brothers, resulted in a draw as, against a very good bowling side, the XI could never score quickly to achieve the target. The next three matches were all won. The victories over St. Lawrence College and Sutton Valence were rather similar with the XI batting first and making a good score before bowling out the opposition fairly easily, but against The Stragglers of Asia it was far closer. Excellent bowling by Taylor, with the new ball, restricted The Stragglers to 112, but this seemed a good score when the XI slumped to 42 for 6 and 67 for 7. However, Davies, in only his second match for the XI, and Brown batted doggedly to score the further 46 runs needed for victory, finishing with 5 balls to spare. The XI were unlucky to lose the toss in the two-day game against the O .K.S. and batting first on a wet wicket were bowled out for 81. The O.K.S. replied with 147 before, on a now far more easy paced pitch, the XI made 189 due to a patient and accomplished innings of 76 by Ryeland. This set the O.K.S. to make 124 for victory, which, after a few early alarms, they did reasonably comfortably with 2 overs to spare. The final week of term started with a draw with the M.C.C., followed by a last ball victory over the XL Club and finished with a thrilling game against K.C.S. Wimbledon . Wimbledon won the toss and made 206 for 7 dec leaving the XI to score at 5 runs an over throughout their innings. A reasonably quick start, followed by a slow period, left the XI needing 140 runs off the last 20 overs . The middle order all made a few quickly but it was Taylor, with 58 in 47 minutes, including two straight sixes in the penultimate over, who gave the XI a real chance of victory, but with the number eleven going out to face the last 2 balls with 4 runs needed, the opposition total proved just too much and the game ended in a draw. A brief look at the averages for the season shows the extent to which the XI relied on Ryeland, Taylor and Lacamp. As the first three in the batting order they scored the majority of the runs and it was the major disappointment of the season that the middle order, nearly all of whom had played in the team last year, never found any consistent batting form. Ryeland and Taylor bowled many more overs than anyone else as once Wallis's back started to trouble him, there was no obvious third seamer to support them. Durham bowled his off spinners effectively with good flight and better direction towards the end of the season when he benefited from more regular bowling. Brown took some useful wickets with his leg-spin and naturally relished the harder pitches in cricket week. The XI were generally a very good fielding side and some excellent 252 1ST XI Slandillg: A. J. H. Brown, R. E. Patterson, D. G. Stocks, C. E. Butcher, M. Durham, R. R. Wallis.

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hes were taken. Ryeland proved an astute captain, whose experience and knowledge of the calC e were a great asset to a good XI who can look back on a very successful season which, ~a~for early wet pitches and some fairly defensive declarations by Ihe opposition, might have unlained many more victories to celebrate. Certainly they will need to work together as a unit cOd draw on all their experience if they are to be successful on the forlhcoming tour of Sri Lanka, an . I'IS there. bul Ihe potentIa Once again it must be said that the continuing success of the XI is largely due to Ihe expert oaching of Doug Wright and Mark Benson in the winter nets and also to the hours of time c enl by members of staff coaching throughout Ihe summer term those boys who will be in the ~l in future years . Congratulations are due to the 2nd XI and Junior Colts Xl on being unbeaten and 10 all the main teams at all age groups for excellent results, which meant that of 75 matches played only 5 were lost. Congratulations also are due to Broughton on winning both the Senior and Junior House competitions. Finally our thanks must go once again to Neville and his colleagues for continually improving the playing surfaces. A.W.D. RESULTS

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King's 145 for 4 dec. (M. B. Ryeland 60 not out); Dover College. 55 for 5. Match Draw n. King' s ' 115; Du lwich, 78 for 5. Match Drawn. Easlb~urnc College, 162 for 7 dec.; King's. 103 for 6. Matc h Drawn. Incogniti, 185 for 9 dec.; Ki ng's, 74 for l. Match Abando ned (Rain). Cranlcigh. 16 1; King's, 160 for 8 (P. P. Lacamp 50). Match Drawn. Band of Brothers, 163 for 9 dec.; King's, 120 fo r 5 (M. B. Rye land 6 1 not out). Match Drawn. King's 166; St. Lawrence College, 100 (J. P. Taylor 12-6- 15-4). King's wo n by 66 runs. s lfaggiers of Asia, 11 2 (J . P. Taylor 14-6-30-6); King's, 113 for 7. King's won by 3 wickets. King's, 198 for 7 dec. (J. P. Taylor 77); SUlion Va lence, 69 (M. B. Ryeland 10-4-12-5). King's wo n by 129 r.uns. King's 81 and 189 (M. B. Ryeland 76); O.K.S., 147 and 126 for 6 (J. P. Taylor 17-4-48-5). O.K.S. won by 4 Wickets. M. C.C., 224 for 4 dec.; Ki ng's, 179 fo r 7 (P . P. Lacamp 81). Match Drawn. XI Club, 148 (M. B. Ryeland 21.3-5-46-6); King's, 149 for 6. Ki ng's won by 4 wickets. K.C.S. Wimbledon, 206 for 7 dec. (J . P. Taylor 20. 1-5-43-4); King's, 203 for 9 (J. P . Taylor 58). Match Drawn.

l SI XI AVERAGES BATTING Highest fnnin gs Not Outs Score Runs Average M. B. Ryeland ............ .. .................... 15 4 76 389 35.36 P. P. Lacamp................... ... .......... ... 15 2 81 45 1 34.69 J. P. Taylor .................................... . 13 0 77 324 24.92 A . J. H. Brown ............................ _. .. 8 4 16" 69 17.25 I. D. S. Linney................................. 12 0 33 152 12.66 D. M. Ives ....................................... 13 0 30 162 12.46 D. G. Stocks .............. ...... .. ..... ...... ... 12 I 27 114 10.36 R. E. Pallerso n ...... ........ ........ ...... ..... 11 3 20· 81 10. 12 Also batted: C. E. Butc her 6-2-9-10-2.5, A. M. T. Cleme nts 2- 1-8-8-8, J . R. Davies 6-2-3 1·-58- 14.5, M. Durham 6-4-10"-14-7, A. E. Mitchell 2-0- 17-23- 11.5, S. R. Tu rner 3-1-23-5 1-25 .5, R. R. Wa llis 1-1-0-0-. BOWLING Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Average 200. 1 378 11.1 1 88 34 222.5 M. B. Ryeland .................... . 58 575 38 15. 13 M. Durham ..................................... . 116.1 19 378 17 22.23 14 A. J. H . Brown .............................. .. 91.5 3 19 14 22.78 Also bowled: H. J . Andree 5- 1-2 1-1-21, J . R. Davies 22·6·7 1-3·23.66. D. M. Ives 6-1. 15·0·, R. R. Wallis 45.1-13·125-7-17.85.

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The season bega n in positive fashion wit h an exciting draw o n the art ificia l wicket in conditio ns that only Birl ' in April can produce. And y Mitchell scored a scintillati ng 75 (with 4 sixes and 7 fou rs) and was well supported by B:Y S Nash and Stuart Lucy. Faversham A ll iance too li ked the easy pace of the pitch and came withi n 4 ru ns of the targUCO Joe Wrench , o ur captain aga in this season, took 4-47. el. T here followed three handsome victo ries. H ighgate succumbed to accurate bowling by Tom Whyte, H ugh And and Andy Farrell . and an im pressive 53 n.o , by vice-captain A ndy Bush took us to a 9-wicket win. Tom Whyte W~I l 6-7 helped skitt le SI. Lawrence, out, but we made slightly heavy weather of meet ing the requirement of 51. Andy Mitch aga in batted well for 2 1 n.o. The 8-wicket de feat of Dulwich - our first win against them fo r over ten years _ w~ sensa tio na l. Tom W hyte (5- 16) and Bob Wallis (5-49) did the damage with the ba ll after a sta nd of 57 by the Du lwic~ openers, and Andy Mitchell confirmed his select io n for the Sri Lanka tou r wit h a powerfully-struck 44 n.o. T he next game was played in the cold and wet at Eastbourne. Bob Wallis bowled beautifully for his 6-54 and OU cause was further assisted by so me outstand ing catches. Eastbou rne took 44 overs to get their 123-9 a nd left ~s a mer~ 27 overs wh ich proved insufficient to secure the win. We ended on 11 0-7, with Andy Mitchell (35), Alex Morgan (21) and J o hn Veitch (18 n .o.) the main contributors . There in tervened a game against the Haymakers, but with severa l team-members abse nt on Field Day duties it was decided to regard the match as a fr iendly. especially as we lost ! Cran leigh w,as the. o nly side to beat us last yea r, a nd so it was d isappoint ing not to be able to force the win this seaSOn. T he early battmg faded, but Andy Clements (40) and Stuart Lacy (22) enabled us to declare on 106. C ranieigh survived the spin-attack of Tom Whyte (4-23) and Andy Farrell (3- 18) with 2 wickets still standing. The next game was extraordinary We crawled to a miserable total of 71 a nd then bow led Sutton Valence out for 62. Tom Wh yte ended with the astonishing figures of 8-22. After the break fo r exams St. Edmund's arrived , fortified wit h 1st X I players, but they fou nd Hugh A ndree (3-27) and Rajiv Vij aya nathan (5-22) on good fo rm . We looked to have the game won with 12 fu ns to get, 6 wickets standi ng a nd A ndy C lements o n 49, but hc mistimed a long-ho p, and wit hin 4 overs we were still 4 runs short with only 1 wicket left. Bruce Nash and Raji v Vijayanathan survived all sorts of alarms and excursions. and they scrambled the winning ru n off the last ball of the game. T he final match was probably the most satisfying of the season . Andy Farrell and guests Matt Du rha m and John Dav ies bowled well to restrict the Duke of Yo rk's 1st X I to 120 which we then had 20 minu tes a nd 20 overs to reach. A ndy Bush, with a thunderous 28, provided the momentu m which Andy MitchelJ (21 ) a nd John Davies (16) continued and all the wh ile Andy Farrell (31) played a careful watching role at the other end. Finall y it was left to Matt Dur ha~ a nd Jo hn Veit ch to win the game fo r us, which they did with considerable style. A nd so ended the 2nd X l's seco nd unbeaten seaso n in 3 years. Desp ite good in nings by Andrews Mitchell. Clements a nd Bush, we were really a bowling side which survived the departure of Bob Wall is to the 1st X I, the loss of for m by J oe Wrench , and the two absences of Tom Whyte. The fiel ding was very good , Bruce Nash's wicket-keeping was sound and someti mes spectacular, and Joe Wrench's capta incy improved as the season went on. T he spirit was excellent , a nd I wou ld li ke to thank a ll the members of the team for such an enjoyab le a nd successfu l term . Specia l tha nks too are due to Nick Flower for his exceptiona l rel ia bility and efficiency as team-scorer. H is efforts were much appreciated. P.A.E .D.

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P layed 9, Won 6, Drawn 3, Lost O. K.S .C., 148-5 (M itchell 75, Nash 24); Faversham Alliance, 144-5 (Wrench 4-47). Drawn. H ighgate, 93 (Whyte 3-26, Farrell 2-7, And ree 2·11 ); K.S.C ., 97-1 (Bush 53 n.o .) . Won by 9 wickets. St. Law rence, 50 (Whyte 6-7, Wallis 2-8); K.S .C., 51-4 (Mitc hell 21 n.o .). Won by 6 wic kets. Dulwich, 75 (Wa ll is 5-49, W hyte 5-16); K.S.C., 78-2 (M itchell 44 n.o.). Wo n by 8 wickets. Eastbourne, 123-9 (Wallis 6-54); K.S.C., 110-7 (Mitchell 35, Veitch 18 n.o .). Draw n. K.S .C., 106-8 (Clements 40, Lacy 22); Cran leigh 64-8 (W hyte 4-23, Farrell 3-18). Drawn. K.S.C ., 7 1; Sutto n Va lence, 62 (Whyte 8-22) . Won by 9 ru ns. SI. Edmu nd' s, 106 (Andree 3-27, Vijaya na tha n 5·22); K.S.C. 107-9 (Clements 49, Stocks 30). Won by I wicket. Duke o f York 's 1st XI, 120 (Durham 4-34, Davies 2-1 1); K.S.C. , 123-4 (Farrell 31, Bush 28, MitcheI1 21 ). Won by 6 wickets.

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~e return of numerOli S seasoned campaigners, hopes were high for anot her successful seaso n. In the end these

h pes wefe justified although the first match produced an alarmingly feeble performance. Half of the team played in ?tuallY every game and special mentio n must be made of Nick Wakefield who has played in all 2 1 3rd X I matches 'lITer the last twO years. H ugh Gi rl ing has been a fine captai n both on and off the field. and the team owes much to ~Ys example and his o rgan isat io n . Mark Evison and Rajiv Vijayanat han, bowlers o f vast ly contrasting styles. took most l'ckets and at a very low overall cost. Tony Panayides scored most runs, but Nick Wakefield managed to head the ~l {ling averages by a short head. Severa l players were genuine all-rounders, the leading contributors being Hugh Girling a~d Tony Wattenbach. It was good to have some spin bowling this year and the fielding was usually competent wit h one or twO marvellous catches. The opening match aga inst Highgate was our only loss to a school and was due largely to our hav ing had o nly o ne el practice. T he team put this behind them quickly and showed great improvement against Dover College 2nd X I where ~ win was frust rated by some extraord ina ry last-wic ket batting. At Du lwich a high-scoring and entertain ing match ended Âˇn a draw and was notable for a half-century from Panayides. T he total agai nst Eastbourne looked far too small but ~vatlenbach and Mike W hit ehead engineered a n extraordinary co llapse. In true 3rd-XI style Eastbou rne lost their last 1 wickets fo r 21 runs to give us a thri lling 7-run victory. Kent College were bowled out fa irly cheaply a nd Wattenbach's half century led to a comfortable win . At Cranleigh we played on a most pleasant ground a nd batted competently to r~ach a sound tota l. T he home side had no answer to our bow lers, especia lly Ev ison, and were shot o ut in only 15 overs. Sutton Va lence appeared to be heading for a respectable score but Vijayanathan took 4-0 in 9 ba lls, including a hat-trick, so that they lost their last 6 wickets for o nly 5 runs. Du ke of York's 2nd XI were bowled out cheaply by OirJi ng and Vijayanathan thereby paving the way for a leisurely win. Some good bowli ng restricted M. J .H.'s XI to a modest total, after which Marson and Lawrence batted vigorously in leading the team to another victory. A strengthened side was taken over to Northdown and the highlight of some good batting was a pa rtnership of 90 between Mark Ryeland and David Stocks. The home side d id no t have everything their own way when they batted, but finally won a n excellent game by three wickets. D uring the hospi tab le reception afterwards , some David Gower bat raffle tickets we re sold, one of whic h proved to be the winner. We did well in the fi eld against Nelson , but their bowling was too steady for us and it was left to Wakefi eld a nd Angus Scott to put on 51 runs to rescue us from 29-7. Club sides are a tough proposition for the 3rd X I but many lessons can be learned and these matches a re va luable ex perience for the future.

M.l.H. Regular Players: H. W. Girli ng (Capt.), N. C. Wakefield (Wicket Keeper), P. J. Cockr ill , A. P. Panayides, R. Vijayanathan, C . H . H . Darley, N. W. Rollason, T. G rieves. A. P. Wartenbach, M. F. Whitehead, M. R. Eviso n, P. J. Q. Greenleaf. RESU LTS

Played I I, Won 6, Drawn 2, Lost 3. School Matches Highgate, 138; K.S.C., 46. Lost. K.S.C., 155-9 dec.; Dover College 2nd XI, 109-9 (Evison 4-34) . Drawn. K.S.C., 155-4 dec, (Panayides 55); Dulwich 138-8 (Evison 4-31). Drawn. K.S.C., 125 (Cockrill 40); Eastbourne, 118 (Whitehead 4-13). Won. Kent College, 97; K.S .C. , 98-2 (Wattenbach 54 n .o.). Won. K.S.C., 140; Cranleigh, 54 (Evison 5- 12). Won . Sulton Valence, 84 (Vijayanatha n 4-0); K.S.C., 87-6. Won. Duke o f York's 2nd XI, 97 )V ijayana than 4-13, Girling 4-29); K.S.C., 98-4 . Won . M. J .H.'s X I, iii (Nash 40); K.S .C., 112-7. Won. Club Malches K.S.C., 168-9 (Ryeland 56); Northdown, 172-7. Lost. Nelson, 167-9; K.S .C., 100 (Wakefield 33). Lost.

Colts XI With three or four of last year's eleven no longer availab le, this team d id very much better than might have been expected. Despite the frustrat ions of the weather - espec ia lly an abortive trip to Tonb ridge - ent husiasm and determination made up fo r any shortco mings of talent and experience. On ly an inexplicable collapse against Eastbourne marred an o therwise respectable record. The batting relied heavi ly on Davies, the leading run-sco rer, and Tu rner, recovering from injury, who was back to his best form by the end of the season . Stern was a tenacious opener, Epps made o ne good fifty, but the rest rarely lived up to their reputations, although Beechey scored a run be fore ha lf-ter m for the first time in his school ca reer! In the fie ld the side did an effective j ob of containing the opposition batsmen, a nd on ly the Kent Schoo ls ever got on top of the bowling. Boorman and Davies were an effec tive opening pair, followed by Epps, who was the leadi ng wickettaker with his idiosy ncratic off-b reaks, a nd Beechey, a stylish-looking spinner, whose II overs for o nly 20 runs against Sussex Schools was a remarkable spell . The bowlers were helped by some keen fielding, with Turner, Harla nd Fairweather,

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Team: J. R. Davies (Capt.), J . M. Beechey. C. D. Boorman, T. A. F. Epps, J. R. A. Harland Fa irweather J M

Lawrence, A. O. McDona ld , A. J . McDona ld, J . A. Stern, S. R. Turner, T.StJ. White. • . . Also played: S. O. Calth rop , D. H. Hodgson. A. J. MoubraY-l ankowsk i, P. A. Norris. N. J . Vance, A. Wilkins. RESULTS

Dulwich, 110-8 dec. (Davies 4-35); K.S.C., 98-6 (Davies 43). Drawn. Eastbourne, 11 2 (Epps 7-35); K.S.C., 54.; Lost. K.S.C., 149 (Epps 52); SI. Augustine's, 93 (Boorman 3-10, Davies 3-17). Won. K.S.C., 138-6 dec. (Dav ies 48, Turner 35); Cranleigh 98-9 (Boorma n 3-22, Beechey 3- 16). Drawn. Kent Schools, 156-2 dec.; K.S.C. 81-3. Drawn. K. S.C., 8 1; Sussex Schools 83-0. Lost.

Junior Colts A XI The Junior Colts have won five a nd drawn ten; only o n two occasions were they in danger of being beaten and stout resistance from the lower order ensured survival both times. However, several games were drawn which should have been won, so the overall performance does not re neet the fu ll potentia l of the side. The fie lding and bowling in particular failed to pressurize the opposit ion, who were a llowed to escape from seemingly difficult positions. The batting was genera lly sou nd , and, alt hough the team relied heavily on Daley, Ie Huray a nd Holden, other members played usefu l innings. There were many healthy stands during the season, most notable perhaps 206 scored by Daley and Holden for the second wicket against Dover College . Le H uray also pa rticipated in several large stands, and latterly opened the innings: he and Daley made an assu red sta rt on most occasions. Batsmen dominated proceedings: both Ie Huray (476 runs, avo 68) and Daley (447 runs, avo 44.7) scored consistently and were ably supported by Holden (367 runs, avo 40.7). Few ot her batsmen had as many opportunities, though Greenleaf did score fifty agai nst Cra nleigh. Bowlers fared less well , though Girling bowled with hostility and pace to take 29 wickets: Holden took 24 and Ward IS. However, all of the bowlers were guilt y at times of not bowli ng straight, and the field ing lacked aggressiveness when wickets were not falli ng quickly. Daley found the lask of captaining the side difficult; fieldsmen wandered from place to place, a nd bowlers did not a lways bowl where they were expected to. Field placi ng was often inexplicable. Some players did improve in the field: Marozzi made up for his low scoring, a nd Jessup held some fi ne catches, a lways appearing to have woken lip moments after the excitement. Few catches were held at sli p - severa l balls were stopped inadvertent ly by a nkles or fingers, but ot herwise fielders showed an admirable prudence, especia lly against the despairing G irling. Le Huray had his good moments behind the st umps, but was inclined to stand up too early, especia lly against the spinners. Not being the smallest member of the side, he had to make do with bei ng the biggest poser. Hogarth was a devoted scorer, whi le Ward on frequent occasions whe n he thought I wasn't looki ng exerted his gastric powers to disprove the old saying 'concordia parvae res crescu nt. '

J.S.H. Team: N. V. Daley (Capt .), J. G. Wright, T. J . Ward, M. I. Holden, M. G. Ie Huray, W. Ballenden, J. C. Ousey, J . Marozzi, D. P. Morris, J. A. N. Morley, A. J. Greenleaf, R. W. G irling, P. E. J essup, M. L. Milhench, M. P. J ordan. K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C ., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K,S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C., K.S.C.,

RESULTS 154-4 (Daley 74·, Ie Huray 66); Highgate, 57 (Jordan 3-5). Won by 97 runs. 217-2 (Daley III, Holden 6 1·); Dover College, 7 1-7 (Holden 4-22). Draw n. 130 (Holden SO); Du lwich, 110-5. Drawn. 107-4; Simon Langton, 11 5-7 (Ward 4-12). Drawn. 83-7; Eastbourne, 152-7. Drawn. 188-4 (Wright 34, Ie Huray 88); SI. Lawrence, 109-9. Drawn. 58-5 ; Tonbridge, 141 -4. Drawn. 169-1 (Green leaf 68, Ie Huray 58); Cran leigh, 146 (Gi rling 3-30, Green leaf 2- 12). Won by 23 runs. 53-0; Sutto n Valence, 52 (Girling 5-20). Won by 10 wickets. 142-6 (Ie Huray 65·); Kent Schools , 155-4. Drawn. 174-2 (Ie Huray 60, Holden 63·, Ward 23); Sussex Schools, 105-8. Draw n. 145-5 (Ie Hu ray 67, G irJing 0) ; London Schools, 139-9 (Holden 4-35). Drawn. 149-4 (Daley 80·, Holden 7); SI. Edm und's, 146-6 (Daley 5- 59). Won by 6 wickets. 60-4 (Marozzi 9); Duke of York 's, 57 (Holden 5-18). Won by 6 wickets. 63-7 (Holden 22, Ballenden 19·); Simon La ngton, 102 (Girling 3-20). Drawn.

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vas a large ent husiast ic group at the V.15B level but only a limited number of school matches to satisfy their Ther~~e first match against Dulwich was very even. After a good opening stand by J. Mycroft (43) and S. Fried la nder S need batting collapsed chasing runs and Ki ng's finis hed with a moderate tota l of 105 for 6 dec. Dulwich found it (~) th~ 10 score off an accurate attack by J . Kemp (12- 1-3 1-4), R. Wilson (7-1- 15-0) and B. Tower (9-3-13- 1) and the d'fficu~ded in a draw. J, Morley produced the best bowling fi gures of the season (8-1-27-6) aga inst the Simon Langton 8a~e end they were dism issed for 61. King's started bad ly, losing S. Friedlander off the first ball of the innings, but G.. Âˇ a' n not chanceless by any means, of 41 by J. Mycroft produced a win by 5 wickets. At Eastbourne it was wet an ~nnilse~~ble for the first half of the match. King's had to bowl with a very wet and slippery ball and did well to restr ict an more to 127 for I dec. An opening stand of 40 runs by J. Mycroft and S. Fried lander put the tota l within reach Ihe ~c wickets falling in 4 balls swung the match in Eastbourne's favour. Steady rain prevented any play at Tonbridge was a nice coach trip. The match against C ranleigh saw J. Mycroft making the top score for the fourth time and - I nished the season wilh an average of 31.5 runs, having scored a total of 126 runs in the 4 matches. King's were ~~ fi' ssed for 75, the midd le order batting having failed again . D. Morris took a hat-trick and red uced C ranleigh 10 63sf~r 8, but a few lusty blows by their number 8 batsman brought them victory wit hout furt her loss. The team's performance was seriously ~ffected by po,?r batting: ?n ly J. Myc~oft and S. r:ried l a~der had the technique slay at the wicket for any length of time. The bowhng was qUite good, With D. Morns (8 Wickets for 69 runs off i~ overs), J. Morley (8 wickets for 70 runs off 21 overs) and J. Kemp (7 wickets for 77 runs off 34 overs) leading the averages. My thanks to all who turned out and especially to J. Mycroft for capta ining the side, D.J.B. Team: S. L. Friedlander (4), J. D. Mycroft (4), J. E. Kemp (4), E. R. S. Floydd (4), B. G. T. Tower (4), A. G. West (3) J. A. N. Morley (3), D. P. Morris (3), D. McDonnell (2), B. E. Palmer (2), A. M. Olby (2), J. C. Ousey (2), N. i. Musson (2), C. J. T. Job (I), J. H. Watkins (I), R. I. W. Wilson (I), P. E. Jessup (I), J. Marozzi (I). ( ) Matches Played.

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RESULTS Played 4, Won I , Drawn I, Lost 2. K.S.C., 105 for 6 dec. (J. Mycroft 43); Du lwich, 87 for 7 (1. Kemp 4 fo r 31). Drawn. Simon Langton G.S., 61 (1. Morley 6 for 27); K.S.C., 63 for 5 (J. Mycroft 41). Won. Eastbourne, 127 for 1 dec.; K.S.C., 67. Lost. K.S.C., 75; Cran leigh 76 for 8 (D. Morris 5 for 23). Lost.

THE HA YMAKERS C. C. This has been another successfu l and enjoyable season in which a n expanded fixture list led to some exciting and entertaining cricket. The small group of regu la r players was supplemented by numerous others, and Hugh Girling, the Chief Waggonner, must be complimented on the ext remely efficient execution of his duties. In spite of indi fferent early summer weather, only one match was interrupted by rain and some games were played in delightful conditions a nd settings. A good team effort led to a useful total at Barham in the first match but, in spite of some cxcellent bowling by R.C.W., the home side managed to hold on for a draw. The pattern was simi lar against Hicks Forstal, after Andy Bush had led a recovery following some devastating bowling by Richard Girling of the K.S.C. Junior Colts. Against Trinity College of Music, David Laurence became the first pupil to score a century for the Haymakers and made headlines in the local paper as he had already completed a half marathon in the morning, R, C.W. was in merciless form with the ball and the visitors were routed for a very modest total. The Street End game was disappointingly abandoned in miserable weather but the match against the K.S,C. 2nd Xl saw another comfo rtable win wit h Nick Wakefield being un lucky to miss his half century. Kennington brought over a strong team who batted vigorous ly and bowled tightly but Laurence led some determined resistance to earn a draw. Batting was never easy at Polo Farm against Beverley but P.R.T. battled away to lead the Haymakers to respectability. The home side recovered well from the unpromising posit ion of 7 for 4 but not without somc alarms and a fair measure of luck, not to mention some d ropped catches. A most agreeable new village fixture against Alkham found the Chairman in wily form as he spun his way to 6-43, his best ever Haymaking fi gu res. Once again Laurence led the batting reply and, in a dramatic finish, the Haymakers were on ly a few runs short. The result hinged on what must be a local ploy of calling out the last over before tea, whereupon the number 10 batsman hit three sixes - as soon as the over finished, a fu rther ten minutes' play was announced! Although W.R.P. played well in his manageria l role, the balting at Bekesbourne was undistingu ished and the total was never qu ite enough to prevent the home side winning with only two balls to go. The Haymakers bounced back against the Diocesan team with the Chief Waggonner leading the way to overhau l the visitors' credi tab le tota l. T he seaso n ended disappointingly against Adisham, a lthough there was some consolation of the President as he produced his best figures of 6-39, including a hat-trick, to dismiss the last five of the home side for on ly ten runs. Some accurate bow ling on a dub ious pitch saw Ihe Haymakers in a terrib le position before the Chairma n and President put on 20 for the last wicket to add a touch of respectability to a very low total.

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All those who played made valuable contributions to the cricket and to the spirit of the club. but special me . must be made of the leading run scorer David laurence and the leading wicket taker R. C.W. for their CUIsla nl!on performances. It is reassuring to repen that the club is in good health and that the Haymakers can look forwardndl.ng confidence to some morc worthwhile seasons ahead. with

Regular Players: M. J . H. (President, 11), H. W. Giding (Chief Waggonner, 11), D. J . Laurence (9), A. O. ;;.H . (9), R.P.B. (Chairman, 8), R.C.W. (8), P.F.l. (5), W.R.P. (5), P. l . Cockrill (4), A. P. Panayides (4). . COl( R ESULTS

Played II, Won 3, Drawn 5, Lost 3. Haymakers, 136; Barham, 113-9 (R. C .W. 6-15), Drawn. Haymakers , 139-8 dec. (Bush 54); Hicks Forsta l, 96-8. Drawn. Haymakers, 148-4 dec. (Laurence 100 n.o.); Trin ity College of Music, 40 (R.C.W. 5- 10). Won. Street End , 178-8 dec . (Farrell 5-76); Haymakers 36-3 (rain). D rawn. K.S.C. 2nd XI, 75. Hayma kers , 79-5 (Wakefield 49). Won. Kennington, 182-5 dec .; Haymakers 11 5-8 (Laurence 57 n .o.). Drawn. Haymakers, 111 -9 dec.; Beverley, 11 2-6. Los!. Alk ha m, 131 (R.P.B. 6-43); Hay makers, 11 8-9 (Laurence 55). Drawn. Haymakers, 113; Bekesbourne, J 14-7 (R. C.W. 5-44). Lost. Diocesan, 138-7; Hay makers 139-5 (G iding 43). Won. Adisham , 13 1 (M .J.H. 6-39); Haymakers, 53. Lost.

HAR VESTERS' C. C. 17TH CRICKET TOUR A niggling tendon injury prevented J .S.H. fro m playing agai nst Geoff Pike's Black more Va lers who recorded a worthy win on Bir ley 's during King's Week. It soo n beca me clear that he had been saving himself for Dorset where he enjoyed a rea l 'tour de fo rce' . Not content with scoring the Ha rvesters' first cent ury and achieving a record aggregate of 246 (average 82), he also fielded and bowled in inspiring fa shion. The race for 100 tou r wickets (P .W.B. a nd O.P.R. both started on 9,4) seeme~ a lmost over on the ~i rst afternoo~ as P.W.B. raced to 5Âˇ33. How~ver,.some .m iserable catChing effort s so hmdered hIS progress that he Will have to walt for another year for that elUSIve flilal WIcket (and his 50th tou r match). G.P.R. sped down in time to play at Compt on House , his fav ourite stamping ground, a midst jokes about his chances in the race. With a wicket here and a nother two at Sturminster, he romped home at Chafyn Grove as he snapped up 6-62. It was a fine battle between these two loyal bowlers , with G.P.R . j ust about deserv ing first place fo r his higher strike rate over the years. She~~orne Town is th.e only fixt ure that ha s. been. a part of every tour and, ~s t~ey ha~e always proved to be tough OPPOSition, we were dehghted to record our third wm on the Terrace before enJ oymg their marvellous hospitality over a barbecue. Next year we have the honour of playing in an a ll-day ma tch to mark ISO years of the Sherborne C.C. Mora le sank somewhat in the Canford drizzle as the opposit ion batsmen scored free ly on a fin e batting track. However, as the weather improved and J .S. H . warmed to his task, our prospects a lso looked up. A most excit ing win was recorded in the final over a fter a good deal of hard hitting and vigorous running. The next day was for golf, tennis, skittles and sight-seeing before the 20-overs evening match at Compton House. On this idyllic grou nd the home side batted competent ly and then bowled well to put us behind the required rate. In a desperately close fini sh, the winning runs were scored off the last ball and called for some skilful umpiring. The Sturminster team also batted well before giving a stern but fair declaration. For much of the time we were up with the clock, but the fa ll of some crucial wickets required R.P .B. a nd P. W .B. (what better men fo r a crisis?!) to play o ut the last few overs to save the match. Apart from J .S. H. our bait ing was unimpressive a t Chafy n Grove and our total looked fa r too modest. However, some splendid bowling by R.C. W., J.S.H. and G.P .R. reduced the home side to 80-9 and o nly the ex perience of Pat Gent denied us another victory. Throughout the to ur there was much memorable cricket, with four of the games being decided in the last over. Hospitality a nd friendship were high lights as ever and special tha nks must go to the Hatch fam ily in lyon House. The Allen/Cleaver Pimm's lunch set the tone a nd there fo llowed many excellent mea ls in friendly hostelries . Even though our average age is now upwa rds of 42, the ent husiasm for tour ing is undimi nished and there are plenty o f targets for next year which starts wit h our 75t h tour match. Hopefully G.C .A. will have recovered from his shoulder operat io n by then and he will, of course, be a married ma n.

Touring Party: (thejirsl six were 0 " lhejirst lour ill 1970) M. J .H. (Manager), P .G. H., R.P.B. , G.P .R., P. W. Boorman, M. J . Hatch, H .E. J .A., J .S .H. , W.R.P., R.C.W., R. J . Cla rke, M. J . Cleaver, G. C. Alle n (as umpire).

RESU LTS Played 5, Wo n 3, Drawn 2. Sherborne Town , 11 2 (P.W. B. 5-33); Harvesters. 113-5. Won. Ca nfo rd Outcasts, 199-2 dec. (E lmilt 103); Ha rvesters, 200Âˇ3 (J .S .H. 122 n.o.) Won. Compton House, 104-5; Harvesters, 105-4 (M.J. C. 62). Won. St urminster Hinton, 180-7 dec.; Ha rvesters, 148-9. Drawn. Harvesters, 128 (J. S.H. 52); Cha fyn Grove , 106-9 (G .P.R. 6-62). Drawn. 258

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Athletics

. season King's won 16 matches and l os ~ 5. Co n s id e ri~l g that the fixt ure li st ha.s been exp~ nd ed to include. sOIl,!e ThIS I good athletic schools from as far a flC ld as Cranlelgh, Felsted and Rugby, It can be said that once aga m tlus extrre:nYanot her successful year for the King's School At hletic Clu b. has 'I h last year the seniors, a nd intermed iates proved to be too strong for any Kent team, and if one looks at their As \~Ive records, Seni ors: O ut ings 30, Won 24, Lost 6, Intermediates: Out ings 22, Won 20, Lost 2, they show that r~pe; is still a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, the Juniors a lthough very keen, possess several young ath letes, Ktng ~nsequentlY this has affected some overall results. Despit e a rather below p~r U'.15 ~eas,? n of Won 7, Lost 13, and c i ve been some credit able performa nces. B. A. MarqUi S (shot) and A. R. R1I1a ldi (Iugh-Jump) competed at the Ihere ~~hooIS, a nd both have been close to their respect ive Junior records .. With A: Tuboku-Metzg~r, C. D. K. J:I~II, !e~. A, Fahm and M. A. Ayida still eligible for next year' s U. 15 team, a thletICS at Jumor level once agalil iooks promlSlllg fler IWO rather lean years. a The season started with ou r annual fixtures agai nst local oppositiOl~. Although the seniors and inter.medi~l!~s r~n o~t r table wi nners in both matches, a strong Duke of York's Ju mor team, and an unfortunate disquali f,cat,on III C~rJ.l s~nior relay resu hed in a narrow overall victory fo r King's by some 10 point s. Despite the ea rly start to the season el~. White (100m, 200m). 1. E. Gardener ( 110m Hurdles), J. A. C. Lardell and A. O. Vigo (Long Jump) and A. Rinaldi (High Jump) all showed good form. The trip to Tonbridge saw King's compet ing against new opposition in the form of Cra nleigh, Christ's Hospita l ~ nd Kin's Wimbledon, and a n old ~iva l i.n !he ~orm of Eastbourne. AIt !l ~)U gh the w~a th e: was fa! fr~ m perfect the Semo!s l lntermediates performed With dlst lilction. In the o pen compet Ition Cranlelgh pipped KlIlg s by a narrow marglll a~anks to their national sprinter who competed in 5 event s. While the Inters overpowered everyone with considerable t se the Juniors cou ld only manage 4th place. The highlights of the day were the Intermed ia tes 4x 100m relay team, Attwood's triple win in the 800m, 1500m and 3,OOOm and A. O. Vigo's 400m! With spirit s running high the club were confident of a good out ing at Highgate in the Cholmeley Shield. Without M Kostering and A. J. Barron the Seniors were never up to their best, and a miserable wet day did not h.elp m~tt e rs. Sth place for the Seniors against such good oppositio n was a fair resu lt, a lthough the club were ~ene r a ll y dlsappomte~. Despite some brave efforts only S. J. Attwood (800m and 1500m) a nd E . O. Mbu (shot a nd diSCUS) ma naged to w!n their particular events. As expected the Seniors found the competition too tough, but the Inters showed real s~y l e m runn ing Highgate a close second. Highgate has over the years seen some of King's better perfo.rmances,. an.d It w~s here that T. d'Offay emerg~d as a quality ath ~ ete. His 200m, 400m a~d re lar leg we! e outstandmg cons,'dermg. he IS an 800m runner. K. O. Philhps and S. M. Fredncks also performed well 111 comlllg 2nd 111 the 100m and 1st m the d,scus. The next encounter against Epsom and Mercha nt Taylors saw King's just lose by poor relay ru~ning to Epsom in both the Senior, and Intermediate matches . Although the o utcome of the overa ll result was n 7ver III doubt the tea.ms were annoyed with themselves for adopting a rather casua l a pproach. The half term brea k d id not help preparation it is true, but the team should have expected a close match. The fi nal school match at Eastbourne saw mixed fort unes fo r the three teams. After a convincing victory over Eastbourne earlier in the season , the Seniors with a weakened team und e rest imat e~ t h~ oI?po?ition se~on d t ~m e a round. The Inters predictably romped home, a nd the Juniors were extremely pleased with their first outfight WIO. In addition to the main school fixtures the Milk Cup team reached the South-Eastern Regional B Final. Despite finishing Sth, they proved to be one of the top schools .in Kent for the third successive year. T he two ot.her ~up . compet itions in whic h King's teams participated saw the Semors take the Duke of York's Cup for the fourth time 111 fi ve years, and Ihe U. 16 team retain the Dist rict Team championship. Despite some late cha nges in both competitions, King's showed that one of the main reasons for their success over the years has been the quality of depth within the club. Alth ough there were numerous performances of note, e.g. S. J . Attwood's 2.00.3 in the 800m and 4. 12 in the 1500m, J . Aboderin's 11.40m in the senior shot was truly outstanding co nsidering he is only 15. At the Kent Schools Championships our team of 11 prod uced 2 county champions in E. O. Mbu (discus) a nd A. O. Vigo (Triple Jump) . Of the rest a ll 9 finished in the top six in their respecti ve events. I. E. Gardener 2nd (110 Hurdles), C. N. White 3rd (100m), S. J. Attwood 4th (J500m), H. D. H. G. Barton 4th (shot) , A. G .. F. Mu rd och 2nd (100m Hurd les), K. O. Phillips 5th (100m), M. C. G. lawrence 6th (lOOm Hu rdles), B. A. MarqUiS 4t h (shot), and A .. R. Rinaldi 4th (High Jump). As a result of these splendid achievements the Senior boys came. 1st a nd the Inter-:ned late boys 2nd, in the Inter District Competition, thus furth er highlighting the present strength of the KlIlg's School AthletiCC lub. In looking forwa rd 10 next season the club shou ld have a st rong Senior team as our two most promising age groups come together. What with the 1st year Intermediates improving a ll the time and a nu c leu ~ of this ~ear's J uniors staying down, it is hoped that King's can, under the leadership of S. J . Attwood and C. N. White, reclaim the mantle of best overall school in the regio n. Finally I would like to than k E. O. Mbu and S. J . Attwood in particular for their efforts this year and o ur dedicated coaches Messrs. Holland and White for all their help in running the club. Last ly a specia l thank you mu st go to all those who competed for making this another enj oyable season, a nd to Nev ile. Bob, a nd Dave the groundsmen, for thei r ability to make o ur faci lities look better than they rea lly a re! C. P .G.

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First colollrs reÂˇawarded to: E . O. Mbu. First colours awarded to: S. J. Attwood. H. D. H. G. Barton, L. M. Fenn, M. O. Va le, a nd C. N. While. Second colours awarded 10: J. A. W. Mycroft. K. O. Phillips, A. A. Walker.

RESULTS

Seniors: Out ings 30, Won 24, Lost 6. Inters: Outings 22, Won 20, Lost 2. Juniors: Outi ngs 20, Won 7, Lost 13. 3rd May Sen ior: I lIler: JUll ior:

Overall: 6th May Senior: Infer:

Overall: 10th May Senior: Inter: Junior: Overall:

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King's, 159Y2; 2. Kent College, 138V2; 3, Duke of York, 129; King's, 147112; 2, Kent College, 132; 3, Duke of York, 128V2; Duke of York. 167V1; 2, King's. 127Vz; 3, Kent College. 115; King's, 434V2; 2, Duke of York, 424; 3, Kent College, 385V2;

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Edmund's 31. Edmund's 74. Edmunds, 23. Edmund's, 128.

I , Ki ng's, 134; 2, Sevenoa ks, 115; 3, Sutton Valence, 10 1; 4, St. Lawrence, 56. 1, King's , 146; 2, Sutton Va lence, 128Y2; 3, Sevenoaks, 94; 4, S1. Lawrence. 48V2. 1, King's. 280; 2, Sutton Va lence, 229V2; 3, Sevenoaks, 209; 4, S1. Lawrence, 104V2.

1, Cranleigh. 264; 2, King's, 254; 3, Tonbridge, 190; 4, Eastbourne, 163; 5, King's Wimbledon 159' 6, Christ's Hospita l. 147. ' , I , King's, 233; 2, Tonbridge, 2 18; 3, Ki ng's Wimbledon, 164; 4, Eastbourne, 158; 5, Christ's Hospital 155; 6, C ran leigh , 152. ' 1, Tonbridge, 212; 2, C hrist's Hospital. 164,3, Cranleigh , 145; 4, King 's, 141; 5, Eastbourne,60. 1, Ki ng's, 628; 2, To nbridge, 620; 3, Cranleigh, 56 1; 4, Christ's Hospital , 466; 5, Eastbourne, 38 1' 6 King's Wimbledon, 323 . ' ,

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I, Rugby, 152V2; 2, Eto n, 140; 3, Wellington. 137; 4. Felsted. I 17Y2; 5, King's, 108; 6, Habs , 102; 7, Du lwich, 79 ; 8, H ighgate, 74. Inler: I . Highgate, 135; 2, King's, 131; 3, Rugby. 129; 4, Wellington, 116; 5, Eton, 113; 6, Habs, 106; 7, Felsted 101 ; 8, Dulwich , 95. ' I , Highgate, 157; 2, Welli ngton, 137; 3, Rugby, 1361h; 4, Eton, 136; 5, Dulwich , 11 6; 6. King's, 92; Junior: 7, Habs, 77; 8, Felsted, 74VL Overall: 1, Ru.gby , 4 18; 2, Wellington, 390; 3, Eton, 389; 4, H ighgate, 366; 5, King 's, 33 1; 6, Felsted, 293; 7, Dulwlch, 290; 8. Habs, 285. 19th May Mil k Cup 1st Round I, No rton Knatchbull , 459; 2, Judd, 402; 3, King's, 400; 4, Sk inners, 374; 5, Sir Josephs Mathematical School, 328. 3 1st May Senior: 1, Epsom; 2, King's; 3. Merchant Taylors. Inler: I, Epsom; 2, King's; 3, Merchant Taylors . JUll ior: I, Epso m; 2, Merchant Taylors; 3, King's. Overall: I, Epsom; 2, King's; 3, Merchant Taylors. 5t h J une Senior: I, Eastbourne; 2. King's; 3, Lancing. Inter: I , King's; 2, Lancing; 3, Eastbourne. JUllior: 1, Ki ng's; 2, Lancing; 3, Eastbourne. Overall: I , King's; 2. Lancing; 3, Eastbourne. 18th June Milk C up Regional Final I , Enfield, 468; 2, Chesham, 425; 3, Cardina l Godfrey. 418; 4. Glebelands, 399; 5, King's, 394; 6, Skinners, 393; 7, Hundred of Hoo, 390; 8, Judd, 383 . 25th June District Team C hamp ionsh ip I , King's, 52; 2, Kent College, 48; 3, Geoffrey Chaucer, 36; 9 schools competed. 28t h June Duke of York's Cup 1, King's, 266; 2, Sutton Valence, 256; 3, Kent College, 242; 4, Duke of York, 241; 5, Dover College, 229; 6, Cra nbrook, 227; 7, SI. Lawrence. 204; 8, SI. Edmund 's, 152. J unior Athlete of the Year I , G. Andrews, 196; 2, A. Metzger, 184; 3, C. Hall, 181; 4, S. Santry, 145; 5, P. Apps, 140; 6, P. Godfrey, 136; 7, P. Trussell. 123; 8, M. Ayida, 112; 9, M. Handley, 105; 6 others competed.

260 SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE ATHLETICS TEAM (G.P.G.) THE SWIMMING RELAY TEAM - WINNERS OF THE PELA CUP (P. W.D.)

Inter-House Athletics ~thletics

Standards Competition

W' h inclement weather restrict ing this re-vamped competition to just one day, it proved impossible for all boys to II Ie in the events they wanted to. H owever, it was refreshing to see such a whole-hearted response, even if the ",mP'haliing of competitors at the start of races seemed more like the massing of the Sioux tribes !

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Sports Day Another splendid afternoon's compet ition produced no record - unsu rprisingly in view of the track conditions but resulted. in a v~ry close race fo~ the Trophy. At one stage up to fi ve Houses were hopeful of wi nni ng, and the tension was maintained nght up to the rln al events. RESULTS

Juniors 100 METRES, I, Epega (LX) 13,09 sec; 2, Lo (W); 3, Woolston (GR). 200 METRES, I, Metzger (GR) 26.28 sec; 2, Godfrey (W); 3, Bu rt (MT). 400 METRES: 1, Northeast (MT) 63.07 sec; 2, Rinaldi (8); 3, T russell (OR). 800 METRES: 1, Derouel (B) 2 min 39.3 sec; 2, Moore (W) ; 3, Lawrence (LX). ISOO METRES, I , Hall (W) 5 min 22.4 sec; 2, Skarbeck (LX); 3, Apps (MO). 80 METRES HURDLES: 1, Fahm (LX) 14.40 sec; 2, Solway (MO); 3, Handley (LN). loNG JUMP: I, Metzger (GR) 5.32m: 2, Northeast (MT); 3, Linfo rth (B). TRIPLE JUM P: I, Godfrey (W) 9.6010; 2, lawrence (LX); 3, Hudsmit h (MT) . HIGH JUMP: 1, Rina ldi (B) 1.57m ; 2, Woolston (GR); 3, Fa hm (LX). SUOT: 1, Marquis (OR) 11.97m ; 2, Beaugie (Ol); 3, Stobbs (IN). DISCUS, I , Epega (LX) 2S.2m; 2, Baker (B); 3, H olding (SH) . JAVELIN' I , Apps (MO) 2S.09m; 2, Skarbcck (LX); 3, Sciandone (GR). 4x 100 METRES RELAY: I, The O range 55.62 sec; 2, Broughton ; 3, Mite,hillson's.

Intermediates 100 METRES: I, Kabban (LX) 12.09 sec; 2, Rotimi (W); 3, Du nn (B). 200 METRES, I, Ph illi ps (W) 11.07 sec ; 2, D'Offay (MO); 3, Johns (GL). 400 METRES; I , Myeroft (LN) 56.92 sec; 2, landale (OR); 3, Michaels (B). 800 METRES; 1, Gillespie-Smith (LX) 2 min 19.7 sec; 2, Rayment (SH); 3, Beatto n (MO). 1500 METRES: I, Wrench (SH) 5 min 02. 1 sec; 2, Lumley (MT); 3, Rowsell (B). 100 METRES HURDLES: I , Murdoch (MO) 15.23 sec; 2, Ralph (OL); 3, Lawrence (T). LONG JUMP: 1, Murdoch (MO) 5.8 Im; 2, Davies (T); 3, Rotimi (W). TRIPLE JUMP: I, Phillips (W) 11.07m; 2, Edmonds (MR); 3, Valpy (Ol). HIGH JUMP: 1=, Dunn (B), Ralph (Ol) 1.65m; 3, Ososa nya (OR). SHOT: 1, Aboderin (W) 11.68m; 2, Overton (B); 3, Monro Higgs (SH). DIscus: I, Fredericks (8) 33.10m; 2, Beaugie (Gl); 3, Beatton (MO). JAVELIN : 1, Mycroft (LN) 43.50m; 2, Oirling (MO); 3, Ballenden (OL). 4x 100 METRES RELAY; I, Meister Omers 50.56 sec; 2, Walpole; 3, Oalpin 's.

Senio rs 100 METRES: I , Kostering (W) 11.1 5 sec; 2, Briggs (OR); 3, O raham (LX). 200 METRES: I , White (O l) 23.52 sec; 2, Ryeland (B); 3, Stanbu ry (MO). 400 METRES: I, Barron (IN) 56.64 sec ; 2, OllY (LX); 3, Bush (W). 800 METRES: I, Attwood (T) 2 min 06.96 sec; 2, Brandt (L N); 3, Madha (SH). 1500 METRES; I, Vale (8) 4 min 4 1.11 sec; 2, Gerrish (GR); 3, Oreenleaf (T). 3000 METRES (OPEN): I, Got kc (G R) 10 mi n 22.6 sec; 2, Knight (MO); 3, Henry (lX). 110 METRES HURDLES; 1, Ga rdener (T) 16.4 1 sec; 2, Lacamp (B); 3, Gordon (OR). 26 1 WORKAHOLICS (Jollathall Marshall)

LONG JUMP: I , White (GL) 6.l3m; 2, Wakefield (MO); 3, Lacamp (B). TRIPLE JU MP; I , Kostering (W) 12.17m; 2, Barron (LN); 3, Guy (LX). HIGH JUMP ; I, Rawlinson (T) 1.75m; 2, Walker (B); 3, Gordon (GR). SHOT; 1, Barton (MO) 11.19m; 2, Murch (GL); 3, Sherwood (MR). DISCUS, I , Mbu (B) 45.90m; 2, SCOll (MT); 3, Briggs (G R) . JAVELIN: I, Ives (B) 34.27m; 2, Nevile (GR); 3, Girling (MO). 4x 100 METRES RELAY: I, Broughton 48.89 sec; 2, The Grange; 3, Walpole. Overall Result I, Broughton 144; 2, T he G range 136; 3, Walpole 125; 4, Meister Omers 115; 5, Luxmoore 113; 6, Galpin's 74Âˇ 7 ' , Tradescant 64 ; 8, Mitch inson 's 53; 9, School House 48; 10, Linacre 47; II , Ma rlowe 37. Victor Ludorum C. N. White (LN) and M. Kostering (W) shared.

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Girls' Athletics The second year for this team of 'staggering' at hletes (a mixed bunch of true ta lent and sheer enthusiasm) saw two matches. The first look place at. B}rley's against Kent College. There was a fr iendly a~mosp h er~ - somewhat too relaxed on our part, perhaps, as tra ining had been slack. However, we had some good wms, especially by Alex Cochrane in Ihe 800m, Sally-A nn Hawken in the long jump and Elizabet h Ibbott in the discus. There were some close shaves with the javelin - Sian has a bald patch o n the back of her head - Zoe and Katrina did brilliantly in the shot, but unfortunately they were competing against 'The Hulk' (district champion) . The final result left a little to be desired, but it was a great day and a good warm up for the big match v Dover College, Cranb rook and Sutton Valence. Our true professiona lisfl.1 was revealed at this meet ing .~it h an ~lite team of seven members. - "'Ie took them all by storm. There were more wms by Alex, Sally-Ann and Zoe (she claims she has never thrown a Javehn before - it must have been Katrina's few words of wisdom). The hurdles were a push over - commiserations to Tara Wisdom who suffered a severe asthma attack (or were her shorts too tight?) and who pulled out after a lonely lap of the 8oomthanks for trying! Having been through intensive relay training, the 4 did not do so well as planned but the elements were against us and the clinging vests did not help much. Despite these restrictions we won the day - perhaps girls' athletics will be taken a little more seriously now? I leave that in the hands of Sally-Ann Hawken, Captain for 1987. Thanks to all those who took part and all boys who patient ly coached this motley crew. Finally a big thank you 10 Mr. Graeme Ga les (ou r hunky hero) without whom the team would have lacked its dynamic quality. SAMANTHA HARDINOHAM AND KATR INA JOHNSTON.

Boat Club 1st VIII from January 1986 to National Schools' Regatta 1986 Last winter was hardly one which encouraged this correspondent to file a report at the end of the Lent Term. January started off windy and then, before the month was out, illness struck about two th irds of the top squad. All this could have been coped with easily if February and March had not brought sub-zero temperatures that froze Westbere Lake. The times that we took to the water in this period were limited and a result of 13th in the Schools' Head of the River was not su rprising. There were, however, encouraging signs when, less than a for tnight later, the VIII fini shed 51s1 in the Head of the River. We were the third fastes t school crew a lthough many of our rivals were not there. This was the second year that our Lent term preparations had been seriously hampered and, from experience, we knew that the Easter training camp cou ld mend much of the damage. For the fourth consecut ive year we journeyed to the Sa rnersee in the Swiss Canton of ObwaJden. Once again the hospita lity offered by Paul Townend and his staff at the Hotel Waldheim was of the highest standard and it began to seem tha t the magic of the Sa rnersee was working; row ing often more than thi rty miles a day, the VIII started to look quite good . Doubt remained, however, when, at the first two regattas, the resu lts were disappointing. At Hammersmith Regatta it is true that we won Senior C VIlIs but were sound ly beaten by Emanuel School in Senior B VlIIs. The next weekend at the Metropolitan Regatta a t Thorpe Park, we failed to qualify fo r the second round in Senior B VIlIs and the whole crew hit something of a depression. 262

VIiI next raced at Nottingham City Regatta three weeks later. In the intervening period we had gone through 1he rduo uS work schedu le and were now more hopefu l that we would be competit ive at a high standard. The outlook ..~erY~ seem very good when two pairs from the VIII went fairly slowly in different heats of Junior Cox less pai rs, did n~ en it came to the final of Senior B VlIls it seemed that many of the lessons had been learnt. Although lagging bu t.VI J lhe first 500 metres behind Downing and Radley, it soon became clear that the crew had hit a rhythm that was dunn: e Ihem through Radley and then, in the last 200 metres, through Downing to win. to ~a Hingham City had been a turning point and we started preparing for National Schools' Regatta three weeks later. Â°use of half-term the peak training load for the Schools' Regatta was not ideally timed, but the VIII qual ified for ~nal of the Queen Mother's Cup. In fact the crew won their heat and probably expended too much energy in so th~ ~ and in the fina l, just over an hour later, the best we could manage was fourth behind Hampton, SI. Edward's d~d Shrewsbury, but at least we had beaten Eton and Radley! a The School's record at N.S.R. in the last fou r years is fifth , fourth, sixth and fourth and the challenge that remains is _ hoW do we break into the top three? Henley remains a~ead o~ us and an a~ditional r~l?0rt on the Royal ~e~atta will appear but, at the moment of writ ing, the exam timetable IS plaYing havoc with the tra lOlIlg sched ule and It IS very hard to say how well prepared the VIII wm be al Henley. I would like to thank Adrian Leach for being a very good Captain and leading the VIII to one of its best results in twenty years. It ~s a measure of his success that he welded three fifth formers, four 6b boys and two 6a boys into such a coherent Ullli. Among my other 'thank yous' is a very deeply felt one to the reti ring Headmaster who has been very supportive of the Boat Club in the six yea rs that I have been runn ing it - I hope SI. Paul's does not rise too rapidly to challenge us! My final thanks go to the Revd. Allen, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hartridge and Mr. Woodward for their help in runn ing Ihe many parts of the Club and to Peter Willis, 'boatman ext raordinaire' without whom the C lub could hardly function. R.M.H. Crew: Bow: K. Allen (LN), 2: B. W. Lynch (MR), 3: J . S. B. Phillips (LN), 4: R. B. Cooper (LX), 5: J. R. Nicholas 6: N. J. Stearns (T), 7: A. W. Leach (GR), Stroke: P. E. Dyas (LN), Cox: J. M. Del Mar (GR).

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2nd VIII Afler a Lent Term spent almost entirely off the water, and a Schools' Head result that reflected that lack of water experience, it was refreshing to see the way the crew got to grips with the situation in Switzerland. T he emphasis necessarily was on basic boat-moving, learning the sort of skills that should have been mastercd in the Lent Term. Fortunately the Sarnersee is near-perfect for 'Steady State' outings that wou ld be hard to envisage a t Westbere. By the end of the week the crew was fitter and had lea rnt muc h. Hammersmith was the first regatta, the Saturday after the traumatic return journey fr om Switzerla nd . The eight did well in the Novice event, narrowly losing the Final to the Vesta crew that had won the Novice pennant in the Putney Head. Two weeks later at Camb ridge they won two races, but were then beaten by a strong First and Third crew that won the cup in their next race, the Final. At long last, at Thames Ditton, the crew realised the potential which they had showed glimpses of in previous regattas. The Novice cup was won by 3/4 of a length from Wad ham, Oxford after a thrilling semifinal had been won by 2 feet. For once the boat was a llowed to run between stro kes, enabling the weight 10 be pressed down onto the feet and transferred to the blade. Thereafter the crew concent rated on Nottingham, giving up nea rly three days of half-term to get in the necessary 'peak period'. Sadly they reserved the worst row of the term for the heat at Nottingham. They looked rather jaded, and it is possible that the week before had been too demand ing. Nevertheless tribu te must be paid to the effort put in, especially in the traini ng in Sw itzerland a nd over ha lf term. It reflects credit on the crew and cox. P.J.D.A. Crew: G. B. M. Bishop, C. R. Smalman-Smith, M. Kandawalla, E. B. de Giles, E. F. Valpy, J. D. Richardson, M. R. A. Miller, J. D. Frew, J . L. W. Liley.

US VIII . It is not easy being a J .15 oarsman. It's a time of physical change; it's a time when one starts to see just how demanding IS Ihe work load needed for success, yet the chances of success seem a long way in the future. And there a re the increasi ng siren voices suggesting the attractions of the easy option: that it' s not worth making such an effort - the attitude which ~xpects instant results for no rea l effort. In the circumstances getting two VIlIs training seems a n achievement, even If 11 was, at times, a struggle. A Crew

Readers will have gathered that there were no glitte ring prizes. The iced-over Lake of last term left us very short on basic technique and stamina, and the crew just could not catch up with other A crews (although the times at Nottingham showed them to be a capable B crew). It must be said that they were slower than usual at remembering the basics of the rowing stroke, though they did have a determined fighting spirit. At Camb ridge they beat the Leys without difficulty, 263

but had no answer to Rad ley's precision and control. Their best effort was a promising race at Thames Ditt they lost to Etan by o nly ha lf a length. Th ree days before Nottingham. 4 dropped out with a knee injury lnon , wbea ro und, despite a valiant effor! by stroke, they fell apa rt in the last 500 metres. Their times confirmed the f~ct t~he fiflt had gOI to the level of a top B crew, but not an A crew. After o nly o ne term on the water, that is not a bad ach iev: t they I draw a veil over the Little Final. apart from reporti ng that onc crew member prepared for it by running bac merll. into a concrete post, and so got into the boat just after having two stitches put in. The bandage certainly looked im kwa~ds a nd it's perhaps a su rprise that we finis hed al all , let alone coming in fourt h. pressl\'t As ever, we have to than k Peter Willis - not for ma intain ing but actually making the boat we used (and an ex boat it is). Also the generous parental support, which reached new heights this year (with assistance from the pnctg ~Itnt at Notti ngha m, and, by no means least , Edward Winfield for his help coaching both crews. runs) S. I .O

A Crew: R. E. W. Cecil : S. H enderso n; E. J . Beaugie; D. E. J . Bond; M. W. Stafford ; J . J . Morse, B. D. John D. C. Doyle. N. H. Littlejo hn a t Nat iona l Schools. Cox: J . H. Robertson .

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. Desp ite ad verse ~eat he r conditions in t ~ e Lent t~r m , the Su -:nmer term's r<?w ~n g has been full of triumphs. The VIII kIcked off to a fly mg start galla ntly batthng o n with three o f Its best men mlssmg, and ca me a very cred itable sc<:ond (out of two) at Cambridge. Realising we needed to expand in o ther d irect ions, a sculli ng quad was set up , incredibly managing 10 beat Hampton at T ha mes Ditton, where the VIII had the same success as they had had previously due to an unfair d isq ualification by the judges. ' T hen we started an in tensive training programme and were in top readiness for the next regatta, when half-term intervened. As a result. we performed far less tha n our best at Twickenham , even though we reached the fina l, and were beaten by St. Paul's. The next event was Natio na l Schools at Holme Pierrepoint, Nott ingha m, where the VIII managed to beat several boats! The quads, now A & B crews, were only just elim inated from the fina l and went into the little fi nal. where the B crew beat the As. Towards the end of term, some people have been tak ing it easy, single-sculling, or sim ply not tu rn ing up. Not so however, Damian Simpson, who has sometimes been forcib ly removed fro m the lakes. A q uad a nd two doubles h av~ been training hard still for Nationa l Champio nships, and we wish them more success than the J . 14s have had so fa r.

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For the first time for several years no members of the Club competed in B.C.U. national ranking sla loms. Excess of examinations was one reason, but clearly there has no t been the st rengt h in depth to which we have been accustomed. The d rying-up of the su pply of keen able canoeists from J.K.S . is a cont rib ut ory factor, as is the innovation whereby Shell fo rmers cannot choose canoeing as a sport fu ll time. Norma lly we have upwards of twenty beginners in the summer term: this year we had two, fro m the Removes. H owever, the clu b was active in other ways, and towards the end of the term in fact we had Quite an innow of j uniors who were keen eno ugh to come down and tryout the sport in addit ion to their main activity. H ere I must make tribute to o ur Captain. C. N. Bartlett . whose skill and enthusiasm has been such a driving fo rce behin d the club for the last two years. He always made a simple trip to the Miller's Arms sluice gate an interesting and rewarding experience for novices. Several trips were made to the sea, at Joss Bay and Folkcstone, and although the surf was hardly of Atlantic proportions. it sufficed to give the beginners something to learn o n. The Clu b now has seven plastic boats , fi ve Dancers, a nd two Bats, a nd we are so pleased with their d urability and genera l perfo rma nce tha t we sha ll be buying one more o f each in the current year. Two committee members are lea ving. C . N. Bartlett, a nd D. S. Vye, who was o ur highest ra nking ca noeist (Div . 3 Sla lom) . We welco me o n to it A. G. Charleswort h, who is promising both in his canoeing a nd his o rga nising a bility. We hope to be back in contentio n at B,C.U. events next year. M. I .V.

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hasis at the moment is on coaching and team building with lessons from Mr. Romang (sabre) and Mr. Gambrill

~h&e~~e) We have started a happy liaison this term with Milner Court where Fencing has been introduced (via (fOIl R e ang) giving Milner Court an added dimension and ourselves the link that most major fencing schools have ~r. I~;rr junior schools. This is an exciting new development of which we shou ld hear much in Ihe future. ... llh J ne four school fencers entered the Inverclyde Open Fencing Competition, where Scottish and English fence rs In ~mpeting for their places in the Commonwealth Games. Mark Adamson foug ht extremely well to reach the epee wer~ cnals whilst Ben Rayment, David Friston and Tom Ward went out earlier. It was their first experience of an

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IIlter~nd September are the Norfolk Open, the Essex Open a nd the Ma nnheim U120 Open Sabre International. We :.rs~ our fencers the very best of luck: the experience gained at this level far outweighs the importance of thei r final posit ion. The 0 K.S. returned in strength th is year and it was good to see so many o ld friendships bei ng happily renewed. De teled 'as we a re just now and with some illness amongst the seniors, we were no match fo r our vastly more experienced P neots. Ju niors from the Removes were promoted to the 2nd team and o ne, Ben Raymen t. to the 1st team. Despite O:~ide margin of the O.K.S. victory, (41-13), the School fencers fought with courage and determ ination, a large number I tfights being closer than the score suggests; so that as a young team in the making they showed real prom ise and o auld give a very good account of themselves in the future. It was a ltogether a happy occasio n, the more-so because ~aurice Milner and his wife, Maureen, were able to be with us. It was a great pleasu re to watch him presiding so rofessionally, and we thank him for his kindness. p o.K.S.: Mike Allen, Richard Appleyard, Jo~n Eden, Darren Evans. Edwin Lioyd, Andrew Macfarlane, Mark Mortlock, Qavi Rauz, Siew Wan T ham, Matthew Wh itehead. K.S. 1st Team: Andy Wickerson (Copt.), Mark Adamson, Jon Rawlinson, Ben Rayment. 2nd Team: Alex Carr-Taylor, Jon Rawlinson, Ben Rayment, Patrick Brothers, Jaso n Manning, David Friston. At the lime of writing it is good to report that Andy Wickerson and Mark Adamson arc at the U120 Invitation Sabre Training Camp, where they will spend a fortn ight training with Tamas Mendelenyi, the Nationa l Sabre Coach. This Invitation Camp is sponso red th rough the Sports Counci l for those young sabreurs who show great potentia l , and our thankS go to Mr. Paul Romang for arranging this exciting opportun ity . Andy Wickerson leaves us this terlll, and I shou ld li ke to record our grateful thanks for all he has done fo r the C lub and for me, and to wish him all the best for his futu re career. Mark Adamson has been appo inted Captain of Fenci ng for 1986/87, and Mr. Jennings will be taking over as Master ilc Fencing. I wish them both every success in their endeavours, knowing that the Fencing C lub will give them every support. As 1 leave at the end of th is term, I say thank you to all fe ncers past and present who have given me so much support, knowing that I leave the Club in good ha nds wit h its future secured. 'En garde!' W. I .R .H-S.

Golf An attempt is made each year to vary the pattern of fixtures. but the time avai lab le in the Autumn and Summer terms permits little freedom of movement. With exams starting ea rlier than ever the possibility of fixtures in the second half of the Summer term becomes more remote. However, one new match was arranged when SUllon Va lence kindly played hosts to us at Leeds Castle. Most of Ihe team were Juniors and a draw was the result after nine holes played in truly beautiful surroundings. This season will be remem bered too for the record number of 48 who played in the Inter-House. The Senior Cup was won by The Grange (M. W. U rsell and S. J. S. Ursell) and the J unior by Broughton. Much as eve ryone seemed to enjoy the day I doubt if such a large entry will occu r again as the pleasure of the putting and lo ng d rivi ng competitions had to be forego ne when time ra n oul. The O.K.S. Go lfi ng Society again supported th is event in the most ge nerous man!ler and our than ks a re here recorded especially to Pip Arnold for organis ing and prese nting the prizes. A very speCIal word of tha nks to Anne Arnold for aga in ba king some delicious cakes. Some compet it ors were lucky enough to carry these off to their st udies at the end of the day. If the match record was patchy (more were lost than won). most matches went to the 18t h hole. We beat St. Lawrence and the O.K.S. at Princes but lost to Cranleigh 24 at Crowborough and Sevenoaks a lso 2-4 at Littlestone, The Tonbridge match was away at the Knole but only lost 2Y2Âˇ3Yl, the last three matches being played off hand icap. Mark Ursel! scored a vcry respectable 78 gross but lost 6 & 5 to Richardson'S one under par 69!

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Paddy Green leaf succeeds Mark Vrsell as Captain. Mark h~s had a fine matchplay record and we wish him being certain that he will rapidly be noticed by the O.K.S. We bid farewell too to Tim Turner who has had a succ well, seaso n in the team and to David Taylor a team member from last year. tssful J.J.D .C. Team: M. W. Vrsell (Capt,), P. J. Q. Greenleaf, T. J. Turner, P. A. Adamson, D. P. P. Godfrey, D. P. Morris Also played: Alison Ruckert, S. Rowe, P. J. Woods, T. J. Locking, M. L. Nickolls, D. Rycroft. . Millor Sports Colours: P. J. Q. Greenleaf, T. J. Turner, D. P. Morris, D. P. P. Godfrey .

Sailing The sa iling team has had a very successful season, cominjf second i'.l the HOAP shi e l~ Regatta in very blustery conditions, and it is a credit to the helms that no King's boa.t .capslzed despite forty~slx capsl~es by other sch~ols that day. We have a lso had two very enjoyable days at Dover sa lli ng top~e~s, but, ~ nfortunate ly, m the match agamst Kent College, the wind was so strong that only six boats out of twelve fnushed, w l ~h a goo~ per~ormance by Mark Adamson and Peter Burrell to come first and second. Adrian Fullman has been showing promise this season and shou ld make a gOOd hel m for next year. We wou ld like to thank Mr. P. W. Durga n for organising everything in his last year with us and wish him well for the future. We are gratefu l to Mr. M. R. G. Parker for providing some transport and a future as the new head of the club, a nd a special thanks to Mr. S. M. Wainde for helping take us to the regatta. PETER BURRELL. Team: P. J . Burrell (Capt.), M. S. Adamson, A. P. N. Fu ll man, A. J. McClymont, R. A. F. Webb, Ophelia James, M. D. W. Bowker.

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C.C.F. S.E. Area Regatta Two crews were taken to the regatta where we put on a nother .good performance, but un for t u na te~y we could 1.101 find the extra speed to beat Tonbridge and were runners:up aga.. n t~ thef!1. for the second year runnmg. The racl~g was very close on the river Medway with Mark Adamson Improvlllg III POSition throughout the day. P~ter Burrell did well to finish second, crewed by Adrian Fu ll man, and Mark Adamson fourth overall, crewed by Alastair McClymoni . We wou ld like to thank Mr. P. W. Durgan and Mr. M. R. G. Parker for taking us. We look forward to going next year with the sa me team and perhaps wi nning. PETER BURRELL.

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We were invited by Eley , Smith' s and Gore to represent the school in the largest .shotgun competit ion in England fo r V .18s, This is the first time we have had such an o ffer a nd we promptl y took It up. The o rganising was left to myself and I made some very fra ntic telephone calls to parents asking if their sons could shoot. We managed to persuade Paul'oubrow (O.K.S.) and the R.S.M. to drive us up to the shOOI in Lord Lichfie ld's estate. When we arrived, we were confronted with two options: to be Sioanes ~ nd look good, or to be provincial yobbo s and shoot well. We soon created a third opt ion: looki ng good and shootmg wel l.

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• k" Briggs who had not seen ~ shot gun before shot very well, with Gerard Morris and myself gett ing the hig hest ~IC We came 18th of 51 pubhc schoo ls and established King's in the shooting world, . !ling back was eventful: some of the non-ath letic types took to running up and down the M2 look ing for a Trav':tent telephone. Then the rest of us were stopped by R.B.Mi., as we walked through the gates with gu ns slu ng non-eXu'r shou lders - 'My God, the magnificent seven! ' he exclaimed. O\'er 0 A special thank you to R.S.M. Alan Booth, who drove us there and half the way back, and to Paul Dubrow for h course on how to shoot a shot gu n. • eras I . ·d·IS Ieapt. all d orgamzer, . ) G. L . M · N. H. Bnggs, . Team: N. A. PapacUlstl oms, A. T. M. C lements, C. H. Sclater uest Paul Dubrow, O.K.S. and a g NICK PAPACHR[STIDIS. ~r~·

Swimming This has been a successfu l season overa ll , marked by some fine individual and team performances in our traditional (I:(tures, a disappointment at the Publie School relays in the earlier part of the season, but a gratifying success at the Bishops Stortford Swimming Festival at the very end of the season. We were fortunate enough to have access to the Kingsmead pool for a few warm~up sessions at the end of the Lent term and at the very sta rt of the Summer term, so that we had at least swum before we met Dulwich, away, on the first Monday of term! Although we lost - not disgracefu lly - there were so me notable achievements; Stephen Grimes and Jerry Gordon won excellent races; Mark Lawrence beat the V. I S I length Butterfly record, and, although he was not a full~tim e swimmer, he continued to produce excellent times throughout the season. The real revelation of this first match came from Chris Hall, who among his other attai nments broke the senior 2 lengths Breast stroke record. A string of outstanding performances both with in and outside his age~group won him the Carboni Cup, amply deserved. Our remaining fixtures went very much to form: an easy victory against Westminster, a nd against Kent College. From this point on o ur Captain Guy Dunn was bedevilled by injuries, but bot h weather a nd injuries have been qu ite clement Ihis season overall. In the Public School relays we swam bravely, but we were in the firs t heat, along with some extraord inary compet ition, a nd ou r ti mes were too low to qu alify for the Final. Relay tra ini ng over 50, 100 or 200 metres must be a priority on next year's agenda. St. Lawrence brought its first dou ble shock of the season: our Senior boys lost their match in a lacklustre series of races, o ur Gi rls o n the other hand had a historic victo ry. The Girls' team has received a shot in the arm from the enthusiasm of Kate Bird and Em ma Conyers, a mong others, showi ng great spirit and determination; this is probably the most significant success story overall. Emma also broke a series of records; Freestyle, Breaststroke, Butterfly and Ind ividual Medley. The fixture against Eastbourne and St. Dunstan's is a useful exposure to high-performance sw immers a nd remarkable, all· year round fac ilities. Their standards are probab ly unattainable goals in the shorter term but with intensive training and that elusive covered pool they might well be. We won convincingly against SuUon Valence and Bethany, and our Seniors won against Tonbridge, a creditable achievement, with some exciting relays. In certain matches we were disadvantaged by having rather depleted teams in the V.IS and V.16 because of a clash with athletics commitments; but we have also bene fited from the loan of the exceptional talents of lady Mycroft and M~fk Lawrence, and David Godfrey and Bobby Morse must carry most of the credit for ga lvanising and organising thelf teams. We are particu larly heartened by the cup we took away from the Bishops Stortford festival: in Hall, Godfrey, Lawrence and Montgomery we had a fine team; along with the nucleus of promising and dedicated V.14s, a ll this bodes well for the future of swimming at the School. We \~ould like to thank Dr. Tyczka for his organizing, encouragement and hum our, and Mr. Thane and Mr. Barham rOf theu dedicated coaching in spite of their several other weighty commitments in the School. . GUY DUNN AND C.W.J.T. lSI

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Conyers, Kate Bird. RESU LTS Played 8, Won S, Lost 3.

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Enthusiasm for ten nis has matched the superb wea ther a nd this has been a most enjoyable term. It has bee I to see the a moun t of 'social' tenn is that has been played a nd all twelve courts have been full to overflow ing f~ Ovel)' of the lime . I am delighted to say that three of the Bi rleys courts arc being resurfaced at the end of this term a r mUch the ot her three will be done next summer. Although we are still very short-sta rred, the junior team players ha~d ~at more coaching this year and, with help fro m C hrist Church College, it has bee n possible to offer tennis to vir~ d everyone in the Shells and Removes who has opted for it. I hope that the position ca n improve st ill further next ually as we now know what demand there is li kely to be and arc close to finding the correct formu la for the most efflc~r. use of court time a nd manpower. II\'e The 1st VI has had anot her successful season. After an early defeat against Du lwich, all the other 'friendlies' w won, with excellent performances against Tonhridge and Sevenoaks being the highlights of the season. The afternoo e~e tennis I most enjoyed was the Kent Cup Fin al, in wh ich we beat Judd and Sevenoa ks. be fore losing to an Eltham s~ s including five of the Ken t County Squad . Alista ir McFie has been an ad mirable captain, utterly reliable in both ~e play and organisation . Ma tthias Kostering has added consistency to his excit in g strokeplay a nd has looked a reaUIS outsta nding player this yea r. It will be hard to fill their places. but the addition of David Laurence to the team an Y the co ntin ued progress of Simon Stutta ford. should ensure that we st ill have a solid side next year. At third pair Davi~ Taylor a nd Adam Barro n have do ne very well, a fter o ne or two erratic performa nces early in the term. It has betn very usefu l to tryout other players in some of the matches a nd I now have a good idea of the strengths and weaknesses of those competing for a regular 1st VI place next sum mer. I am delighted that Mr. Wainde has agai n looked after the 2nd VI and a large number of players have been interested enough to want to play in the team. Results have been variable, bu t the standa rd of tennis has been higher than Usual and the tough matches have been lost by smaller ma rgins than in most prev ious years. The junior teams have had m ixed fort unes. The under 16 side has played some very good tennis at times, but concentration and determina tion have not been virtues a lways much in evidence. A successful transition to 1st VI tennis will require a better mental attitude - the ability is there. The under 15 side entered the Kent League for the first time a nd th is p roved most successful. Apart from a credit ab le second place in the fin a l table. much valu able experience was gained , as matches consisted of both si ngles a nd doubles. C hris Pope is to be congratulated fo r wi nning a ll of his singles rubbers and his positive atti tude was good to see . The Inter·House Cup Competitions p rovided worthwhile entertainment fo r two afternoons , with the standard of tennis being higher than in recent years. Linacre won the senior event agai n and the j unior winners were Galpin's, who defeated Marlowe in a tense final tie·break. The League was won b y a highly efficient Tradescant side, with Broughton the runners.up as in the Senio r Cup. The end-of·seaso n fixt ures wit h the Comm o n Room (including fo ur Wood leys th is time!) a nd the O.K,S. were both most enjoyable. Mixed doubles was the format for the Commo n Room match and, a lthough nobody was much interested in keepi ng thc score a t the time, I did discover to my delight later on tha t the Commo n Room had won 8·71 The O.K.S., let down after a series of late n ight ' phone calls a nd non-arrivals. were not as st rong as hoped and. after a set or two of men's doubles fo llowed by lunch, mixed d oubles was again the favoured fo rm of cnterta inment for the afternoon. My thanks to everyone who has helped with ten nis this year, to Mr. Wainde fo r the 2nd VI, to Messrs. Reid and Tennick for the League and to Mr. Woodley fo r h is genera l support. It is nice to see him back to fu ll fitness again ,

C. l.R.l. The following represented the School: Regular 1st VI: A. 1. M . McFie·, M. K6steri ng·, S. P. Stuttaford-, D. J . Laurencc-, D. S. Taylo r·, A . 1. Barron-, - 1st colours. 2nd VI: 1. M . Bartlett", A. G. 1. Scott", A . Bocresion, C, E. 1. Brand t, A. J. Craik, E. 1. Dykes, C. P. J. Flower, "2nd colours, 1 . S. Murch, P. L. Eva ns. V.16 VI: A. T . Vinton", P. O. A. Thomas, R. Khcr, N. H. J . Bishop, P. A. Norris , B. C. Marso n, G. 1. V. Evans. V.IS VI: F. G. Webb, O. D. Scott , C. M. Pope, B. D. Eaton, S. Bocresion, N. A. J. Goodwin, J . J . Lumley, M. Dalarna l, A. J . Woo lston. RESULTS

1st VI Gloll vill Cup Roulld I (H) v S1. Dunstan's College. Won 3-0. v Skinners. Won 3-0. Kellt Final (H) v Sevenoaks. Won 2- 1. v Ju dd . Won 3-0. v Eltham College. Lost 0-3.

2nd VI v Dulwich (H). Lost 2Yl:-6Yl:. v Sevenoaks (H). Lost 21/2-61/z. v Kent Co llege (A) . Won 4-0. v Dover College (A). Won 8- 1. v Tonbridge (A). Lost 21/2-6Vz. v Brentwood U. 16 VI (A). Won 6Vz-21/z.

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v Simon Langton (H). Won 5-1. Roulld 2 v Judd (A). 3-3 Won on games. Semifinal v Langley Park (H), Lost 1-5.

: Simon Langton (H). Won 5-1. EaSlbourne (A). Won 7-2 .

... Kent College (A). Won 6-3. : St. Edmund 's (A). Won 5lfl-3112. westminster (H). Won 8-1. v Dover College (A). Won 6Vz-2Yz . : 51. Lawrence College (H). Won 5-4. Tonbridge (A). Won 5- 4.

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Dulwich (A). Drew 4 V2-4 111. Sevcnoaks (A). Lost 1-8.

Eastbourne (A). Won 7112- 1VI.

Kent League v Scvenoaks (A). Lost 2-4. v Simon La ngton B (H). Won 5-1. v Judd (H). Won 4-2. v Simon Langton A (A). Drew 3-3. v Longfield (A). Won 4-2. v Skin ners (H). Won 6- 0. Friendlies v Du lwich (A). Lost 3V2-5Vl, v Westminster (H). Lost 3V2-5Vl. v St. Lawrence College (H). Won 6\1l-2Vz. v Tonbridge (H). Lost Vl-8V2. v Brentwood (A). Won 6-3.

v Sutlon Valence (H). Won 5-4. v Tonbridge (H). Lost 1-8.

Public Schools Championships After many successful years in the Youll Cup, our exit in the seco nd round of this year's competition was rather disappointing. At first pa ir Matthias Kostering and Simon Stuttaford failed to find their best fo rm in either the 2-1 victory over Cranleigh, or in the 0-2 defeat by Bryanston. However, Matthias played superb ly in winning the deciding singles in the Cranleigh match 6-3, 6-2. The second pair of Alistair McFie and David Laurence did very well to beat a good Cranleigh pa ir in three sets, but lost after two hours to Bryanston, in a contest full of exciting tennis, but where the outcomes of excellent rallies were too often decided by unforced errors. The young partnership of Mahesh Dalama l and Alex Woolston suffered from a tough draw in the Thomas Bowl under-IS event a nd lost 4-6, 4-6 to Bradfie ld in the first round and 1-6,4-6 to Marlborough in the plate event. They have the opportunity of doing better next year. C.J.R.J.

Girls' Tennis Since most of our fixtures have to be played in May. bad weather then makes adequate practice difficult, and this is a particular handicap with a sixth-form entry. In the event, four 6b girls supported one obvious 6a pair from last year, but the results overall were rather disappointing. Both first and second pairs, respectively Catharine Walsh and Charlotte Hare, and Clare Wilson and Nicola Odgers, were good stroke-players, but didn't manage to consolidate their games sufficiently to win matches regularly. At third pair, Emma Conyers and Alex Cochrane, though more limited in st roke-play, proved tenacious in mat ch play and as likely to win rubbers as the pairs above them. The 2nd VI matches gave a number of girls the chance to represent the school, and of these SUin Beaugie, Camilla Davies and Katie Woodcock made usefu l cont ributions to the 1st VI too. The Inter-House compet ition was won comfortably by Galpin's, with Meister Omers and School House ru nners-up, and the season concluded wit h a couple of mixed doubles matches, against the O.K.S. and Common Room, though one round of girls' doubles was also played before lunch against some good O.K.S. representat ives. /sl VI: Catharine Walsh (Capt.) and Charlotte Ha re; Clare Wilson and Nicola Odgers; Emma Conyers and Alex Cochrane.

2nd VI: SHin Beaugie and Cami lla Davies ; Katie Woodcock and lana Hay; Miranda Merron and Mela nic Bones. Also played: Susanna Walsh, Sarah Fahey, Nicola Shaw, Fiona Watson.

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(R~a:): Nicola Odgers, Emma Conyers, Sian 8eaugie.

(SlUlIIg): Alex Cochrane, Catharine Walsh, Clare Wi lson.

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RESULTS

1st VI v Cranbrook. LOSl 0- 3. v Sevenoaks. Lost 2- 5. v Ashford. Lost 1- 2. v Kent College, Canterbury. Lost 4- 5. v Simon Langton. Won 5- 4.

2nd VI v Cranbrook. Lost 0-3. v Ashford. Lost 0-3. v Kent College, Canterbury. Won 7- 2. v Simon Langton. Won 7- 2. v S1. Edmund's. Won 3-0.

Aberdare Cup, round 2 (round J bye) v Combe Ba nk . Won 2- 1. v Kcnt College, Pembury. Lost 1- 2. Besides these tennis fixtures, it is appropriate to note here thal one rounders match was played, a 9- 1 win against 51. Edmund's, and this was so enjoyed that morc such matches are looked forward to, JAW.

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KING'S WEEK 1986 NICHOLAS NICKLEBY It's a brave man who adopts a runaway R.S,C. success as the school production for King's Week. Mr. Andrew Dobbin proved both his courage and his faith in the weather by staging Ihe first part of Nicholas Nickleby in the Grange Yard . It was startlingly effective. Competing with the R.S.C. was not the only challenge of the performance, For one thing, il was outdoors. Surely it was neat stage management, rather than mere nice chance, that had Ihe Cathedral clock tolling her quarters so punctually to evoke the London bustle as Nicholas departs for Dotheboys Hall , or the distant bells of Portsmouth as the exhausted refugees find comfort in the warm embrace of Mr. Crummles? And were the housemartins laid on expressly to squeal over the heads of those forsaken urchins shipwrecked in the wastes of the Yorkshire Moors? These impromptu sound effects did much to realise an atmosphere in the imagination. For another, the play was staged in the round. Most effective when the scene was actionpacked, ~s when Smike finds himself the victim of a brutal flogging by Squeer~, or when Mr. Mantalim makes melodramatIc mayhem by attemptlllg SUICide, the round gave httle help to the cast in scenes which called for a delicate touch. Yet it was in dealing with this challenge that Ihe actors and actresses proved their calibre. Thomas Grieves as Nicholas quickly established himself in innocent heroic mould as he comforted the hapless Kate and his mother, and stood up against the excellently stony-hearted Ralph. Indeed, these early scenes were perhaps Nicholas's best: his naively bewildered expression al every degrading obstacle confronting him soon became predictable. That is the fault of Dickens, not Thomas Grieves, who worked hard to inject the character with a third dimension. His sister, Kate, beautifully underplayed by Blythe Levett, conveyed a sense of resigned yet determined other-worldliness as she was abused in turn by Ralph and the masterfully imperious Miss Knagg, played with delicate venom by Lucy Charrington. The Mantalinis likewise managed to keep just this side of caricature: theirs was a delightful cameo of the marital whirligig. There was Mr. Mantalini, one moment preening his whiskers with magnificent aplomb, the next abasing himself before his 'demned little rose in a flower-pot'. And Madame Mantalini's voice and behaviour conveyed all shades of meaning from infatuation to outrage, Lucinda Roberts and Omar Madha made a fine pair. Of course, it is the nasty characters who have all the fun. Edward Winfield, as Ralph , exploited 10 the full his ringing voice and assured stature. His presence dominated the stage as he silenced Ihe nervous chatter of Mrs. Nickleby, and knowingly arranged for Nicholas's job with Squeers. He was equally good as the unhelpful landlord, nonchalantly quaffing and supping while explaining to the starving Nicholas that there was neither food nor drink in the inn. Of all nasty characters, the vilest must be that of Mr. Wackford Squeers. Paddy Greenleaf seemed hardly to need the puckered scar on his face, so villainous was his smiling, Larger than life, yet his presence was reinforced by the small gesture, as when he seems to look for the approval of his new assistant as the boys snatch a bite of breakfast under his beady eye. The caricatures were allowed full rein. Timothy Briggs enjoyed himself as - tongue-lolling and bottom-pinching fingers straying - he brought a chair for Kate's interview at the milliners', Simon Richards' extravagantly decrepit Lord elicited a burst of applause for his acrobatically senile entrance , Timothy Briggs as Crummles conveyed the epitome of warmth and abandon. Crummies' company brought most of the cast together in a fittingly cramped and comic ending. It was good to see them back on stage, for much of the evening's fun came from little touches of humour from minor characters: the policemen's kneebending; the one masculine milliner affecting the manners of his pretty co-workers; Mrs. Squeers helping the boy ringing the interval 271

bell by ringing him too: . . The cast also shared t~e job of narration, keeping up its pace admirabl even in the more statIc show-pIeces after the mterval. y But, as the evening ended wi th a bowdlerised Romeo and Juliet, why, pray, no more Curtain calls than a single cursory nod? What would Mr. Crummles have thought? NICHOLAS TAUNT

THE GOLDEN MASQUE OF AGAMEMNON The Golden Masque by John Wiles weaves together so'."e of the comple,!, legends concerning the family of Agamemnon and the blood feud of Atreus. GIven that the. ClassIcal Greek dramalists handled episodes of the original legends s~par!'tely m full-length tnlogles, we can perhaps forgive John Wiles for some obscunty of plot m hIs smgle much-condensed play. Nevertheless, the play gave excellent opportunities for the invoh'ement of a I~rge cast o~ forty. No single part greatly dominated the others, whIle ten boys and fIve gIrls provIded a contInUOus mime backing and 'chorus' -like commenta~y on the actl~n. Th~ mIme was partIc~larly effective and varied: revulsion at the ntual markmg wIth IphlgenIa s blood; symbolIc stabbIng of Agamemnon as Clytemnestra called down lurid curses upon him; and the vanous crowd scenes at Argos. These cameos were a successful means of h.ei~hte.ning the drama or expr~ssing mO?d, while a battle mime economically portrayed ten years fIghtIng at Troy. Much well-mvested lIme and effort must have gone into these scenes. Thybius, the narrator, played in a .characteri~ tic laid-back manne~ by Tom Whyte, helped to link these scenes with episodes involvmg the major protagonIsts. Thybms added some humorous touches to his role of external commentator. Mystery and suspense were mamtamed throughout the opening scenes, as the proud but frustrated Agamemnon (Bill Hawkes) consulted the gods' intermediaries, Calehas (James KnIght) and the Pythoness (Tara WIsdom) . Atmosphere was created by the music as Calehas, with a superbly proj ected VOIce, re.clted the tale of Atreus and performed the gory sacrifices. Both he and the Pyth0!less had ~tnkm~ costumes, though the latter might have made more expressIve use of h~~ eenly amplIfIed vOIce. Clyte'!!nestra (Kate Hamilton) soon established herself as a supercIlIous, deceptIve character, whIle her lover, Aegisthus (Ed Hewertson) entered in appropriately sinister and sensuous fashIOn. The farcical treatment of the Greek leaders at Troy was unfortunately missed by much of the audience because the players were seated , and the projection was less good . However the light relief was weleome before the lame~t.or Hecuba (Tara de Linde) a~d C~~sa~dra' s telling wail (Victoria Bof!) as she entered her captIvIty. Further contrasts ensued WIth CllIssa s conVInCIng simplicity and frankness (Clare Edmonson) contrasted with Clytemnestra's disdainful doubletalk to her oppressed citizens. After the murder of Agamemnon, which was preceded by a tens~ build-up! Orestes (Ted George) emerged powerfully as the av.enging son,. yet fe!,rful of the Funes, the spmts of revenge who would torment him for hIS matrICIde . The SIX Funes, portrayed masterfully by heavy face markings, bright snake-like wigs and w~bbed bat-wings, we~e a highlight of this production malicious in their sibilant tauntIng and spIky gestures. The ormnous gathenng of the Funes around Orestes and Clytemnestra, frozen under a spotlight, while the ghost of Agamemnon urged on Orestes, was extremely powerful. The tongue-in-cheek treatment of the court scene, with Athene (Ophelia Jame~) conducting proceedings like aT. V. presenter,. and Apollo (Peter Elam) as a pompous barnster, was an amusing contrast to the GremlIn-hke Funes, but tended to lose pace and cnspness . Iphigenia's (Libby Robinson) reappearance to conclude the plot ~nd free Orestes from the Furies by means of a statue of Artemis left some unanswered questIons for the audIence, but did not detract from the many memorable scenes in the whole production. Much was owed to 272

nd and lighting teams (led by Paul Bushell and Chris Tothill respectively) and also those the SOU with make-up, costumes and the set, with its haunting funera l mask of Agamemnon. heIPI~~rculean labours of the Tennicks and Stephen Wainde were clearly colossal: a tribute to The was the evident enjoyment of all those taking part in the production. them C.T.H.

SONG RECITAL It was a pleasure to weleome back William Kendall O.K.S. with his accompanist Graham Caldbeck for this opening recital of King's Week in the Old Synagogue on Thursday, 10th July. Since leaving here in 1970 he has established an international reputation as a tenor soloist, and his very varied programme well demonstrated not only the quality of his voice, but also his ability to perform in a wide range of styles and languages. The first half of the recital consisted of pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning with three songs by John Dowland which formed a pleasing triptych. Mr. Kendall sang with sustained and even tone, and a restrained manner appropriate to the period. The English school was further represented by two Shakespeare settings of Morley, delicately sung with fluid ornaments, and by Campion's Faire if you expect admiring. The highpoin t of this section, however, was a final song by Dowland: In darkness let mee dwell. T he emotional intensity with highly charged dissonances was excellently conveyed, and this work also showed off Mr. Kendall's mong lower register. An extra piece by Rossiter (When Laura smiles) followed, before a complete change of mood to finish the first half with two extremely dramatic arias by Cavalli. T hese were sung in Italian with full operatic power and tone, nicely characterising the travesty-role nurse and the stuttering Indian slave . After the interval Mr. Kendall sang three unusual songs by Percy Grainger. These seemed 10 us rather less successful than the rest of the programme, though the choice of the first (Pretty maid milkin' her cow) as an encore piece at the end clearly showed the singer's affection for the work. The words were hard to make out, the melodic line seemed to lack coherence and sustained tone, and the elements of dialect conflicted with the polished accent. Mr. Kendall's linguistic virtuosity was again in evidence in two Russian songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff respectively and a Brahms Lied: In Waldeseinsamkeit. In Tchaikovsky's Minstrel Song he captured the dark and mournful Russian spirit, and the Rachmaninoff was highly impassioned building to a most impressive final top B. Before singing the Brahms Mr. Kendall paid tribute to Mr. Edred Wright who had first taught him to sing it. We then moved from Germany to France for three Britten French Folk song arrangements. Like the two English ones which follo wed, they showed Britten's inimitable sense of fun and appropriateness in arranging, and the singing was light and generally well articulated, except perhaps in Quand j'/ftais chez mon pere. Ivor Gurney's Sleep was a good contrast, with its gently rocking rhythms though a certain tiredness seemed occasionally to be creeping into the voice. Clearly this must have been wordpainting, for in the Lalo Vainement, ma bien aimee there was no doubt of Mr. Kendall's control of the lyrical floating lines. A further Britten song, The plough-boy, made a lively end to a finely chosen and executed programme. Mr. Caldbeck's accompaniment throughout was sensitive and utterly secure. The fl orid runs of the Cavalli produced particularly fine harpsichord playing, though in some of the earlier songs the limitations of the instrument meant the voice was occasionally submerged in the accompaniment. Mr. Caldbeck's command of piano technique and emotional range came out especially in the Rachmaninoff and Britten songs . 273

It was a privilege to hear such fi,:,e performances .and we regret o~ly that! though mOst the tickets were sold, the enthUSIastIC audIence was m the event relalively thm. It would her f if people returned tickets they could not use. It IS also a great PIty that none of Our POtenr ~ choral scholars had the opportunity of hearing such well-judged interpretations. la S.J.R.M. AND M.J.M.

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The choir used in this year's Serenade was itself styled 'Serenade Choir'. A happily appropriate name for al fresco singing, it can claim precedent in the ancient custom of minstrels serenading Eminent Persons from beneath the lattice should the E .P. be a lady, or the battlements if a king. Our Serenade Choir, under their conductor, Mr. Barry Rose, gave their performance in three acts, each under its own separate title. The first was headed The English Madrigal School and consisted of four masterpieces from the great Tudor composers, all cleanly sung with flex ible rhythm and shapely style. The second act was a gro up of part songs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These also were sensitively sung, though some were restricted in emotional range. The pastoral style of pieces by Stanford, Vaughan Williams and Finzi was well captured, and clear diction was an admirable feature. The darker colour of Elgar's Brief dreams once broken was not, however, matched by any corresponding intensity of tone, and the bluff cynicism of Moeran's irrepressible Sailor was refined away to something like polite deceit. Their third act was called Something Different. And indeed it was so. The Chamber Orchestra gave, under Col. Paul Neville, Respighi's Suite of Airs and ancient Dances, and a first airing of Benjamin Finn 's Sea Nocturne for solo bassoon and small orchestra, with Jonathan Finn as soloist. Later in the programme Mr. David Goodes conducted the Capriol Suite and Delius's First Cuckoo. The Respighi was beautifully shaped, with the strings giving refined tone and elegant phrasing. Sea Nocturne is constructed on a series of nine notes from George Crumb a contemporary American composer. From this sparse material Benjamin Finn has drawn evocative melodic wisps and harmonic touches that were interesting in a decorative way, though no purposeful harmonic progression disclosed itself on one hearing. The scoring is imaginati ve, and the piece successfully sustains its quiet mood without ever losing vitality. For some reason I found the beginning rather puzzling. Perhaps the slender opening needed a concert hall' s acoustic. Capriol was disappointing, being uncertain in style and restricted in expressive persuasion. Delius's incomparable idyll wanted nuance and 'line', but Mr. David Goodes kept the piece from wandering with his steady tempo. There were two items of chamber music, both excellent. Requiem by David Popper, for three cellos and piano proved a charming piece, though it~ final cadence was an ~nconsciona,?le time a-dying. It was persuasively played by Taner.a Dawkms, AIlsa I:\uchan, Chnstopher WhIte, and Elizabeth Robinson. Three Bagatelles for wmd qumtet by Gyorgy Llgetl were great fun . They were discharged with panache by Alexander Sturt, Deborah Aldridge, Caractacus Downes, Benjamin Finn and Jonathan Finn. The concert ran for two hours (take four minutes). This is long enough for an indoor programme with an interval. Out of doors, a chilly night, and no interval made it rather tiring for the less hardy among the large audience. Last year's Serenade had seemed about right at one hour and a quarter. D.L. 274

THE JAZZ CONCERT e most remarkable thing about the Jazz Concert was the admirable manner in which arising

T~ems were handled: these started with a blackout, which was quickly dealt with . The Concert

pro ned to a packed house with the Traditional Group, who started with South Rampart Street rode and followed with Sensation, dedicated to Mr. Brodie. Satanic Blues featured skilful ~~s by Andrew Bush and Alastair Craik. so The Traditional Group were joined by Elaine Oliver to form the Combo. She provided one the many good .s?los in Work Song, with Andrew Fordham emphasising the strong beat on ~fs bass-guitar. Phlhppe Lacamp showedus how a snare drum should be played m At Sundown : Jeremy Avis treated us to a vocal solo m the same pIece. The Barbershop Quartet (Andrew Fordham, Jeremy Avis, Chris White, and Andrew Bush) ere greeted with rapturous welcome, and began with Me and My Shado w, dedicated to any ~hizophrenics in the audience. Saloon was described as 'close to our own hearts' and Yes, Sir, hac's My Baby was played for midwives. The Quartet brought many la ughs for the marvellous mimicry during their songs, and sang a well-deserved encore, The Animals. The Traditional Group completed the first half of the performance with Clarinet Marmalade, Doctor Jazz, and After You've Gone, dedicated to Canon Pilkington and featuring a trumpet solo by Jimmy Gumpert. The Big Band resumed the concert at a lively tempo. Magnus Montgomery decided to decorate his trombone with a Union Jack, and Anthony Gillespie-Smith displayed a very good reason for not letting two people work on separate halves of a waistcoat! Andre,ÂĽ Fordham's amplifier suffered a blown fuse which delayed Ain't Misbehavin for ten minutes. Jeremy Avis fi lled in with a joke concerning a bus conductor convicted of murder, who didn't die when sentenced 10 death by the electric chair because he was a bad conductor: the fashion in which he told it amply made up for anyt hing the j oke lacked . The Traditional Band provided the finale, with popular items such as Blue Clarinet and Black and White Rag. Credit must go to the Jazz Club for the confident way in which the concert was performed, in particular to James Lawrence, who played out to the audience clearly. Despite the early hiccup, the lighting crew (Tim Bainbridge, Chris Tothill , and Giles Bird) did a remarkable job in wiring the lights in a short space of time. J AMES SHARP.

ORGAN RECITAL BY ALEXANDER STURT IN THE UPPER CHAPEL OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S This was the inaugural recital on the Organ which, hi therto, has been in the Crypt of the Cat hedral. Two additional stops, one a mixture and the other an 8' trumpet, have been added during the removal. The acoustics of the Chapel are somewhat unkind to any performer. Gone are the multitudinous echoes which one associates with organ music, and with them have gone the opportunity for the recitalist to mask any imperfections in timing and technique; Mr. Stur! must be congratulated on presenting such a demanding programme in such conditions. The recital began with Gigout' s Toccata in B minor. The fl orid opening section must have revealed to many in the audience notes that they had never heard before (but which are, I hasten to add, in the score!), such is the clarity of the sound in the Chapel. There was a slight unevenness In the note values, and I have no doub t that, anywhere else, this would hardly have been no ticed. The next item was Bach's Great Prelude and Fugue in G. Mr. Sturt started just a shade too qUIckly, and had to slow down a little at the first pedal entry; this is a common fault among 275

organists; it is unlikely that Bach himself would have played his organ music as fast as We pI It today - the cumbersome tracker actIOn of hIS day, and the nat pedalboard with relativ ay short pedals would not have allowed him to play quickly, despite contemporary Sources asserlily that 'his feet new over the pedals'. In the[orte sections of the fugue, there seemed to be a rathng harsh 'edge' to the tone - whether this was due to the tuning not being quite perfected in th r race to get the organ assembled before the recital, or whether it was the new mixture sto e cannot be sure. Like so many modern organists, Mr. Stur! changed the registration at the ~~J of the Fugue to provide the seemingly obligatory climax. Flor Peeters' Aria followed. A very slow piece, this Flemish offshoot of the modern French Organ School is nevertheless exceedingly difficult to play convincingly, and this is especially so when one has no echo to help one, and Mr. Sturl's timing was not altogether quite as precise as one might have wished. This was followed by Mendelssohn's Sonata in A majo/'. I have often felt that Mendelssohn ought never to have written anything for the organ, and my feelings were unchanged after listening to this piece. In the first movement, the opening section and the beginning of the fugue were well played, but some unsteadiness crept in during the free development of the fugue, whilst in the accelerando which leads into the finale of the first movement, Mr. Sturt rather lost control of the pace, letting the music run away somewhat until checked by the pedal solo passage which leads into the finale. The second (and last) movement was well played, and despite my reservations about Mendelssohn's ability to write for the organ, was one of the most nicely executed pieces in the recital. To end with, Mr. Sturt played the last movement from Widor's 5th Organ Symphony in F minor - the well-known Toccata in F major. This now ranks with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as one of the most popular (and hackneyed) pieces of Organ Music. Nevertheless, it is something of a tour de force for the performer with its never-ending arpeggios, mainly in the right hand, but occasionally in the left, each commencing with two staccato notes (I wonder how many organists really do play them staccato?) played with the fifth and fourth fingers. Mr. Sturt seemed quite at home with this piece, and, again, some in the audience must have heard notes in the pedal part of which they were previously unaware. The clarity afforded by the lack of echo was tremendously revealing, but there was also, right at the end, another effect which is attributable to the echo and reverberation one normally gets with organ music, namely, that a large sustained chord does not grow in volume in St. Augustine's Chapel. So, Widor's Toccata simply came to an end instead of building to a great climax. It all seemed so strange. R.V.J.B.

THE FIRST SYMPHONY CONCERT The first of the two Symphony Concerts held in the Shirley Hall during King's Week had a varied programme. The rarely-heard Cimarosa Overture The Impresario opened the evening, conducted by Mr. David Goodes. This was a careful and rather weighty performance. Perhaps a smaller number of players would enhance the clarity of the piece. Alan Ridout's skilfully-written Concertino for Bassoon and Strings was played by Jonathan Finn and again conducted by Mr. David Goodes. Mr. Finn needed to project his sound further in the first movement, but certainly in the beautiful Adagio espressivo he was well-balanced with the ensemble and his long phrases were eloquent. Clarence Myerscough starred in Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto, conducted by Col. Paul Neville. This was a performance remarkable for its depth of musicianship and clarity of style. Maestro Myerscough is uncommonly able to elevate works other violinists often treat perfunctorily. If he didn't erupt with quite the degree of gipsy abandon I was expecting in the Finale, I was nevertheless amazed at the splendour of his spiccato bowing and his ravishing sounds throughout the performance. 276

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B ahms' Fourth Symphony occupied the second half of this concert. My thoughts strayed r ear's Orchestral Concert and the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, the performance of last tO h found all these players brilliantly at one with Shostakovich's searing emotional intensity. h 'II I~aps Brahms' peculiarly sombre emotions inhibit young players? Col. Paul Neville's spacious pert produced the most cohesive playing in the slow movement, full of finely-spun phrases be3ticularly from the woodwinds, and a hushed intensity of sound.

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CONCERT OF LIGHT MUSIC The King's School Band, conducted by Col. Paul Neville, came smartly on parade with a ausing march, Days of Glory, by Cacavas. (Smartly, that is, except for the tuba, which could ~ave done with a large dose of silvo and elbow grease; see you at Defaulters, Bandsman Scott.) During the next item, an arrangement of pieces from Purcell's King Arthur, the strength of this year's percussion section becar:te apparent, the kettledrums giving the band a confident backing through thIS dlgmfled mUSIC. This was followed by a selection from La Boutique Fantasque, Rossini's music arranged by Respighi. The Band contrived to make these subtle and demanding confetti flow with deceptive ease, and the arrangement permitted some pleasing solo passages. Some more solo items followed, the first for trombone, played by James Lawrence. This was The Shadow of Your Smile, by Johnny Mandel, the dreamy theme from The Sandpiper and just the thing for a hot, lazy afternoon. The next soloist was John Tegner with his piccolo. The piece was Silver Wings and the soloist showed skilful control not only of fingers, but also of lungs. Now came the first performance of a brand new march by Mr. William McConnell called The Colonel. This was a bit of an enigma as we were left wondering which colonel was alluded to. Not Bogey (we did him last year), nor Qadhafi, I think. That leaves Neville. Last year I suggested the Band playa piece composed by Colonel Neville; a piece composed for him made a most acceptable alternative. We now move on to the xylophone spot. This is always popular and this year it was the only item for which an encore was successfully requested. The soloist was Tim Watson and the piece was On the Track by Jack Simpson (of course). Last year the piece was Track Three and next year perhaps it will be On Another Track (all J. Simpson) . Or perhaps 1986 would be a good year in which to commission astronomer-xylophonist Patrick Moore to write a piece commemorating Halley's Comet. The performance was as enjoyable as it was polished and was most enthusiastically received . Tim Watson's skill remained with us for the final item, Sibelius's Finlandia, for Tim's timps formed a powerful continuo for this ever-pleasing composition. The only thing we wanted after that was an encore. Colonel Neville's return to the rostrum was greeted with a hopeful hush - alas we only got a bow! H.H.

CHAMBER CONCERT Amidst all the formality and hours of rehearsing for the main concerts it was both refreshing and remarkable to have this fringe concert put together and performed purely on the initiative of pupils - most notably Elizabeth Robinson. It took place after lunch in the Old Synagogue on Tuesday, 15th July. 277

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It began with the popular Song and Foxtrot from Walton's Facade played on the pian Kristian Belliere and Elizabeth Robinson. Their playing was accurate, together and well-bala~~ with clear lines. There was perhaps a need for more use of pedal, greater dynamic range a more rhythmic freedom. Another time they might also consider including the Sitwell wor3d s. Jeremy Cooper, Damian Simpson, Martin Ie Huray, James Lawrence and Christopher Watso then performed the Allegro Moderato from Ewald 's Brass Quin tet Op. 7. After a tentative sta nt with a little rhythmic in~ecurity they so,?n .warmed up to produce a good ri~h ton~ (especialf in the louder passages) mce dynamic vanatlOn and secure mtonatlOn. The Iync quahty was we~ brought out except in the more complex passages where the lines could sometimes become lost. Kate Hamilton and Elizabeth Robinson followed this with four Jazz pieces for violin and piano The fir~t two (Hello Dolly and Sm,!ke gets . m your eyes) were a httle more convincing tha~ Tangerme and That certamjeelmg, With a spmted and accurate performance. The accompaniment was con fident and rhythmical, and the violin tone was warm. They could have afforded perhaps to enjoy themselves more and pull the music around a little. Messiaen's Louange aI'Eternitlf de Jesus was a very brave choice for Tanera Dawkins ('cello) and Kristian Belliere (piano). The extreme te~hnical diffic!"lty of playing at s uch a slow tempo was generally coped With well. T he 'cello playmg was beautlfully sustamed, with tasteful vibrato though there were occasional problems with the start and end of long notes, particularly in th; final diminuendo. The build-up in intentionally harsh 'cello tone in the high register and percussive piano to a sudden anti-climax was especially well-judged. In the Allegro con fuoco from Arnold 's Piano Trio (Op. 54) Kate Hamilton (violin) and Ailsa Buchan ('cello) with Elizabeth Robinson again the dependable pianist played with precision and a good sense of ensemble, bringing out the contrasts in mood and texture, though more could have been made of the menacing aspects of the work . Finally, a small choir led by Mr. David Flood in his last Kin\l's Week, performed two very challenging Christopher Robinson arrangements of Gershwm. With such a complex texture, and largely one singer to a part, the accompanying voices tended to overwhelm the melody. Pitching was good, but the melodic line not secure enough in Summertime. Nothing seemed to matter had a greater sense of style and confidence. All the performers are to be congratulated on finding the time and energy to put on such an adventurous and enjoyable programme of 20th century music. We trust there will a similar fringe event next year. S. J.R.M. AND M.J.M.

ORGAN RECITAL BY DAVID FLOOD ON THE ORGAN OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL T he first item in David Flood's King's Week recital was Gigout's Grand Choeur Dialogue. Pieces of this sort have been very popular with French organ composers, mainly, I believe, because of the wonderful pungent to nal qualities of authentic French Reed stops . David Flood perhaps played a little to~ jortissimo, but it at least obliterated the noise of the tourists which s~e~s to get worse with every recital that takes place; perhaps a solutIOn would be to hold the Kmg s Week recitals in the evening. Gigout's dialogue degenerates into something of a rabble towards the end of the middle section, but it has a splendidjinale in which Mr. Flood really let the organ shout at the top of its voice. Schumann's Three Sketches, each of which consists of three movements in sonata form , followed . Had they been written for piano rather than organ, they would ~oubtless be clas~ed as drawing-room pieces, and it was a great pity that so much of Mr. Flood s. dehcate, senSitIVe playing was drowned by the noise of the great waves of perambulant tounsts. 278

s a complete contrast, Eben's Motto Ostinato followed. Certainly not for the drawing room, . .Aa typical twentieth century atonal piece of music with a relentless (as suggested by the title) S Itl at a-like motion at the beginning, followed by a rather haunting middle section and a IOC~vellous ending in which the whole organ gallery came to life as different departments of ~: organ were brought into use. I David Flood's recital then became severely classical, with a performance of Bach's great 1)SSocaglia and Fugue in C minor, BMV 582. After the theme of the Passacaglia has been stated /1 the pedal, there are twenty variations thereon, followed by the Fugue . Mr. Flood momentarily In 'ped up at the entry to the tenth variation, but this was more than compensated for by the I~iadiness of the tempo throughout the twelfth and thirteenth variations, where it is so easy let the organ run away with one, and the beautifully precise playing of the fourteenth and fifteenth variations - how splendid these two variations would have sounded on an authentic Norlh German organ of Bach's time; no British organ builder has been able to reproduce the exquisitely pure tone of the open flue work of, say, Arp Schnitger in the seventeenth century. Mr. Flood seemed to hu rry slightly over the triplets in the seventeenth variation, and the pace also seemed to quicken slightly in the twentieth and final variation before thejugue. The latter was played, like the Passacaglia, with precision, but I do wis h that Mr. Flood hadn't changed Ihe registration for the final section of the Fugue; Bach almost certainly wouldn't have been able to do so. By way of contrast, and by way of a tribute on the Centenary of his birth, Mr. Flood then played Dupre's Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Op. 7. The prelude consists of a continuous loccata-style movement in the manuals played over a pedal part of increasing complexity, sustaining as many as four parts towards the end. Mr. Flood played with great precision and sensitivity, although much of the opening of the almost gossamer-like toccata was unfortunately spoilt by the background noise. The Fugue, with its very angular rhythm was well controlled and the parts were beautifully clear. The development of the Fugue leads to a brilliant climax, Ihe minor key resolving in a Tierce de Picardie into G. major on the last chord. 0 that we could have heard this piece played on a classical nineteenth century French Organ, but there is only one in Britain, by Aristide Cavaille-Coll, in Manchester. Back, now, to Bach, and his Chorale Prelude 0 Mensch bewein dein Sunde Gross, BWV 622 from his collection o f pieces for the Orgelbuchlein . A suitably reflective and melancholy performance of this very touching Chorale Prelude, with beautifully executed ornaments by Mr. Flood brought us to his swan-song. Again, a change of style, composer and country: Mulet and his Toccata Tu es Petra, et portae injerni non prevalebunt adversus teo A brilliant piece with which to finish, another flori d toccata in the manuals ovel a pedal part, but played jj rather than the pp of Dupre's Prelude. T he noise of the tourists was swamped, and so, no doubt, were Ihe gates of hell. One was left elated at having heard a brilliantly-executed recital, and, at the same time, very much saddened at the thought that Lincoln 's great fortune in having David Flood as their next Organist and Master of the Music is very much Canterbury's and The King's School's great loss . We wish him well, and if we can't all make the journey to Lincoln to hear him play, may we hope that he will appear in Canterbury from time to time, or on record! R.V.J.B.

THE SECOND SYMPHONY CONCERT The orchestra, as always, was impressive in its ass ured, disciplined playing, musically sensitive - especially in solo work - and at all times vivacious. A nota ble improvement in the heavy brass countered a surprising timidity of attack in the horns, in whom also the range of dynamics was narrow. The wood-wind were lively and well toned, elegant in solo passages, though in chorus they sometimes played above the indicated dynamics. This was also true of other sections, leading to some thickness of texture. Strings were spirited and musicianly, giving lovely tone. Violins 279

and violas, comparatively few in number, were at times hard put to it when the wind band a the timpani came in full panoply. It was good to see the players tunmg up frequently and car~d~or We all reaped the benefit of good intonation throughout the evening. u Y. The first half of the concert opened with a well controlled yet full blooded Rienzi Oven quite excellently played. There followed the first performance of Alan Ridout's Ode a shure, spirited work for full orchestra ingeniously designed to show all sections at their attra~tive ~n, Ode is, .however, m.ore than a good show piece for orchest~a. It is an irresistible festal celebralio!. of mUSIC Itself. In ii, we heard the fmest orchestral playmg of the evenmg. The main work n the first half was Liszt's Piano Concerto in E flat, brilliantly played by Ronald Smith, meticulous~r accompanied by the alert and confident orchestra. Pianists possessing very strong technique caYn infuse this work with powerful temperamental impulse. That is just what Ronald Smith did making no concessions to the amateur status of the orchestra. Under a less experienced conduCIO' that could have been dangerous. But Col. Paul Neville's instant comprehension was equall~ Mr. Smith at his most audacious, and the orchestra was admirably alert to their conduClor's direction. Ronald Smith's reading was strong yet shot through with delicacy; it was also an exhibition of outstanding bravura, and was accorded an ovation. The symphony was the Fourth of Brahms. Few, if any, young players can be expecled 10 penetrate to the heart of Brahms at his most profound. Something more than exceptional skill is required. The fourth symphony calls for a musical wisdom that, for most musicians, has 10 be gained through maturity, precocious insight being denied to all but a select few. Giulini has said: 'At a given moment (in performance) what we hear is the line that leads the composition. BUI this is the physiognomy of a face - the nose, the mouth, the eyes . But what is inside this, Ihe inlerior body wilh the bones and the nerves and the blood - this is something that in Brahms perhaps more than in other composers, needs to be absolutely a part of the physiognomy of the line.' Giulini's idiomatic declaration is comprehended in the musical wisdom mentioned above. But where shall such wisdom be found? The School Orchestra is rich in talent, but, of course, light in years. They may batter the gates of Heaven with Shostakovitch more surely than they can as yet search the depths of Brahms. They coped very capably with the technical problems of the fourth symphony, and their sustained concentration over its long span was wholly admirable. Col. Paul Neville secured from them a thoroughly sound and straightforward account of the score. His authoritative control prevenled any self indulgence, and he held the main lines of the work always clearly in view. This was an outstanding concert of which the School may be proud. D.L.

HOT ICE IN CONCERT Fifteen minutes before they were due to go on stage, Hot Ice had drawn quite a sizeable crowd of people into the Shirley Hall of all ages: mostly the younger members of the school, but I also noticed more 6th formers and masters than I had anticipated and (of course) a handful of proud-looking parents, who had rolled up for the occasion. The stage was impressively littered with numerous amplifiers and microphones. To the left stood the drum-kit (elevated 'on high') and to the right, a couple of keyboards together with the grand piano. And when they finally arrived, Hot Ice seemed to fit the set quite neatly, although one wondered (as one does!) whether Spencer Santry (Bass Guitar) was actually in the same band, since visually he was rather detached! Anyway, well done to him on his opening notes to set off the band's first number, House of the Rising Sun. Although only an instrumental version, I think Hot Ice were safe to kick off with this one since everybody knew it (or. .. well should have!) and il gave each member of the band the chance to get warmed up. However it was the second song, Living on an Island, expertly sung by both Lizzy Carlisle and Libby Robinson, that really ScI the concert into full swing. Likewise Holding out for a Hero, which hotly pursued, also wenl 280

ery well. These two numbers also featured some masterly trumpet playing by Simon Dobell :::rE~ward Jones-Thomas, with a little help from their friend John Tegner on Flute and Piccolo. e keyboard solo Axel F was extremely impressive and showed Dave Everist's gift in being ThlO rattle off any tune without the slightest difficulty whatsoever - although I reckon he .bl~d do this old favourite in his sleep, backwards whilst balancing on his head and still manage cO~ ok so impartial! On the other hlmd Julian Moore (Drums) was full of his usual bounce 10 Â°betWeen the two of them they managed to keep the show going . I think as the nuclei of dband, these two should try and expa~dtheir repertoire and maybe write some of their own I :Ierial _ since they both seem to exhibit great talent. rn Another thing which struck me was that, as a band, Hot Ice were visually rather static and Iso didn't seem to be enjoying what they were so aptly playing. T his is a shame since no matter ~ow good the sound is, generally speaking it is the visual aspect of a show that creates a lasting 'rnpression on the audience ... so smile lads! However, having said this, both guitarists (Hugh Hawkins and James Waddell) managed very well, the latter playing an excellent solo in Rocking 0/1 over the World. This last number was a great crowd pleaser, with the audience managing 10 join in on the chorus lines and everyone having a good time. II was obvious that a lot of hard work had been put into making the concert the success it was and Hot Ice definitely deserved their two encores. It only remains for me to say, 'Well done and keep up the good work - I'm a fan!'

ANDREW FORDHAM.

KING'S WEEK MANAGEMENT This year the box-office saw the triumphant return of three of last year's gallant heroes: Anna Kealinge organised her young men on the programmes with commendable authority, Bruce Nash somehow managed to balance the books each evening (rumours of a new Porsche are severe over-estimations) and the girl who could sell a snooker table to a Himalayan Sherpa even made a rew ap-PIA-rances. The team was bigger than ever before. 6a Liz Robertson gave just the sort of reliable service thaI was needed and the rest of the beauty came from the 6b quartet of Silin Beaugie, Emma Durham, Liz Ibbott and Nicola Shaw. The brawn (of a chair-numbering, financial and vocal nature) was provided by Martin Stewart, Kyle Pattinson and Chun-Ye Pong while the brains were left to Toby Widdowson who shrugged off insults and .death-threats to produce his famous plans which kept everything ticking. Enough of the compliments - things did actually happen during King's Week. The Song Recital was excellent, but sadly poorly attended. The rains came for the opening night of Nicholas Nickleby, but the players bravely played on. This was all too much for one of the trees overlooking Ihe action which split in half at one of the more dramatic moments - nearly taking the strawberry sellers with it. Friday's Serenade was the longest ever and attracted a very large audience . The Jazz Concert had moments of nightmare. There seemed at one time to be 30 more tickets than seats and a member of the office (who wishes to remain anonymous) entertained the audience by disconnecting the power supply to the lights at the beginning. By Sunday Toby was running into form and things worked smoothly. The ushers at the Symphony Concerts all 'ushed' with great proficiency. One of them even managed to kick a light outside the Shirley Hall back to life. Fresh from this success we tried our hand at creating a new band of 'trouble shooters' to lidy up litter. Dom Vye, Ian Brown and Chris Barron filled the breach and went on strike within ~n hour of their appointment, demanding equal rights and higher wages. What they got is lost m obscurity, but the litter continued to disappear and they even helped with the ushering when required, which was appreciated. 28t

Meanwhile, the commandos had perfected the art of dismantling scaffolding seating in S Mary's Hall, transporting it to the Nicholas Nickleby set, and re-erecting it in a record tOt~ time of 12 minutes, 57 seconds. And then, suddenly, it was all over. All that was left were memories of green carnation stacks of free strawberries after each event (and the ÂŁ250 profit made by the boys selling them)' long afternoons thinking up new insults for any member of the box-office not present lette ' of tha nks (Kyle did especially well in this department) and many complaints from the ind~ strio~ commandos about their disappearing cans of Coke. We may even be in the black. BRUCE NASH.

KING'S WEEK EXHIBITIONS The only time that I was able to find this King's Week to go around the Exhi bitions in Blackfriars'

Arts Centre was between 10.00 p.m . and 1.00 a.m . on the last night of King's Week, after the Symphony Co ncert. I am very grate ful to Mr. Oliver Trowell for not on ly opening up for me at that unearthly hour but even giving me the immense benefit of his conducted tour of the Art Exhibition while I took the copiou~ notes that are the indispensible basis on which this particular column is always founded. He also very kindly opened up for me early the next morning, befor e Speech Day festivities commenced, in order to enable me to comp lete the job. Art Ex hibition A major feature of the Art Exh ibition was a series of 35 circular 'po rt-hole ' views of pupils' environments in their Houses. Preparation drawings for these were also on display by E. R. H . Jones-Thomas, R .. J. Redfern, R . A . Hellings, D. C. T .. Hamilton, Marti." (I am not sure which one!), K. W. Yeoh, Clare WIlson, P . J. W. Woodward, J. A. Eddlson, M. W. A. Kiely, N. J. Palmer, J. Watkins (I have no more information!), O. D. Hogben, J. J. L. Moore, J . J. F. Stobbs and P. Kwan. Items in the finished product (Le., the 'port-hole' paintings themselves) that took my eye were M. W . A. Kiely's view of the Library, the composition of J . J. F . Stobbs (recipient of the Junior Art Prize) which had a feeling of space about it, and the excellent shadows in S. H . Yapp's study . I also liked J. A. Eddison's view of the Old Library in School House, M . A . Ayida' s composition of the Junior Hall in M.O., with E. Cargill and (though it was unfinished) N. D. Lawrence's view of a Luxmoore dormitory. O. Pugh's study was a very good try at its subject, with a sloping ceilin g. Alexandra Cochrane's composition had been very faithfu lly pain ted and, according to Mr. Trowell, very frequently worked on and attended to. Almost finished also was Rosemary Hardwick' s painting of E . T. J. Widdowson's room in Tradescam,

based on a drawing by S. G. E. Triggs. A room which I a m assured is called 'the Zoo' in School House was the subject of a composition started by M. P. O'Sullivan and developed by Lucy Amos (until, Mr. Trowell informed me, 9 o 'clock that morning!). The Zoo was also a subject for P. Kwan, who made a very good job of the open-doored wardrobe, ass isted by Blythe Levett. This used a strong 'impasto' of emulsion paint. The Old Library o f School House featured in compositions by R. A. Hellings, with a view of the Shirley Hall, painted by G. A. Bones (window part), and in a study by J . E. D. Knight, notab le for its very convincing 'billowing' bed clothes. G . Hogben had a view of the Cathedral in this section , though some tonal contrast was still needed to complete it. All work on this item was done during King's Week by volunteer labour. R . N. P . Puplett, M. D. W. Bowker, Blythe Levett, Lucy Amos, A lexandra Cochrane, P. Kwan, M. A. BilIot, Burdess (I have no initials

available), E. M. Pentin, J. E. D. Knight, M. W. A. Kiely, J . Yap, S. Saba and J . A. Eddison, were the main such people involved , and I talked to Roger Puplett who was working on his composition when I made a brief visit to Black friars during 'office hours' earlier in King's Week . Other items in this display tha t I enjoyed were E. R . H. Jones -Thomas' view of Lattergate/Mint Yard, with its nice, vivid colours, D. P. C. Burdess' view of Seneschal dormitory in Lattergate, with its diagonal bedspread . D. J . Rycroft (one of the latest recruits to the Ja zz 'Big Band') showed that trombone playing is not his only skill by the inclusion of a very conscientious drawing in his contribution to the 'port-hole' display. I especially lik ed a nother musician's contribution - M. D. W . Bowker's study of Mitchinson's Games Room, wh ich

showed very skilful gradation of the walls, from light to dark. N. J. Palmer's abstract design of a study had a very pleasing colou r balance of cool greys and lighter hues. It also featured the inevitab le 'Sony' audio equipment. Mr. Trowell and I rema rked on the fr equency and the loving detail of identifia ble (usually Sony or Panasonic) audio equipment evident in these co mpositions of boys ' studies. It is qui te clear that these a re what most members of School consider to be their most important items of 'furniture'. L. Low

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W. Martin's composition showing a desk with a poster reading 'I 'd give my right a rm to be and .~. xt rOUS' caused some amusement. Some other parts of the 'port-hole' collection were not quite finished, arn bl e R. Brett'S Lat~ergate ~ink dormitory, .and the contribution of Julia Warrend~r (prompter in the e.g' !j with its very mce drawmg . Other drawmgs were by Blythe Levett a nd Cla re Wilson . Blythe Levett plaYÂˇ '~en much gent le encouragement to several Lattergate boys (she bei ng a Lattergate Monitor), in has ~Iular helping with C. Y. Pong's view of Lattergate Garden dormitory. A number of these 'port-hole' par~ lc s are to be ex hibited , at the 'Home Sweet Home' Exhibit ion for Canterbury Schools, at the Urban deslSn Studies Centre. The next part of the Art Exhibit ion was a large display of three-dimensiona l form in cylindrical and rieal shapes, in which the parts that light can reach are heightened, a nd the parts that it ca nnot reach sph~haded. This was a first-year collective effort. A very fascinating aspect of this most att ractive montage are a whole panel of appealing faces, and, next to it, a similar display of extremely ugly, monkey-like wa~s The object of this exercise was to see how, by gradually changing proport ions, beauty could be ra:ns form ed into ugliness. The idea was 10 demonstrate that the relationsh ip of q uan tities has much to ~o with what th e human brain interprets in an aesthetic sense. This was one of the most interest ing and enjoyable parts of the Exhibition. We then moved on to some water-colou rs, done by individuals . P. Dorling's dam caught the eye, a nd I articularly li ked M. W . A. Kie ly' s derelict building. T his was an extremely se nsitive study, with very m~liculOUS detail everywhere, i~cluding blooming wysteria, pu~hing on regardless o n this decaying house. Very striking also was Clare Wilson 's study of a cast le on an Isla nd , based o n Loch Leven Castle where Mary Queen of Scots was con fin ed - though it was not a literal basis. Not a wa ter-colo ur , but done with oil palate, was R. Preston's Desolate Place, with distant hills set back amidst clouds. I also very much enjoyed T. Lee's A Gap in .'~e Felice - a kind of 'Spandau' theme, with depressing, dead vegetation, which evolved as a compOSItion over the course of the term . In the Figures section, Sybilla Martin's chalk study of Julien Foster was the first to catch my eye, followed by Martina Fowler's stud y of Mr. Trowell himself, with its strong tonal contrast and effect of solidity. O. B. T. was also the subject for a nice st udy by P. J . Do rling. Other portraits in this sect ion were by Marie-Francoise Woodward (of, we think, her sister) , a nd a portrait of Richard Preston by Eli zabeth Robinson (done in her own time, as a non-corps production). Sa rah Carli sle and S. Saba featured in the Life Drawing sect ion, which included a nude study - drawn from a real model, a student at the College of Arl. A panel that I was very impressed by in thi s Exhibition was the one on natural forms - the purpose of which is 'to analyse the structure of one, single object rather than to describe the relationship between a number of objects.' In this, I particularly li ked the constructed fo rms of Tessa Charleswo rth (a leaf, and tulips in different forms of explos ion), Sara Bee's piece of wood and two very se nsitive composit ions from Blythe Levett and T . St.J. White. Sarah Carl isle 's potted plant, done during the holidays, was also a very careful, observant study, as was the very soft-textured tulip petal, sk il fu lly effected by S.-H. Yap. Very pleasant botanical themes were also executed by J. M. Elam and b ucy Amos. One of the most impress ive pieces on this extremely high-quality panel was a study of very golden, metalli c apples and shell s by A . A. Walker. M. W. A. Kiely also had a n 'apple' st udy, in white pastel and brown conte-c rayon. I a lso ve ry much liked the exh ibits of S. Hart (tongue-leaves, with very convinc ing crinkles), S. J . Grimes, Julia Warrender, J. J . Rawlinson (petals) and Eloise Webb's colour compos ition of, once again , tulips. On another panel of equa lly high standard were ex hibits of mechanical objects of constant form. I lik ed the solid, three-dimensional sadd les of Sara Bee and Marie-Francoise Woodward, the moped hand les of J. M. Elam, M . W. A. Kiely's ve ry three-dimensional saddle, with impress ive shadows in the project ing part of the trestle. Just about my favourite items in this sectio n were Marie-Francoise Woodward's very three-dimensional p lug - you almost felt you could pick it up - B. M. A. Wrench's vivid shoes a nd S.-H. Yap's incred ibly delicately rendered straw-hat matting (which, he told me, took six hours). Also impressive (as were most things) in this display were Rosemary Hardwick's saddle, which had good texture, Tara de Linde's bit (with very accura te observation of the way in which parts of it fit into holes), Clare Wilson's composition of an old shoe of considera ble character , S. Saba's pestle and mortar, A. A. Walker's very li fe-lik e kettle, Blythe Levett's box with mirror, ex hibiting very nice drapery. Sarah Carlisle showed very skilful use of crayons in depicting a coiling bandage, and there were also eye-catching contribution s 10 the still-life section from Lucy Amos, Tessa Charlesworth, and M. W. A. Kiely, who showed very sensitive modelling. The 'crown' sym bol which, Festival-of-B ritain-lik e, surmounted the Ki ng's Week signs, and was part of the King's Week ' logo' on progra mmes, was a subj ect for Lucinda Roberts and of a n original and ingenious view of the crown in perspective, with fine drapery aro und it, by S. J . Grimes . J. Watkins had a very co mplex still li fe of high standard , and there were also exhi bits from Eloise Webb and the Junio r Prize Winner J . J . F. Stobbs (pestle and mortar subject again) .

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The next panel was, in a different way, equally striking, consisting of copies of Old Masters. These included Marie-Francoise Woodward (after Correggio), Sara Bee (after Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks) Jul" Warrender (after Bellini), 1. Ralph (after Carracci), Stewart (Fiona or Martin, I do not know) (aiter la early German work), S. Bushell (after Etienne leaurot), 1. 1. C. Rawl inson (after Hans Schald Beha~) O. Pugh (after G. P . Tupolo), 1. C. Watkins (drapery, after Leonardo). Not an old Master but aft' r Augustus John, was a work by M . A . Evans. There was also a nice brown contecrayon ite~ by J M Elam after Etienne Aubray which displayed a nice effect of reflected li ght by the device of leaving th' paper blank. My favourite item in this context was S. Saba's very striking copy of the Italian black_ande white work which is a self-portrait of Andrea del Sarto. This figure eyed the viewer with that weary g~ that seems to be mandatory for figures depicted on Continental bank-notes (or, even, on our Own - take a look at Her Majesty The Queen on the five-pound note!). The next panel in the Art Exhibition featured some of my favourite items. First among these was a stunning work by A. A. Walker of a sunlit glade, with an extremely effective middle distance and an almost magical fluorescence created by the use of coloured pastels. A three-dimensional depth was evoked with a most convincing lighted area caused by a coup de so/eit. Mr. Trowell illustrated for me on this picture the use of a mirror in order to obtain a fresh eye or stimulus on a composition, which is often found very valuable I also lik ed J. Watkins' study in powder paint and white emulsion of a country scene of showery weathe; at harvest time with shafts of sunlight coming through the clouds to the cornfield in the middle distance The dog and sheep featuring in the composition were inspired by Constable, and other parts on this very rural scene (on which, Mr. Trowell informed me, J. Watkins had spent 'no end of trouble') were based on figures from Dutch 17th Century Masters (notably Jacob Ruisdael). B. Marquis Âˇexhibited a very attractive study of a cheetah in the jungle (which evoked Jungle Book very much, for me). I also liked Alexandra Cochrane's very personal vision (in a picture entirely of her own evolution) consisting of an eagle's nest in a dead tree, beyond which rages a distant thunder storm. It is a rat her apocalyptic vision with very subtle colour changes, varying from a pinkish-brown to green, on the same land masses. It was a picture that one could look at for a long time and still find of interest. Next in the Exhibition was First-Year picture-making in powder colour, with white emulsion paint. M. A. Billot had a nice study of an abandoned fishing boat, with a rising sun and a close-up of what could well be the French coast. An abandoned, crashed aircraft in the desert, engulfed by sand, was the subject of a striking piece by A. F. A. Fahm. The aircraft was of a pre-war type (which was based on an illustration in the 1935 Wonder Book of Aircraft (and the sand was inspired by a Benson and Hedges advertisement!). Equally striking was M . P . O'Sullivan's abandoned biplane on the sea-bed (with surrounding fish and - a nice, macabre touch - the skull of (presumably) the pilot). Reflection of the light was very effectively portrayed, from above the fuselage, by strip-by-strip changes from light to dark. Abandonment and desertion were also the theme of R. A. Hellings' composition of a deserted beach with white cliffs. This hung toget her very well as a design, with many plane surfaces and strong patterns made by the cliffs and the abandoned boat. Finally, this section was spendidly finished offby D . J . Rycroft's study of an ancient Greek invader (three rowing boats) at dawn, with the rising sun creating a vivid, pink sea . The Sixth-Form featured in the next section, starting with Rosemary Hardwick's black and white study of the Thames below Tower Bridge, with diminishing tone-values in the distance. Lucy Amos's composition of space around a balloon showing 'lift-off' really did, as Mr . Trowell put it, ' ... break through the twodimensional barrier of the paper', Marie-Fran~oise Woodward's Breakfast (including a depiction of Mrs. Woodward) was also notable for its nice painting of mugs, bread and butter, its overall unity and the sense of perspective of the room that it engendered. Sybilla Martin's study of very unattractive people sitting o n a bench in the Buttermarket was a remarkably observant work done with great distinction and panache. It was, I must say, done with more power than I suspect most of her peers would have been capable of and it is not surpr ising that Sybilla has a place on the Foundation Course at Camberwell College of Art. Her figures were bravely ugly, and bold, thereby making a very powerful statement. Sybilla also displayed assertive oil painting of a burly male figure seated in a garden. A very interesting and unusual topic was chosen by R. B. Cooper for his composition entitled Meeting of a Secret Society, featuring a curious collection of men, one reading a newspaper with the headline 'Jack The Ripper's Sixth Victim' with volumes in a bookcase with titles such as 'Vol. I/Vo!. II Raising The Dead'. Another figure in it had a 'Sherlock Holmes' pipe - though the period of the study was more 1920s than Victorian or Edwardian. Also in this section was Julia Warrender's Aftermath of an Earthquake depicting an Italian town, with prostrate figures based on the pumice moulds of Pompeii. The theme of abandonment was beautifully captured in Tessa Charlesworth's Abandoned, an intriguing study of a girl in a wheelchair looking out to sea, and in S. 1. Grimes's composition of a desolate, abandoned youth, seated by a dustbin in a setting of urban decay (with nice touches like concrete peeling off brick walls). 284 THE GOLDEN MASQUE OF AGAMEMNON (J.S.H.)

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h re were some im pressive pieces in the Architectural Drawing section . Examples were R. T. Preston's T Cofclutter in the vicin ity of Blackfriars, S. Saba's Ch illenden C hambers, Sarah Carlisle's very highstUdt ieW of the stairs at Blackfriars, with a clever twist in the flight , from the landing downwards, J. le"( Yns' water-colour view of the Archdeacon's House from the Shirley Hall, and hi s Chapel in the Crypt. wal~athedral was also well represented by A. J . Redman's very effective perspect ive view of the Cloisters ThJ ther excellent studies of the Cathedral that he exhibited. He has an unusually deep and genui ne interest ~ h~ Cathedral for his years, as I discovered earlier in the week when I did a fil med interview with him In r( he Archives. I also very much enjoyed O. J. F. Jackson's stuck-down montage of pen-and-ink drawings ~athedral buildings. I thought that this was a most original and effective way of presenting them. J. H Kennard had a splendid view of the Cathedral fro m the Archdeaconry with a nicely proportioned 'we ~ Finally, in the Architectural Drawing section, mention mu st be made o f Elo ise Webb's splendid ~aler~colour of a garish, red, creeper-covered cottage. At the tail-end of the Art Ex hibit ion was what was, for me, one of its most exciting surprises: it was memorable 'scraperboard' study by M. Kandawalla. It was based on a photograph o f United States soldiers ~ Vietnam carrying a United States flag on a pole, at an angle. Kandawalla had done a straight scraperboard ~~Iching' of this, and th~ n. a repe~t o f it in which the Uni.ted States flag .was repl~ced by Christ on the Cross. This was very stnkmg. ThiS scraperboard process IS a very effective tech nique, as was also well illustrated by A. J . Morgan's ex hibit.

Photography The high spots of the Photography Exhibition fo r me we re A. P. Wattenbach's studies, in both colour and monochrome, of the atmospheric Italian bordertown of Ventimiglia, and J. M. Marshall's dramatic fast-expos ure shots of School At hletics. Regarding the Wattenbach Ventimiglia compositions, with its old town feeling with tiled roofs, cobbled, narrow street s with steps - but signs of the 20th century also in the form of Fiats, B.A .S.F. and Coca-Cola signs - as well as the inevitable elderly women and small children, it brough t Italy to life so vividly that 1 heartily agreed with Dr. Humberstone who , on view ing (he pictures, said, ' I wish 1 could be transported there, instantly!' The Jonathan Marshall sports studies depicted fascinating and superb insights into the athletic prowess of Chris White (long jump and hurdle), Eddie Mbu (looking quite formidable with a discus), Matthias Kostering Uumping), Hugo Barton (shot) , Jeremy Gordon (an excellent high-jump study) and J. J . Rawli nson (in dark glasses, virtua lly willing himself over the bar in a high jump) . R. D . Ainsworth had some high-definition monochromes of the Cathedral , and of the interview that Mr. David Dimbleby of the B.B .C. did with Lord Scarman for the Panorama programme in the Societies ' Room some time ago. In addition to his at hletics compositions, J. Marshall exhibited a nice view of the E iffel Tower in his adopted home-town, ot her scenes of Paris, a study of a man with children, tyres and lakes and mountain s. I also liked his composition of railway lines, and a Victorian-style, posed , study of certain Members of Walpole. Anthony Wattenbach also exhibited so me sk i-scenes and some country views, a composition featurin g what appeared to be yaks, and one of a fil m Cfew near a lake. Rupert Ainsworth also had views of the Vimy Ridge Memorial and an alpine scene of what looked like Mt. Bla nc. Certain photographs were eitb er un attributed, or it was not absolutely clear whose 'area' of the board they belonged to. These included studies of a steam train, snow-covered junk by a railway line and close ups of a dog, and girl. A would-be co ntributor who did not actually ex hibi t was B. R. H . Davies who, however, gave me sight of his photographs before he left. These comprised a view of what looked like the Holy Land but what is, I presume, his adopted home of Cyprus, spectacular views of piles of dumped, abandoned chairs, a close-up of a Robertson' s Marmalade jar (excellent focus and definition on this) and (my favour ite) a splendid autumnal view of Bell Harry Tower, look ing up at it from the South entrance to the Cathedral , with the (leafless) tree in front of it in the fo reground . Woodwork The Woodwork Exhibition was a little smaller than in previous years, but no less impressive, or less humbling, for that. One of the nicest items was by the youngest contributor - a fine octagonal, table, with shelf, from the mu sicall y very talented D. J. C. Everist (aged 13). I also very much liked E. R. S. Floydd's semi -circular table, Eloise Webb 's letter rack and J. R. Greggio's superbly fashioned elm bowl, which was very smooth and aesthetically rounded. Other fine items were R. N. P. Pupiett's splendid record cabinet, of quite complicated design, with door, and J. R. Bri scall's horse-head shaped wall-plaque design bearing a silver-clad horse-shoe. Chess tables were again popular, a nd there were some fine examples. My favourite was D. P. Morris' elegant, oval chess-table with very satisfying stem, base and legs. Q. Warner-Smith had an oblong chess-table with straight legs. A chessboard was by H . L. Hawkins; ot her (non-chess) tables were by J. P. Gooderham and S. Tester while C. Pope had an impressive circular table. J. S. O'Mahony exhibited a fin e bed-s ide cabinet. Shelves - either of the wa ll or dor m-desk-top Iypc - were shown by E. J . Betham, T. Locking, and A. M . Curiewis. Finally, P. C. Rogerson (again only 13) had a very creditable trinket-box on show.

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Pottery Unlik e in past years, Mr. Geoffrey Whiting has this ye~r ,h,ad only three sixt h.for . his group. and two of these have never done pottery before. The ExhibItion was, therefore do ~ers In

by Shell groups, alt hough the largest pot on show, by N. W. Reid, and made by the Coiling tec~,"at«l nlqUe, Mr. Whiting has also told me that, for consistency. kee nness and continued application siz contri but io ns have been made this year by E. C. George and N . J. H. StUft. (So, Pottery se~ms ~able something of a Tradescant preserve at the moment!) Edward George had an impressive, large jar On di °lbe as well ~s a ~asci~ating, th ree-~imensional countr,Y sce~e. coil jugs, ,and an urn ~ith a ,lid . Julian ~Uay had a dish wit h ltd, a small cOl i pot, and several Jars, Jugs, and a nice, symmetncal COli jug as wen " a most amusing penguin fi gure, very much in the 'Sturl-esque' mould of humour! 1. Martin' had a r. as coil jar on exhi biti on, P. J. W. Woodward an aesthet ically shaped coil pot, his sister 'Fafa' a large ulne a jar with a lid, a small bowl and a cup. A. Carr-Taylor showed a very aesthetic small bowl plus /n, A. G. West displayed a bowl, and J. M. Elam a nice, large, coil jug. I particularly liked E. 1. BeerbOh~' jar with a relief design on it, and S. S.aba's ~ 7xago n a.1 dis~. L~rge ~oil pots :-vere disp~ayed by S. Sab! and by A.-E. O. Ogedegbe, who had , In addItIon, a dIS h wit h lid. Finally, I hked the little figures ofT D. McK. Parker and S. M. Preece (particularly amusing was his little rodent figure). . As Mr. Wh iting said: 'With so much potential in the lower School, it is hoped these most talented boy will continue in this important side of artistic educat ion. ' s is, in Mr . Whiting's words, 'an astonishing display of control on the part of one not yet 15.'

Design and Print . T~ere w~s a la.rge display s.howi.ng that this ,craft. contin~es to thriv7· Tara Wisdom showed a large cushIOn, lme prmt, with an mge nlOus cross-word deSign on It, the cushion being in the shape of a 'Boots' bottle . Other in terest in gly shaped cushions were from J. M. Grimes (in the shape of a musical note), and M. P. Majurey (in the shape of an 'X'). Screen-pr in ted cushions were once again the favourite item. Exhibitors of these were: N. 1. E. FlOwer R. G. Byrom, M. H. I. Sciaudone, ('Gallic' theme), T. J . Locking, J . P. Pow is (very large item), J. E: G. Waters, 1. M. Elam, A. E. C. Lacy, J. H. Nightingale, R. A. Hellings, (cats-eye design), G. J. R. Purnell, N. 1. Palmer, N. Jasani, R. A. Newall, S. F. B. Rowe (on a design evoking 'Bogart and Bergman' that I highly approved of!) . A 'tie/dye' was exhibited by B. D. Johnson. T-shirts were the second-most popular item. These were exhibited by M. P. Majurey (,I ambled the World . Sport Aid'), R. A. McCarthy ('gladiator' design) and S. F. B. Rowe (hedge-hog cartoon design) . Finally, there was a very nice abstract montage design, a screen-printed patchwork quilt, in black and white, consisting of a rectangu lar array of regular sized 'tiles'. This was a combined effort from several boys, the key to which boy did which panel bein g given in a kind of 'matrix notation' of which I highly approved. Those involved were: Piers North, Neil Littlejohn, Douglas Boyle, Neil Palmer, Angus Newall, Daniel McConnell, Ralph Kabban, Ian Monkhouse, Jeremy Martin, and Brad 10hnson. Caxton Society As always, I am impressed by the sheer variety of the output of this Society. I counted over 160 different items in this year's Exhibition, ranging from lu minous Guys & Dolls tickets to sober file-paper headings. One of the things that intrigues me always about this Exhibition is that it gives one a chance to see items not normally viewed - e.g. the Clerk of Works' requisition form for 'cleansing material and haberdashery', material for the Sri-Lanka Cricket Tour, 1986-1987 and the Rheims programme featuring 'L'Orchestre de Chambre de la King's School, Canterbury'. There were also splendid private productions, such as Mr. and Mrs. Pragnell's Christmas card with a view of Lubeck, drawn by H. J. P. King's Week is the tim e when we really appreciate the Caxton Society, and I should lik e to take this opportunity of thanking the Society in connection with the Jazz Concert for which I was concerned with preparing the printed matter. In the context of King's Week, the Art Exhibition had several examples of how the Caxton Society and Mr. Trowell's activities combine their considerable talents. Martina Fowler's drawing of the illustration for the Jazz Concert programme was on show. The artwork was not taken directly from a photograph of Alastair Craik, the saxophonist (published in The Canluarian some time ago), but was based on a photograph of somebody else playing a saxophone - and Alastair Craik's head had been superimposed on it. The Art Exhibition also had on display J. Rawlin son's artwork for the programme for the Concer t of Light Music, as well as Lucy Hoare's art nouveau, 'two~dimensiona l ' artwork for the programme of Plunder, the Linacre House play last term .

Bookbinding A small display featured the wo rk of M. H. Dowler (Mrs. Beaton 's Notebook and Shakespeare 's Tragedies), J. F. Sharp (Holy Bible), Tara de Linde (The Story oj Art), and (m y favourite) P. D. J. Price's tortoise~s hell design for the binding of an 1823 Jones' London (which contain ed a splendid introduction that I wish I had had time to study and read completely - it made the style of this column seem, by compar ison, concise!) 286

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(Of t~~h noI Ogy Centre, The Old Synagogue, and Blackfriars itself. The entire Exhibi tion was set off with Tbe Ie background of unobtrusive, 18th century music, and the whole civilising experience of view ing l hibition at that midnight hour was nicely completed by the very welcome glass of wine that Mrs. tI>< ' II generously provided as Mr. Trowell and I did our rounds. !rowe

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SPEECH DAY 1986 THE HEADMASTER'S SPEECH In 1975 I came here knowing little about the school to which I had been appoin ted as Headmaster. Yet I soon became aware of the great and long history of this school and of its cont ribution to our culture. Further, I quickly realised that this school had undergone a revolutionary change within li ving memory. It has been a feature of the history of independent schools that a number have been transformed from bei ng either local, or small boarding schools into national institutions. A rnold did this at Rugby; Butler at Shrewsbury; Harper at Sherborne; Weldon at Tonbridge and Thring at Uppingham. All these schools underwent their transformation in the nineteenth century. King's went through its revolution under Canon Shirley in the twentieth century. I think it important to say that it is doubtful if we would a ll be here now if it had not been for this wor k. For whatever the triumphs of the past, and the undoubted vir tues of Norman Birley as Headmaster, numbers were falling in 1935 and many were worried about the future. The transformation increased the school's size; but more than th is gave it the individua lity, independence and competitiveness which have characterised it ever since. Further, ahead of its time, King's emphasised the aesthetic side of education - of drama and of music. So here was the formidable inheritance which faced me in September 1975, and today I must say what we have done together over the past eleven years. I deliberately say we, since these developments have had to be the result of co-operation and discussion - of a partnership . When I came here, I felt that th e curriculum was too restrictive. In essence, the boys were forced to embark on semi-specialisation on entering the school at 13; some being directed towards an arIS based course and others to science. There was much that had been good about this system, but there was a need to offer a broader curriculum , particularly in view of the rapidly changing world in which our pupils grow up. The curriculum which emerged in 1976 was designed so that boys did not have to make final specialist choices until the O-Ievel year, and every pupil experienced both science a nd arts subj ects. We have now revised the curriculum a second time. This second change has resulted from the need to include craft, design and technology, computing and electronics in our teaching programme. As you know, the great criticism that has been levelled at our national education system is that it is too academic, and fails to pay regard to the new technological society that is emerging_ In its main patterns, our curriculum now sets out to provide a broad based education and to postpone specialist choices for as long as possible. We feel very happy that even with these changes we have main ta ined, and impro ved upon, the academic standards of the past. This academic year our 0- and A-level results were the best that we have had - at A-level 520/0 of the grades were A and B. 68% A, Band C, while at O-level all but five gained over five passes. 44 pupils gained places at Oxford and Cambridge - 56% of those who applied . The new curriculum has demanded new facilities and so we have built five new laboratories, and a new technology centre. Yet I think th at we have managed 10 maintain the aesthetic and cultura l side of the School's life as well. Fred Cleary enhanced 287

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the artistic life of the scho<?l by the gift of Bl~~kfriars which now forms our art centre. Previously art had been restncted by ItS madequate faclhtles and though much had been achieved, this new centre has allowed considerable expansion. I think that ~fter King's Week everyone will agree that our Music continues to prosper and that Col. Paul Neville and Mr. Barry Rose have continued tD maintain the great musical tradition established by Mr. Edred Wright. The drama also has continued to prospe~, and we are all grateful fDr. Mr. And~ew Dobbin's productions. I must confess that I would hke to see a new theatre, which I feel IS needed for drama as well as lectures. This hall, while marvellous for music and a useful resting place for Headmaster's portraits, is not ideal for drama or lectures. However, that is something for my successor to consider. We have tried to maintain the spDrting standards .of the schDDI. We have added to ,our facilities by imprDving the PaviliDn and by making a rDwing c<?urse and a new bDat hDuse at Sturry. In sport this year we have had a successful year - the fIrSt xv Rugby played 13 games and only lost t;"o' the secDnd XV won 10 out .of 12 and the thirds 9 out of 10. The SChDDI VI! won the Kent Se~en's Trophy and reached the quarter final at RDsslyn Park. The first XI Hockey won 4 .of the 7 games they were able to play. The Athletics team WDn the Duke of York's Cup and the District ChampiDnship, while the JuniDrs reached the final .of the SDuth East Region Milk Cup competition. The Eight did well in the NatiDnal Schools, coming 4th, but sDmewhat less well at Henley - though they did beat St. Paul's! We have done a great deal of building .over the past eleven years - indeed we have had to spend nearly three milliDn pounds. The purpDse of this was not that of Augustus who found Rome built .of brick and left it a city .of marble. The modernisatIOn of the hDuses and new develDpments such as the art and technDIDgy centre.s are.designed fDr one purp.os~ a,nd .one alone. To sustain a broad curriculum, and to develDp a social mlheu, which can foster mdlvldual development and the realisation .of individual potential. Certainly, I have always felt that in a world where so many forces crush individuality - from mass advertising tD tDtalitarian philDsDphies - it is up to us tD create an environment where a person can realise his persDnality and acquire that sensitivity tD ideas and people that is the mark of true civilisatiDn. SChODls have not always been sensitive tD individuality. There' was much abDut the .old SChODI ethos that subDrdinated the individual to the general. Separate rooms, better art, music, a wider curriculum: these are all designed tD fDster individuality, to open minds and t.o further awareness and sensitivity. 11 is impDrtant that we teachers maintain this battle, and resist a desp!,ir which can SD ~asily DVe!. whelm us when faced with the CDarseness .of SD much adDlescent hfe - produced m the mam by the forces of cDmmercial exploitation. The task of educati?n is .only '."Drth:-vhile if,in some slight way, we are able tD produce a character that IS senSitive to relatIOnships and Ideas . Here that task is nDW for someone else. For my part, I wDuld like to thank all WhD have worked' with me here including many SChDOI prefects and Captains of School, particularly this year, JD Wrench. I ~ust alsD thank my colleag~es .on the teaching staff. W~ schoolmasters ~re a cynical breed, but I hope they will excuse me If I say how much I have enJDyed wDrkmg With them. Together I feel that we have achieved an immense amount and I have admIred theIr response to new ideas, and their immense hard work. So many mDre deserve thanks: the Bursar and ac· CDunts staff, JDhn Dean and his wDrks department - gardeners and cleaners - and SD many mDre WhD make this a successful cDmmunity - Mr. Paul PDllak, Mr. Paul Wenley and Mr. Chris Millar. I wDuld especially like tD say thank YDU, .on their farewell, tD Mr. David GDodes, Mr. JDhn Hildick-Smith, Mr. Angus Ogilvy and Mr. David FIDDd. I ShDUld alsD like tD say how fDrtunate I have been in the gDverning bDdy while here - I ShDUld particularly like tD say how much I have appreciated the suppDrt and friendship .of the CanDns WhD make life here in the Precincts SD enjDyable. I ShDUld alsD like tD say hDW much I have .owed tD the suppDrt .of my wife and family. Helen married a Housemaster, and has bDrne all the hazards .of institutional life. WithDUt her my wDrk cDuld nDt have been dDne. This place will always be close tD .our hearts. My children were five and three when we came. They have grown up here. It will always have a unique place in .our affectiDns. Yet now I feel that the mDment is right to mDve and tD face new challenges. TD allDw a new mmd tD bear on 288

this schODI. My ~mDtiDn .on le!,ving is simple and direct. That of gratitude. Gratitude tD all thDse whO have made It such an enJ~yabl~ and wDrthwhile eleven years, bDth fDr my family and fDr myself. Gratitude alsD fDr havmg hved here. My lasting impressiDn is nDt just .of the histDry, or of the vltahty, .of the SChDDI. It is .of the .overwhelming beauty .of the place. FDr me _ as for many befDre me - .my memDries .of the beauty .of Canterbury, .of the Cathedral, and .of

King's, Will always inSpIre a new awareness and a new sensitivity.

THE VICE-DEAN'S SPEECH Canon. d~ Sa~smarez nDted that the successiDn .of Headmasters at a SChDDI embDdied the chapters m ItS hlStDry. Chapters .of prDgress alternate with cDnsDlidatiDn, and SD CanDn Newell fell between the expanslOUlst eras .of CanDns Shirley and PilkingtDn. In 1975 the SChODI had been ready fDr furthe~ advance, and CanDn Peter PilkingtDn proved himself the right man tD lead. NewcDmers tD Kmg's ~ay scarcely be able tD envisage SChDDllife withDut St. Augustine's, Lux~oDre and MltchmsDn s, Dr the enriching oppDrtunities .offered by the B1ackfriars art buddIngs, the Old SynagDgu,:, the TeC?nDIDgy Centre and the wider pre-A-Ievel curriculum. Pupils owed all these tD CanDn PIlkmgtDn s dynamiC cDnceptlOn. SDund planning frDm abDve was rewarded m academiC and. nDn-academlc excellence: King's had risen remarkably in the Oxbridge league table and StDDd high amDng SChDDls. Canon de Sausmarez spDke .of the delica~e. relatiDnship between SChDOI and Chapter. He hinted at a TrollDpIan. picture .of Precmcts pDhtlCS, rather than the cDntinual sweetness and light sometlll~es lmagn:,ed. HDwever, CanDn PIlkmgtDn had res~Dnded with sensitivity and cDurtesy I~ negDtIatlDns with the Chapter. Mrs. PIlkmgton was particularly thanked fDr her hDspitality, dISpensed With elegance and charm. MDreDver, the executive skills CanDn PilkingtDn deplDyed so ably as a Headmaster alsD characterised his persDnal friendship, perhaps his greatest quality. A prDblem brought tD him wDuld be met nDt merely with sympathy, but actiDn. The Vice-Dean cDrrectly identified .one of ~he pupils' impressiDns .of their headmaster. If he seen;ed tD many tD be sD,!,e~hat re.mDte, ~t gUIlty mD~ents he was .often disconcertingly at hand. HaVIng .overheard tW? Kmg s pupils passmg the tram JDurney tD LDndDn in criticism .of masters the Headmaster remmded them that 'Walls have ears'. CanD':' PilkingtDn was wished every success at St. Paul's - St. Paul's will surely reap success under lum.

COMMEMORATION SERMON THE RIGHT REVEREND COLIN JAMES Bishop of Winchester We were hDnDured tD have the recently appDinted BishDP .of Winchester preaching for us at

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In his. sermon .one relt we ~ere being taken right tD the heart .of his dDctrine. He began by mentlOnmg the televl~IDn. senes Roots screened a few years agD, and reminding us that a CommemDratlOn Service IS a tracmg.of .our rDDts. It further gives us the DPPDrtunity tD link Our rDots and present e~vlronment With GDd, review .our relationship with Him and SD enable us to develop .our best gifts through Him. The SChDDl, being a Christian fDundatiDn, allows us to le~rn what God IS and fDsters mutual care and respect: it dDes nDt, he stressed aim tD produce relIgiOUS stereDtypes. ' His wDrds were refreshinÂĽ as they were nDt the usual SchoDl-aimed debate as to whether GDd

~xlSts at all, Dr the stDck remmder that we are privileged and that respDnsibility gDes with privilege ut were concerned with hDW GDd gives us the cDnfidence and hope tD believe the ultimat~ assurance that gODd will triumph .over evil, IDve .over hatred and truth over lies It was in Jesus' rejection that he achieved his greatest wDrk. . 289

DISTINCTIONS 1985-86 SCHOLARS ELECTED 1986 T. 1. A. BROWN M . D. H.CLARKE S. R. MAGGS A. CUNNINGHAM L. S. B. FEATHERS S. M. SATCHU T. E. DYSON B. J. ENSOR

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EXHIBITIONERS ELECTED 1986 Jun ior King's School W . J. H. DAVIES K.S.C. and Eylesden Court A. M . H . DARLEY Milbourne Lodge P . J . GOLLOP GREA VES SCHOLARS ELECTED 1986 M. A. BILLOT K.S.C. a nd Friars School K.S.C . and Harvey Grammar School M. D. W. BOWKER MUSIC SCHOLARS ELECTED 1986 J. R. SAMPSON Salisbury Cathedral School P. KEELER Yardley Court Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford J . J. BEAUPREZ C . W. N. DAV IES Westminster Abbey Choir School O. H. HINTON SI. George's School, Windsor W . R. J. OSMOND Junior King's Schoo l J. H. WOODWARD King's College School, Cambridge B. E. W. YOUNG Junior King's School KAT IE HENDERSON Chiswick School Ashford School SARAH BEINHART BERNADETTE Upper Chine Sc hool McCULLOUGH HONORARY MUSIC SCHOLARS ELECTED 1986 Brambletye T. F. DELMAR Sussex House, London S. SABA MUSIC SCHOLARS ELECTED 1985 Harvey Grammar School B. M. COOPER Northbourne Park N. J. H. STURT MUSIC AWARDS P. H. APPS C. E . J . BRANDT A. A. BUSH

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Passed Associated Board Grade VI II (P iano) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Cornet) Distinction (Singing) Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Saxophone) Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Bassoon) Meri t Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Pia no) Distinction) Passed Associated Bo~ r d Grade VIII (Do uble Bass) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Trombone) Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Horn) Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Flute) Merit Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Merit (Clarinet) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Piano) Distinction Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Viola) Passed Associated Board Grade VIII (Singing)

fiRST CLASS HONOURS GAINED AT THE UNIVERSITIES IN 1986 A. M. BARRON Trinity College, Cambridge; in H istory, Part I S. E. BRADFORTH Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; in Natura l Sciences, Part I b E W. CARR Tri nity College, Camb ridge; in Natural Sciences, Part 2 . (also awarded the Bron owski Prize) N. HOBBS School of Architecture, Canterbury College of Art; in Architecture Jesus College, Cambri dge; in Natural Sciences, Part 2 M. J. L. PERCIVAL (Geological Sciences) Trinity Co llege , Cambridge; in Economics, Part I M. J . READ Trinity College, Cambridge; in Mathematics, Part 2 G. M. T. WATTS

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 6, T he Foreland Canterbu ' /SI Jllne, 19~:

Dear Sir, May I bring respectfully to your notice an crror in the April edition of The Calltuariafl ? P. 100 D and Daughters: The Revd. Canon Michael Mayne, newly appointed Dean of Westminster, was in Me~ Omers for hi s first two years when the School was in Cornish exi le, but on the return to Cante rbu ISt~ 1945 he elected to transfer from M.O. to the newly founded Luxmoore House, together with his I~ Colin Reeves, also of M.O. (now holder of a C hair in Computer Science), and spent hi s remaining ~en years in Luxmoore, of which he was Head of House in 1948-9. He is the first O.L. to receive decaO~

preferment.

T hi s will call for a revised computation of Deans and Houses and an adjustment of the imbalance yo mention in your reference to Michael's appointment. U Yours faithfull y, E. R. C. DARTtNGTON (Housemaster of Luxmaore, 1945- 1954).

School House The King's SchOOl' Canterbury: 271h Jlllle, 1986.

Dear Sir, As some will know, fencing at this school is of a high standard, and the club has many fixtures a term. As a fencer I would like to say that it annoys me when people casually refer to fenc ing as a second-rate sport and think it is just an easy way to obtain colo urs which involves no skill or effor t. 1 wou ld also like to reco rd a big thank you to Mr. Hildick-Sm ith for a ll he has done for the club and

to wish him a happy retirement. You rs faithfu lly, BEN

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Dear Sir, I believe that I am not alone amongst O.K.S. of the pre-war generation in experiencing difficulty in obtaining or even seein g copies of The Cantuarian . In consequence, I have read the last two issues, kindly given to me by the Headmaster's Secretary, with particular interest. May I congratulate you on an excellent journal which gives to people like myself an accurate and full reflection of the school's present life, activity and vitality. O.K.S. of my generation have a special responsibility in recalling and, where necessary, setting the record straigh t in respect of their own time at school so that inadvertent errors and omissions shall not lead future chroniclers astray. This is why, with your understanding, I should like to make refe rence to one or two points in th ~ last two issues of the magazine. I yield to no one in my affection and admiration of Arthur Gore and so am sure that he will not mind being picked up on his reply to the first question put to him in your interview (April '86, page 105). He says that in 1935 there were only two Houses - School House and The Grange. As far as the Precincts were concerned, this is correct, but it is mislead ing in that it suggests that there were no others when, of course, apart from the day boys' house, there were two lOut-Houses' - Holme and Langley. Under Dr. Shirley 's major programme of centralization one of these moved into the present Walpole House whilst the other, on the New Dover Road , served for some years as the School Sanatorium. 292

LIMBO? NOW YOU TELL ME! (Jollatholf Marshall)

December 1985 issue contains two statements which I would query. On page 5 there is the suggestion

Th~ blue hat band and silver-knobbed stick were introduced with the Upper Sixth in 1936. My recollection dill I ~hiS was not so since both were in use by 'historic' sixth formers who had not been awarded major

IS (hat and hence wore the hat band appropriate to that distinction when I first came to the school in cOIOursber 1934. Perhaps your informant was confusing the blue hat band with the purple gown which ~t~~introduced in 1936 or 1937 after about a hundred years of absence . ..a e 64 of the same issue states that 'since 1927 St. Stephen's Fields ... have been the home of the pagv' This is definitely not so since. as a member of the school team in the year or two leading up 1St ~ w~r I well remember that allis! XV matches were played on Blore's Piece. This was the case until to I ember '1939 and I am inclined to believe that Birley's became the home of the school team only after [)eC return from Cornwall at the end of the war. IheLastlY your timely reminder of the com muni ty service of the Curtis family will not, I hope, preclude reco;di ng that in the pre-war years which preceded his formidab le service as Steward, Harry Cur tis mY invariably known to all boys as 'Dicky Doughnut'. Why, I do not know, but I ca n pay tribute to ~.asremarkable powers of observation at the time, put particu larly to the service of spotti ng wing collars o~\lazers emerging fro m the side ex its of cinemas - a service which many o f us had reason to rue. Yours fait hfully, ANTONY DEAN. (GR/MO 1934-40).

Marlowe House, The King's School, Canterbury. 10th July, 1986. Dear Sir, During my speec h at the Marlowe House Fiftieth Ann iversary Dinner earlier this term, I expressed the hope that the event might be marked .by t~~ publication o~ a short ~istory of the House. ~o help with this I invited those present to send me In writIng any memones they might have of the House In their day. Through the courtesy of The Cantuarian may I now please extend that invitation to all old Marlovians? Anyt hing sent will be gratefully received, and I can promise that at the very least it will be preserved in lhe School Arch ives. If enough is fort hcoming, some form of pub lication will certainl y be co nsidered. Finally, if anyone has a copy of the House photograph of 1936 (?) , 1937 and 1939, and wou ld like to present it to Marlowe, or allow it to be copied, we would be ext remely grateful, as that wou ld complete ' the collection of House photographs. Yours faithfully, DAVID REID. (Housemaster).

The Masters' Common Room, The King's School, Ca nterbury. 27th July, 1986. Dear Sir, At the end of the summer term on conclud ing my time as a day-boy tutor, I was honoured by a very handsome gift from parents past and present and former mem bers of Mitchin son' s and Ma rl owe. I was deeply touched by suc h generosity and I would like to take this opportun ity of thank ing them all most sincerely for their kindness and good wishes. Yours sincerely, D. S. Goo DES. 293 FOX AND HOUNDS (Jonathall Marshall)

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Dear Sir, I hope you will allow me space in The Cantuarian to extend my most grateful thanks to all those f J. K.S. boys who contributed so generously to a presentation made to me on my retirement from rUlr.;~ teaching at Mi lner Court at the end of last term. rnt I had no idea that boys now at King's knew I was retiring, and I appreciate their generosity as as I value my continuing li nks with them and the School. mUcb My wife and I look forward to choosing something which we shall both enjoy in the coming year Yours fa ithfully ,

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THE SCHOOL Captain oj School: J. D. McL. Wrench. M.S. SCHOOL MONITORS F. McCullough., G . L. Morris. D. G . Sto.cks, A . H. C. Sherwood, Katherine E. Kelly•.K.S .• tof. . Briggs, S. VIJayanathan, A. J. M. McFIe, M . B. Ryeland, M. Camburn, Lucmda J. MIller, . tI D S. Vye, A. F . B. Sturl, K.S. M.S., Tanera K. A. Dawkms, M.S .

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SChool House: D. G. Stocks, A. M. T . Clements, R. D. C. Downes. M.S., Katherine E. Kelly, K.S., O. Y. Madha, J. J. W. Gumpert, C . H . Selater, Tabitha J . A. Winnifrith, P. F. Elam. The Grange: N. H. Briggs. A. W. Leach , 1. R. Brown, Tanera K. A. Dawkins, M.S., M. W. Ursell, N. G. McCarthy, K.S., W. S. B. Hawkes, K.S., Samantha J . Hardingham, Victoria M. Wilson, J . C. O. Gordon . Walpole: S. Vijayanathan, G . M. Dunn, M. K6stering! J. J. Olive r. . . Ifeisler Omers: J. D. McL. Wrench, M.S., S. H. Yap, H. W. GIrlmg, M. J. SmIth, S. L. WhIte, . W. J . Stanbury, K.S., R. P. Reed, K.S., N. C. Wakefield . .\{orlo we: A. H. C. Sherwood. M. R. Peterburs, W. A. Webb, R . S. Petts, T . J . T urner, Emma J . Venton. Luxllloore: M. McCullough, M. Camburn, P. G. S. Lawton. A. Macdonald, N. W. Rollason, N. Bhatia, P . J. Cockrill, C. H. H . Darley, Charlotte L. Hare, N . C. Henry, S. W. Richards. Elizabeth A. Robinson. Galpin's: G . L. Morris, A. G. E . Fordham. M.S., J. D. Godley, W. 1. Murch, Lucinda J. Miller, M.S., Lucy E. Charrington, K.S., T. Grieves, S. J. Grimes, C. N. White, M.S. Linacre: A. J . M . McFie, F. J. Charlesworth, J . P . H . Nicholls, K.S .• M. R. Evison, M. F. Whitehead, A. J. Barron, K.S., A. E. Mitchell. A. P . Wattenbach. Broughton: M. B. Ryeland, M. Durham, K.S" D. M. Ives. J. P. Taylor, L. M. Fenn, 1. H. Scarlett. Trodescant: A . F . B. Slurl, K.S. M.S ., A. Bocresion , P. L. Evans. J. R . Nicholas. D. A. Stearns, Julia J. Pears. Sarah A. Pendlebury, M.S. Milchinson's: D. S. Vye, B. W. Nash, K.S., Alison C. Ruckert, A. J. Craik, M.S., J . H. Cooper, Rosemary Hardwick. Lal/ergate: D. 1. Laurence (B), J. M. Bartlett (LN), S. J. Grimes (GL), Blythe S. J. Levett. K.S" (B), s. P . Stuttaford (B).

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CAPTAINS OF SPORT W. J . Murch Girls' Squash Rackets Katherine Woodcock Golf A. W. Leach Badminton N. H. Briggs Basketball M. B. Ryeland Soccer E. O. Mbu Sailing G . M. Dunn Canoeing Karen Bleasdale Netball A. J . M. McFie Chess Catharine Walsh Cross-Country A. J. M. McFie

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lona Hay M. W . Ursell M. K6stering M. K6stering M. Durham P. J. Burrell C. N. Bartlett Charlotte Hare P . J . Burrell L. M. Fenn

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Wit h no forma l inspect ion this term it was possible to orga nise a very varied programme. For senio r cadets of a ll se<::tions the King's Platoon provided courses in canoeing, li fe-saving, and rock I' The Wa rren at Fo lkestone is now a regular venue for the latter activity. and the climax of the course was an ad-( nnbiat. descent of a 100 ft. cli ff o nto the beach . The King's P latoon is now well-established, giving senior cadets w; entufOll involved in training cad res a chance to so something different. 0 are Dot The in novat io n o f th e term was the establish ment of the Advanced Military Skills Course. T his was the idea r St. J o hn Parker a nd Overto n, and was develo ped and made a rea lit y by Mr. Boot h. Although the hope is to Seta progra mme is in teresting and reward ing in itsel f. o ne o f its pu rposes is to ensure tha t those cadets who will hat the become junior NCOs have a firm grasp of the skills they will need to teach. especially weapon training, drill and fi~r~to T his is a volunteer squad, and it was encouraging that not only did man y o f the recently passed APC group " I. a lso some of the old Commando Section chose to come back a nd do more military train ing. JOin btn T he Signals Sectio n is suffering a great loss by the depart ure of Lt Poots for another post. I would likc to lak I.:. o ppo rt unity to record the appreciation we a ll feel for the five years Dr. Poots has spent with the CCF, He re.buiftl.~ Signa ls Sectio n, making fu ll use of the new Cla nsman sets, and tra ining cadets to the poin t where they Could I~ a n impo rta nt contribut ion to general exercises . Hc a lso participated enthusiastically in other Army Section acti~C no ta bly night exercises (especia lly in Berli n), a nd summer a nd Easter cam ps, We understand St. Paul's has no bu t perhaps tha t state of affa irs will not last very long now. We wish Dr. Poots all the very best. ' The APC squad, twenty strong, went o n from basic recrui t tra ining to the first part of the Proficiency Certificate map and compass skills. and a ll passed both the theoret ical a nd the practica l tests. We a lso had a number of new fetruiU who underwent a n accelerated progra mme so that they can join this sq uad next year. T he REME continued to learn maintenance and repai r skills on the Landrover and scram ble bike. This revived stcti has bee n a great success over the last two yea rs, but a ll the members have reached the end of their school careers': wc look for fresh volunteers to keep it going. The Night Exercise and Field Day took place o n 4th /S th June at the Lydden training a rea. The night patrols carried out were pa rticularly successful , and it is hoped that next term we sha ll be able to have a whole weekend exercise. We would li ke to record o ur gratitude to CSM Morris and Col/Sgt Papachrist id is who have headed the Army Sectioa for two years now. Right to the last they showed initiat ive, interest and cheerfulness. and they have set a form idably high standard for their successo rs. T hese will be St. Jo hn Pa rker and Overton respect ively, who took over dut ies al the last parade of term . At the time of writing Summer Camp at Nesscl iff near Shrewsbury is four days away, with sixteen cadets down to attend. Promotions w.e.r. 9, 7.'86 Sgt St. John Park er to Compa ny Sgt Maj o r Sgt O verto n 10 Col Sgt Cpls Sa ul f and Spi egel to Sgts Acti ng LICpls Derouet and H enderson to LICpls

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ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION O ne o f my first tasks on appointment to the VT R in the rank of Fg Off was to attend a meeting during the EaSIer Ho lidays at RA F Northolt to discuss proposed changes in the syllabus of training for members of the CCF and ATe. The proposals have still to be ratified. but it is expected that the new syllabus will start in September this year. A morc genera l syllabus has been proposed up to Leading Cadet with the inclusio n of some project work, either ind ividual projects or a group project. This is expected to reduce time in the class room and add a more practical emphasis to the training. O n the to pic of projects. it was hoped that the Hovercraft project would have been completed this term but certain techn ical d ifficulties have arisen which have seriously affectcd the progress towards the first flight. Un fo rtunately Sgts Nash and Norris who have been concerned with this project will be leaving this term a nd it will be up to the other members of the sect ion to complete it. I would li ke to thank Sgts Nash a nd Norris for thei r wo rk o n the H overcraft and ho pe we will be able to invite them bac k fo r a fl ight in the not too distant future , We have had severa l trips to RAF Manston this term, not all success ful I' m a fraid. Our one trip to 617 Glid ing Squadron was spoilt by high winds and we were unable to get off the ground. Instead we had a tour of the A ir Tra ffi c Control Tower a nd the Fire Section . 6 17 Squad ro n are being re-equipped with new fib re-glass gliders and it may be so me time before they will be ab le to accept us fo r gliding experience in the futu re. IAEF have d o ne their best to accommoda te us but have been tro ubled by unserviceable aircra ft. H owever quite a few cadets have had one or more trips in a chipmunk this term. Some have experienced the th rill of acrobatics and others. o n their first few fli ghts , have taken the controls for a short ti me. 296

u erv ised an outing on the River Stou r in canoes and apart fro m one member who seemed to have

fi. ed.r w~n leYida~ce mechanism, all had an enjoyable, if rather wet, experience. At the end of term, J(Cpl Welbourne

~wlth h~s g~ gliding course at RAF Catterick a nd Cadets Rowsell. Southwell, Monkhouse, Wllha ms and Walsh .. be atlen~lngwestwards to RAF Locking for the Summer Camp. ... be Madlllg e senior members of the sectio n this year. In addition to S~ts Nash and Norris, W9 Sherwood, F/S We lose all t~ri gs will be leaving . Unfortunately we have no members m 6a next yea r so we wll.1 have to r~ly on ebb an~ Sgt gers to lead the sect ion. Our thanks go to WO Sherwood and FIS Webb fo r thClr leadershi p and 'unlOr nlem . fIitIYwt"thi n the section. "IodP D.l.B.

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d the Summer term was lo ng and busy for the section, with every Wednesday success full y ' planned, attacked ~5expectd' 'th the help o f Jules Godley James C harleswo rth , Peter Burrell and Philip Darling. Their success was aDd achl~vhe h '~~ver crossing at the -s tart of t~rm in which Andrew Macdonald-Bell , Nick Reid, Jo nathan Drewe, Magnus .......n Witeryt eand others ma nage d to avol'd ra II'mg .m. ._" \lonlgo011I0wing Wednesday was spent with the help of Mr. Booth R.S.~ , o n the BIore ' s range Wit. h ,22 n. nes , were h the fo hand Jimmy Nev ile managed a commenda ble ,sco.re of 54 wit h ten ~0l!nds ..The next week we h~d a. talk .ith a ~fit on his experiences during the Falkla nds conflict m the south AtlantiC m which he served as a navigat io na l by an 0 ~~er talk was then fo llowed by some navigatio na l skills with C hief Came. On ~hu rsday 22nd .May some of of(tce r,. edt'cussed the possibility of joining the forces with the Royal Nava l a nd Man ne ca reers officers. lhe section . . . . h If term we had fie ld day which was spent at the Romney Marsh Wmdsurfmg school where John Gane. Jimmy A,fter p:ter Burrell and Jonathan Drewe showed the maj ority of the sect ion how to board sail. Meanwhile, elsewhere StYlle'an Ibbott, Ross Duttson and Ned Cecil fou nd the land board hard e,!-~ugh , .and as .expec~ed when they had a JOO8 lh try the real thing they fell in. Mr. Durgan showed some very prom lsmg wmdsurfmg Sk ills, but on the ot her ,~cet.;o Thane fo und the retu rn to the clubhouse rather d ifficult. By midÂˇafterno~n many C?f us had mastered the bln r J~dsurfing, although we did fi nd it d ifficult to return to the clubhouse agamst the wmd. an ~ during the term some of the naval section got involved in other activities, including the South Area Regali a . A ~ h Peter Burrell and his crew managed second place to Tonbridge school. O n Mo nday 9th J une, Magnus ~ ~t I~mery, Andrew Macdonald-Bell, Jo nath an Ibbotl and Alaister McClymont went to ,a n ~ir Day at H .M.S. Osp.rey ~~ereg although it was raining, they had a fli ght in a Wessex Helicopter. They also had ~ detai led I~ok at a sea Harner , Sea K~ng and o ther aircraft currently used by the Navy. Andrew Charlesworth and Jim my NeVile also got away on I sea ~ay in the channel where they experienced. at first hand life on a Type 22 Frigate, wh ilst watching a sea rescue operation Lynx helico pter fl y past and a repleOishment a t sea. The last four Wednesdays were spent down at Westbere Lakes ':Yith Mr. Parker a nd Mr. Durgan w~o guided us thro ugh Ihe basics of saili ng. Duri ng these afternoo ns ma ny of the sectio n learnt to fig, handle and capsize a Top~er. At the end of the fo urth Wednesday we had, a test. which unfo rtunately was held when there was ha rd ly a ny wtnd and so 10 our disappointment many of us failed . Allhough during the term we have had a large proportio n of the section missing d ue to :xam.s and plays some of the fi fth formers includ ing Charles Gooderham, A. Fullman a nd P . Foot have managed to find lime to go on courses including canoeing, first aid a nd saili ng. To round off the term six of the section were inv ited to spend two nights on board H ,M.S. Fife in the Channel, 10 be treated as potent ial officer candidates. Finally the section wishes to than k Mr. Durgan for a ll the help a nd enjoyment, he has given to the section since he joined four years ago. We wish hi m the best of luck as he leaves at the end of,thls term. Also many t h~mks to J a~ es Charlesworth and Jules Godley for their help in running the section, a nd espeCiall y Mr. T hane for keeptng the seCllon $0 exciting and enjoyable through the term. JONATHAN DREWE AND CLIVE PAINE.

Summer Camp, July 1986 The Nesscliff Camp in Shropsh ire is not as 'm ilitary' as o ur usual venue, Lo ngmoor in Hampsh ire. You ar~ not j~ st down the road fr om a variety of firing ranges, or Sand hurst, or the Paras at Aldershot. Nevertheless. It has ItS compensations. T he Welsh hills sta rt fi ve mi les down the road, a nd in the clear air of this Ju ly !hcy sto?d o ut ~harply. So did the Long Mynd , a nd Stiperstones, ~ver which we ran a navigat iol,1 exerc ise - and on wh ich we d id conSiderably better than another school co ntingent winch took I I hou rs to do 9 miles. The Severn winds rou nd the edge of the tra ining area , and further down , at Iro nbridge, gave ha lf the sq uad a good day's canoeing, while the other half was under excellent instruction in rock-climbing a nd abseilling at L1anymynech quarry. On the military side the bonus of this camp was that there was a Commandant'S Trophr to be co mpeted ~or. and the 17 cadets set out to show that they were not ' trin nets' (i f tha t is how Mr. Booth spells It), In fact, they displayed 297

such zeal in the Speed March (3 miles running and marching with webbing and rifle) that we fo llowed the pattern . before at this camp, and deposited one of the team in the Sick Bay overnight. However, Spiegel could comr:tahblisho!

with the knowledge that his effons had helped to win us this event. n Imseu T he orienteering went equally well . T he resu lt here depended o n individual efforts, but there was real team cheering and sustaining Deeves over the last half-mi le to gain the necessary points for the squad to win fit Work itl The tactical exercise, which involved searchi ng out and destroying M.R.G,P. and M.J.V" showed the very rea;! platt. aris ing from our new Advanced Military Skills course at school. We came third, and both sections performed cre~nefiu though there is st ill much to learn. It is clear to me that the main benefit of an exercise like this (apart from the eH .lta~ly, of the two well-know n hostiles mentioned above) goes to the section commander who is learning how to 1~I~ahOQ make correct decisions while under pressure. In and 'I."he waterma nship, under the guidance of Royal Engi neers, involved const.mcling a~d navigating .a raft, and racmg flat-bo~tomed met~1 assault boats. EverYI:me got very wet, but won tlurd ~Iace m the c0!llp'etltion. M.R lhen and M.J.V . discreet ly reured befor e the end, as II had not been unknown for the II1structors to mClte cadets to i~ÂˇP. their officers into the river. P.G.W., however, stayed unscathed, as presumab ly his rank is too exalted for thO ro. of treatment, and anyway he had already been sighted on several occasions swimm ing in the Severn, accompani~~ his long-eared bodyguard . Y Finally, the shoot ing - well, that's all we want to say about that at this stage. To judge by the singing in the back of the four -tonner, which got louder, though no better, each Âˇ day, morale high. The bugle-calls actually did get better, although the target time of 6 a.m. was never qu ite reached. As for~~ general attit ude and standard of performance Mr. Booth had good cause to be proud of his men by the cnd of tilt seven days. M.I.V.

O.K.S. NEWS During speeches, on 17th Jul y, Major General Pat Lee, P resident of the O.K.S. Association, presented the relirin& Headmaster with a framed early print (circa 1580) of the Braun & Hogenberg plan o f the City of Canterbury, on behalf of all Members of the Associat ion. Because of business commitments , John Hembry will be handing over the Hon. Secretaryship of the O.K.S. AssocialiOll at the end of August to Christopher Manning-Press (SH 1944-49). He wiJl be assisted by Mrs. Barbara Slimming, fo rmerly the Headmaster' s Secretary, who will have an office in the Precincts, and James Cooke O.K.S., Master in charge of computer sciences at the School. His add ress is as fo llows: LI. Col. C. B. Manning-Press 14 The Avenue Colchester Essex C03 3PA Tel: 0206 573542 (Home) 0242 352046 (Office) O.K.S. wishing to write to the ~ssociation may do so either to the School, or to the above address in Colchester. H. C. M. Pitts (19 14) writes of fo nd memories of Holme House. C.l. Meek (1939) now lives in Winchelsea, East Sussex, having arrived by way of France, Fiji, Tanzania , Hong Kong and Edinburgh. He look s forward to renew ing his contacts with King's. T. A. Watts M.B.E. (1939) has agreed to remain as Bursar of Ashford School until after the introduction of a.C.S.E., although now past the age of retirement. C . G. Stoneman (1941) practises law in Burlington, Vermont, and teaches at the Bu rlington Law School. He would be delighted to hear from O.K.S. in the area. Revd. K. D. Walker (1942) has recently retired after 23 years in the parish ministry in the Diocese of Waikato, New Zealand. He is now licensed as a n Honorary P riest Assistant in the parish of Tokoroa. The Hon. Mr. Justice A. A. Kneller (1946) wr ites that he has recently been in contact with Miss Grace Goodfellol1> one of two nu rsing sisters with the School at Carlyon Bay. During the 2nd World Wa r she served with the QARANC in the Middle East, a nd subsequently with the Colonial Nursing Service in Uganda. The Very Revd. M.C.O. Mayne (1949), one time Head of B.B.C. Radio religious programmes, has been appointed Dea n of Westminster and officiated at the ma rriage of H.R.H. Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. R. D. H. Roberts (1 951) has retired from Headmastering after 18 years and now lives at Woodbridge, Su ffolk. He is Chairman of the Canterbury Pilgrims Boat Club. J. C. Dunn (1952) who hosts his own programme on B.B.C. Radio 2, was in the radio commentary team for the recen t Royal Wedding. 298

II Baird (1954) continues to work in insurance in the City. He has recently met N. J. B. Wright (1954) in the bar a.J. h ÂˇB.B.C. T.V. Centre, and reports on the O.K.S. 'colony' in Du lwich - J. B. Lumsden (1944), P. J. Van Berckel p. F, W. Venn (1960) a nd B. D. Foord (1958). brY (1954) has left Ius fam ily company after 26 years as a Director, a nd is now an Export Consultant and ( J.II:~eting Agent for the U.K. healthcare industry. ~{ V Alien (1955) has recently purchased 60 acres of virgin land near Mombasa to grow flowers a nd fr ui t for the J. de ,,'1 hotels along the coast. He has nearly completed his magnum opus on the origi ns of the Swahili peoples. lou n A,. fl. poole (1955) has been appointed Managing Di rector of Blue Circle pic. p. sutton (1956) continues to enjoy life in Melbourne, A ustralia where he is with Stockbrokers A. C. Goode & .Âˇ!ompany, with responsibility fo r arranging mergers. He is in contact with Professor I. Potier (1957). G. Beech (1965) continues as a t.healrical. so!-, nd .consultant. and currently pu ly, ,1986) is responsible fo r the sound J'5y5temS of 15 West End productiO ns, Evlfa m RIO de Janeiro and the offiCial Bicentenary celebrations in Iceland. 'Ii S. Browne (1966) Nichol ~s B~st'~ n~w novel Tennis alld the Masai was published in the spring. The Sunday Times 'Maga zine featured a day III hiS life III May. \\. R. Rober.ls (1969) has recently moved to Brisbane to take up the post of Pri ncipal Lawyer for London & Scottish Oil in Austraha. pr. J. A. Dorward (1970) is to work at the C.C.A.P. Hospita l, in Malawi, fo r the Presbyterian Church. p C Fi nsaaS (1973) is now working on the const ruct ion of North Sea oil pla tfor ms. He lives with his wife and son at 'La'zenbY, Cleveland. C. r. Hammond ( 1974) is working for the British Rail Board on the major project to re-develop Liverpool Street Slation. s. p. Bowers (1975) has been appointed Hastings Branch Manager of the Sussex County Building Society . He is married, ",jlh a son, Christopher. J. N. punwar (1975) has recently qualified as a solicitor and is now wit h Alastai r Porter & Co., Lincoln's Inn Field . Jrlll Campbell (1979) has spent three years work ing for a London publ ishing house before getting ma rried in August, 1986 to Capt. T. Clarke of the G loucestershire Regt. They move to Berlin in September. M. J. Carboni (1980) is Director of Music a t Underhill School, and has recently joi ned the Ma nagement of the Great Comp Music Festival, nea r Sevenoaks, and asks that volunteers to help should contact him at 0732 850736. R. G. Hill (1983) has graduated from U .M.I.S. T. with a 2nd class honours degree in Management Sciences and is now working for the Bank of Scotland.

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BIRTHS Baker-To Jane & Howard Baker (1968) on 20th November, 1982 a son, Oliver Henry George; on 20th August, 1984, a son, Charles Michael Alexander; on 10th January, 1986, a daughter Ca milla Angela. Finsaas- To P. C. Finsaas (1973) a nd his wife, on 18th March, 1985, a son, Manfred. Ward- To Louise & David Ward (1971 ), on 17t h December, 1985, a son, O li ver Gav in Joseph.

ENGAGEMENTS Harris-Swain-A. N. G. Harris (1 970) to Ann Swain. Hunter- Fitzpatrick-Capt. C. T. G. Hunter RM (1971) to Claire Fitzpatrick. Cheese- Probert-Dr. Nicholas C heese (1975) to Helen Probert. Parker- Lyons-Felicity Parker (1977) to N. S. Lyons (1977). Hindle-Thompson-J. R. Hindle (1978) to Melanie Thompson. Kenney- Hohmeisler-Capt. M. J. S. Kenney (1979) to Chr istiane Hohmeister. Rose-Lyons-Richard Rose (1980) to Jennifer Lyons. Crabtree- Bowditch-R. F. Crabtree (1981) to Capt. Lorna Bowditch QARANC. DaVY- Clark-Helen Davy (1982) to Lieu!. A. N. C lark RN. 299

MARRIAGES Jones-Rees-P. W. Jones (1973) to Sian Rees on 17th May, in Rustington, Sussex. Fcaver-Stevens-M. D. Feaver (1976) to Caroline Stevens, in Canterbury Cathedral. CranfieJd-Pegg-Sarah A. Cranfield (1981) to Malcolm Pegg on 17th May, in Dover.

DEATHS Osborne- R. H. Osborne (1927) , 1986, aged 82. Valpy- K. F. Valpy (1925) on 22nd March , 1986, aged 79. Young-G. A. Young (1932) in March, 1986, aged 76. Heeson-D. S. Heeson (1922) on 5t h February. 1986, aged 85. Joncs-Revd. P. S. Jones (Honorary), 1986. Leach-F. C. 1. Leach (1947) on 20t h February, 1986. aged 56. VOigt-F. H. Voigt (Stafr, 1942-65) on 24th May. 1986, aged 80. SCllti-C. C. Scutt (l924), on 5th June, 1986, aged 77.

MARLOWE HOUSE FIHIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION DINNER 3rd MAY, 1986 Mrs. F. Sianger, Mr. D. S. Goodes (T 1965 + ), Mrs. B. Turner, Mr. B. Turner (HM 1976-82), Mr. P. 1959Â·76), Mr. G. W. Avery (HM 1936-40), Mrs. G. W. Avery, Mr. D. J . Reid (HM 1982-), Mrs. D. N. F. Go rdon-Wilson (HH 1939-40), Mrs. N. F. Gordon-W ilson, Mr. B. M. Birnberg (HH 1948), Mrs. B. Mr. M. E. Milner (T 1957 + ), Mrs. M. E. Mi lner , Mr. A. H. C. Sherwood (HH 1985), Mr. M. A. Mortlock Mr. C. R. J . Co llyer (HH 1985), Mrs. H. J . Holdstock , Mr. J . H. White-Thompson (HH 198 1), Mr. H. (HH 1965), Mr. S. St.!. James (HH 1982), Mr. A. C. Murch (1959+), Mrs . A. C. Murch, Mr. O. F. (HH 1978), Mr. H. Osmond (f 1949 +), Mr. I. N. Wilkinso n (T 1968+), Dr. S. J . Wright (HH 1977), Mrs. Mr. D. O. Darroch (HH 1968 + ), Mrs. D. O. Darroch, Mrs. T. Mailland (M 1984 +), Mr. J. C. Kingsman Mrs. J. C. Ki ngsman, Mrs. H. J . P ragneil , Dr. D. M. Arnott (T 1985+), Mr. H. J . Pragnell (T 1973 Arnott, Mrs. I. N. Wilk inson, Mr. F. Stanger (T 1953 + ), Mr. C. W. O. Neame(HH 1975+), Mrs. C . . Mr. P. N. Howard (HH 1979+), Mr. S. J. Barron (HH 1978+), Mrs. S. J. Barron, Mr. P. M. Jones (HH Mrs. P. M. Jones, Revd. N. A. S. Bury (HH 1961), Mrs. N. A. S. Bury, Mr. A. R. C. Durrant (HH 1976+), A. R. C. Durrant , Mr. R. M. Harvey (HH 1957), Mrs. R. M. Harvey , Mrs. A. M. Harvey , Mr. A. M. Harvey 1962), Mrs. R. C. White, Mr. R. C. White (T 1984 + ).

HM = Housemaster; T = Tutor; M = Matron; HH = Head of House.

MEISTER OMERS FIHIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION DINNER 22nd MAY, 1986 H. P. Wortham, R. F. W. Orindal, Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Gore , P. Po llak , Mr. & Mrs. S. B. Nichols, Mr. F. Black, Mr. & Mrs. R. T. Tragell, Dr. & Mrs. B. E. Lee, Mr. & Mrs. R. M. V. Beith, Mr. & Mrs. P. R. H. Prior, D. S. Goodes, Mr. & Mrs. J . O. Sugden, Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Burgess, Mr. & Mrs. O. M. & Mrs. J. M. Aikins, Mr. & Mrs. 1. A. Murdoch, Lt-Col. & Mrs. M. H. Turner, Dr. A. O. RobiclIC, I. B. R. Fowler, Mr. & Mrs. T. C. Kinross, P. G. Wen ley, Mr. &M rs. A. J . W. Campbell , Dr. & Mrs. J. M. Mr. & Mrs. C. F. Clark, Mr. & Mrs. C. J. C. Rowe, Mr . & Mrs. J. J. D. Craik, S. M. Whalton, S. G. R. O. M. O . Just ice, G. Hatlee, P. N. Barry, J. D. MeL. Wrench.

300 (Opposite) PROPELLER (Jakob Kidde-Hal/sen) (Over page) (By kind permission of St. Paul's School, Mr. R .H.B . Sturt and Anthony Waltellbach)

JOHN (Ol[T H~1S9 .