The Cantuarian December 1986 - August 1987 by OKS Association

THE CANTUARIAN

DECEMBER 1986

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EDITOlllAL TH IS ANI) THAT

C HAI'EL NOT ES

SALMAGUNI)I

THE CAN TUARIA N INTEIIVIEWS

BOOK IIEVIEWS

HOUSE NOTES

11E1'OIlTS ANI) II EV IEWS MUSIC ANI) DIIAMA II TALKS III VISIT

IV THE SOC IETIES

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LE'n'ERS TO THE EDITOR

THE SCHOOL

VALETE

C.c.r. NOTES

O.K. S. NEWS

TH E CANTUA RI AN

Editors: Lucia J. Conybeare, K.S., M. D. Edwards, P . H. Lidstone, A . E. Mitchell , K.S., M. P. J. Siewan, R. A. F. Webb, K.S., C. M . Whiteley, M.S., E. T. J. Widdowso n, K. S. Photographic Editors: J . M. Ma rshall , A. P. Wattenbac h. Senior Editor: P. J. Brodie, M.A.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES We ack nowledge with thank s the receipt of magazi nes from the foll owi ng schools:

Amplc[o rth, Bedford, Bradfield. Bryanslon, Ca mpbell College , Edinbu rgh Academy, Fclsted, Ma rl boro ugh, SI. Lawrence, T o nbridgc, Westminster .

THE CANTUARIAN DECEMBER, 1986

VOL. LI NO.1

EDITORIAL Am 1 wrong, or did jingoism actually exist? What has happened to lines such as 'Britons never never shall be slaves' and 'There'll always be an England'? They seem to have been replaced by more negative approaches to the subject like 'Old England is Dying' and 'Maggie, what have we done?' It is this destructive attitude which, if it is not changed, is going to be the cause of the downfall it foresees . If we convince ourselves that we are a dying nation, we may well end up by becoming one. This attitude requires modification if we are to retain some status in the world . It is both unrealistic and cynical to labour these negati ve points at the expense of the numerous positi ve points in Britain. Britain has a great deal going for it. In the arts certainly we are wo rld leaders: London theatre is unequalled, our Royal Shakespeare Company is amongst the best in the world, and we constantly produce dramatists, poets, and novelists of a high standard. Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier are perhaps two of the world 's finest actors, and David Puttnam has shown that Britain can shake the film industry. On the musical front Britain is without doubt a leader - not only in more classical areas, where we see Benjamin Britten and Andrew Lloyd-Webber, but also in rock music where British ba nds dom inate the world music scene and foreign bands sing to their own countries in English. In the sporting world, too, we are by no means at the bottom of the heap, a nd wi th 169 gold medals and records held by Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe in running we are still holding our own. We must also remind ourselves that Britain is, and a lways will be, important to the world, because so many of today's invaluable li ving faciliti es were inve nted or discovered by Britons. Penicillin, vaccination, television, tarmac, the hovercraft and the railway, a ll testify to modern British ingenuity. We must remember, too, that English is the most wide-spread language in the world, used from America to Australia - a lasting symbol of the contribution of our country to our planet. Joh n Bull has been sitting down fo r too long. We must stop complaining, and start look ing for the way back to the top. TOBY WIODOWSON.

HANDING ON (Michael Waterman)

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'Jhis & 'Jhal It already seems ~trange to refer to Canon Phillips as the new Headmasler The New - he has been with us for over three months now and has moreover taken Headmaster a great deal of trouble to get to know as many members of the School as . possible. Nevertheless, this is the issue of The Cantuarian for which he and h~ family are new and we wish them all much happiness here. Unlike his pred~cess ors Canon Phillips was already a canon of some seniority when he came to Canterbury, bemg Canon Theologian of Truro in his native Cornwall. He will retain Ihis office when he is installed as an honorary Canon of Canterbury on 31 st January.

The Very Revd. John Simpson was installed as Dean of Canterbury, and The New Dean thereby ex officio Chairman of our Governing Body, on Saturday 20lh , SePte~b,er. The ceremony was on an '!nstinted scale - Lord Coggan fell he knew more about eternity thereafter - and ended With the members of the Foundation including the King's Scholars, promising due obedience to the new head of the Cathedral community. The office of Archdeacon of Canterbury, vacated by the new Dean, was filled by the appomtment of the Revd. Michael Till , Vicar of All Saints, Fulham, and a former Dean of King's College, Cambridge. The new Archdeacon, who is also an ex officio Governor and his family are now our neighbours in Chillenden Chambers. ' Canon Derek Ingram Hill (SH /GR 1925-31) was celebrant in the Cathedral on Sunday 21s1 Dec~mber at a Solemn Eucharist which marked his Golden Jubilee as a Priest. Dr. Hill, a visible, audible and much-loved refutatIOn of the Idea that the age of natural personalities is over was ordained in the Cathedral by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang (whose arms appear ov;r the Grange front door). 2

I We congratulate Dr. and Mrs. Maltby on the birth of Hugh Frederick Owen on 9th August. After a spell in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital as the special rbe NeW care baby uni t's 'head boy' Frederick is now thriving. rota llbY T his seems a reasonable place to note - and offer our best wishes on I 0 K.S. marriage: Nicholas Lyons (MR /LN/B 1972-77) and Felicity Parker (SH 1975-77) ,daub :rri~d in the Quire on Saturday 11th October. It would be interesting to know how many ",ere ro doubles have now taken place. Perhaps the economics department can also discern the oflhese d? underlyi ng tren .

T hrough the good offices of Mrs. Ursula Warren (nee Horsley-Smith) and the generosity of the Revd. Hugh R. Horsley (1 925) a remarkable illuminated manuscript of the Holy Communion Service has been placed in the Walpole Collection . It was made by the Revd. John William Horsley a nd his wife Susannah Sankey sometime between 1843, when they were married, and 1849 hen he died aged only 33. His was a truly missionary ministry in the then new parish of Dunkirk w Ihe Forest ~fBlean, a few miles wes t of Canterbury. The parish of Dunkirk was formed when I~e isolation and backwa rdness of the local labourers was dramatically revealed through the Ixtraordinary affair of the self-styled Messiah Sir William Courtenay (really a deranged Cornishman named John T hom) . It culminated in a kind of religious jacquerie and the ' Battle of Bossenden Wood', in which a serving officer was killed (the last in hand-to-hand battle on English soil, it has bee~ claimed) as w~lI as the MeSSiah a nd a number of hiS followers . While rehabilitating their panshlOners, bUlldmg their home and bnngmg up their famil y John and Susannah Horsley found time to illuminate our manuscrip t. T hough it sh,?ws une~en skill.(Mrs. Warren thinks that John taught Susannah as the work went on) much of It IS very fme artistIcally; and as a witness to a certain simple nobility of life it is moving - perhaps the more because il was never quite finished. Both the Horsley sons became King's Scholars - at one time they and their five cousins were all here together - and in all some fifteen members of the family have been at King's . A propos old family links, Sarah Lee-Warner who joined Walpole in September now knows not only that Bishop Warner gave the Cathedral its Carolean font, about that she had an mklmg, bul also that a Victorian L-W contrived to drill pin-holes thro.ugh the Headmaster's soup-spoons in order to watch from a hiding place over the rafters the ensuing chin-wipers' dinner party. The lIo rs.le y CoromuDlon Book

The Princess of Wales came to Canterbury on Monday 1st December and attended an Advent Carol Service for Schoolchildren in the Cathedral. At the Dean's kind invitation a number of decently schoolchildren like King's Scholars also went, but it is not true that those who wished to be considered had to walk through Ihe Mint Yard wicket without stooping. In the Cathedral they disposed themselves about the Princess's feet. She had arrived by helicopter on Birley's where the Headmaster and Mrs. Phillips were presented . Next day the papers were scanned for photographs, a nd hopes rose when the Daily Telegraph showed the Princess shaking hands with a man - or wo man - in a gorillasuil; but it turned out to be at a subsequent engagement. Reminiscing for a Save The Children Fund a nthology Princess Anne recalled a visit to Canterbury Cathedral as a Benenden schoolgirl. She was approached ' by a group of schoolboys' and asked for her autograph. Knowing she shouldn't she compromised by making a small cross and blurting out ' I'm afraid [ can't wri te' ; and the young gentlemen accepted this 'with a degree of sympathetic understanding'. Princesses

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The late Mr. Francis Voigt left ÂŁ1000 in his will 'for the boys of The G the wording presumably antedating the arrival of girls at the SChor~ng,', o understand that an equal opportunity video has been bought with s . W, this thoughtful legacy. ollle 01 The Librarian wishes to thank the following authors who have presented copies of their b to the Library: the Headmaster (God B. C. and Lower than Angels), Mr. Michael POwell (lOO~ Feet on Foula) , Mr. Christopher Hudson (Colombo Heat) and Professor Bryan Keith-L' (Turnpikes in Kent). Books were also given by Dr. Arnott, Professor Crump, Mrs. de Lau~cas Mr. Durgan, Mrs . Lewis, Mrs. Parker (in memory of her father L. J. Bassett), Canon Pilkin ay, and Canon Sargent. glon At this point we must describe a difficulty: the Librarian is now Mr. P . G. Henderson b his predecessor has forbidden us to publish any sort of appreciatio n of his (the predecess~ ,Uj S work in that office . This puts us still further in Mr. Hattee's debt. And the same goes for Mil ford, who won't even have us mention what we mustn't write about. We are su re that thor. who have benefited directly from Mr. Milford's devoted sanity will behave less complaisant IS< Mr. R. C. White will be in charge of Rugby from January. y. Gifts And Silences

Three O.K.S. authors visited the School this term. Mr. Christopher Hudson (GL 1960-64), author of The Killing Fields, lectured and, as already mentioned, kindly gave a copy of his most recent book to the Library. Mr. Michael Powell (K.S. 1916-19). slipped away fro~ being feted at the University as Ih, G.O.M. of Enghsh fIlm-makers (whIch of course he IS) and was perhaps planning a littl' anonymous obserVIng In the Green Court, but he was spotted and was very nice about it. H, promised to pay a more extended visit and talk, and perhaps also be interviewed for the King's Video Archive which is being built up by Dr. Mallion. His recent autobiographical volume A Life in Movies, which has had excellent reviews (there is one in this issue), contains a lyrical account of Canterbury and of King's. He 'enjoyed swishing about in the gown of a King's Scholar' - as anyone with imagination and a sense of the genius loci would. 'Returning to the fold' on 6th October Mr. Patrick Leigh Fermor (GR 1929-31) indicated 10 his audience why he had had to leave the fold without much notice and less option . That led to his walk to Constantinople through the Europe of the Thirties. The first part of this journey is described in that marvellous book A Time of Gifts, and Mr. Leigh Fermor has now traversed the middle stretch in Between the Woods and the Water. Those who do not find in 'spare, honed' prose the master-pattern of English writing are again in for a treat - and the austere ones should snatch a guilty pleasure. The book was several critics' favourite of the year. Portraits of Poets is a fraternal production by Christopher and Sebastian Barker (W 1957/58-62/63), Christopher being responsible for the photographs of the poets and Sebastian for the commentary. Sebastian himself does not qualify for inclusion - you have to have been born before 1940 - but Richard Murphy (MO 1941-42) does. Betjeman in his braces is perhaps destined for iconhood. David L. Edwards (GR 1942-47), reviewing in the Church Times a collection of essays, professed to find in the Headmaster's contribution, a stud y of the attitudes to wealth in the Hebrew scriptures, that 'prophets and legislators alike strove against the ancient equivalent of the currenl Conservative philosophy'. Perhaps John (ci-devant Selwyn) Gummer should give us a right-ofreply talk - or the Headmaster? Mr. Patrick Davis who coaches our Badminton players has just published Oysters and Champagne. It is about oysters and champagne, especially as purveyed by Wheeler's. But he'll be back on course with his Encyclopaedia of Badminton, due out in the New Year. And to end with, a quiz: Who said, 'Happily I was too tired, and it was too late, to look out for the celebrated cathedral'? (Karl Marx, having walked the seventeen miles from Margate where he was recovering from boils. From A Literary Guide to Canterbury, reviewed elsew here in this issue.) Visitors' Books

And 'A Cathedral, sir? At Canterbury?' (Smith-Baggott on the eve of his Common Entrance m having been at his parents' insistence coached intensively to get into the King's School ~:nl~rbury. From Tennis and the Masai, by Nicholas Best (N. S. F. Browne, LX 1961-66).)

On 4th December the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent addressed the Common Room .on th~ Changing Scene in Higher Education. Wine was . served and a bnsk dIscussIOn ensued, we understand, but it has not proved possible w obt~m a sum~ary of!t. It IS hoped that other distinguished figures from the world of educatIon wIll from tIme to tIme help the Common Room to scan the horizon. About 250 for~er Cathedral choristers came to Canterbury on Friday 12th September for Ihei r 56th FederatIOn FestIval and nostalgically ate in our Dining Hall. Afterwards they sang in Ihe Shirley Hall, and on Sunday the Very Revd. Pa ul Burbridge (MO 1946-50), Dean of Norwich, preached to them. The School were very pleased to welcome again Mr. Stan Fisher from Liverpool who stayed wilh us from 12th-15th December. Several boys and girls helped him to visit in his wheel-chair whalever he wanted, and he particularly enjoyed On The Razzle, the rugby match and 'the gorgeous meals' at the Barhams and with Mr. John Parker. More Visitors

The list of 'Britain's top 20 boys' schools' prin ted by The Times on 7th October was, in fact, a selection from the rather shrewd thumb-nail portraits put together by Amanda Atha and Sarah Drummond in The Good Schools Guide. The fascination which these league-tables have for sections of English society must throw lighl on S,ome psychologIcal thing or other, and it is a fair bet that not even Britain's x top top lOP boys schools would have borne omIsSIon WIth amusement, still less been unaware of it. Anyway, King's came out as a ~traditional but easy-going public school with some refreshing allllUdes ... A school for the bnght aesthete, but tough on the underachiever'. And who could Ihe 'delightful, popular man, short, plump, twinkly, humorous' have been? 2.138 RoseUes

Tough on some underachieving organizers in Geneva was bright aesthete Eurhythmics Nicholas Cox (GL 1972-76) who with eighty-four others had taken his clarinet ., to an international competition there. First there were only three judges; then I~VO dldn t play the clan net; then they only asked for half a concerto; and finally they shorthSled twelve, not the normal forty-eIght. 9a non. Nicholas led a protest, and proved more than a match for the secunty men who tried to 'escort' him out of the hall. In the end they had to call the police. Also in the news (though not on the frisson-Iaden City pages) was Fun King of the Baby Sioanes a.k .a . Jeremy Taylor (LN 1981-84), edItor of The Gatecrasher and promoter of events like the TIIaOlc Ball. Jeremy has apparently organised 'a Big Bang on the old-boy network'. Whatever that, IS, It pays: hIS accountant tell~ him their profits will be ÂŁ160,000 next year. Although you can t beheve everythmg you read m the papers - 'O-Ievel maths seems to have been less of a problem' - they seem to have picked a goer this time. In The Sunday Ti~es Julia War.rander (MO) represented youth treading a more conventional palh. ArtIculate, a gITI, ~nd at an Indep~ndent school, she counterpointed in Oxford Blues with a boy from a Humberslde comprehenSIve (who seemed perfectly articulate too but it wasn't emphasised; also Julia looked very attractive leaning against arch itecture in a huge photograph wh Ile he wa~ a pass-party smud&e behind glasses). She. got in at single-sex St. Hilda's (well done!) and he dldn t (not even at the mIxed college he was trYIng for). But does a ll this Oxbridge harping advance anything of value? 5

The. School has been rapped over the knuckles by a Canterbury Pil . havmg, at leastpubhcl y,.overlooked Mr. Hooper's achievements in gnm for Juruor InternatIOnal rowmg. WhIle countercharging that Canterbur coac~1II cannot all have read The Cantuanan w1lh scrupulous attention, we are very glad to y PIlgruns two Items for congratulatIOn: 1. In the last two years three World Silver medals have ~nnt here by oarsmen. for whom Mr. Hooper was responsible. 2. The squad of which he was chi~~n Won m Yugoslavia m 1986 was the most successful Bntam has had since Juniors assumed im coach ponallCt. Super Hooper

The Sri Lanka Cricket Tour party left on 22nd December lOoking f't h here and there the exactions of raising funds sociably had left traces I~ 'hUgh they. have ~ll been ke~p ing diaries and taking photographs fo; sefec ~Pe pubhcatlon m our next Issue. The Netherlands Rugby Tour came back ~Ive days before term having played matches at The Hague and at Haarlem. a ew Mr. White al?l?eared 0t.' TVS on 26th N~vember, his producer-planned task to reasSure world that traditional atlttudes were survIvIng m school sport despite ILEA wimps He d.Jhe with Jenghiz Khan still somewhat to his right. . I 11 Three O.K.S. rowed in the London University Trials: Richard Hills (GL 1979-84) and S' Webb (SH 1980-84) in Jazz, and Michael Norton (B 1982-84) in Rock . We hope someon~m~nll send in information about the final selections. WI But the aspi ring sportsman doesn' t always have a n unobstructed path: And The Rest Of Sport

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I am sorry I did not attend cricket today but when I went to get the key for the bike I W going to borrow I found out I had never given it back. But most importantly my Matron h: confiscated my clothes and I have only just noticed. Sorry!' King's boys and girls met w.ith almost embarrassing success in various competitions recentl y: but qUite a few of the prizes were in cash and that helped the shy ones to suffer the limelight long enough to collect. The Light A,t The End OJ The Tunnel? documentary did win the South East regional heat and earnt Kmg s a Video recorder and teleVISIOn momtor. The production team were led by Martin Ed~ards (SH). Though the documentary was not the national winner its handling of a theme of mterna tional importance has generated continuing interest in it. Cadbury' s National Children's Art Competition successes led to a trip to the Royal Festival Hall where Sholto Byrnes (SH~ and Juhen Foster (GR) accepted the Arthur Lines Poetry Trophy from Sir Terence Conran despite ItS unsetthng look of an exploding printworks. Andrew Darley (LX) and Jonatha n Ibbott (LN) got boring cheques, and so did the School. Andrew's poem The In credible BounCing Man was requested on Poetry Please (Radio 4). More cheques came from the unprivatised Post Office when Myles Bowker (MT) and Ted George (T) beat the rest of the South East at Planning a Royal Visit . The South East included Simon Cole (SH) who came second. It was all to do with post-codes and a wedding. Jane .Lockett (LX) won the East Kent heat of the National Schools' Public Speaking Compelttlon WIth flve-mmutes on Will w?men ever be equal? There seemed to be the making of a logIcal paradox here. Untroubled by thIS Elame Ohver (SH 1984-86) has made it for Operation Raleigh , but It was an all-male party that went to the Roya l Society's austere feast of tea-andÂˇ biscuits-and-mathematical lecture. More logic - they were invited because their predecessors had done well in the Mathematical Olympiad. David Bond (MR) did better than tea and biscuits - he got the part of Haemon in the Benenden production of Anouilh 's Antigone. Incommensurable with this is Mr. Woodley's election to the Vice-Chairma nship of the AMMA's (the respectable teachers' Union) Independent Schools Committee. Ne Plus Ultra. Winners

Actually only a bit of it is - to let those who missed the rave reviews know I mn that the Chapel Choir under Mr. Rose, ably supported by James Galway, flu.ed Co u the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Singers etc. has been captured G /Way's Christmas Carol, RCA Record/Cassette/CD. We understand that the making on James rad at CBS Studios, over three days, was a great experience for our singers. . . f he reco o I I 0 took part in lTV HIghway's Remembrance Day programme, With Sara Bee (MR The~):ncoring by request at Christmas . A smalle! c.hoir sang for the Cathedral wedding. of 1984.8 hard Hudson's daughter - Mr. H udson pamtmg away at the top, of a ladde r lookmg MrÂˇ R~istinguished retired ambassador must be known to many at Kmg s, by Sight at least. hke a Orcheslra paid their now custom~ry visit to Rheims - there is a brief report elsewhere The. e _ and Rheims retaliated WIth a chamber group from the Conservalolre de Relms in IhlS ~~i~ley Hall at the end of this year's Canterbu~y Festival (which appositely had France In the I eme) Our orchestral players also gave two chanty concerts thIS term, one for Canterbury as Its tl~IS a~d one for the Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team (who operate in one of 0 ';1 1' HosPI 'te C C F training wildernesses), and the Jazz Club/Luxmoore Propellers Combo agam favo~ ~e eld~riy ~nd disabled shoppers experiences they would not otherwise have had at Marks ga~es encer. The band handed out a musical Christmas Card in the Undercroft at Ihe end of an ~ on the las t day of term - this was a pleasant innovation, answered across the Green ~~s:~ by the twinkling lights of the Careers Room Christmas tree with its message of peace 10 Ihose with IWO Bs and a C. OKS. musicians are now too active to be mentioned individually - our representative choice . H~r;y Christophers (MR 1967-72), fo under and director of the Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, ~hO gave the Christmas performance of Messiah al St. John's, Smilh Square, broadcasl on 22nd December. Very young O.K.S. my.sicians include Alexander Sturt (Organ Scholars hip al J ~su s , Oxford), Ben Finn (Choral ExhibItIon at Kmg's, Cambndge, and a CompoSllton ScholarshIp al the Royal College) and Crispin Flower (Choral Exhibition at Gonville and Caius, Cambridge).

The Common Room has twelve new members this term . In a Venn diagram show the five doctors , nine men, one admitted cat-lover, ... Perhaps a straight list is better: Dr. Daniel's academic career has taken tn his native Cyprus, six universities in England France, Greece and Germany, CERN , and Ihe Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. He knows about icons, the fundamenlal (at the time of writing) particles of matter, and is married wilh Ihree children. Mr. Evans is part of the new C .D.T. team. His degrees are in Physics and Electronics a nd his passion is compuler software: so much 50 that he has nOI told us about his family. He knows a lot about stage-lighting too. Dr. Hands, King's College, London, and Oriel, where he lectured in English, knows about George Eliol (book due out this year), Thomas Hardy (book due out nexI year) and about music, having conducted the Schola Cantorum of Oxford on 'both sides o f the Iron Curtain ' presumably dodging about quickly enough to be useful. He is engaged to be married. Mr. Harris is combining his work here with being assistant organist at the Cathedral (as Mr. Flood had done) . Mr. Jackson Durham and Queens', Cambridge, comes to us from Durham School (where Dr. Mitchinson' learnt to be tough, it is said , but that was a century and a half ago). He is highl y aq uatic - half-blue for swimming, water polo, sailing - and married. Dr. Lamb has researched into the chemistry of oil and is a dab ha nd at Bridge - won the U.2S National University Pairs competition in 1982. So he must be . .. He is single and yet wants to take part in a demolition derby . Dozen Of The Besl

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Miss Lewis is not staying beyond this term but her work in the Geography department 'sh that she had quickly understood her pupils'. Perhaps that's why. . . oWed Mr. Martin has come to establish the new C .D.T. department of which he is head He' graduate of Leeds and of the Open Universit¥, and like many a ~enowned King's figu~e he IS a a Bradford Grammar School connectIOn. HIs Interests Include vanous games and silverSmithhas and he is married. lng, Mrs. Mather tells us she was born between London and Paris. She eventually reached Limo where she was educated at the Couvent de Notre Dame and the University (or -e). Then to L~r and U.K.C. She has worked at Charter house and Seven oaks, likes good food, Mozart and O. e Straits, and has astonished some islanders by speaking French. Ire Dr. Thomson's home town is Motherwell. Thence to Glasgow University and Oxford (whe he researched a French Renaissance Latin poet), Kent (where Mrs. Mather was a pupil) a~~ latterly Dundee University. He is the one with a cat. And a wife. Professor Vile is the third Emeritus Professor to come to King's from 'up the hill' and he has also had two sons here: a man of outstanding judgement. Mrs. Wharfe has a degree from Newcastle but credits 'life in general' with her education She gave us a reference in the New Scientist to look up for the unusual/interesting experienc~ in her life but the issue was missing. Mrs. Wharfe has three children.

CHAPEL NOTES Several of the Autumn term collections at Matins were given to charities whose work we heard about during the course of the term. Mother Frances Dominica spoke to the school about the Oxford hospice for children, Helen House; Glyn Davies showed the Lower School slides which he had taken of the Leprosy Mission's work in Thailand; and Lord Coggan introduced us to four friends, and told us about the work of his daughter as a doctor in Pakistan. Also, a former member of the Common Room, Peter Reiss, sent news from Malawi of projects to help the refugees from Mozambique who are coming into Lilongwe, and of the work which the church is doing to help them . Donations were sent as follows: £ British Limbless ex-Service Men's Association 50 Cancer Research Campaign 100 Church Army 50 Helen House 200 Help the Aged 50 Imperial Cancer Research Fund 100 Invalid C hildren's Aid Association 50 Leprosy Mission 80 Mozambique Refugees 230 Oxfam (work in Africa) 50 Pennell Memorial Hospital, Pakistan 135 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association 50

£1145 The collection taken at the Carol Service, totalling £873, was divided equally between the City of Canterbury Christmas Gift Fund and the work of the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research Trust. P.F.B. 8 THE HORSLEY COMMUNION BOOK (AllthollY Wa((enbachj

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Where were you brought up and educated? How has this affected your outlook?

I was born and brought up in Cornwall and am passionately Cornish. As we say in Cornwall, hal is where I 'belong to be'. [ came of Methodist stock and I have some of that fierce I dependence and eccentricity that might be associated with other minority peoples. I was educated '~ a small public school. I wasn't very happy there, and I never rea ll y shone at school. I don ' t ~hin k school was a formative part of my life at all - whether that qualifies me to be a Headmaster, I don't know.

How different is being Headmaster of King's from your previous job?

The more perceptive actually see that there is quite a lot in common, because both jobs have a very strong pastoral content. It is vital to be really interested in people . I've been in education and in institutions - a ncient institutions, such as Cambridge and Oxford - a ll my life. Of course at King's I have an overall responsibility that I've never had before.

Why did you appLy?

I had done seventeeen years as a college chaplain , and I felt that there was at least one more job in me - a bigge r job. I had imagined it would be a church job - but accidents happen. LOiS attracted me - the similarities with an Oxford college, the cathedral, the fact that there was a university up the road - I hope I shall be very happy.

What do you see as your role here?

A Headmaster has to be like a sponge - he has to do a lot of listening, a lot of taking in , and then decisions have to be made. It's very importa nt that he listens to what everyone has to say . He has to be the eyes and ears of the place, a nd the spokesman. He must be able to represent all facets of the community. Above a ll he must passionately care for everything the people, the buildings , the tradition, and the future - what it may become . [ think my actual funcl ion is to leave this school ready for the next centu ry. There are very important educationa l issues which have to be faced . I hope that pupils will feel that they do have a direct line of communication wit h me, if they want it.

What makes a schooL a good schooL? A good school is a school which takes the important things of life seriously, and is open.

I! has to make its pupils individuals, able to cope with the real world . [ don't want to turn out

people who can be identified as having come from King's. That would be most depressing. T hey should be interesting, open, compassionate and lively people, who don ' t think that li fe is easy or Ihat the wo rld is uncomplicated, and who have a matu rity a nd a zest to face up to these things.

What is the function of a public schooL in contemporary society?

It has to give good education. In one sense, while there is wealth, there wi ll be public schools, jusl as there are expensive cars which are beautiful and perform extremely well. Yet public schools are not simply consumer articles. T hey not only have a res ponsibility to their own pupils, but also a duty to ensure that their own pupils fee l a responsibility to society outside. [ would like to see the school do more for the disadvantaged, and to have more contact with people educated III a different way. It distresses me that people everywhere are putting up defensive barriers rather than trying to break them down. 9 (Above) (Jona/hall Marshall) (Beiowl THE KING'S NAT IONAL PUOLIC SPEAKING COMI'ET ITIO N TEAM

(Fiona Miller-Sm ith, Ja ne Lockett. Eleanor Taylor, Simon Turner and Jeremy Rowsell) (Kemish GaUlle)

. What do you see as the place of religion in schools and in th I thmk we are seriously impoverishin oun . e modem World? proper expression, but the way to do th~{is n~tP~Ople If ~e do not allow their religio . R.E., not exam orientated _ based on d' . Y cOfl.1pu sory servIces. It is by c Us Sldt julst as we have thought sex education to ~s~~~~~ta~~er~~~~~Jhmr that, in quite diffe~~~~sory re IglOUS education is a very very dangel'ous th O eve opment of the adult to. ayS, 7.

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SERMON PREACHED BY THE HEADMASTER FOLLOWING HIS ADMISSION ON SUNDAY, 28th SEPTEMBER I wonder what you would say if you had to' h' on y~ur concept of God. If you thought of Gof~~ ~n Ik sermon. It would, of course, depend very httle. Your concern would be not to offend Y l~ghSh gentleman then you would say It was to be here, make some comment about h;w au wou no doubt remark o~ what a privilege needs saymg - but generally you would do a !load Our School IS - somethmg which hardly congregation. Politeness would be the order a} :~t1edas possIble to ruffle the feathers of the o n the other hand, if you saw God as a kind f e. 'ay. . who did not bow the knee to him au w a tel ronst, threatemng to exterminate everyone fast. You would point out what a ;tireat h~~~do~~~~~~age t~e con?rkegation to get on God's side would be your theme. m, w at a ns they were running. Hellfire Again, you might see God as a profit-seeking b .

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the Importance of achievement Winnl'ng . opelatmg It. You would then emphasise . - com 109 out on top - wo Id b b' I do not believe that God is either a entleman a . . u e your yehne. love. The reason that I believe that this1s so we ha terron~t o~ a busmessman . I believe he is VIII, 31-8. For I am a Christian not 'us b ' ve a rea y. eard 10 our lesson, from Mark very little - but because I see in Hi{" ttheecause of the tefachm g of Jesus - of which we had very nature a God hImself Pet~r, when he first heard from Jesus a descri r f G' . . bear, httle reahsing ho w much he was going to nee~ :~~f~ h o~ s nature,. found It too hard to IS to suffer, to be rejected to be killed and to ris . er IS emal of hIs Lord. God's nature to human activity, endur~s the pain w~ inflict H~ ~1fm. Our God, far from being impervious even freely to reject him , and yet comes back for mor~w" us to ',"ound hlm by our sinfulness, ~hows that no matter what man may do he will not let . n Jes~s s passIon and resurrection he m resurrection love. We may wound him reject him ~n go. ven the death of his son results e love knows no way to reject. And the chief characte;'ist cannot rej ect us and be God - for he would like to be, but as he is. Like the father of the p ICdOf ove IS to take the other not as God runs, not just to embrace us but to bless us God r~ Iga son, as SOon as we are in sight, manners, nor is he intent on frightening us home' nor i~ ;ot then concerned about our good mterested in us as us, me as me. When week by w~ek a t th: ~nte~ested 10 Our success - he is God to be fed by him, I do not come as a good man a h uc allst I present myself before ) n onest man, a lOVIng man: I come

s I am a mixt ure of light and dark, of joy and shame. I offer God not only what I simp.IJe~ is acc~ptable , but also what is unacceptable - fo r to God it is I who am acceptable. conSI not resist me: that IS the gospel. He can Y may say, 'Well, yo ur concept of God is a pretty easy one. You mean that whatever you ou to God will still embrace you.' Yes, I do mean that. Nothing I do can put me beyond gel uPve ~f God. St. Paul knew that. You may remember that contemplating this essential truth Ihe lOs Christianity, he considers sinning yet more in order that he can enjoy yet more forgiveness. l Ihatl f you think that that is a n enjoyable possibility, then you have never experienced love. For Bu lone enjoys the love of another, the last thing one wants to do is to hurt the other. The whe~dY is that through our weakness, our own limitations of loving, we do this. Lovers do hurt "at olher which is why in the marriage service they pledge that whatever hurts they cause, e~c y will g~ on accepting, go on loving. Sometimes our frailty makes that impossible: but it I ~ot impossible fo r God. Even though we do not want to hurt him , we do - yet God still : ves us. Indeed our failures are often our greatest growing points - because failure embraced o love acquires its own creative force - it makes whole what is broken, binds up what is ~:atlered. We need not fear our sins: we need only fear not bringing them to God's transforming love. Yet as our lesson reminds us, there are consequences which follo w from accepting God's love. 'If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.' One of the things you will discover is that once your friends get married , they will try a nd ma rry ou off. It's a very common phenomenon. Once you enjoy the most perfect and intimate love ~hich marriage brings, you want everyone else to enjo y it too. So it should be with enjoying God's love. Once you experience what it is to be accepted and loved as you are - once you are accepted a nd loved by God, you want others to share in that love. But there is only one way in which yo u can secure that, and that is by becoming that love yourself. It is all acted OUI for you each Sunday in the Eucharist. You come to God as you a re: you acknowledge that you are not as you would like to be. God embraces you with Himself by feeding you with the body and blood of his son - the man who took up his cross. Then you go out into the wo rld as Christ bearers - go out to bear his cross which is your cross among all who are unloved and unlovable - until again next week you return conscious of both having been and not been Ihal love, and find that he still embraces you with himself, wills you to be that love. And how are we to be that love? It is certainly not by being a gentleman - leaving people where they are undisturbed by the radical nature of what being God' s love means. There are some Christians who think that when they enter church they leave economics and politics behind. For them Christianity is a kind of ecclesiastical insurance for securing a safe passage from the good things of this life to the good things of the next life. That Christianity might be about the world as it is - about the exploited, the reviled, the rejected and the enchained, has apparently not crossed their minds. Yet both the Old and New Testaments have much to say about responsibility to such people: the widow, the orphan and the alien, the poor and the dispossessed, the hungry, the naked and the imprisoned. The church's place is to be with such people, securing their liberation through political and economic means. In the face of so much greed which has gripped the whole Western and supposedly Christian world, governments will only be encouraged to tackle our pressing social issues in so far as men and women of goodwill urge them to do so, and are prepared to bac k that urgency with their own resources. Nearly all my ministry has been in privileged societies, a Cambridge and then an Oxford college and now a public school. For a Christian that inevitably creates tension. But there ought to be tension at the centre of our lives - the tension symbolized in the ancient Christian practices of feasting and fasting. What is wrong with our society is that we seek to escape this tension, pretend it does not affect us, think that we have a right to an ever more abundant feast. General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Ar my, upon whom we fob off many of our responsibilities, said that the one thing he feared fo r the army was that it would settle down. Christianity is not about settling down: it is about tension - taking up one's cross and following him who It

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CROSSING THE SIERRA NEVADA We are velY grateful to Marcus Dalrym Ie (GR . expedlllOn by himself, his father, his sist~r and a 1(79-81) fordsupplYlng this aCCOunt Of an J rten d, In at of Cancer Research The team of fo ur flew to Los Angeles on 25th J . near Weldon in Southern Cali forn ia . T his allowe~": and tw~ days later we picked up the trail supply, all dehydrated, which we then sent to vario or ~ne ay 10 L.A. to organise OUr foOd on or near the highway 101 that runs parallel to utsheruSra posNt offIces 10 small mountain towns H . . . lerra evada avmg slept mmlmally the previous night a nd 'lI . .back, tha t the first day's walk was undoubtedly Stt~ sUffen~g fron: Jet lag, we found, lOoking dust bowl where the Mojave Desert ends and' e most c allengll~g. Weldon lies in a huge day we were exhausted and dehydrating quic~!~e~~ay to the foot hIlls of the Sierras. By mid and chaparal, and we discovered to Our horror that ere was no shade, Just endless sagebrush had no idea where Our nearest water was Merc'f II Our n;;~ps were out of date. We therefore a nd ?n O ur second day we re-discovered 'our ro'u~eY we IScovered a stream before nightfall . Wlthm t,:"o weeks Our journey took us to the summit f . . 10 .the conllguouS United States at 14493 fe t d 0 Mt. Whitney, the hIghest mountain u~mhabited stretches of mountain for'ests caen ' an w~ cortmued Over hundreds of miles of thIS SIX hundred mile range of mo~ntains but t~~1s a~h up and meadows. Few highways cross roads, became Our suppl y lines down which we haJ~ h~~ do, added to. some unpaved logging off route for supplies. 0 I e and hItch-hIke up to seventy miles The whole expedition was the result of over a ,'. . b~ the generous response we received for s onso~~~r s mtenSlve iJlannmg and was made possible flights, large discounts on food and equi~ment a~ci ii;e ere f'ven four complimentary return were two main ai ms of the trip. One was to walk th e ree oan of a very good ten t. There to raISe funds for the Cancer Research Campa' ~ lenhg thhOf the SIerras, and the second was . . Ign 10 w IC we had a b' . WIldlife is abundant. Bears were sighted on three . Ig Interest. for comfort, and camping was frequently enlivened ~ePt~~Jte occaSIOns, 0!lce almost too close to take Our food from Our bear bag in the trees I Ratti y ~II' nocturnal vlS;tS, and their efforts often hundreds of miles from medical resources' but fes ~ a es ere our maIO fear since we were saw a wldevanety of familiar plants and shru b or unate y we never encountered a ny. We gIant sequoIas and redwoods. The trail where the7e and the trees were largely cOOlfers including . was one, took us Over and down innumerable t2

'ns canyons, skirted hundreds of lakes and crossed countless rivers, most of them fast Jl\ountaland icy. Our route was often blocked by massive fallen trees, snapped and swept away nowl nranches. Sometimes whole days were spent in clambering over giant boulders. Snowfields byav!ISO crossed in August, and particularl y on Mt. Whitney there was a threat of fresh snow. ...ere 'dents were limited to the loss of personal items and none of us was ill. Boots collapsed ACC~ continued unblistered until they could be replaced. The dehydrated food, often but ~mented by freshly caught trout, and berries, was appetising but insufficient to sustain sUPP ies in the long run. Food became a dominant topic of conversation ! ener~ the end of ten weeks, the time at our disposal, we had walked over six hundred miles, Aaging ten miles a day . Bearing in mind the altitude and the terrain , this was considered to ~~e~ery respectable by local climbers. f unds so far raised for Cancer Research amount to ÂŁ12,000 and the campaign to increase Âˇs figure continues until the year's end . In addition we hope to be giving some slide shows t hI . h . and lectures 10 t e commg year.

CAREERS SEMINAR 1986 for the third year in succession we had a number of O.K.S . down to discuss careers with all members of 6b . T he idea is to enable boys and girls to talk to people who have successfully embarked on their careers and understand the difficulties and problems that arise in making the transition from school life to full -time employment. The O.K.S. were mostly in their twenties and thirties and had achieved their positions with anything between an Honours Degree and a single A-level (E grade) - so there is hope for all. John Halsall (GL 1963-68) talked about Accountancy and the possibilities that arise from the qualification; Mark Cheesman (LN 1968-73) discussed banking, and the powerful trio of Andrew Cunningham (LX 1958-63), Charles Hall-Thompson (LN 1964-69) a nd Robin Clarke (W 1970-74) spoke about various aspects of the City, including merchant banki ng and commodity futures broking . Christopher Vaughan (W 1973-77) led the engineering discussion and Nick Goulden (SH 1960-65) handled Local Government for the second successive year. Max Findley (GL 1965-69) explained the world of publishing and David Kenney (MO 1977-82), at rather short notice, managed the property groups. Barrie Guard (MR 1955-59) told us how to be your own boss and Michael Roberts (SH 1962-67) explained some of the problems that arise in the personnel and industrial relations world. Anthony Dawson (MR 1965-70) covered careers and administration in the sphere of music, and finally Annette Volger (T 1978-80), now a practising anaesthetist at SI. Thomas's Hospital, spoke mainly about the hurdles on the way to a medical career. There was an opportunity for individual consultatio ns afterwards. A problem mentioned by one O .K. S., now chief executive of an international company, was the difficulty of a meeting of minds where the sixt h-formers in some cases had no conception of the effort and skill needed to earn big money . This, of course, is a problem that they all faced at the same age , but it points the moral that high earnings go with qualifications and dedication - there's no such thing as luck. Socially as well as practically, it was a ve ry success ful operation: dinner the previous evening was attended by all the O.K.S. present; the Chairman of the Governors, T he Very Reverend John Simpson; the Headmaster; Major-General Pat Lee, President of the O.K.S. Association and Head of the Careers Advisory Service; the school careers staff; and Col. John Power. T he catering staff produced an excellent dinner. As Pat Lee said in his summing up in the Shirley Hall , 'The Careers Advisory Service is for you. Make good use of it. ' JOHN POWER. 13

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In the I~st two years there have been great changes in the K' , especIally In It~ ~rmy section. Entry to all three sections (Arm~ngRs lC~oo~ CNÂˇC.F. and mOSt common recruIts squad supervised by army NCO d , . . ., . .) IS now v' recr uits learn general drill, fieldcraft, mapwork, s'ho'~tf;g :g~ead over two. t~rms , during whkh spent In the recruits' squad may become tedious to some a dweapon~ traInIng. The two term the course, but those who remain are keen. ' n severa may leave at the end o~ After the two-term course the recruits split u d" . army recruits enter the A.P.C. (Army Proficien~ ~~ujr~~) ;~:tl.r resp~ctive ~ervice sections. The ;e{~~ ~~p~~~I~~;~~no~aa re~u~ar syllabus. They learn basic ~~t~iewaneJeslg~~lt~i~~~I~ve~ two y WIS 0 carryon as sIgnallers and proceed to further u r . . .orne . . q a Iflcatlons. After the A.P.C. course there are various options available Cad ~s may JOIn theKIng's Platoon whIch Involves adventure training, first aid, climbing abs '1"

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To JOIn IS not easy - a basic requirement bein a h' h Y s sectIon, or the Combat Squad of this section is to produce a base for teamwork 1ead~~shpass-mark In the A.P.C. test. The ai'; knowled~eabIe. about the army in the field. Dis~ipline is 'ftr~~~ se~-~?r;:ldence, and one becomes From thIs sectIOn the future N.C.O.s are drawn to teach th an I~ standards are expected. effect, It IS a cadre. The A.M.S. section is still uite new e recruIts and A.P.C. squads . In and hopes shortly to enter inter-school compe~tions fo; ~~ld~~!I1O~~~f :~ an excell~nt stan, Last year saw the formation of the Senior Recrui ' . ' ated dIscIplInes. the Fifth ~nd above) to go through a 'crash ' version ~f t~qu~d, whIch enables girls (and boys in they can JOIn the service section of their choice. e .P.C. , so that after only two terms The army section has at least two field days each term I . ' a~tmg from 7.00 a.m. to about 5.00 p.m. These are very tiring because one is alwa s' exercises each term and for the A M S sect'J ~nthe go . There are also at least two night weekend which test~ everything le~rnt i~ the Ip~e~e~~~O~~1 ~lghJ exercises,. including ~Jne at a whe hope to mount an exercise in the form of a running bat~le\etome tltmh eAInMthe coml!1g year t e rest of the C.C.P. ween e . . s . sectIOn and Each ~ear the C.C.P. stages one adventure trainin d trammg In 1986 took place at Loch Ewe in Scotland g camp an ~Jne army camp. The adventure to be medically and physically fit before going on .. :t ~~~ a test!ng affaIr, and we were advised In Shropshire. We entered the Cam Command I.. IS yea~ s army camp was at Nesscliff unknown at the time of writing bui in an ant s competltl,?n, WIth results which remain quality, and a great team spirit 'was built ~pca+~~upr ~mall con~ngehnt surprised people by its and everyone enjoyed it to the full. . r gramme or t e camp was demanding, . The C.c.P. army section has definitely improved d' '11 . people in the school are taking notice of its new f an !~Ph Improvmg - and I believe more supplies coming our way _ we expect for instanceact It m~re and better equipment and future - we look forward to continuing developm'en~. receIve t e new SA 80 rifle in the near SEBASTIA N ST.JOHN PARKER.

Cfhe Cantuariall, qnterview~ THE DEAN THE VERY REVD . JOH N SIMPSON

I. :4r: your functions as Dean mainly administrative, or pastoral? Will there be any shift in polley. There's bound to be some sort of shift in policy with a new Dean, because every person is different from his predecessor or successor - there will be different emphases. But with regards to the Cathedral there are certain things that are unchangeable: it stands for Ihe Worship of God and that is the priority. However, being such a large, histo ric building to which people flock, we have a duty to be welcoming, and to interpret Christianity to them. This is a constant in our policy . Having said this, there will be a lot of emphasis, over the next few years, on its role as Mother Church of the Anglican Communion , because the Lambeth Conference WIll take place here, In Canterbury, In 1988. As Dean I do have many administrative functions as well as pastoral. Personally, I don' t feel that there is much distinction between the two - they overlap. My administrative work has to be done as a pastor. 2. How do you view the role of the Church in today's Canterbury? Can the Church help 10 deal with the less pleasant aspects of Canterbury - the lonely, the depressed, the old, drug addiction and alcoholism? I think the Church ought to be involved, but whether this is the Cathedral's job is a moot point. We as a Cathedral do not have any Parish; people are coming to us from all over the world for a very short space of time. The problems which you list need long-term treatment, so I think dealing with these problems is the job of the Parish Churches, and also the churches of other denominations. We can hand the needy on to other help , but the Cathedral itself cannot do much. J. What do you believe the future holds for the Church of England? How has the Church's role changed in the context of a multi-denominational so~iety? It has changed. Christianity is one of many religions, even though the nation still espouses Christianity officially. We are the established Church, but the Church has not got the power and influence it once had. I'm not worried about this, because it makes us more conscious of the fact that we are a serving Church, serving in the context of a wider community. 4.

What strikes you as the most rewarding aspect of the Cathedral's daily work ? The continuance of daily worship , which is not only rewarding for those taking part but also has a tremendous impact on visitors. Worship creates the atmosphere of the place.

The large tourist presence in Canterbury adds variety and sightseers to the Cathedral, do conflicts crop up between tourism and worship? They certainly do. Many tourists are surprised that the Cathedral is still a place of wors hip. On a wet Saturday afternoon in summer, tourists can be resentful of the fact that they can' t go round because of a service. You do get that conflict, but it doesn' t crop up very much. Most people appreciate that the Cathedral is sacred. bill

Many people ask, 'What makes a priest? ' Why did you choose the priesthood? From quite early on in my teens, I felt impelled into offering to become a clergyman . It was a deep inner conviction that this was what God wanted me to do. I suppose there is a sense In which I can say that I didn't choose priesthood, I was impelled into it. 15

7. Ifayoung boy or girl from the School were to ask for one piece of advice for their fu what would be your response? IUr. Be absolutely true and honest to yourself. 8.

How far should politics and religion interact? They interact totally. One of the Archbishops of the Anglican Communion says that wh told that politics and religion ought to be kept in separate compartments he replies, 'What Bib~n have you been reading?', because in the Bible which contains the ancient documents e Christianity, religion and politics interact at every poin t. This is there throughout the Testament with the way God uses and guides a nation. It is there when Prophets bring the. judgments to bear on everything in national life and it is equally there in the New Testamen:r Today's lesson in the communion was all about conflict between Christ and the Pharisees and Sadducees: the political leaders of Judaea in his lifetime . Christianity and politics are bound to Interact.

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9. There is growing Support for both ecumenicalism and the ordination of women, bUllh. two seem to be developing into conflicting points of view. Which do you see as preferable? My own feeling is that each individual church must follow the course that it feels God is guiding it to take. We, as Anglicans, must not be worried because certain other churches are not facing up to the issue. We should follow what we think is right. I would support the ordination of women. 10. Why does the A nglican Communion feel the need for an hierarchical Church? What I think lies behind this question is the feeling that democracy is the best form of government and administration. This is not necessarily true. I appreciate the benefits of democracy and I want to live in a democracy, but I see the church far more in terms of a family. Democratic ideas may be used in the way the church runs itself (for example, the Synod), but the fami ly image is still there . The Bishop is the father of an area's ecclesiastical family. 11. The Cathedral is a central part of Schoolli/e, but do you feel that the School is playing an active part in Cathedralli/e? How would you wish to maintain or develop the Cathedral's links with the School? There are very deep links back over centuries; the members of the Chapter are governors of the School, and the School holds many of its services in the Cathedral. I would like to see greater use of the Cathedral as a building. Various groups might use the Crypt: such things as House Prayers and the like could take place there.

12. Are the wealth and privilege represented by the School fundam entally unchristian? They are not fundamentally unchristian, provided that they are used for the general betterment of society. If they are used for individual benefit, then I don't think that good . 13. You advertise the fact that you receive no state aid. Do you think you should? I am one of those clerics who are rather against Cathedrals receiving state aid. All churches do so in France -

this is very convenient for the congregations in one sense, but, as a result,

I feel they are less committed to their buildings . Churches are holy places and we need to support Our Own holy places. I was very conscious when visiting Sens (built by Guillaume de Sens, who was also responsible for our Quire) that Sens is now fu lly restored a fter centuries of damage and destruction through war. It has been very correctly restored, but it almost lacks spirituality: it is as though men who didn' t understand the nature of the building had reconstructed it. Guillaume's other work here, at Canterbury, has also been restored over the centuries , but it has been restored by Christians with a commitment to the place, and this seems to me to come through. 16

MR. ROBERT HARVEY (MR 1953-58) SPECIAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR ILEA

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servIce or. on and I have admi nistrative respopslblltty , poltc?: dec;slOns responsibility for seem :h~~italee~~~~lt~~~~~ provision. Thereis a large number of ad minrstratlve for the ma~agemfefnt 0 aPd there is a team of inspectors wIth whom I work closely. d executive 0 leers n an .IEd!"? Are there adequate resources available for Spec/U uca wn. f d . better J. . h tl needed but whIch we cannot un are. No. Examples of dr"veloIf~ents ~~~c pr~r"o~r;~ ~ental handicap (who would previously have teac her-puPIl raltos or c I ren WI . b t now thankfully are in the communrty); more been in long-stay subnormahty hos~lf~ls ~ith m~jor disabilities or learning difficulties and teachers towork with very yo unÂĽr c ~re~~~' more ancillary assistants to support children from to give adVIce and WIt s~PhPohrt to tlh~lsibility ~ho are attending mainstream schools on a part-tIme schools for pupIls p YSlca I

~~SiS. How has the abolition of the GLC affected ILEA and your work? What are your views on that? . f' the GLC but it used some GLC The ILEA operated very much. as a separa~~ e~lt~li;te~~~~al _ which it has now had to take resources - fina~cial, legal, tec~n~c~~, ~1~~uls ~ow going to move from its present premises. e i the onl major capital city in the world whIch on itself. The major change IS t a Therenot is noneed reason for co-or sUPPdO~tng. thatI Lord~n e~nment 60dy ,' or that the present fragmented does some ma~mg oca g v arrangements will save money 10 the long run . . ? How does this country's Special Education compare to,that Oftodt~eS'p' :coi~7~~:~ational . I' ft 'd that we have far more segrega e . . This is a huge questIOn. tIS 0 en sal t definitions of special educatio n vary both wlthtn provisio~ in this country than elsewher~, b~ onference in 198 1 speakers from several differ~nt and outsIde ~ountry.that At about an tnte~n~~~na r"their school population were in separate speCIal countnes allthIS tndlcated . 0 0 educational provision. ? 5.

6 What steps are being taken to integrate children from ethnic minority baCkgrO~ndhs .. . I 'Id f thnic minority backgrounds 10 t elf It is usually standard pr3:ctice to teach c 11 . ren I;~r~ ;ecessary' teaching in the child 's own schools with specialist Enghsh langua~e. teachmg;;;r development'in English language skills. language has been found to have posItIve gatns . . . '. .< th j . el' education secretary, SIr Keith Joseph, 7. British What culture is your reactlOfl the Â°hPII !lOn that should betotaug t 111 sc 0 01s,e I:~::ng other culture, religion and languages 10 tlte parents? . R Iture , These are odd words from a man who spent most of his teens study109 Graeco- oman cu religion and languages, as I did.

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What are your views on educational priority areas and positive discrimination? Positive discrimination is essential. What is often overlooked is the multiplier eff ect of concentration of disadvantaging conditions in an inner city area. 9.

What are your views on mixed ability teaching? All teaching is mixed ability teaching to some extent. The wider the ability range the the range of materials which has to be deployed to extend the most able and to enable able to make progress. Some schools have shown that it can be done well, with good from both ends of the spectrum. 10. Should the central government have more control over the educational system? it be centrally funded? No, to both - though some of it is already centrally funded. 11. What educational measures could be taken to boost employment opportunities for young? A lot is being done, and probably more could be, to enable young people to develop basic competences, more self-confidence in job applications and interviews, and more marketable skills but educational measures are not enough. They also need jobs to apply for. â&#x20AC;˘ 12. What are the most pressing problems in British education today? How would YOU Ilk, to see British education progress? The most pressing need is to re-establish a common sense of purpose, common expectations and a respect for what the overwhelming majority of teachers are doing. There is too much scapegoating around and this should now be abandoned. 13. What do you think of the standard of education in this country? The best is very good - and ought to be . But we need calm, adequately resourced and decently housed schools with a clear and shared pattern of expectations if the level of the majority is to be raised . Present national policies in many areas are not helpful to creating the conditions in which this can be achieved. (The Pelican Inside the Inner City by Paul Harrison gives an impression of how social conditions impact on schools.)

TIMOTHY BRIGGS THE CAPTAIN OF SCHOOL

What is the role of the Captain of School? I don't see my foremost role as that of being a good example: I regard myself as having a practical rather than an idealistic role. I am in charge of the School Monitors, the working body responding to the everyday needs of the School. In some ways the School doesn't exist as a unil, for it is a collection of independently-run houses. The Housemasters and Heads of Houses work on their different levels and I provide uniformity and organisation of the policies of the Heads of Houses, as the Headmaster does for the Housemasters . Each house thus develops differenlly, but is bound to the others by central organization . As regards duties, we have monitors' meelings fortnightly, and I generally find that I have perhaps half a dozen different jobs to do each day. It's important to keep in touch with the houses, so I like to go round with House Monitors every now and again. You soon pick up a good sense of how the house and the personalities in it work. One thing that would save a great deal of time would be to have a system of pigeon holes for monitors: at present I have to put a message in an envelope and give it to a boy to take. 18 WINE TASTING (Jollotllan Marshall)

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"",al sari of pressure are you under? ose the most difficult thing about my job is that it is nondescript: no one can quite I SUP~e extent of my authority. I have to assume my influence to be greater than someone define.' ht because otherwise nothing would get done, and I must accept the repercussions of cI!:t m'!lled pretentious. The pressure comes largely from trying to do everything quickly (because bed'gc SO much to do) whilst ensuring that what you do is the right thing. I am lucky in having ,berf 'tul Vice-captain and Senior Girl to assist me in solving problems and organizing everything. ~a~e really serious decisions until after I have slept. Nothing clears your head better. ,.

Have you lost some of your friends by becoming Captain of School?

J. What yOU lose is knowing who is your friend. When I became Captain of School I realized it might affect my social life, but now I don't have time for much of one anyway. The that Ie in my own year mostly appreciate the dilemma I face if they break the rules, so they ~rt put me in difficult situations, although the relationship between us can be strained. Anyone puts me in a potentially compromising position can't be a true friend anyway.

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How do you see the role of the Monitors?

I see School Monitors as mediators between staff and pupils, and therefore representative of both within the community. It annoys me when either pupils or staff misunderstand the dual natu re of our role, that is, being both a normal human being and a figure of a uthority. There is nO doubt that both pupils and staff are to some extent guilty of straining this rule, which is a shame because the Monitors' position as mediators has become increasingly important in the more liberal age which we have entered.

""'at are the perks of the job?

It is good to see the School running happily and efficiently. Obviously the minority who find glamour in breaking the rules are not content, and feel oppressed, but that is the group they have chosen to be in. I won't have a nervous breakdown over their self-inflicted predicament. As with any job, reward comes from endeavour.

What is your relationship with the Headmaster?

I regard myself as independent, so a lot of what I do is on my own initiative, but I discuss important topics with the Headmaster. He is very kind and sincere, with a good sense of humour, but if you push him you can expect to regret taking him lightly.

Have people treated you differently since you became Head of School?

One of the things of which I remind myself is that when I talk to someone they are aware that they are talking to the Captain of School, and sometimes their pleasantness has more to do with my position than personality. This could become a problem on leaving the School if you don't accept that you are not as marvellous as the job tends to convince you that you are, but I'm preparing myself for that.

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BOOK REVIEWS A LIFE IN MOVIES MICH AEL POWELL (K.S. 1916-19) (Heinemann, ÂŁ15.95) Michael Powe ll is now widely regarded as the greatest living English fi lm director. He has been fo n u therefor e, to live into his eighties. After twenty years in the critical do ldrums, his repu tation tOday is nale, h igher than it was in the 19405 and 19505, when works such as Th e Life and Death oj Colonel BJ~ven Black Narcissus and Gone 10 Earth (recent ly revived to much acclaim in beautifu lly restored prints) first shown. H is autobiography - or rather its first instalment , for he takes the story on ly up to I ~ and the release of T~e ~ed Shoes - will no. ~oub~ ad~ to th is reputation. The (igh! it shed~ on the personalil o f t he author, on hiS films and o n t he BrItish fi lm In d ustry as a whole makes It a major contr ibution tY cinema history . 0 In so me ways , however, it is an aw kward book to read . It is colo urfu l but patchy, moving but confusi lively, self- indu lgent and immodest bu t never dull. In other words, in all these respects - and , one mi~i even add , in its instances o f 'bad taste' - it is j ust like Powell ' s films. Even the divisio n o f the book into three sections - Silent, Sound, Colour - is perhaps a reminder of his effor ts to create a 'composed fi lm' that wou ld combine music, emoti on and acting in o ne quasi-operatic whole. And it is perhaps ironic' therefor e, that literary critics should have attacked the boo k fo r j ust these qu alities at a time when nIni critics have come to accept them as Powell 's di stinctive contribution to the a rt o f the film. Powe ll hi mself has no do ubt that ci nema is the characteristic art of the twentiet h century, a nd this book p rovid es much of interes t, both seriou s a nd anecdotal, on its history. From Into /erance in Folkestone and Rex Ingram film ing Somerset Maugham's The Magician in the South o f France , via Alfred Hitchcock ('t he most inventive, mischievou s, inspiring hobgobli n in movies' ), Madeleine Carroll in the bath, and the Kordas, to Fr itz La ng, David O. Selznick and Lo uis B. Mayer in Hollywood, much light is shed On the nature of the ci nema a nd o n the practical business of making film s. In particular, P owell conveys his love and adm iration for silent cinema - 't he greatest medium o f communication, the greatest storytelling medium that has been invented ' - and his sense of loss at the impact of sound. At the same time, those who know the Archers' films will enjoy learning that the Himalayan gardens in Black N arcissus were found in Horsham t hat Roger Livesey never went to the Western Isles in I Know Where I'm GOing, and that in A Canterbury Tale the nave of the Cathedral was a set at Denham Studios and the orga n mu sic ca me from S1. Albans! Most readers of The Canluarian will appreciate A Life in Movies for its first eighty or so pages, in which Powell describes growing up in East Kent immediately before and d uring the First World War. He was bo rn at Howlett 's Farm, near Bekes bou rne, and soon moved to Hoat h Farm : farming life - the invasion of the hop-pickers, 'pocketing ' in the oast house and mo le-trapp ing - is graphically described . He also reca lls riding into school in Canterbury on his pony, pas t Simon Langton Sc hool, 'an uproar of rough boys and even rougher girls '. Above all , there are his rem iniscences of li fe at King' s. As a Scholar, he 'rather enjoyed swishing abo ut ' in his gown j he particularly appreciated the teaching of the Rev. H. V. Tower, Headmaster of the Jun ior Schoolj and he quickly established his reputation as a teller of ta les after lights-out in the dormitory. Among the most deeply felt passages in the book is the story of his unhappy move from King's to Dulwich College aft er the dea th of his brot her. ' I was pass ionately loyal to King's School' , he writes, explain ing that ' it wasn't reall y loyalty to "the old school" that I felt. It was loyally to place: to the narrow streets of Can ter bury, to the H igh Street. .. to the Cathedral standing amid the hu shed green lawns o f the precincts .. .' And he never for got : ' all this 1 have tried to get into the last twenty-fi ve minutes of A Canterbury Tale'. As a bon us to King's readers, there is also a trib ute to Carol Reed - ' the best realistic director that England has ever prod uced' - as well as several references to Somerset Maugham, a neigh bour in the South o f France, includ ing a st ory that 'm y father used to play billiards with Willy, but after complaini ng that none of the Villa Mauresq ue's billiard cues was straight and bringing his own cue, he was never as ked again' . With location shooting in Burma, South America, Canada , France, Ireland , a nd , o f course, Foula ; with sets at Elstree, Denham and Hollywood; with stars such as Deborah Kerr, Lau rence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Moira Shea rer; and with Isadora Duncan, W inston C hurchill and Salvador Dali among the extras, A Life in Movies must be hailed as one o f Mic hael Powell's most colourful and characteristic prod ucti ons.

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CITY- A LITERARY GUIDE TO CANTERBURY

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BROWN, STUART HUTCH INSON, AND MICH AEL IRWIN (Yorick Books £2.95)

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Cathedral drama. Dunng those yeals ~ e ~urc 1 ~ bin ton laid the foundation of the Arts Festival Cal hedral on the initiative of th~ an:t azmg ~ISS Mal g~re~ B~as;field Charles Williams, Dorot hy L. Saye rs, movement by enticing such major hterar)yL Igu~es~s 0 ~ Christoph'er Fry to write plays for performa n~e Christopher Ha~sall and (afte r the war aune nt~~b~~ la s we re innovative and experim~nt~1 bot h 111 in the very preclllcts of the Ca~hed.ral. The ~ah d wed ~ S. Eliot's masterpiece, commi ss io ned and form and language. Alth ~ugh mev ltabl y ovels a 0 wer/of 'considerable merit and interest. So me were y performed at Canter~ury I~ 1935, mhan of thbe p.laYSlayS and thi s flo urishi ng o f Chr istian drama should qu ite sensational: It Is.a Pity ~h at 1 e C anter til Y P not be featured III Wntt~n ~lty. . . . n wled ed by the compilers in their preface, is th at Anot her omission, WhiC h, 11l fa irness, IS paltly ack OM gTourtel was born in Palace Street and soon of child ren's literature. T he creator ? fl Rupert ~he B:~{' pe~rXnd his P~ls. By this token Ian Fleming sho~ld the Westgate Gardens are to have a ht~ ~ group~~~~ b~t as the autho r of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which also be included,. not. as the creato~ 0 amcs d '{is remarkab le motor car, while a res ident of nearpv Fle ming wrote, 1l1splred by a Pohs~ Cou n.t a~t "ould ,'eceive the Maltby prize for Canterbury Tales. As onc of my fa vo unte stones I \ y Be kes bou~ne . . ' headin 'Canterbury Spurned' are Marx. an~ <? B. Sh a~..,. Two wflters featu red 111 the GUide, un~~r ~he M' glffering from an uncomfort able lll fhcli on of bOi ls Nei lher of them t'~ought mu~h o f ~ant e)1 ,m y. ~I X~;\ race of poetry in it', he wrote . He was, at least, at the time, descn bed .t he City ~s urly . Ther~ir~d and it was too late, to look out fo r the ce lcbl:atc,d no more than hu man 111 admlttmg, ~ was too , . h f the writers featured were boys at the Klllg s cathedral' . Finally, on a less prol~tanan note, s~m\el~~I Oole Maugham, Ly ly, Pater). To thi s literary g School (Marlowe, Somner, Gost hng, GO~so~, C u b r: bo;n fil m director Michael Powell. I'll leave grouping 1 would have added at least ~ nmt , ~n ler pUowe ll'S superb autobi~graph Y, A Life in Movies, you with a fragment of my own choos mg tCl: ken ro~ wh ich matches the best of the many gems 111 the gUide. 1 I Ity to place' to the narrow streets 'So it wasn't really loyalty to "the old school" that 1 felt .. ~~"'~01~y~O the Christchurch Gate opposit e of Canterbury, to the High Street and cattle m ar~ets ~h at ~~e to the C~t hedral standing am id the hushed Kit Marlowe'S statue in the Butter Markel.', to a~etls eC~a~e where a chair dragged across the echoing green law ns of the pre~i nct s, to the ,vasldSl ednce 0 d ~ ~r(mo'ured men, pierced and slashed with swords, flagstones made one thl!1k of B~cket s bo ,y ragge y H.R.O.M. to die before the altar 111 the Side chapel.

'BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER' PATR ICK LEIG H FERMOR (G R 1929-3 1) (John Murray ÂŁ/3.95) ' Every part o f Europe I had crossed so fa r was to be to rn a nd shattered by the war' the countries traversed by this journey were fo ught over a few years later by two me;c" I' .alI destructive powers; a nd when war broke out, all these friend s vanished into sudden dark essly Afterwa rds the uprooting a nd destruction were on so tremendous a scale that it was somet ess . years after the end of it all that the cloud became less dense and I could pick up a clue I~es a nd there and piece together what happened in the interim. Nearly all of them had been dragg~ into the conflict in the teeth of their true feelings a nd disaster overtook them all. ' Mr. Leigh Fermor' s new book, sequel to A Time oj Gifts and second in what is promi to be three volumes describing the remarkable walk , using a n allowance o f one pound a from his father, that he began, aged eighteen, from London and the Hook of Holland ' December 1933 a nd ended in Constantinople in 1935, is a bove all a celebration, bUI o~: underscored by tragedIes ahead . HIS mood , as he crosses the Great H ungarian P lain On Ih borrowed horse Malek, or slips across the fronti er into Rumania by train, was one of PhYSiC~ sensation and intellectual excitement, but to the reader, aware li ke the author hi mself of Ihe distortions or liquidation o f continuities to follow, it often comes touched with elegy. Since the book is set entirely in Hungary and Rumania, that easy rapport tha t the local reader can feel early in A Time oj Gifts with the descriptions o f the Green Court or bike rides 10 Barfreston here has to be replaced by a mental journey into a world more cul turally and geographically remote yet luminously evoked by the author's prose - can a nyo ne write this sort of book better? And what tenacious links with our own offshore isla nd there are, here in the Cent ral European la ndmass! Whether it is the Magyar aristocrats' sons preparing for term at Ampleforth or Bedales' o r the lepidopterist Coun t Eugene Teleki enj oying his visitor's bookish riddle abo ut' Antenna; and Coleoptera ' a nd exclaiming ' I hae me doots' about a neighbour (, Before the war, it would have been hard to exaggerate the sway of British nannies among some Central European children' toes kept count of pigs going to market before fingers learned to tell beads'); or his cousin Couni Paul Teleki , Prime Minister of Hungary at the approach of war, 'profoundly pro-British at hean', who committed suicide in 1941 rather tha n condone Germany's attack on Yugoslavia across Hungarian territory; or the elderly Hungarian admiral (Trieste!) 'who had grown up when English was a sort of naval lingua fra nca all over the world ' and describes himself a nd Admi ral Horthy having been ' snotties' together; or the girl , studying English in Bucharest, who pauses from da ncing with the author to sa y: 'I love English books very much. And Byron's poetry, if. . .'

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'If,' she said, 'you can keep your head while all a bout you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. '

Mr. Leigh Fermor's ideal had been to travel like a wandering scholar, accepting ' no li fts except in vile wea ther' , but a cha nce meeting in Munich had set him on a grand tour of historic castles a nd country houses . However, in a castle library - in between rough games of bicycle polo - he is fascina ted by the discovery that in the Hungarian Parliament, a nd even in the county courts, until 1839 no language was spoken or written except Latin. Mo reover, at a Franciscan abbey - a nd this time in between games with giant ninepin skittles - he has at least the illusion of sharing in the wa ndering scholars ' uni ty of European culture when he chats in dog-Latin to Brother Peter. And not then such a lost unity, as to be shown on the later occasion on Crete when Irish Guards officer Leigh Fermor capped the Ho ratian quotation just uttered by Ihe German comma nder General Kreipe, whom he' d kidna pped , as they both stared at Mount Ida. lt is hard to imagine exchanging such felicities with a KG B colonel today, and shadows of both earlier a nd imminent barba ria ns to uch even these idyllic landscapes. Early in the book, 22 CYCLAMEN (Clare SOllkey.Barkfl )

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the huge stronghold of Visegnid is a reminder of how the Magyar leaders grimly prepared the next Mongol onslaught after the murderous hordes of 1341 turned four thousand miles b for to Karakor um on the news of their leader Ogodai's death, and the Mongols' Scorched ack practices account for the vacuum o f Transylvanian history from the Roman withdrawal in ~~h 27 1 to about 1222. (It was massive numbers of their Asiatic troops that the Kremlin would' . in 1956 to subdue the Hungaria n Uprising .) At other points, the narrative describes the he u~ John Hu nyadi, a contemporary of Joan of Arc, who broke the mighty Sultan Mehmet II's ~OIC outside Belgrade, three years after the fall of Consta ntinople. This same Sultan was Check~ in Transylvania only by Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Dracul, Count Dracula) , the Sultan reportedl breaking into tears when he entered 'a wide valley, populated by many thousands of Turki Y and Bulgarian corpses from the year before, transfixed on a forest of spikes and rotting in mi~h air, with the Sultan's general ceremoniously robed on the tallest spike of all' . . Most haunting of all, on 'a remote shelf of the Carpathians' , the autl-or comes across a leam of wood men whose foreman' s brother is a Rabbi, with two sons, on holiday in the woods H pores over their Torah, and spurs them into reading him David's la ment over Absolom 'an~ the rivers o f Babylon in the original. 'It seems utterly incred ibl~ now' but 'we talked of Hiller and the NazIs as though they merely represented a sort of transItory aberratIOn or a nighlmare that might suddenly vanish.' As the young Englishman left them, they returned to 'their scriptures their poetry, their philosophy,. their history and their laws . .. the true aim of existence' and' as they re-read the deeds of Joshua and David the oafish slogans in the lanes outside must hay; died away'. But magical experiences far exceed premonitory ones in the narrative, whether it is a close encounter with an eagle; or the night spent drinking and talking with two swineherds (' the firelight made them look like contemporaries of Domesday Book'); or the 'English spinney', a thousand miles east, full of dog- roses and cow-parsley ; or the naked swim with Istvan down the Maros leading to the chase of two reaper girls into the haystacks; or - a more extended amour ...: the journey across Tcansylvania by car with Angela . The book opens with a ma rvellous setpiece of Holy Saturday becoming Easter Sunday inside the great cathedral of Esztergom, just inside the Hungarian border from Slovakia, and then the nocturnal procession through the town: 'The intensity of the moment, the singing and candle flames and incense, the feeling of spring ... the unreality of the moon over the woods and the silver flood - all these things hallowed the night with a spell of great beneficence and power'. It ends with a scene then animated but now very different, 600 miles downstream from where he first had met the Danube, at the Iron Gates, where the Balkans begin . The Appendix reflects on the monstrous technological progress by which Rumania and Yugoslavia have since built one of the world's biggest ferro-concrete dams and hydro-electric plants across the Iron Gates, submerging a whole landscape and providing a featureless new lake . 'Myths, lost voices, history and hearsay have all been put to rout, leaving nothing but this valley of the shadow'. These dualities could almost be a metaphor of the book, present-day Rumania being itself a country of lost voices where people live under constant informer surveillance, afraid of speaking out about the Ceaucescu regime even though conditions are harsh and a cultural heritage is being obliterated. Though no one would want to return to the formal kissing of noblemen 's hands by household staff and by peasants, the book does commemorate much that was marvellous in those cultures, and plangently reminds us of how much poorer we in Western Europe are from their post-war severance from us. The idea of Europe is older and wider than E.E.C. commodities. It was by foot a long way from housemaster Alec Macdonald 's stud y in The Grange, with his French and Germa n classics and Hindu-style notation of Mozart's Ju piter Symphony, yet in spirit it never was so far, the ideals of a community of scholarship and culture being alive across frontiers. And the whole journey was, besides all this, tremendous fu n, fun whic h the reader can delightedly share.

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Term kicked off to a rather dazed start with the fire alarm being 'set off' in Galpin's on the first night, and we would Irke to thank Mr. Duesbury for the show of boxer shorts that resulte~. No sooner had this become a thing of the past than the Galpm s smoke detectors set the alarm off again at the begmnmg of prep, revealing Mr. Ross in a dressing gow n. The entertainment continued in various forms throughout the term: the shells had fish and chips with Miss J. and dnnks with the Rosses. 84 sold us vastly over-pnced cakes. The house concert run by Jimbo Gum pert and Kate Hamilton was a great success and we would like to thank the McConnells for thelT help. . ' Also worth a mention are Jon DaVies and Henn Eynon, who '~~_~g.. found ways of amusing each other, Jo Ensor who ma n?ged Iii to get some Candy at last, Jimbo Gumpert who kept The ork' as his private secretary and Mr. and Ms. Hamilton to whom congratulations Duchess 0 fY ' ar~ d~~~ competitive areas there have been successes, moral successeshand ~~od Isu~p~r~aTfh: n . d sn't come into our voca bulary, except perhaps for t e u . w 10 e word faIIUr\a~: T he successes included the U. 14, who won the seven-a-sides, and the house rugby Plt~ etiti~n run by Jerry Murch in which we came second. T he mo~al successes were drama c~ bP th U 18 and U 16 who put up brave fi ghts in the sevens despIte bemg knocked 10 be ha IYt I'oeund The ba~ketball managed to turn out as many School House suppo rters out to t he s Âˇ . T adescant scored points and VIce-versa. .. . f as C~ngratulations to everyone in On the Razzle. I hope, having the l a r~est partlCIPa~lO~ 0 d af~ house (although not a,:,y main parts and qUite a few backstage), stan s us m goo s ea Mr Dobbin's productIon next term . . d' I C db . 's Well done to Shol to Byrnes on receiving the Sir Arthur Lme~ Poetry Awa r m t '~ Oa h UI Y etition and Martin Ie Huray who obtained a place m the NatIo nal Yout rc estra. PO~\~a~omÂŁe wo uid like to thank Mrs. Sims who leaves our sewing machine and name-tape~ n'o y~ eaceful day at last, after twenty-five years of service to the house: We WIsh her al :~e\~lin lire future, although I'm sure the linen room will keep us up to date Wlt~ h~r r(etlTe:e7~i Ourthanks also go to Mr. and Mrs. Ross, Miss 1. , the tutors, the Imen room an t e res I en . painter, Tony . CHARLES SCLATER.

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THE GRANGE

With fo ur Monitors in the 1st XV, not to mention a Captain of School, this has been a relati vely peaceful term mternally, and one in which a good balance o f cultural and SpOI tmg achievement has been attained. . For the first time for some years a full even mg. House Concert was performed, and James Lawrence .- a ided b y Libby Robinson, on loan - showed energy and dnve 111 puttlllg this together as well as a consi?erabie. range of musICianshIp during it. Besides his Brass QUllltet, Smgmg Barbershop ~nd Trombone Fantasy, there was a good Stnng Quartet, a fllle variety of singing, and a Cla rinet Sonata by Gay nor Sanders. And the Blooze Brothers at the end! . ' T his concert shortly followed a n ori&,inal adaptau~lIl by TIm Briggs a nd Susanna Walsh of The AnCIent Manner IIltowhlCh tremendous preparation had go ne, and whIch was )omtl y 25

second in the House Drama Competition, with Eleanor Taylor and a number of YOunge showing talent. Subsequently, Tim and Susanna were memorably funny and versatile i~ bM'S Dobbin's production of On The Razzle. We look forward to Harlequinade and to King's W r. Birley's was well used by our sportsmen, even if spectator support at the House MatCheseek. a bit thin. Broughton regained the Senior Rugby Cup from us , but our semifinal enCOunter ~as them was a well-contested match, played with vigour but in excellent spirit. Stuart Lacy With Adam Oliver gave good sup port to the professionals, of whom Jeremy Gordon, Jimmy Nevand Bobby Morse and Craig Butcher have all commanded 1st XV places this term, thereby completde, (with Tim Briggs) five years of representative rugby up through the school. We have also hn~ four players in the Colts A XV, of whom Jim Landale gained a place in the Kent squad a the new boys, Miles Thomas and Desmond Chum were the Little and Large of the Under 14' Ao r s. On the Ground Floor, Simon Roberts and associates have campaigned vigorously On t controversial bath cubicles; we have heard through the 'Grape-Vine' that Testing experienc~ have not upset Remove life too much; whilst the T.V. room proved particularly popular With the Monitors on Friday nights - can somebody please explain why? More seriously, the generosity of Mr. Francis Voigt's bequest enabled us to buy a video at last, whilst Phillipa's Amnesty group continued to attract good numbers to our House Library on alternate Tuesdays. We welcome Mr. Peter Jackson - our new tutor and Water Polo Blue (but of course!)_ and his wife, and were grateful to them and other tutors for attending our newly civilised House Supper. Thanks go equally to Mr. and Mrs. Woodley for keeping things running smoothly and to the linen and domestic ladies for all the vital work they do. ' THE Top FLOOR.

WALPOLE

'Commitment to excellence' - gone are the days when Walpole astounded by winning. The return of Kolapo's killers, retaining the Senior Basketball Cup for the third consecutive year high lighted Walpole's sporting achievement whilst putting a~ end to any aspirations harboured by Galpin's or Tradescant. Thanks must go to the latter for providing two excellent matches in the final and semifinal, entertaining all and causing intense anxiety to some, including the housemaster. In the final of the Junior Badminton Das and Lo played well, only to be pipped by a Broughton team containing a 6a player! Kolapo Phillips and Diu Rotimi represented the 1st XV, with Bruce Marson and Marcus Cumber in the 2nds . Congratulations to Kolapo, Diu , and Marcus on being awarded 2nd Colours. On the social front our Lattergate monitor entertained in that house, though, it seems, his work occupied too much time, while other engagements were left pending. Marcus Cumber took time off from the T.V. screen and his duties as Head of Fags, Julie Norey caught purple fever, Sarah Lee-Warner lent her presence to M.D., and Kati Henderson was happily entertained by Davidson for the early part of the term. Kolapo Phillips unfortunately never saw the girl at Liberty again. Nick Young entertained the school on his saxophones, and special congratulations must go to him for the success of the Blooze Brothers, and his handling of Jake and Elwood. Ben Pollill revealed his link with the world of T.V. advertising, and the fifth-form snooker addicts took over one end of the House Room. Our thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Vye for much-needed phlegm and patience in dealing with everyone, including Toby, and to Miss Burr, the tutors and staff. RAllY VIJAYANATHAN.

For those who aim for the top, this term means Ox bridge, and M.D. was admirably represented 10 the. exam room WIth all but three of 6a having a go. As all these dlh.gent students tolled over their books the much depleted momtonal body dId an excellent job of holding the house together and keepmg the more rowdy members subdued. On the sports field we were prominent with one and a half members of the 1st XV, Angus Murdoch and myself (the half), the Captain of the 3rd XV, Jonathan Veitch, the Captam of the 4th XV, Richard Costa in and Charles Vavasour leadmg the Colts A XV . In the Removes, six out of seven w~re 10 the U.15 As. Unfortunately, as has so often happened I? recen~ years success eluded us at the last fence as we were almost narro~ly beaten by Broughton in the final of the Semor Sevens. This was not before Tim d'Offay scored abnlhant try when he ra n half the length of the pitch, outstnppmg the OPPOSItIon. . ' f h rm had to be the house play which was proclaimed 'the best play the The hlghhght 0 t.e gutstanding performances from Johnny (don't call me that!) Veitch, lam house I'"Fi~~e~ ~~~Oa~t'and all the others (virtually the whole house) helped bring off ad"~aJ~!?tl~ GIIhng, thO that looked very ropey right up to the last mmute. Mr. Wam e a coup from someII dml~t off I would like to thank him for the incredible amount of work he put . s and we pu e . . I' I I . !O U I M' anda who assisted him admirably WIth very Itt e acc aIm . . and a so If . h' .h I In D 'te the fact that little has been done outside the ~ouse by anybody whOlc IS ~~t er tru y espl ntion or has been forgotten life has contmued 10 the true M. . tra IlIon even w?rthy of mep ct of imminent changes. There were more girls in the house than I can remember wHh \he prOs ehas brought new life to the upper school. The music has become louder adnd the and t liS m ux ms to con re ate at the top of the stairs. Although we have not scale gre~t ~hO~~:~~Ot~~ sse;orts field ':e h~ve definitely risen to the top of the social scale an~ ~e can ag~\"y Clg we have always believed, that M .D . is the only hous~ worth bemg m. ave gre sa~ wh~tmy first term in the gown and I hope the house contlllues to prosper. . en~~:IIY I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Craik for putting up with us all and the c1eanmg staff for all they have done. M tCHAEL MILLER.

rdEISTER OMERS

MARLOWE

Marlowe might strive but not always conquer. Nevertheless we have had representatives in all the school rugby teams. Two notables were Tom Epps who played for the 1st XV and Richard Pentin who lent his considerable talents as Captam of the 5th. Sadly the House Rugby was not a great success, but everyone turned out very enthusiastically. The Jumor Hockey League team won their final against the combmed teams of The Grange and Walpole 4-2, which was a great achievement. Injuries have been numerous - a bro~en arm and several black eyes - but we will be ready to wm a few (more?!) cups next term and make our mark on the sporlIng scene in style. The Shells have settled in well despIte then; requests for more leniency from the mom tors towards them. On the drama front, Louise Jessup, David Bond and Fergus Simpson, among others, were involved m On the Razzle and Paul Bushell provided the parrot and taught It some new words. Bob Webb put a lot of hard work into our House Drama 27

Competition entry, both writing and directing it. We were placed third, which was encoura . Well done to a ll those concerned . Musically, too, the House has been alive with membeRlng. The Blooze Bro/hers in Our midst. rs of Finall y, thank'you to Mr. and Mrs. Reid for an enjoyable term and especially to Joe (With whom the House might quite literally crumble!). OUt Jo PROPHET

LUXMOORE "

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Herein lie the adventures of Luxmoore House, headed by th last remaining breed of R.P.B.'s reign. Luxmoore was buzzi e with the sound of academic activity this term. The dull th~ of O-Ievel endorsers accompanied the high pitched whine of our O~bridge brains in overdrive. Best of luck to jules and Andy In thelf nth attempt at the O-Ievels and to Libby and Robbi at Oxford.

The U.14 reached the final of the rugby sevens after being coached by Kandy - a good run ending in a glorious defeat at the hands of School House. The other team's valiant efforts proved less successful despite a narrow defeat by the lSI XV orientated Grange seniors. Well done to Kandy for playing regularly for the 1st XV and to Andy for gaining a place for some of the season. The Grange also snatched victory in the Basketball despite Jules' pre-match preparation of the learn. On the social front we nOlice our new girls have been very busy. The 6b lads have been equally enthusiastic, but less successful. This term Libby has taken to Morse code. The bachelors have remained so, but Nick and Robbi have not. Nick has a new flat-mate. On the night before half-term, Luxmoore presented a Concert to the school in the Hall for the first time. This was run, administered and led by Libby. Thank you to all made it such a success. The vast majority of the House was involved in the Late Night Sh,oPPling evening (followed by Ihe traditional Mrs. Aldridge cuisine) and raising money to buy equipment for deaf children. Well done to Samantha a nd Adam for performing so well in School Play. Many thanks to the monitors for helping me run the House, to our splendid cleaning ladies, never forgetting Pauline and her mother in the linen room, and to Mrs. Beddoes for being as ever so patient and kind over our medical traumas and tribulations. Finally thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge for leading us through the 'highs and lows' of anot her busy term. PETER

COCKR ILL.

(Michael ÂŁ/om)

28 FAST AND LOOSE (J.S.H. alld R. W.T.)

G,.\LPIN'S

T he term began for B.J.D . With a fire alarm where all could see His boxer shorts : (our thanks we give To O.K .S. who local live). Upon the sporting fro nt we found The pins performed in leaps and bounds; Victorious on the rugby field Were Flem and co. who won a shield (cup); On that same day with further luck We won a contest (but no cup !). We speak of A Chorus of Disapproval Which met with nothing but approval. (Yuck.) T he basket bailers felt the toll When by a whisker to Walpole They lost (Hmmmmmm) . . ... . Romance within the House was rife (While causing B.J.D. some strife); Muckleroe residents did score By double-dating 84 . Seamus and T.A.P. - they tried so ha rd We're sure they'll get a Valentine's card . The concert which by Kris was run Was well received and deemed good fun. Congrats to Sam and Alex who To R.A.F. scholarshi ps flew. (Pun?) Now our kindest thanks are due To Maureen, Mary and cleaning staff who Have kept the House in tip top shape (Now that we no longer rise so late) . Steve Grimes we mention to be fair Because he is socia lly aware. To Mrs. Jones penultimate thanks In our esteem she highly rank s. Our fina l thanks to B.J .0. Who's cha nged the House so visibly. A lengthy stay we hope's begun ... . But will Notts Forest win division one?

THE MONITORS.

L1NACRE

Although our cup has not exactly been overflowing with success this term, 'it is not the winning but. .. ' and Linacre's contribution has always been sufficient to make its presence felt (and heard) . In the imaginatively-drawn house rugby we thrice succumbed to the might of Broughton, but none were in any way disgraced and all battled gallantly, in particular the Under 14s. The Seni ors fought out a good draw with Walpole, led by 'Berr y' Mycroft who a lso graced the 1st XV, for which he was awa rded Second colours at the end of the term (as we re Tony Wattenbach, Jon Richardson a nd Andrew Mitchell for the 2nd XV). The Badm inton produced a nother tigerish perfo rmance, as Paul and Jon amassed at least three poi nts, a lthough this scoreline may have flattered them. Our Basketba ll was impressive: enthusiastically led by Jon Marshall we exacted a satisfying 29

GALPIN'S STAIRS (James Walers)

revenge on Broughton and advanced to the semifinals. The oarsmen spent the term im . their muscle definition with Paul sculling to several victories, ably followed by Keiro~~"'n8 Jo Phillips and Jamie Frew. , en, Our House Drama entry was inspired and directed by Chris Whiteley. He probably underSI what the play (Richard's Cork Leg) was about, though the cast was much less sure. Katie GoUO'l was excellent in this production and in On The Razzle, for which Tiggy Webb was the pr op supremo. 0", The Upper Sixth dinner was full of the Christmas spirit and thoroughly appreciated b a although the level of James's enjoyment appeared to deteriorate towards the end of the eve~inlI, Many thanks to all those whose efforts helJ)ed to make it such a pleasant occasion . This wg. fo llowed by the house party where once agam the Lmacre parents proved therr culinary wor~ and generosity. It was a good 'family' occasion. The Upper Sixth were outdon~ by the Lo~er Sixth in terms of social ac hie~ement. Chris 'Love. them-and-Ieave-them' Tothlll pIcked off h,s share of the new amvals, whIle Jo PhIllips tried without success, to tie himself down to a long and serious relationship. Among our Lower SiXlh girls, Bernadette managed to resist her host of eager admirers while Fiona made her mark in Broughton. Congratulations are due to Keiron Allen on winning his Army Scholarship, and we wish the best of luck to those awaiting Oxbridge decisions over Christmas - nearly half of the Upper Sixth. I would like to thank the monitorial body for their help and for the (re)liability of their readings in House Prayers; Mary, Glenda et al who cheerfully clean the place; Mrs . B. for curing us of all our various ailments and, of course, P.J .D.A. whose guiding hand shepherds his flock towards pastures new. ANDREW

BROUGHTON

MITCHELL.

House Notes are seen as a reflection of a term's social, cultural and sporting achievements. Naturally, with rugby as Ihe dominant sport, Broughton dominated the rugby, with all bUI our youngest lads reaching a final. Linacre could provide only three-quarters of our first-round opposition in the four age groups - rest ass ured, Andy, we'll overlook that one blemish! The seven 'cubs' (U.1 5) under chief coach 'bear' along wilh the U .16 squad reached the final of their competitions, the laller giving a superb show of Broughtonian courage, much to Ihe worry and bother of Galpin 's . The present empire struck back successfull y in the seniors, overcoming the might of M.O. in a closely-contested combat, having had an extremely tough draw. As regards the other field s of physical endeavour, CÂˇY senior, ably assisted by his cousin C- Y junior, made badminton history when, as a member of 6a , he overcame the wiles of Walpole in the U.16 competition to secure some more silverware for the cabinet - the contesl had run for a mere two years! The ' six' dumbfounded everyone with their show of intellectual prowess in the examinations but cou ld not quite transform this into sportocratic success . Culturally Dave (Benny) Laurence 'led' the way finding his acting abilities in arrears, thanks mainly to Mr. Dobbin who drew up the plan, although Barnacle Jim is rumoured to have taken the front line . He saddled himself with Bone as most of the Monitors went on the razzle. Weinberl Evans, Lisette Levett, Mane Roberts and Herr Sonders (as a heavily disguised Head of House), ably attended by Tom the Belgian - Ward, contributed a remarkable 54"70 of total lines spoken and a sensational800Jo of stage time. 30

. f Ih h Charlie Boorman was soon knocked off ociallY our new gals so~?s~~~nsdb~te:~e::~~r~ ~~fdown to the flood of poison letters received hi; Lisa Lattergate where his bY Ihe 01 f r the rest of the year, although not pel manen . Y we . . reciation drasricall:. Os let out a yell for recognition in an assembly-trme s?lo, to th~ ~, e~ts~p,fnd King's

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~radiliO~s, has '~C~~~!~tself from the House Song's prized possession, the wooden spoon, next

will be flghtrng lerlll! df L tt t to take up the late night T.V. seat, though The 'tiger', our old mat~ re~~r;:th:~~1 :a:;f;gfng for the end of term, the Bear surprised only Davt~~~r;g~~(~ ;i~ei~ation with his Hamiltonian cousin. FtallY, th~'::~~N: ~e ~~~~: everyO.ne n Mr and Mrs. Hodgson for therr contmual support an cfomml d t Mrs Rye I-!UlcllInsO , " I dr lea ue caused some to turn a shade 0 rouge, an 0 '.

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has in store.

TRADESCANT

PH ILIPPE LACAMP.

We've passed the test, the boys are in the, driving seat, and Trad's in top gear. Who said that Trad was n t sporty? We have four captains of sport, five first colours, two secondcoloUl s and newly awarded minor sport' s colours fo r Badmlll ton to Dawit Teferra, and reached the semifinals in the House.rugby, with hopes for the finals ruined when Ian Gardener was IIlJured in the semifinals. Elsewhere in the rugby world Paddy Greenleaf had a good season in the 1st XV, Jerome Kemp in the Colts As and Mark Lawrence to and f,om the Colts As and Bs. Lower down (Ill age if not in heIght) Simon Hart played III the JUnior Colt s Bs, joined by Suhul !locresion until he, rather to IllS disadvantage, broke his arm. Jon Rawlinson and Alex Call Taylor foiled numerous opponents for the. fe nCIng team, and Nick Goodwin and Mike Jordan played III the Colts V fOI

Squash. The pur!?le Ape!, (James Stearns) sculled, we~g~t~o~~drr:~:se~r"::;:!~::~~ ~'v~~ :~~ same old distractIons . S,mon Attwood gallop~d thkom~a Conyers played for her second year Roman Style with Ian Gardener on one occasIOn. . d h mb and having bought the 1st XI hockey. ,Peter Ic aldr,ingMton's f~~a~~~~/:g~I~'':e~~ ~:1 ta ~po~soreci slim in aid of

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Leukaemia. . . . f ther elevated by a ha rrowing semifinal Back on the sporting side prejudIced eyebrows we'Jde';;' death play-off _ all credit to Marco, in the basketball when we were }noc~e~ out III ~ s;(,e order of the day with an inter-tu tor set Dawit, Gareth Evans and Ian. footCa I ~ m;;c dges and good prospedts for next term ' s intercompetition; incessant practices or

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house competition - cave Broughton. G I f d W'dd H Rogers Emma Conyers, Paddy reen ea an . On the cultural SIde Toby d ~ o;s~~d u~nd Em~a became the first girl in the histor y of Tara Wisdom all wo rked har or, x n .ge, . Padd Ted George and Ailsa Buchan have Ihe school to win the HarveyBoWYS lEI locutIOn Pnz~i_estab~~hed member of the Blues Fraternity . . all been On the Razzle and TIm e el IS now a we and has also been borrowed by other Ho uses to drum III therr concerts. 31

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Finally, welcome to Dr. Thomson, and once again many thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Weth . and the tutors, and a special thank you to Miss Brine, for nursing all those broken bones erllt, to all the domestic staff. ' and THE

MONITORS.

LATTERGATE

Despite the unusually small intake of new boys this term th ere were enough personalities to keep us thoroughly busy.' Ch 'Spike' Mitchell and Bruce 'Worm' Marson soon found th~!S feet alongside the old hands Jerry 'Crimper' Bartlett and Simo" 'The Boss' Stuttaford and the doub le dosage of the de Lindn hunks'~'and'fu'. e All the new boys settled down quickly and a good sense of communi ty was felt. Everyone enjoyed themselves on the walk on th~ Downs, and especially in the House Drama Competition In whIch Andrew Hyatt made a n untImely FreudIan slip which allowed Galpin 's to beat us to first place. On the sporting stage the House were strongly repreSented in the U.14 A team by Andrew 'Brick' Hyatt (player of the season), Toyin 'Bu lldozer' Fadeyi, Miles 'Midget' Thomas William 'Evil Knevel' Harris and Ben 'The Boot' Young. The U.14 B team also had a gOOd season with such events as Jon 'Meathead' Moss scoring two knock-outs in one match along with the combined sk ill of William 'Battler' Swanson, Tim 'Haircut' Bagshaw and Ben 'Wicked' Petit. The new recruits of Adrian 'Bonecrusher' Unforth and Ed 'Legs' Valpy replaced Simon and Jerry at half-term, and soon got into the swing of things . The obvious highlight of the term was the House Concert for which we must thank Miss Wilcock for her time, effort and patience as Ed did thrice, and he thanks her for the peck on the cheek . Within the concert a packed synagogue heard a wide range of ability from our total non-musicians like Adrian to our famous a nd musical scholars: Jasper ' Jazz' Beauprez, Pete 'Fingers' Keeler, Guy 'Gallop' Belliere, Mathew 'Jumbo' Whitely and Ben 'Brill' Young. Despite the brilliance, we will never forget the pair of classic Cuckoos and the grand finale with Laughing Unforth and Chuckling Chris on vocals, bringing the eventful evening to a light-hearted close. In the house, the snooker table and T .V. have drawn vast audiences with David 'Mouth' Sargent in residence. We were very pleased to be visited by the Headmaster and Mrs. Phillips at the end of term and even they were lured to the green baize only to be defeated rather 'quietly' by David . David also carries the prize for the most punishments this term . 'Bouncer' Thane was kept busy trying to stop all suspect activities in the monitors' study and house library (Bruce!) concerning the new members of the sixth form. Last but not least we must thank Mr. and Mrs . Thane and Mrs. Maitland for their considerable effort and patience in keeping up the good nat ure of the house, and also Brenda's gang for their standard of cleanliness over this long term. Finally we wish those leaving next term good luck. Sadly we are also losing Dr. Lamb who, despite his short stay, has proved a cheerful and untiring tutor. We wish him luck in Luxmoore. THE BLACK AND BLUE LATIERGATE CREW.

REPORTS & REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA

L'ORCHESTRE DE LA

KING'S SCHOOL CANTERBURY BASILIQUE DE SAINT REMI, REIMS SAMEDI 10 OcrOBRE iI 20 h.

L'ORCHESTRE de la KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY Violon solo: CLARENCE MYERSCOUGH Direction: PAUL NEV ILLE

Ouverture Concerto pour violon en Allegro moderato Suite I. Italiana

PROGRAMME L'lmpressario

mineur Andante non troppo Airs et Danses a nciens 3. Siciliana 2. Arie di Corte

Cimarosa Wieniawski Allegro moderato (it la Zingara) Respighi 4. Passacaglia

ENTRACTE Symphonie no . 8 en Si mineur I. Allegro moderato 2. Andante con moto Ouverture Rosamunde

Schubert Schubert

RHEIMS VISIT 'La Musique qui est la parole la plus profonde de I'ame ne peut que rendre les hom me I sensibles plus intelligents et plus sains .' s p us M. Bose, conseilleur municipal re~ .

'IIOIS.

Laissons 10 parole II 'L 'Union' de Reims: Cinquante eleves encadres de trois enseignants sont venus donner un concert en la basili Saint-Remi al'invitation du comite de jumelage de Reims - Canterbury. Cet ensemble com qUe de dix filles et de quarante gar~ons, vient pour la troisieme foi s donner un concert d~ns It~ des Sacres. L'ecole alaquelle ces etudiants appartiennent est une des plus vieilles ecoles anglai~t Fonctee par Saint Augustin de Canterbury, elle possede une tradition musicale dynamique Ell ' draine de toute I' Angleterre des etudiants qui choisissent la musique parmi les disciplin/ fondamentales de leu r formation. Ses professeurs de musique appartiennent ai' Academie royalS de musique et au College royal de musique. e Des families remoises etaient prese ntes qui accueillent les executants. Pendant quarante-huit heures ces adolescents participent a la vie de la famille fran,aise. "Cest une ouverture Pour nos propres enfants que I' accueil de ces musiciens. Je suis etonne de leur maturite et nous avons I'occasion de comparer Ie systeme educatif anglais par rapport au notre" , me confie un pere de quatre enfants. Dans I'ensemble les families sont enthousiastes et fideles a cette tradition d'accueil. Des liens s'etablissent et se renforcent chaque annee. Le comite de jumelage a eu en 1986 plus d'offres que de propositions d'accueil. Du cote anglais, Ie voyage et Ie concert a Reims sont Ie fruit d'un travail musical important. Les "Ieves apprecient la gentillesse des families et les talents culinaires des maitresses de maison. "En plus, ils ont trois jours de vacances par rappon a leurs camarades", me confie M. Neville, directeur de la King's School. Les eleves-musiciens en profitent pour parler notre langue et mettre en application leurs connaissances en fran~ais. Pour Ie comite de jumelage, cette manifestation est Ie signe d'une amitie qui unit Reims et Canterbury. Ces deux villes anciennes possedent un riche passe culturel. Elles detiennent chacune une cathedrale qui est un neuron du patrimoine architectural de chacun des pays. Le comite de jumelage organise aussi des rencontres amicales entre des families remoises et de Canterbury, des manifestations sportives et des expositions culturerelles. Toutes ces actions tissent un reseau de sympathie entre les deux villes . Le 18 octobre, al' issue du festival de Canterbury, ce sont des eleves remois du Conservatoire qui donneront un concert au Shirley Hall de King's School a Canterbury.

THE GRANGE HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY, 26th OCTOBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL It had been several years since The Grange had hazarded a full-length House Concert, and so this eve nt was awaited with keen anticipation, although the number of vocal items on the programme, when compared with The Grange's reputation in such matters, might have given rise to some apprehension. Any such misgivings were dispelled straightaway, however, when The Grange C hoir sang the well-known Linden Lea with a pleasant, full tone: an accompaniment might well have avoided one or two slightly insec ure harmonies, but it was brave to do without. Clare Edmondson and Oliver Hinton followed this with Lloyd Webber's popular Pie Jesu, singing very confidently with clear tonal quality . Here we also heard the first of several sensitive and responsive accompaniments by Libby Robinso n (LX), who always supported admirably. 34

. 't's music may look relatively uncomplicated , but is neve r easy to bring off really well . Mo.zal nd fourth movements of the String Quartet KI57 were tackled by Adam Ohver and The flfs t a ond (violins) Ben Rayment (SH , viola) and Fiona-Jane Dibley ('cello) , who blended James OSt~er The playi~g was musical, although the intonation slipped occasionally: sensible "ell tOge e h~lpful in avoiding technical difficulties, but made it more difficult to bring the mUSIc tel1lPI wer

to life. d olm Arnold's Fantasy . for Solo Trombone encouraged James Lawrence. to pro uce a Mal cof sounds, from the sweet and mellow to the downnght fruity: thiS was spl1'lted playmg, ,anety uch colour , and greatly enjoyed by the audICnce (es pecially the frUIty). wit h m singing followed, separated by Brass music. Lizzy Carlisle, Fiona-Jane Dibley and Eleanor ~ore ang Gilbert a nd Sullivan's Three Little Maids - again a lively and enjoyable performance Tay o~ Lzzie was joined by Susanna Walsh in Bring on the Clowns. Between these two Items, - an Job and Richard Dibley (trumpets) Thomas Del Mar (horn), P iers Trussell (euphomu!") Ch~'~ mes Lawrence (tuba) joined forces in Frere Jacques and Chl'lstmas Crackers: the chOI ce a m:s ic here was apt, and th e playing full of life an~ interest - there were even those who 0 'med they recogmsed some of the snatches of famlhar tunes. 1 cal , S . F M' The evening's second instrumental solo was the final movement of Brahms s o~ata m mo r f r Clarinet and Piano. Gaynor Sanders played with sensitivity and pohsh, and nClther mtonal1on o accuracy could be faulted: the only shortcoming was perhaps the lack of some power at ~~: climaxes. Kristian Belliere (SH) tackled the demandmg accompamment With panache, havmg lear ned it in a remarkably short space of lIme. After this, there was more singing, this time a la 'Barbersho\,', in wh ich Ed mund Hewertson, James Lawrence, Oliver Hinton and James Osmond were Jomed by Sholto Byrnes (SH). and Chris White (GL) . My Eveline, Saloon and Bermuda Buggy Ride were full of mterest, visual S well as vocal and only occasionally was there a hmt of unrehablhty m the complex harmomes. hese three nu~bers were followed, after suitable electronic tinkering, by Love on the Rocks erformed by Tim Briggs with what seemed appropnate pathos: the Iyncs were clear, thanks ~o the amplification, a lthough somewhat alcohohc m content! The final item was given by the Blooze Brothers, who somehow infiltrated their way onto the programme despite rather tenuous links wit h The Grange. Their theatrical entry and antics on stage contrasted strongly with a lmost all that had gone before, but their act, bUIlt round the Peter Gunn theme and Everybody, generated much enthUSiasm and rounded the evenmg off in dramatic fashion. . The concert was a considerable success, with some especially enjoyable choices of music. There was perhaps too much singing and not enough instrumental music - there are other.musICl~ns in The Grange who might have been persuaded to display their talents - but the overall ImpresSion was one of a wide variety of music competently and convincingly performed. James Lawrence in particular is to be congratulated for masterminding much of the progra mme. A .R .A.R .

SCHOOL HOUSE CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 29th OCTOBER, IN T HE OLD SYNAGOGUE

This concert boasted a multiplicity of School House talent, both mu ~ical and otherwise; a splendidly efficient team of stage managers; red button-ho led, black-tI ed ushers; the hl!1 hly entertaining School House semi-opera group (Das Bandel by Mo~art); the School House,lazz grou p; the School House choir ; the School House orchestra; and, In additIOn , a large audience (far from exclusively composed of School House ad mIrers) which filled the Old Synagogue to capacity a nd beyond . 35

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Gabrielle Solti neatly executed two pieces for harp solo (by Pozzoli and Tournie ) Young, Ben Wrench , Nicola Odgers, Nick Flower and Martin Edwards gave a n;c~fnd Ben perfo rm~n~e of two movements (Polka and Waltz) for wind quintet by Denes Agay. B; hmt,d Horn Tno m E nat (3rd movement) perhaps left its performers more despondent than th ahms I have been : if this was one of the trickiest pieces of the evening it also could plainly b ey should of the most accomplished and multi-talen ted performers - Martin Ie Huray on the ~~: s.omt seemmgly ubiqUItous but never ostentatious Tabitha Winnifrith at the piano' and vI'ol' . n,lht mlSI H a mi'1 ton , Iater voca II y to'Impersonate both a Femme Fatale and a Windmill, oj the M' d KaIt stunningly equipped for the occasion with a coiffure to rival either or both. 111 , and The ,opening bagpiper (Ben Wrench). suggested that this might be Byrnes' night, and . Sholto s atmosiJhen c Winter TrIO, so, m many senses, it was. But for me the highlight ~f"h evemng came with two excellent con~erto perf<?rmances : first, on the piano, by Kr istian Belli~he (the 1st m~vement of Walter Leigh s Concertmo), excellently accompanied by what was 'e very occas ionall y an overbalanced orchestra; and second Jacchini's Trumpet Co only . d notwlt . Ilstan d'mg .ItS h'Igh tessitura, with considerable ' ease by J immy Gumpert ncerto h' negotiate! had orgalllsed the evening, and introduced its items with low-profile assurance and Ch~'~.O T.R .H.

LUXMOORE HOUSE CONCERT WEDNESDAY, 291h OCTOBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL It was gratifying t~ se~ so many parents, friends and fellow students supporting a noble effort a t Luxmoore House s flfSt concert on the eve of half-term. The varied programme opened with four solos, Dan Rycroft on the trombone giving an agile rendenng of ?reenwood's T?e Acrobat, Nick P lant on the piano playing the first movement of Beethoven s Sonata Pathetlque, J ulian Woodward on the trombone play ing Arm arlll ye brave by Handel a nd Ben Eaton playing the lovely Lament for the saxophone by Dvorak. Luxm?ore's resident a~com pan ist Libby Rob inson was then joined by violinist Peter Keeler (once he d re.me mbered IHs m usIc!) and cellist Jasper Beauprez in a ta lented tri o playing A To; by Percy Elliot. Four more. solos fo llowed : a haunti ng melody for the fl ute, Sicilienne by Faure played by Sama.n!ha Bam, Manhallan Serenade by LUIS Alter showmg Jasper. Beauprez's skill on the piano, Whele el you walk on the trombone by Anthony Gillespie-Smith followed by Th e Sea, an evocative piece for the plano by Palmgren played by Alex Skarbek. Next, a t~om~one duet, Alexander's March, (Dan Rycroft and Anthony Gi llespie-Smith) which preceded Libby s own plano solo Humoresque by Rachmaninoff, beautifully played. She then showed us her v~rsalility with a song Stand by your man acco mpanied by James Lawrence, Tim Weller and DaVid Evenst, which was fo llowed by a spirited performance by the Luxmoore Jazz Group to end an excellent evening's entertainment. CHARLOTTE BLENKIN.

SECOND ORCHESTRA CONCERT SATURDAY, 15th NOVEMBER, IN ALL SAINTS' CHURCH A reward ingly fu ll house ~athered to hear the fi rst concert of the term by the Second Orchestra, which seems to grow each ttme we see It. The newly-formed large wind society was put through ItS paces, and the strength of numbers in that section gave the composite sound much greater body. 36

oncert opened with the majestic, rolling Hayd n March /01' the Royal Society 0/ Musicians. Th~~ying was pO\yerful, crisp and precise, but managed some la ndscaping within the stateliness The P o. The clannets emerged With parlicular credit! I felt, although no group dommated of te~td. Then followed Mozart's Sleigh Ride at a crackmg pace. By now the band's confidence the b and they played with verve, especia lly the young brass section. The third Item was Rondo ~ar uPre by Pleyel transposed from one of his keyboard sonatas. This made an interesting change ,\fl lt~~ audience, because each section of the band took over the reins in turn, as the piece wo u~d for I energetic climax. Ave Verum CO/pus, by Mozart, tS usua ll y sun g by ChOirs, but Mr. Bill 10 liS nnell had skilfully arranged it to allow dramatic contrast betwee n the upper and lower McCI~rs as the flutes a nd clarinets were highlighted by the deep brass instruments. The Overture "gllhe Caliph 0/ Baghdad by Boieldieu brought the first half to a colourfu l! almost explostve to Here the slow tempo and the openmg sectton proved the most teslmg Item for the band; c~~~e~ll see~,ed much happier with the allegro, which rose t? a magnificent conclusion . Confident t. pani and some excellent oboe leadmg helped to pull It a ll toget her. timAfter an interval talk on behalf.of the C . of E . Children's . . ' I1 was to bene.f'lt by Soclet~, wIHC ve' ÂŁ130 from the retmng collectIOn, the orchestra re-formed m thiS lovely church, deSigned o years ago as both church and concert hall. SIX French horns, SIX trumpets a nd three trombones le~vide an impressive powerbase in an orchestra of no fewer than eighty.-six players ., Such for~e Pf numbers lent confidence to the opening Handel March from The OccasIOnal Oratono . Vivaldi s Â°iece The Hunt from Autumn (The Four Seasons) :was specia lly arranged for you~g orchestras, ~nd Ihe string players dlstlllgUlshed themselves particularly here. They all clearly enjoyed pla~lllg Ihe Ihree well-known excerpts from Handel's Royal Firework MUSIC, a nd achlev,ed just the n ght balance between liveliness and statehness . As ear her, the slower piece, La PO/x, proved most difficul t for them. As we were nearing S1. Andrew's Night, Mr. McConnell got us in the right spiril with his own arrangement of Rantln Thalfms - or JOyous flddle-stnngs, where the leader of Ihe orchestra did particularl y well. The audience was tapping its feet by the end! Wagner' s March from The Mastersingers brought the concert to a splendid conclusion. Mr. McConnell had, as ever, invested a great deal of time and energy in devising and rehearsing Ihe programme . Our very sincere thanks are due to him (and his wife), not least because he has shown them that music-making can be suc h fun, fo r players and audience alike. F.E.T.

LA TTERGATE HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 22nd NOVEM BER, IN THE OLD SYNAGOGUE After a few words of welcome and ex planation about the Concert from Mr. Thane and Miss Wilcock, the Lattergate House Concert started with the House' s Ensemble, conducted by Miss Wilcock, giving forth with the familiar strains of the Allegro from Autumn in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. T he Ensemble, which consisted of Peter Keeler, Benjamin Young, Tara de Llllde, Bruce Marson, James Aitchison, To yi n Fadeyi and Jasper Beauprez, gave an ex ubera nt start to th e proceedings. A sub-set of the Ensemble, consisting of Messrs. Fadcyi and Keeler, then step ped for ward to deliver a violin du et - Murky, a traditional old Dutch dance which was cert a inly less familiar than the first piece, but no less enjoyable for that. Another duet then followed,this lime a trumpet one with Andrew Thomas and Daniel Long hurst giving a very confident rendition of the well -known'Largo from Dvora k's Ne w World Symphony; my enjoyment of this piece is Ihese days only slightly marred by the fact that it has become synonymo us with a much-parodied advertisement on television for bread in which an elderly Yorkshireman reminisces abou t his youth, with this melody in the background. Guy Bell iere then provided, with consummate ease, a very short, but unusual and lively piano-solo in the fo rm of Galop by Casello. If I thou ght Ihat that was very short, I was astounded at the efficiency of the next item - a meticulouslycounted-in, 30-second guitar-duet, called Cuckoo , very carefull y 'picked' by Philip Grove and 37

James Tory. Brevity was also a characteristic of James Aitchison's violin solo, accomp . by Miss Wilcock on piano - ViI/age Dance, by the late Gordon Jacob, (O.K.S. parent). Althanled he looked a little apprehensive, James Aitchison discharged the task very enjoyably. Next oUgb another solo, this time in the form of some piano virtuosity from Jasper Beau prez, in 20th Cecaone mode with L. Alter's Manhallan Serenade, feat uring its rather haunting main theme. Thi~tury very nice and relaxing, invoking very much a sort of Gershwinesque, 1930s United SI was a tmosphere. This was helped by some very good 'swing parts' and deft 'cross-hands' workate$ well as a very pleasant 'touch'. All this was ~Iayed without music; alt~gether, it was a ,,; as delo ghtfulltem. Master Beauprez was back agaon for the next pIece, thIs tIme playing the 'celrst in combination with Peter Keeler (violin) and Miss Wilcock (piano). They gave a very calmi 0, treatment to Berceuse, by A. I1insky . ng When Peter Keeler remained on stage to deliver his violin solo - Gigue, from Panita No 2 in C by Bach - he showed that he meant business by taking off his jacket before producin ' a splendid rendition of this piece. He had a nice rhythm (it is no accident that jazz e nthusiast~ so frequently like Bach) and a very confident and beautifully resonant tone. There was, moreover a good style of ' theatre' attending his performance, too - he moved well with the sy ncopatio~ - a nd (a nice touch, I thought). smiled confidently at Miss Wilcock and Mr. T hane at the end. No matter how much I had enjoyed the earher Items, th Is was, for me, my favourite so far Quite apart from the expertise in the performance, I do feel that something like a Bach pie~ is so much more worthwhile to play than one by a lesser composer. When I saw that the next item was going to be a recorder solo, my heart did sink a little for I cannot claim that this is my favourite instrum ent. However, what I did not realise at thai stage was that we were going to be treated to a performance by a boy who is a music scholar by virtue of his recorder playing . Indeed, Benjamin Young told me afterwards that he thought he was the first person to be awarded a music scholarship via this instrument. We were soon to realise why, when Ben gave forth wit h the First Movement Allegro from Concerto No.2 by John Baston. Accompanied by Miss Wilcock, he continued the baroque flavour of the previous item with some intricate, and excellent, 'trilling' , At this stage, we were scheduled to have loca l composing talent highlighted in the form of an Alan Ridout Horn Concertino by Matthew Whiteley, but the latter had that afternoon been playing in the Nationa l Children's Orchestra, and had not returned in time. The next item was, accordingly, brought forward. This meant that Ben Young took the stage again, in completely different guise as a 'pop' singer, (complete with lip-microphone and amplifier) and piano player, offering his version of a song that has recently been at No. I in the best-selling records lists, Lady In Red, by C hris de Burgh. Accompanied by Andrew Thomas on drums, Ben Young gave what was, for a 13-year-old, a very mature performance of this essentially 'adult' song. It took a few verses and choruses to get accustomed to the fact that this manifestly unbroken voice was singing lines like' ... never seen you looking so lovely as you do tonight. . .', ' ... it's just you a nd me . . .', and referring to ' ... dancing cheek to cheek .. .', but, once this was achieved, the listener enjoyed a very professional and stylish display, with particularly nice voice modulation of the 'pop' type. The natural, slightly 'husky' tone of Ben Young's voice - ideal for this type of song - was also exaggerated and emphasised, slightly, by the fact that he had just emerged a fter several days in the San, with flu. This item was very enthusiastically received by the audience. At this dramatic stage in the proceedings, and with a nice sense of theatrical timing, Matthew Whiteley entered, hot-foot from the National Children's Orchestra, looking, however, very much 'underwhelmed' by the whole business. In spite of Miss Wilcock 's fear that he might have 'no lip' left, Matthew Whiteley gave a very efficiently delivered treatment of the Alan Ridout piece mentioned before. The 'Light Music Spot', begun by Ben Young and his Lady In Red, and temporarily suspended for the Alan Ridout offering, was continued with the Ensemble singing and playing Yesterday, by Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon. The Ensemble consisted of Peter Keeler, Benjamin Young, Tara de Linde, Ja mes Aitchison, Toyin Fadeyi, Zoe de Linde, Matthew Whiteley, Andrew Thomas a nd Jasper Beauprez. The guitar was by Bruce Marson 38 MINI (James W(l{ers)

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EV~e a very pleasant finish to the evening. It was not quite the finish; after a somewhat premature tOt mp! to present Miss Wilcock with a bouquet (nicely stopped in its tracks by a steely stare e 1 Mr. Thane, aimed at Edward Valpy, the bearer of the said bouquet!), Miss Wilcock said ro~ requests had been received for Ben Young and Andrew Thomas to repeat their Lady In Iha This was duly done and Ben Young again proceeded to charm all the mothers present with ~ed;ppealing rendition of this peculiarly evocative melody. Miss Wilcock then did properly receive h"r bouquet, and the first part of this very enjoyable occasion was over. Masters, Mistresses a~d parents were then kindly entertained back at Lattergate by Mr. and Mrs. Thane . I must make mentio~,. in conclusion, ~f the 'roa~ managers' of the affair! who organ is~d Ihe sets with great preCISIOn, between the Items - Timothy Bagshaw and David Sargent. MISS Wilcock had said, right at the beginning of the Concert, that her policy was to give everybody a chance to play, ' ... of whatever standard of whatever type of music (within reason!) ... ' It was certainly both an enjoyable and varied programme. This is just as a concert by young musicians should be, and Miss Wilcock is to be congratulated for having succeeded in encouraging, coaxing and cajoling boys of this age to have the confidence to stage such an event. R.B.Ma.

GALPIN'S HOUSE CONCERT SUNDAY, 23rd NOVEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The Galpin's House concert was definitely an easy listening affair, with items by composers such as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter setting the genera l tone for the evening. The Jura Quartet of Matthew Hulme, Sebastian St.John Parker, Joshua Mowll and Richard Preston (with Julian Moore on drums) began the concert in swinging style with the Pink Panther Theme. This revealed Matt Hulme's newly discovered talent, here as saxophonist and later as singer in Puttin' on the Ritz. They played well together and produced a good performance, although in the latter piece a tighter rhythm would have made it more polished. Sebastian then moved from piano to violin for a duet with Emma Wass (viola). Ignaz Pleyel' s Duo allowed Emma's warm tone to shine through in the slower passages, a lthough nerves got the better of both of them in the faster ones . James Waters' piano interlude was a fluent and apparently very easy performance . It was almost too unconcerned, in fact, and a li ttle more communication with the audience would have made it even better. The choir, conducted by Chris White, sang two contrastin g songs convi ncingly. T he timing of both was good and in Foresters Sound the ehee'Jul Horn the words were well articulated. There was, however, a tendency for individual voices to come through rather than to blend with the whole. The Barbershop Quintet continued in a rather different style. It began with Slow Motion Time which showed good intonation but needed to be smoother to stop it feeling more disjointed than lazy. We were gathering up the Roses was slick and amusing. In both Chris White ably supported the bass line while Tom Grieves proved to have an excellent barbershop voice as well. Marius Kiely, Zizzy Sha nkla nd and David Everist (piano) continued the demonstration of Galpin's vocal talent wi th a polished rendition of Who wants to be a Millionaire. It was nice to see that they were not afraid either to look at each other or move about the stage. Althoug h Marins had most of the interesting lyrics, Zizzy unleashed her powerful voice with great panache on the few lines she had. 39

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Chris White's cello solo, Le Cygne, was a musical performance (thanks for the f',ver although he looked far more nervous behind a cello than he does when singing. , Chris!) The Geographical Fugue (Ernst Toch) performed by Emma Wass Tom Grieves Ch . and Marius Kiely was excellent. They sounded relaxed and well-rehearsed and pe;'for~~ White what looked hke ease even at great speed. It is a very clever piece and the group co d IYIIh words and tight rhythms well. nveyed the

The ,Toy Symphony by Haydn was included in the programme to cater for the tone.d . Gal"m s such as BIll Floydd and Mr. Dues bury. Despite the handicaps of coaching non_muSieaf In Chns managed to gUIde them thro ugh the symphony in style. Although they were us Clans, looked like inferior qua lity instruments the group managed to produce a beautiful ton,~g What WIth a fme sense of ensemble! e qualIt y The first half of the concert was rounded off wit h what is now an essential pan of H Concerts - the Jazz Band . Although quite enjoyable it was not really necessary when it invo~~se ImportIng three of the fr~nt hne members from other houses. Up to this point there had b ed no performer takIng a Slgmf,cant part that was not in Galpin 's and it seemed a shame to SPOilthlsn The extract from Alan Ayckbourn's playA Chorus 0/ Disapproval had Zizzy Shank Ian . Tom Gneves and Chns MItchell In the leadmg ro les It was well directed with smooth d, changes and no sign of the stilted acting that someti~ es mars house productions Havi scene It at the House Drama Competition I thought it was more relaxed here. It provided an e~eOeen endIng to a very good concert. ent A tLSA BUCHAN.

CONCERT'N'COFFEE SATURDAY, 29th NOVEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

This waf a co~cert intended not <:mly to raise money for charity, but also to give many of the school s mUSICIans not In the maIn orchestras and band a ch~nce to rehearse and playa full con~e rt programme. They dId so to great effect. The evemng fell Into three parts, with the Wind SocIety! the Fnnge Jazz Club and the Second Orchestra each playing a selection from its repertOire.

The Wind Society (a new youn~er brother for the Wind Band) was in fact giving its first perfor~ance In the school, under Its conductor Mr. William McConnell, and he had chosen a pleaSln.gly vaned programme. The variety of styles not only entertained, but was also very good traInIn~ for the player~. Haydn's March for the Royal Society 0/ Musicians provided a confIdent begInnIng. Itwas mcely phras~d and rhythmical, a nd there were well 'observed contrasts m dynamI Cs WIth ~elatlvely httle !,!uddIness In the ranks. Mozart's Sleigh Ride lacked the same clanty at tImes! WIth the percusSIon well balanced but occasionally behind the trotting horses. It was ImpreSSIve nonetheless. The Pleyel Rondo Militalre, on the other hand, never quite recovered from a rather uncertaIn start. The TV Suite by Walters brought a complete change of mood, a nd also, WIth the dIfferent gro ups bobbIng up and down in the Big Name Band and ~ surprISe appearance by gangsters and moll in Whodunnit, showed clearly the spirit of fun and InventIveness whIch was the keynote of the whole evening. Mozart's Ave Verum (arr. McConnell) was a real challer:rge In ~u~taIned pla~Ing, but InevItably showed up any false entry or chording. On balance, I thInk It IS Just too dehcate a pIece for a wind band. The Overture to the Caliph 0/ Baghdad (Boleldleu) was a rousIng end to the Wind Society's contribution and was marked particularly by accurate woodwind playing - the 1st oboe especially. The Fringe Jazz Club is a newly created junior team of jazz players led by Sholto Byrnes, and shows :ve need have no fear for the near future of King's jazz. They played three numbers, and I was Impressed by the way that the same independence of mind that created the group 40

IsO applied to interpreting the music. In the first piece (Kansas City Stomp) the variations .. as a mics and tempo were effectIve, even If one noticed the odd seam III the garment. The in dY'd\em (A/ter you've gone) suggested to me that they have not yet full y developed a sense seeon ~ble and of who has the melody, but the approach was again inventive. Only in Moustache of ellSf~elthat they began to come into their own as showm~n . Sholto's dead-pan is only ~ffective did I thers let themselves go a little both musically and III stage performance. A sessIOn WIt h :f the Mall' and the video would bring the point home here ! DO~ler the (rather too lengthy) interval a massive Second Orchestr~ took over, with Mr. Bill A onnell again. T hough there were n ghtly a number of younger muSICscholars there to prOVide Mcfbone, the bulk of the eighty or ninety players were from !he usually SIlent maJonty of amateur bac 'cians (in school music terms). In the March from Handel s OccasIOnal Oratono they produced mUSIong full-blooded sound with confidence and accuracy. T he string playing throughout their a str ra~me was impressive, but it was especially so in the extract from Vivaldi 's Four Seasons p(r~g Hunt). To cater for weaker players this was taken at a rather slower pace than usual, and '~ded perhaps a little too military for Vivaldi. The same justified compromise on tempo was soude with the suite from Handel' s Music/or the Royal Fireworks. A greater range o f dyna miCs md unanimity in Ba roque trilling would have dotted 'i's and crossed 't's on thIS, but It was :n leasing performance. Fo~ me the highlight of the Second Orchestra half was Mr. BIll MgConnell'S excellent and wItty arrangement of ScottISh Folk MuSIC In Ra~tm ThallÂˇms. T he landard of lightness and accuracy was set by the leader of the Orchestra Wit h hIS vlO hn solo , s nd taken up by the rest. In comparison, Wagner's Meistersinger Overture was rather heavy, ~ut even in an ar.rangement this was a brave choice of final e, a nd it gave the brass a chance 10 give us thelf n chest sound. All in all this was a splendid evening, where all were given a chance to enjoy mak ing music, and where interpretation and enthusiasm more than made up for technical ':Ieaknesses. That Ihe not over large audience enjoyed themselves can be judged from the donation of more than ÂŁ200 to the Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team. If I have a major CritiCISm, It IS that the whole concert lasted too long - not least through time lost between sections. M .J .M.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SUNDAY, 30th NOVEMBER, 1986, IN TH E SHIRLEY HALL

For its concert on 30th November in aid of The Friends of Canterbury Hospitals, the Symphony Orchestra offered a recital of short well-known pieces of the kind pleasing to an aud ience more disposed to charitable impulse than to musical persuasion. All items were gems of the first water (except those hoary old Merry Wives and the loquacious baroquery of Jacchini) but the programme lacked any work of substa ntial weight. Alan Ridout's Ode/or Orchestra came nearest to supplying this need. Though a short occasional piece, it is a ro bust celebration of orchestral

exuberance. Jacchini's Concerti no for Trumpet and Strings is undistinguished, but it served a good purpose in bringing forward the orchestra's first trumpet, James Gumpert, who immediately sho,,:ed gifts of a high order. His technical proficiency and fine tone stamp hIm a playe r of genull1e promise. The middle mo vement of this work was puzzling. It consisted of a succession of chords for the strings - but nothing else. We heard indeed a faithful account o f the printed score, so Ihere is no question of our orchestra's having carelessly mislaid a tune. Nevertheless, sometlung was felt to be missing. Perhaps Jacchini , who was a cellist, may have been in the habi t o f improvising a cello solo over his figured bass while the trumpet was resting. Such a proceeding, well wit hin the custom of the time, leaves modern performers with something of a dilemma, but Ihe settlement offered in this edition was not satisfactor y. T he Rosamunde Overture is a nOlorious mine-field for orchestras, its innocent-sounding loveliness concealing horrible dangers for the players. In it they encounter a conjunction of charm and treachery such as the un wa ry 4t

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sometimes find in certain other adventures, and our orchestra is not the first to have b disconcerted. The best orchestral playing of the evening came in Ridout's Ode, Grieg's el ~n melody, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, and Massenet's Le Cid music. The concert was fue~~ graced by Clarence Myerscough's greatly admired reading of the Beethoven Romance i~ F The orchestra, having lost a number of its lead ing members in July and taken On m . promising but inexperienced new players in September, has not yet had time to find its f: ny This seemed literally so at one or two points. November is too early for a virtually new orche ~t. to have settled down, and the playing was inevitably variable. At their best the players Sho!~ bright promise, particularly in the string section. Most encouraging of all was the improved restraint of brass and percussion. Young players always find it difficult to moderate the' enthusiasm and yet remain vital in style, but these heavy-weights have come a long way towarZ achieving that desideratum. A sign of growing maturity. The conductor, Col. Paul Neville, deserves warm congratulations on the remarkable degr~ of co hesion he has brought about in so short a time.

D.L.

THE HOUSE DRAMA COMPETITION TUESDAY, 28th OCTOBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

The entries in this year's competition were of exceptionally high quality . This improvement in standard was not due to any cha nge in acti ng ability in the school, but was achieved through a lot of hard work . Almost all the houses rehearsed for several weeks in advance, and the producers/directors took the stance of perfectionists, not letting up until they were totally satisfied. Each house had to select, edit and produce a play of fifteen minutes' duration, without any external interference (such as help from teachers). There was a wide variety of productions. ranging from the tragic Rime of the Ancient Mariner put on by T he Grange to the uproarious A Chorus of Disapproval presented by Galpin's. Comedy is perhaps the most difficult to perform, as much of the humour on these occasions can be lost on the adjudicator, since it arises from seei ng those who are familiar from daily life in the most bizarre situations. This kind of humour can become tedious, so it was a relier that many of these pieces were genuinely funny. Marlowe's entry was particularly enterprising . It was written by Robert Webb and was entitled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Boring. It ran at a cracking pace. David Bond gave a particularly good performance as Rosencrantz, and provided ideas in the initial coin-tossing sequence for a hundred and one ways of catching coi ns so they came up heads. T he piece was commended by the adjudicator for being so adventurous. Because all eight plays were packed into an afternoon, there was obvious ly no time for the construction of elabo rate sets . But simple props were effectively used a lthough on some plays potted plants abounded. This was a marked contrast to last year when most of the sets were on the shoddy side and had a tendency to collapse. The Grange adapted The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with skill, losing none of the drama in the origina l. They focussed on the plight of the Mariner (played by Tim Briggs) as he was haunted by the ghosts of his fellow sailors, swirling around him in scholars' gowns. The powerful stage presence of the more accomplished actors tended to leave the minor roles in the shadows. Lattergate chose to perform Unman, Willering and Zigo. T his has been a very popular play in the school, mainly because it tells of the murder of a teacher by his pupils and their subsequent rebellious schemes. The stage was divided between a familiar classroom scene and the lounge of a small pub . They had a huge cast (necessary in the classroom scene) and the performance was particularly creditable considering that the average age of the actors is much lower than that of other houses. 42 Comif/lled 011 page 51.

The Ruler

Jonathan

He is not mine: A being to be admired, Looked on from afar. He passes below As I look down From my window, Poised and ready, His ears alert and twitching At the passing of a car outside. He moves off at a slow, (;raceful pace, Then breaks into a trot As his sensitive nose Picks up the faintest of smells Of a cooking steak. He moves quickly now; Even from my high vantage point I can see The smooth flowing muscles Topped with bristling white hair, So much like the ceaseless Motion of the waves in the sea behind him That for an instant they blend Indistinguishable from each other, But then move apart As the backwash draws away And he moves on. The space he leaves Is not easily filled By the grey rough stones Of the barren patio. But still the waves move in As a tribute, Remembering him.

Rawalpindi Downtown

Dominic Burdess

Cracked lips pouted dryly from a nest of blue, twig-like veins and The edges of his eyes lay like wounds across his face. Momentarily, his face was hidden from view as A man kicked him roughly. The expression remained the same: Vnwanted. A surge of pent-up pity flooded out. Nobody loved him. With a last distressed look into my tearful eyes, He turned, and with a hllrd push on the dusty tarmac, Squeaked away on his legless trolley: Vnwanted. 'He's just a beggar,' called my friend. 46

Julien Foster (5p) of memories,

spent,

~~~j~~~~~~~~a:n~d::;;~ ~

and anniversaries.

crazy path cardiograph. clustered around your bed, . coats, (even the ones you .recogOlse), that you are not in intensIve care only pro.ves truth, that everyone knows but never admIts. and white coats tell you to be quiet voices,

cruel needles in your arm. don't care ... or do you? lescrilbed hours, lights go on and off, brought round, but you are ignored . • • remember that day visited Brighton on a Bank Holiday? . was boiling, the sea was cOld. and wrlthIDg. though it happened only mIDutes ago. it was longer. .

only see the curved glass reflection .•. I am pushed down again, of myself, a figment of my imagination ••• in my life ••. and death.

First Sight

Jonathan Ibbott

The land rover coughed And shuddered Fighlin)( the cold savannah air of the morning. ~he chilled metal bar I was gripping Seemed to bite With t~ousands of tiny teeth, l!nwlll~ng to let my warm hands go. 1 he miles of dush track Unrolled before ~y eyes As if each stretch ' Was being created allew Just for me. Slowly sparse ragged trees appeared, LIke old men stooped against the horizon. The rustle 01 a bush And a perfect white tail Bobbing away into the distance Were ollr only signs Of a scared antelope, h,ghtened awa) by the unnatural noise The track e1im bed a hill . Then disappeared in front of us Dow~ a steep rocky slope Leadon~ to a parched sandy river bed. 1 he drover hesitated Like a stick on the ~dge of a waterfall Before venturing cautiously down. ' The land rover lurched and slipped On the IIncertain surface of the pitted slope Then it halted suddenly. . The noise oJ' a few stones sliding down the inclin Was the only sound e To distllrb the perfect silence. The~ I saw the tawny glimmer Agaonst the pale sands Hidden b~~eath a shi";mering curtain Of heat roSl~g from warmed ground. Only now dId I feel the heat Scorching the back of my ne~k As the sun climbed stealthily , Through a haze of fine dust In the too blue sky. The. !ions also were watching the sun Waltmg. ' We watched on, And then as if by some unseen signal They slowly rose. T~e. males ~hook their dirty manes, Hldong belllnd a veil of dust ~nd then moved on. ' Each step wa.s deliberate, yet gentle, Almost strokong the hot sands. 48

purred into life, by the ascending sun, we mo\'cd on across the river bed. last of the lions turned,

1Is!"~~~ll~~ the noisc,sad :~ us with

eyes,

off his territory.

Julien Foster (5p)

Remember, Remember Foster? Who was he? The boy who stole other people's bootlaces? The one who refused to eat spam? Or that one who attacked Mr. Rudge? Could it be the one who scored that try against Malvern? Or who fell off the scaffolding in the school photo? Perhaps the one who called Matron a prostitute, Or mixed sulphuric acid with cobalt, Or was sick over Mrs. Thatcher's shoes? No. He was not one of those. Not one who would scribble on the walls In felt tip. He was very untidy and never had his shirt tucked in. He often 'forgot' to do his prep And hated games. He always played defence And was very imaginative, but hated Maths, Thought x2 + x was two x2, And had an affinity to ink, Never missing an opportunit}, to smear it Over his hands and lips. Was he like the others? He was, but he was different Like corn in a wheatfield. He was nothing special. Or was he?

hool House selected a play which cent red aro und the tale of two men desperately trying 50 aid the affections of female associates - She Stoops to Conquer. James Knight was especiall y loavmended for his performance in this production, involving a very am using scene with two ~m s and Tabby Winnifrith. ehalf Walpole chose a melodramatic piece - A Woman oj No Importance. The plot in volved a her's reluctance about her son working for a lord who, unbek nown to her son, was his father. 11101 scene culminates in a fur ious argument which nearly results in the son shooting his father, ~hlelhe mother intervenes and reveals all. T he set was spartan, but this did not matter as attentio n ~s Focussed on the actors . Sarah Fahey gave a most convincing performance as the mother. W High polish was added to Galpin's performance of A Chorus oj Disapproval by use of specia l reects including tape recordings of te lep ho nes and doorbells (begged off fellow competitors). ~heir costumes were a lso of the highest standard. All the actors were very effect ive, Tom G rieves being superbly innocent and Zizzy Shank land especia ll y seductive. Emma Conyers played the (male) hero in Tradescant's productio n of Another Co untry, a nd Ihis produced a capable performance of a difficu lt play. To th ose who had not seen the film or slage play, the somewhat fast dialogue was difficult to follow . Unfortunately, as the adj udicator pointed out, the hammer and sickle on the Russian flag were upside down . However, th e atmosphere of a nother public school was created very well . Linacre presented Richard's Cork Leg by Brendan Behan, in which Katie Gollop was most nOliceable, nNleast for her extrel?el y conv i~cing Irish acce nt - the adjudicato r as ked if she was in fact, Irish. T he plot was dIffIcult to dIscern except for a very clear Im age of drunkards and' prostitutes, a nd the conflict between Protesta nt morali ty a nd Christian goodwill. The adjudicator was Mr. John Hole, who played Adam and Christ in the Mystery Plays in the Cathedral this summer. H e judged the merits of each performance in a clear a nd am using summary, both complimenting actors a nd offering constructive criticism. He placed, su bjectively as he said, Galpin' s first and T he Grange and School House joint second, putting Marlowe in Fourth place. KYLE P ATT INSON AND PATRI CK LiDSTONE.

ZIGGER ZAGGER THE MEISTER OMERS HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY A ND SUNDAY, 61 h AND 71h DECEMBER, IN ST. MARY' S HALL

The involvement of forty-four of the fifty members of Meister Omers in Zigger Zagger represented an excellent effort, and was particularly remarka ble when the ma ny rehearsals were so close to the school exams. T he play describes some of the teenage problems of Ha rr y Phil ton , and other socia l difficu lties in a lower class community where the City Football Clu b is the sole attraction . Harry P hilton was played by Johnny 'Don't fight over my body' Veitc h, who captured Harry's unenthusiast ic, yet amusing, approach to life superbl y. This was excellently reflected in his visit to the Job Centre . He combined with Zigger Zagger convincingly, part icularl y in Ihe drunken and disco scenes. His tasteful boxing sho rts and stunnin g dancing sk ills were a lso impressive. Zigger 'Thugger' seemed type-cast, with his violent and insolent nature perfectly sui tin g lai n Girli ng. He acted his more serious mo ments forcefully and confidentl y, as well as being very comical when required.

Fiona Stewa(t, as Edna, Harry's sister, created many hilarious scenes with her actions matching her splendid accent. Her man nerisms conveyed Edna's cha rac te r beautifu ll y a nd suggested considerable acting ab ility. The pout of her lips and the fanatic flapping of hands during the selection of her Âˇbeloved Barry Manilow record was o utstandingly funny . Ed na's husband Les 5t

lOUIS SMITH (Morius Kiely)

was played very capably by James Beatton who even ma na d . . . I . ge to lead his newspaper U . down. H Is relationship with Ed na develo ~d a to maintain the a udience 's attent ion whil/not h~~~n~;e ~' oughout the play and he dil~de Mrs. Phil ton entered into her role wo nderfully wit; a part?~~I~~f~tl:'a~t~~~l· ~:i~~~~ ~ollins ~ One of the best features of the play was the series o f h s . l y e . of the smaller parts. Vincent, played by Richard Costain :a~e;~c: moments prod~ced by sorn seSSion, a nd the choir at Harry's asse mbly followed in th~ true e~el~funny III hIS SWift phot e ~'lIg d~splayed his authority suitably as an army officer whilst ;~d~~w ers tra~'t,on. Micha~ tIe . '~~m?n of t!,e footba ll club marvellously with a ~trong nort hern a~~;~~g t,am POrtraYed clgal. e uncles of Harry also made humorous contributions R b .' weed cap and so.n and David McDonnell, as students, revealed great ' dress' sense while Juliet R ~ . ert cted the parts of Sandra and Glenys and showed th~y a lso know h~n till ~n JUlia Warrender lIle of mechaniCS worklllg together was very effecti ve too. w 0 ress up III style. The The play was excellently di rected by Mr. Wainde assisted b M·. team had obviously worked hard and the perform;nces were ~ith" anda Merron. The prOdUction ~ hanges, although perhaps slightl y too num erous, were carried o~~~~~t~r pi ~blf71S· The scene It was very pkasant to. be able to hear the words clearly even at the ba~ka~f ~h:~~rfIY, and Congratu lat ions, Meister Omers. on two most enjoyab le performances . .

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TOM

Epps.

THE CnYPT (Alexullder Redma,,)

ON THE RAZZLE THURSDAY - SUNDAY, 11 th - 14th D ECEMBER, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

Tom Stoppard, English dramatist, was born in 1937, a Czech. The resultant biographical duali ty vades his work. As adherents of Mr. Brod ie's Writing Circle a nd hosts of 6b English ~~ciollados can testify, Stoppard continua lly introduces the unexpected and alien into the familiar OjJ~ known, gym nas ts into the uni versity campus of Jumpers, or a sentient pair of free-willed anurt iers into the established tex t of Hamlet III hIS early tour de jorce, Rosencrantz and (Jllildellstem are Dead. Farce is Stoppard's natural medium. Primaril y comedy of situation , .t specialises in putting the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Take a ny two 'II_assorted characters that common sense demands shouldn ' t meet, and farce determines that :hey should: it puts misbehaving fi a ncee on one restaurant tab le, adds cuckolding fiance at another, and then introduces a flamboyantly dithering waiter to remove the interve ning screen . StoP pard complicates th~ conventional farce towa rds :-vhich he is temperamentally drawn by add ing, first, a characten stlcall y uneven Wit (at times sCllltlllatlllg, at others content to remalll at the banal level of 'Hungary?' - ' J'm starving'), and, second, a slightly self-conscious straining after the gra nd intellectual theme, eager in On the Razzle to portray nineteenth centur y values becoming twentieth century complexes as barbarian meets baroque in pre-Freud ian Vienna. This complexity makes Stop pard a demanding dr amatist to put on, a nd the difficulty is compounded by the virtuosic demands which he now habitually makes of the international stars whose services he is able to command. 011 the Razzle was, it follows, an ambitious choice for a school production, but any audience fea rs that it might have proved too much so were allayed by swift recognition that Mr. Dobbin had assembled round him a cast which could boast remarkable individual and corporate strengths. It wasn't just that a ll the principa l actors acquitted themselves so well , but that one sensed that among the supporting cast of dancers, diners, shoppers, and restaurant attenders there were many who would have been qu ite capable of filling a larger role had the need arisen, but were for now efficiently and happil y clicking a spoon and fork on the sidelines, content, so to speak, only to stand and wait. Amongst the main ro les, Ph ilippe Laca mp and Lucinda Roberts made an excellent job of the young couple Sonders and Marie, roles which might otherwise have been awkwardly bla nd; and there were particularly distinguished cameos from Katie Gollop's Gertrud, Patrick Greenleaf's coachman, Tom Ward 's Belgian foreigner, and the un identified Head Waiter. The sta ff of Herr Zangler's Grocery Emporium excelled themselves. Thomas Grieves, as a suitably fresh faced Christopher, made an excellent partner for the Weinberl of Mar k Evans, whose Northern accent was occasionally a touch too inscrutable, but who had thought himself into a personali ty quite different fro m his own with very considerable maturity; whilst the Melchior of C hris White, overheard bursts of between-lesson chat suggest, instantly became a classroom 'classic' - a reward which it certainly deserved. Tim Briggs's Zangler was magnificent. The excellent make-up, subtly inflected accent, judicious sense of pace, and amusing gesture (especially when cli mbing into the ill-fitting uniform) epitomised the affinity of the whole cast with professional rather than amateur standards. Lighting and sound, though no less expert, drew less attention to themselves than did the costumes, especially those for C lare Wilson and Susanna Walsh, whilst the offstage Strauss trio, playing arrangements by Anthea Wilcock, were good enough to leave at least one member of the audience wishing that they had kept us more continuously supplied. Mr. Dobbin not only had the temerity to choose the play, but must take a sort of a lchemical super-credit for turning individuals into a company; designing a set which seemed to resurrect a piece of the Crystal Palace fifty years after that building's destruction; and tra nsformi ng what might nowadays be called the drama-unfriendly Shirley Hall into an auditorium fit for the reception of his creation . He seemed in addition to have infused his company with an enthusiastic sense of sympathetic fellow-feeling for a difficult play by a n a lien dra matist, and this last move was his most considerable achievement - a definite producer' s Czech-mate. 53

Like Mrs. Noah, I almost forgot the animals. David Laurence and James Nevile were aspIc d' pa ntomime ho rse, whilst as for the parakeet. . . Well , he certainly talked , and ho w. n Id A seat near the front ena bled me to observe that due to an economic o r moral diktat su not the wo rk o f the Director, the Im peri al Gar dens Cafe served only imitatio n champ~ nrely trust tha t the defi ciency was remedied at the last ni ght par ty, a nd tha t the cast were able t~ e: I theo:nselves th at razzle off the stage th at they had assuredly give n the a udience whilst they ~~ve

on It.

T.R.H.

TALKS THE CHANNEL TUNNEL MR . DAVID MITCH ELL (M tNISTER OF STATE, DEPARTM ENT OF TR ANSPORT)

It was a cold evening a nd Mr. Mitchell was probably o ne of the busiest men in the COuntry and yet he still turned up o n 13th October at 7. 15 p.m . to give us a ta lk a bout the C hannel Tu~nel. Mr. Mitchell began by outlining the benefits of the Channel Tunnel - cheap, efficient effec ti ve, fast and easy transpo rt to Fra nce. He also mentio ned th at the cross-channel ferri'; would still be opera ting , a fac t overlo oked by ma ny members of the populatio n who he said believed that they would either have to use a row ing boat or a pla ne to leave the coun try if they did not lik e the idea of using the tunnel. We were then treated to a brief history o f the tunnel. The idea had apparentl y surfaced as earl y as the 1700s, but been rejected because no body fa ncied being attac hed to those dralled Froggies. After various other aborti ve attempts the scheme had re-emerged a nd a start was actually made, the remains of which can still be seen. This fi rst tunnel was dug in to the soft rock and went a short way under the sea , but th e builders then ra n out of mo ney so it went no further. The present scheme is the first majo r C ha nnel Tu nnel scheme to get fully und erway with proper government backing. The histo ry over, Mr. Mitchell took questions from the floo r. T he questio n of wh y the specific mode of tunnel - rail shuttle only with no road - came up, in reply to which we were IOld that the technology to remo ve ex haust fum es from the tunnel had not ye t been perfected, thus renderin g a road tunnel impossible. Mr. Turner then too k the oppo rtuni ty to criticise the Canterbury to London line in contrast with French rail ways , but Mr. Mitchell defended British Rail valiantly. Various questions concerning the P arliamentary progress of the Cha nnel Tunnel Bill we re also put fo rward. It was perhaps do ubly appropri ate that Mr. Mi tc hell should give his talk in Canterbury, firstly beca use Mrs. Thatcher had signed the Treaty with P res ident Mit ten and in the Chapter House not very lo ng befo re a nd secondly because of the video about the Channel Tunnel made by King's pupils in which Mr. Mitchell appeared . At the end of the talk this video was mentio ned and T imo th y Briggs - interviewer fo r the proj ect - presented the Minister wi th both a photograph of him with the video team and a cassette o f the entire film . At the end of the ta lk the H eadmas ter tha nked Mr. Mitchell for giving up his evening, as king him if he had ever used his position to hu rry alo ng a behind-schedule train . Mr. Mitchell rep lied that he had not , but that he would try it that evening if he got delayed returnin g to London. Let us ho pe he did no t have to, considering his hectic schedule, fro m which we are grateful 10 him for sparing us one evening. M ART IN S TEWART. 54

ON T li E RAZZLE (l.S. H.)

ALCHEMY DR. DAV ID ARNOT[ n Wednesday 19th November, Sciphilos in vited Dr. Arnott, o ne of o ur C hemistry teac hers, ave a talk on his great interest: alchemy. It was a revelat io n for ma ny of us who had considered 10 ~ernY a branch of science which o nly turned up in legends or at least in the past when science aI's less sophisticated . Dr. Arn oll , however, proved that alchemy is still a n in teresting aspect "rscience. He gave a fascina ting lecture on the history of alchemy, revea ling where it origin ated o Ihe diffe rent parts of th e world an d how it develo ped . He showed us vario us ex periments I~ illustrate that alchemy is not merely an ideal towards which man s t~i ves , but has gro unds ~or ils existence : metals do cha nge shape, SIze, colour or consIstency If they are mI xed with propriate solu tions. During the course of the ta lk he sho wed us how a cop per wire placed a solution grew a nd turned sil ver. He showed us slides of paintings of alchemists in their la bo ra tori es surro unded by the ex traordinary a pparatus whIch dId bear a liltle resemblance to today's tec hmcall y adva nced eq uipment. T he slides a lso showed the d rawings that were made to ex pla in their experiments. These were allegorical in nature with peo ple, animals o r pla nts representing meta ls, catalysts or results. (Much mo re interesti ng tha n today's fo rmulae!) T he a mo unt o f documentati o n Dr. Arnott brought along a nd the obvio us commitment he showed to the subject we re a n indi cati on of how alchemy has obsessed people thro ugh the ages. In some cases it has ta ken over the li ves of all related to the alchemist and d riven entire fa milies to the work ho use when th ey lost all Iheir funds in the search for greater wealth. Alchemists are often tho ught of as elderl y mad scientists, who li ve night and day in their laboratories and exist for nothi ng but their experiment. Dr. Arn OIl showed no signs o f madness or advanced age and made alchemy so und lik e a seri o us a nd very in teresti ng bra nch o f science . After all, do we not all stri ve fo r perfectio n?

ELEANOR T A YLOR.

THE ART OF POLITICS THE RI G HT HON . LORD THOR NEYC ROFT In his talk, given o n 21st November, Lo rd Thorneycroft to ld how poli tics can be a n 'endless adventure'. H is own career illustra tes this, fo r he remembers fighting his firs t by-elect io n in the lime of Lloyd George, and is still involved in politics today in the House o f Lo rds. His progressio n Ihrough poli tics has been mos t distinguished . He served in many cabinet posts and is a for mer Conservative P arty Chairman - but he can recall the time when he, as an un important politicia n, was called upon to make the winding-up speech after a lengt hy debate as a n ins ul t to Alilee. One theme he stressed was the recent development from a system where party loyalties mattered less, and where great men we re measured o n their qua li ty of statesma nshi p, to the present state where there are defini te divisio ns visible between the major parties over any issue. T hat is why he prefers and enj oys sitting in the Ho use of Lo rds so much. His adv ice to th ose contemplating entering Parliament is that they sho uld formula te their own ideas first and then select the most relevant party rather 'tha n mouldin g their views around a party's ideology . His ministeri al ex perience has sho wn that there is reall y much common ground between the major pa rties a nd that one deals with grey, ra ther th an blac k and white, issues . Differences are exaggerated by Ihe medi a and the pro blems of pass ing legislation . There a re no per fec t a nswers; o ne must persevere. H e re membered a time of individuality of opinion, when o ne's own part y wo uld look fo rward to one's speech with the same anxiety as the oppositio n . 55 ON THE RAZZLE (l.S.H.)

ALCHEMY DR. DAVID ARNOn On Wednesday 19th November, Sciphilos invited Dr. Arnott, one of ou r Chem istry teachers, 've a talk on his great in terest: alchemy. It was a revelation for many of us who had considered If terny a branch of science which only turned up in legends or at least in the pas t when science a"s lesS sophisticated. Dr. Arnott, however, proved that alchemy is still a n interesti ng aspect wtscience. He gave a fascinating lecture on the history of alchemy, revealing where it originated ~ the different parts of the world and how it developed. He sho wed us various experiments :~ illustrate that alchemy is not merely an ideal towards which ma n strives, but ha~ grou~d s for ils existence: metals do change shape, SIze, colo ur or consIstency If they are mIxed wIth app ropri ate solutions. During the course of the talk he showed us ho w a co pper wire placed

in a solution grew and turned sIlver. He showed us slides of paintings of a lchemists in their laboratories surround ed by the extraordi nary apparatus which did bear a liltle resemblance to today's technically adva nced equipment. The slides a lso showed the drawings that were made to explain th eir experiments. These were allegorical in nature wit h people, animals or pla nts representing metals, catalysts or result s. (Much more interesting than today' s formulae!) The amount of documentation Dr. Arnott brought along and the obvious commitment he showed to the subject were a n indication of how alchemy has obsessed people through the ages. In some cases it has taken over the li ves of all related to the alchemist and d riven entire families to the workhouse when th ey lost a ll Iheir funds in the search for greater wealth . Alchemists are often thought of as elderly mad scientists, who li ve night and day in their laboratories and exist for nothing but their experiment. Dr. Arnott showed no signs o f madness or advanced age and made alchemy sound like a serious and very interestin g branch o f science. After all, do we not all strive for perfection? ELEANOR TAYLOR.

THE ART OF POLITICS THE RIGHT HON. LORD THORNEYC ROFT In his ta lk, given on 2 1st November, Lord Thorneycroft told how politics can be an 'endless adventure'. His own career illustrates this, for he reme mbers fi ghting his first by-election in the lime of Lloyd George, and is still involved in politics today in the House of Lords . His progression Ihrough politics has been most distinguished. He served in ma ny cabinet posts and is a former Conservative Party Chairman - but he can recall the time when he, as an unimportant politician, was called upon to make the winding-up speech a fter a length y debate as a n insult to Attlee. One theme he stressed was the recent development from a system where party loyalties mattered less, and where great men were measured on their qua lity of statesmanship, to the present state where there are definite divisions visible between the major parties over any issue. T hat is why he prefers and enjoys sitting in the House o f Lords so much. His advice to those contemplating entering Parliament is that they should formulate their own ideas first and then select the most re levant party rather 'than moulding their views a round a party' s ideology . His ministeri al experience has shown that there is really much common ground between the major parties a nd Ihat one deals with grey, rather than black and white, issues . Differences a re exaggerated by Ihe media a nd the problems of passing legislation. There are no perfect a nswers; one must persevere. He remembered a time of individuality of opinion, when one's own party wo uld look forward to one's speech with the same anx iety as the opposition. 55

ON THE RAZZLE (J.S.H.J

He emphasised the grati tude he feels towards Ch

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OP~htICIS provIdes a n opportunity to 'nudge the world ~rl~h~~yf~~ :~~~PdPol;tuHl1J tles he offered hi

po ItICS, and encouraged us to t k .. go. e told of th Ill. It is not the .'rat race' it is portray~de a~lb oPPOrtul1Jt y avaliable to enter the world rewards a very amusmg and interes ting talk whichel~~~ ~'S modesdtyband cheerfu lness were noi~bhltICS. ppreclate y everyone present. e In

ADAM OLJVE~.

WINE MAKING MR. DAVID CARR-TAYLOR 17th November A packed Societies Room (perhaps owin I ' was treated to an hour's listenin learn in g to t lC w,o rd s and wine tastin g' in th e calend lively a nd fluent talk, insisting o~'audienc; ;~~.gUlpmg, as Mr. Carr-Taylor embarked o;r) ta lk, On setting up a vineyard and the subse u:n:C I Pa~lOn, not that anyone was reluctant Tha the problems, hardship a nd satisfaction of ~ine p~~ mtl4 and marketing of the wine, OlltlineJ to grow vmes - indeed, wha t else does one do with lIC Ion . S ta rtmg from the initial decision Taylor proceeded step-by-step to describe his g rad u a spare twenty-three acres? - Mr. Carr. to becomlllg on~ of England's (if not the! ) most successful wi ne producer. Mr Carr~ aSfent y vme-growmg upSIde-down : long, trailing foli age for : Or Iturned the tradItIOnal I~ethods of up the a ll too mfrequent sunshme but a lso cuts d~wn a x~FP e, n~t only a llows the vmes to lap economica l, we were assured. n l C prunmg necessary. This is far more The 'boorish, beer·drinking Brits' were ea gerl . ~olt to be disappointed. The Reichensteinel fi!steY,~n~~he rm? M empty glasses and they were a a nced grapey flavour.' 'Oh yes' ur I d h ' . ung, J ulty wme wIth good and well.

~1es~~~~~e~;dn~~~~ft,~: ~~s~~;i·r~u~/~~~gn;~~IJ ~~I~~~;~~~.g~~d!~I~~~e~n~i~~vt~~r!~~o~;~~~~~~ Sulphur dioxide, glue and various minera ls all ha v h . as descnbed by Mr. Carr-Taylor We thank h· e a and or a foot m this wonderful art the very best of luck at the future"bottling time~~~~I?A~IUCh inde~d kand lVi~h him and his wife ex come ac a nd gIve the same delighl m later yea rs? PHILIPPE LACAMP.

FOUR FRIENDS

T HE RT. REV. AND RT. HON. LORD COGGAN 81h October 'The most precious things in life are friend s ' w· h . He went on to describe four 'friends' who w' k ele I e openmg words of Lord Coggan's lalk. or aga mSI opp,ess ,on and pnvalion in differe nl parts of I·he world . He recalled the presentation of a Bibl

Sharans k~, a 'podgy, bald hum orous Ji ::g; e

y members of the House of Lords, to Nathan BIble, wh,ch had been sent to Russia but ret ho :~d ~een a pohtlcal pnsoner in Russia. (The to the House of Commons.) In con/unction ~~~ tl y t Ie government, eventua lly found its way work of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Sister Gin I I' liS, ~e. sPf ke of the valuable a nti-apartheid a ll of whom had given up thei~ lives to impr~~e st~~or. ~nt t Ie dLolndon slums .. Th ree ' friends', IIg S an IVlng conditIOn s of others. 56

The fourth and final 'friend' seeks to heal the sick and wo unded from a tiny and ill-equipped pilal on the Afghan border. Lord Coggan praised this work - and indeed, all efforts hOsbring Western adva ntages to the Third (or, as he put it , two-thirds) World . 10 ThuS Lord Coggan, having illustrated his opening words wi th four examples of people who lIy are the frie nds of all the world , concluded that to be a 'friend' - in his sense - was r~: most positive kind of life you could lead . I A vigoroUS question session followed, with Lord Coggan paying partic.ular a llention to the rsecution of ChrISt Ia ns m Eastern Europe, a nd the debate over the ordmatlon of women m ~iS country. The Headmaster, in thanking Lord Coggan , solved a mystery of the evening by !denlifying the fourth ' friend' as Lord Coggan's daughter, and suggested that the School should :ake a collection for her mission station on the first Sunday in Adve nt. JOANNA PROPHET.

'THE QUEEN AS CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGN' MR. KENNETH ROS E 7th November Mr. Rose made his topic of 'The Queen as Constitutional Sovereign' highl y enjoyable and amusing by his enlightening talk . He dealt with the business and not the ceremonial aspects of her duties, referring to her as a 'hereditary official'. The Queen' s powers come from tradition, as England has no written constitution, and in theory are extensive, yet only the 'trappings ' are seen today . Most of her

personal political power has been lost. 'The sove reign now reigns but does not rule.' The Queen's ministers, appointed by Parliament, act on the principle that the Queen 'can do no wrong'. They therefore ta ke on her responsibility as well as her work. However, though she has lost her powers, she still has many duties (such as summoning and dissolving Parliament and giving assent to bills) which could , in theory, be used to bring Parliament to a sta ndstill , allhough, in practice , she would never do so, except in a national crisis. T he Royal Asse nt has nol been refused since 1707, and a refusal would probably not be accepted by a modern government. The Queen, therefore, must suppress her own feelings, a nd act on the advice of her ministers . 'The modern monarch has ma ny duties but little initiative.' The Queen is not, however, completely impassive, having p'rerogatives, most notably the Prime Minister 's appointment. The parties no w elect their own leaders (the Conservatives doing so since questions over the appointment of Home in 1963), but this power could become material afler a hung Parliament. Her other prerogatives include wa rm encouragement and being consulted . She spends several hours each day reading government reports, letters and newspapers a nd armed wilh this information, she is in a position to 'restrain ' but not 'obstruct', as her opinion will only be influential if used sparin gly. The Queen's most important meeting with her Prime Minister is the confidentia l one on a Thursday . Elizabeth II's eight Prime Ministers have been of varied social origins, but her relations with all have been equally good. Wilson and Macmilla n were said to have particularly enjoyed Ihese meetings. Mr. Rose fi nally touched on the Queen's rela tions with the Common wealth , but stressed that her ultimate loyalty would always lie at home. The Headmaster ended wi th a delightful anecdote about the Queen Mother trying to persuade her daug hter to have a drink after a particula rly difficu lt morning. 'After a ll ,' she said , 'you do have to reign all afternoon!' F I ONA STEWART.

VISIT FIFTH FORM GEOGRAPHY FIELD COURSE On 8th Septem ber fifteen pea I t ff f Parker and Gales. We arrived fh~:: a~ 5 the Blencathra centre in Cum bria, lead b Messrs. a vItal motor way turni ng. The party was' re~i~' 'bslIghtly later tha n expected due rs . BIrkett, a local fa rmer's wÂˇ;rHSSmg gave us a massive three course supper Aff a geological backgrou nd to the area ' er supper r. Parker took us up the hill tI e, who o~~u On Tuesday morning we gathered . t C I ." S set out to Goosewell Farm, where . a as t ellgg stone cIrcle (an old cricket itch and It IS lIke to be a hill sheep farmer ~Ic h~r~tllen gave us a detaIled and informati~e taik Ihen ~eughscar Hill to study limeston~ ou~~r~psel~~oe~ea f:er I~nch by Ullswater, the group ~~:!'.~ ark Ranger gave us a talk It w i ' d n oun an erratIc. In the evening N . "<11 retu rned from two rescues ~ur c~~~~~t:~e:s~~er dull , but when we learnt that h~ h:~j~:: The follOWIng day we clim bed Helvell n . . Mr. Parker 's group (including Justinian) y to stud y glacIatIOn. The views from the to b y anot her Cum brian supper which left u~~\~~~;d' re~~ specta.cular. We returned to be W~I~~~~ by Messrs. Gales, H ughes and Jessup. . n e evenmg we saw a video carefully chosen In the morning o f the fo llowin d us a useful talk We also went rf!, ay we went to Thornth waite fo rest, where a ran bTtfhUel: Hftughes and . a ernoon was spent spla h' d " on t e other 'd l ookin~ at a wa terfalL Our last day was d~d:~:t:~oun In nvers (and b~in!l splas hed) and ~ls~ reserVOIr, before hav mg Supper outside Mrs. Birkt~t~aFa~~dIng and vIsItIng a slate mine and Thanks must go to M R G P d G . ho use. hospitality, and fi nally t~ the' \;e:t~ler f~:~~/~~i~r;:.llIsing the trip, to Mrs. Birkett for her

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THE SOCIETIES I nitia lly the attendance fi gures were very encouraging and as term progressed OUf week ly meet ings continued wit h a relia ble core of ten. T hanks to the encou ragement and enthus iasm of Veronica Lyell quite a large nu mber of letters arc being wrilten by people who are unable to attend the meetings. We have lea rnt that the leite rs have been writing have contributed to the release of four prisone rs o f consc ience. weClose li nks have bee n main tained with the Canterb ury Amnesty group. Every yea r A. I. local gro ups und the world mou nt a special one week campaign for the release of prisoners of co nscience, ask in g arombers of the publ ic to send appeals to the offe nding governme nts, a nd for help in financing the research me essa ry to docum ent the pri so ner cases . This yea r, for the first time in the U.K., a nati onal door-to-doo r n~lecl ion was made. Membe rs of the school A. 1. group participated in this cam paign, collectin g money (~om Ihe ce ntre of Canterbury and contrib ut ing ÂŁ30 to the overall total of ÂŁ473. A screening of Amnesty's fil m on tort ure attracted a large audience fro m the Lower School and many 'gnalUres were added to the petition aga inst tort ure in Afghan istan. As part of A. I.'s urgent ac tion scheme ~llelegram was sent to So uth America . Ma ny thanks to all who attend the wee kly meet in gs, especi ally to Sholto By rnes for organisi ng several meeti ngs and to all those who have designed posters. Lastly we are gratefu l to Mr. Woodley fo r hi s conti nu ing support . CLARE EDMONDSON AND PH ILllPA RUBINS.

W ith the new schoo l yea r we have lost Nick Preston, but James Eddiso n has stepped manfully in to his shoes on the commi ttee, and the smooth run ni ng of the society is thu s assured fo r a nother fe w years. He has bee n rat her ove rworked dea li ng with Ihe more complicated orders, especiall y in a term plagued by ma lfunctioning mac hi nery, but almost everything has now been done (bar the di ss ing!). He has also put his C.D.T. sk ills to use repa iring lo ng 'dead' quoins. We have had quite a number of Shell boys pop in to try heading file paper and the like, a nd we have also gained some stalwart recruits in the Remove in the persons of Nick Davies, Dom Burdess, Hugh Milward and Hugh Clayton. Nicola Shaw hav ing blazed the trail last year fo r the d istaff side in the T hursday ac tivity slot, we were joined this ter m by Claire Davis, Emily Driver and An na Wilson. It certainly gives one an insight in to what the girls goss ip about ! We have been kept on our toes by the usual diversity o f jobs over the last three months but just occasionally recently I have fel t that I neve r want to see a nother menu o r Chri stm as card . My thanks go as ever to George Neeve and to R. J .M. for thei r inva luab le work in helping run the society. M.J. M. CAXTON

As I write th is, the las t notes of the Carol Service have d ied away, b ut the voices of the Sopranos and Tre bles of the Chapel C hoir wi ll still be brin ging the Ch ristmas message into ma ny homes around the world th rough their contribution to the recently released RCA record/cassette/compact disc ' James Ga lway's Christ mas Carol' . Recorded in London, at the height of the 0- and A-level examinations, we joi ned with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The B.B.C. Singers and, of cou rse, James Ga lway hi mself, who was the first to welcome a somewhat nervous group of young singers, many of whom were at the ir fi rst com mercia l recording session, in the cl inica l and see mingly un helpful acoustic of a stud io. A very di ffere nt acoustic greeted the members of last yea r' s Chapel Choir who we nt to the University's Rutherford Hall , in October, to record Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Pie Jesu for Sir Harry Secombe's ' Highway' television programme fo r Remembrance Sun day . There the warmth of the reverbe ration gave a great dea l of encourage ment to Sara Bee (Soprano) and Ju lian Sturt (Treble) who sa ng the exacting solo parts with great aplomb , acco mpanied by a suitab ly mourn fu l, but d ignified Choir. CHAPEL AND CRYPT CHOIRS

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ess 0 ea uty. 6a) on being elected to a Choral Schol a . Film a nd C rispi n Flower, o n thei r awa rds of Cho ra l s~~t ro~~~r mew:~er~ of the Chapel C ho ir, Benj~Sh!p College, Ca mbr idge. Co ngratulations too f 10 31 S ~ps to lI1g s College and Gonv ille and ~In f ne! Some mak ing t~eir deb ut), and than ks ~~ ~~~ ~~~;b~~~o~S/SS~h~7Ugro~t fhe term (some experi~J~ uepasot'rto ~ess rs. G ri eves, Kie ly, W hiteley a nd a ll those who help~he;110n t'le p and ~ up~ort us and, not musIc.. . le organ isation and clearing 1987 looks hke bell1g ano ther excit ing year.

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The anthems this term were: 2 1st September (Crypt) 28t h September (Quire) (Ins ta lla tio n of Headmaster a nd Sc ho lars) 5t h October (Crypt) 12t h October (Nave) 19th Oc tober (Crypt) 26th October (Nave) (9th Novem ber _ Remembra nce Day) 16th November (Nave) 23rd Novembe r (Crypt) 30th Novembe r (Nave) 7th December (C rypt) (O rchest ra Exeat) 14t h Decembe r (Nave)

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Beati quorum via (Stanford) Blessed be the God alld Father (S. S. Wesle ) (Solo : Oliver H in ton)

Ave verum corpus (Byrd) A ve Maria (Arcadelt) Agnlls Dei (4-part mass) (Byrd) How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn)

God is ~ spirit (Stern dale-Ben nett) COnlOf/tfbus organis (Phill ips) Hosanna to the SOli oj David (Weelkes) When tlie Lord -,umed again (Sta nford) (S ung by C hn stopher W hiteley) IS the record oj John (Gibbons) (So lo : Marti n E d wards)

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T he prog ram me started wit h two visit T h f Lo ndon, for an exhibition prepared by C~RN e I~s t was .to Queen Mary College, near Geneva, whic h provides faci liti e f • a~ mt~rnatlOnal o rganisa tion, located of!n~tte r. The seco ~ d dest inat ion was Imperia l Co llege Lon~ or feSe~I C!ll~1O the f un dame nt a l struct ure mcluded a ~asCll1a(ing lecture by Professo r Bonddeld of 0Qn. or ~ e SCie nce for In.d ustry' exhib ition. Or Bone a nd Joml Repla cement' in which he descr·b d ~een ary Co llege . entitled 'Biomaterials replace ment as his majo r illu strat ion. I e recent evelopments in bone surgery, tak ing hip HA

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, Dr. Richard Hancock , Royal Holloway and New Bedf d C .. Mass Spectro metry' and gave a n o ut stand ing lecture· ollege, !--ondon, visited us to talk about and surveyed the multitude of applicat io ns for (hl's g in w lICh helexpla lil Cd the basic pr in ciples involved roup 0 r tee 1Il lques.

Biology of Human Bra in Tumo urs' was the topic for Dr. J o hn Da rli ng fr o m the Londo n Inst it ute 'l'he olegy. He outlined recent a d vances that have been ma de in treating lUmours and pointed the way o(N~~rh future research is likely to go. The who le subject provided an absorbing evening, as shown by in wv~~ied quest ions asked by the audie nce. Ih~h final event of the term was a visit to the University of Kent for one of the C hristmas Science Lectures. . evas given by P rofesso r Lo uis Wain, a world a ut ho rity in hi s subj ect, 'P lant Growth and Man -Ma de Thl~~ulesl. He described how research could benefit developing countries, in t heir despe rate need to produce ~Io food even more t ha n at present, if only mo re money was ava ilab le. H e a lso explained the most recent rnor~ for' plants g row ing towa rds t he light. Iheo"

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T he Jazz C lub this term has so lidified to t he fo llowi ng personnel: Jam es Gumpe rt (trumpet and musica l direct ion), James Lawrence (trombone), Hugh Andree (clarinet), Mauhew Hu lme (saxophone), E lizabeth Robinson (piano), Antony Michael (bass), a nd Phili ppe Lacamp (dru ms). Some new repertoire has been buil l up, and J imm y Gumpert, much aided by James Law rence, has coaxed the band very well into d oi ng improvisations at eac h of our Activit ies Sess ions th is ter m. These have all been very inte rest ing a nd exciting, a nd I have avidly recorded most of them. T he Band has played one fo r mal engage ment thi s term - at Marks & Spencer's, duri ng Iheir late open ing for handicapped shoppers on Wednesday, 26th No vem ber. Tim Weller (dru ms) a nd David Ever ist (keyboa rds) stood in o n this occasion, and a lso very kindl y covered at other sessions when P hil Laca mp and Libby Rob inson were un ava il ab le through the ir comm itment to On The Razzle . A new featu re th is term has been the for mation o f a 'junior' J azz Band, sponta neously in itiated by Sholto Byrnes, who have called t hemselves the Fringe Jazz Band. Th is comprises younger boys who play instrument s fo r which t here are at present no vacancies in the 'senio r' Band. A member of the Jazz C lub Band (J a mes Law rence) has, however , kep t a fat herly eye o n them, and has helped the m considerably in the ir in itial rehearsals . The prime mover in t he Fr inge Jazz Band has been Sholto Byrnes (leader, a nd bass); the ot hers are Damia n Simpson (trumpet), Dan iel Rycroft (trombone), James Thom son (clar inet), Ben Eaton (saxophone), David Everis t (piano), and J ulian Moore (dru ms). T he Fringe Band have had two engagements _ at a late-opening at British Home Stores on Thursday, 13th November, and at a section in Mr. McCon nell 's Second Orchestra and Wi nd Society C har ity Concen on Saturday, 29t h November (the latter of which is reviewed elsewhere in this Cantuarian). The personnel of the Jazz Band and the Fringe Jazz Band have also contributed, in various com binati o ns, and with ot hers, to several House Concerts this te rm : J azz G roups were featured in the House Concerts of Luxmoore (29t h Oc tober), School Ho use (29th Octobe r - J ames Lawrence was in bot h !), and Galpin's (23rd Nove mber), Finally, I shou ld like to tha nk Mrs . S ue McConnell ror recording, and Mr. l. R. Parker, and Mr. Wen ley for their kin dness in dr iving the two Bands to their out-of-School engagements. R.B.Ma.

JAZZ CLUB

We met on 27th November to hear and watc h an illu strated ta lk on 'Roman Canterbury' by M r. Pa ul Ben nett, Director of the Canterbu ry Archaeologica l Trust. It was encouraging to see a capac ity audience, and their enthusiasm was well rewarded by a talk whic h fla voured archaeological minutiae with human int erest. We were given a straight-frornthe-trowel view of the Rom an Ca nter bury whic h lies beneath o ur feet, wit h the help of so me excellent slides a nd ta les of a muc h loved family pet, a town-gate nai led into place and undisturbed for ce ntur ies, and a brutal murder. This reviewer learn t, among much else , that waggons no t wi ne gave Wincheap its name, and that a Roman wall complete with crenell a ted top is bui lt into the side of St. Ma ry's. M,l.T, PATER

SCIPHILOS

The Sc ient ific and Philosop hical Socie ty is no w k nown sin Sci philos - partly because the longer na me is rather pompous, but main ly1b1y a,

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In fact the society has made a great success of this ter m. We now have an expanding Core of who attend meet ings, and a lot mo re interes t bes ides, The four meeti ngs this term were all we CQuid p Pe~Pk fit in , because there were so many ta lks going on - btu Ih al of course is not somet hi ng we regret OSSlbly of the meetings were discliss io ns or debates (depending largely on your defi nition of discussions and d~bThrtt and the ot her o nc was a talk. Two of the mee tings were philosop hica l, and th e other two Scientir.les~, we are going to be pedantic abo ut the name of the socie ty (though, as I have said, we aren't). IC, If ' Is po li tica l violence justifi ed ?' had a la rge turnout, a nd produced ve ry heated di scussion. Indeed it clear at the end that Molotov cockt a ils wo uld soon be co ming out fro m under seats a nd theory woW~ turn into practice, if the di scuss ion was not halted. Mu ch regret was ex pressed whe n it was , thou h uld suggest that this was because the co nte nders did in fact wish to win the moral battle wi th wo rd s angd Vie weapons. Sou th Afri ca , predictabl y, became the main discussion poin t. or th e main speakers' Elea not Tay lor gave the most impressive argument, with out no tes, and Bl ythe Levett' s was the most cogen'" tho~ohr read. g 'Are Scientist s Boring?' was per haps less successful, the discussion of the 'two cultures' debate mainlco nce rnin g the li mit ed field o f sc hool subjects. T he unfortunate conclusion was that they are but the) shouldn't be. This iss ue needs more air in g at a wider leve l. ' )' Dr. Arnott' s excellent ta lk, 'Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone', is reviewed elsewhere in this publication. It is ho ped that more masters wi ll fee l able to talk abo ut thei r 'pet' subjects, to the greater en light enment of the st udent s. Last, but nOI least, ' Why Vegetarianism? ' packed Oul the Societies Room with a rowdy crowd who thought they might ma ke it something lik e the (deceased) King's Par li ament. However, serious points were made Tiggy Webb's speec h being by far the most convincing, though those of the two Tobys, Duth ie and Widdow so n, we re very amu sing (for different reaso ns). Finally a reasonable compromise was made, that perhaps it wo ul d be a good idea to eat less mea t, if not actually beco ming Vegetarians. We' ll mak e it to the next superpower summ it yet. ROBERT WEBB

With Ihe Autum n in take of both boys a nd girl s, the orchestra has increased, nOI o nly in size, but in mu sica l ab ilit y. On ly a ha nd ful o f rehearsals and two concerts to prepare for mean t that practice was quite intensive and the repertoire was necessa rily small, The first concert was o n 15t h Novembe r in All Saints' Church, Mi litary Road, by kind permission of the Reverend B, Coo per, and the progra mm e contai ned severa l traditional items, including Music /or the Royal Fireworks by Handel and The Hunt from the Four Seasons by Vi va ldi. The concert, whic h was sha red by the Wind Society, rai sed over ÂŁ 130 for the C hurch of England' s Ch ildren 's Society . We repeated the programme in the Shi rley Ha ll on 29th November, thi s time rais ing ÂŁ191 for the Dund onne ll Mountain Rescue T eam, We are most graleful to Mr. and Mrs. Wi lson, Mrs. Michael and Mrs. Boyle fo r such excellen t refreshment s on so fogg y a night after the co ncert. Once agai n, Mr. and Mrs. McConnell's enthusiasm has been tremendous and we loo k forward to more success next term. TABITHA WtNN IFRITH,

SECOND ORCHESTRA

It is some tim e since a Socia l Services report was submi tted to The Cantuariall and, with thi rty-five volunt eers act ive during their fr ee aftern oons thi s ter m, clea rly an update is d ue, A dozen volu ntee rs visited St. Augustine' s mental hospit al al Chartham, either on a T hursday or Tu esday afternoon, some participating in p hysiotherapy, some in the hospita l wo rk shop , ot hers in wards, earn in g a sp lendid commendation fr0111 the hospit al voluntee r coordinator. Another group have helped at the Kent and Can terbury hospita l, serving teas, taking around menus, arranging flowers and fitt in g in as they can, A further two vo lu nteers have

SOCIA L SERVICES

. 'lmin baths with the children of St. Nicholas Tuesday aft ernoons to help ~t the. publ,lc sw m g s have been visitors, mainly of elderly beC l1 freelo~ol The rest, individually, or In, pa1r~ 011 smJII ;r~~I~~ with shopping or o utings , but most ly ~ial sC,t h' town ' some volunteers helpmg Wit 1 gar en , ~identS,~J1 ~oe kn oW 'and giving time to someone else. Social Service since Houses tend JOSI gctll ; tivitieS do not represe nt th~ !ull coml1!itm~11 ~~~~~~i~~hoOnO~~~ernoons, howe~er, does represent These a cific projects and fund rals~ng exerclrses. 1 ' tat ing a bus journey or considerabl~ wa lk out have spe f individua l commllment, 0 ten necess l d d rstanding which can be h ~oorerY h,ig d~;~~~ Â°and lak es qualities of pers~nal ~~it,iative, charact~~s~~t ~~r:at of Soci~1 Se rvices has to hOUSlIlgl~~o th~ test. It is, nonetheles~, a fair cnllc,lsm, l~~~ ~~~fmunity, but feel unabl e to undertake seorcrelY pl r to those who wa nt to contnbute so methlllg to to develop more pract ical projects, such little t~ ?:I~:eIY personal types of activity. One :1~s~vge~e~aJe~lewould depend on the number o f voluntel~rs these InParker's scheme for footpat~ clear31~ce, u t weekends, to develop such proj ects more gel~e ra y. thsey the support o f Mrs. Davis and Mrs. TeHnnR,Ck Âˇ M

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The 1986 season opened with the Netherlands tour. The XV played andwon two match (Hague R.F.C. 29-0 and Haarlem R.F.C. 14-0), saw blls of Amsterdam, climbed into the ea Valk working windmill at Leiden, but missed seeing the Ministry of Dams and Dykes 'D De Project' flood-prevention scheme . Our apologies to practically the entire western Netherlael~ situated about twenty-two feet below sea level. n... Returning home to the reality of British rugby, the XV lost its first home match 0-18 to heavy R.G.S. Newcastle team with a venturesome impulse for points. The encounter was aa abrupt upbringing which made the old saying hold good, that the secret of success is known only to those who have not succeeded. Other matches up to half term were varied: some turn~ into brisk wins (St. Lawrence 15-3, Berkhamsted 18-10, K.C.S. Wimbledon 13-4, and Eastbourne College 9-7), whilst others were lost through errors in self-reliance in defence and an inability to tackle opponents firmly and destructively short of the goal line (R.M.S . Dover 8-12, St. Paul's 3-13) . King's faced the toughest matches in November and December with commitment. The pack led by Jeremy Gordon, was confident, knew its job and fulfilled its functions adequately. Th~ Captain, David Laurence, led his backs enthusiastically, though noted, in several matches for slender defeats snatched agonizingly from the jaws of apparent successes. Invariably, the' XV led in matches at half time, only to go down in the last quarter by a sliver (Felsted 14-16, Epsom 12-15, Dulwich 12-22, Cranleigh 12-14, and Tonbridge 14-14), though the rugby played against Tonbridge was imaginative and entertaining to watch. Too often matches became like pieces of embroidery with two sides to them. During the first half, the XV always got sight of the right side and led opponents, but during the second half, of the wrong side. Very often the wrong side was more instructive too, since it showed ways in which the threads were worked together, and how matches were lost. As Durham School were unable to visit Canterbury, an ex hibition match concluded the season on Birley's Piece. The David Laurence XV and the Jeremy Gordon XV were selected fro m 1st Game players taking to the field for the last time at King's. It had all the spice of a 1st XV home fixture with a massive number of supporters cheering for both teams. The rugby was open and gra tuitous in the best sporting nature. Appropriately, the Captain's XV won 10-8. Some players excelled in the XV this season. The captain, David Laurence, recaptured his goalkicking form, and scrum-half, Angus Murdoch, played with energy and determination. At outsideÂˇ half, Philippe Lacamp often shone . An innovative style of play became his personal rubric throughout the season; he supplied accurate defensive line-kicking and a cutting-edge in attacking play whic h other three-quarters players lacked. He scored four super tries. On the wing, Peter Hamilton, an earnest, hard worker, also scored four rewarding tries for the team. Jeremy Gordon's pack had a good season and were rarely outplayed. All eight forwards were sound scrummagers, and Jason Mycroft and Angus Scott were especially effective in the lineouts where consistent two-handed catching was a hallmark of their performances. As the term developed, the pack's rucking abilities improved considerably. Everyone who played for the 1st XV is 10 be congratulated on giving their best at all times in a season of ups and downs . For this, and so much more, I am very grateful indeed. Amor Fati I am a lso grateful to everyone who encouraged the 1st XV this season: to the Headmaster, the Lower and Second Masters and staff of regu lar supporters, 10 the coaches/referees and the London Society of referees who enhance the standard of schoolboy rugby, to parents, friends, boys and girls who cheered us on, and to the Groundsman and his staff who kept our pitches so smart. R.B.Mi. 64 THE SCHOOL X V (Jollathan Marshall)

Âˇ C E. Butcher, P. A. H a milton (. ), D. J . Laurence (Capt.), O. Roti mi , P. P. Laca mp (.), A. G. F. Murdoch, rto'~iliJl; PS, M. Kandawa lla (. ), J . P. P. Nev ile (. ), T. J. W. Duthic, J . A. W . Mycro ft , A. G. J. Sco tt (. ), P. J. "~reen lcaf, J. C. O. ?ordon (. ), R. J. Morsc.. . . OÂˇ /SO played: T . P. Bnggs, A. M. Guy, A. E. Mitchell, A. P. Wattcnbach, M. R. A. MIller, F. W. 511npson, P. D . ..~woodward, T. A. F. Epps. Colours (.).

RESULTS Played 14, Won 6, Lost 7, Drawn l. Points for 165, Po int s agai nst 142.

v R. G.S. Newcast le (H). Lost 0- 18 v 51. Lawrence (A). Won 15-3 v R.M.S. Dover (A). Lost 8- 12

v Eastbourne (H). Won 9-7 v Fclstcd (H). Lost 14- 16 v Dulwich (A). Lost 12-22

v SI. Pau l's (A). Lost 3-13

v Tonbridge (H) . Drawn 14- 14

v Berkhamsted (A). Won 18- 10 v K.C.S. Wim bledon (H) . Won 13-4

v Epso m (A). Lost 12- 15 v Cran lcigh (A ). Lost 12- 14

TOUR XV RESULTS

v Hague R.F. C. (A). Won 29-0

v Haarlem R.F. C. (A). Won 14-0

~dXV This cannot be described as a vintage season, yet there has been a good deal to admire a nd remember. It was un fortu nate Ihat as many as th irty- five players represented the team for this made contin uity rat her d ifficult. pa rticula rly in th e backs who had a diffe rent line-up for every ga me. To the great credit o f the squad, everyo ne made th e most of fru strat ing silUat ions and excessive last-m in ute changes. Ma ny have emerged as significant ly better playe rs a nd the greatest a ll round improvements have been in tackli ng and handling skills. There was great commitment and support for each ot her in the matches but, rat her unusually at this leve l. so me lacked the se lf-d iscip line to concentrate in practice or to drive themselves hard enough in fitn ess training. Toby Duthic a nd then Andrew Mitchell shared the ca ptaincy, both doing an excellent, caring job in their different sty les. For the second half of the season, Mike Miller led the for midable pack rrom the front and the team was fortunate to have a player of h is cali bre. followin g the fa ilure of 51. Lawrence to raise a team, an open a nd exciting game at Duk e of York 's resulted in a creditable win although the tackling and handling were too variable for comfort, a nd Ad rian Linforth was lost for the resl of the season. T he pack dominated the tight play aga inst St. Paul's, but the backs experienced a day of woe ful handling which led to a most disappointing loss. Some good tries were scored at Berkhamsted b ut half-hearted tack ling allolVed the opposit io n to score twice in the last few minutes. A better performance at Wimbledon saw some fine indi vidual tries but it was not until the nex t matc h, agai nst Eastbourne, that the bac k line rea ll y clicked and ran in seve n tries in spite of the King's pack playing o ne man short fo r the second half. T his high standard of play was maintained against Felsted where the pack, a nd back row in pa rticula r, had a fin e afternoon . The most exciting fin ish of the season was against Dulwich fo r the team fou nd a not her gea r in the last quarter of the game a nd , cheered o n by a large crowd, scored a pushover try wit h minutes ( 0 go to win by a single poinl. Arguab ly the best effo rt of the term was during a superb first half against the a ll-conq uering Tonbridge tea m which rest ricted them to a 6-4 lead. In the second half a very fi ne o ppositio n showed their qu ality by scoring so me excellent tries. Epsom took their chances better on the day, scoring two tries to one, but King's careless ly gave away three kickable penalt ies to prod uce a rather fl a tt ering storeline for the home side. Cra nleigh were a nother side to have enjoyed a fin e seaso n but we were forced to play them with ou r team in a larm ing disa rray. Considering this disad vantage, the team produced remarkably courageous rugby , showing great com mitment , and were unlucky to lose narrowly. In the tight, the pack were outstandingly good, often driving other packs all over the fi eld, but they were less impressive in the loose and did not always put the opposit ion under sufficient pressure. Fergus Simpson was propped by Ma rc Overton o n one side a nd then, in turn , Toby Duthie, Mike Miller and lain G irling o n the o ther. This fin e fro nt row enjoyed their wo rk and provided a solid platform for the scrummage. Alex John s and Pierre Woodward were strong and fast locks wit h a hig h work-rate. They were assisted early in the season by Mark Evans before he was injured and by Robbie Cooper latterly. Tom Epps, my player of the season, was a real tower of st rength at No.8, showing excellent control on the tight which led to several tri es, a s well as admirable drive and determina tion in the loose. Jon Richardson and lai n Gi rling were the main flankers and d id plenty of good work with out bei ng really devastati ng, and they were assisted by a variet y of ot her co mpetent players during the term . And rew Mitchell coped a mazingly well wit h an everchanging back d ivision and he was well supported in the centre b y the ret urn to rugby of Neil Bishop who revelled in successful kicking. These twO developed well both in defence a nd attack, and linked success full y with the at tac ki ng nair o f Tim Briggs a t fu ll back. On the wings, Tim d'Offay improved great ly and sta rt led many with his tremendou s pace, Andrew Guy ran hard when we had him , and Art hu r Vigo gave up after reveali ng considerable talent but little appetite for the game. Tony Wattenbach and Bruce Marson established themselves as cffective ha lfbacks but the combination was di srupted by inju ry. Marcus C umber showed his ball-playin g ability and versatility by playing in five different posit ions in six matches. The goodwill with which members of the 3rd xv filled in , often at appaUingly short 65 (J.S.H . alld JOl1othan Marshall)

notice, was appreciated grea tly and they a lways v r I . b . . . .. but the tack ling of Pau l Norris at Cranlci h w ga eo ,I lClf cst. Perhaps It IS 1I1~ldIOUS to single Out

c~Jts ~~aC;;;;~Ord ll1ary. He and ot hers look fm c prospects for ncxt~~~~~V!du.aJ In sp lle of the frustrations. th is has been a good cn'o bl Ilea part icularly the capta ins. I should like to thank Mr y~ e s,eason al,ld I am grateful f? f the suPPOrt of til d y matches a nd ho pe thai he will contin ue to set high ·sta,·,('a·,dRs"r for I~ JS s,crurPulous l falf refereeing of a lJ OC PlaYtr" they wi!1 be joi ned by some promising

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B' ~"eio//owil/g played ill/ollror more games: A. E. Mitchell (Capt) leG' ,' M M,J.H p iS lap, A. C. H , Johns, J . D. Richardson F. W. Si mpson P OW' W . d Ir lI~g'M . A. 1. MCH. OVefton N Ii . Waltenbach, T. P. Briggs, T. d'Offay, C. Marson M ' R' A' M·i l oaf ~ . 1. Cu mber, T. A. F. 'Ep· . J. A. M. Guy. ' . . . I cr, . . VIgO, T. 1. W. Duthie M A pS.A.. 1; , . . Evans lIe/olio wing also played: H. 1. Andree S M Bcau ie C E B . ~. ~ SIt!tlaKford, 1. ~ .. Davies, P. A. Ha!~l il ion : A.' D~ Ho\~ard, ~~I~r'L~I;fc;r~Oo~elj S~l Grimes, O. P. C. Langlon . oms, . O. Ph illi ps, 1. C. A. Veitch. . , . . orse, A. G. F. MurdOch, p ~

RESULTS

Pla yed,lO, Won 6, Lost 4. Points for 145, Points against 121. v Duke of York s (A). Won 22· 17 v Felsted (H) W 244 v SI. Pa ul's (H). Lost 4.1 1 . . on . v Berkhamsted (A). Won 19- 12 v Du hv l~h (H). Won 10·9 v K.C.S. Wimbledon (A). Won 16-4 ~ Tonbndge (A). Lost 4-26 v Eastbourne (H). Won 36. 11 Epsom. (A). Lost 6- 19 v Cranlelgh (A). Lost 4-8

3rd XV After last ~ear's successes, the thirds had a more modest season Nev h ' . so me at tract Ive rugby , pa rticu larly agai nst K.C.S. Wimb ledon.· ert eless, II was an enjoyable one and fealurtd After an easy win over R.M.S. Dover aided by quirk earl . comfortable victories over SI. Pau l's K Sa nd Berkh y y season selecllon, Ihe team Went on to three mOre fairl ~ um ber a nd Bruce Ma rso n (who b~th· W~I;t li p to Ihe a2~~I~vTh~e early suc~esses owed much to the skills of Marcu~ just hon ing 10 fit ness when he brokc his leg) and Jonat han Dav ie~' (w.~~co Beat 7.~e (our secret weapon, whom we were ha lf?). T.he team Ihen fell apart agai nst Eastbourne and ulled th I a name I e that who wouldn't be a star oUlside. sca~on wit h four successive defeals, that by Tonbridgc bei~ artic~r.~elves log~ther to be~t Felsted, b~f~re ending Ihe avaIlable for the last match, aga inst Cra nleigh and those wgt I da Ily thumpmg. On ly fIve of the on glllaiteam were o f the season. ' p aye (emo nstrated some of tile toughest determ ination

Jonalhan Veitch made a very good captain abl db S· Oily La ngton and Nick Henry. Andy Howa;ci w~ss:;f~~;te y Im ?n Stultaford and the other old lags, Hugh Andrh Pugh a nd Robbie Cooper all had their mo ments Abov~~tllag~ress l ye for ward, bu t Steve Grimes, Pa ul Bushell Oily proportion of the team should be back in their blue alld ,,,,'., o,weYer, t ley seemed to enjoy their rugby and ~ high .,. 11 e lOOpS next year. The/olio wing played· H 1 Andree D M B . b ·d J.S.R. G. J . Bur~iII, V. Cohe;l, R. ·B. Coo~r, ·R. ·B.~~S~~ i~e,~. lv·g~~bice , J . ~' gea!lgie, M.~ . Brooke, P. A. Bushell, M. Fredencks, 1. D. Frew, C. R. Gooderham, S. 1. Gri~es R A Herj ·d F . aVles, T. d Offay, E. O. H. Fox, S. O. P. C. Langton , B. C. Marson L C Michae ls C C'M·· . . ar an alf\veather, N. C. Henry , Q. C. Hughes J . Oliver, O. W. S. Pugh, B. C. P~ lIe'll j P E R~lpl; F' W I t$~ell , D. MS 0pl1fOS Higgs, A. R. Nas h, P . A. Norris, A: D. C. Yule . ' . '. '" Impson, . . tuttaford, 1. C. A. Veitch, A. Wil ki ns.

All of whom thank B. l .D. fo r his us ual immaculate refereei ng. RESULTS

P layed 10, Won 5, Losl 5. Points fo r 135, poillls against 92. \I R.M.S. Dover. Won 40-0 v Felsted W 229 v St. Pau l's . Wo n 8.0 . ' on . v K.C.S. Wimbledon. Won 36.0 ~ ~u lwl~h. Lost 14-0 II Berkha msted . Won 15-6 v onbndge. Lost 38-4 v Eastbournc. Lost 6.4 Epsom: Lost 9-6 v Cran lelgh. Lost 10-0

• 4th XV

~vays than one it has been an extremely mixed season.

As usual we have suffe red the loss of playcrs to higher In m~t Ihe sta rt of the term thc 4th XV looked promi sing, but in the first match against St. August ine's Collcge ms te:a 'r rtunRWly lost 12· 24. It was a game 10 forgel, as the team played well below thcir besl. ~U " o . . . . H ·ng put the fmt match belll nd us, we all looked eagerly towards the St. Pau l's fixt ure, only to be defeated again atse match which we lost 0-4. It was our first match away from Camerbury that gave us our initial taste of success. in a C °rwards overwhelmed the Be rkhamsted scru m and, with the elcctrifying pace of our backs, we beat Berkhamsted O~ r~Vith the team sp irit now restored to its fo nner glory we went on to defeat Eastbourne 23-0 and Fe lsted 4-0 . 22 . wever Dulwich ended this unprecedented row of victories. Although, in the very muddy condit ions, the power sci s~rum gave us the most of the ball, our backs were unable to penetrate the Du lwich defences, and we lost ~o(agai nst the ru n of play) by two penalty conversions. Tonbridge overpowered us with their superior skills and although we battled on, with no loss of determina tion, we ~ent down 34-0. The score wou ld have been highcr, if it had not been for the superb tackling of Bruce Pullen, the backbone of our defence. The last game of Ollr season was agai nst Epsom. T he team were all prepared to end the term wit h a win, a nd trai nin g as especially serious, with well -drilled moves being the name of the day. Again, as against Dulwich, although we showed ~ur superior sk ill and dominated the game, we were unab le to penetrate their defence and the st rength of the Epsom backs slOle the ga me 10-0. Finally I would like to thank all those 5th XV members who were called into the 4th XV's ra nks aI short notice, when our to~ play;rs were lost to the th irds, and also to thank Mr. R. E. Barham for ali lhe hard work he put imo creati ng Ihe team.

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R ICHARD COSTAIN.

41h XV: D. M. Bainbridge, M. R. Brooke, G. J. C. Burkill , V. Cohen, R. B. Costai n (Cupt.), E. O. H. Fox, C.

R. Gooderham, S. A. B. Gut~rie, 1. R. A. Harland Fairweather, Q. C . H~ghes, O. P. C. Langton, D. 1. C. McCully, C. C. Mitchell, D. Monro HIggs, 1. W. Muskett, A. R. Nash, A. 1. Oll vcr, B. C. Pu llen, S. St.J ohn Pa rker. RESULTS

v SI. Augustine's. Lost 12-24 v Berk hamsted. Won 22·6 v Fe lsted. Wo n 4-0 v Tonb ridge. Lost 0-34

v SI. Paul's. Lost 0-4 Eastbournc. Won 23-0 Dulwich. Lost 0-6 v Epso m. Lost 0-10

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5th XV With the dcmise of the Senior In ter-House League there have been more players kecn to fi nd competitive rugby at this leyel. For most of the term pract ices and coaching havc been organ ised wil h the 4th XV and this has brought a n improvement in standard over recent years. Against Bethany the pac ks were we ll matchcd , but our backs were much .faster and we scored seven good tries. The Dulwich ga llle could have gone either way as we were dcserved ly ahead at half· time , but two missed tackles cost us ten points in five minutes a nd, despite determined pressure, we just failed to pull back the deficit. As usua l Tonbridge proved far too well -organised for us, but it was only in the last ten minutes that the flood-gates started to ope n. C. J .R.J. TheJollolVillg played: A. P. Panayides, A. Wilkins, 1. W. Musken. G. J. C. Bu rkill, 1. L. Topham, S. 1. D. Wei bourn, R. H. Penlin (Capt.), 1. A. Stern, O. 1. F. l ackson, R. T . Preston, G. E. A. Bird, T. A. Ba inbridgc, D. 1. C . McCully, I. Cawley, 1. R. Beatlon, D. C. Yulc , 1. C. vo n Wcrsebe , E. 1. Dykes, D. M. Bainbridge, B. M. A. Wrench. RESU LTS

Bethany 3rd XV (H). Wo n 36-0 II Du lwich (A). Lost 10-14 v Tonbridge (H). Lost 0-30 II

Colts A XV Two seaso ns ago, G. P.G. and I stood and watched this team taking a thirty poin t defeat in the Ke nt Cup, and ca me away firmly in the belief that they would be a good side. Anyo ne doubting our sanity then would have on ly needed 10 watch the games this season, to see that we were not deluded. If the resu hs do not indicate an all·conq uering season, thaI is no real surprise; they do offer real proof however that sides often learn more out of defeat tha n victory. T here have bec n some notable successes, wit h so me sides bei ng dispatched with ease - St. Lawrence, Berkha msted and Warw ick - with the matc h against Berkhamsted prov iding

t he most complete performance and some thrilling rlin niI b . t he ea rlf inj ury to O. SCali al SI. Paul 's (surely his wa~gt~~gs,rori~~~ ~d~ also fou nd it sel f well beaten o n three oc team ; Bishop Vesey 's a n excellent tca m look d cam ca reer ever?) seemed to slI bd Casions. lapses cost us dea r. each occasio n ihe lea~l v; o"u,al,gceedorba' \kv ca~clnCd tou ring si~e. whilst aga inst Felsleud"dhe who'; . • C Wil l an oUIsta ndmg d's 1 . I ' d ell ' The Du lwlC h victo ry was sweet revenge fo r Iwo f a ' . I p ay In t Ie fOllowing $I\C !101 fOrthco ming aga inst either Tonbridgc or Epsom t ~tY-PO;nI defeats III pr~vious seasons, and a lthough . game. IIldecd to esca pe wi th a victory from a ga me en~i~;ry i~ln:~~i~~~~~~e first-c lass, and the latter were v;~~t~:~e~ilt · The tea.1ll has few o uts ta ndi ng in d ivid uals b ut ha d I '. eel fIerce deSIre to do well. It too has great re;ilience ~a t7l~~e ! cl·rreOvuelid I;vel °bf SkIll, a l he~ t? excellent team Sp.1 . TI b ry lew a sences for IIlJury n t, and .. le acks hand led well , and were often very crea tive iI . ' . . wl lllllgncss 10 ru n , bu t in t hcir ab ili ty to free the ba ll to ~l~pl(aCk,' T heir sup pO rt ~I a~ Improved - nOt so IllU h . A r I por runncrs, and Ilu dfleld de fenc . c In tbe · .1. u I-back, R. ScOIl emerged as a p layer of o utslandi n ' . e Illl proved markedl sl~mflcFalll as he learned to tillic his in trusio ns into t he lin; ~~~el~~~a~. As ant:t.ackbl~~ fo rce ,. h is contributions bee y. wmg , ' . Webb set a consistent ly h igh standard' til b f' , e. usc 0 liS a tillY to n de the tack le 0 ame lack ie, a nd make the ba ll ava ila ble to su o rt e est eat ure of hiS pl~y was the abil ity to stay on his n t~e lUI to th e ?ccasio llallapsc of concen t ra ti o nPlfnde~ p;'e~~~:~~ ls ~ o\~led pace a nd dI rec tness in h is running, but was ! r:t lll the possesslllg thc ncccssary judgcment req ui red of midfield p·lay"e sle ced"'lre' I'J . Landa le a nd A. Brown were f!ue:u pO prone TI n r ,an t le lormer was capa ble o f th '. . assets l~ y- ha lf, M. Ie Huray, showed enormo us ta lent a W ' e most IIlCISlve runnin ' a nd nde pressure. T he scrulll-ha lf positio n was shared t o nderfu l patr of hands, and the priceless abi lity to b g. sk ill and im mense determi nat ion; the laller, not y~t as p~ac~~~e~l~yers, T. a rd a nd M. O~osanya. T he fo rmer di~~l ti~e e and acted as an ext ra fl a nker, const an tly harassing the OPPOSi'I·O I, paHsser 0 Id'hd balli, e~p lol ted t he bli ndside a litt le malO! TI r ' e cou eve o p m to a very f' ore, · Ie orwa rds were a n im pressive unit _ no t t he lea t' I me scrum-halfindeed rfel~ e. They pro~ed in ruck an d ma ul too t ha t the wh~I~~~~ eb~~~r'i~~ftt :hey often ent bigger packs reeli ng in the set' mC-Ollt rCl11 amed a pro blem area, invent ion a nd method oftcn Ilel e Y d ghrea ter t la n the a ppa ren t Slim of its par,s· TI f ", pc I em cope. . ' .. le ro nt -row lI lll on remai ned fir ml y united wit h til

spent

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was more than compensated by their a ' . e pairi ng. heir lack o f inches at th r could a lso be fa ulted fo r lack of i nven t i ~~~~~~lrr~ ~cru.m maglllg ~nd. forceful presence in the loose. P erh'a s teh~ne-out of the la ttcr to t ~lrOW th e ba ll into o rbit ! o t lIlco rpora tlllg Int O the team repert o ire the q ll ite stag:ering ~~~i~~ T he ba ck row lIlci udecl W. Ba llenden, S . Ursell , C . Vava

~or the .exc~lIence o f the combina tio n o f t he ot hcr three Ba llens3~r: and M i Lawrcnce, who nught have played mOre but

fau~o~~~~~t~~:~~I ~~~lt~I~W~~'I;d ~~~:~!~~:v~~ ~~e~a~~~~'l:;~eS,ahceOI\lv~a'!s~ato:g~~,llh ~~ ~t~~ ~fJ= ~t~g:~~nat~~a~~~~~~~ ~~r~~ft~olJnsY. I . . ma c wI nner

t IS ahno~t lInpossib le to sum up the value of the ca tai n C V . endless starn lila, pacc, a voracio us appetite for work a~d ' . avaso~lr, t? the team. P ossessed o f remarkable Stren Ih a nd ~s captain wa s ded ica ted , c ffi cient and resPo;l~ i bl~.he ball , he epHo llu sed the first principle of p lay _ 'go forwa~d <

T hiS has been a most enjoyablc season and it has been a I the t~~.r ! O neof the ma ny memories from tlmt is t he' look p easu r~ to be associa ted wit h the team - yes , even on the F IJI ~arbaria ns, a nd espccia ll y that o f J. Kemp a fter ~~ ~h~ team s faces when we returned to the hostel to discover ~Ide~vthlbseason , but also to a ll those who have helped this se:so~;I~Ytl~l:;rftd Pet~r W heeler. My t hanks go to all who . . " .J .R., D .J .n., M. J .H . a nd T .T . _ in va rious capacit ies anJ o}rcuogurysca, allll lcvelis - H .R.O.M., T. R. H., , a Our o ya l sup porters .

R.C.IV.

Team: R. C. SCOII , L. F. T . Du n n, A. J . H . Brown J A C L 0Asovsanya, J . D . Mycroft, J . E. Kemp, J . J . M~rs~ E J' B~~~agl~' ' . . ' . . . avasour (Capt.).

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M. G. Ie H uray, T. J . Ward, Ir Illg, S. J . Urse ll , W. Ba llenden

Played 011 tour: M . I. Ho ld en, M. C. G. Lawrence, P . E . J essup. Also played: J. Ma rozzi, J . M . Rowsell , O . D. SCOII.

RESULTS Played 14 , Won 7, Drawn I, Lost 6 . P o ints fo r 173, P oints aga inst 130. v SI. Lawrence. Won 29-0 \I Wa rwick. Won 25-0 v Du ke of Yo rk' s. Wo n 10-4 \I Felsted . Lost 6-20 v Sf. P a ul's . Lost 4-28 \I Du lwic h. Wo n 13-0 v Berkh amsted . Won 32-0 v To n bridge. Lost 6- 16 v K.C.S. Wim bledon. Drawn 4-4 v Epsom . Lost 0- 12 v Eas tbou rne. Wo n 11-3 v Cran leigh. Lost 4- 13 v Bishop Vesey. Lost 7-30 v Chis lehurst & Sidcll p. Won 22-0

Colts B XV ':::----strength o f the team lay in the pack , a lt hough , a ft er a trough in the second pa rt of t he term, t he three q uartcrs The ally hit top form in t he 'gra nd slam' victo ry agai nst C hislehu rst a nd Si dcup G.S. Thanks to forward domi nation t\'Âˇe n.llI of impressive wi ns, broken o nly by St. Pa ul 's, came in t he first six weeks agai nst Du ke of York's, Berkha msled, '5gl~\V i mbledon., Ea~tbou~ne and Felsted. Then f~lIowed some hard fo ught m~lches ~ga i nsl Du lwic h , Tonbridge, ". ' 111 and Cranlelgh , III willch our share of possession was not converted fu ll y Int o POint s. Nonetheless , thanks to EP~oaeh ing of Dr. Ha nds, t!lC backs c~ mc in to thei ~ own in the fi na l ma tch.. when t hey wcre ab le 10 P~lI t h.eir moves Ih~o devastat ing effect. The fma l an alYSIS spea ks fo r Itself: Won 6, Lost 5, WIt h a healt hy ba la nce of pOI nts In favour. In The lynch pin of t he side, wit ho ut do ubt, was the back row of M il hench , Floydd (a sp lend id capta in) a nd Lawrence. Th laller at no. 8 was capab le of maki ng match winn ing brea ks, a nd scored no less t han fi ve t ries in the fin a l ga me. Th~ front row of Manning, Williams and Ferrari was consistentl y efficie nt and toget her with Jess up and Montgomcry, 2nd Row, honest workers to a man. Ward joined the tea m at ha lf term , and was both reliable and adventurous at at ulll half. Hughes, a t stand o ff, was stead y in defence and gave good service to the li ne, which eventually sett led o n ~t Iden and God frey in the Centres. H olden is a rugged player, who knows how to run hard and st ra ight, while Godfrey, ~able of turning o n some pace, came equally to hi t peak for m by t he end . At full back Ro wsell was a tower of stre ngth c~d on the wi ngs , P hilpott (a n ifty player), Pope , Staffo rd and Rose, loya lt y scrved in turn . This bric f rcsume docs aot do justice to ot hers, such as Palmer, Hogarth, Barnes, Fried la nder, Morris and van T il , some of whom played ~veral matches a nd who a ll cont ribut ed to t he team's success. If Ihere was a weak ness, o ne could point to individ ua lis m at t he expense of the team . Bu t such a vice can, no less, on occasion, be a greal st rength ; pa rticu la rly at Colts B level when an inspired ind ividual 'break' may determ ine a matc h. In summary, t hey were an enthusiast ic and likable lot and t ho ro ughly d eserved thei r Sllccess. H .R .O .M . WITH T.R. H . Thejollowillg played: J. R. D. Barnes, R. F. Ferrari, E. R. S. Floydd (Capt.), S. L. Fried lander, D . P . P . God frey, E L. Hogarth, M. I. Ho lden, E. H. Hughes, P . E. Jessup, J . M. Lawrence, J . I. Mann ing, M. L. Mi lhench , M. ~ i o n tgomery, D. P. Morris, W. J . P almer, H. P. P hilpott, C. M. Pope. J . M. Rowsell , T. P. Rose, M. W. Stafford, E. K. van Ti l, T. J . Ward, S. Willia ms. RESULTS v Du ke of York ' s (H) . Won 27-0 v Felsted (A). Won 14-8 v SI. Pau l's (A). Lost 0-26 v Dul wich (H) . Lo st 4-24 v Berk hamsted (H). Won 30-22 v To nbridge (H ). Lost 0-22 v K.C.S. Wimb ledon (H ). Won 40-0 v Epsom (H ). Lost 0- 16 v Eastbourne (A) . Won 14-4 v Cra nleigh (A). Lost 6-17 v C hislehurst and Sidcup (H ). Won 54-0

Junior Colts A XV This yea r's squad ca me up wit h t he reputat ion of being a wea k learn a nd lac king co mm itment. T his was a past that Ihey managed to grow out o f as they became more determined to wi n matches. T he squad , a nd subseQucntly team selectio n, was hit very badly by inju ries, m ost notably to the capt ain M. Nort heast, whose boot was much missed, a nd fullback N. Daley. T he sq uad was further wea kened by several boys staying d own. wit h their age gro up in the U. 14s, a nd one moving up 10 the Colts. Even tho ugh t he res ults do a ppear to be very poor, t hat is not the who le story. The seaso n started a nd finished with our only victories : bot h matches were p layed wit h an a ttac king and adventu ro us nair that was o ft en m issing in o ther matches. T ries were scored by both bac ks and forwards, each hav ing their mo ments of cohesio n and skilled pl ay, b ut often failing to wo rk toget her. The forward s develo ped as the seaso n progressed in to a small yet effi cient a nd we ll disciplined u nit. T heir clima x was a superbl y worked five yard sc ru m leading to a blin d side try scored b y t he fla nker, Epega. The backs had their ups a nd downs, never being the same line up from one week to t he next. Serum-ha lf and n y-ha lf changed hands t hree times each due to inj u ry, and centres changed with t he mon ths. By t he end of t he season the backs were tackling sou ndly a nd at times loo ked da ngerous run ni ng and kicki ng the ba ll. Some menti on must be made of Ihe defeats . In most of the ma tches the side were bea ten fa irly a nd squa rely by better sides, though o ften they wou ld a llo w t he o ppos itio n t he pleasu re of accumulating poin ts in the closing stages of the games as their own determin at ion flagged . Th is tho ugh was not t he case in all o f t he matc hes. At SI. Pa ul's, Ea st bourn e a nd at home to Berkhamsted t he team played wit h t rue heart and put u p a va liant effort a nd t hat m ust give hope for t he future of this group. Fi nally I would li ke to t hank Messrs. H artrid ge and Brad ley for helpi ng to run t he side, t he boys in the Ju nior Colts age group fo r ma inta ining t heir effort and in terest throughout a long and o ft en difficu lt seaso n.

P. J .J. Team: P. H . Apps, A. Das , J . J . F. Stobbs, B. Ashcroft , S. Hart , E. W . Bu n , B. A. E pega (Capt.) , E. J . Un fo rth , B. A. Ma rqu is, E. R . Cargill, A. J . W. W. Skarbek , M. G. Nort heast (Capt.J, P. G. Davies, A. J. Woolston, T . C. Baker, A-E. O. Ogedegbe, K. W. Yeo h, G. B. A ndrews, N. V. Daley. A/sop/ayed: A. R . Ri nald i, A. Tu bo ku -Metzger, K. P. God frey, S. D. Sa nt ry, R. J . Redfern, J. C. H udsm ith , S. \V. Roberts.

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v St. Paul 's. Lost 0-26

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the tac kling was never as strong as it ~O~I~~C: 1CC. ablld the sa me line never played two COllseCl~I~~~ ' OneIll the line Wi\ T I 'd lave een. matc les Ho . Ie Sl e's mora le stayed high eXce)t fo r I . . v. e\·er. of a mu se me li t bot h on and off [I;e fiel~ tie Journey back from Tonbridge. Paul Godfre Spencer Sant ry a nd Richard Ri na ldi aila~~I~~~se~e~~ ~'.1~\~n ~or his kickin.g and diSpu tatiotl:n~;s~vJe~n~t~Olls~nl SOurce The team were a n en th usiast ic bu nc l~ll S I ( Ie season wllh co ncussion! ' Ian udsmhh, ho me ga mes. h a nd would all li ke to thank Mr. Hanridge and Mr . Wen ley for re fereeing the

Team: A. M. H . Darley, A. J . R Cla rke R J DUNe, A. M. Curlcwis, S. Santry (PI) E 'R ~ . . Redfern , N. A. Jamieson, S. Hart J R ' AN COX Tu boku-Melzger, N. D. Lawr~l~ce: M·. <t.r~l~i(~1· ~. ~ocberlsl'cK. P. Godfrey , D. Sl.ioh·1I Pa~~~~e, / ~'THudSmi[h, Also l i S B " . . ox apt) , . . rUssel A payee: . ocresioll , T. C. Baker P G D . . . , . N. C. Becchcy, P . C. Rogcrsoll, A. J. \V~ol~IO;1 ~vleEs·Os, CO' Tdcsleb'r, B. A. Epega, A. R. Rinaldi G ' . B. Andrev.s, , . . . ge eg e, K. W. Yeoh. R ESULTS

P layed 10, WOII 3, Lost 7. P , Oll1 ts for 98, Points agai nst 256. v Duke of York's (H). Won 20-0 v Sf. Pau l's (A). Losl 10-26 v Felsted (A). Lost 4-18 )' Berkhmnstcd ( 1-1 ). Lost 10-26 v Dulwich (A). Lost 6-48 v K.C.S. Wimb ledon (H). Won 24-7 v To nbridge (A). Lost 0-52' )I Eastbo mne (A). Lost 12-24 v Epso m (H ). Lost 0-5 1 v Cran leigh (1-1 ). WOII 12-4

J unior Colts C XV The ':-I. ~5 group of rugby players was relativel

II ' to be difficult to produce an U 15 C ' y sma t ~I S year and it was clear fro m the b " . w:reco lll csted. St. Paul's wc re ~lIlabl;~a n}.~fla ny sta nd lllg. There were five fixt ures in thee~n ~1I1l1Ih~t It was going 0 raise a team to play Epsom. One of the (fa tea.m to play us and we evelllua lly ran out 0/ ~11( ar ut only three A and B teams U f l ' ma m unct ions of the U 15 C tea' . p ayers and could not not enough pla;'er~ l~g~~a}~:rI:~~III~t IE5PCsom the U. 15 A and B 'teams ha~ s~ ~a~ryovp~~ey:resPla~el.nel1ts for the U. IS . . ' . team. • mlsslllg that there were In the first fixture against SI. Augustine 's the teams w .

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to Score SOllle a nd pos!tioning tries being SCored at bot h ends s~tclass fa~e was played agaillst Chislehurst a nd S idcu~ I ~r by A. CurlewlS wilich was 3 of which wcre converted by E r~gl: ar ItHerva ls. M. Ayida (2), P. Kwan and PRo' was a very open game with their backs were very fast and o~e~ b i~m .. \~ere 110 Illatch for Tonbridge: althougil theg~~~~~r~cor;d tries for King's, I wo 1£1 I'k pi c I ound ma ny gaps in our defence s \\ere evenly matched, 1I I e to thank Or. Lamb and the U 14 B f ' , ' the term, H. Hawkins for I d' I . tea!l1 or provldlllg SOme strong 0 ". . some of you will make the :~olr~gt [ Ie U. 15 C le~m IlItO batt le a nd everybody wht~~~I~~~I~ In practIce games d uring M. Billot cou ld be good ca ll d idale~ }~~ntloutfagal/l next year. H . HaWk ins, P. Kwan P R~ogng 10 ['Make part. I hope < , I Ie t1 tu re Colt B squad. ' ,. erson,. Handley and

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Team: P. Kwa n, A. M. Curlewls SKI 0 J B N. D. Lawrence E Ca lg.1I H L H' 'k ee cr, M. Dulamal, T. D. McK Parker G P ... Y h S M ,. , . . aw ·IIlS D J Rycroft M 0 \ ' , . J. Jolhffe, P. C. Rogerson, co, . . Preece, S. C. TeSler , 1'.,,1. A . B·it '" lOt,. E'-. J. Beerbohm, M.VeslOll, Ayida.N. C. Becchey, M R. H.,ldle)'. K, II'

RESULTS Played 3, Lost 3.

v St. Augustine's. Lost 6-32 v Chislehurst & Sidcup. Lost 22-42 v Tonbridge. Lost 0-54

under 14 A XV

-;:;:e first tWO ga mes against Duke of York's and SI. Paul's saw King's play some marvellolls rugby. T he o pposit ion

'OICS were complete ly overpowered . T he mob ili ty of the pack and the resolute defence a nd the attac king fla ir of a~ellOlOdified trio of Sona ike, Fa hm and Fadeyi were a joy to wa tch. I I the Berkhamsted match not only did the side suffe r fro m positiona l cha nges, but they underest imated their north Lo~don opponents. On ly a gift of a. try a llowed t1~e.1ll back into a ~a ll1e which they deserved to lose. Despite th.e el.lfo rccd hang cs King's were more determ illed fo r the VISI t o f K.C.S. Wi mbledo n. The game generally lacked cont lllUlt y, but ~he pack pulled the team th ro ugh to a healthy 18-4 sco reline. The trip to Eastbourne was more eventful to say the least. After being 10 poilUS down after five min utes, King's came back from 20-4 to narrowly miss leve lling the match thro ugh a disallowed try. The team's frus tration was vented on an unsuspecting Fe lsted side the followi ng week wit h a comprehensive 32-8 victory . Despite losing agai nst Dul wich a nd To nbridge, the tea m played well and looked the more enterprising side. Aft er the Tonbridge match, the team were ab le to retu rn to their favou red ruck ing game a nd they co mpletely demora lised a .... eaker tha n usual Epso m with awesome power. The visit of Cra nleigh was eagerly awaited as they had achieved some im pressive resu lts against Eastbourne a nd the like. It was a tremendous fi nale to a great seaso n. Both sides were complete ly uncompro mis ing in their approac h. The match was played a t a fur iolls pace and the superior rucking a nd support play of King's resulted in an open game of rugby which King's won 22-6. The success of this year's team has been largely d ue 10 a n aggressivc, mobile and skilful pac k, coupled with Ihe pace and strong tac kl ing o f Falun a nd Fadegi, the two centres. The for wards arc so me o f the best th e School has seen for many years. The front row of C. Dwyer , K. Mouzourou a nd J . Waddell are power ful and ext reme ly talent ed . J . Grimes and O. Chum a re solid scrummagers to say the least a nd very effective in the line out. T he success of the front file and M. Willia ms, probably the best hooker in terms of striking the ball, has enabled the back row to roam with such freedom a nd devas tat ing effect. J . O'Maho ny open side, A. Hyatt bli nd side and C. Ha ll NO.8 a re simply the best back row comb ina tion I have seen in five years at King's. The serum ha lf posit io n was filled by the dimi nutive M. Thomas. Alt hough small in stature he made several trysav ing tack les on opponents who a re litera lly tw ice his size. His speed a round the base of the scr um has made hi m an elusive player . Although D. Hamilton was not the origi nal choice ny half his performances were most creditable despite bei ng slightly errat ic; his handling was good and hi s kic ki ng has cont inu ed to improve. T he two cent res of A. Fahm a nd T . Fadegi have been the stum bli ng bl ock fo r ma ny a tea m. They have produced numerous sparkli ng disp lays a nd I cannot recall a missed tac kle all season . As far as the wingers are concerned, J. Knig ht , B. Young and P. Gollo p (most improved player of the season) have all been sound in defence, bu t have lacked the speed needed for their pos itio n, as docs C. Vei tch who played full bac k for mllch of the season. This season the under 14 As have produced some enterta ining and extremely enjoya ble rugby. T he high standard which they have set themselves has been responsib le fo r their success. I wou ld like to tha nk C. Ha ll who has been an excellent and inspirationa l Captain , a nd Messrs. Lamb, Arnott, Ma ltby and H utchi nson for their valuable time and bound less enthusiasm. T he improved sta ndard of play this year has been due to their efforts. Fi na ll y, co ngratu la tions to A. Hyatt whose ex ploits this season have justifiably earnt him the ' Player of the Seaso n' award for 1986. G, P,G, Team: C. P . Dwyer, K. M. Mouzo uroll , J . R. A. Waddell , J . M. Gri mes, D. K. Y. Chum , W. J . C. Harris, A. J. C. Hyatt, J . S. O'Ma hony, C. D. Ha ll (Capt.), M . O. A. T homas, D. T. Hamilton, K. R. O. O. Sonai ke, A. F. A. Fall m, O. A. Dadegi, J. E. D. Kn ight, B. E. W. Vou ng, P . J . Gollop, C. E. A. Veitc h. Also played: W. J . H . Davies, J. W. L Moss. R ESU LTS

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P layed 10, Won 6, Lost 3, Drawn I. Po ints for 194, Points aga inst 72. Duke of York's (A). Won 56-0 v Felsted (A). Won 32-8 SI. Pau l's (H). Won 8-0 v Dulwich (H ). Lost 0-8 Berk hamsted (H). Drew 6-6 v Tonbridge (A). Lost 4-16 K.C.S. Wi mbledon (H). Won 18-4 v Epsom (H). Won 34-4 Eastbourne (A). Lost 14-20 v Cra nleigh (H). Won 22-6 71

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~ perusal of the results might lead to the conclusion that it has not been a particularly success ful season. However,

"qUIC ds reveal that Under 14 B level is hardly the jewel in the crown of King's Schoo! rugby, and this has been better tcams in recenl yea rs. Nobody beat tiS by morc than t hirty points ! one d by injuries all year, the sa ille learn never appeared on more than one occasion during the whole seaso n, never POggccollsccutive week~. In this rcsp:cc.' many thanks to th e C sq uad I?layers who played the odd ga me and to D.M .A., lUnd old to cope with thei r loss. The IIlJury problems wcrc most fell III the backs where we s truggled all season. The .110 ha on the other hand , were consistently very good and were never outplayed throughout - even by the feared fOf"~rtl\iants" The hig~light of ~he seas~m was c1ear.lY the performance against Epsom, where frustrations over several ()U1w~efeals cu lminated m our bIggest vIctory at Ihls level for man y a year. cJoÂŤ', 'nvidious to single out individuals in a team game, but perhaps a special ment ion ough t to go to J. W. L. Moss illS I B Rossiter for their aggressive, sk ilful forward p lay and O. H. Hinton for his overall consistency and e ffo rt ~ ~~iClyofdemanding p~siti~H1S. A s mall word too for 'Big Man' Swanson, who stood up to some towering forward s UI'lh reat guts and determlilation . â&#x20AC;˘ , :rallthe side im proved with each game, always played fair, tidy , team rugby and, perhaps most important of all, ~ 1;llheir heads drop when los ing. Discovering collecti ve pride in defeat is one o f Ih e uniq ue. a nd finest qualities ~ColllPetiti ve team sport, whatever the level. N.A. L .

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The/ollowillg played: O. H. Hinton , A. C. Hulme, S. R. Maggs (Capt.), P. C. Pacaud (Cupt.), A. S. Frew, J . W. L MosS, I. O. J. McH. Overton, B. H. Pollitt, T. E. ~. Bags haw, H. B. Rossiter, B. Pet it, W. J. Swa nson, J. H', Davies J. J. Rhodes, J . M. Press, A. P. Thomas, I . J. Goll aI', J. H. Turner. B. C. Peachey. C. E. A. Veitch, 8. E. W. Young, J. E. D. Knight, D. M. Atkins, T. Ballenden, R. H. Wallace, M . A. Billot, D. J. J. Sargent.

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RESU I.TS Played 10, Won 2, Drawn I , Lost 7. Point s fo r 76, Point s against 114. Duke of York' s. Won 4-0 v Fe lsted. Drawn 8-8 St. Pau l's. Lost 0-3 0 v Dulwich. Lost 6-18 Berkhamsted . Lost 4- 12 v Tonbridge. Lost 10-22 K. C. S. Wimb ledon. Losl 0-8 v Epsom. Won 40-0 Eastbourne. Lost 0-10 v C ranleigh. Lost 4-6

Under 14 C XV Despite on ly winning one game, the Under 14 C team has had a relatively successfu l season. There have been the usual problems of changes in the team from week to week dictated by the requirements of the A and B sides, and playing agai nst much stronger opponent s. That said, it was particularly encouraging to note that after a heavy defeat against SI. Paul 's the team went on to contain K.C.S. Wimbledo n to a much narrower margin, and from there to win against a slower, but equally strong, Bethany side. This was a boost in mora le, since a variety o f people experienced the delight orscoring. However, this win was not to be repeated, largely because those who did score often relied on their ow n efforts to bau le Ihrough the opposition, rather than passing the ball. This reliance on one's own st rength, instead of playing together as a learn, meant that many opportunit ies were lost. Nevertheless, it was encouraging to sec the determination with which Cunningha m, Ba llenden, Manning, Peachey a nd Clarke played, when they did have possession. There were many less cnthusiastic p layers tha n them. Panullo and Atkins kicked we ll , but it was only in the last few games that th is was used to effect in the course of play. Tackling was universa ll y weak, but Peer and J. Turner did make some very good efforts. Perhaps the most satisfying game was against Tonbridge, which although we lost, was played with co nsiderable spirit. This spirit had van ished by the time we played Epsom. While the A and B sides were winning at home against very lI'cak Epsom sides, we were losing heavily against a stro ng , well-drilled side, skilled in the art of push-over tries. I should like to thank all the boys who played. either on a regular basis or just occasionally, Dr. Lamb for his ad vice , encouragement and coaching of the team on a number of occasions, parents who supponed, and Dr. Maltby who coached and refereed the team during the first half of the term. D.M.A. Regular temll" A. Cun ningham (Capt.), D. M. AtkIn s, J E. Bailey, T. Ballenden, G J . Be lhere, M. D H. Clarke, T D. FIlby, w. A Mannmg , S. L. G. Pattullo, B C. Peachey, E N. Peer, B. H P o ll llt, A. J B. Ridings, S . Rosato, D. J . J. Sargent, J. H. Turner, N. H. Turner, R. H. Wallace. Occasional players: W. J, H. Davies, T. E. Dyson, T. W. H. E lli s, S. R. Maggs, B. Petit, l. H. Phillips, J. J. Rhodes. C. P. Sau nders, W. J. Swa nson, W. C. Wisbey. B. J. Wyatt.

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Having losl the services of Matthias Koslering, A listair McFie a nd Jason Yap, we had the task of seeking fresh this term. We found it in Simon Stutta!ord. Bruce Marson and Paul Norris , with Dawit Teferra, Peter Thorn 1aleaI Andy Vinton proving to be va luable reserves. The learn did not enjoy the success of last season, but losses wcre3SIDd by na rrow margin s. Ma rson and No rris especially freq uently seemed to have a win assured, only to be ovcrtakortea the end. The old prob lem of commitment to other sports amongst members of the team has been particularly m~~" this term, and the lack of practice showed. cd In the U.16s we were represented by Lawrence La, Cho Yin Pong, Alex S karbck, Mahesh Da lamal, Amit Das Richard Sc hafer and Chris Ca lthrop. The four principa l players were Pong. Skarbek, Da lamal and La, whose ta l e~t aug well for the futu re. un The Junior HOllse Compet it ion was won by Broughton, with D. CoY. Pong and Coy Pong proving marginally ben than Walpole's pair of Das and lo. tr Thanks must go to Mr. Pat Davis, whose coaching has been invaluable (to those who have attended). RAl l V VUA YANATHAN

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Senior House Basketball If the alteratio ns to the balco ny area made spectating a more intimate but uncomfortable experience, they did nOlhina to decrease the popu larity of this event , which once again produced excit ing, skilful basketball, in even greater measure. All HOllses are to be congratulated o n the high standard of play, with certain ind ividua ls worthy of particular mention: G. Evans (T). R. Morse and J . Gordon (GR), J. Ralph, A. Vigo and E. Va lpy (Gl), O. Rotimi and J . Aboderin (W). The semifina ls could not have been closer or more na il-bit ing, with Walpole only edgi ng out Tradescant in sudden death overtime, and Galpi n's overtaki ng The Gra nge on ly on the fina l whistle. T he fi nal was full of excellent play, and only towards the end o f the game did Walpole gai n the upper hand.

R.C.W. RESULTS

Preliminary Roulld: Broughton 22, linacre 31; Tradescant 40, School House 9; Meister Omers 17, Marlowe 6. 1st Round: li nacre 17. Wa lpole 28; Tradescant 37, Mitchinso n's 35; luxmoore 20, T he G range 43; Meister Omen 18, Galpin 's 50. Seml/inals: Wa lpole 22, Tradescant 20; The Grange 28. Galpin's 30. Filial: Ga lpin's 26, Walpole 32.

Boat Club Sculling T he vetera ns, Paul Dyas, Ben ly nch, Jo Phillips, Keiron Allen and myself set out on what was for some of us our last sculling term at King's. losing Adrian last year, we ga ined seven more Jtlembers for the top squad: Ed Valpy, Doug Boyle, St uart Henderson, Ned Cecil , Mati de Giles, Brad Joh nson and Neil Litt lejohn. No sooner had we arrived back. we rigged up the boats a nd battled out into a hail of eigh t km trials interspersed wit h 'backaching' outings of twenty km steady state and numerous bouts of circuit training.

74 (Garetll Evans a"d Jo"atlla" Marshall)

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ri I Sculling Head of the term was Maidstone. Having arrived a nd found that the captain, in the spirit of tradit io n • Irs

the packed lunches . we raced and had five members of Ihe lOP squad in the lOp ten, with Paul a nd his

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od and third sculling Heads came on the same weekend. AI Marlow Paul overcame the abominable conditions OU f ~olher J .18 medal, leaving most of the rest of the lOp squad strugg ling. We lert Marlow, deposited the traile r 1D'~f ~ Rowing C lub and spen t the night in London (th a nks Mum). In the mornin g we set off back to Henley to "H~n ~oubles in the Upper Thames Small Boats Head. Here we met Mr. Hartridgc with hi s a rm y of J . 14s who were ,.ctUl. and do uble sculling. Overa ll the Head was a success with most crews coming high up in their div isions and quaddm:ws Paul and Ben, winning. Praise must also go to Mr. Hartridge for a wonderfu l bit of trick driving on the oeJttrb~~k f;OI11 the Head. (He had a blowout) . ••1 If tcrlll arrived , and a t Pangbourne sculling Head Paul with 'Bob' scu lled his way to victory o nce again, coming H~n his J .18 catego ry and first in the overall Head. Ben, Jo, Keiron and I all sculled we ll and ach ieved very respectable r~. ns in what was a very close race. petSIIIO to weeks and six gallons o f sweat later we prepared for Hampton Head only to lind it cancelled due to torrential . wwhich caused the river to flood. ~eexams left us tired and st iff but we carried on training fo r a Head which was o nly sta rt ed this year, the Docklands II Boats Head. Here, between the looming derelict build ings of the Royal Doc ks, Ben and Keiron beat 'nu merous ' :~silion , as did Paul and myself, to win J . 16 and J . 18 d ou ble sculls respectively, and I won the J .18 single scu lls. Back at home, the 'cut' al Westbere is being given a fa ceHft by Mr. Woodward and Mr. Wi llis. This year's Shells .imesscd the attractions?f scu llin ~ a nd fi,:,e ~ew girls have signed a contract entitling them to row for a ll of their two au. five days a week, come ram or sh ine. ) Finally thank you very much to Mr. Hooper, the Revd. P. J . D. Allen, Mr. Hartridge a nd Mr. Woodward for their cOaching 'of the sq uad, one of the largest in recent years , and to Mr. Willis, to quote Mr. Hooper , 'Without whom the Club could hardly function '. p--

J AMES ST EARNS.

Canoeing We had an intake of nine beginners this term , fewer than in previous years because of the new system of ga mes options in the Shells. H owever, they were a committed group , and by half-term a ll had passed their novice test. Seven boys who had passed their test in prev ious terms rejoined, and carr ied out more ad va nced training, including I sea-trip to J oss Bay. Two of them joined our secretary, Charleswo rth, a t Yalding Novice Slalom, which was held on a rather swollen River Medway, in brilliant sunshine, on 26th October. Stevens came the nea rest to promotion, coming 20th, but a ll three gained useful experience, which wc hope they will build o n in Sla loms from March onwards. After half-term, activ ity dwind led. as it always does in the winter months. Nevertheless, we managed a trip to FolkeslOne, on the day after a storm, which provided marvellous surf, on whic h our two captains gave a di splay of their skills. Yellatcr, a ft er several days of rain, the SlOur reached its fullest level for some yea rs, and there was excellent whitewater work at the Miller 's Arms sluice, and a t Barton Mill. ' Two canoes were bought during the term: a n Ace Europa, which supplements our basic boats, and last year's captain's kaya k. which means that we n ow have two best competition boat s. My thanks to Martin, Rowse ll and C harleswort h for their enthusiastic work in training others, and keeping the Club going. M.J.V.

Cross-Country For the Aut umn term the club provided a variety of ru ns for fitne ss or fresh-air ent husiasts, as well as the cha nce to enter some lo nger-distance public races. These ranged from a mere ten km at Ashford. to seven miles up and down Chilham Cast le estate, ten miles along Margate Promenade, and a half-marathon in aid of Leukaemia Researc h. Many personal best performances were recorded, though perhaps the best day was a t Chilham, where S. Attwood and D. Knight were placed 3rd and 5th in the Senior race. a nd J . Lumley, P. Solway and S. Cole 5th, 11th and 18th in the Junior race. The Ashford race was livened up by the toga-clad Attwood and Gardener brandishing swords and attempting some Latin oral. Training runs wou ld never have been the sa me without M. Smith and A. Young unerringly prospect ing for alternative routes. Others who braved the races included S. Richards, R. Wallis, J. Rattray. G . Evans, J. Marshall . B. Wrench. A. Gillespie-Smith. J. Pritchard, A. Lall, M. Pope, C.T.H. and M.J.V. Thanks are owed to W.R.P .• M.R.G.P. and A.R.A.R. for leading runs in a ll weathers, as well as to Mrs. Pickering for prov iding refreshments on the way through Sturry . c'T.H. 75

FIELD DAY (Andrew Charles worlh and P.l.J.)

Girls' Hockey

T he 1st XI

With on ly th ree p layers rema ining from last year 's lsI X I and a new official g irls' sport (lacrosse) we Were [0 produce Iwo fuil lca ms. Our 3~3 draw aga inst Ihe q.K.S. was encouragill!? , but we were SOon p m in OUr PtSltu~ beaten 0-7 by Scvcnoa ks. For this match, we were without OUf ncwly-a pPollllcd goal keeper, Tabitha \Vinn'~C~' Ca milla Dermlc l and Blythe Level l o n the Wings. All three players have subsequent ly beco me well eSlablish~ CUh, IDcl o f t he lSI X I and have co nsistently a nd increasingly played well. member,

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. Out o f the seven furth er matches before hal f-Ierm we were pleased to beat Sutto n Va lence (2-0), a nd to dr S lIllO ll Langton (2-2) a nd C ranb rook (I - I) . We loS1 to Dove r College (0-5), St. Lawrence (1 -3), Ashfo rd (3_5)a~w "'nh Co lle~e ~0-3 ); all four schools p roduced strong, well~coordinated teams. However, th ro ugh o~t these matchcs th d knu ~ teln! stead ily unproved and by half-t erm a presentable Side had emerged fro m the ea rly uncerta mties . O ur next t hree matches were held in the m iddle of internal and Oxford entra nce exa ms. However, acadcmic seemed 10 have no ill-e ffcct s a s we d rew agai nst U .K.C. 2nd XI wit h a brilliant goa l fro m Mela nie. pr~sSUre

.Fo ~Âˇ our next match, we very much enjoyed welco ming a n Americ~1l tea m fr o m Ki ngswood-Cranbrood School rr M ichigan, U. S. A . So me members of our lea rn were seen to turn slight ly pale a s cleve n strong A mericans strod om to th e pitc h in g reen kilts a nd g um shields. Luckily for us their standard of p lay did no t quite mat ch their CllIhu/ On a nd we ca me away with a 3-0 win; E mm a Conyers, C harlot te Blenki n a nd Blythe Levett all scored. 1l1nt

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Despite this boost, we lost t he remaining two matches of the tcrm . In the first, against Epsom, julia WaTt~nder (undoubtedly the most accident-prone member o f the team) had a particula rly rough time against the demon right inne r the oppositi o n. The score ( 1-2), alt ho ugh d isappoi nti ng, ren ected a hard- fou ght match against a good team , and Ca~l~ scored a good goal. O ur last fi xture was played on a very wet, very muddy p itch on a hill. Apparent ly Mr. Henderso was greatly amuscd by our a tt empt s to play hockey under thcse condit ions - well, at least someone enjoyed it! n Undoubtedly th e highlig ht of the term was t he mat ch against t he Monitors. Due to skill a nd general superiority tlk girls wo n the day, wit h a final score of 2- 1. , ALEXANDRA COCIl RAM

Apart from writ ing this report, Alexandra has proved herself to be a very thorough and efficient capta in. Her Outstandi", skill dom inates and she is well -respected by the mcmbers of t he tea m . I should a lso like to add my tha nks to M r. Henderso n for all his help and expert advice.

JAW

I Sf XI: Ta bit ha Winnifrith, Bernadett e McCu llough, Jessica Co llins, Henri etta Eyno n, Alexa nd ra Cochrane (COpt.)

Julia Warrender, Ca milla Dero llet, C harlo tt e Blenkin, Emma Conyers, Mela ni c Bo nes, Blythe Levett .

The /0110 wing girls also played: Susan na Walsh , Nico la Clarke , Sophie Coc kerell, Beatrice Devlin , Tessa Spong. R ESUl.TS

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v O .K .S. Draw 3-3 v Sevenoaks . Lost 0-7 v Sutto n Valence. Won 2-0

v Kent College. Lost 0-3 v Cra nbrook. Draw I_I

v Dover College. Lost 0-2 v SI. Lawrence. Losl 0-3 v Ashford. Lost 2-5 v Si mon La ngton . Draw 2-2

v Kingswood-Cranbrood, Michi ga n. Won 3-0

U.K.C. Draw I _I Epsom. Lost 1-2

v Kent College, Pembury. Lost 0-4

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The 2nd XI T he O.K.S. mat ch at the begi nning of term is a good training ground for so rting out our players as t here are usually a few vaca ncies to fill on the O.K.S. side. Our 2nd X I, captained by Katrina Joh nston , emerged as an enthusiastic group who had played (or not played) hockey in t heir previous schools.

Of their fo ur ma tches, t heir first defeat - sadly there were 11 0 wi ns to record - was an achievement in itself. The team played aga inst a much younger, fitter, side from Sevenoa ks and the score at 0-4 reflects a much tighter ga me than the m o re seriolls 1st X I mat ch. I am grate ful to Mr. J ohn Parker who hc lped with the dri vi ng a nd the u mpiring. Th~ rest of th c 2nd X I ga mes were enjoyed o n rough grass at Ashford, or o n the all-weat her pitch a t Ki ng's. The vcnu~ or surface made little di fference to o ur team as Ihey persevered to keep the opposit io n al bay. No one in the team managed to score a goal this term, despite ad vice from man y Qua rters, but the 2nd X I are to be congrat ula ted for just playing hockey (especia ll y t hose non-hoc key players) a nd what they tacked in skill , they certain ly made up fo r in detcrmination.

JAW, The/ollowing played/or fhe 2nd XI: Katri na J o hnston (Capt.), Nicola Cla rke, Nico la Sa unders, Sophie Coc kerell ,

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Ca roline Keppel-Palmer, Eliza bet h Carlyle, Lucinda Robert s, Tessa Spong, Laura Goodhart, Beat rice Devlin , Na tasha Whitehou se-Jan sen, Louise J essu p, Claire Simper, Miranda Wood ley .

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v Ashfo rd. Lost 0 -4

v Seven oa ks. Lost 0-4 v Dover Collcge. Lost 0-2

v Kent Co llege. Lost 0-1

Netball -h he Lent Term is the main one fo r netball fixtu res, it was obvious fro m t he start of t.he AutUl.lln Term t.hat fho Ug t ntia ll y a very good 1st VII, a nd in some ways it is ~ pity that we .start th~ ycar \~lI h our fixt ure agalllst .e had potewho are often the strongest Kent side . Thi s year we d id reasonably In our f!xture Wit h them, and t hen '!let Cranbro~~'in the Q ua rter-Finals of the Kent Schools Netba ll tourna ment at Sheppey In Oc~o~er, where fo r t he first t~rn agal we had the exciting experience of being runners-up in our group a nd thereby q.uallfY II~g for the last ~tages. lime ever I-~ won , including a victory over the home team and a very close one agalilst Cluslehurs t a nd Sidcup • mm , .

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lOwever, acknowledge a debt to C ran broo k, in

th~ shape of t hrcc of our present team . We have bcne~lted

rnus~ \he commanding skills and exper ience of Zoe de Linde at Centre, a nd she has bee n supporte~ by her s~ster

Jl'~ally fro d Goal Attack and by El izabet h Ibbott in Goal Defence. These th ree ha ve been greatly a ided by Vi cky fara, a v;ry goo bout from bei ~g a Goalkeeper last yea r to bei ng a success fu l Goal Shooter t his year, a change she has p~lerson s 1U~~:ing in a lot of practice in all weather conditions. In the centre court, Sall y-A nn Hawk en has pl ayed effected bYI1P"cai ly , whilst newcomers Julie Norey a nd Maria Clegg have showed t hemselves to be natu ra l ga mes players. ~Ilandatl el . " nd VII enjoyed t heir games, a nd quite a lot of girls repres~nted the scl~ool ; Em ma D~rham was a !'Il.ost reli able Th~ 2an d Sa ra h Lee-Warner , Emma Wass , Kirsten Andree and FIOna-Jane Dlbley were particu larly prom lSlllg players. caplam I am grateful to Mr. Jo hn Parker for help with travel. JAW,

1st VII: Vicky Peterson, Ta ra de Linde, Sa ll y-A nn Hawken, Zoe de Linde (Capt.), Julie Norcy, Eliza bet h Ibboll , Maria Clegg, Sarah Lee-Warner. . Th following girls played for the 2nd VII: Emma Du rham (Capt.), Emma Wass, Saral., Lee-~a rne~ , Klrstentndrcc, Fion:Janc Dibley, Sa rah Fahey , Heid i Lowe, C la ire Si m per, Harriet Shankland , Emily Dri ver, Vicky Bof . RESU LTS

v C ranbrook (Away). 1st VII lost 9· 18;

v Benenden (Away). 1st VII won 24-1 1;

2nd VII lost 4-22 v Wye College (Hom e) . 1st VII wo n 32- 12

2nd VII lost 7- 12 v Seve noaks (Home). I Sl V II won 3 1·6; 2nd VII lost 9-16

KSNA Netball Tournament Group matches: v Newstead Wood. Won 15-5

v C hislehu rst and Sidcup. Wo n 5-3

v Highworth. Won 10-2 v Sheppey. Won 12-8

v Maidstone G. S. Lost 3-7 v Beaverwood. Wo n 13-0

Quarter-Filial

v Cranbrook. Lost 5- 12

Squash The 1st V have had a very satis factory season so fa r, having won six matches aga!nst other schools, an.d lost on ly tWf' Furthermore, t hey lost the fir st ma tch of the season against Ha rrow, before Dav~d Laurence was ~v~lIlable, and on y lost 23-3 because our fift h stri ng was beaten , after having had at least 2 match pOI nts. A I~ the rema LllIng rn,atches were I'.'on , except t he last of t he term, when Epsom beat us 3-2. We could even ha~e won t h!S match , a~ Davl~ Laurence really should have won at fourth st ring , bu t it has to be sa id that they were Without t hclr regular fIrSt st rlllg, so a n,>' victory would have been a hollow one. Of the ot her matchcs wc bea t Cranbroo k 4- 1, Kent S;oltcge .3-2, SI. Edm ~~d s 4·1 Cra nleigh 5-0 Westminster 4- 1 a nd Cranleigh again 4-1, in thc sccond round of the Premiere National C~ mp e tili o n. Th~ fi rst four stril;gs were a ll of cO I~para ble standa rd and J eremy Ba rt lett, Simon St utta ford a nd Andrew V lllt~n , ea~~ had turns at being first string, and eac h had their great mo rnen.ls. At fifth st ring, Stuart Lacy lost several that e COUll have wo n but fought with great tenacity to beat the Epsom fifth strmg, when all seemed .Ios(. Peter Thomas wo ~ a his match~s, when he was avai lable. In t heory our strongest relative position was at fourt h stnng a nd o n the two occaSio ns Ihal we lost here, we also lost the ma tch. 77

Jeremy Bart let t was an excellent captain, organising Court bookings and practice sessio 1 . I but next tcrm David Laurence, free from rugby eommit menls, lakes ove r as Caplai n. I s Will cheerful efficiency The 2nd Y. lost on.IY .once ~vhen a weak team, with only three regular members, went down 2 3 • had a maglllficent wm 111 Ihe lr last malch of the season over the Epsom 2nd V who h d . - at Cranleigh l'h It was p~'oba?ly t,he best perfo~mance of the season, and was the result of b~i ng abl: tgrel~:ousl y WO n every ~atc~ for the .rlrs~ tune III the term. Ricky Kher and Edward Dykes had heroic wins at first and P O~t o~r strongest Sidh. and Nel l Bishop won cr~lcia llY at fif~h string. , s e c o n st rings respeCtivel;: The U. 16 team, captam ed by David Godfrey won 4 of their 6 matches and the U 15 I m . Thomas.out standing, won 3 of their 4. Mentio~ should also be made of Chris Calth r~p \er • wllh Edward JOnt\ after losing the first two ?a mes, ~nd bei ng 2-7 down in the third. He lost on ly once during 'th~ lt~r~on at SI: Edmllnd'~ he had to play at I st SIrI ng, oWlIlg to the unavailability of the captain. ' and th is Was ....·hen Th~ U. 14s played only tw ice during the term, losi ng once and winning oncc. Miles Thomas a d W'U' . the pick of a good bunch of keen you ngsters. n I Jam Davies were At ~he end of term full colou ~s were, reta ined by David Laurence, and awarded to Jerem B and S lIn~:H1 Stuttaford. ,I would flila lly lIke to thank Mr. Wetherilt for helping wilh Activ itie/ artlletl, Andrew. Vinton for heiplIlg, when avaI lable. squas 1, and Dr, Pickering R.P.B.

Girls' Squash There has been an ent husiastic response to gi rls' squash this term with an influx of kee I ' th,ree, matches that were enjoyed by everyone who participated, although we do not seen~ ~i:~! III 6b. We have had WlIlilIng. However we hope to remedy Ihis sit llalion next term Thank you 10 M D ' I mastered the an of us eve'Iy P"I rs .andaVles W10 comes down t0 coach lie ay. We I00 k f orward to nexi term, and maybe a, few'victories here there.

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Ie 0 owmg p aye 11/ (Ie team: Julie Rankin, Gabby Wilson ,

CLARE WILSON arc Wilson (Capt.), Nicola Sau nders, Cami lla Derollet Maria Clegg J"I ' N ' , I e orey,

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RESULTS v Simon Langton. Drawn 3-3 v Cran leigh. Lost 0-5 v Kenl Co llege. Lost 1-4

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Newel Tryst, Shobdon, Leominster, Herefordshirc. 61h Seplember, 1986.

Dear Sir,

4 II wOSder if anyone can tell me w~y Geoffrey Palm er when appear ing in Fairly Secret Army, Cha nnel , sl eptember, wore an O.K.S. tIe? He does not appear on my list of members. Perhaps he just likes the colours or maybe he thinks that all O.K.S. are polit icall y far to the riglu of even t he Monday C lub. It wo uld be inte resting to know. Yours fait h fu ll y,

J . E. C.

HINCH LIFFE

(W 1940-44)

t would, Perhaps he liked the look oJil when President Nixon wore one/or a television interview during natergate. - Ed.

16 Scavee de la Carriere, 1350 Lima l, Be lgi um . 4th August, 1986. Dear Sir, I ould co-educat ion in the sixth form exte nd to such male preserves as the Boat C lub? It is my opini o n ~ ~lere is an area of the sc hool where girls are most definitely d iscou raged. Not havi ng had the oppor tu nity (ha OW at my previous sc hool, and being keen o n water spo rts, I decided that it would be a cha llenge to ~o.rate girls' rowing at King's. We so ld iered on for eleve n month s desperate ly try in g to show t hat we really Inl r~ serious and keen . We we re prepared to t ra in as much as the boys did in all weathe r, and so we did, yet still we ,w~ren't encouraged. We had a lot of support fr~ m members of th e ~oat C lub who d ~d d ~elP uS with tram ll1g procedures a nd encouraged us to com pete 111 Heads. However, It was a ve ry uphill slfUgg le and fina ll y we had to accept that we really were not welcome. Our subscription to the Boat Club was accepted , so why were we conside red as non-part icipat ing members? AI the entrance interv iew girls a re in formed t hat t hey will be t reated on eq ual te rms with the boys as far as possible. Regretfull y, in the Boat C lub this is definitely no t the case , There are some very success ful female rowe rs in the Uni ted Ki ngdom. Would it not be a feather in the Ki ng' S Sc hoo l cap to produce a successfu l Girls' IV? O h that it could have been! Yours faithfull y,

ELA INE OLIVER

(SH 1984-86)

Mr. Richard Hooper, Master in charge oj Rowing, replies: Miss Oliver'S letter is, in ma ny ways, fu ll of justifiab le com plaint yet the sol ut io ns are by no means easy, The Boat C lub barely has an adequate n umber of masters to carry through the various prog rammes fo r the boys, let alone for tak ing o n a completely new commitme nt. Th is, as m uch as a nythi ng else, is why (he small numbers of girls who joined t he C lub last year felt t heir efforts we re not rewarded - we had over-stretched ourselves. A further problem is that we hardl y have enough eq ui pment to expand on what we do a lready a nd, JO any case, the Boathouse is full to overflowing. Indeed, I also wonder whethe r the School would be prepa red 10 pay more money for what is already a very expensive sport. However, given that many universities now have well estab li shed womens' boat clubs, it does see m reasonable that we should provide rowi ng for t he girl s at Ki ng's. Moreover, I'm sure t hat Miss Ol iver would agree that if we do so we shoul d insist o n the sa me standard s for the girls as for the boys a nd, therefore, (he same amount of training. All in all, I accept that the Boat Club must 'try harder' a ltho ugh it will not be easy. But 1 hope that Miss Oli ver's indignation will eventuall y bear fru it in a thriving girls' sect io n of K.S.B.C.

(John Walkins)

THE SCHOOL Captain oj School: T. P. Briggs Vice-Captain oj School: P. P. Lacamp,

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SCHOOL MONITORS

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M. R. A. Miller, A. E. Mitchell , K. S., Tabitha J. A. Winnifrith, M.S. (Senio r Gid) C S. J. Gnmes, T. J. W. DuthIe, Joanna M. Prophet A. P. Wattenbac h N J St' . H. Sci ate, A. Robinson, M.S., P. J. Cockrill, R. V ij aya nath a~, J. C. O. Gordon ' Blythe sea;nt Ehzabe(h P. J. Burrell. ' . . evett, K.s.,

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HOUSE MON ITORS

School House: C. H. Sclater, J. J . W. Gum pert, M.S.; O. P. C. Langton P H L' Tabitha J. A. Winni frith, M.S., M. P. J. Stewart. " . Idstone, The Grange: J. C. O. Gordon, T. P. Briggs, S. C. G. Lacy , C. E. Butcher K Edmondson, K. S., J. P . P. Nevi le, R. J. Morse, Philippa Rubins.' . Clare Walpole: R. Vijayanathan , K. Phillips, S. Rowsell N. Young Victoria Boff M B' . . " , . Irnhak. Meister Omers: M . R. A . MIller, J. C. A. VeItch, R. R. Wallis, H. J. Andree D A K . R. B. Costaln. ' . . nIght, Marlowe: Joanna M. Prophet, F. W. Simpson, R. H. Pentin , B. W. Lynch. Luxl11oore: P: J. Cockrill, N. Bhatia, K. S., C. H. H. Darley, K. S ., N. C . Hem S RIchards, Elizabeth A. Robinson , MS., J. R. Woods, R. B. Coope{' . W. Galpin's: S. J. Gnmes, W. J . S. Floydd T . Grieves M W A Kiely C N Who Clare O. L. Wilson. ' , . . . . ' " Ite, M.S Linacre:

Broughton: Tradescant: Mitchinson's: Latte/gate:

Boys' Hockey Girls' Hockey Boats: Canoeing Rugby Football Tennis Fencing Golf

A. E. Mitchell, K.S ., A. P . Watlenbach, J. M. Bartlett, L. Nicola Shaw D A Botha, P. E. Dyas, J. D. Frew, J . D. Richardson, J. C. von Werse b~ . · . P. P. Lacamp, M.S., T .. J. W. Duthie, P. A . Ha milton, D. J.'Laurence, Blythe S. J. Levett, K.S., Lucinda J. Roberts, D. C-Y. Pong. N. J. Stearns, S. J. Attwood , A. J. Carr-Taylor P. M. Carrington K S E Conyers, I. E. Gardener, T. J. H. Lee, E. T.'J. Widdowson , K:S.··' mma P. 1. Burrell, M. S. Adamson, K. S., Sally-Ann P. Hawken, C . P. Barron A P. PanaYldes, A. G. J. Scott. ' . S: P . Stuttaford (B), J. M. Bartlett (L N), Tara J. de Linde (GL), Zoe C de LlI1de (GR), B. C. Marson (W) , c. C . Mitc hell (GL) . . CAPTA t NS OF S PORT

R. R. Wallis Alexa ndra M. Cochrane N. J. Stearns A. E. Martin, S. R. Rowsell D. 1. Laurence S. P. Stuttaford M. S. Adamson P. J. O. Greenleaf

Badminton Basketball Netball Soccer Boys' Athletics Girls' Athletics Girls' Squash Cross Country

R. Vijaya natha n M. S. Adamson Zoe C . de Linde R. J . Morse S. J. Attwood Sally-Ann Hawken Clare O. L. Wilson D. A. Kn ight

Monitor jar Music: Eliza beth A. Robinson, M.S . Head Sacnstans: C. M. Whiteley, M.S., L. Nicola Shaw 80

VALETE-JUL Y 1985 (Additional list) T J. O. Scawsby, Bctteshangcr. Nr. Deal, Kent; Northbourne Park; Sept. '80; LT I LN; K.S.; Captain of CrossWR IGHlry' (1st Cols.): Athletics (1 st Cols. ); U. 14 A Rugby; Boat Club J .14 Scul li ng; reading Astrophysics at Edinburgh COUll

UniverSIty. IGI-IT S. D. Scawsby, Betteshanger. Nr. Deal, Kent; Northbournc Park; Sept. '80; LT/LN; House monitor; Captain WRof Bo~ts (l st Cols. ); rowed fo r England in the Home Countries' Junior International.

VALETE-JULY 1986 DAMSON, P. A. Westwetl , The Dri ve, Chestfield, Whitstable, Kent ; J.K.S.; Sept. 'S3; MR; CpJ. Cadet Corps; Before A }'Ollr Very Eyes; Sc hool Golf Team ; to Kent College. DRIDGE, Deborah C. Sirk itt Hill House, Offley, Hitchin, Herts SGS 30B; Frensham Heights School; Sept. '84; LX; AL Symphony Orch~stra; Chamber Orchestra; Sc hool Choir; The Happiest Days of Your Life; to read Law at S1. John's College, Cambndge. AMENT, Antonia E. Rofford ~ o u se, Yarmouth, Isle o f Wight P041 aSH; Upper Chine Sc hool; Sept. 'S4; LN; Plunder; Murder ill the Cathedral; Girls' 1st X l Hockey; 10 read Geography. AMOS, Lucy E.M. I I Mays Hill Road, Sh or l l an~s, Brom ley, Kent BR2 O~H ; Newstead Wood School fo~ Girls; Sept. 'S4; OL; Big AI; Guys and Dolls; Hamlet; Girls' Hockey; to read History of Art at Court auld InStitute of A rt. ARENDS B. P. 12 Wetherby Gardens, London SWS; Poughkeepsie Day School, U.S.A., and Sussex House Prep School, Lond~n; Sept. '8 1; LT IGL; King's Sc holar; Durnford, Photographic, Marlowe, Chess and Tenterden Societ ies; Cal/wariall EdilOr; Training Orchestra; Sweeney Todd; Chess Team; School Academic Cha llenge Team; 10 read History at Go nville and Ca ius College, Cambridge. ATK INS C. J. D. Amery Court Farm, Chapel Lane, Blean, Canterbu ry CT2 9HF; J.K.S.; Sept. 'S I; MO; Cricket Colts A; to retake A-levels at tuto rial college. U. 14 AVIS 1. P. 3 Bridgeham Close, Weybridge, Surrey KT I3 SUG; Call1 erb ury Choir Sc hool; Sept. 'S I; LT/LN; King's Scholar; Caxto n Society; Jazz Club; Romeo and Juliet; Th e Talisman; Murder in the Cat hedral; Plunder; Guys and Dolls; All Orchestras, choirs and their concerts; U.IS Tennis; Choral Scholarship ; to read English at New College, Oxford. BALL, T. J. G. Tilings, Broad Oak, Brede, Nr. Rye, E. Sussex TN3 1 6BX; Westerleigh; Sept. 'S I; LT/G R; Durnfo rd Society; CCF (RAF Section); Guys and Dolls stage crew; Rowin g, Rugby and Cross Coun try; to read Law at City Polytech nic. BARRON, A. J. S Bai ley Mews, Auck land Road , Camb ridge; J.K .S.; Sept. 'S2; LN; King's Scho lar; House Monitor; Plunder; Train ing Orchestra; Basketball; Athletics; Hockey 2nd XI; Rugby 3rd XI, Squash 2nd V; Tennis 1st VI (1st Cols.); to read Modern Languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. BARTLETT, C. N. Grove Cottage, Bishopsbourne, Cante rbury, Kent; Marlborough House; Sept. 'S I; LT/ LN; Head of Ca noe Club; Socia l Serv ices; Minor Sports Cols. to reta ke A-levels at Ca nterbury Technical College. BARTON, H.D.H.G. 64, Western Esplanade , Herne Bay, Kent; J.K.S.; Jan. 'S2; LT/MO; CCF (Army and Navy) Band; Orchestras; At hletics (1 st Cols .) (Kent Team); Rugby 1st XV (2nd XV Cols.); Haymakers; 2nd in National Schools cycling championships; to retake A- levels at Ca nterbury Technical College. BA ULF, N. J. Stilegate, Chapel Road, Limpsfi eld, Oxted, Surrey RH S OSX; Hazelwood School, Sept. 'S2; LX ; Cp!. CCF Army Section; Epsom Downs; CCF Shooti ng Team; U. 14 Scullin g; to study Su rveying at Redhill Tec hnical College. BEARD, Francesca Louise 27 Arundel Gardens, London W II 2LW; Stonar School; Sept. 'S4; MO; Leaving Exhibition ; CCF; House and King's Week Plays ; Tennis; Athletics ; to read English at Jesus College, Ca mbridge. BEDFORD, 1. P. 3 St. Leonards Road, Chesham Bois, Amersha m, Bucks HP6 6DT; J.K.s.; Jan. '84; MT; Cricket U. 14 Colts; transferred to Dr. Chall oner's Grammar Schoo l, Amersham for A-Levels. BEE, Sara A. 5 Lichfield Avenue, Canterbury; Simon Langton Girls Sc hool; Sept. 'S4 ; MR; CCF Army; Guys and Dolts; Leading Soprano Chapel and School Choirs; Sang on Invicta, Radi o 2 and Radio 4; to read Bio logical Scie nces at Queen Mary College, Londo n. BIRCHER, Veronica C. C. 3 Grangemuir, 2 Southside, Wimb ledon , Lo ndon SW I9; Prio rsfield School; Sept. 'S4; W; Choral Societ ies ; House Play; Guys alld Dolls; Tennis; to read Modern Languages at Exeter University. BIRD, Katherine J. A. Ship House, Kingsdown, Nr. Deal, Kent CTI4 SGR; Cobham Hall , Sept. 'S4; GR; Choral Society; Guys and Dolls ; Choirs; Wind Band; Swimming Team (2nd Cols.); to read French at Warwick Un iversity. BISHOP , G. B. M. West Mill, Mill Lane, Langstone, Havant , Hampshi re; Westbourne House School; Jan. 'S I; LT/B; Durn ford Society; CCF RAF Sect ion ; The Lady from Maxim's; 1st VII I; 2nd VIII (2nd Cols.); Colt s Rugby; To p Sculling Sq uad; to read Business Studies at Kingston Po lytechnic. BI SSELL, M. S. Leander House, Cli fford Chambers, Stratford o n Avon, Warwickshire CV37 SH R; 1.K.S.; Jan. 'S2; L TIB; 10 employment.

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ALE Karen L. 53 Dorung Drive, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey KTI7 3BM; Su rbilon High School; Sept. '84; MO; CCF; Sl.EAS D Ba,;d " Capt. of Girls Swim ming (151 and 2nd eols.); Sq uash; 2nd VII Netball ; to read French and Business House" dies at Edinburg hU" mverSlly. SIU ION A. PO Box 825, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kenlon College. Nairobi; Sept. '8 1. T; Leavi ng Ex hibition; House SOCR~lor' Secretary, Tenterdcn Society; Hockey 2nd X I (2nd eals.); Tennis 2nd VI; to read E ngineering at Trinity ~IOIli , college, Oxford. DLEY. Nicola K. 4 Leycrort C losc, Ca ~t crbury. Ken.' 7LD; Kent College; Sept. '84; MR; CCF Army Section; BRAo read Education at Bath Co llege of HI gher Educalloll. 1 DT C. E. J. 84 Fi lsham Road,l-Iaslings, East Sussex TN38 OPG; William Parker School; Sept. '84; LN; Symphony 8~I~d ci,amber Orchestra; Hockey 2nd XI (2nd Cols.); Te nnis 2nd VI; to read French at Middlesex Po lytechnic. REA LY, T. A. E?d ington Fa rm, Edd ington Lane, Herne Bay Cf6 5TR; Grenham House; Sept. '8 1; G R; retaking 8 A_levels at tutOrial co llege. IGGS N. H. 4 1 Green Lane, Eastwood, Leigh o n Sea, Essex; Alleyn Court; Sept. '8 1; G R; 1Â·lo use and School 8ft Moniior" Head of H ouse; CCP A rmy/ RAP; Head of Co mma ndo Scct ion; Sel1l1et Sounds; Play product ion team; Rugby I ~I XV pst Cols. ); Sw imm!ng (ream Cols. ); Footba ll 1st X I; C lay Pigeon Shool ing (Team Co ls. ); to read Engineeri ng SCience a t Exeter Ul1lvers Lt y. BRON IMANN, A. M. 131 Beach St reet, Deal, Kent Cfl4 6FS; Nort hbourne Park; Scpt. '8 1; T; Hock ey 2nd X I; Footbal l and Cricket 3rd XI; to read Economics at University of East Anglia. BROOK S. J. Litt le Wood lands, Woodla nds Road, Lyminge, Kent; J .K.S.; Sept. '8 1; W; l'lo use Monitor ; Sgt. CCF; TheMayorojZalamea; Cahoot's Macbeth; Cross-Count ry (1st and 2nd Cols.); Swimming (2nd Cols.); to Polytechnic. BROWN I. J. P. 37 New Dover Road, Ca nterbury Cf l 3AT; J .K .S.; Sept. '82; MT; Exhibition and Han. Ki ng's Schol~r; Hockey 3rd XI; C ricket 4th X I; to read Economics at Magdalene Co llege, Cambridge in 1987. BROWN J. R. Brampton , Cedar Walk, Kenley, Surrey CR2 5JL ; Down sid e School ; Sept. '81; GR; Ho use Monitor; CCF RAF Section; Photographic and C ho ral Societies; Cross-Count ry (2nd Cols.); Swimming; Rowing Colts A VIII and 2nd VIII ; Rugby 3rd XV; to read Management at Reading University. BURDESS, C. P. K. c/o FCO (Port of Spain), King Charles St reet , London SW I A; Brambletye; Sept. 'S3; LT/ T; to 51. Christopher's School, Letchworth for A-levels. BUSH A. A. 23 C hequers Park , Wye, Ke nt; St. Ed mu nd's Junior School; Sept. 'SI; W; House Moni lor; CCF Army seciion; 1st Orchestra; Band and C hoirs; Rugby 1st X I; Cricket 2nd XI; to Saatchi and Saatchi. CAMBURN, M. C. 29 Thames C rescent, Maidenhead, Berksh ire SL6 SEY; J .K.S.; Sept. '8 1; LX; School Mo nitor; CCF RAFSection; The MayorojZalamea; Rugby U. 14 C; 5t h XV; Hockey 3rd XI; to read Spa ni sh a nd Bu siness St udi es at Cardiff Un iversity. CA RLI SLE, Sarah E. Norton Ash, No rt o n, Favers ham, Ken t MEI3 OSZ; Co nvent of the Nat ivity, Sittingbourne; Sept. '84; MT; C hapel C hoir; G irls Athletics; to read English at Yo rk University. CHAR LESWORTH, F. J . C hequer Coun , Mo lland Lane, Ash, Nr. Canterbury, Kent CT3 2EF; Wellesley House; Sept. '8 1; LN; House Monitor ; CCF Navy Section; House Pl ay; Rugby 2nd XV (2nd Cols. ); Sa ilin g Team ; to retake A-levels at tutoria l college. CHARRI NGTON, Lucy E. Edgmond Recto ry, Newport, Shropshi re TF IO SJ R; Newport Hi gh School; Se pt. 'S4; G L; Hon. K.S. and Exhibit io n; House Monitor; Durnford and Marlowe Societies; Call1uariall Editor; Symphony Orchestra; Choirs; Nicho las Nickleby; Guys(flld Dolls; Big AI; Hockey 1st X I; to read English at Lad y Margaret Ha ll , Oxford. CHUMAS. J . J. II Clos Du Parnase, B.P. 31, 1040 Brussels, Belgium; Yardley Court; Sept. '8 1; LT/G R; CCF RAF Section; School Wind Band; The Mayor oj Zalamea; Rugby 4th XV; Football 2nd XI; Cross-Country; to employment. CLEMENTS, A. T. M. 17 Lauderdale Mansions, Lauderdale Road , Maida Vale, London W9; Holmewood House ; Sept. 'SI; LT/SH; House Monitor; Hockey 1st X I (1 st Cols.); C ricket 2nd X I (2nd Co ls.); to re-take C hemi stry A-level. COOPER, J. H. All Saints Vicarage, M il itary Road, Ca nterbury. Kent CTI I PA; Harvey Grammar Schoo l; Sept. 'S4; MT; Hon. K.S.; House Monitor; Orchest ras and Choirs; to read Music at Merton College , Oxford. CRA IK, A. J. 16 The P recincts, Ca nterbury; J .K.S.; Sept. '8 1; MT; Music Scholar; House Monitor; C horal Society; Orchestra, Band and Jazz Club; Rugby 2nd XV; T ennis; to employment. DAVIES, B. R. H. Lower Maypole COllage, Maypole Lane, Goudhurst, Kent; Ma rlborough House; Jan. 'S I; T; Photographic Society ; to read Geology at Leiceste r University. DAV IES, Cam illa The Lawn, Brent Hill, Faversham, Ken t MEI3 7EF; Benenden; Sept. '84; LX; House Play; Tenn is; to read History at Edinburgh Universi ty. DAWK INS, Tanera K. A. The Old Vicarage, Canford Magna, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 3AE; P ark sto ne Gramma r School; Sept . 'S4; GR; Music Scholarship; Ho use and School Monitor; O rchestras and Chapel Choi r; School Swi mmi ng Team; to read Music at Worcester College, Oxford . DAV IS, Helen East Heath, Strea m La ne, H awk hurst , Kent TN 18 4R D; Cra nbrook ; Sept. '84; LN; Plunder; Nicholas Nickleby; Hockey 1s t XI; Netba ll 2nd VII ; to read E nglis h at St. Andrews University. DICKSON, R. A. Speedwell , Wych Cross, Forest Row, Sussex; Cum nor House; Jan. '82; T; Cricket U. 14 A and 3rd X I; to read Geology at Readi ng Uni versity.

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DONALD , C. W. J . 53 Frankli n Drive, Grove Green. Maidslonc, Kent; Bickley Park; Jan. '82; LT/ LN' CCF Sectio n; Hamlet; H ouse Play ; Cross-Count ry (2nd eols.); to the Bank of Scotland. 'A.nn, DOWLER , M. H . 13 Earls Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Holmewood Ho use; Sept. '81; LT/GL; Caxton Dookb' . Potlery a nd Choral Society; Cham ber Choir; Dream ojGerOI1{illS; Elijah; Solomol1; Jack Sheppard' Swee Indll.... Big AI; to study Hotel and Catering Management at Surrey University. ' ney Todd; DOWNES, R. O. C. 7 Kidbrookc Ga rdens, Blnckhcalh, London SE3 oro; Dulwich Co llege P rep ; Sept. '8 1- SHand Exhibition; HOllse Monitor; Marlowe, Durnford and Choral Societies; All Choirs and Orchestras' Cho~al AMs. 10 read Engl ish at 51. Ca therine's College, Ca mbridge. ' ward; DUNN, G. M. Bramblet ye Manor Farm, Forest Row, East Sussex RHIS 5EH; Brambletye; Sept. '8 1; W; House M . Durnford Societ ~; Ho.m/et; Cahoot's Macbeth ; Football lSI X I; Hockey 2nd XI; Swimming (1st Cols.); to rea~~t';!r. at Newcastle University. ...... DUNN ING, J . R. Cheese Court Lodge, Hackington Road, Tyler Hill, Canterbury, Kent CT2 9NG; J. K.S.; Sept '82' Exhibition and Han. K.S. 2nd O rchest ra; House Pl ay; Nicholas Nickleby; H ockey 3rd X I; to read Law 'at C· MR: Co llege , Ca mbridge. mOIl DURH AM, M. 31 Crescent Wood Road, London SE26 6SA; Dover College Junior Sc ho o l; Se pt. '8 1' LT/ B' H K. S.; Ho use Monitor; Head of Lattergate; Durnford Society~ H o use Play; Twelfth Nigh t; Cricket lst)« (l SI Co~n. Foot ball 1st X l ( 1st Cols. ); Squash 1st V (1 st Cols.); 1st JUllJor Cross-Cou ntry; to read Modern La nguages at N .), Co llege , Oxford. ew ELA M, P. F. 1297 Redpa th Crescent, Mo ntreal, Quebec H3G IA I Ca nada; H o hnewood House; Sept. '82' SH' K S' Hou se Monitor; Durnford Society; Treasure Islalld; Sennet SO/llu/s; The M ayor of Zalamell; The Goldell of Agamemnon; Football 2nd X l , Cross·Country; to read History and French at Magda len College, Oxford . Ut ELLIOTT, G. 9 Enmore Road, Putney, London SW I5; Cran leigh Prep.; Sept. '8 1; LT/ LN; CCF Navy Section; Rugb 2nd XV (2nd Cols. ); '·Iockey 2nd XI (2nd Co ls. ); to retake A-levels. Y EVANS, P . L. Rietst rasse 264, S260 Stein amrhein, Swit zerland; J.K. S.; Jan. 'S l; T; HOllse Monitor; Rugby 4th XV. ' T enni s 2nd VI; Sq uash 1st V (1 st Cols.); (0 retake A-levels at tutorial college. EV ISON, M. H. The O ld Vicarage, Elm va le Road, H augham, Dover, Kent; Wellesley House; Sept. 'SI; LN; House Mo nitor; to world travel.

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FARRELL, A. P. 18 Leycroft Close , Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LD; Nort hbourne Park; Jan. '82; MT; House Monitor' Cricket 2nd XI (2nd Cols.); to read Chemis try a t Pembroke College, Ca mbridge in 19S7. ' FE NN , L. M. Mead ows, Church Road, Smeel h, Nr. Ashford , Kent TN25 6SA; No rthbourne Park; Sept. 'SI; LT/ B' H o use Monitor; H ouse Play; Rugby U.14 C; Cross-Country Capt. (1 st Co ls. ); At hletics 1st Team (1st Cols.)· t~ retake A-levels at Ashford Technical Co llege; hopes to read Mechanica l Engineeri ng at University. ' F INN, B. J. C hester fi eld Ho use, 25 Victoria Street, Cambridge CBI U P; King's Co llege School, Cambridge; Sept. '82; S H ; K.S. and M. S.; Sy mphony and Chamber Orchestra; Ba nd ; C hapel Choi r; to read Music a t King's College Ca mbridge. ' F INN , J. H. Chesterfield House, 25 Victoria St reet, Ca mbridge CBI IJP ; King's College Sc hool, Cambridge; Sept. '82 ; SH ; K.S. and M. S.; Ch oral Society; Symphony and Cha mber Orchest ra; Band; Chapel Choir; House Play; to read Music at Christ ChurCll, Oxford. FLOWER, C. P. J. 17 Foxdown Close, Canterbury, Kent; Cumnor House; Sept. 'S2; LT/SH ; Han. M.S. a nd K.S.; House Mo nit o r; Orchestra and Band ; C hoirs; The Mayor of Zafamea; Guys and Dolls; Cross·Count ry (2 nd Cols.); Tennis 2nd VI; C horal Ex hibition , to read Natural Science at Gonv ille and Ca ius , Cambridge. FOOT, P . A. A. J ackets Fields, White Hi ll , Challock, Nr. Ashford , Ken t T N25 4AP; Friars; Sept. '8 1; MT; CCF Navy Section; Swimming Team; to study Bui lding at Folkestone Co llege. FORDHAM, A. G . E. IS Woodbury Avenue, East Grinstead, Sussex RH 19 3NX; Prebendal School; Sept. 'S I; LT/ GL; M.S.; House Monitor; J azz Club; All Orchestras and Choirs; to read Mu sic at University of East Anglia. FRANCIS , M. C. 7 Forest Drive, Kest on Park, Keston, Ken t BR 2 6EE; Bickley Pa rk; J a n. '83; LT/T; CCF; Senllel Soullds; The Doctor alld the Devils; Guys and Dolls; Nicholas Nickleby; Fencing (Colt Cols.); to take A·levels at Orpington College. GA LLOWAY, J. W. Boughton COllrt , Ashford, Kent; Marlborough Ho use; Sept. 'S3; LN; to ret a ke GCE. GANCZ , S. R. 172 Elm Hill , Warminster, Wilts; Yardley Court; Sept. 'S I ; T; Football 2nd XI; H ockey 2nd XI; to retake A-levels a t tutorial co llege. GE RR ISH , S. P. 30 C hu rch St reet, Warminster , Wilts ; Monmouth School; Sept. '83; GR; Durnford Society; Sculling 1st VIII (l SI Cols.); to read Geography a t SI. Edmund Hall, Ox ford. G IRLl NG , H. W. Hoo Corner Fa rm, Minster, Ramsgate, T han et CT I2 4JB; SI. Lawrence Coll ege J unior School; Sept. '8 1; LT/ MO; H o use Monitor; CCF RAF Section; Rugby 1st XV (2nd Co ls. ); Hoc key 1st X l Vice Capt. (1 st Cols .); Cricket 3rd X I Capt; to st udy H otel, Catering a nd Institutional Management at Ealing Co llege. GODLEY, J. D. SteU iner Str 22, 3004 Isernhagen I, West German y; Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield; Sept . 'S4; GL; Head of Lattergate and House Monitor; CCF Navy Section; Rugby 2nd XV; to read Busi ness St udies with German.

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Court Lodge, Orlestone, Nr. Ashford, Kent TN26 2EB; Friars; Sept. '81; LT/GR; Durnford Society; Hockey 2nd XI; Tennis 2nd VI; Cross·Country 1st Team ( 1st Co ls.); to read Business Studies at Thames . J. Rowan House , The Grange, Shepherdswell, Kent CTl 5 7QB; The Abbey School; Scpt. 'SI; LX; Section; Rugby 3rd XV; Athletics; to retake A·levels at Can terbury Technica l College. NGHAM, Samantha I. Bore Place, Ch iddingsto ne, Nr. Edenbridge, Kent TNS 7AR; Convent of the Sacred art Woldi ngham; Sept. 'S4; GR; I-louse Mo nitor; CCF; 1/ You're Glad I'll Be Frank; The Imporlance oj Being ~e!ll~t' All My SoliS; Nicholas Nickleby ; Caligula; rile Major oj Zalamea; Athletics Capt.; Swimming Team; Hockey XI; to the Architectural Assoc iation School of Architecture or University.

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Combined Arts at Durham University. WKES W. S. B. The Royal Oak Cottage, Laxfield, Suffol k; J.K.S.; Sept. 'S2 ; GR; Ho use Monitor; K. S.; Durnford "Asociety'· Tile Imporlance oj Being Earnest; The Goldell Masque 0/ Agamemnon; The Mayor 0/ Zalamea; Cricket 41h XI;' Swim ming Colts Team; to read Law at Trin ity College, Cambridge. HA Y Lady lona C. 15 Ca rlyle Square, London SW3; Heathfield School ; Sept. 'S4; LN; Choral Society; Solomon; piul/der; Squash Capt.; Tennis Team; to retake A·levels at tutoria l college. HEDDLE A. J. 2 Barton Road, Cantcrbury, Kent; J. K.S.; J an. 'S2; LT/G L; Durnford a nd Marlowe Socicty; Mayor oj Zolom~(t; House Plays; Hockey 2nd Xl (2nd Cols.); to read English and Philosop hy at Bristo l Un iversit y. HOARE, Lucy M. C. Hartridge Ma nor Fa rm , Cranbrook, Ke nt TNI7 2NA; Cranbrook Grammar; Sept. 'S4; LN; Photographic Society; 2nd Orchestra and Choirs; Plunder; Guys and Dolls; Nicholas Nickleby; Hockey 1st XI (I st Cols.); Tennis 2nd VI; to read History of Art at Edi nburgh University. 10

IYES O. M. Mulberry Cot tage, Barron Lane, Langton Gree n, T un bridge Wells, Kent TN3 OEA; Smallwood Manor; Se'pl. 'S I; LT/ B; House Monitor; Rugby 1st XV (1st Cols.); Hockey 1st X I (1st Cols. ); Cricket 1st XI (1 st Cols.); to insu rance . JONES, S. D. 40 Cordrey Gardens, Cou lsdon, Surrey CR3 2SP; Hordle House; Sept. 'S2; T; Computing Society; Electronics C lu b; to read Electronic Engineerin g at Imperia l College, London. KEATINGE, Anna E . J . 13 Parrs Road, Stokenchurch, Bucks HP I4 3QK; Upper Chine School; Scpt. '84; G R; Choral Society; Hockey 2nd XI; Girls' Rowing; to read History a nd Sociology at Durham Un iversity_ KELLY, Katheri ne E_ 5 Sparrowhawk Close, Marlborough Hill, Beacon Hill Road, Ewshott, Nr. Farnham Surrey; Bedford High School; Sept. 'S4; SH ; Hon. K.S.; Head Gi rl ; Blithe Spirit; HamIel; Guysalld Dolls; Nicholas Nickleby; Hockey 1st XI (l st Cols.); to read Russia n and Polit ics at Durham. KIDDE· HANSON, J. Ollydale, Stoke Ash Eyc, Suffo lk ; Holmewood House; Sept. 'SI; LX; CCF RAF Sectio n; COfilUarian (Photographic Editor) ; Rugby 4th XV; to read Zoology at University of East Anglia. KOSTERING, M. Berglust 2, 4920 Lemgo, West Germany; Jan. 'S4; W; House Monitor; Tennis 1st VI ( 1st Co ls.); Football l SI XI ( 1st Cols.); Basketball Capt. (Cols.); Badminton Capt.. (Cols.); Cross·Count ry (Cols.); Ath letics (Cols.); to retake A-leve ls a t tutoria l college before read ing Med icine at Semmelweiss University. LAWTON, P. G. S. 12 York Road, New Barnet, Herts ; Mill field Junior School; Sept. '8 1; LX; House Mon itor; CCF RAF Sect ion; Tennis 2nd VI; Rugby 1st XV; to read Chem ist ry at Universit y of Wales (Bangor). LEACH, A. W. 153 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent MEJO 4HG; Du lwich College Prep; Sept. 'S I; LT/G R; House Monitor; The Pilgrims Boat Clu b; In visible Su n; Captain of Boats; Rowing 1st VIII (Double 1st Cols.); Rugby 2nd and 3rd XV; to read Zoology at Hull University. LEWIN, N. R. G. 48 Methley Street, Kennington , London SE ll 4AJ ; Hall School; Jan. '8 1; LT/ T; CCF Army Sectio n; 2nd and House Orchestra; Rowing J14 ; Cross-Count ry (Colts Cols.); Swimmi ng Tea m. LINNEY , I. D. S. Rocks Hill, Weslerham Road, Limpsfield, Oxted, Su rrey RHS OED; Tonbridge; Sept. 'S4; LN; House Monitor; Rugby 1st XV; Football 1st XI; Cricket 1st XI; to read Law at East Angli a University. LOFDAHL, Pia 9AS Barrett Mansions, S-9 Bower Road, Ho ng Kong; German Swiss International School; Sept. 'S4; 0; K. S.; CCF Army Section; Choral Society; Chapel Choir ; Band; Tweljth Nigh,; Boat Club; to read Econo mics at Queens' College, Ca mbridge. McCARTHY, N. G. 17-8 Rok urokuso C ho. Ashiya C ity . Hyogo Pref·659, Japan; J .K.S.; Sept. 'S2; GR; Hon. K.S.; House Mon itor; Hockey U.16 B; Athletics U. 14; Swimming (2nd Cols.); to read Mechanical Engineering at Universit y. McCULLOUGH, M. F. En Ba rye, Vi llard, Divo nne-Les·Bains, 01220 Fra nce; La Chataugnerie, Sw itzerland; Sept. '83; LX; Head of House; Vice Capt. of Sc hool; Basketball; 4th XV; to read Geology at Edinburgh University. McCUllY, Carolyn F. Butts Farm , Lower Hardres, Canterbury; Bedgeb ury; Sept. '84; MT; Nursing Course_ MacDONALD, A. Combe Fa rm, Wadhursl, East Sussex TN5 6NU; Brambletye ; Jan. 'S2; LT/LX ; House Monitor; to the London Hospita l Medical College. 85 (Jonathan Marshall)

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CTS 4D8; J .K.S.; Jan. t) College, hopes to read Co mputer SC ience at Reading Uni versity. '82; MR; to Ca nterbury Techni~l MARSHALL, D. J . 89 Croyd o n Road, Bcckenham Kent' Bickley Park' Sept College. " . . '85; S H; to be a day-boy at D . ul~"t: MARTC'IN'kStbylla A. 4 The G ree n, Wimbledon Co mm o n, Lo ndo n SW I9 5AZ' Pu tney High S I I to cr enwell Co llege of Art. ' C 100; Sept. '84; W, MBU , E. O. 40 No rth Aud lcy Street, Lo ndon W I - Elan Co llege' Sc t '83' B' R b Athletics (l SI eols.) Nat iona l Schools and Engiand Junior T~am:' • ug y 1st XV (1st Cols. ); Caplainor I

M IC H AEL, Eliza beth 43 Beacons field Road, Canterbury CT2 7LQ' Simon Lan G' G IIYS and Dolls; N icholas N ickleby; Before Your Very Eyes' Cho ra'i Society' to ~!~~ L",',r,lr'a GHramma.r; Sept. '84; MR' C o llege, Oxford. ' , e umalllores at W orcest~ M ILLER, Lucinda J . Foxlease, Pi ltd own Uckfield East Sussex TN22 3XD' H M.S.; Choral Socicty; Band , Orchestr~ a nd Ch~irs; Elijah' Sololllol/' I ~ re~~~~II~cCOtll~be; SdcPI. 'S4~ GL; Hon. MORR IS G L B Id '1 "11 " a cr een University , . . 0 rer l , Bo ld re, Lymington Hants'NewBcacon'Se)t 'S I 'LT/GL H . Sect io n; Sweeney Todd; Ha!1IIel; A ll My SOilS; 'Big AI;' Guys alld Doils' 'N;Cho/~s N icki ~ .e~d o~ H ouse; CCF Arm) Capl. (Cols.); to read Engll1cering a l Christ Church, Oxford.' e~, oe ey 3rd XI; ShOOting MORTLOC K, P. E; I Pilgrim's COllages, Pilgrimsway, Bo ughton A luph Kent TN25 4EU' . , CC F Navy Sect Ion; H o use Play; Fenci ng Colts (Co ls ). to read P P Ea' U' . ' JC"KI"IS " Sept. 82; MR; K.S· . , < '" mversil y 0 ege Ox ford " MU RC H , W. Osberto n G ra ngc, Worksop NOlls S8 1 OUF' Ra nb H o use' S 'S ' . AI; Hockcy lSI X I Capt. (l st Cols. ); Swi:llming Vicc-Capt. (1 st tOls. ). to're~~IA.gril~ ut~~~~;~-Iouse IMoni~or; Big , a ewcast e Umversity NASH ,~. W. 4 The Terrace, Halcs Place, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7A J' Woott o nle HOll . S ' . rvtollilor and Head Scholar; Senile/ Soullds; House Concert· Cricket 2:1d X I' Foot6all ' t se, de~. lS I; M!; K.S.; HouSt III 1987. " , o rca at1emat lcs at University NASH,.G. R. Broadvicw, Old Road, Elha m, Nr. Ca nlerb ury CT4 6U H' N rIb ., Section ; Before Your Very Eyes; 10 read Physics at Ba th University. 0 t1 ournePa rk ,Sept. 81;MR;CCFRAF NE LSON-SM ITH , Nico la K. Brand ywine I Orchard Way E I S KT 0 y:/oLad y EEleano r .Holles School; Sept. '84.; MO; Ho n. K.S.; Photograph{c a nd Choral SO~iet~ .l~h oi~~~eAous~ pfaD a l WarWIck Uni versit y. " , rea d conomlCS and Politics N IC HOLAS, J. R. Blackstone Ga te Albourne Hasso k S BN6 9 ' . Monitor; Durnfo rd Society; CCF RAF Se~t ion; R~q~;ie/~~s~~ss TII(;~u~~;~tk~r'bOi~tIC~~~e ; SCI?!. 'S I; T; HouSt Cols.); to read Geography and Geology a t Birmingha m Po lytec hn ic. ,g y t 1 , Rowmg 1st VI II (1st N IC HOLLS, J. P. Trystings, 4S Red Lane Claygate Esher Surre y KTiOOES' M' lb K.S.; House Monilor; Catering Commiu'ee' Durn f' d S '. . C . '. I ou r~e Lodge; Sepl. '82; LT/ !. ; Selln.et Soullds; Murder ill liIe Cathedral; 'The M~;or gJ'~~/~mC;:'~II~;f(lI~ E(.h~r; ChOir; Th~ C~lIIing ~! Ihe KingS; English al T rini ty Ha ll , Camb ridge. a, lin er, ream of Celonl/us; EliJah; to read

N I~~~s7~~p~I:~~7 :; t~:t~r~r~~ ~l~uGiy~atmill Lane, Brenchley, Kent TN I2 7AE; Tonbridge Gra mmar School ror NO RR IS, A. C. D. Sto ne Stile Oasl, Selling, Faversham, Kent MEI3 9SD' J K S . S 'S' '. . Befo.re YOllr Very Eyes; School Band Concens' to tuto ria l college' ho'pe~ t ~ ~~a~Pr!.1 d·I, .MR , ChCF , Cadxton SocI~ty; Med Ica l College. ' , e ICllle a t t e Lon on Hospital

OL~~~~~:I~i:~~1~t'ra:6HSocl~S~e~~ey!~ t~a;~:;~e~ i~r~v~~n~~liu~~~~~~~~I~~!i.Sh Schoo l, Brussels; Sept. '84; SH ; Bands OL:~7~~~~ JA_~~:I?~~ ~e~~ii'c~f;;~~h~~'p~r i~i~~~3b~I~~~;~e~i~~.; Northbourne Park ; J an. '82 ; W; H ouse Monitor; PA~~~p~~;~~~~ ~~ct~;I~i:II '~~~~n~i;e/:t~e~I~~nt~e's~~~~adr~~~i~~u~s~~t; West Heath; Sept. '84; B; H ouse Drama PAPACH ~ I STI D IS, N: A. Wrocita m Pa rk, Wrotham, Sevenoaks , Kent TNI5 7RE ' H In

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h!~~~;' ~tYl~!~i::;o~~~~~Cie~~~i;~CI~~IH!~~!~I~rt6l~i~ I~~s~i~~; R~oy~~eCY02Inl,dgeXI ;'fSAh~O~~~g l ~~~n~c~~~~:; ~:,~~ef~g , gncu ture, IrenceSler. 0

RSON A. M. J. Sherwood, Hengist Road, Westgate o n Sea, Kent CfS 8PJ ; St. Lawrence Co llege Junior Sc hool;

E 'S3' MR' Before Your Very Eyes; to Uppi ngham School. p,,-rr sept. , '

6 RSON, R. E. Sherwood, H engist Road, Westgate on Sea, Kent CTS 8PJ; St. Lawrence College Junio r School; 'S2; MR; Hon. K.S:; Rugby 2nd XV (2.nd Cols.); Hockey 1st X I (1 st Cols. ); Cricket 1st X I (1 st Co ls); to read ~~~'at Gonville and CalUs College, Cambfldge. S Julia J . Wood lan.ds, Palma rs Cross Hil! , H ~ rbl edow n , Ca nterb ury; Ursuline Convent; Sept. '84; T; House pEAR ",or' Squash' Tel1 l11s: to read Law at Ul11versllY· ~Ion l ' ' DLEBURY , Sarah A. Sout hern Anes, Litt le London Road, Ho ram, East Sussex T N21 OBD; Beresford House; pE~ , '84' T' M.S.; Ho use Mon itor ; Chora l Society; Choir and Orcheslras; to read Music at Bristol Universit y. Sep. " ERBURS M. R. Seymour Place, 28 High St reet, Wi ngham, Ca nterbury, Kent Cf3 l AB; J .K.S.; Sept. 'S I; MR; P~ use Mo~itor ; Phot ographic Society; Before Your Very Eyes a nd Drama Com petit io n; Hockey 2nd X I; Rugby C:ltS; Crickel Co lts; to read Theology at Durham Un iversity. TTS R. S. West Acre, Cherry Drive, Ca nlerb ury , Kent CT2 8H E; MR; House Monitor; CCF RAP Sect io n; House pE PI~Y; to re-take A-levels at tutoria l college; to st udy Bank ing and International Fina nce at C ity Un iversit y. HILLIPS D. A. 7S Ma ida Va le, London W9 I P R j Trevor Ro berts Tutoria l Co llege; J a n. '84; T ; CCF Navy Section; P Gardeni'ng Society; Tile Doclor alld the Devils; to Richmon d College. pONG D.K-Y. Apartment 20 1, G rosvenor House , I IS MacDonnell Road, Ho ng Kong; Northbourne Park; J an. '82; LTi B; to read Architectu re at Rhode Island Co llege, U.S.A. PRESTON N. O. Patch fi eld , Corfe Castle, Wareham, Do rset BH20 5H U; Brambletye; Sept. '81; B; Caxton a nd Harvey Society; Twelfth Nig ht; The Lady from Max im's; Rugby 4th XV; Sculling Team; to read Accounta ncy at Exeter UniversilY· PR ICE Clarissa A. Mapleban k COllage, Maplescombe La ne, Farn ingham, Kent DA4 OJ Y; Combe Bank; Sept. 'S4 ; W ; H O~. M.S.; Orchestras and Choir; Cahoot's Macbet"; to read English and Music al Aberdee n Uni versity. PRICE P. D. J. 28 Betstyle Road , New Sout hgate , Lond on N il IJB; Dover College Ju nior School; Sept. '8 1; LT/GL ; CCf RAF Sect ion: Bookbinding and Choral Society; Big AI; Elijah; Sweeney Todd; Rowing J . 15; to read Geography at Cambridge Co llege of Art s and Technology. PUG H, A. D. The Gables, Ockham Road, North East Ho rsley , Lealherhead, Surrcy KT24 6NT; J .K.S.; Sept. '8 1; LT/ B; CCF Army Section; Twelfth N ight; 10 retake A-levels. PArr

QU IN, J . B. Little Green, The Leas, Kingsdown, Kenl ; No rthbourne Park; J an. '82; MT; Cricket 3rd X I; to read Law at University. REED, R. P. 11 Wi lberforce Road, Wisbech, Cambs PEJ3 2EU; SI. Lawrence College Junior School; Sept. '82; LT/ MO; K.S.; House Monitor; Canruariall Editor; Shelock Holmes; The MayorofZtlfamea; to read Engineeri ng at Magdalen College, Oxford . RICHARDS, A. J . 127 Ho nor Oak Park , Fo rest Hill , Lo ndon SE23; J .K.S.; Sept . 'S I; W; House Monitor ; Marlowe Society; Hamiel; Guys alld Dolls: Cahoot 's Macbeth; Sw im mi ng Team; to retake A-levels at Orpi nglon Techn ica l College. RO BERTSON, A. 14 Lady Wootton's G reen, Canterbury CTI ING; J .K S.; Sept. '82; LT /GL; K. S.; Durnfo rd a nd Pater Society; Pirates of Pellzallce; Sweeney Todd; Big AI; Rugby a nd Sw im ming Teams: to read Modern La nguages at King's College, London. RO BERTSON, Elizabet h J . clo T he Cottage, Milner Co un, Ju nio r King's Sc hool, Slurry, Canterbury, Kent CT20AZ; Leweston Sc hool, Sherborne; Sept. '84; GL; Hon . K.S.; Choral Society; Elijah; Solomoll; Big AI; Hockey 2nd XI; to read Geograph y at New nha m College, Ca mbridge . ROLLASON, N. W. 17 A usten Road, G uildfo rd , Surrey GU I 3NW; Ashdown House; Sept. '8 1; LX; H ouse Monitor; Tlte Happiest Days of Your Life; Rugby 1st XV; C ricket 3rd X I; Soccer, Tenn is and Swi mming; to read History at Universit y. RUCKERT, Alison C. Castle H ouse , Serene Place, Broadslairs, Kent CT IO ILN; Clarendo n H o use ; Sept. '84; MT ; House Monitor; Go lf; to read Pharmacology at King's College, London. RYELAND, M. B. Oakleigh, Granvi lle Road , SI. Margaret's Bay, Kent CTI5 6DR; Northbourne Park ; Sept. '8 1; LT/B; Head of Ho use; Durnford Society; Soccer 1st X I; Rugby 3rd XV; Cric ket 1st X I (Cap!. and 1st Cols.) ; Ca pl. of Sri La nka Cricket Tour; to insurance. St. JOHN PARKER , Sophia G. Lacies Court, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Oxford Hi gh School; Sept. 'S4; GL; Ho n. M.S.; Orchest ras and Chapel Choir; Elijah; Solomoll; Big AI; Guys alld Dolls; Netball 1st VII (1 st Cols. ); Hockey 1st XI ; to read Hislory of Art at East Anglia Universit y. SCAR LETT, J . H. Flat I, Hill view, 3 Durham Road, Brom ley, Kent; J.K.S.; Sept. '8 1; LT/ B; H Ollse Moni tor; CCF; Soccer 3rd XI; Canoe Club; to read Management St udies al Cardiff Un iversit y. SHARP, J . F. The Wycke, 25 Warwick Road, Walmer, Deal, Kent 014 7J E; Northbourne Park ; Ja n. '82; W; Caxton and Choral Society; Orchestras; Requiem; The H unling of the Snark; Cahoot's Macbelh; to read Chemistry at Imperial College, London.

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SHER'YOOD, A',H. C. 51)ler Close, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7BO; 1.K.S.; SCPl. '8 1; MR; Head ofH Scclion; Catering Comml(~ee; Durnford S~ciety; De/ore Your Very Eyes; The Mayor of Zalameo' OUse; CCF'R.IJ;

Hockey 2nd X I (eols.); Cricket and Shootmg Team; to read Economic and Social History at Ed' b' Rugby 2nd Xv ill urgh Uni .; SM~LMAN-~M ITH, C" R. ~V~lIdon H ouse , 49 London ~oad , Tonbridge, Kelll TN IO 3AD; Yard lc "'erlll),. 82 LT IS, Ha n. K.S.~ C hr.ISl tall Fon llll a nd Harvey Society; Twelfth Nighl; Rowing 2nd VIII (2 d ~CO Urt; Sq,. 2nd XV; to read Englllcenng at SI. Ed mund Ha ll , Oxford. n ols.); RugbY

SM 1I H , M. J .. 29T~lC Avenue, Durha m Cit y. Durham; Dover College Junior Sc hool; Sept. '8 1; MO, 1-10 I hotographlc Society; Sherlock Holmes; The Mayoro/Zalamea; Rugby 4th XV, Hockey 3rd XI' to' d ~~e Monitor. at Leeds University. ' , rea I OchemiSl~

STANBURY, w. J. 14 1 ~ue Des Combattant~, 1310 La Hulpe, Brabant, Belgium; Wellesley House' Se t ' Hon. K.S.; House Momtor; CCF A rmy Sect ion; Rugby 4th XV, to read Biochem ist ry at Wadham C' liP. 82; MO. , oegeO)(~d' STEARNS, D. A. 39 AI~vyne Roa.d, Canonbury, London NI 2H W; The Hall; Jan. '82; T; House Mo .' . Or and Dolls; Hamlet; Ntcholas Ntckfeby; Pass the Butler Hockey 3rd XI' to retake A levels at t t . "1 IIOr , Gun " . ' , uonacoJ1ee STOCKS, D. G: Sliver Spn ngs, Lake Road, Tu nbn dge Wells, Kent TN4 8XT; H olmewood House; Se t '81' g. School MO lll tor and Head of H ouse; Hockey 1st X I ( lsI Cols.); Squash lSI V (1st Co ls .); Cricket lstP"1 (2' LT/SH; Rugby 3rd XV; to reta kc A-levels at tu toria l collcge. nd Cols.); ST URT, A. F. B. 7 G r~ lI vilJe Roa~, Walmer , D~a l , Kent CT I4 7LU; Nort hbourne Pa rk ; Sept. '82 ' T· K S' He.ad o f House; MOlll tor fo r MusIc; Choral Society; O rchcstras a nd Choirs; Wind Q uartet; The Pir~/es'oip~; M.S.; Wild Oals; Oklahoma!; Hamlet; Guys alld Dolls; Open Organ Scholarship; to read Engineering S . !toner; Co llege, Oxford. Clcncc at J~~ TAYLO R, D. S. 83 Abill~don Road, London W8; Bra mblclye; Sept. '81; LT/ GL; Durnford and Marlowc S . Golf (2nd Cols.); TCIl IllS (1st Cols.); Soccer 2nd X I; to read History at Bristol University. Ociel)'; TAYL<?R, J.~. Whiston HO.lel, Bethersden, Ashford, Kent TN26 3LA; J .K.S.; Sept. '81; B; Ho use Monitor' Du Society; Cncket 1st X I Vlcc-Capt.; Vice-Capt. of Sri La nka C ricket Tour; to ba nking. • rnford

T H O~ PSON , J. H . 27 So ulh Court Dr ive, Wingha m , Canterbury; Welles ley House; Sept ; '83; LT/B' Rugb U C n ckel U. 14B; to take O-Ievels at T ha net Techn ical College.

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T HOMASO N, S. C. D. 32a Hackington Road, Tyler Hill , Ca nterbury; J .K.S.; Jan. '82' LT/SH' CCF ArmyS . to retake A-levels. " eetlon; TURNER, T. J . 24 Abbey Grove, Ramsga~e, Kent CT I I OJ G; J .K.S.; Sept. '81; MR; H ouse Monitor; Rugby 1st XV ( 1st Cols.); S.occe~ lSI X I (1st Co ls.); Cncket 1st X I (1st Cols.); Go lf C lub; to read Geography and Geolog S A nd rews UniversIty. yal 1. TYLER, ~. w.~ ..Lill ie W~boun.les, H~gh Street, Ke~sing, Nr. Sevenoaks, Kent TN 15 6LX; SL Michael's School Ot ford! Jan. 82, 1;T / LN, ~.S.! CCF, Du rn fo rd Society ; H ouse Play; The Mayor 0/ Zalamea; Cricket U. 14A' ' ,to read H Istory at Bmtol UllI versllY. U RSELL , M. V>( . .~ighm:ad House, Su mmerhill , "Yillesb? rough'"As hford , Kcnt TN24 OWE; Fria rs; Jan. '82; LT/OR' House MOlllt Ol, CCF , C hora l a nd Photograph ic Society; ElIJah; Hamlet; Go lf (Capt. and 1st Cols); Ten nis 2nd VI;. Rug~y 1st VII and 2nd XV (2nd Cols.); Hockey 1st X I (lst Cols.); Cricket Colts A; to read H istory at Southampto UmversllY. n

USHE~ , Tara Lower K no~~le, Cullomplon, Devon EX I5 IP U; Maynard School, Exeter; Sept. '84; SH; K.S.; CallIllarian Editor; Orchest ras; ElIJah; Hockey and Netba ll ; to read Economics and Law at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Cot~ag,e, Butcher 's Cross, Five Ashes, East Sussex TN20 6J N ; J .K.S.; Sept. '8 1; B; Harvcy Society; The Lady /rOt~! MaxlIll s; The Mayor o/Zalamea; H ockey 2nd X I; Cross-Cou nt ry (lst Cols.)· Ath letics (1st Cols)' to read Electrical and Electronic E ngineering at Bat h Un iversity. ' .,

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VEGE LI N Van ~LAE R BERGEN, F . E. Schon nweg 29a, Wasseraar, Holland; Marl borough H ouse; Sept. '83; LN: Plunder:; Coxlllg 1st VIII (2 nd Cols.); to H oll a nd for Internat ional Bacca la ureate.

VE~T~:)N, ~mll1a J . E. ~ ngl~wood, Nackil~gton Road , Canterbury , Kent CTI 3NU; Simon La ngton Girls School; Sept. 84 , MR, House Mo nitor, Marlowe S~clet~; Before Your Very Eyes; Hamlet; Guys and Dolls; H ockey lSI and 2nd X I; to read Law at SOll t hampto n Umversily.

VERE~, D. A. !7 Shaftcs~ury C~l.lrt, Lord Warden Avenue, Walmer, Deal, Kent; Northbourne Park; Jan. '82; T; Choral Society; ChOirs; ReqUIem; ElIJah;

read F rench at Birm ingham University.

VE1TE~ I NKEL, C. N. C;. Broad Oak Hous~, Lower Green, Sandhurst, Cranbrook, Kem TN I8 5JS; Wellesley House; J an. 82; LT/ LN; Cncket 4th X I; Badnll nton U.14; to Business.

VIJAYANA.THAN, S .. 2 Irvine Avenue, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex; J .K.S. Sept. '8 1; W; Head of House; Cahoot's Macbeth, The Hllnllllg 0/ tlte Snark; The Mayor of Zalamea; to read Medicine at t;le University of London. VYE, D: S. Walpo le House, 48 P alace St reet, Ca nterbury CT I 2EA; J .K .S.; Sept. '81; MT ; Head of House; CCF Arm)' Sec.tlO n ;. H o use P lay ; Soccer 2nd X I; Rugby Co lts; Ke nt Canoeing Team; [0 read Management Studies at Aston Uillvers lt y. WAKJ?FIELD, N. C . Grecnla nds, T he Lees, Challock, Ashford, Kent TN25 4DE; J .K.S.; Jan. '82; MO; House Monitor; Cncket 3rd XI; Rugby 1st XV (2nd Cols.); Soccer 1st X I (1 St Cols.); to read Bu siness Studies at Polytechnic.

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A. A. Wagnerkade 73, Heemstede 2102 CT, The Netherlands; D l a i rmo~e; Jan. '82; LT / B; A rt Sch?l~r; flALK6IfiR,' N,'gltf' Athletics Tea m (2nd Cols.)Â· Rugby 3rd XV; to retake A-levels at tutorial college; hopes to read Medlcme tK'f / I . ' '

UniverSity. al ~ER C N. 128 Foxley La ne, Purley, Surrey CR2 3NE; Downsi de P rep.; Sept. '81; LT/GL; M.S.; Orchestras "'ALl( Ch'oir~; to stud y Communication Engineering a t Ravensbourne College. . andH Catheri ne M. 19 Alleyn Park, Dulwich , London SE2 1 8AU; Sydenham High School; '84; B; PhotographIc WALS 'vey Society; C ha pel and Serenade Ch oir; H ockey 1st X I; Net ball 2nd VII ; Tenms 1st VI (Capt. and 1st a~1s.);a~O read P harmacy at Manchester University. C R_SMITH P. L. 1374 Linco ln Road, Werrington, Petcrborough, Ca mbs PE4 6LS; J.K.S.; S~pt. '8 1; W; WARNE House Play', Ho~key 2nd XI'' Rugby 3rd XV; Swimming Team; to retake A-levels at Peterborough Techmcal Collegc. , W. A. Rosemount, Co llards Lane, El ham, Nr. Canter~l!ry, Kent Cf4 6UG; J ..K.S.; Sept. .'8 1 ~ MR; HOl}se \\EBB,. . CCf RAF Section' Orchest ras' Hockey 3rd X I; Sa lli ng Team; to read Busllless Orgamsatlon at Heriot Monitor '. . ' , . Wall Umverslty. BOURN, A. C. Little Furnacc Farm, Coleman's Hatch.. H artfi~ld , S.ussex T N7 4E H; Brambletye; Sept. '80; LT/GL; \\EEcF Army Sectio n; Soccer 1st X I; to read Law at Bm lo l Umversl ty. . ! ITE, L. S. 102 J ohn Tr.u nd le Co urt, T he Barbican, ~ ondo n ~C2; .J .K.S.; Sept. '8~; LT /MO; House Momtor; 'II HCCF Army Sectio n; Coxmg 1st VIII ; to read EconomIcs at Url lverslty of East A nglla. I TEHEAD, M. F. Queensmead, P ilgrim 's Way, Kemsing, Kent TN I5 ~XA; St. Mic hael's School; Jan. '82;. LN; \\H~ousc Monito!; M,urder ill the Cathedral; Plunder; Rugby 3rd XV; Cncket 2nd X I; to read Busmess StudIes at Edinburgh Umvers lt y. p YTE T. J. Sutton P lace, Sutton Valence , Maidstone, Kent MEI7 3BT; Orwell Park, Ipswich; Sept. '8 1; GR; 'II HD rnrord Ma rlowe, Caxton and Beaglin g Societies; The Mayor 0/ Zalamea; The Goldell Masque of Agamemnon; c::cket 2,;d X I; Fencing Tea m ; Sri Lanka C ricket Tour; to read T heology at Lady Margare t Hall, Oxford. WICKERSON, A . J . 14 Mitchley Avenue, Puriey, Su rrey CR~ I DT; Downside School; Sept. '~ l ; T; C.C~ Army Section; Photographic Society; Secreta ry of 2nd O rchestra; Fencmg (Capt. a nd 1st Cols. ); ROWi ng; to JOin Army. WILLI AMS, R. C. C h ristmas Lodge, C hurch Lane, Yapton, Arundel, West Sussex BN I8 OE H ; Win~les h am. H ouse; Sept. '81; W; Computer Room Monitor; Coxing U.14 IV's; to read Computer Science and Electromcs at Edlilburgh Un iversity. WILSON, Paola R. A. 2 King Street, Dover, Kent; Sept. '84; W; to read English at Ba llio l College, Oxford. WILSON, Victoria M. 58 Denbigh Street, London SW I V 2EY; Benenden; Sept. '.84; GR; H ouse Moni.lOr; purnford and Marlowe Society; Solomoll; Elijah; to read H istory at New Ha ll , Cambndge, or Ha rvard Umverslty. WIN FIELD, E. G. C. 12 Crick Road , Ox fo rd; Dragon School; Sept. '8 1; LN; Nicholas Nickleby; to read Arabic at University . WOOD, S. M. 79 New Dover Road , Ca nterbury, Kent; SI. C hristopher's School; Jan. '83; M R/MT; CCF Navy Section; to read Business Studi es at Ca nte rbury Techn ical Coll ege. WOODCOCK, Ka therine E. N. 38 Alley n P a rk , Du lwich , Lo ndon SE2 1 8SA; A lley n's School; Sept. '84; L N; Cateri ng Committee; School C hoir; Wi nd Ba nd; Hamiel; Guysulldpolls; P"~nder; Hockey 1st X! (Cap t. and Cols.); Ne tball (Cols.); Tenn is, Sw imm ing and Athlet ics; to read Combmed St udies a t, Newcast le Uill vers il y. WOODWARD, Marie-Franfoise Stelli ng Oast, Stelling Lodge, Petham, Canterbury CT4 5PS; Simon Langt\>n G!rls School; Sept. '84; MT; Pottery Mon itor; CCF Army Scct io n; Hockey 2nd X I; to read Zoology at Durha m Umverslty. WRENCH, J. D. McL. T he Court House, Bradford on Tone, Taumon, Som~rset TA4 I HG; Salisbury Cathedral. School; Jan. '82; LT/MO; M.S.; Capta in of School; Sympho ny O rchestra; ChOirs; Jazz Club; Guys and Dolls; Pmlles of Penzallce; Elijah ; Rugby 1st XV (1 st Cols.); Hockey 1st X I (2nd O::ols. ); Cricket 2nd XI (2nd Cols.); to the a rmy. YAP , S. H. 14 Leboh Raya T hivy , Lim Ga rden, Ipo h, P crak, Malaysia; Vi nehall; Sep ~ . '8 1; MO; House. Mo nitor; Photographic Society; House P lays and Co ncerts; Ju nior Rugby a nd Hoc key; Badl11l1l ton and Sq uas h r ea ms; to read Architectu re a t University College, Lo ndon.

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C.C.F. NOTES ROYAL NAVAL SECTION With a large varied program me to get through t his term, we kicked off wit h three weeks o f 'o n the water' act ivities before it became too cold. The first week we were down at Westbere lake equipped wit h barrels, plan ks and ropes - yes, the raft race was on! After two rather cont ra ry loo king crafts had been co nstructed and launched, we ' raced ' them round pa rt of t he lake. Ma ny ma naged to get rather wet, courtesy of M.R.G.P. lu rking in the water in his wetsu il. The follow ing week, morc time seemed to be spent in the water, rather tha n sa iling. A race was organised for those in the Toppers, which unfortunate ly did not finish because the wind died away.

For the next week we canoed on the Stour where Jon Drewc. Clive Paine and Jo n Ibbou became very adept

rou nd the raft of canoes. The capsize drill was displayed with gusto by Ned Cecil more than oncc.

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The highlight of the term's act ivit ies was an afternoon o n t he dry sk i slope at G illi ngham. We arrived I . a rugby team, bUI some people showed a good style in their sk iing , includ ing Jim my Nevile and Adr ian F ~IOkJnI bkt o nes who had not sk ied before had a lesson with a n instructor. Mr. Thane looks SCI to be a rea lly clas~ l1l~nÂˇlbC A n cxcc~lcnt fi eld day was spent climbinl? a~ ' Bow l's O utd oor Pursuit Centre' . Cli ve Paine a nd Jonathan ~ skier. had done It be fore) sta rted on th e morc d lrflcuh roc k faces. The rest slarted from lhe bas ics with an inst re"e(.. bo relu rn jo urney d id nOI pass Wil holll il s lillie Ira um a - Ihe bus ran oul of petrol a l Ihe bottom of the dr~clor. ~ nVe We a lso had a night exercise up o n Scotland Hills, doi ng exercises in ' fie ldcraft'. It passed wit hout too much ' .. apart fro m a minor prob lem of gett ing in the cross-fire o f a not her school 's exercise, (they were b lanks) T lncldtnl. were al so spent doing navi gat ion wilh CPO Came in preparatio n for a navigat io n exam. We also smartened Wo ~~h wit h the help of two drill inst ructors. AI t he end of term four people went off to Scotland for a Mine CountC~Pf\.~ur dnu day a t Rosyt h. easult\ We also welcomed Mr. Jackson to the sect ion, who has rep laced Mr. Du rga n. He seem s to find a Barbour com fortab le than a co mbat jacket, but we arc pleased to have him aboard. mort T he sectio n wo uld like to tha n k Mr. Thane, Mr. Jackson a nd Mr. Parker for o rga nising and helping with h varied program me of activ it ies. Sue II CHARLES GOODERItA.\I

ROY AL AIR FORCE SECTION First of all we must offer our congrat ulations to J ICp l Wclbourn and Cadet Johns on bei ng awarded Air F Scholarships. T hese Schola rships are not easil y come by a nd 10 have two at the same time is a great achievement O~ct must a lso congratu la te them on success fu lly c~ n~~let i ng th~ Ba.sic Gliding Course ~uring the summ er holidays. As rro t t he end of term Ihey have th e added respo nsib ili ty of be ing 11\ cha rge o f 'B' Flight a nd 'A' F light respect ively wÂˇ~ the newly p ro mo ted ran k of C pJ. One other p ro motion has taken place - Cadet Rowsell becomes a J/Cp!. II Several Cadets had their first nights in t he C hipmun ks a l RAF Manston. We had four afternoons n ying at ManslO and most people had at least two fli ghts in the C hipm unks. On Sunday 71h Decembe r we were due to go gliding ~ RAF Manston for the day, b ut high wi nds a nd low cloud p revented the gliders tak ing to t he a ir. a Everybody in the Section spcnt an afternoon shooti ng and fro m their results we have selected a tea m of eight to represent the Sec tion in the Assega i Trop hy which will be shot next term. We hope they wil l join the Schoo l Shooti ng Club ror at least o ne session a week next term to prepa re t hemse lves for the event which will take place a t the end of nextlerm. In addit ion to the above events some cadels have take n part in canoei ng , shooting o n the open a ir Army ranges at Hythe and abseilli ng on the cli ffs at Folkestone. The hovercraft is slowly reaching completio n but for the moment remain, fi rml y ~ooted t~ the ground . !~l e modelli.nl! ro.om has bee n cleared and shou ld be .filled next term wit h plenty of activity. To acille.ve t!lclr. Par t 2 Pr~fl c l~n :y qllah.flca tlO n eac h cad et has to com plete a plec~ ~f pro~ ec t work as well as passing an exammatlon III flvc baSIC aV ia ti o n subjects. The Gree n Cou rt cou ld become an airfield With rad io-controlled aIrcraft co mpet ing for a ir space. A La ncastcr, Mosqu ito, and Vulcan are so me of the mode ls t ha t should be tak ing shape next term . We can look fo rward to a very busy lerm. DJ .B.

ARMY SECTION Staff and NCOs have been fu lly st retched th is term, carrying out a very full programme of instruction for three different squads. T he Advanced Military Ski lls squad, t ra ined by Mr . BOOlh , moved towards its final tests, in drill , weapon training and fi eldcraft. T h is cu lminated in a night exercise on 7th/8th December. T he squad performed weU (i t was some senior NCOs who wenl to sleep!). a nd o n pa rade t he fo llowing week they were commended fo r the standard of t heir achievement. An experimenta l group, t hey have proved t he va lue of intensive trai ning beyond AP C, which will provide a strong cadre of junior NCOs fo r next year. Some will be going st raight into an instru ctional role next term, teaching the new recruit s. whilst t he others will graduate into the King ' s Plat oon for mo re general training. The Army Profi ciency Cert ificate squad spenl a lot o f tile term o n weapons, with a 1000/0 pass on the Weapons Sa fety Tes t administered by 7CTT on 6t h Novem ber, and two afternoons o n the .22 ra nge which resulted in 1st C lass Shot badges being awarded to Becchey, Parker , Triggs, a nd Woodward. The standard of shooting in Ihis year's squad is beller than it has bee n , though there are fi ve who have not yet passed, and will be re-tested next terlll . There was lime, as well , to begin Fieldcraft , a nd the squad learnl some valua ble lessons on the night exercise of 8th/9th November at Lydden, which will come in use fu l in the fin al test for the Certificate next tenn . The Se nior Recrui ts Sectio n, com prising girls and ot her late entrants to t he CCF, fo llowed an accelerated programme, in prepara tio n for graduating to the King's P la too n next term. Finally , the REME Seclion 's existence has been maintai ned by the en try of three cadets into ii , a nd t hey have had a term working on t he scramb le bike a nd land -rover.

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e done a very good job this term: CSM SI. John Parker, Col/Sgt Overto n , and Cpl Henderson with The NCO I~v io r Recruits, Sgt Spiegel, Cp l Derouct, a nd LICpl Newall with the APC, and Sgt Rowsell, and Cp l dttAl\lS an epe~~ing a programme for the King's Platoon. f"It· BOtl pr Dr. Lam b, who is join ing the CC F, to take ov.er t he Signals Sect io l~ . In additio n to the Cla nSma !l .sets, We wclc071e dy proved their worth we now have a base rad iO, a nd ou r usc o f rad IO ca n be t hat much mo rc a mbl tloli S. • hiChha~e aT~)a our sponso r unit, h~ve kind ly ag reed to lay on instru ctio n fo r a signals cad re ncxt tcrill . , .. ' Ueens ( ,Q f 5 Queen ' s, Lt Col J o int , paid us a visit on 16th Octob~r, to sec LIS a t wo~ k , .u!ld to glvc a n IIl terestlllg The CO ~erritorial Army, a nd in part ic.lI lar the. role of our localllllli. As a result of tillS ViSit we can expect val uable "I~ ~n Ihl e way of equi pment as wel1 as IIlstructlon. t1e ' . charge 0 r a TAU Illt' , ~ IliS ' tll~ . e Itt Ipln I ter we had a welcome visit from CISgt Oven o n's fath er, also a Lt Co l III ,.\ mOJ1I~ a Is Regt After see ing us during training. he gave an absorb ing ta lk o n thc role of thc Royal Signals III 35 th Signa . the modern army. 1M M. J. V.

O.K.S. NEWS . Lei h Fcrmor (1931) The seq uel to h~s boo k. A Tim,e oJ. Gifts (1 93~) called Bet!",eell the Woods .and the Water was p bl' l~ed earlier in t he autu mn. The Tunes saId o f 1IIIll" to read LClgh Fermor IS to savour a mixture of Dornford

pu IS ., d' I ' Yates, Proust and Alain -Fou riller an our ast romantic . A. Kneller ( 1946) left Kenya on 8 t~ Au gu~t 1986 after thirty-two years in t he judicial department. He h~s move~ to Gibraltar where he is to be the Chief Juslice fo r a few years. He has handed over as Secretary O.K.S. (East Afnca) to James de Vere A llen (1955) (P.O. Box 116, Kwala, Mo mbasa, Kenya). D Peschck ( 195 1) Awardcd the Instit ute of Public Relations Local Government Group Chai r ~al.I·.s award for 1 9~6. The award is presented annually to a person, who, in the view of the cha irman, has made a SIgnifica nt contnbutlon to the advancement of public relations in local government. A. Bates (1958) another cha rtered accountant in the Ca ri bbean, reports his S?!l is due at ~ ilner Cou r.t in ~ 987. He is a Captai n in a voluntary equivalent of Ihe RNLI and rece~t1y received a ce.rtJ fl cate of Ment fo r reSCU1Jlg elgh~. people hom the frigate ' Morning Star' which he successfull y towed mto P otters Cay In the Ba hamas. He has seen Ma rk f lllburgh

(1957).

T. Marsh ( 1968) out of touch fo r sof!l c years . We learn.~e.is a chartered accountant in the c;ayman Isla nds - has betn President of his p rofessio na l soc iety; was Chef de d IVISIon for the Cay ma n Isla nd s OlympIC team a t Los Angeles and is now treasurer of their Olympic Committee. T. Scott-Morey (1976) writes from New York where he i~ wor.king fOf. a~ i~vestm:nt bank on Wall Street ~aving comp leted a Masler's degree in business adm inist rat ion at the University of Virginia. H e IS keen to meet O .K. S. In the New York area . His address is South Park Tower 4SE, 124 West 60th St reet, NY 10023. Sarah Girling (1979) gained a Senior Exami nat io n Prize and the McNair Award in the G ray's Inn award list for \985-86. A. Prill (1981) al University at Passau working for. a se~o nd de~ree - a politics, h ~st ory ~nd law combin:d tripos -:has restarted the fenci ng cl ub which has not bee n III eX istence s~nce the 1920s. He IS movJJlg to Bonn Unive rsity thiS aut umn . He repo rts t hat he is a part time news reader o n a pnvate T V compan y, J. Bacon (1982) has gained his H.N .D. in Agriculture a t Writtle Agricultural College, a nd p la ns to go on a world tour in 1987 before tak ing a full-time job. M. Taylor (1982) having graduated from Cam~ridge, h~s accepted a posit io n o~ the grad uate training p rogramme of Christie's , and after the initial two mo nths, Will move I\lto the Old Masters Picture Department. Marijke Volger (1982) having gained a n Upper Second in SpOTtS Science at Loughbo ro ugh Un iversity, is working as a gym instruct ress and aerobics teacher in Londo n. Kathryn H Ullter (1984) is trai ni ng to be a nurse a t G uy's Hospita l. &!n Shorte n (1984), after a year reading Chemislry at Bristol University, is t ransferring to Medicine and has bcen accepted al SI. Mary's H ospital.

DEATHS

Charig-Capt. Peter, Royal Navy. on 12th October 1986 {I 924Â·27). Gruham-Dr. William Vass, on 21s1 November 1986 (193 5-40). Monro Higgs- LL Col. Wa lter Roy, on 7th October 1986 (1920-24). Morgan-Kirby-Frederick Courtney, on 27th Augu st 1986 (1918.22). Pegg-Brigadicr John Handley , on 25t h September 1986 (1944-48). Sncll-The Ven. Basil Clark, on 12t h June 1986 (192 1-25). Williamsoll -Stephen, 011 2nd Ju ne 1986 ( 1906-1 1). Woolcoll-Anthony George, 011 15t h Sept ember 1986 (1952-55), O. K. JOHNSON (1936-41) I was in Italy earlier this year and visited the Beach Head War Cemetery at Anzio. O.K.S. who were at King's d . Ihe la ic thirties and ear ly fonics may be interested to know that there is a headstone there with the fOllowing inscrip~:::: Lieutenant Oliver Kirby Johnson Roya l Engineers 20t h May 1944 Semper Vi ridis The corresponding entry in the ccmetery register read s:

JOHNSON lI. Oliver Kirby 251050 245 Field Coy. Royal Engineers 20th May 1944 So n of Harry Linscotl Kirby Johnson and Rita Kirby J oh nson of Ifield. Sussex. Sen ior King's Scholar , The King's Sc hool Canterbury. XV.A.l0

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EDITORIAL

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CHAPEL FUND

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IN MEMORIAM

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SALMAGUNDI

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THE CANTUARIAN INTERVIEWS

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BOOK REVIEW

125

HOUSE NOTES

126

REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA II TALKS III THE SOCIETIES

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IMAGINATIVE WRITING

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SPORT

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OXBRIDGE PLACES

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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C.C.F. NOTES

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O.K.S. NEWS

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THE SCHOOL

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THE CANTUAR IAN

Editors: Lucia J. Conybeare, K.S., Beatrice Devlin, M. D. Edwards, Katherine S. Gollop, K.S., P. H. Lidstone, A . E. Mitchell , K.S., Sarah Sarkhel, M. P. J. Stewart, R. A . F. Webb, K.S., Kate E. Wellesley, C. M. Whiteley, M.S., E . T. 1. Widdowson, K.S. Photographic Editors: J. M. Marshall, A. P. Wattenbach. Senior Editors: P . 1. Brodie, M.A., T . R. Hands, B.A., A.K.C., D.Phil.

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EDITORIAL This term marks the first anniversary of the King's branch of Amnesty International. Amnesty Inlernational is a worldwide movement which is independent of any government, political faction, ideology, economic interest or religious creed. Its activities focus strictly on prisoners and have three main aims. Firstly, it seeks to release prisoners of conscience. These are men, wo men and children detained anywhere for their beliefs, colour, sex, ethnic origin, language, or religio n who have neither used nor advocated violence . Secondly, it advocates fair a nd early trials for all political prisoners and works on beha lf of such people who have been detained without charge or trial. Finally, it opposes the death penalty and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment for all prisoners without reservation. The initial reaction of King's to Amnesty was one of scepticism. People doubted its effectiveness and demanded evidence of tangible results. Now we are able to offer them : four of the prisoners of conscience on behalf of whom we have written have since been released. Daniel Morris received a reply from Robert Mugabe, indicating concern over his allegations and promising to look into (he case.

In order to maintain its independence and apolitical status, Amnesty Internationa l does not accept money from governments, a nd is fina nced entirely by donations from members of the public and by the efforts of its members and subscribers. Funds are therefore desperately needed 10 research the prisoners' cases, send urgent appeals, provide money and clothing to the prisoners' families, and undertake missions. To this end proceeds from a collection arranged by King's Youth Drama in 1986 were generously donated to Amnesty International. In October 1986, as part of a nationwide campaign, King's members of Amnesty International canvassed the streets of Canterbury asking members of the public for donations. Unfortunately their enthusiasm was not matched in the collection and our energy is now being focu ssed on future fund-rai sing events. The gro up's main aim is to inform members of the School about Amnesty and the abuse of human rights . To this end we have three fi lms about torture and imprisonment and are scheduling talks about Amnesty in serv ices next term . Societies at King's often bemoan the apat hy of its pupils, but the enthusiasm shown in all aspects o f running this society, from the time and care spent designing posters to the interest shown at the debate (perhaps the most success fu l event , attracting an audience of over sixty people, the majority of whom participated in the ensuing discussion) proves this to be a fallacy. The task I leave to Amnesty in the fu ture is to channel this energy into a productive and informed body to fight for human rights . PH ILLIPA RUB INS. 93 AMNESTY POSTER (Toby Widdowson)

'Jhis & 'Jhal Requiescant

W~ report ~ith regret the death on I st April of Mr. Arnold Pienne wh assIstance wIth art and fencing in the late seventies. A fuller ob't '. ogave elsewhere. I uary IS prmted

MIl brs . Gwen Griffiths, matron of Lattergate from 1971-76 died at the end of Feb Sh WI e remembered with much affection by all who knew her ruary. e A . L VOm~~~ ~i-h~2ge2~rs e are sorr~ to have to record those of Sir William Maycock MBE of th~ British Societ~ f~r ~:~~~I~I~~: ~~J~r~:~~~i~ C~p~in of School, and P(esideni previously Director of Information in the Central Commis~io~ f~~s3~;m~~;: (SH 1914-17), . The passmg ofLIeutenant-Colonel William Dunbar (SH 1904-9) on 24 Ma h t th f rc a e age 0 nmety-three depnves both school and cathedral of a much loved f .

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ler ralsmg an commandmg the Kent H G d' . a work on genealogy; and finally as banker and D He won mMosthfame, however, for his involvement with a celebrated legal conundrum' the . un bar 0 f oc rum case. Dunbar's father had married h' h' 8 . . g~~~lf~ wa~ S~ill ~Ii~e, and again in 1912 after learning shel~~ol;v:~ l~n:ll~l~n~~a[he~~aia~;: he atte~p~~~ tol~~:;;'}:~~hhi~~~~~~d~~ and heigbhty-nAine y~ar old baronetcy of'Dunbar, which Al C Th . . ' renc orn mencan Jockey saId to have ndden for apone. e courtfmally reJe~ted the appeal two years ago, the Lieutenant-Colonel some ~} Â°t~eOOdPooredr, acceI?thmg the verdIct philosophically. We are sure that his ancestors will be' proud escen ant WIt whom they are now reunited. 94

We congratulate the Headmaster on being appointed an Honorary Canon of Canterbury - he is already Canon Theologian in the Diocese of Truro. Chapte The Canterbury installation took place at Evensong on Saturday 31st January. 'ng's Scholars - and many other well-wishers - attended, and the sermon was preached The (( I . by the ArchbIshop. r TwO

It came, but it went far too slowly. We refer, of course, not to the last, I o-term exceptionally brief, school term, but to the extraordinary snow which so cedisrupted the beginning of it. Conditions in Kent were the worst on record, m erawres of _ 10 0 being lowered, by that latest invention of the Meteorological Office, the t hi8 Factor, to _ 20 0 â&#x20AC;˘ We will not argue. It was, indeed, cold; and there were resultant problems. Mrs Cohn-Sherbok could get no train from Victoria, and Mr. Trowell found himself confined to the Head of Art's North Downs bunker; one housemaster reported only four boys back on Ihe first day of term, and the next evening power cuts disrupted the situation-saving video. At Ihe first assembly, the Headmaster took the unusual step of congratulating all those present _ twenty masters, seventy-three pupils, and one school captain - and telling them they could lell Iheir grandchildren they were some of those 'who had made it'. Improvisations, catering both for the mouth and the brain, were at hand. With deliveries suspended, kitchen staff successfully returned from a local Cash and Carry in the gingerly laden School lorry. So there was food. And then there were lessons: Mr. Millar, deft as always in the manipulation of the timetable, compensated for day boys' travelling difficulties and boarders' lost lessons by transforming, at a single stroke, winter to summer, and Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon . We are happy to report that all concerned negotiated the time warp successfully. The snow left us, and things returned to normality - with one exception. The Headmaster legalized the Wellington Boot.

After much consultation and discussion, a revised version of the School rules was circulated to pupils and parents at the end of the Lent term. An equally long-standing debate over altered regulations for girls' clothing also reached its conclusion, with the Headmaster's announcement of an impending change - though alterations will not radically affect anyone presently in the school. On the latter subject, there was generally a feeling that, in the (unintentionally equivocal) words of one sixth-former, girls' clothing needed 'tightening up'. While we wait for the agreed guidelines, three of our present girls can be seen modelling for us in this issue two contrasting versions of the old, and a putative speculation De lure

on the new.

The Queen visited Canterbury on Friday 20th March. It was, TV South rightly commented, a happy day for Canterbury and for many members of the school privileged to meet Her Majesty. The Duke of Edinburgh visited Canterbury with the Queen, and thereby hung a tale. The Duke found one of our sixth formers in a state of not quite sufficient dress, and commented on it most engagingly. Flag-waving members of the school lined the Royal route from Cathedral House to the Deanery, and there were many walk-about conversations before The Captain of School and Senior Girl had the honour of being presented. There are several photographs elsewhere in this issue. The Duke, accompanied by Princess Anne, returned to Canterbury on Wednesday 15th April for the Zeebrugge Ferry Memorial Service, when Mr. Harris's excellent organ playing was relayed Visits

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to a nationwide audience. We extend our sympathies to all those injured or bereaved' disaster. . In Ibis The Craft Design and Technology Cenlre was formally opened by Baron Dainton of Ii 11 Moors, F.R.S., on Friday 30th January. A fuller repor t follows. a am

The Common Room held an Italian evening in St. Augus tine's On Sh Tuesday. We must mention the excellent five course cuisine provide~obe Mr. Stewart Smith, and the musical sorbets - Monteverdi, Caccini Y the odd stray number by Sullivan - which fo llowed under the supervision of Mr. Rose' Eand were whetted for a production of The Gondoliers promised for next Christmas, and sated pala~S dampened down for Lent. es The onus was now on the pupils to set a suitable seasonal example, and one duly emerged Nicola Shaw (LN) arranged that the School would make a suitable donation to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital for every person opting to eat a roll and soup on the last T hursday of term instead of the normal supper. The voluntary nature of the scheme had to be insisted on' bUI in the event, every school diner insisted on being a volunteer. A cheque for over ÂŁ250 ha~ duly been despatched to the Hospital's Ventilator Appeal. All was accordingly quiet in the kitchens on the evening of Thursday 19th March, but Mr Kwei rose early on Friday 20th . We had hoped that the Lower Master would give us delail; of the Royal lunch (prepared by the School catering staff and served to Their Majesties and selected guests in the Common Room) but on Saturday 21st he was still so bathing in the afterglow of the Royal conversation that he could recall nothing of the food beyond its being, as we had perhaps expected, delicious. A menu card was, however, kindly and swiftly despatched from the Wenleyabilia, outlining fare which may be abbreviated thus: Mousse, Sole, and Vanilla lee Cream. Attendant details are rather more awe-inspiring - viz. that the sole was accompanied by a sauce made from lobsters caught in France the same morning, and the ice cream cased in swan-shaped meringues, glazed on specially imported ovens, and covered with Morello cherries purchased at six for ÂŁ l. Wine with the meal was Chablis Premier Cru Fourchaume 1983 . Beforehand, spurning possibilities from Champagne to Perrier, the Queen tasted a specially poured gin and tonic. And the Duke sent to the cellars for a bottle of light ale. Variety is the spice of kitchen life, and we congratulate Mr. Kwei on organizing three such successful events to prove it. Deals on Meals

The large number of prizes won by pupils of the school, especially those of a literary bent, continues to occupy these columns. When they become so numerous that they have to 'illPear in a specially produced pull out supplement the Editors will now know where to turn , for James Eddison (SH) has just won the British Printing Sociely's Coles Award for the Young Printer of the Year, bringing him one year's membership of the Society, and a handsomely engraved trophy. Advice on more wide-ranging matters will we trust be available from Alex Skarbek (LX), Anna Wilson (B) and Eleanor Taylor (OR), who made a clean sweep of all the prizes offered to Ihe Under 15 and Under 18 age groups by Kent Life in their essay competition on the modest linle subject of 'When I Rule the Country' . The magazine found Anna 'splendidly fiery' and Eleanor 'full of ideas and compassion', but was perturbed by the large number of 'cynics and wags' amo ngst our U. I5 entries . A little ungenerous this, we thought, when Neil Lawrence (LX) had offered - as an immediate objective on coming to power - a knighthood for the organiser of their competition. Print, Power, and Passion

96 THE HEADMASTER'S INSTALLATION AS HONORARY CANON (Kel//ish O(lzell')

William Henderson-Deeves (LN), on a more amorous note, recently won a prize in the Woolworths/Berni Inns St. Valentine Day Competition. Entrants were required to answer a quiz nd to complete the ~enten~e.'I love my Valentine beca~se . .. ' We shall not embarrass William

ublishing hiS witty reJoInder, but we trust we WIll embarrass Messrs. Woolworth and

~~r~i by revealing that the prize, a meal voucher, arrived with only three days' currency remaining. If he were to be thine, sirs, he needed it on time.

We offer heartiest congratulations to Mrs. Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, who, at an age so delicate that its revelation would cause no blushes (though mention it precisely we shan't), has been appointed Principal of the West Heath School for Girls. The appointment is a particularly happy one, since the first King's Master to become a Headmistress is going to a school from which we have traditionally received many of our own gi rls. Mrs. Cohn-Sherbok tells us that the selection process was long and exhausting, and that she became alarmed by how few hairs of any other candidate ever appeared to be out of place. The intrepid Mrs. C-S succeeded , however, in never saying Di . We trust that many visits from West Heath's most distinguished and photographed alumna will offer her several future opportunities for indulging in that lU Xury. Giving, And Taking Away

We are doubly grateful to Mr. Nick Phillis. Not only has he agreed to become a permanent membe r of staff, but his previous biography (MR/GL 1977-81) renders the usual introduction in these columns superfluous. Suffice it to say that life between King's consisted of Christ Church, Oxford, and a year as lay assistant at the church of St. Mary Bredin. We warmly welcome him home. At the time of writing, Mr. Phillis lacks a Thursday afternoon activity. His undergraduate dissertation was on 'Public Houses in Victorian Canterbury' . Geographical Roots

Congratulations

We arc pleased to announce the birth of Chloe, first daughter of Peter and Carrie Jackson, on 20th January. More fami ly news with the next issue.

The school chamber orchestra, conducted by Colonel Neville, with Martin Ie Huray (SH) as soloist, took part in the Concert by Yout h, in aid of Dr. Barnardo's, at the Marlowe Theatre, on Friday 27th February. The members of Lattergate held a 100 Kilometre Pedal Car relay around the Green Court on the last Sunday of term. It ra ised over ÂŁ500 for Contact, a group which arranges holidays in Canterbury for the handicapped . The Social Services group, under the guidance of Dr. Maltby, conti nues its good work. By a happy coincidence, they now visit a former member of the Common Room, Mr. John Corner. An interview with him is to be found later in this issue . Charities

We can't say for certain, but the School's German connections in modern times seem to have begun with Brigadier W. L. Gibson, whose death we reported above . Travelling in a staff car from Hamburg to the Danish border, the Brigadier had the idea of founding a German version of The Times. The paper was to be called Die Welt, and the Brigadier recruited a certain Hugh Greene and a certain Captain Robert Maxwell to help run it.

The King's German

99 NEW TRENDS : THREE SISTERS (Ian Gardenel) FEMALE DEACONS (Marlin Bimhak)

Forty years on, the German connection is . h by Eric Gill has been loaned from the h -;- as It s .ould be - thriving. Recent! ' later, into the country flew Fraulein ~I~ ~~I ~ C~lIectlOn for exhibition in Munic:: AD!p0Sition, and congratulate on becoming _ at a s~le:di~ sroe~er,. whhom we welcome to OUr co~w weeks M rs. MIchael Harris ervlce 10 t e cathedral on Friday 3 d mUnI(y W . r~' e must, alas, also report a German I 0 (SH), returned to Munich at the end of ter~s'A ~rdexchange pUl?il from Ettal, Zoltan B have more snow, but your church is bigger:' s e to sum up hIs Impressions, he rePlied~~~

Excitement met the rec t 6b G . Stumped lane in Cumbria, passe~~ers in ~~r~hkfl~d ~ripk A~cending a snow bound The elements did no: ~~~~:t~ercedes. It had sli th~red off th'e r~ad', a~d ~~~e~~n:~~:s encOun tered the wheel, org~nised the hauli~:o;gh~rr;;o~i:~~I~IIY illiam Gordon-Harris (SH), ~h~ ~hulder. passenger to vIdeo proceedings and what' ac on to the road, allowed a fur-clad fanged grateful driver. But not all credit w;s lost ~mo~e, ~purned cash proffered by the hand er ale school clearly into the final farewells . r. ar er managed to introduce the name Of Ihe W . Ot~ e understand that driving has been causin b . BrodIe c~n leave us in no doubt. 'Dear Mr B~gro !ems thIS term, and absence notes to sorry I wIll not be able to attend your lesso~ but ~Ie, on~ sIxth former explained, 'I am v~r. :~e1takmg my dnvmg test.' 'Sir,' explained anoth~~ ~fm~ ~ome to see a foot specialist an~ e Irst part of Writing Circle. I went for a picnic a d WIS to apologize for not attending we were unable to move.' Both limp excuses or J' n our lca.' got stuck on a tree stump and , us t pUPI S In need of a toe? '

A new life of A P Stan Ie th . '. being Dr. Arnoid'; mOdl;JUP~le~mentVlcQtonan whose distinctions inclUded and preaching to the Kin's S h' ecommg ueen Vlctona's favourite Dean Thea uthor, Peter Hammond (W 1941-46) h~s alc 0gl at Canterbury, is due to appear this May' Pansh, described by The Times as a 's arklin ~ea y Ploduced The Parson and the Victorio~ ;;-' e trust that revIewers will also give thi~ next V~I ume me whIch ~ould mdeed be served at dinner' as already ordered a copy for the library and ItS Just . esserts. Certainly Mr. Henderso~ ' a notIce WIll appear ' th A former member of the Common R M . . 10 e next Calltuarion. book mafrkets. His Mapletree Press hasoloe~ntl;'~~~I~si;l~k!!Jsonl'dhas als? expanded the 1987 COpIes 0 whIch, at the bargain price of ÂŁ1 95 e. ona Mormon s Haps & Such book store. Mr. Wilkinson told the Kentish G~ ~~y be obtamed from Mr. GO~des in the schooi th~ dIctum that 'anyone can write poetr if the' te that hIS poetry s~nes IS deSIgned to illustrate pnnclples fIll the spirits of retired mem6ers of (h p~ theIr mmd to It . EVIdently the best GCSE those of their successors. e ommon Room as fervently as they animale Forthcoming

A glimpse of the future was acco d d C when the touring rugby team fro~ ;'dl anterbury on Monday 23rd March, girls in its party Pu il di . I ey College, Canada, arrived with Iwo combatant role Soon gave way to staff ~appomtment that neither female was to be in a to enc<?urage young K.S. to leave the fieIJ,~~er y caused by fear.s that this might be a wily ploy those hnes) at anyone of the game's crucial m phYSIotherapeutIc attentIOn (or something along The school recorded a 42-4 victory and the ~:tnt~:}nbthe event, crucIal moments were few. wIth RIdley College at Henley.' g y u now wIsh the Boat Club equal luck arnmg Slfens

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If it were done, then 'twere well it were done quite often. Members of the orrow And fifth form are studying Shakespeare's Macbeth for O-Ievel, and last +om orro w. . . November, under the comprehensive organisation of Mrs. Tennick, travelled om to Stratford upon Avon in five coaches, each equipped with two hundred d eight Gardner Merchant ham or cheese rolls, for a preview of the RSC's new production, :~rring Jonathan Pryce .and Sinead Cusack. Undeterred, some 80 fIfth formers returned to St. Mary's Hall on February 7th to watch an . enious workshop version of the play presented by the Image Theatre Company. The dagger ~n;d been wielded as lavishly on the text as the hero brandishes it within, reducing the number f actors required to fret and cut to two, and the running time to a fraction over one hour. ~s pupils observed, some deletions were ~ore judicious than others, though the line .' At least we'll die with harness on our back', formmg the concludmg words of a productIon In whIch Ihe leading lady had eXl?eri~nced many.problems with her rear costume buttons, certainly succeeded in paltenng wIth ItS audIence 10 a double sense.

The Librarian would like to acknowledge the receipt of books from the following authors: Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, On Earth as it is in Heaven; George Bornstein, W. B. Yeats: The Early Poetry, which includes manuscripts from the Walpole COllection; Susan Moody, Penny Dreadful - a black female James Bond operating in Canterbury during a school summer festival 'but not as good as the one they have al King's' ; and Bryan Keith-Lucas, Parish Affairs: the Government of Kent under George Ill. Books have also been presented by Messrs. J. S. Ross and M. J. Tennick. Library

On the wall of the Lardergate building is carved the crest and motto of the ancient family of Shirley, with which our former headmaster did not claim kin, but whose arms he was entitled to bear by decree of the relevant heraldic body. Only two people have been surprised at the sight. One was Miss Esme Chafy, friend of Ihe school, and grand-daughter and great grand-daughter of those erstwhile King's Scholars whose deeds received some attention in these columns last Christmas. The other was Dr. Hands, who became something of a buff in Shirley family history following the discovery that a certain Arthur George Sewallis Shirley baptised Thomas Hardy on 7th July 1840. Both parties imparted their surprise to the school archivist. A discovery, and the exchange of much profitable information, resulted. To Dr. Hands from Miss Chafy, further information on the fascinating family into which her grandfather married; to Miss Chafy from Dr. Hands a transcript of a letter in the Warwick County Record Office, singing the praises of one of the quondam King's Scholars on his impending marriage, from that clerical Shirley who, if Dr. Hands is to be believed, was the model for Parson Maybold in Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree, and theological adviser on the baptismal irregularities which, we regret, clutter some of that author's less frequently scanned pages. We are glad that, after all the Chafys have contributed to the Schools archives, the School has, albeit indirectly, been able to offer them something for their own. Ships That Pass

The editor has received a letter from Julien Foster (GR), querying whether or not he and his contemporaries move around the Precincts with their eyes closed. (For full details, readers - if in possession of the relevant faculties - are invited to turn to p.103.) Well spotted, sir; and lest the pages of The Cantuarian should prove susceptible to the same lack of sensitivity to Canterbury environs, the editors suggest that we might begin an experimental series, giving details of some of the buildings around us, in the next issue, always hoping that Julien will offer some little assistance with the first brief article ... Sting In The Mail

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The collections taken at Matin d . were donated as follows: s urmg the Lent Term For the church overseas ÂŁ Ch~rch Missionary Society (C M S ) 100 Umted Society for the Propag~ti~n' of the Gospel (U.S.P.G.) 100 Southern Africa Church Development Trust 30 F?r the handicapped LArche Communi ties 45 Spastics SOciety 45 F?r children's charities BIble Lands Society Clergy Orphan Founda tion 20 Happy Home Orphanage Kenya 25 Pestalozzi Children's Vill~ge Trust 10 Save the Children Fund 40 In addition a fur ther donation of ÂŁ140 . 60 from Mozambique, at the churches' ce;~~s:':'~~~e ~lawpl to be u~ed .in relief work with ref r. eter ReISS IS now working. ugees CHAPEL FUND

IN MEMORIAM MR. ARNOLD PIENNE Former colleagues and past and

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part-trme ass Istance in the Art D ' rna came to Kmg's in 1976 . where his undiminished enthusias~a~~~el~~ti~~t a~~I~IY to help wit~ th~ coachin~ ;t:'~~i~: In recent years his visits have been fe d . I I Y were an msplratlon. ~~rdon, but he never missed an O.K SW m~~chO 1M health and the difficulties of travelling from ~ I mSlsted on attending. He was a m~d~st kindl ve~ ast summer, although far from well he l ere and will be remembered with affecti~n by ~~nw~~U :n~~ntl~ man who made many fri~nds We send Our condolences to h ' 'f hIm. Catherine. IS WI e, Joan, and his daughters Jeanne-Marl'e and S

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8ALMAGUNDI ROYAL VISIT Security for the Queen's visit was far less than for Mrs. Thatcher's last year. Arra ngements yere only really visible on the day itself: policemen patrolled the grounds; barriers were in strategic \ os it ions; the school flag was fiying, and pillar box slots on the route were closed with an official ~ost office notice. In congregational practice, it was carefully explained that, if spoken to, we should address the Queen and Prince Philip as Ma'am and Sir respectively. At quarter-to-twelve, crowds were waiting behind the barriers. Policemen marshalled the School to their 'pens' - no comment - and the House arrangements were totally ignored: it was a mad dash to get into the front rows, for pupils and staff alike. Timothy Briggs and Tabitha Winnifrith hovered at their meeting point approached at intervals by press photographers, pressing cards into their hands, making requests to 'see you afterwards'. It was 12:37 - well after schedule. I hadn't even noticed the Queen's car arriving at the Christ Church Gate - but suddenly, a cheer rose up, and I held my camera poised: an ambulance went by! False alarms were numerous. Anyone crossing the route got cheered . It seemed to me as though the procession suddenly melted into being: I clicked at the pink hat and any uniform. As the procession got nearer, it felt very odd to see the Royal couple 'in the flesh'. I got the feeling I was watching the event on television. Snippets of 'What they said' found their way in my direction. Prince Philip (to James Beechey) 'Your shirt's untucked'. 'What's your name?' 'Gavin' 'Bad luck, old chap' - or words to that effect. The procession came closer and I could hear the famous voice I heard every Christmas, only it sounded far more real. The Queen seemed shorter than on television, and as she slowly walked, accompanied by the Dean, to speak to Timothy Briggs and Tabitha Winnifrith, I could only hear the barest snatches of the conversation . After lunch in the King's School Common Room, very few people realised that the Queen was to come out of the side entrance - they were all waiting by the Christ Church Gate for the end of service and walkabout. I fo und a good position in Dr. Mallion's room, but was warned - literally on pain of death by snipers - not to take photographs. As Her Majesty came out of the service, she spoke to me and a couple of others, asking 'Are you scholars?' And after exchanging a few words about the School's history, she got into her car, and drove out of the Precincts, up to the University. JULIEN FOSTER .

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CRAFT. DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY The last major project begun by Canon Peter Pilkington before he left was the buildin a Centre for Craft, Design and Technology on the site of the old sweet factory in St. Radi ug ~r Street. This needed not only a large financial outlay - the centre is equipped with fa~ilntd s for Electronics, Computer Control including Robotics, Computer-aided Design Ora les Communication, and many Engineering, Metalworking and Plastics techniques - but al~o I~al willingness to change the curriculum considerably, in order to provide a more balanced edUcationh~ experience for the pupils. a On 30th January Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors, F.R .S., officially opened the centre b causing the unveiling in the entrance lobby of a plaque designed by the Centre's architect M( Anthony Moubray-Jankowski. The act itself was performed by a robot and was seen by th~ many guests on closed circuit television in adjoining rooms. The setting up and operation of the technology for this was the work of pupils. In his speech of welcome to Lord Dainton, the Dean of Canterbury refered to the openin of the COT Centre as 'A significant event in the life of the King's School', the completion o~ which, 'marks the culmination of a comprehensive improvement in the facilities which the school can now offer in Craft, Art, Design and Technology. It enables the school to respond to both the artistic and technological goals of education and the needs of society. Pupils will not only learn new skills but will a lso start a training which will enable them to contribute constructively to the industrial development of this country.' Lord Dainton's speech displayed a great understanding of the whole area of Craft, Design and Technology. One of his many roles is that of President of the Society of Designer Craftsmen an organisation started by William Morris over one hundred years ago. He observed that th~ centre had the right blend of hand crafting, machine power and computers and reminded us of 'the four parts of man: the thinking part, the feeling part, the social part and the spiritual part'. 'In a school like this,' he said, 'the business of education is developing these aspects in boys and girls and keeping them in proper balance, so that they can meet the demands made upon them in their working lives. In a building like this they can learn to solve the problems which are thrown up by change.' The Headmaster, thanking Lord Dainton, said that he saw the centre as a bridge between the Arts and the Sciences: 'We must get away from partitions in education and between the school and the community. Links should be forged between the school and, our neighbours, the Craft Centre for the Handicapped in St. Radigund's Street.' The Headmaster concluded 'I like to think that this centre may turn out, for the school and for the country, a household name. This is not too fanciful. We have produced Marlowe and we have produced Harvey: why should not COT have a go now?' The St. Radigund's Centre is almost fully operational and the woodworking facilitie, at Blackfriars have a lso been improved . All Shell boys now have COT for two periods per week, and can then decide whether to follow the OCSE course in the Remove and Fifth Form . This year seventy-seven boys have taken this option. There are also 6b courses in Jewellery and Silversmithing, Woodwork Projects and Electronics; and all pupils may work in the centre in their spare time. A-Level Design and Technology will be introduced in 1988 for pupils who intend to embark on university courses in Engineering, Architecture, or one of the many subjecls sheltering under the umbrella of Design. It is a subject based on problem solving and combines skills and knowledge gained within the department with those acquired elsewhere, in Physics and Mathematics, for example. COT has a number of features that noticeably set it apart from other areas of the curriculum a nd help to make its contribution to the development of young people quite distinct. The mosl obvious is its practicality, for above all COT encourages and requires young people to produce practical, usually concrete, solu tions to real problems. Success in this calls for considerable

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CO Many local industries and other friends of the school have supported us by giving us machinery d materials or technical advice. For this we are very grateful. The scope of the work is very ~de and such help enriches the experience still further. K.E.J.M.

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SUN. DEC. 21 D-Day ... or so we think. A call to Gatwick reveals that our plane has been delayed in Singapore but that we should check in as normal. Seen off at Knott's Lane by H.M., l.S.R., R.B.Ma. and video, et al. Have first cold lager of the tour in the Crest Hotel, Crawley. MON. DEC. 22 5.30 a.m. Alarm call. 6.15 G.P.G. drags Tom Whyte and lain Linney out of bed. 6.20 Leave for airport. 8.30 Duncan Ives has lost his passport. Arrgh. Frantic lelephoning secures an Emergency Travel Document, but will the Sri Lankans accept it? 10.00 Take off at last. Wonderful service from Air Lanka - beautiful hostesses ... and free drinks! TUES. DEC, 23 5.00 a.m. Land in Colombo . Emerging from the plane is like walking into an oven. Temperatures up in the 80s. No problem with Ives' document. Outside the terminal we are met by Gnana and Gerard, the Aitken Spence Travel reps, and the Press who take frantic photos. The sun comes up behind the palm trees. Then an alarming drive into Colombo by coach. Are there any rules of the road? We manage to avoid the donkeys, ox-carts and carefree cyclists as we drive on to Mount Lavinia and the Mount Beach Hotel. Breakfast, followed by our first swim in the Indian Ocean. p.m. Net session at St. Thomas' College next to the hotel. Sweltering heat and humidity. Is cricket in these conditions really possible? Simon Turner damages his knee and is out for several games at least. CHRISTMAS EVE 8.15 a.m. Depart for Kandy. Stop for our first taste of 'Thambili' (King Coconut milk) for sale at the side of the road. Pass a number of working elephants. Unfamiliar images of lush vegetation, paddy fields, palm trees, corrugated iron shacks, poverty. Arrive at the Hotel Hilltop for lunch. Wonderfully comfortable place with spectacular views over Kandy. . p.m. Net practice at the Asgiriya Test Stadium which is also Trinity College's own ground. G.P.G. and some of the boys have an impromptu game of touch-rugby with some of the locals, one of whom later picks up a cricket ball and, ominously, shatters a stump with his first delivery. Evening. Splendid buffet supper with a four-man minstrel group serenading the guests. Some of the boys sneak out into Kandy unobserved, but all return to see Christmas in at the bar. CHRISTMAS DAY After breakfast of mango, pawpaw and pineapple, most make the effort to attend Holy Communion at St. Paul's, Kandy. Rest of the morning is spent round Ihe beautiful pool at the H illtop . Christmas lunch of curry or roast chicken. Afternoon at leisure before a coach trip round Kandy. Fascinated by juvenile snake-charmers at intervals a long the road. Visit the market as the sun goes down. Bustling, noisy, colourful. Several bargains acquired (including M.l.H.'s sandals). Then to the Temple of the Tooth. The approach road is swarming with cripples and beggars. We all feel uncomfortable. Inside we remove our shoes and a self-appointed guide precedes us through the crowds with cries of 'Cricketers, Cricketers ... England Cricketers', and the faithful part like the Red Sea before Moses. Except, that is, for the party of Germans who visibly brace their shoulders. T he senses are bombarded: the sweet smell of frangipani and lotus blending with the pungent aroma of incense; the deafening rhythms of drumming and the wail of pipes; huge, vividly coloured statues of Buddha and intricate panelling. We return to the coach 107

bewildered and unsettled. Then we watch a d' !lraceful, exotic, the men muscular . Isplay of Kand yan dancing - the . It all. The fire-walking finale perk~ ~tshletlc, acrobatIc. Many of us are too tire~lrtls are lovely up. 0 apPre' BOXI . NG DA Y Our first match' S A ' Clate TheIr mower has broken down so the ~uttf' nthony s, Katugastota (a few miles out problehm facing many of the schools in Sri L~~~!.ol~rkharcut. This is symptomatic Of[hKandy). pays t e teachers' salaries, but games and the lik h a mbone y and resources. The gO e major IS a pasSIon out here as we are ra 'dl ' ~ ave to e funded from ap e 1 vernmenl ~esitantly against a lively and acctr~t! a~:~~~veMngk a~d they play it very wefI. aw~ ~et criCket aylor (21) are the main contributors to an u'd ar d' yeland (41) , Duncan Ives (31) at rather Our games are to be limited-over affairs St ~ e~an ,lOg total of 144 from the 45 a and Jon two wIckets down and we realise that the . nt any s notch the runs comfortably ve;s - aU Lankan schoolboy cricket were not unfou~~~d~ngs we had received abo ut the stren~~;:~rs7 SAT. 27 DEC. Asgiriya Stadium a . h' . I

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tics membders In thel: sumptuous tea-planters' residences +~a groups ~o s!:,end the night with . .. an mare cncket, the food excellent homek' d e conversatl.on IS cncket, tea, poli. MON. 29 DEC 930 coo e curry and n ce. . . . . a. m. Rendezvous at the st d' expenences. Bnef tour round Somerset State Te a lum and sw~p stories of last night's PfolkgUIde and no leaf actually being processed ~fc~ctory - slIghtly dISapPointing with a very pu~ t;rs at work on the slopes compensate Then ur~~os tcard scenes of brightly clothed tea n~g ~ In . the luxurious Peacock Beach Hotei at H w~ nve south to the coast and spend the a ;u~ery Arrack (the distilled sap of cocon ut ~~:r~l~ta. Some of us have Our first taste fh . 30 DEC. An early-morning run alan g th b h ~Sh a t beefb~urry, spicy sausage, scrambled eggs m:n;~c shtarpenls the appetite for a breakfast ermen rmgmg In their catch and one or tw ' , wa ,efme on and banana. We watch ~?~S to rleset the nets. After lun~h we drive aIO~gO{h~sc~~s~~t mhthH e dug-out catamaran fishing ate otel Honzon on the beach ogga a. NEW YEAR'S EVE. The two-da r . . and has been replaced by a one-da am! lXture agamst Mahmda College has fallen throu h (an?t~er Test ground) which lies ai tte fo~f~ttS~eC~:r~nedh alle Schools at the Galle Stadiu~ use u spells from . Tom Whyte, Tony Brown and utc ort. We bO~1 e~tremely well wilh {orb 13 2. On a dIffIcult wicket Mark Ryeland battl!s°: Wrenl~h , and we dISmISs the opposition a e headmg for a comfortable victor How a a we earned 50, and at 126-5 we seem and lose by 3 runs. The disapPointm!r;t leav:;~' we col~pse, m the face of accurate bowling ur new ear s Eve celebratIOns rather flat. 108

EW YEAR'S DA Y. The whole day is spent round the pool at our hotel and on the most uS beach imagmable: mIles of SI lver sand fnnged wIth coconu t palms, and the turquoISe glonOs of the Indian Ocean rolling onto the shore. Some of us walk along the water's edge and wa~e~ tiny batik 'factory' among the palms. Friendly fishermen shin up the trees and bring us ~~wn coconuts to drink, and we bodysurf in the thundering breakers. FRI 2 JAN. Leave for Mt. Lavinia. Stop en route at a wonderful craft centre in Galle h re ;ve see woodcarving, lacemaking, batik and gemstone working, and most of us buy items IV ~ake home. Lunch is at Hikkaduwa where we are taken out in a glass-bottomed boat to see 10he off-shore coral gardens. Arrive back at the M.R.B.H. in time for a quick net practice at t , SI. Thomas S. SAT. 3 JAN. Game against Prince of Wales College. This is the first time most have played n matting, but Tom Whyte, Matt Durham and Jon Davies find it to their liking, and we dismiss ~ 0 W. for 158. Simon Turner in his first game of the tour makes a steady 47 and Phil Lacamp 54 However, we have fallen well behind the clock and wickets fall fast. Jon Taylor distinguishes hi ~sel f by being run out twice - once on his own account, and again as Simon Turner's runner. The stage is set for CraIg Butcher. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Needmg 14 off the last over he smites the fi rst ball for a gigantic six which clears the school buildings, and off the last ball of the match he clubs the two runs required for victory. The huge crowd watching sportingly applauds a win. At the presentations after the game the P.O.W. boys are roundly chastised by Iheir Headmaster who then leads them in a mournful rendition of the school anthem. We watch in some embarrassment. SUN. 4 JAN. Everyone relaxes on the Mt. Lavinia beach and round the pool. MON. 5 JAN. Game against Wesley College at the magnificent Colombo Oval (now known officially as the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium). We have to bat first on a green wicket and are soon in desperate straits. Respectability is salvaged by Andy Mitchell with a beautiful innings of 61. We lose, however, by 8 wickets, and our efforts in the field are best forgotten . Everyo ne is very impressed by the Headmaster, Dr. Lou Adihetty, and by the friendliness of the Wesley boys at the reception after the game. TUES. 6 JAN. Game against St. Joseph 's College who are unbeaten this season ... and it is one of the hottest days of the tour so far. Despite 36 from Jon Taylor, 22 from P hil Lacamp and another spectacular innings from Craig Butcher (who manages to shatter a window in the Headmaster 's study with a mighty six), we manage only 138-8 off our 45 overs. However, we seem to have saved our finest bowling and fielding for today . Bob Wallis, Matt Durham, Tom Whyte, Mark Ryeland and Jon Taylor bowl very tightly and are supported by some splendid catching. Suddenly a win seems possible. The Sri Lankans always bat right down to number 11 however, and the last pair take the score from 108 to 130 before an astonishing diving catch by Andy Mitchell at wide mid-on wins the game for us. We are ecstatic. Less so are the St. Joseph's boys who are also soundly dressed down by their H.M. WED. 7 JAN. Game against St. Peter's College. We bowl and field very badly, and lose Jon Taylor for the rest of the tour with a badly damaged thumb. They score a massive 253-7. Our response, Phil Lacamp' s 52 excepted, is feeble, and we lose by 133 runs. Everyone has adapted to the heat very well, but three games in a row are too much, and today we have looked thoroughly jaded . A quick game of touch-rugby with the very pleasant St. Peter's boys revives our spirits. THURS. 8 JAN. Morning spent round the pool. 3. 15 Depart for a shopping trip to Colombo. Some venture nervo usly into the 'Pettah' district where 1500 tiny stalls are crammed into a square mile or so. Others wander around the Fort area where luxurious hotels and office blocks tower over far less salubrious looking structures. Hawkers and beggars prowl the pavements. As the sun sets we visit a Buddhist temple at prayer. The tranquillity is in stark contrast to the hubbub in Kandy's Temple of the Tooth. Priests in saffron robes sit cross-legged in a colonnade and chant in haunting harmonies, and worshippers process in silence to water a sacred tree in the precinct. We drive on past Independence Hall and a huge sculpted Buddha, apparently cut from a mountainside in the North and transported here to Colombo. We spend the rest of 1'>1.

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the .e~ening at a n extraordinary barbecue host db ' unfmlshed building in the middle of the city a ~ th y a ~n Lankan family On the roo f a showroom on the ground fl oor. Matt Durham ~eh en w en the heavens open in What i of an S m g . . . but I think we have all rather enJ' oyed 't l ementl y demes a ll responsibility for th to be FRI 9 I • . e even . JAN. A friendly Colom bo 'eweller . a gemstone whi ch is much appreciated ~he rest c~ft~s to the h otel and presents us eac h . 3.15 Drive to the Sinhalese Sports Ciub th e mormng is spent on the beach. with Sn Lanka. We meet several of the I , e H.Q. of the Board of Control for C . shown in to their Holiest of Holies. ~;~~~~~ ~~~rt ~esti'dlayers and other dignitaries,r~~~t in Press take photos on th e S S C outf' Id Af sp.en I m th elf blazers and tour r a re club members practising ke~~1 'for t~~ir" ter a VISit to the nearby N .C.C ., where \~s as the the British High Commissioner ~nd his wif~lg :atch tomorrow, we arrive at the lovely h~ Watch to the hotel just as a torrentia l tropical rah;s~~;:eb~~~~ ~:::ost enjoyable evening. We ~lt~~~ SAT. 10 JAN. An hour 's drive t K d . College. Arrive to find the . k 0 a n ana (north of Colo mbo) to pia D

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mmutes (with 3 sixes and 5 fours) a nd ·w~r::; i~~~~er ~ma.s~ef Ia magnificent 48 in just ?;~~; reasonably we ll in the afternoon but in the end nc Wit 3 scored. We bowl and f' Id pass Our to ta l. The hundreds of spectators swar~ ~~£ture o nly seve~ wickets as De Maze~~d and are qUietly and competently marsha lled by De M ar~s th: pa~I1lOn for the presentations re ects Immaculately clad in whites a~d royal -blue blazers . C raig Butcher receives a spfe~~~ l ats man of the Match trophy, and t e team a huge box of the most wonderful Pi neapPles . SUN. 11 JAN. At leisu re.

MO~. 12 JA N. T he fina l match against St Th ' ~hey wm the toss an d surprisingly eleci to bat on 'a d om as s fOllege. Another very hot day t ey tumble to 68-9 in the face of excellent bow]' amp WIC. et - something they regret a; bowlers have to leave the field, a nd their las t pair ;~~e~n11 c~chmg. Suddenl~ thr~e of OUr five a sta nd M 75 and take them into lunch on 143-9 . u a va ntage of the SituatIOn to register Then ram starts to fall and the light deteriorate; ~a'::i m'W'gr starts well , and at tea we are 83-2. 58. T he players leave th e field and St Tho ' y. e ose PhIl Lacamp after an excellent at any tim e after a resumption: We ch~ose t~as s generously offer us a draw immedia tely Or take the co:vardly option, we lose by 36 runs St g~hback ? n but Wickets tumble and, refUSing to ~oP Side thIS season , and a win aga inst the~ ';oul~~:~: ~:eg~neraIlY rega rded as the country's He, hfw;er, a nd we try to forget the disappointment over a ~~\S ~ddt~~ tour m style. It is not to oteh' h e present our courier Gerard with tokens of our e~t I d Ifnner a t the Mount Lavi nia gra I u e Or the wonderful way in w h IC e has looked a fter us . TUES. 13 JAN. Most spend the last da r d h ubiqUitous three-.wheeler taxis for last-minute s;o o~~ ~ ~tOOI. The rest visit Colombo in the where .we have lime to reflect on the tour 0 pp g: . p.m. Leave the hotel for the airport bowlIng has held up well but th e batting has been dISappOinting and the fielding variabl~ playmg schools of up to 8000 pupils who I~ en one conSiders, however , that we have been from the age of twe lve, and that we have~nie;hroughout the ye~r With professional coaching heat on an unfamiliar diet, we have not done too t~~tro~ EnglIsh wmter to play in tropical te~m tha t has had a better record out here but in y. e now of no other England schoolboy gomg to be assessed on the res ul t-s heet al~ne 'W ~ny case~ the success of the tour was never have been fine ambassadors of the scho I he ave enj oyed ourselves tremendously a nd ve streng th ened the links tha t a lready exist ~"twe e tah m a de co untless fnends and, we hope W I en e two countnes I e eave too with a myriad of memori d' . . people offset by the grim reports fro m ~~:~0~7t~~Slons: the genia l charm of the Sri Lankan Over the wall at the sumptuous Asgiriya Stadium the hu~1 E~stl the ghnndmg poverty in evidence paradISe of th e South Coast beaches Aft y- ur y 0 f t e city streets a nd the tranquil

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RED MONKEYS We are very gra/ejul/o Lucy Charring/on (GL 1984-86) jor the jollowing article. India the la nd of Maharajas, deserts and elephants; Hindus, temp les and the Taj Mahal; h' pies 'Mother Teresa a nd Gandhi. No one is at a loss to describe t his, the largest democracy ' ~~he ~orld. But Bangladesh? The land of flooding, cyclones a nd political turmoil, where tourism !s practically unheard of a nd 80'70 live below the poverty line? It is hard to remember that fort y ~ears ago these two countries were part of the same nation. I was lucky eno ugh last summer to spend a month in each of these fascinating p laces. With King's Week only a few days behind me, I a rrived in Bangladesh, with a friend from home . Rather dazed, we went to stay with the Oxford Mission, a group of English - and more recently Bengali - fathers and sisters who live and work in two locations in Southern Bangladesh. Tea on the Green Court seemed rather distant by this stage . T he Oxford Mission fulfils a role similar to that of monks in medieval England, acting as a reli gious centre and providing ed ucation and basic health-care for the needy around them. We were, in fact, treated more as guests than as work ers, and spent our time a rranging the sisters' ex tensive library , looking round the schoo ls and hostels and inspecting their work, speaking E nglish with their pupils and visiting many local families. We were a lways very warmly received, offered stro ng sweet tea and edibles such as mourri (puffed rice) with coconut, even though often it was obvious t hey had very lillie to give. One lady cooked us a fried egg on one tea-time visit, which is appare ntly a great honour. Naturally our Bengali was very limited , but it did not take u s long to discover how to say ' I like Bangladesh

very much': this, delivered with a smile, was sufficient to win hearts wherever we went. We spent a week in a very remote village with the a ll-Bengali sisterhood of the Oxford Mission. This was an incredible experience and probably th e high light of the whole trip. It took us fi ve hours to travel the thirty-two miles to get there, by rickety bus, ferry over the Ganges, rickshaw and fina lly punt. Whilst th ere we wore sari s, ate rice and dhal with our fingers, encountered our first - and fortunately our last - cobra, and saw no other wh ite faces. There were many new things to which it was necessary to accustom ourselves. We were often greeted by people kneeling before us touching both our feet and then their foreheads. This sym bolises the removal of dust from our feet. We were supposed to bless them at the sa me time, thu s imparting some of our virtue to them, an action which it was hard to take seriously until we realised how serious it was for them . We also encountered a great deal of sta ring. With our ligh t skin , ha ir and eyes, we must have looked decidedly strange to them, and staring is not rude on the sub-co ntin ent. The result of thi s was that people literally stopped in their tracks, pointed a nd burst into hysterical laughter. Often large crowds gathered around us, a few people shouting, 'red monkey!', the Bengali 'insult' for W esterners . Though extremely disconcerting a t first , we soon bega n to see the funny side of it as well. Our second month was spent travelling in India and Nepal. It was during this month that one of the most striking realizations of the trip came home to me : how we judge everything only in relation to that which we already know. E ntering India from Bangladesh felt like a return to civilisation, whereas if we ha d gone straight to India from the West, the relati ve poverty would have been the most striking thing for us . Whi lst in Bangladesh we did not find the poverty or the commonness of beggars particularly oppressive, noticing more the friendliness o f t he people and the atmos phere of hope in which many of them live. Yet, once removed from it, the seriou sness of the problem can be appreciated and it is easy to see why organisations such as the Oxford Mission are so vital. My clearest memory of a beggar is in fact in Kathmandu. We were sitting in a n American-style ice cream pa rl our (Kathmandu is becoming increasingly Westernized) and I looked out of the window to see a woman, with her young and slightly deformed son, crying a nd staring pleadingly in at us. Their situatio n was not nea rly as bad as many we had seen in Bangladesh, but they stood o ut in sharp relief, agai nst the show of wealt h inside the building. The incongruity was hideous . Similarly, it was easy to be disgusted by th e III

obvious a ffluence of many rich Indians (many are fat this b . . because. the poverty is all around them rather than a pia .emg a sIgn of we~lth), yet s' respo nsIbIlIty, as individuals, than ours. ne Journey away, It IS no njorel~~ly T he second Il!0!'th travelling was, above all , great fun . Seein

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hundred It's a small wo rld, as they say, and a fomer fellow Can tuar; . d' eq UIvalent of a motor way cafe in the middle of Rajasthan ~I e ItOI' waf SPotted in the Indian fathers sl?erH time in St. Augustine's before it became . so, one 0 the Oxford Missio ~~non PIlkmgton for his kind donation from the head1:ra:stt~r~:~~s~Ch~OI. I ShfoUld Irke to than~ Fi:~~OO? (B. SIÂˇdE.S. Yukon explorer extr.aordinaire) for his very h~~;~r::r:asuf~d'fanddAndrew y, wou warmly encourage all Immment 0 K S to r Un raISIng themhsdelves, have fun and see a little of what life is realiy iike oufs~d~~~' see the world, discove; C at e ral. e precmcts of Canterbury

STILL LIFE (Clare Sankey-Barker) 1 t2

Cfhe Cantuaria~ GJnterviewÂ§ LORD DAINTON OF HALLAM MOORS, F.R.S. (Chancellor of Sheffield Uni versity)

/. How do you see the role of science in schools? Science can't be separated from the humanities. T hey are both essential for the finding and the growth of one's individuality and identity.

Is there a crisis in science teaching today? Yes, there is. The 'Swing Away from Science' began during the 1960s when the percentage of students choosing science at A-level declined from 41 OJo to 27%. This was caused by the decline in good teachers and an increasing tendency to see science as oppressive and inhumane. J. Why do so many sixth formers avoid careers in science? How can it be made more attractive? I think many pupils are put off by the poor standard of teaching during pre-sixt h form years and an obsession with the curriculum and exams. Science should be made more attractive by having a more general curriculum , by attracting better teachers through more pay and by improving facilities through increasing the resources available. If you ask, 'Where does this money come from?' I ask you: 'Where are your priorities?'

Why are there so few women in scientific careers? Should more be done to encourage them? Girls in single sex schools are much more likely to go into careers in science. In mixed schools, however, there is much more pressure to conform to a traditional image. I'm very much in favo ur of the 'Returner 's Register' which is designed to maintain contact with women who have got degrees in science but leave the profession to have children in order tha t they may be encouraged to return to teaching. 5. Is it useful to retain the categories which divide A-level students into those studying arts and those studying sciences? Is it possible to reconcile these categories? No, I don't believe it is. Young people are voting with their feet against this division and despite the drop in those studying the sciences there has been a dramatic increase in those pupils opting for a mixture of arts and sciences. I feel it would be of much more use to take a general course in science; after all 16 is too young to be forced into specialization . 6. III the past Britain established a reputation for ingenuity and innovation. Do we still have the ability to be a world leader ill techlIology? We are losing it. More people need to be educated in science, engineering and technology to cope with the revolution we are undergoing. Scientific careers should be made more attracti ve by increasing salaries.

What is the most burning scientific issue, in your opinion, at present? I think most significant is the information we have learnt about the way living systems are controlled by chemistry. We now have the power to intervene by genetic engineering in what some people regard as natural processes. I approve of this because if I needed treatment I wo uld hope not to be turned down . 113

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In the light of Chernobyl have your views on nue/ear power changed?

Chernobyl was inexcusable. I think this will be clear when all the facts about the rna of the plant are known. However, I do think that even when the disastrous conse nagellleni Chernobyl are taken into account nuclear power generation, from the extraction o~uences of are to the feeding of the national grid, is, on balance, by far the safest method. I do ~ra",UIll however, that it's up to me to make a decision about nuclear power; I won't have tonrllhInk, it. It is up to your generation to decide the future of nuclear power. Ive wllh

9. Everybody agrees acid rain is bad yet Britain's preseflt policies do little about it Whl/l do you think should be done? . Something is obviously having a great effect on German and Norwegian lakes and Ihe gen public are united in their belief that something should be done. Yet they are not prepareJral switch from coal fire power generation to nuclear power generation, as we have seen from I~o recent uproar over the Sizewell enquiry. e

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What is your own most significant contribution to science?

The thing which has excited me most was my idea that a single electron could live in Wate and have a chemistry of its own. Everybody laughed at this in 1952. A few years later I haJ the opportunity to carry out the relevant experiments and discovered that a single electron could live for I12000th of a second. In five years we learnt more about the electron than we know about sodium hydroxide after hundreds of years. I hope, however, that I am not remembered for anything. If the things I have done are shown to be wrong then I will be happy, for science will have progressed.

II. You have spent quite a lot of time in America. How do British and American attitudts to science and industry compare? The Americans admired our science and inventiveness, but they had the resources to develop and a bigger market for their products. The English suffer from a need to see instant resuhs in development whereas the Americans are prepared to spend 'patience money' and wail for results. Many of Britain's best ideas have been poached by the Americans simply because their genius wasn't recognised. A good example of this is the X-ray CT scanner, a non-invasive harmless body scanner which was invented by a Nobel prize-winning Englishman and promptly sold by Thorn EMI to the Americans who have had great commercial success with it.

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So is there serious rot in British Industry?

Yes, there is. Our Empire gave us captive markets and cheap raw materials which stopped us being properly competitive. The Great Exhibition showed us at the peak of industrial development and we have been much too complacent since then. The key to the success of the larger companies such as ICI is the fact that they are managed by engineers and have continued to develop. British industry is very reluctant to accept changes in working practices and adopt new techniques; until this happens the country will continue to rot.

13. Science and technology - particularly computers - put people out of work. What do you see as a solution to this problem? The solution to this problem is a massive retraining programme on an even greater scale than we have already seen in the Government schemes, so that people become proficient in skills that relate to the changing environment in industry.

14. What were you thinking as you looked around the CDr Centre? What I was going to say in my speech! Seriously, I was very impressed. The centre provides the facilities to see a design through from the start to finish and give the joy of design and the satisfaction of producing the finished product. 114

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MR. MICHAEL HORTON (SH 1959-621 (Chairman and chief executive officer, Burson-Marsteller U.K.)

1. What exactly is public relations and how does it differ from advertising? What does Bu Marsteller do? 'So,," It is always difficult to define public relations simply because the business of communica . is, by definition, a constantl y-evolving industry and the professionals who practise it are al~onl expanding its horizons. Persona lly, I find labels limiting and while I could give YOU a Iong ~~I of what we do, it still would no t adequa tely define the business Burson-Marsteller is in lit That said, there are key differences between advertising and public relations. In simple terms, advertising allows you to say what you want, where you want a nd as rna . times as you want (depending on size of budget). Public relations complements that activit y ~l. a llowing you to target intended audiences much more accurately, to fine-tune your message a ~ to communicate through third parties. n If, for instance, the readers of this magazine wa nted to argue the case for public schools ' they might well advertise in The Times. T hat creates awareness . But in order to inform and educate, they wo uld h~ve to deliver a number. of specially-tailored messages about pnvate educatIOn to a range of deCISIOn-makers and oplOion-formers in order to win the overall argument. Headmasters, for instance, have a different motivation from say foreign a mbassadors, and a communications strategy must recognise that. ' , Public relations firms like Burson-Marsteller are in the business of researching the problem identifying the a udiences, developing the messages, designing the communications technique; a nd implementing the action necessary to achieve the desired result. The action plan can range from media relations and business seminars to videos and parliamentary liaison; the methods a re always being expanded. It is a n approach that we apply to all companies for which we work in the consumer, industrial financial, medical and business-to-business fields regardless of whether their operating area i; local, national, reg ional o r international.

2. 'Time Out' recently criticised your company for its involvement in Argentina. You were Burson-Marsteller's 'man on the spot' for eighteen months. How do you answer your critics? Burson-Marsteller, like many major companies and foreign governments, severed its links with Argentina at the end of the 1970s. Our involvement was to help companies and organisations wishing to do business with the Argentines who were keen to attract as much foreign investment as possible. At that time, many trade delegations from Europe were visiting this part of SOUlh America.

Can you describe the structure of Burson-Marsteller and how it operates?

Burson-Marsteller has forty-three offices in twenty-three countries around the world . There is no head office in the classic sense of the word, although the centre of worldwide operations is at our New York office. The U.K. office in London spearheads Europe. Each office is operationally autonomous, with its own list of client companies, although executives meet regularly to discuss common communications strategies and tech niques. The general managers fro m each country also serve on regional and international Burson-Marsteller management committees.

Burson-Marsteller's parent company is Young & Rubicam Inc, the U.S.-based communications group whose member companies also include Y & R advertising, the Cato Johnson design firm, and Wonderman's direct marketing. Each client company is handled by what we call an account group, typically comprising a board director, an assoc iate director. an accou nt director and any number of account executives. 11 6

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They are supported by a range of specialist counsellors covering such areas as research, corporate 'dentity, audio-visual, video, consumer marketing, employee communications, and public affairs. Certain senior executives will , o f course, work with more than one client.

Do your public affairs executives lobby MPs?

No we do not lobby M.P.s in the lobby at Westminster. We do, of course, keep regular contact with both Houses as part of our parliamentary a ffairs and communi ty relations speciality. Our involvement in this area also covers local a nd regional gove rnment a nd the EEC. In addition, our public affairs operation incorporates commu nications skills training and crisis and issues management.

What does your crisis team do?

The essential role of our crisis specia lists is to advise companies how to handle the communications aspects of a situation which threatens the survival of the business and /or their market. Often, the way in which the outside world perceives a company's behaviour in the middle of a crisis can be crucial to its future. Vet the ver y na ture o f a crisis tends to dictate that operationa l matters ta ke priori ty over communications considerations. It is the ro le of a crisis counsellor to help ensure that a ny gaps are bridged . The case of the U.S . pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson , is a good example o f how this was achieved. T he crisis came when one of the company's pa in-k illers was cri minally injected, after leaving the company, with cyanide. The prod uct - the best-selling pa in-killer in the U.S. - was immediately withd raw n by the compa ny, effecti vely ending its market there and then . The role of communications in this case was two-fold : fi rst , to alert the public througho ut the U.S . to the dange r and the company's reaction to it; and second , to keep the public full y informed on how the company intended to ensure that the product, once re-introduced, could not be ta mpered with again. The methods used to achieve this included simulta neous press con fere nces, using satelli te communications, in fift y cities across the U.S.

What sort of employment prospects are there in P.R.?

Burson-Ma rsteller has been doubling its size worldwide every three years since the mid-1 970s. In the U.K ., our grow th last year was more than 50 per cent. Our personnel policies are very much focused on the emplo yment o f specialists - doctors, lawyers, bankers, journalists, engineers, computer scientists, paramedics - as well as public relations professionals to ensure we have a consta ntly-ex panding knowledge base . We also have a detailed inte rna l training progra mme encompassing operational a nd management techniques. My own view is tha t prospects for this industry have never been better. But as far as BursonMarsteller is concerned, it will not be easy to get into , sim ply because of the levels a t which it has to operate within its client compa nies a nd the experience tha t this dema nds.

11 9 LlNACRE DAWN (Jonathan Marshall)

MR. JOHN CORNER . John Corner was a master at the Kin'S tlme he held many important School po;: i~~~~nbgetbween !!33-40 and 1946-55. Durin Orange. , e m g "ousemaster of Marlo g Ihal We and The 1.

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4.. Today many pupils find that masters hl . . thell' fathers. Did you feel that boys were ;~~:::~~/Y ~ss if?~ ~~ Kmg 's than those who taught Yes, and terrified of me' The sinners . errt Ie oJ some of your colleagues? left the rest to the boy 's'

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re~ ~ouble. I think discipline is necessary, f~~ :o~ern~rokr tFof~ four

There IS a great difference of opinion' . 'IaChging' !ystem should still be used. Faggin;~::a~" qua?ers of the S~hool as to whether the per aps fifty years ago. How did the system 0 /s on y oosely dertved from the system of you approve of the cruelty of the monitors? pera e when you were a housemaster, and did In a ~anner of speaking I did approve of it Fa in fail . supervISIon by the housemaster then bull i~ g s m a bad house. If there is not adequale I was m The Grange, a certain number o{n ~ I occur. But If II worb It'S very good. When

became 'general fags'. The boys who were no~ Ch~OYS wele selected as 'prIvate' fags and the reS! who were chosen were looked after _ that is one thi~n where upset because they felt inferior. Those g was proud and he never let his fag go about 10 kÂˇ t at p.~ople tend not to realise. The monitor that . his. 'master ' was clean and tidy also a ;~g ~n.ll y. And the fag !'lade jolly cerrain relatIOnship - which often still exists. When O'K UI t up a very frIendly and good eet for perhaps the first time in fifty years ~ndS, c~m\~own here tOday, they sometimes acon saysto a barrister, 'Good ord, Stmker, you were my fag!' Pea Ie k~o''; an rc aspects. In a bad school the cruelty :auld haveonh ly of thde Vices of faggmg, seldom the good appene anyway.

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Some O.K.S. of the 1950s and 1960s say that when young boys first entered the School 6. '/lniors they had to have their jacket buttons done up, and that as they increased in seniority y could gradually undo them until in the Sixth form they could have them all undone. Did 10/1 ever see this, and were there any other unusual customs that you could tell us about? Y I wasn't there much in the 50s and 60s, but that was happening way back in the 30s. There

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wne that they were allowed to walk around the Green Court only in an anti-clockwise direction. ~nd the straw hat had to be worn level at first until you grew older, and then it could be tilted slightly or more than slightly. We all thought that it was mad, but the boys didn't complain!

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ai King 's, and what sorts of sport were on offer?

There was very much more emphasis on sport than there is now. You played rugger in the Christmas term, hockey in the Easter term and cricket in the Summer term. There was rowing all the time, although not as a full-time sport in the winter. YOll were put down for games three limes a week, although if you were in a team you played every day except on Sunday. And it was all checked up on too!

8. Obviously there was a strong emphasis on the C. C.F. This is no longer compulsory, and boys and girls can join simply for interest's sake. Do you feel that Corps should be compulsory in the 1980s? No, it should not be compulsory. Not every boy is interested in soldiers, in any case. It was hated by most boys, I think, in my time. Some were quite keen because they got stripes, of course. But it was ridiculous because it wasn't taken seriously. But when the war came, it was useful for those who had some slight experience of drill and masketry.

9. You must have seen many amusing incidents as a master. Does any particular one still bring a smile to your lips as you look back 011 it? One evening, I was sitting in my room reading whan I heard the Head of House coming along. He was an enormous fellow - he's a colonel now - and he had large feet. I a lways knew when he was coming because he had a long measured tread, left, right, left, right, and all the floors creaked as he approached. He had a habit of bowing when he came into my room before speaking. On this occasion I heard him coming and thought, 'Here's the Head of House.' Knock at the door. 'Come in!' 'Oh good evening sir, I'm sorry to disturb you, but I'm afraid the house is on fire.' I said , 'Good Heavens, what are we goi ng to do?' 'I've got that under control, you needn't bother,' he said . And he had, he'd got the firemen in . Now that's discipline, you see!

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You started the Canterbury Pilgrimages. Could you tell us something about them?

I organised them for seven years. With five hundred empty beds at the height of the tourist season, I thought that the School should get tourists in, and that would make some money . .. And so we did, with courses, talks etc., and made about eight thousand pounds a year. I enjoyed it very much. I still give a talk once with each course, about such things as the Monastic ruins and the King's School. Initially, we took all Americans , but later on we had Canadians, South Africans, Australians, and British people. They enjoyed it, and it did the School good.

II. You still keep in close contact with the School, since you live nearby. What has been the most dramatic change between the School that you knew as a master and the School now? The division of the School into these little cells, which I don't like at all . I feel very strongly about a boy of thirteen being shoved into a study with two or three other boys whom he may not particularly like, whereas in a 'hall' he's got twenty boys to choose from for his friends - and he's in with the general community. A Housemaster must find it very difficult to know what's going on now. 121

12. As an inhabitallt of Canterbury, you must see King's boys and girls in and around Ih tOWII. What is your opinion of them? e Good. Better than they used to be! The long hair and the slovenliness has gone very largely [ hear a lot of what the town people say, and they never have any complaints. In fact, the ' are secretly proud of the School. y

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Do you still see any of your old boys?

Oh yes, all the time. One has just retired as Ambassador to Sweden, one is a professor of medicine, just retired - some quite distinguished gentlemen now, even though I did spank them occasionally!

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Do you see a future for traditional public schools?

[ think that as a rule they are far better than the state-run Schools, but if the fees go on risin as they do now, no! Particularly if a future unfriendly government should remove their charilabl! status a nd impose VAT, which would have a lethal effect.

15. After leaving King's, you became Headmaster of a Prep. School. Did you enjoy this more than being a housemaster at King's? No. About the same, [ would say, although [ did enjoy being a Headmaster because I had complete control of things!

16. lfpresent pupils of King's were to ask you for apiece of advice for their future life, whal would you tell them? That can be answered variously: morally, financially, all sorts of ways. I think I would lell them to use their enterprise and initiative - which many people lack nowadays.

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BOOK REVIEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF POETS CHRISTOPHER AND SEBASTIAN BARKER (W1957 and 1958) (Carcanel Press, 1986: ÂŁ9.95 (paperback) ) According to David Piper, it all began in the Victorian period. The inve nti on of photography and, after centuries, th~ reinyct;'tion of th ~ b~ard impelled peop le to be fasci nated with the image o f the poct, and to satisfy thei r CU riosity by puttmg 1l on record. Hence we have Tennyson, the laureate par excellence ~f lhe nineteenth century. disgui sed in what Andrew Ross has recently ca lled the ' fu ll post-Gothic regalia ofc1oak. hat and beard ' in Ju li a Marga ret Ca meron' s famous photograph, which attracted the vivid titl e of the 'Di rty. Monk,' . ,Ten nyson's cloak, suggests R<;'5S! is itself ~ d.el i be rat~ device fo r proc lairn i,ng that the body is hIdden: It IS 'out of bo unds, beyond the limits of pubhc mterest m the author'. How d ifferent from the strategy of the transat lantic Walt Wh itman, whose corporeal prese nce is positi vely st ressed in the photo-engrav ing which is included in Leaves oj Grass - 'an informal portrait of a work ing man, bearded, with his sh irt open at the neck, one arm akim bo, the other thrust into the pocket of his pants'! The Barker brothers have had the excell en t idea of catering for our own, con temporary fascination with the poet's image in this sp lendidl y produced collection . It has already made quite a lot of money for its highly worthy publisher, the Carca l~ et ~ r ess! \~hic h pays its dues to ~oetry by m ak i~ g avai lable a .Iar~e proportion of the best work appearmg m Bntam and abroad. It certa ml y deserves thi S success, which IS the result of a careful strategy pursued over a long period, since poets are not always easy to ru n to gro un d, and each of these prints mu st have required qui te a large expe nditure of patience on both sides. It has a di st inct ive feature, as far as 1 can tell, in juxtaposing each photograph image with a poem and a signature by the poet in quest ion. But in spi te of this, it first of all provokes compa ri son with previous co nventions applying to the pho tographic portrait. I am only aware of one other recent collection concerned for the most pa rt with poets: this is the Portrait Photographs in co lour polaroid by the American poet and publisher Jon athan Williams (Coracle Press, 1979). Basil Bunting and Ian Ha milton Finlay both make an appea rance in Williams' collect ion , as well as in that of Christopher Barker, and the comparison is interesting. Williams achieves an in for ma lity which is partly the res ult, one supposes, of th e photographer being among co lleagues and friend s: Fin lay is caught quite casuall y, while the Barker photograph shows him d irecting his message of didactic classicism to an unseen public. Bu nting, in the Barker version, stands in a landscape whose unea rthly light recalls the melod ramatic settings of Bill Brand t. And it is Brandt, recorder of poets as well as ar tists, who seems the obvious precedent for these often subt le, bu t ofte n striking essays in p lacing the ba rd in his or her specially resonant co ntext. Sometimes this contextual placi ng seems almost ironic. I f you teca ll the grand iloquent Brandt st udy of Osbert and Edith Sitwell bes ide the fam ily portraits in their sumptuous draw ing rOOI11, you will be charmed and intrigued to see Sacheverell sitting it out on the sta irs, with only a knobbly Jacobean sta ircase and a soup tureen for company . On the whole, poets do not nowadays go in for heirlooms and fam ily portraits. There is one in blurred focus behind Patricia Beer, and it looks as though the same nose has been handed on down the generations. But Kingsley Amis is obviously no relation of the ViclOrian gi rl in ma rble beside whom he sits with almost Sitwellian hauteur. Outside locations are also made to work effect ively. The blind poet John Heath Stubbs pauses at the portico of a peeling hou se of Bayswater, about to launch himse lf on the streets of West London with a vigour that makes his acquaintances solicitous for his safety. George MacBeth grins as he adopts an ineffable posture under the greenwood tree, lik e an Elizabethan lover posing for an emblematic portra it . This particular im age has been designed to accompany a specific poem, and so have a good number of the mos t inve nti ve of the rest: Betjem an chortling in an a lmost manic way to accompan y The Last Laugh, Roy Fuller loo king shy ly over his glasses to match a poem about looking over his glasses, and William Empson enthroned in hiera tic , oriental splendour to face Autumn on Nan-Yueh. Later generations wi ll no do ubt make different interpretations of these images than we do. Phot ogra phs are nothing if not redunda nt with details that ca n eas ily pass unseen. Wi ll somebody pe rhaps, at a la ter date, ponder the fact that it is half-past three on the watch on Elma Mitchell' s wri st, a nd her high shelf con tai ns both a bottle of Du tch Ge never and a textbook o n Biochemi str y? tWO

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VIGNORY , FRANCE (AllthollY Wallellbach)

VIfouse VNotes SCHOOL HOUSE

We struggled back to schaal wi h t. a lack of e!'thusiasm to b greeted by a smile, flooded candle light (monitors' privil~~~o~~I:,n~n~a~~ITii~ reSOrt I~ However we eventually return d .). the continuing blackouts in Whi~h tMo nOWrmal lIfe, excePt far up' , ' r. amde's hI-fi 'blew Sportswise (something a few f h o~r ?S abnd downs. The eleven~_stid~ ~g~:ba~r~n'~)Hwe had w sun, ut we got knocked a t . n OCkey six-a-side Hockey got to the se u In penaltIes (again!). The ~oa.ls whilst in the Cross-Cou~~~y ~ound WIth two amaZing Jumors - and it was a shame about ~h~~~s~~ed to win Ihe Indoor sports also had their da . . Mrs. Knight of a pool table whichs WIth a kmd donation by use. Thank you. Chess and proved to be m cons Ian I successful, with the table. table-tenms seem to be less The H?use was amazingly Cultured in the s tenms a foregone conclusion. lead by J lmbo, was closely followed b Our econd half of term. VIctory in the House S ... Jerry (also ppeoPlle cast so . 0 !fl. J , 1 an ave. It woz brill' Also a number of talented singer d . . . performances . (Why did Galpin's do t~e ~USi~~~;c'ans represented the House in various On th~ pub-lick relations front many of the H· . . count~ys l de, wllh a few getting lost when left a l~~~e Jomed Mr. Ross meandering around Ihe . WhIle on the subject of loss, we lost Laura t L .. . . mght, and we are preparing to lose two of Our gre~t t~~~rga~ (prrt tIme), lost Trug for half Ihe We would like to thank the Rosses Miss J th rs . e a so lost the Academic Challenge M rs. Mathieson. , ., e tutors, the cleaning staff, and we welcom~

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THE GRANGE

Modesty, of Course, forbids . attainments this term but any great lIst of Grange us start with the Ho ~se pf~~e must not pass unrecorded. Lei patient direction of Mr Ah~ un~r ~he ~asterful and everr equmade fmally came together with strong periorma~ ' It was a shame how ces rom e~erybo~y inVOlved. Ed de Giles"s co~er, ~hat the productIon comcided wilh programme, and this ca~~:d ~~slve crass-country training Top Ten placing in the inter_hou~~r~~;;;IY ~?tmlss~ut on gaining II IS not the winning but th t k. pe I IOn. ut, of course, importance. ' e a mg part that is of mOSI

In the House Song com r· James Lawrence (The G pe It lOn , under the leadership of manoeuvred Broughton wi~~m ess One), we skilfully OUIMe Sunshine obviously ad OUI ongmal rendItIOn of Bring , equate revenge for last term's 126

narrow) defeat in the Rugby Sevens. Also on the showbiz side, Gorm (see above!) and Bobby

~orse entertained the masses in the charity Blooze Brothers' concert, and Susanna Walsh acted

in and helped produce the ambitious and well-received production of Blood Wedding, in which Eleanor Taylor also acted ably. As usual we excelled on the sporting front, with five of the water-polo seven, not to mention Ihe coach; J immy Nevile and Jerry Gordon were in the 1st rugby VII; Bobby Morse was captain of the 1st Soccer XI, with Craig Butcher and Jimmy Nevile in support; Jerry Gordon, Bobby Morse and Tim Briggs were in the basketball team; James Lawrence in the 1st XI hockey; and Stu Lacy unbeaten in the 1st V squash. Stu, Jimmy (again) and Craig were awarded 1st colours, and James Del Mar resumed his place as Cox for the First VIII. Mention must also got to Chris Job and James Landale for 2nd XI football; to Jason Nightingale, Julian Morse, Bola Marquis and Folu Ososanya for Junior basketball; and to Philip Van Notten for captaining the Junior Colts hockey XI with three other Grange players in it. Of the girls, Zoe was oustanding as Captain of a very successful netball team, and Fiona-Jane, Lizzie and Gaynor also represented the school at netball or lacrosse. Other Grange girls distinguished themselves too: Phillipa with her thriving Amnesty group; Lizzie again and Clare among the eight Grange people currently in the Chapel Choir; Antonia in Academic Challenge; and Emily in preparing a Last Supper that will soon have a prominent place in the House Library. On the social side, Bobby continues to 'Lib' it up, while Craig has found a new sense of 'Mliss' at school. For the leading form of monitorial entertainment competition was strong between water pistols and the television room, with the latter coming out on top. We would like to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Jackson on the birth of thet:aaughter Chloe; and thank Mr. and Mrs. Woodley for the efficient running of the House, Miss Delafons for looking after the sick in body (and mind!), and the linen and domestic ladies for their essential work. THE MONITORS.

Despite the snow delaying the beginning of term, Walpole soon picked up its rhythm with the customary vigour. This vigour was epitomised by our very own rendition of Eleanor Rigby d uring the Ho use Song Competitio n, which, despite certain minor problems, such as total lack of talent, provided entertainment for all concerned. Thanks for everything should go to Martin Birnhak, Bruce Marson, and Chris Gray for their handling of the impossible. On the sporting front, we excelled by confirming ourselves as the School basketball champions . The house won the Senior Cup last year and the Junior team set out this term to emulate the feats of their older colleagues. This they did after wrestling with a determined Luxmoore side: congratulations to the players and coach, Jaiye Aboderin and of course (how can you keep him out of it), the manager Kolapo Phillips who, despite chewing gum on the sidelines, bore no real likeness to Mike Ditko of the Chicago Bears. Mention must go to Marcus Cumber for playing in the school First Rugby Seven, and Bruce Marson in the 1st XI soccer. In the cross-country, despite failing to gain a significant position as a house, impressive performances were recorded by Chris Hall , who finished 1st in the Juniors, by Eric Moore who finished 12th in the Inters, and James Rattray, who organised our entry and finished 16th in the Seniors. The girls were also represented in school teams with Sarah Lee-Warner and Jul ie Norey in the 1st Netball and Lacrosse teams. Congratulations to them on this achievement (we will forgive them what happened against the School Monitors in both these sports). 127

On the cultural front Nick Young led the Blooze Brothers through a most successful enjoyable concert, which raised ÂŁ114 for the Pilgrims' Hospice. Congratulations to him for al 1$ achievement. nd h The House wo uld like to welcome its two newcomers: Damian 'How many secOnds are th

in a minute?' Jones; and Peter 'Hey, wow, that's heavy' Keeler.

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Finally I would COPIng with us. li ke to thank Mr. and Mrs. Vye, Miss Burr, the tutors and all the staff fOr RAllY VIJAYANATHAN.

MEISTER OMERS Despite the usual lack of time to rehearse, some memorable performances were given in another concert, on the evening

before half term. Maria Clegg became the first girl ever to sing beautifully and accompany herself on the plano, whilsl an amusing dramatic excerpt by Fiona Stewart and JUlia Wan'ander was an innovation. Once again the stars were Mark Majurey, Peter Apps and John Tegner, closely followed by julian Cridge. Another ' first' was Spencer Santry and Dan McDonnell's guitar duet. Some famous show music was successfully rendered by the House Band . Not long after this, we gained a glorious second place in the House Song after only three rehearsals, and without OUr self. proclaimed Pavarotti, Jonathan Veitch, away on interview. AI the other end of Our broad spectrum of talent Our results were equally impressive. The Hockey Cup was retained by a fine team effort, when we defeated a strong Broughton side in the final. The House had a number of Captains at the highest level: Bob Wallis was Captain of Hockey and Dave Knight led the Cross-Country Team, which won the Five Schools Cup for the first time since 1977. Miranda was Captain of Lacrosse and Hugh Andree of the successful 2nd XI. Angus Murdoch was a member of the 1st XI Soccer. Our congratulations to Jonathan Veitch on First Colours and to Hugh Andree, Julia Wan'ander and lain Girling on Second Colours. Several interesting extra-curricular events took place this term. Richard passed his maths; lain at last found someone who liked him , but even she reported sick after onl y two days; and Mr. Wenley's dog, George, proved such a competent sniffer expert that he was almost called in as an extra for the Royal Visit. Despite the large visiting female population of the senior studies, Valentine's Day came and went without any excitement. This could well have been due to the fact that Johnny, Richard and lain were performing in the Blooze Brothers' concert that night (but I seriously have my doubts). The Shells tried to teach the sixth formers how to water fight. There were some very ready pupils but 'Cowley' was quick to move in and stop this illegal activity and is believed to possess a vast and valuable armoury now himself. We bid fareweil to Irene who has given twelve years of loyal and devoted service in the Linen Room. She leaves with Our thanks and best wishes. Our thanks too to Mrs. Cork in the Sewing Room and all the domestic staff for keeping us we another are onceterm. again grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Craik for looking after us, and in order.usFinally steering through MICHAEL MILLER. 128

MARLOWE

Lent Term ' blues' have nOJ beat'::'n~t"~n~a~~,;;~~~i~I~;;~ci Fuelled on doughnuts an curr.. into our schedule. theatrical, musical and sportIn~ ~"~mpg:Oduction of Blood There couldn't have been a . . . . f David Bond Wedding without Marlowe, In the persons 0 Robert Webb (splendid as theI bridegrdo.o~{~~t~~J %~~~~rsgt~'ers behind the shOWing his ta eots as II e ,

scenes . N' I . hh b Marlowe's answer to Ige In s!'ort Malcolm Smlt as eenmifinals of the inter House Short m leadIng his t~mlto th~as: been very well represented, chess. On the lakes, ar o;;;~ 'unior crews and led by the supplY I,ng Ben about hahlfIn~~e 1st JVIII . Several of our girls have . perenmal Lync . also starred in school sports teams. . . I d'fferent and a great success. Charlotte Blenkm, The Marlowe House concert was refreshIng y ~sible f~r getting it off the ground, and a &OO~ . C n beare and Richard Pentm were respo . so many in the House commi tte LucIa 0 ?ad by all. It was partic ularly encouragmg tO see been a winner but rehearsals were h project. The 'womblint turn to take 'a Sung Eucharist in fun, and ninth place was not a ad ~~f~ attracted a large congregation as always . the Crypt Just after half-tel m, an 0 ular and given many people yet On the social side our new Pool Table~a:t ~~~na~~~iee~ 'Po~l' Busiulll, our new monitor, another excuse not to &et on. wIth therr w~~~se.

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a chance to Impress hIs regIme. on the Dinner at the end of term, and look forward to the Finally, we all enjoyed the Sixth i~~~ ks go to Mr. and Mrs. Reid and to Joe. THE MON ITORS. Easter break. As always our specla n

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'So near and yet so far.' Our n~w trophy cabinet, ~I~ ~~~~ still somewhat Ralph and confldenc"j,. n e[he juniors reached the final s of the a truly valiant

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at the semifinal hurdle,. loslm~:i~a\~:~~u~he ~ther side of the neIghbours M.O. Nanowy d 'nto third place in the crosstriangle, Lmacre, O'e ~rulse. ~t Marlowe in table tennis and countr y. After a 5- fwm agam 'n chess we hope an upward some ImpreSSive per ormances I trend will continue . . .' '.. Sam Bain performed excellently. m thel. Y.D'n~logr~~~~ . of Blood Wedding, alo ng WIth A am a d nceded . not manage t0 'do it' in the House Song competItIon thIS yeal an co Unfortunately we dId our title to School House. . L'bb on her place at Oxford. .I . k have stuck together and Libby continues Will CongratulatIOns to I y . . the Luxmoore love hfe. NIck?,It ~ndLvlc On tocode. Morse Jane managed to lock m macrYe and Sophie , charmed by the raps of Dave, commutes to Broughton. .

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Finally. we must give our thanks to the trust monit . , ever-effIcIent Pauline and her mother Mrs Beddoes f .ors! the ~nvaluable domestic staff' h and especially Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge who have ui~ ~a2ng a out Our trivialities and probi 1 e and success to the end of another hectic term. g e uxmoore once more through faifu~: PETER COCKR ILL AND LIBBY ROB

INSoN.

GALPIN'S

'A cold coming we had of it' with man me b (including its Head) returni~g after S!spici~u:l~ ~;he H?use of tIme, wIth equally dubious account f . g penods and t?wering snow drifts. The House ~~onl~~~~table roads from Its boots, however, to brave the sportin field ed the I~e Topham reachIng the dizzy heights of 1st ~I b wIth JustIn hIS compatriots, Bill Floydd and Simon Beaugie len Â°thre2JoInIng Th f'f ' e nd XI . e I t~s once more proved that the could d . whl~ge, wIth Ric hard Girling, Bill Balle~den and ~ilor~ than plaYIng Colts A hockey and Ed Floydd Ton B es ones Flemmich Webb pl~ying :footer' for the 2nd XI. ~d ~ofn and ~Ie~ Jo~~s mahIntaIn their unflinching loyalty to the alJ.v~~d _ u ,w .1 e ot er members of the House brushed the b g frodm thffeIr sports gear to reach the semifinal of the c~OCwkebs an su er narrow defeat' th . ey, housematches. Congratulations also to Alex C ch dIne quarter-fmal of the football and 2nd hockey colours and to Ed Dykes fo Â°h ran e ,an Bill Floydd for their respective 1st G ., r IS 2nd s squash colours. alpm s also proved that there was a little so thO b the Final of the Academic Challenge but also b;eget:r;g 1\ween their ears, ~ot onl~ by reaching ex, T om and Kn s condItIonal offers to Oxbndge.

. Whether due to the winter conditions or to the I . . dIsappointingly dormant on the Galpin 's 'stud' sce e u~veness of foreIgners, things have been attempts to rectify this sorry state of affairs W~~' ~sl?lteIRandle Martm and Tap Dykes's relatIOnships (yawn), T. G. and S. J. G. retu;ned tlo"celf~S~cy~na and Sarah continued their TenSIon reached an all-time high (exit Serle Morgans Jamie Ral decldedthat, Grange House anthem or not 'God the All T 'bl ~h - F.1.0.M.) when Galpin's (a(l0logles to P.J.D.A.). Volume was re ained how ern e was not theIr favo urite hymn Kns whipped up enthusiasm (tee-hee) f~r the Maso~~~;'n,ro;.a~~o~ouse Song Competition, as The term has ended on a high note with the Hou PI huge success. Very special thanks must be given to t~e ay, Oh What a Lovely War, being a scene', Mrs. T., Maureen and Mary, and Mrs. Maitland f~om~t:;;, e~ undnotlced 'girls behind the r a e ar work they put In. Thank you also to Mr. Tennick Mr Trow II d M ' into a battlefield . Mr. B;odi; and ~r ~uesb~gl~;~fards Jor co~verting a basketball court energy they put into the play. The Ho~se remains ver y n~ef ImentIomng for all the time and for puttmg up with us all so well throughout the t y gra e u to Mrs . Jones and the cleaners

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Mr. and Mrs. Duesbury for another successful term. STEPHEN GRIMES AND THOMAS G RI EVES. 130

The Lent term ... snow ... ' flu ... and the inter-house crosscountry. It is not difficult to see why most of the school decided that an extra couple of days at home were called for. Linacre, at twenty, boasted the largest contingent, about a third of those who actually made it back on the first official day of term. We also supplied a third of the successful Ox bridge candidates . . . not bad for a house full of rowers! Our trumpet having been loudly blown, back to more important matters ... the inter-house football , for example. Belligerently led by Johann (who also got his second colours), our brain was narrowly defeated by the brawn of The Grange. The same house, however, provided easy meat for Nick Tothill in the Academic Challenge, though Mitchinson's got the better of us in the semifinals. On the subject of intellectual pursuits, four members of the 1st IX (i .e. including the cox) inhabited Linacre in the diverse forms of Paul, Jo, Keiron and James Robertson. P iers Gollop supplied uS with a winner at the Schools Head at Putney, stroking the J.14 Quad to victory. The interhouse cross-country produced an excellent team effort from all Juniors and Seniors, and the overall performance (2nd) was extremely pleasing. Our cultural attache, Whiteley senior, guided our House Song entry into an honourable fourth place, after much blood, sweat, toil and the occasional tear. Time was when Linacre men didn't know which end of a hockey stick to hold, but honour was upheld in all the hockey competitions this term. After the B.B.C. broadcast on 28th December (our last House Communion), we widened our horizons, included three other houses, and recorded a Matins for the World Service, going out on Easter Day to an estimated audience of ninety million . Passion abounded in the darkened corridors of Linacre this term. Although Jez was content to play the field, Jeremy and Bernadette seemed destined to ride off together into the sunset, but the latter evidently didn't like what she saw, and galloped over 10 Broughton. She may have bumped into Katie on her way over to Tradescant. Meanwhile Tim continued his 'discreet' liaison, Oily and Jane sparked lots of silly puns about keys and locks, while Mitchell senior continued his research into Jane Austen's best-known novel. . . Mr. Hone was full of blithe spirit in demanding a dinner date, and Jason's affair with the mUlti-gym showed no signs of dwindling. Finally, the usual but nonetheless heartfelt thanks go to Mary, Glenda and our cheery gang of irrepressible cleaning ladies; to Mrs. B. as she enters her last term as matron after some fifteen years in Linacre's hot seat; to P.J.D.A. as he too enters his last term at the helm .

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ANDREW M ITCHELL.

BROUGHTON

'If it' s worth doing, it's worth doing well.' This little motto applied to all cultural, intellectual and sporting achievements of the Empire this term . Following the freak snowstorm that hit Victoria Station, thereby delaying the start of term, Broughtonians soon began to show their true form. The first event to please everybody was the madness and masochism of the cross-country competition . With a generous splash of icy sleet and snow, just to give the nightmare a more realistic touch, the overall cup was retained in a fine all-round effort with particularly strong performances from Simon Pattullo, our Lattergate lad, Giles Andrews who steamed in 3rd and Jerry 'The Kid' Rowsell who went up an age group to come 7th in the seniors. The latter even picked up colours for his jogging exploits, which is what his study mate managed in the hockey world . James Harland-Fairweather decided that 13 1

a few spare colours ties wouldn't go amiss, although he was persua'/aluable 'dam t' to Thomas Baker, when he was back from one of his Kent goal-kelt our trivialit' es ICdstafP, Ihe squashed his way to colours, while Dave 'Benny' Laurence and re once more'~~ an problellls 'macho' soccer strip, also picked up well-deserved awards. Cor rOugh failure The suzerainty (had to look that one up) combined in both maKRILL AND LISa R Y OBINSON although being put under great pressure by the Trad lads, we rna in the final, with Mike 'leave it to the professionals' Holden sne. luck wasn't quite up to this in the hockey when we lost narrow I) turned when the six-a-side cup was snatched from the very sal' sedulous (also looked up) effort. Jodie 'Fats' Mycroft also pia) Having gained more silver to keep clean, the opening line is r took an airing. Chun-Yee 'Mr. General Knowledge '87' Pong stun two marks in the academic challenge, alt hough Captain Duthie i outstanding achievement. However, to give C-Y credit, we mac_ .___ â&#x20AC;˘ _ the chess competition ... to the second round, a success that earned tumultuous applause. Ne .. came the magnificent 'America', an 'original' rendition of wh ich earned praise from Luxmoor but not from the judges, so that we reclaimed the wooden spoon in stunning style (,If it's WOrt~

doing ... '). Captain Duthie also featured in a Broughton-dominated pornographic debate which just about rounded off the cultural side, except for the excellent performances in Blood Wedding of Loa Roberts, who together with Gabby Wilson and Jerry Rowsell certainly stole the show As for the music - well, we leave that to the hi-fis. . Socially, the House excelled . Mark 'Carrier' Evans laid on the six-course study feast and The Grange and Linacre Monitors enjoyed darts matches, the latter occasion marking a fa;ewell to the inaugurator of these gatherings . Neil Harvey James Bishop scared off yet another study mate, although Sarah Elizabeth Constance Ann Lyons is not to blame, we are assured by Slim Jim Muskett, as he takes over from Aids Unforth. 'Gland ular wot?' quoth Simon Stutts as Berni McCullough moved out of his life. Jerry 'Fl II' Rowsell didn't like the idea of getting airborne, but Blythe 'Telecom' Levett certainly did in her long-distance relationship, despile an anonymous valentine swamping the Trad. However, Lisa 'don't mention the white rose'

Lofdahl did enjoy 14th February regardless of the Grange intervention. Marc ' I like the pain' Overton continued his weighted boots jogging on Scotties, though Fiona 'Speed Walk Supremo' Chaffin looks likely to catch up. After Bear Hamilton's long-term hibernation, he's still 'Lee'ving well alone, but it's Mr. and Mrs. Laurence as well as Mr. and Mrs. Evans who are setting very different examples. Gabby 'twinkle toes' Wilson is enjoying oriental picnics between lacrosse matches, and Mike 'T. V.' Brooke is happy in his garden of Eden. Finally, Hugh 'Hendricks' Hawkins and Dave 'Knop fler' Walden heeded not the falling masonry as their strumming improved, in volume at least. Perhaps it was this that caused two 'fearless' Broughtonians to flee even before the fire alarm ... or maybe just the persistent T6 pyromaniacs who just could not put out the fire with their several (hundred) water pistols. Thankyous are due, of course, to Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, who with Mr. 'Gladstone Small' Hutchinson, have yet again kept the old maison running smoothly, and to the lovely ladies who keep it all in such good shape. PHILIPPE LACAMP.

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Tradescant remained very competitive this term on the sporting front with pleasing results in the mter-house cro~~~untry competition. The Senior team retained the cup, as I Im~t Attwood his first place, while the In~ers can:e a respecta e fourth The Juniors also deserve a speCIal mentIon, even though they ';ere not placed, as two of their te~m bravely ran eve~ though they were rather less than fit havmg i ust come out fa the San The Juniors' forte this term was an mdoor game, ar away f;om the snow .of Scotland Hills . They won the mter. . house chess competItIon. . A very dedicated Ailsa Buchan did a marvellous .Job of preparing organising and administering a very ~nJoyabl~ House C~ncert which was well up to her pre ecessors standards. Much of her time was spent rehearSIng numerous pieces for the concCl t, but sh~ also managed to fIt m reheal sals h House song competition and for a ' little' song she dId for the cancel t. b II b t for t e h d th t teamwork could enable them to eat a u On the football field Trad's boyss ow~ in athe Final to Broughton . Both Simon Attwo.od the most formidable opPodne~ts! 10SI~g of' ~laying for the 1st Xl and Simon got his hat tnck nd Nick Musson achIeve t elf goa s o . d itself another Captain, thIS tIme m ~y winning his thcird set of lS~ Cf:~~~~'3;J~~\ ~~i~ t~~;::e with Nick Daley and Toby Widdowso~ the form of Peter arrIngton w a h ' command la~ Gardener and Paddy Greenleaf playe (having overcome illness) playmgdunder IS d d lst'and 2nd Colours respectively. They both . ~ f r the 1st XI Hockey team an were awar e a esented the School at the Oxford Hockey FestIval. 0 f d re~ob Widdowson had a pleasant welcome b~ck to school, haVingSec~~e~~~s ,~l~~~t~ ~r~~~ padd/Greenleaf once agai n proved hIS thesPI~n '~t:r~:~~:~;:';t~~et in thegBiooze Brothers' production of Blood JÂĽeddtng. TIm ";elle;, ~li~s~n fOl his posters tehing us how many tickets Concert, while recognIltIonbmust go ttOula~~d fur winning (once again) the Kent U .18 epee. The .' d e left Jon must a so e congra wed . ' d rowed his way into the Great Britam JUnIor squa . . d un efSlgne . d Mrs Wetherilt the tutors the domestIc staff, an All my th~nks, once ~ga~l'l to ~rke~~ this house runni'ng smoothly and efficiently . NICHOLAS STEARNS of course MISS Bnne woe ps a

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Welcome back readers! Normal service has now been resumed and we apologise for the lack of recent publIcatIons: even we are not infallible! Things have been gomg ~long m o.ur ~on~:l busy way . 6a have been studymg hard, WIth the prIZeS ~' ~ most people in a 'two-man' study bemg awarded to e an I Bill ' 1 think it was seven boys and one glfl at the last ~ounJ' Otl{er studies have been full as well, with th~ m(lo~'to:s/~u~ accepting defectors from Marlowe, our nva s t m I s to Oaks being nearer!). The Removes have also been studying, with numerous essars to keep them busy, ranging from CND to. towels, some ve y interesting essays from Morgan Clarke (WIth so!"e helPbfro; M. Forbes and M. Biker Billot) and A. Clarke (It must e t e name). . Mitchinson's had its social event of the year thIS term, t~e House Concert with an energetic team of C. Barron,. . Pan . .. (1 can't 'spell the rest) and P. Burrell, constantly beIng III

reminded b~ Alice Cooper that it is actually supposed to be a 'musical ev~nt'. The even in very well, wIth only a few mmor problems such as lack of an accompanymg pianist (musf Went to tell the time Myles!) and slight embarrassment about standingin the fro!'t row . (than~earn fifths). All m all though, everythmg showed us to be the most musICal house m the school You though the adjudicator didn't quite take to the singing of the House Song. But don't':' even I'm sure, although we onl y came fifth, we will return next year to fight again, albeit undero rry : new management. Relationships in the house have been budding, helped no less by our Entrance Hall, the 'Ro study', with strong connections established now between Mitchinson's, Galpin's and The GranUSe (Thank you Becky Vye and Mark Adamson, or should it be congratulations!) ge. T he house has been doing its utmost to keep up the street cred ~s far as sj)ort is concerned with the hockey and chess teams progressmg well, only to. be deprived of their happiest hours' The Removes have, however, kept up our good name, wIth a few stili takmg lessons on ho~ to run round the Green Court, or Mint Yard, depending on how warm it is outside. Otherwise the Monitors li ke to watch from inside when it's cold. I would like to thank all those people who make the house such a happy place with their constant jokes and weird haircuts; prizes will be awarded to A. Fu llman and J. Williams. Thanks mUSt also go to the 6b girls (Lucy, Claire, and Caroline) for showmg our fIfth year how to socialize so that they will be ready to meet the next set of 6b girls. Congratulations must go as well t~ Nicky Clarke, who won the Valentine's Day Card Competition, but from whom were thOse flowers? (Meister Omers, perhaps?) Finally I would like to thank the monitors for standing firm against the vast number of excuses for going home early, for missing prayers or lunch, and for how tea bags defy gravity and always end up on the ceiling. Many thanks to Pam and Lorraine for keeping the House as tidy as is possible, with seventy_ six people fighting to make the most mess, and also to Mr. and Mrs. Turner who always back us up in times of rcal rebellion. PETER BURRELL.

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Despite a rather cold start to the term everyone soon settled back into the swing of things, including our four new boys: Cecil, Hardy, Scott and Yau. When the snow cleared and the sport started we managed to provide players in all teams of the sporting field. The football A team was regularly represented by both 'Kenny' Patullo and 'Bonzo' Yau. Unfortunately the team did not pull offa victory. The B team was represented by Christian Webb. On the hockey front we fielded three regulars to the A team: Phil 'Studio' Grove, and Steve 'should have been Captain' Connolly , and twin brother Marcus - who scored the team's only goal. The third major pastime, other than the new COT centre, that has drawn vast crowds, was rowing. Our budding oarsmen include Tim 'Mr. Big' Bagshaw who adamantly claims to be the best . oarsman of the year, and William Swanson who coxed a J .14 quad skull to victory and a gold medal at Putney . The first half of term flashed by despite the slow start and half term saw the departure of three loyal members of the Black and Blue crew: Bruce 'fingers' Marson, Chris and Zizzy Mitchell and the lovely Zoe de Linde. However, in their place another Broughton man was brought Ill, in the form of Jim 'Marine' Muskett partnered by the gentler touch of Laura 'we all adore her' Goodhart, both of whom were immediately welcomed and settled quickly. Il4

. . al than the first hal f with events such as d half of term was deflmtely more cultur hole-hearted rendition of Blow A way n m etition. For thIS the house sung a w The seco H ever this was probably due e hoUse song cO 1t.ich ained them a credItable 8th place. ow nd' Miss Wilcock. Also on ~~e MOr/lj~~~~~ of Adrfan and the professio~al c~ac~~nro~Yhfsds~perb duet during a Matins to the C?n font we must congratulate Ale~an er ar n r the StD ;ot be bettered until he smgs agam. h' the finals of a composition competition that wI ez also revealed his talents by reac mg Beaupr . h h' I k -Kart edal around the Green Court JaspeJelightful choral piece. We WIS 1m uc . wIth a h last Sunday of term we completedda 10hOO~W~y~0 outinis and regular play groupS for On t e. named 'Contacts', that provl es for a char~~ children. We managed to raise almost ÂŁ500. ver des ite there only being as handlcaPdParound the house the atmosphere hd been ~ss~~::rl ~~I~OWS thr~ugh violent sleepin g In an . . Seneschal have manage to wrec m Up in Link we foun d eighW"tI'~~~~~~~~~s perfected scaling the d~~ m the c:~ee?:h~~e :;e~t their time. fightir:rg or and I gular Romeos in Atchmso n an f'lthaway m and the danger of low flymg objects, our . twOl'ngrewomen. Due to the potent odour . 0 t e roO dlscuss . . ' a week as Ed improved were brave enough to venture m. not mhan~onitorS' study Jim and Aids Hlok a qUhi~k :'k~C;:;:~~d~~g~t~en he wasn't amorously In t e h . culminating m a fme catc ro Ad . ent most of hIS time his pUII~~!e~a~'~~:ping a well-deserved place in the. ISt~~I1Is\' XI ~~~t~~II. Jim was regularly Involve st but eventually found tIme to Play mb . plaster ca , '1' . full com at gear. :~ te found embarking on a ten ml e Jog m f keeping the house clean and tidy. Also we . we must thank Brenda and the gang or r various injuries, and Mr. and Mrs. h FI~at.7rs. Maitland for being ever-pre~~nt to dC':::e~?~gO~S all under their watchful care. ~~~ne for running the house so smoot Y an ADRIAN LiNFORTH.

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REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC AND DRAMA MARLOWE HOUSE CONCERT -"

SATURDAY, 7th FEBRUARY, IN THE SH IRLEY HALL The concert commenced in a n imaginary aeropla ne with 'stewardess' Joanna Prophet telling Ihe audience the correct mode of behaviour . She continued to act as a highly a musing compere throughout the evening. T he first performance , Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler? was a flu te duet played by Heid i Lowe and Charles Gooderham. The Shell Orchestra - of six _ then gave an extremely lively account of the Teddy Bears' Picnic, which Robert Webb followed with the Golliwog's Cake Walk by Debussy. A good attempt at this difficult piece was only slightly marred by nerves . A Violin Duet, Duos abecedaires by Mazas, played by Peter Cairns and James Gooderham, came across well, with good intonation for the most part. A very moving performance of the Cavatina from The Deer Hunter by Heidi Lowe on the flute preceded the Ja zz Band (fourteen from Marlowe plus two others) who gave a lively and well played performance of Pink Panther and New York, New York. Probably the most amusing event of the evening was the Minuet by Paderewski played by Robert Webb, Lucia Conybeare and C harlotte Blenkin, its recital made comical by exaggerated expression, swaying from side to side in the waltz-like sectio n and taking eno rmo us breaths between sections. There followed a n anonymous Gigue for violin and flute played by C harles Gooderham and Anthony Michael. No insecurity was noticeable in the performance, even though the latter had only stepped in at the very last minute. Henry Purcell's Trumpet Tune, performed by Robin Scott, was excellent, and showed off his ability to the full. The Marlowe Choir brought the concert to a close with Bring Me Sunshine and Anything You Can Do, the latter with new words such as 'our gowns are purpler than yours'. The singing was good, and almost off by heart, rounding off a very enjoyable concert most effectively. GABRIELLE SO LTI.

TRADESCANT HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 28th FEBRUARY, IN ST. AUGUSTINE'S DI NING HALL The mood was set by Quentin T homas's organ playing which welcomed the arriving audience from the next door chapel, prelude to a remarkable feat o f endura nce by Quentin as he accompanied or took part in every item in the concert. Three other music scholars also stood out. Thomas Dyson played a C lementi Piano Sonata in C (3rd mo vement) with understandi ng, making good use of the sonorities o f the piano. Nicholas Goodwin, both in his solo (Theme a nd Variations I & 2 from Chopin's Variations on a theme of Rossini) and in ensemble at the beginning exhibited technical ab ility and a nice tone. And with superb feeling a nd interpretation Ai lsa Buchan showed the musicianshi p of an experienced performer in Saint-Saens's Allegro Appassionato. Moreover the whole concert was a testimony to her a bility. 137

The ensembles did not quite match th I. to solve problems of intonation and bal=~e lIgh standards, probably needing more . ihdelr Own in alternating solo passages. (Ag~~~''}!t a blarger gro up. Nevertheless th:'p~e logether e to more communication um a and Bolero.) A quicker p aYers held Th H ' ace.might h e Ouse Orchestra, which numbered twent . aVe Amencan style (La Cucurachaj Old J, Cl y players, played wIth spirit captu . chosen by their conductor Mr Bill M ~e ~~k and Shortnin' Bread made 'up a nng the lalin hard work. A special mention ~Iso to ~heo;~~Js~ho must be thanked for this grea!~ond'vO\ Piec~ It would be too len th t Âˇ . on sectIOn and Emma Conyers On th 0 Untary Tradescant's depth olm1sic~{~~~~W every Item m d~tail. For the record, and d e maracas. D mmor, 3rd movement (Giles HO';;b:~' tl::'lioth'1[ p,eces wer~: Vivaldi's Concer~~~slraling f~Valm% b~ Myers and Laine (House Choir)' ~~ra~urtd ~e~m Th<:>mas and Ailsa B~sha in apso y m G mmor by Brahms (Q r' Th an e y ach (SImon Mohr on Ih Can); (Hogben/B uchan /Thomas); and finall uen m omas); Finale from Trio in G e horn); T~ smgmg of Ihe latter brought a hi~~~; ~~~se Songi The Blue Tail Fly, by Wilson ~~d ~ahYdn an neatl y ro lled up shirt sleeves A . esslOna approach, exemplified b h . reI. was Ailsa singing with (or maybe"in ~p1~p~nn.?tu a1d memorable addition to tlie tp:o unIform Les Mlserables. It was a thoroughly enj Oyablea:~ni~:~rns and John Rawlinson a Pie~~a~: CH RISTOPHER WH ITELEY.

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THE MITCHINSON'S HOUSE CONCERT SATURDAY, 14th MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

This proved to be the usual successful mix of genuine artistic achievement and some lighter ments with an important emphasis on participation,everyone providing what th~y could from ma m Martin's excellent programme deSIgn to the Wmd Group whose relatIvely mexpenenced lei rye er~ produced an entertaining performance of Offenbach's Can-Can, despite a certain lack p ofaconfl'd ence. II was good to see such a large proportion of the house featured in the house song and some f the other unison choral items, which ranged from It's a long way lO pack up your troubles The Gas Man Co meth to When I'm sixty-four, and included two irems by the ladies o f the ~~use. All these various pieces were sung with admirable accuracy and diction, although a little more communication wo uld have been nice . Fla nders and Swann 's Smoking is permitted . .. was a successful inclusion also. There were splendid solo contributions from Myles Bowker, who thundered through the Rondo from Weber's first Piano Sonata with his customary panache, having already done a lot of accompanying, and Sarah Beinart, whose spirited Bartok (Roumanian Dances Nos I, 5 a nd 6) was admirably accompanied by Alice Cooper who had masterminded the concert and seemed to be everywhere, putting a great deal of effort into directing nearly all the various ensembles with great skill. Matthew Forbes a nd Ben Cooper performed their cello duet (an Allegro by John Alcock) with a good sense of musicianship. T hey were joined by Sarah and Alice for David Stone's Miniature Quartet No. I, played with combined dynamism a nd musical sensitivity. The Concert was rumbustiously concluded by the Jazz Band who played with confidence and flair , Michael Bayne (piano) , Adrian Fullman and Joshua Lumley (guitars) and Timothy Watson (drums).

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THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF NEW YORK VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE SATURDAY, 21st MARCH, IN THE SI:JIRLEY HALL

The range of styles in this concert was quite form idable when one thinks that many people would be totally mystified by the idea of 'Vocal Jazz'. The ensemble performed arrange ments of traditional standards - The Boogie- Woogie Bugle Boy, as well as A Weather Report Song, - Birdland, and a recent number one in the British charts - Stand By Me by Ben E. King. The last of these was a more or less unaltered rendition of the original song and everybody knew it and enjoyed it probably because of the absence of ' that' video. Perhaps the most exciting moments of the concert were those songs in which the whole group was involved, including Sombrero Sam which sounded very Mexican and Mr. Postman, a number performed last year by the same group . The audience was even allowed to participate in this by handclapping. This is not to say, ho wever, that there were no good solos. Indeed the boy who performed Steam rollin ' Blues was especially admirable, and provided a real sense of communication with the audience. Earlier in the concert, there was also a remarka ble fema le solo called I got it bad and that (lin't so good. Although sometimes rather out of tune, there was a great deal of feeling and emotion in this number. Other very good solos came in the form of 'scat' singing, in the numbers in whic h the whole group sang. T he boy who sang in Jumping with Symphony Six, came out with a jumble o f nonsensical sounds, in betwee n prefixes of 'I say .. .' and 'You say .. .'. Despite this, however, you could almost tell what he felt whilst singing the mere sounds, and this, as all Jazz musicians will tell you, is the whole point of Jazz . 139

The mixture and excitement of the music led to the 'crowd' requesting three encores . were all very well performed. Other remarkable parts of this concert were the tight rhyth~ wh,ch which accompanied the ensemble, the rather silly but very funny dancing, and most Ofg;rup the A.!, Cool Dude who introduced each number. a _ JAMES GUMPERT.

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND BAND CONCERT SUNDAY, 81h MARCH, IN THE SH IRLEY HALL

It was most pleasing to see so many school musicians, both as soloists and orchestra plaYers making a concerted effort to produce a varied and entertaining programme. The Chambe: Orchestra, led by Alice Cooper, accompanied Katharine Hamilton in the first movement of Bach's E major Violin Concerto. The soloist played accurately and fluently, although the performance was the dogged a somewhat slow speed and lack of sparkle, perhaps due to the difficult key for stringbyplayers. Peter Apps gave a sensitive account of the slow movement of Mozart's Oboe Concerto, shaping the long poignant phrases, although perhaps mOre could have been made of the expressive chromatic at the end?inflexions. Who was the VIP in the front row to whom the soloist gave a low bow The Chamber Orchestra seemed much more at ease with the first movement of Mozart's D minor Piano Concerto. Kristian Belliere showed himself to be a pianist who promotes art and technical skill to produce a thoughtful and intelligent performance. There were a few rhythmically unstable moments in both the piano and orchestral parts, but on the whole the sound was well balanced . Rapport was lost at the end of Beethoven's cadenza, itself played with great spirit. I f the pianist was sometimes drowned by the orchestra, the situation was reversed in the last movement of Mendelssohn's G minor Piano Concerto. Myles Bowker handled the almost COntinuous stream of scales and arpeggios with an astonishing command of technique, bringing out the work's buoyant energy and elemental sincerity, but one could have wished, perhaps, for some more variation in tone and pacing by way of contrast. At the end the soloist showed that he had been taught to bow correctly. The School Band next treated us to Rimsky-Korsakov's Trombone Concerto. James Lawrence as soloist played with great competence and sk ill, but at times his tone suffered from having to compete with the band which tended to over-dominate. The demanding cadenza, with its extremes cough . of register, was impressive and one low fundamental note sounded rather like a coarser Colonel Neville dedicated the performance of four movements from Music jor a Festival by Gordon Jacob, who died last year, to the composer's memory. The Band played with rhythmic incisiveness and a rich sonority, although some sections were inclined to play too loud , causing problems of balance. In the final March the brass certainly took the biscuit and brought the evening to a cracking conclusion. Despite the small audienc'e and one or two notes on the piano being wincingly out of tune, it was an enjoyable evening and the soloists, especiall y, deserve high praise for both their courage and skill. S.J.R .M. 140

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CONCERT'N'COFFEE SATURDAY, 21st MARCH, IN THE SH IRLEY HALL For the third time this academic year, the Wind Society and the Second Orchestra mounted a public concert together for charity. Clearly, the regu lar exposure these young musicians have had recently is proving very beneficial. In this concert, the ensemble was usually very crisp indeed, and the tone full of body when occasion demanded: the strings a nd brass were especiall y impressive, and there were during the evening some really exciting and convincing climaxes . The concert began with the Wind Society, who launched into Purcell's Rondeau from Abdelezar (known to many as the theme used in Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) : this was a confident start, well together and firm ly rhythmical. The percussion section in a n inexperienced orchestra is frequently just behind the beat, but there was no such frailty here, the pulse being kept moving along successfully. Next came Weber's (not Haydn's, which was performed last term) March/or the Royal Society 0/ Musicians. The central section of this piece did not work quite as well as the rest of it, with the youthfulness of the players showing up once or twice in muddied rhyt hms, but the music was quick ly brought back on the ra ils. Kingsbury's The Clowns posed an arit hmetical conundrum, with five trombonists perform ing a trio! - the riddle remained unsolved, though, as the typically fruity trombone 'slides' permeating the piece diverted my attention . There then came what was for me the highlight of the evening, an arrangement by Walters of parts of the Finale of Dvorak's New World Symphony. Such arrangements are often far from satisfactory, both as writing and in performan ce, but Ihis one was extremely effectively written a nd played. Perhaps the brass could have let themselves go just a little in the principal theme, but the climax of the work was thrilling, executed with fine control and an admirable fulness of tone, while the final chords we re extraordinarily crisp. Walters' original piece Night Beat was a total contrast, evok ing a jaunty New York cop, a gang of hoodlums, the Chinese qua rter and even, by the sound of it, a murder, Luckily Mr. Wenley, the perpetrator, was not arrested and was able to manipulate his bassoon in the final item of the first half, two move ments (Allegro a nd Andante) from Handel's Water Music. The Anda nte is difficult to bring off, lacking a firm rhythmic dri ve, and not all the players were always in quite the same place, while the Allegro is made up chiefly of phrases which begin off the beat - a recipe for disaster. However, although there was a lac k of tautness in the rhythm, all came together successfu lly at the end of the movement. After a short interval, a small section of the Second Orchestra accompanied Myles Bowker in the Larghetto from Mozart's 0 Major Piano Concerto K.537, under the baton of Kristian Belliere. This was delicate a nd controlled playing by Myles, with Kristian coaxing a sensitive accompaniment from the orchestra . It was un for tunate that the woodwind were noticeably sharp (though in truth surprising that this fa ult had not surfaced before), and more unfortunate that the second-best piano was used. Before the fu ll Second Orchestra began its programme, Dr. Stuart Field described the need for a Cancer Care Unit at the Kent a nd Canterbury Hospi tal, the appeal for which still needed ÂŁ200,000 . Whether the ÂŁ180 raised at the end of the concert would have been larger or sma ller had Dr. Field not prevailed upon Mr. McConnell to join him in a performance of Mr. McConnell's own Reel Fiddling, for two violins, is not known: the extra item was a treat, though, the technical virtuosity o f the executants a nd Dr. Field's shirt being equally dazzling. After this, the Second Orchestra took over in earnest, with a rous ing performance of the Grand March from Verdi's Aida: this had a steady pulse throughout, with some stylish trumpet playing. J. S. Bach's Passepied had a well-controlled li ne, the three beats in a bar nicely delineated and carrying the music along confidently: the violi n tone was especiall y pleasant. T he pieces selected from Praetorius' Early Dance Suite, and Telpsichore by the same composer, a ll need very accurate and musical playing before they can come a live: a lmost any orchestra can sound competent in loud, firmly rhythmical music, but it is far harder to bring off quieter a nd less extrovert pieces. t43

These did not, perhaps, qu ite Succeed bu t d" mtonation problems with the oboes there wc~e It IS due for a good attempt, and 1000-note service before the last two items the;, no r;al '!' Ishaps, It was now time ; part from ~as a fugue and not a fudge: c1earl , e Irst a whIch was a Fugue by Hand Or a qUick fIrst tIme in the evening though t/' ~ ~reat deal of practIce had gone into the el. ThIs really of a race : again, thou h th ,mp a IOn ,got the better of the 'cellos and PIece, For th ~act that this was the f~s; sU~hgr~d~~~t:~~r;~ ~,~ these ,young musician~ was t~~~~:vas a hin~ one , The fina l item, Clare Grundma~'s T: a I was nghted before any serious dent In Ihe pleasam contras t. After the militar _ 'he Blue and the Gray, was another carnage Was ~ecognrSed, and there were welcome ~~I~~nf~~r;;; t~eg:nn~ng came s~veral familiar ~u~~lele and bOnathhan hSampson's was especially good, Again a eCOe;f'~rs of thde cellos, violas and vi6/ asI/y roug t t e concert to a rousing end I en t an pohshed performa Ins I ' nee, Which , t was a thoroughly enjoyable eveni 'h ' Wmd Society and Ihe Second Orche ng, WIt plenty of vanety of style and colo accomplishment and musicianshipstr: ~ave ma~e great strides since last Septembe~r. BOlh ,Ihe McConnell is to be congratulated fO ~ ,c~n he well pleased with their achieveIn technIcal r rammg t em to such a high standard, menl: Mr,

ME~TEROMERSHOUSECONCERT WEDNESDAY, 18th FEBRUARY, I N THE OLD SYNAGOGUE Penny- Wh istle Rock (Desmond Blake) Scherzo from Sonata (Poulenc) John Tegner (piccolo) To all you ladies no w on land Peter Apps (oboe) , (Callcott) Foresters sound the cheerful horn Man a Clellg, Paul Solway, (BIshop) Robert WIlson and Ju lian Cridge (ATBB) La Fiancee Imaginaire (Paul de Sennev'lI ) , Allegro moderato (from Op 8) (Pieyel I e Mark MaJurey (piano) You don't have to say you're sorry ) ~~~ertcfllson a.od Edward Hillier (violins) An excerpt from The Importance 0' ~ , egl (voIce and piano) Fi S ' ,etng arnest (Oscar Wilde) Study in D (Heller) ana tewart and J,!ha Warrand~r StGirway to Heaven (Paige and PI t J uhan Cndge (plano) tnC;:lher , Sentimental Interlude (Lo~~s~r Porte?aGe~~Donnell land Spencer Santry (guitars) me ey mcluded num bers from Guys and Dolls i~ ,WIn etc , , The Sound 0' M "S h ,Mr. Duncan Cra~t(~i~t~;) the productIOn at King's in 1985) W I ' USIC, out Pacific (Rodgers and H ' (Ma ters) The Meister Omers House Band ammerstem); Semper Dixieland (Sollsa _ ,ark MaJurey, James Thomson Dan Smith Pel A Cndge, David Atkins, Anthony 'Gillespie-S~ilh (LxjP~ Ed;ard Cargill, John Tegner, Julian (Mr. Stephen Matthews was the acc~m;~ni~U~h%~~~~UI) 144 (COlllillued on page 157)

Lisa Lofdahl (A6b) nce upon a time, a very, very long time ago, there lived a little happy man in a little, little

.b~ visited by many a little schoolgirl and schoolboy every day. Now this little man was actually

I all that little at all, for he was a great master of Iiteiature and was admired by an the people JOtslde his kingdom. He breathed, ate and drank literature every minute of his day and so much literature come to be treasured by him that he felt himself rise through it, drawing all his I hty strength from every word, and grow very, very strong. In fact, he could not imagine without his literature and so surrounded himself by it in his little library, where all four ",Us were supported by great works of great authors, and it became his castle and he its king, "here he could muse over his great treasure without ever having to fear a moment of his life "lthout it. But like all wealthy kings, this little man grew restless and yearned for more, so once all the reat books of literature around him had been cross-examined and analysed many a time over ~nd over again until they returned to their shelves, dog-eared, yellowed, lifeless and exhausted, he turned towards his apprentices with a hungry eye. So much was he in the habit of intruding upon their innocent adolescent minds with the most outrageous of interpretations, that books wilted before their eyes or were transformed into the most bizarre pieces of art. Thus, one day, he demanded that each of his apprentices should bring to him a fairy tale produced from their own imagination. So hungrily did he look upon them that each struggled for weeks on end, finding it impossible to carry out the task demanded because they all feared him and his ruthless interpretations more than death itself, for in their tales he would undoubtedly find the greatest signs of frustration or peculiarity that the subconscious mind of Ihe adolescent ever could produce. Thus, one evening, the little starved man, having collected all the fairy tales, snuggled up by his desk and began to read and absorb. But all had been so carefully written that all he could find to analyse was a little disorientated punctuation mark: a dark, slightly smudged full-stop. And the little man was so delighted to find this at last that he gathered up all his magical powers and analysed it as hard as he could. Indeed, he tried so hard and for so long that the punctuation mark grew and grew before his eyes until it was big enough to gobble the little man up (which It did). The following morning all his apprentices could find was the desperate red tick by the full stop and the hurriedly scrawled words - 'Good point'. And they lived happily ever after.

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Sholto Byrnes (Ra)

(fa ne plus change pas

Dawn rose in the silence of the eternal city. Dim, soft-filtered light broke the shadows of the night through the mist, and blurred the outline of the taU cool buildings, their whitewashed stone now rosy-pink and warming in the early sun. In the distance, the Asir mountains basked in the warmth, standing strong and resplendent in purple and grey, yet comforting in their familiarity just across the sands from the city. And suddenly, bursting simultaneously from all the minarets in the sleepy city, came the muezzin: 'Allah akhbar, Allah Muhltzar.' As the Imam continued Ihe prayer, the city stirred and came to life. Within minutes it was quiet again as the people of Mecca resumed their prayers in the Grand Mosque, the Sharrif's Mosque, and hundreds of smaller ones scattered like gems amongst the walled houses, palaces and slums. The mist had lifted, and the temperature was rising fast. In a tin shack on an abandoned building site in the poorer quarter of Mecca, Nadia ibn Mohammed AI Qareshi turned over on her mattress. The shack was very frail, its back part of an old wall, and the roof a large sheet of corrugated iron held up by four rusty iron poles - there were no other walls. In front 145

lay mounds of bricks and plaster, bent metal bars and othe db' sound of martial music, and then a news bulletin r e rJS. From the radio start d 'I h . e tht n t e name of Allah, the most beneficent the most kind the northern frontier have won a glorious vict ' . ' the most good. Our fo st~ate~ic point~ in the enemy's defences.' Out Wt~~a~~:~!~~;~e~y. T~ey ~ave captur;~e!i~n ~hmbmg the .slde of the radio. Reaching for her flip-flop she e. ey; adla saw a Cockroa ~ It on the radIO, knOCking it over and switching it off at ihe samalmet' carefully and sqUasbed 'P t't b k . e Ime. e u I ac on NadIa,' murmured her mother still I 'dl . er I~t it and trie~ to get back to sleep. Later, when the s~~g~~s he~::.ng ~n hh mattress. Nadia s e got up qUIckly and went out of the shack The rubb 109 00 ot to stay in be feet. Finding her other friends she spent the ;est of th Ie ha~ grown ~IOt, and hurt her b d, , e rnornmg runmng afO d ' are At noon h~r mother called her back. It was time to olookin f u~ Wltb tbem. for r.ot ~ommg back earlier. ~nmmaging through agskip the; e~~!~:~lan: Na~la was scolded

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The old hermit

Timothy Watson (A6b)

Once there was a tall tower at the Corne f T which was hidden deep in the heart of a r ~e:t ~:::~ Ic:nt castle. that lao!' in a lush green valley Merryness, was the summer residence of tge king 0' thO t Imo~nta~"J' ~hlS castle, the castle of when .the sun travelled joyfully his course around the w"or an an. un.ng .the summer mont bs, shootmg off finely-crafted rays of light in all direcfo :~~ Shak\n g hIS flOe golden mane and and sports and every other kind of ent. Ins,. IS ca~1 e was Ihe cenlre of jousting castle was heavily Ornamented with 1~;::I=~~~~~h:: the I~gen~"~ of a king could devise. Tbe Ihe light summer rains (which :'hen the came we nnac e ~n t ere a gargoyle spewing out land like a slream of melled quicksilver i~ the moar es, ~.hey sa!d, Ihe sO~lesl. in the kingdom) 10 back the sunlighl off the surface of Ihe water But tlmmermg and ghttermg as they bounced for it had been buill by a skilled giant mason ;"an rna one greal tower 'Yas smoolh and white, y any years ago, and It had bnt One window at the very lop, and that small and sparlan.

In Ihe greal tower of Merryness lived a man Ihou hI b II he was younger, so the slory ran, he had done a f g y a 10 ~e rather mad - but when the last dragolls to invade Ihe kingdom or some sllcha;.o~r fO~ the hkmg , perhaps slaying one of Ihere. He was a knighl and his name was S. a ,an so I e conrtloleraled his presence of him called him 'the king's hermit' He Ir Jt':t de Ga~sbrough, bllt everybody thaI knew Ihe tower he lived in and nearly as I~n a~~s h~ no,,:, WlI.h a beard as white as the walls of shunning for Ihe most parI the friVOlit;'of the 10~ad hved m Ih~ lower for nearly a century, his lower only to spend privale audiences with th g sum.mer reSIdence, and descending from loved 10 lislen to the long yarns spun by his ol~y~UI~f kmg,;'ho for some inexplicable reason of Ihe year in silent contemplalion was bare of furn':h' eaxe. d IS garr~t, where he spenl much , I mgs an lapeslnes, and contained merely 146

'Inple straw mattress, a rude pinewood desk and an ancient oak bookshelf strewn wilh old â&#x20AC;˘ s~J1S leather-bound records and fragile early manuscripls, which he delighled to study - a ,cr ng~ home for a favourite of the king. Many considered him soft in the head; some thoughl Sl~ he had been wounded by a woman many years ago; few voiced the view that he was losl ~h his own myslery, allhough that was perhaps closer t() the truth. But Jay de Garsbrough knew ~hY he had wasted his life in solitude. He was waiting for the fairies to return. They had come 10 him in a warm autumn evening long ago now, and the memory of their oIning was still what he saw as he awoke in Ihe morning. For his high seat in the lower, whence ~c had venlured to escape the vulgarity of the royal banquet in the great hall beneath Ihe castle, Ihe young knight saw firsl a solitary, wispy figure floating ethereally on the gentle evening breeze. Hc blinked, Iwice, for the romantic lales of the old court bards can do strange things to a young lad's imagination. But no; there was another, and then another, another, a group, a cluster,

n whole host of glorious beings swooping and dancing in Ihe air, ebullient and graceful. Their wings delicate in hue and substance, caught the light of Ihe firsl few slars, and as Ihey fluttered .st ~reated a blur of lexture and fancy, a wondrous mesh of blues and greens and pinks that rilled the air around him. All at once his ears were filled with music, nol Ihe bawdy viol and hnrp of the minslrels down below, but whole orcheslras of angelic melody - the music of Ihe spheres could not rival il in beauty or grace; and with Ihe waves of sound came a powerful wash of heady perfume, like thaI of which Ihe smell of foresl flowers in the spring is only an earlhly shadOW. He stood allhe liny window, drinking deep in his heart of the sublime display, all senses, nil emotion, surrendering to il. Now, suddenly, almosl without realising it, he is drawn Ollt among liIeIn, swimming madly among the dream, grasping handfuls of air and raining them down on Ihe darkening earth benealh. At last he is dancing wilh a fairy maiden beautiful beyond Ihe dreams of mortal man or powers of language to express, proud and regal as she draws him to her and wallzes swiftly about the sky ... And the night is upon Ihem and Ihey are gone, and Jay de Garsbrough is slanding atlhe window of his garrel, a smile in his heart too deep to reach his face, left with an unbearable, delicious feeling of regret and remembering. Such a display has never seen the light of mortal man before, nor ever will again - save perhaps once. But Jay de Garsborough waits, alone and unearthly in his fantasy world, waiting for a dream thaI may never come.

Il was nighl again, and Ihe old man scI foot on the firsl step of the long, winding, crumbling marble staircase Ihatled eventually to his room at Ihe lop of Ihe greal tower. His thoughlS that night were unusually vague, and he found it hard 10 concentrale on his steps - his hearl seemed tired and he wanted only to rest. But all at once he thoughl he heard a snalch of a longremembered melody, and his soul was filled with a wild excitemenl as Ihe lower was filled with light, blue and pink and green and bright. There before him stood the maiden he had danced with a hundred years ago, and he knew now Ihat she musl be a queen; her coronel gleamed with emeralds and her light wings fluttered gracefully as she beckoned the old knight to her with a smile on her face ... It was Ihe young king who found the body of Sir Jay de Garsbrough. It lay ou the palliasse in the room at the lop of the lower, which was filled with a wondrous sweet smell of burnt roses. The king had his old storyteller buried with all the great pomp and ceremony due to a knight of Ihe Lower Order (needless to say Ihe chancellor advised his young monarch against any higher honours for such a 'man of mixed inlerpretation', as he put it). The royal monument is crumbling now, and a family of foxes has made its home in the sepulchre; but Jay de Garsbrough is young agaill, freed from the confines of his earthly body, and a great king of faery leading his people in the stately dance with his queen by his side. On a cold night in winter, they can come down to earlh and play in the forest; but the hand of man has long ceased to set foot in Ihat part of the world, and Ihe palace of Merryness is now a rambling ruin. All save the lower, that is, which, standing proud and tall among the Irees, is a monument 10 whal man might have been and a beacon to the glorious future Ihat is still a possibility. Lift your head from schoolbooks and look towards the mounlaius - do it loday!, and you might espy it there; for it can still be seen. 147

Thomas Grieves When the sun comes out You could almost believe in God, Sitting on a fence, Filling in the divorce papers. You could almost think - Hey! Everything's gonna be alright. We'll survive apart. And you do. Sitting on a fence. After all it's only a game, really. It started with jelly And ended with napalm. It's all man, and he's goin' places. But when the only going-home Present you get is a plink-plink-fizz You're left asking Is this me? Is this all? Turn on the lights And all we find ourselves doing Is stumbling sideways, Still hand-cuffed to the cot.

Bleak School

Stephen Preece (RbI

Canterbury. Lent term lately begun, and the housemasters sitting in seemingly empty houses. Inexorable January weather. As much snow in the streets as if the Polar ice caps had but recently retired from our county, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, twenty yards long or so, slithering and dithering down some Palace Street pavement. Villages inaccessIble in the snow, and cars scarcely better, buried to the very windscreen. Foot passengers, kIcking one another's snow-boots in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foothold at street corners, where the snow clings tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulates at compound interest. Then a thaw. And then the slush. Slush everywhere: slush on the Kentish heights, and slush in the lowlands of Thanet; slush in the Medway dockyards, and slush all the way up the M2, lying deep in the fast lane to terrify the drivers of speeding Mercedes. Slush on the boots and sticks of the ancient Kentish pensioners, wheezing down the lanes to their homes; and slush up the trouser legs of the poor King's Scholars, sitting sodden in afternoon school. And the cold is coldest, and the snow snowiest, and the slimy slush slimiest as we approach nearer that over-decorated Gothic-arched obstruction, that appropriate ornament for an ageing religion: the Metropolitan Cathedral of Canterbury. 148

(Jonathan Marshall)

LINING UP

LOOKING ON (T.R.H., Marlin Birnhak)

(T.R.H.)

Timothy Briggs (A6al ", life: . ... haded room that stmks of sweat "I~h no windows, just a cat-hatch. ~.e is a person visiting for a second, 1ben a stained coffee-cup thrown into " Jug of scaling acid I'll buy tomorrow. success is a nail in the wall, propping up a very nice van Meegeren, don 'I you Ihink, Soon too small to be noticed What with the fire-engines clanging past outside "n d people watching, maybe. No wind but my own breath, reminding me Itnt alive, for now.

On the Rocks

William Henderson-Deeves (5rl

As Nicola slammed the front door on Paul, he was already half way down the drive to the car. He would return later for his clothes. Approaching the Vectar, he sensed its lethal power, constrained only by a galvanised skin. As the driver's door hydraulically reared up, he noticed the gear box built into its slender side, and remembered how thankful he was that it hadn't been between Nicola and himself on their first drive, when they had stopped for half an hour on a hard shoulder between London and Dover. Their love had been so perfect, so smooth, emancipating his lust - so where had they read the signs wrong? He twisted the key in the dashboard, feeling the engine lurch with the pain of the igniting petrol, the computerised speedometer eyeing him suspiciously. As the power-assisted steering swung the car round, the supercharger obeyed his kick at the accelerator, throwing the car backwards and showering the mown lawns with gravel. 'Now!' he threatened, observing his own expression in the mirror: 'Now!' Nicola, still trembling from the violence of the confrontation, leant against the bannister, feeling the pressure of its solid form on her slender body, like some pathetic substitute for Paul. And, as her tears began to fall, the clouds continued their downpour, soft rain quietly blinking on the dusty earth outside. Deep within the core of the Vectar, the pistons pumped furiously. Paul's heart bucked, exhaling its bloody breath. As he spun round a corner, the advanced braking system screamed, spewing sparks. By now, Paul was in the countryside, which was covered by a hazy golden cloud, and droning with busy insects. In a moment, his rage left him, and instinctively he picked up the car phone to call Nicola, taking his eyes off the steamy road. He never saw the flimsy fence, separating the road from the chalk escarpment; in fact, he never felt himself fall. Nicola, still tearful, was driving to her mother's in the Ford Fiesta, and she saw, in the distance, a badly crumpled car, shrouded in misty black fumes of burning petrol. 'Will they ever learn?' she wondered, turning on the radio. 153

Nora MeC au ,ey (As

Buned deep in busil borr' . surrounded by the siale Sh~~~:~g ~~~eflY skimmed quotations, after the disturbance of the door aln~ary atmo~phere, I surrendered part of m b snowy air, yOU came in to ~ new smell, that wa: y:u~k-marked territory, happily chos~n, ~~ICh spoke of recent coffee and the cold ere. went my concentration, briefly as';'y

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Id be heard, as the many ghosts walked their rounds. It was a terrifying place, and the beauty Uddered voluptuously. The Duke considered her for a moment, then pressed the ejector button shUt to him. The beauty went flying, through the night air, to land on the cruel rocks beneath dtX lhe castle. t. hunchback, with a cast in one eye, and a pronounced limp, hobbled to open the door of Ihe carriage. 'Good evening, Hudson. I trust some entertainment has been prepared for me?' 'Well, grovel, grovel, sir, it is a little difficult to purchase black leather and whips in the village, 'r The village shop doesn't sell many .. .' 'Fooi!' The Duke cut him short with a well-aimed blow of his razor-sharp sabre at his legs. IVOU will never make excuses to me again.' The butler disappeared in a cloud of black smoke, and an identical hunchback opened the door of the castle. The Duke was awoken with a start by a crash of thunder. It was five a.m. and dawn would be breaking soon. Outside the evil contours of his towers were brilliantly illuminated by flashes of lightning. Thunder rumbled ominously and he could hear the sea crashing on the rocks. t.1 that very moment his door was flung open and light illuminated the room. Outside the slorm stopped, and the birds began to sing a soft, melodious carol. In the doorway stood the mosl beautiful girl the Duke had ever seen. She had obviously been walking through the storm .s her ankle-length, golden hair clung gently to her. Her eyes were the bluest of blues, emanating goodness and innocence. A soft nimbus hung around her head, gently lighting up her neatlyfolded wings, and her golden harp. The Duke started up. 'What the .. .' 'Oh sir, you have it in your power to do me a great kindness. Do you remember the woman who used to nurse you, and who brought you up as her own child? You called her nanny because you said she bleated like a goat. Now she lies dangerously ill, and I, as her daughter, have come 10 beg for your help. I need money to pay for a doctor, and transport.' Her voice was like a hundred bells chiming, and at its sound the Duke started, and a gentle look came into his eyes. The Duke of Dissolute leapt from his bed and pulled on the nearest pair of snow-white breeches. Within five minutes he was mounted, and had ridden to aid his old nanny. By a strange coincidence during the weeks that followed the Duke kept happening upon Rachel Pureheart (for such was the girl's name). When out for a walk he would sec her slim, girlish figure in the distance, and his cynical heart would be filled with joy. Soon, soon, the Duke felt tO

love's silken fetters entwining him; this love was not physical, no, no, but immensely spiritual.

He knew his life would be incomplete without the love of this innocent. One day, when he was out riding he saw Rachel and knew that today was the day. He rode up to her, and fell on his knees, saying with a supplicatory note in his voice: 'Ms. (because you are liberated) Pureheart, or may I call you Rachel? Rachel, my darling, I think you have long been able to see how you have transformed myoid decadent life into one of joy. I beg you to marry me.' And she replied: '0 sir - Ernest - you have done me the greatest honour that a girl can receive - and I accept.' He swept her up into his arms and the world spun round them, to avoid having to have a sex scene. His lips met hers and they knew that heaven was theirs. As if by magic, two silken-white horses appeared and the Duke and his love rode joyfully into the setting sun. 155

No~ McCaule

Burred deep in busily borrowin b' fI . surrounded by the st.le shuffr g {~e y skimmed quotations. after the disturb.nce of the d~~~ I ~ary atmo~phere. I surrendered part of m book an snowr .... you came in. to ~ new smell, that wa: you. -marked temtory. happily chosen, ~~'Ch spoke of recent coffee and the cold

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ere. went my concentration, briefly as";"y conscIOus extended to your ' .

Very quickly again the air i:~~~r~~d at~~~~e~[ "tabrenkess. creeps over you, too; 0 00 S your pen and pape II I fade back into m~s ~r~dsl:s~ ~wed amongst the subtle Scuffle. I am getting this done; ork. I must accomplish something; I look at your bent head beautiful'

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Fiona Miller-Smith (A6b) Yet another novel where the good girl reforms the rake and earns his true love

Lavinia Purpleprose The Duke of Dissolute leant back 0 th and yawned indolently There wa n e red. velvet cushions that lined the seat of hi . by ~he nois,., the Duk~ kicked h~~ s~~:, ~~u~c;n~a~~.und a~ his footma~ kissed his foo~. ~~~r::~~ ~fa~k~emy:dn ~ scrtea~s ~choed and reverberated aro~~~ej,i,::w~ha rgsskmg precipice. He smiled . eau y slttmg opposite him her h . e u e eyed the smouldering ~~s~~~'hH~ knew sh~ was his for the asking. Ho~~:;ere'~h~m~hsensUOUSIY entwin!ng itself in hi; a could fill all the books in the new Briti~h Mn e names of .all the m!,ocent virgins Casual observers would have noted the t II I useum. seductIOn lost Its charms. I a e egance of the Duke all 7ft 7 f h' also have observed hi ~~~s ~nd the decePtiv~ ,,:,~~ :;'r"~i~h ~::Smb~ssl~: :~~~ a ~ing~e lille: the deca~ent'~~~":~d~~~li~ a~d "0~~~r~neHw 'hvhdat it wa.s to suffer p~ngs' of love f~r ~::u so.;:,e mDan â&#x20AC;˘ and many a sparkling . . e a gone mto the army a d W . c u ke was educated at Eton ~::'~ lips to Nelson. when he was in troub~e ~~nhada~erloo'tSinlglle-handed. He had also given . one-I -a â&#x20AC;˘ seen-it-all. and at the age of n y was world-weary. The carriage thundered up to the Duke's c bats gently wheeling about its towers, lit by t,::!I~~I~t :~~:n Fernormous. Gothic bllilding. with . om the castle. mllffled screams 154

old be heard. as the many ghosts walked their rounds. It was a terrifying place, and the beauty c~oddered voluptuously. The Duke considered her for a moment. then pressed the ejector button ~.xt to him. The beauty went flying, through the night air. to land on the cruel rocks beneath IhO castle. A hunchback, with a cast in one eye, and a pronounced limp, hobbled to open the door of the carriage.

'Good evening. Hudson. I trust some entertainment has been prepared for me?' 'Well, grovel, grovel, sir. it is a IiUle difficult to purchase black leather and whips in the village, sir. The vii/age shop doesn't sell many .. .' 'Fool!' The Duke cut him short with a well-aimed blow of his razor-sharp sabre at his legs. IVOU will never make excuses to me again.' The butler disappeared in a cloud of black smoke, and an ideutical hunchback opened the door of the castle. The Duke was awoken with a start by a crash of thunder. It was five a.m. and dawn would be breaking soon. Outside the evil contours of his towers were brilliantly illuminated by flashes of lightning. Thunder rumbled ominously and he could hear the sea crashing on the rocks. At that very moment his door was flung open and light illuminated the room. Outside the storm stopped, and the birds began to sing a soft. melodious carol. In the doorway stood the most beautiful girl the Duke had ever seen. She had obviously been walking through the storm as her ankle-length, golden hair clung gently to her. Her eyes were the bluest of blues. emanating goodness and innocence. A soft nimbus hung around her head. gently lighting up her neatlyfolded wings. and her golden harp. The Duke started up. 'What the .. .' 'Oh sir, you have it in your power to do me a great kindness. Do you remember the woman who used to nurse you. and who brought you up as her own child? You called her nanny because you said she bleated like a goat. Now she lies dangerously ill. and I, as her daughter, h.ve come 10 beg for your help. I need money to pay for a doctor, and transport.' Her voice was like a hundred bells chiming, and at its sound the Duke started, and a gentle look came into his eyes. The Duke of Dissolute leapt from his bed and pulled on the nearest pair of snow-white breeches. Within five minutes he was mounted, and had ridden to aid his old nanny. By a strange coincidence during the weeks that followed the Duke kept happening upon Rachel Pureheart (for such was the girl's name). When out for a walk he would sec her slim, girlish figure in the distance. and his cynical heart would be filled with joy. Soon, soon, the Duke felt love's silken fetters entwining him; this love was not physical, no, no, but immensely spiritual.

He knew his life would be incomplete without the love of this innocent. One day, when he was out riding he saw Rachel and knew that today was the day. He rode up to her. and fell on his knees, saying with a supplicatory note in his voice: 'Ms. (because you are liberated) Pureheart, or may I call you Rachel? Rachel, my darling. I think you have long been able to see how you have transformed myoid decadent life into one of joy. I beg you to marry me.' And she replied: '0 sir - Ernest - you have done me the greatest honour that a girl can receive - and I accept.' He swept her up into his arms and the world spun round them. to avoid having to have a sex scene. His lips met hers and they knew that heaven was theirs. As if by magic, two silken-white horses appeared and the Duke and his love rode joyfully into the setting sun. 155

Full Circle or The Ice Cream Cone

Morgan Clarke

Adam and Eve To take leave of modesty Thaw provides a slush fund 'for Plumbers. No more boobs on the TUbe. Party Smarty, come trancing, it's the strong dark ~ody .. Lady be g~od! Guilt and gullibiliiy mty frIppery, leapmg to conclusions, Pecking DISorder, Adam folly for Paris, 'I lost ÂŁ300 000' Mystery of lost millions. 'I've been a whipping Post!' 'Hunt for the hunted, a spy in my Soup, fame on an open sandwich. Don t burn my van!' Listen for the Boom. Savage gets DTS all Doggerel has its day, Ghost Stories, Ghoulish Gathering Phantom goes for a ' Burton. The final blow. A lusty yell for The new baby. (Not just any old chair.)

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CHAMBER CONCERT SUNDAY, 1st MARCH, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL Jonathan Sampson and I I movement of Concerto i ~ A minor s(Op. 3, No.8) (Vivaldi) Peter Keeler (violins) concerto No.2 for descant recorder (Baston) Ben Young lsi movement of Concerto in C (Vivaldi) John Tegner (piccolo) The above items accompanied by the strings of the Baro'J\le Orchestra, conducted by Col. Paul Neville . '\ lsi movement of Piano Trio Kate Hamilton (violin) (Op. I, No. I) (Beethoven) Kristian Belliere (cello) Elizabeth Robinson (piano) Le Printemps (Op. 33, No.2) (Grieg) Clare Edmondson (soprano) Mr. Barry Rose (piano) Christopher Wh iteley (bass) o Mistress Mine (Quilter) Mr. Barry Rose (piano) Finale from String Quartet Sarah Beinart and (Op. 51, No.2) (Brahms) Bernadette McCullough (violins) Emma Wass (viola) Kristian Belliere (cello) Queen of the Night Aria (Del' Holle Raehte) Tessa Spong (soprano) (from The Magic Flute) (Mozart) Kristian Belliere (piano) Samba Triste and Finale (from Divertimento) Elizabeth Robinson and (Richard Rodney Bennett) Kristian Belliere (two pianos)

HARLEQUlNADE THE GRANGE HOUSE PLAY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, 17th and 18th FEBRUARY, IN ST. MARY'S HALL After a slightly slow start the cast became animated and relaxed and as a result their acting was superb, communicating their enjoyment of being on stage and encouraging an enthusiastic response from the audience. Bobby Morse and Eleanor Taylor played the leading roles and conveyed their cha:racters excellently . Bobby retained his poise in switching between a self-conscious Romeo and Arthur Gosport, the leading actor of the family troupe. Eleanor too was able to develop her character showing an ageing Juliet seen through the eyes of Edna Selby. Ed Hewertson played a brilliant Jack Wakefield and was memorable for the timing and strength with which he delivered his one liners. Harlequinade was a good choice because it provided such contrasting and clearly defined characters drawn together by the staging of Romeo and Juliet. The interaction and connections between these characters produced some hilarious moments. Tim Briggs played a very convincing 'old boy' of the stage with fifty years in the theatre behind him. Elizabeth Carlyle and Clare Edmondson were both very funny and James Nevile was perfect for the part of a bewildered policeman with a very red nose. As for the two halberdiers, Adam Oliver and Piers Trussell, learning their lines can't have been difficult, but they created one of the funniest and most memorable moments of the play. 157

The set was impressive and allowed for the added interest of Eleanor and Bobby movi and down from the balcony (Bobby descending at one point by rope ladder) . Tom Georgng up Mr. Oliver Trowell had obviously worked very hard . e and So congratulations to The Grange and Mr. Peter Allen for giving us such an enjoyable h the success of which was proved by the fact that on both nights even the standing roornÂ°r" the performance was filled. Or BEATRICE DEVLIN.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR! THE GALPIN'S HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 21st and 22nd MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL Is it a play? Is it a revue? Is it music hall? Oh What a Lovely War! totters nervously around a ll three. The lack of conventional plot and personal conflict lays a heavy burden on a cast tryin to hold the uni t together. T he energy of the whole cast, and, more specificall y, the many-hatte~ talents of Marius Kiely and C hris White, provided the evening's cohesion . The 'play's' bewildering kaleidoscope of angles on the war, from the Ruritanian allied officers to the cynical but obedienl Tommy, is hardly more bizarre than the political realities of 1914. We are in a Europe of muddled self-interest. The victors are driven to victory not by principle but irrational fear. Homo europeanus is not presented as God's own people, but as a rather silly fam ily engaged in a squabble with a momentum beyond first causes . Mr. Peter Brodie's set design captured both the flavour of the Western Front and the flickering atmosphere of an early cinema, though why the fl oor was celebrating Tanzanian independence day remai ns a mystery. T he ghostly back projections passed straight through the actors giving the a udience a perspective den ied to the participants: they stood througho ut, backs resolutely turned away . T he anti-establishment satire was on the whole better handled than the treatment of the infantryman or the home front factory worker. The text appears to treat the ordinary soldier and wife as Rousseaunically simple and good with a fine ly-tuned sense of the appropriate emo tional response. Special mention ought to be given to Thomas Grieves's General Haig. This frail and pallid figure easily provided the most disturbing moments of the performance with his messianic fervour and mathematical morality: 'Another 30,000 dead and .. . ' Sebastian St. John Parker fitted his role like a glove as a comic yet deeply stupid Sergeant Major: always a lethal combination . The musical element (is it a musical?) was handled well. Harriet Shankland was superbly Dietrichesque and the cheery popular songs were stripped of their origi nal head in the sand jingoism . The production was well choreographed though a greater range of routines would have been welcome. As the play breezed to its final act of slaughter (Galpin's very own Lamb War), we were well prepared for the conclusion: a song of wilful amnesia, as the whole cast sang of only remembering the good times. Not hing was learnt and there is a fore-taste of the whole cycle repeating itself. T he Cecil B. de Mille scale production team are to be congratulated on bringing off a logistic feat worthy of the great campaigns of the war. Generals Brodie and Duesbury provided more than enough variety and pace to keep this rambling show on the road . Galpin 's was the only winner of this war. S.M.W . 158

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OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR!

THE BLOOZE BROTHERS

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THE BLOOZE BROTHERS IN CONCERT SATURDAY, 14th FEBRUARY, IN THE SHIRLEY HALL

In the Christmas term, posters went up advertising the Blooze Brothers' concert, with a shiftyeyed character sayi!,~: 'Psst! Only .a few tickets left!' By this term he'd grown a beard, and excitement and antlclpauon were rISing. After a slightly damp skit, the concert started rolling with a suitably menacing Peter Gunn theme. This featured some improvised solos, and had a very smooth link to the next number, a most enthusiastic rendition of Eve/yone Needs Someone to Love, clearly much enjoyed by the audience. Next on the programme was the Peny Mason theme and RIOt, ending wtth audtence participation on the line 'Up in the cell block number nine'. A witty lesson on chairdancing bY Mark Evans led into Jimmy Gumpert's smoochy muted trumpet at the beginning of Minnie t/le Moocher. Here the M.O. lads showed previously unrealised talents in some very atmospheric dancing. The first part of the concert was rounded off with a rousing Sweet Home Chicago. Of the three modern songs wit h which the second half began;.,one was possibly the highlight of the concert: Libby Robinson's sultr y voice perfectly captured the melancholy mood of Will YOII, ably supported by Kate Hamilton on the violin. Nick Young's sax solo was played with real emotion, and would have deserved still higher accolades if he had not been just a little sharp . The piece was, however, well synchronised and very enjoyable. It was St. Valentine's Day, and so no one was too surprised (except Ailsa Buchan herself) when she was asked to go on stage to be presented with a bouquet of roses from her Valentine. This was followed by a rather too lengthy Dancing in the Street, and then by another highlight of the evening, Green Onions, featuring solos by Richard Pent in on synthesiser and Mike Pope on guitar. The quality of an attempt at 'rawhide' was forecast by Mark Evans when he shouted 'This one's meant to be awful!' Unfortunately, it was. With Going Back to Miami, the band immediately retreated on to safer ground, with excellent solos by James Lawrence and Tim Weller. Jailhouse Rock, with strobe lighting, proved an excellent concluding number. Alas, riotous applause and cries of 'More, more' inspired no encore. What th is concert lacked in musicality it more than made up in enthusiasm . Thanks are due to the mixers and lighting department, and most of a ll to Nick Young, without whom the concert would never have happened. SHOLTO BYRNES.

SCAPINO THE SCHOOL HOUSE PLAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 14th and 15th MARCH, IN ST. MARY'S HALL The key to this production was energy. A ll the characters, including the least conspicuous, succeeded in creating the general effect of enthusiasm and commitment. The scenes were often given added flavour by the backdrops of Neapolitan life, and the minor characters, although not essential to the plot and easily overlooked, were very valuable. I was particularly taken by Pavel Barter, a 'bum'. This said, much credit must go to the main actors for there was not one weak performance among them. John Stern turned a potentially bland rOle into one that was genuinely amusing, while his beloved (Tessa Spong)'s giggle was both high-pitched and infectious. Ross Duttson made a convincingly harrassed suitor and his fiancee, played by Laura Goodhart, was a charming gypsy. These four comprised the two loving couples, thwarted, as one might expect, by miserly t61

fathers. Oscar Blend excelled as the ruthless Argente, while Oliver Langton was a suitably h 1 Geronte . They were both outwitted by Scapino, a 'wily Neapolitan trickster', who Wi~P OSs sidekick, helps the lovers, earns a bit of money, and exacts a memorable revenge on'the lh hIS father. This double-act of James Knight and Jeremy Murch was outstanding. The former alter a performance of great vitality while Jeremy's more laid-back approach proved equally effecg~ve They both suited their parts and complemented each other perfectly with their contrasting he' I~ve. voices and acting styles. Again - 'can era prevedibile' - these two pull off the appa:: Is, impossible, and, with a couple of coincidences thrown in, all is satisfactorily resolved. nuy Scapino makes no pretence of being an earth-shattering play. However, here it fulfilled' funct ion excellently as a very funny play with scope for good acting and the hint of carical~IS and slapstick from which any house play benefits. With Mr. Dobbin's impeccable direclio re School House were given ample opportunity to display their evident wealth of talent, and Ih~' deserve great credit for a polished, professional product. Both the audience and the cast enjoye~ themselves and that is all that can be asked of any production. ANDREW MITCHELL.

BLOOD WEDDING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 271 h and 281 h FEBRUARY, IN THE SH IRLEY HALL

Half a century ago last August, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the thirty-seven year old poet and playwright, Garcia Lorca, son of respectable middle-class parents, was taken to a village high above Grenada. In company with other Republican sympathisers he was shot by Franco supporters and his body tossed into a mass grave. He had died for liberal beliefs and for his homosexuality, and news of his death and his value as a writer took a considerably long time to emerge from the imprisonment of Franco's regime. Blood Wedding, based on the events during the summer of 1928 from the 25th to 28th July, depicts the emotional plight of a mother whose husband and son have been murdered in a vendetta twelve years before the start of the play. Her remaining son wishes to marry, but she is reluctant to let him go. This real-life incident fired Lorca's artistic creation, and led to his transformation of a sordid crime into a poetical tragedy. Following in the footsteps of last year's K.Y.D. production (Arthur Miller's All My SOliS) the directing triumvirate of Robert Webb, Susanna Walsh and Lucinda Roberts chose to tackle the daunting prospect of putting Lorca's vision on stage, before a critical school audience. Rehearsal time was menacingly short, and not surprisingly tempers ran high. Nevertheless, the result was remarkably professional, more so than the rather 'familiar' programme, that opted for a trendy nick name approach to the dramatis personae. From the start, the girls led the field. Samantha Bain mastered the uneasy translation from the Spanish with a magnificent intensity, and presented the Mother as a tormented and haggard old woman, whilst retaining a credibility that made her performance a pleasure to watch. Lucinda Roberts as the bride remained deeply in her part as a woman guided by passion, even though fully aware of the consequences. There was good suppor ting acling from Susanna Walsh (Ihe mother-in-law), who showed that her singing is as good as her acting, and Blythe Levett (Ihe wife) who helped establish a tone of lyrical lamentation. Throughout the play the girls effectively captured the countless subtle, however sudden, turns of mood. Leonardo (Paddy Greenleaf) was a challenging part, combining anger and discontent with an underlying burning love for a girl betrothed to another man, and came across well. Simon Richards played a part far removed from that of his own character, and conveyed his own vitality through the medium of the elderly father of the bride. Thomas Grieves, as Moon, clearly showed his adaptability, presenting a character distinctly different from anything else he has ever portrayed. 162

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THE QUIRE (Alexander Redman) t63

TALKS POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: MYTH AND R EALITY THE RIGHT HON. LEON BRITTAN, P.C., Q.C., M.p 27th JA NUARY Mr. Britlan's talk was nDt a Dlitical

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WORKING FOR CUSTOMERS MR. JOHN OWENS (DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY) 5th FEBRUARY

Mr. Owens is a marketing man thrDugh and through. AlmDst single-handedly, he has (fanSfDrmed the marketing strategy Df ICI, and is nDw cDncentrating Dn creating a new face f~r the CBI. This face is cDntrDversial for he has cut staff by 341170 and he is attempti ng to. create a new philDSDphy fD r the CBI: wDrkmg fDr 'big busme1( custDmers, nDt fDr the gDvernment. Only member cDmpanies Df the CB I can nDw go. to. CBt specialist cDnferences. This pDlicy, he argues creates a desire fDr membership , but excludes the smaller, struggli ng cDmpany which could ;"ell benefit frDm such a cDnference, but nDt frDm the fair ly hefty membership fees the CBI stilI charges. Mr. Owens declared himself pDlitically neutral when discussing ecDnDmic pDlicy. This tDok SDme swallDwing when he described SDme Df the LabDur Party's pDlicies as crazy and reiterated the CDnservative philDSDphy that industry created the wealth upDn which the rest Df uS depend . Mr. Owens is, however, an experienced and persuasive businessman. The aud ience was taken

on a friendly crash marketing cDurse. Mr. Owens clutched an Ariel detergent packet and declared that 'business is between peDple ', using the sDap bDX as proDf. Mr. Owens, in his ICI days, launched an intensive campaign a t Thames BDar Mills to. persuade them to. change to IC I fDr their bDX cDIDur-printing. He succeeded, much to. the delight Df ICI since this was a ÂŁ75,000 per annum CDntract. Mr. Owens discussed the elements Df a successful sale, which include finding the decisiDn maker, arranging a meeting and preparing a sales package. He em phasised that the salesman must knDw his prDduct and his custDmer's needs. Mr. Owens, himself an Arts graduate, studied Chemistry at night SChDDI befDre he felt cDnfident Df c1Dsing a sell fDr IC I. He has Dne majDr and nDt unusual cDmplaint about the educatiDnal system : he believes it is far too. specialised , the tyranny Df the Higher Ed ucatiDn and A-level systems forcing premature specialisatiDn Dn SChDDI child ren. He a rgues that if Britain's industry is to. survive, it needs a n intake Df trainees w ho. a re brDadly educated and trained in versatility . He uses himself as an example: after eighteen years wDrking in industry and 'fDurteen years spent in industri al administratiDn, he admits that he still can't use a cDmputer. EducatiDnal flexibility needs to. be the order Df the day if Britain is to. prDsper, a view happil y crDssing party lines, but unfDrtunately becDming IDSt in the cDrridDrs Df Whitehall, whe re actiDn has nDt been fDrthcoming. Mr. Owens gave an intriguing insight into. the wDrk Df the CBI as a pressure grD up. The ChancellDr is seen persDnally by the CBI, with heavy campaigning targeted Dn back-bench M.P.s, befDre a ny drafting Df the Budget begins. Mr. Owens is a busy man and we must thank him fDr the time he gave us. We all learnt mDre about marketing and the CBI as a result. We nDw must fDIIDW up his suggestiDns: a brDader curriculum and mDre links between SChDDls and industry. The marketing man is leading us into. the future: we ShDUld go. with him .

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EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATURE MR. CHARLES WINNIFRITH (SECOND CLERK OF SELECT COMMIITEE, HOUSE OF COMMONS)

13th FEBRUARY Despite the fact that this day was rumoured to b h ;~ec~:a1nt'rltad one stroke of good fortune in tha~ ~~"~~~I~~u~~~~~~i:h~o~~n~hedyears, e tIme to Mr. Winnifrith's talk centred around t h . Âˇ . . HavIng outlined the external influenc ~ val l.ous fallacIes concernIng modern gover Archer's novels (which he said were '~~ctiot~~~g:v~ke Pnme Mihnister's <;1uestion Time and ~~~nt. specIfIc mIsunderstandings ry sense 0 f t e word) - he Went On to c rey . orrect The first of these misunderstandings related to th . are totally confrontational. Mr. Winnifrith admit~e~e~~~~I~ehe~~at parliamentary proceedings not exactly the best of friends but he went rs . atcher and Mr. Kinnock of Parliamentary Whips (in hi; opinion a gO~~ :~i~i> ~~~t tt;:;~~~s b;en a generalloosen~~ not contested at all . 0 0 commIttee reports are The se~ond fallacy he brought up was that M P rOhtlcal hfe plottin~. This idea _ nurtured by th~ Ijt~a~~ ~n;f ano~her and spend their entire or example MacmIllan and Wilson used to ar u . e rey rcher - IS SImply untrue face, and then go out and have a drink to ether gTe In the House of Commons until red in th~

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In uences. Indeed he said your en em in P r n rna es a Its decIsIOns from outside the House, but on the bench~s around cfu ar lament may not ,be sittin!! on the other side of are mad~ by the Sir Humphrey ApPle6ys ~Tt~~ ~ewl~ut atos s by Yes MInIster' that all decisions gave a pl.ece of advice to those among us who wi~rb ISbl,e assured us, not true at all . He finally are IndIVIduals not sheep, so voters should consid e a e to vote at the next election - M.P.s no t Just the policies of their party. er the personal quahtles of the candidatcs and We would like to thank Mr. Winnifrith f h' her uncle come down in the first place (SOm~~hil~~~~,. ahn~als~thank the Head Girl for letting at the school, would never allow!) IC r. Inmfnth told us his son, whi le

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THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT MR. JONATHAN AITKEN, M.P. 27th FEBRUARY The performance of Blood Wedding by King's Youth Drama on 27th February, did not seem to deplete the audience attending Mr. Jonathan Aitken's excellent talk on the Official Secrets Act. Mr. Aitken began by making clear his disapproval of the Act in its present form, a disapproval which stems, he informed us, from personal experience. He had published a government report on the war in Nigeria containing a faintly embarrassing, yet hardly dangerous, revelation concerning the incompetence of the Nigerian officers, and as a result had ended in the Old Bailey with the possibility of two years' imprisonment. Fortunately he was aquitted. Mr. Aitken explained the structure of the Act. It is split into two sections, the first being concerned with spies and treason (upon which he did not dwell) and the second dealing with official material. This official material (which it is an offence to receive or communicate) covers a wide range of topics - even how many cups of tea the minister has in his office! Despite wanting to change things, however, Mr. Aitken emphasised the fact that he does not advocate swinging to the other extreme. He compared the American Freedom of Information Act with our Official Secrets Act, the former allowing the Government very little secrecy. The ideal, he suggested, was somewhere between the two. Mr. Aitken finished his talk by mentioning Mrs. Thatcher who, in 1976, tried to put through the Official Information Bill, although she failed owing to the Blunt scandal. He finally outlined the current situation, with the Conservatives planning to do nothing about the Act for the time being, the Alliance intending to reform it and Labour 'as usual' unsure about their policy towards it. All who attended this talk will undoubtedly join me in thanking Mr. Aitken for taking time out of his hectic schedule to give us a lively and informative hour. OPHELIA JAMES.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS BARONESS YOUNG ' (MINISTER OF STATE, FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE) 4th MARCH

'Politics is a disease: once you've got it, it grows on you,' said the lively and intelligent Baroness Young, obviously firmly in its grips and beyond all hopes of a cure. Having had an already very distinguished career in the House of Lords, she came to talk to a fascinated audience, as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, about foreign affairs. Her talk was very informative, witty and up-to-date. She explained how important Britain's role was as a medium-sized power, and what our objectives and priorities should be. Of foremost importance is the security of the people, and she defended herself against the disarmament argument that for the cost of Trident we could have an efficient National Health Service by saying that if we didn't have Trident we wouldn't need a National Health Service. She also spoke about the special relationship between Britain and America and drew to our attention the fact that since we joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1949 Europe has enjoyed its longest period of peace for several centuries. However, although our relationship with the United States is crucial, our role in the EEC must not be disregarded, and the Baroness predicted a subtle movement away from Anglo-American alliances and towards further consolidation within Europe. 167

She offered remarkable clarity on the problems surrounding Britai~'s decline as an . in countries such as Hong Kong, Guatemala, Behze, the Falklands and Gibraltar, and the Empue of mai ntaining British troops in these countries whilst the controversy over sovereignty co~ecessllY ' . G or bac h ov ' S c harm campaign ' and the nuclea dtlnues . questions concernmg A WI'd e range 0 f r were answered fluently as was Christopher Whiteley's perceptive question about the us f ~bale of Mrs. Thatcher's foreign visits: can the Iron Lady listen to any voice but her own~ u ness It was a remarkably enjoyab le talk , made relevant by numerous references to recent pol' . events, especially the importance of the Channel Tunnel to foreign affairs. As the HeadmHlcal lamented, it is time the Commons accepted a woman's rOle in politics as wholeheartedly aasl er Lords accepted Baroness Young. s I he EMMA CONYERS.

DURNFORD SOCIETY LECTURE IN CONJUNCTION WITH CANTERBURY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION DR. BARRY COWARD 61 h MARCH Dr. Barry Coward's much-anticipated talk on the origins of the English Civil War was lucid and interesting although some people felt it acted more as a consolidation of the topic ralher than offering revolutionary ideas . Dr. Coward's subject was what the origins were, but he began with what they were not: the rise of Parliament, Puritanism, an impact-personality or the rise of the gentry. Concerning the first topic, Dr. Coward warned against the assumption that the vastly increased number of parliamentary documents reflected rising contemporary power; it could have been caused largely by the rise of printing, and cheap paper - not parliamentary strength. The rise of Puritanism as an origin lost validity in Dr. Coward's eyes simply because he felt there was no sudden rise. There had been 'godly' people previously, but they found it easier to be members of the church, being bound to it by shared views on the importance of preaching and predestination, for example. Great emphasis was placed on the fact that James I was not an inept King and cannol be blamed for the Civil War. Dr. Coward pointed out how man y sources for modern histo rians were written by people who hated James, a Scot. The problem of biased sources was certainly one to be noted by A-level students of Burnet and Reresby! The last 'non-origin' was the key social change that occurred as the number of large and wealthy la ndowners increased . The Civil War did not, in fact, begin as a social conflict. Also, why would landowners want to change a system with advantages like the lowest taxes in Europe? The key question thus became, 'W hy was the political nation alienated from Charles I by August 1642?' The intentions of most MPs elected in 1640 were conservative: mainly the protection of the constitution against what they saw as the innovations that Charles was attempting, such as financial expedients (ship money) and changes in the church (Arminianism). The growth of divisions was caused in Dr. Coward 's eyes by 'Functional Radicalism' whereby events forced Charles's opponents to adopt measures not previously considered. Some, however, were so appalled at these measures that they turned to Charles's side. John Pym was used 10 demonstrate this radicalism . He wanted Stafford's remo val as Charles's councillor, and parliamentary figures like himself and Cole appointed as advisors. Both these plans fai led and Pym and the conservative parliamentary leaders were thus pushed into a position where they had to resort to an arbitrary Bill of Attainder and become openly hostile, or become 'Constitutional Royalists' on the King's side - as did Culpepper and Hyde . 168

. '11 db Dr Coward' s use of Sir ilem ma of which side to tak~ was interestmglr I r~~J~~~e cris~s, s~ch as the publication rhe d d'Ewes. He was a propertied l~wyer who a p. he became a revolutionary. The Sir11r110~~:nd Remonstrance, had le~t Aarha~ent fO~h~o~~~~f~f Papal agents, and the Catholic of the r lay in religion. The growth 0 'Jmlllams~hink that they lived in a world of Chn st answe,s involvement with pohcy Cmah \ minY'th Charles in the grip of a Catholic cirque. Que~~stants) against Antl-Chnst ( at 0 ICS ~' . himself His actions placed him , in (pro origins of the C.ivil War, therefore, lay ,!, c~ar ~salnda and 'championing of the Prayer r:ye eyes, in oppo~ltlOn to the ~hur~'t~:\:~~~d~~ the constitution against the outbreak r11 aok made many Bishops r~gar d ~mt Charles was all they could do, while to others It was Bo hy To some, turnmg agams of anarc . . .,' f I in Christendom' is best apphed not to nthinkable. u In Dr. coward's view, th e eIPlt~e\h~~:f~~s~s:co~es more responsible than anyone else for but to hiS son, Char les ,w 0 ~~:~~tbreak of war in 1642. " AILSA BUCHAN.

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THE SOCIETIES This term the regu lar quorum of letter wr iters has been maintained with c AMNESTY results. The main campaign aga inst the dea th pena lty featured a'debatcncouragina INTERNATIONAL the usual post-card and telegram scheme. Our tha nks go to all who designc~S well ill especially Su leyman Saba. We hope that ot hers who are interes ted will compOSltrs, Next term Veronica Lyell a nd Sholto Byrnes will take over the running of the King's section of AaCt me. Internat ional. I wish them every success. mnest)' PHILLIPA RUBINS

The girls seem to have melted away this term, but the trend towards the Mint y has become overwhelming, with new recruits almost exclusively from School H ard Lattcrgate and above a ll Galpin's. The 6a old faithfuls still provide lhe back~Ust, of the Thursday Activity, bu t the new generat ion has tak en over elsew here as we welcome Nick Floone (SH) a nd Nick Dav ies (GL) to join J ames Eddison on the comm ittee. With them, it seems that Sun~er Opening is definitely here to stay. We were also delighted to welcome back Tim Harrold on a fl ying vÂˇa.'i not entire ly unconnected with his forthco ming twenty-fi rst birthday. lSIt Am idst the usual Lent Term crop of play programmes, in vitations, menus, letterheads a nd tickets th most notable items have been Nick Davies's 5,000 Ba nker's Orders full of dotted rule, his 011 Whot e Lovely War programme which is the biggest letterpress j ob I have seen, and Nick Flower 's attractive prin~ of Psalm 129, afler the style of the 1585 Bible. He also takes the top four prizes for the most wilfully aw ful sets of fileheads! James has continued his stream of major jobs unabated, a nd o n occasion s wi th very little notice but he has still found the time to put hi s CDT skills to work resur rect ing quoins, the guillotine a nd the parts of 'He idi' which nobody else has reached in a lo ng time. With his familiarity with the Phototypesetter and Litho printer as well as with letterpress, James ha s now achieved a wider (if not yet deeper!) working knowledge of our eq uipment than R.J.M., George or myself, a nd we are delighted that his precocious abilities as a prin ter have been nationally recognised in his winning th e Co les Award, becoming the British Printing Society's Young P rinter of the Year. Next term begins for him with a trip to the Oldham Convention - and I can not possibly let him go unaccompanied! My thank s are owed as ever to R.J.M. and George Neeve for all their help, and wi th a full and highly compe tent committee again, I look forward to my own increasing redund ance (save perhaps when it comes to tid ying the stone and clearing away paper)! M.J.M. CAXTON

The standard of chess in Kent, a nd espec ially East Kent, has not been as high over the past two or three years as it used to be, and the King's team too has lacked any reall y strong player for qu ite a while. There has, however, been a strength in depth which has made the team into a reasona ble one. In the Kent Schools' League , on ly a Se ni or team was entered this year. Th e first match, against Simon Langton, turned out disappointingly, as at one stage King's look ed lik e getting at least a draw . But points slipped away in the endga mes, and the match turned into a rout. However, con fid ent wins against Harvey Grammar and St. Lawrence - two more schools considerably weaker than in days gone by - assured us of a place in the last eight , as two teams were to qualify from each of the four local areas. The com parat ive strength of Ca nterbury in particu lar was underlined when both Simon La ngton and ourselves disposed of first round opposit ion to reach the last four teams of the competition. In a new arrangement, these fo ur tea ms a ll congregated at Simon Langton Boys' School for the final stages to be played out on one day. Realistically, our chances of doing well in such co mpa ny were slim, as we were quite heavily outgraded by all three ot her tea ms, but the two defeats were not heavy, and David Yule (board 2) and Eric Moore (board 4) each won particularly well-fought endgames - the lessons of th e first match had o bvi ously been learned. In this yea r's Inter-House C hess competitions, there were no major upsets: Tradescant got the better of Walpole 2-0 in the Jun ior Fin al, while Luxmoore and Walpo le contested the Senior Final, Luxmoore being 3-1 winners. A .R.A.R. CHESS

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RESULTS chOols' League

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v Simon Langton. Lost \12-4\11 , I Harvey Grammar School. Won 3V2- 1 V2

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'd' m to affect the sixteen out of the seven~yThe snowbound start to the fc~ ~l ~~ ~:naged to get to the first, and only, P!actlce seven members of the Chape OIr w here but a sensitive and articulate CHOIR before Sunday Mati~s . No great ~ho~sed a/a; in which C hri stopher Whiteley , e of Peter Cornelius's Three Kmgs from Persian an S . . performanc . et off on a journey through four centunes s the assured SOlOISt. waWith the rest of the Choir reass~~bled, our mus~ !~ro\~~s te~~~ell as some ' older' favour ites. - aHverdsej . d' so gave opportumtles to many ne ' r ' n Mendelssohn at Matins, a n e

:~~~~ ~!c~~~i:t~I~~ds~~h~::~:::of~e~ti~~~sF:iJ~riJl~~~liEr~~~ii~~\~~~~g~n~f~~~d~~~~t~~~~ at 25th March. It l~ so e~couragmglt~ sefe su~ ; the School but also in front of their colleagues t e 10

and even enthu siastic to slOg not on y 10 ron 0 ~\oir - the sterner test, some feel. . Add to all this the recording of Easter Matm s fort y million

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r Da on the B.B.C. World Service (to reach the ~roduCer) and our own Italian Salad at

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the SI John Passion Y . . ,

h arsals I have yet ta en,

if.11porota~06~r. The~e have been the most satiSfyinghChdoral .~c:~ttifew~ have the sta mina and tension for

Since . d al sense of style - t e ay WI balanced Cholf an .some re demanding first Chorus. that wonderfully pamted, yet so ' d' roved choral awareness, particularly over Much of the Chapel Choir' S singing has shown nde~r~;ht I:~ fresh (mostly) and there is an improted

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given us the smooth sound I ,,":,OU Ie . . when they are alert or even Wide awake. . B B C recording to Ben Wrench an~ Sebasti an Our thanks to the Br~ss.Ensemb~e whO pla~e~r I~~~~ti~n ~s 'Secreta ries: to Mr. Harris for hl~ help and 5t John Parker for their first term s wfor k n g agement a nd prepara tion of our Anthologies. B.M.R. support, and not least to Mr. Allen or IS encour

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Anthems: 18th January (Matins) 25th January (Eucharist) 1st February (Matins) 8th February (Eucharist) 15th Febr uary (Confirmation)

1st March (Eucharist) 8th March (Matins)

The Three Kings (Corneliu s, arr. Atkins) (soloist -

Christopher Wh,teley)

Magi videntes stella (Bla~lUs Amon) o sing unto thAe Ll orBd (R;~~a~e~:."~~~ng Elizabeth Robinson,

(SOlOists 1 sa uc , .' Martin Edwards, Christopher WhIte) Ubi caritas et amor (Durune)D(K 192)' Sanctus, Benedictus and m . ' B hat (K 275) (Mozart) Gloria from Mlssa BreVIS B Agnus Dei from Mlssa reVlS 10 (Soloists _ Nicholas F lower, Alexander Harg y , Kate Hamilton, Maria Clegg, Martm Edwar s, Chr istopher Whiteley) Call to remembrance, 0 Lord (Farrant) I

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15t h March (Eucharist) 22nd March (Matins) T he . f m usIC or the Anth olog On Wednesday 25t h Ma rch at ~

o lovel)! peace (H andel) 0

(S ung by the Crypt C hoi r)

O liver Hinton and Nicholas FI

aViOur of the world (Goss)

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Ave M(Sia - f Hai! blessed Flower Ligh! OU:I~} Ja~~n~~; Martyrdom . (From The Ligh! of Life) Pie Jesu (From Requiem) The ways of Zion do mourn Hear my prayer Drop, drop, slow tears OU! of the deep . (Sung by the Crypt Cho ir) RecIta tl ve and chorus: God so loved the world , (From The CruCifixion) Love s endeavoUJ~ Love's expense

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M usic -

Ecce, Homo! -

Maxwell Davies

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A .. Li oyd Webber (Soloists - Tessa S . Wise (Soloists - A I..:xander Hardy c Fo.ng , Oli ver Hinton) Purcell ' m stopher Whiteley) Walton Morley (Soloist -

Mart in Edwards)

Sta iner (So loist -

Matthew Hu lme)

Barry Rose (Soloists -

DURN

Kate Ham il ton Matth , ew Hulme)

Anyone could be forgiven f th O k' FORD din ners every now a nd a I~n mg that the Durnford Society does little ex elsewhere. T here is e~ombined wi!h the ~ante~bu;y br!~~~1 t~~r~h:r~~ltSO .lectures; t.hi~ term'sc~~~t~~~e is the dinner, and Wh:~~~; occasIO na l discuss ion and very occasio na l o~~:~agl ~~sochl.athlol,n, is rev iewed . ' . e Ig Ight , how Nicola Shaw saw to the o r g a n i s a l i ' ever, " on and \~as ch iefly responsible for the ch f chef's special so rbet Stew H~sto.ry ~s One of th~ir A-I: : ! i ~~~j~~~~ltlie'n~~~ a ;;araell ous j ob . Some fortY-:i~t~ ~x~e}~err~ to in~lude ~he

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bes? ili s th. D reo I u t mg two ofth r. Smyth 's ta lk encompassed in I h . e Outrageous sugges tions ut to h" ess t. ~n fifteen minu tes, the full s a n of L'~ . a problems of the Middle Gast tod 1m on h VISit to Cons tantinople. 'If we ~ant to ~ e, .Hlstory and various

~~ :~~~~ 'i~~~t~~;~~~ir:~~I~!~y~~;~~~~t~:~t i;i:~altS;~~;~ ~::tf~rd~ ~~ j~~ti;~:i~~r1~r:~~7t~o~~: of Ihese respective commodili es in d'ff e condverSatlOn , the wi ne and the water some flS °ITY graduates.' o G I erent egrees. , e e 109 the effects ur ues t of Honour, in his witty Iri J b but memorable occasion And wh f s 1 rogue, helped to make the eVent a . ;Loo.ki ~g forwa rd to 1988'and the 3~t~ner v~nue for an Historica l Society Dinner tha~O~t~tlcUla!IY , serious

~:f~~l~~ s,t§~e. f~ ' ~inner to, appeal t~~~~~r:~?,z~:;:~'n~et~!lI~~~e to celebrate the Glo~~~~tkn:v~I~I~~~ u

e am es II for Stewart's next Durnford Soc' t rDle? a mongst us? How a bout a really Ie y mner Dessert? H .R.O.M. (in conjunction with the committee).

HARVEY

This I.eI'm we have made use of the Kent Ph . experience for the lectures Dr Maurice K·YSIC~ Cent re and Our Own depth of research

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Physics, Dr. Daniel m ' smg IS ta k c:m hiS many years of research in h ,n uperstmgs - Or IS the and understa ndable toa:~aged tr mak~ hl~ presenta ti on of a conCept ua lly' d~fPel4 of E!ementary Particle DR' ose 0 us wah littl e knowledge in the fie ld I ICU t loplc bot h interest ing as a r~ I~ger Ma llIon, so.on to beco me head of Ou r ma the ' .

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The term ended wit h a visit to the university for a lecture by t he eminent, a nd controversia l, scie ntist fessor Sir Fred Hoyle. He spoke on 'The Origin and Evo lution of Life' and, although many of t he Pfd'ence remained unconvinced by some of his theories, it was exciti ng to listen to onc o f the mos t drs,~nguished scientists of recent times. Next term's programme will include lectures on 'The Chemist ry of Stars' and computer network s. I am o pleased to report that one of our Sixth-Formers, Joh n P ritchard, has ma naged to link with t he loca l ~I~nch of the British Association of Young Scientists and this mea ns that more events wi ll now be availab le (~ those dedicated enough to miss the very occasional School supper! C. l.R.l. P eople may imagine that this term is the least dema nding fo r the J azz C lub because King' s Week is still months away whi lst the tro uble of starting a new band in the Christmas term has passed . We have, howeve r, had a very busy term. T he traditiona l band noW consists of Jimmy Gum pert (trumpet), H ugh Andree (clarinet), Matt hew Hu lme (sax .), 'Do nkey' Lawrence (trombone), Philippe Lacamp (drum s), To ny M ichael (bass), SCO l! Guthrie (gui tar) and Libby Robinson ~piano). ~he i ntrod ucti~n ? f g ui ~ar has ~d.d ed dept h to t ~ e rhythm. section a nd Scott is a very able guitanst, even If we do have difficulty 111 expla1l1111g what a 'G' IS - (No, It 's t he one above ... sorry, the one above that. .. ). During t he term, we have form ed a new Band ca ll ed 'I\i ~g's Ja zz-Rock' - a sextet which pla ys Simply Red, Simply Red, and a bit more Simply Red. 'Napoleo n Dynamite' We ll er plays the dru ms in this group. T he Cinzano Q uintet has a lso apparen tl y played a lot this term - a grou p with Damian Simpson o n trumpet a nd Sholto Byrnes on bass as well as o ther J azz-C lub members. These tWO more-contemporary Bands were hoping to put on a concert t his term, bUL we co uld not find a suitab le day at short notice. There will, however, be a more mode rn jazz-co nce rt ea rl y next term. There was, therefore, only one public engagement this term - the St. Edm un d's School P re-Va lentine Ball on Saturday, 7th February in aid of their Spor ts-Hall Ap pea l. We played for a n hour a nd a ha lf, the work being spl it between Traditional Group and King's J azz-Rock. Although nobody seemed to be listening, there were a few congratul ato ry messages, not least from Dr. Ma lli on who com men ted : 'T ha t was the best I' ve heard you play fo r ages . I An enj oyable even ing was had by a ll those who co uld stand the press ure after our 'bit' - especia lly Matthew Hulme, a nd Libby's danci ng- part ner (whoever he was! ). In connectio n with this occasion , I should like to thank Mr. Ross for kindl y tra nsportin g us , Mr. J . V. Tyso n, Headmaster o f St. Edmund 's, for inviting us , M r. Dix for lend ing fi lm ing equipment, and Pa ul Solway who did t he filmin g. We a re also grateful to Sholto By rnes, who stood in on bass for Tony Michael, who was at his House Conce rt t hat night. Thank s are a lso due to Mr. Duesbury fo r letting us rehearse in Galpin 's duri ng the Activities Sess io n each week. Now we look forward to King's Jazz-Rock a nd the ma in King's Week Co ncert in Ju ly, a concert t hat will include a ll the di ffere nt types of music which can be heard in Galpin' s, strictly after 3 o'clock on T hursday aftern oons. J AMES GUM PERT.

JAZZ

Sciphilos 's success continues unaba ted, eve n though due to other co mmi tme nts not much has happened th is term under t he official name 'Sc iphil os'. However, the idea is spead ing - a separately-o rga nised debate on pornography was very success ful. T he first event, a debate entit led 'Sex ism - Will women ever be equal?', had t he largest turnout ever fo r such an event - getting on for 100 people packed the Societies Room (it 's a shame the school doesn't really have a big eno ugh room for this kind o f th ing). T he arguments were varied a nd interest ing, wit h valid points being made both about the difference between men and women, and the necessity to give women at least the same oppo rtuni ties and choice as men . Tim Briggs and Ja ne Lockett both took th e ' reaso nab le' line in opposition to sexis m, Jane' s a rgument being the mos t difficult to refute. T im seemed to get in to some trou ble when he said tha t girls shou ld be a llowed to play with action men , but denied that boys sho uld make the equa l and opposite move and play wit h dolls. In fact much of the evening was spent on t he theme of blue a nd pink bla nk ets for boys and gi rl s, and t he toys t hat the two shou ld play with. Perhaps this reflected the relative youth fuln ess of the audience, especially con sidering that they had not reall y 'lived enough' to come up against serious sexi sm , but it cer tainly prov ided some amusement. The most a mu sing aspect of the evenin g was, of course, Toby Duth ie's speec h. Taking the male cha uvin ist line for which he is unfortunate ly renowned, he ope ned by saying, 'Gentlemen , I address you only' and made var ious SCIPHILOS

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outrageous suggestions including the idea that Mrs. Thatcher is in fact a man. This latter did have a th background, though , the idea being that to get to the position of Prime Minister she had had t eoretical o a man and renounce her feminism. Toby is not, of course, a raving chauvinisti in fact he is des ~~like Mrs. Cohn-Sherbok as 'a closet feminist' - but he had some difficulty convincing the aUdien~n~ by after his speech. Alex Cochrane took a novel and interesting line, discussing the differences betC of Ihlt een the sexes. The quotations she ended with summed up the whole evening; Sigmund Freud on the 'It's so lovely. they must all wish they had one,' and an un-named female friend on the same e Â°b~n: 'It's so ugly. why can't they have something pretty. like a daisy?' su Jet! : The second event was organised in conjunction with the school Amnesty International group _ a on the death penalty, against which Amnesty had recently had a major campaign. Owing to an admini5~eb~le error, it had to be held in the Shirley Hall. in which. unfortunately, the number of people and thrallve acoustics combined to make it very difficult to hear. Both sides put forward extraordinarily Ion: bad watertight arguments - Clare Edmondson and Malcolm Smith for the death penalty, and Phillipa R a.Rd and Sholto Byrnes against. The discussion centred on slightly different definitions of how huma~~I.~ mattered, one side saying that society'S life was far more important than that of the individual and (I e other ~ide saying ~hat no one had th.e right t.o ta~e human life and that the in~ivid!lal was just as i~portahe as society when It came to the ultimate gift. hfe. Many people on both Sides m the audience used t n( unimaginative 'How would you feel if. . .' argument, though Simon Attwood tried, but failed to cathh Clare out with long and skilfully worded questions. Clare's performance was amazing - as m~st pOi~ were directed.to her, she kept talking all evening. A~ the issue was so clear~~ut. we had ~ vote, which w~ narrowly agamst the death penalty at the end. havmg been narrowly for It at the begmning. Many exciting events are promised next term, including much more on the scientific side of Sciphilos.

mai

ROBERT WEBB.

Social Services are widely acknowledged as a source of enrichment for the volunteers yet those involved at King's remain a tiny proportion of the school's studen; population. Why is this? It could be put down to the appeal of basketball, baSketball and more basketball, but then anyone particular 'activities' sport probably has less volunteers than the thirty~five in Social Services. Many boys, of course, undertake CCF and that seems thoroughly worthwhile. The fact of the matter is that Social Services does involve effort and commitment and can be tough . Can anyone say they really enjoy visiting mentally ill patients in a depressing ward at a large hospital? It is character~strengthening and personally satisfying to come into contact with people who are disconnected from society by the authority and who one would not usually meet. However the unavoidable side effect is that it can be more than slightly disturbing. One of the most com mitted volunteers I have known says, 'Novelty wears off after the first term; the pat ients are often too tired or too drugged to talk at a ll. But I wou ldn't do anything else.' Occasionally there can be a breakthrough: 'This term I have talked to ' Private' James M â&#x20AC;˘ usually about the eight years he spent in the Royal Ulster Rifles . .. he is also keen on cycling and gardening. particularly roses.' These volunteers have had to leave school after a rushed lunch to catch a bus at 1.36, mostly staying at the hospital until a return bus at 3.25, returning to school after 4.00. It is obviously worthwhile for them, but it is an activity that will not last for much longe r. St. Augustine's hospital is due to close, its remaining six hundred patients being put out to 'community care'. So far the only provision made by way of a community centre for such people is the use of St. Peter's Met hodist Church Hall on two afternoons a week. Back to Victorian values? Even the Tudors had a Poor Law. It is probably more fun helping the children of St. Nicholas School with their sw imming, but there is scope for only two volunteers at a time on two different afternoons of the week . On a Thursday afternoon, our volunteers are at the Kingsmead Swimming Pool by 1.45. They help the handi capped children change. then into the pool, supporting them by holding hands and giving floats and lots of encouragement. The children love it. We have a few who help at the Kent and Canterbury hospital. Is this an enjoyable activity? 'Yes, a few people commented on how nice it was to see a new face and the nurses seem to appreciate the help.' About half of the volunteers visit elderly people, who come on to our lists from the Canterbury Volunteer Bureau or through sc hool contacts. This is an account of one boy's Thursday afternoon : 'O n my own. Left at 2.00, arrived approx. 2.35 . Talked to the old lady and had coffee when I arrived. Dug up some leeks in the garden. Made a bonfire to burn her husband's old books and things he kept. He had just died. Left about 4.00. She is very kind and interesting and needs someone to talk to.' Another calls on SOCIAL SERVICES

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Hockey

1st XI Murphy's Law - everything that can go wrong will - has been very much in evidenc . term. The bad weather in January, Vigo's absence, Ralph's departure, a serious accident d~ thIS a practice game - all these things were disruptive, and the 1st XI never wholly recovered ffln g them. In most matches there were periods of ski lled hockey - indeed the side scored first ~om often than not - but too often lapses of concentration and perhaps a lack of determinat?re a llowed opponents that were no better to win by flattering margins. It was only when Girl\on was moved to the left wing and Henry to centre forward that the attack began to look r.thng more effective and balanced and the first victory was achieved. At the Frank Mason Tournamen~r a most satisfying win over Kent College (eventual winners of the competition and the SOUth East champions) was just reward for a splendid effort and an indication that the 1st Xl had the talent to compete on level terms with the best in Kent. The sequence of defeats left its mark however, and at Oxford the side returned to its losing ways, despite an encouraging display againsi Eastbourne. The match with Worksop, where the team had rather more of the play and yet contri ved to lose 3-0, left the spectators bewildered. Gardener was by far the most effective forward. Fast and always dangerous, he scored one two outstanding individual goals and created many chances that were squandered. Lacamp adapted well to the inside right position and made sure that Gardener saw plenty of the ball Gi rling was disappointing as a centre forward, but much more useful on the left wing, whil~ Henry, with six goals in the eight matches he played as centre forward, more than justified his selection. Lawrence and Topham played several matches without establishing themselves, but should have gained experience. In midfield, Ie Huray looked a player of great promise and improved steadily as he became accustomed to the pace of the game; Veitch was a most determined centre half, though he looked more impressive when going forward; and the same could be said of Harland Fairweather, who has learned a great deal for next year. In defence, Wallis was an excellent left back, who did more than his fail' share of covering, and remained calm as the gaps opened up in front of him. Greenleaf was a robust defender, who became safer as the season progressed. In goal, Bakel', properly a Junior Colt, showed an excellent positional sense, and grad ually grew in confidence; he should be very good indeed by 1990! 01'

These are uncertain times for the School's hockey. The attempt to run three major sports in the Lent term has proved disastrous with this year's smaller Under 14 group, and as the standard of hockey continues to rise in what is already the most competitive corner of England, it may not be easy to repeat last year's successes. Birley's probably needs major surgery to make it playable in January and February, but Blore's, at least, has been kept in excellent condition despite a battering from the elements. Perhaps a four term school year will solve some of the problems by giving us hockey in September; perhaps there will be the opportunity to play on Canterbury Hockey Club's new astroturf pitch; and surely September 1987 will bring us a new, young, enthusiastic hockey coach. We must look on the bright side. P.G.H.

Team: T. C . Bakel', P. J. Q. Greenleaf, R. R. Wallis' (Capt.), 1. R. A. Harland Fairweather, J. C. A. Veitch', M. G.le Huray, I. E. Gardener', P. P. Lacamp', N. C. Henry', J. M. Lawrence or J. L. Topham, I. C. Girling. Also played: H. J . Andree, S. M. Beaugie, 1. P. E. Ralph. *A warded or re-awarded Colours. 176 THE HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL 1ST Xis (l.S.H., Michael Waterman) SOCCER (Slanding) M. I. Holden, S. J. Attwood, A. G. F. Murdoch, C. E. Butcher, B. C. Marson, J. R. Davies. A. R. Unfarth. (Sitting) D. J. Laurence, S. P. Stuttaford, R. J. Morse, J. P. P. Nevile. P. A. Norris. HOCKEY: (Standing) M. O.le Hu ray. J. R. A. Harland Fairweather, I. C. Girling, J. M. Lawrence. P. J. Q. Greenleaf, T. C. Baker. (Sitting) J. C. A. Veitch,!. E. Gardener, R. R. Wallis. P. P. Lacamp, N. C . Henry.

RESULTS

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Duke of York's. Drawn 2-2 Kent Police. Lost 0- 4 Cranbrook. Lost 2- 4 St. Lawrence. Lost 1-5 Sir Roger Manwood's. Lost 0- 2

v Canterbury H .C. Lost 2- 5 v 51. Edmund's. Won 5- 4 v Dover Co llege. Lost 2- 3 v Sutton Valence. Won 3- 1

Znd XI ==-I thought at the start of the season that it would be ma ny years before we had as good a team as last year's, but I was to be proved wrong - happily. In fac t this report is much like last year's as we remained virtuall y unbeaten until our last !11atch again.st ~ent Col!ege - although the tea m? were rather different. It was.a tremendously strong tram spirit, WIth a determmalJo n to Win, tlH~ t saw us th ro~g h tim year rather th<.tn the '.raw' skill of last year's eleven. This positive at mosphere had much to do With our Ca pt alll - Hugh Andrce. HIS running commen tary through every match and his own inspired play kept the team bu zzing until the final whistle. He scored six of Ihe goals this year, and set up many others over the last two seasons. The bad weather again delayed our fir st match, a nd we went to R.M.S. Dover not even having had a practice. A team was thrown together to play on their drill*square, and substitu tions were made with the 1st X I throughout the match, as they experimented with various formations. At the time we felt we did well only to lose 2- 1, bu t as the season progressed and we started winning all the matches, this beca me an increasi ngly a nnoying resu lt to have on the fixture card. More bad weather delayed our second match, but at least gave us time to organ ise an effect ive team. Sad ly one of our best players Tom Epps was knocked out in a practice and remained off games for the rest of the season. At least he was not more seriously injured. We looked quite good against Cranbrook. holding them to a three-all draw, with our fo rward line of Beaugic, Cumber, Andree and Lawrence starting to show some abilit y. We were later to lose Lawrence to the first cleven, but the other three worked well toget her, being wi lli ng to pass the ball arou nd until an opport unity to score arose. T his unselfis h approach allowed us to break through the opposition backs with surprising regularity. Marcus Cumber worked extremely hard, always moving a nd harrying the opposition. He has the ability to go up next yea r, but will have to play with a bit less aggress ion , and avoid obstructing ot her players. Simon Beaugie was a key link in the forwards making many vital passes and con fid ently controlli ng the edge of the '0'. Then came St. Lawrence at BirleyÂˇs. They were fee li ng quite confident and looked skilful. We were trying a new formation: having played fo ur forward s successfully, we now moved Bill Floydd up to the halves , and pu t Julian Woods as a roaming half-back. This proved devastating and we turned in probably ou r best malch of the season, win ning 4- 0. St. Lawrence beca me increasingly upset and aggressive, but we revealed the other st rength of ou r team, which was to remain calm, and keep playing thoughtfully while the o pposition fe ll apart. This match will also be remembered for Ian Sloggett' s amazing run from one end of the pitch to the other, sett in$ up a goa l for Simo n Beaugic. Ian was one of a very promising halves line. Torsten White marked people out of many games, and was always effective running back to defend. Bill Floydd improved tremendously, cont rolling the centre; he always looked cal m, co nfi dent and in control, and by tac klin g many fine forwards he wrecked many a good attack. Amazingly, he played left wing, centre back, and centre half thi s season. Feeling confident we went to Manwood' s on a wet, cold afternoon, and wit hin two minutes had accidently sent their captain off to the 'San' , having been hit in the face. We went on to win 2-0, Marcus kicking in a goal in their referee's circle. and Hugh scoring again. St. Edmund's at home saw a rather scra ppy performance. but with Guy Burkill coming in at the back, and Greenleaf minor deciding to rema in in our half to defend , they managed to limit St. Edmund's to one goal. Guy looked very confident and having tackled someone was able to dist ribute the ball effect ively back up the field. Andy Greenleaf improved noticeably as the season went on and indeed in the last matches proved very useful. Surpri singly we managed to put four goals past St. Edmund's. J ustin Topham scored one of them joining us fro m the 1st Xl to play on the left wing. This is a difficult position and Justin was new to it, but he worked hard to improve hi s stick-work a nd by the end of the season he was looking quite classy. We went away to Sutton Valence to play on their very fast hard pitch, after a long brea k. They were a very good side and had ma ny chances in the fir st half with shots com ing off the post a nd across the goa l on many occas ions, but they did not manage to score. Scott Guth rie, our goal keeper, although looking rather cu mbersome, pulled off some fine saves, while listeni ng to his Wa lk man. It wou ld be easy to underestimate his cO lllribution, as "he was not really cha llenged that often, but he made some good saves when it mattered. We we nt into the 2nd hal f at Sutton Valence 1-0 up, not really descrving to be a head , but with th is psychological adva ntage we settled down in the seco nd half and managed to score twice more. Th is was an extremely tense match which could have gone either way , but once again the desire to win pulled us through. 179 (Jollatliall Marshall)

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Played 7, Won 4, Drawn I, Lost 2. v C:hatham House (H). Cancelled v SmlOn Langton (H). Cancelled v SI. Lawrence (H). Won 4-0 v R.M. S. Dover (A). Lost 1-2 v SIr Roger Manwood's (A). Won 2-0 v Dover College (H) . Cance lled v St. Edmu nd 's (H). Won 4-1 v Cranbrook (H ). Drawn 3-3 v Su lton Va lence (A) Wo n 3- 1 Team: H . J. Andree (Capl ) M J C b . v Kent College CAl. Lost 0-3 Wh ite, J . R. Woods, G. J . Bt;rkill U~l M' Bcrausglc, J . L. Topham, W. J. S. Floydd J C Also la d ' . . reen Iea, . A. B. G uthrie. ' . . Sloggell, T.SI.J . p ye : N. C. Henry, J . M. Lawrence T A F E , . . . pps, A. D. Howard.

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RESU LTS v SI. lawrence (H) . Lost 1-2

v SUlton Valence (A). Lost 1-4 v Kent College (A). Lost 0- 1

Colts XI

f t vO of the best players from the equivalent side of last year, len a rather inexperienced team. However, they were

o l~ to learn and a policy of st icking to those players who were selected for the fi rst match, alt hough rather ha rd on

kee or tWO promising players in the B XI, who never had a chance to show their ta lents, did mea n thutthe team improved O"esiderably du ring the term. By the end of the season the individual sk ills of most players had improved and a patlern '("play was emerging which resulted in the ba ll reaching the wings more orten a nd thus more scoring opportunities ~'ng created. Also, the advantages of passing the ball quickly were beginni ng to be seen as well as a n appreciation of\vheJl the ball had to be hit hard and when, such as for speed in the circle, a push or a fli ek was su fficienl. Of the five ma tches played two were won and three lost. T he first two matches, within four days of each ot her, had any similarities. T hey were both away and both lost, 0- 2, but in each game we had much of the play, but were unab le ~ make our pressure co unt a nd then inev itably goals were conceded. The next matc h again st SI. Ed mund 's was close ly 'onlesled and seemed to be head ing for a draw foll owing ma ny missed opport unit ies at both ends, when an error by 'he opposition goalkeeper a llowed us to score the winner. This was followed by a good win against a previously unbeaten SUll on Valence 3rd XI and an equa lly im pressive performance aga inst Kent College. Having led 1-0 and 2-1, played "Cry well and created severa l scoring opportunities wh ich were not taken, it was a great shame to concede a third a nd decisive goa l with just two minutes left to play. However, the match confirmed how much the leam had improved and ,hal there is potentia l a mongst them for the future. There were many boys playing colts hockey this year and it was good that a B XI match against SI. Lawrence College was again possible. Even though the match was lost, it was certai nly enjoyed by all. A.W.O. Team: R. W. Girling, W. Ballenden, J . G. Wright, C. N. Downie, K. P. Godfrey (Capt.) , J. S. Marozzi, G. A. Bones, S. L. Fried la nder, B. E. Palmer, A. G. West, P. E. Jessup. Also played: C. R. Stanbury, R. I. W. Wil son. D XI: L. G . D. Will ia ms, B. G. T . Tower, l. J. Udoyen, R. I. W. Wil son , C. I. Frew, O. C. C. T. Harris, D. P. Morris, D. E. Jevons, A. J . McClymont, T. H . Peer, M. J. F. Gore, J . r. lbbotl, A . M . O lby. R ESULTS

v Cranbrook (A). Lost 0- 2 v St. Lawrence (A). Lost 0-2 v SI. Ed mund 's (A). Won 2- 1

v Sutton Va lence (H). Won 2-0 v Kent Co llege (H). Lost 2-3

Under 15A XI It has been a term dominated by one big if. If we had more determinat ion and spirit we cou ld have done better. But underlying this 'if' is tremendous encouragement for the whole team: they have abi lity. Part of the reason for this lack of drive is lack of confidence. As a side they did not win a game of hockey at King's until after half-term and al the start they look ed like a team that didn't know wha t winning was about. It was quite a handicap. The term started wit h a double act at the rei ns - J.J.D .C. and N.L.P . J .J .D.C. gradua lly loosened the grip , but was never fa r away, a lways wi ll ing to impart wisdom , and a huge 't hank you' is d ue to him . I greatly valued his support. The first match against Duke of York's was the first time the team had been outside toget her, and great things could not be expected. More was expected against C ranbrook , but nothi ng materialized. The team was in a shambles and didn't deserve to win. Back on the tra ini ng pitch some hard work on the basics and a change of for mat ion brought benefits against SI. lawrence . Van Notten, the Captain, clearly stood o ut as a player with talent, a talent whieh he displayed in every subsequent match and supremely in the fi rst match against Kent College. Locking looked like a competent player against SI. Lawrence and mat ured as a player throughout the season. Darby , on the right wing, showed he could be effect ive but was not given very many opportu nities during the term to test the opposition's defence. The game against St. Ed mund's after ha lf-te rm was an im portant moment for the team. They won. The match was played o n a very wet and muddy Birley's and as a result was qu ite scrappy. The victory, however, provided a much needed boost before the game with Kent College which was quite definitely the best they played. In a ll departme nts they played above themselves. The bac ks - Stobbs, Handley and Kwan - discovered how effective they could be when they worked toget her: Kent College rarely penetrated furthe r tha n the ~dge of our '0' until the last ten or fifteen minu tes. Haswell made li fe very difficult for thei r right wing a nd any other player he could tea r after. SI. John Parker showed just how good he can be when he plays determinedly. Hawkins showed tremend ous na ir on his reverse stick side and worked hard throughout the game. And Mart in made several usefu l journeys down the left flank, putting the opposition under pressure. We were grate ful to the 1st XI who loaned us Baker - we could see why they wanted to keep hi m. The match ended in a draw, a fair end to a great ga me of hockey. The two fo llowing matches again st Dover College and Sutton Valence saw a return of the old enemy, lack of determination. It was not until the last match, a nd the seco nd aga inst Kent College, that the drive returned. The tea m pieced together many good moves and looked like a good hockey team. Roberts, in goa l, fini shed a competent season with a very good performance, his best. Moore and O'Sullivan, brought in to replace the injured van Notten and Locking, fill ed into the side well and adapted to their tasks sensibly. Kent College brought out the best in the team - in two encounters we are st ill unbeaten ... and so are they.

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The resu lts (played 9, won 1. drawn 2, lost 6), do not reflect thei r abilit y or potentia l and they should that their hockey was good and there's no reason why they can't play like that all the time, if they put their t~ke heart minds toÂˇ Fina lly, my thanks to J .J .D.C., to the groundsma n whose job is not a n easy one and to the team. I rcaU . It. the term.

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N. l .p. Team: G. H. Darby, M. R. Handley, H . L. Hawki ns, P. Kwan, T. J . Loc king, J . W. Martin, J. J, L . Moore, S. W. Roberts . M. P. O'S ullivan, D. 51. J oh n Parker, J. J. F. Sto bbs, P . W. F. van Notten (Capt.j. Also played: O. J . Rycroft. J . L. Hirst, Q. M. Warner-Smit h, T. C. Baker. RESU LTS

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Played 9. Won 1, Drawn 2, Lost 6. Cha tha m House (A). Ca ncelled v Sir Roger Manwood's (H). Lost 0-2 Kent College (A). Cancelled v 51. Edmun d's (H). Won 1- 0 Duk e of York's (A). Lost 1-3 v Kent Co llege (H). Drawn 0-0 Dover Coll ege (A). Postponed v Dover College (A). Lost 0-2 Cranbrook (A). Lost 1-5 v Sutton Va lence (A). Lost 1-3 5t. Lawrence (A). Lost 0-4 v Kent Co llege (H). Drawn 0- 0

Under IS 8 XI The B group had an impressivc total o f forty ent hu siastic players wit h a wide ra nge of stickwork styles varying rrom the rustic to the unashamedly violcnt. Despite one blac kboa rd teac hing session on tactics and positional play most players settled for the less complica ted hearty slog in any di rection fo llowed by a 'hare and hounds' type chase: Most practice games rcsembled a swarm o f bees around thc honeypot (the baU) and everyone gave loud vocal advice to everyone else on what to do with the ball which went tota lly unheard and unheeded. T hreats of a closer acquaintance with the peri mcter of Birley's silenced this cacophony for a whi le but not perma nently. T he enthusiasm for smashing the ball OUI of sight was not easi ly quenched. Bcaring in mind the afore go ing, those who were picked with great difficulty for the two matches acquitted themselves wit h credit. Suddenly to discover that the o pposit ion were playing in so mething mysterious ca lled positions and that they had to do the same, came as a rude shock. Kent College made the mistake of trying to play proper hockey on an un typically mu ddy Birley's pitch whilst ou r 'bash it hard a nd chase' worked slight ly better. Of course we lost to much superior skill but not without so me dogged defence a nd even a few a tt acks. Against Sutto n Valence, Shah shone in goa l, even saving a penalty stroke which he had j ust ly incurred for keeping one foot firml y planted on the ball ror what seemed an age. Rycroft stood o ut as the best player who had been in the As and it was he who imparted some pattern to our tactics and shored up a somewhat shaky defence. Heltings, Warner-Smith, Grimes, Quin, Lawrence and Darley all showed signs of promise a nd mu st persevere next yea r. It was an enj oyab le if brief season often interrupted by vio lent snowstorms.

J .J.D.C. The leat" was chosen Jrom: N. A. Shah, Q. M. Warner-S mith , J . P . Gooderham, J . M. G rimes, D. J. Rycroft (Capl.) , D. C. A. Quin , N. D. Lawrence, P. C. Rogerson, S. Kee ler, R. A. Hellings, A. M. H . Darley, B. A. Marquis, D. P. C. Burdess, N. J asani . RESULTS v Kent College. Lost

0-2

v Sulton Valence . Lost 0- 1

Under 14 XI It is very difficuh to write up a season in which results have been a cata logue of su bstantia l defeats. A long string of eXCllses does not make int erest ing reading. We play very st rong hockey sc hools for whom hockey is the only majo r fi eld game (his term. In the December trials at least cleven ta lented hockey players were seen wh o might have been in a n A XI of a few years ago . In the event o nl y about six of these chose hockey wit h initia ll y a nother eig hteen boys. The usual Lent term illness meant that we were unable to field an eleve n at a ll against St. Lawrence and had no selcct io n decisions to make in most of the other matches - all those 'on games' played. It has not been pleasant for anyone to go o ut aga inst teams picked from an entirely different co nstituency. Through this term C harles Veitch has been an outstand ing capta in and played excellen tly. He kept his head and covered fq,r.

182 C ROSS COUNTRY (J.S.H.)

multitude of errors of the defence. He clearly deserves better in future years. Manni ng had the thankless job of lhe ing goa l a nd wit h plent y of practice he developed int o a very competent keeper and made many fine saves. Without k:ere tWO our results would have been different by an order of magnitude. M. Conno lly and S. Connolly kept fight ing I ~he end - somet imes each other - a nd are both going to be fine players. Unti l he ran out of steam in the last game ~hi1 iP ~rove played with a touch of class but was too often bundled off the ball - he will be a very good player when he is bIgger. All those who played did their best and made progress. They deserve some better resu lts in the future This term 's arrangements were made on the bas is of an in take of 150. An intake of 100 came as a surpri se. Cha nges will be made.

H. E. l. A. The/allowing played in most o/the games: J. I. Manning. C. R. Warner, J . W. L. Moss. J. M. Press, B. H. Pollitt. C. E. A; Veitch. P. L. Grove, D. M. Atk ins. M. L. Con nolly, S. B. Connolly. B. Petit, B. J. Wyatt. E. N. Peer, H. 8. ROssiter.

Also played: W. R. J . Osmond, B. J. Ensor, M. N. Whiteley. RESU LTS

v Cranb rook (A). 0-8 The first game after snow against a we ll set tled side was played wit hout the inju red Veitch. v Si r Roger Manwood's (A). 0-5 T he game was played in at rocious cond itions and ruined large a reas of a cricket pitch. The vast puddle in the circle kept the score down. v Duke of York 's (H). 0-2 A very good , sk ilful ga me. v Kent College (A). 0-7 After a couple of good attacks by At kins on the right wing we were complete ly out played by bigger, faster and more sk ilful players. v Dover College (A). 0-7 We were bundled out of the ga me by bigger faster players.

East Kent Tournament at St. Lawrence: Superb pitches and excellent umpiri ng gave our small players a cha nce to show some skil l. v Wyndgate 0- 0 We were unable to take any o f the chances we made. v Simon Langton I - I We were ahead until the last few seconds. v Kent College 0-4 We were overwhelmed, but kept fighting back. v Chatham House 0- 2 A good result against a st rong team.

(B X I mostly Old Holmewoodians) v Holmewood House (H). 0-6 v Sutton Valence (H). 0-7 There were periods of well-contested play a nd severa l clea r chances, bu t we were overwhelmed by greater strength and determ inat ion. v Ke nt College (H). 0- 4 . Kent College brought only a few of their A side and this was quite a good game . By this stage confidence was not high.

Girls' Hockey Having enjoyed the advantage of pl aying on the all-weather pitch on Blore's aU last term, this term's hockey o n the rougher grass pitches on Birley 's ca me as quite a shock; however the improvement in sk ill and coordination of the team is indicated by ou r victory in three out of four matches played this term. Our first match against SI. Edmund 's, on the only available pitch in Canterbury after the snow, resulted in a comfortable win for us and boosted the team' s morale even though we know there are far fewer girls at 51. Edmund 's. Our second match was against Sevenoaks and considering the strength of thi s team (last term they beat us 7-0 although we were without several of our players) we were pa rticularly pleased with our 2-0 win. Immediately after half-term we played a touring team from Rugby a nd Chelten ham. The team was entertained to supper in T he Grange , to coffee etc. in Meister Omers and was accommodated in Lattergate. It was a hard-fought game and a beautiful cross drive from Blyt he Levett chipped in by Cha rlotte Blenkin gave us the only goal. We very much enjoyed having the touring team ( 0 stay with us. Undoubted ly the ha rdest match fo r us was against Simon La ngton Girls' School whose team conta ined county players. Our 0-2 defeat was the result of a fast and very enjoyab le end of season match.

185 BRITISH SCHOOLGIRLS' 'SK I RACES (l. D. Bumel); J.M.C. (l.S.H.)

We then went to Wcmbley to sec how the

a ver y exciting malch. The sound of th I g e 5 lOU I~ave been played all season . England b ~e were full of admiration al both leea~l:.e ~~i~~~~ the s la~lUm each time En~land scored a goal we~:1 U:S.A. 3- 1 in will have done everyone some good for next seas~~~' their very close markmg and their aCCurate p~~:~~ d~a~enin8. ~hanks arc due 10 Mrs. Woodley for all her work . OPe it willcit has made this season such a Success. The best ~1;': ~~ka:IIHhe le~m members for their dedicaliolll O0'1' o ennetta Eynon who takes Over as ea ?Ir 5 hOCkty Plain next Ye My thank s again to Alex for being su CI d . ALEX ANDRA C ar. we've ever had. We shalJ also miss Emma c~lIg00 , caJ?lam of Ihe le~m and ind eed for being One of OCI-lRANe. scoring skills, Blythe Levelt on th e wing JulilW s dn~e and deternllnat ion in the fo rward line Mela t!le ~cst plaYers and Tabitha Winnifrith's so und goalkeepin o We ;[Srhan'I, er aslla IPlubCky left -half, Charlo tte Blenkin 's y~.er' ones's goal W o· em a tIC est o f luck and ho I . s gOod pi e shall start next year strengthcned by our two b . , pc tley continue to play ho ay from defeat on many occasions and by the va luabl ac~s. Jess] ~a ColI,ll1s and Bernadette McCu llough I ckcy, , < e expenence ga med Ih]s year by Cam illa Derollet a d H' W,lO saved Us n enflClla Eyno Team: Tabitha .Winnifrilh, Jessica Collins. Bernadette McC ' J.A ; . ~oa:~=~1r' Call1] lIa Derollet, Charlotte Blcnkin, Emma co~~~:~g~~~~r~e~~]~noB~' ,AllcxLandra Co.chrane (Capt.) J~r· . , . y Ie cvett, N]cola Clarkc S' ~a lSI colours were awarded to: Alexa ndra Cochrane. • Ophl C Girls ' colours were awarded to · Emn C . Henrictta Eynon, . Ia on ycrs, Melal1lc Bones , Blythe Levett , Julia Warrander Tab"1 'V' , , ] la ~ lllmfrilh,

RESU LTS v St. Edmund 's (A). Won 5- 1 v Scvenoaks (H). Won 2- 0

v R.ugby and Cheltenham Collegc (H) W v SUllon Langton (A). Lost 2- 0 . on 1-0

Association Football 1st XI Last year we found the transition to Ma'or S Our fixture-list something of a shock This J port status and the concomitant upgrading of fnst practice of the season it was c1ea'r that ~~a~, ~oweverdth;ngS were different. From the very a~d m the opening match we trounced St. Edm~n~'~~u~O 0 rialented and enthusiastic players, N,ck Musson. Paul Norris, exhibiting quicksilver ball-con'trof~en ~~urfnce scored tW?, as did Two stern tests were to fOllow ho wever Maid e eft, made It fIve. U.19 League, showed us how to run into' stone O.S., runners-up in the last term's Kent all season), and we lost 2-3 with Paul ~~ace and ~all for the ball (a lesson we failed to learn top Soccer schools in the co~ntry also bea/~: ~corm~ two late goals. Brentwood, one of the of Ad rian Unforth (who had be~n looki y a smgle .goal, but the greater loss was that There fOllowed four wins in a ro W ng very good at fight-back) with a broken ankle. M,chael Holden (3) and Paul Norri;(2) e were much too strong for K. C .S. Wimbledon and break (and an extended coach tour roun~o~l~~~:~~) to t7 e 5 scoreline. After the half:term k~ hopelessly out of touch in the fnst q uarter of the Sevenoaks game and were Soon tw we Side and the pace of Dave Laurence up front even 0 goa s Own. However the fitness of the Jon Davies rounded off one of the oals of th tually deCIded the game 4-2 in Our favour. for Ius industry with a fine headed :oal The ~ seas~n'lIand S,mon Attwood rewarded himself we scraped home 3- 2, with Jimmy N~vile 's th~v~r f 0 ege J lde were physical and untidy, but By now Paul Norris's back in' h d r y- I v~-yar goal the highlight of his season. his skills for the rest of the seas~~r~i:k ~verelY resT:cted hIS mobility, and we were to miss showed some neat touches, including a wel¥_~~okn, Wit years still ahead of him at King's, Morse, desperate to have his name on the scar en goa tn ou~ 4- 1 defeat of Epsom. Bobby chIpped elegantly over Craig Butcher to scoree-sEheet a~d show I 'fn g utter disdain for convention, psom s goa Or them.

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At Westminster we were genuinely unfortunate to lose 2-5 . It was one of those days when

have possibly the better of the game and still go down heavily. Their excellent centre-forward, ~hO scored four, was the decisive factor. Simon Attwood, rapidly acquiring a taste for goals, cored our two. The game against Colfe's began in sensational fashion when Johan von Wersebe ~eaded a spectacular goal after just ninety seconds, only for Colfe's to equalise a minute later aner a dreadful (and uncharacteristic) lapse in our defence. A second mistake conceded an owngoal and we lost 1- 2, but it was only outstanding goal-keeping by Craig Butcher that kept uS i~ the game against an outstanding Colfe's side, unbeaten this season. Craig was equally effective in the O.K.S. match which we lost 2-3. The Old Boys were totally dominant in the first half as they overawed our boys with their size and positive play. Mark Leathem and Pat Kerry were particularly impressive, whilst Steve Hancock and Andrew Holden looked to have improved markedly since leaving school. As the O.K .S. tired we came back with tWO goals from Michael H?lden, but despite intense pressure !n. the. last ten minutes we could not find the net agam, wh,ch would probably have been an tnJustlce anyway . The season was undoubtedly a success. An equal record with our current fixture-list is an achievement in itself, and the goals tally of 28 for and 19 against suggests that our wins were more conclusive than our defeats. At times we looked a little lightweight up front, but the skill and pace of Michael Holden and Nick Musson will cause problems for many a defence over the next two years. Paul Norris was devastatingly effective in the first few games but probably prefers to play in midfield. Dave Laurence's speed on the right wing was our primary offensive weapon, and he scored some excellent goals. In midfield we often started slowly, but the talents and fitness of Simon Attwood were a major factor in the second half of every game. He was well supported by Bruce Marson and, when fully fit, Jon Davies, both of whom should make an important contribution next year. In defence we looked considerably mOJe composed than in previous years. Bobby Morse swept with admirable authority behind a tenacIous and combative Jimmy Nevile. At right-back Simon Stuttaford, looking deceptively casual, answered most of the questions posed by opposition wingers, whilst contributing effectively to our own attack when the situation required it (and sometimes when it didn' t), and at left-back Angus Murdoch had some excellent games, although at times his concentration was suspect. With Simon Turner, our goalkeeper for the last two years, out for the term with a knee injury, Craig Butcher stepped into the breach . Having played little or no soccer since prep school he was understandabl y rather unsure at first, but by the end of the season he was playing supremely well. His performance in the O.K.S. match was quite superb. The spirit of the side was excellent with outstanding leadership being provided by Bobby Morse. I enjoyed the season enormously and would like to thank all the members of the team for their fine behaviour both on and off the field. With several of them returning next year I look forward to another success ful and enjoyable season . My warmest thanks go to D.J. B., W .R .P and all those who took the junior sides this term . It is not always much fun to have to go out to Birley's on a raw February afternoon, but your efforts are much appreciated, not least by the boys themselves. I would also like to thank Mr. Nevile Float and his groundsmen as well as Mr. Leon Kwei and the kitchen staff for all their help and cooperation. P .A.E.D . Oll

Team: C. E. Butcher, A. R. Linforth , S. P. Stuttaford, R. J. Morse (Capt.) , J. P . P. Nevile, A. O. F. Murdoch, S. J. Attwood, B. C. Marson, J . R. Davies, D. J. Laurence, M. I. Holden, P. A. Norris. A lso played: J . C . von Wersebe, M. O. Northeast, T. P. Briggs. First Colours: R. J. Morse, S. J. Attwood, C. E. Butcher, D. J. Laurence, J . P. P. Nevile, S. P . Stuttaford. Second Colours: J. R. Davies, M. I. Holden, A. R. Linforth , B. C. Marson, A. O. F. Murdoch, P. A. Norris, P. J. Cockrill , J. C. von Wersebe. 187

RESULTS

P layed 10, Won 5, Lost 5, Goa ls for 28, Goals against 19 v SI. Edmund's (!-f). Won 5-0 . v Maidslone G.S. (H). Lost 2-3 v Dover College (H). Won 3-2 v BrclHwQod (H). Lost 0- 1 v Epsom, (!-f). Won 4-1 v K.C.S. Wimbledon (H) . Won 5-0 v CWc,sft'~IJ1Sler (A). Lost 2-5 v Sevcnoaks (A), Won 4-2 v 0 C 5 (H). Lost 1-2 Scorers' N . 6 H I v O.K.S. (H). L ost 2-3 . oms • 0 den 6, Laurence 5, At twood 4, Musson 3 Davies Nev" W J c, von ersebe, I. I

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House Football There were severa l excit ing games in this ycar's Inter H two?f them. The Final turned out to b S A ' ~ ouse Knocko.ut Compet ition with penalt h . beadt ln g Grange in the sem i-fina ls. In ~l~ e:;d t~~~t~Stt~~~s~ul~~~~I(~rby W,lth Broughton beating Luxl~;or~o~;l~u~ ddCClding a n ra n out easy 6 - I winners. roug 11 0 11 proved too strong for the " ra cscant ga alH Trad lads

2nd XI

The fOf/o wing played: R. W. H . Schafer C J T J b D. J.O. Ii Da~ie 0 j ~ W. A. Vavasour, R. H. Pentin, E. R. S. Floydd, A. J. H. Brown, B. C. Marson, P. J. Cockri ll , Watson, J. A. C. Landale, N. J. Mu sson F W M· ·O·oOn Wersebe, O. P. C. Langton, M. I. Holden , J . R. ' . . e , . . sosanya, M. L. Nickolls.

R ESU LTS

Playcd 9, Won 2, Drawn I, Lost 6. )' SI. Edmund's (H). Won 10- 0 v Westminster (H). Drew I _ I v Maidstone G.S. (I-I). Won 3-2 v Colfe's (A). Lost 0-3 v Brent wood (1-1). Lost 4-5 v Kent Co llege (H). Lost 1-2 v Sevenoa ks (1-1). Lost 2-3 v K. C.S. Wimbledon (1-1). Lost 0-1 v Dover College (H ). Lost 3-4

3rd XI Th e Enforcer strik es back! St udcnts of socc . I S ' with sUcl~ra~:~ I!~~ityO~I~'~-~1~~~~rt]g:t t:~ee e;rly 1970,"bYilJ remember Peter Storey. so n III ]ts ong 'llstory Soccer a t Kin ' d . amous c tI was a ble to have its most " K]lIer Carrington the 3rd XI recko~ls to have Sto~ s r~~s not ha ve qUIl~ such a distinguishcd past, but in Pete 'The ~lems'fno,t.onIY was the first victory recorded but Znc n;~~;b~ted. In tlus, the second seaso n for this team of many ore 0 t liS later. ' r went on to sel a new School record for goal-scoring. T he season began in so mewha t fa milia r fash ion . . Lo ndon). Th is match was followed by a seyen oa l- snow iurk!ng III the background and a 2-0 defeat (v U C S was the fa ci that Ihey sco~cd four of th em, despi~e ou~~~~1~a aga~st Brentwood: The on ly sad aspect of the ~cc;si~~ ~~t~~alt~ed t';f f~ct ~ha,t IllS Rockbird tape had broken a nd di~t~;bedO I~~ad at o ne tlll~e. The players blamed the managcr, a, 0 Klng s goals were nelt ed by Tim 'The I-li tman' RoseS ~o~c~nt raF"'o ~, a nd tl.le keen-eY7d ta lent SCOIll S the sid e or t .le next game, away at Seven oaks and de . d . . ~lJ unes, u and H] story Projects decimatcd ~~ ~o~thcn I!llprecations from the to uch line the h o m~;~~ me!~~:~~~~ res lst.a;lce from Ihe depleted defence and a range ont ~1Il a rrington had discovered the benefit s of raw steak befo t~ee WlllO, ut reply. The only consolat ion was thm y ays away. rc e matc 1, and the momentous first victory was

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f Keen statist icians might recall that the 3rd XI losl to Epso m in 1986 to a last min ute, forty- ri ve yard own goal from Adrian Linforth (who was immediately promoted to the firsts) so the ret urn visit was looked forward to with some eeness . 'Killer' was unchained, Ian Cawley loe-poked one in from len yards, Epsom equalised and then the 'H itman' ~'d it again with a low left-footer. It was our first victory, and the corner was turned. From that point onwards we dlilulated Liverpool's 'spring cha rge' and fi nished the season with a 3-3 draw at Colfe's (Folu Ososanya giv ing a masterl y dl'splay as a sweeper), a 5- 1 home win over Kent College (4 for Tim Rose and a stu nning volley for James Lu ndale) an'd an excellent 3- 1 victory over Wimbledon (another 3 for Tim). The crowds have departed (well, there were three girls at one game - they though I they were watching Lacrosse), he opposit ion mid fielders are off their crutches aga in , the posts have been replaced with boundary ropes, but it will ~ a season that none of us will forget. Congratu lations to all the players, including the ever-presents Robin Scott, Ted Hughes, Peter Carrington, Ian Caw ley and Tim Rose as well as our U.15 debutant Martin Jackson. See you a ll next year. W.R.P.

The/ellm wasselecledfrom: N. V. Daley, J . A. Stern, Q. C . Hughes, E. M. Hughes, A. G. J. Seolt, A. M. J . Warren,

E T. J. Widdowso n, M. L. Milhench, T. J. Wa rd, P. M. Carrington, N. J. Vance, J . C. O usey, M. O. Ososa nya,

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Nickolls, R. Kher, I. Cawley, J. A. Landa le, T. P. Rose, O. J . F. J ackson, J . A. W. Mycrofl, P . O. A. Th omas. RESULTS

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Played 7, Won 3, Drawn 1, Lost 3, Goa ls for 16, Goals against 15. v Co lfe's (A). 3-3 (Rose, Va nce, Ososa nya) V.C.S. (H). 0-2 v Kent College (H). 5- 1 (Rose, 4, Landale) Brentwood (H). 3-4 (Rose, 3) v Wimbledo n (H). 3- 1 (Rose, 3) $evenoaks (A). 0-3 Epsom (H). 2- 1 (Rose, Cawley)

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Under 15 A XI Despite a lack of success in term s of statistics, this was an enj oyab le season in which the team has worked for the most pari wit h enthusiasm a nd good humour. Many of the matches were close affairs, too many being settled in the last few minutes in favour of the o pposition. However, it has to be said that alt hough the defe nce was genera ll y sound, at the other end of the field too few chances were created, and even fewer convcrted into goals. The midfie ld , indeed the whole side, suffered greatly in the prolonged absence of the captain , M. Nort heast, who when he did play was a dominant, inspirat iona l figure. Rather than co mment on everyone's performance, I would prefer to pick 'out a few players who excelled. B. Epega was a commandi ng, menaci ng even, goa lkeeper, who was a power ful fo rce behind the de fence, a nd usually ma naged to get some part of his anatomy behind the ball. He made several acrobatic renex saves, a nd carned the respect of many opponen ts. J. Hudsmith adapted we ll to a defensive role, was composed and o ft en skilful under pressure, and improved with every game. Of the whole team, however, M. Jackson was arguably player of the season; pugnacious, calm and very effective, he was never bettered by an opponent. Ment ioning these players is not to deny the importam cont ributio ns of all the others who played - each had some good things to offer, but would be more effecti ve with greater consistency over the course o f the whole match, and indeed from game to ga me. Many of this group will undoubtedly go on to play 1st XI soccer, and will do well. My thanks to all who played, and to C. J .R.J. for sharing the coaching dut ies. R.C.W.

Team: B. A. Epega, E. W. Burt, G. B. Andrews, J. G. H udsmit h, M. R. Jackson, A. Das, P. G. Davies, M. G. Northeast, H. J . Longr igg, A. J . Woolsto n, D. T. Ham ilton, A. J. W. W. Skarbek, P. H. Apps. Also played: E. J . Linforth, K. P. Godfrey, O. J. Cox , A. F. A. Fahm, M. D. Weston. RESULTS

v Sevenoaks. Lost 0-5 v Westminster. Lost 2-3

v St. Edmund's. Lost 1-2 v Brentwood. Lost 1-2 v K.C.S. Wimbledon. Drew I- I

v Archbishop 's. Lost 0-3

v Kent College. Won 10-0 ' 89

Under 158 XI

Kent College (H), Won 6- 0

Scvclloaks (A). Lost 1-4

v Westminster (A). Lost 1-2 K.C. S, Wimbledon (A). Lost 0-3

Under 14 A XI This

ha~ been a difficult season.

Aft er Ihe disru lion

=~~ S~!~I~~aek~~~i~l~~SC\~~::~~~~l'l~,~~ rfered SOlllc~leaVyC~~~~~I~.YI~~~h~r~~i~~~e=~~r~s~O~~dll/l~ns. the learn never played

were much closer enCOu nters Iha~ the rc~~!classcd. Of t he ot her de feats, Sf. Edm und's ArCh~~~d, ~.C.S. Wimbledon ma tch of the seaso n which produced K·,ng' 5 S1I 8 ge~1. T he West mi nster ga me was a pariicu larly OPd S a nd Westminster • 5 on 1Y victory was iro' II b goo exa mple Th I un~~~~~~!~~ s~~s~~ careless ,defensive lll!slakcs. including 'some Gr:~C~I:a~:O ably ~he~r WOrs! fOOl balling perf~rm:n~~ 10 have an

c~Oyab~~I~~~::: ~n~~,I~: ~;:I~~~ 1~~i~~i~~ld c~u ldnd't bre~k thc ni~I~~~C:s~t~O;~os:I~!~~~~ tt~~mbconfidence. , s owe

a sliff upper hp in the fa ce of defeat.

e oys seemed

Team'PAH"' BE Hu lm . . . Iggll1S, . . W'. Young, S. R. Maggs, S. M. A C S G.P.C. Al e, A. J. C. Hyatt, O. H. HlI1ton, S. L. G. Pallullo, B. Ya'u 0 a1ch~:fal?l.~ D6 C. Peachey, A. Cunningham A C so played: N. Turner, M. L. J. Willifer. ' " eyl, . . A. Thomas, K. R. O. O. S~naike: R ESUI.TS

Played 7, Won I 0 0 II d ,rew, Losl 6, Goa ls for 9, Goals against 31 · . . ancee . v SI. Edmund's. Lost 1-2 v Sevenoaks. Losl 1-7 v Canterbury Eagles. Cancelled v Archbi~hop's. Lost 1-3 v Brentwood. Lost 1-7 v Westnu llsler. Losl 2-4 v K.C.S. Wimb led on. Lost 0-7 v Kent College. Won 3- 1

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Under 14 8 XI Enthusiasm and commitment wcre a lillie short at the yel ~~ Ihe cnd of lerm these were the boys' main qUali~::;t of term, perhaps because of Ihe snow and the icy pitches Initially there was a great dearth of skilJ a ld b . . , w~a: IthelY lacked in skill thcy co mpcnsated Ifor ~~cr~~l~l\~~11 f~;~~~(7ess~pbpl~ ~.raduaIlY the boys grew in confidence and IC t t 1at we lacked a Couple of quality I r r mg one another. the learn disp la d ' P ayers lor our first match against B od Rosa to and s upey~.s~be}.t coura~el and characler to Come back from 3-2 ~~!~:~o M' billt desdJ?itc a scrappy performance . uc 1 cre It must go to Ihe injured rew, Will Iwo goa ls each. 190

-- ---- - -N Xl we met the powerfu l Sevenoaks learn who were rumoured 10 have beaten their A learn t he prev ious week. We eforced to defend for long periods despile taking Ihe lead t hrough an own goa l. Rhodes began 10 emerge as a very .-ere ising full-back with his speed and covering abililY. Sau nders was magnificent in goa l and kept us in the game until pro~~st five minutes when the flood gates opened and we let in three goals. lhe the lime we p layed Westm inster confidence was high and the tea m was beginning to mo uld together well, with Ynclusion of sta lwa rt C hum at the back. Along with skipper Rhodes, sturdy Pacaud and the li vely C unningham lhe defence had developed into a solid unit. keeping a clean shcct. Sa rgent, J . Turner and Keeler in midfield never slOpped the ning and Flynn caught the eye as a tricky wi nger, improving fa st. Westminster were under constant pressure in the ru nond half and finally Turner clinched the win wit h a well-driven goal. ~Ve conclud~d the tern~ with a.victory o.ver Kent College in a match refereed by D~. Lamb whose se nse of fair play s much in eVidence durmg a hai lstorm mId-way through the second half when he decided to call the two teams together hold a democratic vote on whether the game shou ld be abandoned or not! overall it was a successful term and we hope that the lads will continue to enjoy their soccer a nd play with passion and commitment.

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C.P.N. Team: C. P. Saunders, J . J. Rhodes, D. K. Y. C hum, P. C. Pacaud, A. Cu nningham, J. H . Turner, A. C . Hulme, P. Keeler, J. G. Flynn, D. J. J. Sargent, S. Rosato. A/sop/ayed: M. D. H. Clarke, B. Hardy,!. D. McH. Overton, C. J . D. Hodges, J. R. Majlinder, J. E. Bailey, A. S. Frew, C. H. Webb, N. H. Turner. RESU LTS

Played 4, Won 3, Lost I, Goals for 9, Goa ls against 8. v Brentwood (A). Won 5-3 v Westminster (H). Won 1-0 v Sevenoaks (H). Lost 1-4 v Kent College (H). Won 2- 1 Scorers: Rosato 3, Frew 2, F lynn 1, Pacaud I , J. Turner I, 1 own goa l.

Badminton This term was not littered with fixtures . which the members of the team wou ld probably have been unable to attend anyway, because of heavy commitment to football and squas h. In fact the first IV had on ly two matches, and the U. 16s played a coup le as well. Bruce Marson p layed in the 1st pair this term, a nd proved a very capable partner. The pair won both t heir matches this term. Simon Stuttaford and Pau l Norris playing as the 2nd pair were not tested in t heir only match against Stafford House. The junior team was led by the pair of Lo and Pong , who played well, with va luable support comi ng from Hall, Martin, Dalamal, Kwan and Skarbek. Thank s as ever m ust go to Mr. Pat Davis for his coach ing thro ughout t he term. RAJJV VIJAYANATHAN (CAPT.).

Basketball Under 19 This season fo llowed very closely the pattern of the last, and once again there was ample ev idence of the great increase in the level of individual sk ills of the squad. Scarcely were we back at school after the Christmas break than we were in action at Kent Co llege, where we managed for the second year running to subside in a close, but soporific encounter. Agoraphobia set in, and with M. Adam so n sti ll feeling the e ffects of injury, our lo ng shooling let us down. The return match went as expectcd, with Ihe 'shoe box' facto r significant as a long unbeaten home record was kept intact by a comfortab le margin in a high-scoring game. At Sevenoaks, we coped well for a long time with a good side, but once their usual American imports began to really play there was no answer and we were well beaten. 19 1

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p easure and showed how far Ba season, alth~1J II

M. Adamson, the captain had . skclball has &h effective. O. ROlimi drovecrfeClive~1l excellent season; his CO Ur[ movement is flu ent . c°lllt as well as ever. Rebounding was one d'r' I~~d rebounded aggressively. While On Ihe ot her ~i~~d hIS dista nce shooii on ~rfcnce wcre somewhat restricted Th~r;n71~s of~he team, thanks also to A. Scott and J qordon used the m~1 ~~~ ~~~e~:llCt~l of R. Morse and ~hc s~re han~fingr~~ J. \B~vf:re~i~b edrre~tive in the latler' p::~~r ~~~eose cOnlri;~~i~:

·b mense presence In every respe ( I ' " 0 enn, an Under 16 pia d ' seasOn th po.SS! Iy, rea l fitness. At various tim c; Ie IS a very good player indeed w" ye III a cOuple or anks gamcd va luable experience es R. Kher and G. Evans contributed well and d I t~ alII the skills lacki garnes, . , lOug 1 t ley had Jitll; tj' ng only me on Coun: Team: M. S. Adamson J COG Kher , G . J . V. E vans. ' . . . ordo n, O. Rotimi ' R . J . M orse, J. R. Da vies T P B . R.C.W Al ' . . n ggs, A. O. J. . so played: J. Aboderin, J. C. A. Ve,· 'cl" J. ScOtt, R M. Marshall.

v Kent College. Lost 33-37

R ESULTS

v Dane Coun . Won 68-54 v Kent Co llege. Won 93-61 v M. C.R. Won 40-34

v Sevenoaks. Lost 5 1-72 v Whitg ifl. Won 83-30

Junior House competition Once again this was an extremely )0 ula by many of the sides. There is lilt I d l P r a nd wcll COnt estcd compctition , with, . The Grange and Marlowe, wh o hadedo~~~~etlr::, the ~w? best sides reached th e final \~i~~r~~l~~rng level of skill shOWn The final allracted a huge crowd to the realc I t Ie ~mifinal, and Luxmoore defeating Mjtc~~~~,~i:;daoSjde M.O., match. Walpole w .11 I . gym, w 10 provIded loud vo I roughton. :~ovinf flue.llIly a~~eS~~ril~gl~:c~tI:l~~~~tl~l~if~~:~ ~all an9 GOdfrey d~alll~~I~I;tO~~d~I;':~~lb~~~e;te ~re~t~d to a pulsating HOllg I AYlda, Skarbek and Weston. Th ey coul~ln~~ry ~n the se~o~d hal f. as LllXllloore surg~d n ka~ and SOllaikr ba Thank s as ever 10 those wh o organi sed the teams, al;~Jt:e ~s~a~ It, how~ver, a nd Walpole held ~n \~~v~~~ garnr o . . . for aSSIstance with re fereei ng.

Preliminary round:

R.C.IV.

RESULTS

Semi/illals:

Tradescalll 14 , L·lIl<1cre 2 8; School House 14 B I ' roug Hon 22; Wa[pole 34, Meister Omers 20. Luxmoore 18, Mitchinson's [2' L' Marlowe 18. ' macre 12, Broughton 34; The Grange II Wal I 4 1· G . po e , alplIl's 14, ,

Final:

Ltl xmoore 28, Broughton 6' Walpole 46 M I 8 ' , ar owe .

First round:

LuxJl100re 29, Walpole 36.

Under 16 Baskctball continues to n . I' h is as great as ev TI' o uns I III t e School , and despite the lack f .. the squad I;as b~~;l e~II~~;:~o~~~a;r wins ~gainsl Kent College, Whi~gifto~:~eti~~~egc~es th~~ term the b~ys' enthusiasm any particular pia er II I Ie s ~an ard of play has improved con id bl tlrt . IIlce the begullling of term OU ld be invidious to single out make th is a llot he! enj~y~bl~aave Ic o lltnburted a grea t dea l in their own w!y e~y < n, Success lit seaso n. ' . n s go to all the boys who helped

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W. Ballendell, E. R. S Floydd C J T J b R J G.P.G. Ig lIingale, M. O . Ososa nya' (Capt) 'B 'M R 0, Kabban, M G. Ie Hu ray, J . J Morse M . , . . ayment , R. W H . Schafer, E. K van TIl , T. 'J. Wllh~ms:

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RESULTS

Played 4, Won 4, Drew 0, Lost 0, For 283, Agai nst 118. \I Kent College. Won 7 1-28 v Dane Court . Won 104- 46 v Whitgift. Won 6 1-28 \I Ken t College. Won 47- 16

Cross-Country This has been a term of mu ch encouragement fo r Cross-Country running, despi te the di sad vantages of sma ll numbers and several injuries. The Senior tea m grew in strength and con fi d ence to becomc a formidable side which stormed to victory in the Five Schools Trophy, and remained almost unbeaten in full Sc hool matches: o nly Skin ners' could topple us and that was by a mere four points. Much crcdi t must go to th e Captain , D. Kn ight, who led from the front and sh~\\'ed professional dedication in training. Then ca me thcda rk horse, S. Richards, who reached a high peak two-thirds of the way through the seaso n, a nd ex hibited astounding pace from such a relaxed lope. A. G illes pie-Smith and B. Wrench ra n consistently well throughout the season, contributi ng invaluably to the successes even when suffering fr om ' flu or missing fingers. Others appearing in the Sen ior tea m to great effect included J . Lumley and J. Rowsell, a ltho ugh still eligible as Intermediates, both o f whom show great prom ise fo r next year. J. Pritchard a nd J . Rattray showed determinatio n in training, and improved steadily. It was disappoiming to lose G. Evans in the seaso n through a ham string injury, a nd a shame (hat S. Attwood and N. Henry cou ld only make occas ional guest appearances. The Intermcdiates and Junio rs were thin o n numbers, but made up for this by steady e ffort, which began to pay off by the end of the season. P. Solway developed superbly into the clea r leader o f the Intermediates, fo ll owed by O. Scou, whose fitn ess improved stead ily until injury removed him fro m circu lat io n. S. H art grew in st rcngth and speed dramat ically, to beco!ne a vcr.y usefu.1 te!lm runner. M. Montgomery, J. Worsley and D. HodsOl"B"ded stalwart suppo rt, with never a compla mt passmg their hps. The Ju niors began the season wi th a mere three runners available: C. Hall, S. Cole and R. Dibley. This ta lented but lonely ba nd was supplemented after the Inter-House Co mpetition, when the likes of W. Davies, J . Knight , S. Bowker, and C. Dwyer were no longer ab le to evade the talent-spotters. T his produced the makings of a respectable team which , after several weeks' tough training up and down Scot la nd Hills a nd a round Birley's, ended the season with a resounding victory at Kent College. Committed training and so me sha rp recruitin g of id le ta lent will be needed if th is group is to emulate the achievements of this year's Senior team.

RESULTS

v Tonbridge: Senio rs won 32-48 (Attwood I; Knight 3; Gill espie-Smith 4; Wrench 5; Lumley 8.) U. 16lost 48-31 (Hall 2; Solway 5; T. Ballenden 7; H odso n 10.)

King Henry VllI Relay, Co ventry: Senior VI placed 28th out of 52 schools ( 1986: placed 35t h) (Attwood 12.27; Knight 12.55; G-Smith 13.06; Wrench 13.05; Evans 14.11; Rowsell 13.25)

Canterbury District Championships: Knight, Wrench , Gi llespie-Smith, Lumley (I nter) and So lway (Inter) through to Kent Cham pionshi ps. King's Sen ior team 1st; Inters 4t h.

\' R.M.S. Dover and St. Lawrence: Seniors won 22-74 (R.M.S.) -

91. Inters lost 54-30 (Ha ll 3; Solway 4; Hart 8.)

Five Schools Trophy: v Berkhamsted, Highgate, Harrow and Felsled. Seniors won 48-52 (Felsted) - 103 (Highgate) - 127 (Berkhamsted) (Kn ight 2; Henry 3; Richa rds 5; G-S mith 7; W rench I I; Rowsell 20.) In ters: 5th (Solway 7; Andrews 19.) Juniors: 4th (Hall 8; J. Kni ght 23; Cole 24; Davies 27.)

Coulsdol1: Densham Cup: Seniors 2nd out of 14: Skinners' 42 - King's 46 (Knight 5; Richards 8; G-Smith 10; Wrench 23. ) Lemon-Norris Cup: Inters 5th a lit of 16 (Lumley 15; Solway 22; Rowsell 25; Hall 29.)

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v Kenl College: Seniors won 29-52 (Knight 1; Richards 2; G·Smilh 4; Wrench 5; Lum ley 7; Pritchard g. Inters won 23-40 (Andrews, Rowsell, So lway. Hart. Montgomery, Worsley placed " Rtl)lra y 10., J uniors won 16-31 (Davies 1; Knight 2; Cole 3; Patt ullo 4; Dyson 6; Bowker 9' Dw:'- ·1 '

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I NTER-HoUSE COMPETIT ION

Seniors:

(Attwood I ; Henry 2; Knight 3.) I Tradcsca nl 61; 2 Luxmoore 101; 3 Broughton 135' 4 L' 5 Ga lpin's 2 16; 6 Walpole 25 1; 7 M.O. 269; 8 Sc hool Hou se 286; 9 Ma rl owe 288- io M!~a~!c 139; 309; II The Grange 335. • 1 C IOSon', Inters:

(L umley I; Solway 2; Andrews 3.) I Mitchinson's 127; 2 Broughton 135; 3 Luxmoorc 164· 4 T d 174; 5 Ma rlowe 180; 6 Galpin's 223; 7 Linacrc 232; 8 Wa lpole 247; 9 M.O. 255; 10 SCho~~ ~nt 278; 11 The Grange 326. OUst

Juniors: (Hall I ; Davies 2; Co le 3.) 1 School Ho use 84; 2 Linacre 132; 3 Broughton 140; 4 Ga lpin's 177 Marlowe 200; 6 = Mitehinson's, Wa lpole 22 1; 8 Luxmoore 243; 9 M .0. 295; 10 T he Grange 296. ;1 S Tradescant 377. ' I

Overall: I Broughton 410; 2 Unacre 503; 3 Luxmoore 508; 4 Tradescant6 12; 5 Galpin's 616; 6 School Ho 648; 7 Mitchinson's 657; 8 Marlowe 668; 9 Walpole 719; 10 M.O. 820; I t The Grange 957. usc I wo uld like 10 record my thanks 10 A.R.A.R. for his help in the fie ld . to J.M.C. for his immacu late fixtures COntrol a nd course-marking, a nd 10 all those boys and sta ff who helped mark the course in a blizzard. C.T.H.

Fencing Due to the adverse weather co nditions in an increasi ngly typical English January, our first two matches, againsl Haileybury and our old riva ls Rocheste r. were cancelled. Away at Eton in their ultra-modern fencing salle eq uipped with meta l pistes and wall-mounted scoreboards we triumphed 21-20, the narrowest margin in twenty-five years of fixtures. The mat ch saw a good deal of indi vidua l sllccess with Toby You ng, Ben Rayment and John Raw li nson winning all their fights in Foi l, Sabre and Epee respectively. Special ment ion must be made of Robert Tiley who ach ieved remarkable success , despite being press-ganged at the lasl minute. Our away match at Westmi nster saw us victoriolls aga in by the larger margin of 26- 19. Once again a good deal of personal success was achieved by the rather young first tea m. The Kent Epee Championships al home saw anot her King's success. John Rawlin son beat Mark Adamson in his usual ent husiast ic way to become Kent U. 18 champion for the second year in succession. In the U.16 field Toby You ng is to be congratulat ed o n coming first wi th myself coming third. At Ihe Kent Ind ivid ual Sab re at Orpi nglon. which, thanks to Mr. Romang, achieved a much higher sta ndard than prev ious years, our sa breurs were prov ided with va luable experience. Thanks are due to Mr. Roma ng for his dedicated coaching and support and to Mr. Jennings who joined us at the sta rt of the year and, a lthough no fencer himself, has coped with the admin ist rat ion a nd chauffeuring admirably. Our thanks also go 10 Mark Adamson for his unfailing efforts to keep the fencing Club going smoothly . BEN RA YMENT.

Colours were awarded 10 Ihe following: CO/IS Colours: S. Sa ba, J. Berry, E. George, E. Moore, D. Friston, R. Tiley. 21/d Colours: T. Young, N. P lant, D. Hodgson. 194 GIRLS' HOCKEY AND NETBALL TEAMS (Kentish Gazelle) HOCKEY (Stalldillg) Henrietta Eyno n, Nicola Clarke, Jessica Collins. Charlotte Bienkin , Sophie Cockerell , Bernadette McCullough, Camilla Derouet, Tabitha Winnifrith (Sealed) Blythe Levett , Melanic Bones, Alexandra Cochrane (Capt.), Emma Conyers, J ulia Warrander. NETBALL (Slalldillg) Sa rah Lee-Warner, Victoria Peterson, Maria Clegg, (Seated) Tara de Linde, Elizabeth Ibbotl,

evefal years there has been pressure from gir ls from lacrosse-playing schools to establish the game properly here, f~r 5 as largely persuasion by Miranda Merron and Clare Wilson that led us to gel under way last term, buying goalposts, ~ It \~ first such equi pment as they could provide, and fi nally embarking fully on regu lar play once hired equipme nt ,,~"g ~allersleys arrived in November. (rom r first-ever match, therefore. was on 28th February , when we were pleased on ly to lose 3- 5 to a Cra nbrook 'A' Ou and Ihis was followed by a game against a mixture of the 2nd and 3rd tea ms of Bcnendcn, a high-powered lacrosse 1~r;;:,L We then play~d Walthamst<?\~ Hall, and t ~e b rief but enjoyable ~easo n ca me to a memorable cli max when, SC day of pouring ra m, we were privileged to play In the A ll England Nationa l Schools Tournament at Merto n. T here on a five schools in our group, from very d iffe rent parts of Englamd , and during the day our game im proved marked ly y,erthis contact wit h ou r oppone nt s' hig h stand ard of play. bYNext season we sha ll hope to be able to fi eld enough girls for full practice games to be played, which hasn't yet been ssible even though there won 't be the o pportu nity of p ractice fi xtures with boys' tea ms as in hockey. Howcver, one POr(i cul ~ r advantage will be that there are a good nu mber of girls' schools who do play the ga me well in Kcnt, with ::05t of whom we a lread y have co ntact fo r o the r games . Next season 's captai n will be Sarah Lee-Warner.

J .A.W. The/ollowing played: Mi randa Merron (Capt.), Clare Wilson, Julie Ran kin , Maria C legg, Sa rah Lee-Warner, J u lie

Norey, Tessa Spong, Kat herine Goliop, ~irsten Andree, S ha lini Davis, Gaynor Sa nders, Fiona J ane Dibley, Gab rielle Wilson, Elizabet h Carlyle, Samant ha Bam. RESULTS

All Englund Schools' Tournament v SI. Mary's. Caine. Lost 1- 3 v Berkha msted lsI. Lost 0- 6 v Bolton. Lost 0-6 v St. Philomenas. Lost 1-2

v Cranbroo k (A). Lost 3-5 v Benenden (A). Lost 2-7 v Walt ham stow Hall (A). Lost 1-6

Netball This has been a n extreme ly successful term fo r netba ll , with the 1st Vll unbeaten in its six ma tches; indeed in the whole winter our only de feat was by Cra nbrook. Unfortunately three fixtu res had to be ca ncelled because o f weat her or 'flu (at Dover). Zoe de Linde was again o uts tandi ng as capta in and player; in the rela tively brief history o f King's School netball she has u ndoubted ly been the best player, and her stre ngth a nd skills will be missed next year. Her sister Ta ra was an accurate and reliable Goal Attack, and Vicky Peterson used her height to increasingly good effect to pop ba lls in the net. Tara part icularl y ga ined from the support of Sally-Ann Haw ken, whose vita li ty was a featu re of the season. The ot her centre court player, Ju lie Norey, next year's captain, showed well co-ord inated ski lls and supported her cent re well; Elizabeth Ibbott was a tenacious defender; and Maria Clegg and Sarah Lee-Warner showed they wil l be well ab le to help J ulie have a good basis fo r next season. Particu larly good performances were the wins against Benenden and Sevenoaks. and the team stood up welt to the psychologica l pressures of the St. Lawrence game . In the 2nd VII , Emma Durham as capta in again held toget her a wide assortment of players of equa l eagerness if varied skills. and we are grateful to all who tu rned out, some at short notice. As keen amateurs, they sometimes found themselves unfairly matched aga inst sprightly a nd well-dri lled CoIts teams , blll a ll seemed to enjoy it.

J.A.W. 1st team: Vicky Peterso n, Tara de Li nde , Sa ll y-A nn Hawken, Zoe de Lin de (Capt.), J ulie Norey, Elizabet h l bbott, Sara h Lee-Warner, Maria Clegg. 2nd team: Harr iet Shan kland, Fiona Ja ne Dib ley, Kirsten Andree, Emma Wass, Emma Durha m (Capt.), Sarah Fa hey. The/olio wing also p layed: Em il y Driver, Sara h Lyons. Kate Well esley, Kat herine Goll op, Lucy Dyer, Rebecca Vye. Colours were awarded to: Zoe de Li nde, Tara de Linde, Sally-Ann Hawken, Vicky Peterson, Elizabet h lbbot t. 197

GIRLS V. MON ITORS NETBALL (Jonathall Marshall)

RESULTS 1st VII v KCn( College, Canterbury (A). Won 30-12 v Bencndcll (H). Won 21-10 v Sf. Lawrence (A). Drawn 37-37 v Wyc College (H). Won 20-6 v Scvcl10aks (A). Won 28- 10 v K'cllI Collcge, Pembury (A). Won 31-1 1

2nd VIJ v Kent College, Canterbur ( v Bencnden (H). Lost 11-.!I7A ). Lost 15 _ 16 v Sevcnoaks (A). Lost 3-42 v Kent College, Pembury (A) L . ost 8-24

Rugby Sevens Senior Sevens Tournaments It is oftcn difficult to predict accuratel I J'k I campaign. In thc end it was a mattcr Yr' ole l ey success ofa Sevens team but, carlyon there were h very toug h draws. At the Maidst~ n GaS so nea r and yet ~o far', part ly because we found our opes of a wonhwhi[e (fOlriicnt an~ ski[ful nllll1in~ rugb/ W~ r~~'l~~~~sih~~r~~~e Int.~ our stridc q.ui~kly, making a ver~~~~sd ~;l~~d wi.th SO~e - ), Maldstonc (12-6) and Judd (34- 0) TI 2 d Wil l some convlllcmg wins ovcr Rochester (24 ~)sslon with (16- 4), Dartford (28-6), and Maidstone (24-~) b'\ I a!so had a good day with competent wins 0- 'RDartford core gomg down to Judd (16-20) in the' f' [ver ochester to ~: t~ Ke~lI Schools: Tournamelll in the Askeans mud the 2nd VII Ir lila game.

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(6-~~5. ~~~~~O~/tstt!l~e~~~~;~e~~~~~ be:bee~t?l ti;;~, but then 10ft~~lUt~: ~~~~rr~~~~f~~n~a~~~~-:nl~~l!~g narrowly

~)l;: 'a?I~~~~ty~p~~~, il:et~~11~~0~~neg q~~~::~~~ I~~st:~e;~~~~a~,~: grl:Yo'!d2~~1 ~~:fl~~~dSb~iF~l~:~t:;d~~~~~:~g~P;p:pi~o~:~a~: lona pen Tournament. Itents I At the S~rrey Schools Invitat ion Tournament we were i

~ ~b~OcynsdlstentdlY to OUI' potent ial. In the event 'we beat St:~Je~;r(~8g 1rOo)uP'dblut could have won through if we had ea ,an Harrow (6-16).

qnly three of the tcam were available for the Ross [ All our game~l:v~~;~:i~~

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. lila group match, we were beaten, but not disgraced by St ~own {O rur~ (6-:-16) and Cran leigh At the Oxf d I' ' . ees, ast year s wmners (4-20) W I or S lire R.F.C. Schoo ls Tournament we a ai l . T ' .

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lesl~en ess and the defence was rarely rock.like en

gerouS.1Il attack. However, the squad lacked a

pfe~f:~t~f~~~1~~~~~a~1~:tnyega~ined regarding the high stand~~~s ~i ,~~f~r ';!~~r\lll~n~~~t!e::ds. In spite ~f this, muc.h . , encouragmgly, there IS R.B.l\'li. The fOllowing played for " I VIJ I'm J. A. W. Mycroft J C O,eGs'd 1 decreasil/g mlmbe,. oJ appearances), D J L O. Rotim i, C. W.'A: Va' vas'o"o,'NO"H'J'JP'nr:' Nevi le, M. J. Cumber, P. A'. . '. aurence (Capt.), P. P. Lacamp, Ham ilton, A. G. J. SCOII, T. <I'O ffay, , . . . ulS 1lOp, R. J . Morse.

Played

RESU LTS 15, Won 8, Lost 7, Poilll s for 228, Point s against 132,

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priti sh Schoolgirls invitation ski races -

Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland

~rriving at Heathrow, we began to wonder what exactly we had let ourselves in for. Most girls had their own

. ~nd Great Britain anoraks, and everyone had com peted before. After an eventful night, wc took a bus from Geneva sklShe wintcr resort of Villars, whcre there had just been two days' snowfa [1. On Friday morning we rose at dawn to bright clear day. • The morning was spent trying to find our ski·[egs, much to the amusement of everyone else, particularly as we wore malching rugger shirts and were therefo~e .easily reco~nisab l e. King's soon became r~nowned on the slopes, though we o:l~ can't think why. An afternoon of trammg on an ICy s[alom course gave us an Idea of what was to come. S On Saturday morning all seventy~five competitors were desperately waxing their skis in preparation for thc para llel [ 1001 which unfort unately the Ki ng's ski team does nOt excel at. The slalom was held in the afternoon. Despite our !:lia nt' efforts, none of us managed to bea.t the Aig[on Team, but we <l id reasonably well. Gerard Morris (GL 198 1) eatly encouraged us as he was gate-keepmg. gr The worst was still to come. On Sunday, we were faced with the the longest Giant Slalom any of the competitors had ever raced on. As everyone stripped down to their cat-suits, and their trainers massagcd their shou lders, we stood uaking to the skis, dressed i~ ?ur notorious rugger shirts. Much ~o o~r amazement, we a~[ made it down .in ~ne pie~e, ~nishing with respectable pOSitIOns, by no means last. On the socla[ sIde, Laura scored lugh[y on the chalf hfts, whlie Sarah seemed to prefer older ·skieurs'. Miranda got us alt a free lunch ... All in all it was a most enjoyable competition, and, with King's now on the map, we hope to hit the slopes again next year. The Killg's Ski Team: Miranda Merron (Capt.), Sarah Lee-Warner, Laura Goodhart. MIRANDA MERRON, SARAH LEE.WARNER, LAURA GOOOHART.

Squash By any standards th is has been a remarkable season for our se niors. Of the seventeen matches played by the 1st V we won thirteen including the match at Tonbridge for the fir st ti me in a decade, and we beat Lancing fo r the fi rsl time ever. Of the four we [ost, three were by the narrow margin of two or three and only Hayes, arguably the strongest school side in the country, beat us easily. If we were lucky to beat Tonbridge when they were two short of fu ll strength, we were unlucky to lose to Harrow last term when we were without David Lawrence, and to Brighton this term when Jeremy Bart[ett was unavailable. We reached the last eight of the National Tournament for the first time si nce 1974 and we did this without any outstanding player. It was our strengt h in depth that was so crucial and the strengt h of our reserves was such that our 2nd V lost on ly once to another 2nd V. David Lawrence was a splendid captain with infectious enthusiasm and an ability to psyche up his players with mid-fifties pop music on away matches. He was also adept at raising sound players at a moment's notice when onc of our regulars dropped out. Phil Lacamp appeared twice towards the end of term and won both matches with something to spare. Peter Thomas and Rikki Kher also appeared with so me success during the term and will be available next yea r. The regular 1st V, Andrew Vinton, Simon Stullaford, David Lawrence, Jercmy Bartlett and Swart Lacy werc each awarded full colours for their efforts during the year. Thc only disappointment was our performance in the Kent final s on the penultimate Su nday of term when there was only Andy Vinton and a half-fit David Lawrence available of our regular team. For the 2nd V, Peter Thomas, Rikki Kher and Edward Dykes were the mainstays, and they were awarded 2nd colours, but Stephen Cahhrop, Neil Bishop and Peter Cockrill played more than once and Anthony Giliespie·Smith and William Davies appeared in the side that beat Dulwich four·one at the end of the season. The U.16 had good wins against Dulwich. Epsom and Cranbrook and lost only to Lancing. Chris Ca lthrop, at fir st stri ng was out of his depth at times, but he is improving rapidly. David Godfrey hit the ball with amazing ferocity for one of his age, and Edward Jones·Thomas, when he learns to take the ball early, will be the best of them all. At U.14 level Miles Thomas and Wi ll iam Davies werc the pick of the bunch and the signs are that King's squash will flourish for some time to come. Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Wetherilt for running 'Activities' squash on Thursday afternoons and Leon Kwei for providing sandwiches, cakes, squash and late suppers whenevcr wc nceded them and with never a word of complaint. R.P,B,

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RESULTS

v Sevenoaks. v Tonbridge. v Elon. Won v Cran brook.

Won 5-0 Won 3-2 4- 1 Won 3-2

v Lanci ng. Won 4- 1

v Dulwich. Won 4- 1 v Hayes. Losl 4-1 v Br ight on. Lost 2-3

Girls' Squash A num ber of fixtures were played and we are grateful to Mrs Davies fo I . Pallayer. and capla.in, and ~t her regular players included Maria Clegg Camm: ~er co~c'~7g· Clare Wilson Was Ih 1.._._ enkm and Julie Ranklll. ' eroue , exandra Cochrane Ch '"", . • arloUt Clare WIlson was awarded her colours.

J .A.W.

RESU LTS

v Sevenoak s (A). Lost 1- 4 v Kent Coll ege (A). Won 3-2

v Simon Langton (H). Lost 2-3 v Benenden (A). Lost 0-6

v As hford (H). Wail 4- 1

OFF TRAINING (Timothy Kitchill' 200

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 10, Barlon Road, Cambridge, CB3 9JZ. 4th February, /987. Dear Sir, Followi ng the success of All my Sons, which was staged by the King's Yo uth Drama Group last year, a group, consisting largely of the sa me people, is laking a play to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. 201

Unfortunately this venture is not cheap and we would be most grateful if you would allow us I for funds in the pages of your magazine. O ur chief costs are for publicity and the hire of a vc 0 apPeal are estimated at ÂŁ 1,800. We have al ready raised Olle third of this, but furt her cont ri butions aTe nue, and and would be very much apprec iated. Any contr ib ution shou ld be sent to: esSential

Thomas Gr ieves, Ga lpin's House. T he King's School,

Canterbury. (please make cheques payable to Madha Grieves). A ny s urplu s inco me over expenses will be di stributed by the King's School LO their usual chari ties. Do co me and see us if you are in Edinburgh during the Festival. Yours faithfully. OMAR MADIiA

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Kent . 22nd MarCil. 1987. Dear S ir, Whi lst not .wishing t.o cast ~o u ~t on the.re~pectab!lity of AMMA (The Canluar{an, Dece':llber 1986, page 6), I wo uld li ke to qU ibble wit h liS deSCription as the respectable teachers' Umon' (my Italics). I would co ntend that the Professiona l Associat ion of Teachers (PAT), d espi te being younger and smaller than AMMA, is just as respecta ble; indeed, over the last few troub led years, PAT has behaved in an emi nent ly respo nsible way. Yours faithfu ll y,

A. R. A. ROOKE.

T he Grange, T he King's School, Canterbury. 20th March. 1987. Dea r S ir , A majority of the pup ils at King's have the opportun ity to live for five yea rs as they will probably never li ve again, in very historic sur rou ndings. Yet how many of us bother to think of this fact? Many of us are more inte rested in goi ng to the s hopping precincts than in explor ing where we live . We become immune to the sound of Bell Harry and to the beauty and histo ry of the Ca thedral and its surroundings . How man y of those of us li vi ng in Meister Omers think of the fact that they are living in a medieva l guest house? How many know t hat The Grange was the Arc hbis hop's granary? If we make the effort to find ou t ahoUl our surrou ndings, they can be fascinat ing . For example t here is an octagonal open ing in the C loisters, used as a monks' se rvin g hatch for beer, and Nell Coo k was bricked up in the Dark Entry. Blackfr iars has initia ls wr itten over two ce nturies ago on the wall. Why not find o ut more about the surround in gs that you live in ? Act now rather than regret was ting a uniq ue oppor tunit y in years to come. Yo urs fait hfully. J ULIEN FOSTER.

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C.C.F. NOTES ARMY SECTION The first benefits from the new Advanced Military Skills cadre became apparenllh is term, when the new jun ior NCOs Icd work with the APC sq uad, and the recruits. The new system Illeans that they arc much more thorough ly grounded ~Iarhe sk ills they arc called u~on to impart, a nd t~e.t~v.o terms spen t on AMS p rovide a much needed bridge between Wn:shing basic APC and takmg up NCO respons ibili ties. We had an intake of over thirty recruits. thus bringing the sect ion up 10 n inety. the largest it has been for many rS Most of the credit for this mu st go to Mr. Booth, and his two senior NCOs, S1. John Pa rker and Ovenon, for )~a k~n and professio nal image which they put over. Standard s of drill and smartness have improved, a nd the at mosphere :n cHain ing sessions is brisk and a lert, without being aggressive. The King's Platoon, compris ing cadets who have passed APC, and not go ne onto the AMS course or NCOs cadre, urs ued the usual paraliel courses. Ha lf did adva nced map and com pass work with M.R.G.P., wh ile Lt Sue Johnson i>ook the ot hers through a first aid course (congratulations to her for receiving her comm ission this term). The advantages (r Ihis last course, incidenta ll y, were graphica ll y illust rated when an ex-cadet was ab le to ca ll upon the skills he had ~arn( to save the life of a no ther boy after an in ju ry o n the sports field. The APC squad completed their train ing d uring the firs t ha lf o f the term with preparat ion fo r the ficl dcraft and self-reliance tests. T hese took place on Field Day, Thursday 5th Marc h, and on the night preceding. The night exercise was very sllccessful, despite the cold : base areas were well const ructed, navigation and observation tasks were ca rried Oul competently, and standards of tactical behaviour were high. T he sq uad was joined next morning by the rest of Ihe Army Sect ion, a nd train ing built up to what must have been the first co mpany-size attack by the CCF fo r decades. The Signals Section is well established, with six members, and Dr. Lamb in charge. The renewed interest shown in us by our sponsor unit, 5 Queens Battalion, was given tangible expression in the excellent course laid on at Lcros Barracks over the term. We hope a ll members will rapid ly proceed to take their Signals Classifica ti o n Test. Numbers in the REME remain small, but it has just received two new members, and has been very active wit h the scramble bike and the hovercraft, whic h had its first trial on the last parade of Term. At the time of writing, Ad venturous Train ing camp at T ro utbeck, is o nly six days away and a record n um ber of eighteen cadcts are going on it. Next term will be dominated by General Inspection, to be carr ied out by Br igad ier Lee, officer co mmanding 2nd Infmlt ry Br igade, who paid us a Dying preliminary vis it in February. Col Sgt Overton is attend ing the UKLF Cadet Leadersh ip Course in Norfo lk in Apri l; wh ilst Cpls Job and ~an n i n g went on a two-day visit to RMA Sand hurst at the end of the term. ./ M. J .V.

ROYAL AIR FORCE SECTION In the knowledge that the Lent Term invariably su ffe rs from bad weather condit ions, the programme for the term was mai nly indoors and aimed al preparing candidates for lhe Part 2 Proficiency Exa minati on. The new exa m requi res knowledge of five aviation topics including Air Navigat ion, Propulsion, Principles of Flight, Aircraft Operations and Aircraft Knowledge. Cpl Johns, J/Cpl Rowsell and JICpl Hewertson assisted Wg Cdr Wen ley and Fit Ldr Bradley in preparing twelve candidates for the exam. I have an unconfirmed report that all candidates were successful. Confirmation from Headq uarters Air Cadets sh ould be arriving very soon. T o complete the Part 2 Proficiency qualification eac h cadet must complete a project. They will be req uired to give a ten - fifteen minute talk on their projects and we will look forward to these presentations next term when the p rojects arc comp leted. Unfortunately we were unable to increase our fl ying experience in Chipmunks. The two afternoons we had planned were cancelled due to poor weat her conditions. We have three afternoons and one full day planned for next term so we hope that everyone will have two or three nights next term. Field Day was full of activity and fortunately the weather was kind. The Section was split into two groups - skiers and nonÂˇskiers. The skiers were ta ken to the dry ski slope at Gillingha m whilstthc no n-skiers went to Harr iso ns Rocks ncar Tunbridge Wells to do some climbing with Lt Parker. The dry ski slope did not prove to be wide enough for one member of the party who tried to ski on mud but he soon came to a sticky end. Harrison's Rocks proved to be a challenging and nerve-rac king experience fo r severa l members of the party . In the afternoon the skiers we ntlO H arrison's Rocks and the non-skiers went ice-skating at the Ice Bow l in Gillingham. It was a new experience fo r some and gave a few blisters to ot hers, but it was a good day out for a ll. The last corps afternoon of the term was spent o n the .22 range. First of a ll we had a n inter-fl ight compet ition wh ich was won by B Flight. The results were: 205

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The ~ecretary regrets that in a nu b was Oln/lled from the Annual Repo,",' T C'h?f cases Ihe Bank er's Order f;o, " . d IS was a m'SI k b Ie raIse su bsc' , T . SEC°,fEnTlan y repons were returned by Ih P ~ a e y Ihe mailing service, nptl on to The Calltuarian ARY (25 The Pre' C e OSI Office marked 'G so t~a, it ca n be entered in~~~~~~ c~~~~~ury. CT I 2ES) OF YOURo~~~w~bD:~~~SE TELL THE ASSISTANT DaVid Wright (1944) th e A ", cr. , preferably before you move t~le end of las, yea r. A l1e\!S~~~~~~~~~dc~:r~sponden' in the Easlern Sea board o f ' ' t ~r ~i Lewis (1949) reports that the Call1ua ,Ill 'Lhat pa~t of the world is needed _t~~lyU~~tl~~tSlates, died suddenly al M na n odge IS always lOok ing fo eers please? lose who were educated al I g s, asters Ofr r new members Th wh0 are being David Delahayc~;o:;~~e(~~~~), ~~uedcaNted althe SCilOOI.I~;ill~I~~y~~~e;~lcOs'~f(past ~l1d prese~t) a~}7~;~a~~li! ~Ss PO'fimar!I, Y C W orton (195 1) 0 'd M rom tllne to tim ' J h pUpl S te~ orsfold (1922) says Ihal he will nOI b ~VI orga n (1948) and John Lock (~95g) n Stonehouse (1950), years ago thaI I lasl Went' H e a t [he dUlIle!'. ' J never ' ' on the old style of many ye~rs =:~~s Ihat he ' much enjoyed reading ~~~ \~s~~~!~~n tl,lese days, in fa ct I rea lise il was uanan - a remarkable improvemenl

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corner (Staff 1933-40, 1946-1955) writes: , Christopher, Dt;r ur name always recalls those days when 1 tried to deter you fro m entering the Army ! Of course I had only just o ed from inact ive service with the Life Guards and the Int. Corps, though I can claim to have cleansed the ~~r~lsbridge kitchens of cockroaches and to have stamped the asphalt so lid at Windsor - not to mention spending ,;nli py afternoon pick ing groundsel ror the ca nary or my Major. Meanwh ile the Arrika Korps was mopping up our aha~ in the Desert. Armies, it is sa id, are not at their best in warrime, 'h:~uch like the new Headmaster. At lunch the other day he was either wise or diplomatic enough to agree wit h everything

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I sa~~ou were, I think I event ually did a good job in Germany tracking down the Gestapo - but only by ignoring ArulCS and the blimps, It was a mad Irish Guards brigadier who opened my eyes 10 success, 'We Gua rds officers ten 'l obey orders: we interpret them; after all you've got to get the jobs done, my boy.' It was rhen that I managed captu re the Gauleiter or Magdeburg! The Int. Corps recent ly sent me a copy of my arrest-form for my pains, fwo years ago I anended a Household Cavalry garden-party at Chelsea. and was much im pressed by the modern trooper. I spoke to several and found them more intell igent than the Corpora l-Majors of my day,

CO, J, Miller (1940) At the fun eral service in February ror C, 0, J. Miller a tribute was paid to his 'd isciplined life service throughout his working lire, which owed much to his fo rmative years at King's, and the holidays hc spent ~here as his parenl s were in Uganda,' If 8. Waynforth (1955) writes that he deserted university life and is now Head or the Department of Laboratory An ima l Sc'ience for Smith Kline and French Research Ltd. He was recently made a rellow or the Insti tu te or Biology, N, H. Nicholls (1956) has been seconded from the Ministry of Derence to the Cabinet Office, where he is concerned wilh overseas and defence affairs, N. J . Drew (1957) has recently had two books published: If/ dia and the Romalltic Imaginatioll, (Oxford Universit y prcss, India), an intelle<.:tual history sa id to be 'the first work to argue in detail for an Indian influence on the Western imagination in general, and on English Romantic poetry in particular' and The Lesser Vehicle (Bloodaxe Books), poems described as 'wilily playing orf rhe myst ic against the mundane,' C. J. Mulford (1959) has moved to 32 Ryland Road, Welton, Lines, LN2 3LU , J. P. Franks (1971) was promoted to Li eutenant Com mandcr in 1985 and is now worki ng in th e Ministry of Defence ( Proc~ reme nt Executive) where he .is re,sponsible ror the Development or.Helicopte~ Av ionic Modifications. He w~u l d be wilhng 10 help any O.K,S, or pupils st ill at school, who may be mlerested m a career III the Royal Navy or Royal Mannes, N. J. C. Bannan (1973) last year won an International co mpetition for the composit ion of a Magni ficat which was performed by the choir of the Chapel Roya l, Paris, as the open ing piece at the Fribourg Festival of Rcligious Music, He was teaching music, but is now co ncen trat ing on composition. E. J. Bishop (1978) and Frances J. Judd (1978) are practising barristers, A. Prodan (1980) continues to nourish in the internationa l film world. R, Willi amson (1 980) is now a navigating officer 0 11 Br itannia, Elizabeth Bannan (1981) now works in Ihe Libra ry of the Museum or London and is a curator or o ld books. C. Booth-Clibborn (1981) is involved in the art world and last year produced an ex hi bition . C. J. R. Moore (198 1) is in Masirah Oman on post ing with the Foreign and Commonwealth O rricc, S. Schwartz (1981) recently appeared on television in a detective series. T. W. B. Miller (1982) was join t-winner o f the Jenkins Prize at Balliol College, Oxford, a college prize awarded to the best classicist of the year. R, Briggs (1984) has been playi ng for Coven try 2nd XV, J. Weston (1984) has represented the Scott ish Universities XV in Paris.

BIRTHS Ward-To Louise and David Ward (197 1) o n 10th February, 1987, a daughter, Victo ria Mary, a sister to Oliver. ThompsolI-To Venetia and Nicholas Thom pson (1966) on 25th November, 1986, a so n, Charles Frederick, a brother for Simon.

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e ully-MoY'"U-A. J. w. McN ulty to Jane Moylan (1 974) Biron-SllIs- J. C. Biron (1974) to Sarah Sills. . Jacksoll- Uayliss_M. R. H. Jackson (1974) S . . D to usan Bayliss M,'cs- rcrnncr_S. O. B. Miles (1978) I Ar . P . M O lson Brellliler rJc~- eycr-Q. R. S. Price (1979) 10 Claire Meyer . Lewls- DclIsfed_ M P D L . . . TI . . . eWls to Carolin e Bensted (1980) lompsolI - Wallcrslciner_ J. J. Thompson t K , . . . HarriS- Parroll_ T R H ' . 0 at Janna WallcrslClIlcr (1980). .

arns to Alison Parrott (1 981).

MARRIAGES Fosler- VlIll ianf_ Dr J M 0 ~ . . . . FOSler (1968) to Fcljcit V JI' FOSICr- Holllmerl _C N H F Y a lanl 011 22nd November 1986 . . . 'OSIer ( 1970) to Mar H ' . Dcnl- 'vcs_ J. Dent to Susan IYes (198 1). y ommen o n 28th February, 1987.

DEATHS

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W. L. Gibson, C. B. E. (191 7) . Maycock-Sir William d'AuYer ne Ma RapsolI _ H 0 C R g yeoek (1 929) On 191h February 1987 . " . ap.~on (1939) On 16th July 1986 ,. Millcr-C 0 J M'II ' . . '" I cr ( 1940) on 9th February 1987 Wnghl_ D. M. Wrig ht (1944) o n 19th Februar; 1 98~ WooIeOI_ A. G. Wookot (1955). ,.

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THE SCHOOL Captain oj School: T . P. Briggs Vice-Captain oj School: P. P. Lacamp, M.S. SCHOOL MONITORS Mit~hell, K.S., Tabitha J. A. Winnifrith, M.S. (Senior Oirl), C. H. Sclater, S 1. Grimes, T . J. W. Duthie, Joanna IVI' Prophet, A. P. Wattenbach, N. J . Stearns, Elizabeth Robinson, M.S., P. J. Cocknll, R. VIJayanathan, J. C. O. Gordon, Blythe S. 1. Levett, K.S., J. Burrell.

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HOUSE MONITORS SchOol House: C. H. Sclater, J. 1. W. Gumpert, M.S.; O. P. C. Langton, P. H. Lidstone, Tabitha 1. A. Winnifrith, M.S., M. P. J. Stewart. J. C . O. Gordon, T. P. Briggs, S. C. G. Lacy, C. E. Butcher, K. Clare Tile Grange: Edmondson, K.S., J. P. P. Nevile, R. J. Morse, Phillipa Rubins. R. Vijayanathan, K. Phillips, S. Rowsell, N. Young, Victoria Boff, M. Birnhak. iVaipole: Meister Omers: M. R. A. Miller, J. C. A. Veitch, R. R. Wallis, H. 1. Andree, D. A. Knight, R. B. Costain . Joanna M. Prophet, F. W. Simpson, R. H. Pentin, B. W. Lynch, P. A. Bushell. Marlowe: P. J. Cockrill, N. Bhatia, K.S., C. H. H. Darley, K.S., N. C . Henry, Elizabeth Luxmoore: A. Robinson, M.S., J. R. Woods. S. J. Grimes, W. J. S. Floydd, T. Grieves, M. W. A . Kiely, C. N. White, M.S., Galpin's: Clare O. L. Wilson, A. E . Martin, Tara J. de Linde. A. E. Mitchell, K.S. , A. P. Wattenbach, J. M. Bartlett, L. Nicola Shaw, D. A. Linacre: Botha, P. E . Dyas, J. D. Frew, J. D. Richardson, J. C . von Wersebe. Broughton: P. P. Lacamp, M.S., T. 1. W. Duthie, P. A. Hamilton, D. J. Laurence, Blythe S. J. Levett, K.S., Lucinda J. Roberts, D. C-Y. Pong, M. A. Evans, S. P. Stuttaford. Tradescant: N. J. Stearns, S. J. Attwood, A. J. Carr-Taylor, P. M . Carrington, K.S., Emma Conyers, I. E. Gardener, T. J. H. Lee, E. T. J. Widdowson, K.S .. Ailsa Buchan, K.S., M.S. . Mitchinson 's: P. J. Burrell, M. S. Adamson, K.S., Sally-Ann P. Hawken, C . P. Barron, A. P. Panayides, A . G. J. Scott. Lal/ergate: Laura C. Goodhart (SH), A. R. Linforth (B), B. C. Marson (W), E. F. Valpy (GL), C. C. Mitchell (GL).

Boys' Hockey Girls' Hockey Boats: Canoeing Rugby Football

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CAPTAINS OF SPORT R. R. Wallis Badminton Alexandra M. Cochrane Basketball N. 1. Stearns Netball A . E. Martin, S. R. Rowsell Soccer D. J. Laurence Boys' Athletics S. P. Stuttaford Girls' Athletics M. S. Adamson Girls' Squash P. 1. O. Greenleaf Cross Country

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THE CANTUARIAN

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THIS AND THAT CHAPEL f'UND IN MEMORIAM SALMAGUNDI VALETE THE CANTUARIAN INTERVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS HOUSE NOTES REPORTS AND REVIEWS MUSIC ANO DRAMA II VIS ITS III THE SOCIETIES IMAGINATIVE WRITING SPORT KING 'S WEEK , 1987 SPEECH DAY, 1987 THE SCHOOL DISTINCTIONS 1986-7 LEITERS TO THE EDITOR C.C.F. NOTES O.K.S. NEWS

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Editors: J. M . Beec hey, Luci n da J . Conybeare, K.S., Beatrice Devlin , M . D. Edwards, Katherine S . Gollop, K.S., J. C . H . Ken n ard, P . H. L idstone, A. E. Mitchell, K.S., S. Murph y, Sarah Sarkhel, J. A . Stern, M. P . 1. S lewart , T. D. Watson, R.A .F. Webb, K.S., Kate E. Well esley, C. M. Wh iteley, M.S., E. T. J . Widdowson, K.S. Photographic Editors: 1. M. Marsh a ll , A . P . Wattenbach. Senior Editors: P. J. Brodie, M.A., T. R. Hands, B.A., A.K.C., D.Phil. OUR CONTEM PORARIES We acknowledge with th a nks thc receipt of magazines from t he following schools: Ampleforth, Bedfo rd, Bradfield, Bryanston, Ca mpbell College, Ed inburgh Academy, Fclstcd, Marlborough, 51. Lawrence, Tonbridge. Wcstminstcr.

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'Jhis & 'Jhal Norah Jervis who died at her home on 7th July aged 78 was known and Requiescant loved by innumerable O .K.S . who had enjoyed the generous - one might . say Edwardian - hospitality of herself and her brother Douglas at Lorenden. But It was no mere cupboard love: her quiet but resolute personality, with its very clear-eyed sense of what was really going on, and her admirable courage, were the true roots of the affection which so many felt for her. The names of brother and sister were added to those of other benefactors of the School at the Commemoration on Speech Day in recognition of their benefaction which now comes into force. The death of John Hildick-Smith on 6th June, less than a year after his retirement and only in his 61st year, shocked all who had known him . We express our sincere condolences to Marion and the family - David read the Lesson at the funeral service in Our Lady Undercroft most movingly. The School Choir sang at this service and at Ospringe Church for Miss Jervis's. Lt. Colonel Hubert Madge who died on 2nd August aged 89 came to King's in 1911 and after an energetic school career was gazetted into the Gurkha Rifles in 1917. He served with distinction in Mesopotamia and in the Army of the Black Sea, and made the early part of his professional peacetime career with the Indian Army. On active service again in the second World War, he followed this by medical training at an age when gradual retirement might have been more conventional, with the intention of establishing a tuberculosis clinic in India. H is third career was as administrator and reformer in the Ch urch of England. T he obituarist in The Times made the claim that 'today the Church of England has most of the flexib ility in the organization of its parishes and the deployment of its clergy that Madge was seeking' - not perhaps a clarioncall of a claim but one of potentially great consequence. In any event, a life of old-fashioned

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The Common Room loses as varied a quintet of its members at the end of the Summer Term as ever that ministry of all the talents has harboured. Mr. GrasS, Anderson retires, having confessed to dancing jigs on King's School straw put Out To/ hats as a pre-war Canterbury lad; Mr. Allen - but time would fail to recite Greener the half of it: he goes to be Second Master at Sedbergh. Mrs. Cohn-Sherbok will rule over West Heath, Mr. Martin Parker has chose~ t~e ai:-conditioned minefield of education III the Gulf, and Mr. Gales another part of the mISSIon fIeld: he goes to Tonbndge. Fuller appreciations of them appear elsewhere in this issue - here we simply record our thanks to them for doing and being so much. Deserving but not always adequately receiving our gratitude are our Matrons. Mrs. Birley retires as their doyenne after 18 years' service: mUltiply one of her typical days - and remember that they last 14 or 15 hours - by about 5000 and you have some measure of what she has contributed. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Craik are also hanging up whatever symbolises matroning, and Mrs. Maitland is leaving: thanks to them all. Even more taken for granted are some of the faithfu l workers in other departments of the School. Arthur Holness - that prince of cleaners - is retiring after ten and a half years: his conscientiousness, good humour, and massive presence in the Undercroft will surely never quite be matched. And what price Mrs. Rye's 28 years as sewing lady in Riversleigh and Broughton? We are surely fortunate to have people like these in the School community.

The Dean of Westminster's sermon at the Commemoration will be printed 'by request of the congregation' - a mark of outstanding appreciation going back to the 18th century. H is immediate Anglican predecessor in this honour (we skip Cardinal Hume) was the then Bishop of SI. Albans: a few weeks later he was Archbishop of Canterbury . Copies of the sermon may be obtained on application to the Second Master at the School. Adsit Omen

Tickets are now available. T he new brimsto ne or treacle hand-outs, Male or Bene Fecits as they are more properly known, appeared soon after half term, and the first was awarded on June 12th by Security Guard Mr. M. Parker. We shall spare the recipient publication of his name, of necessity as much as charity, since the offences require some space: "No winged collar, no tie, no jacket, cycling through' Lattergate' gate on his way into school at 8.44 a.m." The ticket is now safe in the archives. Whilst on the subject of discipline the Court page in The Times recently revealed the coincidence that the Headmaster shares a birthday with the Marquis de Sade. Our faith in astrology is not strengthened. Charge Cards

Atthe end of Apri l Mr. Charles Holland announced his engagement to Miss Rachael McCabe . She too is a Lowlander - an inhabitant indeed of our own City . Mr. Holland is know n for his long dista nce expertise. We now congratulate him on his equal abil ity in the sprint. The couple will already have been married, on Saturday 1st August, by the time this issue appears . We wish them long and lasting happiness in their lives together. Dutchess of Kent

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No effort was spared in recreating Bach's musical intentions in the Ch Society's performance of the Saint John Passion in the Cathedral on ~J~ May. Colonel Neville somehow succeeded in drawing javelin throw t opening batsmen, Benenden ladies and Simon Langto~ girls together for ~rs, rehearsals and concert; Mr. Stephen Matthews spht the veil of the temple In twain, improvishe prodigiously on the harpsichord; and one of five O.K.S. who gave their services as sOloi~~g William Kendall (W 65-70), having vroomed leather-clad into the Precincts on his motorbik s, later succeeded in demonstrating that vocally too he fires on all cylinders. e, It is good to report that Bach's charitable disposition was also reflected in the performance ' which raised over £1,000 for the Canterbury Hospital Cancer Care Appeal.

St. John Passion

We have been unofficially informed that ten of the one hundred Short-listed entries in the Macmillan Masterguide Competi tion were by King's pupils Simon Beaugie (GL), as a runner up, will shortly be presented by the company with a Macmillan Encyclopaedia for his work on Danny Abse's Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve. Congratulations also to Jasper Beauprez (LX) whose "See Amid the Winter's Snow" won first prize in the Kent Young Composer of the Year Competition . Cheques of £100 for Jasper and £100 for the King's Music Department were presented at the Gulbenkian Theatre On May 4th, when members of the Chapel Choir, accompanied on the piano by Jasper and Kristian Belliere, performed the piece. Five weeks earlier the carol had been analysed at a Composition Workshop for Schools by King's former composer in residence, Paul Patterson. Prizes

Our scientists have been in print. Mr. Milla r first. H is word processor halted for a mo ment whilst he penned an erudite letter to The Physics Teacher on the subject of air molecules strik ing a boat sail. Dr. Mallion next. He was commissioned , no less, by Nature magazine, perhaps the world's most prestigious scientific wee kly, to discuss a newly diagnosed carbon cluster, buckminsterfullerene, "more dispassionately called icosahedral C",", and more irreverently known, because o f its shape , as soccerballene or footba llene. An error ensued. Not, o f course , in Dr. Mallion's meticUlous article, but in the publisher's description of the good Doctor as "Assistant Manager in Mathematics at the King's School. " But then our house too needs putting in order. We forgot to congratulate Dr. Mallion on being appointed not Assistant but Manager of the Maths Department , with effect from nex t ac~dem i c year. Millar's Field

The U 15A Cricket team, needing an extra player for their match against the Kent Schools' UI4's, turned to the captain of the U I4A's, Simon Maggs (LN). The Kent team made a good start, but were completely demoralised whe n Simo n joined the attack - he fi nished the game with fig ures of 8-20. If yo u can't beat him, select him: we congratulate Simon on his subsequent recruitment for the Kent Schools' team . Mr. Hooper's wedding, prefi gured in these columns, presaged row ing ac hievements of an un paralleled order. T he J. 14 VlIl remained unbeaten, and the 1st VIII reached the Final of the Special Schools Race at Henley. Three of the VIII , Ke iron A llen, Paul Dyas and James Stearns, have been selected to represent Great Britain this summer. Maggnificent

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The visit by thirty-two Prep school headmasters on 12th May brought pleasurable reacquaintance with many well known faces. Mr. Kwei provided a buffet for them in St. Augustine's. The same gentleman succeeded in bringing the Wimbledon experience (or at any rate the gastronomic part of it) to Canterbury six weeks late r: his specia l buffet lunch had the philanthropic aim of taking over-stretched minds off public examinations. Inter alia, eighty pounds of salmon, o ne hundred pounds of top rump beef and one hundred and thirty pounds o f stra wberries we re consumed . A new and smashing service. Old set a nd new sideline

O.K.S. continue to flourish variously: Press photographers have been there to prove it. Bryony Griffiths (SH 82-3), not, we understand, renowned for the absolute Rightness of her views when at school, appeared in four national papers, no less, when, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, she punted Mr. Robert Rhodes James, the city's Tory candidate, down the Cam on the eve of the General Election. The Kentish Gazelle pictured C hris Bartlett (LN 81 -6) and Dominic Vye (MT 81-6) in equa ll y smooth waters - a t least pro tem, - preparing quietly on the Stour before setting off to tackle the 1972 Olympic Slalom course in Augsburg a nd several other of the most dange rous waterways in Europe. Michael Foale (SH 70-74), one of Mr. Butt's earliest astronomers, has been selected by NASA for astronaut tra ining, and looks set to become the first Briton in space. The Times, whose picture we reprint, described him as a man with stars in his eyes, and Mr. Ross unearthed a report in which a master, going onc worse, had exhorted Michael to "aim very high". "Sunbather", by Bernard Sindall (SH 39-40), sho wn at the Roya l Academy's Summer Exhibition , appears to concern Venus rather than Mr. Foale's desired destina tion of Mars. The Sunday Times's photographer found observers relucta nt publicly to acknowledge the sculpture's widespread a ttractions. Not so, we understand, Mr. Pollak (MO, but dates not to hand), who, characteristically ordering these things much better, enjoyed an encounter with "Sunbather" at a private view ing in Rye. From Pole 10 Poll

KSC ramblers have again been tramping the footpath s around Canterbur y, frequ entl y clutching this term Six Walks Along Ihe Siour by Christopher Dona ldson (MR 31-34). Clearly a labour of love, this delightful little guide is full of obscure but fasc inating details of the river Stour and its environs. The author, a form er rector of St. Martin 's , has added to his work's charm by including illustrations of his own, rather in the currently fashionable genre of resuscitated Edwardian ladies' diaries, but without the cloying nostalgia . Two other clerical O .K.S., the Very Reverend David L. Edwards (GR 42-7) a nd the Reverend Peter C. Hammond (W 41 -6), editors of the Cantuarian in the same year , have published books in the same term. Mr. Edwards reviewed Mr. Hammond's book in the Church Times' and we Rambling Clerics?

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That climbing red specimen has bloomed magnificently around the Bursar's window, and B.M.R. certainly thrived in King's Week, (as indeed at a ll other times); but otherwise this has not been the yea r of the Rose . A report on the school election may be found on p. 222, wh ilst in the Letters section a learned enquiry from Mr. Butt is answered by our own Special Historical a nd Horticultural Correspondent. Art tholl sick?

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This is Mr. Peter Brodie's last Can tuarian as senio r Senior Editor .. M uffled Bell valedIctions are postponed until there is the total editoria l freed . OffICIal . . to say s?mething suitable about him . Meanwhile we wish ~'::r necessary retIrement. HavIng eXIted WIth a bang he deserves it: welcome to the thickest Ca t a happy n uanan ever.

CHAPEL FUND

During the Sum mer Term donations were sent from the Sunday coli . to the following causes :ect lons Amnesty [ntern ational Cancer Care Centre (Kent & Canterbury Hospital) Christian Action Christian Aid C hurch Army Church Overseas Guyana Diocese Papua New Guinea Church Partnership U.S. P. G . Kesto n College Zeebrugge Disaster Appeal Total:

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IN MEMORIAM JOHN HILDICK-SMITH (K.S.C. 1961 -1986) Little did [ think that as [ wis hed John H ildick-Smith ' bon voyage' fo r a long and happy reti rement last summer, [ wo uld be called upon within the year to be the spokesman for the whole school and for many past colleagues and pupils, to express our deep sorrow at his early and sudden death. Our profoundest sym pathy goes out to Marion and her four budding doctors as she must feel cruelly cheated out of that happy retirement and companionship which would have given them the well-earned opportunity to take life in a more leisurely fashio n and really enjoy the developing careers of their children. It is very sad that we shall no longer bump into John in the streets of Canterbury, with his never failing smile and genuine interest in all that was going on in King's. [ enjoyed working under him in the C.C .F ., [ enjoyed working with him as a colleague a nd [much appreciated his kind, sensitive and caring advice on many occasions. We shall a ll miss him greatly. P.G.W.

NORAH ELIZABETH JERVIS [n no sense is this a fu ll obituary of Norah Jervis: but [ knew her well during the last ten years of her life and write this as a personal note. She was the sister of Douglas (Langley House 1920-23) who was Secretary and Treasurer as well as President of the OKS Association , and a Governor of the School. They lived together at Ospringe near Faversham where Nora h was a superb hostess for him. A fter his death she remained at Lorenden , their home, and lived there until her death on 7th Jul y. Although a quiet and almost uno btrusive person she had great strength of charac ter; she was, like her brother, kind and gene rous, and would always do anything to help anybody. For the last ten years of her life she fo ught a cruel illness with the greatest of courage. Although constantly in pain, she never complained or moaned and when her rig ht arm was removed at the age of 76 she promptly and without ado set abo ut learning to write and to run her house and kitchen wi th her left arm only. She was an example to all who kne w her and if [ have to cope with a similar problem one day, my memories of her cheerful endurance and fait b will give me strength and courage . She will be greatly missed by her friends and [ hope that she a nd her brot her will long be reme mbered at the School. ELIZABETH POWER .

JOYCE DOWDING (K .S .C. [966- 1986) Joyce Dowding died on 26th June. She retired last summer, after working as a labora tory ass istant in the Physics department for over twenty years. She was supremely good at her job. She had a genius for find ing things, anticipating wha t was wanted, improvising where req uired - but we sha ll remember her for the loving generous person tha t she was . She endeared herself to boys and girls and members of staff: for ma ny yea rs 'How is Joyce?' was the first question that returning O.K .S. would ask. She cared a bout peo ple: small boys who had lost books, larger boys and girls who needed cheering up, masters who needed cakes and cu ps o f tea during invigilation in the laboratories . And a ll this against a backgroun d of pain and sleeplessness from more than one illness in her last years. She was a brave C hrist ia n lady: fai th, hope a nd love were hers in abundance. C .J .M. 217

c3ALMAGUNDI CUED SPEECH

The School has been actively involved with Cued Speech, at the National Centre for Cued Speech (N.C.C.S.) in Canterbury, for nearly two terms now. A common reaction by an outsider to seeing Cueing for the first time is, 'Oh, it's another of those sign languages'. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every sound of speech looks like several others to the lip reader. Cued Speech removes the ambiguities from lipreading by using handshapes - the cues - to clarify words that look alike when just lipread. 1t is very difficult, for example, to distinguish 'mat' and 'pat' from 'bat'. This is because sounds such as m, p and b look alike on the lips. Watch yourself saying them in a mirror. When these sOunds are cued with three visually different handshapes the deaf see the sound both on the lips and on the hand. The hand-shape makes the sound instantaneously recognisable and in this Way a deaf person instantly has access to a vocabulary of the same size as any hearing person, because he can understand any word or sound that can be said, as opposed to that limited by a few thousand signs that are understood by only a select group. A major advantage of Cued Speech comes from the way in which the cues are phonetically linked to what is said, so that even if a deaf person cannot hear a sound, they can learn to make the right sound in association with one of eight handshapes. This has a dramatic effect on the clarity of speech. At the moment there are two groups learning to cue. The more advanced group is the smaller. They managed to find space in their schedules to meet once a week after school for a couple of hours. Three of these have now taken (and passed!) a tough exam, consisting of both written and practical papers, to prove their proficiency. At the beginning of this term an activities group was also started. They are rapidly closing the gap with the first group, and some will take their exam at the end of this term. What's the point of all this? The aim in the long term is to establish a register of hearing students at University who can cue, so that deaf students can be matched up with them and be on level terms with the hearing at lectures and so on. The other things we have done include making video films of Christmas carols so young children can learn to sing them, performing at the N.C.C.S. Open Day (at which the Headmaster was guest of honour), and helping at the Cue Club that meets on Monday evenings. There have been many moments when Cued Speech has provided a sense of satisfaction, a 'This is really worthwhile' feeling, but one example that sticks in my mind is when a profoundly deaf 24 year old girl said her name 'Karen' properly for the first time in her life ... PATR ICK LIDSTONE.

'DOCTOR WHO' -

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And so the miracle has occurred yet again - the Doctor has regenerated for a sixth time and has a new lease of life and a seventh body in the form of actor Sylvester McCoy. McCoy has a three year contract which should put an end to the speculation concerning the future of the programme, stop all rumours that Michael Grade has a large axe with the Doctor's name on it and carry the show on past its twenty-fifth birthday. The time is undoubtedly ripe for asking the question: Where does the attraction of 'Doctor Who' really lie? 218

HELI'ING HANDS: I, SOCIAL SERVICES (l.S.H.); 2, CUED SPEECH (Patrick Lidstone); 3, BLOOD DONATION (Ken/ish Gazelle); 4, PRESENTATION TO CANCER CARE APPEAL (Kenlish Gazel/e)

It is 1963; the scene is an obscure junkyard in an obscure London alley called Totters Lane; . the yard stands the incongruous shape of a London Police Box; the yard gates creak open In d an old man with flowing white hair materialises out of the fog. A legend has been born. ~e old man is William Hartnell, the first actor to breathe life into the part of the Doctor. Since then we have seen six other Doctors and it is with the character and concept of the Doctor that the first reason for the programme's appeal lies. In what other production can the show not only go on with the departure of the lead actor but receive boosted viewing figures and fresh followers? Only i,:, 'Doctor Who' can seven so different and diverse personalities be universally accepted into the litle role. (The characters In such soap operas as 'Dallas' may undergo occasIOnal remarkable and unexplained facia l changes but they really do not work.) Each Doctor has introduced a new aspect into the Doctor's personality. The first was slightly crotchety and difficult, but was nevertheless a moral crusader; the second was whimsical and humorous, almost a 'Chaplinesque' hobo; the thtrd was flamboyant, dramattc and very much the father-fIgure dominant and protective; the fourth emphasised the eccentric side of the Doctor's character with his omnipresent quips, long scarf and packet of jelly babies; the fift h doctor, with his air of innocence a nd constant surprise, was less alien and more fallible than his predecessors; and the sixth doctor was a character of dramatic quotations, enormous ego, and acid wit. The seventh Doctor has not, at the time of writing, made his appearance, but his tartan scarf, question-markridden pullover and straw hat promise further developments in the Doctor's character. It is not , however, only the Doctor that appeals to audiences . Indeed the whole concept of the programme is unique - a human chameleon flying round the universe in a baltered Police Box and righting wrongs in a decidedly unorthodox way. It is perhaps the word 'unorthodox' that sums up the whole idea - the Doctor is not a typical hero of James Bond or 'A-Team' status, blasting down all his adversaries with an ever-growing collection of weapons, but he is still a hero nevertheless. And surely this type of hero is more appealing than any other - after all, make James Bond a pacifist or take away the 'A-Team's' guns a nd they are of no further interest. The Doctor does not have 10 be ' licensed to kill' to capture the imagination of the viewing public. It is not only what happens on screen that matters - the behind-the-scenes chemistry in a ny television programme is important , and in 'Doctor Who' this element is at its height. All the actors a nd other fi gures who have been connected with the programme have expressed their love of working on it and have ta lked of the unique atmosphere it possesses. It is not insignificant that the team during the third Doctor's era were dubbed 'the Pertwee famil y', or that the DoclOr has act ually married one of his compan ions (Tom Baker and Lalla Ward). It is also wort h noting that 'Doctor Who' conventions go on all over the world a nd are attended by a large number of the programme's stars - somet hing that wou ld not happen if they did no t possess very fond memories of their time on the programme.

Indeed it is the sheer amount of talent that goes into 'Doctor Who' that is another reason for its appeal. It is not the same old team, year in year out, but a different writer, director and designer every story. There have also been nine different producers and a great number of famous names have appeared as guest stars (John Cleese even put in a cameo appearance in one of Tom Baker's stories). In Hamiel, Polonius talks of 'Tragical-Pastoral-H istorical-Comical' drama, and this is a nother important aspec t - due to the nature of' Doctor Who', the different stories can be enormously varied and never have to repeat themselves . What other programme can encompass a study of the dangers of pollution a nd an examination of the feudal system of medieval England in two'---consecutive stories? Because of the variety of the programme, 'Doctor Who' has never become dull or staid, un like other science fiction programmes such as 'Sapphire and Steel' and 'Blake's Seven ' which have long ago curled up and died. Finally, it must be said that 'DoclO r Who' is an instituti on, just as much as fish and chips or gr umbling abo ut the weather. It is essent ially British in its na ture and there can surely be nobody in the countr y who has never heard of a Dalek, or who does not know to what the word TARD IS refers. 219

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RELIGION IN RUSSIA O ne of the most common a nd saddest misconceptions about the Societ Union is that believers are not a llowed to worshIp freely there, whatever rehglOn they follow. For many years I have contested this because I have refused to believe that the U.S.S.R. is the 'Evil Empire' a nd also because I have known many Russian Orthodox priests still practisi ng behind the Iron CUrlain In May. I was invited by the Moscow Patriarchate to a ttend a meeting. of the World Co nferenc~ on Reh\llOn a nd Peace. (Fathers get you everywhere!) The orgamsatlOn IS multI-religious, mte rnatlOnal and afflhated to the Umted Na tIons. It stn ves fo r the - unfortunately impossible - a Im : peace, through better understandl.ng o f one ~noth~r~ whatever one.'s religion. During my short but very n ch VISIt I was able to VISIt many actIve rehglous commumtles both in Moscow and Leningrad and can now assure the suspicious West that religio n is alive a nd unrepressed though not encouraged in Russia. ' State propaganda was calling ac ross Moscow for peace. Big posters on the walls of buildings in the centre of the city showed the dove of peace and proclaimed 'MIR ' - peace . As well as our conference, which followed on immediately from an important World Council of C hurches meeting, Moscow was hosting the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclea r War Assembly. Talking to individuals, be they ' babushkas' selling icons in a church or you ng ' Intourisl' guides, there was a general call fo r peace and assurances that the Soviets had no desire to invade the United States - I only wish that Mr. Reagan, not I, had been present. There was a lso a marked l!lck of suspicious-look ing leather-coat~d men or U.S. Marine-luring belles, altho ugh an Amencan lawyer I met by chance was convmced that the theologIcal students working for the conference I attended were K.G.B. officia ls ... Arou nd Leningrad and Moscow, churches, monasteries, theological academies, mosques and synagogues were busily being restored. Some of the work on churches was State-subsidised and the buildings were due to be turned into museums, the Govern ment having discovered the beauly of some icons and the illlportance of Russian churches in the history of architecture, not to mention the bad impression derelict bu ildings give to a city . Other churches and monasteries were being restored with Patriarchate money, collected from the sales of icons and votive candles in churches and people's donations. T hey aim to have many buildings back in service for the Russia n Orthodox Church Millennium celebrations next year. An example of this is the Danilov monastery in Moscow's suburbs. It now houses the offices of the Patriarchate's foreign affairs department, has sumptuous conference faci lities and is in havoc due to the building of a guest house for the conference centre and the restoration of the monastery used as a reformatory after the Revolution. In the middle of the building site stands the renovated and active church . In Len ingrad, the large mosque, which had been packed on ' Id-ul-Fitr', was entirely under sca ffolding. T he country's forty million Muslims were contributing to the costs. Inside, two carpets, one presented by Iran, the other by Iraq, lay peacefu lly side by side. A sign of hope? The la rgest synagogue in Leningrad, an impressive building built in the nineteenth century in Moorish style, is only used on feast days, 'but then it is fi lled', the rabbi ass ured us. For daily wors hip the three other smaller synagogues are used. A Jewish-American delegate who went round one of the smaller synagogues with me told me the worship was ' like a fossil ,' but at least it was unrepressed worship. 220

. ed the visits to the energetic Baptist com'!l unit~ in Moscow, the Catholic Mass a nd the I ml~s nmunity now quite large 10 the SovIet UllIon. However, I jomed the sIxty mllhon Buddhl:,t cgrthodox in their churches. T hese were invariably packed, despite the length of the pracll SI 8hree hours is considered short) and the fact that it was a weekday. The congregaHon Lllu rgy el of old people and mostly female, but more and more of the younger g~nerat l on was la;~eniIY joining the Church . Orthodox Liturgies are the most beauHful and movmg forms IS apP h' I know The basic theology belllnd them 's to create a heavenly at mop here and thIS of wors \~ achieve'd with incense-scented air, profusions of candles in fro nt of fa bulous icons, is ce~~a~~rate vestments of the clergy and above all the beautiful music from the excellent choirs .he e . galleries Old women stand hour after hour, fervently crossmg themselves from tIme hig'l up In at th; given moment pressing themselves to be touched by the Holy Water the ande , . to o m . Melropolitan spnnkles over the congregatIOn. . R J' .on was only one of the many fascinating aspects of RUSSIa. I came back to England f e ~Id after the lack of commercialisation a nd competition of the Soviet Union, the warmt h r~~e~,: generosity of the. people and the incomparable beauty of the towns and country: I am ~ot trying to make a pohtical statement m th.s a rHcle (one, alas, a lways treads ?n t hm Ice on Ihe subject of the Soviet Union) , but I do want to fIght unfounded a nd unjust prej udIces. Could it be that the Iron Curtain has been put up by us, a refusal to understand and accept a race of people so like us?

ELEANOR TAYLOR.

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE When the Industria l Society decided to hold a seminar at The Kent Coupty Cricket Club :appropriate, since one of the speakers was Clive Llo~d, former cricket captalll of the. West IndIes _ we were fortunate in being one of two schoo ls IIlvlted to attend, along wll h hIgh po weI ed managers and directors. The seminar started mid-morning, wit h coffee, the chance to meet the ?ther delegates, and an opport unit y for the cricket buffs to watc h MIddlesex and Kent 2nd X I s from the comfOl t o f the sta nd. We then got down to the serious business . T he talk was divided into three parts. Mr. Wiltshier, the Chairma n of the Wiltshier building giant, opened proc~edings with a general introduction, describing the function o f the Industnal SocIety as a gro up glvlllg help and adV Ice relating to industrial matters, from legal qUIbbles to trammg procedures, to any member th~t needs it. The members include a wide group of empl<?yees and em ployers, from large multInational compa nies to self-employed men to trade umons . Mr. Cli ve Lloyd then gave a lively and witty description of how he sees the role of a leader. He drew on his past ex periences several times and told us how he had budt the West IndIes team up to be arguably the best side in the wo rld, WIth speCIal emphaSIS ~lIlt h e need fOl everyone to discuss issues, and the need to maintain a balance b~tween the dlsclplme reqUIred for a team to perform o n the field a nd the relaxed a tmosphere III whIch everyone enjoyed themselves. Mr. Bill Simpson , our regional director of the Industr ial Society, outlined a dozen or so respons ibilities that a leader shou ld place upon himself to do a job well. He was adama~t that a good leader did not necessarily have to be a born leader. I-k rounded off hIS talk WIth a sumn:'ary of the key issues in leadership: commUnICatIOn not confUSIOn, consuitalton not conflontatlOn,

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had 'Loony' written on them L brand Marxist votes together, the main party results It was pointed out that, ta ~nfhe ~~nueral Election outcome . correspond almost exactly WIt . ed but having seen the enthusiasm and election~ seem to have1 been ve"/. £'~~'s ~hould look forward to future exciting Attitudes to the dedication that went mto thIS la~gely pUpl run even I and stimulating debates orgaOlsed by Polsoc.

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THE LAW By popular request, we print the third of the Headmaster's talks on The Law given in Prayers this term . k I rimitive .. . t Iso restore it when it's been bra en. nap Law does not only mamtam order, It mus ~rtain clearly defined rules so that those who ~re society this is easy enough. There must be c and the community at large accepts that Justice injured are satisfied WIth the reparatlO~ offered;. society When a law was broken, the heads has been done. Ancient Israel wa.s suc a pn!,,1 I~e local c~mmunity should take. They couldn't of the families met togeth~r to deCIde ;hat a;~~~~ ~ompassionate to mutilate the convicted . So afford to keep someo,:,e m pnson. t ~y fe 'shment and damages to the injured party . Both within the community. So when a man there was a direct chOIce between capIta PUIll were intended to restore immediate pe!!ce ~~d har~~n6f course no attempt to enquire into the was sentenced it was over and done WIth. lere w 'd Nor w~s any time given to consldenng medical and psychological backgrou~d of the acc¥~'-accused was simply judged on whether the social milieu in whIch the °dffehn er grew f~~'which he had been summoned . or not he had in fact commItte t e wrong 223

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Yet the Old Testament clearly recognised the inadequacy of prescribing punishments for d . acts. Not a!1 offenders were equally to blame even for the same offence. And it was no eflOed that a man s wl~ked ness might o~ enquiry be seen to be less than at first supposed E t on ly a somewha t tnvlaloffence mIght m the end turn out to be a very much more serious' acqUally It had seemed ~t first. The Hebrews were aware that law had its limits. It cannot i tht than n e end assess the precIse extent of a man's guilt. Today, under English law, it is always possible for an inj ured party to sue for dam a as far as cnmes are concerned, we have as a civilised community rightl y aba ndoned tlge~ But penalty. Instead as a mark of our affluence, we rely on imprisonment an expensive Ie eath Further we make e~ery ~ttempt to enquire into the background of th~ accused to dtt:~alty. whether there are mltlgatmg CIrcumstances which should affect the judgment Indeed . mine cases" conSIderable licence is given. in determining length of sentence. But th ~ merit of ~~I~~St Israel s chOlc~ betw~en capital pUnIshment and da mages to the injured party was that whatev~t the outcome, It was ImmedIately over and don e with . Imprisonment on the other hand' .r on the community a new res ponsibili ty throughout the term of the sentence. And if pe~mposeJ harmon y are to be restored, then this respons ibility to the imprisoned and his family ~e an be Ignored. All our law actually req uires by imprisonment is the deprivation of liberty ~rot the law at present exacts i~ very much more. Inde~d it is no exagger~tion to say that impris~nm~~: depn ves a man o f essentlall?arts of hIs humanI ty. For he can neIther do that work for which he has been eqUipped, nor enJoy normal human relatIOnsh ips, mcluding sexual ones. Deprivatio of lIberty becomes m effect a process of depersonalisation which we later a ttempt to miti at n b~ provldmg schemes for rehabliltatlOn .. But ought not th is rehabilitation of the prisoner s~ar~ with hIs sentence? For far from Impnsonment restoring harmony and peace its ch r consequences can be never-ending . Clearly there appears to be no alternative to irr:prisonr:~n~c But we ought at least to questIOn whether the kind o f imprisonment which we impose doe .' fact restore peace and harmon y. For unless it does, the whole purpose of law is defeateJ. ll1

ACTIVITIES 1987 Activities in the Summer Term are always liable to disruption as the exams approach. An added problem tillS term was the refurbI shment of St. Mary's Hall which prevented Badminton from start mg untIl half term. New features thIS year have mcluded an insistence that Shells and Removes do theIr ac tIvity on the ActIvIty afternoon, and that boys do not continue with a OCSE subject! bu t do somethmg dIfferent. There have a lso been some new courses with outside bodies - Typmg, a FIrst Aid Course, Archaeology and, this term, Cued Speech for the Deaf. Th~ usual range ofsports has been in full swing. New Image Rugby deserves a fuller following espCClall y from the lp rls, who seemed to enjoy being chased by the VIth form and R.C . W. Fo; those WIth more ?evlOus mmds, N.L.P. has been demonstrating the subtle devilries of Croq uet m SI. August me s; there IS talk of a school team, and of matches against the staff. . The ~ew CDT centre has been much in use; next term will see silversmithing added to the lIst, whlie the compute!'s are turned over to art and design. New video editing eq uipment, after long agltatl?n b~ MartIn Edwards, will be centred there, so we may expect to see the film crew

even more In eVi dence .

The fruits of Bicycle Maintenance are obvious during King's Week. This will become an all224

activity under R.B.Mi.; I hope some of the Lower School who have been careering round

y~:rOreen Court will join up to find out how to repair what they have damaged.

t Tie Cantuarian should benefit from those doing the Journalism activity, which has proved o ~Iar. Cookery has also been heavily oversubscribed. I would be delighted if anyone else would l-k p to take up the challenge of guiding members of 6a towards gastronomIc dehghts m the evenmg. +h~re are also activities that exist for a small minority - for example, RaIlway Cartography d Bookbinding. If there is anyone hankering after an unusual pursuit, there are some new :::'embers of staff arriving next term, who are as yet unclaImed . Next year, I hope to encourage more people to combine activities, as some are better done I other times. Already pupils are opting to do SOCIal ServIces m c?mbmatlon WIth a Thursday a t"vity" some will be involved with Cued Speech on a Monday I1Ight. Attendan~e has been a a~~ble~ with some pupils; Activities are not 'optional' and s hould not be set aS Ide for other fhings, be they music lessons, house play rehearsals, theatre VISitS or whatever --: unless the person concerned has been to see the relevant member of staff personall y to explalll hIS reasons for not attendmg. J.S.H.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD T his has been the first full year of the award at the school. Some thirty Remove boys have been working towa rds the Bronze award , though only a few have shown the necessary commitment.

The highlights of the year's programme have been the training trips to Cumbria. Small groups of boys have used M.R.O.P.'s cottage as a base for walking, camping and tra ining in survival skills. Course cookery and cramped travel conditions have made these trips memorable, and some boys - Hugh Clayton a nd Peter Elliott, for example - ha ve been regular attenders. T here has a lso been a programme of training in school during the Easter te~m, which was only sporadically attended. Poor atte ndance was a lso a problem WIth the serv l~e sectIOn ;. we have been running a foo tpat h-clearance scheme under the aegis of the Ramblers ASSOCIation. M.J .V., secretary of the local branch, has been very helpful. Recently, however, the lack ?f a minibus on a Su nday and the unwillingness of boys to sIgn up for sesSIOns ha ve limIted IIS success. A new system will be introduced next year, demanding greater commitment. 1 would like to thank all those who have agreed to help supervise boys for the various parts of the award. In particular, I must express my deep appreciation to M.R.O.P., without whom the award scheme would not have got off the ground here. His enthusiasm has been an essentIal part in this yea r's ac ti vities, a nd I hope, depending on future letting, that we wi ll still be able to use his cottage in the Lakes occasionall y. Replacing him will be d ifficult, but two volunteers (W .R.P. and P.J.J.) have already come forward to ensure that the scheme can contmue next year. A more positive approach is needed - the scheme is about the 'positive use of leisure time', and so participants must make a commitment to ach ieve certain standards, even If thi S means that they have less time sitting around. J .S .H. 225

THE GRANGE

Those who live in The Grange nowadays may wonder after whom the Austin corridor at th top of the. house is named; it is something of an anomaly that whilst many are aware that i~ IS to Cardmal Pole - Queen Mary's ArchbIshop - that we are mdebted for the gift of th Mint Yard, most are ignorant that it is two generations of a most remarkable family - the Austin~ - who remain responsible for the Mint Yard (Mitchinson's apart) which we see today. Five generations of Austins practised as academically untrained and unqualified architects: the first three for the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace and the last two here in Canterbury Harry Austin Snr . was Surveyor of Works to the Cathedral, in which capacity he built th~ Cathedral's north-west tower, the Library (bombed in the war) and, as his own home, The Grange The School Library and the Mint Yard are the work of his son, also Harry. The three brother; - Harry, George and Fred, together with their brother-in-law Geoff - led a life of some lUxury in the Precincts: between them they occupied the three largest ' lay' houses therein - Harry The Grange; George, Walpole, and Geoff, No. II . ' For a building which is relatively modern in comparison with others inside the Precincts, The Grange nonetheless retains many historic associations. The north wall of the house is medieval and marks the boundary of the Archbishops' palace, from the ruins of which Austin transferred many of the architectural fragments which create its fascination. The 'Old Grange' which between 1871 and 1959 was the Captain of School 's study incorporates a fireplace bearing Archbishop Parker's arms (which appear also above the South doorway); the arms above the front door are those of Cardinal Pole. The magnificent seventeenth century staircase which is now situated in the entrance hall of the housemaster's flat has been the cause of some local controversy Over its origins - one may cautiously state that it came from Archbishop Laud's palace, destroyed in 1643 . The Mint Yard was much transformed in the early 1860s: the Almonry building, in which the whole school worked, was demolished, thus opening the Mint Yard onto The Borough. Harry Austin designed the then School House block, including present Galpin's, built the Mint Yard Gate and porter's lodge, and constructed the School Library above the Norman Undercroft of the Aula Nova . Thus the Mint Yard took on much of its present appearance. The Grange itself was bought for the School by the Dean and Chapter - a contemporary description is provided by Woodruff and Cape: 'The Grange is a long building of flint with ashlar dressings, and affords accommodation for two classrooms, three sets of Masters' rooms, the Masters' commonroom, with two dormitories, the kitchen, servants' f00ms and offices.' The original private house, depicted in this watercolour dating from around 1860, has at various times been extended during its service as the School's second boarding house. A memory of The Grange some seventy years later was provided by the most literate of its alumni, Patrick Leigh-Fermor. In A Time of Gifls he wrote that 'all breaches were visited by swift and flexible sanctions which came whistling shoulder-high across panelled studies and struck with considerable force'. JAMES BEECHEY.

VALETE THE REVEREND PETER ALLEN GR . 1949-55; K.S.C. 1972-87 'Time present and time past. .. ' Rarely elsewhere as strongly or as often as here in these Precincts can one feel that sense of interpenetrating time which is the theme and created world of 'Four Quartets'; rarely elsewhere that mystical fusion of light, stone and leaf; rarely those moments of epiphany in which, it seems, 'all time is eternally present'. 226 THE GRANGE IN 1860; THE AUSTIN FAMILY RELAXING IN THE I'RECINCTS (School Archives)

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For many of us it will be hard to imagine the King's School without Peter Allen: and even ose least sympathetic to Peter's favourite T. S. Eliot quotations in sermons will know that Ih ensibility has been lost, and yet will li nger. For forty years, wit h seventeen years' intermission a sl frequent connections then, Peter has been here, joining the Choir School after early training y~ a chorister in Carlisle Cathedral from 1943-6, attracting - with his brother - praise early ~n from Edred Wright for his singing; subseq~ently assisting Edred greatly in formin~ links, vhilst Choir Secretary, between the Old C hon sters and the newly-formed School ChOIr after J. Shirley had instructed that King's should 'become a singing school'; and owing in part t~ that early training the remarkable, single-handed command of Congregational Practice that has been a feature of Friday mornings in recent years. From the Choir School Peter entered King's in 1949, leaving it in July 1955. [n its austere way the Virtute in the relevant Canluarian conveys his formal achievements as a boy: Music sch~lar 1949; Hon . Senior King's Scholar 1954; Grange House Monitor 1952; Captain of School 1954; 1st XV and 1st VIII 1953 and 1954; 1st Athletics and Captain of Squash; Platoon commander CCF and a Canluarian Editor. Those who were here then have their respective memories, whether of the oarsman rowing bow at Henley, the flautist under David Goodes' balOn in a performance of the Brandenburg No.5 that was one of the first th ings played by Ihe Chamber Orchestra, or the aut horitative young man in the Old Grange whose special relationship with 'Fred' had such influence within the School at the time. Time merges, and yet historical layers can be as discrete as Dorset cliffs . Each boy's personal memory is only five years long here, and yet in that area of the school which a contemporary may associate with Walpole or Grange boys passing by, a Geography lesson with Martin Parker or one of Andrew Dobbin's outdoor productions, here a century ago the young Maugham gazed across through rai li ngs at the Senior School, and through that arch there even Becket must have walked. [n the end we are a ll time's ghosts, but at least so long as the Shirley Hall stands there Peter Allen will remain in this part of the school, 'petrified' (it is unavoidable!) as he was into its foundation stone when th is was laid by the Archbishop (,Gaufridus Dom Archiepiscopus') on March 11th 1955: 'Hewlett Johnson Decano, Frederico Shirley Archididascalo, Joseph Harris Hypodidascalo and Petro Johanne Allen Principe Monitorum'. Not a bad way to be remembered, as a schoolboy: not a bad thing to return to, a couple of decades later. In the years between, Peter had first held a National Service Commission in his father's regiment, the Black Watc h (whose Band were splendidly to inaugura te Ki ng's Week 1986), his lime in Berlin being memorable not least for the wound he inflicted as Macduff on Her Majesty's senior representative there, Sir Oliver Wright, and whic h the latter would carry subsequently as a scarred ex-Macbeth: a ll this under the direction of a n' OKS, Ala n Ba ker. After National Service came Peter's other great love, Jesus College, Cambridge, where, combi ned with Wes tcott House, he was from 1957-62, reading Eng. Lit. and Theology and being President of the college Boat Club, besides being most popular as Rhadegund, Native, Genial and in various other forms: a man of promise . And it was to Jes us College that he retu rned - strengthening our Boal Club connection there besides making a considerable mark in his time - as Chaplain from 1966-72, following on from a curacy in Coventry from 1962-65 and a year at the Church of the Advent, Boston (where his East Coast Connection began) in 1965-66. Returning thereafter to King's in 1972 was not entirely easy, but Peter 's talents are so diverse that several could be employed even whilst another was frustrated. A School li ke this lives firstly by the bread-and-butter of its working day, the classroom teaching, the subject interest, the grades obtained, a nd to the English Department Peter then gave , and sustained over the years, much of his energy and enthusiasm, communicating his own excitement with the subjecl, and concern with the pupil. But equally the discipline of Holy Communion, and Compline in the Memorial Chapel, and of preparing candidates for Confirmation, was and remained an essent ial and dedicated part of Peter's weekly life, as Senior C haplain approxima tely from the ti me of becoming an Honorary Minor Canon, shortly after his appointment here. But if these were basic imperatives, Peter wi ll be remembered at least equally for the return he has paid on the gifts and skills inves ted in him . Whilst academic achievement is fu ndamenta l,

227 PETER ALLEN; DORIS BIRLEY; GEORGE ANDERSON (AllthollY Woftenbllch; William Hendersoll-Deeves; Jllliall Kennard)

much of the School's glory and prestige lies in areas where Peter could a nd did cOntribut distinctively: in its services in the Cathedral, in music and drama, and in rowing: only (an~ understandably) in the strength of its 1st XV fixture list did he rest content _ apart from On Or two Colts 'B' outings - with what he'd a lready done at school. Mention has already bee~ made of Congregational Practice: chorall y or with the spoken voice there was everything frolll Cathedral services to the recent happy linkage with Barry Rose for memorable Easter Ant hologies of Words a nd Music as well as for a very popular "In Praise of Love" this King's Wee k a King's Week when Peter had also revived his "Gammer Gurton'S Needle". Of the ma~y productions Peter has done here - and he has been generous in his time with other peOPle's House Plays, in directing and in makeup - the most memorable was probably his first "MUrder in the Ca thedral", d one not many years after this play's first performance within the actual Cathedral (in 1970) , but en hanced on this occasion by the mysterious power of history in the Eastern Crypt, only a few feet from where Becket's body first rested, for fifty years before its upward Translation in 1220. What vibes, man! As for the Boat Club, Peter took Over the 1st VIII from G raham Barrett in 1974 and passed it on to Richard Hooper in 1980 . It was a period particularly memorable for two things: the first progression of King's boys into youth international crews - besides coaching Richard Yonge and Ewan Pearson who rowed in the Boat Race against each other _ a nd the first steps towards the splendid new Opportunities of Westbere Lakes, very much Peter's original brainchild and early influence even if Peter P ilkington and Richard Hooper were eventually to do the spadework. Back within the Precincts, Peter's special care and commitment these last eleven years has been Linacre, and none of us have doubted the quality of the House he has run. Linacre boys - and gir ls - have been special, and even if the rest of us have sometimes had to fall back on the comprehensivists' apology - tha t the s tandard o f what comes out is pretty closely related to the standard of what goes in - then it is a tribute to Peter's wide reputation that so many parents did entrust gifted and versatile siblings to him , and that a personal legacy to Linacre is the qua li ty of its recent entry. There were the special paradoxes too: a House more strictly run than most yet with a ho usemaster who might well have set off a t 5 a. m. to take a wedding in Yorks hire (in between King 's Week productions, What's more); a personal wa rmth and social expansiveness that yet were combined wit h a successfu ll y 'old-fashioned' hierarchy of Monitors running the House like a cadre of officer cadets (though those bachelor tutors certainly worked too!); someth ing of the exclusive spirit of an elite regiment yet with a to uch of the Cambridge Mission at other times. No one who has been privileged to be a friend of Peter's can doubt that he has a special gift for friendship and personal relationships, a warmth and ease with people that can cross generations, charming parents and elders and yet giving comfort a nd self-esteem to the most ga uche or different of boys. And if there were times one became cross with Peter _ and how could one be a friend of his without on occasions being cross? _ then it was less the very expen cooking Or even the size of the gin that persuaded one back than the very qualities of forgiveness a nd renewed humanity in the man himself. It was fitting that his second career here should end with a marvellous Pilgrims Linacre Ball, when oarsmen of a generation ago and their wives mingled withofimpeccably to otherssoaseasil welly as sadness . behaved recent Linacre a lumni , an evening of pleasure given It was a master retiring two years ago who memorably said that the Serenade had summed up for him the uniqueness of li fe here: the passion of transient young voices thrown against the permanence of crafted stone. For many King's p upils, and for many of us who have worked with him , a good number of the moments of specia l memory and emotion experienced here will be associated wit h Peter Allen: the stones will sing, the footfalls still echo in the memory. Happily, in th is case to make an end actually is to make a beginning, and Peter has creditably achieved what few schoolmasters can do at this stage: he is goi ng on to promotion. We wish him every success as Second Master of Sedbergh, and Sedbergh the full benefit of his distinguished qualities.

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DORIS BIRLEY (K.S.C. 1969-1987)

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GEORGE ANDERSON (K.S.C. 1973-1987)

. ,. f urteen ears, George Anderson has retl re.d After teaching woodwork aat KI?g a s fOi t~~~:s~ig~est oriel' , able and willing to pass on ~IS at the age of 67. Georg~ IS d ~~~~?s'11 ~upils produced was astoundingly high, as those w 0 skills to others . T he stan ar .0. w b well aware. e . he em loyed were perhaps somewhat visited the Ki ng's Week Exhibitions WI Geor e's methods of teachmg and the vocabu~~~~tive BO~S sta rtled a t first by the bearded but, as thebProdtu cots that the fierhce G . , apparent out urs s f , h f I fm' sm and w 0 wou Spatience a nd kindness, who on record that after a thorough troub le to help a pupil to achieve hiS am I I~~ed to make a nyt hing he chose, whether It was a e hole desk or whatever. I remember a n amusmg rounding every boy in hiS classes was a eeneered cigar box, a n the puppy-box he wanted to make would occasion when a pupil aske g Answer not recorded. fit into the boot of a Rolls Royce. hemist in 1981 to the present time, Geoq~e and I have From conj uring up the set fOI The ~/c d despite the occasio nal pro blems o f fmdmg a tl~e wo rked toget her on sets fo r manylda p ay an It noisy work on the set, George alwa~s perseve~~ , c nvenient to others when he cou cany Ol ilthe . ob was done. Whet her It was ma mg regard less of the countless and Art Deco mouldings for Guys the swinging doors for Oklahoma! or t e maSSI

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. u ils in no small measure, and many George succeeded in developing t he potential o~~I~h~irPlives . As a colleague, with whom I will cause to be grateful hTour fOIyears, the r~s;hall greatly miss his robust cheerfulness, help past havehave shared Blackfriars for the to

and friendship. I n earlier this year, the Duke of Edinburgh As an illustratio n of his eve!'-youth ful oultlogk, ;';,..,i,at are you doing here?' George promptly asked George, (who was standl.~f amongstl le oy , O .B.T . replied, 'I ' m a late developer .

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MARTIN PARKER (K.S.C. 1977-1987) I first remember Martin when we were at school together. He was an awe-inspiring, energetic Prefect, I was a fresh-faced nervous Shell former. Even then he was tremendously active a real enthusiast, heading off to Snowdonia at weekends, helping to run the school's adventure tr~ining and generally getting involved in everything that happened. ' Imagine my surprise when I arrived at King's to find Martin even more enthusiastic than I remembered, doing everything from the Academic Challenge to C.C.F. and still with enough energy to leap off to the Lake District for the day in his Citroen 2 CV. Martin advised me to get involved, and what an example he set. In his time he's been involved with all three sections of the C.C.F., always eager to help out when his expertise was needed He'll be best remembered for running that elite band of madmen 'The Commando Section': If he wasn't climbing a sheer rock-face he'd be diving down a pot-hole, or hurtling through the spray in a canoe. On the sports front he's taken the 3rd Rowing VIII, Junior Colts, Colts, and U.14 B teams for rugby . He's organised the Sailing Club in his last year here, and run the Cross-Country. To all these teams he's brought his unique brand of enthusiasm and humour. If you were in one of Pad's teams you might not always win, but you'd have great fun losing. In the last couple of years Martin and James Hutchinson set up the Duke of Edinburgh's scheme within the school. Done in odd spare moments it has been tremendously successful, and Martin has left something for future generations which will foster the ideas of service and initiative which he exemplifies . The present generalion al King's mighl not realise lhal Marlin also ran King's Week for some years, encouraging an increased number of events, and, despile lhe crooked bow-lie, running it wilh style and efficiency. You must be wondering, dear reader, when this list of activities and achievements will end: surely no man could do more, bUl I assure you he's managed it. His greatest memorial will be lhe Geography Deparlment. Coming to King's afler four years at Jesus College, Cambridge, Martin revitalised lhe Physical side of the subject, building up resources, organising field trips, and ensuring an academic approach to all sludies, while never losing sighl of lhe fun which could be had. He's run the Deparlment for the last five years, building on the base John Hildick-Smith set up. There can be no doubt thal under Marlin, Geography has taken up ilS rightful place as a credible academic subject in the school, achieving excellenl results al all levels, and giving pupils a greater love and understanding of the world around them. With Marlin at its head, the King's department was probably one of the best in the country in which to teach. 'Can there be more?' I hear you ask. Well, while all this was going on, Pad resided in Trad. As a resident House Tutor for nine years, his study has been a social centre, Operations H.Q. and rest-room for Tradescant. You only had to spend half an hour in Martin's room, to realise from the constant phone-calls and knockings on his door that he played a vital role in the House, and will be greatly missed. I feel sure that this is an almost unmatched record of service to the school. In ten years his energy, kindness and dedication have touched many areas, and Martin will be remembered with great affection. Martin moves to the United Arab Emirates to sel up the Geography Department in a new school designed to be the model for the region . I'm sure they'll realise quickly enough how lucky they've been to get him. R.W.T . 230

231 MARTIN PARKER ACCLIMATIZES (J.5.H.)

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As a P .E. master Graeme certainl~ made his.m~rk quickly by filling his lessons with interes and van ety, takmg IOta account mdlVldual abIlItIes and req UIrements . However, his SPOrt in t contributions have been so much wider than this and, reluctantly, there can be space here foS only the briefest of summaries. He was in charge of U-14 rugby throughout his time at King,' and his expertise has been vital in welding together disparate backgrounds and skills in preparin: for teams in future ~ge groups. He has produced a Succession of well-.organised, ~nthusiastic sIdes who have mvanably been the last groups to leave BIrley's on tram 109 days _ Just in time for Graeme to make final preparations and decisions in the Miller's Arms! As master i/c athletics he has been dedicated to detail, always maintaining high standards of dress and performance In the space of a few years he has enj oyed Some quite outstanding individual and team SUCcesses His organisational flair in Our new-style house athletics competition has to be seen to be believed' Basketball has experienced a popular revival under his initiative and he took a successful senio; tour to Guernsey. During the last two years he was i/c U-14 soccer and, as ever, demanded high standards of all those taking part. He even found time to hu rl down a few missiles in the criCket nets, perhaps as revenge for the golden duck achieved on his debut for the Common Room XI! In his early days here Graeme's geograph y teaching was restricted to the Removes and Shells but his conscientious, enthusiastic and friendly approach SOon led to his tak ing on the 5th and 6th form courses. He was a tremendous help on field trips in Dorset and the Lake District, Where his genuine enjoyment of working and walking (not to mention minibus driving) spread quickly to his pupils. The geography department has ensured that his sartorial elegance on these Outdoor occasions has been completed by some up-market 'green wellies'. Latterly he helped devise the new GCSE course and revelled in the new capabilities of the computer. Here was a caring master that was liked, trusted and respected by those fortunate enough to have been taught by him. In Meister Omers his approachable, understanding nature made him an excellent Tutor who was popular for all the right reasons . He was quickly onto the same wavelength as his Tutees and was able to take any number of individual problems in his stride and without complaint. Everyone was Sure of a fair hearing, and his patience and diplomacy were appreciated greatly. He helped and Supported the House's sporting activities, and both Graeme and Debbie were always at the House's social functions. As in many other quarters, they will be missed very much. Having shared a hotel room and coach seat for over three weeks in Sri Lanka, I feel well qualified to praise Graeme's warm, entertaining company, although it must be said that he was for ever dozing off at the most unlikely moments! He worked very hard at fund raiSing for the tour and a typical contribution was when he popped into the Miller's Arms for a few minutes at 6.30 one evening to sell some raffle tickets, and struggled out at 11 .00 having sold ÂŁ70 worth! I shall always remember his kindness to the you ng Sri Lankans who fo llowed him around with great affection. Here there was penty of scope for his photographic skills and many films were shot. Here too he was to try his first ever cup of tea high up in the plantations but he could not be tempted by the coffee. In very different temperatures, Graeme has been a great companion on school ski-ing trips. He was always an ideal leader and his Own meteoric progress from beginner to highly competent skier was typical of his determination to tackle something new and to do it as well as possible. Debbie too was excellent company and, even if her approach to ski-ing was more serene, her card playing was a complete revelation! Back at home, many of us will remember with gratitude their generous hospitality and the knack that they have of making every guest feel rather special. They will be marvellous parents and we shall look forward to the date of the Tonbridge match with more than usual interest. It is difficult to accept that these two attractive and generous personalities will not be with us next term but, thankfull y, they will be near enough fo r us to keep in touch. We feel sure that there will be numerous occasions, such as Twickenham, when we shall meet up again . Graeme was proud to be at King's and we are extremely grateful for the pride that he showed in all that he tackled here. M.l.H. 232

LAVINIA COHN-SHERBOK (K.S.C. 1980-1987) . . C hn-Sherbok came to King's. Rumour has it that she was

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CJhe Cantuariall GJnterviewยง A YANK IN CANTERBURY An Interview with Nora McCauley The idea of spending a year at another school having just completed A-levels probably fills most King's pupils with horror. However, Nora McCauley, from Sl. Louis, Missouri, decided to do just that. She and her parents became attached to England on a holiday four years agO and Nora immediately felt that she would like to spend her 'gap year' at an English public school. It was the change from Day to Boarding School - and a predominantly male one at that - which caused her the most difficulty: 'Even changing countries didn't make as much difference as that,' Nora remarked. However she was helped to blend in with the other pupils since she was entering the school with a large group of new girls who found the place almost as alien as she did. Academically Nora has impressed both her teachers and her class-mates. While she said there was little resentment shown towards her either about her nationality or anything else, she felt. that 'Some of 6a didn't want me to be as intelligent as I am, I guess.' Nora took English A-level in June and although she was able to cope with the work required, she considered the pressure on pupils here high, especially on those sitting examinations. The sporting and musical facilities at King's - which Nora describes as 'more than adequate' - have been a great bonus . They compare very favourably with the facilities at her old High School because it was a state school and thus 'incredibly under-funded except for the football team'. However she guesses that facilities at King's are inferior to those at many American private schools. There has been little time for Nora to explore much of England, but she adored the countryside she did see - except Herne Bay. It seems that Nora felt her year here to have been well-spent and would recommend the idea to other High School students, as well as recommending English pupils to make the journey to America. Her parting verdict? - 'I'm really glad I've done it.' JOHN STERN.

NIGHT WATCH An Interview with Messrs. Vic Arnold and John Poulter The prospect of working for the Dean and Chapter of one of Britain's most beautiful cathedrals might be thought to have enormous appeal. But, on the other hand, being forced to patrol in all weathers, or to sit in a cramped hut at all hours of the day and night may be potentially limiting. With this in mind we approached two of the four security guards whose genial qualities we had previously observed in their dealings with some of the more notorious inhabitants of the Mint Yard. Were they, we asked, immune to their surroundings. 'Unbeatable ... AI; especially when you lot are all tucked up in bed. The smell at dawn is very pure until you get up and corrupt it. ' We hastily switched our emphasis to see if we could discover some equally lambent thoughts on the masters - 'Good blokes'; J.R.P. and R.B.Mi. emerging as high contenders for the J.C.R. tracking award as 'they have always got time for a chat'. We swallowed our fears for a little delicate probing on the pupils as a whole. 'Most okay, but there are a few snobs amongst you. 234 GRAEME GALES (l.S.H.) LAVINIA COHN-SHERIIOK (Kentish Gazelle)

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The rugby lads are good for a laugh.' But what about the girls? 'Good thing ... for the boys. They seem to get treated just like them'. We asked if their prominent positioning at the Mint Yard Gate was a good place for scandal spotting : 'We get some fairly intimate confessions!' Things get most interesting at night, especially on Saturdays, when returning sixth formers with the usual horde of excuses for the absence of supper leaves - 'We've heard them all before' _ provide an interesting deviation from the more mundane duties of fining cyclists. The most fingered page of the Rotulus begins with Grimes, ends with Hinton, and features O.C.C.T. Harris. The guards are, however, impressed as well as amused by what they see - not least the school meals they are unable to enjoy in the holiday. Although both were educated in the state system they consider private education a lUxury which they would indulge in if they could . And whatever difficulties King's pupils may cause them, one thing is certain: they'd far rather deal with pupils than with tourists! CLARE EDMONDSON AND SEAMUS MURPHY.

EDUCATION TODAY An interview with Mr. Denis Atkinson, formerly Head Teacher of the Geoffrey Chaucer School, now in charge of TVEI (Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative) in Canterbury. Denis Atkinson talked long and seriously about TVEI, of which he is the Canterbury head. The Technical and Vocational Educational Initiative is a potentially revolutionary Government explorative scheme started in 1985, with the aim of 'giving technology the same sort of parity as the Sciences and Arts in school', but also much more generally 'lifting the quality of the pupils' expertise'. It addresses itself to the problem that 'the curriculum of the English school needs to be taken out of the cupboard and dusted down'. The Canterbury scheme runs for five years and has a total budget of ÂŁ2 million (provided, oddly, by the MSC), and involves four schools and one college (Geoffrey Chaucer, Barton Court, St. Anselm's , Frank Hooker and the College of Technology). The money is spent on setting up courses in the schools involved to give pupils first-hand access to modern technology, and interaction with the business and commercial world. The courses are run on the basis of 'problem-solving', to encourage individual creative thought along the lines which modern business and technology require, with the emphasis on 'process' rather than 'content' skills, meaning that less importance is given to the absorption of facts, and more to the process of learning and problem-solving . Money is also spent on buildings and equipment to furnish COT centres, like ours (Craft, Design and Technology is the new subject which TVEI promotes, and which has proved a success in this school as in others). Is it a success? 'We have our own views, obviously, and the HMI report by any standards is very enthusiastic, and they ought to know. Some aspects have been more successful than others, obviously. What I think has been outstandingly successful is the way the pupils and teachers have had to get much closer. The traditional didactic image of the teacher up front in front of thirty kids, dictating, is being transformed into much more satisfying learning styles where the student is at best in a negotiating position and has control of the learning programme .' Could the scheme be introduced in all subjects? TVEI had been nationalised because of initial success and would eventually be extended to all state schools, except the few which opt out, and is 'the biggest single educational initiative which is taking place in Western Europe', so its success seems assured. Denis Atkinson spent eighteen years as Head Teacher of Geoffrey Chaucer school, being appointed on the day one of his last sixth-formers was born. He thought his role as Head should not be that of the 'avuncular Head who goes round patting people on the head - there are plenty of other people who can do that. My main job is to manage the institution.' Did he enjoy it? 'Oh, enormously. There was a lot of pain at times, but also an awful lot of pleasure. It was very exciting to be in an institution which was growing all the time. The sixth form was twenty or thirty when I arrived, now it's over two hundred.' It is an odd school described as 'bilateral' because it has an entry system involving a number of selective boys' streams, and more nonselective coeducational streams. 'Bizarre is the kindest word I can think of to describe it.' 235 VIC ARNOLD (JUlillll Kennard)

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However, a &ood side Mr. Atkinson sees to it is that the Chaucer went a long way tOwards bein Comprehensive In philosophy, for he descnbes himself with conVictIOn as being 'a fir~ comprehensive' . One of the main problems with the system is that, theoretically, high-achievin boys who enter the school in the non-selective streams can be moved up into the selective streams8 but girls can't. Do girls get moved up, in fact? ' Oh yes, they do. It happens all the time i~ comprehensive schools.' The system of the test at age eleven to separate pupils into grammar schools and secondary moderns, which was abolished by central government in 1964 but continued by Kent and other local authorities, is wrong, thinks Mr. Atkinson. 'A regular twenty per cent of our A-level success pupils failed the Kent Test at age eleven, and if you consider that the Kent Test is supposed to indicate those who are not likely to do well at O-level, let alone A.level then we've obviously been doing a lot of 'pulling up by the bootlaces'. ' What do the pupils and teachers at Geoffrey Chaucer think of King's? Mr. Atkinson thOught that many staff had friends on the King's School staff, and that there was a very strong mutual appreciation of professional expertise. However 'there is . .. envy's not the right word ... regret that the resourcing of the private sector is so much more substantial'. He accepted that there was almost no mixing amongst the pupils. Would it be good if there were? 'It would be excellent if there were, there is a desperate need to appreciate other people's cultures. I think society desperately needs that. Digging your heels into the sand and saying 'they're a bunch of snobs' or 'they're a bunch of toe-rags' gets us nowhere.' However he didn't think that there was any hope for more contact since 'most parents who choose to send their children to independent schools do so because they want to remove them from the maintained sector, to separate them.' There had been, he said , while he was Head, much contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and Kent College and St. Edmund 's. If it could be done with them, couldn 't it be done with us, too? 'It can be, but I think King's is a highly successful entrepreneurial organisation, and in a sense doesn't need interaction with the state school in the same way that, for example, St. Edmund 's does. And good luck to them , if that's what they want.' Mr. Atkinson is a modern, and fairly radical educationist. He said the existence of public and state schools alongside each other didn't create a split in society, but was the result of one. 'I don't think it's right that parents can buy privileged education at the expense of other members of the community. If the maintained sector was adequately maintained and resourced and thereby could aspire to the esteem in which the private sector is held, then I see no problem, but I really believe that whilst the private sector exists, there is little motivation fo r those who are empowered to make decisions to really resource and mai ntain state education . That sounds like sour grapes, a nd perhaps it is, but that's how I feel. ' On the subject of coeducation, he said 'Coeducation is the way life is, and schools should reflect that.' Asked. his opinion on the dispute between the NUT and the government, he said that it had ended with losses on both sides, because teachers have had to con for m to a contract, and because the government has 'thrown goodwill out of

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Denis Atkinson is a serious man, entirely devoted to education in general and TVEI in particular. 'I'm in education because I think it's the most precious experience a child can get.' Let us hope it will continue to be . ROBERT WEBB.

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BOOK REVIEWS PENNY DREADFUL SUSAN MOODY (Futura Press, 1984, £1.95) •

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'Thea~~yS looked incredibly suave, as we ll they might being pupils al wha t must be one a t le ave les schools in the world'. d ) I 'h '1 er' but then there is the staff. , , Here (I do assure rea e!s So the groun~s ~~e ~oi~~~fi~t~o~uf:'~ ~~id t'a imagine how any school wou ld last for five minutes, with Ms, Moody ~ea y ~ 'bed her~ There's a tota ll y mal icious historian, into detective stories, gin and ablcokmm~n ~~~r:~rd~~~d There's' a Housemaster into things over which we had beller gloss; a mod~n ac mal . 'H h d h f l ' eyes of a successful con-man, Or languages teac ller. e lingu isthave I don't permanent ly drunken poet-in -residence; a cliche ridden could beenrecognl carvedse:ou t 0ef saol,·dt aed~~a~~a~ , Headmaster and not much else'. ; , I 't good detective story? Alas few King's readers wi ll bother wit h that. BUI there are some. J1Jce touch~s

~~e!Ches' 'a real treat. F~r Ihe'mosl part Ihe ceremony had consisted of th~ same ~OY?~JJlg tlF :!~~~

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DEAN STANLEY OF WESTMINSTER: A LIFE PETER HAMMOND (W 1941-1946) (Churchman Publishing, 1987, £8.95 (paperback) )

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Stanley saw them all. At Rugby he was a pupi l of Thomas Arnold. At Oxford he heard Newman K

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a fe llow of University College and ReglUs Professor of Eccles lastlcal History. Fmdmg himse lf rnu 11~8 favour with Queen Victoria he married one of her lad ies in wa iting, and became the Queen's tr~ In theologica l confidant, eventually being appointed Dean of Westminster. In his spare tim e, a bit like Meet Hammond, he wrote books - and a good many too. His Memorials 0/ Canterbury, known to 10 r. historians, was the fruit of a period as Ca non at Canterbury, but he is best known for two classics Cal Victorian pub li sh ing, The Life and Letters 0/ Dr. Arnold, whose first edition sold out in three weeks a OJ Essays 011 Church and State, in which he establi shed himse lf as the foremost apologist of the Vicl~ri~ Broad Church movement. n Stanley's years in Ca nterbury will interest loca l readers most. He lived in what is now Linacre, his Sisle fee li ng that they were living so much among the ill us trious dead that they wou ld forget how to beha/ amongst the living. They gave dinner parties and for much of the time Stanley travelled. He preached t~ ~ h e K.in~'s School on the necessity of an active zeal for good, and decided that the dut ies of a CanOn were IOdefmlte. To one who has read Sta nley's major publications with admiration, an introduction to his character comes as a di sappoi ntment. Essays on Church alld Stale argues with impress ive lucidity for a spirit of tolerance in theolog ica l matters, but what is learnt here of Stanl ey's personality makes one fear for the motivation of his attitude. Stanley comes across as a chauvinistic Establishmentarian, one prepared to suPPOrt a widt h of English views because of an unspoken Podsnapian assumption that Engli sh religious attitudes are intrinsica ll y superior to alien ones; able, ce rtainly, but not original, and possessed of a happy knack of being in the right p lace at the right tim e and on hand to say the ultra right thing . This d isappointment apart, this is an admirab le biography, whose deficienc ies are those of subject rather than author . Stanley on the one hand offers the biograp her many guest lists, and much explanation must necessarily ens ue; on the other, he appears to have had little hum our, and less wit. This does not make for spark ling reading, but one a lways adm ires the co mprehens iveness of Mr. Hammond's approach. His concise summaries of nineteenth ce ntury theological controversies are masterly - indeed I can think of none better; the style is clear, the annotat ion excellent and the book well produced. 'Mr. Dean,' Disraeli once remarked to Sta nley, 'no dogma, no deans.' Mr. Hammo nd's excellent and informative biograp hy allows us to see just how pointed the remark must have been .

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BUYING TIME: THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC CHURCH PETER ELVY (MR 1952- 1957) (McCrimmons, 1986, ÂŁ3 .95 (paperback) ) Fro m the co untry that gave the world Coke, McDonalds a nd Lev is the latest blessing to be bestowed upon the rest of mankind is satelli te television. Used to great advantage o n such occasio ns as the Olympic Games, so that viewers in every co ntinent can watch si multaneously the feats of their own athletes, the sa me tech nology is also used for commercial, cable telev ision networks, and is about to be used to fulfil the command of Jesus to preach the gospel throughout the world. Satelli te te lev ision is a lready widely used in the U.S.A. where television has been mainly a loca l medium, us ing low-powered transmitters to broadcast to one city and its environs, unlik e the national netwo rk s whi ch we are used to in our own much smaller country_ This book is the thorough ly docum ented record of a study undertaken by Peter Elvy, O.K .S., a membe r of a local fa mily with in terests in p rintin g and publishin g, and now Vicar of the Essex parish of Great Burstead. His journies covered 40,000 miles and he visited twenty of th e states of the Union . He records conversations wit h the preaching superstars created by a T .V. system which has I,ISI local broadcasting stations but more than 10,000 cable sys tems, to one or more o f which no less than forty per cent of househo ld s are connected, and which are made possible by 21 broadcasting satellites whose o rbits keep pace with the rotat ion of the earth and act as electro ni c mirrors. Inevi tably the book at times becomes something of a cata logue, wit h long lists of names, especially of the men whose faces are so well known across America, and also of numbers, of viewers, of congregat ions, of employees - a nd of dollars, fo r this is big business. The purpose of this book is to issue a warnin g. Cable televisio n is grow in g in thi s country - and, of cou rse, Ca nterbury was one of the first areas to receive it, in this case through the wires laid around a nd 238 THE REVEREND PETER C. HAMMOND, O.K.S.; AND HIS SUDJECf, DEAN STANLEY, AS PICTURED BY SPY

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On behalf o f all the house - especiall y the leavers - I thank Mr. and Mrs. Woodley and Miss Delafons for their very hard work, and their near-limitless patience. I am qu ite sure we wo uld never have gOl so far without their help and the help of the domestic ladies. The happiest event this term must have been the closure of the Shirley Hall - the exam room. A- and O-levels finished and the rejoicing could begin (for most of us, at least). Everybody has obviously been working hard (Craig?) and will, no doubt, be rewarded .. . The monitors have done wonders this term. Thanks must go especia ll y to Timothy Briggs (Captain of School) for his efficient, studious and popular policies which have held the school together over the past year. The 'Star C hamber' has acted wit h grace and maturit y, Stuart Lacy having a lot to say for himself - as did Bob Morse, myself, and , eventually, Cra ig Butc her. We also say goodbye to Jimmy Nevile who was qu ite keen to go, and did. The sporting front has added spice as a result of our outstanding supremacy in the water. The Grange walked away from Swimming Sports with every single House Swimming Cup (Sports, Standards, Shullle Relays and Waterpolo), except the gi rls' swimming cup - where were you girlS? Craig slept on the cricket pitc h with the rest of the 1st Xl - and earned yet more 1st colours. Stu managed to knock up 106 not out for the 2nds (gelling 2nd colours) . Bobby and Tim got 1st colours for swimm ing, and Jimmy 2nd colours . All but one of 6a now has at least one set of 1st colours. We were also runners-up in the golf, th ird in Athletics Standards and Shuttles, and the juniors did well against Linacre and Broughton in the cricket. Tim's main part in The Winter's Tale was, as usual, brilliant. He was supported well by Eleanor Taylor among others. Congratulatio ns to Sukey Walsh for her Drama Prize, having worked so hard for K.Y.D. The House has been extremely li vely this term, and 1 must thank (a lmost) everybody for maintaining such a good atmosphere throughout the year. Thanks are also due to all those people (but mainly Jimmy) who suppl ied such a n incredible amount of gossip . From the unsuppressed passion of bi llet-doux on the bOllom floor to the rags of Austin 4 there has been no shortage of amusement. All the leavers are sad to be leaving (l think), but it is probably a bout time - a fact that seemed to become more obvious with every passing day of King's Week! If 6a have featured quite highly in these notes, 1 want to apologise . It's not because 1 don't know what a nybody else has done (really), it's because we are really far more interesting than the rest of you. Besides, your time will come. Every last paragraph of every set of House Notes ever wrillen has contained thanks to the housemaster and his wife and domestic lad ies, so I have done it in the first paragraph instead. Without a doubt it deserves that prominence.

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Let's change the style: no touching and sorrowful lamentation over departure. Let's be positive. Here we go . We got to th! final of the junior badminton where we were narrowly beaten We also won the junior tennis, came third on Sports Day and were a disputed second for the athletics standards cup. Was Kolapo really too good to compete? Individu.ally congratulations must g? to Jaiye Aboderin, who came 3rd III the Kent Counly AthletICS ChampIOnships ' and to Chris Hall who seems to have broken most of the s~ nior records in the swimming . Now for the rest. I could write a book on Everest, Or rather those men of the mountain, Charles and Olumide. They were for example, asked out for an exeat by the laller's unc l~ Onilido, whose voice bears a striking resemblance to Olu's On the telephone. Again, there was the occasion Charles tried to tidy up the study by tucking himself under the bed. At the House Party Jaiye won the tug-o-war, and very nearly a housemastership. However Mr. Vye recovered and gave a sweeping demonstration of dancing with Mrs. Vye. D. J. Rotimi will probably get the contract again, though he was too expert for Justin's liking. So we say goodbye to the 6a of '87, and Dawit. All the best to Bruce and his monitors. (Mr. Vye tried hard to find another Indian head of house, but Bruce was the closest he could get.) All our thanks 100 to Mr. and Mrs. Vye, Miss Burr, the tutors and the staff. RAJIV VIJAYANATHAN.

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This term marked the end of an era as J.J .D.C. completed his twelve-year tenure as Housemaster. No longer will his squeaky shoes be heard in the dormitories every morning at ten to eight, no longer will he hold clean shoe and hymn book checks by the stag, no longer will he catch local bike thieves posing as newspaper boys at six in the morning; the House will not be the same . Its display of appreciation of what have undoubtedly been some of the happiest years in its history was definitely the high point of the term. A surprise party was arranged by his daughter Caroline, aided and abetted by myself, to bid him and his wife farewell. It was held in the St. Augustine's DiningHall over half-term. About eighty boys and girls returned for a magnificent buffet supper at which an all-star Jazz Band played, including his son, Alastair, on tenor sax. The House presented him with a fin e drawing of our historic building done by Marius Kiely, and a special song composed by Caroline with interesting lyrics was sung after the meal. Unfortunately this great occasion must have also caused a drop in morale since our performance shortly afterwards in the house cricket was disappointing. Having removed Galpin's for 66 (a very low score for those not versed in this game) we proceeded to be bowled out for 42, with Jonathan Veitch being out to the first ball of the innings. However in the swimming pool the House shone. We came third overall whilst Jessica and Maria won the Girls Cup for us and Richard Costain was awarded the cup for the 'Most improved swimmer of the year '. In cricket Bob Wallis and Hugh Andree played in the first Xl and both Tim d'Offay and Angus Murdoch received athletic colours, and, oh yes, I rowed for the 1st Vlll at Henley where we beat Shrewsbury for the first time in the School' s history and narrowly lost to Radley in the final (undoubtedly the high point of the House's sporting history!). I

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In music we were well represented in the choir by Julia, Miranda, Maria and Julie whilst Peter s was a soloist in the Serenade and John Tegner in the Concert of Light Music. Hugh Andree APired in the front row of the School Jazz Band on his clarinet. Many others were in the orchestra ~t: band but space prevents mention in detail. Usually one paragraph of House Notes is the 'social' section. I a m supposed to record all the scandal and tell a series of 'in' jokes. Vet I am left with virtually nothing to write about ave perhaps to query the validity of the protest that 'we are just good friends' and to leak fnformation abo.ut the .members of the corridor cricket team . The monitors were greatly pleased to be provided wIth ladles at the house party by members of 6b a nd the diSCO proved very popular. The house is being extensively renovated over the summer holidays into study/bedsits with the dormitories and hall being transformed. I wou ld like to wish my successor Tim Bainbridge and Mr. Hattee the best of luck for the comi ng year. Thank you to all the staff, especially to Irene who left us last term, and Etty, Joan and Chrissie (by special request) . T hey have been patient and tolerant and it is appreciated. This last paragraph must be the saddest. We bid farewell to Mr. Gales who leaves us for another establishment in Kent. He has made a fi ne contribution as a House Tutor and we are sorry to lose him. Our best wishes go with hi m, his wife and their fami ly soon to arrive. Finally it is (Ill revoir, all good fort une and happiness to Mr. and Mrs . Craik and their family in their new home. They have asked me to say that a ll past and present members of the House will be most welcome at their house at Staple. It's only a forty minute bike ride ... ! M ICHAEL MILLER.

MARLOWE

The highlight of this term for Marlowe was the Fathers' Cricket Match. T he rain held off, a nd this year saw a resounding victory for the fathers. Simon Turner, though not able to defeat the fathers, has proved a very successfu l member of the 1st X I, with a vast number of runs to his credit. The other sporting superstar is Ben Lynch, a member of the a lmost-victorious crew at Henley. Rowing is strongly supported in Marlowe, and we were again second in the House Regatta at Westbere. In other sports, we moved liP the at hletics ranking list ahead of Mitchinson's, though still , a las, behind everyone else . The majority of the House (50me hard-work ing 6a folk excepted) turned out for swimming standards, and a res pectable position was achieved. T urning to the cultural sphere, Marlowe has been much in evidence in music, art and drama with a large number of participants in every King's Week event. Long may this continue! As 6a have not been a round much in the la tter part of term , it has been good to see the new monitors in action. Judging by a ll the 'fine notices' going up they a re running a strict reg ime! I wish my successor, Charies Goode rham, and indeed a ll the present 6b the best of luck for next year. I would also li ke to add my sincere thanks to th is year's monitors - Fergus Simpson, Richard Pentin, Ben Lynch and Paul Bushell - for their in valuable assista nce in running the House. Being female has not brought wit h it the problems which might have been expected as Head of House, due largely to the cooperation of everyone. T hank you. Mr. and Mrs. Reid have given us a ll a tremendous amo unt of support fo r which we are very grateful. Joe, as a lways, has proved invaluable, and with the departure of the 'doughnut' (we hope for good) his job should be somewhat easier! Jo PROPHET. 243 NORA McCAULEY (Mike Elam)

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A-levels . . . O-Ievels . . . Kandy's jokes ... what could be w Yet Luxmoore prevented Itself from drowning in the orse? pains and pres~ures which make up the Summer term sea of the term we discovered that previously unknown w~ ~ve, success . Through a collective attitude in every departme 't 'have-a-go' cliche implanted itself in every study in the the ~nd the confidence gained last term has at last transfo~~se, Itself mto Silver, highlighted by victory over Broughton' ehd Shuttle relays. rn t e Before half-term the House joined together to prOdu . annual 'Evening M Light Entertainment' for the parents,c:~t~ seemed to enJoy It Immensely. The Junror hall play 'Hija Ck' was produced by Mrs. Tennick to whom we are very gratefu.I . After success in the Shuttle relays we had high hopes f . . . Sports day. Luxmoore was runner up (with a chance ~~ Ylcto~y If Silmon, Ifanddy a~d Sophie hTahd knowInI the way) .. Luxmoore also made admirable efforts In wa ~r-po 0, \lo . an senror tennrs. e exce ent collecti ve attitude of the house was responsible for this but pnnclpally we must thank Nick Henry who organised and engineered tirelessl secure the tremendous placings in the At hleticf co.mpetitions. Colours ties have brightened ~o the House and we m~st mention Paul Noms s First Colours for tennis a nd Rabb i Cooper'~ performance In the First VIII.. particularl y at Henley. Luxmoore has been well represented in School teams from the top n ght down to the success ful J.14 VIlI. Although the moni tors were sometimes not sure what to do with a con fiscated water pistol - or how to close a door quietly at midnight - they held the House together and their efforts have been .greatly appreciated. As the last of R.P.B.'s intake go their separate ways, I leave the House m the most capable and respected hands of my successor , Paul Norris. All the leavers Wish him all the best for the coming year. . T ime. for a fe-.y customar~ 'Thank:you's': firstly to a ll the cleaning ladies who kept the House In prlStme conditIOn and did not. mind making a few beds when certain people 'forgot'; also to Mrs. Beddoes, who kept us all m excellent health ; and to Pauline and her mother in the linen room; fmally, and most ImiJortantly, toMr. and Mrs. Aldridge, whose wise advice and support kept me gomg and whose mfluence gUided the House through the most difficult part of the year. On behalf of the House I would like to thank them sincerely. P ETER COCKRILL.

GALPIN'S

Despite the looming cloud of examinations and mid -term rain Galpin's has been a veritable hive o f activity. Chris White crept (surely not the n ght verb?) closer and closer to breaking the senror athletiCS record whilst remaining Victor Ludorum and Vice-Capt~in. of Athletics. Our two 1st XI representatives, Richard GIrling and Tony Brown, led a strong house cricket contingent with Ed Floydd and Bill Ballenden spearheading the Colts A's. On the rowing front Ed Valpy, Ed Beaugie and Alex Johns helped take the School VIlI to a Henley final, and more Importantly (to .us! ) to the fmal of the inter-house rowing competitIOn. Ultimate victory did resu lt from the inter-house g~:>if when Bi ll y, not wishing to strain anything (except perhaps his bram) 10 hiS A-level term, led Dan Morris, Flem Webb a nd Ed Floydd to a leis~rely victory earning us an impressively large cup . Specia l mention must be made, too, of Drew Vinton's ath letic achievements this term, resulti ng in his appoin tment next ~ear as captain of tennis and squash. To complete the athletiC record, Emma Wass IS to be captain o f girls' athletics. 244

. fever changed Candy to Randle as he fitted Gayno r, as ' joint captain of canoeing', . 5P~mtuSY schedu le. Veronica appeared unaffected, eschewing the vain attempts of Galpin 's InlD .IS favour of the School House snaaake . Whilst yawning at Sam and Sarah's devotions, boYS IIlvelied at how Chris managed to maintain his slim waistline despite increasingly frequent all mat~ OakS. Barnaby looked set for a long relationship with Jane but she had third thoughts. VISitSccessful in sport and love, we were no less so In . drama WIt. h T om G' ' Wholtc, neves, Ch flS. ~:., Grimes, Clare Wilson, Zizzy Shankland , Chris Mitchell, 'Penfo ld~ Preston, Jo. Gnmes, 51 dy Curlewis Simon Dobell and SImon Tnggs treadmg the boards. MUSIC, too, benefited from ~;sh Mowll, M'att Hulme a nd Candy Martin in West of Venus wit h strained vocals from Seamus Murphy and Simon . As ever thanks go to Maureen, Mary and the cleaning ladies (from whose ranks we are sorry h~ve I;st June). It is a lso ve ry sad to say goodbye to Mrs. Jones who has become almost 10 gend - and a much a ppreciated one - in Galpin 's; we hope she will visit us often m 1 ~et~rement. We wis h Chris Mitchell and the n e,:" monitors a success ful yea r, and congratulate Mr and Mrs. Duesbury o n negotlatmg their first yea r With a nother successful term. . THE MONITORS. Linacre, as onc wo uld expect, sho ne in most areas this term. Our sportin g excellence was primarily upheld by the rowers. It is all too easy to mock the oarsmen : and I have often succumbed to this temptation. However, their sheer commi tment can only be appla uded . The efforts of Paul Dyas, Jo and Keiron Allen at Henley, in capturing virtuall y all the rowi ng trophies and attaining national honours, are wholly adm irable. Eq ua lly, in the lower echelons wi th Messrs. Brett, Gallop a nd Anthony Frew we have several promising 'wetbobs'. Our success was by no means confined to the ri ver: Jason not only masterminded our victory in the Athletics standards, which was a credit both to him and the house, but a lso became Kent Under- J9 Shot- putt cha mpion: but appearan ces can be decep ti ve. Simon Maggs took a phenomenal 64 wickets for the Under 14 XI, for whom Samtr Satchu also scored a lot of runs. Even ... and P.J .D.A. insisted . .. the writer managed a malden century against the O.K.S. David Botha cajoled most down to the pool, where we finished second to an unex pectedly e ffi cien t Grange in the three swimming trophies, the relay, th e wa ter polo and the standards, as well as the overa ll cup! As well as being treated to Gall1mer Gu r /on 's Needle in our own back ga rden, di rected by P.J.D.A. a nd starri ng Pelham and Richard Redfern, Andrew Hone a nd Ja mes Robertson were in EI Bur/adoI', and Kate Gallop in The Winter's Tale. Mike Pope fr onted West of Venus a nd Chris Whiteley, when he was not otherwise occupied behind conspiciously-c1osed curtalOs, managed to appea r in just abo ut every King's Week performance. J would like to register my apprecia tion of the monitors, particularly Tony, on whom I have so often depended, and Dave, who organised the House Part y so effectively (with, or rather in spite of, Andrew Ho ne's precise a nd well-thought-outtreasure hunt ; to. the tuto rs who have substitu ted for those occasions when P .J .D.A . was absent; a nd to the c1ealllng lad tes for keeplOg the place gleaming with their cloths and smiles. Finally, the best of luck to those await ing examination results, and to Jaso n and Keiron on their appointments. I think it is fa ir to say that no other 'double-act' has domina ted their house in qu ite th e same way as P .J .D.A. and Mrs. B. I would like to thank them for a ll tha t they have do ne, parltcularly over the last year, a nd to wish them luck in their new surround ings: Mrs. B in her garden , Mr. Allen at Sedbergh. I am, however, certa in that the gap ing hole will be ably fill ed by Mr. a nd Mrs. Thane a nd Mrs. Farrell . Although there will be changes, life a nd Lin acre will go on, for, as a certa in Linacre tuto r might com men t, perhaps a little sardonicall y: 'P lus," cha nge, plus ANDREW MITCHELL. c'est la meme chose.'

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Hakeem Willia ms demonstrated the meaning o f true charity by allowi ng Luxmo,:,re to borrow the shuttles cup , but then he won the onenteermg av.:ard smgle-handed. Our te nnis team tnumphed With colours bemg swooped upon by Simon 'Tiger' Stuttafo rd , Rik ki 'Pakman' Kher and Neil 'Scarface' Bishop and with two cups for the price of o ne thanks to Li nacre wh~ provided blutak as an optional extra. The Kingdom (the Junior E mpire) comm~nded respect for their fine effort in reaching the fma l of thelt cn cket competllton but there the dignified domin.ation relented allowing Mitchinson's to squeeze a lO-ball win. Agili ty and athleticism proved to be Just the ticket on 9th June when a 30-pomt margm saw us take the ath letics cup for the 8th time in 9 years. The swimming sports saw a 3rd place pulled out of the bag (or pool) with C ho Yin swimming in every age gro up imaginab le and with his captaining cousin asking for the. last rites after hb le,?gth of backstrok e. His 'brave' performance complemented the supremely saltsfymg smgle pomt m the rowmg , where Mark 'Bone' Evans and hts motley crew achieved death-defying feats on the water. Even the badminton cup was reta ined again , while the senior lads notched up a decisive hat-trick of wins in the seven-a-side cricket competition. Musically our I' il '01 U.S. chick supported the other musicians ably. In between camera snaps and 'Have a nice day's', she whirled around King's Week and a nnounced that she'd gotten herself some nice memories of the place - thanks are du e to Ross 'what's wro ng with my ha irdo' Duttson. Lou 'Elizabeth Taylor' Roberts yet again stormed the stage, wrapping up The Winter's Ta/e (a nd the drama award) with supporting roles from a shepherd's crook and Lisa '007' L6fdahl. James Ha rland hit his zeni th and Cha rlie 'Schwarzenegger' Boorman his nadi r - or more simply their Heidis and Lowes respectively, a lthough the latter found communication easier with anothe r Marlowe lass. David 'Benny' Laurence lost his grip a while before his time but had a rea l ball during his stay. David 'Digger' Bainbridge took a 'Z' and 'Slim Jim' Muskett took a brief 'Saunder' down Lovers Lane. The terrible twins finally made it into House Notes with both Anna Wilson and Sam T hackray hitting the big time. Full Marx to the fifth form politicians for their spirited defence against the overwhelming blue tide which swept our res ident P .M. to victory. Once more the strong ' Linaugh ton' link enjoyed generous hospita lity and many thanks are due to the Padre as we wish him well when all is Sed (bergh) and done. H's time to say fa rewell to the corps. Once she has transported all her prizes home, Blythe Levett will send persona lised, signed copies for those who will miss her absence from the House (photo). No more will the Empire tremble as Lou 'Budgie' Roberts does her duty, or shudder and shake as Tabes Duthie does his. Carton's (French food) profits look set to tumble as Dave Pong spreads his designer wings . Mark and Jo Evans shed a bitter tear and Peter 'Bear' Hamilton gri zzles away into the night, closely pursued by Simon 'Tiger' Stuttaford and David 'Benny' Laurence. Thanks are due as a lways to lovely ladies, a lthough only Pete (our very own O.A.P .) could make T6 wade through their Big Macs and Fries to clean their floor (or fridge, or cooker, or wardrobe . . .). Mrs. Rye retires and we thank her for all that she has done in the sewing room during many years of loyal service. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson have yet again steered us through the year without too much trouble, a nd we wish them a ll the best fo r their final year in the House . 'So long', as the actress (or was it the Lyons) said to the Bishop and the Linforth, and the best of luck to the Empire of '88. PH ILI PPE L ACAMP. 246

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We exit with a final entry - sho rt but sweet. The House, once again, has competed gallantly and successfull y in both interhouse a nd school events. The cricket exempli fied our versatility when we came close to beati ng Broughton in the semifinals. In the tennis league we we re led gloriously to the final by Gareth Evans and the yo un g star Matt Willifer - both of whom also played well for school teams . We were high up in the swimming - 3rd in the sta ndards, 2nd in the Girls' sports and a personal cup for Emma Conyers. The seniors proved their worth in the shuttle relays. Both Simon Attwood a nd Ia n Gardener performed well for the athletics club with Simon, as skipper, smashing the school 800m record, and Ian taking part in a 4 x 100m event; equalling the school record and becoming Kent Champions. Jamie, after man y tria ls, has been asked to represent Great Britain in the Junior World Championships - a n outstandingly brilliant performance. Movi ng o n to King's Week we saw Padd y Greenleaf tak ing a mai n part in The Winter's Ta/e, Ted George perfo rming in E/ Bur/ador, a nd Jon Rawlinson suppl yi ng and holdmg u" the pro"s. At the same time, Ailsa Buchan (Sympho ny concert soloist) a nd Nick Goodw m, et aila, starred in many of the musical shows while T im Weller re-emerged with the Blooze Brothers . At the end of th is term we say 'ciao' to 'the old bean' and wish him 'the best of British lu ~k' over in Arab-land - he will be greatly missed by a ll. Finall y, thank yo u to Mr. and Mrs. Wethenlt, Mr. Parker, Miss Bri ne and the domestic staff for ma king the Mon itors' li ves that much easier. Good luck to o ur reside nt Daf-d illy Gary - 'Beam us up, Scotty'. THE MONtTORS.

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All has run relatively smoothl y this summer term , possibly because of the increasing state of shock that overcame both 6a and the Fifth as a cloud of impending A- a nd O-Ievel doom descended over them and co uld only be combatted by a mania for working. v." . Agai n the House's sporting successes have rested heav ily on the shou lders of the Remo ve with the Junior Golf Cup being added to our silverware as a result of those wizards of the tees, ~E~3~11 fa irways a nd greens, Duncan Cox and Jonathan Hirst, and this II being followed by a particula rly gratifying victory ove r Brou ghton in the fi na l of the Junior House C ricket. Those events which depended upon a wide level o f support from 3~i~ within the House saw a sadly disappointi ng performa nce as I, we showed up poorl y in the Shullie relays, the Athletics Sports a nd the Swimming standards competitions; we certai nl y had the ability to do better as we proved by our sound showing in the cross-country in March. OUf reputation as the 'brainiest Ho use', as we presently hold the Academic Cha llenge T roph y for the third time in fo ur yea rs, wo uld not be at risk if we got

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The House barbecue proved a splendid success, Nick Arnold doing us proud with his cook i and the weather makin~ swimming a pleasure r~ther than a penance S? that Anthony Pana i~g, was able to show astonIshmg feats of strength m supportmg me on hIs shoulders in piggy-ba e~ ~h~. c Thanks to our cleaners for their daily efforts to stem the tide of untidiness that threatened to engulf us all, and also to Mr. and Mrs. Turner for a lovely farewell dinner. PETER BURRELL.

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Certainly the summer term witnessed the emergence of some fine young sportsmen. Steven 'Marcus' Connolly and Marcus 'Steven' Connolly, (the monitors still can't tell the difference) both battled on the cricket field for the U .14Bs, Steven taking 4 wickets for 24 runs, or was it Marcus? Our resident players for the 'A' team were, Simon 'Timotei' Pattullo, when not in front of the mirror, and Phil 'Easy' Grove, who casually took two catches in the slips during the first match against Highgate. The developing rowers had a very successful season . Bill _~ 'Stronger than he looks' Swanson sampled life on the lakes ""--" in Switzerland, coxing the 1st VlIl, and then went on to win a gold at the Docklands, as well as other regattas. Tim 'Don't =V"",~~~~:5"~ ~:='-=': touch the tankards' Bagshaw and Chris 'sneaky' Piggin ( -'...l provided the powerhouses for the J.14 VlIl with the add ition of Pat Pittaway and Jim Aitchison . On the more leisurely side of the Lattergate sports scene, Jasper Beauprez popped down to the pool occasionally, to relax after a hard day' s work in the classroom, whilst Brian' Jodhpurs' Yau took to horse-riding. Around the house, James 'The Video King' Tory took regular exercise by running to the TV, and Bill Scott fo und it inadvisable to use the housemaster's nick-name when he's standing directly behind you. It was reported that Guy Belliere actually was seen outside the computer room and it still remains a mystery what Christian 'Verbal diarrhoea' Webb got up to in the afternoons. Alex 'Look at my new hairstyle' Hardy sang superbly in the choir, and serenaded us all through King's Week, whilst James 'Refined' Cecil surprised us all when he returned from the barbers resembling Charlie Brown. The only new additions to the house were the two new monitors, in the form of Bill 'Risky Hairstyle' Cutter, who found the move rather appropriate with Mitchinson's over the road, and Angus 'Haggis' Murdoch who added some Scottish culture to the house. The computer room and COT centre remained popular pastimes throughout the summer, especially during the June rain which provided a trying season for us all, especially Simon Pattullo, who was still trying to find his waterproof hairgel. However, the rain never kept Nick Miller from his sailing pursuits at Westbere: why did he always come back wet, even when the sun was shining? In the monitors' study, Bill and Nikki Clarke did well to provide a new meaning to the word ' subtle' , while Angus looked to Galpin's for inspiration (no names). Jim found a new line of work in the form of Jeep Demolition, and not even Mr. Phillips challenged him to more than one game of snooker. Finally we must thank Brenda and her gang for keeping the house spotless and smelling fresh, which can ' t have been easy. We also thank Mrs. Maitland for her unending care and attention to the sick and deprived, and wish her the greatest of happiness in her impending marriage. Sadly, we say goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Thane, who take up the driving seat in Linacre. We wish them the best of luck and are sure that Linacre will thrive under the new management.

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THE ST. JOHN PASSION OF BACH SATURDAY, 16th MAY, IN THE CATHEDRAL NA VE For a number of years now the summer concert in the Cathedral in the middle of May has been one of the great musical events of the school year. T his year's concert in which as usua l the gi rls of Benenden and Simon Langton schools augmented King's own choral fo rces was unique for tWO reasons. Firstl y it was a concert held in aid of the Cancer Care appeal of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital (raising some ÂŁ 1000) and secondl y it was remarkable in that all the six soloists had been educated at King's, and David Seers the counter-tenor has a lso been a Cathedra l chorister, wh ile Clifford Lister who sang tenor solos is currently one of the Cathedral lay clerks. (One is perh aps permitted to wonder whether any other School in England a t the present time could field this team of 'home-ground' singe rs a ll of whom are professional musicians.) The work chosen this year was Bach's S t. John Passion which was given in full, a very ta xing wor k for the chorus since there are ma ny numbers of great dramatic power as well as some of Bach's most splendidly harmonised chorales. Despite this fact the choir kept its pitch and tone 10 the ve ry end and the noble chorale which (unlike the Matthew Passion) ends this wor k was a most solemn experience acco mpanied as it was by the Cathedral organ making its solitary and impressive contribution to the evening. Of course the success of such a concert is la rgely to be attributed to Colonel Pa ul Nev ille who kept his varied forces well on the move with brisk tempi in the crowd choruses, and of course to that master of choir training Mr. Barry Rose. But in Ihis work success or failure largely depends on the quality of the tenor who sings the part of Ihe Evangelist and it wo uld be impossible to fault William Kendall in this role. His diction and dramatic rendering of the narra ti ve of the Passion was above all praise (even more so than his performance of the same work two years ago in the Cathedral with the Cante rbury C horal Society). He was well partnered by Stephen Alder the baritone who sang the relalively small part of the Chris lus but also the solo part in the number My Lord and Saviour against the piano singing of a chorale by the chorus . David Seers sang the counter-tenor solos with much feeling, Ihough his voice did not a lways come over clearly in the great open spaces of the Nave. His first so lo Chains of darkness is a demanding one since the accompaniment is largely provided by Iwo oboes and bassoon . He sounded happier in the better known a ria All is fulfilled with its dramatic midd le section celebrating the victor y o f the Lion of Juda h which gives the soloist Ihe chance to let himself go for a bit. C lifford Lister was quite at home in the tenor arias, as might be ex pected do ing very well in Ihe long and laxing a ria Behold him. Michael Law sang Ihe part o f Pilate and also the very original aria Haste poor souls in which a chorus o f treble voices wilh tenor part below keeps up a series of quest io ns to be answered by the bass. It was good to welcome Sall y-A nn Ardouin back again to a King's musica l occasion. After a period in V ienna stud ying she is now branching out from oratorio into opera and her voice

reflects th is for it has acq uired a bri llia nce of tone which shows in the upper registers. She seemed more effecl ive in the long aria 0 heart melt in weeping which is a poignant and dra malic piece near the end o f the Passion than in the rather bland I follow in gladness with an obbligato of Iwo flutes, wh ich comes off best in performance wi th a boy treble voice (and sounds well as an an them at Cathedra l evensong in conseq uence). But of course the lion's share of the work goes to the strings and wind section of the King's Orchestra , superbl y led as usual by C larence Myerscough, and the continuo players Mr. Michael Harris on the sma ll chamber organ and Mr. Stephen Matthews at Ihe harpsichord. All in a ll this was a great team effort which provided a most memorable and uniq ue experience fo r all Ih ose present. DEREK I NGRAM HILL.

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WEST OF VENUS: A ROCK CONCERT OF EXTREME DIMENSIONS WEDNESDAY, 8th JULY, IN THE DI NING HALL Members of the ba nd practised ferociously for the first half of the term , interchangi ng lead vocalists each week. On the night Matthew Hulme sang eight songs , Simon Beaugie four, and Ross Duttson quite characteristicall y performed' I wa nt to break free', with Kate Hamilton bac king all the a bove sultrily throughout. The mainstay and leader of the ba nd was Mike Pope whose guitar riffs ensured that no one in The Precincts could go early to bed. Candy Martin on drums and J osh Mowll formed the rhythm section. T he instrumentalists were impeccable throughout the per formance a nd the climactic 'Beastie Boys' number proved to be a platform from which they scaled the heights. The crowd was ecstatic and 'boogied' franticall y throughout a song by The Clas h and 'Satisfaction '. Matthew Hulme slipped into Mick Jagger's pyjama suit with unassuming ease. Simon Beaugie, now known as 'Bowie ' Beaugie, had the crowd in his hands durin g a sta rtling and brilliant rendition of ' Jean Jeanie'. He was backed by Seamus Murphy who throughout the concert held the cro wd spellbound by his rhythmic tambourine bashing and frenzied movements. The costumes worn by a ll represented the spirit of the concert and we look forward to another zany spectacular next year. SEAMUS MURPHY.

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not without relief tha t we reached our dest ination, what with delays, Jon Taylor s Ig , . It was ment with a lift door and suspicion that Alison Nickolls had 'wtthheld ' D~~can ves s dlSagreet As we were greeted by the warm tropical breeze, a sceptJc~1 custo'!'s offlclal (or ~~~ Fta~~bo~~yIOr in disguise) a nnounced in prophetic fashion - 'You WIll not wm a smgle matc . Undeterred, but half-asleep, we posed for the press. . . Two days and two casua lties (one knee, one curry) later we , ~eMleb rated ~hr!~t":lga~t':v~~;~~~ . Eve seemed a little nat without The Sound oJ us/c, a ml III If Chnstmasin the 001 for Joe Wrench to lead a rather raucous rendering of God Save the acc?mpaniment. Our slumbering German brethren were not amused . The serious stuff, i.e . the cfl ckel, was yet to come. , PIa in limited overs was a novelty for the team, accustomed as we areto J on Taylor s 35-ov~r tall' spells. Sweltering heat, stifling humidtty a nd . . d' a nd forward ro lls were rare here), no t to mentIOn a orml a e a~\'~~~ias~e~or cricket, provided a daunting task. Concentration and team spm t Iwer; abso~:~ e . . . A a inst Trinity College Messrs. Linney and Brown we re Immorta Ize o~ VI prel ~qu:~ltetShe c~owd in th e art of eq~al applause, but, alas, we wer~ dellled, a nar,r<?w vIctory, mS~'~~~t ~a a valiant unbeaten 66 by Olll' last pair ensured, not vIctory I m aflald, but the to enjoy the scenery a nd hospitality in after invitation of course some sampled more than others 0 the mm -num m ~ M'J H '. f r d urin the f; llow ing day's six-hour journey was 111 d,rect proportion. "'was distressed by the dulcet to nes of 'George Thorogood and the Destro ye rs. m At Hambantota runn ing repairs took place and Mr. Lacamp kindl y offered a word or two of adv ice and encourage ment to those in need. Spurning relaxat ion however, Jon ~avl esex~r~s~~ a burning desire to go turtle hunting. Despite the rest, and aNn e n~agll~ g~aPt~nt Se~~~~~:in~ ent Mark victo r slipped painfully from our grasp at Galle on ew ear s ve. e. . was n~t lackhl g bac k at the hotel where lain's scorin g rate improved off the pItch, If not on, and Tom Whyte attempted to surpass even Dame Ed na. .. . Mount Lavinia provided a stab le base from which to set abo ut some sen ous wlllnmg'f and .. m vic tor was indeed sweet. At Prince of Wales College, where mqUlSltlve aces when It dId co. e, h the aressin -room window as one might when visi ting the zoo, CraIg Butcher pee:'ed ~iu~~n~Oi~gthe final ove';. _ 'Catch' cried the bowler, rather optimistically I fel!, as the n;romgptl y cruised into orbit beyond the boundary a nd a

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The High Co mmissioner kindly held an info rmal reception for us at his residence afte r which Sim on T urner was dismayed to find only sandwiches for supper - his supply of dutY-fre Tob lerone had long since disappeared. Tom Whyt~ displayed considerable talent for bargainin: down on th e beach, and returned to t~lI of l,nqUines about a cert~tn 'Ma ~ Mountain' in OUf

party (M.J .H. perha ps?). Stranger thll1gs Sli ll : an a utograp h sesSIOn outsIde the Sri Lankan equi valent of Lord's found Bob Wallis describing himelf as a hostile pace bowler!. . . in the mind possibly! Overwhelmed at SI. Peter'.s, at least we made a lot of friends, and Joe Wrench demonstrated several exemplary 10ng-balTler stops. WIth all our aches and pams, G.P.G .'s conto rtionistic st retching sessions and his cha rismatic cheerfulness throughout were much appreciated. Once again we lost only by a small margin at De Mazenod, where Craig Butcher needed a little encouragement from the crowd before 'showing his true colours' . The H.C.' s wife presented him with the best batsman trophy, and Tom Whyte presented her with a somewhat droopy bougainvillaea flower. And so into the last few days . Joe Wrench suffered a particularly nasty bout of 'Smart Bomb Syndrome' and was not the only absentee from breakfast on this account. It transpired at one stage that even P.A.E.D. 's digestive system was not immune to the spicy food. In the final match another famou s victory seemed likely, as the bowling was aided and abetted , to our considerable amusement, by a batsman who had obviously con fu sed the words 'Yes' and 'No' . A last-wicket recovery, as ailments struck three of our bowlers, produced a more sober reaction. Then , after a nother fine display of consistent batting from Phil Lacamp , we faltered and collapsed in the rain. Most disappointing. One more day in the sunshine a nd a last frolic in the sea and we were on our way home. Totally exhausted, I for one slept soundl y and dreamed o f roast turkey on the return flight. A ll in all the tour proved very successful, and the whole party gained from the experience and had a lot of fu n. In retrospect it should not be fo rgotten that at times it was also very gruelling - perhaps our criticism will not be so hasty the next time England lose in India or Pakistan. Finally, on behalf of everyone who went, a truly massive thank you to all the people whose efforts helped to make the tour possible; the manager Mr. Peter Dix, the organisers, Committee, sponsors, parents, and all those who helped with and came or donated to the various fund -raising activities. I hope I have not forgotten anyo ne. I sincerely hope too, that a future side from King's may have such a marvellous opportunity in the years to come.

THE ITALIAN TRIP 24th MARCH -

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T he trip could not have had a less auspicious start. Luton Airport hardly ranks as the Eighth Wonder of the World at the best of times, but on a cold , rain-swept day in March it certainly did nothing to inspire us. At least it was not rai ning in Rome, although the undoubted beauty of its airport did not strike us at 1.00 in the morning. The holiday still seemed li ke a n endurance test when we arrived in Sorrento a fter a four hour coach journey. The intention was to spend a peaceful first day on the Island o f Capri, a short ferry journey from the mainland. Unfortunately, the expedition turned out to be rather more eventful than p lanned. Mr. Tennick decided that we should climb the innumerable steps to see the Villa Jovis, ancient dwelling of the Emperor Tiberius. The idea met with complications when we realised, once at the top , that we only had a few minutes to get down to the harbo ur and catch the last ferry at 4.30 p.m. so it was time to work up an appetite ready for all the pasta and pizza to come. Mr. Dix showed us what the Football League has been missing with his speed, despite his age - only joking! With everyone sprinting to the harbour round the winding roads of Capri 254

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., was inevitable that some of us became detached from the main party . A small group, of which Ih undersigned was one, reached the ferry m time, WIth the rest nowhere to be seen. They arnved ~,ethe hotel back in Sorrento hours later, having had to go by trai n via Naples . After such a dramatic start to the trip the remaining days paled in comparison as far as headlinemaking news was conce.r,:,ed . Howe~er, they were extremely enjoyable and educational, as. well. It was a pity that the VISIt to VesuvIUs was slightly spOIlt by the cloudy weather. PompeII and Herculaneum provided splendid in,sights in,to. the lay-out of Roman towns, while the villa at Oplontis showed how the Roman yuppIes hved . The town of Sorrento was both exciting and friendly. The people were generally warm-hearted althOugh Heidi Lowe found the local attention paid to her ra ther tiresome. T he attitude to life was less hectic than in Rome, where we spent half a day at the end of the holiday. There was always a tremendous spirit of camaraderie on the trip. This was due, in no small way to the efforts of Mr. a nd Mrs. Tennick and Mr. and Mrs . Dix to whom we owe our sincere 'ha~ks. Mr. Dix might even be forgiven for his flared jeans! JOHN STERN.

THE BLOIS EXCHANGE At the end of the Easter holidays a party o f eleven Shell and Remove formers went on the School exchange to Blois in the Loire valley . Blois is roughly in the middle of France and the Notre Dame School has been partnered with King's fo r over ten years. Our party travelled from Dover hover port and the n by trai n to Blois via Paris . Our first three days were spent getting to know our host fam ilies a nd adj usting to a new way of life. The School itself has much more relaxed discip li ne than King's, and allows pupils to smoke outside the classrooms. On the Monday we visited the surrou nding area, Tours and Amboise, where we saw the chateaux. We spent the fo llowing day sightseeing in Paris and on T hursday we saw Chenonceau. Friday was the end of term and we accompanied some of the pupils to the local chocolate factory. The rest of the time was spent wi th ou r host fam ilies and we must thank them, Mr. Wainde and the School for such an enjoyable trip. GODR IC JOLLI FFE.

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Wi th the genera l preoccupation with exami t' h best one for enco uraging la rge numbers o /s~xlt~ni' t e summer term is not usua lly the , th e turn-o ut for P rofessor Haro ld K ' . ormers to a ttend lectures. H owever In Sta rs , between Stars a nd in th e La bora tor ' was I ro.to , Un,lverslty of Sussex, lec turing on ' Chemist r ' I~ both deli very and content Professor Kroto'~ lectur~ ~~~~~~ ~g~~nd ~hke a udience was not disappointel Signa ls from the heart o f o ur ga laxy have not on l re v er . eta. tra~ed the story of how molecular also how that most do wn-to-ea rth of obj ec ts the ~oot eale~.' t o rfth e fI rst tIm e, ho w sta rs a re born but ta rt ~ f a n A nglO-America n team which has rec~ntly synth~rs~~~' do,~m s. ,j.rdo fessor Kroto was the B;itish 60, nown by ma ny as 'soccerba ll ene' as it has th e sam . n I entl Ie a new p ure carbon molecule Professor Kroto vivid ly conveyed th e exciteme nt of th d~ baSIC struct ure as a thirty-two panel football' e IScovery a nd kept eve ryo ne a mused wit h a sub: pl ot o f 'huma n in terest' stories, A RVEY

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Th is has been a busy term fo th J CI The Clu b has consis ted o f ;i m~ aG~m ub , under the leaders hip of Ji mmy G um pert. J AZZ p~rt (trum pet a nd mUSIca l direction) J a mes . Lawrence (trom bone) Hu h AnI RObll1so n (piano), Antony Michael (bas;) Sc~tt Gut~;i~ ~~~;~n)t), drv:,~tlhew Hulm e (saxophonej', Libby h r an I Ippe Lacamp (drums). Two ot her groups h ave also been very act ive this ter~ showin T,h ese a re The Cin za no Quintet, form ed by J am L g w at a wea lth o,f (,a lent there is in th is a rea at King 's. Simpso n (trumpet) , Li bby Ro binson, Sholto B~~ne~(b~~~)e :n~ ~~~lslsLtlllg, a part fro~ himself, o f Da mian 11, acamp; a nd Kmg's J azz Rock, led n 256

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Cr icket struck again at the King's J azz Rock Concert in the sh irley Hall on Saturday 9th May, when James Lawrence made a dramatic la te entrance (albeit after play ing what he descri bed as one o f the best games of his career !), a nd Da mian Sim pson j ust made it back fr om a rowing regatta in time for the Cin zano Qu intet'S contributio n lO this concert. Nevert heless, even sans James Lawrence, J immy Gumpert gave a superb rendit io n of Eisenhower Blues a t the start of the programme that even ing . AJ I the groups already mentioned lOok pa rt in the King 's Week Jazz Concert on 11th J uly, and, in addition, I should li ke to thank ma ny ot hers who co ntrib uted , such as Ch ri s Wh it e who directed and sang in his excellent Close-Hanno ny gro up that comp ri sed, in addi tion, Ai lsa Bucha n, Tessa Spo ng, Libby Robi nson and James Lawrence. I a m also very gratefu l to those legions (i n addi tio n to the names mentioned already) who played in the Big Band - Robi n Scott, Chris J ob and Fe rgus Simpson (trumpe ts), Nic k Young , Ben Eaton, Mr. J . R. Pa rker a nd Mr. Will ia m McConnell (saxopho nes), Richard P reston and Luxmoore trombone ' mafia' of Anthony Gillespie-S mith, Magnus Mont gomery, Da nie l Rycroft and Jules Woodward (trombones), Dav id Everi st (pia no) a nd M ic hael Pope (guita r) . T hey made a very full , cr isp and co nfident sound. In connection with the Big Ba nd, 1 a nd J imm y Gumpert a re especiall y grateful to Mr. McConnell , not only for his ow n musica l co ntri but ions but part ic ularly fo r the immense a mou nt of wo rk he has put in rehea rsin g th e saxopho ne sec tio n. One way or a not her, J immy Gumpert has had more than the usual num ber of difficulties in organ ising rehearsals in the run-up to King's Wee k this year , but one aspec t of rehea rsa ls that was absolu tely relentless was Mr. McConnell 's 8.00 a.m . sess ion wi th the saxophone section . We a lso have ma ny to th a nk fo r technica l, a nd oth er, assis ta nce wi th the King's Week Concert - T im Bainbridge, Chr is To thill, G iles Bird, Caro lin e Eden a nd Mr. J . Eva ns (lighting), Paul Bushell, Mr. M. J . Te nnick a nd Mr. M . J. Mil es (sound) , Ma rt in Edwa rds, Paul So lway, Robert Wilson , Peter Elli ott, Daniel Longhurst, Mr. K. E. J. Mar tin , Mr. J . Evans, a nd Mrs. Sue McConnell (fil ming and soundrecordi ng), J ames Spiegel, Jonat han Berry, Andrew H yatt a nd And rew Cunn ingham (stage crew), J ames Eddison , Nick Flower, Mr. M . J. Miles a nd M r. R. L Mat hews (printing), a nd Mr. A. H. Dobbin a nd the Comma ndos a nd Mr. P . J. Brodie a nd the King's Week Office fo r their support. Sadly, th e Summer T erm report always has to conta in valedict io ns. Fergus Simpson, Nic k Yo ung and Simon Richards leave after several years o f Jazz-Clu b cont ri bu tio ns, for which I am mos t grateful. As 1 write, we have o ne more cha nce to hear Nic k Yo ung's musicianshi p in the Blooze Brot hers' concert later in King's Week . A ilsa Buc han ta kes her leave this yea r. C hris White bows o ut a ft e r mak ing ve ry popular a nd vari ed voca l contributions to th e last four o f ou r King's Wee k Concerts a nd I thank him very much ror hi s loya l su ppo rt to the Clu b over thi s exte nded pe riod , Li bby Robi nso n has , unfort una tely, bee n associa ted with the C lub for on ly o ne yea r, but wha t a n im pact she has made in that short time! Her solos in the J azz Concert were particularly well received . 1 look forwa rd to seeing her from Christ Chu rch , Oxford High Table o n my occasional visit s to tha t illustri ous in st ituti o n, to wh ich she now passes. P hil. Lacamp has bee n in the last two King's Week Concerts , and , with hi s boundless energy, en thusiasm and general joie de vivre, has co ntributed grea tly lO our wee kly Acti vities sess io ns . H e, too, sa dly, now takes his leave , So also does our veteran clarineti st Hu gh And ree who really goes out o n a high note, his pe rformance in the recent Concert having been much a pprec ia ted by the audience. T he last o f these va lete is, o f course, reserved fo r our depar ting M usica l Directo r , Jimmy G umpert has been in the las t four King's Wee k Concer ts, and has bee n trum peter in the core-Band for the las t three of them . He has increased tre mendously in mu sica l confid ence and a bili ty a nd one o f the great sat isfactions to me, this yea r, has been the progress tha t Jim my has made, interact in g wit h J a mes La wre nce, Li bby Ro binso n, and others, in pe rfor mi ng gen ui nely im provised jazz, H is influe nce, and tha t of Ja mes Lawrence to wh om th e to rch of Ki ng's jazz now passes, has int rod uced ma ny more varied sty les o f j azz into our prese nta ti on this yea r. He has rUIl the who le show with wha t a Canluarian rev iewer once d escribed as 'lowprofile charm ' a nd has been appeali ng ly unassumi ng and modes t about hi s own ab ili ties, whil st gently enco uraging th e best o ut o f all the oth ers, Th e latter have rec iproca ted with a n eno rmo us res pect for his musica l abil ity a nd the good- humo ured a nd geni al way he has co nducted the Clu b's affai rs. He rece ives all our best wishes, as he leaves. It is good to think tha t he will be in the vici nit y next year , as he takes lip hi s new pos t a t Vernon Ho lm e, Ha rbledown. R. B.Ma. 257

O~r f?ur speakers ,this term focused on ~ h e ways in whi~ h great wri~ers quest ion traditio thmkmg by stand 109 apart from the hterary and social conventions within which Ihnal nevertheless operate. Mr. Tony T rolt, Head of English at K.E.S. Birmingham aT ey with a wit befitting his su bject, Alexander Popc, that the seventeenth century scientific revolutio~ crega~e~ new standards of truth which made myths and epics suspect. As a result, mock epic became popular becauc it could ridic ule the epics it imitates \V,h ilst still conveying truth, ~~ sat iri s i~g the fai lin gs of society, Pope's The Rape of the Lock shows him as a man who both CritiCises and IS attracted to his socie ty HI sa tirises the misuse of beauty in the sex wa r and exposes the confusio ns, distortions and neuroses ca~sed by the hunt for husbands, but he has also a powe rful appreciatio n of beauty and a poignant sense of its fragility . Mr. Trott saw Pope as similarly distanced from hi s age in Eloisa 10 Abelard, an operatic poem explori ng a moment of passion in an age of reason, whi lst in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Pope's characters become his own mythology of values in opposition to those of hi s age. Dr. James Gibson, edito r of many editions of Hardy a nd fo rmerly Principal Lecturer in English at Christ Ch urch College, Canterbury, gave a fascinating and wide~ranging illustrated ta lk on Tess oj the d'Urbervilles which showed how Hardy questions Victorian convention s by making us sympathise with a fa llen woman whom most other writers wou ld have killed off or exported to Austra li a. Yet soc ial pressures on writ ers are stro ng, as Hardy discovered when his seria l publi shers made him delete Tess's baby and put the three da irymaids in a wheelbarrow to prevent undesirable physical con tact when Angel C lare carries them across a flooded road. Dr. Gibson's slides gave us an excellent sense of the topography of Wessex as well as including examples of Hardy's manu scrip t which wou ld make modern printers blanch. 'Evading King Lear' was the title of a challenging talk by Dr. Peter Holland of Tr ini ty Hall, Cambridge Dr. Holland showed how Lear alienates and disorientates its audience. He argued that it repeatedly overthrows our expec tat ions and sets us loose in nightmare. Thus the play's most vividly descr ibed place - Dover cliff - exists o nly in the imagination whilst end in gs are repeatedly deferred and the supposed learning and bel iefs of the characters undermined. In Dr. Holland's view, the common response to this threat is evasion: we view Gloucester's fall as grotesque comedy and see Lear as Every man, a representative of the inne r strength of the indi vidua l. For Dr. Holland, a truer response is the recognition that tragedy in volves iso lation and fea r and offers no conso lation. It simply says, 'This is how it is.' Dr. Sand ra Cla rk , lecturer at Bi rkbeck Co llege, London, took the stimulating line that John Webster's Duchess oj Malfi asks the question ' Can a woman be powerfu l and successfu l? ' and replies 'No'. Webster presents the Duchess as uno rth odox in several ways: she woos rather than being wooed, she is unusually warm ly and actively passionate for a woman of her time and she scorns conventional marriage. Webster paints a sympathetic portrait of the Duchess's independence, yet because thi s was not an acceptable female image in his age he transforms her in Act IV into a stereotype of fema le heroism, a beautifully calm, domestic and courageous suffering figure . We are ve ry gra teful to all our speake rs fo r giving so generously of their wit, wisdom and time. P,J,B.

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M.LT. POL SOC - the King's Sc hool Po lit ics Society - was establ ished this term with the intention of in volving members of the schoo l in po li tical act ivity. That ai m was handsomely ach ieved by King's Election '87 (rev iewed elsew here) whic h provoked in te rest, anger and even poster ~s n atchi n g in the wee k preced ing the Election. Next term it is hoped to rev ive the King's Parliament (for which the Marxists now claim to be the official opposit ion!) and to inst iga te debates involvi ng both outside spea kers and pu pi ls. My grateful thanks go to my secretary. Adam Oli ver, and Mr. Ross, for their help in the estab lishment of POL SOC and the organisation of the ca mpaign. POL SOC

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'With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls' Toby Widdowson (A6a) All it takes Is a few stars And a pregnant summer' s dusk And I'm away The flying romantic: Swooping across lawns, Streaming hearts and arrows, For anyone that cares to stoop to take them, Trailing a translucent transience Easily penetrated by the sun Which breaks through curtains Spreading silent disappointment upon pillows, Mocking delusion with wreaths of wretched roses Day dispels, bathing in bathos; And everyone walks out into the light, Sees a heap of feathers And forgets what they dreamed tonight .

Toby Widdowson (A6a)

Polar Bears Do polar bears get cold at night? And do they ever say 'Oh damn the north wind' s frosty bite That makes us sneeze all day!' And do they shiver at the thought That winter'S still to come? I think that's why they grunt and snort And tend to look so glum. And do they tire of all that ice? Or all that fish they eat? And surely it's not very nice To get such chilly feet? Oh really I'm extremely glad To be free of those cares. I think life must be awfully sad For all those polar bears.

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A Story of Hope

Thomas Epps IA6b)

.Once upon a lime, allhe bollom of a garden, under a willow Iree Ihere were R . w.lh a large, sOft. bubble. R~ceivers are well-clolhed, slightly plum'p crealures Ii~~e~vers plaYing only abo.ullhe he.ghl of a w.llow leaf. If Ihey see any real humans Ihey dive unde I umans, bUI Ihe rUSlhng of leaves you hear when you walk Ihrough a foresl These I p r eaves making ~he bubble 10 one anolher and when Ihe bubble was caughl by 'Ihe Rec~i u: hcrealures passed 'f.he had ealen a beauliful meal. His clolhes would become colourful a;/;" e grew faller as w.lh curly ends on his green suede boo Is, and long gaping vel vel sleeves an~re eXlravaganl, g~ld walches and jewellery. The Receivers enjoyed keeping Ihe bubble amo~gSllhhe W~Uld gain I ey would often collecl a large amounl of walches and exlravaganl jewellery. emse ves, and Unforlunalely, under Ihe willow Iree if you looked very closel ou could much sm~lIer and m~re nimble. These were called Haven'ls. Th~: were call:J~~lher crealures, h~dbnolhmg, were skmny and were dressed in brown crispy leaves. AUhough Ihe:e beCaute Ihey RIm Ie, Ihe~ were nollall enough 10 reach Ihe bubble, and were Ihus alwa s h peop e ~ere of Ihe Rece.vers who looked down on Ihe Haven'ls and mocked Ih' y. ulngr y and env.ous elf simp e Clothes Day after day Ihe Haven'ls would walch Ihe game and Ihe Receivers h . . ~fo~hlde fRaellc f~om ,Ihel Rlheceivers' moulhs. Alas, any crumbs which fell' us°,;;~; }~~\~~~~~:~mr"lbls elVers c 0 es and were lost forever. S The Haven'lS were kind people, and as Iheir clolhes and food f h af~r il and alllhe olher animals, like Ihe worm. If Ihe Receiv~~~~:;I:d\~ ~:~~~' :~eYbIO~~ed an gel more walches, Ihey would quite happily Iread on Ihe poor worm's head. e u Ie, One very sunny, hOI day, Ihe Receivers were playing Ih . I Haven'ls no lice? Ihallhe bubble was being passed very SI~~I~s~:cag:s:~f ~hoew:::r, o.ne of Ihe bubble resled w.lh one of Ihe Receivers. The Receiver held Ihe bubble and I. F •.na!ly Ihe orange, Irying 10 gel everylhing he could oul of it. Firstly his round bell squeezed .1 hke an suddenly one of his silver bullons bursl, yellhe Receiver siill carried on a~:~1:~I~~:ro~, Ihen ~ore exlravaganl and his red collar slood uprighl, Ihe colour suiting his complexion ~ra~ca~e e gh rew so vasl Ihal his arms were forced 10 push oUlwards and hang like Iwo feeb'l I . ua y a s orl slumpy Iree. e w.gs on

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Andrew Darley (Rb)

. A slrange name indeed: 'Hendle', my black and while mon rei wh Slghl, a Labra~or wilh an id.enlily crisis. Yel he is a driving forc~ in ~~PI?::~I and has been SInce he was g.ven 10 me as a fifly-one week old puppy. 260

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During Common Entrance, I would work hard al school and come home very lired, yellher. was always Ihe Ihoughl of my dog al home waiting for me. In facl, I Ihink I can safely say that withoul him I would nol have done as well as I did. Many is Ihe time Ihal only Hendle and I would go for a walk Ihrough the orchard next door, and stay away from home for up to two hours just walking. The immense enjoyment that il gives me is virtually indescribable, for it is beyond words. At once all my tenseness and 'pel' hates are removed from my conscious thoughts as he bounds in his ludicrous, lanky fashion, through Ihe farmer's precious crops. A recent example shows all the good fealures of my canine friend. He was entered in several village fete compelitions, of which he came second in only one - 'Waggiesl Tail'. However, he was also entered in the 'Fancy Dress' and 'Best Dog in Show' competitions. When it came to the Fancy Dress competition, Hendle sal Obediently while I dressed him in a Trilby hat, 'mirror' glasses, braces and a waistcoat. 'Me and my dog' strulled towards the centre of the ring, while the audience rippled with cries of delight at boy and dog, the laller's shiny black coat being perfectly in keeping with my gangsler oulfit. The other entries entered the ring: a bulldog in a British T-shirt and three boxers. One of the boxers was owned by the organiser and Ihe olhers were its parents. All were dressed badly in only shorts and T-shirts. A news broadcasler from T.V.S. was called to judge. As we walked around Ihe ring,l heard murmurs such as, 'Isn't he cute?' 'That dog should win I reckon' and 'Mummy can I have him?' The news reader looked around grasping the rosettes and poinled to Hendle. The organiser shook his head and pointed to the boxers. There was a brief discussion and then Ihe rosettes were presented by the organiser: first to the organiser's dog, clad in only shorts and a T-shirl, second to the bulldog and third to another boxer. In dismay we left the ring and I undressed him. We soon re-entered Ihe ring however, for the last competition: 'Best dog in show'. Once again, as we circled the ring, Hendle behaved impeccably, greeting people, licking their hands and wagging his tail. 'I don't want a black dog in Ihe final,' I heard Ihe organiser murmur. He always made strange jokes, I thought. Five minutes later, as the final was being judged, Hendle and I sal outside the ring, he sitting, I hugging him. He had behaved; he was perfect; people were full of praise for him. I was thinking of every word under the sun to call the organiser. There was no black dog in the ring. 'Eh up lad, don't sulk, he's a fine dog. I were watching lim,' came a reassuring voice in a broad Yorkshire accent. An elderly man with a neck supporl benl down and didn'l say another word 10 me. While Hendle revelled in the attention, the man spoke to him, fondling his head. 'I were watching you in every event lad; you should ha' won. If 'e'd ha' let you off your lead,' he pointed to me, 'you'd ha' shown 'em, wouldn't ye lad? Come on, tell me what's your name?' he asked Hendle. I spoke up. 'Hendle' 'Hendle eh? I've got a dog jus' like you. If 'e behaved like you did then, 1 would be so happy lad. Ay, Jet's good, bul you're better. You could ha' won every event in that ring if it were judged proper. Ay, you could. Eh, you ' re a good dog, you'll do well. Next year eh, next year, ay, you'll show 'em. I wish you could come 'orne wit' me. You're a right lovely dog.' He patted Hendle on the head and ambled away. I was so happy with Hendle, 1 had forgollen the competition. The winner was announced on the loud speaker: the organiser's dog. No one clapped. It was rough justice and made me happy. Hendle slood up and licked my face . I could have cried with joy and love for him. Even now, while I write this, I feel a deep longing for him, and from one Sunday to the next 1 constantly look forward 10 seeing his big pink longue, his deep brown warm eyes, his black shiny coal and his characleristic while bib and chin. The one thing I fear is his death. When he dies, I will not know what to do. Myoid dog, Simon, died recently and I was dumbfounded and shocked for a fortnight before I realised crying would not bring him back. If I were given three wishes, they would all make him immortal, 10 go with me forever, wherever I go. 26 1

A Blessing

Timothy Briggs (A6a)

My love, I do profess 10 you I never did kiss your epilaph . For parting clouds and calming slorms Do offer now a sweeler palh. Before, I Ihoughl of summers gone, And fresh green leaves lurned shades of brown; Your hair which Irapped Ihe burning sun Did fade 10 winler's snowy frown. Your salty lears wiped failhfully Slung wounds of grief upon my hand. Bul wounds will heal, and whal remains Is slormy, joyous, barren land .

Sonnet un invigilateur Lucia Conybeare (A6a) (ecrit en attendant la fin d'un examen de frans:ais) Faul-i1 que je resle ici En permanence, sans pousser cri Ou bavarder ou meme dormir, Sans chose a faire ou livre II lire? Voila! J'ai fini I'examen Qui m'eloignait des gens mondains. Mon devoir fail, pourquoi lu dis Qu'iI vaudrait mieux si je rn'ennuie? 'Imagine,' dis-tu, 'si tu vois Un erreuf,' mais pour moi, je crois Qu'ici j'ai fait ce que j'ai fait, EI si je songe d'une lasse de Ihe C'esl pas possible de m'empecher _ A cinq heures moins Ie quart j'y vais!

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The term passed qui ckly and some of us had other worries (L e. A-levels), but a coup le of interestin g meetin gs were held. T hi nking about it now, I realise that it 's over a year since the society was esta blished, so per haps we should have celebrated its anniversary with sel -piece debate? Or maybe just a party. Anyhow, I will leave that up to my successors, a The fi rst eve nt thi s term was a fascinatin g talk by Dr. Bridge, one of our se lect band of physics teachers, titled 'Physics is Absurd' . Slartin g from the id ea that Quantum Mechanics is based on roughly the same en' nciple as the Theatre of the Absurd, that is looking at the world in different wa ys and seeing things P~~ich one would not normally expect to happen, he wen t on to exp lain some of the ideas on which 'The Physics' is based . By the end the (unfortunately sma ll) audie nce was astounded, and pressing for more revelatio ns. The main point of the talk was that as we are born and grow up, we lea rn certain things as 'common sense' , like the fact that if you drop somet hing, it invaria bly falls. Most sc ientific models are based on such 'common sense' .id e~s, a nd the in itial attempts to model the beha.vi~lIr of .microsc?pic arlic1es like atoms. started ~y con~ l den n g them as very. sma ll b~ ll s . However, ~xp l a mm g their behavlO.ur ~ompletelY involves Ideas which are In fact totally nonsensical. For mstance, accOl'dmg to Quantum Mechamcs if you measure the position o f an elect ron, you canno t know its speed, and if you know its speed, you cannot measure its posi tio n. This is in co ntrast to the co mmon sense idea th at of course yo u can kn ow the speed and position of, fo r exa mple, a cricket ball. Il is similar to Ionesco's idea that normal middle class people at a sociab le a fternoo n's gat hering should suddenly jump up and walk around the room pretending to be steam trai ns (this is in his play The Bald Prima Donna). Of course, both Heisenburg (creator of the Uncerta inty principle in Quantum Mechanics) and Ionesco realise that their ideas are not so strange as they seem and have more base in real li fe than people realise. The result of Dr. Bridge's riuent and excellent ta lk was that people left with a rather odd fee ling abou t the ground they were wa lking on and the world they had prev io usly thought they were in. The discuss ion 'Do we have fa ith in technology?' created some interes t because it was adverti sed with one of the speakers described as 'A Surprise!' (due to the fa ct that the fourth spea ker hadn't been decided on when the posters went up). The audience wa s slight ly disappointed to discover that th e 'surprise' was someone no more surprising than Peter Burrell, but the discuss ion was good, if slightly confused. Seamu s Murph y lOok an outr ight pro-techno logy lin e, perhaps surprising co nsidering his artistic background, but his argument was de livered with conviction and force. Pete r Burrell, also arguing pro -technology, had the (unusual) courage to stick his neck out and argue fOl' so methi ng li ke a three-day week, which science wou ld make possible, and which wou ld enable us to enjoy leisure for the rest of the week. In fact ' leisure' would become a major industry, as the more conventional manufacturing industries became automated 01' defunct. This is already happening in our society, in fac t , as people do have much more free time and spend less time working, perhaps because they are unemployed. According to Peter' s argument , if every body worked three days a week, then everybody could have a job. Per haps Harold Wilson would have sy mpathy with th is view. Ve ron ica Lyell a rgued well again st her scientific sensib ili ties, wh ile I simp ly stated that in my opinion, the fa ith in technology expressed in the first ha lf of the century by most people had complete ly vanished to be replaced by fear and d islike, and that this change was exemplified by the death of Modern ist architecture, which started a whole new approach to design, but is now act ively disliked by most peop le because of the fa il ures of sixties and seventi es ho using. The overall conclu sion of the deba te was in fact that it is ve ry difficult today for technology to have cred ibili ty, though there really seems to be noth ing else in whic h o ne ca n have fai th. Next year Sciphilos will be run by Seam us Murphy with the sc ientific help of Veronica Lyell. 1 wish th em luck, and hope that the society will co ntinue to thrive, in enco uraging both p up il -ru n projec ts, and also debate, disc uss ion a nd free thoug ht in the fields of Science, Philosop hy, and Everyt hing . SCIPHILOS

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Social Services have und ertaken new act ivities while co nti nuing our established patterns of visiting elderly people and local hospitals. One new activity is 'U mbrella'. Umbrella has been se t up main ly to help people who have suFfered or are suffering from social isolation, loneliness or depression. It is promoted by a consortium of Can terbury Voluntary Agencies and acts as a Commu ni ty Cent re at S1. Peter's Method ist Ch urch Ha ll d uri ng two afternoo ns a week. Unfortunately the school summer term timet able precludes our volunteers from participating except during the lunch time free period, which all ows for litt le more than an hour. However it has been su fficient ly worthwhile fo r fo ur volu ntee rs this te rm, a nd wit h the gradual closure of St. Augustine' s mental hospita l one ca n foresee a ll the more need for 'Umbrella' . Second ly, a gro up of nin e vol unteers have regu larly given up thei r free time duri ng Wednesday lunch periods to pa rticipate in the club activit ies of Parks ide Cou nty Primary Sc hool, which, with a substantial SOCIAL SERVICES

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council estate catchment area, serves the Sturry Road area of Canterbury. Our volunteers have hel ed lead activities such as sw imming, drama, art, cookery, cricket, athletics and mu sic. A new relations~i has been forged between King's and children of what is, perhaps, th e leas t prosperous and most necdP part .of the town . The Headmaster of Parkside .has spo~en appreciatively?f our contribution. 'Keep the~ co ming,' he says and, thanks to the car ferrymg services of Mrs. Tennlck and Mrs. Davis, so we do. Thirdly, a small team of volunteers have undertaken a survey of Canterbury's amenities and compiled a report on these facilit ies for disabled people. The survey has covered the Cathedra l, the city's museums swimmin g bath, theatre, cinema, shops, railway stations, the bus station and public W.C.s. The repori arisi ng from this survey is due to be published soo n. Fiually. our volunteers have kept up helping the handicapped children of St. Nicho las School with their swimming on two afternoons a week and also visit ing patients at St. Augustine's hosp ital, as already mentioned. We would like to do a lot more with local sc hools and voluntary organizations, but unfortunately the Summer Term timetable tends to restr ict the times that we can offer help. We hope that when we return to the full Th ursday afternoo n for activities in the Autum n term this wi ll not be a problem and those involved will find all the more interest and benefit.

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Cricket 1st XI With only three players left from the previous year's XI the 1987 side was bound to lack experience. However, with several other players having gained valuable experience in Sri Lanka in the Winter and the season opening in one of the driest and warmest Aprils in memory, there was an optimistic note to the early matches. Runs came easily against Highgate and Dulwich with in both matches Turner and Daley putting on over fifty for the opening partnership and then Mitchell forcing the pace towards a declaration. However, it was clear from the outset that the XI were going to have greater difficulty bowling sides out, especially once the opposition had stopped chasing runs for victory and both these games and the Xl's other two early games were drawn. However, at Eastbourne the XI were caught on a drying wicket and some good offspin bowling by the opposition captain accounted for five of our top six batsmen and although the remainder of the side batted through until there were only four overs left, in the end the XI were well beaten. On the following Saturday, in a near hurricane wind, the batting again failed and the XI were bowled out by Cranleigh for 76. However, when the opposition were 31 for 5 and with Davies bowling magnificently an improbable victory seemed possible, but a splendid fight back in the field was in the end dashed and the XI lost by three wickets. By now the rains of June were falling regularly and the next two matches were both played on very, very slow pitches and followed a similar pattern. The Band of Brothers and Incogniti were both bowled out for about 100 but the XI were unable to overcome the conditions and having got behind the clock, they then sacrificed wickets in trying to catch up and eventually had to settle for two more draws . Fortunately by the start of cricket week the sun was shining again, as it continued to do to the very end, and the wickets were hard and fast. In each of the first three games the XI scored around 200 before declaring, but only in the first game, against the Stragglers of Asia, did they manage to bowl out the opposition and the other two matches ended as rather dull draws. In the next game, having bowled out Sutton Valence for 136, the early batting succumbed to their two very fast opening bowlers and with 18 overs of the match still to be played the XI were 25 for 7, but some courageous batting by the tail saved the game with a final score of 58 for 9. The two day game against the O.K.S . had many interesting moments. A splendid innings of 106 by Mitchell was the basis of the Xl's 249 for 4 declared; then the O.K .S. on being bowled out for 132 were forced to follow on, but, showing greater determination in the second innings, they were finally bowled out at 5.20 p.m. for 219 leaving the Xl to make 103 off 20 overs. A commanding innings by Lacamp with useful support from Turner and Mitchell resulted in the second victory of the term with eleven balls to spare. Unfortunately though there were two more batting collapses to come and the first against M.C.C. resulted in a convincing victory for the visitors, but the second against K.C .S. Wimbledon was partially scored by the last two wickets adding 23 valuable runs to give the XI a total of 142. This just proved enough as another spirited bowling performance by Davies, supported by very lively fielding, restricted K.C.S. to 140 for 7, which although only giving the Xl yet another draw, in the circumstances felt more like a victory.

One of the disappointments of the season was the bad luck that dogged Lacamp's batting as not only did it mean that he scored fewer runs than in either of his two previous seasons, it also meant that he wasn't at the wicket to help the less experienced members of the side. However, Turner and Daley proved a promising opening pair, with Turner being very reliable and only being out for less than ten on one occasion. Mitchell made his excellent 100 against the O.K.S. and two good fifties, but often got going only then to miss out. The middle order lacked consistency, but have, we hope, gained experience which, with further attention to technique during the winter, will ensure they all score more runs next year. The bowling improved during the season and by the end Davies was showing good control and movement of the ball and deserved to be leading wicket taker. Andree took some important early wickets with the 265

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new ball and Girling, when he got his run up and rhythm right, showed glimpses of his potential Daley , having not been over bowled in previous seasons, made a very useful contribution with his left-arm spin, but Brown didn 't get as much bowling as he needed , as too often runs were in short supply, although both he a nd Boorman will be a n essential part of next year's attack T he fielding was always lively and o f a high standard and some good slip catches were held ' particularly by Turner and also Davies . Lacamp didn ' t let his own batting misfortunes upse; the team spirit and he handled the side skilfull y. Broughton won the Senior House Competition and Mitc hinson's the Junior. No cricket report would be complete without a very genuine word of thanks from both myself and the boys involved to Doug Wright and those members of staff who devote so much time to coaching, and to Neville and his colleagues for their enormously important task of producing good surfaces on which to play. A. W.D. R ESULTS

Played 15. Won 2, Lost 3, Draw n 10. St. Lawrence & H .C. 130 for 6 dec.; King's 89 for I. Match Dra wn. King's 190 for 4 dec. (S. R. Turner 62); Highgate 12 1 for I. Match Drawn. Dover College 157 fo r 8 dec.; King's 101 fo r 3 (S. R. T urner 51 not Oul) . Match Draw n. King 's 202 for 2 dec (N. V. Daley 7 1 not out, A. E. Mitchell 55 not ou t); Dulwich Co llege 172 for 5. Match Drawn . Eastbourne College 197 fo r 5 dec .; Kin g's 101. King's losl by 96 runs. King's 76.; Cranleigh 77 for 7 (1 , R. Davies 14-7-22-5). King's lost by 3 wickets. Ba nd of Brothers 98 (H . J . Andree 11-4-14-4) ; King's 60 for 9. Match Drawn. Incogni ti 10 1 (C. D. Boorman 13-2-2 1-5); King's 94 for 9. Match Draw n. King's 203 for 6 dec. (P . P . Laca mp 60) ; St ragglers of Asia 119 (N. V. Daley 11 -2-33-4). King's won by 84 runs. King's 210 for 3 dec. (N . V. Daley 85 not out ); St. Lawrence Co llege 133 for 8. Match Drawn. King's 196 (A . E. Mitchell 58 , P. P. Lacam p 55); XL Clu b 152 for 6. Ma tch Drawn . Su tton Valence 136 (J. R. Dav ies 14.4 -4-30-6); Ki ng's 58 for 9. Match Draw n. King's 249 for 4 dec. (A. E. Mi tchell 106) and 104 for 2; O .K .S. 132 (A. J . H . Brown 12- 1-50-4) and 2 19. King 's won by 8 wickets. M.C.C. 193 for 7 dec. (R. R. Wa llis 20-7-68-6); King's 89. Kin g's lost by 104 runs . King's 142; K.C.S . Wi mbledo n 140 for 7 (J. R. Davies 20-3-56-5). Ma tch Drawn .

1st X I AVERAGES BATTI NG

Highesl [n"ings Not Outs Runs Score Average S. R. Turn er .... .. .... . ........ .. .......... ..... 15 3 445 62 37.08 15 2 385 106 29.61 A. E. Mitchell .. .. .............................. N. V. Daley .. .. .. .................. " ........... 15 2 337 85' 25.92 P. P . Lacam p ........ .. ............ ".. .. ....... 16 2 316 60 22.57 M. G. Ie H uray................................. 11 3 132 35· 16.50 A . J . H. Brown ...... .. ....... .. .... .. .... .. .. 10 3 100 27· 14.28 C.E. Butcher ........................ . ......... 12 3 10 1 27· 11 .22 J .R. Davies ......... .... ... ........ . .... 9 0 37 15 4. 11 Also balled: H . J . Andree 7-5-28- 12·- 14; C. D. Boorma n 3-0-15-10-5; R. W. Girling 4-3-8 -6·-8; M. I. Holden 1-0-5-5-5; J . R. A. Harla nd -Fa irweather 2-0-14- 13-7; D. J. La urence 2-0-5-3-2.5; R. R. Wallis 7- 1-25-10· ·4.25. BOWLING H. J . Andree ................... ... .............. J . R. Davies .. ........ ...... .. .. •. .......... ..... N. V. Da ley ............ ... ..................... R. R. Wallis .. ..... ... .. ..... .......... ..... .... A. J. H . Brown ................................ R. w. Girling .............. ... ..... ............. Also bowled: C. D. Boorman 43- 10- 100-8- 12.5; M.

Overs Maidens Runs 349 138 36 180,4 45 472 3 12 109 20 116 36 240 78 13 295 97 18 300 G. Ie Huray 19-7-55-3-18.33.

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266 1ST XI C RICKET Standing: M. G. Ie Huray, R. R. Wallis, S. R. T urner, J . R. Davies, C. D. Boorma n, N. V. Da ley. Sitting: H . J . Andree, A. E. Mitchell , P. P . Lacamp, C. E. Bu tcher, A. J . H . Brown. (Kel1 lish Gazelle)

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departure o f so many of last yea r's unbeaten side we fa ced the seaso n with OUf prospects uncertain. It . ~ialclY became clear. however, thai in Bob Wallis we had an outstanding captain , and it was his intelligent lise ~t~hC bowlers and placing of the fie ld that cont ributed to Ollf early successes. I the traditional first lixturc.againsl Favcrsham Alliance Charlie Boorman opened the auaek with Bob Wallis (whom nas to join in the lSI X I later mlhe season) to provide the pace which Bob's accurate bowling lacked. Rajiv Vijayanathan

hC~vTom Epps, despite their idiosyncratic actions, suggested Ihallhcy WQu id be very effeclive on more helpfu l tracks. ~\n Veitch would probably like it recorded thaI he took a wicket wilh the very rirsl ba ll o r a three-over spell which

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Two days later Stuart Lacy scored a century - 106 n.o. aga in st Highgate. It was a tremend ous achievement, albeit n a small ground against some average bow ling. He was well supported by John Stern with 30. I-lighgate proved dirricult ~o dislodge, however, and despite Boorman's 5-38 and Oll r overall superiorit y the match was drawn. St. Lawrence encountcred our bowlers in ri ne rorm . Boorman, Wallis and Vijay dest royed them wit h stiletto and cudgel and we were left with only 61 to wi n, Lacy (29 n.o.) and Epps (26) did the necessary. Ou r batti ng was less impressive againS! Dulwich, until we were rescued by a magniricent 67 rrom James Law rence wh ich enabled us to declare on 145-9, ilaving been 55-8. The Du lwich openers played well until Ollr spinners struck, Epps (4-38) and Vijay (5-48) had the opposition r~eling at 136-9 a t the close, and only a rumbled fun-o ut deprived us or victory in a tremendously excit in g encounter. The team was now playing some very good cricket, and Eastbourne rell victim to another sp lendid display or spinbowling by Vijay (4-19) and Epps (4-9), admirab ly supported by the excellent catches taken by James Harland-Fairweather and olhers. Epps (27 n.o.) and Lacy (2 1) round the target or 51 comrortably within their reach. Runs were contributed more evenly against the I-Iaymakers, the top scorer being Bruce Marson (34) who played some or the best shots witnessed all season. J.S.H. (46) led the assault on our lotal, but the subtlet ies or Vijay (6-37) had the Haymakers holding on desperately ror the last rour balls or the match with just one wicket lert. Cranleigh enjoyed some uncharacteristic fielding lapses on our part, and they declared on 122-8 at tea. Their generosity was punished, however, as Epps (45) led liS to a comrortab le 5-wicket victory. Then came the break ror exams and the restructuring or the side wit h Ihe ravages or King's Week to account ror. Vijay (4-44) again bowled impressively to restrict St. Edmund's to 155-7. Stern (28) and Epps (29) gave us a good start, and guest Co lts Martin Ie Huray (59 n.o.) and Michael I-Iolden (30 n.o.) comp leted the 8-wicket wi n. With only 5 regulars ava ilable ror the final ga me or the season against Duke or York's 1st X I, we did well to bowl them out ror 147, with another su perb disp lay or fi eld ing rrom Bruce Marson. Arter a bright start by Epps (21) and Tony Panayides (15), we collapsed in the race or so me ext ravagant spi n-bowling and were only rescued by heroic resistance by Co lts Mark Milh enc h (34 n.o.), Paul J essup a nd Jody Mycrort. And so we ended the seaso n unbeaten - fo r the third time in rou r years, which is evidence or the consisten tly high standa rd or cricket at King's. The team had all-round st rength and tremendous spirit, and I would like to thank everyone who played and all the scorers ror an except io nally enj oyable a nd successrul season. P.A.E.D.

Team: C. D. Boorman, T. A. F. Epps, J . R. A. Harland-Fairweather, S. C. G. Lacy, J . M. Lawrence , B. C. Ma rson, A. J. Morgan, J . A. Stern, J. C . A. Veitch. R. Vijaya nathan, R. R. Wallis. Also played: C. E. Butcher, M. J , Cum ber, R. W. Gi rling, M. I. Holden, P. E. Jessup, M. G. Ie Huray, M. L. Milhench, J. A. N. Morley, A. J . Moubray-Jankowski, J. D. Mycrort, A. P. Panayides. T. StJ. White. 2nd Colours awarded to: C . D. Boorman, T. A. F. Epps, S. C. G. Lacy, J. M. Lawrence, J. A. Stern, J. C. A. Veitch, R. Vijayanathan.

Old Colour: R. R. Wallis. RESULTS

Played 9. Won 4. Drawn 5, Lost O. Faversham Alliance. 117·8; K.S.C., 94-7 (Veitch 29·). Drawn. K.S .C., 202-4 (Lacy 106·, Slern 30); H ighgate. 146-8 (Boorman 5-38). Drawn. SI. Lawrence, 61 (Wallis 4-16, Vijay 4- 19); K.S .C., 65-3 (Lacy 29·, Epps 26). Won by 7 wickets. K.S.C., 145-9 (Lawrence 67, Veitch 25); Dulwich, 136-9 (Vijay 5-48, Epps 4-38). Drawn. Eastbollrne, 5 1 (Epps 4-9. Vijay 4- 19); K.S.C., 52-2 (Epps 27·). Won by 8 wicket s. K.S.C. 150-8 (Marson 34); I-Iaymakers, 126-9 (Vijay 6-37). Drawn. Cranleigh, 122-8 (Epps 3-15, Boorman 3-28); K.S.C., 124-5 (Epps 45). Won by 5 wickets, SI. Edmund's, 155-7 (Vijay 4-44); K. S.C" 156-2 (Ie Huray 59·, I-Iolden 30·. Epps 29, Stern 28). Won by 8 wickets. Dukc or York's 1st X I, 147 (Vijay 4-60, Lacy 3-37); K.S.C., 89-7 (Milhench 34·). Drawn. 267

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3rd XI T his season's bowl i ~g and ficl~ in g has bc~ n of a very cOlll l?ctcnt standard but t he ball ing !las ~c~ n too varia ble for comfort. Tony PanaYldcs capta ined splendJd ly and he recclved excellent support from lam Glrhng, a fine wicket keep~ r / bal sma n . T he first match saw a, cru,sh ing ~c~eat of Highgate, thanks to the ca ptain's ~atling a nd so me accurate bowling. The next two matches resulted In dlsaPpoLlltlng draws because the opponents appeared mterested only in survival In the second of these, against Dulwich, 183 runs were scored in 24.4 overs and Gi riing stoIc the show with a magnificcni 93. At Eastbourn e the batti ng was a complete d isaster, including a n opposition h a l ~ lrick. a nd the match lasted on ly just beyo nd lea. T he 4th X I a lso lost but were certainly not disgraced and everyo ne seemed to enjoy the fest ivities The all -ro und performance of a Cranleigh co lt rat her spoiled th e nex t game bu t our batti ng again look cd very flim sy' Afte r a long b reak, enforced by t he weather a nd exa minatio ns, the team bounced back to record a fine wi n over Duk~ of Yo rk's du e to some excellent bowling by A ndrew McDonald and aggressive batting by Gi rling. T he team was at full st rength against M.J.H.' s X I and bowled part icularly well to record a well-deserved victory in the 3D-over match T he season ended disappointingly when, having bowled and fielded well against Nelson C.C., we batted miserably againsi some pretty good bowlin g. T he co re of the team was se!tled t h rougho ut t he term wit h willi ng players filli ng in whenever necessary. The Mc Donald s, Ian 'The Duck' Cawley a nd Tim Kitchin gave loyal serv ice while Dav id Bai nbridge and Nick Va nce orten looked menaci ng bow lers. Marcus C umber and J a mes Beechey had t heir mo ment s a nd it was a pit y that To rsten W hite was not avai la ble more often. Ma ny players were fro m 6b a nd so we hope that some may appear in 3rd X I colours again next seaso n.

M. J.H. R ESULTS

K.S.C . , 100 (Panayides 59); Highgate, 28 (Bainbridge 4-6). Wo n. K.S.C., 140-9; Dover College 2nd XI, 67-2. Draw n. K.S.C., 183 (G irlin g 93); Dul wich, 127-5. Drawn. K.S.C., 42; East bo urtle, 43-2. Lost. Cra nleig h, 153-9; K.S.C., 83. Lost. Duke of Yo rk's 2nd X I, 106 (M c Donald 6-40); K.S.C., 11 0-5 (Gir lin g 48 n.o.). Won. M . .I . H .'s X I, 106; K.S.C. , 107-4 (M cDona ld 4 1). Wo n. Nelson C.C., 156-9; K.S.C., 34. Lost. The following played ill at fe(lsttwo matches: I Cawley, I. C. Girli ng , T. R. E. Kit chin , A . G. McDonald, A . .I . McDona ld , A. P. Panayides, D. M. Bainbridge, M. J . C umbc r, A. J . Moubray-Ja nk owski, N . J. Va nce, J . M. Beechcy, S. G . Ca lthro p, T. St. 1. W hit e, D. H . Hodgson, D. C. Yule.

Colts XI This season sta rted in t he worst possible way. Against Highgate, half a dozen ca tches were d ropped, a visiti ng batsman hit 129, a nd the team t hen collapsed to 22 a ll o ut. After Ihi s, th e side's recovery was remark ab le - an d a tribute as much to d etemination (n ota bly against Dulwich and Eastbourn e) as to cri cketing skill. T hree victories were achi eved - that over Tonbridge being the IllOSt convi nci ng - and although the season cnded wit h a not her disaster against London Schools, so me pride was salvaged from a potentially d isastrous term. Holden, the ca ptain, was easil y the best bat sman , o nly o nce fai ling 10 pass twent y and sco rin g over three times as many runs as a nyone else. Of the rest, Fried lander played a match-wi nnin g inn ings at C ra nleigh; Milhench, Morley an d Greenleaf looked promisin g at times wit ho ut ever making a substan tial score; and Ousey proved a lmost impossib le 10 get o ut! Too often , however, too many p layers scored duck s and surv ival was a ll thal co uld be hoped fo r. Ho ld en was also the IllOSt consistenl bowler a nd the leadi ng wicket-taker. Ba llend en, Jordan and Mo rley a ll bow led well o n occasion (a nd Mor ley was part icu larl y unl ucky wit h d ropped catches), but on ly Cran lcigh were bow led o ut , re fl ecting a lack of penetratio n in the attack. Despite the catch ing, the fielding was cnthusiastic a nd someti mes good , wit h Fried la nder emerging as a com petent wicket-taker. H .E.J.A.

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Team: M. I. Ho lden (Capt.), W. Ballenden, E. R. S. Floydd, S. L. Fri cdlander, R. W. Girling. A. J. Green leaf, P . E. J essup, M. L. Milhen ch, J . A. N. Morley, J . D. Mycroft, J . C. Ousey, T . J . Ward , J. 1-1 . Wa t kins . Also played: N. V. Dalcy, M. P . J o rda n , M . G . Ie l'lu ray, J . S . Marozzi, D. P. Morr is, N. 13. O'Conno r, A. M. O lby, C.

Pain e. R ESULTS

P layed 8, Won 3, Drawn I, Lost 4. Highgate , 186-6 dec. (Wass 129); K. S.C., 22. Lost. Du lwich, 152-4 dec. ( Ho lden 3-38); K.S.C., 100-9. Drawn. Ea st bo urne, 137-9 dec. (J o rdan 6-46); K. S.C., 75. Lost. To nb ridge, 133-9 d ec. (Ba llenden 6-38); K.S .C., 134-6 (Holdcn 49, Ie I-lura y 36*). Won. C ra nleigh, 85 (Wa rd 3- 14, Morley 3-23, Ho ld en 3-26); K.S.C., 86-8 (Friedla nder 32*). Wo n. K.S.C., 78 ; Kent Sc hools, 80-7 ( Ho lden 4-36). Lost. S ussex Schools, 134-8 dec. (Daley 4-47); K.S.C. 135-3 (Da ley 63*, Hold en 30). Won. K.S.C., 35 (Holden 20); London Schoo ls 36-0. Lost. 268

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Junior Colt s did not p lay enough positive cricket to win more than three o f ~ I~eir matches . T hey were 111 a w111ll1ng ~h.e 1 ot her occasions but failed to put the necessary pressure 011 the opposil lon. They were defcated by a strong pOSitiOn 0 1 , . ' S Ed d' Tonbridge side, bul crumpled u nnecessanly agamst t. mun s. batsmen outscored the rest: the opener, Davies, played so lidly, and has developed so me good shots. Northe~st TWIO l ly one to sco re over 300 run s from on ly ten in nings and often looked the o nly batsman capable of qlllck was t lem?n'st the clock Useful scores were also made by Das, the ot her opener, and Cooper made some namboyant runs ag . . . before his bottom hand gol hlln mto t ro ub le. run s,owling was made difficult by poor fi eld ing; in o ne match two ca tc Iles were d rOPI?ed'III tl le rIrs t C!vel. . Too many , B le side failed to concentrate, a llowing batsmen too ll1an~ chances. The bowlers dl~ not bowl straight enough.. so of.:.1 to put the batsme n under p ressure; indeed, hard-hittmg bal sm.en caused despmr. on more than one occasion. fal In!as leadi ng wicket-taker with 20 (av. 18.4), and took four wickets 111 four ba lls early \11 the season; later he resort~d Burtmuch to the short-p itched ball. Cooper bowled well on occasion, but is ~ot accurate en~ugh ~et. Rycroft, despite 1000 nic u nfitness prob lems, showed some promise, and .Quain, though t he wI.ckets \~ere agamst h~m , .showed he could ~~l;n the ball. Nort heast ca pt ai ned the side with so me ~ alr, b ut was hampered III the field by poor fl eld11lg and wayward bowling; he himself set the highest standards a t a llllllles. J. S. H .

Team: M. G. Northeast (Capt.), T. C. Baker, N. C. Beechey, E. 'J.!. Burt, E. R. Cargill, D. M. Cooper, D. J. Cox, A. Das, P. G. Davies, D. T. Hamilton, E. J. Linforth, D. E. Quam, O. J. Rycroft. RESULTS

Played 13, Won 3, Draw n 8, Lost 2. K.S.C., 174 (Baker, 53; Beechey 34); Highga te 94 (Burt 5-3 1). Won. K S C. 166 (Da vies 59; Das 40); Dover 37 (Northeast 5-1 3). Won. D~II~vich 174Âˇ5 dec.; K.S.C., 74-6 (Davies 32). Drawn. Eastbourne 149-5 (Cox 1-3); K.S.C., 95-8 . Draw n. Tonbridge 135-5 ; K. S .C., 44 (Cox 24). Lost. Cranleigh 164-6; K. S .C., 119-8 (Northeast 53; Davies 28) . Drawn. Kent Schools 125 (M aggs 8-20); K.S.C., 11 5-7 (Cooper 28; No rtheast 39). Drawn. K.S.C. , 125 (Northeast 73); Sussex Schools 96-4 (Cooper 3-29) . Drawn . London Schools 136-2 (Beechey 2- 16); K.S.C., 140-7 (Northeast 53; Beechey 29). Draw n. K.S.C., 168 (Dav ies 30; Cox 38); Kent College 11 6-4 (B,lIrt 2~ 1 5 ). Drawn. K.S.C., 155-6 (Davies 46; Northeast 53); Duke of York s 11 6-4 (Burt 2-11). Drawn. St Edmund's 105 (Cooper 4-31; Quain 2- 16); Rycrofl 2- 17); K.S.C., 72. Lost. Si;n on Langton 163-6 (Quain 2-40); C., 143-7 (Das 64; Cooper 21).

Junior Colts B XI Although thirty boys came fo rward to play cricket for the Jun ior Colts B X I, several 'yere beginners at the ~ame. d cry few knew much about the game of cricket. Unfortunate ly, to all but a few, a Cricket ball was someth1l1g to ~~ a:oided _ a dangerous missile capable of seriou s damage to hands a nd body even if propelled wit h ex treme gentleness. In the circumstances the resu lt s were not u nex pected . The balling was very fragi le. On thirty occas!ons dw:i ng our innings, batsmen fa iled to score five funs, or looking at it fro m th e other end of the sca~e, on o nly SIX occasIO ns (S. Roberts (2), G. Darby (2), A. Young ( I) a nd E. Cargill (IÂť) did batsmcn reach doub le figures. Mr. Ex tras (60 runs) contributed most to our total scores. T he capta in , S. Robert s, produced the best balling and bowlin g averages and led th.e team .with a very happy ~~d carefree att itu de. My thanks to a ll those who su pported t he team's unequal struggles wll h forlltude and a good Splflt. D.J .ll.

Team: S. W. Roberts (5), D. Stjohn P arker (5), J . S. O'Mahony (5), G. H . D~rby (5), A . J . G. Young (5), A .. P. Hancock (4), J. H. Robertson (4), J. C. E. Ho lding (4) , S. M. Preece (4), E. Cargill (3), A. E. C. Lacy.(3), J. L. Hirst Triggs (2) T. D. M. Parker ( I) A. H. C urlewis (I), C. J. Haswell (I), D. C. T. Hamilton (I) . (2) , S . G . E. , ' ( ) M(i/ches Played. RESULTS

Played 5, Lost 4, Abandoned I. Dulwich, 179 for 5 dec.; K.S. C., 36. Lost. K.S.C., 47; Easlbourne, 48 for I. Lost. K.S.C., 88; Simon Langton G.S., 89 for 7. Lost. Cranleigh, 124 for 9 dec.; K.S.C., 53. Lost. . Simon Langto n G.S., 76 for 7. Match aba ndoned due to ram. 269

Haymakers Alth ough there has been so me enjoyable cricket, this has not been a vin tage seaso n for the H ay makers a nd it w disappointi ng that some importa nt games were cancelled due to the weat her. In a coup le of matches the batting was distinct ly feeble b ut the ma in difficu lty was in assemb ling a balanced bowling attack. In t he opening Contest a go;J pe rformance could not quite force a victory and t hen against the 2nd X I the tables were turned with the Haymaker last pair hold ing out fo r a draw. The batting at Street E nd was ext remely fra gile with only W.R.P. showin g any son ~f res ista nce. T he overs match that fo llowed was also lost but by only one rlln - when did the Haymakers last lose tWice in one afternoon? J on Davies batted su perbl y against Beverley and was un lucky not to reach his century berore the decla ration. Once aga in the la st~wicket partncrship cou ld not be broken. Two days latcr at Alkham Jon Davics PUt things right by racing past his hundred at bCller than a run a minute, so becom in g on ly t hc second p upil to SCOre a Hayma ker celllury. Thc oppos itio n a lso produced a centu rion in a hig h ~sco rin g but inco nclu sive gamc. Bekesbournc saw the seco nd baiting collapsc or the season and. although R.C. W. ca used so me ea rly shocks ror the home tea m they posscssed a vio lent batsman who crashed his way to victory in a rew overs. The only win was against the Dio~esan X l and hard work was made or a relatively straightrorward target. St. Mary's Stragglers enjoyed their first visit to Birley's and amassed a large total agai nst some rriend ly bowling. In spite or a good start by R.P .B. and To ny Pa nayides the task was too great ror the Haymakers as the opposition bowling got bellcr and beller. Many thank s are due to A~gus SCali ror his work as Chier Waggonner a nd to a ll the matc h managers. Even ir things have not go ne brilliant ly in 1987 Haymaking will certainl y cont inue to provide entertaining cricket ror starr and pupi ls in the ruture. • I

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M.l. H . RESULTS Haymakcrs. 109; Trin ity College of Music. 53~9. Drawn. K.S.C. 2nd XI. 150-8 ; Haymakers. 126-9. Drawn. Haymakers. 62; Street End. 64~2. Losl. H aymakers. 164-6 (J. R. Davies 96 n.o.); Beverley. 92-9. Drawn. Haymakers. 212-4 (J. R. Davies 11 7 n.o.); Alkham. 192-5. Drawn. Haymakers. 95; Bckesbourn c. 99-4 (White 4-26). Lost. Diocesan, 52 (Skarbek 4-27); Haymakers 53-6. Won. SI. Mary's St ragglers. 196 (Skarbek 4-42); Haymakers, 159 (Pana yidcs 49). Lost. Thefollowing played ill at least three matches: R. C. White (Secretary), A. P. Panayides, J . M. Lawrence, W. R. Pickeri ng . R. P. Bee (CI/airmall), J. M. Beechey. P . r. Jo hnson. J . R. Davies, M. J. Ho dgson (President), A. G. J. Scali (Chief WaggOllller), J . H . Dav ies, P. A. E. Dix , A. J. W. W. Skarbek. M.l. H.

Canterbury Harvesters 18th Cricket Tour It was wit h some a pprehension t hat the Tour Party left East Kent in to rrential rain without the experience and touring skills or R.P.B. However. although sunshine was at a prem iu m. t he Dorset grou nd smen and the weat her gods trea ted us kind ly yet agai n so t hat o nly half a mat ch was ra ined off. . The Blackmore Valers, led by Georr Pike, had scored a good win on Birlcy's a few days earlier and were now wai ti ng ro r us at Blandford wit h ext remely generous hospitality . We batted competently but persistent rain closed in soon arter J .S. I-I. had k nocked over their main batsma n 's middle stu mp. Sadly. Ph il Turner tore a n Achillcs tendon after bowlin g on ly seven ba lls b ut nobly too k on thc invaluable ro les of scorer a nd umpire ro r the remainder or the tour. T he early Ca nro rd batsmen scored well unt il P.W.D . and M. J.H . took 7 wickcts between them for 39 run s, wit h th e for mer sa ili ng past his 100th tour wic ket. At 44·6. t he H arvesters were in disarray but that giant of a tourist J .S. H . led a spirit ed fig ht-back to earn a creditable draw. The traditional 'free d ay' on the Tuesday was fi lled with a va riety or vis it s and activ it ies, including the lunchtimc family sk ittles party. before the dclightfu l 20-overs eveni ng match am id st t he Compto n House countryside . G.C.A. led the assau lt on t he target wi th so me majest ic st raight drivin g, and J. S. H . rollowed his example after an exacting net under a n oak tree. In the all-day match which formed part of the 150lh anniversary celebrations or the Sherborne Town C.C., our baiting was ext rcmely disappointi ng and yicJded on ly 99 run s rro m 51.4 overs. However. t he opposit ion fou nd runs just as dirficult against some excellent bowling rrom J .S. H., R.C.W. and H.M .R. In one of the most exacting or o ur to ur rinishes, the ho me team just reached the required total rrom 47.5 overs wit h o nly one wicket left. Battin g wasn't always easy at Chafy n Grove in Ihe final match although R. C .W .• J.S.H. and G.C.A. all st ru ck some splend id blows. G.P. R. led th e bowli ng attac k a nd was wc ll supported by M.J.H., P .W.D. and R.C. W . as we ll as the fielder s who held all to nine calches. At Ihe presentation afterwards, J o hn Sin glct on and Pat Gent were thanked ro r the ir hospita li ty over the years a nd were wis hed all the best ro r the rutu re. One again we are since rely grateru l ror all the generosit y shown by our rriends in Dorset, particu la rly the Hat ch and Elliott fami lies whose provision of accom modation makes touring possible . 270 SWIMMING (}.S.H.)

rhe first match next year will be our 80th and there arc plenty more records waiting to be brokcn - R,P,B, please note! M.l.H. TOJlrParIY: M.J.H. (Manager), P,G,H" P.W.B., H.E.J.A., G.C.A., H.M.R., M.J. Cleaver, J.S.H., W.R.P., R.C.W.,

M.J. Hatch, P.R.T., G.P.R. Also played: I.R. Elliott, A. MOrlan, P. Davies. RESULTS Harvesters, 154-7 (H.M.R. 41); Blandford, 15-1. Drawn. C<lnford Outcasts, 18 1-9 (P. W. B. 4-39); Harvesters, 103-7 (J .S. H . 54 n.o.). Drawn. Compton House, 101-9; Harveste rs , 104-6 (G.C.A. 41). Won. Harvesters, 99; Sherborne Town, 100-9 (M.J.Ha. 38, J.S.H. 5-33). Lost. Harvesters, 162-8 (R. C.W. 46); Chafyn Grove, 122 (M.J.H. 4-22, G.P.R. 4-44). Won.

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Athletics There are inevitably generations which are weaker than olilers, and success resu lts from current performance, not preceding reputation. Sadly King's has not quite enjoyed the sweeping success this yea r enjoyed by the preceding four or five years. Nonetheless, so me good results were delivered, and some va luable lessons were learnt at both individual and team level. The season opened wit h a fouf-way fixture against Epsom, Kent College and Duke of York's, and King's came down to earth with a bump. Although on ly nine days into term, giving King's a week's disadvantage compared with other schools, those firs t nine days are crucial for the whole team, and a certai n lack of preparation both in the days before the match and the match day it self visib ly affected the team's performa nce. King's were really more fortunate than deserving to fini sh second overa ll, despite coming third in two of the age-groups. T here were some good performances, however: in the juniors, Hall's Hurdles a nd Fadeyi's Long Jump; in the In ters, Dunn's School High Ju mp Record (1.80m), and Rayment's 800m; in the Seniors, Wh ite's 100m, Mycroft 's shot and javelin, and Attwood's 400m, 800m and 1500m . Fortunately a rather mediocre opening fixture shook the complacency out of the team, and the second match witnessed a marked improveme nt. In the Sen io rs King's were in the top two places in ten out or twelve events, a nd nine in the In ters. High light s were in the Inters - Dunn's double victory in the Long and High Jump, Ray ment 's in the 800m and 1500m, and Landale and Marquis in the 400m and shot respectively. In the Scni ors, highlight s were White's double in the 100m a nd 200m, Mycroft's Iriple in the shot, discus a nd javelin, a nd Attwood's 400m, 800m and 1500m. King's won both age路groups as well as a nai l-biting victory in the girls' match. The six-way match at Tonbridge was slight ly disappointing with King's struggling to thi rd overall, but it portrayed a realistic pict ure o f the King's at hletics team, with the Seniors enjoying a good win, the Intermed iates coming a disappointing fi fth , and the Juniors fourth. The highlights were, in the Inters, Dunn's Long and High Jum p, Lawrence's Hurdles and Rayment's 800m and 1500rn. The Senior events of note were White's 100m and 200m, Gardener's Hurdles, Mycroft's shot, discus and javelin, Attwood's 800m, 1500m and 3000m and a fitting climax with the relay team (Murdoch, d'Orray, Gardener, White) equalling a good school record: it was a significan t demonstration of preparation proving an assured path to success, for while this relay team contained no top-notch sprilllers by County and Nationa l Standards (yet!), a lot of hard 路work on the technica lities of change-overs reaped its reward with a creditable time of 44.8 seconds. The Choiemely Shield at Enfield - by far the most demanding competition King's was to encounter - like the Tonbridge match renected King's in a realistic light , and it was a great credit to King's, seriously affected by injuries, to fini sh fifth OUI of eight against so me of the top ath letic independent schools. The meeting brought out the best in severa l King's ath letes - Rayment's 800m and 1500m, Henry's 800m, Mycroft's shot and ja velin , Attwood's 800m and 1500m, and Gardener's classic victory in the Hurdles, which was, again, a good demonstration of the long-term bencrits of hard training. The last school fixture for all three age-groups was a triangular fixture with Eastbourne and Lancing. Admittedly the standa rd of competition was low in comparison with the preceding matches, but it was a good morale boost for King's to co me away wit h a 'c1ea n路sweep' of victories in all three age路groups. A strong wi nd and slow track impeded performances, but no more so for King's athletes than others, and worthy of ment io n are Rayment's 800m and 1500m, White's 100m and 200m, Mycroft's throwing, Attwood's 400m, 800m and 1500m , and the senior relay team. The fi nal rixture of term was the Duke or York's (senior) Cup competitio n, where the former hint of complacency was noti ceable. King's was not aided by a long gap or three weeks encompassi ng school and public examinations which severely resnicted and somet im es eliminated training. It was a neck and neck battle wi th Sut ton Va lence, with the latter emerging as win ners by a Illere rive points. Consideri ng King's had beaten Sutton Va lence earlier in the season, it was sad to lose fo r only the second time since 1978. 27 1

SPORTS DAY (Jonothan Marshall)

Time after time the im pon ance of training and preparal io n was revea l d tI . b .. or the lI nr~ecessa ry a n~ irk so me shape o f pu lled mu scles. Self-co nfide; ce ;::ds~~foll , c I ~ I~ Ihe happy for!ll of success and wa rmmg- lip exercises always rebound bad ly on the clil ni ts T he cness w~1 regard !o b<.t slc stretchin but many ot.i1er athletes deserve to be recognised. Overton, ~ 'Offay J~~~e nrmesl ~cu r lime. a ft ~r tnne. III this repon& n T~e ded ication and hard work of the fo rmer three 6b pupils has bee oc I ( enry spnng nn med lately to mind ' will be of grea t benefi t to the club next year. Those who d id not gel ~ ~~~i~ar~ t%U!lger-al hleles especially, and

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' Tlte Call i llgrian ' and a c Ie It ~at.ters . To compete l~l Ath letics (Or IS to reduce the sJ:!ort to an unju stifia ble ego-tri p. It is a sadly narrow-minded ~~~r~ tile Isbthe a pex o.f A.tll le.tlc achievement by th ose responsible for the distri bution o f rewards and some tim es shamef II U ( e, ut one which IS widely recognised seekers themselves. ' u y or worse shameless ly, by the rewa rd_

Fi nally, ou r tha nk s must be extended to all the coaching st ff· M H II d' . in the sprints, Mr. Whi te in the throws and Mr Gales a r. 0 an III the midd le-dista nce events, Mr. Philli 7ndless supp ly of teas . Tha nks too are due to B~b and Nesv' ngmaster. T~a n ks arc ow~d also to the caterers for t hei~ mto .a r,especlable t.rack. Sadl~ Mr. Gales wilt be leav ing ul~ea~~~r c~~;et~t:~g ~I~ugby pitch as ol~ an~1 hi lly as the hilts to Kmg.s. In a relatl~ely short tunc he has turned King's into a for mi da ble A I' . d all kn ow that ~t Will be a great loss Champions and Nat ional Finalists wi th relen tl ess energy and pat ience (a d t 1 1~tlcs SCr OOI, P~OdllCI.ng numerous COUllty Ga les every success at Tonbridge. , n ,were re evant, Impati ence!). We wish Mr.

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SIMON ATTWOOD. RESU LTS 2nd.MRY Home v Epsom v Kenl College v I)uke of York's 7e;lI~r: I, Epsom, 162; 2, King's, 135 ; 3, Duke of Yo rk's 94' 4 Kent Co llege 89 I, Epsom, 150; 2, Duke of Yo rk's, 137; 3, Ki ng's: 107; 4, Kent Colleg~ 87 o~~;~i: ~en t CO~~~~'213:! 2" Epsom, 124; 3, King's, 11 2; 4, Du ke of York 's: 109. ,psom, " lIlg s, 354; 3, Duke of York 's, 340; 4, Kent College, 288.

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51h .May Horn e v Se\'ellollks v SUllon Valence J,~;~,~r: I , K~ng:s, 11 5: 2, Sulto n Va lence, 102; 3, Sevenoa ks . 65. '/·. I, K!ng,s, 11 3,2, Sevenoa ks, 92; 3, Sulton Va lence, 78. G Ir s. I , KlIlg s, 67; 2, Sevenoaks 62. Overall: I, Ki ng's, 228; 2, Sulto n V~lence, 180; 3, Sevelloaks, 157. 9th .May Away v T?nbrid ge \' Hai/ey bury v Hurslpierpoinl v Kenl College, K C S W",nbl d 5 elllOrI KlIlg's 246' 2 T b 'd . e on . 15 1' 6 H '.' ~n n ge, 224.5; 3, Hai leybury, 213.5; 4 " Kent. Co. llege 199' 5 K C S Wi mbledon, IlIfe," ' , . urs tplerpolll l, 1.04 . "'" . ~: ~~c~s~d&7rn~~I~d~'n~If:~:5~ury, 191; 3, Hu rs tpi erpoi ll t, 164.5; 4, Kent College . 164; 5, King's, 161; Junior: Overall:

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183; 4, King's 155' 5 K C S Wimb led 151 ' "'" on, ; 605.5; 3, King's, 562; 4, Kell t College, 546; 5, Hurstpierpoint, 412.5 ;

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Elon,. Uugby, I:'elsled, Hab.erdllshers I, H!ghga te; 2, Rugby;"J, ~efliJ~t~;l;K~:l~~~;.' 5Et~~;r\~lc~.u~vl~hi 7'd:V7cl hn.gto,n; 8, Ha berdas hers. I, Highgate; 2,. Eton; 3, Rugby; 4, Welli ngton; 5: Ki ng's' 6 r.el~t :~~ -7 b ~ I n~~: ~' Ha berdashers. I , Rugby; 2, Highgate; 3, Eton; 4, Well ington' 5 Ki ng's: 6' Felsted: 7' DUI W!C : 8' ~Iabberdashers. " " " lI WIC I1, ,r a erdas hers. Away v Easlbollflle v La ncing I, K!ng:s; 2, Eastbouflle; 3, Lancing. I , King s; 2, La ncing; 3 Eastbourne. I, K! ng:s; 2, Eastbo urnd; 3, la ncing. I , KlIlg s; 2, Eastbourne; 3, Lanci ng.

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Inter-House Athletics The biggest surprise o f all thro ughout the Inter-Hollse compet it ions was that th ey wcre able to take place o n the schedu led days during a month or so o f appalling weather. The Slandards compet ition was held on overcast but fortunately dry days, yet with ga le force winds which one week wou ld propel the runners at break neck speed down the 100 metres straight, and the next wou ld almost halt them completely. The Shu ttle Relays fo llowed a sudden downpou r, and made starti ng a precarious but amusing busi ness. Sports Day itsclf took place on a day when Bir ley 's was probably the only place in the South East of England to stay dry. Competitio n was inte nse, as evcr, bu t really the batt le was over 2nd place, as Broughton won conv incingly. My thanks ~o H.ousemasters and House capt.ains fo r organisi ng their teams, and 10 the large numb.er of masters who assisted wit h Judging at ~lIthc event.s: A spccm l word of thanks too to the groundsmen for managm.& to prepare the facililies in the most trYlllg of condll lons. R.C.W. RESU LTS ATHLETICS STANDA I~DS - Winners: Li nacre SHUTfLE RELAYS - Winners: luxmoore SI'ORTS DAY Individ ual Itesulls: Juni ors 100 METRES: I , O. A. Fadeyi (LX), 13.2 sec; 2, J . S. Ma hony (S H); 3, D. K. Y. Chum (G R) . 200 METRES: I, A. J. C. Hya tt (B) , 27.00 sec; 2, 8 . E. W. Yo ung (51'1); 3, J . M. Press (W). 400 MEl'RES: I, J. J. Rhodes (Gl), 68.2 sec; 2, W. R. J. Osmo nd (GR);3, T. J . N. Brown (MR). 800 METRES: 1, D. T. Hamilto n (S H), 2 min 29.3 sec; 2, S. S. Shariff (MR); 3, W. A. Ma nning (GR). 1500 METRES: I, W. J. H . Davies (MR), 5 min 21.4 sec; 2, P. J . Gollop (LN); 3, T. Ballenden (GL). 80 METRES HURDLES: I , C . D. K. Ha ll (W), 13.6 sec; 2, A. F. A. Fa llin (LX); 3, M. O. A. T homas (GR). LONOJUM P: I, D. T. Hamilt on (S H), 4.73m; 2, O. A. Fadeyi (LX); 3, K. R. O. O. Sonaike (W). TRIP LE J UI't U': I, C. D. K. Hall (W), 13.60m; 2, S. Rosato (MT); 3, B. E. W. Young (SH). HIGH JUMP: 1, A . F. A . Fahm (LX), 1.44m ; 2, J, M. Press (W); 3, S. R. Maggs (LN). SHOT: I, P. C. Paca ud (B), 9.22m; 2, D. J. Men nell (T) ; 3, E. J . Bet ham (MT). DISCUS: I, D. K. Y. Chum (GR), 27.47m; 2, T. Ballenden (G L); 3, K. M. Mouzo ll rou (W). JAVELIN: 1, A. J . C. Hyatt (8), 25.53m; 2, A. C. Hulme (GL); 3, A. J. B. Rid ings (MR). 4x 100~'1 RELAY : I, Wa lpo le, 55.4 sec; 2, School l'louse; 3, luxmoore. Age Group Winners: Walpole Inlcrmediales 100 METRES: 1, R. J. Kab ban (LX), 11.9 sec; 2, L. F. T . Dunn (B); 3, R. W. 1-1 . Scha fer (SH). 200 METRES: I, I. W. Mon khouse (LX), 25.4 sec; 2, A. R. Rinald i (0); 3, K. P . Godfrey (W). 400 METRES: I, M. G. Ie Hu ray (SH), 55.7 sec; 2, M. P . Philpoll (B); 3, M. G . Nort heast (MT). 800 METRES: 1, B. M. Raymellt (SH) , 2 min 16.4 sec; 2, D. P . P. G09frey (IN); 3, G. B. And rews (8). 1500 METRES: I, J. M . Rowsell (B), 4 min 59.3 sec; 2, J . J . Lum ley (MT); 3, S. Hart (T). 100 METRES HURDLES: M. C. G. Lawrence (T), 15.2 sec; 2, S. Wi lliams (G R); 3, M. A. Ay ida (lX). LONG J UM P: I, M. G. Northeast (MT), 5.30m; 2, T. J. You ng (SI-I); 3, S. T. Henderson (M R). TRIPLE J Ur-.oJI': I, M. C. G. l awrence (T) , 12. 17m; 2, L. F. T. Du nn (8 ); 3, K. P . Godfrey (W). I'I'GH J UMP, I , A. R. Rina ldi (B) , 1.59m; 2, M. A. Ay id a (L X); 3, E. R. S. Floydd (GL). SHOT: I , B. A. Marqu is (G R), 11.9m; 2, R. W. Gi rlin g (G L); 3, J . A. T. Ashbee (W). DISCUS: I, J . Aboderin (W), 3 1.60m; 2, B. A. Epcga (LX); 3, J . K. R. Wa lker (8). JAVEUN: 1, W. Ballenden (Gl), 33.02m; 2, A. J . W. W. Skarbek (lX); 3, J . D. Mycroft (B). 4x 100M RELAY: 1, School House, 50.3 sec; 2, Luxmoore; 3, Broughlon. Age Gro up Winners: Broughton Se niors 100 METRES: (Gi rls): 1, S. A. Hawken (MT ), 13.4 sec; 2, E. K. Wass (G L); 3, E. C. 1bbon (LN). 100 METRES: I, C. N. White (GL), 11.6 scc; 2, K. O. Phill ips (W); 3, D. J. Laurence (B). 200 METRES, I, T. d'Offay (MO), 24.1 sec; 2, A. M. Guy (LX); 3, T. P. Briggs (GR). 400 METRES: I, S. J . Anwood (T), 53. 1 sec; 2, A. C. Gillespie-Smith (lX); 3, P. A. Ham ilton (B). 800 METRES: I, D. A. Knight (MO), 2 min 16.6 sec; 2, A. R. Nash (B); 3, M. J. Cu mber (W). 1500 METRES: I, N. C. Henry (lX), 4 min 41.9 sec; 2, B. M. A. Wrench (SH); 3, A. J . C. Rattray (W). 110 METRES HURDLES: I, I. E. Ga rdener (T) , 16.8 sec; 2, A. G. F. Murdoch (MO); 3, P. P . Lacamp (8 ). LONG JUMP: (Gi rls) I , A. M. Cochrane (Gl), 4.20m; 2, K. E. We llesley (MO); 3, C. A. Simper (MT). LONG JUMP: I , C. M. Wh ite (GL), 5.99m; 2, I. E. Gardener (T); 3, P. P. Lacamp (B). TR IPI.E JUMP: I, K. O. Ph ill ips (W), 12.02 sec; 2, A. M. Guy (LX); 3, H. A. Williams (B). HIGH JUr-.II': I, N. J. Price (lX), 1.65m; 2, J. J. C. Rawli nson (T); 3, S. J. Grimes (GL). SHOT: 1, M. A. J. McH . Overton (B), 10.76m; 2, T. A. F. Epps (MR); 3, M. V. Beatrice (T). 273

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I, Broughton 158111; 2 Luxmoore 127; 3, ~alpolc 103; 4, School House 10 1; 5, The Grange 85 6 G I ' Meisler Omcrs 72111; 8', Tradcscant 80; 9, LIIli.lcrc 63; 10, Marlowe 55; II . Mitclll ilson 's 5 1. " a Pill s 81; 7 Victo r Ludorlllll C. N. White (Gl).

Girls' Athletics Th e Girls' Athlc~i~s (cam was act ive this term al though we on ly participated in one match due to tI

~h C lac k of co mpel.IIIO!)' However, the mat ch aga inst SUll o n Va lence was successfu l with Al~x Cach r11le lC W~,\tI~cr and OOm! 800m a nd 11Igh Jum p a nd Sa ll y-A nn Hawken winning the 100m a nd lo ng jum,; Unfortunatel E wl~lIng th e

to reti re du e to a pulled m uscle, but the t hrowers (Zoe de Lin de Li z Ibbotl Kirsten And c d MY .Illm a ass had that girls have plenty of power. Co ngratula tions must go to Caroltne Keppel-Ila lmer who b r~v~I~I~amea~Jat C~~fg) proved van to flll~ the 1500m a nd came in behind Fio na C haffin (by five min utes). Julie Rankin a nd Ki rsten l~~ I 'cle~corers' away to vlctO ~y: where were the ot her competitors? Clare Simper a lso showed promising finishing spr;~ :S !e H1rdled We would li ke to thank all the at hletics coaches for their support. SAI.I.Y. ANN H AWI\ I:N.

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Under 15 This year ' s squ ad restored o ne's fa it h in the Boat Cl ub! T hey were disciplin ed punctua l lively go I f pro bab ly our fa stest J . 15 crew yet. ' , , , o c Ull

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T he overwhclm ing problem was that we only had a squad of nine' o nl y o nce in the whole season d id we to row the selected crew. Let 's hope we have a good number o f J 14s co'min u next car '. '. . managc become very. vulnera ble to a ny sort of accid ents (and wc won ' t I~ave thc de~)t l~ o f str~n~t l-;-w~t ~~~~I~~ ~~~ :~1~111~~~~1~::;~ to ~t. C~m~r;1gc lwe rowed the ~elect.ed crew. They met Radlcy in thc fin a l a nd in a n cxcit ing race rowed through t hem , III y,w a e ngth - the fll'stllm e a J .15 crcw ha ve won such an ea rl y regatta. So thin s looked ood TI rrolb lcn~s started ... Our strok e went down wit h a bro nchi a l in fectio n. Ada m Watts stcpp~d ill" he ~ ne~t ~e~1 thc t .le leaVlest o.f oa rsmen ... At the Dock lands t hey rowed a feeble firs t rou nd , then a n 'cxcellent s~' I d " u not flll al. In thc fllla ithey moved up fr om behind (thcy do have a rat her 'laid-back' - not Lad Mar a~.Ol~ to gct to the home thct y we~e up to 3rd pl ace, when 7's slidc run ner collapscd. Thcy managed to li; np ing4tl~t ons:~~t~u~!!?~ly' ley got togetler wit h 4 J . 14s a nd got a sil ver medal - not bad fo r such a mixt ure! . ,

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Then Th ame~ Ditton. The hi red Land-Rover broke down in the G reen Court, so we never got thcre al al l. .. Thel~ Ihe Nallonal Sc hools. Wc got therc: so did a galc force wind and (for the first time which is perhaps a s" rpr'se) tl Ie ent ire event was cancelled. . . ' , I For Wa lt o n, we lost o ur heaviest a nd most experienccd oars man Ed Bcaugic to O- Icvcls J"m W dd II r I cxcellcnt J . 14s, came in _ the result wasn't his fa ult! '" . I a e, o nc 0 t iC

Tlhel~ inbtollVs , and pot hunting at Huntingdon lookcd like fu n. T hen as they steamed away fro m the o nl y OPI)osit io 1 a p astlc 0 t o n the Don shcared a nd tha t was the cnd of 3's slide. . I

Et~l~ ?~di~~rt11~v~i:~;lt ~~n~i~n f~'!1'~SO~\ tOt ~ing's We~k'i but t l~ey had two good races,losing to a rathcr more expcrienced

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to ?UI ~cs~itc th atft v~ry good season. The J .15 ycar i~ vcry n~uch a.t rai nin g ycar and, by t hc cnd, this ercw was sta rting As 00 n~ature,.c eetl ve and fast. A bove all, they enJOY their rowlllg. It wi ll be intcresting to sec how they come on ever t lere a lc ma ny I have to t han k - a ll those parcnts who come to support (particularly thosc who camc t~ 274

Nott ingham and then saw so lillIe) and of cou rse Peter Wi llis old home water.

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S. J .G. The Crew: Stroke, D. P. Simpson: 7, B. N. J. Long; 6, E. J . Beaugic; 5, J. R. Breit; 4, B. Hard y; 3, N . A. Jamieso n; 2, J. G. Macdonald-Bell; Boll'; B. Ashcroft. Cox: G. Campbell. Reserve: A. N. Walts.

!!nder 14 The start of thc J 14 rowing seaso n was no n-existent owing to another freeze-up - so not only were we a full term behind most of our good compet ito rs who started in September, but t hcre was no wa ter! Sw imming at the Ki ngsmead Pool, circu its in the gym and tests on the Rowing E rgometcrs kept the 26 people who o pted fo r rowing occupied. In the meantime, boats werc moved to the o ld boathouse at Fordwich and thc landing stages dug o ut again. Clinker quads werc scen once aga in on the river at Fordwich, the poor coach having to run along the bank! Thc thaw eame and with it a return to th e lakes at Wcstbere. Eights were now afloat and there we re some scu llers starting 10 show promise. By t he end of February a quad was emerging, but thcrc were no signs of an eight. For the Schools' Head o f the River Raee only a quad was entered. They sculled very wcll indeed and were sllccessful in winning the J . 14 Coxed Quad Pcnnant - only one second off thc record! As mentioned above, many of our rivals started in September, so in o rder to make up time a short training camp was organiscd just bcfore the start of the Summer term (several schools do this regularly). After this short period of inlen sive training, several people were startin g to look like oarsmen a nd an eight bcgan to take shape. Cambridge Regalia was the first, to which two eights were taken. The B cight lost to K. C.S. Wimbledon, but by no means rowed badly. The A cight had a splendid racc against K.C.S. in the final and won by several lengths, drawing away at the fin ish, a n indicatio n of Iheir strength and fitness and a taste of what was to come. Th is was a very p leasing resu lt as on the two previous trips to Ca mbridge King's had gone down to K.C.S. The fo llowing Saturday an cight a nd two quads travelled to Thames Dillon ... event ually. A hired land rover seized up in the Green Court and a rcplacement took its timc arriving. Anyhow, thc sq uad arrived thirty minutes before its first race, boats werc put togethcr, rigged , a nd then went st ra ight onto the water a nd up to th e sta rt. T he eight, looki ng rath er messy, rowed wcll cno ugh to win their first race; and A quad then gave an ex h ib itio n race, win ning by almost half the coursc. The B q uad had a close race, p Ulling up a good fi ght , but not qu ite having the horsepower necessary. After winning a very close sem i-fi nal the eight had to racc Kingston who , by the luck of the draw and a crew having to sc ratch, were yet to race. It was another close race, b ut the superior st rength of Kin g's camc through in the last twO hu ndred metres when t hey pulled in fro nt to conclude a very cx haust ing but satis fying day's raci ng for the eight. The A quad mct a very large Westminster quad in t he final as wcll as a very large wash fro m a cruiscr ; a ll was too . much and they came a close second. In order to stretc h thc eigh t and provide a taste of multi-Ianc racing they went to t he first Dockla nds Regalia, entered as a 1.15 B cight. The experience was good for them but it was ask ing too much of t hem to competc on a par with crews who had well over a year's more rowing experience behind them. On the Sunday in half-term a composite crew of J .14s and J . 15s had morc success - a silver medal. The Nationa l Schools Regatta, the one time crews from every school co mpete together, was unfortunately called off, for the first time si nce 1947. T his was a great d isappo intment as the squad had en tered for both the A and B eights with the cha nce of compet ing against the best in the country. Also therc were two quads entered, the A quad hoping to have revenge o n West minstcr over a larger course, but it was not to bc. After the school exams , Huntingdon was the venue for another victory for the cight, a rather easy one at that. A coxed fou r was put together for this regatta but u nfortunately they went out to the eventual winners. The last regalia of t he season was Bedford, and an exceptionally good row. Abingdon providcd the opposition in the firs t round; after a m ix-up at th e start Abingdo n got in front and even t hough King's pu lled back, Abingdon won by a 'ca nvas'. King's eovercd the 1300 met re course in 3 minutes 46 seco nds - Abingdon apart , no other J .14 eight nor J . 15 B eight and few J . 15 A eigh ts managed a time under fOUf minutes. All in all this has been a most success ful seaso n for the J .14s a nd t here has becn much improvcment in both skill and determination on t he pa rt o f a ll of t his year 's oarsmen; this a ll bodes well a nd I p red ict greatcr success 10 comc. As always Peter Willis has been an enormous help, both with th e coachi ng o f the squad and maint ai nin g the equipment.

The successful crews were: Schools Head of the River Race: T. W. H. Ellis, S. J . A. Bird, J. R. Brisca ll, P . J. Go llop. Cox: W. J. Swanson. 275

Cambridge Regalia: T. J. N. Brown, M. R. Williams, T. O. Filby. H. B. Rossit er. C. K. Robinson, T. E. B. Bagshaw, W. J. C. Harri ~ J. R. A. Waddell. Cox: W. J. Swa nso n.

Thames Dillon Regatta: A. S. Frew, M. R . Williams, A. J. B. Ridings, H. B. Rossiter, C. K. Robinson, T. E. B. Bagshaw, W. J. C. Harris, J. R. A. Waddell. Cox: C. M. M. COlllonte.

Huntingdon Regalia: M. R. Williams, A. J. B. Ridings , T. O. Filby. H . O. Ross iter, C. K. Robinso n , T. E. B. Bagshaw, W. J. C. "Iarris, J. R. A. Waddel l. Cox: W. J. Swa nson.

G.IV.H . . P .S. Th~ J.14 cox~d quad t ha.t was. in training at t~le ~ nd of th e s unlln ~ r term last year went on to gain a silver medal III the National Rowing Championsh ips of Grea t Bntaln (Bow: D. P. Simpso n, J . R. Brett, E. J. lleaugic, Stroke: D E. J. Bond, Cox: G. Ca mp bell). .

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On Sa ~ur~ay 13t h June Masters. parents, onlook~ r s and compet itors descended o n the Westbere Lak es fo r the second consecuti ve IIlter-hou se regatta. The weat her was flll e and the expectant masses were treated to a splendid competi tion. Jun ior QUlld Scu lls Most Ho uses managed to scrape together crews for this evcnt. Those crews that contained people that had scu lled before were obviously at an advantage. Linacre put up spirit ed opposition to a Marlowe 'walk over', but had no a nswer to their precision and balance. J unior Sin gle Scull s An exciting competition, b ut it became clea r that there were only three rea l co ntenders. Havi ng learnt the lessons of the Autumn (sculling) term these Removes had po lished techniqu es. A random clement was introduced when the raees were held in restricted boats. T he entertainment began in the second ro und wi th a close race between Ben Hardy a nd James Brett, the fo rmer narrow ly overcoming the latt er. who suffered steering prob lems. Ben went through to beat Damian Simpso n in th e fin a l. Senior Sin gle Sculls Th is again was a contest between a few people with the inexperienced entries o utclassed immediatel y by t he ex pert ' To p Squad'. In the fina l the inevitable clash between P aul Dyas (Linac re) a nd J ames Stern (Trad esca nt) occu rred a nd a lthough using inferior boats (the random elem ent again!) to those to which they were accustomed, Paul won d espit~ an exce llent piece of sc ulling by James. Se nior Coxed Ilairs Pairs consistin g o f top squad members foil ed all other att empts to reach the final. In the fina l the Linacre pa ir (K. Allen a nd J . Phi llips) narrowly beat the Ga lpin's pair (E. Valpy and E. Beaugic). O llen Coxcd Fo urs A winner was clear in this event from the start: Linacre . They had one or two slig ht advantages (such as co ntaining 40 0/ 0 of the 1st VIII) . They were challenged in the final. after three test ing rou nd s, by Marlowe and, d espite adverse steering, they cruised in comfortably ahead. Overall resulls Linacre wo n overall for the second year running. T hey were clea rl y in the lead with eig hteen poin ts. Marlowe came second with thirteen point s; Ga lpin's and School Hou se shared third p lace with six point s apiece. Our thank s to Messrs. !-Iartridge, Graham, Allen and Woodward for their time and patience in running th e regalia . Thank s a lso to th e !-lead master who kindl y presented the prizes and Mr. Leon Kwei who o rgan ised the excellent tea. Mr. Mi lford dese rves a specia l mention for manning the rescue launch; despite the fact that he attempted to encourage business , there was on ly one capsize. Greatest c redit must go to Mr. !-looper who o rganised th e event and to Mr. Willis with out whom the rega tta simply could not have happened. BEN I'I A~DY ANIl

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Canoeing This has been a quiet terlll , and a qu iet year. Our two captains were concentra ting on th eir A -levels, and ou r secretary o n his O ~ l eve l s, so no train ing was done to wards O. C. U. sla lom promotion. Ho weve r, there ha s been a fair a lll Ount of recreational ca noeing, especially when the summer fina lly ca me, and th is afler a ll is o ne importa nt function of the Club. 276

he one ra nking event visited was th~ No~ ice Slalo m at Win c he~te r on tI~e. last Sunday of term at which Andrew T leswO rth Nicholas Alcock and Godnc Jolhffe performed. At the lime of wntmg we are not sure whether Charlesworth Cha~een pro'moted - if he is not , it is certain he will be in t he Autumn, if he puts in the training. ha~ vould like to record o ur thank s here to our joint ca pta in s, A lex Martin and Simo n Rowsell. Their keenness ~nd chee~fulness have altracted people int o the C lu b; and their abi lit y as coaches has made thei r membe rship worthwhile . We wish them successful careers , on the water a nd off. Finally. congratulations to o ur most illustri o us O.K.S. paddler, Hugh Prit cha rd, fo r his ha lf-b lu e for canoei ng at Cambridge. M.J.V.

Golf Act ivity golf at P rince' s during the A utumn term each yea r is now pay ing dividends wit h new you ng talent emerging tojoin the team in the Summe r T erm mat ches. I am very pleased, as the o ut -going Ca ptain, to report that golf at King's is expanding both at Sc ho ol and I nl er-Ho use level. Restricted by exams after ha l f~term, the first five weeks of term were busy wit h drawn matches agai nst Scvenoak s, Cranleigh and SI. Lawrence, of whi ch two co uld very easi ly have swun g our way. With no shot s being received from a formidable T o nbridgc team (European Schoo l C hampions) we were plea.sed to win one match out o f six at the f~mous Royal St. George's Club. Our only victory was o~er Sutton Va lence COllung b~ck from two mal ch.es ~own to Will 4-2. In the mat ch against the O.K.S., j oy ful after their recent good performance 111 the Halford-Hewllt, II was perhaps a lillie disappointing to lose 6-2, but most games ended on the 18th. At least IWO King's brothers managed to reduce the deficit. Three leavers, Julia n Woods, Quentin Hu ghes and myself, were invi ted to take part in th.e O.K.S. S pri~g Meet in.g in June as has now become the custom. This yea r unfortunately was not to be for Mr. CrUlk, who sea rchlllg for hiS third consecutive win in the Bovenschen Bow ls compet ition could not produce his best for m. Ma rk Ursell, partnered by an O.K. S. who had played in t he victorio us Kent Schools sid e of 1967, won this event easily. The Kent S~hoo l s Championship returned to the Rochester a nd Cobham Park Golf Club after a pause of twe~ty years. M.r. C rUlk ~ell s me it was his fir st C hampio nshi p when we beat SI. Lawrence on a count back to the last SIX holes . TillS yea r thmgs did not go well o n a very hot day and a ll that could be said was that the team gained SOme fresh experience. It remains for me to say man y words of thanks. Firstly to Mr. C raik for a ll the hard work he has put into t he fi x tu~e list o rgan ising the Prince's golf clinic and d riving the tea m about Kent to p lay o n some of t he best golf courses III the'country. Seco ndly, to thank the O.K .S. Golfing Society. It is on ly since I have been Captaillt hat I have r~~ lI y come to appreciate the vast support that they give to King's go lf, especially for prizes at the Int er- H ouse com petlllo~, won this year by Daniel Morris and Flemmich Webb of Ga lpin's. A specia l tha nk you to Mr. Arnold fo r presentmg the prizes, to Mrs . Arnold for t he lovely ca kes a nd to Frank Stanger for hel ping M r. C ra ik so rt out the cards a nd for taking such a elose interest in the eve nt. Thi s year has been ext reme ly enj oyab le for me as Capta in and I wi,s h my s ucce~s or, D.aniel Morr.is. ~he ve~y best o f luck. I would like to thank all those who played in the team and hope their handi caps wil l soon be 111 single fi gures . P A[)DY GREENLEAF.

Team: P. J. Q. Green leaf (Capt.), M. L. Nicko lls. D. P. Morris, A. J . Greenlea f, S. J . S. Ursell . J. R. Woods, Q. C. !-Iughes.

Also played: D. P. P. Godfrey, F. G. Webb, P. J. Woods. Minor Sports Colours: A. J. Greenleaf. First Colours: P. J. Q. Green leaf. IlllerÂˇ House (Juniors): Mitchinson's.

Shooting Th is year we have bee n reasonably act ive . T he Club was left in a d ep leted state after last year, but by the Lent Term this year we were up to 57 members. Thro ughout both these terms our e fforts have centred around the 'new' 22 range at Blare's. introducing many people to target firin g and fas hioning a reaso nable lSI VIII. This term we unfortunately ran oul of ammunition carlyon and because the weapons issued by the arm y w.ere held back for var ious reasons, th e Club resorted to turning its sights to firing 7.62mm Mat ch Rifles (E lephant Rifles) on

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'Scollies '. We event ua lly produced two teams for the Kent Schools 7.62mm Match Shooting Competition bUI the s" I . of ou r rifles hindered us co nsiderably, leaving us low down the scoreboard. 1& HlIlg I would like to thank R. S. M. Ala n Booth for taking the ranges a nd coachi ng the teams and also I would 1"k say farewe ll to Herman n S. S. Spiegel, who proved a n excellent shot and an ab le secreta ry. I a lso wish to Ilml ke If members of the Club fo r coming down (after an excessive propaganda campaig n) , Lisa Lofda hl, whose excellent ~l a I on the Match Rine cou ld on ly equal those of Sebastia n SI. John Parker, and 'Marine' Muskelt who proved at the ~oMs Deal ranges that he could only just run faster th a n the 65 yea r o ld Royal Signals coach! .. MARC OVERTON.

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King's hit the slopes again. thi s time in Fla ine , for the Public Schools Championships, held on Apri I 8t h ~ llth . The team consisted of two 'pairs': Mi ra nda Merron and Garet h Evans (A team), and lain Girling a nd Peter Thomas (B team). Despit e the pouri ng rain and low visibil it y, everyo ne managed to qualify in the seeding race , a lt hough Peter demonslrated a new method of sta rting by missi ng the start gate com pletely... Condit io ns on the following day proved to be even worse, and 150 co mpetit ors sat a rou nd in the sleet. Miranda and Gareth both co mpleted both runs of the slalom course wit h good times. Unfortunatel y the B team had less luck and was di squalified. Once again, Pete decided that gates were unnecessa ry obstruct io ns, whi le lain showed everybody how Lo race on onl y one ski. However , everyone managed to co mplete the Gia nt Sla lom with excellent times. T he A team came second overal l, and were awarded race training scholarships and several medals. T he B team was placcd a respectable 10th , and co llected two medals for rema rkable resu lts considering thcir lack of ex perience. lai n spent most of his time on and off the slopes searchi ng for the elusive Anastasia. Ot her occupations incl uded fi llin g the bathtub with beer. Gareth developed a st ro ng interest in the ski pass office. Garet h has successfully qua lifi ed for the Junio r llritish Cha mpionships and Miranda has reached the Senio r British C hampio nships. She was also placed fourt h in the English Ski Coun cil races. II is hoped that Ih e Ki ng's Ski Team will continue to race next year - it stands a good chance of winning. Gareth Evans has been appointed captain for nex t season. MIR ANDA M (! RRON

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Tennis Despit e the dreadfu l weat her during the first (match-playing) part of term, an unusually large nu mber of boys have played ent husiastica ll y in rain a nd sun. Tennis has agai n shown itself as an exce llent socia l game a nd the courts have been packed with mi xed doubles matches in rece nt weeks. (Jo Durie a nd Jeremy Bal es certai nl y seem to have had an effect al Ki ng's !) T he three new co urt s have been a great success and we arc all looking forward to the completion of the other three in September. With the first~cJass pavi li on, th is wi ll give us match faci liti es second to non e. It is a pity that the hard surface at Blore's has never proved very suitable for tennis a nd we can on ly dream that a rich bene factor will someti me let us have a n odd 6000 squa re metres of astroturf to spread somewhere! As usual, sta ffing of the complete range of ages a nd abilities has been difficult, but Ihe under~ 1 5 squad has been lucky to have the services of L.T .A. coach Mr. Ron Mabberley for two sessions most weeks a nd I a m hopeful tha t he will be with liS aga in next year. In addition, Miss C laire Jones fr om C hrist Churc h College has orga nised th e Shell and Relllove a nd eac h gro up member has had the opport unit y of three hours of practi ce and coach ing every week. After a number o f success ful seasons, it was predictable that the 1st VI would not be of qui le the same high sta ndard this year. However, four o f the six regul ars wi ll be with liS again next su mmer a nd. with ha rd work on learning the art of thoughtful ra ll yi ng, they should form the basis of a solid side for 1988. Despite an apparcntly convi ncing dcfeat in the Glallvill Cup, in the decid ing match against Sevenoaks we had great chances to win 3-0 a nd to progress to the Kent final, but we lost oul in two vita l tic-breaks. The friendlic s brought a range of performa nces and results a nd it was disappointing to have three matches cancelled and the Westmi nster fixture curtailed because of rain. Si mo n Stuttaford a nd And rew Vi nto n have done well at first pair , si nce being bro ught toget her after the disast rou s first day of term at Du lwich. They did part icularl y well to win two rub bers against the stro ngest Tonbridge side I ca n remember. Paul No rris and Ric ky Kher have been an aggressive second pa ir and have had some good resu it s, but lack o f consistency has brought some disappoi ntments too. Neil Bisho p a nd Angus Scott have usuall y beaten the pairs they should have do ne, but have been a little outclassed at the top level. Although we shall have no rea ll y outstandi ng players next year, compet ition for places will be fierce, as two or three of this year's under~16s and at least IwO of the 2nd XI will be in st rong contention.

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GIRI.S' TENNIS Dibley, Nicola Odgers, J ul ie Ra nkin, Bernadelte McCull o ugh, Sara h Lee Warner. Sifling, L (0 R: Cha rlotte llIenkin , Alexandra Cochrane , C lare Wilson.

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Mr. Wainde has continued to look after the 2nd VI a nd , d espite the heavy defeat against a high

~( Tonhridge side , the tcam has played very well . Pract ices have been well att ended and at least twelve players

quae :een keen to represent the School. Naturally some have been unlucky to find themselves in a stronger group tha n ha' 1 I have high hopes that Ihis strengt h in depth wi ll be repeated nex t season. usua . (the junio r level, the under- 16s have shown promise and Oliver Scott and Flemmich Webb have proved an extremely d tcrrnined partnership. Mahesh Da lama l and Alex Woolston , both st ill eligible at this level next year , have the makings ~an excellent combination, treb ly difficult to deal with as Mahesh is left-handed a nd A lex plays with both! The most °rolllising newcomer is undoubted ly Mat.thew Willi fer...who seems to have been a perl,11.anent fixture on th e courts a nd ~as benefited tremend o usly fr o m the vanety of Opposit io n that he has played . In addition, there arc a few others who have spread their energies betw.een two spo~ t s this term and who shou ld make the under· I 5 team next sum mer, if they are prepared 10 devote more time to p ract ice. The Inter- House competi tions have been bad ly hit by the weather and, at the time of writing, the fina l deciding league match between T radesca nt and Gall?in's has still ~o be played. Win ners of the Seni o r Cup were Broughton,. who beat Galpin 's in an excellent a nd close fmal. The JU nior wm ners were Walpole, a superb team performance thiS as none of the four has represen ted the School this term . The ru nners-up were The G ra nge. The an nua l matches with the Comm o n Roo m and the O.K.S. were bot h played in superb weat her and, as usual, wcrc immensely enjoyable. The scores have become o f secondary importance in recent years, but the presence of Malcolm Smith , an ex- Kent co unt y player, in the O.K.S. side ensured that the visit o rs gave a good account of themselves. My sincere than ks to everyone who has helped wit h tennis during the year. Our o utside coac hes have done excellent 'obs Mr. Wainde has fired the 2nd VI with enthusiasm and Messrs. Turner , Reid and Tenni ck have helped wit h the LC<lgue. Mr. Woodley's experience has been invaluab le as always and I am delighted that his appet ite fo r playing the game has been st ill further renewed. Finally, on a note of real opt imism, Ollr newly-appointed P .E. teacher is a specia list ten nis coach a nd we a rc a ll loo king rorwa rd to nex t seaso n when we shou ld be able to trans late still more or ou r plans into positive act io n.

C .J .R.J. Tile following represented the School: Regular 1st VI: S. P. St uttaford· (Capt.), A. T. Vinton·, R. Kher ·, P. A. Norris·, A. G. J . SCOII ·, N. H . J. Bi shop +. 2nd VI: J. J. Lum ley+, C. H. H. Darley + , P. O. A. Thomas + , G. J . V. Eva ns, C. C. Mitchell, A. R. Unforth, I. C. Sloggett, S. G. Calthrop, J . R . Watson, B. C. Marson. Ullder 16 VI: O. D. SCOII, R. C. Scott, F. G. Webb, C. M. Pope , M. Da lamal, A. J. Woolston, G. A. Bo nes, B. D. Eaton, N. A. J . Goodwin. Under 15 VI: M. L. J . Willifcr, J. G. Hudsmit h, M. R. Jackson, E. R. H. Jo nes-Tho mas, J. P. Gooderham , I. Fardel l. - 1st Co lours. +2nd Co lours. RESU LTS 1st VI: Glal/vill Cup

Round I (H) v Sevenoaks. Lost 1-2. v Skinners . Lost 1-2. v Norton Kn atchb ull . Wo n 3-0. Friendties: v Dulwich (A). Lost !I.!-8Vl. v Sevenoaks (A). Lost 4-5. v Sim o n Langton (H). Won 8-1. v Eastbourne (A). Drew 4Vz-4!1.!. v SI. Edmu nds (A). Won 6!1.!-2 Vl. v Westm in ster (A). Won. v Tonbridge (H). Lost 2Vz - 6Vz. v SI. Edmund's (si ngles) (A). Lost 2-10. 2nd VI: v Du lwich (A) . Won 5- 1. v Sevenoak s (H). Lost 4-5. v Kent Coll ege 1st VI (H). Won 5- 4. v SI. Lawrence A VI (A). Won 7\12- 1 \12. v Tonbridge (H). Lost 9-0. Un der 16 VI: K.C .L.T.A. Under- 16 Cup Ro und 1 v Rochester Mathematica l School (H) . Won 6- 0. Round 2 v J udd (A). Won 4-2. 279 BOHEMIAN SUMMER (T.R.H.)

Semi/inal v Tonbridge (A) , LoS! 0-6, FriendJies v Dulwich (H). Drew 4Vl-4Vl. v Sevenoa ks (A). Lost 3Vl-5Vl. v Simon Langton (H). Won 9-0. v Eastbourne (A). Won 6-3. Under 15VI: Kent League v Swanscombe (H). Wo n 6-0. v Gravesend (H) . Won 4-2. v Sevenoa ks (A). Lost 1-5. Friendlies v Dulwich (H). Drew 4Vl-4Vl. v Westm in ster (A). Won. v Tonbridge (A). Lost 0-6. Various matches against Dover Col/ege, Sulton Volence, Simon Langton alld Brentwood hod to be cancelled because 0/ bod weather.

Public Schools Championships Desp ite dreadful weat her which made the grass courts at Aora ngi Pa rk unplayab le, both senior (Youll Cup) and junior (Thomas Bowl) even ts were completed successfu ll y at a variety of venues in the Wim bledon area . Our junior pair of Alex Woolsto n a nd Mahesh Dalamal per formed excellently, reaching the q uarter-fi nal stage with most competen t and fairly com forta ble wins over King's Roches ter, Reigate and Seaford, before losing 5-7, 3-6 to a good pair from Magda len Co llege School. T he resu lt hi nged o n the eleventh game, which we lost on ly after a fine baltic had produced nine deuces . In the senior competi tion we were drawn against the No . 2 seeds, St. Paul's, and we duly made the expected early ex it. However, there is a 'plate' event for teams who lose their first match and, with the aid of two byes, we found ou rselves in the quarter-fi nal aga inst Chelten ham. Simon Stuttaford and David Laurence won the first pairs malch convincingly , but Rick y Kher and Paul Norris lost in three sets. This meant that the Iv2 and 2vl rubbers had to be played and that, with an unusual poin ts system operating, we had to win one of them. Sim on and David happily obliged and we reached the semifinal against Stowe. Sadly, for reasons on ly understood by himself, Paul Norris failed to appear on time and we were, qui te rightly. scratched. This was doubly disappoint ing as Simon and David had played superbly to beat the Stowe first pair and we had one foot in the fin al. C, j,R , j ,

Girls' Tennis A tennis seaso n last ing effectively little more than four weeks hardly gives time to develop partnersh ips o r practise ski lls and tactics. We therefo re rely very much o n girls having played some tenn is in the Easter ho lidays and a couple of Lent Term practices had been used to sti mulate enthusiasm. Eight players rep resented the 1st VI, four from each year, wi th Alex Cochrane ca pt aini ng te nnis as well as hockey. and Nicola Odgers the best 6a representatives at first pai r, Alex playing a steady all-round game and Nicola mueh improved at volleying. Clare Wilson played seeond pair in the Aberda re Cup only, but our regular second pair was newcomers Fiona-Jane Dibley (next year's captain) and Sarah Lee-Wa rner, bot h of whom mad e considera ble progress during the course of th e term. For the th ird pair. Charlotte Blenkin and 6b girls Ju lie Rankin and Bernie McCu ll ough played some usefu l matches. Some uncertain pai rings handicapped us against Sevenoaks, but more settled pa rtnerships subseq uently produced beu er tenn is, and even though Ashford , Benenden and Simon Lang-ton proved too good the ot her three frie ndly fi xtures were won. In the Aberdare it was sat isfy ing to get through one round. and we enjoyed the seco nd matches in swelt ering heat at West Heath. After the exams. more informal games were enjoyed with St. Edmu nd's and the Com mon Room (m ixed). Finally there was a good social O.K.S. match. with Woodley girls appea ring o n one side or the other, as the morning's singlesex doub les turned into five mixed pairs in the afternoon, including a welcome return by Tracy Smith , partnering her brother Malcolm.

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. here was a large enough pool of keen players for th~ 2nd VI to hav~ .five ~atches and even a 3rd VI to HapPIIY ' lt . s Julie Rankin and Jessica Collins made a particularly competitive pair for the second team. plaY severa lime. J.A.W. wos' Alex Cochrane (Capt.) and Nicola Odgers, Clare Wilson anel Chari.otl e Ble.nkin, Sarah Lee-Warner The 1st Vjf D' Âˇbley Nora McCau ley Sian Beaugie Bernie McCullough and Julie Rankm also played. d Fiona- ane I . â&#x20AC;˘ ' . . an C I IIrs were awar. ded to' Alex Cochra ne " Nicola Odgers Clare WIlson and Charlotte . Blenkm. . . . 00 0110 wing girls played/or the 2nd VI. Bernie McCullough and Nicola Saunders, Ju lie Rankm and Jessica Colhns, T"e~cCauley and SHin Beaugie, Sophie Cockerell and Gaynor Sanders . . . . Nora d VI J ]' N d Gabby Wilson Melame Bones and Nicola Shaw, Hennetta The/olldO'Hving fJ i,rlSs ~~~I~[gr ~:~I;~ wai'so~ leN i~~~ C;~rke, Claire Simper, Ki rsten Andree and Shalini Davis. and Eynon an arne , ' Camilla Derouet. RESU LTS 2nd VI: 1st VI: v Kent CoJlege. Won 6-3. \' Sevenoaks. Lost 4-8. v Ashford. Lost 1-2. I' Kent Co llege. Won 7-2. v Sim on Langton. Lost 1-2. v Simon Langton. Lost 0-3. v Dover College. Lost 1-8. v Cranbrook. Won 3- 1. v Ashford. Lost 1-2. I' Dover College. Won 8- 1. v Simon Langton. Lost 1-2.

'A' VI: t) Benenden. Lost 1-8.

'B'VI: v Benenden. Lost 0-9.

The Abcrdllre Cup : First Rou nd : beat Maidstone G.S. 2Vl-V1. beat Sacred Heart, Tunbridge Wells. 2- 1. Second Round: lost to West Heath 0-3. lost to Ashford. Vl-2Vz.

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KING'S WEEK 1987 THE WINTER'S TALE This is an extraordinary play which ' lames report to follow it , a nd undoes description to do it'. We must believe for a moment at least that a statue is coming to li fe. We have no choice but to acknowledge the accuracy of Apoll o's oracle . Leontes is seized with a mad fit of jealousy for no reason we can understand. Most famous ly o f a ll , 'exit pursued by a bear'. It is small wonder that directors too infrequently possess the courage to put on this play , and that audiences are hard pressed to comprehend it. But the burden on our understanding and belie f is transformed into delight when we have the good fortune to enj oy a production as excellent as this. Selling, costumes , cast and music a ll combined to produce a n enchanting performance. The div isions in the play between wi nter and summer, Sicil y a nd Bohemia, were beautifu ll y pointed by Mr. Andrew Dobbin's exq uisitely chosen selling. While the figure of T ime guided us on from the icy furs of the tyrant's court to the flowery rustic abu ndance of Bohemian summer the plane tree presided wit h quiet grace, a sign o f na ture's constancy through the cycle of th~ seasons, despite th e ravages o f storms and bears, and, perhaps, a hint of some transcendental and unchanging force able to reunite estranged husband , dead wife, a nd lost daughter. The unyielding and im perfect human express ion o f that fo rce, Pa ulina, was memorably portrayed by Sarah Fahey, whose performance sympatheticall y conveyed the uniqueness of a woma n indicting th e tyra nt o f a ma le-dominated society. T hat this apparently pagan seer should be the instrument of regeneration through pen itence and fo rgive ness seems iron ic; but the play is at least open to the interpretation that Christian redempti ve values can in vigora te even a heathen culture - though, like Bell Harr y, the idea was kept only as a n illum inated bac kground , except fo r the sensitive addition o f the cross carr ied before the repentant Leontes. The fortunes of Pa ulin a's charges, Leontes and Hermione, were ve ry well presented by Tim Briggs and Lucinda Roberts. The tyrant's jealousy was conv incingly depicted as the sudden attack of an a ll-consuming disease - not an easy tas k - though his final humility perha ps lacked equal conviction. Lucinda Roberts' Herm ione was superb. There was considerable sensitivity of expression and timing in this performance, and a mature awa reness that words spoken simply and quietly can be the most movin g . Her progress io n from Act I, as submissive vict im , to Act V, as forgiver a nd suitor, appeared an entirely natura l in cre~se in strength a nd understanding, achieved with the ass istance of Paul ina a nd time. Hermione's lad ies greatly contributed to the atmospheric grace of the play's female world , gentl y shepherdin g golden-locked Mamillius (Adam Jackson) , and, in the person of C la re Wilson, poignantly bringing news of Perdita 'S birth. Special mention must be made of our entertainment in Bohemia . T he sheep-shearing scenes were indeed a feast for our eyes and ears, with rustic tunes composed by Miss Ant hea Wilcock, and dances performed with a vibrant spontaneity that belied the careful rehearsal they had so evidently received . The shepherds, both elder and younger, were rewarded with a ll the la ughs th ey deserved. Mark Evans had mas tered most impressively the art o f mimick ing age, show ing dextrous wit in the use of his crook wit hout a ppearing less than eighty meanw hile. A picture o f the wig worn by the engagi ngly animated Jeremy Murch surely deserves a place in the school arc hi ves, while Mopsa a nd Dorcas, his rival lady-lo ves (Eleanor Taylor and Samantha Bain), li kewise made history with a stunning display of bitc hiness, complete wit h tau nts a nd tuss les . (One on ly hopes this was not a reflection o f experience gained in St. Rad igund's .) The fin al touches we re put to this 282

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ustic comedy by some breath-taking gymnastics from the Shepherd's servant (Stephen Grimes), r nd the cheeky antics of Autolycus (Adam White) . His was a bold handling o f a difficult part, anlivened by beer-drinking from a top hat, and the irreverent adoption of a Union Jack as a

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A sinister figure in the midst of this hilarity was the disguised Polixenes, whose metamorphosis was well conveyed by the (aptly named) Paddy Greenleaf. It is Polixenes who at this time enjoys the services of Camillo, but the dependable Chris White succeeded in showing that while constantly shifting his ground , Camillo remains a moral force and hence a fitting match for Paulina . Tom Grieves, as Florizel, seemed more at home as a tender lover of the decorous Perdita than he did when confronted by his irate father, but in the earlier part of the play had demonstrated versatility in assuming the role of Antigonus at sho rt notice. Mr. Andrew Dobbin not only had the temerity to choose the play but also the artistic vision to exploit to the full a location which the school is so fortunate to possess. His set of a square on a square and many features of production and design spoke constantly of his sensitive attempts to help us to understand this difficult play. The energy and determination that can produce so impressive a production in so short a nd crowded a time demand prolonged ad miration. It was a shame that the cast were allowed only one laconic bow, and that we had no chance to acknowledge the producer's achievement, but sustained applause came from an audience which each night exceeded capacity. All four performances took place under benign skies, but the rain began falling heavily an hour after the last performance, just as I finished this review. 'Like an old tale still' . JANE SMART.

THE TRICKSTER OF SEVILLE AND THE STONE GUEST First performed in 1630, EI bur/ador de Sevilla was written by a Mercedarian friar, Gabriel Tellez, better known as T irso de Molina . His play, from that Golden Age of Spanish literature, has proved to be one of the most popula r Spanish plays over the centuries, and is said to be the source of the Don Juan legend. Tirso depicts a Don Juan whose immoral behaviour threatens the whole of society. He is an anarchistic rebel who uses different strategies - flattery, deceit, darkness, promise of marriage - to trick women from all social levels into succumbing to his desires. He abuses the hospitality of his host in a fore ign palace to seduce the Duchess Isabela, while he takes advantage of his own special position and abuses the institution of marriage to deceive the peasant bride Aminta. He shows himself to be a coward by killing old Don Gonzalo while avoiding punishment because his father is 'chief justice in the land and very influential with the King.' He is despicably arrogant in his total faith in God's unfailing mercy. But he refuses to heed the warnings that he will pay for his sins and is condemned to the flames of Hell, unlike the Romantic Zorrilla's Don Juan whose true love for Dona Ana redeems him just in time to save him from Hell . Tirso's protagonist is a destabilizing figure in a society which recovers its status quo only when the trickster is removed. Don Juan's characte r, however, is a fusion of the despicable and the attractive, very much in the tradition of the picaresque. Indeed he is not the only butt o f Tirso's attacks, for the author also condemns the corrupt, string-p ulling aristocracy; the wo men, for leading men on, or for having pre-marital rela tionships; and the social climbing o f the lower classes. The standard of entertainment was high for a second play a nd particularly convincing were the servant figures and the rustics. James Kn ight as Catalin6n gave a powerful rendering of the typical 'gracioso', that rather too insolent and forth right servant. Pavel Barter was an impish Ripio . These two characters, especially the former with his scatological references, provided much humour throughout the play. Regional accents were used to great effect by the directors in their characterization of the lower social strata, with Ed Hewertson proving to be a convincing social climbing Mancunian peasant! 283

Zizzy Shankland gave a confident performance as the teasing beauty Tisbea who one f gets her just rewards for tantalizing the poor fishermen around her when she is sedu~ed by eOcis, Ju~.

Some of the nobles were well portrayed: Dominic Burdess was impressive as an affected r k the Marques de la Mota, while Ted George was excellent as Don Octavia . A little more pan: e, might have been expected, however, in the lead r51e along with more emphasis on the dash c he scheming nature of Don Juan. IIlg, The sound effects and music were instrumental in setting the scene and building up th atmosphere and brought the play to a dramatic conclusion with thunder flashes destroying the tomb where Don Gonzalo gets his revenge on Don Juan. e The pace of the play was a little slow at times, as were some of the scene changes. Furthermar the act~rs on the IJeriphery .of the action in some sc~nes were too static .. Gwynne Edwards'~ translatIOn was a lIttle too lIberal at tImes and occasIonally there were dIscrepancies between the text and the action - Don Juan supposedly having tugged the beard of Don Gonzalo's stone statue, showing disrespect for the dead, but Richard Preston neither appeari ng as a stone statue on Don Juan's first visit to the church or having a beard! Nonetheless, the play, directed by Mr. Stephen Wainde and Mrs . Fiona Tennick, was a success overall and one of the best second plays put on at King's in recent years. C.P.N.

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It is very difficult for a modern cast to interpret a sixteenth-century play and convey successfully the fu ll mea ning of its Tudor English. But, in this respect, Gammer Gurtan's Needle - under the direction of Mr. Allen - entirely succeeded. Obviously, to appreciate such a play one has to concentrate on the words, but for any who were not concentrating there was a custard pie fight and liberal splashings of tomato ketchup and water to provide light relief. The story concerns Gammer Gurton (played by Andrew Darley) and the loss of her needle (or 'neele', as she put it) which she needs to sew the breeches of Hodge (Andrew Curlewis) , her man. Everyone in Gammer's household joins in the search, including Tib her maid (Jonathan Holdi ng) and Cock her boy (Pelham Niggi ns). T hen along comes Diccon the Bedlam (Simon Triggs) who wants to stir up trouble and so tells Gammer that Dame Chat her neighbour (played by Simon Dobell) has stolen the needle, and then tells Dame Chat that Gammer has accused her of stealing her cock. T he aforementioned fight ensues, with strong words (,Whore!', 'Bitch!') between Cha t and Gammer. In the end , after a certain curate, Doctor Rat (Neil Lawrence) has suffered a severe head injury (apparent from the tomato ketchu p!), Master Bayly the bailiff (Jonathan Price) sorts out all the quarrels, and the needle is found - deep in one of Hodge's buttocks. The acting throughout was very good, but the two Andrews deserve a special mention since they kept the whole play lively and displayed a wide range of expressions and tone. Jo Price made a convincing bailiff, showi ng his command over the common people. Simon Triggs managed the part of Diccon very well, with no prompts (and indeed there were none in the whole performance) . Neil Lawrence sounded very funn y as a curate, and Simon Dobell fitted the part of an old bag with all the bumps in the right place. Jonathan Holding, H ugh Clayton and Pelham Niggip.< were also good, and I liked Richard Redfern and Jonathan Grimes as gormless bystanders (although how hard they had to try I am not sure) . Ben You ng played the recorder, but I know he cannot have found the tune difficult after his solo in the Serenade . All in all , Mr. Allen's directing was excellent, and he should be proud of his final theatrical achievement at King's . ANDREW HONE .

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DRAMA WORKSHOP Th 's workshop featured Michael Taylor (GL 1978-83) and Tim Welton, who are both training b 'actors at RADA. Appropriately clad for fun in 'Tintin' T-shirts, they gave a demonstratIOn to I ~w they warmed up at their drama school. The audience were told to find a space on the of 'e, and shake their hands aro und vi~orously while j.umIJing up and do~vn and making stupId stags After this we were gIven a lesson III football hoollgamsm. We were dIVIded IIlto two groups face iiher side of the stage and began a slanging match, similar to those between the rivals on 7~0~ball terraces. This was an exercise in controlled anger but also gave us a chance to release s much energy as we lIked . a Then came the part which required and helped acting skills. Having divided into pairs, .one f the pair had to become as malleab le as a dummy while the other person moulded hIm IIlto o hape of his choice. After this the dummy became alive and the 'actor' had to show how he a suld adopt the trait of his character, including how the character would walk , talk and greet cO ' , his fellow ' d ummles. Then there were two word games. The first was a word association game with the whole dience jumping up clapping their hands and shou ting out the first word that came mto therr f,~ad. Then there was'the game in which three pupils (Paddy Gree nleaf, Maria Sleg~ and, Si~on Hart) were questioned and had to make sure that they did not use the words Yes or No m their reply. Finally there was a demonstration of how to fall as if a chair had been taken away from behind you. The two actor.s and Paddy Greenleaf set.up a scene which led to them all in turn st~a ling the chair from behllld someone and then havmg It stolen from behmd them. A!,d then It was the audience's turn. Although only a few people mastered It, It was great fun trymg and bodIes fell spectacularly. Michael Taylor and Tim Welton must be thanked for a very entertaining three-quarters of an hour. We wish them luck in this most competitive of professions. PETER DA VtES.

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Having read the somewhat understated advertisel:nerH for I Canne - V Kant :. 'An exercise in Alternative Comedy', few members of the enthusiastIc audIence that gathered m the Grange Yard on the Sunday afternoon of King's Week can have realised what they were m for. MIchael Taylor (GL 1978-83) and Tim Welton had devised an entertainment shakily. arranged around the tale of the Wife of Bath, which, they erroneously thought, would be app hcable to the town of Canterbury. Also misleading were the (as we soon discovered ironic) words 'We can promise there will be no audience participation'. Contributions in the form of fanfa res, suggestlon~ for what women most want in the world (complete domination over husbands bemg the wmnmg solutIOn) and a narrator - volunteered in the smiling and imaginative Henrietta Eynon - were frequently sought from the a udience. Two spoofs of 'The Price is Ri~ht' a~d aT. V. ~anel ga,me were ena~ted but with the commandos on the SIde of the male chauvmlst pIgs m the debate that transprred in the latter, it is not surprising that in terms of noise they were the side that won, though the feminists were awarded a moral victory. Only a few props, such as a lilac blanket (royal robe of Queen Guinevere), a rolled up umbrella (trusted sword of a n Arthurian knight, occasionally doub ling as a char~ s~w !) and.a watenng can (tropical deluge) were used. Even odder objects, for example the wlltmg asp,d,stra whose 285

significance was not made clear, were not; however, they all added to the eccentric atmosph This was aided and abetted by the can of Seven Up and packet of crisps which circulated e:~. audience - remnants from the performers' lunch break. These props were used to illustr e the loose framework of the story, which encompassed such diverse issues as feminism, arts cou~~ grants and constant sex . I Much enjoyment was had by all, not least because the performers themselves seemed to hay such fun - their mood was infectious. My only criticism would be that the humour wae occasionally a trifle self-indulgent, though this seemed to suit the occasion. T he exercise i~ alternative comedy given by two self-styled Wrexham University English Literature (or literatour as they put it) Professors went down extremely well . More of this please!

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BUGSY MALONE Of all the King's Week events Bugsy Malone was the most thrillingly original show performed. The cast included the very athletic Emma Wass as Bugsy, Julie Norey as Babyface and julia Warrander as Tallulah. The dancing was spectacular, all the girls having worked hard in rehearsals under the guidance of Mrs . Woodley and Mrs. Clarke. T hose who watched the production were made aware of just how difficult it was for the girls to dance together as a group whilst having to smile, not lose rhythm and not show their underwear to the audience . Sarah Lyons had some difficulty in fulfilling all these tasks but compensated by attracting large numbers of breathless onlookers. The 'Down and Outs' tried hard to carry out their routine and provided as much entertainment from their workou t as from the looks of intense concentration on their faces . The chorus girls showed a wealth of talent in their high kicks , precision turns and cleverly coordinated waving. The costumes were imaginative and made the dancing all the more inspired. All the girls did their utmost to ma ke the perfo rmance a success. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed watching the different numbers and were kept enraptured for the twenty minutes that the production lasted. Carefully conceived by Julia Warra nder, the choreographer, Bugsy Malone was performed with enthusiasm and charisma by the cast of lower sixth girls. The dexterity of Emma Wass a nd Julie Norey should be noted , whilst the chic Sarah Lyons and cool Sophie Cockerell will not be forgotten. Special thanks are due to Mrs. Woodley and Mrs. Clarke, without whose help and devotion the production would certainly not have been such a success. We look forward to seeing a similar girls' production next year. NEIL BISHOP.

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THE TWO SYMPHONY CONCERTS The first of these concerts offered the Overture to /I Seraglio, the Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No.11 by Vivaldi, Haydn's recently discovered Cello Concerto in C; and, after the interval, Dvorak's Symphony in G major. All the soloists in both concerts were members of the School. Mr. David Goodes conducted a carefully shaped performance of the overture, securing an affectionate account of its lovely central episode. In the quick sections, decorum rather than vivacity was the criterion. For Vivaldi 's Concerto Grosso the Concertante were Alice Cooper, Katharine Hamilton and Catherine Henderson who played with refinement in clean lines, but did not generate sufficient tension of tone or distinction of style to differentiate their part from Ihat of the Tutti. Chief honours must go to Mr. Goodes and the orchestra for their remarkably restrained work. It was interesting to hear an unfamiliar Haydn in the concerto recently rescued from a limbo of forgotten things. But it turned out to be inferior Haydn, although the construction of its solo part is remarkably forward-looking. The soloist, Ailsa Buchan showed a genuinely musical awareness. She negotiated some searching technical problems creditably, though her playing lost poise in the last movement. Her intonation was sometimes uneasy and the performance in general lacked solo-style. The orchestra, this time under Col. Paul Neville, was once again admirably discreet. The Dvorak Symphony was played at both concerts, and as the second performance was the more polished, the following is based on that. The Symphony is the severest musical test in any King's Week, and our orchestra rose splendidly to Dvorak's demands, showing the admirable res ult of Paul Neville's meticulous training and clear direction. Much could be said in praise of the corporate orchestral discipline and of individual talent, but space allows mention of only a few examples. Intonation in general was commendable, though clarinets tended to stray sometimes. Warm and expressive string tone and greatly improved restraint from the heavy battalions made for a satisfying blend and balance. The orchestra was very impressive indeed in building up the big climaxes, though rather less so in sustaining the long-breathed lyrical phrases. Occasionally some imprecision of note-values occurred in subordinate parts, accompanying figures, and the like. Little touches of colour in the background did not always glow. Such small details, such tremendous trifles, often pass unnoticed in a crowd; but see Psalm 51, verse 6. Merits abounded, such as some sparkling flautology, and a trombone's chromatic scale of well-judged audacity. Poulenc's enormously enjoyable Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra was given with elan by Elizabeth Robinson and Kristian Belliere with the Orchestra at the top of its fo rm. These gifted pianists, both also string players in the orchestra, are well matched, and together proved capable of dominating the proceedings as soloists should . A sensitively pointed performance was greatly enjoyed by the large audience. D.L.

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Concerto Grosso No. I In D Carelli Soloists: Peter Keeler and Jonathan Sampson (violins) Cathen ne Henderson (cello) 3. a) All Creatures Now John Bennet b) The Sil ver Swan Orlando Gibbolls c) April is in my Mistress' Face Thomas Morley d) In Going to my Naked Bed Richard Edwards e) Pastime wi th Good Company King HenlY Vl/i 4. Concerto in F for recorder and strin gs G. Sammartini 1st movement - Allegro Soloist: Benjamin Young 5. a) The Farmer's Daughters Trad. arr. Gerard Williams b) Three Songs of Springtime E. J. Moerall c) How Calmly the Evening Edward Elgar d) Yarmouth Fair Peter Warlock 6. Concerto in D minor for Oboe and Strings Vivaldi 7. a) T he Long Day Closes Soloist: Peter Apps Arthur Sullivan b) The Mermaid Trad. arr. John Whitworth c) Short People Randy Newman arr. Simon Carrington, OKS d) The Lost Chord Arthur Sullivan arr. Bany Rose

The weather is never right for the Band Concert. Usuall y it is too hot. Sometimes it rains (1980). Sometimes there is a plague of aphids (1979). This year it was the heat, but in the interval Mr. Barry Rose brought on the Serenade Choir and invited the audience to remove some clothes. Led by Canon Ingram Hill several Englishmen actually took off their jackets and several feminine shoulders were bared to the brazen beam of Sol. While the Band took a breather the Choir sang some charming items, namely, Calico Pie, Short People, Yarmouth Fair and The Mermaid . Much as I miss the Glee Club, this larger choir made it possible to hear all the amusing lyrics contained in these songs. Refreshed, the Band showed again that they had read the reviews by playing a medley of Big Balld Music which included such numbers as Take the A Train and Moonlight Serenade (very nice sound from the ladies and gentlemen of the clarinet section in this one) and, at last, Glenn Miller's Tuxedo Junction (requested 1980) . An arrangement of Greensleeves brought us back from the New World and then we were given another solo item by John Tegner and his piccolo, Piping Times. The soloist piped well indeed to fill the air with his diminutive instrument, not designed to carry as far as the post horn which followed . As far as I know the famous Galop is the only work for post horn (unless you include a few hunting numbers like Gone A way) and it has, therefore, to be played well, which indeed it was. Finally we had a selection from My Fair Lady (the last great musical?). Apart from a lot of cracking good tunes, this selection allowed several more solo passages all up to the Band's remarkable standard. Verdict : a full and first class concert. H.H.

VIOLIN AND PIANO RECITAL Alexander Stewart is in the middle of a two-year scholarship studying the violin at the Katowice Academy. With fe llow-student Lucjan Luc he has given several concerts in Poland , so it was perhaps not surprising that their playing was well rehearsed and well together. There was a problem of balance in the two Sonatas, but even when the violin was overwhelmed by the Steinway, the pieces came across with conviction . Lucjan certainly used the full tonal range of an instrument which must be at least a hundred times the size of its partner (volume varies as the cube of length). The solution is presumably either to use a smaller piano or find a violin with a bigger sound or both. It was an enterprising programme, with the exhilarating and intense Poulenc Sonata performed with elan and sensitivity, and the chance to hear the Chopin G minor Ballade in a Polish interpretation, which I much enjoyed. The outer movements of the Beethoven Sonata in G (Op. 30 No.3) were a little fast for my taste, and the middle movement a little slow for its almost excessive length. T he other work was the Havanaise by Saint-Saens, a good starter, and played after a slightly nervous beginning with the same confidence and ease that the rest of the programme displayed, though a little more Spanish temperament here and there would have been ideal.

The idea of a pre-lunch recital of about an hour seems to have been a good one, as about 150 people found the time and inclination to come. One hopes that the length and quality of the programme will encourage them to appear again if a similar event occurs next year. R.P.S. 289

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ORGAN RECITAL BY MICHAEL HARRIS .Mr. Michael Harris opened his first King's Week Recital on the Organ of Canterbury Cathedral

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nlirely played on the manuals, the pedal entering near the end with the theme in augmentation. First impressions count a great deal, and it was delightful to hear a piece of Bach's organ music layed at much the same sort of tempo that Bach himself would have played at; modern ~erformers tend to put on a great display of virtuosity, which is neither necessary nor authentic in music of Bach's period. Pleasant, too, was the absence of a great amount of stop-pulling al the end, a thing which Bach wou ld hardly have been able to do with the heavy action and inconveniently-situat~d draws tops of his time. The Chorale Prelude, from the 3rd Part of Bach's Clavieriibung, was, hke the Fugue, played at moderate and, no less Importantly, unwavenng tempo, with the theme.of the Chorale coming clearly through the somewhat florid runs of semiquaver ornamentatIOn .

Next, Michael Harris moved on to Three Pieces/or Musical Clock, by Joseph Haydn. Writing for such a clock was a somewhat popular pastime in the 18th Century, but, by its very nature, Ihe pieces are of necessity rather delicate in texture, and it was, sadly, almost impossible to hear clearly these pieces against the background of incessant tourist noise. Karg-Elert's Kaleidoscope, Opus 144, followed. As its name implies, it is something of a hotchpotch of contrasting textures, tempi and volume. Certainly Michael Harris got his own back with the tourists in the final flourish of this piece . The recital then moved on to 19th Century France, and the beginning of one of the most prolific eras of French Organ composition. Firstly, a Canzana by Alexandre Guilmant, born in Boulogne in 1837 and for thirty years organist at the great Cavaille-Coll organ at La Trinite, in Paris, at whic h, incidentall y, the present incumbent, of fifty years' standing, is Olivier Messiaen. T he Canzona is a light piece, adm irab ly suited to the English organ (unlike so much French Organ music of the period), and as with all the pieces in this recital, was played with a clarity and precision not often heard these days. This was followed by the Sicilienne from Louis Vierne's Pieces de Fantasie, a late work, written in 192617. Like the preceding piece, it is well suited 10 Ihe English organ; unfortunately, background tourist noise spoilt this piece. Everyone knows the last movement of the fifth Organ Symphony by Charles-Marie Wid or; few, apparently, know the First Movement of his Great Sixt h O rgan Symphony, in G minor - at least one member of the audience was seen to rise verticall y as the first chord was played at the exposition of the theme. This is, without queslion, a virtuoso piece, and Michael Harris played it slightly faster than many organists dare (or can?). Nevert heless, the pace notwithstanding, the rapid passages in the middle of the piece were absolutely clear and played with a precision few can achieve. It was, indeed, a wonderful ending to Michael Harris's recital, and it finally proved an effective salvo against the noisome tourists - rarely have I heard the Full Organ so loud, so much so that the very stone of the building shook. We are indeed fortunate to have so accomplished an organist, whose authentic performance was matched by the originality of his programme. R.V.LB.

SECOND ORCHESTRA AND WIND SOCIETY CONCERT If one of the objects of King's Week is to involve as many pupils as possible in the creative arts, then Ihe concert of the Second Orchestra a nd Wind Society - a new venture for King's Week - should retain a permanent place in the programme. I didn't count the numbers in the orchestra but they formed a pretty impressive phalanx raked up on the Shirley Hall stage. And they made a memorab le so und, too . From an orchestra made up of humbler performers, boosted by a few experts, we did not expect the finesse of the Symphony Orchestra or the sophistication of the Chamber Orchestra, but what they lacked in technical sk ill they certainly made up for in gusto and the evident 291

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~I/les; the rhythm rode al~ng beautifully, providing the basis for expressive playing on sax, piano, trombone, and Gumpert strumpet. The Combo played the well-known piece Work Song . T he rhythm section, with Antony Michael won bass guitar and T im Weller on drums, provided a firm rhythmic base. The performance ~~s good, but not outstanding. The Combo were followed, somewhat apo logetically,by the very musical, lively and humorous Close Harmony Group . Since there was no vocal contributIOn to the Trad group, the close harmony was very welcome. We heard a very beautiful rendenng of Henry Mancini's Moon River, with a del icate soprano lead by Ailsa Buchan. T he second iece, A HistOiY Of The World, was highly. techlllcal and very funny, IIlvolvlllg bnef and totally irreverent selections from well-known mUSIC, such as the HallelUjah Chorus, Sheep May Safely Graze, Beethoven's Fift h , 1812, 2001, I've Got A Love Of My Own and (inevitably?) Moon River. Chris White (Director) enjoyed his 'King's Singe rs'-style bass, a nd Tessa Spon~, Libby Robinson an d James Lawrence completed thiS excellent gro up; Libby a lso arra nged History Of The World - wha t a gal! Damian Simpson (trumpet) a nd Sholto Byrnes (bass) joined Miss Robinson and Messrs. Lawrence and Lacamp in the Cinzano Quintet, who provided some of the best jazz of the evenlllg. Blues in C was a leisured blues walk, dehghtful for danCing, and With trumpet and trombone solos of real character. Blue Rondo A La TOU/'que ,,:,as a comiJlex piece, excellently performed. Libby Rob inson gave a virtuoso performance on plano, remllllscent of Basle, With a dash of Peterson, and Damian Simpson and James Lawrence gave matching performances on trum!'et and trombone, respectively. The who le group performed excellently III Unsquare Dance, With the unusual seven-beat rhyt hm; the trombone provided strong contrast in the cross-rhythm, and once again the piano playing was a delight. The Big Band provides an opportunity for experience (Messrs. Bill McConnell and John Parker) to mingle with newcomers to the Club; it is very encouraging that the Band is Bigger than ever. On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe was a solid , workmanlike beginning, and led to the more forceful and dissonant Batman Theme, which was played with real drive. Moonlight Serenade caught the Glenn Miller sound to start with, but lost the magic later; this is surely a piece which must follow the original arrangement as closely as possible, and in which tonal balance is all important; the elements were there, muted and mellow trombone and trumpet, and Mr. McConnell's fluid baritone sax, but they did not come together. This section ended with The Saints, street-parade drums and a ll . Jimmy G umpert led the other new group , King's Jazz Rock. He has contributed a great dea l to the musical life of T he King's School, and it is greatly to his credit that such a wide-ranglllg concert has been arranged. One detail he, and several others who announced items, should look to is their own aud ibility when speaking . This is particularly im portant when items are not on the programme . In King's Jazz Rock, Libby Robinson, as ever, was superb in Eisenhower Blues, after Elvis Costello; the rhythm was excellent; Gumpert and Lawrence worked well together, but the bass guitar of Antony Michael was a shade heavy. Sholto Byrnes, on bass, replaced Antony Michael in Crab Walk and provided clear, resonant and impeccably timed playing. This was an item for modern-jazz enthusiasts, very musical with subtle colour tones. Finally, the group experimented with an im provisation, A Blues in F, based on Tim Weller's drumming. Once again, the bass was very impressive, and Jimmy Gumpert and James Lawrence succeeded III th iS bold experiment. I felt that the piece lacked warmth, but that is probably inherent in its nature. All in all , this was a successful concert, especiall y as there were numerous innovations. It may be however, that there were too many innovations, given the limited time ava ilable for rehearsal. Fi~ding the correct balance between ambition and possibility is very ha rd. We must thank all the performers for their very enjoyable concert, and we must not fo rge t to thank Dr. Mallton and his helpers, includi ng the hard-work ed lighting, sound and film crews, for their unseen but invaluable contrib utions. Roy CHISHOLM. 293

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The management of this year's King's Week was even more fun than previous years. We had a Box Office staff of eighteen, the largest team ever, and twelve Commandos, and therefore more people to sit in the Societies Room drinking Coke all day once the heavy work was out of the way. The week ran surprisingly smoothly - thanks to Mrs. Coates, P .1.B. and A.H.D. - and there was romance in the air. Midweek crises came and went. The communist minority ('All Box Office staff are equal') was rapidly neutralised by the despotic Mitchinson's triumvirate (long words courtesy of John Pritchard's cerebral thesaurus), and we successfully fought off the terrifying visits of 'Not 'er again' with her budgie. Fiona Stewart, besides being fond of the bottle, also had a short-lived affair with Fred an abandoned rag doll left in the Box Office. This was brought to an end when Kyle Patti;son strung it from the ceiling. We didn't think John had it in him, but his muscular physique was exposed when he bounced a fellow purple from The Winter's Tale party, before it even began. The Commandos 'found' us a fridge to keep our Cokes in, and were very upset when the Captain of School took it back with compensation. Reprisals followed, culminating in Tim Briggs' typewriter being kidnapped and ransomed. You may think that all this left little time for anything else. You'd be right. The plays and concerts did get in the way, but we managed to avoid any major catastrophes, even if most of the Box Office surprised the Headmaster by turning up with tasteless green carnations to escort him to the Second Symphony Concert. Perhaps they feared the commandos would kidnap him too . . . Almost all the performances sold very well, with The Jazz Concert, 'In Praise of Love' and the Concert of Light Music selling out long before King's Week actually started. The main play was packed as always, and the rains did not fa ll until the last performance had just finished. Budding entrepreneurs thrived. Strawberry sellers made good profits despite their sexism why do only pretty girls from the Box Office receive free strawberries? Tea and Coffee stallholders were kept under close supervision for fear that they might milk the till rather than the coffee, and Jewellery sold well , although Tom Ellis's Emma Wass clocks didn't, despite Mr. Brodie's marketing course. Finally, Abhi Lall and Alastair Wilkins want a mention (and Sarah Lyons doesn't). THE KING'S WEEK Box OFFICE STAFF.

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KING'S WEEK EXHIBITIONS Once again, Art, Photography. Pottery. Woodwork, Caxton Society, Design and Print and Bookbinding Exhibitions took place in Blackfriars Arts Centre and there were also Exhibitions in the Computer Centre, CDT and Bicycle Maintenance on the Green Court. In addition, a small Exhibition connected with the 300th Anniversary of the publication of Newton's Philosophiae Naluralis Principia Mathematica was organised by Dr. Arnott in the Societies' Room. Art I benefited yet again from the wisdom of Mr. Oliver Trowell, who very kind ly guided me around Ihe Art Exhibit ion at our usual late hour on the last night of King's Week. We first looked at 'Language of Light' executed by first-years such as Daniel Longhurst, and vetera ns such as Su leyman Saba, who has recently secured a place on the Fo un dation Course of Camber we ll School of Arts and Crafts. We looked at a composition featuring the M int Ya rd plane tree . T he arrangement of figures in it was done from small wooden models. The colo urs were bright, even though the ex terior, overa ll , was quiet. Suleyman Saba also had a very impressive sketch book, largely containing works that Camberwell had asked him to complete within three weeks. T he Cathedral inte rior studies showed a good understand ing of the struct ure of vau lting and I liked the portrait of Su leyman Saba's brot her, Shafik , who was a very helpful model. Mariu s Kiely also showed excellent dra ughtmanship a nd a more reserved use of colours than Saba's strongly contrasting colour·impact. Kiely's heavy plates of molten lava in one study were part icularly striking. Clare Sankey· Barker displayed two very interesting paintings, bot h of which have appeared in The Cantuarian, but, seen in colour, are much more striking than in black and white. Sara h Sarkhel's 'The End Game' had a great feel ing of space a nd strength of colour. Further items from Marius Kiely were very impressive still·life drawings of man·made objects like radios. All of these were offered in his portfolio for his one·year Foundation·Course for Architecture, at the Central London Polytechnic. I liked his 'God divides the waters from the Firmament and Tumult' and his very sensitive and reserved use of co lour in the Cathedral study, breaking away from using a successfu l formula . His portrait of Louis Smith was very striking. I also enjoyed juxtaposition of q uadr ilaterals, and colour tones of one in re lation to the othe r. Mr. Trowell explained that the aim was 10 get an aesthetically pleasing relationsh ip of the quadrilaterals, fundamenta l to the process of design . He spent much time on the life drawing, and his study of vio lins and decanters was very materia l to his acceptance on his Foundation Course. Em ily Glass was the Wi nner of the 6b Art P ri ze and her 'Last·Supper' composit ion was very interesting. The figures in this included a businessman (in 'pin·stripes'), a j udge, a Beat rice Devlin figure with CND badge, and a rather corpse-li ke grand mother . The tree in the composi tion rep resents Christ'S crucifixion (being dark and wintry in nature), whilst the tree in green in it symbolizes Christianity flourishing. Others appea ri ng are a Jewish man and a King's boy talki ng very intimately wit h a Bis hop. The still life part of the figure was done fro m dead rabb its and bread. Emily G lass has pu t people who are not sure what they believe in place of the Apost les. I also enjoyed contrib utions in this area of the Exhibition fro m Lou is Smi th , Beatr ice Devli n and Adam O liver. Pineapples and p ine·cones were promi nent subjects in this part; there was nicely textured vegetat ion in pencil, a nd two .very effec tive still-li fe compositions in ink . Emily Glass also adopted the pine·cone motif, pri nted on three di fferent colours, wit h three different stencils for the three different colour tones . Mr. Trowell and I nex t looked at a work of many hands, from Shell to 6b. This composit ion, which has already appeared in The Cantuarian, consisted of a montage, pasted toget her, of figures in which the artists (over forty people) painted each other. The individ ual figures were then cu t out and stapled into Ihe composite that was on view. The figures were sma ll at the back a nd bigger at the front to give an impression of distance. Next, we viewed 'Constructed Forms', from 0 and A-Level work, of boots, carburettors, mincing machines, etc. A lot of work has been put in in spare time by pup ils such as Michael Elam, who had very impressive compositions of a carburettor and a car-radio; Suleyman Saba's carburettors, done in c1asswork, was also impressive. Elam also had some nice exhi bits in 'Natural Forms' - in particular, I liked hi s apples a nd rose. The pre·O-Level still·lifes of Toby Young and John Watk ins we re outstand ing work, particu larly the very good 'basket' top·hat by Watk ins. Jonathan Raw linson (who took O-Level in November and A·Level in Ju ne !) was impressive, as we re con tributions from Lisa Lofd ahl , Joshua Mowll , a nd Simon Fredricks, who has just come back to thi s sort of work after not hav ing done it since Shell days. Cy lindrical Fo rms and drawing with li gh t were this time represented by H arry Rossiter , Paul Paca ud , a nd thi s year's J unior Art P ri ze Winner, T homas Ell is . A ll these di sp layed very acute observation in their composi tions. The 'Pai nti ng Workshop' contained drawings, by three peopl e, of views through the windows of Black friars. Oliver Jackson contribu ted a sp lendid pencil drawing of Bell Harry Tower, Joshua Mow ll a draw ing o f the bac k o f the Din ing Hall approach, a nd Caroline Eden the rear of the Ma ugham Library

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_ not sophisticated, but with a lot of information on it. The object of the Painti ng Wor kshop was not so much to produce fi nished work as to all ow visitors to see pupils geui ng on with their productions. Fourteen people worked on it, all vol untarily. Toby Ball enden did a view o f the Cathedral from Lattergate. David Monro Higgs contributed a view of Blackfria rs from ac ross the river, Chris Calth rop's bridge-view was used. as was Babatunde Epega's 'speck led band ', Jasper Beauprez's view of the staircase in Lattergate (painted by Thomas Ell is), Nicholas Eddison's plane tree, Kirsten And ree's a nd Shalini Davis's view of a rOom, and Paul Pacaud's drawing of a view look ing from Lattergate to School House and Mitchinson's. I particularly liked John Watkins's Norman Staircase from an excellent drawing by J ulia n Moore, the staircase to B1ackfriars by the Bushell brothers, the open door drawn by Timothy Bagshaw and Scott Bushell, Desmond Chum 's Cloisters and the arc hitectural drawing by Sarah Lyons. Art Scholar Julian Woodwa rd had a nice study of the Precento r's House, and I also liked Joh n Watkins's view in Spain, whic h had a nice 'sou thern glow' abo ut it, and Michael Elam's view of Blackfriars. Also interest ing in this section were James Martin's view o f St. Alphege Lane, James Knight's study of the co rner orst. Rad igun d's and Nor thgate (w it h very sharp detail on the brickwork), Sarah Lyons's house opposite 84 Broad Street, Mic hael Bayne's sluice gates at the Mi ller's Arms, and John Watkins's view of the sa me region, with much complicated brickwo rk . I also liked Fauzi Fahm's view of a Luxmoore stud y, Ben Wrench 's 'boots' composition, and Toby You ng's plane tree. A Luxmoore st udy was also the subject for Harry Rossiter, wit h q uite a lot of o bservat ion in it; C hristopher Mitchell also had a 'study' theme with much pleasant feeli ng of stable composi ti on. Joh n Watkins also chose boots as a subject, while Ley!ยง. Hilmi had worked for weeks o n a fine view of the stairs in B1ackfriars. I also noted here Richard Pres ton's view of a bicycle, along wit h boots, Ma ria Clegg's stud y~bedroom, and Julian Woodward's houses. A nice section on oils di splayed an English la ndscape with cows , by John Watki ns, and a Spa nish study by him, a nd three interest ing oi ls by Jonathan Rawli nson. One of the most striking items was Thomas Ellis's 'D iscovery of Tutenk hamun ', and it did not surprise me to learn that he was the winner of the Juni or Art Prize. The view was by the light of flares and an excelle nt atmosphere was developed by the dev ice of choos ing colours close to one ano th er in the spectrum and j uxtaposing shapes of sim ilar type. It was a com posi tio n that commanded attent ion. Photograp hy Gough Open P ri zewinner Anthony Watten bach talked me through th is Exhi bition, and I was immed iately struck by his 'sem i ~ova l ' pano ramic 360 0 montage view of the Green Court , made by superim posing ma ny separate photographs, which was a very nice idea. The same photographer also disp layed some very impressive c o l ou r ~sce nes of Nort hern Italy (Pisa, Vent amelia and others), as we ll as some picturesque black-and-whites of Vignory (France), Marse illes and Dolce Aq ua (Italy). The Gough Co lour Pri ze went to Jonathan Marshall, whom I also met at a subsequent visit to the Exhibi tion. He had some very spectacular studies of cranes at Calais Docks, for ming a very aes theti c a rray. Hi s colour view of the ruins outside Lin ac re at sun set was also very st unning. Other items I liked in the photography exhibitio n were Ian Gardener's black and whi te of St. Peter's, Ma rtin Birnhak's colour stud y of a far~eastern scene, and Ben Rayment's mys terious and atmospheric shot of a man and a woman (in billow ing coat) go ing under a n arc hway into snow . Woodwork T he Woodwork Prize was won by Tom George, who ex hibited a fi ne chess ta ble. Ciga r boxes were shown by Thomas Del Mar and Adrian Full man, both of whom also had att ract ive sa lad an d fru it bowls. From COT Michael Elam exh ibited a splendid ro und ta ble wit h metal legs, and a metal and cushio ned chair, exec uted to hi s own design. I tried out the chair, and it was indeed very comfor tab le. I can not close this section witho ut tha nking Mr. George Anderso n for prod ucing so many splendid pupils over many years, whose work s have delighted me in ove r a decade o f writ in g this co lumn . Poltery I was fortun ate to view this ex hibitio n when Mr. Geoffry Whiting was in atte ndance. Prizewinner Suley man Saba (6a, but only started Pottery in 6b) had a very striking skull on display, and an oval face with big ears. Mr. Whiting explai ned that this was made by starting with coils of clay to give the main shape, and th en pieces were added and pieces were taken away. Ted George displayed what Mr. Whiting desc ribed as 'a tec hnical tour de force' in the for m of snakes and a qu ite outstanding c h ess~set, with the opposing pieces being in th e form of dev ils and angels, represen ting good and ev il. Mr. Whiting emphasised that he had made qu ite remark ab le progress in the fi rst year of G.C.S.E . Another Remove boy, who puts his ow n persona lity and se nse of humour into his productio ns, was Juli an Sturt, wit h hi s sma ll pigs. Other Remove ex hibitors were Jon ath an Berry, wi th some ex tremely sm all~sca l e work , and Stephen Preece with a fin e 't hrown' (w h ee l ~ prod u ced) tea~pot. Some nice exh ibits were shown, too, by two Shell boys - Alex Hardy and Matthew Willife r. Other items I liked were Ted George's sea and landscape and David Hodgson's th row n jar. A really striking ex hib it was Fion a Chaffin 's h a l f~head/ h al f sku ll . Mr. Whit ing explained that th is spectacular item was made solid , cut in half, each side hollowed out as required, and then stuck together. It was a most unusual and interes ting co mpos ition . 297

'I Design and Print Mrs. Dix awarded the Design and Print Prize to Bola Marquiswho exhibited cushions and T-shirts. Cushions were also displayed by Hugh Hawkms, Juhan Moore ,(hiS In the unusual shape of a camera), Angus Young, Sarah Sarkhel (hers boule-shaped!), Thomas Ellis, Samantha Bain, Julian Powis, Richard Redfern, Ma lcolm SmIth ~nd Ben Eaton.; one s~ch c u ~hlOn w~s In the shape of a grand piano. T-shirts were shown by Thomas Elhs, Stephen. Gnmes (with an Interestmg, bespectacled figure as the motif on it), Brad Johnson and Alex Cochrane. Pnnted cloths were by Mahesh I?alarnal, Thomas Ellis Simon Hart, Emily Glass. Tom Locking, Clare Sankey-Barker and Jonathan Gnmes. . Caxton Society and Bookbinding

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for the Serenade programme and the matrix for the poster of Exhibitions, 1987, surrounded, as usua l by a bewilder ing array of private and School printed-matter that the Society has produced over the cours~ of the year , including notepaper, 18th Birthday i nvitatio~s , visiting ~ards and (ever more popular, it seems) postcards. I was, as always, fascinated to see the ex tensive French hterature produced fo r the Orchestra's visit to Rheims, and my favourite item was an illuminated, Gothic script printing, in red and black, of 'Psal. CXXIX'. Lead ing lights in the Caxton Society this year have been James Eddison and Nicholas Flower, along, of course, with Mr. M. J. Mile.s and ~r. R. J..Mathews, the. latter of whom also had a fine exhibit in the small Bookbinding display which also mcluded Items from Juhan Hay and Dr. M. Daniel.

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SPEECH DAY 1987 THE COMMEMORATION SERMON THE VERY REVEREND MICHAEL MAYNE (MO 1943-49) DEAN OF WESTMINSTER T he Very Reverend Michael Mayne bega n by telling his stor y: th e influence o f Canterbury Cathedral on him. He recalled his Headmaster, Canon Shirley, saying to him, 'Yo u're not going to be an aclor; yo u're going to be a priest' and emp hasised that being a pries t resemb les being an artist who ca ptures truth and bea ut y a nd feels co mpelled to sha re his vision. The Very Reverend Michael Mayne went on to ta lk of how C hristia ns are shaped a nd refined in suffering and joy. He spoke of three important beliefs : belief in th e power of love called God, in our hun ger for God and in God's C h ristli ke nature. He said that th e fact th at 'Jesus is Lord' has an abso lute claim on o ur li ves and as ked what ou r story will be. Finall y, he emphasised that C hristian faith does not override reason or mean the absence of doubt. It means a communit y of Christ's love and peace. The full printed text of this sermon is available from the School Office.

THE DEAN'S SPEECH T he Dean welcomed th e Mayor an d guests to Speech Day and spo ke of the many important events of th e past Schoo l yea r. These included two roya l visits and the opening of the centre for C raft, Design and Technology. The Dea n a lso recalled the insta llat ion of himself as Dean on 20th September a nd of the H eadmaster as an Ho nora ry Ca non of Can terbury Cat hedral on 31st January . He stressed his belief that the Cathed ra l and School ought to become more and more one comm unity a nd said th at no ot her sc hool possessed what th e Cat hedral co uld and shou ld co ntr ibute to th e style and a tmosp here of worship Âˇat King's. The Dean co ncluded by saying that morale was hi gh a nd th at th e school was look ing forward to good things to come.

THE HEADMASTER'S SPEECH First I must thank the Dean of Westminster for his quite splendid sermon this morning, which Ihe school will publish. It has been a delight to have him here agai n where memories of his legendary perfo rm ance as Hamlet in 1949 linger on, a nd indeed formed the main s ubject at a lunch party discussion at my ho use last Monday. 1 suspect some broken hea rts were left behind . Mr. Dea n, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen. The best thing a bout today for me is that when I step do wn from this plat fo rm, I shall no longe r be 'the new headm aster' . My first academic year will be over - I will have done everything once. There is, of co urse, one innovation which none of us will have experienced before and tha t is t hat leavers and Iheir parents will join members of the sta ff in danc ing away the night. What an excellent way to end a n academic year! I look forward to meeting man y o f you furt her, this evening. 299

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For someone who has not been part of a school since Coronation Vear, the last nine months have been an extraordinary experience. T here is only one other thing in my life to wh ich I can compare them and that is learning to ride a motor-bike. In the summer of that same Coronation Year, I purchased my first machine and ve ry tentatively tr ied to manipulate it up and down Cornish lanes to take me from my remote village to the solicitor's office where I started behind the counter, sticking on stamps and a nswerin g the telephone. They were hazardous journeys and when I looked back at them from the safety of having passed my driving test, I wondered how I could have been so brave. I am not sure at what point I passed my test here: all I can say is that it has been a marvellously exciting year. My arrival at the school a lmost coincided with the pub lication of The Good Schools GUide by Harper's and Queen . You will not be surprised to hear that King's came out of this as a bright school with much to offer. No new head would complain about that. We all enjoy praise but I cannot pretend that I did not notice some prospective parents stuffing wha t was obviously a photo-copy of our entry into his pocket or her ha ndbag as they proceeded to cross-question me on the King's School. What those parents were looking for was the 'safe school' or rat her a school at which their son or daughter would be safe. Of course, the reality is that no school is 'safe' in that sense and that as in any facet of life what happens to one's child is, to some extent, a matter of luck. As John Thorn, the retired Headmaster of Winchester, put it in his review of The Good School's Guide : 'There is always, in every school, somet hing nasty going on somewhere, even in places where hanky panky is not tolerated. Growing up is fo r some a messy business, there are new experiences to be sampled, exciting si ns to be dreamed of, prizes to be fought for and wo n sometimes. ' To expect it otherwise is, of course, to delude o urselves . Part of ed ucation is to come to terms wit h the often unpleasant facts of life, not just as they affect one from outside but a lso as one experiences them within oneself. It is for th is reason that I have concentrated in my first year on pastoral concerns. Two of those on our staff most concerned with this aspect of school life sad ly leave us, both for higher things. Peter Allen moves to Sedbergh as Second Master whic h has meant the appointment of a new Chaplain. We look forward to welcoming Peter Hullah, Housemaster o f the International House, Sevenoaks, as our Senior Chaplain . For the first time, this school will have appointed a Chap la in without a full teac hing load in order that he should have the opportunity both to reflect on the nature o f the worship we offer and a lso time to listen. Mrs. Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok hav ing look ed after our girls here, now becomes Headmistress of West Heath and we a re ri ghtly proud to have produced our first Headmistress. She will be succeeded by Mrs. Janet Pickering, wife of our Head of Biology, who is to be given the official title 'Tutor for Girls' . I suspect she wi ll a lso spend much time wit h boys, but it is right and proper that where one third of our sixth form is made up of gi rls there should be a member of staff to whom these girls can go should the need arise . At the same time we have spent a considerable time discussing how we can improve our tutorial system . In what is a n increasingly complex socie ty ,one cannot overstress the importance o f pastoral wo rk nor th e time spent on

helping pupils come to self-unders tand ing. For this reason, we a re no w introduci ng into our curriculum a course o n personal development to be taught by Mrs. Pickering in the Remove year , and my hope is that a nother course wi ll in a subsequent year be introduced for the first year sixth. Personal Development is not a pseudonym for sex education. Rather it covers every aspect of life from the cradle to the grave. Mrs. Pickering's concern wi ll be to.question assumed attitudes and models as well as to deal with the moral a nd eth ical questions wh ich cannot be avoided if life is to be li ved in a ll its fu llness . T he wonderful thin g about teaching is that one can never be bored. There is always something of interest going on. I spent my first term vis iting every boy in his stud y and th e second every gi rl in her house. If anyone thinks there is no distinction between the sexes, then I recommend this exercise . The st udies these days are very much more an extension o f home th an they were in my day. So it was that I found myself silting on Fred Hellings's bed with one o f his toads on my hand while he tried to get the toad to eat a worm . It was a splend id tutor ial and I now 300

knoW something about toads which I never knew before. Indeed so absorbed was I in the toad that the next time that I met Fred in his study I recognised the toad but not him. There are indeed so many memories of this year that come flooding back - two royal visits, the beauty of a Phil Lacamp try, the parrot in On the Razzle, Tessa Spong singing the Q ueen of the Night , congratulating Jim Eddiso n on his awa rd as Young Printer o f the Vear, crunching through the January snow to this hall to welcome the sprinkling of pupils who had struggled to get here. And then there was King's Week. Each day I felt more like the Queen of Sheba. When this southern beauty came to wonder at the splendours of the court of King Solomon, she is reported to have said, 'They did not te ll me the half of it'. So it has been in this id yllic week. Near perfect weather to complement a quantity and quality of music and drama such as no other school could dream of producing. To those who executed it and those who made it possible - including those who devised a ll sorts of activities for pupils not directly engaged - we owe a great debt. Of course, many of my memories of this year are of private ancl personal conversations. In the end much of a Headmaster's life is a private affair in which he has to balance the interests of the good of the School and the good of the individual. Decisions are not always clear cut, and sometimes circumstances make it d ifficult for a full explanation to be given. In my more difficult tasks, I have constantly had your support Mr. Dean, as indeed the support of the Second Master, the Lower Master and the Master of Studies . I am profoundly grateful. And in words which can never fully express my debt, my thanks too to Pat Hopkins, my secretary. The Housemasters and I have spent much time looking again at the School Ru les, and punishments for their breach. In the end, surprisingly lillie has changed. I hope, though, we can count on the support of you parents in the exercise of discipline. Here you wi ll find that while discipline is exercised with firmness, we do not lose sight o f the individua l needs of any particular pupil. I have a lready a lluded to two changes of sen ior members of staff - the loss of Peter Allen and Lavinia Co hn-Sherbok . They have given us much and we wish them very well. Alas, others leave us too. Graeme Gales whom we shall miss on the athletics field goes to Tonbridge : Martin Parker, our splendid Head of Geography, goes further afield - to the sands of Arabia. And two of the School's greatest characters retire - George Anderson, Woodwork teacher, and Doris Birley, Matron of Linacre. Happily they will sti ll be around in Canterb ury and I hope we shall continue to benefit from the ir shrewd common sense, always delivered with a somewhat unnerving directness. Three other matro ns leave us: Alison Crai k, Toni Maitland and Vivienne Jones. The matrons are the unsung heroines of the school. Along with our Sanatorium Sisters, they do far more than is ever realised. I mentioned a moment ago Alison Craik. The reason she ceases to be Matron of Meister Omers is that Duncan is retiring as Housemaster. Past and present members of the House showed their gratitude to the Craiks with a party given at Half-term. I should like to echo mine. There are two other losses to which I must refer. First, the sudden death of John HildickSmith who only retired this time last summer. Many of liS gathered at his funeral in the crypt and we would a ll express to Marion and her children our deepest sympathy. Second, the death of one of the school's oldest friends, Miss Nora h Jervis, whose funeral was on Tuesday . Prospective parents are for ever asking me what changes I intend to make. They seem to forget that barely eighteen months ago I dec ided to come to this school because of what I liked here, not because I saw myself as having a mission to rescue or reform it. As a matter of fact, I have hardly needed to manufacture any changes in view of the multitude of educational changes which have overwhelmed us . First we no longer have the Oxbridge term so that the Schoo l Monitors took office last autumn without the help of the experienced seventh termers. T hey have, in fact, proved to be quite outstanding in every way . In the Senior Girl, Tabitha Winnifrith, and the Captain of School, T im Briggs, I have had not only loyal and gifted leaders but frie nds too. The January intake for Common Entrance is a th ing of the past and GCSE a reality of the future. My Heads of Department much impressed the Prep Schools Headmasters whom we gathered together 'in May by their enthusiasm for the new examination system which tests not 30 1

only the abi.'ity to repro?uc.e what has been remembered, but a lso the collation of facts and the assembling of matenal In project work, as well as the necessity for oral communication After a ll, most of us in our jobs spend more time on assemb li ng material and presenting ittha~ we ever do on regurgitating it from memory. We believe tha t the new examinatio n is a proper test of educational sk ills, and there is a quiet confidence that both pupi ls and parents will not be disappointed by our results. Here I ought to say somethi ng about the academ ic successes of this past year - though I must admit that it should go without saying that a school like this has no need to boast. You may kn ow that the admissions system to Oxford and Cambridge has changed so that effectively every pupil makes his or her application before A-levels. As a resu lt of the curriculum change a few years ago, the present 6a has a lmost no scholars . Nevertheless thirty-five pupils received offers of places and there are still a few more who hope to get a place on the basis of this summer's A-level examinations . Of course, getting pupils into Oxford or Cambridge is not our sale aim. There are legion good uni versities and polytechnics too. To emphasise this, we have started printing the destination of a ll university entrants in your programme. 143 entrants in 1986 represents 86OJo of that sixth form year. And the vast variety of courses undertaken indicates both the enormous range o f ta lent in this school as well as the skill o f o ur Careers Department in monitoring candidates for the appropriate courses. At O-Ievel the average grade is now very nearly a B wit h a ll but a handful of boys tak ing nine or ten subjects . At A-level over half the grades were As or Bs with practically everyone taking at least three A-level subjects. Nor have we been idle in the field of sport - a Rugby tour to Holland a nd a cricket tour to Sri Lanka - helped by the kindness of the High Comm issioner. But it is off the field that our major successes have lain. The School rowing VIII, denied the opportu nit y of proving themselves at the National Championships ca ncelled due to bad wea ther, performed supremely well in reaching the final o f the Special Schools' race at Henley while an unbeaten J .14 VIII offers promise for the future. But the high light of our row ing is the selection of Keiron Allen in the coxed pair and James Stearns in the coxed four for G reat Bri ta in in the World Junior Rowing C hampionships; and Paul Dyas has also been selected to represent Great Britain in the B string 6 nations Coup de Jeunesse in the co xed four. Th is is a remarkable achievement and I kno w the boys themselves would wan t to pay tribute to our master of rowing, Richard Hooper. The fencing club provided two Kent epee champio ns. T he senior cross country team was unbeaten in inter school fixtures, as was the under sixteen basket ball team. T he first Squash V wo n thirteen out of seventeen games, the second V lost on ly one. The senior athletics team won against fifteen out of twenty schools competed with. For the girls, the first netball VII was unbeaten and Lacrosse was introduced. T he girls no w have their ow n co lo urs sweaters. I am often asked what is my philosophy for this school. I don't know that I can claim to have anything as grand as that up my sleeve, but I am certain that wha t we are engaged in here is not producing some identikit figure - the King's School man or woman - but rat her helping individual boys and girls to ass ume their fu ll indi viduality by building on those gifts which have already become apparent to them, and opening up the possibility of adve nturing into other areas hitherto untapped. Indeed, were you ever to interview a pupil from this school, I wou ld hope that it would not be apparent to you as he or she walk ed into the room that they had been ed ucated here. Our a im is tha t as the pupil left the room, you wo uld say to yo urself, what an interest ing man or woman. I wonder where they went to school. If you want proof that this is indeed how we regard yo ur sons a nd daug hters, then yo u have onl y to look at the reports written by tutors a nd housemasters. Their knowledge of their pupils and their care for them is self-evident. Mind you, you do have to be careful in writing reports. As a lawyer, I was always trained to read everything put in front of me to sign be fore I put my name to it. It might have been taking individuality too far had one set of parents read what I saw typed there: 'There is clearly going to be a struggle academicall y but that makes it all the more important that James com mits himself to the bottle ' - it sho uld , o f course, have been 'battle'. You might well be forgiven for thinking that education in this countr y is indeed a battIe and in the aftermat h o f the election we should not a llow ourse lves to become too complacent with 302 SIJEECH DAY; CANTI-:RUURY 1)IUMAltV SCHOOLS' CONCEItT (Kelllish Gazelle)

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the slogan 'freedom to choose'. We know all too well that no matter what innovations the secretary of State brings in, the majority of people in this country have no freedom to choose. It is not good for any of us that education has become so politicised whether we think of the universities or the nursery schools. We are dealing with the future of our country so that all of us must be engaged in a common task in securing the very best for all whatever the educational institution. The pupils here are well aware of their privileged position and I have been impressed by their concern for others. Often this has taken the form of raising considerable sums of money, an example of which was the charity concert in May when six former members of the school all professional singers - gave their services free in order to sing a solo in the Bach SI. John Passion for the Canterbury Cancer Care Centre. But more costly than giving money is personal involvement, and this is done in a multitude of different ways through social services. I hope that we shall increase our involvement in this field not in any sense in a patronising way as the givers. For in my experience such work results in the giver becoming the receiver. And, of course, we must never forget that our concerns extend far beyond the local comm unity . For that reason 1 am particularly pleased to give a Headmaster's Prize to Philippa Rubins who established a branch here of Amnesty International which will go on after she has left. Indeed I would welcome ways of making our pupils more aware of the complexities of life. I was asked recently how I would want to be remembered. I replied then, and I would say now, that I hoped that I would be able to do something about opening up issues, showing that life was rarely simple or as Jane Austen would have put it - neither black nor white but some shade of grey. I also hope that there may be opportunities for actually experiencing the anxieties and fears of those less fortunate than ourselves. Becoming more aware is a complex business and it is not easy to see how to proceed, but I believe that this is something to which we must give some thought. I am particularly pleased that we ought to be able to forge a link between our splendid new Craft, Design and Technology Centre opened this year by Lord Dainton and the L' Arche Community Workshop only two doors away where the mentally handicapped work. If one has eyes to see there is plenty to do. What this school must always do is to seek to serve. What we must never become and what would be a betrayal of our founders is a self-centred, self-sufficient and self-satisfied institution, separate from the community of which it is a natural part. All this does not mean that we should not enjoy ourselves - indeed if there were no joy in this school than I thi nk we would be failing our pupils. It is for that reason that I have given Nicholas Young a Headmaster's Prize for his work with the Blooze Brothers whose joy and vivacity has entertained us, mak ing even old men feel surprisingly yo ung. Earlier this year, I saw a pair of prospective parents. At Âˇthe end of the interview the father turned to me and said, 'Headmaster, I don't really care about your academic results, excellent as they are . I don't really care about your musical prowess. I'm not interested in your sporting successes. There is only one reason for my son to come to this school and I will tell you the test I intend to apply. I am going to go out into your school and I am going to look at your pupils' eyes. If they are cowed, glazed or dulled then my son won't come here, but if they are lively, excited and open then this is the place for him'. I am prepared, Mr. Dean, for our School to be judged by such a test.

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School House: C . H. Sclater, 1. 1. W. Gumpert, M,S., O. P. C. Langton, P. H. Lidstone Tabitha 1. A. Winnifrith, M.S" M. P. 1. Stewart. ' 1. C . O. Gordon, T. P. Briggs, S. C. G. Lacy, C. E . Butcher, K. Clare Edmondson, K,s., l. P. P . Nevile, R. 1. Morse, Phillipa Rubins, Zoe de Lindc. Walpole: R. Vijayanathan, K. Phillips, S. Rowsell, N. Young, Victoria Boff, M. Birnhak ' N. B. Prescott. Meister Omers: M. R. A. Miller, 1. C. A. Veitch, R. R. Wallis, H. 1. Andree, D. A. Knighl R. B. Costain. ' Marlowe: loanna M. Prophet, F. W. Simpson, R. H. Pentin, B. W. Lynch, P. A. Bushell. Luxmoore: P. 1. Cockrill , N. Bhatia, K.s., C. H. H. Darley, K.S., N. C. Henry, Elizabeth A. Robinson, M,S., 1. R. Woods, G. 1. C. Burkill, A. M. Guy, Q. C. Hughes. Galpin's: S. 1. Grimes, W . 1. S. Floydd, T . Grieves, M. W. A. Kiely, C. N. White, M.S., Clare O. L. Wilson, A. E . Martin, Tara 1. de Linde. A. E . Mitchell, K.S., A. P. Wattenbach, 1. M. Bartiett, L. Nicola Shaw, D. A, Linacre: Botha, P. E. Dyas, 1. D. Frew, 1. D. Richardson, 1. C. von Wersebe. Broughton: P. P. Lacamp, M,S., T. 1. W. Duthie, P. A. Hamilton, D. 1. Laurence, Blythe S. 1. Levett, K.S" Lucinda 1. Roberts, D. C-Y. Pong, M. A. Evans, S. P. Stuttaford. N. 1. Stearns, S. 1. Attwood, A. 1. Carr-Taylor, P. M . Carringto n, K,S., Emma Tradescant: Conyers, I. E. Gardener, E . T. 1. Widdowson, K.S., Ailsa Buchan, K.S., M.S. Mitchinson's: P . 1. Burrell, M. S. Adamson, K.S., Sally-Ann P. Hawken, C. P. Barron, A. P . Panayides, A. G. 1. Scott. Laura C. Goodhart (SH), W. 1. Cutter (MO), A. G . F. Murdoch (MO), 1. W. Lattergate: Muskett (B).

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DISTINCTIONS 1986-87 SCHOLARS ELECTED 1987 KING'S SCHOLARSHIPS J, N. A. CRAWFURD A, S. DAV IES S. J, DAWSON-BOWLING A. J. PAY A. A. G. DRISKILL-SMITH A. J. POWER M. V. L. DOBELL M, R. J. CRADDOCK R. P. CRAIG

Dulwic h Co llege Preparatory Sc hool, Cranbrook 51. John 's College School, Cambridge Junior King's Sc hoo l Junior King's School Yardley Court, Tonbrid ge Sl. Catherin e's English School, A thens Holmewood House Brambletye Junior King' s School

EXHIBITIONS A. L. F. EP PS M, R. D. DAVIE S, BOWKER R. C. M. CAMPBELL

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SIXTH FORM SCHOLARSHIPS Bromley Hi gh School for Girls RHIAN CH ILCOTT Kent College, Canterbury GIOVANNA FERRARI German-Swiss In ternat io nal Schoo l, Hong Kon g MAJA LOFDAHL Simon Langton School for Gi rl s HELENA PARSONS SI. Paul's Girls' School CAROLINE WILLIAMS MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS S, J. DAWSON-BOWLING J. R. WHITE KATHERINE WH ITE B, M. STEVENSON SUSANNA BIRNBERG M. J. HAMILTON C. I. JEPP E. C. KERR A. A. G. DRISKILL-SMITH C. A. L. PATTMAN

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Dear Sir, Trad iti ona lly. Electio ns a re held on T hursdays. Traditiona ll y, Speec h Days a re held on Thursdays. T raditionally. red rose button holes a re worn on Speech Days. If this year's Ge neral Elect io n had bee n held on Speech Day, would the third of the trad itio ns listed above have bee n aba ndoned in view o f the adoptio n of the red rose as its emblem by olle of the major po li tica l pa rti es? Yours Fait hfully. R, V. J . BUTT, The Caf/fuarian's Special Historical and H orticultural Correspolldellf replies: C. E. Woodruff, who knew more abo ut King's School custo ms than anybody bcfo re o r si nce. sa id that in his ow n (mid-Victo ria n) sc hoo ldays roses were always worn for speec hes but their co lour var icd: pres umab ly nalU re had yet 10 learn to bloom on sc hed ule. In the event o f th e envisaged emergency a regression to Victorian va lues wou ld probab ly have take n place. 306

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Dear Sir. As part of the Julien Foster Memorial Campaign to alert your readers to their surroundings (outlined

in your, last Letters pag~). ,I would H,ke t~ pro~ose a new Wednesday afternoon activity. Home Improvements, consiSting of the rebUlld mg of Mttchmson s.

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THE NAVAL SECTION This has been another tcrm of st rict mi lit ary training for the highly-disciplined crack force, often called 'The Navy Section', During field day, s ~rpri sing l y c~rly on in It,le term, we demonstrated our tough marine l act ~ cs out on the open ocean, well , a lake. No mesSing about wll h batt leshIps - we went for the lOp. It was a fun day's windsurfing enjoyed by all, well, not quite A LL . since the 5th formers were heav il y into revision fo r Q- Ieve ls. T he inst ructors were helpful aidi ng st randed sailors from the downwind shore on which they had been deposited by a brisk. cold wind 0 11 an othcrwi~ sunny day, Unfortunately. we didn't have the pleasure of seeing Mr. Thane showing us how it was done, although Mr Jackson demonstrated it well enough. . Throughout the summer, we've had the usc of the sai ling clu b's facilit ies o n numerous occasions, not least o n the day when a CCF inspect ing officer chose to pass his eye briefly over us. Although our activities weren't tota lly unprepan..'d for, the offi cer took away a fair samp le of the section's week-to-week antics. The navigation exam proved a roaring success. Chief Came had carefully prepared ta lks, slides and pho tocopied notes which we learnt avid ly, although some forgot every th ing on the day of the exam. Many, however, passed with fly ing colo urs (above 500'/0 ) and a few narrowly missed the ta rget. Everyone is sad to lose our Head of Section, Phil Darli ng, who, in his quiet ly charismatic way, has led the force and has proved to be a rock o n whom we cou ld all depend. ' We'd like to thank Mr. J ackson a nd Mr. Than e for yet a not her active terill. DOMI NIC BURDESS AND HUGH MILWAR\).

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O.K.S. NEWS H G. Yearwood (1938) on retirement has given up the organising secretaryship of O.K.S. Golf after ten years.Those 'who have been interested and active in O.K.S. Golf will know how much time Gra ham has given to the sporl. The new secreta ry is Stuart A rmstrong (1976) 36 Queensb ury Place, Blackwater, Cam berley, GU 17 9LT (0 I 632 8899) (H) 0276 36484). J. D. Moss (1939) apologises for not being ab le to be at Speech Day. He is in the throes of opening a new theatre in Durban. O. Kirby...Johllson (1 945) is the au thor of Part 4 of the Handbook of Arbitrat io n Pract ice b~ Ronald Bernstein , 9C. His subject is Commodity Trade Arbitration. The Master of the Rolls in his foreword deSCribes the book as destined to become a classic. E. K. Lewis (1949) wrote in a hurry that he was just off to Jakarta for his oil company, Murco, for whom he is an auditor. Apart from being Secretary of the Cant uarian Lodge he is Examiner/Tutor with Accountancy Tuition Centres. A man of many parts he has had two hymns published and won a pop so ng contest, edits his local party magazine a nd gets in . . o lved on the local stage. R. A. Lane ( 1956) reports that he is now with Bonhams as a va luer . J. P. D. Patlrick (196 1) writes to say he has not told us a bout himself si nce he left King's. He has been work ing for Thorn EM I Ltd. for the past twenty-two years, both in the UK and abroad. He spent several years in Swede n and even more in Holland where he met his wife. He is now based in Los Angeles as Vice-President of the Thorn EMl subsid iary Capital Records Inc. John reports he has three children under the age of 13. S. R. L. Robbins (1963) continues to work as an economist with the T ropical Development a nd Research In stitute on the Overseas Aid programme. He lives in Abingdo n, is married and has four children aged between 2 and 9. J. M. G. Fosler (1968) is consultant in charge of the pain clinic and consultant anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A colleague is C . J . H inds (1967) who is consultant in charge of the Intensive Ca re Unit a nd also a consultant anaest het ist. C. N. H. Foster (1970) is working for the Merchant Bank, Warburg. T. J. Finsaas is now Residen t (Psychialry) at the University of Utah Medical Centre (176 N. Redwood, 33, Salt Lake City, Utah 84 116. USA). E. C. Finsaus is represent ing his firm as Technical Directo r in Lagos. R. J. Sma il ( 1977) Since leaving King's, Rod has been working in the US, Europe and the Midd le East, but is b~ck !n the UK working for NEFF, the German kitchen appliance company, as a key accounts manager. Rod was mamed In September 1985. He is in touch with S. K. Davies (1978). C. D. Andry (1978) He is currently about to embark on a Ph.D . in Pathology at Boston Un iversity, Ma~s., USA. He ma rried Virginia in 1983 and has li ved in the States for 5 years. He has seen Andrew Arends (1978) who IS at Harvard reading Law. Fiona Andry has just returned from Hong Kong. Karen Finsuas (1981) is doing free lance work in films and TV on the Production/Art direction sid e.

DEATHS Sellers-Maurice Bent Sellers (I92 1), on 2nd December, 1986. Hill- Alan Lashbrooke Hill (1927), early in 1986. CUrt- Canon David Clift (1953), on 281h June, 1987. Amos- Simo n Mark Amos (1973), on 10th May, 1987. Bothwell-Nicholas James Bothwell (1980), on 29th Apri l, 1987. Hildick-Smith - Waher John Ryvel Hildick -Sm ith (staff 196 1-1986), on 6th June, 1987. Darlington - Mrs. Margaret Dartington, o n 8th June, 1987. 309

Those who were !nembers of Luxmoore Ho.use between 1945 and 1954 'yili learn with sadne ~s of the death after year of great suffenng of Mrs. Margaret Dartmgton, who cared for all their food, health, nursmg, clothing etc a a was a tireless worker on their behalf. They will remember her, 1 am sure, with great affection. She died in The Pilg~i ~S~ Hospice, Canterbury on 8th June with great fortitude and never a word of complaint or of self-pity, but always thinkin of others whom she helped in so many ways. g

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ENGAGEMENTS Addison-Hall- Neil Forbes Addison (1973) 10 Susan Hall. Vlney-O'Neil- Timothy Saxon Viney (1975) to Elizabeth Siobham O'Neil. Robinson-Rae-Smith-Mark Robin son (1979) to Amanda Rae-Smith (1979).

MARRIAGES Goodsa ll -Bennett- Robert M. S. Goodsall (1955) to Mollie Ellen Bennet!. Cheesc-Robcrlson-Peter A. Cheese (1974) to Fiona Claire Robertson (1975). Davy-Clark- Helen Davy (1982) to Lt. A. Clark, R.N.

BIRTHS Halsall - to John A. Halsall (1968) and Marilyn on 6th June 1987, a son, Robert William Alexander.

Cantuarlan Lodge No. 5733. (The King' s School Canterbury Masonic Lodge). In June, Richard Rawli ns (1963) was re-elected Master. The jubilee meeling of the Lodge will be held at Canterbury during June 1988 to mark the 50th anniversary of its foundin g. Members of the sister lodges of St. Lawrence, Ramsgale and Dover College will be present, and it is hoped that some members of the K.S. Parramatta Lodge wil l also be able to join in the celeb rat ions. This jubilee celebration is open to all O.K.S. masons and further details are available now from Ihe new Lodge Secretary, David Morgan, 365 Maidstone Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME8 OHT (0634 360090) or any other member of the Lodge .

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